Wisconsin corn checkoff hearings set across five cities
The state plans a one-tenth of a cent per bushel checkoff on commercial corn sales to fund promotion and research, aiming to raise about 165000 dollars. Hearings in Eau Claire Stevens Point Richland Center Fond du Lac and Janesville run within three weeks, open to any farmer, with venues including Holiday Inn City-County Building Copper Top Theater.
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Eau Claire
Stevens Point
Richland Center
Fond du Lac
Janesville
Wisconsin
Holiday Inn
Copper Top
UW Center
Judge reopens fallout trial over Nevada sheep deaths in 1950s
In Salt Lake City Judge A Sherman Christensen vacates 1956 verdict by southern Utah ranchers who claimed 11 700 sheep in central Nevada were killed by nuclear test fallout. He orders a new trial after finding government fraud and concealed evidence undermining the earlier ruling. Ranchers cite 1 420 ewes and 2 970 lambs dying in spring 1953 with lesions and listless births following two above ground blasts in March and May.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
A. Sherman Christensen
Nevada Desert
Public meeting on Bear Creek water projects in Durand
Public information session set for 8 p.m. September 1 at the old courthouse in Durand to discuss future programs for Upper and Lower Bear Creek in Pepin and Buffalo counties. Water Quality Specialist Art Bernhardt has data on Pepin County streams and will review findings and answer questions. Letters were mailed to watershed residents.
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Durand
Bear Creek
Pepin
Buffalo
Art Bernhardt
Pepin County
China promotes free enterprise incentives at communes
China uses free enterprise style incentives to boost food production by offering top-brand bicycles and sewing machines to families who trade 10 pigs. The program, started four years ago, expands private plots for vegetables and selling produce on a commune market, rising from 7 percent to 15 percent of commune land last year.
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China
Pierce County Round Barn built in 1920 gains historic status
Ellsworth archive photos recount the 1920 Pierce County Livestock Sales Pavilion round barn project. Groundbreaking June 13 1920, 65 foot radius, 130 foot diameter, 92 stalls and 500 seat ring, two story exhibits space, later converted to exhibit building. Barn touted as cyclone resistant with wedge stalls and extensive skylights.
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Pierce County Fairgrounds
Pierce County Livestock Sales
Uw-River Falls
Tim Ericson
Seyforth
Pierce County Fair Committee
Oscar Nelson
Pierce County
Ericson
Nelson
Uw-River Falls Library
H.W. Lawrence
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Les Lamb
State Ag Department
Wisconsin Corn Growers Association
Buffalo Stream
Keith Sommerfeld
Dunn County
Ellsworth
Mr. Ericson
Anita Fojtik
Hillcrest
Pat (Winn) Mary
Robert Winn
Marshfield Fairgrounds
H. G. Seyforth
Pierce County Ag
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