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.
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors
News & Events
WCO honors two scholarship winners; 2024 applications due May 1
Posted On: March 04, 2024
WCO members elect directors, new officers, retiring directors honored
Posted On: March 01, 2024
Pat Johnson was re-elected to a second term on the board, while Bruce Dannenberg is a new addition.
2024 Forage Symposium Feb. 19-21
Posted On: December 11, 2023
A passion to chop
Posted On: November 20, 2023
The hills of Wisconsin’s Driftless Region were masked in a smoky haze from wildfires burning much farther north. Earlier that morning, it had rained. It wasn’t the best of hay drying days. Even so, by late morning, Ray called and said it was a “go.”
On this particular afternoon, 38-year-old Ray Liska was chopping alfalfa for Ocooch Dairy near Hillsboro, Wis. Chopping forage runs in the sixth-generation farmer’s blood. Between planting and harvesting their own crops, producing broiler chickens, and raising a family, Ray and his wife, Holly, own and operate a successful custom forage harvesting business called Apollo-Vale Enterprizes.
Read the fall issue of the Custom News
Posted On: November 19, 2023
In this issue:
- Feature: A passion to chop, Ray and Holly Liska
- Auction info
- WCO elections and news