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Farm News: Land O'Lakes Helps New Agribusiness CentercommentsPosted: 08.02.2010
 Land O’Lakes Foundation has contributed $15,000 toward the creation of the Central Wisconsin Agribusiness Innovation Center (CWAIC), a multi-purpose facility that will serve as a business incubator for emerging companies in agribusiness, renewable energy, biotechnology, food processing and related industries.
“Land O’Lakes and its member cooperatives believe it’s important to support the Center, because it will create jobs for this region of the state and provide additional educational opportunities for our customers and their children,” says Jim Hager, general manager of Harmony Country Cooperative, Colby. The $15,000 check represents Land O’Lakes’ 2010 contribution to the Center’s capital campaign.
Scheduled to be built in early 2011 near Owen, Wisconsin, the state-of-the-art CWAIC building will contain incubator and laboratory space, a distance learning center and computer lab, public meeting and event space, leased offices, a commercial test/classroom kitchen and multiple “smart” classrooms. The building itself will be a learning tool, using sustainable design concepts for both the Innovation Center and its surrounding site, the 71-acre Clark County Agribusiness Park.
“This facility is designed to foster education, training, research, and business development in agriculture, which is still Wisconsin’s biggest industry,” says Mike Kawleski, CWAIC’s executive director. “As a non-profit organization, we certainly appreciate tax-deductible gifts like the one that Land O’Lakes Foundation has made.”
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