Cheeseheads have a new bleating heart |
When it comes to dairy cow production, Wisconsin was long, well, the GOAT. For decades, the state had both the largest number of dairy cow farms and the highest dairy cow production in the country.
Wisconsin long ago lost its dairy cow preeminence, but America’s Dairyland is once again living up to its billing as Greatest Of All Time — this time in a literal way. We lead the nation, by far, in dairy goats. |
Two years after the Badger Institute and others rang alarm bells about delays in criminal justice because of staffing problems among Wisconsin’s prosecutors and public defenders, and one year after the Legislature acted on those alarms, the early signs point toward swifter justice.
The median time it takes to close out felony criminal cases is down 5% from 2022 to 2023, and the median misdemeanor criminal case is reaching a conclusion 2% faster, according to figures from the Wisconsin Court System.
This has helped with the number of backlogged criminal cases, which are down 7% below their pandemic peak — but are still 25% higher than their pre-pandemic level and 65% higher than in 2010. |
The number of deer harvested in Wisconsin each season has seen a steadily downward trend since its peak in 2000, data from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources show. Wisconsin hunters harvested a record number of 618,374 deer in 2000. Since then, yearly harvests have fluctuated, but the trend has been downward.
The DNR modified its deer management structure a decade ago in preparation for the 2014 hunt. More than 305,000 deer were harvested that year. Since then, hunters notched a low of 291,023 in 2019 and a high of 340,282 in 2022. The harvest in 2023 was only 300,651. |
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Weekly survey: Most of Wisconsin’s goat milk is made into what consumer product?
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