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Royalton, Minn., dairy farmer Jane Popp

Doug and Jane Popp harvest more than milk on their Royalton, Minn., dairy farm — they harvest the sun and wind to power it

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Mom said the word “hospice” but it His heart was never far from farming. In didn’t sink in right away. (sort of) retirement, Dad continued to drive semi-loads of grain to the elevator and do I heard what she said, and I knew what whatever else his new boss, a.k.a. eldest it meant, but over the phone it felt like son, assigned him. He also became involved she was speaking a different language. I in collecting and spending countless hours tried to wrap my head around what she restoring antique Case tractors ... and then was saying, and what she wasn’t. Dad spending countless hours talking about was dying. them with antique farmers.

When I was a kid, there was no need Dad was a tough old codger, but in the for an alarm clock on summer mornings.

LAND MINDS end it turned out he wasn’t invincible after When it was time to head to the field, I’d all. When the cancer came, he fought it, but get a rough jab to the shoulder accompaBy Tom Royer when the battle was lost, he maintained nied by a booming “AY!” That was my his dignity. Given the terrible circum15-minute warning — 15 minutes to stances, he went out about the best way put my work clothes on, eat a bowl of he could: on his terms — of sound mind, cereal and get down to the shed to either help finish getting equipment prepped for the day, or if not body. jump in the pickup to head out.

That keen mind of Dad’s taught me — always I never dared find out what would happen if I went through actions more so than words — many imporback to sleep. If that jab and boom was the appetizer, tant lessons as a kid, such as work hard, appreciate silence, think before no way did I want the speaking or acting. As main course. I’m told we both grew older, everthat some of my older so-slowly the lessons siblings may have changed: delight in congone back for second versation, don’t take helpings a few times. yourself seriously, tease Growing up, I always everyone. thought of Dad as These new lessons some sort of unbeatcoincided, not so coinciable tough guy — like dentally, with my dad a skinny John Wayne becoming a grandfather.

— so when I learned of The energy and joy he his cancer diagnosis, it shared with his granddidn’t really phase me; children was practically it never occurred to superhuman. Seeing him me that he wouldn’t engage so enthusiastibeat it. He’d overcome cally with my nieces and open heart surgery, nephews, and later my own children, was a gift. The the ’80s farm crisis, five screwy children, and that old New Holland hay baler that never — NEVER — love he had for his grandkids was immeasurable, and he surely must have felt that love returned to him, kept the right tension for more than four or five multiplied tenfold. small squares at a time.

This is the man I will remember.

Dad came across as very stern and serious when I was younger, but Mom says that back then he was so It would be easy to feel regret for the missed opporfocused on trying to make a living by farming fulltunities over the years to deepen my relationship time that “fun” just wasn’t part of the equation. with my dad. I’ve written before about our long, There was a job to do. He did it, and he expected the silent rides in the pickup when I was a teenager. I same of his kids. was young and never imagined ever having to say goodbye. But what’s done is done, and all now that He’d let me ride on the tractor fender for one trip can be done is to move forward from this moment. around the alfalfa field with the sickle mower so I could see how it was done, then we’d switch spots for Just two weeks before he passed, my parents drove the second round so he could see if I’d been paying five hours to attend my younger daughter’s high attention. Then he’d hop off, jump in the pickup, and school graduation party. I was fortunate to snap a drive off to the next task. Confused? Problem? Use photo of her big sister’s 14-month-old baby girl sityour head. Figure it out. Come home when you’re ting side-by-side with Dad, the pair engrossed in done. each other’s company.

Usually his “tough love” teaching method worked If I harbor any regrets, it’s that my granddaughter out. Sometimes — like when that dang rear-mount will have been too young to truly remember her cultivator took out six rows of corn at a time on the great-grandfather’s silly grin, or the brightness in sidehill — it didn’t. That was the moment you prayed his eyes as they shared that moment. that somehow Dad wouldn’t scout the back 40 again But maybe she’ll see it in mine, and ask me about before harvest, and by then maybe he’d forget who’d him someday. been responsible for those acres. (In hindsight, there’s Tom Royer is managing editor of The Land. He may no way he missed that mysterious, cultivator-wide ❖ stretch of bare dirt; did he let me get away with one?) be reached at editor@thelandonline.com.

OPINION

Like Congress, crow better after a long simmer

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Amazingly, that 3-to-1 against margin — for a “group that’s aware of the importance of ag exports to farm income,” explained Abbott — was greater than the full House’s overall 2to-1 killing margin.

Even more interesting, the committee’s No Way Gang included 18 Repubs and 15 Dems as well as both the chairman, Texan Republican Michael Conaway, and Ranking Member, Collin Peterson of Minnesota.

Despite the House’s half-nay, half-yea denying vote, most handicappers see it attempting to approve the whole pack-

age before the August recess. The simple question of when has an even simpler answer: it’ll move when House leaders and the White House have the votes. If those votes can’t be found, fast track is a dead duck.

Until then, I’ll keep the crow on the stove. Like Congress, it’s better after a long simmer anyway.

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While my family never In the lead-up to the House subsisted on the deer, doves, vote, however, Republican quail, ducks and geese that leaders, facing a rebellion shared the southern Illinois against fast track from the dairy farm of my youth with right flank of their caucus and us, we did enjoy a noon meal always probing for a chance to of rabbit or squirrel several hobble an already-scrambling times a year.

Obama White House, split the Senate-approved trade bill It wasn’t until I became a into two parts. journalist, however, that I FARM & FOOD FILE tasted crow.

That meant for fast track to become law the House first

By Alan Guebert Yes, crow. You know, the big had to approve a worker-aid black bird that serves as both program where tea-sipping a symbol of loud announceRepublicans could vent — ments — as in “crowing” — vote against Obama — and a metaphor for having while forcing Democrats, to take back all or part of those most who view the nearly-done Pacific announcements as in “eating crow.” deal as a job killer for their big union supIn more than 30 years of the writing porters, to muscle up and carry the aid life, I’ve had it as an appetizer, entrée, portion of the bill across the finish line. and dessert more than once. No, it On the vote, though, the Dems ran doesn’t taste like chicken and, yes, it’s for cover faster than frightened chickalways better when washed down with ens and the worker aid bill sank by a a frothy, cold liquid made from hops, staggering 126-302 margin. barley, and water.

Shortly thereafter, 28 Dems did vote It may grace my dinner plate again for the second half of the two-part bill, soon because a month ago in this space I wrote that “Not only will the U.S. Senate the fast track part, but that partial vicvote to give this president and the next tory was meaningless because both one fast track trade authority, so too will pieces needed to pass for fast track to be approved. the U.S. House of Representatives.”

So, technically, I was right; fast track On May 22, the Senate did vote 62-37 to reinstitute fast track trading author- trade authority did pass both the Senity for seven years so this president and ate and the House but, in fact, it remains sidetracked until the House the next can finish the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, now near com- votes to pass the worker aid portion of the split bill or chucks it in favor of pletion after years of rocky negotiapassing the un-split Senate bill. tions, and an anticipated, similar deal with nations across the Atlantic.

In the hubbub of handing a White House a rotten egg, a lot of House Ag On June 12, the U.S House also agreed, but by a much slimmer 219-211 Committee members proved themselves poultry. As reported June 15 by Chuck margin, to extend fast track trade Abbott of the Food and Environment authority seven years, also.

Reporting Network, House aggies voted Anyone see any crows — flying or fry- 33-10 against the worker aid portion of ing — in either vote? No, right? bill that effectively killed the entire bill.

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Letter: Paul Harvey tribute belittles farm women To the Editor: Once again Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” is reprinted as a special tribute to farmers (June 12 issue).

Not only does the “tribute” strongly suggest that all farmers are male, but it belittles the contribution of farmer

wives. The poem is not the great piece you men think it is.

The only mention of the wife in the entire “tribute” is when it states that he “…comes home hungry, have to wait

To the Editor: I read the June 12 letter to the editor “Buffer Talk: ‘hookey’” and disagree that buffer strips will improve water quality.

I have a 157 acre farm that will require nine acres of buffer strips. It has a drainage ditch that T-bones the farm. The buffer strips will not improve water quality because the slope or the grade going to the ditch is

going up. Only if you can make water go up hill would the buffer strip do anything at all.

Losing nine acres of productive land will cost me $2,000 a year in lost production. It’s sad when the ignorant majority can inflict such damage on the minority that dedicate their life to protecting the land.

Doug Owens East Chain, Minn.

Letter: Farmers paying for buffers

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Commentary: Our broken roads are broke As the 2015 session finally came to a close, the Legislature was once again unable to come to agreement on a comprehensive transportation bill. This has become an annual disappointment for the members of the Association of Minnesota Counties.

Freeborn County Engineer Sue Miller’s seven-year-old daughter might have said it best, “Our broken roads are broke.” Out of the mouths of babes comes something so profound, and such a simple summary of the situation. “Our broken roads are broke.”

During my time as Freeborn County Commissioner, I have served on the AMC Transportation & Infrastructure Policy Committee as well as the National Association of Counties Transportation Steering Committee.

Transportation is the tie that binds: everyone is affected; everyone has a different idea for a solution; and everyone benefits, but no one wants to pay.

In Freeborn County, we have a $4-6 million dollar yearly deficit to build and maintain our current transportation system. In Freeborn County, through diligent work, we only have a few deficient bridges. That is not the case in other areas.

All across Minnesota, counties are struggling to maintain their current system. Metro counties are struggling to keep up with growing demands on their transportation network. Fifty percent of Minnesota’s roads are over 50 years old. Forty percent of Minnesota’s bridges are over 40 years old.

Minnesota is home to the nation’s fifth largest highway system but the condition of that system ranks in the nation’s bottom third.

Transportation should transcend political ideologies. Transportation should transcend election cycles. Last year, while our roads and bridges fell further into disrepair, the governor and Legislature refused to tackle transportation.

Last fall, in every district of AMC

across the state, transportation continued to be one of our key legislative priorities.

The governor and Legislature set transportation as a priority for the 2015 legislative session. All through the session transportation was used as a wedge between various groups with no funding solution accomplished.

AMC and our other local government partners have tried to demonstrate to our state leadership that we are committed to having constructive conversations about this issue so that we can work towards a Minnesota transportation funding system that is comprehensive, balanced, sustainable, and dedicated.

Years ago, I remember my dad’s family from Missouri coming to visit us in Minnesota. My cousin told me that they knew that they had crossed the border into Minnesota because of the great condition of our roads. Sue Miller’s seven-year-old daughter described our current system in her words, “our broken roads are broke.”

My hope is that children will not have to be so brutally honest about this same problem in the future because someday soon we will once again move the Minnesota transportation system into a place where it earns the admiration of others.

This commentary was submitted by Christopher N. Shoff, Freeborn County (Minn.) Commissioner and 2015 Association of Minnesota Counties President.

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Consumers want convenience, flavor from pork

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result is a reduction in PEDv as well as Porcine Still Meyer expects chicken consumption to keep

By DICK HAGEN Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome and growing because it is the most efficient, lowest cost The Land Staff Writer other diseases. Still PEDv poses a threat and product on the market. He added that it’s too early to Pork, beef and turkey processors must offer Meyer predicted some loss but nothing like the tell if avian flu will be a major factor in production. more convenience products like the chicken first go-around. industry does in order to gain a bigger share He sees little change in turkey of the meat pie. This observation comes from “There’s a lot of concern consumption; beef may continue Steve Meyer, vice president of pork analysis about what PEDv will do its slow decline and that’s partly for EMI Analytics and Agri Stats.

We’ve got a chance this year. But we defithe biology of the cow in that it Steve Meyer nitely don’t think it takes longer to react to these voids.

Meyer has been watching the pork over the next few will be the disaster of industry for 20 years and ran his own conyears to recapture “Pork consumption has a 2013-14 when all our sulting service, Paragon Economics. He remarkable history in the some of that per capita people were naïve will be focusing on the pork market for United States. It has been market because pork about the disease.

EMI and Agri Stats, but his new company within a few pounds of 50 costs at retail are But we have some will be offering top flight analysis in the pounds per capita for 50 years. down. concerns if the sow chicken, turkey and soon the beef industry.

That’s a trend apparently very herd will have the hard to break,” he said. “But on a Even though many may think that pork — Steve Meyer per cap basis, just maintain and beef dominate, Meyer said that chicken is the immunity level that it had last what you’ve got is a good goal for largest single species in terms of per capita consumption. fall going into cold weather,” he said.

Consumption the pork industry. That means you get to grow as “Chicken has only a small advantage on a boneless Pork has had a declining market share from 2007 the population grows, and you get to grow as basis over pork and beef with turkey a distant to present. exports grow. Both those realities add opportunity fourth,” he said.

“That was simply a matter of higher costs. When for the pork industry.”

Meyer noted that each of these species needs to the price at the meat counter goes up, people are Currency values also play a major role in meat become more consumer friendly in their product going to eat less of your product,” he said. “But we’ve consumption patterns, especially the past six offerings. got a chance over the next few years to recapture months said Meyer “Chicken has always set the standard with value- some of that per capita market because pork costs at “A stable dollar will be better for us if it will stay added products. We think pork has picked up a lot of retail are down.” stable. But it puts us at a pricing disadvantage to the slack the last few years,” Meyer said. “But With more affordable corn and soybean meal our competitors around the world,” he said. “We’ve today’s consumer demands convenience and good flaprices, pork producers are lowering their costs and had this happen before. We’ll adjust to this one also. vor every time.” as pig production ramps up, it should mean competi- Given the preference, as an exporter I’d rather have Image tive pork prices at the meat counter. that cheap dollar however.” ❖ One challenge for pork is getting the consumer to feel comfortable using the product. For many people pork never got into their decision-making process, explained Meyer. Chicken and hamburger were easy and familiar to people.

The pork industry is breaking through those traditions and that continues a major emphasis of the Pork Board.

Pork has some price advantages over beef, but disadvantages relative to chicken.

“And that’s not going to disappear anytime soon. So you have to offer value,” said Meyer. “Getting the cooking standards changed from 160 to 145 F is a big item. This was a major change.”

Americans were overcooking pork.

“They were taught by their grandmother that there was something in there that needed to be killed. By golly, they killed it. But in the process you killed the natural flavors of the meat too,” he said.

“Producers over the years have eliminated trichina so it no longer should be an issue in pork consumption. But there are still challenges. Long-term habits don’t disappear quickly.”

Pork is also a meat that isn’t eaten by major religions including Muslims and Jews. While Hindus can eat pork, the majority are vegetarian and some eat chicken.

“In the long term India is a potential growth market for U.S. pork but that’s going to take a lot of work over time,” Meyer said.

Stringent biosecurity and research was one good thing that came out of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus. The

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The Pulks Wannaska, Minn.

Corn, soybeans, spring wheat with grass seed, sunflowers

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The Haarstads Rothsay, Minn.

Corn, soybeans

The Froemmings Garfield, Minn.

Corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa, rye

The Thorpes Canby, Minn.

Corn, soybeans

The Filzens Renville, Minn.

Corn, soybeans, sugar beets, navy beans

The Pagels Winthrop, Minn.

Corn, soybeans, wheat, kidney beans

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The Kemps Sibley, Iowa Corn, soybeans

The Marbles Mapleton, Minn.

Corn, soybeans, hogs

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Andy Pulk Wannaska, Minn.

Roseau County June 19: “The corn looks fair (but) it’s definitely behind due to cold/wet conditions.”

Joan Lee McIntosh, Minn.

Polk County June 19: “Wheat looks good; it’s been sprayed. ... For the most part, things are looking good.”

John Haarstad Rothsay, Minn.

Otter Tail & Wilkin Counties June 18: “The corn-on-corn ground is really suffering (but) corn-on-bean ground is looking good.”

Rodney Froemming Garfield, Minn.

Douglas County June 19: “Corn is looking good, knee-high or a little better (and) the wheat is about 100 percent headed out.”

Dale Filzen Renville, Minn.

Renville County June 19: “The crops are starting to shape up, (although) a shot of rain wouldn’t hurt any.”

Nathan Thorpe Canby, Minn.

Yellow Medicine County June 13: “I’m very happy how we’re sitting on moisture. ... In the next week it looks like the corn will be taking off.”

Delayne Pagel Winthrop, Minn.

Sibley County June 11: “Corn is pretty much on schedule; it’s getting nice and green.”

Harlan Marble Mapleton, Minn.

Blue Earth County June 11: “The corn is fabulous. (It’s) everything a farmer could ask for.”

Nate Heusinkveld Wykoff, Minn.

Fillmore County June 11: “Things were getting out of hand (with weeds).”

Brian Kemp Sibley, Iowa Osceola County June 12: “The soybeans are looking good; ... (To the) first to second tri-foliate stage depending on when planted.”

The Heusinkvelds Wykoff, Minn.

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Pulk has sprayed all the corn, The Pulks wheat and soybeans in the Wannaska, Minn. last two weeks. In just over a The planting season is complete for Andy Pulk. month, they’ve seen eight to The Land spoke with Pulk on June 19 as he 10 inches of rain fall on the explained he was basically done planting Pulk farm. What the crops sunflowers. He is dealing with “some emergence need is some heat — “That’s issues with the sunflowers,” due to planting in the main thing now,” he said, adding that his “definitely not ideal” soil conditions. “The corn looks fair,” said Pulk, but “It’s definitely behind crops are “as a whole average, definitely not better than average.” due to cold/wet conditions.” He will be side dressing corn next week as well as cutting hay. doing, he said “The corn-on-corn ground is really suffering,” while the “corn-on-bean ground is looking good.” The beans are “looking nice,” he said, but all of the crops “still need some heat.”

The forecast was music to Haarstad’s ears — “It’s supposed to be nice and warm next week.”

Overall, he said “everything is progressing nicely” on their farm.

hauled out. “I’ve cleaned out The Filzens three bins this week,” he Renville, Minn. said, with more to go.

“The crops are starting to shape up.” That was Overall, “Things look as good Dale Filzen’s report to The Land on June 19, as can be expected,” said adding that “a shot of rain wouldn’t hurt any.”

Filzen. He expects that the Regarding his sugar beets, Filzen said “The crops will continue to do well majority are getting close to row closing,” putting “as long as we keep getting rain once in a while, them slightly ahead of average. The corn is “actually pretty good,” he said, and the soybeans and warm temperatures.” and navy beans are doing “pretty good” as well.

Filzen continues to clean out bins and get corn

The Froemmings Garfield, Minn.

Rain has been hanging around the Froemming farm for the last two weeks, with close to two inches of rain falling in that time. The Land spoke with Rodney Froemming on June 19 as he had started making hay and “still had some left.”

The heat has arrived, with “highs up in 70s, close to 80s,” he said. “Corn is looking good, knee-high

or a little better,” said Froemming, and “the wheat is about 100 percent headed out.”

Meanwhile, the soybeans are four inches tall and “look pretty good.” When the rain fell, Froemming started working on the combine; he anticipates that rye harvest will begin in four to five weeks.

“That’s a little bit earlier than normal.”

The Thorpes Canby, Minn.

The Land caught up with Nathan Thorpe on June 13 as he was headed north to Canada for his annual fishing trip. “I’m very happy how we’re sitting on moisture,” he said, and predicted that “in the next week it looks like the corn will be taking off.” A hail storm just missed his farm on life.”

June 10; other fields in the area weren’t as lucky.

The soybeans “look great,” Thorpe said, noting that they are really starting to put the leaves on.

He was happy to announce that the beans are done with all the emergence issues.

With crops doing well, and a trip up north to enjoy good fishing and great company, Thorpe said he’s “enjoying

soybeans are “coming along.” Pagel is spraying Liberty on his beans; he just started spraying on June 10. The kidney beans are coming up, too.

Pagel has been busy “cleaning out bins and hauling grain in between spraying. ... Moisturewise we’re sitting in real good shape.”

The Marbles Mapleton, Minn.

The Marble farm received 12/100th of an inch of rain on June 11, their first rain of the month, and more was on its way. The Land spoke with Marble that day as he provided a glowing update on his corn crop. “The corn is fabulous. (It’s) everything a farmer could ask for,” he said.

Across the way, the soybeans have “no weeds;

this no weeds part is kind of scary.” The herbicide must be doing its job, Marble said, but he’s just not used to seeing no weeds at all.

Meanwhile, he got the planter all cleaned up and put away. The crops aren’t the only things thriving at the Marble farm — the “new pigs are doing super well.” With the crops doing great and the pigs enjoying their new digs, for Marble things are “almost too good, it’s almost scary.”

The Heusinkvelds Wykoff, Minn.

Nate Heusinkveld finally got his first hay cutting, starting on June 1. When The Land spoke to Heusinkveld on June 11 he was happy to report that a lot of hay was being made in the area, and that “yields were really good.”

Unfortunately, with up to five inches of rain forecasted that day, hay making would be having a rain delay. Meanwhile, Heusinkveld said the corn is “starting to take off” thanks to

temperatures heating up and really getting it going. He also said the soybean stands look pretty good. Heusinkveld believes that all the crops still could use a little heat.

“Things were getting out of hand (with weeds),” he said, but the spraying was now all done. Heusinkveld also fertilized the hay fields last week. The growing season is “shaping up pretty good,” he said.

The Kemps Sibley, Iowa “The crops are still doing well,” Brian Kemp told The Land on June 12. The heat has arrived at the Kemp farm the day before: “It was uncomfortably warm, 100-degree temperatures.”

More rain was expected to join that warmer weather, with “a moderate chance of rain the majority of next week.” As for the crops, said Kemp, the post-corn herbicide is on. “The soybeans are looking good,” he said, and are to

the “first to second tri-foliate stage depending on when planted.” Good heat, rain, and strong crops indicate that summer has arrived at the Kemp farm.

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Harvest was already on Delayne Pagel’s mind when The Land spoke to him on June 11. With early planting of the wheat, he anticipated that “harvest will be early this year, end of July” — it has headed out, and “looks really good,” Pagel said. “Corn is pretty much on schedule; it’s getting nice and green,” he said, and the

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The Haarstads Rothsay, Minn.

The Land caught up with John Haarstad on June 18 as he was getting ready to side dress corn. Haarstad estimated that “it should take us about two days.” He was hoping to get the side dressing done quickly to “try to beat a rain system coming.” Haarstad did finish spraying corn and soybeans. As for the how crops are

said the corn is “starting to The Lees come around.” Lee said that McIntosh, Minn. her husband, Mark, “had Joan Lee is still surprised by how much you dragged the soybean field” can get done on the farm when you don’t have to and that “the beans are stop and do chores and milking. The Land spoke starting to pop up nice.” with Lee on June 19. She had finished getting Meanwhile, “Wheat looks the “chopping done on the first (hay) crop. It went well, nothing too major.” The corn has been good; it’s been sprayed,” Lee said, noting that overall “for the most part, things are looking cultivated again. Lee had some issues in one of good.” the corn fields with cutworms but thankfully they’re “not too bad right now.” In general, she

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Cover story: Dairy farmers harvesting wind, sun

By MARIE WOOD The Land Associate Editor ROYALTON, Minn. — When Doug Popp, dairyman and farmer near Royalton, Minn., goes to auction, his fellow farmers say if it’s windy or sunny, the Popps are raking in the money.

That’s because Doug and Jane Popp installed a 20 kilowatt wind turbine in 2007 and a 10 kW solar system in 2012 on their Holstein dairy. They have about 100 head in livestock and grow 220 acres of alfalfa, corn, beans, rye or oats and rents 60 acres from the neighbors.

“I tell them God gives me what he gives me,” said Popp.

Implementing energy efficient systems, along with wind and solar power, has resulted in power bills that average about $200 a month, said Popp. Winter months may be higher, but he received a $92 credit in May. Popp worked with grant writers to help him combine rebates from Minnesota Power, U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Energy for America Program grants and a Federal Tax Credit. (See box for a quick look at project funding and payback.)

“Check with your power supplier, whether it’s a co-op or public entity, because they will have more incentives,” said Popp. “That may be the turning point for you to say this is very doable.”

Be it wind or solar, Popp was one of the first in Morrison County to install the projects which required additional discussions with the county to get the OK for his 150-foot wind turbine and ground-mounted solar panels.

Solar is becoming commonplace.

Popp recommends talking to farmers

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Jane and Doug Popp, dairy and crop farmers in Royalton, Minn., installed solar panels and a wind turbine at their place. who have been down that road.

“Do your homework,” he said.

Popp spoke with a 70-year-old farmer who was installing a second wind turbine. He said it had been a trouble-free piece of equipment and he wanted to do something for the environment and his grandchildren. The farmer’s words sealed the deal for Popp.

Solar vs. wind Based on economics, Popp prefers

solar over small wind. Solar power came after a site assessment by his cousin who was going to college for renewables.

“I love wind. I’ve had no issues, no breakdowns, no mechanical,” he said.

“The problem with wind is it keeps going up in cost; steel, concrete and maintenance where you have moving parts.”

His turbine should last 25 years, but every 15-16,000 kW hours, the turbine needs an oil change. Popp pays a professional to climb the tower and do the

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The cost is about $225, but Popp calls it a wash when he figures in the federal income tax credit per kW of energy generated.

Getting the go-ahead for a turbine can be more problematic. Popp faced concerns over the nearby Great Blue Heron nesting site, flickering, and turbine lights interfering with the River Falls Airport.

