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Elections, enrollment open for risk coverage, price loss programs The United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency is encouraging producers to contact their local USDA service centers to make or change elections and to enroll Farm Service for 2022 Agriculture Agency News Risk Coverage or by Ryan Brunn, Price Loss Coverage, executive director providing future profor Benton and Mille Lacs counties tections against market uctuations. The election and enrollment period runs through March 15. Producers can elect coverage and enroll in ARC-CO (county) or PLC, which are both crop-by-crop, or ARC-IC (individual), which is for the entire farm. Although election changes for 2022 are optional, producers must enroll through a signed contract each year. If a producer has a multi-year contract on the farm and makes an election change for 2022, it will be necessary to sign a new contract. If an election is not submitted by March 15, the election remains the same as the 2021 election for crops on the farm. Farm owners cannot enroll in either program unless they have a share interest in the farm. Covered commodities include barley, canola, large and small chickpea, corn, crambe, axseed, grain sorghum, lentil, mustard seed, oat, peanut, dry pea, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium and short grain rice, saf ower seed, seed cotton, sesame, soybean, sun ower seed and wheat.
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4-H ribbon Grundhoefer, her horse place third at state level in last competition year BY MAURA WENNER STAFF WRITER FOLEY – Katie Grundhoefer and her horse, Ben, won third place in Western Showmanship at the Minnesota 4-H State Horse Show Sept. 20, 2021. The 4-H show is held annually at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. Grundhoefer began her career showing sheep,
then cattle, until she started showing horses. “I was a Shooting Stars Club 4-H member for about 10 years,” Grundhoefer said. “I had a really good group and I got into it. Everyone was so supportive.” One of Grundhoefer’s biggest in uences and the person who introduced her to horses is her grandma. “She has always had horses and bought me a mini pony when I was little,” she
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Katie Grundhoefer said. “I got started with him, stands with taught him to drive.” her quarter Through the help of her horse, Ben, Jan. 3, at a grandma’s horses, Grundboarding hoefer learned to ride. After facility in deciding which discipline she enjoyed most, she purchased Waite Park. Grundhoefer a pleasant quarter horse. has owned “I nally decided I and worked wanted to stick to pleasure with Ben for horses and pleasure riding, two years. so I bought Ben,” Grundhoefer said.
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