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Will Peasley poses with his daughter, Lena, 5. Lena is the seventh generation of the Peasley family on their farm.
William Peasley has a camera mounted near his pasture. He says about 70 elk roam between three organic farms near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Elk were in 1995 reintroduced into Wisconsin.
Elk cows graze in 2025 on Peasley pasture.
The Peasley Dairy Farm celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
A Peasley field is soon to be second-crop silage.
Will Peasley inspects his crop. He says he plans to tine-weed and row-cultivate his organic corn.
This spring the Peasley family no-till a 2025 cornfield that had been seeded with rye. They’ve planted a pasture-forage mix using a grain drill; they took the rye off to use as heifer feed. They plan to pasture their cattle in the field during the July 12 Sundae on the Farm event.
Dry cows graze on the Peasley farm.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. – Most Midwest farmers have experienced crop damage due to deer. But how many farmers have experienced crop damage due to elk?
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini and her husband, Tim Cavadini, enjoy their 175-acre farm near Mindoro, Wisconsin, where they raise registered-Angus and Simmental beef cattle as well as horses and other small animals.
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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.
Editor's note: The first part of this two-part story was published in the July 2 issue of 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…
This spring the Peasley family no-till a 2025 cornfield that had been seeded with rye. They’ve planted a pasture-forage mix using a grain drill; they took the rye off to use as heifer feed. They plan to pasture their cattle in the field during the July 12 Sundae on the Farm event.
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