DAIRY & AGRICULTURE PROGRAM AREA
TOPICS
Manitowoc County Dairy Youth Projects
& Awards
Agriculture Items of Interest
The 2009 UW-Extension Midwest Manure Summit at Lambeau Field
drew nearly 300 people from across the country. The
conference focused on manure handling and processing technologies
for dairy farms. The presentations of this conference
are posted at the following website: www.midwestmanure.com.
 Coping
with High Feed Costs by Dr. Randy Shaver, UW-Extension Dairy
Nutritionist (13 pages, 112 KB)
Coping
with High Input Costs by Dr. Bruce Jones, UW-Extension Farm
Management Specialist (17 pages, 370 KB)
Agricultural
Land Sales by Counties, Wisconsin, 2007
Agriculture
Statistics for Manitowoc County
2007
Wisconsin Custom Rate Guide (9 pages, 1.5 MB)
2009
Manitowoc County Custom Operators List (10/2009) (4 pages, 21 KB)
Wisconsin Custom
Operators, Inc.
Wisconsin
Custom Manure Applicators List (8/2008) (10 pages, 115
KB)
Prepared by UW Extension Environmental Resources Center (ERC) and the Professonal
Nutrient Applicators Association of Wisconsin
2007 Dairy Producers Survey
Final
Report of the Northeast Wisconsin Karst Task Force (52
pages, 4.81 MB)
Dairy Partner / El Compañero (Employee Newsletter
Fact Sheets
Fences
in Agricultural Areas (6 pages, 24 KB)
Footbath
Alternatives (4 pages, 114 KB)
With the price of copper sulfate escalating to more than $70 per bag, many herds are looking for alternatives to decrease footbath costs. There seems to be some confusion about what different chemicals are doing, so it is perhaps timely to review our footbath goals.
USDA’s
Gross Margin Insurance Program for Dairy: What is it and
Can it be Used for Risk Management
Mycotoxin
Effects in Dairy Cattle (8 pages, 443 KB)
Planting
Winter Rye after Corn Silage: Managing for Forage (4
pages, 351 KB)
 Farmer to Farmer Hay, Forage and Corn List -
UW-Extension's Grain Team has established this website where growers facing shortages can find growers who have excess feed to sell. Use of this site is free of charge to both buyers and sellers.
Manitowoc County Livestock Facility Licensing Ordinance - Chapter 28
Chapter
28 - Livestock Facility Licensing (5 pages, 48 KB)
WDATCP Livestock Siting Homepage (Includes application, materials, worksheets, fact sheets and more.)
Papers of Interest
A
Look at Wisconsin Agriculture
Cross
Ventilated Barns - Kansas info (via Joe Harner)
Composting Bedded Pack Barns for Dairy Housing (4 pages, 300 KB)
Information in this fact sheet is a summary of four articles written by University of Minnesota Extension Dairy Team members Dr. Kevin Janni, Extension Ag. Engineer; Dr. Jeff Reneau, Extension Dairy Scientist, and Wayne Schoper, Extension Educator for Brown and Nicollet Counties. Edited by Neil Broadwater, Regional Extension Educator-Dairy (March, 2005)
Prospects
for Improving Reproductive Performance through Genetic
Selection (8 pages, 360 KB)
Kent Weigel, Dept. of Dairy Science, UW-Wisconsin (August, 2006)
Water
Quality and Quantity for Dairy Cattle (5 pages, 193 KB)
Jim Linn and Mary Raeth-Knight,
Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota
 Manure
Spill and Run-off Prevention and Response Guides
 Manitowoc
County - Preventing Manure Spills and Run-off (6 pages,
345 KB) Updated Sept 2009
Manitowoc
County - Responding to Manure Spills and Run-off (4 pages,
474 KB) Updated Sept 2009
Manitowoc County Discovery Farms Project
"Identifying and reducing the sources and methods of transport
of phosphorus and E.coli into the surface waters of Manitowoc
County”
 $40,000
from our local community is required to successfully implement
the Manitowoc County Discovery Farms Project. As an important
stakeholder in our community, we need your tax deductable contributions.
Manitowoc
County Discovery Farms Project Area
Learn
more about the Discovery Farms Project (1 page, 190 KB)
Here's
a map to the Discovery Farms Project, Come Visit Us! (1
pages, 1770 KB)
Manitowoc
County Agriculture: Value
and Economic Impact
RELATED LINKS OF INTEREST
If you have
any questions regarding Agriculture Dairy/Livestock in Manitowoc
County, please contact:
 Scott
Gunderson
Manitowoc County - UW Extension
Manitowoc County Office Complex
4319 Expo Drive
PO Box 1150
Manitowoc, WI 54221-1150
Phone: 920-683-4168
Fax: 920-683-5062
Email: scott.gunderson@ces.uwex.edu
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Manitowoc
County Youth Dairy Project Participation Book for 2009-2010
September/October (Septiembre/Octubre)
Low-Profile
Cross Ventilated Freestall Barns