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Snudden Farms ready for big show By Jim Massey

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LAKE GENEVA — It has been a busy couple of years for Steve Snudden, modernizing his dairy farm with the 2016 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days show, which will take place on his farm, looming on the horizon. In the past two years, he has added heifer facilSnudden ities, two free-stall barns, a new milking parlor, an additional manure lagoon and a sand-separation system to his 650-acre dairy farm near Lake Geneva. He has left the planning and organizing of the show up to the 15 committees that have been working on the event for the better part of three years. “I really haven’t had to do a lot — these commit-

What: 2016 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. When: July 19-21. Where: Snudden Farms, N764 Zenda Road, Lake Geneva. Information: Peg Reedy, FTD executive secretary, 262-4705829.

2015 and was completed in February. The reclaimed sand is used for bedding in the farm’s free-stall barns. Snudden said he had been buying about 15 loads of sand per week, but by using the reclaimed sand, he has been able to cut the purchased sand to about three loads per week. Photo by Sara Bredesen Snudden said farming in Riders on a guided tractor tour of one of the Snudden's free-stall barns saw cow comfort in action as cattle enjoyed the midst of an upscale fresh feed along the rail. suburban community can be somewhat of a chaltees have been great,” cated in the town of Linn, Snudden has been a cluded a 1,500-head heifer lenge, but he tries to miniSnudden said of his prepa- where a good percentage farmer at heart since he facility, 500- and 450-cow mize issues by keeping his rations for the show. of Walworth County’s was a youngster. free-stall barns, a doubleoperation clean. Snudden Farms is locows reside. Steve was “He’s been interested in 32 DeLaval parallel milk“There are enough farmpersuaded to put his hat farming since he was 9 ing parlor and a McClana- ers that don’t care that give in the ring to host the years old,” his mother, han sand-separation sysfarmers that do care a bad show by Becky Merwin, Marilyn Snudden, said at a tem. rap,” he said. “I hate probowner of a neighboring meet-the-family media Snudden and his 29 full- lems. I don’t like manure farm and vice chairevent in late March. time employees milk about on the road and I stress woman of the show’s Steve’s grandfather was 1,700 cows and manage with my help that we’re not fundraising committee. a farmer, but Steve’s father about 3,800 acres of owned spilling any. Where you’ll She was Snudden’s 4-H worked in the Melges Boat and rented land. Cow num- come into problems is if leader when he was a Works business in Zenda bers should level off at you don’t apply (manure) youngster. and never ran the farm about 2,100 later this year, correctly. The farm is the southern- himself. The family farm he said. “With the exposure of most site for a Wisconsin was rented to a neighbor “Animal-wise, I don’t (FTD), there’s no way to Farm Technology Days or until Steve started cropping see us expanding again hide anything because its predecessor, Wisconsin the farm as a junior in high anytime soon (after this there are too many ngerSparkleWash® is your leader in asset Farm Progress Days, in the school in 1977. year),” he said. “The next pointers in the world toprotection and property appeal since 1965. show’s 63-year history. During his senior year in thing I would like to do is day.” The farm is situated just high school, Snudden beenhance my manure proSnudden said he works • FULLY INSURED • two miles north of the Illigan milking 20 cows and gram to where I could dry with his local John Deere • ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE • nois border next to the unbecame a full-time farmer the solids and start using dealer, Mid-State EquipStanchion Barns • Milking Parlors • Farm Machinery incorporated community of upon graduation. He exit as bedding for our ment, and The Delong Co. Tractors • Combines • Trailers • Concrete Zenda. panded little by little until young cattle. We could to manage his nutrientShop Interiors • Shop Exteriors • Roofs Although the farm’s ad- his big expansion projects also sell some of it as or- management program with CALL TODAY FOR A FREE ESTIMATE dress is Lake Geneva, in recent years. ganic matter for gardenprecision equipment. Snudden said the farm is The operation was at ers.” “That way, there’s never actually closer to Hebron, about 1,000 cows until the Work began on the sand- a question that I’m doing it Ill. series of additions that inseparation system in late wrong,” he said. www.sparklewash.com/eauclaire • ngardow@sparklewash.com

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The cows on the Snudden farm are milked three times a day in the new double-32 parlor, and are producing at a herd average of about 27,000 pounds per cow, without the use of recombinant bovine somatotropin. In building the herd, Snudden said he has stressed cow longevity. “Our goal is once we get (up to 2,100 cows) through the expansion, is not so much to look at more cows, but better cows,” he said. “We’re breeding all our heifers to sexed semen, so we’re going for the genetics through the heifers. We want to build a younger, more productive herd.” The vast majority of the herd is Holsteins, with a few Brown Swiss sprinkled in. Snudden owns three tankers that haul the farm’s milk to a Dean Foods uid milk plant in Huntley, Ill., and a Grande Cheese plant in Juda. Snudden, 55, also owns an excavation company, so he has handled site work for each of the buildings he has added in recent years. “We’re very much self-sufcient — I don’t believe in hiring outside help unless absolutely necessary,” he said. Snudden has three children — Austin, 21, a student at UWPlatteville; Carly, 18, a

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The eld demonstration committee will have access to about 380 acres of alfalfa and about 200 acres of winter wheat, Snudden said. Tillage and cover-crop demonstrations are also being planned.

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A new free-stall barn is the latest addition in the modernization efforts at Snudden Farms near Lake Geneva.

A new sign was ready for installation on the Snudden Farm during Farm Technology Days media day on June 2.

senior at Big Foot High School in Walworth; and Abigail, 17, a junior at Big Foot. Carly plans to attend UW-Platteville in the fall to study agriscience and

agribusiness, with the intention to come back to the farm after she graduates. Abigail said she’s not certain of her future but isn’t ruling out a return to the farm.

Snudden’s ancée, Yvonne Korbel, is trained as a dental hygienist and came from Chicago. “She came right out of the city, but she’s really good about how much I work on the farm,” Snudden said. Snudden said gearing up to milk more cows might not have been perfect timing with the latest milk-price drop, but he has been through ups and downs before. “I’ve expanded three or four times in the past — I’ve hit the highs and I’ve hit the lows,” he said. “It’s like anything — you just have to keep plugging forward.” Snudden’s biggest task in preparing for the show has been planning his cropping schedule to

make room for Tent City and having the appropriate crops ready at the right time for eld demonstrations. “I’ll have the second crop off where they have to park vehicles,” Snudden said. “Once I knew this was coming I interseeded grass into it so it tightened up even more.” The parking area and Tent City will be plowed down after the show, he said.

