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Winter 2011 Discovery Farms Newsletter
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(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!
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2011 August Pioneering Discoveries
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(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!
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KFI Project Summary. Understanding Nutrient and Sediment Loss at Koepke Farms, Inc.
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(16 pages)
This summary includes information from all 11 factsheets. The document includes sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen losses from surface water and tile flow from a dairy operation that utilizes no-till cropping methods.
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2011 April Pioneering Discoveries
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(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!
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2011 January Pioneering Discoveries
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(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.
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2010 September Pioneering Discoveries
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(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.
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2010 May Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter
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(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.
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2010 January Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter
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(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.
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2009 September Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter
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(12 pages)
On-farm research results, research at Pioneer Farm, Tips on soil sampling & manure management, out-wintering cattle, mapping bedrock in Calumet county.
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2009 June Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter
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(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.
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2009 March Pioneering Discoveries Newsletter
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(10 pages)
Research results, nutrient management planning tips, cover crops incentive program information, new research opportunities at Pioneer Farm.
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2008 December 'The Tree' Newsletter
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(8 pages)
The first issue of Pioneering Discoveries.
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KFI1. Farm, Site and Study Design: Koepke Farms, Inc.
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(3 pages)
Factsheet
(4 pages)
Discover more about Koepke Farms, Inc. and learn about the surface and tile water monitoring conducted on this farm to measure nutrient and sediment loss from a dairy operation using no-till cropping methods.
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KFI2. Monitoring Site, Equipment and Procedures
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(4 pages)
Factsheet
(4 pages)
Explanation of monitoring stations, sample collection, and maintenance of the tile and surface water monitoring sites located at Koepke Farms, Inc. in southeast Wisconsin.
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KFI3. Water Budget at Koepke Farms, Inc.
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(4 pages)
Factsheet
(4 pages)
This factsheet outlines the surface water and tile line runoff volume and timing characteristics from a dairy operation that uses no-till cropping methods in Southeastern Wisconsin.
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KFI4. Understanding Water Loss at Koepke Farms, Inc.: Surface and Tile Water
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(6 pages)
Factsheet
(6 pages)
The dynamics of tile and surface water flow in a landscape with a fluctuating near-surface water table.
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KFI5. Sediment Loss at Koepke Farms, Inc.
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(5 pages)
Factsheet
(6 pages)
Discover sediment loss information from surface and tile water in relationship to no-till cropping practices and geographical characteristics of Southeastern Wisconsin.
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KFI6. Phosphorus Loss at Koepke Farms, Inc.
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(6 pages)
Factsheet
(6 pages)
This factsheet helps to explain the amount of dissolved and particulate phosphorus measured in surface and tile water at Koepke Farms, Inc.
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KFI7. Nitrogen Loss at Koepke Farms, Inc.
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(7 pages)
Factsheet
(6 pages)
Understand nitrogen loss in surface runoff and tile flow and the factors affecting these observed nitrogen losses at Koepke Farms, Inc.
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KFI8. Challenges of defining tile drainage subsurface contributing areas
Brief
(2 pages)
Presentation
(5 pages)
Factsheet
(4 pages)
Discover the challenges in monitoring and determining contributing areas to tile drainage systems in hydric soils.
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