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MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON

Join Pam Jahnke for the latest farm news. Heard daily on WOZN 96.7 FM and 1670 AM in Madison Wisconsin from 5-6am. Also heard on affiliate stations all over Wisconsin.

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4:12

Klondike Sees Opportunity With Heavier Weight Allowances

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2025/02/04

It's been almost a year since Wisconsin passed legislation to allow heavier weights of liquid dairy products on state roads. SB 431, passed in March 2024, extends the state’s current allowance for milk hauling of 98,000 pounds over six axles to include all liquid dairy products, such as liquid whey. Whey is a value-added ingredient in a wide range of food products. It comprises 31 percent of all the state’s dairy sales abroad. However, due to the cost of drying, whey is typically hauled

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19:01

Kidding Season Draws Visitors To Bed & Breakfast

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2025/02/04

It’s almost kidding season at Rainbow Ridge Farm in Onalaska, and you wouldn’t believe the amount of people who are drawn in! It’s not just the cuteness of baby goats that gets people excited, it’s the chance to welcome new life onto the farm and get your hands dirty. Cindy Hoehne runs Rainbow Ridge Farm, a bed and breakfast, farm camp, and agricultural destination. She can relate to her guests who don’t come from a farm -- she says it was an accident that she and her

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50:00

Green And Gold Strikes Emotional Nerve And Markets...

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2025/02/04

The movie Green and Gold opened nationwide on Friday. It's the story of a Wisconsin dairy farmers struggling to hang on to the farm, when he's offered a chance to bet it all on the Green Bay Packers winning a championship. He takes the bet. Pam Jahnke visits with one of the Upper Michigan brothers that produced and directed the film. Davin Lindwall tells Pam about their commitment to shooting the film in Wisconsin, and how community members turned out to make it a success. Craig Culver, who helped

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10:28

Cooperative Model For Farm Transitions

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2025/02/03

Can a cooperative be an option for a farm succession plan? In some cases, it can work. It’s one of the areas that the UW Center for Cooperatives is looking into. Kelly Maynard is a cooperative development specialist with the center, which is part of the Division of Extension. In addition to research, outreach, and education, they also help people start new cooperatives. Kelly says while she doesn’t have an example yet of a farm converting to a cooperative, she has a list of several other

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8:36

Dairy Farmers Continue Partnering With High School...

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2025/02/03

This is an exciting time of year as Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin (DFW) partners with the WIAA (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association) and WSN (Wisconsin Sports Network). Dairy farmer, executive board member and WI representative on the National Dairy Board, Gail Klinkner, takes a moment to explain why this partnership is key from a nutritional standpoint, and a "next generation customer" position. Klinkner begins by explaining the dairy farm that her family operates in Western Wisconsin in

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50:00

Wisconsin Agribusiness Calculates Potenial Losses -...

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2025/02/03

Tariff developments over the weekend headline the hour. Wisconsin depends on export sales to Canada, Mexico and China as their 3 big business partners. Bob Bosold focuses on concentration in agribusiness doing that business with author Austin Frerick. Frerick was a keynote speaker during the WI Farmers Union state convention. A little fog this morning starts our week according to Stu Muck. Later this week though a mix of precipitation could make travel dicey. Agriculture is on pins and needles

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Craig T. Nelson's Message To Farmers And Getting...

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2025/02/03

Dairy farmers are waiting to witness the impact of revisions to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO) beginning in June. How can you best prepare your farm for some of the risk that comes with these changes? Leonard Polzin is a dairy economist with the Division of Extension. He’ll be walking us through the what-ifs of 2025 wiuth Stephanie Hoff. But first, he reminds us that the Dairy Margin Coverage enrollment is open now! (Jan. 29-March 31) Foggy start to a Friday morning. Stu Muck says

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4:52

Spuds Belong At Your Super Bowl Soiree

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/02/03

77th Alice in Dairyland Halei Heinzel joins Mid-West Farm Report in-studio for your Super Bowl party needs. She says potatoes can be used in so many ways, whether you enjoy them fried, mashed, boiled,baked, or stewed. They'll make the perfect addition to your indoor tailgateparty as an appetizer or a main dish. Wisconsin’s farmers grow six varieties of potatoes – Russet, Round White, Round Red,Yellow Flesh, Blue, and Purple potatoes – providing consumers with diverse choices for

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10:13

A New Perspective On Mass Deportation & Trade Tension

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2025/01/31

Mass deportation, trade wars – these are phrases that we’re hearing frequently with a new administration that right now are followed with some question marks. Today, we’re getting some perspective on what President Trump’s immigration and tariff stance looks like and how it could impact Wisconsin farmers. Cody Heller joins us from Central Wisconsin Ag Services, which works in veterinary care, seed sales, and agronomy services. In addition, Cody farms 7,000 acres and operates

