Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 72. Sunrise is 6:38 AM and sunset 6:58 PM for 12h 20m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 11.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1927, the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. Embed…
Agriculture
Agriculture, AI, Daily Bread, Technology
Daily Bread for 9.16.23: Weed-Killing AI Drones May Be the Future of Farming
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with evening showers and a high of 77. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:02 PM for 12h 26m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the Xerox…
Agriculture, Daily Bread, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 8.26.23: Wisconsin’s Cranberry Bogs
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Agriculture, Daily Bread, Nature
Daily Bread for 6.11.23: Beevangelist
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 82. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:33 PM for 15h 17m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 41.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin…
Agriculture, Daily Bread, Dairy, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.30.23: Wisconsin Farm Bankruptcies Decline
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see intervals of clouds and sunshine with a high of 7. Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 5:05 PM for 9h 55m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 68.4% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board meets in closed session shortly after 7 PM.…
Agriculture, Daily Bread, Drink, State Government
Daily Bread for 12.27.22: Frederick Prehn finally resigns from Natural Resources Board
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 26. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 03m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 23.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1929, Soviet General Secretary…
Agriculture, City, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 12.10.22: Growing Limes on… Orange Trees
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:15 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 05m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his…
Agriculture, Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Dairy, Economics, Economy, Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Labor
Daily Bread for 10.16.22: Our Dairyland Needs Dairy Workers
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Agriculture, Coronavirus, Documentary
Frontline: COVID’s Hidden Toll (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Agriculture, Dairy, Economy, Trade, Trump
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer on Trump
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Agriculture, Economics, Economy, Federal Government, Trump
Brain Drain Plagues Key USDA Research Service After Trump Administration Orders Relocation
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
When the Trump administration relocated the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service to the Kansas City area last year, about two-thirds of its employees quit their jobs rather than move. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, called the mass resignations a “wonderful way to streamline the government.” These departures have…
Agriculture, Dairy, Economy, Wisconsin
The plight of a Wisconsin dairy farm
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Agriculture, China, Economics, Economy, Trade, Trump, Wisconsin
Worse Ahead for Farmers
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The price of supporting Trumpism – whether on economics, immigration, or foreign policy – is decline. For it all, some farmers will choose their own humiliation, their own degradation, for the sake of supporting Trump. Tory Newmyer describes what awaits Midwestern agriculture in Farmers are bracing for more tariff pain. But they’re sticking with Trump…
Agriculture, Bad Ideas, Business, CDA, Economics, Economy, Local Government, Poverty, State Capitalism, State Government, Taxes/Taxation, That Which Paved the Way, Trade, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin
‘Stung by Trump’s Trade Wars, Wisconsin’s Milk Farmers Face Extinction’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
After years of the ignorant scheming of tax incremental financing, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, capital catalyst grants, the Trump tax bill, and now Trump’s trade war, Alan Rappeport reports Stung by Trump’s Trade Wars, Wisconsin’s Milk Farmers Face Extinction (“The flagship industry in a pivotal swing state faces an economic crisis”): KENDALL, Wis. —…