Pete Lewke of Columbus, Wisconsin, has created an agricultural coloring book he's sharing with area groups. Email pete.lewke@gmail.com to order copies of the books.
The National Dairy Shrine recently awarded a total of $85,000 in scholarships to students pursuing a dairy-related degree and future career.
- National Corn Growers Association
Corn and the farmers who grow it have been a part of all the 250 years of the United States. From feeding a growing nation to foundational contributions to the early U.S. economy, corn helped make agriculture and the rural United States the backbone of the country, evolving from a survival s…
- Laura Whitt Rooted WI
This year, Rooted WI Inc. is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Troy Farm, established in 2001, which has provided locally-grown produce to its Madison neighbors for a quarter of a century.
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
LA CROSSE, Wis. – “Buy a new milk truck and I’ll come back,” was Marilyn Smith’s reply to her boyfriend Vladimir “Bud” Shiftar back in 1950.
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
FORESTON, Minn. – Triple T Alpaca’s owners strive to make learning fun at their alpaca breeding farm near Foreston. Brent and Beth Turner, who own the farm with his parents – John and Darlene Turner – regularly host farm tours as well as a farm market held from June to October. They also hos…
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- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Starting our new garden area this past year was a lot of work but we are finally experiencing the fruits of our labor. The past year’s plantings of strawberries are now providing us the sweet taste of late spring that’s always a delicious way to welcome summer.
- Chris Hubbuch UW-Madison
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently won second place in the 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition and took first in the project development portion of the contest.
- Mark Licht and Angie Rieck-Hinz Iowa State University
Early-season field conditions can set the tone for the entire growing season. Two common soil issues that can limit early crop development are soil crusting and sidewall compaction. While they look different in the field, both restrict crop establishment and early root growth, reduce early v…
- Tim Gieseke University of Minnesota
“Precision” has been the trend in agriculture for the past few decades. Advancements like auto-steering, yield monitors, remote sensing/imagery and variable rate technologies have allowed farmers to be more efficient and productive, and to lessen impacts on water, natural resources and the e…
Pete Lewke of Columbus, Wisconsin, has created an agricultural coloring book he's sharing with area groups. Email pete.lewke@gmail.com to order copies of the books.
- Caitlin Hayes Cornell Chronicle
As biodigesters go, Cornell University’s new unit will be small -- two 10,000-gallon tanks on a concrete pad that might not be much to look at. But that little system, which will transform food scraps and cow manure into energy, will have an impact far beyond its footprint.
- Andrew Chung Reuters
The decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup.
- Dave Roepke Iowa State University
Students from Jim Fitzgerald’s precision agriculture class at Boone High School pushed a utility cart across one of the school’s athletic fields on a recent sunny spring morning, trying their best to roll along a straight but invisible line. Without assistance from the cart’s GPS-powered too…
- Estefanía Pinto Ruiz Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
BLUE MOUND, Ill. – Tom Ritter and his son, Cory Ritter, had worked together with their families every harvest season for the past 20 years.
- Chevy-Lynn Vaske Kansas State University
As more Kansas farmers consider practices like no-till and cover crops, a common question remains -- do soil health practices pay off?
- Lynnette Wright USDA
Meet Robbie and Shannon Dygert, 13th-generation dairy farmers of Dygert Farms in Palatine Bridge, New York, an operation that has been in the family for more than 300 years. The original farmstead was deeded to the family in 1723 by the British royal family and has been run as a dairy ever s…
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
We are taught that successful people charge ahead. They are supposed to lead by taking the point. We often look to them for direction; we study their examples in history books.
- Agri-View staff
McALLEN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is doubling down on its fight against screwworm.
Wisconsin dairy breakfasts celebrate June Dairy Month. Agri-View is publishing a calendar weekly in print, as well as online, with updates as we receive them.
- Chris Hubbuch GROW
In the King Hall greenhouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Rebecca Smith stands amid a potted jungle of sorghum, clipping stalk segments into a plastic bin to be weighed and cataloged. Seeds, bagged and labeled, are stacked to the side. Tissue samples have been flash-frozen i…
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