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Country Neighbors Farm & Ranch Volume 18

October 2012

Issue 4

What’s Inside: Fallon County ranchers and farmers survive an exceptionally dry year Farmer/Rancher Appreciation Banquet Mineral rights, keeping the surface safe Celebrating being female, helping others Dry soil may cause building problems Dowsing for graves Steeke named Country Women of the Year

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Irgens’ steer named Champion of Champions New airport, a reality in Bowman Wagner bags mountain goat Countryside a busy time for road traffic Farm Rescue aids Regent farmer Yesterday’s Farmers Annual Threshing Bee Are wheat prices going to hold?

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Dowsing for graves Joyce Hinrichs Hettinger County, North Dakota This past summer, an article came out in the Bismarck Tribune which in due time, introduced me to Leann Pelvit and Romona Raffeall , of the MonDak Historical and Arts Society located in Sidney, Montana. As we all now face the reality of oil production consuming acres and acres of prairie land, history itself has been lost which would have identified burial grounds locations from our homesteading past.

So it was that as oil production neared their area, these two ladies took on the task of looking for the old burial grounds near Dore, North Dakota, specifically the gravesite of two young siblings who became ill, and were buried nearly a century ago. The children, the Bauer children, like their grave sites are lost to a few hazy memories of generations past, loosely remembered as being buried “somewhere” between a hill and the old schoolhouse site, in the equally lost old

town once known as Dore, (A railroad ghost town in McKenzie county and founded in Yellowstone township, 5 mi. north of East Fairview. The post office was established in 1901 and named after George Dore the first postmaster.) The ladies putting into play the very ancient art of dowsing took on the mission to locate and re-record the location of the old grave yard and the children’s burial site before oil companies consumed its history yet further with oil productions new history. I am sure as readers of this column, you know the rest of the story; I began to research “dowsing”, starting by meeting Leann and Ramona on the phone and through e-mail, and taking this research many, many steps further, to learn about the authenticity of “dowsing”, how it is used and what knowledge it takes to “dowse” for gravesites. I start with Jay McAfee’s report who states;” one of the biggest frustrations in genealogy is being unable to locate the burial site of an ancestor. Dowsing is an age-old art used for centuries”.

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Shirley Halverson and Lewellyn Rustan seeking unmarked gravesites.

McAfee first learned about the art of dowsing from a fellow volunteer at the Cass County Historical Society while working on “The Cemetery Project. Reading McAfee’s statement

See GRAVES, page 19

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Steeke named Country Woman of the Year

By SUE ROESLER Farm & Ranch Guide MANDAN – With a bouquet of roses placed in her arms at a special luncheon program, Misty Steeke, of Rhame, N.D., was crowned as the 19th recipient of Farm & Ranch Guide's Country Woman of the Year title on July 20.

"I was overwhelmed - I never imagined I would be nominated," said Steeke, who is an agriculture teacher and FFA advisor at Scranton High School, and a rancher with her husband, Trevor, near Rhame.

Steeke felt very honored that her FFA students thought so highly of her they urged Trevor to nominate her.

"I really enjoy working with the FFA kids and teaching young students in agriculture. I always try to tell them it is not just farming and ranching - it is agriculture all around," Steeke said. "We do this because we love it."

Steeke and her husband, operate a very diverse family farm/ranch in southwest North Dakota which includes sheep, a commercial Simmental-Angus operation, and feeder hogs, as well as a few goats. They also farm several crops, and raise hay as well.

"Right now, we are in the middle of haying, and just trying to beat the heat. We are having some water issues with the drought

we have been having," she said, following the program.

One of the largest crowds ever, more than 200 people were in attendance at the Seven Seas Hotel & Water Park in Mandan to honor not only Steeke, but all six finalists, and in fact, country women in general.

In addition to Steeke, the other finalists were Vawnita Best, Watford City, N.D.; Jill Brown, Berthold, N.D.; Sandy Laub, Elgin, N.D.; Karen Mitteness, Benson, Minn.; and Rita Mosset, Linton, N.D. All the finalists were surrounded by family, friends and neighbors who came to support their "country woman."

As winner, Steeke received a special pink New Holland G4010 Zero Turn lawn mower from the Northern Region New Holland Dealers, one of the grand champion sponsors.

Cody Montgomery, representing the Northern Region New Holland Dealers, presented the keys to the mower to Steeke.

He also congratulated all the finalists and said, "Growing up on a small family farm near Carrington, I see the sacrifices you (country women) put in."

Shortly after the program concluded, Steeke wasn't heading home. Instead she was still fulfilling her role as 4-H leader, mom, and FFA advisor. Out in the parking lot was a horse trailer filled with two steers,

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lambs and hogs. Her family - including her FFA students - was headed up to Minot to the North Dakota State Fair to participate at the Livestock Show.

While it was a hot 90-degree day, like all country women, she knows how to handle animals. Steeke had fans running on a generator in the trailer and plenty of water on hand.

Other prizes Steeke received included a Medora vacation package for two sponsored by Farm & Ranch Guide; a framed print from Farm Credit Services, along with the bouquet of roses.

