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SAMAR FAY /wheat HI-LINEharvest FARM & RANCH On a hot August morning, a combine makes sweeps up and down an endless field of grain on Whatley Road southeast of Glasgow. As of the last week of August, the winter was 92 Onpercent a hot August morning, a combine makescrop sweeps and down an endless field of grain on Whatley Road southeast of Glasgow. As of the last week of August, the winter wheat harvest was 92 complete, and the spring wheat was up 38 percent cut. percent complete, and the spring wheat crop was 38 percent cut.

If the country doesn’t produce commodicontract with them. On the other hand, there economy.

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by Marubeni, “The return we see from the products we ties, they areare very concerned. of these iswhich Columbia owned by Marubeni,Ten of “The return we see from themore products we countries buying land in Some other countries; has aGrain, big presence in Montana. sell is realized economically signifiCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 countries are buying land facilities; in other countries; which has a big presence inare Montana.

Ten of sell is realized economically moreeconomic signifisome are buying export some are its 20 Montana elevators on the Hi-Line. cantly than other products.

The CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 some are buying export facilities; some are itsMarubeni 20 Montana elevators areGavilon, on the Hi-Line. than other products.

The economic farmers,” Raska said. “We’re concerned if investing in research. recently bought owner of cantly impact is tremendous of wheat and barley farmers,” concerned research.in Montana are owned Marubeni recently Gavilon, owner of a impact is tremendous of wheat barley there areRaska strikessaid. and “We’re blockages.

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Money from other fect are if trains can’t Otherwise, byMost companies that an interest in Japan, three union contractinaMontana. couple of EGT yearsnegotiated ago. Co- a sold triesout rolls into Montana.

Think howcounmany fect trains can’t move. Otherwise, it’s kind byFalcon companies union contract of years Cotries rolls intodollars Montana. of if arm’s distance.” said. that have an interest in Japan, lumbia Grainaiscouple operating with ago. replacement times those turnThink over, how frommany the of arm’s said. lumbia Grain is operating with replacement times those turnthe over, from The the buildFooddistance.” security is very significant for Japan Falcon The new EGT elevator in Kintyre Flats workers. farmer, thedollars elevator, railroad.

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Falcon emphasized the importance of ing of the the elevator, economythe from wheat The and buildbarley and for other and Asian countries with growing Nashua is owned of Japanese Falcon emphasized the importance of the ing the economy from wheat and barley population growing demand, Falcon said. east andofinternational firms,by anda pair the ILWU has a Montana’s export products for building is of huge.” population and growing demand, Falcon said. and international firms, and the ILWU has a Montana’s export products for building the is huge.”

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nion disputes with managenion disputes with management over contracts are ment over contracts are in not usually a big factor notfarmer’s usually profit a big factor in a Montana at harvest a time, Montana farmer’s profit at harvest but that could change this year. time,As butthethat couldriver change this year. golden of grain moves As the golden river of grain moves from fields to combines to elevators from to combines to elevators and fields westbound trains, longshoremen and westbound trains, longshoremen are in a bitter dispute with export terare in a owners bitter dispute with minal that thy sayexport could terslow minal owners that thy say could slow export shipments and depress prices. export depress prices.

At shipments left, trucksand laden with local grain At left, trucks laden with local grain line up at Farmers Elevator in Glasgow line up attheir Farmers Elevator in Glasgow to drop burden and head back to tothe drop their burden and head back to field for more. the field forFay more.

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It coast.� It what’s on the CONTINUEDCONTINUED FROM PAGEFROM 2 PAGE 2 their respect. their respect. wasn’t created the union, heunion, said. he said. wasn’tbycreated by the “Montana“Montana has a whole hasdifferent a whole atmosphere different atmosphere Grain industry Montana aren’t aren’t Grainofficials industryinofficials in Montana than on the coast,� said Richsaid Austin ofAustin ILWU of ILWU than on the coast,�

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ILWU grain negotiating committee. that they’re with exports,� said thatplugged they’reup plugged up with exports,� said “There is “There misinformation out there out thatthere that is misinformation Kim Falcon, director ofdirector the MonKimexecutive Falcon, executive of the Monportrays us as being adversely portrays uson as strike being and on strike and adversely tana Wheat and Barley Committee. “They are“They are tana Wheat and Barley Committee. affecting affecting farmers,�farmers,� said Scottsaid Mason ofMason Taco- of TacoScott full because harvest.� fullofbecause of harvest.� ma, Wash., president of ILWU of Local 23.Local “The 23. “The ma, Wash., president ILWU She said grain prices have beenhave down She said grain prices been down union is not on strike.

