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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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Life on the Farm: Readers’ Photos
Many of our feathered friends have left for warmer surroundings. But before they did, Al Batt of Hartland, Minn. gave us a final look. The top photo is of a lesser yellowlegs reflected in still waters. The photo below that is of the northern shoveler — often called a spoonbill
Rose Wurtzberger of New Ulm, Minn. sent in this harvest photo saying, “We were able to do some corn on Oct. 4. Moisture was at 18-20 percent.”
Letter: More information provided on solar power To the Editor, Mr. Don Buck wrote a letter to the editor published on Oct. 5. First of all, Mr. Barry Thompson did not write the article referenced in Mr. Buck’s letter. Dick Hagen wrote the article in which Barry Thomson was interviewed. I should disclose that I own a 39.6K tracking solar system built by Blue Horizon Energy. While Mr. Buck makes several valid (if not totally accurate) points about solar reimbursements, I think some clarification may be in order. Minnesota’s net metering law requires utilities to pay retail rates rather than avoided cost (wholesale) to producers like me only on what my system might produce more than what I consume, as long as my system’s total capacity is less than 40K (rather small when compared to the solar gardens that utilities are currently constructing). If I chose to construct a system above 40K, and produce more than what I consume, the utility only has to reimburse me at avoided cost. Basically, for the most part, I’m producing my own energy. Opponents of solar systems famously use dubious facts when showing solar efficiencies of 2-7 percent. One should understand how solar panels are rated in the first place. Panels are rated
when exposed to the perfect sun angle at the perfect ambient temperature (somewhere around 39 degrees). Efficiencies are calculated starting from this point. One could argue we have roughly one-half daylight and one-half nighttime yielding only 50 percent efficiency right off the bat. Cloudy/partly cloudy/rainy days hack off some more. Any temperature above or below 39 degrees, take some more. A stationary or roof-mount solar system, as opposed to tracking systems, subtract again. Poor quality panels that degrade over time, more inefficiencies. Get the idea? My local utility constructed a “test” stationary ground mount system. Poorly located in the shadow of two buildings, results are predictably poor. They had all kinds of room to locate the system in the sunshine. Does anyone clear the snow off that system? Quite frankly, the utilities have no incentive to construct technologically-advanced tracking systems that allow good sun angles, higher production, and dump the snow off the system every day. I hope this clears up some of the confusion. Paul Platz Lafayette, Minn.
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A cautionary note from Sand County “February” is one of the finest essays for hundreds of millions of people,” in Sand County Almanac — the 1949 explains the Guardian on Oct. 8. book of superlative essays on nature and It’s even more bleak than that, notes mankind’s role in it — by forester and the newspaper. “‘It’s a line in the sand conservationist Aldo Leopold. In it, and what it says to our species is that Leopold, the father of wildlife ecology, this is the moment and we must act now,’ tells the history of his Wisconsin “sand said Debra Roberts, a co-chair of the farm” and its natural “community” as he [IPCC’s] working group on impacts.” and a friend crosscut-saw through the Will we act… now? FARM & FOOD FILE story-holding rings of a still-standing, 80-year-old oak tree killed by lightning. Early reviews of the report, compiled By Alan Guebert by 91 scientists from 40 nations who “It took only a dozen pulls of the saw cited more than 6,000 climate-related to transect the few years of our ownerstudies, suggest more denial, inaction ship,” Leopold writes, before the saw and delay. The White House openly “…began to cut the years of our predecessor the bootlegger, who hated this farm, skinned dismissed it. Congress has no hearings scheduled to review it. And few farm and commodity groups even it of residual fertility…” noted its publication. A few dozen more pulls and “We cut 1908, a dry Why? year when the forests burned fiercely, and Wisconsin parted with its last cougar.” No socio-economic group anywhere has been or will be affected more by climate change than the As the pair’s saw bites deeper into the towering world’s farmers and ranchers. Climate is as key an oak’s 80 years, Leopold’s prose bites deeper into element to their prosperity or failure as land and man’s historical, even pathological, exploitation of water, and nothing has more impact on either than the natural world. Every stroke delivers both sawdust and an example of man’s misuse of either soil, the weather. water or wildlife. Just ask the ranchers of the Canadian prairies stung by this year’s punishing drought; the south“We cut 1899, when the last passenger pigeon collided with a charge of shot near Babcock, two counties east U.S. farmers hammered by Hurricanes Florence to the north…” reads one. “On 10 September 1877, two and Michael; or the North and South Dakota farmbrothers, shooting in Muskego Lake, bagged 210 blue- ers now sweeping October snow off their combines before going back to a soggy, muddy harvest. winged teal in one day,” reads another. It will get far worse. And doing nothing, the UN The tree-cutting allegory ends when “…all hands report forecasts, will carry the unfathomable cost of cry ‘Timber!’” and the mighty oak, like all trees and “as much as $54 trillion” by 2040. For comparison, most civilizations before it, “…leans, groans, and that’s nearly three times the size of today’s U.S. crashes with earth-shaking thunder…” economy. Although Leopold died the year before that essay Now add two billion more people (the estimated (and, in fact, Sand County Almanac) was published, his enduring words and lesson, like his saw, remain growth in global population by 2050) and farming and ranching’s — mankind’s — future in today’s era sharp two weeks after the United Nations released of swift climate change looks as stark as a lightits equally sharp report by the Intergovernmental ning-struck oak tree. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The biggest difference between Leopold’s tree and Unlike Leopold, however, the IPPC report is the ours is equally stark: his tree didn’t have a choice. saw, not the sawyer. It cuts through ring after ring — decades — of climate change deference and deni- We do. al to deliver its lesson: The world has less than 15 The Farm and Food File is published weekly years to slash carbon use before “even half a degree” through the United States and Canada. Past colof climbing temperatures “significantly worsen the umns, events and contact information are posted at risks of droughts, floods, extreme heat and poverty www.farmandfoodfile.com. v
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To the Editor, Over the last eight years, reporters from the (Minneapolis) Star-Tribune newspaper and metro area TV stations have had a major influence on state government. Time and again they have found state agencies asleep at the wheel — wasting money or both. It will take years to clean up the mess Governor Dayton is going to leave by not holding anyone accountable.
The last chance to clean house on state government may be this election. There are hundreds of state employees who don’t understand who they work for if they do any work at all. None more obvious than the DNR. Tommy Stiles Henning, Minn.
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Mother’s careful reminders are really words of love Although we hear the dren, but common sense words, “be careful” from tells us that danger lurks many people over the course anywhere on a farm. When of our lifetime, it’s almost our children were old always said for the same enough to go outside alone reasons. to play, I told them to be careful. I used to hear it all the time growing up. While “It’s the same thing as doing wishes, Mom would saying ‘I love you,’” I told TABLE TALK often hand us the steak them, “because I don’t want knives to dry, along with an By Karen Schwaller you to get hurt.” accompanying, “Careful, I explained that to them hon, those are sharp.” many times as they grew She still said that to me when I was into elementary-aged school children. in high school. I came to decide that They would always listen as I my ability to retain information was explained, which also amazed me. apparently on a train that had derailed Over time when I would tell them to somehow and left no survivors. be careful, I would add, “You know Now that I’m in mid-life, the easiest what I’m saying, don’t you?” thing I retain is water. When they were toddlers, they would I guess it doesn’t matter how old tell me what I was saying. But when your children are. Once a mother, they got a little older, I would usually always a mother. see a big red-faced grin as they trucked out the door for another round But the reasoning for being told of highly-anticipated toy farming something like that is still the same: you want the people you care about to which awaited them in the house yard or sandbox. Their grins told me they be safe and to not get hurt. understood, even after they were too I used to say it to our young children cool to tell me. when they would go outside to play. Switching to the grown-up world of Farms are great places to raise chil-
Letter: Tax cuts a short-term fix to long-term problems To the Editor, We farmers generally try to care for our land and seek the best for our future. Yet many farmers are seduced by shortterm hopes of reduced taxes and regulations and vote Republican. Of course, Trump’s tariffs are hurting us now, but what about the future? Republicans gave the wealthy a $1 trillion tax cut which adds $1 trillion to the deficit. Now the Republicans’ “tax reform 2.0,” passed by the House, would give $2 trillion more cuts to the wealthy and add over $2 trillion more to the deficit for no good reason. We are relatively soon due for another recession — perhaps in only a year or two.
Government spending will then have to increase to avoid a calamity. Then Republicans may “remember” that deficits are bad and go after Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, because that’s where the big money is. Decades from now, climate change will cause an ongoing horror show. We can still mitigate this disaster to some extent with policy changes. Unfortunately, Republicans are scientifically know-nothing, do-nothing. What a world to leave our children and grandchildren. Greg Rendahl Ostrander, Minn.
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farming, it’s interesting to run into people we know on gravel roads, in implement stores, hardware and farm stores, grocery stores, at the elevator and out in the farm yard. If you’re with your husband and you run into friends and neighbors who also farm, it takes less than ten seconds for the conversation to turn to farming. It used to drive me crazy — even as a farm wife and part-time farmer. But more often than not, I learn a lot from listening to the banter (that is, when I’m not morphing into an inanimate object from the sheer amount of time that conversation usually takes). But often times these days, I’ll hear farmers exchange parting words of, “Have a safe harvest;” or, “Have a safe calving season.” 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.
