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All throughout the United dramatically as Democrats States, when asked what folks flipped two congressional disare thankful for this tricts. Republican incumbent Thanksgiving, the answer was Rod Blum might still be wonnearly unanimous. Everyone dering what happened as he is thankful the political ads was upset by Democrat Abby have come to a halt.

Finkenauer. Another close contest sent Democrat Cindy The 2018 mid-term election Axne to Washington over turned out to be as puzzling Republican incumbent David as a rubic’s cube. Democrats Young who was a strident were looking for a resounding LAND MINDS Trump supporter. declaration against Donald Trump’s

By Paul Malchow antics. The rural and working class who Some political pundits feel the midvoted Republican in 2016 were supterm results will shake the rust off of posed to be fed up with the tariffs and the farm bill machinery. Republicans trade wars. On the other side of the supposedly will want to make concescoin, Republicans were steadfast in the belief the sions to pass a bill before the new kids move into country’s strong economy was proof of positive direc- Washington. tion. Immigration continues to dominate the headI hope they’re right, but I remain skeptical. First lines with a position to be tough with our trade of all, nothing happens fast in Washington and I allies and show the world the United States wasn’t don’t see Trump signing off on his get-tough stance going to get pushed around anymore. on the SNAP program. Second, how does Trump Neither party quite got the results they were look- maintain his position on immigration while at the ing for. While Democrats gained 38 seats to take same time provide agriculture with the workers it control of Congress, Republicans will rule the senate so desperately needs? And third, while watching a by picking up two more seats. fair amount of election coverage on Nov. 6, nobody but nobody was talking farm bill.

In Minnesota’s 3rd congressional district, incumbent Erik Paulsen ran on his pro-Trump record and Without some real arm-twisting and sharp blows was soundly defeated by Democrat Dean Phillips. to the head, I see an extension of the current farm Republican 2nd District Congressman Jason Lewis bill which will allow everyone to kick the can down campaigned as far away from Trump as possible. the road for a while longer. None of this helps farmThe strategy did Lewis little good as he lost to ers who watch markets struggle mightily and try to Democrat Angie Craig. Jim Hagedorn and Pete decide what direction to take in the next year.

Stauber took back Republican control of their disn tricts, but five of Minnesota’s eight congressional A few weeks ago I wrote about dogs on the farm districts will wave the blue banner in 2019. and my own experiences as a dog owner. It is with a Hagedorn captured the 1st congressional district heavy heart I now report that on Nov. 26 we said which was vacated by Democrat Tim Walz who was farewell to Wheeler, the leader of our pack. Wheeler elected as Minnesota’s next governor. was found as a puppy running with a pack of dogs Walz’s convincing win was escorted by a when we took him in. That was almost 14 years ago.

Democratic landslide in which 74 of the available Despite his advancing age, Wheeler was active 134 State House seats were filled by DFL candidates. Republicans hold the slimmest of margins in right up to his final day — patrolling the grounds and playing fetch. His kind disposition and eagerthe State Senate. ness to please will be his legacy and he is sorely Iowans chose to give Kim Reynolds another stint missed. in the governor’s mansion as a strong rural vote Paul Malchow is the managing editor of The Land. carried her to a narrow victory over Democrat Fred Hubbell. Trump’s grip on the Hawkeye State slipped He may be reached at editor@TheLandOnline.com. v

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Miscanthus, cardinals provide beauty to the winter garden Looking through the winunsurpassed visual impact. dow at the garden in early Cardinal red is a symbolic winter is pleasant if the bird color for Christians. Roman feeders have some food in Catholic high priests are them and some of the grasscalled cardinals. The notion es and other plants with edithat cardinals are messenble seeds are left standing. gers of Spirit exists across many cultures and beliefs.

It is always a joy to see carAs a result, many things dinals on the feeders as IN THE GARDEN have the designation of ‘carwell as on the snow covered dinal’. They include cardiground below the feeder.

By Sharon Quale nal colors, cardinal direcThey are actually ground tions, cardinal angels feeders and prefer to and cardinal sins. A forage for the seeds ‘cardinal’ designation that have spilled on signifies importance. the ground. Sunflower seeds are their favorBirds visit all North ite food. With the high American native squirrel population, I grasses and feed on find that putting a seed heads on the small amount of bird food out twice a plants and also the seeds that fall to day is preferable to completely filling the ground. In the spring the grass the feeders and just fattening up a few leaves are favorite nest building matesquirrels. I have had limited success rial for many birds. with the ‘squirrel proof’ feeders.

The view from my front window of Cardinals are frequently associated Miscanthus ‘Purpurascens’ is with being messenger birds and the spectacular. There are numerous male’s brilliant red color offers an varieties of Miscanthus available that Helping to preserve the proud traditions of farming for future generations “Many farm owners are struggling with the high cost of health care. This is an alternative.” -40 Square Member 2018

grow from two to over 6 feet tall. (A common name is Maiden grass.) This warm season, slow spreading variety with reddish-green blades will flower from August until frost. It likes full sun and ample water but will tolerate dry conditions when established.

The flowering stems remain upright through the winter and impart subtle motion and beauty to the garden.

Maintenance is minimal. As plants get older than four years and form large clumps, they can begin to die out in the middle of the clump and lose some vigor. The plant can be divided into new small clumps and replanted. It is difficult to dig all of the roots out and another solution I read about is dig-

ging out the center that is dying and replacing it with good garden soil.

Leave the foliage on the plant through the winter as this can protect the crowns from cold temperatures. In the spring cut the plants back to a few inches from the ground before new growth begins.

Photos by Sharon Quale Not many birds are as spectacular as the ‘messenger’ cardinal. When a cardinal suddenly appears and seems to demand attention it is significant and each person may interpret this sign in their own fashion. Not many garden plants serve as many useful purposes as Miscanthus grass. In addition to providing food and nesting material for birds and extraordinary garden plants, the grass has been used for paper products, crafts, roof thatching and more recently biofuels.

Sharon Quale is a master gardener from central Minnesota. She may be reached at (218) 738-6060 or squale101@yahoo.com. v

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Holiday treats guaranteed to keep coal out of your stocking A tasty treat, especially around The holidays are upon us Christmas, is the gift of toffee. This and the gift-giving season isn’t any ordinary toffee. The name is here. What can you give truly says it all. There may be a lot the person who seems to of steps in this recipe, but it’s have everything? Food, of worth it and would be an awesome course. gift for anyone you know that has Food never goes out of a sweet tooth! style, it’s always needed www.momontimeout.com/betterand you don’t have to worry COOKING than-anything-toffee-recipe/ if it will fit. Food is the WITH KRISTIN answer for any gift giving 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans

By Kristin Kveno occasion. Here are some of 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter my favorite foods to give as 1 cup granulated sugar gifts. Remember, it’s the thought that 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt counts and as long as the thought is 1 teaspoon vanilla extract food, you can never go wrong!

1 cup milk chocolate chips I have a vivid memory of Christmas 1989. I Spray a 9-inch square baking dish with cookwas 10 years old and my parents were hosting ing spray and line with parchment paper. Spread Christmas at our house. My aunt Kathy brought the chopped pecans in a single layer on top of us a tin containing the best crackers I had ever the parchment. Add butter, sugar and salt to a had. I can still remember the enjoyment I had heavy-bottomed three quart pot. Bring to a boil consuming those delicious crackers. I’ve made over medium low heat, stirring frequently to disthem many times since that fateful Christmas solve the sugar. Once the candy is boiling, stir and still love these things as much as I did 29 occasionally, slowly and evenly, until the candy years ago. has reached 290 F to 300 F, or “hard crack” on a candy thermometer. Once the candy has Ranch Oyster Crackers reached 290 F to 300 F, remove from heat and www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15956/ranchgently stir in the vanilla extract. Carefully pour oyster-crackers/ 1 (1 ounce) package Ranch-style dressing mix the mixture over the chopped pecans. Let the candy sit for a few minutes, undisturbed, before 1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed sprinkling the chocolate chips over the top.

1/4 cup vegetable oil Cover the baking dish with foil and let sit for 5 1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper (optional) minutes or until the chocolate has softened.

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder Remove the foil and gently spread the softened 5 cups oyster crackers chocolate into an even layer. An offset spatula Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees works best for this. Place the candy in the C). In a large bowl, combine the dressing mix, refrigerator and let cool completely. Give it at dill weed, vegetable oil, lemon pepper and garlic least two hours. Lift the parchment out of the powder. Add oyster crackers and toss to coat. baking dish and place the toffee on a cutting Spread evenly on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 to board or solid surface. Use a knife to gently 20 minutes in the preheated oven, stirring gen- break it into smaller pieces. Store in an airtight tly after 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and container in a cool place. allow to cool before serving. n n

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When the holiday season rolls around, nuts seem to be in great abundance at the grocery store. Time to stock up on almonds and give this wonderful recipe a try.

Cinnamon Vanilla Toasted Almonds https://wishesndishes.com/cinnamon-vanillatoasted-almonds/ 2 egg whites 6 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 cups raw almonds 1/2 cup white sugar 1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar (light is fine) 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon In a large bowl beat egg whites until frothy; beat in vanilla. Add almonds; stir gently to coat.

Combine the sugars, salt and cinnamon; add to nut mixture and stir gently to coat. Spread evenly, in one layer, onto greased baking sheet. Bake at 300 F for 25 to 30 minutes or until almonds are crisp, stirring once halfway through. Cool and serve. Store in an airtight container. n Here’s something that’s a little salty and a lot sweet, the perfect combination for anyone on your gift giving list this season.

Snowflake Mix www.midwestliving.com/recipe/appetizerssnacks/snowflake-mix/ 3 cups bite-size rice square cereal 3 cups bite-size corn square cereal 1 cup small pretzel twists or pretzel sticks 1 cup honey-roasted peanuts 2- 12 ounce packages white baking pieces 1- 12 ounce package mint-flavored candycoated milk chocolate pieces In a very large bowl combine cereals, pretzels and peanuts; set aside. Melt baking pieces according to package directions. Pour melted white baking pieces over cereal mixture. Stir gently to coat. Spread on a large piece of waxed paper or parchment paper. Sprinkle with chocolate pieces. Cool and break into pieces. Store in an airtight container for up to one week or in the freezer for one month. Makes 16 cups.

