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Dairy Month Making butter in Millerville for 90 years Kristin Kveno visits Bernadotte’s ‘Mooseum’ Meet western Iowa’s new dairy director

PLUS: Comments on the dairy industry by Lee Mielke All eyes are on Karen Schwaller Can corn sustain its comeback?

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Editor’s note: In late April, The Land Advances in Israeli agriculture are now staff writer Dick Hagen journeyed to helping to feed the world. Some examIsrael with his sister and a group from ples: the Family Research Council. This is the Israeli drip and micro-irrigation solusecond part of his report on the trip. tions have rapidly spread worldwide.

Israel’s agriculture is the success story The newest models are self-cleaning and of the Middle East — surviving a long, maintain uniform flow rate regardless of hard struggle against adverse land and water quality and pressure. The Israeli climate conditions. Over half of Israel’s company Netafim is a world leader in LAND MINDS saline soil is arid or semi-arid (only 20 drip irrigation. percent is arable). Even so, since Israel’s

By Dick Hagen Thermal imaging is used for water staestablishment in 1948, the country has tus mapping of crops. This involved tripled its farming territory and prothe correlation between water status duction has multiplied 16 times. of the foliage and its temperature (leaf Today, Israel produces 95 percent of its temperatures rises under water stress). own food requirements. Its current population is Netting of different colors is used for plant growth 8.3 million people. control.

Over the years, Israel has evolved from an agriculIsrael is studying the breeding of beneficial tural-based economy to a more sophisticated, indusinsects and mites for biological pest control; bumbletrial-based economy with a diversified manufacturbees for natural pollination in greenhouse and open ing base. Currently, Israel exports more than $2 billion dollars of fruit and vegetables each year. Israel fields; and sterile fruit flies to control this major is a major exporter of dates, avocado, olive oil, pome- pest in fruit trees. granates and almonds and is a world-leader in agriVirtually all Israeli dairy farms utilize robotic cultural technologies. However, Israeli farmers are milking systems. Feeding and manure handling sysconcerned with government. They claim the righttems are robotically controlled. wing Israeli government is not supporting Israeli New strains of potatoes have been developed to agriculture. They wish the government to immedithrive in hot, cry climates and can be irrigated by ately tackle the issues of the price of water, foreign saltwater. workers, “mark-up” by the middleman, and the regThere is also much activity in the development of ulation of agricultural exports. algae culture for fodder algae, dietary supplement, Over the years, Israel has given the world some veterinary pharmaceutical, cosmetics, bio-plastics amazing new agricultural products. For example, and fertilizer. the seedless, hardy Bet Alpha cucumber; the deliIsraeli technology has also developed aquaculture cious Gallia melon; the spaghetti squash (high in antioxidants); exotic and vitamin C-rich black toma- — fish farming in the desert! The system pumps low-quality brackish water from deep underground toes; seedless peppers; a hardy mini basis tree and aquifers and fills land pools in the desert. The the Anna apple (suitable for hot climates). This brackish, warm water is optimal for raising some reflects Bible prophecy: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. Isaiah type of marine fish and shrimp. This system provides a new source of protein and income for desert 27:6 dwellers. As freshwater supplies dwindle, this type The growth rate of Israel’s beef and veal producof fish farming is becoming increasingly important tion increased rapidly in the mid 1980’s — reaching in the arid regions of the world.

65 percent in 1986. Today, nearly half of the counIsrael’s total annual renewable natural resource of try’s fresh beef supply is from local producers. fresh water is well below the U.N. definition of Israel’s meat production amounts to about 40 percent of Israel’s total agricultural output, of which 17 water poverty. Israel’s surface water is concentrated mainly in the north and east — notably the Sea percent is poultry. Cattle, much like America, are of Galilee which is fed primarily from the Jordan mostly fed in confinement feed lots with roofing to protect against the hot, searing winds. One interest- River system. Rainfall in Israel has fallen to half ing item: Israel’s cows produce the highest amounts its 1948 average. In 2017, Israel’s water authority announced the Sea of Galilee water level was the of milk per animal in the world! Recall that Israel was called out of Egypt “to a land flowing with milk lowest of the century. Given this outlook, Israel now makes extensive use of desalination plants; and honey” (Exodus 3:8) reuse of treated sewer water for agriculture; comIsraeli ag business people realize as world populaputerized early-warning systems for leaks; and comtion grows, smart solutions for better agriculture puterized drip irrigation and micro-sprinklers. and safer food storage are essential. Since 2004, Israel is a world leader in water reuse (86 percent) research and development expenditures have compared to say Australia (10 percent). So it may accounted for typically 17 percent of the agriculturSee LAND MINDS, pg. 3 al budget.

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Israel is a world leader in fresh water conservation LAND MINDS, from pg. 2 not be a surprise to learn that through these technologies, Israel is now a water surplus nation.

As of 2016, Israel had five desalination plants. The largest (Sorek) producing over 600 million cubic meters of water per year. This plant alone provides enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

A downside of desalination is that it is energy intensive (consuming 3 percent of Israel’s electrical power output) and a by-product is very salty water.

Baptisms in the Dead Sea are infrequent simply because the Dead Sea is not clean water anymore.

However, my sister and I both chose to be baptized in the Sea of Galilee. Truly an experience of personal significance even though we were baptized in our rural church years back in Worth County, Iowa.

Also I chose to experience the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It was indeed a most somber occurrence. Two separate Walls for women and men and men were given special head gear to wear.

1980 and 1.34 million in 1990. Americans make up 26 percent of tourists in Israel, Russians are 15 percent and other European countries making up much of the rest.

If your bucket needs refilling, I recommend you add Israel. And hooking up with the Family

Research Council tour of the Holy Lands is a good start. More information about FRC can be found at www.frc.org.

Dick Hagen is staff writer of The Land. He may be reached at rdhagen35@gmail.com. v

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Keeping dairy profitable is everyone’s business June is Dairy Month and also an annual reminder to consumers that the U.S. dairy industry supplies many trustworthy contributions to their health and well-being in the form of real milk, real cheese, real butter, ice cream, cream cheese, sour cream, yogurt and more. Never before has that “Real Seal” meant so much.

Dairy producers today are the bottle or jug. And if that hurting financially and haven’t isn’t enough, the growing popseen “rewarding prices” in four ularity of plant-based beveragyears. Rising feed prices are es calling themselves “milk” currently offsetting the slowly pose another threat. recovering milk prices. Global Fluid milk first lost the battrade disputes threaten a vital tle to soda; and while consumpart of dairy farm income. So ers have since lessened soda the road ahead is very uncerBy Lee Mielke consumption, fluid milk then But consumers assume and take for tain for many generation-old succumbed to bottled water. operations. Many have granted they will always find the Are the plant-based bevhad to sell their cows products they want at their grocery erages next? store. U.S. consumers have never seen and call it quits already.

Consumer habits and preferences A wonderful rural way of life for many a day that they walked in and found have indeed changed over the years. families is under great threat. an empty dairy case — and probably But the one thing that has not never will.

Solutions are few and far between — changed is the nutritional package even as Congress is going through the that is best found in natural cow’s Behind that full dairy case is the hardworking dairy farmer whose 24/7 weary toil of developing a new farm milk and real dairy products. bill. Political divisions in this country business often, like now, finds itself Increasing scientific studies support seem deeper than ever, and pose a receiving prices below the cost to prothe validity of the benefits of real grave threat toward a solution of a duce the milk. dairy and that story needs to be told. new farm bill.

And while consumer interest is The fake alternatives may call themDairy farmers also face many comgrowing substantially as to where selves by the names best known in the their food is coming from and how it is petitive challenges in the form of dairy case, but they are not and they produced, the concern is more self-cen- alternatives — especially in fluid cannot provide dairy’s nutrition. That sales. Changing consumer eating hab- is the unchanging bottom line. tered and not farmer-centered. It its and beverage choices continue to should be!

And, speaking of the bottom line, reduce the consumption of milk from dairy farmers deserve a fair share of the retail dairy dollar. How we go

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about achieving that would take up a lot more space than I have here. But, suffice it to say, a “cheap food policy” cannot come at the farmer’s expense — or we all lose.

Consumers who like to eat need to voice their thoughts and concerns about agriculture policy to their elected representatives and not just leave that to others.

If the day ever comes that we depend on other countries providing our food and fiber, our well-being and very existence will be in their hands, not ours, and that’s a vulnerability I don’t think we want to have.

So get involved in the conversation and drink up. Have another slice of pizza with extra cheese, then top it off with a bowl of ice cream and celebrate June Dairy Month. It’s your month to celebrate!

Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnist who resides in Everson, Wash. and is regularly featured in The Land. He may be reached at lkmielke@juno.com. v

MDA schedules Groundwater Protection Rule meetings ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has scheduled a series of public informational meetings to present information about the proposed Groundwater Protection Rule and the rulemaking process. The public is invited to attend these meetings. It is important to note that these meetings are informational only. They are not part of the official rulemaking process.

The informational meetings will take place in Red Wing, June 5; Kasson, June 6; Pipeston, June 18; Hutchinson, June 19; and St. Paul, June 28. Times and locations of the meetings can be found online at www.mda.state.mn.us.

The process to submit formal comments and testimony which will become part of the rulemaking record is a separate process from the informational meetings. Members of the public wishing to make formal comments about the rule can do so by submitting com-

ments online and/or by providing testimony at one of the Administrative Law Judge Hearings to be held this summer. More information about the formal comment process can be found at www.mda.state.mn.us/gwprhearingnotice.

The goal of the Groundwater Protection Rule is to work with local farmers to reduce elevated nitrate levels in groundwater and ensure Minnesota residents have clean, safe and reliable drinking water supplies.

The proposed rule, which is based on the input of the farmers and landowners who the rule would apply to, as well as other interested persons, would regulate the use of nitrogen fertilizer in areas of the state where soils are prone to leaching and where drinking water supplies are threatened.

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Washington’s progress on farm bill is still clear as mud Success in sports, busiA thousand years from ness and politics requires now, people will still say his skilled leaders who know name in whispered revertheir jobs and know how to ence as goose bumps march fold disparate talents and up their sleeves. personalities into someIt’s hard to find similar thing greater than the logileaders today. Only the cal sum of its parts. most ardent fan can name a Take Phil Jackson, a FARM & FOOD FILE Jackson-like figure in North Dakota high school American sports now.

By Alan Guebert basketball star, who Worse, the world’s most coached two different famous political leaders teams to 11 National also are its most divisive.

Basketball Association Those leaders, the ones championships between 1991 and whose larger talents lie in digging 2010. Jackson oftentimes credits Zen, a already-deep political and social moats form of Buddhism, for his long success. even deeper, are well remembered, too.

Okay, but Michael Jordan and Kobe In fact, most become historical figures Bryant helped, too. because their public failures: Nixon’s Or, better yet, take Abraham Lincoln Watergate; LBJ’s Vietnam blot out any national or international good they — the little-known rural attorney elected President of the United States may have achieved. by a country tearing itself apart.

After last week’s 2018 farm bill belly Lincoln won the Civil War and preflop in the House of Representatives, served the idea which is the United how do you think its members — States — mostly through the force of Republican and Democratic alike — his iron will and the enduring power will be remembered by farmers, ranchof his eloquent words. ers and historians?

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The best guess is, their failure will be forgotten if GOP leaders give a handful of their own members a lateJune vote on a going-nowhere immigration bill. After that vote, the wayward members promise to release their hostage, the socially flinty, farmer-generous House farm bill, for another vote that should pass.

Between now and then, however, the bill will not improve. No one in either the House leadership or the Ag Committee leadership has acknowledged an offer by Collin Peterson, the Committee’s ranking Democrat, to deliver enough votes for passage if the majority GOP simply softens some of its very tough SNAP (food stamp) rules.

The reason GOP leaders have not replied is simple: despite the bill’s title, it’s only marginally about farms, farming and food. Its overarching purpose is purely political. It’s a Christmas grab bag of what the GOP intends to offer its “base” in the 2018 Congressional campaign: welfare reform, regulatory reform, immigration reform and housing reform.

That’s fine, but it’s not a farm bill.

And, yes, there are some farm program reforms in it too. But most will boost taxpayer costs, not cut them.

How much more? It’s hard to say — because the bill’s program language often is so obtuse it’s a mystery to know what it actually means.

For example, here’s a May 17 explanation posted by University of Illinois farmdoc daily policy analysts which attempts to explain one crop insurance change in the House bill: “To arrive at the effective reference price, Figure 1 tracks MYA prices and the five-year Olympic moving average of MYA prices. The escalator provision for the reference price equals 85 percent of that price up to the cap of 115 percent of the statutory reference price … For most of the remaining crop years, however, the reference price would equal the statutorily-fixed price, especially under CBO projections.”

Got that? If so, join the seven other people in the Milky Way galaxy who understand it. If not, fall in line like the other House robots.

The clear-as-mud explanation is, however, an apt metaphor for where we now are in U.S. farm policy: so deep into the weeds that few in any political party or farm organization have the vision and leadership to even dare to think past the next election or this year’s crop.

That makes almost any winning farm bill this year or next really a long-term loser.

The Farm and Food File is published weekly through the United States and Canada. Past columns, events and contact information are posted at www. farmandfoodfile.com. v

Assistance available for water quality practices DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced the availability of statewide cost share funds to help farmers install nutrient reduction practices. Practices eligible for this funding are cover crops, no-till or strip till, or using a nitrification inhibitor when applying fertilizer.

The cost share rate for farmers new to planting cover crops is $25 per acre ($15 per acre for past cover crop users) and for farmers trying no-till or strip till is $10 per acre. Farmers using a nitrapyrin nitrification inhibitor when applying fall fertilizer can receive $3 per acre.

