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Pesticide Applicator Training
Private & Commercial Pesticide Applicators: 2024 Recertification News
Glenn Nice, University of Wisconsin Madison-Division of Extension Pesticide Applicator Training and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), and has announced that the State of Wisconsin will be providing Pesticide Applicator Training Sessions in 2024. Private and commercial pesticide applicators with expired certifications will need to participate to renew their certifications. Books still need to be purchased online; no books available at county offices.
2024 Local options for Pesticide Applicator Zoom Trainings
- Sheboygan County: February 15, 2024
- Fond du Lac County:March 28, 2024
- Zoom Training: 9:00-12:30pm.
- Test Administered: 1:00-3:00pm.
- Lunch on your own.
- Manual must be purchased online in advance.
Please visit https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/pat/ for more information.
Pesticide Applicator Training (PAT) Books
You can order manuals online at the PAT Store https://patstore.wisc.edu. Manuals must be purchased online and can no longer be purchased at your local Extension offices.
Resources
- US Drought Monitor: WI https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?WI
- Manure Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast Tool: http://www.manureadvisorysystem.wi.gov/runoffrisk/index
- Determining the value of Standing Alfalfa: https://cropsandsoils.extension.wisc.edu/articles/determining-the-value-of-standing-alfalfa-in-2023/
- Pricing Corn Silage: https://wisccorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/B045.html
- Tools for Pricing Standing Corn Silage: https://cropsandsoils.extension.wisc.edu/articles/tools-for-pricing-standing-corn-silage/
- Converting Dry Corn Price (per bu) to an Equal Wet Corn Price (per bu): https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a2-32.html
- Equivalent Price / Ton of: High Moisture Shelled Corn
- Equivalent Price / Ton of: High Moisture Ear Corn
- Adjusting Corn Silage Price Based on Harvested Moisture[LG1]
Helpful Crops & Soils Links
- Ag Water Quality Topic Hub – https://agwater.extension.wisc.edu/
- Cool Bean – Soybeans – https://coolbean.info/
- Crops & Soils Topic Hub: https://cropsandsoils.extension.wisc.edu/
- Small Grains Management – https://coolbean.info/small-grains/new-information/
- WI Cropping Systems Weed Science – https://wiscweeds.info/
- Renz Weed Science – Pastures & Forage – https://renzweedscience.cals.wisc.edu/
- Badger Crop Doc – https://badgercropdoc.com/
- Soil Science – https://extension.soils.wisc.edu/
- Integrated Pest & Crop Management – https://ipcm.wisc.edu/
- Discovery Farms Wisconsin – https://uwdiscoveryfarms.org/
- The Learning Store – UW Madison Division of Extension Publications – https://learningstore.extension.wisc.edu/collections/farming
- NRCS/FSA Offices: https://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app
Labs/Diagnostics
- Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic – https://pddc.wisc.edu/
- Insect Diagnostic Lab – https://insectlab.russell.wisc.edu/
- UW Soil & Forage Lab – https://uwlab.soils.wisc.edu/