The 2002 Farm Fresh Atlas helped nearly 30,000 people in the Dane County area buy fresh produce, meat, cheese, and other locally grown food directly from farmers and businesses. Featuring both new and returning farms, the 2003 Atlas promises to be even more successful.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2003 Badger Dairy Camp, June 12 through June 14 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Young dairy experts from Green and Richland counties took top honors at this year’s State 4-H Dairy Bowl, held Feb. 1 in Portage.

Wisconsin net farm income has gone from bad to better and back to bad over the past three years. This year, things will likely improve a bit, predict University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists.

Wisconsin net farm income has gone from bad to better and back to bad over the past three years. This year, things will likely improve a bit, predict University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists.

A workshop to help beginning fresh market vegetable growers with start-up issues and marketing will be a highlight of the first day of the Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Oconomowoc, Wis. Held Jan. 5, 2002, the workshop will be led by two experienced grower-marketers and John Hendrickson, an outreach specialist with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

One of the biggest, broadest questions in the Discovery Farms Program is the following: If water quality needs to be improved, what are the best things we can do in land management to make it better?

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are approaching the halfway mark in a nationwide survey of dairy producers that’s part of an effort to prevent Johne’s disease. Cooperating dairy producers will get free confidential testing of their cows, and they’ll be helping to reduce the impact of a disease that costs the U.S. dairy industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

Health insurance is almost always expensive for the self-employed, because they do not have access to large-pool group insurance and its associated lower premiums. However, among the self-employed, farmers are especially hard-hit.

As anyone who has driven across rural Wisconsin can tell you, tower silos are one of the most prominent features on the landscape. Up to 100 feet high, these domed towers are the traditional method of storing forage to feed livestock during the winter. In recent years, however, huge plastic “sausages” have sprouted throughout farm country.