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Photographs seem so simple, yet they my first experience with an enlarger and say so much. While going over the latest many hours were spent experimenting “Life on the Farm” photos sent in by our with different print-making techniques. readers, I thought about how photograIn college I learned about color photography was — and is — such an important phy. Photo paper wasn’t free anymore and aspect of my life. color photo paper was really expensive.

Before I could tie my own shoes I recall Plus, I had to share the tiny darkroom spending hours looking at old photowith many other students. I shot a lot of graphs. Well, photographic negatives color slides. The film was cheaper, I could LAND MINDS actually. My dad’s mother had several develop it at the school’s lab, and I learned two-pound cheese boxes filled with 2-1/4to make my own slides out of those cardBy Paul Malchow inch negatives which captured life board frames. I still have my slide probefore I was born. There were pictures jector and slides from those days. of the family farm; the horses which My career in newspapers allowed me used to work the land; and the conto continue my interest in photography. When my struction of our barn. There were many photos of wife and I bought our own paper, the previous great hunting and fishing expeditions: hay wagons owner only used a Polaroid for the news photos. We lined with rows of pheasants and large stringers of built a very nice darkroom just before the dawn of fish. There were photos of my dad and his brother digital photography. displaying their prize catches — beaming with a Now digital photography is fine, and from a finanyouth and vigor that seemed absent after World cial standpoint it makes a lot of sense. There’s no War II and years of hard farm life. film to buy or expensive print paper or special I think my dad would have made a great photogequipment. From an ecological standpoint, digital rapher had he not gone into farming. He equipped photography doesn’t require special chemicals which the old homestead farm house with an upstairs have to be properly disposed of. darkroom and used a heavy 35mm camera he But I miss the magic of old-fashioned photography: brought back with him from Germany. By the time I the anticipation of developing that roll of film (and came around, home movies were the thing and my the inevitable disappointment of losing pictures to dad captured many birthdays, baptisms and bad chemistry or poor camera settings); watching a Christmases on 8mm film. photograph slowly appear in a tray of solution under When old enough to join 4-H, I took photography red light; and the mastery of making the perfect with a state-of-the-art Kodak Instamatic camera. print. Like so many aspects of life today, digital phoThe rolls of film came in a plastic casing which you tography is instant gratification. Mistakes are simjust popped into the camera – no need to thread the ply deleted with the push of a button. film onto a little spool. Flash bulbs came in a little What hasn’t changed is the value of a snapshot. cube which plugged into the top of the camera. No Photographs — regardless of origin or technique — longer burdened with the prospect of breaking an expensive piece of equipment, I was able to take my still capture that moment in history. I have a photograph — dating from the very early 1960s — of my plastic Instamatic wherever I pleased. family sitting around the dinner table sharing a meal.

I was taught to be frugal with film for the camera, It shows where everyone routinely sat, the settings of but never discouraged from taking pictures. I think the kitchen and the dishes we used. The picture itself this helped train my eye for photography — patient- is very ordinary in composition, but it speaks volumes ly setting up the “perfect” picture rather than ranin recording our way of life in those times. domly shooting up film. The time between dropping So hats off to the readers who take the time to off the film at the drug store and seeing the finished share their photographs with The Land. Thanks to results seemed like an eternity. you we are able to record our little part of history While attending tech school, I was lucky enough to for the generations who follow. have carte blanche use of the school’s 35mm camera, Paul Malchow is the managing editor of The Land. changeable lenses, a darkroom and a seemingly infiHe may be reached at editor@TheLandOnline.com. v nite supply of black and white print paper. It was

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Fall and our garden’s last stand In the unseasonable heat of mid-Sepsparkling clean plate was a slap at them tember, the yard’s many black walnut and the gracious Lord that had provided trees began shedding their heavy fruit. what might be our last supper.

Now, a month on, the stately trees are Besides, flavor wasn’t the key ingredibare of nuts and most of their leaves ent in my family’s meals — energy was. weeks earlier than any year I can Mealtime was refueling time. We ate five remember. Does that suggest an early times a day to gather enough energy to winter? A long one? carry us from 5 a.m. milkings to 7 p.m.

Time will tell. All I know is that the suppers. The meals usually featured early crop also delivered a wave of red fox FARM & FOOD FILE meat, potatoes, bread, butter, a variety of squirrels that, like a wheat threshing home-canned vegetables, our farm’s milk,

By Alan Guebert crew of yore, arrived just in time for the and coffee. tasty, bombs-away crop before moving That standing menu did not mean on to the next nut-carpeted farmette. my mother didn’t make memorable My mother ran by a similarly mysterious, known- meals — she did. But this rural Julia Child could only-to-her calendar. To her, fall arrived when a cou- not abide one leaf of lettuce going to waste. Each ple of us were ordered into the family’s drooping, had to be collected, canned and consumed if we yellow-and-brown vegetable patch to harvest what were to have any chance against a long winter or she called “the last of the garden.” the Infernal Region.

And it was truly the last and least table-worthy That belief was seeded, I later learned, during her produce from of our huge annual garden. It included Depression-era childhood in rural Nebraska. Her small, tough green tomatoes; a few handfuls of case- family, she once told me, often lived on “flour panhardened beets; bunches of tough, small carrots and cakes, molasses, and garden cabbage.” Only on leathery green beans; a thatch of Swiss chard; a Sunday, she added, did they feast on one of their couple of worm-riddled cabbages and whatever else flock’s skinny laying hens. had survived the summer’s heat, humidity and wayThat hardship gave her a hardness against waste ward Holstein. of any kind. Hand-me-down clothes often featured Although none of it fit any U.S. Department of patch upon patch. (I was third in line. I know patchAgriculture grade we knew of, all of it passed my es.) I once watched her dye her only pair of highmother’s test. Soon after my brothers or me handed heeled shoes to match a dress she had just sewn. over the three-gallon (and in some years, five-galShe created her own Sunday hats and admiringly lon) bucket of misfit vegetables, Mom had washed, taught me how to darn socks with a light bulb to sliced, diced and packed all into pint jars for a boilhold the holey heel in just the right place. ing water bath.

Of course, the light bulb no longer worked. Who Hours later, when all had cooled, she would place would throw away a perfectly useless light bulb that a piece of butcher tape on their sealed tops that might be a key element in some other penny-pinchread “last of the garden.” ing enterprise? Not my mother.

To me, the label should have read “the last thing Nor did she waste one leathery carrot, one tough to eat before starvation” because the boiled tangle of red beet, or one bug-riddled cabbage to wind, winter toughness tasted like a batch of undercooked insects and wildlife. If it was in the garden in October, she and unwashed socks. Whenever it was served, claimed it, cooked it, and canned it and we ate it in everyone chewed it quietly and swallowed it quickly. grumpy silence.

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Better weather needed to get back into the fields

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By KRISTIN KVENO, The Land Correspondent

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Blair Hoseth, Mahnomen, Minn., Oct 5

“We finished sugar beets last night.” The Land spoke with Jamie Beyer on Oct. 5 as she reported the yields were “slightly less than factory average.” The surprise at harvest was the amount of root rot they found in the sugar beets. Beyer is looking into what could’ve caused this to ensure that it won’t be an issue in the future.

Fall is on break at the Hoseth farm and winter has taken its place. The Land spoke with Blair Hoseth on Oct. 5 as he reported over an inch of snow fell overnight. With cooler temperatures and more chances of precipitation in the forecast, harvest continues to be drawn-out this year.

Blair Hoseth

Hoseth is almost done combining soybeans. The crop is at “16 percent moisture” and the yields are 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Overall, the beans “turned out the way we expected.”

Jamie Beyer

As for corn, “we’re just barely started ourselves.” Hoseth plans on combining corn again next week. “It’s going to be a slow harvest the way it looks.” He’ll also “try to get some fourth cutting alfalfa” soon as everything should be dormant by now.

If the weather was ideal, Hoseth believes he could finish up harvest in a week.

But with rain and snow in the forecast, it will take longer than that to get everything off the field. On the plus side, all this moisture is helping the sub-soil for next year.

The goal is to be all wrapped up with harvest by deer hunting. That’s less than a month away. Fall can bring unpredictable weather and this year seems to be no exception. Hoseth is hoping for sun-filled, snow and rain-free days these next few weeks to wrap up harvest 2018.

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Matt Haubrich, Danube, Minn., Oct. 12

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Karson Duncanson, Mapleton, Minn., Oct. 12

Harvest has finally started for Karson Duncanson, but it certainly hasn’t been smooth sailing so far. The Land spoke with Duncanson on Oct. 12 as he reported he started soybean harvest on Sept. 30.

He’s combined 140 acres of beans and they “were below-average yields.”

Matt Haubrich

“We’re just plugging through harvest.” For Haubrich this is “reminiscent of last year.” This is “three years of a wet tough-go harvest.” Haubrich is more than ready for the sun to stick around to provide some relief and some good harvest days.

While harvest is on Beyer’s mind, she’s also “excited to hear about NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and excited to hear about movement on the farm bill.” There’s lots going on — both on the farm and off right now that will have direct impact on farmers. Beyer hopes that it will be positive news for all.

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“Rainy, muddy, cold,” that sums up harvest at this point for Matt Haubrich. The Land spoke to Haubrich on Oct. 12 as he reported it’s been raining since Oct. 7. The good news is that “we are just seeing our first peaks of sun this morning.” From the forecast, it sounds like there’s more sun and less rain for the next week, which is much needed as “we’ve essentially been at a stand-still since Sunday evening.”

“The beans took on a lot of moisture.” Because of that “they swelled up.” With the rain this past week it will take a while to “dry out the bean fields a little bit so I can run my bean head close to the ground and not get stuck.”

“One-third of our corn is done.” The crop is at 23 percent moisture and the yields are 225 to 240 bushels per acre which is “excellent for us.” The corn that’s been harvested “we’re having to dry and with the colder temperatures we’re using a lot of propane.” The ethanol plant where Beyer takes her corn wants the crop at 15 percent moisture. Unfortunately, “propane costs are increasing for us.”

Beyer has harvested 75 percent of the soybeans. The crop is running 55 to 75 bushels per acre. “Yields continue to stay strong.” She’s doing soil sampling on the bean ground. The “fertilizer is going on with a variable rate. On some of the ground we’re mixing rye in with the fertilizer.”

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Haubrich has finished combining half of his soybeans and has now switched over to corn. He’s hoping to get back in the field starting on Oct. 15.

“We’re below average on corn.” Haubrich has combined the most stressed corn first. He’s hoping to find better yields as he gets into better corn. So far, he’s seeing a wide variation in yields. “It’s hard to set the combine to combine on both sides of the spectrum.” Haubrich is one-third of the way through the corn crop.

Jamie Beyer, Wheaton, Minn., Oct. 5

Karson Duncanson

Duncanson is currently working on harvesting corn in his uncle’s fields as he waits for the rest of the beans to be ready to combine. A challenge with corn harvest this year is the wet conditions as the trucks can’t get in the field. So, “where do you haul corn to?” Duncanson is also “dealing with some downed corn” due mostly to wind. This is going to be a long corn harvest as he expects to be combining into November.

“As soon as the beans are ready to go, we’ll go hard.” Duncanson hopes to be combining beans starting on Oct. 15 or 16 as the forecast then “looks decent.”

Between his fields and his uncle’s fields there’s more than 3,500 acres left to harvest. Duncanson isn’t concerned about getting it all done — yet. “We’re geared up machinery wise. Once we can go we’ll get it done.” Duncanson explains that “on a good day, we can knock out 500 acres.”

This year’s harvest has been slow going but “it doesn’t do any good to be frustrated, no sense in getting bent out of shape.” Duncanson has “never not got a crop out.”

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Mother’s careful reminders are really words of love Although we hear the words, “be careinto elementary-aged school children. ful” from many people over the course of They would always listen as I explained, our lifetime, it’s almost always said for which also amazed me. Over time when I the same reasons. would tell them to be careful, I would add, I used to hear it all the time growing “You know what I’m saying, don’t you?” up. While doing wishes, Mom would often When they were toddlers, they would hand us the steak knives to dry, along tell me what I was saying. But when they with an accompanying, “Careful, hon, got a little older, I would usually see a big those are sharp.” red-faced grin as they trucked out the TABLE TALK She still said that to me when I was in door for another round of highly-anticiBy Karen Schwaller pated toy farming which awaited them in high school. I came to decide that my ability to retain information was apparthe house yard or sandbox. Their grins ently on a train that had derailed sometold me they understood, even after they how and left no survivors. were too cool to tell me.

Now that I’m in mid-life, the easiest thing I retain Switching to the grown-up world of farming, it’s is water. interesting to run into people we know on gravel roads, in implement stores, hardware and farm I guess it doesn’t matter how old your children stores, grocery stores, at the elevator and out in the are. Once a mother, always a mother. farm yard. If you’re with your husband and you run But the reasoning for being told something like into friends and neighbors who also farm, it takes that is still the same: you want the people you care less than ten seconds for the conversation to turn to about to be safe and to not get hurt. farming.

