Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: a transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (FE)
Agriculture trade and consumer protection department of Farmer Land use planning and control Livestock and meat
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates a “transition to grazing pilot program” in the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to provide support and grants to farmers who are implementing livestock forage-based managed grazing systems and farmers and agribusinesses in the grazing-fed livestock business. Under the bill the department may award up to $40,000 to each grantee, and may disperse up to 75 percent of the grant in the first year following the department’s decision to grant the award and may disperse up to 12.5 percent of the award in each of the second and third years following the department’s decision to grant the award.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , James (R) , Keyeski (D) , Pfaff (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Wall (D)
23 cosponsors
Anderson (D) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Billings (D) , DeSanto (D) , Dittrich (R) , Gundrum (R) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Palmeri (D) , Tranel (R) , Tucker (R) , Tusler (R) , Udell (D) , Wichgers (R)
Registered lobbying interests · 22
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
- Audubon Great Lakes
- Clean Wisconsin Inc
- Cooperative Network
- Dairy Business Association
- Dane County
- Ducks Unlimited
- League of Wisconsin Municipalities
- Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
- River Alliance of Wisconsin
- Sierra Club Wisconsin
- Sustain Rural Wisconsin Network
- The Nature Conservancy
- Wisconsin Agri-Business Association
- Wisconsin Cattlemen's Association
- Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
- Wisconsin Conservation Voters
- Wisconsin Dairy Products Association Inc
- Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
- Wisconsin Farm Credit Services
- Wisconsin Farmers Union
- Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association, Inc.
- Wisconsin Wetlands Association
Full history
- Mar 7, 2025 · Senate
Introduced by Senators James, Testin, Dassler-Alfheim, Keyeski, Pfaff, Smith, Spreitzer and Wall; cosponsored by Representatives Novak, Tranel, Anderson, Behnke, Dittrich, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Kitchens, Krug, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Palmeri, Tucker, Tusler, Udell and Wichgers
- Mar 7, 2025 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue
- Mar 14, 2025 · Senate
Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator James
- Mar 21, 2025 · Senate
Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- Mar 27, 2025 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 3, 2025 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Apr 4, 2025 · Senate
Representative Billings added as a cosponsor
- May 6, 2025 · Senate
Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator James
- Jun 23, 2025 · Senate
Representative Miresse withdrawn as a cosponsor
- Jan 12, 2026 · Senate
Representative DeSanto added as a cosponsor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1