Category Archives: WiscoAg News
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Elects New Board Executive Committee
ROSEMONT, Ill. - The checkoff-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced new board officers and members of the organization's executive committee, elected at its first meeting of the new year....
Feb 10, 2026
Tom Wild, Gary & Lynda Bula Enter WPVGA Hall of Fame
Tom Wild of Wild Seed Farms Inc., Antigo, Wisconsin, and Gary and Lynda Bula, owners of Gary Bula Farms Inc., Oxford, were inducted into the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA...
Feb 10, 2026
Elite Global Judging Team to Evaluate 3,375 Entries at the 2026 World Championship Cheese Contest
MADISON, WI - The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA), proud host of the World Championship Cheese Contest, today announced the distinguished panel of 56 dairy industry experts selected to eval...
Feb 10, 2026
Online training course built for rural firefighters
The Rural Firefighters Delivering Agriculture Safety and Health (RF-DASH) online course is now live. The free course is part of the broader RF-DASH program, run by the National Farm Medicine Center, M...
Feb 10, 2026
Gov. Evers, WisDOT Announce Over $151 Million for Local Road Improvements
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced counties and municipalities across the state received more than $151 million in the first ...
Feb 09, 2026
Scale Up Your Technology with CDR's ABID Grant Program
A new grant program at the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) is looking for entrepreneurs, scientists, and established companies with innovative technologies to convert dairy co-products, like permeate ...
Feb 09, 2026 CDR’s new Eppendorf BioFlo® Pro bioreactor complements the CDR's existing suite of dairy processing technologies and will help transform bench-scale innovation into pilot-scale trials, bridging the gap between research discovery and commercial application.
Wisconsin Participates in National Policy Conference
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Secretary Randy Romanski participated in the 2026 Winter Policy Conference in Washington, DC on February 2 - ...
Feb 09, 2026
U.S. Dairy Welcomes U.S.-Argentina Trade Agreement
ARLINGTON, VA - The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and Consortium for Common Food Names (CCFN) celebrated the signing of a U.S.-Argentina Agreement on Rec...
Feb 09, 2026
WPVGA Presents Annual Industry Awards
In addition to its annual Hall of Fame induction, the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA) presented several other annual Industry Awards during a banquet on February 4, 2026, ...
Feb 09, 2026
Wendy Dykstra Becomes First Woman WPVGA Board President
At a brief meeting held immediately following the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA) Annual Meeting, February 5, in Stevens Point, the WPVGA Board of Directors elected Wendy ...
Feb 09, 2026
