Spring pest and weed management, grazing, and field days begin! |
Featured this month are several resources related to spring management on the farm, weed and disease management, and insect pest scouting and alerts. Read below and visit our website to learn more.
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Timely Articles and Resources |
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Integrated with cultural control practices such as variety selection for disease resistance and crop rotation, fungicides can be an important tool of integrated disease management for small grain systems.
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Josie Dillon, Extension's fruit outreach specialist, chats spring tree fruit management with Ben Kraus, perennials manager of Gwenyn Hill Farm in Waukesha, as Gwenyn Hill Farm enters bloom.
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Sign up for the Bick Lab’s collaborative insect pest text alert service to find out what insect pests are emerging and active in fields near you.
Each week, Extension and DATCP report statewide insect pest findings to the Bick Lab. Then, the Bick Lab sends out a “heads up” text to check for specific insect pests along with relevant resources based on emergence and presence patterns.
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Violent storms in mid-May caused significant injury to many southern Wisconsin soybean fields. As growers, technical service providers, and crop consultants walk fields and assess crop damage it is important to remember the following key points.
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Jason Cavadini, UW–Madison Extension grazing outreach specialist, provides a comprehensive checklist for spring grazing, aimed at optimizing forage production and extending the grazing season. Watch more Badger Crop Connect webinars on-demand or register for the live webinars second and fourth Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.
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Before dairy, wheat was king in Wisconsin. Between 1840 and 1880, the state was largest wheat producer in United States, providing a full sixth of the nation’s supply. Today, wheat is 5% of total grain crop (corn, soy, wheat) acres in the state. While there are benefits to having wheat in the rotation and a healthy local market for straw, a higher potential for dockages due to quality standards than corn or soy can be a deterrent for farmers.
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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. beginning April 10
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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May 21 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Hancock Agriculture Research Station
$10
Join Dr. Amanda Gevens and Dr. Russ Groves to learn how to find, identify, and manage common pests and diseases of potato and other vegetable crops.
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Webinars: Wednesdays May 21, 28 and June 4, 11 and Tuesday, June 17 from 12 – 1 p.m. live on Zoom
Field Day: June 18 (Lancaster), June 26 (Arlington) or June 27 (Marshfield)
Join us for weekly virtual lunch-and-learn webinars that introduce the fundamentals of field crop scouting and apply what you have learned with a half-day hands-on training in the field at one of the three University of Wisconsin Ag Research stations. Register for webinars and a field day here.
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In-person: June 3 (Stevens Point), June 17 (Appleton), June 19 (Fennimore), July 1 (Janesville), July 15 (Eau Claire)
from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Online: July 17 (LCD webinar) and July 22 (Agronomist webinar)
from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
SnapPlus V3 is now available for nutrient management planning! Join us for a one-day training on V3 of SnapPlus. We will discuss building a plan from scratch in V3 as well as demonstrate converting a V2 plan into V3. There will also be time to work on plans, and we’ll have SnapPlus developers present to answer questions and troubleshoot.
Three nutrient management CEUs will be available. Registration is free. Please register at least one week in advance of the training you plan to attend so that we can plan for a lunch count.
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Aug. 20 (Jefferson), Sept. 2 (Dodgeville), Sept. 3 (Stevens Point), Sept. 9 (Eau Claire), Sept. 10 (Appleton) from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
UW–Madison’s Nutrient and Pest Management Program, DATCP, USDA-NRCS, and WI Land and Water are hosting their annual nutrient management regional meetings again this summer.
Each meeting is free, and CEUs will be available. Registration is required. Light lunch and snacks will be provided by the WI CCA Board and WI Land and Water.
Each location will also offer a voluntary SnapPlus V3 Demo and Question & Answer Session from 1 – 3 p.m.
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August 27, 2025
Arlington Ag Research Station
A day of rotating field talks from faculty experts and researchers in crop management, pest management, forage, and soils.
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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.
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. Please make requests for reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to educational programs as early as possible preceding the scheduled program, service, or activity. For communicative accommodations in languages other than English, please contact oaic@extension.wisc.edu. For communicative accommodations based on a disability, please contact Heather Lipinski Stelljes at: heather.stelljes@wisc.edu for the public.
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