Hooray for Pollinators
Margaret Murphy
Horticulture Educator
Chippewa, Dunn & Eau Claire
UW-Madison Extension
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I always enjoy seeing bees buzz around my flowers and fruit tree blossoms. I know they are busy gathering food but they are also providing an essential service to the planet –pollination. Worldwide, an estimated 87% of flowering plants rely on animals—mostly insects—for pollination. Many of our food crops are partially or fully reliant on insect pollinators to produce fruit (DATCP Wisconsin Pollinator Protection Plan). A rather impressive service pollinators provide.
Pollinators are attracted to plants by visual or chemical cues. Flowers with brightly colored petals will attract both insect and bird pollinators. The color, however, may influence which type of pollinator you will attract. For example, white, blue, yellow, and purple flowers will attract bees while orange, red, yellow, and purple flower colors will help bring butterflies to your garden.
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| Corn Growth Stages and Influence on Yield
Jerry Clark
Crops & Soils Educator
Chippewa, Dunn & Eau Claire
UW-Madison Extension
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Many questions are being asked about the effect the dry weather is having on corn yield. Recent rain showers have reduced concern in some areas of Chippewa, Dunn, and Eau Claire counties and the scattered precipitation has been just that, scattered. It is a start to a growing season where one neighbors gets ample rainfall and the next neighbor, nothing.
For corn, we know the pollination period of tasseling and silking is important for grain yield. Other stages of corn growth and development are just as critical to reach maximum yield potential. Plant stress at any of these development stages can reduce yield even if favorable weather occurs during the pollination period. The chart below indicates critical stages of a corn plant and what specific development processes are occurring.
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Are you ready? Antibiotics for livestock will be prescription only in 2023
Sandra Stuttgen
Beef Specialist Educator
Taylor County
UW- Madison Extension
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The FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) plan for supporting veterinary antimicrobial stewardship will be fully implemented in 2023 when all remaining over-the-counter (OTC) antibiotics are switched to prescription-only status. The medically important antibiotics (used by humans and animals) becoming prescription only include injectable tylosin, injectable and intramammary penicillin, injectable and oral tetracycline, sulfadimethoxine and sulfamethazine, and cephapirin and cephapirin benzathine intramammary tubes. In addition, lincomycin and gentamicin swine antibiotics’ OTC status is switching to prescription only. Vaccines, dewormers, injectable and oral nutritional supplements, ionophores, pro/prebiotics and topical non-antibiotic treatments will not require veterinary prescription.
The CVM evaluates the safety of drugs used in food-producing animals, the impact drug resides have on human intestinal microflora, and the development of human antimicrobial resistance. Drug residues in meat, milk, eggs, and honey from treated animals expose bacteria to trace amounts that don’t kill them, but rather allow for the development of antibiotic resistance. Veterinarians are tasked to slow the rate of bacterial resistance by using antibiotics only when necessary to treat, control, or prevent disease. Doing so preserves antibiotic efficacy for humans and animals.
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Local Pollinator Week Events! |
Prairies and Pollinators:
An Ecological Restoration Tour on July 27th and 28th.
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We will be taking folks on a two-day guided tour of prairies at all stages around the Chippewa Valley. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about prairie restoration and management from land managers, and learn more about cost-share opportunities to plant prairies on their own property! Click here to learn more about the two-day event.
Cost: $30 includes lunch on both days, and transportation on day one.
Day one – bus tour departing from Menomonie, WI
Day two – participants will meet at Beaver Creek Reserve (Fall Creek, WI)
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This newsletter is a contributional effort from the following UW-Madison Extension Educators:
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| Chippewa County Extension Office
(715) 726-7950
Dunn County Extension Office
(715) 232-1636
Eau Claire County Extension Office
(715) 839-4712
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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.
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