4-H Scholarship Applications Due Monday
All 4-H Scholarship applications are due this Monday. Check out our 4-H scholarship page for complete details on where to send your application.
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Hilda Tips: Custom Excerpts and Sticky Posts
Best Practice Tip 1: Improve readability and interest in your posts by using Custom Excerpts.
Best Practice Tip 2: Use Sticky Posts to highlight time-sensitive and/or important information on your homepage, such as the 4-H post above.
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More Wisconsin Schools Participating in Breakfast Programs
During the 2012-2013 school year, the number of Wisconsin schools offering school breakfast programs increased by 4.3 percent according to a report by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). The number of Wisconsin schools (public and private) participating in the school breakfast program increased by over 75 schools in the 2012-2013 school year.
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4-H: Truth not Tales Program
Bernie O’Rourke explains how the Ag Truths not Tales Program helps 4-H youth learn to tell the story of agriculture.
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Area Woodland Owners’ Conference
On [date] the Madison Area Woodland Owners’ Conference will feature presentations focusing on growing black walnut trees, land transfers, tree farming, forest health, attracting woodland birds and creating a wildlife management plan.
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Have hay to sell? Post it on the Farmer to Farmer website
While many farmers around the state may be experiencing challenges to finding hay and feed supplies, other farmers may be in the position where they have hay to sell. If you are a farmer in that fortunate position, the Farmer to Farmer website serves as an excellent venue to sell your hay. The website facilitates the local marketing of feed commodities where livestock producers in need of high moisture corn, corn silage, hay, or straw can easily make contact with sellers that have feed commodities for sale.
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Discussion on the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin
In this video, Michael Collins (professor at the University of Wisconsin and a specialist with UW-Extension Cooperative Extension Family Living Programs) with Caroline Gomez (Health Care Outreach Specialist at Covering Kids and Families at UW-Madison) discusses the consumer financial implications of aspects of the Affordable Care Act going into effect in the next year.
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Get the Most Nutrition for Your Money
Whole grains, vegetables, fruits, fish, low-fat milk. These foods are basic to good health, yet most children and their families don’t eat enough of them. Learn some easy ways to improve your diet by including more healthy options.
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Comeback of the Wisconsin Dairy Business
As the dairy business emerges from a lengthy down phase, Ed Jesse discusses the promising future of the Wisconsin dairy business and how it turned around.
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