Joe Alexander
Joe Alexander
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Our time frame with this is on Nov. 15, we need to submit a plan on how to consolidate 26 county offices to Washington. We're going to be gathering input from farmers and others on the best way to do this.
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These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.
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In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.
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That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.
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His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.
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June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.