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Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303 Madison – Governor Scott Walker visited Haag Family Farm in the Town of Dane today and signed Act 15: the Dairy and Livestock Farm Investment Tax Credit. “Farming isn’t just a profession, it’s a way of life,” Governor Walker said. “This important tax credit will make it easier for farmers to modernize and expand their farms, and...

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By Gregg Hoffmann For WisBusiness.com American Transmission Co. has not announced its proposed route for the Badger Coulee Project, a 150-mile, 345 kilowatt transmission line that would run through western Wisconsin, but some grassroots opposition to having the lines run through the Kickapoo Valley area already has organized. Badgers Against Transmission Lines (BATL), sponsored by an organization called SOUL of the Kickapoo,...

Contact: Seth Boffeli 608-266-1683 MADISON – The Department of Health Services (DHS) today announced that Linda Harris has been appointed Administrator of the Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. She has served as Deputy Administrator of the same Division since 2008, holds a Masters Degree in...

Contact: Donna Gilson, (608) 224-5130 MADISON – Comments are needed on a proposed special pesticide registration for control of insects in ginseng. The special registration proposed by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will allow growers to use Lorsban® 15G on ginseng for control of several kinds of larvae, or immature stage, of insects: cutworms, grubs, rootworms, and...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 KENOSHA - A civil environmental enforcement action arising from landfill and air violations at the Pheasant Run Recycling & Disposal Facility (Pheasant Run) located in Paris, Kenosha County, has been filed and resolved, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today. The complaint alleges that from the fall of 2008 until...