Category Archives: WiscoAg News

Our February Farmer of the Month comes to us from Two Creeks, WI. Rick Barta and his wife Sue, own Barta Farm LLC with three of their sons. Rick and Sue both keep busy taking care of the farm, working...

President Biden and his administration decided to issue a regulatory freeze so that they could take a look at federal programs, one of those being the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2.1. Even wit...

Labeling has been a big issue in agriculture for a long time now, but it never seems to get very far. The issue is that some products, such as soy beverage and others are labeling the products with wo...

Late last year it was announced that Julia Nunes would keep her title as Alice in Dairyland for a consecutive year due to COVID-19. "I'm hoping that in this next year I'll be able to do some of those ...

A South Dakota man has been sentenced to three months in prison for one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Calvin Diehl, 60-years-old, pled guilty in June to telling employees at a Soui...

Governor Evers announced a list of initiatives he wants to tackle for agriculture over the next two years. The goal is to help the ag industry in Wisconsin with $43 million that'll be put into differe...

Dr. Sylvia Kehoe at UW-River Falls has been busy creating an applicator to use when disbudding calves with caustic paste. One of the big problems farms run into with the paste is that they overdo it a...

As the vaccine is being distributed to certain people at this time, farms.com explained the different phases. Phase 1a gave healthcare workers and people who live and work in long term care access to ...

Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin project that Americans will consume over 20 million pounds of cheese while watching the game Sunday evening. To put that into perspective, that's 1.7 million wheels of chees...

Two of the state's dairy farms have been fined for violating runoff regulations according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Attorney General Josh Kaul made the announcement that Kostechka Dairy ...