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to work on.”

Perhaps coincidental; however, just as I start sharing some Land Mind thoughts I certainly approved our legislators on this morning, April 16, our Minnesota making insulin available to those in need Senate convenes at 11 a.m. It’s 10 a.m. in — even for uninsured Minnesotans, lowOlivia. The House gets in gear tomorrow. income individuals and those with highThe temperature outdoors was a brisk 27 degree deductible insurance policies. I’m degrees for my ‘morning run.’ But temps reading this legislation happened when a in the 50s were forecast for today, and 60s young Minnesota man died after rationfor the weekend. Hallelujah! This is ing his insulin because he’d been removed indeed the day that the Lord has made. from his mother’s insurance and couldn’t LAND MINDS Let us rejoice and be glad in it. afford the insulin on his own.

By Dick Hagen Our lawmakers have come back three In an update from the Governor’s times since taking a recess last month office, Tim Walz points out that over due to the pandemic. Yes, invariably the last 10 years, manufacturers have these ‘call backs’ costs you and me tripled the price of insulin, and one in money. Covid-19 funding is the culprit. And that four diabetics report rationing of the life-saving ugly virus isn’t done raising hell with our lives, our drug. In 2017, the Minnesota Department of Health economy, and our future. estimated that 7.8 percent, or around 330,000 So what does getting back to normal mean? To me, Minnesota adults, had been diagnosed with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes with around 18,000 new it sounds like mostly getting used to the ‘new normal’. What’s that you ask? It’s apparent we won’t be cases being diagnosed each year. seeing some of our friends and business associates In the incredible rush to get more health care cenbecause this plague has simply put them out of ters approved for handling CVD patients, I was disbusiness. They’re now broke and many don’t see any appointed efforts to reopen the Appleton prison means of recovering. facility for this purpose failed to happen. This prison — now shut down for over three years — providYes, that huge $2.2 trillion CARES package will ease the pain for a while. But our economy won’t fire ed a significant economic thrust to Appleton and surrounding communities. But apparently, the up again on all eight cylinders. Restaurants have state’s efforts to flatten the curve have kept the been especially hard hit; but with 17 million Americans now unemployed (and not likely to regain infection rate down and consequently reduced the need for more emergency beds. their previous job because those jobs are now history) many restaurants will continue to feel the pain.

My state senator, Andy Lang, who resides in So what will our lawmakers be pandering for this Olivia, Minn., did say, “Disappointed, yet I’m happy to say we don’t need the facility — at least right ‘new normal?’ I’m hearing things like: now.” Plans were to have as many as 88 beds • Allow restaurants to sell beer and wine with equipped for ICU treatments at this facility which takeout orders. Certainly not high priority, but my was planned for an April start up. wife and I would appreciate this gesture. Curb side Notice no advice from me pertaining to you farmpick-ups with two of our Olivia cafes have become easy and convenient. Sure, our Olivia liquor store is ers. You’re much aware of the economic crunch open and likely doing a substantial increase in busi- ahead for this season. It looks like good weather will prevail, so hopefully your spring planting seaness. So wine or beer with our pickups is a bit son won’t be harassed with muddy fields this year. redundant. But if that helps their cash flow, then Thank goodness tile lines were doing their thing why not? throughout the winter season. But with $3 corn and • A plan to require drug manufacturers to alert the state department of health when they raise the $8 soybeans now being the talk of commodity tradprice of a prescription drug and the rational for the ers, I wonder will you even reach your break-evens this year. But I also know the resiliency and producincrease … and that information is made available tive smarts of you guys will carry you through. to the public.

Thank the Lord for your being!

• A bill which would allow prescriptions of erectile Might some market facilitation aid be forthcomdysfunction medications via telehealth service; and ing?

Who knows? Considering the millions being a proposal to clarify the state’s Medicaid program spent to extend help to our 17 million unemployed, would not have to cover the treatment cost from an shouldn’t there be financial band aids for you guys approved clinical trial. Gosh, I didn’t realize this and your families also? Seems very logical to me. was such a complicated procedure.

Yes, America is a great nation. Yes, we will survive High priority? You be the judge. But I do appreciand recover from this ungodly plague. Yes, many ate this comment from Senate Majority Lead Paul businesses, however, are wiped out — never to resurGazelka: “I think it’s time for the Minnesota Senate face. I hesitate to ask the ugly question: How many to get back to work as normal; but frankly, it’s a American farmers face the same dilemma? I think new normal. As you look around the state, our hab- President Trump will address the American agriculits have changed. We have less than a month to go to work on some of the things Minnesotans want us See LAND MINDS, pg. 4

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Why can’t our government buy local?

For over a month now, According to Successful nearly anyone who can lift Farming magazine’s late a fork has asked what the 2019 “Pork Powerhouses,” “new normal” in American 40 national and internaagriculture will be after tional companies now own Covid-19 loosens its terrible 4,290,700 sows, or mama grip. hogs, in the United States.

Those 40 operations, in fact, Six weeks later, we now own two out of every three have a pretty good idea FARM & FOOD FILE sows in America today. that ag’s new normal will

By Alan Guebert look like ag’s old normal — Equally remarkable, if even if it takes a presieach of those sows, on dential executive order to average, delivers 25 baby ensure it. pigs this year (intensely managed sows will farrow 30-plus pigThat should give everyone — farmlets per year), these 40 powerhouses ers, ranchers and eaters — deep conwill produce and control 107.5 million cern. If no food supply chain is strong hogs. enough to withstand Covid now, what will happen when climate change hamThat, too, is roughly two-thirds of mers farms and ranches in the next the 150 million or so hogs which will decade or two; or, God forbid, a war or be born, raised and slaughtered in the another pandemic strikes sooner?

United States this year. Interestingly, the other one-third of the hogs the Fab A quick look at one of the most vul40 don’t have a direct hand in nearly nerable chains, pork, spotlights its weakest links and shows how it can be equals the amount of pork exported by the United States to the rest of the shortened and backstopped by more world. local production.

That effectively means the entire

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domestic pork market is controlled by 40 companies, 15 of which are either owned outright or integrated with a global meatpacker.

It also means that when American taxpayers give their money to “livestock farmers” during this ongoing pandemic, most will go to a handful of industrial meatpackers who, in fact, are today’s “hog farmers.”

But that’s not the only price Americans will pay. Last week, our highly efficient, industrialized system snapped after the virus landed in its workplace. The collapse was so concerning the White House stepped in with its muscle and our money. Again.

It was all so predictable.

Just ask Mike Callicrate, a Kansas rancher who raises, slaughters, packages and sells his own beef and other farmers’ local lamb, poultry, pork and cheese through his company Ranch Foods Direct. He foresaw the rise of industrial meatpackers and predicted the nation would pay for its growing, reckless devotion to cheap, unhealthy

industrial food.

He’s also spent the last 40 years fighting meatpackers’ rising market power. As a result, he has the battle scars and dwindling bank account to prove it.

But those battles convinced Callicrate that government should be far more proactive in underwriting the rebirth of local agriculture and not reactive in sweeping up the pieces of our increasingly broken food system.

“If our nation really wants to protect our farmers, ranchers and food workers, while making sure we feed every American,” Callicrate says in an April 28 telephone interview, “Congress should write a law that requires all government agencies to buy their food locally. Local ranchers, local farmers, local meatpackers, local markets, local restaurants.”

Callicrate estimates those purchases by schools, hospitals, the military, federal and local food assistance programs, and other public agencies, See GUEBERT, pg. 6

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Mom’s contributions were lessons of a farm wife Dear Mom, machines, clothes dryers, cake mixes, sewing You are the first farm wife machines with mending I ever knew. And now that I arms, and artificial have been one for the past Christmas trees. You must three decades, I can only have swept acres of dirt out understand in part all you of your house because of went through to do your job. that south wind that blew Coming from the east all the dirt in. coast to (eventually) TABLE TALK And when you had to Northwest Iowa — and living in town all of your child- By Karen Schwaller wash ‘sick’ laundry, there was plenty of it to do, since hood — you knew nothing of when one person got the flu, life on the farm until you most everyone else followed. married Dad. You made more than 150 birthday Yours was a gutsy decision. Learning cakes in your years on the farm. And how to be a farmer’s wife was a sinkit doesn’t account for any birthday or-swim proposition for you. But you cakes made for you, which I don’t eventually got the hang of it. often remember us doing.

