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Kay Kuenker holds a puzzle piece shaped like an arrowhead that was part of a group exercise during the Women’s Seminar. Kuenker says all individuals have personality traits that can be changed through awareness and continuous effort.

By Tom C. Doran

Life is a journey Personality traits focus of Compeer women’s seminar By Martha Blum

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OTTAWA, Ill. — A person’s values and beliefs are developed from genetics, nurture and experiences. “Our values and beliefs start forming when you’re conceived,” said Kay Kuenker, business management consultant and coach for The Leadership Trail. “What you give your thoughts to creates circuitry that starts to drive habits.” Needs drive humans from the time they are born, Kuenker explained during a presentation at the Women’s Seminar sponsored by Compeer Financial. “If someone needs to be included, they might have been left out when they were growing up so that drives adult behavior,” she said. All individuals have certain personality attributes. “Personality is about finished by the time you’re 35, but what’s beautiful is you can change it,” Kuenker said. “It just takes awareness and continuous effort.” Every emotion triggers a chemical reaction in a person’s body. “Stress can trigger adrenalin or cortisone and sometimes that is good if you have a deadline or you are chased by someone,” Kuenker said. “We divert oxygen from our brain, so we can flee or fight.” See JOURNEY, Page A2

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INSIDE

Food banks face virus challenges A3 Truckers get overweight permit relief B4 Illinois pig numbers show increase C5 AgriTrucker B4 Alan Guebert C6

Farms For Sale C1

Auction Calendar B1

Livestock C4

Lifestyle A7

Business C7

Opinion C6

Classifieds C2

Science B6

Donna’s Day A8

Weather A6

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Aaron Mosher, operations manager and location manager for the Sterling location of Rock River Lumber and Grain, unloads grain at the company’s Sterling location. Rock River Lumber and Grain is one of several agribusinesses that have started the Food Bank Fund to benefit food banks.

Farmers give back during virus crisis Donate grain in drive for food banks By Jeannine Otto

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STERLING, Ill. — Farmers are no strangers to difficult times. They’re also not strangers to stepping up to help neighbors in need. A Sauk Valley farmer has set the wheels in motion so farmers can turn donations of grain into cash to help food banks that are helping families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are all in this together,

and this is unprecedented. We’ve never been faced with a challenge like this,” said Nik Jakobs. Jakobs farms with his father, brothers and other family members as part of Jakobs Brothers Farms, a corn, soybean, wheat and beef cattle operation in rural Sterling. He’s been keeping up with the news about COVID-19 and the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the country and knew that he and other farmers could do something to help. He made a call to Northern Illinois Food Bank and discovered that food banks are facing increased demand from the feeding programs they serve. “It’s not necessarily that we have a massive problem at this minute, but I thought,

what if we are quarantined for a month or two months and if people are out of work for months? This is going to be a really big problem, and I wanted to get out in front of it, not wait for the problem to occur, but try to be proactive,” Jakobs said. He talked to Carey Bauer, co-manager at Rock River Lumber and Grain in Sterling. “I asked him if I could get a bunch of local farmers, could you create a food bank fund and then we could start distributing that money out to food banks in our area?” Jakobs said. Bauer was all in with the idea. So, Jakobs made a list of around 20 local farmers. See DONATE, Page A4

Decades of dedication Hiatt inducted into ISPFMRA Hall of Fame By Tom C. Doran

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PONTIAC, Ill. — A 45-year member was recently named to the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers Hall of Fame. Rick Hiatt, of Hiatt Enterprises LLC, Pontiac, received the honor at ISPFMRA’s annual meeting in recognition of his long service to the organization that includes various officer and committee capacities. He currently coordinates the organization’s investment funds, is a member of the chapter’s memorial scholarship program and serves as District 3 vice president for the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He has held numerous offices with the Illinois chapter, including president. He’s also a liaison with the Community Bankers Association of Illinois. Hiatt holds both Accredited Farm Manager and Accredited Rural Appraiser designations from ASFMRA. Farming has been part of Hiatt’s life since day one, and the new hall of famer reflected on his early life and his career path in an interview with Illinois AgriNews.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — We’ve read countless stories about the spread of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, but what impact could it have on the planting season and livestock production? Veterinarian Jim Lowe, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, shared his perspective in a March 24 farmLowe doc-hosted webinar. His efforts on infectious diseases include extensive zoonotic work, particularly around influenza, in partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Zoonotic is any disease that can be transmitted from one species to another. Here are several COVID-19 topics Lowe covered in the webinar. Did the coronavirus move from animals to humans? “That unfortunately occurs more frequently than we would like. We think most of the diseases that originated in humans came from another animal and in some cases disease that originated in animals. “For example, we believe porcine reproductive respiratory migrated from mice into pigs. This cross-species transmission is somewhat frequent. “The difference is that it doesn’t often take hold in the new species. A virus moves from a bat to a human, but the virus isn’t well adapted and it doesn’t replicate in humans and it doesn’t pass from human to human. See IMPACT, Page A4

Applicator training canceled By Tom C. Doran

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CAREER PATH TURN Hiatt was hired after college as a farm manager at Pontiac National Bank and was asked how his career path veered from studying ag education at SIU to banking.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Pesticide applicator training and testing clinics and dicamba in-person classroom training have been canceled as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus. T he pesticide applicator training and testing clinics cancellations were announced by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and University of Illinois Extension. These cancellations include the Peoria, Champaign, Moline, Matteson, Collinsville, Springfield, Alsip, Carterville, Skokie, Des Plaines, St. Charles, Springfield and DeKalb on-site testing locations. Applicators also cannot schedule or walk-in to take exams at the Springfield or DeKalb IDA offices until further notice. U of I will contact all those who registered for the clinics and will work to issue refunds for those who paid to attend the clinics.

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Rick Hiatt (left), of Hiatt Enterprises LLC, Pontiac, was named to the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers Hall of Fame. Presenting the plaque citing the achievement at the group’s annual meeting is Dan Legner, past president of the organization. EARLY LIFE He was born and raised on a farm near Streator, and the family moved to Watseka during his school years when his father got a position with the Iroquois County Farm Bureau. Hiatt was very active in the Watseka FFA and the 4-H programs in the county and credited those experiences into molding his career path. After high school, he attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he earned an agriculture ed-

ucation degree, followed by four years of service in the U.S. Navy. Upon his honorable discharge, Hiatt enrolled in graduate school at SIU to study ag economics.

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No two brains are alike. “Brains are like snowflakes your values, beliefs and experiences are different from mine,” Kuenker said. “The brain is a connection machine, so we form a mental map from the time we’re in the womb until the time we die.” Brains consist of two parts — conscious and unconscious. “The unconscious part is very efficient and it has huge capacity, so we try to put everything we can into that,” Kuenker said. “For example, when you start to learn how to drive a car you have to concentrate fully, but over time you get better and then you can drive home without even remembering the drive.” People have biases as a result of their mental maps. “It’s nearly impossible to dismantle existing wiring unless there’s a brain trauma,” Kuenker said. “What’s beautiful is it is really easy to do new habits and behaviors, but you have to be aware of the old ones first.” Inhibition is not developed in people’s brains until they reach their mid20s. “Yet we make some of our most difficulty decisions of our lives when we are 17 to 25 years old,” Kuenker said. “We’re not well equipped yet, but we’re signing up for the military, we’re getting married and we’re choosing our careers.” The brain’s job is to keep people alive. “Subconsciously we are interpreting every situation, person and environment to determine if it will help me or hurt me,” Kuenker said. “We interpret anything outside of our comfort zone as a threat.” A certain level of stress is beneficial because people need some amount of adrenaline. “Some stress is good to get you to perform, but with too much stress you’re reacting and not performing well,” Kuenker said. “The trick is for you to find your sweet spot.” Kuen ker encourages everyone to know what rewards are important and also what trips their

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trigger. “When you are interacting with someone that’s opposite of you, that’s where triggers are tripped,” she explained. “Understanding your needs and reward centers and also putting thought into the person you’re interacting with can help you choose your words and behaviors to create a toward response in them,” Kuenker said. “Every interaction that you have with a person causes a response in them either toward or away by the way you show up,” she said. “Just by the way you word your question can provide the other person certainty, autonomy, relatedness or fairness to generate an environment for a healthy conversation.” If a person can avoid a difficult situation, that is great; however, most of the time that is not possible. “Sometimes you can modify the situation to make you more comfortable and change your focus to something else,” Kuenker said. “Buy yourself time by using powerful questions that generally begin with what,” she said. “Questions that begin with what are open, future focused and they seek input.” “Life is a journey and we can always improve,” Kuenker said. “Rejoice in the strengths you have and focus on what you can do something about.” Martha Blum can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 117, or marthablum@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Blum.

Virus reinforces risk management need By Martha Blum

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SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — Although disruptions can be initially negative, they can also result in future opportunities. “A black swan is an event that comes out of nowhere and causes markets to go up or down beyond what you ever expected,” said Sara Dorland, Ceres Dairy Risk Management LLC managing partner. “The coronavirus is an excellent case and something even a few weeks ago the U.S. and Europe said was not going to be much worse than the flu,” Dorland said during a webinar hosted by Compeer Financial. “But the severity of the virus and the impact on the supply chain has exceeded expectations.” The COVID-19 pandemic reinforces the need for risk management, Dorland stressed. “When you’re giving up money to the upside you are still making money and you’re still in business,” she said. “When things flip the other direction, that can actually take people out of business, but risk management can prevent the black swan from hurting people.” Dorland encourages dairymen to look at what is happening today, so they can plan appropriately by deploying risk plans. “We need to pay attention because markets will turn around and we’ve got

“The severity of the virus and the impact on the supply chain has exceeded expectations.” Sara Dorland, managing partner CERES DAIRY RISK MANAGEMENT

to be prepared,” she said. Prior to the coronavirus becoming a problem in China, the global economy was moving along at a pretty good pace, the market analyst noted. “We were looking for 2020 to be a better year than the past five years,” she said. “Now we’ve got commerce slowing down as a result of the unknown.” Since food service and restaurants are closed in the United States, Dorland said, new orders are postponed or canceled, which is problematic. “Food service is down and impacting the dairy sector, but there are things that can keep it moving,” Dorland said. “The good news is the borders with Canada and Mexico are closed only for non-essential traffic and today food is considered essential,” she said. “We’ve heard milk trucks are making it across the border, so a lot of activity is still happening.” Panic buying by U.S. consumers has left some grocery store shelves bare.

“We are continuing to supply the system, but with the constant pull we can’t keep up with it quite yet,” Dorland said. “We expect the 300% increase in milk going to retailers will go back to manufacturing.” U.S. milk production for Februar y is 1.7% higher than one year ago, Dorland said. “We expected that because last year we were seeing a pull-back of milk production because farms had been suffering for a long time from low prices,” she said. “There is big production in Texas, Colorado, California and Idaho and the timing couldn’t be worse,” she said. “We are bringing milk into the system when it is shutting down.” Weather is impacting dairy production in other countries, including Australia. “Even though their numbers improved at the end of last year, these are the lowest numbers they’ve had since 2008,” Dorland said. “We have a free trade agreement with Australia and they are importing more products mainly cheese from the U.S.” New Zealand is dealing with drought conditions. “The forecast is for continued dry weather,” Dorland said. “So, I don’t expect them to be the powerhouse they’ve been for the last few decades.” For U.S. producers, if they know their cost of

production for 100 pounds of milk, then they will want a known milk price. “That will give you a known margin,” Dorland said. “If you can establish that price, then you’re left to produce the highest quality, lowest cost milk you can and that’s in a dairy producer’s wheel house.” Trying to outguess the markets, Dorland said, is an act of beating your head against the wall. “Do what you really do well and take the unknown out of your business with risk management,” she advised. Almost every dairyman should be signed up for the Dairy Margin Coverage program, Dorland said, especially for events like the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today the average price is $15.84, a month ago the average was $17.37 and two months ago it was $17.83,” she said. “Today is not a great day to lock in milk prices, but there was a point in time when those numbers were pretty good.” Although it is uncertain how long the market disruption from the coronavirus will last, Dorland said, people are consuming dairy products whether it is at home or in a restaurant. “This could help lift prices later in the year,” Dorland said. “Nobody can predict the future, but a good risk management plan can help you ride this out,” she said.

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IDA will extend applicator and operator licenses that expired on Dec. 31, 2019, until Dec. 31, 2020. The agency has assured the industry that for individuals seeking certification for the first time in general standards or any category, that future training and testing opportunities will be available at some point in time. DICAMBA ONLINE The mandatory annual dicamba training will move to strictly an online program. Those who need training can choose the online training program for the product they plan to use on the BASF Engenia, Bayer Roundup Ready Xtend or Corteva FeXapan websites. Participates for the entire class will receive a certificate of completion that can be utilized as proof of training for recordkeeping purposes.

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Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_Doran.

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Cattle prices move lower

FFA officers connect with members

Areas of concern in Fed Reserve survey

Operation Rising Sun launched

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois FFA state officers are connecting with members across the state with Operation Rising Sun. As COVID-19 struck the United States, schools throughout Illinois were closed and FFA activities were canceled. “It seemed like a lot of social media was negative, so we knew it was in our hands to make the most of the situation,” said Gage Miller, president of Illinois Association FFA. “Our secretary, Collin White, came up with the name Operation Rising Sun because in our emblem the rising sun represents leading out of the darkness of selfishness and into the glorious sunlight,” Miller said. “So, we thought if we can look past the darkness we’re in now, we can look into the sunlight of what’s ahead.” FFA members connect to #operationrisingsun on Facebook. “We had to make the most of what we had, so we knew we had to expand our platforms on social media,” the Cambridge FFA member said. Operation Rising Sun features several aspects including the posting of retiring addresses from state officers at previous Illinois FFA Conventions. “Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we are doing a Facebook Live Kahoot, which is an online test that teachers can do in a classroom,” Miller said. “But since everybody is home, you use two electronic devices like a phone and tablet.” One of those devices is watching the Facebook Live, which is run by a state officer asking questions. The second device is used by the FFA member to answer the question. “We ask questions about FFA history or a fun fact about a state officer,” Miller said. “Then whoever answers the question the fastest or gets the most questions correct gets the points.” Operation Rising Sun also includes a Daily News segment. “This is a fun video that we post around 9 or 10 a.m. of the five officers doing skits,” Miller said. “Our vice president, Lane Harvey is the host and then he turns to each of the other officers for a different segment.” Emma Freebairn, FFA treasurer, does the weather; Collin White, FFA secretary, provides a goose report; Miller delivers a daily ag fact; and Brodee McCormick, the reporter, supplies announcements w ith Harvey providing the wrap-up of the segment. Miller stressed that the FFA officers are focused on remaining positive even though the pandemic caused the cancellation of the State Awards Day in March. “That is the day when the district winners compete to determine the state winners for all the proficiency areas,” he said. “We’re looking to do maybe a virtual judging process and a lot it is not set in stone yet, but we are working to make it happen one way or another.” The COVID-19 crisis also forced the postponement of many chapter banquets. “We got our speeches ready and I went to one chapter banquet,” the FFA president said. “A couple other officers also went to a banquet, but Emma didn’t get to before the banquets got cut short.” While the FFA officers are connecting with other members from their homes, they are also continuing to prepare for the state convention set for June 9-11 in Springfield. “We are going to be ready for it whether it’s virtual or in person,” Miller said. Miller noted the importance of the guidance provided by Mindy Bunselmeyer, executive director, and John Edgar, assistant director of the Illinois FFA Center, during this uncertain time. “They told us to make the most of the situation and finish out the year strong,” Miller said. “They are helping us do what we can with what we have.” “We’re trying to do the most to interact with members while they’re at home,” he stressed. “As time goes on and this continues, I see us doing more social media interactions.” For more information about the Illinois Association FFA, go to www.ilaged.org. Martha Blum can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 117, or marthablum@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Blum.

Volunteers at the Northern Illinois Food Bank pack boxes of shelf-stable foods at the food bank’s Geneva location. Northern Illinois Food Bank has seen a sharp increase in demand from the over 900 food pantries and community feeding programs that draw product from the food bank.

FINDING FOOD Food banks face virus challenges By Jeannine Otto

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GENEVA, Ill. — For food banks like Northern Illinois Food Bank, the last few weeks have been a time of challenges along with growth. “We are busier than ever, but that’s a good thing — that’s why we’re here,” said Elizabeth Gartman, communications manager for Northern Illinois Food Bank. The last few weeks – with a statewide stay-at-home order and schools and businesses closing –have been a perfect storm, resulting in more adults and children eating at home. For many families across Illinois and the United Sates, that puts a strain on already-strained home food resources and supplies. Many turn to community feeding programs. Food banks have stepped up to the challenge. “We’ve really been creative in figuring out how we can mobilize really quickly and figure out how we can get more food out to our neighbors during this time,” Gartman said. Food banks run on donations, of food and of funds. Financial donations enable food banks to fill holes in their grocery needs, and they can do that through buying power that adds value to each dollar

donated. “Our buying power is due to the fact that we have these really great relationships with the food manufacturing and retail community. They offer us really great prices, so when we purchase food, we get it at a better rate. That $1 turns into $8 worth of food with a combination of donated and purchased product,” Gartman said. Gartman said donations, like the Food Bank Fund started by a group of northern Illinois farmers, help NIFB purchase large quantities of products to meet specific needs in various programs. “We want as much donated product as we can get because that is the most fiscally responsible thing that we can do. We know that for all of these boxes we are packing, for certain programs, we need certain things. So, we are purchasing food to make sure we can continue to meet the specific needs for our different programs,” Gartman said. NIFB is one of eight Feeding Illinois food banks that serve feeding programs throughout the state. NIFB serves a 13-county service area and provides food to some 900 food pantries and feeding programs. The programs NIFB serves range from brick and mortar food pantries to mobile food pantries to senior shelf-stable food boxes, child feeding sites and emergency food boxes. NIFB and other food banks are facing their own challenges.

With shoppers seeking to stock up their own grocery supplies, some of the supplies that food banks usually receive from grocers have been in short supply. “That depleted stores’ inventory and maybe some of the product that still would have been in the stores on an average day and that would have come to the food bank. We saw a dip in retail food donations and retail food recovery,” Gartman said. But the food industry partners stepped up. One area where the food banks saw an increase was from food donated by suppliers and distributors who supply restaurants. “The restaurant industry is largely affected by the stay-inplace rules and some of those food suppliers have been able to donate food to us,” Gartman said. Gartman said she doesn’t expect for the demand to slow anytime soon — nor does she expect the outpouring of help from volunteers wanting to donate cash and food to slow down. “This has been a whole new world for us, as it has been for everybody. It is super inspiring because of the pervasiveness of it. People feel empowered to do something, and they keep looking to see how they can help,” Gartman said. Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 211, or jotto@agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Otto.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FARMER

Roger Wenning (right) stands with his son, Nick, at their farm in Greensburg, Indiana.

Time for farming, family By Ashley Langreck

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GREENSBURG, Ind. — The life of a farmer is full of hard work, early mornings and late nights, dealing with weather issues and figuring out the right time to be in the field. Roger Wenning of Greensburg recently opened up about what a typical day might look like for him on his farming operation. The following is Wenning’s personal account of what a day in his boots looks like on the farm. 5:30 A.M. “I wake up and prepare to start my day around the farm, but first I go to check on one of my three granddaughters, who are currently staying with my wife and I, as they start to wake up. Their mom is a nurse and their dad is a store manager, so the family thought it was best for the children’s safety

to stay with us for the time being to reduce the risk of them being exposed to COVID-19.” 6:15 A.M. “Before leaving the house, I enjoy a quick meal of breakfast casserole.” 7 A.M. “I head to the dealer where I bought my truck last year to drop it off because it is due for some maintenance.” 9:24 A.M. “My truck has been successfully dropped off at the dealer and they have given me a loaner car to drive while they work on it. I am now headed back to the farm.” 10:50 A.M. “After grabbing my 3-yearold granddaughter, who wants to tag along with grandpa for a little while, we hop in the semi and head to Aurora with a load of corn.”

12:45 TO 4:01 P.M. “I have finished dropping off the corn, grabbed a quick bite of lunch and now heading over to my neighbors to borrow a seed tender and then mixing up some cover crops mixtures for a guy that is going to fly some on sometime next week.” 4:20 P.M. “My son, Nick, who farms with me, and I recently bought a new grain bin and dryer, so we are cleaning up and preparing the area where they will go.” 6:30 P.M. “I quit working a little early today because it was so nice outside and I took my granddaughters on a bike ride and played outside with them.”

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-426-9438, ext. 192, or alangreck@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Langreck.

CHICAGO — Trade frustrations and crop prices continued to be among the areas of concern expressed in a survey across the Corn Belt’s Federal Reserve District. The survey report features anecdotal information through the first two months of 2020. The Beige Book is a Federal Reserve System publication about current economic conditions across the 12 Federal Reserve Districts. It characterizes regional economic conditions and prospects based on a variety of mostly qualitative information. “The outlook for crop farmers’ incomes deteriorated some in January and early February. Corn and soybean prices moved lower, though they remained higher than a year ago,” according to the Seventh Federal Reserve District of Chicago survey, which includes the northern two-thirds of Illinois and Indiana and all of Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. There were reports in the Seventh District of farmers holding onto their stocks of crops with hopes of higher prices later in the year. Contacts expressed frustration that Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural goods had not yet materialized following the announcement of the “Phase 1” trade deal and were concerned that the coronavirus outbreak would be used as an excuse for missing future trade targets. “Contacts reported that the Market Facilitation Program was providing crucial income support to cushion the effects of the trade challenges with China and poor 2019 yields in much of the district. Milk and hog prices were down over the reporting period but were up compared to a year ago. Egg prices rebounded some, but cattle prices moved lower,” the Chicago district noted. WHEAT ACRES Eighth Federal Reserve District of St. Louis agriculture conditions have declined slightly from the previous reporting period. The number of acres of winter wheat planted this season declined slightly from acreage planted in 2019. Farmers continue to emphasize the importance of MFP payments for supporting the industry. Eighth District contacts raised questions and expressed concerns regarding trade with China, including when the trade agreement provisions will apply and what impact coronavirus will have on commodity prices and agricultural purchases. The Eighth District includes the southern parts of Illinois and Indiana and eastern half of Missouri, as well as parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi. More than half of the Ninth Federal Reserve District of Minneapolis agricultural lenders reported that farm incomes decreased in the previous three months relative to a year earlier, while 60% reported decreased capital spending. The Minneapolis district includes all of Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana, northwestern Wisconsin, and all of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. STABILIZING Federal Reserve District of Kansas City farm economy remained subdued, but showed signs of stabilizing. Farmland values strengthened slightly in the most recent survey period, providing some stability for the sector. Regional contacts in the Kansas City district reported that farm income and agricultural credit conditions generally remained weak, but deteriorated at a slower pace than previous survey periods. However, despite some signs of stabilization, geographic disparities persisted across the region. Farm real estate values increased modestly on the eastern side of the district, while farm income and credit conditions were moderately weaker in the western portion. “Some bankers commented that trade relief payments provided notable support to farm finances, but many also indicated that ongoing financial challenges continued to be driven by low agricultural commodity prices,” according to the Kansas City district report. The Kansas City district includes the western part of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado and the northern New Mexico. Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Doran.

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Local farmers top list of farmland buyers By Tom C. Doran

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — “The composition of buyers and sellers and reasons for selling evolves slowly with minor changes from prior years despite widespread popular press stories about major structural changes in agriculture.” That was the findings of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers’ outlook of price expectations and farmland transaction trends as part of the annual farmland value survey. The results were released in a March 19 webinar. “This information is compiled by our members throughout Illinois to provide a comprehensive look at farmland values and lease trends through the eyes of the professionals who see it firsthand,” Seth Baker, ISPFMRA president and president and managing broker of Field Level Agriculture, Mt. Zion, wrote to open the survey report.