Westrike. were We locked out.� union is not on were locked out.� for quite afor while. go down a bigwith a big quiteThey a while.

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Lola Raska, executive owned companies are now dictating Ameri-to Ameriowned companies are now to dictating vice president of the Montana Graingrowers vice president of the Montana Graingrowers can workers wages andwages hours.� cantheir workers their and hours.�

Association. “We haven’t any effect on effect on Association. “Weseen haven’t seen any “We’re here now here because is a critical “We’re nowthis because this is a critical prices.� prices.� juncture,�juncture,�

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Wright, a Bozeman farmer who ships most of his grain by rail from an elevator in Belgrade, said Kaufmann explained that although the BNSF stays busy with the crude oil development and shipping coal, they recognize the major changes ongoing in the agriculture industry. “They feel they have the capacity to handle current grain production. There are now 21 grain shuttle stations in Montana, up from 13 just a few years ago, which is good news for our grain producers,� Wright said.

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Harvest looking good for yield, quality Illinois launches sustainable farming effort Tim Leeds tleeds@havredailynews.com With harvest wrapping up in the end of August, farmers who were able to avoid the bad weather seem to have taken advantage of the good.

Chris Herring, manager of ADM-CHS in Havre, said the grain coming into the elevator here was good for quality and yield.

“This is one of the better years I have seen for a while,” he said, adding that it looks like the grain crop did better overall than 2012, and that was a good year, also.

Hill County Extension Agent Nicole Gray said the producers to whom she has spoken also seem to have done fairly well.

“It sounds like people had a really good year,” she said.

That was if their crops were missed by the hailstorms that came through, she added.

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Farmers harvest wheat south of Havre near Laredo off of U.S. Highway 87.

Local producers were wrapping up most of the grain harvesting in northcentral Montana by the end of August, with many seeing fairly good yields in a year that looked to be dry before rain started falling in May.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois agriculture officials announced Aug. 27 a three-year pilot project aimed at encouraging farmers to plant environmentally friendly cover crops as part of an effort to boost sustainable farming around the state.

The project is slated to begin later t h i s ye a r w h e n 1 4 c o r n a n d s oy b e a n fields around the state will be seeded w i t h c ove r c r o p s. Ac c o r d i n g t o t h e Illinois Department of Agriculture, the

fields were selected because they are visible along interstates or state highways.

The idea is that cover crops reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff from farm fields, which in turn improves water and soil quality.

State officials said there also is evidence that cover crops may improve production.

They cite a federal study that surveyed Midwest farmers last year, showing 10 percent higher yields for corn and 12 percent

for fields where cover crops had been planted.

"The time is right for this initiative," Steve Chard, the head of land and water re s o u rc e s a t t h e a g r i c u l t u re d e p a r t ment, said in a statement. "New plant varieties and new production techniques h ave b e e n d i s c ove re d t h a t e l i m i n a t e

many of the problems that farmers who planted cover crops in the 1980s and 90s experienced."

The cover crops state officials will plant include types of grasses and legumes. Each plot will be accompanied by a sign directing people to a state website with more details.

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Aquifer: Pumping more water than is naturally recharging ■ Continued from page A1 Irrigators are pumping more water than is naturally recharging. The aquifer's natural recharge accounts for just 15 percent of the amount of water now being pumped out of it.

Once the water in the aquifer is gone, the study projects it will take between 500 and 1,300 years to refill. But it also outlined several scenarios whereby irrigators could cut back on pumping and possibly extend its usable life to 2110.

David R. Steward, a Kansas State University professor of civil engineering and co-author of the study, said researchers put forth those scenarios not to advocate any particular policy but to give people an understanding of what the implications could be for the present and the future of corn and cattle production in the region.

"The motivation for the study —what we really wrote the paper for — was the family farmer who wants to be able to pass his or her land on to their grandchildren and have their grandchildren have the same capacity, the same abilities for successful agriculture that they do," Steward said.

West-central Kansas has had the biggest depletions to date, but larger water s to re s i n s o u t h we s t a n d n o r t h we s t Kansas are forecast to have pumping c a p a c i t y l i m i ta t i o n s w i t h i n 2 0 ye a rs, g i v e n c u r r e n t t r e n d s, r e s e a r c h e r s wrote.