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share on up to 160 acres. The funds will be made available in July, but farmers can immediately start submitting applications through their local Soil and Water Conservation District office.

In January, Governor Reynolds signed into law SF 512 which provides more than $250 million for water quality efforts in Iowa over the next 12 years. The legislation provides a growing source of funding, starting with $3.9 million next fiscal year and increasing to over $28 million annually.

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The eyes of the wild kingdom may be upon you It has plagued women for and then the woman of the years. It has sent women house might find herself on who never lived on the farm the business end of a clean(until they agreed to wear a ing rag, broom or vacuum wedding ring) up onto cleaner, and unearths the chairs and table tops — evidence. without even so much as a Mouse muffins. Rodent cat call or a big fat tip. bombs. Vermin raisins ...

You don’t have to come right out in plain sight parTABLE TALK from the city in order to allel to the base boards and

By Karen Schwaller behind the refrigerator. No need to garner enough guts to live on the farm. After all, matter what you call them, it’s a gutsy way of life. But they mean only one thing. sometimes what requires the guts is She either vacates the premises or that nagging feeling that someone ... creates a stand-off — the likes of or something you don’t even know ... is which have rarely been seen by the co-existing with you.

FBI or the ATF. In these days of technology (won’t It’s full-blown hand-to-hand combat that line be funny 30 or 40 years from ... if she has the guts. now? It might even be funny as soon Rodents make up one-third of all livas next month.) there are bazillions of ing mammal species. So of course, ways we can be watched. But nothing with that kind of overcrowding, they compares to being watched with two will find their way to a farm woman’s little beady eyes. doorstep. If only mouse governments I’m not talking about the occasional would allow mouse parents to only neighbor who happens to slip by just have one offspring … as I’m trying to hoist myself up into As rodents are lilted in song and our International cabover truck (as lore, I consider the “Three Blind Mice” you may have read about earlier). Now

Registration open for Master Conservationist Program MASON CITY, Iowa — Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, local county conservation boards, in coordination with ISU Wildlife Extension and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is offering the Iowa Master Conservationist Program in the northern Iowa area this summer.

The Iowa Master Conservationist Program gives Iowans hands-on interaction with the diversity of Iowa’s natural resources. The program teaches about wildlife and plant communities, and provides accurate information on a broad range of conservation issues.

Ultimately, it provides individuals the resources to make informed, intelligent choices for leading and educating others on a sustainable lifestyle.

This program consists of seven faceto-face meetings which will be held in various locations in Floyd, Franklin, Cerro Gordo, Mitchell and Worth counties. The topics include conservation infrastructure and science; under-

standing Iowa ecosystems: prairies, forests and watersheds; implementing conservation practices in human dominated landscapes; and developing skills to help educate others about conservation practices.

The seven face-to-face meetings will be held at various local locations from 6-9 p.m. on July 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 21 and 28. Space is limited to the first 30 registrants.

A registration fee of $75 is due at the time of registration. Registration deadline is June 29.

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story to be truly a mob situation for that poor farmer’s wife. And her only weapon was a carving knife.

Pity.

And as we are talking about being watched, here’s one for you.

It was a beautiful sunny summer day to lay out in the sun, with the yard work all caught up, no children yet, and a Saturday with nothing on the agenda and nowhere I had to be. I took advantage of a little down time and stretched out in a chaise lounge lawn chair, suntan lotion on and a soda under my chair — facing into the sun.

During the afternoon I heard traffic on our gravel road drive by slowly, but it didn’t matter. We had neighbors then who always drove slowly.

It was all fun and games until I began to get an eerie feeling — like when your underwear starts creeping up on you in church and you can’t figure out a way to fix it with people standing right behind you. I dismissed it for a short time before I decided to

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investigate.

I opened my eyes, and there it was: a billy goat, standing directly over me, just watching me.

Apparently, either he was downwind or the hog dust had settled into my nose and rendered it inoperable.

Because, unfortunately, I didn’t smell him coming.

He scared the heck out of me and my sudden movement of tearing out of the lawn chair scared the heck out of him. He ran off in a full-blown gallop toward the barn, and I just stood there working to regain my strength and breath.

Then it occurred to me. I wonder how many of the people in those slowly-driving vehicles saw what I had going on there that afternoon? Ladies, we may think so, but we are not alone.

And as in all small towns, sometimes our neighbors know it before we do.

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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Young readers will enjoy tales of Colorado homesteading Life is hard.

“Hardscrabble” Even as a kid, you’ve

by Sandra Dallas got things to worry about: getting good grades, getc.2018, Sleeping Bear Press ting along with your $15.95 / $19.95 Canada teacher, making friends, 255 pages making the team, dealing with Mean Girls, trying to He was excited to see them be who you are. It isn’t THE BOOKWORM too, and happy to bring them easy. But as you’ll see SEZ to their new homestead on in “Hardscrabble” by By Terri Schlichenmeyer the prairie. He was extraSandra Dallas, things proud of the house he’d made could be a whole lot of dirt (which he called a “soddy”) worse. although Belle could tell that Mama The prairie was awfully flat. was disappointed. But nobody said From the train platform, 12-year-old anything. Mama wasn’t feeling well, Belle Martin could see for miles. yet she and Carrie began cleaning their new home. Belle couldn’t stop It had been a long trip from Iowa and she knew Mama had missed Papa. thinking of the things they’d left behind in Iowa — which included all After they lost the farm in Ft. their Christmas decorations, Carrie’s Madison and Papa went to stake a claim in Colorado, they all missed him piano and a house with real floors. so. Now they had a new farm and a But she couldn’t complain. Living on new home, and he’d sent for them: the prairie had its rewards.

15-year-old Carrie; Belle; eight-yearThe prairie sky was huge, fields were old Frank; Becky, Sarah and Gully; beautiful, there were places to play Mama and a baby yet-unnamed — all and room to run. One of the neighbors waiting for Papa in Mingo, Colorado.

gave Frank a pony and, though modern young ladies in 1910 didn’t have opportunities for such things, Belle dreamed of being a cowgirl. Mama had a big garden and the family had even begun to make good friends of the neighbors who lived on homesteads nearby.

Still, it was a hardscrabble life, which sometimes meant disaster. A homesteader might have a good crop ruined by hail or eaten by hungry grasshoppers. Poor soil could mean a bad harvest. Sickness could strike and doctors were hours away. Those were times when a homesteader found out just how helpful his neighbors really were.

Let’s just cut to the chase: your child is going to like “Hardscrabble.”

It could be impossible, in fact, for her to resist this modern, updated “Little House on the Prairie”-like tale of

hardship and homesteading, set in the not-long-ago. But don’t think this is a tale of woe. The challenges of life in 1910 are not the focus here. Instead, author Sandra Dallas takes real situations from early twentieth-century American history — good, difficult, quaint and fun — and weaves them matter-of-factly between characters that sparkle with relatability. Kids won’t get drama or sensationalism from this book, but they will get a sense of the way life just was.

For new generations of “Little House” fans and for their mothers who loved that series too, “Hardscrabble” will quickly become a favorite. Getting your 8-to-13-year-old involved in this book truly shouldn’t be hard.

Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a library near you. You may find the book at online book retailers.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives in Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v

Online tool times manure applications with weather ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has teamed up with the National Weather Service to design a tool that helps farmers and commercial applicators determine the best time to apply manure.

The “Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast” tool uses past and predicted weather data like precipitation, temperature and snow melt. It predicts the likelihood applied manure will run off fields in daily, next day, and 72-hour increments. Farmers and commercial applicators use an interactive map to locate their field and find the forecasted risk. Users can also sign up for email or text messages for their county that alert them to a severe runoff risk for that day.

“By providing this information, we hope to give our farmers and commercial manure applicators the tools they need to make well-informed decisions,” said Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson. “By being able to better predict times of high runoff risk, we

can decrease the potential loss of manure to our waterways and increase farm productivity by saving nutrients on the land. It is a win-win situation based on an easy-to-use tool.»

The runoff risk is displayed on the interactive map in one of four categories: no runoff expected, low, moderate and severe. When the risk is moderate or severe, it is recommended that the applicator evaluate the situation to determine if there are other locations or later dates when the manure application could take place.

The forecasting tool can also be used by those looking for climate information including 2-inch and 6-inch soil depth temperatures.

State funding for the project was provided by the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

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Life on the Farm: Readers’ Photos

PAGE 9 Michelle Vlasak captured the beauty of a neighboring farm under a dramatic sky in Le Sueur County.

Al Batt of rural Hartland snapped this photo of an indigo bunting.

Australia also has a “Land” magazine and from time to time we receive e-mails intended for our counterpart down under. Because we solicit readers’ photos, this submission may have been sent to us on purpose. Robyn Rapsey sent a number of photos of 5-year-old Kaley and this short note:

Keep the photos coming E-mail your Life on the Farm photos to editor@thelandonline.com.

Your photo may be published in our next issue!

“Kerrie Rapsey took some photos on Wednesday when doing some sheepwork and her daughter just loves her animals. Thought I would send you some you just might be interested. The lambs wouldn’t come when called by kerrie (kaley’s mother) but Kaley called them and they came running. No FENC feed or anything, just a little girl’s M E BUI O love and a pat.

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New director guides western Iowa dairy producers

By RENAE B. VANDER SCHAAF The Land Correspondent ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Western Iowa Dairy Alliance recently celebrated 10 years of providing support to dairy farm families, promoting the dairy industry and its many nutritional products, and providing information to consumers and education to dairy farmers.

WIDA has a new director, Scott Schroeder (pronounced SHRAY-der), a recent graduate from South Dakota State University. Shroeder began his duties in November.

Schroeder was raised on a cow/calf, cattle feedlot and swine farm in Plymouth County, Iowa. He attended SDSU to gain a degree in Ag Business.

The college courses he had taken while in high school had earned him thirty credits.

“I needed another degree to stay in college for four years,” explained Schroeder. “A college professor pushed me into speech. Besides the Ag Business degree, I have a degree in Speech Communications.”

The combination of these two degrees and his agriculture background aids Schroeder’s duties to continue WIDA’s good foundation.

“My goal is to educate the consumer about the dairy industry,” said Schroeder. “We sometimes forget that

too many children think that milk just comes from the grocery stores.”

He has been devoting quite a bit of time to reading anti-agriculture groups’ Scott Schroeder media.

“They have a convincing message,” said Schroeder. “Unfortunately, the misinformed public believes it as truth.”

It’s important to know what misinformation is out there, so that all of us in agriculture as a whole can work together to counteract it, said Schroeder.

Through the year WIDA is involved in many community outreach activities. In June they will host a dairy open house. They organize the Ag Prayer Breakfast at the Central Plains Dairy Expo.

WIDA was prominent at the Siouxland Home Show in Sioux City.

They were part of a large agriculture display and the first booth home show attendees see when they walk in the door. Each commodity had educational displays about their products. Farmers were on hand to answer any questions a consumer may have.

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WIDA also provides an educational day on dairy as part of Sioux City’s LaunchPad Children’s Museum’s Farmtastic Learning Classroom. In addition, the organization provides dairy products to community events and programs.

The WIDA office is located in the Sioux County Extension Office in Orange City. Although a separate entity, WIDA works with extension in providing education opportunities for dairy producers.

“WIDA is an involved supporter of education programs,” said Schroeder.

“ISU Dairy Days, the I-29 Dairy Consortium Programs, NE Iowa Dairy Foundation Fall Dairy Tour.”

Schroeder shares helpful and pertinent information gleaned from his

reading and studies with WIDA members. He is also receiving an education as he works.

“Since I didn’t grow up on a dairy farm, I have been given the opportunity to learn about the dairy industry and what their needs are for the future,” commented Schroeder. “I also enjoy talking with producers and listening to their farming experiences and where they see the future of dairy and agriculture going.”

His close proximity to the family farm allows him to still be active — doing the work of a farmer. He enjoys SDSU sporting events, but saves some time for playing cards — especially Euchre.

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Calendar of Events Visit www.TheLandOnline.com to view our complete calendar and enter your own events, or send an e-mail with your event’s details to editor@thelandonline.com.

June 4 — Pipestone Lamb and Wool Facility Tour – Pipestone, Minn. — Tour visits lamb and wool operations with new and remodeled facilities to reduce labor and run larger numbers — Contact Philip Berg at philip.berg@mnwest.edu or (507) 8256799 or visit www.pipestonesheep. com June 5 — Informational Meeting on Groundwater Protection Rule – Red Wing, Minn. — MN Department of Agriculture is providing information on Groundwater Protection Rule.

Meeting is informational only and not part of the official rulemaking process.

— Contact Margaret Hart at (651) 2016131 or margaret.hart@state.mn.us June 6 — Informational Meeting on Groundwater Protection Rule — Kasson, Minn. — Contact Margaret Hart at (651) 201-6131 or margaret. hart@state.mn.us June 12 — Beef Royale — Lamberton, Minn. — A non-halter pen show for market animals. Cash prizes awarded. Steak supper from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Spectator contest at 6:30 p.m. — Contact Ed Yonker II at (507) 8300120.

June 14 — West Central Dairy Days Cattle Show — Willmar, Minn.

