I was very young —I had just turned eight — to begin a torrid love affair but the St. Louis Cardinals made it easy. It was 1963, Stan Musial’…
Farmers and their workforce have proven time and again in the past year that they can rise to substantial challenges. It’s time for Congress t…
Like many global meatpacking companies, JBS SA, the giant Brazilian meat and poultry packer with extensive operations in North and South Ameri…
In a now too-common story in U.S agriculture, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) last month agreed to pay farmers $45 million to settle what the Mar…
The American Dairy Coalition, which represents dairy farmers from across the U.S., is asking all dairy farmers to contact their federal legisl…
On March 1, Nebraska’s attorney general threw the book at AltEn, alleging the 24-million-gallon-per year ethanol maker near Mead spent most of…
Emergency Medical Service personnel are invaluable across our state for their dedication to our communities and for providing lifesaving suppo…
Each year, National Ag Day presents an opportunity for all of us to recognize the impacts and contributions of agriculture throughout Wisconsi…
If you’re a corn and soybean farmer or an ag commodity futures trader, one of the biggest make-or-break days of the year looms: On March 31, t…
I think everyone would agree with me when I say that 2020 didn’t exactly play out the way anyone would have expected. I’ve been extremely prou…
The tree-lined streets of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) and hallowed hallways of Yale University are two places most farmers would n…
Wisconsin dairy farmers were treading water in 2020, kept afloat by direct payments from the federal government. The aid resulted in a sharp d…
If you think growing food in rural America is a tough business, you should trying selling food — groceries — in rural America.
There’s a clear lesson in the chemical and ethical cloud now shrouding AltEn, a 25-million-gallon per year ethanol plant just south of Mead, NE.
“Western Wisconsin led nation in 2020 farm bankruptcies,” screams the headline (Feb. 17, Page 9A). We’re losing dairy farms in “America’s Dair…
The next time you drink milk, eat cheese or enjoy another dairy product, consider the source.
After Collin Peterson, the former chairman of the House Ag Committee, lost his November 2020 reelection bid to Republican challenger Michelle …
In a year that COVID has stopped so many of our traditional experiences, FFA members across Wisconsin are continuing to break down barriers an…
Forty years ago, two editors at Successful Farming magazine, Gene Johnston and Dean Houghton, won most major ag journalism awards with a story…
It would be very difficult to exaggerate the extent of the challenges that the dairy industry, and the nation, has faced in the past year — an…
As we work to get through these tough times together, we still have to tackle one major challenge that existed before the coronavirus began — …
The impossibly improbable has occurred and you’re now secretary of agriculture. What you think or say about farm and rural policy matters as m…
The first case under NAFTA 2.0 — the trade deal known as USMCA to us and CUSMA to our Canadian compatriots — was not an ambitious filing under…
One topic most red, blue, and green politicians — and, even more strikingly, farmers — agree on is climate change; it’s real.
On his way out the door last month, former House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, just off a hammering reelection defeat, offered the na…
As farmers, we know we are part of a bigger story. We are caretakers of the land for a time, following in the footsteps of generations before …
Like any schoolboy, I was both giddy and awed when I walked into the U.S. Capitol for the first time. Here Abraham Lincoln walked and John Ken…
Time is running out for our family-sized dairy farms. However, the Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act is now resurfacing once again, and t…