Marketing Pioneer Graf Shaped Wisconsin Dairy Markets
Truman Graf, a longtime agriculture economist at the University of Wisconsin Madison, retired July 1 after 33 years advocating marketing as vital to dairy success. He helped build statewide and international marketing networks, served on many task forces, and authored 500 research papers. His work pushed mergers to boost market power and cut unit costs, influencing co operatives like Wisconsin Dairies AMPI and Mid-Am from the Gulf to the Canadian border.
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Truman Graf
University of Wisconsin
Graf
Madison
Uw-Madison Department of Agriculture Economics
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Dairies
AMPI
Mid-Am
Gulf
Canadian
Europe
Africa
Finland
Romania
Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives Co: Op
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Manitowoc County
Uw-Madison
Wisconsin FmHA Holds 168 Farms in Inventory Amid Moratorium
The Farmers Home Administration reports 168 Wisconsin farms in its inventory with 40 in District 4 Stevens Point and others across Eau Claire Black River Falls Spooner Barneveld Manitowoc while a government moratorium blocks sales. Officials say rents cover property taxes and that only a few farms are not rented, with bids guiding rental fees and taxes paid to county treasurers.
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Farmers Home Administration
Wisconsin
Fmha
Stevens Point
Eau Claire
Black River Falls
Spooner
Barneveld
Manitowoc
Lincoln-Marathon
Shawano- Menominee
Jackson County
Chippewa-Eau Claire
Clark
Columbia
Rock
Oconto
Caldwell
USDA
Kelly Lodahl
Land price declines prompt DOR assessment review
Wisconsin lawmakers probe farmland value assessments as the Department of Revenue falls behind declining land prices. Sen. Richard Kreul asks for equalization measures in the administrative code and a September hearing in Chippewa Falls. The Legislative Audit Bureau report critiques DOR procedures and urges reforms to balance property taxes between farmland and urban areas.
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Department of Revenue
Assembly Joint Committee For Review of Administrative Rules
JCRAR
Richard Kreul
R-Fennimore
Chippewa Falls
Sen. Kreul
Wisconsin
Roger Cliff
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
Legislative Audit Bureau
DOR
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