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Field demos to offer in-eld Q&A, tram access By Sara Bredesen

the guests,” said Dick So, you’ve just Zuehlswatched an impressive dorf with demonstration of one of the Walthe newest hay chopworth pers roaring through its County work, and you want to FTD know more about it. But Zuehlsdorf Field where is the company’s Demo booth? CommitIt won’t be a problem tee. “Instead of talking this year at Farm Tech- to a salesman in the nology Days in Walbooth inside Tent City, worth County. this way they have an “I think that what will opportunity to talk to an be interesting for guests operator right there in is that during the eld the eld. We think that demo we’re going to will give a different, stop and have a Q&A unique perspective of out in the eld where how exactly the unit the visitors can actually performs.” talk to the operators More than 400 acres who have just demonof hay and wheat have strated their equipment, been set aside for harso there will be more vesting demonstration one-on-one sessions be- by at least 15 different tween the operators and vehicles supplied by Regional Editor | stbrede@gmail.com

different manufacturers. “What you’ll be able to see is the latest technology that Weis this equipment has on it today,” Zuehlsdorf said. Some of the technology is designed to increase yield and is just as important for small farms as big ones that need speed and size, he added. A lot of the eldwork will be hay chopping, said Russ Weis, who is part of the demo committee. “When the big choppers are coming through, they’re moving

along and just chopping a lot of material at a time,” Weis said. “When Baumeister you’re feeding several hundred cows, it takes a lot of material and you’ve got to move through the elds and make hay while the sun shines.” About 80 acres of wheat have been set aside for combining demonstrations. That’s not much acreage, and those machines move right along too, Weis said, “so you’d better be ready to hop on a tram and head to the eld. They don’t

mess around.” Trams will load from the north end of Tent City and carry passengers to the demonstration sites from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. all three days. The north side will also be the loading area for tours of the Snudden dairy and a nearby commercial grain elevator. “Because there are so many grain farmers in Walworth County, we wanted something that would appeal to the grain farmers,” said Kathy Baumeister, Walworth FTD executive committee vice chairwoman and liaison for the eld demo committee. “There will be an educational tour with buses going down to the Farm City Elevator, which is just a mile

down the road.” The eld demo committee is also responsible for moving people to other places, Weis said. “We’ve got to bring 31 trams just to move people around; to and from the parking lot, to and from the farm tours. I think scheduling that, and the drivers and personnel, is our biggest challenge on this committee.” Trams will make continual runs through the parking areas and deliver visitors to gates all around Tent City, and return them to their vehicles at the end of the day, Weis said. Pickup locations for various tours will be clearly marked with signs at the north pickup point, he added.

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Trafc chairman knows how to handle crowds By Sara Bredesen

meetings over the past two Tom Hausner said that years of after 30 years with the planning, Walworth County Sherand all are iff’s Ofce and 24 years in the working with 30,000 to email 60,000 people swarming loops, “so to rock concerts at Hausner they’re on Alpine Valley, he underthe same stands the demographics page we of trafc ow. are with our planning,” That will be a leg up he said. for Hausner, who heads The primary apthe Trafc, Safety and proaches to the Tent City Parking committees for site are from Lake Farm Technology Days. Geneva from the north “The one surprise that along Wisconsin Highwe may have is that we way 120, which is Illidon’t know how many are nois 47 if coming from coming out of Illinois, be- Hebron, Ill., in the south; cause we’re so close to or through Walworth, the state line,” Hausner Wis., and Harvard, Ill., said. “We believe that along U.S. Highway 14. we’re prepared for it; we In either case, Hausner just don’t know.” said there will be plenty Hausner said that hold- of signage to get visitors ing the show just a few to the grounds and apmiles from the Illinoispropriate parking areas Wisconsin border adds for vendors, general another layer of manage- parking and specialment to the process, beneeds parking. cause it means dealing Communities of Walwith law enforcement worth, Fontana, Lake from both states. Geneva, Bloomeld, “Interoperability is al- Richmond and Zenda ways a challenge when have been briefed on the you have such a large event and will take steps event. We’re working to keep trafc owing with Emergency Mansafely through their comagement from Walworth munities. County, the Walworth “We’ll direct people County Sheriff’s ofce, down Edwards Boulethe sheriff out of Boone vard (in Lake Geneva) so County (Ill.) and they’re not going McHenry County,” through the city,” HausHausner. ner said. “That will help All have been in on with congestion.” Regional Editor | stbrede@gmail.com

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The major road change during the show is that Zenda Road will be closed to trafc from about three-quarters of a mile south of Linton Road to about a quartermile north of County B. Trafc will be directed primarily to general parking on the east and south sides of Tent City. Vendor and VIP trafc will be directed to appropriate areas according to booth location. Access to specialneeds parking, mobility carts and motorcycle parking are from Zenda Road from County B. The biggest challenge will be getting trafc quickly off of the roads and into those parking areas. Hausner’s recommendation? Follow directions.

Colorful parking A new feature of Walworth County Farm Technology Day is color-coded general parking areas to help

visitors get back to their cars at the end of the day. “We’ve got them colored so people can nd their way out, kind of like Disney World where you’re coming off of Mickey and Minnie,” quipped Hausner. “We’ve got purple, red, green and yellow parking lots to kind of help people out.” Volunteers from the Civil Air Patrol and others doing double duty at the food stands will be trained to get visitors safely and quickly into parking places. From there, trams will take them to pedestrian entrances and then back to their vehicles at the end of the day. General parking will all be on the east and south sides of Tent City with access from Brink Road. Disney World is the source of another helpful tip to get you

back to your car; use that photo option on your cellphone to snap a picture of your color and vehicle location.

County B approximately seven miles to Zenda and follow signage and trafc controllers to parking. From Hebron, take Illinois 47 north to the state Getting there line where it becomes From I-43 east: Exit at Wisconsin 120. Continue Highway 12 headed south approximately 3.4 miles approximately eight to County B and follow miles to Highway 50 tosigns approximately 1.5 ward Lake Geneva. Folmiles west to Tent City low event signage and parking. Note to the traveler: turn south onto Highway 120/Edwards Boulevard There are numerous rural for 6.8 miles where event roads available for travel, trafc will be turned west but they may not be onto County Road B. Fol- marked with FTD signage low event signs and traf- and may be difcult to acc control to parking. cess when cross-trafc on From I-43 west: Exit at main routes is heavy. Highway 14/Darien and Show organizers recomcontinue south approximend using N764 Zenda mately eight miles to Road, Lake Geneva, WI, Walworth. Turn east onto to navigate by GPS to get County B/Kenosha Street close to the grounds but to for approximately eight follow posted signs when miles to Zenda and folthey appear. low signage and trafc controllers to parking.

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ing practice sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Wisconsin chapter. Strolling entertainment will greet visitors in the outdoor arena area. There will be a juggler, magician, and balloon sculptors, along with presentations by the Walworth County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit and 4-H dog agility participants.

The Hedberg Library in Janesville will provide large building blocks that visitors can use to construct structures. There also will be all-day cow milking demonstrations and “Learn 2 Fish With Us” shing lessons, an ethanol lesson and a tractor simulator that will contrast with a restored 1951 John Deere A tractor. A farm toy display will

showcase 60 years of agricultural change, and River Valley Pedal Tractors will offer daily competitive pulls for youngsters. Inside the Main Tent, activities will include arts and crafts, 4-H robotics team presentations, BioTrek Team activities hosted by the Science Exploratorium and fun with the Discovery Center from Rockford, Ill.

