On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond. The official consumer website for enrollment services is: http://www.healthcare.gov The Wisconsin Enrollment Directory (October 2013) was created to help individuals in Wisconsin make appropriate referrals for […]
SUMMER 2013 NEWSLETTER Highlights are gardening pointers, vegetables that thrive in wet soil, succession planting, and square-foot gardening. Recipes for Best Broccholi Salad and Swiss Chard Quiche are also included.
We all visit the doctor to safeguard our health; experts say our financial health can also benefite from a routine check-up. To make it easier for people to monitor their financial well-being UW-Extension Family Living Educators around the state are kicking off “Check Your Free Credit Report Campaign: 2/2, 6/6, 10/10”. For more information on […]
Holiday parties and special treats are oh-so-plentiful this time of year. But with some thoughtful planning, you don’t have to abandon the basics of good nutrition. “A few simple rules can help you sail through the month of December without gaining weight, ” says Susan Nitzke, Extension nutrition specialist and professor emerita of nutritional sciences […]
Whether you choose a fresh or frozen turkey is up to you says University of Wisconsin-Extension food scientist Barbara Ingham. Please read some helpful hints.
In one of the driest growing seasons in many years, crop concerns were many and varied during the past several months. Extension programs and farm calls were driven by these concerns. Lack of moisture and stressed crops, especially in the southern one-third of the county prompted questions of harvesting corn before pollination and cutting alfalfa […]
New from Cooperative Extension Publishing . . . Common Spiders In and Around Homes (A2135) By Phil Pellitteri, Jeffrey Hahn, Laura Jesse, Donald Lewis The authors present brief and colorful information to help you identify, live with, get rid of, and perhaps even enjoy spiders that live near your house and may wander in for […]
Southern Wisconsin is now in drought conditions that rival those of 1988. These conditions pose challenges for all Wisconsin residents, both urban and rural. Potential crop losses may prove stressful to cash grain farmers as they struggle to meet commitments, and for livestock farmers who require large amounts of quality feed and forage. Urban residents […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently initiated a program to insure the safety of dairy farm workers with a focus on operations with 11 or more employees. Included in this effort are the unannounced safety inspections of a limited number of dairy farms on an annual basis. This has resulted in the […]
Cooperative Extension’s first agent, E.L. Luther, hired in 1912 in Oneida County, made farm visits using a two-cylinder motorbike. One hundred years later, both modes of transportation and Cooperative Extension programming have changed, but one important point remains the same. Cooperative Extension educators continue to serve as a portal to educational resources from the University […]