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In the live contest held at the Eastern Montana Fair in Miles City, MT the Reserve Champion Steer from the Rosebud/Treasure County fair shown by Frankee Bice was named the Champion and the Reserve was the above mention carcass champion shown by Justin Irgens. Third place was Haven Meged from Miles City, MT and fourth place Kaylin Wheeler from Baker, MT. The contest is sponsored by cash donations from US Bank of Miles City, MT Stockman Bank, First Interstate Bank, Miles City Motor Supply, Murdoch’s Ranch and Home, Miles City Livestock Commission and Tire-Rama Service Center. The champion buckles are sponsored by Watts Insurance of Miles City, MT. Along with the live animal and carcass competition the specators at the show are invited to participate in a jackpot competition to test their skill in judging the animals. The winners of the jackpot are; tied for second place Allan Werri of Plevena, MT and Jeremy Simonson of Ismay, MT. The first place winner in the jackpot competition was John Olson of Broadus, MT.

Farmer's names Justin Irgens, Baker, MT is shown with his 2012 Champion steer in the carcass division in Miles City. MT.

Irgens’ steer named Champion of Champions

George, the farmer, had so many children that he ran out of names. So he started calling his kids after something around his farm. It was the first day of school and the teacher asked each child their name. When he got to one of the farmer George's sons, the boy replied, 'Wagon Wheel.'The teacher said, 'I need your real name boy, to which the lad replied, 'It's Wagon Wheel, sir....Really.' The teacher, rather annoyed rejoined, 'All right young man, take yourself right down to the Principal's office this minute.'

The youngster pushed himself out of his chair, turned to his sister and said, 'C'mon, 'Chicken Feed', he ain't gonna believe you, either.'

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New airport a reality in Bowman

By EDDIE HIBBS III Bowman A project nearly 12 years in the making is finally starting to take shape, but it will likely be at least two more years before completion.

Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, more than 30 local and state dignitaries gathered four miles east of Bowman for groundbreaking ceremonies for a new municipal airport.

The project is expected to cost between $10 million and $11 million with 90 percent of the funding to be provided by the federal government.

The remaining 10 percent of funding is split between the state and local governments.

“We have collected approximately $4 million, but we need another six or seven to go,” said Dan Brosz, owner of Brosz Engineering. “It takes time to round up this amount of funding.”

It also takes a lot of help. One of the state dignitaries on hand for the ceremony was Mark Holzer, program manager for the FFA in Bismarck.

“This was the largest federal funding ever (for an airport) in North Dakota,” Holzer told the audience. “With the oil activity in the state, it was increasing the

Photo by Eddie Hibbs III

Local and state dignataries gather at the site of the new Bowman airport for a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning. The new airport is located on the south side of Highway 12 approximately four miles east of Bowman. The new airport will take several stages to complete and is expected to be finished in two to three years. need for air travel in western North Dakota.”

Holzer also stressed the importance of cooperation of the local entities.

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memorandum of understanding and it went all the way to Washington. It was a struggle to find the money, but it was well worth it.”

Holzer added that with the use of satellites, the new Bowman airport will be an all-weather airport. It will also be much

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Wagner bags mountain goat

By Lisa Kilsdonk Fallon County Times At 41 years of age, Jake Wagner, Baker, MT has been sending off his application to hunt Montana’s big game for nearly 30 years. This year he finally hit the jackpot. He drew a tag for a mountain goat. It was time to go goat hunting.

Wagner and his two hunting buddies, Dustin Gorder and Howard Hall both of Baker, MT, headed west to the Pioneer Mountain range northwest of Dillon, MT in Beaverhead County. From September 1-5, Wagner hunted hard. He even had one in his sights, but didn’t take the shot because he wasn’t sure if he’d actually be able to get his prize out of the incredibly rough terrain.

Incredible can describe a few other things about Wagner, a survivor of not one, but two heart attacks that nearly ended his life three years ago. “The doctor said I wasn’t supposed to live. My heart attack was the worst he’d seen in someone so young,” said Wagner, quiet and serious, reflecting on the stents that saved his life.

When asked how having survived a heart attack has changed his life, the big, tall meat cutter paused, shook his head and muttered as he walked over to the Hobart oven in Hangin’ W Meats to check a fragrant batch of beef jerky. “It’s always in the back of your head. You realize you’re not immortal.”

So despite being skunked his first time, having a heart that’s permanently damaged, and mountain goat hunting requiring some of the most grueling, dangerous hiking he’d ever encountered, Wagner couldn’t leave his tag unfilled.

About three weeks later, the three headed back again, determined to try again. They drove on the 28th, and hunted on the 29th and 30th. When asked if the goats were more skittish later in the season, Wagner replied, “No, they aren’t scared of people.” He went on to explain that the mountain goats live at such a high altitude that they seldom encounter people.

The first day provided Dustin Gorder with a good look at a black bear, but not enough time to get a shot off. On day two, Gorder continued looking for the bear while Wagner and Hall pursued the mountain goats. “Howard and I were sitting on a sheer face of a mountain. We were glassing. I looked down the mountain - we were up at an altitude of 9,500 feet - and spotted two goats way down below us at the tree line. I didn’t have my gun, so I had to take off back to our ATV. When I got back, they were gone.”

Wagner’s disappointment was short-lived, though, when three goats - a billy, a nanny and

See MOUNTAIN GOAT, Page 23

Howard Hall, left, and Jake Wagner, both of Baker, posed with the four year old male mountain goat shot by Wagner.

