Travel Permitted For Farm Export Salesmen
The Agriculture Department exempts farm product promotion men from travel cuts to defend dollars for the foreign exchange deficit. A six man soybean and feed grain mission will depart Jan 13 for Japan and Taiwan, part of a year of trade missions and fairs across 13 countries. Officials say export promotion remains vital as competition grows, including from the Soviet Union.
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Ovid A. Martin
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Japan
Taiwan
London
Johnson
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
Monroe County 4-H Leaders Elect Heads
Neil Warsaw of Kendall is elected president of the Monroe County 4-H Club Leaders Association. Officers include Mrs. Harold Sickert Sparta secretary DuWayne Dutcher Warrens vice president Mrs. Myron Schwarz Sparta treasurer and Mrs. Charles Flock Sparta reporter. Area delegates cover Sparta Cashton Wilton and other towns. Lawrence Caulum Cashton chairs the platbook update project. A $3,000 goal is set for ticket sales to fund an April 20 Cataract benefit dance toward a new exhib it building at the county fairgrounds.
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Sparta
Wis
Neil Warsaw
Kendall
Monroe County
Harold Sickert
DuWayne Dutcher
Warrens
Myron Schwarz
Charles Flock
Louis Schlaver
Northwest
Gerald Steinhoff
Ronald Mitchell
Cashton
Southwest
Edward O'Rourke
Wilton
Lawrence Caulum
Milk Group Calls for Standards on Casein in Imitation Milk
Fond du Lac Wisconsin Pure Milk Products Cooperative asks the U S Department of Agriculture to set rigid standards for casein used in imitation milk and other dairy products. Casein now unregulated is a key ingredient in sodium caseinate used across many foods.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Pure Milk Products Cooperative
U.S. Department of Agriculture
PMPC
William C. Eckles
Eckles
Seed Meetings Planned in Wisconsin Region
Two of 24 state meetings on Wisconsin seed law changes are set for the Coulee Region. One on February 6 at 6 30 p m at Club Oasis in Sparta and a second on February 8 at 6 30 p m at the Manhattan Club in Boscobel.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Coulee
Oasis
Sparta
Boscobel
Profit Seen in Method Vertical Integration Gains in Milk Industry
UW dairy economist Frank Groves outlines rising vertical integration in the dairy sector as retailers processors and farmer cooperatives expand control over the marketing chain. He notes concentration among large firms and non dairy diversification, predicting fewer outlets and tougher competition ahead.
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Madison
Frank Groves
University of Wisconsin Dairy
Groves
Dairy Farmer Cooperatives
Vernon 4-H Leaders Name Heads Vernon County Group
Carter Thompson of the Liberty Pole Boosters 4-H Club was installed as president of the Vernon County Adult 4-H Leaders Association. Mrs. Ervin Nerison was named treasurer for a two year term. New executive board members include Mrs. Richard Ekern Cecil Parker Paul Stanek and others serving two year terms. The 4-H leaders discussed new member evaluation forms and adopted a revised membership policy to take effect in 1968.
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Viroqua
Wis
Carter Thompson
Liberty Pole Boosters
Vernon County
Ervin Nerison
Westby
Richard Ekern
Cecil Parker
Paul Stanek
Hillsboro
Harold A. Hanson
Awolt Wolfe
Chaseburg
Washington, D.C
Robert Fredrick
Future Farmers Plan Annual Dinner Banquet Theme Action
West Salem Wisconsin Dale Weber of West Salem High School will present a colored slide program on chapter activities at the Future Farmers banquet Thursday February 15 at 7 30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria The theme is The Chapter in Action A new feature will be the crowning of the Chapter Sweetheart.
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West Salem
Wis
Dale Weber
West Salem High School
Future Farmers
FARMS ARE LARGER State Farm Output Up Despite Acreage Drop
Wisconsin farms produce more food and fiber despite fewer farms and acres. The Madison Bureau reports 116 000 operating Wisconsin farms this year down from 145 000 a decade ago and about 200 000 three decades ago. Average farm size now 179 acres, up from 117 in 1925. Agricultural land total at 20 800 000 acres this year versus 22 200 000 in 1935.
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la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
Wisconsin
H. M. Walters
Federal Departments of Agriculture
United States
Farm Plan Emphasized as Key for Conservation
CALEDONIA Minn Developing a conservation farm plan is an important step for farmers using conservation measures. Harold Dineen soil conservationist notes the plan inventories soil water and plant resources and acts as a blueprint for profitable resource use and long term soil productivity.
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Caledonia
Minn
Harold Dineen
Dineen
SCS
Farm Record Plan Still Has Openings
Trempealeau County offers the Wisconsin Electronic Farm Record Demonstration Program run by farm management agent W. La Verne Gillespie. The electronic system provides monthly and year to date tax and enterprise reports plus year end analyses and depreciation data. Thirty five Trempealeau County families already use it. inquiries possible by postcard, Whitehall office, or University Extension Office Whitehall 538-4341.
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Gillespie
Trempealeau County
Whitehall
University Extension Office
Trempealeau County Plans Barn Clinic
Trempealeau County will hold a series of dairy barn remodeling meetings starting February 1 chaired by county agent Peter Bier i. The first session at 1 p m will be at Union Bank of Blair with topics on barn location construction interior layout ventilation and equipment. Additional gatherings February 8 16 and 22 may include farm visits and expert Ed Bruns of the University of Wisconsin explains barn features.
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Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County
Peter Bieri
Union Bank of
Ed Bruns
University of Wisconsin
Milk Co-Op Urges Higher Support Price for Manufactured Milk
Fond du Lac Wisconsin Pure Milk Products Cooperative asks Secretary Freeman to raise the manufactured milk support price from 4.00 to 4.25 per hundred pounds by April 1 1968. Leader Liam C Eckles cites rising costs and says 4.25 would deter dairy Exodus and stabilize farm incomes.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Pure Milk Products Cooperative
Orville L. Freeman
PMPC
William C. Eckles
Eckles
Sels Farm Qualifies for Progressive Breeders Award
Brattleboro Vermont dairy farm Sels Farm Humbird has qualified for the Progressive Breeders Award of the Holstein Friesian Association for the seventh time.
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Brattleboro
Sels
Humbird
Holstein- Friesian Association
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