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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1982
Page
10
Senate gridlock blocks PIK legislation as Agriculture Secretary Block studies how far he can start the program unilaterally. Officials warn a without- legislation approach risks limits and legal challenges, with lawyers to report by mid January on how far he can proceed.
The Reagan administration's free surplus grain program, shifted from STRAC to PIK to PIP and later SUNK, struggles in lame duck Congress. Agriculture Secretary John Block and aides defend the effort as essential to farmer participation, despite opposition and uncertain prospects after year end.
The 8th Circuit in St Louis awarded National Farmers Organization 164000 to cover appeal costs in a Kansas City case involving three dairy cooperatives. The award precedes final judgment as the case seeks damages from Associated Milk Producers Mid-American Dairymen and Central Milk Producers Coop. The cooperatives may seek Supreme Court review, and they must pay one third of the award if upheld. The decade-long suit, the longest in the Kansas City court, contends NFO monopolized dairy sales in the late 1960s and early 1970s, while NFO counters that antitrust laws were not violated.
Don Haldeman a dairy farmer from Norwalk Monroe County was elected to his 12th one-year term as president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau at recent annual meeting He also represents District 4 on the state board of directors which includes Buffalo Eau Claire Jackson La Crosse Monroe and Trempealeau counties Also elected were James Jarvis Wautoma to a three year term for District 5 Howard Dan Poulson Palmyra and William Hanson Dodgeville re elected to three year terms for Districts 1 and 3 Poulson also re elected vice president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation board Mary Jane Nelson Holmen elected women’s chairman and David Ward Fort Atkinson named 1983 young farmers chairman Holdover board members include James Petersen Owen and Henry Dobrowolski Chippewa Falls
Greg Zwald of Hammond won the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Discussion Meet in La Crosse and will compete in Dallas Texas for the national meet. Friends and finalists included George Polzin Cadott James and Carmen Good Marshfield and 42 county entrants. Nola Enge Sauk City was named 1983 Miss Wisconsin Farm Bureau with Bonnie Krultz Greenwood among four finalists.
Wisconsin Farm Bureau delegates backed a non refundable 5 cent per hundredweight milk promotion checkoff, opposed a 50 cent dairy assessment, and proposed remedies for the dairy crisis including temporary supply management, higher cooperative incentives, and expanded dairy product use in schools. They urged groundwater monitoring and education, voluntary soil conservation, and reasonable manure guidelines while supporting state tax reforms and Social Security participation for federal employees and lawmakers.
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