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you can’t hurry a garden. Picking peas, Patience is a virtue; and when it comes beans and cucumbers takes time. Those to gardening, patience is a downright vegetables have a knack for hiding in necessity. Cold, damp weather (and even plain sight. Even the bright red strawa touch of snow in May for folks farther berries are surprisingly adept at hidenorth) has timid gardeners biding their and-seek. More than once I was distime. But for the die-hard green thumpatched to harvest green beans. After bers, the wait is beginning to reach levels proudly producing my bounty, my mother of critical anxiety. peered at me over the top of her glasses I know of people who have purchased and asked me to accompany her to the their annuals, only to have them stashed LAND MINDS bean patch. In a few minutes, and after in the garage while they wait for the sun By Paul Malchow checking a handful of bean plants, mothto make more regular appearances. er had accumulated almost as many Potatoes, radishes, lettuce and peas beans as I had for the whole lot. may be in the ground, but soil temper“Better check again,” she advised as atures haven’t budged much in a she headed back to the house. month. Flower lovers can placate themselves with I can’t say I hated gardening when I was young, pansies, but petunias are still a gamble for the but it was close. The best days for working in the majority of The Land area.

Speaking of gambling, tomato growers are becom- garden were also the best days for playing, fishing and riding bicycle. And there were no shortcuts. ing popular as the ultimate risk-takers of the garMom knew how many beans she was supposed to dening world in their quest to be the first on their get. It was easy to tell what areas had and had not block with fresh tomatoes. Getting that two-week been weeded. You can’t just pick the zucchini “next head start on the neighbors can backfire miserably week” (unless you want zucchini the size of your with a mid-May frost. Some of the more prudent leg). gardeners plant tomatoes in pots and carry them It was years later when I realized how many life indoors for protection. Others plant close to a buildskills I had learned from the family garden: responing where soil temps are higher. Hoop houses and sibility, planning, nurturing, patience (that came hot boxes are cheating. You may be the first with much much later) and the satisfaction of a job well tomatoes, but there is an asterisk applied for using done. How I wish today I could spend more time in climate-controlled help. the garden!

Regardless of technique, gardening in the northIn 2017, developing and maintaining a garden is ern zones needs to be done in a relatively small winsimply not possible for many youth. Both parents dow of time. Plants need to be strong and estabmight have jobs outside the home and not be availlished before the heat of summer arrives. But a able to provide the guidance I was so lucky to have. hard frost is not out of the question in the early days of May. Plant too soon or wait too long and the Home might be an apartment complex without space for a garden. So it is encouraging to see the crop suffers. The clock is ticking. interest and growth of community gardens and Our family had two large gardens — one with miscellaneous vegetables and another with potatoes classroom gardens. Whether flowers, vegetables, trees or shrubs, gardening is more than just growand onions. Mother canned and froze vegetables to last us throughout the year, so gardening was more ing a plant. It is growing ourselves. It is getting to know the earth we live on and what can happen than just a hobby at our house. I remember one of my first garden chores was weeding onions and car- when we care for it — and also neglect it. It is crerots as it was easy to tell the “good” plants from the ating a bond between yourself and other gardeners.

Even the cheaters with early tomatoes. weeds.

Paul Malchow is the managing editor of The Land.

By the time I was old enough to join 4-H, I had learned quite a bit about raising vegetables. Mainly, He may be reached at editor@TheLandOnline.com. v

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said Lee. “There was no rationale or justification for linking support between cotton and dairy producers.”

Sure there is. It’s called politics. It’s what political leaders used to do to arrive at policies — dairy policies, cotton policies, ag trade policies, federal farm budget policies, you name it — through committee hearings, open debate and, finally, through compromise to meet the nation’s crying needs.

In post-truth America, however, political leaders bellyache about too many whole wheat biscuits and not enough chocolate milk to non-voting fourth graders rather than swallowing hard and doing their jobs.

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ilar to today’s crop insurance program.

Those changes will likely have to wait on the still-not-started 2018 Farm Bill.

The cotton growers, however, after being denied their “cottonseed-as-anoilseed,” $1 billion assistance program, were in no mood to wait. They immediately took a pitchfork to two Senate Democrats.

Chairman of the National Cotton Council Ronnie Lee complained that Senate Ag Committee members Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Patrick Leahy of Vermont “chose to play politics at the expense of cotton producers and farm families…”

Why, pray tell?

“Because the Senators’ desire to help dairy producers somehow became a prerequisite for whether Congress could provide a policy to cotton producers to help respond to the ongoing financial and trade policy challenges,”

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Leave it to the language should eat biscuits and experts at England’s Oxford then a round guy — he said Dictionaries to come up he was a used DA or USDA with a two-word “Word of or whatever — gave me a the Year” for 2016. glass of chocolate milk and told me I could be big like That (those) word(s) is him if I drink it every day!” (are) “post-truth.”

Mother: “What have I told Post-truth, explain the you about making up nonOxford experts, is “defined FARM & FOOD FILE sense? Eat your broccoli!” as ‘relating to or denoting

By Alan Guebert circumstances in which So it goes in post-truth objective facts are less Washington, D.C, where influential in shaping the new normal is two public opinion than grandfatherly politicians appeals to emotion and personal dispensing personal nutrition advice belief.’” and partisan political retribution to an audience of 10-year-olds who just A food example might explain the want to go to recess. difference.

It wasn’t much different back on Recently, while accompanying newlyCapitol Hill that day as both minted Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Republicans and Democrats claimed Perdue to an elementary school in victory after a funding deal was Leesburg, Va., Senate Ag Committee announced to keep the federal governChairman Pat Roberts (a Kansas ment open through Sept. 30.

Republican) endorsed Perdue’s swift action to “slow down” implementation No one, of course, dared to mention of the nutritional — and controversial that the deal covered just the five — school lunch standards promoted by remaining months of the fiscal year former first lady Michelle Obama. because Congress and the White House had failed to agree on an annual spendSaid Roberts to his fourth grader ing plan for the 21st year in a row. lunch mates, “Try eating a biscuit made with whole grains. It just But this new $1 trillion-plus bill, doesn’t work!” they said, ensures the federal government will remain open through Sept.

Secretary Perdue agreed, telling nearby reporters, “I wouldn’t be as big 30, a key element sought by midtermas I am today without chocolate milk.” wary Republicans.

Fine, but the deal did not include You can all but hear the conversamoney to fund new programs U.S. tions around Leesburg dinner tables dairy farmers and cotton growers that night, right? claim they need to make it through Mother: “Eat your broccoli, son, it’s September, too. good for you.”

The dairy lobby wanted changes in Son: “But Mom, an old guy with its almost completely ineffective glasses, a salesman or a senator or Margin Protection Program, a governsomething, told me at lunch that I ment-sponsored revenue program sim-

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Farmers are planting their crops in May sunshine

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Farm progress has been slow on the Hanson farm near Gary, but after May 2, spring weather returned.

“The snow did melt, the sun is out,” said Corey Hanson.

Farmers were back in the field, but a wide swath of rain and thunder showers popped up bringing a tenth to four tenths of an inch of rain on May 3.

Hail cut a pretty wide path too, he noted.

“So once again we are being slowed,” said Hanson.

On May 4, his dad was in the fields working the ground ahead of him. HanCorey Hanson son does the planting and he hoped to seed wheat in the afternoon. The goal is to get their 250 acres of wheat planted by May 8 or 9 when the next rain shower is expected.

The ground is real wet, reported Hanson. They are finding they have to work the ground a couple times to bring oxygen and sun to the soil. “It’s been one of those years that we’re going to use a lot of fuel to get the crop in,” he said.

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Bob Roelofs, Garden City, May 5

On May 5, Bob Roelofs had a few field cultivators going. He would begin planting 500 acres of corn on May 6. “We’re running around trying to get ready here,” he said.

According to Crystal Valley Co-op in Lake Crystal, the soil temperature was 52 F at 6-inch depth.

“It’s been a lot wetter than we expected the last two-and-a-half weeks,” said Roelofs. “I think they’ll be a lot of corn put in the ground in the next seven Bob Roelofs days.”

Roelofs was glad he waited until the cold wet April ended to begin planting his 150 acres of corn. Sitting in his tractor, he debated for a good 30 minutes on whether to begin planting in April.

“Sometimes you can have a yield hit from cold shock. I was glad I waited. I was a little nervous about five or six days ago,” he said.

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Larry Konsterlie, Pennock, May 5

“It’s definitely much better. The sun is shining and things are drying out,” said Konsterlie.

Konsterlie is putting in 1,500 acres of corn this year. “As long as the weather holds, I’ll work all week. It will probably take eight to 10 days to get her done,” he said.

In his area, he saw people doing tillage, as well as some planters going on May 5.

“It depends where they are and how much they have to do,” said Konsterlie.

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Mark Ditlevson, Blooming Prairie, May 4

On May 5, Mark Ditlevson would be spraying glyphosate, also known as Round Up, to kill cover crops in the fields where he would be planting corn. He needed to terminate purple top turnips, annual rye and cereal rye that overwintered.

Mark Ditlevson Ditlevson expected to be planting his 300 acres of corn that same afternoon and into the weekend.

By April 26, Mark Ditlevson’s 300 acres of small grains of cereal rye, oats, winter wheat and spring wheat were planted and everything was up. He had made his first pass with nitrogen on the winter wheat and rye.

He has been pleased with his soil testing and the increase of organic matter which he attributes to cover crops. His small grains are contracted for cover crop seed.

“I was at the farm driving around. I was surprised at the monarchs that were drifting around,” he said. “Maybe what we’re doing is starting to show some benefits.”

On the morning of May 4, Nate Hultgren was walking the sugarbeet fields to see how dry the ground was. By afternoon, he would be planting.

With sunny, warm days Hultgren expected to be going gangbusters. “Things don’t seem to Nate Hultgren change very fast,” he said.

Hultgren noted that soil temperatures have been hanging in the mid-40s. Night-time lows cancel out daytime progress.

Low spots are not releasing the moisture and drying up, he noted.

About 65 percent of their 1,200 acres of sugarbeets were in the ground.

The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative reports that about 65 percent of the crop is planted.

His brother, Noah, plants the corn. About 25 percent, or 500 acres, of the corn acreage was planted. They run two 24-row planters. Hultgren estimates a few days of sugarbeet planting and a week of corn planting.

Their 150 acres of alfalfa showed quite a bit of winter damage so they did some inter-seeding and that’s ready to go, Hultgren reported.

