What happens to your crops in flooded fields?
Farming is a business that cannot avoid weather risks. A significant challenge farmers face is dealing with excessive water, especially flooded and saturated soil.
Soils, Nutrient Management & Soil Health
Extension specialists and educators provide timely resources and information to help Wisconsin crop producers and their agricultural consultants manage crops efficiently and profitably.
Articles
Ammonia loss from urea-containing fertilizers
Various soil and environmental factors such as soil texture, pH, cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil moisture, relative humidity and windspeed at the time of and directly following application affect ammonia volatilization. This article reviews soil properties and environmental factors that affect ammonia loss (AL) from surface applied urea and discuss management strategies to reduce AL from applied urea-based fertilizer.
Precision Agriculture 101: Planting
The use and adoption of technology in crop production continues to accelerate as new tools are introduced to the marketplace at relatively affordable prices. The options and applications for precision agriculture technology during the planting season are extensive. To better understand the options available and their potential benefits we must be familiar with them and how they work.
Field Notes Episode 18: Dairy Heifer Grazing
Like gas and groceries, the cost of trucking and raising dairy heifers out West has gone up. Does this present Wisconsin farmers with an opportunity to lure these animals back to the state with low-input approaches and similar performance standards with well-managed grazing?
▶ Watch: Nitrogen Rate and Timing Considerations
The May 8 Badger Crop Connect session features Chris Bandura, Extension’s Conservation Cropping Outreach Specialist, speaking about nitrogen rate and timing considerations.
▶ Watch: Planter setup and closing wheel operations for no-till corn planting
The April 24 Badger Crop Connect session features Dr. Brian Luck, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist for Ag Machinery and Precision Ag, UW–Madison Biological Systems Engineering Department.
▶ Watch: Set up for success – alfalfa management strategies
The April 24 Badger Crop Connect session features Scott Newell, Extension’s Alfalfa Outreach Specialist.
▶ Watch: Planting Green – spring field check
A grower’s perspective. This is one of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. Dan Smith, Extension Nutrient and Pest Management program manager, and Tony, a Dodge County farmer, discuss cover crop termination and early corn growth and observe soil moisture after planting.
▶ Watch: Planting Green – soil health
A researcher’s perspective. This is one of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. Jamie Patton, Wisconsin state soil health coordinator for USDA NRCS, discusses the soil health benefits of planting green. She focuses on how planting green helps minimize soil disturbances, maintain living […]
▶ Watch: Planting Green – water quality
This is one of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. These videos detail the basics of rye establishment the previous fall, planter set-up, weed control, water quality and soil health considerations, and a field scouting trip to see how these practices come together […]
▶ Watch: Planting Green – weed control considerations
A researcher’s perspective. This is one of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. In this video, Dan Smith, Extension Nutrient and Pest Management program manager, and Rodrigo Werle, an associate professor in the UW–Madison Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences and Extension weed […]
▶ Watch: Planting Green – planter setup
These are two parts of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. In the first video, Dan Smith, Extension Nutrient and Pest Management program manager, and Tony, a Dodge County farmer, discuss planter set-up tips. Tony explains his setup, which has evolved with his […]