Wisconsin dairy row roils over Grudem board reappointment
Madison reports bitter clash in Wisconsin dairy politics as Arden Grudem of Eau Claire faces strong opposition from the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association to a state Board of Agriculture reappointment. The dispute centers on a proposed cheese marketing order and a large Midwest cooperative merger, with charges of conflicts of interest and funding tied to Kraft Foods and Associated Dairymen of Texas.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Midwest Cooperatives
Arden Grudem
Eau Claire
State Board of Agriculture
Grudem
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ Association
Jim Falls
Wisconsin Dairy and Cheese Industry
Roland Behle
H. P. Mulloy
Kraft Foods Co
Minneapolis
Kraft
State Senate Agriculture Committee
Warren P. Knowles
Robert Streeter
Viroqua
Streeter
Associated Dairymen of Texas
Associated Dairymen’s
Midwest
Texas
Gradem
Board of Agriculture
Mulloy
First Annual Sheep Day Planned at Wisconsin Farm
MADISON The first Wisconsin Sheep Day and Performance Tested Sale will be July 10 at the University of Wisconsin Arlington Experimental Farms Sheep Center. The event, backed by the Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Association and others, features high performance ram lambs and top performance certified yearlings. A 1 p.m. program will cover sheep feeding, breeding, and physiology, with a consignment sale to follow from qualifying animals and the Lyle Baltz Suffolk flock. Catalogs go out after June 6 from the Wisconsin Sheep Improvement Program.
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Madison
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Arlington Experimental Farms
Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Association
Wisconsin Sheep Improvement Program
University Extension
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Vern Felts
Felts
Lyle
Stock Pavilion
Wis
Area District Conservationist Named For SCS
E Mike Smith named area conservationist for the U S Soil Conservation Service based in Eau Claire. He will serve an 11 county area in north central Wisconsin. Smith, a Wisconsin native born in Outagamie County, earned a 1956 agriculture degree from Platteville State University and has worked in Wisconsin state agriculture since 1956. He comes from Richland Center where he was district conservationist for just over one year. Smith is married with six children and enjoys fishing hunting camping and family outings.
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Eau Claire
Wis
E. Mike Smith
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
William W. Russell
Smith
Wisconsin
Outagamie County
Platteville State University
Department of Agriculture
Richland Center
Soil Conservation Society of America
Local Graduate Robert Casterton Earns ISU Engineering Degree
SPRING GROVE Minn Rob ert H Casterton son of Mr and Mrs Vernon Casterton has graduated in agricultural engineering from Iowa State University at Ames.
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Spring Grove, Minn
Robert H. Casterton
Vernon Casterton
Iowa State University At
Ames
Two New Apple Orchards Open in Gays Mills Area
Gays Mills Wisconsin sees two new commercial orchards Dick Heal West Ridge Orchard and Emmett Maybee Midway Orchard start selling apples this fall. The additions raise total commercial orchards to nine with 1 100 plus acres of apple trees and expanded packing facilities in progress.
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Dick Heal
West Ridge
Kickapoo River
Gays Mills
Emmett Maybee
High Ridge
Wis
Mt. Sterling
Maybee
Heal
Market News Service May Remain Open
Washington AP The 21 Market News Service offices facing possible shutdown after June 30 may stay open after the House blocked a Nixon administration budget cut. Senate action on next year’s appropriation will decide funding. about 200 offices nationwide rely on federal state support for market news to media and subscribers.
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Washington
Market News Service
Agriculture Department
House
Senate
Department
Farmers Union Opposes ABM Deployment
National Farmers Union has written to senators urging opposition to deploying an anti ballistic missile system. NFU president Tony Dechant calls the ABM issue crucial and links rural welfare to peace while criticizing military spending and the military industrial complex.
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Washington
National Farmers Union
NFU
Tony Dechant
Arunace
Lechant
Awarded Scholarship To West Salem Student
The La Crosse County Extension Homemakers awarded a $100 scholarship to Christine Olson of West Salem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Olson and a 1968 West Salem High School graduate. She will attend Stout State University in the fall. Committee members were Mrs. Rudy Hulberg, Mrs. Ervin Nuttleman and Mrs. John Raymer.
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la Crosse County
Christine Olson
West Salem
Christine
Monroe Olson
West Salem High School
Stout State University
Extension Homemakers
Rudy Hulberg
Ervin Nuttleman
John Raymer
Melrose Breeder Russell Stevens Named Technician of the Quarter
Russell Stevens of Melrose has been recognized by the National Animal Association of Animal Breeders as Technician of the Quarter for service to farmers, sales and support. He began with Tri State Breeders Cooperative on December 26 1949 and has bred 70 000 first service cows.
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Melrose
Wis
Russell Stevens
National Animal Association of Animal ‘Breeders
Tri- State Breeders Cooperative
Wisconsin Tobacco Crop Brings Over Five Million Dollars
Wisconsin’s 1968 tobacco crop earned growers more than 5 million dollars from purchases totaling 5,223,728 and an average 37.3 cents per pound. Type 55 and Type 54 tobaccos showed higher prices, and 1968 yields fell slightly from 1967. A detailed report is available from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture in Madison.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Wiscconsin
Wheat Program Certificates Due June 20
Wheat program participants must certify crop acreages at local ASCS offices. Wheat certificates due by June 20. feed grain certificates due by August 1. John L. Stintzi notes timely reporting protects payments and that 25 percent of farms will be spot checked. Measuring service remains available for uncertain acres.