I used to say it to our young children when they It used to drive me crazy — even as a farm wife would go outside to play. Farms are great places to and part-time farmer. But more often than not, I raise children, but common sense tells us that danlearn a lot from listening to the banter (that is, ger lurks anywhere on a farm. When our children when I’m not morphing into an inanimate object were old enough to go outside alone to play, I told from the sheer amount of time that conversation them to be careful. usually takes).

“It’s the same thing as saying ‘I love you,’” I told But often times these days, I’ll hear farmers them, “because I don’t want you to get hurt.” exchange parting words of, “Have a safe harvest;” or, I explained that to them many times as they grew “Have a safe calving season.”

Counties eligible for disaster aid ST. PAUL — A U.S. Department of Agriculture secretarial disaster declaration has been issued for seven Minnesota counties affected by excessive rain, flash flooding and flooding which occurred from June 17 through July 3. USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has declared Murray County a primary disaster area and the counties of Cottonwood, Lyon, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood and Rock have been named contiguous disaster counties.

The Secretarial disaster designation makes farm operators in these seven counties eligible for emergency loans from the federal Farm Service Agency (provided eligibility requirements are met).

Minnesota farmers in the eligible counties have 8 months from the date of the secretarial disaster declaration to apply for emergency loans. FSA considers each emergency loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of production losses on the farm and the security and repayment ability of the operator.

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Oct. 19, 26, 30, Nov. 9 and 16 — Natural Resource Ecology and Management Seminar — Ames, Iowa — Contact Sally Carullo at scarullo@iastate.edu or (515) 294-7991 Oct. 20, 21 — South Dakota State and National Hand Corn Picking Contest — Flandreau, S.D. — Celebrate an annual tradition that harkens back to the roots of farming: harvesting and husking by hand.

Competitors see who can husk the largest amount of ear corn as a celebration of that history. Contests start at 9 a.m. each day. — Contact carol.kiecksee@ k12.sd.us or (605) 864-1215 Oct. 22 — Mental Health in These Challenging Financial Times — Hutchinson, Minn. — Topics covered include: Warning signs a farmer is serious about suicide; how to deal with these situations; and who to call for help. Contact Paul Filzen at Paul. filzen@ridgewater.edu or (320) 249-1960

And the reason they say those words to each other is still the same as the reason Mom used to warn me when handing me the steak knives to dry; and why I used to tell it to the kids when they were very young and just beginning to adventure life on their own.

We care about them and we don’t want to see them hurt — or worse. Field hours are often long and tedious. Calving season can be the root of many a sleepless night while awaiting a calf that’s coming, or following insomnia from a calf check at 2 a.m. on a frigid February night. Mama cows can turn cantankerous, and accidents anywhere on the farm take only a moment. And even when we’ve had a few short nights after field work or out in the barns, there’s usually a full agenda for the next day — tired or not.

So the next time someone tells you to be careful, enjoy the feeling. Because, disguised as a friendly greeting, they just told you they care about you.

Sometimes a red-faced grin is all we need to see to know someone understands what that statement really means.

That’s heart language at work on the farm.

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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Dorothea Paul auction a tribute to a celebrated artist

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — The Sept. 7 issue of The Land contained a story titled “Works of celebrated rural artist featured in auction.” That celebrated artist was Dorothea Paul, a noted Renville County farm gal who both farmed and painted.

On Sept. 17, Auctioneer Doug Kerkhoff’s 11 a.m. gavel signaled the start of one of the most unique auctions in America. Nearly 400 people gathered in the large auction arena for the sale of over 400 paintings of this famed, self-taught artist celebrating a 52-year accumulation of watercolor paintings which had made Paul known to farmer and agricultural friends across America.

Auctioneer Kerkhoff used these words: “This event was truly a tribute to the good work that Dorothea had done throughout the area communities. Not very often do we auctioneers have the opportunity to offer a collection of original artwork to the public.

Even with a little excitement from Mother Nature (an unexpected thunder storm roaring in from the

northwest at about 12:30 p.m.) the crowd hung around and kept bidding. We were very pleased with the live crowd along with our internet bidding.”

There were 277 registered buyers; 67 were potential internet bidders. Buyers came from Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Arizona, Washington, California, Georgia and Wisconsin. A total of 971 lots were offered. Despite the 50-minute ‘lights out’ interruption by Mother Nature, the auction finished at 9:30 p.m.

Callers for this incredible auction (besides Kerkhoff) were neighboring auctioneers LaDon Henslen of Bird Island and Terry Marguth of Redwood Falls.

Additional help was provided by some of the younger generation — including Blair Anderson, Allen Henslen and Doug’s son Zac Kerkhoff.

Most of the framed original paintings sold for between $200 and $600. The highest price received was for a framed original selling for $850.

Perhaps as no surprise, those framed paintings often featured horses — a team of four horses or

even a few six-horse hitches doing some heavy duty field work. A popular scene featured two horses hitched to a barn rope with a hefty bunch of hay being lifted into the hay mow of a red barn. Also, harvest scenes included a team hitched to a wagon with one, sometimes two farmers doing the fun task of shucking ears of corn into the wagon as the team slowly pulled the wagon through the corn field.

Virtually every horse in Dorothea’s era had a distinctive white blaze face. Her horses were generally chestnut brown body color with bushy blackish mane. Sometimes horses also had white pasterns and cannon. Paul’s farm scenes usually included a dog with white collar and white bushy tails.

Summed up Kerkhoff, “It was an honor to work with Dorothea’s daughter Beryl. Her knowledge of her mother’s painting and history behind each was amazing. Also, how neat knowing proceeds of the auction will go toward helping the younger generation in Renville and Redwood counties further their interest in art education. Beryl is establishing a foundation in her mother’s name for that purpose.” v

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No, this story is told with gentleness and introspection thanks to young Louie, who’s observant, kind-hearted, and surrounded by a small cast of others: parents, created family, and friends who seem a bit mysterious. Fewer characters makes this book even more of a charmer and it should be no surprise to know that author Sharon Creech was once a Newbery Medal winner.

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Baumgartner seeding hybrid corn in Kazakhstan

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer OLIVIA, Minn. — Here’s an update on 3rd Millenium Genetics, the Olivia, Minn. seed firm with a 13-year research history in Puerto Rico. A major hurricane devastated this island country about a year ago. Two words sum up what happens when a 400-mile wide hurricane with 153 mile-per-hour winds hits a small country: Incredible Damage.

Last October, The Land interviewed Ed Baumgartner, the 57-year old Olivia native who created 3MG. At that time he reported, “We lost about 100 acres of vegetables and all our research projects got totally wiped out. So it’s starting over with much of our total work. Puerto Rico will rise again. And thanks to our crew, so will we.”

Now leap forward to June 25, 2018. I’m sitting in Ed’s Olivia office. He had just returned from a trip to Kazakhstan (northern Europe bordering on Russia) where his firm is successfully introducing some hybrid corns with the genetic stamina to endure the harsh, dry soils common over much of this huge country.

Why Kazakhstan? Because 3MG has done some corn trials in this country for Bill and Dan Price, two enterprising cattle men who have IONS Please readNorth attachedDakota email jump-started the beef industry in Kazakhstan. These brothers air-lifted 12,000 head of registered Angus AMES ALREADY ON AD THE LAND operation 3.7461 x ”to cows from their North Dakota Kazakhstan to establish a beef industry. This effort is also generating a significant new interest in growing corn in Kazakhstan.

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Baumgartner seems to thrive on genetic challenges for corn. He sees huge opportunities for the right genetic lineup in Kazakhstan. And with a rapidly developing cattle industry, he’s confident of a growing corn market also. But it will take some learning time.

Baumgartner explained, “This was a Communist governed society for many years and land is still owned by the government. Cattle guys, including the Price brothers, are renting land on a 49-year lease!

But corn production is ramping up. This summer I had the unique satisfaction of standing in a 2,000acre field of corn in Kazakhstan and this huge field was entirely our corn!”

Related Baumgartner, “We also visited a Pricemanaged cattle farm in Kazakhstan with 10,000 head of beef cattle on feed and a 7,000-cow ‘mama’ herd providing seed stock for thousands more cattle in future years.

“We’re developing corn lines to fit the specific demands for growing corn over there. It looks like early hybrids, under 80 days maturity is the only logical route. And drought tolerance is vital.

“But a challenge is to get Kazakhstan farmers beyond the Soviet mentality on how you do agronomy. In the past three years I’ve worked with them, they’ve bought three different planters. This year they finally bought a John Deere no-till planter.

They’re beginning to understand that if you don’t have generous soil moisture, you shouldn’t be overworking the soil. Just this recognition of minimum tillage is huge — I think — to their future in corn … and other row crops, too.”

Baumgartner noted Kazakhstan farmers are beginning to understand the importance of early planting rather than waiting until the middle of May. “They don’t yet relate to growing degree days and how that single factor pretty much determines the effective length of a growing season. So I’ve simply advised them that April 25 is time to start planting corn. I tell them, ‘You’ve got good seed with good seed treatment. So get your seeds into the soil and let the genetics go to work.’”

And is he making progress? In the Kazakhstan area where 3MG is working, corn is still a virtual non-entity. That 2,000 acre field of 3MG corn certainly won’t win any beauty contests he admits, but it’s a big learning factory for all farmers in the area.

Back in America, how are 3MG’s 17 research fields in North and South Dakota and Minnesota looking for this testy 2018 season. Baumgartner confided, as of Sept. 5, “This was the most challenging planting season we have ever experienced. We had a monthlong planting season with lots of road time just hauling our planting equipment from one location to the next location that was finally ready to plant. We

have two locations we likely won’t even harvest because they were under duress from too much moisture. But our 15 plots will provide lots of new data — some average data and a few pedigrees that likely will go the ‘discard’ route.”

Besides their own breeding program, 3MG is doing grow outs for 21 other seed companies. However, all 3MG breeding work is non-GMO. “We let the environment be a major factor in developing new lines. In essence, the good survive; the not-so-good don’t. And that will be the driving factors behind our work in Kazakhstan too.”

Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world. It is an oil-rich country with other resources — including productive soils. Organic matter runs about 7 percent and rainfall averages about 16 inches per year. They have lots of ground water, so irrigation potential looks good.

“Corn production in Kazakhstan is reminiscent to corn production in North Dakota 40 years ago. But because of our natural selection process of working with the environment, we see great potential for our corns in Kazakhstan. However, the Kazakhstan farmers are not ready for GMO trait enriched hybrids,” said Baumgartner.

“And yes, despite the horrible hurricane on September 20, 2017 which virtually shut down the entire country for several weeks (an estimated 2,780 killed), Puerto Rico has lots of determined people.

Our research program got derailed big-time. But this fall we’re virtually back to full capacity on our 600 acres. Puerto Rico is a beautiful country with lots of good people. And it’s working well for us too,” summed up Baumgartner.

In view of today’s economic squeeze on U.S. agriculture, Baumgartner sees a growing trend to more conventional corn. “Today’s market prices are getting a lot of farmers to take a second look at non-GMO corns. Once they get into growing some non-GMOs and see production as good as or better than trait corn, then I think we will see major switching into conventional corn hybrids.” v

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Fowlers finding a resurgence in the lamb market

By KRISTIN KVENO Jeanine said.

Even more amazing was that all the The Land Correspondent While the older generation lambs survived. As far as the Fowlers TRUMAN, Minn. — For six may have had a bad experience can tell from searching records, ongenerations and counting, the eating mutton growing up, record there has been no other ewe in Fowler family has been farming young people today are the United States that has given birth the land, raising livestock and discovering lamb and becoming to eight lambs at one time. There’s proudly living this way of life consumers of this protein. There never a dull moment in raising livesince 1857. A lot has happened have been advances in wool stock and this was a prime example of in the farming industry since production to utilize “treatments that. then, and for Travis and Jeanine so it (wool) doesn’t shrink,” In addition to raising sheep, Travis is Fowler, change has ushered in Jeanine said. Increased interest the vice president of the Minnesota new possibilities for their livein natural textiles — and more Lamb and Wool Producers. Being a stock production and farming specifically wool — in the cloth- part of this organization for Travis is practices. ing industry is a boost for sheep “fun to be in a group of producers from producers. across the state.” He’s also on the Travis grew up on the family farm outside of Truman, Minn.

The Fowlers start lambing in Dakota Lamb Growers Cooperative and knew from a very early age mid-March with the first time board of directors. He gets to “meet a that he wanted to be a part of breeding ewes lambing in late lot of people on that board that I the farming operation, “from May to early June. That’s done wouldn’t have met.” They have the preschool on” to be exact. When to give extra attention that may opportunity to learn from each other Travis and Jeanine got married be needed to those first time and brainstorm ways to make the in 1999, they began farming, breeders in the lambing process. industry stronger.

Photos by Kristin Kveno Having lambed for decades, not and in 2000 they started their As with anything in farming, there own sheep herd with six sheep. The Fowler family is made up of (left to right) Jeanine, much rattles the Fowlers. At are ups and downs, good years and bad Travis has always loved raising Tyne, Tessa, Jedidiah and Travis. this point they know what to years. But for the Fowlers, each year sheep. In fact, when he was five expect. What they were not has been an opportunity to do what a big jump in the number of sheep they years old, his grandfather bought him raise, the Fowlers have now found a expecting however, were eight lambs they love, and live the farming way of a few sheep as an investment, as he did herd size that they’re comfortable with, born to one ewe, and that’s exactly life that has been part of their heritage for Travis’s brothers as well. That was considering the amount of land and what happened in the spring of 2015. for 161 years and counting. v all it took to get Travis into raising barn space they currently have.

