Harvard study finds strong funding for animal welfare groups
Harvard commissioned study by Philip W D Martin finds the animal welfare-rights movement well funded led by major groups. Massa chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals holds about 42 million dollars in assets, the wealthiest such group. The three big groups Friends of Animals Humane Society of the United States and Fund for Animals total about 446 thousand members. Contact Hugh Johnson at American Farm Bureau for more information. John Skinner UW poultry specialist.
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Harvard University
Philip W.D. Martin
Martin
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Friends of Animals
Humane Society of the United States
Fund For Animals
Hugh Johnson
American Farm Bureau Federation
Toughy Ave
Park Ridge
Ill
Wisconsin corn planting behind normal in mid May
Degree days are below normal as the crop season is on time for planting yet fields lag by up to 100 growing degree days. As of May 15 about 30 percent of Wisconsin's 3.35 million acre corn crop has been planted, versus 39 percent last year. About 1.5 million acres are idled under the PIE and acreage diversion program.
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Carrol D. Spencer
State Agriculture Department
State Agriculture Board
Wisconsin
June Dairy Month kickoff set in Wisconsin 1983
June Dairy Month begins officially on June 1 at Corteo Foods Co in Madison with a 12 15 p m picnic serving Wisconsin cheeses sour cream relish dip cottage cheese bratwurst milk and ice cream. Governor Tony Earl will read the state decree and John Ellingson president of the Wisconsin Association of Food Dealers will keynote the program. Tours of Certco food distribution warehouse follow greetings from ADA of Wisconsin John Oncken Agriculture Secretary LaVerne Ausman and UW Madison dairy professor Mike Dean.
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Wisconsin
Corteo Foods Co
Madison
Tony Earl
John Ellingson
Ellingson
Wisconsin Association of Food Dealers
Certco
John Oncken
ADA of Wisconsin
LaVerne Ausman
Mike Dean
Uw-Madison
Largest grain co op formed in Harvest States merger
The Grain Terminal Association based in St Paul Minnesota will merge with the Grain Growers to form Harvest States Co operative. The new cooperative becomes the world's largest grain marketing processing and farm supply entity linking farmers in 16 states to export facilities on the Great Lakes Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
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The
Grain Terminal Assciation
GTA
St. Paul, Minn
Pretty Grain Growers
Harvest States Cooperative
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Pseudorabies not widespread in Wisconsin feeder show
Dr. Robert Hall of the UW Extension reports 330 pigs from 14 counties in the state feeder pig show tested negative for pseudorabies. Blood samples from 32 exhibitors were analyzed, and this seventh consecutive year with no positives suggests the disease is not widespread among participating producers.
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Wisconsin
Robert Hall
Madison
Hall
War Work and bus rides at an ordnance plant in wartime
In 1943 a young Army enlistee worked as a timekeeper at an ordnance plant 20 miles away. He recalls early-morning bus rides, radio rumors, cheerful song on shift, and talk among workers while assembling grenades and bazookas. The piece covers labor routines, a looming conveyor, mood shifts, and a Christmas end to the summer adventure.
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Ordnance Plant
Last log schoolhouse photo from 1897 West Dunn County
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin archives a 1897 image showing students posing in front of the last log schoolhouse in West on, Dunn County. The photo documents rural schooling and preserves regional heritage from that era.
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Weston
Dunn County
The
State Historical Society of
Wisconsin
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