Photo by Dustin Gorder

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Countryside a busy time for road traffic

By DOUG LEIER A little over a year ago on a random early fall hunting trip, I pulled over to the side of the road near a wildlife management area and surveyed the scene, assessing the ground and field conditions. While summer 2011 seemed like the wettest I’ve ever seen, by fall things were starting to dry out to the point where you could pull into an approach or shallow ditch to park for a walk after pheasants or grouse and not worry about getting stuck.

Who would’ve guessed that one year later in October 2012, our field conditions, across the state for the most part, are in need of significant fall precipitation. So it goes for weather on the plains where during one 24-hour period in early October we went from mid-80s to snow in the air.

What’s interesting this year is that the early spring is corresponding to an early harvest and that should allow many farmers to spend more time in the field joining other hunters for pheasants, deer, ducks and geese.

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to Marmarth, it will be a busy next few weeks in North Dakota’s rural countryside.

With most hunting seasons open and producers still hauling crops, moving cattle and bringing home bales, road traffic is sure to be heavy at times.

In addition to hunters and harvest activities, country roads are also travel routes for rural parents and kids driving to and from an array of school activities.

The simple message is, be careful out there. That’s an important message more commonly associated with firearms safety this time of year, but it’s a good thought to carry while traveling to and from hunting spots as well.

With that in mind, the State Game and Fish Department reminds hunters to move to the right side of the road when topping a hill just in case another vehicle is coming from the other direction. If you see a combine, grain truck or other large vehicle coming down the road, pull as far to the right as you can, or better yet, turn into the nearest approach until the vehicle passes.

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GRAVES Continued from page 10

I immediately contacted Andrew Neilson who is the Director of the Cass County Historical Society, who sadly advised me that when this project was being studied they had no computers at that time, and to find this information would take endless hours of looking. So I backtracked and re-call Leann in Sidney to find out that she and Ramona have just returned from a presentation by Robert Larson Genealogy Instructor Larimer County Genealogical Society (Fort Collins, CO) who very recently did a presentation, at Billings, for the Montana State Genealogical Society conference. Next step logically was to find and visit with Robert Larson. I learn; “Yes”, Larson explains, “I've been a grave

dowser/instructor since 2005 for my society and state conferences. I started grave dowsing after a mentor (a former chemical engineer) taught me and other societies this art. I worked with my mentor as a volunteer for our state Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies in locating graves and recording them for an updated Colorado Cemetery book plus listing GPS coordinates since 2007. Many times, we used grave dowsing to confirm or locate new burials on farmland and existing cemeteries for this project. Since then, I've taught many societies in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana about grave dowsing”. He shared the following informational study with me; what you need: a dowsing rod,

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most commonly used is the “L rods.” L rods can be made of coat hangers, glass, plastic, welding rods or bare copper wire. The most used material is a metal coat hanger. These dowsing rods can be made in 15 minutes or less and they are as accurate as $100 manufactured rods. The rule of thumb is the long part of the rod is 3 times the length of the handle. So if the handle is 5 inches long, the long part of the rod will be 15 inches.

Some rods can be up to 24 inches long for better sensitivity. For a test on grave dowsing, go to a local cemetery and walk towards a known grave. The rods should cross instantly as you walk over a

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The above building is, so far as we can ascertain, the only building of the original New England City of 1887 still standing.

When the colony was first established it was only about ten years after the Custer Battle at the Little Bighorn River in Montana and there was an uneasy peace in the area. Very often Indians from Fort Yates on the reservation would threaten to go on some small raiding and big hunting expeditions on the Cannonball, Cedar and Grand Rivers.

At one time the people became so fearful that the women and children were sent to Dickinson while the men stayed to fight it out with the Indians, if it became necessary. At this time a detachment of U.S. Cavalry was stationed here and camped where the Dubisar Welding Shop now stands. The officers used the stone building pictured above as a barracks and headquarters.

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Continued from Page 18 It’s also important to park vehicles in a manner that will not block a roadway, field approach or gate. When parking in a shallow ditch, avoid tall vegetation as much of the state is still very dry. Catalytic converters get extremely hot and possibly could ignite a fire without the driver realizing the dangers of parking in a grassy ditch or field.

Unless we get significant rain or snow, the fire danger in North Dakota will likely remain high throughout the fall. While that doesn’t mean we have to curtail any activities unless the daily fire danger index is in the “extreme” category, we all need to be aware of the dry conditions.

Now that pheasant and turkey seasons are open, it’s the best time of year to get out and enjoy the variety of North Dakota’s outdoors. Just keep safety in mind when you’re out there.

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Editor’s note: Leier is a biologist with the Game and Fish Department. He can be reached by email: dleier@nd.gov

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Photo by Eddie Hibbs III Dan Brosz of Brosz Engineering makes the initial introductions during Tuesday morningʼs groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Bowman airport. More than 30 local and state dignataries showed for the event. The entire project is estimated to cost between $10 million and $11 million.

The new airport, though, will not be big enough to allow commercial carriers. If the airport sees continued growth, it would be possible to expand it to accommodate commercial carriers.

