Sheep ETN Session on Feeding and Housing Tonight
A free Educational Telephone Network program tonight at ETN outlets across the state focuses on feeding large round bales, feeder lamb management, and winter housing. It runs from 8:30 p.m. with UW Extension meat and animal scientist Dick Watthauer guiding the discussion and answering questions via two way ETN equipment.
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ETN
Uw-Extension
Dick Watthauer
Inheritance law changes updated for farm families
The federal estate and gift tax rules phase in over five years starting 1982. Estates under 225000 rise to 600000 by 1987. gifts rise to 10000 per recipient per year. unlimited marital deduction and joint tenancy rules end widow's tax concerns. outlined in Estate Planning in Wisconsin by Irv Possin.
CCC Rates to Stay at 14 Percent for 1981 Loans
The Commodity Credit Corp will keep interest rates at 14 percent through Jan. 31 for 1981 crop loans storage facility and dryer loans. The rate, in effect since April 1 with a floating rate policy, may adjust for new loans as of Feb. 1, 1982 to reflect CCC borrowing costs.
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CCC
USDA
Commodity Credit Corp
U.S. Treasury
Soil erosion crisis and farming practices urged for sustainability
Keith Sommerfeld, Dunn County agricultural agent, warns that soil loss to erosion endangers future harvests. He advocates conservation till, minimum and no-till methods, plus new furrow systems, grasses, and improved cropping sequences to protect soil and meet growing export demands by the year 2000.
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Keith Sommerfeld
Dunn County
Sharing a Polish Grandmother's Thanksgiving in Chicago
In 1880 my grandparents left Poland after upheaval and, during Thanksgiving in Chicago, they baked and gathered relatives and hungry neighbors. Grandmother fed 60 people, distributed meals to a wide circle, and taught that sharing is the best Thanksgiving prayer, a lesson I carried home.
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Russia
New World
Chicago
Stevens Point
Dad
We Were Children Then Volume 2 published in Madison
The second yarns volume from Wisconsin residents is off the press and in bookstores soon. Stanton and Lee Publishers of Madison release a 272 page collection of 99 stories from the 1976 78 contest for ages 60 to 106, grouped into 11 chapters plus a Born Before 1890 section.
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Stanton & Lee Publishers Inc
Madison
Wisconsin
Uw-Extension
Gen Lewis
Clarice Dunn
Yesteryear
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