WCROC Newsletters
October 2019
- Coming soon to a pasture near you: A tractor with a mind of its own
- 2019 Top Ten Performing Annuals
- Make way for pollinators
- Building social and emotional learning skills
September 2019
- Disbudding Dairy Calves with Alternative Pain Management Strategies
- Energy Consumption in Commercial Midwest Dairy Barns
- Cooling Sows and Heating Piglets: See how it works (video)
- Palmer amaranth in Manure: What can you do?
August 2019
- Cooling Sows with Solar Power
- Improving the Sustainability of Communities, Farms, and Farm Products
- Every Farm Has Unique Energy Use
- Senator Westrom Presented with Lifetime Leadership Award
- 4-H Crop Scouting
July 2019
- Can fertilizer fuel greener tractors?
- The effect of water quality on pig performance
- Zinc in late-gestation diets for sows improves piglet survival
- Center for Family Development
June 2019
- Research on Parasite Control in Organic Swine Production
- Addressing Climate Resiliency
- Casey Olson earns Dean's Distinguished Award
May 2019
- Grazing Kernza, as reported by Farm & Ranch Guide
- Fast Charging for the Future
- Student Spotlight: Brigit Lozinski
- Sharpe and Lozinski win poster competition
- LiDAR Trainings in Southern Minnesota
April 2019
- Feeding Camelina Meal to Pigs
- Weather Watchers, as reported in The Land
- Want Sustainable Farming? Look to High-Tech Farms, as reported in Forbes
- Don't Get Robbed by Hay Storage Losses
March 2019
- Community Members Participate in Strategic Planning Retreat to Help Shape Future
- Hyper Drive: as driverless cars more closer to reality, a WCROC and U of M team examines what they'll mean for the future
- Watershed Specialist Training
February 2019
- Annual Day-Neutral Strawberries: using Biodegradable Mulches
- WCROC hosts Research Update
- CFANS 2018 Yearly Recap
- By Land & By Sea: New Non-Native Species Guide for Minnesota
January 2019
- Weather summary for 2018
- Out-wintering the dairy herd
- Avoiding phosphorus buildup in soil from turkey manure
December 2018
- Organic swine research at the WCROC: reducing feed cost by utilizing camelina cover crops
- Unknowns remain about water quality impact on pig performance
- 2018 in review: slideshow (YouTube)
- Sustainable farming in southwest Minnesota
