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Norton County Community Foundation Awards $21,455 in November and December Grant Cycles Norton County Community Foundation (NCCF) awarded $21,455 to Norton County nonprofit organizations and charitable projects in the November and December grant cycles. These funds were part of the Dane G. Hansen Community Grant Fund, which offers financial support to qualifying and deserving projects and programs in Northwest Kansas. Grants supported the following organizations and projects: Norton City/County Economic Development for the 2019 Norton County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. Norton Community High School for the Model UN Competition. The grant will allow fifteen high school students to participate in the competition at Wichita State University in January. Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center for fuel, maintenance, and supplies for the Mobile Child Advocacy Center and Mobil Therapy Unit that travels to Norton County to provide direct healing services to children and families who have experienced abuse. Prairie Dog Press for organizational capacity-building initiatives. Magical Hometown Christmas for Phase III of the volunteer-led initiative to decorate downtown Norton with Christmas lights.

Norton Rural Fire Department for updated equipment, including SCBA units, voice amplifiers, and helmets. This brings the total of awards funded through the Dane G. Hansen Community Grant Fund at NCCF in 2019 to $90,946.98. “Awarding grant funding to local nonprofits and charitable projects is one of the highlights of our work,” said Tara Vance, NCCF Executive Director. “We love seeing the positive impact on our community that comes as a result of funding these projects.” The guidelines and application for the Hansen Grant can be found on NCCF’s website at nortonccf.org. Applications are due the first day of every month to be considered for that month’s funding. For more information, please contact Tara Vance at 785.874.5106, tara@ nortonccf.org, or visit the NCCF office at the Heaton Building in Downtown Norton, located at 112 S. Kansas in Norton, Kansas. About Norton County Community Foundation The Norton County Community Foundation was established in 1994 for the purpose of supporting local charitable activities in Norton County through endowments made to the foundation. Dedicated to serving today for tomorrow, to make our community a better place in which to live. Connect with the Norton County Community Foundation at www.nortonccf.org.

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K-State Crops Team Sweeps Top Individual Awards to Win 2019 National Championship The dynasty continues with 17 national championships in 21 years The Kansas State University crops team recently captured the title of national champions by winning the Kansas City American Royal Collegiate Crops Contest on Nov. 19 and the Chicago Collegiate Crops Contest on Nov. 23. K-State teams have now won the collegiate crops contest championship in 17 of the past 21 years. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville was second at both events. Iowa State University was third in Kansas City and Purdue University took third in Chicago. Official members of the K-State team were junior Blake Kirchhoff, Hardy, Nebraska, and seniors Noah Winans, Tekonsha, Michigan, and Nate Dick, Inman, Kansas. Alternate contestants were junior Madison Tunnell, Olathe, Kansas and sophomores Alex Kaufmann, Concordia, Kansas; Evan Bott, Palmer, Kansas; and Trevor Mullen, Salina, Kansas. All are agronomy majors at K-State.

In both contests, the K-State team took first place in all three phases of the contest: plant and seed identification, seed analysis and grain grading. In addition, team members swept the one-two-three individual overall placings at both events. Such a sweep of all three contest components and the top three individual placings at both contests is very rare, and has only been accomplished three times before in the 86-year history of the events, all by K-State. At Chicago, Blake Kirchhoff was first place individual overall, and he won all three contest components. Nate Dick was second overall, placing second in identification and grain grading, and third in seed analysis. Noah Winans came in third, placing second in seed analysis and fifth in identification and grain grading. At Kansas City, Blake Kirchhoff was also the top individual, placing first in grain grading with a perfect score, second in identification, and fifth in seed analysis. Noah Winans was second high individual. He also made a perfect score in grain grading to tie for first, and he placed third in both seed analysis and identification. Nate Dick was third overall, placing first in identification,

second in grain grading, and sixth in seed analysis. The team was coached by Kevin Donnelly, K-State professor of agronomy. Luke Ryan, junior in agronomy from Solomon, Kansas, was the assistant coach. In the contests, participants are required to identify 200 different plant or seed samples of crops and weeds; grade eight different samples of grain according to Federal Grain Inspection Service standards; and analyze 10 seed samples to determine what contaminants they contain. The American Royal coordinated the Kansas City contest. Corteva Agriscience was the primary awards sponsor. Additional sponsors were GFG Ag Services, American Society of Agronomy, Association of Official Seed Analysts, and South Dakota Crop Improvement Association. The primary sponsor of the Chicago contest was the CME Group. Additional donors in Chicago included the Crop Science Society of America, Growmark Cooperative, and the Society of Commercial Seed Technologists. Locally, sponsors for the K-State Crops Team include the Kansas Crop Improvement Association, K-State Department of Agronomy, K-State College of Agriculture, and the K-State Student Government Association. For its performance, K-State received a team scholarship award from contest sponsors at Kansas City, and CME Group provided individual scholarships to the top five students at Chicago.

