Central Wisconsin Agricultural Extension Report

Central Wisconsin Agricultural

Extension Report

| April | 2019

UW-MADISON DIVISION OF EXTENSION

University of Wisconsin, State Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin counties cooperating.

An EEO/AA employer, Extension provides equal opportunities in employment

and programming, including Title IX and American with Disabilities (ADA) requirements.

Taking Care of You In Today’s

Agriculture

Evan Henthorne —Agriculture Agent, Adams County

As I am sure we all have noticed, markets across the board aren't at the boom-

ing prices they were a few years back. Low markets = less money in our pock-

ets, and low amounts of money make it stressful to run our daily operation. Not

knowing how to handle stress can lead to the potential of a mental health disor-

der. What is a Mental Health disorder? A Mental Health disorder, also known as

mental illness is a diagnosable illness that affects a person’s ability to work or

carry out other daily activities and engage in satisfying personal relationships

(Mental Health First Aid). The causes of a mental health illness can be different

depending on the impacts of the individual. The most common mental illnesses

include anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar.

There's this stigma or attitude when it comes to the topic of mental health that

we aren't supposed to talk about it. We're supposed to ignore it. I can tell you

that's simply not the case anymore. Some when battling a mental illness have

the feeling they are “trapped” and that there isn't a way out. If you’ re feeling

trapped or feeling like you may be battling with a mental illness, make sure to

reach out and speak up. Whether that be to a spouse, neighbor, friend, or even

the county Extension staff. Agriculture Educators are not licensed professionals,

but we are here to listen non-judgmentally and help guide you to available re-

sources. A fact provided from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health,

“National survey of Americans found that 18.5% percent of adults (18 or older)

experienced a mental illness in any one year. This is equivalent to 43.8 million

people.” Limited number of people know that recovery from a mental illness is

possible with setting goals of hope, empowerment, and positive self control.

If you’re interested, Taking Care of You (TCY) is a research-based program that

offers practical strategies and experiences to help people deal with the stress in

their lives. Managing life’s challenges in healthy ways allows participants to take

better care of themselves and their overall health. Contact your Extension office

to find out about program availability.

Incase of an emergency please make sure to check out these contact numbers.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1/800-799-4889

National Drug & Alcohol 1/800-662-4357

Source Citation: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Results from the 2013 National

Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings, NSDUH Series H-49, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 14-

4887. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014.

CONTACT INFORMATION

FOR 7-COUNTY

TEAM MEMBERS

CONTACT INFORMATION

FOR 7-COUNTY

TEAM MEMBERS

Adams County: Evan Henthorne

Horticulture, Crops & Soils

569 N. Cedar, Suite 3

Adams, WI 53910

(608) 339-4237

evan.henthor[email protected]

Portage County: Ken Schroeder

Vegetable Production

1462 Strongs Avenue

Stevens Point, WI 54481

(715) 346-1316

ken.schroeder@wisc.edu

Juneau County: Alana Voss

Dairy & Forage Management

211 Hickory St.

Mauston, WI 53948-1386

(608) 847-9329

alana.voss@wisc.edu

Wood County: Matt Lippert

Dairy & Cranberry Production

Courthouse, 400 Market St.

PO Box 8095

Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-8095

(715) 421-8440

matthew.lippert@wisc.edu

Waushara County: Ken Williams

Farm Business Management

Courthouse, 209 S. St. Marie, PO Box 487

Wautoma, WI 54982-0487

(920) 787-0416

[email protected]aushara.wi.us

Green Lake County: Ben Jenkins

Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture & Marketing

571 County Road A

Green Lake, WI 54941

(920) 294-4032

benjamin.jenkins@wisc.edu

Marquette County: Lyssa Seefeldt

Livestock Production & Emerging Markets

480 Underwood Avenue, PO Box 338

Montello, WI 53949

(608) 297-3141

lyssa.seefeldt@wisc.edu

P AG E 2 C E N TR AL W I S C O N S I N A G R I C U L T U R A L E X TENS I O N R E P ORT

In just about every trade publication that lands on my desk

there are farmers and ag professionals writing about what the

loss of independent farmers means to future food prices and

the future of the rural communities that once depended on the

money generated from having many farms of smaller size in

the surrounding countryside. That’s great! It’s all good stuff

and it’s all true! But I’m afraid that it’s just preaching to the

choir.

