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Amid the machinery, marketing and events such as Farmfest to work the hustle of this year’s Farmfest, I came FCFI ministry. across two exhibits which were definitely He is also an accomplished musician. agriculture-related, but had to do more The Peterson family and friends have with the soul than the soil. assembled a band, Heart Song, which If you attended this year’s event, which performs about 30 shows a year. The took place Aug. 6-8 at the Gilfillan Estate group has recorded 16 albums. Proceeds in Minnesota’s Redwood County, chances from Heart Song concerts and donations were good you met Doug Peterson. Part derived from the CDs help fund the walkLAND MINDS farmer, part musician and part evangeing sticks and FCFI mission work. list, Peterson was working the crowd on

By Paul Malchow “I became interested in music in college, behalf of the Fellowship of Christian where I met my wife,” Peterson said.

Farmers International.

“Music was my sweet spot. We’ve had The FCFI is made up of about 4,000 the opportunity to record our music in members who actively Nashville and even support the ministry became associated with through prayer and Reba McIntyre. In the 40 financial giving. Nearly years we’ve been doing 15,000 members are on Heart Song, we’ve given the organization’s role. away about 200,000 copThe group has been ies of our CDs.” involved in what it calls Handing out thousands “Rapid Action” operations of walking sticks and giv— assisting farmers and ing away boatloads of ranchers dealing with CDs for all of these years weather-related disasters. doesn’t come cheap, yet FCFI also sends teams of Peterson and his crew volunteers on mission keep going. “It’s a miracle projects to nations Photos by Paul Malchow how God has provided,” around the world such as Many Farmfest attendees could be seen sporting Peterson admitted. “As Mexico, Albania, Russia, walking sticks provided by the Fellowship of Christian long as we can keep Romania, East Africa, the Farmers International. The ministry handed out thougoing, we’re going to do Philippines and India. sands of the sticks during the three-day event. it.”

These projects involve To learn more about things like construction the work of FCFI and of churches, well drilling, donate to its cause, visit installation of irrigation their website at www.fcfi. systems and distribution org. Heart Song also has of seeds. a website where you can Peterson and his merry listen to some of their band of volunteers stood songs, order CDs and see in the hot sun greeting a schedule of appearancFarmfest attendees — es. They can be found at handing out walking www.heartsongminissticks, exchanging pleastries.net. antries and getting in a Not far from Peterson’s quick couple of sentences encampment sat an ordiabout FCFI’s work as nary-looking grain bin people hurried off. bearing the statement, “THIS IS A HOUSE.” And Judging by the number of people indeed it is, but not just any house. The structure is toting those walking sticks, the a Safe T Home designed by Sukup Manufacturing. efforts are going well. Peterson estimated 3,500 walking sticks will be Sukup Safe T Homes are modified grain bins distributed by Farmfest’s end. designed to provide safe, stable, short and long-term housing for people in developing countries. Sukup “The rural community is a comdeveloped the Safe T Home in 2010 and has partmunity of faith,” said Peterson.

“People are glad we’re here.”

Doug Peterson nered with GoServe Global to distribute the structures to those in need.

Peterson grows corn and soybeans near East GoServ Global is a faith-based non-profit organiChain, Minn. Once the crops are in the ground and zation founded in 2011 by Iowa farmer Ken on their way, he spends the months of June, July See LAND MINDS, pg. 4 and August attending town festivals, fairs and

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Whipping the soy-boys is no way to win customers P.T. Barnum, the quintessential while nervously confessing they see vegeAmerican showman, might have found table-based meat as an existential threat today’s food carnival more interesting to the livestock and poultry sectors. and far more profitable than his nameThat farm reaction was not unexpected. sake circus of yore.

It is, after all, what we in U.S. ag often For example, slow food is taking note of do: We condemn first; then — maybe, the fast rise of meatless, or plant-based, maybe not — ask for the facts. burgers this year. Veggie burgers, their The fact is, meat alternatives snagged previous incarnation, are not new. The only $4.3 billion of the $900 billion-plus FARM & FOOD FILE lovely Catherine has been buying and global meat market in 2018. Market anatrying them for decades. This year, howBy Alan Guebert lysts see mock meat sales rising 6.8 perever, two companies, Beyond Meat and cent per year through 2023, to an Impossible Foods, introduced high-tech arguably unimpressive $6.3 billion, veggie versions of the American classic even as real meat sales grow faster. and both have rocked eaters and Burger King is proving that forecast spot on. investors alike.

On Aug. 31, market watchers told Business In her Sept. 2 Washington Post review of a Beyond Burger, food writer Alicia Kennedy (a long-time veg- Insider that Burger King’s recent 6 percent increase gie burger devotee) noted, “… when it arrived and I in sales rested on two unforeseen facts: it’s meatless meat entrée, called the Impossible Whopper (from took a bite, I immediately began to tear up… I was Impossible Foods), is driving new customers to its so sure I’d just eaten beef for the first time in 7,000 U.S. retail outlets; and, once there, “traditional years.” beef Whoppers sales have also increased...”

Joyous tears have also flooded Wall Street for An even more plausible reality is that the biggest Beyond Burger’s parent company, Beyond Meat. On threat to meatless meat will come from other meatMay 2, the company offered its first public shares at less meat newcomers attempting to catch their veg$25 apiece. Prices that day closed at $65.75, then gie lightening in a bun. they really took off. On July 26, shares hit $235 before dropping back to “just” $165 on Sept. 3 — a More importantly, some of the newcomers aren’t 660 percent rocket ride in just four months. new. They are the biggest of big boys in Big Ag. Many farm groups (and most ag pundits, too) “The big guns of ADM [Archer Daniels Midland], aren’t as impressed as fake meat’s eager eaters and Cargill, Tyson and a host of others are elbowing for gilded investors. All but a few scoff at the very idea space, each keen for a serving of the latest and of meatless meat tasting anything close to real meat greatest in alternative meat fare,” noted Chris

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And, he added, “Innumerable smaller companies are jumping into the game, with new startups popping up monthly.”

Despite that rising investment surge in mock meat, farmers and ranchers — and chickens, beef cattle, lambs, goats, hogs, turkeys, and anything else that sizzles when fried, roasted, grilled or boiled — are not an endangered species.

In fact, veggie burger or not, the number of vegans and vegetarians in the United States has not increased in 20 years. Moreover, Ethan Brown, the co-founder of Beyond Meat, told Vox in March “that 93 percent of consumers who buy Beyond Meat also buy animal meat — and he’s fine with that.”

Farmers and ranchers should be fine with that, too. Today’s global meat market is nearly $1 trillion strong; and vegans, vegetarians and meatless meat lovers wouldn’t make a noticeable dent in it if all gathered weekly on the National Mall for a black bean burger binge.

Indeed, most only want one thing: healthy, nutritious, great tasting food that’s not fake anything.

The first one that consistently delivers what the customer wants, wins.

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Farming community quick to support those less fortunate LAND MINDS, from pg. 2 DeYoung and pastor Terry Baxter. It’s mission is to provide essential humanitarian aid to some of the most impoverish nations on the globe — especially those which have experienced catastrophic natural disasters.

GoServ Global has also responded to disasters here in the United States.

GoServ Global’s Chipper Fyfe provided a quick tour of the Safe T Home. The building is 18-feet in diameter, providing 254 square feet of space. While the 20-guage galvanized steel exterior resembles a basic grain bin, there are several features you won’t find on the farm.

The Safe T Home has a double roof structure which allows for ventilation to keep the interior

cool. There are two “ballast boxes” on the outside which can be filled with material to help anchor the home. Safe T Homes can also be anchored to a concrete slab or secured to the ground using soil-penetrating anchors.

“We had 200 Safe T Homes set up in Haiti when hurricane Matthew hit in 2016,” Fyfe said. “Every one of them survived the storm.”

GoServ Global representative Chipper Fyfe conducted tours of a Safe T Home at Farmfest on Aug. 8. Designed by Sukup Manufacturing, the structures are distributed to provide shelter to those in need.

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It costs GoServ Global about $7,000 to purchase, ship and build a Safe T Home. Fyfe said the organization relies on donations to continue its mission.

For more information on GoServ Global and the Safe T Home, visit the organization’s web site at www.goservglobal.org.

Paul Malchow is the managing editor of The Land.

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Sept. 14 — Farm at the Arb Field Festival — Chaska, Minn. — Learn the plant-to-plate story about where our food comes from and how food is grown to meet the needs of the future. Sample Minnesota grains, shop for apples. — Contact the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum at (952) 443-1400.

Sept. 16 — Cover Crops, Tillage and Trout: How are they connected? — Northfield, Minn. — Explore the watershed connections between agriculture, conservation, water quality and habitat. Topics include how to better manage tile drainage, an electro fishing demonstration, habitat, a stream table and aquatic insect presentation. — Contact Alan Kraus at alan@crwp.net or (507) 786-3913.

Sept. 18 — Dirt Rich: Building Soil Health — Becker, Minn. — Topics include grazing full-season cover crops, no-till, perennial pasture management and interseeding cover crops in cash crops. A soil pit demonstration and rainfall simulator will also take place. — Contact Jason Walker at jason@sfa-mn. org or (844) 922-5573 ext. 702.

Sept. 18 — Learning More About Silvopasture — Becker, Minn. — Combining trees with pasture to benefit both livestock and the land. Topics include silvopasture, oak savanna restoration, grazing management and boosting farm profitability. — Contact the Sustainable Farming Association at info@sfamn.org or (844) 922-5573.

Sept. 18-19 — Minnesota Nutrition Conference — Mankato, Minn. — General session will focus on current technology and the future of animal production. Topics include consumer perspective on animal disease; feed efficiency; the role of omics in animal nutrition; and an update on animal protein and feed ingredient markets. Day two features experts in ruminant and monogastric nutrition. Topics include micronutrients; traditional and alternative feed sources; and the latest information on African swine fever. — Contact Alfredo DiCostanzo at (612) 590-7395.

Sept. 25-27 — Women in Agribusiness Summit — Minneapolis, Minn. — Topics include leadership; sustainability; fertilizer innovations; commodity risk management; American commodities in China; workplace stress; negotiation skills. — Contact Women in Agribusiness at (612) 370-1234.

Sept. 26 — Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture — St. Paul, Minn. — Includes a panel discussion on recent research with swine veterinarians, farm employees and health professionals centered around the use of antimicrobial products and the poential transfer of resistance via food or direct contact with animals. — Contact Diane Kampa at dkampa@umn.edu or (612) 626-4826.

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Simple craft project provides home for bees The well-deserved attention pollinators are getting has fostered garden items for sale that include “insect hotels” which are houses made for solitary tunnel nesting insects. I was a skeptic when I first saw these little houses, but now appreciate their role in helping preserve our pollinators.

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assembled their bug houses inside gallon juice bottles cut in half and bound together with duct tape. It was a hit with the kids and also with their parents.

In keeping with the pollinator theme, we had a speaker telling us all about Mason bees. After hearing the fascinating Mason bee

Mason bees are solitary tunnel nesters in contrast with honey bees who have communal hives. Mason bees do not have drilling mouth parts so they can’t make their own nesting holes and use holes previously made by woodpeckers IN THE GARDEN or carpenter bees. Like honey bees, the female

By Sharon Quale Mason bees do all of the nesting and foraging to care for the young. After mating, the females search for nectar and pollen and bring it to the tube home they have selected and form it into a sticky nectar ball. Then she lays an egg on the food ball and seals it in the tube with mud. She does this repeatedly and caps the end of the tube with mud. The eggs hatch and the larvae eat the food left by mom and pupate (form cocoons) inside the tube. They stay there until spring when they emerge from the cocoon and the cycle repeats itself.

Photos by Sharon Quale Most solitary bees have a short life After purchasing my “Bee Hotel,” Mason bees began filling the sections in span and once they select their nesting hole will less than a week. only fly a few information, I purchased a house and hundred feet in the adventure began! My bee hotel search of nechad its first occupants in less than a tar. The world week. It was interesting to see how is home to over many “suites” were filled each day.

21,000 species There is some maintenance and the of bees and 90 house needs to be cleaned in the percent of them spring or new tubes put in to discour- are solitary. age disease. Houses should be mount- Mason bees ed facing south about six feet off the don’t sting and Mason bees cannot make their own nestground. they are cute ing holes and rely on little creatures. found holes – often Providing made by woodpeckers or carpenter bees. housing for bees is a lowmaintenance hobby and the pollination payoff is huge. Since their range is close to their nesting site, they make perfect pollinators for home gardens and fruit trees.

Sharon Quale is a master gardener from central Minnesota. She may be reached at (218) 738-6060 or squale101@yahoo.com. v Building bee hotels is an excellent children’s project. They can be constructed out of a variety of materials found around the house.

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Zero visibility does not have to mean zero hope Of all the days to take in would be like to be in the the glorious views of the middle of a cloud!”

Sandia Mountains on a Landon agreed. And when tram ride, this was not it. the tram doors opened at The number of days on our the peak of our destination, short trip to see our youngthe kids reached up and est daughter and her husgrasped at the clouds, band in Albuquerque, N.M. expecting to grab cotton were limited. And Day 2 candy.

THE BACK PORCH was the day we promised Nothing. our fellow Minnesota travBy Lenae Bulthuis eling companions, grandThe adults reached up boys Landon (8 years) and Jackson (6 and expected to feel water. years), that we would take the tram.

Nothing.

So we did.