Helping to preserve the proud traditions of farming for future generations sheep for over 35 years, “I’ve never In addition to raising sheep, the been able to get out of them.”

Fowlers have dairy goats that the chilAs Travis and Jeanine expanded dren show for 4-H, hens, broilers, ducks, their family, they expanded their farm rabbits, quail and a pony. They’re also and livestock operation as well. The part of the Fowler family hog operation Fowlers have three children: Jedidiah, with Travis’s father where they “do the 17; Tessa, 15 and Tyne, 6. The sheep wean to finish” of 18,000 to 20,000 pigs operation that started with six sheep a year. This year, Travis and Jeanine in 2000 is now at 150 ewes plus a hand- increased their rented acres from 156 “Many farm owners are ful of rams, with the majority of their to 500 acres on which they grow soystruggling with the high cost herd being polypays, along with some beans and corn. of health care. This is an dorsets and Île-de-France. While that’s While they certainly have their hands alternative.” -40 Square Member 2018 full with grain production, hogs and other livestock, Travis’s passion is raising sheep. As the demand for lamb has Offering health plans for Minnesota’s changed over the years, agricultural community and their employees it’s allowed the meat to with an extensive provider network find resurgence in the marketplace. “A lot of • Six health plans available - HSA-compatible options new interest in eating available lamb and in wool,” Travis • Prescription drug and telemedicine benefits included said. Overall, “the future with every plan is pretty good for the Enrollment opens: • Personal service for navigating the complex health care industry,” Jeanine said.

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Lamb chops opened the door to the world of wellness

By DICK HAGEN wellness consultations classes upstairs above the The Land Staff Writer food store. I studied holistic nutrition. I also studied herbal medicine and we now sell those CEDAR MILLS, Minn. — “What I love doing products also.” is sharing with others.” Those eight words by Connie Karstens beautifully sum up her dedicaIn the back yard behind their attractive food tion to the growing number of customers who shop is what Connie calls her “wellness garden.” have discovered her unique farm store. Karstens It includes a variety of medicinal herbs. “We is the proprietor of the Lamb Shoppe — a most planted things our ancestors used thousands of delightful and surprising visit on busy State years ago. They used these special nature-grown Highway 7 about 8 miles west of Hutchinson, plants to balance their bodies when things were Minn. out of balance. I like these old traditional gifts of nature for different preparations; special teas.”

A prime example of a Lamb Shoppe customer is Carol Skay of Minnetonka, Minn. who was just She studied herbal medicine for six years in leaving the Lamb Shoppe when The Land stopped Minneapolis. “The challenge with herbal mediin. A talkative lady, Skay was very willing to cine is locating good instructors. After six years share commentary as to why she drives 60 miles of study, I did 18 months of apprenticeship trainfrom her Minnetonka home. She related, “I had ing in Minneapolis. I started by just helping fambeen buying my lamb chops at Lakeland Co-op ily and friends, but word travels. Today, I see cli— a local food store that handles farm fresh proents for wellness consultations from the entire duce. That is how I found out about the Lamb state — especially the metro area and Rochester, Shoppe which does monthly CSA offerings as plus local folks. Part of this wellness trend I well. So I come here monthly for fresh lamb and think is the growing discontent with prescription other health items. Their lamb is just the best. I medicines.” adore lamb.”

As you might expect, attendance at her well“Lamb is a love it or hate it sort of thing,” Skay ness classes favors the 50-plus age category. went on to say. “Our family loves it. I love its “But I am also aware of younger mothers interflavor and theirs is so good because it is all grass ested in having healthy families,” Karstens fed. It’s not too strong. Connie’s husband has added. “Women take my classes because they some posts online explaining why the grass-fed want to nurture their families. Yes, I’m certain its lambs have a different flavor and texture. It’s part of that ‘motherhood’ complex, but husbands sweet, yet has a little more taste than does beef. and dads can benefit from this same culture.”

But when I’m out here I also get some of their Right now she is doing a 9-month herbal class beef which makes wonderful hamburgers.” which has 25 students. In May she hosted a ‘herb So why did this Twin Cities housewife become Connie Karstens and her daughter Clara Rathke offer a wide walk’ and had 125 people strolling her gardens such a discriminating food shopper? Skay simply variety of herbs, essential oils and other health-related prodand wooded areas with Connie identifying the responded, “I love to cook and I love to eat. To me, ucts. The Lamb Shoppe also conducts classes and workshops different plants and the healing properties of every day should have a meal where you can for beginners and veterans of natural wellness. each — plus which are wild but safe for herbal exclaim, ‘wow — that was so good!’ My favorite consumption or as a taste treats with salads. She is when you have ingredients so good and so high enhance the flavor. That’s why I come out here once loves teaching and her evening classes cost in the $20 quality that you don’t need to do anything fancy to a month. I’ve been doing this more than a year … range. Workshops are higher because of extra time plus it’s a leisurely drive that keeps me in touch with and materials needed. the different chapters of Mother Nature too!”

COVER PHOTO: Connie Karstens stands in front of Is Karstens concerned about organic fraud? She the wellness garden which is located behind the retail Providing fresh, grass-fed lamb chops originated agrees more consumers want to know what they are store. The garden is gaining a reputation for small because growing requests of friends and neighbors buying — organic or GMO foods. The Lamb Shoppe is weddings and other social gatherings. finally convinced the Karstens to start selling lamb subject to unannounced U.S. Department of in 1986. They opened their “lamb chop” store in 1997. Agriculture inspections and she’s okay with this.

Husband Doug grew up a sheep farmer and even got “Food safety is always a special priority,” she into sheep shearing competitions — winning state, explained. “Our farmers are providing food for our national and even international titles. He has com- nation plus millions more. And I know food procespeted in various world countries. When time per- sors do lots of research and testing when developing mits, he still competes and teaches sheep shearing. new foods. Honesty in this entire food chain, from “People would see our sheep grazing as they drove farmer to processor to retailer to consumer, is vital. along our highway,” Connie said. “Some would stop That is why I think it’s important to better underand inquire, ‘Can I buy some of your lamb chops?’. stand the amazing work of our farmers.”

We got to thinking, why not consider this as an Perhaps that is why the Lamb Shoppe has so many opportunity? But selling meat requires USDA inspec- visitors. Checking the assortment of grass-fed meats tions. So Doug and I took some training on how to go and other health foods gets combined with a better about this new vocation. understanding how it’s done. “Yes, we get questions “We started just selling lamb; then added beef, about ag chemicals,” Karstens said. “We explain they chicken and fresh turkeys for the Thanksgiving sea- are needed to control crop diseases and stubborn son. It just kept expanding. The healthy food idea weeds. Respecting each other is the bottom line.” was also just starting. We soon ran out of space so we Connie is a healthy 57 and matter-of-fact about had to build our food store. It’s 34 feet by 36 feet with physical fitness. “My daily workouts are simply doing an upstairs for classroom teaching, etc. New ideas, what needs to be done each day in our business and new ambitions kept surfacing. I went back to school See LAMB SHOPPE, pg. 13 to learn more about health and fitness. Now I do

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Doug cares for the animals, Connie runs the store LAMB SHOPPE, from pg. 12 farm living. When you’re a farmer, you don’t need to go to a health club.”

She grew up on a local hobby-type farm. Both she and husband Doug had interest in sheep. “When we got married we just decided to make sheep our business. Doug handles our ewe flock which numbers around 300 animals; I’m manager of our store operation. I have two part-time helpers plus daughter Clara is full-time with me.”

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Besides their own farm-store traffic, the Karstens also sell to several natural food Co-ops in the Twin Cities. “We provide fresh lamb plus other food items every week to these food Coops and two Twin City restaurants that use our products for their special menu items. My husband makes about a dozen stops each week delivering our products.”

So how can a Minnesota farm have fresh lamb around the clock? Frequent lambing is the answer.

Their ewes lamb three times per year. That requires a special breed that will lamb out of season (Dorsett breed) which can have two lambings within a calendar year. “The group that lambs in February will get weaned off; then get bred again to lamb in late fall.

We also lamb in May.” More education about farm food production is high on Connie’s agenda. Overnight accommodations will help. Construction underway will provide Air B & Bs for people who want to stay and learn more about farm life and health foods. Summed up Connie, “Just educating people with all the stuff we do is what I really love doing.”

For more information, go to info@lambshoppe.com or call (320) 587-6094. The Lamb Shoppe’s mailing address is 61231 Hwy. 7 W, Hutchinson, MN 55350.

From the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Grown Directory is a 124-page listing of Minnesota producers specializing in Community Support Agriculture. CSA farms are a popular way to buy fresh and local foods. CSA farms come in many different shapes, sizes, styles and product offerings.

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A625-78 Relative Maturity: 95 days

5484SX Relative Maturity: 104 days

Excellent yield potential in primary area of adaptation. Strong stalks and roots with very good late-season plant intactness. Very good test weight and grain quality.

BECK 5484SX brings together a package of characteristics that make it the hybrid to have on your better soils in the west. It has good roots, stalks and a low risk to greensnap along with great plant health and tolerance to Goss’s Wilt that will keep it standing strong through the whole season. BECK 5484SX has an ear that will catch your eye with its excellent length and ability to flex in space.

A631-38 Relative Maturity: 101 days

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Outstanding yield potential across all soils. Outstanding late-season plant intactness. Good performance in high and low-yielding locations.

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A633-94 Relative Maturity: 103 days

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A618-90 Relative Maturity: 88 days Excellent performance with good fertility levels. Very good drydown allows for timely harvest. Strong stalks and roots with very good late-season plant intactness.

A621-77 Relative Maturity: 91 days Excellent yields across different soil types. Good ear flex and drydown with open husks. Consistent performance in all cropping systems and environments.

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Excellent Goss’s wilt tolerance for western corn belt. Excellent yield potential on highly-productive soils. Shorter plant stature leaves less residue to manage.

XL 5765AM XL 5765AMXT Relative Maturity: 107 days This product packs the familiar top-end yield punch of the “65” family that has proven to be a dominant force in high yield environments. This 107-day hybrid builds around its high yield potential with second to none staygreen and excellent stalks to keep the plant standing well into the harvest window.

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andersonseedsmn.com 6898 Relative Maturity: 98 days Conventional hybrid

Shorter statured variety with excellent yield potential and very strong agronomic performance. This variety has very good stalks and roots as well as very good dry down. Widely adapted across Minnesota, not a great option for acres with a history of Goss’s wilt.

6811 Relative Maturity: 100 days Conventional hybrid

www.mustangseeds.com/ 2283 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 83 days

Unique Goss’s wilt rating for maturity. Impressive performance in our testing. Strong emergence and seedling vigor.

2235 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 85 days Widely adaptable with good southern movement. Fast drydown with great top-end yield. Very good stalk and excellent root strength. Nice late season appearance.

2084 RR

Impressive top end yield potential with this variety. Very good Relative Maturity: 85 days Goss’s wilt tolerance, Very good stalk and root strength, Very good Widely adaptable with good southern movement. Fast drydown late season plant health. Very adaptable across many soil types as well as management practices. Everything you are looking for with great top-end yield. Very good stalk and excellent root strength. Nice late season appearance. in a 100 day RM variety for Minnesota.

609R Relative Maturity: 98 days Roundup Ready Corn 2 Outstanding Goss’s wilt tolerance, Very good stalk and root strength, Very good late season intactness, will perform well across many environments. Very good dry down for a 98 day RM.

Becks Hybrids www.beckshybrids.com/ XL 5113 Relative Maturity: 101 days XL 5113 is a balanced performer that can handle nearly every acre you plant it on. This hybrid will deliver good plant health with quick drydown along with its AQUAmax stress tolerance package.

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3286 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 86 days Very good stalk and roots. Good stress hybrid for the west. Very proven female.

2289 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 89 days This 89-day will yield with the 92 to 93 day hybrids. Very adaptable east to west, keep in zone or north. Excellent seedling vigor.

0288 CONV Relative Maturity: 89 days This 89-day will yield with the 92 to 93-day hybrids. Very adaptable east to west, keep in zone or north. Excellent seedling vigor.

2291 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 91 days Proved its drought tolerance in 2017. Tolerates cold soil with strong emergence and early plant vigor. In zone and has good western movement.

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Mustang Seeds

www.mustangseeds.com/ 0997 CONV Relative Maturity: 97 days Very good late season health and stay green.

Excellent Goss’s wilt tolerance, very good roots and stalk. Performs well in a wide range of yield environments. Has natural synthetic corn borer tolerance.

5897 SS RIB Relative Maturity: 97 days

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Peterson RobFarms Seed See-Co https://petersonfarmsseed. com/ 76Q86 Relative Maturity: 86 days VT2PRO Very good stalk and root package. Good performance across tough environments for yield.