Right now the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t care be-

cause they don’t know that they should care. Most don’t know

that the farming community is in serious danger of losing land

and legacy. They don’t know why you got into farming or why

you can’t just quit your “job” and get another. They don’t know

why you do what you do.

What they do know is what special interest groups have told

mainstream media about you, FYI, much of it is not good.

You are running your big oil dependent equipment day and

night polluting the air with dust and diesel fumes, you’re de-

pleting the globe’s oil reserves with your dependence on ferti-

lizer, your causing soil erosion at alarming rates, you’re de-

stroying the land with toxic chemicals, you’re polluting pristine

bodies of water by dumping fertilizer anywhere and every-

where, your putting cow manure into unsuspecting peoples

water supply, your hiring illegal help, your abusing animals for

profit, your farting cattle are melting the polar ice caps, and

your abusing animals for profit. Believe it or not someone ac-

tually wrote that milking cows was sexual assault.

What they don’t know is how many generations have been

able to make a living on your land prior to you. They don’t

know why your ancestors fled their former homeland to set up

an agrarian life in the new world. They don’t know how your

grandparents managed to hold onto the land you farm

through the Great Depression. They don’t know how you held

on in the eighties. They don’t know that some of you have

received suicide prevention notices with your milk check this

last year. They don’t know why they should care. They don’t

know what losing you and thousands like you across the

country is going to do to the future of their food supply and

their communities. They can’t understand why losing you will

eventually hurt them.

They can’t understand because you aren’t telling them! You

need to help them draw the lines, connect the dots. Who is in

a better position to do that than you the farmer? You can’t just

say it’s because farmers grow your food. That doesn’t mean

anything to them because food is plentiful and cheap. To

them the supply of cheap food will never end. If we lose

American production we can just do what industry is doing

and get our food from China right? You have to help them

understand why that is a very bad idea. You have to help

them see that you being forced to take a second job off farm

to keep on farming puts more bodies into the labor market

which can help keep wages low. You have to help them un-

derstand that if we give up our food growing to foreign entities

we won’t have the security of a domestically owned food sup-

ply in times of war. After all the Russians defeated Napoleon

by depriving his troops of food.

Tell Your Story

Ben Jenkins—Agriculture Agent, Green Lake County

You can’t be afraid to tell people what you spend every year

to run your farm. Saying that it costs more to farm than what

you receive only sounds like whining until you give them the

actual numbers. This spoke volumes to those that attended

an NRCS field day last summer where the host farmer ad-

mitted that he just sold a semi load of corn for less than what

the USDA said it cost to grow it. The non-farming crowd

came away with a greater appreciation, from a numbers per-

spective, for exactly how hard it is to make a living farming.

They also began asking deeper questions that can only be

answered by you the people who are attempting to farm for

a living.

Today it is easier than ever to get word out to the non-farm-

ing community. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Youtube

are the things that come to mind. Facebook is probably the

easiest way to get word out. Using Facebook you can post

an online article that you’ve seen to your account and then

share it with your contacts. You can then write a comment

on the post. In your comment you can elaborate on a point

that the author touched on but didn’t fully develop. Or you

might want to comment by adding a point that the author

failed to mention that you feel could give your audience a

better understanding of the point trying to be made. When I

was a kid we used to get the magazine Farm and Ranch

Living. Farmers and Ranchers would keep journals of the

day to day and share those with the readership. That is an

excellent example of how to share with your non-farming

social media contacts what your day to day is like.

It’s important that they know that your great great came here

to escape a miserable existence in Europe, or maybe you

can trace your heritage back to native farmers who were

here before the white settlers. Tell them about your relatives

who worked and died on the land. Write about your favorite

show cow, or your best herding dog. Put into words the joy

of walking the fields. Describe the changing of the seasons

and how the work you do changes right along with it. Share

the frustration of losing a calf or ten. Talk about the droughts,

blizzards, torrents, floods, heart attacks, lost limbs, and the

times you pulled an all-nighter because the crop had to get

in. Reminisce about when the barn burned down with that

year’s hay crop still inside. Tell them about the 4-H awards,

the birth of twin heifers, and about how proud it makes you

to have made it this far. When you tell your story learn how

to see what you do through their eyes. That way you will be

more effective in getting them to really, truly and honestly

understand what you go through and have been through.

