Western Farm, Ranch, & Dairy Magazine - West/Southwest Edition - Fall/Winter 2024

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Gourley Farms

Gourley Farms is a family-owned custom farming company based in the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of farming and trucking services. With a legacy rooted in agricultural expertise and a commitment to quality, we offer specialized services such as chopping silage, swathing with a conditioner, manure spreading, and baling hay, straw, and haylage. Our team takes pride in delivering tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients, ensuring their farming operations run smoothly and efficiently.

In addition to our farming services, Gourley Farms provides versatile trucking options to support your transportation needs. Our fleet includes flatbeds, hopper bottoms, and belt trailers, allowing us to handle a variety of loads with precision and care. Whether you’re transporting silage, hay, or other agricultural products, our reliable trucking services are designed to get your goods where they need to be safely and on time.

Moreover, Gourley Farms offers sales of premium quality silage and hay, ensuring you have access to the best feed for your livestock. Our products are cultivated with the highest standards, guaranteeing optimal nutrition and performance. At Gourley Farms, we are more than just a service provider; we are your partners in agriculture, committed to helping you achieve success in every season. gourleyfarms-mngtrucking.com

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Stukenholtz Laboratory Inc.

Celebrating 54 Years of Agricultural Testing

In 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 27 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 45 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.

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 50 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.

STUKENHOLTZ LABORATORY Inc.

Analysis room at Stukenholtz Laboratory Inc.

DROGE FARMS

Manhattan, Montana

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Pressurized Exhaust Kills Burrowing Rodents

The H & M Gopher Control PERC® system (Pressurized Exhaust Rodent Controller) uses carbon monoxide from pressurized engine exhaust to kill burrowing rodents such as gophers, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, moles & voles.

Exhaust gas has long been one of the most lethal and least expensive methods to kill burrowing rodents, but until now there hasn’t been an economical, efficient delivery system.

Company owners, Allen Hurlburt and Virginia Massey, said the PERC® system involves a narrow steel wand that is used to probe the burrow and inject pressurized exhaust. The burrow is filled with lethal concentrations of carbon monoxide under pressure. The rodent has no chance to escape or block the burrow.

An internal combustion engine generates the carbon monoxide and drives a compressor pump that pressurizes the exhaust gas to 110 psi in a storage tank. An air hose and a handheld probe inject the gas directly into the burrow without any digging.

The PERC® system is simple to use and safe for the operator as well as wildlife since there is no poison bait or explosion

involved. Crop stands are not damaged during treatment. No other control method is as effective, efficient, and as inexpensive to operate as the PERC®.

A PERC® system can treat moderately infested alfalfa fields at about 3.5 acres an hour with a single operator. Each probed location requires only about 2-to-3-minute injection times.

Units have been shipped to customers from Southern California to Central Canada, and as far east as Florida. Though most of the market has been with alfalfa growers, orchard and specialty crop growers have also purchased units. The PERC® system is the best solution anywhere burrowing rodents are a problem.

The PERC® system comes in three sizes, the 206, 412, and 620. The 206 and 412 comes as a skid, single axel, tandem axel, or road trailer. The 620 is sold as a skid, tandem axel, or road trailer. Contact us and we will help you decide what might be right for you.

For more information call toll free (855) 667-5181 or visit the website www.HandMgophercontrol.com and request a quote.

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Catch A Ride On The Feed Train®

In his previous career, before becoming a manufacturer, Bob Lutz was a cattle farmer. As such, he was always looking for ways to save time and money and make life a little easier. Since he was running a rotational grazing system to conserve his pastures, he was spending a lot of time moving feed bunks. Thus the dream of the time and labor saving mobile feed bunk system came into existence.

In order for this system to work properly, a special steering mechanism was necessary to cope with the hilly terrain here in northern Missouri. Bob kept experimenting until he came up with the correct formula and put it into action for his own use. He then applied for and was granted a patent on the steering system.

The high quality construction of the Feed Train® mobile bunk led to requests for stationary bunks of the same quality and those were added to the product line. Next we were re-

ceiving customer requests for creep feeders and these were designed so that no tools are required for set up, thus avoiding the “lost screwdriver syndrome.”

Customer requests for bulk bin storage followed and two sizes in portable bulk bins were developed – a 1.5ton bin and a 3-ton bin. These sizes are also available as stationary units as well as a 5-ton bin. These bulk bin products are also used as seed tenders. And since most cattle farmers now use ATV or UTV units in their operations, we have created units for feeding from the seat of your vehicle. Pull-behind units come in 500- and 1000-pound capacity. And the UTV unit that sits in the back of the vehicle holds 600 pounds. Scales are available for any of these units. Take a look at our website at www. FeedTrain.com or call us at 888592-2351 for additional information or to find a dealer near you.

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Gary’s Soil Amendments

Certified Organic Poultry Compost and Gypsum. Huge Discount for Recycled Gypsum. Yakima, WA. Call Gary Dixon 509-439-5679

Helland Trees

Nordman, Noble, White Pine and Cedar Boughs, 200 tons available. U-Cut, $400 ton. We cut, $1000 ton. Nordmann Christmas Trees, 6ft, 7ft, $40. 9-10ft, $75. No. 2s, 1/2 price. Grand Fir, Douglas Fir, Caanan and Pine available. Call for price list. 360-789-1911 • Rochester, WA

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