HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg & Extention Committee 10-01-1996ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING
TO: Robert M. Boche, Chairman
St. Croix County Board
FROM: Vern Dull, Chairman
COMMITTEE TITLE: Extension Ag Committee/Resource & Education Committee
DATE: October 1, 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
- Budget
PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S REPORT
- Hazardous Waste Program
- Recycling Grant Report
AG AGENT'S REPORT
- Farm -City Day
- Field Plots
- Dairy Farm Business Program
NEW BUSINESS:
ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
RESOURCE AGENT'S REPORT
- Ag Clean Sweep
- Business Counseling
- Planning Committee Training
Session
- Vision Workshop
- Visual Preference Project
4-H & YOUTH AGENT'S REPORT
- Club Meetings: Deer Park
Panthers & Harmony Hill
- ME Workshop for Trip Selection
Leader Training
ADJOURNMENT
(Agenda not necessarily presented in this order)
SUBMITTED BY: Lee Milligan
DATE: September 19, 1996
COPIES TO: County Board Office
County Clerk
News Media/Notice Board
Committee Members
Ag & Extension/Resource & Education/Planning Committee
Oct 1, 1996
Ag Center, Baldwin
Convened: 12:40 p.m.
Adjourned: 2:00 p.m.
Present: Vern Dull, Leon Berenschot, Ronald Raymond, Art Jensen, Chris Bethke, George
Hayducsko, Lee Milligan, Jim Janke, and Kim Reaman.
The meeting was called to order at 12:40 p.m_
Date of next meeting was set for Tuesday, November 5, 1996 at 12:30 p.m.
Jensen moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Berenschot seconded the motion. Motion
carried.
Bethke moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved. Jensen seconded the motion.
Motion carried.
Berenschot moved that the vouchers be approved. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Ag Agent's Report
Farm/City Day was held August 10 at the Randy and Mary Demulling farm with about 2200
people participating. Milligan coordinated the educational tours. It will be held at the Dean and
Jenny Mueller farm near Roberts in 1997. Bill and Opal Haase and Chuck and Mary Kruschke
were general chairs in 1996. Mary Zwald will be general chair in 1997.
The corn silage yield plot at the Doornink farm has been harvested. Yields are being calculated.
Quality tests were also performed. The results will be incorporated into a statewide report by Joe
Lauer UWEX corn specialist.
A pasture walk was held at the Dan Pearson farm. Over 30 people participated. The focus was
on pasture renovation. Pearson- is cooperating with Dennis Cosgrove :.,TWEX forage specialist at
UWRF in several renovation plots. Chicory looks promising as a forage.
Ergot has been found in the barley. It is a dangerous mycotoxin to livestock and humans. It
appears that the levels of contamination are low. There may not be too many problems with it.
Milligan is preparing a packet of information for dealers, veterinarians, and producers.
Milligan will be harvesting two high oil corn plots and one soybean plot in October. These are
on the Wayne Miller, Jerry Kusilek and Mitchell farms. The results will be included in state
reports.
Milligan and Stan Schraufnagel, UW-River Falls farm management specialist, are chairmen of
the farm management educational committee for the 1998 Farm Progress Days in Dunn County.
Planning has started.
Milligan met with producers regarding pricing corn silage and haylage, alternative feeds to
replace corn, land rental rates, dairy housing, manure management, calf housing, entering beef
and/or dairy farming, ration development, reducing feed costs, increasing farm profitability,
expansion planning, corn borer problems, and alfalfa.
Milligan also helped Janke with the Ag Clean Sweep.
4-H Agent's Report
Educational Programs
4-H Club Program -- Reaman attended the Deer Park Panthers 4-H Club Meeting and
facilitated several activities and discussion on how to involve everyone in making club
decisions. She will attend the October meeting of the Harmony Hill 4-H Club to discuss
club organizational leadership responsibilities with the parents and other adults.
ME Workshops -- Due to the disappointing quality of past member evaluation (ME)
forms, the 4-H Leaders' Council required attendance at an ME workshop, regardless of
the member's experience in completing ME forms, to be eligible for 4-H trips and the
key award. Thirty eight members have attended a workshop and received specific help
to develop a high quality member evaluation form. They learned how to effectively
write about their leadership experiences in 4-H, to describe the depth of their 4-H
projects and how their knowledge has grown.
Annual Fall Programs:
4-H Club Officer Training -- Reaman has been working closely with the Junior Leaders
to plan club officer training for 4-H members who hold an officer position in their 4-H
club. These older members have assumed complete responsibility for club officer
training: develop and send out an invitation to each 4-H club officer in the county, plan
and teach the individual officer sessions, and lead more general leadership activities for
all the participants.
4-H Leader Training -- Reaman will work with the 4-H Leaders' Council and Junior
Leader group to identify leader training topics for this winter and spring. She is looking
for any suggestions on topics which will help volunteers in their role as a 4-H leader.
National International 4-H Youth Exchange Conference -- The International 4-H Youth Exchange
(IFYE) program is conducted solely by the IFYE Alumni Association. This volunteer group of
alumni promote global understanding and cultural experiences, recruit members to apply for the
IFYE program, select delegates and raise funds to support the international programs in 4-H.
Reaman attended the National IFYE Conference in Savannah, GA to learn about recent changes
and new developments regarding international programs in 4-H.
Resource Agent Report
The Agricultural Chemical Collection was held on Sept. 21 at Hammond and New Richmond.
The event was coordinated with the Household Hazardous Waste Collection. There were 29
participating farms, 22 at Hammond and 7 at New Richmond. This is below projections. State
grant funds from DATCP will pay for 82 percent of the total costs. There was a small problem
with paint leaking from a dumpster at the Hammond site. The vendor acknowledged their
responsibility and took care of the problem.
Small business management counseling session on Sept. 23 filled up and a second session is
scheduled on Oct 9 to handle the overflow. Their session is now full, also.
The Towns of Pleasant Valley and Kinnickinnic have each decided to create land use plans and
have appointed citizen committees. Janke was asked to provide training session on how to do
a town plan. A joint meeting is scheduled on Oct. 1 for training session.
The County Vision Workshop was held on Sept. 7 with 29 people participating. The group
consisted of members of the Development Plan Steering Committee and invited persons from
the general public. The group developed vision and mission statements and prioritized a list of
goals. The group also agreed to meet again on November 7 to work on additional details.
Each participant was asked to volunteer to take a camera and take pictures of examples of
positive and negative land uses and design. Cameras and instructions were provided. The films
will be developed and photos made available for review at the November 7 meeting.
Planning Department Report
Hayducsko reviewed a list of September vouchers totalling $39,395.91. Raymond moved that
the August vouchers be approved as presented. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Hazardous Waste Program
Hayducsko gave a report on the results of the hazardous waste collection program held on
September 21st. Hayducsko informed the committee that the Finance Committee wished to
reduce the 1997 Hazardous Waste Budget line item 219 from $40,000 to $30,000. Raymond
suggested that the 1997 budget correlate with the experience of this year's program. Raymond
motioned to recommend to the Finance that line item 219 of the 1997 Hazardous waste budget
be reduced from $40,000 to $33,000. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Recycling Grant Report
Hayducsko reported that the 1997 recycling application for $268,000 was submitted to the DNR
on September 30, 1996. The County represents 26 municipalities under its recycling program.
Bethke and Jensen recommended that a plastic lumber exhibit be assembled and displayed at the
Government Center, County Fair and other. locations around the County.
Art Jense
Secretary
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