Strong Goss’s wilt rating. This hybrid expresses a lot of girth.

33B88 Excellent high yields from this hybrid and a good dual-purpose option. Has good tolerance to heat Relative Maturity: 88 days and stress. Excellent early vigor, very good stalk and roots.

6000 RR Relative Maturity: 100 days

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Consistently high-yielding with excellent agronomics. Widely adapted from east to west. Very good stalk, root and plant health. Good dual-purpose potential.

www.robseeco.com RC3565

This hybrid performs very well in variable soils and stress-prone fields. It has strong emergence and seedling vigor, with quick canopy closure. It is an excellent late season plant integrity for delayed harvest situations.

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RC4427

This hybrid delivers strong results in droughtstressed and variable soils along with a wellrounded agronomic package for stability and consistency. It provides good emergence and excellent early season vigor for early planting.

IC4952

moderate to high-yield environments. It has medium plant height with good test weight.

IC5316

This hybrid has exciting yield potential with fast drydown. It is a versatile hybrid that responds to a range of plant populations.

With excellent root and stalk strength, this hybrid

provides optimal performance in well drained, 79N94 Widely adaptable on all soil types. Excellent topend yield along with very good stress tolerance. Relative Maturity: 94 days VT2PRO 0100 CONV Superior yield potential. Very good stalk and root Relative Maturity: 100 days strength. Great emergence and early season Excellent choice on those variable or tough corn acres. Very good drought tolerance, medium plant height. Attractive fall appearance. Excellent early season growth.

7203 VT2P RIB Relative Maturity: 103 days Very good Goss’s wilt rating, with long semi-flex ears. Strong early vigor for early plant or minimum tillage. Very good stalk and roots and very good test weight.

6805 SS RIB Relative Maturity: 105 days Solid performance with very good Goss’s wilt rating. Very good stalk, will also handle drought stress. Plant in zone, also will work well north of zone.

growth. Best performance in-zone and in the north.

78G95 Relative Maturity: 95 days VT2PRO Top performance across a wide range of environments. Produces long, flex ears with high kernel row counts. Exhibits very good staygreen and late-season intactness. High yield potential.

89C99 Relative Maturity: 99 days SmartStax

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87A01 Relative Maturity: 101 days SmartStax If you liked 81W01 you will LOVE this one. Excellent eye appeal with very good stalk and root strength. Great early season vigor.

81X02 Relative Maturity: 102 days SmartStax Good disease package. Excellent Goss’s wilt tolerance. Medium plant height with a very good greensnap rating.

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www.wyffels.com/ W1636RIB VT2P Relative Maturity: 96 days W1630 CONV Relative Maturity: 95 days

A go anywhere, high-yielding hybrid with exceptional drydown and very low green snap risk. It has impressive disease tolerance ratings, excellent late-season standability and provides a solid late harvest option at this maturity. It’s a top choice for fields with known Goss’ wilt history.

W1588RIB SS Relative Maturity: 96 days

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This hybrid has superior yield potential for your highest-yielding fields. It has medium plant height with excellent stalk strength. It moves north of zone extremely well.

IC5819

This attractive and high performing hybrid belongs on every farm.

It exhibits strong stalks with good late-season plant health. It is a broadly adapted hybrid with exciting top-end yield.

IC5940

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W3488RIB SS Relative Maturity: 104 days This hybrid offers tremendous top-end yield potential across soil types with exceptional roots, anthracnose tolerance and low green snap risk. Push populations and use a fungicide when needed for maximum yield potential.

W4358RIB SS Relative Maturity: 106 days This new hybrid combines outstanding yield potential with a solid top-to-bottom agronomic package, great late-season intactness and flexibility for a late harvest. Push populations for maximum yield from this semi-determinate ear hybrid. It’s a good choice for continuous corn or fields with a history of Goss’ wilt.

W5518RIB SS Relative Maturity: 109 days W5510 CONV Relative Maturity: 107 days

This new hybrid offers consistent, top-end yields across soil types Phenomenal yield potential for this maturity, especially when you with exceptional early vigor and strong roots and stalks. It’s flexipush planting populations. It has excellent root strength and great ble for a later harvest. Push higher populations for maximum adaptability to move north or south in a variety of soil types. yields.

W2506RIB VT2P Relative Maturity: 101 days W2500 CONV Relative Maturity: 100 days A high-yielding genetic family that performs well across environments with an impressive agronomic package for placement flexibility. This family is a good choice for early planting and minimum tillage thanks to exceptional early vigor.

Guide highlights management practices ANKENY, Iowa — Anyone looking to know more about the latest techniques for preserving water quality and reducing soil loss now has a one-stop resource for that information. The Soil and Water Conservation Society has just unveiled a comprehensive online collection of instructional videos, slide shows, graphics, fact sheets and other materials designed to help farmers research, plan and install different types of soil and water conservation systems.

The content and web site design for the Media Library were created by SWCS. Funding for the project came from a $75,000 Conservation Innovation

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Grant from USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service, with in-kind contributions of more than $80,000 from the Conservation Districts of Iowa and SWCS. All materials in the library can be accessed and downloaded free-of-charge at www.swcs.org/ resources/conservation-media-library/.

The Library focuses on four conservation practices: cover crops, drainage water management, saturated buffers and prairie strips. Catherine DeLong, who led the Library project for SWCS, says, “These four practices are applicable to farmers anywhere in the Midwest. The resource materials are heavy on video and photos, enabling farmers and landowners to readily visualize how the planning, installation, finished product and results for these systems would look in their own fields. This is truly a pragmatic, hands-on, how-to guide for protecting soil and water resources.”

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W6408RIB SS Relative Maturity: 110 days A widely-adapted, high-yielding hybrid with impressive standability for harvest flexibility. It has impressive grain quality, very high test weights and excellent northern and southern leaf blight tolerance. Place on well-drained soils and push populations for optimum performance.

W6956RIB VT2P Relative Maturity: 111 days W6950 CONV Relative Maturity: 110 days Outstanding yield potential and consistency across soil types. Very good yield-to-moisture ratios with great tolerance to gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight. Works well over a wide range of populations.

Concern Hotline available to farmers AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Concern Hotline is a 24-hour a day, 7-day a week free, confidential resource for anyone with concerns or questions about farm finances, crisis and disaster response and personal health issues. Trained specialists provide immediate support to either answer questions directly or get the caller in touch with experts who can provide additional information or support. Access to an attorney is also available to help provide legal education.

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Area growers may qualify for insurance payments Even though USDA is prices will be the payment projecting record corn and rate for 2018 yield protecsoybean yields on a national tion policies for corn and basis in 2018, it is possible soybeans. These base prices that a significant number of will also likely serve as the corn and soybean producers final price to calculate revein some areas of southern nue guarantees for calculatMinnesota, as well as ing potential revenue proadjoining areas of Iowa and tection crop insurance South Dakota, could qualify FARM PROGRAMS indemnity payments for for crop insurance indemniboth corn and soybeans.

By Kent Thiesse ty payments in 2018. Much The final harvest price for of this region dealt revenue protection with planting delays insurance policies with last spring, excessive harvest price protection rainfall during the growing season, is based on the average CBOT and severe storms toward the end of December corn futures and CBOT the growing season. These weather November soybean futures during the issues will likely result in yield reduc- month of October, with prices finalized tions on numerous farms across the on Nov. 1. If the final harvest CBOT region, which together with the price price for December corn futures or declines from the crop insurance base November soybean futures is higher prices on March 1, increases the likeli- than the established base prices, the hood of 2018 crop insurance indemnity harvest price would then be used to payments for many producers. determine the revenue protection insurWith federal crop insurance, every ance guarantees, which is not likely in year is different. With the multiple 2018. The harvest price is also used to options available to producers, there calculate the value of the actual harare many variable results from crop vested bushels for all revenue protecinsurance coverage at harvest time. tion insurance policies. As of October The 2018 crop year will be no differ15, the crop insurance harvest price ent, with some producers choosing estimates were $3.67 per bushel for yield protection policies (yield only) vs. corn and $8.62 per bushel for soybeans. revenue protection policies (yield and Corn and soybean producers had the price), and producers having different option of selecting crop insurance polilevels of coverage on various crops. cies ranging from 60 to 85 percent covProducers also vary on having “option- erage levels. The level of insurance al units” vs. “enterprise units for their coverage can result in some producers crop insurance coverage.” receiving crop insurance indemnity In the Midwest, most corn and soypayments, while other producers bean producers in recent years have receive no indemnity payments, even tended to secure some level of revenue though both producers had the same protection crop insurance coverage, adjusted APH yield and the same final rather than standard yield-only poliyield. For example, at an adjusted cies. Producers like the flexibility of APH corn yield of 190 bushels per the revenue protection policies which acre, a producer with 85 percent reveprovide insurance coverage for nue protection coverage would have a reduced yields, as well as in instances yield guarantee of 161.5 bushel per where the harvest price drops below acre, and a revenue guarantee of initial base price. In 2018, corn crop $639.54 per acre; while a producer insurance loss calculations with yield with 75 percent coverage would have a protection policies and revenue protec- yield guarantee of 142.5 bushels per tion policies will function differently, acre, and a guarantee of $564.30 per due to the likely Chicago Board of acre. If the actual 2018 yield was 155 Trade harvest price for corn and soybushels per acre, with a $3.67 per beans likely being below the 2018 crop bushel harvest price, the producer insurance base prices, which were with 85 percent coverage would finalized on March 1. receive a gross indemnity payment of The established 2018 base prices for $70.69 per acre, while the producer 2018 yield protection and revenue pro- with 75 percent coverage would receive no indemnity payment. tection crop insurance policies were $3.96 per bushel for corn and $10.16 Many growers purchased upgraded per bushel for soybeans These base levels of revenue protection crop insur-

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ance for the 2018 growing season, which included the higher “trendadjusted” yields that were available.

The lower CBOT prices, especially for soybeans, increases the likelihood of crop insurance indemnity payments on some upper Midwestern farms that have 80 and 85 percent revenue protection insurance policies for 2018.

Indemnity payments will be most likely to occur when there was a yield loss, due to some type of weather problem during the 2018 growing season.

However, the very low soybean price also increases the soybean payment likelihood.

At a harvest price of $8.62 per bushel, the “threshold” yield to receive a soybean insurance payment is at 100 percent of APH yield with an 85 percent revenue protection policy, and at 95 percent with an 80 percent revenue protection policy. For example, with a 55 bushel per acre APH yield and an $8.62 per bushel harvest price, soybean insurance payments would begin if the final soybean yield fall below 55 bushels per acre with an 85 percent revenue protection policy, and below 52 bushels per acre with an 80 percent revenue protection policy. Using a harvest price See THIESSE, pg. 23

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Ventilation strategies critical during manure pumping Fall is a transition season. After crop removal, while temperatures are cool and before soil is frozen, is an opportune time to transfer manure from manure storages to SWINE & U the soil for next year’s crop use.

By Erin Cortus Ventilation goes hand-in-hand with manure pumping activities. However, fall weather also means large temperature and wind fluctuations are likely; and these conditions influence ventilation system management and performance.

Manure pumping safety considerations are widely published and shared, but it never hurts to share them one more time! Manure pumping includes both agitation and pumping or removal out of the barn. Agitation creates a larger disruption of the manure volume. Any disruption of stored manure promotes the release of gases like hydrogen sulfide and methane.

Develop safety protocols for your operation and make all staff aware of protocols. Place warning signs at all entrances to buildings and storage areas where manure agitation is occurring Remove workers from the buildings.

If possible, also remove animals. Also remove any ignition sources. This can include turning off electrical power to any non-ventilation equipment, and extinguishing any pilot lights or other

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ignition sources Do not start agitation until manure is two-feet below the bottom of the floor slats. Never enter a building or manure storage to rescue a distressed animal or person without a properlyfitting self-contained breathing appa-

ratus.

A ventilation strategy during manure pumping needs to be dynamic and considerate of the day-to-day temperature, wind conditions and barn type. In an ideal world, we can remove animals from barns before manure

Table 1 — Ventilation strategies during manure pumping to optimize airflow through the animal-occupied zone and thermal animal comfort (Adapted from Pit Pumping Guidelines produced by Brumm and Harmon)

Weather Stage of Barn Type Conditions Production Ventilation Strategy

Tunnel Cool All Provide a minimum of Ventilated weather 25-30 cfm per pig,

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Implications and Considerations Reduce static pressure by increasing the curtain inlet opening and reducing the ceiling inlet area.

Aim for 300-400 fpm airspeed at the curtain inlet.

Reduce static pressure by increasing inlet opeing area.

Air velocity and distribution in the animal zone may be compromised.

Leave curtains closed and operate all exhaust fans.

If ventilation capacity is reduced by over half, open curtains.

Open curtains and operate all exhaust fans Leave curtains closed and operate all exhaust fans

If ventilation capacity is reduced by over half, open curtains

agitation and removal. However, we recognize that animal removal is not always possible. Turning off pilot lights to reduce ignition sources takes heaters offline. This is an important safety step, but in cool weather can translate to chilly conditions for the pigs. Therefore, a ventilation strategy also needs to consider the stage of production and animal environment.

