I’ve always considered myself a jack of all trades, never afraid to dive into any repair or project even if it’s something I’ve never done before.
- Chris McCullough For Agri-View
Owners of the world’s first floating dairy farm, in The Netherlands, have put it up for sale. They cite “ridiculous outdated demands” from the local environmental department as one of the main reasons forcing its closure.
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
World events and domestic policy continued to influence shipping at Wisconsin’s seaports during the early part of the 2026 season on the Great Lakes. Often the predictions of pundits prove wrong because there are myriad factors at play in the complex endeavor of shipping and the economic hea…
- Paul Gero For Agri-View
LUXEMBURG, Wis. – The rain that fell July 31 and Aug. 1 was badly needed in southern Wisconsin – some areas received almost 6 inches by some accounts – but it threatened to wash out the 15th-annual Titletown Threshing Club’s Thresheree. It was held this year at the Jossart Family Farm near L…
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
The noticeable switch from hot and humid weather to cool and drier weather, and back again, brought hope of rain as July melted into August in far-northern Wisconsin. Unfortunately the hope of rain did not turn into actual moisture for most. Much of northern Wisconsin remains dry with large …
- Michael Langemeier Purdue University-Center for Commercial Agriculture
Cattle finishing is a tight-margin business where profitability relies on feeder-cattle prices relative to fed-cattle prices and feed costs. That means that relatively good fed-cattle prices, like we’re experiencing in 2026, or relatively reduced feed costs do not necessarily translate into …
- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a great baseball player like Henry Aaron. I started following the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, the year they beat the Yankees in the World Series. I was 6 years old.
- Jim Massey For Agri-View
The 2026 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days event at Stratford, Wisconsin, is now in the rearview mirror. Working on future years, show organizers are widening a search for host farms for 2027 and beyond – in an attempt to keep the 72-year tradition alive.
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
My dad, Tom L. Pfaff, was proud to have served his country. The words from Lee Greenwood’s song “God Bless the USA” describes Dad’s feelings perfectly – “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free, and I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me … God bless the USA.”
- Chris McCullough For Agri-View
UKRAINE – With the lack of ships able to call at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, farmers there fear this year’s harvest could be dumped on the domestic market. That decrease prices to less than the cost of production.
- Siddhi Mahatole Reuters
(Adds state health dept comment in paragraph 3, county data, background, outside expert comment, paragraphs 5, 8, 10-12, 14) By Siddhi Mahatole Aug 3 (Reuters) - Two people have died from
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- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Sweet corn and field corn can be our clues of a long list of outdoor events on the horizon. Field corn is full of surprises, with ears and tassels concealing what they are until pollen begins drifting about – even before ragweed releases its culprits, which are something to sneeze about.
- Jason Johnson USDA NRCS
Meet Brian Noonan of Jackson County, Iowa, where he is transforming his family’s 480-acre farm. The farm dates back five generations to the 1830s, when his family’s Irish ancestors purchased 180 acres.
- Grace Shirley Rothamsted Research
One of the world's longest-running scientific experiments, Park Grass at Rothamsted in England, is celebrating its 170th anniversary.
- Staff at University of Minnesota
The “heat dome” -- hot temperatures during the early reproductive stages of corn development -- may affect Minnesota’s corn crop. The Minnesota corn crop is about a week ahead of normal and currently has adequate moisture but limited precipitation or chances for precipitation means things ar…
- Sotirios Archontoulis, Mike Castellano and Raheel Osman Iowa State University
Rainfall from spring and into midsummer wasn't unusual in total amount, but it was unusual in how it arrived in central Iowa. Cumulative rainfall data from April 1 to July 20 in Boone, Iowa, was in the upper-middle range of the 30-year record at 19.5 inches.
- Will Dunham Reuters
WASHINGTON — When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World about five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and attack dogs as they set about colonizing the Americas.
- Nicole Miller UW-Madison
In mid-July, 63 high school and middle school students attended the four-day Badger Dairy Camp on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where they learned about the breadth of areas that contribute to Wisconsin’s dairy industry, and the higher education and career opportunities availab…
- Will Dunham Reuters
WASHINGTON — Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find the proper terminology to describe it.
- Joey Roulette Reuters
SpaceX's Starship rocket lifted off from Texas and briefly put its first 20 upgraded Starlink internet satellites into suborbital space July 24, the company's 13th test mission as it aims to begin routine service by the end of the year. The Starship rocket system blasted off about 6:50 p.m. …
- Climate Central
Dangerous heat has been spreading across much of the United States as a prolonged heat wave spread from the western United States eastward to the Midwest and South.
- USA Today - News
Manderfield's Home Bakery - Menasha was destroyed by a July 27, 2026 storm, which struck Menasha and the western Fox Cities.
- USA Today - News
The City of Menasha declared a state of disaster on July 27 following severe storms and a tornado. An emergency shelter for residents is open at Christ the Rock Community Church, W6254 U.S. 10., Menasha.
A powerful tornado left behind extreme damage in the town of Menasha, Wisconsin, on July 27.
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