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Beane Recognized by National DHIA
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 05/06/2015

The National Dairy Herd Information Association has honored Laura Beane of Fort Atkinson with the H. Victor Joachim Distinguished Leadership/Martin A. Wilson Memorial Award. The award goes to an individual who has held a DHIA leadership position and/or has been dedicated to improving DHIA.

Laura's late husband, Craig, served as National DHIA's first president, starting in 1965. True partners in family and business, Laura took on the role of National DHIA recording secretary.

"Our dining room table served as my office," recalls Laura. "I didn't even have a file cabinet."

Laura took minutes at meetings and notes during discussions, wrote and published the newsletter, and corresponded with those involved in dairy cattle records, such as Extension dairy specialists, dairy farmers, breed association personnel and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials.

She credits Willys Gjermundson, former Agricultural Records Cooperative manager in Madison for listening to dairy farmers and empathizing with their concerns.

"He felt that dairy farmers ought to be involved in making rules and regulations that pertained to dairy cattle records," she said. "Many of his Extension dairy specialist peers disagreed."

Craig and Laura farmed west of Fort Atkinson on Holwis Farms for more than 50 years. During part of their career, they farmed with their son, Tom, and his wife, Kathy, milking 240 Holsteins and cropping 2,000 acres. They also hosted Wisconsin Farm Progress Days in 1956, in cooperation with their neighbors Bill and Ted Ward, and their families.

World Dairy Expo named Laura the 1975 Dairy Woman of the Year.

The award was presented to Beane during the association's annual meeting held in Columbus, Ohio this spring.


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