Lake Winnebago Quality Improvement Association (LWQIA) recognizes farmers who are leaders in conservation with their annual Mathias-Lesczynski Water Quality Award. The award is named after long time employee of the Fond du Lac County Land [...]
Adapted from an article originally submitted by Zach Laughlin, Fond du Lac County LWCD Dave Simon operating his roller crimper before planting in 2022 Dave Simon, one of our Pipe Farmer [...]
Our Rat River Farmer Champions are part of our Increase Adoption of Soil Health Conservation Systems in the Rat River Watershed project. Three farmers from the Rat River Watershed in Winnebago County have teamed up [...]
Dan Rieckmann, Rat River Farmer Champion On March 25th, 2022 Shelia and Emily from Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department met with farmer Dan Rieckmann to get to know him and [...]
Lydell Pethke of Ledgerock Farms On April 13th, 2022 Shelia from Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department met with farmer, Lydell Pethke of Ledgerock, to get to know him and his [...]
The Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network (“Fox Demo Farms”) is a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) project designed to showcase and demonstrate leading edge conservation practices that improve Great Lakes water quality by reducing [...]
Larry Engel, Farmer Champion in Rat River Watershed On March 25th, 2022 Shelia and Emily from Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department met with one of our new Farmer Champions, Larry [...]
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" [...]
