WisBusiness

-- The president and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative says integrating nuclear power is necessary to reach carbon emission reduction goals.   “The bottom line is, if we are for a less-carbon future, if you are against carbon, you need to be for nuclear. I don’t know a simpler way to put it,” Brent Ridge...

MADISON, WI – May 24, 2022 – USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will mail the Conservation Practice Adoption Motivations Survey beginning May 30 to 515 Wisconsin farmers and ranchers. The new survey is a joint project between NASS and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) aimed at better understanding conservation practice adoption and the role of...

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin banks started the year 2022 strong with total assets up 5.04% year over year from March 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Despite concerns about rising inflation, total deposits were up 7.08% for the same period. The financial health of consumers was also evidenced by a 20.88% year-over-year decrease in noncurrent loans and leases.Notable...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – You’ve taken care of most of the basics of starting a young company … so, now what? Clearing hurdles that often don’t arise until startup excitement passes is the theme of the “Grow” panel discussion track at the June 2 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference. The 20th annual conference, to be held at the Italian...

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – (May 24, 2022) – Skogen’s Festival Foods and Kwik Trip will launch a Wisconsin statewide fuel savings partnership May 25. The Festival Foods Gas Rewards Program allows Festival Foods shoppers the opportunity to earn 1 cent off Kwik Trip fuel purchases with every $10 spent at Festival Foods. That means...

Madison — The Wisconsin Building Trades Council (WBTC) Board of Directors has appointed Emily Pritzkow as the organization’s new Executive Director.  Pritzkow will take the lead in coordinating WBTC’s efforts to unify the state’s 16 craft organization members and nearly 40,000 union workers.  “I am excited to be a part of growing the WBTC and...

MADISON, WI. MAY 23, 2022 – A new survey by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) reveals that both in-state and out-of-state residents view Wisconsin as a good place to do business, raise a family, and enjoy a high quality of life. While, perhaps unsurprisingly, four out of five Wisconsin residents and business owners...

A newly released study has found that since 1978, the number of startups in rural Wisconsin has dropped by 50%. The “Rural Innovation Report,” created by the Wisconsin Startup Coalition (WSC), the University of Wisconsin Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, and powered by Alliant Energy, found that while startup activity in rural areas of Wisconsin...

As the only tribe-owned bank in Wisconsin, it was only natural for Bay Bank to reach out and forge a strong relationship with the First American Capital Corporation, Inc. (FACC), a Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) organization, certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. While Bay Bank offers a variety of loans and products...

Workers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software, which produces the popular Call of Duty video game series, have voted to unionize.  The workers at Raven Software’s Middleton office voted 19-3 to be represented by Communications Workers of America, according to an email from the National Labor Relations Board. The Associated Press reports this is the...

-- Gov. Tony Evers has announced meat processors in Wisconsin can apply for up to $150,000 in funding through a newly created grant program.  In a release, the guv announced up to $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars will be allocated to the Meat and Poultry Supply Chain Resiliency Grant Program. 

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation that children ages 5-11 should receive a booster dose five months after their initial Pfizer-BioNTech (Pfizer) COVID-19 vaccination series. With this recommendation, DHS and CDC now recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to everyone five and older. The CDC also recently...