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Outdoor Arena Daily Schedule Tuesday, July 19 10 a.m., K-9 Unit, Walworth County Sheriff’s Department. 11 a.m., Strolling balloon sculptor. Noon, Archery demonstration. 1 p.m., Strolling magician. Wednesday, July 20 10 a.m., Fire safety demonstration. 11 a.m., Strolling balloon sculptor. Noon, Dog agility demonstration. 1 p.m., Strolling magician. 2 p.m., Strolling juggler. Thursday, July 21 10 a.m., K-9 Unit, Walworth County Sheriff’s Department. 11 a.m., Strolling balloon sculptor. Noon, Rabbit demonstration and sheep shearing. 1 p.m., Strolling magician. 2 p.m., Strolling juggler.

consin and northern Illinois have signed up Submitted photo to stop by the Youth The Youth Village at Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Village during FTD. will include a farming heritage presentation entitled “We are excited “Adventures With Ma and Pa,” presented by Tom Kleist about the large numand Sandy Fischer and inspired by Ole and Lena. bers of groups who will be attending from area daycares, day 4-H, the Boys and arts demonstration set camps and park and Girls Club of Walworth to music and a chemrec programs,” County, area county istry presentation by Kuecker said. “One fairs, the Drug Abuse Science Alliance of group will have special Resistance Education Lake Geneva. (DARE) program, Ag “We want to educate in the Classroom and youth on the sources of Like what others will have distheir foods and also plays. share in some science you're reading? Main Tent stage acts experiments in the will include 4-H music Science Exploratoand drama perforrium,” Kuecker said. www.facebook.com/TCTWIS mances, the Heat Wave About 800 guests Show Choir from Rock from area daycares, County, local cloggers, day camps and parks a lumberjack program and recreation proby Jeff Kleist, a martial grams in southern Wis-

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Main Tent Daily Schedule Tuesday, July 19 9:30 a.m., Opening ceremonies. 10 a.m., Visit by UW-Madison Bucky Badger mascot. 11 a.m., Heat Wave Show Choir. 1 p.m., Heat Wave Show Choir. 2 p.m., FFA awards program (soils and tractor driving). Wednesday, July 20 9:30 a.m., “Close Encounters of a Chemical Kind.” 11 a.m., “Adventures with Ma and Pa.” Noon, Sugar Creek Bucket Band. 1 p.m., Ofcer Bushey DARE Program. 2 p.m., Tom Staneld musical performance. Thursday, July 21 9:30 a.m., Ofcer Bushey DARE Program. 10 a.m., Cloggers of Walworth County. 11 a.m., Lumberjack program. 1 p.m., Summer safety program. 2 p.m., Natural science presentation.

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FTD education aimed at wide audience By Sara Bredesen Regional Editor | stbrede@gmail.com

The name may say “farm,” but UW-Extension has plenty to show the public during Farm Technology Days in its Education Square. “What we’re looking most forward to is meeting the educational needs of not only the farmer but the general public here,” said Nick Baker, Rock County UW-Extension agriculture agent and chairman of the Walworth County Farm Technology Days Education Committee. UW-Extension has been a key player from the beginning of the annual outdoor agriculture event in 1954 — then called Farm Progress Days. Visitors will be able to check out some of the newest applied research and technologies in farming and home gardening and walk through trial plots with UW-Extension soils and horticulture educators at the Education Square on the north end of Tent City.

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After construction of new grain bins and an additional drier at the commercial grain storage facility in Zenda in 2015, Farm City Elevator now has total capacity of ve million bushels. The facility will be part of a tour for Farm Technology Days.

A longtime feature of Education Square and the Progress Pavilion is access to specialists who can answer questions about a wide range of home, garden and farm topics. “We’re going to have specialists here who can talk very detailed on soil health concerns, pest management concerns and weed identication, specif-

ically for farm producers,” Baker said, “but we’re also going to have people available who are going to be able to answer the general questions.” Visitors will be able to thumb through the many resource publications that can be ordered or downloaded for free from the UW-Extension library.

Adam Haney, a Walworth County poultry raiser, will be on hand with some of his chickens to talk about backyard ocks. “That’s a big push right now, so we’ll have that for the general consumers,” Baker said. There will also be an outdoor animal handling display with trailers for people who want to know how to move cattle safely. “That’s producerbased, but we’ll also have information for people who have one or two horses on how to safely load their horses and move them around,” Baker said. One of the focuses by Extension this year will be sustainability and farming for the future. “A lot of people hear sustainability and think ‘organic.’ We’re not focusing on that; we’re thinking of overall farm sustainability and ways of being more efcient

and more productive today and in the future,” Baker said. Displays and information will include cover cropping, interseeding, soil health, pollinators and pollinator habitat. A new event will be a grain facilities tour with buses traveling four times a day from the north side of Tent City to just down the road into Zenda, where Farm City Elevator completed a multi-million dollar expansion last year that added a dryer and new grain bins. “We’re going to have a

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The Bee Hotel might not be a place you would want to stay, but it is a great place to visit during Walworth Farm Technology Days. Bee hotels are structures made of inexpensive and often “found” materials that attract and provide nesting habitat for native solitary pollinators. Walworth County UW-Extension Horticulture Educator Christine Wen solicited schools and other county residents to develop these one-ofa-kind colonies that will be on display in Education Square and then returned to the classrooms or to education displays in county parks after FTD. Wisconsin is home to more than 400 native pollinators, including bees, ies, butteries, bats, birds and moths. One third of the food we eat requires pollination to develop. In fact, 80 percent of the world’s plants that provide food depend on pollination. While most people think of bees as stinging insects, they tend to be very docile, especially the solitary bees. Bees and pollinators are around us all the time and only sting when threatened, according to information Wen put together for schools. The UW-Extension Bee

Youngsters at Camp Edwards in East Troy added “rooms” to a bee hotel that will attract Wisconsin's native pollinators when it is moved outdoors. This and other bee hotels created by students and senior in Walworth County will be on display during Farm Technology Days in Pollinator Lane. Submitted photo

Hotel project is not only a hands-on and creative way to provide important habitat for native bees, but it is an opportunity to learn about the importance of pollinators. “We also have a brand new Wisconsin Bee Identication Guide that will be debuted at the show that people can take with them,” Wen said. Pollinator Lane, as Wen calls it, will be next to the cover crops and hops display, between the Progress Pavilion and Education Station tent on the north end of Tent City. The Lane will include about 20 Bee hotels, and the Master Gardener volunteers will have

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tiently for its turn. Despite having the water in her blood, Marilyn’s children were never very interested in being out on the lake until recently. “Now they have their boats and have become quite the sailors,” she said. Today, Marilyn loves both the farm and the water. “They both have given me many friends,” she said. She lives on the farm and enjoys being able to visit with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren whenever she can. “Everyone takes really good care of me. I am so blessed,” she said.