— Youth ages 5-19 (as of Jan. 1) can exhibit. There are classes for all six dairy breeds, Junior and Grand Champion Overall, plus Junior, Intermediate and Senior Showmanship. For entry forms contact your local 4-H extension educator or local high school ag education instructor. Contact Wade Gustafson at wade.gustafson@ridgewater. edu or call (320) 222-5269 June 14 — Waseca Sunset Field Day: Integrated Pest Management for Vegetables — Waseca, Minn. — Join UMN Extension for an evening of integrated pest management strategies for vegetable crops. Hone your skills, or learn new ones, to better tackle our most challenging diseases, insects, and weeds — Contact University of Minnesota Extension June 16 — 100-year Anniversary of John Deere Tractors Waterloo, Iowa — Featuring music, tractor displays and activities for enthusiasts from around the country. — Contact Cyndee Smiley at SmileyCyndeeS@ JohnDeere.com or call (309) 830-2475

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Cow items aren’t hard to ‘spot’ at Klossner’s Mooseum

By KRISTIN KVENO mid-1980s, “I got a spread sheet program.”

The Land Correspondent Klossner was at piece number 150 at the time. She has continued to catalog everyBERNADOTTE, Minn. — How does thing in the Mooseum by year. one become the owner/curator/founder of the “Mooseum” — an 18,109-piece collec As for how Klossner gets her cow items, tion of cow items? “By accident,” according she “buys some, get a lot as gifts.” One cow to Ruth Klossner. That first purchase of a wooden yard statue was given to her cow figurine at an auction in the 1970s anonymously. To this day she still has no was just something that caught Klossner’s idea who decided that cow needed to come eye. She hasn’t stopped looking for cow live with her. Klossner finds many of her items ever since. cow items at flea markets and garage sales.

Cows have always been an integral part of Klossner’s life. Growing up on a dairy In 2015, Klossner’s collection made the farm just north of New Ulm, Klossner history books (or the Guinness Book of excelled at dairy cow showmanship in 4-H World Records to be exact). Klossner’s coland “got my family started with registered lection outnumbered the previous record Holsteins.” That interest in cows continholder by almost 12,000. Authenticating ued after high school as Klossner began Photos by Kristin Kveno that record involved lots of time, documencollege at the University of Minnesota in One of the more prized posessions in Ruth Klossner’s collection is this tation, photographs and help from some dairy science. But instead, she graduated creamer given to her by Hollywood star Tippi Hedren. volunteers. Klossner had a retired area with a degree in home economics. The judge and his wife count all the collection, change in majors was due to the fact that dairy sci- stay on the stairwell for long. It soon spread out, which took days to complete. When she received the ence wasn’t a field which women were commonly a came upstairs in 1992 and “now it fills the whole Guinness Book of World Records distinction, the colhouse.” The house is still Klossner’s residence and lection was officially at 15,144, about 3,000 less than part of in those days. she gladly shares it with her collection. the Mooseum currently has now. Klossner is hopeful Klossner worked The collection is extensive and so organized that that the number will be updated for the Guinness for 13 years in county extension after Klossner can quickly pick out a piece and be able to Book of World Records. that she got her mas- tell the story of how that piece came to her. In the See MOOSEUM, pg. 12 ters in agriculture.

She ran a photography business and was the editor for the Lafayette Ledger until she retired from there in 2011.

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Busloads tour the Mooseum from as far as Sweden MOOSEUM, from pg. 11 The Mooseum isn’t just known locally, it’s been featured in various forms of media across the nation and all over the world — including in Denmark and Poland.

As for what qualifies to be part of Klossner’s collection, “if it’s bovine, it’s fine!” The collection spans every room in Klossner’s house. Every nook and cranny is filled Klossner’s collection of with cow items. From dish- over 18,000 items towels to Christmas orna- earned her recognition ments, to stuffed animal by the Guinness Book cows to even a 1950 8N of World Records.

Ford tractor in the garage that is painted with the distinctive black and white Holstein markings. Klossner has cows covered.

Klossner enjoys sharing her collection with visitors from near and far. This year, three busloads of visitors have come so far — including farmers from Sweden. The most visitors to the Mooseum in one day came during September of 2015 when she “had about 500 people that day.” The open house was an event that “the community helped out.” Her guestbook has 6,000 signatures from Mooseum visitors throughout the years. While the Mooseum doesn’t have official hours, Klossner welcomes visitors, “all I ask is that it be by appointment.”

Klossner’s collection features many precious items near and dear to Klossner’s heart. One of those is a painting “based on a photo of my 4-H cow, Francis.”

Another item is a cow shaped creamer from the 1890s. While the cow creamer is a beautiful antique piece in itself, it’s the story behind it that makes it a treasure for Klossner. It was given to her by the screen legend, Tippi Hedren in 2014. Klossner met Hedren (who was raised in Lafayette, Minn.) in 2000 when Hedren was in town for the Lafayette Centennial Celebration. Klossner was hosting Hedren’s sister and her family for the weekend, so Hedren joined them and stayed at the Mooseum as

well. Klossner and her guests “drank wine, laughed and carried on all night” around the kitchen table.

Hedren enjoyed her visit so much that she gave Klossner the antique cow creamer which was a wedding gift from her marriage to Peter Griffith in 1952.

Stories like that make the Mooseum more than just the cow items found in it, it’s the people that Klossner meets along the way.

The collection is impressive, expansive and pretty dang interesting. Though there is one drawback to having a Mooseum, “the dusting isn’t part of the fun.” When asked if Klossner ever gets tired at looking at all things cow in her house, Klossner quickly replied, “Naw, this is me. This house would be pretty empty without the cows.” The Mooseum will continue to add new pieces as “half of the fun is the hunt to find cow items.” The other part is “sharing it with people.”

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Reporters are relieved crops are in the ground

By KRISTIN KVENO, The Land Correspondent

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Blair Horseth, Mahnomen, Minn., May 18

Rain has temporarily halted soybean planting for Blair Hoseth. The Land spoke with Hoseth on May 18 as he reported that a half an inch of rain fell yesterday with more rain expected today. Hoseth started bean planting earlier in the week after one and a half inches of rain fell the previous weekend. Hoseth estimates that he has two days left of planting.

Blair Horseth

Corn planting finished up a week ago, “it went pretty decent.” The corn was in the ground a week later than Hoseth would’ve liked, but he’s happy that it’s all in now and his focus can be on bean planting.

Jamie Beyer

“100 percent of everything is in.” The Land spoke with Jamie Beyer on May 18 as she reported that planting “went really well.” Beyer finished planting today, “I think we’re very fortunate to have finished as early as we have.” A rain event on May 9 resulted in two inches of rain in a half an hour. There was some uneasiness over what the soil would be like after such a hard rain. A rotary hoe was used on 900 acres of corn and 200 acres of soybeans after that rain to ensure that the plants could break through the soil. It’s “kind of a tricky piece of equipment.” The concern is that the rotary hoe could damage the seed, but thankfully that was not the case as “it definitely helped where we used it this year.”

With all the crops in the ground, scouting the wheat will begin next week. The grapes are “going well out there.” Beyer “had replanted 1,000 vines last year.” That has resulted in “quite a bit of work with those new vines.” That also means that Beyer has to stave off the badgers that “eat all the vine roots.” Pest management is vital as it’s not just the badgers that want to feast on the vines, “the birds can destroy a lot of the crop.”

Bird netting is placed over the vines to keep those feathered friends out.

While the rain has caused some delays in planting, “if you’re fortunate to have in your acres, the rain is good.” The weather will dictate when Hoseth can cut alfalfa, as he expects to do so in the next week to 10 days. As for the demand for hay from buyers, Hoseth is seeing that “taper off,” he’s now “conservative in selling hay” as he wants to make sure he has enough for his livestock. Hoseth will be “moving cattle out to pasture today.”

With most of the crop in, “I feel better than I did two weeks ago.” The rain, while beneficial to the already-planted crops, may cause a slight delay in getting the remainder of the beans in for Hoseth. But with the ground “on the dry side before we got rain yesterday,” a little delay isn’t always such a bad thing. How long the delay lasts remains to be seen; but what is certain is that the end is in sight for the planting season on the Hoseth farm.

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Matt Haubrich, Danube, Minn., May 25

Matt Haubrich

As fast as the crops are growing, the weeds are growing as fast or faster. So Haubrich will be checking fields to see if herbicide needs to be applied as he “wants to be on top of it.”

“A lot of scouting” is on the agenda next week for Haubrich — though he’ll have to do so in the heat, humidity and thunderstorms that are forecasted. With all of the crops in the ground, Haubrich is “feeling good, optimistic so far.”With a lot going on at the Haubrich farm and with no significant rain in the forecast, it looks like planting season will be wrapping up soon.

The vines are growing, new hive may be coming soon and the crops are all in, “everything looks really good.”

Karson Duncanson, Mapleton, Minn., May 25 “The good Lord delivered on some dry weather for us.” The Land spoke to Karson Duncanson on May 25 as he was confident there was only a few days of planting left to do. “We’re on the home stretch.”

Duncanson finished planting corn on May 20 and started soybeans on May 21. So far, bean planting has gone “very well.” Duncanson has different planters for corn and beans and those are now solely being used for beans which has made bean planting go quickly. “With any luck, I’ll be done Sunday.”

The rain began two days after planting was done. There was heavy rain on May 24 which resulted in “some minor flooding” in a few fields.

The corn, “I just checked and it’s all up.” It’s currently at V2 stage. Once the fields dry up, Haubrich is “hoping in a couple of days we can travel these fields” to scout the corn.

As for the black cutworms that Haubrich found in sticky trips a few weeks ago, he will be “watching the perimeter of these fields to see if they’re nibbling on the corn plants.” Haubrich plans on treating as needed with insecticide.

Beyer is still working on getting a beehive for this summer as her last hive didn’t survive the winter. Beekeeping “requires a lot more attention than I would’ve guessed.”

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“All is planted.” The Land spoke with Matt Haubrich on May 25 as he was happy to report that all the crops are in. He finished planting corn on May 13 and completed soybean planting on May 19 — at 9 p.m., to be exact. The bean planting “went well.” With no weather or machinery issues “we just went from field to field,” Haubrich said.

Jamie Beyer, Wheaton, Minn., May 18

Karson Duncanson

The corn “stands are not as good as they were last year.” But the weather is certainly giving the corn a boost. “This heat is great.” Next week, Duncanson expects to start spraying corn.

As for how planting has gone overall, “we’ve had pretty good luck.” Duncanson is “pretty happy with how things are going.” The heat is expected to continue into the weekend which will help the corn. But Duncanson is hoping for a little rain on Sunday, right after he finishes getting the beans in the ground. The planting season is mere days away from being completed for Duncanson and he’s ready to finish up and look ahead to what’s next in the growing season.

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Hand-made Millerville butter has quite a following

By TIM KING The Land Correspondent MILLERVILLE, Minn. — Making butter at the 85-member Millerville Cooperative Creamery in central Minnesota is a team effort says Deidre Hubbard, the creamery manager. It’s also a lot of hard work and a bit of a labor of love for the creamery’s four employees.

Making an approximately 1,200-pound batch of butter starts with a phone call to the Land-O-Lakes creamery in Melrose.

“We have a food grade tote and when our inventory is getting low we call them and order cream,” Deidre says. “We have to order a week in advance.”

“The cream is right around 46 percent butterfat,” says Mark Thoennes, who has been making Millerville Creamery butter for four decades. “We buy between 2,100 to 2,200 pounds of cream.”

As soon as the cream arrives in Millerville from Melrose, Thoennes transfers it from the tote to the stainless steel pasteurizer. The pasteurizer is a vat heated by steam made from an old (but efficient) boiler.

“Making a batch of butter takes us three to four days — depending on what is going on,” said Thoennes, who also makes custom hydraulic hoses and chains and oversees customers’ mechanical needs.

“On day one we pasteurize it at 189 degrees and then cool the cream overnight,” he said. “On day two we pump the cream into the churn and churn it for between 40 minutes to an hour.”

“Mark watches the butter churn really carefully,” Hubbard said.

On butter-making day three, the butter is cut into one pound blocks, wrapped and put into Millerville’s distinctive yellow and red box.

“We cut and wrap by hand,” Hubbard said. “It’s a three-person job.”

Once the butter is boxed and into the cooler, there are only two jobs left.

“The first thing that you see is little balls of butter form. They look like popcorn. Pretty soon those get bigger.”

When Thoennes decides that the butter is ready, he drains the butter milk and churns in a little salt.

Then the hard work of taking the butter out of the churn and pressing it into the Friday boxes starts.

“I don’t know why we call them Friday boxes,” Thoennes said. “Maybe they used to make butter on Fridays.”

Friday boxes are heavy stainless steel boxes that hold 90 pounds of butter.

“We put on plastic gloves and hairnets and pack the butter in the boxes by hand,” Hubbard said. “You have really push it in there. You can’t have any air pockets.”

“My shoulders get really sore from scrubbing out the pasteurizer,” Thoennes, who is in charge of creamery sanitation, said.

Then there is distribution.

The hand-made and hand-wrapped Millerville butter is popular and a lot is sold directly from the creamery.

“Somebody from Alaska came by yesterday and got some,” Hubbard said. “We don’t advertise, so they heard about us through word of mouth.”

The butter is also available at the Millerville liquor store; at three locations in nearby Brandon; at Sandy’s in Parkers Prairie; and at Eldens’ grocery store and Trumm Drug in Alexandria.

Photos by Jan King

Millerville Cooperative Creamery Manager Deidre Hubbard stands by the boiler used to pasteurize the butter.

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Public tries their hand at butter carving during Butter Days MILLERVILLE, from pg. 14 Then there is Millerville’s Butter Days held in late July in conjunction with the church festival of Our Lady of Seven Dolors.

There is a parade, of course, and very likely a street dance and a church bazaar and plenty of other activities.

And there is butter carving.

It’s not quite on the scale of Princess Kay and the Minnesota State Fair; but it’s more democratic.

Anybody who wants to try their hand at butter carving is welcome to do so. There are some basic rules, however.

