Category Archives: WiscoAg News
Gov. Evers, WEDC Announce Incentives to Assist Kikkoman's $800 Million Investment in Rural Wisconsin
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers announced that the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) today approved awarding up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits to...
Apr 24, 2024
Spongy Moth Aerial Spraying to Begin in May
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) plans to treat select areas in nine western Wisconsin counties for spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) startin...
Apr 23, 2024
River Falls Beef Farmers Win "Soil Your Undies" Contest
PRESCOTT - The Soil Your Undies contest combines crude humor and crude science to help farmers see how the management choices they make impact the soil they work in. For two years now, local farmers a...
Apr 22, 2024 Over 2 months last summer, the healthy soil in the Mittag's pasture was able to demolish the cotton on these briefs. Healthy soil means more nutrients are recycled back to the plants and more rainwater is infiltrated into the ground instead of running off of the farm.
Gov. Evers Signs Executive Order Increasing Wisconsin's Trillion Trees Pledge Goal to Plant 100 Million Trees by the End of 2030
WAUNAKEE - Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in celebration of Earth Day today and Forest Appreciation Week this week, announced that the state is inc...
Apr 22, 2024
PDP's The Dairy Signal to Feature Dairy Margin Coverage, 2024 Forage Strategies and Market News
DAIRY NEWS - With temperatures warming and spring arriving, next week's episodes of The Dairy Signal from Professional Dairy Producers (PDP) will highlight strategies to keep finances and animals heal...
Apr 22, 2024
WCMA Auction Raises Record Funds to Support Dairy Industry's Future
MILWAUKEE, WI - An exuberant crowd of dairy processors, marketers, and suppliers raised an unprecedented $423,480 at the 2024 Novonesis Championship Cheese Auction at CheeseExpo in Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
Apr 22, 2024
Gov. Evers Delivers Radio Address Highlighting Historic Legislation to Support and Expand Wisconsin's Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers today delivered the Democratic Radio Address highlighting the historic legislation he signed into law last month, Senate Bill 791 and Senate Bill 792, now 2023 Wisconsin Acts...
Apr 22, 2024
DATCP to Offer Training Webinar for County and District Fair Judges
MADISON, Wis.- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is offering an online training webinar for newly-licensed fair judges as well as those interested in learn...
Apr 22, 2024
Advancing Agriculture this Earth Day
This Earth Day, Wisconsin Farm Bureau is celebrating the farmers on the frontlines of progress reaching our sustainability goals. From planting crops to caring for livestock, every decision we make on...
Apr 22, 2024 Leaders of the Land™: Eric and Rachel Harmann
WFBF Statement on Summer Ethanol Blend Waiver
MADISON - Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation President Brad Olson released the following statement regarding the Biden administration's emergency fuel waiver to allow the sale of summer gasoline blends ...
Apr 22, 2024
