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Highlights and Events

New! 2007 Custom Rate Guide

2007 Custom Rate Guide

Sauk County Farm Connect Guide

PDF file 2006 Farm Connect Guide (16 pages, 180 KB)

Commodity Marketing

Helpful information for marketers

Sauk County Marketing Club

Links to other good commodity marketing sites

Farm Financial Management

PDF file Business Planning/Business Performance for Graziers (43 pages, 982 KB)
By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent, February, 2004.

PDF file Crop Revenue Coverage (CRC) Insurance (6 pages, 163 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at MATC Farm Management Class, February 2004.

PDF file Developing a Business Plan to Take to Your Banker (26 pages, 680 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent and Kevin Falk, Columbia County Dairy Grazier. Presented at Columbia/Dodge Grazing Network Winter Meeting, January 2006.

PDF file Economics of Managed Grazing (25 pages, 947 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented February 2006.

PDF file Getting Started with a Farm Transfer (11 pages, 1203 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at Farm Transfer Workshop, January 2006.

PDF file Machinery Ownership vs. Custom Hire (33 pages, 2672 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented January 2006.

PDF file Sauk County Livestock Enterprise Budget (4 pages, 114 KB)

PDF file Successful Farm Business Start Up: A Few Ideas (27 pages, 2843 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented January 2006.

PDF file What's Happening in Wisconsin Agriculture? Why Should You Care? (25 pages, 801 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at UW-Milwaukee, February 2001.

PDF file Business Planning for a Successful Farm Start-Up (51 pages, 1.20 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, February 23, 2007.

PDF file Figuring the Cost to Own and Operate Farm Machinery (41 pages, 2.07 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, February 24, 2007.

PDF file Organic Agriculture: Is It for You? (31 pages, 2.12 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the MATC - Farm Management Class, February 2007.

Value-Added, Small-Scale and Alternative Agriculture

PDF file Beekeeping Basics (47 pages, 2.52 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent.

PDF file Bee Pollination (24 pages, 1.32 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented for Sauk County Master Gardener class, December 2005.

PDF file Case Studies of Wisconsin Dairy Artisans (82 pages, 14.1 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent and Laurie S.Z. Greenberg, UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

PDF file Government Programs for Small Farms (18 pages, 1.22 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent and Steve Bertjens, Southwest Badger RC & D Council, Inc.

PDF file Hands-Off Income Options for Landowners (11 pages, 2.32 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent.

PDF file Is There Value-Added in Your Future? A Checklist (2 pages, 111 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent.

PDF file Making Your Idea a Reality Through Financial Planning (48 pages, 691 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent and Jim Faust, Dunn Co. UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the 6th Annual Value Added Agriculture Conference on January 30 - 31, 2004.

PDF file Meat Marketing Regulations in Wisconsin (12 pages, 141 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the Value-Added Meat Marketing Workshops in Lancaster, Hancock and Spooner, Spring 2001.

PDF file Non-Traditional Agricultural Markets: A Few Trends and Examples (35 pages, 1.70 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent, and Eydie Ridder. Presented at the Sauk County Institute of Leadership, November 2004.

PDF file Per Capita Consumption of Selected Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (1 page, 77 KB) Compiled from USDA Economic Research Service data by Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent.

PDF file Quick and Dirty Market Assessment (1 page, 58.4 KB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent.

PDF file Small Acreage Options and Market Trends (35 pages, 2.88 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation's Women's Leadership Conference, March 15, 2004.

MS Powerpoint Presentation"Trends...What's Hot, and What's Not" PowerPoint presentation By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. Presented at the Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference, January 4, 2004.

PDF file Turning Grass Into Cash: An Intro to the Art of Managed Grazing (92 pages, 20.3 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent, and Ron Bula, Beef, Sheep & Poultry Grazier and Certified Organic Farmer. Presented at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, February 2006.

PDF file What it Takes to Succeed at a Small Farmers' Market (20 pages, 3.41 MB) By Paul Dietmann, Sauk County UW-Extension Agricultural Agent. February 2001.

Sauk County Agricultural Organizations

  • Sauk County Farm Bureau, Office: 608-356-8372
    President, Rodney Seamans
  • Sauk County Pork Producers
    Contact: President, Jon Wyttenbach, 608-643-6241
  • Sauk County Dairy Promoters
    Contact: Cathy Yanke, Dairy Ambassador, 608-643-2022
  • Sauk County Dairy Breakfast Committee
    Contact: Beth Klemm, 608-522.4905
  • Sauk-Columbia Honey Producers
    Contact: Dan Licht, 608-522-4890
  • Sauk County Fair
    http://www.saukcountyfair.com/
 

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Denise Brusveen

Sauk County - UW Extension
West Square Administration Bldg
505 Broadway
Baraboo, WI 53913-2404
Phone: 608-355-3250
Fax: 608-355-3550
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Email: denise.brusveen@ces.uwex.edu