“The last few years we may have been a little spoiled. Beets were planted in April and the corn was done by now,” he said.

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Bob Roelofs, Garden City, Minn.

Between Garden City and Vernon Center, Bob Roelofs farms 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and raises 1,500 sows farrow-to-finish. Roelofs works with his brother Justin, and Bob Roelofs his dad Hank to form Triple R Pork. The family also raises about 6 acres of alfalfa for a neighboring sheep farm.

A third generation farmer, Roelofs left the farm, earned a degree in law enforcement and worked in that field for about five years. While in school and working, he still farmed on the side. His mom told him, “Your roots are in farming.”

I care about agriculture.

I feel like we need to represent agriculture and show how important agriculture is to the American people.

— Bob Roelofs “I got to see what life was like outside the farm. I got to appreciate the farm,” said Roelofs. “I think it’s the best environment for the kids as well.”

Roelofs and his wife Jill, who grew up on a Lake Crystal area farm, live in the house where he grew up. The farm was originally his great uncle’s farm.

The Roelofs have three sons: Wyatt, 9; Tristan, 6, and Logan, 2.

A District II director for the Minnesota Farm Bureau, Roelofs has served on the state board representing south central Minnesota for more than four years. He served as Blue Earth County Farm Bureau president for seven years.

“I care about agriculture. I feel like we need to represent agriculture and show how important agriculture is to the American people,” said Roelofs.

He serves on the Blue Earth County Extension Committee and for almost

15 years has volunteered for Vernon Center Fire and Rescue. He also chairs the Vernon Center Township Board.

This family man and community leader is ready to get out of the hog barns and get his hands dirty in the fields as spring and fall are his favorite seasons. He’s not the only one.

“The kids love it and enjoy riding around the tractor with Dad,” said Roelofs. “My son was in the shop all weekend with me working on equipment.” v

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Nate Hultgren, Raymond, Minn.

At Hultgren Farms near beets. For Lakeside Foods in Raymond, Minn., Nate HultBrooten, they grow 120 acres gren farms with his brother, of sweet corn.

Noah, and his father, Duane.

They also have a 90-head Together they work 5,000 cow-calf beef herd and are acres. partners in the Meadow Star “Our equipment was ready Dairy nearby. to go April 1,” said Hultgren.

They have three full-time A fourth generation farmer, Nate Hultgren guys that keep the equipment the 40-year-old Hultgren has maintained. five children ages 11 to 5, who he hopes Hultgren plants the sugarbeets and to be fifth generation farmers. His boys kidney beans while his brother plants already cut out pictures of tractors the corn and soybeans and manages from farm magazines. Hultgren earned the farm’s agronomy. Nate and Noah a finance degree from the University Hultgren run two 24-row planters to of Minnesota, Duluth, and returned to get their crops in. They don’t work the farm in 1999, the same year he Sundays. married his wife Jamie.

The Hultgrens get along very well.

This year, they are planting about “There’s always healthy debate,” said 2,000 acres of field corn, 400 acres of soybeans, 1,000 acres of dark red kid- Hultgren. “I’m very lucky to have my ney beans and 1,200 acres of sugar- dad here as a resource. He’s seen it all.

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He’s lived through the ’80s, which is a Purple Heart for farmers.”

Like most Minnesota farmers, they were waiting for dry weather to plant corn and sugarbeets. “There is a direct correlation between planting date and tonnage per acre,” said Hultgren, regarding sugarbeets.

Kidney beans like higher soil temperatures so they are not planted until after May 20 and into June.

“You plant 100 acres a day because you can’t harvest them very fast,” he said. “You gotta get them at the perfect moisture.”

Hultgren serves on the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative’s Board of Directors. He said he has learned a lot from the “forward-thinking farmers” on the board.

This year, Hultgren is looking for a higher quality crop than last year’s.

Southern Minnesota’s 2016 sugar beet crop came in at a high tonnage, but not a good sugar percentage.

“That’s the beauty of farming. Every year we get a reset,” said Hultgren.

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Mark Ditlevson, Blooming Prairie, Minn.

A third generation farmer, Mark Ditlevson has run the family farm since 1971 when he was just out of high school and his dad passed away.

Ditlevson has 950 tillable acres and Mark Ditlevson divides his farm into thirds: corn, soybeans and small grains.

“I’m a no-tiller. I use cover crops,” said Ditlevson.

This is the first year he has gone this heavy with small grains, which is contracted for cover crop seed. Ditlevson began using cover crops in 2010 and now 100 percent of his acreage is covered every year.

“It changes your soil structure. It improves your organic matter. It helps depress weeds. It actually retains or sucks up nutrients and runs it through the plant and then breaks down later in the season to benefit the growing crop,” he said. “I don’t have any problem with erosion at all.”

Cover crops also help the soil retain water to reduce runoff. All told, there are more pluses than minuses, said Ditlevson.

This season Ditlevson’s soybeans will be “planted green,” which means he will plant his crop into living cover

crops. The goal is to get more cover crop growth, biomass and benefits. He will terminate the cover crops after planting. Cover crops in those fields are annual rye grass, purple top turnips, rapeseed and radishes.

“Those overwinter and normally they die off. They survived the winter and they are growing well already,” said Ditlevson.

Ditlevson was recognized as the Steele County Outstanding Conservation Farmer in 2013. He was chosen as a Soil Health Champion by the National Association of Conservation Districts and he belongs to a soil team in Freeborn County. His farm is a Minnesota Water Quality Certified Farm.

While Ditlevson plants and cares for the crop on his own, he hires out the harvesting. He also operates Mark Ditlevson Auction Co, specializing in farm real estate, in Owatonna. And he serves on the Steele County Fair Board, the largest county fair in Minnesota.

His wife is Renee Worke, a Minnesota Court Appeals Judge. He has two sons Mark Roosevelt, nicknamed “Ro,” a Navy officer and explosives specialist, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and Mick, who is attending Pepperdine University in California.

“When they are back, everybody comes to the farm to help me with anything I need done,” said Ditlevson. v

Introducing our From The Fields reporters Corey Hanson, Gary, Minn.

On Corey Hanson’s family farm in Norman County, they have about 900 acres of tillable land and rent another 300 in pasture for their cow-calf operation of roughly 90 beef cows. His dad still lives and works on the farm he purchased in 1966 in the Red River Valley.

The Hansons grow about 250 acres of corn, 250 acres of wheat, 100 acres of alfalfa and 300 acres of beans.

“Virtually all the grain we produce goes to a local shuttle loading facility and goes to the Pacific Northwest, bound for Asian countries,” he said.

In summer, their cattle is in a pasture that has been fenced since the late 1930s. Old ox-cart trails can be found there.

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Just north of Pennock, Larry Konsterlie was waiting for the soil to get warm so he could begin planting 1,500 acres of corn and 1,050 acres of soybeans. He also grows about 35 acres of alfalfa as a cash crop.

Konsterlie has been farming since 1996 when he graduated Larry Konsterlie from college and began working with his dad. As a fourth generation farmer, he and his wife Amanda are running the farm where he grew up. Their children are age 11 to 2 — three girls and a boy.

The two older girls help out with the chickens the family raises for eggs. Hopefully, his children will be fifth generation farmers.

“My youngest is a boy. He definitely likes to follow around and be outside,” said Konsterlie.

Konsterlie gets seasonal help from his father-inlaw and brother-in-law, along with a few seasonal employees.

By April 11, the planting and tillage equipment was ready to go and the tractors were serviced. “If we can get in by the last week of April, you’re doing pretty good,” said Konsterlie.

This spring, Konsterlie has added more acres to grow their farm. Any changes in soybeans versus corn are based on what crops were grown the previous year.

“Overall, I like spring because it’s a new start to a new crop year,” said Konsterlie. “We look forward to getting things growing, get out of the house, work out in the shop, work in the fields.” v

As for farm prices, Hanson said this is the third year of projected loss with corn and wheat forecast at $120-140 loss per acre. “Things are not good in this part of the world,” he said.

Still Hanson remains optimistic.

He recalls an article on the eternal optimist and the farmer was the first one on the list.

“You see good in almost everything,” he said. “You enjoy watching seeds grow from nothing.”

A community leader, Hanson is chairman of the Green Meadow Township board, which he has served on for 18 years. President of the Norman County Soybean-Corn Growers, he also serves on the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association board of directors. Hanson graduated from North Dakota State University in 1988 with a degree in agronomy and animal science and a minor in soil science.

While Hanson and his wife Julie live in town, Hanson easily spends more hours at the farm than home.

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Larry Konsterlie, Pennock, Minn.

10 months of age at the local sales barn. Most of their calves go to feed lots in Kansas and Nebraska, but for several years some of his best calves went to Russian repubCorey Hanson lics in Central Asia. The war-torn republics had killed all their animals for food so they needed calves.

“My cattle had seen more of the world than I did,” said Hanson.

Since then, Hanson traveled to Vietnam with the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program in 2016. Hanson experienced communism, strong in the North and tempered with expressions of freedom in the South. The class visited container shipping ports, oyster, pineapple and hog farms, and a rubber plantation.

“Very nice people. So much is still the same in agriculture. They worry about weather and farm prices,” said Hanson.

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By MARIE WOOD, The Land Associate Editor

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Memoirs of a young farm mother: diapers, forts, toys It doesn’t take very long basket through the living for a first-time mother — room with a toddler shouturban or rural — to lose ing, “Mom! You’re walking track of all the lofty goals on our corn field!” she once had about being And I had never repeated the perfect mother and myself so many times in a homemaker. day. It was only an inkling My husband and I went of what was to come as I from one to three children entered my 50s. But I TABLE TALK in two pregnancies. We’d wouldn’t be able to blame seen multiple births out in

By Karen Schwaller that on the kids. the barns all the time, but I handled so many dirty now it had come to the diapers with twins that house. And our house resembled a when my husband announced he was barn for many months afterward as I going to have urea put on (his fields), navigated my way through cloth diait sounded more like a medical condipers for two; projectile spit-up; chocotion. late chip cookie slobber on high chairs After all of that diaper-rinsing in the and in hair; small plastic building pieces hidden in the carpet; chair and toilet, I was surprised by one of our sons who, (when older and helping blanket forts; “sale barn” set-up days; clean up the shop one day), came to implements strewn about the kitchen me with a handkerchief held by a pair and living room; and being yelled at of pliers. Suspecting a sprinkling of as I carried the overflowing laundry

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raccoon doo-doo or some other atrocity associated with it, I asked him what was on it. His only reply was, “I don’t know … boogers or something.”

