Farmers in western Wisconsin — if you’re interested in learning more about sustainable farming practices, you may want to go to this year’s Western Wisconsin Conservation Council annual meeting on Dec. 8.
The Council will be presenting lessons from the field, well-testing research, and recent results from simulated rainfall and edge-of-field experiments from Wisconsin. Speakers are coming from UW-River Falls and UW-Platteville.
UWRF Prof. Jill Coleman Wasik specializes in environmental science. She will give an update on the well testing program now in its fifth year. She will present data from the ongoing lysimeter study and discuss new initiatives for the upcoming year.
Cuba City-native Dennis Busch has worked as a University of Minnesota extension service area extension educator, University of Minnesota research assistant, UW-Platteville senior scientist and private consultant. His research focuses on the impacts of farming practices on water quality based on monitoring rainfall simulators and edge-of-field surface-water runoff. Busch is also developing and testing alternative, low-cost methods for monitoring edge-of-field surface-water runoff.
David Tollberg, a private crop consultant and WWCC board member, will moderate an interactive farmer panel. Farmers will discuss their experiences with the timing of terminating cover crops for planting green, as well as planter attachment successes and challenges. Attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and share successes and failures.
More Details
Who: Western Wisconsin Conservation Council
What: Annual meeting
When: 12-2:30 p.m. on Dec. 8
Where: Emmert & Sons, 1881 140th Ave., Baldwin, Wis.
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