The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine says bacon can be just as deadly as a pack of cigarettes. It put it on a billboard in Iowa. The same group erected a controversial billboard ranting against cheese in Wisconsin.

We may live in the Dairy State, but this weekend your children will have the chance to learn about another critter - the Honey Bee. On Saturday, at Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids, the Wisconsin Honey Producers Association is sponsoring "Kids and Bees Expo."

Marathon County’s Farm Service Agency Executive Director, Matt Peplinski, reminds producers that the sign-up period for the 2010 crop year Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) program will begin on November 14, 2011.

Wisconsin's dairy industry is continuing a modest turn-around in production, and Minnesota is inching closer to its own positive reversal.

Wildlife biologists have verified the image captured by a camera in Juneau County is that of a cougar.

Republican lawmakers say bills that make it easier to transport agricultural products in Wisconsin and ease other permitting requirements will help improve the economy in the state.

Matthew Peplinski, Marathon County Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency announced that ballots for the 2011 FSA county committee elections will be mailed to eligible voters November 4, 2011.

The state Department of Natural Resources says it will reconsider a key permit for a large dairy farm proposed in Adams County because of the effect on local water supplies.

Another hot, dry summer in key producing states and competition from more profitable crops like cotton have significantly shrunk the U.S. peanut crop this year. The tight supply means consumers will soon pay more for yet another grocery staple.

Sheriff's deputies say a toddler was killed in a farm accident in Grant County.

Fall is harvest time for many farmers, and here in Marathon County, ginseng is now being gathered. But after a late spring snowfall last season, farmers say crop damage is still an issue.

An unexpected snowfall in 2010 has put a dent in the ginseng crop in Wisconsin where the majority of the medicinal root is grown in the U.S.

It's apple picking season!

BAYFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A fall festival in northern Wisconsin is celebrating its 50th year.

In a return to a more traditional statewide deer season structure, only deer management units in the chronic wasting disease management zone (CWD-MZ) will have a four-day October antlerless deer only gun hunt in 2011.

If you are a female or Hispanic farmer and you believe that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) improperly denied farm loan benefits to you for certain time periods between 1981 and 2000 because of your gender or race, you may be eligible to apply for compensation.

Farmers in 16 counties will be able to apply for aid after harsh weather conditions destroyed crops

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Taiwan has agreed to purchase billions of dollars' worth of corn and soybeans from six U.S. states in the next two years.

Youth ages 10 though 15 are invited to take part in the annual statewide gun deer hunt October 8 and 9. Under Wisconsin's Mentored Hunting Law, hunters as young as 10 years of age may participate with or without hunter education certification.

The state veterinarian says 25 cases of a deadly horse disease have been confirmed in Wisconsin, most in the north central area of the state.

ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP) -- The maker of the foam cheeseheads so popular with Green Bay Packers fans isn't amused that a physicians group tried to use the hat in an anti-cheese billboard.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A leading dairy farmers group is backing a proposed overhaul of federal milk policies after its creator agreed participation in a program limiting milk production in hard times would be voluntary.

The potato is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch program, but not if Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Udall of Colorado have anything to say about it.

It's harvest season.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Positive signs are beginning to emerge in the dairy industries in Wisconsin and Minnesota.