Even I — a girl — could pick up something as mysterious as a pair of compression shorts off of his bedroom floor (without pliers), sniff them to determine the caliber of cleanliness and decide what to do with them.

After all, I’ve smelled way worse than that on the farm.

Farm wives and moms get used to terrible smells everywhere. In fact, terrible smells seem to follow her family members wherever they are — due to the nature of their work.

I remember coming home from our county fairgrounds late one night after preparing for the kids’ first 4-H sheep show the next morning.

Everyone was exhausted and the kids were all piled on top of one another, sleeping in the back seat of the pickup on the way home.

I noticed an obnoxious smell about halfway home and asked, “What reeks in here?”

My husband tiredly replied, “I think it’s us.”

I had become a stay-home mother when our twins were born. Three children in daycare would have made a living for the daycare woman and not for me, so we went without some things in order to be able to afford it.

My husband worked a full-time job in town to keep his farming dream alive, so I was doing a solo job of mothering

and parenting most of the time during those baby and toddler years as well.

Much like farming, it was a relentless job that never ended — especially on days when everyone was ill and the “sick laundry” piled up while kids needed to be held, comforted and cared for; when the diaper pail was calling; when they could tip a cart over in the grocery store; when Mother Nature called in stores; when everyone needed to eat; and especially after all of the children could outrun me.

I swear that toddlers could sweep the gold medal stands at Olympic track events.

Probably my most annoying memory of having young children is when we stopped to visit a friend of mine who had just retired from his job in town.

Our boys were 18 months old and our daughter was 3-and-a-half years old at the time. They were all behaving fairly well, so we summoned the guts to bring them all to his acreage to be set free for a few minutes before we went home.

My friend said to me as we were visiting, “... so, how do you like loafing?”

I’m pretty sure the look on my face must have been the reason for his back-peddling.

I’m also pretty sure it was the last time he uttered those words to a young mother.

Karen Schwaller brings “Table Talk” to The Land from her home near Milford, Iowa. She can be reached at kschwaller@evertek.net. v

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Cash Grain Markets

corn/change* soybeans/change* Sauk Rapids $2.88 -.02 $8.40 +.11 Madison $3.06 -.07 $8.74 +.04 Redwood Falls $3.07 -.06 $8.94 +.10 Fergus Falls $3.15 +.15 $8.64 +.14 Morris $3.03 -.04 $8.72 +.18 Tracy $3.11 -.03 $8.94 +.16 Average: $3.05 $8.73 Year Ago Average: $3.23 $9.86

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The following marketing analysis is for the week ending May 5.

CORN — The market was driven by weather forecasts and fund activity this week. Rain and snow over the April 29-30 weekend rocketed prices higher when traders flipped the calendar to May. The May 1 high of $3.79 was the high point for the week as funds covered a portion of their short positions and the effects of rain and snow were evaluated. Better extended forecasts developed during the week which pushed prices to a low of PHYLLIS NYSTROM CHS Hedging Inc. $3.66 per bushel in post-export St. Paul sales trading. After a sharply lower move on May 4, funds again covered some shorts going into the weekend, since weather forecasts can change significantly over a weekend.

July corn has essentially traded from $3.62.5 to $3.79.5 per bushel since March 10. For the week, July corn was up 4.25 cents at $3.70.75, thanks to a pre-weekend rally. The December contract was 3.5 cents higher at $3.88.5 per bushel.

The Wheat Quality Council wheat tour estimated the Kansas wheat crop at 281.7 million bushels using a yield of 46.1 bushels per acre. The five-year average is 41.6 bu./acre. The numbers may be questionable since many fields were laid over by snow and only time will tell how much was hurt.

The monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report will be released on May 10. This report will give us our first peek at the

What a finish to the month of April with the cattle and hog markets closing strong to close out the month. The question now is will this current strength continue into the month of May. With the extreme volatility present in the livestock markets, one might expect a roller coaster ride in the weeks ahead.

See NYSTROM, pg. 10

Grain Angles Equipment costs in farm strategy

Machinery and equipment are some of the largest investments you, as a grain producer, will ever make.

What’s more, it’s not a one-and-done proposition.

Keeping equipment in good working order is an ongoing expense. According to ag economist William Edwards, costs related to machinery align with a farm’s profits.

How and when equipment is The cattle market was the most replaced can mean a bottom line explosive of the livestock mardifference of thousands of dollars. kets during the month of April It’s always important to scrutimoving sharply higher during nize repairs and replacements. the last couple of weeks of the Just because a piece of equipmonth. Tight supplies of cattle ment needs to be repaired, and good export demand proERIC MADSEN JOE TEALE doesn’t mean we automatically pelled the cash and futures to AgStar Assistant Broker send it in to be fixed.

It’s imporlevels not seen since the beginVice President Great Plains Commodity tant to look back at each individning of the year.

Mankato, Minn.

Afton, Minn. ual equipment item on our balThe beef cutout also has ance sheet and really ask whether advanced back over the 220.00 level for the first time the repair costs have gotten to the point where in quite a while. The advance in the beef cutout has replacement is justified. not moved as rapidly as the price paid by the packer Here are some general considerations: Could we for live inventory. This has tightened the profit margin of the packer which could force the packers to not adjust our equipment management strategy to become more productive or more efficient at a lower be as aggressive in their bidding in the days ahead. cost? Could more work be done on-farm to become There are several interesting conundrums that more profitable than outsourcing labor or specialized face the cattle market in the weeks ahead. One being services? If we have a large equipment line that has the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Cattle on a great deal of debt to run our cropping enterprise, Feed report suggesting cattle placed were greater perhaps we need to evaluate outsourcing and/or than the trade had anticipated. Also, the future mar- reducing our equipment line to make the operation ket now has the June contract as the lead option more cash efficient. which is very discount to the current cash market.

A few years back, trading for new equipment was The other factor is that cattle have been pulled ahead very popular. The practice helped producers avoid of their normal finishing time which is reflected in costly breakdowns in the field, take advantage of tax the current weights of slaughter animals. The last item would be the fact that the cattle market in all benefits and stay current with technology. Times See TEALE, pg. 11 See MADSEN, pg. 10

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.

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Brazilian soybean exports hit record high in April NYSTROM, from pg. 9

planted, which is right 2017-18 balance sheets. The average at the average. Corn trade estimate for 2016-17 ending emerged was 9 percent stocks is 2.326 billion bushels. This is vs. 8 percent on average. Traders are very close to the April 2.320 billion anticipating corn planting to be 43 perbushel figure from the U.S. cent complete as of May 7 compared to Department of Agriculture. The aver- 51 percent complete on average. An age trade forecast for 2017-18 ending unanswered question at this time is how many acres will have to be replantstocks is 2.120 billion bushels. ed. Growers are hoping for another Weekly export sales for old crop were weather-induced rally, but they should in line with expectations at 30.4 mil- be ready to reward it if it happens. Call lion bushels. We are slipping in our the trading range for July corn from advantage over last year. We are now $3.60 to $3.80 per bushel and for the just 37 percent ahead of last year vs. December contract $3.80 to $4.05 per 43 percent ahead two weeks ago. Total bushel. export commitments are 2.040 billion SOYBEANS — Soybeans gapped bushels, which is 185 million bushels higher from April 28 close to set the off the USDA’s 2.225 billion bushel tone for the week. The gap left on May export number. We only need to aver1 from $9.56.25 to $9.58.5 per bushel age 14.5 million bushels per week in will act as first support in the July export sales to hit the USDA’s numsoybean contract.

After hitting its ber; but with Brazil’s huge corn crop highest price level since March 29, yet to come, and with their storage July soybeans pulled back slightly on expected to get tight, it’s likely too May 5, but left the 50-day moving early to move the export figure much average as the next upside target at higher. New crop corn sales were $9.88.25 per bushel.

If corn can get 900,000 bushels, also in line with planted, it may mean fewer additional expectations. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange declared force majeure at acres could be pushed to soybeans.

Illinois River delivery points due to Also, underlying demand for soybeans high water restricting loading and and a strong soyoil market have helped support prices. Soymeal prices were barge movement. sideways for the week, but soyoil pricWeekly ethanol production was down es soared to levels not seen since 1,000 barrels per day to 986,000 bpd. March 24.

Stocks were up 100,000 barrels at 23.2 Weekly export sales were at the low million barrels. Since Jan. 1, year-toend of expectations for old crop at 11.7 date gasoline demand is down 5.1 permillion bushels and a disappointment cent from last year. Ethanol margins for new crop at 500,000 bushels. Total were down 8 cents per gallon for the old crop commitments are 2.082 billion week at 7 cents per gallon. The USDA bushels, keeping ahead of the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics 2.025 billion bushel target. Usually Service’s March corn crush for ethanol 55-61 million bushels of old crop sales was 460.4 million bushels, slightly get rolled into new crop at the end of below expectations. For the first seven the marketing year. months of the marketing year, 3.175 The March NASS Soybean Crush billion bushels of corn have been crushed for ethanol, which is up 3.9 report showed a disappointing 160 milpercent from last year. Brazil has lion bushels of soybeans crushed vs. delayed their decision on whether or trade estimates for 162.2 million bushnot to increase the tax on U.S. ethanol els. Year-to-date in the marketing year, imports from zero to 16-20 percent. 1.14 billion bushels of soybeans have Brazil imported 37 million gallons from been crushed, up 1.5 percent from last year. The USDA is forecasting a 2.9 the United States in March.

Outlook: Corn has been stuck in a percent increase in crush for this year. range and even recent adverse weather Soyoil stocks were 2.353 billion pounds, has been unable to push it out of that much higher than the pre-trade estirange. At this writing, it looks like mate of 2.246 billion pounds. Brazil’s weather conditions will improve over soybean exports hit a record in April at the next two weeks to get the crop in 10.4 mmt. China will reduce their valthe ground. The U.S. farmer can get the ue-added tax on imported soybeans crop planted very quickly when moti- from 13 percent to 11 percent, effective vated to do so. As of April 30, 34 per- July 1.

U.S. soybean planting as of April cent of the U.S. corn crop had been

30 was 10 percent complete vs. 7 percent on average. Traders are expecting planting to hit 14 percent as of May 7, which is 3 percent behind the average for this week.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to continue its investigation into anti-dumping allegations of biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia. U.S. producers contend imports from those countries harms U.S. producers. Soyoil hit its highest level since March 24 on the news.

