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RURAL SPRING 2016 EDITION

‘ WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER’ Deer Creek family grows dairy operation

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Andrew and Chelsa Golberg, with their children Ellie and Hank, enjoy farm life and running a dairy.

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‘We’re in this together’ Deer Creek family grows dairy operation ANNA ERICKSON aerickson@wadenapj.com The Golberg family has learned to embrace dairy farming through its ups and downs, and now enjoy showing their children how to care for animals.

“I had always wanted to be a dairy farmer,” Andrew Golberg said.

“When I was a kid I was obsessed with cows, and I just kept at it.”

Andrew and Chelsa Golberg

met at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and knew early in their relationship that they would be operating a dairy farm together.

After graduation, they moved to Deer Creek and started Golbergs Lakeview Dairy.

They now have two children Ellie, 5, and Hank, 3.

Dairy farming is very diverse and different every day, Andrew said: “It’s very challenging and I think that’s what I like about it most.”

When the Golbergs started out, they had about 50 cows, which they bought during their last year of college in 2005. They started renting at Andrews’ parents’ farm and transitioned a 45cow tiestall barn to a swing parlor.

Andrew didn’t grow up on a dairy farm, however. His parents were crop and beef farmers.

“It’s been a learn-as-we-go type of operation,” Andrew said.

Chelsa grew up in a small town

in Wisconsin, so she’s familiar with rural living, but she didn’t grow up on a farm, either. She has since learned everything that goes on at a dairy.

“We’re in this together. That’s how we make this work,” she said.

Chelsa is a middle school math teacher for Wadena-Deer Creek School, but she’s a big part of the dairy operation and helps with the business side of the venture.

When they started the dairy operation, Andrew was doing most of the hands-on work, but now that the operation has grown he oversees and focuses on the big picture, stepping in where needed.

It hasn’t always been easy.

In 2009, milk prices were horrible and the couple struggled to make it, with the help of Andrew’s parents.

“I don’t know what we would

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have done without them at that point,” Andrew said.

Farming is difficult for young people, they acknowledged.

“When our friends were buying houses, we were figuring out how to buy cows, build on to the dairy,” Chelsa said.

A lot of people don’t realize what goes into a dairy operation and the dedication it takes, they said.

“We milk three times a day so it’s a continuous operation,” Andrew said.

They have four full-time employees and a few parttime high school kids who help on weekends or during

the summer.

Cow comfort is important to the Golbergs; they have sand in the stalls so cows are able to lay on a comfortable surface. They have made additions to their facility and a recent addition was completed in December.

Now that their children are 5 and 3 years old, the Golbergs say they have been showing them more of the operation.

“It’s really fun. Ellie (5) is interested in what I’m doing and curious about the animals,” Andrew said.

Running a dairy operation is a 24-hour-a-day job and that can be tough sometimes.

“ It’s very challenging and I think that’s what I like about it most.”Andrew Golberg

The Golbergs milk about 200 cows at their dairy operation.

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Chelsa said they haven’t been on any vacations since starting the dairy, but that’s the hope someday.

“We’re still building the operation and someday we’ll be in a position to have more freedom,” Andrew said.

Until then, the couple will continue to work hard and teach their children what they do and how they care for animals.

“It’s so important to show them that it’s not all about them but taking care of something else,” Andrew said.

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A decent fall and mild winter, which at press time appeared to be transitioning into an early spring, could mean good news for local farmers anxious to get on with the work of planting crops, say an area meteorologist and local agricultural consultant.

Last year’s decent fall gave farmers a jump on spring field work and sparse snow this winter will allow farmers to get into their fields as early as the end of March, ac-

cording to Dave Kellenbenz, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, N.D. “Once the frost comes out of the ground and it dries, they will be anxious to get going,” he said. “With the fairly dry fall, farmers should get into the fields a little earlier, unless we get a storm that dumps several inches of snow. That could create a problem.”

