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New Survey Shows Labor is Serious Challenge for Ag Industry
New Survey Shows Labor is Serious Challenge for Ag Industry

The availability of livestock workers was ranked as more limited than crop workers and finding long-term help seen as more difficult than temporary help due to the seasonal nature of the ag industry.

Young Wisconsin Brothers Break Record for World’s Largest Grilled Cheese
Young Wisconsin Brothers Break Record for World’s Largest Grilled Cheese

Grilled cheese is a staple food for children across America. But two Wisconsin brothers decided to take their version of grilled cheese sandwich to the next level.

Rain to Hit Ohio, Nebraska Fields this Week on Pro Farmer Crop Tour
Rain to Hit Ohio, Nebraska Fields this Week on Pro Farmer Crop Tour

Hitting the road on Pro Farmer Crop Tour this week? I hope you packed your rain gear.

Milwaukee Opens Ag Export Facility, Adding $63 Million to Trade Annually
Milwaukee Opens Ag Export Facility, Adding $63 Million to Trade Annually

The ag port addition is expected to increase exports of DDGS, corn and soybeans by 400,000 metric tons each year.

Merged Cooperatives Unveil New Brand: Alcivia
Merged Cooperatives Unveil New Brand: Alcivia

120 days into the merger of Landmark and Countryside, Alcivia is now the brand and identity. 

“It’s about helping farmers mitigate risks while raising top end yields—and doing it in a profitable way,” Adam Kramer says. “And it gets really exciting when they cross one threshold, master a skill, and then they are already looking for the next thing to do better. The farmers do all the work; as an adviser I’m challenging them to do what they are capable of.”
2020 CCA of the Year: Heart In Soil Health

Adam Kramer's consulting is focused around soil health with an eye on short-term and long-term impacts to profitability.

Certified Crop Adviser Nick Guilette views helping farmers adopt conservation practices to improve soil, water and air quality as a journey, with progress as the goal year-to-year.
Wisconsin Crop Adviser Wins NRCS Conservationist of the Year

Guilette describes farmers as the “ultimate problem solvers and solution finders.”

Julie and Phil Henneman, who lost their son Keith to suicide in 2006, when he was 29, talk about the experience outside the old farmhouse in Boscobel, Wis. The Hennemans continue to live on the 215-acre farm with two other sons, but they aren't farming.
Suicide Prevention Project Aims to Help Distressed Farmers

Calls to the Wisconsin Farm Center, which helps distressed farmers, were up last year, including a 33 percent increase in November and December compared to the same two months the previous year.

Disease With Unknown Yield Impact Pops Up Across Eastern Corn Belt
Disease With Unknown Yield Impact Pops Up Across Eastern Corn Belt

Here is a link to a document compiled by the University of Illinois with known hybrid resistance.