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Explore our Conservation Calendar for information on conservation-related events and trainings hosted across Wisconsin and beyond.
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While wildlife gardening is now one of the biggest gardening trends, the decline of pollinators and other insects still remains urgent. Learn how to help pollinators thrive and create refuge for them, and how to enhance local food productivity by adding native plants to urban and suburban yards. Info here.
Small grain resiliency trial plot tour: What can we effectively grow? - Haleigh Ortmeier-Clarke Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy Disease management in Wisconsin: What works and what doesn’t! Damon Smith Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Plant Pathology UW winter wheat variety trials: Tour and management update Shawn Conley Soybean & Small Grains Extension […]
Join us on July 06 from 1:00PM-3:30PM at Arlington Ag Research Station to visit our cover crop research plots, check equipment and exchange knowledge with University Specialists and fellow farmers adopting cover crops in their crop production systems. Meet at 12:45PM Public Events Building, Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, WI Need additional […]
The North Central Region Water Network is excited to announce that we are hosting a regional conference exploring the ways climate intersects with our lives, our water and our land! Info here.
Hosted by Bill Powers at N2641 Burns Rd, Mauston. The focus of this pasture walk will be coming together to share tips & tricks learned along the way with grazing. Info here.
Join Kat Becker from Cattail Organics and Sam Tilton from Lakeshore Technical College to re-envision weed control on your vegetable farm. In this full day, workshop-style event you will build your knowledge of weed management systems, view and try a wide variety of tools, and learn from Kat, Sam, and other experienced farmer peers right […]
Drought is continuing to intensify across portions of the Midwest this year, and over the past several years severe drought has plagued much of the upper Midwest and northern Plains. This month's edition of The Current Webinar Series will discuss water management during drought - from the latest irrigation technologies to livestock water management. Tune […]
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Join for a field day learning about Diverse Species Cover Crop Mixes, Using Chemicals on Interseeding Plots, and Soil Health. Event Topics: DIVERSE COVER MIXES AFTER WHEAT - Options and management of diverse cover crops after wheat and how to plan for the following cash crop. INTERSEEDING CHEMICAL PLOT - Seeing and discussing different chemical […]
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is […]
Soil Health - Waushara County Location: Lake Poygan/ Pine River Field driveway just west of N1742 County Rd D, Berlin, WI Date: September 21, 2022 Time: 9:30am - 3:00pm Join us to discuss practices that benefit your farm and help water infiltrate into your soil. See how different management practices conserve soil and nutrients, and […]
Soil Health - Dry Run / South Kinni Watersheds Location: Huppert Brother Farms, 855 Chapman Drive, River Falls Date: September 22, 2022 Time: 9:30am - 3:00pm Join us to discuss practices that benefit your farm and help water infiltrate into your soil. See how different management practices conserve soil and nutrients, and witness the results […]
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