Western Farm, Ranch and Dairy Magazine – Summer-Fall 2019

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Western Farm, Ranch & Dairy Magazine

Agriculture

President / CEO Michael Ritz

Western Farm, Ranch & Dairy

a Ritz Family Publication

Ubly Bean Knife and Ubly Peanut Digger Blades Give You the Advant-EDGE! ......................... 8 Northwest Liquid Transport, INC. ........................................................................................... 8 Stukenholtz Laboratory Inc. Celebrating 48 Years of Agricultural Testing ........................................................................... 10

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Executive V.P. Operations Robert Davis rdavis@ritzfamilypublishing.com

General Manager Brenda Stoner brenda@ritzfamilypublishing.com

Sunny D Mfg., Co. Inc – The Oregon Roadrunner ................................................................... 13 Walinga – Bulk Feed Bodies & Grain-Vacs ............................................................................. 14 C & R Supply, Inc. Birth of a Sprayer…the Family Expands ............................................................................... 16

Office Manager Adri Montgomery adri@ritzfamilypublishing.com

Sales Kevin Davis kevin@farmranchdairy.com

Livestock

Pat Drury

Ocean View Ranch Alpacas ................................................................................................... 20 Rio Hondo Livestock Supply ................................................................................................. 20 Beef up Your Profitability ....................................................................................................... 22 Frosty Berseem Clover: A Cold-Tolerant Cover Crop & Forage Option ......................................................................... 23

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Departments Marketplace...........................................................................................................................24 Advertiser Index .................................................................................................................... 25 Front cover photo courtesy of USDA NRCS.

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A New Way To Maintain Water Level.

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As long as water is moving, it will not freeze. Our Freeze Valve is infinitely adjustable from a full stream to a pinpoint stream or off for summer. It can be adjusted to deliver as little as 2 gallons in 3 hours. If your trough is of reasonable size, the additional water at night when few animals drink will not overflow the trough. The arm on our Weight Valves are hinged so it pushes the valve open when the water level goes down.

Because the freeze valve will deliver water at night (when no animals are drinking) the weight floats up, but will put no pressure on the valve. This is unlike a float valve, because any water added to the tank (and not drank by animals) will submerge the float and bend the float arm, potentially destroying the float valve.

“I saw these Weight Valves at the World Dairy Expo in 2011 and purchased four with freeze valves. They are the best new product that I have ever seen at a trade show. They have saved me many times over the cost of attending the show in repairs and replacement of float valves and dealing with frozen valves.

We buy a box of Weight valves with freeze valves at a time and replace the float valves when they fail. We have never purchased a replacement part for our weight valves . They work on such a simple principle and built so durable. The worst Job on a dairy is thawing frozen valves on the coldest mornings of the year and with Garry’s freeze valves we never have a frozen valve or pipe.”

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Some farmers prefer mounting water valves under water to keep animals from playing with them and also to prevent them from freezing. We have two options to mount our valves under water. First is an arm that goes up instead of down. We have these available for the three largest valves.

Call Brown Weight Valve to assist in selecting the proper valve for your application.

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Ubly Bean Knife and Ubly Peanut Digger Blades Give You the Advant-EDGE!

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undreds of hard edible bean farmers have been taking advantage of the Ubly bean knife for over sixty years.

Attention bean, seed and organic farmers While maintaining the highest standard of quality, Ubly bean knives are still the best way to cut the tap roots and get a higher quality bean while producing fluffier windrows, reducing labor, reducing stones and dirt in windrows, and aiding in your combine’s overall performance.

There has been some speculation about the acceptability of the direct harvest system due to the high losses of beans, therefore keep using the Ubly Bean Knife for the best possible cut and quality for your money. Do what hundreds have already done. Make Ubly Your Advant-EDGE. Peanut farmers rejoice!

Ubly Peanut Digger Blade Manufacturing, Inc., a subsidiary of Ubly Bean Knife Mfg., Inc., received a patent for the Ubly Lifting Fingers, stainless steel lifting fingers that are flat and curved upward to better guide peanuts up on to the top of the elevator during the digging process.

