Although they've only been in business a year, an ice cream maker in Chetek is getting a lot of attention with his super premium ice cream.  Alan Kuschner captured the Grand Champion title in the World Dairy Expo Dairy Products contest with his chocolate peanut butter ice cream.  He explains his ice cream making philosophy to Bob Bosold, which has always focused on NOT using artificial anything.

Warmer day today.  Stu Muck speculates that moving in at World Dairy Expo on Monday could actually be a little hot!

Do you pay more attention to the weather in summer or winter?  Now it doesn't really matter because the state's WISCOnet is ready to give you data year round - statewide. Chris Vagasky, research program manager for Wisconet, the state’s mesonet – a system of weather and soil monitoring stations throughout Wisconsin tells Stephanie Hoff that they just installed the 78th station. It provides more than a dozen measurements every five minutes across every county and has been moving forward since 2023. All of the weather information that you want is available on their website wisconet.wisc.edu, which was put on the "short list" for a global award for providing weather data to the public. 

Milk production is climbing and the market's not really ready for it.  That's the short synopsis from Matt Tranel, dairy analyst with EverAg.  He tells Pam Jahnke that cow numbers are as high as we've seen in more than a decade.  Where those cows are is also interesting since growth has been directly connected with new dairy plants that have been built.