Hands down, his solar system produces more energy per year than wind.

“The solar has beaten the wind for the last two years. I am getting more production off the solar,” said Popp.

His solar panel is expected to last 25 years and carries a warranty for hail bigger than a golf ball. And it’s maintenance free. When it snows, Popp waits for a half-day of sun and brooms off his panel with a long handled broom. The snow wipes right off.

“What really has been the kicker is wintertime in Minnesota. You get that reflection off the snow. I call it a double bounce,” said Popp.

Seasonally, he manually tilts the panels to the sun. For example, in the summer, the panel is flat to the sun and by Dec. 21, the panel is almost straight up and down.

Energy efficient According to Business Energy Advisor, about 50 percent of energy on dairy farms goes toward milk production equipment, including milk cooling, vacuum pumps and water heating.

Lighting and ventilation account for the remainder of energy use.

Before Popp added renewable energy to his farm, he replaced old equipment and made efficiency upgrades. That’s the right way to do energy projects, according to Clean Energy Research See POPP, pg. 9A

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Energy efficiency upgrades must be put in place first In the barn, he changed out cage fans for a wind tunnel fan system designed to move more wind with less energy.

He replaced incandescent bulbs with more efficient lighting system, but expects it’s time to upgrade to LED. For the lights, Popp received a small grant from Minnesota Power.

The Popps replaced the milk bulk tank and added a plate cooler, scroll compressor and refrigeration heat recovery unit.

klers use low pressure and operate on a small electric motor.

For Popp, being energy efficient and generating energy is good for his bottom line and makes him less vulnerable to electricity rates. Just as important, he is reducing his carbon footprint for the planet, his children and their children.

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“Milk is being cooled before it gets to the tank via the plate cooler,” he said.

“When the milk is being cooled in the bulk tank, we are heating hot water via the heat recovery system. The bulk tank is cooled with an efficient scroll compressor.”

Popp also installed a center pivot irrigation system in place of his traveling gun. A gun sucks more energy because it is high pressure and runs on a diesel engine. The center pivot sprin-

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When offering rebates, power companies are looking for energy efficiencies already in place before they award money for renewable projects, Popp said.

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CERTs guides farmers through complicated process of acquiring renewable energy grants, tax credits

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By MARIE WOOD The Land Associate Editor profitability,” said Ebinger.

Doug Popp, dairyman, crop farmer and penny Through the new program — Renewable Energy pincher near Royalton, Minn., gets many questions from farmers about his solar panels and wind turbine. for Greater Minnesota — CERTs offers one-on-one assistance to Minnesota farmers and rural small “The minute you start talking paperwork and businesses. CERTs will help farmers explore energy hoops, they get scared,” said Popp. efficiencies, solar power, farm scale wind turbines That’s why Clean Energy Resource Teams is offer- and bio-mass furnaces that burn wood chips or peling free project assistance to Minnesotans. Fritz lets instead of propane.

Ebinger, rural energy development program manNext, the team identifies funding. For farms and ager with CERTs and the University of Minnesota rural businesses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension, schedules on-site energy assessments. offers Rural Energy for America Program grants.

Then the team makes recommendations and helps REAP grants cover up to 25 percent of renewable with funding applications. energy and energy efficiency projects.

“My primary reason for working with farmers is “Money comes from different places: federal investto help them address production costs and maintain ment tax credit, local utility rebates are available and REAP grants,” explained Ebinger. “That’s why it’s confusing and that’s why we do our job.”

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“We can coach people through the process and help them understand how the grant funding works,” said Ebinger. “We will be your coach in the corner.”

Property Assessed Clean Energy is a possibility for financing energy projects and can be used with REAP grants in Minnesota. PACE offers low-cost project financing upfront and the money is repaid as a separate item on your property tax assessment for a set period.

When installing renewable energy, farmers work closely with their local utility and sign an interconnection agreement to plug into the utility grid.

CERTs can assist farmers in finding certified renewable energy installers.

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are out bugging for the most part, or they’ll eat waste grain or weed seed.”

The one crop that has had a serious turkey issue is ginseng. They may occasionally chomp on a green leaf of a soybean plant, but ginseng they will dig up and root around in, she said.

Survival Krueger encourages people to keep the turkeys wild because they can be a nuisance if they become acclimated to being around humans. Typically they are wary and avoid humans, so don’t try to attract them by putting out feed, she warned. They can fend for themselves.

The exception is providing food plots for winter feeding.

“They’re a hardy bird and can take cold temperatures,” Krueger said.

She knows of research some years back where cold temperatures and wind chill factors were simulated, and they found turkeys can survive as long as they’re able to find food. Turkeys, like pheasant and deer, suffer in winters with deep snow or ice crust.

“In our wildlife areas we typically do have food plots,” Krueger said, “but sometimes private land owners can do it as well. In the Garvin Park area there’s a couple private land owners that put in food plots on their own land around the park, which is helpful. In a bad winter, that will be completely cleaned.”

The wild turkey also has to contend with a few predators.

“Great horned owls actually will take them out,” Krueger said. “They roost in trees at night and a great horned owl can strike them in that bald head, where they’re susceptible, so their main predators are owls, and coyotes can sometimes track them down or get into their nests.”

They also suffer from the same egg

April through May and is divided into eight time periods. The three earliest periods are the most popular, so applications are chosen in a lottery. For the later spring periods and the fall season (basically the month of October), the license can be purchased over the counter. Last year, around 10,000 birds were harvested in the spring and around 1,000 in the fall.

Samples of harvested turkeys are being tested this spring. No avian flu virus has been found in wild turkeys.

The fan, beard, and spurs of the first turkey Krueger shot are mounted and hanging on her office wall.

“We’re always trying to bring a native species back to where it originally inhabited,” Krueger said, “but turkeys in Minnesota have now pushed quite a ways north, probably north of where they were originally, so they’re very adaptable. They’ve even proven they can do well out here in southwestern Minnesota. It’s been a success story, for sure.”

You can read more about the wild turkey and how to co-exist with them. Visit the DNR website at www.dnr.state.mn.us/ livingwith_wildlife/turkeys for more information. ❖

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By RICHARD SIEMERS The Land Correspondent If you happen to spot some of the estimated 70,000 wild turkeys that now flourish in Minnesota, a great deal of credit goes to turkeys themselves.

Wendy Krueger A bird that previously was native to southeastern Minnesota now thrives in three-quarters of the state. Only the northeast is out of their range.

Wendy Krueger, Area Wildlife Manager for the Department of Natural Resources stationed in Marshall, lauds the turkey for being so adaptable, beyond what its supporters hoped for.

The turkey, in turn, must thank the DNR which, with funding help from the National Wild Turkey Foundation, returned the wild turkey to Minnesota from where it had disappeared in the late 1800s.

Efforts in the early 1900s to reintroduce the birds by releasing game farm turkeys failed, Krueger said, because the birds lacked the instinct to survive in the wild.

It was in 1971 when 30 wild turkeys trapped in Missouri (in exchange for Minnesota’s ruffed grouse) were released in Houston County that the success story began. This southeastern area with its large tracts of woods and numerous creek corridors is the area turkeys were known to have inhabited in the past.

Habitat Populations soon grew, so the DNR decided to trap and release them elsewhere in the state. You might say that bringing them to southwestern Minnesota was experimental.

“Originally the thought was that they need these huge blocks of woods,” Krueger said, “but they’ve proven they can do well even out here in southwestern Minnesota. We don’t have giant woods or forest land, per se, but they find enough creek corridors, and we’re finding out they can adapt into the more open spaces and intermix with agriculture.”

Krueger said their primary requirements are tall hardwoods to roost in at night and an adequate food supply.

They eat oak acorns, mast, nuts, fruits, and berries. They seldom damage crops.

“Turkeys are active during the day,” Krueger explained, “so farmers might see turkeys in their field and think they are doing damage, but typically, especially when the hens have their young ones, called poults, they’ll take them out into a field to find bugs. The poults need bugs for protein, so they

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Beekeeping entrepreneur has passion for pollinators

By MARIE WOOD The Land Associate Editor MADELIA, Minn. – Beekeeper Kaylee Carnahan walks calmly to her bee boxes in her farm yard in Madelia. She doesn’t wear her beekeeper suit in casual contact — the bees are used to her.

“They are working those dandelions. The bees love them,” said Carnahan.

A spring graduate from nearby South Central College in North Mankato, Minn., with a degree in agribusiness production and a focus on diversified systems, Carnahan is expanding her apiary and company Moody Bees Honey from four colonies to 30 colonies. Her product lineup is expanding from bottled honey to include lip balm made of beeswax, honey and essential oils. Moody Bees goat milk soap will be available in 2016.

“Fingers crossed,” said Carnahan.

The bees, chickens, two turkeys, one pig, four ducks, two cats, six goats, three kid goats and vegetable garden ground the 23-year-old woman to this 10-acre farm place. For the past five years, she has rented the home and acreage with Jason Moody, her boyfriend and partner in Moody Bees Honey.

“It’s nice to feel attached to the ground and the animals. Now I’m going all hippie on you,” said Carnahan.

Sometimes the goats get into the garden. They do not dehorn their goats, which makes the goats eas-

ier to wrangle. Little Jazzibelle is accustomed to being picked up and carried.

“A lot of critters have names around here,” she said.

Carnahan milks Stella and Mabel and drinks the sweet milk — mostly as creamer in her coffee. She also experimented in making goat cheese last year. They got their first goat, Loki, at the Waverly, Iowa, swap meet.

Pollinators Carnahan’s passion for these pollinators and their habitat shines through in all aspects of her life and farm yard. Dandelions dot the yard that Moody mows and the goats munch.

She knows dandelions are a nuisance, but she encourages people to let the dandelions live because they are a good early pollen source for bees. Later white Dutch clover will cover the yard. The yard turns white and the ground will buzz with bees.

Sunflowers will tower in the garden. After the bees probe the sunflowers for nectar, the heads will go to the chickens for pecking.

“We complete the circle here,” she said.

In 2014, Carnahan raised four colonies in Langstroth hives. She got the bees from Harris Honey Company, where she is an apprentice of Harris Tinklenberg, a longtime beekeeper in Madelia. She started there in

Kaylee Carnahan visits her bee hives at her farm yard in Madelia, Minn. She has expanded her apiary from four colonies to 30 this year.

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2013, working in the honey house to extract honey.

Once Carnahan began working with bees, she found her path.

“Last year she wanted to learn more about keeping the bees and would go in the field with me. I showed her where to look for queens and how to recognize her,” said Tinklenberg. “She caught on real fast. I couldn’t believe it. She’s got a good eye.”

Carnahan has four hives near the homestead on their farm. The new hives have been placed in five bee yards in Mapleton, Comfrey, Lake Crystal and Alternative Roots Farm in Madelia. Alternative Roots is a community supported agriculture farm in Madelia, with an apple orchard in New Ulm. Shares for 2015 are sold out.

“Our hives pollinate their garden,” said Carnahan.

In return, Alternative Roots shareholders will receive a jar of Moody Bees Honey in the fall. Marketing her product through an established CSA makes a great partnership for Carnahan.

When looking for bee yards, Carnahan looks for an area where the bees have access to water, either a river or lake, and good distribution of food through a forest or prairie. Carnahan follows the rule that her yards need to be three miles from other hives.

Carnahan finds peace when “sitting with the hive and seeing nothing but woods and prairie.”

Come June and July, she will install smaller boxes called supers inside the hive bodies. The supers hold frames to collect the honey. Depending on flow and See BEES, pg. 13A

FSA microloan secured to fund sweet expansion physical labor of her farm — honeybees, gardening, and raising animals.

“It’s great to feel the work you’ve done in a day,” said Carnahan.

Look for Moody Bees Honey at the Madelia Farmers Market. Her marketing plan includes online sales as well

as small retail stores and bakeries.

Moody Bees Honey will be at the Madelia Farmers Market, Wednesdays, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. through September. To order products or learn more, visit www.moodybeeshoney.com or like them at www.facebook.com/ moodybeesfarm ❖

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BEES, from pg. 12A the cause was late winter warm-ups and cold snaps. Still weather, Carnahan will be colCarnahan is optimistic about lecting honey in August, Septheir survival. tember and October.

She will monitor the four Banking on bees hives on her locale and snowIn fall 2014, Carnahan sold shoe remote bee yards. She the first jars of Moody Bees plans to leave a super in one of honey. Then in March, the couthe boxes to give the bees their ple secured a micro loan from Jason Moody own honey for food during the the Farm Service Agency to winter. Then she will figure out how fund their expansion. much money she loses or gains by leav“Let’s start a honey company and see ing some honey for the bees. what happens,” Moody told Carnahan.

Natural way Carnahan worked extra hours for Carnahan doesn’t use chemicals on Tinklenberg in 2015 to pay off 28 nucs, her farm and encourages others to be or nucleus colonies, which are small conscious of their pesticide use. The honeybee colonies centered on a queen, bee population can come back. the nucleus of the colony. Many hours “Plant flowers, lots of flowers. Native were spent splitting the hives to start flowers work really well,” said Carnahan. a new box with a new queen.

In past seasons, Carnahan has had a “I’m fortunate to have him as a menthree-quarter acre garden, but now tor,” said Carnahan. that garden is a goat pasture. She Since the hives were newly estab- planted a smaller garden this year. lished and there weren’t enough She loves to can — her pickled peppers blooms to sustain the bees, they fed are a farmers market favorite. Jason them sugar water and corn syrup. likes her sauerkraut best so she grows “It’s expensive to do sugar water,” lots of cabbage. She starts her plants in the homestead’s three-season porch. she said.

In an old milking barn, the couple keeps The couple already had an old van with no back seats for hauling goods to 40 to 50 chickens for eggs and meat. and from farmers markets and else“Chickens are the gateway drug to where. Carnahan broke even selling veg- farming,” said Carnahan. etables from the garden last year. With “Once you buy chickens, it’s over,” their loan, they purchased a used red Chevy pickup and a construction trailer. said Moody.

Neither came from an ag background.

They will transform the trailer into a Carnahan said she was a typical urbanhoney house. The finished product will be stored in the back of the trailer. The ite who wanted to know where her food couple can back the pickup to the came from. She grew up, in part, in California’s bay area. Jason grew up in trailer to load up the honey to sell.

Mankato, Minn., but worked in hay and “It’s going to be a nice process,” said turkey farms during his youth. His real Carnahan. job is Information Technology for For her birthday, Carnahan received Mankato School District. an extractor. After slicing the beeswax Still both have butchered their own caps off the frame, Carnahan inserts chickens for meat. the frame into an extractor which They have a small pig named Bacon spins the honey off like a washing machine. The fina l step is bottling. who lives in an indoor-outdoor goat pen in the barn. Bacon just wants to Some of the honey is filtered first. play with Jazzibelle. Moody has seen “Honey is its own preservative,” said him run, squeal and kick his legs up.

Moody.

“He will be food at the end of the She plans to release a limited supply year,” said Carnahan. of honey on the comb and pollen pow“Sorry buddy,” said Moody as he gave der. Comb honey is good on crackers or Bacon a pat. sprinkled on salads. Pollen powder, chock full of antioxidants and protein, For a few years, the couple was vegeis used in protein shakes. tarian, but they decided to eat meat Come winter, the bees will overwin- raised on their farm and a few other ter in their bee yards. From 2014 to farms that raise animals on pasture.

2015, Minnesota lost 50 percent of its “It’s nice that we can go back to how bees according to ScienceDaily. That it used to be,” said Moody. was true for Carnahan, who believed Carnahan finds satisfaction in the

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Grain prices are effective cash close on June 23. The price index chart compares an average of most recently reported local cash prices with the same average for a year ago. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Grain Outlook Bounce gives way to selling

Livestock Angles Cloud hanging over markets

Grain Angles The bottom line on ethanol

The following market analysis is for the week ending June 19.

CORN — July corn matched the contract low at $3.46 3⁄4 per bushel and December fell to a new contract low at $3.62 1⁄2 per bushel as traders returned from a weekend of good weather. A bounce off the lows through midweek then gave way to selling into the weekend. The end result was an only slightly changed corn market for the week.

For the week, July corn was up 1⁄4 cent at $3.53 1⁄4 and the December contract was 3⁄4 cents lower at $3.68 3⁄4 per bushel, both closing near the mid-point of the PHYLLIS NYSTROM CHS Hedging Inc. week’s trading range. Weather St. Paul forecasts for the week ending June 26 suggest a move toward normal rainfall and temperatures. Corn crop ratings as of June 14 fell one percent to 73 percent in the good/excellent category. Corn emergence as of June 14 was 95 percent complete, making subsequent condition ratings the thing to watch.

Informa Economics released an updated planted acreage number on June 19. They now project corn acres at 88.8 million acres. Their last forecast was 88.7 million acres. This number is down 400,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s March estimate of 89.2 million acres. Informa Economics’ 2015-16 balance sheet included a yield of 166.4 bushels per acre for a crop of 13.564 billion bushels with a carryout of 1.762 billion bushels. The last USDA sheet used a yield of 166.8 bu./acre, crop production of 13.3 billion bushels with carryout at 1.771 billion bushels.

China this week was only able to sell 287 tmt of See NYSTROM, pg. 15A

There continues to be a cloud hanging over the livestock markets these days as the futures market continues to slip into a discount versus the cash markets.

With the movement of product of both beef and pork continuing to decline, the result is signaling to the markets that demand is shrinking for both beef and pork and thus this continual negative discount of futures to cash.

Once again the cattle market attempted to break out to higher levels because of the lack of inventory of animals in the first half of June. However again, the JOE TEALE Broker futures market ran into fairly good resistance at higher prices Great Plains Commodity Afton, Minn. and the rally was thwarted in the attempt to break out to the upside of the current trading range.

Packers have been pinched by the declining beef cutouts which have moved the margins into the red.

This has forced the packers to be more selective in their bidding for live inventory in order to save their bottom line margins.

As a result, the futures reversed and plummeted from these recent highs to reflect a downside reversal once again. The underlying event to this turn in the market was the result of the beef cutouts dropping over $20 per hundredweight in the first weeks of June. Unless there is a significant change in demand in the near future, another attempt to sustain a rally in the cattle market seems remote at this juncture.

Therefore, producers should consider protecting inventories when the opportunity presents itself.

See TEALE, pg. 15A

Considering the changing policies, debates and opposing viewpoints about ethanol, many consumers may not have paid attention to the EPA recommendation that recently came out regarding the ethanol mandate Congress first enacted in 2007. The EPA wants to significantly reduce the proposed amount of ethanol that refiners must use under the mandate. They are now calling for much slower growth in the usage of ethanol in the coming years.

The industry must negotiate ethanol supplies closely around 10 percent of the U.S. gasoline supply, more commonly known to ethanol industry insiders as the GLENN WACHTLER “blend wall.” Supporters of AgStar Associate VP Financial Services ethanol see this as a reduction in Baldwin, Wisc. the commitment to the industry while some of the opposition would like to see the mandate disappear altogether.

Whatever their opinion, consumers shouldn’t ignore ethanol at the pump these days. On my way from Wisconsin to the Twin Cities, I recently filled up my flex fuel vehicle with E-85. Much like the participants in the ethanol debate, this station selling E-85 is an interesting juxtaposition. Located only 10 miles from the city, it is still surrounded by fertile corn and soybean fields.

On this day, E-85 is $2.02 per gallon and the 87octane unleaded is selling for $2.72 per gallon.

Twenty-five gallons of E-85 go in my tank. Using fueleconomy.gov information on flex fuel, I should have saved $1.50 when adjusted for mileage on this tank.

See WACHTLER, pg. 15A

Information in the above columns is the writer’s opinion. It is no way guaranteed and should not be interpreted as buy/sell advice. Futures trading always involves a certain degree of risk.

Up to 2 million soybean acres may go unplanted

TEALE, from pg. 14A The hog market has returned to the downward trend that was established in July of last year.

Increasing numbers appears to be the main cause for the slump in prices. This coupled with a noticeable decline in pork product sales has sent the futures and cash markets tumbling lower in the past few weeks.

From a seasonal standpoint, it is not unusual for the hog market to top in this time frame. So this

appears to be a normal reaction at this time.

This has swung the futures market from a premium to a discount with deferred contract showing the largest discounts. Unless demand for pork picks up again, the likelihood of a lower market into the fall months might be anticipated.

Producers are now asked to maintain a close watch on market conditions and use strength to protect inventories until resumption in demand for pork returns. ❖

Comparing costs

WACHTLER, from pg. 14A My own calculations showed a little more savings.

Either way; my personal bottom line on ethanol? I am very glad that I decided to stop at the busy station with the scenic countryside view; it just made sense.

The following tables are for reference only.

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ments 12 percent above last year. Old crop sales commitments at 1.851 billion bushels have already surpassed the USDA outlook for 1.81 billion bushels, but 60 million bushels are usually rolled over from old crop to new crop. Since we still have 2 1⁄2 months of the crop year left, we could expect the USDA to slightly increase the export category on future monthly crop reports. New crop sales were surprisingly big at 19.6 million bushels; however, even with the impressive number, new crop sales are at a fiveyear low for this time of year at 213.6 million bushels.

Soybean planting as of June 14 was 87 percent complete and emergence was 75 percent. Trade chatter hints that 1-2 million soybean acres won’t get planted this year. Soybean conditions as of June 14 dropped two percent to 67 percent good/excellent. For the June 21 report, conditions are expected to show another 1-2 percent decline.

OUTLOOK: If weather forecasts for normal rainfall are correct, providing for the possibility for soybean acres to get planted, rallies are likely to be sold; however, new lows may be unlikely until after the June 30 USDA reports on grain stocks and acreage. Early trade talk is that June 1 soybean stocks will be near 700 million bushels, which is 300 million bushels higher than a year ago.

November soybeans may hold the new contract low of $8.95 3⁄4 ahead of the June 30 reports, with resistance near $9.80 per bushel. ❖

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The end of an era is quickly approaching. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be closing the open outcry futures trading pits for grain and oilseeds as of the close on July 2. The open outcry options pits will continue to trade. The closing time for grain and oilseeds will be expanded for futures and options from 1:15 p.m. Central to 1:20 p.m. Central beginning July 6.

SOYBEANS — Soybeans got off to a rocky lower start, but then reversed that direction when conditions fell and grower sales evaporated, to rally three consecutive sessions to a five week high before retreating into the weekend. For the week, July soybeans roared 31 1⁄2 cents higher to close at $9.71 1⁄2 and the November contract jumped 35 1⁄2 cents higher to close at $9.39 3⁄4 cents per bushel.

The 6-10 day forecasts are looking warmer and drier in heavily saturated areas that need this forecast to be accurate in order for them to complete their soybean planting. As of June 14, Missouri had 3.3 million acres of soybeans left to plant, Kansas had 1.6 million left and Illinois had approximately 1 million intended soybean acres yet to be planted.

Informa Economics released refreshed planted acreage estimates at the end of the week. Their new acreage number was 86.76 million acres compared to their last projection of 87.2 million acres. This is 2.1 million acres more than the USDA’s 84.6 million acre projection. Informa’s new balance sheet uses 45 bu./acre for a crop of 3.871 billion bushels. The USDA last used 46 bu./acre for a crop of 3.85 billion bushels. Their ending stocks number is 439 million bushels, 36 million bushels less than USDA’s 475 million bushel figure.

In addition to Informa Economics’ updated acreage number, Argentina increased their soybean production from 60 mmt to 61 mmt. The latest USDA forecast was 59.5 mmt. AgRural in Brazil is already making forecasts for Brazil’s soybean crop that will be planted this fall. They see the possibility of a 98.9 mmt crop compared to this year’s estimate for 96.0 mmt. The USDA is currently carrying this year’s Brazilian crop at 94.5 mmt and projects next year’s crop at 97.0 mmt. The competition for the soybean market is not subsiding.

The May National Oilseed Processors Association crush report published this week was 148.416 million bushels, a new May record. The pre-report trade prediction was 147.3 million bushels. May soyoil stocks countered the bullish crush number with a bearish 1.578 billion pound soyoil stocks number.

The trade expectation was 1.401 billion pounds.

Weekly old crop soybean export sales were ho-hum at 4.9 million bushels, keeping total sales commit-

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NYSTROM, from pg. 14A the 5.3 mmt state reserves that were offered. They have decided to basically double the subsidy to $64.43 per ton they will pay to corn processors to try and move the questionable quality corn they still have. Rumors continued to circulate that China was trying to default/cancel dried distillers grains purchases from the United States.

In Brazil, their corn export prices continue to undercut U.S. prices, but we still saw some U.S. old crop corn sales announced this week to unknown.

U.S. weekly old crop export sales for the week ended June 11 were above expectations and the best in three weeks at 24.6 million bushels, bringing total commitments for the year to 1.837 billion bushels. As a percentage to last year, sales are down four percent from last year, bringing it in line with the USDA’s projection for a four percent decline in exports year on year. New crop sales of nearly 8 million bushels were at the upper end of pre-report guesses.

Weekly ethanol production at 980,000 barrels per day was 12,000 bpd lower than the previous week.

Ethanol stocks were up 0.5 million barrels to 20.7 million barrels. There have been reports of up to 10.6 million gallons of Brazilian ethanol have been sold into the United States recently, coming after the Environmental Protection Agency announced the mandate for advanced biofuel blending would increase from 2.68 billion gallons to 2.90 billion gallons in 2014. Brazilian ethanol is an advanced biofuel under the definition since it is made with sugarcane instead of corn.