The younger non-farming crowd craves experiences. Ex-

perience encompasses not just the physical doing but also

involves an emotional and spiritual element. I know this is

difficult for farmers to do but you have to learn to tell your

story in a way that your audience will feel as if they are

living out your experience with you. Why do farmers get

so annoyed with activists? Because they are emotional

and their tactics often involve media blurbs with emotional

appeal rather than hard and fast facts. Farmers, you can

learn something here. By you telling your stories you are

not just appealing to people’s intellect but you are also

appealing to their emotions. Emotions can often be more

effective in convincing the non-farming population to care

about the loss of independent farmers and their legacy.

Let’s help them get over their apathy.

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The end of tax season, April 15, will soon be here. In a

normal year farmers will breathe a sigh of relief that the

taxes are finally done. This year I am suggesting that it

would be an excellent time to assess where you and your

farm is at from a financial viewpoint. The issue of trade

tariffs has hit the farm economy pretty hard and the cur-

rent market for most farm products is not what it used to

be. Over the years agricultural exports have been one ar-

ea of the United States economy that has been able to

provide a positive value to the balance of trade. This ap-

pears to be in jeopardy with potential negative effects on

farm prices.

With the market for agricultural products facing this uncer-

tainty it might be wise this year to put extra effort into plan-

ning for the 2019 growing season. This past year we en-

dured a severe period of drought during the early part of

summer which had serious negative effects on crop yields

in Central Wisconsin. Realistic projections for production

cost and potential income should be developed. Farmers

should also take a look at developing cash-flow budgets to

allow them to see any time periods where there could be

additional cash needed to cover expenses.

Communication is especially important during times of

economic stress. Tax management personnel can provide

Financial Management on the Farm

Ken Williams—Agriculture Agent, Waushara County

guidance and suggestions for managing income and ex-

penses in ways to provide the most economic benefit for

the producer. The farm banker needs to be consulted

and kept informed of any developments that would affect

the repayment of the farm operating loan. Any business-

es that provide supplies or inputs for the farm also need

to be kept informed should there be any cash flow issues

resulting in non-payment of notes when due.

Enterprise budgets for grain crop production are increas-

ingly important as the market price for grain crops and

the cost for inputs to grow these crops continue to in-

crease. I developed a set of spreadsheets that provide a

simple and concise way to compare the potential produc-

tion costs and returns for various crops. These spread-

sheets enable anyone to easily see the production cost

and the potential return for corn, soybeans, winter wheat,

seeding alfalfa and established alfalfa. Each spreadsheet

is concise enough to print on a standard 8½ x 11 page of

paper. This spreadsheet is posted and available for

download from the UW-Extension, Waushara County

website, http://waushara.uwex.edu/agriculture. Click on

“Crop Budget Analyzer Feb 3, 2017”. For additional infor-

mation or questions contact Ken Williams at

Ag.Agent@co.waushara.wi.us or 920-787-0416.

Some large packers and processors have announced

that effective January 1, 2019, they will only purchase

from farms that are BQA or FARM Certified. Most dairy

farms are FARM certified through their milk processor.

Ask your dairy plant representative for help to get a copy

of your completed FARM evaluation, or a letter from them

indicating your farm’s completion of FARM 3.0 or beyond.

The January 1, 2019 BQA Requirement impacts those

selling finished cattle that are predominately beef breeds

and will be in effect for all markets and all private treaty

transactions. At this time, it is believed that beginning in

January 2020, additional processors will begin to require

BQA or FARM Certification from their suppliers.

Beef producers created the voluntary Beef Quality Assur-

ance Program in 1987 to assist each other in raising,

feeding and harvesting high quality beef. By participating

in BQA and adopting BQA production practices, you are

helping to answer the call from the packers’ consumers,

for safe beef raised in a humane manner. You can obtain

free, online BQA certification at BQA.org, http://

**New** BQA Certification Requirement

Lyssa Seefeldt—Agriculture Agent, Marquette County

www.bqa.org. Here you will create an account (based

upon your email address) and select the course that best

fits your particular operation. Each interactive course

takes about 2 hours to complete, and requires an 80%

score to pass the final test. You will receive your BQA

certification via email, which you will provide at the point

of sale.