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FTD to honor home of state’s rst 4-H club By Heidi Clausen

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Walworth County’s distinction as home to Wisconsin’s rst 4-H club will be recognized as part of a display in Innovation Square in the center of the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days grounds. An historical marker at the site of the formation of the Linn 4-H Club sits just 1½ miles from Snudden Farms, according to Mary Kaye Merwin, a past club member, retired 4-H agent and longtime 4-H supporter. A replica of that marker will be one of six items highlighted in a scale-model version of Geneva Lake in Innovation Square. The 4-H part of the display will be manned by Linn 4-H alumni from the 1940s through 1960s and will primarily focus on the club’s relationship to agriculture, Merwin said. “Its very beginnings had a great deal to do with the development of the hybrid seed corns in the state,” she said, adding that early 4-H programs were designed to bring new agricultural development to farms. The Linn 4-H Club began in October 1914 in Linn Township, with four boys and three girls attending the rst meeting. The meeting was held in the home of Mae Hatch, the state’s rst 4-H general leader. An historical marker stands at the Hatch property, marking the birth of Wisconsin 4-H. The Linn 4-H Club, which also was the rst to exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair, in 1916, is still going strong, averaging about 50 members in recent years. However, its membership has evolved from mostly rural/farm youth to much more suburban, as that part of Linn Township is on the southern shores of Geneva Lake.

Wisconsin an early adopter Wisconsin was one of the rst states to offer 4-H. Some other early adopters were Texas, Ohio and Iowa.

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Dultmeier Sales ........................... C226 DuPont Pioneer ............................. 944 Dyna Products ........................552-554 East Central/Select Sires ............ A036 EasyFix Rubber Products North America ................................................ C221 Echo Outdoor Power Equipment .... 452 Ederer Dairy Supply....................... 309 Edney Distributing Co Inc ..................... .......... 404-405/590-591/602-603 Edvest, Wisconsin’s College Savings Plan ................................................ C214 EMS Industrial Inc ......................... 209 Energy Panel Structures .............. C233 Enertech Global Inc ........... B154-B155 Enovative Technologies ................ C201 Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc. ...474 Equipment Technologies .........378-379 Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales....... ...........................................Beef Tent Exacto, Inc. ....Innovation Square/C224 Exmark Manufacturing ....... C239-C240 Express Flighting Supply .............. B129 Extrutech Plastics Inc .................. B111 EZ Hang Chairs ............................ B151 EZ Kut Products ...........................D241 F.S.R.C. Tanks Inc ........................... 232 Fabick Cat .............................871/922 Fabra Dome ...........................817-818 FABTECH Service Technician Education Center ...................................... C169 Fair Manufacturing Inc ................... 816 Farm Inc ...................................... B106 Farmers Hot Line ......................... B118 FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative ........ A037 Featherlite Trailers...259-260/333-334 Feed Supervisor .......................... B117 FEI East ......................................... 855 Fellowship of Christian Farmers International............................... 787 Fencil Urethane Systems Inc ....... B135 Fertilizer Dealer Supply ...........684-688 FixYourAchingBack.com ............... B113 Flagpole Country ........................... 314 Flagpoles by Uncommon USA ..... A033 Flitz International, Ltd .................. C180 Focus on Energy ................... Education Foremost Farms USA ......... B081-B082 Forest Construction ..................... A031 Forward Farm Lines ................203-207 Frenchville Trailer Sales LLC ....842-843

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Fritsch Equipment Corp ..........519-520 FutureCow ................................... B115 G.A. Miller Company .................... B130 Ganser Company ......................... A075 Gehl .............................................. 152 GEMPLER’S ................................. C184 Global Equipment Co Inc ..................... .......................... 850-851/942-943 Global Genetic Resources ........... C166 Gold Medal Trailers .................384-385 Golden Calf Company.................. A074 Graetz Mfg Inc ........................629-630 Grain Handler USA ........................ 429 Grande Cheese Company .......918-919 Grandpa’s Shelters & Sheds LLC... 621 Grasshopper Company .................. 344 Great Lakes Belted Galloway Assn Inc ...........................................Beef Tent Great Lakes Hybrids ...................... 402 Great Lakes Tank Systems LLC ...... 450 Greenfield Contractors LLC .......... B144 Greystone Construction Company......... ...........................................549-550 GVD Feed Covers LLC .................. A021 Gypsoil Brand Gypsum ................ A043 H&E Innovations LLC ................... B160 H&S Manufacturing Co Inc ................... .......................... 671-678/715-722 Hagie Manufacturing Co .........819-820 Half Moon Outdoors Action Track Chair .................................................. 515 Halverson Overhead Door Co....... B107 Harvard Savings Bank ................. 1003 Haseman Enterprises Inc........928-929 HealthMarkets Insurance Agency ... B096 Healthmate International LLC ............... ......................................A054/C179 HeatMaster SS .............................. 516 Heatmor, Inc. ................................. 579 Hi-Pro Mfg ................................... A045 Hiniker Company ....................741-742 Hixwood Metal ............................. B133 Home Design Mfg........................ B094 Hooper Law Office ....................... C225 Horn Plastics Inc ........................... 148 Hotsy Cleaning Systems .........649-650 Hydroclean Equipment Inc ............ 975 Idso’s............................................. 310 Imperial Industries Inc ................... 910 Innovative Equipment LLC ......840-841 Innovative Forage Solutions ...C219-C220

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Investors Community Bank .....517-518 Jackson Kahl Insurance Services...C196 Jamesway Farm Equipment ........... 580 Jansen Electronics ......................... 250 Jenkins Iron and Steel Inc ......363-364 Jet Company Inc ............................ 451 JH Landworks ................................ 440 John Day Company ........................ 908 Johnson Mfg Inc ............................ 409 Jordan Ag Supply Inc ..................... 313 Jung Seed Genetics................860-861 Justice Brothers Lubricants .......... A042 JX Peterbilt..............................489-490 K & M Manufacturing ........ C227-C228 Kaler Farms ................................. A003 Kalmbach Feeds.......................... A055 Kann Manufacturing ...................... 605 Kasco Marine ................................ 748 Keller Inc ....................................... 383 Kelly Manufacturing LLC ................ 575 Kelly Ryan Equipment Co Inc ... 584-585 Kenwood Communications .......... A027 Kioti Tractor.............................305-308 Kitchen Craft................................ A020 Komro Sales & Service ..........350-353 Kongskilde Industries .............972-974 Krone North America ............................ .......................... 886-888/905-907 KSI Supply Inc............................. A064 Kubota Tractor Corporation ................... .......................... 454-456/537-539 Kuhn North America Inc ....................... .......................... 271-276/317-322 Kunes Country of Elkhorn ...1029-1030 Kussmaul Seed Company ............. 568 Laforge Systems Inc ...................... 839 Lakes Brick and Block ................. A044 Land O’Lakes Coop Trucks ............. 345 Land Pride .............................453/540 Landmark Services Cooperative ........... ...........................................704-706 Landoll Corporation ...866-868/925-927 LeafFilter Gutter Protection .......... A063 Leedle Houme Apiary .................... 606 Legacy Seeds Inc .......................... 833 Legend Seeds Inc .......................... 362 Lemmenes Manufacturing & Sales LLC .................................................. 283 Lester Buildings LLC ...................... 759

