Building on the successes of two previously awarded Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grants, the Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance was recently awarded a new United States Environmental Protection Agency - GLRI grant. This [...]
The 2018 Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference will take place on February 27 (9am-4pm) at the Holiday Inn in Stevens Point. This will be a statewide conference geared toward helping Wisconsin farmers use cover [...]
To build on successes with air seeding cover crops while making a fall tillage pass, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) partnered with Outagamie and Brown Counties to mount the air seeder on a 12-row corn [...]
The Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance and its project partners were awarded a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Grant to promote agricultural conservation practices in the Plum and Kankapot Creek Sub-Watersheds. The Plum and [...]
The Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network has been busy in the agricultural conservation arena this spring. The network reports the following agricultural conservation efforts: The ZRX Roller/Crimper was used to plant [...]
Soil sample being collected from eroded streambank. Plum Creek is part of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and watershed management plan for total phosphorus (TP) and total suspended solids (TSS) in [...]
May 9, 2017 RSS New Study Shows Diversified Crop Rotation System Could Be Adopted Widely Across Corn Belt And Increase Corn-Soy Yields While Slashing Soil Erosion and Water Pollution Farmers Could See Soil Erosion [...]
The Plum & Kankapot GLRI project team has been busy continuing efforts in the Plum & Kankapot Creek watersheds. The last few months of 2016 and the first few months of 2017 have been [...]
Your local source for soil health and conservation agriculture news The Basin Buzz is a semi-annual newsletter printed and distributed by the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance through our conservation agriculture initiatives. The newsletter [...]
Article written by Whitney Passint, UW-Extension. Photos by Brent Petersen, UW-Extension. Why the study? As year three of the Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network comes to a close, we [...]