Force majeure was declared this past week on the Illinois River due to high water levels. This is not expected to interfere with the delivery process against the July contract. The river is expected to crest the week of June 22.

OUTLOOK: There is a fine line between “rain makes grain” and too much rain. The market bounced back and forth this week as it tried to balance the pluses against the minuses of recent rain.

Based on corn fields that I saw from the Twin Cities down through Iowa to Peoria, Ill., in addition to comments from our Indianapolis office, the benefits are winning. The upcoming June 30 release of the Grain Stocks as of June 1 and Planted Acreage reports may keep corn prices reluctant to push higher. Grower sales picked up on the uptick at mid-week, but fell off as prices retreated into the weekend.

The next level of support in the December contract is the low of $3.62 1⁄2 per bushel, then last fall’s low of $3.18 1⁄4 per bushel. Resistance lies at this week’s double top of $3.76 3⁄4 per bushel.

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‘Air of bearishness’ in domestic, international markets This column was written limited on the downside as for the marketing week “There are plenty of buyers ending June 19. willing to pick up product in the low to mid $1.60s,” and HighGround Dairy’s Eric he sees that as a “solid Meyer, speaking in Fribenchmark heading into the day’s DairyLine, said second half of the year.” there’s an air of bearish“There’s plenty of uncerness in the market, domestainty in the summer tically and internationally. months, El Niño, different He said that cheese tested MIELKE MARKET weather patterns globally, the upper $1.70s the last WEEKLY anything is possible,” he confew weeks and failed twice. cluded.

By Lee Mielke Sellers are starting to come out of the woodMeyer also reported in work, he said, powder his Pre-GDT analysis is at multi-year lows, that there were numerthere’s plenty of milk and it’s starting ous stories regarding former Fonterra to show up, and demand is slowing. patrons/shareholders selling their As to the Global Dairy Trade, Meyer shares and moving to competitor processors as they are offering slightly pointed to whole milk powder which better milk prices for the upcoming he called the “global benchmark.”

Tuesday’s event saw the least amount season. of WMP offered by Fonterra in over ■ two years but the fact that it made no This week’s Global Dairy Trade aucsignificant move higher or at all, is tion saw the weighted average for all deemed bearish because “we know products offered slip 1.3 percent, folmore volume will be coming to that lowing a 4.3 percent decline June 2, auction as the new production season and a 2.2 percent decline in the May 19 comes about.” event. This is the seventh consecutive Meyer looks for prices to fall at the session of loss but the smallest since Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The March 3, 2015. good news is that he believes cheese is

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The declines were led by anhydrous milkfat, down 8.9 percent, following a 7.4 percent loss last time. Butter led the losses in the June 2 event, down 10.0 percent. Lactose was the next biggest loser Tuesday, down 2.8 percent, following a 6.9 percent drop last time. Skim milk powder was off 0.2 percent, following a 1.3 percent decline last time, and whole milk powder was off 0.1 percent Tuesday, following a 3.1 percent drop last time.

Moving to positive territory, buttermilk powder led the way, up 10.0 percent, after dropping 7.0 percent last time. Rennet casein was next, up 4.3 percent, after dropping 4.4 percent last time. Butter was up 3.3 percent Tuesday, and Cheddar cheese was up 2.4 percent, a commodity that didn’t even trade last time but had dropped 7.1 percent in the May 19 event.

FC Stone reports the average GDT butter price equated to about $1.2280 per pound U.S., up from $1.1882 per pound in the June 2 event. Contrast that to Chicago Mercantile Exchange butter which closed Friday at $1.9150 per pound. GDT Cheddar cheese equated to about $1.4187 U.S., up from $1.3856, and compares to Friday’s CME block Cheddar price of $1.70 per pound. GDT skim milk powder, at 89.71 cents per pound U.S., is down from 89.92 cents per pound, and the whole milk powder average at $1.0556 per pound U.S., compares to $1.0473 in the last event. The CME Grade A nonfat dry milk price closed Friday at 87.5 cents per pound.

■ The Food and Drug Administration’s stripping of trans fat as “generally recognized as safe” status and giving companies three years to remove partially hydrogenated oils from food will surely exacerbate butter’s comeback to favor in consumer minds.

The FDA estimates that consumption of trans fat fell nearly 80 percent between 2003 and 2012, according to the June 17 Daily Dairy Report. “Since 2006, the FDA has required food companies to report trans fat content on nutrition labels.” The DDR says per capita butter consumption stands at 40-year highs.

Right along those lines, Julian Mellentin, director of New Nutrition Business, states in the June 15 Food Navigator that cheese could be the next health food. Elizabeth Crawford writes that “The tide may be changing for cheese, as science helps re-position the dairy food as a protein-dense, calcium-

rich, healthy snack rather than as a high-fat and -sodium food to be enjoyed in moderation.”

She says that science is “poking holes” in previous arguments that demonized cheese as high in saturated fat which could raise cholesterol levels and heart disease risks and is high in sodium which threatens to elevate blood pressure levels. Read more at http://goo.gl/9Lj5Kv ■ U.S. dairy cows continue to pump out the milk with year over year output up for the 17th consecutive month but may have peaked for 2015. May output totaled 17.2 billion pounds, up 1.4 percent from a year ago in the top 23 producing states, according to preliminary data in USDA’s latest Milk Production report issued Thursday. Revisions added 3 million pounds to the April estimate, now put at 16.6 billion pounds, up 1.8 percent. Cow numbers were revised up 2,000 head May cow numbers totaled 8.63 million head, up 4,000 from April and 72,000 more than a year ago. Output per cow averaged 1,990 pounds, up 11 pounds from May 2014 and the highest May output since the series began in 2003.

The 50-state milk output total, at 18.4 billion pounds, was also up 1.4 percent from a year ago. Cow numbers totaled 9.3 million head, up 3,000 from April and 58,000 more than a year ago.

California continues to lag year ago levels, down 2.9 percent, thanks to a 60 pound drop per cow. Cow numbers were unchanged. But, Wisconsin almost made up the difference, up 4.4 percent from a year ago, thanks to 9,000 more cows and 70 pounds more per cow.

Idaho was up 2.4 percent on 11,000 more cows and 10 pounds more per cow. New York was up 2.6 percent, thanks to a 40-pound gain per cow and 3,000 more cows. Pennsylvania was up 3.1 percent on a 55-pound gain per cow and Minnesota saw a healthy 3.8 percent gain, on a 65-pound-per-cow increase.

While South Dakota saw the biggest increase, up 8.9 percent, Michigan grabbed the headlines with a 7.6 percent, thanks to a whopping 22,000 more cows than a year ago, and a nice 40-pound gain per cow.

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The Johnson clan gives three out of four ‘yums’ to Middle Eastern Nut Cheese Middle Eastern Nut Cheese Makes 1⁄2 cup 3 tablespoons pine nuts 3 tablespoons chopped macadamia nuts 3 tablespoons chopped walnuts Juice of 1 1⁄2 lemons 1/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped 1 clove garlic 7 dashes Bragg’s Liquid Aminos Dash of Nama Shoyu soy sauce Blend all of the above ingredients in a blender until smooth. Use as a spread on vegetables or in raw sushi.

■ A salad that will stick to your ribs for a while is the goal of Hearty Corn Salad, which is delicious whether you’re into raw food or not. After all, eating a raw salad is nothing new to most of us. This particular mix of veggies — with plenty of marinated mushrooms, corn and tomatoes — will certainly satisfy.

Hearty Corn Salad Makes 4 servings 3 portobello mushrooms, chopped 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar 1/3 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup 2 tablespoons sliced scallions 1 bell pepper (any color), chopped 1 cup grape tomatoes, sliced in half

1⁄4 to 1⁄2 pound baby lettuce 4 ears fresh corn, kernels cut from cob Marinate the mushrooms for one hour in the vinegar, olive oil and maple syrup. Set aside.

Mix scallions, bell pepper, tomatoes, lettuce and corn in a large bowl. Toss well. Divide lettuce mixture onto plates and top with two to three heaping tablespoons of the mushrooms. Dress salad further, if desired, with a raw salad dressing of your choice.

■ Take a bowl of chopped raw veggies, pour over them a fragrant tomato sauce and voila! Dinner! Be prepared, because this soup is pretty crunchy. And cold. And raw. Did I mention that?

Raw Old-Fashioned Homemade Soup Makes about 5 cups 1 avocado, chopped 3 ears sweet corn, kernels cut off cob 1 yellow or red bell pepper, chopped 1⁄2 cup soaked sun-dried tomatoes, chopped 1 cup soaked okra, chopped 10 Holland or Roma tomatoes 1⁄2 shallot 3 cloves garlic 1 tablespoon Nama Shoyu soy sauce 1 tablespoon curry powder (optional) 1 tablespoon sea salt 2 red bell peppers 4 dates Freshly ground black pepper to taste In a large mixing bowl, place the avocado, corn, chopped pepper, sun-dried tomatoes and okra. Set aside.

Blend the Holland or Roma tomatoes, shallot, garlic, soy sauce, curry powder (if using), sea salt, bell peppers, dates and black pepper in a blender until smooth. Pour the blended mixture over the chopped mixture and enjoy.

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By SARAH JOHNSON The Land Correspondent Is the “raw food diet” — whose proponents eat nothing that’s been heated over 118 degrees (which is barely warm) — a recent trend?

Not if you consider a diet that goes back to the 1800s a “trend.” That’s when interest first began in a diet free from cooking, processing or pesticides in an effort to stay healthy, trim and chemical-free.

Hardly anybody eats a totally raw food diet; if you are able eat three-fourths of your food raw, you’re considered a “raw foodist.” (Not to be confused with those who cook in the raw!) That’s because it’s a very labor-intensive diet, requiring a lot of prep time, nutritional knowledge, special products, unusual methods, and the motivation to keep at it.

Some raw foodists drink unpasteurized milk and/or eat raw fish (a.k.a. sushi), raw eggs and raw meat (with obvious health risks), but it’s safe to say that raw foodism is a vegetable farmer’s delight. There’s no reason to go totally or even mainly raw; you can dip your toe in by fixing a few starter dishes and see if it appeals to you, or follow it for a week for a detoxifying “cleanse.”

Here are some sample recipes from the classic “2005 Raw Food Detox Diet” (still in print from HarperCollins) by Natalia Rose, a clinical nutritionist. That nutritionist label is important, because following a raw food diet requires a lot of new knowledge and a whole new way of thinking about food.

■ These spring rolls utilize several of the basic components of raw foodism: fresh, whole veggies prepared in some way; no cooking; and a seasoning component to make it all palatable.

Spring-In-Your-Step Rolls Makes 10 servings 1 red bell pepper, julienned 2 large carrots, julienned 1 bunch whole cilantro leaves 1 bunch mint leaves 1 bunch whole basil leaves 10 whole red or green cabbage leaves Place the bell pepper, carrots, cilantro, mint and basil inside a cabbage leaf. Roll the cabbage leaf and dip into the raw teriyaki sauce (recipe follows).

■ Did you ever stop to think that many of our common sauces and condiments are cooked, too? “No can do,” if you are eating raw. Try this version of teriyaki sauce and see how it compares.

Raw Teriyaki Sauce 1 cup Nama Shoyu soy sauce (raw, organic) 1 cup pure maple syrup 1 teaspoon ginger, whole or chopped 1 clove garlic 1 drizzle toasted sesame oil Blend all the ingredients and use as a dipping sauce.

■ We Johnsons gave this faux “cream cheese” a try, and most of us decided it tasted fine spread on celery and carrots, if not exactly cheesy. Three out of four “yums” from the more adventurous Johnsons, with one son begging never to be served it again. You can’t win them all.

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What if the Founding Fathers had said ‘It is what it is’?

“It is what it is,” said Amy. “My mom the ugly beasts? says that all the time and it drives me Instead of tiptoeing around them, bananas!” I couldn’t agree more.

‘It is what it is’ so let’s back down and as if it will make them vanish, let’s bail out. ‘It is what it is’ so we desist “It is what it is” is one of those fingerget engaged. Be the one in your nails on the chalkboard phrases for me. part of the world who will do what and despair. How different the course On the surface it may sound like contentit takes to slay loneliness, child of history if ‘it is what it is’ was the ment, but I think it rings louder still with trafficking, starvation, and abuse. guide we lived by! defeat and apathy.

Who needs an advocate, friend, or support?

“It is what it is” so let’s back down and bail out. “It is what it is” so we desist and We don’t need to make dragons THE BACK PORCH will be like 10, 30, or 50 years from now. despair. feel at home. This doesn’t have to be the way it is.

If you’ve ever watched the news and There is something better. Wake up. Do your part.

By Lenae Bulthuis How different the course of history if “it feared what’s coming for the next generaLet’s engage in some hand-to-hand combat with is what it is” was the guide we lived by! tion, turn your ear to our kids. On Friday what should not be, and be lead writers for a better William Wilberforce would not have bothered to night we attended a Vacation Bible School program story for the future. fight the evil of slavery; Thomas Edison would’ve where 125 preschool through fifth graders raised the been content with a candle instead of tirelessly Lenae Bulthuis muses about faith, family, and roof as they shouted, “What a mighty God we serve working to invent the light bulb, and the Founding ... Angels bow before Him. Heaven and earth adore farming from her back porch on their Minnesota Fathers of our country would not have won indegrain and livestock farm. She can be reached at Him. What a mighty God we serve!” (lyrics by Don pendence and created the United States of America. Moen) lenaesbulthuis@gmail.com or @LenaeBulthuis. ❖ After all, slavery, darkness, and political upheaval My eyes misted. They get it. This is reality. This is would have been their “it is what it is!” truth. I hoped nothing would diminish or squelch The “it is what it is” mentality is a getting used to their enthusiasm, trust, and joy! They could not have things. Paul David Tripp writes, “We get used to made it clearer. You want to know how it is? Our God political corruption. We get used to homelessness. is a mighty God! We get used to the perverse morals of the entertainJon Acuff writes, “Life may try to lull you to sleep, ment industry. We get used to how many broken editor@TheLandOnline.com but you have to admit there are dragons in the families are around us.” world, and dragons need someone to slay them.”

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Claude Monet’s Gardens in them there or you can take Giverny, France, have long them to a root cellar as you fascinated gardeners and art would tender bulbs. aficionados. He was one of Nymphea Marliaces the early Impressionist Rosea is the Latin moniker painters leaving a footprint for the specimen we reguforever with his paintings. In larly grow. The blossoms his later years his renderings can be nine inches across consisted primarily of water and are a striking bright lilies in his lovely garden. pink color with yellow staIN THE GARDEN mens that attract an assortRecently I was privileged to ment of pollinators. We sail down the Seine River for

By Sharon Quale have a small pump in the 10 days on a riverboat cruise shape of a dolphin in the with a group of fellow Master Gardeners from throughout the United water to keep it circulating as stagnant water will not support the lilies. Fish, States. Four of us were from Minsnails and other aquatic creatures help nesota. We spent an unforgettable to clarify the water and adding barley afternoon exploring the gardens and extract or a small bale of barley sold for Monet’s house. water clarifying is another method of For 40 years Monet created his garmaintaining good water conditions. dens and at times employed six garWhiskey barrels are an option for deners to help him create one of the Photos by Sharon Quale most beautiful floral landscapes in the growing a water lily if your space is limited. You will need a water proof Above: Water lily in Sharon Quale’s garden pool. Below left: This lily pond in world. (It has been said he instructed Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, was made famous in his “Water Lily his gardeners to clean off the water lily liner for the barrel as well as a small pump to circulate the water. Place the Pond” painting. leaves on a regular basis.) The water lily gardens became the subject of over barrel in an area that gets at least four 500 of his paintings. The unique light, hours of sun a day and watch the rapclearness of the skies and the beauty of idly growing lily pad leaves emerge.

Frogs perching on the large round the countryside attracted many other leaves are an added attraction. famous painters to the banks of the Seine during the heyday of ImpressionThe uplifting experience of walking ism in the 1870s. These painters left through Monet’s tranquil gardens in their studios to paint out of doors France near the Seine River was focusing on the sky, water, light and the inspiring and will be a lifelong pleaschanging weather conditions. ant memory. Thankfully artists have Growing water lilies is fun. We have a long had a passion to preserve and small pool (less than five feet across and show the intricate beauty of flowers about three feet deep) that will happily and gardens. We are beneficiaries of support a water lily and adds an exotic their genius and vision. accent to the garden. I have treated our Au revoir. one plant as an annual every year since Sharon Quale is a master gardener it won’t winter over in our small pool from central Minnesota. She may be but if you have a pond that doesn’t reached at (218) 738-6060 or freeze in the winter you can winter squale101@yahoo.com. ❖

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‘Small Farms Are Real Farms’ challenges status quo

By TIM KING The Land Correspondent At a meeting sometime during the last year a senior official with a foundation that does good work in my part of Minnesota made an off-thecuff comment.

“Most of the farms in the area are only small farms,” he said.

His tone of voice and his wording suggested that he was dismissing the importance of small farms in the economic and cultural life of our region. Only big farms count, his remark suggested.

I’ve known otherwise throughout my 30 years as a small farmer but at the time of his comment I couldn’t find the words to challenge the big-farmsare-better mentality. Had I read John Ikerd’s book, “Small Farms Are Real Farms,” I would have had words to at least cause this normally thoughtful man to rethink his throw-away statement.

“The fundamental purpose of farming is to enhance the quality of life of people — farmers, rural residents, consumers, and society in general.

In this regard the industrialization of agriculture, which inevitably has led to fewer and larger farms, has failed miserably,” writes Ikerd, a retired agricultural economist from the University of Missouri, on the first page.

Goodness, we’ve been told for decades that the purpose of farming is to feed the world and that we’ve been getting better and better at it by increas-

ing specialization and efficiency.

“Agriculture may well be the field upon which the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans is first Ikerd, who is a long-time contribufought,” he writes. “The best hope for a tor to sustainable society may be to begin by Small building a more sustainable agriculture Farm — for without a susToday magazine, spends tainable agriculture, the next 46 brief chaphuman life on Earth is ters laying out not only not sustainable. The why small farms are real best hope for building farms, but why they are a more sustainable the key to a healthy and agriculture may be to viable agriculture in the begin by ensuring the United States in the future of small farm years to come. families — for without John Ikerd In the first chapter, farmers, agriculture titled “A Small Farm Revcannot be sustained. Corporate hired olution,” Ikerd builds a hands may be good people, fully deservcase to show why Adam ing of dignity and respect, but they are Smith’s economic theories not farmers. A corporately controlled, of 200 years ago are inaplarge-scale, industrial agriculture simpropriate in agriculture ply is not sustainable.” and broader society today.

Ikerd’s sustainable society would Smith’s invisible hand thehave three economies: the private, ory only looked at ecosocial, and altruistic. The social econnomic results and not at omy would pay for social good that the social and environmental private, or competitive, economy could results of human activity, not. Today’s social economy does not he says. An economic revoprovide social benefits, he says. lution that considers not only bottom line profits but social and environmental “Government farm programs have become ‘corpocosts must take place if human activity on the planet rate welfare’ programs,” he writes. is to continue into future generations.

“Farmers are in a position to provide legitimate and valuable public benefits to society, and society could benefit greatly from investing public dollars to create those benefits. Food security, food equity, environmental protection, and rural communality are GEA Farm Equipment but a few of those benefits that farmers could create, and Drive Units!

Houle but for which private incentives are inadequate or non-existent.”

Corporate welfare farm programs don’t provide food security for the United States. Large corporate agri-enterprises are as likely to abandon their fields and workers for foreign shores, as are large corporations that run auto part factories, Ikerd writes. Proprietors of small farms likely aren’t leaving the land.

They will keep producing and provide food security, especially if some conservative but carefully crafted farm programs favor the social good provided by them.

“The food security of America ultimately depends on America’s small farms. To sustain the productivity of the land, we must have people on the land who know the land and how to take care of the land, and who love the land,” Ikerd writes. “We at least need to quit subsidizing the corporatization of agriculture.”

Small Farms Are Real Farms is published by Acres USA and is available through their website — www.acresusa.com — or at bookstores. ❖

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Feterl 12”x72’, swing hopper auger ..$8,995 Feterl 10”x60’, PTO ..........................$3,150 Feterl 10”x34’, electric ......................$2,400 Feterl 8”x34’, electric ........................$2,100 Westfield WR, 100”-51’, PTO ..............CALL Westfield 10”x71’, swing drive ..........$7,400 Hutch 10”x72’, swing hopper ............$5,900 Sheyenne 13”x70’, auger swing drive, w/hanger bearing ............................$13,900 (L) Sudenga 10”x31’, electric..................$3,495 (L) Sudenga 10”x41’, PTO ......................$4,600 (L) Sudenga 10”x56’, electric..................$4,995

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(L) H&S 270............................................$6,450 (W) Knight 8132, (B0077)......................$17,000 (W) Knight 8132 ....................................$17,500 (W) Knight 8018 ....................................$10,900 (L) JD 370 ..............................................$4,950 (W) Meyer 3954, (1250) ..........................$4,500 (L) Meyer 3245, V-Max ........................$12,900 NI 3732..............................................$7,950 (W) NH 185 ..............................................$5,650

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(G) Wilrich 957, 9-shank ......................$33,900 (L) Wilrich 957, 5-shank ......................$16,500 (L/G) (3) Wilrich 957, 7-shank......From $20,600 (L) Wilrich 513, Soil Pro, 9-24..............$39,600 (W) Great Plains, Turbo chisel, 7 & 11-shank ............................................................CALL (W) Great Plains 24’ Turbomax ..................CALL (L) Glencoe DR 8699, 7-shank................$8,500 (L) Krause Dominator, 21’ ....................$36,500 (L) Krause Dominator, 18’ ....................$34,900 (L/G) (2) Krause 18’ Rippers ..................$44,800 (L) Krause Dominator, 18’ ....................$33,900 (L) (2) DMI Tigermate II, 38.5’, 4-bar ..$29,900 (L) DMI Tigermate II, 42.5’, 3 bar ........$20,600 (G) (2) DMI 730 Rippers ......................$10,900 (L) DMI 530 ............................................$9,900 (L) Wishek 16’ disc w/harrow ..............$24,800 (L) JD 2700, 9-24 ripper ......................$25,900 (G) JD 2700, 7-shank ............................$23,900 (L) JD 2400 chisel plow, 33-shank ......$29,950

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(W) Knight 5073, tow ............................$17,199 Knight 3300 ......................................$6,500 (W) Knight 3042 ....................................$12,500 (W) Knight 3050 ....................................$11,499 (W) ‘14 Kuhn Knight RA142........................CALL

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EZ Trail 510 grain cart, tarp FOR SALE: Case Skid 1825 FOR SALE: Hesston 1170 FOR SALE: JD 800 swather, water-cooled 25HP; 2 JD 8' & light kit, like new, $7,900; Mower conditioner, swing exc cond, 15' draper head, blades; Ford 800 P-ST 5JD 328 baler w/ 40 bale tongue, 1 steel/1 rubber w/ bat reel, used every speed; Ford 2-bottom plow, thrower, $5,750; JD 568 roll, $4,950; 2013 Maschio year, stored inside, $2,650. digger. 2 running gears, round baler, net wrap, 12-wheel high capacity Hanover MN 763-300-3070 ball rack. Satchell 8x8x55 large tires, $15,900; JD 2800 rake, $8,500. 507-430-5144 auger, gravity wagons, 6, 7, & 8 bottom onland FOR SALE: JD 856 row-crop packer 600 bu.; 2 J & M 350 plows, $3,450/choice; Case cultivator, 16x30, rolling trk tires, 7'&9' Loftness IH 5800 31' chisel plow, shields & lift assist; good snowblowers.Peterson $9,750; Dolly wheel type condition. $16,000; Equipment 507-276-6958 or round bale trailer, 11 bale, Blumhardt pickup sprayer, 507-276-6957. $2,750; JD MX8 3pt brush 300 gal. & 40' boom $850.00. cutter, $3,450. 320-769-2756 320-583-2008

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‘09 JD 6430, MFWD, cab, w/673 loader, 208 hrs. ....................$89,000 (2) ‘14 JD 5085E, MFWD, cab, 12-spd. reverser, 120 hrs.........$44,500 ‘14 JD 6125M, MFWD, cab, 24-spd. reverser, 130 hrs. ............$82,000 ‘14 JD 6125M, MFWD, cab, 24-spd. reverser, H310 SL loader, 95 hrs. ......................................................................................$92,000 ‘14 JD 6125M, MFWD, cab, 24-spd. reverser, H310 SL loader, 135 hrs. ....................................................................................$92,000 (3) ‘13 JD 6125M, MFWD, cab, 24-spd. reverser, 352-536 hrs. ................................................................................................$78,000 ‘14 JD 6125R, MFWD, cab, 24-spd. reverser, H340 SL loader, 55 hrs.....................................................................................$104,900 ‘03 JD 5320, 2WD, open station, 512 loader, 2089 hrs.............$18,900 ‘02 JD 6320, 2WD, cab, w/640 SL loader, 3205 hrs. ................$39,900 ‘07 Kubota L3540, MFWD, hydro, turf tires, 1620 hrs. ............$11,500 ‘10 Kubota L3240, MFWD, cab, loader, 60" front snowblower, 110 hrs. ....................................................................................$28,500 ‘11 HD 3038E Compact, MFWD, hydro, w/loader, 285 hrs. ......$16,900

OTHER EQUIPMENT

(I) ‘08 JD 468 round baler, net wrap, 21.5L-16.1 tires, hyd. pickup ................................................................................................$28,900 (R) ‘10 JD 458 round baler, net wrap, Megawide pickup, 31.5x13.5 tires ................................................................................................$22,500 (R) ‘11 JD 318D skidsteer, cab, A/C, 2-spd., 900 hrs. ....................$23,900 (I) ‘11 JD 318D skidsteer, cab, A/C, 2-spd., 750 hrs. ....................$23,900 (R) ‘12 JD 320D skidsteer, cab, A/C, 2-spd., 540 hrs. ....................$32,900 (I) Isanti • (R) Rogers

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Gleaner CH 4R 30” for F Series; JD #50 mid mount 7' sickle mower; (20) cement cattle “H” bunks, 6' & 8'; '69 F600 Ford trk 16' box/hoist, 51K miles; '73 Ford 5000 dsl tractor, 8spd, WF, 3pt; Dahlman 2R PTO drive potato digger; Case A-6 pull type combine; Cse 770 dsl tractor, P/S, NF, 3pt; Case 970 dsl tractor, P/S, ROPs, 1900 orig hrs; (2) Case 870 dsl tractors for parts or restoration; Case 730 dsl com, WF, eagle hitch; '79 Ford F150 4x4 351, 4spd, restoration project; Case 5x18 semi mount plow. 507-525-5556 Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Repair Repair-Troubleshooting Sales-Design Custom hydraulic hose-making up to 2” Service calls made.

