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Volume IV, Issue 8

AUGUST 2009

Specialist watch for aphids, hope for warmth

Iowa Farm & Ranch contacted Iowa State University Extension field agronomists from across western Iowa and asked a series of crop production questions; see the experts’ responses

by Emma Struve

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What have been the most productive management strategies you’ve seen so far this year? The least?

“This spring and early summer were cool and wet, which hurt no-till fields most. Many notill fields that were not established had problems with uneven emergence and when the cool temperature persisted fields became uneven and yellowish. Some of this can also be associated with the type of planter attachments used and how the planter was set up,” said

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Mark Licht, who serves Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, and Greene Counties.

George Cummins, Winnebago, Worth, Mitchell, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Butler, Bremer, Grundy, and Black Hawk Counties, added that good management strategies have been, “variety selection to match local conditions (i.e. cyst nematode resistance, iron chlorosis tolerance, and specific disease resistance), early season weed control…and identifying problem pests, understanding its life cycle, knowing the thresholds and treating as necessary.”

R. Aaron Saeugling seconded Cummins’ answer in that successful management included “timely planting and early season weed control.” Saeugling works in Guthrie, Adair, Adams, Union, Clarke, Lucas, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur, and Wayne Counties.

Concerning low-linolenic soybeans: what have you observed about management challenges, yields, and price premiums?

“Low-linolenic soybeans are being grown across my coverage area. Premiums for growing them have been enough to encourage acres,” Licht replied. “There is

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likely some yield drag associated with growing them.

“That yield drag is narrowing as genetics of low-linolenic soybeans are being improved with increased adoption,” he continued.

“Thresholds for insects and diseases should be altered due to higher market prices,” Licht advised.

Cummins elaborated on the situation, “Organizations like Qualisoy are working with the supply and demand side to create new options for producers.

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APHIDS Continued from page 1 “Many farmers report: lower yields, less options for variety selection, higher management for identity preservation, and market limitations (delivery locations and timing).

Several producers say the market premiums do not justify the extra hassle,” he said.

Saeugling summarized, “Lowlinolenic soybeans can be managed to compete with other systems.

“For some producers this may be a good marketing strategy for the individual farm. Low-linolenic soybeans are a good marketing tool for producers who chose to take advantage of possible premiums,” he concluded.

What pests are being scouted for in your area?

Cummins answered, “Aphids, obviously, with some spider mites, bean leaf beetles and Japanese beetles reported. Brown spot and bacterial blight are common; with phytophtora, cercospera and eye spot also noted. Conditions have been ripe for Sudden Death Syndrome and white mold but (I) have not seen any in the fields yet.”

Saeugling added grey leaf spot to the list and is also scouting for additional foliar diseases in corn.

Licht remarked, “Western bean cutworm moth catches have been low compared to previous years, which would indicate that ear feeding due to the larval stage is likely going to be minimal.

“Soybean aphids are more easily found this week compared to previous weeks, but still at low levels in west central Iowa,” he continued.

Licht advised, “Having said that, aphid populations can grow quite rapidly to reach thresholds. Aphid scouting should continue until soybean maturity reaches the R5.5 growth stage (point at which seeds in pods near the top of the canopy are over ¼ inch in length.)

“Bean leaf beetle pressure for the first generation are at thresholds in some isolated areas,” he cautioned.

“Individuals should consider treatment for bean leaf beetles if the second generation causes greater than 20 percent canopy defoliation.”

PAGE 3 how they look, depending on how they fared in the cool conditions of June and July,” he continued. “But, overall, the soybean crop should be average to above average.”

“Ideal conditions for the remainder of the year would be to have warmer temperatures, but not warmer than normal. It’s too late to recover the lost growing degree days from the first half of the growing season. A rain shower occasionally would help keep plant stress to a minimum,” Licht concluded.

What educational opportunities are available?

Residue Management Training Workshop at the Buena Vista County ISU Extension Office in Storm Lake on Tuesday, August 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., which will cover the role of crop residue in improving soil and water quality, implement adjustment for better residue management, and includes a farmer panel.

Pre registration is requested by calling 712-732-5056. The program includes lunch and provides 3.5 credits in Soil and Water Management for Certified Crop Advisors.

Corn Plant Populations and Row Spacing Field Day sponsored by Sac County ISU Extension on Thursday, August 20 from 9 until 11 a.m. at the Dale Drey farm northwest of Sac City.

The program will feature Roger Elmore, ISU Extension corn specialist, and Mark Hanna ISU Extension agricultural engineer.

For more information contact Licht at 712-792-2364.

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Ladybugs feast on aphids, as seen above, so as aphid populations rise, so do ladybug populations. (Photo courtesy of ISU Extension)

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What have been the weather effects in your area? What will ideal conditions look like in the rest of the growing season?

North central Iowa, Cummins reported, had a “wet spring with below normal temps.”

“Rainfall, of late, is spotty with some areas needing a good rain,” he continued. “Sandy spots are suffering moisture stress. There has been some severe hail in localized areas.

“We need normal temps, some timely rains, and a later than normal killing frost,” Cummins said.

Saeugling remarked of south central Iowa, “My counties started the growing season extremely wet and cool. This has caused delays in planting and herbicide applications.

“Ideal conditions would include warmer temperatures; for example, 85 to 90 degree day time temps and warm nights, 65-70 degrees.”

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Licht said, “The weather effects across west central Iowa have resulted in probably the best looking corn in 10 years. That is hard to say considering 2007 and 2008, which resulted in plentiful corn harvests.

“Soybeans are some what varied in

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WESTERN IOWA LAND VALUES AT A GLANCE

advises: Demand for land Consultant plan for taxes, carefully still strong, still consider land rental good investment

By Emma Struve

by Randy Pryor auctioneer and owner of Swain Realty, Woodbine

In the past 24 months we have sold more than 4,000 acres of farmland in southwest Iowa. We have sold land in Harrison, Monona, Cass, Page, Fremont, Shelby, and other surrounding counties.

Most of the farmland we have sold averages $70.00 per CSR point per tillable acre; with a range of $60 to $80.

An example, for a 160 acre farm with a CSR of 60 with 135 tillable acres: $70 x 60 x 135 would total $567,000, $4200 per crop acre or $3550 per deeded acre.

We have sold some parcels for up to $100 per CSR and higher.

Neighbor participation and 1031 exchange money can make a big difference.

The market appears to me to be about 10% lower the past eight months, due to the price of corn dropping off the highs.

Demand has not weakened at all. In fact, with the stock markets falling the past year, it looks to me like investor demand is picking up.

Cash rent values appear to be trending lower and investors want to buy land cheaper, but I really doubt if we will see a big sell off

in land values.

If you had a million in cash today, land still looks better than two percent CD rates or investing in the stock market, something most ag people don’t understand, including myself...

We have three land auctions scheduled for September and December that will really test this market compared to last season. Every land sale we conduct is posted on our Web site (www.randypryorauctioneer.com).

Selling land by auction is still the best method.

Dennis Van Gorkom has been with Corporate Farmer, a Mason City accounting firm serving midwestern farmers, for 35 years and has clients in 11 states.

The lowest cost per acre of about $2,200 for marginal land and the highest, an 80 acre parcel with a CSR of 90 sold for $15,000 per acre, Van Gorkom reported about land sales during the last six months, of which he was aware.

The average around Mason City was between $5,000 and $7,000.

“I see a lot of farms being sold in the next three years,” Van Gorkom said. The pri-

mary impetus, he predicted, is that many farmers will be retiring and the next generation is not “coming up” to farm.

Few farmers are selling on contract, due to uncertainty in the markets and fears that they’ll get the land back.

Loans for land are shorter term than they have been historically, to reduce to total amount paid in interest, though rates remain reasonable.

“The last thing a young farmer needs – long payments,” he commented.

In Van Gorkom’s opin-

ion, “last year was the best year ever in farming.”

“This year is a contender,” he continued.

When farmers are doing well, they spend money.

Because of the favorable purchasing conditions, Van Gorkom warned, “Cash rent on land is just stupidity.”

When purchasing land, he continued, farmers will be best served planning for taxes when considering loans; for example, the principal should equal taxable income.

For additional information see www.corporatefarmer.com.

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Fairs and families Remember, I was a city kid, so it should be no surprise that I did not have livestock during my 4-H years.

That’s not to say that my sisters and I didn’t want livestock.

We just had no place to raise them, living in town. My sisters wanted to show steers and sheep. I just wanted sheep; the steers were so huge that they scared me.

My grandpa raised sheep. My husband, however, knows nothing about them, so I don’t think we’ll be having them on our farm.

More than 20 years later, I’m getting used to the thousand-pound steers in my son’s 4-H club, even though he himself just showed a bucket-bottle calf this year.

We brought it to the fairgrounds the night before, and had Nic work with it in the show ring for a while so the 229-pound calf, Simon, would get used to it.

While he was doing that, I helped another mother bring their two 900 pound heifers into

the show ring to get them used to it, too.

My husband, of course, wanted to take a million pictures of the whole ordeal, amazed that I would be able to lead a huge heifer around the show ring a few times.

Every time I looked over, he was happily snapping pictures of me, while heckling me and asking if I wanted a heifer of my own and could he buy me one.

(Umm, no. Still a farmer’s wife, not farm wife, honey.)

After we returned the heifers to their place in the barn, I retrieved my camera to find that he had indeed taken no pictures.

Apparently, with his camera, you only have to push the button once; mine takes two pushes, one to focus and one to take the picture.

Whoops. No pictures this year.

Getting back to the bucket-bottle calf, here’s a fun sentence that I hope you never hear firsthand, “He’s a heifer.”

Yes, after being coached relentlessly on the questions the judge

may ask him, this is my son’s answer to the question, “What sex is your calf?”

He knew Simon was a steer. He knew why the calf was a steer. He even knew the date that the calf went from bullcalf to steer.

“He’s a heifer.”

In all fairness, the rest of the cattle in our 4-H club were all heifers. He had the lone little steer.

The judge had a sense of humor, of course, and bent down to check it out for himself.

My son went on to tell the judge, my husband’s FFA teacher from high school, that this was the first bottle calf that my husband has had that lived.

The judge told my son that he must have missed a few things in class with his dad about keeping a calf alive.

My son told him that Simon lived because it got the colostrum when it was born before its mother rejected it in favor of the other twin.

“Colostrum,” said the judge. “That’s a pretty big word.

What’s colostrum?”

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FARMER’S WIFE

By Christy Welch

My son explained in great detail what colostrum was and how it benefits newborn calves.

Then, rounded out the questions by correctly saying that Simon was, indeed, a steer.

My son and the other boy showing a bottle calf each received a purple ribbon for their efforts.

My parents, who met showing 4-H calves against each other, came to help and watch

him show his calf.

So did one of my sisters, who gave up a day of NASCAR in Newton to drive two hours, each way, to watch her nephew show a calf for 10 minutes.

That’s love.

My son also entered the junior showmanship contest, and learned how to use a show stick 20 minutes before the competition.

Simon adapted beautifully and stood just perfect for the judge.

Unfortunately, his halter had been put on the wrong way, so he didn’t place in the top three.

But, the beef show judge did take the time to talk to him after the contest, which I thought was nice.

Next year, he’ll show Simon as a bucket/bottle +1, and will probably have a couple other steers.

We’re already looking through Sullivan’s online catalogue to see what my son should put on his Christmas list.

Surprisingly, I can’t wait for next year’s fair.

It should be fun!

I still want some sheep, if I could only find a place for them on our farm.

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COOK’S CORNER Garden Herb Top Loin Steaks

Zucchini with Parmesan Sauce

Ingredients 2 boneless beef top loin (strip) steaks, cut 1 inch thick (about 10 ounces each) Salt 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme 1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano 2 teaspoons freshly grated lemon peel 3 cloves garlic, chopped ¼ teaspoon pepper

Ingredients 3 medium zucchini, cut diagonally into ½-inch-thick slices 2 medium yellow squash, cut diagonally into ½-inch-thick slices 1 medium red onion, cut into wedges 1 Tbsp. oil 1 container (8 oz.) chive & onion cream cheese spread 1/3 cup fat-free milk ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese ¼ tsp. herb and spice blend seasoning

Instructions 1. Combine seasoning ingredients in small bowl; reserve 2 teaspoons for garnish. Press remaining seasoning evenly onto beef steaks.

2. Place steaks on grid over medium, ash-covered coals. Grill, uncovered, 15 to 18 minutes (over medium heat on preheated gas grill, covered, 11 to 15 minutes) for medium rare (145ºF) to medium (160ºF) doneness, turning occasionally.

3. Carve steaks into slices. Sprinkle with reserved seasoning and salt, as desired.

Instructions 1. Cook and stir zucchini, squash and onion in hot oil in large skillet 5 to 7 min. or until vegetables are crisp-tender 2. Meanwhile, mix remaining ingredients in small saucepan; cook on low heat until cream cheese spread is completely melted and mixture is heated through, stirring occasionally.

3. Serve sauce over vegetables just before serving.

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Soybean aphid management, research among field day topics The latest on soybean aphid research will be covered at a field day August 27 at the Iowa State University Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy Research and Demonstration Farm west of Ames.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with refreshments.

The program will run from 9 to 11:30 a.m., with lunch being served at the conclusion of the field day.

There is no fee for attending.

The program will include: • Roger Elmore, ISU Extension

corn specialist, will discuss his research on corn planting dates and optimum plant populations, and provide updated corn-planting recommendations.

• Kevin Johnson, Iowa State graduate student in entomology, will discuss the effectiveness of aphid resistant soybean varieties, the initial results from a predatory wasp release and efforts to evaluate the economics of various aphid management systems.

• Matt Liebman, the Wallace Chair

for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State and extension sustainable cropping systems specialist, will talk about his research involving the increased productivity of native prairie biomass for better profitability as a bio-energy feedstock.

• Antonio Mallarino, extension soil fertility specialist, will discuss his ongoing work involving potassium management, including needs of new corn hybrids, in addition to his work on corn and soybean response to lime application.

• Extension field agronomists John Holmes and Mark Wuebker will review the current season and comment on issues that farmers have encountered.

• A representative from QUALISOY will discuss planting specialty soybeans. The QUALISOY program is a national effort to help market the development and availability of healthier soybeans and soy oil.

The farm is located one mile south of U.S. Highway 30 on W Avenue, and one-half mile east on 240th Street.

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Hail damage to thousands of Iowa crop acres

by Emma Struve

Between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 9, 15 counties in Iowa were pummeled with hail ranging from ¾ of an inch in diameter at Belle Plain in Benton County, to the largest hail at three inches in El Dora, Hardin County.

Counties in west central Iowa including Ida, Sac, Webster, Hamilton, Calhoun, Crawford and Carroll experienced hail measuring one to 1 ¾ inches, quarter to golf-ball sized.

The Crawford County Emergency Management Coordinator Greg Miller estimated that in north-

ern Crawford County 10-15,000 acres of cropland were affected.

Farm Service Agency field specialists had not yet completed an evaluation of damage connected with this most recent storm at the time of publication.

At least three other significant weather events occurred in the last month including a hail and windstorm on July 24 in northeast Iowa where winds, in some cases, exceeded 70 miles per hour and hail greater than an inch in diameter fell over a widespread area.