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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
Young readers will enjoy ‘Saving Winslow’ story Some days, you just need a hug. “Saving Winslow” Other days, you only want to be left alone to think your thoughts, gather your feelings, by Sharon Creech and miss the people you love. Either way, c.2018, Joanna Cotler Books that’s what you need. And as in the new book $16.99 / higher in Canada “Saving Winslow” by Sharon Creech, some 176 pages days, it’s good to be needed. When ten-year-old Louie got up that midsure about this thing in the launwinter morning, he was sure the laundry THE BOOKWORM dry basket. basket held something dead. SEZ He wouldn’t have been too surprised if it By Terri Schlichenmeyer It was awfully cute. A baby minidonkey with big eyes and long ears, it had. His dad was always bringing small aniwas born too early so it was very weak. mals home from Uncle Pete’s farm and most of them died. Louie wanted a puppy, but he was a Everyone warned Louie not to get too attached little afraid of getting any new pet. And he wasn’t so because it might die. It wasn’t any bigger than a stuffed animal, which was funny — neither was Louie when he was born early. Louie named the donkey “Winslow.” No reason, just Winslow. He wished he could show Winslow to his big brother, Gus. But Gus had joined the army and Louie missed him. He showed Winslow to Mike, his best friend, and to two new girls who’d moved into the neighborhood. Saving Winslow was a lot of work, but Louie was up for the job. Saving friendships was also hard, but Louie could somehow do that, too. And soon it was spring. Winslow was no longer a tiny donkey. He’d grown big enough to have a pen behind the garage, although he really wasn’t allowed in town. He’d also found his voice. His braying was annoying the neighbors and people complained. Louie was sure that his parents’ whispery conversations had something to do with Winslow. Was it true
that when you loved something fiercely, it was always taken away? Have you ever hugged a book? If not, well, prepare yourself. You’ll be mighty tempted to do so when you’ve got this book in your mitts. “Saving Winslow” is the kind of story that belongs in every fourth-grader’s personal library. To start, it prominently features an animal, but not your run-of-the-mill pet. Instead, Louie’s charge has a built-in problem in that Winslow’s not meant for city living — which sets up the story subtly yet perfectly. It adds to the tension, too, but it’s not over-the-top drama. 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. For parents, this book is a quick-reading winner. 8-to-12-year-olds who don’t care for sass will love it very much. For anyone who adores a pet and wants a heart-warmer, “Saving Winslow” is just what’s needed. Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a library near you. You may also find the book at online book retailers. The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives in Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v
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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 North Dakota cattle men who have jump-started the beef industry in Kazakhstan. These brothers air-lifted 12,000 head of registered Angus cows from their North Dakota operation to Kazakhstan to establish a beef industry. This effort is also generating a significant new interest in growing corn in Kazakhstan. “We already knew of Ed Baumgartner’s work to provide corn hybrids that better fit the dry, colder areas of western North Dakota,” said Dan Price. “We use lots of Ed’s pedigrees in our corn program. So we wondered if his firm might have a genetic package that might fit similar conditions in Kazakhstan.” 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
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
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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. 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 Visit www.TheLandOnline.com to view our complete calendar and Fowlers have three children: Jedidiah, with Travis’s father where they “do the enter your own events, or send an e-mail with your event’s details to 17; Tessa, 15 and Tyne, 6. The sheep wean to finish” of 18,000 to 20,000 pigs editor@thelandonline.com. 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 Nov. 7 — Secure Pork Supply Work- ment. Input costs for 2018 will be preful of rams, with the majority of their to 500 acres on which they grow soyshop — Le Sueur, Minn. — Workshop sented along with current 2018 corn herd being polypays, along with some beans and corn. will provide swine producers the oppor- and soybean prices. Contact Karen dorsets and Île-de-France. While that’s tunity to create their farm’s SPS plan. Johnson at (320) 484-4303 While they certainly have their hands Participants will know how to monitor Nov. 26 — What is a fair rental agreefull with grain productheir herd for signs of FMD, CSF and ment? — Willmar, Minn. — Contact tion, hogs and other liveASF; and go home with their own SPS Karen Johnson at (320) 484-4303 stock, Travis’s passion is plan in hand. Bring a laptop, copies of raising sheep. As the farm’s SOPs and the site’s national Nov. 28 — What is a fair rental agreedemand for lamb has premises ID number. Contact Diane ment? — Gaylord, Minn. —Contact changed over the years, DeWitte at stouf002@umn.edu or (507) Karen Johnson at (320) 484-4303 it’s allowed the meat to 384-1745 Nov. 28 — What is a fair rental agreefind resurgence in the ment? — Hutchinson, Minn. — ConNov. 19 — Secure Pork Supply Workmarketplace. “A lot of shop — Lafayette, Minn. — Contact tact Karen Johnson at (320) 484-4303 new interest in eating Diane DeWitte at stouf002@umn.edu Dec. 5 — Secure Pork Supply Worklamb and in wool,” Travis or (507) 384-1745 said. Overall, “the future shop — Hutchinson, Minn. — Contact is pretty good for the Nov. 26 — What is a fair rental agree- Diane DeWitte at stouf002@umn.edu industry,” Jeanine said. ment? — Olivia, Minn. — Topics or (507) 384-1745 That includes a growing include historic and projected farmland Dec. 6 — Secure Pork Supply Workethnic market coupled rental rate trends, current farm land val- shop — Winthrop, Minn. — Contact The Fowlers’ flock started in 2000 with six sheep. Today with the meat “becoming ues and sales, and a worksheet which Diane DeWitte at stouf002@umn.edu they comfortably handle 150 ewes along with a handful more common in the will help determine a fair rental agree- or (507) 384-1745 of rams. younger generation,”
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Northern growers tie up loose ends as harvest ends
By KRISTIN KVENO, The Land Correspondent
Blair Hoseth, Mahnomen, Minn., Oct 19
“We finally got a nice day.” The Land spoke with Blair Hoseth on Oct. 19 as he was thrilled to report some good weather has made its way to the farm. Warm temperatures in the 70s, low humidity and sunshine the day before definitely helped dry out the fields that received four inches of snow the previous week. “It just kind of snowed on and off all week.” The snow is gone and “now the ground is finally started to dry out.”
Blair Hoseth
Hoseth has been “raking and trying to bale corn stalks.” The corn yields are around 160 bushels per acres “it’s a decent average.” Hoseth plans on finishing corn harvest next week as the forecast looks good with no rain or snow expected.
After corn harvest is complete, Hoseth will be hauling manures and working up some Conservation Reserve Program ground. Then it’s on to fall tillage and some ditching. He estimates that there’s about 10 days left of field work after harvest. The sunny, warm weather on Oct. 18 “was the first turning point day.” The snow of a week before soon became a distant memory and thoughts turned to getting back in the field and finishing up the 2018 harvest. It’s been a rollercoaster of weather this fall on the Hoseth farm, but with a nice forecast this week, the finish line is now in sight.
Matt Haubrich, Danube, Minn., Oct. 12
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Haubrich has finished combining half of his soybeans and has now Matt Haubrich 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. “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.” “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.
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The end of soybean harvest is near for Jamie Beyer. The Land spoke with Beyer on Oct. 19 as she expects to “finish beans tomorrow.” The beans are currently at 10 percent
Last two weeks were filled with rain and snow that kept the combine out of the field until Oct. 16. “It’s been going pretty good” since then. Though, on Oct. 17 “we had a small fire at our bin site.” The fire burned itself out and the dryer was repaired in one day. With sugar beet harvest complete, there’s plenty of help now for the rest of the crops. Tillage is all caught up and once beans are harvested, Beyer will finish up corn harvest. After that there’s about a week’s worth of ditching and tillage left to do. The forecast calls for temperatures in the 50s with a chance of rain for the end of next week so the time is now to get the crop out. But come the beginning of November, the “guys will take a break during deer hunting.”
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Now that the combines are back in the field and harvest is rolling again everything “looks pretty good.” If the rain and snow can stay away, this year’s harvest should be wrapped up in no time.
“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.”
Jamie Beyer, Wheaton, Minn., Oct. 19
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.”
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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After a long soaking, drier weather ahead for farmers By Tim Krohn rain since Sunday but hopes to get Mankato Free Press his combine back in the field soon. The fall of our rainy discontent “I’m thinking maybe the earliest may be coming to an end. would be Saturday, but I think by Monday we’ll be going good.” After an abnormally wet September and early October, the forecast is for So far, about 10-20 percent of the cold but dry weather for the coming crops are out in the region. week or two. That would give farmHelvig said the yields he’s seen ers a chance to get at harvesting and heard of so far have been disapcorn and soybeans in earnest by pointing. early next week. “They’re pretty poor yields, hon“It’s not panic time, but it’s frusestly. I think a lot of guys thought trating,” said Tom Hoverstad, a scithey’d see some 200 bushel (per entist at the University of Minnesota acre) fields and some 160 bushel Southern Research and Outreach fields, but there’s a lot of 160 bushel Center in Waseca. fields,” he said. “We can have decent weather “I think for the first time in many through November, and we deserve years we’ll be below the national it.” average.” So far, the early to midfall has been Helvig said soybean yields have anything but decent. been better, averaging in the 50-60 “It’s been awful. After a 10.54-inch bushel per acre range. rainy September — that’s roughly The USDA’s latest report this week three times our normal — now in Photo by Pat Christman, The Free Press said about 15 percent of corn has October we have measured seven of After a September that brought three times the normal rain and a wet start to October, been harvested in Minnesota, which 10 days with rain and already fields are oversaturated. But drier weather is predicted for the next week or two, bringing is five days ahead of the average for received 2.77 inches, more than our hope farmers can continue the harvest in earnest. this time. Thirty-seven percent of the monthly allotment of precipitation soybean crop was harvested, three said, but so far most days have been in the 60 to 70 for October,” Hoverstad said. days behind the average. range. And the lack of sun hasn’t helped any in drying the The Free Press and The Land are sister publications Dan Helvig, who farms near Truman, 20 miles rain that does fall. Usually early October brings solar owned by The Free Press Media. v south of Madelia, said he’s had about 2 1/2 inches of radiation measurements of 350 to 400, Hoverstad
Know where and when to apply fall nitrogen fertilizer ST. PAUL — According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, soil temperatures have cooled quickly in the northern regions of the state to the point where it may be safe to apply fall fertilizer. The southern areas of the state are still a bit warmer and delaying fall application is advised. The MDA is urging farmers and applicators to check soil temperature and delay fall application of anhydrous ammonia and urea fertilizer until soil temperatures stay below 50 F. To assist tracking soil temperature, the MDA provides real-time soil temperatures at 25 locations across the state. The website includes a map with MDA sites with soil thermometers at a six-inch depth, North Dakota Ag Weather Network sites at four-inch depths, and research sites at various depths. “There are areas of the state where fall application of nitrogen fertilizer is simply not recommended due to groundwater contamination concerns,” said Bruce Montgomery, manager of the MDA’s Fertilizer Management Section. “Those would be areas with coarse-textured soils that drain quickly or areas underlain by fractured bedrock karst geology. In
other areas of the state where fall nitrogen fertilizer application is a recommended practice, the MDA encourages delaying application until soil temperatures cool down.” Waiting until soil temperature stays below 50 F before applying anhydrous ammonia and urea increases the availability of nitrogen to next season’s crop and decreases the amount of nitrate that could potentially leach into groundwater or tile drainage. Microbial activity in the soil slows down at cooler temperatures, therefore slowing the conversion from ammonium to nitrate. Ammonium is stable in the soil whereas nitrate moves with water and may leach out of the root zone over winter and early spring. Although the soil temperature network was established to support application of commercial fertilizer, it is equally useful for those applying manure in the fall. University of Minnesota Extension recommends delaying fall manure applications until soil temperatures at the six-inch depth are below 50 F to prevent leaching losses. Research from the University of Minnesota at Waseca showed liquid dairy and hog manures inject-