Jim Butler, chief of the geohydrology section of the Kansas Geological Survey, said he had not seen the four-year study, which was funded by the National Science Fo u n d a t i o n , t h e U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f Agriculture and Kansas State University's Rural Transportation Institute. But Butler said the findings were consistent in a general sense with past work his agency has done.

"Those clearly show business as usual is going to have a very significant impact on the aquifer," Butler said.

Both Steward and Butler lauded a promising pilot program enacted earlier this year in northwest Kansas' Sheridan County aimed at prolonging the life of the aquifer.

T h e N o r t h we s t Ka n s a s G ro u n d wa t e r Management District No. 4 instituted a mandatory water management program that limited pumping for the next five years. Irrigators who pump more face a

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The hail damage in Hill County has been spotty, with storms that wipe out much of the planted crops for some farmers missing their neighbors just a few miles away.

Local producers have said when the hail hits, it is heartbreaking, destroying what could have been best-ever plantings of wheat.

Other areas have been hit worse with hail, including in Blaine County, and with widespread damage caused by some storms in some regions.

A major thunderstorm blasted from Cascade into Chouteau and Teton counties in July, wiping out huge amounts of cropland in a single storm.

An Aug. 1 storm starting in southwestern Montana moved to the east as far as Billings, wiping out huge amounts of crops in Gallatin County. Crop damage estimates there were close to $50 million, leading to a disaster declaration for the storm damage.

Other storms also have caused widespread damage in parts of the state.

In Hill County, the hail damage was not as widespread, but where it hit, it hit hard.

The combination of rain and hail has helped yields with crops not hailed out, but also created problems in harvesting, with some producers saying that instead of water trucks to put out fires, they had tractors in fields to pull out combines when they got stuck in mud.

■ Continued on page 6 AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file A sprinkler sprays water Aug. 28, 2003, onto a hay field near Hoxie, Kan. Continued irrigation in western Kansas has led to declining water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer. suspension of their water use for two years and fines.

Ray Luhman, the district's assistant manager in Colby, said the agency is now looking to begin the process this autumn in Sherman County, another high-priority area.

"Everybody can say, 'Hey, we are running out of water, the aquifer is going dry,'" Butler said. "But it is another thing to actually try to do something about it."

——— Online: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America journal: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/ pnas.1220351110

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Grain blows in the breeze at the end of July. A much-wetter-than-normal year led to bountiful harvests for some north-central Montana producers, although other problems such as hail decimated crops in some fields.

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Harvest: Wet conditions slow producers ■ Continued from page A1 The wet conditions slowed down harvesting for many producers, but most had wrapped up or were expecting to wrap up t h e h a r ve s t by t h e l a s t we e ke n d i n August.

How the yield would come out was anyone’s guess just a few months ago, but the northern tier of north-central Montana, from about Liberty County and east through the northern part of the state was doing better than most areas even in April.

While much of the state was slipping into water deficits by then, this region, and farther east, had received much more moisture. Even in north-central Montana, however, by that time dry conditions in February and March were starting to reduce the moisture in streams and in the soil Then storms hit causing severe flooding, but also brought in incredible amounts of moisture.

Starting in mid-May and through the first week of June, the recording station at the Havre City-County Airport had received more than a half a foot of rain, with other areas such as in the Bear Paw Mountains receiving much more than that.

By the end of August, the Havre recording station had received more than 15 inches of precipitation for the year, some 4 inches

more than the amount normally received by the end of December.

While that led to other problems, including fighting fungus and diseases not often seen in this part of the state, as well as slowing down harvesting and creating problems and extra expenses earlier in the season, the moisture seems to have helped produce a good crop.

Herring said he estimates that the yields have been in the vicinity of 50- to 60-bushelsan-acre.

Other parts of the state had not done as well for precipitation, including in Silver Bow County, which was declared a drought disaster in July.

Fires also continued to rage due to the dry conditions in western, southwestern and south-central Montana, with firefighters hoping for cooler weather and precipitation to help with those disasters.

And the weather differences extended throughout this region of the United States.

By the end of August, dry weather was helping harvests in Minnesota and North Dakota and South Dakota, but hurting the quality.

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Farmers harvest wheat south of Havre near Laredo off of U.S. Highway 87.

AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, file The Arkansas River cuts through the irrigated fields Sept. 22, 1999, in western Kansas south of Garden City, Kan. Irrigation, above all other uses, places the biggest demand on the Ogallala aquifer in western Kansas. The river is about the only surface water in that part of the state.

ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. — If Kansas farmers keep irrigating crops at present levels, an estimated 69 percent of the water in the High Plains Aquifer will be depleted within 50 years, according to a study released Monday.

Although the High Plains Aquifer supplies 30 percent of the nation's irrigated groundwater and extends beneath parts of eight states in the Great Plains, this latest study focused on the Ogallala aquifer that lies underneath Kansas. The report by researchers at Kansas State University was published in the scientific journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences of the United States of America," or PNAS. The report noted that only 3 percent of its water had been tapped in 1960 — before farmers began putting in huge irrigation systems in western Kansas. An estimated 30 percent of the aquifer had been depleted by 2010, the study said, forecasting an additional 39 percent of the aquifer's water will be gone by 2060.

"Society has an opportunity now to make changes with tremendous implications for future sustainability and livability," the study concluded. "The time to act will soon be past."

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Harvest: Wet conditions slow producers ■ Continued from page A1 The wet conditions slowed down harvesting for many producers, but most had wrapped up or were expecting to wrap up t h e h a r ve s t by t h e l a s t we e ke n d i n August.

How the yield would come out was anyone’s guess just a few months ago, but the northern tier of north-central Montana, from about Liberty County and east through the northern part of the state was doing better than most areas even in April.

While much of the state was slipping into water deficits by then, this region, and farther east, had received much more moisture. Even in north-central Montana, however, by that time dry conditions in February and March were starting to reduce the moisture in streams and in the soil Then storms hit causing severe flooding, but also brought in incredible amounts of moisture.

Starting in mid-May and through the first week of June, the recording station at the Havre City-County Airport had received more than a half a foot of rain, with other areas such as in the Bear Paw Mountains receiving much more than that.

By the end of August, the Havre recording station had received more than 15 inches of precipitation for the year, some 4 inches

more than the amount normally received by the end of December.

While that led to other problems, including fighting fungus and diseases not often seen in this part of the state, as well as slowing down harvesting and creating problems and extra expenses earlier in the season, the moisture seems to have helped produce a good crop.

Herring said he estimates that the yields have been in the vicinity of 50- to 60-bushelsan-acre.

Other parts of the state had not done as well for precipitation, including in Silver Bow County, which was declared a drought disaster in July.

Fires also continued to rage due to the dry conditions in western, southwestern and south-central Montana, with firefighters hoping for cooler weather and precipitation to help with those disasters.

And the weather differences extended throughout this region of the United States.

By the end of August, dry weather was helping harvests in Minnesota and North Dakota and South Dakota, but hurting the quality.

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Farmers harvest wheat south of Havre near Laredo off of U.S. Highway 87.

AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, file The Arkansas River cuts through the irrigated fields Sept. 22, 1999, in western Kansas south of Garden City, Kan. Irrigation, above all other uses, places the biggest demand on the Ogallala aquifer in western Kansas. The river is about the only surface water in that part of the state.

ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. — If Kansas farmers keep irrigating crops at present levels, an estimated 69 percent of the water in the High Plains Aquifer will be depleted within 50 years, according to a study released Monday.

Although the High Plains Aquifer supplies 30 percent of the nation's irrigated groundwater and extends beneath parts of eight states in the Great Plains, this latest study focused on the Ogallala aquifer that lies underneath Kansas. The report by researchers at Kansas State University was published in the scientific journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences of the United States of America," or PNAS. The report noted that only 3 percent of its water had been tapped in 1960 — before farmers began putting in huge irrigation systems in western Kansas. An estimated 30 percent of the aquifer had been depleted by 2010, the study said, forecasting an additional 39 percent of the aquifer's water will be gone by 2060.

"Society has an opportunity now to make changes with tremendous implications for future sustainability and livability," the study concluded. "The time to act will soon be past."

■ Continued on page 8

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Aquifer: Pumping more water than is naturally recharging ■ Continued from page A1 Irrigators are pumping more water than is naturally recharging. The aquifer's natural recharge accounts for just 15 percent of the amount of water now being pumped out of it.