Table 1 is a quick glance overview of ventilation strategies.

Manure pump-out ports are often located and accessed under pit ventilation fans. Taking ventilation fans off line reduces the ventilation capacity.

These large openings can also influence air flow patterns and distribution. Air will take the path of least resistance, and air may short-circuit through these openings rather than coming through curtain wall or ceiling inlets. Covering these openings around the pumping equipment, if possible, reduces the influence the opening has on the air flow patterns in the barn and animal area.

The guideline to remove manure at least two feet below the bottom of the floor slats before agitation is to ensure ventilation in the animal zone during agitation events. If the manure is too high, pit fan ventilation does not effectively move air from the animal zone, and increases the risk of gas exposure.

Safety is always paramount. During busy fall seasons, taking a minute to review how and why normal operating procedures, like ventilation change See SWINE & U, pg. 23

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Grain Outlook New yield estimates boost corn price

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corn/change* soybeans/change* Stewartville $3.05 +.07 $7.68 +.23 Edgerton $3.25 +.12 $7.94 +.31 Jackson $3.20 +.08 $7.92 +.19 Janesville $3.18 +.07 $7.94 +.19 Editor’s Note: Joe Lardy, CHS Hedging research Cannon Falls $3.07 +.09 $7.68 +.32 analyst, is sitting in this week for Phyllis Nystrom, Sleepy Eye $3.20 +.11 $7.85 +.19 the regular “Grain Outlook” columnist. $3.16 $7.84 The following marketing analysis is for the week Average: ending Oct. 12.

Year Ago Average: $2.85 $8.63 CORN — Let’s dive right into the biggest market Grain prices are effective cash close on Oct. 16. influence this week which was the October World *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.

There were several adjustments to both the old crop and new crop balance sheets.

The biggest market surprise was the adjustment of the yield. The market was looking for an increase to 181.8 bu./acre and there was a bearish bias heading into the report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised the market The month of October appears to be the month of JOE LARDY by dropping the yield from 181.3 change for the livestock markets. It would appear CHS Hedging Inc. to 180.7 bu./acre. that both the cattle and hog markets are in the proSt. Paul cess of changing their current directions and possiOld crop saw a reduction to the bly moving in the opposite direction that they are feed category by 148 million bushels which contributed to an increase of ending stocks currently trading during the next few weeks. of 138 million. The increased old crop stocks were As for the cattle market, the largely offset by the reduction in the yield for new past several months the market crop. The USDA also bumped up new crop exports by has been a sidewise to a higher 75 million bushels. The net result of the new crop market. The first few weeks of adjustments was a slight increase in the end stocks the month of October has seen number by 39 million bushels to 1.813 billion. The prices slip as cutouts have bullishness of the yield drop helped push December dropped lower during that time futures prices up to 3.73.75 at weeks end which made frame. As we move into the latter for a gain of 5.5 cents on the week. half of October, it appears that JOE TEALE Export inspections numbers were very good for the beef cutouts are beginning to Broker corn at just over 63 million bushels. This was the best show they are in the process of inspection number of the year so far and the best finding some interest and are Great Plains Commodity Afton, Minn. going back to mid-July. The inspection pace is now moving slightly higher under just slightly above the USDA pace. Export sales for good buying interest. corn this week was 39.6 million bushels. This was on Cash cattle prices have been relatively stagnate in the low end of expectations and was also the lowest recent weeks remaining range-bound during that sales total of the new marketing year. period. If the beef cutouts continue to show strength President Trump is telling the Environmental (which will improve packer margins), the thought Protection Agency that they should allow for E-15 would be that packers may become a little more gasoline to be sold all year long. He will need an act aggressive in their bidding for live inventory. of Congress to change the current mandate. NewlyAnother favorable improvement has been the appointed Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh export market which has been good during the year. wrote in 2012 that the EPA cannot change the rule This sets up the possibility that cattle prices may unless Congress changes the law. The ethanol indus- improve during the weeks ahead provided there are try is hoping that Trump’s political allies in ag-relat- no adverse changes in inventory or the demand for ed states will push Congress to make changes. The beef. This might suggest that producers keep aware refining industry has already promised to sue if the of market conditions and protect inventories if conEPA tries to amend the current system. ditions require.

Most young or beginning farmers have the passion, energy and strong work ethic needed for a career in agriculture. The challenge is building the capital necessary to cover a down payment on real estate, buy equipment or livestock.

The problem is, it’s a chicken and egg scenario. In order to obtain the funds to start farming, a beginning farmer is probably going to have to get a loan.

In order to get a loan, he or she needs a good credit score.

Credit score basics In essence, your credit score is a measure of your financial reputation. A credit score is a number that indicates a potential borrower’s likelihood of paying their financial obligations on time. The score is based on an analysis of PAUL DIETMANN the person’s credit history using Compeer Senior financial information gathered by Lending Officer a credit bureau.

Prairie du Sac, Wis. In the United States there are three major credit bureaus: Experian; TransUnion; and Equifax. They routinely gather payment information regarding millions of people from lenders, credit card companies, utility companies, court records and other sources. They only gather information related to debts. No other data is collected by them.

When someone applies for a loan, the lender requests a credit report from one of the credit bureaus. The credit report will list all of the borrower’s financial obligations going back many years, and will show how many times a monthly payment was either missed or paid late. The report also shows how long each credit relationship has been in place. If a credit relationship has ended, it will show whether the relationship was terminated by the borrower or the creditor. A complex mathematical formula developed by the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) is used to derive a FICO credit score from all of the info on the credit report.

What do the scores mean?

FICO credit scores range from 300 to 850. A score above 720 is considered good, and above 800 is very good. A score below 650 is not good. A score below 600 usually indicates that there is a serious issue on the credit report such as a loan default, outstanding financial judgment, or other problem.

You are entitled to receive a free copy of your credit

See LARDY, pg. 22

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See TEALE, pg. 22

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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WASDE soybean acreage drop came as a surprise LARDY, from pg. 21 Outlook: The extremely wet and cool weather has slowed the pace of harvest down significantly. The risk of loss, damage or unharvested bushels will only rise. A friendly WASDE report and strong demand makes it feel like the corn market may have found a bottom for now. Not sure we have enough ammo to jump corn right to $4, but there is enough to support a gentle push higher.

SOYBEANS — The changes to the soybean balance sheet on the October WASDE report were not quite as dramatic or extensive as the changes to the corn balance sheet. A very slight increase to last year’s yields and a reduction to the residual bumped up ending stocks for old crop by 43 million to 438 million bushels. For new crop, the yield was raised from 52.8 to 53.1 bu./acre, but the increase wasn’t quite as

big as pre-report expectations of 53.3 bu./acre.

The surprise on the bean side was the reduction to acreage of 500,000 planted and 600,000 harvested.

Between the lower acreage, and the increased yield, the change to production was a decrease of 3 million bushels. New crop ending stocks increased by 40 million bushels which was just a pass through of the increase to old crop stocks. Most analysts commented that the report was neutral to bearish, but the price action of the futures indicated otherwise. November beans traded higher on report day and the day after to salvage just a 1.5 cent loss for the week.

Export inspections for soybeans were very weak at just 32.5 million bushels. The pace is well behind last year obviously as China is not a buyer any longer.

Because the USDA is not dropping the current export level of 2.060 billion bushels, the current

Hog market appears tired in October TEALE, from pg. 21 The hog market over the past month and one half have seen very good price improvement in the cash trade. Much of the strength has developed from fear of disease in the Asia countries and also the strong export market. However, as we move into the latter part of October the hog market in all aspects appears tired. This includes the cash trade, the futures market and the pork cutouts.

Another indicator is that the expired October futures contract ended in an overbought condition, while the new lead contract December hog contract

takes the lead at a deep discount to the current cash index. This reflects the hog industry at all levels is fearful of lower prices in the weeks ahead.

Another factor is the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Hogs and Pigs report indicated that hog numbers are still at more than adequate numbers at the present times. If the swine flu that has shown up in the Asian countries persists or expands, this could change the outlook of the hog market and have an effect on hog prices here in the United States.

Therefore, producers should stay cognizant of market conditions and respond accordingly. v

inspection pace is lagging. Export sales were dreadful at just over 16 million bushels. This is the lowest total of the marketing year and the lowest total since early July. We did see cancellation to China that totaled almost 7 million bushels.

Soybean harvest is extremely slow due to wet weather across most of the country. Currently, harvest progress stands at 32 percent, which was only a 9 percent advance from the previous week. It doesn’t look like harvest pace will be any quicker this week as well. The five-year average is at 36 percent, so we are now behind pace. If things stay slow, we could be looking at the second-slowest harvest in the past 30 years.

The planting progress in Brazil continues to move along nicely with over 10 percent already planted.

Adequate early season rains are encouraging a fast start. Brazil’s SAFRAS reports 2018-19 bean sales are well ahead of last year, with farmer taking advantage of the resulting strong prices from the United States/China trade war. Farmers have sold 27.3 percent of their new crop soybean production vs.

14.1 percent last year. Strong 2017-18 sales are also confirmed with 92.9 percent sold vs. 83.7 percent last year.

Outlook: The fundamentals of the market are still bearish with no Chinese business and without an end in sight to the trade war. Brazil is off to a quick start, so they should have big production numbers unless a weather event occurs. The WASDE report felt neutral to me so the price action the last few days has me wondering what I’m missing. If it is the funds covering up some shorts it might be good to look at some marketing opportunities on the pop higher. v

Secured credit card account can help build history DIETMANN, from pg. 21 report each year from each of the three credit bureaus in order to check it for errors. The report contains all of your debt payment history but does not include your FICO score. To obtain your free report, visit annualcreditreport.com or call (877) 322-8228.

Building a good credit score So how does a young person with a limited or blemished credit history build a good credit score?

Always pay all of your bills on time including: utility, cell phone, and medical bills. Payment history is the single biggest factor determining FICO score — accounting for 35 percent of the total.

Use no more than 30 percent of your available revolving credit. In other words, if you have a credit card with a $10,000 limit, don’t run up a balance of more than $3,000 on the card even if you pay the balance in full every month. If you need to use more than 30 percent of your limit, request an increase in the limit on your current card. Don’t open a second credit card account for the overage. How much money you owe in relation to your available amount of credit (your credit utilization ratio) accounts for 30 percent of your FICO score.

Build long-term credit relationships with a few credit providers. Don’t open and close accounts frequently, or roll credit card balances from one card to another to take advantage of low introductory interest rates. Length of credit history accounts for 15 percent of the FICO score.

Use various types of credit and build a history of successfully making all payments on time. Show that you can handle making payments on a credit card, a vehicle loan, and a student loan all at the same time.

Credit mix accounts for 10 percent of the FICO score.

If you have to carry balances on multiple credit cards, it’s better to have larger balances on a couple of cards than to carry small balances on many cards.

Knock off the smallest balances one-by-one until you’re down to just a few.

If you’ve had trouble getting credit due to issues in your credit history, consider opening a secured credit card account. A secured credit card requires the cardholder to make a cash deposit as collateral to secure the account. Typically, the credit limits on these accounts are low and are tied to the amount of cash the cardholder is able to deposit on the account. The main purpose of these cards is to build a positive

credit history.

With this discussion of credit cards it’s important to caution against using credit cards as the source of operating capital for your farm. Credit card balances carried from one month to the next accrue a high rate of interest, can quickly damage your credit score, and significantly increase the likelihood of financial failure. Get your farm’s operating credit from a reputable agricultural lender.

Be cautious about applying for new credit in the months prior to taking a substantial farm loan. For example, don’t take out a loan to buy a new truck a month before you apply for a farm real estate loan.

If you don’t have a substantial amount of capital and your goal is to farm on your own, building a positive credit history is critical. A strong credit score can give a beginning farmer a big boost when applying for farm loans. And, once you’ve established a strong credit score, protect it like you would guard your reputation as a good farmer. A successful farming career is nearly impossible without it.

For additional insights and resources from Dietmann and the rest of the Compeer team, visit Compeer.com/Home/Educational-Opportunities v

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Yield losses should be documented for potential payments THIESSE, from pg. 19 of $3.67 per bushel for corn, the “threshold” yield to receive a corn insurance payment is at 92 percent of APH yield with an 85 percent revenue protection policy, and 86 percent with an 80 percent revenue protection policy.

(Please refer to the table for examples.)

A large majority of Midwest corn and soybean producers utilize “enterprise units” for their crop insurance coverage, which combines all acres of a crop in a given county into one crop insurance unit. By comparison, “optional units” allow producers to insure crops separately in each township section. Premium rates are somewhat higher with optional units.

Enterprise units work quite well with revenue protection policies to protect against price drops during the growing season, and when a producer has most of their land in the same general area. Optional units are preferable when a producer has a variety of land that is spread across a wide area in a county, or when producers have individual farms that are highly susceptible to natural disasters, such as flooding, drought, etc.

