4-H TV Action Club opens for county youths in 1967
La Crosse County youths aged 10 to 12 and older can join the 4-H TV Action Club by watching WKBT Channel 8 starting January 9 at 5 p.m. The ten program series covers emergency preparedness with field trips to a cyclotron civil defense center earthquake study center and disaster sites. Enrollment includes a project booklet and is available to current 4-H members and non members in multiple counties.
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la Crosse County
TV Action Club
WKBT
Albert Becker
Becker
University of Wisconsin
Madison
University of Wisconsin and
Jackson
Monroe
la Crosse
Vernon
Trempealeau
Buffalo
Clark
Crawford
Richland
24 Farmers Enter 1967 Crop Plan
Twenty four La Crosse County farmers filed applications under the 1967 Cropland Adjustment program through December 21. Signups for next year began November 14. CAP payments vary by crop value and diversion, with corn land 50 cents per bushel tobacco eight cents per pound and other cropland 7 to 11.40 dollars per acre.
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la Crosse County
Theodore Piske
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Piske
1966 Wisconsin farm prices rise amid exodus from dairying
Wisconsin farm prices in 1966 topped records yet failed to curb a mass exit from dairying as over 5,000 farmers left dairy enterprises. Cash receipts may rise about 15 percent with milk and livestock prices, while net farm income could exceed 500 million dollars, though fewer farmers share the gains. The state’s dairy output remains strong even as farm numbers shrink.
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Madison
Wisconsin
D. N. McDowell
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
McDowell
WDA
Dairy Group Plans Meet In January
Bernard Rice of Sears Roebuck will speak at the District 6 American Dairy Association of Wisconsin annual meeting January 13 at West Salem High School. The program includes a 11:30 a.m. movie lunch, and a 1 p.m. business session with elections and reports. District 6 covers La Crosse Monroe Jackson Juneau Trempealeau and Buffalo counties.
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Bernard Rice
la Crosse
Sears Roebuck and Co
American Dairy Association of Wisconsin
West Salem High School
Arlan Lee
Holmen
Rice
Ple
ADA
Jane Comings
ADA Home Economist
Monroe
Jackson
Juneau
Trempealeau
Buffalo
Lee
Harrison Storandt
West Salem
Richard Schauf
Sparta
Edgar Schroeder
Onalaska
Kenneth Vieth
Philip
Pat) Thomas
Black River Falls
Oscar Pfaff
Mauston
Tobacco Show Entry Deadline To Be Jan. 7
VIROQUA Wis Jan 7 is the deadline for entries for the 13th annual Northern Wisconsin Tobacco Exposition to be held in Viroqua Saturday Jan 14. Growers may leave samples at feed mills in Viroqua Westby Coon Valley Chaseburg Cashton Gays Mills La Farge and Valley or at the Northern Wisconsin Tobacco Pool warehouse in Viroqua where they will be collected and judged before the exposition. Future Farmer and 4H members in Vernon County taking tobacco as a project may enter bales in stemming fillers and straight tobacco. Bales are brought to the exposition and judged in the morning.
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Viroqua
Wis
Westby
Coon Valley
Chaseburg
Cashton
Gays Mills
la Farge
Valley
Northern Wisconsin Tobacco Pool
Vernon County
Tobacco price support schedule released for 1966
The 1966 price support schedule for Type 55 tobacco is issued by the USDA. Grade and support prices per pound range from B1 at 43 cents to N2 at 16 cents. Growers with white net cards qualify for price support loans, and grading requires the full crop and the marketing quota book.
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Viroqua
Wis
US Department of Agriculture
George E. Nettum
Northern Wisconsin Tobacco Pool
Northern
Wisconsin Cooperative Tobacco
USDA
State shares crops on farmers lands in winter feed effort
Wisconsin officials report the state conservation department has arrangements with private farmers to share yields on about 24 000 acres of land as part of an artificial winter game feeding program.
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la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
Wis
State Conservation Department
Wisconsin
Future Farmers To Sell Seeds In Galeville Wisconsin
Gale Ettrick Future Farmers of America will market garden seeds through the Vitality Seeds program. A milk cooler is to be purchased as a gift for the Junior Dairymen's Association and a purchasing committee has been named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesville
Wis
Gale Ettrick
Future Farmers of America
Junior Dairymen's Association
Rural Affairs Unit To Meet Wednesday
The Rural Affairs Committee of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday January 4 in the chamber conference room. Stanley Peterson, chairman, announces the meeting.
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Greater
Putrid Sea Marshes Mark Azov Western Edge
The western end of the Azov Sea in Russia is described as the Putrid See due to extensive marshes. Historical note mentions King Louis XIV of France ruling alone as a monarch for 72 years.
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Azov Sea
Russia
Putrid See
Louis XIV
France
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