IN THIS ISSUE OF AG UPDATE
- Custom Rates refigured for 2023
- Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training
- New Field Notes podcast
- Termination for cover crops
- Research article on N-fixing biological products in the North Central region
- Pain management survey
- Farm & Food Workers relief
- Insights on corn silage fatty acids
- The overview of the digestive system of calves
- First impressions for new farm hires
- Interested in participating in alternative forage research?
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Conley Pasture Walk: Thursday, May 18, 2023 @ 10 AM; High-Gem Holsteins & Normandes Farm, Neosho.
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Estimating Custom Rates for 2023 WI Farm Operations
As the 2023 crop season gets started, landowners and custom service providers are negotiating custom rates, but the newest Custom Rate Guide for Wisconsin is from 2020[1]. Prices have increased a lot over the past three years. The Producer Price Index, a cost of production index for the whole US economy, has increased by 30%[2]. Price indexes fertilizer are up by 57.3%, chemicals by 41.8%, fuels by 16.9%, and wage rates by 17.6%. With all these changes, how do farmers and custom operators develop and agree on a custom rate for 2023? Here we provide guidance to estimate this year’s custom rate based on the 2020 Custom Rate Guide for Wisconsin.
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Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training
The economic future of our nation’s agriculture depends on the next generation’s ability to access land and business assets. Many farm and ranch operators are realizing the importance of creating a succession plan. Agriculture service professionals who work with these farms and ranches are recognizing that it takes more than a business structure or an estate plan to get those assets transferred to the next generation of managers. Succession planning also includes management transfer, inheritance issues and (surprise!) humans with emotions.
This training will offer:
-Insight on the tensions around farm succession
-Strategies on working with families as they navigate farm succession,
-Facilitation tools to guide the process,
-Opportunities to consider real-life examples of farm succession case studies.
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Field Notes Podcast: Ag, Water and Processing Vegetables
Guest host Guolong Liang talks with UW-Madison Horticulture Professor and Extension Specialist Jed Colquhoun about the use of cover crops to reduce nutrient runoff in canning and processing vegetables.
For the farmer perspective, Guolong speaks with John Ruzicka of Guth Farms in Bancroft, and Dylan Moore, of Seneca Foods.
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Considerations for cover crop termination
Cover crop termination timing is key to maximize anticipated cover crop benefits while reducing competition with a cash crop. Winter hardy cover crops like winter rye (aka cereal rye) provide many benefits including reducing erosion risk in the spring and early-season weed suppression.
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Review of N-fixing biological products in the North Central Region
Asymbiotic or non-symbiotic N-fixing organisms, usually species of bacteria, have the ability to ‘fix’ nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere where it is abundant as N2 gas, and produce NH3 without being associated with plants or fungi. Fossil evidence indicates that asymbiotic N-fixers were present and active 1.5 billion years ago. This compares to the appearance only about 59 million years ago of the more commonly known symbiotic N-fixing bacteria associated with legumes.
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Pain Management Survey
The division of Extension seeks participants in a Pain Management Survey. This survey aims to collect information from farmers about their use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for various conditions/procedures in cattle.
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Farm & Food workers relief program
UMOS is proud to offer a one-time $600 payment from the USDA to Farm workers and Meat Packers who worked during the COVID-19 Pandemic, supporting critical aspects of our nation’s food system. Thank you!
This relief is intended to defray costs for reasonable and necessary personal, family, or living expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as but not limited to costs for personal protective equipment (PPE), dependent care, and expenses associated with quarantines and testing. This is not a renewable nor annual benefit.
Eligible Farm workers and Meat Packing Workers have until September 30, 2024, to apply for his one-time payment.
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New insights about corn silage fatty acids
Feeding to maximize milk components has been an indispensable practice to optimize dairy profitability and homegrown forages are vital for this process. High-quality corn silage supplies energy for both the maintenance and lactation of high-producing cows. Coarser corn silage particles serve as physically effective fiber, the foundation of the ruminal mat, and stimulate chewing, salivation, and rumination, as well as gut motility and health.
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The overview of the digestive system of the calves
Around the world exist a variety of domestic and non-domestic forage eaters called ruminants (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats, bison, buffalo, reindeer, yak, etc.). Ruminants play an important role in sustainable agricultural systems and as a provision of food to humans. They can convert forage, pasture crop residues, and other feed sources into food edible by humans. This situation has incited an interest in knowing the nutritional conditions and understanding the rumen development that makes them survive in their territories.
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What first impression are you giving farm new hires?
First impressions matter! Hiring farm workers right now is incredibly difficult. Labor shortages are widespread, workers are expecting higher starting wages, and after farms hire and train a new employee, there is a risk that they will jump ship for a better-paying job. Improve the retention odds on your farm by putting a plan in place to improve the employee onboarding experience.
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Interested in participating in alternative forage research?
The University of Wisconsin Madison Division of Extension is looking for farms to participate in a
research project involving alternative forages. Over the past several growing seasons forage
shortages have become a challenge for many producers.
While the alternative forages have helped increase the forage inventories of producers, there is a need for research based feeding guidelines and to better understand the economic implications of planting and harvesting these forages. The purpose of this research project is to collect data to help answer these questions.
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Learn the most up-to-date information on topics including diary and livestock production, forages and farm management.
Dairy resources from UW-Madison Division of Extension
The Farmer to Farmer Hay, Forage and Corn List put Wisconsin's farmers in touch with one another for the purpose of buying and/or selling corn and forage.
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| Will Fulwider
Regional Crops Educator - Dodge and Dane County Extension
Email: will.fulwider@wisc.edu l Ph: 608 220 3577
Alison Pfau
Regional Dairy Educator - Dodge, Dane, Jefferson, Rock & Walworth County Extension
Email: alison.pfau@wisc.edu | Ph: 970-402-9710
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