Category Archives: WiscoAg News
2021 Crop Insurance Options Explained
Choosing the right crop insurance for your farm can be a huge headache. There's the revenue protection products, the supplemental coverage, and the Enhanced Coverage Option. To top it off, each of the...
Mar 03, 2021 Jeff Sharp
Rock County Beats The Rest In Production
Overall, Rocky County farmers had a very good harvest last year. The county produced a higher crop for corn and soybeans than any other county in Wisconsin. USDA reports that farmers in Rock County ha...
Mar 02, 2021 wattpublishing / CC
DBIA Plans To Award $1M In Next Round Of Grants
The Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA), a partnership between the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA), will be distributing $1 million this spring in ...
Mar 01, 2021 Philip Taylor / CC
Final 2021 Sturgeon Spearing Numbers
The 2021 sturgeon spearing season came to an end yesterday with a total of 1,831 fish harvested. This year's Lake Winnebago harvest was the highest it's been since the 2015 season. The Wisconsin DNR s...
Mar 01, 2021 Steve Renderman cuts a new hole for his son's strugeon spearing shanty on Lake Winnebago.
Mishicot Chapter Members Share The Benefits Of FFA
National FFA Week kicked off on February 20th and runs until the 28th of this year. The week is all about supporting FFA and getting the word out about what the organization does. FFA is more than jus...
Feb 26, 2021
A Guilty Plea Has Been Entered By Pilgrim's Pride
This week Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's Chief Executive Fabio Sandri entered a guilty plea at a hearing in front of U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore in Colorado. The plea comes after Pilgrim's Pride ...
Feb 26, 2021 Christopher Paquette / CC
Culver's Raises Millions For Their "Thank You Farmers" Fund
Culver's announced that in the eight years since the "Thank You Farmers" campaign began, they've raised over $3 million for the National FFA Foundation and other ag-related organizations. The campaign...
Feb 25, 2021 Arnold Gatilao / CC
UW Professor Uses Dairy To Fight Genetic Disease And More
Denise Ney is a Professor at UW-Madison in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and she's kept very busy while being there. For the past 15 years, she's been studying a protein found in sweet cheese...
Feb 25, 2021
New Dairy-Based Sports Drink Coming Soon
Scientific studies have shown that milk hydrates the body better than your traditional sports drink and water. That's one of the reasons the Chicago-based company, GoodSport Nutrition, recently launch...
Feb 25, 2021
Wisconsin Wolf Hunt Comes To An End
The Wisconsin DNR announced this afternoon that the February 2021 wolf hunt is officially closed for the season. All six zones have met their quota as of 3:00 p.m. today. According to the Wisconsin DN...
Feb 24, 2021 Arne von Brill / CC