STOEN'S Hydrostatic Service 16084 State Hwy 29 N Glenwood, MN 56334 320634-4360 JD 435 4' round baler, Tucker wheels, bale kicker, shedded, $5,900; Case IH 183 8x30 Vibra tine cult, $950; 12x30, folding, Vibra tine cult, $875; JD 336 baler, $2,450; Pair IH 35 hyd drive rakes w/ hitch & dolly wheels, $2,450/set; Rowse 3pt sickle mower, excellent condition, $3,750.

320-769-2756 JD 7730, IVT Trans. 4200 hrs, Greenstar ready, front fenders, duals, dependable, $88,000. Fertilizer spreader 5 ton, row crop, $6,000. 715572-1234 Loftness 72AX brush cutter $5,000 good condition. Was used on 277 CAT rubber track for 1 job. Standard flow motor can be converted back to high flow easily.

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Rite Way 901 36' spiral packer, $5,800; '01 4260 90' sprayer, aim control, auto hgt, Vipor Pro, chem inductor, 12,000 gal S/S steel tank, $75,000. 612-390-2643 We buy Salvage Equipment Parts Available Hammell Equip., Inc. (507)867-4910 Tractors

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FOR SALE: IH 560 diesel, Allis Chalmers 190 gas tractors. 507-720-6523 or 507340-2333

FOR SALE: 1943 AllisChalmers Model C Tractor, Serial #:19296; factory wide front, 60” Artsway mower, good paint & tires. $2,700.

507-642-8391 FOR SALE: JD 8400, MFWD, good tires, always shedded, excellent condition. 440-812-8446

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TRACTORS ‘01 JD 4200, 510 HRS, 2WD, 26 HP, DSL, HYDRO ..........................................$9,250 ‘83 JD 4650, 6775 HRS, MFWD, 165 HP, 14.9X46, DUALS, 2 HYDS ..............$34,000 ‘05 JD 4720, 276 HRS, MFWD, 58 HP, 1 HYD, LOADER ................................$28,000 ‘13 JD 4720, 671 HRS, MFWD, 66 HP, 16.9X24, 2 HYDS ..............................$37,900 ‘13 JD 5075E, 1534 HRS, MFWD, 75 HP, 16.9X28, 2 HYDS ..........................$36,000 ‘14 JD 5085E, 42 HRS, MFWD, 85 HP, 18.4R30, 2 HYDS ..............................$42,500 ‘13 JD 5100E, 2948 HRS, MFWD, 100 HP, 18.4X30, 2 HYDS ........................$38,000 ‘11 JD 5105M, 375 HRS, MFWD, 105 HP, 18.4R30, 2 HYDS ..........................$55,000 ‘12 JD 6125R, 349 HRS, MFWD, 138 HP, 460-85R38, 3 HYDS, LOADER ....$108,000 ‘13 JD 6170R, 767 HRS, MFWD, 170 HP, 380-90R50, DUALS, 3 HYDS ......$129,000 ‘13 JD 7200R, 517 HRS, MFWD, 200 HP, 380-90R50, DUALS, 4 HYDS ......$177,000 ‘14 JD 7210R, 106 HRS, MFWD, 210 HP, 480-80R46, 3 HYDS ....................$169,000 ‘12 JD 7230R, 788 HRS, MFWD, 230 HP, 480-80R46, DUALS, 4 HYDS ......$179,900 ‘04 JD 7420, 2330 HRS, 2WD, 115 HP, 480-80R42, 2 HYDS..........................$60,000 ‘11 JD 7430, 4057 HRS, MFWD, 166 HP, 480-80R42, 3 HYDS, LOADER ....$110,000 ‘93 JD 7800, 7403 HRS, 2WD, 145 HP, 14.9R46, DUALS, 3 HYDS ................$45,900 ‘08 JD 7930, 4148 HRS, MFWD, 180 HP, IVT, 380R50, DUALS, 3 HYDS ............CALL ‘02 JD 8220, 556 HRS, MFWD, 190 HP, 380-90R50, DUALS, 4 HYDS ........$104,000 ‘07 JD 8230, 2295 HRS, MFWD, 265 HP, IVT, 380-90R54, DUALS ..............$158,000 ‘12 JD 8235R, 809 HRS, MFWD, 235 HP, 380-90R54, 5 HYDS ....................$162,000 ‘11 JD 8285R, 315 HRS, MFWD, 285 HP, 380-90R54, DUALS, 4 HYDS ......$206,000 ‘13 JD 8335R, 738 HRS, MFWD, 335 HP, 380-90R54, DUALS, 5 HYDS ......$250,000 ‘14 JD 8360R, 166 HRS, MFWD, 360 HP, 380-90R54, DUALS, 5 HYDS ......$285,000 ‘13 JD 8360R, 558 HRS, MFWD, 360 HP, 380-90R54, DUALS, 5 HYDS ......$285,000 ‘02 JD 8410T, 5686 HRS, TRACK, 270 HP, 24" BELTS, 4 HYDS ......................$85,000 ‘05 JD 8420, 3800 HRS, MFWD, 235 HP, 480-80R50, 4 HYDS ....................$135,000 ‘13 JD 9460R, 450 HRS, 4WD, 460 HP, 800-70R38, DUALS, 5 HYDS..........$295,000 ‘14 JD 9460R, 244 HRS, 4WD, 460 HP, 800-70R38, DUALS, 5 HYDS..........$295,000 ‘12 JD 9510R, 546 HRS, 4WD, 510 HP, 76X50 ............................................$390,290 ‘10 JD 9530T, 1189 HRS, TRACK, 475 HP, 36" BELTS, 4 HYDS ....................$289,000 ‘13 JD 9560R, 734 HRS, 4WD, 560 HP, 800-70R38, DUALS, 4 HYDS..........$319,000 ‘14 JD 9560R, 187 HRS, 4WD, 560 HP, 800-70R38, DUALS, 4 HYDS..........$332,000 ‘13 JD 9560R, 178 HRS, 4WD, 560 HP, 850-42, DUALS, 4 HYDS ................$333,000 ‘13 JD 9560RT, 601 HRS, TRACK, 560 HP, 36", 4 HYDS ..............................$345,000 ‘10 JD 9630, 958 HRS, 4WD, 530 HP, 800-70R38, DUALS, 4 HYDS ............$277,000 ‘13 KUBOTA M135, 279 HRS, MFWD, 135 HP, 3 HYDS, LOADER ..................$75,000 ‘13 CAT CHALLENGER, 832 HRS, TRACK, 285 HP, 30" BELTS, 5 HYDS........$247,500

‘14 JD 328E Skid, 86 hp, 2-spd, cab, 84” bucket, 716 hrs..............$45,500

‘12 JD 333DT Skid, Tracks, 91 hp, 17.7’, cab, 1571 hrs ............$52,500

‘13 JD 1810E Ejector Scraper, 1810E fixed blade ..............$102,620

‘14 Thundercreek Fuel Trailer, 750 gal, 35’ hose reel ..........$11,900

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‘05 JD 9760STS, 3150 ENG/2450 SEP HRS, 18.4-46, TRIPLES, CM ............$128,000 ‘10 JD 9770STS, 1012 ENG/682 SEP HRS, RWA, DUALS ............................$289,000 ‘11 JD 9870STS, 965 ENG/689 SEP HRS, PWRD, 800R38, DUALS..............$299,000 ‘13 JD S660, 256 ENG/183 SEP HRS, AWD, 710-70R38 ..............................$330,000 ‘12 JD S670, 195 ENG/158 SEP HRS, 650-85R38, DUALS, AWD ................$340,000 ‘14 JD S680, 171 ENG/123 SEP HRS, AWD, 800-70R38, DUALS ................$389,000 ‘13 JD S680, 683 ENG/493 SEP HRS, 650-70R38, DUALS ..........................$350,000

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SPRING TILLAGE

‘95 JD 980 FIELD CULT, 44.5', FOLD, HARROW ................................................$9,900 ‘08 JD 2210 FIELD CULT, 50.5', 101 SHANKS, HARROW ................................$55,000 WILRICH 2500 FIELD CULT, 28', 7" SWEEPS, HARROW ..................................$2,995

CONSTRUCTION & UTILITY

‘00 JD TC62H WHEEL LOADER, BUCKET ........................................................$49,000 ‘12 JD 326D SKID, 734 HRS, 74 HP, 2 SPD, FOOT CONTROLS, BUCKET ......$37,000 ‘10 JD 328D SKID, 647 HRS, 83 HP, 2 SPD, CAB, POWER QUICK TACH ........$42,900 ‘02 BOBCAT SKID, 3393 HRS, 78 HP, CAB, DIESEL, 84" BUCKET ..................$28,500 ‘12 CAN-AM UTILITY VEHICLE, 235 HRS, 4WD, WINCH, HITCH ....................$12,000 ‘13 JD GATOR UTILITY VEHICLE, 32 HRS, 4WD, 62 HP, GAS, SPORT............$12,800

OTHER EQUIPMENT

‘06 FAST 743P SPRAYER, 60' BOOM, 3 PT, 20" SPACING ..............................$13,900 ‘04 REDBALL SPRAYER, 60' BOOM, 1000 GAL, RAVEN MONITOR ..................$5,900 ‘12 LANDPRIDE AFM4211 FLEX MOWER, 11', 540 PTO, REAR DISCHARGE $10,250 ‘14 TEBBEN ROTARY CUTTER, 540 PTO, MACIK ..............................................$3,750 ‘13 JD 569 RD BALER, 540 PTO, MEGA WIDE, SURFACE WRAP....................$37,900 ‘90 JD 535 RD BALER, TWINE, 2 MONITORS, 540 PTO....................................$9,900

Hardi Sprayer, 66’ folding boom, 1000 gal tank..........................$7,900

‘04 Redball Sprayer, 80’, 4-section, 1200 gal tank........................$16,900

‘07 JD 2210 Field Cult, 45', 91 shanks, 7” shovels ..........$36,500

‘97 JD 980 Field Cult, 36.5', 73 shanks, harrow................$17,500

Unverferth 1225 Rolling Basket, 55’, double............................$31,000

‘07 JD Gator Utility Vehicle, 888 hrs, 4WD, 23 hp, box dump ..$7,500

FALL TILLAGE

‘13 CS/IH 870 DISK RIPPER, 13 SHANK, 26', HARROW ................................$82,000 ‘10 CS/IH 870 DISK RIPPER, 13 SHANK, 6" POINTS, HARROW......................$62,000 ‘12 JD 2623 DISK, 33' 7", 24" BLADES ............................................................$49,000 ‘13 JD 2625 DISK, 33' 7", FOLDING, HARROW ..............................................$64,000 ‘06 JD 2700 MULCH RIPPER, 18', 10" POINTS, 9 S ........................................$33,500 ‘12 JD 2700 MULCH RIPPER, 18', 9 SHANK ..................................................$49,900 ‘11 JD 2700 MULCH RIPPER, 7 SHANK, 10" POINTS......................................$29,500 ‘12 JD 2700 MULCH RIPPER, 9 SHANK, 10" POINTS......................................$46,000 ‘11 WISHEK DISK, 26', ROTARY SCRAPERS ..................................................$54,500 ‘13 JD 3710 MOLDBOARD PLOW, 10 BTM, COULTER ....................................$52,500 ‘13 JD 3710 MOLDBOARD PLOW, 8 BTM, COULTER ......................................$34,500 ‘13 SALFORD 8212 MOLDBOARD PLOW, 12 BTM, 18" ..................................$57,500 ‘13 SALFORD 8214 MOLDBOARD PLOW, 14 BTM ..........................................$63,000 ‘09 SALFORD RTS41, RTS, 41', 13 COULTERS, HARROW..............................$51,000

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‘13 JD 326E Skid, 74 hp, 2-spd, cab, joystick, 84” bucket, 426 hrs..$47,500

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JD '10 318 D, 1300 hrs, en- '08 C70L McCormick Trac- FOR SALE: MF 1135D tor, 450 hrs., FWA, Exc. w/axle mount duals, 4,900 closed cab, good condition, Cond., John BM Hay & hrs., tires good, runs great $2,000/OBO. (608)792-8051 Silage Wagon, designed for $7,750; '89 CAT65 w/5,300 long-horned cattle or horshrs., tracks are good:65 to NH 258 rake w/ dolly wheels, es. Very Good Condition!

70%, Nice condition. $1,800; 2 steel bale throw 507-317-1392 or 507-326-7366 $26,000/OBO. 507-340-1001 racks $1,000/ea; H&S 8' tedder, $1,000. 715-671-3199 FOR SALE: 350 Farmall FOR SALE: Oliver 660 gas tractor, wide front, fast NH BR 7070, 7100 Bales Rota tractor w/ WF, dual hyds, hitch, Schwartz loader cut, silage 4X6 baler, moisLive PTO, good tires, good w/snow bucket. Been in the ture meter, wide pick up, paint and tin work, runs same family for 55 years. oiler. Make offer. 715-572great, $6,950. 218-564-4273 Jim – 952-442-2058.

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JD 620 power steering, runs JD 4650, MFWD, power shift, 4400 gas combine, runs great, used every fall, 3R nice, $3,850; JD 2240 diesel exc rubber, nice tractor, cornhead 40 series, could be 145 loader, $9,850; JD 2030 $3,250/OBO. (608)792-8051 used on silage chopper, 30” 145 loader row guard, rear spacing, everything works. blade, $7,900. (715)837-1310 WANTED: IH Hydro $2,100. Ron 507-830-1376, Diesel tractor in very rpmaurer@yahoo.com NEW AND USED TRACTOR good working condition.

PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, FOR SALE OR TRADE: FOR SALE: '81 JD 6620 tur55, 50 Series & newer tracIH 656 gas tractor w/ bo combine, 215 bean head, tors, AC-all models, Large Buehler loader in excel443 cornhead grain pickup.

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715-673-4829 FOR SALE: '91 JD 9400 combine, thru JD shop in 2013, 2600 sep hrs, 3600 eng hrs, nice. 320-987-3152

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‘75 Transcraft Drop Deck, 40/96, HOPPERS New Floor, Tires, Brakes ....$10,900 ‘02 Farm Master, Steel AG Hopper, 36’, 80% T/B, Clean! ..........$10,500 ‘99 Fontaine, 48’ Mechanical RGN Low Boy, 102”, 35-Ton Capacity, ‘97 Wilson Commander, 43/66, 29’4” Well, AR, 22.5 Low Profile AR, 80% T/B, Elec. Roll Tarp, 20” Hopper Height ............$17,500 Radial Tires ........................$20,500 ‘87 Transcraft 53/102, Drop Deck, ‘94 Wilson AL Hopper, 41’, 66” Sides, 20” Hopper Height, 80% Closed Tandem, Beavertail, T/B ....................................$15,500 New Recap Tires, Alum. Wheels, New Paint, New Floor, LED Lights FLATBEDS ..........................................$16,750 ‘97 Wabash 48/102, AL Floors & END DUMPS Crossmembers, SX, AR, 80% Tires & Brakes ..............................$8,750 ‘06 Aulick Belted Trailer, 48’, 54” Belt, 68” Sides, Roll Tarp, ‘97 Wilson, 45/96, AL Floor & Sandblasted, Painted ........$25,750 Crossmembers, SX, AR, ‘94 Cobra, 34’, New Rubber, 3/8” Sandblasted, New Paint, New Brakes ........................$7,000 Plastic Liner, 2-Way Tailgate, Roll Tarp, AL Polished Wheels, ‘02 Great Dane, Curtain Side, 48/102, AR, Closed Tandem $7,250 Clean! ................................$22,500 ‘90 Load King Belly Dump, 40’, ‘94 Wabash, 38/102, New New Brakes & Drums, 80% Tires Brakes/Drums, 80% Tires, ..........................................$11,500 New Floor, Sandblasted & MISCELLANEOUS New Paint ............................$5,500 (30) Van & Reefer Trailers, ‘95 Transcraft, 48/102, AL Crossmembers, Wood Floor, Closed 48/102-53/102 - Great For Water Tandem Slider, AR, Paint ....$8,250 Storage Or Over The Road ................................$3,500-$5,500 ‘90 Great Dane, 48/96, Closed Custom Haysides: Tandem, Steel, 80% Tires, Stationary ..............................$1,250 New Brakes, Sandblasted & New Paint ............................$6,500 Tip In-Tip Out ........................$1,750 DROPDECKS/DOUBLEDROPS Suspensions: Air Ride or Spring Ride ‘07 Fontaine Low Boy, 53/102, ........$500 SPR/$1,000 AR per axle Air Ride, Steel, Spread Axle, Wood Tandem Axle Off Road Dolly ..$2,500 Floor, Sandblasted & Painted, TRUCKS/CARS Beavertail ..........................$24,500 ‘80 Transcraft Double Drop, 53’, 33’ ‘06 Dodge Caravan, Stow-n-Go, New Well Non-Detachable, AR, Polished Tires, State of Iowa vehicle ............................................$3,250 AL Wheels, New Hardwood Decking, 80% T/B, Clean ....$11,500 ‘96 Kenworth Day Cab, N14, 10-Spd., 70% Tires & Brakes, Jake Engineered 5’ Beavertail: Brakes..................................$9,750 Kit Includes Paint, LED Lights ‘99 FLD 120 Day Cab, 12/7 Detroit, & All Electrical ............$3,750 Kit/$5,750 Installed 13-Spd., 70% T/B ..............$10,750

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‘09 Challenger MT665C, 1130 hrs...........................$139,500 ‘09 MF 8650, 2000 hrs. ..........................................$129,500 Agco DT-200, 3000 hrs. ............................................$69,500 ‘12 Challenger MT585D, CVT, 1200 hrs. ..................$99,500 Challenger MT665, Frt/Rear wgts., 2800 hrs.............$74,500 ‘05 MF 6480 w/loader, 4200 hrs. ..............................$49,500 ‘95 Ford 9680, 4WD, 7600 hrs. ................................$52,500 ‘89 White 140, 2WD, duals........................................$24,900 AC 8070, 2WD, PS, new tires....................................$17,900 ‘03 Agco ST40 w/loader, power shuttle ....................$13,900 AC 8070, FWA, PS, wgts., 42” duals ........................$18,900 AC 7020 PD, recent eng. ............................................$9,950 AC 7045, PD................................................................$9,950 Oliver 1600, gas, w/loader ..........................................$4,950

COMBINES & HEADS

‘13 Gleaner S67, 160 hrs., Warranty ......................$269,500 ‘10 Gleaner R-66, 300 hrs., duals ..........................$219,500 ‘08 Gleaner R-75, 1000 hrs., duals ........................$169,500 ‘03 Gleaner R-65, 1200 hrs. ....................................$119,500 ‘03 Gleaner R-65, 2300 hrs., duals ..........................$99,500 ‘94 Gleaner R-62, 3100 hrs. ......................................$39,500 ‘90 Gleaner R-50, 2900 eng. hrs., eng. OH ..............$19,900 ‘90 MF 8570 w/9320 Flex & 1163 ....................Pkg. $19,900 ‘83 Gleaner M3, 3700 hrs., hydro ..............................$3,950 ‘11 Gleaner 9250, 25’ flex draper ..............................$49,500 ‘08 Gleaner 3000, 8R30 ............................................$39,500 ‘10 Gleaner 3000, 6R30, 1000 acres use ..................$32,900 ‘01 Gleaner Hugger, 8R30, adj. strippers ..................$19,500 ‘05 Gleaner 3000, 8RW ............................................$26,500

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MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT

‘08 White 8500, 36R20, CFS ....................................$89,500 ‘07 White 8516, 16R30, CFS ....................................$64,500 ‘06 White 8202, 12R30, 3 bu., 540 PTO, LF ............$34,900

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White 5100 12RN vertical fold FOR SALE: Demo sprayer w/ Raven 440 controls. 42' planter w/row cleaners and boom span, just right for always shedded, $3,000. 5158R planters, $1,500. Call 851-0802 507-380-6001 Tillage Equip 039 FOR SALE: HARDI 1,000 gallon sprayer w/80 gallon FOR SALE: '01 Case IH rinse tank and 60' all hy530B, 5-shank ripper w/4 draulic boom. Exc. condilead shanks, x-frame doution. $6,800 507-273-1906 ble front disc, hydr. rear leveler $21,500. 763-286-5166

FOR SALE: Case IH 3950 disk, 32' 6”, 9” spacing, cushion gang, harrow, $19,500. 507-383-3447

FOR SALE: Sprayer Specialty 1,000 gal. big wheel sprayer; has rinse & clean water tanks, 60' boom, real nice shape. 507-530-8875

050 FOR SALE: '97 1020 Case FOR SALE: JD 12R folding Feed Seed Hay cultivator, rolling shields, IH 20' bean head, SCH cut$1,800.

507-317-3396 Dairy Quality Alfalfa ting bar, w/roller guides, Tested big squares & round rock guard, shedded, low FOR SALE: Miller 6R cultibales, delivered from South acres. $6,500/OBO. 952-467vator excellent condition, Dakota John Haensel (605) 2314 $600/OBO. 715-495-0757 351-5760 FOR SALE: CIH 1680 com- IH #53 6R30" rear mounted Dairy quality western alfalbine w/ Cummings engine. cultivator, w/rolling shields, fa, big squares or small 320-293-8086 3pt quick hitch, $500/OBO. squares, delivered in semi 712-786-3341 loads. Clint Haensel FOR SALE: Gleaner E com(605) 310-6653 bine, Baldwin, built by Allis Machinery Wanted 040 Chalmers; JD 350 50' elevaFOR SALE: Certified organtor; 8R bander sprayer, All kinds of New & Used ic hay, 2014 & 2015 crop, 5x6 mounted 3pt, 300 gal tank; round bales, mature alfalfarm equipment – disc chis8R Glencoe Danish tooth fa, clover, orchard grass, els, field cults, planters, cultivator. 507-828-2170 timothy, brome & June soil finishers, cornheads, grass. Test is 14%-16% profeed mills, discs, balers, FOR SALE: Tox-0-Wik 500 tein. Relative feed quality haybines, etc. 507-438-9782 bu crop dryer, JD 300 65' 114+. Smells great! $120 bale conveyor. 715-639-2119 per ton/OBO. 500+ bales.

