Fence Post Pounding
& Round Baling
Wennesheimer Fence Post Pounding and Cutler Fence, LLC is centrally located in the state of Wisconsin to serve all of Wisconsin. Check out our Calendar of Events page for local fencing demos, grazing conferences and all the good stuff that we are up to. To Contact Us (715)305-4050 or Randy at Cutler Fence, LLC (715)305-5670. Call NOW to make an appointment. We appreciate hearing from you. We are entering into the winter monthes. Farmers are thinking of spring fencing jobs and fence maintence for the up coming year. So give us a ring.
For the 2012 Fencing Season Wennesheimer Fence Post Pounding will be donating $20 per Job connected to River Country RC&D. If we find out your job was in any way connected with River Country RC&D we will make a donation at the end of 2012. Thank You!
Please note we now have a new email address. Our new address is: wennesheimerllc@gmail.com
Conservation Program Deadlines Approaching
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for three conservation programs:
(1) The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is designed to reward farmers and forestland owners for their current level of conservation, while encouraging them to implement additional measures. Agricultural operators, including forestland owners, are eligible for 5-year contracts that provide an annual payment that is based upon their level of erosion control, the degree to which they protect or enhance water quality and wildlife habitat, and how they manage plant resources, including forests, and other natural resources. Estimated annual payment ranges are $12 to $22 per acres for cropland, $6to $12/ac for forestland, and $7 to $14/ac for pastureland. Applications will be accepted until
January 13, 2012.
(2) The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers or owners of land that is capable of producing food, forage, or fiber
(including trees) to address natural resource concerns. EQIP is the primary USDA conservation program for working lands, and it offers more than 65 different conservation practices, with hundreds of payment scenarios. Practices of most interest to Grazing based farmers include nutrient management, fencing, watering systems, cattle lanes, and pasture and hayland seeding.
Applications will be accepted through February 3rd, 2012.
Interested applicants from Lincoln or Langlade County should contact Peggy Lane, District Conservationist, at (715)536-6003 or peggy.lane@wi.usda.gov. In Marathon County contact Amy Niegum at 848-2330x116 or amy.neigum@wi.usda.gov
Grazing Assistance & RC&D Programs to be Cut State Wide
Due to severe State & Federal budget cuts that are taking place in Washington DC and in Madison, we are at grave risk of losing funding for Grazing Specialists around the State of WI. Please contact BOTH your State & Federal Legislators and tell them they need to support the efforts of the Wisconsin Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative(WI-GLCI). Let them know that cutting funding to WI-GLCI is not the right course of action, will only result in reducing the economic health of rural Wisconsin & will severely damage all that has been accomplished for Grazing Assistance state wide in the past 10 years. By cutting these programs, they are hurting small scale, sustainable agriculture and eliminating rural jobs.
How to make Contact: To find your State and Federal Legislators for your area, go to
www.legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx. Call Washington or your local district office, Email them online -or-send them a letter (addresses available online). If you have VALUED Pasture Walks, Discussion Group Meetings, Educational Conferences and On Farm Technical Assistance, make contact with your State and Federal Legislators today.
Looking for grass farmers, wildlife enthusiasts with their stories or video only! If you want to play with our Audio-Visual equipment we are looking for you. We are just getting started and hoping to put something together for the grazing conference season.
Building on it starting next year
establishing a time line and adding or upgrading equipment.
With the help of Blue Skies, Greener Pastures.
We purchased a High Definition Digital Video Camera
that is extremely easy to operate and computer and tv friendly
so you can see what you have recorded.
If you are interested Contact Lynelle Wennesheimer (715)305-4050 or wennesheimerllc@gmail.com
We will send you the camera and you would send it back to us and we will send you a copy of your farm either by DVD or by flash drive. We are currently spread out over 250 miles in Wisconsin.
The response has been really good.
**At the 20th Annual Grazing Conference on Thursday there will be session on the Blue Skies, Greener Pastures Called Helping the Grass Work: Results of the Blue Sky Greener Pastures Consultation Process with Dick Cates, Rhonda Gildersleeve, Jack Kloppenburg, Kevin Mahalko, Dave Johnson, Laura Paine,
and Steve Thomforde**
Found this informational video on dairy grazing and wanted to share it with you. www.sare.org/Learning-Center/multimedia/videos-from-the-Field/sustainable-12-Aprils-Dairy-Grazing
Just wanted to give you a heads up on some of the projects we are involved in with GrassWorks Inc. -Blue Sky Greener Pastures
Audio-Visual Documentation on Wisconsin Grazing. This project intends to produce a series of video clips that capture the many positive aspects associated with grazing. Video clips will include expert testimony from environmental advocates, local food enthusiasts, economist, culinary aficionados, and farmers. Video clips will also capture regional, veteran, grazing leaders to codify local pastureing knowledge. To do so, this project will tap the groundswell energy associated with the energing field of amateur audio-visual production and will include local schools. Video clips will be posted to GrassWorks. Continued editing would produce a full length documentary film. Contact Lynelle Wennesheimer (715)305-4050 or wennesheimerllc@gmail.com
Ecological Survey. This project intends to develop a survey to identify pastures suitable for a variety of ecological research. The primary project objective is to identify pasture parameters, such as the number of acres in pasture, plowed verse un-plowed pastures, percent of township in pasture and so forth. These parameters will allow researchers selection criteria suitable for their particular research. Survey results will be shared with UW-Extension, regional post-secondary ecological departments, and GrassWorks. An additional objective is to develop a framework to assist farmer coordinated "on-farm" ecological research projects. A final objective is to facilitate opportunities to report on research results and encourage farmer research collaborations. Contact Steve Thomforde (608)441-9048 or thomforde@wisc.edu
Common Ground: Prairie Chickens and Grazing. This project seeks to identify the potential for expanding Wisconsin prairie chicken populations through managed grazing. The first project objective is to identify existing research on grassland birds and grazing, with specific attention paid to prairie chicken ecology. Existing data will be analyzed to identify management strategies that would enhance both Wisconsin prairie chicken populations and grazing opportunities. Another project objective is to develop a summary presentation to share with regional conservation interest groups. Contact Steve Thomforde (608)441-9048 or thomforde@wisc.edu
Just a little note from Emma Jean
Winter has started and looking forward to snow & Santa. Looking forward to some time off. Went post pounding with Daddy and Lee last week. We have been making wood and moving hay and getting ready for the winter. Looking forward to playing. Baby Lee is getting bigger and moving around alot. We had a great year and looking forward to next year. We got to meet some really great people and see alot of really great farms.
Date updated 12/17/2011
