HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg & Extention Committee 03-05-1996ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF CON Pvffr EE MEETING
TO: Robert M. Boche, Chairman
St. Croix County Board
FROM: Vern Dull, Chairman
COMMITTEE TITLE: Extension Ag Committee/Resource & Education Committee
DATE: March 5, 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 BIISINESS:
Administrative Report
- Budget
- Status of Ag Building
Family Living Agents Report
- FNP Program
- March Leader Training
- Together Time
Ag Agent's Report
- Educational Programs
4-H & Youth Agent's Report
- Vita
- Youth Protection Policy Update
- Mini -Talent Explosion
- New 4-H Family Effort -
Resource Agentfs Report Resource Guide
- Business Management Counseling
- EPA Grant Application
- Barn Preservation Workshop
- Development Plan Ordinance Review
- Development Plan Survey
NEW BIISINESS:
ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ADJOURNMENT
(Agenda not necessarily presented in this order)
SUBMITTED BY: Lee Milligan
DATE: February 22, 1996
COPIES TO: County Board Office
County Clerk
News Media/Notice Board
Committee Members
Ag & Extension/Resource & Education Committee
March 5, 1996
Ag Center, Baldwin
Present: Vern Dull, Tom Dorsey,
Raymond, Lee Milligan, Jim Janke,
Martha Mabis.
Convened: 1:10 p.m.
Adjourned: 4:15 p.m.
Art Jensen, Chris Bethke, Ronald
Kim Reaman, Mary Lestrud and
The meeting was called to order at 1:10 p.m.
Date of next meeting was set for Wednesday, April 3 at 12:30 p.m.
Dorsey moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Raymond
seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Jensen moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved.
Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Dorsey moved that the vouchers be approved. Jensen seconded the
motion. Motion carried.
Administrative Report
The ag building office space was discussed. The Federal Ag
offices will be moving in 1996. Land Conservation and Extension
staff are developing a cost analysis of staying in the present
location or moving to a new site with the Federal Ag offices.
The cost analysis will be completed within two weeks.
Representatives of the Committee and Departments will be meeting
with the Village of Baldwin City Council to discuss their long-
range plans and long-term lease options. Concerns with the
current offices include handicapped accessibility, meeting room
space, general condition of offices, and future availability of
offices for lease.
Milligan, Lestrud, and several committee members attended the
District 8 WACEC annual meeting. Dean Ayse Somersan will retire
September 3. A replacement will be hired before September 3.
Lestrud was one of eight agents selected to discuss a successful
educational program. Lestrud discussed the successful Reading
Festival she developed in St. Croix.
Ag Agent's Report
Fifty-seven crop producers and consultants participated in a
Precision Ag Seminar coordinated by Milligan. The seminar
featured UW-Extension specialists and a panel composed of Roger
Lindquist and Steve Halleen. Participants learned profitable
grid sampling size, global positioning equipment available, and
tips on how to use it.
Fifty crop producers participated in the pesticide applicator
certification training program. To date 74 producers have
participated. Another program will be held March 2.
Milligan taught at a dairy nutrition program with 19
participants. University of Minnesota Extension dairy
nutritionist was guest speaker. Participants learned how
multiple component pricing of milk occurs and how to feed dairy
cows to influence milk components.
Milligan continues to provide educational input to three dairy
producers involved in deciding whether to increase the size of
their herd to 300 or 400 cows.
Milligan is also providing input to a swine producer trying to
decide if the sow herd should be doubled.
Milligan is helping several large dairy herd producers for a
large dairy herd producer network. The network will provide
producers an opportunity to discuss similar issues and problems
that are specific to their size of operation. The organizational
meeting will be in late March.
The Managing Dairy Farm Profitability participants are working
with Milligan on analyzing their farm business records.
Individual reports will be available by late March for comparison
with the group summary.
Farm visits have addressed farm financial management issues,
raising dairy replacements, dairy nutrition, and dairy housing
and milking facilities.
Milligan is coordinating and teaching two forage seminars in
March. The DHI annual meeting is March 14 and the banquet March
23.
