Stay updated with breaking news from Turnip rock farm. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions. ....
The 5 best things our food writers ate in the Twin Cities area this week startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Young, beginning farmers work to bring small farming back to Wisconsin Locally sourced, sustainable foods give upstarts a chance to find footing Nick Westby, a 25-year-old farmer, operates a 25-acre farm in Rio pasture raising 5,000 chickens. (Photo courtesy of OrgaNick Pastures) Nick Westby dropped out of UW-Oshkosh because he knew what he wanted to do and it didn’t require a college degree in athletic training. In 2018, he and his fiance, Holly Hornback, started OrgaNick Pastures which he says is Wisconsin’s first certified humane, organic and pasture-raised chicken farm. Across the Dairy State, massive factory farms are arguing in court for their right to dump manure into the water supply and multi-generational family farmers are facing the cross pressures of trying keep up in an arms race and the risk of losing the family’s heritage to crippling debt. But the 25-year-old Westby and a group of young and beginning farmers all over Wisconsin are proving ....