Largest farm hosts Farm Progress Days in Almond Wisconsin
The Jim and Dan Burns farm in Almond hosts the 28th Farm Progress Days covering 7,500 acres with 1,600 acres of potatoes and 1,300 acres of corn all irrigated. The operation includes 38 center pivot units, 90 workers, 1,000 Simmental cattle, 530 exhibitors on about 50 acres of tent city, and notable expansion in storage capacity and diverse farming activities.
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Burns Brothers
Wisconsin
Spring Green
Lynn Brooks
University of Wisconsin-Extension
Dan
Jim
Dan Burns
Marie
Betty
Richard
Kathy Burns
Nancy
Alice
Diana
Dancy Burns
How to Reach Farm Progress Days in Wisconsin
Directions for farmers traveling to this year’s Farm Progress Days in west central Wisconsin. Routes from the north via Hwy 29 to Wausau then Hwy 51 to Stevens Point and Hwy 54 to Plover. From the west use Marshfield’s Hwy 10 to Stevens Point then 54, or Neillsville’s Hwy 73 to Wisconsin Rapids and CTHD to Almond. Southwest travelers follow Hwy 54 from Black River Falls through Wisconsin Rapids, Plover, to CTH and then CTH EE south to the farm. Site sits about 148 miles east of Eau Claire.
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Wisconsin
Wausau
Stevens Point
Plover
Marshfield
Neillsville
Wisconsin Rapids
Almond
Black River Falls
Farm Progress Days
Eau Claire
Postmaster Plans Special Stamp Feature at Farm Progress Days
Almond Postmaster Chari Coates will host a mini philatelic station at Farm Progress Days to mark first class mail with a unique stamp. The U S Postal Service in Chicago approved only two stamps, which must be returned within two weeks after the show for destruction. Farmers may bring envelopes to be mailed or saved and stamped at the Burns farm station.
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Chari Coates
U.S. Postal Service
Chicago
Postal Service
Ms. Coates
Chicago Postal Service
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