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1 week ago | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
Jan ShepelCorrespondentWhat township officials are calling a “long, thoughtful process” to protect farmland and open space has achieved its first contract. The Town of Dunkirk, at the corner of Dane and Rock Counties, has been developing its Rural Preservation Program for years and now has its first property enrolled with a legal conservation easement.
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1 month ago | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
Jan ShepelCorrespondentFor years, farmers who wanted to produce higher-component milk switched to colored breeds – Jerseys, Brown Swiss, Guernseys and Ayrshires. But the Holstein breed has made gains in component production that have sneaked in under the radar. Today, those gains in the nation’s Black and White cows are flooding the market with higher-component milk that is almost too much of a good thing.
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2 months ago | 
rdrnews.com | Jan Shepel
DE FOREST, Wisconsin — Farmers need a tool kit to improve sustainability in animal agriculture because methane from livestock is often targeted by those concerned about global warming and climate change. Farmers need to have practices and facts in hand to counter allegations thrown at them.
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2 months ago | 
eu.wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
Agriculture is also a key player in climate solutions. Dr. Frank Mitloehner of UC Davis underscored that farmers’ practices to reduce phosphorus runoff—like planting cover crops and minimizing soil disturbance—are also critical for carbon sequestration. By improving soil health and reducing methane emissions, farmers have the power to slow climate change while maintaining productive, sustainable farms.
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2 months ago | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
Jan ShepelCorrespondentAgriculture is also a key player in climate solutions. Dr. Frank Mitloehner of UC Davis underscored that farmers’ practices to reduce phosphorus runoff—like planting cover crops and minimizing soil disturbance—are also critical for carbon sequestration. By improving soil health and reducing methane emissions, farmers have the power to slow climate change while maintaining productive, sustainable farms.
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2 months ago | 
deleciousfood.com | Jan Shepel |Magnum Hermosa
Despite the imminent wars and commercial prices and the repercussions in the dairy dairy industry, a market analyst told farmers that cheese production would continue to drive exports and increase milk production. The market analyst Matt Tranel de Navant. Tranel told members that cheese exports were up to their highest point in ten years in 2024, but that prices and other commercial barriers were on the horizon and could change this image during the coming year.
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2 months ago | 
deleciousfood.com | Jan Shepel |Magnum Hermosa
Despite the imminent wars and commercial prices and the repercussions in the dairy dairy industry, a market analyst told farmers that cheese production would continue to drive exports and increase milk production. The market analyst Matt Tranel de Navant. Tranel told members that cheese exports were up to their highest point in ten years in 2024, but that prices and other commercial barriers were on the horizon and could change this image during the coming year.
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2 months ago | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. Jan ShepelCorrespondentDespite looming trade wars and tariffs and the fallout in the dairy industry from bird flu, a market analyst told farmers that cheese production will continue to drive exports and increase milk production. Market analyst Matt Tranel from Ever.Ag shared agricultural market projections with members of the Scenic Central Milk Producers Co-op during the dairy co-op’s annual meeting in Richland Center.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
We’ve all been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence and supercomputing and now, for the first time, a team of scientists has demonstrated that it is possible to make accurate predictions of carbon cycles and greenhouse gas emissions from every individual U.S. farm field – using AI and supercomputers.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
wisfarmer.com | Jan Shepel
“What’s bird flu got to do with my cows?” It’s a call to instigate or improve biosecurity on dairy farms. Dr. Mike Etter, DVM spoke with a group of dairy farmers recently outlining the damage being caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also called bird flu. The H5N1 virus causing problems began its path in North America in 2021 in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.