For example, assume that producers A and B both have five separate farms in the same county with an APH corn yield of 190 bushels per acre, and with an overall average 2018 corn yield of 165 bushels per acre. However, three of the farms average 175 bushels per acre and two of the farms average 150 bushels per acre. Producer A has an 80 percent revenue protection policy with optional units and producer B has an 80 percent revenue protection policy

with enterprise units. Producer A would receive no insurance payment on three farms, but would receive a gross

Please refer to the adjoining table for indemnity payment of $51.42 per acre on two farms. Producer B would receive 2018 crop loss examples for corn with an 80 percent revenue protection coverno insurance payments on any farms. age insurance policy, and soybeans with 85 percent revenue protection covCalculating estimated 2018 revenue protection erage, utilizing “enterprise units”, and crop insurance payments with trend adjusted yields selected.

The table also contains space for pro CORN SOYBEANS ducers to put in their own APH yields,

Sample Actual Sample Actual insurance coverage levels, premium A. 2018 Trend Adjusted APH Yield 190.0 _____ 55.0 _____ costs, projected yield and harvest pric B. RP Policy % Coverage 80% (.80) _____ 85% (.85 _____ es, in order to make estimates for potential 2018 crop insurance indemni C. Coverage Yield (A x B) 152.0 _____ 46.75 _____ ty payments for corn and soybeans.

D. Revenue Protection Base Price $3.96/bu. $10.16/bu.

Producers who have crop revenue E. Guaranteed Insurance Coverage/Acre $601.92 _____ $474.98 _____ losses in 2018, with potential crop (C x D) insurance indemnity payments, should properly document yield losses for F. Revenue Protection Harvest Price either optional units or enterprise (Estimated on Oct. 15, 2018) $3.67/bu. _____ $8.62/bu. _____ units. A reputable crop insurance G. Harvest Guarantee/Acre (C x F) $557.84 _____ $402.99 _____ agent is the best source of information H. Final Guarantee /Acre $601.92 _____ $474.98 _____ to make estimates for potential 2018 (Higher of E or G) crop insurance indemnity payments, and to find out about documentation I. Actual Harvested Yield/Acre 150 _____ 45 _____ requirements for crop insurance loss J. Revenue Protection Harvest Price es. It is important for producers who (Estimated on Oct. 15, 2018) $3.67/bu. _____ $8.62/bu. _____ are facing crop losses in 2018 to understand their crop insurance cov K. Crop Value/Acre (I x J) $550.50 _____ $382.50 _____ erage, and the calculations used to L. Gross Insurance Payment/Acre (H – K) $51.42 _____ $87.08 _____ determine crop insurance indemnity M. Revenue Protection payments. The University of Illinois Insurance Policy Premium/Acre $10.00 _____ $20.00 _____ FarmDoc web site (www.farmdoc. illinois.edu/cropins/) contains some N. Net Insurance Indemnity $41.42 _____ $67.08 _____ good crop insurance information and Payment Per Acre (L – M) spreadsheets to estimate crop insur O. Threshold Yield (H/J) 164.0 _____ 55.1 _____ ance payments.

(Yield where payments begin) Kent Thiesse is a government farm These estimates are for revenue protection insurance policies. Harvest prices for revenue protection programs analyst and a vice president policies are based on the average price during the month of October for December Chicago Board of at MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, Trade corn futures, and for November Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures. Harvest prices are final Minn. He may be reached at (507) 726as of Nov. 1, 2018. Premium estimates are for enterprise units in southern Minnesota, using trendadjusted yield calculations.

2137 or kent.thiesse@minnstarbank. com. v Prepared by Kent Thiesse, Government Farm Management Analyst

Manure handling safety webinar is available SWINE & U, from pg. 20

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The manure-handling safety considErin Cortus is an assistant professor erations featured in this column and and Extension engineer with the more are part of a webinar on manure University of Minnesota. She can be safety titled, ““Manure Pit Death: A reached via email at ecortus@umn.edu.

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LOCATION: 11090 149th Ave SE, Sawyer, ND 58781. From the Jct. of 1st St. W. & Hwy. 52, 3.7 miles west, 1 mile south on Co. Rd. 18, 1 mile south on 111th St SE, turn corner onto 149th Ave SE, location will be on south side of road.

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Farm Equipment 6’ Ford 3 pt digger, $500; C Allis, restored, new eng, $1,500; 3 pt fertilizer spreader, $300; 10’ Int’l grain drill, w/grass seed, $750; Allis 2 bottom mounted plow, $500.

(218) 739-5339 FOR SALE: Fantini chopping 8R & 12R CH; 70’ Elmer drag, Merritt alum hopper grain trailers; 24R30” JD pl on Kinze bar; Big A floater; 175 Michigan ldr; IH 964 CH; White 706 & 708 CH & parts; White plows & parts; 54’ 4300 IH field cultivator; JD 44’ field cult; 3300 Hiniker field cult; header trailer.

507-380-5324 FOR SALE: ‘05 Bourgault, model L6450, 20 ton 4 compartment incl hopper & rear cameras, hyd varied rate controllers, w/ Ag Leader insight monitor, always shedded, $39,500. 507-438-6693 FOR SALE: (2) Feterl augers, 8”x66’, 10HP elec; 8”x55’ PTO driven. Continuous flow grain dryer, FarmFans, CF/ AB-190, 988 hrs on meter.

Call 507-227-7602 FOR SALE: JD 27 stalk chopper, 15’; (2) 6” augers - 1 is 21’ & 1 is 29’; 1 Sukup Stirway new style twin auger.

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Directions to land: From Winthrop, head East on State Hwy 19 for 5 miles. Then turn South onto 491st Ave for 1/4 mile, turn East onto 280th St and after 1/4 mile turn south onto 491st Ave. After 1 3/4 miles land will be on the West side of the road. Watch for signs!

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This property will sell as two parcels:

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: DOUG KERKHOFF AT 507-829-6850 Mobile or 507-644-8433 Office EMAIL: Doug@KerkhoffAuction.com

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Location of property within Sibley County: Alfsborg Twp, Sections 12 & 13, Range 29 Total of farm: 160 acres approx. 155.13 acres tillable.

Productivity Index: 93.2 Parcel 2: 80 total acres, Parcel 1: 80 total acres, approx. 77.67 acres tillable approx. 77.46 acres tillable Productivity Index: 90.2 Productivity Index: 96.1 Note: All acres are published based on Sibley County Online Records and FSA records.

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THE LAND — OCTOBER 19/OCTOBER 26, 2018 TH Farm Equipment FOR SALE: JD 6600 dsl combine, JD 220 flex head, JD 643 cornhead. JD 7720 combine. JD 8300 grain drill. All excellent condition. 320-5832751 FOR SALE: Loftness 180SH 6 row narrow stalk chopper, 1000 PTO, like new, $10,500.

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320-769-2756 JD4020 dsl, 3pt, JDW, $7,995; JD2940 dsl, new tires w/ loader, $11,500; JD2955, CAH, OH’d, $11,900. All good runners. 320-543-3523 Massey 44, nice condition, $4,000; Balzer 20’ stalk chopper, works great, $3,000; Agco 8R22” cornhead, great condition, GVL snouts, $12,000. Phone 507-317-5367 S150 Bobcat, 660 original hrs, new tires, excellent condition, $25,000.

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om-‘68 JD 3020, 148 ldr, gas, syn- 2014 NEW M&W #1710 Earth- FOR SALE: IH model 720, 5-18 JD cro/range, good tires; ‘68 JD master, 5 or 7 Shanks, bottoms plow, nice shape, om- 4020 diesel, syncro/range, Heavy Duty Auto Reset extra parts. 507-334-7637 All retired farmer. (952)466-9818 Shanks w/Crumbler, LIST 583$64,252. SPECIAL $39,700. IH 700 5 bottom 16” auto reset FOR SALE: 2002 JD 8520T, Used M&W #1465 5 Shank plow, like new moldboards; 4400 hrs, 100 hrs on new re- Earthmaster, Good Cond., IH 710 5 bottom 18” auto 0SH man engine, 18” belts - 75%, $4,900, (New Blades Recentreset plow, like new mold per, undercarriage in excellent ly); M&W Dealer (319) 347boards. (952) 873-5566 500. condition, $55,900/OBO. 612- 6282 756-4420

otaFOR SALE: ‘55 JD 60, good FOR SALE: 2012 CIH 870 disk 388 tin, runs good, $1,850; ripper, 14’, 7 shank, w/ spike ‘28 JD-D on steel, loose, tooth harrow for leveler missing carb & mag, $1,700. (works well for all moisture will (320) 567-2337 conditions). No welds, delivong ery available, $35,500/OBO. 00;FOR SALE: ‘96 JD 8400 w/ Alden MN. 507-383-4992 ads, MF, 14.9x46 tires & duals, om PTO, 3pt, 3 hyds, $39,500; FOR SALE: 8R30 3pt mount‘06 507-438-6693 ed Strip till machine, w/nifty alk ag units, set up for dry fert, FOR SALE: 1944 John Deere 00; new points, low acres, exc avi- A, w/slant dash, good cond, cond; JD 2700 5 shank rip$4,000/OBO. (507) 227-4896 res, per, very good cond. (507) boxJD 4520 side console, power 530-2274 320- shift, 1000 PTO, new rubber, FOR SALE: IH 700 series cab. (320) 395-2310 w/NEW AND USED TRACTOR plow, 8 bottom 18”, w/mountest- PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, ed harrow, $3,000. (651) 775box 55, 50 Series & newer trac- 0236 ler, tors, AC-all models, Large FOR SALE: IH 735 6 bottom IH Inventory, We ship! Mark plow; also IH Farmall B ing Heitman Tractor Salvage tractor, nice shape. 507-350720 715-673-4829 9580 eset Lower 450.

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Harvesting Equip FOR SALE: ‘06 Massey Agco 30’ flex head, on Gleaner combine, will fit Massey/ Gleaner & Challenger combines. 507-995-2513 FOR SALE: JD 8820 combine, w/ duals, 220 flex head, 843 cornhead, $12,500. 507-5672442 or 507-456-8139 FOR SALE: Rear wheel assist for combine, off JD 7720.

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BRUSH CREEK TWP / FARIBAULT COUNTY, MN

40 ACRES+/- • 1 TRACTS

SALE TO BE HELD AT THE AMERICAN LEGION, 406 NORTH 2ND ST., BRICELYN, MN

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 @ 10 A.M.

This Farm has Excellent Soil Types and would make a great addition to your farming operation Located just North of Bricelyn Online Bidding Available Broker/ Auctioneer GREG JENSEN

hrs, ndi766

#1664 NORDAAS FARM

507-383-1067 gregjensen@landproz.com

SECTION 28 OF BRUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP / 40 DEEDED ACRES ± / APPROX 39 CROPL AND ACRES / CPI OF 91.7 / NORTH OF BRICELYN / PRODUCTIVE CROPL AND• TERMS : $25,000 DOWN DUE DAY OF THE SALE, BAL ANCE DUE ON OR ABOUT DEC. 3, 2018. A 2% BUYERS FEE WILL APPLY.

SteffesGroup.com

hrs, Scott Steffes ND81, MN14-51, WI2793-52 Photos shown may not depict actual equipment. hop, Litchfield, MN Mt. Pleasant, IA Ames, IA Sioux Falls, SD arp West Fargo, ND Grand Forks, ND 701.237.9173 701.203.8400 320.693.9371 319.385.2000 515.432.6000 712.477.2144 al94 For consignor information & location, terms, full lot listing & photos visit SteffesGroup.com

Agricultural & Recreational Real Estate / Auctions / Farm Management

Broker/Auctioneer GREG JENSEN • Agent/Auctioneer BEAU JENSEN Broker Greg Jensen - MN, IA / Broker Brian Haugen - MN, SD, IA, WI / Broker Amy Willett - MO LandProz Real Estate, LLC. 111 East Clark Street, Albert Lea, MN 56007

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Harvesting Equip

Grain Handling Equipment

Wanted

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JD 9600 combine, 20.8 du- Corn Dryer- Farm Fans AB120 All kinds of New & Used farm Corn elevator; JD 3 row nar- FOR SALE: Yorkshire, Hampals, 2500 hrs, new concaves w/ 1000 bu Brock wet holding equipment - disc chisels, field row cornhead for silage to shire, Duroc & Hamp/Duroc JD 3970 chopper. (320) & bars, augers, exc cond, bin, new wet grain motor & cults, planters, soil finishers, fit boars, also gilts. Excellent $32,000; JD 8110, 2WD, 5000 new dry grain unloading mo- cornheads, feed mills, discs, 282-4846 selection. Raised outside. hrs, new 480x46 tires, exc tor. Operates on 220V. 507- balers, haybines, etc. 507Exc herd health. No PRSS. cond, $67,500. 507-478-4221 822-3790 or 507-662-4260 438-9782 Delivery avail. 320-760-0365

Livestock

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ANTIQUE TRACTOR, STEAM ENGINE AND GAS ENGINE AUCTION SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018 10:00 AM TODD FRIEDRICH - HUTCHINSON, MINNESOTA Sale Site: 14899 Hwy 7 East, Hutchinson, MN 55350 Directions: Go three miles east of Jct Hwy 7 & Hwy 15. It is located right across the road from Crow River Winery, Hutchinson, MN Preview of all auction items will be held on Friday, October 19th from 9:00 am - 7:00 pm.

