Agriculture

Wisconsin's organic foods industry has lost some crucial federal programs. Funding that was in the latest Farm Bill was pulled in the bill’s extension.

Eleven Wisconsin National Guard soldiers left Madison Thursday headed for Afghanistan. Their mission is agricultural rather than military.

The send-off ceremony for the 97th Agribusiness Development Team  at Truax Field in Madison began appropriately with an invocation from the old testament prophet Isaiah read by Guard chaplain Douglas Hedman, "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks , neither shall they learn war anymore."

Farmers in Wisconsin could soon be breathing a sigh of relief.  It appears Congress may take action on a new Farm Bill.

Wisconsin’s dairy industry will end the year in relatively good shape. But the rest of the country wasn’t so lucky.