May your holiday season be filled scrumptious food to eat and lots of family and friends to share it with.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Do you have a recipe you want to share? You can reach Kristin at kristin_kveno@yahoo.com. v

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Milk-over-feed margin hits yearly high, trails last year This column was written for the marketing week ending Nov. 30.

A higher U.S. All Milk price average and some lower feed prices pushed the October milk feed price ratio higher for the third month in a row and the highNews and information for Minnesota and Northern Iowa dairy producers est level since January, but farm margins have since fallen. The U.S. cents below October 2017. New Mexico The milk-over-feed margin was up 70 cents from Department of Agriculture’s latest Ag MIELKE MARKET again had the low at $15.80, followed by September, at $8.96 per cwt., based on the Margin Prices report shows the October ratio at WEEKLY Michigan at $16.50.

California, at $16.46, Protection Program calculation. This is the highest 2.20, which is up from 2.10 in

By Lee Mielke was up 49 cents from September and margin of the year but still $1.17 below a year ago.

September but down from 2.47 in Wisconsin was at $17.60, up 20 cents.

October 2017.

Looking at the cow side of the ledger, the October The national average corn price averaged $3.41 cull price for beef and dairy combined averaged The U.S. All-Milk price averaged $17.40 per hunper bushel, up 2 cents from September and 15 cents $57.80 per cwt. This is down $3 from September, dredweight, up 70 cents from September but 70 per bushel above October 2017. Soybeans averaged $7.60 below October 2017 and $13.80 below the $8.58 per bushel, down 19 cents from September 2011 base average of $71.60 per cwt. and 60 cents per bushel below a year ago. Alfalfa n hay averaged $178 per ton, down $2 from GREAT DEALS GREAT PRICES NOW! September but $25 per ton above a year ago.

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Letter: Work for more dairy farmers To the Editor, Rural Minnesota needs more dairy farmers and that’s not the same as more cows. Minnesota Milk, who is funded by the check-off funds from dairy farmers like me, doesn’t seem to get that. The overwhelming majority of dairy farms in Minnesota are like mine — moderate-sized operations that are owned and operated by the family farmers who live on them. You can say this about all these dairy farmers: they love dairying and are good at it. This has to be true for them to have stayed in business during the down turn in prices we have had in the past and are currently facing.

But Minnesota Milk and other corporate ag interests are pushing hard to help one of the state’s largest dairies expand despite the concerns of neighbors.

Daley Farms in Lewiston, Minn. in Winona County wants to expand from 1,728 cows to 4,628 cows which would make them the tenth-largest dairy in Minnesota and the largest in southeast Minnesota. For some perspective, 97 percent of dairy farms are under 500 cows; 86 percent are under 200 cows, and only 92 dairy farms are over 500 cows.

This massive operation would use 92 million gallons of groundwater a year and is proposed in a karst area where surface pollution can get into groundwater easily. The area has seen the collapse of municipal waste treatment lagoons. What if one of the manure lagoons — which will collectively hold 46 million gallons of liquid manure — fails?

These are real concerns that those that live and farm near there want more information about.

But the mandatory state environmental review was timed so that the public comment period happened during harvest when it would be hard for people to review the hundreds of pages and make comments.

Neighbors asked for this comment time to be extend-

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ed and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency granted a short two-week extension. It was then then that Minnesota Milk — along with the Agri-Growth Council (Land O’ Lakes, Cargill etc.) — sued the state saying that this two-week delay would do irreparable harm to the project and the public should not be allowed more time to review the documents.

How can Minnesota Milk see a two-week extension of a public comment period as a crisis for dairy farmers big enough to use our check off dollars to hire lawyers, sue the state and issue a press release for one massive dairy?

This isn’t surprising when you remember the Minnesota Milk testimony at the state legislature in February given by University of Minnesota Dairy Economist Dr. Bozic. He said, “We are going to see a number of dairy farmers that are no longer competitive … We would be doing them a disservice by offering some handouts that would prolong their hope but really there is nothing there to hope for.” Bozic then lifted Riverview Dairy, an 8,000+ cow dairy in Morris, Minn., as the prime example of what type of operation resources should be focused on. That is what Minnesota Milk is doing here. Helping the biggest.

So, Minnesota Milk sues our state to prevent nearby farmers and neighbors from having more time to understand what this massive Daley expansion to 4,628 cows means for their community. It turns out that one of the co-owners of the Daley farms, Shelly DePestel, is on Minnesota Milk’s board of directors.

Time and time again I see Minnesota Milk swinging hard for the big guy while doing little for the 97 percent of dairy farmers under 500 cows that pay the check-off. What have we got to show for the years of check-off dollars we have paid? Low prices, fewer dairy farms and disappearing communities.

James Kanne Franklin, Minn.

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Midwest cheese production slowed, selling milk for bottling MIELKE, from pg. 6

ter but that didn’t do much for the CME price. It penny on the week but 1.25 cents lower on the closed the week and the month at $2.2425 per month, with 11 cars selling on the week and 86 for Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash cheese prices WE BUILD OUR STALLS RIGHT! pound, down 3.75 cents on the week and 5.75 cents the month. ended November strengthened, but still in the cellower on the month, but is 2.75 cents above a year Take a look at n lar. Block cheddar, after dropping 10.75 cents ago when it fell 14 cents. Seven cars sold on the our tubing the withfirst Thanksgiving week, finished the month at $1.36 per Dairy margins weakened further through week; 59 on the month. pound. This is up 1.5 cents on the week, but 9.5 unequaled corrosion half of November as lower milk prices more than Butter markets typically see a significant decline cents below its Nov. 1 level and 20.25 cents below a protection! offset a slight decline in projected feed costs, accordyear ago. The barrels closed at $1.3150, up 7.5 cents this time of year, warned Dairy Market News. The ing to the latest Margin Watch from Chicago-based Freudenthal Tubing has been difference of the weekly average CME butter maron the week, after plunging 12 cents the previous Commodity and Ingredient Hedging LLC. engineered for The your specific ket price, between weeks 48 and 52, from 2013 to week, but 6 cents lower on the month, 22 cents Margin Watch stated, “Nearby dairy margins in requirements where strength 2017, was a decrease of 24.15 cents.

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CS-60 Comfort Tie Stall momentum is slow to build. Butter inventories are Midwest cheese production has slowed, reports “Milk prices continue to suffer from insufficient balanced to declining says Dairy Market News.

Dairy Market News, and some plants are shifting The Toughest demand being able to absorb increased production,” Grade A nonfat dry milk saw a Nov. 30 close at away from barrel production to other varieties, such the Margin Watch warned. “USDA reported October Stalls 90.5 cents per pound, up three-quarters on the as curds, or selling milk into bottling. Shredded Milk Production of 17.9 billion pounds, up 0.8 peron the week, up 1.25 cents on the month, and 18.5 cents cheese demand is reportedly strong. Other orders cent from last year despite increased cow slaughter • Provides superior lunge area market, above a year ago. Seventeen cars exchanged hands are average-to-slow according to a growing number as the remaining cow herd becomes more efficient.

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Weather abroad should impact future global dairy prices MIELKE, from pg. 7 lion head, down 2,000 from September and 30,000 below last year. The Midwest continues to struggle with milking economics where production shrank last month, while production increases in Western states more than offset those losses.”

“USDA also released the November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report which provided shocking revisions to the world balance sheet. U.S. corn production declined 152 million bushels from October due to a reduced yield forecast, with ending stocks down 77 million bushels from last month. Reduced exports and feed demand offset some of the production decline. World end-

ing stocks, however, increased a sharp 149 million tons from October as revisions for China were made back to the 2007-08 marketing year, which raised the country’s corn production by an unprecedented 266 million tons. While the changes are not expected to factor into world trade, the tone of the report was decidedly bearish for the corn market,” the Margin Watch concluded.

Penn State’s November Dairy Outlook examined the state’s dairy industry and reported, “Based on our sample of nearly 100 annual actual cash flow plan analyses, more than 50 percent of dairy farmers reported cash surpluses in 2013 (i.e., gross milk prices above their break even cost). In 2014, while the production costs were

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reported to be higher than 2013, the increase in gross milk prices compensated for the increase in the production costs and more than 75 percent of dairy farmers in our sample reported gross benefits.”

“However, the picture reversed in 2016 where the gross milk prices were below their average levels in 2014 and 2015 in such a way that producers could not benefit from lower costs of production. More than 75 percent of dairy farmers in our sample reported cash losses. In 2016, the increase in the costs of production, accompanied with flat gross milk prices made a dire situation even worse. Almost all of the dairy producers in our sample reported losses in 2016. While the situation got slightly better in 2017 due to a small increases in the gross milk price and lower production costs, more than 50 percent of dairy farmers in our sample reported cash losses,” according to the Outlook.

University of Wisconsin emeritus professor Dr. Robert Cropp and Dr. Mark Stevenson state in their latest podcast, “We’re range-bound. Dairy markets are prepared to move up a bit and then retreat from those gains in the absence of any strong evidence that milk supplies are tightening or demand is picking up.”

The fundamentals wouldn’t seem to dictate where cheese prices are today, Stevenson said. They cited abundant cheese output, mixed reports on demand, and tariff affected export losses as the factors impacting prices.

They also pointed to disappointing global prices as evidenced in the past seven Global Dairy Trade auctions and stated that weather will be a big factor ahead. New Zealand milk output looks to be very strong, they said, Australia is in draught, and the EU milk output is questionable because of draught.

Cropp believes Class III futures prices are “too soft.” He’s a little more optimistic, but doesn’t see “a great rebound in milk prices where farmers like to see them;” but should mirror those in 2017 “even though the futures aren’t there yet.”

