Central Wisconsin Ag News

Kinnard Highland Farm is a long-time Peninsula Pride Farms member. Kyler Kinnard continues to learn with others and implement new sustainable practices on his farm to better the environment. Kinnard Highland Farm is a multi-generational family-run dairy farm currently milking 250 cows and farming 650 acres. Kinnard and...

Compeer Financial’s Fund for Rural America is supporting county fairs with grants to improve facilities and also experiences offered to rural communities across the Upper Midwest. Sixty-one fairs received County Fair Facility Upgrade Grants this year, totaling $241,850. “County fairs are an integral part of...

World Dairy Expo is searching for college students passionate about the dairy industry to be part of the 2024 media team. Four students will be hired to experience the storied event as media interns. Under the direction of Expo’s communications specialist, media interns assist with media initiatives at World Dair...

As the Energizer bunny marches out of Wisconsin, another company is ready to capitalize on the workforce left behind and manufacture – you guessed it – batteries! Jeff Greene is the CEO of Wisconsin Battery Company (WinBat™). On April 23rd, the company broke ground in Portage on a new facility that wi...

Northcentral Technical College has opened a Pasture to Plate Butchery program. NTC says the program, complete with a 1,300 square foot ‘cold lab’, positions the college to educate Wisconsin’s next generation of meat processors. The Pasture to Plate Butchery Certificate aims to equip students with hand...

Wisconsin cranberry production totaled 5.01 million barrels in 2023, compared to 4.80 million barrels in 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. The state’s growers harvested 19,100 acres, down 400 acres from last year. The average yield per acre, at 262.3 barrels, was up 7 percent ...

Seeing the environmental impact of new sustainability practices encourages Sandy Larson of Larson Acres to keep discovering new conservation practices. Larson’s family dairy farm milks 2,800 cows and farms more than 5,000 acres in Rock County. They joined the Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance in 2019 to participa...

Seventh-grade science students at Luxemburg-Casco Middle School this year are taking experiential learning to a high level through a new program, Trout in the Classroom. The educational initiative provides the students with hands-on exposure to the Salmonid life cycle which also directly relates to classroom instructio...

Have you ever wondered how plants would grow when they’re not on Earth? In space, growing plants could be important for food, oxygen and even astronauts’ psychological well-being – but growing anything beyond Earth is more difficult than it might seem. Science departments in Wisconsin have been sendin...

Wisconsin farmers in general are ahead of schedule in the field. In the past week, growers took advantage of the three days suitable for fieldwork to get tillage, planting, and fertilizer application checked off the to-do list. Corn planting was 22 percent complete, five days ahead of last year and a day ahead of the 5...