You were the woman of the farm and I now understand your quiet panic your contribution mattered. You didn’t that time when you burned the steaks have a job outside the home because you were grilling for supper. You knew your job was the home … and seven kids … and all the things Dad needed Dad wouldn’t be happy, and you quietly ordered them to be taken out to the you to do. It was a big job that rarely grove, while you found something else offered you time off just to be you. for the main entrée.

You helped bring forth a brood of Finding and thawing something else children to help Dad get not only the for that many people had to be no farm work done, but also to help you small feat. in the house … not that we girls did it very willingly, as you know.

Even family vacations were not that It was no easy task to cook and clean much fun for you, because the only in a house in which nine people lived. way you and Dad could afford to do that was to go camping. I remember And those were in some of the days before microwaves, automatic washing you saying, “The first thing I had to do was sweep the mouse poop out of the

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camper.” Then you had to stock it with all the essentials: food, bedding, cooking utensils, dishes, towels, etc. You said, “All that did was take my job and put it on wheels.”

And yet, I never knew you didn’t like camping until you told me.

It’s been said that a smart person knows to delegate the work. You did that when you gave me the job of rinsing out my baby brother’s soiled diapers. I’m pretty sure I was snarky about it then, but when my husband and I couldn’t afford disposable diapers when our twins came along, I wasn’t afraid to use cloth diapers and get my hands dirty rinsing them out.

You were a genius.

Quietly, amid all the work you had to do to keep the farm going, society — and even your family — often overlooked your true value. There are many things that would not have happened had your work on the farm not been done … the never-ending pile of

blue jeans you mended (which saved a lot of money); running to town to get tractor parts and groceries; doctor and dentist visits; Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas mornings, clean clothes on an endless clothesline; three meals a day; cleaning chickens; clean flannel sheets all winter long; tending to our illnesses and injuries; and your discipline so we wouldn’t grow up to be the ungrateful brats we sometimes were at home.

Your job as a farm wife and mother was hard, never-ending and thankless.

But now I say thank you for being my first example of how to be a farmer’s wife.

And thank you for being my beautiful angel on earth … even if your wings were a little dirty from that south wind blowing towards the house.

You’ve carried that look very well.

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Compromising too much?

LAND MINDS, from pg. 2 ture crises very shortly. I think he simply has to.

You might have viewed a Fox News interview earlier this week with Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China.” Yes, this huge country, now the equal of the United States in economic productivity, has huge internal malfunctions according to Chang. He accuses the Chinese government of pushing business imperatives before telling the truth. And he wonders if our government is doing too much compromising for the sake of doing business with China.

Yes, he acknowledged the proposed agricultural trade package with China could be significant for American farmers. But he also asked, “How much will actually happen? And what pressures — other than more tariffs on products purchased from China — will our government attempt to enforce?” He credits our president with being the first American president to challenge the Chinese government on their unfair trading policies of the past. Chang also said eliminating China as a major source of health products for American consumers has to happen and hurriedly. “This action

will accelerate the coming collapse of China in my opinion.”

I think I will check with our local library about this book. It must indeed be intriguing reading based on how China and U.S. relations appear to be questionable again.

My concerns? Trivial stuff like when can I reconnect with my coffee drinking friends at the Round Table at the Chatterbox Café. As I’ve said before, we all talk; the next day we pretty much talk the same stuff again. But this daily exchange of intelligence whet’s my soul. And we all agree we could certainly slow the aging process if it had to work its way through Congress.

The ugly reality is that American agriculture is in severe crisis right now. Hog and beef markets have crashed; thanks to schools’ shut down across America, we have a surplus of milk; some dairy farmers now having to dump their milk. And there’s simply no quick recovery for anyone.

Let’s pray that as America starts reopening in the next few weeks, Covid-19 starts sliding into history.

May your troubles be less, may your blessing be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door. v

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Minnesota FFA State Convention reworked for 2020

Sometimes, even the brightest hope is FFA plans to have a finalized schedule of dampened by the blanket of reality. Such is the virtual experiences available no later the case for the 2020 Minnesota FFA conthan May 13. All awards presentations and vention. The annual gathering of FFA memsessions will be released for a live viewing bers usually takes place in April. Because of experience and then available on demand the coronavirus pandemic, organizers postafter they premier. poned the event until June. However, FFA In addition to the virtual convention, Executive Director Juleah Tolosky recently plans are being made to offer a Minnesota posted this statement on the Minnesota FFA celebration the evening of Sept. 1 at FFA Association’s website (https://www. the Minnesota State Fair in the Lee and mnffa.org/): Rose Warner Coliseum. The evening event “Due to the changing and uncertain will recognize the highest award recipients nature of Covid-19; along with current recand share motivational content. ommendations from the Minnesota The FFA’s constitution contains a proviDepartment of Health, Department of sion which allows the Board of Student Education, State Government and the Officers and Adult Directors to appoint Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; state officers for the succeeding year in the and restrictions on school and large group event a state convention is not held in any gatherings; the Board of Adult Directors Photo submitted given year. Timing of the ceremonial instaland Student Officers has made the difficult Minnesota state FFA officers for 1994-95 posed for this group photo at the lation of officers is still being determined, decision that the 2020 Minnesota FFA state convention. Pictured are (left to right): President Tracy Mickelson, but may happen virtually at a future board Convention will no longer be held in person Vice President Carl Aakre, Secretary Lori Kidrowski, Treasurer Jody meeting. on the proposed postponed dates of June Koubsky, Reporter Heather Jo Schaufler and Sentinel Andrew Bakken.

With that said, The Land is pleased to 8-10. Instead, student engagement, awards present our annual visit with state FFA officers from and recognition will occur over a three-day virtual 25 years ago (1994-95). v experience May 19-21.”

President Fink is still utilizing FFA leadership skills

By KRISTIN KVENO astonishment.”

The Land Staff Writer As president, it was important to MARSHALL, Minn. — Tracy Fink Fink to make sure all officers had the has been a leader throughout her life. opportunity to lead. It was during that That drive and ambition all began on time that there was a transition from the dairy farm in Lanesboro, Minn., state advisor Paul Day to Joel Larsen. where she grew up. Fink’s interest in “I had to say goodbye to a state icon (in agriculture led her to enroll in agriculPaul Day). Both of those men are phetural classes in high school. While in nomenal.” those classes, she discovered opportuniFink has so many good memories of ties found in FFA. “I didn’t realize what being state president. Like when FFA FFA had to offer until I was in an ag members would write Fink letters class.” about how she made an impact on their At that time there were 15 to 20 mem- Tracy (Mickelson) Fink time in the organization. “It’s knowing bers in the Lanesboro FFA chapter. “We President that you made a difference and touched had a very solid chapter, we produced peoples’ lives,” she said. many state presidents,” Fink said.

During her time as state FFA president, Fink was “Freshmen year, I attended Greenhand Camp.” attending the University of Minnesota, where she Edric Funk was the state president that year and graduated with a degree in Animal and Plant Systems encouraged campers to write a letter with their goals with a Dairy Science emphasis. for themselves that would be mailed to them in four Fink obtained many skills from her time as state years. “I wrote that I would like to be state president president which she uses today in her job as a global someday,” Fink said. When she got that letter mailed food safety consultant for Sterilex — a microbial conto her four years later, she made the decision to run trol company. “I definitely use my ability to manage for a state office. and lead meetings.”

