Wisconsin’s newly-passed state budget includes new and increased investments for agricultural and rural priorities.
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin regulators can impose operating conditions on factory farms and consider high-capacity wells’ cumulative environmenta…
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — As many as one-third of Wisconsin’s gray wolves likely died at the hands of humans in the months after the federal…
A task force appointed by Gov. Tony Evers says more funding, better data and streamlined permitting are needed to meet the goal of giving all …
Wisconsin farmers can expect to receive additional money as a result of the latest federal stimulus plan, according to Gov. Tony Evers.
A new proposal announced by four Midwestern dairy groups seeks to add stability and limit negative producer price differentials in the federal…
The state Supreme Court on April 12 was scheduled to hear arguments in a case that could determine whether the Wisconsin Department of Natural…
MADISON — If two state legislators get their way, Colby will become the big cheese in the Dairy State.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying measures started over a year ago, unpredictability has been a constant, even more so than usual i…
Looking to implement President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, the U.S. Department of Agricultu…
Of the approximately $26 billion of coronavirus relief funding available to farmers through the Trump administration’s Coronavirus Food Assist…
More funds and resources are being made available to agriculture and rural communities as a result of the newest federal COVID-19 relief legislation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 23, voted overwhelmingly to confirm Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary, his second run at the …
As the global coronavirus pandemic cuts into state revenue generated by travel, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ 2021-23 budget calls for additional…
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., has been named the new chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development…
While Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed 2021-22 biennial budget is just landing on legislators’ desks this week, many in the agriculture industry have…
A series of state-level Senate bills aimed at imposing truth-in-labeling requirements related to milk, meat and dairy products has been re-int…
Gov. Tony Evers 2021-23 biennial budget proposal will include a more than $43 million investment in Wisconsin’s agriculture economy and farm f…
EAU CLAIRE — A lifelong advocate for Wisconsin’s agriculture industry who spent 26 years in the state Legislature is being fondly remembered b…
Gov. Tony Evers declared 2021 the “Year of Broadband Access” during his 2021 State of the State address Jan. 12 and announced his upcoming sta…
A little more than a year after being rejected by the state Senate as head of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Br…
A Wisconsin-based dairy initiative is one of three regional innovation initiatives that will benefit from the $22 million in funding for Dairy…
The new session of the Wisconsin Legislature began on Jan. 4, which means that new agriculture committees in both the Senate and Assembly are …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will purchase an additional $1.5 billion worth of food for nationwide distribution through the Farmers to F…
The dairy industry and politics are segments of the United States that are no strangers to upheaval.
A move made Dec. 9 by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers intended to provide relief to an ethanol industry left reeling from driving reductions at the …
Wisconsin has an opportunity to act on climate initiatives that would increase the resilience of the state’s farmers while providing climate c…
Kevin Krentz was elected president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and Rural Mutual Insurance Company during WFBF’s virtual 101st Annu…