Safe Handling of Farm Chemicals: Ten Practical Tips
Guidance from Portage County ag agent Dave Ankley outlines ten critical practices for safe chemical use on farms. Emphasizing locked storage, protective clothing, clean daily wear, avoiding siphonbacks, proper mixing, original containers, container disposal by label, and reading updated instructions before use.
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Dave Ankley
Portage County Ag
Iowa passes groundwater protection bill funding plan
The Iowa Legislature approved a landmark groundwater protection measure with a 64.5 million dollar plan for education research and regulation funded by a 75 cent per ton nitrogen fertilizer tax and pesticide sale and registration fees to support the program.
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Tips for easing heat stress in dairy cows
Pepin County agent Lee Milligan outlines ten feeding and management tips to reduce heat stress in dairy herds. Focus on high quality forage, ample cool water, free-choice minerals, higher energy and protein in rations, more frequent feeding during cooler periods, buffered feeds for high producers, ample shade, barn ventilation, fly control, and cooling checks in early day hours.
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Lee Milligan
Pepin County
Wisconsin barley and oats rise while corn falls this year
Wisconsin farmers plant 110000 acres of barley up 16 percent, and 1300000 acres of oats up 8 percent, with oats partly in the Conservation Reserve Program. Corn acreage declines 8 percent to 3600000. potatoes 64000 acres up 8 percent. tobacco down 26 percent to 4900. National trends mirror barley and corn drops, oats up 22 percent, potatoes up 4 percent.
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Wisconsin
Ideal Ice Cream and Confectionary Resort Remembers Eagle River
A detailed portrait of Schlacks family run Ideal Ice Cream and Confectionary Resort in Eagle River Wisconsin during the 1920s and 1930s. It covers the storefront, offerings, a unique Violan nickelodian, family owners David Schlack and wife and their children, daily routines, and nostalgia for slower times amid modern fast food.
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Eagle River
Wisconsin
Vilas County
United States
Wisconsin Mills Company
Indiana
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Mary Theresa
Tess
Alois
Marion
Agnes
Schlack
Country Machinery Ad from Lindsay Brothers Co Brochure
A brief note describes a photo on the cover of the Lindsay Brothers Co sales brochure. The Minneapolis headquartered firm supplied farm machinery and wagons for urban and rural customers.
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Lindsay Brothers Co
Minneapolis
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