Agriculture

“Being a dairy family and living in the dairy state, we want to make sure we do those products justice,” said Heather Mullins, who uses milk byproducts to craft award-winning spirits.

At the 2024 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, people of all ages experience a 70 foot-long soil pit to learn about conservation.

The state’s biggest business lobby helps two residents challenge a Polk County town’s restrictions on livestock feeding operations.

A committee of lawmakers, conservationists and farmers met for the first time Thursday to study ways to manage Wisconsin’s population of sandhill cranes as their numbers have grown.

A new study suggests that particular insecticides are the biggest factor in bringing down butterfly numbers–on top of agricultural land use and climate change.

The Wisconsin city credited with bringing “No-Mow May” to the U.S. as a boost to pollinators and biodiversity has changed its guidance on lawn-mowing practices.

Veterinary superintendent Dr. Tia Kastenson said the process will look mostly the same as it does every year, with animals coming off trailers and being settled into barns before the West Allis fairground fills with hundreds of thousands of people.

Wisconsin Farmers Union President Darin Von Ruden said his organization wants a new farm bill to address the declining number of dairy farms in the state.

State regulators are recommending a solar developer scale back its plans for the roughly $2 billion Vista Sands Solar project in Portage County to protect Wisconsin’s greater prairie-chicken population.

A partnership led by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and UW-Madison received $10 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agricultural Systems program earlier this summer.