The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has announced that the State of Wisconsin will be giving certification extensions for those certifications that have expired.
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The 2017 Portage County Plat Books are now only $20! All proceeds from the plat books support the Portage County 4-H Program.
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Extension staff are working remotely and many of our events have been postponed. Please visit our directory page for staff emails and phone numbers. Stay Well.
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Still Available ~ $865 tractor roll bar rebate. Tractor rollovers are the leading cause of death on farms, accounting for nearly 100 fatalities each year.
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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.
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Portage County UW-Extension is offering soil testing for lawns, gardens, food plots and fields.
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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.
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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.
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