Which is a picture of what life can The Sandia Peak Tram is the longest feel like at zero visibility. Nothing. No aerial tram in the United States. joy, hope or happiness. No appetite, According to its promotional informa- sleep or focus. Which is depressing for tion, it takes 15 minutes to ascend the a day, and can be devastating when 10,378-foot crest of the mountains. On you’re not sure if and when the clouds a clear day, you can take in an 11,000 will lift again. square mile panoramic view. But that She said it through tears. “I’m so wasn’t the story on this April day. sick of people telling me to give it After our tickets were in hand and time.” Her cloud cover was three we were waiting to board the tram, we months long, with no light in sight. watched the clouds descend. Once we My heart wept with her eyes. were aboard, there was much beauty There is no 60-day guarantee with to take in for the first half of the ride; hard roads. I’ve known others who but by the time we approached the have heard, “Give it time,” and are peak, our tram operator announced many more months down the leg of that we now reached a level of zero their zero-visibility journey. visibility.

How much time does it take to make My first thought was that the boys your way through depression, grief, would be disappointed. The adults in separation, suffering, or a season of our group had experienced this tram hard transition? I’ve got nothing — no ride before. The boys had not. Their timelines and no pat answers. response reiterated that everything I knew about raising girls means nothBut this I know: zero visibility does ing in the life of boys. not mean zero availability to the help needed. To those who dare to voice Zero visibility had zero ability to their pain, there are people ready and diminish their excitement. Jackson willing to help. I’ve been the giver and said, “I’ve always wondered what it

Panel of ag commissioners to open WIA Summit MINNEAPOLIS — Four of the 14 women who serve as U.S. commissioners of agriculture will be featured in the opening day keynote panel at this fall’s Women in Agribusiness Summit.

The summit take place Sept. 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis.

The panelists include: Kate Greenberg, Colorado commissioner of agriculture; Celia Gould, Idaho director of agriculture; Bettina Ring, Virginia secretary of agriculture and forestry;

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the receiver on that pendulum. You probably have, too. We need each other, and we are better together.

Here’s the thing, people are not the primary ones to help us through. God is with us at all times and places. I’ve known that since age 5, but as an adult (thanks to author Alli Worthington), I’ve also learned that I don’t have to fake it until I make it.

Instead, I can faith it until I make it.

By grace, I can be confident of what I cannot yet see.

On bright days and zero visibility days, we always have a choice. Will we

trust God or not? What this farmgirl knows is even when we reach up to grab the clouds of our circumstances and seemingly grab at nothing, God is there. He loves us, is for us, and is with us always. And on all days, that’s enough for me.

Lenae Bulthuis muses about faith, family, and farming from her back porch on her Minnesota grain and livestock farm. Her blog can be found online at www.lenaebulthuis.com and she can be reached via email at lenaesbulthuis@gmail.com. v

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Classroom or combine, these recipes keep you on the go creamy coleslaw: The time has come to dust 2/3 cup mayonnaise off the old backpacks, get 1/3 cup sour cream that snazzy new haircut, 2 tablespoons cider vinegar and head to the store with 2 teaspoons sugar supply list in tow. It’s back 1/2 teaspoon celery seed to school time. Of course, 1/4 teaspoon salt back to school time also 4 cups shredded red or green cabmeans it’s about harvest bage time. Packing harvest or COOKING 1 cup shredded carrot school lunches can be a WITH KRISTIN challenge. You can quickly Heat oil over medium-high heat

By Kristin Kveno get burnt out of the same in a very large skillet. Brown pork sandwich day after day, and in hot oil on all sides. Place finding creative lunch ideas can tough. browned pork and onions in 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Combine tomato sauce, vinegar, brown Here are some fresh recipes to brighten up anyone’s lunch — whether sugar, the salt, cayenne pepper and black pepper in a medium bowl. Pour over pork and it’s eaten in a school cafeteria or in a onions. Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 combine.

Tuna sandwiches may seem kind of blah; but hours or on high for 5 to 6 hours. Transfer pork this recipe takes tuna, spices it up and puts it in to a cutting board; reserving cooking juices and a wrap. It’s portable, it’s fresh and it’s delicious. onions. When cool enough to handle, cut pork off bones and coarsely chop. Combine pork, I made this for my family and was thrilled to onions and as much of the juices as desired to find a tuna recipe that was this tasty. moisten in a bowl. For creamy coleslaw: comSpicy Tuna Wrap bine mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, sugar, http://wildselections.com/sustainable-recipes/ celery seed and salt in a large bowl. Stir in cabspicy-tuna-wraps/ bage and carrot. Cover and chill for at least 2 4 ounce can tuna hours before serving. Serve pork on buns with 1-1/2 - 2 tablespoons mayonnaise creamy coleslaw.

1 teaspoon soy sauce n 2 teaspoons sriracha Needing a quick snack or easy breakfast on 2 wraps the go, then this is the recipe for you. Bananas 2/3 cup matchstick carrots and chocolate chips are the star students in this 1/2 hass avocado, sliced 1/2 cucumber, peeled and sliced into long sticks recipe. You’ll be giving these muffins an A+ after trying these tasty treats.

In a small bowl, mix together the tuna, mayonnaise, soy sauce and sriracha. Divide the tuna Banana Chocolate Chip Cups salad between the two wraps. Divide the vege- www.thereciperebel.com/banana-chocolatetables between the two wraps. Wrap and enjoy! chip-baked-oatmeal-cups-recipe-video/ 4 overripe bananas, mashed n Pulled pork is a hit whether you’re enjoying it 2 large eggs in the field or in the school cafeteria. This recipe 2 cups milk 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed smoothers tender pulled pork in a tangy bbq 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder sauce and puts it on a fresh kaiser bun with 1 teaspoon vanilla extract creamy coleslaw.

2 teaspoons cinnamon BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches 4 cups large flake rolled oats www.allrecipes.com/recipe/232773/bbq-pulled- 1 cup chocolate chips pork-sandwiches/print/?recipeType=Recipe&ser Preheat oven to 250 degrees and spray or line vings=16&isMetric=false two muffin pans with liners. In a large bowl 1 tablespoon vegetable oil combine bananas, eggs, milk and brown sugar 4 pounds pork shoulder roast with a whisk until smooth. Add baking soda, 1 large onion, thinly sliced vanilla and cinnamon and whisk until smooth.

1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce Stir in oats and chocolate chips. Fill muffin cups 2/3 cup cider vinegar three-fourths full and bake for 25 to 30 minutes 3 tablespoons brown sugar, packed until golden brown on top. Store in refrigerator 1/2 teaspoon salt for up to one week or in the freezer for three to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper six months.

1/4 teaspoon black pepper n 16 kaiser rolls split and toasted

Great salami can take a good sandwich and make it awesome. This recipe adds fresh mozzarella and roasted red pepper for a sandwich worth heading back to class for.

Salami Mozzarella Red Pepper Sandwich www.thespruceeats.com/salami-mozzarellared-pepper-sandwich-recipe-4107031 1-5 inch Italian sub 1 tablespoon really good olive oil 4 thick slices of fresh mozzarella 1/2 cup roasted red peppers 1/4 pound genoa salami a handful of fresh basil salt and pepper to taste Use a serrated knife to cut the Italian sub roll in half. Place sub roll on butcher or wax paper and drizzle both sides with olive oil. Add mozzarella to one-half and sprinkle with salt. Next, add roasted red peppers, genoa salami and a handful of fresh basil. Close sandwich and tightly wrap the butcher or wax paper around it. Roll and cut down the middle. Serve immediately or wrap it up for later. n These bars have yogurt and fruit in them so ditch the spoon and enjoy this portable treat that will leave you thinking, “why did I ever enjoy fruit and yogurt any other way?”

Yogurt Fruit Bars www.recipe4living.com/recipes/fruit_yogurt_ bars.htm 1-1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1 package of mixed dried fruit 1 cup yogurt 1 egg 1/4 cup apple juice concentrate Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a pan with cooking spray. Chop the package of dried fruit. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl and then add the chopped fruit. In a separate bowl, mix the yogurt, egg, oil and apple juice concentrate. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. When ingredients are well blended spread into prepared pan. Bake for 50 minutes and let the bars cool before cutting and serving.

Whether you’re heading to the school bus or heading to the field, make a few of these lunch recipes to keep your belly full and your mind ready to take on any task at hand.

Kristin Kveno scours the internet, pours over old family recipes and searches everywhere in between to find interesting food ideas for feeding your crew. Do you have a recipe you want to share? You can reach Kristin at kkveno@thelandonline.com. v

Apply for tax credit by Oct. 1 ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Rural Finance Authority reminds beginning farmers and asset owners to apply for the tax credit for the sale or lease of land, equipment, machinery and livestock by Oct. 1.

To qualify, the applicant must be a Minnesota resident with the desire to start farming; or who began farming within the past ten years. Applicants must provide projected earnings statements, have a net worth less than $836,000, and enroll in or have completed an approved financial management program. The farmer cannot be directly related to the person from whom he or she is buying or renting assets. The tax credit for the sale or lease of assets can then be applied to the Minnesota income taxes of the owner of the farm land or agricultural assets.

Three levels of credits are available: 5 percent of the lesser of the sale price or fair market value of the agricultural asset up to a maximum of $32,000; 10 percent of the gross rental income of each of the first, second and third years of a rental agreement, up to a maximum of $7,000 per year; or 15 percent of the cash equivalent of the gross rental income in each of the first, second or third year of a share rent agreement, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.

Interested farmers should note that they can also apply for a separate tax credit to offset the cost of a financial management program up to a maximum of $1,500 per year for up to three years.

The tax credit is available on a firstcome, first-served basis.

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There’s plenty of ‘loafing’ at the Arends family farm was to learn to bake it, and she did. She was

By RICHARD SIEMERS also home-schooling their children.

The Land Correspondent “Sometimes I would read to my two oldest WILLMAR, Minn. — Alan and Helen daughters,” she said. “To keep their hands Arends are still figuring out how to develop busy, they would make jewelry while they listhe 250-acre farm on which Alan is the fourth tened.” generation to live. It has been transitioned to organic, but Alan is still experimenting to When the jewelry piled up, they decided a determine which crops and markets will bring lesson in entrepreneurship would be good for a good return. Alfalfa sold to a dairy farmer the girls, so they took them to the weekly marand grass-fed beef are the main farm enterket in Willmar to sell jewelry. One week, prises right now. They’re not certain what the Helen decided to bake bread and take it along. end-product will look like.

She baked 11 loaves and sold seven. The bread was a hit.

But somehow you can be confident that after Alan (a Willmar native) and Helen (a “It went from 11 to 20 to 30 to 40 loaves,” Moscow, Russia native) figured out how to Helen said. Eventually she was up to 100 complete a 5,000 mile romance which resulted loaves and people were lining up to buy bread in marriage and eight children (ages 2-22), before the market opened. She now bakes 120 they will figure this out, too. loaves — plus scones, fresh baklava, pies, biscotti, and other pastries and dessert items.

In the meantime, bread, pizza, grass-fed They are sold at the market and by subscripbeef and free-range chickens are providing for tion. their needs.

Since the market was seasonal and she Let’s go back to the beginning. wanted a year-round stream of income, a Alan was in his late teens when he went on Photos by Richard Siemers daughter suggested she have a subscription a mission trip to Russia in 1992. Helen was a Helen (left) and Alan Arends took over his grandfather’s farm and service — like a magazine. During farmer’s Russian teenager who served as an inter- found a niche in baking to help make ends meet. market season, subscribers can pre-order preter for his group. They obviously were rather than take their chances at the market. attracted to each other.

Alan’s widowed grandfather still lived on the farm. The rest of the year subscribers get a weekly loaf, “He had a very original pick-up line,” Helen said Alan worked with his father in manufacturing in plus they can special-order with smaller minimums with a laugh. “He asked, ‘Can you help me memorize Willmar. In 2000, the couple moved to the farm to be than required on non-subscriber special orders. Once with his grandfather and stayed on after his death. a week, Helen brings the orders to Willmar for pickJohn 1:1 in Russian?’”

Alan had often visited his grandparents on the farm, up.

It was good enough to start a relationship which helped with the garden and butchering chickens. resulted in marriage in 1995. Helen, “always open for When he was old enough to start learning about crop See ARENDS, pg. 11 an adventure,” moved to Minnesota. She wasn’t confarming, the mid-1980s farm crisis hit and his grandcerned about adjusting to the change. father quit farming and rented out the land.

“We were starting a new life together, a family “About all I had learned was how to drive a tractor,” together,” she said.

Alan said.

Even though Alan was not a farmer, having worked in manufacturing for 20 years, he said, “I was wellaware that a 250-acre farm was not what it was 50 years ago and it would be tough to get a return with conventional corn and beans.”

When he took over the land, Alan began the transition to organic and tried various gluten-free grains and alternative crops. Currently, the farm produces the alfalfa that he sells, rotationally grazed beef, and freerange chickens. It is the cropland that he has not yet settled into a rotation.

In the meantime, Helen was learning to be a homemaker — which included learning how to cook. If she missed anything about Russia, it was the bread with its crisp crusty exterior and chewy texture — what today might be called artisan bread.

“My mother would give me 20 kopeks and send me to the bakery for a loaf of bread,” she said. “By the time I got home I had eaten half of it.”

With help from the MDA’s Cottage Food Exemption, She couldn’t find such bread in our grocery stores, Helen fills a special baking order for a regular cusHelen is able to use her own kitchen without meeting and Willmar didn’t have a bakery. Her only choice tomer. commercial standards.