According to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship Climatology Bureau’s preliminary monthly weather summary for July, “The USDA Farm Service Agency reports indicate that about 400,000 acres of crops were impacted across six counties on the 24th with damage estimated at $200 million.”

The Polk County area on July 14 had a hail and thunderstorm event where hail measuring between one and three inches fell for about 15 minutes around noon.

On July 9, law enforcement and other emergency personnel in northwest Iowa reported quarter size hail that resulted in some crop damage.

Many of these events have been accompanied by

Hail near Eldora stripped and flattened corn, as seen in the above photo. (Photo submitted by Troy Harris)

high wind, reported State Climatologist Harry Hillaker.

“Large hail in combination with high wind is a bad combination for crops,” Hillaker said. “Crops can usually handle one or the other but not both.”

Additional sources for information include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Storm Prediction Center’s records located at www.spc.noaa.gov.

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Iowa Pork Producers sponsoring ‘free’ pre-harvest PQA Plus® certification sessions The Iowa Pork Producers Association is continuing its efforts to get all Iowa pork producers certified in the We Care responsible pork initiative’s Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance programs.

With a goal of having all producers certified in the programs by December 31, 2011, IPPA is sponsoring several “free” certification training sessions around Iowa in late August and September.

The sessions will be conducted in association with Iowa State University Extension and the Iowa Pork Industry Center at ISU. “We are fortunate to have the cooperation of our ISU Extension swine specialists to conduct the quality assurance training sessions,” said Tyler Bettin, IPPA producer education director. “We want to give producers every opportunity to complete these sessions prior to the harvest season.”

The newly developed schedule of sessions will be conducted on the following dates and times at various sites around the state.

When: Wednesday, Aug. 26 - PQA Plus 9:45 a.m.-noon; TQA 1 p.m,3:30 p.m.

Where: Hancock County Extension office, Garner Contact: Russ Euken, 641-9232856 or reuken@iastate.edu When: Thursday, Aug. 27 - PQA Plus 9:45 a.m.-noon; TQA 1 p.m.3:30 p.m.

Where: Story County Extension office, Nevada Contact: Terry Steinhart, 800515-2680 or tsteinha@iastate.edu When: Thursday, Aug. 27 - PQA Plus 9:45 a.m.-noon; TQA 1 p.m.3:30 p.m.

Where: Butler County Extension office, Allison Contact: Mark Storlie, 319-2672707 or mstorlie@iastate.edu When: Wednesday, Sept. 9 - TQA 10 a.m.-noon; PQA Plus 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Northwest Iowa Community College, Bldg. A, Room 118, Sheldon Contact: Dave Stender, 712-2256196 or dstender@iastate.edu When: Tuesday, Sept. 15 - PQA Plus 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Jones County Extension office, Anamosa

Contact: Larry McMullen, 319462-2791 or lkmcmull@iastate.edu When: Tuesday, Sept. 15 - PQA Plus 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Washington County Extension office, Washington Contact: Tom Miller, 319-6534811 or tmiller@iastate.edu When: Tuesday, Sept. 22 - PQA Plus 10 a.m.-noon; TQA 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Sac County Extension office, Sac City Contact: Jerry Weiss, 712-3353103 or weissj@iastate.edu

Pre-registration is recommended for all sessions.

The We Care initiative is a joint effort of the Pork Checkoff, through the National Pork Board, and the National Pork Producers Council, to help demonstrate that producers are accountable to established ethi-

cal principles and animal well-being practices.

“Participation in We Care helps show our customers that today’s pork producers do what is right for the animals in their care,” Bettin said. “PQA Plus and

TQA certification are two key elements within this initiative.”

More than 9,100 Iowa producers and swine employees were certified in PQA Plus and 4,325 had received TQA certification as of July 28, 2009.

Producers interested in additional information about the training programs are encouraged to contact Bettin at (800) 372-7675 or tbettin@iowapork.org.

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Corn plant populations, row spacing focus of ISU Extension Sac City field day Corn plant populations and row spacing will be the focus of a field day sponsored by Iowa State University Extension in Sac County on Thursday, August 20, from 9-11 a.m.

“This field day will discuss current and projected plant populations as well as look at the reasons for a movement towards 20-inch row spacing,” said Mark Licht, ISU Extension field agronomist and organizer of the field day.

“Additionally, there will be an opportunity

ISA hosts dinner featuring Brazilian agronomist, marketing strategist Soybean growers in Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5 are invited to join the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) for an informative meeting at the Best Western Starlite Village in Fort Dodge on August 24.

The program will feature a crop marketing update, along with a presentation by a Brazilian agronomist who is spending the summer in the United States as a consultant.

Susan Mortensen of Advantage Agricultural Strategies, Ltd., in Fort Dodge will talk about marketing in a volatile world, explaining the various types of hedging strategies and how to layer those strategies to construct a marketing plan. She will also comment on recent USDA reports.

Pedro Schineider is a consulting agronomist for several large farms in north central Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Schineider specializes in fertilizer and chemical spraying recommendations, as well as scouting.

He also helps farmers put together production/financial plans. He will talk about soybean production in Mato Grosso, as well as his experience in the United States.

The evening, which includes dinner, will begin at 6 p.m.

Registration is free.

Sign up by contacting one of the following ISA Producer Services Coordinators: Jen Barglof at 515-669-9167 or jbarglof@ iasoybeans.com; Val Plagge at 515-669-9182 or vplagge@iasoybeans.co m; or Amanda Wall at 515-669-9106 or awall@iasoybeans.com.

to discuss equipment consideration when moving to narrow row corn,” Licht said.

Dale Drey, a local farmer, will host the event at one of his fields located on Quincy Avenue northwest of Sac City. The farm is located 1.75 miles north

of Highway 20.

The field day will feature talks by ISU experts.

Roger Elmore, ISU Extension corn specialist, will speak about ideal plant populations and the theory behind moving to narrow row corn.

“There’s a push to reach 300 bushels per acre by 2030,” Elmore said. “The main driver is that the hybrids we have now are better able to withstand their neighbors. They don’t need as much personal space. Before, corn plants couldn’t handle

crowding so well. They didn’t yield well; they could go barren. With modern hybrids, narrow row spacing in one tool, along with better disease and pest management.”

Mark Hanna, ISU Extension agricultural engineer, will discuss

planter adjustments for optimal seeding.

The field day is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served starting at 8:45 a.m.

For more information, contact Mark Licht at 712-792-2364 or lichtma@iastate.edu.

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Champion auctioneer takes the mic at Dunlap Livestock Schabens celebrate 59 years

by Gordon Wolf

When searching for an auctioneering style that won him the Livestock Marketing Association World Championship this year, Ty Thompson of Billings, Montana, didn’t have to look very far.

He counts his father and a co-worker at the Billings livestock auction as major influences.

Thompson was at Dunlap Livestock Auction in Dunlap (Harrison County) on Friday, August 7, to help the Schaben family celebrate 59 years of owning and operating the business.

Jim Schaben, Sr. and wife Ruth purchased the livestock auction in Dunlap in 1950. In the early 1990s sons Jay, Jim and Jon purchased Dunlap Livestock Auction from their parents, and in the fall of 2008 a third generation of the Schabens, Cody Schaben, joined the business.

Jon Schaben is the 2003 LMA World Champion Auctioneer.

Thompson took his turn at the microphone August 7 to auction cattle to an arena packed with buyers and sellers.

Thompson was born and raised in Lander, Wyoming, and grew up in the livestock auction business. His parents, Warren and Sherry Thompson,

owned Riverton Livestock Auction.

Thompson has worked in Billings for 15 years and moved there 12 years ago. He manages the cattle sales for the Billings livestock auction and also operates Northern Livestock Video Auction.

Because he grew up in the livestock auction business, auctioneering came natural to Thompson, but he added that his parents never pushed him to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Thompson began auctioneering at age 18 and then entered his first contest at age 19.

Thompson said he had always wanted to enter the auctioneering contest. But he admitted he was naïve and thought he would win the first time out.

He kept entering contests and learned a lot, but then took some time off from competition.

When the Billings livestock auction hosted the world championships in 2004, it rejuvenated Thompson’s interest, and he began entering contests again.

Thompson has competed in the livestock auctioneering contest 12 times and won reserve the last two or three years before winning the World Champion title this year.

LMA World Champion Auctioneer Ty Thompson, center, visited western Iowa on August 7 to help the Schaben family celebrate 59 years of owning and operating Dunlap Livestock Auction. Photo by Gordon Wolf

As World Champion, Thompson will make a number of appearances throughout the year for the Livestock Marketing Association.

Auctioneering and the Livestock Marketing Association are good ways to promote livestock marketing, Thompson commented.

“Cattle are truly being sold in an open, competitive market,” he stated.

Thompson and his wife, Jody, have two boys, Tate, age 9, and Jace, who

turned seven years old on August 7.

Like the older generation of Thompsons, Ty and Jody aren’t forcing the family business upon their children.

But it seems that auctioneering runs in the blood.

“Jace was auctioneering before he could count,” said Thompson, “and I’ve said that Tate is a closet auctioneer.”

New report documents Iowa grain flow patterns and trends Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented on the release of a major study tracking the movement of grain and co-products from Iowa farms to various end users. The report is titled; The 2007/08 Iowa Grain and Biofuel Flow Study: A Survey Report.

“This is a key report that helps farmers understand where the products they produce are going and how they get there,” Northey said. “The inclusion of biofuels and their co-products in this study gives greater understanding to the movement and demand for the commodities coming from our farms.”

The report documents how farmers, grain handlers, corn and soybean processors, as well as biofuel (ethanol and biodiesel) manufacturers, move their products to their end users. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship served as the project coordinator. The project was funded by nine different sponsors including state agencies, producer associations and processor organizations. The study was conducted by Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD).

The report is the latest in a series of studies that have focused on the transportation flow of Iowa’s farm commodities, but the first to have included biofuels and selected co-products.

The report was co-authored by Economics professors Chad Hart of ISU and Tun-Hsiang “Edward” Yu of the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The full report can be accessed at www.card.iastate.edu.

Sponsors of the report included: Agribusiness Association of Iowa, Iowa Biodiesel Board, Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Institute for Cooperatives, Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, and Iowa Soybean Association.

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Cutting federal debt a high priority for Iowa Farm Bureau president

by Gordon Wolf

As one might imagine, agriculture was the main topic at the Crawford County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting July 21 at the Deloit Community Center.

But the topic of discussion was also how political decisions can and do affect agriculture.

Craig Lang, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, reminded people that when voting in 2010, they should know that their candidates will help cut the federal deficit.

Lang, who farms near Brooklyn in Poweshiek County, was the guest speaker at the county Farm Bureau’s annual meeting.

Lang was first elected as president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation in December 2001. He farms in partnership with his father and brother on 1,000 acres. They also have a 460-head dairy operation.

“One of the biggest issues facing us today as farmers, as businessman, is the size of the federal debt,” Lang stated.

Lang pointed out that not one party or the other is responsible for the deficit.

He said the deficit has been growing for the past 40 years, with the exception of three or four years during the Clinton Administration when an attempt was made to balance the federal budget.

“It’s a dangerous precedent we’re setting,” Lang “One of the stated.

He listed ways to biggest decrease the federal issues facing debt.

“Number one, we have us today as to quit spending. farmers, as Number two, we have to do everything we can to businessman, bolster the economy to is the size of grow,” Lang stated. He continued that the the federal nation needs a tax dedidebt,” cated to paying down debt and reducing the deficit, something he Craig Lang admits won’t be popular.

Iowa Farm “The alternative is having a budget that is Bureau totally consumed by the Federation cost of our debt,” he president added.

Lang also spoke about an increase to the state fuel tax that would be dedicated toward the repair and maintenance of the roads and bridges throughout the state.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver decided during the last Legislative session to not support an increase to the fuel tax.

“I’m saying, from the Farm Bureau’s perspective, it’s not dead,” Lang stated.

“I believe he (Culver) passed up the greatest opportunity he would ever have as governor to fix the state’s roads and bridges with a fuel tax increase,” Lang continued. “By the way, you could have doubled what we were asking for, eight cents, made it 16 cents, and taken care of all the flood damage and not have floated a 40-year bond of $500 million that we have to pay for.”

Lang said the eight-cent increase to the fuel tax

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation President Craig Lang talks about how political decisions affect agriculture at a recent county annual meeting. (Photo by Gordon Wolf)

would have provided the additional $200 million a year that Iowa’s TIME-21 Committee said was needed to maintain the roads and bridges in the state. That was two years ago before the flooding of 2008.

“The Iowa Farm Bureau voted early on that a dedicated fuel tax was needed to maintain the state’s roads and bridges. We were opposed to band-aid approaches, like increasing licensing fees, because that wouldn’t even come close to raising the necessary money,” Lang stated.

He said the Farm Bureau supported a dedicated fuel tax because the infrastructure for farm to market roads is so important.

Lang stated the revenue from the dedicated tax would be divided, with 60 percent going for stateowned highways and bridges, 20 percent to cities and 20 percent to counties.

“A significant amount would be returned to counties that could even be used for gravel,” he stated.

Lang added that more than 25 percent of the tax

would be paid for by people from outside the state who use Iowa’s roads.

Lang later said, “I think many of our members have said that the necessary evil of the tax is all right if we know where the money is going. But too many times taxes have increased and we’ve seen no value in return.

“That’s why I say who you elect is so important, because the legislators are the ones who watch over the laws and are the ones who can change it.

That’s why it’s so important to have those people who believe and help you understand why certain taxes exist,” Lang said.

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No swan song Two free-flying trumpeter swan pairs produce offspring in Mid-Iowa for first time in more than a century

by Todd Burras The Ames Tribune

A blue heron stands stalk still, its neck coiled, eyes unflinching, peering into the clear water beneath it. Suddenly, it thrusts its sharp beak into the shallow water, thrashes its head briefly and then straightens up again, a six-inch-long fish dangling out both sides of its beak.

Nearby, a red-winged blackbird lights from a clump of cattails, emitting its telltale conk-areeeee as it flies. Not far away, a bobolink clings to a rush swaying in the slight breeze. From a mudflat, a frog leaps and splashes into the water.

Another croaks before following suit.

These are the natural sounds of a small wetland just outside Ames, a tranquil oasis on this morning, save for the occasional rumble of a passing train.

It was here, at Iowa State University’s Kelley Farm, where a pair of migrating trumpeter swans chose to stop this spring, build a nest on a muskrat hut and eventually produce six offspring, called cygnets.

Less than two miles to the south, at Mabaska Wildlife Area near the intersection of Lincoln Way and U.S. Highway 30, a similar event occurred, as another pair of trumpeter swans set up home and eventually produced five cygnets, four of which have survived.

To passersby along the heavily traveled highway, many of whom are commuters to and from Ames,

the sight of swans at Mabaska isn’t new. There consistently have been flightless swans on the pond there since around 1997.

What is different about these swans and the pair at the Kelley Farm, however, is they are free-flying trumpeter swans, and they’re believed to be the first two pairs to nest in Mid-Iowa since perhaps as far back as the Civil War. “We don’t know for sure,” said Ron Andrews, trumpeter swan restoration coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, “but the last pair of native trumpeter swans to nest in Iowa occurred in Hancock County in 1883 until a pair nested in Dubuque County in 1998. We suspect it’s been probably close to 150 years since free-flying swans nested this close to Ames.”