UW-Extension is hosting in-person BQA certification

trainings throughout the state. Visit the WI Beef Infor-

mation Center online calendar at https://fyi.uwex.edu/

wbic/ for enrollment information of upcoming trainings.

Two locations will be offered in the central Wisconsin ar-

ea in the near future.

Montello

Marquette County will be hosting a BQA training on April

5 at the County Service Center in Montello from 12:30 pm

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You Are Not Alone

Alana Voss—Agriculture Agent, Juneau and Sauk Counties

Farming communities in Wisconsin have been getting

tested with their faith, traditions, and practices of running

and keeping their farms going this past year. Between the

financial strains, governmental changes, and extreme

weather patterns all playing a part in these difficult times

for the agriculture industry. More and more we are hear-

ing about the farm stress in the news and mental health

of our farmers in Wisconsin. Farm struggles or even

struggles emotionally are never an easy topic to discuss

or admit to others or even ourselves. However, you are

not alone in feeling this way, one in five adults have a

mental disorder in a given year. The onset of mental dis-

order can happen quickly and can be due to a traumatic

experience. Many of these mental disorders can happen

as a combination as well.

Again, I know this is a difficult conversation and hard to

accept during these tough times. However, if you can

look for signs among your neighbors, family members,

and even yourself, you may be able to help these individ-

uals or yourself find the resources needed to help work

through these tough times. Depression is one of the top

mental disorders and can pair with anxiety very easily. A

few symptoms to look for are individuals to be withdrawn,

unusually sad mood, lack of interest & enjoyment in nor-

mal daily activities, loss of appetite, aches & pains, diffi-

culty sleeping, feeling worthless, and thinking about

death.

Ultimately, that last thought is not one we want to accept

that may affect us or ones that we care about in our life.

Suicide is a serious concern and if you feel there are any

concerns with individuals that you know, take the time to

talk with them. Some signs you can look for are: threaten-

ing harm or death to themselves, talking or writing about

death, acting recklessly, no sense of purpose or reason

for living, giving items away, and expressing hopeless-

ness. The biggest thing is to ask a person how they are

and if they need a chance to talk. Remind them that they

have others there for them.

If you or anyone you know may potentially be showing or

stating any of these signs when you chat with them. Help

them reach out to a few of these resources to help find

the right options. You can reach out to your local UW-

Madison Division of Extension agriculture agent/educator.

Another great resource is the Department of Agriculture

Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Farm Center

can offer help with legal and farm planning, call them at 1

-800-942-2474. Additionally, if you feel a person is think-

ing about suicide you can call the Suicide Prevention Line

at 1-800-273-8255 (Vets dial extension 1). If texting

seems to be a better fit there is the Hopeline, which you

can text hopeline to 741741. Furthermore, you can call

your counties crisis line which are listed below for another

local resource. Lastly, if you feel someone is going to

commit self-harm and cannot be left alone, please stay

with them and call for help,

CWAS Counties Crisis Lines:

Adams County: 1-888-552-6642

Green Lake County: 1-920-294-4000

Juneau County: 1-608-847-2400 or

after hours 1-608-847-5649

Marquette County: 1-888-552-6642

Portage County: 1-866-317-9362

Waushara County: 1-920-787-6618 or

after hours 1-920-787-3321

Wood County: Wisconsin Rapids - 1-715-421-2345 or

Marshfield - 1-715-384-5555

(registration) to about 4:30 pm. The Marquette County

Service Center is located at 480 Underwood Avenue,

Montello. This certification is provided in cooperation with

UW-Extension and the WI Beef Council, and costs $15

per farm. The fee will be collected at the door; please

make checks payable to WI BQA Program. So we may

plan for materials, please RSVP by March 29 with the

number attending from your farm so we know how many

manuals to have on-hand for training. Call 608-297-3141

to register. The WI BQA Program will verify your certifica-

tion with BQA.org and return your certification number

back to the farm by either email or regular mail.

Baraboo

Sauk County will be hosting a BQA training on May 3 at

the West Square Administration Building located at 505

Broadway, Baraboo. This certification is provided in coop-

eration with UW-Extension and the WI Beef Council, and

costs $15 per farm. The fee will be collected at the door;

please make checks payable to WI BQA Program. So we

may plan for materials, please RSVP by April 26 with the

number attending from your farm so we know how many

manuals to have on-hand for training. Call 608-355-3250

to register. The WI BQA Program will verify your certifica-

tion with BQA.org and return your certification number

back to the farm by either email or regular mail.