The interview process for state officers was intense Fink has been a parliamentarian for several orgaand with no region president experience, Fink wasn’t nizations. She also volunteers for Junior Achievement sure of her chances of getting a state officer position. which has given her the opportunity to teach busi“I didn’t know how it was going to net out.” When it ness curriculum in schools in Marshall, Minn. where was announced that she was president, Fink was she lives. Fink and her husband Bernard have three overwhelmed with emotion. “It was pure joy, utter

children: Thad, a senior in high school; Alex, a fourth grader; and Ryan, a preschooler. Thad is taking after his mom and is a proud FFA member and is on the ag mechanics team.

Her advice to those that may be interested in running for a state FFA office is to remember that “anyone can be a leader. You too can make a difference. I believe in kids; I want them to believe in themselves.”

Fink recognizes that leadership opportunities abound in FFA and encourages youth to take that leap and get involved. She’s certainly glad she did. v

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FFA shaped Aakre’s career in ag education

By KRISTIN KVENO distinctly remembers feeling relaxed The Land Staff Writer and cracking jokes before the interviews. Being calm through it all helped PERHAM, Minn. — Growing up on as Aakre was named state FFA vice a dairy farm four miles southeast of president. “It was very exciting, thrillHawley, Minn. Carl Aakre found opporing,” Aakre said. “A sense of relief that I tunities-a-plenty through his time in did receive an office.”

FFA. “I was encouraged by my parents to join FFA.” It was advisor Dave Reflecting on the experience of being Swanson who was integral in getting a part of the state FFA officer team, “I Aakre to seek opportunities throughout think our time was very diverse.” Aakre the organization. “He got me involved recalled it was a challenge at first to in a couple career development events,” work together. Then the officers bonded Aakre said. Swanson also encouraged well. It was a year of transitions as him to attend Greenhand Camp. Aakre state FFA advisor Paul Day retired and went on to serve in a variety of roles on Carl Aakre Joel Larsen was named his successor. the chapter level such as vice president Vice President “It was early to mid-fall that we found and reporter. out that Joel was going to be our advisor.”

With all his experience in FFA leadership One of Aakre’s favorite memories of his time as a positions,Aakre decided to run for a state office in state officer was the few days before state FFA con1994. It was the leadership components offered at vention, being with his fellow officers, reflecting on the state level that Aakre valued. Having previously their time together over the past year. been a region president and treasurer, he had an Aakre went to North Dakota State University in idea of what he was getting himself into when it Fargo, N.D. for his first year of college, then transferred came to the state officer selection process. Aakre

to the University of Minnesota where he received his degree in Applied Economics. He wasn’t the only one among the state officers to attend the University of Minnesota. In fact, they all attended school there. All six officers lived on the St. Paul campus.

After college, Aakre was a Minnesota ag teacher for 16 years in Marshall, Vadnais Heights and Perham.

It was his time as a state officer which shaped his career path. “It really helped me learn how to lead and network in the ag community.” His time as an educator led to an opportunity to develop curriculum for ag science teachers through Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education. Since 2014 he’s been Curriculum Coordinator for CASE managed by the National Association of Agricultural Educators.

Residing in the Perham area, Aakre and his wife, Anna, are the parents of three children — two in high school, Carter, a senior; Lily, a freshmen and Reid, a fifth grader.

Aakre encourages those that are interested in running for a state FFA officer position to go for it.

“Never give up and work hard. Trust in yourself and never set limits.” v

Anderson: ‘Enjoy the experience — life does go fast’

By KRISTIN KVENO ning for a state officer one of my goals.”

The Land Staff Writer In 1994, Anderson ran for state office and was selected as secretary. “It felt GLENWOOD, Minn. — Lori intense at the time; but looking back it Anderson was raised on a farrow-towas an enjoyable experience.” finish hog farm near Clara City, Minn. where her family also grew corn, sugar “We had a really strong team. The beets and soybeans. Having an interest team had so much experience as chapin agriculture, joining FFA in high ter officers and regional officers.” For school just made sense. Anderson was a Anderson, some of the best memories member of KMS/MACCRAY FFA. she had was hosting the Greenhand Becoming a leader in the organization camp and other leadership camps. She was all in the family. “My sister is proud of what she and her fellow (Christine) was actually a state officer state officers were able to accomplish. when I was in junior high.”

“It was really amazing what the team Lori (Kidrowski) Anderson could do as we came together.”

In 1993, Anderson was chosen for an Secretary FFA month-long trip to Russia. “It was Anderson attended school at such a great experience.” That led Anderson to seek Ridgewater College and later at the University of more leadership roles within the organization. “My Minnesota. She is now the director of sales associate experience as a chapter and region officer made run- financial management for American Solutions for NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, OR YOUR MONEY BACK GUARANTEED! CALL US TODAY FOR

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Business. The vital skills that she obtained in her time in FFA — and more specifically as state FFA secretary — she now utilizes every day in her job, like the ability to lead a team. “I regularly do presentations, speaking in front of crowds has really helped me personally in my career growth,” Anderson said.

Residing in Glenwood, Minn., Anderson and her husband, Mike, have three adult children: Katie, Ashley and Tori. All three of Anderson’s daughters followed in their mother’s footsteps as they were FFA officers. Two were Region 3 officers.

Anderson encourages those interested in seeking a state FFA office to follow their dreams. “You have to be able to believe in yourself. Enjoy the experience.

Life does go fast.” Anderson continues to be grateful for the experiences and the opportunities that FFA afforded her. v

Local support would mean everything GUEBERT, from pg. 3 could total as much as 20 percent of domestic production.

“But that small share would mean everything to local economies — good jobs with good benefits; new investments in local meatpackers, wholesalers and retailers; better housing; better tax bases; better schools; better food; better everything.”

The cost?

“We still don’t know what this pandemic will cost, but we do know it’s trillions,” says the rancher. “The next one will cost us even more — maybe everything — and there’s no fixing anything after that.”

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

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Koubsky conquered fears through FFA experience

By KRISTIN KVENO there. “That ended up being one of the The Land Staff Writer largest or the largest chapter in the state.” Koubsky served as chapter presALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Growing ident for her junior and senior years of up near Glenwood, Minn., Jody high school. She was involved in many Koubsky was raised on a diversified aspects of FFA, including speech. “I farm which transitioned from dairy enjoyed the challenge, I liked being production to a beef operation while pushed.” she was in junior high. Agriculture was an integral part of her life and so was Koubsky ran for a state office her FFA. “My parents were strong supportsenior year. She was involved in a lot of ers of FFA.” activities at the convention that year. It was an overwhelming experience, and Koubsky grew up with a great appreKoubsky was not elected to office. “It ciation of the program as her older wasn’t meant to be that year.” The next siblings were involved in the organiza- Jody Koubsky year at convention she was selected as tion. “My first convention, I was in Treasurer state treasurer. “I remember shaking fourth grade.” That year she watched on stage.

It was amazing.” her sister in the FFA band, and her brother receive his state degree.

Some of her favorite memories of being a state offiStarting in Koubsky’s junior year, she went to the cer include interacting with ag businesses all over newly-built, Minnewaska high school. It was that the state as well as getting the opportunity to be in year, 1992, that the FFA chapter was established ag classrooms. “I really loved getting to know people

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By KRISTIN KVENO home life as a wife and mother as well The Land Staff Writer as in her work environment in health care.