Trumpeting the cause The Iowa DNR began its trumpeter swan reintroduction program in 1995. By placing flightless pairs at small wetland sites around the state, the DNR hoped to produce free-flying offspring, some of which would mature and eventually nest in Iowa.

Mabaska had been the home to flightless swans for more than a decade until last year, when, due to the arrival of the free-flying pair, the DNR decided to relocate the flightless pair to a pond near the former Pella Windows plant east of Story City along Interstate 35.

“Swans can be quite territorial,” Andrews said.

“And we thought as a way to limit strife between the pairs, we should relocate the flightless pair.”

The Kelley Farm, by contrast, is a relatively new wetland. In 2001, ISU Extension and the ISU Sociology Department created the Squaw Creek Watershed Council, which in turn tasked ISU sociology associate professor Lois Wright Morton to work with Kent Berns, superintendent for the

Kelley Farm, to enroll 19.6 acres of a corn-soybean field into the federal Conservation Reserve Program’s Farmable Wetlands Program.

“The area we enrolled into the program rarely produced a crop on 20 percent of the acres,” Berns said. “Another 20 percent of the acres produced only a partial crop in normal years. Farmers are incurring production costs in areas such as this with little or no return.”

But on the Kelley Farm, ISU now receives federal payments of more than $150 per acre while creating a wetland suitable for swans and other wildlife in the process.

Fostering shared interests The DNR set a goal of having 15 free-flying pairs of trumpeter swans nesting across the state by 2003 and raised the number to 25 in 2006. This year, a record 33 pairs have attempted to nest in the state. Andrews estimates 25 or 26 of the pairs have produced offspring.

“I don’t know if we can expect to see the number continue to grow and exceed 100 pairs in my lifetime or not,” Andrews, 66, said. “With wetlands continuing to disappear from the landscape at the rate they are, I doubt it; unless we can promote wetlands on ag land and meld together ag-related interests with natural resource-related interests like we have at the Kelley Farm.”

Berns agrees and hopes Kelley Farm can serve as a model to other landowners.

“We thought this was a good opportunity to add a little mix to what we were doing on the farm and that it would provide some different teaching opportunities,” Berns said. “It’s turned out to be somewhat unique because it’s really held the water, which doesn’t always happen. With all the vegetation, it’s turned out to be a really good spot for the swans.”

To get to Kelley Farm from Ames, take Ontario Street west until it turns into 220th Street and go one-half mile. Turn north on XL Avenue and go another one-half mile north, over the railroad tracks. The wetland is west of the road.

For more information about the history of the two free-flying pairs of trumpeter swans, contact David Hoffman, DNR wildlife technician, at (641) 357-3517 or David.Hoffman@dnr.iowa.gov.

Todd Burras can be reached at (515) 663-6921 or tburras(at)amestrib.com.

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Landowners, partners help protect views of Loess Hills Eight neighbors southeast of Sioux City are protecting their land to help assure scenic vistas of the Loess Hills are preserved for the future. The Woodbury County families contributed a total land value of about $100,000 to help protect more than 400 acres, as part of a public-private initiative in the Grant Center Special Landscape Area (SLA).

The properties, near Smithland, have been enrolled in permanent conservation easements. All are along the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway, which is one of only two national scenic byways in Iowa (the other is along the Mississippi River).

The Grant Center SLA is one of the 12 Loess Hills regions identified by the National Park Service as particularly worthy of conservation.

Before these easements, the Grant Center area had no land under permanent protection. All the other SLA regions have at least some areas that are permanently protected.

Under the conservation easements, the land remains in private ownership and is not open to public use. Easements terms are tailored to each property and owner, but they generally limit future development and prohibit mining of the loess soils and destruction of native prairie.

Public benefits include preservation of scenic views, native prairie remnants and habitat for wildlife, including butterflies, bobcats and wild turkey.

The 5,364-acre Grant Center SLA is a wedgeshaped area that stretches from roughly Highway 141 in Woodbury County to a point west of Ticonic in Monona County. The eight new easements are all in Woodbury County, where the conservation board is a key partner. The Woodbury County Conservation Board (WCCB) will monitor the sites to ensure that the easement terms are understood and respected by current and future owners.

“Without the county conservation board’s leadership, this group of easements probably could not have happened,” said Brian Fankhauser, a land protection specialist with the Iowa Natural

Heritage Foundation, a conservation group that coordinated the project.

“Conservation agencies can’t possibly acquire by fee title all the areas worthy of protection, nor do we want to do that,” said Rick Schneider, director of the WCCB. “Easements can be crafted to protect special lands in a way that fits the landowner’s wishes. Protection goals can be accomplished while the landowner continues to control and care for the land, as agreed to in the easement document. And the land remains on the tax rolls.”

These easements include dramatic views of the rugged west slope of the Loess Hills landform, the expansive Missouri River valley and landmarks such as “Sugarloaf Hill,” an isolated loess deposit west of the scenic byway.

Marilyn Byers’ family has long owned part of Sugarloaf Hill, which will be protected in cooperation with Thomas Worrell, who owns the other side of the hill.

Marilyn remembers being fascinated by the hills since she was a girl, when her mother had a newspaper article that showed an aerial view of their hills and described the wind-blown soils that created the landform.

“We’ve farmed here a long time, but we’ve also tried to take care of it as a special place,” Byers said. “We’ve been working on restoration of some of the remnant prairies and trying to bring back wildflowers, like the bluebells that I knew of as a kid. We’re having some little miracles of success.

So we were so excited to find out about this program that could help us. And I am so happy and thankful that some of our neighbors also want to be part of this effort.”

The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation worked with the Byers and the other landowners and helped bring together the project partners, including the Iowa Department of Transportation. A grant from IDOT reimbursed landowners for 80 percent of the value of the easements to protect the “viewshed” of the scenic byway.

George Waller of Mapleton (center) was the first Grant Center landowner to complete the conservation easement for which he was honored at Iowa’s first Gifts to Iowa’s Future Day in April 2009. He was personally thanked by officials and legislators, including Iowa Senate President John P. “Jack” Kibbie (left) and State Sen. Steve Warnstadt, District 1 (right). His easement includes land that has long been farmed by the Waller family. Seven neighbors who completed their easements this spring will be honored at a similar event in 2010.

(Photo submitted)

To make the project work, the landowners had to donate 20 percent of the value of their easement, for a total contribution of $103,000.

Easement donors Charles and Judith Bromander were strong local supporters of the project.

They describe their land as a “unique property that has one of the prettiest views around.”

“I really consider this easement part of following in the footsteps of my dad, who was a farmer active in conservation in the area,” said Charles. “I would like to know that my grandkids can see this place as I have known it. It’s getting harder to find natural areas like this. We need a few left.”

To learn more about easements and other methods of permanent land protection, Iowans can request a free copy of “The Landowner’s Options,” a guide published by INHF, which is available online at www.inhf.org or by calling 515-288-1846.

Past INHF projects in Woodbury County include the Owego Wetlands Complex, several additions to Stone State Park and three private conservation easements in the Luton Special Landscape Area.

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Khrushchev commemoration receiving widespread support The citizen-led “Khrushchev in Iowa” committee will host a number of high-level visitors to Iowa August 27-30, 2009. The four day commemoration will celebrate Iowa’s progressive politics, agricultural innovation and unique history.

Khrushchev in Iowa has recently received four more grant awards: $22,800 from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, via an Iowa Community Cultural Grant; $15,000 from the Timmerman Trust of Carroll County; $12,000 from Humanities Iowa, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and

$5,000 from Bravo Des Moines.

Besides donations from humanities and arts organizations, Khrushchev in Iowa is being supported by the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Syngenta, John Deere Des Moines, Farmers Cooperative, Iowa Corn Growers, Iowa Farm Bureau, and many other corporate and individual sponsors. For a full listing of sponsors see http://www.creatinggreatplaces.org “Our event can provide a positive venue for renewed trade, diplomatic and exchange relations between the US and Russian people,” explained committee co-chair Rachel Garst of Coon Rapids.

“We are trying to raise enough funds to put on a high quality event and entertain our visitors in style.”

Those coming include the Russian Ambassador to the United States, approximately 30 Russian agribusiness leaders, a delegation from Iowa’s Sister State of Stavropol, and Russian state television and press.

U.S. participants include Senator Chuck Grassley, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the leadership of the U.S. Russia Business Council, as well as Khrushchev’s award-winning biographer William Taubman and Khrushchev’s son, Brown University Professor Sergei Khrushchev (who is a naturalized U.S. citizen).

The four-day program includes many historical and outreach components.

“One goal,” reported Garst, “is to gather as much film footage and other first-hand recollections from those who were active in the event. Very few ‘insiders’ are left. Most prominently those would be Sergei Khrushchev, who came with his father at the age of 24, and Antonia ‘Tosh’ Lee, daughter of Roswell Garst, who was also at the event, at the age of 26. Both will be attending and their recollections will be captured on film.”

Many public events have been scheduled, includ-

ing a free talk by Taubman on Thursday August 27, a major Khrushchev in Iowa conference and banquet at the Hotel Fort Des Moines on Friday August 28, and a free Agricultural Progress Festival to be celebrated in Coon Rapids on Saturday August 29.

The Saturday festival will include a commemoration ceremony at the Garst Farm (featuring Sergei Khrushchev and Tosh Lee); a talk by Wes Jackson on the potential of perennializing grain crops; plantings of corn from different historical eras; tours of the Syngenta hybrid corn plant; inauguration of a major public art sculpture by David Dahlquist (featuring the theme of “hybridization”); an original two-person play, based on real dialogue and correspondence between Khrushchev and Garst; landscape artist Nancy Thompson; a Khrushchev look a-like contest; speeches on Main Street; live music; film and photo displays; and a beer garden. The public is encouraged to attend and is invited to wear 1950s clothing, if they wish. Details can be found at http://www.creatinggreatplaces.org.

This Web site also includes a blog oriented towards capturing public recollections of the visit.

“We are encouraging the public to write in to share their memories and thoughts on the visit,” said Garst.

Volunteers are also needed to help staff some of the events. Anyone who can help should contact April Schultes at 712-999-7031.

Khrushchev in Iowa will conclude on Sunday August 30, with a barbeque at Camp Dodge hosted

by Iowa Sister States. This will highlight and celebrate the many other types of Iowa-Russia exchanges that have emerged over the years.

Event co-chair Sandi Yoder, former CEO of Living History Farms, said, “We are encountering a lot of public interest and involvement. Khrushchev in Iowa is a story that belongs to all Iowans.”

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More acres can also mean more conservation

by Jason Johnson Public Affairs Specialist, USDA-NRCS

Paul “Butch” Schroeder farms with his brother, David, in four west central Iowa counties: Carroll, Guthrie, Audubon and Greene. They planted corn into soybean residue without disturbing the soil. No-till helps reduce erosion, saves time and money, and improves water and soil quality. (Photos submitted)

As the number of Iowa farmers decreases and the average farm size increases, that can mean more conservation on the ground – especially when it’s farmed by environmental stewards like Paul “Butch” Schroeder of Coon Rapids.

Schroeder reluctantly admits that he and his brother, David, own, rent and custom farm about 3,000 cropland acres in four counties: Carroll, Guthrie, Audubon and Greene. Each farm ranges from 60 to 400 acres. Schroeder doesn’t hesitate, though, when talking about ways he and his brother work to conserve the land.

The Schroeder brothers no-till about 60 percent of their cropland, and only lightly disk some poorly draining bottomland and flatland. Butch Schroeder said reducing soil erosion is his primary goal in no-tilling and practicing conservation tillage. But he said there are cost benefits, too.

“With every field pass, you throw a lot of fuel out there,” he stated. “For what it takes to produce a good yield, we have cut back on field passes and fuel usage as much as possible.”

No-till means planting into last year’s crop residue without tilling the soil. The primary benefit of no-till farming is reduced soil erosion and sediment runoff. Schroeder said other benefits he sees from no-till include cutting back on time in the field, less equipment needed, improved water quality and better soil quality.

Farming in four counties on several different slopes and soil types requires adaptability. Five years ago the Schroeders began grid sampling their soils, which proved to be more accurate than the 20-acre samples they previously used.

“We quickly learned where we need to fertilize, and where we don’t,” said Butch Schroeder. “There are some soils we don’t even have to apply potash and phosphorus.”

The Schroeders not only manage their residue, but they also apply conservation practices, such as terraces, grassed waterways, field borders, contour buffer strips and filter strips that keep the soil in place, slow runoff, and maintain water quality in adjacent streams and water bodies.

“We always plant on the contour, too, regardless of the steepness of slopes,” said Butch Schroeder.

He stated he has even talked prospective landlords into retiring highly erodible, damaged cropland into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) that he could have farmed as a tenant. “There is no reason to farm the land if it’s in such poor condition that you can’t make money,” he said.

Schroeder has a handful of CRP contracts of his own, including one that covers approximately 60 acres near his home that his family enjoys.

To learn more about ways to protect land from erosion and sediment runoff or to prepare a complete conservation plan for a farm, contact a local USDA-NRCS office.

The Schroeders, from Coon Rapids, practice no-till on about 60 percent of their farmed acres. Pictured here are soybeans in corn residue.

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Five Iowa farm families to be honored at state fair Five Iowa farm families will be named as recipients of The Way We Live Award at the 2009 Iowa State Fair.

Each family will be honored in an award ceremony during the Fair, which runs August 13-23.

The Way We Live Award, new to this year’s state fair, recognizes industrious Iowa families who demonstrate a daily dedication to animal agriculture and exemplify farm values derived from hard work and a love for the occupation of farming.

Entrants were asked to submit a short essay describing how living on a farm and choosing the occupation of farming has shaped their family’s life. Five recipients were chosen from a pool of 32 entries representing a variety of commodities and locations throughout Iowa.

In addition to being honored in award ceremonies during the fair, each family will receive a prize package including admission to the Fair and $150 cash.

The Hansen Family, Hudson Black Hawk County The Hansen farm has passed through generations of family members since the land was purchased by their German ancestors in 1861. Jay and Jeanne Hansen took over operation and ownership in 1976. Today, they are in the process of passing on their stable, lucrative family business to their five adult children. The family began selling Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy products directly to consumers in 2002. Currently, they produce enough to supply two family-owned stores in Waterloo and Cedar Falls as well as 25 other retail outlets, restaurants, coffee shops and retirement homes throughout the Cedar Valley area. Their pet kangaroo, Kiwi, serves as farm mascot and appears on their product labels. The family was honored in an award ceremony on August 13.

The Godbersen Family, Arthur Ida County Robert and Twyla Godbersen and their children, Bryce and Leah, are committed to the production and care of healthy Hereford cattle. Their self-sustaining operation produces corn and alfalfa to feed their horses and cows which enjoy grazing in their extensive pastureland. Each member of the family is dedicated to celebrating the importance of Iowa agriculture through youth organizations like FFA and 4-H. Twyla and Leah continue to volunteer with 4-H at local county fairs and shows. Bryce is an enthusiastic member of Iowa Beef Producers

and the Iowa Hereford Association Board. Several generations of Godbersen’s have even garnered ribbons at the Iowa State Fair cattle shows. The family will be honored in an award ceremony on Saturday, August 15, at 10:30 a.m. in the Paul R. Knapp Animal Learning Center.