Outlook: How many soybean acres will need to be replanted? Demand remains strong which led to basis level improvements around the Midwest.

Soybeans are in a slight uptrend, but I would be cautious about expecting an extensive rally. If soybeans trek toward

$10 per bushel for old and/or new crop, natural selling will likely occur. We’ll wait and see if the May 10 report provides any direction. For the week, July soybeans rallied 16.75 cents to $9.73 per bushel and November soybeans gained 13.25 cents to $9.66.5 per bushel. July meal was $1.10 higher at $316.90 and July soyoil was 1.19 points higher at 32.90.

Nystrom’s Notes: Contract changes for the week ending May 5: July Minneapolis wheat fell half-a-cent to $5.54.25 per bushel, Chicago gained a dime at $4.42.25 and Kansas City rallied 12.75 cents to $4.50 per bushel.

June crude oil dropped $3.11 to $46.22 per barrel, ULSD plunged 7 cents lower, RBOB fell 4.5 cents and natural gas declined a penny. The June U.S. dollar was 0.428 points lower at 98.470. v

MADSEN, from pg. 9 (and margins) have changed, however, and that means a lot of operations are finding themselves cash-strapped.

Making new purchases is out of the question. For those lucky enough to have working capital, and in a financial situation to make either choice, there are trade-offs to consider.

Advantages to repairing existing equipment include: No new loan payments for cash flow; you may only need to spend $5,000 on a repair compared to a $60,000 trade price; the repair is tax deductible; and if you can do the work yourself, the repair will likely be very advantageous Problems with repairing older equipment include: the equipment may need constant fixing; it may be less reliable — creating a loss of time with in-season repairs; the equipment’s overall value will decrease the more hours the equipment is used; at some point, equipment doesn’t depreciate any longer; and the cost of the repair could be as much as the value of the piece of machinery.

Advantages of replacing older equipment may include: the availability of warranties on new equipment. It is also possible to get a one or two-year parts warranty with a used equipment purchase; an upgrade in technology; tax depreciation; and if the equipment market is depressed, you could get a deal on a newer, used piece of equipment.

However, when replacing a piece of equipment, it may be likely to still have some maintenance or repair costs; you may need to update other equipment to match up to the new equipment (for example, combine heads, planting technology, etc.); and it could cause your operation to burn working capital faster.

A strategy some of our clients are considering is trying to match payments with depreciation. Some producers have gotten themselves into a sticky financial situation due to using the 179 deduction on the entire purchase and then setting up a payment. Future payments then have to be made with net income, and the only deduction to the payment is the interest. In tight financial times with little net income, that means burning working capital to make the machinery payment.

Repairing versus replacing can be a very difficult decision and there is no one right or wrong answer. Operational situations and goals differ a great deal. We recommend producers work together with their financer and tax advisor to put together an informed decision. Even when your advisors do not completely agree, they typically work to find common ground that benefits each unique producer.

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The hog market has struggled for the most part to edge higher in the futures market, while the cash trade is still trying to turn the corner and follow the futures higher. From a seasonal standpoint, this is the time of year the hog market gains upward momentum. But as yet, the cash has not turned the corner of the current slide in prices.

Pork cutouts have been fairly stable over the past several weeks and have not provided the packer the opportunity to become more aggressive in the acquisition of live inventory. This factor is an important role in the continuation of a seasonal rally if it is to develop in the weeks ahead. Many fear that the projected increase in hog numbers will retard the normal seasonal rally, and the weeks ahead will determine if the rally will continue or fail.

There would seem to be a lot of uncertainty facing the hog market in the next several weeks which will determine the overall direction in prices into the summer months. Therefore, producers should approach the hog market with some skepticism and protect inventories when necessary. v

That includes Norma and Lee Raske, who have gardened there since the beginning. In some years, Norma has organized garden parties — what she described in an e-mail as “a harvest picnic where each gardener provides a dish made from produce from their garden. We have been able to meet many new gardeners and have made new friends.”

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Goodmund and his wife great opportunity now do, he has seen some that I am retired and in a growers bring produce to condo with no gardening the Farmers Market. space. For the last several years I was able to plant The rental cost is to pro‘Tiny-Tim’ pumpkins and vide funds for tilling the small gourds that allowed ground in the spring, and me to donate a hundred again at the end of the or so to the YMCA for season, and for water that kids programs there.” was added about 10 years ago. Goodmund and his Whether used for comwife help keep costs down munity projects, farmers by volunteering their markets, or personal use, labor every spring to meaMarshall’s community Photos by Richard Siemers garden has been very sucsure and stake off the plots. He also acts as the The city of Pipestone’s community garden is so popu- cessful with many return weed inspector to make lar, all of the plots are rented for the season. gardeners every year. sure people are keeping n their plots clean, though that hasn’t been a problem.

Forty-three miles southwest in the town of Pipestone, In fact, there have been very few problems. There’s community gardens are equally successful. This will not even a fence, since deer and other wildlife have be City Clerk Deb Nelson’s first year to administer not bothered the plots. their garden and she gives a predecessor, Michael “We are fortunate that the land is good and about Vander Haar, credit for getting it off to a good start. the only thing I ever hear is potato bugs,” Goodmund “Every year every plot has been rented and we said. “People respect the plot lines and the other gar- have had a waiting list,” Nelson said. “If we have deners. For the most part, everybody’s been very See CITY GARDENS, pg. 12 happy for all these years.”

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By RICHARD SIEMERS The Land Correspondent MARSHALL, Minn. — There are numerous people who want to garden, but just don’t have the space.

The evidence for that statement is the growing popularity of community gardens.

This will be the 15th season that Doug the city of Marshall has sponsored a Goodmund community garden. They have expanded their garden to 60 plots, according to Doug Goodmund, assistant to the director of community services, who administers the community garden.

“I had heard that Brookings, S.D., had community gardens connected with their utilities,” Goodmund said. “We had this property (on Marshall utilities land) and we worked with them to provide plots.”

The plots are a generous-sized 25 feet by 57 feet and rent for $35. Goodmund said some families will share a plot, while others take two. Groups have also rented plots, like a church group that raised vegetables for the food shelf. While most people are stocking their freezers or giving to family members, as

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Gardeners share each other’s company, gardening tips CITY GARDENS, from pg. 11 other spots in the city that should open up, we would do another garden to service the people. We have that need.”

Some of the need has been alleviated by two church congregations: Peace United Methodist Church and Pipestone Christian Reformed Church.

Both added gardens on their properties totaling 23 plots, and another garden at an elementary school.

About 10 years ago, Nelson said, the City of Pipestone along with some collaborating entities received a Blue Cross Blue Shield grant which came from the tobacco settlement reached by the State of Minnesota. The money was to create tobacco-free spaces that had health benefits. Their garden is one of those spaces. Pipestone’s garden was developed five years ago.

For their garden, the city built 20 raised beds which measure 8-feet by

16-feet. They put in water, and a shed that has watering hoses and some gardening tools the gardeners can borrow.

It is surrounded by a metal fence, with a white picket fence along the street side. The plots rent for $15, and the city also hauls away weeds and spent crops.

“We want to make it affordable for people,” Nelson said. “A lot of people don’t have space in their backyard, or they live in an apartment building. I understand it is a social event as well, Deb Nelson the way they share gardening tips, day-to-day being outside, working with God’s green earth, and enjoying the company of others.

People take pride in it.”

A town doesn’t have to be as big as Pipestone or Marshall for a community garden. Nelson lives in Lake Wilson

(population 250). She said the town had a condemned property that they tore down, and they use the space for a community garden.

“There are raised bed and ground spots,” she said. “It has really caught on.” n Dawn Vlaminck is the administrator/ clerk of Ghent (population 370), about seven miles northwest of Marshall. In an e-mail interview, she said they started a community garden in 2011 in an empty lot in their housing development.

They have 16 plots about 25 feet by 35 feet which rent for $30.

“I expect to have at least 11 plots rented this season, based on requests,” Vlaminck wrote. “It works out quite nicely for all involved.”

Ghent is one of the gardens that sprouted from the idea that Doug Goodmund got from Brookings. He said a number of neighboring towns had

called for information.

Most of the community gardens have similar regulations that require respect for neighboring plots (such as no plants that would shade a neighbor’s plot or vines that would invade them), planting only annuals, having the spaces cleaned out by mid-October and the like.

Both Goodmund and Nelson are enthusiastic about community gardens, a service that basically pays for itself.

“They’re absolutely wonderful,” Nelson said. “We who have a garden don’t think about others that want one, and to provide that need, it’s pretty great.”

For more information on how their gardens work, contact Doug Goodmund at (507) 537-6767 or doug.goodmund@ci.marshall.mn.us, and Deb Nelson at (507) 825-3324 or dnelson@cityofpipestone.com. v

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“We love to talk garden with anyone,” said Darla.

The Eetens do all the work themselves: planning, planting, weeding, harvesting, preparing the produce This year, at the end of the summer, they are hostfor sale and manning their tables at the markets. ing a Practical Farmers of Iowa event at their farm.

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By RENAE B. VANDER SCHAAF The Land Correspondent EVERLY, Iowa — Darla Eeten laughs about it now, but it was with great reluctance that she went to her first farmers market. She remembers telling her husband Michael Eeten, “I just want to stay home and work in my garden.”

Michael smiles with that ready grin of his, shakes his head in agreement.

“She certainly was a nervous wreck that day,” he said. “But she came home all excited, telling me she likes to sell.”

It’s not surprising that the Eetens’ lives revolve around growing fruits and vegetables. After all, it was a strawberry patch that brought the two together.

Michael had planted strawberries for retail on his farm east of Everly in Photos by Renae B. Vander Schaaf 2009. The strawber- Michael and Darla Eeten work ries were producing side by side, growing fruits and well, and he just vegetables for their many cuscouldn’t keep ahead tomers. of the berries that need picking daily. So he enlisted the help of Darla’s daughters, who were working for a neighbor.

They came knowing how to pick strawberries because their mother had raised her five children on a huge garden at their home near Boyden.

As the girls got to know Michael, they conjured up a meeting between their mother and him. The next year, they convinced their mother one evening to help pick strawberries. A week later, Michael came to Boyden to look at her flower and vegetable gardens.

Amidst all the growing plants, love blossomed and they were married a year later.