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“That’s a good thing because this is what happens when we get a new disease in a population without a prior immunity. “So, we go from being zoonotic to being pandemic or epidemic when we get the virus or the bacteria, and we’re really worried about viruses, established in the human host then can pass from human to human to human. That’s what appears to have happened here.” Can COVID-19 be transmitted from humans to livestock? “The good part is that there is zero evidence, and I don’t mean not a little bit, there is zero evidence that this coronavirus infects anything other than human beings. “There’s a dog that was reported to be contaminated in Hong Kong, that it came back positive for the virus. The dog was never infected. It was apparently just a surface contamination. “There are some rumors that a second dog has been contaminated there in a household. We do think that pets living in households with people who are contaminated and shedding a lot of virus could serve as a fomite — a physical carrier. “It doesn’t appear to last on anything other than hard surfaces very long. So, we don’t think they’re a risk at all, and we’ve got to work through some cases of that, but the evidence that livestock would be either contaminated or physical carriers is just non-existent. “I do worry about our truckers that are hauling livestock because they mix with a lot of people, they have to stop at truck stops and we clearly have to get critters to town. “If we get a lot of people sick and we have to close a packing, that gets really ugly really quick. I’d be concerned about the truck drivers because they have a lot of contact, but there’s zero risk with the animals.” With planting season around the corner, how do farmers need to approach the coronavirus issues? “Farmers have clearly been declared as important. I think the advantage of living in rural USA is we’re in relatively low density and low density is important in this case. There’s less contact between susceptibles and infected. “We’re going to start planting here hopefully sooner rather than later. As we get to that point, you have to do your job, but it’s wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands.”

“Most of our members are also farmland brokers and many are farmland owners, as well. No group is better suited to provide the most accurate farmland value information available.” Here are the findings of the farmland transaction trends that were part of the ISPFMRA’s land values survey. SELLERS OF FARMLAND Estate sales accounted for 52% of the sales and were, by far, the largest category of sellers. Estate sales were followed by farmers who made up 23% of sellers. Fourteen percent of those farmers were retired and 9% were active farmers. Individual investors accounted for 14% of the sellers, followed by institutions at 9%. REASONS FOR SELLING The major reason for selling farmland was to settle estates, accounting for 58% of the farmland sales. “Invest in non-agricultural assets” was the next highest reais if you don’t feel very good, go to a doctor. This gets real bad real quick.” What’s your opinion of the notion that as we get more sunlight and warmer weather that this will abate? “My prediction is if you look at every other epidemic we’ve ever had, and history is a good lesson, it’s likely to get better this summer. We’ll get over this epidemic peak and that is not just sunlight, but we all get outside and we socially distance naturally and we’re not cooped up inside. It likely get better just because our society changes behaviorally in the summer. “I’m not trying to be a doomsayer, but I think what we have to worry about is the reality that it’s likely to come back in the fall when we come back inside with a vengeance. We will have not all been exposed and knocked it off. “Every other time we’ve had an epidemic, not really a pandemic, but an epidemic disease, it happens the first time and then the next fall when we go back indoors the virus isn’t eliminated and boom here’s the second wave of the outbreak. And normally they go in three waves.” Is there a possibility of developing a vaccine for this? “We have some really brilliant people working on things and they work incredible hard at really high risks for themselves. We’re going to have a vaccine. They will figure out how to make a vaccine. “It won’t be great, but it will be as good as flu (vaccine) and that’s all you need to slow this down, to increase those numbers of resistance. I think realistically it’s 18 months. Everybody keeps saying a year. “First of all, you have to know if the vaccine is safe and it takes time to figure that out because you don’t want to give a vaccine that makes people sick or kills people. Then you have to figure out if it works and it just takes time to figure that out.”

Once someone has recovered from the COVID-19 would they develop a resistance or still be susceptible? “We don’t have a firm answer for that. The belief is, yes, they’re going to go into the resistant bucket. They will not get it again, but we don’t know for how long. “We don’t know how long the immunity is to this particular virus. We obviously haven’t had infections long enough to understand that, so that will take some time to figure out. “It probably will not be lifelong immunity, but again we don’t have to have perfect immunity What about those that want to “tough it out” if they don’t feel well we just have to get 40%, 50%, and continue working on the farm? 60% of the population immune and that herd immunity will drop “This is isn’t the time to be the severity of the disease and the tough guy. This is the time keep this to a dull roar.” to get yourself isolated and don’t get your whole family infected and take care of yourself. Can there be transmission through “If you have a cough and you the supply chain? “We don’t tend to think of don’t feel very good, this isn’t ‘I’m going to tough it out and be respiratory pathogens moving through supply chains very OK.’ This is not the flu. “The challenge is that all this well. We think about foodborne pathogens because you ingest is scary because it’s unknown. that. Is it possible? Yes. Is it I don’t think we should necessarily take it lightly, but we also probable? Probably not. “We don’t know, but if I just don’t need to live in fear. sit back and say as a scientist “This stuff is not the miasma who thinks about disease transfrom the pre-virus days. It’s mission all the time, there’s a on-contact. It’s not probably lot of things that are possible going to waft up in you nose if and certainly in the pig world you’re not talking directly to we worry about possible a lot. somebody. “But here we really have to “It’s wash your hands. If your worry about the probable and hands touch things like your pickup truck, wipe your pickup put the foot down and stomp out where the probable is. truck off, wipe your pickup truck handles off. We have to be Probable is really person-to-percautious and we have to be con- son contact that that’s what we need to continue to work on.” sistent, but we don’t have to go crazy. It’s not the plague. Tom C. Doran “But I think the big message

son with 15% of the sales. Remaining reasons were to re-invest pay down debt (11%), use for other personal purposes (11%) and re-invest in other agricultural enterprises (5%). METHODS OF SELLING The survey found 51% of parcels were sold by private treaty, 33% by public auction, 10% by multi-parcel auction and 6% by sealed bid. FARMLAND BUYERS Farmers accounted for 60% of the purchasers, with 59% being local farmers and 1% being relocating farmers. Individual investors who would not farm the land were the next largest group, accounting for 35% of the buyers. Local investors accounted for 19% of the buyers and non-local investors were 10%. Institutions accounted for 5% of buyers. Survey respondents indicated that 62% of farmland buyers did not require debt financing. On average, 61% of the purchase price was financed for those

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“Actually all I ever wanted to do was farm. I had an opportunity to farm, but when I got out of the service that opportunity was gone. The reason why I studied ag education is with my desire to farm I said if I ever got hurt or got disabled in some way I should still be able to be in a wheelchair and teach. The other part of it was the FFA that got me into ag education and it gave a very diverse background,” he said. “When I got out of the service I decided I needed to concentrate a little bit on the economic side. Teaching was OK, but it wasn’t going to go too far too fast. That’s why I went into the business side of it in farm management. “I think they have a word for farm management people. They’re called ‘frustrated farmers’ — people who couldn’t get a hold of a piece of land themselves and didn’t have the money to buy all of the machinery. So, they got into a position where they could still do it all, but they didn’t own it.” MEMBERSHIP His first experience with the state and national farm manager and rural appraiser groups began soon after he was hired at the bank after college. “The gentleman who hired me was an advocate of the Illinois Society and the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. We started attending meetings, etcetera, and I ended up pursuing my accredited farm management designation with the ASFMRA. A few years later on I got my accredited rural appraiser designation,” Hiatt said. After eight years as a farm manager, he moved into the bank’s trust department, a post he held for 12 years before serving four years as bank president. “I then went out on my own in 1997 and I opened Hiatt Enterprises LLC in farm management, investments, appraisals and land acquisitions. I’m still working for myself today and it’s been great. I spend about 60% of may time in farm management consulting work and about 40% is spent in the securities industry as a financial

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“The reception was incredible. Almost everyone I called wanted to help in some way,” Jakobs said. When the grain donation wasn’t viable, farmers on the list did another thing at which they excel — they found a way to make it work. “One person didn’t have a truck, so they brought a check. I had one farmer donate potatoes. Another donated beef. A couple worked together to fill a hopper, and other farmers brought whole hoppers down,” Jakobs said. He talked to other grain merchandisers and elevator managers to expand the program. “I called a friend a mine, Nick DawTyne, an originator at FS Grain, and he said, ‘How about if I get FS Grain involved?’ He did a wonderful job of that. They have 20 locations. I called GoldStar FS, and they were very receptive, as well, and got the message out,” Jakobs said. Farmers can donate as much grain as they want through their grain merchandiser or elevator. That grain is turned into cash, and the cash is put into the fund for whichever food bank the donor designates. If the donor does not have a

buyers requiring debt financing. VOLUME SOLD Respondents indicated that there was an increase in volume of sales during the last half of 2019 compared to the last half of 2018 with 29% indicating some increase. Thirty-five percent of respondents indicated that volume decreased, and 38% indicated that there was no change in volume. FARMLAND EXPECTATIONS The survey found 39% of respondents expect farmland prices to decrease during 2020, down from 61% at the beginning of 2019. Forty-eight percent expect farmland prices to remain and the same, and 13% expect farmland prices to increase. Overall, respondents are more optimistic at the beginning of 2020 as compared to the beginning of 2019. AGRICULTURE ECONOMY Respondents were asked

whether they expected the agricultural economy to expand or contract. Seventy-three percent of respondents expected the economy to contract modestly while 27% expect the economy to expand. A contracting agricultural economy would be expected to have a negative impact on farmland prices. Fewer respondents expected the agricultural economy to contract this year as compared to last year. CORN PRICES Respondents were asked at what level they expected corn prices to average in 2020. Fourteen percent expect corn prices between $3 and $3.50 per bushel; 78% expect corn prices between $3.50 and $4 per bushel; and 8% expect corn prices between $4 and $4.50. Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_Doran.

adviser. I also do some income competition with any other tax work,” Hiatt noted. chapter or any other part of the American society. You’re ALWAYS ACTIVE pretty much just in competiBeing an active member in tion with yourself in that you organizations are important to have to achieve everything in Hiatt. 10 of the criteria and then be While at SIU he joined the named a Patron Chapter of the Alpha Gamma Rho and he con- American society,” Hiatt extinues those ties as the fraterni- plained. ty’s alumni executive secretary, There were three Patron a post he’s held for about 38 Chapters the first year and that years. doubled the second year. When his career led him back to farm management and PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY he formed his company, Hiatt The ISPFMRA has “profesbecame more active in the state sional” in its title for a reason, and national societies. and is emphasized through its “I was very active on the members’ action. scholarship committee. Then “Illinois is one of the largsomeone asked if I’d run for of- est absentee landowner states. fice. I did and I went up through People have passed the land the officer chain,” he said. down to generation after generation and when the pie gets DELIVERING IDEAS smaller and smaller those people At the ISPFMRA level, Hiatt are doing other things and have spearheaded changes in the other priorities in their life, but group’s scholarship programs. they still have a very valuable re“About four years ago I said source out here that needs to be we needed to do more for the taken care of,” Hiatt said. scholarships. I talked to the “My excitement is stepping board about starting an invest- into their shoes to represent ment account, so instead of hav- them and get a very good reing money sitting around in a turn, as well as preserving the money market account, let’s put farmland. That’s where I see the it into an investment account. professionalism of the Illinois So, we did that with Vanguard society. and that account is producing “Farming is not simple today. income and support for the It requires professionalism and scholarship program,” he said. expertise and the integrity of The new scholarship program the individual I think is really initiated by Hiatt is supported critical. That’s what the orgaby interest from the account nization brings. We have our and is for students transfer- mandatory classes, and we have ring from an accredited com- continuing education that we munity college in Illinois to have to do all the time, and we Illinois State University, SIU, have our accredited designaUniversity of Illinois, Western tions which sets us apart.” Illinois University or Illinois College. PLEASANT SURPRISE The chapter’s other scholarHiatt had no idea of his imship program that has been in pending hall of fame induction place for many years is funded until it was announced at the through the ISPFMRA’s annual ISPFMRA annual meeting. scholarship auction. “It was a total shock. It’s At the national level where the highest award that there his duties have included serving is in the Illinois Society and I on the scholarship auction com- am very grateful to be named mittee and membership task among some of the best in the force, Hiatt borrowed an idea field. It is just a very, very humfrom the Community Bankers bling position and it’s a great Association of Illinois, an orga- honor. I think about it just nization he was very active in about every day,” Hiatt said. while at the bank. It was no shock to those who The ASFMRA Patron Pro- have known of Hiatt’s dedicagram recognizes state chapters’ tion and commitment to the ormembership efforts, similar to a ganization and its ideals for the CBAI program. past 45 years. “The program has about 10 criteria to it. You aren’t in Tom C. Doran chosen food bank or local food pantry or feeding program, the donation goes to the regional food bank that services feeding programs in the donor’s home area. “The farmers who have participated so far have answered the call more than I could have hoped for,” Jakobs said. By noon on March 25, the fund was at $20,000. With the buying power that regional food banks, which do not distribute to individuals, but distribute food to food pantries, backpack programs and other community feeding programs, those donated dollars more than double in buying power, according to Elizabeth Gar tman, communications manager for Northern Illinois Food Bank. “That buying power is due to the fact that we have these really great relationships in the food manufacturing and retailer community, so $1 turns into $8 worth of food, with a combination of our donated and purchased product,” Gartman said. Jakobs sees it from a farmer’s perspective. “One bushel of corn provides $25 in groceries, and a hopper would provide over $20,000. Imagine where we would be if everybody participates in this together,” he said. Jakobs said the response to the effort has been satisfying. “It seems like everyone I

reached out to has wanted to help. People are calling me asking how to help. I tell them we have to get the message out. This is not my idea. This is something that was meant to be. This is something we can springboard from, and we want to make this a movement,” Jakobs said. Farmers and elevators turning grain into cash donations for worthy causes isn’t a new idea, Jakobs noted. “Merchandisers have set up funds like this. They have donated to other causes like churches, schools and different organizations for years,” Jakobs said. He said the response — from elevators, originators and farmers themselves — exhibits the best of the farming and agricultural community. “One of the things I am most proud of being a farmer is the morals and the values of the farming community. Even though it’s been a rough couple of years in agriculture, farmers take an incredible amount of pride in the ability to feed this country and our communities. We understand, as farmers, there is no better time to help people than when they are in need,” Jakobs said. Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 211, or jotto@agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Otto.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The mention of “climate change” and “global warming” seems to warm the climate itself via heated debates, and the state climatologist provided data and an outlook during a March 26 webinar. Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford of the Illinois State Water Survey addressed the impacts of climate as it relates to extreme weather events in the state as part of the University of Illinois Extension local government education program. Carbon dioxide, methane and the gas form of water are the greenhouses gasses most commonly associated with long-term climate change, with carbon dioxide being the main driver of climate variability through history. “It’s really the long-term, as well as short-term, variability of carbon dioxide that drives global warming and its impact to climate,” Ford explained. “What we have observed over the last 100 years or so is consistent increase in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.” The carbon dioxide measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii this past January was 413 parts per million. In the late 1950s, it was about 320 ppm. Using Paleo climate record from ice cores observations of carbon dioxide extend back to about 800,000 years. Over that 800,000-year record, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere never exceeded 320 ppm. “So, we are today at a higher level of carbon dioxide then we’ve been over the last 800,000 years. Because of that increase in carbon dioxide concentrations, we’re keeping more of that initial energy here on Earth, which changes the overall energy budget and increase temperature,” Ford said. COMPLEX SYSTEM Due to the complexity of Earth’s climate system, an increase in the global average temperature doesn’t necessarily result in the same type of changes in climate everywhere. “That increase in our temperature on Earth also changes wind patterns, changes large-scale atmospheric circulation, changes ocean atmosphere interactions, and makes for different changes in different climates around the Earth,” Ford said. The climatologist focused primarily on the impact of increased temperature on precipitation and related soil and water management issues. Illinois’ annual total precipitation has increased 0.47 inches per decade between 1895 and 2019 and 1.33 inches per decade since 1990.

“So, it was this swing in extremes that caused some significant impacts relating to agriculture and in people’s psyche, as well with mental health impacts,” Ford said. Projections show more frequent “swings” from wet to dry extremes, particularly moving from wet spring to dry summer and fall. Fall is the only season with no significant positive wetting trend since 1990. “Even though were not seeing those long, pronounced droughts that we did early in the 20th century, we’re still seeing impacts related to short-term, AGRINEWS PHOTO/TOM C. DORAN but intense dry periods Steam rises from a soaked field on March 23 in central Illinois. Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford said global climate models proj- across the state that come ect consistently wetter springs and drier summers with more frequent “swings” from wet to dry extremes. on very quickly from longer term very wet or pluT he complex it y of drought, we had agricul- vial periods. Large, multiespecially over the last 30 EXTREME EVENTS A long with the in- years and so even though drought complicates its tural impacts related to year droughts are not happening as frequently,” Ford that drought,” Ford said. crea sed precipit at ion, it is very likely based on measure and projections. For example, Monmouth said. “One thing we are seethere also has been a no- some projects that spring table increase in extreme will continue to get wetter, ing with drought, is not so experienced its wettest whether or no summer gets much the frequency but the May on record last year, Tom C. Doran can be precipitation events. “Data from Midwestern drier is something that is characteristic of drought. followed by its fourth reached at 815-780-7894 Regional Climate Center still undecided. It’s still be 2019 was the fifth wettest driest July on record, fol- or tdoran@agrinews-pubs. obser vation station in explored as far as research year on record statewide lowed by its ninth wettest com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_Doran. Streator, Illinois, shows in climate change science.” in Illinois, but we had September. over the last 15 to 20 years we’ve had many more years where we had above average occurrence of extreme precipitation events. This means we’re not only getting wetter, but annually a larger percentage of our total annual precipitation is coming from these ex t reme precipit at ion events,” Ford said. 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Do you dare to go on your vacation? By Matilda Charles

You budgeted all winter, building up the cash that would take you on vacation this summer. And now all your plans are in doubt. Now we have the coronavirus rampaging around the globe, with more cases popping up in more countries on a daily basis. Do you dare to still go on your vacation? To help make a decision about whether go, first stay current on the general facts: n Keep an eye on the advisory levels on the U.S. State Department website at travel. state.gov. More and more countries have been added to the list

of places where it warns people not to travel. n Stay updated on locations of coronavirus cases here in the U.S. Watch the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel notices at wwwnc.cdc.gov/ travel/notices. Watch the airlines, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d planned to fly. More flights to more areas are being canceled every day. Then take a close look at your individual situation: n If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re over the age of 65, or planning to travel with someone who is, or if there is already a health condition, consider whether travel is worth the risk of being exposed to the virus. Seniors are hit the hardest by the effect of the coronavirus and

have a heightened risk of contracting it as well as pneumonia. n Do your plans involve being in crowds at tourist sites, with pathogens that are spread through the air? Are you prepared to be put in a quarantine situation if you test positive and have no symptoms? The biggest question is this: If you do go on your intended trip, could you relax and enjoy yourself? Or, would you be worried the whole time about being exposed to the virus? Remember: If you cancel your summer vacation plans, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the only one to do that. ÂŠ 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies around the world, many travelers are canceling trips and hunkering down at home while cruise lines from Princess to Viking are suspending operations, Disney World and Disneyland are closing and airlines are slashing routes.

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Staying safe while grocery shopping in the midst of COVID-19 What steps do I need to take when grocery shopping in light of the coronavirus pandemic? COVID-19 is not a foodborne disease. While there have been no reports as of this time to suggest that COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has been transmitted by handling food or food packaging, here are ways that consumers can protect themselves when grocery shopping. COVID-19 transmits person-to-person through droplets that are produced when an infected individual coughs or sneezes, said Qiuhong Wang, a scientist and coronavirus researcher with The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, coughing, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. Symptoms range from mild to severe respiratory illness. Advanced age or conditions such as various cancers, COPD, asthma, heart disease and diabetes are associated with an increased severity of COVID-19 infections and fatality rates. The virus is most often transferred to another individual when droplets directly reach their nose, mouth, or eyes, or through close contact such as a handshake. The virus can also transmit when a person touches an object or surface with the virus on it and then touches their mouth or eyes before washing their hands. With that in mind, the most important thing that consumers can do to protect themselves and others when grocery shopping is to practice social distancing, said Sanja Ilic, food safety state specialist with Ohio State University Extension, CFAES’ outreach arm. That includes keeping at least 6 feet between yourself and other shoppers while shopping and when standing in line to pay for your purchases, she said, noting that current evidence shows the biggest risk of transmission of COVID-19 is being around individuals who are symptomatic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As such, many retailers have taken to marking safe standing distances with an “X” on the floor in the checkout lines. “Although consumers should not be too worried about COVID-19 transmissions from food, everyone should follow good hygiene practices when purchasing and preparing foods to lessen their chances of contracting the virus from other sources,” Ilic said. If possible, use hand sanitizer before and after selecting produce items and avoid touching multiple produce items when making selections, Ilic said. “If you are concerned about fresh produce or other food being contaminated with coronavirus, wash your hands before and after eating and before touching your face,” she said. “Also, make sure you never cough or sneeze in or around fresh produce display refrigerators. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone wash their hands often; refrain from touching their mouth, nose and eyes; and use hand sanitizer that is at least 60% alcohol.” Many grocery stores have instituted safety precautions such as reducing the hours the stores are open to allow employees to sanitize and restock the stores each night and allowing special shopping hours for elderly consumers and those with compromised immune systems. Additionally, here are other steps that Extension educators suggest you take when going to the store for food and sup-

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Easter egg-y ideas are real kid-pleasers By Donna Erickson

What says Easter more than the bunny? A roast ham, the traditional feast that’s not as easy to get right as it may seem.

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fewer lambs, curtailing the availability of legs of Lamb is a popular lamb for sale in the spring dish around the world, for Easter dinners. Ham especially at Easter. became a great alternative The tradition is rooted to lamb because farmers in the Jewish holiday of could cure and preserve Passover, which celethe meat during the brates the liberation of the winter and sell it in the Israelites from Egyptian spring. slavery. Ham also is a popuWith all the history aslar meat because it can sociated with serving lamb be prepared in so many at Easter, you may wonder ways. This recipe for why ham is so popular for Glazed Ham with Roasted Easter celebrations in our Vegetables is perfect for country. As with many Easter, and with a few foods, the reason lamb minor adaptations can be isn’t as popular in America combined with leftover, at Easter is rooted in suppeeled hard-boiled Easter ply, demand and cost. eggs the next morning to Wool was a popular fab- create my Easter Egg Hash. ric during World War II, Happy Easter! but as soon as the demand for wool began to wane, © 2020 King Features farmers began to raise Synd., Inc.

Hop to it! Easter is on its way. Put your busy schedule on hold for an evening or Saturday afternoon and make the traditional craft of egg decorating a family affair. How about sharing the fun with friends who will no doubt contribute to and enliven the memory making creativity? Here are some Easter egg-y ideas that are real kid-pleasers. For the first three, all you need are hard-cooked white eggs, prepared decorating dyes in small bowls and a variety of household items. RUBBER-BAND TIE-DYE Wind two or three rubber bands of various widths snuggly around egg. Dye the egg and let dry. Remove the rubber bands to reveal the designs.

Dye. Gently remove tape and add your own designs on the white space with markers.

Instead of resorting to the same old egg dyeing kit, try something new this Easter. STICKER DESIGNS Stick peel-off stars, dots or other shapes randomly on an egg. Be sure the stickers adhere completely to the egg before dipping in the dye. Let dry, then peel off stickers while they are still damp to reveal the designs. TAPE AND DRAW Wrap a piece of masking tape around an egg.

