Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman figured out a way to benefit from a high-technology product -- soybeans that are resistant to weed-killers -- without always paying the high price that such genetically engineered seeds typically brought.

Apple production in Wisconsin has dropped to its lowest level since 1945.

Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa officials are inviting forest landowners to a conference next month to learn more about management techniques, forest products and taxes.

Wisconsin will require import permits for pigs entering the state starting March 1 to make sure they are free of a problem virus.

The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most all foods sold in schools.

State wildlife officials say hunters killed 5 percent more deer last year than in 2011.

Agriculture experts say the biggest wildcard in predicting Wisconsin's crop production this year is moisture.

Volunteers distributed 5,000 gallons of free milk in La Crosse -- milk that at one time was headed for the Dumpster.

Matthew Peplinski, Marathon County Executive Director of the Farm Service Agency informs foreign investors who buy, sell or hold a direct or indirect interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to report their holdings and transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

The state Department of Natural Resources has issued more than 135,000 spring turkey permits through its annual lottery.

Milk from the shuttered Golden Guernsey plant in Waukesha will be distributed to the needy throughout the state.

The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation says food prices in Wisconsin rose 2 percent last year, showing a degree of stability after a few years of volatility.

An agricultural official says prices for winter lettuce grown in southwestern Arizona already are rising because of damage caused by freezing weather.

The Wisconsin 4-H Foundation plans to award more than $10,000 in scholarships to outstanding Wisconsin students pursuing undergraduate degrees in 2013.

Advocates for the hungry are concerned that tens of thousands of gallons of milk and other dairy products sitting in a shuttered Golden Guernsey plant in Waukesha will go to waste.

Riesterer & Schnell, a John Deere dealership group with several locations in eastern, northeastern and now central Wisconsin has purchased Faivre Implement's two John Deere dealerships in Stevens Point and Westfield.

The Marathon County Farm Service Agency (FSA) office is currently searching for minority and female producers interested in serving as an advisor to the FSA County Committee.

Marathon County Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds producers that producers receiving less than $600 will no longer receive IRS Form 1099-G (Report of Payments to Producers) or IRS Form 1099-MISC.

The Golden Guernsey Dairy plant in Waukesha could soon have a new owner less than two months after it closed and filed for bankruptcy.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a dairy barn fire that killed 120 cattle in eastern Wisconsin.

Dairy farmers in Wisconsin and Minnesota had an especially strong month in November.

Farmers and ranchers will soon find the 2012 Census of Agriculture in their mailboxes.

An agriculture organization is starting a mobile service that offers fresh fruits and vegetables to tribal reservations in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota.

On the third Monday of each month, Alice in Dairyland visits NewsChannel 7 at Noon to talk about Wisconsin agriculture. This month - we talked about cranberries. Did you know Wisconsin grows a lot of cranberries each and every year? In fact, we're talking millions of barrels of the red fruit.

A massive replanting in Napa Valley of some of the world's priciest vineyards is so widespread a critical shortage of grapevine root stock has developed.