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Reese Hired as New Director of Southern Wisconsin Ag Group
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 12/20/2013

A non-profit group charged with the task of developing a major agriculture education and innovation complex in Rock County has hired its first executive director. Nicole Reese of Janesville will begin her new role as head of the Southern Wisconsin Agriculture Group, or SWAG, on January 20.

The complex will be located on 200 acres of land in Evansville and will feature an Ag Campus, Expo Center and Agricultural Discovery Center. SWAG board members say the property will eventually include farming test plots, interactive learning laboratories, an exhibition hall, livestock barns, conference rooms and classroom facilities. The group would also like to see hotels, restaurants and related shops be part of the project, as well. And the year-round property may also add a birthing barn, camping sites, a dedicated equestrian facility, demonstration gardens, a sports and entertainment grandstand, a midway spot and other outdoor show areas.

Reese, who currently works as an agriculture teacher at Milton High School, is a former Alice in Dairyland who grew up on her family's 120-cow dairy farm near Sheboygan Falls. She is a 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor's degree in Agriculture Education and earned a masters in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University. She is a former state FFA officer and is currently a member of the Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Promotion Board and the Rock County Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Agriculturist Chair.

"I am excited for the opportunity to organize and lead the efforts of such an innovative group," Reese said. "The Agriculture Education and Innovation Complex will truly be an asset for Wisconsin's agriculture industry. I am really looking forward to working with the SWAG board on moving this project forward."

Members of the SWAG board, which was formed in 2011, hope to raise about $25 million to develop the project. Once finished, the facility could lead to 300 newly created jobs and bring in over 150,000 visitors to the area each year.


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