HOW TO BLOW OUT AN EGG If you prefer decorating eggs in which the raw contents have been blown out — so that you can hang them from branches for an egg tree or display in a basket and save them year to year — here is a simple process to empty them, plus two ideas for decorating once they have been blown. Poke a small hole with a large safety pin at each end of a washed raw egg. Carefully wiggle the pin or a toothpick into one of the holes to break the yolk. Place a drinking straw over the hole on top, and blow through the straw, collecting the contents of the egg in a small dish. Rinse out the empty shell and let dry completely before decorating.

INGREDIENTS 1 (8 to 10 pound) fully cooked bone-in smoked half ham (not spiral sliced) 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1 cup apricot jam 1/2 cup spicy brown mustard 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning 2 teaspoons ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves Roasted Vegetables: 1 1/2 pound fingerlings, small red potatoes or new potatoes cut into halves 1 pound slender carrots, cut into 2 inch lengths 1 bunch radishes, tops trimmed and reserved, and cut into halves 1 tablespoon salt for parboiling 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus 1 tablespoon for drizzling 2 tablespoons poultry seasoning 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 pound of escarole, frisee, chicory or arugula leaves, or the tops of the radish leaves, if available, chopped PROCEDURE To Prepare the Ham and Glaze: Heat oven to 300 degrees. Place ham in a large roasting pan, cut side down. With tip of sharp knife, make long, crisscross diamond shaped cuts through the tough skin and fat of the ham, top to bottom, but not into the meat. Cover tightly with foil. Bake 1 1/2 hours. In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, jam, mustard, poultry seasoning, pepper and cloves. Transfer 1 cup of the glaze to a separate bowl; cover and refrigerate to serve with the ham later. Remove foil from ham. Brush remaining glaze all over ham. Bake, uncovered, another 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until glaze is dark brown and internal temperature of ham has reached 140 degrees. Allow ham to rest 20 minutes before carving. Serve with reserved glaze. To Prepare the Vegetables: 1. Heat oven to 450 degrees. In a 7-quart saucepot, cover

potatoes and carrots with cold water; add 1 tablespoon salt. Cover and heat to boiling on high. Reduce heat to maintain simmer; cook 7 minutes. Drain well and return to pot. Vegetables can be parboiled and refrigerated up to 2 days before roasting. 2. Toss potatoes, carrots and radishes with oil, poultry seasoning, and 1 teaspoon each salt and pepper; arrange in a single layer on a large rimmed baking sheet. Roast 25 minutes or until vegetables are browned and tender, stirring twice. 3. Remove vegetables from the oven; drizzle the salad greens with the remaining oil and mix the greens with the vegetables. Serve warm or at room temperature with slices of ham.

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PROCEDURE Chop any leftover veggies and salad greens and chop up a few slices of ham to create 3 to 4 cups of hash. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt the butter with the oil. Place the chopped roasted vegetables and ham mixture in the hot skillet. Using a spatula press the hash into an even layer in the skillet to create a crisp texture on the bottom of the hash. Cook undisturbed until crunchy and browned on the bottom, about 3 to 5 minutes. Flip the hash in sections. Using a spoon, make 4 shallow indentations in the hash. Place a peeled hardboiled egg in each indentation. Cook for 5 minutes to allow the hash to brown on the bottom and the eggs to warm through. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with green onions, if desired.

Cut flowers program kicks off Four Seasons Gardening series CLINTON, Ill. — The University of Illinois Extension’s Four Seasons Gardening spring series kicks off at 1:30 p.m. April 14 with the program “Grow Your Own Cut Flowers.” Extension State Master Gardener Specialist Candice Hart will discuss how to grow a variety of cut flowers in Illinois, the benefits of having cut flowers in the garden, and how to condition them to be long lasting.

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SHAKE AND DECORATE Squeeze household glue from a plastic bottle in a simple design such as zigzags or an alphabet letter on a shell that is still white or dyed in a light color. Carefully set the egg in a plastic bag with colored sand or glitter and close it lightly in your fist, keeping locked air inside. Gently shake to coat the glue to reveal the design. Remove the egg, and slip onto a skewer through one of the holes and poke into a soft object like an egg carton to dry.

The program will be offered via a live webinar from wherever you have internet access by pre-registering at go.illinois.edu/ fourseasons. Recorded videos of these sessions can be viewed following the program at go.illinois.edu/ fourseasonsrecordings. Other topics in the spring series include “Landscape Design with Natives 101” at 1:30 p.m. May 5, and “Illinois Monarch Action Plan” at 1:30 p.m. May 26.

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Auction Calendar Fri., April 3

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction, 8:30 a.m., Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440. RICHFIELD, ILL.: Farm Machinery, 9 a.m., Raymond J. & Clara T. Neisen Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. GRIDLEY, ILL.: 10th Annual Production Sale, 6:30 p.m., Prairie View Farms, Alan & Theresa Miller, 217-8406935, Brandon & Cathy Jones, 309-370-1081.

Sat., April 4

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction, 8:30 a.m., Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440. MARTINAUCTION.COM: Online Only, 44th Annual Lawn & Garden Auction, Martin Auction 217-9353245. See p. B2

Mon., April 6

SIKESTON, MO.: Farm Machinery, 9:30 a.m., DeWitt Auction Company, Inc., 800-533-9488. See p. B1 SULLIVANAUCTIONEERS. COM: Online Only Farm Retirement Auction, 10 a.m., Robert (Bob) & Beverly Severns, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. See p. B1

Tues., April 7

MACOMB, ILL.: 120 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 1 p.m., Stan Danner, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Wed., April 8

SULLIVANAUCTIONEERS. COM: Online Only Inventory Reduction Auction, 10 a.m., Seven Springs Farms, Inc., Joe Nichols, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161. See p. B1 MONROE CENTER, ILL.: 30 +/Acres, 11 a.m., Holcomb Bank, Lenny Bryson, 815946-4120. See p. B2

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APRIL 3, 2020 | B1 PRINCETON, IND.: 336 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5:30 p.m. CT, Estate of Lester Moore, William Wilson Auction Realty, Inc., 812682-4000.

Thurs., April 9

FT. MADISON, IOWA: Real Estate & Personal Property, 10 a.m., Real Estate sells at 11 a.m., Leroy R. Payne, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161. ROCK FALLS, ILL.: 142.191 Acres in 2 Tracts, 11 a.m., Nick Hermes, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Fri., April 10

HATZERNORDSTROM.COM or ANDERSONENTERPRISESEQ. COM: Online Only, Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700. See p. B3 CARTHAGE, ILL.: 2020 “Out Behind the Barn” Sale, 1 p.m., Country Road Angus, 217-357-5038. See p. B1

Sat., April 11

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ANDERSONENTERPRISESEQ. COM: Online Only, Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700. See p. B3 CONGERVILLE, ILL.: Livestock Equipment & Machinery, 9 a.m., Reel Livestock Center, 309-448-2288.

Tues., April 14 CLARENCE, MO.: 239 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 5 p.m., Betty Jane Gildehaus Trust, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Wed., April 15

BIGGSVILLE, ILL.: 145 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 10 a.m., David W. Blake, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Thurs., April 16

CAMP POINT, ILL.: 93.125 Acres, 10 a.m., Michael G. Dittmer Special Needs Trust, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161. HENNESSEYIMPLEMENT. COM: Online Only Machinery Auction,

10 a.m., Hennessey Implement, Inc., 608-9353326. See p. B2 BLOOMFIELD, IOWA: 400 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5 p.m., The Short-Woodruff Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Fri., April 17

ARCOLA, ILL.: 2-Day TriCounty Spring Auction, 10 a.m., Tri-County Auction LLC, 217-521-0246.

Sat., April 18 ARCOLA, ILL.: 2-Day TriCounty Spring Auction, 8 a.m., Tri-County Auction LLC, 217-521-0246. YORKVILLE, ILL.: Farmland, 10 a.m., Estate of Mark Coffman, Brian DeBolt Auction Service, Inc., 630552-4247.

Mon., April 20

RUSHVILLE, ILL.: 102.59 Acres in 2 Tracts, 6 p.m., The Schafer Family Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Tues., April 21

MEMPHIS, MO.: 157 +/- Acres in 2 Tracts, 10 a.m., Lorna Jester, Sullivan Auctioneers,

LLC, 844-847-2161. MONROE CITY, MO.: 162 +/Acres in 4 Tracts, 5 p.m., Kyle Kendrick, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Thurs., April 23

PHILADELPHIA, MO.: Personal Property, 10 a.m., Roger & Marilyn Sublette, Gary & Karyl Sublette, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161. PALMYRA, MO.: 312 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5 p.m., Roger & Marilyn Sublette, Gary & Karyl Sublette, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Fri., Aug. 21

ANNAWAN, ILL.: Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700.

Sat., Aug. 22

ANNAWAN, ILL.: Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700.

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Monday, April 6, 2020 Early Start: 9:30 a.m.

DeWitt Auction Co. Lot • 220 DeWitt Drive • Sikeston, MO 63801

APPROX. 9:00 A.M. - Row 1: Small field equipment and misc. items. Every item in Row 1 sells regardless of price. APPROX. 10:00 A.M. - Row 2: All types of field equipment including disks, field cultivators, planters, drills, hay equipment & related items. APPROX. 12:00 NOON - Construction Equipment including backhoes, forklifts, dirt scoops, dozers, front end loader, misc items. APPROX. 12:30 P.M. - Consignment from a Local Farmer plus other consignments. Partial listing: CONSIGNMENT FROM Heil, insulated 1-Large lot of shop equipment A LOCAL FAMER 1-Approx. 6,000 gal. tanker trailer, Heil including, fuel tank, air comp. and 1-2006 Freightliner semi, day cab, air 1-7250 Case IH MFWD, cab, 520/85 related items ride, Cat engine, 10 sp. trans. R42 R1 duals 1-2001 Western Star semi, day cab, 1-1989 Peterbilt semi, day cab, 1-7060 Allis, cab, 20.8x38 R1 for parts only Cummins engine, 10 sp. trans. 1-496 Case IH 30’ disk, missing parts 1-1998 Peterbilt semi, day cab, for 1-1998 Western Star semi, day cab, 1-Woods 7’ mower parts only 475 Cat engine, 10 sp. trans. 1-10’ pull box blade CONSIGNMENT FROM A 1-Approx. 6,000 gallon tanker trailer, 1-3 pt. grade blade LOCAL BANK Progress, insulated 1-Lot of truck tires 1-2007 Peterbilt 378 semi, sleeper, 1-Approx. 6,000 gallon tanker trailer, 1-Lot of misc. tires wet kit, Cat engine, 10 sp. trans. APPROX. 3:00 P.M. - 75-125 Farm Tractors including 2-8320R JD 50” front duals, IVT, ICS, 2019 yr., 400500 hrs., warranty to 3-2022; 2-8295R JD 50”, 1-with front duals, 1902 hrs.; 2-8245R JD, 2017 yr., 50”, 2399 and 2401 hrs.; 1-8370R JD 50” front duals, ILS, IVT, 2014 yr., 2020 hrs.; 1-7230R JD 46” duals, ILS front, 1885 hrs., 2013 yr.; 1-6155M JD, 42” duals, 5265 hrs.; 2-8285R JD; 8245R JD 50”; 8310R JD 50”; 8270R JD 50” 2015 yr.; 8295R JD 1466 hrs., 2014 yr.; 8235R JD; 8260R JD; 8330 JD; 8230 JD; 2-8120 JD; 8420 JD track; 8400 JD; 8300 JD; 2-6140R JD; 6430 JD prem. Partial listing only.

Musgrave 316 Capitalist 37 Sire of Lots 1-3 & 20

Musgrave Sky High 407 976 Sire of Lots 4-6

EXAR Resistol 3710B

Remember: All tires, rims and duals will be lined up behind salvage tractors and sold absolute following first row.

Grandsire of Lots 7-12 & 21-27

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ONLINE ONLY NO-RESERVE FARM RETIREMENT AUCTION MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2020 AT 10:00 A.M.

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Items located at the Severns farm, 6 miles east of Chandlerville, IL on the Oakford-Chandlerville blacktop. Physical Address: 28689 Oakford Rd., Chandlerville, IL 62627

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: 2004 John Deere 9120 4wd tractor, 24 spd. trans., TeeJet auto steer system, 3,559 hours; 1996 John Deere 8100 MFWD tractor, PS trans., 5,348 hours; 1982 John Deere 4640 2wd tractor, QuadRange trans., 7,404 hours; 1977 John Deere 4430 2wd tractor, QuadRange trans., 8,496 hours; 1974 John Deere 4030 2wd tractor, open station, Synchro trans., JD 158 loader, 4,323 hours; 2014 John Deere S660 2wd combine, 3spd. trans., HiTorque feederhouse, 1,196 eng./863 sep. hours; 2016 John Deere 608C 8 row 30” corn head, 1,600 total acres!; 2010 John Deere 630F 30’ HydraFlex platform; Unverferth HT30 30’ head cart; 2005 John Deere 1770NT CCS 16 row 30” planter; 2013 John Deere 2720 7-shank disk ripper; 2005 John Deere 726 27’9” soil finisher; John Deere 7000 4 row 36” planter; McCormick 10 grain drill; Bush Hog 10’ pull-type rotary cutter; 500 gal. tow between cart; 15’ cultimulcher; John Deere RM 8 row 30” cultivator, Meteer hyd. flat fold; John Deere 400 15’ rotary hoe; Demco 650 grain cart, 24.5-32 tires; Demco 650 grain cart, 30.5L-32 tires; Demco 650 grain cart, 28L-26 tires; Parker 600 bu. gravity wagon, center dump; Killbros 350 gravity wagon, hyd. drive seed auger; Mayrath 10”x70’ swing away auger, hyd. hopper swing, hyd. lift; 2012 John Deere GS3 2630 display, AutoTrac SF2, RowSense; 2012 John Deere StarFire 3000 receiver, SF1, 6,456 hours; Farm Star 3-pt. post hole digger; 500 gal. fuel tank on running gear; 15’ 3-bar spike tooth harrow.

Robert (Bob) & Beverly Severns – Owners rs Bob’s cell: (217) 415-1236

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ONLINE ONLY NO-RESERVE ERVE INVENTORY REDUCTION AUCTION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020 AT 10:00 A.M.

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Items located at 1561 Rocky Ridge Road • Cadiz, Kentucky 42211 Make plans to participate in this Outstanding No-Reserve Equipment Inventory Reduction Auction! Joe Nichols & the entire team at Seven Springs Farms run an outstanding, top-notch operation. This equipment has been through the shop and is ready to go to the field. The items will be located for inspection at a large fenced lot near Cadiz, Kentucky. The gates will be open from 7:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. each day.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: ‘17 JD 9470R 4wd tractor, PS trans., 1000 PTO, 1,245 hours; ’18 JD 8245R MFWD tractor, PS trans., 859 hours; ’17 JD 6130M MFWD tractor, 16 spd. PowerQuad Plus trans., 640R loader, 2,528 hours; (4) ‘08 JD 5203 2wd tractors, open station, 1,900-830 hours; (2) ‘15 JD 616C 16 row 30” corn heads; (2) Horst CHCF 45’ all-wheel steer head carts; John Deere 9400 2wd combine, 4,294/2,782 hours; John Deere 643 6 row 30” corn head; John Deere 915 15’ platform; Shop built 20’ head cart; JD GS3 2630 display, AutoTrac SF1; (5) JD StarFire 3000 receivers; ’15 JD 1775NT CCS 16 row 30” planter, ExactEmerge, hyd. adjust row cleaners, liquid fertilizer, 6,344 acres; ’15 JD 1795 CCS 16/32 planter, MaxEmerge 5, RowCommand, liquid fertilizer, 16,876 acres; ‘16 JD 1890 50’ air seeder, 11,897 acres, w/ JD 1910 430 bu. tow between cart; JD 7000 6 row 30” planter, liquid fertilizer; Unverferth 3750 Seed Runner seed tender; USC LP800 seed treater and seed hopper; ’13 JD 2623VT 40’ 8” vertical tillage tool; ’13 JD 2310 39’9” soil finisher; ’13 JD 2623 26’5” disk; JD 510 5-shank disk ripper; JD 714 13-shank disk chisel; (3) JD 915 7-shank 3-pt. V-rippers; JD 910 7-shank 3pt. V-ripper; (2) Sunflower 7252-37 37’ single rollers; Brillion XL Series 30’ single roller; Brillion Optimizer 16’ single roller; Kneverland 4-bottom plow; Blu-Jet AT4610 25-knife liquid applicator, 1,500 gal. tank; BluJet AT4610 17-knife liquid applicator, 1,500 gal. tank; B-B 1,000 gal. liquid tender; Chandler 8-ton S.S. fertilizer spreader; Loftness GL System 10 Grain Bag Loader, w/ Loftness GL System 10 Truck Auger; 2014 Loftness GL System 10 grain bag unloader; (16) Hitech 300’x10’ grain bags; (2) Walinga 6614 AgriVac grain vacs; Westfield MK130-91 13”x91’ swing away auger; Westfield MK130-71 13”x71’ swing away auger; Central Steel 10”x41’ truck auger; Central Steel 10”x32’ truck auger; Creamer 146FB 6-hole distributor, new; (2) Creamer 6,000 bph 25’ U-trough grain drags with drive and reducer; Bush Hog 2615L 15’ batwing mower; JD 1008 10’ pull-type rotary cutter; ’15 JD L330 large square baler; New Idea 6364 round baler; (15) 20’ hayracks on running gears; ‘15 Deere 204K wheel loader, ROPS, 592 hours; Cat D8H dozer, OROPS, rebuilt engine; Cat 815 drive type compactor; Rome TACW-16 11’ heavy duty offset disk; ‘03 Deere 1812C pull-type dirt scraper; Terex TA35 haul wagon, shop built 2-pt. hitch; Scraper hitch dis for JD 9000/9000R 4wd tractor; (3) scraper cables for JD 9R 4wd tractor; ’13 JD 2320 MFWD compact utility tractor, 62” deck, 127 hours; ’15 JD Z997R zero turn lawn mower, diesel, 72” deck, 1,477 hours; ‘13 JD Z960R zero turn lawn mower, gas, 72” deck, 921 hours; ‘92 Chevrolet Kodiak liquid tender truck, 2,650 gal. poly tank; 1979 Chevrolet C70 grain truck, 16’ Knapheide grain bed; 1988 GMC Brigadier single axle semi; (2) KBH 2013 Tender Trailers; ’11 JD 6.8L power unit; ’06 JD 6.8L power unit; ’09 JD 4.5L power unit; Shop built 1,000 gal. fuel trailer, 100 gal. custom DEF tank; (2) Shop built 500 gal. fuel trailers, 100 gal. custom DEF tank; Assorted tires; Assorted poly tanks; Attachments and more!

Seven Springs Farms, Inc. – Joe Nichols, Owner

EQUIPMENT QUESTIONS: (270) 206-0072 • Joe@SevenSpringsFarms.com

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Master gardeners seek plant donations for food pantries OGLESBY, Ill. — The Healthy Gardening Project seeks to empower families to provide themselves with low-cost, healthful, fresh food by establishing a home garden. The project, now in its ninth year, was conceived by University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Barb Dahlbach of Marshall County, Illinois.

Dahlbach, along with other Marshall-Putnam master gardener volunteers, provide local families utilizing food pantries with initial supplies and skills to start a home garden, including plants, containers, soil and seeds. For the last several years they have given away over 1,000 plants and thousands of

seeds yearly to food pantry clients in Marshall and Putnam counties. Due to the current COVID-19 global pandemic and guidelines for social distancing, the master gardeners were unable this year to use a common space in which to grow plants for the project. If you start your own plants from

seeds, the University of Illinois Marshall-Putnam master gardeners need your help to help fulfill the mission of the Healthy Gardening Project. Plants are scheduled to be given away at food pantries beginning second week of May. If you have room, please consider planting a flat for the food pantries.

The master gardeners are especially interested in receiving peppers, tomatoes, cabbage and broccoli, but will be happy to accept any garden vegetables or herbs. This is a year that plants will be on demand as the economy will be putting more of a burden on the food pantries. If you are interested

Master naturalist builds website to encourage people to enjoy outdoors

NATIONAL AG DAY

FFA members urged to step up, stay active By Ashley Langreck

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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — As individuals all across the nation and the world face hard times due to COVID-19, a motivational speaker is doing his best to encourage youth to keep their heads up. Jason Wetzler, a professional speaker and a leadership coach who also served as the 2013-2014 National FFA western region vice president, said that it’s such an interesting time right now because everyone has been told to push the pause button on their normal life activities, but the world keeps spinning. Wetzler said that although to some it may seem like the world is bro-

ken right now, it’s not — people just have to adjust to a different way of living. Wetzler said right now — when F FA member s are dealing with state conventions being canceled, Wetzler leadership conferences being postponed and livestock shows being canceled or being put on hold — is the perfect time for them to figure out what their purpose in life is. “They need to figure out their why and make the most out of their time,” he said. Wetzler said during all this extra time FFA youth are finding they have right now, they should take

some time to determine why they wake up every mor n i n g a nd what their mission and purpose of life is. Wetzler said that he recently had the opportunity to interact with dozens of FFA members virtually through a National Ag Day seminar that usually would be held in person. “FFA members are really cool,” Wetzler said, adding that he was able to talk to a lot of them virtually and learn what they have been doing to stay active in the FFA organization and help others in the community during these trying

times. Wetzler said that FFA members need to step up, keep a level head and stay driven during this time of self-quarantine and social distancing. Wetzler said that FFA members need to ask themselves when they look back at the time period dealing with COVID-19, will their actions show that they got lost in quarantine and they didn’t do anything, or that they helped fellow FFA members and loved ones get through a challenging time by being there for them?

PEKIN, Ill. — “I just want people to spend more time outside,” explained University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist Julie Robinson. This was the passion driving Robinson to build a website called Local OPAL, which stands for Outdoor Playing And Learning, www.localopal. org. She created an online resource that helps everyone easily find publicly accessible outdoor locations in Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell, Marshall, and Woodford counties. Shortly after attending the master naturalist training in June 2018, Robinson started working on the website. She has spent her career teaching high school math and has first-hand experience with the challenges of spending too much time inside. “I am always encouraging my students to go outside, take a hike, but they often say there is nowhere to go,” she explained. “Time in the Extension master naturalist class convinced me that, as a community, we needed a way for all our local outdoor public access areas and information about them to be more easily found. My students need to know what is in their backyard. In fact, we all need to know what is in our backyard. “It was on that bright June morning, driving the

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-426-9438, ext. 192, or alangreck@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Langreck.

Resources for parents and teachers

‘Tales of the Dairy Godmother’ Book introduces young readers to dairy farming WASHINGTON — At a time when consumers of all ages are growing in curiosity about where their food comes from, a new children’s book introduces readers to the round-theclock work and ingenuity of dairy farming. “Tales of the Dair y Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish” is now available from Feeding Minds Press, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s publishing venture. “‘Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish’ is a delightful and educational story that we hope will engage young readers and spark curiosity about where their

food comes from,” Daniel Meloy, executive director of the foundation said. “That’s our goal with every resource the foundat ion prov ides, a nd we’re excited to add this story to the growing library of books that tell the story of modern agriculture.” In this “dairy-tale,” a young boy named Chuck wishes for all the ice cream he can eat, prompting his “Dairy Godmother” to show up to grant his wish with a dairy farm, where he gets a firsthand look at all the hard work and care that goes into producing his favorite treat. Just like young Chuck,

readers can learn more about the real work of a dairy farm, and the story doesn’t stop on the last page. The foundation also released a companion video to introduce readers to a real dairy farmer named Chuck, former Maryland Farm Bureau President and “ice cream farmer,” Chuck Fry. “Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish” is the second title f rom Feeding Minds Press, which published “Right This Very Minute” in January 2019. The book is available for purchase directly from Feeding Minds Press, as well as on Amazon and Barnes & Noble online.

