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Agriculture
Spongy Moth Aerial Spraying to Begin in May
MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) plans to treat select areas in nine western Wisconsin counties for spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) starting in May. Residents can expect loud, low-flying planes in the affected areas as early as sunrise. A small yellow plane w...
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River Falls Beef Farmers Win "Soil Your Undies" Contest
PRESCOTT - The Soil Your Undies contest combines crude humor and crude science to help farmers see how the management choices they make impact the soil they work in. For two years now, local farmers and landowners have been burying extra large pairs of Hanes underwear, with the help of local Farmer-Led Watershed Counci...
Apr 22, 2024
Gov. Evers Signs Executive Order Increasing Wisconsin's Trillion Trees Pledge Goal to Plant 100 Million Trees by the End of 2030
WAUNAKEE - Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in celebration of Earth Day today and Forest Appreciation Week this week, announced that the state is increasing its Trillion Trees Pledge planting goal from planting 75 million trees by the end of 2030 to planting 100 millio...
Apr 22, 2024
PDP's The Dairy Signal to Feature Dairy Margin Coverage, 2024 Forage Strategies and Market News
DAIRY NEWS - With temperatures warming and spring arriving, next week's episodes of The Dairy Signal® from Professional Dairy Producers® (PDP) will highlight strategies to keep finances and animals healthy throughout the growing season. The Tuesday episode will highlight the Dairy Margin Coverage Program, and t...
Apr 22, 2024
WCMA Auction Raises Record Funds to Support Dairy Industry's Future
MILWAUKEE, WI - An exuberant crowd of dairy processors, marketers, and suppliers raised an unprecedented $423,480 at the 2024 Novonesis Championship Cheese Auction at CheeseExpo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - shattering the previous record by more than $80,000. The funds support industry training programs offered by the Wis...
Apr 22, 2024
News from the Pack
Packers add some beef
The offensive line is still expected to be a high priority for Green Bay packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst at next week's NFL draft after letting go David Bakhtiari, Jon Runyan and Yosh Nijman this off-season. Gutekunst added some veteran insurance Thursday by signing five year veteran free agent Andre Dillard...
Apr 19, 2024
The Boys are back in town
The Green Bay Packers get together for the first time today as they begin their off-season workout and conditioning program at Lambeau Field and the Don Hutson Center. This year's program is led by the team's new Strength and Conditioning Coach Aaron Hill who took over for Chris Gizzi who was let go by Head Coach Mat...
Apr 15, 2024
League Meeting Wrap
The NFL's annual League meetings have wrapped up in Orlando, Florida and the Green Bay Packers finished their stay by signing a veteran kicker. Former Minnesota Vikings kicker Greg Joseph has been brought on board to push Anders Carlson to push a few more kicks between the uprights. Last year's sixth round draft c...
Mar 27, 2024
Report: AJ Dillon to re-sign with the Packers
(WNFL) - Various NFL media reports state that the Green Bay Packers will re-sign running back AJ Dillon, pending passing a physical. The running back split time with Aaron Jones last season, who left for the Vikings. Dillon racked up 613 yards and two touchdowns as a change-of-pace back. Green Bay signed former Raider ...
Mar 15, 2024
More comings and goings
Happy New Year! The 2024 National Football League calendar year begins today which is when all of the moves made across the league over the past two days can become official. It's been an eventful couple of days for the Green Bay Packers as General Manager Brian Gutekunst decided to part ways with several veterans ...
Mar 13, 2024
Politics
Biden rule grants overtime pay to 4 million US workers
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a rule extending mandatory overtime pay to an estimated 4 million salaried workers, going even further than an Obama-era rule that was struck down in court...
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California, 21 other states back EPA vehicle emissions rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 22 states led by California and five cities are backing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new tailpipe emissions rules after 25 Republican-led states sued last week. The lawsuit filed Thursday challenges t...
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Long-awaited aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan poised to pass US Congress
By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billions of dollars in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan should easily win approval in the U.S. Senate this week, after the House of Representatives abruptly ended a months-long...
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Trump poised to clinch $1.3 billion social media company stock award
By Echo Wang (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to secure on Tuesday a stock bonus worth $1.3 billion from the company that operates his social media app Truth Social, equivalent to about half the majority stake he already owns in it, thanks to the wi...
13h ago
Biden and Trump face enthusiasm test in battleground Pennsylvania
By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump go before voters on Tuesday's primaries in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, one of the last tests of voter enthusiasm ahead of Novemb...
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