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A staple of old gradeschool days was Financially ruined, Roosevelt sold off the first homework assignment: an essay his ranches and continued building a detailing “How I Spent My Summer political career in New York where he Vacation.” There was no summer vacaauthored a number of books. In 1900 he tion at the Malchow household this year, was elected vice president of the United but on Oct. 2 my wife and I and Felix the States. When President William Scottish Terrier headed out to North McKinley was shot, Roosevelt became the Dakota to visit the Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States — National Park. the youngest to ever hold office.

LAND MINDS You can play the part of my fifth grade While president, Roosevelt championed teacher, Sister Diego. Here is my report. conservation and established many

By Paul Malchow national parks. So it was off to Medora Theodore (I like to call him Teddy) for us.

Roosevelt was lured to the western plains by his sense of adventure.

Crossing North Dakota was a difArriving in 1883 to hunt buffalo, the bespectacled ferent agricultural experience for New Yorker was enchanted by the we rural Minnesotans. The expanbeauty of the Dakota sive soybean fields west of Fargo Territory. Unfortunately, were almost all corn and soythe bison hunt was a series beans and almost all harvested. of misfortunes. However, Enormous grain facilities towthe locals admired the pluck ered over the sprawling plain and work ethic of the skinny along the railroad with large easterner and took him in. ethanol plants.

Cattle ranching in Dakota As we traveled west, the was a boom business in the landscape turned to grazing 1880s. Seeing an opportunity land with scores of round for wealth while living in this bales as far as the eye could glorious land, Teddy plunked see. Fields were riddled with down $14,000 to get into the rock piles. A popular “decoracattle business and returned to tion” along the interstate New York to maintain a promiswere antique threshers ing political career. parked on fields’ edge. My wife dubbed them “prairie On Valentine’s Day 1884, dragons.”

Theodore Roosevelt sat by as his mother succumbed to typhoid Before we arrived at fever. Hours later he was at the Medora, we drove a side road off bedside of his wife as she died from the interstate called “The Enchanted Highway.” kidney disease. Devastated, Along the 30-mile stretch were a series of gigantic Roosevelt threw himself into politics — shuttling metal sculptures depicting geese, deer, grasshopback and forth from New York to North Dakota pers, fish, pheasants and settlers. The tour concludestablishing his ranch a few miles south of Medora, ed in Regent, N.D. where a mechanical sculpture N.D. depicted the typical Dakotan settler household.

Visitors were encouraged to push the button on the Seeking greater solitude, Roosevelt established a sidewalk to set the sculpture’s motors and gears in second ranch he named Elkhorn, about 35 miles motion. north of Medora. This second ranch extended Roosevelt’s finances and he wrote three books to Theodore Roosevelt National Park must be seen meet expenses. to appreciate. Glaciers dammed up the Little Roosevelt’s book, “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman,” Missouri River, causing it to violently re-direct prophesized the cattle industry of the Badlands was through the soft rock sediments. The erosion left the “badlands” — multi-colored rock formations unsustainable. Ranchmen flooded the plains with towering over the now-benign Little Missouri. cattle, and with no regulation the region became overgrazed. Weather conditions throughout 1886 Medora is still cattle country with a healthy dose featured a late thaw and scorching summer. By win- of tourism in the summer. Cattle guards are the ter the cattle were underfed and ranchers had little rule and on one of our drives we came upon a dozen feed to supply their livestock. horses grazing along the road ditch in the middle of The winter of 1886-87 proved to be extraordinarily nowhere. We couldn’t see any brands, but we figured they had to belong to someone as our presence harsh. One blizzard after another quickly buried what was left of the grazing land, and cattle froze to was little matter to them. death. Roosevelt lost half of his herd.

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Dakota farm country takes many forms LAND MINDS, from pg. 2 On our return trip to Minnesota, we headed south of Brookings to Pierre, S.D. From Brookings to the South Dakota border was almost exclusively pasture land. Herds of 200 or more looked small in comparison to the expansive green pastures.

We also saw beautiful golden fields of what I guessed was flax. The fields’ color against the deep blue sky was something to behold.

By the time we crossed into Sully County north of Pierre, we were back in crop land — with much large fields than you would find around Mankato.

What surprised us was the amount of untouched grain still in the fields. Sunflowers ruled in Sully County, closely followed in acreage by corn. But we only saw one combine at work — opening a sunflower field. The occasional soybean fields were cleared.