Continued from page 3

Reducing purchased feed cost is a critical factor

when dairy margins are low. Purchasing less feed

is beneficial if we can maintain production. Lacta-

tion rations can have as little forage as in the 30’s

for percent forage on up to 70 and 80 percent for-

age. The number is not as definable as percent

NDF or other lab measures, largely because of the

characteristics of some common feeds.

Corn silage is the primary ingredient in many dairy

rations today and is considered an excellent forage.

Typically about 7 bushels in each ton of silage is

corn grain. Doing the math about half of the silage is

grain. Yet most ration analysis counts the entire

product as forage, not half forage and half grain.

What if we harvested the corn high- leaving more of

the lower stalk in the field, we still call the product

corn silage even if the starch levels exceed 40%.

On the other hand snaplage has become a more

common product as have other types of high mois-

ture corn that include the cob and some of the stalk.

These products have more fiber in them than tradi-

tional grain and may not be that different from silage

that is harvested with high stubble, but we usually

account for these products as entirely grain. As you

see percent forage can be a very imprecise number

and means more if you couple it with other

measures of fiber level in the ration such as percent

NDF and some measure of NDF digestibility.

Very high percent forage diets

High forage diets have several characteristics, one

is a high percent of corn silage, another would be

outstanding digestibility of the forage, this may in-

clude BMR corn, low-lignin alfalfa, high quality

grasses harvested at an immature stage and also

alfalfa harvested with a short cutting interval (28

days or less) that will shorten stand life and de-

crease yield. Another characteristic, especially if

high fiber digestibility is not obtained, will be de-

creased milk production potential from the diet. In

some systems where grain is more expensive such

as for organic producers, this production loss may

be justified, another possibility will be grazing sys-

tems with very low overhead. Even for many graz-

ing systems supplements can be justified if the high

percent forage is causing production loss. Another

challenge with very high forage diets is that one in-

gredient is expected to do too much of the work.

For example a high quality pasture grass is the only

forage and it is too wet and too high in soluble pro-

tein, possibly higher in sugars than needed. Alt-

Forage to Concentrate Ratio

Matt Lippert—Agriculture Agent, Wood County

Visit the

Central Wisconsin

Agricultural Specialization Team

on the web

http://fyi.uwex.edu/cwas/

hough the grass has outstanding characteristics it

would benefit from being balanced out by other in-

gredients. In many forage feeding systems the for-

age side is limited to one or two ingredients making

the ration more difficult to balance.

Are high forage diets healthier?

The answer is yes- and no. There are some excel-

lent byproduct feeds available that can replace for-

age without causing starch overload, acidosis and

too many highly digestible ingredients in the diet.

These include- soy hulls, beet pulp, corn gluten

feed, distiller’s grain, wheat middlings, cottonseed

and others. In the case of cottonseed it can even

match or improve on the chew factor, the effective

fiber in the ration, the ability to maintain a stable ru-

men mat of fibrous ingredients. These ingredients

often price in the diet to be no more expensive than

adding corn. They do require the ability to handle

more ingredients in the diet, either on the farm or

mixed at the feed mill.

Increase your play book-

Dairy farmers are, and should be interested in im-

proving the quality of their forage. Sometimes

weather gets in the way of meeting some forage

quality targets that seem to be getting more aggres-

sive every year. I advise against locking yourself

into expecting to meet all of your NDF digestibility

requirements through your forage, on the other

hand we should not throw in the towel and accept

poor forage as the normal situation. Another tool

that can help is managing inventory so the best for-

ages go to early lactation animals and average or

below forage makes it to the replacement herd and

dry cows.

Forage to concentrate ratio is a great management

concept to guide your operation but be sure to think

about what the numbers actually mean- usually best

understood with some other fiber and energy

measures of the ration included.

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African Swine Fever: Why Should We Care?

Lyssa Seefeldt—Agriculture Agent, Marquette County

In this day and age of global economies, we get in-

undated with all kinds of information of what is going

on in the US and the world. Not a day goes by that

don’t hear about a natural disaster or disease out-

break in another country. We hope the next disaster

or disease won’t be here at home.

