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ARS Home Midwest Area Madison, Wisconsin U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center Dairy Forage Research Research





- Franco, Jose
- Food Animal Production (101)
- Grass, Forage, and Rangeland Agroecosystems (215)

Research Project: **Location:
                            Dairy Forage Research** Project Number: 5090-21500-002-037-N
                        
                        Project Type: Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement Start Date: Aug 1, 2023
                        
                        End Date: Jul 31, 2028 **Objective:**
                        
                        ARS and the Cooperator will work collaboratively to measure and monitor environmental data at the ARS farm in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, and make the resulting information accessible online. **Approach:**
                        
                        Monitoring environmental variables such as precipitation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, relative humidity, solar radiation, soil moisture, and air quality is critical for developing relationships with crop and livestock health and production and overall agroecosystem resilience. Cooperator will install a weather station at the ARS farm in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin (Sauk County), and will monitor data, perform calibrations, and repair equipment as necessary to ensure high quality data is  recorded. The weather station will complement a network of weather stations across Wisconsin and will provide much-needed environmental data that is publicly available to growers, other practitioners, conservation professionals, and the public within Sauk County.


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