American Agriculture Awards

4-H Agriculture Leader Award – Sara Hintz

4-H Leadership in Agriculture (Youth) – Cody Kaminski

Outstanding FFA Senior Awards – Jacob Gibbs, Amherst High School; Jalyn Yenter, Rosholt High School; and Brooke Mallek, Stevens Point Area Senior High School

Agri-Business Scholarship Recipient – Brooke Mallek a businessman and philanthropist.

2023 Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture Award –Robert L. Zimpel, president of T H Agri-Chemicals, Inc.

Having grown up on a small dairy farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Zimpel learned early on the challenges of agriculture in rural Wisconsin and worked his way up from loading trucks to working for crop protection companies and eventually becoming president of the independently owned T H Agri-

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Features Include:

• OMRON P.L.C. (programmable logic control)

• User Friendly Touchscreen

• Infeed mechanism & discharge gates

• Baler pusher with bag transport grippers

• Bag inflation system

• Two way adjustable accumulating chamber

• Handles 3-20 lbs product bags

• Variable speed accelerator conveyor assembly with JMC Space Saver Incline

• Product decelerator to eliminate bounce

• NEMA 12 electrical “swing-away” control panel with interloc

• Motorized Bag Saddle Conveyor (150 fpm)

• High speed intermediate take away conveyor with horizontal alignment agriculture is the finest profession there is,” Zimpel stated in company literature distributed at the banquet. “There is no better feeling than to bring in the harvest and enjoy the fruits of our labor!”

“We believe a grower should be rewarded for his or her hard work and for giving Americans the lowestpriced food in the world,” he added.

T H Agri-Chemicals carries a full line of crop protection products for row crops and specialty crops such as potatoes, carrots, onions, mint, pumpkins, cranberries, Christmas trees, apples, tobacco, and ginseng, to name a few.

The company includes an 11,000 square-foot bulk facility with storage for 50,000 gallons of crop protection products.

“We certainly appreciate the support we have received over the years,” Zimpel stated.

Wisconsin Sen. Patrick Testin and Rep. Katrina Shankland also presented Zimpel with a Citation of Commendation for his contributions to agriculture and his philanthropic work.

Zimpel, whose impact on agriculture in Wisconsin will be felt for generations to come, said he was humbled and honored to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture Award on behalf of himself, T H Agri-Chemicals, and his family.