$25,000 awarded to promote ag literacy WASHINGTON — The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has recognized the outstanding agricultural literacy efforts of educators and communities across the country with a total of $25,000 in scholarships and grants to build on their work to connect students with how their food is grown. The foundation, through t he W h it e - R ei n ha r dt Fund for Education, sponsors the scholarships and grants in cooperation with the American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee. The fund honors two former committee chairwomen, Berta White and Linda Reinhardt, who were trailblazers in early national efforts to expand the outreach of agricultural education and improve agricultural literacy. The foundation awarded 10 teachers and classroom

volunteers with $1,500 scholarships to attend the National Ag in the Classroom Conference, to be held June 23-26 in Salt Lake City. This year’s recipients a re: Leah Slaug hter, Lake Weston Elementary School, Orlando, Florida; Jenna Stevens, Clinton County Ag in the Classroom, DeWitt, Iowa; Nancy Smith, Bentwood E le me nt a r y, O l a t he , Kansas; Audrey Varney, Maine Cooperative Extension Maine 4-H/ University of Maine Farmington, Turner, Maine; Christopher Arrington, Marion Public Schools, Marion, Michigan; Karrie Newton, Northern Granville Middle School, Bullock, North Carolina; Matthew Koth, Highland Elementary School, Omaha, Nebraska; Brianne Willson, Camden Middle School, Ava, New York; Debra Nelson, Bottineau

High School, Bottineau, North Dakota; and Melissa Shirk, Philadelphia Elementary, Loudon, Tennessee. The foundation also awarded 10 communities with $1,000 grants, which will be allocated through county Farm Bureaus this spring and used to create new agricultural literacy projects or expand existing agricultural literacy efforts. The 2020 spring grant recipients are: Kent County Farm Bureau, Delaware; Ba n k s Cou nt y Fa r m Bureau, Georgia; Barrow County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Douglas County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Hall County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Franklin County Farm Bureau, Illinois; McLean County Farm Bureau, Illinois; Randolph County Farm Bureau, I nd ia na; Wa sh i ng ton Farm Bureau, Tennessee; and Moore County Farm Bureau, Texas.

hills into Singing Woods, that I could not escape the overwhelming feeling that I needed to do something to help these places be known and shared. If it was easier to find the places to go, maybe people would go more. It was kind of the ‘if you build it, they will come’ idea. If you tell them where they can go, they will go?” Part of Robinson’s inspiration came from the fact that the local EMN training is coordinated in such a way that introduces trainees to natural areas that may be new to them and are typically lesser-known in general. Places like Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge, The Nature Conservancy Emiquon, McNaughton Park, and Camp Wokanda are a few “hidden treasures” that EMNs enjoy during their training. With the help of family, friends, colleagues, and EMN volunteers, Robinson has identified almost 300 local natural areas, noted their exact location, and documented details about each one. What Robinson had originally thought would be a document she could hand to her students listing outdoor parks and natural areas soon outgrew what could be managed in a printed handout. The website is a work in progress as new details are added.

FARMLAND AUCTION Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 at 11:00 A.M Sale to be held at: Double “OO” Saloon 5555 N Clark St • Monroe Center, IL 61052

30 Acres +/- ONE PARCEL:

Section 35 of Cherry Valley Township in Winnebago, IL OPEN TENANCY 2020 For complete listing of sale bill, maps, tax info, and terms & conditions, etc. visit www.lennybrysonauctioneer.com For Information Contact: Lenny Bryson – Auctioneer 11749 West Judson Road Polo, IL 61064 Ph) 815-946-4120 SM-LA1768171

“Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish,” now available from Feeding Minds Press, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s publishing venture, follows young Chuck as he learns just how much work goes into making his favorite treat.

INDIANAPOLIS — Corn and soybean farmers from Indiana and across the country are providing teachers and parents with valuable teaching resources while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 crisis. The National Corn Growers Association and state corn checkoff organizations such as the Indiana Corn Marketing Council have launched the Nourish the Future community network. Nourish the Future provides free virtual resources online at nourishthefuture.org. NCGA and ICMC believe agriculture can help engage students in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. An ag-based curriculum in the science classroom will inspire students to solve real-world issues with practical solutions. In addition, reaching students with the Nourish the Future curriculum can help address the increasing job gap in agriculture-related careers. “ C OV I D -1 9 has brought all of us challenges that we didn’t anticipate, but it also give us new opportunities that we haven’t had before,” said ICMC board member and NCGA Action Team Member Natasha Cox, who farms in Benton. T he Nou r ish t he Future materials cover subjects such as biotechnology, energy and ethanol, plant anatomy and growth stages, soil science and sustainability and the role of clean water in a healthy ecosystem. The program’s lesson plans are designed for students from middle school through high school.

in donating plants, contact University of Illinois Extension Program Coordinator Meg Overocker at meo@illinois.edu with the subject line “Plant Donations,” or you may leave a message with your contact information at the University of Illinois Extension office at 815224-0889.

Owner, Holcomb Bank Attorney, Jim Stevens

1414 State Rd 23, Dodgeville, WI - 608-935-3326

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Consignments will be taken until April 15th at 5:00 p.m. - Call Bill Hennessey

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Friday, April 10, 2020

3 Online Rings Each Day • Auctions Begin At 8:30 A.M. Tractors & Loaders 1981 Allis Chalmers 7080 (4260 Hours, Engine Overhauled 200 Hours Ago), Cat 75, Case 480B Construction King, 2001 Case MX240 (MFWD, 7118 Hours, Powershift), Case MX285 Magnum (3pt, PTO, 4 Remotes), Case IH 585 (4001 Hours, 3 pt, PTO), Case 830 , Farmall 706 (NF, Gas, 2 Remotes, 1000 PTO), Ford TW35 (FWA, Duals), Ford 3000 (Diesel, WF, 3 pt, PTO, 3965 Hours), IH 540, 1975 IH 667744 Loader w/ 2250 Quicktach Loader & 7’ Bucket (540 PTO, 2 Remotes, 4129 Hours), International 284 (Diesel, 2700 Hours, Good Shape), International 5288 (Duals, PS, Cab, 3 pt, PTO, , 1968 IH 756 (Gas, WF, 2 pt, 2 Remotes, 540/100 PTO), 1969 IH 756 (Gas, WF, 2 pt, 2 Remotes, 540/1000 PTO), John Deere 1020 w/ John Deere 521 Loader (2029 Hours, Gas, PTO, 3 pt, Remote), 1976 John Deere 2640 (Diesel, 3972 Hours, WF, 4 Rear Weights, 2 Remotes, Quick Hitch) w/ John Deere HD Loader, 6’ Bucket, & 8’ Snow Bucket, John Deere 2750 w/ Cab & Loader, 1978 John Deere 2840 w/ 148 Loader , John Deere 3010 (NF, Gas, PTO, Remote, Synchro), John Deere 3020 (NF, Gas, 3 pt, PTO, Remote), John Deere 3020 (Gas) , John Deere 4020 (Gas, w/ Duals), John Deere 4020 (Diesel, WF, PS), John Deere 4020 (Diesel, WF, 3 Remotes, 3 pt), John Deere 4020 (Gas), John Deere 4430 (9000 Hours, Quad Range, PTO, 2 Remotes), John Deere 4320 Tractor, John Deere 4440 , John Deere 4555 (MFWD, Duals, 7500 Hours, 3 pt, 3 Remotes, PS), John Deere 4760 (Duals, Cab, 2WD, PS, 3 Remotes), John Deere 4850 (2WD, PS), John Deere 5075E (MFWD, 3 pt, PTO) w/ John Deere 553 Loader, Forks, & Bucket , 1993 John Deere 6300 w/ John Deere 640 Loader (MFWD), 2004 John Deere 8420T (5271 Hours, 18” Tracks, Auto Steer Ready), John Deere 8430 (4WD, Duals, 3 Remotes, 7495 Hours), John Deere 8570 (4WD, 6125 Hours, Duals), John Deere 8640 (Duals), John Deere 9600 (4WD), 2004 John Deere 9320T (4900 Hours, PTO, 30” Tracks, Front Weights, Auto Steer Ready), Massey Ferguson 1105 (Diesel, Duals), 2014 Versatile 290 (984 Hours, 4 Remotes, Front & Rear Duals), 2014 Versatile 310 (2160 Hours, 4 Remotes, Rear Duals) Compact Tractors & Utility Vehicles Allis Chalmers Forklift, IH Cub w/ Woods L59 Belly Mower, IH 154 Cub Low Boy (Gas, WF) w/ Woods 59 Rotary Mower, IH 254 Compact Tractor (WF, Gas, 3 pt, PTO, 1407 Hours), John Deere 2210 Compact Tractor , 2009 John Deere 2305 Compact Tractor (Bar Tires, Cab), John Deere 625I Gator, John Deere 4x2 Gator, John Deere 590M Gator XUV, Kawasaki Mule 600 (2WD, Hydro, Gas), Kubota RTV900 (4x4, Diesel), Kubota BX1500 Compact Tractor (4WD, Hydro, 48” Deck, PTO), Kubota BX1860 Compact Tractor (MFWD, Deck, Loader), Kubota RTV1100 (Diesel, 4WD, Hydraulic Dump, Canvas Cab), Polaris 800 UTV, Polaris Ranger 900 HD (517 Hours, Dual Overhead Cam, Sharp), Yanmar YM226 Compact Tractor (571 Hours, 3 pt, PTO Construction & Skidloaders Bomag BW90 Roller, Clark Forklift, CAT 908H Endloader, 1999 John Deere 160LC (11,504 Hours, 30” Bucket), 1999 John Deere 200LC (11,360 Hours, 30” Bucket), IH 2504 Tractor w/ Loader & Backhoe, Johnson Tile Plow w/ 8”, 6” and 4” Boot and Lasers, Box Scraper Laser Ready, New Holland L445 Skidloader, New Holland L785 Skid Loader w/ Bucket (Diesel), New Holland L220 Skidloader (2500 Hours w/ Powertach), 40’ Snorkelift, 2005 Takeuchi Skidsteer TL150 (1121 Hours, Tracks), Yanmar B50-2B (5892 Hours, 24” Bucket, Manual Case, Quick Hitch), (2) Tile Caddies Combines, Cornheads, & Platforms Case International 1440 Combine, Gleaner R50 Combine w/ 4 Row Wide Cornhead & 15’ Platform, John Deere 8820 Turbo Combine (4x4, 4556 Hours, Chopper), John Deere 7700 Combine, John Deere 4400 Combine, Case 2020 30’ Platform, CIH 1020 16.5’ Platform, Gleaner 6 RN Cornhead, John Deere 444 Cornhead, John Deere 643 Cornhead, John Deere 920 Platform, McFarland 35’ Reel, Unverferth HT25 Headcart Attachments John Deere 148 Loader w/ 2 Buckets, Longlasting Hay Forks, New Idea Loader, Farmhand Hilift Loader, IH 7’ 3pt Blade, CID 48” LowBack Bale Spear New, CID 48” HighBack Bale Spear New, CID HD 48” Pallet Forks New , Ford 200 3pt Disk 48”, Taylorway 3pt Tiller, New 80” Grapple Bucket, Tomahawk 66” Bucket, Post Puller, Tree Puller, 6’ 3pt Blade, 10’ Snowpusher, Snow Plow Blade, Industrias America F10 Box Blade, Industrias America F08 Box Blade, Cammand 12’ Box Blade, Pallet Fork Extensions, 3pt Garden Cultivator, PTO Generator, Dirty Dog 80” Grapple Bucket, Westendorf 3pt Hydraulic Forklift, Shaver HD-10 Post Pounder, Cosmo 500 3 pt Seeder, Landpride

RTR1250 3 pt 50” Tiller, A&B 6’ 3 pt Pullverizer, Woods 5’ 3 pt Tiller, Super Rhino 8’ 3pt Blade, Rhino L200 3pt Post Hole Digger, Woods 3 pt Post Hole Digger, FarmKing F0435 Snowblower, FarmKing F1663 Snowblower, FarmKing F154 Snowblower Fertilizer Equipment & Sprayers 2008 John Deere 2510S Strip-Til Bar (12Row, High Residue Model, NH3 System, P&K Dry System, Row Cleaners, Rolling Baskets, Depth Control, Used With Concord 1100 A Cart), Concord 1100 Air Cart (Ground Driven, Monitor, Hydraulic Fan, 2 Sets of Tires (R Crop, Floater) Hydraulic Load/Unload Side Auger), 12R30 Pull Type 500 Gallon (540 P Pump, Modern Booms, Plumbing, On/ O Solenoid for Nozzles, Dultmeir Tank & Cradle), Bestway 1000 Gallon Pro II Sprayer (60’ Boom, Outback System), Blue Jet AT3000 32 SideDress Bar 12-16 Row, Case IH 3200 Sprayer (1000 Gallon, 90’ Booms, 2470 Hours), Farmrite 300 Gallon Front Fold Boom Sprayer w/ Pump, Farmrite 300 Gallon Sprayer, Fast Sidetank o John Deere 8420T (900 Gallons, Stainless Steel, Like New), Hardy 500 Gallon Sprayer, Hardy Navigator 1100 Gallon Sprayer 80’ Boom (Ha Foamer & Monitor), IH Fertilizer Spreader/ Seeder, John Blue 5 Shank Applicator, John Deere 40’ Tool Bar w/ Liquid Coulters, 1991 Kenworth w/ 18 Ton 3 Compartment Rayman Fertilizer Tender, (2) Larson 300 Gallon Sprayers, Modern Flow 80’ Boom Self Propelled Sprayer, Progressive 2450 1000 Gallon 16 RN Sprayer & Pump, Top Air 800 Gallon Sprayer w/ 60’ Booms, Terragator 1603 1800 Gallons 70’ Boom (Ag Leader Monitor) Tillage Equipment Brillion 14’ Cultimulcher, Blue Jet 3 Shank Subsoiler II, 2014 Case IH 875 9 Shank Ripper w/ 5 Bar Harrow, DMI 730B Ripper, DMI 11 Shank Chisel, DMI Tiger Mate II 30’, DMI 1300 9 Shank Mulch Ripper, Great Plains 22’ Turbo Till, M&W 1165 Earthmaster 5 Shank, Harrow Cart, Harrow Sections, 22’ Harrowgator, John Deere 24’ Harrow Drag, John Deere 980 Field Cultivator w/ 5 Bar Spike Harrow (Like New) , Lindsay 20’ Harrow Cart, McFarlane 26 1/2’ 8 Bar Harrow, McFarlane HDL-140-8 34.5’ Harrow, Phillips 3003A Rolling Harrow , Case 4200 28’ Combo Mulch Soil Finisher (4 Bar Coil Tine Harrow), IH 4 Row Rotary Hoe, John Deere 14’ 3 pt Rotary Hoe, John Deere 400 4 Row Rotary Hoe, John Deere 30’ Rotary Hoe, Case 7 Bottom Plow w/ Harrow, John Deere 6 BTM Plow, John Deere 2600 6 Bottom Plow, John Deere 2700 5 Bottom Plow, John Deere Chisel Plow, IH 5 Bottom 2 pt Plow, IH 710 518 Plow, IH #70 4 BTM Plow 14” Pull Type, Willbeck 9 Shank Chisel Plow w/ 5 DMI Parabolic Shanks Mounted on Rear & Midwest Buster Harrow, 2013 Kongskilde 9100 34’ Vertical Tillage (Harrow & Rolling Baskets), 3 pt 6’ Disk, Case 330 Turbo Disk w/ Rolling Basket, IH 490 28’ Disk (9” Spacing, 19.5” Blades, 4 Bar Spike Harrow), IH 490 25’ Disk, IH 10’ Disk, International 490 28’ Disk, John Deere 630 21 1/2’ Disk w/ 5 Bar Spike, John Deere 630 Disk w/ New 5 Bar Spike Harrow, John Deere 630 Disk w/ Harrow, John Deere 230 26’ Disk, John Deere 331 28’ Disk, Kewanee 10’ Disk, Kewanee 1010 18’ Disk, Kewanee 14’ #100 Disk, 48” Field Cultivator 3pt, Brady 3550 22’ Field Cultivator w/ Rear Hitch, CIH 4800 32’ Field Cultivator w/ Coil Harrow, DMI 30’ Field Cultivator, Glencoe 14’ Field Cultivator, Glencoe 8 Row 30” Cultivator (Rolling Shields), Hinicker Cultivator, Hinicker 24’ Field Cultivator w/ Midwest Harrow, IH 24’ Cultivator, IH 4600 26’ Field Cultivator w/ Harrow, IH 468 Frontmount Cultivator, IH 4300 28 1/2’ Field Cultivator w/ Spike Harrow, John Deere 12 Row Cultivator, John Deere 6 Row Cultivator, John Deere 33’ S Tine Cultivator w/ Coil Tine Harrow, John Deere 845 8RW Cultivator, John Deere 825 4RW Cultivator, Glencoe Soil Saver Chisel Grain Handling Wagons John Deere Gear w/ Dultier Barge Box w/ Hoist, IH Gear w/ Sankee Barge Box w/ Midwest Hoist, Grainavator, (2 ) A&L 400BU Wagons, DMI Wagon, DMI Wagon w/ Auger Attached, DMI Wagon w/ Auger and Tarp (Stored Inside), EZ Trail Wagon, Harvest Flow 225BU Wagon, J&M 250 Grain Wagon, Kill Bros Wagon & Gear, M&W Wagon, Parker 270BU Gravity Wagon, A&L Gaincart, Brent 610 Grain Cart, Brent 620 Graincart, EZ Flow 675 Graincart, Kinze 400 Graincart, Kinze 840 Graincart, Kinze 840 Graincart, Kinze 840 Graincart, Kill Bros 1810 Graincart Augers & Dryers Brock 8’ Power Sweep for 36’ Bin (Complete), Cadinal 10”x31’ Auger, FarmKing 10”x36’ Auger, FarmKing 10”x36’ Auger New, FarmKing 10”x36’ Auger New, FarmKing 10”x31’ Auger New, FarmKing 10”x31’ Auger New, FarmKing 10”x70’ Auger New, Hutchinson 12”x81’ Auger, Hutchinson 10”x34’ Auger, Kongsklide Grain Vac w/ Pipes & Clamps, Sudenga Tractor

Saturday, April 11, 2020 Lawn & Garden Ferris Zero Turn 1S700Z w/ 54” Deck, John Deere 930A Zero Turn, John Deere X540 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere X730 w/ 60” Deck, John Deere X520 w/ 54” Deck, John Deere X500 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere X350 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere X304 w/ 38” Deck & Bagger, John Deere 345 w/ 54” Deck & Bagger, John Deere 430 w/ 60” Deck, John Deere X540 w/ 54” Deck, John Deere 757 w/ 60” Deck, John Deere X320 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere X350 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere X300 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere 314 w/ 46” Deck, John Deere 325 w/ 48” Deck & 48’ Front Blade, John Deere 345 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere LA105, John Deere LT160, John Deere LT166 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere LX279 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere STX38 w/ 38” Deck, John Deere STX46, John Deere X304 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere X324, 2016 John Deere X350 w/ 42” Deck, John Deere GX345 w/ 54” Deck, John Deere X495 w/ 60” Deck, John Deere X500 w/ 54” Deck, John Deere X540 w/ 48” Deck, John Deere 757 Zero Turn, Kubota ZD21, Kubota ZG23 w/ 54” Deck, Simplicity Broadmoor w/ 42” Deck, Toro Zturn Mower w/ 62” Deck Recreational Vehicles Snowmobiles, 2 Man GoKart, Trail Rover 125CX 4 Wheeler, John Deere Gator 4x2 (Gas), John Deere 825i Gator

505 S. East St. • Annawan, Illinois Mount Grain Elevator, 8” Unload Auger Trucks & Trailers Big Tex 83”x20’ New Trailer (14K, Dovetail, Knee Ramps), Big Tex 77”x16’ New Utility Trailer (4500# Axle, Ramp Gate), Big Tex 83”x12’ New Utility Trailer (SA, Gate), Big Tex 83”x16’ New Utility Trailer (7K, Gate), Big Tex 83”x16’ New Car Trailer (6K, Ramps), Big Tex 83”x12’ New TA Dump Trailer (7’ Slide in Ramps, Tarp), 2009 Chevy C4500 (190300 Miles, 14’ Stake Bed, Ladder Rack), 2000 Ford F550 (4x4, Snow Plow, Dump, 95,000 Miles), 2003 Ford F450 (2WD, 7.3 Powerstroke, 297,000 Miles, Enclosed Service Body), 1995 Ford L8000, 1974 GMC 6000 Grain Truck, Homemade 24’ Gooseneck Trailer (2 7000# Axles, Ramps), 1991 Kenworth KW (9 Speed, 60 Series Detroit Engine, 18 Ton 3 Compartment Rayman Fertilizer Tender), 2014 LoadTrail GP (Hydraulic Tail), 2004 LoadTrail CH8318 Car Trailer (2-3500# Axles), 1998 16’ Redi Haul Trailer (2- 3500# Axles, Ramps), 1974 Trail Eze Gooseneck Grain Trailer , 1992 Wilson 48’ Flatbed Semi Trailer Planters & Drills International 900 Corn Planter (Rebuilt w/ Monitor), 1997 John Deere 7200 Vacuum Planter (8 Row 30” Ridged, 2x2 Fertilizer System and Pump, Corn & Bean Plates, John Deere 250 Monitor, 1.6BU Corn Hoppers & Insecticide Extra ), John Deere 7200 8 Row Wide Planter (Yetter Trash Whippers, John Deere 250 Monitor), John Deere 7200 12 Row Planter (Front Fold, Precision Meters, Hyd Fold, John Deere 250 Monitor), John Deere 7000 6 Row 30” Corn/Bean Planter (Monitor), John Deere 7000 4 Row Planter, John Deere 7000 4 Row 30” Planter, John Deere 7000 4RW (Dry Insecticide, Trash Whippers, Looks Like New), John Deere 1760 12 Row Planter (Trash Whippers), John Deere 1760 12 Row Planter, John Deere 7000 2 Row Hydraulic Drive Planter, John Deere 750 15’ No Till Drill (Pull Type, 7 1/2” Spacing, Yetter Meters, SI Bean Meters), John Deere 4RW Corn/Bean Planter (Monitor), Kinze 2600 16 Row Planter (Liquid Fertilizer, Trash Whippers, Kinze Monitor, Corn & Bean Meters), New Idea 8 Row 36 Kinze Planter, 1996 White 6346 16/17 Row Planter (Hydraulic Drive) Hay & Forage Equipment McFarlane Round Bale Carrier (Hydraulic Raise/ Lower, 5 Bale), McFarlane Bale Carrier (Steel, Hyd Raise/Lower, 4-5 Bales), Fox Industrial Chopper, Fox Hay Head (Used Once), Fox Long Hopper Blower, Case 8330 Haybine, John Deere 337 Square Baler, Farmhand Hay Bale Accumulator, Gehl Feed Wagon, K&K Hay Feed Wagon (Like New), Case 8330 9’ Sickle Mower Conditioner, IH 7’ Sickle Mower (Mounted), IH Sickle Mower, New Idea 5512 Mower Conditioner, John Deere 820 Mower Conditioner, New Holland 488 Mower Conditioner, Gehl Silage Wagon, Gehl Silage Wagon, Meyers Forage Wagon, International Forage Wagon, New Holland Crop Carrier Forage Wagon, Gehl 418 V Rake, John Deere 740 Hay Rake, John Deere 702 10 Wheel Rake, IH Steel Wheel 4 Bar Hay Rake, Vermeer 12 Wheel Rake, 6 Wheel Rake, IH 16’ Hay Rack, IH 16’ Hay Rack, Massey Ferguson Silo Distributor w/ Gooseneck, Rhino PT207 10’ Hay Tedder New, Rhino PT405H 17’ Hay Tedder New Rotary Cutters & Shredders Bushhog 2815 Rotary Cutter, Bushhog 12820 20’ Batwing Mower (Foam Filled Airplane Tires), Bushhog 12715 Legend Batwing Mower (Chains, Wing Fold), Befco Cyclone Batwing Finish Mower (3 C-50 Units, 540 PTO), DR All Terrain Field & Brush Mower, Ford 906 Finish Mower, Landpride 1580 Mower, Landpride 15’ Batwing Mower, Servis 7’ 2pt Rotary Mower, 10’ 3 pt Mower, John Deere 609 3pt Rotary Mower, John Deere HX15 Batwing Mower, Rhino TS12 12’ Batwing Cutter New, Rhino 60” Cutter New, Rhino 7’ 3pt Mower, Rhino Servis Mower, Rhino 4150 Batwing, Woods 5’ 3pt Mower, Woods BW240HDQ 20’ Batwing Mower, Woods 6’ 3 pt Rotary Cutter Miscellaneous Items Oswalt D250 Feed Wagon w/ Scales (Late Model, Nice), 1000 Gallon Tank w/ Pump on Running Gear, 1000 Gallon Fuel Tank, 500 Gallon Fuel Tank, 2000 Gallon LP Tank, 3000 Gallon NH3 Tank w/ 3 Wheel Trailer, Bearcat Grinder Mixer, David Bradley Running Gear, IH Cab, IH Endgate Seeder, IH Hub Mount Dual 18.4-38, John Deere 9500 Combine Bin Extension Never Used, Jumpstarter, KSI 080616 Hydraulic Planter Conveyor O John Deere 1770 Planter, Knight 8030 Slinger Spreader, Kenworth Cab w/ Parts, Lowe 750 Unused Hyd Auger 12” w/ Skidsteer Attach, Pleated Seed Conveyor, PMC Running Gear, (28) Precision E-Sets Cable Driven Corn Meters o John Deere 1770, (12) Yetter Row Cleaners for John Deere Planter, Large Selection of Tires & Rims, Large Selection of Tractor Weights & Chains

