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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg & Extention Committee 01-02-1996k ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF Q0Nfl =E MEETING TO: Robert M. Boche, Chairman St. Croix County Board FROM: Vern Dull, Chairman COMMITTEE TITLE: Extension Ag Committee/Resource & Education Committee DATE: January 2, 1996 TIME: 12:30 p.m. LOCATION: Ag Center, Baldwin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT - 1995 Budget - 1996 Budget - District WACEC Annual Meeting - Visioning For The Future AG AGENT'S REPORT - 1996 Winter Meetings 4-H & YOUTH AGENTIS REPORT - VITA - MN/WI Grant Update - 4-Year Plan of Work RESOURCE AGENT'S REPORT FAMILY LIVING AGENT'S REPORT NEW BUSINESS: ANNOUNCEMENTS &CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Lee Milligan DATE: December 18, 1995 COPIES TO: County Board Office County Clerk News Media/Notice Board Committee Members Ag & Extension Education Committee Ag & Extension/Resource & Education Committee January 2, 1996 Ag Center, Baldwin Convened: 12:30 p.m. Adjourned: 2:30 p.m. Present: Vern Dull, Tom Dorsey, Ronald Raymond, Chris Bethke, Lee Milligan, Jim Janke, Ronald Raymond, Chris Bethke, Kim Reaman, and Art Jensen. The meeting was called to order at 12:30 p.m. Date of next meeting was set for Tuesday, February, 6 at 12:30 p.m. Jensen moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried. Jensen moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried. Raymond moved that the vouchers be approved. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion carried. Administrative Report The WACEC District Annual Meeting is February 14. There will be a discussion on what Extension will or should look like in 5 or 10 years. There is a committee that is looking at how Extension will be structured and operate in the future. LuVern Burke explained the family Preservation and Support Grant that Health and Human Services Department has received. Ag Agent's Report In December, 67 dairy producers and professionals attended the Western Wisconsin Dairy Seminar at the Coachman. Participants learned how to identify and prevent acidosis problems. Why cows are not milking as expected this fall was also addressed. Milligan has over 40 St. Croix County dairy producers participating in the 1995 Dairy Farm Business Analysis program. The first meeting was in December. Another 20 producers will be participating in Pierce County. Milligan discussed the upcoming winter meeting schedule. Topics to be addressed are ag finance, corn, soybean and forage production, pesticide applicators training, farm recordkeeping, dairy farm analysis, and global position systems for crop production. The clientele groups will be farmers and agri-business professionals. Resurce Agent's Report Janke described the opinion surveys that have been sent to randomly selected samples of the general public, farmers, environmental/conservation organizaton members, and the development industry. Janke has designed the process and is helping the Planning Department to implement it. The surveys are to be tabulated by UWRF students. Janke described a service offered to manufacturing businesses in the county. On December 6 he arranged for a UW specialist to do literature searches on technical topics for manufacturing businesses. Managers made appointments and Janke and the specialist connected to a private data base through the Internet. 4-H/Youth Agent's Report VITA -- Reaman's VITA submitted for promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure was reviewed by the Department Standard, Rank and Promotion Committee. The document passed unanimously and will be forwarded to the Divisional Standard, Rank and Promotion Committee for review on February 7, 1996. MN/WI Grant Update -- Lestrud, Reaman and Leifeld (MN Extension Educator) met- with several individuals who work in the juvenile justice field to discuss the first time juvenile offender program which is part of the MN/WI Extension Programming Partnership Grant. As a result of this meeting, the target audience of the program has changed from first time juvenile offenders to students who are truant. Follow up meetings with school officials and law enforcement officers will help to solidify the target audience and program content. 4-Year Plan of Work -- Reaman distributed her 4-year plan of work. Reaman's two major programs include Developing Capable and Responsible Youth and Enabling Youth to Deal with Violence in Their Communities. 4-H Interstate Exchange -- St. Croix County participates in a four - county Interstate Exchange with Pierce, Dunn and Pepin Counties. Responsibility for coordinating the exchange rotates between these four counties. The 1996-97 Interstate Exchange will be coordinated by St. Croix County. Several contacts with potential host states have been made --Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina. Nothing has been confirmed. Raymond moved to adjourn. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried.