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Award Winners Are... And The YFA
Among the 425 Young Farmers and Agriculturists who gathered at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells for the 2012 YFA Conference and WFBF Annual Meeting were members who competed in Farm Bureau’s three contests.
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ongratulations to the following state award winners who will be representing Wisconsin in the national contests at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 94th Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee in January. They will be guests at the next WFBF YFA Conference and at GROWMARK, Inc’s annual meeting in August, and may also qualify to attend the YFA trip to Washington, D.C.
Dierickx Earns Excellence in Agriculture Award In recognition of her knowledge of agriculture, leadership in Farm Bureau and other civic organizations, and active engagement in agriculture, Jenny Dierickx of Dane County was selected as the winner of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist Excellence in Agriculture contest. Dierickx, 30, works as a marketing executive for Filament marketing, an agricultural marketing and strategic planning firm in Madison. She grew up on her family’s Holstein dairy farm near Monticello and showed dairy cattle at the Green County Fair. She is a graduate of the University of WisconsinMadison with a degree in agricultural journalism. Dierickx is an active member of the Dane County Farm Bureau and just completed a three-year term representing south central Wisconsin’s District 2 on the state Wisconsin Farm Bureau Women’s Committee. She received a $250 FS Fast Stop gift card from GROWMARK, Inc. Other state finalists in the Excellence in Agriculture Award were Nicole Reese of Rock County, Beth Porior Schafer of Marathon County and Arlaina Meyer of Barron County.
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