Students and Business Recognized During Marshfield Dairyfest Breakfast on Saturday
Monday, June 6th, 2022 -- 8:01 AM
The City of Marshfield is celebrating its 150th year anniversary, and this year’s Dairyfest, held this past weekend, had a theme of “Lookin’ Back and Moovin’ Forward.”
Dairyfest kicked off Friday, with the Dairyfest Breakfast. The Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry started an Agri-Business Committee in 2005. The mission of this group is “to promote the growth and vitality of Central Wisconsin Agriculture for the benefit of the entire community.”
During Friday’s breakfast, the annual “MACCI Friend of Agriculture” award honored a business that strongly supports Agri-Business. General qualifications for the award includes must be in an agri-business field in the Marshfield area and can be an individual, organization, family or business.
The selection criteria includes:
- Innovation in the industry,
- Challenges they have overcome,
- Commitment to Agriculture,
- Commitment to the community (civic & leadership roles),
- And economic impact to the community.
This year’s recipient is H&S Manufacturing. As a long time Ag Equipment Manufacturer here in Central WI, not only is their brand recognizable to the local area, but farms and ag businesses seek their equipment products from all over North America and internationally.
As part of our local Ag community, H&S is regularly a sponsor or Ag and Ag youth activities. These efforts range in varying capacities from sponsorship, to the active purchasing of youth livestock projects at the Market Sale, to company participation in the Field Demo committees for the Wood and Clark County Farm Technology Day Shows with company representative Ron Zygarlicke being the Field Demo Chair for the Clark Cty show this July.
Recently H&S was used as a tour sight for the Careers in Agriculture Day organized by the Agri-Business committee also known as the Power of Ag Tour – this business opened their doors to nearly 350 high school youth and almost 20 other Ag Businesses to act as a lead sponsor, host, and promoter of the event.
H&S has regularly welcomed high school students interested in manufacturing into their facilities for tour and educational field trips as well. H&S would be an excellent recipient of the Friend of Ag recognition, fitting the definition of award.
During this breakfast, they also recognized this year’s Outstanding Ag Seniors including:
- Abby Hovland of Abbotsford,
- Brice Thiel of Aburndale,
- Sean Geiger of Colby,
- Sam Martin of Granton,
- Amanda Durrstein of Greenwood,
- Devani Hinkelmann of Loyal,
- Emma Bangart of Marshfield,
- Michael Byrne of Neillsville,
- Heidi Kundinger of Pittsville,
- Karly Kibbel of Spencer,
- Kara Schara of Stratford,
- And Jacob Khan of Wisconsin Rapids.
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