West Central youths shine at WJDA convention in Rice Lake
Wisconsin area youth excel at the annual WJDA dairy show with top five scorers from Spooner Stevens Point Menomonie and other west central chapters. Raikowski and Furchtenicht lead in points while Neillsville Grant on teams sweep herdsmanship and awards across dairy, sire selection, and demonstration contests.
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Wisconsin Junior Dairymen’s Association
Wisconsin
WJDA
Menomonie
Neillsville
Marshfield
Sara Dix
Badger Northland
Osseo-Fairchild
Chippewa Falls
Viroqua
Omro
Stevens Point
Heeg tops Wisconsin junior dairy honors for 1982
Jeff Heeg, state JDA’s top member and 1982 Outstanding Junior Dairyman, received the award at the WJDA convention in Rice Lake. The Marshfield High School leader has held multiple dairy roles and aims to boost his 65 cow herd’s output to 18,000 pounds of milk and 700 pounds of fat next year.
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Jeff Heeg
Marshfield
Center
Wisconsin
Tim Byom
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau
Jeff Quilling
Menomonie
Heeg
Jeff
WJDA
Marshfield High School
FFA
Sentinel
Scott
Galesville
Roger
Point contestant leads WJDA daily show with high score
Barb Raikowski of Stevens Point scored 271.84 of 300 to top 71 contestants at the WJDA daily show. Runner-up Gayle Furchtenicht of Spooner finished close behind. The cow classification winner was Viroqua, with Menomonie and G-E-T following. The event raised over $7,000 for convention expenses, and next year’s gathering moves to Jefferson. Crowd attendance reached 263 at the banquet where two educators and The Country Today received distinguished service awards.
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Gayle Furchtenicht
Spooner
Barb Raikowski
Stevens Point
WJDA
Miss Raikowski
Miss Furchtenicht
Jeff Quilling
Menomonie
Kent Ranney
Gary Unseth
Viroqua
Barb
Raikowski
Jefferson
Loren Cropp
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Eau Claire
Dunn twilight meeting at Clark farm in Boyceville
The Dunn County Holstein Breeders announce their annual twilight meeting at the Leo and Don Clark farm Rt. 1 Boyceville on Tuesday June 29. Featured speaker Bill Emery classifier with the Holstein-Friesian Association will discuss the new linear classification method. The farm sits two miles south of Hwy 170 on CTH F.
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Dunn County
Leo and Don Clark
Rt. 1
Boyceville
Bill Emery
Holstein-Friesian Association
Emery
Clark Farm
Hwy. 170
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Archie Abbott
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esville-Ettrick-Trempealeau
GET
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Craig Steinke
Fall Creek
Jeff Pickerign
Mike Kramer
Arcadia
ADA
Granton High School
Clark County
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G-Et
Granton
Cheryl Garbish
Jeff Thompson
Vicki Kriesel
Larry Cooper
Cochrane-Fountain City
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Rice Lake
Slowinski
Cindy Rabnum
Tor
Don Diedrich
Cochrane-Fountain
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Jim Julie Krull
District 3
Direc
Mary Henning
Don Triebensee
Howard Cameron
Keith Kolpack
Barron
Stan Bergum
Larry Unseth
G-E-T
Ann Henning
Tina Welk
Augusta
Chetek
Vong
Rice Lake High School
Dunn
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