Back in 2015, farmers across the Fox-Wolf River Basin were making big moves in conservation. With new funding and fresh enthusiasm, techniques like cover crops and no-till farming were spreading fast. That same year, [...]
Celebrating Local Heroes: Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance Announces 2024 Impact Award Winners Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is excited to announce the 2024 Impact Award recipients, recognizing local leaders and organizations making significant strides in environmental conservation [...]
Project idea? Funds Will Help Protect and Improve Surface Water Original Story: WI DNR The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently announced it will award more than $6 million to local groups to [...]
What is Precision Ag Farm Business Planning? Precision ag technology is used to make a variety of agronomic management decisions on farms. Increasingly, this technology has become critically important in identifying [...]
Wildlife Planting Program The Wildlife Planting Program provides technical and financial assistance to participants for planting trees and/or shrubs. The Program incentivizes producers to plant trees and shrubs in marginal agricultural areas [...]
Conservation Planning & the Farm Progress Report As the supply chain and consumers are looking for more sustainably produced products, understanding the environmental impacts of field management and having a tool [...]
What is the Continuous Cover System? The Continuous Cover System is combination of no-till, cover crops, and optionally LDMA used throughout the year to keep soil continuously covered. These practices are [...]
Horticulturist, author, and speaker Melinda Myers will discuss key invasive plants in Wisconsin, share tips on identification, provide ways to control some of the more common problem plants, and suggest some alternative plants! We [...]
Most kids are not too excited about cleaning. I know my kids groan when I remind them of their daily chores. That's why it was remarkable, and certainly noteworthy, to see a fifth grade student [...]
Wisconsin has laws that outline standards for farms' nutrient management. NR 151 deals with runoff management, specifically with manure application and nitrate and phosphorus pollution. It also outlines what the criteria is for geographically [...]