He said there should be no concern the fall was too dry, and if April showers fall at the right time, providing good soaking

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And with fields already prepped, farmers are in good shape heading into spring, said Joe Doll, owner of J and L Nutritional in Perham.

“A lot of the frost is up,” he said, “and if the weather holds, oats and wheat could be planted as early as the end of the month.”

An inch or so of rain in the next couple of weeks would provide good subsoil moisture, an advantage for early plantings.

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The trimester-long research projects earned one student, Perham High School senior Jenna Wegscheid, a spot in the national science competition after her pre-

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Ashley Zitzow, also a senior, advanced to the Minnesota State Science Fair with her project about the impact of triclosan, an antibacterial agent commonly found in soaps, on aquatic organisms.

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She checked the plants at the same time every day, to ensure consistency in the moisture conditions of the plants and even checked and recorded her data on the weekends.

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Jenna chose her topic because she loves plants, according to her fellow scientist, Ashley.

“And I wanted to see if we could incorporate plant communication into farming,” Jenna said. “It’s not such a big deal here in Minnesota, with all its lakes, but in other areas that experience dryness, it could be very important. Maybe in the future, farmers may not have to rely as much on the weather to grow food.”

Based on her research, Jenna said she found no statistical information that genetically-modified plants communicated any less efficiently.

Triclosan’s impact Ashley found that triclosan, an antibacterial and antifungal ingredient in many of the soaps people use, has a negative impact on simple aquatic organisms, including water fleas, protozoans and zoo plankton, she said.

Because of the water sources found in the Perham area, it’s important to understand the impact of triclosan, she said.

“In 2017, Minnesota is banning certain brands that use this chemical, found in foaming hand soaps and face washes, and even in some toothpastes,” Ashley said.

To test the impact of triclosan, she diluted the chemical with differing concentrations of water, added it to a petri dish and introduced the organisms.

“I learned that any concentration of the chemical affected all the organisms,” she said. “And in higher conDebbie Irmen/Forum News Service centrations, it caused death Perham High School senior Jenna Wegscheid earned a spot in the national science competition with her project on plant communication. almost immediately.”

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A $10,000 Broadband Innovation Grant from the Blandin Foundation will help connect Minnesota State Community and Technical College students and residents of west central Minnesota with the latest in technology innovations.

The grant, part of the Blandin Foundation’s Community Broadband Program, will support the planned “What the Tech Expo,” with area business and industry invited to display and demonstrate technology at M State’s Wadena Campus.

The expo, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, April 8, will be a collaboration with local businesses and area health organizations, along with broadband and energy service providers. Grant funding will allow students in M State’s Network Administration and Security program to build and support a network connecting a variety of Internet-enabled devices and introduce community members to tech-

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A lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friendly Rider Transit will provide rides to and from the event, which will have exhibitors from Wadena, Todd and Crow Wing counties.

“Attendees will have the opportunity to talk with experts and gain hands-on experience in how technology can be used to help improve their daily lives, making them more likely to adopt the technologies,” said Janet Johnson, an instructor in M State’s Network Administration and Security program.

She anticipates that the expo may also spark interest in information technology careers.

“Rural Minnesota has struggled with finding sufficient employees in the IT industry,” Johnson said. “This event and equipment will help not only promote use of the latest technologies, but also promote IT careers and provide the latest equipment to a program that is helping address this workforce shortage.”

“The expo includes ‘how to’ and ‘what not to do’ training on technologies designed to improve health, home and business,” according to the Blandin grant application submitted by the Wadena Area College Foundation.

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A pioneer cabin along the Wheat Trail.

The ‘Wheat Trail’ of Wadena County LINA BELAR For Rural Living

The first farmers to homestead in the county of Wadena recorded their claims in 1872 and 1873.

Soon, word reached the early settlers about the rich Shell Prairies to the north,

and by 1881 it was estimated that as many as 800 families were homesteading on the prairies.

The Sloan family was one of them.

Like a number of other settlers, they had been lured by the stories of the prairies, where the fertile soil was ready for farming without having to grub out the stumps left by the loggers.

