World Dairy Expo opens Tuesday
Posted: 8:47 AM Organizers call it the Super Bowl of the dairy industry.
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.
Posted: 12:51 PM Authorities have released the name of a man who died Tuesday morning during a farm accident.
Updated: 11:38 PM Unseasonably warm days this past winter got the trees growing earlier than usual at Helene's Hilltop Orchard in Merrill. Then, cool nights in late spring brought frost, killing the blossoms.
Posted: 4:25 PM Wisconsin Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds producers in counties eligible for emergency grazing and haying on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres of the deadline dates to remove cattle or hay from the CRP acres.
Posted: 9:27 PM Wisconsin health officials report two cases of people infected with a new strain of swine flu.
Updated: 10:41 PM In Marathon County alone, agriculture contributes $2.4 billion dollars to the economy and provides over 10,000 jobs. But now a Congressional candidate says a delay in Congress may cost Wisconsin farmers big.
Posted: 9:05 AM Apple-picking season is off to an early start in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, as fruit growers continue dealing with the effects of wacky weather last spring.
Posted: 4:04 PM A new report says Wisconsin is expected to keep its crown as cranberry king.
Posted: 2:04 PM The company planning to build a mega-dairy farm in Wood County is suing the town board.
