Category Archives: WiscoAg News
Industry Leaders Focus on Progress At Sustainability Alliance Meeting
OAK BROOK, Ill. - More than 260 dairy value chain leaders - including 26 farmers - gathered April 28-30 for the 2026 Dairy Sustainability Alliance Spring Meeting, with a focus of turning shared priori...
May 06, 2026
Return on Fertilizer Investment Drives New Approach to Crop Nutrition
TAMPA, Fla. (May 5 2026) - With input costs continuing to pressure farm budgets, some growers are making difficult decisions to reduce fertilizer application rates. While that strategy may ease...
May 06, 2026
Registration Opens May 19 for WCMA Golf Outing & Trap Shoot
Details, Sponsorships Available Now at WisCheeseMakers.org MADISON, WI - It's time for Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) members to mark their calendars and set their alarms for Tuesday, May ...
May 06, 2026
Celebrate Beef Month This May
MADISON, Wis. - It's May, which means it is time to fire up the grill, support your local producers and processors, and celebrate May Beef Month. In Wisconsin, we're known for our hard-working farmers...
May 06, 2026
Katie Burgess: The Dairy Risk Advisor Who Simplifies the Chaos
Today's conversation on the Uplevel Dairy podcast was captured at the Central Plains Dairy Expo in Sioux Falls, where Peggy Coffeen interviews dairy risk management advisor and economist, Katie Burges...
May 05, 2026
"Plant a Seed" Campaign Raises Funds to Support Dairy Education, Outreach Programs
April 29, 2026 - DAIRY NEWS - The ninth annual "Plant a Seed" campaign supporting Dairy's Foundation raised over $42,000 to support programs that develop dairy leaders, strengthen on-farm skills and b...
May 05, 2026
2026 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days July 14-16 at Redetzke's No Joke Dairy
Redetzkes' No Joke Dairy near Stratford will serve as the site of the 72nd Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, July 14-16, 2026. The fifth-generation farm is owned by Matt and Brittany Redetzke and Matt's...
May 04, 2026
DATCP Appoints Yeshimebet Abebe as General Counsel ,Sheri Walz as Deputy General Counsel
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Secretary Randy Romanski has appointed Yeshimebet Abebe as DATCP's General Counsel. "Attorney Abebe has exper...
May 04, 2026
Seventh Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council Selected
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has selected fifteen members for the next Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council. Members will attend monthl...
May 04, 2026
WCMA Applauds U.S. House of Representatives Passage of New, Five-Year Farm Bill
MADISON, WI - The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) today applauded passage of a long-awaited new five-year Farm Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on a bipartisan vote of 224-200. WCM...
May 04, 2026
