In the St. Matthew’s UCC food stand, Renee Keiper added a fresh coat of white paint to the back wall. Next door in the Pleasant Valley PTO Funnel Cake stand, Briana Frost changed light bulbs above the.
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Wisconsin State Farmer
Compeer Financial awards 59 county fair grants
Compeer Financial awarded $175K in grants to help county fairs in WI, MN and IL make facility improvements.
Wisconsin fairs benefitting include: Alto Fair, Bayfield County Fair, Burnett County Agricultural Society Fair, Columbia County Fair Association, Dodge County Fair Association, Grant County Fair, Juneau County Agricultural Industrial Recreational Society, Kenosha County Fair Association, Lodi Agricultural Fair, Marquette County Youth Organization Association, Monroe County Agricultural Society.
Ozaukee County Fair, Racine County Ag Society, Rock County 4-H Fair, Sauk County Agricultural Society, Inc, Sheboygan County Fair Association, St. Croix County Fair, Inc., Stoughton Fair, Vernon County Fair and Washington County Fair.
Marilyn DeMeyer says her childhood town was engulfed by development over just a few decades.
Now sheâs worried the same could happen to her 300-acre farm in Monroe County, New York, not far from Rochester and the shore of Lake Ontario.
Fortunately for her, a number of government programs exist to preserve the stateâs farmland.
Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in New York state, and yet our prime farmland is being lost to poorly planned development at a frightening pace,â said DeMeyer, who farms with her son, Richard. âWe really have to be proactive if weâre going to feed our growing population, not push viable farms out of business and farming to marginal lands.â