Marathon County

Extension Agricultural Development Educator Tom Cadwallader has been tracking farm and forest land values in Lincoln, Langlade and Marathon Counties for 20 years. For the first time in those 20 years the value of the land that was sold with the intention of keeping it in either farming or forestry dropped in all three counties. Also for the first time in [...]

In 2008, four counties in north central Wisconsin teamed up to standardize their approach to nutrient management training, planning, and implementation. Clark, Marathon, Lincoln, and Taylor counties (Quad-County region) met throughout the course of the year and had many positive discussions. Marathon and Lincoln counties began the process of working together to advance nutrient management planning [...]

This past year the Lincoln and Marathon County Grazing Network, co-coordinated by the UW-Extension and the Land Conservation Offices in the two counties, took a look back at its accomplishments over the past decade. Between 1998 and 2008 the network helped get nearly 11,000 dairy cows and 6,000 beef cows into being raised in management [...]

Situation: The need for nutrition and fitness programming for Marathon County youth was determined as a result of a Wausau School District research study published in 2004, known as “The School Project. 715 students from grades 2, 5, 8, and 11 participated in the study by filling out a diet inventory, reporting on their physical [...]

Marathon County  Will Have Two Drills Available This Spring  For Inter-Seeding Pastures or Complete Renovations TRUAX DRILL: The Truax Drill works great for inter-seeding clovers & small seeded grasses into existing pastures that aren’t real dense or have been set back with Roundup or very hard grazing. The Truax drill is owned by Marathon County. AITCHISON [...]

The Lincoln and Marathon County Agribusiness Incubator Project, a UW-Extension facilitated project that began in 2003, successfully hatched its first new farm in 2007, a year ahead of schedule, and also got a second dairy farm started into the incubation process. On August 2nd a special pasture walk at the Lyle Guralski Farm, the site [...]

Situation: In the spring of 2006, the Alliance to Help Others Reach Awareness AHORA consortia of Central Wisconsin wrote and received a 3 year federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services. The overarching goal of year one of the grant was to reduce health disparities in the Latino/Hispanic population in a four [...]

A Distance Education Gateway to the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences through UW-Extension and Colleges. In a collaboration with UW-Extension in Lincoln and Marathon Counties, UW-Marathon County and Madison Area Technical College, 2007 saw the successful completion of the first distance education credit course offering of the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course [...]