Opportunities for ag education during cold months; Extension:Seminars can provide good ideas to try out

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: March 2, 2003| Author: JOHN EVERLY | Copyright information

The weather this time of year might be less than ideal for outdoor activities, but each winter, opportunities to pick up a little education indoors abound.

Our tri-state area extension services offer a bunch of workshops and seminars in the "off-season" to give us ideas and perspectives to try when the spring thaw finally does arrive.

I wanted to share with you a few "notes from the field" I compiled at these events during the winter.

We learned last month that dairy farme...