Published: Sept. 20, 2024 Cutting alfalfa when the weather is good can be tempting, but late fall cuttings could be damaging to long term alfalfa productivity and stand persistence. Why it might be bad to cut now As a perennial crop, one must manage alfalfa with not just this year but the next year in […]
In the September 11, 2024 Badger Crop Connect webinar, Dr. Harkirat Kaur, a new extension specialist at UW–Madison, introduced herself and shared her background, education, and research experiences.
In the September 11, 2024 Badger Crop Connect webinar, Kevin Jarek discussed the challenges faced in corn silage and dry down this year.
In the September 11, 2024 Badger Crop Connect webinar, Dr. Matt Ruark discussed cover crop species most likely to establish successfully when planted in mid-September and later, as well as cover crop termination, timing, biomass accumulation, and nitrogen uptake.
The September 11, 2024 Badger Crop Connect webinar featured Steve Vavrus, Wisconsin State Climatologist, who discussed the latest Wisconsin ag climate outlook.
In this video, Chris Clark and Jordan Kampa, outreach specialists for the UW-Madison Extension Nutrient & Pest Management program head to the field to talk about managing potassium in crops and the publication they co-authored on the Potassium Cycle, available now from the NPM program.
This publication is an overview of essential plant nutrients and the ways they interact with one another. Farmers and agronomists can use this guide as a tool in conjunction with a good soil testing program to help diagnose agronomic problems and consider their nutrient management strategy.
This comprehensive resource provides a visual overview of the potassium (K) cycle and breaks down the crucial role K plays in soils and crop growth to help you optimize your crop yield.
Many factors affect crop yield; only one of them is fertilizer. The six factors listed here have a strong relationship with consistently better-yielding areas of a farm field.
We’re starting to see some foliar diseases come into corn in WI, which may affect harvest timing and management. We’re not overly concerned; however, the time is right to be proactive and scout, scout, scout!
From various research efforts into the physiology of alfalfa winter survival, it appears that many of these root reserve compounds are positively linked to winter survival, so preserving them can aid our alfalfa stand in surviving winter and thriving the following spring. Manipulating the time of fall cutting allows us to control the stores of these compounds to give the best chance at winter survival of our alfalfa stands.
Given the importance to crop and soil health and crop productivity, the accuracy of soil test results cannot be overstated. Whether you take your own soil samples or have the fertilizer dealer sample your fields for you, how soil is collected really matters.