GRAND MEADOW, Minn. — Heather Voigt did not grow up on a Voigt did not start off her professional farm, but she did grow up in a house career in health care. She began in eduthat valued FFA. Her father, Richard cation. After graduating from the Schaufler, was the LeRoy-Ostrander University of Minnesota, Voigt became FFA advisor for well over 30 years. an ag teacher at Byron high school from Raised within city limits in LeRoy 1997-2003. She then went back to Minn., Voigt fostered her leadership school to become a nurse, then onto abilities through her time in FFA. She additional schooling to become a nurse was on various judging teams and practitioner. “I love people. I love havproudly earned her State and American ing a job taking care of people,” Voigt degrees as well. said. She’s currently a nurse practitioHeather (Schaufler) Voigt ner at Mayo Clinic Health System in The chance to run for a state office Reporter Austin, Minn. She also supervises was the perfect opportunity for Voigt. “I nurse practitioners and physician truly love people and I love to be involved. It was the next right step.” It had been a goal for Voigt to be a assistants throughout the I-90 corridor Mayo Clinic state officer. “It took time and effort and prepara- Health System locations. tion,” she said. When it was announced that Voigt Voigt and her husband, Brandon, live in Grand was named state reporter, she was first and foremost Meadow, Minn. and have five children: Hattie, a filled with gratitude. She recalled she was vying for junior at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire; that position among incredibly qualified candidates. Masie, sophomore at South Dakota State University; Some of Voigt’s favorite memories of her time as Rece, a junior in high school; Lucie, an eighth grader; state reporter was doing presentations at schools and Mollie, a fourth grader. “All of our older kids have around the state as well as speaking at numerous been involved in FFA.” FFA chapter banquets. Her goal was to make a posiVoigt encourages current FFA members to find tive impact on fellow FFA members. leadership opportunities that would best suit them, Through her experience as a state officer, Voigt then go for it. “My biggest thing is that everyone has v learned the value of communication and working the capability to do it.” with others. She utilizes those skills in both her

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Koubsky credits her time as a state officer in helping her increase confidence in her leadership skills as well as hone her public speaking abilities.

Koubsky graduated from the University of Minnesota and has farmed, worked for the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, and the University of Minnesota Extension 4-H youth development, which she left in 2016 for medical reasons. She is currently working part time in music ministry at her church in Alexandria, Minn. “This is giving me a purpose and healing.”

“I’m so thankful for my parents and siblings for getting me into the FFA program.” Koubsky is grateful for the experiences that FFA has given her. She encourages the organization’s members to get involved in leadership opportunities. “Don’t be afraid to fail, you don’t really fail. The experience is so valuable.” She wants FFA members to take that chance and get involved. “We allow fear to inhibit us way too much.” v

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FFA leadership camp was a building block for Bakken

By KRISTIN KVENO The Land Staff Writer ALBERT LEA, Minn. — Out on the farm near Albert Lea, Minn. Andrew Bakken developed a strong appreciation for agriculture. His family grew corn, soybeans and alfalfa as well as had a farrow-tofinish hog operation along with raising cattle. “I always loved agriculture,” Bakken said. That passion led to his involvement in FFA. It was attending Greenhand Camp in ninth grade which fostered Bakken’s interest in leadership roles in the organization. “That was a turning point for me.” Bakken’s FFA advisor at Albert Lea High School, Kim Meyer, encouraged Bakken to take part in the creed speaking contests as well as other involvement opportunities. While at Greenhand Camp, Bakken set goals for himself. One of those was to run for a state FFA office — and four years later, he did.

Andrew Bakken, Sentinel Bakken recalled there were 24 or 25 people that ran for state offices in 1994. “At the time it was a bit stressful,” he said. When it was announced Bakken was named state sentinel, happiness abounds. “It felt great, overwhelmed with joy. It was a goal I worked on for four years.”

Bakken was attending the University of Minnesota while serving as state sentinel along with all the other state officers. “All of us had strong personalities.” While that could be a challenge, Bakken was quick to point out those personalities complimented each other well.

His fondest memories as a state officer was running the leadership camps and having the younger FFA members look up to him.

Bakken now farms as well as runs his own farrowto-finish hog operation. He purchased his hog operation from his father in 1999. He currently markets about 4,000 pigs as well as 100 cattle a year. He also grows wheat, corn, soybeans, oats and has a haying enterprise.

He’s been married to his wife, Jody for 20 years and they have four children: Brennan, 16; Blaine, 14; Brielle, 12 and Bryant, 9. Bakken’s son Blaine is in FFA. “He has a passion for showing livestock,” Bakken said. His daughter Brielle also has a strong interest in animal showmanship.

He encourages those who are interested in leadership positions in FFA to give it their all. “If you reach that goal, it will change your life forever.” Bakken is grateful he made that life-changing decision to try for a state officer position all those years ago. The memories and the life lessons from that time has stayed with him to this day. v

Swine production choices to help cope with Covid-19 The overall global impact of the Covid-19 outbreak remains to be seen. But here in Midwestern farm country, it has ramifications far beyond human illness and mortality. Crop farmers have been able to get to the field and begin planting, and that kind of feels normal. The livestock sector is far from normal.

Beef, dairy, poultry and swine are all affected by this disease which doesn’t make them sick; yet has changed 2020’s livestock management, meat supplies and farm profitability irreparably. Swine producers have pivoted and adjusted to the daily changes surrounding their feedstuff availability, management techniques and market access. Alongside them, Minnesota’s Department of Agriculture, Pollution Control Agency and Pork Producers Association have nimbly provided assistance and support.

In the swine sector, harvest plant closures have taken the bloom off of any highlights there might have been in pricing and supplies. As farmers address this absence of a market for their pigs, they’ve adjusted their management strategies to focus on keeping the pigs on the farm for a longer period of time.

Managing pigs whose market has closed No pigs are harvested today who don’t already have an appointment. Swine producers work with buyers representing the packing plant, and loads are scheduled to be hauled at specific times. That producer-buyer relationship is now a key to pig farmers knowing what may come next.

Packers who have multiple processing plants across the United States have attempted to continue to receive a portion of their farmer-supplier’s pigs. The loads are sent to alternate sites, but they are purchased and processed. Packers who are still open have added shifts of employees and have added days of work in order to accommodate pigs who normally are processed at other sites. This re-

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routing of pigs will not accommodate all normallyscheduled pig delivery, but it can help. Buyer and farmer communication is critical to assisting the farmer’s plan for what may come next.

SWINE & U Back at the farm, producers can adjust their manageBy Diane DeWitte ment strategies to reduce pigs’ growth rate. Instead of being ready to go this week, maybe the pigs will reach market weight next week. University nutritionists and related swine industry specialists spent early April assisting producers to make educated decisions.

All of the strategies offered to producers are meant to be temporary and with the understanding that producers are in emergency situations. As always, when deciding how best to manage pigs in the face of harvest plant closures, producers consider the wellbeing of the pigs the number-one priority. Emergency management practices require additional observation of the pigs to ensure their safety and welfare.

Adjusting the diet Revamping the pig’s ration to retain important nutrition while slowing the pig’s gain has been a primary management choice. Reducing the amount of energy in a diet while adding fiber is a common method which lengthens the pig’s time on feed.

Nutritional fiber comes in many forms and is measured as neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and the

most commonly used ingredients in today’s swine diet are dried distillers grains with solubles, wheat midlings, corn germ meal, soybean hulls, and sugar beet pulp. Producers, working with their swine nutritionists, re-formulate the diet with 20-25 percent NDF. That amount of fiber in a diet makes the pig simply too full to eat enough feed to meet its energy requirement.

While the low-energy/high-fiber diet is a successful short-term solution to reducing the pig’s growth rate, these fiber sources may be in short supply.

Demand has increased and this is not the optimal time of year to obtain some of these ingredients.

Other diet manipulation methods are also in play, including removal of all sources of dietary fat — a common energy source. From University of Minnesota Extension Swine Educator Sarah Schieck Boelke’s recent management summary, “What to do if your pork packing plant is closed,” reducing crude protein and essential amino acid levels will reduce growth rate and feed intake. That nutrient reduction has to be in the range of 30-40 percent.

Also from Schieck-Boelke, using a type of salt called anhydrous calcium chloride can be added to reduce feed intake. This is a very technical strategy, so a qualified swine nutritionist needs to formulate these diets. It is a strategy not advised for use in lower-weight pigs.

Iowa State University researchers are currently conducting a limited pig growth study comparing See SWINE & U, pg. 9

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Resources available for assistance from several agencies SWINE & U, from pg. 10 eight different dietary treatments. Very preliminary results show that feeding a 97 percent corn diet vs. a typical corn-soy diet with the goal of holding the pigs for three weeks could provide the producer a lower-cost diet. This could maximize opportunities to get the pigs to market later than usual. Cornonly diets must be balanced for mineral and vitamin requirements.

