Beginning in 2019, Fox-Wolf and Outagamie County Land Conservation Department partnered with three agricultural producers in the Plum Creek and Kankapot Creek Watersheds through a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant. These Conservation Champions [...]
Dave Simon no-till planting corn into a rye cover crop in 2021. Article submitted by Zach Laughlin, Fond du Lac County LWCD Dave’s roller crimper in a shed [...]
After a virtual year, the Lower Fox Farmer Roundtable returned in-person on February 17 at Van Abel's of Hollandtown. Over 100 farmers, land owners, and conservation staff registered for this year's "Economics of Carbon" [...]
Demonstration farms test and showcase a variety of soil health and other conservation farming practices including technologies, equipment, and techniques used to reduce sediment and phosphorus loss. These farms are often part of a [...]
Article written by Melanie Kalmerton, Fond du Lac County Land & Water Spring is an exceptionally busy time of year on the farm. For farmers who plant cover crops that survive the winter and [...]
Dave Simon (Prairie Rock Farms) and Chad Tasch (Tasch’s Custom LLC) were introduced to readers in the Basin Buzz this past summer as the Pipe Creek Farmer Champions. Working with the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance [...]
Rat River Watershed Soil Health - Project Background The Winnebago Lakes drain over 5,900 square miles of land from the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basins. The surface water runoff that comes from [...]
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance aims to improve water quality by partnering with Winnebago County Land & Water Conservation Department (LWCD) and local farmers in the Rat River Watershed on soil health.Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance announced today [...]
Our GLRI project partners, Fond du Lac County LWCD, organized a field day for Thursday, November 18th at 10am. They will be talking about our Pipe Creek Farmer Champion's 3-year project of continuous: no-till, [...]
The Town of Calumet has been experiencing flooding in their township for years. Due to the natural landscape of living near the Niagara escarpment, steep slopes and runoff are common. The recent increases in [...]
