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.
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
DUNDAS, Minn. – “Alpacas are amazing animals; they have their own personalities,” said Teri Quamme, who – along with her husband, Kraig Quamme – owns Red Gate Alpaca Farm near Dundas. Red Gate is currently home to 71 Suri alpacas; eight crias – baby alpacas – will soon be joining the herd.
- Michael Langemeier and Joana Colussi Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture
Brazil’s expansion in corn production during the past decade has made the country a more important competitor in global corn markets, increasing competitive pressure for U.S. producers. Although the United States remains the world’s largest corn producer by a wide margin, Brazil has become a…
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- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
There’s a lot of anger on social media these days – and on the cable news shows and in many other places. The blessed tie that binds those of us who follow Jesus is being severely tested. Incendiary rhetoric from all sides has made it almost impossible to have a civil conversation with Chris…
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Groups and individual turkey hunters from southeast states have a hankering for Wisconsin’s Eastern subspecies of wild turkeys. The same bird, only bigger, also runs wild in Alabama. Both states have spring-season registrations of about 50,000 birds.
- Emily Unglesbee GROW
The first spot-spraying “green-on-brown” sprayers were rolling into test plots 30 years ago, in the mid-1990s. So why isn’t every Midwestern cornfield crawling with self-driving sprayers today, spritzing minute amounts of finely calibrated herbicide mixes onto individual weeds?
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Earthquakes in Wisconsin are fairly rare, with a mild tremor occurring once each decade or so. But if you felt a slight seismic shift recently, it was not due to tectonic activity – but rather to me crossing off one task on my honey-do list.
- Cindy Hicks Iowa State University
At Iowa State University, Amina Moro is advancing research that could reshape how farmers balance productivity with environmental sustainability.
- UW-Wisconsin State Climatology Office
Wisconsin continues to experience significant climate-change impacts, including warming temperatures, increased precipitation and more-frequent extreme-weather events. The Extreme Weather Index, developed by the University of Wisconsin-Wisconsin State Climatology Office, shows that the 2010s…
- Chris McCullough For Agri-View
The cook at a massive cattle station in Australia’s Northern Territory has launched her own recipe book with all proceeds going to help flood-stricken farmers in the area. She calls it "The Stations Helping Stations Cookbook."
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
Farmers comprise just a little more than 1 percent of the U.S. population. There’s never been a larger gap between the farming and non-farming communities, said Darin Strauss, co-owner of Majestic Crossing Dairy. That’s why he welcomes the opportunity to talk about farming to the general public.
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