New Finland Based Company Heading To WI And Pet Food Scrutiny In DC

Right now Wisconsin dairy operators are enjoying a pretty healthy milk check.  Will that be the case later this year?  Bob Bosold discusses the dairy price outlook with Leonard Polzin,  Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach Specialist at UW-River Falls.

Hot weather on the way today with some measurable rain.  That's the outlook from Stu Muck.

A new food company is on its way to Jefferson County.  Ben Jarboe finds out about the Finland based, OnegoBio Wisconsin native Chris Landowski is a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer for OnegoBio. He explains how they are able to work around the bird flu by brewing egg whites. Landowski also says that this Finland based company is building a new factory in Jefferson Wisconsin. In order to pick this they did a nationwide survey and Wisconsin's access to corn starch and great reputation as a food processing state made it an easy choice. Landowski also says that this new factory will be part of the Food and Beverage Innovation campus that is under way in Jefferson.This new factory looks to create 2,160 jobs during construction and 136 indirect jobs annually. They will also employ 81 direct full time employees to man the factory.

You may not think about it daily, but there's a lot of research ongoing about pet food and livestock feed.  Lara Moody is the executive director of the Institute for Feed Education and Research, a charity that works on behalf of the feed industry. One of their responsibilities is determining what’s trending in the pet food space. Moody tells Stephanie Hoff and the Mid-West Farm Report what's becoming available in the byproduct supply chain that meets the nutrition requirements for fur babies and the desires of pet parents. 

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