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Attachments & Snowblowers John Deere 246 Broom o John Deere 2305 60”, John Deere 54” Blade , John Deere TRS Snowthrower, John Deere TRS24 Self Propel Snowblower, John Deere 726 Self Propel Snowblower, John Deere 826 Self Propel Snowblower, John Deere 1032 Self Propel Snowblower, John Deere 828D Self Propel Snowblower Vehicles, Trailers & Boats 1999 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, 2000 Chevy Silverado 2500 Pickup, 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie (4x4, w/ Wooden Flatbed), 1993 Ford F250 Pickup, 2007 Ford Escape (181,000 Miles), 1979 Ford F800 Fire Truck, Homemade Motorcycle Trailer (53”x97”, Ramp, Nice), 2009 Rettig 96”x60” Trailer w/ Gate Livestock Equipment & Spreaders Blair 2 Horse Walk Through Trailer (Stored Inside), Gehl 322 Scavander 2 Spreader, John Deere 40 Manure Spreader, (2) New Idea TA Manure Spreader, McCormick 200 Manure Spreader, Nelson Horse Waters (Energy Free w/ Heater), (3) Horse Stall Doors w/ Track, (2) Metal Horse Stalls , (5) 10’ Gates, (10) 16’ Gates, (4) Panier 2T Hog Feeders

Antiques IH Super A Tractor w/ Woods Belly Mower, IH H Tractor , International 3 pt 2 Bottom Plow, IH 2PR Pull Type Cornpicker, IH Plows, Ford 9N Tractor (3 pt, PTO, New Rear Tires), John Deere A Tractor, 1948 John Deere A Tractor, 1941 John Deere B Tractor, 1946 John Deere H Tractor, 2 Wheel Horse Cart (Long Hitch & Brakes), NewIdea Steel Wheel Antique Hay Rake w/ Wooden Tongue Building Materials & Shop Equipment 5 Step Cotterman w/ Platform, 5 Step Cotterman Ladder, 6 Step Tri-Arc Rolling Ladder, 12 Step Ballymore Ladder, 3 Step Cotterman Rolling Step Ladder, Variety of New Extension Ladders, Variety of New Step Ladders, Ladder Platform, (6) Raynor Tricore 20’ Wide Door Panels, (7) Rolls 47” Wire, (300) 10’ Wood Posts, Tire Machine, Drill Press, Lath, Hydraulic Fittings, Upright Air Compressor, Steel T Posts, Large Selection of Steel, Large Selection of Lumber Miscellaneous Items Assorted Nursery Stock, Battery Chargers, Large Selection of Tools, Fence Posts & Panels, Miller 200LE Welder, Misc Hardware & Fittings, Pressure Washers

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All items subject to prior sale - nothing will be sold two days prior to sale. Consignments are welcome any time, but will be closed after the lot is full or at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17th, whichever comes first. Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC will not be responsible for lost or stolen items. All tires, tanks, fuel barrels, and a few other items must be saleable or you will be asked to take them back home. Titles must accompany vehicles at consignment time. Some tractors will be mixed with machinery. Trucking is available. Parking is limited to one side of the street near dealership, come early. Consignors’ checks will be ready on April 24th, 2020. ALL ITEMS MUST BE REMOVED BY May 1st. CALL OUR LOCAL BEST WESTERN ANNAWAN FOR ROOM RESERVATIONS. SPECIAL SALE RATE - (309) 935-6565.

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State offers free overweight permits for COVID-19 relief By Jeannine Otto

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Deere launches 4M HD tractor

SPR INGF IELD, Il l. — Illinois truckers who are hauling emergency relief supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic can apply for and receive free Illinois Department of Transportation overweight trucking permits through April 12. Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an emergency declaration on March 18 that allows truckers to apply for free overweight permits. Drivers are required to carry a copy of the governor’s order and the waiver itself. Both are available at webapps.dot. illinois.gov/ITAP. The order does not apply to posted bridges and local highways with special or seasonal weight limits. According to the order signed by Pritzker, “interstate and intrastate carriers providing direct assistance in support of emergency relief efforts related to the COVID-19 outbreaks are relieved from the requirements contained in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations.” “It’s always important for haulers to be able to move supplies in a timely and safe manner, but it’s never been more important than right now,” said Omer Osman, acting secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation. The Illinois Truck Enforcement Association, a group of state and local truck enforcement officers,

CARY, N.C. — John Deere, a world leader in providing advanced products and services for customers whose work is linked to the land, announced the launch of the new John Deere 4M Heavy-Duty tractor. Designed with commercial customers and large property owners in mind, the new 4M Heavy-Duty delivers all the performance customers demand from their utility tractor in a compact, easy to use package.

The new 4M Heavy Duty is available in two output ratings, the 52 horsepower 4052M HD and the 66 horsepower 4066M HD. Both units feature John Deere’s innovative three range eHydro transmission with Twin Touch pedals, allowing for easy direction changes and increased productivity while decreasing operator fatigue. The eHydro transmission also includes eThrottle, LoadMatch, MotionMatch and SpeedMatch

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“It’s always important for haulers to be able to move supplies in a timely and safe manner, but it’s never been more important than right now.” Omer Osman, acting secretary ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

clarified the waiver and how it applies to trucks. “This excess weight is allowed to divisible loads that are engaged in essential services provided for relief efforts. This includes food, medicine and other essential supplies from manufacturers to warehouses to market,” the ITEA said. In addition, the ITEA clarified how loads do not qualify for the waiver. “The truck has to contain only those supplies. One box of food on a fully loaded truck does not automatically qualify that truck. To obtain these exemptions, a permit must be obtained from the Illinois Department of Transportation ITAP system for every move that is made,” said the ITEA in a news release. The ITEA said any questions for their officers can be emailed to info@illinoistruckcops.com. On March 20, Pritzker

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could catch the virus while working close to others at factory work stations. Ford said it wants to reopen five North American assembly plants, starting with one in Mexico on April 6 and continuing with four in the U.S. on April 14. The move was immediately met with skepticism by the United Auto Workers union, which represents 56,000 Ford factory workers. “The UAW continues to review with great caution and concern decisions being made about restarting workplaces, especially at advanced dates,” union President Rory Gamble said in a statement. Honda wants to reopen

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U.S. and Canadian factories on April 7, a week later than originally planned, while Toyota plans to restart North American plants on April 20. Fiat Chrysler intends to reopen U.S. and Canadian factories April 14 depending on state restrictions and plant readiness. General Motors says it hasn’t decided yet when factories would restart. Most automakers said they would monitor the virus and adjust decisions if needed. The factory decisions contrast with Italy, which on Thursday expanded a nationwide lockdown to include most heavy industry. Auto plants in Italy, which leads the world in virus deaths, already had

been closed voluntarily. The automakers’ moves in the U.S. come as new auto sales are expected to fall dramatically for the month of March. Edmunds.com expects March sales to fall nearly 36% from a year earlier. Ford, in a release before the markets opened Thursday, said it’s aiming to reopen its factory in Hermosillo, Mexico, followed by its Dearborn, Michigan, truck plant, Kentucky tr uck plant in Louisville, the Ohio A ssembly Plant near Cleveland, and the Transit van line at the Kansas City plant. The company also wants to reopen some parts-making plants on the

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shows even seeds that appear unscathed after impact milling don’t germinate the following spring. “Har vest weed seed control is really becoming an accepted part of integrated weed management,” said Adam Davis, study co-author and head of the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I. “Producers are excited about it.” In the current study, Davis and his collaborators wanted to see how the Harrington Seed Destructor, an impact mill developed and w idely used in Australia, handled common U.S. agronomic weeds without the complications of real field conditions. T he researchers collected seeds f rom 10 common weed species in soybean fields in the U.S. Midwest and MidAtlantic regions. They fed the seeds through a stationary HSD and then tried germinating them in a greenhouse and in the field following a typical Illinois winter. Davis said zero to 15% of the seeds appeared to be undamaged immediately after milling, regardless of species and seed size. But when the undamaged seeds were buried in the field and left through the winter, fewer than 10% survived. “Basically, almost zero survived overall,” Davis said. Based on his previous research, Davis said he thinks microscopic abrasions from the impact mill damage the seed coat enough for microbes to enter and destroy the embryonic weed inside. Can producers expect nearly zero weed seed survival when using the HSD or other impact mills in the field? Probably not. Davis and his collaborators have been conducting

U.S. field trials with the HSD for five years, and typically see a reduction in weed seed rain by 70% to 80%. “The difference between its efficacy as a stationary device and its efficacy in the field is largely due to shattering of the weeds,” Davis explained. “As the combine is going through, it’s shaking everything and causing a lot of seed dispersal. By looking at the HSD as a stationary device, we’re able to quantify the theoretical max.” Whether impact mills kill 70% or 99% of weed seeds, non-chemical control strategies are important in slowing the evolution of herbicide resistance. However, over-reliance on any one strategy could select for additional problematic traits in weeds. “If producers start using this device on a large scale, they will ultimately select for earlier shattering. It’s already been shown in Australia,” Davis said. “That’s just the nature of weed and pest management in general. Really what you’re doing is managing evolution. In order for any tactic to be successful, you’ve got to change it up. You need to confuse them; add diversity in the time of year and life stages you’re targeting. We’re just proposing this as a new tactic that’s effective — not the only tactic.” The article, “Fate of weed seeds after impact mill processing in Midwestern and mid-Atlantic United States,” was published in Weed Science. C o - aut hor s i nclude Davis, Lovreet Shergill, K reshnik Bejleri and Steven Mirsky. The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.

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CHICAGO — The Illinois Soybean Association checkof f program re cently hosted nearly 50 attendees to engage with industry experts around climate variability. The summit explored data around the shifting climate in Illinois over the last century, what this could mean for the future, what different industries are doing and what agriculture can do. “Critical conversations like this help us better understand and respond to topics affecting our industry and help us remain a leader on behalf of soybean farmers throughout the state,” said Doug Schroeder, chairman of the ISA and farmer from Mahomet. “Today, we looked at how agriculture can show up and be part of the conversation. We know agriculture is part of the solution, not the problem.”

NEMATODE ACTIVITY In addition to delivering upgraded SDS protection, Saltro also offers robust nematode activity, and it does both without plant stress. Growers can anticipate better plant stands, healthier leaves and more robust early-season root mass development to help maximize genetic yield potential. Across 30 Iowa trials in 2019, Saltro had an average of 10,300 more plants per acre than ILEVO. “Saltro provides superior SDS protection without the stress, and that means growers won’t have to give up early-season plant health to get powerful SDS protection,” said Paul Oklesh, product lead for Syngenta Seedcare. “With Saltro, we’re setting a new standard for SDS and SCN protection. Better early season protection means less impact from SDS late in the season, translating to higher potential yield.” By providing growers powerful SDS protection and strong nematode activity that promotes uniform emergence, Saltro demonstrates the commitment of Syngenta to accelerating innovation and addressing increasing grower challenges. “I know Saltro can sound too good to be true, so we’re excited for growers to be able to experience it for themselves this season,” Oklesh said. “Once growers try it in their own fields, they will see the true impact of the upgrade.”

Jim Angel, retired Illinois state climatologist, shared data showing the changes climatologists have seen over the last century. In Illinois, there has been a 1.2-degree increase in surface temperatures since 1895 with projections for an average of another 5- to 9-degree increase by the end of this century. Looking forward, Angel sees the Midwest becoming warmer and experiencing more frequent and heavier rain events. When questioned what t he big gest cont r ibutor to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is and the best solution, Angel said, “There’s no one single contributor when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions. Each industry has the opportunity to decrease its carbon footprint, but agriculture has the unique opportunity to take some away. Carbon dioxide can be put back into the soil through organic matter.” Jill Wheeler, head of sustainable productiv-

ity in North America at Syngenta, sees a growing focus on climate smart agriculture, momentum toward an ecosystem services market and corporate commitments. “We need to integrate and bridge the gap between industry and producers,” Wheeler said. “Industries have started to make sustainability commitments, but we need to make sure we can meet those commitments first. Farmers are an important part of finding this solution, and we need to make sure they are a part of the conversation.” Pipa Elias, director of agriculture for North America at The Nature Conservancy, works with corporations, policymakers and other stakeholders to combat climate change from the ground up. Elias is working to open up conversations within the supply chain that lead to collaborative

solutions. “There are two paths,” Elias said. “We continue what we are doing, or we partner with each other to create a better future. We are all part of the solution. The power is in our hands right now, but we may not have these opportunities in the future.” Both Syngenta and TNC are members of the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, an initiative working to create a market-based approach to improve soil health systems that benefit growers financially and deliver environmental benefits to society as a whole. According to TNC, farmers have the potential to benefit significantly from this approach. Cover crops can sequester about 0.13 tons of carbon per acre. At a payment of $10 per ton, that’s $160 million back in farmers’ pockets across 122 mil-

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(K) BLU-JET SUB TILLER 4, 7 SHANK RIPPER, SHEAR BOLT SHANKS, LIKE NEW-ONLY USED ON 25 ACRES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $9,900

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DUAL HITCH (CLEVIS OR SINGLE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $6,900

(K) JOHN DEERE 2800 PLOW, 6 BOTTOM, HYD. ADJ., NEW SHINS, SHEARS, & HYD. HOSES, REBUILT FRONT CYLINDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $3,900 (K) MCFARLANE HDL-136-8 HARROW, 36’, 8 BAR SPIKE HARROW, HYDRAULIC FOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $7,900 (K) YETTER 3541 MIN-TILL ROTARY HOE, 41’, 3 PT. HITCH, REAR PARKING STANDS, LIGHTS, 4 GAUGE WHEELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $13,900 (K) BLU-JET SUB TILLER II, 5 SHANK RIPPER W/REAR ROLLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 (K) NEW/DEMO K-LINE 2962P SPEEDTILLER, 21’, 9” BLADE SPACING, 22.5” BLADES, HYDRAULIC ROUND BAR ROLLING BASKET, SINGLE PULL TYPE HITCH, HYD. LIFT & FOLD, SINGLE PT DEPTH CONTROL, 560/45R22.5 TIRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $58,500 (K) GREAT PLAINS SS1300 SUB SOILER, 4 SHANK IN LINE RIPPER, 3 PT., AUTO RESET SHANKS, LESS THAN 200 ACRES OF USE . . . . . . .REDUCED TO $7,600

Miscellaneous (K) DU-AL 340 LOADER, 7’, INDEPENDENT HYD. VALVE, GOOD CUTTING EDGE & ORIGINAL PAINT, NO WELDS OR BREAKS, FITS JOHN DEERE 20 SERIES AND MORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REDUCED TO $2,900 (K) 2017 CATERPILLAR 279D SKID STEER, 1575 HRS, 75 HP, LIKE NEW 18” TRACKS, 195#/FT TORQUE, ENCLOSED CAB, HEAT, A/C,

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Brookside Agra spring seed treatment boosts crop emergence O’FA LLON, Il l. — Utilizing Brookside Agra’s natural water conservation agent and soil amendment H2OExcel as a seed treatment in spring can boost overall crop emergence, quality and growth rate, according to soil microbiologist Ben Elliott of Insight Bio Ag LLC. Elliott has worked in the chemical formulating and research fields for the past 10 years, providing consultation services both nationally and internationally. He specializes in intensive management for growers adopting new practices based on biological aspects of decision making, data management and systems integration. “Using H2OExcel as a seed treatment, the point at which you can get the

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earliest activity of the chemistry, can help crops emerge more quickly and evenly,” Elliott said. “In early applications, at emergence, H2OExcel has been proven to support the early development of plants at a critical stage where photosynthesis has not yet fully started within the plants.”

commercial, industrial and environmental use. Brookside also offers agronomy services, which include crop nutrient recommendations, soil sampling, water and fertilizer analysis, and precision mapping. For more information, visit www. brookside-agra.com.

According to Elliott, using H2OExcel as a seed treatment sets the stage for native microbes in the soil to begin coming out of dormancy earlier than normal. Even though the plants have yet to begin photosynthesis, using H2OExcel as a seed treatment can help build up the amount of total available nutrients

within the root zone so a plant can load up quickly when those processes begin. The recommended use rate for all crops is 4 ounces of H2OExcel per 100 weight of seed. H2OExcel is a proprietary blend of desert plant extracts and high-quality, humic acid-containing biologicals and other natural, non-plant derived nutrient enhancers.

Research-proven H2OExcel enables soils to absorb water faster and deeper. Once it infiltrates the ground, it reduces soil and water tension, allowing soils to absorb and retain water and nutrients 3 to 5 times faster. It also relieves capillary pressure in the soil to allow soil respiration to occur. This puts more water at the root zone and increases nu-

trient uptake to the plants, all while utilizing less water and inputs. H2OExcel is safe for use on all crops, turf and vegetation in all geographical areas and will not harm plants, animals or humans. When mixed with water, H2OExcel can be applied as a spray or soil-drench and can be safely blended with fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

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EQUIPMENT

2014 KUHN-KRAUSE 5635 24FT FIELD CULTIVATOR SUNFLOWER 5035 32FT FIELD CULTIVATOR 2016 CIH 335 28FT VT SUNFLOWER 6631 29 & 40FT VT 2013 JD 2620 20FT RF DISC CIH 3950 28FT RF DISC MCFARLANE QUADRA-TIL 11 SH CHISEL CIH 2500 5 SH RIPPER, NO-TIL KUHN KNIGHT 1215 MANURE SPREADER 2005 NH 570 SQUARE BALER

SCHULTE RS320 JUMBO ROCK PICKER 2007 BLUE-JET AT3000 11SH NITROGEN APP. HINIKER 6000 16R30 CULTIVATOR PENTA 3020-SD TMR MIXER KUHN KNIGHT VT180 TMR MIXER KUHN KNIGHT VT 168 TMR MIXER YETTER 3541 40FT ROTARY HOE

PLANTERS

2007 JD 1790 12/23 LIQ FERT 2018 KINZE 3000 6/11 2018 KINZE 3000 6/11 2014 CIH 1245 12/23, LIQ FERT SUNFLOWER 9421 30FT DRILL JD 7000 4 ROW MALE PLANTER, 40FT.

HEADS

2016 MAC DON FD75S 35FT DRAPER, IH WIDE THROAT 2012 MAC DON FD70S 30FT DRAPER, JD ADAPTER 2013 CIH 2162 35FT DRAPER, IH WIDE THROAT 2011 CIH 2161 30FT DRAPER, IH WIDE THROAT 2005 CIH 1020 25FT GRAIN HEAD 2003 CIH 1020 30FT GRAIN HEAD 2010 JD 625F HYDRAFLEX GRAIN HEAD 2003 JD 925F GRAIN HEAD CIH 3408, HD, KR, IH WIDE THROAT 2012 JD 606C KR, HD, HH, RS, SINGLE POINT 2002 JD 893, HD, HH, SINGLE POINT 2012 GERINGHOFF RD800B, 8R30, HD, HH, JD ADAPTER MISC HEAD TRAILERS

CONSTRUCTION

2018 DEERE 314G, OS, 1 SPD, 3 HRS 2013 BOBCAT S570, CAH, 2SPD, 755 HRS 2019 DEERE 317G, CAH, 1 SPD, 138 HRS ADD AT BOTTOM OF LIST: KUBOTA SVL90-2, CAH, 2 SPD, HIGH-FLOW, 1275 HRS 2018 NH C232, CAH, 2 SPD, 600 HRS VIRNIG PWR90 POWER RAKE, SKID STEER MOUNT JD 570A ROAD GRADER, 1500 HRS 2016 KUBOTA SVL 95-2S, CAH, 2SPD, HIGH-FLOW, 1800 HRS

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Coleman Lawn Equipment, Inc.

Barker Implement Company

618-327-3683

Barker Implement Company 1340 N. 2300 E. Rd. Shelbyville, IL 62565

217-774-4508

618-965-3903 9637 IL-127 Nashville, IL 62263

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618-204-5900 Fliginger Equipment Inc. 18321 W Farmington Rd, Trivoli, IL 61569,

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1101 Woodlawn Rd., Lincoln, IL 62656

Bob Lamb Co.

211 N Dirksen Parkway Springﬁeld, IL

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1203 W. Frontage Rd. Staunton, IL 62088

618-635-5600

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815-457-2127

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(217) 228-9850

Painter Farm Illinois Power Equipment Equipment Inc. 217-679-8273

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309-734-3541

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217-678-2431

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Inc.

10880 IL-177 Mascoutah, IL 62258

618-566-2115

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217-794- 2559

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(A) 2017 MF 5712SL 120 HP, 530 Hrs.

$77,500

(A) NH TS6.120 118 HP, Loader, 457 Hrs.

$67,500

(A) 2015 MF 6615 150 HP, CVT, 32 MPH, 1585 Hrs.

$79,500

(A) 2009 CASE IH PUMA 210 210 HP, CVT, 2927 Hrs.

$69,500

(A) 2017 MF 7714 140 HP, Dyna 4, 131 Hrs.

(G) 2013 MF 7624 235 HP, CVT, 32 MPH, 1938 Hrs.

$85,000

$99,500

(A) 2018 MF 7724 235 HP, CVT, 32 MPH, 86 Hrs.

