Insights and Stories on Wisconsin

Saputo to consolidate U.S. cheesemaking, shut three plants

Feb. 9, 2023 at 1:58 am CST

The Canadian company ranked among the three biggest cheesemakers in the U.S. is preparing to consolidate five of its cheese plants in that country down to two. Montreal-based Saputo announced last Thursday it has construction underway on a new $240 million cut-and-wrap cheese plant in the Milwaukee suburb of Franklin, […]

Coronavirus kills 15,000 U.S. mink

Nov. 10, 2020 at 7:21 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Ginseng piling up in Canada despite Chinese demand

Sep. 30, 2020 at 5:12 pm CDT

By Farah Master Rod Nickel

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

Apr. 11, 2019 at 8:34 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Trump vows to back U.S. dairy farmers in Canada trade spat

Apr. 18, 2017 at 7:21 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to defend U.S. dairy farmers who have been hurt by Canada’s protectionist trade practices, during a visit to the cheese-making state of Wisconsin. Canada’s dairy sector is protected by high tariffs on imported products and controls on domestic production as a […]

By Rod Nickel

Low-path bird flu turns up in Wisconsin turkeys

Mar. 7, 2017 at 1:02 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — The U.S. has reported an outbreak of avian flu on a farm in Wisconsin, the second in the country in less than a week although the virus found this time is considered less virulent, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. A strain […]

By Reuters

Iowa reports biggest single U.S. outbreak of bird flu

Apr. 22, 2015 at 4:47 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Iowa, the top U.S. egg-producing state, found a lethal strain of bird flu in millions of hens at an egg-laying facility on Monday, the worst case so far in a national outbreak that prompted Wisconsin to declare a state of emergency. The infected Iowa birds were […]

By Tom Polansek

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from N.D., Wisconsin, Iowa

Apr. 15, 2015 at 6:49 pm CDT

The list of U.S. jurisdictions from which travellers can’t bring live poultry, eggs or raw poultry products into Canada is now three states longer. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Tuesday announced new restrictions on such products from North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, following confirmed cases of H5N2 avian flu […]

By Staff

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

Apr. 13, 2015 at 5:09 pm CDT

The only farm in Canada now in the midst of an avian flu cleanup is the centre of a new control zone, meant to limit the flu’s spread and keep Canada’s trading partners at ease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Sunday announced it has set up an avian […]