“Each person gets a pound of butter to carve,” Thoennes said. “They each have to carve the same thing. The committee decides what contestants will carve.”

At some point, a winner is chosen, a photo is taken and prizes are distributed. Win or lose, each contestant gets to take their butter — or what’s left of it — home. They can freeze their carving for their grandchildren to marvel at or they can put it on their morning toast.

Butter is important to the Millerville Cooperative Creamery Association’s identity and business. That’s because it’s one of very few creameries still making butter the old-fashioned way. Cooperative members are proud of that and they’ve voted to continue making butter the Millerville way.

But the cooperative is more than butter.

The co-op sells seed and fertilizer and has spray rigs that will apply your herbicide. They have a large line of farm supplies including oil, filters, belts, fenc-

Mark Thoennes has been making Millerville butter for four decades. He is holding a “Friday box” which is packed with 90 pounds of butter after it comes from the churn.

ing supplies and hydraulic fittings. There are nuts and bolts and veterinary supplies. Millerville Cooperative is a full-service farm supply. Just for good measure there are two freezers with Schwann’s ice cream and pizza.

The cooperative works with its neighbor, JB Tractor, to make sure it’s mechanics can find the odd part quickly. They also work with the municipal liquor store to make sure that people looking for butter after the creamery closes don’t leave Millerville empty-handed.

“A lot of people come through here on the weekend on the way to the lakes in Ottertail County,” Hubbard said. “We make sure that the liquor store is wellstocked with butter for our customers.”

Hubbard says the cooperative is considering installing gas pumps and expanding its auto repair business. Since there are no gas pumps in Millerville, the co-op would be providing an important service to the community.

Whether it’s providing new services to its members and the community, or continuing a nearly 90-year tradition of butter making, the Millerville Cooperative Creamery Association intends to continue serving the community for years to come. v

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Dairy product inventories continue to climb upward This column was written for the marbut 20,800 above a year ago or 9.1 perketing week ending May 25. cent. A total 1.09 million head were culled in the first four months of 2018, up The slowdown in U.S. milk output was 64,700 head or 6.3 percent from 2017. more obvious in April, though it still bested the previous year’s output for the n 52nd month. Preliminary data from the Dairy product inventories continued to U.S. Department of Agriculture shows grow in April and also remain above a output at a bullish 17.3 billion pounds in year ago, according to the USDA’s latest the top 23 states, up 0.7 percent from Cold Storage report.

MIELKE MARKET April 2017. The 50-state total, at 18.4 bilWEEKLY April butter stocks hit a bearish 307.3 lion pounds, was up 0.6 percent. million pounds. This is up 33.4 million

By Lee Mielke Revisions lowered the March estimate 9 pounds or 12.2 percent from March million pounds to 17.8 billion — up and 15.1 million or 5.2 percent above 1.4 percent.

April 2017.

April cow numbers in the 50 states totaled 9.4 million, down 2,000 from March but American-type cheese hit 781.5 million pounds, 8,000 above a year ago. Output per cow averaged which is up 14.9 million pounds or 1.9 percent from 1,961 pounds, up 9 pounds from a year ago.

March, but 23.2 million or 2.9 percent below a year Wisconsin inched 0.7 percent lower on a fiveago. pound loss per cow and 5,000 fewer cows. That’s The “other” cheese category grew to 536.1 million only the second time in four years that its output pounds, up 7.1 million pounds or 1.4 percent from was below the previous year, according to the March and 64.4 million or 13.7 percent above a year Wisconsin Ag Connection. Minnesota was down 2.2 ago. percent, on 5,000 fewer cows and 20 pounds less per The total cheese inventory stood at 1.35 billion cow. pounds. This is up 22.1 million pounds or 1.7 perMichigan was down 1.4 percent on a 15-pound loss cent from March and 43.5 million or 3.3 percent per cow and 3,000 fewer cows. New Mexico was up above a year ago.

2.6 percent on 6,000 more cows and 15 pounds more n per cow. Texas producers saw a 100-pound gain per cow propel their overall output 7 percent higher and Dairy prices strengthened early in the week of the extra 10,000 cows helped as well. Vermont was May 21, then backed off as traders reacted to the down 3 percent on a 30-pound loss per cow and bullish April Milk Production report. Also, Chinese 2,000 fewer cows. Washington State was up 3.1 per- officials announced over the weekend that China cent on a 45-pound gain per cow and 2,000 more seeks to avert a trade war with the United States cows. and will “substantially reduce the trade deficit” and Meanwhile, U.S. dairy cow culling dropped in April agree to “meaningful increases in U.S. agriculture and energy exports.” The markets also anticipated from March but remained above a year ago. The the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.

USDA’s latest Livestock Slaughter report shows an estimated 248,900 head were slaughtered under Chicago Mercantile Exchange block cheddar ended federal inspection, down 38,000 head from March the week at $1.61 per pound, up 2.75 cents, revers-

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ing two weeks of decline. But it is also 12.25 cents below a year ago. The cheddar barrels closed at $1.5450, up 1.25 cents on the week and 6.5 cents above a year ago, with 12 cars of block selling on the week and 41 of barrel.

Midwest mozzarella and pizza cheese sales are still meeting or above expectations, particularly for this time of year, reports Dairy Market News.

“Contacts suggest buyers decided the stable markets were more unbending than originally thought, thus buying has been less hand-to-mouth than in previous months,” but “traditional cheesemakers are reporting a bit of an expected slowdown in overall sales. Cheese production is steady to lower. That said, with holiday weekend milk availabilities, some plant managers are adding days to the schedule.

Milk is readily available, spot loads ranged $2 to $5 under Class III.” Western cheese output is strong. Manufacturers say there is plenty of milk available and, with higher components, cheese yields are up. Industry contacts say demand is stable; but in a few cases, manufacturers report buyers have pulled back a bit on orders. Some contacts suggest that retail buyers are content with the cheese they currently have on hand and are hesitant to take on more.

Uncle Sam will shell out up to $177.4 million in purchases for nutrition assistance programs using a new streamlined process. Up to $20 million of that is for cheddar cheese purchases. FC Stone cautions, “From what we’ve seen so far, it’s not crystal clear whether these are new funds or if they’ve simply dedicated $20 million of existing money towards this new purchase process (one that seems like it will try to ‘time the market’ to make the most of taxpayer dollars). Our assumption is the latter.” n Cash butter climbed to $2.45 per pound on May 22, the highest price since Sept. 21, 2017, but closed May 25 at $2.415. This is up 3 cents on the week and 5.5 cents above a year ago, with 41 cars exchanging hands on the week at the CME. By the way, the last time butter was below $2 per pound was Nov. 15, 2016 when it was at $1.98.

Those days are likely over. The record high was Sept. 19, 2014 when it hit $3.06 per pound.

Dairy Market News says butter demand has yet to slow down this spring and both 80 and 82 percent varieties are moving out of storage. Some butter producers suggest that domestic sales are the lion’s share of their output, but export interest remains strong for others. “The National Agricultural Statistics Service’s cold storage stock increases have some questioning how the markets will react, but butter has been unbending in the face of bearish news in recent months.”

The western butter market remains strong.

However, some reports suggest that churning schedSee MIELKE pg. 17

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Better milk prices are not translating to bigger checks MIELKE, from pg. 16

Sharp wrote in the May 18 Milk Producers ules have slowed a little. Cream Council newsletter, demand for Class II products is “Better milk prices on the board in increasing due to current warmer Chicago have yet to translate to meanweather and preholiday production ingfully higher milk checks, and many runs for cream cheese and whipped cream. Butter inventories are relative- dairy producers remain dejected.

Higher feed and labor costs are not ly steady compared to the previous helping matters. Auction and slaughweek. Butter demand is good in both ter houses remain busy. Springer valthe national and international marues creep ever lower. At the monthly kets. Competitive U.S. butter prices coupled with a decrease in internation- dairy sale in Pipestone, Minn. on May 17, the top 25 springers averaged al butter supplies are boosting export sales, according to Dairy Market News. $1,332 — the lowest average value since November 2011. For the week n ending May 5, dairy cow slaughter CME Grade A nonfat dry milk closed averaged 57,457 head, up 4.7 percent the week a penny lower at 84.25 cents from a year ago. That puts year-todate slaughter 5.4 percent ahead of per pound. This is 8.5 cents below a the 2017 pace.” year ago, with 19 sales reported for the week.

Dairy industry woes remain in fluid milk consumption, as consumers Cash dry whey closed May 25 at a new high of 37.25 cents per pound, up reduce their purchases and/or choose plant-based alternatives. Fluid sales a quarter-cent on the week, with four were down for the 10th consecutive sales reported. A 1 cent movement in month, according to the USDA’s latest the dry whey price equals about 5.9 data. March packaged sales totaled 4.1 cents on the Class III milk price. billion pounds, down 3.0 percent from The Daily Dairy Report’s Sarina March 2017.

Conventional product sales totaled 3.9 billion pounds, down 2.9 percent from a year ago. Organic products, at 218 million pounds, were even down, 5.5 percent below a year ago and represented about 5.3 percent of total sales for the month.

Whole milk sales totaled 1.3 billion pounds, up 2.5 percent from a year ago, up 3.0 percent year to date, and made up 31.4 percent of total fluid sales in the month and 31.1 percent for the year. Skim milk sales, at 333 million pounds, were down 10.4 percent from March 2017 and down 10.1 percent year-to-date.

Total packaged fluid milk sales in first quarter 2018 hit 12.05 million pounds, down 1.9 percent from the same period a year ago.

Conventional products year-to-date totaled 11.4 million pounds, down 1.9 percent. Organic products, at 652 million pounds, were off 1.6 percent.

Organic represented about 5.4 percent of total fluid milk sales in first quarter 2018.

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The figures represent consumption of fluid milk products in Federal milk order marketing areas and California, which account for approximately 92 percent of total fluid milk sales in the United States.

The June Federal order Class I base milk price was announced May 23 at $15.25 per hundredweight, up 81 cents from May, 6 cents below June 2017, but the highest Class I since January 2018. It equates to $1.31 per gallon, up from $1.24 in May and compares to $1.32 a year ago. The halfyear average is at $14.47, down from $16.27 a year ago and compares to $14.01 in 2016. n USDA’s latest Crop Progress report shows that U.S. corn planting has caught up with a year ago, 81 percent, just 1 percent behind a year ago, as of the week ending May 20. That compares to 81 percent in the five-year average. The week showed 50 percent emerged, down 1 percent from a year ago but 3 percent ahead of the fiveSee MIELKE pg. 18

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Dairy campaign to highlight economic contributions MIELKE, from pg. 17 year average.

The report also shows 56 percent of the soybeans have been planted. This is up from 50 percent a year ago and compares to 44 percent in the fiveyear average. There is 26 percent of the crop emerged, up 9 percent from a year ago and 11 percent ahead of the five-year average. Cotton planting is at 52 percent, up from 49 percent a year ago and 7 percent ahead of the five-year average. n Cooperatives Working Together members accepted offers of export assistance to sell 381,400 pounds of cheddar cheese, 104,720 pounds of butter and 6.614 million of whole milk powder, to customers in Asia, Central America, and Europe. The product has been contracted for delivery from June through October and raised CWT’s 2018 export sales to 35.16 million pounds of American-type cheeses, 10.7 million pounds of butter (82 percent milkfat) and 7.54 million pounds of whole milk powder to 25 countries on five continents. The sales are the equivalent of 620.228 million pounds of milk on a milkfat basis. n In politics, the House gave a 198-to-213 thumbs down to its farm bill proposal. Bob Gray wrote in his May 18 Northeast Dairy Farmers Cooperatives

MARKETING newsletter that 30 Republicans and all of the Democrats voted against the bill.

“The House Republican Freedom Caucus, the conservative wing of the Republican party, wanted assurances that Congressman Goodlatte’s immigration bill would be brought before the House for a vote as a condition for supporting the farm bill,” Gray stated. “Apparently, the negotiations between the House leadership and the Freedom Caucus broke down and the Caucus felt they would lose their leverage unless they put the brakes on the farm bill.”

As the farm bill debate is well underway, June Dairy Month is here — and with it, an annual reminder to consumers of the trustworthy contributions that milk and dairy products supply to our health and well-being.

To address more of the public relations side of the business, the U.S. Dairy Export Council, the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation have joined forces to create a market campaign they call, “Got jobs? Dairy creates jobs, exports create more.”

The goal is to educate consumers on dairy’s contribution to the health of the U.S. economy and the econ-

omies of every state across the country. A new storytelling campaign has been launched by the U.S. dairy industry to “shine a brighter, data-driven spotlight on the positive effects of dairy’s economic engine.”

A joint press release states that they will “share in-depth data and compelling narratives featuring hard-working dairy farmers, innovative dairy company employees, resourceful retailers and many others throughout the food supply chain at GotDairyJobs.org.

“The U.S. dairy products industry supports nearly 3 million workers, generates more than $39 billion in direct wages and has an overall economic impact of more than $628 billion, according to IDFA’s economic impact tool, Dairy Delivers. The tool also examines dairy’s economic ripple effect on other sectors of the national economy, showing dairy is responsible for $24.9 billion in state and local business tax revenues and another $39.5 billion in federal business tax revenues.”

“With the Trump administration’s current focus on global trade, it’s important for consumers and policymakers to understand how dairy drives the American economy,” said Michael Dykes, D.V.M., president and CEO of IDFA. “The United States needs sound trade policy that will place the U.S. dairy industry on a level playing field with global competitors. Backed by fair and proactive trade policies, the U.S. dairy industry will continue to keep and create jobs in states across the country.”

Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnist who resides in Everson, Wash. His weekly column is featured in newspapers across the country and he may be reached at lkmielke@juno.com. v

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Grain Outlook Outlook for corn is optimistic

Cash Grain Markets

corn/change* soybeans/change* Stewartville $3.31 -.07 $9.48 +.14 Edgerton $3.55 .00 $9.65 +.21 Jackson $3.46 -.02 $9.57 +.11 Janesville $3.44 -.07 $9.60 +.26

Cannon Falls $3.55 -.02 $9.77 +.16 The following marketing analysis is for the week Sleepy Eye $3.56 +.01 $9.55 +.15 ending May 25.

CORN — Corn pushed higher early in the week as Average: $3.48 $9.60 it benefitted from the rally in soybeans on Chinese trade talk progress and from wheat on dryness Year Ago Average: $3.18 $8.47 around the world. Corn won’t benefit directly from Grain prices are effective cash close on May 29. the trade talks, but a rising tide raises all boats. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

The strength in soybeans and wheat spilled over into corn.

There is hope that China will reduce the restrictions on U.S. dried distiller grains imports, which would be supportive to corn. China also ended their investigation into anti-dumping of U.S. sorghum and lifted their 178.6 percent “deposit” last week. PHYLLIS NYSTROM The cattle and hog markets have performed a closCHS Hedging Inc. This is also friendly for corn. ing of the gaps between cash and futures the past St. Paul There was also chatter they would couple of weeks. Cash cattle have slipped in price increase U.S. ethanol purchases while the futures market has posted a moderate — another supportive factor. rally closing the discount that the futures market Lingering in the background is the sharp year-tohas experienced over the past several months. For year decline in U.S. and world ending stocks. Any the hogs, it was the reverse. The weather glitch will keep bears at bay. Dry weather in premium the futures have mainwheat areas such as southern Russia, Australia, tained during the past several Canada, and U.S. plains lent spillover support to months has narrowed as futures corn. All that said, late in the week and ahead of a dropped and the cash trade conlong holiday weekend, December corn did match the tinues to improve. As we approach contract high at $4.29.5 per bushel before buying the month of June both cattle dried up and natural hedging erased part of the and hog markets should continue week’s gains. July corn traded as high as $4.12.25 per moving to parity with either the bushel — its highest price since last July. cash trade or — in the case of the JOE TEALE Weekly export sales were solid at 33.6 million hogs — the lean index.

Broker bushels, keeping total commitments on pace with Great Plains Commodity The cattle market has been on last year’s sales. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Afton, Minn. the defensive all spring as the is anticipating exports to be down 3 percent this year trade has worried about the wall to 2.225 billion bushels. We saw our first announced of cattle that was projected by previous cattle-oncorn sale since April 26 when Saudi Arabia purfeed reports. Despite these projections, the cattle chased 70,000 metric tons of U.S. corn for both old market (at least on the cash side) had remained firm and new crop. as packers were aggressive in accumulating live New crop sales were 10.8 million bushels, bringing inventory. All the while, the futures market kept the total new crop sales to 98.6 million bushels. This is defensive attitude and remained deep discount to just above last year’s 97.4 million bushels on the the actual cash trade. It appears that the wall of books by this date. The USDA is pegging 2018-19 cattle is now upon us. Cash prices near the end of export sales to be down 5.6 percent year-on-year to May have begun to drop fairly rapidly. On May 25, 2.1 billion bushels. Weekly export inspections (what the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the is actually shipped) were 60 million bushels, bringing monthly Cattle-on-Feed report which indicated a year-to-date inspections to 1.429 billion bushels. The neutral to slightly friendly report — especially for five-year average for inspections is 66 percent of the the fall months. The placement number was indifinal export number and we’re near that at 64.2 per- cated at 92 percent of a year ago, while the on-feed See NYSTROM, pg. 20 See TEALE, pg. 20

Livestock Angles Hogs, cattle going opposite ways

Grain Angles Evolution of the U.S. pork industry There is no question that the pork industry has evolved a great deal over the past 30 years. The changes have not only made U.S. pork a better and safer product for consumers, but has reduced the resources used to produce it. Efficiencies in pork production and the entire agriculture industry has meant more consumers are increasingly removed from the world of food production.

We likely have not done a good enough job of reaching out to the public with facts — causing a bit of public uncertainty to remain. I thought it might be useful to discuss some of the changes which have revolutionized our industry and what that means to the future of pork production and demand KENT BANG for our product. In addition, lookCompeer Vice President ing into the future and the changof Swine Lending es that are likely to continue.

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The evolution, driven by factors such as producer innovation, consumer demand and economic forces, have changed the industry. While at the same time, these factors have allowed us to be more competitive on the global market, which has left some production methods and producers in the wake of change.

Genetic evolution A key driver of change has been genetics and the continuous evolution of the pig itself. In the early 1990’s, the drive to meet consumer demand for a leaner product drove the industry to leaner pigs. The consumer was willing to pay for a leaner, healthier product. The packer, in turn, devised carcass merit programs that paid the producer to deliver. Producers benefited not only from carcass merit programs for lean pigs, but also from the efficiencies of lean gain vs. putting fat on pigs. The change to leaner genetics was rapid and effective. Based on today’s pig, we likely don’t need leaner pigs, and we have a great product (boneless loins) that isn’t very forgiving when overcooked due to the low fat content.

Higher prolific sows have been one key to improving pigs weaned per litter from 7.76 in 1987 to 10.63 in 2017. That is a 37 percent increase in 30 years!

Management, health, nutrition and housing are all important to make these gains, but genetics has been one of the key drivers.

Management evolution Production has become extremely specialized over See BANG, pg. 21

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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Soybean outlook improves with better trade news NYSTROM, from pg. 19 cent of the projected exports. Inspections are down 13.5 percent from last year.

Agroconsult slashed their Brazilian safrinha corn estimate by 3.2 million metric tons to 57 mmt and put their total corn production at 83.3 mmt. Conab’s safrinha estimate is currently at 62.9 mmt. Conab’s total Brazilian corn crop forecast is 89.2 mmt and the USDA is at 87 mmt. As Brazil’s safrinha estimates decline, optimism for U.S. exports increases.

The International Grains Council increased their world 2018-19 corn production 1 mmt to 1.055 billion tons and upped their world wheat production 3 mmt to 742 mmt. However, they expect world grain stocks to fall 4 mmt to 556 mmt.

U.S. farmers planted 19 percent of the corn crop in the week ending May 20, with planting 81 percent complete. This is spot-on with the average pace. This hasn’t prevented chatter about prevent plant acres and lower corn acreage. Emergence at 50 percent was ahead of the 47 percent average. The first crop conditions report was expected to be released on May 29.

Outlook: Weather in the United States and the Black Sea region will increase its influence on prices moving forward. We still aren’t sure what Brazil’s final safrinha corn crop will be, which is supportive to corn prices. The year-on-year decline in U.S. and world ending stocks, funds affinity to being long corn, and an overall price positive market attitude should limit setbacks. However, keep an eye out for any world political and weather events which may stymie gains. The current attitude for corn is supportive. The contract high in December corn in the 12 months leading up to expiration for the last three years has been in June/July. For the week, July corn was up 3.5 cents at $4.06 and December corn gained 4.75 cents to close at $4.25 per bushel.

SOYBEANS — Traders returned from the weekend with euphoric optimism on news of a pause in trade war talk with China. President Trump is pushing China to add $25 billion to the $20 billion they already spend on U.S. agricultural products. USDA

MARKETING Secretary Sonny Perdue said it would take several years to get to such a point. Soybean prices shot higher on news that tariff talk had been put on hold and funds had their buying shoes on. China did return to the market to buy new crop soybeans.

Brazilian old crop soybeans are the cheapest in the world, undercutting U.S. prices by $15 per ton.

China’s government is encouraging their bean users to buy from the United States to help reduce their $335 billion trade surplus with the U.S. China’s hog and bean crush margins are struggling, limiting what buying interest there may be. The deal isn’t yet signed, with murmurs that Congress isn’t on board with lifting sanctions on China’s telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp.

The rally continued until terrible weekly export numbers and fund profit-taking ended a four-day rally on May 24. But Chinese purchases on May 25 ended the week on a positive note. November soybeans came within a quarter-cent of the $10.60 per bushel contract high before the retreat on May 24.

The high in November soybeans this week was $10.59.75 per bushel and the high for July soybeans was $10.50.75 per bushel.

Weekly export sales were very disappointing with net cancellations of 5.1 million bushels for old crop and just 300,000 bushels for new crop. China accounted for 1.5 million bushels of the net cancellations and unknown canceled 22.2 million bushels. Old crop sales total 2.028 billion bushels, down 5 percent from last year. The USDA is projecting year-on-year exports to decline 5 percent this year to 2.065 billion bushels.

New crop sales total 204 million bushels, nearly twice last year’s 106-million-bushel number. The USDA is forecasting 2018-19 export sales to be up nearly 11 percent year-on-year to 2.290 billion bushels. Weekly export inspections were the lowest in 10 weeks at 32.8 million bushels. Cumulative inspections are 1.68 billion bushels or 81.4 percent of the final export outlook and down 9.6 percent from last year.

Cattle futures see mild rally TEALE, from pg. 19 number was pegged at 105 percent and marketed at 106 percent of the previous year.

The futures market responded with a mild rally — particularly in the deferred contracts. For the short run, cash prices are still likely to weaken as more than adequate market-ready cattle are available at the current time. Producers are urged to stay in touch with current market conditions and stay current in marketing inventories.

The hog market has seen a fairly consistent rally since the middle of April — taking the lean index from the near $53 cwt. basis lean to near the $70 cwt. at the time of this writing.

During the same time frame, the pork cutout has improved nearly $9.50 cwt. showing good demand for pork products. The question now is, will the pork cutout continue to improve or meet resistance as we approach the $80 cwt. area? In the past, this level has produced some resistance by the consumer and the importers of pork to shy away from acquiring pork because of price. From a seasonal standpoint, the hog market typically has produced a top in price around the end of spring to early summer which we are currently approaching. This pattern would suggest that producers should be very aware of market conditions from this time forward and protect inventories if needed. v

South America is having their share of strikes. The strike by workers at Argentina’s soybean processing plants was cut short when the government ordered them to mediation. Argentina’s dock workers staged a 24-hour strike to protest working conditions late in the week. Have the truckers in Brazil suspended their five-day strike over fuel prices for 30 days in response to Petrobras cutting prices 10 percent? At the end of that time, the situation would be re-evaluated. We have heard mixed reports on if the strike has ended at press time. However, at week’s end, some roads were still being blocked. The Brazilian military was authorized to use force, if needed, to remove any remaining highway blockades. Trade associations had begun to warn of possible export shipping delays due to the strike and sugar cane mills were on the verge of closing due to the lack of fuel before the agreement was reached. Some pork and poultry plants had to close. Diesel prices are up 50 percent this year. The government is working on cutting fuel taxes.

There were trade rumblings that Argentina is considering pausing their monthly 0.5 percent cut in soybean export taxes. The tax is currently at 27.5 percent. Growers there have been tight holders of bushels as a hedge against the country’s high inflation. The government needs money and this may be an option for them. It may also be a requirement for them to get funds from the International Monetary Fund. They may also be weighing reinstating a 10 percent export tax on corn and wheat. Argentina’s prime interest rate is 40 percent.

Argentina’s April soy crush was the lowest since 2009 at 3.3 mmt. Their ag ministry put their soybean crop at 36.6 mmt, down 1 mmt from their previous estimate and compared to the USDA estimate of 39 mmt. U.S. soybean planting as of May 20 was 56 percent complete — well above the 44 percent average. This is the fastest pace in the last five years.

Emergence was 26 percent compared to 15 percent on average.

Outlook: Limiting the upside for soybeans is the strong pace of U.S. planting and cheap Brazilian supplies. What will be the next food supply for the bulls?

China? The big rally this past week was impressive, but how long will the Chinese honeymoon last? The outlook for new crop soybeans is brighter with Chinese buying (restocking their reserves), new crop exports potentially underestimated, and year-onyear ending stocks declining. Soybeans will be very sensitive to politics and weather. Watch the developments concerning the Brazilian trucker strike. For the week, July soybeans rallied 43 cents to $10.41.5 and November surged 45.25 cents higher to settle at $10.53.5 per bushel.

Nystrom’s Notes: Contract changes for the week ended May 25: Minneapolis July wheat was up 15.25 cents at $6.44.25, Chicago was 24.75 cents higher at $5.43, and Kansas City was 25.25 cents higher at $5.64 per bushel. Crude oil plunged $3.49 per barrel to $67.88 as Saudi Arabia and Russia hinted they may increase production. v

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Labor shortage continues to challenge hog production BANG, from pg. 19 the past 30 years — from a time when family members and perhaps an employee or two did all the jobs on the farm. Today, specialized breeding, farrowing, nursery and finishing technicians do an effective and efficient job of managing the production and wellbeing of the animals. The dedication to do the right thing and drive better pig performance through people comes down to strong management teams running a large share of production in the United States.

The ability of owners/managers to instill a vision within the team of doing the right thing for the pigs, their co-workers and the communities in which they live is inspiring.

The challenge we have today is with a tight labor supply. The drive to continually improve the labor efficiency is paramount. The processing industry is utilizing robotics at a higher level; egg production is highly mechanized; the dairy industry is beginning to employ milking robotics; and although the pig production tools today are much more efficient, we will find ways to improve pig care with tools which will also save labor. I am not sure what they are, but our industry can and must find those tools in the future.

