15 articles on "dairy"

News Release: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam

News Release: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam by: LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX, WISCONSIN — Did you know that since 1969, the United States has lost 85 percent of its dairy farms. And did you know that since 1969, Wisconsin has lost nearly 7...

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Whatever Happened to Christmas

Remember when no one started Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving?Wisconsin author LeAnn R. Ralph remembers it very well."When I was growing up on our dairy farm forty years ago, the stores didn't put up Christmas displays until the day a...

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So You'd Like to. . .Learn More About Living on a Farm

Forty years ago when I was a little girl growing up on our dairy farm in west central Wisconsin, I thought everyone lived on a farm. Then again, many of my kindergarten classmates lived on farms, too, so maybe I wasn’t completely off base.Later on,...

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Dairy Farms - Why Should You Own One?

A farm is an area of land that includes several structures and serves for practicing production and management of food grains and livestock. A dairy farm is the basic production unit of production of food. Dairy farming is pretty popular in many pla...

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New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life 'Down on the Farm'

New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life 'Down on the Farm' by: LeAnn R. Ralph Imagine my surprise when I read an article in the April 2005 edition of Reader's Digest informing me that membership in Future Farmers of Amer...

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News Release Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam

October 2004For Immediate Release…Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows RoamCOLFAX, WISCONSIN — Did you know that since 1969, the United States has lost 85 percent of its dairy farms. And did you know that since 1969, Wisconsin has lost nearly 70 p...

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Whatever Happened to Christmas?

Whatever Happened to Christmas? by: LeAnn R. Ralph Remember when no one started Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving? Wisconsin author LeAnn R. Ralph remembers it very well. "When I was growing up on our dairy farm forty years ago, the st...

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DAIRY MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2004

DAIRY MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK FOR 2004 by: Scott R. Perreault Two years ago the phone rang off the hook with recruiters calling all the time, it has been a long time since I had a call from a recruiter, but now they are starting to cal...

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New Hope for Old Farmers Americans Long for Life 'Down on the Farm'

Imagine my surprise when I read an article in the April 2005 edition of Reader's Digest informing me that membership in Future Farmers of America (FFA) has hit a 22-year record high.Since 1994, the number of farmers' markets around the coun...

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So You'd Like To... Learn More About Living on a Farm

So You'd Like To... Learn More About Living on a Farm by: LeAnn R. Ralph Forty years ago when I was a little girl growing up on our dairy farm in west central Wisconsin, I thought everyone lived on a farm. Then again, many of my kindergarte...

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