Farming center welcomes visitors, and meteorologist recalls state’s biggest storms

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Heard On The Larry Meiller Show
World’s largest potato masher sits in front of the Food + Farm Exploration Center near Plover, Wis. The iconic symbol represents the fun exploration waiting inside and outside at the Center, honoring the agriculture industry, growers, innovators, and consumers. (Photo courtesy Travel Wisconsin)

We get a virtual tour of the Food & Farm Exploration Center in Plover by talking to its founder and two employees. Then, we talk to Wausau-area meteorologist Tony Schumacher about some of the state’s biggest weather events in the past 30 years.

Featured in this Episode

  • Food & Farm center in Plover connects growers, consumers

    Broadcasting from the Food & Farm Exploration Center in Plover, we learn about an essential Wisconsin industry as visiting families do. We talk to center founder and family farm owner Dick Pavelski and center employees Kathleen O’Leary and Bobbi Kubish.

  • Central Wisconsin meteorologist chased storms, adopted new tools

    Destructive tornadoes, deadly heat waves, and an extreme polar vortex stick out as big stories Tony Schumacher covered as a meteorologist in central Wisconsin for much of his 31-year-career. We talk to the owner of the Great Lakes Weather Service about his work.

Episode Credits

  • Larry Meiller Host
  • Dick Pavelski Guest
  • Kathleen O’Leary Guest
  • Bobbi Kubish Guest
  • Tony Schumacher Guest
  • Jill Nadeau Executive Producer
  • Joel Patenaude Producer
  • Jeff Robbins Technical Director

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