A new online tool is available that can help improve accuracy in determining levels of infection or defoliation due to disease and insects. It can help to calibrate or used to compare samples either in the field or back at the desk. It is available now.
Mmm, strawberries! How do you make your strawberry patch produce more? Do you renovate your patch? What are the steps to do that? Six steps to renovate your patch and produce more!
Japanese beetles are here already this year. When do you start to manage them? How to manage them? What can you use? All this and more to help manage this pest.
Are you noticing some pests in your alfalfa or other crops? Not sure what to do to get rid of them or how to manage them? Here is some useful information on the potato leafhopper.
Wisconsin Farmers facing increased stress and other challenges can access additional free and confidential counseling resources by contacting the Farm Center at DATCP. It is up and running as of July 1, 2020.
At a time when our community is struggling with a rapidly spreading illness and uncertainty, this group steps forward to help in any way they can. While staying safe, the Richland County HCE members used their skills to fill an urgent need- sewing masks to distribute to the surrounding areas.
Three different insect pests are common enough this year that a friendly reminder to be on the lookout for them is in order. What they look like, what they do, and how to spot them are all good things to know.
Time runs away from all of us at some point. Is it meal time and you are struggling to remember what you have in your house to fix? Do you have this to go with that? Is there enough of that to make this? A one night class with our Family Living Agent, Chelsea Wunnicke, on Freezer and Crock Pot Meals: The Basics helps to take the panic out of dinner time.
