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Raising an amaryllis

There are some true treasures of the Christmas season which light up our house with color each year. They can also be raised to bloom throughout the winter months as well — amaryllis. These are often for sale now and will disappear from the store shelves soon after Christmas has come and gone. If you have room to keep them going and have a place to put them out in your garden during the summer, you can have winter color through the whole winter. It just takes a little know how on how to do it. The instructions on a new amaryllis is quite simple. You plant it in a pot with some ...

Strategic Farming — a new webinar series offered

University of Minnesota Extension is launching the five-part Strategic Farming — Optimizing Management for 2020 webinar series beginning Dec. 19. This webinar series is an opportunity for farmers to gather and learn about research-based, crop production information throughout the year. The primary target audience for the series is farmers, but all interested agricultural professionals, agency personnel, educators, etc. are welcome to participate. There is no fee to join the webinars, but you will need to register for each “live” webinar individually to join the discussion. Join ...

Ag and Extension Briefs

UMN cattle feeder days to take place in Luverne The annual University of Minnesota Extension Cattle Feeder Days program has taken place for more than 40 years and continues to be the leading information, technology and research outlet for cattle feeders in the state of Minnesota. The program features information on production management, nutrition, efficiency and marketing. The corresponding trade show features vendors with new information, technology and products with a wide array of practical uses for the operators in the cattle feeding sector. The program is directed at cattle ...

Ag and Extension Briefs

Women in Ag Network workshop – How to get $4 corn Were you impressed with the early summer rally in corn prices? Corn producers had a chance to sell cash corn for $4 per bushel. Price charts indicate this was producers first chance at $4 corn in five years. But was it really? How to get $4 corn is a simulation game where attendees will explore three steps towards getting $4 — or more — for their corn. 1. Price grain before harvest 2. At harvest, store grain and roll the hedge forward to spring 3. With a better spring basis, price and deliver grain The workshop was ...

Christmas trees

It is that time of the year when we are starting to look forward to putting up the Christmas tree in our homes. So, what do you think is the most popular Christmas tree to purchase for the holidays? Keep reading to find out! If you wanted to purchase a native tree to Minnesota, could you do it and if so, what is the variety? Each holiday season, there are a little over half a million real Christmas trees sold to families in Minnesota. There has been a debate for some time what is better for the environment — a real tree or a tree made from plastics? Well, we won’t get into that ...

Amaryllis plant one of true treasurers of Christmas season

There are some true treasures of the Christmas season which light up our house with color each year. They can also be raised to bloom throughout the winter months as well — Amaryllis. These are often for sale now and will disappear from the store shelves soon after Christmas has come and gone. If you have room to keep them going and have a place to put them out in your garden during the summer, you can have winter color through the whole winter. It just takes a little know how on how to do it. The instructions on a new amaryllis is quite simple. You plant it in a pot with some ...