WASHINGTON - Green County Farm Bureau member, Jeff Ditzenberger was part of a contingent of Wisconsin Farm Bureau leaders who were in Washington D.C., June 14-18, to lobby lawmakers on pressing issues facing agriculture and give first-hand accounts of flood damage.
Ditzenberger is a recent graduate of the inaugural Wisconsin Farm Bureau Institute; a new one-year premier leadership training program for Farm Bureau members.
Following a tour of the White House, Ditzenberger and others met with Hunter Morehead, an agriculture and trade advisor to President Bush. He reported on efforts to normalize trade of U.S. beef to South Korea amid protests there, and noted that some of the protesting is not just about food safety, but how their government went about negotiations.
Farm Bureau members also spoke with Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold about taking the steps to ensure legal authority to plant emergency crops on some washed out fields to maximize the soil's nutrients and provide some feed for livestock producers.
Ditzenberger is a recent graduate of the inaugural Wisconsin Farm Bureau Institute; a new one-year premier leadership training program for Farm Bureau members.
Following a tour of the White House, Ditzenberger and others met with Hunter Morehead, an agriculture and trade advisor to President Bush. He reported on efforts to normalize trade of U.S. beef to South Korea amid protests there, and noted that some of the protesting is not just about food safety, but how their government went about negotiations.
Farm Bureau members also spoke with Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold about taking the steps to ensure legal authority to plant emergency crops on some washed out fields to maximize the soil's nutrients and provide some feed for livestock producers.
