Wisconsin
Auction barn license fees would increase nearly 1,700% as state ag department cites program deficits.
The availability of livestock workers was ranked as more limited than crop workers and finding long-term help seen as more difficult than temporary help due to the seasonal nature of the ag industry.
Three Florida men have been arrested for stealing semi-loads of frozen beef and pork from packing plants across the Midwest since June 2021.
A settlement has been announced in the civil case filed by the family of Wisconsin ranching brothers Nicholas and Justin Diemel who were murdered in Missouri last summer.
The Diemel brothers’ business was based in the dairy community of Bonduel, Wisc., and the community has rallied around the Diemel family.
A Braymer, Missouri man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of two Wisconsin ranching brothers missing since June 21, 2019.
Calls to the Wisconsin Farm Center, which helps distressed farmers, were up last year, including a 33 percent increase in November and December compared to the same two months the previous year.