Wisconsin program of hope ends

Jim Massey For Agri-View
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 21, 2025

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Pastor Nick Utphall of the Madison Christian Community Church, left, and Roger Williams hold a Celebration of Harvest of Hope Fund.

Photo 1 of Roger (right) and another man, the other guy is the pastor of the Madison Christian Community Church, Nick Utphall. (John Murray Mason photo).

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Board members of the Harvest of Hope Fund are, from left, John Szallkowski and Ellen Ermer, board members; Roger Williams, chairman; and Mike McLain, treasurer.

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Jim Massey For Agri-View

Ending is a program designed to provide financial help and hope to Wisconsin farm families in difficult financial situations – Harvest of Hope. Organizers are citing the change in Wisconsin’s agricultural landscape as a big factor in the program’s closure.

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Jim Massey is a recently retired longtime agricultural journalist who lives on a farm near Barneveld, Wisconsin, that has been in his family since 1911.