HighGround Dairy’s director of market intelligence, Lucas Fuess, stated in the Dec. 3 Dairy Radio Now broadcast that the fundamentals look pretty

bearish after the holiday season and into 2019. A look at Class III futures underscores that. Prices are below $16 per cwt. through the first half of 2019, but Fuess says a continued drop in cow numbers could change that.

The last Milk Production report showed numbers continue to tick lower and are well below a year ago. If that continues and milk output slows to levels lower than where they were in 2018, that could indicate a rebound in the making. But “there’s plenty of product to work through before that happens,” Fuess said.

When asked if the tariff and trade wars are responsible for the depressed prices, Fuess said they certainly contribute to it as it remains difficult to get product into China. Even with the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, Mexico still has tariffs on some U.S. dairy products, he concluded. n Dairy producers must call on their elected representatives to respond to the financial crisis on U.S. dairy farms, according to Arden Tewksbury, manager of the Progressive Agriculture Organization. Tewksbury charged, “For the last four years, United States dairy farmers have been underpaid nearly 11 billion dollars per year” and he called for three specific actions.

First, lawmakers need to immediately implement a $20 per hundredweight floor price under milk used to manufacture dairy products. Second, agriculture committees need to hold hearings for dairy farmers to testify “how bad things are, and develop a new milk pricing formula which includes the dairy farmer’s cost of production.”

Thirdly, he called for an investigation “to determine if whey and milk protein concentrate products are causing an unnecessary surplus of milk.”

“We’re losing thousands of dairy farmers each year, and this cannot continue,” Tewksbury writes. “Many other dairy farmers are on the verge of going out of business. Demand congressmen and senators take immediate action,” he concludes.

The loss of dairy operations will impact several state economies, according to 10 new videos created by a coalition of dairy organizations and posted on the U.S. Dairy Export See MIELKE, pg. 9

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Reading the facts in-hand — or in your palm Years ago, an enterprising neighbor suggested, President Donald J. Trump operated a palm reading business from offered his review: “I don’t believe it.” her home with just a secretary, fax Somehow, the Wall Street machine and telephone. Her business Journal anticipated his response model was simple: After clients faxed because, on the same day as the their photocopied handprint and sent President’s declaration, the newspaper some form of payment (rumor had it published a front page story that was $20), our neighbor telephoned them detailed how Canada’s farmers were with the results of the “reading.” making hay (actually a lot of corn and FARM & FOOD FILE While no one called her a fortune “tellsoybeans) because climate change had

By Alan Guebert er,” it was easy to tell she was indeed raised local temperatures an average earning a small fortune. In our town of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit since 1950.

1,800, her chauffeured Cadillac and “Before 2013,” reported indoor swimming pool were dead givethe Journal’s Jacob Bunge, “provinces aways. such as Saskatchewan and Alberta grew no Did she really know the future? significant amounts of soybeans … Now soybeans cover 425,000 acres in those provinces.”

It didn’t matter because most of her clients were searching for different “facts” — answers and ideas Moreover, climate change has been good for different than the ones they were living under — Canadian farmland prices: “While U.S. cornbelt land that might steer them out of trouble or towards prices stagnate, per-acre prices across Canada have happiness. climbed 8.4 percent in 2017,” noted the Journal.

The past week offered several examples of this Interestingly — or maybe it was just another curivery human, often delusional search. ous coincidence — the Journal published another One is the national climate assessment issued the forest-for-the-trees financial story Nov. 26 that carried another hard punch of reality. Here’s its day after Thanksgiving. It restated (for the fourth time) that “climate change is affecting every part of opening paragraph: the United States … be it agriculture or forestry or “Stocks, bonds and commodities from copper to energy,” Andrew Light, a professor at George Mason crude oil to burlap are staging a rare simultaneous University and an author of the report, told retreat, putting global markets on track for one of National Public Radio. their worst years on record and deepening a sense Despite this evidence, most U.S. farm groups, like of unease on Wall Street.” the White House, said little about the report. When And that’s just the windup. Here’s the pitch: “All finally asked if he thought climate change would told, 90 percent of the 70 asset classes tracked by “wreak havoc” on the U.S. economy, as the report Deutsche Bank are posting negative total returns in

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dollar terms for the year through mid-November.

The previous high was in 1920, when 84 percent of 37 asset classes were negative. Last year, (it) was just 1 percent...”

This is not news to farmers. The November AgLetter from the Seventh Federal Reserve District (that includes all of Iowa and Michigan and two-thirds each of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana) reported that third quarter farmland values, when adjusted for inflation, continued their four-year slide south.

“Although nominal farmland values” remain relatively stable across the center of the corn belt, said the Chicago Fed, “real farmland values” — those adjusted for inflation — have “been eroding since the third quarter of 2014.”

What kept farmland values across this district from experiencing “more downward pressure,” however, explained the Fed, was 2018’s “exceptional crop yields.”

So, all you have to do to stay above water next year is dodge a weather calamity, pray that 70 global investment asset classes stage a Lazarus-like comeback, and deliver another bin-buster of a crop while Congress passes a long overdue farm bill, the White House and China (and Europe and Mexico and Canada…) settle their tariff wars, and a $1 trillion federal budget deficit doesn’t ignite inflation.

At least that’s what the facts suggest. Feel free to consult your neighborhood palm reader, though.

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Tewksbury: New federal milk pricing formula needed MIELKE, from pg. 8 Council website. The posting talks of dairy’s “ripple effect” to related industries like retailing and manufacturing and “the numbers are eye-opening.” n Meanwhile, the International Dairy Foods Association, National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council joined their global counterparts urging the G20 ministers who met this week in Buenos Aires to “prioritize maintaining, reforming and reinvigorating the World Trade Organization, which is the multilateral rules-based trading system.”

The groups called on the ministers to “reject tradedistorting actions, such as imposing unscientific, overly burdensome or trade-distorting nontariff regulations; unilaterally raising tariffs in ways that are not WTO-compliant; or providing WTO illegal export subsidies.” They charged that such actions “undermine the functioning of value chains and lead to trade diversion, more volatile commodity prices and a less

efficient allocation of resources with higher costs.”

The leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico signed the new USMCA trade agreement in Buenos Aires. However, the replacement for the old North America Free Trade Agreement, must still be approved by the U.S. Congress — a Congress that is now divided, with Democrats controlling the House.

The signing of the USMCA was praised by NMPF, USDEC, and IDFA, although the processor organization called the signing “a hollow victory, unless the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are lifted.”

Lots of eyes and ears were focused on the G20 meeting. President Trump was also scheduled to meet with China’s President Jinping. Hopefully, the two will come to agreement on trade spats which have hurt both countries.

Lastly, the 2018 U.S. farm bill is making “significant progress,” according to Bob Gray, editor of the Northeast Dairy Farmer Cooperative’s newsletter.

Gray reported that House and Senate Agriculture

Committee negotiators had conference calls and meetings even during the Congressional recess in October in order to “keep the ball rolling.” Gray says the bill’s Dairy Title promises to be “a good final product overall.”

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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Fast-growing willows make great windbreak foundation

By RICHARD SIEMERS The Land Correspondent Salix matsudana x alba is its scientific name, but most people simply refer to them as the fast-growing hybrid willows. First introduced by Karsten Nursery at Worthington, they now grow all over the 48 states and have been shipped to Alaska. They are sold as a windbreak tree.

“They are perfect for their application,” said Joel Karsten, whose father, Glen, founded Karsten Nursery in the early 1980s. “They’re not a lawn tree.

They don’t have nice fall color or big leaves for shade. But as a windbreak tree, they’re perfect. It’s all those small branches.”

Their most obvious asset as a windbreak tree is that they grow fast.

Ken Behrendt can attest to that. A farmsite south of Redwood Falls is home to his trucking company.

“I used to have a grove down there,” Behrendt gestured. “It was a farm yard and I made it into a truck lot.”

He planted the fast-growing willows along the north and west edges of the site. They would have arrived as 12 to ON THE COVER: Ken Behrendt stands in front of willows growing on his farm south of Redwood Falls.

Photos by Richard Siemers

This multi-species windbreak grows at the nursery farm. The trees in the back are 30-year-old willows which were slated for removal. Karsten said after 30 years the willows become more brittle and begin to decline.

24-inch slips — the size the nursery sells.

“I got 300 slips, and look at them now,” Behrendt said. “I planted them four years ago and I would estimate

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they are 25 feet tall.”

Joel Karsten was skeptical when his father brought the willow samples back from Australia. The Australian who developed them wanted something fast-growing and strong enough to provide shade for cattle on the outback.

Livestock could also browse on them, because they grow quickly and come right back.

Glen planted the clones in his tree nursery and found them to be hardy.

“He did selections over the years,” Joel said. “Years ago he found one that he really liked the shape and size of and he took cuttings from that and cloned them himself.”

Joel figures most of the fast-growing willows you see in the Midwest probably originated from a Karsten tree.

Other people are selling them, but “basically they are propagating off of plants they originally got from us,” he said.

But back to the fast-growing part.

“I was amazed when I first saw them and my first thought was, it’s going to be really weak because it grows so fast,” he said. “That’s not true. It gets some brittle, broken branches when

they get to be 18-20 years old — that’s the peak of their life. They start to decline after that. I think 30 years is a good lifespan for a windbreak tree.

They get big in a hurry.”

There are claims on the Internet that these trees have a long life — maybe 70 years.

“They claim all kinds of things on the Internet,” Karsten said. “Others claim they would be so weak that they’d break off. I have a degree in horticulture. I’ve seen a lot of trees in the nursery industry. These are good trees. They are perfect for their application as a windbreak tree.”

However, Karsten doesn’t suggest a shelterbelt of all willows. They are fastgrowing and will give a workable windbreak quickly, but a variety of slowergrowing trees can add the element of a windbreak still growing when the willows decline after 30 years. Plus, other species can add fall color and fruit to harvest.

As a horticulturalist, Joel Karsten doesn’t favor monoculture. He likes a shelterbelt to be a mix of evergreens and hardwoods.

