agriculture

Environmental groups are challenging a permit issued to a large dairy farm near West Bend that operated for years without one.

Chef Diane Moua is a three-time James Beard award finalist, and her restaurant Diane’s Place was named Food and Wine magazine’s 2025 Restaurant of the Year.

Surveys by the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and Chicago found tougher farm credit conditions in the third quarter of 2025. Surveyed farm lenders reported lower rates of loan repayment and higher demand for extensions and new loans. 

Winter farmers markets are not new in Wisconsin, but a few communities have started them up recently.

A rule aimed at protecting waterways from pollution is the latest outcome of a power struggle between Gov. Tony Evers and the GOP legislation over state agencies’ authority.

Wisconsin farmers had a great growing year for crops. That has led to actual mountains of corn at grain elevators around the state.

“We just don’t realize what’s in our leaves,” watershed ecologist Alicia Ramsey said. “People throw out their leaves, or they compost their leaves, or they mulch their leaves, not realizing how much life is actually in them.”

An average 15-pound turkey could cost around $30 this Thanksgiving, according to an analysis from Purdue University. That’s a 75 percent price increase since October 2024—a reversal from the relatively low prices of previous years.

An outpouring of public comments prompted state agriculture officials to reduce planned fee increases for livestock markets, dealers and truckers.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers hopes to motivate new veterinarians to work with the state’s rural farms by offering student loan repayment.