Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts

Saturday, March 7, 2009

WI Film Festival: "Farming and the Land" series



Wisconsin Film Festival
April 2-5, 2009

Madison, WI


Sub-series:
"The Cream and the Crop: Farming and the Land on Film"
  • Cheese Wars (24 min. + Q&A)
  • Earth Days (100 min. + Q&A)
  • The Farmhouse (8 min.)
  • Food Inc. (93 min.)
  • The Greening of Southie (73 min. + Q&A)
  • Tractors! International Harvester-sponsored films of the WI Historical Society (56 min.)
  • Ladies of the Land (29 min. + Q&A)
  • Lie of the Land (75 min.)
  • Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero or Bioterrorist? (45 min. + Q&A)
  • Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink (75 min.)
  • Rare Chicken Rescue (26 min. + Q&A)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Top Wisconsin vegetable growers


Top Wisconsin vegetable growers
21st Annual American Vegetable Grower Top 100

October 2008


Rank among Northern growers (acreage)
:

#2 Hartung Brothers - snap beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, beets, carrots, peas, lima beans
#3 Paramount Farms - potatoes, sweet corn, beans, peas

#5 Heartland Farms - potatoes, sweet corn, beans, peas

#12 Borzynski Farms - cabbage, sweet corn, peas, peppers

#14 Wysocki Produce Farm - potatoes, beans, peas, sweet corn, pickles

#15 Bula Gieringer Farms - potatoes, sweet corn, peas, beans

#18 Weekly Farms - potatoes, beans, sweet corn, peas

#19 Gary Bula Farms - potatoes, snap beans, peas, sweet corn

#21 Sowinski Farms - potatoes, beans, peas

#23 Worzella & Sons - potatoes, sweet corn, beans


Monday, November 24, 2008

Agriculture + state laws




Hein Online - Subject Compilations of State Laws
A directory of 18,000+ articles, books, government documents, court opinions & websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

Subjects include:
  • Agricultural Cooperatives
  • Agricultural Districts
  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • Corporate Farming
  • Environmental Protection
  • Farm Machinery
  • Farm Products
  • Farmland
  • Farms and Farming
  • Flowers
  • Food
  • Grain Dealers
  • Insects
  • Land Use
  • Organic Farming and Food
  • Pesticides
  • Plants
  • Right to Farm
  • Scientific Research
  • Viruses
  • Wetlands
  • Wildlife
Wisconsin State Statutes
There's also a Subject Matter Index for the Wisconsin Statutes. Topics of interest include:
  • Agricultural societies
  • Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection Dept.
  • Agriculture and farming
  • Animals
  • Cranberries
  • Endangered species
  • Fertilizer
  • Fish and game
  • Food regulation
  • Forest croplands
  • Forests, logging and trees
  • Groundwater protection
  • Insect pests
  • Irrigation
  • Lyme disease
  • Managed forest lands
  • National Forests
  • National Parkways
  • Natural Resources Department
  • Nurseries
  • Pesticides
  • Plants and plant industry
  • Pollution
  • Rural planning
  • Soil
  • Soil and water conservation
  • State Geologist
  • Statistics
  • Weeds