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…
Potatoes are a widely-loved vegetable. Baked, mashed, fried or chipped, they are a tasty treat. But they aren’t perfect. Potatoes present a bi…
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has postponed the transition to the new Wisconsin State Hemp Plan. Inst…
Sand County Foundation will demonstrate the conservation and economic benefits of grazing livestock on cover crops.
EAU CLAIRE – After a couple weeks of stable conditions, drought expanded again in the new report from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Now in its third year, Wisconsin’s industrial hemp program continues to challenge participants with the ups and downs of a fledgling industry.
High-tech tuber tools: Hyperspectral imaging project seeks to improve potato growers' fertilizer use
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EAU CLAIRE ̶ Drought conditions were stable through the Midwest over the past week, and are greatly improved over what was commonplace in late…
The World Forage Analysis Superbowl will once again provide educational opportunities with its Dairy Forage Seminars, held virtually in 2020 o…
Over an inch of rain fell hours before a recent Sheboygan River Progressive Farmers field day opened to sunny skies for farmers to join in a d…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reopening the comment period to the interim final rule that was published on Oct. 31, 2019, and establis…
Agricultural diversification is a hot topic right now. Faced with an ongoing stretch of depressed commodity prices, growers are looking for ot…
EAU CLAIRE ̶ Drought conditions remained relatively stable in the Midwest last week, with slight improvement in some areas.
EAU CLAIRE ̶ Midwestern drought expanded slightly over the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. But the biggest changes were in…
The year 2020 has seen professionals in all industries adapt to changing circumstances and that rings true for farmers across the Midwest. As …
EAU CLAIRE ̶ Drought conditions deepened in the Midwest according to new assessments from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
After years of slogging through soggy fields, Wisconsin farmers finally have some cause to be optimistic about the progress of their crops thi…