Marathon County

If producers are considering upgrading or adding extra storage space for harvested crops next year, the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Farm Storage Facility Loan (FSFL) program provides low interest loans for building or upgrading storage facilities. FSFL helps to ensure that producers have adequate capacity to store their harvested production by providing low interest loans for building or [...]

Assistance Available for: Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers; Beginning Farmers & Ranchers; or Socially Disadvantaged Farmers & Ranchers The 2008 Farm Bill authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to set aside 5 percent of available Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) funds to assist beginning farmers or ranchers and 5 percent to assist socially disadvantaged farmers or [...]

Articles in this issue include: Preparing for the 2012 Farm Bill Agriculture Issues & Politics Seminar Connect with Your Community, Sharing Your Dairy Story Tractor Safety Classes Managing the Details of Dairy Modernization Federal Stimulus Funded-grants will Expand Broadband Communications in Marathon County Apply Now for Direct Operating Loans Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Transferring the [...]

The Help for Farmers guide was compiled by United Way’s 2-1-1 (formerly United Way’s FIRST CALL) to help farmers who are facing hard times. It contans information about programs and agencies that are available to central Wisconsin farmers and farm workers. Whether your need is financial assistance or healthcare related, the United Ways Help for [...]

The uncertainty about the depth and length of this current recession, along with the sudden and dramatic effect it’s had on agricultural markets, may provide challenges to Wisconsin’s farmers. Extension Responds with information about farming in difficult times. The UW-Extension has compiled several articles and tools to help agriculture producers weather the current economic storm. [...]

The past year has been one of the most financially challenging dairy producers have ever experienced in recent history. This volatility has brought significant challenges to the agriculture economy in Wisconsin. In response to these difficult times, the Extension has developed a website addressing the dairy situation. The Farming Through Difficult Times site serves as [...]

UW-Extension Ag Economist Paul Mitchell explains that there are some key advantages to ACRE when compared with the current DCP (Direct Counter-cyclical Program). “ACRE goes a long way in making corn silage acres work in the program. Another advantage is that farmers can shift program benefits to the crops they currently plant, and not according [...]