Division of Extension
Dr. Steven Hall, assistant professor and extension cropping systems and water quality specialist, explores how nitrate leaching responds to nitrogen inputs from both synthetic fertilizer and manure in Wisconsin cropping systems.
Identifying critical and sensitive areas of your farm and managing them accordingly, especially at sensitive times of year, protects surface water quality while maintaining a productive grazing system.
In this video, Kelsey Hyland and Laura Paletta from UW–Madison Extension’s Ag Water Program explore phosphorus stratification in Wisconsin agricultural soils and its implications for water quality.
This article was originally published in the Journal of Nutrient Management. Overwintering cover crops is a proven way to further reduce phosphorus losses from cropland. In a cropping system, soil and nutrients work together to deliver healthy plants and productive crops. Fine-tuning soil and nutrient management to achieve profitable harvests and water quality protection can seem […]
This Discovery Farms Multi-State Webinar includes presentations from Wisconsin, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Vermont on farmer-led water quality research in these four states.
This webinar discusses the dual purpose of some ag conservation practices and the extreme weather making them necessary featuring Dr. Steve Vavrus, Wisconsin State Climatologist, and Sheri Schwert, Agriculture Water Quality Outreach Specialist.
Hear from Dr. Russell Groves, Researcher and Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology at UW-Madison and Dr. Shawn Conley, State Soybean and Small Grain Specialist at UW-Madison.
Dr. Steven Hall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, and Guolong Liang, Agriculture Water Quality Outreach Specialist, discuss water quality impacts under different crop rotations in Wisconsin.
Dr. Lindsey Hartfiel, Discovery Farms Research Program Manager, and Kelsey Hyland, Agriculture Water Quality Outreach Specialist, discuss nitrate leaching.
Wisconsin’s extensive network of partners and stakeholders collaborates to prioritize water quality protection and remediation. This webinar will highlight updates to the Wisconsin Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy, incorporating a decade of research and experience.
Agriculture Water Quality Specialist, Laura Paletta and Conservation Profession Training Program Director, Kevin Erb speak to the impacts of tile drainage on water quality and finding old tile lines when maps and records are lost.
Introduction Extreme weather is nothing new in Southwest Wisconsin. However, the frequency at which communities and farmers experience this extreme weather in the form of flooding has increased. According to the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), storms that drop 4 inches of rain in 24 hours or less will double by the year […]
