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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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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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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Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) training provides systematic information to U.S. beef producers on how good husbandry techniques can be coupled with accepted scientific knowledge to raise cattle under optimum management conditions. To get certified in person, please register at https://go.wisc.edu/y580ma. Certifications may also be completed online at https://www.bqa.org/beef-quality…/online-certifications More information on BQA training can be […]
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Calling all beef producers! Join us for this Stockmanship & Stewardship workshop held in Lancaster, WI, August 28-29. This will be an action-packed two days featuring a variety of topics from cattle health and well-being to pasture management and land stewardship, complemented by low-stress cattle handling demonstrations. For more information, please visit stockmanshipandstewardship.org/events/lancaster-wi
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What is DON? DON (deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin) is a mycotoxin produced by the fungus responsible for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), a common and economically important disease in small grains. DON is a problem because it is toxic to humans and animals. Grain grown on-farm and fed to livestock should be managed properly to avoid negative […]
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Consider sharing your time and talents to help maintain the school garden at the Hintgen & Hamilton/SOTAI Elementary School. To ensure the growing space is being checked on and cared for regularly we hope to have a volunteer in the garden every other day this summer. Please find garden volunteer sign up schedules at https://growlacrosse.org/volunteer-2/ […]
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