Today, the Eetens grow approximately 90 different vegetables and some fruit on 12 acres. The chemicalfree produce is sold at three different markets: Everly and Sheldon farmers markets, Spencer Riverfront District Farmer’s Market and through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

Sometimes unusual produce is in their CSA buys: fennel, Napa cabbage, edamame, sweet yellow peppers and parsnips. Darla includes a description of the vegetable, along with its history, nutritive value, and helpful ideas on how to use it. Parsnips are a good example.

“Although parsnips are not new to the older generation,” said Darla. “They will tell me that their mothers used to grow parsnips and that they haven’t had them for years.”

This spring, parsnips will be just a bit scarcer. The Eetens leave them in the ground to overwinter — making for a better, sweeter parsnip. This year, when Michael turned out his two American Guinea hogs,

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Nutritional health makes elk a growing choice for consumers

By DICK HAGEN to haylage, hay and limited grain in the winter The Land Staff Writer months. “We start our weaned calves on a ration OWATONNA, Minn. — Minnesota has about 120 that gradually moves up to two pounds of grain per elk farms, according to Greg Lubinski, board member animal per day. It’s a mixed ration running about 16 of the Minnesota Elk Breeders Association. About to 17 percent protein with about a 60 energy rating.

3,900 elk are raised each year on these farms. We also test our hay each season for protein levels Statewide, Minnesota boasts about 460 Cervidae and relative food levels.” producers (elk and deer).

Lubinski’s local grain elevator handles the testing of both dry forages and pasture grass. Samples are Lubinski indicated elk numbers average 40 to 50 head per farm, but some are considerably larger. At sent to a Wisconsin testing lab. Lubinski is particuLubinski Elk Acres near Plainview, Lubinski raises lar about nutritional content of his elk rations. “Elk are the predominant source of income in our total about 200 head. farming operation,” he said. “This is not a hobby.”

“We produce mainly meat, but also do velvet antlers for the velvet pills,” he said. “People A comparison of 3 ounces of with arthritic problems are a big market for cooked elk meat versus other meats the velvet pills, a joint supplement long tout Fat Cholesterol Protein ed by various cultures around the world, especially in China, Korea, Japan and Russia.” Meat Calories (grams) (milligrams) (grams)

73 30.2 Lubinski said growing elk is much like Elk 146 1.9 raising beef with a few specific regulations. Chicken 190 7.4 89 28.9 You need an 8-foot fence enclosure for your 86 29.9 elk herd. You need to be registered with the Beef 211 9.3 Minnesota Board of Animal Health and each Pork 212 9.7 86 29.3 animal needs to be identified with an ear tag. If a wild deer gets into your elk encloGross income from their elk operation will be over sure, it needs to be destroyed. Your herd needs to be four times income generated from their corn and inventoried by an accredited veterinarian and filed soybean crops. They farm 240 acres with 110 acres in with the board every 12 months. permanent pasture.

The Lubinskis pasture their elk herd, then switch “We sell elk meat by the pound,” he said. “Some buy

the entire carcass; some buy just a half carcass. We also have producers within our Minnesota Elk Breeders Association that have their own meat distributorship. We’ll sell whole animals to them, sometimes moving 40 to 50 head in one shot.”

What is dress-out on a market weight elk?

“The last four years for us it’s been 64 percent live weight to hanging weight,” he said. “A mature cow will average between 500 to 600 pounds live weight.

A two-year-old male will be around 700 pounds.

Older bulls, four years and older, can be up to about 1,100 pounds live weight.”

Characteristics The gestation period for elk is about 245 days.

Calving season starts in May. “Cows calve early spring on grass. We check them twice daily to make certain there aren’t any problems,” he said. “But cow elk do remarkably well during the calving process.

We just don’t have any calving issues.”

Cows occasionally produce twins, but singles are preferred.

“Twins can be stressful for some cows,” Lubinski said. “Deer will twin quite regularly, but not so elk.

I’ve been in the business since 1989 and have only pulled three calves. Elk cows are remarkably trouble-free at calving. Plus, they usually calve during daylight hours. When you see a foot sticking out, you’ve got a calf on the ground within a half hour, often just in 15 minutes.”

Elk cows are durable. “I’ve got cows 14 years old still producing good calves,” he said. “And a bonus of elk cows, when you cull, you’ve got good carcass meat to sell. You don’t sell for hamburger meat except perhaps cows 10 years and older. Your prime meats would be from males and females 3 years of age and younger.”

As for bulls — “A good elk bull can service about 30 cows,” Lubinski estimated.

Like most livestock species, elk have a pecking order. But shortly after your herd is grazing, pecking disappears. Lubinski uses alfalfa with a timothyorchard grass mixture for his hay and haylage forage.

The grass dries the freshly-cut forage a little faster.

“They actually prefer more of a grass mixture with their legumes. Our pasture mix is usually 50 to 60 percent legume, red clover, white clover, or birdsfoot trefoil plus a brome grass-timothy mixture. The hay usually lasts three to four years. Then we have a well-established grass-legume pasture,” he said.

Certain birds relish this habitat also. Lubinski remembers when he was 4 and 5 years old, Bobolinks See ELK, pg. 15

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Dairy product prices stay strong at Global Trade auction percent, following a 6 percent advance.

Lactose and butter were both up 1 percent, following respective gains of 1.2 and 2.9 percent last time. The butter price is a GDT record high, according to the Daily Dairy Report.

FC Stone equated the average 80 percent butterfat GDT butter price to $2.1733 per pound U.S. Chicago Mercantile Exchange butter closed May 5 at a globally competitive $2.1075 per pound. GDT cheddar cheese equated to $1.6628 per pound U.S. and compares to May 5’s CME block cheddar at $1.60. GDT skim milk powder was 89.89 cents per pound and whole milk powder averaged $1.4665 per pound U.S. CME Grade A nonfat dry milk price closed May 5 at 84.5

The April Federal order cents per pound. benchmark Class III milk n price is $15.22 per hundredThe May 4 Daily Dairy weight, down 59 cents from Report reported March U.S. March but $1.59 above cheese exports improved to April 2016 and equates to their highest level since $1.31 per gallon. It is the April 2015, according to the lowest Class III price since U.S. Census Bureau. Nonfat October 2016 but that may dry milk and skim milk MIELKE MARKET be the bottom for 2017. The powder exports, while down WEEKLY May contract was trading from February, were above a late in the morning of May

By Lee Mielke year ago and overall, the 5 at $15.61 and June Daily Dairy Report was at $15.94, with a says cheese and powder peak at $17.04 in are “keeping pace with September. rising production and The Class III average is $16.17, up are thus helping to balance the domesSee MIELKE, pg. 16 tic market.”

Charolaise cattle. They happened to drive by Lolli Livestock Market in Macon, Mo., which was having a big sale on elk. A couple years later I had convinced my bride that we should get into the elk business too, so I started with three cows and a bull.”

Market Lubinski describes the four legs of the elk business: breeding stock, meat, antler production for velvet, and trophy bulls sold to big ranchers who specialize in $10,000 hunts for a trophy bull elk.

“Actually, you could count the hard antlers as a fifth leg because there is always a good market for antlers. These are sold for display racks to impress visitors; or to make unique furniture; or as a special holder for family photos.

And a new use that has really taken off is dog chews. Dogs love them because they don’t splinter like a bone. And they want that marrow inside the bone which carries some glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate,” he said.

According to Minnesota Grown, elk meat is known for its high protein and low fat content which makes elk a hearthealthy alternative to other red meats.

Lubinski sees no practical limit to the numbers of elk that could be raised in Minnesota.

“I would like to see us become like New Zealand, where they process upwards of 300,000 a year. They used to slaughter close to 800,000 a year,” Lubinski said.

“The great conservationist Teddy Roosevelt said, America’s farmers and ranchers should consider raising elk as a diversification that would enhance both

our soils and our health.”

Despite his enthusiasm, Lubinski cautions that raising elk is not a getrich-quick strategy. And it’s not for everyone. You need some basic understanding of livestock and a genuine respect for the future of the industry.

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This column was written for the marketing week ending May 5.

The bulls are feeding on the latest Global Dairy Trade auction where the weighted average for all products offered advanced for the fourth consecutive event, up 3.6 percent, following a 3.1 percent jump April 18.

The only negative move was in skim milk powder, down 0.9 percent.

Buttermilk powder led the gains this time, jumping 21.8 percent. It was not traded in the last event. Rennet casein was up 10.4 percent. Whole milk powder was up 5.2 percent, after rising 3.5 percent. Anhydrous milkfat was up 4.7 percent, after it inched 0.5 percent lower, and GDT cheddar was up 4.6

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and Meadowlark prevailed on their farm.

When he made his first pasture cut a few years back, two Bobolink showed up.

“Now we have eight Greg Lubinski sets that come year after year,” he said, “and we’re now at 400 to 500 Meadowlark out there. Birds and elk get along well.

The birds sit on the backs of the elk and keep the flies away. Even the calves let the birds ride on their backs, so no more fly spray concerns.”

Every elk farmer has a story as to how they entered the field. Here’s Lubinski’s: “I was in Chamberlain, S.D., before I got married. I was out there with my future father-in-law, Loran Heins, who wanted to raise elk.

So we threw some cattle racks in the back of his diesel pickup just in case he found an elk for sale. I thought he was nuttier than a loon. But when we got to this livestock auction in Chamberlain, they were selling everything, A to Z. This elk cow came running through the auction ring and it brought $800! This was in the early 1980s. You couldn’t get $400 for a bred beef cow!

“So I asked him how many elk can you raise on an acre of pasture? He said, ‘Whatever you can run a beef cow on, you can run three elk cows.’ They are a true browser grazer. They are a ruminant just like a beef or dairy cow. He bought his first elk later that summer on a trip to Missouri where he was checking on some

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Ramped-up cheese production swells inventories MIELKE, from pg. 15 from $13.72 a year ago and $15.75 in 2015.

The April Class IV price is $14.01, down 31 cents from March, $1.33 above a year ago, but the lowest Class IV since November 2016. Its four-month average is at $15.03, up from $13.06 a year ago and $13.59 in 2015.

The 4a butter-powder price is $13.73, down 23 cents from March, $1.19 above a year ago, but the lowest 4a price since November 2016. The 4a average is now at $14.69, up from $12.87 a year ago and $13.33 in 2015. n March 50-state milk production totaled 18.7 billion pounds, up 1.7 percent from March 2016. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Dairy Products report shows where that milk went.