ed in November produced yields 10 bushels per acre higher than manures injected in September and October. U of M Extension also passed along other regional recommendations. In western Minnesota (non-coarse textured soils), fall application of either anhydrous ammonia or urea are recommended practices. Fall application of nitrogen fertilizer in southeastern Minnesota is not recommended regardless of soil temperature because of the karst geology. Growers in south-central Minnesota should use a nitrification inhibitor when fall applying anhydrous ammonia and not to apply urea in the fall. Statewide, all application of nitrogen fertilizer is not recommended regardless of soil temperature on any course-textured soil. Also, fall application of 28 percent liquid nitrogen is not recommended anywhere in the state due to its high leaching potential. Additional specific nitrogen fertilizer use recommendations by region are available on the MDA website: mda.state.mn.us/ This article was submitted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. v
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Lamb chops opened the door to the world of wellness By DICK HAGEN consider this as an opportuThe Land Staff Writer nity? But selling meat requires USDA inspections. CEDAR MILLS, Minn. — So Doug and I took some “What I love doing is sharing training on how to go about with others.” Those eight this new vocation. words by Connie Karstens beautifully sum up her dedi“We started just selling cation to the growing numlamb; then added beef, ber of customers who have chicken and fresh turkeys discovered her unique farm for the Thanksgiving seastore. Karstens is the proprison. It just kept expanding. etor of the Lamb Shoppe — a The healthy food idea was most delightful and surprisalso just starting. We soon ing visit on busy State ran out of space so we had to Highway 7 about 8 miles build our food store. It’s 34 west of Hutchinson, Minn. feet by 36 feet with an upstairs for classroom A prime example of a Lamb teaching, etc. New ideas, Shoppe customer is Carol new ambitions kept surfacSkay of Minnetonka, Minn. ing. I went back to school to who was just leaving the learn more about health and Lamb Shoppe when The fitness. Now I do wellness Land stopped in. A talkative consultations classes lady, Skay was very willing upstairs above the food to share commentary as to store. I studied holistic why she drives 60 miles from nutrition. I also studied her Minnetonka home. She herbal medicine and we now related, “I had been buying sell those products also.” my lamb chops at Lakeland Co-op — a local food store In the back yard behind that handles farm fresh protheir attractive food shop is duce. That is how I found what Connie calls her “wellout about the Lamb Shoppe Connie Karstens and her daughter Clara Rathke offer a wide ness garden.” It includes a which does monthly CSA variety of herbs, essential oils and other health-related prodvariety of medicinal herbs. offerings as well. So I come ucts. The Lamb Shoppe also conducts classes and workshops “We planted things our here monthly for fresh lamb for beginners and veterans of natural wellness. ancestors used thousands of and other health items. Their years ago. They used these ingredients so good and so high quality lamb is just the best. I adore lamb.” special nature-grown plants to balance that you don’t need to do anything “Lamb is a love it or hate it sort of fancy to enhance the flavor. That’s why their bodies when things were out of thing,” Skay went on to say. “Our family I come out here once a month. I’ve been balance. I like these old traditional loves it. I love its flavor and theirs is so doing this more than a year … plus it’s gifts of nature for different preparagood because it is all grass fed. It’s not a leisurely drive that keeps me in touch tions; special teas.” too strong. Connie’s husband has some with the different chapters of Mother She studied herbal medicine for six posts online explaining why the grass- Nature too!” years in Minneapolis. “The challenge fed lambs have a different flavor and with herbal medicine is locating good Providing fresh, grass-fed lamb chops texture. It’s sweet, yet has a little more taste than does beef. But when I’m out originated because growing requests of here I also get some of their beef which friends and neighbors finally convinced the Karstens to start selling lamb in makes wonderful hamburgers.” 1986. They opened their “lamb chop” So why did this Twin Cities house- store in 1997. Husband Doug grew up wife become such a discriminating food a sheep farmer and even got into sheep shopper? Skay simply responded, “I shearing competitions — winning state, love to cook and I love to eat. To me, national and even international titles. every day should have a meal where He has competed in various world you can exclaim, ‘wow — that was so countries. When time permits, he still good!’ My favorite is when you have competes and teaches sheep shearing. “People would see our sheep grazing COVER PHOTO: Connie Karstens stands as they drove along our highway,” in front of the wellness garden which is Connie said. “Some would stop and located behind the retail store. The garinquire, ‘Can I buy some of your lamb den is gaining a reputation for small chops?’. We got to thinking, why not weddings and other social gatherings.
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instructors. After six years of study, I did 18 months of apprenticeship training in Minneapolis. I started by just helping family and friends, but word travels. Today, I see clients for wellness consultations from the entire state — especially the metro area and Rochester, plus local folks. Part of this wellness trend I think is the growing discontent with prescription medicines.” As you might expect, attendance at her wellness classes favors the 50-plus age category. “But I am also aware of younger mothers interested in having healthy families,” Karstens added. “Women take my classes because they want to nurture their families. Yes, I’m certain its part of that ‘motherhood’ complex, but husbands and dads can benefit from this same culture.” Right now she is doing a 9-month herbal class which has 25 students. In May she hosted a ‘herb walk’ and had 125 people strolling her gardens and wooded areas with Connie identifying the different plants and the healing properties of each — plus which are wild but safe for herbal consumption or as a taste treats with salads. She loves teaching and her evening classes cost in the $20 range. Workshops are higher because of extra time and materials needed. Is Karstens concerned about organic fraud? She agrees more consumers want to know what they are buying — organic or GMO foods. The Lamb Shoppe is subject to unannounced U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections and she’s okay with this. “Food safety is always a special priority,” she explained. “Our farmers are providing food for our nation plus millions more. And I know See LAMB SHOPPE, pg. 12
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Doug cares for the animals, Connie runs the store LAMB SHOPPE, from pg. 11 food processors do lots of research and testing when developing new foods. Honesty in this entire food chain, from farmer to processor to retailer to consumer, is vital. That is why I think it’s important to better understand the amazing work of our farmers.” Perhaps that is why the Lamb Shoppe has so many visitors. Checking the assortment of grass-fed meats and other health foods gets combined with a better understanding how it’s done. “Yes, we get questions about ag chemicals,” Karstens said. “We explain they are needed to control crop diseases and stubborn weeds. Respecting each other is the bottom line.” Connie is a healthy 57 and matter-of-fact about physical fitness. “My daily workouts are simply doing what needs to be done each day in our business and 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
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Clara is full-time with me.” 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. Visit www.minnesotagrown.com to secure a brochure. v
Worth: NAFTA agreement will happen before election By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Interviewed in early August, Bob Worth, long-time advocate for Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (current board secretary) and a southwest Minnesota producer, was correct in thinking President Trump would have a Bob Worth NAFTA agreement before November elections. He also stated the recent $16 billion tariff relief proposal for U.S. agriculture is vital. “Even though it’s just a band aid, agriculture needs it,” said Worth. “But it’s not just the tariffs that are the problem. Its more the four years previous to this that have caused this financial bind of U.S. agriculture.” Worth is aware of backlash voices saying why this help for agriculture when nobody else is getting any assistance. “But that’s not true,” countered Worth. “Government bailed out the banks when they needed help. The auto industry got bailed out. Agriculture is just as important as any of those industries. If we don’t have ag, we don’t eat.” As a board member of Minnesota Soybean Growers, Worth has done some world travels. So how does the U.S. soybean grower compare with soybean producers in other parts of the world? “We’re still the leaders,” Worth stated. “Our yields keep going up. Yes, Brazil is now a major world producer also. They may have more acres and they have
I think that with agreements with both the EU and NAFTA, China will recognize they are out here by themselves. Our president thinks this will make China that more willing to come to the table to negotiate. — Bob Worth a longer season using 107 maturities, for example, vs. earlier, 100s up here. That can be a yield bonus for South American producers.” Worth contends soybean genetics are now competitive worldwide, saying Chinese plant breeders are doing a good job but also very adept at ‘borrowing’ the better genetics of U.S. soybean breeders. Yes, the 25 percent tariff has immediately jolted soybean markets for U.S. producers. However, Worth suggests this isn’t a death blow for U.S. soybeans. He noted there are only so many beans produced worldwide and China takes one-third of them. “So if China intends to buy all their beans from South America, it can’t be done because South America doesn’t produce enough,” Worth reasoned. “And the people who have been buying their beans in South America would have to go elsewhere. And guess what … they’re going to be coming to the United States. But will some countries buy our beans tariff free, than ship them to China? It’s very possible.” Worth questioned the legality of such traffic. “If
another country buys our soybeans, loads them and unloads them in China or wherever they wish that’s legal. But if they change the flag on their vessel in the middle of the ocean, that is illegal.” He also suggested the President’s $16 billion buyout package was vital. “He needed to do that to help keep the allegiance of American farmers. But he also has to get NAFTA with Mexico and Canada done so we have three trade agreements in place. And I’m certain he will get this done before the November election. Plus, I think that with agreements with both the EU and NAFTA, China will recognize they are out here by themselves. Our president thinks this will make China that more willing to come to the table to negotiate.” Like most Minnesota farmers, Worth was predicting a wild harvest both for soybeans and corn. “We’re going to have zero bushel beans and 70 bushel beans — all in the same field. Much the same with corn. Yet it looks like a big crop for both across America so storage could be a crunch because a lot of beans may be stored this fall.” So is Worth Farms forward priced on some of their 2018 production? Worth gives full credit to his son John, age 42, who does the marketing. “We have most of ‘18 sold, much of ‘19 sold and also some of the ‘20 crop is sold. Before my son took over the marketing, I probably would have three years still in the bins trying to figure out what was the best time to sell. John does everything — including some ‘hedged to arrive’ contracts — plus a lot of forward pricing. He keeps score and that’s what counts,” summed up Worth. v
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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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A625-78 Relative Maturity: 95 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.
A631-38 Relative Maturity: 101 days Outstanding yield potential across all soils. Outstanding late-season plant intactness. Good performance in high and low-yielding locations.
A633-94 Relative Maturity: 103 days Excellent Goss’s wilt tolerance for western corn belt. Excellent yield potential on highly-productive soils. Shorter plant stature leaves less residue to manage.
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Anderson Seeds 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 Impressive top end yield potential with this variety. Very good Goss’s wilt tolerance, Very good stalk and root strength, Very good late season plant health. Very adaptable across many soil types as well as management practices. Everything you are looking for 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
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5484SX Relative Maturity: 104 days
0997 CONV Relative Maturity: 97 days
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.
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.