The Martz Family, Blue Grass Scott County The Martz family established their farming operation in 1913. When Earl Martz married Phyllis Brus in 1957, the two added the Brus homestead to the already thriving Martz farm. Nearly 20 years later, 11-year-old Keith Martz and his teenage brothers, David and Brian, began renting and farming their grandfather’s land. The three harvested a bumper crop their very first year. Though Brian left to become a veterinarian, the two remaining Martz brothers have worked hard to diversify their technique producing everything from corn, soybeans, oats and hay to ketchup tomatoes. Today, the Martz family maintains 1,000 acres of crops, 2,400 hogs and 90 stock cows. Though they cite the sunshine, rain and deep, fertile soil as their primary resources, their close family bonds and dedication to Iowa agriculture are their biggest blessings. The family will be honored in an award ceremony on Monday, August 17, at 10:30 a.m. in the Paul R. Knapp Animal Learning Center.

The Petersen Family, Knoxville Marion County Petersen parents James and Julie and their four children, Justin, Jacob, Joshua and Jenny, work 850 acres of crops and raise 800 head of ewes and cattle. Their farm has been in the family through several generations, and James’ 79-year-old father

continues to participate in daily farm work. They have been active in their local 4-H chapter and have entered several items in the 4-H division at the Iowa State Fair as well as livestock, horticulture and foods divisions. Every member of the family has earned a blue ribbon from the State Fair Food Department. The Petersens cite hope and tradition as their driving forces, paired with a commitment to producing healthy livestock and quality crops. Julie notes that their sense of humor continues to be a blessing, telling the story of how James surprised her with a silver-painted manure spreader for their 25th anniversary - traditionally a “silver” celebration. The family will be honored in an award ceremony on Wednesday, August 19, at 10:30 a.m. in the Paul R. Knapp Animal Learning Center.

The Van Manen Family, Kellogg Jasper County The Van Manen family farm dates back to the late 1920s. Today, nearly a century later, parents Kevin and Julie and their children, Jacob and Emily, continue to maintain a sustainable operation raising Holstein steers and hogs. Each member of the family helps out with chores, fieldwork, gardening, mowing and preparing meals. In addition to their hectic schedule on the farm, both children are heavily involved in basketball and baseball leagues as well as their local 4-H chapters.

Julie spends her mornings teaching math in the Sully Christian School District before heading back to the farm to help with public relations. The family’s favorite part of farming is opening up their home to their non-farming neighbors - anyone from Boy Scout troops to city relatives. The family will be honored in an award ceremony on Saturday, August 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Paul R. Knapp Animal Learning Center.

Iowans to gather at the state fair and discuss energy independence The Iowa Office of Energy Independence is hosting a public forum during the Iowa State Fair to gather input from Iowans about the pursuit of energy independence.

The forum will be Monday, August 17 at 1 p.m. at the Penningroth Media Center of the Cattle Barn on the Iowa State Fair grounds in Des Moines.

To be discussed are the Office’s goals: Optimize development of Iowa’s renewable energy resources, including 10 GW of wind and developing other resources as appropriate.

Optimize energy use in business, industry, government, and agriculture.

Enhance the long-term environmental and economic viability of the biofuels industry.

This year’s forums will have an added emphasis on generating actionable steps to achieve the goals through the following objectives: • Support the development of adequate transmission capacity to enable Iowa to export large quantities of wind energy within the state and to out-of-state load centers.

• Support smart grid development and deployment • Enact an energy efficiency portfolio standard • Develop coordinated and more uniform core utility energy efficiency programs • Promote smart growth and

support workforce development in energy • Make energy efficiency the highest priority in utilities’ planning process • Increase biofuels consumption through infrastructure development, education, promotion, and incentives for the increased use of higher biofuels blends • Support the development of biomass feedstock supply infrastructure for second generation biofuels • Support the development and deployment of integrated biorefineries More information about the goals, objectives, and forum is available at the Office’s Web site: www.energy.iowa.gov.

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Sugar and spice add flavor to 2009 State Fair Concessions Several new foods and food stands are set to make their Fair debut during “State Fair Time,” August 13-23.

Sweet, salty and spicy foods alike join the list of over 200 food choices offered throughout the Fairgrounds.

Seven new foods on-as t i c k w i l l join the

Fair’s list of over 50 mobile foods.

The frozen s’more on-a-stick, a graham cracker piled high with marshmallows and chocolate, chilled and then batter-fried, adds a fun twist to a traditional favorite located at Oasis Concessions.

The stand will also offer

Hot beef sundaes recognized as Top 10 Unusual State Fair Food The Hot Beef Sundae originated at the 2006 Iowa State Fair at the Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters. It is comfort food at its finest – a bowl generously filled with buttery mashed potatoes surrounded by slow-roasted forktender roast beef topped with savory beef gravy, sprinkled with cheddar cheese and finished with a ripe red cherry tomato.

It is sure to satisfy the heartiest of appetites.

“We are always looking for new ways to

promote beef,” stated John Mortimer, manager of the Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters. “This is our twist on an old favorite.

Everyone loves hot beef sandwiches and we’ve made it portable. We’ve sold over 50,000 Hot Beef Sundaes during the last three State Fairs.”

The Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters added Hot Beef Sundaes to their menu for the 2006 Iowa State Fair and it joins an all beef menu that boasts Prime Rib dinners,

roast beef sandwiches, rib eye steak sandwiches, taco salads, taco potatoes and hamburgers.

Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters is operated

by Beef Promotions of Iowa, Inc., an organization of 68 county cattlemen’s associations and is managed by John Mortimer of Dallas Center. More than 1,200 beef industry volunteers work at the Beef Quarters during each Iowa State Fair.

State Fair Animal Learning Center to feature live animal births, expanded programming Just two years after its State Fair debut, the Paul R. Knapp Animal Learning Center has claimed its place on the list of must-see Fairtime attractions.

With a barn-full of new animals and a fresh line-up of kid-friendly educational programming, the hub of ag activity is certain to delight Fairgoers. The Iowa State Fair runs through August 23.

The state-of-the-art agricultural education exhibit features live births of various species including cows, sows, nanny goats and ewes, allowing young and old alike to learn about the animal birthing process.

Fairgoers can catch a glimpse of chicks, ducks and ostriches hatching and, new to this year’s Fair, get a first-hand look at hatching turkeys.

Guests can also stop by to see the 10 heifers that will be giving birth

during the Fair. The soon-to-be celebrities are making their Fair debut, but will be returning to the Animal Learning Center in following years. The beefy beauties are being christened this summer in a Facebook naming contest.

Also new this year, the Animal Learning Center will be adding a Healthy Pets program.

This mock vet office will give petowners a behind-the-scenes tour of a vet office and offer helpful tips for proper pet first-aid. Fairgoers can participate in this interactive, handson program daily at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Take a seat at the Christensen Farms Stage for a spellbinding Ag Magic Show and learn about the importance of ag awareness and safety (daily at 10 a.m., noon, 2 and 4 p.m.).

peanut butter rounds dipped in chocolate and served on-a-stick, or try the key lime variety.

Campbell’s Concessions will be adding two items to the list of kabobstyle offerings at the Hot Wings stand. Chicken fired up with a little hot sauce, breaded, fried and served in perfect Fair fashion, the new buffalo chicken on-a-stick is zesty addition to Fair food. The chicken club on-a-stick, cheesy chicken paired with bacon, is another new alternative. These two items will also be available at all Grandstand concessions.

Carmellows on-a-stick, three marshmallows served kabob-style and dipped in caramel, are perfect for a quick, tasty snack. For a crunchy treat, try a pretzel rod dipped in either chocolate or caramel. Both items will be available at the Zag’s Popcorn stand.

Benoit Concessions’ new cake on-astick, mini donuts dunked in chocolate, offers a fun and tasty option.

Three PickleDawg items are new to this year’s Fair, including the Katy-Dawg, a combination regular hot dog and a Pickle Dawg, the Pickle Deli Sandwich, a doublemeat-wrapped PickleDawg on a hot dog bun, and the Pyro Pickle, a fiery PickleDawg garnished with jalapenos and hot pepper seasoning.

The spicy creation was named by a Fair fan in a Facebook naming contest.

Take time to stop by the new Tom Thumb Donuts stand for a handful of the tiny, tasty treats.

And for a quick, fresh and healthy alternative grab some Blue Ribbon Berries at Stockman’s Inn or stop by the Iowa Turkey Federation booth for a hot pulled turkey sandwich.

The Iowa State Fair is going on now and runs through August 23.

The Fairgrounds are located at East 30th Street and East University Avenue, just 10 minutes east of downtown Des Moines and are open 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. each day of the Fair.

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Risk Managers will be the Survivors

by Brian Hoops Midwest Market Solutions, Inc.

I firmly believe that history repeats itself and those that don’t learn from history, will repeat the mistakes of the past. That brings us to the focal point of this article. At some point in the next couple of years, I believe another financial crisis will hit the farm economy and we again may see another exodus of producers leave the most honorable profession in the world - production agriculture.

I was too young to remember the early 1980’s, but I have lots of stories about the financial hardships faced by farmers in that time frame.

Increased expenses, combined with a steep rise in interest rates, huge carryout levels that pressured commodity prices, led to a weakening farm economy and a massive exodus from the farm to the cities where some farmers took jobs to pay their bills.

Another wave of contraction occurred in 1998, this time in the livestock sector as the price of lean hogs fell below 30 cents/cwt and live cattle were below 60/cwt. Several years of large grain production led to plentiful supplies of world commodities.

Feeding of hogs and cattle were profitable and with the cheap feed costs due to the large gain inventory levels, farmers expanded their livestock production facilities past the point the market was able to bear, and livestock prices plunged under the extra supplies. This brought another wave of liquidation from the farm sector.

The handwriting is on the wall for the farm economy. A record demand base has been built through the first half of this decade, which has driven commodity prices to all time record highs. Farm expenses quickly followed in the wake of rising commodity prices. Land values have risen, including cash rent for farmland.

Fuel expenses, seed expenses, chemical and fertilizer expenses and every other expense needed to produce either grain or livestock also soared to record high levels. As long as the prices farmers receive for their produce remains high, the farm economy will remain healthy. But what happens if those prices fall sharply lower?

The ability of the American farmer has never been underestimated and the ability should never come into question.

However, compared to thirty years ago, the ability of the world’s farmers must be contemplated.

The United States is the world’s largest producer of corn, but is now the second largest soybean producer behind Brazil.

In 2009, the livestock producer has been bleed-

ing red ink almost the entire year. High feed costs have increased overall operating expenses; however plunging prices, particularly the lean hog market, have turned this year into a financial disaster.

I am concerned for grain producers over the next several years as world production continues to increase at the same time operating expenses for U.S. farmers are at an all time high. Cash rental rates, seed and fertilizer prices, equipment values, and now income tax rates are all substantially higher than they were a year ago.

Demand trends are starting to show warning signs of fading. The corn export market has already slowed as foreign buyers have either shifted their buying patterns to other countries to save on the high freight costs or produced corn themselves.

Ethanol expansion has stopped completely and some proposed ethanol plants have now been delayed due to the economic conditions.

Additionally, if government subsidies of ethanol production are repealed by Congress, ethanol demand would diminish quickly. The livestock sector, still the largest consumer of corn for feed purposes, is starting to show signs of contraction due to the lack of productivity. Once the pork, cattle and poultry industries begin to contract, it takes several years before the contract phase ends and the next expansion phase begins.

The bottom line is once demand begins to fade, it can take several years before the lost demand begins to resurface.

If production begins to expand, it would quickly outpace the slowing demand trends and the commodity price bubble would burst. Commodity prices paid to farmers would be the first to fall with farm expenses slowly following. The farm economy has generally been insulated from the poor national economy. However this will quickly change once production outpaces demand. At some point, this will happen.

It may have started in the fall of 2008 and is continuing in 2009 or it may happen in another year in the future; but rest assured it will happen at some point. Commodity cycles are a basic economic principle that have been around for hundreds of years and soon the commodity boom period will end and the next farm liquidation phase will begin.

CORN ANALYSIS Corn closed the week $.17 1/2 lower. The weekly export sales report showed net sales of 422,800 MT were down 8 percent from the previous week and

37 percent from the prior 4-week average.

Increases were reported for Japan (292,300 MT, including 79,600 MT switched from unknown destinations), Morocco (113,200 MT, including 67,200 MT switched from unknown destinations and 25,000 MT switched from Tunisia).

Decreases were reported for unknown destinations (305,600 MT), Guatemala (33,400 MT), and Tunisia (25,000 MT). Net sales of 729,200 MT for delivery in 2009/10 were primarily for Mexico (145,000 MT), unknown destinations (138,800 MT), Colombia (127,500 MT), and South Korea (118,000 MT). For the marketing year, the U.S. has now exported 1.863 bb of corn compared to 2.419 bb last year.

As of August 2, the 2009 crop was rated at 68% g/e vs. 66% a year ago. This is the highest rated crop in the last five years and the second highest crop rating in the last 9 years. R.J. O’Brien is using a 157.4 bpa yield estimate, which if realized, would be the second largest in history. Due to slow demand trends, ending stocks will likely swell to more than 2 billion bushels.

With the large ending stocks figure, it does not leave a very bullish outlook for prices over the next four months. Producers should be prepared to reward rallies with additional sales and hedges.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK Producers should have sold all their 2008 crop.

Producers should have managed their risk by placing new crop hedges when December reached the initial upside target of $4.25 to $4.50 range.

Producers should have used a combination of cash sales, hedges and put options to effectively manage risk. December contract fell to $3.25, and producers should have now rolled those options to a lower at the money strike price to capture hedge profits.

No reason to get long until more about the crop size is known.

SOYBEANS ANALYSIS Soybeans closed the week $.43 1/2 lower. The weekly export sales report showed net sales of 494,500 MT were double the previous week and the prior 4-week average. Increases were primarily for China (405,000 MT), Mexico (26,200 MT), unknown destinations (25,000 MT), Taiwan (18,800 MT), Costa Rica (7,900 MT, switched from Guatemala), and Indonesia (7,500 MT). Net sales of 2,413,300 MT for 2009/10 delivery were primarily for China (2,317,000 MT), with lesser amounts for Egypt (60,000 MT), Mexico (22,200 MT), unknown destinations (9,500 MT), and Colombia (4,000 MT).

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RISK MANAGERS Continued from page 21 For the marketing year, the U.S. has now exported 1.305 bb of soybeans compared to 1.149 bb last year. The The USDA rated the soybean crop, as of August 2, at 67% g/e, 4% higher compared to last year’s crop rating of 63%.

This is the highest rated soybean crop in the last five years and the second highest rated soybean crop in the last 15 years. Soybeans are currently in the key podsetting stage. Soybeans have rallied over $1.50 as the market has added in weather premium due to a hot and dry forecast for early August.

Rains in the last half of August will cause the market to remove the weather premium and prices will fall. No rains in August and prices will rally and likely challenge the summer highs.

