Why do we talk about wolves at Wisconsin Farm Bureau first and foremost?

Yeah, so Wisconsin has, and if you look at Wisconsin, you look at Minnesota, and really the upper peninsula of Michigan, we have the highest concentration of wolves in the entire country.

Some people will put our population at around 1,300.

I think you could conservatively say there's at least 1,800 in the state, probably 2,000.

But we have some of the highest depredation issues in the entire country, which means that depredation is when we have an event on a farm that includes wolves attacking livestock on the farm.

In Wisconsin, we have some of the highest depredation rates in the entire country.

We have between 50 and 80 depredation events each year, which leads to hundreds of thousands of dollars in payment.

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