Feeding hail damaged corn risks nitrate poisoning
Dr. Jim Crowley advises that hail damaged non-legume plants like corn can contain free nitrates after a storm, posing poisoning risk to livestock. Chopping and ensiling is safest. grazing or green chopping is riskier as nitrate levels fluctuate with weather. Yield may drop and maturity delays occur. ensiling reduces nitrate as it converts to gases. Bernie Drewiske Pierce County agent.
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Jim Crowley
Uw-Extension
Area Share Fairs scheduled in five Wisconsin counties
The Indianhead Community Action Agency will hold Share Fairs in Rusk Washburn Burnett Taylor and Sawyer Counties featuring demonstrations in bread yogurt beef jerky soap dehydrating foods canning foods fish noodle making. Fairs run Aug 7 10 am to 3 pm in Ladysmith Aug 14 Spooner Aug 21 Hannibal School Aug 28 Webster Aug 28 10 am to 3 pm and Sept 4 Winter. For more information contact Rickey Hultman at 532-6648.
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Indianhead Community Action Agency
Rusk
Washburn
Burnett
Taylor
Sawyer
Rickey Hultman
Rural versus rural pollution debate in central Wisconsin
Asst. Atty. Gen. Peter Peshek frames groundwater contamination as a rural issue tied to agriculture. He argues pesticides and waste threaten wellwater, urging action against all polluters regardless of size, and calls on rural residents to recognize the peril to their lifestyle from agri business pollution.
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Wisconsin
Asst. Atty
Peter Peshek
My Family’s 1913 Maxwell and the Essex Tale of Progress
A memoir recalls an era when a 1913 Maxwell topped a rural farming life near Dorchester Wisconsin. The author’s father drove a touring car with a crank start and celluloid curtains while later trading for an Essex sedan with a foot clutch. The piece traces roads, sleighs and one girl’s joy of learning to drive before college, noting unpaved routes and evolving roads as progress.
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Mother
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
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Victor
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