XL 5765AM XL 5765AMXT Relative Maturity: 107 days
Excellent high yields from this hybrid and a good dual-purpose option. Has good tolerance to heat and stress. Excellent early vigor, very good stalk and roots.
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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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 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.
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
XL 5113 is a balanced performer that can handle nearly every acre you plant it on. This hybrid will deliver good plant health with This 89-day will yield with the 92 to 93-day hybrids. Very adaptquick drydown along with its AQUAmax stress tolerance package. able 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.
5897 SS RIB Relative Maturity: 97 days
6000 RR Relative Maturity: 100 days Widely adaptable on all soil types. Excellent top-end yield along with very good stress tolerance.
0100 CONV Relative Maturity: 100 days 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.
Peterson Farms Seed 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 Relative Maturity: 88 days Consistently high-yielding with excellent agronomics. Widely adapted from east to west. Very good stalk, root and plant health. Good dual-purpose potential.
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Superior yield potential. Very good stalk and root strength. Great emergence and early season 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 Works well in both variable and ideal environments. Good upperend yield potential on high management acres. This hybrids stature suggests dual purpose play.
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.
Rob-See-Co 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.
RC4427
This hybrid delivers strong results in drought-stressed and variable soils along with a well-rounded agronomic package for stability and consistency. It provides good emergence and excellent early season vigor for early planting.
IC4952
With excellent root and stalk strength, this hybrid provides optimal performance in well drained, moderate to high-yield environments. It has medium plant height with good test weight.
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This hybrid has exciting yield potential with fast drydown. It is a versatile hybrid that responds to a range of plant populations.
IC5510
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
An Agrisure Artesian hybrid offering high top-end yield potential across all yield environments. It has exceptional emergence and seedling vigor for early planted fields and a great agronomic package for corn-on-corn options.
Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. 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.
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SEED SELECTION GUIDE 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 Phenomenal yield potential for this maturity, especially when you push planting populations. It has excellent root strength and great adaptability to move north or south in a variety of soil types.
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 W1588RIB SS test weights and excellent northern and southern leaf blight tolerRelative Maturity: 96 days ance. Place on well-drained soils and push populations for optiThis new hybrid offers consistent, top-end yields across soil types mum performance. with exceptional early vigor and strong roots and stalks. It’s flexiW6956RIB VT2P ble for a later harvest. Push higher populations for maximum yields. Relative Maturity: 111 days
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.
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.
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.
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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, Barn starting with pit fans And adding wall fans as needed Warm
Provide a minimum of 30-35 cfm per pig, Starting with pit fans adding wall fans as needed.
Curtain- Cool Smaller lpigs Leave curtains closed Sided Barn weather and provide a minimum Of 25-30 cfm per pig Larger pigs Warm All and windy Warm and calm
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. 17
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Area growers may qualify for insurance payments Even though USDA is rather than standard yieldprojecting record corn and only policies. Producers like soybean yields on a national the flexibility of the revebasis in 2018, it is possible nue protection policies that a significant number of which provide insurance corn and soybean producers coverage for reduced yields, in some areas of southern as well as in instances Minnesota, as well as where the harvest price adjoining areas of Iowa and drops below initial base South Dakota, could qualify FARM PROGRAMS price. In 2018, corn crop for crop insurance indemniinsurance loss calculations By Kent Thiesse ty payments in 2018. Much with yield protection poliof this region dealt cies and revenue prowith planting delays tection policies will last spring, excessive function differently, rainfall during the growing season, due to the likely Chicago Board of and severe storms toward the end of Trade harvest price for corn and soythe growing season. These weather beans likely being below the 2018 crop issues will likely result in yield reduc- insurance base prices, which were tions on numerous farms across the finalized on March 1. region, which together with the price The established 2018 base prices for declines from the crop insurance base 2018 yield protection and revenue proprices on March 1, increases the likeli- tection crop insurance policies were hood of 2018 crop insurance indemnity $3.96 per bushel for corn and $10.16 payments for many producers. per bushel for soybeans These base With federal crop insurance, every prices will be the payment rate for year is different. With the multiple 2018 yield protection policies for corn options available to producers, there and soybeans. These base prices will are many variable results from crop also likely serve as the final price to insurance coverage at harvest time. calculate revenue guarantees for calThe 2018 crop year will be no differculating potential revenue protection ent, with some producers choosing crop insurance indemnity payments yield protection policies (yield only) vs. for both corn and soybeans. revenue protection policies (yield and The final harvest price for revenue price), and producers having different protection insurance policies with harlevels of coverage on various crops. vest price protection is based on the Producers also vary on having “option- average CBOT December corn futures al units” vs. “enterprise units for their and CBOT November soybean futures crop insurance coverage.” during the month of October, with pricIn the Midwest, most corn and soyes finalized on Nov. 1. If the final harbean producers in recent years have vest CBOT price for December corn tended to secure some level of revenue futures or November soybean futures is protection crop insurance coverage, higher than the established base prices,
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for future viewing by the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning when moving and agitating manure, Center. All webinars can be found at help us move more than manure safehttps://articles.extension.org/animal_ ly into the next season. manure_management. 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. Preventable Tragedy”. The webinar v features a survivor’s story of a manure gas accident. Webinars are archived
the harvest price would then be used to determine the revenue protection insurance guarantees, which is not likely in 2018. The harvest price is also used to calculate the value of the actual harvested bushels for all revenue protection insurance policies. As of October 15, the crop insurance harvest price estimates were $3.67 per bushel for corn and $8.62 per bushel for soybeans. Corn and soybean producers had the option of selecting crop insurance policies ranging from 60 to 85 percent coverage levels. The level of insurance coverage can result in some producers receiving crop insurance indemnity
payments, while other producers receive no indemnity payments, even though both producers had the same adjusted APH yield and the same final yield. For example, at an adjusted APH corn yield of 190 bushels per acre, a producer with 85 percent revenue protection coverage would have a yield guarantee of 161.5 bushel per acre, and a revenue guarantee of $639.54 per acre; while a producer with 75 percent coverage would have a yield guarantee of 142.5 bushels per acre, and a guarantee of $564.30 per acre. If the actual 2018 yield was 155 See THIESSE, pg. 18
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Yield losses should be documented for potential payments THIESSE, from pg. 19 bushels per acre, with a $3.67 per bushel harvest price, the producer with 85 percent coverage would receive a gross indemnity payment of $70.69 per acre, while the producer with 75 percent coverage would receive no indemnity payment. Many growers purchased upgraded levels of revenue protection crop insurance 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 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 grow-
on two farms. Producer B would receive no insurance payments on any farms. Please refer to the adjoining table for 2018 crop loss examples for corn with CORN SOYBEANS an 80 percent revenue protection cover Sample Actual Sample Actual age insurance policy, and soybeans A. 2018 Trend Adjusted APH Yield 190.0 _____ 55.0 _____ with 85 percent revenue protection cov B. RP Policy % Coverage 80% (.80) _____ 85% (.85 _____ erage, utilizing “enterprise units”, and with trend adjusted yields selected. C. Coverage Yield (A x B) 152.0 _____ 46.75 _____ The table also contains space for pro D. Revenue Protection Base Price $3.96/bu. $10.16/bu. ducers to put in their own APH yields, insurance coverage levels, premium E. Guaranteed Insurance Coverage/Acre $601.92 _____ $474.98 _____ costs, projected yield and harvest pric (C x D) es, in order to make estimates for F. Revenue Protection Harvest Price potential 2018 crop insurance indemni (Estimated on Oct. 15, 2018) $3.67/bu. _____ $8.62/bu. _____ ty payments for corn and soybeans. G. Harvest Guarantee/Acre (C x F) $557.84 _____ $402.99 _____ Producers who have crop revenue H. Final Guarantee /Acre $601.92 _____ $474.98 _____ losses in 2018, with potential crop (Higher of E or G) insurance indemnity payments, should properly document yield losses for I. Actual Harvested Yield/Acre 150 _____ 45 _____ either optional units or enterprise J. Revenue Protection Harvest Price units. A reputable crop insurance agent (Estimated on Oct. 15, 2018) $3.67/bu. _____ $8.62/bu. _____ is the best source of information to K. Crop Value/Acre (I x J) $550.50 _____ $382.50 _____ make estimates for potential 2018 crop insurance indemnity payments, and to L. Gross Insurance Payment/Acre (H – K) $51.42 _____ $87.08 _____ find out about documentation require M. Revenue Protection ments for crop insurance losses. It is Insurance Policy Premium/Acre $10.00 _____ $20.00 _____ important for producers who are facing N. Net Insurance Indemnity $41.42 _____ $67.08 _____ crop losses in 2018 to understand their Payment Per Acre (L – M) crop insurance coverage, and the calculations used to determine crop insur O. Threshold Yield (H/J) 164.0 _____ 55.1 _____ ance indemnity payments. The (Yield where payments begin) University of Illinois FarmDoc web site These estimates are for revenue protection insurance policies. Harvest prices for revenue protection (www.farmdoc.illinois.edu/cropins/) conpolicies are based on the average price during the month of October for December Chicago Board of tains some good crop insurance inforTrade corn futures, and for November Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures. Harvest prices are final as of Nov. 1, 2018. Premium estimates are for enterprise units in southern Minnesota, using trendmation and spreadsheets to estimate adjusted yield calculations. crop insurance payments. Prepared by Kent Thiesse, Government Farm Management Analyst Kent Thiesse is a government farm programs analyst and a vice president ing season, and when a producer has would receive no insurance payment on at MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, Minn. He may be reached at (507) 726most of their land in the same general three farms, but would receive a gross 2137 or kent.thiesse@minnstarbank. area. Optional units are preferable indemnity payment of $51.42 per acre com. v 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 Applicants may request a maximum ST. PAUL — The Minnesota A and B both have five separate farms Department of Agriculture announces of $50,000 per project, and up to 100 in the same county with an APH corn yield of 190 bushels per acre, and with $250,000 in grant funding for urban percent of the total project cost may be youth agricultural education or urban covered by the grant. Half of the award an overall average 2018 corn yield of 165 bushels per acre. However, three of agriculture community development. may be requested as an advance. the farms average 175 bushels per acre The Agricultural Growth, Research, Applications are due Dec. 5 at 4:00 and two of the farms average 150 bush- and Innovation (AGRI) Urban p.m. CST. For more information, visit els per acre. Producer A has an 80 per- Agriculture Grant program is available www.mda.state.mn.us/urbanaggrant. to for-profit businesses, non-profit cent revenue protection policy with This article was submitted by the organizations, schools, Native American optional units and producer B has an Minnesota Department of Agriculture.v tribal communities, and local govern80 percent revenue protection policy ment entities. with enterprise units. Producer A
Calculating estimated 2018 revenue protection crop insurance payments
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U of M Extension: Some crop diversity will be needed By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer MORGAN, Minn. — In view of the continuing crunch on making a dollar growing corn and soybeans, are alternative crops an absolute necessity? And if so, what are the alternatives? Those questions were posed at the Dave Nicolai University of Minnesota Extension Service’s tent during Farmfest and certainly generated lots of chatter. Hard, convincing answers from University people weren’t evident, but Extension Information Specialist Dave Nicolai was willing to share comments with The Land. Said Nicolai, “There has to be a certain amount of diversification. Sugar beets are sometimes an alternative — depending upon location relative to a sugar beet processing plant. Somewhat the same for canning crops, especially sweet corn and canning peas. We’re so dependent upon these two crops; yet we know consumers are using less canned products and more freezer-packaged products. “But perhaps carrots are an alternative. Why? Because it breaks the pest cycle when we are doing soybeans in a short rotation. Also, it appears more non-GMO and/or organic crops need to be considered.
