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Land O'Lakes plant in Hillsboro, Wisconsin. Butter is another common dairy product produced in Wisconsin. As of 2008, Wisconsin produces 22% of butter in the US, totaling 361 million pounds (164 × 10 ^ 6 kg) of butter. [19] Wisconsin requires buttermakers to hold a license to produce butter, also being the only state in the US to require ...
The American Dairy Goat Association or ADGA is a United States not-for-profit corporation dedicated to dairy goats.Its purpose is to promote the dairy goat industry, by providing and circulating sound information about goats and goat's milk; maintaining and publishing herd books and production records of milk goats; and issuing certificates of registration and recordation; improving and ...
The American Goat Society was the first registry to require exclusively purebred goats and to provide two generations of pedigree on the registry certificate. [1] Unlike some other goat registries, such as the American Dairy Goat Association, the AGS does not allow goats to achieve purebred status by breeding and thus does not offer any registration for mixed-breeds, experimental breeds, or ...
The Rise of the Dairy Industry In Wisconsin: a Study In Agricultural Change, 1820-1920 (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963). Larson, Olaf F. When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 (2011) Lodermeier, Jackson, and James Petrick. "The Progressive Landscape of Organic Dairy Farming in Wisconsin." (2020). online
Hoard bought the farm in 1899. Before then he had served in the Civil War, edited the Jefferson County Union newspaper, started the Wisconsin Dairyman's Association, founded the important agricultural journal Hoard's Dairyman in 1885, and served one term as governor of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891. Despite his venture into politics, Hoard ...
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]
The dairy industry in the United States includes the farms, cooperatives, and companies that produce milk, cheese and related products such as milking machines, and distribute them to the consumer. By 1925, the United States had 1.5-2 million dairy cows, each producing an average of 4200 lb of milk per year.
The Dairyman was founded in 1885 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, by William D. Hoard as an expansion of regular agriculture columns he wrote in the Jefferson County Union. It began as a four-page folio supplement to the Union and became a wholly separate publication in 1889. The publication grew rapidly, rising from 700 subscriptions to the folio ...