We saw fields of millet here and there.

The blackbirds were enjoying a harvest of their own. Boiling clouds of thousands of birds swarmed among the sunflowers, creating a swirling, everchanging work of art.

The closer we came to Minnesota, the more naked fields we encountered; and by the time we crossed the border we saw many tilled fields with their fresh black dirt. The fields which still contained corn were occupied by a combine (and sometimes two) pouring their golden bounty into rows of parked semi trucks.

The trip was a lovely reminder of the breadth of the spectrum of agriculture. Each crop and animal provides their own challenges and rewards. The needs of the cattle are not the same as the needs of the soybean which are not the needs of the sunflower. But the different farms in different locations shared one common theme: pride.

It was easy to see why the Dakota Territory captured Teddy Roosevelt’s heart. It was also easy to see how fragile that existence must have been and how hard it was to homestead the rugged terrain.

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42nd Anniversary Purple Ribbon Auction

Thank You Buyers

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Total 2021 4-H Auction Premiums = Over $880,000 (*) 115 4-H Exhibitors ~ Over 1,500 Auction Buyers 80 percent of the proceeds from the Purple Ribbon 4-H Livestock Auction go to the 115 4-H youth participants, with the balance of the funds used to fund special youth animal science projects and programs throughout the year, as well as to help fund the 4-H Auction Scholarships. An additional $54,000 was raised in 2021 to help support 4-H Auction Scholarship Program.

Grand Champion Market Beef: $45,000 (*) Exhibitor: Elizabeth Wasmoen, Freeborn County Buyer: Ames Construction Reserve Champion Market Beef: $15,000 Exhibitor: Andrew Revier, Renville County Buyer: MN Farmers Union Foundation, Farmers Union Agency, Farmers Union Industries, and MN State Fair Concessionaires

Grand Champion Market Lamb: $6,000 Exhibitor: Haley Van Nurden, Kandiyohi County Buyer: MN Farmers Union Foundation, Farmers Union Agency, and Farmers Union Industries Reserve Champion Market Lamb: $5,000 Exhibitor: Christian Kruse, Rock County Buyer: Rock County Purple Ribbon Club

Grand Champion Dairy Steer: $21,000 (*) Exhibitor: Lex Lewison, Steele County Buyer: American Foods Group, Central Livestock Assn., and O & S Cattle Co.

Grand Champion Meat Goat: $5,000 Exhibitor: Elizabeth Krause, Olmsted County Buyer: MN Farmers Union, Farmers Union Agency, and Farmers Union Industries

Reserve Champion Dairy Steer: $15,000 (*) Exhibitor: Jace Katzung, Steele County Buyer: American Foods Group

Reserve Champion Meat Goat: $4,250 Exhibitor: Hannah Schuhmacher, Freeborn County Buyer: Freeborn Co. Dairy Goat Supporters

Grand Champion Market Barrow: $17,000 Exhibitor: William Freking, Jackson County Buyer: Cargill Animal Health & Nutrition

Grand Champion Dairy Meat Goat: $3,250 Exhibitor: Kloe Nelson, Steele County Buyer: Cemstone and Long Cheng Hmong Meats

Reserve Champion Market Barrow: $16,500 (*) Exhibitor: Alex Nielsen, Freeborn County Buyer: Wakefield Pork, Becks Hybrids, Wilson Trailers, Hog Slat, Kibble Equipment & Nielsen Seed

Grand Champion Pen of Chickens: $3,800 (*) Exhibitor: Gretta Lemke, Meeker County Buyer: Murray-McMurray Hatchery, Hoovers Hatchery, Steffes Auctioneers and Meeker Co. Purple Ribbon Club

Grand Champion Market Gilt: $14,000 Exhibitor: Danica Prins, Murray County Buyer: Cemstone

Reserve Champion Pen of Chickens: $3,150 (*) Exhibitor: Evelyn Wingert, Rice County Buyer: MN State Poultry Assn. and Rice County 4-H Boosters

Reserve Champion Market Gilt: $11,850 Exhibitor: Peyton Winters, Cottonwood County Buyer: MN Farmers Union Foundation, Farmers Union Agency, and Farmers Union Industries, Hormel Foods, PALS and Brady & Renta Winters

Grand Champion Pen of Turkeys: $3,500 (*) Exhibitor: Evan Melby, Steele County Buyer: MN Turkey Growers Assn. and Steele County Purple Ribbon Club

(*) denotes a new record price in 2021.

