Member Profiles

Words and dirt are what Martin Hintz does best. The author of more than 100 books and articles enjoys writing the story of Wisconsin’s agriculture while farming on Milwaukee’s urban […]

Her “REDNGUS” license plate displays her love of registered Red Angus cattle. Even her initials spell the word ‘ag.’ Alissa Grenawalt is a farm girl through and through. Call it […]

The year was 1979. Little did Richard Gorder know an invite from his neighbor to a hayride with other young farmers would lead to a seat on the Wisconsin Farm […]

While sitting through an extra-long Catholic wedding, his smartphone allowed him to check on his calves without leaving the pew. Such is the life for today’s tech-savvy farmers like Lafayette […]

Two Farm Bureau members visited Dave Daniels’ farm in the early 1980s on a membership drive and convinced him to join. He has proven to be an asset to the […]

Josh and Ashleigh Calaway’s motto is to take chances and never give up, which is why they fondly call their 160 acres the “Last Chance Ranch.” “We both like pushing […]

Bill Bruins is not a nostalgic man. “It’s not who I am,” he said during a recent interview on the deck of his rural Waupun home. “It’s not time for […]

Everything on Joe Bragger’s Buffalo County farm is connected and has a purpose: The cows and the chickens, the trout and the trees, the soil and the stream. He not […]

1848 is not only the year Wisconsin became a state, but also the year Jerry Bradley’s family established their farm in eastern Dane County. Now after five generations, Jerry and […]

Farming in Waukesha County often means there is little available land to expand a farm. Yet Tom Oberhaus and his family have found a way to creatively expand from within […]