The project is roughly a three-step process. The first step was previously approved by the Bowman County Airport Authority for $3 million to start the dirt work. Two heavy scrapers currently sit on the property, waiting to start. Stakes are placed throughout the farm ground, marking the location of the to-be-built airstrip.

Dozens of round hay bales populate the property.

As part of one of the future steps with the project, water, sewer and electricity will have to be provided to the grounds.

“We’re starting over from square one,” Brosz said.

The current airport will remain open during the construction of the new airport.

When the new airport is completed, the old airport will be sold and cease to function as an airport.

Continued from Page 6 More than 350 people attended the 2011 banquet – despite Game 7 of the World Series the same night. In 2010, an estimated 300 people attended the event.

“We were hoping for more than last year, and we certainly did that,” said Cathy Hedge, chamber secretary.

This year’s Farmer/Rancher Ag Appreciation Banquet was held Oct. 26, and unfortunately, missed the deadline for this publication. It was held at the Four Seasons Pavilion in Bowman.

Editor’s note: Readers may check online at www.bowmanextra.com or pick up a copy of the Nov. 2 Bowman County Pioneer edition to learn about this year’s Outstanding Farmer/Rancher Award winner.

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Shippin’ Time A little south wind on a nice fall day Just to rattle remaining leaves Box Elder’s mostly barren here.

With few cottonwoods it seems.

We have divided emotions ‘Cause we think of the mama cows.

They know there’s something different For calves are separated now.

I’d like to pretend they don’t understand (The cattle don’t you know.)

But I’ve seen too many proofs of it And I know it just ain’t so.

But the world needs meat and we got some So realism sets in They cut the big fat babies off And get ready to load ‘em in.

We appreciate the size of them With complaints of “awful dry” somehow those ole cows made a livin’ And fattened babies on the side.

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Mountain Goat Continued from page 15 a kid - re-emerged from the tree line and began following a dry waterway up the mountain towards the hunters. The group continued to work its way up the mountain, and eventually were in range and view for a good shot. “They came up to a flat spot 100 yards away, according to my range finder. It was so steep, I had to shoot downhill at a 45 degree angle,” Wagner stated.

Under Wagner’s watchful eye, his 270 Winchester Short Magnum landed two of his three shots. “The billy took three steps and laid down,” Wagner recalled. The shots had found their mark through the goat’s lungs.

Retrieving his decades-long awaited trophy was going to prove to be more than any of the three had bargained for. A short informal meeting led by Wagner resulted in three conclusions: someone would have to run the winch on the fourwheeler, someone would have to rappel down to the goat, and someone would have to supervise.

“Dusty said, ‘It’s my four-wheeler so I’ll run the winch’.

I said, ‘It’s my goat, so I’ll supervise.’ Howard said, ‘I guess I’ll rappel,’” Wagner said with a smile. The trio went to work tying all available ropes to the extended cable, but still came up short. Hall rappelled down until the rope ran out and then “freestyled” the rest of the way and managed to get both himself and the entire goat back up the mountain to the four-wheeler and his friends.

Wagner finally got to lay his hands on the male mountain goat that had seven inch horns and was officially aged at four years, a mid-life goat. Although Wagner still hasn’t decided whether he’s going to have his first mountain goat professionally mounted, he has decided what he’ll do with the meat.

Billy the mountain goat will be the main ingredient in Wagner’s sixth annual Wild Game Feed at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, along with entrees featuring venison, antelope, elk, buffalo, “and any other wild meat I can lay my hands on between now and then,” said Wagner.

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Farm Rescue aids Regent farmer

By Lewellyn Rustan The Herald Farm Rescue arrived on the scene south of New England early this week. Sporting huge signs, and large flags flying in the breeze above the combine, they attract a lot of attention.

Farm Rescue, a nonprofit organization that provides planting and harvesting assistance to farm families who have experienced a major injury, illness or natural disaster, was founded by North Dakota native Bill Gross in 2005.

About two years later, Regent area farmer Marvin Jorstad and his doctor began monitoring his PSA levels.

Over the next five years, those numbers slowly but steadily grew higher and higher. Biopsies tested negative. Until late this spring, after the crops were planted, when another biopsy tested positive for prostate cancer.

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GRAVES Continued from page 19

grave in any direction. They will uncross as you leave the grave.” Both he, Larson, and McAfee write about dowsing properly will even identify a male or female, the age of the male or female, but he ends their work with “the bottom line, there is no science today that explains why dowsing works, but has to do with some kind of waves emitted by living or dead people or even animals.

Both Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein have acknowledged or written about dowsing principles. People, societies and the military have been using dowsing for several millennia.

Next I seek out someone local who experiences, has knowledge of and uses this art when called up to help families locate old family grave sites. I am referred to and visit with Lewellyn Rustan, Sexton and President of the Rainey

Butte/Johnson Family Association.

