Greater than 250 farmers and ranchers, together with a delegation from Wisconsin, have gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the Nationwide Farmers Union’s Fall Legislative Fly-In.
As they meet with lawmakers, USDA leaders, and different administration officers, the group is advocating for equity for farmers, farm invoice priorities, dairy coverage reform, and local weather, conservation and biofuel efforts.
Seventeen Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) members made the trek to the nation’s capital.
“It is all about constructing relationships, whether or not it is with different Farmers Union members, with directors, or with legislative representatives,” WFU Authorities Relations Director Rick Adamski stated Monday, the primary day of the three-day fly-in. “While you’re speaking about issues or hoping to get a program that’s working prolonged, these relationships are very important.”
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With farmers in Wisconsin and elsewhere persevering with to face struggles made worse throughout the coronavirus pandemic, WFU members have loads of points to debate when assembly with federal agriculture officers and lawmakers, Adamski stated. On September 12, they joined members from all through the nation to converse with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and different USDA officers about a wide range of agriculture coverage points. Throughout the afternoon, WFU members attended periods to debate such matters as commodities, antitrust, and conservation insurance policies. Later within the day members gathered with colleagues from different states on the Nationwide Farmers Union headquarters.
WFU President Darin Von Ruden stated entry to federal agriculture employees members and Congressional lawmakers is essential to educating them in regards to the wants of farmers and rural communities.
“I see the challenges we’re dealing with in rural areas as an opportunity to get people who find themselves in positions of energy to concentrate to these points,” Von Ruden stated. “There may be consideration being paid to rural America proper now, and it looks like there’s willingness on each side of the political aisle to hear and take motion.”
Vilsack and the Biden administration are funding quite a few initiatives to learn rural communities, similar to {dollars} to put money into infrastructure and increase meat processing capability. Von Ruden sees extra potentialities forward and notes continued discussions with USDA and coverage makers are key to progress.
Becky Brathal and her husband Ryan are attending the fly-in and are excited to lend their voices to advocating for such points as dairy coverage reforms and conservation practices. Becky is the treasurer of the St. Croix County chapter of WFU.
“When you concentrate on plenty of these points, they do not simply affect farmers, they affect all of us,” Becky stated.
Tuesday, the fly-in contributors are assembly with U.S. Senate and Home of Representatives agriculture committees’ employees members to carry up priorities for the upcoming 2023 Farm Invoice, together with:
● Strengthen the farm security web by elevated price-based triggers in commodity applications to mirror greater enter prices.
● Increase and improve everlasting catastrophe applications in order that household farmers and ranchers are capable of bounce again shortly from extreme climate and different loss occasions.
● Construct upon conservation applications to assist household farmers and ranchers deal with the local weather disaster.
● Foster sturdy and resilient native and regional meals methods and various markets.
● Enact the Dairy Revitalization Plan to stem the lack of household dairy farms.
The farmers are additionally bringing firsthand tales of the devastating affect company monopolies have on household agriculture and are urging assist for a “Equity for Farmers” collection of payments that might stage the taking part in area, together with the Meat and Poultry Particular Investigator Act, Cattle Worth Discovery and Transparency Act, American Beef Labeling Act, and Proper to Restore Act.
Moreover, NFU is asking on the USDA to attach farmers, ranchers, and rural communities with sources allotted to local weather, conservation, and renewable vitality within the Inflation Discount Act (IRA). The group is in search of passage of the Rising Local weather Options Act to scale back boundaries for farmer participation in carbon and different environmental credit score markets.
Representing WFU on the fly-in this yr are: Paul Adams, Eleva; Rick Adamski, Seymour; Camryn Billen, Eau Claire; Becky and Ryan Brathal, Woodville; Hans Breitenmoser, Merrill; Julian Emerson, Eau Claire; Allison Hellenbrand, Madison; Anna and Kevin Hinchley-Skadahl, Cambridge; Claudia Lenz, Star Prairie; Emil Mravec, Twin Lakes; Michelle Ramirez White, Madison; Dave Rosen, Emerald; Oliva Roth; Albany; Kirsten Slaughter, Madison; and Darin Von Ruden, Westby.Go to nfu.org/fly-in to study extra in regards to the fly-in and NFU coverage priorities.