All indications are for South America to plant a record amount of soybean acres this fall in response to the strong soybean prices.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK Producers should have sold all of their 2008 crop.

Producers should now be hedged in new crop soybeans as November soybeans have reached the long held target of $10.25 to $10.75. Producers should have used a combination of cash sales, hedges and put options to effectively manage risk.

If the new crop November contract falls to $8.00, producers should rolling the put options to an at the money strike price.

Leopold Center project evaluates denitrifying bioreactors Iowa farmers could have another practice in their nitrogen management toolbox if research sponsored by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture produces positive results.

The Leopold Center’s Ecology Initiative is supporting a new study to test how well bioreactors remove nitrates from the water that comes from tile-drained fields. Alok Bhandari, an associate professor in the Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, is leading the multi-year project.

Nitrates, a form of nitrogen from fertilizers applied to crops, have been contributing to an increasingly large “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico since the 1980s. As much as 39 percent of the nitrogen buildup has been traced back to the Upper Mississippi River basin, including Iowa.

“The goal of this project is to facilitate adoption of nitrogen management practices in Iowa and the Upper Mississippi River Basin and thus promote a more sustainable agriculture,” said Bhandari. “This goal depends on several factors, including cost-effectiveness, social acceptance and performance of practices such as bioreactors.”

A bioreactor is a large trench through which water from underground drainage tiles passes before leaving the field. This trench is filled with organic matter high in carbon, in this case a mix of chips from various hardwoods that act as a strainer for the water coming from the tile.

The wood chips “strain-off” nitrogen (appearing as nitrates) in the water by growing bacteria that digest the nitrates before the water flows out of the field and into nearby streams.

Exactly how effective bioreactors are at removing nitrates is not yet known. Bhandari hopes to perfect a bioreactor design that can remove high percentages of nitrates and optimize its performance under Iowa field conditions. Over two full growing seasons beginning in 2009, Bhandari will monitor three smallscale bioreactors at ISU research farms and three full-scale bioreactors, two of which were built by the Iowa Soybean Association on private farms.

The pilot bioreactors cover only about 12 square feet of surface area and are about two feet deep. Full-scale bioreactors require about 25 square feet per acre of farmland drained and a depth of about four feet, depending on location of the tile line. Grass is planted over the entire area so that the only thing visible aboveground is a grassy buffer strip.

To learn more about this project, check out the report in the new on-line video section, On the Ground with the Leopold Center, at: www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/eco_files/grou nd.html.

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WHEAT ANALYSIS For the week, Chicago wheat closed $.38 3/4 lower, Kansas City wheat $.34 lower and Minneapolis wheat $.29 3/4 lower. The weekly export sales report showed net sales of 552,800 metric tons were down 4 percent from the previous week, but up 15 percent from the prior 4-week average.

Increases were reported for Nigeria (102,500 MT), Japan (87,700 MT), China (56,900 MT, switched from unknown destinations). Net sales of 7,000 MT for delivery in 2009/10 were for unknown destinations. Nearly two months into the start of a new marketing year, wheat sales are well behind last year’s pace, which was poor also.

Commitments stand at 251 mb this year vs. 464 mb a year ago.

The U.S. needs to export 15.3 mb each week to reach the USDA forecast of 925 mb. As of August 2, the USDA rated the spring wheat crop at 71% g/e vs. 56% last year. Spring wheat harvest is just underway with only 3% harvested. Normally, 15% of the crop has been harvested by this date, however the late planting this spring will push back the harvest date for wheat. The USDA will give us an update of the world wheat stocks.

Unfortunately for U.S. wheat producers, there is plenty of wheat in competing countries ports, and that will make any rally attempt very difficult to maintain. Seasonals are turning higher and wheat may try to add some premium into new crop prices to entice U.S. farmers seed more winter wheat acres.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK Producers should have now sold/hedged all of their 2009 crop when KC wheat reached the long term price objective of $6.80 to $7.00. Producers should have used a combination of hedges, options and cash sales to manage price risk. Producers have now tried to re-own a part of sold wheat when wheat tested key support of $5.03 Chicago.

LIVE CATTLE ANALYSIS Live cattle ended the week $4.42 higher while feeder cattle ended $1.37 lower. The cash cattle trade occurred in the southern Plains last week at $81 per cwt, $1 lower compared to last week’s trades of $82.

Nebraska fed cattle traded at $130 to $131, $1 to $2 lower compared to the previous week’s cash trade of $132. Cash feeders at the closely watched Oklahoma City auction were steady compared to last week. The USDA reported last week’s weekly beef export sales at 7,100 tonnes, down from 12,200 tonnes from the previous week.

Exports totaled 10,100 tonnes, up from 8,700 tonnes from previous week. Heavy commercial selling is starting to develop in the cattle market.

While the economy is showing signs of recovering, which normally would help beef demand, the plunging lean hog market will act as a boat anchor against beef demand.

With very cheap pork prices, beef will be very hard pressed to rally and will likely struggle as consumers most likely will turn to cheaper pork values.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK Producers should have price protection through a combination of options and hedges from the sum-

AUGUST 2009 mer months through the fourth quarter of 2009.

Demand remains soft, so continue to hedge cattle as they are purchased. Feed costs should also be covered with call options or done on a hand to mouth basis until lows are established this fall.

LEAN HOGS ANALYSIS Lean hogs closed the week $11.12 lower and to a 5 1/2 year low. The average Iowa-Minnesota hog weight for last week was estimated at 266.8 lbs versus 266.3 lbs previous week and 257.5 lbs last year. If you are looking for blame for the price collapse of lean hogs, the majority of the blame must fall on demand. China is traditionally our biggest consumer of U.S. pork, but China’s lack of demand has really hurt the U.S. export profile. China has nearly 3 times as many pigs as 2nd-place EU-27 and produces over twice as much pork. China has nearly 7 times as many pigs as 3rd place United States and produces nearly 5 times as much pork.

The increase in China’s pig herd and pork production from 2008 to 2009 is larger than the total January 1, 2009 inventory and total production of all but the EU-27, U.S. and Brazil. China’s 2009 increases will be larger than the totals for Russia and Canada!

Technically, lean hog futures have hit two projections, leaving the next Fibannocci projection for October lean hogs at $40.00. On the weekly charts, major support has been broken and will now become resistance.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK Producers should continue to hedge hogs as they are purchased. Feed input costs should be covered on a hand to mouth basis, until producers have established a minimum price level for hogs. Once that has been achieved, lock in feed costs as well.

Midwest Market Solutions is the leading edge in commodity marketing and trading (see ad on this page). Brian Hoops is President and Senior Market Analyst of Midwest Market Solutions, Inc. Brian can frequently be heard on radio stations across the country including: WNAX, WHO, and the Red River Farm Network.. Brian can also be heard daily on the DTN doing his own grain market commentary program as well as the Minneapolis Grain Exchange marketing hotline and the University of Illinois commodity wrap up program. Brian also writes several newsletters that are published throughout the Plains and the Midwest, covering the states of Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Brian has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Dow Jones newswires and U.S. Farm Report.

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Soy tech in food, feed, emerging markets from West Des Moines

by Emma Struve

An Iowa-based seed company is capitalizing on the specialty soybean market in animal and human feedstuffs.

Dr. John Schillinger started Schillinger Genetics Inc., headquartered in West Des Moines, in 1999 after retiring from the Asgrow Seed Company.

“I’ve worked with this crop for 40some years and I’ve never been as excited as now,” Schillinger remarked. “It’s been a passion of mine to do this – differentiate ourselves from what everyone else is doing.”

Products researched and produced

by Schillinger Genetics have consumer-specific characteristics not typically seen in commodity soybeans. For example, the company has high-protein beans, ultra-low linolenic beans, and more unusual traits.

Also, all the products are non-GMO (genetically modified organism).

“We’re not inserting any foreign trait from outside the soybean plant,” Wayne Hoener, vice president of sales, said. While he acknowledged that GMOs have their place in the industry, Schillinger Genetics saw an opportunity to develop products for some markets that would more readily utilize non-GMO products rather than commodity soybeans.

One of the first elements on which the company focused was protein content.

Given that soybeans are primarily raised as a protein source, Hoener

said, “If we can raise the protein even more…it helps the value of the product.”

Schillinger explained the theory, “I felt the time was right to begin looking at soybeans for their compositional factors.” Equally important was how the composition affected food and feed potential.

According to Schillinger some of the company’s soybean varieties’ protein content exceeds that of commodity soybeans by 15 to 20 percent.

Markets being explored include aquaculture and snack foods, among others.

Farm raised salmon, tilapia, shrimp, and trout, Hoener offered as an example, are primarily grown on a diet that uses fish meal as a protein source; an ingredient that has dramatically increased in price.

Schillinger Genetics’s high protein soybeans may provide an alternative to fish meal opening an additional market for Iowa soybean growers and increased income opportunity for aquaculturists.

“We’ve kind of hit upon the topic of increasing the health of snack foods,” said Schillinger.

He elaborated, the company developed a “snack pellet” with soy flour processed from high-protein soybeans. The end result has been included in a number of snack-foods produced by national companies, including Genisoy.

Besides low-linolenic soybeans, touted for their trans-fat free oils that provide human health benefits, Schillinger Genetics is developing lipoxygenase-null beans.

In short, lipoxygenase is an enzyme in the bean that, Hoener explained, is responsible for its “beany” or “grassy” flavor. By reducing the amount of the enzyme, the bean is tastier; an advantage for marketing to the domestic soy-milk industry.

Also in the human consumption vein are Schillinger Genetics’s tofu variety of soybeans desirable in international markets, especially Japan.

Research is also being conducted to improve soybean usability in livestock.

Soybeans naturally contain an agent, or inhibitor, that is biologically active in animals that consume the feed. It acts to inhibit trypsin, an enzyme in the gut responsible for protein digestion.

It is an industry standard practice to either heat soy protein to a temperature that destroys the inhibitor or feed soy protein at a higher rate to account for the loss of digestibility.

Products in the Schillinger

Genetics pipeline include soybeans with characteristics that make them more digestible, Hoener said.

“We have the ability to really help out the producer and end user,” he continued.

Livestock, especially poultry and swine, feeding trials are being conducted at the University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, and South Dakota State University, among others.

The goal, Schillinger stated, is to remove the anti-nutritive components.

“I’m excited about our future in feed,” he continued.

Currently, the company focuses about 90 percent of its resources on soybean research and development but has an emerging corn department, too.

The research station in Grinnell is one of a few in the United States and complements those located oversees allowing a “12 month research production calendar,” Hoener remarked.

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Schillinger Genetics utilizes a marker assisted lab where soybean DNA segments associated with particular traits can be marked and monitored. A recent focus has been on identifying soybean allergens that cause problems in pets and people.

This information could improve the usability of soy-based protein in food for these species.

In December of 2008, Schillinger Genetics launched eMerge Genetics to specifically focus on niche soybean markets with a companion Web site (www.emergegenetics.co m) to serve as a meeting

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place for producers and marketers of the specialty soy products.

Hoener elaborated, “Basically eMerge products are unique and novel in some way” incorporating traits that actually change the composition of the grain.

Schillinger described the company simply, “A little company with big ideas,” and emphasized the philosophy of building relationships all along the chain from Schillinger Genetics to the products’ end user.

“West Des Moines is a really nice business environment,” Schillinger remarked.

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The West Des Moines based Schillinger Genetics Inc. team, from left: Corey Nikkel, Tony Nikkel, John Schillinger, Brian Anderson, Ryan Thorson, Katie Kisling, Jeff Bethard, Dayna Ellis, Eric Wright, Dwight Burke, Robert Snook, Bill Rhodes, Luke Vogel and David Hulburt. (Photo submitted)

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WHEAT

Open High Low Close Change

Support: Resistance

Chicago 464 514

Kansas City 494 546

Lean hog trade has been lower this week due to continued long liquidation and cash weakness. After three days of trade, the weekly net change was $1.05 lower on August and the October contract was down $.92. August is now nearly $20 below the high printed less than a month ago.

Cash trade has been lower this week and slipped another $1 on Wednesday with lean trade now down in the mid $40 range.. The pork carcass value continues to deteriorate which is weighing on everything.

We have seen recent pressure in the 2010 contracts but they have stabilized this week.

The chart still looks very poor; we are oversold but we need a fundamental reason to rally. This may come from some new export news or more movement / demand due to the lower prices?

The recent drop in prices, now pencils in questionable margins

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Open High Low Close Change

CORN

Minneapolis 540 595

100.600 101.150 100.000 100.025 +.050

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Corn trade has been mixed this week due to short covering and position squaring ahead of the report, but we did finish higher following a neutral report on Wednesday. The weekly net change heading into Thursday is 8 higher on the September contract and December is up 10. The outside market influence has been mixed this week; crude is 70 lower, the dollar is lightly lower, and the DOW is steady, but we have some positive commodity momentum based on our Tuesday and Wednesday moves.

The lower crude market along with the 2 million ton auction of Chinese corn has limited upside late last week into Monday. The focus this week has been on the USDA Supply and Demand report.

The August USDA old crop carryover came in at 1.720 which was slightly below the 1.75 billion average trade guess. The new crop carryover came in at 1.621 billion which was up from 1.55 last month but below the 1.7 billion average trade guess.

The USDA yield number was at 159.5 bushels per acre, 2 greater than expected, the harvested acreage was down .1 million acres and the planted acreage unchanged at 87 million. This gave a 12.761 billion bushel USDA production estimate versus the 12.51 billion bushel average trade guess, and 12.29 billion July estimate. The global ending stocks were up 2 million tons from last month coming in at 141.49 billion. So bottom line, the usage estimates were increased nearly as much as the production increases making the report neutral.

The usage estimates had feeding, ethanol and exports all higher, in the future based on what we see today the ethanol and exports could still go up a combined 200 to 400 million bushels, but the feeding number could be reduced 300 to 400 million. The upcoming big crop should limit upside in corn unless beans stay firm and support corn. The weekly crop ratings were unchanged on the report Monday afternoon 68% good to excellent. Crop progress listed 24% of the crop in the dough stage versus the 46% 5-year average. The weekly export sales came in at 541,200 tons of old crop and 292,500 tons of new, combined they were in the lower half of expectations.

The good export pace this summer is expected to keep corn supported in the lower $3 area. Improving ethanol margins should do the same. Hedgers call with questions to speak with us about using our commodity services.

4.810 4.910 4.770 4.902 +.050

Open High Low Close Change

3.200 3.354 3.194 3.306 Support: +.042 Resistance

Sept 310 346

Dec. 314 350

Oct 4232 4692

Dec 4230 4640

for producers next year. This will project more financial difficulty for producers moving forward which should lead to lower production and the big boys are looking for a bailout.

Hedgers call with questions.

On the chart, the October contract has slipped below all major moving averages which could promote continued selling interest.

Where cash trade occurs near term should control where the futures go.

The poor pork market needs to find a bottom to help nearby cattle keep from challenging the early summer lows.

The longer term picture has some positive outlooks due to expected lower overall red meat production in 2010.

Hedgers call with questions.