How, I asked did he get started in doing this? He tells he first experienced this need when, Thelma Olson came to him as the cemetery Sexton asking for help in relocating the long lost family cemetery and specifically that of her 12 year old sister, which had long ago been farmed over and lost. Through that process and in the long run met Thelma’s her brother, Leonard Thompson of rural Regent from whom he learned the art of dowsing. In learning this process he has relocated his great Aunt, whose marker was on the wrong grave and more recently has located several sites for others buried in the Rainy Butte grounds allowing their families to now place proper stones on them. He tells a story, “The volunteers were out mowing one day, and decided

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as needed and requested by area families. Shirley Halverson and I met him at the Rainey Butte cemetery grounds where he demonstrated the process to us. There is much more detail to this art than column space allows and I refer you to the website, “Grave Dowsing; finding old unmarked Graves where you will find many, many more such reports and experiences, not only as personal experiences but by scientist, military, organizations etc. etc. McAfee and Larson both end their reports stating “The more comfortable you become with the process, the more sensitive you will become with the rods. If you have trouble getting the method to work for you, you are probably holding the rods too tight, are placing your thumbs over the bends (photo attached) or walking too fast.

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Liane, of Baker, Mont., received a bachelor of science in animal science, production and management, along with a minor in agribusiness from North Dakota State University. She has gained experience from veterinary internship, her own herd, and numerous work experiences. Following graduation, Liane hopes to return to a rural midwest area and practice veterinary medicine. Future aspirations include becoming board certified in theriogenology and owning her own clinic.

Veterinary students in their third and fourth year of college are eligible to receive the scholarship. Recipients were selected based on their academic achievement, career goals, work experience, and their interest in veterinary medicine.

“Large animal medicine is critical to our food safety, as well as our national security.

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from Georgia, has had a number of career hats, working in medical and education fields, mostly in larger cities. But he always loved open country and farm life. As a youngster, he spent a summer on a farm. “I didn’t want to go back home,” he said. Now retired, he’s enjoying what he does as a Farm Rescue volunteer. “I get a lot of satisfaction helping people.”

That’s a common feeling among those volunteers. Another volunteer came from Minot where he works as a television newsman.

But Shaun Sipma grew up about a dozen miles from where he’s running a combine this week. A Bowman High School graduate, Shaun feels at home in the field.

But most of his volunteer service is provided using his professional experience covering and publicizing the work of Farm Rescue.

“I’m usually behind the scenes,” he explained. “Very rarely do I get the chance to spend an honest day’s labor in the field.”

The volunteers help wherever

Country Neighbors they can. Some of them have farm backgrounds, some do not. One of them commented, “Can you believe they actually let me operate this $300,000 combine? Shaun left at home a major disaster project of his own, to come to New England to help the Jorstads.

Shaun’s home was one of those in the Minot flood more than a year ago. With six feet of water on the first floor, and a basement full of foul waste, there certainly was enough work for him there. He hopes to have repairs complete so that he can move back into his house by the end of the year. So why is he here? “It’s the right thing to do,” he said simply.

“There’s an obligation. Give a helping hand when they need it the most, to help them get over the hump. Stop thinking about it, just do it.”

Dickinson area farmer Matt Biel was the first farmer helped

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RDO to harvest 1,000 acres of Jorstad’s wheat. “Farmers are used to being independent,” Rutledge commented. “They want to do it themselves. But Farm Rescue is there if they need help.”

Farm Rescue is there because of generous sponsors and donations, in addition to the all volunteer workers. To learn about the corporate sponsors, go to farmrescue.org. The list is impressive.

It includes a number of southwestern North Dakota businesses.

Also impressive in the spirit of wanting to help, is the list of friends and neighbors of the Jorstads, that stepped up to make this time easier for them.

Meals were provided, not only for the Farm Rescue crew, but also for Jorstad’s own crew of workers, by The Herald, Barb Farber, Tara Bieber, The New England Lions Club, Donna Rustan-Stang, Leah Rustan, Lavonne Stang, Susan Peterson, Lavon Reindel, Arlys Schmidt, and Jodi Olsonawski.

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Farm Rescueʼs new semi-trailer, hauled itʼs first load of wheat from Jorstadʼs field to the elevator in Scranton. The wheat weighed 62 pounds per bushel, and tested 16.1% protein.

Marvin’s brother Ray, here on “This is a crisis. It’s fortunate that vacation, extended his stay an- they’re here, to give Marvin some other couple weeks, or longer if peace of mind.This took a big needed. Rounding out Marvin’s load off his shoulders. It’s a good crew, are Russell Wolf, Gary crop, and I’m sure he felt, ‘Now Stang, and Bob Yarchan. “Farm what’? Farm Rescue really did Rescue is a blessing,” Wolf said. come to the rescue.”

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Yesterday’s Farmers: Threshing Bee

Continued from Page 11 All six finalists were awarded beef certificates from the North Dakota Beef Commission, and a gift bag of various North Dakota products from other sponsors.

According to David Borlaug, founder of Farm & Ranch Guide and master of ceremonies at the luncheon event, judges had a particularly difficult time choosing a winner.

Judges included Lynette Thompson, Country Woman of the Year 2011; Ann Denholm, director of communications, North Dakota Farmers Union; Wade Moser, past executive vice president of the North Dakota Stockmen's Association; Marcia McMullen, NDSU professor and Extension plant pathologist; and Jon Hare, territory sales representative, Sheyenne Tooling and Mfg. Each finalist had their own unique stories of accomplishment, as well as being leaders in their communities, working alongside their husbands on the farm/ranch, being strong wives and mothers and having a love of agriculture.

“Each of you is very special,” said Borlaug, who helped initiate the Country Woman of the Year program back in 1994.