Reserve Champion Pen of Turkeys: $2,800 (*) Exhibitor: Adeline Wolter, Winona County Buyer: Cargill Animal Health & Nutrition and Hohrman Farms

A total of 48 outstanding 4-H junior leaders were awarded $88,000 in 4-H auction Scholarships through the MLBA Purple Ribbon 4-HAuction in 2021.

Other “Champion Buyers’ Club” Donors ($5,000.00 or more in contributions): Compeer Financial Dakota Co. Purple Ribbon Club MN Farm Bureau Faribault Co. Purple Ribbon Club Ag Partners Freeborn Co. Purple Ribbon Club Boehringer Ingelheim Jackson Co. Purple Ribbon Club Featherlite Trailers Goodhue Co. Purple Ribbon Club Tim & Shari Magnuson Martin Co. Purple Ribbon Club Todd & Lisa Quiring Mower Co. Purple Ribbon Club O’Sullivan Cattle & O’Sullivan Auctioneers Redwood Co. Purple Ribbon Club Steele Co. Purple Ribbon Club

4-H Auction $4,000 Scholarship Winners For 2021 ***Overall Scholarship Sponsor — Ames Construction***

Name: Anakin Bosek, Douglas Co. Nicole Koziolek, Dakota Co

Shelby Krebs, Morrison Co. Justus Moser, Stevens Co. Isabelle O’Rourke, Faribault Co. Megan Ratka, Stearns Co. Haley Van Nurden, Kandiyohi Co.

Sponsor: O’Sullivan Cattle & O’Sullivan Auctioneers Chuck Christians Memorial sponsored by Family & Friends Skyride DMC, Don McClure CorTrust Bank Cargill Animal Health & Nutrition Boehringer Ingelheim Cemstone

The MN State Fair Purple Ribbon 4-H Auction is sponsored each year by the Minnesota Livestock Breeders Association (MLBA).

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Hey, genius, mind your own business It’s a rare honor to be named a acres of prairie strips protecting 112,707 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. In fact, in cropped acres in 11 states.

40 years, only 1,061 Americans have been As widespread as that might sound awarded the title and the no-strings(and it is wonderfully widespread for any attached stipend. This year the stipend is on-farm research program) it’s a flea a plush $625,000, commonly referred to compared to the elephantine acres of as a “genius grant.” corn and soybeans: a collective 180 mil Even more rare are MacArthur Fellows lion in the United States this year with with ties to farming and food. Before this FARM & FOOD FILE little, if any, runoff mitigation on any of year, only 12, or one percent of all grantit. Iowa holds 10 percent of that amount.

By Alan Guebert ees, have had any connection to agri Which gets to the bigger question culture. innovative researchers like Shulte On Sept. 28, Lisa Shulte Moore, a Moore and others throughout the Land landscape ecologist at Iowa State Grant system face: Why aren’t fieldUniversity, became the 13th when the Foundation proven solutions which address today’s biggest ag recognized her for “working closely with farmers to woes like nutrient run-off, promoted by farm policy build more sustainable and resilient agricultural leaders as necessary, smart, long-term investments systems.” in sustainable food production?

And that’s the key, the Foundation noted in hon The plain answer is that our pedal-to-the-metal oring Shulte Moore. She “combines expertise on the food system rarely pays farmers and ranchers to do environmental, economic, and policy aspects of the cheaper-in-the-long-run right thing and often large-scale agriculture and food production with an pays them to do the more-profitable-in-the-shortability to communicate practical information direct- run wrong thing. ly to landowners about ways to make their land both more productive and sustainable over time.”

Even more astonishing is that she’s doing this timely work in the very center of the crop monoculture universe: Iowa — a state which defunded the Visit www.TheLandOnline.com to view our nation’s premier sustainable ag research effort, the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, in 2017. complete calendar & enter your own events, More recently, powerful farm groups have stymied or send an e-mail with your event’s details to efforts to strengthen the state’s oversight of water, editor@thelandonline.com. fertilizer and manure runoff from farm fields.