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Farm continues to explore revenue-generating options ARENDS, from pg. 10 Helen’s Bukovina Old World Bakery is actually her farmhouse kitchen. Her bakery is licensed under the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Cottage Food Exemption which allows her to use her own kitchen without meeting commercial standards; but requires all sales be direct to customers — no mail or store sales — so her customers tend to be local.

What makes the bread so popular is more than a good loaf, in Helen’s estimation.

“I think bread has so much more to it than just food. It unites families around the table.” She also thinks part of the popularity is that it is sold at the farmer’s market, that it is home-baked, and that it’s not available every day. The couple tried their hand at running a coffee shop where the bread was available on a daily basis. It didn’t sell as well.

Since they had the dough business down, they expanded into pizza. After learning to use a wood-fired oven, they acquired one on wheels which they now

take to events and private parties.

“We bake and sell Neapolitan pizza with a farm twist,” Helen said. “We raise our ingredients.”

The vegetables and herbs are from their organic garden, the meat from their grass-fed beef. They design pizza around what’s in season. This spring they had an asparagus pizza. When their strawberry patch produced well, Alan came up with a strawberry cheesecake dessert pizza.

At the same time, the Arends continue to plan for the future. Someday they hope to have a commercial kitchen, and they are working with an architect about remodeling their barn into an event center for weddings, reunions and gatherings. They would like to develop their farm site as a destination.

“Al and I love to have people over,” Helen said. “We love the hospitality aspect.”

There is also a desire to help people reconnect with the land — especially since there is a growing interest in people to know where their food comes from.

“Al has a strong connection with this land,” Helen said. “He also has a big heart for people and for restoring their roots (i.e. their own connection with the land).”

They love to see kids come out, put away their phones, and go dig in the non-chemical dirt of their garden, snacking on the produce.

As for the ag side of the farm, this year Alan put in 50 acres of organic field corn. But many acres are still in alfalfa.

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“After 4-5 years in alfalfa, I have to start coming off of that to get a rotation going,” he said. “I’m not a farmboy, so everything has a learning curve for me.”

Whatever they do, it will all be tied to their farm, and it will be a team effort.

“We have so many options, so many dreams,” Alan said. “[We have to decide] what do we do now, what do we shelve for later, what don’t we do at all.”

What started as a Moscow romance has blossomed into raising a family on the Arends family farm near Willmar.

Their children are the fifth generation to live on these acres they call The Back 40. They love the life and want to introduce others to their love for the land and the food it produces. Just how that will play out is not yet certain.

What is certain is that when their family gathers around the table, there will be homemade bread.

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Extension: So far, 2019 has been a slow year for aphids

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Emeritus LAMBERTON, Minn. — It seems strange, but Mother Nature apparently is on your side regarding the 2019 soybean aphids season. How can that be?

Explained Bruce Potter, Extension plant pathologist for the University of Minneosta in an Aug. 20 visit, “So far it’s been a slow year for aphids. A few farmers are doing some spraying, but very little so far.

Some fields have hit threshold numbers (250 aphids/ plant), but state-wide it’s a very localized issue.”

“Give some credit to nature,” suggested Potter.

“We’ve had lots of rain. Aphids don’t thrive in saturated soils. They have a hard time processing all that sap. But credit extremely cold winter conditions too.

Rich Sigurdson and one of his four Air Tractor spray planes at the Olivia, Minn. airport.

Where we didn’t have snow cover, some of those aphid eggs might have froze.

“But I think the biggest factor was when those aphids tried to get out of the buckthorn (their overwintering habitat) this spring, with such a late soybean planting those newly hatched aphids didn’t have places to go. We had patches of volunteer soybeans. We found aphids in these patches. But many of those patches got ‘herbicide tilled’ when farmers finally found another opportunity to get at their corn planting.

“So a small population to begin with, and then constant rain during their hatching season, it’s been a tough year for aphids. Yes, I’d likely agree that nature was on our side. However a few other things out there make up for fewer aphids. Lots of defoliators ... Painted Ladies, Sweet Clover Worms, that sort of thing. Keeping score so far, it’s been good for soybeans; not so good for aphids.”

Plant pathologists don’t like to prognosticate.

Potter wasn’t predicting an ‘explosion of aphids’ was still to happen. He merely reiterated, “...so far it hasn’t been a good year.”

He added, “This year, because of the large number of late-planted soybean acres, we may need to scout later in the season than usual. Also, aphids could begin their move to buckhorn anytime from now until mid-September. Insect killing fungi may be collapsing aphid populations because of dense, moist canopies and cool temperatures.”

The soybean aphid is native to China, but now occurs in several Southeast Asia countries. In America, 31 states now do battle with this most costly pest.

Predictably, Renville County often leads the parade for the annual aphid invasion. And the best indicator is how many aerial applicators are swirling through the skies in this annual bug fight.

But this year? Apparently no aphid war. In an Aug. 22 visit at the Olivia airport with Rich Sigurdson, he

Photo by Dick Hagen

said so far only five calls for aphid control. “Sure, we’re pleased for our farmers but the simple fact is this annual battle against aphids was good money for us aerial app guys.

“Get a normal season with crops planted on time is what our farmers really need. Plus crop prices so they can get above their break-even income stranglehold and we’ll all be happy … even we aerial guys can make this business work without the aphid explosions.”

Piper Air Tractors with turbine-powered 750-horsepower engines make up Sigurdson’s Aerial Spraying Inc. fleet at Olivia which includes three 500-gallon rigs and one 400-gallon plane.

Yes, farmers invest $500,000 in tractors and combines … often even more. These Piper spray planes cost some big money also. “About $700,000 per plane, but a new Piper Air Tractor is a $1.2 million investment. So, yes, we like to keep our birds on the job as much as we can,” said Sigurdson. Airborne at 6 a.m. is not unusual at the Olivia airfield.

And yes, these are productive machines. Like 200 acres per hour at 130 to 140 miles air speed while laying down a 60-foot-wide swath! And all this precision while flying only 10 feet above fields being sprayed. Spray pilots pay big money to get certified.

They often have only about a 6-month working timeframe each season. Yet accuracy is their creed.

Just like GPS guidance keeps farmers amazingly on track in their fields, so too for these air tractors.

Pilots plug in the coordinate locations of their next field and GPS guides their airplane directly to the field. The same precise system even activates the actual spraying when the plane reaches the field, and precisely turns the system off when the pilot gets to the end of field and makes his climbing turn to get redirected the other direction.

Sigurdson commented, ”Sure this all comes with a price, but accuracy is how you survive in this business. Farmers have lots of money invested in every field we cover. We totally understand precision is what we’re all about.” v

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Milk checks are bigger, but so are costs This column was written for the marketing week ending Sept. 6.

Sept. 3’s Global Dairy Trade auction saw its weighted average of products offered slip 0.4 percent, following a 0.2 percent slippage on Aug. 20 and 2.6 perNews and information for Minnesota and Northern Iowa dairy producers cent on Aug. 6. Sellers brought 87.5 million pounds of product to the market.

Wisconsin produced 282.2 million pounds pounds, down 1.5 percent.

This is up from 75.9 million in the last MIELKE MARKET of that total, up 1.9 percent from June, but event and the highest since Nov. 20, WEEKLY July cheddar, the cheese traded at the CME, 2.1 percent below a year ago. California 2018. totaled 307.4 million pounds. This is up 300,000

By Lee Mielke produced 210.3 million pounds, up 3.7 perpounds or 0.1 percent from June, but 17.8 million The losses were led by anhydrous cent from June, but 0.4 percent below a pounds or 5.5 percent below a year ago. Year-to-date, milkfat, down 1.5 percent, which follows year ago.

Idaho contributed 87.1 million pounds, up cheddar is at 2.16 billion pounds, down 1.3 percent. a 3.7 percent drop on Aug. 20. Butter, interestingly, 1.2 percent from June and 1.7 percent above a year was unchanged after falling 3.4 percent last time.

Butter output slipped to 142.7 million pounds, ago. Minnesota output slipped to 60.6 million, down Lactose was down 0.9 percent, cheddar was off 0.8 down 2.1 million pounds or 1.5 percent from June, 1 percent from June and 0.5 percent below a year percent (after advancing 0.8 percent in the last but was a hefty 8.1 million pounds or 6 percent ago.

New Mexico produced 76.7 million, down 0.4 event), and whole milk powder was off 0.8 percent, above a year ago. Year-to-date, butter is at 1.14 bilfollowing a 2.1 percent rise. Buttermilk powder was percent from June, but 2 percent above a year ago. lion pounds, down 1.1 percent from 2018. up 3.4 percent and rennet casein was up 4.6 percent. Italian cheese totaled 465.9 million pounds, up 0.6 Yogurt output, at 350.5 million pounds, was down percent from June and 0.7 percent above a year ago.

FC Stone equated the GDT 80 percent butterfat 2.9 percent from a year ago, with year-to-date at 2.5 Year-to-date stands at 3.3 billion pounds, up 2.4 perbutter price to $1.7829 per pound U.S. Chicago billion pounds, down 2.2 percent. cent. Mozzarella totaled 370.3 million pounds, up Mercantile Exchange butter closed Sept. 6 at 0.8 percent from a year ago, with year-to-date at 2.6 Dry whey totaled 82.1 million pounds, down 1 $2.1725. GDT cheddar cheese equated to $1.7357 billion, up 4.1 percent. percent from June and 8.9 percent below a year per pound, down 1.4 cents from the last event and ago, with year-to-date at 552.1 million pounds, American-type cheese totaled 436.1 million compares to Sept. 6’s CME block cheddar at down 10.9 percent. Stocks totaled 65.5 million pounds, up 2.2 percent from June, but 1.1 percent $1.9975. GDT skim milk powder averaged $1.1338 below a year ago, with year-to-date at 3.0 billion per pound, and compares to $1.1239 last time.

See MIELKE, pg. 14 Whole milk powder averaged $1.3952, down from $1.4061. CME nonfat closed Sept. 6 at $1.0475 per pound.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the August Federal order Class III benchmark milk price at $17.60 per hundredweight, up a nickel from July, $2.65 above August 2018, and the highest Class III price since December 2014. It is also $2.54 above the August 2018 Class 4b cheese milk price in California.

Late morning Sept. 6, Class III futures portended a September price at $17.96; October, $17.70; November, $17.35; and December at $16.90, which would result in a 2019 average of $16.38, up from $14.61 in 2018 and $16.17 in 2017. The 2020 Class III peak was $17.13 in September.

The 2019 Class III average stands at $15.83, up from $14.44 at this time a year ago and compares to $16.09 in 2017.

The August Class IV price is $16.74, down 16 cents from July but $2.11 above a year ago and the highest August Class IV since 2014. Its eight-month average stands at $16.19, up from $13.85 a year ago and $15.46 in 2017.

The United States produced more cheese in July than in June and a year ago. n The USDA’s latest Dairy Products report shows total output at 1.09 billion pounds, up 2.3 percent from June and 0.5 percent above July 2018. Year-todate cheese output is at 7.6 billion pounds, up just 0.7 percent from a year ago.

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High cheese prices hamper U.S. exports China’s declining shipments, demand from “all other MIELKE, from pg. 13 n countries” would have needed to be up 14 percent in pounds, down 4.1 percent from June and 15.6 perA higher All Milk price and lower hay price July,” according to FC Stone. cent below those a year ago. inched the July milk feed price ratio higher, first U.S. exporters had a much tougher time moving positive move since March. The USDA’s latest Ag Nonfat dry milk production totaled 168.8 million cheese to the export market in August, says FC Prices report put the ratio at 2.16, up from 2.08 in pounds, up 8.3 percent from June and 12.4 percent June and compares to 1.93 in July 2018. above a year ago. Year-to-date, powder is at 1.15 bil- Stone, with blocks having spent much of the month north of $1.80. This is especially true as there is lion pounds, up 1.7 percent from 2018. Stocks The U.S. All-Milk price averaged $18.70 per hunEuropean cheese trading hands today in the $1.50’s. dredweight, up 60 cents from June and $3.20 above climbed to 291.2 million pounds, up 2.4 million pounds or 0.8 percent from June, but were 26.2 mil- But, “very strong domestic sales continue to offset July 2018. falling U.S. exports to keep the U.S. market on the lion pounds or 8.3 percent below the 2018 level.

The national average corn price averaged $4.16 tight side at least in July.”

Skim milk powder fell 36.7 million pounds, down per bushel, up 18 cents from June, following a 35 Skim milk powder exports were down 8.9 percent, cent jump last month, and was up 69 cents per 7.7 million pounds or 17.3 percent from June and at 109.3 million pounds, according to USDA; but were 10.8 million or 22.7 percent below a year ago. bushel from July 2018. Soybeans averaged $8.37 they have been down 6.3 percent over the past 12 Year-to-date, skim hit 273.4 million pounds, down per bushel, up 6 cents from June, following a 29 months, says FC Stone, “As EU exporters have been cent jump, but is 71 cents per bushel below a year 17.4 percent from a year ago. taking more market share.” Confirmation of that ago. Alfalfa hay averaged $183 per ton, down $10 Matt Gould, editor and analyst of the Dairy and may be in the Dairy Products reports, says FC from June, but $4 per ton above a year ago.