During the luncheon program, Lenette Momerak, aka “Mrs. Giggles,” was the featured speaker, and kept the audience laughing and smiling. While Momerak has endured some 28 surgeries, she has learned to turn adversity into laughter. She brought along kids’ toys such as finger puppets, bubble wrap and balloons, and entertained the crowd with singing, music and fun.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring spoke to the crowd, saying, “Women play a large role in agriculture and in our bright future.”

He said in 2002, there were 850,000 women in agriculture, and by 2007, that number had grown to 1 million. Betsy Dalrymple, the first Lady of North Dakota, said she was “so pleased to be here today.

There is no job more deserving of being honored than that of country women.”

Heidi Heitkamp, a former speaker at a past Farm & Ranch Guide Country Woman of the Year program, said the luncheon was a great way to honor the dedication of country women and what they bring to agriculture.

“They take the risk right along with their husbands,” she said.

U.S. Sen. John Hoeven congratulated the finalists and talked about how important country women are to their families and their operations.

Lynette Thompson, last year’s Country Woman of the Year, congratulated the finalists and said, “All the finalists are very deserving and all country women are winners.”

Borlaug thanked the many sponsors during the Country Woman of the Year program.

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Fallon County ranchers and farmers survive an exceptionally dry year

By Karen Leibee Fallon County Times Because of drought in most of the country there is no doubt this summer has been a tough one. The drought in Fallon County, MT started in July of 2011 when the rainfall stopped.

Because of adequate moisture early in 2011, crops for the most part were good.

Hay was abundant and calves and yearlings weighed heavy. Texas and the southern states were in dire need of hay. Some of the abundant hay in the north was shipped over a thousand miles to the south for livestock there. Most producers in southeast Montana though, know not to sell down stockpiled hay which was the saving grace for the upcoming year.

Going into the fall of 2011 and winter of 2011-12, there was no moisture and no snowfall to speak of. After the old-fashioned winters of the last two years (2009-10 and 2010-11), both livestock and their owners enjoyed the mild winter, but there was a nagging concern about the lack of snow cover. Spring brought constant wind and little moisture, but enough to give the grass

Cold Stress

and crops a start.

Pastures greened up somewhat. Ranchers and farmers began to have hope. But it didn't last.

By mid June, temperatures were soaring.

The heat, coupled with very little moisture, pressed on. Waterholes started to stagnate and dry up. Where water wasn't good, it caused cattle to sicken and die. Those in the business of installing pipelines were kept very busy as calls kept coming for more water development as the heat wore on.

Water is of utmost importance to livestock.

Livestock producers had to make the agonizing decision to cull their herds in order to have enough range and water for those that remained. One bright spot was that the prices were good on the cattle being sold.

Farmers who planted their wheat in summer fallow had a decent yield, given the year; those double or triple cropping were not so fortunate. As with the cattle prices, wheat markets were good. Surprisingly, yearlings were as heavy as usual, in this year of no moisture. The protein in wheat was also surprisingly good. Higher protein wheat brings more money as do heavier

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The government would put out a crop report only to amend it the next week. Buyers and sellers of calves, especially, were not sure of what to do as far as pricing them. Corn prices have a direct effect on calves placed in feedlots and when the price is up and down weekly, it makes marketing calves very frustrating.

When the time came to put up hay, it was

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Some fields were better than others, depending on where they were located.

South of Baker, one farmer received an inch of rain, and a neighbor received three inches during the same storm. There was no rhyme or reason to the spotty moisture.

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Are wheat prices going to hold?

Duaine Marxen Hettinger County Extension Agent Mott, ND Are wheat prices going to hold? A favorite question out here in wheat country. The September usage report released two weeks ago had some favorable numbers for wheat producers.

U.S. wheat stocks measured 2.1 billion bushels for the first quarter of 2012-2013 marketing year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Sept. 1 Grain Stocks report released Sept. 28. This estimate was about eight percent lower than market expectations due in large part to unprecedented feed usage, says Lisa Elliott, SDSU Extension Commodity Marketing Field Specialist and Assistant Profes-

sor of Economics.

“This is equivalent to a total wheat disappearance of about 908 million bushels, which is a 27 percent increase in comparison to the first quarter of 2011,” Elliott said.

She adds that since the stocks report calculates disappearance without assuming any imports for the quarter, it could be reasoned that disappearance is underestimated.

Using the September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report marketing year projections, she says greater insight can be gained from the stocks reports.

By including estimated quarterly imports of 32.5 million bushels, or 25 percent of projected annual imports in the September WASDE report, total disappearance would be closer to 940 million bushels.

USDA allocates disappearance of wheat into four categories in their WASDE reports: food, seed, feed/residual, and exports.

She says a closer examination of the large first quarter disappearance points to.

“The disappearance of 940 million bushels in the first quarter is examined further by subtracting one known component of disappearance, first quarter exports (June through August 30th),” Elliott said.

First quarter exports were 251 million bushels, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service. With the annual projected exports of 1,200 million bushels, each quarter approximately 300 million bushels should be exported to stay on pace to the annual projection. First quarter exports were 49 million

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“Since first quarter exports are known, this leaves a disappearance of 689 million bushels to be allocated between food, seed, and feed/residual,” she said.

