Friday, March 1, 2024

Registration 10:45 am – Program 11:00 am

Pizza Ranch
1520 N Spring St
Beaver Dam WI

Register by clicking on Google Forms

Cost: $20/person (includes meal, materials & Dodge County Forage Council Dues)
IF you also want to pay Midwest Forage Association Dues costs: $60/person (includes all of the above also)

Event Schedule:

11:00 am Dr. John Jones | UW-Madison Researcher – Should we be adding nitrogen to our winter cereal forages?

11:45 am Kevin Jarek | Regional Crops Educator for Outagamie and Winnebago County Extension – The economics of winter cereal forages before corn silage

12:30 pm Lunch and Forage Contest

1:15 pm Dr. Brian Luck | UW-Madison Faculty and Extension Specialist – The importance of forage equipment maintenance

2:00 pm Josh Kamps | Regional Crops Educator for Jefferson, Rock, and Walworth County Extension – Planting alfalfa green into cereal rye

Annual meeting to follow presentation.

MFA Updates. 3 Certified Crop Advisor CEU credits

FORAGE CONTEST:
Bring in your best forages to be judged by your peers. One entry per category. All attending can vote once for each category. Votes will be tallied at the end of lunch and prizes will be awarded at annual meeting. Please bring silage, haylage, baleage, and miscellaneous ensiled forages in a 1 gallon zip-lock bag.
Please no dry hay. We are in a restaurant.
Prizes will be awarded for each category.