Access to the Shell Prairies in the later part of the 1870s and early 1880s was by a roughly cut road known as the “Wheat Trail.” It connected the growing town of Verndale with the prairies, where, true to expectations, large quantities of wheat were being raised.

Most of the wheat produced on the Shell prairies was brought over the

Wheat Trail to the Verndale elevator.

Mr. Sloan claimed to have hauled, with two sleds, 2,000 bushels of wheat during one winter following the prairies’ biggest crop, loading it alone and bringing it to Verndale, where unloading could be done by day or night. From the elevator at Verndale, the Northern Pacific Railway took the wheat to market.

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At the time, Verndale was a thriving village and busy trading center situated along the recently built Northern Pacific Railroad. The first settlers began arriving in Verndale in 1876 and within a few years the population had grown to more than 700 citizens.

Early on, Verndale realized the advantage of being on the route to the Shell Prairies.

In1881, Verndale incorporated the Shell City and Northern Railroad company. The plan was to build, equip and operate a railroad from Verndale to Shell City and on to the Canadian border. Although the railroad was never built, Verndale continued to grow in importance as a wheat trading center for Wadena County.

As the wheat farms flourished on the Shell Prairies, Nimrod also grew in prominence as a stopping place for grain haulers along the Wheat Trail. Caravans consisting of up to 30 sleighs carried the wheat south to Verndale. The trip was roughly 30 miles, with the first leg of the trip reaching Nimrod, where a half-way house was run

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The house was a busy place during fall and winter, when the wheat was being hauled to the market. Graba’s stable was built of logs and was 100 feet long, with stalls on both sides of the middle alley in order to accommodate the farmers’ teams.

The house was a large hotel-like building with sleeping quarters for the men. Here, the haulers would stay overnight and then make the rest of the journey the next day.

Graba had a rule that whenever the stable was full and more loaded southbound teams came in, some of the homebound teams must get out and journey on. During the winter months when hauling was at its peak, it was not uncommon for wheat haulers who were staying at Graba’s half-way house on their return trip to be rousted out of bed in the middle of the night and forced to continue their journey home in order to make room for haulers who were coming down the trail to Verndale with full loads.

At the northern end of the Wheat Trail was a town called Shell City. It was located about a half mile from Shell Prairie No. 1 on the Shell River, named because of the large amount of clams present there.

During the spring and summer of 1879, a man named William Kindred built a log structure and cleared 10 acres of land to cultivate. Later that year, other settlers arrived near Kindred’s homestead and constructed homes for their families. By January of 1880, a post office was established and named Kindred. The wheat that came down the trail from the prairies to Verndale helped

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This bridge by Shell City was used by the Wheat Trail.

Romance on the Prairie

(as related by Sloan to Sidney Sanford in 1947) “A young man named Sanderson came to the prairies in 1878 and settled on Shell Prairie No. 3, located where the town of Osage now stands. In one of the newly settled families on the prairie he became acquainted with a girl he desired to have as his wife. The young lady agreed to his proposition

and he started out for Verndale to get a minister.

Verndale was a distance of 45 miles as the crow flies, and the Wheat Trail had not yet been blazed. His wanderings took him eastward as far as the banks of the Crow Wing River. He then followed the river a good share of the way.

Upon arriving in Verndale, he found a minister willing to return with him to the land of the north and perform the sacred duty. They obtained provisions and started out, endeavoring to go as directly as possible with the aid of the compass. It took them several days to make their way

back, with the young Sanderson carrying the minister across the streams on his back. They finally returned successfully.”

Although the original tale ends here, it’s nice to assume that after all that effort, the young couple were married and ‘lived happily ever after.’

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make Kindred, later called Shell City, the gateway to the prairies.

The wheat harvests which were so abundant on these newly cultivated lands were the source of fierce competition between the grain elevator operators at Verndale and Wadena as each village tried to corner the market for its own.

In 1879, the citizens of Wadena constructed a road from their village to connect with the Wheat Trail. However, this did not prevent Verndale from receiving the majority of the wheat.