Open High Low Close Change

87.650 88.575 87.650 88.350 +.675

Support: Resistance

SOYBEANS

Oct. 8700 8960

Sep. Feeders 9897 10167

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Soybean trade has been higher this week due to concerns over the tightening stock situation, chart buying and supportive weather items. Heading into Thursday, the weekly net change is 2 higher on the September contract and November is up 6.

December meal is $6.50 lower and oil is up 173 points. Overnight the market did move to new highs for the move. The USDA Supply and Demand report was released on Wednesday and held no real surprises.

The August USDA old crop carryover number came in at 110 million bushels which was 5 million larger than the average trade guess and unchanged from July.

The new crop carryover came in at 210 million bushels which was in line with the average trade guess and down 40 million from last month. Production was reduced by 61 million bushels, to 3.199 billion, and usage lowered by 21 million to 3.109 billion. The yield number was reduced by .9 from July to 41.7 bushels per acre which was more than the trade expected making the soybean report lightly supportive.

The global ending stocks were reduced by 1.5 million tons to 50.32. The forecasts raise some concern for the eastern belt with normal to above normal temperatures and normal to below precipitation. The soybean crop ratings came in at 66% good to excellent which was down 1% from last week.

Bloomings were listed at 86% versus the 93% 5-year average.

The weekly export sales were reported at 259,500 tons of old crop and new crop sales were listed as 762,400 tons, combined these were above expectations.

Old crop meal sales came in at 40,700 tons and 15,200 tons which were below expectations. Oil sales were below expectations at 5,200 tons.

The chart remains positive, the weather is friendly and demand is good suggesting we could test the upside near term. This will be another important weather weekend for beans so expect active trade.

Hedgers call to discuss your individual risk plan.

Support: Resistance

Open High Low Close Change

43.900 45.150 43.800 43.975’ Support: -.375 Resistance

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Live cattle trade has been lower this week due to lower cash trade last week, chart selling and spill over pressure from hogs.

Heading into Thursday, the weekly net change is 77 lower on the October contract and December was down 62.

Cash trade has been slow to develop this week with only a few bids seen at $129 to $130, which is steady to $1 lower versus last week.

The cutout values finished mixed on Wednesday with choice down 43 at $141.19 and select was up 31 at $134.34; these values are up around $.50 versus last week.

The cutout should help give us a steady to $1 higher cash market, but the weight of hog weakness and slower than expected summer slaughter may keep us jus steady.

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Wheat trade has been mostly lower last week into this week due to chart selling and positioning ahead of an expected bearish USDA report.

After three days of trade, the weekly net change is 1 higher in Chicago, KC is down 6, and Minneapolis is 10 lower.

The USDA did confirm the bigger carryover estimates on the Supply and Demand report Wednesday. The domestic number was not quite as large as expected, but another global carryover increase should keep wheat mixed to lower near term.

The chart continues to look bearish with trade the past week below all major moving averages. The new 2009/10 carryover was up at 743 million bushels versus 706 on the July report and the average trade guess of 750 million bushels.

The USDA spring wheat production estimate was at 548 million bushels versus the average trade guess of 530 million.

The all wheat production number was at 2.184 versus the average trade guess of 2.15 billion. The global carryover was up at 183.56 million tons which was up by just over 2 million tons from the July estimate.

Last year the global carryover was at 169.5 and two years ago it was at 121.81 million tons. Wheat could see a bounce from oversold conditions with a sell the bearish rumor, buy the fact item after the report, but overall nothing friendly to really talk about with wheat.

The crop progress report listed the winter wheat harvest at 91% complete which is 3% slower than the 5-year average, spring wheat crop ratings were at 72% good to excellent.

The weekly export sales were toward the high end of expectations at 479,100 tons. Expect wheat to continue to find spillover direction from the row crops and outside markets.

Hedgers call with questions.

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Sep 1039 1139

Sep Meal 327 357

Sep Oil 3540 4034

Open High Low Close Change

10.970 10.980 10.770 10.924 -.050

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Located at 24 Cedar Street in Schleswig, Iowa. Rain Date: Monday, August 24th at 6 p.m. Leola Schultz, owner. Korner Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 • Florence Carson Estate, 6:00 pm Real Estate Auction 210 W. Oak St. Pisgah, IA. Randy Pryor, Auctioneer. (L)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 • Farm Ground Auction, 1:00 p.m. Sale will be conducted at the Corley Community Club, 104 2nd St. East, Corley, Iowa. 280 Acres of Shelby County Farmground to be sold in 2 parcels. Heirs of the Dale Findlay Family, owners. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D) • Acreage & Household Auction, 5:00 p.m. Appliances, furniture, instruments, antiques, tools, mower, car, and miscellaneous items.

Larry Andersen Estate, owner. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D) • 120 Acre Land Auction, 10:00 a.m. held in Allen Twp. near Savory’s Pond at 1051 Madrid Ave., Moorehead, IA. Randy Pryor, Auctioneer. (L) • Special Feeder Calf/Yrlg Sale, Located at the Dunlap Livestock Auction. Schaben Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 • Bertha Anderson Household and Antique Auction, 10:00 a.m.

Main St., Elkhorn, IA. Randy Pryor, Auctioneer. (L) • Silverius Muenchrath Household Auction, 309 4th Ave., Earling, IA. Managed by Schaben Auction Service. (L)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 • Schaben Bros Open Consignment Horse & Tack Auction,, Located at the Dunlap Livestock Auction. Schaben Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

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AUCTIONS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 • Pauley Bros. Annual Fall Machinery Consignment Auction, located at the Denison Livestock Auction. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 • Special Calf & Yearling Sale, 11:30 a.m. Located at the Denison Livestock Auction. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 • Machinery Consignment Auction, 10:00 a.m. at the Anita Livestock Auction, Anita, IA. Bernard Vais and Jesse Vais, Auctioneers. (AUD) • Public Farm Auction, 8:15 a.m. 113.06 acres m/l of Crawford County Farmground. Auction to be held at the Denison Livestock

Auction Building, located at 501 N. 9th St. in Denison, Iowa. JoAnn Reisz, owner. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 • Farm Machinery Auction, Modale, Iowa. Bill Tamisea, owner.

Spencer Auction Company, auctioneers. (D)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 • Special Cattle Sale, 1:00 p.m. at the Anita Livestock Auction, Anita, IA. Bernard Vais and Jesse Vais, Auctioneers. (AUD)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 • Ruth Boe Estate Auction, 1005 Clinton St., Dunlap, IA. Schaben Real Estate LLC, auctioneers. (D)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 • Public Auction of Acreage & Approximately 140 Acres, Farmland and farm machinery, antiques, household goods, shop tools, many misc. items. Jim Odendahl, owner. John Scharfenkamp, Mike Green and Dave Wilken, auctioneers. (D)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 • Tool, Household and Antique Auction, Don Ebert -10 a.m. located in Shelby, IA at 103 Western Ave.. Auctioneers, David Thies and Gary Wendelin. (D)

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19 & 20 • 2 Day Auction, Russell Rolle Estate Tool & Collectible Auction, Parish Center, Dunlap, IA. Schaben Auction Services. (D)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 • Special Calf & Yearling Sale, 11:30 a.m. Located at the Denison Livestock Auction. Pauley Family Auction Service, auctioneers. (D)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 • Farm Machinery Auction, 11:00 a.m. Verne Redinbaug Jr. Estate, owner. Spencer Auction Company, auctioneers. (D)

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 • Messemer Trust Land Auction, 242 acres, Allen Twp., Harr Co., IA. Randy Pryor, Auctioneer. (L)

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ISU Extension offers residue management training workshop Iowa State University Extension is offering a Residue Management Training Workshop on Tuesday, August 18, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Buena Vista County ISU Extension Office in Storm Lake.

As part of the program, lunch will be provided as well as 3.5 Soil and Water Management CCA credits for Certified Crops Advisors.

The workshop will provide training on the role of crop residue in improving soil and water quality, show the importance of residue in improving soil organic matter, and present management alternatives for handling crop residue.

The workshop targets agricultural professionals including Extension, NRCS and FSA personnel, crop consultants, ag dealers and individuals interesting in receiving CCA credits.

The residue management and cover crops topics include results of residue removal trials, implement adjustment for better residue management, residue management and its value to soil quality and carbon credits, erosion, nitrogen leaching, and a farmers’ panel.

There is no registration fee but preregistration is requested. For preregistration, please call the Buena Vista County ISU Extension Office at 712-732-5056 or ISU Agronomy Extension at 515-294-1923.

For more information contact ISU Extension Field Agronomist Mark Licht (712-792-2364, lichtma@iastate.edu) or Program Specialist John Kennicker (515-294-1923, jkenn@iastate.edu).

5th Annual

October 2 & 3, 2009 Eihusen Arena at the Heartland Events Center 700 E. Stolley Park Rd., Grand Island, NE I-80, Exit 314 Quilts From Across Nebraska Over 30 Vendors For more information call:

LeAnne Killion (800) 658-3191 lkillion@agnet.net

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CLASSIFIEDS 1001 - MOWERS WANTED TO BUY NE - IH 9’ MOWER, (402) 336-2755 FOR SALE IA - IH 9’ SICKLE MOWER, 2 PT, W/HYD LIFT, $1,150.00, (712) 299-6608 1005 - RAKES FOR SALE IA - WWW. RAKEWHEELS. COM, (712) 366-2114 IA - ROWSE 14 WHEEL, SIDE DELIVERY, GOOD CONDITION, (641) 745-5228 1006 - BALERS FOR SALE IA - IH 46 SQUARE BALER-$850; AC ROUND BALER-$450, (712) 299-6608 WI - BALER KNOTTER RESURRECTIONS: ALL HAVE REBUILT KNOTTERS. BUY-SELLTRADE-FIX BALERS. ., (715) 5561400 1009 - STACKERS/STACK MOVERS FOR SALE IA - HESSTON 30 STACKER AND STACK MOVER, (641) 745-5228 1010 - FORAGE HARVESTORS WANTED TO BUY KS - JOHN DEERE CHOPPERS & HEADS, ROEDER IMP, SENECA, KS, (785) 3366103 FOR SALE NE - KNIFE BAR & RECUT SCREEN FOR JD 35, (308) 995-5515 NE - RECUT SCREEN & AXLE EXTENSION FOR IHC 730, (308) 995-5515 1013 - DUMP WAGON WANTED TO BUY KS - JD SILAGE WAGONS & HIGH DUMPS, ROEDER IMPLEMENT, (785) 336-6103 1014 - BALE WAGONS WANTED TO BUY KS - NH SELF PROPELLED & PULL-TYPE, ROEDER IMP, SENECA, (785) 336-6103 FOR SALE NE - NH 1044, 119 BALES, GOOD, $3,500.00, (402) 545-2255 1030 - OTHER- HAY & FORAGE FOR SALE NE - PRITCHETT TWINE, NET WRAP & AG SALES; CONTACT US TODAY FOR QUOTES ON YOUR NET WRAP, TWINE AND AG SUPPLIES, JERALD PRITCHETT-O’NEILL, NE 402-340-4154 OR J. J. PRITCHETTO’NEILL, NE 402-340-0890 WWW. BALERNETWRAP. COM - BALERNETWRAP@HOTMAIL. COM, (402) 3364378 1101 - TRACTORS WANTED TO BUY NE - IH 560 DIESEL, (402) 336-2755 MO - AC D17’S & UP, SALVAGE OR GOOD, (816) 378-2015 MO - IH 560 TO 1566, SALVAGE OR GOOD, (816) 378-2015 NE - LATE MODEL JD 4020, ANY CONDITION., (402) 369-0212 MO - LINDSAY BRO WAGON, NEED PARTS: 6 BOLT HUB #Q563, (816) 378-2015 FOR SALE MO - IF YOU HAVE FARM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE OR WANTING TO BUY/USE: WWW. DEERTRACS. COM -OVER 1, 500 ADS ONLINE, (877) 470-3337 IA: EXCELLENT 1976 INTERNATIONAL 1600-5 X 2-345 ENGINE 39,944 ACTUAL MILES ONE OWNER, RETIREING. 641-5653276 IA - NEW FOTON 82 HP, CAB, AIR, 4WD, PERKINS ENGINE $26,600, 40HP FOR $11,900, (515) 462-3800 IA - NEW FOTON 25 HP, 4WD, DIESEL, 3PT, PTO, $8,600.00, (515) 462-3800 IA - AC WC ROAD PATROL, 12’ BLADE, (712) 299-6608 IA - AC WD45, WF, PS, LOADER, (712) 2996608 IA - IH-B WITH WOODS 60”PT, $2,550.00, (712) 299-6608 IA - AC-WC 1938 ELECTRIC START, $1,850.00, (712) 299-6608 NE - IHC 1486, WEIGHTS, 20. 8 X 38 DUALS, 3 HYDS, GOOD PAINT AND FIELD READY, (402) 923-1721 IA - SUP A, H, M, MTA, 350, 460, 560 TRACTORS, (712) 299-6608 NE - 6 VOLT GENERATOR FOR AC, WC OR WD-45, $25, (402) 564-5064 WI - HESSTON4700, $5999, JD336, 24T & 14T, NH851, 273 & 65. ALL HAVE REBUILT KNOTTERS BY BALER KNOTTER RESURRECTIONS., (715) 556-1400 NE - 1983 JD4650 15SP POWERSHIFT. NEW 42” RUBBER W/DUALS. WEIGHTS QUICK HITCH CLEAN. $24,000, (402) 545-2255 NE - DISK SHARPEN-ROLLER(SERVICE SINCE 1969)OFF SEASON DISCOUNT, FALL 2010 CALL BY 12/1/09, SPRING 2011 BY 06/1/10. YOUR FARM (ANYWHERE) METAL MOVED NOT LOST, NO MILEAGE. STARTING $2.50/BLADE. (CLIP & SAVE FOR FUTURE) JERRY BAUERMEISTER, BELDEN, NEBR., (402) 985-2395 1102 - LOADERS FOR SALE NE - LX 172 CASE IH LOADER, W/GRAPPLE, 8’ BUCKET, 4 PRONG GRAPPLE. CAME OFF A 5240 MAXXUM, $4,800.00, (402) 545-2255

1105 - DISKS WANTED TO BUY NE - SPACERS FOR NH TD100, (308) 9958329 FOR SALE IA - 3 PT OR PULL TANDEM DISKS, 6’-18’, (712) 299-6608 NE - DISK SHARPEN-ROLLER(SERVICE SINCE 1969)OFF SEASON DISCOUNT, FALL 2010 CALL BY 12/1/09, SPRING 2011 BY 06/1/10.