Once the water in the aquifer is gone, the study projects it will take between 500 and 1,300 years to refill. But it also outlined several scenarios whereby irrigators could cut back on pumping and possibly extend its usable life to 2110.

David R. Steward, a Kansas State University professor of civil engineering and co-author of the study, said researchers put forth those scenarios not to advocate any particular policy but to give people an understanding of what the implications could be for the present and the future of corn and cattle production in the region.

"The motivation for the study —what we really wrote the paper for — was the family farmer who wants to be able to pass his or her land on to their grandchildren and have their grandchildren have the same capacity, the same abilities for successful agriculture that they do," Steward said.

West-central Kansas has had the biggest depletions to date, but larger water s to re s i n s o u t h we s t a n d n o r t h we s t Kansas are forecast to have pumping c a p a c i t y l i m i ta t i o n s w i t h i n 2 0 ye a rs, g i v e n c u r r e n t t r e n d s, r e s e a r c h e r s wrote.

Jim Butler, chief of the geohydrology section of the Kansas Geological Survey, said he had not seen the four-year study, which was funded by the National Science Fo u n d a t i o n , t h e U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f Agriculture and Kansas State University's Rural Transportation Institute. But Butler said the findings were consistent in a general sense with past work his agency has done.

"Those clearly show business as usual is going to have a very significant impact on the aquifer," Butler said.

Both Steward and Butler lauded a promising pilot program enacted earlier this year in northwest Kansas' Sheridan County aimed at prolonging the life of the aquifer.

T h e N o r t h we s t Ka n s a s G ro u n d wa t e r Management District No. 4 instituted a mandatory water management program that limited pumping for the next five years. Irrigators who pump more face a

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The hail damage in Hill County has been spotty, with storms that wipe out much of the planted crops for some farmers missing their neighbors just a few miles away.

Local producers have said when the hail hits, it is heartbreaking, destroying what could have been best-ever plantings of wheat.

Other areas have been hit worse with hail, including in Blaine County, and with widespread damage caused by some storms in some regions.

A major thunderstorm blasted from Cascade into Chouteau and Teton counties in July, wiping out huge amounts of cropland in a single storm.

An Aug. 1 storm starting in southwestern Montana moved to the east as far as Billings, wiping out huge amounts of crops in Gallatin County. Crop damage estimates there were close to $50 million, leading to a disaster declaration for the storm damage.

Other storms also have caused widespread damage in parts of the state.

In Hill County, the hail damage was not as widespread, but where it hit, it hit hard.

The combination of rain and hail has helped yields with crops not hailed out, but also created problems in harvesting, with some producers saying that instead of water trucks to put out fires, they had tractors in fields to pull out combines when they got stuck in mud.

■ Continued on page 6 AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file A sprinkler sprays water Aug. 28, 2003, onto a hay field near Hoxie, Kan. Continued irrigation in western Kansas has led to declining water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer. suspension of their water use for two years and fines.

Ray Luhman, the district's assistant manager in Colby, said the agency is now looking to begin the process this autumn in Sherman County, another high-priority area.

"Everybody can say, 'Hey, we are running out of water, the aquifer is going dry,'" Butler said. "But it is another thing to actually try to do something about it."

——— Online: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America journal: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/ pnas.1220351110

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Grain blows in the breeze at the end of July. A much-wetter-than-normal year led to bountiful harvests for some north-central Montana producers, although other problems such as hail decimated crops in some fields.

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Harvest looking good for yield, quality Illinois launches sustainable farming effort Tim Leeds tleeds@havredailynews.com With harvest wrapping up in the end of August, farmers who were able to avoid the bad weather seem to have taken advantage of the good.

Chris Herring, manager of ADM-CHS in Havre, said the grain coming into the elevator here was good for quality and yield.

“This is one of the better years I have seen for a while,” he said, adding that it looks like the grain crop did better overall than 2012, and that was a good year, also.

Hill County Extension Agent Nicole Gray said the producers to whom she has spoken also seem to have done fairly well.

“It sounds like people had a really good year,” she said.

That was if their crops were missed by the hailstorms that came through, she added.

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Farmers harvest wheat south of Havre near Laredo off of U.S. Highway 87.

Local producers were wrapping up most of the grain harvesting in northcentral Montana by the end of August, with many seeing fairly good yields in a year that looked to be dry before rain started falling in May.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois agriculture officials announced Aug. 27 a three-year pilot project aimed at encouraging farmers to plant environmentally friendly cover crops as part of an effort to boost sustainable farming around the state.