Facilities management Good producers keep an eye on the feeder adjustment to prevent wasted feed, but this is a time when tightening the feeder openings will yield additional needed results. A feed pan with 15-20 percent coverage provides necessary nutrition. This type of strategy requires more intensive monitoring of the pigs to ensure that feeders don’t become restricted and that aggressive behavior isn’t an issue in the group of pigs.

High summer temperatures always reduce pig growth, and adjusting barn ventilation to mimic that seasonal effect is a strategy producers may choose. As always, pig well-being is the number-one consideration, and the producer in consultation with a ventilation engineer can arrive at a solution which may help slow pig growth for the short term.

As pigs gain weight and take up more pen space, their growth tends to slow. Typical management would have the pig farmer market the larger pigs out of many pens in the barn to thin out the group and allow the remaining pigs to grow faster. A producer who needs to slow the pigs’ growth is advised to keep the groups together to reduce the compensatory gain normally achieved when a few head are removed.

Minnesota agency assistance Minnesota’s Pollution Control Agency has issued a swine-specific guidance which approves flexibility for producers who need to overstock their barn(s) to

accommodate limited pen space. MPCA will approve a 45-day overstock of barns without producers obtaining the environmental National Pollutant Discharge Elimination system or State Disposal System permit variances. Producers must meet manure containment criteria detailed in the guidance, and must contact the county feedlot officer for local ordinances and conditional uUse permits. Both the MPCA Regulatory Relief Guidance and an application template can be found at the Minnesota Pork Producers Association Covid-19 resources page (https://www.mppainsider.org/covid-19/).

Minnesota’s Department of Agriculture is working to locate opportunities for producers who need meat processing because of harvest plant closure and lost markets. If producers need animal processing help, they may contact Jim Ostlie at (320) 842-6910; Jim. Ostlie@state.mn.us or Courtney VanderMey (651) 201-6135).

MDS has also created an expedited approval process to review and accept Minnesota custom exempt slaughter establishments who would like to process animals under continuous inspection. Custom exempt processors who meet the minimum requirements will be granted a 90-day provisional grant of inspection. Custom exempt processors should contact Meat, Poultry and Egg Inspection directly at MDA.MeatPoultryEgg@state.mn.us or telephone Levi Muhl (651) 201-6216), Erik Jopp (320) 2489515) or Jennifer Stephes (651) 201-6192).

If, as a last resort, pigs have to be euthanized, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health has experts who can answer carcass disposal questions. The board also has an emergency carcass disposal guide which is found at z.umn.edu/MNBAHEmergencyCarcassDisposal.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has allocated special funding for livestock producers who have emer-

New CRP offers longer-term benefits ST. PAUL — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will open signup this summer for CLEAR30, a new pilot program which offers landowners an opportunity to enroll in a 30-year Conservation Reserve Program contract. The program signup period is July 6 to Aug. 21.

“This pilot allows us to work with farmers and landowners to maintain conservation practices for 30 years, underscoring farmers’ commitments to sound long term conservation stewardship on agricultural land,” said Minnesota Executive Director Joe Martin.

“Through CLEAR30, we can decrease erosion, improve water quality and increase wildlife habitat on a much longer-term basis. We want to share this opportunity early, before the sign up period, so farmers and landowners have more time to consider if CLEAR30 or another program is right for their operation.”

Eligible producers must have expiring Clean Lakes, Estuaries and Rivers (CLEAR) initiative contracts, including continuous CRP cropland contracts with water-quality practices or marginal pasturelands CRP contracts devoted to riparian buffers, wildlife habitat buffers or wetland buffers.

Annual rental payment for landowners who enroll in CLEAR30 will be equal to the current continuous CRP annual payment rate plus an inflationary adjustment of 27.5 percent.

Another unique program feature is that FSA will help producers maintain CLEAR30 contract acreage.

USDA Service Centers are open for business by phone appointment only, and field work will continue with appropriate social distancing.

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gency animal mortalities. Through the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program, producers can apply for resources to assist in handling animal mortalities. Producers should contact their local USDA Service Center.

Assistance in dealing with farming’s challenges and struggles is found through University of Minnesota Extension’s Farm and Rural Stress programs which can be accessed at https://extension. umn.edu/rural-stress or through MDA’s Minnesota Farm and Rural Helpline at 1-833-600-2670.

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Barn for chickens now houses shrimp tanks

By DICK HAGEN the idea a couple of times we realized The Land Staff Writer Emeritus we were both heading in the same RENVILLE COUNTY, Minn. — direction and just maybe we should After an extensive career raising chick- look into this. I now had a 360-foot ens for Golden Oval Eggs, Becky Bruns chicken barn sitting empty in the middle of a corn field And then this is now a shrimp farmer. thought … why not grow shrimp?

“I’ve raised chickens all my life,” the “The idea firmed up and here we are 40-year-old Bruns said. “My parents today.

In August of 2018, we shipped built this barn (which is now my shrimp birds out of this barn for the last time. farm) the year I was born. After high school I did two years of college, became Immediately we started the renovation a vet tech, then returned to the farm to which lasted through the winter and assist my Mom in raising chickens and then in July of 2019 we got our first shrimp in here.” have been here ever since.

“My husband also came back with me. He’s not a farm boy, so I decided to make a farmer out of him.

He fought back. Now he runs racing products rebuilding engines for the expanding world of NASCAR racing.

“But a big catalyst in this shrimp venture was the Avian Influenza siege of 2018. It damn near broke me. At that point we were growing about two million birds a year Photos by Dick Hagen for Rembrandt Food’s It takes about 120 days for Bruns’ shrimp to reach Golden Oval operation … market weight – about 20-25 grams. we were doing 12 flocks a year.

When Avian Bruns’ shrimp barn how houses 17 Influenza hit, it was one of the worst shrimp tanks which includes four experiences of my life. The only more 17,000-gallon nursery tanks and 13 tragic episode was when my son died.” ‘grow out’ tanks — each with 3,000 galSome federal assistance to Bruns and lons of water. literally hundreds of Minnesota turkey Becky starts each nursery tank with farmers helped ease the sudden finan- 10,000 to 15,000 shrimp larvae — barecial storm. “I took a hell of a mental ly recognizable by the human eye. hit,” Bruns admitted. “I didn’t recover “When they are about 1 gram in size very well. Egg markets have never (now you can see them) I’ll put 3 to recovered and are still in the tank … 4,000 shrimp into that 3,000-gallon like 49-cents a dozen in some places tank.” and crop markets are volatile. I wanted By now you are wondering, ‘how does to do something that didn’t revolve around egg prices or crop prices. I she count these miniature shrimp?’

Well she doesn’t — at least not indiwanted to try something different. vidually. “I’ll put 200-300 grams (200 “My Mom and I had talked somewhat grams is 0.4 pounds) in a pail and about this guy up at Willmar who sold weigh it, then I’ll dump them into a off his dairy herd and turned one of his grower tank and count those once or buildings into a shrimp farm. So we twice. Then I can determine the averboth at separate times drove up to his age weight of each shrimp and set up farm for a visit. I sort of laughed it off; my feeding schedule accordingly.” my Mom pretty much the same reaction. But after both of us laughing off See SHRIMP, pg. 11

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Bruns sells out as soon as shrimp are ready to market SHRIMP, from pg. 10 Somewhat like other livestock, shrimp rations are adjusted for various growth cycles. Bruns said she’s shooting for 120 days for these tiny creatures to reach market weight, but that depends upon water quality and the different components of her shrimp feed. “If my water gets a little wonky (her term) I’ll have to pull back just a bit on the feeding and that can mean a few extra days in the grow-out tank.”

Bruns monitors water quality daily in every tank.

She checks several components: pH, alkalinity, ammonia content and nitrate levels — much the same chores as when she was growing out several thousand chicks. “Water quality is the most pertinent task of shrimp farming. The water is as much a living organism as are the shrimp. Each tank is its own ecosystem, so the growing of the positive bacteria (called bioflock) is critical. This bioflock consumes all the waste product of the growing shrimp. And that is why I am not concerned about refreshing my shrimp tanks. I can reuse my water over and over.”