Food Market Analyst newsletter, pointed out in the Stone. The report showed non-fat dry milk producSept. 9 Dairy Radio Now broadcast that in the Looking at the cow side of the ledger; the July cull tion up 12.4 percent “and the bellwether state of recent July Cold Storage report, we saw a second price for beef and dairy combined averaged $67.00 California was up 50.8 percent in July.” consecutive month that butter stocks counter-seaper cwt., up $1.10 from June, 20 cents above July Skim milk powder production was down a sharp sonally increased; but “The July Dairy Products 2018, but $4.60 below the 2011 base average of 22.7 percent, according to FC Stone, “The fourth report showed us why.” $71.60 per cwt. straight month we have seen substantial declines in Butter output was up 6 percent from July 2018, he The Daily Dairy Report’s Sarina Sharp says, “The SMP. This does not bode well as manufacturers said, and output was only up 1.9 percent in June “so make skim milk powder to meet the specs of export Dairy Margin Coverage program’s national average we had this huge increase in butter production and income-over-feed margins reached $9.47 per cwt. in customers. With this in mind, we could see exports that resulted in more inventory. That was the major continue to soften in the months ahead,” they warn. June, up 47 cents from May. Margins slipped 4 headline grabber in the Dairy Products report.”

“Mexico sales have slowed down slightly as aid from cents from June to July, as higher cash corn prices offset a 60 cent increase in the All-milk price. n Mexico to Venezuela has slowed to a trickle.”

Despite larger milk checks, dairy proU.S. butter imports are strong due to ducers are still strapped for cash,” she the high CME price. Gould still concludes. believes they are not a major factor in This week’s Crop Progress report the price though he admits “The Irish shows 41 percent of U.S. corn was have been very successful at getting ST. PAUL — Amy Kyllo, a 19-year-old colU.S. consumers to buy their Kerrygold lege student from Byron, Minn., representing dented, as of the week ending Sept. 1, branded butter.”

Olmsted County, was crowned the down from 73 percent a year ago and 66th Princess Kay of the Milky Way in an 22 percent below the five-year averMeanwhile, in the midst of the trade evening ceremony at the Minnesota State age. Fifty-eight percent was rated good war with China, the July percentage of to excellent, up from 57 percent the Fairgrounds on Aug. 21. milk-solids basis exports was virtually previous week, but 9 percent below a unchanged from June, according to Kyllo will serve as the official goodwill year ago.

Gould’s analysis. He says 13.8 percent ambassador for nearly 3,000 Minnesota dairy Eighty-six percent of U.S. soybeans of the milk-solids produced in July were farm families. She is the daughter of Paul exported, “so the U.S. appears to be and Susan Kyllo, and attends the Association are setting pods, up from 79 percent the previous week, 12 percent behind making adjustments to find new marFree Lutheran Bible School. a year ago, and 10 percent below the kets outside of China,” though he adds Ten county dairy princesses from throughfive-year average. Fifty-five percent the caveat that 13.8 percent isn’t a parout Minnesota competed for the Princess Kay are rated good to excellent, same as a ticularly big number. We have seen that of the Milky Way title. Elizabeth Krienke of year ago. as high as 19 percent, so there certainly Lester Prairie, representing McLeod County, is an impact from the trade war.” n and Brittney Tiede of Le Center, representFC Stone reports, “U.S. exports fell ing Le Sueur County, were selected as CME block cheese climbed to its 6.9 percent from July 2018 on a milk runners-up. highest price since November 2014 in equivalent basis. Cheese exports con Rachel Paskewitz of Browerville, repre- the Labor Day holiday-shortened tinue to be stable, up 1.8 percent, senting Todd County, Grace Jeurissen and week, closing Sept. 6 at $1.9975 per which is right in line with July 2017 Krienke were named scholarship winners. pound. This is up 6.75 cents on the too. Exports to China were down 41 week and 33.5 cents above a year ago.

Kyllo was also named Miss Congeniality. percent year-over-year (an improveThe barrels finished at $1.7425, a half Throughout her yearlong reign as Princess Kay of the Milky Way, Kyllo will ment from 65 percent in April/May) cent higher on the week, 24.25 cents make public appearances to help connect consumers to Minnesota’s dairy farm while exports to all other countries above a year ago when they fell 14.5 families. She will work to bring dairy to life through conversations, classroom were up 6 percent. In order for orders cents, but are at a whopping 25.5 visits and various speaking engagements. v from “all other countries” to offset See MIELKE, pg. 15

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Cheesemakers in the Midwest continue to report mostly positive sales, according to Dairy Market News. Food service orders increased, as many schools have returned. Cheese production is steady.

Milk handlers suggest cheese producers are “somewhat satisfied” with their internally sourced milk supplies. Spot prices ranged 50 cents under to $1 over Class III. In week 36 last year, prices were $1 to $2 over, and in 2017 milk prices were discounted from $2 to $4 under Class. Hurricane Dorian, which is affecting mostly the southeastern portion of the country, is also keeping milk loads in the upper Midwest, says Dairy Market News.

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Soil health is key to agriculture’s longevity

By DICK HAGEN learn from U.S. farmers!”

The Land Staff Writer Emeritus So has the United States Department of REDWOOD COUNTY, Minn. — Are we Agriculture, through its huge Extension educadestroying our soils because we are working tion program, helped fuel this relentless urge them too intensely? That’s a frequent question towards ever-increasing production? as agriculture acknowledges increasing producArchuleta looks back to the 1970s and 1980s tion per acre, but declining profitability. when farmers were going broke. “USDA, through At the three-day Soul Health Academy hosted extension, started chanting, ’get bigger, get bigat Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz’s farm (better ger … or get out”. We even had an energetic ag known as Stony Creek Farm in Redwood County, secretary who encouraged ‘fence line to fence Minn.) Ray Archuleta responded this way: “I line’ crop production; but no remedies to guaranthink we are hurting our soils because it’s the tee markets for this excess production. What we lack of understanding and relationship to really needed to do was get much more diversity nature’s system. In college it seemed I was into our farmlands. taught a ‘fear based’ ecology … to control, to “The problem is, we have both a human and an enforce and to yield. That was the wrong premanimal distribution challenge — what we call ise. I should have been taught to emulate, to Confined Cities … CAFOS. Too many humans in understand, to nurture nature and work with one area; two many animals in one area. We her, collaborate with her.” need more people on the land, not more of these Photo by Dick Hagen mega farms that sprawl across county lines.

Archuleta was one of the three instructors conducting this mind-probing event which took Participants at the Aug. 13-15 Soil Health Academy got down and Today’s average farmer age is 59 and it keeps place Aug. 13-15. The event attracted 40 stu- dirty at Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz’s Stony Creek Farm in Redincreasing. Even with automation and GPS dents from various American colleges, even wood County, Minn. driven technologies, this is not forever sustainthree from overseas. Archuleta, along with able. There is a saying: ‘the health and fertility of your partners Gabe Brown from North Dakota, and Allen have to maintain millions of dollars of infrastructure soil is in proportion to the number of footsteps you Williams from Mississippi, are the teaching/training just to make a living, yet it’s extremely stressful for put upon it.’ In simple terms: get too big and you no team of Understanding Ag. LLC. Understanding Ag many. I call it ‘death by tools’. Everybody selling the longer have a relationship with your farm.” is a privately-owned business which conducts soil tools, such as the farm equipment companies, the With this growing age gap between the ‘wannabe’ health studies across America. Classes at Stony fertilizer manufacturer, the chemical industry … all and the 60-plus active duty farmers, are younger Creek were Grant’s farm shop equipped with some these tool makers are making money while farmers people even wanting to be educated about the science chairs and tables, plus two flat-bed trailers when are barely surviving.” of farming? Do they really even care about the ‘living ‘students’ moved from classroom to field labs. life’ beneath their shoes?

Archuleta shared some history after WW II when The 6 Principles of Soil Health: Archuleta is encouraged. “I am seeing a pattern … chemical fertilizer became available. Soon thereafter, the females, our beloved ladies, are picking it up Know your context. Our soil health practices are a reflection the industrial chemical industry became the doorquicker… because farming is nurturing. It’s not forcof ourselves and our stewardship of the road. way to greater farm productivity and the race was ing, it’s not controlling.”

Do not disturb. In nature, there is no mechanical or chemion. “Go back to the 1600s and 1700s, the two sciences With productive efficiencies continuing as the capical disturbance. that predominated were chemistry and physics. talistic goal of American agriculture, what’s the Biology was so complex nobody really understood it,” Cover and build surface armor. To protect the soil’s “skin’. future role of the USDA — specifically the nationsaid Archuleta. “In the 1930s and 1940s, however, Mix it up with diversity of plants, microbes, insects, wildlife, wide Extension service? Or will U.S. farmers continsome of the best soils biologists were in Russia. The livestock.

Mother Nature did not grow monocultures so why ue to produce beyond market demands simply father of micro-soil biology was a Russian scientist.” should we. because that’s what happens in a capitalistic society?

Some of Archuleta’s own history includes seven Keep living roots in the soil as long as possible each year.

Archuleta hesitated only briefly, then ventured, years with the Peace Corps in Guatemala which “Until everyone decides to really want to understand Roots feed soil microorganism, which feed our plants. impacts his commentary. “Our agriculture is causing how nature works, we will be a struggling economy. more starvation because those Guatemalan farmers Grow healthy animals and soil together. Grazing has been Government never fixes anything. It usually just gets can’t compete with American farmers. If we farmed an essential components of all soils at one time or another. bigger with more and more band-aid fixes. Read the ecologically, we could easily feed 10 billion people!”

Gospel about the grandiose revolutions like 12 fisherArchuleta shared this startling factoid: “Most of Archuleta, Williams and Brown do indeed travel man changing the world; and Martin Luther impactour food gets lost through spoilage, transportation the world — even doing soil health training sessions ing the entire Christian world. In recent times, Martin and bureaucratic bungling at all levels.” in Australia, a vast country of endless miles of dust Luther King and a small group of people changed Does Archuleta and his two colleagues sense an and desert environments. So why do Australian society. It’s people with integrity, people with moral exceptional hunger amongst students as they teach and farmers seemingly get along very well? standards, and people with love and compassion for explore with them this incredible world of soil biology?

Archuleta answered, “Australia is very unique. the soils of this planet that are making a difference.

He responded, “People are desperate. They are They have no subsidies. Farmers get no help. But So is no-till and cover crops the starting point for a coming to the same conclusion that modern agricul- farmers learned that by collaborating with other healthier planet? A self-sustaining earth? ture is not working. Farm stress keeps building … farmers, this working together enables all to succeed.

Summed up Archuleta, “The most important thing is and thus the increasing number of farm deaths by And they use nature as their template. It’s amazing changing the way you see things. Understand this: when no one is giving you a check how quickly you suicide. are willing to learn! And that is why Austrailian Nature doesn’t till. She has a living root all the time.”v “Farmers are the poorest millionaires I know. They farmers love coming to America to see what they can

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Breitkruetz: Soil Health Academy ‘A life changing event’

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Emeritus A strong statement — yet a common comment — of the 34 participants attending the Aug. 13-15 Soil Health Academy hosted by Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz’s Redwood County, Minn. farm. Grant emphazied this was not just a farm changing event, but a “life changing event.”

Why? “Because you are taught how to work and function back with nature. And if you watch nature, you have to believe there is a God.” Grant said his new mind frame about soil health started kicking in about 11 or 12 years ago. “We just didn’t know what we were doing to soil health,” he admitted. “The grazing habits of our cattle were showing us some things. Because of intensive grazing, moisture was being held on our hill tops rather than rushing downhill. We really increased production on our grass land. So if we fixed those issues by better pasture management, why aren’t we doing this on our cropland?

So is this the first chapter in how we remake American agriculture? “I firmly believe it is,” Grant responded.

If you look at the whole of regenerative agriculture, the starting point is putting carbon back into our soils. Grant explained when the bison where roaming these prairie lands, organic content was about 12 percent. “Yet when we started, our soils were under 2 percent,” he said. “Our soils were dying as we farmed them. Yet carbon is the heart of everything.

So putting the tools to work to rebuild carbon levels quickly became top priority. Now we’re back to 5 percent organic content.”

Soil testing tells you the organic matter content of your soils. “The Hainey Test takes into account a lot of the biological activities of our soils which even accounts for nitrogen portions that don’t show in other tests. This year, for example, our test on fields planted to corn showed we had about $80 worth of nitrogen content. And that let us reduce our starter fertilizer levels accordingly,” noted Grant.

Stoney Creek is a 1,400-acre farming operation including about 400 acres of corn, soybeans, oats, wheat and cereal rye — plus a bunch of native pastures which have never seen a plow; plus significant acres of grassland pastures for the 180 mama cow herd which even involves grass finishing of some of these critters (Red Angus breeding progeny). Cattle get new pasture every day thanks to electric fencing.

“We use quick ‘step in’ posts and a single strand of poly wire. It’s key to have good energizers; but once they are trained, they don’t push because they know they are being moved every day. We calculate how much forage the will need. They are never short of feed. When they hear our Kumota side-by-side, they know they’re going to move. So no fencing issues — simply because the cows and calves are full. Huge used industrial tires sourced through a Montana company provide a water trough in each pasture.”

But get this: total fertilizer costs for their corn production is about $48 per acre! “We have not applied potassium or phosphorous for eight years except for the minor amount in our starter fertilizer. We use a three-gallon product, a 10-20-10 in the furrow at planting time. We’ve cut back on corn populations too. Used to be 34,000-36,000. Now we’re interseeding cover crops into our corn at V2 to V4 so we’re at 30,000. We use flex-eared hybrids which can make up some yield loss of the lower populations.”