But having a market lined up before you plant is needed. Much the same for edible beans. “These crops and others will keep expanding. But two key questions before you decide: ‘Can you automate your production?’ and ‘Is labor going to be a critical issue?’ Yes, with organic you get a much better price, but it’s a three-year process just to become certified. No, you don’t need to become a certified grower to become organic. It seems a good choice for dairy producers — providing they can deliver to a milk handler already into organic dairy products.” Nicolai feels strongly a third and fourth crop is needed “….because I don’t think we’ll be sustainable with just corn and soybeans. We’re too subject to politics, the farm bill, apparently trade tariffs too. We need to generate more research — both within the University system and the seed industry — on viable new alternatives.” Addressing the on-going battle with soybean aphids, Nicolai indicated University research is identifying a few soybean lines that resist aphids. He noted none are 100-percent aphid resistant, but they do help. “Predators can help too, but because the aphid situation widely fluctuates from area to area and season to season, we may soon be looking at severe insecticide resistance,” Nicolai cautioned. “That potentially could become a major challenge to
the soybean industry. Commercial insecticides are becoming more numerous because this is such a huge issue. Also, parasitic wasps and other natural predators need to be addressed. “Aphids are going to be a problem whether you are organic, or non-GMO. Research dollars are so vital in this area. Thanks to Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, some private seed industry companies, and the University of Minnesota plant pathology department, we’ve got to stay on top of this issue. And keep researching new alternative crops also,” summed up Nicolai. Is there a particular question that seems highest priority in the minds of Minnesota farmers? Nicolai chuckled, “Besides the question of how do I make a buck in farming, challenges in weed control continue high on the list. We’re seeing some serious water hemp issues this year, plus more really weedy fields of soybeans. Yes, we can mostly blame wet conditions which pretty much eliminated spraying with ground rigs. But with soybeans barely a break-even crop this year, farmers didn’t much want to spray. Fertility is always an issue. Again, what’s the least amount I can get by with? Specifically with water hemp, it appears both pre-emerge treatment followed by a post emergence are needed … and that could include two shots of a pre.” v
Mild bird flu found in turkey flock MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities report an outbreak of a mild form of bird flu in turkeys in Kandiyohi County of west-central Minnesota. The World Organization for Animal Health says routine surveillance testing confirmed on Monday the presence of a low pathogenic N5N2 virus in a flock of 40,000 turkeys in Minnesota’s top turkey producing county. The virus originated in wild birds.
The affected flock has been quarantined, but has shown no signs of illness. The farm will be allowed to market the birds. The virus is different from the highly pathogenic H5N2 virus that caused a massive outbreak in U.S. turkeys and chickens in 2015, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 50 million birds. This article was submitted by the Associated Press.v
CWD tests mandatory for wild deer Hunters in central, north-central and southeast Minnesota need to bring their harvested deer to be tested for chronic wasting disease on opening weekend of firearms deer season which takes place Nov. 3 and 4. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is requiring the testing to determine whether CWD may have spread from captive deer to wild deer in central and north-central Minnesota. The mandatory sampling requirements mean that after field dressing their deer, all hunters in affected permit areas need to take them to a sampling station. DNR staff will remove lymph nodes, and the DNR will submit them for laboratory testing. Hunters should check the DNR’s website at mndnr.gov/cwd to find the permit areas where sampling is required. Hunters must register their deer by phone, inter-
net or in person. The DNR will not make harvest registration available at CWD sampling stations. The DNR website will have test results available at mndnr.gov/cwdcheck. Hunters can enter the ninedigit MDNR number from the deer’s site tag into the search box. The page will then display the results of the test. If the result reads “Pending,” the final results are not yet available. Hunters not in a mandatory testing area can collect their own lymph node sample and submit it for testing to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Minnesota for a fee. The DNR has made a video showing how to collect a lymph node sample available at mndnr.gov/cwd/videos.html. This article was submitted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. v
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Grain Outlook Corn export figures lowest of the year Editor’s Note: Joe Lardy, CHS Hedging research analyst, is sitting in this week for Phyllis Nystrom, the regular “Grain Outlook” columnist. The following marketing analysis is for the week ending Oct. 19. CORN — The corn market opened the week higher riding the upward momentum from last week’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The wet weather that has been keeping harvest slowed down was a big talking point early in the week. But after Oct. 15’s gains, there was a lower close every day for the rest of the week. December futures settled at 367 which was down 6.75 cents for the week. It brought December corn right back into the JOE LARDY CHS Hedging Inc. 360-370 range which we’ve been St. Paul stuck in all month. Corn harvest pace is 39 percent which ahead of the five-year average at 35 percent complete. Last year harvest was only 27 percent. There is open weather this week and in the extended forecast for the pace to extend further ahead of the five-year average. The good/excellent rating on corn held steady this week at 68 percent, slightly ahead of the five-year average of 66 percent. Corn inspections were on the low end of expectations this week. This was the first time since February that inspections dropped below 1 million tons. Corn export sales were also a disaster with the lowest total of the marketing year so far at 15 million bushels. The past few months the average sales total has been around 42 million bushels, so this week was especially bad. This is the smallest sales total in almost a year going back to December 2017. Speculators continue to reduce their short corn position. This week, they bought 52,000 contracts and their position is down to a short of just 28,500 contracts. The index funds were also good buyers of corn adding 18,000 contracts. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler said his agency has the legal authority to expand sales of 15 percent ethanol fuel. “Yes, we do have the authority to move forward on E15 and I hope that the oil industry will join us in helping to make the RFS [Renewable Fuel Standard] program function better for the American See LARDY, pg. 21
Cash Grain Markets
corn/change* soybeans/change* St. Cloud $3.05 +.05 $7.23 -.05 Madison $3.14 +.12 $7.46 +.08 Redwood Falls $3.17 +.04 $7.67 -.06 Fergus Falls $3.02 +.09 $7.02 +.02 Morris $3.10 +.14 $7.32 +.07 Tracy $3.20 +.09 $7.63 .00
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The month of October appears to be the month of change for the livestock markets. It would appear that both the cattle and hog markets are in the process of changing their current directions and possibly moving in the opposite direction that they are currently trading during the next few weeks. As for the cattle market, the past several months the market has been a sidewise to a higher market. The first few weeks of the month of October has seen prices slip as cutouts have dropped lower during that time frame. As we move into the latter half of October, it appears that the beef cutouts are beginning to JOE TEALE show they are in the process of Broker finding some interest and are Great Plains Commodity moving slightly higher under Afton, Minn. good buying interest. Cash cattle prices have been relatively stagnate in recent weeks remaining range-bound during that period. If the beef cutouts continue to show strength (which will improve packer margins), the thought would be that packers may become a little more aggressive in their bidding for live inventory. Another favorable improvement has been the export market which has been good during the year. This sets up the possibility that cattle prices may improve during the weeks ahead provided there are no adverse changes in inventory or the demand for beef. This might suggest that producers keep aware of market conditions and protect inventories if conditions 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 TEALE, pg. 21
See DIETMANN, pg. 21
Average:
$3.11
$7.39
Year Ago Average: $2.79 $8.98 Grain prices are effective cash close on Oct. 23. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.
