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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1985
Page
1
A. Searles & Son cranberry marsh in Burnett County, a Wisconsin operation over a century old, packs berries for the fresh market. The family’s long-running enterprise highlights harvest efforts and local industry.
University of Wisconsin Madison researchers report that 30 percent of Wisconsin dairy farmers would or may participate in a whole-herd buyout paying farmers to sell herds and refrain from dairying for a period. The poll, from 557 farmers, shows older farmers favor the buyout and 84 percent of participants owned herds of 50 cows or less.
USDA crop estimators raise national yield to a record 115.1 bushels per acre and forecast a 1985 corn harvest of 8.6 billion bushels, about 12 percent larger than 1984. Wisconsin yields average 107 bushels, state production near 356 million bushels, with carryover rising to 2.85 billion by next fall.
National Weather Service forecasters in Minneapolis say an Indian summer will prevail with partly cloudy skies from Thursday through Saturday. Highs will be in the 50s to 60s and overnight lows in the 30s to 40s across western and central Wisconsin.
AMPI and Mid-America dairy cooperatives acknowledged hiring Farmers Cooperative Services of Washington DC to study potential savings from closer cooperation. The effort may explore merger or a working relationship, with no mandate for a quick decision, and focuses on eliminating duplication in milk handling and plant administration while assessing plant modernization options.
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