Grant admits his Stoney Creek Farm won’t be producing yield records. “But our cost per bushel is so much lower and we’re still producing respectable yields. I give credit to the tremendous soil health we have regenerated because of no-till, our multi-species cover crops, our cattle grazing much of our crop lands and the incredible biological activity going on in our soils.”

Breitkreutz’s machinery inventory is minimal. With his brother, some custom haying also fits into their schedule. “We don’t have much tillage equipment left.

We’ve got a 12-row planter, two 20-foot grain drills (one with 10-inch spacing; the other 8-inch) that are always on the move. As we harvest a crop, those drills are out seeding a cover crop. Power is a couple of wellused rigs: a 200-horsepower front-wheel assist and a 140-horse two-wheel drive. Yes, our tractors are old, but they’re something I can fix. I enjoy fixing stuff so our aging machinery isn’t an issue.”

“Our machinery costs are minor,” Grant continued.

“I think we can do better if we get a successful cereal rye interseeding. Mother Nature has been a little tough on that particular detail. But I firmly believe we’ll soon be producing soybeans with no chemicals. We’ve got an agreement with a neighbor to use his roller-crimper. We’ll fall seed the cereal rye.

It comes back next spring. When it starts flowering, we’ll plant the beans, then roller crimp them and that’s our weed suppression.”

“Two years ago we did not post-apply any herbicides on much of our soybeans because we had such good weed suppression from this matted cereal rye.”

So after eight years of regenerative farming for Grant and Dawn, is there anything left to learn?

“The farther I get into regenerative agriculture, the less I know. It’s just amazing to me what you see. I say to myself, ‘wow, we’ve been missing this all this time!’ It’s amazing how little we know about nature.

We sent a man to the moon, yet we know so little about the soil — that amazing body of microorganisms beneath our feet that feeds us. We should be learning everything we can about how that soil is supposed to function in a healthy environment.”

These Soil Health Academys are expanding in popularity. Gabe Brown, Ray Archuleta and Dr. Allen Williams are hiring more soil scientists to accommodate the growing demand. “These guys love doing these three-day events. They are genuinely great guys and tremendously dedicated to teaching the many intricacies of making our earth healthy again.

And with increasing hunger issues around the world, healthy soils are an absolute must.”

A coalition ‘kickoff’ meeting on Aug. 16 at Stoney Creek Farm was a preliminary schedule for the 2020 Soil Health Academys across America. “Eight area farmers — after hearing comments by Gabe and Ray — told me they should have been here all week,” Grant said. “Yes, admittedly I’m biased because I know what better soil health is doing for our farming.

But often some of our 34 ‘students’ were saying, ‘this was the most productive week of my life!’ Tuning in to Mother Nature is indeed an addictive happening.

Dawn and I both agree … there couldn’t be a better addiction for our planet.”

“Yes, saving the earth has become a political platform for many. ‘Sounds great!’ we are tempted to say; but until, unless there is a regeneration of sol health around the world, we’ll mostly just be dealing with endless chatter. It starts with rebuilding the chemistry of their soils. And practicing just six principles of soil health tells us how.”

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Williams has dedicated decades to improving soil health

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Emeritus REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. — During a three-day Soil Health Academy hosted by Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz, 48 ‘students’ from across America and three other countries certainly stayed in touch with the basics. Dr. Allen Williams, Allen Williams chief ranching officer of Joyce Farms in Starkville, Miss., gave the Academy this purpose: “The main thing we are learning is the basics of soil health. We need to understand that soil health is the basis of everything we do in agriculture.”

And that’s a whole lot of learning. Williams said that means the biology of soil, the physical characteristics, the chemical characteristics and much more.

“I’m basically a scientist, but also a farmer and a rancher,” Williams said. “What we have done the last seven decades is paying almost 100 percent attention to soil chemistry while ignoring soil biology. But we have learned both function together. And if we want to restore our mineral cycles, our water cycles and our carbon cycles to full function, we need to recognize that biology is an absolute necessity.”

With our continual emphasis on more production per acre, are we destroying soil health in the process?

“Yes, if we do it the wrong way,” Williams agreed.

“Unfortunately, that has been our emphasis. I’m a farmer and rancher myself, so I live in that world too.

But we are seeing farm net margins steadily declining the last 40 years — despite the fact that we have higher yields virtually year after year. So we are leaning yield alone is not the key to farm profitability. And it is certainly not the key to building and regenerating soils and eco systems.

“If we change the emphasis to optimum productivity rather than maximum, we quickly learn that optimum can come about by working with the soil and emphasizing biology as well. That’s how we find the sweet spot for net margin profitability.”

Describing Mississippi soils, Williams said they vary widely from the very rich delta soils built by a millennia of flooding, “including some of your Minnesota top soils transported by the Mississippi River. Along the southern coastal plain we have very sandy soils, and the ‘black belt’ prairie of the north-

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“We run the gamut on soils; and contrary to public opinion which suggests with these various soil types impact agriculture in many different ways. But we have found that is not the case. Once you involve biology, soil type becomes much less of an issue.

“We didn’t start typing soils until 100 years ago, so all of our soil types were based on soils that had already been heavily degraded. Your agriculture is younger, but that same degradation continues up here too. We have now observed that farmers that have been practicing regenerative agriculture for several years are changing their soils. We have had University soil scientists come out and reclassify soil type. So we’re learning that biology works across any soil type because biology mitigates those soil types.”

And biology can impact rather quickly — even with just a one year no-till and cover crop implementation.

“But the more soil health practices we can implement, the more rapid that progress will be,” Williams said. “One thing we know is no-till alone is not the key. It’s just a temporary fix and then you stagnate.

But if we plant complex cover crop mixes, that speeds the process. If we add livestock to graze those complex mixes, then we are adding another biological impact component that further speeds the process.

“Yet we have many farms simply going to no-till and diverse cover crop have seen significant improvement in carbon organic matter and water infiltration rates.”

Why do grazing livestock speed the process?

“We call it the principal of compounding,” Williams explained. “There are no singular effects, but because of soil chemistry we get a series of compounding and cascading effects because we’re dealing with nature and biology. But what we find is that if we are able to combine impacts such as adding livestock to graze these diverse cover crops, the hoof action of these livestock simulates the hoof action of wildlife such as bison used to do, creates a stimulatory affect on the soil microbes. The microbes remember the wild ruminants impacted this land. Every cell — even in our bodies — has cellular memory. It’s called biomimicry and ecomimicry.

“And no, grazing beef cattle do not compress the soil. High density, short duration grazing does just the opposite. It de-compacts the soil. Compare it to a deep tissue massage. If we leave this cattle too long on this grazing field, it would reverse the process, however, and start compacting the soil. So timing is critical as well.”

Williams shares a bit more about this fascinating topic of soil health. “Microbes communicate. It’s called quorum sensing. Livestock shed microbes in their saliva, from their hair coat and in their manure.

So every step they take across your pastures they are shedding microbes which than communicate with the microbes in the soil. This stimulates them … it hyper-activates them and start replicating. And

that’s what enriches soils. It takes a critical mass of fertilizer to work on more crops. It’s the same thing with microbes in the soil. So building the critical mass of microbes in our soils is what livestock grazing accomplishes.”

Williams apparently practices what he teaches. He is 100 percent no-till — selling all tillage equipment a few years back “…so we’re not even tempted anymore. We don’t grow any commodity products anymore. We grow heritage and specialty small grains and corns that we direct market. We’re selling to bakeries, to restaurants, to micro-breweries and distilleries. We have organic market gardens which produce about 50 different produce and herb items that we market to restaurants. We built a CSA to market direct to consumers. Plus we do grass-fed beef, pastured lamb, pasture eggs, pastured poultry and pastured pork. Plus lots of honey production from our more than 400 bee hives, plus timber production.

“We’ve gotten into this mind set on agriculture that any given acre can only produce one revenue stream annually. But because of our weather patterns, we’ve discovered that every acre can produce multiple revenue streams every year. On some acres we have as many as six to eight revenue streams annually. That has permitted multiple revenue sources which simply adds to the profitability of Joyce Farms.”

Yes, this Mississippi outfit does some market research too. Williams summed up, “We don’t put a seed in the ground, hatch an egg, or breed an animal without knowing where our market is at the other end!”

In his work with Soil Health Academy, Williams literally travels the globe. And he has observed weather challenges this season. “There is not an area anywhere in North America that has not experience significant weather issue in 2019. In Mississippi we were extremely wet and cooler than normal through late spring. In mid-May the spigot got turned off; it got extremely dry and extremely hot. Now we’re running heat index values of 110 to 120 every day.”

Williams said soil health is not just a U.S. issue and the future is even more challenging. He said the areas decertification keep increasing every year. The areas of desert are continuing to expand.

Williams is a member of a consulting company called Understanding Ag — a private business which gets hired for soil health training sessions around the world. He grew up on his family farm in South Carolina which dates back to 1840. He earned his PhD at LSU and has been a tenured professor at Mississippi State for 15 years.

But the past 20 years traveling and teaching is his proudest accomplishment. “This is putting my boot on the ground. Farmers around the world are learning soil health. And they do some teaching for me too.”

Williams can be reached via email at allenwilliams@joyce-farms.com; or by phone at (662) 3126826. v

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Soybeans are on pace for an October harvest Brandon Fast, Mountain Lake, Minn. – Aug. 30

Nancy Rys, Rock Creek, Minn. – Sept. 8

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Brandon Fast has been walking fields lately and not exactly liking what he sees. The Land caught up with Fast on Aug. 30 as he reported he found more green snap in corn than he previously thought. He estimates 40 percent of his crop — if not higher — has been affected. “The yields will be dramatically down.” There’s “disappointment and slowness when it comes to the corn crop.”

“Not any beans turning around here yet.” Fast believe that it could be Oct. 10 to 15 before he starts combining soybeans. It could be November before he harvests the corn. “I think we’re going to have a good beans harvest.

It will be fun to combine beans.”

Temperatures have been around 70 to 73 during the day.

While that’s pleasant weather for humans, it’s not great for the crops. “It opposite of what we need.”

In the next few weeks, Fast will be getting bins ready to go along with the bean and corn heads. Right now it’s hurry and up wait for the crops to mature. Fast is ready for harvest, but unfortunately his crops are far from ready. He knows that it’s going to be a late harvest this year.

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The Land caught up with Nancy Rys as she was on a Pioneer Plot tour in Cambridge, Minn. on Sept. 8. The plots — along with crops in the area — look good; they simply just need more time to mature.

Rys’ corn is currently in the early dent stage. The soybeans are starting to turn and are looking good. Rys expects to be combining beans in three weeks. It will be a late harvest. “A lot of theme beans were planted in early June.”

In the meantime, Rys will be working on getting machinery ready for harvest.

She and her husband, Tom, will also be hosting a pre-harvest customer appreciation event for their seed customers. “It’s an event that we look forward to, our customers look forward to.” They host around 40 customers and Rys makes all of the food. While it’s a lot of work, it’s always a great time had by all.

The current temperatures are on the cooler side with highs in the 60s, but Rys saw that the long range-forecast has the weather warming up to average for this time of year. “If we can just extend that time out, that’s all we can ask for.”

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John Haarstad, Rothsay, Minn. – Sept. 6

Dale Bissen, Adams, Minn. – Aug. 30

The Land caught up with John Haarstad on Sept. 6 as he was working with his brother on a base for a new grain bin for a neighbor. Taking a break from the project to talk, Haarstad was happy with how the soybeans are looking. White mold has been prevalent in the crop. So too are the cabbage loopers — though not enough to warrant spraying of the pest. The beans are starting to turn. Haarstad expects to be combining beans in about a month.

Last weekend the corn was 90 percent dented. “I’m starting to see a little yellowing on the bottom leaves.” Overall the crop looks good. Haarstad was quick to point out that it still needs lot of sunshine.

Last week was a great week of the weather. Unfortunately, the forecast calls for two-and-ahalf to three inches of rain next week.

Haarstad will continue to get harvest equipment ready in the next few weeks. He will also do some tiling work for a neighbor along with getting a lot of shop work finished during the rainy next week. The temperature is expected to be in the 60s next week, but no frost talk yet.

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The soybeans are looking good though moisture is needed. “We need some rain to save some bushels,” Bissen said. Thankfully aphids haven’t been an issue, so no spraying for them has been needed. Bissen doesn’t expect to start harvesting beans until at least the first week of October.

“The corn looks good.” The corn can take being a little on the dry side compared to the beans. Bissen plans to chop silage in about two weeks and Bissen predicts some moisture will follow. “When we chop silage it always rains.”

“The vineyard is coming along.” Bissen expects to be harvesting the grapes in about a week. It take between six to eight people to pick grapes. “It’s always a big relief when we have those picked.”

“This weather’s cooler, it makes you think fall.” Though Bissen’s optimistic that the threat of frost will stay away for a while. Rain and some warm weather would be the perfect start to September. “It’s all on Mother Nature now.”

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MARKETING

Grain Outlook Ending corn stocks look to remain high The following marketing analysis is for the week ending Sept. 6.

CORN — Corn continued to struggle this week, posting a lower weekly close for the sixth time in the last eight weeks. Weather didn’t pose any threat to the crop and there aren’t any freezing temperatures in the forecast through the end of the month. The crop needs time to finish and at this point it looks as if it will at least get a few more weeks.

The upcoming Sept. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report is expected to show an increase in ending stocks for the 2018-19 crop year due to lower exports and ethanol use. The 2019-20 balance sheet PHYLLIS NYSTROM may also maintain excessive CHS Hedging Inc. ending stocks on waning demand St. Paul and uncertain production.

