According to Erb, a cover crop will increase profitability when meets certain on-farm needs, such as dealing with herbicide-resistant weeds, reducing soil compaction, helping with soil moisture ...

More than half of the 70 agriculture economists surveyed in Farm Journal’s Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor believe that the United States agriculture economy is in a recession, while 75% of those ...

To enjoy blooming tulips in the spring, you have to plant the bulbs in the fall. This past week, that’s just what I was doing. Too bad for me, I had a lot of work to do even before one bulb went into ...

Jerry Clark, crops educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said harvest is at least two weeks ahead of schedule in the western Wisconsin counties of Chippewa, Dunn ...

A corn baler caught fire Oct. 24, spreading to a nearby field before it was extinguished, according to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office. A land owner on State 44 in the town of Metomen called ...

As the 95th Wisconsin FFA Convention rolled to a close in June, President Mary Schreiber was prepared to take off her blue corduroy jacket for the last time. That blue jacket didn't hang in the closet ...