Title: Wisconsin Family Farm Oral History Project
Dates: 1986-1987

Creator:

• Gordon, Michael, interviewer

Call Number: Audio 1218A; M90-028

Quantity: 31 tape recordings and 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Tape-recorded interviews conducted by Michael Gordon with seven Wisconsin farmers, two rural ministers, and the director of the Wisconsin Rural Development Center about the financial and social crisis sweeping through rural America in the mid-1980s, and about the growing sustainable agriculture movement. Also includes abstracts. In addition, there are several non-abstracted actuality recordings of related events such as farm and equipment sales, farm field tests, a demonstration protesting the use of bovine growth hormone in dairy herds, and part of the Sustainable Agriculture Conference held in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in February 1987. Also present is a recording of a one-hour radio documentary produced by Gordon using this material which aired on WORT-FM (Madison, Wisconsin) and other stations in 1987.

Note:

Forms part of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection.

Language: The records are in English.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-audi01218a

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Michael Gordon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1990. Accession Number: M90-028

Audio 1218A	Tape recordings
Audio   1218A/1	Interstate Banking Hearing - Wisconsin Senate Banking Committee, 1986 February 26 Note: Includes John Carr testimony.
Audio   1218A/2	Ken and Sue Massey farm sale, Dodgeville, Wisconsin, 1986 March 4 Note: Includes John Carr interview.
Audio   1218A/3-4	Carr, John, 1986 March 14
Audio   1218A/5	Lancaster, Wisconsin farm sale and rally, 1986 March 18
Audio   1218A/6-7	Kinsman, John, 1986 April 21
Audio   1218A/8-9	Swensen, Dean and Jan, 1986 May 20
Audio   1218A/10	Stevenson farm field tests, Darlington, Wisconsin, for WFFOHP, 1986 August 6 Note: Nitrogen in corn, alfalfa renewal.
Audio   1218A/11-12	Lamm, Tom, 1986 August 25
Audio   1218A/13	Kinsman, John, UW Memorial Union, 1986 October 9 Note: Anti-bovine growth hormone demonstration.
Audio   1218A/14-16	Heisner, Jim and Jane, 1986 November 21
Audio   1218A/17	Kenas, Bob, Reverend, 1986 December 9
Audio   1218A/18	Haddix, Anne, 1987 January 9 Note: On WRDC rural leadership project.
Audio   1218A/19-20	Ziemer, Mark, Reverend, 1987 February 5
Audio   1218A/21-22	Carr, Mary Lee, 1987 February 5
Audio   1218A/23	Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1987 February 10
Audio   1218A/24	Johnson, Stan - Sustainable Agriculture Conference, 1987 February 10
Audio   1218A/25	Kessig, Lowell - Sustainable Agriculture Conference, 1987 February 10
Audio   1218A/26	O'Harrow, Russell, 1987 February 10
Audio   1218A/27	Diercks (concludes), Bashaw, John, 1987 February 10
Audio   1218A/28	Haddix, Anne, 1987 May 5 Note: On farm policy options.
Audio   1218A/29-30	Pulvermacher, Cathy, 1987 June 30
Audio   1218A/31	"Wisconsin's Family Farms: Struggle and Survival," WORT, 1987
M90-028	Abstracts