Health improvement evolution Management of pig health has always been a concern of producers. One of the first improvements came decades ago when we reduced the co-mingling of pigs from a variety of sources through feeder pig auctions. We still co-mingle some pigs, but generally when the source farm health status is known. The next evolution came with all-in, all-out production technology. Managing pigs of the same age and health status allowed us to more effectively prevent transmission of disease and control the outcome.

Due to advances in health management and all-in, all-out production, contract finishing has grown to become the norm. Today, the trend leans towards moving sow farms into sparsely populated areas or

MARKETING using filters on incoming air to control disease that can enter the building airborne. This technology is proving to be quite effective, but requires significant initial investment and ongoing maintenance. As the industry continues to face pressure for reduction in antibiotic use, developing and employing technology will be crucial for future success.

Housing evolution The changes in pig housing over the past 30 years has been astounding. Today’s facilities feature large farrow-to-wean facilities designed to provide the best environment possible for the pigs, while making it safe and efficient for the herdsmen. Recent changes in facilities have signified a move to group housing for sows in late gestation and larger farrowing pens to accommodate larger litters weaned at a later age.

This provides value to both the sow (in terms of reproductive performance) and to the pig through production. Controllers, inlets and fans used to manage the inside environment have been improved to provide more consistent air movement with minimum drafts and better control of the temperature throughout the day. Modern facilities are designed for pig care — reducing stress on the animals which also improves performance. Producers need to educate the consumer in this area.

We still use a substantial amount of individual maternity pens for sow housing. I remember when the move was made to this type of housing from outdoor sow housing. The move was made for the welfare of the animals and the herdsmen. But in the move, we left the consumer out of the discussion — knowing we were doing the best for the animal if it could be justified from a cost standpoint.

Results The results from the evolution of the hog industry has been global competitiveness. This is evident by

the growth in exports: from being a net importer of pork in 1994 to exports of 5.4 billion pounds of pork (25.7 million pigs) and nearly $6.5 billion ($53.47 per head). We have also increased pork consumption domestically from 17.7 billion pounds in 1994 to 20.2 billion pounds in 2017. Value is not only gained by the increase in pork exports, but by the specific products that are exported to provide the needed products to the domestic market. Hams to Mexico, loins to Japan and variety meats that have minimal value in the United States are shipped to China. These exports make the products consumed in the United States more economical.

The U.S. industry produces the safest pork on the planet and does it with a higher standard of animal welfare than ever before. At the same time, productivity increases are achieved from genetic improvement, better housing, nutrition and management.

We have a great story to tell regarding sustainability, in reducing the natural resources used, feed grains, land, and water to improve the carbon footprint of pork production. We just need to continue to tell it.

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Compeer offering grant program SUN PRAIRIE, Wis — Compeer Financial is now accepting grant applications for its General Use Grant Program.

The purpose of the grant program is to fund programs and organizations whose work aligns with Compeer’s mission of “Enriching agriculture and rural America”. To be considered for funding, requests for support must align with the mission, as well as one of the following focus areas: Education — educating young, beginning or future farmers; Environment — maintaining or improving the quality of the rural environment; Technology — supporting the advancement and use of technology for the benefit of farmers and rural communities; and

Quality of Life — programs or initiatives that enhance the quality of life for farmers and rural communities.

Requests for consideration must be located in Compeer Financial’s 144-county territory and are eligible to apply for up to $10,000 per year.

For more information and to apply, visit Compeer. com and search for “Grants”.

This grant program is offered by Compeer Financial›s corporate giving program, the Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America and underscores their commitment to the hopes and dreams of rural America.

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Veteran viticulturalist will never stop learning

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — With 19 years in the grape growing business, one would think there isn’t much left to learn. But talk to anyone growing grapes and they quickly comment in this business one never stops learning. Ray Ray Winter Winter of rural Janesville, Minn., is such a guy.

Growing corn and soybeans, selling seed corn and rearing his family with wife Lisa was Ray’s life until 1998. That’s when the vineyard fever struck!

Today, the Winters have 14.5 acres of vines plus a root stock nursery — Winterhaven Vineyard and Nursery — for those wanting to start their own vineyard. The Winters also operate their own winery called Indian Island Winery.

The winery was built on a site which was a popular Native American summer hunting camp. This land was once nearly surrounded by water. Over the years of farming, this site has yielded artifacts of history now on display at the winery which sits next to the vineyard.

When asked if their expansion has ended, Winter responded, “Probably … at least for a while. But you never know … we’re still learning.”

Winter was interviewed at the Minnesota Grape Growers Association Cold Climate Conference held March 15-17 in Bloomington. Indian Island Winery was one of 45 exhibitors. This three-day event draws growers from six states including California.

Because they are seed stock growers, the Winters are well known with grape growers across the upper Midwest. And as grape acres keep expanding, so does the reputation of Winterhaven Nursery. Because of their winter hardiness, Minnesota varieties are the bulk of their vineyard. Their seed stock nursery

includes a few new varieties, some of other origins.

Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, Marquette, Itasca, LaCrescent and Brianna (all University of Minnesota origin) are their main core varieties.

“These varieties provide everything you need to make good, cold hardy wines,” Winter said. “Plus they handle sub-zero temps without a concern.”

With variations both in soil types and weather conditions throughout Minnesota, is selecting the proper variety critical?

“Every variety is different,” Winter stated, “and soils differ too. The higher the pH of your soils, the touchier your variety. Some can tolerate the higher pH soils better than others. But that’s not an issue on our land. We’re gently sloping soils. Grapes don’t like wet feet.”

Always a particular farmer during his crop farming days, Winter’s fields were models of near perfection — especially when the weatherman cooperated. The Winters’ son Tom is Indian Island’s vineyard manager and now practices the same perfection.

Essentially, “Do it right or don’t do it” is the Winter creed.

Explaining their fertility program, Winter said they foliar feed as needed, plus deep banding of phosphorus and potash alongside each row. Only a limited amount of nitrogen is used because their heavier, dark soils are nutrient rich.

With some vines now pushing 20 years, do vines wear out? Ray responded, “They say they do. We’re not noticing any incidence of old age so far however. But pros in this business tell us you can expect 25 to 30 years before you might be needing some replacements.”

With nearly 10,000 vines, harvest can be a challenge. For the Winters, it used to be a hand harvest and that meant several volunteer helpers. But three years ago, thanks to a mechanical harvesting machine, those formerly labor-intensive days are his-

tory. These grape harvesting machines are good.

When properly adjusted, a virtual 100 percent harvest is accomplished.

Pruning, however, is still a hand operation. This task, done each fall after harvest, is critical to next year’s harvest. “It’s still a walking and cutting operation, but we’re seriously looking at purchasing a mechanical machine for that chore also.”

Even though Minnesota varieties are winter hardy, growers always have some questions — especially if late March and early April freezing temperatures hit a vineyard just as it initiates early budding stage.

However, Winter said 2017-18 was a good winter for their vines.

“We had only one night with temps down to minus 20 degrees. Right now everything looks pretty good.

Here at the conference, growers are telling me this winter was relatively easy on their vines. So a good productive season should be about to happen,” he said.

For the Winters, this means yields of 4,000 to 6,000 pounds per acre or more! And with a ratio of 17 to 18 pounds of grapes per gallon of wine, spirits next winter season should be jolly indeed.

Indian Island Winery is managed by winemaker (enologist is the term) and daughter Angie. The winery shuts down from January until the end of March.

Opening on weekends in April, they currently offer 20 different wines including eight white wines, six red wines and six dessert wines. Live music plays every Friday and Saturday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

The winery provides wine tastings, a gift shop and beautiful outdoor scenery with campfires and a full kitchen menu. The outdoor seating covers over 5,600 square feet. Indian Island Winery also provides indoor seating for over 150 people. A special pride of this winery is producing 100 percent Minnesotagrown grape wines.

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Landowners beware when planting conservation areas ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is issuing a warning to landowners: Be cautious when buying and planting seed — especially for conservation plantings.

Recently, the MDA has encountered several issues with seed sold in the state. In 2016 and 2017, the highly invasive weed Palmer amaranth was introduced through conservation seed mixes. The department found seed mislabeled with improper information regarding the contents of the mix. Also, seed has been sold with very low germination rates. All of these issues are violations of state law.

When selecting a vendor to plant a conservation area, ask the seed vendor to provide you a copy of the seed label before buying the seed. Be sure the seed has been tested and confirmed free of Palmer amaranth. Make sure the contract with the seeding con-

tractor covers your risks as a landowner. If prohibited noxious weeds are introduced during the project, the vendor should be accountable for their eradication.

At the time of planting, have someone on site when planting to ensure the vendor is performing the work agreed to in the contract. Count the number of bags of each seed source and compare that to the invoice.

Reject any unlabeled seed. Examine and keep all seed labels used in a specific planting.

If any noxious weed seeds are listed on the label, verify that only restricted noxious weed seeds are present at a rate of less than 25 seeds per pound.

Reject any seed with prohibited noxious weed seeds listed on the label. Require the seeding contractor provide planting records. The records should note which seed lots were planted in specific locations, the planting procedures used, site preparation,

and equipment used and how that equipment was cleaned. Retain the invoice and all paperwork for the project.

When the conservation plantings begin to grow, note that you are seeing the species that should be there. If a plant looks suspicious, contact the MDA’s Arrest the Pest line at (888) 545-6684 or your county ag inspector.

Landowners with any questions or concerns should consult with their local conservation staff associated with the specific conservation program. They may also contact the MDA for advice and assistance by calling Denise Thiede at (651) 201-6531 or emailing her at denise.thiede@state.mn.us.

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Steve & Mary Wille owners/sellers Steve’s phone: 507-323-4076 We Sell the Earth & Everything On It.

MATT MARING AUCTION CO. INC. PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502

Matt Maring, Lic. #25-28 • 507-951-8354 Kevin Maring, Lic. #25-70 • 507-271-6280 Adam Engen, Lic. #25-93 • 507-213-0647

Harvesting Equip FOR SALE: 12’ JD grain pickup, 5 belt, nice shape, fits 100 or 20 series combine, 6600/6620 etc. (507)227-2651

Livestock FOR SALE: Black Angus bulls also Hamp, York, & Hamp/Duroc boars & gilts.

320-598-3790

Cattle Big, thick, Polled Hereford bulls. Semen tested. AI sired.

Delivery available.

Also, Hereford & Shorthorn cow/calf pairs. 715-597-2036

USED PARTS LARSON SALVAGE Good selection of tractor parts - New & Used All kinds of hay equipment, haybines, balers, choppers parted out.

New combine belts for all makes.

Swather canvases, round baler belting, used & new tires.

6 miles East of

CAMBRIDGE, MN 763-689-1179

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EXCESS INVENTORY REDUCTION

AUCTION

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 | 10AM

OPENS: MON., JUNE 11 / CLOSES: TUE., JUNE 19

LOCATION: Steffes Group Facility 24400 MN Hwy 22 South Litchfield, MN 55355

PREVIEW: By Appointment, Mon-Fri, 9AM-3PM LOADOUT: Thurs, June 14 & Fri, June 15 9AM-3PM / Free forklift for loading.

cultivator 4200, Johnson live Lockwood 4500 bottom box 1979 Ford 9000, 20’, potato harvester Dahlman live bottom box POTATO WASHING & G706, MFWD 1973 AMC M812, 24’ PACKAGING Minneapolis Moline Dahlman live bottom box EQUIPMENT 2003 Volmpack 12000 GBD, 2WD 1971 IHC Fleetstar packing machine SKID STEER LOADER tandem axle, 20’ Bobcat 863 skid steer Dahlman live bottom box Mayo double stinger unload loader 1973 Ford 800 TRAILER tandem, 20’ Lockwood Harriston 240 clod hopper 2009 Magnum Mfg live bottom box Wash/drying plant tri-axle live bottom 1973 Ford 880 POTATO BOX TRUCKS tandem, 20’ Dahlman Complete wash, grading,& 1983 Ford 9000 live bottom box sizing line Louisville, Lockwood POTATO HILLER & live bottom box HARVESTERS Harriston 2025 hiller ord 1977 International AI Complete terms, lot listings & photos at

Kerian M50 speed sizer SEWING & BAGGING EQUIPMENT (2) Tri-Steel sewers Walthambury 320SW bagger Fischbein sewer, 7’ Tri-Steel end feed, 7’ Fischbein sewer, L-belt (2) 3-Bag carousel bag holders Hamer 355 bagger McCuskey bagger AND MUCH MORE!!

PREVIEW: Monday - Friday 8-5PM / LOADOUT: Monday - Friday 8-5PM

CONVENTIONAL TRUCKS 2011 Kenworth T660 2005 Western Star 4900EX 2004 Kenworth T600 1999 Kenworth W900 1998 Freightliner 1997 Freightliner FLD 120 1995 Ford L9000 HOPPER BOTTOM TRAILERS 2014 Wilson Commander, 43’x72” 2014 Wilson Commander, 43’x68” 2012 Cornhusker 800 Ultra-Lite 42’43’x78”

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SteffesGroup.com

Steffes Group, Inc. | 24400 MN Hwy 22 S, Litchfield, MN | Ashley Huhn MN47-002

Ashley Huhn at Steffes Group 320.693.9371 or 701.238.1975

TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items.

Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

12368 BIA Hwy. 700, Sisseton, SD

FRIDAY, JUNE 8 | 9AM AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Please note that the Frank Rinas Estate will be selling firearms, farm toy collections, and Native American artifacts at a later date. Live online bidding available on major Will be running 2 rings. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com. SD SALES TAX LAWS

and belt buckle equipment.

APPLY.

From Sisseton, 4.5 miles south on BIA Hwy 700; or from I-29 Exit 224 (Peever, SD), 3.5 miles west to BIA Hwy. 700, 3.5 miles north.