Livestock Angles Packer margins will move cattle market
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. 20 public,” Wheeler said. Many believe that an act of Congress is needed to change the current mandate. The refining industry has already promised to sue if the EPA tries to amend the current system. Outlook: The market will be watching harvest progress and the results very closely next week. This is the biggest fundamental input the corn market has to work with right now. Until something big happens, corn appears to be settling back into its trading range. SOYBEANS — Fear about damaged soybeans and some short covering propelled the soybean market to some big early-week gains. But like the corn market, the rest of the week gave away all of the gains and then some. Soybean harvest is well behind average at
MARKETING 38 percent complete due to delays in the western corn belt. The five-year average is at 53 percent, and even last year was 47 percent done at this time. This is the second-slowest bean harvest in 30 years. It looks like the weather is going to improve in the next 10 days, so harvest can start to pick up again. National Oilseed Processors Association’s September crush report showed 160.779 million bushels of beans crushed during the month. This was well above the average trade estimate of 157.4 million bushels and toward the high end of the range. This is the biggest crush total ever for the month of September. Soybean oil stocks were lower at 1.531 billion pounds and soymeal exports were at 785,267
Hog market appears tired in October TEALE, from pg. 20 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
tons (766k in August and 487k last September). Soybean inspections were surprisingly good this week, topping 1 million tons and the biggest shipments since February. Some of the shipments are destined for China, but this is old business on the books and is most likely being brought in by government buyers and not private companies that would be more sensitive to tariffs and political pressure. Export sales however, were just dreadful. This week’s total was under 11million bushels and the lowest of the marketing year. This was also the lowest sales total since May 31. The end of last week also brought out some big cancellations with 180,000 tons to China and 120,000 tons to unknown. International bean traders are predicting a sharp drop-off in Chinese soy imports in the fourth quarter. This is normally the time when China sources bean primarily from the United States; but the trade war is disrupting that pattern. Soybean planting in Brazil is off to a record start. Over 20 percent of the crop is in the ground marking the fastest start since data has been kept. The weather has been very conducive to the fast start and is setting Brazil up for a potentially huge crop. Outlook: Will bean harvest make any progress? Traders were willing to quickly add some premium on thoughts that harvest had slowed, so will that same thing happen again next week? That is the only thing for the bean market to focus on as there is nothing happening to resolve the tariff war. v
Secured credit card account can help build history DIETMANN, from pg. 20 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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News is mixed at recent Global Dairy Trade auction This column was written cents per pound and whole for the marketing week endmilk powder averaged ing Oct. 19. $1.2378. CME Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Oct. 19 Increases in milkfat limitat 87.25 cents per pound. ed the losses in the Oct. 16 Global Dairy Trade auction Cooperatives Working where the weighted average Together members received of products offered slipped eight offers of export assis0.3 percent. This follows a tance this week to help sell MIELKE MARKET 1.9 percent descent on Oct. 1.448 million pounds of WEEKLY 2 and 1.3 percent on Sept. cheddar cheese for delivery 18, and it was the fifth conin Asia, the Middle East By Lee Mielke secutive decline. and North Africa from Sellers brought 92.5 November through million pounds to sell, March. down slightly from the CWT’s 2018 assisted last event. sales total 49.72 million pounds of Gains were led by butter and anhyAmerican-type cheeses, 12.96 million drous milkfat — the same products pounds of butter (82 percent milkfat) which led the declines last time. and 52.19 million pounds of whole Butter was up 2.4 percent, following a milk powder to 36 countries on five 5.9 percent plunge at the Oct. 2 auccontinents. tion. Anhydrous milkfat was up 1 pern cent after dipping 4.4 percent. Lactose The U.S. Trade Representative rounded out the gains, up 1.5 percent, after inching up 0.6 percent last time. Robert Lighthizer notified Congress on Oct. 17 that the Trump The declines were led by cheddar Administration intends to negotiate cheese, down 1.8 percent, after it was three separate trade agreements with down 1.2 percent in the last event. Japan, the European Union and the Rennet casein was down 1.7 percent United Kingdom. and whole milk powder was off 0.9 The announcement drew praise from percent. Skim milk powder was virtuthe International Dairy Foods ally unchanged. Association, which stated, “Each of FC Stone equates the 80 percent these countries offers abundant opporbutterfat butter price to $1.8204 per tunities for increased U.S. dairy pound U.S. Chicago Mercantile exports.” IDFA president and CEO Exchange butter closed on Oct. 19 at Michael Dykes also called for “greater $2.26. GDT cheddar cheese equated to market access levels for dairy in $1.5440 per pound and compares to Japan, the UK and the EU. CME’s block cheddar at $1.4975. GDT “Japan is U.S. dairy’s fourth-largest skim milk powder averaged 89.66
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market, representing sales of more than $290 million last year. The UK currently imports $3.4 billion worth of dairy, but imports from the United States represent only 0.25 percent of that value. “The EU has the potential to be a large export market for the United States. In 2017, the EU exported nearly $1.5 billion in dairy products to the United States, but U.S. companies exported only $116 million in dairy products to the EU. “As we enter into these negotiations, it will be important for our negotiators to reduce existing tariff and nontariff barriers to U.S. exports in these key markets,” Dykes said. n CME spot cheese prices plunged ahead of the September Milk Production report (released Oct. 19) and Oct. 15’s Cold Storage report. The cheese was down for the third consecutive week and to the lowest levels since June 27. The cheddar blocks closed at $1.4975 per pound, down 11.25 cents on the week and 17.25 cents below a year ago. The barrels fell to $1.2675, down 9.25 cents on the week, 37.25 cents below a year ago, and 23 cents below the blocks. There were 17 cars of block that exchanged hands on the week and 34 of barrel. Midwestern cheese production is active, according to Dairy Market News. Spot milk prices are at a premium, from 50 cents to $2.00 over Class III, thus nonfat fortifying is reportedly at its peak. Cheese market tones are bearish. There were expectations of an amalgamation of barrel and block prices after last week’s record-breaking price gap, but that has not been the case. Western cheese manufacturing is active because of higher milk availability. Class III plants are running at or close to full capacities despite solid milk intakes from other classes of milk. Retail and food service sales of cheese have declined slightly, but are still at a good level. Supplies of cheese depend on the type, but barrel inventories are higher than blocks. Contacts believe some processors are producing more domestic barrel cheese to compensate for
weaker exports. Others say they are still seeing cheddar interest in the export market. The present large spread between block and barrel cheese prices is reflecting the uncertainty of the cheese market, according to Dairy Market News. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its Solicitation for Trade Mitigation Purchase of Process Cheese on Oct. 15. The announcements were for December to March delivery totaling about 6 million pounds of processed and 2 million of natural cheeses. There will be another round of announcements in January that will cover process and chunks, plus the first announcement on fluid milk purchases. The January announcements will be for April to June delivery and the purchases will be distributed to “various food nutrition assistance programs.” FC Stone says, “We don’t have definitive clarity yet on whether this is new spending or simply shifting ongoing purchases to the 2018 Trade Mitigation Program (it seems to be new spending), but that will have implications for how impactful this solicitation is for US cheese prices.” n Cash butter jumped 4 cents on Oct. 15, then roller-coastered to an Oct. 19 close at $2.26 per pound. This is up a penny on the week, but 9 cents below a year ago. Forty-two carloads found new homes on the week at the CME. Dairy Market News says cream remains tight for churning in the central region, but varies by plant. Plants able to locate financially feasible cream have churns running actively. Others are buying increasing amounts of bulk butter. Some have found western loads at more favorable prices than within the region. Butter markets are mostly steady. This was the first week of the newly-imposed kosher requirement on the CME cash spot market. Western butter output is active with generally plentiful cream supplies. Production of heavy fat, holiday consumer products is increasing and processors expect tighter supplies of cream soon. Manufacturers report steady food service and bulk butter demand. Some eastern buyers are See MIELKE, pg. 23
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Organic product sales up, fluid milk sales continue decline MIELKE, from pg. 22 making butter purchases in the west to meet their needs, but trucks and truckers are costly and in tight supply. Spot Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Oct. 19 at 87.25 cents per pound. This is up a half-cent on the week and 13.25 cents above a year ago, with seven sales reported. The EU Commission reported the sale of 26,033 tons of skim milk powder out of Intervention Oct. 18. The lowest price on this tender was in the mid-60 cent range. FC Stone reminds us that all of the product on offer is specifically product that was produced before July 1, 2016. Cash dry whey saw an Oct. 19 close at a new high of 57.5 cents per pound, up 1.25 cents on the week, with two cars finding new homes this week. n It’ s not news to dairy producers how tough things are on the farm. FC Stone’s Dave Kurzawski wrote about it in his Oct. 16 Early Morning Update and talked about it in the Oct. 22 Dairy Radio Now broadcast. “$16.00 milk is (generally speaking) a ‘good’ milk price, particularly given the industry’s intense focus on income over feed margins,” Kurzawski said. “However, it’s becoming abundantly clear to us that ‘income over feed’ scenarios don’t tell the full story. To truly understand what dairy farmers are facing, you must look at income over feed plus rising fixed costs. “Fixed costs have been, and continue to, rise for U.S. dairy farmers for some time now,” he argued. “Labor costs, maintenance costs, energy, and costs to service debt are materially higher than this time last year. “Yes, other U.S. dairy businesses face the same challenges,” Kurzawski went on to say, “But dairy producers, by and large, are price takers. They can’t pass along those increased operational costs. This fact is putting more pressure on dairy farmers than would normally meet the eye with a simply income over feed analysis.” Penn State’s October Dairy Outlook points out that Class III futures prices for the first six months of 2019 are up over a dollar compared to
the first six month prices of 2018. “This is good news, especially considering the general oversupply of dairy markets,” the Outlook states. “However, even with the nice boost in Class III prices, most farm gate prices are still below the cost of production in Pennsylvania.” I think it safe to say that’s much the case elsewhere. “The Penn State Dairy Extension Team’s cash flow work with dairy producers shows that the average farm gate price for January-June 2018 was $15.10 per hundredweight. However, the range of farm gate prices was nearly $4.00 per cwt. (high of $17.00 per cwt., low of $13.10 per cwt.). That variation in price occurred due to milk components, the type of markets to which the milk was shipped (mostly fluid, or mostly Class III and IV) and the level of extra location adjustment and marketing adjustment taken by the cooperative to which the milk was shipped. “Unfortunately, this has been a particularly challenging growing season, especially in saturated Pennsylvania. Starting with the miniscule harvest windows for small grain forages, forages have been tough to get harvested at optimal quality and dry matter. This has caused some quality and supply issues in the hay markets, causing statewide greater price fluctuations. The end-of-the-season harvests for corn silage and grains are also proving challenging — not only to get into fields to harvest, but quality issues are becoming an increasing concern. Though there are some drops in feed prices nationally, Pennsylvania’s feed costs are currently not decreasing at the same pace,” the Outlook concludes. “Hopefully, this is a temporary fluctuation and not a long-term trend.” n Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, issued Oct. 17, mirrored dairy projections in the Oct. 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.
It reported that milk cows numbered 9.4 million head in August, an increase of 5,000 from July, and “appears that the increase came mainly from fresh milk cows entering the herd because federally inspected dairy cow slaughter was relatively high for August at 279,700 head, 5.3 percent above August 2017.” The report adds that weekly federally inspected dairy cow slaughter in September was above 2017, but was only slightly above in the second half of the month. “Milk per cow was 1,946 pounds in August (62.8 daily pounds per head), 1.4 percent above August 2017. Milk per cow typically declines seasonally from July to August, with an average decline of 1.2 percent for the 20 years from 1997 to 2017. This year, the decline from July to August was only 0.5 percent.” The USDA announced the November Federal order Class I base milk price at $15.52 per cwt., down 81 cents from October, 89 cents below November 2017, and equates to $1.33 per gallon, down from $1.40 in October. The 11-month average stands at $14.82, down from $16.41 a year ago. It is California’s first Federal order Class I base price. As in the other milk market orders of the country, this is the price that is added to the individual Class I differential to determine that order’s Class I milk price. Part of the reason the Class I price is not strong is due to fluid milk sales which continue to show a troubled side of the industry. The USDA’s latest tracking data shows August sales at 3.95 billion pounds, down 1.8 percent from August 2017. Conventional product sales totaled 3.7 billion pounds, down 2.0 percent from a year ago. Organic products, at 222 million pounds, were up 2.1 percent and represented about 5.6 percent of total sales for the month. Whole milk sales totaled 1.3 billion pounds, up 1.4 percent from a year ago, up 1.8 percent year to date, and made up 32.5 percent of total fluid
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sales in the month and 31.9 percent for the year so far. Skim milk sales, at 304 million pounds, were down 10.9 percent from August 2017, down 9.7 percent year-to-date, and made up just 8.0 percent of total milk sales for the year so far. Total packaged fluid milk sales in the eight-month period climbed to just under 31 billion pounds, down 2.1 percent from the same period a year ago. Conventional products year-to-date totaled 29.3 billion pounds, down 2.2 percent. Organic products, at 1.7 billion pounds, were up 0.5 percent. Organic represented about 5.6 percent of total fluid milk sales January through August. n In politics, not much progress is being made in finalizing the 2018 farm bill, according to Bob Gray — editor of the Northeast Dairy Farmers Cooperative’s newsletter. “Negotiations have stalled over the SNAP work requirements in the House version of the bill,” he writes. “Since both the House and Senate are out of session until the Nov. 6 mid-terms are over, don’t expect to see much progress over the next three or four weeks.” Gray adds however, “There’s rumors circulating of a farmer-aid legislative package that could be paired with additional hurricane relief, which Congress is likely to pass before the end of the year. To date, USDA has already set aside up to $12 billion to help producers through programs like direct payments, commodity purchases and marketing activities. Additionally, there’s ongoing discussions that additional trade-relief funds could be tied to the farm bill itself, if leaders of the ag committees open up the final legislation to new amendments. However, it’s more likely that any aid for farmers would hitch a ride on any number of must-pass appropriations bills Congress is likely to take up after the midterms.” Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnist who resides in Everson, Wash. His weekly column is featured in newspapers across the country and he may be reached at lkmielke@juno.com. v
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160 ac of Prime Sibley County Farm Land
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Thursday, November 8th - 10:30 am Auction held at: Mages Land Co Office 55780 State Hwy 19, Winthrop, MN
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75 acres Richland Township, Rice County, high CPI, some tile. Wayne Gadient, Keller Williams Premier Realty. (651) 380-7025 or wgadient@gmail.com
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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.
