Barron County Dairy Day Set At Courthouse Monday
Barron County plans a Dairy Day at the courthouse with talks on high quality haulage corn silage and baled hay. UW Extension dairy scientists and a Weather segment will speak in two sessions, plus a farmer panel and an Infra-Red Spectrophotometry Mobile Van for on site forage analysis at 8 per sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barron County
Consignment Auction Aims to Help FFA Alumni
Don Mahr of Boyd leads a novel fund raiser for the Stanley Boyd FFA Alumni. A consignment auction at Chapman Park on Sunday March 20 at 11 59 a m follows years of parish auctions and a milk give away. The event marks a new approach for Wisconsin FFA Alumni chapters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FFA
Stanley-Boyd Ffa
Mahr
Chapman Park
Wisconsin
Menomonie Ffa
Stanley-Boyd High School
Stanley
Don Junker
Rt. 2
Boyd
Mr. Mahr
Governor Earl to celebrate Ag Day at Polk County farm
Gov Earl leads Wisconsin Agriculture Day events at a Polk County farm near Amery on March 21 with a free breakfast, public hearings, and a wide speaker lineup including Assemblyman Harvey Stower and State Sen. James Harsdorf. The Amery Community Club organizes the observance amid Agriculture Week declarations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl
Polk County
The
Amery Community Club
Walter
Bud
Fay Lee
Here
County Trunk Highway
Gov
Amery
Harvey Stower
James Harsdorf
Wisconsin Agri-Business Council
Russell Weisensel
Wisconsin National Farmers Organization
Steve Pavich
Uw-River Falls
Gary Rohde
Alice In Dairyland
Dorothy Farrell
Wisconsin
Mary Millar
PIK could idle Wisconsin corn acreage, official says
An ASCS official told Wisconsin grain dealers that the payment in kind program may idle up to 38 percent of the state's corn acreage. Kieran Powers, state director, projected 24 to 28 percent basic PIK participation and total 35 to 38 percent when combined with idling options. University expert Campbell called the plan reasonable and beneficial for payments and risk reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PIK
Wisconsin
ASCS
Kieran Powers
U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Powers
Campbell
Wisconsin Grain Dealers Association
U.S. Agriculture
John Block
Milk Proposed as Wisconsin State Beverage by Rep Brist
Wisconsin state representative Steven Brist of Chippewa Falls proposed a bill to designate milk as the official state beverage. He argued a dairy-centered state should have a non alcoholic symbol while noting dairy products contribute over a billion dollars annually to the state economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steven Brist
Chippewa Falls
Brist
Fred Risser
Madison
Antigo
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Mr. Brist
Democrat
Experimental farms centennial celebration at UW Madison
The Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station marks 100 years in 1983 with a March 24 event in the Stock Pavilion at CALS UW Madison. Glenn Pound will give the keynote “X-ray of a Century of Progress,” Gov. Earl will issue a Wisconsin proclamation, and speakers will review a century of progress and future needs. A new film on the station’s 100 years of research will debut. An honorary recognition banquet for four leading state agriculturists will close the day at UW Memorial Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
Stock Pavilion
Linden Drive
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Uw-Madison
Glenn Pound
CALS
Anthony Earl
Wisconsin
Agricultural Experiment Station
UW Memorial Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Barron
Garit Tenpas
Marshfield Experimental Station
eHoward Larsen
Uwextension Dairy
Dwayne Rohweder
Uw-Extension Agronomist
Terry Howard
Uw-Extension
Milt Lefebvre
WCCO
Minneapolis
Glenn Smith
Chetek
Adolph Scheps
Almena
George Schutz
Dallas
Kevin Splett
Ag Service Center
Howard Larsen
Don Mahr
Rt. 1
Luther Toftness
Larry Wojchik
Stuart Nelson
Amery Farm
Walter “Bud” and
Wisconsin Assembly Agriculture Committee
Alden Town Hall
Cthc
Star Prairie
Mr. Lee
Lee
Lees
America’s
la Verne Ausman
Elk Mound
Ausman
Paul Rozwadowski
Bob Cox
Dean Mahr
Tom Shakal
Mike Felczyk
Stanley-Boyd Area
Lake Geneva
Gerald R. ‘Campbell
University of Wisconsin Extension