TRACTORS Farmall 140, 27398J; Farmall 350 Wheatland Special; Farmall 656 with loader; Farmall I-14; Farmall M; Farmall MV, LP, new rubber restored; IH 8-16, restored; IH 806; IH Cub cadet; JD AOS Streamline full tin #1800 1st built in 1940 restored; JD B; JD BO; JD H restored; JD H; JD 620 Orchard gas 6212534 full orchard tin PS restored; JD 4020 dsl; McD 0-12; McD 0-12 restored; McD W-9 power unit; McD W-12 restored; MM Super Jet Star 3 Ind; MM MTA; MM UTS LP Cane; MM V MINNEAPOLIS STEAM ENGINE Minneapolis Steam Engine, 22 HP, very good gearing GAS ENGINES IH LA, LB, M; IH Titan 1 HP restored with butter churn; IH Famous 4 & 6 HP; JD 1.5 HP; Maytags, R&V 1 HP; R & V 4 HP; Waterloo 5 HP; Waterloo Boy 5 HP with buzz saw rig IH METRO, NO ENGINE - RARE PACE TRAILER Pace American 24’ enclosed trailer, 9’ ramp door, 14,000 lb, with title FARM EQUIPMENT * NOS JD & IH PARTS * PEDAL TRACTORS * MISC For more information Contact Owner: Todd Friedrich - 952-237-2207 Nixon Auctioneers - Lonnie Nixon - 800-535-5996 - MN License 67-95 www.nixonauctioneers.com

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

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Monthly PRRS and PEDV. Delivery available. Steve Resler. 507-456-7746

Consignment Auction

Saturday, October 27th - 9 a.m.

Mages Auction Site 55780 St Hwy 19, Winthrop, MN 1/4 mi W of Hwy 19 & 15 intersection

Farm Machinery & Equipment: Far mall 460, gas, NF, 3pt; Case 600 w/ Terramatic drive & loader; Farmall A tractor w/ Woods finish mower 60"; Oliver 550 WF, 3pt, PTO; JD 7000, 8-row x 30” planter, pull-type w/ moniter; JD 643 corn head, low profile; JD 2800 vari-width plow; IH 735 5 bottom plow; Oliver 548 4-bottom plow, auto reset; AC 20’ tandem disk; field cultivator, 15-row bean field set-up; New Idea corn picker, 2-row; Bobcat SB200 2-stage snow blower; Artsway 450 mixer-mill, elect, scale; H&D HD235 spreader, single-axle; Tye mounted drill, 20’, 3pt w/ markers; Cunningham pull-type hay conditioner; Lundell 2-stage snow blower; J&M gravity box w/ JD gear; Demco gravity wagon; Dakon gravity wagon; Nu-Built gravity box; Boat & Vehicles: International TM90S semi-truck, approx. 700k mi, w/ sleeper cab; ’04 Dodge Intrepid, 224147 mi; ’93 Dodge Dakota, 163034 mi; Bayliner 16’ boat w/ Force 85 motor & trailer; Lawn, Garden, Shop & Tools: Cub Cadet LT1042 r iding mower , 42” cut w/bagger; Toro riding lawn mower, 32” cut w/ B&S Powerbolt 120 engine; Snapper riding mower w/ B&S 15.5 HP engine; Craftsman 5/22 snow blower, elect start; Snapper 524 snow blower; Ariens ST 2+2 Snow blower; Snapper Hi-Vac push mower; Snapper Ninja push mower; Toro Wheel Horse spreader; lawn packer; Swisher Trim Max ST65022DXQ; Toro 5 HP tiller; MTD 5hp wood chipper; Homelite 450 chainsaw; Husqvarna chainsaw; Worx weed whip; Reynolds overhead door, 20’w x 14’; Delta woodworking tools include: 17-950L laser crosshair drill press, 31-340 belt sander, 40-560 2-speed scroll saw, 31-780 BOSS sander: Guns, Outdoor & Sport Equip: Winchester Model 1906, .22 cal s/l, pump; Ranger 103-8, .22 cal, bolt; Stevens Maynard Jr, .22 cal, lever; Whippet Model C, 20 ga, sng shot; Stevens Model 311, 20 ga, dbl barrel; Coast to Coast Model 267H, 12 ga, pump; Remington Model 11, 12 ga, auto w/ scope; John M Smyth Co, 12 ga, sng shot; Stevens, 12 ga, SxS; Remington Model 11-48, 12 ga, semi; Remington Model 1100, 12 ga, semi; H&R Model 176 Magnum, 10 ga, sng shot; H&R Sportsman Model 999, .22 cal, revolver; Ruger, .22 cal, revolver; Hopkins & Allen #6 revolver; Chamelot Delvigne 1874 double action revolver; Ruger 77-22, .22 LR, bolt; Ruger 77-22, .22 mag, bolt; Winchester Model 9422m-xtr, .22 mag, lever; Sturm Ruger, .223 cal, lever w/ Scheels scope; Browning 1885 model, .223 cal, lever, oct barrel;&W .357 Magnum, dbl action; S&W Texas Ranger Commemorative .357 w/ knife in box; Ruger .357 Magnum, sng action; S&W .44 Russian, sng action; S&W .44 Magnum, dbl action; Ruger .44 Magnum, sng action; 3 - S&W .44 Specials, dbl action, 6 1/2” barrel; huge selection of ammo & reloading supplies; 20+ traps; fishing poles; tackle; Eagle 2-6000 depth finder; many wildlife prints; More Guns, Farm Antiques, Collectibles, Com. Kitchen Equip, Tools, Household, Toys & More!

View terms, complete list & photos at: magesland.com

Area Neighbors

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

Clerk: Mages Land Co. & Auction Ser vice, LLC. Terms: 10% Buyer s Pr emium Fir e ar ms buyer s must have valid dr iver s license. Pistol buyers must have valid “permit to purchase”. Not Responsible for Accidents.

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THE LAND — OCTOBER 19/OCTOBER 26, 2018 Sheep The 44th annual North Star Bred Ewe Sale will be held Sat., Oct. 27th at 7PM at the Pipestone County Fair Grounds in Pipestone, MN. Once again, we will be selling 117 head from some of the best flocks in the country. The featured breeds include: Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorset, Rambouillet, Katahdin & Southdown. We will be giving away (3) $100 gift certificates for kids 18 & under to use toward the purchase of a ewe at this year’s sale.

For more info, or to request a catalog, please visit our website at www.northstarsale.com or like us on Facebook at North Star Bred Ewe Sale. You can also contact Kim Lape by e-mail at kim.lape@pipestone.com

Pets & Supplies

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working line, little girl 3545lbs, short fur, mark fast easy to train, 8 wk old male and female available. $500 each. Call Eric 920-858-3732

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Looking for New or Used USED PARTS LARSON SALVAGE FARM EQUIPMENT? Check out The Land classifieds first!

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 **WE SPREAD AG LIME**

R&E Enterprises of Mankato, Inc.

Trucks & Trailers

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Miscellaneous PARMA DRAINAGE PUMPS New pumps & parts on hand.

Call Minnesota’s largest distributor HJ Olson & Company 320-974-8990 Cell - 320-212-5336 REINKE IRRIGATION Sales & Service New & Used For your irrigation needs 888-830-7757 or 507-276-2073 Winpower Sales & Service Reliable Power Solutions Since 1925 PTO & automatic Emergency Electric Generators. New & Used Rich Opsata-Distributor 800-343-9376

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Why use R&E Enterprises of Mankato, Inc?

NO STOCKPILING ON THE GROUND • Our trucks deliver ag lime directly to the TerraGator • TerraGators minimize ground compaction •No wasted lime or mess to clean up • No foliage to plug the spreader GPS APPLICATION AND GUIDANCE SYSTEMS • We apply variable and conventional rates • We can spread 1 to 6 ton/acre in a single pass • We have seven units to minimize wait time • We have twenty five trucks to haul lime For more information on Agricultural Lime delivery, spreading and rates, please email us at: evang@randeofmn.com or call 800-388-3320 today!

R & E Enterprises of Mankato, Inc. 1-800-388-3320 aglime@randeofmn.com www.randeofmn.com

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

We Ship Daily Visa and MasterCard Accepted

USED TRACTORS

HAY TOOLS

‘03 Versatile 2310, PS ..................................... $85,000 ‘06 Buhler 2210 w/ auto steer......................... $88,500 ‘12 Buhler 280...............................................$109,000 NEW Massey GC1715 w/loader ............................. Call NEW Massey 7722 FWA CVT ................................. Call ‘05 CIH MX210 ................................................ $79,000 NEW NH T4.75, T4.90, T4.120 w/loader.. ...... On Hand NEW NH T9.645, w/Smart Trac .............................. Call NEW NH Workmaster 60, 50, 35’s/loaders ... On Hand NEW NH T8.410 ...................................................... Call NH T8.275, 495 hrs ....................................... $145,000 ‘08 NH 8010 .................................................. $110,000 ‘99 NH 9682 .................................................... $67,000 ‘96 White 6175 FWA....................................... $49,500 Allis 185..............................................................$8,750 Kubota L245 2wd ...............................................$6,500

New NH Hay Tools - ON HAND

TILLAGE Sunflower 4610, 9-shank ................................ $45,000 10’ Sunflower 4412-07 .................................... $31,000 DMI 530B ................................................................ Call ‘95 JD 726, 30’ ................................................ $21,500 10’ Wilrich QX2 37’ w/basket.......................... $38,500 Wilrich QX 55’5 w/bskt..................................... Coming

PLANTERS NEW White Planters ............................................... Call White 8182 12-30 w/liq ...................................Coming\ ‘12 White 8186, 16-30 w/liq. fert. .................... $59,000 ‘11 White 8516 CFS, Loaded .......................... $85,000 White 8186 16-30 w/liq .................................... Coming

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

New NH W80C wheelloader .......................... On Hand New NH E37C mini excavator ....................... On Hand New NH E26C mini excavator ....................... On Hand New NH track & wheeled skidsteers............. On Hand NH 230 w/cab & heat ...................................... $37,900 ‘99 Bobcat 863F .............................................. $16,800

COMBINES

Gleaner R65 ................................................... $105,000 ‘12 Gleaner S77............................................ $205,000 ‘03 Gleaner R65 ............................................... Coming ‘98 Gleaner R62 .............................................. $79,500 ‘98 Gleaner R62 ...................................................... Call Gleaner 3308 chopping corn heads ...................... Call NEW Fantini chopping cornhead ........................... Call Geringhoff parts & heads available

MISCELLANEOUS

NEW Salford RTS Units .......................................... Call NEW Salford Plows................................................. Call NEW Unverferth Seed Tenders .............................. Call NEW Westfield Augers ........................................... Call NEW REM VRX vacs. .............................................. Call NEW Hardi Sprayers............................................... Call NEW Riteway Rollers .............................................. Call NEW Lorenz Snowblowers ..................................... Call NEW Batco Conveyors ........................................... Call NEW Brent Wagons & Grain Carts ......................... Call NEW E-Z Trail Seed Wagons .................................. Call NEW Rock Buckets & Pallet Forks ......................... Call REM 2700, Rental ................................................... Call Pre-Owned Grain Cart ................................... On Hand

All Equipment available with Low Rate Financing

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

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

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‘14 CIH Magnum 280, 19 speed powershift, 620/70R42 rear duals, 600/65R28 single fronts, front and rear weights, 5350 hrs ........................................................................................... $69,500 ‘09 JD 7830 MFWD, 16 speed power quad transmission, 4 remotes, 320/90R54 rear duals, 320/85R38 fronts, 9415 hrs ........................................................................................... $37,500 ‘11 CIH Magnum 290, 480/80R50 singles, 19 speed economy powershift transmission, 14000 hrs .................................. $30,000 ‘15 New Holland BC5060 small square baler, has not been used .................................................................................. $15,250 ‘12 New Holland L218 skid steer loader, no cab, 72” bucket, 365 hrs .............................................................................. $19,750 ‘16 Case 721F XR wheel loader, 4.5 cubic yard bucket, 20.5R25 tires, extended reach, 4010 hrs, warranty till March 2019 or 6000 hrs ........................................................................ $83,500 ‘10 JD 9770 Combine, 800/70R38 single tires, tank ext. 2WD, contourmaster, chopper, tank ext., 1650 sep. hrs, just though service program ................................................................ $97,500 ‘13 JD 2720 17’6” disc ripper, rolling baskets .............$23,000

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507-345-4523 or 800-657-4665 4WD TRACTORS ‘14 JD 9560R, 1045 hrs, 800x38 duals, 5 hyd valves, wheel wgts ..............................................................................$210,000 ‘14 JD 9360R, 2550 hrs, 5 hyd valves, 480x50 tires & duals, ext warranty to 3/27/2020 or 4,000 hrs .............................$140,000 ‘13 JD 9360R, 1799 hrs, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, 620x42” tires & duals .........................................................................$159,000 ‘02 JD 9320, 5341 hrs, power shift, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, 8 new 18.4x46” tires, auto steer .......................................$89,000 ‘13 NH T9.390, 2557 hrs, 1000 PTO, power shift, diff lock, 480x50 duals ................................................................$120,000 ‘11 NH T9.390, 905 hrs, power shift, HID lights, big pump, 480x50 tires & duals ....................................................$123,000 ‘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

