This year's Wisconsin Science Festival will feature a special weather event at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the UW-Madison campus. On October 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wisconet Manager Chris Vagasky tells Stephanie Hoff that it will help introduce people to the behind-the-scenes of weather -- a topic that influences lives every day. He says Wisconsin is a weather hub as it's home to the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Department, the National Weather Service, several big-market TV meteorologists, the State Climate Office, and Wisconet.

More sunshine on the way today, but showers keep popping up through Thursday.  That's the word from Stu Muck.

Farm appraisal appointments are taking up a lot of time with the Steffes Group.  Ashley Huhn tells Pam Jahnke that farmers and their lenders sometimes want to get a handle on machinery inventory before the end of the calendar year.  He also highlights some of the in-season bids that captured equipment while the harvest was underway.  Paid for by Steffes Group.

The U.S. Meat Export Federation just returned from a trade mission to the United Kingdom.  While it may not represent a big geography, it does have a lot of population looking for meat.  Jerry Thiel, chair elect of the USMEF, says the UK's alignment with the EU should make things easier - but it doesn't.

The information vacuum created by the shutdown of USDA looms over the marketplace and trade activity.  John Heinberg, market advisor with Total Farm Marketing in West Bend explains what critical pieces are missing and what it means to production agriculture.