March cheese output totaled 1.1 billion pounds, up 12.7 percent from February and 3.3 percent above March 2016. Year-to-date cheese output stands at 3.0 billion pounds, up 1.6 percent from this time a year ago. Minnesota was up 3.8 percent.

Italian cheese output totaled 468.5 million pounds, up 15.2 percent from February and 2.2 percent above a year ago, with year-to-date output at 1.3 billion pounds, up 0.2 percent. Mozzarella, at 361.2 million pounds, was up 0.9 percent, with yearto-date at 1.0 billion pounds, down 0.7 percent.

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closed May 5 at $1.60 per pound, up 12 cents on the week and 29.5 cents above a year ago. The barrels finished at $1.45, up 3.25 cents on the week.

Total American type cheese production hit 415.5 n million pounds, up 11.2 percent from February and FC Stone’s May 4 Early Morning Update stated; 3.5 percent above a year ago. Year-to-date totaled “It’s not shocking that heavier volume is being 1.2 million pounds, up 3.1 percent. Cheddar output brought to the exchange as heavy milk flows and amounted to 309.3million pounds, up a bearish 8 ramped-up cheese production are testing capacity levpercent, with year-to-date at 896.8 million pounds, els and have pushed inventories into record territory.” up 6.6 percent from a year ago.

Dairy Market News echoed that sentiment, reportChurns produced 175.5 million pounds of butter, up 9 percent from February and 0.3 percent above a ing that milk remains readily available for cheese proyear ago. Year-to-date totaled 514.4 million pounds, ducers in the Midwest. Spot milk prices range $3.00 to $6.00 under Class, so cheese producers are taking up 0.1 percent. advantage of the market, whereas up until recent Yogurt output amounted to 390.5 million pounds, down 2.5 percent from a year ago, with year-to-date weeks, they were unable or unwilling. Cheese inventories are generally reported as long. However, some at 1.1 billion pounds, down 2.5 percent. manufacturers report steady ongoing orders have kept Dry whey totaled 88 million pounds, down 6.4 per- stocks in balance. Retail and food service demand is cent, with year-to-date hitting 248.3 million pounds, generally steady but the market tone is “uncertain.” up 3 percent.

Butter closed May 5 at $2.1075 per pound, up a Nonfat dry milk production totaled 159.7 million quarter-cent on the week and 5.75 cents above a year pounds, down 13 percent from February and 7.2 ago when it lost 7 cents, with 43 cars sold this week. percent below a year ago. Year-to-date production Class II manufacturers’ interests in cream have was at 454.5 million pounds, up 0.4 percent. Skim risen noticeably, according to Dairy Market News, milk powder production totaled 52.7 million pounds, yet cream remains available for churns in the up 31.8 percent from February and 30 percent Central region.

Some have slowed production slightabove a year ago. Year-to-date output is at 148 milly, others are churning abundant cream and storing lion pounds, up 12.2 percent. The report also butter for late summer and fall. Butter demand is showed March nonfat dry milk stocks at 247 million generally steady, the market tone is fair, but butter pounds, down 5.8 percent from February but 6.4 inventories are building. percent above a year ago.

Western contacts suggest that sales have flatMost dairy prices moved higher despite a lot of tened out since the spring holidays. Butter demand product moving to Chicago. Cash cheddar blocks is steady, however buyers do not feel compelled to make additional purchases. Inventories are building seasonally and in some cases, are already heavy.

There is plenty of cream available for churning, warns Dairy Market News.

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Feterl 12”x72’ swing hopper.............. $8,995 Westfield WR, 80x51, elec. ............... $2,995 Westfield WR, 80x26, elec. ............... $1,695 Westfield, 10”x31’, J elec.................. $1,850 Hutch 8”x62”, swing hopper ............. $6,495 Hutch 10”x72’, swing hopper ............ $5,900 Sheyenne 13”x70’, 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

SKID LOADERS ............................

‘14 Bobcat T590 ......................(2 from) $34,900 ‘12 Gehl 5240E, 2-spd., heat, 900 hrs ... $23,900 ‘16 Bobcat S740, A71, 2-spd ................ $34,500 Gehl R220, 2spd., joystick .......(2 from) $30,900 ‘14 Gehl V400, heat/AC, 2-spd. ............. $34,900 ‘12 Gehl 5240E, heat, 2-spd, radio ........ $23,900 ‘05 Bobcat 5185, heat ........................... $10,500 ‘14 Bobcat T590, w/bucket, A71 radio ... $35,900 ‘14 Bobcat T590, heat, radio, Hy Flow ... $34,900 Bobcat S750, A71PKG, 2-spd. ............... $35,950 Bobcat S205, A71PKG, 2-spd. ............... $25,900 ‘13 Bobcat S300 heat, ACS control, 2-spd. .. $26,900 Bobcat S590, heat/AC, 2-spd...(2 from) $31,900 (L) Bobcat S850, heat, A/C................... $45,900 (L) Bobcat S630, heat, 2 spd., 400 hrs. ....................................................... $34,900 (L) ’13 Bobcat S590, heat, 2-spd. ........ $31,600 (L) ’14 Bobcat S550, heat, 2-spd. ........ $29,900 Bobcat 610 w/bucket ........................ $3,250 Bobcat S550 Heat, 2-spd, 300 hrs .. $31,500 Bobcat S130 Heat, 800 hrs ............. $24,500 (L) ’13 Gehl R220, heat, 2-spd. ............ $34,800 (L) Gehl V330, heat, 2-spd. .................. $33,900 (W) Gehl 4240, 1100 hrs. ...................... $23,200 (W) NH LS150, 3200 hrs. ...................... $14,900 (L) ’14 Mustang RT175, 500 hrs. ......... $36,500 (L) Case 430, 2-spd. ............................ $24,900 (L) Gehl 4640, Heat ‘07. ....................... $15,500

SPREADERS ................................

(L) JD 980, 44.5’, 3-bar ....................... $17,500 JD Crumbler 200, 45’ ..................... $10,500 (L) CIH 600 PTX Chisel Plow, 38’ ......... $29,800 (L) CIH 370 Disc, 28’ ........................... $31,900 (L) CIH 730B ........................................ $15,900 (L) CIH Tigermate II, 54.5’, 4-bar .......... $29,800 JD 510, Disc Ripper, 7-Shank ......... $10,500 JD 512, 7-Shank, 2013 ................... $29,900 CIH Chisel Plow, PTX300, 34’ ......... $22,800

TRACTORS ..................................

Oliver Tractor 1365 .................................. $6,599 CIH Tractor 8950 ................................... $56,900

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Knight 5073, tow ............................ $17,199 Kuhn Knight 3300 ............................. $5,200 Kuhn Knight 5055 ........................... $14,900 Kuhn Knight 5135 ................................CALL ’14 Kuhn Knight RA142........................CALL

SPRAYERS ..................................

(L) Top Air Sprayer 90’ boom 1200 gal .. $19 400 (L) Hardi Navigator, 1100 gal ................. $15,500 (L) Hardi 1000 gal., 60’ boom ............... $14,400 (L) Demco 700 gal., 66’ boom, ff .......... $14,900 (L) (2) Redball 1200 gal., 90’ boom....... $19,900 (L) Redball 670, 1200 gal., 66’ boom .... $13,800

PLANTERS ..................................

White 8186, 16R30 ............................... $37,900 White 8202, 12R30, liquid fertilizer ........ $32,500 White 8202, 12R30, liquid fertilizer ........ $32,500 White Planter 8186 16R30 ..................... $32,900 White Planter 8824 24R30 ..................... $83,900

COMBINES ..................................

Gleaner A75, 4WD, w/heads ................ $110,000 Gleaner R62, w/heads.................................CALL Gleaner R62, w/heads............................ $39,500

(J) H&S 430......................................... $19,800 MISCELLANEOUS ........................

(W) Kuhn Knight 1230 ............................. $9,900 (L) Vicon Disc Mower ........... Starting at $5,950 (W) Kuhn Knight 8124 ........................... $18,500 CIH 12-wheel, Hi-Cap rake ....................... $7,600 (W) Meyers 350 w/end gate..................... $9,900 TWB180 Batwing mower ......................... $9,950 TILLAGE ...................................... Unverferth 400, 4 box seed tender ..............CALL (G) Used Grain Legs ..................................CALL Wilrich Cultivator 13Qx2, 60’ w/basket .......................................... (2 from) $49,900 (L) Woods 20’ Chopper, 3-pt. ................. $5,950 (G) Wilrich 957, 9-shank ....................... $29,900 (L) EZ-Flow 300 bu. Box ......................... $1,950 (L) Wilrich 957, 5-shank ....................... $16,500 (L) Used Snowblowers ..............................CALL (L/G) (3) Wilrich 957, 7-shank ......From $20,600 (L) Tonutti 5’ Disc Mower ....................... $4,500 (L) Wilrich 513, Soil Pro, 9-24 .............. $39,600 (W) H&S Rake ......................................... $4,700 (L) H&S Gear.......................................... $4,399 (W) Great Plains Turbo Chisel, 7- & 11-shank H&S 9-Wheel Rake ........................... $3,499 ............................................................CALL Val-Metal Model 5600 Bail Chopper ...... $13,800 (L) Great Plains Turbo Chisel, 11-shank ....................................................... $22,800 (L) J&M 1151, scale/tarp ..................... $48,900 (L) Glencoe DR 8699, 7-shank ............... $6,500 (W) 72” Box Blade, skid steer, universal attachment ........................................ $2,899 (L) Krause Dominator, 18’..................... $29,900 (L) Krause Dominator, 18’..................... $33,900 (W) 72” Dump Bucket, skid steer, universal attachment ........................................ $3,299 (L) ’11 Krause Dominator, 12’ .............. $29,900 (L) (2) DMI Tigermate II, 38.5’, 4-bar ... $28,900 (W) Westin 84” Snow Bucket, skid steer, universal attachment ............................ $975 (L) DMI Tigermate II, 42.5’, 3-bar ......... $20,600 (G) (2) DMI 730 Rippers ....................... $10,900 (W) ‘80 Allied 8’ 3-pt. Single Auger Snowblower, (L) (2) DMI 527 .................... Starting At $9,300 w/hyd. chute ..................................... $1,999 (L) JD 2700, 9-24 Ripper ..................... $23,900 (L) Steel Tracks, Fit S850 Skid................ $3,799 (G) JD 2700, 7-shank ........................... $23,900 Hiniker 20ft 1700 4-wheel........................ $9,950 JD 2210, 45.5’, 4-bar ..................... $35,500 Brent Box 540, 425 tires .......................... $9,900 (L) JD 985, 49.5’, 3-bar ....................... $18,900 Parker 838, Grain Cart ........................... $19,900