Oct. 16 — Farmamerica Pumpkin Party — Shulte Moore’s work, however, did not go unnoticed outside of Iowa. In 2020 she was awarded a Waseca, Minn. — Activities include pick your $10 million federal grant to “develop new ways of own pumpkin, pumpkin decorating, wagon rides, turning biomass and manure” (both in hyper-abunpetting zoo, corn maze, tractor parade, combine dance in Iowa) “into fuel.” simulator, sensory bins and crafts. Contact Jenny That effort is an outgrowth of a broader, longerDelnay at (507) 835-2052 term project: STRIPS, or the Science-Based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips. And that’s Oct. 19 — Livestock Mandatory Reporting exactly what it is — a program where strips of and Live Swine Reports — Online — Webinar native prairie perennials from 30 to 120 feet wide slow water flow across farmed fields. will introduce you to Livestock Mandatory Report-

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Even our federal farm programs focus on fixing problems after they occur, not before —programs like federal crop insurance, the Conservation Reserve Program, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the Market Facilitation Program, and soon, on-farm carbon sequestration.

And should your research anger or contradict any Big Ag dogma (or worse, any farm or commodity group) well, it’s good-bye Land Grant perch, hello windowless lab purgatory.

We seem impervious to the clarifying truth that our relentless focus on the bottom line is dragging us to the bottom. Worse, we have the people and talent to make a difference, maybe even the critical difference, to slow or even stop the slide.

What we don’t have a lot of, is time.

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With it, Shulte Moore and an interdisciplinary team of agronomists, hydrologists, entomologists, statisticians and soil scientists “have shown that prairie strips reduce soil erosion by 96 percent and nitrogen and phosphorus runoff by 85 and 95 percent respectively,” explained the MacArthur Foundation.

Equally important is that STRIPS “improves… crop success” and that “incorporating prairie strips is one of the least expensive agricultural conservation practices because they can be located on the least productive, and thus less profitable, parts of a field.”

Researchers can make this statement with confidence because the program now includes 11,735

ing swine reports and how information is used in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Lean Hog Index. Learn ho to use LMR swine reports as a risk management tool. Register at https://www. ams.usda.gov/event/pork-LMR-webinars Oct. 20 — Daylilies: Beauty for a Day — Morris, Minn. — Find out how to select the perfect daylily for your landscape. We will discuss color, height, bloom types, foliage and see examples of award-winning daylili e s. C o n t a c t E s t h e r J o r d a n a t ejordan@umn.edu or (320) 589-1711 ext.

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Oct. 22 — Silvopasture and Oak Savanna Field Day — Zimmerman, Minn. — Visit a site where scientists and practitioners are researching the vegetation, wildlife, soil, water and animal impacts of silvopasture. Discuss adaptive grazing techniques to restore and maintain oak savanna. Contact Sustainable Farming Association at silvopasture@umn.edu.

Oct. 26 — Livestock Mandatory Reporting Wholesale Pork Reports — Online — Insights into Livestock Mandatory Reporting wholesale pork reports and the methodology of USDA pork carcass cutout.

Learn how wholesale pork reports are used to mitigate risk, economic analysis, forecasts, and how data is utilized in pork cutout futures contract. Register at https:// www.ams.usda.gov/event/pork-LMR-webinars Dec. 11 — FEAST! Festival — Rochester, Minn. — 100 regional food businesses on display. Most use locally-grown ingredients. Contact Elena Byrne at elena@rtcinfo. org or (608) 712-8340

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If an ox yoke could talk, it would have plenty to say…

If an ox yoke could talk, it and clear water from would have many stories of streams that were filled various owners and oxen — with fish. some with good temperaSure the trees and hills ments, others … well, they were beautiful, but to haul are best forgotten. a load of timber up and A yoke enabled a team of down those hills? Well, that oxen to pull together. Oxen took a pulling for the oxen were used to pull freight in my yoke (not that I am FROM MY wagons and do farm work. complaining, just saying FARMHOUSE They played an important so).

KITCHEN role in settling this country.

The Luxembourgers had

By Renae B. Read on, as this is a story cleared the land, built their Vander Schaaf that one ox yoke might tell. homes and businesses and even a church from native limestone “For many years I sat in a corner of to replace their wood frame church a barn on Buddy Jonas’s farm. Dust covered me as for a long time tractors that had been destroyed by fire. had been doing my work. I was just an This new St. Donatus parish church old relic, forgotten except by the mice was dedicated in 1860 and still looks and spiders to whom I was a landpretty much the same as it did back mark in a way. But at least I was still then. around and inside a building.

Life was good and had settled into a Then one day, the Jonas family routine. But then this man, Peter cleaned me up and brought me to Gehlen, who with his wife had come town. Alton, Iowa was celebrating from Luxembourg, got restless feet. He their centennial. Suddenly everyone was full of energy and vigor and had remembered it was a wagon train been very successful and was respectpulled by oxen that brought them to ed in the area. northwest Iowa from St. Donatus, His name is still remembered in the Iowa.

