Proper shearing boosts wool quality and marketing value
UW River Falls expert Rudy Erickson outlines best practices for shearing and marketing wool. Key steps include feeding through the season to keep fleeces clean, scheduling with multiple shearers to reduce travel, keeping sheep dry, using wooden raised platforms, organizing gates for easy handling, and tying fleeces with wool twine. Bag fleeces in large burlap sacks, avoid baler or plastic twine, and record weights. Wool marketing options include cash price, under grade yield, or pooled consignments with varying payment timing.
Wisconsin Grain Dealers Plan March Convention and Trade Show
The Wisconsin Grain Dealers Association schedules a two day convention and trade show March 25 26 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center with grain forecaster Conrad Leslie as featured speaker along with Insurance Mutual Agency representatives. Kenneth Cassidy of Vigortone Feeds speaks at the banquet and Ed Brost leads a commodity trading seminar. Jeff Ames discusses export outlook for 1981. Participants are urged to contact Gerald Dryer & Associates in Madison for details.
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Conrad Leslie
Wisconsin Grain Dealers Association
Sheraton Hotel
Leslie
Insurance Mutual Agency
Ed Brost
Stotler & Co
Jeff Ames
Continental Grain Co
c/o
Gerald Dryer & Associates
Madison
Women gain useful benefits from working outside home
Women who work part time away from home gain several Social Security advantages beyond the spouse-based benefit. A working wife can receive a higher own benefit if it exceeds half her husband’s, plus disability and survivors benefits for her family. She can start collecting at 62 even if the husband works, and her benefit at 62 can exceed a nonworking wife’s. The article discusses how two-earner families may be favored in adequacy over strict equity.
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Rudy A. Erickson
UW River Falls
eProvide
Shearer
Erickson
Great Lakes Wool Growers Association
North Central Wool Marketing Coop
Wisconsin
Midwest
Association
Kenneth Cassidy
Vigortone
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Bob
Consolidated Badger
Appleton DE Pere
Green Bay
Iola Marshfield
Medford
Wittenberg
Consolidated Badger Cooperative
N. Main St
Shawano
Social Security
Eau Claire
Richard Smith
Jeena Joer Alae
Cliff Lau
Jim Falls
Call
Menomonie Equipment
Mondovi
Electric Motor Service
Roger
Nyseth
Roger Nyseth
Jerry Bishop
Canal ST
Chippewa Falls
Radio Shack
Emel Abeiia
Tandy Corporation
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