“It emulates a natural environment, a natural forest that has many varieties, so if one species gets wiped out, there are other things that fill the holes,” he said.

It should be noted that as willows, these trees have the same narrow leaves as a weeping willow, but the branches grow upward and do not weep.

Joel’s parents ran the business for many Joel Karsten years. When his mother died seven years ago, he came back to help out.

The business is focused around windbreak material to farmers and sells 120 species of trees. As a wholesale business, with most sales via the Internet, they sell in lots of 10.

Karstens’ willows are started in grow houses. Most trees can be sold bare root, but the salix matsudana x alba See WILLOWS, pg. 11 Ken Behrendt

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Willows’ quick-growing leaf matter may be used for ethanol menting, the Karstens came up with a unique way to WILLOWS, from pg. 15 has really fine hairs, and if you pull the dirt off, it grow them. pulls the roots right off the tree. Through experi“We grow them in a narrow tall container the size of a soda can, but surrounded by a plastic envelope that can be closed so soil doesn’t fall out in shipping,” Karsten said. “So we can ship live trees. The root structure is never exposed. It is planted directly into the ground and the plastic is slipped off.”

The willows may have other uses besides windbreaks. They have a lot of leaf matter that grows back fast when cut, and Karsten said he’s been contacted about testing them for ethanol production.

He’s also been contacted by sawmills in India because it is the particular kind of lumber they use for cricket bats.

Glen Karsten is now retired from an active role in the nursery. Joel oversees production and is in charge These willow slips growing in Karsten’s greenhouse of sales and marketing. (He also developed straw are all that remain after filling this year’s orders. The Karsten’s willows are reknown for growing quickly. bale gardening and is the author of best-selling books plastic sleeves protect the trees during shipping.

These trees are only four years old. on the subject, but that’s another story.)

Developed in Australia and further developed in a southwestern Minnesota nursery, this upright, conical, fast-growing willow now grows across the country providing shelterbelts and windbreaks.

ST. PAUL — The application cut-off for the available through conservation programs, contact More information is available at Karsten Nursery’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) your local NRCS office. website, www.growfastwillows.com. v is Jan. 18.

This article was submitted by the U.S. Department The EQIP program provides financial and technical of Agriculture. v assistance to help landowners voluntarily implement conservation practices to improve natural resources.

Payment is provided for a variety of practices to address resource concerns related to water quality, grazing land health, soil erosion and health, wildlife habitat and others.

Eligible applications will be ranked, and contracts will be awarded thereafter. Applications with higher quality and quantity of proposed conservation and environmental benefits receive higher scores. The highest-ranking applications are funded first. A second application cutoff is set for April 19.

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Don’t overlook the enormity of the small things She plopped in a back row ing beauty framed in the seat across the aisle from small. She was going home me. And though this wasn’t to make a calendar with my first time in the back of the pics. I went home cona plane, it was a casual templating the splendor move for a stewardess. But contained in smallness. the passengers were served It can seem so small to and her spirit was chatty on speak a word of blessing, her final flight in a string of squeeze a shoulder, or smile days blurred by the crissTHE BACK PORCH big. It may seem small to crossing of time zones.

By Lenae Bulthuis open a door or pull out a She looked out her winchair for another, or to keep dow and commented on the the cell phone in your pockmagnificence she’s seen from the et instead of your palm. It may seem heights: Mt. Rainier, cloud formations, small and even silly to place a single prairies and lakes below. “I have the stick of gum in a card and mail it to a most glorious pictures on my phone,” child. Yet I remember the aunt who she said. “All taken through an airdid just that for me and I loved it. plane window.”

Every single time.

Not wanting to miss the majesty of But small feels … well … small. the moment, I peered through my Like Holley Gerth wrote, “We feel like pane. “Not that window,” she corrected. we could be doing something more, “All my pics were taken through this something bigger. We can resist the window.” She then stood up, rounded smallness.” the corner, and pointed to a tiny portIn the past month, I’ve had the joy hole in the galley. It maxed out at of connecting with a handful of my maybe three inches in circumference. elementary school teachers—one in a She then handed me her cell phone grocery store, some at a veteran’s dinand said, “Look at these.” And as I ner. They’re in their 70s and 80s, one scrolled her photos, I saw breathtakover 90 years. And I told them that

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when I had stepped back into that school where they had poured into me, I couldn’t get over how small it all seemed. As a kid it felt huge and I was too intimidated to even look, much less walk, across the divide between the elementary and high school buildings.

And though the hallways, desks, and even the restroom sinks seem miniature today, that season of life did big things in me. Those teachers and aids did not resist the smallness of teaching small people. They wiped tears, tied shoes, and listened to us awkwardly share our show and tell. They were patient as they helped us sound out letters and taught simple math that was simpler for some than it was for me.

I thanked them for the gift and later wondered, “Did they ever feel like they should have done something more, something bigger?” Maybe it’s a question you’ve wondered yourself at your stage of life or this season of the year.

Sometimes what spurs the wondering is the snap of the comparison trap.

We compare our lives to others and

we can feel small — insignificant, worthless, not enough. Or sometimes out of their own insecurities, people try to make us feel small. As if our lives don’t measure up to theirs.

Even in the seemingly small, we have a choice. Which is good news for those like me who live a very ordinary life in a very rural community. We can choose to focus on the frame or what it contains.

Those who focus on the 3-inch circumference of their life will focus on the small and believe they don’t matter much, if at all. But those who focus not on the size of the frame, but what it contains will gasp at beauty and legacy when life is lived on purpose — loving God and loving people.

I couldn’t agree more with Ann Voskamp who wrote, “You are doing something great with your life when you’re doing all the small things with great love.”

Lenae Bulthuis muses about faith, family, and farming from her back porch on her Minnesota grain and livestock farm. She can be reached at lenaesbulthuis@gmail.com or @ LenaeBulthuis. v

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“Damage to plants occur when nematodes feed on roots, which can heavily impact plant growth. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always develop above-ground symptoms,” says Jim Schwartz, director of PFR and Agronomy for Beck’s Hybrids. “Even if above ground

Prevalent in both corn and soybeans, there are many types of nematode species. Ectoparasite species exist in the soil and may move around and “graze” on roots. Endoparasite species spend most of their lives feeding inside the roots. Different species are more popular in different soil types, for instance, ectoparasitic species are more common in sandier soils. No matter the species, all nematodes can lead to moisture and nutrient uptake restrictions and lead to yield-robbing diseases, like root rot.

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Each year, nematodes are responsible for more than $3 billion loss due to crop damage*. While many nematode species feed on both corn and soybeans, soybean specific species do not typically feed on other plant types. Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) infestations can cut yields as much as 30 percent and not only cause stunting, yellowing, early death, reduced nodulation and lower yields, but can also serve as an entry point for other diseases. SCN is the number one cause of yield loss in soybeans and is prevalent in majority of the soybean acres in the United States.

Schwartz says the most critical time to control nematodes is in the first 30-45 days the seed goes in the ground. Nemasect™ controls nematodes within 24 to 48 hours and impacts both egg and juvenile nematode populations for up to 60 days. But this revolutionary nematicide doesn’t stop there. With its multiple modes of action, it also acts as a powerful insecticide and has activity on many soil-dwelling insects.

Management practices like crop rotation, eliminating winter annual weed species, planting resistant varieties, planting early, minimizing growth stresses, and using seed treatments can all aid farmers in the fight

“Damage to plants occur when nematodes feed on roots, which can heavily impact plant growth. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always develop aboveground symptoms.” against nematodes. Farmers should take advantage of the tools at their disposal to control damaging nematodes and protect yields, especially when one offers the effectiveness of Nemasect.

A revolutionary nematicide and insecticide, Nemasect comes standard as part of Beck’s Escalate® seed treatment on corn and soybeans. The best part? It comes at no additional charge, so it’s putting even more money back into farmers’ pockets. Farmers can be confident their crops have an added defense against nematodes and insects, and can look forward to additional yield protection. *Society of Nematologists. “Information on Nematology.” 2018. Web. https://nematologists.org/resources/information-on-nematology/ **Corn results from two-year field trials at 50 locations (2016 and 2017) vs. competitive standard. Corn trials conducted in nematode infested fields in NE, MN, MO, IA, IL, IN, OH and AL. Soybean results from two-year field trials at 124 locations (2016 and 2017) vs. competitive standard. Soybean trials conducted in nematode infested fields in IN, IL, IA, OH, WI, MN, NE, KY, VA, NC, GA, AL, LA, MS, AR. Individual results will vary based on nematode pressure in each field.

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Xtend LGS2680RX covers a wide footprint across the LGS1018RX corn belt. Awesome yields were reported in Relative Maturity 1.0 research trials. A non-SCN soybean that is a very Xtend strong performer in all environments.

LGS1018RX is a key introduction for tough iron deficiency chlorosis acres, as tolerance will rival LGS2989RX other products. Has proven performance on both Relative Maturity 2.9 IDC and non-IDC acres. The main area of adap- Xtend tion will be from northeast South Dakota through LGS2989RX has the best IDC tolerance in this Minnesota. maturity range. Good plant height, good standability and is tolerant to sulfonylurea herbicides.

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Recognizing and preventing lameness in dairy cows ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Lameness in your dairy cows is detrimental not only to herd health, but to your bottom line as well. Economically, the results of foot disease are much greater than the treatment costs. Reduced milk yields, lower reproductive performance, increased involuntary cull rates, discarded milk, and the additional labor costs to manage lame cows lead to the largest monetary loses. Studies in New York have shown that lameness is one of the most expensive health problems, at a cost of $90 per cow. How can you avoid these problems and the high costs they bring?

Step one is knowing how to identify lameness. We all know cows that are limping or are favoring a certain leg are lame; but typically those cows can been lame for quite some time. To reduce pain and negative impact, catching lameness early is important. Let’s review locomotion scoring using the scale developed by Zinpro, which scores cattle on a 1-5 scale.

A score of 1 indicates a normal cow.