Food and seed usage has typically been fairly stable on a quarterly basis, averaging 237 million bushels in the first quarter for the last five years. This figure would be right on track with the September WASDE annual food and seed estimate, being almost a quarter of the estimate.

Using the food and seed usage estimate (237 million bushels) and subtracting that from the disappearance (689 million bushels) leaves 452 million bushels to be allocated to feed and residual. That estimate amounts to over twice the projected annual feed/residual use in the September WASDE report (220 million bushels).

Over the past 10 years, U.S. feed and residual usage has averaged 150 million bushels, and has not been over 300 million bushels since 2000.

Over the past ten years, the ending stocks to use ratio has averaged 28 percent. If food and residual usage were to remain near 452 million bushels for the remainder of the year, ending stocks to use may end near 20 percent.“Regardless, the Sept. 1 Grain Stocks report suggests that U.S. wheat supplies likely will be tighter this marketing year than anticipated, due to an unexpected rate of disappearance in the first quarter,” Elliott said.

As a result, she says prices may be supported until new crop wheat supplies are realized.

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Dry Year Continued from page 3 more and pastures were short.

Diversification is the name of the game in agriculture and Fallon County is no exception. The main crop is wheat and various types of hays, but sunflowers, canola, safflower, corn, peas and lentils are some other crops that are planted each year. As to be expected, some yields were better than others depending on where they were located.

Because of the high moisture content, some of the corn hasn't been harvested yet, so yields are unknown as of this writing.

Summer wind storms caused major damage. Though hail depleted some crops in Carter County, Fallon County was spared the great white reaper. Parts of Carter County received enough moisture that it remained green when other parts of Montana were dried up and brown.

Volunteer firefighters got a workout as there were many fires, both large and small,

throughout the entire area. Through it all, the hardy people of Fallon County and SE Montana prevailed.

Calves and yearlings have been or are being marketed, wheat is in the bin or sold, hay was harvested or purchased and life went on.

This fall has brought more moisture than last, which could be a sign of more to come.

Producers are looking forward to starting a new season, hopefully a better one as far as moisture is concerned. Those selling crops or cattle this year were fortunate the prices held up. Calves not contracted in the country are going to livestock markets and the owners have been pleased with prices there.

All in all, things could have been a lot better in this 'next year country', but they could have been a whole lot worse. This has been one for the record books.

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October 2012

Farmer/Rancher Ag Appreciation Banquet

By Eddie Hibbs III Bowman

MARLENE MRNAK

For 23 years, the Bowman Area Chamber of Commerce recognizes a local individual during its Farmer/Rancher Ag Appreciation Banquet.

Billed as a special tribute to the Bowman/Slope/Harding County area farmers and livestock producers, “The greatest people on earth.”

A year ago, Marlene Mrnak (pictured left) was awarded the

Outstanding Farmer/Rancher Award. Mrnak was caught completely off guard when she realized Ag Committee Chairman Ryan Brooks was talking about her when making the introduction of the 2011 winner.

“I was totally surprised,” Mrnak said. “I had no inclination.”

Mrnak grew up in the Scranton area and was the oldest of nine children. She graduated from Scranton High School and attended college in Iowa. She

and her husband, Jim, were married in 1953 and moved to her husband’s ranch south of Bowman, where she still resides today. They were married for 57 years until he passed in July of 2010. She has five children, 11 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

“She tells her sons that she will cook if she is at home, but she won’t stay at home to cook,” Brooks said of Mrnak a year ago.

“This simply means that you don’t mess with her bridge game.”

Mrnak has been involved with numerous organizations, including her volunteer work, such as the Bowman County Fair Board and the Four Seasons Education Association. She also supports Bowman County 4-H and purchases livestock every year at the livestock sale. She is also a member of the North Dakota Cattle Women and a past director of the American Hereford Women.

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Rural women conference draws more than 400

By JAMIE SPAINHOWER Record Editor

What began a decade ago with 10 women around a table has become a day of 450 women from three states coming together to spend a day celebrating simply being female.

Saturday was the 10th Rural Women in America Conference in Bowman, and more than 450 women ages a few months to over 90 participated in the workshops and listened to speakers. Day care was provided for more than 4 dozen future attendees.

And more than 100 bags of were put together by those present for the “Pay it Forward Project” to be delivered to different shelters.

Along with several workshops, there were two speakers at the conference.

Roxana Saberi, journalist and Fargo native, had been living and working in Iran for nearly six years when four men forced her from her Tehran home in January 2009.

“My mother is Japanese and my father is Iranian. All my life I wanted to be an overseas reporter,” said Saberi. After graduating from college – on scholarships mostly won in pageants beginning as Miss Fargo and going onto the Miss America.

She spent a year studying in England on Rotarian Scholarship and got her first reporting job – in Fargo.

Still wanting to be a foreign correspondent, and becoming more interested in her Iranian heritage, she followed her heart and went to Iran in 2003.

“Friends and family were concerned,” she said. “There was no American Embassy there, things were politically unsettled but I wanted to see for myself behind the images we were seeing on television.”

Saberi learned people are people no matter where you go – and while there were things in the American government the Iranians didn’t agree with, they liked the people.

“I talked to students at the anti-American rallies, and it was part of what they had to do for school,” she said.

