With a goal of supporting farmers to better understand soil health and conservation practices, a Twilight Pasture Walk will be held at Holm Girls Dairy in Elk Mound, WI. This […]
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Twilight Pasture Walk: Getting your farm dreams funded
Join WFU at Gwenyn Hill Farm for a pasture walk specializing in rotational grazing for multi-species. Info here.
PaddockTrac: A Web-Based Mobile Application for Managed Grazing Systems
Join us for this webinar in which we will discuss a new wireless sensor, tethered to a smartphone and GIS-based web application, built to improve the efficiency of measuring/monitoring/managing forage […]
Field Day: Grazing and Forest Management as Regenerative Ag
Join us for a pasture walk with organic farmer and conservationist Mariann Holm. She will be covering pasture renewal, grazing as conservation, and grazing livestock on pasture with trees. NRCS […]
Pasture Walk on Grazing Annuals, Converting Cropland
Topics Covered: Grazing diverse summer annual forage crops in a traditional corn/soybean rotation, converting cropland to pasture, planting peppers, watermelon, cucumbers, & squash into pasture, use of Arrowquip chute for […]
Pasture walk on grazing multi-species, EQIP fencing, organic transition
Learn about cell grazing with goats, silvopasture with goats, grazing stockers for added flexibility, second year out of organic soybean/corn rotation, bale grazing results from 150 bales over-winter, EQIP fencing […]
Wisconsin Plant Condition Inventory and Evaluation Training
Starting June 8 from 10:00am–12:00pm, this course provides an introduction to the pasture evaluation approach known as Pasture Condition Scoring (PCS). You’ll learn about the ten indicators of pasture health […]
Can a Landowner Make Money Raising Grassfed Beef?
Land use decisions significantly affect soil loss and runoff. The effect is pronounced in the three-state Driftless Area. Managed grazing and long-term ground cover are strong mitigators of erosion, but can those land use decisions have positive financial outcomes?