Summer Camp Is Calling – Registration Open
Registration is open for Farmers Union Camp at Kamp Kenwood in the Chippewa Valley. It’s served as the home for the Wisconsin Farmers Union camp program since the 1940s. Each summer, hundreds of youth from across the Midwest attend the camp, which…
WPA Intern Application Deadline Approaching
The Wisconsin Pork Association is looking for college students who are interested about the swineindustry and want to expand their knowledge and understanding of the industry. Students can visit https://www.wppa.org/ambassador-internship-program/…
No Bull About These Bulls
The Wisconsin Beef Improvement Association Performance Selected Bull Sale is Saturday, April 1 starting at 11 a.m. at UW-Platteville and online. There are plenty of ways to scope out the animals online or in-person ahead of the sale. The…
Local Food – Epic Proportions
Agriculture at a software company? Must be Epic. Epic, a health care software company, pays homage to Wisconsin agriculture in a number of ways — it’s state-of-the-art buildings that resemble a barn and farmhouse, 550 acres of operating farmland,…
Meteorologists -Behind The Curtain
This is part of the Midwest Farm Report’s partnership with the National Weather Service staff in Wisconsin to encourage citizen’s to become involved in rainfall/snowfall reporting to enhance forecasting across the state. Scott Berschback would love…
USDA To Gather Data About Farm Labor
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its biannual Agricultural Labor Survey in April. The survey will collect information about hired labor from more than 300 Wisconsin farmers. NASS will publish the data May 24 in…
New Faces In DNR Leadership
The Wisconsin DNR Secretary Adam Payne announced that he is appointing DNR Assistant Deputy Secretary Steven C. Little to serve as DNR Deputy Secretary beginning April 9, filling the role previously held by Sarah Barry. “Sarah had been with the DNR…
Ag Innovation Lab Coming To Iowa State
A new multi-tenant collaboration space will go up at Iowa State University Research Park this summer. The Alliant Energy Agriculture Innovation Lab will have more than 85,000 square feet for ISU’s College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Digital…
Cybersecurity Advice From The FBI
It’s a startling statistic that if cyber crime was its own country, it would have the third largest economy after the U.S. and China. That’s how lucrative it is. And that’s why agriculture is the second-largest target, because farming and food is…
Tranel Highlights Assembly Ag Committee Priorities
Rural infrastructure, producer-led watershed grants and Emergency Medical Services make the priority list in the Assembly Agriculture Committee, says Chair Rep. Travis Tranel, R-Cuba City. Wisconsin is in a strong fiscal position, with a $7-8…