Many years of service to western Wisconsin agriculture were recognized yesterday when two people from the region received Aggie Awards.
Jane Mueller, whose family has long farmed in the Brackett area south of Eau Claire, and long-time area agriculture educator Jim Anderson of Menominie received the awards during the Eau Claire Farm Show. WAXX farm director Bob Bosold and Bill Henry of North Country Enterprises of Cadott presented the awards.
“I’m very humbled by this award,” Anderson said.
Anderson, who was raised in Galesville, is an Army veteran and University of Wisconsin River Falls graduate whoserved as the Dunn County UW-Extension agriculture agent, worked as a banker, was an vocational agriculture management instructor and also taught agriculture at Colfax High School.
“Agriculture was all new to me 40 years ago,” said Mueller, who describes herself as an Army brat who entered the farming business when she married Doug Mueller.
Mueller attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Bosold said the organizations — such as her church, the Eau Claire County Dairy Promotion Committee, Farm Bureau, 4-H and others — that have benefited from her work are plentiful.
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