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How can management and the cooperative board build an effective relationship that supports good strategic planning and decision-making? What are the emerging trends in equity management and capitalization? What are board “best practices” for evaluation, monitoring risk, and planning? What are the implications of changes in accounting and auditing standards? Join other board directors, CEOs, and managers from across the cooperative business community for a one-day workshop to examine, discuss, network, listen and share ideas on current issues critical to a cooperative business. (more…)

Perspectives on immigration will be the focus of a one-day, community educational summit to be held on February 29, 2008, at the West Square Administration Building in Baraboo from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Rural Immigration Summit is designed to bring south central Wisconsin community residents together to learn about impacts of immigration.

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Farm level milk prices have declined but remain relatively high. The February Class III price will be near $17.20, down more than $2 from the $19.32 for January but still more than $3.00 higher than a year ago. The Class IV price for February will be near $15.40, down about $0.90 from the $16.29 for January but still about $2.70 higher than a year ago.

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“Wisconsin Aquaculture: Meeting Global Challenges - Locally” is the focus of the Wisconsin Aquaculture conference to be held March 14-15 at the Holiday Inn Manitowoc in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. (more…)

Understanding the true value of a cooperative is crucial to meeting the many strategic dilemmas facing cooperatives as they adapt to a changing business landscape. To explore this critical issue, more than 180 U.S. and Canadian co-op leaders (a record attendance) gathered in St. Paul, Minn., in early November for the 10th annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference. (more…)

Cooperative Extension is offering a Myths of Energy Summit II on March 27 at Lakeshore Technical College. The program will show farmers how to harvest energy and improve energy efficiency, offer information on anaerobic digesters and real life digester experiences, and whether it makes sense to use a wind turbine or solar thermal water heating. (more…)

The Alumni Affairs Office is working with the Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) to hold a ten week science outreach course. We are looking for volunteers to serve as guest speakers. The course will take place on Thursdays from 1:00pm – 3:00pm at Independent Living (602 N. Segoe Road). Guest speakers will be asked to present a topic of their choice related to agriculture, health, food or the environment and participate in the group discussion. Please contact Annie Wright for more information or if you are interested in participating at awright@cals.wisc.edu or 608-262-5784. (more…)

A Heart of the Farm-Women in Agriculture conference is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The conference will be held at Jake’s Northwoods, 1132 Angelo Road in Sparta. (more…)

The 2nd annual Wisconsin Local Food Summit will be held on Jan. 24 and 25, 2008 in Eau Claire in conjunction with the 10th annual Midwest Value Added Agriculture Conference. (more…)

The 2008 Corn Conference meetings, sponsored by UW-Extension and the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association, will be held Jan. 10, 21 and 22 in Rice Lake, Johnson Creek and Richland Center. These conferences are designed to provide technical insight and practical advice to improve on-farm results. The meetings use the latest information available from university and industry research to help producers raise a crop with maximum yield, quality and profitability. The program is an in-depth learning experience with an opportunity to interact with corn production experts and fellow growers. (more…)