St. Donatus area. A house he built stands and is used as a beautiful bed and breakfast with six lovely rooms available. The Gehlen House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nearby there is a landmark that is more familiar to me. The Gehlen Barn, is also very functional, only now as a local brewery and pub. It can be reserved for weddings and other gatherings.

St. Donatus Catholic Church was built by the early LuxumGehlen was prosperous, bourger pioneers. They had heard the storms in the area were so there was no reason ferocious and named the church for the patron who protects for him to endure the against lightening and storms. The church was dedicated on hardships of pioneering June 3, 1860. again. But once a man gets a notion, it seems, Many of the people who lived at St. there is no stopping him. And whew, Donatus had come from a country offidid he travel.

He couldn’t stop at 150 cially called the Grand Duchy of miles, or even 200. No, he had to go Luxembourg. Now I have never been there, but in listening to their conver- clear across the state to find his perfect wilderness in Plymouth County sations, they liked this valley in which is more like a 300 mile distance.

Jackson County because it reminded them of their homeland with its natuWhen he left, some said he was off ral beauties of cliffs, nuts, wild fruits his rocker and he would soon be back.

Well, he did come back after he had built a mill for grinding grain on the Floyd River — just an itsy bitsy river, not like the mighty Mississippi that the oxen and I were familiar with.

Boy, was Mr. Gehlen full of talk and enthusiasm about all the opportunities out west.

Photos by Renae B. Vander Schaaf He said there Jim Hentges (left) and Jerry DeWitt (right) received the yoke from veteriwas plenty of narian A.J. Neumann (center) who was given the relic by a customer. land for the taking. Others priest. Father J. Michael Flammang. soon caught his dream and made He strongly discouraged them from plans to relocate. Obviously they going, which added another element to didn’t ask me if I thought a team of consider. oxen would find the trip pleasurable.

But they did talk to our parish

See FARMHOUSE KITCHEN, pg. 7

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Our animal friends aren’t always so cute and cuddly The paw prints were enormous.

“Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law” That was your first thought when you

by Mary Roach saw them on the ground. Someone in the neighborhood just got a new dog the size c.2021, W.W. Norton & Company of a horse. Is it close to Halloween? Or $26.95 / $35.95 Canada there’s a Sasquatch in the ‘hood. Or 308 pages maybe, as in the new book “Fuzz” by Mary Roach, you share the block with something that could eat you.

THE BOOKWORM So what kind of criminals are we lookSEZ Murder, theft, assault, destruction of ing at here, Your Honor? property. It happens all the time between By Terri Schlichenmeyer Take bears, for example. Roach us and nature. But as Mary Roach discovattended WHART classes in British ered, there’s a reason it’s called wildlife: Columbia, where mutilated mannequins toothed-and-clawed scofflaws don’t always get help officials learn how to determine bear bites caught and they rarely see jail time. from wolf bites from scavenger nibbles. In Aspen,

Even mice can kill but yeah, there’s a trapp for that.

You can’t pet a bison. No selfies with a bear or moose.

Leopard territory is off-limits.

Please don’t feed the animals, so what can you do? You can laugh and learn by reading “Fuzz.”

Make no mistake, though: while author Mary Roach has a sneak-upon-you sense of humor that will make you snort, what she shares with readers is serious stuff. As proof, she offers tales of animals doing things that humans would be arrested for doing and, like humans, this stuff can be bloody. It she learned that bears are really good at gently breaking into houses to find food but they’re not the can be stomach-churning. only guilty parties: we humans are partially culpaIt can be fascinating because Roach takes readers ble in the bears’ snack-pilfering habits. around the world with experts who know, sometimes first-hand, about the real habits of these creaElephants, as she learned, aren’t the long-lashed, tures that seem so familiar. Reading that, seeing big-eared snugglers from the movies. In India, they why elephant handlers are paid more, learning can be destructive to crops and vengeful to people, about “ridiculously lovable” attackers and furry especially if they have grudges or are in musth. In that case, elephants have been seen stepping on vil- light-fingered extortionists, shows that unlawful ursas exist, camels can act like criminals, and somelagers and tearing them limb-from-limb — though, times, nothing’s more apt than the word “jailbird.” because people there consider pachyderms as deities, the killers are rarely, if ever, treated negatively If you’re someone who loves to read aloud passagfor their actions. es of your current obsession, “Fuzz” is your book.