Disc chisels: JD 714 & 712, Urban Warnert St. Joseph Glencoe 7400; Field Cults MN 320-492-8527 under 30': JD 980, small Planting Equip 038 grain carts & gravity boxes Premium tested, high pro300-400 bu. Finishers under FOR SALE: 1230 JD 7000, tein, high RFV alfalfa 20', clean 4 & 6R stalk chopfront fold Yetters, insectisquare, wrapped baleage. pers; Nice JD 215 & 216 cide boxes, bean meters, Delivered by truckload. flex heads; JD 643 cornlike new monitor and harAlso, STRAW BALES clean heads Must be clean; JD ness, very good, $8,500 3 x 4. Call Wes at Red Rivcorn planters, 4-6-8 row. firm. 712-845-4344 er Forage 866-575-7562 715-299-4338

Midway Farm Equipment

For Sales ask for Jerr y or Kyle ‘05 White 8186, 16R20, 3 bu., complete rebuild ......$46,500 ‘02 White 8202, 12R30, 2 bu. ..................................$25,000 White 8100, 12R30, VF, LF........................................$19,900 ‘02 White 8222, 12R30, 2 bu. ..................................$24,900 White 8122, 12R30, DF, 2 bu. ..................................$19,900 White 6100, 12R30, insect ..........................................$9,950 White 6100, 12R30 VF, 540 PTO pump ......................$8,950 JD 7200, 12R30, insect ............................................$10,900 White 5100, 8R38 w/7-row splitter ............................$4,950 (12) Yetter Residue Mgrs., off JD 7200 ..................Ea. $150 ‘13 Wilrich Soil Pro 513, 9x24 ..................................$47,500 ‘08 Sunflower 4511-15..............................................$29,500 ‘05 Wilrich V957, 7x30................................................$9,950 ‘06 Wishek 862NT, 30’ disc w/harrow ......................$44,500 ‘09 Wishek 862NT, 34’ disc w/harrow ......................$54,500 ‘05 Krause 7300, 27’ disc..........................................$19,900 ‘03 Sunflower 1434, 23’ disc w/harrow ....................$24,500 ‘10 DMI 530B ............................................................$14,900 Wilrich 10 CPW, 14’ chiel plow ..................................$3,950 M&W 1865, 9x24 Earthmaster....................................$5,950 ‘09 CIH Turbo-Till, 25’, baskets ................................$29,500 ‘12 Wilrich XL2, 30’ w/baskets..................................$37,500 ‘08 Wilrich XL2, 47’ field cult., 4-bar ........................$32,500 White 227, 31’ field cult ..............................................$2,500 JD 724, 30’ soil finisher ..............................................$8,950 JD 680, 21’ chisel plow ............................................$14,950 NI 6365 (Hesston 856A), 5x6 baler ............................$7,950 NH 315 baler w/thrower ................................................CALL ‘06 Hesston 1006 disc mower ....................................$5,950 Diamond side mounted 5’ rotary mower ....................$2,500 Brandt 5000 EX grain vac, Good Condition ..............$12,900 Artsway 240B, 20’ shredder ........................................$3,250 Artsway 180B shredder ..............................................$4,950 ‘12 Peck 8x61 PTO auger ............................................$3,950 M&W 4800, 500 bu. cart, scale ..................................$9,950 Killbros 500 wagon, brakes, lights ..............................$4,950

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Brent 540 wagon, fenders, brakes, lights ....................$9,950 EZ Trail 400 wagon......................................................$3,450 Parker 737 grain cart ................................................$17,500 Parker 450 grain cart ..................................................$4,950 Westendorf WL-21 loader, AC 170 mtg.......................$2,950 Feterl 8x60 EMM auger ..............................................$1,450 Pottinger Eurotop 771A rotary rake, 24’......................$8,950

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White 9202, 12R30 ..................................................$53,500 White 9222, 12R30 ..................................................$57,500 White 9523, 12R30 / 23R15 CFS ............................$119,500 White 9524-22, 24R22 CFS ....................................$137,500 White 9812, 12R30 CFS ............................................$89,500 White 8816, 16R30 CFS ............................................$89,500 White 9816, 16R30 CFS ..........................................$109,500 White 8824, 24R30 CFS ..........................................$125,000 White 8824, CFS........................................................$99,500 White 9824, 24R30 CFS ..........................................$159,500 Brandt 5200 EX, Demo..............................................$18,500 Brandt 7500 HP, Demo ..............................................$24,900 Brandt 1535 LP, belt conveyor ..................................$13,900 Wilrich QX2, 45’ field cult. ........................................$69,500 Sunflower 1435, 29’ disc ..........................................$44,500

JUST IN

JD 2210, 35’ field cult. ..............................................$34,500 Challenger MT765B, 1900 hrs.................................$149,500 JD 2700, 7x30 disc ripper ........................................$13,900 ‘92 Gleaner R-42, 1262 hrs. ......................................$32,500 ‘06 White 8202, 12R30, 3 bu. ..................................$27,500 Feterl 10x66, top drive, PTO........................................$1,950 CIH 4300, 30’ field cult. ..............................................$9,950 White 449, 9 bottom pull-type plow............................$6,950 Agco-Allis 9690, FWA................................................$29,500 Kewanee 1020, 21’ disc ..............................................$1,950 ‘79 Gleaner N5, 1570 hrs. ..........................................$3,950 DMI 527 ......................................................................$7,950

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‘12 JD 9560RT, 960 Hrs., Ext. Power Guard Warranty ..$314,900

‘13 JD 4630, 950 Hrs., 600 Gal., 80’ Boom ................................$139,900

‘12 JD 4940, 982 Hrs., 120’ Boom ................................................$239,900

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‘11 JD 4930, 1725 Hrs., 120’ Boom on 20” ....Was $215,000 NOW $189,900

‘12 JD 4730, 1316 Hrs., 100’ Boom........................$179,900

SPRAYERS

SPRAYER LE A SE PAYMENTS ...AS LO W AS: $19,925 $22,935 $29,997

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(OW) ‘14 JD 4940, 52 hrs., 120’ boom ......................$329,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 4940, 405 hrs., dry box ........................$274,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 4940, 1067 hrs., 120’ boom ..................$259,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 387 hrs., 120’ boom ....................$248,900 (B) ‘12 JD 4940, 768 hrs., 120 boom ........................$239,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4940, 982 hrs., 120’ boom ....................$239,900 (N) ‘13 JD 4830, 384 hrs., 90’ boom ........................$234,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 4830, 552 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$229,900 (OW) ‘13 CIH 4530, 568 hrs., dry box ......................$229,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4940, 1680 hrs., 90’ boom ....................$209,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 744 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$199,900 (B) ‘11 JD 4930, 1215 hrs., 120’ boom......................$199,900 (N) ‘11 JD 4930, 1725 hrs., 120’ boom ....................$189,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 4930, 1720 hrs., 120’ boom ..................$189,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 4730, 888 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$189,900 (OW) ‘10 JD 4830, 637 hrs., 100’ boom ....................$184,900 (N) ‘13 JD 4730, 182 hrs., 80’ boom ........................$179,900 (OW) ‘12 Ag-Chem RG1100, 90’ boom ....................$179,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 1316 hrs., 100’ boom ..................$179,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 4830, 1815 hrs., 90’ boom ....................$169,900 (OW) ‘10 JD 4830, 2050 hrs., 100’ boom ..................$159,900 (OW) ‘10 JD 4730, 2050 hrs., 90’ boom ....................$144,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 4630, 950 hrs., 80’ boom ......................$139,900 (H) ‘07 JD 4720, 1580 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$125,000 (OW) ‘05 JD 4720, 2400 hrs., 90’ boom ..................$109,900

PLANTERS/SEEDERS (N) ‘12 JD 1770NT, 24R30”, liq. fert. ........................$149,900 (B) ‘07 JD DB40, 24R20”, “Tracks” ..................$139,900 (H) ‘13 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ..............................$119,900 (OW) ‘15 JD DB60, 36R20”, tracks............................$282,500 (OW) ‘12 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30”, liq. fert. ............$109,900 (B) ‘12 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30”, liq. fert.................$109,900 (H) ‘09 JD 1770NT, CCS, 24R30”, liq. fert...................$99,900 (N) ‘10 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ................................$97,000

‘12 JD 4830, 744 Hrs., 90’ Boom ........Was $236,500 NOW $199,900

~ 24 MONTH WAIVER ~

Followed By: 3.25% Interest on all Used Planters (OS) ‘10 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ..............................$89,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ............................$89,900 (N) ‘10 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ................................$89,900 (N) ‘07 White 8524, CCS, 24R30”, liq. fert. ................$88,900 (OS) ‘09 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30”, liq. fert. ..............$84,900 (OS) ‘07 JD 1770NT, CCS, 24R30” ..............................$79,900 (OS) ‘08 JD 1790, CCS, 23R15” ..................................$79,900 (N) ‘09 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16R30” ................................$79,900 (OS) ‘05 JD 1770NT, CCS, 24R30” ..............................$69,900 (B) ‘05 CIH 1200, 31R15” ............................................$55,900

HAY EQUIPMENT (N) ‘13 JD 569, round baler, surface wrap ..................$39,500 (B) ‘11 JD 568, round baler, 4500 bales ......................$36,500 (B) ‘13 JD 569, Silage Special......................................$35,900 (OS) JD 568, round baler, 8600 bales ..........................$29,900 (OW) ‘10 JD 568, round baler, surface wrap ..............$26,900 (OS) ‘10 MH BR7090, surface wrap ............................$24,000 (OS) ‘05 JD 457, surface wrap ....................................$15,900 (B) ‘09 Hesston 3312 MoCo ........................................$14,900 (OW) ‘96 JD 535, surface wrap....................................$14,900 (B) ‘01 JD 567, round baler, surface wrap ..................$13,900 (B) ‘13 JD 275, 9’ disc mower ......................................$8,750 (B) ‘99 NH 499, 12’ MoCo ..............................................$8,250

COMBINES (B) ‘14 JD S680, 264 sep. hrs., Loaded ....................$359,900 (OW) ‘14 JD S680, 370 sep. hrs., duals ....................$339,900 (H) ‘14 JD S680, 278 sep. hrs., Ext. Warranty ..........$339,900 (B) ‘13 JD S680, 338 sep. hrs., PRWD ......................$319,900 (N) ‘14 JD S670, 215 sep. hrs. ..................................$319,900 (OS) ‘14 JD S670, 270 sep. hrs., duals ....................$309,900 (N) ‘14 JD S660, 159 sep. hrs., Ext. Warranty ..........$289,900 (OS) ‘14 JD S660, 162 sep. hrs., Ext. PT Warranty ..$289,500 (OW) ‘12 JD S660, 145 sep. hrs., Ext. Warranty ......$279,900 (H) ‘13 JD S670, 374 sep. hrs. ..................................$278,900 (OS) ‘13 JD S660, 363 sep. hrs., Ext. Warranty ........$269,900 (N) ‘12 JD S660, 292 sep. hrs., duals ........................$259,900 (OW) ‘12 JD S670, 475 sep. hrs. ..............................$254,900 (H) ‘11 JD 9870, 947 sep. hrs., PRWD ......................$239,900 (N) ‘01 JD 9670, 491 sep. hrs., duals ........................$225,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 9770, 758 sep. hrs., PRWD ..................$219,900 (B) ‘10 JD 9670, 732 sep. hrs., PRWD ......................$219,900 (OS) ‘11 JD 9570, 521 sep. hrs. ................................$199,950 (B) ‘09 JD 9770, 856 sep. hrs., PRWD ......................$189,900 (OS) ‘08 JD 9570, 571 sep. hrs., duals ....................$182,900 (OW) ‘09 JD 9770, 1173 sep. hrs., duals ..................$179,900 (H) ‘08 JD 9570, 940 sep. hrs., duals ........................$162,900 (N) ‘08 JD 9570, 775 sep. hrs., singles ....................$159,900 (H) ‘11 JD 9770, 1978 sep. hrs., duals ......................$156,900 (H) ‘08 JD 9570, 984 sep. hrs., duals ........................$154,900 (H) ‘07 JD 9660, 1364 sep. hrs. ................................$139,900 (B) ‘04 JD 9760, 1365 sep. hrs., PRWD ....................$134,900 (H) ‘05 JD 9860, 2034 sep. hrs., PRWD ....................$132,500 (OS) ‘06 JD 9660, 1509 sep. hrs., duals ..................$129,900 (OW) ‘07 JD 9760, 1815 sep. hrs., duals ..................$125,900 (H) ‘05 JD 9660, 1792 sep. hrs., duals ......................$119,900 (N) ‘05 JD 9560STS, 1454 sep. hrs., duals ..............$119,500 (OW) ‘06 CAT 580R, 2100 sep. hrs., duals ..................$99,900 (H) ‘04 JD 9760, 1962 hrs., duals ................................$98,900 (N) ‘03 JD 9550, 1444 sep. hrs., walker ......................$89,900 (OS) ‘03 JD 9450, 1734 sep. hrs., walker ....................$88,500 (H) ‘02 JD 9550, 1652 sep. hrs., walker ......................$84,900 (OW) ‘01 JD 9550, 1857 sep. hrs., walker ..................$79,900

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

(OW) ‘14 JD 8370R, IVT, ILS, Rental Return ............$292,900 (B) ‘14 JD 8345R, 353 hrs., IVT, ILS ..........................$279,900 (B) ‘11 JD 8360R, 350 hrs., IVT, ILS ..........................$269,900 (H) ‘14 JD 8320R, 355 hrs., IVT, ILS ..........................$268,900 ‘14 JD 6115M, 92 Hrs., Power Quad, (OW) ‘14 JD 8320R, 371 hrs., IVT, ILS ......................$267,900 Warr.....Was $81,000 NOW $74,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 8320R, 377 hrs., PS, ILS ......................$255,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 8320R, 361 hrs., PS, ILS ......................$255,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 8320R, PS, ILS, Rental Return ............$253,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 8310R, 412 hrs., PS, Ext. Warranty......$244,900 (OS) ‘13 JD 8310R......................................................$239,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 8295R, 340 hrs., PS, ILS ......................$234,900 (H) ‘14 JD 8295R, MFWD, PS, Rental Return ..........$221,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 8310R, 916 hrs., PS, Ext. Warranty......$217,900 (N) ‘14 JD 8260R, 274 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warranty ........$210,000 (OW) ‘13 JD 8260R, 372 hrs., PS, Ext. Warranty......$202,900 (N) ‘14 JD 8235R, 134 hrs., PS, Ext. Warranty ........$186,500 (OW) ‘11 JD 8235R, 949 hrs., PS ..............................$179,900 (OS) ‘12 JD 7260R, 1000 hrs., IVT ............................$174,900 ‘11 JD 8130RT, 1886 Hrs., PS, 30” Tracks, Leather ........$214,500 (OS) ‘11 JD 8235R, 855 hrs., PS ..............................$169,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 8235R, 950 hrs., PS, front duals ..........$169,900

(H) Holland, MN

(B) ‘10 JD 8225R, 473 hrs., PS ..................................$169,900 (OS) ‘13 JD 7200R, 200 hrs., IVT ..............................$169,900 (OS) ‘13 JD 7215R, 641 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warranty ......$169,500 (B) ‘09 JD 7930, 1078 hrs., IVT ..................................$149,900 (H) ‘13 JD 6170R, 568 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warranty ........$142,900 (B) ‘14 JD 6150R, 397 hrs., IVT ................................$138,900 (B) ‘14 JD 6150R, 621 hrs., IVT, duals ......................$132,900 (B) ‘14 JD 6150R, 639 hrs., auto quad......................$129,900 (B) ‘14 JD 6150R, 390 hrs., auto quad......................$126,900 (H) ‘06 JD 8130R, 4742 hrs., 540/1000 PTO ............$112,500 (OS) ‘13 JD 6125R, 111 hrs., IVT ..............................$108,900 (N) ‘14 JD 6115M, 93 hrs., PQ ....................................$74,900 (B) ‘04 JD 7820, 2WD, 4448 hrs., PQ ..........................$74,900 (H) ‘05 CIH MXU135, 1875 hrs., loader ......................$66,950 (B) ‘09 JD 5105M, 1600 hrs., loader............................$59,900 (N) ‘93 JD 7800, 4600 hrs., 2WD, loader ....................$56,500 (B) ‘78 IH 1486, 7400 hrs. ............................................$11,900 (B) ‘80 White 2-85, 6904 hrs., Recent OH ....................$8,595 (H) ‘75 IH 1066, 3166 hrs. ..............................................$8,500

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(N) ‘14 JD 9560R, 250 hrs., Ext. Warranty ................$339,900 (B) ‘14 JD 9560R, 456 hrs., Rental Return................$334,900 (B) ‘14 JD 9560R, 419 hrs., 800/38’s ........................$329,900 (OS) ‘13 JD 9560R, 250 hrs. ......................................$324,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 9510R, 573 hrs., Ext. Warranty ............$299,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 9460R, 513 hrs., PTO, Ext. Warranty ..$289,900 (N) ‘14 JD 9460R, 349 hrs., Ext. Warranty ................$284,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 9560R, 887 hrs., Ext. Warranty ............$279,900 ‘14 JD 9460R, 513 Hrs., PTO!, (B) ‘12 JD 9560R, 920 hrs., Ext. Warranty ................$279,900 Ext. Warranty ..................$289,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9510R, 608 hrs., Ext. Warranty............$279,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9510R, 526 hrs. ....................................$279,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9410R, 571 hrs., PTO............................$259,900 (OW) ‘10 JD 9630, 1360 hrs., 800/38’s......................$234,900 (B) ‘11 JD 9530, 1260 hrs., 800/70R38’s ..................$225,900 (B) ‘11 JD 9330, 617 hrs., 620/70T42’s ....................$219,900 (B) ‘10 JD 9630, 2138 hrs. ........................................$212,900 (H) ‘09 JD 9530, 2751 hrs., 800/38’s ........................$199,900 (N) ‘09 JD 9330, 2050 hrs., PTO ................................$189,900 (OW) ‘07 JD 9620 3890 hrs., PS ................................$169,900 (B) ‘97 JD 9200, 4722 hrs., 710/38’s............................$79,900 (OW) ‘98 JD 9400, 5128 hrs., 710/70R38’s ................$89,900 (OW) ‘97 JD 9400, 7138 hrs., 710/70R38’s ................$79,900 ‘06 JD 8130, 4742 Hrs., PS, Track Tractors 540/1000 PTO ..................$112,500 (N) ‘14 JD 9560RT, 300 hrs. ......................................$354,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 9560RT, 173 hrs., Ext. PT Warranty ....$354,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 9460RT, 358 hrs., leather......................$319,900 (H) ‘12 JD 9560RT, 950 hrs., PS ................................$314,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9460RT, 739 hrs., leather......................$294,900 (OW) ‘14 JD 8335RT, 567 hrs., IVT, 18” tracks ........$269,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 9630T, 1544 hrs.....................................$249,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 8310RT, 430 hrs., IVT, 18” tracks ........$249,900 (B) ‘97 JD 9630T, 1431 hrs. ......................................$249,900 (N) ‘10 JD 9630T, 1765 hrs., leather ..........................$246,000 (OW) ‘12 JD 8335RT, 1202 hrs., IVT, 18” tracks ......$245,900 (B) ‘10 JD 9630T, 1907 hrs. ......................................$244,900 (OW) ‘09 JD 9630T, 1737 hrs.....................................$239,900 ‘12 JD 8335RT, 1647 Hrs., 25” Tracks ........................$235,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 8335RT, 1157 hrs., IVT, 25” tracks ......$235,900 (B) ‘11 JD 8310RT, 1883 hrs., PS, 25” tracks ..........$214,500 (OW) ‘10 CIH Quad Track 535, 4100 hrs. ................$209,900 (N) ‘04 JD 9520T, 3268 hrs. ......................................$157,000 (H) ‘06 JD 9520T, 3874 hrs. ......................................$149,900 (H) ‘05 JD 9620T, 3014 hrs. ......................................$134,900 (OW) ‘00 JD 8410T, 4140 hrs., 25” tracks ..................$86,900 (OW) ‘99 JD 8400T, 5958 hrs., 30” tracks ..................$56,900

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LARGE SELECTION OF WHEEL RAKES IN-STOCK

CIH 8950 Magnum, FWA, 4900 hrs. ............................................................$74,000 CIH 8920 Magnum, FWA, 5000 hrs. ............................................................$69,000 CIH 7230, FWA, 3500 hrs. ............................................................................$75,000 CIH 7140, FWA, 3975 hrs. ............................................................................$62,000 CIH 7120, FWA, 5000 hrs., Sharp! ................................................................$57,000 CIH 7110, 2WD, 6800 hrs., 14.9-46 tires ......................................................$36,000 CIH 5240 Max, 2WD, 3138 hrs. ....................................................................$38,000 CIH 5240 Max, FWA, 6600 hrs. ....................................................................$39,500 CIH 5488, FWA, 18.4-42, 9600 hrs., Nice ....................................................$36,000 IH 1256, New Clutch, New Paint - Recent Head Job, Nice ........................$17,500 IH 1566, 2WD, dual PTO, 6800 hrs., Nice ....................................................$17,000 IH 826 w/cab, New Motor ..............................................................................$16,500 IH 766 w/cab ..................................................................................................$10,500 CIH 4800, 24’ field cultivator ..........................................................................$9,500 CIH 4800, 26’ field cultivator ..........................................................................$9,500 CIH 3950, 25’ cushion gang disk ..................................................................$23,000 JD 980, 26’ field cultivator ............................................................................$17,500 CIH 527B ripper..............................................................................................$20,500 CIH 530B, w/lead shank, cushing & disk gang ............................................$23,000 DMI 530C, w/lead shank, Nice......................................................................$25,000 DMI 530B ........................................................................................................$21,000 DMI 527B ........................................................................................................$17,500 DMI Tigermate, 18’........................................................................................$13,000 CIH 496, 24’ ....................................................................................................$16,500 White disk chisel, 14- & 12- & 9-shank............................................................$9,500 CIH 6750, 6-shank w/lead shank, w/hyd. lever............................................$16,500 CIH 3950, 25’ cushion gang disk w/mulcher ..............................................$22,000 CIH Tigermate II, 26’ ....................................................................................$26,000 DMI Tigermate II, 26’ ....................................................................................$22,000 Artsway 5165 grinder, 1000 PTO..................................................................$21,500 NH 355 grinder, w/scale ................................................................................$17,000 NH 355 grinder, w/scale ..................................................................................$8,500 Roto Grind 760 tub grinder ..........................................................................$10,500 J&M 385 box ....................................................................................................$5,500 J&M 385 box, New ..........................................................................................$8,000 (2) Demco 365 boxes, 0New..........................................................................Coming (6) Demco 365 boxes ..............................................................From $4,500-$6,500 (4) Demco 450 box, Red & Black, Green & Black..........................................$9,500 New Demco 365 box ......................................................................................$7,700 Demco 550 box..............................................................................................$12,500 Sitrex QR 12 rake, 1-year old..........................................................................$6,500 NH BR7070 baler ..........................................................................................$26,000 NH 60 blower, Nice ..........................................................................................$4,000

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GREENWALD FARM CENTER Greenwald, MN • 320-987-3177 14 miles So. of Sauk Centre

USED TRACTORS

NEW NH T9.505, 4WD................................CALL NEW NH T7.200, FWA ................................CALL NEW Massey 4610, FWA, w/loader ..........CALL NEW Versatile 450, 4WD ............................CALL NEW Versatile 310, FWA ............................CALL ‘12 NH T9.560, 4WD............................$210,000 NH TD80 w/loader ................................$36,500 NH TV6070 bi-directional......................$84,000 Versatile 895, 4WD ................................$18,000 ‘12 Cat MT945C, 480 hrs. ..................$257,000

TILLAGE

Sunflower 4630, 11-shank, Demo ............CALL Sunflower 4412-07, 7-shank ................$26,000 Sunflower 4412-05, 5-shank ................$25,000 Sunflower 4233-19 w/3-bar harrow ..........CALL Wilrich 957, 7-shank..............................$16,000 Wilrich 513, 5-shank, Demo ......................CALL ‘09 Wilrich QX2, 55.5’ w/basket ..........$48,500 ‘12 JD 3710, 10 bottom ........................$48,000 ‘08 JD 3710, 10 bottom ........................$30,000 CIH 4900, 46.5’ ........................................$7,500 ‘08 JD 2210, 44.5’ w/3-bar....................$35,500

COMBINES

NEW Fantini Chopping CH ........................CALL Fantini Pre-Owned 8-30 Chopping CH ....CALL ‘10 Gleaner R66, Loaded....................$200,000 ‘10 Gleaner R76, Loaded....................$210,000 ‘01 Gleaner R72, Just Thru Shop ........$95,000 ‘03 Gleaner R65 ..................................$115,000 ‘90 Gleaner R60 w/duals ......................$18,000 ‘96 Gleaner R62 w/CDF rotor, exc. ......$58,000

HAY TOOLS

New Hesston & NH Hay Tools On Hand

MISCELLANEOUS

NEW Salford RTS Units..............................CALL NEW Salford Plows ....................................CALL NEW Unverferth Seed Tenders ..................CALL NEW Westfield Augers ..............................CALL NEW Rem 2700 Vac ..................................CALL NEW Hardi Sprayers ..................................CALL NEW Riteway Rollers ................................CALL NEW Lorenz Snowblowers ........................CALL NEW Batco Conveyors ..............................CALL NEW Brent Wagons & Grain Carts ............CALL NEW E-Z Trail Seed Wagons ....................CALL SKIDSTEERS NEW Rock Buckets & Pallet Forks............CALL NEW NH Skidsteers – On Hand ................CALL REM 2700, Rental ......................................CALL ‘11 NH 225 h/a, Loaded ............................CALL Unverferth 8000 Grain Cart ........................CALL Kinze 1050 w/duals ....................................CALL PLANTERS Pre-owned Snowblowers, 7’-9’ ................CALL NEW White Planters ..................................CALL Pre-owned Sprayers ..................................CALL ‘11 White 8516 CFS, Loaded................$92,000 White 6122, 12-30 ................................$14,900 White 6100, 12-30 w/twin row ..............$15,000 ‘09 JD 1790, 24-20” w/liq. Esets 20-20$92,000 JD 1780, 24-20, 3 bus., res 20-20 ........$38,500

SPRING SPECIALS – On All Equipment –

and “Low Rate Financing Available”

SMITHS MILL IMPLEMENT Hwy. 14, 3 miles West of Janesville, MN

Phone (507) 234-5191 or (507) 625-8649 Mon. - Fri. 7:30-5:00, Sat. 7:30-Noon www.smithsmillimp.com

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O PPORTUNITIES Three-Year ‘Walk Away’ Leases

All These Tractors Have FULL PRO 700 AUTO GUIDANCE

Quadtrac Roller Wheel and Idler Wheel Hub Oil Change

Call us and find out how we can tailor a lease to your needs!

