| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| Wisconin's Dairy Industry Plans Growth |
| Despite times of nationwide economic uncertainty, one Wisconsin industry looks forward with confidence to a sustainable future.
The state’s most progressive dairy industry organization, the Dairy Business Association (DBA), recently polled 40 dairy producer members and found that they have plans to invest more than $116 million into expansion projects in the next six months.
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| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| DBA Plans CAFO Workshops and Webconferences |
| Individuals involved with seeking and securing permits for growing livestock operations are invited to attend the Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) workshops and webconferences throughout June and July organized by the Dairy Business Association in collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and University of Wisconsin – Extension. |
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| Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| Loss in Immigrant Labor Force Means Loss for Wisconsin's Economy |
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Wisconsin’s economy could lose $7 billion and 40,000 jobs if federal immigration policy is not reformed, according to an estimate from the National Milk Producers Federation.
A drop in milk output due to a partial loss of the labor force, combined with the potential decline in dairy processing, could be the result if the need for farm workers is not considered in immigration policy reform. Approximately 30 percent of Wisconsin’s dairy work force is hired, and NMPF gauges that half of those workers are immigrants.
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| Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| DBA Supports EPA's Revisions to Clean Water Act |
| Recent changes proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could mean good news for growing and expanding dairy and livestock operations in the state of Wisconsin, according to the Dairy Business Association (DBA).
The revision introduced to the EPA’s Clean Water Act could change the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program’s permitting process to allow operators to self-certify their dairy and livestock facilities as “no discharge,” meaning that they do not plan to discharge into the state’s waterways.
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| Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| DBA Pleased with DNR's Air Emissions Extension |
| MADISON - On February 27, 2008, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) board members unanimously approved NR 445, thereby extending the enforcement date of rules that might have required livestock producers to invest significant amounts of revenue on untested practices or equipment which may not have met compliance under these new state and federal air emissions standards. |
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| Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| DBA Supports EPA's Reporting Exemption Proposal |
| The Dairy Business Association (DBA) supports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed exemption that would exclude farms from reporting air emissions of hazardous substances from animal waste and allow farms to better utilize time and financial resources towards effectively protecting human health and the environment. |
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| Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| BadgerChoice to Create Options for Farmers |
| MADISON – Soon, more than 800,000 farmers and small business employees in Wisconsin will have a choice when it comes to their health insurance options – BadgerChoice.
Efforts of Governor Doyle have resulted in a plan that will transform the health insurance market and allow employees to choose a plan that fits their needs at a price they can afford. BadgerChoice, an inclusion in the Wisconsin Small Business Health Care Solution, will level the playing field to provide competitive insurance rates, simplicity and choice for small businesses throughout the state.
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| Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| Griswold Elected to DBA Board of Directors |
| Madison, Wis., December 6, 2007 – Tim Griswold, DBA member and Dairy Business Representative with Monsanto, was elected to the Dairy Business Association’s Board of Directors at the annual business meeting last Thursday. |
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| Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| Meissner Named DBA President |
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Madison, Wis., December 6, 2007 – Jerry Meissner, a dairy producer from Chili, Wis., was named president of Wisconsin’s Dairy Business Association yesterday.
“I look forward to the leadership Jerry will bring to DBA,” said Laurie Fischer, DBA Executive Director.
Meissner owns Norm-E-Lane, Inc., a 1,800-cow dairy farm near Chili, Wis., with his brother David, son Josh and nephew Jeremy. The farm has been in the Meissner family since 1950 and has grown to about 4,000 acres.
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| Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| DBA Applauds Governor’s Next Generation Agriculture Plan |
| The Dairy Business Association (DBA) applauds the efforts of Governor Jim Doyle for launching the Next Generation Agriculture Plan at its annual business meeting. The Next Generation Agriculture Plan is a detailed, aggressive plan that will continue to build collaborative efforts between the Administration and the DBA to further improve the Wisconsin’s agriculture economy, especially its dairy and cheese industry. |
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| Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| Dairy Business Association signs Green Tier Charter with Department of Natural Resources |
| MADISON – The Dairy Business Association (DBA) is helping dairy producers and processors make America’s Dairyland a bit greener by signing the industry’s first charter with the Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Green Tier program. |
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| Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| Governor Doyle Launches Next Generation Agriculture Plan |
| Governor Jim Doyle today announced his “Next Generation Agriculture” Plan – a strategic investment to prepare Wisconsin farms for the future. These new initiatives totaling more than $33 million will move the dairy and agriculture industry forward by providing more resources to modernize and innovate, capture new markets, and seize new green opportunities. |
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| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| DBA Transforming Wisconsin’s Dairy Industry with Annual Business Conference |
| Make plans now to attend the 8th Annual DBA Business Conference, “Transforming the Dairy Industry,” to be held November 28 – 29, 2007 in Madison, Wis. at the Marriott West. This year’s conference provides the opportunity to interact with the leaders and innovators of Wisconsin’s dairy industry. |
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| Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| DBA Writes Letter to Wisconsin Congressional Delegation Opposing U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “No-Match” Rules |
| Green Bay, August 15, 2007 – DBA wrote a letter to the entire Wisconsin Congressional Delegation urging them to oppose the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “no-match” rules, which will require Social Security Administration to notify DHS agents when letters are sent to employers concerning employees with social security numbers that do not match the employee’s name and other identifiers. |
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| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| UW-Madison Breaks Ground for New Dairy Research Facility |
| Wisconsin dignitaries, representatives of the UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and a host of representatives of Wisconsin's dairy industry gathered to break ground for the newest addition to the UW-Madison's Integrated Dairy Research facilities system last week. |
