Fall 2009

New Employees Join the CWC Agronomy Team

Bryan Parr joined the Central Wisconsin Cooperative Agronomy team in July as a Sales Agronomist. He was born and raised on his family’s third generation dairy farm in LaFarge, WI. He gained many valuable experiences on the farm while aiding in the transition from non-organic to an organic farm 10 years ago.
Bryan attended LaFarge High School where he took part in the football and baseball programs. He was also involved the high school band and continues to play the drums in his spare time. After high school Parr received his B.S. degree in Soil and Crop Science from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and interned at Maize Breeding Research in Janesville, WI where he maintained corn breeding, test plots and recorded field data.
Bryan has enjoyed meeting with CWC’s patrons and is looking forward to serving your agronomic needs.

Greta Skalitzky joined the Cenral Wisconsin Cooperative Agronomy team in February as an office assistant. She was born and lived in Iowa until her family moved to southern Wisconsin when she was a young child. She graduated from Marshall High School and attended collage at UWWhitewater. Greta and her husband lived in the Madison area where they were hog and cash crop farmers for 12 years. She also had worked for two area vet clinics while in the Madison area. Greta comes with 9 years of cooperative experience, being a former employee of Landmark Cooperative in Cottage Grove, WI in the Energy division.
She and husband Jim moved to the Greenwood area 2 years ago from Sun Prairie for a more spacious area for their horse farm. She loves spending time there with her husband, horses, dogs, cats, and chickens. She also enjoys canning, cooking and baking. Greta has three children, a daughter age 29 who is a nurse, two sons ages 25 and 22. One is a John Deere mechanic, the other a grad student a UW-Milwaukee.

Jerry Trachte joined Central Wisconsin Cooperatives Agronomy team in April as a Sales Agronomist at our Auburndale location. Jerry, a native to the area, grew up on a dairy farm south of Marshfield, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he earned his B.S. degree in Resource Management with Soils Efficiency.
Trachte brings many experiences in his field. He is a National/State certified Crop Advisor; he was president of Midland Coop’s Agriculture Group in region 1, and was a district sales manager for Old’s Seed Company out of Madison. For 8 years Jerry helped develop field agronomist programs for Land O’Lakes-Midland. Before joining the CWC team, Trachte was employed at Olsen’s Crop Service for 13 years.
Jerry and his wife have been married for 37 years and currently reside in the Plover area. They have one daughter and three granddaughters that live in the Mosinee area. In his spare time Jerry likes to hunt, fish and enjoys the warmer weather.