(A) 2005 Challenger MT635B 215 HP,CVT, 3099 Hrs.

(A) 1999 MF 8260 200 HP, 4280 Hrs.

(A) 2014 MF 8650 270 HP, 1940 Hrs.

$52,500

$109,500

$65,000

$135,000

(A) 1988 JD 4450 155 HP, Loader, 6516 PS Hrs.

(A) 1996 JD 8100 177 HP, 6953 Hrs.

(G) 2002 JD 7810 175 HP, 5255 Hrs.

(A) 2007 JD 8330T 310 HP, 5801 Hrs.

(G) 2012 JD 9510RT 510 HP, Reman Tracks, 2496 Hrs.

(G) 2015 Versatile 260 260 HP, 357 Hrs..

(A) NH TS6.120 118 HP, Loader, 457 Hrs.

(A) 2009 CASE IH PUMA 210 210 HP, CVT, 2927 Hrs.

(A) 1975 AC 7040 151 HP, 4442 Hrs

(G) 2018 Fendt 1038 380 HP, 32 MPH, 688 Hrs.

$32,500

$45,000

$69,500

$115,000

$67,500

(A) 2010 Gleaner R66 LTM, 1798/1253 Hrs.

(G) 2016 Gleaner S97 LTM, 925/605 Hrs.

$99,500

$229,500

$85,000

$59,500

(A) 2009 CASE IH 6088 LTM, 2118/1459 Hrs.

$95,000

(A) 2019 Versatile HS250 (A) 2019 VERSATILE HS300 (A) 2019 LEMKIN RUBIN 12 30’ Hi Speed Disk, Demo 20’ Hi Speed Disk, Demo 25’ Hi Speed Disk, Demo

$76,000

(G) (G) (A) (G) (A) (A) (A) (G) (A) (A) (G) (A) (A) (G) (A) (G) (A)

$89,500

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$67,500

2018 Fendt 1050, FWA, 500 HP, 250 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$355,000 2018 Fendt 1046, FWA, 460 HP, 581 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$335,000 2014 MF 8660, FWA, 295 HP, 32 MPH, 2176 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$115,000 2013 MF 8660, FWA, 295 HP, 1227 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2013 MF 8650, FWA, 270 HP, 1065 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2012 MF 8650, FWA, 270 HP, 1701 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 2014 MF 7622, FWA, 215 HP, 32 MPH, 2015 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 2013 MF 7624, FWA, 235 HP, 32 MPH, 1938 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 2017 MF 7715, FWA, 145 HP, Dyna 6, 769 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 87,500 2004 MF 6490, 2WD, 168 HP, 2058 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 52,500 2012 JD 8360R, FWA, 360 HP, ILS, IVT, 3558 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,500 2003 Case IH MXM 130, FWA, 129 HP 1965 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 39,500 2002 Case IH MX240, FWA, 240 HP, 7942 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 35,000 2013 Versatile 310, FWA, 310 HP, 2212 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 89,500 1990 NH Versatile 876, 4WD, 280 HP, 5070 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 37,500 1989 NH Versatile 846, 4WD, 230 HP, 5138 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 35,000 1984 Versatile 875, 4WD, 280 HP, 6144 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 18,500

(A) (A) (A) (A) (G) (G) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) ((G) (G) (G)

$195,000

$12,000

$295,000

(A) 2011 MF 9695 LTM, 1714/1107 Hrs.

(A) 2014 MF 9540 LTM, 1456/1008 Hrs.

Lease for $38,400 yr.

$105,000

$159,500

(A) 2010 CASE IH 1250 16-30” Planter

(A) 2008 CASE IH 1200 12-30” Planter

$64,500

$29,500

USED COMBINES & PLANTERS

2016 MF 9545, LTM, 807/560 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$245,000 2014 MF 9560, LTM, 1517/990 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,500 2013 MF 9560, LTM, 1558/1055 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,000 2013 MF 9540, LTM, 1339/936 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,000 2013 MF 9520, LTM, 705/467 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$135,000 2008 MF 9895, LTM, RWA, 2264/1620 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 95,000 2008 MF 9690, LTM, 1825/1229 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 89,500 2004 MF 9690, LTM, 3321/2188 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 55,000 2014 Gleaner S78, LTM, 1339/871 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,500 2014 Gleaner S68, LTM, 1468/1010 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,500 2013 Gleaner S77, LTM, 1138/772 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$139,500 2009 Gleaner A86, LTM, 2419/1500 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 79,500 1998 Gleaner R52, 2184/1528 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 35,000 2009 Case IH 1250 24-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 64,500 2007 Kinze 3800 SDS 24-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 45,000 2019 White 9936, Tracks, 36-30” Planter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$375,000 2000 White 6322 12-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 14,500

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Sales: Brent Scott, Roger Mishler, Ben Kuhns

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LOGAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS Dough Farm: 160.00 Acres â&#x20AC;˘ Section 2 9 , 3 1 â&#x20AC;˘ Laenna â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $13,300/Acre â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 Wind Turbine - $26,025 in annual revenue. Dough Farm: 40.00 Acres â&#x20AC;˘ Section 3 2 â&#x20AC;˘ Laenna â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $12,150/Acre - $5,500 in annual revenue.

PIATT COUNTY, ILLINOIS Betty Youngberg Farm: 80.00 Acres â&#x20AC;˘ Section 16 â&#x20AC;˘ Willow Branch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $10,750/Acre â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 136.0 P.I. Bement.

SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Fields Crossing Farm: 57.59 Acres â&#x20AC;˘ Section 8 â&#x20AC;˘ Rochester â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $10,000/Acre â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 133.1 P.I.

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32.11 +/- ACRES OF PRIME HUNTING GROUND. SHED, H2O, POLLINATER PROGRAM. 5 MINS FROM WORLD RECORD BUCK HUNTING SPOT. $6,984/A FOR SALE

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RECREATIONAL RETREAT IROQUOIS LAND TRUST FARM - HUNTING | INCOME PRODUCING

TREAT FARM - 650 E CR 1900 N, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61822

334.55Âą ac (123.74Âą tillable, 120.70 CRP, 90.11Âą wooded, creek acres) $5,800/acre. Contact Ray Brownfield to arrange showing. 630.258.2800

124 +/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARM GROUND, AVERAGE PI OF 143.6. HENSLEY TOWNSHIP $1,388,800 FOR SALE

JERVIS FARM - 2500 E CR 900 N, HOMER, IL 61849 87 +/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARM GROUND, AVERAGE PI OF 142.5. TOTAL TILLABLE = 86.12. $932,800 FOR SALE

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74.49Âą tax ac (68.34Âą tillable) PI 136.8, Section 19, Irish Grove Precinct, West & Irish Grove Roads frontage. $9,500/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

HORSE FARM - 1090 CR 2400 E, HOMER, IL 61849 4 FENCED ACRES. AMISH BUILT FENCING. 60X160 SHED. INDOOR RIDING ARENA. 5 STALLS WITH FANS. $200,000 FOR SALE

Piatt County

PARKHURST FARM | PATH OF PROGRESS-GREAT LOCATION 66.8013Âą total ac. Borders Oswego IL corp limits. City sewer runs Minkler Rd frontage. Sec 24&25. Oswego Twp. $18,000/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

84+/- ACRES - AVERAGE PI OF 134. $10,300/ACRE AVAILABLE WITH LEASE BACK FOR SALE

Shelby County

RUTLAND TOWNSHIP FARM | PRICED TO SELL

LOG HOME - 1862 N 2500 EAST RD., WINDSOR, IL 61957

155.80 survey ac (143.95Âą till ac, 15.2 CRP ac). PI 114.7. Sec 35, Rutland Twp. I-80, N30 frontage. $6,700/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

9 +/- ACRES SURROUNDED BY WOLF CREEK STATE PARK 5 BEDS, 3.5 BATHS, 2.5 CAR GARAGE $369,900 FOR SALE

Vermilion County

PIASA FARM | PLATTED FOR SUBDIVISION

83.591 survey ac (81.10Âą tillable ac). PI 112.1. Sec 21&22, Piasa Township. 2020 lease open. Lageman Rd frontage. $9,875/ac Dave Oster, Broker

AARON FARM | FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL EXPIRED

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â&#x20AC;˘ NEW LISTING! 50.176Âą Acres Tract 1, 50Âą Acres Tract 2, Pulaski County, Illinois L-2000207 L-2000208 â&#x20AC;˘ Recreational/crop ground on the Ohio River Waterfowl, Deer, Turkey, Fishing- These tracts allow all your recreational interests with income potential too. 1-Tract North of the Olmsted Lock and Dam and 1 Tract South of the Olmsted Lock and Damâ&#x20AC;˘ $150,000 each.

Tract 1 SALE PENDING

For details please contact Bret Cude, AFM/agent, at (618) 407-5399.

KANKAKEE OFFICE 815-935-9878

â&#x20AC;˘ NEW LISTING! 89.68Âą Acres, Dekalb County, Cortland Township, Illinois A-12979 Â&#x201A; Â? Â&#x192;Â? Â? Â&#x201E; Road in Dekalb. Excellent recreational features: 15Âą Acres of water, 35Âą Acres of timber and 20Âą Acres of cropland. Deer, Turkey and Waterfowl habitat. Potential for building site. â&#x20AC;˘ $560,000 For details please contact Roy Bracey, AFM/Agent, at (309) 212-0014.

IROQUOIS CO.- 138.29 Ac. NW corner of Ashkum. 139.75 crop ac. w/ 122.10 PI. $7,300/Ac. IROQUOIS CO.- 238.60 Ac. 7 mi. E of Clifton. 233.12 crop ac. w/ 123.60 PI. $8,350/Ac. KANKAKEE CO.- 76.50 Ac. 3 mi. NW of St. Anne. 74.2 crop ac. w/ 120.3 PI. $7,300/Ac. LIVINGSTON CO.- NEW LISTING! 156.54 Ac. 4 mi. SW of Emington. 158.07 crop ac. w/ 122.10 PI. $7,500/ Ac.

â&#x20AC;˘ 192Âą Acres, Iroquois County, Lovejoy Township, Illinois L-2000050 â&#x20AC;˘ Â? Â&#x201E; Â Â G Â&#x2021; Â&#x2020; PEN DÂ&#x2026; IN SALE being sold lease-free for 2020 crop year.â&#x20AC;˘ $1,593,600. For details please contact agent Phillip Poppe at (815) 848-8121.

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69.53 Acres +/- Will County, IL- Transitional land in Manhattan Twp. south of the Joliet Speedway. $19,500/acre. Call John Tammen 815-936-8976 180 Acres +/- Hancock County, IL- $5,900/acre with productive cropland, rolling timber, CRP ~ 2 miles northwest of Basco on 1000N Rd. Call Casey Watson 309-687-6009 87.43 Acres +/- McLean County, IL- 2 mi. SW of Bellflower $8,450/acre. Solid yield history & fertility. rented for 2020 & 2021. Call Dan Patten 309-665-0962 39.08 Acres +/- Champaign County, IL- Mattis Ave./DeweyFisher Blacktop 4 mi. North of Champaign 140 soil PI. Leased for 2020. Call Ross Perkins 309-665-0059 40 & 151 Acres+/- Washington Co. IL - Productive tillable farmland SE of Nashville. Call Keith Waterman 217-547-2884. 245.418 Acres+/- White Co. IN - Productive tillable farmland 7 mi. west and 1.5 mi. north of Royal Center. Call John Tammen 815-936-8976. 3,300 Acres+/- Monroe & St. Francis Co., AR- ~3,124 ac. tillable cropland with goose/duck hunting land near Brinkley, Arkansas. Call Broker, Ross Perkins 309-665-0059 Call for details or email dklein@firstmid.com David Klein, ALC (800)532-LAND Managing Broker/Auctioneer Bloomington, IL www.Firstmidag.com

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â&#x20AC;˘ 293.5Âą Acres, Iroquois County, Illinois â&#x20AC;˘ A-30788 Â&#x201A; Â? soils, nearly 100% tillable, great road G â&#x20AC;˘ $8,500 per acre. DINaccess. LE PEN SAPatrick For details please contact Gooding, AFM/Agent, at (217) 607-0118 or Brian Neville, AFM/Agent, at (217) 304-4317.

2441 Village Green Pl. Champaign, IL 61822

155.17Âą tax ac (155.37Âą tillable) PI 136 (Muscatune, Osco soils) Hall Township, Section 4. Near Ladd IL. $9,900/ac Chip Johnston, Broker

FARMLAND FOR SALE

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15 +/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARM GROUND. MACHINE SHED & 2 GRAIN BINS. PI OF 132.4. TOTAL TILLABLE = 12 ACRES. $160,000 FOR SALE

Steve Littlefield, Broker (217) 202-7950 Matt Rhodes, Broker (217) 251-7067 Clayton Maddox, Broker (217) 474-1345 Trey Coffey, Broker (217) 841-2542

80.00Âą tax ac (69.92Âą tillable ac, 7.0 CRP ac) PI 115.2 Section 20, Pigeon Grove Township. $6,500/ac Chip Johnston, Broker

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â&#x20AC;˘ NEW LISTING! 7.313Âą Acres, Sangamon County, 5965 W State Rt 97, Pleasant Plains, Illinois L-2000261 â&#x20AC;˘ Formerly Stone Seed Processing Facility located Â Â? Â Â? Â? Â? Â Â Â? Â Â&#x20AC; Â? Â? Â? warehouses, seed processing tanks and equipment. Call for details! â&#x20AC;˘ $1,150,000 â&#x20AC;˘ NEW LISTING! 58.47Âą Acres, Coles County, North Morgan Township, Illinois L-2000183 â&#x20AC;˘ Class A farm, 100% tillable, Lease-free for 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ $9,500 per acre. â&#x20AC;˘ 79.12Âą Acres, Douglas County, Sargent Township, Illinois L-2000219 â&#x20AC;˘ Good soils, Productive cropland, Good yields, Lease-free for 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ $6,900 per acre. â&#x20AC;˘ 99.275Âą Acres, Douglas County â&#x20AC;˘ Newman Township Class A soils, All tillable, Lease free for 2020; L-2000124 â&#x20AC;˘ $10,500 per acre; â&#x20AC;˘ PRICE REDUCED! 45.18Âą Acres, Coles County â&#x20AC;˘ Humboldt Township L-1900747 â&#x20AC;˘ Located about three miles south of Arcola. Class A farm! All tillable, lease-free for 2020 crop year. â&#x20AC;˘ $9,500 per acre â&#x20AC;˘ 69.9Âą Acres, Edgar County â&#x20AC;˘ Embarrass Township L-1900026 â&#x20AC;˘ Farm is located at west of Redmon with good road frontage along Route 133. Excellent quality land with Class A soils.â&#x20AC;˘ $8,500 per acre For details, please contact agents Winnie Stortzum or Tucker Wood at (217) 268-4434. â&#x20AC;˘ 120Âą Acres, Lee County, Reynolds Township, Illinois L-1900676-00 â&#x20AC;˘ Located south of Rochelle with excellent access. 100% tillable Class A farm with productivity index of 142. Lease free for the 2020 crop year. â&#x20AC;˘ $10,900 per acre. For details, please contact agent Marlon Ricketts at (815) 751-3467

CHAFFEE FARM - 43000 N 1900 E RD, HOOPESTON, IL 60942

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MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Edgar County

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Livingston County

WHITESIDE CO., IL 140 acres MOL, 137 FSA tillable w/PI of 128.6, E. of Fulton. $9,500/a. 178 acres MOL, 150 FSA tillable est. w/PI of 122.2, E. of Fulton. $7,500/a. 147 acres MOL, 140.3 FSA tillable w/PI of 125, E. of Fulton. $9,000/a. 122 acres MOL, 119.86 FSA tillable w/PI of 124.3, E. of Fulton. $7,500/a. 80 acres MOL, 73.61 FSA tillable w/PI of 117.7, E. of Fulton. $7,400/a. 507 acres MOL, 472.11 FSA tillable w/PI of 124.1, E. of Fulton. $7,500/a. BOONE CO., IL, near Poplar Grove, IL 49.6 acres, Nice laying farm. 76 acres, Quality farmland, high PI & tiled. 75 acres, All till., tiled, well drained, Hwy. Frontage. HENDERSON CO., IL, near Carman, IL 208.116 acres, 205.5 till, level, priced to sell. 50 acres, Nice CRP farm. WINNEBAGO CO., IL Price Reduced 244 acres MOL, Mostly tillable, Good farmland, Some outbuildings, Just north of Winnebago.

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SWINE ORR FEEDER PIGS demand for quality groups, feeder pigs, early weans, licensed & bonded Call Tim at 563-920-2680 BEEF CATTLE (3) 2-YEAR OLD Angus bulls, 2 Yearling Polled Herford bulls, mostly low birth wts. All shots, starting @ $1,950. (10) mostly black grass feeder calves, Call Brent Behren 217-971-5897 (3) REG. ANGUS yearling bulls. Gentle, well built, calving ease, 50k tested. Double S Ranch Roanoke IL. (309)634-8756

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(800)255-4435 SEED CORN EQUIPMENT MODERN FLOW MALE row destroyers for sale. 3 to choose from or get all 3. John Deere Diesel engine. Well maintained and a lot of spare parts. $14,000 ea. Call 815-590-8500 WANTED NEW IDEA hydrostatic Uni Power Units, Husking beds and Attachments. 563-568-7923 COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS 1998 CIH-2366 COMBINE w/3900 eng. hrs, 2900 sep. hrs, recently had work at Stollers, good working cond. 2004 2206 corn head, 6R30, very nice cond. 2008 CIH-1020 bean head, 25-ft., 630-803-2970 216 John Deere bean head, very gd cond., $1600. 426 Allis turbo out of N6 Gleaner, runs very gd, $2500. 618-214-2194

70 Angus Cows w/3 calf at side, started calving March 1st, will sell 10 or more. 319-795-3510 ANGUS BULLS - Large selection of Big Stout Yearlings, semen tested, balanced EPDs, birth wts., Ready to work. Priced right, Can Deliver! Lantz & Dickinson, Congerville, IL. 309-838-0272, 309-838-0271 ANGUS-SIMANGUS SIMMENTAL BULLS For Sale. Sired by C&C Priority, Loaded Up, One Eyed Jack. Semen tested upon departure. 815-910-5390 BULLS FOR SALE! Purebred Angus & Composite Simmentals, Performance EPDs,Yearling & aged Bulls. Runner Farms, Blandinsville, IL (405)334-2653 or (309)255-1727 runnerfarms@mtcnow.net COPPERAS CREEK RED Angus, Bull For Sale Reg.4087992 Sire H2R Profitbuilder B403. Dam Conquest and Right Kind. More information please call 309-224-1107 Canton, Illinois FARM FENCE Construction hi-tensile elec., woven, barb, board, quality work reasonable prices, Hood Bros Fence Co. 217-364-4995 For Sale 5 Bred Heifers AngusSalers cross breds. bred to Angus Bull. Aviator Son, calve around April 1st, $1500; Coming 2 year old Salers bulls, Angus/Angus $2500-up. Kassing Farms, Mt. Sterling, IL 217-430-4417 POLLED HEREFORDS Fertility tested bulls, buy now, will hold until needed, also, bred cows & heifers, 608-235-9417 PRESCOTT ANGUS Yearling Angus Bulls For Sale Richard Prescott 815-228-2069 prescottangus.com Registered Yearling Hereford Bulls, good genetics, docile, 217-543-3259 217-543-3063 DAIRY CATTLE WISCONSIN CALVES AND FEEDER CATTLE Good quality Holstein and beef cross calves, started calves and feeder cattle are available thru Reynolds Livestock. Give us a call today for prices. Trucking available. Reynoldslivestock.com 608-574-7338 SWINE EQUIPMENT 40 Auqua feeder tube feeders, stainless steel, like new condition. Make Offer. 641-660-6838 DAIRY EQUIPMENT WANTED: USED BULK MILK COOLERS, ALL SIZES. (319)330-2286 MISC. LIVESTOCK EQUIP (10) 8' LONG J shapped concrete fence line feed bunks, Very Good Cond., $175./ea. Can deliver; Fence winder, 3 pt. mounting, hyd. Drive, $500.Call 217-249-4674 (2) FRIESEN PROTEIN bulk tanks, 5-1/2 ton, $1,500/ ea. Call 815-539-7117 MODERN MILL 2" Feed blower, single ph. 7.5 HP motor, complete unit, $2,500. obo Call 574-315-9657 Roto-grind bale grinder, less waste, feed less hay, I use a 85hp w/540 or 190-hp w/1000. $12,500-obo. 618-777-2077 TURN TRACTOR TIRES into hay and silage bunks! Cell Phone: (309)738-9531 www.ecofeeder.com

25ft 925 John Deere grain platform w/30ft head mover, $8900. 618-927-7858, 618-927-7857 436 International turbo diesel, $1600. 618-214-2194

TRACTORS 2004 VERSATILE-2425, 3300hours., N14, PS, bare-back, Exc cond., $67,500, OBO Retiring. 563-357-4300 2007 JD-8430 TRACTOR, front wheel assist, 4wd, frt & rear duals, PS, 4 SCV'S, 2773 hrs., Exc. Cond., $142,500 Call 660-341-1150 2009 CIH Magnum 245 MFD 3510 hours, PS, field ready, Guidance Equipment, very nice, 217-304-1937 2010 FARMALL-95C, 97 hp., 540 PTO, 1830 hrs., MFD, A/C, Heat, CD radio, quick attach loader, Like New, $35,000 obo. (309)883-6340 2017 JD 8270R, 2200 hours, PS, 5 hyd., $138,500-obo. 217-242-9105 2290 Case, 3597-hours., recent engine overhaul, 540-1000 PTO, Retiring. $16,300. 618-973-8316 BIG TRACTOR PARTS ~ Geared For the Future~ 1.We are your source for new & used Steiger drivetrain parts - S.I.9300 2. We rebuild Spicer manual transmissions, Fugi power shift transmissions, dropboxes & axle with ONE YEAR WARRANTY! 3. We now rebuild computer control boxes for Steiger tractors 1982-1999.