Used with their patented Ubly Digger blades, which have a thin, hard-faced edge to stay sharp and always cut the tap root, the lifting fingers and the smaller diameter Ubly 6-inch Bottom Elevator Idler Wheels raise the peanuts without turbulence and in a smooth, uniform ribbon to the top of the elevator.

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Northwest Liquid Transport, INC.

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WLT was founded in 1987 by Wayne Groen. From that time the company has steadily grown from an owner operator business to the company you see here today. From a single truck in Wayne’s parents’ backyard, to multiple trucks, equipment, and employees. It’s easy to say this company has expanded. A large part of NWLT’s success is due to our faithful customers and the hard work and dedication of our employees and managers. However, we believe that the success of the business ultimately comes from the Lord God himself.

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Stukenholtz Laboratory Inc.

Celebrating 48 Years of Agricultural Testing

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n 1970, there were no commercial soil and plant testing laboratories in Idaho. Farmers applied fertilizers based upon educated guesswork. Dr. Dale Stukenholtz and his wife Joyce saw an opportunity to build a business and started a soil and plant testing laboratory and field consulting service based in Twin Falls, Idaho. Dr. Stukenholtz had an unusually diverse background as an educator at the University of Nebraska, an agronomist in the fertilizer industry, and a farmer, and he saw a need for more modern fertilizer recommendations to produce greater yields at less cost. His clients were the growers, so he could make unbiased recommendations that maximized economic return to the farmer. After extensive field research, he developed these improved fertilizer recommendations that quickly became popular with growers and form the basis for nearly all fertilizer applications in the intermountain west area. Stukenholtz Laboratory clients include growers from all neighboring states and several foreign countries including Australia, Canada, Egypt, Russia, Mexico and New Zealand.

Stukenholtz Laboratory provides 1 to 2 day service, including picking up and delivery time, across Southern Idaho from St. Anthony and Grace to Parma and Homedale.

Results can be delivered, mailed, faxed, or pulled from the Laboratory’s webpage: www.stukenholtz.com. To improve their service, Joyce and Dale Stukenholtz expanded the laboratory 21 years ago, installed the latest in computerized instrumentation and quality control, and made it the most modern and well equipped agricultural laboratory in their market area.

Critical to the success of Idaho’s most efficient laboratory and largest field consulting firm has been its personnel. Dr. Stukenholtz has had a PhD in Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition since 1964 and his son and Laboratory Manager Paul has nearly completed his own. Consulting agronomists include

J.P. Kruckeberg of American Falls, a 39 year veteran of field consulting and the most successful single agronomist in the state, and Bart Kunz. The Laboratory and office staff are equally good.

Analysis room at Stukenholtz Laboratory Inc.

Stukenholtz Laboratory continues with research and improvement. In conjunction with the Idaho Crop Production Association and University of Idaho CFEP research project, Stukenholtz Laboratory has helped to ensure that fertilizer recommendations in Idaho are the most cost efficient possible and produce the maximum economic yield while protecting the environment. Stukenholtz Laboratory personnel have conducted field research on over 40 different products and continue to be the experts at “cutting edge� agricultural technology. As we end our first 47 years of business and begin our next, we would like to thank our current and former employees for their dedicated work and our customers and clients for their years of support. e

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A sand media filtration tank keeps well water free of debris on its way to miles of underground micro-irrigation tubing beneath the rows of tomato plants in Woodland, CA. Photo by Lance Cheung, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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Sunny D Mfg., Co. Inc – The Oregon Roadrunner

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he Oregon Roadrunner, manufactured by Sunny D Manufacturing Company, Inc., is the all purpose machine when it comes to loading and unloading blocks of hay, everything from a stack of bales in the field to a six-pack of 3x4 bales. What used to take several people hours to buck the hay, whether loading trucks, unloading trucks, or moving the hay from one truck to another, now takes one person just minutes to accomplish. There is no other machine that can match it.

Humble Beginnings In 1971, Art Davina – then a rancher in Bonanza Oregon – saw the need, designed and built the first Oregon Roadrunner.

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That machine is still being used today.

