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October 24, 2024

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Wisconsin crop harvest is weeks ahead thanks to dry, warm weather

Wisconsin Public Radio

Jerry Clark, crops educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, said harvest is at least two weeks ahead of schedule in the western Wisconsin counties of Chippewa, Dunn and Eau Claire where he works.

“Since corn silage started to be harvested in the early part of September right through today, it’s been excellent conditions for getting the crop off,” Clark said on Wednesday.

Health

Issue of health care access hits close to home in western Wisconsin

Wisconsin Public Radio

Tom Oliver is a professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said it’s not that health care isn’t important to voters, it just doesn’t always make for the best talking points and political ads.

“There’s a lot of health issues out there, just not the things that grab everybody’s attention and that people want to funnel billions of dollars behind into a whole campaign,” he said.

Athletics

Polzin: Documentary on Moore family tragedy worth watching

Wisconsin State Journal

The documentary chronicles the Moore family tragedy: A 2019 two-vehicle crash in Michigan caused by a drunk wrong-way driver that killed two members of Howard Moore’s family and left the former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball player and assistant coach severely injured.

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