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| Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| Another Victory for DBA and Siting Legislation |
| After listening to two hours of testimony from concerned citizens, the Vernon County Board voted against adoption of a moratorium that would have prevented livestock operations with over 500 animal units from expanding in Vernon County. The vote passed by an overwhelming count of 23-6. |
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| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| DBA Receives $250,000 to Develop a Centralized Resource Center |
| The Wisconsin Dairy Business Association was notified today that the funding for the "Environmental Compliance Cooperative Agreement" project was approved. |
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| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| DBA Applauds the Livestock Facility Siting Review Board |
| After months of delay, and several year’s worth of hearings on countless irrelevant issues before the Town of Magnolia, today the Wisconsin Livestock Facility Siting Review Board members reversed all of the improper and unlawful conditions imposed by the Town on Larson Acres’ heifer facility. |
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| Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| Animart to Donate A Portion of July & August Sales to DBA |
| ANIMART, Inc. will donate a portion of July and August sales to the Dairy Business Association (DBA), a producer-driven organization working to assure that dairy producers, large and small, remain an active, thriving part of Wisconsin’s economy and communities by fostering a positive business and political environment. |
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| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| DBA Applauds Rep. Gronemus’ Legislative Career |
| Wisconsin agriculture lost a true friend when long-time Democratic State Representative Barbara “Bobby” Gronemus (D-Whitehall) announced
that she will not run for re-election in 2008. Elected in 1982, Representative Gronemus has been an ardent supporter of our state’s rural and farm families. |
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| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| GLBRC Grant Announcement Press Release |
| The Wisconsin Dairy Business Association applauds today’s announcement regarding the creation of the Great Lakes Bio-energy Research Center (GLBRC). Wisconsin’s agricultural community is beginning to reap the rewards of many of the Governor’s visionary programs and policies. |
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| Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| State Commits To Future Of America’s Dairyland |
| On a strong bipartisan vote of 16 ayes, 0 nays, the Joint Committee on Finance voted in favor of Dairy Manufacturing Facility Tax Investment Credit. The Committee’s vote today reinforced the states commitment to the future of agribusiness in America’s Dairyland. |
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| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| Carbon Credits can be Valuable Unless you Sell them to the Wrong Person! |
| A host of companies are getting into emissions trading and are approaching producer and convincing them to sell their credits or let them manage their carbon commodities in a less than fair partnership. |
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| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| Summary of Key NR 243 Regulatory Changes |
| The following memorandum summarizes the most
significant new changes to Wis. Admin. Code ch.
NR 243, scheduled to take effect in May 2007. |
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| Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| Town Officials Force Farmer to Appeal Excessive Permit Requirements |
| Green Bay, WI- The Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin ("DBA") today applauded the decision by the Larson Family to appeal the Town of Magnolia's March 27th action to a state appeals board. Larson filed the appeal with the state's Livestock Facility Siting Review Board last week. |
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| Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| Letter to Joint Committee on Finance to Support Dairy Plant Investment Tax Credit |
| The Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin, together with the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, Wisconsin Dairy Products Association, Wisconsin Agribusiness Council, Wisconsin Farm Bureau and the Wisconsin National Farmers Organization drafted a letter to members of the Joint Committee on Finance, including chairs Senator Russell Decker and Representative Kitty Rhoades, encouraging them to support the Dairy Plant Investment Tax Credit in the 2007-09 biennial budgets. |
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| Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| The Rivers, Lakes, and Lake Michigan, Awash in Human Waste Again |
| Two weeks ago the Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin, (DBA) sent out a press release commenting on the news that a sewer pipe at Miller Park in Milwaukee may have misconnected during construction, allowing disease laden human waste to flow into the Menomonee River for possibly as long as six years. |
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| Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| DBA President, John Vrieze Appointed to Global Warming Task Force |
| Governor Doyle signed an Executive Order creating a Global Warming Task Force that appoints Vrieze and other key leaders to examine the challenges global warming poses for Wisconsin’s economic and environmental health. |
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| Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| DBA and WCMA Draft Letter of Support for Forward Contracting |
| DBA and the WCMA sent a joint letter to Congressman Steve Kagen asking him as the only member of the Wisconsin delegation on the House Agriculture Committee, to consider the importance of forward contracting to our producers and processors and to make this a high priority in the 2007 Farm Bill. |
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| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| The “Real ID Bill” we need to pay attention to the details |
| If your dairy or business uses migrant or seasonal laborers in your operation you need to become familiar with changes that will take place when they need to renew or obtain a drivers license in any state in the union. |
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| Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| Miller Park Flushes Human Fecal Waste into the Menomonee River |
| The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that, according to local sewerage officials, a sanitary sewer misconnection apparently is allowing untreated human waste to flow directly into the Menomonee River and downstream to Lake Michigan. |
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| Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| DBA Responds to Green Rock Citizens for Clean Water’s requested conditions for Larson Acres permit. |
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| Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| DBA Applauds Governor’s Commitment to Cheese Industry |
| The Dairy Business Association (DBA) applauds the efforts of Governor Jim Doyle for his announcement of the Dairy Plant Investment Tax Credit in his 2007-09 Biennial Budget Address. The proposed tax credits are in the amount of 10%, up to $200,000, of investments aimed at modernizing and expanding dairy manufacturing facilities. The incentives run through 2014. |
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| Saturday, February 10, 2007 |
| Dairy Business Association Applauds Dr. Kagen's Appointment to the House Agriculture Committee |
| The Dairy Business Association applauded the efforts of Dr. Steve Kagen's successful placement on the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee. The first term lawmaker's post provides an excellent opportunity for Wisconsin agriculture, especially the dairy industry, to be highlighted during upcoming farm bill discussions. |
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