Wool checkoff vote keeps promotion program for wool
National referendum shows 72 percent of 32,775 sheep producers nationwide favor continuing the wool and lamb promotion program run by ASPC. In Wisconsin 75 percent of 1,036 voters backed it, with 4 cents per pound of wool and 20 cents per 100 pounds of unshorn lamb withheld from incentives to fund advertising and education.
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USDA
Wisconsin
American Sheep Producers Council
ASPC
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Menomonie Tops Area Swine Judging Teams
The Menomonie High School FFA swine judging team swept the trophies at the Indianhead Park Producers UW Extension fall market hog show. A Durand producer won firsts in lightweight and heavyweight classes and the grand championship. Four FFA teams from Menomonie Colfax Ellsworth and Plum City competed September 16 with seventeen hog producers present. Last year’s Boyceville judges could not join this year.
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Menomonie High School
FFA
Indianhead Park
Menomonie
Colfax
Ellsworth
Plum City
Boyceville
FFA Team from Menomonie Tops Fall Hog Show Judging
Archie Abbott and the Menomonie High School FFA team led by top scorer Bill Ockler win the annual fall market hog show judging contest in Ellsworth. Teammates Todd Stainer and Steve Lecheler share the team trophy after strong judging effort.
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Archie Abbott
Menomonie High School
Bill Ockler
Menomonie Ffa
Ellsworth
Menomonie
Todd Stainer
Steve Lecheler
Rt. 5
Rt. 1
Hog show winners at Durand led by Jeff Owen in light and heavyweight
Jeff Owen of Durand won first in both light and heavyweight hog divisions at the show judged by Greg Matzke of Farmers Union Marketing. Roger Owen represented Jeff, with Skip Boughton taking the reserve trophy. Team scores placed Menomonie first at 672, Colfax second, followed by Plum City and Ellsworth.
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Jeff Owen
Durand
Roger Owen
Greg Matzke
Farmers Union Marketing
St. Paul
Minn
Mr. Owen
Skip Boughton
Colfax
Jeff Owens
Mr. Boughton
Sam Erickson
Dick Walton
Glenn Nelson
Central Livestock Marketing Association
Skip Boughten
Owen
Jeff
Mr. Boughten
Wisconsin veterinary school seeks students as state fights contracts
The UW veterinary school reports high student interest while facing few contract offers from non hosting states. Dean Easterday notes larger Wisconsin applicant pool. 10 more Wisconsin students will be admitted next fall. Cost per Wisconsin student is about 15000 yearly, out state about 12500, with total per-student cost around 6000 higher than most schools. Applications for the first class due November 30, 1983.
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Board of Regents
Wisconsin
Easterday
Uw-Madison
Irving Shain
Land preservation plans certified for six Wisconsin counties
Wisconsin Agricultural Lands Preservation Board met in Hayward on September 2 to certify agricultural preservation plans for Ashland Bayfield Burnett Douglas Sawyer and Washburn counties. Certification allows farmers to enter long term agreements 10 to 25 years with tax credits, part of statewide participation now totaling 50 county plans.
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Wisconsin
Agricultural Lands Preservation Board
Hayward
Ashland
Bayfield
Burnett
Douglas
Sawyer
Washburn
Texas livestock fight Bangs disease with Bang’s Away Month
Hopkins County Texas proclaims September Bangs Away Month to curb brucellosis in cattle. Eastern Texas designated Class C area by USDA and Texas state officials. 33 counties hardest hit with human cases rising from undulant fever. Doctors warn zoonotic risk from milk and tissue. vaccination urged for young heifers. no human vaccine available. antibiotics help but not curative.
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Hopkins County
Texas
Red River
Gulf Coast
USDA
Texas Animal Health Commission
Don O'Neal
Wool Growers Press to Curb Red China Textile Imports
At the annual meeting the National Wool Growers Association unanimously backed a campaign urging the Reagan administration to curb the influx of textile and apparel imports from Red China. The group warned the surge could displace 724,000 American jobs, including 120,000 in wool production, and criticized trade policies on South American wools. They plan a countervailing duty petition with the Commerce Department over subsidies to wool exporters, notably Argentinians.
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National Wool Growers Association
Red China
U.S
The
North Central Wool Marketing Corp
Minneapolis
National Wool Growers Board
U.S. Department of Commerce
Wool Growers Association
Tough times to persist for machinery makers
Milwaukee Farm machinery sales have skidded this year with no clear recovery in 1983, says J. Dawson Ahalt deputy assistant secretary of agriculture for economics. He notes rising production costs and higher interest rates push farmers to keep existing equipment, while Europe grows as a major agricultural exporter aided by tariffs and subsidies.
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USDA
Milwaukee
J. Dawson Ahalt
Robert W. Baird & Co
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Pierce
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Tim Jennings
River Falls
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Harold Wahl
Baldwin
New Richmond
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Renee Henderson
New State Vet School
Madison
University of Wisconsin Veterinary School
Bernard Easterday
Agriculture
LaVerne Ausman
Ag Lands Preservation Board
Texas Livestock Industry
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Country World
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Robert Winn
Mr. Ahalt
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