General Farming Certification allows you to purchase and use restricted-use pesticides as a private applicator for production of any agricultural commodity.
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We have been on a wild ride this year with the winter weather: snow, ice, polar vortex, high winds, and more snow. How has this effected the landscape plants and invasive insects? There is good and not so good news.
New volunteers can attend the VIP Training on March 28 at 7pm in the Dodge County Administration Building, Juneau. This is required training for all adult 4-H volunteers.
Dodge County 4-H offers a variety of scholarship opportunities to 4-H youth and alumni graduating high school and/or attending 4-year colleges/universities or 2- year technical schools.
Does your garden chatter, rattle, slither, baa, roar, or moo? Then it must be a zoo garden. Although the plants do not make such noise, their names do imply a wealth of activity.
Pesticide Applicator Training sessions are to be held at Dodge County UW-Extension in February and March. Dodge County pesticide applicators certification that has or will be expiring or first-time applicators, will want to register for one of two training sessions offered. A self-study program in order to certify will be available as well.
If you are a person of a certain age, are related to Peter Rabbit, or are in the younger generation and follow a health conscience regimen, you have likely had a cup of chamomile tea to soothe you at one time or another.
Dodge and Fond Du Lac County conducted a farmland cash rent survey during the winter of 2018. The survey is intended to provide township level rental rate information for property owners and tenants who negotiate rental contracts in the many townships of Dodge County.
To help farmers successfully use cover crops, members of the Dodge County Farmers for Healthy Soil-Healthy Water in collaboration with UW-Extension have written three tip sheets which focus on three different cover crop establishment methods and timings.
Myths abound concerning snakes, contributing to the generalized fear of these amazing creatures. Wisconsin is home to 22 different snake species, but not all are common and not all are found in the southeast portion of the state.
Area youth are invited to participate in a Statewide Science Day on October 13, 2018 from 9am to noon at the Dodge County Administration Building. Choose from 4 sessions featuring water, engineering, robotics, and Legos!
Determining when to cut first-crop alfalfa is often difficult because alfalfa quality, relative to flowering stage, varies greatly. To help with this dilemma, agronomists at the University of Wisconsin – Madison developed the Predictive Equations for Alfalfa Quality (PEAQ) method which predicts alfalfa’s Relative Feed Value (RFV) at the time of cutting.
The Margin Protection Program for Dairy offers protection to dairy producers when the difference between the all milk price and the average feed cost (the margin) falls below a certain dollar amount selected by the producer.
Currants, gooseberries, and elderberries are native to Wisconsin and can often be harvested in the wild. However, they are easy to grow in an urban landscape and provide not only highly nutritious fruit, but also are a beautiful landscape plant.
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