Category Archives: WiscoAg News

Mental health is something that doesn't get talked about much in the farming community. Why? Mainly because the stigma of "farmers are tough, we don't talk about those things" still hasn't completely ...

Each month we like to celebrate a farmer in Wisconsin that's gone above and beyond! Our October Farmer of the Month is Tyler Wager from Twin Elm Farm in Manitowoc. He's been on the farm since he was b...

We have activists that try to throw the dairy industry under the bus any chance they get, claiming dairy's a huge player in greenhouse gas emissions. Luckily, we have the truth thanks to a study that ...

Turns out that cow hugging's good therapy for those going through stressful times. BBC says that the new activity, which started on farms in the Netherlands is becoming more and more popular. Experts ...

This year many schools are doing things virtually instead of in-person. One of the issues with that is trying to keep students from getting distracted at home. It's hard enough to keep young kids focu...

U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that the USDA decided to extend their free meal program until a little bit after the end of the 2020-2021 school year. The program already got extended once be...

USDA's accepting applications for 2021 enrollment of the Dairy Margin Coverage program. You can sign up anytime from now until December 11th through your local Farm Service Agency. The goal of the DMC...

Missy Martens and her husband Jon own Copper State Brewing Company in Green Bay, which just turned three-years-old in June. If the building looks familiar to you, it might be because this is where Hin...

The United States government indicted six more leaders in the poultry industry for allegedly inflating broiler chicken prices from 2012 to 2019. That's according to court documents filed last week. Th...

There's a new online training thanks to the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest that targets anyone overseeing kids in agriculture. The training can benefit farmers that have kids milking for th...