Agriculture - Crops & Soils

MISSION: To provide producers and related agribusinesses with research-based information that will allow them to make environmentally sound and economically feasible production decision.

Goals:

• Improve agriculture profitability and assure food quality
• Enhance stewardship of the environment
• Develop and serve urban agriculture

Related Links of Interest

• Agriculture Newsletter
• Dairy Cattle Feeding Issues with High Moisture Corn, Snaplage, and Dry Shelled Corn (6 pages, 93 KB)
• Corn Silage Dry Down site
• Farmer to Farmer Corn & Forage List
• Field Loss Calculator, Verson 12 (21 KB)
• High Moisture Corn Harvest and Storage Considerations (58 KB)
• 2004 Custom Rate Guide (11 pages, 293 KB)
• How to Price Standing Forage (2 pages, 35 KB)
• West Madison Agricultural Research Station
• Worksheet - How to Price Standing Forage
• Understanding corn Test for Weight (65 KB)
• Spreadsheet for Computing Crop Program Benefits Under the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act - Developed by Bruce Jones, Professor, UW-Madison Department of Ag
• Weigh Risk of Leaving Standing Corn Through Winter (24 KB)

STAFF

If you have any questions regarding Crops & Soils or Horticulture in Outagamie County, please contact:

Kevin Jarek
Crops, Soils and Horticulture Agent
Outagamie County - UW Extension
3365 W. Brewster St.
Appleton, WI 54914
Phone: 920-832-5119
Wisconsin Relay: 711
Fax: 920-832-4783
Email: kevin.jarek@ces.uwex.edu