Agriculture

One mile outside Milwaukee, 25 farmers — most of them Hmong — grow produce at the Mequon Nature Preserve. They’re part of a project by a Milwaukee farmer’s market, which broke ground at the preserve in 2018, aiming to relieve the pressure of dwindling affordable farmland on the market’s vendors.

High meat prices mean Wisconsinites are paying more for a summer cookout this year. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s annual survey of grocery store prices found a meal for 10 people cost $69.03, coming in 4 percent higher than in 2024.

Specialty producers exporting to China have been hit just as hard as those producing soybeans and beef. But they often have fewer alternative markets for their crops, worsening the impact of retaliatory tariffs.

National animal advocacy groups are calling on the Buffalo County district attorney to charge a bankrupt chicken processor over the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of chickens last fall.

“Wisconsin Today” talked with some of the winners of the 2025 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest about their groundbreaking products and how they might impact Wisconsin and the world.

Food journalist and author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau says there’s more to rhubarb than desserts. She takes the plant beyond the pie — into savory main dishes, relishes and drinks in her newest book, “The Pocket Rhubarb Cookbook.”

The average price of a pound of ground beef hit a record $5.98 in May, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a 16 percent increase from a year before, and with a short supply of cattle, experts say they don’t expect prices to fall anytime soon.

Wisconsin’s county fair season is around the corner. This will be the second year that exhibitors are required to test some of their dairy cows for avian flu before participating.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer backed by a conservative law firm is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over program incentives offered to people of color and women.

Scott Johnson, the founder and director of the Low Technology Institute, visited WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show” to talk about how he’s bringing the methods of the past into the future.