Will you be in the Madison area on Wednesday, April 23? Come #AskAFarmer at Collegiate Farm Bureau’s 4th Annual Ag Day on Campus. Join Collegiate Farm Bureau members for fun […]
Great American Milk Drive – Great Opportunity to Give Back!
The nation’s milk processors and dairy farmers are working with Feeding America, the leading domestic hunger-relief charity, to launch the Great American Milk Drive– the first-ever program to deliver milk to hungry […]
Ag Day on Campus Brings Together Students, Public and Farmers
Members of the Collegiate Farm Bureau will be giving students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an opportunity to interact with agriculture at Ag Day on Campus being held Wednesday, April […]
Leaders Talk Ag on Capitol Hill
Wisconsin Farm Bureau leaders became lobbyists for a day while meeting with Wisconsin’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C. on April 9. The issues at hand were technology, taxes, trade, farm […]
Dreaming of Gardens!
It’s well past National Agriculture Day and the first day of spring. With Earth Day, April 22, fast approaching, gardening is front and center in my mind. I got the […]
Where Families and Agriculture Meet
You’ve probably learned from my previous posts that agriculture is a HUGE part of my family. Has it been a part of yours? One opportunity for you and your family […]
Why Don’t More Kids Go Back to the Family Farm?
There comes a point in every farm kid’s life where they think about going back to the farm. Whether it happens when they are really young or at some ‘turning-point’ […]
Lessons from a Litter of Pigs
It’s been a while since my last post! Since school resumed at UW, I’ve been keeping busy with going to class, doing assignments, working and preparing UW-Madison’s entry for the […]
Are You #WIAGPROUD?
National Ag Day on March 25 an Opportunity to Share The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is encouraging all farmers and agriculturists to share what they do and why they do […]
5 Minutes with Rob Richard
It has been about 1,100 miles since my last blog and it’s been crazy. Farm Bureau has a relatively small staff and when someone new is hired, I always get […]
I Believe in the Future of Agriculture…
It’s been 1,300 miles since my last blog and things have been bustling in Farm Bureau. We have had a successful YFA event in the district, been promoting membership and […]
Norman Borlaug: Iowa Farm Boy Feeds the World
I love reading biographies. History is much more understandable for me when told from a personal perspective. I read an occasional fiction book, but I much prefer real life stories. […]