TRACK TRACTORS

ContourMaster, chopper, 520x42” duals ....................$139,000 ‘13 JD 660, 1180/892 sep hrs, 2WD, ContourMaster, chopper, HID lights, 520x38 duals .............................................$139,000 ‘04 JD 9760, 2WD, 3460/2268 sep hrs, ContourMaster, chopper, bin ext, 480x42” tires & duals .......................................$54,000 ‘01 JD 9750, 4156 eng/3013 sep hrs, ContourMaster, setup w/single point for 600 series heads, chopper, 20.8x42duals ................................................................$42,000 ‘01 JD 9650STS, 4325/3014 sep hrs, ContourMaster, chopper, 520x38” tires & duals .....................................................$42,000 ‘14 5130, 928/660 sep hrs, rock track, Tracker, chopper, 900,

‘14 C-IH 340 Mag Row trac, 287 hrs, luxury cab, suspended ‘09 C-IH 7088, 1807 eng/1275 sep hrs, rock trap, field tracker, front, 18” tracks, 6 hyds, 1000 PTO, 76” track spacing .........................................................................$185,000 chopper, Pro 600 monitor, HID lights, 520x42” duals ...$95,000 ‘13 C-IH 600 Quad trac, 2155 hrs, 36” belts, 4 hyd, hi-flow, complete auto steer equipped ....................................$200,000 ‘11 Claas Lexion 740, 1466 eng/1899 sep hrs, 4x4, chopper, ‘15 Challenger MT 845E, 3909 hrs, 30” belts, 4 hyd valves, HID 520x42” duals ................................................................$98,000 lights, 58 gpm hyd pump ............................................$142,500 ‘04 Cat Challenger MT 755, 4844 hrs, 16” tracks, 4 hyd, 3 pt, 1000 PTO, JD ATU steering wheel ................................$65,000 ‘13 JD 645C 13’ pickup head ..............................................$10,000

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COMBINES ‘13 JD 660 4X4, 1598/1066 sep hrs, 2630 display,

5x32 single tires ...........................................................$135,000 ‘15 C-IH 500 Quad trac, 2750 hrs, 36” tracks, cab susp, HID lights, 4 hyd valves ......................................................$180,000 ‘11 C-IH 5088, 1743/1541 sep hrs, rock trap, chopper, 30.5x32 ‘14 C-IH 350 Row trac, 1865 hrs, 1000 PTO, 18” tracks, 4 hyd, hi-flow ...........................................................................$155,000 tires .................................................................................$93,000

‘12 JD 8235, 2WD, 1235 hrs, cab, air, power shift, 3pt, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, 18.4x46 duals ...............................$110,000 ‘06 JD 7420, MFWD, 5164 hrs, cab, IVT, 3 pt, 540/1000 PTO, w/ JD H360 ldr ....................................................................$65,000 ‘11 Versatile 305, MFWD, 690 hrs, 4 hyds, 3pt, 1000 PTO, HID lights, front wgts, 480x46 tires & duals .........................$98,000 ‘13 NH T8360, 1200 hrs, luxury cab, 4 hyd, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 480x50 duals, auto steer complete .............................$110,000 ‘06 NH TG210, MFWD, 4240 hrs. 540/1000 PTO, 3pt, 4hyd, 380x46 rear tires & duals ...............................................$56,000 ‘03 NH TG230, MFWD, 3346 hrs. Megaflow hyd 4 valves, 3pt, 540/1000 PTO, 380x46 duals ........................................$59,000 ‘13 C-IH 290, 1250 hrs, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd valves, big pump, front duals, rear 480x50 tires & duals .........................$113,000 ‘13 C-IH 260, 577 hrs , 540/1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd hi -flow, front wgts, 420x46” tires & duals .........................................$110,000 ‘12 C-IH 260, 1784 hrs, 1000 PTO, 3pt hitch, suspended front axle, 4 hyd valves, hi-flow, front duals, front wgts, 480x50” rear tires & duals..........................................................$105,000 ‘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

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‘83 JD 643 6R30 cornhead, low tin, oil drive ....................... $6,500 ‘13 C-IH 3408 8R30 cornhead ............................................$21,000 ‘08 C-IH 2408 8R30 cornhead ............................................$12,500 ‘02 C-IH 2208 8R30 cornhead, new knives ........................$11,500 ‘13 Drago 6R30 chopping cornhead, fits JD ........................$26,000 ‘09 Drago 6R30 chopping cornhead, fits JD ........................$20,000 ‘06 Drago 8R30 chopping cornhead, fits C-IH 7000 ............$15,000 Drago 6R30 cornhead, non-chopping, came off newer C-IH combine .......................................................................... $6,500 ‘05 Geringhoff 8R30 chopping cornhead, off JD 9770.........$18,000

GRAVITY BOXES Brent, 740 gravity box .......................................................$10,500 Parker, 450 bushel gravity box ........................................... $3,300

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

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Small company, global reach

F

or three decades Battle Lake Outdoors has been designing and sewing high quality allAmerican bags, packs, luggage and outdoor wear from its nondescript factory and retail outlet in an old theater and adjacent warehouse on Main St. in Clarissa Minn.

What started as an effort by college student and founder Dennis Cuchna to improve on sewing kits for down vests that were on the market in the early 1980s has turned into an enterprise with more than 100 product designs which are sold at the factory’s retail store, shipped around the country and even exported to Japan.

“Our most popular item right now is a game vest that comes in one-size-fits-all,” Sheri Remer, who has been cutting and sewing for the company for 22 years, said.

“It was originally made only in blaze orange for hunters, but the Japanese are ordering it in different colors,” Laurie Connolly, who has been sewing and cutting for Battle Lake Outdoors for 24 years, said.

Dennis Cuchna, who is no longer with the company, created most of the company’s designs — including the game vest, many of the day and back packs, a custom-designed firefighters bag, various gun cases, wallets and fanny packs.

Jill Stalberger, who manages the company for owners John and Amy Allen, says that Cuchna’s innovation was remarkable. But she point out that

Clarissa, Minn.

both Remer and Connolly, as well as John Allen, have come up with unique designs as well.

“Customers also make suggestions for products,” Stalberger said. “One customer came up with a design for a bag for autistic kids. We made a lot of those and she resold them.”

Whether the product is a bleacher cushion, briefcase, day pack or ski carrier, it will be made from 100 percent American-made fabric, zippers, netting, thread and labor.

“We’re very proud of that,” Stalberger said.

It’s tough to compete with low-quality Chinese products, Stalberger says, but Battle Lake Outdoors focuses on quality construction and product durability.

“Some customers say that the problem with our products is that they’re so durable. They don’t wear out so they can’t sell more,” Stalberger said.

Battle Lake Outdoors products are available online, as well as at Hats Off Coffee in Long Prairie, Sales and Storage in Clarissa, and from the factory retail store across the street from the Clarissa post office.

“We have a lot more products than what is at the website,” Stalberger said. “Our prices at the store are lower than on the website.”

The company website is www.battlelakeoutdoors. com and the telephone number is (800) 243- 0465. v

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Rose Gandillon Pioneer Sales Professional

Matt Hajda Grower

Adam Owens Pioneer Field Agronomist

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With a suite of full-service offerings, your local Pioneer team provides more than industryleading Pioneer® brand products. Our total-acre solutions include LumiGEN™ technologies seed treatment, digital agriculture solutions with Granular and Encirca® services, crop-management insights through Pioneer® GrowingPoint® agronomy, and TruChoice® program incentives when you purchase crop-protection products by Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont.

Year after year, we’re committed to the success of every acre on your farm.

Pioneer.com |

Pioneer Seeds |

@PioneerSeeds

Pioneer ® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents.

Encirca® services are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the purchase documents.

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S D L E I Y OUR R

T N A W U O Y IF K C I K A

O F K SPEASELVES THEM PIONEER® VARIETY/BRAND

COMPETITOR VARIETY/BRAND

# COMPS

% WINS

18

AG21X7

47

51%

0.9

P19A14X

19

AG20X7

118

60%

1.2

P21A28

21

AG21X7

76

64%

1.5

23

AG21X7

68

82%

3.8

P18A98X

NEW

RM

X

NEW

P23A15X

PIONEER YIELD ADV. (Bu/A)

The harvest data Pioneer sales representatives provide is local, it’s relevant, and it’s raising the standard for performance results. To see the latest harvest results near you, visit pioneer.com/yield.

O

/ U B R 0 O .

F 2 S A E R C A R U N YO

D L E I Y ORE

M

THE ANSWER IS Looking for breakthrough performance? The answer is easy with Pioneer® brand A-Series soybeans. Ask your local Pioneer sales representative how A-Series soybeans can kick up your yield potential.

Pioneer.com/Aseries All Pioneer products are varieties unless designated with LL, in which case some are brands. Data is based on an average of 2017-2018 comparisons made in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa through October 1, 2018. Comparisons are against any number of products of the indicated competitor brand, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY OTHER DATA FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF TRIALS AS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN PRODUCT SELECTION. Refer to pioneer.com/products or contact a Pioneer sales representative or authorized dealer for the latest and complete listing of traits and scores for each Pioneer brand product. Pioneer brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents. TM®Trademarks of Dow AgroSciences, DuPont or Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respective owners. © 2018 PHII. DUPA1418008_102618_TL_8257

Data is based on an average of 2016-2017 comparisons made in the U.S. through Nov. 29, 2017. Comparisons are against all competitors, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY OTHER DATA FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF TRIALS AS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN PRODUCT SELECTION. Refer to www.pioneer.com/products or contact a Pioneer sales representative or authorized dealer for the latest and complete listing of traits and scores for each Pioneer® brand product.

Pioneer® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents.

TM ® SM , , Trademarks and service marks of Dow AgroSciences, DuPont or Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respective owners. © 2018 PHII. DUPPSY18035_VAR3_IBC_102618_TL_N

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S D L E I Y OUR R

T N A W U O Y IF K C I K A

O F K SPEASELVES THEM PIONEER® VARIETY/BRAND

COMPETITOR VARIETY/BRAND

# COMPS

% WINS

18

AG21X7

47

51%

0.9

P19A14X

19

AG20X7

118

60%

1.2

P21A28

21

AG21X7

76

64%

1.5

23

AG21X7

68

82%

3.8

P18A98X

NEW

RM

X

NEW

P23A15X

PIONEER YIELD ADV. (Bu/A)

The harvest data Pioneer sales representatives provide is local, it’s relevant, and it’s raising the standard for performance results. To see the latest harvest results near you, visit pioneer.com/yield.

O

/ U B R 0 O .

F 2 S A E R C A R U N YO

D L E I Y ORE

M

THE ANSWER IS Looking for breakthrough performance? The answer is easy with Pioneer® brand A-Series soybeans. Ask your local Pioneer sales representative how A-Series soybeans can kick up your yield potential.

Pioneer.com/Aseries All Pioneer products are varieties unless designated with LL, in which case some are brands. Data is based on an average of 2017-2018 comparisons made in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa through October 1, 2018. Comparisons are against any number of products of the indicated competitor brand, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY OTHER DATA FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF TRIALS AS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN PRODUCT SELECTION. Refer to pioneer.com/products or contact a Pioneer sales representative or authorized dealer for the latest and complete listing of traits and scores for each Pioneer brand product. Pioneer brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents. TM®Trademarks of Dow AgroSciences, DuPont or Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respective owners. © 2018 PHII. DUPA1418008_102618_TL_8257

Data is based on an average of 2016-2017 comparisons made in the U.S. through Nov. 29, 2017. Comparisons are against all competitors, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY OTHER DATA FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF TRIALS AS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN PRODUCT SELECTION. Refer to www.pioneer.com/products or contact a Pioneer sales representative or authorized dealer for the latest and complete listing of traits and scores for each Pioneer® brand product.

Pioneer® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents.

TM ® SM , , Trademarks and service marks of Dow AgroSciences, DuPont or Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respective owners. © 2018 PHII. DUPPSY18035_VAR3_IBC_102618_TL_N

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R A E Y THIS

Rose Gandillon Pioneer Sales Professional

Matt Hajda Grower

Adam Owens Pioneer Field Agronomist

L A E R E TH -PAGE T N O FR ST NEWS E V R HA NSIDE IS I

With a suite of full-service offerings, your local Pioneer team provides more than industryleading Pioneer® brand products. Our total-acre solutions include LumiGEN™ technologies seed treatment, digital agriculture solutions with Granular and Encirca® services, crop-management insights through Pioneer® GrowingPoint® agronomy, and TruChoice® program incentives when you purchase crop-protection products by Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont.

Year after year, we’re committed to the success of every acre on your farm.

Pioneer.com |

Pioneer Seeds |

@PioneerSeeds

Pioneer ® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents.

Encirca® services are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the purchase documents.

TM ® SM , , Trademarks and service marks of Dow AgroSciences, DuPont or Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respective owners. © 2018 PHII. DUPPBR18022_VAR1_BC_102618_TL_N