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Batco 13-35 belt conveyor, electric & hyd drive, $5,450; Demco conquest 1100 gal sprayer, 90' booms, T-Jet monitor, 320x46 tires, $7,450; JD 12x30 hyd wing fold planter, w/ Yetter trash whippers & JD monitor, $4,900; 7' pull type box blade, $950; Demco 250 gal saddle tanks, like new $650/pair; 18.4x38, 18.4x42, & 18.4x46 10 bolt duals, $750 & up. 320-769-2756

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FOR SALE: NH 489 FOR SALE: '89 Pete 379 FOR SALE: CIH 1830 60x30 haybine; JD 337 baler, 40 flat fold cultivator, $7,900; semi, new rubber, good thrower; 2 Meyer bale Westfield 10x71 auger, w/ sound truck, $8,000; JD 893 thrower racks, good condiL.P. Swing hopper, $4,750; 8R30 cornhead, new sprocktion, shedded. 952-466-2593 '13 model JD 569 baler, net ets, chains, $12,000; JD 925 & twine wrap, moisture bean head, $4,000; '12 monitor, 11,000 bales, Woods S20CD stalk chopFOR SALE: OMC 260 $22,750; '08 JD 7830 MFW per, like new, less than 1000 swather parts or re-build, tractor, 4600 hrs, 20 sd PQ, acres, $12,000. 651-792-6518 complete machine w/ 16' 18.46 w/ duals, $74,500; JD head, but burned on right 9510 combine, 30.5x32, side, has good crimper, 6 FOR SALE: 20' IHC rotary hoe, 3pt w/ transport, like brown box monitor, 2700 cyl Ford motor, $800/OBO. new, 24' pull type anhysep hrs. $32,500; Demco 550 507-640-0149 drous applicator, hydraulic, grav box, 425x22.5 tires, Lange CC-240 knives, 11' $7,450. 320-769-2756 Hesston 5585 round baler, Minneapolis Moline drills, makes up to a 5x5 bale, grass seed attachment. 218FOR SALE: Fantini choptwine wrap, stored under 867-2134 ping 8R & 12R CH; 70' roof, runs fine, $5,000. 715FOR SALE: 2008 Jet 38' Elmer drag, Merritt alum 963-4922 grain trailer; 1997 CLH 2188 hopper grain trailers; '89 combine; 1020 25' beanJD 568 round baler, exc IH 1680 combine; 24R30” head; 1063 6R30” corn cond, asking 20,000. 608-792JD pl on Kinze bar; Big A head, JD 2800, 6BT vari 8051 floater; 175 Michigan ldr; width plow. 320-583-6967 IH 964 CH; White 706 & 708 NH round baler 648, silage CH & parts; White plows & special only, 2200 bales, FOR SALE: 2010 NH L190 parts; (3) 4WD drive pickskid loader, 425 hrs, high $12,500. 920-495-0018 ups ('78-'80); JD 44' field flow hyd., 2 spd, hyd. decult; 3300 Hiniker field tach, rear weights, cult; IH 260 backhoe; Bins & Buildings 033 AC/Heat, 14x17.5 tires, header trailer. 507-380-5324 $32,000. 507-317-1757 Barn roofing Hip or round roof barns and other buildings. Also barn and quonset straightening. Kelling Silo 1-800-355-2598

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FOR SALE: 1000 gal diesel FOR SALE: JD 566 round Harms Mfg. Land Rollers, '93 JD 7700 tractor, cab SAVE MONEY! barrel, $300; 500 gal gas Brand New, 12'-$6,500; 14'baler w/ net wrap, 9,602 air/heat, 2WD, 42" rubber On New & Used barrel, $150. St James MN $7,000; 16'-$7,500; 24'bales. 507-461-2943 w/factory duals, PS, 1-ownMANDAKO Land Rollers 507-621-2585 $14,000; 32'-$16,200; 42'er. Would consider smaller RENTAL Units $19,500.

Others from 8' â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tractor in trade, asking 20-34-40-42-46 Ft On Hand FOR SALE: NH 654 4'x6' Harley Rock Picker, Degel62'. 715-234-1993 $25,000. (608)792-8051 man Rock Rake, 12' PTO HEAVIEST BUILT! round baler, excellent conJD535 Discbine w/ Rotor.

3â&#x20AC;? SHAFTS (Not 2 7/16ths) dition, $5,500; JD 845 12x30 FOR SALE: '06 Buhler Ver715-933-2546 Retirement Sale: 1066 IH LARGER, Heavier Bearings flat fold cultivator w/ satile 2210, 2115 actual hrs, tractor w/ dual tires, 7780 shields, $2,250; AC 185 D Dealer 319-347-6282 Can Del MFWD, super steer, new Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Rehrs, $10,500; 1432 NH distractor, 2 hyd, 3pt, $4,750; eng w/ full factory warranpair Repair-TroubleshootWe buy cbine, 13' cut, very good IH 1300 3pt sickle mower, 9' ty at 1975 hrs, front & rear ing Sales-Design Custom Salvage Equipment cond, $10,500; Hesston 12 bar, $1,250; JD MX10 3pt, duals, full set of wgts, absohydraulic hose-making up Parts Available wheel hay rake, brush mower, $4,450; 42' lute exc cond. 507-251-6163 to 2â&#x20AC;? Service calls made.

Hammell Equip., Inc. $4,400/OBO; Yale 6000lb dsl FW Manufacturing, dolly STOEN'S Hydrostatic Ser(507)867-4910 forklift, $5,500/OBO; Hay wheel head trailer, lights FOR SALE: 1975 IH Cub w/ vice 16084 State Hwy 29 N wagon 16'x8' w/ 6T gear, brakes & fender, $4,500; hydraulics & 2 attachGlenwood, MN 56334 320$450. 715-748-6863 or text Tractors CIH magnum suitcase wts, 036 ments; 1947 Farmall Cub 634-4360 715-560-1501 $80/each. 320-769-2756 w/ hydraulics & 5 attachments; 1958 Farmall 340, '76 IH 706 tractor w/loader $1,800, call evenings. 218310 German diesel en371-8784 â&#x20AC;˘ 5/8â&#x20AC;? drum roller gine, JD model 158 hyd loader, K&M steps, 3pt, wall thickness good tires, rear fenders, FOR SALE: 1987 IH 2294, FWA, air, heat, new tires, New starter, seat & batâ&#x20AC;˘ 42â&#x20AC;? drum diameter 7,000 hrs, wts, dauls, 2nd tery, $7,500. (641) 590owner, nice. $19,000. 3201102 â&#x20AC;˘ 4â&#x20AC;?x8â&#x20AC;? frame 250-5649

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REDUCED PRICES! TRACTORS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;13 Melroe Bobcat S570, cab/heat, 380 hrs .......... $27,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;15 Case IH MX250, 300 hrs ........................ $179,500 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07 Case IH MX305, 3000 hrs ...................... $114,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 Case IH MX315, 1021 hrs ...................... $174,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;03 Case IH STX375 Quad, 500 Auto Steer, 3100 hrs.... $153,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;04 Case IH STX425, 7010-38 duals 70%, 3750 hrs ... $114,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 Case IH STX485 Quadtrac, 2300 hrs ...................... $204,900 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;91 Case 7120 MFD, 5026 hrs ........................ $48,500 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;91 Case IH 7140, 18.4-46 duals, nice ..................... $58,500

PLANTERS Case IH 1200, 16-30 Pivot Bulk Fill .................................. $46,900 Case IH 1250, 16-30 Bulk Fill scale .............................. $59,900 Kinze 3200, 12-30 liquid fertilizer .......................... $32,500 Case IH Tigermate II, 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 4 bar .............................. $19,900 Case IH RMX370, 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; cusion 3 bar .............................. $26,900 COMBINES Case IH 2188, duals, nice ................................ $36,900 Case IH 2366, 2300 hrs., duals .............................. $83,500 Case IH 7010, 1075 hrs ...................... $139,900

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'03 Case IH 1020 Platform 30', Crary air reel, SCH sickle, 3" sections, Poly auger fingers, extra sickle & some parts, includes 4 wheel trailer, $16,000.

(641) 590-1102

FOR SALE: IH 826 hydro w/ WL42 Westendorf loader; IHB Farmall tractor;DMI 300 BU gravity wagon; M&W 200 BU gravity wag- JD693 corn head hyd deck plates, works exc, $11,750; on. 507-350-9580 JD925 flex head poly, Hyd 4 aft, new cycle 2016, works FOR SALE: JD 8400 MFWD exc, $7,750. 715-556-0045 tractor, under 5000 original hrs, nice condition, asking Planting Equip 038 $86,000. 507-227-2602 FOR SALE: Nice Case IH GREAT PLAINS 10 Ft 4894, 4x4, 300 HP, newer set #1006NT No-Till Drill w/ of Firestone 23 degree radiGrass. GREAT PLAINS 26 als, many new parts on moFt #8326 Discovator/Finishtor, turbo, fuel pump, exer Almost New. 319-347-2349 haust manifolds, etc. $20,500, cheap HP. 507-640- JD 1780 16-31R planter, MaxEmerge Plus, Flexfold, 0149 vacuum hopper, 3 bu box, FOR SALE: Restored '78 fold-over markers, mechanMF 1135, 121HP, 6401 hrs, ical drive, ½ width disconnew paint, seat, muffler, nect, heavy down pressure, exc tires, field or parade no-till coulters, 31x13.5-15 ready, $8,900. 507-250-0452 tires, drawbar hitch, Truvee openers, walking gauge JD 435, $7,800; '28 JD D on whls, rubber tire closing steel, $3,500; '45 BO Lindwhls, Seed Star monitor w/ man, $8,700. All restored. brown box & tractor har715-821-0365 or 715-425-5568 ness, will operate on competitive tractors, $24,000.

JD 4430, 6645 hrs, 507-430-5144 cab/air/heat, $16,500. 715456-1782 Tillage Equip 039 NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 55, 50 Series & newer tractors, AC-all models, Large Inventory, We ship! Mark Heitman Tractor Salvage 715-673-4829 Harvesting Equip

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'94 Case IH 1688 Combine 5337 hrs, 2WD, AFX rotor, field tracker, rock trap, feeder reverser, 2spd hydro, hyd chaff spreader, 216' unload auger, 20.8-42 duals 70%, rears 14.9-24 new, Maurer grain tank extension, grain loss monitor, yield monitor ready, $22,000.

