JUDA, Wis. – The vanity license plate reads “CROP DR” on the white Ford F-150 parked in front of a pole barn outside Juda. Jake Kaderly, the truck’s owner, is a conservationist and passionate advocate for responsible farming. He earned in February the American Soybean Association’s Conservat…
ALGOMA, Wis. – The tradition of self-improvement through study and achievement is one thing that has helped our nation lead the world. During the Revolutionary War when General George Washington needed someone to form the army’s artillery division he called for Henry Knox. Knox read every bo…
COLBY, Wis. – As a city kid it would’ve been easy for Ella Raatz to choose a path outside agriculture. But the 17-year-old junior at Colby High School has developed a passion for the dairy industry. Recently she was recognized as one of eight finalists for Holstein USA’s Young Distinguished …
Zemua Baptista had dreamed his whole life of becoming a farmer. In late 2019 while still in college he was able to get a contract and a beginning-farmer loan to build eight chicken houses to raise broiler chickens. He said it was an uphill battle to start but eventually the first-generation …
MARION, Wis. – Jacob Harbaugh has a unique background compared to many of his peers in the Junior Holstein Association. His family owns only 20 head of Registered Holstein show heifers.
Some years ago there was a large gathering in what was then known as the Soviet Union. A brilliant man spoke for 90 minutes on behalf of atheism, attempting to persuade the crowd to deny religion. When he was finished a young Russian Orthodox priest approached the platform and asked if he co…
EUROPEAN UNION – Dairy farmers in almost all the 27 Member States in the European Union have recently taken to the roads in their tractors protesting against “daft regulations crippling their businesses.” Historically the French top the winners podium when it comes to challenging politics th…
We thought it would be good to remind growers to save cocktails for happy hour and consider the perils of complex tank mixing. Adding something “extra” to the spray tank is not a new or novel phenomenon in agriculture. But in the current economic, social and regulatory environment it’s in ag…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report is a first look at the new crop year’s supply and demand balance sheets. But with planting still in progress in the Northern Hemisphere and old-crop harvesting still occurring in the Southern Hemis…
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OPINION In recent months there has been a lot of discussion surrounding electronic-identification devices, traceability and identification. From cattle-industry-associations policy positions to amendments of current federal rules and federal-funding discussions, there seems to be as much co…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the upper Midwest for the second straight year. Fires raging in British Columbia and Alberta sent the haze May 12 and 13 over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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In the quest to optimize crop productivity across environments, soybean breeders test new cultivars in multiple locations each year. The best-performing cultivars across those locations are selected for further breeding and eventual commercialization. However a new study from the University …
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Burak Aksoy, associate research professor in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment at Auburn University, recently developed two novel products to help reduce waste in commercial aquaculture feed pellets and meat products intended for human consumption.
To study how parasites evolve to break the defenses of their hosts, the National Institutes of Health has recently granted the University of California-Riverside nematologist Simon “Niels” Groen a $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award.
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The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded the University of Wisconsin-Division of Extension a grant for $1 million to support a coordinated, inclusive and transparent process that engages communities in siting large-scale renewable energy projects across Wisconsin.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – An unusually strong solar storm May 10 – ranked 4 on a scale of 1 to 5 – posed a risk for high-voltage transmission lines for power grids, but not the electrical lines ordinarily found in people’s homes. Satellites also could have been affected, which in turn coul…
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