While struggling through the hard times, redesigning to incorporate new ideas and improving on old ones, and building a strong customer base one customer at a time, Art managed to build his back-yard business to a point where he was able to open his first shop. By 1985 the business was large enough that he began the process of incorporating it. Later, needing more space to meet customer demand, he bought a larger property, and moved the business to its current location in Klamath Falls.

When health problems forced Art to take a step back and de-stress his life, he wanted to find the perfect person to take the reins. Ed Majors took over as GM in 1998 and in 2003, began the process of buying the company from Art. Today, Ed officially owns it.

Sunny D Today From those humble beginnings in 1971 to the 21st century, Sunny D Manufacturing Company Inc. has grown to a business totaling 15 employees. Welders, fabricators, mechanics, a painter, and various support personnel create from bare metal the machine that called “The Oregon Roadrunner.” What used to be only available in white with your choice of stripe, a customer can now choose their color and design. For more information, call 1-541-884-2361, or write 4343 Highway 39, Klamath Falls, OR 97603. e

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Walinga

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rom concept, design and through production, Walinga meets the customer's needs at every step. Creating outstanding products that are innovative and durable, with some client's vehicles being passed from generation to generation.

Walinga is a leading North American manufacturer of transportation equipment and portable pneumatic conveying systems for grain, feed, seed... virtually any dry bulk material. Walinga is still a family owned and operated company. The total commitment to quality is not only our inheritance - it's our foundation for the future.

Walinga products represent the best in manufacturing excellence. Our inhouse engineering and design teams utilize the most current computer technology available. State of the art equipment, combined with over 60 years of experience, ensures that our customers receive unsurpassed quality.

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Comprehensive engineering capabilities allow us to offer sizes, capacities, features and options that are specifically job-matched according to individual requirements. The services of our Engineering Department are available to our customers to assist in the selection of the properly specified chassis. Every Walinga vehicle is designed and produced to best fulfill its designated function.

Custom-built aluminum feed bodies and trailers, pneumatic conveying systems, recycling trucks and bodies, aluminum and steel dump bodies... each built according to exact standards. Every stage of the manufacturing process from design to completion is performed

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Walinga Agri-Vac The only system you'll ever need.

Gives one-person total grain-handling capability! Do it all with the Walinga Agri-Vac. Fill or empty storage facility being used. The Walinga Agri-Vac puts an end to legs, augers, sweeps and shovels. Grain handling has never been simpler, safer or healthier.

Just couple the Agri-Vac to your tractor and drive into position. Lightweight vacuum/pressure hoses attach in seconds and flex easily. Suddenly even tight spots and awkward angles are no problem!

Bulk Feed Trailers and Bodies Walinga Inc. has been manufacturing bulk feed transportation equipment for more than 60 years. In this time we have become committed to an ongoing program of research and development.

In response to the increasingly diverse needs of our customers Walinga is and will continue to be on the forefront of technological evolution.

The options and features of the Walinga Bulk Feed Delivery Units are numerous. Walinga Bulk Feed Delivery Units can help you in your quest to increase production, performance, and efficiency. e

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C & R Supply, Inc.

Birth of a Sprayer…the Family Expands

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fter carefully listening to customers who were disappointed with the performance or lack of features in ATV sprayers available, C & R Supply set out to design a series, or family of sprayers to meet their needs.

The family began with the EZ ATV Sprayer which features a unique tank design that was created with input from customers and ATV manufacturers. Using this input, and keeping the operator in mind the EZ ATV Sprayer was designed for ease of operation, functional ability and safety. The design was a success! This unit has been in demand since 1998 and continues to hold a strong presence in the market today.

The EZ ATV Sprayer has a sleek design which brings the weight forward and more to a center of gravity for better machine balance. Allowing the legs of the tank to wrap around the fenders of the ATV gives the sprayers dual sumps maximum drainage and the ability to run on side hills without losing its prime.

The pump, strainer, and main

shut off are mounted underneath the tank in a protected cavity, which also serves as a dual slosh baffle. The top of the tank is designed with a fill catch area to prevent chemical from getting on the operator. The EZ Sprayer is fitted with a 4 gpm Shurflo Pump and a quality Tee-Jet trigger style handgun in the convenient control panel at your side. All brackets and boomless nozzle or boom accessories are attached to the tank for quick and easy mounting. The EZ ATV Sprayer has several different options and accessories to meet your needs.