Tractors / GPS Equipment / Combines / Headers & Head Hauler / Grain Cart Planter & Air Seeder / Seed Tender Trailers / Tillage Equipment / Semi Tractors & Trucks / Service Truck / Hopper Bottom & Other Trailers / Self-Propelled Sprayer & Liquid Cart / NH3 Equipment / Grain Bagger & Grain Handling Equipment
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TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.
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!
This property will sell as two parcels:
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.
Listing Auctioneer: Matt Mages, 507-276-7002 Lic 08-18-002 Auctioneers: Lar r y Mages, Lafayette; J oe Maidl, Lafayette; J ohn Goelz, Fr anklin Joe Wersal, Winthrop; Ryan Froehlich, Winthrop; Broker: Mages Land Co. & Auction Ser vice, LLC. Terms: 3% Buyer’s Premium. Ever ything sold in “AS IS” condition.
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220.49 ac of Brown County Farm Land
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Tuesday, November 13th - 10:30 am Church of the Japanese Martyrs School Hall 30881 County Road 24, Sleepy Eye, MN Directions to land: From Sleepy Eye, head South on State Hwy 4 for 5 miles, turn West onto Co Rd 24, after 3 miles the land will be on the South Side of the road. Watch for signs!
This property will sell as four parcels:
Location of property within Brown County: Leavenworth Township, Sections 26 & 27, Range 33 Total of farm: 220.49 acres approx. 200.49 acres tillable. Productivity Index: 71 Parcel 1: 70.67 total acres, Parcel 3: 34.22 total acres, approx. 65.77 acres tillable approx. 27.9 acres tillable Productivity Index: 88.6 Productivity Index: 65.7 Parcel 2: 70.38 total acres, approx. 68.44 acres tillable Productivity Index: 61.4
Parcel 4: 45.22 total acres, approx. 38.4 acres tillable Productivity Index: 61.9
Note: All acres are published based on Brown County Online Records and FSA records.
Leon & Elizabeth Nachreiner Family Trust Listing Auctioneer: Matt Mages, 507-276-7002 Lic 08-18-002 Auctioneers: Lar r y Mages, Lafayette; J oe Maidl, Lafayette; J ohn Goelz, Fr anklin Joe Wersal, Winthrop; Ryan Froehlich, Winthrop; Broker: Mages Land Co. & Auction Ser vice, LLC. Terms: No Buyer ’s Premium. Everything sold in “AS IS” condition. magesland.com
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6’ Ford 3 pt digger, $500; FOR SALE: Fantini chopping FOR SALE: ‘05 Bourgault, FOR SALE: (2) Feterl augers, JD 9510 combine, duals, will C Allis, restored, new eng, 8R & 12R CH; 70’ Elmer model L6450, 20 ton 4 com- 8”x66’, 10HP elec; 8”x55’ work with 6x30 head, long $1,500; 3 pt fertilizer spread- drag, Merritt alum hopper partment incl hopper & rear PTO driven. Continuous flow auger, 2275 sep hrs, $31,900; er, $300; 10’ Int’l grain drill, grain trailers; 24R30” JD pl cameras, hyd varied rate grain dryer, FarmFans, CF/ JD 643 & 843 cornheads, w/grass seed, $750; Allis 2 on Kinze bar; Big A floater; controllers, w/ Ag Leader in- AB-190, 988 hrs on meter. $3,250/ea; JD 2800 8 bottom 3pt onland plow, $2,450; ‘06 bottom mounted plow, $500. 175 Michigan ldr; IH 964 sight monitor, always shed- Call 507-227-7602 Loftness 22’ pull type stalk CH; White 706 & 708 CH & ded, $39,500. 507-438-6693 (218) 739-5339 FOR SALE: JD 6600 dsl com- chopper, exc cond, $5,500; parts; White plows & parts; FOR SALE: JD 27 stalk chop- 54’ 4300 IH field cultivator; bine, JD 220 flex head, JD Parker 4800 500 bu graviper, 15’; (2) 6” augers - 1 is JD 44’ field cult; 3300 Hini643 cornhead. JD 7720 com- ty box w/ wide truck tires, 21’ & 1 is 29’; 1 Sukup Stir- ker field cult; header trailer. bine. JD 8300 grain drill. All $3,900; 10’ pull type box way new style twin auger. 507-380-5324 excellent condition. 320-583- blade w/ hyd tilt, $1,950. 320(952)492-6144 2751 769-2756
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Steffes Auction Calendar 2018
For more info, call: 1-800-726-8609 or visit our website: SteffesGroup.com Tuesday, October 30 at 10AM Ziegler & Ziegler Farm Retirement & Ziegler Construction Auction, Georgetown, MN Wednesday, October 31 at 10AM Todd Ostenson Farm Retirement, Sharon, ND Thursday, November 1 at 11AM Steele County, ND Land Auction, Sharon, ND, 692+/-Acres in Westfield TWP Thursday, November 1 at 11AM Mark Krueger Large Farm Retirement, Sawyer, ND Opens November 1 & Closes November 8 Stearns County, MN Farm/Recreational Land Auction, Waite Park, MN, 137+/- Acres Friday, November 2 at 11AM Schoon Farms Retirement Auction, Beardsley, MN Opens November 2 & Closes November 9 Robert & Tessie Ronsberg Farm Auction, Downer, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening November 5 & Closing November 13 Art Dubuque Farms Retirement & Dan Dubuque Estate Auction, Grand Forks, ND, Timed Online Auction Tuesday, November 6 at 11AM Bottineau County, ND Land Auction, 988+/- Acres, multiple tracts in Newborg & Lewis TWPS Wednesday, November 7 at 12:00PM Cass County, ND Land Auction, 80+/-Acres in DOWS TWP Wednesday, November 7 at 11AM RV Walsh Farms Inc. Farm Retirement, Niagra, ND Thursday, November 8 at 10AM Leon & Louis Klocke Farm Retirement, Fessenden, ND Friday, November 9 at 10AM Meeker County, MN Farmland Auction, 627+/- Acres in Greenleaf TWP Opens November 9 & Closes November 14 Ag Iron Online Auction - 11/14 Monday, November 12 at 10AM Tom McInnes Jr. Farm Retirement Auction, Hillsboro, ND Tuesday, November 13 at 11AM Major McHenry & McLean County, ND Land Auction, 3,239+/-Acres in north central ND
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TRACTORS • 2015 JD 9570R 4WD- 305 hours • 2015 JD 8270R MWFD- 740 hours • 1995 JD 7800- 3,450 hours
• JD Starfire 3000 RTK Reciever w/ Antenna Ext. • Starfire RTK Radio/Repeater
TRAILERS & WAGONS
COMBINE • 2015 JD S670 STS - 527 eng/428 sep. hours • 2016 JD 612C 12R20” Stalkmaster Corn Head • 2016 JD 640FD Draper Bean Head
EQUIPMENT • 2012 JD 1790 24R20” Planter w/ E-set • 2015 JD 2720 11-shank 27.5’ Ripper w/ basket • 2015 JD 2210 55.5’ Digger w/ basket • Top Air TA1600 120’ Sprayer w/ Swath Control • JD 24R20” Cultivator • Vac-U-Vator DK1051 Grain Vac • Pro-Tile Tile Plow • JD 2800 Variable Width 6-Bottom Plow • Fertilizer Spreader - Pull type, 20” rows • Kewanee 24’ bi-fold Packer • JD 15’ Rotary Hoe • NH 258 9’ Hay Rake 10”x30’ Auger - Hyd Drive • 9’ Farm King snowblower
TRUCKS & TRAILERS
Thursday, November 15 at 10AM Robert Peterson Trust & Ronald Peterson Trust Land Auction, Atwater, MN, 74+/-Acres
• 1998 Chevy Silverado 2500 - 98k, Manual, 5.7 v8, Ext. Cab
Thursday, November 15 at 10AM Kelly & Jo Boyd Farm Retirement, Buffalo, ND
320-212-8078 2010 JD 9230 4WD. 650 Hours, PTO, Quad Range, 4 Hyd.
Tuesday, November 20 at 10AM Curt & Marilyn Swanson Farm Retirement, Thief River Falls, MN Wednesday, November 28 at 10AM Ag Iron West Fargo Event, Red River Valley Fairgrounds Deadline to Consign is October 31st!