• 2015 Steiger 580 Quad • 300 hrs./yr.

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‘12 CIH Steiger 600Q, 1155 hrs., Full auto steer, Luxury cab, big hyd. pump ..................................$269,900

• As low as $1,452.95 parts and labor • Minimize Downtime!

• Be ready for the upcoming season

‘05 CIH MX255, 1885 hrs., Full auto steer, 380R50 tires ..............................................$99,900

‘14 CIH Steiger 550, 288 hrs., PTO, Luxury cab, Full Pro 700 auto steer ............................................$277,900

• Includes:

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• Roller wheel & idler wheel cap removal • Visual inspection of bearings, seals, wheels, hubs and shafts • Reinstall caps with new O rings and fill with 50W synthetic lubricant • We can install Clear View Caps for an additional $442.00 Note: Additional parts and labor may be required if any problems are found as a result of the visual inspection.

‘92 CIH Magnum 7130, 4267 hrs., 380R46 tires..........................$59,900

$174,500

‘12 CIH Magnum 235, 325 hrs., Luxury cab, auto steer ready ............................................$139,900

‘12 C-IH 3330

605 hrs., 90’ boom, standard spray, active suspension

RENT THIS SPRAYER! SPRAYER! $100 Per Hour For 150 Hours

Call For Details

‘12 CIH Magnum 290, 674 hrs., Luxury cab, Full Pro 700 auto steer, high capacity hyd...............$178,500

USED COMBINES Interest Waiver Available Thru Case Credit* • Call For Details – 2010 & NEWER MODELS QUALIFY FOR 12 MONTH PT WARRANTY – ‘13 C-IH 7230, 380 eng. hrs. ..................................................................................................................................................$239,900 ‘10 C-IH 7120, 1504 eng./1149 sep. hrs., duals, HID lights ..................................................................................................$159,500

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COMBINE PLATFORMS & HEADS

C-IH 2608, 8R30” chopping cornhead ..............................................................................................................................$39,900 Geringhoff, 8R chopping cornhead ....................................................................................................................................$59,900 CIH 4408, 8R chopping cornhead ......................................................................................................................................$66,900 C-IH 3408, 8R30” cornhead ................................................................................................................................................$44,900 C-IH 3408, 8R30” cornhead ................................................................................................................................................$31,000 C-IH 2208, 8R30” ................................................................................................................................................................$28,500 C-IH 2208, 8R30” ................................................................................................................................................................$24,500 C-IH 3162, 35’ flex draper platform....................................................................................................................................$66,900 C-IH 3020, 35’ w/in-cab cutter bar suspension ................................................................................................................$37,500 C-IH 2020, 35’ platform ......................................................................................................................................................$28,000 C-IH 2020, 35’ platform w/Crary air reel ............................................................................................................................$28,000 C-IH 2020, 25’ platform w/Crary air reel ............................................................................................................................$26,800 C-IH 1020, 30’, 3” knife, rock guard ..................................................................................................................................$10,900 C-IH 1020, 30’, 3” knife, rock guard ..................................................................................................................................$13,900 C-IH 1020, 30’, 3” knife, rock guard ....................................................................................................................................$9,900 C-IH 1020, 30’, 3” knife ........................................................................................................................................................$7,500

Call TODAY and make an appointment!

USED 4WD TRACTORS

Interest Waiver or Low Rates Available* • Call For Details ‘14 C-IH Steiger 620Q, 224 hrs., Lux. cab, HID lites, big hyd. pump, Full Pro 700 auto guide, PTO, COMING IN AFTER THE SEASON ....................................................................................................................................$379,900 ‘12 C-IH Steiger 600Q, 1155 hrs., Lux. cab, HID lites, Full Pro 700 auto guide, Very Nice Tractor ..............................$279,500 ‘14 C-IH Steiger 580Q, 932 hrs., Lux. cab, HID lites, auto guide ready ..........................................................................$289,900 ‘14 C-IH Steiger 550, 289 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, 710/70R42 duals, PTO, high cap. hyd. ................................................$277,900 ‘12 C-IH Steiger 500Q, 964 hrs., Lux. cab, big hyd. pump, HID lites, Full auto guide ..................................................$249,900 ‘13 C-IH Steiger 500, 445 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, 710/70R42 tires, PTO, HID lites, Full Pro 700 auto steer....................$249,900 ‘14 C-IH Steiger 350RCQ, Row Crop Quad, 870 hrs., PTO, 16” tracks, auto guide ready ............................................$209,900 ‘96 C-IH 9380, 20.8x42 duals, powershift, 9,999 hrs., PTO ................................................................................................JUST IN Steiger Tiger, 525 hp., Cummins eng., Allison auto trans., Like New 520/85R42 triples ..................................................$89,000

STX and STEIGER PTO, TOW CABLE & 3 PT. KITS ON HAND!!!

USED 2WD TRACTORS Interest Free • Call For Details

‘14 C-IH Magnum 315, Lux. susp. cab, susp. front axle, auto steer ready, high cap. hyd. pump, 360 HID lites..........$199,900 ‘12 C-IH Magnum 290, 674 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, 360 HID lites, 480/50 tires, front & rear duals, high cap. hyd. pump, Full Pro 700 auto steer ......................................................................................................................................................$178,500 ‘13 C-IH Magnum 260, 533 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, auto steer ready, HD drawbar, high cap. hyd. pump, 360 HID lites $156,500 ‘12 C-IH Magnum 235, 325 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, auto steer ready, HD drawbar, high cap. hyd. pump, 360 HID lites $139,900 ‘05 C-IH MX255, 1800 hrs., Full Pro600 auto steer, front & rear duals ..............................................................................$99,900 ‘03 C-IH MX255, 3135 hrs., rear duals..................................................................................................................................$84,000 ‘92 C-IH 7130, 4267 hrs., MFD, 3 hyd. remotes, radar ........................................................................................................$59,900 ‘14 C-IH Puma 160, MFD, powershift, cab, C-IH 765 loader ........................................................................................COMING IN ‘14 C-IH Puma 145, MFD, powershift, cab, C-IH 765 loader............................................................................................$109,900 ‘12 C-IH Puma 185, 705 hrs., MFD, CVT trans., duals, C-IH loader ................................................................................$139,900

USED SPRAYERS

‘12 C-IH 3330, 605 hrs., 90’ boom, standard spray, active suspension ..........................................................................$174,500 Top Air T1200, 80’ boom, foamer, Ag Leader control ..........................................................................................................$25,000

LOW RATE FINANCING AVAILABLE thru

CNH Capital’s Commercial Revolving Account provides financial assistance for parts and service when you need it, keeping your equipment running as its best with the quality parts and service you’ve come to expect from Case IH. Contact your local dealer or visit www.cnhcapital.com today for details.

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“Where Farm and Family Meet”

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‘13 CIH Steiger 500, 445 hrs., PTO, Luxury cab, Full Pro 700 auto steer ............................................$249,900

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4WD & TRACK TRACTORS

‘12 JD 9410R, 675 hrs., 3 pt. hitch, 1000 PTO, 5 hyd., hi-flow, 480x50 tires & duals..$225,00 ‘12 JD 9560RT, 859 hrs., 1000 PTO, 36” tracks ........................................$249,000 ‘13 JD 8360RT, 402 hrs., 25” tracks, 4 hyd., hi-flow, 1000 PTO, 3 pt., front wgts. $215,000 ‘12 JD 9560R, 921 hrs., 800/70/38 duals ........................................................$232,000 ‘12 JD 9410, 1259 hrs., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., duals ................................................$190,000 ‘13 JD 9410R, 640 hrs., hi-flow, 1000 PTO, 5 hyds., 480x50” tires & duals ........$210,000 ‘13 JD 8360RT, 295 hrs., 25” tracks, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 5 hyd...............................$220,000 ‘97 JD 9200, 8239 hrs., 24-spd., 1000 PTO, 520x42” tires & duals, 3 hyd. ............$59,000 ‘12 CIH 400HD, 366 hrs., Luxury cab, hi-flow, 1000 PTO, 6 hyd., 480x50 tires & duals ........................................................$195,000 ‘02 CIH STX425, 12-spd. manual, 4 valves, 710x38 duals, 3465 hrs. ....................$99,000 ‘12 CIH 350HD Steiger, 1630 hrs., Luxury cab, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd. valves, big pump, 520x42” duals ................................................$145,000 ‘13 NH T9.615, 670 hrs., powershift, 800x38 duals, HID lights, w/complete auto steer ........................................................$205,000 ‘12 CIH 400HD, 318 hrs., 4 hyd., big pump, 520x46” tires & duals ......................$185,000 ‘05 CIH STX375, 6675 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 710x38 duals ......................................$89,000 ‘09 Challenger MT765C, 3363 hrs., 30” tracks, 3 pt., 1000 PTO ................................$120,000 ‘13 Cat 765D, 790 hrs., 25” tracks, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., front wgts. ..........$185,000 ‘09 Versatile 485, 1704 hrs., 12-spd., 4 hyd., 800x38 tires & duals ........................$145,000

‘10 CIH Magnum 275, 1385 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, 18.4x46 tires & duals, front duals ..........................$110,000 ‘13 CIH Magnum 260, 585 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, big pumps, 420x46 duals, Auto Steer ........................................$137,000 ‘12 CIH 315, MFWD, 481 hrs., Luxury cab, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, 480x50” rear tires & duals ....................................$155,000 ‘12 CIH 290, MFWD, 390 hrs., Luxury cab, 5 hyd., big pump, HID lights, front & rear duals, 480x50” rear tires ..................$155,000 ‘06 CIH 245, MFWD, 5100 hrs., 4 hyd. valves, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 14.9x46” tires & duals ..........................................................$75,000 ‘03 CIH MX210, MFWD, 5550 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd. valves, 380x46” tires & duals ..............................................$63,000

COMBINES

‘09 JD 9870, 1895 eng./1233 sep. hrs., Pro-drive, 5-spd. feederhouse, chopper, 520x42” tires & duals ......................$139,000 ‘08 JD 9770, 1380 eng./938 sep. hrs., chopper, Contour Master, 20.8x42 duals ........................................................$135,000 ‘09 JD 9570, 1496 eng./904 sep. hrs., Contour Master, chopper, 30.5x32 tires, Very Clean ........................................$128,000 ‘98 JD 9610, 3578 eng./2379 sep. hrs., chopper, bin ext., 20.8x42 duals ........$40,000 ‘02 JD 9750STS, 3359 eng./2271 sep. hrs., updated feederhouse to 60 Series heads, Contour Master, chopper, duals, $29,000 repairs in February..............................$65,000 ‘12 CIH 8230, 4WD, 969 eng./777 sep. hrs., well equipped, 520x42” tires & duals ........................................................$205,000 ‘11 CIH 8120, 934 eng./729 sep. hrs., Pro 600, well equipped, 520x42 tires & duals ............................................$180,000 ‘13 CIH 290 Magnum, 1249 hrs., Luxury ‘11 CIH 7120, 871 eng./732 sep. hrs., cab, 18-spd., powershift, 4 hyd., big pump, Pro 600, well equipped, 520x42” tires 480x50 duals & 480x34 front duals, Extended & duals ............................................$180,000 Warranty Until 02/05/17 or 4000 hrs.

‘09 CIH 7088, 1193 eng./895 sep. hrs., ........................................................$137,000 rock trap, chopper, lateral tilt feeder, ‘12 CIH 260 Magnum, 1784 hrs., 19-spd. power bin ext., 30.5x32 tires ............$139,000 powershift, suspended front axle, 4 hyd.

‘08 NH CR9060, 1782 eng./1332 sep. hrs., 1000 PTO, 480x50 tires & duals, also front 4x4, terrain tracer, chopper, rock trap, duals & wgts.....................................$115,000 620x42 duals ......................................$99,000 ‘10 JD 8270R, MFWD, 3888 hrs., powershift, ‘04 NH CR970, 3138 eng./2186 sep. hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 3 hyd., 18.4x46 duals tracker, chopper, 520x42” duals ........$68,000 ........................................................$110,000 ‘09 CIH 245 Magnum, 1785 hrs., Deluxe cab, 3 pt., 4 hyd., big pump, 540/1000 PTO, ‘05 Geringhoff Roto Disc 830, 8R30” ..$28,000 Trimble RTK auto steer system, 380x54” tires ‘07 CIH 2020, 35’ flex head ..................$12,500 & duals ..............................................$99,000 ‘05 JD 630, 30’ flex head......................$13,000 ‘14 JD 8285R, 1255 hrs., powershift, 4 hyd., ‘07 Geringhoff Roto Disc 600, 6R30” ..$29,500 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 480x50 duals, front wgts.

‘95 JD 893, 8R30” w/pixall rolls ..........$13,500 ........................................................$148,000 ‘13 JD 6190R, 585 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, IVT trans., 18.4x46 tires & duals......$118,000 ‘07 JD 512, 9-shank disc ripper ..........$19,500 ‘94 NH 6640SLE, MFWD, cab, air, 3 pt., w/loader & grapple ............................$27,000

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LARSON IMPLEMENTS 5 miles east of Cambridge, MN on Hwy. 95 763-689-1179

Look at our Web site for pictures & more listings www.larsonimplements.com

Feed Seed Hay

USED DELUX DRYERS

DELUX 10’ MODEL 2515, LP/NG, 1 PH, 300 BPH DELUX 15’ MODEL 7040, LP/NG, 3 PH, 700 BPH DELUX 20’ MODEL 6030, LP/NG, 3 PH, 600 BPH

USED DRYERS

KANSUN 1025 215, LP, 1 PH BEHLEN 380, 1 PH, LP, HEAT RECLAIM BEHLEN 700, 3 PH, LP, HEAT RECLAIM

USED AUGERS

12x72, SWING AWAY 10x62, SWING AWAY 8x62, PTO 8x62, PTO

We carry a full line of Behlen & Delux dryer parts; Mayrath and Hutch auger parts.

Large inventory of Welda sprockets, hubs, bearings, chains & pulleys

1409 Silver Street E. Mapleton, MN 56065 507-524-3726 massopelectric.com

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FOR SALE: 10 springing Limousin & Red Angus Bulls. Delivery avail. HamHolstein heifers, large & mond, WI. 715-821-3516 fancy quality. 715-746-2444 WANTED TO BUY! USED Registered Texas Longhorn breeding stock, cows, BULK MILK COOLER heifers or roping stock, top ALL SIZES 920-867-3048 blood lines. 507-235-3467 WANTED TO BUY: Dairy WANT TO BUY: Butcher heifers and cows. 320-235cows, bulls, fats & walkable 2664 cripples; also horses, sheep & goats. 320-235-2664 Cattle 056 Horse 057 BULLS – (2) long yearlings black, Simmental, Polled, FOR SALE: 5 mini mules good disposition, AI Sired $250/ea or $1,000 for all 5. by $50,000 Upgrade, most 715-760-2855 used bull in Simmental breed, $2,500 for choice. 45 Selling reproduction single horse Dr's buggy. Brown & Years of Simmental Breedtan, has brakes, like new ing. Riverside Simmental condition. Must see to apGerald Polzin Cokato 320preciate. Asking $2,500.

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THINK SPRING!! SEED TENDER SPECIALS!

* ’15 TruAg 2-Box Seed Tender, extended platform, New ................$11,750 *************** USED EQUIPMENT ***************

CIH 260 Magnum tractor, Loaded, Like New ......................• NOW: $139,500 ‘01 JD 1780 planter, 16/31 row, 3 bu. boxes, Seed Star mon. ......................................$27,500 JD 930, 30’ flex head ......$4,750 JD 510 ripper, 7-shank ....$9,500 IH 720 plow, 7-18” ............$5,500 CIH 3900, 30’ disk ..........$19,500 CIH 4700, 481⁄2’ field cult...$7,250 ‘15 USAGear 7’ backhoe..$5,960 Alloway-Woods 20’ stalk shredder, pull type ..........$7,500

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FOR SALE: 40 round bales FOR SALE OR LEASE of wheat straw, 5'x 5', plasREGISTERED BLACK tic twine $35/each; Also 1st ANGUS Bulls, 2 year old & nd & 2 crop Alfalfa baleage. yearlings; bred heifers, 218-564-4273 calving ease, club calves & balance performance. Al Livestock 054 sired. In herd improvement program. J.W. Riverview Angus Farm Glencoe, MN FOR SALE: Black polled 55336 Conklin Dealer 320registered purebred sim864-4625 mental Bulls. John Volz, Elmore, MN. 507-520-4381 FOR SALE OR LEASE: Purebred Registered Dairy 055 Charolais bulls, heifers, & cows. Great bloodlines, ex10 registered Jersey cows, 2 cellent performance, balmilking short horns, 2 Holanced EPD's, low birth stein heifers For Sale. Call weights. Delivery avail605-626-1889 able.

Laumann Charolais 12 - 4' Loyal gutter grates, Mayer, MN 612-490-2254 new. 12 Berg comfort stalls w/cups & water line, new. 4 FOR SALE: Polled Hereford sturdy built comfort stalls, Bulls, big stout yearlings new. 12 Krai Berg mats, Semen tested. Delivery new. (608)214-1859 available. Jones Farms, Le Sueur MN 507-317-5996 Custom Heifer raising available. All free stall raised FOR SALE: Purebred Black with TMR. $2.35/ day. Call Angus bulls, calf ease & Ben for more info. (715) good disposition. 320-598495-0481 3790

EZ Trail 860 grain cart, red ......................................$17,500 Unverferth 470 grain cart $6,500 J & M 350 bu. wagon ......$2,700 Westfield 1371 auger w/swing hopper walker, PTO ........$6,500 Hutch 8x60 swing hopper, Nice..................................$3,000 Hesston 1170 mower cond., swing tongue, 1 steel/1 rubber roll ......................• NOW: $4,950 ‘13 Maschio 12 wheel high capacity rake ..................$8,500 Woodford Ag bale racks, 10’x23’ ............................$2,195

Team of Halflinger mares, 18 years old, experienced driver, good home only, $1,400. 715-213-2142 Exotic Animals

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Registered Suri Alpacas For Sale. All colors/both males & females. Prices starting at $100. Riverview Ridge Alpacas. (715)834-3652 Sheep

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FOR SALE: 20 Registered Suffolk ewes, including tried ewes & yearling ewes, also, ewe & ram lambs.

Martens Suffolks 507-3801828 Jackson Hillside Farm for sale Suffolk & Suffolk cross yearling ewes, ewes & rams. Home of the 2014 Wisconsin State Fair wether ram. Scott 920-2294997 Goats

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69 Organic Alpine & Saanen Doelings born this spring, top genetics, from a herd of 250, including 80 yearlings, w/ an 11 lb bulk tank average. 507-875-2736

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FOR SALE: (2) 2 month old FOR SALE: '77 Case 1150B FOR SALE: '79 Chevrolet 400 KW generator, 540HP, 6" x 30' Moulten irrigation Loftness 8' snowblower, 3pt, pipe, 70 lengths. (715)4951000PTO, $2,000. 515-824Detroit engine, 1500 hrs, Crawler/Dozer, 105HP, runs male pups. Red Heeler & truck, box & hoist, single 0757 3656 built in '77. 320-522-1685 & operates good, asking Blue Heeler, $100/ea. 920axle. 507-720-6523 or 507-340$6,500. 507-360-9630 394-3408 2333 PARMA DRAINAGE WANT MORE READERS REINKE IRRIGATION Livestock Equip 075 Trucks & Trailers 084 FOR SALE: Ford Truck, PUMPS New pumps & TO SEE YOUR AD??

Sales & Service 1994, Tri-Axle, 20' box & parts on hand. Call Min- Expand your coverage area!

New & Used hoist. 507-720-6523 or 507FOR SALE: New steer FOR SALE: '75 Ford LN700, nesota's largest distributor For your irrigation needs The Land has teamed up 340-2333. feeders, calf & finisher single axle truck , 16' MidHJ Olson & Company 320888-830-7757 or 507-766-9590 with Farm News, and The sizes 1T to 8T cap. 920-948west box & hoist, new floor Miscellaneous 974-8990 Cell – 320-212-5336 Country Today so you can 090 3516 www.steerfeeder.com in box, very good condition, do just that! Place a classi$4,200. 507-354-3987 fied ad in The Land and Winpower Sales & Service One call does it all!

James Way belt bunk feeder, RANGER PUMP CO. Reliable Power Solutions have the option of placing it 56' long w/ motor. Fore- FOR SALE: 1974 IH 1950A With one phone call, you can Custom Manufacturer of Since 1925 PTO & automatin these papers as well. place your classified ad in most automatic head gate tandem grain truck, 18' box Water Lift Pumps ic Emergency Electric More readers = better reThe Land, Farm News, w/ squeeze shute. Behlem & tarp, gas engine, 5x3 for field drainage Generators. New & Used sults! Call The Land for AND The Country Today. crouting tub w/ palp cage. trans., 4 new tires in back, Sales & Service Rich Opsata-Distributor more information.

507-345Call The Land for more Loyal 9"x26' elevator on recent DOT & service, nice 507-984-2025 or 406-314-0334 800-343-9376 4523 • 800-657-4665 info @ 507-345-4523 • 800-657transport. 715-532-9904 running truck. $10,000.00. www.rangerpumpco.com 4665.

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FOR SALE: Yorkshire, Hampshire, Duroc & Hamp/Duroc boars, also gilts. Excellent selection.

Raised outside. Exc herd health. No PRSS. Delivery 1980 CAT Dozer D6D LGP avail. 320-568-2225 $22,000, low hrs, approx 50% under carriage, cab w/ heat. Excellent high horse power engine. Direct Drive.

Brush rake available. Good farm machine. 715-577-5780

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drive to Country Consignments north of Rose City, Minn., reveals barns in various stages of ruin. The grand old buildings always tug at you but there’s little to be done to save them from gravity’s pull. If you feel that way about old barns you will be delighted when you turn off of Douglas County Road 18 onto Cindy and John Haffner’s driveway.

The home place of this 500acre farm has a landscaped yard with large flowerbeds under massive oaks. At the driveway’s end is a large sparkling red barn with two towering silver cupolas, an attached milk house, and four cement stave silos.

Three silos have steel tops.

“The barn was built in 1931 and so was the cement topped silo,” Cindy says. “I don’t know how they got it up there.”

The barn is home to Country Consignments. It had been used for various livestock enterprises when Cindy and John began cleaning and repairing it in 2007. When she started, Cindy knew the barn had to be preserved but she

wasn’t sure what to use it for.

“About that time I had a case of the flu,” she said. “I was so sick I thought I’d die. Then I had a dream that I was selling things in the barn.”

From that dream was born Country Consignments. Inside the now re-wired and well-lit barn with the new level cement floor are the artfully-displayed products of 400 different consignors and craftspersons.

“I was a merchandise supervisor for a large retailer so I learned to display items by themes and colors,” Cindy said.

“All the clothing is sized, steamed, and hung on racks.”

Country Consignments has plenty of clothes and other things often found in consignment shops. There are books, appliances, cookware, games, jewelry, glassware, toys, and blankets, among other things. But there are other surprising things such as duct tape pens, Rose City BBQ products, fudge, quilting fabric, goat milk soap and even explosion photo boxes which are so cleverly made that you have to see them to understand them.

“I put 1,500 new products out during May and I’ve got more new things coming,” Cindy said.

In 2010 Cindy expanded the shop into the cathedral-like hayloft. She cleaned and varnished the tongue-and-groove floor and installed a new staircase and electric lighting.

You can find Country Consignments’ store and repurposed barn two miles north of Rose City. Look for them on Facebook or call (218) 738-5683 for more information. ❖

Country Consignments, Rose City, Minn.

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2015 Minnesota county fair schedule The following county fair information is courtesy of the Minnesota Federation of County Fairs’ website — www.mfcf.com — and is subject to change. Where available, information includes a fair’s dates, fairgrounds location, phone number, website, and carnival provider. Listings for Iowa’s county fairs are provided by the Association of Iowa Fairs — www.iowafairs.com — and can be found beginning on page 10F. Turn to pages 8F-9F to map your summer fun in The Land’s coverage area.

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Aitkin County Fair July 8-11 632 Minnesota Ave N, Aitkin 218-927-2465 www.aitkincountyfair.org Crescent City Amusements

It’s county fair time!

Summertime means it’s time for county fairs.

No matter where you live, you’re never too far from one of the many treasures to be found across Minnesota and Iowa.

The Land’s 15th Annual Fair-Goer’s Guide is your gateway to a summer of fun, taking in the best that your state — and your neighboring state — have to offer.