She stands and walks with a level

back, and makes long, confident strides.

A score of 2 is a cow that is mildly lame. When standing, her back will be flat, but will arch when she walks. Her gait will be slightly abnormal.

A score of 3 is given to a moderately lame cow. She stands and walks with an arched back and short strides with one or more legs. Slight sinking of dewclaws in limb opposite to the affected limb may be evident.

A score of 4 is a cow that is lame.

When standing and walking, her back is arched. She’ll favor one or more limbs, but can still bear some weight on them. Sinking of the dew claws is evident in the limb opposite of the affected limb.

A score of 5 indicates a severely lame cow. There will be pronounced arching of the back, she will be reluctant to move, and will almost completely transfer weight off of the affected limbs.

There are three main areas to encourage hoof health and reduce lameness.

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Keep in mind that hoof trimming can be stressful for cows and may lead to a 10 percent reduction in milk yield directly after trimming. However, regular trimming has the potential to increase the longevity by one lactation.

A popular time for many dairies to trim hooves is during the early dry period, as this can reduce or avoid some of the adverse effects of the stress of hoof trimming.

Another area to focus on in preventing lameness is nutrition. Most lameness occurs in the first 100 days of lactation, when cows are susceptible to a whole host of problems. Proper nutrition can help combat many of these issues. Rations that lead to acidosis can also lead to laminitis. The difficult part is typically managing the high percentage of carbohydrates in the diet. To feed carbohydrates correctly, measure fiber levels using neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber values. Fiber also must be in high enough concentration and have the right physical form and particle size.

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chewing and, therefore, increases saliva production and aids in efficient digestion. Successful feeding programs will maximize feed intake, minimize acidosis, while maximizing energy intake during early lactation.

Lastly, housing and environment play a huge role in preventing lameness and hoof problems. Cows confined to concrete all day are at higher risk for feet and leg problems. Cows should have sizeable, comfortable stalls and there should be 10 percent more stalls than there are cows. This will encourage at least 10 hours a day of laying time, which has been shown to reduce claw problems. If possible, provide cows time to be on dirt or pasture. When moving cows, allow them to go at their own pace to prevent slips and falls.

As always, for prevention and treatment of hoof problems consult with your veterinarian as well as your hoof trimmer and nutritionist. They can help you develop a thorough prevention plan and treatment plan for lame cows.

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Farm bill discussion highlighted ag lender’s seminar

By RENAE B. VANDER SCHAAF She is the ranking Democrat on The debate continues, sometimes The Land Correspondent the Senate Agriculture very heatedly.

Committee.

ORANGE CITY, Iowa — The “The farm bill is very close to be finsun was shining brightly when “The Senate bill calls for ished,” said Outlaw. “In my opinion, it pickups and other vehicles drove renaming the Margin Protection will be a positive for lenders. Crop on the Triple Box driveway near Program to Dairy Risk insurance was not harmed and comOrange City, Iowa on Nov. 1.

Management,” said Outlaw. “Do modity programs allow for a shift With declining prices for comnot be surprised if they figure between ARC and PLC. Changes have modities, talk of trade wars, farm out a way to grant larger farms a been implemented for farmers that bill debates that continue, just break. In the past, the large farm in multiple counties. how does one do any financial dairy farmers haven’t minded “A farm bill is important to farmers, planning or give advice to those the help going to smaller dairy as many producers would not have wanting to borrow money? producers. But now we are hear- lenders if not for the farm bill proing, ‘you are helping them grams,” he said. “It also provides a The Ag Lender’s Seminar planPhoto by Renae B. Vander Schaaf enough, now I want something’.” ning committee chose its speakers safety net.” and topics with those dilemmas in Texas A&M Agricultural Economics Professor Joe OutThe Senate bill wants to legalize Note: this event took place prior to mind. It was attended by ag lend- law presented an update on the farm bill. Outlaw often industrial hemp and make it eli- the 2018 mid-term elections. ers and those involved with agri- testifies before the ag committee. This is the sixth gible for federal crop insurance.

Renae B. Vander Schaaf is a farmer’s culture — either as a producer or farm bill Outlaw has worked with.

“I have seen many of these wife, speaker and author living on a with a business directly depenwonder crops come and go,” said Outlaw. farm in northwest Iowa. Contact her at stakeholders. dent on agriculture. Attendees came To do this, Outlaw says he and his Remember how the Emu was going to agripen@live.com v from five different states. colleagues try to dream up all of the save agriculture?”

Northwest Iowa Extension Dairy “what if’s?” which can affect agriculSpecialist Fred Hall organized this sec- ture. They also meet regularly with ond annual Ag Lender’s Seminar. farm families across the United States.

“When I came on board with Extension Some of these families have been visitin Iowa last year,” said Hall, “I found no ed since the start of AFPC 34 years ago. programming for ag lenders serving This is the sixth farm bill Outlaw has the dairy industry.” worked with. He often testifies before Hall modeled this program after the the ag committee. Both the house and Tri-State Lenders program in Dubuque, senate version are very similar to the Iowa where it is has been serving lend- current farm bill. ers for over 30 years. He strove to put “Getting seed cotton covered and together a seminar focusing on market dairy enhanced in the Bipartisan outlooks and “nuts and bolts” lender Budget Act was way bigger than the issues. leadership gets credit for,” said Dr. Topics covered during the seminar Outlaw. “Cotton producers wanted were the 2018 farm bill; milking robots; some type of coverage.” dairy markets outlook; market outlook; We strive to provide our customers with A cotton plant produces a boll, which barn safety; and accrual accounting. contains both lint and cottonseeds. It is a high quality product accomplishing this Ag lenders at the seminar appreciat- at the gin where the lint or cotton fiber ed the opportunity to hear the speak- is separated from the cottonseed. through quality production, processing and ers. They all agreed that lending was The debate is pretty heated on the conditioning. up, as was the number of struggling house bill version that would require farmers. It was still a small percentage SNAP participants to work 20 hours a increase for those in financial trouble. week or receive job training for ableBut they were seeing farmers being bodied adults between the ages of 18-59 proactive in reducing spending and with no children under six years old.

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MARKETING

Grain Outlook Fingers crossed for U.S./China talks The following marketing analysis is for the week ending Nov. 30.

CORN — As I write this, President Trump and Chinese President Xi had not yet met at the G20 Summit. I point this out for the fact that how this meeting pans out will likely have an immediate impact on price direction for the first week of December. Soybeans should see the biggest effect, but corn will be the recipient of spillover action. That said, we’ll look at what happened this week in the lead up to the meeting and possible results going forward.

Corn began the week on a sour note and then spent the rest of the week digging its way out.

March corn sank to its lowest level since late September on an PHYLLIS NYSTROM early negative spin to U.S./China CHS Hedging Inc. talks. The balance of the week, St. Paul we traded headlines and tweets that painted a rosier picture for the talks. Good export sales also lent a supportive air.

Russia seized three Ukrainian vessels saying they violated borders on the Azov Sea. Russia has blocked the area between the Black and Azov Seas, but Ukraine says it is having a limited impact on grain shipments as only 4-5 percent of Ukrainian grain exports go through the Azov Sea. As of this writing, the ships and sailors have not been released by Russia. This issue caused President Trump to cancel his meeting with Russian President Putin which was to take place at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires Nov. 30-Dec. 1. On the bright side, the United States signed the “new NAFTA” trade agreement with Mexico and Canada at the G20 Summit.

Weekly export sales exceeded expectations at 49.9 million bushels to bring total commitments to one billion bushels and 16 percent ahead of last year.

This was the largest weekly sales total in eight weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting year-on-year exports to be flat at 2.45 billion bushels. We need to average weekly sales of 36 million bushels to achieve the USDA’s target. Total commitments are 41 percent of the USDA ‘s outlook when the average for this date is 46 percent. Are we a little high on the forecast? There were no new crop sales this week. Total new crop sales are a measly 4.4 million bushels vs. 40.5 million bushels last year at this time.

See NYSTROM, pg. 21

Cash Grain Markets

corn/change* soybeans/change* St. Cloud $3.29 +.17 $8.02 +.53 Madison $3.31 +.14 $8.17 +.48 Redwood Falls $3.36 +.17 $8.31 +.47 Fergus Falls $3.24 +.15 $7.77 +.38 Morris $3.31 +.15 $8.02 +.43 Tracy $3.37 +.15 $8.22 +.43 Average:

$3.31

$8.09

Year Ago Average: $2.87 $8.75 Grain prices are effective cash close on Dec. 4. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Livestock Angles Demand for beef may be rising The livestock markets continue in their attempt to improve in price as we approach the end of the month of November. Both cattle and hogs are struggling to gain momentum in price improvement, but the path has been slow and very choppy. News regarding the export business has played a major role in the uneasiness in the livestock complex.

Hopefully, the month December will bring about more stability to these markets.

The cattle market has been on a slow grind in price appreciation for weeks and it may be showing signs of more improvement in the weeks ahead. One factor is that the latest U.S. JOE TEALE Department of Agriculture Cattle Broker on Feed report released Nov. 21 Great Plains Commodity was seen as friendly since placeAfton, Minn. ments were lower than anticipated. This along with the Monthly Cold Storage report which indicated a draw down on beef stocks in storage. On the cash side of the market, the prices paid for live inventory continue to inch higher for the past couple of weeks indicating the demand for beef continues to be firm and supplies appear to be slipping.

Overall, the cattle prices appear to be edging higher. However, at this juncture, it does not appear that there will be any major breakout in prices to the upside. Producers should continue to monitor market conditions and protect inventories as needed.

See TEALE, pg. 22

Grain Angles Know your break-even As this year’s harvest season winds down, it’s a great time of year to reflect on the challenges and successes the past year presented. Ask yourself if you have the parameters to identify the strengths and opportunities of your operation. As you begin planning for the year ahead, what drives your decisionmaking process?

