Category Archives: WiscoAg News
Vogel Family To Host Manitowoc County Breakfast On The Farm
In honor of June Dairy Month, Vogel Family Farms in Cato will be hosting this year's Manitowoc County Breakfast on the Farm Sunday, June 13th from 8 am to 12 pm. One of the owners, Amanda Linsmeier sp...
Jun 10, 2021
A 2021 Farm Grant Program Is In The Works
Governor Evers announced that farmers might soon be able to sign-up for another grant program that would give struggling producers in the state some of the money from the American Rescue Plan. He's cu...
Jun 10, 2021 Trump White House Archived
USDA Supports Food Industry With $4 Billion Investment
Two of the major challenges the food supply chain has had this year are the pandemic and cyberattacks. Due to those issues, officials in Washington D.C. are taking action to help build a stronger U.S....
Jun 10, 2021 U.S. Department of Agriculture
Didion Milling In Cambria Faces Over $676,000 In Fines and Over Ten Citations
Didion Milling in Cambria, WI has been charged with $676,808 in fines, along with 14 citations for safety violations. This comes after a deadly accident this past December with an employee who was eng...
Jun 09, 2021 Phil Roeder / CC
Wisconsin Creamery Explains Why Some Choose The Value-Added Route
Here in Wisconsin, we're very fortunate to have so many value-added farms across the state. We have ice cream parlors, milk processing plants, cheese factories, and that's just on the dairy side of ag...
Jun 09, 2021
Food Industry In Dire Need Of Workers
The food service industry is opening nationwide with relaxed restrictions following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That being said, there's a huge hiring shortage that most businesses are facing...
Jun 08, 2021 Alan Light / CC
U.S. Educators Share Ag Ideas Through Summer Program
More than 82 agricultural teachers will share their stories this summer as part of the National Teachers Ambassadors for FFA program. The program started in 2016 and gives teachers the tools they need...
Jun 08, 2021 US Department of Education / CC
Waushara County Student Wins Ag In The Classroom Essay Contest
Fourth-grader Elli Rettler from Tri-County Elementary School was chosen as the winner of the Ag in the Classroom's annual essay contest. This year's winning paper took a different perspective than nor...
Jun 07, 2021
Farm Bureau Urges Biden Administration To Help With Border Crisis
The American Farm Bureau recently signed a letter that all 50 state Farm Bureaus and the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau also signed asking the Biden Administration to do something about all of the undocument...
Jun 07, 2021 Kevin Dooley / CC
Greenleaf Dairy Prepares For Upcoming Breakfast On The Farm
This week Brown County prepares for the long-awaited Breakfast on the Farm at Collins Dairy in Greenleaf (3489 Hill Road, Greenleaf, WI 54126). Due to the pandemic, the annual dairy breakfast had been...
Jun 03, 2021
