Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers visited the Peterson Dairy Farm on the south end of River Falls this past Thursday to announce additional state grant funding to help farmers control soil erosion, with the end goal of cleaner water. The current state-aid to help Wisconsin farmers sustain and improve their soil in the previous budget cycle was $1.5 million. The 2025-27 budget cycle for the farmer-led research soil conservation practices will be $2.5 million statewide, a 67-percent increase."We learned that nobody can change a farmer`s opinion better than a farmer," said Pierce County Land Conservation Technician Dan Sitz.
"They (farmers) probably aren`t going to listen to the state to tell them how to run their land and they shouldn`t," said Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers during the informal discussion inside the Peterson pole shed. "It`s a nothing burger (the funding increase) in the whole scheme of things and it`s a good investment. It`s not only the right thing to do, the work is being done by the farmers that know what they`re doing. It`s simple." ...
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