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KEY: A thru F .............Agribusiness Tent Booths Linco Precision LLC ��776-779 Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin �� A010 LIRA GOLD? �� A022 Lowe Equipment Attachments �� 576 M�H� Eby Inc ��961-962 MacDon Inc ��437-439 MAI Animal Health�� C164-C165 Majik Masonry�� C215 Manitou Americas Inc �� 153-156/237-240 Marda Angus Farm ��Beef Tent Marloo Equipment ��930-931 Maruyama US Inc�� 486 Mather’s Improvement Service �� 449 Mathews Company �� 756 Maverick Drone Systems �� B159 McFarlane Mfg Co Inc ��279-280 MDS Manufacturing�� 242 Meadow Brook Farm Publishing LLC �� C197 Meadowlawn Acres LLC �� 542 Mecum Auctions Gone Farmin�� 1008-1010 Mensch Manufacturing �� 1034 Messer Repair & Fab LLC �� 1040 Metal Masters Buildings �� B089-B090 Metal Roofing Systems�� C163 Metsa Machines �� 444 Meyer Manufacturing Corporation�� 365-368/425-428 Meyer’s Pressure Cleaners �� 780 Midland Garage Door Mfg Co �� C199 Midwest General Repair & Fabrication LLC �� B108-B109 Midwest Manufacturing ��831-832 Midwest Pinzgauer Association �� Beef Tent Midwest Plastic Products �� B126 Midwest Sidewalls ��991/1002 Midwestern BioAg Inc ��562-564 Miller Electric Mfg Co�� 739 Miller St Nazianz Inc ��956/1037 Miller-Bradford & Risberg Inc �� 891 Milwaukee Stockyards ��Beef Tent Minitube USA �� C168 Minnesota Pnuematic Products �� 749-750

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Miraco / Badger Livestock Equipment �� 583 Monsanto ��176-177 Morton Buildings Inc �� 559-560/633-634 MOSES �� B095 Mr Wallet Man �� C204 MTC Moisture Analyzers �� A056 Murray’s Dairy Farm & Refrigeration ��225-228 Mustang Mfg �� 241 Mycogen Seeds �� 343 N & N Trailer Sales Inc �� 521 NAPA Auto Parts ��448/545 Nationwide Transport Services, LLC �� B134 Naylor Seed�� B148 Neptune Enterprises �� 983 New Holland �� 459-468/525-534 New Vision Ag and Specialties LLC �� C218 Next Energy Solution Inc �� B138 NITE Equipment, Inc� �� 551/642-643 North American Normande Assn�� Beef Tent North Central Highland Cattle Association��Beef Tent North Central Irrigation �� 216 Northeast Asphalt Inc �� A030 Northern Plains Track �� 248 Northland Buildings, Inc� �� 613 Northline Industries Inc ��862-863 Norwood Sales Inc ��354-355 Notch Manufacturing Inc �� 655-656/737-738 Nuhn Industries Ltd ��229-231 NuKleen Products �� B147 NuTech Seed �� 505 O’Brien Hybrids�� A041 O’Connell Farm Drainage Plows, Inc �� 561 O’Reilly Auto Parts �� A012 Oasis Irrigation Inc�� 885 Organic Valley - CROPP Cooperative �� C187 Orion Energy Systems Inc�� C223 Osseo Plastics & Supply Inc�� A066 Oxbo International Corp��572-574 Oxy-Blast Water Treatment Systems �� A060 PACE Inc �� 902 Park Avenue Enterprises �� 1006-1007

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Parman Farm Supply �� 849 Patz Corporation �� 771-772/821-822 Payne & Dolan Inc�� A029 Penta TMR Inc ��577-578 Peoples Bank �� A065 Pequea Machine Corp ��864-865 Performance Probiotics LLC ��D278 Physicians Mutual Medicare Supplements �� 707 Pifer’s Auction & Realty �� A007 Pinno Buildings �� 937 PiP Seeds �� B122-B123 Poettinger US Inc��808-810 Polaris Industries �� 183 PolyTank Inc�� 834 Pomp’s Tire Service ��980/1013 Possibilities Unlimited �� B093 PowerLift Hydraulic Doors �� C183 Precision Ag Solutions LLC ��889/904 Precision Planting ��920-921 Premier Gunite DBA Falls Silo Repair LLC �� 713 Prime Attachments & Custom Fab�� 940-941 Prinsco Inc �� A047 Puck Custom Enterprises Inc ��543-544 QBE NAU �� A061-A062 Quality Craft Tools �� C236-C237 Quick Fuel �� B156 R-Equipment Co ��286-288/837/856 Ram Commercial�� 251-256/337-342 RCI Engineering �� 761 Renewal by Andersen �� B143 Renk Seed Co �� 632 Republican Party of Wisconsin �� A006 Revolution Plastics �� C206 Ridgebrook Farm Machinery ��184-186 Rim Guard Inc �� B121 Rinehart Sculptures Inc �� B150 Ripon Truck Repair & Equipment LLC ��708-709 Ritchie Industries�� 626 Roberts Brothers Painting �� B119 Roberts Irrigation Company Inc ��Innovation Square ROC Mergers �� 445 Roland Machinery Co �� 471 Rostech Electronics �� C238 Roto-Mix LLC ��971/1022 RS Investments��RS Investments RSI Calf Systems ��914-915

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Rural Mutual Insurance Company�� 691 S D Ellenbecker �� 773 S�I� Distributing �� 648 S�I� Feeders, Div� Schoessow Inc ��556/637 Salford Group Inc ��938-939 Salzsieder Mfg �� 690 Sam’s Well Drilling ��217/884 Sanimax LLC �� B097 Schuitemaker Machines BV ��877-878 Schultz’s Inter-State Ag Inc ��813-815 Schwartz Manufacturing Co �� A019 Scott Construction Inc �� 680 Seedburo Equipment Co �� B136 Seubert Farms �� Equine Tent Shade Haven ��586-587 Shivvers Mfg Inc ��477-478 Shoup Manufacturing Co�� C161-C162 Show-Me Shortline Company LLC�� 360-361 Sloan Express�� 852 Sloan Implement Company, Inc� �� 853-854 Smart Turner Pumps �� C173 Soil-Max Inc �� 348 Soucy International �� 473 Specialty Enterprises LLC �� 391 Split Second Log Splitter �� 210 SST Software �� A025 Stewart Peterson �� C198 Stihl Power Equipment�� 645 Stine Seed Company�� 473 STOR-LOC �� 414 Stratford Homes �� C230 Structures Unlimited LLC �� Equine Tent Summers ��785-786 Summit Livestock Facilities��Beef Tent Sundstrom Pit Pumping LLC �� 879 Superior Attachments Inc �� 415 Swiderski Equipment Inc �� 159-160/233-234 T & T Quality Buildings��984-987 The Andersons PureGrade �� 475-476/A017-A018 The Country Today �� C194 The Delong Co�, Inc� �� 289-291/302-304 The Democratic Party of Walworth County�� C189 The Good Feet Store�� B088 The Hueber Report �� B092

