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Celebrating 25 Years of Discovery Farms
For 25 years, the program has been listening, learning, and leading alongside farmers, researchers, and partners. As we celebrate our past, we’re focused on the future: continuing to deliver trusted data, practical solutions, and strong relationships that support resilient farming and clean water.
Latest Articles
From Survey to Strategies: Tailoring Programs to Address Non-Point Source Contamination
This article shares highlights from a social indicator survey project designed to understand the level of farmers’ self-perceptions of their ability to improve water quality and major programming and incentive needs from farmers to change farming practices.
Wider Windows for Manure Application
The 360 RAIN system allows for leachate and manure spreading while a crop is growing to uptake the nutrients during warmer, drier months. Opening up the summer spreading window has the potential to improve water quality risks as well as take the pressure off spreading large amounts of manure in the non-growing season.
Proof of Progress Twenty Years Later on Kewaunee County Farms
Since 2004, programs like Discovery Farms have been working with farmers in Kewaunee County to better understand how practices like cover crops and no-tillage can help keep nutrients on fields and out of waterways, positively impacting water quality.
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Who are we?
The Agriculture Water Quality Program helps to address the water quality challenges facing agricultural producers in Wisconsin. Our Program adds support and structure for collaborations and initiatives to conduct research and education to improve water quality related to agricultural production for farmers, crop advisors, and conservation professionals.
We build on the research, knowledge, and experience of faculty and staff in Extension that have been working on this issue, including Extension’s very successful Discovery Farms® Program.
Contact our Extension Agriculture Water Quality Program team at agwater@extension.wisc.edu