As time went on customers began seeing a need in their operation for UTV’s. C & R Supply responded by expanding their family of sprayers. The UTV sprayer was born and it was named the C & R Slide In after its ability to be easily slid on and off the bed of the UTV as needed. The sprayer is mounted on a powder coated frame which allows the unit to be transferred as a single piece of equipment. This sprayer, like its elder sibling, was built with only the highest of quality components. The Slide In features a 60 gal tank, left and right electric controls with wiring harness, a Shurflo 4gm by pass pump, and Boominator nozzles which can spray a width of up to 30 feet. An 8 inch hand gun from Tee Jet with adjustable tip for hand spraying is also included. The Slide In sprayer has options and accessories available to meet the needs of your operation including a convenient retractable hose reel add on and additional boom options.

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C & R Supply, Inc. is a distributor and manufacturer of agricultural and roadside spray equipment located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For over 40 years, C & R Supply, Inc. has been a leader in the distribution and servicing of many quality products from Raven Industries, Spraying Systems, Banjo, and more. They also lead the way in designing and manufacturing new and advanced products as their customer needs change.

This family of quality sprayers began with the introduction of the C & R Foam Marker and Spot Sprayer which progressed to the units we are featuring here today. C & R is a provider of precision ag products such as GPS guidance systems, variable rate controllers, mapping, steering assist systems, and chemical injection units. C & R Supply prides themselves on having the knowledge and experience to continually advance their product line to keep up with ever changing technology in a way that helps producers maximize their output. e West/Southwest

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Ocean View Ocean View Ranch Alpacas Ranch Alpacas O cean View Ranch is a family owned and operated alpaca ranch serving the northern California area.

The ranch is located only forty five miles south of the San Francisco International Airport in the beautiful Santa Cruz coastal mountains.

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We welcome your inquiry into our award winning alpacas.

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io Hondo is owned and managed by Richard Brook.

Rio Hondo is Spanish for the “deep creek� running through the Brooks’ ranch situated in the Snake River Valley of southern Idaho, 4.5 miles west of Buhl, along Scenic Highway 30.

Richard Brooks has been in the ranching and farrier business for 35 years, having complete knowledge and expertise pertaining to the horse shoeing industry including distinctive brand name tools and supplies. They also include their son and daughter, Rick and Suryia in the daily operation of the business emphasizing friendly service and customer satisfaction.

Thorough knowledge and experience in cattle ranching prompted them to offer consumers Hi-Hog, “The Outstanding Brand� in farm and ranch livestock handling equipment. Rio Hondo is the only provider of Hi-Hog equipment in Idaho. An “onsite� equipment display offers consumers a “no obligation� demonstration with the opportunity to check out the high quality and ease of handling this exclusive equipment offers.

Rio Hondo would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for their support and patronage. We appreciate your business, and look forward to supplying your needs in the future. e 20 • Western Farm, Ranch and Dairy

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Beef up Your Profitability

By Kevin Stith, Credit Analyst Farm and Ranch Lending Division of First Financial Bank

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s producers, we like to use “Beef Month” to promote the taste and health advantages of beef over our competitor proteins (poultry and pork).

You’re likely to see ads on billboards, radio spots, ads in print media, and possibly a TV spot or two in some local markets. Cattlemen around the country will be cooking steaks and hamburgers at numerous events in an attempt to grab the attention of another customer or convince consumers to grab another package of burger or steak as grilling season begins. All these things are an attempt to drive up demand, sell our healthy and delicious product, and ultimately increase the profitability of everyone in the cattle business (you had to know with my title of Credit Analyst I was eventually going to “nerd up” this article and talk about finances!).

I would like to see all Cattlemen’s Associations put an emphasis on education and financial planning for producers during “Beef Month” (in conjunction with trying to promote our product). Without proper planning and management, will we be in the business several years from now to

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worry about promoting beef? Spring is a critical time for beef producers. The financial decisions you make now, will affect the whole year and whether you are profitable.

