OPINIONThe price tags at the grocery store, particularly for food items, hide a lot. During the past couple decades, they have hidden consumers from the increasing concentration in nearly every facet of the food industry. It’s the least that our current government can do, especially as Presi…
OPINIONRon Wasserstein, executive director of the American Statistical Association, said, “We fully endorse the intent of this week’s House bill — H.R. 7330, the Agricultural Research Integrity Act of 2018 — to keep the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture…
Here’s something I think is really cool that’s happening in the veterinary community right now. It’s a group called WisCARES.
It never seems to end and, to be honest, it may never end, the constant defense that every farmer seems required to make before food meets the fork. Ranchers are there, too, defending from pasture to plate.
Having a farm background and working in agriculture some 30 years sometimes yields dividends in unexpected ways. Working for Agri-View, I drive approximately 20,000 miles a year.
Just about in time for June Dairy Month, the markets are becoming "very interesting," to borrow the words of a TV variety show character from the 1960s. As of late last week, futures prices for Class III milk - the category used to make cheese and butter - were acting out of character.
When it's raining and you can't plant corn, what do you do?
An annual sign of spring is the Wisconsin Cheese Industry Conference. It's here again - April 18 and 19 at the La Crosse Center, in La Crosse.
Farm show season has arrived, and last week found me at the Eau Claire Indoor Sports Center for several hours.
It's going to be an interesting year.
When we read the words "America's Dairyland," I suspect most of us make a quick leap to images of barns, silos, pastures and cows.
My column of two weeks ago, headlined "Grazing Research Center in Wisconsin?" drew a response from GrassWorks Director Paul Nehring.
We've gotten past a few memorable dates - Groundhog Day, Lincoln's birthday, Valentine's Day.
We're just a month into 2007, yet the farm bill game is well under way.
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