Bruns grows her own bioflock. You don’t purchase the stuff and add it into your shrimp tanks. When her first shrimp arrived, they were put into tanks; and like all fish, they were routinely expelling their own wastes — producing their own bacteria which she enhances with some sugar and pro-biotics. “As the shrimp grow, the bioflock just comes into being through the environment created within each tank,” she explained. “So when we look into our tanks you’ll see the water has a brownish color. Everybody thinks it’s dirty, but that is the most beautiful color you wish to see for a shrimp farmer. It’s not dirty water; it’s beautiful water because of bioflock.”

Feeding the shrimp is automated and takes some doing. Each tank has its own system. Bruns carefully ON THE COVER: Becky Bruns stands by one of the 17 tanks which make up her shrimp nursery. The tanks are housed in a building Bruns once used to raise chickens.

Feeding shrimp is a complex practice as nutritional needs change as the shrimp grow. Bruns will use six different feed rations in the process. spreads measured shrimp nutrition on a belt feeder each morning; then activates the ‘start’ button which then ever so slowly moves the belt through the water.

Each day she weighs out the feed for each tank and that feed belt slowly ticks forward — dropping off feed for 24 hours. “A shrimp’s digestive tract empties in 45 minutes, so these minuscule creatures spend most of the day just lunching and pooping,” smiled Bruns.

A sick cow or pig is relatively easy to identify for an experienced producer. But what about a sick shrimp?

Bruns explained, “A shrimp is a fairly simple animal.

Its digestive tract, called the mud vein, lies across its top side. A healthy shrimp is so translucent that I can see that digestive tract. If I’m not feeding enough, I won’t be able to see that mud vein. That means I need to increase the daily feeding for that particular tank. If I’m putting in too much feed, I’ll get the remnants of too much feed.”

“I’m weighing my shrimp every week,” Bruns continued. “I’m shooting for a 20 to 25-gram weight.

Each 25-gram shrimp would be about two good bites.

Nope, shrimp don’t all grow even. I might have 25-gram and 15-gram shrimp in the same tank. So I need to net those big shrimp and give the smaller ones a better chance to grow. Yes, this is very much a hands-on operation and that perhaps is why I welcome each new hatch of shrimp fingerlings.”

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“When I unload here at my shrimp barn, I float the bag in my nursery tank a few minutes to equalize water temperatures. At that point, these shrimp are about the size of an eye lash; so I just feed and hope and pray everything is okay with my new family. At this point I don’t trust anyone else to my day-by-day chores since I’m not absolutely certain myself,” chuckled Bruns. “If you’re not learning, you likely aren’t doing much … whether you are parenting, or raising chickens, or farming shrimp, I make multiple mistakes every day.”

Her feed source is Ziegler Feeds, a Pennsylvania based aqua culture feed firm which provides six different rations for the six life cycles in her shrimp rearing program. Yes, shrimp mortalities do happen.

Lots of competition in each tank, she said, so some is expected. “But if I’m doing it right I only see one or two mortalities per grow out tank.”

The Shrimp Shop has regular shopping hours, but Bruns said it’s best to call ahead to plan your visit.

Her phone is (507) 237-6442; or email Shrimpshopmn@ gmail.com.

So far, the majority of her customers from within a 50-mile radius of Danube. She has yet to do any advertising, but she is pleased and grateful how rapidly the word is spreading about this new shrimp farm in Minnesota. “Most of the time we are selling out as soon as a tank is ready to market,” Bruns said.

“There is a great demand for clean, healthy protein.

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MARKETING

Grain Outlook Decline in corn exports forecasted

Livestock Angles Fear continues to dominate livestock markets

The following marketing week-on-week. The demand It has been another couple of subside as the slaughter analysis is for the week endlevel is still 37 percent below weeks under the influence of picks up in the future. ing May 1. last year. the coronavirus and the liveOne bright spot is the fact CORN — Another ugly Weekly export sales were stock markets are continuing that the latest U.S. Monday for corn with seed better than anticipated at to remain in a fear-induced Department of Agriculture going quickly into the ground 53.4 million bushels. This state. It appears as though Cattle on Feed report and a vacuum of any fresh brings total commitments to these markets may have finalreleased on April 24 was friendly news. Nearby corn only 20 percent behind last ly put enough fear in the marseen as slightly friendly. set a new contract low at year at 1.45 billion bushels. ket to now begin to trade more This was because of reduced JOE TEALE $3.00.25 per bushel. Nearby PHYLLIS NYSTROM Mexico was the biggest buyer. on the fundamentals — rather placements and the increased Broker CHS Hedging Inc. corn has not traded below the The USDA is forecasting than emotions. The fact that marketing figures. This could many packing houses have Great Plains Commodity correct the deep discount of S t. Paul $3.00 level since 2009. It may total exports for the year at Afton, Minn. just be a matter of when, not 1.725 billion bushels, a had to shut down temporarily futures to cash in the weeks because of Covid-19 has hurt if, we push through that supdecline of 16.5 percent from ahead. Obviously, the cattle port with expectations carryout num- last year. We need 12.3 million bushels the market; but now appear to be market is oversold which will likely bers will increase on the weaker feed of sales per week to hit their outlook. reopening as the threat of further infec- correct to some degree because of this and corn for ethanol demand. This is New crop sales were 13.3 million bush- tions die down. Time is now the answer USDA report. not to say there couldn’t be a few bright els. Total new crop commitments are for the upcoming direction of livestock Producers are frustrated with the spots along the way. If China includes 107 million bushels vs. 88.3 million prices. events which have taken place in the corn and/or ethanol in their Phase 1 bushels last year at this time.

Cattle have been under constant past several months; but the old saying purchases, more corn acres than pressure since the last week of February there is always a light at the end of the U.S. corn planting was 27 percent expected switch to soybeans, weather complete as of April 26, well ahead of as prices have fallen to lows not seen tunnel will eventually come to fruition. negatively impacts growing conditions, the 20 percent average. Minnesota had since 2009. This market exemplifies The past week or so, the cash hogs or feed and ethanol demand rebound 40 percent of its corn in the ground by what a fear-driven market acts like. have finally seen some improvement in quicker than currently anticipated, we that date, with Illinois at 37 percent Granted, cattle have backed up due to could hold current levels to trade side- complete and Iowa at 39 percent com- the reduction in slaughter, but it prices. The demand for pork has been fairly steady during the coronavirus ways. plete. U.S. corn planting is estimated appears the worst-case scenario may pandemic which has help improve the The Phase 1 trade deal with China to be 45 percent complete by May 3. have already been built in. cash market situation. may be in question. The White House is U.S. soybean planting was 8 percent Demand for beef has been relatively

The futures market has now reacted considering how best to respond to complete as of April 26 compared to the good as supplies of beef have tightened China’s handling of the coronavirus. 4 percent average. Soybean planting is at the retail level which has sent beef to this situation and rallied off current Possible tariffs are being considered at expected to advance to 20 percent com- cutouts soaring to record highs as pack- weekly and monthly lows which haven’t a time when China issued an addi- plete by May 3. Due to dryness in ers try to keep up with the demand. been seen for quite some time. This is tional 1.5 million metric tons of low This situation of low prices for cattle encouraging. However, this does not See NYSTROM, pg. 13 tariff corn import quotas. They have while soaring cutouts will eventually mean the lower price movement is completely over. With the infection rate issued a total of 6.3 mmt quotas. These beginning to decline, the possibility of quotas may be used for any origin. not seeing new lows is looking encourWeekly ethanol production fell 26,000 aging at this time. barrels per day to 537,000 bpd —

corn/change* soybeans/change* As like the cattle, fear has dominated another record low since the industry’s St. Cloud $2.67 -.02 $7.77 +.11 the market for quite some time; but it infancy. An encouraging sign, however, Madison $2.65 -.02 $7.71 -.02 does seem as that situation is also was the first decline in ethanol stocks Redwood Falls $2.94 +.22 $7.66 -.02 beginning to subside. Demand will since March 20. Stocks fell 1.35 million likely be the catalyst to drive the mar Fergus Falls $2.45 +.01 $7.55 +.09 barrels to 26.3 million barrels. Margins ket rather than emotions in the weeks Morris $2.58 +.04 $7.66 +.03 improved 6 cents/gallon to breakeven ahead. v Tracy $2.62 +.05 $7.81 -.06 levels. The University of Illinois projects corn use for ethanol will drop to Average: $2.65 $7.69 4.75 billion bushels, down 300 million bushels from the current U.S. Year Ago Average: $3.25 $7.30 Department of Agriculture outlook.

