Erosion control plans loom large for St Croix farmers
At a St Croix County meeting about erosion control required under Wisconsin statutes, about 25 farmers weighed costs and voluntary participation. State plan aims to identify high erosion areas and guide practices with a 75 percent state and 25 percent landowner cost share, possible land retirement for unviable fields. Public meetings and landowner talks will precede field work as counties tailor grids by 40 acres and soil type, slope, rotation, and tillage.
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St. Croix County
St. Croix Coufffy
Hoffland
Ross Pierson
Baldwin
State Land Conservation Board
Trempealeau County
Christenson
Farm Bureau honors leaders at Wisconsin meeting
La Crosse veteran Truman Torgerson and Dr. Robert Spitzer president of Milwaukee College of Engineering received Service to Agriculture Awards during the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting. Winners were selected from county nominations. other honors included a tractor, travel funds for national contests in Honolulu, and trips to Washington, D.C. for the Young Farmers Legislative Seminar.
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Truman Torgerson
Lake-to-Lake Dairy Cooperative
Robert Spitzer
Milwaukee College of Engineering
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
National Farm Bureau
Honolulu
Hawaii
WFBF
Steve Emmerich
Hamburg
Joel
Laurie Jarvis
Wautoma
Washington, D.C
Barron Farmers Union backs dairy diversion and farm reform
The Barron County Farmers Union at its December 1 annual meeting endorsed preserving the dairy diversion program and urged a farm bill restricting wealthy investors from using farming as tax shelters. They called for aid for farmers facing financial difficulties, supported an American Conservation Corps, opposed dismantling the rural electric co op system, protested moving the Barron Diagnostic Laboratory to River Falls, and urged reconsideration by four state Agriculture Department members who supported the move.
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Barron County Farmers Union
Barron Farmers Union
American Conservation Corps
Rural Electric Co-Op
Barron Diagnostic Laboratory
River Falls
State Department of Agriculture
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Polfus Impl
Deer Road
NMA
TLC
Aerie Y
IHC
N.H
Tors
Rt. 3
Bloomer, WI
Bloomer
St. Croix
Wisconsin
Steve Hoffland
State Ag Department
Lincoln County
Chuck Christenson
Wayne Willink
County
LCC
Bar-H-Ranch, Inc
Stone Lake
Chamberlain
O H.P
MODEL
H.P. Motor
Lee St
Chippewa Falls
St. Main
Rice Lake
Ecklin
Ford Equipment
St. Croix Falls
Ettrick
Midwest
Duane Johnson
Mgr
David Lis
Freien
Pras
Farm Bureau
la Crosse
Barron
Bor Qity
Clair G. Crane Luck
Wisc
Golden Harvest
Bud Hanson
Larry Hampton Montfort
Bill McClintock
Janesville
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