Not Just Another Jackpine Savage Wisconsin Angus breeder Bill Kurtz likes to do things the easy way. The Plasta Post earned Bill Kurtz, St. Croix, Wist., a bronze medal at the Minnesota Inventors Congress last june. I get up in the middle of the night and I have an idea for an invention.
Ideas vary from farm machinery to pharmaceutical supplies to kitchen utensils.
Kurtz is intent on finding better ways to do things. The January morning I visited the Kurtz Angus Farm near St. Croix Falls, Wis., was typical of this year's winter. The temperature was close to minus 20 degrees with a brisk wind whipping through the St. Croix River valley. Snow was piled high and the sunshine did little to warm the scene. Like most folks, Bill could do without the cold weather.