Mid-State Technical College is offering Nutrient Management Planning courses October, November, and December 2022 at their Adams, Marshfield, Stevens Point, and Wisconsin Rapids campuses.  NMP Classes 2022 Mid State

ATTENTION PRIVATE APPLICATORS ~ CHANGES TO PESTICIDE APPLICATOR CERTIFICATION

Still Available ~ $865 tractor roll bar rebate.  Tractor rollovers are the leading cause of death on farms, accounting for nearly 100 fatalities each year.

Since the early 1960s, nearly 150 people have died in the U.S. because of manure-related gas incidents in confined spaces (NCERA 2016).  Of those cases, about half occurred on dairy operations.

The weekend of October 22-23, facilities in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin lost feeder steers in incidents related to hydrogen sulfide (H2S) during pump-out. At this time we are not able to explain why there has been an uptick in incidents.

The Farmer to Farmer Hay, Forage and Corn List puts Wisconsin farmers in touch with one another for the purpose of buying and/or selling corn silage, high moisture corn, haylage, hay, and straw.