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The Insurance Center�� B158 The Scharine Group, Inc� ��653-654 The Stankee Company Inc �� 589 The Toro Co�� 702 Thunder Creek Equipment �� 775 Timpte Inc ��638-639 TopGan Drone�� C234 Total Track & Preformance Products �� 244 Town & Country Toys �� A034-A035 Tracy Seeds LLC �� 760 Traeder Enterprises Inc �� 371-377/416-422 Trakrite Services LLC�� A058 Transport Refrigeration Inc ��D242 Tribute Equine Nutrition �� Equine Tent Trioliet ��825-827 Trioliet ��825-827 Trouble Free Lighting�� B146 Truck Country�� 652 True North Attachments, Inc��788-789 Twinkles Toys��988/1005 Twohig, Rietbrock, Schneider & Halbach SC �� A073 TYRI Americas �� A014 U�S� Slat Mat LLC�� C174 Udder Comfort International Inc ��B145 Ultimate Outdoor Furnace �� 790 United Scale a Transcat Co�� C207 US Cellular ��D280 US Dept of Labor-OSHA �� B114 Usborne Books and More�� A004 USEMCO Inc�� C167 UW-Madison Farm & Industry Short Course�� A005 UW-River Falls CAFES �� B083 V & H Inc�� 277-278/315-316 Valmetal USA �� 710 Vaughn Irrigators, USA �� A068 Vermeer ��950-951/1042-1043 VES Environmental Solutions LLC �� 548 Vets Plus Inc �� C205 Wacker Neuson Sales Americas LLC �� 1038 Walco USA ��616-617 Walsh Trading Inc�� C208 Walters Buildings �� 479-480/513-514 Walworth County Economic Development Alliance �� B137 Walworth County Snowmobile Alliance �� 213

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WaterFurnace International Inc �� C216-C217 Waukesha Lime & Stone �� A028 We Energies�� C177 Wedige Radiator & AC Inc �� A057 Welder Supply �� 740 Whitetails of Wisconsin��640-641 WI Operation Lifesaver�� B124 Wick Buildings��766-768 Wieser Concrete Products Inc�� 356 Wilson Trailer Sales of Wisconsin �� 753-755 Wisconsin Association of Mutual Insurance Co �� A023 Wisconsin Beef Council ��Beef Tent Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Association�� Beef Tent Wisconsin Dairy Goat Association ��952 Wisconsin Department of Transportation �� C193 Wisconsin Farmers Union �� 588 Wisconsin Ford Dealers �� 976-979/1014-1017 Wisconsin Hereford Association�� Beef Tent Wisconsin Kenworth �� 180 Wisconsin Livestock ID Consortium ��Beef Tent Wisconsin Meat Goats�� 953 Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board �� 614-615 Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association �� C192 Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association�� 403 Wisconsin Property Taxpayers, Inc� ��C212 Wisconsin Shorthorn Association �� Beef Tent Wisconsin Simmental Association �� Beef Tent Wisconsin Trappers Association �� B141-B142 Wisconsin Wagyu Breeders��Beef Tent Wisconsin/American Angus Associations ��Beef Tent Wolf Paving Co Inc�� A076 Wood Beaver Resource Recovery Systems Inc ��608-609 Xylem Ltd �� 703 YES JCB ��948-949/1044-1045 Yetter Manufacturing�� A049-A050 Zerk Zapper Tool �� B103 Zimmerman’s High Tunnels �� B152

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CONTACT THESE DEALERS FOR MORE INFORMATION: APPLETON R&M Farm Systems 920-788-3505 ARCADIA D&D Farm Supply 608-323-7001 ARKANSAW Anibas Silo & Equip. 715-285-5317 BANGOR Althoﬀ Sales & Service, Inc. 608-486-2032 BLUE RIVER Blue River Harvestor Repair, Inc. 608-537-2746 800-932-4749 CHIPPEWA FALLS Chippewa Farm Service, LLC 715-577-8372 CURTISS Maki Farm Service, LLC 715-613-7308 DARIEN SVH Supply Inc. 877-784-7877

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New technologies to be on display Geneva Lake highlights featured at FTD LAKE GENEVA — Wisconsin Farm Technology Days attendees who might not have time to go sailing on Geneva Lake during their visit to Walworth County will have an opportunity to see a miniature version of the lake in Tent City’s Innovation Square. Innovation Square was a new addition to FTD in 2015 in Dane County and is being continued as a regular feature this year and at future shows. The footballeld-size area features new technologies invented by agricultural companies and university faculty. While walking around the miniature Geneva Lake in this year’s Innovation Square, visitors will be able to learn about the agricultural heritage of the county, from Native American agrarian practices to the innovative turn-of-the20th-century animal husbandry practices of some of the area’s lakefront residents. Six stops will be featured during a walk around Geneva Lake. The rst 4-H club in Wisconsin was organized in the town of Linn not far from the Snudden farm. Linn 4-H continues to be an active 4-H club. Flowerside/Chapin Farms were founded in 1898. Chapin eventually had ve farms on the west side of Lake Geneva, each with its own specialty. The original barn can still be seen on Snake Road, off

of Highway 50. Chapin sold the land used for Horticulture Hall, an historic building in Lake Geneva that was the location of many garden and agricultural fairs. Pottawatomie Indian Chief Big Foot had three different villages around the lake. It was the Pottawatomie tribe that established the path around the lake. The Native Americans planted and harvested corn, beans, squash and tobacco in addition to nuts and berries in the surrounding woods. The lake provided sh and the woods had deer and small animals to provide meat. Black Point/Baker Farm was an important part of the Seipp estate. Black Point was the home of Conrad Seipp, a Chicago beer baron. The farm not only provide milk, eggs, meat and vegetables for the family, but also chores for the grandchildren. Each child was given the responsibility of caring for a goat during the summer. Tessa Schmidt, a granddaughter of Conrad and Catherina Seipp, was the rst female graduate of the UW-Madison Farm Short Course. Yerkes Observatory is another important site on Geneva Lake. It is the home of the world’s largest refractory telescope. The observatory has 550 feet of undeveloped shoreline. Most of the property is woods. Yerkes conducts a number of environmental programs with area schools and communities.

LAKE GENEVA — Eight companies and a university program will be highlighted in Innovation Square at this year’s Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. Innovation Square is located at the main entrance of Tent City between 6th Streets East and West and will feature new technologies invented by eight companies. The companies and their new innovations will include the following: Roberts Irrigation: Reinke ReinCloud. Roberts Irrigation will highlight the use of computer panels on center-pivot irrigation systems to control the water application of the system and the use of the cloud to collect data about elds, irrigation amounts and timing of water application.