Family Living Agent's Report
Mary introduced Extension's Family Nutrition Educator, Martha
Mabis. Martha showed a display on soups and discussed her
current outreach efforts with young families at WIC. She also
plans educational programs in the future at senior meal sites,
jail, and possibly AFDC clients. Mary and Martha spent four days
in Menomonie at training (Mary taught sessions on financial goals
and values and limited families and Earned Income Credit).
Together Time youth have been recruited for regular visits to two
nursing homes. Mary has provided a lesson on fruit nutrition and
preparation for HCE leaders at four county locations and is
currently working on lessons on osteoporosis. Mary will be
attending a two-day conference in March with HCE members
regarding health issues (paid for with state HCE funds).
Mary has been asked to speak to a Hudson group of 50 men and
women on eating nutritious meals/food labels for older adults.
Mary's APEX committee is examining County -wide Search Institute
data after their survey of our teenager's. Programs and goals
will be developed as an outgrowth of that student survey.
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4-H & Youth Agent's Revort
VITA -- The Department of Youth development recommended that
Reaman be promoted from Assistant Professor -probationary to
Associate Professor with tenure. Dean and Director of UWEX
concurred with the recommendations of the department and
divisional committee and requested that Reaman be recommended to
the Board of Regents this spring for this promotion.
Youth Protection Policy Update -- Reaman distributed a handout
outlining the 4-H Leader trends: 1992 - 326 leaders; 1993 - 407
leaders; 1994 - 299 leaders; 1995 - 247 certified leaders; 1996 -
281 certified leaders. There are currently 32 leaders who need
to complete the WI 4-H Youth Protection Policy. The elevated
number of leaders reported in 1992-93 reflects a concerted effort
to report project leaders and other adults involved in 4-H,
regardless of the level of their involvement, in addition to
school programs, by the previous agent.
Mini -Talent Explosion -- About 120 4-H members participated in
this county contest: 11 demonstrations, 21 speeches, 39
interpretive reading, 3 club music entries, 1 club on-stage drama
and 2 club mini -dramas. Reaman handed out a list of the
individual 4-H members and 4-H clubs who were selected to advance
to the District Talent Explosion, March 16.
New 4-H Family Effort -- The 4-H Leaders' Council has expressed
concern about helping new 4-H families With no previous 4-H
experience understand and succeed in the program. Mary Omann and
Reaman, along with the Leaders' Council, will work on developing
a resource guide for new 4-H families that would provide very
basic information regarding the county program.
4-H Ambassadors -- The 4-H Ambassadors are involved in fund
raising to rebuild the float for summer parades. The estimated
cost to rebuild the float is $500. Over the next couple of
months, the Ambassadors will visit 4-H clubs to ask for
contributions.
Resource Agent's Report
Two full days of business management counseling were held at the
Government Center. Only one day was scheduled originally, but
the second date was scheduled to accommodate the additional
demand. Additional dates have been scheduled on March 26 and
April 8.
Janke is working with Dr. Charles Rader at UW-River Falls to
prepare a grant application for $25,000 from the US EPA. The
money would be for a project to compare the various computer
models that predict the vulnerability of groundwater to
contamination from the surface.
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The New Richmond Preservation Society has asked Janke about
sponsoring a regional workshop on barn preservation. Members of
the society are willing to volunteer assistance. UW-Extension
has sponsored two workshops per year in other parts of the state.
The upcoming workshop in Monroe is scheduled for late March and
has already received 150 registration. Janke asked the committee
for feedback on whether to invert the time to hold a workshop for
Western Wisconsin in the spring of 1997. The committee felt that
it was a worthwhile project as long as priority activities were
not harmed.
Janke reported that he arranged for UW-Extension Land Use
Attorney Brian Olsen to assist the county in reviewing the
current zoning ordinance to identify problems and weaknesses.
Development Plan Survey questionnaires are still being received.
Responses from local government officials have topped 90%. Other
groups range between 77 and 88%.
Raymond moved to adjourn. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion
carried.
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