Established in 1930, Wisconsin Farmers Union works to guard and improve the financial pursuits and high quality of lifetime of household farmers and rural communities. WFU is a membership-based group. Be taught extra and be a part of in the present day at www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com.
COLLECTION: Good morning images of the day
Saturday … within the park, undoubtedly not the 4th of July
A mated pair of swans fly overhead March 5 in Riverside Park.
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Strolling swans
Tundra swans take a stroll Monday, March 7, in a cornfield close to Buffalo Metropolis.
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Eagle watch
A mature bald eagle sits peacefully in a tree on the eagle watch Saturday morning.
First robin of spring?
A March 3 customer chirps “good morning” in our yard.
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Opossum passing by
Taking part in ‘possum? Not this little man on Goose Island Park, south of La Crosse. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Eagles at sundset
Eagles watch the sundown March 4 from a tree on Nakomis Avenue on the west aspect of La Crosse. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Saturday … within the park, undoubtedly not the 4th of July
A mated pair of swans fly overhead March 5 in Riverside Park in La Crosse.
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Snowy skyline
Goose Island Park in La Crosse earlier this month. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Towering
Bushes loom overhead on Goose Island. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Spring rain drop
This spring rain drop will quickly turn into a brand new tree bud. Image taken in yard on March 18, 2022.
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The tip of ice fishing season
Ice anglers benefit from the final week for his or her pastime on Lake Onalaska earlier than spring as temperatures rose and the ice on waterways grew to become unsafe to fish on.
Arcadia flyer
A bald eagle glides by the air close to Arcadia, Wis.
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Bridge sundown
The bridges south of Riverside Park are offset by a lovely March 15 sundown.
A foggy morning hey
Some horses get pleasure from a contemporary morning within the yard.
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Spring rain drop
This spring rain drop will quickly turn into a brand new tree bud. Image taken in yard on March 18, 2022.
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Finish of ice fishing is a drag
An ice fisherman heads residence after a day of fishing on the Black River by French Island final week. Native specialists say the time for ice fishing is over because the thickness of ice is not constantly protected.
Spring snow
March ended with some snow, as seen on this yard fall foliage on Thursday.
HARBORMASTER CAPPED
Pictured is Fred Benning with Rachel Evagelisto, Miss Winona, and previous Winona Steamboat Days harbormasters. Benning was capped because the 2022 Winona Steamboat Days Harbormaster. The Steamboat Days Pageant will rejoice its seventy fifth anniversary this yr and can run June 15-19.
Hitting the open water
Among the first anglers of spring fish alongside French Island, alongside the Black River. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Bikes for everybody
Katie Boarini, programming and neighborhood outreach intern with Drift Cycle Bike Share, applies QR code stickers to a fleet of over fifty bicycles Tuesday whereas getting ready for this system’s season at Landmark by the Rivers in La Crosse.
Serving to our neighbors
Steak Store Catering presents a examine to Habitat for Humanity to assist protected, reasonably priced housing right here in Winona. Pictured is Anita Kamrowski of Steak Store Catering, left, and Jen Tepovich, Habitat ReStore Supervisor.
HyVee work continues
Work on the Hy-Vee grocery store continues on the former Sears location at Valley View Mall. The shop is predicted to open within the latter a part of 2022.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Low-flying geese above Goose Island Park impressed this paintings.
PICTURE OF THE DAY: Spring migration
Inexperienced Head Mallards cease over at Goose Island on their manner north.
A practice in contrast to some other…
A bee lands on the petal of an azalea overlooking the seventh gap throughout a follow spherical for the Masters on Monday in Augusta, Ga. The Masters, an expert golf match usually referred to as “a convention in contrast to some other,” begins Thursday. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Feeling squirrelly
Whereas a squirrel eats on Goose Island, a woodpecker watches and a cardinal flies away on April 2.
Elm tree flowers
Among the bushes are blooming and producing pollen, as these elm tree flowers are doing on April 2.
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Sitting on the dock of the bay
Girlfriend and boyfriend mallards spend some high quality duck dock time soaking within the solar by Richmond Bay on French Island.
