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WCO - Wisconsin Custom Operators
Representing custom farming in Wisconsin and beyond
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Heim Brothers Custom LLC // Kewaunee, Wis.
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WI Act 28 bill signing // Madison, Wis.
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D & J Manthe Forage Service LLC // DeForest, Wis.
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Blasel Custom Fieldwork // Dorchester, Wis.
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United Ag Enterprises, LLC // Seymour, Wis.
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Arneson Custom Farming // Barneveld, Wis.
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Touch-a-truck outreach event // Greenfield, Wis.

Who We Are

The Wisconsin Custom Operators is an organization comprised of individuals throughout the state who derive their income in whole or part from providing custom farming services. These services include: forage harvesting (alfalfa and corn silage), forage bagging, baling, tillage, planting, combining, trucking, manure handling, spraying, among other services.

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News & Events

Read the summer issue of the Custom News
Posted On: August 20, 2025

The summer issue of the Custom News is here!

In this issue:

  • Member profile: Hoff Farms
  • Safety event - April 9
  • WCO and PNAAW affiliate
  • State budget update
From the President’s Cab: Exciting times for WCO
Posted On: August 20, 2025

Greetings from northern Illinois!

As I write this, we’re experiencing yet another hot and humid day – part of a seemingly endless pattern of high temps and regular rain showers. These conditions are making hay production, whether for silage or dry hay, particularly difficult. I hope the weather is treating you better than it is here and that your operations are running smoothly.

Headwinds haven’t stopped this forage harvester
Posted On: August 19, 2025

By Mike Rankin, senior editor, Hay and Forage Grower

Farming is never easy, but it can be made that much tougher when you’re beginning from scratch. As with many who set their life’s sail toward a sustainable farm business and start with little or nothing, Allen Hoff knows what it’s like to simultaneously fight for a bank loan, operate with and constantly fix older equipment, build and keep a client base, and start a family.

WCO and PNAAW announce strategic affiliation to strengthen custom farming
Posted On: August 19, 2025

In a move that will benefit members and strengthen the custom farming community in Wisconsin and beyond, Wisconsin Custom Operators (WCO) and the Professional Nutrient Applicators Association of Wisconsin (PNAAW) are proud to announce a formal agreement to join forces under a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This “affiliation” represents the beginning of a closer relationship between the two organizations, with the goal of a full merger at the end of the two-year MOU.

Policy corner: issues to watch
Posted On: August 19, 2025

State budget  signed – in early July,  the Legislature and Gov. Tony Evers passed the 2025-27 state biennial budget, which includes key investments that support custom farming and rural communities.

 

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