Haack to Attend Leadership Program

My neighbor, Tim Haack, will be among fourteen Wisconsin Farm Bureau members that have been selected for the first year-long Farm Bureau Institute Leadership Training Program. The initiative of the program is designed to develop future leaders for the organization and for agriculture by providing personal growth and leadership training.Tim and his cohorts will attend five three-day informative and interactive sessions held in 2007 that provide insight on issues important to agriculture, develop leadership and speaking skills, interact with Farm Bureau leaders and staff and leaders in the governmental and agricultural sectors, and network with other participants. At the end of the series, the class travel to Washington D.C. to participate in the Farm Bureau Leader Fly-in in 2008.

Tim got his start early in the dairy industry as the oldest of five kids on a farm run by his grandpa Hilbert and father, Harold Haack. Since taking the helm of the farm, Tim has initiated several large scale changes on the modest farm including a large free stall barn, milking parlor, manure pit and additional dairy cows.

Next time he passes by my house on his tractor I'll have to congratulate him.