Low commodity prices have inspired many farmers to look at alternative enterprises, such as poultry production, to increase their farm income. With careful financial planning and management, poultry enterprises can make money for farmers.

Rod Nilsestuen, the new secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, will be the featured speaker at an Agricultural Issues Forum, Feb. 27 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Prospective dairy farmers have until April 1 to apply for an innovative program, now entering its ninth year, to help them establish their own grass-based dairy farms in Wisconsin.

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.

Retired Columbia County extension agent Rudy Van Fleet received a Short Course Service to Agriculture Award at the 2003 Farm and Industry Short Course Reunion, held Jan. 25 in Madison.

The family of the late Jim Crowley, a University of Wisconsin-Madison extension dairy specialist, gathered recently on the UW-Madison campus to install a plaque listing supporters of the Crowley Management and Extension Fund. The fund was established in Crowley’s honor shortly after his death in 1989.

Hazel Lee Shands, emeritus professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Friday, Dec. 27, 2002. He was 94 years old.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites prospective students, including high school juniors and seniors, and their parents to preview what the Farm and Industry Short Course has to offer.