Clear your throat, prepare those around you; you That’s not quite the case with leopards in the shouldn’t wait to get your paws on it.

Middle Himalaya, where the animals have killed hundreds of people through the years by seizing Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a them from behind. Incredibly, it’s not until the third library near you. You may also find the book at attack that anything’s done to stop the cat-astrophe. online book retailers.

In India, macaque monkeys live to “harass peoThe Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has ple.” Cougars can attack you (but they rarely do). been reading since she was 3 years old and never Trees can become a “danger.” Deer, dromedaries, all goes anywhere without a book. She lives in dangerous.

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Contagious rabbit disease confirmed ST. PAUL — Two Ramsey County indoor rabbits died suddenly and inexplicably earlier this month from a highly contagious rabbit disease detected for the first time in Minnesota.

National Veterinary Services Laboratories, confirmed Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) last week. The owner reported the rabbits were indoor pets and had no contact with other rabbits.

RHDV2 is a highly contagious virus affecting domestic and wild rabbits. There is no known risk to humans.

RHDV2 can spread through direct contact with infected rabbits or indirectly through contact with infected carcasses, blood, urine, and feces. The virus can also be present on contaminated clothing, footwear and surfaces such as cages, feed, water, and bedding. Insects, scavengers, predators, and birds

can also spread the virus by contact with infected rabbits or carcasses. RHDV2 is very persistent and stable in the environment. It is resistant to extreme temperatures and can survive freezing. The virus has been found to survive up to 15 weeks in dry conditions. The USDA recommends using a high pH solution to inactivate RHDV2 when disinfecting surfaces.

There is not a RHDV2 vaccine approved for use in Minnesota. There are vaccines for this disease in Europe, which use inactivated virus derived from the livers of rabbits infected in a lab and are not approved for import into Minnesota. A private company in South Dakota is working on a recombinant technology vaccine for RHDV2, similar to the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

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Travel with oxen more practical than horses or mules FARMHOUSE KITCHEN, from pg. 5 He warned them, “It would be better to throw your children into the Mississippi; because they would all lose their faith if they moved.”

I don’t think I was the only one filled with a mixture of trepidation and excitement when we left that spring on May 2, 1870. We numbered 18 covered wagons — all pulled by oxen.

Sure, strong horses and mules would have been faster. They could travel 15 to 20 miles a day, while my oxen would only make 10 miles on average.

That might have been the only drawback. Oxen are more reliable and it wasn’t necessary to take grain along

The names of the pioneers who came to Alton, Iowa in May of 1870 are listed on a plaque where the first church building stood.

for feed. They can get their nourishbows in, securing them with wooden ment from grazing the grass that pegs which have been whittled to fit. was plentiful as we travelled. Not to It had to rest on the necks of the brag, but my oxen do navigate the oxen just above his shoulder blades, sloughs better than other draft anior the oxen could become sore. mals.

After each use, I was cleaned and There were plenty of rivers, creeks rubbed with boiled linseed oil to and sloughs to cross. Once we left protect my wood from drying out. eastern Iowa, bridges and roads The ring that the tongue of the were pretty much non-existent. wagon went through has also been Often times it was necessary to replaced. Yes, I saw plenty of work; unhitch several ox teams and then but now I have a different job to do. hitch several teams to a single You see, I am no longer hidden in a wagon to make the crossing. barn.

We arrived safely with our 40 pioI left the Jonas farm when this neers on May 19, 1870. When we nice gentleman, Doc Neumann, saw arrived at Le Mars, where Mr. me on one his veterinarian calls to Gehlen was, he told us that all the the farm. A collector of historical good land nearby was taken and items he was pleased when they that we should settle a little ways St. Maray’s Catholic Church in Alton, Iowa was dedi- told him to take me home as they north of there. cated on July 14, 1909 by Bishop O’Gorman of had no need for me.

Sioux Falls, S.D. The church is still being used and We immediately took his advice, For many years I hung on the wall can be seen for miles. The church clock tower still and traveled to a beautiful spot in of his basement until he recently rings out the time on the quarter hour.

