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.”
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…
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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…
McKenna Reichling remembers her big brother, Myles Reichling, for his outgoing and sometimes wild personality. In addition to working with his farming family, he enjoyed bowling, snowmobiling, trucks, sports cars and riding his Harley Davidson.
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The Illini Pullers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently secured first place in the 2026 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition, where teams design one-quarter scale tractors throughout the …
MELROSE, Wis. – “Sometimes just having a nice cow in the barn is what gets you out to the barn the next day,” Kim Ponterio said.
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The whippoorwill welcomed the infant hours of July with its night song, in a tree just outside our bedroom window. The 3 a.m. serenade was loud enough to rouse me from my slumber, even though the windows were closed and the central air conditioning was on. Outside in the astronomical twiligh…
The Jefferson County Fair in southern Wisconsin wrapped up this past weekend. It was Americana at its finest – livestock barns, a truck pull, a rodeo and even an Elvis impersonator. It’s the kind of event that feels timeless – a snapshot of small-town Midwest life.
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.
Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist specializing in the most unwelcome guests that pop up in Wisconsin farm fields.
Our country’s agricultural history is a melting pot of immigrants who came in waves to start farms. But it has been home to farmers for more than a thousand years. Native Americans working without draft animals or metal hand tools in the Upper Midwest and Plains states situated villages alon…
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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.
Editor's note: The first part of this two-part story was published in the July 2 issue of Agri-View.
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Fifty years ago a new word entered my vocabulary as our nation celebrated our Bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of the adoption July 4, 1776, of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
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.
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