Wisconsin Gov Signs Right to Farm Law Limits Nuisance Orders
Gov. Lee Dreyfus signed AB 112 allowing judges to close farms as public nuisances only if health or safety are threatened. In exclusive agriculture zones, a farm can be protected from closure and order to change practices unless health or safety are at risk. Neighbors cited 15 tons of manure daily from 140,000 hens as a nauseating odor prompting legal action.
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Lee Dreyfus
Rep
Gervase Hephner
D-Chilton
Rye loan rate set at $2.17 per bushel
Rye producers will receive 2.17 dollars per bushel for placing their 1982 crop under loan with the USDA's Commodity Credit Corp. CCC executive vice president Everett Rank says the 1982 rate is 13 cents higher than the 1981 rate of 2.04 dollars. Loans are available through county ASCS offices.
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Commodity Credit Corp
Everett Rank
CCC
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Board Retains Vocation-Ag Teacher in Eau Claire
The Eau Claire Board of Education voted to offer a full time contract to Memorial High School vo ag instructor and FFA adviser Don Loomans. The district’s ag program hinges on Loomans attracting students to agribusiness courses rather than production agriculture. Superintendent Marvin Lansing says the challenge is in Loomans’ hands and that administration will assist.
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Eau Claire Board of Education
Memorial High School
FFA
Don Loomans
Looman
Lansing
Loomans
Dr. Lansing
University farm to host open house on March 24
River Falls area farmers and agribusiness people are invited to an open house March 24 at Laboratory Farm No. 1, UW River Falls. The event starts at 1 p.m. in Rodli Commons and features a slide show What Happens in the Silo, silo operation explanations, and talks on high moisture corn. Dairy cattle consigned for sale at the Falcon Twin River Classic March 25 will also be on view.
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Laboratory Farm No. 1
Uw-River Falls College of Agriculture
Rodli Commons
R. P. Johnston
Department of Animal and Food Science
W.H. Mahanna
Harvestore
Rochester
Lab Farm
Neighbors Rally For Bloomer Farm Family After Accident
Jim Custer, 35, paralyzed from a fall bale incident after a hay bale struck him at his father's Bloomer area barn. A benefit at Pines Ballroom drew about 1,500 attendees, with advance sales reaching near 4,000 tickets. expected proceeds around 10,000 to cover five months of medical bills. The hailstorm that damaged crops across multiple counties prompted the family to buy Western hay, shaping a new outlook on life focused on helping others.
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Dave Burton
Bloomer
Bloomer Area
Jim Custer
Burton
Pines
Allied Blacktop Co
Eau Claire
South Dakota
Jim
John
Farm Electric Show Opens in Madison at Dane County Center
The 23rd annual Electric Power and Farm Equipment show begins today in Madison at the Dane County Exposition Center. Sponsored by Wisconsin Power and Light Co and the Wisconsin Farm Equipment Association it runs for three days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily with free admission for farmers.
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Madison
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
The
Wisconsin Farm Equipment Association
Dane County Exposition Center
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