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26:10

Milwaukee School Pioneers New Approach To Ag Education

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2025/01/31

In rural America, agriculture is a way of life and is learned through experiences from a young age, but those who grow up in urban settings don’t get that experience. There is one school in Milwaukee looking to change that. The River Trails School of Agricultural Science offers a unique experience to their students by having an ag focus in all grades starting in kindergarten all the way through 8th grade. Josh Gonzalez a second-grade teacher and agriculture committee chairman at the school

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5:49

Alice In Dairyland Returns From Vietnam Trade Mission

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2025/01/30

77th Alice in Dairyland Halei Heinzel joins us in-studio as she passes the six-month mark of her role as Wisconsin’s agricultural ambassador. Travel is a big part of the job, and she’s put over 20,000 miles on her vehicle so far traveling to local events and classrooms across the state. Her work has also taken her overseas. She just returned from a trade mission in Vietnam with the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin. Heinzel tells us about the trip and why she was asked to join. She recommends

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9:59

Dairy Economist Models The Pros & Cons Of Tariffs

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2025/01/30

The Trump administration plans on using tariffs – or higher taxes on foreign goods – as a negotiation tool to benefit U.S. consumers. Hiccups could come into play if our trading partners retaliate with their own tariffs. What would that mean for agriculture? Chuck Nicholson is an associate professor in ag economics and dairy science at UW-Madison. He’s created some models to predict what the exact cost would be for a Wisconsin dairy farm if our top trading partners retaliated. He

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50:00

CA Milk Should Rebound After HPAI And Looming Tariffs...

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2025/01/30

Tari Costello is the new executive director of the WI FFA Alumni and Supporters. Costello is a freshly retired former ag teacher from Waupun. Despite her extensive background with state FFA, she still had to maneuver through some challenges. Jill Welke gets an update. Near record breaking warmth today for Wisconsin, but the winds stay noticeable. Stu Muck brings the weather details. There's anxiety in agribusiness and farmers too over potential backlash surrounding Trump policy decisions. Ben Jarboe

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Milwaukee Ag School Thrives And UW-Extension Faces...

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2025/01/30

Entries are flowing in for the 2025 US Championship Cheese Contest, coming up in March in Green Bay. Ben Jarboe finds out about new categories and flavors for this year's events from Kirstin Strohmenger from the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association.Mild but windy - that's the forecast from Stu Muck.Grotegut Dairy in Netwon, WI, has been named 2025 Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year by the International Dairy Foods Association. The 3,500 cow dairy engages with a lot of technology to keep cows healthy

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7:22

FISC Is Back In Session This Week

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/01/29

Prof. Steve Kelm chairs the Department of Animal and Food Science at UW-River Falls. This week, classes started back up for Farm & Industry Short Course students. This is the second year that FISC has been at UW-River Falls, and Kelm says enrollment is up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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7:48

Wisconsin Gains Another Voice On The House Ag Committee

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/01/28

Wisconsin has another voice on the House Agriculture Committee. Freshman member Congressman Tony Wied represents District 8 in the House of Representatives. He gets started on his first full session in office after finishing the remainder of former Congressman Mike Gallagher's late last year. Congressman Wied introduces himself to us today. He also outlines his priorities for his first year in office, which include passing a Farm Bill, repealing the "death tax" or estate taxes to ease the transition

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11:07

Extension Faces A "Dollars & Cents" Hurdle

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/01/28

Division of Extension Dean and Director Karl Martin tells Mid-West Farm Report that Extension has lost about 20 percent of its staff in the past decade. He points to funding challenges as the reason for the loss of agents. Most recently, Iowa County has had to cut Extension funding. Martin says this is often because essential services, such as EMS, take precedence in a county's small budget. To reverse the trend, Martin says the Division of Extension is actively seeking out more funding

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Carbon Credit And Understanding The Language - Plus...

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2025/01/28

Finding volunteers has become like finding a needle in a haystack for many groups. Ian Hill knows all about it. Community events are something we hold near and dear in rural Wisconsin. Whether it's your town’s summer festival, a dairy breakfast, or a county fair. Those events can’t happen without people willing to give up their time, money, and energy to volunteer, but how do you recruit those people? This morning we’re talking to Ian Hill. He is the CEO of The Changing Point. He

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10:34

Behind The Scenes Of The U.S. Cheese Championship

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/01/27

Wisconsin is America's Dairyland and is well known for its ability to produce some of the best cheese in the world. This is why it is picked to host the United States Championship Cheese Contest. Kirsten Strohmenger explains the history of the contest as well as what goes into putting it together. Strohmenger is the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association director of contests and shares how she is able to pull together 150 volunteers and 36 judges to make the event happen. Strohmenger says that they are

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7:45

Your Mindset And Navigating Regulatory & Policy...

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON ·

2025/01/27

Megan Roberts is the Principal Quantitative and Economic Analyst for Compeer Financial. Her background as an agriculture economist has included teaching at the college level, as well as work through extension. Now, she's preparing for a Feb. 19th webinar that will help update producers on the changing terrain of policy in Washington, DC, and how it can impact their operations. Educating clients is a priority for Compeer Financial. As the leading financial services provider for agriculture and rural

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