Nearby demand is virtually nonexistent on the export side and domestic demand is just steady. There continues to be reports of ethanol plants idling or slowing production. All these factors combined to send December corn to new contract lows in three of this week’s four trading sessions.

Weekly export sales for the ending 2018-19 crop year were net cancellations of 6.5 million bushels.

This put total commitments at 1.965 billion bushels, not quite reaching the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s export forecast for 2.1 billion bushels.

This would support an export decrease on next week’s WASDE report. New crop sales for the 201920 marketing year were a disappointment at 16.2 million bushels, bringing total commitments to 234.5 million bushels. This is a significant decline from last year when total sales were 451.6 million bushels and are the lowest commitment total for this week in 14 years. A cut in exports on the 2019-20 balance sheet may also be expected. U.S. corn exports are not competitive with South American supplies. In August, Brazil exported a record 7.65 million metric tons compared to U.S. exports of 1.85 mmt. AgRural is projecting Brazil’s soybean acreage will increase 1.1 percent to 89.7 million acres this year. If correct, it would be the slowest growth in 13 years. The USDA’s outlook is for a 2.8 percent increase to 91.8 million acres.

Weekly ethanol production dropped 25,000 barrels per day to 1.013 million bpd, but stocks rose 800,000 barrels to 23.8 million barrels. Ethanol margins See NYSTROM, pg. 23

Cash Grain Markets

corn/change* soybeans/change* St. Cloud $3.12 -.05 $7.62 +.08 Madison $3.40 +.06 $7.69 +.05 Redwood Falls $3.39 -.04 $7.79 +.13 Fergus Falls $3.09 -.06 $7.42 +.13 Morris $3.14 -.06 $7.52 +.13 Tracy $3.47 .00 $7.82 +.23

Grain Angles Choose rational thinking for success

As we start the month of September, the livestock markets are definitely on the defensive. Both the cattle and hog futures have lead the way to lower levels as numbers of animals of each has overwhelmed the market. Demand for both beef and pork has been slightly erratic which also has contributed to the weakness for the past several months. Technically these markets are approaching oversold conditions which may slow the decent in each market in the weeks ahead. It will be demand for product which will turn each of these markets in the long run.

Looking at the cattle market JOE TEALE overall, the market has been on a Broker downward price slide since the Great Plains Commodity beginning of May. Cattle numAfton, Minn. bers of available market-ready cattle have overwhelmed the market during that period creating a heavy inventory of available beef product. During the period, exports improved slightly; however, not enough to change the downward spiral of the beef cutout price.

The futures market has continued to lead the market lower during this downward price move as it has stayed at a deep discount to cash. This has enticed hedgers to move cattle to take advantage of the discounts to add to the sale of their cattle by capturing that discount.

There is some hope in the future as the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Cattle on Feed report was interpreted as friendly. The key to a turnaround

It’s no surprise the ag industry has had a challenging few years. This has pushed us to re-evaluate how tasks are done on the farm to gain efficiencies, while continuing to position ourselves to remain competitive.

Due to some challenges we have had in the industry, we challenge you to reflect on how confident you are in where your business is at right now; and ask yourself where you want to be if an investment opportunity presents itself. Are you able to say, “I’m ready or it’s not the right timing?”

As we evaluate the position of the farm, here are five methods to remain confidently disciplined in making business decisions.

Assess your business Take the time to accurately CASSIE MONGER assess how the business is doing. Compeer Dairy Lending If you plan to expand or grow your Specialist business, think about how much Waite Park, Minn. growth you’re able to tolerate.

While also determining what risks you need to be aware of. It’s important to be able to understand your business well enough to predict the consequences of disruption, so you can plan accordingly and be proactive with your decision making approach.

Truly understand what your strengths are, then evaluate the weaknesses or critical areas which may need more time to develop. Once you have identified those areas, continue to evaluate how you are doing and track your progress to achieve the positive results you hope to accomplish.

Set goals. Ask the right questions in determining where you see your business in the next 5-10 years and what steps need to be taken to get you there.

Setting realistic goals and putting a plan in place to achieve them will set things into motion.

Be strategic Evaluate your strategy for holding yourself accountable. Regularly communicate with your team to share goals and visualize what it might look like if they’re achieved. Your team will play a big role in staying on the right path and following through.

Reflect and look back on what you have achieved already. When investment opportunities come up, it’s sometimes hard to say no; but keeping past and current goals in mind will help you be more disciplined.

Control temptations along the way Are you in the right mindset to resist temptation?

See TEALE, pg. 24

See MONGER, pg. 23

Average:

$3.27

$7.64

Year Ago Average: $3.02 $7.03 Grain prices are effective cash close on Sept. 10. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Livestock Angles Demand erratic, supplies strong

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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As of Sept. 1, 11 million acres of soybeans yet to set pods NYSTROM, from pg. 22 were 2 cents per gallon higher this week but were still a negative 1 cent per gallon. A cut to the ethanol usage line on next week’s balance sheet is expected.

President Trump’s announced “giant package” for biofuel will reportedly propose a 5 percent or 1 billion-gallon increase in the overall mandate. Ethanol and advanced biofuel would each be raised 500 million gallons. For corn, it would equate to roughly 170-175 million bushels of additional corn grind. In the big picture, that doesn’t do much to cut ending stocks.

As of Sept. 1, corn ratings improved 1 percent to 58 percent good/excellent vs. 69 percent on average.

Only 6 percent of the corn was mature vs. 13 percent on average; and 41 percent was dented compared to 63 percent on average. Just 81 percent was in the dough stage vs. 93 percent on average. We need time to get to maturity.

A few private estimates for the September WASDE report were released this week. Yield forecasts were 168.4 bushels per acre, 167.7 bu./acre, 162 bu./acre and 169.6 bu./acre. The USDA’s August yield was 169.5 bu./acre. Production outlooks were 13.8 billion bushels, 13.755 billion bushels, 13.04 billion bushels, and 13.9 billion bushels. The USDA was projecting 13.9 billion bushels on the August WASDE report.

The August jobs report released this week showed 130,000 jobs were added when the market was anticipating an increase of 160,000 jobs. The unem-

ployment rate was unchanged as expected at 3.7 percent.

Outlook: Funds added to their net short position in the week which ended Sept. 3, bringing it to net short 139,700 contracts. December corn plunged 14.25 cents this week to settle at $3.55.5. Its new contract low is $3.53 per bushel. July corn lost 12.25 cents to close the week at $3.84.75 per bushel and set a new contract low at $3.83 per bushel. Heading into the Sept. 12 WASDE report, prices may continue to drift lower without a demand or weather scare.

Beyond the report, weather will remain a significant factor in direction. If prices continue to decline, the next area of support is near $3.35 per bushel on the continuous chart.

SOYBEANS — November soybeans traded in a more sideways fashion compared to corn; but they also have posted lower weekly closes in six out of the last eight weeks as we head toward harvest. Soybeans need time to mature as indicated by the weekly crop progress report as of Sept. 1 which indicated nearly 11 million soybean acres had yet to set pods. Recent rains should help with pod filling, but it is still extremely difficult to predict what the final yield will be. Talks with China will resume in Washington in October, but lower level talks by phone will likely take place beforehand. The trade liked the tone, but wants to see action instead of repeating the verbiage.

Demand for soybeans hasn’t totally dried up. A sale of 451,800 metric tons of 2019-20 soybeans to Mexico

Think creatively to move forward MONGER, from pg. 22 Be honest with yourself and spend more time thinking about the consequences and “what if” scenarios. Don’t dwell on the negative, but consider all alternatives so you have an exit strategy or plan B if it doesn’t work out.

Sometimes temptation finds us when our weaknesses overwhelm us. Refocus your attention to strategy and goals versus letting the emotion make the decision. Seeking feedback from your team will help eliminate any biases or blind spots so you have the support to redirect you if necessary and not be tempted to steer away from your plan.

Focus on problem solving As a business owner, the responsibility for finding a solution many times falls on you. Keep in mind, each time you effectively resolve a problem, you gain valuable experience, which in return builds confidence.

Continue to think outside the box to be innovative and creative. Doing something the way we have always done may not be the best approach moving forward. Be open minded to new ideas, rather than making a decision because it is quick and easy.

We need to be more strategic in our thinking, and not expect that every solution equals a big investment which may cause financial strain on the busi-

ness. It might be something simple and cost effective that makes the most sense.

Your next step and a reasonable timeline Be sure your timeline is in pencil as things will likely change along the way. The only thing which should remain unchanged are the intentions you have for yourself and future generations.

So what’s next? Don’t expect to have it all figured out. You have now spent the time to really understand your business needs. We encourage you to be confident in what you do know and don’t let irrational decisions derail you from your timeline.

To wrap things up, it has taken more than luck to get where you are today, and much of the credit is due to the self-discipline already demonstrated. This is done by making sound choices based on rational thinking rather than your emotions.

We should continue to be optimistic, but still remain cautious. Continue to stick to these methods to be sure the financial decisions you make fit within your own plan. Sometimes the best investment opportunities present themselves at the right time.

Passing on them now can many times lead to a better one in the future.

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was reported this week on the daily USDA sales report. We are still uncompetitive to the big dog importer (China) due to the tariffs. Weekly export sales were above expectations with 2.5 million bushels for 2018-19 and 29 million bushels for 2019-20.

Total commitments for the 2018-19 year of 1.792 billion bushels surpasses the USDA export forecast of 1.7 billion bushels, which should result in a small increase on the 2018-19 balance sheet next week.

China had 1.1 mmt left on the books for old crop, but there were two days left to ship in the old marketing year. The 2019-20 crop year total commitments are less than half of the last year’s total for this time at just 235.3 million bushels vs. 510.4 million bushels last year. New crop sales are the lowest in 13 years for the week heading into the new marketing year.

China has only purchased 260 tmt of new crop soybeans vs. 1.3 mmt last year at this time.

China announced they will increase payments to farmers affected by African swine fever from annually to every six months. They will also subsidize farmers purchases of various equipment to promote rebuilding of the country’s pig industry. Expanded subsidized loans and increases in insurance coverage are planned as well. China also announced the central bank will lower their reserve requirement by 50 basis points to help their economy. The U.S. attaché in China cut their 2019-20 soybean import target for China to just 80 mmt vs. the current USDA outlook for 85 mmt. China’s soybean imports from February through August were 57.5 mmt, a decline of 9 percent from last year.

As of Sept. 1, soybeans were rated 55 percent good/ excellent, unchanged from last week and vs. 67 percent on average. Only 86 percent of the crop was setting pods vs. 96 percent on average.

Early private estimates for the soybean yield this year came out at 48.3 bu./acre, 46.1 bu./acre, 46.0 bu./ acre and 48.4 bu./acre. Production estimates were 3.66 billion bushels, 3.5 billion bushels, 3.47 billion bushels and 3.671 billion bushels. In August, the USDA was using a yield of 48.5 bu./acre and production at 3.68 billion bushels.

Outlook: For the week, November soybeans fell 11.25 cents to close at $8.57.75 and July soybeans declined 6.5 cents to $9.07.75 per bushel. November soybeans have been able to hold above the $8.50 psychological support area as demand has provided a level of support. For the week ended Sept. 3, funds cut their net short position slightly to 79,100 soybean contracts. If weather cooperates, soybean yield losses may be mitigated. Weather should remain a dominate determinate on where we go from here.

Nystrom’s Notes: Contract changes for the week ended Sept. 6: Chicago December wheat was 1.25 cents higher this week at $4.63.75, Kansas City dropped 4 cents to $3.93.25, and Minneapolis was 2.5 cents lower at $4.94.25 per bushel. Crude oil rallied $1.42 to $56.52 this week, ULSD jumped 6.25 cents, RBOB gained 4.5 cents, and natural gas surged 21 cents higher. v

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Current trade situation will slow global economy

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Emeritus MORGAN, Minn. — Advice from a marketing guru at Farmfest was this brief comment: “Watch out for yourself first. Don’t watch so much what is happening to the guy down the road. The guy who has a problem has to market differently than the Michael guy who doesn’t have a problem.”

Nepveux So this lead question to Farmfest speaker Michael Nepveux: “How long will it take China to clean up their African swine fever dilemma?” Nepveux is a Texas native, but for the past six years, Washington D. C. has been his hangout — specifically as economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation.

“Some people say it will be at least five more years; maybe even 10 years or longer,” Nepveux replied.

“Nobody seems to know. Some Chinese hog producers already totally decimated because of the disease tried everything to clean up their hog barns. They repopulated with more pigs; the disease got them again. This isn’t just your smaller farm herds. Bigger operations have been getting wiped out also.

“Before all this started, China pig industry represented about 50 percent of world swine population.

Some, like RABO Bank, are saying at least 50 percent of China’s swine herd is now decimated. I always question data coming out of China. But if it is 50 percent, that would be 25 percent of the entire world swine herd. And it is now a Southeast Asia problem with at least six more countries being wiped out.

“Yes, it has the African swine fever label because that is where it apparently originated. It’s been in eastern Europe and Russia. It’s been around for a few decades.”

So the big question: can we keep it out of America?

