Corn Silage Management, Water and Soil Health Conference Registration Open, and Last Call for CCA of the Year Nominations! |
Featured this month are several resources related to in-season corn grain and silage management, events to fill your winter calendar, and more. Read below and visit our website to learn more.
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Timely Articles and Resources |
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With Wisconsin and the upper Midwest already experiencing cooler days and nights in late August and early September, a resounding question corn producers face is that will this help or hurt? Unfortunately, the short answer is, “it depends” and it hinges mostly on how long the cool temperatures prevail and whether we avoid an early frost.
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| Read about Gwenyn Hill Farm wrapping up picking peaches and elderberries and shifting focus to apples and Asian pears. We also explore day-neutral strawberries and table grapes.
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UW-Madison Extension, in partnership with forage councils and agribusinesses across Wisconsin, offers corn silage dry down events and data tracking to help growers target the optimum whole plant moisture for harvest in their region of the state. Check back each Friday or subscribe for email updates to see what is happening across the state.
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The Wisconsin CCA of the Year Award is designed to recognize a Wisconsin Certified Crop Advisor who is highly innovative, delivers exceptional customer service, has shown that they are a leader in their field, and have contributed substantially to the exchange of ideas and the transfer of agronomic knowledge to the Wisconsin agriculture industry.
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| Check in to see grape and apple progress throughout Wisconsin for the week of Sept. 10, 2025.
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If you use cover crops, we need your assistance with the sixth year of the Wisconsin Cover Crop Citizen Science project. We welcome all levels of cover crop experience and types of operations actively using cover crops. In exchange for providing information about your cover crop practices along with fall and spring cover crop samples we provide you an honorarium plus FREE lab testing of your cover crop biomass, nutrient analysis, and forage quality.
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Dane Elmquist, conservation cropping outreach specialist, covers how practices like no-till, cover crops, and diverse rotations create habitat for beneficial natural enemies, and how IPM helps protect these allies in pest control by using targeted approaches instead of routine preventative insecticides.
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Podcasts from the Crops and Soils Program |
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Will Fulwider, Regional Crops Educator, hosts Field Notes, where specialist guests, farmers, and industry reps collaborate with them to combine their skills, knowledge, and experience to help farmers and agronomists develop research-based solutions to issues facing agriculture in Wisconsin. Subscribe where you listen to podcasts or check out the episodes here!
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Join the UW-Madison Division of Extension as they search for new crops for Wisconsin growers, processors, and consumers on The Cutting Edge. The strength of Wisconsin’s agricultural economy is its diversity…something that doesn’t just happen by chance. It is a product of the relentless drive of researchers and farmers to innovate, explore, and experiment. Join us for a glimpse into the exciting new research and development bringing new crops and diversity to Wisconsin. Subscribe where you listen to podcasts or check out the episodes here!
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Second and fourth Thursdays from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. through October
The Badger Crop Connect series provides agronomists, crop consultants, and farmers with timely crop updates for Wisconsin. Webinars take place all season long, from April through October. CCA CEUs are available by topic for each presentation.
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Sept. 25 from 1 – 3 p.m.
Racine
Interested in growing crops in a high tunnel? Want to know more about funding opportunities? Join us and learn from Extension and NRCS folks, as well as a local farmer who has both self-funded a high tunnel and participated in the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Bring your questions!
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Sept. 30 from 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Hanover
Join Pineview Farm and UW-Madison Division of Extension for a Nitrogen Management Field Day just west of Janesville, WI. Pineview Farm is showcasing the second year of a Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program field trial studying nitrogen credits from manure application in corn production.
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Hear from us and our partners more often! |
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| Veggie producers, sign up to receive tailored updates from the UW–Madison Departments of Plant Pathology, Entomology, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, and Soil and Environmental Science.
Sign up by contacting Dr. Amanda Gevens.
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Fruit producers, sign up to receive tailored updates from the UW–Madison Fruit Program. Sign up and read more here.
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Sign up to receive pest monitoring data and maps, current articles on economically important plant pests affecting Wisconsin's field crops, fruits, vegetables, nurseries, and forests. Sign up on DATCP's website or read newsletters on the web here.
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UW–Madison Division of Extension Crops and Soils Program
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Partially supported by National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Crop Protection and Pest Management-Extension Implementation Program award number 2024-70006-43559.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming in compliance with state and federal law.
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