Augusta farm family earns awards for conservation leadership
Elwood Forde of Augusta has practiced modern conservation for 50 years and was invited to Green Bay by the Wisconsin Land Conservation Association to receive the state water quality leadership award. His farm's pollution controls earned a federal EPA citation as a potential national model, with donors and a demonstration farm spotlighting his work.
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Elwood Forde
Wisconsin Land Conservation Association
Augusta Farmer
Green Bay
Water Quality Winners Demonstration Farm at Otter Creek
West Central Conservation Association officials highlight the Fordes 240 acre Otter Creek dairy as a demonstration project linked to the Lower Eau Claire River program funded at 1.3 million dollars to curb soil loss and non point pollution. Thirty six landowners signed up with hopes for a hundred as cattle crossings rock-lined banks and gated fences reduce erosion and runoff. The Fordes bring decades of conservation work dating to the Dust Bowl era and Civilian Conservation Corps projects.
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Mr. Osborne
Lower Eau Claire
Lower
Eau Claire River
Osborne
Civilian Conservation Corps
Forde
Forde Farm
Wisconsin faces pesticide dependence and water risk, official says
Wisconsin official Howard Richards of DATCP warns pesticides like Lasso Aldicarb Atrazine Dual and Cencor are seeping into water as contamination rises. He urges national uniform regulation and expanded funding for soil conservation and water quality amid cross compliance goals and high priority counties.
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Department of Natural Resources
Lasso
Dual
Cencor
DATCP
Parrish to head Northern Mid-Am
Arden Hills Minn David Parrish will become vice president and general manager of the Northern Division of Mid-America Dairymen Co op He succeeds James Reeves who planned to retire December 31 Hamman said Reeves will stay at Northern Operations HQ during the transition and then return to Springfield Mo to join corporate staff with acquisitions mergers and consolidations duties Parrish joined Mid Am in 1985 as VP of administration in the Northern Division Previously he was GM of Valley Lea Dairies Inc a dairy cooperative in South Bend Indiana
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David Parrish
Mid-America Dairymen Co-op
Mid-Am
Gary Hamman
Reeves
Northern
Springfield
Hannam
Mr. Parrish
Valley Lea Dairies Inc
South Bend
Ind
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