IN THIS ISSUE OF AG UPDATE
- Alfalfa growers survey
- Dodge County Healthy Soil Healthy Water Events; worm farm & pontoon boat ride
- Soybean white mold
- Sporecaster and Sporebuster phone apps
- Resources for cover crops following wheat
- Extension's New Regional Dairy Educator
- Adult cow barn ventilation assessment workshops
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Alfalfa benefits to the landscape
Alfalfa growers - we need your help! Would you like to participate in a brief management practices survey? It takes about 15 minutes. A $100 gift card is thanks for your time. More information and full flyer HERE.
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Dodge County Healthy Soil Healthy Water Events
Worm Farm Tour - July 21, 2022 at 6 PM
Join HSHW members for a tour at Lush Farms at 6 PM on July 21. This is open to all members. Learn all about this premier producer of 100% organic worm castings. Stay for a barbeque and network with other farmers. Please RSVP by July 14 HERE.
Lush Farms is a premiere producer of 100% organic worm castings which is a fancy way of saying they raise worms and sell their poop. Lush Farms love their worms and they keep them very well fed and comfy in a 72-degree renovated dairy barn 365 days a year. Check them out!
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Lake Sinissippi pontoon boat rides - Saturday, July 23 at 11 AM or 1 PM
Ox Bo Marine, N5350 Club Grounds Rd., Juneau, WI 53039
Brats, hamburgers, chips and beverages will be provided. Tour Lake Sinissippi by boat including the Rock River channel and expect to see islands, wildlife and learn about the unique features like the Geotube and areas of former dredging.
RSVP by July 16th to Chris Lilek at 920-912-7304.
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White mold of soybean and its management
UW-Madison & Extension Field Crops Pathologist Damon Smith explains the white mold life cycle and the impact of the fungus on soybean. Management recommendations, both chemical and cultural, for white mold control are also discussed.
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Sporecaster and Sporebuster mobile apps
Sporecaster is a mobile application that assists growers with making management decisions for the control of white mold in soybean. Farmers input site-specific information about their soybean field into this app. This information is combined with research-based models and weather data to predict the need and best timing for white mold treatment.
When a fungicide application is needed to control white mold in soybean, the Sporebuster app can help determine a profitable program. Growers enter expected soybean price, yield, and treatment cost. The app instantly compares ten different treatment plans to determine average net gain and breakeven probability of each plan.
You can download the Sporecaster app here (for iPhone) or here (for Android). Sporebuster can be found here (iPhone) or here (Android).
An instructional video on the use of the Sporecaster app can be found here.
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Tar spot in Columbia County
Tar spot has been spotted in Columbia County, making 2022 earliest such finding in Wisconsin. While the risk is low and Damon Smith, UW Extension Field Crops Pathologist, does not recommend a fungicide treatment at the moment. What do you do now? Read more HERE.
The best time to manage for tarspot is in V8 to R4 corn. Tarspotter is an app that uses GPS coordinates to determine if weather has been favorable for the development of Tar spot fungus during corn flowering in a specific field. Check it out and download HERE.
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Resources for cover crops following wheat
Forty-percent of the growing season remains following wheat harvest. Many farmers take advantage of this window to grow cover crops to fix nitrogen, compete with weeds, keep the soil covered, etc. THIS article provides selection and management guidelines for these after-wheat covers, and in the video below, Matt Ruark, UW Extension Soil Specialist, quantifies the benefits of legume covers after wheat.
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Pfau joins UW-Madison Extension as Regional Dairy Educator
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension welcomes Alison Pfau as the Regional Dairy Educator for Dodge, Dane, Jefferson, Rock and Walworth counties.
Pfau is passionate about dairy cattle and the dairy production industry. She earned her Animal Science degree from the National University of Colombia-Bogota in 2017. Pfau recently completed her master’s degree in Animal Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022, with a focus on research in rumen nutrition and microbiology. Read more HERE.
Alison can be reached at 970-402-9710 or her email at alison.pfau@wisc.edu
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Adult cow barn ventilation assessment workshops
At this time of the year heat stress and animal comfort is very important topic for dairy farmers. In collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Van Os from the Department of Animal and Dairy Science at UW-Madison, the Dairyland Initiative will be hosting 3 on-farm adult cow barn ventilation assessment workshops to teach participants how to measure air speeds and ventilation rates in adults cow dairy barns.Follow HERE to receive Dairy Initiative info and how to register.
WORKSHOPS:
Thursday, July 28th - Larson Acres, Evansville, WI
Wednesday, August 24th - Rosy Lane Holsteins, Watertown, WI
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Course offerings around the state and online.
A roundup of regional prices for hay, published every two weeks.
The Farmer to Farmer Hay, Forage and Corn List put Wisconsins farmers in touch with one another for the purpose of buying and/or selling corn and forage.
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
Alison Pfau
Regional Dairy Educator - Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock & Walworth County Extension
Email: alison.pfau@wisc.edu | Ph: 970-402-9710
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