Grain prices are effective cash close on May 5.

Gasoline demand improved for the *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period. third week in a row, up 10 percent

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Soybean market holds breath as Trump tariff’s loom NYSTROM, from pg. 14 Brazil, their safrinha corn crop is being stressed and production estimates are declining. A well-respected private consultant lowered the forecast 1 mmt to 97 mmt, with a bias it could fall lower.

Outlook: The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report will be released May 12 and will include the first supply/demand sheets for the 2020-21 crop year. Early forecasts suggest the carryout will surge to over 3 billion bushels next year. Negative fundamentals will limit any upside without fresh bullish inputs. Weather forecasts are conducive to rapid planting progress and threatened sanctions against China are a shadow over business.

July corn fell 4.5 cents this week to settle at $3.18.5 per bushel while the December contract was unchanged on the week at $3.36.75 per bushel. On a weekly basis, July corn has closed unchanged or lower in each of the last five weeks.

SOYBEANS — A third weaker Monday in a row for soybeans put them on the defensive until late in the week when rumors of Chinese interest provided a double-digit boost. Trade chatter about possible purchases of U.S. soybeans in the 300,000-500,000 range lifted prices to their high for the week. However, reality didn’t provide for any follow-through when sales of 264,000 were announced to China, split equally

between old and new crop. This does coincide with talk that sales were for the August/September time frame. JCI from China reported Chinese crushers were 90 percent covered for June, 60 percent for July, and were looking for August and September bushels.

The record weakness in the Brazilian real has pushed Brazilian farmers to sell in excess of 80 percent of this year’s crop. How far will they dig into this year’s production before selling stops or they run out of bushels?

Despite the lack of follow-through, soybeans did close higher for the week. But just when we think it may be safe to go back into the water, threats of retaliatory tariffs toward China for the way they handled the coronavirus were suggested by President Trump.

Soybeans would likely be the biggest loser if fresh tariffs are put in place and the Phase 1 trade agreement disintegrates.

The order for U.S. meat packers to keep plants open may be easier said than done. Workers may be reluctant to return unless they feel adequate protections are in place. If facilities begin to ramp up, it could provide support for feed demand.

The March National Agricultural Statistics Service crush was 192.2 million bushels. This is an all-time record and exceeded the trade projection of 191.5 million bushels. Soyoil stocks were 2.328 billion pounds,

slightly lower than anticipated.

Weekly export sales were in line with expectations at 39.6 million bushels. Total commitments of 1.43 billion bushels are 13 percent behind last year. We need to average 18.9 million bushels of sales per week to reach the USDA’s 1.775-billion-bushel export outlook. China has bought 13.3 mmt of U.S. soybeans in this marketing year with 892,000 of unshipped sales.

Outlook: If the Phase 1 trade deal with China is put in jeopardy, soybeans may be the first casualty.

Good weather may change ideas about corn acres being switched to soybeans. Improved feed demand as meat packers gear up production may also lend mild support. Consolidating trade may be expected ahead of the monthly WASDE report on May 12.

July soybeans rallied a dime this week to close at $8.49.5 and November soybeans were 13.5 cents higher at $8.55 per bushel.

Nystrom’s Notes: Contract changes for the week as of the close on May 1: Chicago July wheat was down 14 cents at $5.16.5, Kansas City was just a quartercent lower at $4.83, and Minneapolis was 6.5 cents lower at $5.06.75 per bushel. Crude oil rallied $2.84 to close at $19.78 per barrel, up 16.7 percent for the week. New daily price limits went into effect May 1.

The daily limit for Chicago and Kansas City wheat limits increased from 35 cents to 40 cents per bushel.v

Amended federal milk market orders a no-go This column was written for the marketTwo days later, the answer was no. The ing week ending May 1.

USDA stated it “would not be able to complete a rulemaking proceeding that The U.S. Department of Agriculture allows all industry stakeholders the announced the April federal order Class opportunity to adequately participate III benchmark milk price at $13.07 per and implement the proposal timely.” hundredweight. This is down $3.18 from March, $2.89 below April 2019, and the The proposal drew comment from many lowest Class III price since May 2016 — in the industry, many of which opposed another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic the plan. The Minnesota Milk Producers MIELKE MARKET which has invaded our world.

Association argued, “While we all want WEEKLY higher milk prices, arbitrarily bumping The four-month Class III average stands

By Lee Mielke prices to a made-up number could cause at $15.84, up from $14.71 at this time a more harm than good,” and warned, year ago and $14.02 in 2018. But “While raising the Class I price that average and farm profit marwould help those in Class I (fluid gins will slip more as Class III milk) areas, those farms without futures portended a May price botmost of their milk in Class I would tom at $11.26; June, $12.23 and July at $13.53, with be left behind. While a mandated change in Class I a peak at $15.76 in November. milk price could affect government-related risk The Class IV price is $11.40, down $3.47 from management programs, it could also limit hedging March, $4.32 below a year ago, and the lowest Class on the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), which IV price since September 2009. Its average for the would adversely affect market liquidity.” year stands at $14.78, down from $15.69 a year ago Bob Gray, editor of the Northeast Dairy Farmers and compares to $13.13 in 2018.

Cooperatives newsletter, wrote, “A disservice was A letter from 23 U.S. dairy cooperatives this week done to dairy farmers by rejecting this hearing out requested USDA to call an emergency hearing to of hand. You hold the hearing, weigh the facts and amend federal milk market orders and establish a make a decision based on the arguments presented. minimum Class I milk price mover of $15.68 per That is the proper way to proceed under the circumcwt. for June, July and August. stances we find ourselves in today.”

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n Most cash dairy prices strengthened going into May. The cheddar blocks closed May 1 at $1.2050 per pound, up 13.5 cents on the week but 47 cents below a year ago. The barrels finished at $1.19, 14 cents higher, but 47.25 cents below a year ago. Three cars of block were sold on the week and 13 of barrel.

Midwest cheese producers continue to find milk at discounted prices and output has increased at some of the plants that recently cut back. Food service demand is more positive, but sales are not where they were last year. However, sales are trending higher according to multiple producers. Cheese storage remains a concern.

Western cheese sales were unchanged to a bit higher. Retail demand remains stronger than normal and food service requests continue to revive — but are still lower than usual. An increase in takeout orders is helping restaurants keep cheese orders coming.

Cheese output is active, but inventories are ramping up as sales are still below output. Most manufacturers have enough cheese storage, but are concerned they may run out if the quarantine persists for a longer time.

Butter got to $1.1975 on April 30, but closed the next day at $1.1875. This is up 4.25 cents on the week, ending seven weeks of loss, but $1.0850 below See MIELKE, pg. 14

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Butter plants are actively churning and cream remains widely available.

That said, a number of contacts do not expect the easily accessible cream stores to remain as they are. Cream prices are trending higher and plant managers say domestic retail business is busy as customers take advantage the low prices.

Plentiful cream is keeping western butter output heavy. Demand from retail has slowed from the panic buying a few weeks ago. Some contacts report a slight increase in restaurant purchases due to drive-thru and takeout meals, but butter usage is typically very light for takeout items.