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Wednesday, November 14 at 10AM John & Connie Dimmer and Neal & Colleen Dimmer Farm Retirement, Oriska, ND
Friday, November 16 at 10AM Steel Wood Supply Business Liquidation, Detroit Lakes, MN
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JD4020 dsl, 3pt, JDW, $7,995; S150 Bobcat, 660 original hrs, ‘03 John Deere 9420, 6400 hrs, NEW AND USED TRACTOR JD2940 dsl, new tires w/ new tires, excellent condi- just went through JD shop, PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, loader, $11,500; JD2955, tion, $25,000. 715-879-5766 $20,000 repairs to it, sharp 55, 50 Series & newer tracCAH, OH’d, $11,900. All good Elk Mound, WI tractor, w/JD auto steer, al- tors, AC-all models, Large Inventory, We ship! Mark runners. 320-543-3523 ways shedded. 507-251-1394 We buy Heitman Tractor Salvage Salvage Equipment 715-673-4829 Massey 44, nice condition, Parts Available ‘68 JD 3020, 148 ldr, gas, syn$4,000; Balzer 20’ stalk chopHammell Equip., Inc. cro/range, good tires; 7’ JD per, works great, $3,000; Tillage Equip (507)867-4910 275 snowblower, twin auAgco 8R22” cornhead, great ger, hyds, exc cond; retired condition, GVL snouts, Please support the advertisers you see here. farmer. (952)466-9818 2014 NEW M&W #1710 EarthTell them you saw their ad in The Land! $12,000. Phone 507-317-5367 master, 5 or 7 Shanks, FOR SALE: ‘96 JD 8400 w/ Heavy Duty Auto Reset MF, 14.9x46 tires & duals, Shanks w/Crumbler, LIST PTO, 3pt, 3 hyds, $39,500; $64,252. SPECIAL $39,700. 507-438-6693 Used M&W #1465 5 Shank FOR SALE: 1944 John Deere Earthmaster, Good Cond., A, w/slant dash, good cond, $4,900, (New Blades RecentMonday, November 19, 2018 10:00am ly); M&W Dealer (319) 347$4,000/OBO. (507) 227-4896 PROXIBID ITEMS AT 11:15. 6282 1584 Cty Rd 13. Russell, MN 56169 JD 4520 side console, power FOR SALE: 2012 CIH 870 disk From Hwy 23 South of Russell, 1 Mile west on Cty Rd 16, then 1/4 mile south shift, 1000 PTO, new rubber, ripper, 14’, 7 shank, w/ spike on Cty Rd 13. (Snow Date: Monday, November 26, 2018) cab. (320) 395-2310 AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Bill is retiring from farming and will be selling his tooth harrow for leveler
• 1995 Peterbilt 378 - 661k miles • 1995 Peterbilt 378 - 727k miles • 1995 Timpte 40’ Hopper Bottom • 1991 Timpte 40’ Hopper Bottom
Friday, November 16 at 10AM Keith Fluth Farm Retirement, Dalbo, MN
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MISCELLANEOUS • Wack-a-Track • Melroe Rock Picker • 2- 500 Gal. Fuel Tanks w/ pumps • 4- 1500 Gal. Poly Liquid Tanks • Saddle Tanks w/ brackets, 2 sets • 3- 120 Gal. Chemical Tanks w/ pumps • Honda 2” Liquid Transfer Pump • Sprayer Parts • Aluminum Straight Pipe w/ Couplers - 7 20’x 5”. • Steel 5” Pipe- 45&90-degree, 1 ea. • 30 Gal. DEF Tank w/ hand pump • 300 Gal. DEF Tank w/ 110v pump • Grain Aeriation- flat and bin, various sizes. • Hot Water Pressure Washer- fresh rebuild • Wisconsin ATK Motor w/ hand clutch • 14 hp Kohler Cast Motor • 5” JD hub ext 10 bolt w/hardware • 2 10’ transfer augers 1 hyd & 1 electric
ITEMS IN BOLD WILL BE THE PROXIBID ITEMS
Owners: Bill and Barb Driscoll questions on equipment.
• 2012 Brent 782 Grain Cart • Friesen Seed Express 240 Tender • Frontier 42’ Header Trailer • Corn Head Trailer • 330 gallon Fuel Trailer - Tandem Axle, 15 GPM 12v pump • Parker Seed Wagon w/ Brush Auger & Tarp • Rock Picking Trailer- 2wl, Hyd. Hoist • Steel Hay Rack- 14’, Hyd. Lift • 3 Tile Trailers • Tile Parts Rack- fits 8’ pickup box • 330 Gal. Portable Fuel Tank w/ pump
To register for online bidding visit proxibid.com/deutzfamilyauctions Questions regarding proxibid contact Jordan Deutz 507-530-1141
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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
‘13 JD 7230R, 20 speed Command Quad Plus transmission, 380/90R50 rear duals, 540/1000 PTO, 4 remotes, HID lights, 840 hrs ............................................................................. $95,500 ‘13 JD 8295R, powershift, 1300 front axle, 6 remotes, LED lights, 380/90R54 rear duals, 380/80R38 single fronts, 4890 hrs .......................................................................... $92,500 ‘14 CIH Magnum 280, 19 speed powershift, 620/70R42 rear duals, 600/65R28 single fronts, front and rear weights, 5350 hrs ........................................................................... $69,500 ‘11 CIH Magnum 290, 480/80R50 singles, 19 speed economy powershift transmission, 14000 hrs ................. $25,000 ‘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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REINKE IRRIGATION IH 700 5 bottom 16” auto reset Sales & Service plow, like new moldboards; Swine New & Used IH 710 5 bottom 18” auto For your irrigation needs rth- reset plow, like new mold FOR SALE: Yorkshire, Hamp- 888-830-7757 or 507-276-2073 nks, boards. (952) 873-5566 shire, Duroc & Hamp/Duroc eset boars, also gilts. Excellent IST selection. Raised outside. Winpower Sales & Service Harvesting Equip 700. Exc herd health. No PRSS. Reliable Power Solutions ank Delivery avail. 320-760-0365 Since 1925 PTO & automatic nd.,FOR SALE: ‘06 Massey Agco Emergency Electric Generent- 30’ flex head, on Gleaner Spot, Duroc, Chester White, 347- combine, will fit Massey/ Boars & Gilts available. ators. New & Used Rich Opsata-Distributor Gleaner & Challenger com- Monthly PRRS and PEDV. 800-343-9376 bines. 507-995-2513 Delivery available. Steve disk Resler. 507-456-7746 pikeFOR SALE: JD 8820 combine, Looking for eler w/ duals, 220 flex head, 843 Trucks & something special? ure cornhead, $12,500. 507-567Trailers liv- 2442 or 507-456-8139 Why not place a “want” ad BO. in The Land classifieds? FOR SALE: Rear wheel as- FOR SALE: 2000 Ford 350, sist for combine, off JD 7720. 7.3 diesel, 4x4 dually, crew Call The Land today! (320) 697-5550 cab, AT, new heavy duty 507-345-4523 tranny, extra clean sharp or 1-800-657-4665 JD 9600 combine, 20.8 du- truck, $9,900. (320) 583-0881 als, 2500 hrs, new concaves & bars, augers, exc cond, $32,000; JD 8110, 2WD, 5000 hrs, new 480x46 tires, exc cond, $67,500. 507-478-4221
Grain Handling Equipment Corn Dryer- Farm Fans AB120 w/ 1000 bu Brock wet holding bin, new wet grain motor & new dry grain unloading motor. Operates on 220V. 507822-3790 or 507-662-4260
Wanted All kinds of New & Used farm equipment - disc chisels, field cults, planters, soil finishers, cornheads, feed mills, discs, balers, haybines, etc. 507438-9782
Livestock FOR SALE: Black Angus bulls also Hamp, York, & Hamp/Duroc boars & gilts. 320-598-3790
Dairy REGISTERED Jerseys - 7 cows 5 dry, due in Nov, 1 bred heifer, due in Dec. $900 per head. 319-438-1460 or 319-310-5691
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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
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4WD TRACTORS
ADVERTISER LISTING 40 Square Cooperative Solutions ........................................ 3 Beck's Hybrids ................................................................... 1 Courtland Waste Handling ................................................ 17
‘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
Deutz Auctioneers ............................................................ 28 Doda USA ....................................................................... 19 Factory Home Center ......................................................... 5 Fladeboe Auctions .......................................................24, 27 Henslin Auctions .........................................................24, 26 Keith Bode ....................................................................... 28 Larson Implement .......................................................26, 31 Mages Auction ............................................................25, 26
TRACK TRACTORS
Pioneer Soybeans ............................................................... 4 Pruess Elevator ................................................................ 30 R & E Enterprises ............................................................ 25 Roy E Abbott Futures ....................................................... 22 Schweiss Doors ................................................................ 29 Smiths Mill Implement ..................................................... 30 Spanier Welding ................................................................. 9 Steffes Group ........................................................ 25, 26, 28 Ultimate Outdoor Furnace .................................................. 6
COMBINES ‘13 JD 660 4X4, 1598/1066 sep hrs, 2630 display, 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, 5x32 single tires ...........................................................$132,000 ‘11 C-IH 5088, 1743/1541 sep hrs, rock trap, chopper, 30.5x32
‘15 C-IH 500 Quad trac, 2750 hrs, 36” tracks, cab susp, HID lights, 4 hyd valves ......................................................$180,000 tires .................................................................................$89,000 ‘14 C-IH 350 Row trac, 1865 hrs, 1000 PTO, 18” tracks, 4 hyd, hi-flow ...........................................................................$155,000 ‘09 C-IH 7088, 1807 eng/1275 sep hrs, rock trap, field tracker, ‘14 C-IH 340 Mag Row trac, 287 hrs, luxury cab, suspended chopper, Pro 600 monitor, HID lights, 520x42” duals ...$92,000 front, 18” tracks, 6 hyds, 1000 PTO, 76” track spacing .........................................................................$185,000 ‘11 Claas Lexion 740, 1466 eng/1899 sep hrs, 4x4, chopper, ‘13 C-IH 600 Quad trac, 2155 hrs, 36” belts, 4 hyd, hi-flow, complete auto steer equipped ....................................$200,000 520x42” duals ................................................................$98,000
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‘15 Challenger MT 845E, 3909 hrs, 30” belts, 4 hyd valves, HID lights, 58 gpm hyd pump ............................................$142,500 ‘04 Cat Challenger MT 755, 4844 hrs, 16” tracks, 4 hyd, 3 pt, ‘13 JD 645C 13’ pickup head ..............................................$10,000 1000 PTO, JD ATU steering wheel ................................$65,000 ‘83 JD 643 6R30 cornhead, low tin, oil drive ....................... $6,500
Minnesota Farm Bureau .................................................... 11 Peterson Farms Seeds ....................................................... 13
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ROW CROP TRACTORS ‘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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‘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
STEEL TRACK SET-UP FOR 9610 JD COMBINE ............................................................................... $4,800
LARSON IMPLEMENTS 5 miles east of Cambridge, MN on Hwy. 95 763-689-1179
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This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Correspondent Tim King. Photos by Jan King.
Small company, global reach
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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
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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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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
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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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Adam Owens Pioneer Field Agronomist
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