The Wisconsin Field Crops Pathology crew spent some time this past week scouting wheat and rating wheat variety trial plots, between planting soybeans and dodging rain storms. Despite the challenging week, the crew was able to get around to several sites and take a look at winter wheat. Wheat ranges from fully emerged flag leaf to emerging heads across the sites visited. As predicted, stripe rust is progressing to epidemic levels on susceptible and moderately susceptible varieties (Fig. 1). We w
Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus version 3 will be offered to all area pork farmers Thursday June 29, 2017 at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be Room 205-206 Administration/Extension Building at UW-Extension Fond du Lac County, 400 University Drive, Fond du Lac, WI. The meeting will take about 3 hours in total. At the end of the training, area farmers will be given an open book test where they can miss up to three questions and pass.Topics to be covered are Food Safety, Animal Welfare, Public Health,