Every December, the movie It’s a Wonderful Life reminds us of something we too easily forget. The value of a community is not always measured by what makes the headlines.
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions.
- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
A certain pastor had a kitten climb up a tree in his backyard. The kitten was then afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk and tried most everything he could think of to entice it to come down.
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Being prepared is good assurance for successful autumn hunting and gathering seasons. Some hunting seasons start Sept. 12. Some gathering seasons start earlier when hickory nuts have fallen, ginseng digging is legal, leaves have begun to paint with pretty pigments and teal begin to migrate.
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
Studying genealogy is a favorite pastime of folks. They take inspiration from the courage of their ancestors who took chances to immigrate to a new land or to new nations. Often family stories are passed down through generations. Some of the stories outline ways family members stayed alive t…
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions.
- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
When it comes to fish stories, this is always the first whopper I tell.
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Wisconsin’s list of nut trees is now on the minds of hunters, bird feeders, seed collectors and nature observers looking ahead to autumn hunting and gathering seasons. More than a dozen oaks, two walnuts, two hickories and several species not native to the state – including American chestnut…
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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…
- 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
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Let’s just get this right out there – whatever I did to whomever years ago that made you angry enough to place a curse on my power equipment – I am sorry.
- 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.
- Ellie Kluetzman For Agri-View
As we sail through life there are the big things which affect our lives – and the small things. I had the opportunity in early March to visit my older brother Chuck in Texas. He had been fighting Stage 4 lung cancer for going on three years and his fight had become futile.
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
HAYWARD, Wis. – Those who grow up on a family farm develop touchstones that define life. Those touchstones act as guideposts to gauge honesty, trust and cooperation. Often seemingly ordinary events on a farm become extraordinary due to the mix of work, personalities in a family and unpredict…
- 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.