Anoka County Fair July 21-26 3200 St Francis Blvd, Anoka 763-427-4070 www.anokacountyfair.com Gopher State Expositions

Blue Earth County Fair July 30-Aug. 1 340 Fairgrounds St, Garden City (507) 546-3986 www.blueearthcountyfair.org Bouncy Rides

Cass County Fair — Pillager July 10-12 207 E Second St S, Pillager 218-746-3348 www.pillagerfair.com Northern Minnesota Amusements

Becker County Fair July 29-Aug. 1 Rossman Ave, Detroit Lakes 218-847-5587 www.beckercountyfair.tripod.com Amusement Attractions

Brown County Free Fair Aug. 12-16 1201 N State St, New Ulm 507-354-2223 www.browncountyfreefair.com Amusement Attractions

Cass County Fair — Pine River June 25-28 2195 First St N, Pine River www.thecasscountyfairmn.org All American Amusements

Beltrami County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 7223 Fairgrounds Rd NW, Bemidji 218-751-4106 www.beltramicountyfair.org Gopher State Expositions

Cannon Valley Fair July 1-4, 2015 800 N 9th St, Cannon Falls 507-263-3548 www.cannonvalleyfair.org Crescent City Amusements

Benton County Fair Aug. 4-9 1410 3rd Ave S, Sauk Rapids 320-253-5649 www.bentonfairmn.com Gopher State Expositions

Carlton County Fair Aug. 13-16 3839 Cty Rd 138, Barnum 218-389-6737 www.carltoncountyfair.com Stipe’s Shows

Big Stone County Fair July 9-12 220 Fair St, Clinton 320-3325-FAIR www.bscfair.org Cody Rides

Carver County Fair Aug. 5-9 501 West 3rd St, Waconia 952-442-2333 www.carvercountyfair.com Gold Star Amusements

Chippewa County Fair July 29-Aug 2 584 1st St, Montevideo 320-793-6727 www.chippewacofair.com Merriams Midway Chisago County Fair July 16-19 905 W 4th St, Rush City 320-358-0296 www.chisagocountyfair.org Magel Carnival Midways Clay County Fair July 9-12 102-124 6th St SE, Barnesville 218-354-2675 www.mnclaycountyfair.org Mighty Thomas Carnival

Clearwater County Fair Aug. 5-9 36283 Fairground Rd, Bagley 218-694-2780 Midway of Fun Shows Cook County Fair Cancelled until further notice.

E-mail ccfair@boreal.org for information.

Cottonwood County Fair Aug. 19-22 1300 8th Ave, Windom 507-831-6122 McDermott Carnival Crow Wing County Fair Aug. 4-8 2000 13th Street SE, Brainerd 218-829-6680 www.cwcfair@brainerd.com Todd Armstrong Shows/TAS Inc. Dakota County Fair Aug. 10-16 4008 220th ST W/PO Box 73, Farmington 651-463-8818 www.dakotacountyfair.org Midwest Rides Dodge County Fair July 15-19 62922 Hwy 57, Kasson 507-634-7736 www.dodgecountyfreefair.com Mad Jax Douglas County Fair Aug. 20-23 300 Fairgrounds Road, Alexandria 320-808-7443 www.dcmnfair.com Magel Carnival Midways Faribault County Fair July 21-25 235 Midway Rd, Blue Earth 507-520-6552 www.fairbaultcountyfair.com Midwest Rides

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Grant County Fair July 16-19 605 Vienna Ave, Herman 320-677-2284 www.grantcountyfairmn.com Cody Rides

Isanti County Fair July 22-26 3101 Hwy 95 NE, Cambridge 763-689-8487 www.isanticountyfair.com Amusement Attractions

Kandiyohi County Fair Aug. 5-8 907 7th St NW, Willmar 320-235-0886 www.kandifair.com Magel Carnival Midways

Freeborn County Fair Aug. 4-9 1031 Bridge Ave, Albert Lea 507-373-6965 www.freeborncountyfair.com Gold Star

Hennepin County Fair June 18-21 7205 County Road 101, Corcoran 763-420-4546 www.hennepincountyfair.com Gopher State Expositions

Itasca County Fair Aug. 19-23 1336 NE 3rd Ave, Grand Rapids 218-326-6470 www.itascacountyfair.org Gopher State Amusements

Kittson County Fair July 16-19 PO Box 605, Hallock (218) 843-3411 www.kittsoncountyfair.org Crescent City Amusements

Goodhue County Fair Aug. 11-16 44279 County 6 Blvd, Zumbrota 507-732-5001 www.goodhuecountyfair.com Merriams Midway

Houston County Fair Aug. 19-23 203 History Lane, Caledonia 507-725-3397 www.houstoncountyfair.com Midwest Rides

Jackson County Fair July 21-25 78748 550th Ave, Jackson 507-847-7223 www.jacksoncountyfairmn.com

Koochiching County Fair Aug. 7-9 PO Box 183, Northome 218-897-5205 www.koochichingcountyfair.org Rentertainment

Hubbard County Fair July 15-19 201 Fair Ave, Park Rapids 218-237-3247 Crescent City Amusements

Kanabec County Fair July 22-26 701 South Union St, Mora 320-679-3371 www.kanabecfair.org Magel’s Mighty Midway

136th NOBLES COUNTY FAIR August 12th -16th ~ FEATURED EVENTS ~

Wednesday, August 12th

• 11:00 a.m. – Dairy Show followed by the District show • 7:00 p.m. – Tractor Pull - in the Grandstand

Thursday, August 13th • • • • •

10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. – Senior Day 4:00 & 6:00 p.m. – Paul Bunyan Loggin’ Legends 5:00 & 7:00 p.m. – The Franny Farmer Show 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. – Boomer Nights 7:00 p.m. – 5th Annual MK 5K Run and Family Fun Walk

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Bean Bag 2 p.m.- 8 p.m. – Ecology bus Tournament 4:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. – The Mary Hall Show Thursday, Friday 5:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. – Mixed Nuts 7:00 p.m. – Tuff-N-Ruff Rodeo - in the Grandstand & Saturday

Friday, August 14th

Saturday, August 15th

Sunday, August 16th

• 1:30 p.m. – Kids Pedal Pull begins

Visit our website: noblescountyfair.com

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BEER GARDEN:

“Free” Entertainment Nightly Full Liquor Wed. - 8:30 pm - The Blue Ringers Thurs. - 8:30 pm - Chris Brooks & the Silver City Boys Fri. - 8:30 pm - Sell Out Stereo Sat. - 8:30 pm - So Big

July 15-19, 2015

“Free” Entertainment All Week Long!!!

• Antique Tractors on display daily • 9/11 Never Forget Traveling Memorial • Dr. Dusty’s Medicine Show • Theatre of Fools • Dream Weaver Comedy Hypnosis Show • I Saw It In MN - Chainsaw Artist

~ Many other fine performers & contests daily! ~

“Amusement Attractions”

Providing larger, more exciting rides for all ages!

20 Tickets: $30 - One Ride Per Ticket!

Available June 30 at HyVee & Waseca County Extension Office

For more information visit www.wasecacountyfair.org Fair Books will be delivered in the Waseca County Shopper.

Also available at local businesses, fair grounds, and online!

Free Entertainment All Weekend Long!!

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Kids Day - 2 Bikes will be given away • 9:00-Noon – Free Pancakes • 1:00 & 4:00 p.m. – Sunflower Puppets Beer Garden • 2:00 p.m. – Tri-State Beef Show Friday & • 2:00 p.m. - 4 p.m. – Zoo Express Saturday Nights • 2:00 & 5:00 p.m. – Karl Achilles • 3:00 & 6:00 p.m. – Don B • 7:00 p.m. – Endurance Race - in the Grandstand

Wed. - 6:30 pm - Free MN Minn-E-Rods Tractor Pull Thurs. - 7:30 pm - Great Frontier Bull Riding Mutton Bustin’ & Dress a Calf Competition Fri. - 7:00 pm - The Waseca Classic Demolition Derby Sat. - 6:00 pm - Enduro/Compact Car Auto Race Sun. - 1:00 pm - Waseca Mayhem

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2015 Minnesota county fair schedule

Lac Qui Parle County Fair Sept. 10-13 705 Fair St, Madison 320-598-3989 www.lqpfair.org McDermott Family Shows

Morrison County Fair June 19-21 PO Box 218, Motley 218-851-0883 www.motleyfair.com Northern Minnesota Amusements

Lake County Fair Aug. 20-23 1381 Fairground Rd, Two Harbors 218-269-4159 www.thelakecountyfair.com Todd Armstrong Shows

Morrison County Fair Aug. 13-16 15575 Hawthorn Rd, Little Falls 320-632-1040 www.morrisonfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Lake of the Woods County Fair July 15-18 5th St SW and 3rd St, Baudette 218-634-1437 www.lotwfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Mower County Free Fair Aug. 11-16 700 12th St SW, Austin 507-433-1868 www.mowercountyfair.com Gold Star Amusements

LeSueur County Fair Aug. 20-23 320 S Plut Ave, Le Center 507-357-6500 www.lesueurcountyfair.org Cody Rides

Murray County Fair Aug. 12-15 3048 Broadway Ave, Slayton 507-836-6303 www.murraycountyfair.com Midwest Rides

Lincoln County Fair July 30-Aug. 2 200 W Strong St, Tyler 507-247-5454 Midwest Rides

Mahnomen County Fair July 16-19 Minnesota 200 and Highway 59, Mahnomen www.mahnomencountyfair.com www.facebook.com/ MahnomenCountyFairgounds Todd Armstrong Shows

Lyon County Fair Aug. 5-9 2336 250th St, Marshall 507-476-2351 www.lyoncountyfair.com Merriams Midway

Marshall County Fair July 22-26 PO Box 176, Warren 218-745-4445 www.marshallcountyfair.org Todd Armstrong Shows Martin County Fair Aug. 17-23 1300 North Bixby Road, Fairmont 507-235-9576 www.theotherbigfair.com Family Fun Shows

DON’T MISS THE MARSHALL CO. FAIR IN WARREN! 108th Annual

Wednesday, July 22

6:00 P.M. KICK-OFF PARADE

Thursday, July 23

In The Grandstand BACK BEHIND THE BARN BOYS NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND “Where Farm and Family Meet”

Friday, July 24

Wednesday - Sunday

July 22 - 26

Check Out Our Web Site at www.marshallcountyfair.org For All Ticket Sales Locations • Fair Office: (218) 745-4445

In The Grandstand THE JETS FIREWORKS AT DUSK

Saturday, July 25

In The Grandstand RED RIVER PULLERS TRACTOR PULL, LENA, REDNECK RACING-BAJA STYLE

Sunday, July 26 In The Grandstand

JAYCEES COMPLETE DESTRUCTION

DEMOLITION DERBY

McLeod County Fair Aug. 19-23 840 Century Ave SW, Hutchinson 320-587-2499 www.mcleodcountyfair.com Amusement Attractions Meeker County Fair July 30-Aug. 2 1230 N Armstrong Ave, Litchfield 320-593-3247 www.meekerfair.com Cody Rides & Big Show Mille Lacs County Fair Aug. 6-9 1400 3rd St N, Princeton 763-389-3138 www.millelacscountyfair.com Stipe’s Carnival

Nicollet County Fair Aug. 5-9 400 W Union St, St. Peter 507-934-2684 www.nicolletcountyfair.com Cody Rides Nobles County Fair Aug. 12-16 1602 Stower Drive, Worthington 507-676-2755 www.noblescountyfair.com McDermott Shows

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July 21st-25th, 2015 • Preston, MN

- GRANDSTAND EVENTS TUES., JULY 21: — CHURCH NIGHT • 6:30 PM 4-H Judging WED., JULY 22: — 4-H NIGHT • 7:00 PM THURS., JULY 23: — FULL RODEO - TRIPLE B • 7:00 PM FRI., JULY 24: — FULL RODEO - TRIPLE B • 7:00 PM SAT., JULY 25: — DEMOLITION DERBY • 6:00 PM ✯ FREE NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT ~ UNDER THE BIG TENT ✯ www.fillmorecountyfair.com

2015 Minnesota county fair schedule Otter Tail County Fair—East July 23-26 445 4th Ave SE, Perham 218-346-2750 www.eotcountyfair.org Family Fun Shows

Pine County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 707 1st Ave NW, Pine City 320-629-3408 www.pinecountyfair.com MCM Shows

Pope County Fair Aug. 5-9, 2015 230 Minnesota Ave W, Glenwood 320-634-4855 www.popecountyfair.org Crescent City Amusements

Northern Minnesota District Fair July 9-12 901 Main St, Littlefork 218-278-6617 www.northernmndistrictfair.com www.facebook.com/ northernmndistrictfair Merriam’s Midway Shows

Otter Tail County Fair—West July 15-18 1812 Pebble Lake RD, Fergus Falls 218-736-0272 www.wotcountyfair.com Mighty Thomas Midway

Pipestone County Fair Aug. 5-8, 2015 10th Ave SE, Pipestone 507-825-5979 www.pipestonecountyfair.sites. pipestonepublishing.com Midwest Rides

Ramsey County Fair July 15-19 2020 White Bear Ave, Maplewood 651-777-6514 www.ramseycountyfair.com Gold Star Amusements

Olmsted County Fair July 27-Aug. 2 1403 3rd Ave SE, Rochester 507-367-2455 www.olmstedcountyfair.com Gold Star Amusements

Pennington County Fair July 15-19 524 Barzen Ave S, Thief River Falls 218-416-2550 www.penningtoncountyfair.com Todd Armstrong Shows

Polk County Fair July 8-12 34643 E Trinity Pt Rd, Fertile 218-779-7858 www.polkcountyfairfertilemn.com Todd Armstrong Shows

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Norman County Fair June 24-27 601 W Thorpe Ave, Ada 218-784-4984 www.normancountyfair.com Mighty Thomas Midway

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Red Lake County Fair June 26-28 Oklee 218-766-6459 https://goo.gl/SCDIFF Redwood County Fair July 8-12 201 N Dekalb St, Redwood Falls 507-627-2801 www.redwoodcountyfair.com Merriam’s Midway Shows

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FIREWORKS AT DUSK • EVENTS • WED., JULY 1• ~ ENTRY DAY – FREE ADMISSION ~ - 1:00 PM • CRESCENT CITY AMUSEMENTS OPEN - 7:00 PM • BATTLE OF THE BANDS - FREE EVENT THUR., JULY 2 - 6:30 PM • TRUCK AND TRACTOR PULL - 7:00 PM-Midnight • 9TH PLANET OUT & FIRE AT THE FALLS - NEW STAGE - FREE EVENT FRI., JULY 3 - 7:00 PM • DEMOLITION DERBY - 9:30 PM • LOST HIGHWAY - NEW STAGE - FREE EVENT SAT., JULY 4 - 11:30 AM • GRAND DAY PARADE - 2:00 PM • HARNESS HORSE RACING - 8:30 PM • HITCHVILLE - NEW STAGE - FREE EVENT Admission to the fair grounds is $4 per person daily with a season pass avail. for $8 Parking is FREE Grandstand event admission is $12 (or $5 for those 12 years & under) A Pit Pass is available for $20 Harness Racing admission is $10 (or $5 for those 12 years & under)

See Complete Schedule of Activities at: www.cannonvalleyfair.org

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2015 Minnesota county fair schedule

Renville County Fair Aug. 19-21 625 Elm Ave, Bird Island 320-365-3242 www.renvillecountyfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Roseau County Fair July 19-25 500 4th Ave NW, Roseau 218-463-3387 www.roseaucountyfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Sibley County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 801 West Chandler St, Arlington 507-964-5698 www.sibleycountyfair.com J and K Amusements

Stearns County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 1105 Ash St S, Sauk Centre 320-352-2482 www.stearnscountyfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Rice County Fair July 21-26 1814 NW 2nd Ave, Faribault 507-332-2470 www.ricecountyfair.net Gold Star Amusements

Scott County Fair July 22-26 7151 190th St W, Jordan 952-492-2436 www.scottcountyfair.com J & K Amusements

Steele County Free Fair Aug. 18-23 1525 South Cedar St, Owatonna 507-451-5305 www.scff.org Gold Star Amusements

Rock County Fair July 29-Aug. 1 S Freeman Ave, Luverne 507-449-FAIR www.rockcountyfair.org Midwest Rides

Sherburne County Fair July 16-19 13372 Business Center Drive, Elk River 763-441-3610 www.sherburnecountyfair.org Gopher State

South St. Louis County Fair (Proctor) July 8-12 800 N Boundry Ave, Duluth 218-628-2401 www.proctorduluthfair.com Midwest Carnival

155th FARIBAULT COUNTY FAIR A GIANT Gathering Under the Oaks!

Blue Earth, MN – July 21-25, 2015 www.faribaultcountyfair.com

~ GRANDSTAND EVENTS ~ ~ AROUND THE GROUNDS ~ TUESDAY, JULY 21 7:00 pm • United Pullers of MN WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 8:00 pm • Maiden Dixie Band THURSDAY, JULY 23 7:00 pm • T&C Rodeo FRIDAY, JULY 24 8:30 pm • Hairball SATURDAY, JULY 25 11:00 am • Antique Tractor Pull 7:30 pm • 50th Annual Demolition Derby FREE ENTERTAINMENT TENT Great Entertainment Each Day

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KIDS PEDAL PULL CALL ME MARTHA FLIP FLOP

Decorating Contest Decorating Contest

• DAILY CONTESTS •

Kids Coin Hunt Seed Spitting Contest Veggie Races Chocolate Recipe Contest Salsa Contest Minnow Races Cribbage Tournament

VETERANS PROGRAM 30TH ANNUAL

FJORD HORSE SHOW LLAMA SHOW REPTILE SHOW

BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT: www.faribaultcountyfair.com

St. Louis County Fair Aug. 12-16 1100 E 25th St, Hibbing 218-263-4256 www.stlofair.org Todd Armstrong Shows

Stevens County Fair Aug. 12-16 177 S County Rd 22, Morris 320-589-1062 www.scfair.net Family Fun Shows SW St. Louis County Fair Aug. 21-23 PO Box 604, Floodwood E-mail sslcfa@yahoo.com for information

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Winona County Fair July 8-12 506 West 6th St, St. Charles 507-932-3074 www.winonacountyfair.com Gopher State Amusements

Todd County Fair Aug. 13-17 9th St NE, Long Prairie 320-732-2739 www.toddcountyfair.com Crescent City Amusements

Wright County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 1010 1st St, Howard Lake 320-543-2111 www.wrightcountyfair.org Todd Armstrong Shows

Traverse County Fair Aug. 27-30 407 7th St S, Wheaton 320-808-6323 www.co.traverse.co.mn.us/ community/traverse-county-fair Midwest Rides

Yellow Medicine County Fair July 23-25 Fairgrounds Road, Canby 507-223-5852 www.ymcfair.org Waseca County Fair July 15-19 409 8th Ave NE, Waseca 507-835-8958 www.wasecacountyfair.org Amusement Attractions

Wadena County Fair June 25-28 400 Ash Ave NW, Wadena 218-631-7630 www.wadenacountyfair.com Midwest Rides

Washington County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 12300 40th St N, Lake Elmo (651) 436-6009 www.washingtoncountyfair.org Gold Star Amusements

Watonwan County Fair July 15-19 53 S 11th St, St. James 507-375-5515 www.stjameschamber ofcommerce.com J & K Concessions and Rides Wilkin County Fair Aug. 13-16 101 Nebraska Ave, Breckenridge 701-640-6644 www.wilkincountyfair.org Merriam’s Midway

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Swift County Fair Aug. 19-23 411 Meadow Lane, Appleton 320-815-6138 www.swiftcountyfair.org Midwest Rides

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Minnesota & Northern Iowa Festivals 2015 @ www.TheLandOnline.com — click “Special Sections”

Thursday, Aug. 20:

• Free Sweet Corn Feed - 5:00 pm • Amateur Talent Contest - 7:00 pm - Free

Friday, Aug. 21: • • • •

4-H Livestock Shows - 8:00 am-5:00 pm FFA Tractor Driving Contest - 1:00 pm Demolition Derby (Grandstand) - 7:00 pm Free Entertainment: Night Time Boogie Band - 8:00 pm

Saturday, Aug. 22:

Sunday, Aug. 23:

• Cody Rides Open - 12:00 Noon • Ranch Rodeo (Arena) - 1:00 pm - Free • Outstanding Senior Citizen’s Award and Century Farm Award (Pavilion) - 1:00 pm

Carnival provided by Cody Rides

August 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd LeCenter MN

www.lesueurcountyfair.org GRANDSTAND EVENTS: Friday: Demolition Derby - 7:00 pm Saturday: LeSueur County Tractor & Truck Pull - 6:00 pm Featuring New Ulm Battery’s Civil War Encampment and Cannon Firing Friday - Encampment set-up (by Horse Barn) Saturday - Cannon Instruction & Firing

Wed., August 5 Sun., August 9, 2015 Fairgrounds: 400 West Union, St. Peter Website: www.nicolletcountyfair.com Email: nicolletcountyfair@gmail.com Like Us On Facebook to get all the updates!

• Carnival: Cody Rides

GRANDSTAND EVENTS: Wednesday–1:00 pm • Harness Races Thursday–6:30 pm • Truck & Tractor Pull Friday–7:00 pm • Demolition Derby Saturday–6:30 pm • Demolition Derby Sunday–11:00 am • Classic Car Roll In Music, Food and Fun for All Ages!!

Go to the Website and Facebook for details!!

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• Cody Rides Open - 1:00 pm • New Ulm Battery Cannon Instruction & Firing - Approx. 2:00 pm • Le Sueur Cty. Tractor & Truck Pull (Grandstand) - 6:00 p.m.

• Free Entertainment: Charlie Sticha Band

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Adair County Fair July 15-19 900 NE Elm, Greenfield 641-743-2856 www.adaircountyfair.org

Cass County Fair July 23-28 805 W 10th St, Atlantic 712-243-1132 www.extension.iastate.edu/cass/ info/Fair

Adams County 4-H/ FFA Youth Fair July 10-15 1200 John St, Corning 641-322-4817 www.myadamscountyfair.net

Cedar County Fair July 8-12 1195 220th St, Tipton 563-886-6170 www.thecedarcountyfair.com

Allamakee — Big Four Fair June 19-21 327 N Maple St, Postville 563-864-7486

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Allamakee County Fair July 15-19 705 Allamakee St, Waukon 563-568-4266 www.allamakeecountyfair.org Appanoose County Fair July 20-25 703 W Franklin St, Centerville 641-856-2646 www.appanoosecountyfair.com Audubon County Fair July 15-20 400 N Division St W, Audubon 712-563-3126 https://goo.gl/26c0KA Benton County Fair July 22-26 S 2nd Ave, Vinton 319-472-3517

Cerro Gordo — North Iowa Fair July 8-12 3700 4th Street SW, Mason City 641-423-3811 www.northiowaeventscenter.com

Black Hawk County 4-H & FFA Fair July 21-25 250 Ansborough Ave, Waterloo 319-234-7515 https://goo.gl/tKFHDh Boone County Fair July 23-26 1601 Industrial Park Rd, Boone (515) 432-5899 www.boonecountyfairia.com Bremer County Fair July 26-Aug. 1 515 5th Ave SW, Waverly 319-240-3420 www.bremercountyfair.com Buchanan County Fair July 8-11 204 4th St NE, Independence 319-334-6656 www.buchanancountyfair.org

Pope County Fair • Glenwood, MN • August 5th - 9th

www.PopeCountyFair.org

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Celebrating Free Gate • Free Parking • Free Fun!!

129 • Tractor Pull • Demo Derby Years • Miniature Rodeo of County Fair!

• Live Music

www.PopeCountyFair.org Look for us on Facebook!

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Buena Vista County Fair July 22-26 Hwy 7, Alta 712-200-2561 www.bvcountyfair.com Butler County Fair June 24-28 108 South Main, Allison 319-267-2775 www.butlercountyfair.com

Cherokee — Marcus Community Fair Aug. 6-9 301 S Maple, Marcus 712-376-2316 www.marcuscommunityfair.com Cherokee County Fair July 16-19 200 Linden St, Cherokee 712-225-5843 www.cherokeecountyfair.org

Calhoun County Expo July 8-12 4th & High St, Rockwell City www.calhouncountyexpo.com

Chickasaw — Big Four Fair Sept. 3-7 Hwy 346 E, Nashua 641-435-4849 www.big4fair.net

Carroll County Fair July 8-12 214 8th Ave, Coon Rapids 712-999-7447 www.iowaccfair.com

Clarke County 4-H Fair July 15-20 2070 Hwy 34 W, Osceola 641-342-2927 www.clarkecountyfairgrounds.org

WATONWAN COUNTY FAIR

FAIRGROUNDS - ST. JAMES, MN • JULY 15TH

THRU

Featuring: “J & K AMUSEMENTS” Ride Specials - www.carnivalmidwayfun.com

Grandstand Events:

Wednesday, July 15th: Fair Kick Off!!

