Wisconsin milk board funds 90000 foot Mammoth Cheddar project
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board approved a 20000 budget to promote a 40000 pound Mammoth Wisconsin Cheddar 90 feet long for trade shows in Chicago and Anaheim with plans to showcase its 1964 World’s Fair heritage. The board also funded 1.41 million in various cheese marketing efforts including expanding Wisconsin cheese presence in Atlanta and Dallas and supporting the Badger State Games and a food editor tour.
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Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
WMMB
Midwest Dairy-Deli Merchandisers Association
Chicago
Anaheim
Calif
Wisconsin
Madison
Farmers urged to use tax preparer for 1987 farm taxes
IRS official Kathy Conrad told farmers the 1987 tax rules are complex especially for livestock producers. Beginning with 1987 year, farmers must capitalize or inventory preproductive costs for animals over two years and must elect this treatment on Schedule F.
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Internal Revenue Service
Kathy Conrad
IRS
Madison
Conrad
Christmas lights brighten Breidel Coulee farms with old homes
A Vernon County feature tells how 77-year-old Robert Breidel and his sister Rosina Alt, long without electricity or modern appliances, recently connected to electricity yet plan a frugal Christmas. They live in Breidel Coulee in a 125-year-old two story home built by their grandfather after the Civil War. Rosina moved back in 1961 after her husband died. The piece notes their cautious approach to enabling power and the broader news about farm electrical decisions and December weather.
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Breidel Coulee
United States
Germany
Mr. Breidel
Robert Breidel
Vernon Electric Cooperative
Rosina
Trempealeau
Mississippi River
Cat on Newton farm trusts cows for comfort in straw
A barn cat on the Jim and Sandi Fitzgerald farm in Newton Manitowoc County shelters among cows, curling into a saucer-shaped low mood while sleeping in straw. Photo by Jason Tetzioft.
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Jim
Sandi Fitzgerald
Newton
Manitowoc County
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Milk Board
Andrea Neu
Steve's Cheese
Denmark
Atlanta
Dallas
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Jason Tetzloff
la Crosse
National Weather Service
Jason Tetzioft
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