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A vacation hunt
Three- and four-year-olds participate in Altra’s annual easter egg hunt on the Omni Heart on Onalaska. Along with egg hunts for various age teams, the occasion additionally provided footage with the Easter bunny and door prizes together with Easter baskets and bikes. A fireplace truck and police automotive have been additionally current, and youngsters might meet firemen and officers and have their images taken with the automobiles.
Colourful sundown
The Mississippi River behind the Weber Heart for the Performing Arts in La Crosse mirrors a colourful sky April 8.
A pleasant day for a stroll
The La Crosse River and the marsh path behind Copeland Avenue on April 8.
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A gorgeous sundown
A gorgeous sundown on French Island.
Tulip blooms
A tulip blooms inside my home on April 11.
Dawn within the neighborhood
The solar rises April 21 in La Crosse, peeking by some branches within the neighborhood.
An excellent day for reflection
An excellent blue heron does some reflecting within the waters round French Island in late April.
Having fun with the breeze
An egret relaxes whereas perched in a tree.
Proper on the river
Wanting down on Trempealeau alongside the Mississippi River.
Morning customer
This cedar waxwing was hiding in a close-by tree in April.
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Stunning blossoms
Cherry blossoms are seen in full bloom on Might 9 at Lake Park in Winona. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
A patriotic pair
A female and male mallard take a patriotic stroll on French Island.
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A visit to the Capitol
State Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston, is pictured with sixth- and seventh-grade college students from Mabel-Canton Colleges. The group visited with Rep. Davids just lately whereas touring the state Capitol in St. Paul.
Misty Mississippi
Fog alongside the Mississippi in Winona reduces visibility Might 9.
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Mallard on the march
A mallard seems to be for a meal within the La Crosse marsh final Friday.
A balancing act
Stability Rock on First Peak overlooks the village of Trempealeau.
Apple blossoms
Apple blossom time on French Island final week.
Flowering Crab bushes
Flowering Crab bushes on French Island final week.
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River overflow
La Crosse River meanders by the La Crosse marsh this previous week.
Flag Day subsequent week
Tuesday, June 14, is Flag Day. Pictured is a memorial in Lake Park in Winona.
Able to go for a spin
This little man discovered shelter contained in the tire of his grandpa’s tractor.
Riverside sundown
The solar units behind the Riverside Park fountain on June 8. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Doggone stunning
A neighborhood canine makes a day of chasing muskrats and having fun with a sundown on Lake Onalaska alongside Brice Prairie.
The cat-bird seat
Our cats this spring had a entrance row seat to look at a child cardinal and its dad and mom in a nest in entrance of our home.
La Crosse River at Veterans Memorial Park
La Crosse River from Veteran Memorial Park taken July 16
bike bridge in Riverside Park
That is the bridge crossing the La Crosse River on the bike path as your heading north from Riverside Park.
French Island fiery sundown
RIGHT: A weekend sundown on French Island.
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Cass Avenue Bridge from Riverside Park
A take a look at the Cass Avenue Bridge from Riverside Park in La Crosse on Sunday.
Finish of the Day
ABOVE: A sundown considered from the north finish of French Island on July 9 this yr.
Holding it collectively
Dew collects in a single day on a spider net on Pammel Creek Bridge.
A flower named Sue
Black-Eyed Susans showcase their magnificence on the Trempealeau Resort throughout Catfish Fish Days.
Hanging out at Goose Island
A redwing blackbird at Goose Island Park.
Stunning day
Tranquil nation day in early July in La Crosse County.
Using in fashion
A 1960 Chrysler LeBaron is proudly owned by Mark Kenny of St. Paul. He was in Trempealeau for Catfish Days. The automotive was as soon as owned by Texas Gov. John Connally.
On parade at Catfish Days
The Trempealeau Queen and her courtroom trip Sunday, July 10, within the Trempealeau Catfish Days Parade.
A sun-dappled cemetery lane
The late June solar peeks by the bushes lining a path in Oak Grove Cemetery in La Crosse.
Pecking away
Gomer, our resident feminine pileated woodpecker, does what he does finest to an apple tree in Caledonia.
