Waterloo News

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:58 a.m. Vote 0 Votes Dane County has reached an agreement with a biogas energy developer to move forward with the county's Cow-Power Project, an initiative to install an energy generating manure digestive system with the ability to remove pollution-causing phosphorus.

Seventeen miles of new 138,000-volt transmission line that improves the reliability of the high-voltage electric system in Jefferson County and eastern Dane County was placed into service Monday.

WATERLOO - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack came to the Crave Brothers Farm in southern Dodge County on Friday to see the innovative operation firsthand and to ask the four brothers about ways the USDA can help encourage others to adopt some of their "green technologies." The Crave Brothers Farm has a reputation for embracing technology, ...

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle will tour Crave Brothers Farm and Dairy Operation in Waterloo, Wisconsin Friday to see bioenergy in action.

The Stefanie H.Weill Center for the Performing Arts will welcome ABBAmania & STAYIN' ALIVE to its stage Saturday, Oct.

JHK's custom Superfly 100 at the introduction. Photo: Matt Pacocha During the middle part of the 2009 racing season the Subaru-Gary Fisher team gave Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, a racer with a preference for hardtails, a new full-suspension bike.

Waterloo physician Dr. Benjamin Schmidt died Monday evening in a tractor rollover accident.

September 4, 2009 Friday 10:28 AM EST SECTION: POLITICS LENGTH: 1121 words HEADLINE: Farmers say health care co-ops have worked for them BYLINE: By John King CNN Chief National Correspondent DATELINE: WATERLOO, Wisconsin On a dairy farm that Bob Topel likes to describe as "25 miles from anywhere," the term co-op is old hat.

Photo: Zack Vestal Eurobike 2009 is as big as every. Occupying more than ten huge halls, the show dwarfs almost anything in the industry for size, scope, and attendance.

MADISON - Wisconsin's cigarette tax will go up 75 cents per pack on Tuesday, making it the fifth-highest tax in the country and the most expensive among neighboring states.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant barn in the town of Portland Sunday is under investigation.

The harsh economy has driven down the number of registered vehicles in Wisconsin for the first time in more than three decades and helped open a shortfall in the fund that pays for state roads.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant barn in the town of Portland Sunday is under investigation.

As someone who grew up in the rolling corn and hay fields of southeastern WI, I'll proudly testify to the sentiment that permeates throughout this area.

Waterloo police said a man was taken into custody after a hostage situation Tuesday.

As lawmakers in Washington, D.C., debate new federal climate-change legislation, Wisconsin's dairy industry is leading the way in demonstrating the benefits of using cow manure methane digester biogas.

Huge crowds filled tent city on Tuesday - the first of three days of Farm Technology Days at the Crave Brothers Farm north of Waterloo.

The forecasts of crowds of 100,000 attending the annual Wisconsin Farm Technology Days may well be but wishful thinking.

Published July 22, 2009 at 9:16 a.m. The thousands of agricultural producers and industry officials off to Dodge County on Wednesday for the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days will be in a holding pattern.

After years of planning, the largest agriculture exposition in Wisconsin opens today in Dodge County.