The Maple Hour: Bird-Friendly Maple

The Maple Hour: Bird-Friendly Maple 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Jacob Crawford, forest ecologist with Audubon Upper Mississippi, joins The Maple Hour to talk about the Bird-Friendly Maple Project in Wisconsin. We’ll look at what makes a sugarbush bird-friendly and how Wisconsin maple syrup producers can participate in Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Maple Project. This is […]

Cultivating Your Farm’s Future

Is your farm’s future on your mind? 🚜 The “Cultivating Your Farm’s Future” virtual workshop series is designed to help farm families like yours start their succession plans.  Whether you’re the owner wondering how to transfer to the next generation, or the next generation with questions about your future role, multiple farm/family members are encouraged […]

Badger Dairy Insight

Badger Dairy Insight is a webinar series to provide the latest research-based dairy information to improve animal welfare, breeding and genetic selection, automation and modernization, and nutritional decisions for producers, dairy workers and managers, ag professionals, and educators.  Join the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Dairy Program for the Badger Dairy Insight webinars! These happen on the […]

Green Thumb Gardening Fall 2025 – Spring Bulbs

The Green Thumb Gardening Fall Series will help you bring color to your fall garden and prepare you for a successful spring. Classes cover a wide range of autumn-themed and other topics from ornamental grasses, to bulbs, to getting the garden ready for winter. All gardeners from the novice to the experienced are welcome! Classes […]

Adult Mental Health First Aid for Wisconsin Agriculture Community

Adult Mental Health First Aid for Wisconsin Agriculture Community – June 17 & 19 University of Wisconsin – Madison Division of Extension is offering a virtual education program to help the Wisconsin agriculture community identify and respond to a variety of behavioral health challenges. The next virtual Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for the agriculture […]

Wisconsin Yard & Garden News

For the Week of March 17, 2025 By: Bruce Spangenberg, Horticulture Outreach Specialist Plants Patiently Wait for Spring Spring officially arrives on the calendar this week. Recent weather has fluctuated between some very spring like days back to more like winter across Wisconsin. Plants are not likely to get fooled into growing too soon by […]

Wisconsin Yard & Garden News

For the Week of March 10, 2025 By: Bruce Spangenberg, Horticulture Outreach Specialist Pruning Planner for Evergreen Shrubs             Evergreen shrubs are key components of the landscape, and to look their best, they will occasionally need maintenance pruning. Larger, older overgrown plants call for major pruning. Exact pruning techniques vary with species and even cultivars […]

PDDC Talks

Join the experts of the Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (PDDC) to discuss the “Fundamentals of Plant Diseases” from 6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 26th. REGISTER FOR THE PDDC TALK HERE The PDDC also offers digital and physical diagnosis on plant disease problems residents of Wisconsin might be dealing with. Click here to learn more about […]

Green Thumb Winter 2025 Series

The Green Thumb Gardening vegetable series will help you to keep your kitchen garden thriving! The series covers many aspects of vegetable gardening for a robust background in vegetable production. UW-Madison Extension educators and UW specialists will provide in-depth, practical information for the novice to the experienced gardener. All classes are Thursdays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Individual […]

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