Category Archives: Ag Newswire

Wisconsin Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) sign-up deadline has been extended thru Friday, April 13, 2012. During this extended signup period, landowners may offer eligible land for CRP’s competitive general signup at their county Farm Service Agency (FSA) office. Land currently not enrolled in CRP may be offered in [...]

Honey production from producers with 5 or more colonies in Wisconsin totaled 3.59 million pounds in 2011, a 12 percent decrease from 4.10 million pounds in 2010. The number of honey producing colonies in the state decreased from 64,000 colonies in 2010 to 57,000 colonies in 2011. This number does not include producers with fewer than 5 colonies or producers who [...]

This is your company’s chance to meet eight buyers from seven countries right here at home. The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) invites companies to participate in the 2012 Livestock Feed and Ingredients Buyer’s Mission on June 4-8. Buyers from China, Canada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil will be available [...]

Wisconsin Corn Stocks Down Slightly from March 2011. Corn stocks in Wisconsin totaled 298 million bushels as of March 1, 2012, down 1 percent from March 1, 2011. On‐farm   stocks accounted for 180 million bushels, while off‐farm stocks came in at 118 million bushels. Of the 300 million bushels in all positions on March 1, 2011, 180 million bushels were [...]

Four Wisconsin FFA Chapters were recently awarded grants of up to $2,500 to help battle hunger in their local communities. The “Food for All” grants were a special project of the National FFA Organization’s “Living to Serve” programming, with funding provided by Farmers Feeding the World and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Chapters applied for [...]

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 3.91 billion pounds in February, up 3 percent from the 3.81 billion pounds produced in February 2011. Beef production, at 2.01 billion pounds, was 1 percent below the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.56 million head, down 2 percent from February 2011. The average live weight was up 21 pounds from [...]

As of March 1, U.S. corn growers reported they intend to plant 95.9 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2012, up 4 percent from 2011 and 9 percent above 2010. This would be the highest planted acreage since 1937, when an estimated 97.2 million acres were planted. Corn planting intentions in Wisconsin as of March 1, were 4.20 [...]

It’s time for horse owners to vaccinate their animals against Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus, two diseases that together have stricken hundreds of horses in Wisconsin since 2001. “We’ve had two major outbreaks of Eastern equine encephalitis in Wisconsin in recent years. Last year we had 36 cases in horses, more than any [...]

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2012 was 64.9 million head. This was up 2 percent from March 1, 2011, but down 2 percent from December 1, 2011. Breeding inventory, at 5.82 million head, was up 1 percent from last year and up slightly from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 59.1 million head, [...]