The average age of farmer's in Wisconsin is over 56 years old. The number of Wisconsin’s dairy herds is half of what it was 10 years ago. More cows are ...

The average age of farmer in Wisconsin is over 56 years old. The number of Wisconsin’s dairy herds is half of what it was ten years ago. More cows are being raised at bigger farms. Briske used to work ...

Medford-area dairy farmer Gary Kohn is the face of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin's "Farm MacGyver" on a new billboard near Wausau and trading cards.

Sixteen Wisconsin farms filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection in 2025, compared to just two farms in 2024. Chapter 12 bankruptcy serves as a last-resort financial tool specifically designed for ...

A Wisconsin agronomist is challenging proposed solutions presented to Congress on how to address the nation’s agriculture ...

Joy Kirkpatrick spends much of her time thinking about the future of Wisconsin’s farmland. As a farm succession outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, she ...

Wisconsin has been keeping track of dairy farm numbers since 1950. At that time, there were 143,000 dairy farms in the state.

Wisconsin family farms faced unprecedented financial strain in 2025, with Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings surging from just two cases in 2024 to 16 cases by the end of ...

The Wisconsin Outstanding Young Farmer program selected Tyler Baudhuin of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., as the 2026 Wisconsin ...

MONROE (WKOW) -- The outlook on farming in Wisconsin is pretty grim -- so farmers are becoming creative to survive. We last talked with a local dairy farmer Dan Wegmueller in 2019, just before peak ...

A deer farm in Wisconsin is under quarantine after testing positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a highly contagious and fatal brain disease. Scientists with the National Veterinary Services ...