Wisconsin rural electric merger lights path for RECs
Two Wisconsin rural electric cooperatives Adams-Marquette and Columbus merged, forming Adams-Columbus AEC. The move, first REC merger since the 1940s, aims to save about 200000 dollars in year one and reduce costs by 500000 annually by 1992, with further savings by 1997 benefiting about 16500 members across nine counties.
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Friendship
Adams County
Rural Electric Cooperative
Wisconsin
Adams-Marquette
Columbus
Recs
REC
Jon Steinhaus
Columbus Recs
Steinhaus
Adams-Columbus Aec
Profitability over productivity guides new agricultural tech study
National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board urges that farm profitability and competitiveness drive the shift to new technologies. The report forwarded to the president and Congress emphasizes reducing subsidies while expanding market strength and rural progress, with environmental safeguards.
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National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board
Food and Agricultural Sciences
Advisory Board
Congress
Reframing Farm Language to Include All Genders
A writer advocates using inclusive terms for farmers to recognize both women and men. Women on farms contribute in many roles from labor in the fields to managing records and communications. Journalists should avoid gendered phrases like farmers and their wives to accurately reflect all farm partners.
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Country Today
Laura Sternweis News Reporter Contact Details
Laura Sternweis covers news events for The Country Today in Clark Lincoln Marathon Portage Taylor Wood Waupaca Waushara and parts of Langlade Shawano counties. She can be reached at P O Box 728 Stevens Point Wisconsin 54481 or by phone at 715 345 1854.
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Laura Sternweis
Clark
Lincoln
Marathon
Portage
Taylor, Wood
Waupaca
Waushara
Langlade
Shawano
P.O
Stevens Point
Wis
Promotion push by dairy beef and pork groups boosts demand
Ralph Hofstad lauds farmers for promoting dairy beef and pork products. The National Dairy Promotion Board, the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board, and the National Pork Board drive demand through advertising research and cooperation with industry groups. Checkoffs in dairy beef and pork show strong early performance, with leaders predicting market-driven competition will replace heavy government support.
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National Dairy Promotion and Research Board
Cattlemen’s Beet Promotion and Research Board
National Pork Board
National Dairy Promotion Board
Mr. Strickler
Kansas
National Cheese Institute
American Butter Institute
Land O’ Lakes
Dairy Board
America
Dairy Farmers
Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board
Agriculture Secret
Richard Lyng
U.S. Agriculture
Clifford Hardin
Orville Freeman
Earl Butz
John Block
National Corn Growers Association
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Mosinee
Francis Schweinler
Aecs
U.S
USDA
the Writer's Notebook
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By Ralph Hofstad
National Dairy Board
Ivan Strickler
Lyng
Ralph Hofstad
Land O’ Lakes, Inc. and
Farms
North Dakota
Farm Press Roundup
Billings
Mont
Coors Brewing Co
Golden
Colo
Montana
Coors
Carbon
Stillwater
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Toole
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