800-982-1769 www.bigtractorparts.com CIH-16 Row Cultivator, danish tine, like new, $4,900; JD-400 rotary hoe, end transport, nice for age, $950. 309-657-9099

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Cat Track w/JD final drive, rebuilt after last used, good shape, $5000. Can Deliver. 618-777-2077

ALLIS CHALMERS 301D 2800-2900 ............... $1140 426D 3500 Series ............. $1275 670T 8030, N6 Combine ... $1425

FOR SALE GRAIN Bin Drying System, 42' Shivvers Drying System w/level dry & computer system & Cross Augers, 2 turbo Fans & Burners, 26hp a piece, Call 217-821-6232 for price SEED Certified Patriot & Williams82 non gmo Soybean Seed, $19.00 per unit. Cleaned & Tested in 50 lbs bags or 2000 lb totes. 217-235-4322

NGMO SEED CORN, 107-113 Day Maturity, $85.00 for 80,000 Per Kernel Count,

(618)339-2200 OPEN POLLINATED SEED corn, out produces Hybrids for silage. $67 per bu. Plus shipping. 217-857-3377

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466 JD turbo diesel out of 8820 combine, runs good, $2500. 618-214-2194 640 V8 Perkins turbo diesel, $2500. 618-214-2194

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180 Ac. Edgar Co. 143 PI Under Contract $10,900/AC 161 Ac. Ford Co. 108 PI $5.900/Ac 80 Ac. Beecher, IL. 117 PI $5,900/Ac 200 Ac. Iroquois Co. PI 124 $7,650/Ac 560 Ac. of Industrial Development land, Normal. Next to the Rivian auto plant. 33 Different Parcels of farm and development land in Will County. 129 Ac. & 253 Ac parcels of timber/recreational land in Schuyler County $3,950/Ac 110 Ac. Chebanse Farm, Iroquois Co. 127.3 PI $8,900/Ac

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(877)470-3337 MF-265 W/MF LOADER, 95% rear tires, approx. 2500 total hrs. New Tach. shows 510 hrs. Mechanically sound. Needs paint. $7,500. (765)366-2914 OlIVER-880 STANDARD DSL restored Exc. Cond., Super 77 restored, Oliver 70 restored. 550, 971 hrs., (618)670-9474 Retiring: JD 4960 tractor, FWA w/new Remand engine, 1991 .........................$45,000. 309-314-1384, call for pictures WANTED; WHITE AND Oliver tractors, running or need of repair, 920-526-9915

Buy it! Sell it! Find it! Classifieds 340 AC. Row Crop Farm Enterprise Realty (660)582-7160 entrealty.com 39+/- AC. MARSHALL Cnty, IL.1872 Cnty Rd. 900 N. Varna, IL., Surveyed, 2 creeks, partial timber, $7,800/ac. Call Ray 417-217-9688

Want Ads Get Attention! FOR SALE 175-AC, class A soils, in Big Rock IL, Kane Co., solid investment. Serious inquires only. 847-980-7956 INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

01 KINZE-3600, 16R32, air clutches, insect boxes, $36,000 Call 815-791-6207 1978 JD-7000 12R30” front fold, all no-till attachments. Call 630-803-2970 1998 BLACK MACHINE, 12R30” 13r15 Flex Frame DJ 3000 Monitor N-T Coulters Kinze Units Precision Corn Meters Brush Bean Meters Keatons $12,000 618 410 2765

More than 25 Years! Specializing in Planter Attachments & No-Till Equip www.moelleragservice.com moellerag@cloudburst9.net ROTARY 2015 WOODS BATWING model BW180X, 1000-PTO, only used 2 summers, very nice, Call 630-803-2970 2017 JD-1570 TERRAIN CUT front mount mower, dual wheels, 4wd, air seat, hyd. Wts, transfer kit, 37 HP diesel, 72" 7iron pro side discharge mower deck, Excellent Condition, 430 hrs, $18,000. (618)836-5906, 618-535-2800 cell HAY & STRAW (53) LARGE NET wrapped round bales of mix and straight alfalfa, 1st & 2nd cut., Eureka IL. 309-251-2957 5X6 NET WRAPPED Grass hay or large squares of alfalfa for horses and dairy cows. Delivery to your farm. (217)370-4342 5x6 round bales, grass hay, net wrapped, no rain, $60 a bale. 815-651-7426

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HAY AND STRAW, Pandemic Sale, existing inventory 10% off plus 50% off delivery cost for qualified orders, Call David 815-685-5344, Mike 815-685-9646 TOP OF STATE Hay & Straw, 3x3x8 bales and rounds. Davis, IL. Please Call 815-238-8372 FORAGE

1998 CIH-955 SOLID stand, 23 row planter, bean drums, corn drums and milo drums. $13,000 Call 217-825-3670. 1998 CIH-955 SOLID stand, 23 row planter, $13,000 Call 217-839-4284 2000 JD-1760 FINGER pick up planter, 12R30”, flex frame, half width disconnect, precision meters, bean & corn, Keetons, sensor one seed population monitor, w/GPS speed sensor, 1 cast iron spike closing wheel per row, books & spare parts, small farm, retired, can send photos, 217-473-2548

2012 KINZE PLANTER 8-16, no till, KPM III monitor, corn & bean, 4099 ac., Excellent, $38,000, Retired, 573-406-3076

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2005 Case IH Model 1200, 16-31 split row planter, $2000 of updates, (2) 200-gallon liquid fertilizer tanks w/ground pump, always shedded, 309-208-3613

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2000 JD-1770, 16-30 MAXEmerge plus vac, 250 monitor, insecticide, Shedded, well maintained. Good paint. Farmer Retiring, $13,000. Rochelle, IL. Call 815-751-7642

Ashland I950 scraper, 9-1/2 yard, front dolly wheels, like new condition, $28,500. 815-275-0699 Central Culvert & Tile, LLC Mahomet, IL. Steel and Alum. Culverts. Plastic Tile & fittings. 8-inch to 36-inch in stock. up to 144-inch avail. 217-637-8453

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1992 CIH-7140, MFWD, 6600 hrs., new frt. tires, like new rears, duals @ 50%, Exc. Paint, new turbo, injectors, rebult fuel pump & head, $42,500 Call 815-760-0798 1996 JD-8570 4WD. 6626 hrs. bareback 3-hyd. Outlets, 24 spd. good 18.4R38 Firestone tires 60%, $32,000.; 1981 IH1086, can air & heat. 2 hyd. Outlets 3-pt. 2-PTO. New front tires rear Firestone 18.4x38 w/duals.Western cab. $12,000. Call 217-737-8640

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PLANTERS JD-7000, 4-36, PLANTER, Good Shape, $2,500 Call 815-988-2074 Kinze 3600 16/31 ground drive, $33,900-obo. 217-242-9105

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JD-6700, 3-WHEEL, 60-ft. boom, triple nozzles, w/drops 2375 hrs, spray star monitor, Trimble light bar, foamer, Good Cond., $41,000. 815-260-0249, can text pics. SPRA-COUPE 3440, PERKINS, 60-ft. straight booms, 300 gal, foamer, EZ Guide 250, 1998, 3600 hrs, Exc. Cond., $12,500. 309-303-1292. FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT 16 ROW DAWN PLURIBUS on B&D tool bar w/liquid, $40,000; Call 815-252-7117 1903 w/16ft Chandler litter bed, Cat power, torque boost trans., 4800-hours, 73x44-32, $39,500. 618-562-7550 6-Row corn liquid nitrogen applicator, 3pt hitch, red ball monitor, PTO pump, includes tractor tanks, can also spray herbicide, Delivery possible, $4500. 814-322-8090

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Pork Checkoff reaches out to consumers cooking at home By Jeannine Otto

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DES MOINES, Iowa — On the lighter side, there is a YouTube Top 25 trending video, new social media influencers and new recipes to feed a family. On the more serious side is the farm crisis plan and a permission-to-travel document. All of it is part of the Pork Checkoff efforts to help pork producers weather the COVID19 storm and to maintain and even grow demand for pork in the U.S. Bill Even, CEO of the National Pork Board, outlined some of the efforts of the National Pork Board and Pork Checkoff to address COVID-19. One bright spot is an enthusiastic response to a YouTube video featuring pork. “Today, one of our pork videos is trending in the top 25 on YouTube today. When you think about the size of that platform and to have a pork-cooking video in the top 25 trending videos, it shows that there is a literal hunger for how to cook pork and how to enjoy it,” Even said. The video, from social media influencer Mythical Kitchen, fea-

Consumers have gone out and stocked up on meat and pork and other groceries and now they are at home looking for ways to prepare meals. tured a chocolate coffee French dip sandwich. Connecting with social media influencers is one of the ways that Pork Checkoff changed tactics in light of COVID-19 quarantines, self distancing and state stay-at-home orders. “We’ve pivoted to really push out messaging that is going to relate to consumers that are now going to be cooking at home. You’ve seen that they have gone out and stocked up on meat and pork and other groceries and now they are at home and they are trying to figure out how they enjoy pork. Recipes and simple

videos are what we’ve been offering,” Even said. The NPB and Pork Checkoff turned to working with influencers, social media figures with large numbers of followers, to draw interest. Mythical Kitchen, featuring chef Josh Scherer, has 1.24 million subscribers on YouTube. Scherer has over 57,000 followers on Twitter and over 66,000 followers on Instagram. On the more serious side, Even said the Pork Checkoff has been working to develop tools for pork producers to assist them with any issues connected to

COVID-19 on farms or in packing plants. “One of the things that has come up, as different states have put into place stay-at-home orders, it’s important that the workforce, farmers or people going to the packing plants, have permission to travel,” Even said. The Pork Checkoff and the North American Meat Institute developed a template letter that farmers or plant managers can print out, fill in with necessary information and keep with them or in their vehicles to confirm they have permission to travel as part of an industry deemed critical by the Department of Homeland Security. The template is available at pork.org, under the “COVID-19” landing page. In addition to that letter, Pork Checkoff developed a planning tool for farms. “We put together a farm crisis operations planning tool,” Even said. While the Pork Checkoff and other pork industry groups have long had plans in place for outbreaks of foreign animal disease, a human pandemic may present different challenges for farms and production systems.

“The bottom line for the folks from the production side is recognizing that your normal crisis plan might look a little different when you’re dealing with, perhaps, supply shortages or other disruptions in transportation and the like,” Even said. He described the planning tool, also available at pork.org under the “COVID-19” landing page, as something that helps producers consider and plan for events they may not have thought of with the pandemic. “This tool helps producers sit down and take a good hard look at resources and supplies, feed and water, farm supply inventory, caretaker/personnel availability, the labor issue and buildings and facilities,” he said. Even encouraged producers to look at the planning tool and have contingency plans in place. “Better do a little planning right now and have your situation well in hand should something else pop up in the coming weeks,” he said. Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 211, or jotto@agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Otto.

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Plenty of pork, but who’s going to eat it? AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

DES MOINES, Iowa — The United States has a plentiful supply of red meat, from beef to pork. The big question for the industry is — who is going to eat it and when? “The bottom line is we’ve got a lot of red meat and poultry in this country that has to find a demand,” said John Nalivka, president of Sterling Marketing in Vale, Oregon. Nalivka was one of three livestock economists who spoke during a Pork Checkoff-sponsored conference call following the release of the U.S. Department Agriculture Hogs and Pigs report for the first quarter of 2020. That report, with numbers as of March 1, 2020, found that the supply side of U.S. pork production continues to turn out pigs and pork. All hogs and pigs, at 77.629 million head, was up 4% from the same time a year ago and higher than analysts’ pre-report estimates of being up 3.4%. The breeding herd, at 6.375 million head, was 0.4% larger than a year ago, but smaller than pre-report estimates of being up 1.4%. The marketing herd, at 71.254 million head, was 4.3% larger than last year and exceeded pre-report estimates of being up 3.5%. One sign that producers haven’t slowed down on producing pigs was the December-February farrowings, at 3.158 million head, that was 1.9% larger than a year ago and a significant increase from the pre-report estimates, which had that number even with year-ago numbers. The efficiency of pork producers in caring for their animals also set a new record, as the December-February pigs saved per litter number set a new record at 11, 2.8% larger than a year ago. Analysts estimated that number would be up 2.9%. The big question is — where is all that pork going to go? “I think the real concern is what happens to pork product prices and, in turn, hog prices as we see the impacts of COVID-19 spill over,” said James Mintert, director of the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture in Lafayette, Indiana. Exports, a long time bright spot for the U.S. pork industry, will take on new importance to main-

tain and increase prices for producers. “It will take the export market to put any support into this market, once we get on the other side of coronavirus and we start to get into some normal seasonal patterns on demand and supply,” Nalivka said. One of the starring roles in that export picture is China and the likelihood that it will continue to import U.S. pork in large quantities, but when and how much are big questions that remain unan-

swered. “Obviously, some expectations of strong export growth going to China. That remains somewhat up in the air with respect to how rapidly the Chinese economy recovers and how rapidly we can see larger shipments take place to China,” Mintert said. Mexico is another major customer for U.S. pork, especially hams, but that demand has slowed due to a strong U.S. dollar and problems in Mexico’s economic system. “The concern I would

have is so far they haven’t had the virus impact that we have had in the U.S., but what happens if they do see a more widespread impact from the virus, resulting in larger unemployment down there and weaker consumer income?” Mintert said. Daniel Bluntzer, president of New Frontier Capital Markets in Robstown, Texas, noted that increased expor t s to Mexico or even maintaining current levels remains another question mark and a big risk factor. “If problems happen in Mexico as far as them going through what we are going through, an economic shutdown, that

is going to decimate the trade there as well for the time being,” Bluntzer said. The impact that COVID19 will have on the industry is just beginning to show, in lower futures prices and in lower demand for pork bellies, due to the sudden slowdown of the hotel, restaurant and institutional demand for bacon. “T he f utures market is tr ying to anticipate what that increase in unemployment is going to mean in terms of the impact it will have on consumer demand domestically and, to some extent, in the export channels,” Mintert said. Pork bellies have seen

a drop in price due to the slowdown in the hospitality industry, or HRI — Hot el / Re s t au r a nt / Institution — in the United States as a result of COVID-19. “We are already getting reports that bellies are being rendered because they are cheap enough to offset some other things. The question is how soon can lower prices be reflected? I don’t think the retail, in the short run, can make up for the loss of HRI,” Bluntzer said. Bill Even, the CEO of the Pork Checkoff, said that the loss of the HRI demand for bacon has hurt. See PORK, Page C5

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State addresses rural veterinarian shortage LISBON, Iowa (AP) — Like most rural veterinarians, Dr. Alana McNutt is a jack of all trades. On March 24, she did hysterectomies on two cats and two dogs before loading up her pickup to go to a farm near Lisbon, where she vaccinated and provided other care to 1,000pound cattle. And because it’s calving season, McNutt, 35, is ready for emergency calls when a mama cow, goat or sheep is struggling to deliver a baby. “The biggest challenge a mixed animal veterinarian faces is some percentage has to be emergency work,” she said of veterinarians who treat both pets and farm animals. According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, there is a shortage of mixed animal and farm animal veterinarians across the country because of the unpredictable hours and the need to live in rural areas. To recruit more rural veterinarians — critically important in a state that is the No. 1 producer of hogs and eggs — the Iowa Legislature has proposed repaying student loans for vets who work in an underserved area for four years. “The big thing in Iowa is we’re the largest animal agriculture state in the U.S., so it’s very important we have veterinarians and farmers to take care of these animals,” said Dr. Randy Wheeler,

executive director of the Iowa Veterinary Medicine Association. House File 2615 provides up to $15,000 a year, up to $60,000 over four years, in loan repayment for at least five veterinarians a year who commit to serving in rural areas in the state. To qualify, veterinarians must care for “food supply” animals or have a focus in food safety, epidemiology, public health or animal health. If approved, the program would need an appropriation of $300,000 a year, said Rep. Norlin Mommsen, R-DeWitt, who is the floor manager for the bill. “We’ve been talking to Rep. Kerr about putting money into the education budget for it,” Mommsen said, referring to David Kerr, R-Morning Sun, who chairs the Education Appropriations subcommittee. “It’s not a done deal, (but) there seems to be a consensus it’s necessary thing.” A state program would supplement the federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program, in which the U.S. Department of Agriculture pays up to $25,000 each year toward education loans of vets who agree to serve in a designated shortage area for three years. Graduates of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine leave with an average debt load of $142,000.

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“When you look at the restaurant market, we move a lot of bacon through the foodservices side. That is where our exposure is at, that is why you are seeing those changes in the cutout. There has been some pressure on the belly,” Even said. Nalivka said he was confident that business and demand will return for the industry, but it may take a while. “We’ve got to get on the other side of coronavirus. Food service doesn’t just come online suddenly. It takes a while before things get to moving. You’ve got to get people back in the restaurants. I feel pretty confident that will happen,” Nalivka said.

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ST. LOUIS — Illinois pork producers are producing more pigs and pork and look to continue that trend for a few more months. According to numbers provided from U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Heartland Regional Field Office, as of March 1, the Illinois swine herd stood at 5.4 million. That number was up 3% from the same time last year. The Illinois breeding herd, at 580,000, was up 20,000 from the same time a year ago.

The Illinois market hog numbers also were up 3% from a year ago, at 4.82 million, up from 4.69 million the same time a year ago. Illinois pork producers farrowed 290,000 head in the December 2019 -Febr ua r y 2020 timef rame, up f rom 270,000 a year ago. March-May farrowing intentions, at 280,000, are slightly above actual farrowings for the same time last year, which were 275,000 head of hogs farrowed. June-August farrowing intentions, at 280,000, are slightly below last year’s actual number of sows farrowed, at 290,000.

The December-February pig was 3.18 million, a 10% increase from last year. Illinois producers increased efficiency, with 10.95 pigs saved per litter in the DecemberFebr ua r y t imef ra me, compared with 10.65 a year ago. The weight category nu mber s: u nder 50 pounds — 1.37 million; 50 to 119 pounds — 1.60 million; 120 to 179 pounds — 1.04 million; and 180 pounds and over — 800,000. Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-2232558, ext. 211, or jotto@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Otto.

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The changing landscape of rural America Although we avoid going to the grocery store or out to eat or stopping by to see neighbors the way we might have before Rural Issues the COVID-19 pandemic, not a Cyndi Young- lot has changed for Jim and me. Puyear Livestock care hasn’t changed, and the day-to-day work on the farm hasn’t changed. I work from my home office more frequently than before, and the ag meetings I might have attended are either postponed or being held online. Every year about this time I begin work on my operations budget for next year at Brownfield. It is a little easier to crunch numbers when I am not in a building with other people who interrupt my focus. Budget time is one of my favorite times of the year because it is the time when I can dream the dream and make plans for the coming year. I keep my pencil very sharp, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking about new and different things we can do. Oh, sure, it would be so easy — but not much fun — for me to do the same thing we did last year. I will stay committed to delivering the timely and relevant information “traditional” farmers and ranchers want and need, but I know the rural communities and farms that we serve through local radio stations are changing. Research completed a few years ago by Purdue University with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service gave us more than a snapshot of how much the fabric of rural America has changed in the past two or three decades. The study revealed that farmers can be “classified” according to where their income comes from and by a couple of other factors that were not even a consideration 20 years ago. Ruralpolitans make up 47% of all U.S. farm households. A ruralpolitan usually has a white-collar job and in some cases both spouses have white-collar jobs. The commercial or traditional farmer represents 15% of U.S. farm households. The farm operator with a spouse working off the farm or a senior near retirement that is still active on the farm represents 38% of farm households. I know it sounds crazy, until you drive down the gravel road or blacktop and look at the new homes or the old homes with new owners that drive 30 miles or more to work each day. There is a blacktop road bordering our farm to the south, connecting two other rural highways. Highway U is no more than three miles of road. In February 2002, when we moved in, there were few houses along the road. Seven new homes have been added along that short stretch of road in just two years. Land prices have more than doubled in that time. I’m not saying it is all bad, and I’m not suggesting it is all good. I am saying it is not the rural America where I grew up. Hopefully, those of you whose feet are firmly planted in the soil can share your experiences and knowledge with ruralpolitans. There is a great deal to be learned from them, as well. Cyndi Young-Puyear is farm director and operations manager for Brownfield Network.

Prepare for the worst, pray for the best Despite overwhelming evidence from literally every corner of the world, a farmer friend recently related to me that three Farm & Food — not one, not two, but File three — rural acquaintances Alan Guebert had assured him that “this whole virus thing is just a big hoax to bring down Trump.” If so, there’s now 100,000plus graves, more than a half million hospital patients and trillions of dollars of lost equity to prove them wrong. Dead wrong, in fact. The COVID-19 virus is not a hoax. Billions more people have months more of restricted movement, and as that occurs, local, national and international markets will become more restricted, too. When will these almost frozen markets — hotels, restaurants, airlines, ports, cities and nations — thaw? No one knows, but plan on the worst and pray for the best and you’ll be prepared for everything in between. What’s already baked into

this growing calamity is skyrocketing unemployment and plunging U.S. Gross Domestic Product. If we’re lucky, economists predict the number of unemployed Americans will hit 10 million in a week and 20 million in a month. If we’re unlucky, well, the sky’s the limit on both. Likewise, the lucky version of GDP suggests a 25% decline in the April-through-June quarter. Unlucky means 40% down. American farmers and ranchers already know what unlucky looks and feels like. The week most “shelter in place” orders were issued by big states like California, Illinois and New York, futures prices on nearby contracts of corn, soybeans, wheat, hogs and cattle got pummeled. In just days, however, the biggest market driver, panic food buying, receded and markets rebounded to near or above pre-COVID-19 levels. Part of the rise was tied to market speculators who believe China, a key U.S. ag customer slammed by the disease in January and February, was re-entering U.S. grain and meat markets. Regardless, 2020 farm income prospects remain dismal. Should the U.S. economy take

the lesser predicted hit, private forecasters see U.S. corn and soybeans returns clipped $50 to $90 per acre, a staggering $9 billion to $16 billion reduction in gross income for just those two crops. And, foresee Brent Gloy and David Widmar, whose firm Agricultural Economic Insights issued that forecast March 23, U.S. meat markets could have an even tougher time. First, meat purchases are highly dependent on consumer income. During 2008’s Great Recession, “…per capita consumption of all meat … turned lower,” they note and, worse, “…beef consumption took nearly 10 years to recover pre-recession levels.” Moreover, since more than half of every food dollar is spent on meals outside the home, closed restaurants and limited food pick-up sites likely point to weakening livestock and poultry prices. Ethanol producers aren’t spared either. The oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia drove crude oil prices so low in mid-March that you could buy a barrel of crude oil for nearly the same price as two, choice rib-eye steaks. That’s right, 42 gallons of crude oil — from which refiners

can “crack” 16 gallons of gasoline and other products — cost $24 while two lovely, ready-togrill rib-eyes cost just $22. Crude’s crash, and COVID19’s deep bite into nationwide fuel sales, caused the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol’s powerful lobbying arm, to announce March 23 that its members would soon cut 2 billion gallons of “annualized output” from its forecasted 15-billion-gallon 2020 production. That 13% drop in U.S. ethanol production means about 700 million bushels of corn used to make it now returns to the already overwhelmed market as free stocks. Free, indeed. Ethanol could be ag’s canary. While not a perfect example, it is a sign of how quickly and badly markets sicken if some outliers choose to follow their own “It’s-a-hoax” rules and not the rules of civil society. And that’s just ethanol; it’s only bushels and jobs. It isn’t lives. Not yet, anyway. And it certainly isn’t a hoax. None of this is. Farm & Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. Source material and contact information are posted at www.farmandfoodfile.com.

Many farmers and ranchers wouldn’t have a market for what we grow without our partners on the cooperative and processing side of the supply chain.

Ag Day thanks for our food chain partners In a normal year, many of us in agriculture would be attending National Ag Day events, gathering together to celeZippy Duvall brate farmers’ and ranchers’ contributions American to America’s Farm Bureau quality of life, economy, sustainability and even national security. But this is not a normal year, and there is no gathering together. Current events have many Americans thinking about farmers more than ever as everyone stocks up on staple foods or our favorite snacks and hunkers down to ride out COVID-19. As we always do, farmers and ranchers will be at work in our fields, barns and orchards, making sure there’s enough food for everyone, at the same time that we take precautions to keep ourselves, our families and our farm workers safe. Of course, we can’t do it alone. Farmers and ranchers can grow as much food as possible, but it doesn’t matter unless that food gets packaged, shipped and stocked in stores. So, this year, another difference in our Ag Day celebration

seems timely and appropriate. Instead of just focusing on the work of farmers and ranchers, I want to “share the love” and shine a spotlight on the many other members of the food chain who deserve recognition. Many farmers and ranchers wouldn’t have a market for what we grow without our partners on the cooperative and processing side of the supply chain. Farm Bureau at the national and state levels has been in touch with processing plants to make sure we are addressing any issues that could stand in the way of continuing to process and package our farmer members’ commodities into food products for shipment to distributors and stores. We are grateful to the employees working in those plants; their work is vital to keeping food moving to market. Likewise, we are grateful to our nation’s meat inspectors and other food inspectors who have remained on the job to keep processing plants opera-

tional and ensure the continued safety of our food supply. Truck drivers and other transportation workers who could be at home with their families are, instead, on the road, delivering for consumers and farmers. We are so thankful to them, their dispatchers and others in the transportation industry for delivering the essentials we all depend on for survival. Anyone who has been to the grocery store lately could understand why store employees might be feeling a bit exhausted and overwhelmed. The rush to stock up on food staples and snacks for self-distancing has had grocery stores overrun with anxious and sometimes unruly shoppers. Meanwhile, the shelves need constant restocking. We in agriculture thank all the grocery store workers who are putting service ahead of their own comfort — making sure that everyone can buy the food items that we grow on our farms and ranches.

