After years of intensive agriculture designed to cheaply feed the most people, this year's extreme weather has added urgency to the debate over whether climate change has transformed the economics.
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
Market gardens seem common throughout the countryside. Gardeners are out with big, brimmed sunhats pulling weeds, hoeing, rototilling and harvesting.
- Paul Gero For Agri-View
MADISON, Wis. -- For three days this past week, judges took over a room at Madison Area Technical College to work through this year’s World Dairy Products Association contests – tasting, scoring and discussing their way through almost every dairy category imaginable.
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
WAUSAU, Wis. – The Neighbors’ Place of Wausau is aptly named. It partners with the United Way Hunger Coalition of Marathon County, which invests in several food pantries throughout the county in north-central Wisconsin. The mission of The Neighbors’ Place is to provide food and other basics …
- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Joy seems so simple when we have it. The laughter of children playing, a father singing as he tucks his daughter into bed, the hug of a grandmother, Sunday dinner with family, the triumph of a teenager winning a race, the satisfaction felt after a hard day’s work, the contented sigh of an ol…
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
I’ve never been a betting man – engaging in farming and owning a small business is risky enough – so I don’t play against the odds.
- Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O'Hare Reuters
Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab.
- Daniel Munch and Cydney Stables American Farm Bureau Federation
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- USA Network via Reuters
In a matter of days, President Donald Trump’s administration reignited a trade war with Canada, pledged to bring about an “economic D-Day” for Iran and spooked representatives from the U.S. cattle industry with its plans to import 300,000 metric tons of beef.
- USA TODAY NETWORK
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump has eased tariffs on as much as 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imported into the United States for the next 90 days. It's a bid to reduce the prices Americans are paying for the grocery staple ahead of the November midterm election.
- Steven Martinez and Adrienne Davis Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Adam Massman loved sports, his family and showing cattle. He excelled at whatever he did, his family said, and had a bright future ahead of him.
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- CBC English
The United Kingdom has its driest July since record-keeping began 190 years ago. Farmers say the conditions are 'horrendous' and it could lead to food shortages.
Chewbacca is a Dun-colored Scottish Highland steer. He was going to be raised a bull, but was slightly under-size. ‘I’ve been here three years now,’ he says. ‘I needs lots of brushing and hugs. I’ve made friends with a barn kitten named Hazel. We often chat at the water bin. I was featured i…
- WooGlobe - News
A suspected China-linked hacking group is exploiting a critical flaw in Broadcom’s VMware vCenter Server, compromising systems in 47 countries. Researchers at German firm QUIRSO counted 361 victim IP addresses, with the United States second-highest at 41. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-59310, s…
- Amanda Watford Stateline.org
For more than three decades, researchers have tracked ticks, mice, oak trees and other fauna and flora in a New York forest to better understand what makes Lyme disease more likely to spread.
- USA Today - News
Wisconsin high school senior Adam Massman dies after injuries he sustained Aug. 20 while playing in a football game.
Brianne Massman described her son Adam as driven and determined. Adam died Aug. 22, 2026, following an injury he suffered in a high school football game.
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- Shelby Gruss and Courtney Harle Iowa State University
Derechos, hail, drought and mounting disease pressure have all exposed weak points in conventional tall corn silage systems. Short stature corn, hybrids bred to stand roughly one-third shorter than conventional corn while carrying the same leaf number, has been promoted as a more stable opti…
- Lauren Quinn University of Illinois
A new simulation study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests winter canola could be profitable and environmentally beneficial if added to a conventional corn-soy rotation in the U.S. Midwest.
- James Rogers North Dakota State University
The weather continues to be baffling. Isolated and large storms have been popping up, bringing some relief to some areas while others continue to bake. There are many management considerations during dry periods, but keep an eye on some major ones.
- Charlotte Winder University of Guelph
Pain can occur for many reasons, including tissue damage and inflammation, which can be a result of both injuries and disease processes. The intensity of pain and how long it may last can depend on the amount of damage, if pain control is used, as well as previous experiences with pain or st…
- Marianna Szűcs Michigan State University
For gardeners who grow true lilies, the lily leaf beetle or scarlet lily beetle -- Lilioceris lilii -- first introduced into Massachusetts in 1992, has become an all-too-familiar sight. The bright red beetles and their slug-like feces-covered larvae can quickly strip lilies of their leaves, …
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