Patrick and Sara McGuire have been growing apples since they were married 25 years ago. Their 150 acres in Ellsworth, Michigan — dubbed Royal …
Entries are open for the 38th annual World Forage Analysis Superbowl. The 2021 contest, held in conjunction with World Dairy Expo, is set to a…
CARLTON — Aaron Augustian knew when he decided to no-till four years ago he was taking a gamble on his farm. Fast forward to today and he isn’…
TOWN OF NORWAY — “The whole vineyard was covered in frost, it was like something out of the movie ‘Frozen,’ “ said Cindee Henrichs, gesturing …
WIOTA — Jason Rowe decided to implement no-till on his farming acres because the soil health needed improvement and it was economically beneficial.
GLENBEULAH — For farmers, committing to planting cover crops is one thing. Figuring out how to do it is another.
As spring planting progresses, Wisconsin crop farmers appear to be aiming to capitalize on high commodity prices down the road.
BRUSSELS — Mike Vandenhouten was blunt in telling farmers at a Peninsula Pride Farms field event it was time to make a change and improve the …
Clark County UW-Extension, Clark County Land Conservation, Eau Claire River Watershed Coalition, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resou…
Patience can be the best practice when it comes to spring field work, despite how tempting it can be to get into fields as soon as the frost i…
Pickled or otherwise, beets are polarizing. But a Badger State variety aims to make the root vegetable more palatable to those who would norma…
Farmers have a lot of questions about cover crops.
Interest in hemp isn’t as strong early in 2021 as it was during the previous years of Wisconsin’s industrial hemp research program.
Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop’s most devastating disease, lat…
USDA’s Risk Management Agency reminds Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin producers that the final date to apply for crop insurance for spring crop…
As part of the 2018 Farm Bill, each year farmers can make a decision with regard to the commodity support programs Agriculture Risk Coverage a…
After a decades-long hiatus due to the crop’s legal status, growers are now producing industrial hemp across the United States. Despite signif…
In its final hours under President Donald Trump’s jurisdiction, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jan. 19 issued three waivers retroact…
Do it yourself projects are very popular these days, but one couple living just outside the Village of Winter in northern Wisconsin is in anot…
The sales value of Wisconsin Christmas trees ranks fourth in the nation, according to the 2019 Census of Horticultural Specialties.
State and federal agriculture agencies and partnering organizations have announced that its upcoming virtual Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference i…
By early spring, it was turning into another rough year for the agriculture industry.
A few years ago, Rock Springs farmer Roman Miller said goodbye to his combine, corn planter and the rest of his row cropping equipment.
It took less than 24 hours for 4 inches of rain to fall on Clint Hodorff’s wheat field, and the timing could have been bad. The monsoon came j…
Farm to institution, the practice of purchasing locally grown foods in the foodservice setting at schools, hospitals, colleges and business ca…
Recent bouts of rain and snow that soaked or coated regions of Wisconsin may have put a bit of a damper on the harvest season, but compared to…
Off the entrance to Silverwood County Park in Dane County is a field neatly marked out with rows of growing trees.
Harvest time is usually a farmer’s favorite time of the year, but this year the adult children working the Brewer Farm had to say goodbye to b…