Upcoming Educational Programs

Flocking Together: A Beginning Shepherd & Goat Producer Workshop

Immerse yourself in learning about the tasks that occur in the fall for small ruminant enterprise: breeding, feeding 

Keep your eye out for when registration opens or email us for more details at: carolyn.ihde@wisc.edu, lyssa.seefeldt@wisc.edu, or toddtaylor@wisc.edu.

Thursday, October 19 – Saturday, October 21
W4857 Meek Road
Arlington, WI 53911

Flocking Together Save the Date Flyer


The Value of Grain Crop Rotations

Making management decision for optimum crop yield, water quality, nitrogen, and weed management to increase resiliency and farm profitability.

Monday, August 14th (8:30am – 12:15pm) Lunch is included!
Lancaster Agricultural Research Station
7396 State Road 35 & 81
Lancaster, WI 53813
Please register for the field day by using the link within the flyer below, thank you!
Crop Rotation Field Day Informational Flyer


Corn Silage, Cover Crops, and Beef x Dairy Crosses

Tuesday, July 25th from 11a.m. – 2p.m.
Grant County Eckstein Exhibit Hall – Lancaster, WI

Calf Workshop

Fond Du Lac County, WI – July 25th
Monroe, WI – July 26th
Abbotsford, WI – July 27th


2023 UW Small Grains Field Day (Thursday July 6, 10:00 am – Noon)

2023_SmallGrainsFieldDayFlyer


On-Farm Manure Composting Demonstration 

Join us:
Monday June 26th – 6:00p.m.-7:30p.m.
Pleasant View Farm (Gretchen Kamps)
24451 Highway 81.
Darlington, WI 53530

On-Farm Manure Composting Demonstration Flyer


Planting Alfalfa “Green” Field Day  

Join us:
Friday, June 23rd – 10:00a.m. to 11:30a.m.
Promised Land Farm (Curt and Debbie Miller)
24123 County Road F.
Belmont, WI 53510

Planting Alfalfa “Green” Field Day


2023 Weed Management Workshops

March 21st – 24th, throughout southwest WI
View the event flyer for information on these upcoming workshops.
Please contact Josh Kamps with any questions at, 608-516-7183.

Weed Management Workshop


University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension, in collaboration with the Wisconsin DNR, is hosting six sessions for how to stay in compliance with your permit for the CAFO Annual Updates. This is an update meeting for WPEDES permitted CAFO owners & managers, nutrient management plan writers, engineers, agency staff and consultants.  To register please visit:  http://go.wisc.edu/dar23cafo

October 27th 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

2022 Southwest WI Cover Crop Driving Tour

2022 Field Location Map


October 17th 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Alfalfa Establishment Field Day


2022 SW WI Forage Management Workshop


2022 Private Ag Pesticide Applicator Training/Testing

Wisconsin Private Pesticide Applicator Database

2022 Area 17 Pesticide Certification


Soil and Water Conservation Webinar on Monday, December 6, 12-1:15 pm

Precision Decisions: Refining Farm Profitability on Cropland

The 2021 in-person PMU event in Lafayette County has been cancelled.  A virtual meeting has been scheduled for November, 16 at the same time.  Details for the meeting are in the link below!  Please contact the Extension office with any questions and thank you for your patience and understanding!


2021 Virtual WI Pest Management Update Meetings // In-Person Events Cancelled

Please join the UW Pest Management Specialists in person on November, 16 in Lafayette County for the 2021 Southern WI Pest Management Update Meeting.  Details for the meeting are in the link below!


2021 WI Pest Management Update Flyer

Please consider attending the UW Field Day at Lancaster, WI in the morning or the Extension Workshop at Darlington, WI in the evening.  Details are within the links below.


UW-Madison LARS Field Day- 9-22-2021 


Southern Wisconsin Weed Management Workshop- 9-22-2021

Please join Extension, NRCS and Discovery Farms in Lafayette County on August 13, 2021 from 9:15-11:00 A.M.  Details can be found on the field day flyer at the link below.


Soil Health Field Day 8-13-2021