Category Archives: WiscoAg News
Local Siblings Prepare For The Manitowoc County Fair
Even though this is the last week of August, fair season is far from over. The Manitowoc County Fair starts this week and the kids are preparing everything they can prior to bringing the animals to th...
Aug 22, 2021
One Of The Last Remaining Cheese Carvers In The Country
You would think that in the state of Wisconsin we might have a decent amount of cheese carvers around, it is the dairy state after all, but you'd be wrong. We caught up with one of the few carvers in ...
Aug 20, 2021
Fair Raises Almost $350,000 For Sick Children And Their Families
The Iowa State Fair recently held the 39th Governor's Charity Steer Show and broke a record for money raised. The show brought in almost $350,000, which goes straight to Ronald McDonald House Charitie...
Aug 19, 2021 U.S. Department of Agriculture
Plant-Based Imitation Meat Is In Demand Thanks To Pizza
Pizza keeps being one of the top-ranked items in foods ordered at U.S. restaurants. According to The NPD Group, in the quarter ending June 2021, there were 1.2 billion servings of pizza ordered, which...
Aug 19, 2021 Thomas van de Weerd / CC
The 2022 Farmers' Almanac Is Here
The 2022 Farmers' Almanac hits store shelves this week and has 184 pages to help you plan your year ahead. It also features weather forecasts for the next 16 months, plus advice on ways to take cues f...
Aug 19, 2021 United Soybean Board / CC
Farmer of the Month: Tom Mueller
Our Farmer of the Month for August is coming to us from Idlewood Farms right outside of Kiel. Congratulations to Tom Mueller! Currently, they're milking 90 cows and running about 550 acres of land. Mu...
Aug 18, 2021
Wisconsin's First Case Of EEE This Year Confirmed
A Monroe County horse has tested positive for Wisconsin's first case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in 2021. The results were confirmed on August 11th by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,...
Aug 17, 2021 Rob Mitchell
Southern Farmers Dealing With Damages From Those Crossing Border
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall recently toured farms along the southern border of the United States. Duvall says state Farm Bureau organizations near the border reached out to ask for hel...
Aug 17, 2021 Shaan Hurley / CC
Governor's Blue Ribbon Livestock Auction Recap
The Governor's Blue Ribbon Livestock Auction took place last week at the Wisconsin State Fair and for the third time in a row, the highest-selling steer went for $47,500. The animal belonged to Tori C...
Aug 16, 2021 U.S. Department of Agriculture
Morrison 4-H Siblings Prep For This Week's Brown County Fair
County fair season has come and gone for some counties in the area, but we still have a few more weeks of 4-H and FFA members showing in the area. Two of those 4-Her's prepping for the fair are Makayl...
Aug 16, 2021