I know there are numerous things we’d all rather be doing than sitting at a desk staring at cash flow analysis. I do that every day and the phrase “cash flow analysis” made me snore just typing it! I was much happier yesterday weaning and tattooing the fall calves and moving a few early spring pairs to the first green pasture of the year. (I would also like to publically apologize to my Mom. Mom, I realize I am the one that misread calf 818 as 813 when you were recording weights. I am sorry we had to spend twenty minutes looking for bull calf 813 that didn’t exist. I also apologize for any mean words I said. You were right.)

But what decisions should we be making right now that are going to affect our cash flow and profitability for the upcoming year? We should be focusing on those fall calves we just weaned. Should we sell the ones we aren’t keeping for replacements now? Or should we run them on grass and try to capitalize on some additional gain and late summer markets? How many purebred bulls should we keep to market this fall? Is the cowherd expanding state wide and should I keep more bulls to sell? And should I run the fall cows that were open on grass to add weight or take them to the slaughter cow markets now? All these questions affect the profitability of the operation.

But we aren’t done there. What about those spring pairs?

Am I going to sell all those calves when I wean them in the fall? (Hint: looking at some fall predictions might help with this decision) Am I going to hold them over until the higher spring markets? And if so, I better get out of this office and start rolling more hay to get them through the winter!

And if you are running stocker cattle, you better really be sharpening the pencil! The fall weanlings are getting ready to hit the market. How many head do I need for the summer? How much are my feed inputs going to be? What do I expect to sell them for in the fall? Considering all that, what can I pay for them right now and make a profit?

All these decisions need to be made now. But they need to be informed decisions based on economic analysis and market conditions. Taking the time right now to focus on inputs and marketing decisions will be key in your operation’s profitability. Take the time to sit at your computer, office, or even kitchen table and focus on cash flow and profitability. Your spouse, your bank account, and your banker will thank you at year end. Now, all this talk about finance and cash flows has made my head hurt. I’m gonna go watch some momma cows eat some green grass. That will make it better! e

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Frosty Berseem Clover: A Cold-Tolerant Cover Crop & Forage Option

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ou’ve probably heard about Frosty Berseem Clover (Trifolium Alexandrinum), the first cold-tolerant berseem clover. In early testing, Frosty withstood lows of 5° F without snow cover, thus earning its “frosty” claim to fame. It combines the best of berseem clover’s Mediterranean genetics and adds a later maturity, cold tolerance, productivity, and nutritional forage value.

Frosty offers planting flexibility. Because of its quick establishment, Frosty can be incorporated into a cover cropping rotation to help suppress weeds. It can be underseeded in small grains in the spring because of its frost tolerance, and it can be used in a mixture for interseeding into standing row crops in summer or fall. Speaking of fall, Frosty will grow deeper into the fall than regular berseem.

With the potential for four tons of dry matter per acre in a two-cut system and a crude protein content of up to 21.5 percent, Frosty also is an excellent non-bloating option for direct grazing livestock. Another obvious appeal for a legume like Frosty is, of course, nitrogen fixation. Trials at Penn State showed that Frosty Berseem Clover fixed up to 150 pounds of nitrogen per acre.

Frosty is growing in popularity as an alfalfa-boosting companion. In fact, Frosty shares alfalfa’s dry-down characteristics, remaining green for forage or hay. To make the most of Frosty’s companionability with alfalfa, plant using a seed mixture ratio of 80 percent alfalfa to 20 percent Frosty; however, thanks to Frosty’s cold tolerance, you can frost seed it directly on frozen ground before planting alfalfa. Frost seeding gives Frosty a headstart for rapid establishment in spots where alfalfa has winter killed.

Frosty prefers slightly alkaline loam alkaline, or “basic,” soils, which is perfect for the western U.S., but really loves silty to medium-loam soils. It also produces more biomass than crimson clover on heavy soils. When planting with a drill, use a depth of ¼ inch at a rate of 15 pounds per acre for monoculture and about six pounds per acre in mixes.

As a berseem clover, Frosty has a low hard-seed count, which means you’re not likely to get overrun by unwanted Frosty, and you would need to replant for future plantings.

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