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ASCS
John L. Stintzi
la Crosse Ascs
Stintzi
Wisconsin ASC Unit Briefing Sets Orientation in D C
Wisconsin's new Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Committee will meet in Washington D C for four days with Secretary Clif ford M Hardin and USDA officials. Committee Chairman Keith A Kreul Ben E Dibble and Wat ford G Seguin Sr will participate in briefing sessions on price supports acreage allotments and marketing quotas and related farm programs. The Wisconsin group joins nine other states in this orientation for committee members.
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Wisconsin
New Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Committee
Washington, D.C
Secretary of
Clifford M. Hardin
U.S. Department of Agriculture
ASC
Keith A. Kreul
Fennimore
Ben E. Dibble
Delavan
Watford G. Seguin Sr
Eleva
Department
ASCS
Tomah FFA Names Chapter Officers
Tomah Wisconsin officers named for the Tomah Chapter of the Future Farmers of America include Stephen Honish as president Michael Betthauser as vice president Gene Baumgarten secretary James Hayward treasurer Jeffery Pierce reporter and Arley Finnigan sentinel.
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Tomah, Wis
Tomah
The
Tomah Future Farmers of America
Stephen Honish
Michael Betthauser
Gene Baumgarten
James Hayward
Jeffery Pierce
Arley Finnigan
Sentinel
Demonstration plots approved near Caledonia
Extension soils agent Harlie Lar George Hendel and Sons provide sites for demonstration plots in Houston County. Locations along Highway 44 southwest of Caledonia host varieties E-69 Garland M-69 Portal Sioux Kelsey Lodi and other late varieties. Ervin Barth farm three miles south on Highway 76 hosts herbicide trials on oats corn and soybeans with soybeans and horsebeans included.
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Caledonia
Minn
Houston County
Harlie Larson
George Hendel and Sons
Highway 44
Garland
Sioux
Kelsey
Ervin Barth
Highway 76
Wind Tunnel Aids Soil Erosion Study At Mindoro Farm
USDA Agricultural Research Service conducted a wind erosion experiment at the Radcliffe farm Mindoro R1 using a 30 foot aluminum wind tunnel and a large motor driven fan to simulate 70 mph winds. Dr Neal Woodruff led the effort with Prof Art Peterson and ARS staff assisting from Madison. The project aims to develop a soil erodibility index for wind erosion across soil types and textures.
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Radcliffe Farm
Minoro
Burton and Gordon Radcliffe
R. 1
Mindoro
Usda Agricultural Research Service
Neal Woodruff
Manhattan
Kans
ARS
Art Peterson
University of Wisconsin Soils Department
Agricultural Research Service
Madison
Plains
U.S
Ohio
Hancock Experiment Station
Wisconsin
Radlcliffe Farm
Delegates Chosen for State Junior Conference
SPRING GROVE Minn Donald Morken will be a delegate to the 4 H State Junior Conference in St Paul Janelle Mann is alternate Donelly Ike and Genette Rosanen will attend Tri County Camp at Whitewater State Park Michael Wiste is alternate
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Spring Grove
Minn
Donald Morken
St. Paul
Janelle Mann
Donelly Ike
Genette Rosanen
Whitewater State Park
Michael Wiste
Fillmore Fest Dairy Princess Contest Seeks 34 Candidates
Thirty four candidates entered the Fillmore County Dairy Princess contest set for Saturday June 14 during the Fountain Centennial Celebration June 12 14 in Preston Minnesota. The pageant starts at 9 a.m. with a parade at 2 p.m. and crowning at 9 p.m. after a banquet.
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Preston, Minn
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la Crosse Tribune
Secretary of Agriculture
Midway Rchard
SCS
Gays Mills Area
House Appropriations Committee
Farmers Union
New State
Tomah Ffa
Fillmore Fest Princess
Susan Rappers
Donna Halstead
Marion Hingeveld
Mary Temanson
Sue Michener
Deborah Howard
Spring Valley
Jeanette Amdahl
Canton
Julie Meyer
Barbara Erdman
Susan Martin
Wykoff
Peggy Larson
Chester
Sue Redalen
Linda Redalen
Fountain
Geraldine Peterson
Diane Kiehne
LaVonne Berge
Lanesboro
Sue Erickson
Linda Bergen
Marcia Moen
Diana Allen
Marcia Drogemuller
Chatfield
Mary Dybing
Barbara Drapper
Lorraine Hallam
Whalan
Janelle Gatzke
Patricia Conn
Joanita Schrock
Preston
Barbara Nordgaard
Diane Hegland
Barbara Mel‘dahl
Nancy Johnson
Peterson
Anita Isberg
Patricia Hel‘leland
Rushford
Julie Ann Christianson
Harmony
Viroqua, Wisconsin
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