State board rejects grain security plan and backs downer cow bill
The state board of agriculture rejected a grain security proposal mandating dealer bonds and priority producer liens, while endorsing a downer cow bill. It also refused an exemption for World Dairy Expo to the Johne's disease show rule, arguing for uniform dairy disease testing.
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State Agriculture Board
State Board of Agriculture
Drawing Board
Assembly Agriculture Committee
Ag Department
Johne
World Daily Expo
Roe
Battle over who should regulate farm animal wastes in Wisconsin
A rare joint session of the Natural Resources Board and the Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection Board debated whether the DNR or the Agriculture Department should regulate farm animal wastes. DNR would require wastewater discharge permits and manure plans for large feedlots and polluting smaller operations. Agriculture board members urged shifting authority to the Agriculture Department, arguing farming practices knowledge and public perception favor agriculture over the DNR.
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State Natural Resources Board
State Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
DNR
Natural Resources Board
Agriculture Board
Agriculture Department’s
Louis Wysocki
Portage County
Cattle poisonings prompt pesticide use caution
Wisconsin reports about 30 farm animals dying from pesticide exposure in two weeks. Dr. Joan Arnoldi warns even tiny chemical traces can be deadly. Incidents include Holstein heifers fed bedding contaminated with Faradan and Counter and hay from a broken Counter bag. Other cases involve a water hose siphoning Lasso Atrazine into a farm well. The state offers a toxic emergency unit and hotlines for help.
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Wisconsin
Joan Arnoldi
Central Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory
Kenosha County
Faradan
Counter
Arnolds
Elroy
Agriculture board seeks power to regulate animal waste
The state agriculture board approved a resolution asking the Department of Natural Resources to regulate animal waste with standards enforced by the DNR. Hearings are planned for July. The proposal would fund mint and veal programs through small levies on producers and mint sales to support research and education.
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DNR
Ed Baker
Meat Inspection Division
Department
State Agriculture Board
Department of Natural Resources
DNA
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Betty Roe
Douglas County
Jim Ziegeweid
Arcadia
Fort Atkinson
Carl Knox
Wysocki
Art Sturm
Manawa
Chippewa County
Wayne Danielson
Ziegeweid
Floyd Holloway
Union Grove
Mrs. Knox
Danielson
Mr. Wysocki
Holloway
Sturm
Knox
Willis Lyle
Lyle
Brad Rupp
Expo
Leland Allenstein
Humane Society
Ng Board
Ag Board
Agriculture Department
Carl Besadny
Gosh
Spooner
Washburn County Beekeepers Association
The
Highway 70
Orfordville
Rock County
Arnoldi
State Agriculture Department
State Agriculture
la Verne Ausman
Ae Board of Agriculture
Division of
State Legislature
Betty
Central Livestock Association
Paul, Minn
Glenn Nelson
Spring Valley
Wis
C.L.A
St. Paul
Minn
Russell Lund
Woodville
Ettrick
Ted
Trusty
Sele
Midwest
Lvesty
Duane Johnson
Mgr
Ettrick Market
Stein Brothers
Rice Lake
Misc. Steel
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