Educational institutions and much of their food service activities are shut down — though some schools are providing meals. But again, butter usage is light and not close to normal volumes. Some parts are planning to reopen restaurants in the next month but it may take time for the food service segment to get back up to normal levels, says Dairy Market News.

Grade A nonfat dry milk closed May 1 at 79.25 cents per pound, 1.75 cents lower on the week and 26 cents below a year ago. Three sales were reported on the week.

Whey saw a May 1 finish at 39.50 cents per pound. This is up a penny on the week and 4.75 cents above a year ago, with seven sales reported for the week. n The USDA issued its 2019 annual Dairy Products Summary which showed cheese output totaled 13.1 billion pounds, up 0.8 percent from 2018.

Wisconsin remained the leading cheese producer, with 25.6 percent of the total.

Italian cheese amounted to 5.67 billion pounds, up 1.8 percent, and made up 43.2 percent of total cheese output in 2019. Mozzarella accounted to 79.3 percent of the Italian total, followed by Parmesan with 7.3 percent, and Provolone at 6.8 percent. Wisconsin was the leading producer of Italian cheese at 30 percent.

American cheese output totaled 5.23 billion pounds, down 0.4 percent from 2018 and accounted for 39.8 percent of total cheese output. Wisconsin again

was the leading American producer at 19.2 percent.

Butter output hit 1.99 billion pounds, up 1.3 percent from 2018.

California was the number-one butter producer, with a 29.8 percent share.

Nonfat dry milk powder totaled 1.85 billion pounds, up 4.1 percent from 2018, and skim milk powder, at 573 million pounds, was up 2.2 percent from 2018. Dry whey totaled 978 million pounds, down 2.2 percent from 2018. n Reports warn the U.S. food supply chain is breaking as primarily meat packing plants are being idled due to employee Covid-19 sickness. The president issued an executive order to keep such facilities operating, yet protect their employees.

FC Stone’s April 28 Early Morning Update stated, “It looks like the average animal processing plant, excluding poultry, has more than twice as many production line and handling employees as the average dairy plant.”

“The averages probably hide a very skewed distribution of plant sizes though,” says FC Stone. “Tyson’s Waterloo Iowa hog plant is their largest and has 2,800 employees while their Logansport, Ind. plant has 2,200 employees. The JBS cattle plant in Greely, Col. has 6,000 employees. Not all of these would be production line material handling, but a large percentage would be.”

FC Stone adds, “The new cheese plant in St. Johns, Mich. will be one of the biggest in the country, but will only have about 290 employees at the plant. In 2011, the Hilmar Dalhart, Texas cheese plant had about 250 employees operating a very large plant.”

“We’re not saying dairy plants are immune or we won’t see some shutdowns due to an outbreak, but the slaughter plants look a lot more vulnerable than the dairy plants,” FC Stone concludes.

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

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Opening June 15 & Closing June 25 at 7PM Ed & Shari Nytes Farm Retirement Auction, New Prague, MN, Timed Online Auction

Opening June 15 & Closing June 25 at 7PM Gary & Deborah Guse Farm Retirement Auction, Harris, MN, Timed Online Auction

Farm Equipment JD 4760 MFW tractor, P/S, 8600 hrs, 18.4x42 w/ duals, 3 hyds & Quick hitch, $37,900; JD 7300 12x30 3PT planter, insect, TW, 250 mon, nice, $4,900; Case IH RBX564 baler, same as NH BR7090, net & twine wrap, exc belts & new tires, $9,750; Krause 4600, 12x30 flat fold cult, $2,900; JD 1075 running gear, $1,150. 320-769-2756 JD 7000 planter, front fold, 8x36 row, dry fert, auger fill, trash whippers, precision meters; Wil-Rich quad 5 field cult, 37’ w/ good drag; Hardi sprayer, 80’ hyd fold, 3 way nozzles, high wheel model, 950 gal tank. All items in good shape. Retiring. 507-822-2188 JD 7000 Corn Planter, 2 Row, 3PT, $1,800, Fert. Avail. $350/Row. 715-234-1993 MF 4880 4WD tractor; JD 8110 MFD; 2 compartment Parker Gravity Box w/ brush auger; 80/50 KW PTO generator and others; 28” Fan and Burner; 21’ and 18’ grain bins some w/air floors; 9’ and 10’ Ag Baggers; 20’ Grain Pup trailer. Call 320-760-1634

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507-345-4523 New Holland 355 Mill, good cond., $3,800. 715-797-2104 Summers Herman culti harrow, hyd, 70’ w/ new teeth; White 8100 planter, 8R30” w/ liq fertilizer; White 5100 planter no fertilizer; MM 14’ tandem disk w/ harrow; White model 2-180 tractor w/ 20.8x38 tires. All in good condition. 320-630-1777 Wanted: Horse related farm machinery: thrashing mach, ground drive manure sprdrs, JD & McCormick hay mowers, corn or grain binders, MM corn shellers, any repairable mach. or we will repair yours. 507-932-6848 AM We buy Salvage Equipment Parts Available Hammell Equip., Inc. (507)867-4910 White 508 4-16s plow, MN 130 flair box, JD gear, hoist; Both shedded and very good cond; WANTED: JD 27 or 115 stalk chopper, must be in very good cond, reasonable.

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estled along Minnesota’s Rush River, the Rush River County Park has been a place for solitude and family gatherings for generations. On a warm spring morning, campers, hikers and horse riders were all taking advantage of Sibley County’s hidden gem. But in 2002 the state of Minnesota was shutting the site down.

“I was driving by one morning and a crew was placing big boulders in the entry and enclosing the park with a fence,” said area resident Tom Bender. “I asked what was going on and they said they got orders from St. Paul to close it for lack of funding.”

At that time the site was officially called a state wayside park and was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources.

Bender and a small group of citizens met with the DNR to see if there were options to keep the park open. DNR officials said the department was spending $4,000 annually for park maintenance with no revenue coming in.

When the citizens offered to maintain the park, the DNR balked – fearing it would set a precedence of private control over DNR property. Undaunted, the group contacted state legislators Tom Neville and Laura Brod, and Sibley County officials in hopes of transferring ownership of the property to the county.

Sibley County wasn’t keen on the idea of maintaining and patrolling another park. But public support was growing – resulting in the creation of Friends of Rush River, Inc. The non-profit organization convinced the county it could and would maintain and manage the 160-acre site.

“It’s been going great!” exclaimed Bender, who has served as president of the Friends organization since day one. “It’s a great area for bird watching, we have nature trails and trails for horseback riding. And, of course, camping is very popular.”

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Over the years the Friends have supplied hundreds of labor hours creating trails, clearing brush and noxious weeds, improving amenities and transforming the wayside park into a family-friendly destination. A number of camp sites and day-camp sites are located on a secluded wooded hill. This area is closed to horse riding. The larger portion of the park hugs the banks of the Rush River and serves as the main campground for horse owners; although there is plenty of room for campers without horses as well. “I can’t say what our capacity would be,” admitted Bender. “We’ve never run out of room, I know that.”

Bender said the park is open 24/7. Camping continues well into the fall and the county allows snowmobiles in the park. Because horse and vehicle traffic can be damaging in wet spring conditions, park use is discouraged in March and April. During the last weekend in April, volunteers gather to prepare the park for the upcoming season.

“We have three big expenses in operating the park,” said Bender. “We have to pump the septics, cut the grass and pay for garbage pickup.”

To offset expenses, a donation is appreciated for park use. Suggested donations are $3 per day, and $10 for overnight campers. No reservations are taken and sites fill on a first-come, first-served basis.

“There’s no registration at the park,” Bender added, “but the county likes to know if you’re going to be camping there in case there’s a tornado or something. They like to have an idea of who is there, so it would be good to let them know.”

Anyone can join the Friends of Rush River and Bender says the more the merrier. The group meets once a month, November through April. It hosts a large fundraising dance in Henderson, Minn. on the first Saturday of March. Interested parties can reach Bender at P.O. Box 282, Henderson, MN 56044; or by phone at (507) 248-3230. v

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