TO INCLUDE: 4WD, MFWD, 2WD Tractors; Tillage Equipment, Row Crop Equipment, Trucks, Pickups, Trailer; Hay, Forage, & Livestock Equipment; Scrapers, Wheel Loader, Dozers & Motor Grader, Other Equipment, Collectible Tractors, Collectible & Parts Vehicles, Antique Farm Equipment & Stationary Motors, Horse-drawn Equipment, Shop Equipment, Tanks, Lawn & Garden; Farm Support, Parts, & Misc. Items; Antiques & Primitives

SteffesGroup.com Steffes Group, Inc. | 2000 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND

FRANK RINAS ESTATE

Retirement Auction

Thursday, June 14th - 4:30 pm 101 S. Broadway, New Ulm, MN

2018

Estate

2012 Wilson Pacesetter,42’x72” 2012 Wilson Commander, 41’x66” 2012 Wilson Commander, 41’x66” 2008 Wilson Commander, 40’x66” APU UNITS (5) Idle Time ITA 4250 APU units

Complete terms, lot listings & photos at

ble. orn Eric Gabrielson MN47-006 36 Steffes Group, Inc. | 24400 MN Hwy 22 S, Litchfield, MN | 320.693.9371 JCP FARMS | John 320.760.5531 or Eric Gabrielson at Steffes Group, 320.693.9371 or 701.238.2570

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TIMED ONLINE

AUCTION

Location: 26299 Hwy 71, Long Prairie, MN 56347 / From Long Prairie, MN 2.5 miles north on Hwy 71

ick- COMBINE fits John Deere 9650 ine, TRACTORS 51 Minneapolis Moline

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Robert Horton, PR, 605.695.1059, Todd Garry PR or Brad Olstad at Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240

TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer. SD Sales Tax Laws apply.

Auctioneer’s Note: Do not miss this retirement auction! Lots of great items including a ‘77 GMC Sierra Grande 35 w/ Holmes wrecker bed, tools, automotive equip. & more!

Tow Truck & Equipment: ’77 GMC Sierra Grande 35 w/ Holmes H475T wrecker bed, 107563 mi, motor rebuilt 8000 mi ago, manual, 4WD, Briggs & Stratton 16 hp generator; ’08 Supreme Heat 1750 waste oil heater/furnace, 175,000 BTU; Tebben Pro-Groomer, 6’ land scraper; ROHN 100’ communication tower; tandem axle running gear w/ 850 gal tank; 500 gal fuel barrel; 300 gal fuel barrel on stand; 2’ x 8’ metal work benches; Clarke HD Plus tool chest; 11.2-38 tractor tire chains; Tools, Testers & Parts: Snap-on wheel balancer w/ weight set; Snap-on Counselor MT1665 digital oscilloscope; Motor-Vac EEFS100C carbon clean system; Snap-on Ethos diagnostic tester; Snap-on MT2500 diagnostic tester; Associated 8500 alternator-starter tester; Marquette 6-12V battery servicer; Car Quest 7300 battery charger; Graco retractable lube system; Smith torch kit cart w/ tanks; topside creeper; Snap-on SVTS262A cooling system tester; assortment of quality used tires; lg assortment auto parts; tap & dye set; welding supplies; large selection of hand tools including: wrenches, socket sets, screwdrivers, bits, pliers, pry bars, crimpers, pullers, hammers; Signs, Radio Equip & Misc Items: Lg sign faces fr om main sign include: “Dick’s Auto Repair & Towing inc.”, “Discount for Cash” & fuel prices; numbers for gas price sign; signage from fuel pumps; full service & self serve signage; parts & labor signage; Marfak chassis lubrication sign; Interstate Batteries hood wall-hanging; Skelly Oil Company photo; 8 - Wurth 2’ swimsuit calendars; Dayco thermometer; Snap-on van clock; light-up open sign; Cobra 150 GTL DX CB Radio; Galaxy DX 959 AM/SSB CB Radio; Uniden 2-way radio w/ base unit & 2 mobile units; View terms, complete list & photos at: magesland.com

Dick’s Auto Repair & Towing Inc.

Auctioneer: Matt Mages - 507-276-7002 Lic. 08-18-002

Auctioneers: Matt Mages, New Ulm Lic 08-18-002; Larry Mages, Lafayette; Joe Wersal, Winthrop; Joe Maidl, Lafayette; John Goelz, Franklin; Ryan Froehlich, Winthrop; Clerk: Mages Land Co. & Auction Ser vice, LLC. Terms: No Buyer ’s Premium.

Notes: The sign str uctures & fuel pumps will not be sold. Sales tax may apply on some items.

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LARGE AUCTION TRACTORS – COLLECTOR TRACTORS – COMBINES – HEADERS – SKID LOADERS FORAGE/HAYING/FEEDING EQUIPMENT – PLANTERS – ASST. MACHINERY VEHICLES – TRUCKS – AUGERS Our Annual Summer Consignment Auction Event will be held at the Wieman Auction Facility located at 44628 SD Highway 44, Marion, SD or from Marion, SD, 1-mile South and ½ mile West on Highway 44 on:

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6TH 8:30 AM CDT Lunch by the Presbyterian Church Ladies

A Large Assortment of Tractors (3 – 4x4’s, 25+ MFD’s, 10+ 2 WD and 70+ Collector Tractors), 3 – Skid Loaders, 25+ Combines, Corn Heads, Bean Heads, Dummy Heads, Head Transports, Grain Carts, Gravity Boxes, Augers/ Conveyors, Planters, Disks, Field Cultivators, Vertical Tillage, Chisels, Rippers, MOCOs, Hay Balers, Hay Rakes, Bale Processors, Feeding Equipment, Forage Equipment, Loaders, Skid Loader Attachments, Trucks, Trailers, Vehicles, Fencing, Miscellaneous and more!

The Land— June 1/June 8, 2018

WANTED

DAMAGED GRAIN STATEWIDE

We pay top dollar for your damaged grain. We are experienced handlers of your wet, dry, burnt and mixed grains.

Trucks and vacs available.

Immediate response anywhere.

CALL FOR A QUOTE TODAY

PRUESS ELEV., INC. 1-800-828-6642 PLACE AN AD IN THE LAND TODAY! CALL US AT

507-345-4523 or 800-657-4665

FOR FULL AUCTION AD VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.WIEMANAUCTION.COM

Auctioneers Note: This is another large and interesting auction of consignments by Area Farmers & Dealers. Online bidding will be available at Proxibid.com with a 2.5% buyer’s premium and a $750 maximum per item. Miscellaneous starts at 8:30 AM sharp and older equipment at 9 AM with 2-3 auction rings all day. A 3rd auction ring will sell trucks-trailers-vehiclesaugers @ 11 AM. For more details/pictures, please call our office or visit us online at WiemanAuction.com. South Dakota sales tax will be charged. This ad is subject to additions and deletions. All consignments must have been approved by the Wiemans - sorry we are full! We have excellent loading and unloading equipment. Financing and trucking are available. We are in our 70th year of selling. We offer honest and fair treatment to all because we appreciate your business! Bring a friend and come prepared to buy! If you are driving a good distance – please call to make sure the item is here. Welcome to the “Machinery Mall of South Dakota!” Our next auction is August 22nd, 2018.

WIEMAN LAND & AUCTION CO., INC (SINCE 1949) 44628 SD HIGHWAY 44, MARION, SD 57043 AUCTION OFFICE: 800-251-3111 or 605-648-3111 MACHINERY OFFICE: 888-296-3536 or 605-648-3536 Email: Info@WiemanAuction.com Website: WiemanAuction.com EVENINGS: Mike Wieman 605-351-0905 • Ryan Wieman 605-366-3369 • Kevin Wieman 605-660-1587 Gary Wieman 605-660-0529 • Rich Wieman 605-660-0341 • Derek Wieman 605-660-2135

WHERE FARMERS BUY, SELL & TRADE 507-345-4523

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Steffes Auction Calendar 2018

After the morning chores...

For more info call 1-800-726-8609 or visit our website: SteffesGroup.com

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LARGE ALEXANDRIA, MN FARM STATE AUCTION

Opens May 28 & Closes June 6 Duane Faber Farm Retirement, Watkins, MN, Timed Online Auction

213 Acres of Prime clAss-A croPlAnd in richlAnd TwP., rice co., mn & riPley TwP., dodge co. mn To be sold AT Public AucTion.

MATT MARING

MYRON BREDE ESTATE MIKE BREDE PR. PHONE 612-747-1107 JEFF: 320-808-5004 5959 JOHNSON ROAD, NELSON, MN MID-AMERICAN AUCTION CO. INC. AL WESSEL #77-60 PH. 320-760-2979 KEVIN WINTER 320-760-1593,

Opens May 28 & Closes June 7 Edwin Rauch Hay & Forage Equipment Auction, Hutchinson, MN, Timed Online Auction Opens May 31 & Closes June 14 Anderson Family Antique Tractor Auction, Bertha, MN, Timed Online Auction

FRIDAY JUNE 8TH, 2018, 10:30 AM LOCATION: 8 MILES NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA, MN ON MN STATE 29 TO CARLOS, MN THEN 2 MILES EAST ON COUNTY #13 THEN 1.5 MILES SOUTH ON JOHNSON ROAD.A NOTE: FOR COMPLETE LISTING PHONE 320-760-2979 OR VIEW ONLINE AT www. midamericanauctioninc.com. ONLINE BIDDING ON MAJOR ITEMS THROUGH PROXIBID. TRACTORS ’76 JD 4630, CAB, 38” RUBBER, DUALS, QUAD, 2200 HRS. ON ENGINE OH; ’70 JD 4000 DSL WITH JD 148 HYD. LOADER, SIDE CONSOLE; ’69 JD 4020 DSL, SIDE CONSOLE, SYNCHRO, DL; ’56 JD 70 DIESEL, WF, PONY MOTOR; ’75 CASE 2670 4WD, 4 HYD, 3 POINT, 1000 PTO, P SHIFT, RECENT ENGINE OH; CASE 1470 4WD, P SHIFT, 34” TIRES W/DUALS, 7602 HRS.; FORD 9N; ’48 JD A. COMBINES, HEADS, TRUCKS & GENERAL FARM EQUIPMENT (2) ’82 JD 7720 TURBO HYDRO DIESEL COMBINES, 5700 & 6714 HRS; JD 843 LOW TIN 8RX30 OIL BATH CORNHEAD; ’08 HARVEST-TEC 8RX30 CHOPPING CORNHEAD, STALK STOMPERS, POLY SNOUTS, ADAPTER TO FIT JD; (2) JD MODEL 800 18’ WINDROWERS; ’99 FREIGHTLINER TWIN SCREW SEMI TRACTOR, SLEEPER, CUMMINS, 10SPD, 994,000 MILES; ’68 & ’64 FORD GRAIN TRUCKS W/ HOISTS; CASE IH ECOLO-TIGER 527B 14’ 5 SHANK DISC RIPPER, FRONT & REAR LEVELERS; JD 26000 5 BOT. SEMI MT. PLOW; KEWANEE HD 15’ OFF SET SPRING CUSHION DISC; WILRICH 32’ HYD. FOLD FIELD CULT.; (2) MELROE MODEL 115 SPRAYCOUPES; (2) DAKON 250 BU. GRAVITY BOXES ON HD WAGONS; JD 757 ZERO TURN MOWER; ’99 POLARIS 335 SPORTSMAN 4 WHEELER PLUS MANY MORE PIECES OF FARM EQUIPMENT INCLUDING JD AND OTHER PIECES OF COLLECTIBLE FARM IMPLEMENTS.

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CO. In order to settle the estate of Susan Kay Shorter, there will be a public auction of her family farms.

Auction Location: Kenyon Event Center, 620 2nd Street, Kenyon MN 55946

Mon., June 18, 2018 6:00 p.m.

www.maringauction.com “some of the very best cropland” in dodge co. and rice co. mn 2 separate farms Parcel 1 133.33 Acres of Prime class-A cropland – in section 23 of richland Twp., rice co. mn. 90.6 cPi

Directions to farm from Kenyon, MN: Go southwest of Kenyon on Goodhue Co. 12 Blvd. for 4 miles., Co. 12 Blvd. turns into 240th St. E. Continue west on 240th St. E. for 1.5 miles. Farm is on south side. Watch for signs.

- PID# 16.23.2.75.001; Taxes for 2018: $6,094 - Lays very good - Area: 133.33 acres just surveyed - To be sold by the acre - Tillable acres: 132.25 - Part of Section 23, Richland Twp. - Crop Productivity Index: 90.6 Rice Co. MN - Some drain tile and 5 terraces in place

Parcel 2 80 Acres in w½ of se¼, section 12 ripley Twp., dodge co. mn.

Prime class-A cropland 78.40 Tillable acres, 94.9 cPi

Drain tile in place.

Directions to farm from Claremont MN: East on State Hwy. 14 to Dodge Co. 5., south on Co. 5 for 3.5 miles to 655th St., go west ¼ mile. Watch for signs.

