Vaitonis use TMR mixer to boost Clark County dairy herd
Owen and Sue Vaitonis on Eureka Ridge Dairy credit a total mix ration system with a digital scale and computer analysis for their herd gains. Since installing last December, rolling herd average rose to 20,937 pounds with 3.7 test and 783 pounds butterfat from 43.3 cows, up from 18,300 pounds before. They split cows into three production groups, adjust rations monthly, test with Marshfield Station, and even keep lights on 16 hours daily to push intake and production.
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Eureka Ridge
Vaitonis
Vaitonises
Richard
Sue Vaitonis
Clark County
Sue
Robin
Brandy
Chequamegon Provides Capitol State Christmas Tree Again
The 54 foot balsam fir, 42 years old, was cut in Chequamegon National Forest south of here and will be decorated for the Capitol lighting ceremony Thursday. State landscape architect Mike Stark selected it from several prospects. local Forest Service and Ashland County crews prepared the site and supervised the cutting and wrapping for its Madison trip.
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Chequamegon
Capitol
State Capitol
Mike Stark
Forest Service
Ashland County Forestry Committee
Madison
Casimier
Mildred Wojakowski
Bark River, Mich
Christmas tree cut for Capitol bound in Wisconsin forest
The state Christmas tree was carefully felled and lowered for bundling and trucking to the state Capitol last week. The cutting occurred with a special ceremony in the Chequamegon National Forest near Clam Lake, Ashland County.
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State Capitol
Chequamegon National Forest
Clam Lake
Ashland County
Santa's Trees Inc. Builds a Wisconsin Christmas Tree Legacy
Santa's Trees Inc in Springbrook, led by Jim Douglass, traces a 1956 family venture through six Wisconsin farms totaling about 650 acres. The balsam firs dominate, with 10 to 12 year waits for a 7 foot tree, as the operation ships 10,000 to 16,000 trees annually while balancing labor and seasonality.
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Mr. Douglass
Washburn County
Santa’s Trees Inc
Sue
Bob Wallace
Jim
Earle D. Lyon
Lyon
Wisconsin
Northwoods
New York
Commonwealth Edison Power Company
Springbrook
Santa’s Trees
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Owen
TMR
Leonard Johnson
Marshfield Experiment Station
Mr. Vaitonis
California
de Lamet
Here
State of
Tom Kieweg
Butternut
Park Falls
Medford
Mr. Stark
Chuck Prausa
U.S. Forest Service
Glidden District
Mr. Prausa
Kevin Hagen
Santa's Trees Inc
Jim Douglass
Bob
Daddy
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