Chippewa County
District 1 Report Watch for your chance to advertise & promote your county association in future issues. The April issue will feature District 2 - Buffalo, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Trempealeau & Vernon counties.
Ashland County
2015 Adult Membership: 5; Jr. Membership: 0
Barron County
2015 Adult Membership: 46; Jr. Membership: 22 Adult Association officers - President: Dean Frisle; Vice President: Scot Hammann; Secretary/Treasurer: Jeff Wille. Junior Association officers - President: Katie Wille; Vice President: Kaylie Hoff; Secretary: Abigail Solum; Treasurer: Allissa Frisle; Holsti-Buck officer: Brooke Hammann; Advisors: Becky Hammann & Leslie Frisle. 2015 brought a couple of new ventures while we continued to support our mainstay projects. We had our annual meeting and lunch in January. The juniors have stepped up their activities and we happily encourage and support them. We assisted, both physically & financially, with a new ice cream stand and freezers. We also match as a scholarship whatever they earn from the juniors. We held our first Futurity class at the county fair; it went over very well and people are looking forward to continuing it. The Wohlk family hosted a Twilight Meeting in August – they provided a farm tour, dairy judging contest, worker auction, lots of door prizes & supper. Our heifer calf project loan program is still being taken advantage of, with two kids purchasing calves this year. Our main fundraisers, the spring and fall Holstein auctions, continue to be profitable for us, our average sale price this fall was just over $2600. We sponsor awards at both the county fair and the WI State Fair. One of our long-time members, Al Frisle, passed away and we started a memorial plaque wall in memory of him. We put a much needed new tin roof on the sales pavilion this fall – it looks great and will last for decades of sales. 2015 was a very re-energizing year for the juniors. We purchased a new ice cream stand and freezers that we use for our main fundraiser selling ice cream cones during the county fair – it was much more comfortable quarters! We started a scholarship program – earning money in a fund while we are in high school for participating in activities throughout the year, and the adults match whatever is earned. Besides serving and selling ice cream sundaes at the June Dairy Breakfast, we added running the lunch stand for the Barron County sales as new fundraisers, as well as organizing our first worker auction at the Twilight Meeting. The group got new T-shirts for all of our members, and if you participate in enough activities in grades 6-8, you will earn a jacket when in high school. We added a holsti-buck officer to our group as a way for younger members to become more involved and learn leadership skills; their responsibility is to remind us to answer holstibuck questions to earn more money to spend at the auctions during convention. During the county fair we announced our first scholarship recipients; passed out cookies, milk and cheese; crowned Abigail Solum as the 2015-2016 Queen; and presented the Friend of the Holstein award to the Jackson family of Jerian Holsteins. The Jackson’s are sponsoring a scholarship for Cow Camp – each junior member’s registration will be paid for the first time they attend. We had two dairy bowl teams, Dairy Jeopardy participants, and some crafts shown at the recent junior convention. We are increasing our membership, as well as the number of members who show at District Show and members who take advantage of the heifer calf project from the adults. 2016 looks to be a great year!
Bayfield County
2015 Adult Membership: 2; Jr. Membership: 0
Burnett County
2015 Adult Membership: 2; Jr. Membership: 0 24–wisconsin HOLSTEIN news/February 2016
2015 Adult Membership: 40; Jr. Membership: 18 Adult Association officers - President: Mike Wachtendonk; Secretary: Erica Ullom; Treasurer: Vivian Thompson; Directors: Liz Mayer & Nick Bohl. Junior Association officers - President: Taylor Hinke; Vice President: Eric Wachtendonk; Secretary: Blayde Bowe; Treasurer: Jacob Maier We have sent out the letters for our annual calf loan. This is a loan set up by the adult county association that we offer to the youth in Chippewa County to be used to buy a Registered Holstein calf. They have two years to pay the loan back interest free. We are working on setting up our annual meeting for this spring. Our junior association has been busy for the last year working on all the preperations for the 2016 Junior Convention. Last spring we went on some farm tours in the central part of Wisconsin. For a spring fundraiser we clipped for a couple of farms in District 1. At the Northern Wisconsin State Fair we had another succesful Dress A Calf and had a couple of our members interviewed by TV-13. Looking ahead to this spring’s Farm Tour and showing this summer.
Dunn County
2015 Adult Membership: 36; Jr. Membership: 8
Eau Claire County
2015 Adult Membership: 16; Jr. Membership: 3 Adult Association officers - President: Donald Honadel; Vice President: Cade Stanek; Secretary: Tamara Smith Schroeder; Treasurer: Joseph Matz.
Pierce/Pepin Counties
2015 Adult Membership: Pierce - 29, Pepin -7; Jr. Membership: Pierce - 16; Pepin - 0 Adult Association officers - President: Tom Knegendorf; Vice President: Peter Coyne; Secretary: Lanette Hodorff; Treasurer: Joshua Sazama; Junior Advisor: Tracy Mitchell.
Polk County
2015 Adult Membership: 40; Jr. Membership: 14
Price County
2015 Adult Membership: 4; Jr. Membership: 0
Rusk County
2015 Adult Membership: 10; Jr. Membership: 0
Sawyer County
2015 Adult Membership: 1; Jr. Membership: 0
St. Croix County
2015 Adult Membership: 48; Jr. Membership: 15
Vilas County
2015 Adult Membership: 1; Jr. Membership: 0
Washburn County
2015 Adult Membership: 1; Jr. Membership: 0
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