Nepveux, being an experienced economist, I didn’t expect a direct answer. He simply responded, “It depends upon whom you talk to. At an animal health

conference I attended this May, some were saying we’ll have it by the end of June; others by the end of July; others by the end of August. Apparently, nobody knows. It’s now August and no word. I’m told the way it could arrive is visitors to China bringing home tainted pork products in their luggage. We have tremendous security at our airports. This is huge challenge for the Beagle Brigade (the nickname for ‘sniffer dogs’ of the U.S. Customs patrol). The number of beagles at U.S. airports receiving international flights has been increased considerably I’m told. But with millions of passengers coming in from China every year, this has become a tremendous task for U.S. customs.”

Will poultry make up for this deficit in pork production in China? Not with the current trade situation between China and the United States, said Nepveux.

“Yes, this is a huge missed opportunity for U. S. pork.

But even before this trading blockage, China didn’t accept U.S. poultry. That’s because of a trade restriction China imposed on U.S. poultry years back … and I’m told it related to the chlorine wash of U.S. poultry products prior to shipment.”

Some say the U.S. economy — especially in agriculture products — is now virtually non-existent to China. When will China growth expansion slow down? We keep hearing of economic issues over there too.

“One can speculate if their economic explosion has really been as big as they boast,” said Nepveux. “It seems like China always overstates their numbers just a bit. If they say it’s at 12 percent currently,but in reality only 10 percent, that is still really huge.

But I think China has structural issues. I don’t believe they can keep this pace forever. This trade situation isn’t helping us, but it’s not helping China either.

“However, if this trade situation continues, you’re going to see a slowdown in the global economy.

That’s the impact of the huge role of China and the United States.”

Does President Trump overplay his role in these ongoing trade battles with China? “I heard someone

Hog peaks, valleys following pattern TEALE, from pg. 22 toward higher prices will be the influx of demand for beef via the domestic and or foreign markets.

The hog market has been hampered by the deep drop in the pork cutout over the past several weeks which has related into sharply lower prices paid for hogs. This deep drop in the cutout has increased the interest in pork products as movement of product has increased in the past couple of weeks.

The overall pattern in the hogs in looking at a chart over the past several years has been equivalent to that of a roller coaster ride. The peaks and valleys

in price have been close in proximity each year since 2015. At present we are approaching the time frame for one of those seasonal lows that fit this pattern.

Obviously, this pattern could change at any time, so the next several weeks will be interesting to see if this pattern continues.

If the pattern repeats, the possibility of a low in the next several weeks is a possibility. The underlying key is demand for pork which will have to expand while supplies decrease to establish a real change in the current direction, which has been lower prices paid for hogs. Producers should continue to monitor market conditions and stay current with inventories.v

put it pretty well when he said, ‘You know, you started a fire with Canada and Mexico; you started a fire with China; you’re trying to start a fire with Europe.

It’s time to start putting out fires before we start anymore,’” Nepveux stated.

“I’m not questioning the overall strategy. I’m not arguing the fact that China shouldn’t be challenged.

I think they should because they obviously have been trading unfairly. But trying to fight a front on every front you have is challenging. There’s simply too many other players in world trade anymore.”

Talking domestically, it seemed logical to ask this Texan this question: “Is agriculture struggling in Texas too? Or don’t we hear about your issues?”

Nepveux paused briefly then commented, “The trade war definitely hurts beef producers in Texas.

But remember, U.S. beef had a record year last year in terms of exports. Where I’m from in Texas, a heavy cow/calf operation, we’re getting along pretty well.

But if you grow rice or cotton, those Texas boys got hit hard and are still feeling the pain.”

“Dealing with the EU on agricultural issues is always frustrating. They always rely on what they call a ‘precautionary principle’ which basically implies that even though the science right now says there is no harm with these products, we’re going to keep out GMOs; hormone-produced beef.

“Back in 2009, the WTO (World Trade Organization) ruled against the EU not allowing hormone-raised beef. We signed a memorandum of understanding which gave us 45,000 metric tons of non-hormone treated beef into market. It’s called High Quality Beef … grain-fed U.S. beef that has to meet certain quality measurements. But since 2009, other countries also protested the EU trade restriction. So Australia, Uruguay and other South American countries now also are in this market. So we can thank WTO back in 2009 for partially opening a market into the European Union for U.S. beef.

“This new agreement just agreed to on Aug. 8 starts at 18,000 metric tons and increases up to 35,000 metric tons. The EU shut us out on beef exports in the late 80s, so we hadn’t shipped beef to Europe for a long time.”

Nepveux says European agriculture is not cranking up on new technologies and expansion. “They tend to take more of a protectionist approach. Plus, their populations are more stable. I said in my speech that U.S. farmers have a comparative advantage over the rest of the world. I’m not denying the competition in Brazil and Argentina. But U.S. farmers produce more economically, more effectively and more efficiently.”

And his read on the Georgia farm lad who is now U.S. Secretary of Agriculture? “It’s always nice to have someone in that chair who comes from ag, understands ag, and understands that regulatory policy after regulatory policy is not the answer for U.S. ag.” v

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Farm Equipment

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FOR SALE: Badger liquid manure pump, model BN104, 40’ of 6” hose, hitch extended, always shedded, load or agitate, $3,995. 500 gal LP tank on steel wheel trailer, $750. 507-381-6719

Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys. FOR SALE: 2012 Wood5206D 100% financing w/no liens or stalk shredder, pull type, red tape, call Steve at Fair- used 2 seasons, less than fax Ag for an appointment. 1000 acres, like new, $10,500. ass 888-830-7757 651-792-6518 t or FOR SALE: Allis 185 2000 hrs, Farm Equipment cab, 540-1000 PTO, $12,500; Allied 595 loader, $5,000; NH all 10”x40’ utility auger, w/ truss, baler 311, $7,500; JD pick-up $750; 500 gal stainless steel head, $1,500. 507-524-4637 tank on trailer, $1,000; 150 Gehl 1540 blower, 1000 RPM, airy gal poly tank, $200. Olivia excellent condition, $400.

Copy is 2.5 x 5.16 ties MN 320-523-1099 715-896-1050 and‘13 Gleaner S67 combine, all FV, updates, 240 sep hrs; w/new Please recycle this magazine. on bean & corn head; RT155A ngs, Agco tractor, 800 hrs; 839 eri- Parker grain cart; everyfor thing like new & always in shedded. 507-276-8840

Farm Equipment For Sale: ‘10 JD 9330, 4WD, 2430 hrs; ‘13 JD S660 combine, 1630 eng/1230 sep hrs; ‘13 JD 606C CH, ‘10 JD 2700 17.5’ disk ripper; Mayrath 10”x62’ auger, swing out hopper, like new.

Call Kim Knewtson 507-3402112 or Paul Knewtson 507340-2111.

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

507-380-5324 FOR SALE: Sudenga bin unload auger, PTO, 45 degree, 6” under bin and 8” up. 507640-0146

Taking Consignments For: Fall Consignment Auction

Saturday, October 26th, 2019 ~ 9:00 am 55780 St Hwy 19, Winthrop, MN

Advertising deadline is September 25, 2019

Matt

Auctioneer taking Consignments: Mages 507-276-7002 Lic. 08-19-001 magesland.com

Farm Retirement OPENS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

CLOSES: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 LOCATION: 13905 17th St SE, Page, ND 58064.

TIMED ONLINE

Page, ND

2019

(2) 2600 Parker boxes with IM- gears, $3,400/ea; (3) Ranger anic 8, (1) Ranger 10 Smidley hog ail- feeders, shedded, $400/ea. ies. 507-524-4637 ffer 4 Case IH 1083 8x30 cornhead, $3,900; IH 963 6x30 cornhead w/ poly snouts, $2,450; ‘08 Case IH RB564 baler, wide pickup, net & twine wrap, same as NH 7090 baler, $8,900; Ogden 12 whl v-rake like new, $4,900; Brent 440 gravity box w/ lights & brakes, $3,900; (2) Parker 6250 625 bu gravity boxes w/ lights & brakes, $5,450/ea.

320-769-2756

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PREVIEW: September 6 - September 16 / LOADOUT: September 16 - September 21

INCLUDES: Tractors, GPS Equipment, Harvest Equipment, Tillage Equipment, Semi Tractor, Trailers, Grain Bins, Aeration Fans & Tester, Augers & Conveyors, Other Equipment, Farm Support Items

2009 JOHN DEERE 9770

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JOHNK FARMS INC.

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Opening September 6 & Closing September 16 Johnk Farms Inc. Farm Retirement Auction, Page, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening September 9 & Closing September 16 Merlin & Jacqueline Groen Family Trust Farm Retirement Auction, George, IA, Timed Online Auction Opening September 12 & Closing September 19 Collector Farmall Tractor Auction, Mayville, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening September 16 & Closing September 24 Kanabec County, MN Hobby Farm & Land Auction - 345± Acres 3 Tracts, Ogilvie, MN Tuesday, September 17 at 10AM Keith Chisholm Farm Equipment Auction, Gary, MN Opening September 17 at 8AM & Closing September 17 at 12PM Cass County, ND Land Auction - 235.5± Acres, Fargo, ND, Timed Online Auction Wednesday, September 18 at 10AM Mike & Valerie Martin Farm Retirement Auction, Forbes, ND Thursday, September 19 at 10AM Steele County, ND Land Auction, 480± Acres, Hope American Legion, Hope, ND Thursday, September 19 at 11AM Brad Paul Farm Retirement Auction, Faulkton, SD Opening September 19 & Closing September 26 Greg Walton Inventory Reduction Auction, Englevale, ND, Timed Online Auction Friday, September 20 at 10AM Norman Dahl Estate Farm Equipment Auction, Borup, MN Opening September 20 & Closing September 25 Online Steffes Auction - 9/25, Upper Midwest Locations, Timed Online Auction Opening September 20 & Closing September 30 Ryan Charbonneau Farm Equipment, Rolla, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening September 23 & Closing September 30 Ann & Jay Tommerdahl Farm Retirement Auction, Hendrum, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening September 23 & Closing October 2 Sam Thiel Estate Auction, Minto, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening September 24 at 8AM & Closing September 24 at 12PM Wilkin County, MN Land Auction- 144±Acres, Tintah, MN, Timed Online Auction Tuesday, September 24 at 12PM Quality Tested Hay Auction, Steffes Group Facility, Litchfield, MN Tuesday, September 24 at 10AM Luke & Dan Kaushagen Farm Retirement Auction, Thief River Falls, MN Wednesday, September 25 at 1PM Ron & Mary Lou Bussmann Retirement Land Auction - 627± Acres, Grey Eagle, MN Wednesday, September 25 at 10AM Jeff & Judi Hintz Farm Auction, Tappen, ND Thursday, September 26 at 10AM Ron & Mary Lou Bussmann Retirement Dairy Cattle Auction, Grey Eagle, MN

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ENDING ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 LOCATED AT: KERKHOFF AUCTION CENTER 1500 E BRIDGE St. REDWOOD FALLS, MN 56283 2015 New Holland Boomer 41 Tractor with TLA 260 Loader, Joystick Control, Hydro-static Drive, 225 Hrs, 3pt, Complete Cab with Radio

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M&W #1710 7 Shank (Auto Re-Set) Earthmaster (HD Series) w/ Crumbler List $64,257 Special $38,700 OBO Dealer 319-347-6282 or 319-347-6150 Can Deliver

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LOCATION: 15865 200th St NE, Thief River Falls, MN 56701. From Thief River Falls, from Hwy. 1 E just past Northland Community College, turn onto 150th Ave NE, 3 miles north on 150th Ave NE, 7/8 mile east on 200th Street.

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Major equipment begins selling at 10:30 AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com

2010 Demco 650 Grain Cart, Model # 9445020, Small 1000 PTO S/N 40060

ONE 2014

RETIRING: DMI 530 disc ripper, 12.5’, all new points & disc blades, exc cond; IH Tractors 490 disc, 31’; (2) White 588 plows, 4x18 & 5x18. 507-947FOR SALE: JD 3010 diesel, 3859 or 507-381-6576 NF, single hyd, $7,500/OBO. 952-353-2104

2019

1947 Massey Harris Model 30 Tractor, S/N 30-GR12651

THE LAND — SEPTEMBER 6/SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

1992 KENWORTH T800 1993 JOHN DEERE 9600

INCLUDES: 4WD Tractors, 2WD Tractors & Loader, Harvest Equipment, Grain Cart & Gravity Wagons, Aid Seeder, Tillage Equipment, Plows, Semi Tractors, Trailers, Grain Handling Equipment, Rockpickers & Rock Windrower, Other Equipment, Crawler Dozers & Grader, Tanks & Farm Support Items

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LUKE & DAN KAUSHAGEN Luke, 218.686.5330, Dan 907.947.8288

or Brad Olstad at Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240

TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer. Scott Steffes MN14-51

JD 7000 Corn Planter, 2 Row, 3PT $1,800, Fert. Avail. $350/ Row. 715-234-1993

Hay & Forage Equipment FOR SALE: (2) H&S 16’ 7+4 forage wagons, excellent condition, always shedded.

507-327-4433

Harvesting Equip ‘98 Gleaner R62, 3659 eng/ 2592 sep hrs, rebuilt eng (2 hrs on it) w/ new injectors, new turbo, all rebuilt inj pump, Yield Monitor, torrent auger, auto header hgt, chopper, nice shape, $49,799. 320-5832504 Leave message.