Krone North America: The company has introduced a completely redesigned series of forage harvesters known as Big X Forage Harvesters. Krone’s new harvesters feature better sightlines, easier maintenance and a shorter turning radius. Kuhn North America: The SW 4014 square bale wrapper features an autoload function for non-stop fully automatic loading, wrapping and unloading of large square or round bales. Farm Data Company: The company’s “Farmobile” products help farmers store, share and sell valuable agronomic and machine data generated on the farm. A farmers leases a device from the company, installs it on any make or model of recent farm machinery, and when the ma-

chinery is operated, the technology captures and stores all of the data, including planting, spraying, harvesting, fertilizing and tillage information. Exacto: The Walworth County-based company will be unveiling Drout-Out, a patent-pending soil moisture management technology designed for use in conventional irrigation equipment. DMZ Marketing: The company will feature UAV Technologies and Crop Matrix. UAV Technologies include offering longer battery life, enhanced image resolution and actionable intelligence. Crop Matrix is a farm dashboard incorporating in-eld sensor networks, weather stations, UAV imagery and more. Half Moon Outdoors: The company has an all-terrain wheelchair to allow dis-

abled farmers to succeed while traversing rough and uneven terrain. Life Essentials: The company makes easy-to-use equipment such as tractor and truck lifts to help people with disabilities to get around the farm in the most efcient way possible. Life Essentials’ agricultural mobility equipment “helps real people work past their real problems.” AgrAbility of Wisconsin: Since 1991, AgrAbility of Wisconsin has been promoting success in agriculture for farmers and their families living with a farm injury, disability or limitation. AgrAbility is a partnership between UW-Extension and Easter Seals of Wisconsin. In 2016, AgrAbility will celebrate 25 years of service to the agriculture industry in Wisconsin.

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Walworth County features diverse agriculture industry By Jenessa Freidhof

elsewhere in the county’s economy. There are 13,100 cows Located along the Wis- on 75 dairies in Walworth consin-Illinois border, County. They each proWalworth County has a duce 24,500 pounds of very diverse agriculture milk, making them among industry. It includes grain the highest-producing and dairy production cows in Wisconsin. In adalong with a wide variety dition to milk production, of livestock and horticul- Walworth County tural crops. In recent recorded the highest peryears, direct marketing of acre yields of corn in items such as cheese, Wisconsin in 2014 at poultry and fruit has con- 187.4 bushels per acre. tinued to grow. Out of the more than As of 2011, agriculture 53,000 jobs in the contributed more than county’s workforce, 7.1 3,700 jobs and $208 mil- percent are provided by lion to county income and agriculture. These go beaccounted for $599 milyond farm owners, manlion in business sales. To- agers and employees and day, it is estimated that includes input suppliers, the agricultural industry machinery dealers, accounts for $895 million lenders and those working in economic activity in in food processing. Each Walworth County. of these jobs generates an More than 60 percent of additional 0.37 jobs in the the county is farmland. county. Farmers manage 217,593 Walworth County is one acres, which is used for of Wisconsin’s top tourist crops, pasture, tree farms, destinations. Its rural farm forests and wetlands. landscapes make it a deMore than 94 percent of Walworth County farms are owned by families, including family partnerships and corporations. Walworth County’s top commodities include grains, milk, cattle, nursery and greenhouse, and vegetables; and 6.8 percent of the county’s total income, including wages, salaries, benets and prots of farmers and workers, is contributed through the agriculture industry. According to UW-Extension, every dollar of agricultural income in the county generates an additional $0.48 of county income. Agriculture generates 9 percent of Walworth County’s total business sales, with every dollar generating an addition $0.24 of business sales Regional Editor | jenessa.freidhof@ecpc.com

sirable place to visit. This has also impacted how Walworth County markets its products to consumers. With more focus on locally grown agricultural products, roadside stands, farmers’ markets and other direct market outlets have been popping up across the countryside. In 2011, 87 Walworth County farms generated nearly $830,000 from direct market sales. Walworth County agricultural agent and executive secretary for the 2016 FTD show Peg Reedy said that the population of the county is split between urban and rural residents. Organizers of the show are reaching out to the urban community to encourage them to come check out modern agriculture in action. With agriculture as important to the county as it is, “they would be blind if they didn’t think agriculture was a big deal,” Reedy said.

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Farm Tech Days host farm structures are Keller-built By Heidi Clausen Regional Editor | clausen@amerytel.net

A common thread weaves through all the buildings at Snudden Farms, host of the 2016 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days: Each one was built by Keller Inc. Keller, a 100 percent employee-owned rm with four ofces in Wisconsin, tackled its rst project at the 1,700cow dairy in the late-1990s, according to Jerry Cohen, vice president of construction. “We remodeled his rst parlor and put his rst building addition on for his rst (expansion),” Cohen said. “We kept growing and giving him ideas to help him get to where he is today.” Since that rst project, Keller has put up ve freestall barns at the farm for housing for dry and milking cows, including a new 300cow free-stall barn nished

Tours of the Snudden Farms facilities will run continuously each day from 9:30 a.m. and take about 40 minutes; the last farm tour will leave at 3 p.m. Highlights will include the heifer and calf facility, feed storage area, milking parlor, free-stall barn, sand recycling facility and waste management system. Catch the tram on the north end of Tent City on Farm and Fleet Street, next to Education Square. For more information about Keller Construction, visit www.kellerbuilds.com or nd their 50-square-foot lot in Tent City during Wisconsin Farm Technology Days.

last April. They also installed a double-32 milking parlor, built a 1,000-foot heifer barn and moved an existing building, remodeling it into a wet calf barn. “We utilized as much of the old structure and existing building to save costs in the early going of the project,” Cohen said, adding that there’s still concrete in place from the original dairy barn. They also built a new machine shed and shop area and

have added on to some barns to create additional outside feeding space. “We tied three different structures together under one roof to make it more animaland environmentally friendly to keep rainwater free from manure water,” Cohen said. He said they also have made the operation a better workplace for employees, creating a breezeway, or transition area, for moving cattle from barns to the par-

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Farm show has long history By Jim Massey

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The Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Show in Walworth County later this month will be the 63rd show of its kind, with a history dating to 1954. The event, which has grown to be Wisconsin’s largest outdoor farm show and one of the largest in the nation, is held on a different farm each year, with the exception of the rst two shows, which were held on the same Waupaca County farm. Forty counties have hosted the show, including rst-time show host Walworth this year, with Waupaca County leading the way with four shows. The show was named Wisconsin Farm Progress Days for the rst 49 years, but the name was changed to Wisconsin Farm Technology Days in 2003, when the 50th

show was held in Waupaca County. There has been some discussion about someday selecting a permanent site for the show at a central location, but show ofcials said recently they intended to continue moving the show from county to county as long as there are local people interested in hosting the event. The 2017 show will be at Ebert Enterprises in Kewaunee County on July 11-13, 2017. The three-day outdoor event showcases the latest improvements in production agriculture, including many practical applications of recent research ndings and technological developments. Wisconsin Farm Technology Days provides visitors the opportunity to see and talk with more than 600 commercial and educational exhibitors in Tent City who are eager to

visit with them about their machinery, equipment, facilities, products, and services needs. A wide variety of agricultural products and services used in today’s dairy, livestock, and crop production systems in Wisconsin will be on display. In addition, specialists and county Extension agents from the University of Wisconsin and state and federal agencies are on hand to answer questions. Educational exhibits, special interest displays, and eld machinery demonstrations provide something of interest for everyone. Since the rst show in 1954, the WFTD board of directors has guided the annual event.