We appreciate our farm workers, who are like members of our family. Many of them travel hundreds or thousands of miles and return year after year to work on our farms and ranches. We’re helping them stock up on food, reminding them to wash their hands, keeping them informed of other ways to prevent infection, encouraging them to stay home if they’re sick, and making sure they know that their health is the most important consideration. But we cannot produce our nation’s food supply without their help, and we are grateful for them. And then farmers and ranchers are #stillfarming, producing the agricultural products that we all need and that bring such comfort to us at this time of uncertainty and concern for our families, friends, employees and neighbors. Like farmers and ranchers, our supply chain partners in processing, transportation, retail and other sectors are on the job, feeding and supplying our fellow Americans. On this National Ag Day and every day, we are grateful for the work of all who play a part in bringing food to our tables. Happy National Ag Day! Zippy Duvall is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 27, 2020

This Last This week week Chg. week CATTLE HOGS APR 20 100.95 98.65 2.30 APR 20 58.45 JUN 20 89.42 89.52 -0.10 MAY 20 57.62 AUG 20 90.45 90.75 -0.30 JUN 20 64.25 OCT 20 94.32 94.00 0.32 JUL 20 66.80 DEC 20 98.32 98.20 0.12 AUG 20 66.12 FEB 21 102.62 102.40 0.22 OCT 20 56.35

Last week Chg. 61.57 60.87 67.95 70.37 69.72 60.57

-3.12 -3.25 -3.70 -3.57 -3.60 -4.22

MILK CLASS III MAR 20 16.23 APR 20 15.32 MAY 20 13.87 JUN 20 14.00 JUL 20 14.76 AUG 20 15.23

16.26 16.05 15.31 15.52 15.92 16.11

-0.03 -0.73 -1.44 -1.52 -1.16 -0.88

24 22 14 10 8 10

SOYBEANS MAY 20 8814 JUL 20 8852 AUG 20 8856 SEP 20 8790 NOV 20 8766 JAN 21 8752

8624 8646 8652 8616 8606 8600

190 206 204 174 160 152

CHICAGO WHEAT MAY 20 5712 5392 320 JUL 20 5572 5356 216 SEP 20 5566 5382 184 DEC 20 5632 5466 166 MAR 21 5662 5542 120 MAY 21 5636 5522 114

K.C. WHEAT MAY 20 4866 JUL 20 4914 SEP 20 4984 DEC 20 5094 MAR 21 5180 MAY 21 5234

4690 4724 4796 4906 5002 5052

176 190 188 188 178 182

BRENT CRUDE OIL MAY 20 24.93 26.98 -2.05 JUN 20 27.95 29.00 -1.05 JUL 20 30.91 30.63 0.28 AUG 20 33.29 31.98 1.31 SEP 20 34.91 33.08 1.83 OCT 20 36.03 33.87 2.16

ETHANOL APR 20 MAY 20 JUN 20 JUL 20 AUG 20 SEP 20

0.982 -0.043 1.004 -0.018 1.019 0.008 1.019 0.011 1.019 0.011 1.019 0.011

FEEDER CATTLE APR 20 120.60 MAY 20 120.92 AUG 20 127.10 SEP 20 127.57 OCT 20 128.52 NOV 20 128.80

118.82 118.25 123.80 124.87 126.07 127.50

1.78 2.67 3.30 2.70 2.45 1.30

CORN MAY 20 3460 3436 JUL 20 3516 3494 SEP 20 3560 3546 DEC 20 3642 3632 MAR 21 3740 3732 MAY 21 3784 3774

0.939 0.986 1.027 1.030 1.030 1.030

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ADM 33.50 30.61 47.20 Corteva 23.21 22.53 32.78 AGCO 46.20 40.30 81.39 Dupont 33.83 31.47 83.72 BASF 11.33 10.58 20.98 Deere 135.11 111.63 181.99 Bunge 36.19 31.78 59.65 FMC 76.62 65.32 108.77 CF 25.55 22.25 55.15 Mosaic 9.90 9.59 28.01

Export Inspections (MIL BU.) This Year Cumulative Cumulative Cml. week ago this year year ago % diff. WHEAT 349.369 384.943 20091.16 18396.030 9.21 CORN 816.634 996.165 16749.64 28420.738 -41.07 SOYBEANS 570.642 859.953 31202.61 28567.923 9.22

Livestock Summary % diff. This Last Year week year week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2754 2790 2528 -1.29 8.94 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 676 653 619 3.52 9.21 MEAT PRICES This week Last week Change Pork Cutout Bellies Loins Hams Yld Gr 3 Choice Beef Select Beef 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Live 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Carcass

77.82 -3.06 74.76 50.33 77.54 -27.21 98.51 85.55 12.96 50.14 54.76 -4.62 252.11 254.07 -1.96 241.61 240.38 1.23 119.44 109.80 9.64 189.31 173.11 16.20

OKLAHOMA CITY This week Last week Change FEEDER STEER Low High Low High Low High 4-5 Wt Mf 1’S 5-6 Wt Mf 1’S 6-7 Wt Mf 1’S 7-8 Wt Mf 1’S 8-10 Wt Mf 1’S

144.00 139.00 118.75 115.75 107.25

177.00 134.00 144.00 123.50 143.50 116.00 132.50 109.00 122.00 99.50

153.50 10.00 23.50 134.00 15.50 10.00 136.75 2.75 6.75 136.75 6.75 -4.25 114.75 7.75 7.25

Eastern Corn Belt Direct Feeder Cattle Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky and Ohio Reported sales this week, 807; last week, 671; last year, 2,370. Demand light. Supply included 100% over 600 pounds, 100% heifers. Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1-2 Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 339 725 725 106.50 106.50 468 725 725 103.80 103.80

Delivery May FOB Jun FOB

CASH HOGS, CARCASS PRICES, WEIGHTED AVERAGE BASE PRICE This week Last week Change National

58.71 56.10 2.61

USDA National Grain Market Review Compared to last week, cash bids for wheat, sorghum and soybeans were higher; corn was mixed. For the week ending March 19, an increase of 71.4 million bushels of corn export sales for 2019-20 were reported, with an increase of 33.2 million bushels of soybean exports sales, and an increase of 27.2 million bushels of wheat export sales. Sorghum export sales showed an increase of 4.2 million bushels. Ethanol production for the week ending March 20 reported a decrease of 30,000 barrels per day to 1.005 million barrels a day. Ethanol stocks decreased 0.458 million barrels at 24.1 million barrels. Wheat was 1 1/2 cents higher to 35 cents higher. Corn was 3 cents lower to 3 1/4 cents higher. Sorghum was 6 cents higher. Soybeans were 32 cents higher to 39 cents higher.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 1 3/4 cents lower to 3 1/4 cents higher from 3.48 3/4-3.60 3/4 per bushel. Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was steady to 3 cents lower from 3.21-3.27 per bushel. Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was 3 1/4 cents higher from 3.49 3/4-3.51 3/4 per bushel. Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 3 1/4 cents higher at 3.43 3/4 per bushel. Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 3 1/4 cents higher at 3.18 3/4 per bushel.

OILSEEDS Minneapolis YYellow truck soybeans were 39 cents higher

at 8.58 1/4 per bushel. Illinois Processors US No 1 Yellow truck soybeans were 35 cents higher from 8.85 1/4-8.92 1/4 per bushel. Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 32 to 37 cents higher from 8.65 1/4-8.80 1/4 per bushel. Illinois 448 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 8.10 higher from 322.90-325.90 per bushel. Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 0.77 to 1.02 points higher from 25.9026.75 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 31 3/4 cents higher from 6.07 1/4-6.17 1/4 per bushel. St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 34 cents higher at 6 per bushel. Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 18 1/2 cents lower to 1 1/2 cents higher from 6.61 1/4-6.81 1/4 per bushel. Portland US Soft White wheat rail was 25 to 35 cents higher from 6.05-6.15 per bushel.

SORGHUM US No 2 yellow truck, Kansas City was 6 cents higher from 5.69-6.23 per cwt. Texas High Plains US No 2 yellow sorghum (prices paid or bid to the farmer, fob elevator) was 6 cents higher from 5.60-6.13 per cwt.

OATS US 2 or Better oats, rail bid to arrive at Minneapolis 20 day was 10 1/4 to 55 1/4 cents lower from 2.61-3.31 per bushel.

Futures Prices compiled by faculty and staff of the Ag Economics Department at the University of Missouri Direct Feeder Catttle from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, Oklahoma City. Grain Market Review from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, St. Joseph, Missouri.

DENVER — Ag retailers are on relatively firm footing as they prepare for spring following a tumultuous 2019 growing season marked by adverse weather, flooding and delayed harvest. Existing inventories of seed, agrochemicals and fertilizer should meet customer needs during the 2020 planting season, which is expected to see an expansion in planted corn and soybean acres. A new report from CoBa n k’s K nowledge Exchange division indicates that demand for crop protection products and spraying, fertilization and other customized application services will likely be robust, given current field conditions and the larger than expected increase in acres. “The amount of unplanted and unharvested acres from 2019 creates a situation where there’s extra work to be done,” said Ken Zuckerberg, CoBank’s lead grain and farm supply economist.

Tillage, chemical and fertilizer application and other field activities will take place later than normal on acres that went unharvested last year. Unplanted acres will require more attention to effectively control weeds, disease and insects. Last year, September rains delayed har vest activities in parts of the Corn Belt and Midwest region. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual December survey estimated that 8% of the U.S. corn crop went unharvested in 2019, compared to an average of 1.4% during the previous three years. “Growers in affected areas may find they’ll need more agronomic services and support than usual this year just to get caught up,” Zuckerberg said. “Additionally, their far m machiner y and equipment will need to be up and running for the heavy workload to come.” Adverse weather and specifically flooding re-

main elevated risk factors this season with forecasts for above-average precipitation this spring, on top of already saturated soils. Agronomy sales and service could take a hit if weather once again leads to high prevented planting. SOLID FINANCIAL FOOTING Farmer prepayments and accounts receivables trends reported by farm supply cooperatives remain in line with 2018 despite farmer financial stress, indicating a stable-to-improved outlook for agronomy sales and services. Despite 2019’s difficulties, USDA reported that consolidated net farm income totaled $93.6 billion, up 12% versus $83.8 billion in 2018. One risk factor that’s difficult to quantify at this juncture is COVID-19, which could potentially derail input supply chains and grain export activities both due to logistical bottlenecks, as well as a strong U.S. dollar.

Schrader’s Farmers Update focuses on planning, value FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Farmland values continue to hold their own despite volatile commodity prices, and farm families must plan and communicate openly to ensure a smooth succession of the business. Those were two key messages heard by farmland owners at Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co.’s annual Farmers Update sessions in Fort Wayne and Venice, Florida. “In 10 years of holding these briefings, farmers have come to expect and look forward each year,” said R.D. Schrader, whose company partnered this year with K-Coe Isom, which provides business planning and estate planning for farm families, as well as accounting services. Sch rader presented a wide array of data on farmland values as related to interest rates, commod-

ity prices, farm debt and other fundamental financial data. He emphasized the stability of land prices, even additional strength in some pockets over the winter months. “Farmland values have held up surprisingly well, even when crop prices have been unsteady. This is a critical message during this period of extreme gyrations in the prices of stocks, bonds and other alternatives,” Schrader said. Landowners also heard from two K-Coe Isom succession planning specialists — Jeanne Bernick, who spoke in Florida, and Kayla Jenkins, who addressed the session in Indiana. Both addressed the importance of farm families developing financial and succession plans to ensure a fair and smooth transition from one gener-

ation to the next. Schrader farm management specialist Steve Slonaker focused on farm profitability and underscored the importance of succession planning. “Operators had a better year in 2019 than some had anticipated due to higher yields and MFP payments. Looking ahead to 2020, we expect lower fertilizer and diesel prices to lower costs, so we anticipate a similar profit margin,” Slonaker said. “Of course, the coronavirus pandemic complicates the picture. However, farmers are by nature optimistic and resilient, and we hope operators are able to produce crops without interruption. They’ll be focused on growing their crops, trusting that the market will be more settled by harvest time.”

The shape of things to come Virtually all markets collapsed in March. There was serious weakness in January Commodity and February, Insight but March Jerry Welch was far worse. Stocks as measured by the Dow Jones dropped to levels not seen since the fall of 2016, three years ago. The CRB index that is to commodities as the Dow is to stocks fell to a 21-year low. The Goldman Sachs index weighted towards crude oil hit a 19-year low. Crude prices fell to levels not seen in 20 years. Cattle prices experienced one of the most dramatic declines in history. Cotton prices fell a 10-year low. It has been a market environment that Bloomberg News described as “sell everything.” With major tops having been carved out with stocks and commodities, the race is now on to pick how low the markets will decline before recovering — assuming they do. But, first, let me say trying to catch a collapsing market is akin to catching a falling knife and not getting cut. It can be done, but more often than not, there is pain. Historically, market lows are generally formed once certain chart patterns are seen. The three most important pattern shapes are what economists tend to refer to as

L-shaped, U-shaped and V-shaped. Understandingmarkets. com has this to say: The two most important questions you will hear during any recession, or market collapse, are “When will it end?” and “How quickly will we recover?” The answers to both of these questions can be found by analyzing the chart shape of the recession. Also from understandingmarkets.com: L-shaped recessions are recessions that fall quickly and fail to recover. An L-shaped recession is a worst-case scenario because they offer no hope of recovery. The Japanese recession that began in the early 1990s is considered an L-shaped recession. The Japanese stock market peaked in late 1989 at nearly 39,000 and today is trading around 19,000. The Japanese market topped out 30 years ago and remains depressed, to the chagrin of long-term investors. U-shaped recessions are recessions that begin with a slightly slower decline, but then remain at the bottom for an extended period of time before turning around and moving higher again. The recession from 1971 through 1978, when both unemployment and inflation were high for years, is considered a U-shaped recession. V-shaped recessions are recessions that begin with a steep fall, but then quickly find a bottom, turn back around and move immediately higher. A V-shaped recession is a

best-case scenario. The recession of 1990 to 1991 and the recession of 2001, both of which only lasted eight months, are V-shaped recessions. When trying to pick a bottom for any market, I watch carefully for one of those three chart patterns to surface. There is no easy answer to picking a bottom or a top to a market. It is a science and an art. And only with the benefit of hindsight can you know for sure that a bottom or top is in place. Though virtually every market on the globe has collapsed, my work suggests a new and dynamic movement in the U.S. ag markets is in the process of unfolding and quickly. The one market that appears to be headed higher is now showing V formation; the other, a U formation. One market should be probed only from the long side of the ledger; the other from the short side. Moving forward, I am searching for signs about L.U.V. You should, as well — especially regarding that new and dynamic scenario rapidly unfolding in agriculture where one market can be bought and another sold short. Please feel free to drop me a line at commodityinsite1@gmail.com if you wish to learn more about the new and dynamic scenario unfolding in the U.S ag markets. And please check out my Facebook page — facebook.com/jerryfwelch — and give it a “like.” I need a “like” while looking for some L.U.V.

‘Harvest for All’ benefits communities WASHINGTON — The farm and ranch families of Farm Bureau donated 26.3 million pounds of food and raised more than $494,000 to assist hungry Americans in 2019 as part of the organization’s “Harvest for All” program. Combined, the monetary and food donations totaled the equivalent of 24.5 million meals. The spirit of farm communities has always been one of working together and giving back. Now in its 18th year, Harvest for All is spearheaded by members of Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers program, but members of all ages from across the nation contribute to the effort. Their participation helps ensure Americans in need can enjoy the bounty of food farmers and ranchers produce. In addition to raising food and funds for the initiative, farmers and ranchers tallied 14,400 volunteer hours assisting local hunger groups in 2019. “Hunger remains a concern for many rural A mericans and farming communities,” said Morgan Norris of Florida, chair of AFBF’s YF&R Committee. “Farm Bureau’s long tradition of helping put food on the tables of those in need through Harvest for All outreach is more important than ever as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.” Florida Farm Bureau took top honors for donating the most food in 2019, 18 million pounds. Illinois Farm Bureau raised the most money, $205,900, and tallied the most volunteer hours, 7,035. Thanks to the generosity of Nationwide, these state organizations received a $500 grant, for each type of contribution, for donation to a local food bank of their choice or for another Harvest for All project. Second-place winners were New York Farm Bureau for food donated at 7.3 million pounds; and Tennessee Farm Bureau for donated funds at $126,100 and volunteer time at 2,400 hours. Each of the second-place winners received a $250 grant, for each type of contribution, from Nationwide to donate to the local food bank of their choice. In addition, three state YF&R committees received $250 grants from Nationwide for “most innovative” programs. Those winners were New Hampshire, New York and West Virginia.

Strong Trump support in farm country WA S H I N G T O N — Farmers and ranchers’ support for President Donald Trump has grown despite sluggish exports and their own worries about their financial condition as the economic slowdown triggered by the COVID-19 has developed, according to the latest Agri-Pulse poll of U.S. farmers and ranchers. Some 72% of producers nationwide who were surveyed from Feb. 19 through March 13 said they were willing to support Trump’s reelection, up from 69% during the fall of 2018 and 45% in the spring of 2018. Some 21% of those surveyed for the latest poll opposed Trump’s reelection. The remaining 7% don’t know how they’ll vote or refused to say. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of the farmers surveyed said they had at least some concerns about their ability to repay loans, and 79% said it was important that farmers receive another round of Market Facilitation Program payments this year; 46% of the producers actually said it was “very important” that farmers receive additional MFP payments.

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Temporary food supply chain delays By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray

News about the coronavirus pandemic has captured the attention of nearly everyone. Epidemiologists in the United States are suggesting policies that would flatten the crest of the outbreak in hopes of reducing the risk that a surge in severe infections would overwhelm the capacity of the medical system to meet the needs of the ill while, at the same time, reducing the total number of deaths. In the midst of all of this, a trip to most, if not all, grocery stores would seem to suggest that the country is facing wartime-like shortages of fruits, vegetables and meats, as well as toilet paper, face masks and alcohol-based hand sanitizer. These empty shelves are not the result of shortages of these items, but rather panicked buying by consumers who fear that they will be confined to home and unable to get out an make their regular purchases. In addition, families are needing to purchase additional

groceries to feed children whose public schools will not be serving school breakfasts and lunches, young adults who have returned home for the rest of the semester as their colleges have closed switching their instruction to online classes and adults who are being asked to telecommute from home. Despite the specter of food shortages, the problem of empty shelves will be solved as the food supply chain responds to a short-term surge in consumer demand by increasing its capacity to get product on store shelves. COVID-19 will not have the same impact on all food supplies. Most milk, for instance, comes from domestic sources and at the present time it is in an oversupply situation that has driven prices to levels below the full cost of production. There may be short-term hiccups in getting milk to a given location, but there is no shortage of milk. Delivering this supply to consumers could be affected if workers in a given processing plant were to be infected by COVID-19, but that will likely

While chicken has figuratively flown off the shelves of grocery stores, most processors have a significant supply of frozen chicken in their lockers. be a localized problem. While chicken has figuratively flown off the shelves of grocery stores, most processors have a significant supply of frozen chicken in their lockers. We are not in a situation like the one we experienced a couple of years ago when the bird flu struck and millions of chickens and turkeys had to be euthanized in an effort to control the spread of the disease. The United States has enough feed grain and poultry facilities to assure a steady supply of meat to consumers. The story of fruits and vegetables is a little more nuanced because during the winter about 30% of the U.S. produce supply

ASA Corteva Young Leaders explore industry issues, participate in training SAN ANTONIO — The 35th class of American Soybean Association Corteva Agriscience Young Leaders completed their training in San Antonio in conjunction with the annual Commodity Classic Convention and Trade Show. “The ASA Corteva Agriscience Young Leader Program helps provide the soybean industry and all of agriculture with strong and forward-thinking grower leaders,” ASA President Bill Gordon said. “The program focuses on leader development and emphasizes collaboration, providing us

with growers who are working together to amplify the voice of the farmer. We are grateful to Corteva for their longstanding support of this program and for helping to secure the future of the soybean industry.” While in San Antonio, the Young Leaders participated in training focused on leadership development, industry issue updates and outreach. The Young Leaders also were recognized at ASA’s annual awards banquet. “Corteva has been a proud sponsor of the ASA Corteva Agriscience Young Leader Program

for over 35 years. This program has a rich history of developing soybean growers from across the country and providing opportunities to strengthen their leadership skills and build their network in the agriculture industry,” U.S. Commercial Unit Leader Nate Miller said. “I have interacted with this year’s class of Young Leaders and am excited about the positive impact these leaders will make on agriculture for generations to come.” For more information about the ASA Corteva Young Leader Program, visit SoyGrowers.com.

comes from outside the country. Some slowing of that supply could result if a significant number of inspectors at the border were to be infected by COVID-19. This potential supply glitch will be offset by the increase in domestic production as spring and summer result in increased U.S. production of these products. With pork exports to China on the decline, in part as the result of the U.S.-China trade dispute, U.S. consumers are assured of a fully adequate supply of pork products for the foreseeable future. Again, the only caveat to this optimistic view is the potential shutdown of a plant where workers have been infected by COVID-19. Because most agricultural production takes place in sparsely populated areas of the country, the limits on gatherings of people to 10 will have a more limited impact on rural than urban areas. Unless the dynamics of the disease changes significantly, the production of food that feeds the U.S. population will likely not experience any significant

disruption, despite the temporary food supply chain delays. With the spread of this disease, we can expect significant disruptions to the supply chain of pharmaceutical products and the production of intermediate components that are a part of cars, trucks, cellphones and other more durable products we use in our everyday life. In the end, the more we pay attention to the recommendations of epidemiologists and our personal physicians, the more likely it is that we can hold the number of deaths from this pandemic to a minimum. Once we get to that point, we need to look at investing in the kind of biomedical research that will allow the world to respond more effectively to the next potential pandemic. As with COVID-19 and the diseases before it — AIDS, SARS, MERS, Zika and Ebola — the evolution of the next zoonotic disease is always just around the corner and we need to be prepared. © 2020 Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.

2020 American Soybean Association Corteva Agriscience Young Leaders Adam and Brittany Davis, Virginia Nathan Engelhard, Michigan Josh England, Nebraska Justin and Emily Esselburn, Ohio Noah and Anna Fedders, Iowa Brady Holst, Illinois Houston and Katy Howlett, Kentucky Jesse King, South Dakota Mike and Dawn Kunerth, Minnesota Trey and Rebecca Liverman, North Carolina Ryan Mackenthun, Minnesota Lucas and Becky Miller, Nebraska Allison Morse, Michigan Ryan and Kristin Oberbroeckling,

Iowa Jeremy Olson, Kansas Jesse Patrick, Georgia Drew and Lauren Peterson, South Dakota James Ramsey, Indiana Matt Rehberg, Wisconsin Chris and Rachel Renwick, Canada Garrett and Cara Riekhof, Missouri Caper and Alison Robinson, Arkansas Scott Ruck, Ohio Eric Schwenke, Indiana Justin Sherlock, North Dakota Casey Youngerman, Tennessee

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