Farmer sells bumper stickers to cash in on politics
A 48-year-old Hawkins dairy farmer David Hoehn and his family printed 75 red on white bumper stickers reading Save the Farms Export Reagan. He sold them for a dollar each, earning more profit than milking cows, with orders reaching Seattle Chicago and Ohio while noting the strain of low milk prices and rising costs compromise farm finances.
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Eau Claire
Canada
Former ADA Manager Starts Oncken Communications in Madison
John Oncken, former general manager of the American Dairy Association of Wisconsin from 1978 to 1983, now leads Oncken Communications Inc in Madison. He shifted after the Wisconsin Dairy Promotion referendum formed the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, embracing a new “fifth career” in ag marketing and communications.
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Farmland values slip 12 percent from 1984 to 1985
The Department of Agriculture reports a 12 percent drop in the US farm real estate index from April 1984 to April 1985, with the Corn Belt Lake States and Northern Plains hit hardest. The US average value was $679 per acre, while cropland rents also declined. Inflation-adjusted value falls 16 percent.
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Muscoda Delays Incinerator Project to 1986
Muscoda officials announce the ground level raising of the two incinerator fire pots delays the bid date to early September 1985 with construction pushed to spring 1986. The plan includes a hydroponic greenhouse heated by steam from the burning garbage as part of a $4 million solid waste complex serving southwest Wisconsin.
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