Understanding your cash flow break-even price can serve as one of the greatest factors impacting the decision-making process for your business. The cash flow break-even price is the price necessary for your operation to cover all operational costs and inputs. No matter the enterprise you are in – whether it is crop, livestock or dairy, understanding your break-even will provide you NICOLE SKROCH with a foundation to drive deciCompeer sion making.

Financial Officer If you are just getting started Waite Park, Minn. with this concept, let’s look at a crop example. First, identify the number of acres for a crop and a realistic yield. On the expense side, identify all expenses collectively.

Operating expenses should include taxes, insurance, interest, depreciation, crop insurance, cash rent, full time employees and all crop input costs. Once your operating expenses are totaled, to get to your cash flow break-even you should add back any family living drawn from the farm and all term principal payments. Depreciation and any off farm or custom income should be reduced from this number to come up with a true operating expense.

Now that you have a total operating expense, determine whether or not a weighted percentage for each crop needs to be placed to better suit the true expense to grow each crop. Ask yourself, ‘does a corn acre cost your operation the same as planting a soybean acre?’

This weighted percentage is operation-specific. If this is new to you, refer to industry guidelines, your financial officer or start with a 60 percent corn and 40 percent bean percentage weight. Next, take your operating expense total multiplied by the percentage you set on the specific crop. This number divided by the acres and yield will get you to your break-even price for each crop.

Once you understand how to arrive at this number, you can begin to utilize your cash flow break-even to drive business decisions. What might this number See SKROCH, pg. 21

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

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Brazilian soybeans could be available for export early NYSTROM, from pg. 20 Weekly ethanol production was surprisingly higher even with the negative margins and reports of some plants closing or slowing their grind. Production was 6,000 barrels per day higher at 1.04 million bpd.

Ethanol stocks were 100,000 higher at 22.9 million barrels. Ethanol margins improved to a negative 12 cents per gallon. U.S. ethanol futures fell to their lowest level in 13 years! The Environmental Protection Agency released the 2019 RFS mandates in which they kept the ethanol portion of the 19.92 billion-gallon mandate at 15 billion gallons.

Outlook: Corn posted a key reversal higher on the weekly chart in anticipation of a spillover effect from soybeans if the talks between the United States and China go well on Dec. 1. A negative outcome at the trade talks could mean a weaker soybean market, which would be expected to spillover to corn. South American weather is moot at this time, but there are a couple of areas that will be monitored for dryness in the last half of December. For the week, March corn rallied 7.5 cents to close at $3.77.75 per bushel, July corn was 6 cents higher at $3.91.5, and December 2019 corn gained 4.5 cents to $3.99.75 per bushel. If a rally is seen next week, consider making a benchmark new crop sale.

SOYBEANS — January soybeans were much the same story as corn this week, falling hard on Nov. 26, but recovering the balance of the week. Negative sentiment concerning U.S./Chinese relations was a source of pressure, but later comments that the United States and China wanted to get a deal done were viewed positively. In general, it seems like everyone wants to come out looking like the “winner.”

President Trump has said if nothing gets done, he is ready to add addition tariffs on Chinese goods Jan. 1. Additional tariffs would include raising the current 10 percent tariff to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of goods with the possibility of tariffs on another $267 billion of imports. Russian President Putin said Russia is ready to fill the void left by the absence of U.S. soybeans and poultry supplies into China.

MARKETING What does the spread of African swine fever do to China’s meal and corn demand? They find new cases almost daily and many believe it’s worse than is being reported. China made their largest purchase of U.S. pork since February this week when they bought 240,000 metric tons.

Trade chatter sees China’s soybean import potentially falling to 6 million metric tons in December vs.

9.6 mmt last year. First quarter imports could slip to 12 mmt from 19.6 mmt last year. China’s soybean stocks at ports are estimated at 7.5 mmt, up from 6.1 mmt last year and the highest for this time of year in ten years. In October, China sourced 94 percent of their soybean imports from Brazil. They imported just 66.9 tmt of soybeans from the United States in October compared to 1.33 mmt a year earlier.

Argentina has been the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans in the first three months of the marketing year with 1.3 mmt. An unexpected daily export sale of 268.7 tmt of U.S. soybeans to unknown lent support mid-week, as did a late week 120 tmt sale to unknown.

Weekly export sales were disappointing at 23.1 million bushels with big cancellations to China and unknown. Marketing year-to-date, Argentina has booked 1.6 mmt. Total commitments are 32 percent behind last year at just 854.6 million bushels. We need to average 27.1 million bushels of sales per week to reach the USDA’s forecast for 1.9 billion bushels of exports. The USDA’s outlook for exports is for a yearon-year decline of 10.7 percent. There were no new crop sales. Total new crop commitments stand at 5.9 million bushels vs. 9 million bushels last year.

South American weather looks favorable for the first half of December. The vessel line-up waiting to unload soybeans at the Rosario and Santa Fe ports in

Argentina is increasing. On Nov. 28 there were 28 U.S. boats waiting to unload with an estimated 27 days wait time. Argentina’s soybean planting is nearly 41 percent complete compared to 47.3 percent complete on average. Argentina announced they signed a $1 billion contract with a Chinese state builder for rail improvements. The 634-mile project runs through Buenos Aires, Rosario and Mendoza province and is expected to reduce transportation costs by 55 percent since it will support longer trains.

Outlook: You will know the outcome of the U.S./ China meeting by the time this is published. If there was a truce of sorts, i.e. no additional tariffs are to be added in January, or they agree to keep talking, soybeans are expected to see a push higher in the short run. Factors tempering a sustained rally include: China’s battle with African swine fever, which is reducing meal demand and pushing their crusher margins into the red; heavy soybean purchases already made by China from Brazil; and Brazil’s anticipated record soybean harvest which is expected to be harvested early. With U.S. carryout expected to get closer to one billion bushels, even if tensions between the two countries improve, extensive rallies may be hard to hold. For the week, January soybeans jumped 14 cents higher at $8.94.75 per bushel, March was up 13 cents at $9.07.5, and November 2019 was 9.75 cents higher at $9.39.25 per bushel.

January soybeans also posted a key reversal higher on the weekly chart.

Nystrom’s notes: Contract changes for the week ended Nov. 30: Minneapolis December wheat edged 4.5 cents higher at $5.75.75, Chicago managed an 8.5 cent gain to $5.15.75, and Kansas City jumped 14.25 cents higher to $5.00.25 per bushel. Crude oil had a meager 51 cent rally to $50.93 per barrel, ULSD dropped 3 cents per gallon, RBOB was a nickel higher, and natural gas rallied 25.75 cents. The U.S. dollar index was 330 ticks higher. v

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Break-evens impact purchasing and land rent decisions SKROCH, from pg. 20 impact? Think about any purchase decision on the operation – especially purchasing inputs for the following year or setting triggers for your marketing plan. Once triggers are set, you can fine tune your plan as opportunities arise or changes necessary for increased efficiency.

With the economics currently facing the ag industry, operations that know and execute decisions based on their cash flow break-even are able to capture opportunities, even in short timeframes. As increasingly difficult decisions arise, you can utilize your break-even to consider taking on new rented

acres or purchasing additional land. Furthermore, knowing your break-even can assist you to making changes to your operation if your cash break-even price can’t be met to prevent operational loss.

Understanding that every operation is different is important because no two cost structures are the same and they can change quickly. Once you are able to create a decision making structure using your break-even price, it will allow you to take advantage of opportunities as they arrive more quickly.

Using benchmarking to measure your operation’s cash-flow break-even against others across the industry grants you even greater power. It will help you analyze what competitive advantages or disadvan-

tages your operation has. In addition to addressing questions like, where do you have staying power?

With the potential for limited opportunities for prices above your break-even, allow your break-even to drive the decision while putting your emotions aside.

If you are looking for additional resources, Compeer Financial offers a free margin manager tool on Compeer.com that can be used to help you assemble this data, and allows you in just a few clicks to be on your way to making a positive impact on your operation’s success.

For additional insights from Nicole and the rest of the Compeer team, visit Compeer.com v

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Think about this year’s practices when planning next crop FOLEY, Minn. — Even though corn and bean planting for the 2019 harvest is at least six months away, right now is the time to start evaluating your crop production systems.

While yields are going to be the primary concern, weed, fungal and insect issues can have a major influence on yields and should factor into management changes for next season. Look back at past years’ field histories to help determine if these problems have increased in severity or are being resolved by the current management scheme. This may be difficult as it is easy to forget what problems were present in corn or beans when you rotate those two crops sequentially, and may be even more difficult if there are other crops in the mix. Keep a physical copy of your field history and not just a mental copy.

Finally, consider everything you are

doing in your cropping system that influenced yield, a specific pest, or other concerns in question. A great example of this is cropping system influence on white mold in soybeans.

Fact sheets, articles and journals have stated there was a need to use integrated management or a holistic approach for white mold management. While it is easier to think of foliar fungicides, row spacing, plant population, variety selection, weed control, cover crops and soil fertility as separate issues, each one is known to have some influence on white mold infection severity.

White mold management begins by selecting a seed variety with a good level of resistance. This alone will only address a small piece of the problem.

Increased row spacing, reduced plant populations and a timely fungicide application have also been shown to aid

Pork cutout slip continues TEALE, from pg. 20 The hog market has been fairly volatile in recent weeks due the concerns over the outbreak of African swine flu in the Asian continent. This has moved the futures market from a discount to cash to a premium to the lean index.

This has prompted the idea that the U.S. exports of pork could possibly be increasing in the weeks and months ahead. There is also the fear that ASF may spread elsewhere in the world if not contained fairly soon.

At this point, the pork cutouts have so far continued to slip — which causes

some concern that the demand for pork is still not enough to overtake the current supply of pork. The Cold Storage report did indicate that pork supplies are continuing to decline on a monthto-month basis as well as lower than last year at this time. This trend shows some promise that the hog market could improve into the winter months.

As always, the supply and demand for pork will dictate the price and direction of that price in the future.

Producers should keep a close eye on market developments and protect inventories as needed. v

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in disease management.

