Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Begins Today at Redetzke’s No Joke Dairy Near Stratford

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 -- 9:00 AM

Wisconsin Farm Technology Days gets underway today at Redetzke’s No Joke Dairy on Wescott Avenue just to the west of Stratford.

Show hours are from 9am-4pm and general admission paid at the gate is $15 per adult, cash preferred. Children 12 and under are free. There’s free parking and, please, no pets. They ask you to help protect visitors and the biosecurity of exhibiting animals.

The fifth-generation farm, owned by Matt and Brittany Redetzke and Sam Redetzke, has been in the family since 1911. Today, four generations help operate the farm, which is home to 400 head of cattle and is preparing to expand with a new robotic milking facility.

Tuesday’s schedule, for the Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic FRESH (Farm Rescue, Education, Safety, and Health), includes a tractor rollover rescue demo at 10am and 1:30pm, AgrAbility tractor for farmers with disabilities demo at 10:30am and 1pm, grain bin rescue demo at 11am and 2:30pm, Marshfield Clinic stop the bleed demo at 11:30am and 2pm, and Mary Kluck story time in the TOTZ zone at Noon and 3pm.

For beef, they have the Robert Kempf hoof trimming at 9:30am and the UW-Extension beef quality and yield grading at 11am and 3pm. For horses, they have the Meyer hitch at 9:15am, the challenge competition - ranch rail at 10am, mounted justice at 11am and 3pm, rodeo queen at Noon, farmers olympics to follow, the Meyer Pyramid Hitch at 1:15pm, and challenge competition - fun class.

For field demonstrations, they have mowing at 9:45am, field tillage at 10am, tedders/rakes/mergers at 10:30am, balayage balers at 11:15am, bale movers/baleage bale wrapping at 1pm, tillage at 1:45pm, and vertical beater manure spreaders at 2:30pm.

In the Rural Mutual Event Center, the opening ceremony is from 9:30am-10:15am, Mad Dog & Merrill will be there from 11am-Noon, The Maple Dude from 12:30pm-1:30pm, a Panel - Does 4-H and FFA actually prepare you for the ag industry, and The Tom Kniess Band from 3pm-4pm. They’ll have a field drone demonstration at 1pm.

Finally, in the new Networking Hub, they’ll have Mental Health in Rural America with Jeff Ditzenberger and the TUGS Group at 10am, live markets by Midwest Farm Report, courtesy of Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association at Noon, and Live Hay Study with Marvin Reiff at 2pm.

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