One disease that is currently on the watch list for

many is African swine fever (ASF), a deadly, highly

contagious, viral disease that affects pigs. The chal-

lenge with ASF is that it can spread very rapidly from

pig to pig either via direct contact or indirect routes,

primarily via ticks or fomites. Fomites are inanimate

objects that may carry a disease such as boots, vehi-

cles, or feed. Research has shown that viral shed-

ding and transmission can occur for at least 70 days

post-inoculation in an experimental setting. This is

NOT a zoonotic disease, so humans are not af-

fected by this virus. Currently there is no cure for

ASF, nor are there any vaccinations to prevent infec-

tions. The only currently viable solution is eradication

of infected animals.

As the name implies, this virus’s home territory is in

African countries. Wild pigs, warthogs, and other ani-

mals in the Suidae (pig) family can be reservoirs of

the ASF virus, although they may not show signs of

illness. Like many diseases, there are different

strains of ASF which can lead to 100% mortality to

only exhibiting signs of minor illness.

Some research in domestic pigs shows that ASF vir-

sus can linger in tissues of pigs for three to six

months. The virus can lurk in uncooked pork prod-

ucts, which can facilitate the spread of the disease to

previously uninfected areas. This is one reason why

the US is so tough on not allowing “unapproved” or

“unregulated” food items through airport security or

other points of entry into the US.

Keep abreast of global happenings

As the Chinese swine herd continues to be decimat-

ed by ASF, US markets are being affected. China is

the number one importer of soybeans in the world.

As swine herd numbers in China decrease, so does

the demand for raw commodity products like soy-

beans. In November 2018, China imported zero soy-

beans from the US as demand was down due to low-

er pig numbers and tariff pressure was providing in-

centive for the Chinese to buy Brazilian soybeans.

Another issue is the US imports a lot of vitamin pre-

mixes and other feed ingredients from China… a

concerning potential biosecurity issue with ASF run-

ning rampant across the country. As we learned with

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), even really

good biosecurity can have fine cracks in it, that in the

end, let a biosecurity issue like PEDv through. The

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus was thought to have

come to the US from China via feed ingredients, so

we don’t want to repeat mistakes of the past.

Since ASF is considered a foreign animal disease, it

is a reportable disease to the USDA Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), so if there

is any suspicion of ASF present in a herd or animals

at a abattoir presenting signs that look like ASF,

steps would be immediately taken to eradicate any

potential threat. If testing came back as ASF, move-

ment of ALL swine would come to a halt- and that

has big implications for abattoirs and farmers alike-

to the tune of about $8 billion dollars in the first year.

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C E NTR AL W I S C O NS I N AG R I C U L T U R A L E X TE N S I O N R E P OR T P A GE 7

May 25 Adams County Dairy Breakfast, Adams-Friendship High School,

1109 E North St., Adams WI 53910

7 AM-11 AM. $5/per person, $3 children Kindergarten-5

grade

“Farm Tour to New Chester Dairy”

May 31 Mayor’s Dairyfest Breakfast, Central WI State Fairgrounds, Expo

Bldg., 513 E. 17th Street, Marshfield 54449

5:30 AM-9:30 AM. $7/per person, children 6 and under free

June 9 Marquette County Dairy Breakfast,

Marquette County Fairgrounds, 757 Main St., Westfield

7:00 AM-12:00 PM. $7 per person; $5 children 6-12; 5 & under-free

June 15 40th Annual Portage County Dairy Brunch and Open Farm

Front Page Holsteins, Edelburg Family Farm, 1499 County Road A,

Amherst Junction, WI 54407

8:00 AM-12:00 PM, $7 adults; $2 children 6-10; 5 & under-free

June 30 Juneau County Dairy Breakfast

Elroy Fair: 80/82 south of Elroy, at the City Park, Entertainment Tent

7:00 AM-11:00 AM, $5 adults; $3 children; website: https://

www.elroyfair.com/

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GREEN LAKE, WI

PERMIT NO. 19

CENTRAL WISCONSIN AGRICULTURE SPECIALIZATION (CWAS)

A cooperative effort of seven

Central Wisconsin Counties and

Wisconsin Extension.

Our Mission

To be the primary source of research based

agricultural information and education for the

agricultural community in Central Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin, State Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin counties cooperating.

An EEO/AA employer, Extension provides equal opportunities in employment

and programming, including Title IX and American with Disabilities (ADA) requirements.