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'02 Great Plains Turbo Till Vertical Tillage unit Model TT 3000, center wgt pkg, hyd wing down pressure, rolling spike tooth & basket harrow, 30' working width, $22,500. (641) 590-1102 '97 DMI Field Cultivator 40.5' Tigermate I, Blue, tandem wheels, 3 bar harrow double fold, narrow center frame, gauge wheels, nice unit, $12,500.

(641) 590-1102 Disc chisel 710 JD 7 shank, excellent condition, $5100.

715-317-0645 Used parts for IH 720 plows, toggle/auto reset. ½ price of new or less.

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All kinds of New & Used farm equipment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; disc chisels, field cults, planters, soil finishers, cornheads, feed mills, discs, balers, haybines, etc. 507-438-9782

RABE INTERNATIONAL, INC

WANTED TO BUY: JD Model 30 or AC Model 72 or 90 Pull-type combines in any condition. 507-838-7580

1205 Bixby Road (across from fairgrounds), Fairmont, MN 507-235-3358 or 800-813-8300 â&#x20AC;˘ Get the Rabe Advantage

WANTED: IH 1420 or 1440 combine, in good working condition, call evenings.

218-371-8784 WANTED: JD 780 or 450 manure spreader, any condition. Also NH 718 or Super 717 chopper. (320)630-8131

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WANTED: Quick-attach head mover. Small machinery line for sale. 320-2267159

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FOR SALE: Black Angus FOR SALE OR LEASE bulls also Hamp, York, & REGISTERED BLACK Hamp/Duroc boars & gilts.

ANGUS Bulls, 2 year old & 320-598-3790 yearlings; bred heifers, calving ease, club calves & Dairy 055 balance performance. Al sired. In herd improvement Fresh Holstein heifers and program. J.W. Riverview cows, Some Jersey cross Angus Farm Glencoe, MN also, reasonably priced, 55336 Conklin Dealer 320free delivery. 608-214-0600 864-4625 WANTED TO BUY: Dairy Thank you for reading heifers and cows. 320-235The Land 2664

‘04 JD 7320 Cab, MFWD, 16 spd., 741 loader, 6316 hrs...................................................................$57,000 ‘05 JD 7420, MFWD, 467 hrs., cab, air, IVT, tranny, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO w/ JD 741 self leveling loader, ‘13 JD 6170R, Cab, IVT trans, MFWD, 859 hrs., w/H380 loader, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO,

LA1953 loader, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO .............$55,000 ‘11 Challenger, MT 575 B, MFWD, 2242 hrs., ML98 loader ...................................................$75,000

TRACK TRACTORS

‘14 CIH 380 MAG row trac cut, 290 hrs., 4 hyd., big pump, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 24” tracks, completely auto guidence equipped, suspended front, 24” belts .......................................................$195,000 ‘13 CIH, 380 MAG Row Trac 1178 hrs., luxury cab, full guidance, suspended front, 24” tracks, 120 inch spacing 3 pt., 4 hyd. Hiflow, PTO ................$180,000 ‘14 CIH, 340 MAG Row Trac 287 hrs., luxury cab, suspended frt axle, 18” tracks, 76” spacing, 6 hyd remotes, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, full guidance......$195,000

‘12 JD 9410R, 1411 hrs., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., HID lights, 520x46” tires & duals ...................................$169,000 ‘10 JD 9330 1239 hrs., 1000 PTO, 4hyd powershift w/ diff lock, 480x50” tires & duals, 85% .............$155,00

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ‘13 Case 621F XR, wheel loader, JRB coupler, 3.0 cubic yard bucket, 3rd valve, 4730 hours. ............................................... $74,000

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HID lights, Hitorque VSD, chopper, contourmaster, 520x42” duals ..............................................$167,000

520x38” duals ..............................................$157,500 ‘00 JD 9650TS, 3611 eng./2645 sep. hrs., chopper, 20.8x38” duals ...............................................$55,000 ‘11 CIH 7120, 871 eng./732 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, 520x42” duals ...............................$149,000

‘15 New Holland 340, big square baler, single axle, standard baler, 4500 bales ............... $55,000 ‘15 JD Gator TX 4X2, 691 hours .............. $4,950 ‘14 CIH Tiger Mate 200, 50.5’ field cultivator, 4 bar coil tine harrow, nice condition ........... $36,000 ‘10 CIH Magnum 305, susp. front axle, 480/80R50 duals, luxury cab, front duals, 3400 hours ................................................ $85,500

‘11 NH T9.390, 905 hrs., powershift, diff lock, HID lights 480x50” tires & duals .........................$128,000 ‘14 CIH 470 HD, 837 hrs., 1000 PTO, 6 hydraulic valves, hi-flow hyd, 480x50” tires & duals ...$185,000 ‘09 CIH 385, 3071 hrs., 520x46” .....................$105,000

ROW CROP TRACTORS ‘14 CIH 260, 605 hrs., MFWD luxury cab, 4 hyd, 3 pt hitch, 1000 PTO, 480x50” duals ..................$118,000 ‘12 CIH 260, 1784 hrs., Deluxe cab, 19-spd., PS, susp. front axle, 3 pt., 4 hyd., Hi-Flow, 1000 PTO, 480x50” duals, MFWD .................................$110,000 ‘13 CIH 260, 577 hrs., PS, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, 420x46” tires & duals.....$115,000 ‘03 CIH MX210, 5550 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., 380x46” tires & duals .....................................$59,000

‘13 CIH Magnum 235, 320/90R54 duals, 540/1000 PTO, 2235 hours, powertrain warranty till 9-2017 ................................................... $89,500

‘13 CIH 290, 1250 hrs., 3 pt., PTO, big pump, 480

‘11 CIH Magnum 190, powershift, 380/90R54 duals, New 380/80R38 fronts, just through service program, 3448 hours, powertrain warranty till 02/28/2018 ................................................ $69,000

1000 PTO, auto steer complete, 480x50” rear

‘13 Yetter 3546, 46’ folding rotary hoe ... $13,500

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chopper, 520x42” duals .................................$72,500 ‘04 NH CR970, 3138 eng./2186 sep. hrs., tracker, chopper, chaff spreader, 520x42” duals........$52,000 ‘11 Claas Lexior, 740, 1466 eng/899 sep hrs., 4x4 520x42” duals ..............................................$109,000

TRUCKS ‘02 Int 4900 DT466, auto 3060p, tandem, 666k, can have PTO, 15 1/2’ cab to axle .......................$14,500 ‘04 Int 4300, bucket truck, 40’ reach, Auto, 219k ................................................................$26,000 ‘12 Freightliner Sprinter 3500, 15’ body, DLS, Auto ................................................................$15,900 ‘09 Freightliner Columbia II, auto shift, 410 hp., 3 axle ..............................................................$28,000 ‘04 Freightliner MII, bucket truck, 40’ reach, Auto, 188k ........................................................................ $0 ‘12 Pete 587 Cummins, 13 spd, 72” sleeper, 406k ................................................................$40,000 ‘09 Columbia, 120 Day Cab Detroit, 105 gal, 423k ................................................................$29,000 ‘96 FL80 Cummins, Allison Auto w/ PTO 4x4, 88k ..................................................................$26,000

CRAWLER DOZERS ‘04 Cat D610XL, 6659 hrs., w/ cab air, 6 way blade, & winch ..............................................................$85,000 ‘08 CatD4K LGP, 2180 hrs., 6 way blade ............$77,000 ‘10 JD 850J LGP, 2926 hrs., cab air, 6 way blade ..............................................................$99,500 ‘08 Case 1150k, 1265 hrs., cab air, 6 way blade ..............................................................$77,000

EXCAVATORS

front duals, 480x50” .....................................$119,000 ‘13 JD 290 GLC, 2271 hrs., w/ aux hyd., hyd. Thumb, 50” bkt ..........................................................$145,000 ‘13 NH 8360, 940 hrs., MFWD, leather seats, 4 hyd., tires & duals .................................................$119,000 ‘13 NH T8.300, 801 hrs., MFWD, 4 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 480x50” tires & duals .........$105,000

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“The Booster Club built the dock,” Frame said. “We have a really good club.”

The Boosters are largely responsible for the Labor Day Jubilee Days. Jubilee Days is one of those improbable tiny town celebrations that draw in a thousand or so visitors.

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eith Frame has been mayor of Nimrod for 3.5 two-year terms. Voter turnout in 2014 was 100 percent. In 2016 turnout slipped to 98 percent. Frame got all but four of the votes in the two elections “In 2016 there were 51 registered voters and 50 votes were cast,” a representative of the Wadena County Auditor’s office said regarding Nimrod’s high voter participation.

Mayor Frame may or may not be the most popular guy in this tiny town in north central Minnesota. But what’s likely is that the 69 people who live in Nimrod respect his attitude.

“Somebody was leaving town and they gave me the job,” Frame said. “It’s something that has to be done. I’ll keep doing it until we find somebody else who is responsible and wants the job.”

That Tiny Town Spirit is likely what keeps hundreds of places like Nimrod, across Minnesota and northern Iowa, vital to the lives of their residents.

The Lutheran church on the south side and Stigman City Park on the north end of Nimrod are attractive anchors. Stigman Park has a dock on the Crow Wing River as well as a playground and picnic shelter.

In between the two places, the town is rough around the edges. You can’t necessarily see the spirit. It’s just there.

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Stigman Stadium is central to Jubilee Days activities. The Gnats are the Nimrod team and the stadium’s impressive bleachers, dugouts and concession stand are signs that Tiny Town Spirit is thriving.

Up north, we don’t name our ball teams the Tigers or the Warriors, a J & J Bar and Grill patron, next to Stigman Stadium, told us.

We’ve got teams like the Gnats, Huntersville Horseflies and the Sebeka Stingers.

Anybody who’s spent time in the woods knows that gnats are a greater force than some wimpy warrior.

The Gnats may have given rise to hometown hero Dick Stigman.

Stigman was born in Nimrod in 1936 and pitched for the Cleveland Indians in 1960. He played on the All-Star team that year and he threw a four-hit, 10-inning shutout against the Yankees on July 3, 1964, while pitching for the Minnesota Twins.

The spirit of that tough and spunky local kid who made the big leagues lives on in Nimrod today. v