Apply for Wisconsin Farm Support Program by June 29th

June 22, 2020 | Volume 117

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What year was WLIC founded?

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Apply for Wisconsin Farm Support Program by June 29th

In the first 24 hours, 3,673 Wisconsin farmers have applied to receive direct aid payments from the Wisconsin Farm Support Program. In light of the high level of interest in the program on its opening day, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) are reminding eligible farmers to apply as soon as possible now through Monday, June 29th. The online application and answers to common questions are available at https://revenue.wi.gov . Farmers can also call DOR at (608) 266-2772 or email DORFarmSupport@wisconsin.gov for assistance.

Thank You Attendees!

Thank you to those who tuned in to our first ever Virtual Annual Member Meeting. For those who missed it but would like to watch the recording please reach out to Jodi Legge at jlegge@wiid.org.

In the News

Cows Being Used to Produce COVID Vaccine

“This is promising,” Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security told ScienceMag.org. “We want to have as many countermeasures as we can.” ( Brody Wheeler ) The fight against COVID-19 continues throughout the U.S. A biotechnology company in South Dakota is using cows to produce human antibodies to fight SARS-CoV-2. Clinical trials using the antibodies will begin this summer.

USDA Trade Mitigation Purchases Surpass $2B

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it has purchased more than $2.2 billion of meat, fruits, vegetables, specialty crops and dairy products in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 in its ongoing efforts to feed people in need and assist American farmers and ranchers suffering from damage due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. USDA is on target to reach its fiscal year goal of about $1.4 billion of trade mitigation purchases in the next phase of fiscal year purchasing, which ends Sept. 30.

Controlling the Flames of CWD

With CWD now present throughout the upper Midwest and south central Canada, and several positive tests in 2019 adding to the cases detected in North Dakota since 2009, the disease is at the forefront of the North Dakota Game & Fish Department’s (NDG&F) big game management issues. According to NDG&F Wildlife Veterinarian Charlie Bahnson, D.V.M, that relative ease of transmission through saliva, feces, urine and other bodily fluids of deer, and the ability of CWD to stay on the landscape through those means, is fueling the flames of an epidemic that threatens the future of deer hunting across the country.

Trivia Answer

WLIC was founded in 2001 through a partnership with CRI, Cooperative Network and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau after the Foot & Mouth Disease Outbreak in the United Kingdom started the conversation about the impact of a disease outbreak in Wisconsin.