Wisconsin family moves from the classroom back to the dairy barn
Rick and Gwen Dado left successful careers in education to get into the business of milking cows and raising their family at Four Hands Holsteins in Amery, WI.
DBA considers Wisconsin’s export program important
Advocates praise the Senate for supporting a $ 5 million investment
Wisconsin is the land of milk and cheese. But we have far more beef farmers.
Wisconsin may be America’s Dairyland, but there’s another bovine-related food abundant here: beef.
How Much Impact Will Higher Grain Prices Have on Milk Production?
The peak of spring flush in mostly behind us and even with increased milk production, the milk has been processed and seemingly without much difficulty. In a few years in history, not counting last year, there has always been some milk dumped in various locations due to the inability of processer to handle it for […]
Celebrate Wisconsin’s dairy future this June
In Wisconsin, June Dairy Month is certainly something to celebrate. Wisconsin’s economic future and the long-term vitality of the state’s dairy industry are intricately linked.
Dairy sustainability group unveils name change, group transformation
The Dairy Strong Sustainability Alliance, originally formed in 2016 to create solutions to climate change through sustainable farming, announced that they are now called Farmers for Sustainable Food to reflect a more diverse mission than what they originally set out for.
Stop subsidizing the dairy industry
The strangest part of May 1 guest column “Encourage farmers to plant cover crops” is how normal it sounds.
Support Wisconsin Dairy Farmers During National Dairy Month
Top Five Ways to Celebrate Our State’s Essential Farm Workers in June
Wisconsin cow sets record for milk produced in a lifetime
A Wisconsin dairy cow recently set the record for most milk produced in a lifetime. A cow named Hilda on Stone-Front Farm produced 460,000 pounds of milk her life, which the Holstein Association USA certified as an all time record.
Adopt a Cow program connects 28,000 Wisconsin children to local cows
The Adopt a Cow program, launched by Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin and Discover Dairy, took ten calves to visit 1,640 Wisconsin classrooms to tell their stories to kids.