She was welcomed into people’s homes as an honored guest. Even when they were very poor, she was given the best food, the best bed the most comfortable pace to sit.

When Saberi was there it was more open. Now not only are print and television journalism censored but “a lot of the internet is filtered. Google has been shut down, along with Gmail (which was opened back up so officials could get email.)”

Women’s rights are still a long way off in thing we wouldn’t think about. A man may have four permanent and unlimited temporary wives, while women may have only one.

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“Sometimes becoming a temporary wife, which can last a week or 99 years, is the only way they may have to survive,” she explained. Women may testify in court, however two women’s testimony equals that of one man.

As changes came and the restrictions on journalists became more intense, Saberi decided to stay in Iran and continue writing a book about the people of the country. She traveled around the country two years and visited with a wide variety of the natives of Iran to be able to have a broad picture of the country and those who lived there.

Until the morning when she was arrested.

“I was told I was talking to too many people, and I was a spy,” she said. Placed in a small cell in solitary confinement she was terrified.

“I realized no one knew where I was. I had a blanket and slept on the floor. The lights were never shut off,” she said.

Officials told her if she confessed to her “crimes” and agreed to spy for them, she would be released. Since she was accused of espionage she could be serving 10- 20 years, or given the death penalties.

“You truly have no idea what you would do in a situation like that until it happens,” she said.

Saberi made a false confession – planning to run when she got out of prison.

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“I felt awful, and realized my body may be free sometime but my mind would always be behind bars,” she said. So, she recanted her confession.

“They said they knew all along I wasn’t a spy.”

Once she was out of solitary, she learned from her cellmates.

“The power of attitude is a great thing,” she said. “There are things that happen that can’t be controlled, but attitude and how you respond to situations can be.”

She learned to find three things to be grateful for every day. And the power of the voice, even just one.

By now her family knew where she was, and were working to get her out of prison. Churches, schoolchildren, and people all around the country were making calls and sending letters to win her freedom. She went on a hunger strike, and found out later there were many that joined her.

“I was so humbled to find out all these people I didn’t even know were trying to help me. I wasn’t alone anymore,” she said.

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Dry soil may cause building problems Ellen Crawford NDSU Extension Service Water the soil around your foundation if the soil is pulling away from the basement walls.

The drought not only affects crops and plants. It also may be causing problems for your home.

“Sticking doors or windows and cracks in walls or ceilings may be indications that the building is shifting due to soil shrinkage,” says Ken Hellevang, North Dakota State University Extension Service agricultural engineer.

As clay or other fine-particle soils dry, they shrink, creating gaps around the basement wall. This space exposes more of the soil to airflow, which increases the amount of moisture removal. A gap along the wall, through time, may allow airflow that will dry the soil under the foundation. The foundation’s support is removed as the soil shrinks, which may stress the concrete enough to cause a crack to form.

This also will occur around concrete slabs if the support base is clay or other fine-particle soil that swells and shrinks with changes in moisture content, according to Hellevang.

The gap between the soil and basement wall also allows water from rain to run down the wall and may result in basement water intrusion.

To minimize these problems, Hellevang recommends maintaining a relatively constant moisture content in the soil around the house. Water the soil evenly around the entire foundation during extended dry periods if the soil is pulling away from the basement wall.

“Do not apply water directly into the gap because this may cause water intrusion into the basement,” he says. “In-

stead, apply water 1 to 2 feet away from the foundation edge. A soaker-type hose permits applying water to the soil without getting it on the house wall. Apply the water slowly with rest periods of several hours to permit the water to gradually soak into the soil to a depth of several feet.”

Sometimes people place plastic under rock next to the house as part of landscaping or to minimize water infiltration next to the house. This will prevent you from applying water next to the house. However, water added to the soil even 3 feet from the wall will migrate through the soil profile and wet the soil near the basement wall. It likely will not migrate enough to close the crack or gap near the surface, but it will wet the soil at greater depths and minimize the potential for soil shrinkage that may affect the structure.

“Do not fill the crack next to the basement wall with soil,” Hellevang says. “When the soil gets wet, it will expand, pushing on the basement wall, possibly with enough pressure to crack the wall.”

Even if cracks have appeared in walls or doors are sticking, you should apply water now to keep the soil from drying further and to rewet the soil to a normal level.

Because keeping the soil at a relatively constant moisture content is the goal, having a drainage system to remove excess moisture also is important. This includes making sure you have drainage pipe that’s encased in granular material along the footing and a drainage plane along the exterior of the basement wall.

You generally can use the size of the cracks in the basement walls to determine if you need to hire a contractor to repair the foundation or basement.

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Hellevang suggests you also look for changes in alignment by sighting along the length of the wall to see if it is straight. Alignment problems are more common with soil expansion, but they also can occur when the wall is not supported laterally due to the soil shrinking away from the basement. The amount of distortion in alignment can be used to determine the need for a contractor.

Cracks in the basement wall should be repaired to reduce the potential for water intrusion. You should wait to repair cracks in other walls and ceilings until the soil moisture returns to normal.

“Remember that if the crack occurred due to soil shrinkage, the soil will expand when it gets wet,” Hellevang says.

Problems with doors and windows binding may correct themselves when the soil expands as it gets wet.

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