Dunn County

  Hands on Training for Wisconsin Corn and Soybean Growers June, 2013  - Dunn County UW-Extension will be holding a “Resistance Management Crop Care Clinic” on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, from 1:30 – 4:00 pm.  It will be held on the Paul Harrison farm near Menomonie. There is no cost to attend. Crop Care Clinics [...]

 Dunn County UW-Extension is offering a Farm/Tractor & Machinery Safety Certification course June 17-20, 2013, from 8 am – 2 pm at the Menomonie Middle School, 920 21st Street SE, Menomonie. The purpose of this program is to teach youth about tractor, machinery, and farm safety. Tractor and farm machinery operators need to be knowledgeable [...]

Published in the Chippewa Valley Ag Extension Alert – Spring 2013 edition Renting land is an alternative to owning. Renting allows a farmer to increase the size of his or her operation without having to commit (or even have) the money needed to buy the land. For starting farmers, renting is a very good way [...]

Published in the Chippewa Valley Ag Extension Alert – Winter 2013 edition The 2012 crop season is now complete and many farmers have taken advantage of the warm fall weather to do some fall tillage and planting of cover crops. If there were any corn fields left standing for the gun deer season, they have [...]

Published in the Chippewa Valley Ag Extension Alert – November 2012 edition As fall harvest is nearing completion and farm machinery is being put back into the shed for winter, plans for next year are already in the works. One of these planning tasks is reviewing farmland rental agreements, establishing new contracts and determining what [...]