YOUR FARM (ANYWHERE)METAL MOVED NOT LOST, NO MILEAGE. STARTING $2.50/BLADE. (CLIP & SAVE FOR FUTURE) JERRY BAUERMEISTER, BELDEN, NEBR., (402) 985-2395 1106 - PLOWS AND SWEEP PLOWS FOR SALE KS - FLEX KING 4X5’ SWEEP PLOW, GOOD CONDITION, $1,250.00, (620) 865-2541 IA - OLIVER PLOWS, 2 & 3 BOTTOM, PULL/3PT, (712) 299-6608 IA - 25 PLOWS, 2, 3 & 4 BOTTOM, 2/3PT, (712) 299-6608 NE - NEW FLEX KING PICKER WHEELS, (308) 995-5515 1109 - PLANTERS FOR SALE NE - NEW #92 IHC COVERING DISK ASSEMBLY, (308) 995-5515 NE - LIFT ASSIST AND/OR TRANSPORT KIT FOR IHC LISTER/ PLANTER, ALSO GAUGE STRIPE WHEELS, (308) 995-5515 KS - INSECTICIDE BOXES FOR JD 7200, 16 ROWS, $900 OBO. TRASH WHIPPERS, $1600., (620) 865-2541 IA - 50 JD, IH, KINZE, WHITE PLANTER ON HAND, MANY ATTACHMENTS AND PARTS, MAYER IMPLEMENT, (515) 462-3800 NE - IHC SEED DRUMS, (308) 995-5515 NE - JD 7300 PLANTER, 12R30, FOLDING, 3PT, VAC, DUAL RATE, TRASH WHIPPERS, 200 MONITOR. $5950, $6,950.00, (402) 545-2255 1111 - DRILLS FOR SALE NE - 150 & 7100 DRILLS, FERT. BOXES, BLACK HEAVY DUTY WHEELS, DBL HITCH, TRANSPORTS & PARTS, (308) 995-5515 NE - CRUSTBUSTER 13’ GRAIN DRILL, $2,900.00, (402) 787-2244 1113 - CULTIVATORS FOR SALE NE - IHC GO-DIG PARTS, (308) 995-5515 KS - BUFFALO CULTIVATOR CROP SHIELDS, SOME NEW. $20/ROW, (620) 865-2541 1116 - BUSH HOGS FOR SALE IA - 7’ 3PT, BUSH HOG CUTTERS; $1,050 TO $2,250, (712) 299-6608 1124 - AG CHEMICALS FOR SALE NE - GLYPHOSATE PLUS $13, GENERIC GRAZON $24, ARROW $75. QUALITY AG SALES, LINCOLN, CALL 877-985-6100 OR, (402) 466-6100 1130 - TILLAGE/WEED CONTROL FOR SALE NE - FRONT WEIGHTS FOR CASE IH MAGNUM, (308) 995-5515 IA - USED EQUIPMENT, GO TO WWW. MAYERFARM. COM, (515) 462-3800 IA - TRACTOR CHAINS 28” TO 38”, (712) 299-6608 1201 - ENGINES/MOTORS WANTED TO BUY MO - MOLINE 504 DIESEL, (816) 378-2015 FOR SALE NE - 413 CHRYSLER FOR SALVAGE, (308) 995-5515 NE - USED VEE BELTS: 3-IHC C176” $15 EA; 4 GATES C240” $20 EA; 3 DAYCO C240” $15 EA; 4 DAYCO C270” $15 EA 1 DAYCO C116 $10 EA; 1 DAYCO 94” X 1 1/4” WIDE $10, (402) 564-5064 1202 - PUMPS FOR SALE NE - 10” WLR BOWLS, (308) 995-5515 NE - 3X4 BERKELEY PUMPS, PRIMING VALVES AVAILABLE, (402) 364-2592 1203 - PIPE FOR SALE NE - 8” TEXFLO 20” GATES, ALL KINDS OF FITTINGS, (308) 995-5515 NE - 6” BAND & LATCH MAIN LINE, (308) 995-5515 NE - 8” MAIN LINE HASTINGS, (308) 9955515 NE - 9” MAIN LINE RING LOCK, (308) 9955515 NE - 9” MAIN LINE HIGH PRESS, (308) 995-5515 1206 - GEAR HEADS FOR SALE NE - 150 HP GEARHEAD, 6 RATIO, (308) 995-5515 NE - AMARILLO GEARHEADS: 50 HP 1:1 $700, 50 HP 4:5 $550, US MOTOR GEARHEADS: 90HP 4:3 $450, 70 HP 2:3 $400, (402) 564-5064 NE - GEAR DRIVE REPAIR- AMARILLO WARRANTY CENTER. REPAIR ALL MAKES/MODELS. 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE. CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES. CENTRAL IRRIGATION, (402) 723-5824

1207 - PIVOTS FOR SALE NE - 1978 T-L, 7 TOWER PIVOT, 1260’, $7,400.00, (402) 787-2244 NE - 1981 VALLEY PIVOT MODEL 6000, 100 END GUN, 1100’, (402) 923-1721 1209 - PUMPS WITH MOTORS FOR SALE NE - 3/4 BERKELEY PUMPS WITH PRIMING VALVES, ATTACHED TO YOUR CHOICE OF INDUSTRIAL 200 FORD, 300 FORD, OR 262 ALLIS, W/RADIATORS, AND CARTS, (402) 364-2592 1230 - IRRIGATION MISC. FOR SALE WI - SERVING THE MIDWEST WITH COMPLETE IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT, ALL TYPES, NEW & USED. CONTACT ROBERTS IRRIGATION COMPANY AT 1500 POST ROAD, PLOVER, WI 54467, (800) 4345224 1301 - COMBINES & ACCESSORIES WANTED TO BUY MO - GLEANER LM TO JD ADAPTER, (816) 378-2015 FOR SALE KS - LARGE BISH BIN EXT OFF 9610 W/HYD. PUSH UP AUGER. $750 OBO, (620) 865-2541 IA: GLEANOR F2 COMBINE WITH GRAIN TABLE AND 38”. 4 ROW CORN HEAD. EXCELLANT TIRES. ALWAYS SHEDDED 515-262-0776 NE - 1 COMBINE TIRE, 30. 5 X 32, GOODYEAR DYNATORQUE 70%, (402) 641-3841

1302 - COMBINE HEADS WANTED TO BUY MO - JD 920F BEAN PLATFORM, (816) 378-2015 IA - MF 1163 CORN HEAD, (402) 651-5811 FOR SALE NE - DISK SHARPEN-ROLLER(SERVICE SINCE 1969)OFF SEASON DISCOUNT, FALL 2010 CALL BY 12/1/09, SPRING 2011 BY 06/1/10. YOUR FARM (ANYWHERE) METAL MOVED NOT LOST, NO MILEAGE. STARTING $2.50/BLADE. (CLIP & SAVE FOR FUTURE) JERRY BAUERMEISTER, BELDEN, NEBR, (402) 985-2395 IA:1980 N5 1800SEPHR 6-30 CORN 20”GRAIN ELECTRIC OVER HYD GOOD CONDITION 712-338-2010 1306 - GRAIN CARTS FOR SALE NE - 1999 CORNHUSKER, AG HOPPER, 42’ X 96” X 72”, MINI AIR RIDE, GOOD TARP, (402) 369-0212 1307 - GRAIN DRYERS FOR SALE NE - BEHLEN 500 BU BATCH GRAIN DRYER, (402) 336-2755 1313 - GRAIN STORAGE UNITS FOR SALE NE - 8” AERATION TUBING AND AERATION FANS, (308) 995-5515 NE - BULK HEAD FOR 51’ CURVET, (308) 995-5515 NE - SINGLE PHASE MOTORS, (308) 9955515

1313 - GRAIN STORAGE UNITS FOR SALE - CONT’D NE - BROCK BINS & GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT, EPS & BEHLEN BLDG SYSTEMS, BUCKLEY STEEL, AINSWORTH, NE, (402) 387-0347 NE - NECO STIRRATOR FOR 33’ GRAIN BIN, 2 DOWN AUGERS, (402) 787-2244 1330 - GRAIN HARVEST OTHER WANTED TO BUY NE - CHICAGO FANS, (308) 995-5515 FOR SALE NE - 8” AERATION TUBES, FANS, TUNNELS FOR CONCRETE FLOORS, (308) 995-5515 IA - MIDWEST PNEUMATIC. BRANDT, CONVEYAIR, REM, VACBOSS, HANDLAIR. NEW, RECOND, PTO OR ENG DRIVEN, PUMPS, AIR LOCKS, PIPE, PARTS, SERVICE. 5 YR LEASE OR LOAN AT 7. 1%. 40+ UNITS IN STOCK. OUR HIGH VOLUME MEANS YOUR BEST DEAL! WE DELIVER! MACEDONIA, IA, (800) 480-2487 IA: NEW IDEA 2-ROW WIDE CORN PICKER. 12 ROLL HUSKING BED $350.00. AND CASE IH 1044 CORN HEAD $2800. (712) 540-0045 NE - NEW ORTHMAN DRY BEAN CUTTERS, (308) 995-5515 NE - DISK SHARPEN-ROLLER(SERVICE SINCE 1969)OFF SEASON DISCOUNT, FALL 2010 CALL BY 12/1/09, SPRING 2011, BY 06/1/10. YOUR FARM (ANYWHERE) METAL MOVED NOT LOST, NO MILEAGE. STARTING $2.50 BLADE. (CLIP & SAVE FOR FUTURE) JERRY BAUERMEISTER, BELDEN, NEBR, (402) 985-2395

1330 - GRAIN HARVEST OTHER FOR SALE - CONT’D IL - ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MOISTURE TESTER THAT WILL GIVE YOU FAST & ACCURATE RESULTS? THEN CALL US NOW & ASK ABOUT OUR MODEL 920 & 930. SHORE SALES. MOISTURETESTERS. COM, (800) 837-0863 1401 - 3 POINT BLADES FOR SALE IA - 2 OR 3 PT BLADES 6’, 7’, 8’ OR 9’ AC, IH, JD & OTHERS, (712) 299-6608 1407 - ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR SALE NE - COMPLETE LINE OF SHEAVES, BEARINGS, DRIVES, & MOTORS, (402) 3870347 1430 - OTHER EQUIPMENT FOR SALE IA - WWW. WHEELRAKE. COM, (712) 3662114 IA - AGE CATCHING UP WITH YOUR NEED TO CLIMB? WE CAN HELP WITH A HAND OPERATED SINGLE PERSON ELEVATOR 140’ MAXIMUM CALL, (800) 462-3460 IA:FEED BUNKS, JD HAY RAKE AUGGR WAGON,FREEMAN BALER, ROTARY SYTHE MOWER CROSSBREED DAIRY COWS 515-432-0205 1501 - ALFALFA HAY WANTED TO BUY IA - QUALITY SML OR LG SQ ALFALFA OR MIXED IN SEMI LOADS, (641) 658-2738

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CLASSIFIEDS 1502 - PRAIRIE HAY FOR SALE IA - LARGE RD & BIG SQ BALES GOOD QUALITY GRASS HAY, DELIVERED IN SEMI LOADS ONLY, (641) 658-2738 NE - HOLT COUNTY NEBRASKA PRAIRIE HAY, CERTIFIED WEED FREE OF ALL NOXIOUS WEEDS, BIG ROUND BALES, CALL CELL: 402-394-8495 OR, (402) 336-3292 1505 - STRAW WANTED TO BUY IA - GOOD CLEAN, BRIGHT SM SQ IN SEMI LOADS, (641) 658-2738 1512 - SEED FOR SALE IA - BUYER & SELLER OF PRAIRIE GRASS & WILDFLOWER SEED, OSENBAUGH SEEDS, LUCAS, IA., (800) 582-2788 1530 - HAY & GRAIN OTHER FOR SALE IA - WWW. REPLACEMENTRAKEWHEELS. COM, (712) 366-2114 1804 - FEEDING WAGONS FOR SALE IA - BJM MIXER FEEDER WAGON, 3 AUGER WITH SCALES, (712) 625-2391 1807 - HAY GRINDERS/PROCESSORS FOR SALE MN - HAYBUSTER 1150 TRUCK MOUNT GRINDERS, ENGINE GRINDERS, NEW/USED. PARTS SHIPPED DIRECT. BAKKOBROS. COM. (320) 278-3560, OR CELL, (320) 808-0471 IA - FEED MILL EQUIPMENT - MIXERS, GRINDERS, ROLLERS, ETC. MANUAL TO AUTOMATED BATCHING CONTROLS. NEW & USED. CALL NORM’S LIVESTOCK SUPPLY, INC. STORM LAKE, IA 50588. CELL 712-299-4497 OR, (800) 397-4682 1810 - MANURE SPREADERS FOR SALE IA - IH 580, (712) 625-2391 1814 - BUNKS FOR SALE NE - G&R TIRE TURNERS: TURN TRACTOR TIRES INCLUDING RADIALS. YOUR PLACE OR MINE. TIRE FEED BUNKS FOR SALE. TOLL FREE (866) 213-0184, (308) 367-8775, OR, (308) 737-7451 1815 - WATERERS/TANKS FOR SALE NE - BULL TOUGH BOTTOMLESS HEAVY GAUGE STOCK TANKS, (402) 387-0347 MN - JUG LIVESTOCK WATERERS. THEJUGWATERER. COM, (320) 808-0471 1820 - LIVESTOCK BEDDING FOR SALE NE - CORRUGATED WINDBREAK STEEL, 8 GAUGE THROUGH 20 GAUGE, (402) 3870347 1901 - FEEDER STEERS FOR SALE MO - WE SPECIALIZE IN LOCATING “QUALITY” FEEDER CATTLE, (816) 6887887 1903 - OPEN HEIFERS FOR SALE NE - GELBVIEH AND BALANCER OPEN HEIFERS, (402) 879-4976 MO - QUALITY REPLACEMENT CATTLE LOCATORS - MAX HARGROVE, (816) 6887887 1904 - BRED HEIFERS FOR SALE MN - 75 ORGANIC JERSEY X HOLSTEIN AND SWISS X HOLSTEIN CROSS BRED HEIFERS, DUE MID MAY, PICK 40 OR MORE FOR $1900 A PIECE, (320) 4935067 1909 - BULLS FOR SALE NE - 25 PB CHAROLAIS BULLS COMING 2S ALL RECORDS 40 YRS, (308) 9955515

1909 - BULLS FOR SALE - CONT’D NE - GELBVIEH BULLS, RED & BLACK, 1 & 2 YR OLDS, (402) 879-4976 NE - (25) COMING 2 YR OLD CHAROLAIS BULLS(308) 567-2288, (308) 995-5515 NE - REG ANGUS BULLS, (402) 395-2178 NE - EASY CALVING, REG POLLED CHAROLAIS BULLS, (402) 395-2178 1910 - SHOW STOCK FOR SALE NE - CLUB CALVES, “THE WINNING KIND”, STEERS/HEIFERS, (402) 395-2178 IA: SHOW STEERS AND HEIFERS. MORE INFORMATION AND PHOTOS AT WWW.MIKEMILLERCLUBCALVES.COM. CALL 515-370-0695.

