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A Wisconsin dairy farmer speaks about her experience with cancer and the Affordable Care Act in new ads for the Kamala Harris campaign. ... Tina Hinchley, a dairy farmer from Cambridge, Wis., is ...
One of them is Cris Peterson with Four Cubs Farms, a 5th generation family-owned dairy in Grantsburg, in northwest Wisconsin. The farm has been in the Peterson family since 1877 when it was ...
Dairy farming in Wisconsin became commercially viable in the late 19th century. [4] Since its founding, most dairy enterprises were family-owned farms. [5] Wisconsin dairy farms almost entirely hold dairy cows, typically in herds of over 100. [6] The cows are usually kept in a pasture and milked in the barn, two or three times per day.
English: A few of the 60 or so Holstein dairy cows at the Dunnum Family's Top of the Town dairy farm near Westby in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Date Taken on 2 September 2016
After pressure from the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association and the election of dairy advocate William Dempster Hoard as Wisconsin's 16th governor, the Wisconsin Legislature created the Office of the Dairy and Food Commissioner in 1889 to oversee cheese production in the state. [8]: 249–250 Wisconsin outlawed the sale of filled cheese in 1895. [9]
William D. Hoard was born on October 10, 1836, in Munnsville, New York, to William Bradford Hoard and Sarah Katherine White Hoard.He was the eldest of four children. [1]: 132 His father was a blacksmith and itinerant Methodist minister who preached to the Oneida people.
Farm groups say the aid they seek wouldn't make producers whole, but it would give them some badly needed stability as they apply for loans this winter to prepare for the spring planting.
1930 Decennial Census, 125,301 Dairy farms in the state of Wisconsin. 181,767 total farms of all types. 15,616,253 acres (63,196.73 km 2) of Dairy farmland, 21,874,155 acres (88,521.56 km 2) for farms of all types. 34,758,400 acres (140,662 km 2) of land in Wisconsin. (44.9% of all land was Dairy farmland and 71.4% of all farm land was dairy ...