Posted: 10:06 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture has slightly lowered its projection for the size of this year's corn crop for a fourth straight month.

Updated: 10:11 AM Pumpkin farmers say they expect their crop to be one of a few bright spots in a year when most farms have been hit hard by a severe drought that stretches across much of the U.S.

Posted: 3:02 PM The USDA Marathon County Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds producers that nine-month low interest commodity loans are available. Commodity loans are a valuable marketing tool by providing operating capital at competitive rates and offering flexible repayment at the time a commodity is sold or marketed.

Updated: 1:02 PM The first ever "Farm to Fork Dinner" is just a few days away. It's going to be held at Stoney Acres Farm in Athens on Sunday. They're located at 7002 Rangeline Road. The goal of the event is to teach us about locally grown foods.

Updated: 6:55 PM The time has come to "Pick Your Crandidate" and the people at Wetherby Cranberry Company won't let you forget it.

Posted: 4:11 PM The Supreme Court is agreeing to hear a dispute between a soybean farmer and Monsanto Co. over the company's efforts to limit farmer's use of its patented, genetically engineered Roundup Ready seeds.

Posted: 9:38 AM A weekly drought report shows that conditions have worsened in some key Midwest farming states where the corn harvest is more than halfway completed.

Posted: 2:42 PM Marathon County Farm Service Agency County Executive Director, Matt Peplinski, reminds producers that the sign-up period for the 2011 crop year Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) program will begin on October 22, 2012 and ends on June 7, 2013. SURE provides assistance to farmers and ranchers who have suffered losses due to natural disasters.

Posted: 10:27 AM Some ranchers have started cutting neighbors' fences or leaving gates open so their cattle can graze on greener pastures amid an extreme drought that has caused a spike in hay prices.

Posted: 8:47 AM Organizers call it the Super Bowl of the dairy industry.

Updated: 10:43 AM It's a time-honored Fall tradition- heading out to the pumpkin patch to pick that perfect one.

Posted: 12:10 PM Money might not grow on trees, but it comes pretty close with wild ginseng.

Posted: 8:49 AM A weekly update on U.S. drought conditions shows the nation's worst drought in decades slightly worsened in the lower 48 states with the Midwest corn harvest in full swing.

Posted: 9:01 AM Milk production continues to improve in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where dairy farmers had a stronger August this year than they did last year.

Posted: 3:22 PM Marathon County Executive Director Matthew Peplinski reminds producers that the deadline to sign-up for the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program is September 30, 2012. The MILC Program financially compensates dairy producers when domestic milk prices fall below a specified level. MILC payments are made monthly when the milk price falls below the established price per hundredweight.

Posted: 3:20 PM Marketing Assistance Loans (MAL) are available to producers who share in the risk of producing a crop. To be eligible, a producer must maintain continual beneficial interest in the crop from harvest through the earlier of the date the loan is repaid or CCC takes title to the commodity.

Updated: 10:42 PM Fall is in the air, meaning pumpkin patches in our area will soon be full of people trying to pick out the perfect one. But the early spring and hot summer have some people concerned about this years crop. No need to worry.

Posted: 9:56 AM A non-profit center that's helped support Wisconsin's dairy industry is closing at the end of September.

Updated: 6:47 PM The Drought of 2012 is going to be long felt. Everyone has been talking about it since the beginning of summer. And the big question is - "Will there be enough corn to go around?"

Posted: 11:10 AM The McDill Inland Lake District Secretary says free trees are available to those willing to do the work to remove them from the McDill Lakebed.

Posted: 2:56 PM USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has announced an extension for the emergency grazing deadline on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres to November 30, 2012, on limited practices for producers in counties eligible for emergency grazing.

Posted: 9:19 AM Researchers who hope to keep children from dying in tractor accidents are using a state-of-the-art driving simulator to help determine when kids can safely operate farm equipment.

Posted: 10:09 AM The drought is causing an unusual problem for one southern Wisconsin festival -- a shortage of cow chips.

Posted: 8:31 PM Wisconsin Farm Service Agency reminds producers interested in participating in the Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) of the upcoming application deadline dates that must be met for NAP qualification.

Updated: 10:40 PM The only thing standing in the way of a proposed 6,000 plus acre dairy in the Town of Saratoga is the DNR's approval and a bunch of angry locals. Thursday night those locals were doing everything they could to make sure nothing gets overlooked in the DNR's environmental inspection.