IN THIS ISSUE OF AG UPDATE
- Prevented Plant - Example Calculations for Wisconsin in 2024
- Prevented Plant - Forage Options for Wisconsin Acres in 2024
- 2024 Wisconsin Alfalfa Seedings a Mixed Bag
- Tar Spot Prediction in Corn: The Weather Matters
- Field Notes Episode 19: Warm Season Annual Forages
- Keep Cattle Cool and Comfortable in Summer
- Strenghtening Biosecurity Practices on Dairy Farms
- Mooving Cows: Learn Basic Cow Handling Skills to Stay Safe and Keep Cows Calm
- Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) User Group Builds on Inaugural Success
- Beef x Dairy Management Workshops July 29 - August 1, 2024
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Badger Crop Connect | TBA
July 10, 2024, 12:30am - 11:30pm, to register click HERE
Badger Dairy Insight | Leveraging digital technologies to improve management decisions
July 16, 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm, to register click HERE
Automatic Milking System (AMS) User Group Meeting
July 18, 2024, 1:00pm - 3:30pm, to register click HERE
Badger Crop Connect | TBA
July 24, 2024, 12:30am - 11:30pm, to register click HERE
Beef x Dairy Management Workshops
July 29 - August 1, 2024, 6:00pm, Registration starts 5:15pm, to register click HERE
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Example calculations for Wisconsin in 2024
Here we present some example calculations and explain the prevented plant options for hypothetical cases to help farmers understand their options.
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Forage options for Wisconsin acres in 2024
Wisconsin’s wet spring has slowed planting for many farmers and provided poor conditions for making hay. As a result, some farmers will be claiming prevented plant and many will be looking for more or better quality forage.
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2024 Wisconsin alfalfa seedings a mixed bag
This spring has been a scramble in the Upper Midwest. Between long periods when rain seemed to never end, farmers worked tirelessly on the few favorable days to get the ground worked and plant their acres. Across Wisconsin, alfalfa went in the ground with plenty of moisture, followed by long spells of rain. While some areas of the state report strong establishment, we have also seen numerous reports of stands struggling to establish, and I have heard similar reports from neighboring states.
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Tar Spot Prediction in Corn: The Weather Matters
Conditions are everything for tar spot development, particularly VT to R3!
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Field Notes Episode 19: Warm Season Annual Forages
From severe drought to flooded fields, Wisconsin’s forage producers are turning to forage species that can provide adaptability and flexibility in the midst of abnormal conditions. We jump in with Yoana Newman, UW-River Falls professor and Extension forage specialist, and Matt Oehmican, from Short Lane Ag Supply, to talk the details of warm season annual forages, from the decision-making process for growing these species to the unique technical agronomy management warm season annuals need to grow in Wisconsin. Are warm season annual forages a fit for your farm’s forage inventory?
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Keep Cattle Cool and Comfortable in Summer
The latest long-range forecasts from the National Weather Service show that Wisconsin has a 40% to 50% chance of a hotter-than-normal summer. Long periods of heat stress are more likely to have lasting effects on cattle, including early embryonic loss in heifers and cows, poor semen quality in bulls, and reduced gains in feeder cattle. Cattle have a comfort zone of 32 to 77 degrees F. When temperatures rise above this range, cattle use valuable energy to stay cool. Environmental factors contribute to heat stress in cattle, including ambient temperature, humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation.
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Strengthening Biosecurity Practices on Dairy Farms
Biosecurity involves management practices aimed at preventing the introduction and/or spread of harmful organisms (e.g. viruses, bacteria) to dairy farms and avoiding common or emerging diseases. The careful implementation of these practices is key to protect both people and animals, as well as to ensure a viable and safe food supply for consumers.
Focus should be placed on four key areas:
- Biosecurity Mindset
- Protecting Dairy Cattle
- Protecting People
- Protecting the Farm
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Mooving Cows: Learn Basic Cow Handling Skills to Stay Safe and Keep Cows Calm
When cows are handled appropriately, their fear and stress levels are kept to a minimum. Calm cows produce more milk and behave more predictably, reducing the risk of injury to both themselves and their human caregivers.
Mooving Cows™ is an educational game where you can practice mooving cows around a dairy farm. It is time for milking, so the cows need to be moved from the pasture and barn and loaded into the milking parlor. Learn about cow behavior and practice basic cow handling skills to stay safe and keep cow’s calm.
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Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) User Group builds on inaugural success
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension is pleased to announce the second Automatic Milking System (AMS) User Group meeting.
Topics for the upcoming meeting will be feeding and milking permission settings which are essential aspects of AMS that directly impact efficiency and profitability. These topics were chosen by the 40 participants, both in-person and virtually, during the inaugural AMS User Group meeting held on April 9, 2024.
AMS user commitment and active participation is crucial. We encourage you to bring an AMS friend to our next meeting to enrich our discussions and expand our network.
Pre-registration is required by July 10th.
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Beef x Dairy Management Workshops to be hosted by UW-Madison Division of Extension July 29-August 1, 2024
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, in cooperation with the UW-Madison Animal and Dairy Science Department, will be hosting four in-person Beef X Dairy-focused workshops from July 29 – August 1, 2024. These workshops will provide Wisconsin’s dairy producers and cattle feeders with research-based information on nutrition, feedlot management, and carcass composition for beef x dairy crossbred cattle. Our featured speaker will be Jerad Jaborek, Beef Feedlot Systems Educator with Michigan State University, who has conducted research on beef x dairy crossbred cattle. Other topics will cover research at UW-Madison, and with cooperating farms, spanning from conception to consumption of beef x dairy crossbreds.
- July 29: UW-Green Bay STEM Innovation Center, 2019 Technology Way, Green Bay
- July 30: Country Aire Restaurant, 118600 CTY Rd P, Stratford
- July 31: Ag Service and Education Center, 1960 8th Ave, Baldwin
- August 1: Eckstein Building Grant County Fairgrounds, 916 E Elm St, Lancaster
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| Will Fulwider
Regional Crops Educator - Dane and Dodge County Extension
Email: will.fulwider@wisc.edu l Ph: 608 220 3577
Alison Pfau
Bilingual Regional Dairy Educator - Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock & Walworth County Extension
Email: alison.pfau@wisc.edu | Ph: 970 402 9710
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