{"id":1001,"date":"2013-10-02T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-10-04T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T22:35:06","slug":"family-farm-defenders-presents-its-fourth-annual-wisconsin-%e2%80%9cland-of-10000-lagoons%e2%80%9d-awards-at-the-world-dairy-expo-dairy-farmers-deliver-giant-%e2%80%9cbe-a-good-co-op%e2%80%9d-postca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Family Farm Defenders Presents its Fourth Annual Wisconsin \u201cLand of 10,000 Lagoons\u201d Awards at the World Dairy Expo! Dairy Farmers Deliver Giant \u201cBe A Good Co-op\u201d Postcard Signed by Hundreds of Farm Aid Concert Attendees to Land O’ Lakes Expo Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Immediate Release 10\/2\/13<\/p>\n

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John E. Peck, FFD executive director\u00a0 #608-260-0900 or #608-345-3918<\/div>\n
Joel Greeno, FFD vice president\u00a0 #608-344-0564<\/div>\n

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Fri. Oct. 4th\u00a0 11:00 am\u00a0 Main Entrance to Alliant Energy Center (off Rimrock Road\/Cty MM near the corner with John Nolen Dr.) in Madison, WI<\/div>\n

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For the fourth year in a row, Family Farm Defenders is proud to present its annual \u201cLand of 10,000 Lagoons\u201d Awards at the World Dairy Expo.\u00a0 This year\u2019s winners in three unique categories include:<\/div>\n

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Best Factory Farm Grease Skidder<\/strong> \u2013 prize goes to Wisconsin State Senator, Neal Kedzie, (R-Elkhorn) for authoring a bill to preempt DNR authority and create a statewide free for all for high capacity wells!<\/div>\n

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Most Creative Waste Disposal Trick<\/strong> \u2013 prize goes to Wisconsin DNR Secretary, Cathy Stepp, for her shameless cheerleading of aerial spraying of liquefied manure chock full of pathogens \u2013 mmmm!<\/div>\n
Largest Potential Manure Lagoon<\/strong> \u2013 prize goes to GTAC and the Cline Group, proposed developers of the massive iron ore mine in the pristine Penokee Hills on the shores of beautiful Lake Superior!<\/div>\n

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In recognition of their amazing work, Family Farm Defenders will be presenting special cow pie plaques at the World Dairy Expo to this year\u2019s distinguished awardees.<\/div>\n

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Following the Lagoon Awards ceremony, Wisconsin dairy farmer and FFD vice president, Joel Greeno, will also hand deliver a special bonus prize to one of last year\u2019s winners \u2013 Land O\u2019 Lakes.\u00a0\u00a0 He will be sharing with the dairy co-op’s board members a giant \u201cBe A Good Co-op\u201d postcard signed by hundreds of attendees at this year’s Farm Aid Concert as part of an ongoing campaign to restore justice to the U.S. dairy industry and guarantee farmers a fair parity price for their milk.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe CEO of Land O\u2019 Lakes believes that farmers only exist to serve the market.\u00a0 He needs to understand that farmers work hard to pay their bills and support their families first, and only serve the market second,\u201d noted Joel Greeno.\u00a0 \u201cGiven the blatant corruption and illegal price-fixing activities of other dairy co-ops like Dairy Farmers of America and Foremost Farms, it is especially important that Land O Lakes be a good co-op leader in the dairy industry and start respecting the need of its farmer members for a fair milk price and the demand of consumers seeking a healthier safer product.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Immediate Release 10\/2\/13 Contact: John E. Peck, FFD executive director\u00a0 #608-260-0900 or #608-345-3918 Joel Greeno, FFD vice president\u00a0 #608-344-0564 Fri. Oct. 4th\u00a0 11:00 am\u00a0 Main Entrance to Alliant Energy Center (off Rimrock Road\/Cty MM near the corner with John … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}