Wisconsin seed producer weighs ahead of tax vote
Roger Luckow, a Dodge County farmer, grows certified seed at Lucky Acres Seed Farm and advocates intensive wheat management developed in Europe. State officials say replacing local school property taxes would require major tax hikes, with income tax rising from 7.5 to 12.9 percent for middle earners.
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Roger Luckow
Dodge County
Angela
Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association
Mr. Luckow
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Beaver Dam
Lucky Acres
Luckow
Europe
Ed Oplinger
Wisconsin
Madison
Travis
Wisconsin Thursday to Saturday Weather Outlook
Northern Wisconsin expected variable cloudiness with a chance of thunderstorms on Thursday Friday and Saturday. Lows will be in the 60s with highs in the 80s Thursday and Friday and around 80 Saturday.
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Wisconsin
FmHA Holds Thousands of Acres Across Wisconsin and Nation
The Farmers Home Administration has become a major landowner through foreclosures, with over 4,000 properties nationwide and 178 in Wisconsin totaling 37,502 acres worth about 25.8 million dollars. Wisconsin ranks behind Minnesota and Iowa in held acres, and total holdings reach 1.21 million acres, prompting concerns of huge losses and increased government management costs while impacting public perception of farmers losing land.
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The
Farmers Home Administration
Wisconsin
Fmha
General Accounting Office
Rec eye TV program market through REC cooperatives
RECs in Wisconsin and across the United States may begin offering unscrambled satellite TV signals from premier channels for under ten dollars a month through home dishes. The plan, backed by NRECA and the National Rural Telecommunications Council, could reach about 1.2 million rural households now using satellite dishes, with potential to expand to 5 to 10 million homes.
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Adams-Marquette Rural Electric Cooperative
REC
Wisconsin
NRECA
United States
National Rural Telecommunications Council
Rural Electric Cooperatives
America
Recs
ABC
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Dunn County
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National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
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