NTPA Tractor Pull, 7:00 pm Friday, July 17th, 7:00 am: Free Tractorcade & Breakfast • 507 327-3639 6:00 pm: Antique Tractor Pull Saturday, July 18th, 5:00 pm: Barton Hallow, 5:00 pm: Free Entertainment Tent Teen Dance “Elegant Affair,” 8:00 pm: Gray Commercial Building Other Events: Bingo under the Big Tent 4:00 pm: Horse Pull 5:00 pm: Enduro Race 10:15 pm: Fireworks

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Sunday, Senior Citizen & Kid’s Day 1 pm: Outstanding Senior Recognition; and Farm Family & Century Farm Recognition 10:00 am: Horse Fun Show Bean Bag Tournament • Softball Tournament Bingo - Under The Tent Pedal Pull & Medallion in Paper Hunt

Entertainment:

Friday, 8:30 pm: - Foolish Mortals Saturday, 6:00 pm: - Barton Hallow 8:00 pm: - Teen Dance - “Elegant Affair 8:30 pm: - Dueling Piano’s - Rock it Man Sunday, 12:30 pm: - BeeKay’s

For More Details: stjameschamberofcommerce.com

2015 Iowa county fair schedule Dallas County 4-H Fair July 8-12 28057 Fairgrounds Rd, Adel 515-993-3728 www.dallascountyfair.com

Clayton County Fair Aug. 4-9 26143 Ivory Rd, National 563-964-2671 www.claytoncountyfair.com

Davis County Fair July 14-19 20471 Old Hwy 2, Bloomfield 641-664-3712 www.daviscountyfair.org

Clinton County Fair July 15-19 328 E 8th St, DeWitt 563-659-1624 www.clintoncoiowafair.com

Decatur County 4-H & FFA Fair July 15-20 1700 NW Church St, Leon 641-446-6268 https://goo.gl/lciqM2

Crawford County Fair July 21-26 800 Hwy 59 N, Denison 712-263-5306 www.crawfordcountyiafair.com

Delaware County Fair July 13-19 200 E Acres St, Manchester 563-927-6449 www.delawarecofair.com

Des Moines County Fair July 28-Aug. 4 1500 West Agency Rd, West Burlington 319-758-7789 www.desmoinescountyfair.com Dickinson County Fair July 18-23 1602 15th St, Spirit Lake 712-336-0479 www.dickinsoncounty fairgrounds.com Dubuque County Fair July 28-Aug. 2 14569 Old Hwy Rd, Dubuque 563-588-1406 www.dbqfair.com

Emmet County Agricultural Show July 23-26 1600 3rd Ave S, Estherville 712-362-7163 www.theemmetcountyfair.com

Fayette County Fair Aug. 5-9 504 S Vine, West Union 563-422-5202 www.fayettecofair.com Floyd County Fair July 22-26 2516 Seven Mile Rd, Charles City 641-228-1300 www.floydcountyfair.org

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Clay County Fair Sept. 12-20 1401 4th Ave W, Spencer 712-262-4740 www.claycountyfair.com

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Franklin County Fair July 15-19 1008 Central Ave W, Hampton 641-456-2049 www.franklincountyfair.com Fremont County Fair July 14-20 1004 Legion Park Rd, Sidney 712-374-2715

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Wednesday, July 29 - Entry Day

Thursday, July 30 - Senior Citizens Day

Friday, July 31 - Children’s Day

• 3 p.m. Midway opens (Wristbands – 5:00-10:00) • 5 p.m. Remini “Sing” - Heritage Stage • 6 p.m. Ranch Rodeo • 7-11 p.m. The Bob Show, Herald Stage

• 1-3 p.m. Senior Citizens Recognition Program • 6 p.m. Red Letter Band, Herald Stage • 7:30 p.m. Demolition Derby, Grandstand • 9 p.m. Dana & The Bottle Rockets, Herald Stage

• 12-5 p.m. Wristbands good for midway rides • 1 & 2 p.m. Treasure Beyond Measure, Herald Stage • 7 p.m. Antique Tractor/Draft Horse Parade Draft Horse Show, Outdoor Arena • 7:30 p.m. Demolition Derby, Grandstand • 8-midnight Contention, Herald Stage

Saturday, August 1 - Children’s Day

Sunday, August 2

• 2 p.m. Tina & Lena, Herald Stage • 3 p.m. Sonflower Puppets, Heritage Stage • 7:30 p.m. Chris Brooks and The Silver City Boys - Herald Stage • 7:30 p.m. Demolition Derby, Grandstand

• 12 p.m. Century Farm Awards, Heritage Stage • 3 p.m. Children’s Pedal Pull • 7 p.m. Pickup & Tractor Pulling Contest • Also antique tractor pull. (No steel wheels)

www.stearnscountyfair.com

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

FREE GATE • Stearns County Fairgrounds • Sauk Centre, MN

2015 Iowa county fair schedule

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Greene County Fair July 7-13 601 E Lincoln Way, Jefferson 515-386-4317

Grundy County Fair July 22-26 South 4th Street, Grundy Center 319-824-2311 www.grundycountyfair.com Guthrie County Fair Sept. 3-7 Hwy 44 W, Guthrie Center 641-332-2230 www.guthriecountyfair.com

Hamilton County Fair July 21-27 1200 Bluff St, Webster City 515-832-1443 www.hamiltoncountyfairia.com

Hardin County Fair July 8-12 301 11th Ave, Eldora 641-858-3901 www.sites.google.com/site/ hardincofair

Hancock County Fair July 21-27 2210 Jewel Avenue, Britt 641-843-3820 www.hancockcountyfair.com

Harrison County Fair July 21-26 Missouri Valley City Park, Missouri Valley 712-642-3866 www.harrisoncofair.com

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Over 3.5 million people atttend Iowa’s fairs and festivals. Iowa’s fairs and festvials showcase the best that Iowa has to offer, including FFA and 4-H, as well as open class competitions.

Use this guide or visit www.iowafairs.com to experience the traditions that make Iowa great.

144th Annual

LAKE ELMO, MN

Wednesday, July 29th – Sunday, August 2nd, 2015

MUSICAL LINE UP

Coyote

Live Music Every Night from Rock & Roll to a Musical Ventriloquist, Jazz and more incl. the Rockin’ Hollywoods and Coyote Wild!

m Go to www.washingtoncountyfair.org for complete line up

8p Friday Wild –

FAMILY FUN DAY

Thursday, July 30th Join us for a variety of special children’s entertainment beginning at 10 am on the Main Stage.

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

SENIOR CITIZENS DAY

Friday, July 31st.

Senior Citizens (65 and older) $2.00 Gate Admission until 1 p.m. on Friday only. Come and join your friends and neighbors at 1 p.m. in the West Pavilion for Special Awards, Refreshments and BINGO!!!

MOTOR SPORTS EVENTS Pick-Up See Saw Contest, ATV BIG AIR Tour, Truck Pull and Demolition Derby

Lots & Lots of DELICIOUS FO OD!

Daily Admission

Adults 16 & Over ...$7.00 Ages 6-15.............$4.00 5 and under............Free

Exhibit Buildings Open 10 AM-10 PM FREE PARKING

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Below are just some of the fun events we have planned: Opening Day Parade Talent Shows Draft Horse Pull Swinetime Pig Races Pick-Up See-Saw Contest Washington County K-9 Unit Washington County 4-H Arts-In Show Kid Power Pedal Pull Children’s Games ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS!!!

For Full Event Details with all of the times, go to www.washingtoncountyfair.org

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Henry County Fair July 14-20 S Locust and S Walnut, Mount Pleasant 319-385-8126 www.henrycofair.com Howard — Mighty Howard County Fair June 24-28 220 W 7th St, Cresco 563-547-3400 www.mhcfair.com

Humboldt County Fair July 21-27 311 6th Ave N, Humboldt 515-332-5154 www.humboldtcountyfair.com Ida County Fair July 21-26 2332 Hwy 59, Ida Grove 712-364-2500 Iowa County Fair July 15-19 800 E Marion St, Marengo 319-642-5406 www.iowacountyfair.org Jackson County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 1212 E Quarry St, Maquoketa 563-652-4282 www.jacksoncountyiowafair.com Jasper County Fair July 17-23 359 N Walnut, Colfax 641-674-3294 www.jaspercofair.com

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Johnson County 4-H & FFA Fair July 27-30 4261 Oak Crest Hill Rd SE, Iowa City 319-337-5865 www.johnsoncofair.com Jones — Great Jones County Fair & Food Fest July 22-26 700 N Maple, Monticello 319-465-3275 www.greatjonescountyfair.com Jones — Wyoming Fair July 10-12 409 E Green St, Wyoming 563-488-3497

Keokuk County Fair July 9-12 201 Fairground Rd, What Cheer 641-634-2201 www.keokukcountyfair.com Kossuth County Fair Aug. 4-8 700 Fair St, Algona 515-395-FAIR www.kossuthcountyfair.com Lee County Fair July 8-12 1100 N Main St, Donnellson 319-835-5523 www.leecountyfairiowa.com Linn County Fair June 24-29 201 Central City Rd, Central City 319-929-FAIR www.thelinncountyfair.com

Madison County Livestock Show & Fair July 15-19 1146 W Summit St, Winterset 515-462-1295 www.madisoncountyfair.net Mahaska — Southern Iowa Fair July 13-18 615 N I St, Oskaloosa 641-673-7004 www.southerniowafair.com Marion County Fair July 10-16 1000 N Lincoln, Knoxville 641-842-5431 www.knoxvilleraceway.com Marshall — Central Iowa Fair July 8-12 1308 E Olive St, Marshalltown 641-753-3671 www.centraliowafairgrounds.net

Muscatine County Fair July 15-19 101 N Clay Street, West Liberty 319-627-2414 www.muscatinecountyfair.com

O’Brien County Fair July 18-23 4536 Starling Ave, Primghar 712-957-FAIR www.obriencountyfair.com

We’ll See You At The 2015 Rice County Fair! ~ July 21st - 26th, 2015 ~

Mills County Fair July 10-14 South Main Street, Malvern 712-624-8616 Mitchell County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 1002 Chestnut St, Osage 641-832-2087 www.mitchellcountyfair.org Monona County Fair July 14-19 12th St & Gaukel Dr, Onawa 712-423-2014 www.mononacountyfair.com Monroe County 4-H & FFA Fair July 23-27 Hwy 5 N, Albia 641-932-7096 https://goo.gl/qO3tlG Montgomery County Fair July 14-19 1809 4th St, Red Oak 712-623-5207 www.montgomerycountyiafair.com

– Grandstand Events – Tuesday, July 21ST @ 7PM NIGHT OF CARNAGE RACES

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free Sponsors: Midwest Collision • KOWZ Radio

– FREE Entertainment at the Midway Stage –

Thursday, July 23RD @ 7PM

Tuesday, July 21ST @ 7PM

Adults: $10 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free

Thursday, July 22ND @ 6-10PM

Saturday, July 25TH @ 7PM

Saturday, July 25TH @ 7PM

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free

Wednesday, July 22ND @ 8PM

Wednesday, July 22ND @ 7PM

Friday, July 24TH @ 6:30PM

LAWN MOWER RACING

Sponsors: KDHL Radio • Faribault Daily News Manke’s Outdoor Equipment

NTPA TRUCK & TRACTOR PULL

Sponsors: Mander’s Diesel • KDHL Radio Faribault Daily News • Issacson Implement

ENDURO AUTO RACES

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free Sponsors: Power 96 • IBEW Electrical Union

Rice County Fair Queen Coronation Whitesidewalls Sherwin Linton

Rockin’ Hollywoods

Charlie Sticha Old Time Band

Sunday, July 26TH @ 4PM

Friday, July 24TH @ 7PM

4-H Parade of Champions @ 6:30PM

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free

• • Free Fair Admission! • •

Sunday, July 26TH @ 6:30PM

Daily Parking: $5 Full-Fair Parking: $20

PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDING

Sponsors: Godfather’s Pizza • KYMN Radio IBEW Electrical Union • Hy-Vee of Faribault

DEMOLITION DERBY

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free

Sponsors: Flom Disposal • Absolute Towing • Power 96 • IBEW Electrical Union • Harry Brown’s • Star Trophy

- Family Pack: 2 Adults, 3 Children: $30 -

For More Info, Visit Our Website: ricecountyfair.net

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Louisa County Fair July 19-25 101 Fairground Rd, Columbus Junction 319-728-2527 www.louisacountyfair.com

Lyon County Fair July 18-24 400 South Tama, Rock Rapids 712-472-2064 www.lyoncountyfair.org

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Keokuk County Expo July 14-18 400 220th Avenue, Sigourney 641-622-2647 www.expokeokukco.com

Lucas County Fair July 25-30 48293 Hy-Vee Rd, Chariton 641-774-2016 https://goo.gl/Wb6znW

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Jefferson — Greater Jefferson County Fair June 24-29 2606 W Burlington, Fairfield 641-472-4959 www.jeffersoncofair.com

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Osceola County Fair July 15-18 209 W 9th St, Sibley 712-754-3407

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Wapello County Regional Fair June 17-21 300 Water Street, Eldon 641-652-7521 www.wapellocountyfair.com

Page County Fair July 21-26 6th & Grant St, Clarinda 712-542-3873 www.facebook.com/ pagecountyfair

Warren County Fair July 22-27 1400 W 2nd Avd, Indianola 515-961-5861 www.warrencofair.com

Palo Alto County Fair July 23-26 2101 Madison, Emmetsburg 712-490-6611 www.paloaltocountyfair.com

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Plymouth County Fair July 29-Aug. 2 500 4th Ave NE, Le Mars 712-546-4525 www.plymouthcountyfair.org Pocahontas County 4-H & FFA Fair July 16-20 310 NE 1st St, Pocahontas 712-335-4176 Polk County 4-H & FFA Fair July 22-27 E 30th St & University Ave, Des Moines 515-262-3111 www.polkcountyfairiowa.com Pottawattamie — Westfair July 22-27 22984 Hwy 6, Council Bluffs 712-322-3400 www.westfairevents.com

Washington County Fair July 19-24 611 Hwy 1 S, Washington 319-653-2552 www.washington countyfairia.com Pottawattamie County Fair, Avoca July 16-20 301 W Lincoln, Avoca www.pottawattamiecountyfair.org Poweshiek County 4-H & FFA Fair July 14-20 425 E Street, Grinnell 641-236-7959 www.poweshiekcountyfair.org Ringgold County Fair July 8-12 2214 US Hwy 169, Mount Ayr www.ringgoldcountyfair.com Sac County Fair July 29-Aug. 1 204 Park Ave, Sac City 712-662-7188 www.saccountyfair.com

Scott — Mississippi Valley Fair Aug. 4-9 2815 W Locust St, Davenport 563-326-5338 www.mvfair.com

Wayne County Fair July 28-Aug. 3 800 2nd Ave, Corydon 641-872-1611 www.waynecofair.com

Shelby County Fair July 12-20 314 4th St, Harlan 712-755-3335 www.shelbycountyiowafair.org

Webster County Fair July 8-12 22770 Old Hwy 169, Fort Dodge 515-955-3764 www.webstercounty fairgroundsia.com

Sioux County Youth Fair July 11-16 1232 7th St NE, Sioux Center 712-722-4411 www.siouxcountyfair.org Story County Youth Fair July 24-29 220 H Ave, Nevada www.sc-fair.com Tama County Fair July 14-19 1217 175th, Gladbrook 641-473-3225

2015 BENTON COUNTY FAIR August 4th - August 9th ~ Sauk Rapids, MN

“The Best Six Days of Summer!!”

2015 NEW EVENTS The Wall That Heals

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

GRANDSTAND EVENTS Tues., Aug. 4th - Motocross: 7:00 pm Wed., Aug. 5th - Demolition Derby: 7:30 pm Thurs. Aug. 6th - Truck Pull: 6:00 pm Fri., Aug. 7th - Tractor Pull: 5:00 pm Sat. Aug. 8th - Demolition Derby: 6:30 pm Sun. Aug. 9th - Mighty Mower Racing: 2:30 pm

Checkout our website: BentonfairMN.com

Milking Cow

Mobile Hot Shop

Taylor County Fair July 16-19 2715 Linwood Ave, Bedford 712-523-2326 www.taylorcountyfair.net Union County Fair July 18-23 901 E Filmore, Afton 641-347-5272 www.ucfair.com Van Buren County Fair July 14-20 20493 Hwy 1, Keosauqua 319-293-3745 vbco.vanburencountyfair.com

Winnebago County Fair July 16-19 264 Fairgrounds Dr, Thompson (641) 584-2011 www.winnebagocoiowafair.com Winneshiek County Fair July 7-11 900 E Main St, Decorah 563-382-8514 www.winneshiekcountyfair.org Woodbury County Fair Aug. 5-9 206 Fair St, Moville 712-873-3707 www.woodburycountyfair.com Worth County Fair June 17-21 300 N 13th St, Northwood 641-324-1783 www.worthcountyfair.com Wright County District Junior Fair July 8-13 1000 E Broadway, Eagle Grove 515-448-3351 www.wrightcofair.com

Iowa State Fair: Check out these fair ‘hot spots’ • Ye Old Mill: Take a quiet ride on the “tunnel of love” style Ye Old Mill, the Fair’s oldest permanent amusement ride dating from the early 1900s.

Agriculture Iowa's finest produce is showcased at the Fair every year. If it has to do with farming, you’ll find it at the Iowa State Fair. Whether you just want to get up close and personal with farm animals, shop for farm equipment or introduce your children to Iowa’s agricultural heritage, nothing compares to the Iowa State Fair.

Casting Crowns with special guest King and Country Aug. 13, 8 p.m., $32

Alabama with special guest Chris Janson Aug. 20, 8 p.m., $40

Iowa State Fair grandstand Justin Moore with special guest Easton Corbin Aug. 14, 8 p.m., $35

The Fray with special guest Andy Grammer Aug. 21, 8 p.m., $38 Meghan Trainor with special guests Charlie Puth and Life of Dillon Aug. 22, 8 p.m., $40

REBA with special guest Caroline Kole Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $45

Rock-A-Thon starring Dee Snider, Dokken, Warrant FireHouse & Host Eddie Trunk Aug. 23, 6 p.m., $30

Carrie Underwood with special guest Michael Ray Aug. 17, 8 p.m., $60 YES & Toto Aug. 18, 8 p.m. , $35 Grand Outlaw National Tractor and Truck Pull sponsored by Iowa Farmer Today Aug. 19, 2 p.m., Ticket price varies

Grandstand ticket information Tickets for Grandstand concerts and events are on sale now through Ticketmaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000.

All concert seats are reserved, all track events are general admission. Convenience charges apply.

The Iowa State Fair Ticket Office opens July 6 for walk-up orders only (assuming tickets remain).

Grandstand tickets do not include Fair admission.

Fair admission must be purchased separately. ❖

Wednesday, Aug. 5th:

Saturday, Aug. 8th:

NTPA Tractor Pull Ranch Sorting Kids Pedal Tractor Pull Whitney Music Showcase Custom Made Kari & Billy - KIDS DAY!!! -

KRA Speedway Auto Racing Bullriding Kingery Family Red Letter Band Danny, Jason, & Alina - Veterans Day -

Thursday, Aug. 6th:

Friday, Aug. 7th:

Semi, Pickup & Tractor Pull Mark Anthony Cedar Creek The White Keys

~ NEW ULM, MN ~

FREE ENTERTAINMENT throughout the fair!

Free Gate!

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DAILY EVENTS:

WILLMAR, MN

August 5 - 8 2015 Kandiyohi County Fair

• BMX Bike Stunt Shows • Haunted House • L.A. Pig Races • Cash Drawings • MCM Carnival Midway

Visit our website at: www.kandifair.com

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Demo Derby - Wednesday, Aug. 12 — 7 p.m.

Unspoken - “Free Concert” - Thursday, Aug. 13 — 7 p.m.

Gwen Sebastian - Country Music Concert - Friday, Aug. 14 — 7 p.m.

Sandra Lee and the Velvets - Saturday, Aug. 15 — 1-5 p.m.

Demo Derby - Saturday, Aug. 15 — 7 p.m.

Minn-E Rods & Truck/Tractor Pull - Sunday, Aug. 16 — Noon Dock Dogs - Friday-Sunday Check our website for complete schedule - www.browncountyfreefair.com

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Demolition Derby Tina & Lena Just In Time Talent Contest FREE Sweet Corn Feed - Senior Citizens Day -

Food and Family Project booth in the Varied Industries Building.

Wine Experience at Grandfather’s Barn — Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Learn about Iowa’s growing wine industry. Take part in a grape stomping competition or listen to presentations from local experts.

Butter cow history In 1911 J.K. Daniels sculpted the Fair's first butter cow and was succeeded by J.E. Wallace of Florida. In 1957 Earl Frank Dutt of Illinois took over the sculpting duties.

Norma “Duffy” Lyon of Toledo, Iowa, began sculpting in 1960, becoming the fourth person and first woman to sculpt the Fair's butter beauties. Lyon passed away in June of 2011.

In 2006, after 15 years of apprenticing with Duffy, Sarah Pratt of West Des Moines became the Fair's fifth butter sculptor.

The Butter Cow starts with a wood, metal, wire and steel mesh frame and about 600 pounds of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. Once inside the 40-degree cooler, layers of butter are applied until a life-size butter cow emerges, measuring about 5.5 foot high and 8 foot long.

While a real dairy cow weighs more than 1,000 pounds, a 600 pound butter cow would butter 19,200 slices of toast and take an average person two lifetimes to consume. Much of the butter is recycled and reused for up to 10 years.

This article was submitted by Iowa State Fair.

Visit www.iowastatefair.org for more information and a complete listing of attractions. ❖

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Def Leppard with special guests Styx and Tesla Aug. 15, 7 p.m., $53

John Deere Agriculture Building — Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The Agriculture Building, generally shortened to the Ag Building, is home to Iowa’s finest displays of agricultural commodities, including prize-winning floriculture, jumbo veggies and an apiary exhibit. Constructed in 1904, the Ag Building was one of the first permanent buildings on the Fairgrounds. It is one of the best remaining examples of exposition-style architecture in the world, but most people know it best as the home of the world-famous Butter Cow. Fairgoers say no trip to the Fair is complete until you’ve seen it!

Just to the west, the Discovery Gardens are a beautiful spot to rest. See a stunning variety of plants and is maintained by the Polk County Master Gardeners. Kids love running through the vine-covered tunnel.

Little Hands on the Farm — Open 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., located north of the Animal Learning Center If you’re with young kids, don’t miss Little Hands on the Farm where kids ages 2-10 can help with “chores” on the farm and earn play money to spend at the market.

AgVenture Discovery Trail — Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Try out the AgVenture Discovery Trail, an ag-themed scavenger hunt that leads kids through the Fairgrounds as they learn about livestock, wind energy, crops and more. Stop at six of the 11 stops, then turn your map in for a prize!

Young Fairgoers can get started by picking up a lanyard and a map at any of the 11 Information Booths, the USDA booth in the Ag Building or at the Iowa

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The Iowa State Fair is Iowa’s largest event, annually attracting a million visitors from all over the Midwest, as well as the United States and other countries. Nothing Compares.

There’s no way to tell you about all the things you can see and do at the Iowa State Fair. Here are some of the most popular attractions at the Fair.

• Giant Slide: Enjoy a high-speed trip down the Fair's Giant Slide!

• Sky Glider: Enjoy a special birdseye view of the Fair on one of our two Sky Gliders!

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Minnesota State Fair ’15 What began in 1854 as a territorial fair to highlight agriculture and encourage farming in the region became the Minnesota State Fair in 1859, a year after Minnesota was granted statehood.

Today, often referred to as The Great Minnesota Get-Together, the annual Minnesota State Fair is one of the most poplular tourist destinations in the region. The fair attracts 1.8 million guests annually.

The 2015 Minnesota State Fair is Aug. 27 to Sept. 7.

More than 450 foods are available at 300 food concessions. Deep-fried candy bars, hot dish, walleye and pork chops are some of the 60 plus foods-on-a-stick at the Fairgrounds.

The Mighty Midway features carnival rides with the most extreme thrill rides at Adventure Park. The Space Tower, Haunted House, Ye Old Mill, River Raft Ride, Sky Ride and Sky Glider are per-

manent attractions and State Fair traditions.

Special exhibits include the CHS Miracle of Birth Center, where nearly 200 calves, lambs and piglets are born during the fair’s 12-day run.

Children can learn about the agriculture process at Little Farm Hands, an interactive farm exhibit.

Don’t miss the Dairy Building where Princess Kay and her court have their likeness carved into a 90-pound block of butter each day at the fair.

More than 6,500 items are displayed in the Creative Activities department’s exhibition of Minnesota’s finest needlework, handcrafts, baking and canning.

Honey, flowers, giant vegetables, crop and seed art, beer and fruit are showcased in the Agriculture Horticulture Building.

This article was submitted by the Minnesota State Fair. ❖

Grandstand events Minnesota State Fair features the top touring acts in the country.

Def Leppard with special guests Styx and Tesla Aug. 27, 7 p.m. $52, $67 Carrie Underwood with special guest Native Run Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m., sold out Alan Jackson with special guest Brandy Clark Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m., $40 Happy Together Tour 2015 featuring The Turtles with Flo & Eddie; The Association; Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & The Raiders; The Grass Roots: The Cowsills; and The Buckinghams Aug. 31, 8 p.m. $21 Meghan Trainor with special guests Charlie Puth & Life of Dillon

Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m., $35 Patti LaBelle with special guest the Commodores Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., $45 Lynyrd Skynyrd with special guest Collective Soul Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m., $42 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor Sept. 4, 7:45 p.m., $25, $32 Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson with special guest Sturgill Simpson Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m. $35 Tickets can be ordered by calling (800) 514-3849. For more information, visit www.mnstatefair.org where you can link to a site to buy tickets or call the State Fair Box Office at (651) 288-4427. Concert tickets do not include admission to the fair. ❖

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