Newsletters & Factsheets

Pioneering Discoveries

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The UW-Discovery Farms Program publishes a large number of factsheets and quarterly newsletters each year. The newsletters from the past two years are available below, and factsheets are available in several different places on this website. The best way to find what you are looking for is to use the green navigation bar below the Discovery Farms logo or use the search located on the right side of the screen. If you have questions or cannot find what you are looking for, please contact us through email or call the office at 715-983-5668.

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Newsletters

12 Documents


Winter 2011 Discovery Farms Newsletter File (8 pages) This edition of the Discovery Farms newsletter features articles on assessing effects of hormones from manure, understanding concentrations and yield in water quality data, new technology in drainage water management, and much more!
2011 August Pioneering Discoveries File (12 pages) Find information on lessons learned from watershed projects so far, macropore flow, runoff monitoring, considerations for using soil tests, recent events, and much more!
2011 April Pioneering Discoveries File (12 pages) Featuring information on micronutrients for crop production, new materials available from UW-Discovery Farms, a summary of a decade of the nutrient management farmer education program, and much more!
2011 January Pioneering Discoveries File (12 pages) This edition of the newsletter contains a feature section on nutrient management and a feature section on runoff conditions. Also present is an update on new monitoring sites installed during 2010.
2010 September Pioneering Discoveries File (12 pages) This edition of the quarterly newsletter provides updates on the Discovery Farms watershed projects, information from the final report on Koepke Farms, new website links, monitoring at Pioneer Farm, and more.
2010 May Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter File (12 pages) The Spring 2010 Edition of the Discovery Farms/Pioneer Farm newsletter. Articles about cover crops, critical time periods, watershed research, tillage management, data collection and presentation.
2010 January Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter File (12 pages) Winter manure applications, frost seeding red clover into winter wheat, hormone sampling of agricultural runoff, nitrogen availability for seperated, digested or composted livestock manure.
2009 September Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter File (12 pages) On-farm research results, research at Pioneer Farm, Tips on soil sampling & manure management, out-wintering cattle, mapping bedrock in Calumet county.
2009 June Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter File (9 pages) Geophysical expo in calumet county, research at Pioneer Farm, new tile factsheet and new intern, Breneman Farm Profile, winter rye as a cover crop.
2009 March Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter File (10 pages) Research results, nutrient management planning tips, cover crops incentive program information, new research opportunities at Pioneer Farm.
2008 December 'The Tree' Newsletter File (8 pages) The first issue of Pioneering Discoveries.
2008 March 'The Tree' Newsletter File (12 pages) Identifying tile locations, winter manure spreading plans.