Clark County leads Wisconsin Dairy Herd Improvement drive
Wisconsin dairying gains in DHI testing with a record 665000 cattle enrolled by end of 1977, up 45500 from the prior year. Clark County added 59 herds, Grant 55, with Green Dunn St Croix Outagamie Trempealeau among others boosting participation. The 1978 goal aims to add eight more herds per county as the program nears 15 000 members and surpasses 100000 cows enrolled in two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Olson
Uw-Extension Dairyman
Olson
Wisconsin
Clark County
Grant County
Green, Dunn
St. Croix
Outagamie
Trempealeau
DHI
Barron County Plans Tractor Safety Program
Barron County hosts a tractor safety course for youths ages 13 to 15 to operate farm equipment for nonparents. Registration is Thursday April 6 at 8 p.m. at the Barron County Courthouse, with classes 8–10 p.m. on April 6 13 20 27 May 4 and a tractor rodeo May 9 at 3 p.m. at Rice Lake Fairgrounds. A $3 fee covers materials. contact the extension office for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barron County
Rice Lake Fairgrounds
Feeder Pig Show Set For April 8 In Dunn County
The 1978 Feeder Pig Show Judging Contest and Auction will be April 8 at Dunn County Recreation Park. Demonstrations will cover pig raising skills, a grading contest and an auction, with practices on castration of the ruptured pig castration of the normal pig and ear notching led by F Milo Olson Dunn County extension farm management agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunn County
F. Milo Olson
Dunn County Extension Farm Management
Farmers organize for collective bargaining in Gilmanton drive
A farmers membership drive runs until April 1 to boost use of collective bargaining. Dennis Werlein, president of the Buffalo County NFO, urges farmers to price their products like other businesses and discuss organizing with neighbors. Officers and committee chairs are named, with events including a feeder pig grading contest at 11:30 a.m. and a pig auction to follow, judged by Mr. Schink and conducted by area bankers and the Wisconsin Feeder Pig Cooperative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo County National Farmers Organization
NFO
Wisconsin
Dunn County Bankers Association
Schink
Colby FFA Alumni Plan April 4 Manure Tour
Colby FFA Alumni sponsor an April 4 manure handling tour of Colby area farms starting at 1 p.m. at the Allen Baehr farm east of Unity on CTHP. The group will view a new barn and manure system, then a liquid manure system at Bill Haas’s farm, and finish at Ed Brehm’s farm with a pump and solid manure system. Vic Wagner, Clark County farm management agent, will speak. All interested persons are invited.
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Colby Ffa
Colby
Dave Rau
Allen Baehr
Unity
Cthp
Baehr
Bill Haas
Haas
Ed Brehm Farm
Vic Wagner
Clark County Farm Management
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Madison
Gilmanton
Dennis Werlein
Mr. Werlein
Mike Rutschow
Wilfred LeBair
Rosella Rotering
Alvin Boberg
Glen Johnson
Michael Rutschow
Bernard Zeigweid
Gene Wiess
Robert Wiess
Jeaneen Amundson
Lorena Wiess
Dick Poepple
Paul Schink
Wisconsin Feeder Pig Cooperative
Mr. Olson
Area 4-H
FFA
Bunny Humpal
Boyceville
Kinney Dairy Supply
Menomonie
Wis
Northwestern
MMU Elle
Mueller
Clarence Pronchinski
Arcadia
Clarence
M.F
IND
IHC & JD
New Bear Cat
Bushman Enterprises
Greenwood
Harrow
Lindsey
Lindsey Quick-Till
Kovar
Kovar Poni Trail
IHC
Harrow Packers & Seeders
Harrows Lindsey
Kewanee
Burch
JD Kba
Oliver
Equipment, Inc
Mass Everguson
Massey Ferguson
Harmon
Plum City
U.S. 10
Lindstrom
Modena
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