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Soil Testing

Lawn & Garden Soil Testing La Crosse County UW-Extension offers soil testing Why, when and how: Sampling Lawn and Garden Soils for analysis What you get: Analysis of current nutrient content of your soil including: organic matter, lime requirement, potassium, phosphorous. . Current soil pH. Recommendation of type and amount of fertilizer to add. Allow […]

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Serve Wisconsin Podcast

Check out the latest episode of The S-Files podcast, which explores the service story of AmeriCorps member Nicole Eshelman, who is serving her second term with Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction AmeriCorps Farm to School. She has been serving students in the greater La Crosse area the last two years, being based at the School […]

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2025 Annual CAFO Update Registration 

Jointly sponsored by UW Madison Division of Extension’s Conservation Professional Training Program and Wisconsin DNR, these workshops are designed for livestock operations near or at WPDES permit size (CAFOs) — owners/management and key staff, their agronomic and engineering consultants, and agency staff and others who work with these operations. NEW for 2025:* The technical engineering topics have […]

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Driftless Region Beef Conference

Providing research-based beef production information to beef producers in the Driftless Region of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. University of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin Extension services are working together to offer the thirteenth annual Driftless Region Beef Conference to be held on January 23 and 24, 2025 at the Grand River Convention Center in Dubuque, IA. The […]

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Raising Wisconsin’s Children Conference 2025

The Raising Wisconsin’s Children Conference is a free, online learning event for parents, teachers, and caregivers of children providing supportive, practical parenting and child development information. Join us in 2025 to unlock the power of social and emotional skills in children and teens! Tuesday, January 28, 2025 8:15 AM – 4:30 PMVirtual on ZoomRegister Here Speakers […]

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Small Grains Workshop

Small grains workshop with Regional Crops Educator Sam Bibby. Topics to be covered include: general agronomy, nitrogen rate and timing research, small grains for forage, growing your own cover crop seed, herbicide and weed management considerations.

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 What is Open-Source Software, and How Does it Fit in Ag?

Open-source software (OSS) is a software product for which the code is freely available to the public to use or modify. This is essentially the opposite from what we call proprietary software, which is privately owned and licensed. Open-source software may sound like something that would only be useful to an IT specialist or computer […]

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