The board is comprised of representatives of state and federal agencies involved in agriculture and natural resources, the University of Wisconsin, and the agribusiness/industry and farming sectors. During the show’s long history, virtually all activity at the host county level has been coordinated and managed by the county’s UW-Extension ofce in cooperation with the county’s FTD committee and as many as 2,000 volunteers. That will change in the future, however, as it has been announced that Extension’s involvement will be reduced and a coordinator will be hired to organize each show.

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Changes come to Eberts ahead of 2017 FTD By Sara Bredesen Regional Editor | stbrede@gmail.com

ALGOMA — A round milking parlor belongs in a round building. Or at least that’s what Randy Ebert thought when Ebert Enterprises — hosts for the 2017 Kewaunee County Farm Technology Days — was

making plans to move out of its double 26 parallel and into an 80-stall rotary. “I’ve always liked the looks of round barns,” Randy said of the new red round barn on the farm’s north side. “It’s kind of a nod to my mother’s side of the family. They were builders.” Randy said the family had

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we kind of outgrew the parlor and had to do it.” Something that denitely was in the plan for FTD was a change in planting schedule. “A lot of the land around the farm we’re just making into hay, because that will be good for the Tent City, which will be northwest of the farm,” Renee said. This is the second summer for two other changes that visitors next summer will be able to see while touring the facility. Calves were moved to self-feeders last year and are being fed pasteurized waste milk on demand. Renee said the family is still learning how to make the system work best. This is also the second summer that their former heifer farm has been switched over entirely to housing Angus cross steers. Twenty-ve percent of the milking herd is crows-bred to beef bulls. In the past, those steers would be sold as feeders, but the current batch of steers will be on the menu for 2017 FTD as Angus burgers. Sadly, there was a much less welcome change for the

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Ebert family with the death in May of Renee and Randy’s daughter, Britney. “I wasn’t out there on the farm on a daily basis doing stuff, because she was my sidekick,” Renee said. “She was 19, but she was a 3- to 4year-old in development, so she needed someone with her all the time.” Renee said the family — including older brother Jordan and Britney’s twin sister, Whitney — is slowly learning

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Wood County set to host 2018 Farm Technology Days By Jenessa Freidhof Regional Editor | jenessa.freidhof@ecpc.com

With the 2016 Farm Technology Days slated to start in Walworth County next week, most people are not thinking about the 2018 show. There is one group of people, however, who have been thinking about the Wood County show and continues to quietly plan out the future event. Announced as the 2018 show hosts last October, the Sternweis and Heiman families have been busy planning ever since. They were one of six farms that applied to host the upcoming show. The two families have been farming across the road from each other for more than 100 years. When the chance to apply to host the event came around, they felt it would be a great opportunity to share a positive message about agriculture.

Established in 1879, the Daryl and Brenda Sternweis family farm is a fth-generation operation that grows 1,200 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. They also have a custom eldwork business. Last fall, they began using six Boumatic robots in a 360-cow barn. They are the rst of their kind in Wisconsin. The family was excited to move to this system after visiting a few Canadian farms with the same system. In an interview earlier this year, Wood County FTD Executive Secretary Matt Lippert said, “I think this will be the rst robotic farm to host Farm Tech Days. (The robotic system) is in operation already, so they have three years to make sure the robots are working right.” The other half of the 2018 show has roots in two family businesses that span over

100 years. The Ken and JoEllen Heiman family uses diversication as their key to success. Nasonville Dairy, a cheesemaking plant since 1885, and Weber’s Farm Store, which started selling bottled milk in 1904, have given the Heimans the opportunity to welcome their children back to the operations. In 1995, they purchased JoEllen’s family farm and began Heiman Holsteins, further diversifying. Nasonville Dairy now receives milk from their own operation in addition to 220 dairy farms from across central Wisconsin. With the families strong histories and convenient location to the city of Marsheld, the 2018 show is anticipated to draw more than 40,000 visitors and require 2,500 volunteers. Wood County has not hosted the show since 1960, when it was held at the Marsheld

Agricultural Research Station. Wood County leads Wisconsin in cranberry production in addition to its many dairy farms. Lippert wanted to be sure to emphasize both parts of the county’s agriculture industry. “We don’t want to do a whole bunch of transportation by taking folks out to a cranberry marsh, so we

might bring cranberries to the show,” Lippert said. This may include a cranberry bed constructed in Innovation Square. According to Lippert, one in every nine cranberries produced in the world is produced in Wood County. Although the show has not been in Wood County for 56 years, people in the area are familiar with Farm Technol-

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FTD toy honors Case IH plant, rare tractor By Heidi Clausen

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The close proximity of the Case IH factory in Racine to this year’s Wisconsin Farm Technology Days host farm served as the inspiration for the 2016 commemorative toy tractor, a 1985 International Harvester 7288. “It was chosen by our executive committee partly because of the proximity of the Case IH plant in Racine but also because of the relative rarity of this tractor,” said committee member Peg Reedy. The IH 7288 was introduced in 1985 as part of the Super 70 series 2+2 tractors (the 7288 and 7488 were actually produced). The tractor was affectionately dubbed “Anteater” because of its extended bonnet, she said.

For more information about the FTD collectible toy tractor, contact Bill Thompson, bill.thompson.gl@gmail.com, or Peg Reedy, peg.reedy@ces.uwex.edu. To order online, visit www.wifarmtechnologydays.com/walworth. Order forms with payment can be mailed to: Walworth County Farm Tech Days, P.O. Box 1001, Elkhorn, WI 53121. The cost is $150. Models can be picked up at the show or shipped for $29 per unit.

tires in the front and The 1985 production back and an articulated run of the Super 70 sedesign. ries was canceled after just 19 7288s and 16 “It was primarily in7488s were built when Tenneco Inc., which already owned Case, also bought IH. The tractor lines were consolidated and the Super 70 series discontinued, to be replaced by the Case Magnum series. The 35 tractors were hand-built at the Farmall Tractor Works in the U.S., Reedy said. The 7288 was a fourwheel-drive, 210horsepower tractor with intercooled, turbocharged engine, dual

tended as a tractor to be used in row-crop production,” she said. “The original price ... was $83,000, but few were sold and were let go for half-price without warranty or any guarantee of parts availability.” One of the Super 70 series tractors will be on display at the 2016 FTD show. Like the life-size version, a limited number

of toy tractors is available — only 600 have been made, and about 200 had been preordered as of mid-June, according to Bill Thompson. Never before made into a toy, the 1/ 16-scale diecast model was produced by Ertl, based in Dyersville, Iowa. “We expect that a lot will sell at the event,” Thompson said. “Quite

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