MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin has held its lead as the nation's top mink-producing state, even though the number of mink ranches has dropped by nearly half in the last eight years, the latest agriculture ...

Wisconsin’s mink farms are growing with demand for high-quality furs in China. Fur rancher Bob Zimbal, of Sheboygan Falls, said he had 34,000 mink at his three farms a decade ago. Today, he has 54,000 ...

As Wisconsin’s mink production fell to its lowest level in more than half a century, animal rights activists want to shut down the remaining fur farms, which they say could spawn new variants of the ...

The National Agricultural Statistics Service says the state produced more than 914,000 mink pelts last year, or 32 percent of the nation's total. This year, nearly 218,000 female mink have been bred ...