IN THIS ISSUE OF AG UPDATE
- Dodge County Dairy Brunch; Sunday, June 5th at Kuhlman Farms, Horicon
- Heifer Grazing Compass
- Heat stress on dairy workers
- Winter wheat disease update
- Giant ragweed plot management tour
- Dodge & Fond du Lac County Forage Council Summer Twilight Meeting
- Forage Council Youth Poster Contest
- Crop scouting guide for corn and soybean
- Presentations on government funding for conservation practices
- Farm resources
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Dodge County Dairy Brunch
This Sunday, June 5th!
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The Heifer Grazing Compass
The Heifer Grazing Compass is a tool via Excel to help farmers plan a conversion to raising their dairy replacement heifers on pasture. The Heifer Grazing Compass is designed to help a user predict and understand the cash flow and long-term financial outcomes that could result from a decision to raise heifers on pasture. Read more HERE.
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How to avoid the risks of heat stress
Heat-related safety is serious business. Heat exposure kills more people each year than floods, tornadoes, lightning, and hurricanes combined. Each summer, dairy farm producers and their employess work through days of extreme heat and humidity. Be conscious of how to protect yourself and farm workers during summer heat. Check out the video below with Jim Versweyveld, Farm Management Outreach Specialist, about avoiding dairy worker heat stress, and read more HERE.
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Winter wheat disease update
Increased frequency of rain events and moderate temperatures over the next 7-10 days will likely increase disease risk in winter wheat, especially Fusarium head blight (FHB or Scab). Currently, the Fusarium Head Blight Risk tool is predicting more areas of moderate to high risk in Wisconsin for FHB than it did a week ago. Read more of Extension Field Crops Pathologist Damon Smith's update HERE.
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Giant ragweed plot management tour
Tour is at Rock Co. research farm (200 US-14, Janesville), Thursday, June 16 at 10 am - 12 pm followed with lunch. There will also be a tour at the production field and visit with Scott Fleming
about his experience planting corn and soy green.
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Dodge & Fond du Lac County Forage Council Summer Twilight Meeting
Every year the Forage Councils for Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties rotate hosting their annual Twilight meeting. This year, Fond du Lac County will be hosting the Summer Twilight meeting on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at Pollack-Vu Dairy, Ripon, WI.
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| Forage Council Youth Poster Contest
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Crop scouting guide for corn and soybean
As the growing season ramps up, keep an eye out for pests and diseases! Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can help corn and soybean farmers obtain higher yields and increase profits. Assembling information from a variety of crop-related disciplines and emphasizing recordkeeping and field scouting, IPM begins with gaining knowledge. This web book collaboratively produced across land grant extension programs, comes loaded with all the basics you need to know to implement IPM on your farm.
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Presentation of agency funding for conservation practices
June 23 l Dodge County Fairgrounds, Youth Building, Juneau
Doors at 12 pmPresentations start at 12:30 pm
Government agencies and non-profits incuding NRCS, USDA Farm Service Agency Programs and Loans, Dodge County Land Conservation, Pheasants Forever as well as others will speak on the programs they have available for farmers. The agencies will also have booths for answering questions and distributing materials. This event is free and open to the public with no registration necessary.
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Determining a 'fair' market value for standing alfalfa.
A roundup of regional prices for hay, published every two weeks.
For Wisconsin farmers for the purpose of buying and/or selling corn and forage. The farmer to farmer list is free of charge to both buyers and sellers.
Wisconsin state law (Act 455) requires that any youth under the ages 12–16 who operates a tractor or self-propelled equipment on the highway for a parent, must successfully complete a Tractor and Machinery Safety program. More course offerings across the state HERE.
Trying to find a favorable forage? Team Forage's forage trials compare species and varieties for yield, grazing intake and palatability. Often the variety of forage is as important or more important than the species!
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| Will Fulwider
Regional Crops Educator - Dodge and Dane County Extension
Email: will.fulwider@wisc.edu l Ph: 608 220 3577
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