FOR SALE: Brent 880 grain cart, 1000 PTO, 30.5x32 Firestone tires, adj hyd spout & axle, lights, excellent condition, always shedded, one owner. $22,500/OBO. 320-3592692 FOR SALE: ‘06 9760, 2spd, PRWD, 2779 hrs, 2050 sep hrs, Contour Master, single point latching, Maurer topper, power cast tailboard, $55,000. 507-381-4406

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ORFOR SALE: ‘95 JD 9400 com50, bine, 3500 sep hrs, well mainrac- tained, field ready, $24,000; rge 920 bean head, $2,500; 444 ark low tin cornhead, $1,200. All age good cond. 507-459-7854

FOR SALE: 9500 JD combine 200 w/ RWA, low hrs, 25’ bean 3pt head, 6R poly cornhead, w/ at head mover; 530 DMI ripper. nt’l Both very good cond, and al3pt, ways shedded. 507-340-7720 ndi859FOR SALE: JD 3940 chopper, corn & hay, $2,450. IH 830 chopper, corn & hay, $1,250.

Short hopper blower, $500. 2 silage boxes, $1,000/ea. 952467-4006

EWFOR SALE: 1680 IH combine,

ank field tracker, 1063 cornhead, ster 1020 24’ bean head, 810 pickup head, hopper topper, 700 good condition. 320-292-4284 or FOR SALE: ‘98 9610 combine, duals, 3800 eng hrs/2800 sep disc hrs, 12R22” cornhead, 925 ints flex bean head. 320-905-9427 IH 588Gehl Forage Harvester 1275 947- chopper 3R cornhead, new gathering belts, 2 yrs ago, Tandem, 9’ hay head, processor, very clean, always shedded. Sold the cows. 320290-4475 or 320-250-0084

ow,MF 850 with 1163 cornhead 350/ and 2381 bean head, good condition, good rubber, $7,500. 507-239-2422

Retiring. For Sale (4) Demco model 750 gravity boxes; (2) red w/ tarps, 455/55R22.5 7+4 tires; (2) green, 445/65R22.5 ent tires. All very good condied. tion. 320-630-1777

RETIRING. For Sale: ‘07 Geringhoff 6R30” cornhead w/ head sight, excellent condition, 507-640-0146 592 hrs Grain Handling new Equipment mp, ger,‘04 SuperB SD1200C grain per, dryer, S/S planum, 230V, 3 583- phase, 300 Amp disconnect,

LP gas, quantum controlrain ler, moisture equalizer, 4675 ire- burner hrs, 1950BPH at 5 t & pts. $80,000. 507-530-2365 on2011 EZ-Flow 510 grain cart, one bigger tires. 612-597-0764 or 359320-238-2302

3,000 bu Butler hopper holdpd, ing bin. John Palmer 507sep 829-1752 ngle opSell your livestock in The Land ard,

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‘15 White 9816FS 16-30 w/Agleader .............. $83,500 ‘12 White 8186, 16-30 w/liq. fert. .................... $53,000 ‘11 White 8516 CFS, Loaded .......................... $75,000 ‘06 White 8516 cfs .......................................... $54,000 ‘05 White 8182 12-30 w/liq ............................. $22,900 JD 7200 8-30 w/dry fert ..................................... $7,500 White 6122 w/bean unit ................................. $12,500

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‘11 JD 9870 combine, 4WD, 520/85R42 duals, chopper, 5

‘00 JD 9650 STS combine, 18.4R42 duals, chopper, tank extension, 3053 sep. hrs ................................................... $23,000 ‘13 JD 635F, flexible platform .......................................... $14,500 ‘12 JD 2410, 33’ chisel plow, tru-depth standards ......... $29,000 ‘13 JD 8260R, IVT transmission, 1500 front axle, 60 GPM hyd. pump, 4 remotes, CAT IV drawbar, HID lights, 380/90R54 duals, 380/80R38 front duals, 2720 hrs, just through service program...........................................................................$118,000 ‘96 JD 8100 MFWD, 18.4R46 duals, 7660 hrs ............... $48,000 ‘90 JD 4755 2WD, 14.9R46 duals, 6230 hrs ................... $26,000 ‘90 JD 4555 2WD, powershift, 14.9R46 duals, 7540 hrs .... $24,500 ‘69 JD 4520, power shift, open station, fenders, 18.4X38 tires, nice original tractor ........................................................... $16,000 ‘11 Challenger MT755C, 25” tracks, 3 point with quick hitch, weights, 2525 hrs .............................................................. $84,500

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

Keith Bode

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952-466good condition. 320-250-5634 Twin Screw, 23’ of Frame dry/liquid spreader. 507-951- 5876 behind Cab, Low Miles; ‘97 1121 Suffolk & Polypay rams & ewe Int’l, 10Spd, Wet Kit, TanFOR SALE: 5 Surge One Wanted lambs, muscle & productive. dem Twin Screw, Cummings Touches, 6 classic 300 units, 507-445-3317 Leave message.

Eng, 370HP, Nice Older Sutorbilt vacuum pump, 507-822-3398.

Truck, 670K miles. Call: 302All kinds of New & Used farm Surge pipeline, Electrobrain 632-8950 equipment - disc chisels, field auto pipeline washer. 320cults, planters, soil finishers, 250-5634 Horses & Tack FOR SALE: ‘91 IH8100 grain cornheads, feed mills, discs, truck, L10 Cummins, 9spd, balers, haybines, etc. 507FOR SALE: Medium sized blue Scott box & hoist, 20’, 438-9782 Swine riding horse, gentle. 507-427- white cab, solid, clean, good tires, recent service & DOT, WANTED: 500 or 1000 gal 3561 $28,500. John 507-381-7097, 15 LP tank, also Case IH FWA FOR SALE: Yorkshire, Hampmiles SE of Mankato. tractor, 215/225 Series or oth- shire, Duroc & Hamp/Duroc Trucks & er sizes w/ low hrs. Factory boars, also gilts. Excellent Trailers FOR SALE: ‘79 C70 Chevrolet steps for 826 & 1066 IH trac- selection. Raised outside. tor, 3RN JD chopping corn- Exc herd health. No PRSS. 1998 Volvo semi, 12.7L Detroit, grain truck, 20’ box, no rust, 6 yr old eng, excellent condDelivery avail. 320-760-0365 head. 320-282-4846 500HP, 10spd transmission, tion, pictures available. 507Spot, Duroc, Chester White, 160” WB, new steer tires, 859-2766 or 507-530-0208 Wanted Damaged Corn Boars & Gilts available. 4 new drivers, 450K miles, Paying Competitive Prices Monthly PRRS and PEDV. very clean truck, $16,900/ FOR SALE: ‘74 IH 1800 twin Based on Quality.

Delivery available. Steve OBO. J&M 30’ header trail- screw, 20’ box & hoist. 507Zane Hanson (507)459-8653 427-3561 er, $2,500. 507-240-0294 Resler. 507-456-7746

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Dewww.refrigerantfinders.com/ad Miscellaneous em 312-291-9169 me ‘97PARMA DRAINAGE PUMPS Winpower Sales & Service Tan- New pumps & parts on hand. Reliable Power Solutions ngs Call Minnesota’s largest dis- Since 1925 PTO & automatic Emergency Electric Generder tributor ators. New & Used HJ Olson & Company 302Rich Opsata-Distributor 320-974-8990 Cell - 320-212-5336 800-343-9376 ain pd, COMBINES 20’, ’14 NH T8330, 2140 hrs, MFWD 1000 pts, ood ‘17 JD 680, 1369/865 sep hrs, 4x4, CM, 3 pt 4 Valves, 380x54 rear tires & duals, 520x42” tires & duals ...................$185,000 OT, ’15 chopper, 320x42 front tires & duals .............................$97,000 JD 690, 4x4, 1745/1160 sep hrs, CM, , 15 chopper, 650x38 tires & duals ....................$185,000 ‘13 Drago 6R, 30” chopping for JD combine ........................................................$25,000 ’15 JD S680, 1465 Eng/731 sep hrs, CM,

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chopper cast tailboard ................................$165,000

olet ’13 JD S660, 892/1180 CM, chopper duals............................................................$132,000 ust, nd- ’04 JD 9760, 2268/3460 CM, chopper duals..............................................................$54,000 507-

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‘14 Case/IH 350 Rowtrac, 1865 hrs, 18” belts, 120” spacing, 1000 PTO, .................$152,000 ’12 JD 9360R, 1970 hrs, 1000 PTO duals ............................................................$150,000 ’11 NH T9390, 705 hrs, ps duals ....................$120,000 ’14 Case/IH 370 HD, 7065 hrs, 1000 PTO duals ..............................................................$78,000 ’90 Ford 876, 8523 hrs duals ..............................$24,500 ’15’ Case/lH 370 HD, 895 hrs, 1000 PTO, full guidance, 4850 tires and duals ..................$169,000 ’16 Challenger 845E, 4270 hrs, 4 hyd 30” tracks ...........................................................$125,000

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’12 JD 8235, 2WD, 1235 hrs, ps, 1000 PTO duals ............................................................$109,000 ’13 Case/IH 290, 1400 hrs, 1000 PTO duals ............................................................$109,000 ’12 Case/IH 260, 1784 hrs, loaded, 1000 PTO duals ..............................................................$98,000 ’11 Versatile 305, 690 hrs, 1000 PTO duals ..............................................................$95,000

‘13 Drago 6R, 30” chopping for JD combine ........................................................$25,000 ‘09 Drago 6R, 30” chopping fits JD ....................$19,000 ‘06 Drago 8R, 30” chopping fits Case/IH Flagship.........................................................$14,500 ‘13 Case/IH 3408 8R, 30” for Flagship ................$19,500 ‘08 Case/IH 2408 8R, 30” fits Flagship ................$11,500 ‘02 Case/IH 2208 8R, 30” fits 1400-2000 series combines ............................................$11,000

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JD 310SE, cab, 4x4, approx 2213 hrs, extend-a-hoe $32,000 ‘11 Case 580N, 4x4 cab 2540 hrs .......................$42,000

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‘12 CAT 924K, 3355 hrs cab, quick coupler, 2.75 yd bucket ..............................................$89,000 ‘16 JD 544K, 788 hrs, cab, quick coupler w/ bucket, ride control ................................$128,000 ‘13 JD 724K, 9015 hrs, loaded, quick coupler, 4.75 yd bucket, aux. hyd. .............................$92,000 ‘10 Kawasaki 65 ZV-2, 6510 hrs with 2.5 yd bucket ................................................$54,000 ‘08 Kawasaki 80 ZV, 5775 hrs, 4 yd bucket, loadrite scale .................................................$55,000 ‘12 Volvo 50F, 5785 hrs, QC, 2 yd bucket ..........$65,000 ‘13 Volvo 110G, 9452 hrs QC, 4.5 yd bucket, scale ..............................................................$79,000 ‘13 Case 821F, 6485 hrs, quick coupler, 4.5 yd bucket, aux. hyd. ...............................$77,000 ‘14 Case 921FXR, 8895 hrs, high lift, quick tach, w/ grapple bucket. .....................$89,000

EXCAVATORS

‘12 JD 120D, 3460 hrs, hyd thumb 24” bucket .....................................................$69,500 ‘11 JD 290GLC, 3347 hrs, 12’6” stick, 42” bucket ...................................................$120,000 ‘11 Case CX300C, 2658 hrs, 12’ stick, 54” bucket ...................................................$117,000

SMALL EXCAVATORS

‘17 Case CX57C, cab & air, 333 hrs rubber tracks .............................................................$50,000 ‘11 Bobcat E45EM, cab & air, 2965 hrs, rubber tracks .............................................................$30,000

MOTOR GRADERS

‘08 CAT 12M VHP, 3568 hrs, 14’ blade ..............$100,000 ‘10 JD 870G, 4533 hrs, 14’ blade, ripper ..........$125,000

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

Look at our website for pictures & more listings: www.larsonimplements.com

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

Stepping back in time takes time

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n the interest of transparency, let it be known that Net’s Old Barn Antiques in Madison is not in an old barn. The building started life as a service station and garage, and has served other purposes.

However, it does seem appropriate that Annette Hassenstab, who started her antique business on a farm, has ended up in a structure resembling a barn. “Net” has been in Madison four-and-a-half years, but has been in the antique business 23 years.

“I wasn’t even into antiques,” she said. “When we bought a farm place near Clarkfield, some previous owners left some antiques they didn’t want. I started selling them and that’s how I got hooked. I got to like antiques as well as make a business out of them.”

After selling off of the farm for a while, she had stores in Green Valley and Wabasso.

After her husband died she eventually met another man and that’s what brought her to Madison. It just worked out that the antique store owner was ready and willing to sell when she broached the subject with him.

At the Old Barn you find all of the items you would expect:

glassware, toys, tools, kitchen items, furniture, hats — and some you wouldn’t expect.

There is a wooden milk cooler that looks like a large round tub and would be hooked up to a well, using water to cool the milk.

She also has a Holden’s Ideal Corn Tester used to select your seed corn. Patented by Prof. Holden, the unit has trays with 100 cells each. You put kernels from individual ears in each cell along with water and wait to see which ones germinate. Those are the ears you use for seed.

“I specialize in variety,” she said, and her huge inventory backs up that statement.

Despite the expansive building, some items must be displayed outside. That includes horsedrawn machinery, like a potato planter. In fact, her inventory is so large that people come in looking for parts.

If you want to examine everything, don’t be in a hurry.

“My record for customers spending time is five hours,” she said. “They left to go and eat and came back, but it was five hours.”

Net’s Old Barn Antiques is at 101 8th Ave. in Madison (along U.S. Hwy. 75 at its junction with State Hwy. 40). She is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, or by appointment. The business phone is (320) 598-3669; cell: (507) 530-0312. v

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