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Bunny meets world
“My first time out of my nest, I am scared.” This bunny was venturing out round our yard in La Crosse on July 28.
Cranes by the creek
This photograph was taken on July 15 close to Pine Creek in La Crescent.
River at Veterans Memorial Park
The La Crosse River is seen from Veteran Memorial Park on July 16.
The cat-bird seat
Our cats this spring had a entrance row seat to look at a child cardinal and its dad and mom in a nest in entrance of our home.
Fingers within the fog
An aerial view July 17 over West Salem space as fog settles into most of the valleys.
Dragonfly on the road
This male Twelve-Noticed Skimmer dragonfly helps hang around garments in the present day!
Breakfast on the birdhouse
A busy mother feeds her infants final week in Onalaska.
Spreading her wings
A gorgeous feminine monarch dries her wings on Friday in Tomah.
Stress-free within the park
The La Crosse space’s Shufflin Duprees carry out at Holmen Midway Creek Band Shell Live performance on Sunday afternoon.
A view from the stage
View from the trombone part of La Crosse Live performance Band in Riverside park on July 31, 2019. Performed by Ryan Waldhart, this live performance was the final of the band’s 2019 season.
The Quenten Brown Band
The Quenten Brown Band performs at Moxie’s Tiki Bar on the North Aspect of La Crosse on Wednesday night.
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Rocking out in Arcadia
Pat Monahan, lead singer of Prepare, performs Friday, Aug. 12, at Ashley for the Arts in Arcada.
Viceroy butterfly
A viceroy butterfly enjoys a Joe-pye weed within the meadow at Whitewater State Park on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Canine or lion?
Performers, officers, college students and varied animals walked within the Pure Water Days Parade on Saturday in Chippewa Falls. Right here we see a canine dressed as a lion.
Pure Water Days, Chippewa Falls
A spread of floats and automobiles make their manner by downtown Chippewa Falls in Saturday’s forty fifth Annual Pure Water Days Parade.
Visiting in fashion
The American Splendor steamboat docks Thursday in Winona.
Pedaling is for the birds
Kimberly and Peyton hang around with their pets Cory and Come up on Eighth Avenue in La Crosse on Monday, Aug. 1.
Engaged on the brand new Fireplace Home
Work being achieved on the brand new Fireplace Home on La Crosse Avenue close to UW-La Crosse earlier this month. Need to submit your personal photograph for consideration for Photograph of the Day? We would like to see them. Add your submission, together with a with caption that features the time and place the place the photograph was taken and your contact info, to options@lacrossetribune.com.
Dockwork
Work continues Aug. 12 alongside the Mississippi River in Riverside Park. The development is being achieved to accommodate the docking of bigger boats.
Hurling within the park
Irish household band The Byrne Brothers take a break from taking part in a recreation of hurling in Riverside Park in La Crosse. Hurling is a nationwide recreation in Eire.
Swimming swans
A household of trumpeter swans floats throughout the nonetheless water in Warrens, Wis.
Hibiscus bloom
The internal great thing about the hibiscus bloom reveals itself Aug. 20.
‘The Remainders’ rock the stage
“The Remainders 5” play at Moon Tunes on Aug. 18 in Riverside Park. For the final present of the yr tonight, the tenth anniversary live performance season efficiency finale will open at 5:30 p.m. with the UW-L Screaming Eagles Marching Band. The closing act is Cody and The Ghosts.
Land of milk and honey?
A bumblebee hangs out within the milkweed of the perennial mattress.
French Island eating
A Viceroy butterfly feeds on lantanas on French Island.
Something for a free meal
A squirrel stretches out for a meal.
A babbling creek
Water bubbles by Beaver Creek State Park close to Houston, Minn.
Finches munch on cones
Finches get pleasure from a cone flower meal on French Island.
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Beautiful sundown
This stunning sundown was captured from the scenic overlook south of Stoddard.
Pucker up
An in depth-up of a white hibiscus in Tomah.
Chowing down
Rose Gleason, 3, and James Gleason, 5, of Atlanta, eat corn on the cob Thursday on the Minnesota State Truthful in Falcon Heights, Minn.
Hibiscus bloom
The internal great thing about the hibiscus bloom reveals itself Aug. 20.