Because foliar fungicides have performed inconsistently and may be costly to use, sole reliance on fungicides for management is not usually recommended. Choosing an optimal planting date, relative maturity and structural characteristics of the soybean plants may help, but effectiveness is highly determined by weather conditions during soybean reproduction. High weed presence may also add to the canopy which may favor disease development.

High soil fertility promotes plant growth and early canopy closure which can contribute to white mold develop-

ment.

All of these factors have one thing in common. By themselves, they won’t provide 100-percent control over white mold. On the other hand, together they can help limit yield losses and reduce white mold in fields. By recording what worked and what didn’t, you can turn the management dials and adjust them to better manage white mold. Keep this in mind while evaluating this fall as decisions made now will have a lasting impact next spring.

This article was submitted by University of Minnesota Extension. v

Ensure calves are getting proper ventilation ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Having good and adequate ventilation for your calves is crucial for overall health and the prevention of respiratory disease.

A component of ventilation that is sometimes overlooked is the stocking density of your calf pens. Just like cows, calves of all ages have space requirements that need to be met in order to keep them comfortable and healthy. Measure your pens and calculate total square footage, then divide by the number of animals in the pen.

Baby calves ages 0-2 months need a minimum of 30 square feet per animal.

For weaned calves aged 2-4 months, they also need about 30 square feet.

Heifers ages 4-8 months require 40 square feet of space per head, and heifers aged 8-12 months require 50 square feet. Those square footage measurements are for a bedded pen or pack area, and do not include feeding area.

For weaned calves, feeding area requirements are 18 inches with slant bar dividers. For 4-8 month old heifers, it’s 15 inches per animal and for 8-12

month old heifers it is 17 inches per animal.

Another important component of ventilation is ventilating rates. Ventilating rates vary based on the age of the animal and the current weather conditions. The following rates are given in Cubic Feet per Minute and measures the velocity of airflow.

For baby calves aged 0-2 months, the CFM requirements are 15 in cold weather, 30 in mild weather, 65 in warm weather, and 100 in hot weather.

Note that these requirements are per calf, so if you have 15 calves in your barn at this age during cold weather, they would require 225 CFM altogether. For calves and heifers aged 2-12 months, CFM requirements are 20 in cold weather, 40 in mild weather, 90 in warm weather, and 130 in hot weather.

So if you have 15 older calves in hot weather, their CFM requirement is 1,950 CFM. This article was submitted by University of Minnesota Extension. v

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Sell your land or real estate in 2015 AG side dumper, w/silage Schulte 1100 9’ 2 auger HD ‘13 JD 7215R, 4672 hrs, 4 valves, 30 days for 0% commission. ext, 24’ hitch drawn, $33,000, snowblower, 1000 PTO, 1000 PTO, Active Seat, Auto Call Ray 507-339-1272 call for details. 507-920-8251 $3,650; JD 725 ldr, 8’ QT Trac Ready, MFWD, Power bucket, 30-55 series mounts, Quad, 320/90R50 Rear Tires FOR SALE: Used auger for $5,900; JD 1075 running gear, w/duals, Thru Service InReal Estate 893/843 JD cornhead, $300. $975; JD 980 44’ field cult, spection at 4500 hrs, $68,500.

Wanted JD harrow, $7,450; Top Air Call 1-320-979-9460 320-212-2936 1100 60’ sprayer, w/x-fold WANTED: Land & farms. I boom, 13.6x38 tires, $3,750; FOR SALE: ‘89 Case IH 7130, Pre-Owned Machinery have clients looking for FWA, 5400 hrs, 18.4x42 rears dairy, & cash grain opera- 2004 G.P. 30 Ft Turbo-Till w/ Westfield 13x71 auger, w/LP at 60%, duals at 25%, 16.9x28 swing hopper, $3,900.

320tions, as well as bare land New R.H. & Reel A-One Con. fronts at 90%, rock box, re769-2756 parcels from 40-1000 acres. 2014 Great Plains #8326 cent eng OH, asking $42,000.

Both for relocation & invest- Discovator 26’ 5” (1800 A).

507-421-4732 We buy ments. If you have even 2004 JD #726 Mulch Finisher Salvage Equipment thought about selling con- 38 (200# Shanks) FOR SALE: JD 6115D, MFD, Parts Available tact: Paul Krueger, Farm & 2015 NEW #5HDRP Heavy w/ JD H310 loader & snow Hammell Equip., Inc. Land Specialist, Edina Re- 5’ Rock Picker w/ Reel/Hyd bucket, 400 hours. 507-381(507)867-4910 alty, 138 Main St. W., New Tongue. List $18,900 5781 Year End Special $9,900 Prague, MN 55372.

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This is an unprecedented opportunity for farmers and investors alike to acquire a huge holding of coveted and desirable cropland at public auction! This auction features two, nearly contiguous, blocks of land with over 3,500 acres highly productive cropland near Grygla, MN and 1,700 acres of mixed-use land around Four Town, MN. The Grygla Farm is substantially improved with drain tile and soil productivity ratings into the 90s. The Four Town Farm features cropland and hunting tracts.

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Opening December 3 & Closing December 13 Arnold Companies, Inc. Auction, St. Cloud, MN, Timed Online Auction

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Wes & Kate Nelson Farm Retirement Auction, Grove City, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening December 5 & Closing December 13 Allen Johnson Realignment Auction, Devils Lake, ND, Timed Online Auction Friday, December 7 at 11AM Brad Noyes Estate Farm Auction, Porter, MN Opening December 7 & Closing December 12 Ag Iron Online Auction - 12/12 , Upper Midwest Locations, Timed Online Auction Opening December 10 & Closing December 19 Nathan Dixon Inventory Reduction Auction, Steffes Group Facility, Litchfield, MN, Timed Online Auction Tuesday, December 11 at 12PM Quality Tested Hay Auction, Steffes Group Facility, Litchfield, MN Tuesday, December 11, 8AM -12PM Benson County, ND Land Auction - 779+/- Acres, North of Hamar, ND, Timed Online Auction Thursday, December 13 at 10AM Bauer Farms Partnership Farm Retirement Auction, Aberdeen, SD Opening December 17 & Closing December 27 Ralph & Kathleen Ochocki Farm Retirement Auction, Hendricks, MN, Timed Online Auction Tuesday, December 18 at 11AM Horstman Farms Retirement Auction, Howard Lake, MN Thursday, December 20 at 10AM Aglron Litchfield Event, Steffes Group Facility, Litchfield, MN Opening December 21 & Closing December 26 Aglron Online Auction - 12/26, Upper Midwest Locations, Timed Online Auction Wednesday, December 26 at 12pm Quality Tested Hay Auction & Customer Appreciation Brunch, Steffes Group Facility, Litchfield, MN Thursday, December 27 at 11AM Aglron Sioux Falls Event, Steffes Group Facility, Larchwood, IA Opening December 27 at 8AM & Closing December 27 at 12PM Richland County, ND Land Auction - 160+/-Acres, Wyndmere, ND,

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‘14 CIH Magnum 235, 480/80R50 rear duals, 380/80R38 single fronts, 23 speed creeper transmission, 4 remotes, 2585 hrs ............................................................................ $79,500 ‘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 ‘03 JD 8420, ILS, powershift, 380/90R54 duals, 9100 hrs ............................................................................ $59,500 ‘11 CIH Magnum 290 MFWD, 19 speed powershift, 480/80R50 single Tires, 3 point hitch is missing, 14000 hrs............... $24,000 ‘12 New Holland L218 skid steer loader, no cab, 72” bucket, 365 hrs .............................................................................. $19,750 ‘10 JD 9770 combine, 800/70R38 single tires, tank ext. 2WD, contourmaster, chopper, tank ext., 1650 sep. hrs, Just through service program ................................................................ $87,500 ‘13 JD 2720 17’6” disc ripper, rolling baskets ............. $17,000 ‘12 JD RSX 850I Gator, 190 hrs ....................................... $7,500

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TILLAGE 14’ Sunflower 4412-05.....................................$32,500 10’ Sunflower 4412-07 .................................... $31,000 ‘95 JD 726, 30’ ................................................ $21,500 10’ Wilrich QX2 37’ w/basket.......................... $38,500 Wilrich QX 55’5 w/bskt..................................... Coming CIH 730b cush. w/ leads ................................ $19,500

PLANTERS NEW White Planters ............................................... Call White 8182 12-30 w/liq ................................... $27,900 ‘12 White 8186, 16-30 w/liq. fert. .................... $45,000 ‘11 White 8516 CFS, Loaded .......................... $85,000 White 8186 16-30 w/liq .................................... Coming

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

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

COMBINES

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

MISCELLANEOUS

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

All Equipment available with Low Rate Financing (507) 234-5191 (507) 625-8649

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LOADER TRACTORS

‘14 JD 9560R, 1045 hrs, 5 hyd valves, 800x38 tires & duals, whl ‘09 NH TV6070, bi-directional, 3543 hrs, cab, air, 3pt, 540/1000 wgts ..............................................................................$210,000 PTO, 2 hyd valves, NH ldr w/84” bkt ............................$54,000 ‘13 JD 9360R, 1970 hrs, 1000 PTO, pwr shift, 620x42 tires & ‘11 Case SV300 skidsteer, cab, air, 1040 hrs, 2spd, ride control, duals .............................................................................$150,000 aux hyd, 72” bkt .............................................................$26,900 ‘02 JD 9320, 5341 hrs, pwr shift, 1000 PTO, 3 hyd valves, 8 new 18.4x46 tires & duals, universal auto steer ...................$89,000

COMBINES

‘92 JD 8760, 7558 hrs, 24spd, 3 hyd valves, eng OH at 6264 hrs, 20.8x38 tires & duals ..............................................$31,000 ‘13 JD S660, 1066 sep/1598 eng hrs, 4x4, 2630 display, ‘13 NH T9.390, 2557 hrs, pwr shift, 1000 PTO, 480x50 tires & duals, susp cab ..........................................................$120,000

Contour-Master, chopper, long unloading auger, 20.8x32 tires & duals ........................................................................$139,000

