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My Future Was. . . Farming

Date: 01 28 1985
Description: Farm family youth demonstrates to call awareness to the economic problems facing the family farm.
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Maintaining International Harvester 5488 Tractor

Date: 1981
Description: Color photograph of a man working on an International Harvester 5488 tractor with maintenance doors open on farmstead. There are silos in the background.
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Nursing Home

Date: 11 1980
Description: Wisconsin farmland featuring a small tree in the foreground, a telephone pole and fence in the middle distance, and farm buildings in the background.
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Moonrise over Southern Wisconsin

Date: 01 1981
Description: A ranch style farmhouse sits in the far distance beyond an empty field at night, with a full moon in a cloudless sky directly above.
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State Highway 140

Date: 05 1980
Description: A short black and white pole marks where a road converges with a state highway that stretches to the horizon. In the mid-distance before a hill is a railro...
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Plowed Fields

Date: 05 1980
Description: View over plowed field, with a telephone pole in the middle distance. Farm buildings are on the hill in the background.
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Farm Buildings

Date: 05 1981
Description: Farm buildings at William Fuerstenau farm, State Highway 73, South of Randolph.
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Stacking Hay Bales

Date: 03 14 1985
Description: Young man wearing a knit cap and flannel shirt stacking bales of hay in a barn.
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Barn Painting

Date: 09 25 1980
Description: Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i...
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International S-Series Truck on Job Site

Date: 10 01 1980
Description: An International S-Series truck with a trailer on a dirt road in front of a newly-constructed silo and several barns and farm buildings.
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Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
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Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
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Gerry Adelmeyer Farm

Date: 10 1980
Description: "This is the Gerry Adelmeyer farm on the West Bend Road."
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Silo Fire

Date: 07 1980
Description: "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P."
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Silo Fire

Date: 07 1980
Description: "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P."
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Paul Koll Farm

Date: 08 1980
Description: "Making hay on the Paul Koll farm."
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Engine Trouble

Date: 01 1980
Description: "When this airplane developed engine trouble, it was forced to land on the Myron Weninger farm, south of Theresa. Hillary Weninger explains what happened."
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Save the Family Farm Act

Date: 1986
Description: At a press conference Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin announces the Save the Family Farm Act introduced with 27 other farm state legislators. Among ...

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