IN THIS ISSUE OF AG UPDATE
- Dodge County Healthy Soil Healthy Water Cover Crop Showcase
- Management of cereal rye cover crops
- Private Pesticide Applicator Certification in Dodge County
- A new episode of Field Notes - Winter cover crops
- Knowing and managing heifer weights
- Check your corn silage processing for optimal nutrition
- Dairy outlook report
- Upcoming events
| |
Management of cereal rye cover crops
Just released in Augugst of this year, this resource provides the most up to date university recommendations for managing cereal rye as a cover crop, covering everything from establishment, to termination and management for various goals, such as weed suppression and nitrate leaching reduction.
| |
Private Pesticide Applicator Certification
| |
Episode 2: Winter cover crops
As fall arrives, farmers turn to harvest. Once the dust settles, some fields lay bare while others show signs of life heading into winter. We talk with Kevin Shelley of UW-Madison's Nutrient and Pest Management program and Scott Carlson, a farmer in northwestern Wisconsin, about the benefits, challenges, and choices of planting winter cover crops.
| |
Knowing and managing heifer weights
With the cost to raise a dairy replacement being more than to purchase one, farmers must be diligent in raising a dairy replacement to enter the milking string at the optimal time and weight to reduce rearing costs and increase productivity. Read more HERE.
| |
Check your corn silage processing during harvest to ensure optimal nutrition
Ruminants are built to eat quickly, so paying attention to what is going into their mouth and stomach will ensure they receive proper nutrition. Starch utilization is improved by making sure corn is broken down into smaller pieces in the rumen, not just cracking the kernel into two pieces. The right time to check your kernel processing is when you can adjust and correct incomplete processing, during harvest.
Read the Division of Extension Dairy article HERE.
| |
Learn & Save! Farm energy management strategies to save on electric bills
There are still two October webinar dates upcoming! Electric bills are rapidly changing and becoming more complex. Simply using less electricity does not always yield significant savings. This three-part webinar series will cover electric bill components and how to interpret them as well as detail strategies to save on energy charges, demand charges, and power factor charges. These webinars are taught by Extension energy experts John Hay and Eric Romich from University of Nebraska and The Ohio State University. Register HERE.
Dates:
October 7, 2022 11:00 AM
October 14, 2022 11:00 AM
| |
Badger Dairy Insight
A webinar series to provide the latest research-based dairy information to improve animal welfare, breeding and genetic selection, automation and modernization, and nutritional decisions for producers, dairy workers and managers, ag professionals, and educators. 2023 dates announced!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
January 10, 24, and 31
February 7 and 21
March 7, 14, and 21 -- Registration information to come!
| |
Dairy situation and outlook September 19, 2022 by Bob Cropp
Milk production after running below year ago levels from January through June was 0.5% above a year ago in July and 1.6% in August. Fourteen of the 24 reporting states had higher August milk production than a year ago. The increase in milk production was due to more milk cows and improved milk per cow.
| |
University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension and Nutrient & Pest Management Program welcome you to the Fall 2022 series of the Badger Crop Connect.
This series includes:
October 12, 12:30 PM: Meet the New Extension Specialists
October 26, 12:30 PM: Brenda Boetel, Grain Marketing Outlook
| |
|
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!
| |
|
| 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
| |
|
*You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website, field day, or educational program from Dodge County Extension
| |
| |
An EEO/AA employer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title VI, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act requirements.
| |
|
|
|
|