The project is slated to begin later t h i s ye a r w h e n 1 4 c o r n a n d s oy b e a n fields around the state will be seeded w i t h c ove r c r o p s. Ac c o r d i n g t o t h e Illinois Department of Agriculture, the

fields were selected because they are visible along interstates or state highways.

The idea is that cover crops reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff from farm fields, which in turn improves water and soil quality.

State officials said there also is evidence that cover crops may improve production.

They cite a federal study that surveyed Midwest farmers last year, showing 10 percent higher yields for corn and 12 percent

for fields where cover crops had been planted.

"The time is right for this initiative," Steve Chard, the head of land and water re s o u rc e s a t t h e a g r i c u l t u re d e p a r t ment, said in a statement. "New plant varieties and new production techniques h ave b e e n d i s c ove re d t h a t e l i m i n a t e

many of the problems that farmers who planted cover crops in the 1980s and 90s experienced."

The cover crops state officials will plant include types of grasses and legumes. Each plot will be accompanied by a sign directing people to a state website with more details.

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FOR HI-LINE FARM & RANCH Montana Farm Bureau Vice President Bruce Wright recently attended the annual BNSF barbeque and listening session in Fort Benton. BNSF established the event five years ago to talk directly with farmer customers about the general economy, agricultural markets and rail transportation. Kevin Kaufman, BNSF vice president for Agricultural Commodities, led the discussion with a presentation outlining rail industry trends. “It was interesting to hear Kevin Kaufman talk to the group about the railroad’s challenges and opportunities in 2013,� noted Wright. “He explained that while overall carloads remain level and well below the 2006 peak, BNSF is experiencing new traffic patterns with the growing need for shipping crude oil and soft agricultural and coal traffic due to drought conditions and low natural gas prices.� “Growth in crude shipments from the booming Bakken devel-

opment is driving much of the investment on the BNSF’s northern corridor (including major work east of Glasgow). This is good for ag shippers who share rail lines to the Pacific Northwest,� noted Don Karls, BNSF ag ombudsman for Montana. “But like highway construction, it impacts traffic. We expect short-term challenges that come with track improvements so we ask our customers to prepare.�

Wright, a Bozeman farmer who ships most of his grain by rail from an elevator in Belgrade, said Kaufmann explained that although the BNSF stays busy with the crude oil development and shipping coal, they recognize the major changes ongoing in the agriculture industry. “They feel they have the capacity to handle current grain production. There are now 21 grain shuttle stations in Montana, up from 13 just a few years ago, which is good news for our grain producers,� Wright said.

Wright feels farmer concerns

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SAMAR FAY / HI-LINE FARM & RANCH

SAMAR FAY /wheat HI-LINEharvest FARM & RANCH On a hot August morning, a combine makes sweeps up and down an endless field of grain on Whatley Road southeast of Glasgow. As of the last week of August, the winter was 92 Onpercent a hot August morning, a combine makescrop sweeps and down an endless field of grain on Whatley Road southeast of Glasgow. As of the last week of August, the winter wheat harvest was 92 complete, and the spring wheat was up 38 percent cut. percent complete, and the spring wheat crop was 38 percent cut.

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Ten of sell is realized economically moreeconomic signifisome are buying export some are its 20 Montana elevators on the Hi-Line. cantly than other products.

The CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 some are buying export facilities; some are itsMarubeni 20 Montana elevators areGavilon, on the Hi-Line. than other products.

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nion disputes with managenion disputes with management over contracts are ment over contracts are in not usually a big factor notfarmer’s usually profit a big factor in a Montana at harvest a time, Montana farmer’s profit at harvest but that could change this year. time,As butthethat couldriver change this year. golden of grain moves As the golden river of grain moves from fields to combines to elevators from to combines to elevators and fields westbound trains, longshoremen and westbound trains, longshoremen are in a bitter dispute with export terare in a owners bitter dispute with minal that thy sayexport could terslow minal owners that thy say could slow export shipments and depress prices. export depress prices.

At shipments left, trucksand laden with local grain At left, trucks laden with local grain line up at Farmers Elevator in Glasgow line up attheir Farmers Elevator in Glasgow to drop burden and head back to tothe drop their burden and head back to field for more. the field forFay more.

Samar reports on Page 2.

Samar Fay reports on Page 2.