1915 - AI SERVICE FOR SALE NE - DBL BLACK DBL POLLED CALVING EASE GELBVIEH BULLS, (402) 879-4976 1930 - CATTLE OTHER FOR SALE MO - QUALITY REPLACEMENT & BREEDING CATTLE LOCATORS, (816) 688-7887 2130 - SHEEP - OTHER FOR SALE IA: REG SUFFOLK RAMS - LAMBS, AND YEARLING. REG SUFFOLK EWES AGED AND YEARLINGS. MERLE VAN KLOMPENBURG 712-737-4687 IA: RAM LAMBS FOR SALE. CALL 712365-4713 2204 - TACK FOR SALE NE - NEW LEATHER TOOLED PLEASURE RIDING SADDLES. $200 EACH., (402) 640-7701 2230 - HORSE- OTHER FOR SALE NE - HORSE BOARDING FACILITY ON 27 A. W/PASTURE. CAP. OF 60 INSIDE & 39 OUTSIDE. WILL EARN OWNER/OPERATO ABOUT $250K TAXABLE INCOME PER YEAR. BOARDING 50+ HORSES @ ABOUT $400 PER HORSE PER MONTH NOW. TOM DUNN, KELLER WILLIAMS R/E, (402) 699-2206 NE - HORSE BOARDING FACILITY: GRETNA, NE ON 15 ACRES, HUGE RANCH HOME ON PREMISES, HAS LG INDOOR RIDING ARENAS & ROUND PENS PLUS 43 INSIDE STALLS, 10ACRES PASTURE & RIDING OUTSIDE. TERRIFC PRICE, TOM DUNN, KELLER WILLIAMS R/E, (402) 699-2206 NE - NOW FOR SALE, 33 ACRES 225`X 80` RIPING ARENA ~(INSIDE), 19 INSIDE STALLS AND ROOM FOR 30+ ~OUTSIDE. LOTS OF ROOM TO EXPAND AND GREAT EARNING ~POTENTIAL, BEAUTIFUL RANCH HOME. SPRINGFIELD, NE CALL TOM 402-699-2206, (402) 699-2206 2301 - DOGS FOR SALE NE - GREAT PRYANEES PUPPIES BORN JULY 12, (308) 345-5273 2303 - GOATS FOR SALE NE - BUTCHER GOATS FOR SALE, (308) 345-5273 2502 - CUSTOM WORK/SERVICES NE - DISK SHARPEN-ROLLER(SERVICE SINCE 1969)OFF SEASON DISCOUNT, FALL 2010 CALL BY 12/1/2009, SPRING 2011 BY 06/1/10. YOUR FARM (ANYWHERE) METAL MOVED NOT LOST, NO MILEAGE. STARTING $2.50/BLADE. (CLIP & SAVE FOR FUTURE) JERRY BAUERMEISTER, BELDEN, NEBR., (402) 9852395 2601 - CARS FOR SALE IA: 1989 S-10 4 X 4 BLAZER. GOOD SCHOOL CAR $550. CALL KYLE AT 1563-249-5197 (0811-0814)CAO3328

2602 - PICKUPS WANTED TO BUY KS - GOOD LONG WIDE FACTORY BED FOR ‘73-’79 FORD, (620) 865-2541 FOR SALE KS - ‘91 F-250 XLT 4X4 SC, 460 AUTO, CUSTOM PAINT, NICE INSIDE, $3,000.00, (620) 865-2541 KS - ‘94 F-150 XLT 4X4 SC. SB. 351 AUTO, BLACK & SILVER GREAT CONDITION, 135K, $5,300.00, (620) 865-2541 NE - DODGE 2002 DUALLY BOX W\END GATE, RED, NICE. $750, $750.00, (402) 545-2255 NE - THIRD SEAT FOR 95-99 SUBURBAN, TAUPE LEATHER, $100.00, (402) 5645064 NE - 1998 DODGE 2500 QUAD CAB, SHORT BOX, DIESEL, 52K ON MOTOR, 26K ON TRANS & TRANSFER CASE. LEATHER. VERY CLEAN TRUCK, $11,500.00, (402) 784-2065 KS - (2) 1993 F-350 CREWCAB XLT DIESELS, 4X4 AUTO & 5 SPD DUALLY, $6900 & $4900, (620) 865-2541 NE - ‘94 DODGE DIESEL, REG CAB, 4X4, 164K, AUTO, AC, AM/FM STEREO, PWR WIND & LCKS, NICE, CLEAN TRUCK., $6,550.00, (402) 784-2065 2603 - TRUCKS WANTED TO BUY NE - TEN GOOD 9. 00-20 OR 10. 00-20 TRUCK TIRES, (402) 566-2345 FOR SALE KS - ‘59 CHEVY 60, V8, 4&2 SP, 15’ B&H, 2 NEW TIRES, TUNED UP, ETC, $999.00, (620) 865-2541 NE - 2003 CHEVY C8500 3126 KAT, CAB/CHASSIS, 6SPD AUTOMATIC. 2002 IHC 4400 466 DIESEL CAB/CHASSIS. BOTH WOULD EXCELLENT TANDEM TRUCKS. AIR TAGS AVAILABLE., (402) 469-0789 NE - 2000 GMC C7500 3126 KAT 6SPD. NEW 18FT SCOTT BOX HOIST. 90% RUBBER, (402) 469-0789 NE - 1996 PETE 330 250HP WITH TWIN SCREW LONG FRAME. WOULD MAKE GREAT 22-24FT TANDEM GRAIN TRUCK., (402) 469-0789 NE - 1996 PETERBUILT TRACTOR FACTOR DAY CAB, CAT ENGINE, 10 SPEED AIR RIDE, NICE,, (402) 369-0212 NE - 1997 IH 4700 LOW PROFILE, 20K MILES, 444E, 5 SP. UNDER CDL, 19. 5 TIRES, HAS 19’ STEEL JERR-DAN ROLLBACK BED, GOOD WORKING TRUCK, $19,500.00, (402) 784-2065 2606 - HORSE TRAILERS FOR SALE NE - GOOSENECK TRLR, 20’ W/4’ BEAVERTAIL, 7, 000 AXLES, (402) 6413841 2607 - FLAT BEDs/UTILITY TRAILERS FOR SALE NE - TWO HEAVY DUTY STEEL FLAT BEDS OFF 2003 TRUCKS. ONE IS 24FT AND ONE IS 28FT., (402) 469-0789 NE - 1979 TRAIL MOBILE ALUMINUM 9000 GAL. TANKER, (402) 369-0212 2608 - ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES FOR SALE NE - 84 HONDA 3 WHEELER, (402) 3362755 2613 - MOBILE HOMES & RV’S FOR SALE NE - AVION SILVER R, 30FT, TRAVEL TRAILER, VERY CLEAN, EXCELLENT SNOWBIRD TRAILER, NEW BATTERIES, $7400/OBO, (402) 564-5064 2615 - AIRPLANES FOR SALE NE - MONI MOTOR GLIDER AND TRAILER, LOW HOURS, (402) 364-2592 2616 - TIRES FOR SALE NE - 10 BOLT RIMS W/18. 4 X 38” TIRES, (402) 336-2755

2618 - SEMI TRACTORS/TRAILERS WANTED TO BUY IA - LATE MODEL TRLRS & TRUCKS WITH LIGHT DAMAGE OR IN NEED OF ENGINE REPAIRS, (641) 658-2738 FOR SALE IA - 855 CUMMINS ENGINE REAL GOOD, HEAR IT RUN AND 8 ALUMINUM 22. 5 BUD WHEELS $150 EACH., (641) 7455228 NE - 1075 24’ SEMI LOWBOY TRLR. $1950, $2,250.00, (402) 545-2255 MO - (2) 95/96 FLD 120’S, 3406E’S, 9 SP, 48” SLEEPERS REALLY NICE, REDUCED!, $9,750.00, (660) 548-3804 MO - (2) ‘99 IH 4900, TS, 18K FRTS, 40K LB HENDRICKSON REARS, 300K MILES, WITH OR WITHOUT 20’ ALUMINUM DUMP BEDS, PERFECT LENGTH FOR 20’ GRAIN BED, $28,500 - $31,000, (660) 548-3804 MO - 1998 KENWORTH T300, LONG WHEEL BASE CAB & CHASSIS TANDEM, 12K FRONTS, 40K REARS, 300K MILES, READY FOR GRAIN BED, $16,000.00, (660) 548-3804 MO - ‘95 CHEVY TOPKICK, 20’ FLATBED & HOIST, CAT 250 HP, 8LL TRANS, 40K HENDRICKSON REARS, 14K FRONT, 190K MILES,, $21,000.00, (660) 548-3804 MO - (2) ‘00 IH 8100S, 21’ ALUMINUM GRAIN BEDS, TS, 9SP, WITH EXTRA STEERABLE AXLE, SUPER SHARP, CUMMINS, $46,000.00, (660) 548-3804 2803 - DIRT SCRAPERS WANTED TO BUY MO - WE BUY & TRADE USED HYDRAULIC EJECTION SCRAPERS, (660) 548-3804 FOR SALE MO - NEW & USED SCRAPERS- EJECTION & DUMP, ANY SIZE, (660) 548-3804 MO - NEW TOREQ BY STEIGER & LEON SCRAPERS, (660) 548-3804 KS - JD 700 CARRY-ALL 7 YD, NEW PAINT, ETC, GOOD SHAPE, $6,900.00, (620) 865-2541 2806 - CRANES & DRAGLINES FOR RENT NE - 28 TON NATIONAL CRANE, 152 FT. REACH, (402) 387-0347 2807 - GENERATORS FOR SALE MN - GENERATORS NEW & USED. AUTOMATIC GENERATOR SETS & PTO ALTERNATORS. HOSPITAL & TELEPHONE TAKEOUTS W/ LOW HRS. STANDY POWER SYSTEMS SERVING FARMERS SINCE 1975, MON-SAT 8-5., (800) 419-9806 2813 - WHEEL LOADERS FOR SALE MN - 1984 TROJAN 1900Z LOADER MACHINE SERIAL #3135209 ENGINE MODEL FGL-913 SERIAL #6761185 TRANSMISSION 4WG-120 SERIAL # 4140 ZF; $5,000.00 OBO, WENDELL NOBLE, (651) 345-3854 NE - CASE 621 PAYLOADER, MODEL 6T 590 CUMMINS MOTOR, MOTOR NEEDS WORK. $21,000, $21,000.00, (402) 5452255 NE - 1995 DRESSER WHEEL LOADER, 3YD, 6 CYL CUMMINS TURBO, 80% TIRES, RUNS GOOD, (402) 369-0212 2822 - SKID STEER LOADERS FOR SALE WI - SKID STEER ATTACHEMENTS: BUCKETS, FORKS, GRAPPLES BUNKER FACERS, FEED PUSHERS, BALE SPEARS, BELT & TIRE SCRAPERS, BACKHOE, 3PTDRAWBAR, LIFT & PTO UNITS., (715) 5561400 2827 - BUILDING SUPPLIES FOR SALE NE - CRUSHED LIMESTONE FOR DRIVEWAY-YOU LOAD & HAUL $8 CU.YD., NEAR GRAND ISLAND , NE, (402) 564-5064 www.iowafarmandranch.com www.iowafarmandranch.com www.iowafarmandranch.com www.iowafarmandranch.com

3002 - ANTIQUE TRACTORS FOR SALE MN - ANTIQUE TRACTOR COLLECTORS! BIEWER’S TRACTOR & MACH. SALV. SPECIALIZES IN 1920-85 TRACTOR PARTS. FREE NATIONWIDE LOCATING. BARNESVILLE, MN. SEARCH PARTS & SEE OVER 100 ANTIQUE TRACTORS PICTURED AT SALVAGETRACTORS. COM, (218) 4934696 NE - 1952 JD B, RECONDITIONED, PULLED IN DIV 1 4500LBS, $3,500.00, (402) 545-2255 NE - 1938 JD B, UNSTYLED, RECONDITIONED, $3,100.00, (402) 545-2255 NE - 1941 JD A, ELECTRIC START, 4 SP, BEHLEN OVERDRIVE,, $2,500.00, (402) 545-2255 3005 - FENCING MATERIALS FOR SALE ND - USED OIL FIELD 2 3/8”-2 7/8” & LARGER PIPE, 3/4”, 7/8”, & 1” FIBERGLASS RODS, PANELS FOR HORSE/CATTLE CORRALS. ALL TYPES OF NEW IRON, ROUND & SQ TUBING, ANGLE & CHANNEL, ETC. PAHLKE PIPE & ROD, (877) 457-2028 3007 - PIPE FOR SALE MO - GOOD USED RR TANK CAR SHELLS FOR CULVERTS (7-10’ DIAMETER)(30’-55’ LONG), ALSO GOOD USED STEEL PIPE, 8 5/8” DIAMETER THRU 48” DIAMETER, 20’, 30’, 40’ & 50’ LENGTHS. CALL GARY AT GATEWAY PIPE & SUPPLY, (800) 4894321 3011 - HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS FOR SALE MO - OUTSIDE WOOD FURNACE $1545.

CHEAP SHIPPING. EASY INSTALL. FORCED AIR. 100,000 BTU. HOUSES, MOBILES. WWW.HEATBYWOOD.COM, (417) 581-7755 NE - CARPET: RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL IN MOHAWK, SHAW, BEAULIEU. LAMINATES & HARDWOOD. VINYL. CERAMIC & PORCELAIN TILES. DURACERAMIC. KARNDEAN LUXURY VINYL. SCRANTON SUPPLY, NORFOLK, (402) 640-7701 IA: WHITCO PRESSURE WASHER, STAINLESS, 2000 PSI, 4GPM,BUILT IN HEAT, AND WASTE OIL FURNACE 150,000 BTU (712)269-1280 NE - TRUCKLOAD PORCELAIN & CERAMIC TILE SALE. SUMMER CARPET SALE. SCRANTON SUPPLY, NORFOLK, (402) 640-7701

3024 - FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR SALE MO - PUT OUR MONEY & 45 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE TO WORK FOR YOU. ALL TYPES OF AG LOANS AVAILABLE AT LOWEST RATES. FREE CONSULTATIONS. MIDWEST LOAN BROKERS. JAM@LYN. NET OR CALL, (660) 339-7410 3028 - FIREWOOD FOR SALE WI - BIG OUTDOOR WOOD STOVE, 3/8 INCH THICK FIREBOX, 57” DEEP, 40” INCH TALL DOOR. WEIGHS 1. 5 TONS. WHOLESALE PRICE $5,999., (715) 5561400 3030 - OTHER WANTED TO BUY NE - SCRAP BATTERIES- WE WANT ‘EM! WE ALSO BUY STEEL CASE & GLASS PACK. CALL FOR DETAILS! ALLEN’S NEW & USED BATTERIES. BUY/SELL, NEW/USED. WE CARRY ALL KINDS!!

ALLEN FELTON, OWNER. LINCOLN, NE., (402) 467-2455 FOR SALE IA: 1995 WILSON 48 102 CATTLE POT. NEW BRAKES, NEW DRUM 712-320-4450 IA: 550 GAL FUEL BARREL WITH ELECTRIC METERING PUMP GOOD COND. $300 OBO 515-984-6440 IA: 16” SCOTT STEEL BOX WOOD FLOOR, GOOD TIRES, HEAVY DUTY HOIST, HEAVY DUTY HITCH, ALWAYS SHEDED $5.500.

641-565-3276 5000 - FARM REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IA - NATIONWIDE - 1031FEC - PAY NO TAX WHEN SELLING-EXCHANGING REAL ESTATE, EQUIPMENT, LIVESTOCK. FREE BROCHURE/CONSULTATION. VIEW EXCHANGE PROPERTIES AT WWW. 1031FEC. COM OR CALL, (800) 333-0801 5004 - PASTURE RENT WANTED TO RENT CO - LOOKING FOR RANCH LEASES WITHIN 100 MILES OF FORT COLLINS. 100-300 HEAD, (719) 587-5596

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