Article submitted by Wesley Kotila, Outagamie County Land Conservation Department In the fall of 2020, Outagamie County Land Conservation Department provided assistance to a private landowner with the construction of a treatment wetland complex [...]
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Article written by Josh Hiemstra, Hiemstra Dairy LLC Photos provided by Zach Laughlin, Fond du Lac County LWCD Hello to all working to make the Fox-Wolf River Basin healthy and more vibrant! I am [...]
Pipe Farmers - Project Background Lake Winnebago drains over 5,900 square miles of land from the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basins. The surface water runoff that comes from that huge area of [...]
Building Soil Health One field At a Time Farming methods listed below are examples of best management practices that can improve soil health and reduce soil erosion. Benefits of soil health practices [...]
Pipe Creek - What's happening: Zach Laughlin, Watershed Coordinator with Fond du Lac County, provided an update about our farmers from the Pipe Creek Watershed project. Dave Simon of Prairie Rock Farms: With the [...]
Learn more about the Upper Fox Demonstration Farm Network: CLICK HERE Article submitted by Maranda Miller, UW-Extension NRE Program, maranda.miller@wisc.edu
Article submitted by Todd Wahler, Waushara County Land Conservation and Zoning Since 2008 the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rule NR 151.07 – State wide Agricultural Performance Standards has required all crop producers that apply commercial fertilizer [...]
Article submitted by Melanie Kalmerton, Fond du Lac County Land & Water Conservation Dept. With the field season soon approaching, we over at Fond du Lac County Land and Water Conservation Department wanted to [...]
Dairy farms have a large impact within the Pipe Creek subwatershed. Increasing dairy cattle numbers has resulted in a greater reliance on corn silage to sustain expanding dairy operations. The change in cropping practices [...]