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National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Authorization Clears Senate Ag Committee

The Senate Agriculture Committee announced committee passage of legislation to support agro-biodefense. Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, says the legislation means “we are one step closer to securing a more robust defense of our nation’s agriculture and food supply.” The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Act of 2019 would authorize the Agriculture Secretary to use the facility as a national security laboratory

protecting agriculture and food. The bill directs NBAF to carry out the relevant objectives of a Homeland Security Presidential Directive and the National Biodefense Strategy, both aimed at securing the nation's food and agriculture. The $1.25 billion facility in Manhattan, Kansas, is expected to be operational by 2022-2023. Ranking member of the Committee, Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, says the legislation is "important in the critical effort to help

safeguard our food supply from animal diseases and intentional threats." The bill also outlines the national security mission of the facility and the duties of the agencies responsible for implementing the mission.

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Agricultural producers now can enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2019 and 2020 crop years. ARC provides income support payments on historical base acres when actual crop revenue declines below a specified guaranteed level. PLC provides income support payments on historical base acres when the effective price for a covered commodity falls below its reference price. The 2018 Farm Bill reauthorized and updated both programs. Farm owners now have a one-time opportunity to update PLC payment yields beginning with crop year 2020 and should contact their county FSA office to learn how to do this. Covered commodities include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain

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If the producers of the farm for the 2019 program year fail to make a valid election by March 15, 2020, the farm will receive a default election and the 2020 producers will be able to enroll the farm at that time. Producers who enroll for 2019 using the multi-year signup option should be aware that subsequent year changes such as updating yields, reconstitutions, share changes, ownership changes, etc. will require a new ARC/PLC contract and all signatures, that year and all subsequent years.

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State Line Shopper ture, some of our counties our traditional agriculture have fallen on tough times roots. Those of us who Glenn Brunkow, Pottawatomie County farmer and rancher raise conventional crops and have seen membership inclusive and continue to Kansas Farm Bureau strategic plan to serve as and livestock will continue dwindle as our rural popbe the umbrella farm group to be the backbone of the members just finished ulation shrinks. We must a road map for the near where all producers can celebrating our first 100 future of KFB. This docorganization. However, we make sure the very essence find a home. As we conyears. I say the first 100 ument was created with of our grassroots, the counmust also welcome others tinue to face challenges in years because one thing input from all 105 county ty Farm Bureaus, continue to the table. I don’t think I agriculture, more and more need to remind anyone that to be the foundation of the that became very clear Farm Bureaus and many, of us look for ideas that can we are less than 2 percent to me this year was KFB many hours of volunteer organization. is very much a healthy time from a task force. It is only be described as out of of the population — that’s Without input from every and vibrant organizaa living document meant to the box. The list of niche or all of us. We need to make corner of the state we will tion. We have weathered help keep KFB the thriving, small agriculture ventures not be a whole organizasure we have a united voice. is long and varied, but tough times, grown as an growing organization of tion, and it will be hard Another main point of the operation and become which we all can be proud. Kansas Farm Bureau needs to represent the needs of strategic plan is we must to be the place that all are the biggest and most One of the things brought all farmers and ranchfind a way to strengthen influential general farm to light in the strategic plan welcomed and the voice ers. What will it take to our county Farm Bureaus. that speaks for everyone. organization in the state. process is the need for our Just like the rest of agricul- strengthen and help supWe do not want to forget This year we crafted a organization to be more

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The hidden cost of cow depreciation When asking cow-calf producers what it costs to raise cattle, often they will list feed and equipment as two of the largest expenses they have. Others might include labor on the list. But experts at Kansas State University say that one cost not often thought of or accounted for is the decreasing value of the cow over time. “Labor, interest, machinery and feed are all cash expenses,” according to agricultural economist Dustin Pendell. “Cow depreciation is a non-cash expense, which is why a lot of times people don’t think about it.”

Assessing the depreciation value In accounting for cow depreciation, Pendell said cattle producers need to calculate the purchase price minus the salvage value divided by the productive life of the animal. “The price you pay for the cow or replacement heifer will have a huge impact on the depreciation value,” he said. As an example, veterinarian and Beef Cattle Institute director Brad White said: “As you think about your herd, there might be years when a pregnant replacement heifer could be added for $1,300, and other years when that same heifer might cost

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