- PID: R15.012.0400; Taxes 2018: $4,176 - 30,000 Feet of drain tile - Area: 80 acres - Lays perfect, 4 corners - Tillable acres: 78.40 - Crop Productivity Index: 94.9, great soils - To be sold by the acre Terms: $25,000 down per parcel the day of auction (which is non-refundable if buyer fails to close.) The balance is due and payable in full on or before Aug. 8, 2018 at which time the buyers shall receive a clear and marketable title. All real estate taxes due in 2018 shall be paid by seller. Possession shall be granted upon 2018 land tenants removal of all crops grown on said parcels. All real estate is selling AS-IS, no warrantee or guarantee expressed or implied by the seller or any of their agents. No contingency whatsoever. All bidders/buyers must have their financing in order.

call for a buyer’s packet or go to maringauction.com. click susan Kay shorter estate, then information tab. frank Peterson, Attorney for estate, Kenyon mn, 507-789-6141

www.maringauction.com

Susan Kay Shorter Estate

Phil Maring, Personal Rep. for Estate

MATT MARING AUCTION CO. INC. PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502 We Sell the Earth & Everything On It. Matt Maring, Lic. #25-28 • 507-951-8354 Broker: Maring Auction & Realty Co. Inc. Lic. #40241191

Friday, June 1 at 10AM Clayton Zemlicka Estate Antique Tractor Auction, Watertown, SD Opens June 6 & June 13 June Online Auction, Upper Midwest Locations, Thursday, June 7 at 10AM Ernest & Carol Hemp Farm Retirement, Greenbush, MN Opens June 7 & Closes June 14 Potato & Farm Equipment Excess Inventory Reduction, Long Prairie, MN, Timed Online Auction Friday, June 8 at 9AM Frank Rinas Estate, Sisseton, SD Opens June 10 & Closes June 20 David Myllykangas Estate Auction, Litchfield, MN, Timed Online Auction Opens June 11 & Closes June 21 Gary Nordlund Antique Tractor Auction, Cokato, MN, Timed Online Auction Thursday, June 12 at 1PM Robert & Gloria Larson Farm Retirement, Kathryn, ND Wednesday, June 13 at 10AM Dassel Lake Home & Personal Property, Meeker County, MN Thursday, June 14 at 10AM Farm Equipment Auction, Ames Farm, Wimbledon, ND Friday, June 15 at 1PM Hennepin County, MN, Hobby Farm & Land Auction, Greenfield, MN Friday, June 15 at 1 PM Roger & Joanne Kris Moving Auction, Sauk Rapids, MN Wednesday, June 20 at 10AM Jack & Corrine Kaiser Farm Retirement, Fairmount, ND Friday, June 22 at 10AM Wolfer Farms, Farm Equipment Auction, Argusville, ND Tuesday, July 17 at 10AM Robert “Bob” & Virginia “Ginny” Buck Farm Retirement Auction, Wahpeton, ND Wednesday, August 1 at 9AM Aglron West Fargo Event, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, Deadline to Consign is June 29th!

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• 5/8” drum roller wall thickness • 42” drum diameter wall thickness • 4”x8” frame tubing 3/8” thick • Auto fold

MANDAKO 12’-60’ LONG ROLLERS

FOR THE BEST DEAL ORDER NOW!

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

4WD TRACTORS

ROW CROP TRACTORS CONT.

‘14 JD 9560R, 1045 hrs, 800x38 duals, 5 hyd valves, wheel ‘13 C-IH 260, 577 hrs , 540/1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd hi -flow, wgts .......................................................................... $212,000 front wgts, 420x46” tires & duals............................. $110,000 ‘12 C-IH 260, 1784 hrs, 1000 PTO, 3pt hitch, suspended front ‘13 JD 9360R, 1799 hrs, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, 620x42” tires & duals ............................................................. $159,000 axle, 4 hyd valves, hi-flow, front duals, front wgts, 480x50” rear tires & duals ...................................................... $105,000 ‘11 NH T9.390, 905 hrs, power shift, HID lights, big pump, 480x50 tires & duals ................................................ $123,000 ‘04 C-IH MX 285, 8540 hrs, 3 pt, 18.4x46 tires & duals, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, front wts, eng overhauled-0 hrs . $59,000 ‘94 C-IH 9270, 8533 hrs, power shift, 4 hyd valves, 650x42” tires & duals ............................................................... $34,000 ‘92 C-IH 9270, 9969 hrs, 12spd gear drive, 4 hyd valves, 520x42” tires & duals ................................................. $25,000 ‘13 Versatile 2375, 1482 hrs, 1000 PTO, 12spd gear drive, 710x42” tires & duals, Outback auto steer ............. $115,000

TRACK TRACTORS ‘14 C-IH 340 Mag Row trac, 287 hrs, luxury cab, suspended front, 18” tracks, 6 hyds, 1000 PTO, 76” track spacing ..................................................................... $185,000

COMBINES ‘13 JD 660 4X4, 1598/1066 sep hrs, 2630 display, ContourMaster, chopper, 520x42” duals ................ $145,000

Cattle

For Sale - Yearling & 2YO Polled Hereford bulls, exc Registered Polled Hereford growth & calving ease, seBulls. Call for details, Jerry men tested; also Hereford FOR SALE: Retired from 715-377-2940 & black baldy replacement dairy & selling my heifers heifers. Jones Farms, Leas they are ready to calve.

Sueur. (507)317-5996 THANK YOU FOR READING A dozen Jersey & Jersey Purebred registered Limousin X Holstein cross springers bulls red and blacks. Trails ready to go! Many years of selective AI breeding for Hereford bulls, fertility test- End cattle. 715-797-8062 high milk components. Lo- ed, raised in rotational graz- Sim-Angus bulls, black polled, cated near Duluth, MN. Call ing, buy now will hold until good disposition, exc qual218-427-2651 ity, easy calving, Sires are needed. 608-235-9417 Final Answer, Upgrade, and Please support the advertisers you see here. Limousin bulls, 2 yr olds Dream On. 5 long yearlings, Tell them you saw their ad in The Land! & yearlings. John Goelz, choice for $1,995. Gerald Franklin, MN (507)557-8394 FOR SALE: (6) two yr old Polzin Cokato 320-286-5805 black Aberdeen (lowline) & Performance tested two-year belted Galloway cross heif- old & Angus yearling bulls, Swine ers w/their six calves at side semen tested, AI sired, high (4 heifers & 2 bulls). Norm docility, deliver when needAnderson, 10108 150th Ave, ed. Contact Willard (507)450- FOR SALE: Yorkshire, Hampshire, Duroc & Hamp/Duroc 5841 Foreston, MN (320)294-5752 boars, also gilts. Excellent selection. Raised outside.

Exc herd health. No PRSS. Delivery avail. 320-760-0365

THE LAND

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

‘97 JD 9760 4x4, sep hrs, ContourMaster, chopper, bullet rotor, 3901 eng hrs/2618 sep hrs, 520x42” tires & duals .......................................................................... $65,000

‘12 JD 7200R MFWD, 20 speed auto quad transmission, 380/90R50 duals, 6600 hrs, through service program ...................................... $62,000

‘94 HD 9760, 2WD, 3460/2268 sep hrs, ContourMaster, chopper, bin ext, 480x42” tires & duals ................... $58,000

‘11 C-IH 5088, 1743/1541 sep hrs, rock trap, chopper, 30.5x32 tires ............................................................... $93,000

‘03 JD 8120, cab, air, 3832 hrs, 3 hyd valves, 540/1000 PTO, ‘11 Claas Lexion 740, 1466 eng/1899 sep hrs, 4x4, chopper, new front tires, 18.4x46 rear tires & duals................. $80,000 520x42” duals ......................................................... $105,000

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT

‘13 NH T8360, 1150 hrs, luxury cab, 4 hyd, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 480x50 duals, auto steer complete ......................... $115,000 Summers 45’ super roller, 42” drums ............................. $25,500 JD 637, 29’ 3” rock flex disc w/harrow ......................... $16,000 ‘13 C-IH 290, 1250 hrs, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd valves, big pump, front duals, rear 480x50 tires & duals .......... $113,000 JD 980, 31’ field cultivator, w/harrow ............................ $11,500

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

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

Cattle

FOR SALE: Registered Angus Performance Tested Two year bulls, 2-yr olds & yearlings, old & Yearling Bulls, Semen fertility tested, guaranteed. Tested, AI Sired, High DoMiller Angus, Kasson, MN cility. Deliver when needed.

Contact Willard 507-450-5841 (507)634-4535

‘13 JD 660, 1180/892 sep hrs, 2WD, ContourMaster, chopper, HID lights, 520x38 duals ......................................... $145,000

‘12 JD 8235, 2WD, 1235 hrs, cab, air, power shift, 3pt, 1000 ‘15 Claas Lexion 750TT, 853 eng/492 sep hrs, 4x4, 35” tracks PTO, 4 hyd valves, 18.4x46 duals .......................... $110,000 auto pilot, chopper, chaff spreader ......................... $225,000

‘11 Versatile 305, MFWD, 690 hrs, 4 hyds, 3pt, 1000 PTO, HID lights, front wgts, 480x46 tires & duals .............. $98,000

Cattle

‘13 JD 6150R MFWD, 20 speed auto quad plus transmission, 520/85R42 single tires, TLS front axle, loader ready 3280 hrs .......................... $72,500

‘15 C-IH 340 Mag Row trac, CV tranny, 1108 hrs , 30” tracks w/ 200 hrs , 4 hyd valves, hi-flow, 120” track spacing ..................................................................... $183,000 ‘01 JD 9650STS, 4325/3014 sep hrs, ContourMaster, chopper, 520x38” tires & duals ................................................ $44,000 ‘04 Cat Challenger MT 755, 4844 hrs, 16” tracks, 4 hyd, 3 pt, ‘14 5130, 928/660 sep hrs, rock track, Tracker, chopper, 900, 1000 PTO, JD ATU steering wheel ............................ $65,000 5x32 single tires ...................................................... $142,000

ROW CROP TRACTORS

The Land— June 1/June 8, 2018

‘67 JD 5020 row crop tractor, 18.4X38 duals ........................................... ............................................................................................................ $7,500 ‘14 Case SV250 skid steer, A. cab with air, 2 speed, high flow, 320 hrs .. .......................................................................................................... $31,000 ‘03 JD 9650STS combine, contourmaster, 18.4R42 duals, tank ext., chopper, 3,100 sep. hrs, nice combine ........................................... $42,500 ‘16 Case SV280 skid steer, cab with air, 2 speed, 520 hrs ......... $31,500 '13 CIH Magnum 290, 520/85R46 rear duals, front duals, HID lights, high capacity hyd. pump, 6 remotes, 3690 hrs ....................................... $86,000 ‘14 JD 7210R, 20 speed command quad transmission, 380/90R50 rear duals, 380/85R34 single fronts, 3 remotes, 540/1000 PTO, 4565 hrs, just through service program, warranty ................................................. $81,500 ‘14 CIH Magnum 280, 620/70R42 rear duals, 600/65R28 single fronts, weights, 19 speed powershift, HID lights, 5265 hrs, engine rebuild and tractor inspection just completed by CIH dealer ............................. $79,500

– AgDirect Financing Available – Please call before coming to look.

Keith Bode

Fairfax, MN 55332 507-381-1291 • www.keithbodeeq.com

Sheep Reg Shetland Sheep 2 Yrs old.

Reg Shetland sheep, lambs, adult ewes &rams. All colors. Package deals & 4-H/ child discounts! Adult Ewes & rams. $150 rams, lambs $75, $150 (507) 525-7357 Mr.Krosch@yahoo.com

Classified Line Ads

WORK!

Call 507-345-4523 Goats 120 Saanen & Alpine doe kids.

All or groups of at least 20.

Disbudded. Weaned. Asking $195/ea in May/June. 920565-3796

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This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Correspondent Richard Siemers.

Breakfast and a book

T

he Vesta Café may be the only café in Minnesota (in the country?) that hosts a Summer Reading Program. But then, the Vesta Café is not a typical small town café. It is also the town library.

“The library is very well used,” said Molly Wagner, who purchased the café in 2016, and was managing it in 2012 when the library got started. It began outside the front door as a Little Free Library.

According to “Minnesota Prairie Roots,” a blog of Audrey Helbling, Helbling knows Todd Bol — co-founder of the Little Free Library movement. Knowing her hometown of about 300 people had no such amenity, she encouraged Bol to place his libraries in small towns that had no library. His organization came up with the Little Free Libraries for Small Towns initiative, and Bol himself came to Vesta to install one by the café’s front door.

It just grew from there, Wagner said. People started donating books and she would pick some up at sales. The collection has passed 300 books.

You encounter two bookshelves by the front door.

Three other bookshelves and a reading area are across the room.

There is no checkout system. People take a book and either return it or replace it with another. The

Vesta, Minn.

only items that don’t leave the café/library are children’s books and puzzles. They would be too easily lost.

Wagner’s daughter, Sarah Mertens, who teaches history (and other subjects) at BOLD High School in Olivia, helps her out some weekends and during the summer. She always liked to read when she was little, and these days reads to her own child. That gave her an idea.

“I have my summers off, and come to Vesta anyway,” Mertens said. “Their nearest library is 15 minutes away, so I thought I would try offering a Summer Reading Program here. I didn’t know if it would work, maybe just five kids and myself.”

Thirty children signed up and came to the weekly times of reading, snacks and crafts in 2017. Mertens plans to offer a reading program again this summer.

The Vesta Café is a community gathering spot.

Coffee groups play cards, the Lions Club and American Legion meet there. But its most distinctive quality is that it serves as the town’s library and encourages reading among Vesta’s children.

The Little Free Library in Vesta isn’t so little any more. v

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NORTHERN ZONE

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DOWN TO EARTH SOLUTION FOR BULK TRANSFER.

The Right Dryer For Higher Profits

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• SCREENLESS! Don’t waste time/money constantly unplugging screens.

• 1–2 lbs heavier test weight per bushel than screen dryers. Savings that adds up!

• Computerized moisture control prevents over-drying. Save up to 9-cents per bushel!

• Remote monitoring eliminates time and expense of “dryer watching”.

• Effectively dries all types of grain.

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