WISCONSIN DELLS, WI (WSAU) — A Marathon County family has been selected as the Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist Achievement Award.
Ryan and Lindsey Prahl were selected for the honor during the Federation’s 99th annual meeting in Wisconsin Dells on Sunday. They operate a dairy and an emerging custom business.
Farm Bureau’s Achievement Award is a contest that awards farmers between the ages of 18 and 35, who have excelled in their farming career, understand current issues affecting agriculture and have shown leadership and involvement in Farm Bureau and other civic organizations.
The Prahl’s are fifth-generation dairy farmers and are also actively involved in Badger 4-H and St. John’s Lutheran Church and school in Easton.
The Prahls will compete at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2019 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisana. In addition, Rural Mutual Insurance Company provides a free financial plan, FABICK Equipment, Inc., provides 40 hours use of a FABICK skid-steer loader and the winner is invited to the GROWMARK, Inc., annual meeting in August.
The other finalists were Josh and Ashley Claussen from Brown County; Dustin and Ashley Ellis from Buffalo County; and Brian Douglas from Dunn County.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is the state’s largest general farm organization, representing farms of every size, commodity, and management style.