In 1886, the merchants of Wadena, at the urging of merchants from Park Rapids, decided to construct a road straight north to Park Rapids, thus bypassing the Wheat Trail. Construction of the road between Wadena and Park Rapids was completed in 1888. The new road was much shorter and better constructed than the earlier Wheat Trail, and it greatly shortened the distance to market.

The second contributing factor to the end of the Wheat Trail was the construction of the Wadena-Park Rapids railroad in 1891. The linking up of Wadena and Park Rapids by a rail line that provided passenger and freight service for the farmers of the Shell Prairies meant the end of the Wheat Trail and Shell City.

Unfortunately, the farmers’ prosperity did not last, as they did not un-

derstand the need to maintain soil fertility. Over the years, the rich darkness of the virgin prairie soil was changed to a light color by the continuous wheat cropping. Also, wheat prices became poorer after a few years and did not recover until after the prairie wheat was mostly discontinued.

With the end of the Wheat Trail as a major transportation route, Shell City began to wane. By the mid-20th century, only the cellar holes remained to mark the spot.

One could pass by the site of Shell City today and never know that a thriving village once stood on the north bank of the Shell River. But in the 1880s, traveling up its main street, one would have seen hotels, a hardware store, a stage line office and numerous residences. The sounds of the blacksmith shop, saw mill and lumber yard would have resounded.

The town had perhaps 75 citizens and much traffic as cart after cart of wheat, grown in the bountiful Shell Prairies, passed through on their way down the Wheat Trail.

Lina Belar is the founder and retired director of the Friends of the History Museum of East Otter Tail County, and now works at the Wadena County Historical Society. Information for this article was taken from “The Wheat Trail,”

by Sidney Sanford, and “Silhouettes of Time,” by John Crandall.

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Map of Wheat Trail The Wheat Trail, blazed by the pioneers, went north from the Verndale elevator until it crossed the Otter Tail trail at a point 5 miles north and 3/4 of a mile east of Verndale. It forded the Leaf River at the site of the present Wing River town hall, where a man named Jarvis Howard operated a fur trading post.

It continued north and east to Nimrod, where a half-way house and stable had been established by a

man named Jake Graba. From there it continued northwesterly, passing along the east shore of Yeager Lake to the crossing place of the Shell River, where a town called Shell City once had its heyday.

From there it was only about a mile through the woods to the edge of the first prairie. The prairies were distinguished by name: Shell Prairie No. 1 (Hubbard Prairie); No. 2 (locality of Park Rapids); and No. 3 (locality of Osage and northwards)

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Leuthe said that to date, 30 counties which have their drainage maps and information in digital format have made the data available.

He said a number of counties still have all of their drainage system information in paper format only. It will take more time to convert it for the digital maps the state is producing. The DNR is creating tools that will allow officials in those counties to go online and mark the start and length of public ditches.

The department is producing what Leuthe termed “21st Century maps.’’ They will be available online and users can zoom in at the scale needed.

The maps will consist of two layers. One layer will show the waterways considered public waters and the other, the public ditches.

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Public ditches require a 16.5-foot buffer. The law also allows landowners to use “alternative water quality practices’’ in place of buffers. The state has not yet defined the practices that will be accepted, according to Leuthe.

“It’s important we produce the buffer protection map that landowners and local units of government can look at it and know which waters will require the buffers and not be confused to whether it’s the one on their property or not,’’ Leuthe said.

He cautioned that landowners and local government units will need to make in-the-field measurements to install buffers to the appropriate width requirements.

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“We’re busy trying to get the maps as accurate as possible but recognize things happen out there that will require corrections and improvements,’’ he said.

Landowners have until November 2017 to comply with the buffer requirements for public waters and until November 2018 for public ditches.

In response to questions on how the buffer law will be enforced, Leuthe had a simple answer: “The DNR’s role is to make the map.’’

He added that the state Board of Water and Soil Resources is working on developing guidelines to make possible a consistent approach in how local government units enforce the law.

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