‘11 NH T9.390, 905 hrs, pwr shift, 4 hyd valves, hi-flow, HID ‘13 JD S660, 892 sep/1180 eng hrs, Contour-Master, chopper, lights, 480x50 tires & duals ........................................$120,000 520x38 tires & duals ...................................................$139,000 ‘94 C-IH 9270, 8533 hrs, pwr shift, 4 hyd valves, front wgts, ‘04 JD 9760, 2268 sep/3460 eng hrs, Contour-Master, chopper, 650x42 tires & duals, Outback auto steer .....................$33,500 480x42 tires & duals .....................................................$54,000

ADVERTISER LISTING 40 Square Cooperative Solutions ........................................ 4 Agri Systems ................................................................... 18 Anderson Seeds ................................................................ 19 Beck's Hybrids ........................................................ 1, 14, 15 Courtland Waste Handling ................................................ 11 Dairyland Seed Co. .......................................................... 12 Doda USA ....................................................................... 17 Fahey Sales ...................................................................... 25 Freudenthal Dairy & Mfg ................................................... 7 Gehl Company ................................................................... 8 Grain Millers ................................................................... 18 Keith Bode ....................................................................... 24 Larson Implement .......................................................23, 27 Minnesota Soybean ............................................................ 4 Minnwest Bank .................................................................. 5 Peterson Farms Seed......................................................... 17 Pruess Elevator ................................................................ 23 Roy E Abbott Futures ....................................................... 22 Schweiss Doors ................................................................ 24 SI Feeder/Schoessow .......................................................... 6 Smiths Mill Implement ..................................................... 26 Steffes Group ..............................................................23, 24 Upper Midwest Management ............................................ 26 Whitcomb Brothers ............................................................ 9 Wieman Auction ............................................................... 25 Ziegler ............................................................................... 3

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TRACK TRACTORS

‘01 JD 9750, 3013 sep/4156 eng hrs, Contour-Master, chopper,

520x38 tires & duals .....................................................$42,000 ‘15 C-IH 500 Quadtrac, 2750 hrs, 36” tracks, cab susp, HID lights, Pro 700 monitor & receiver ...............................$175,000 ‘01 JD 9650 STS, 3014 sep/4325 eng hrs, Contour-Master, chopper, 520x38 tires & duals .......................................$39,000 ‘14 C-IH 350 Rowtrac Quadtrac, 1865 hrs, 1000 PTO, 120” spacing, 18” tracks, 4 hyd valves, hi-flow ...................$152,000 ‘00 JD 9650 STS, 2645 sep/3623 eng hrs, single point hookup, ‘14 C-IH 340 Magnum Rowtrac, 290 hrs, lux cab, susp front axle, chopper, bin ext. ............................................................$42,000 18” belts, 6 hyd valves, 1000 PTO, 3pt .......................$180,000 ‘14 C-IH 5130, 660 sep/928 eng hrs, rock trap, chopper, ‘15 Challenger MT 845E, 3909 hrs, 30” belts, 4 hyd valves, HID lights ....................................................................$142,500 ‘04 Cat Challenger MT 755, 4844 hrs, 16” tracks, 3 pt, 1000 PTO, 88” track spacing, JD ATU ..........................$65,000

ROW CROP TRACTORS ‘12 Challenger MT 665D, 1332 hrs, front susp, 3pt, 1000 PTO, 5 hyd valves, 480x50 duals & front duals .......................$95,000 ‘12 JD 8235, 2WD, 1235 hrs, pwr shift, 3pt, 1000 PTO, 4 hyd valves, 18.4x46 duals, extra clean...............................$110,000

tracker, 700 monitor, 900x32 single tires .....................$132,000 ‘11 C-IH 5088, 1541 sep/1743 eng hrs, rock trap, chopper, tracker, 30.5x32 single tires. ..........................................$88,000 ‘09 C-IH 7088, 1275 sep/1807 eng hrs, rock trap, chopper, tracker, HID lights, Pro 600 monitor, 520x42” duals .....$92,000 ‘11 Claas Lexion 740, 1466 sep hrs/1899 eng hrs, 4x4, power bin ext, Contour-Master, chopper, 620x42 tires & duals ......$98,000

CORN HEADERS

‘13 C-IH Magnum 260, 577 hrs, 540/1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd ‘13 Drago 6R30 chopping, fits JD combine............................$25,000 valves, hi-flow, 420x46 tires & duals............................$110,000 ‘09 Drago 6R30 chopping, fits JD combine ........................$19,000 ‘13 C-IH Magnum 290, 1250 hrs, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd valves, big pump, 480x50 tires & duals, front duals & wgts...$110,000 ‘06 Drago 8R30 chopping, fits flagship C-IH combine .............$14,500 ‘12 C-IH Magnum 260, 1784 hrs, susp front, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 ‘13 C-IH 3408 8R30, hyd deck plates, fits flagship combine ....$21,000 hyd valves, 480x50 rear tires & duals, front duals ........$99,000 ‘08 C-IH 3208 8R30, hyd deck plates, fits flagship combine...$12,500 ‘04 C-IH MX285, 5540 hrs, 4 hyd valves, 3pt, 1000 PTO, 10 front wgts, 18.4x46 tires & duals, fresh eng OH ...........$59,000 ‘02 C-IH 2208 8R30, hyd deck plates, fits older 1600-2000 series C-IH combines ...............................................................$11,500 ‘13 NH T8.360, 1200 hrs, lux cab, 1000 PTO, 3pt, 4 hyd valves, 480x50 tires & duals, complete auto guide syst...........$110,000 ‘05 Geringhoff 8R30 chopping, fits JD combine ................$17,500 ‘06 NH TG210, MFWD, 4240 hrs, pwr shift, 540/1000 PTO, 3pt ‘83 JD 643 6R30, low tin, oil drive ..................................... $6,500 hitch, 4 hyd valves, 380x46 rear tires & duals, 380x30 front tires & duals ...................................................................$56,000

TILLAGE

‘03 NH TG230, MFWD, 3346 hrs, pwr shift, 540/1000 PTO, Mega flow hyd, 4 valves, 3pt, 380x46 tires & duals......$59,000 JD 512 5 shank disc ripper .................................................. $9,500 ‘11 Versatile 305, MFWD 690 hrs, 3pt, 4 hyd valves, 1000 PTO, JD 980 field cultivator, w/ JD harrow ................................$11,000 HID lights, 480x46 tires & duals ....................................$95,000

LOADER TRACTORS ‘06 JD 7420, MFWD, cab, air, 5164 hrs, IVT trans, 3pt, 540/1000 PTO, 3 hyd valves, JD H360 ldr w/QT bkt ....$62,000 ‘04 JD 7320, MFWD, cab, air, 3pt, 540/1000 PTO, 2 hyd valves, JD 741 ldr w/QT bkt & joystick ......................................$52,000

GRAVITY BOXES Brent 740 gravity box........................................................... $9,800

STEEL TRACK SET-UP FOR 9610 JD COMBINE ............................................................................... $4,500

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This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Managing Editor Paul Malchow.

Farmer’s market is theatre’s second act

T

ucked away on Central Ave. in downtown Faribault, Minn. is the Paradise Center for the Arts.

The Center is a delightful mixture of an old theatre with modern, multi-functional facilities. It is also a tribute to hard work and a community dedicated to preserving the arts.

As far as buildings go, the Paradise has had more lives than a cat. The facility is built on the original foundation of the 1885 Faribault Opera House, which was completely destroyed by fire in 1929.

The Paradise is an example of an “atmospheric” theatre, a Hollywood-inspired genre of architecture. Atmospherics are rich in fantasy décor, designed to divert the audience away from everyday cares and set the stage for the show to come on stage and screen. The architectural design and decorative scheme in an atmospheric theatre were planned to evoke the illusion that patrons were seated outdoors. This effect was achieved by projecting images of stars and moving clouds onto a painted, seamless ceiling, using a brenograph, which is a special type of projection equipment designed expressly for this purpose. The auditorium appeared to have no roof, and patrons seemed to be sitting outside under a starry summer sky.

The theatre served Faribault as a movie house until the early 1990s, when it fell victim to the more modern, multiplex theatres which had sprung up in the region. After several years of vacancy and decay, the building was extensively renovated in 2006 to include art galleries, classrooms, clay and textile labs, a gift shop and rehearsal spaces, in addition to a 300-seat

Faribault, Minn. auditorium. The Paradise Center for the Arts opened to the public in 2007. In 2008, The Paradise Center for the Arts received the Minnesota Preservation Alliance Restoration/Rehabilitation Award.

The image created for the Paradise is one of a walled Moorish courtyard. Branching off of the main foyer are gift shops displaying the work of a variety

of local artists.

In 2016, the Paradise became home for the Faribault winter farmers’ market.

Local vendors set up their wares in the lobby and auditorium.

“The Chamber of Commerce helped us get started,” said Tiffany Tripp of Graise Farm, one of the original 12 vendors in the market. “This year we’ll have 24 vendors.

We also have gift wrapping and live music.”

Vendors offer a wide variety of goods including apples, baked goods, eggs, hot pepper jelly from homegrown peppers, locally roasted coffee, maple syrup, honey, beef, chicken, fish, microgreens, soap, lotion, essential oils and yarn goods.

The market kicked off its season on Nov. 17 and will continue at the Paradise every Saturday through Dec. 22. After a January hiatus, the market will be open on the first Saturday of February, March and April.

But the farmers’ market is only a piece of the Paradise Center for the Arts offerings. A local actors group, The Merlin Players, are performing “Santa Diaries Part Two — A Christmas Wedding” from Dec. 7-16. On Dec. 20 Mick Sterling takes the stage with a “Grand Ole Opry Christmas with Memphis & The Meantimes.” Kat Perkins, a finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” will perform in “A New Year’s Celebration” on Dec. 30. There are also numerous craft and art classes held throughout the year. A complete schedule is available on the Center’s website, www.paradisecenterforthearts.org.

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