Category Archives: WiscoAg News

Optimism For The 2021 Fair Season
The 2020 fair season wasn't the greatest. Most fairs started getting canceled at the beginning of June, while some were even calling things off in April or May. This left a lot of kids with animals an...
Travis Cleven Jan 19, 2021

Bill Gates Is The Top Farmland Owner In The U.S.
According to Forbes, Bill Gates is the top private farmland owner in the whole country. On top of Gates having a net worth of over $120 billion, he also owns about 242,000 acres of farmland in 18 stat...
Travis Cleven Jan 18, 2021

WPS Farm Show Canceled Once Again
The Wisconsin Public Service Farm Show was set to run from March 30th to April 1st, but is now canceled for the second year in a row due to COVID-19. The show typically brings thousands of people from...
Travis Cleven Jan 18, 2021

Two Brothers Honor Late Mother With Unique Memorial
There are many ways to keep the memory of a loved one alive. You can put up pictures of them, create a plaque, or just tell stories about them. Jeremy and Jason Schwittay had a different idea. With th...
Travis Cleven Jan 14, 2021

Man Stabs Store Clerk Over Price Of Milk
A Connecticut man is being held on a $500,000 bond until his arraignment after stabbing a grocery store clerk at Walmart earlier this week. According to investigators, the store clerk scanned a gallon...
Travis Cleven Jan 14, 2021 Courtesy of Waterbury Police Department

Positive CWD Case In Shawano County
The Wisconsin DNR found that there was a positive case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in an adult doe shot in Shawano County. The deer was harvested in the town of Germania. Since the doe was locate...
Travis Cleven Jan 14, 2021

Best And Worst States To Start A Farm
LawnStarter took the time to rank all 50 states from the best ones to start a farm in, to the worst. Sadly, Wisconsin didn't make the top five, but we also didn't rank in the bottom five. America's Da...
Travis Cleven Jan 14, 2021

2021 Farm Dog Of The Year
The American Farm Bureau Federation announced the 2021 Farm Dog of the Year during their annual convention this week. Congratulations to Bindi, she's a five-year-old Australian Sheperd who lives in Ne...
Travis Cleven Jan 13, 2021

Pilgrim's Pride Legal Update
Pilgrim's Pride, one of the largest poultry producers in the United States has an update on their legal issues. The company recently agreed to settle some of the price-fixing claims going on against t...
Travis Cleven Jan 12, 2021

Farm Support Groups Set To Launch Online Next Month
The Wisconsin Farm Center announced they'll be launching a series of farm support groups online in February. The groups are led by farmers for famers dealing with mental stress. There will also be a m...
Travis Cleven Jan 12, 2021