Iowa where we began building our donated me to the Alton Museum homes along a line east of the Floyd which shares a building with the bull ox yokes were brought in to drain stretching from Nassau Township town’s public library. Now I get to tell down into Floyd Township. Each farm a slough. They would drag a large iron my part of the story of the ball through the slough to open it up was about three miles from the next Luxembourgers who settled in northso that the water would drain. This farm. west Iowa. made the land useful for farming.

The work was not done by any By the way, these pioneers did not Maybe I wasn’t used for that, but if means. I was still used on oxen to lose their faith and their farms prosyou take a closer look at me, you will plow the land, plant crops and drain pered. A wood frame church was first see that I have sat on many an oxen sloughs. Although many times five built on the prairie shortly after they neck. It is their horns that keep me came. Later the parish relocated to a from sliding off their necks. Did you more central location in the town of know oxen use their necks for pulling?

East Orange, now called Alton.

I’m a fairly common size for a yoke.

On a hill, they built a grand brick My beam which is 54 inches wide is church building of Romanesque and made from one solid piece of hard Gothic style which is still in use today.

In Little Falls, the program is offered wood. With my bows I measure 26 Every day the bells ring out the time on Nov 3 and Nov 10 at Little Falls long. Probably one of my bows has on the quarter hour.

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Financial management workshop offered ST CLOUD, Minn. — “Taking Charge of YOUR Finances: How to Survive and Thrive” financial management workshop, will be taught in central Minnesota to community members. This short course will teach participants how to organize and use financial records; develop and analyze financial statements; and make informed decisions regarding finances and production. Producer teams will act as loan review committees and learn about these concepts as they review a case study farm. The concepts covered promote better internal decisions for farm management and stronger relationships with external partners, such as farm lenders. The participants will learn the components of a balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, and the importance of records.

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Making connections with colleges bolsters ag recruiting The famous quote in the iconic more of the entry-level positions. movie “Field of Dreams” of “If you Jeff Rogers, an agriculture faculty build it, they will come,” still member at Minnesota West applies to many situations more Community College, works closely than 30 years later. Ironically, the with agriculture professionals in corn field turned baseball field was our region to extend the learning just recently purchased by Hall of environment outside the classroom.

Famer Frank Thomas in hopes “Connecting students to the agrithat people will still come in droves culture industry and developing to the ball field in Iowa. relationships with experts in the TALENT IN THE GREENSEAM Contrary to the symbolic baseball field is high priority for our profield, just by posting an open agrigram,” Rogers said. “Guest speakBy Shane Bowyer culture or food job on an online ers, field labs, and tours of industry website does not mean college are an important part of the curricWays to connect to ulum to expose students to technical graduates will be flocking to submit their resumes. Recruiting potential skills and career opportunities.” higher education: employees is difficult — especially in As Rogers mentioned, the partnerInternships/Co-ops these competitive times with so many ships are a two-way street. Schools Company/Farm tours available positions to choose from. want to connect to industry for the Although, there are some agriculture Classroom presentations students’ and faculty’s benefit, while organizations making the best of companies need to connect schools to Mentoring students what is available to them. attract talent. There are a number of Mentoring faculty Most companies in the region are traditional methods for companies Attend career fairs looking to fill positions at all levels. If and schools to engage, yet in this the needed employees are post-seccompetitive environment the organiServe on advisory board ondary students, organizations need zations need to develop more creative Partner on research to engage directly with the schools. approaches as well as be more proacProvide scholarships Last month’s “Talent in the tive.

GreenSeam” column was focused on Sponsor an event Riverland Community College looking towards collegiate business Agricultural Science Instructor Nick Provide equipment students for agriculture and food Schiltz agrees. “At Riverland we have positions. This column explores ways Attend a student club an advisory board that is very helpful to engage with schools to attract stuin providing insight into new opporSocial media posts dents to your business or farm. Even tunities as well as helping make conthough this article in centered on nections for our students,” Schlitz post-secondary schools, many of the same principles said. “Work-based learning is increasingly becoming can be applied to high schools for attraction into

Intern in the Emma Heinzig

Benson, MN School: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Double-major: Human Resources and Industrial Relations; History Internship with Compeer Financial Have you always wanted a career in Ag? Not necessarily. I’m from a small farming town, but I didn’t know much about having a career in Ag that wasn’t owning & operating my own farm. As I got older, I realized that there are so many different careers related to Ag and rural development that are more on the business side. I’ve become very pas-

sionate about rural development & helping rural areas get the resources they need. After working with Compeer for almost a year, I think I’d really like to continue working for an Ag-related company in the future.

Why did you choose an internship in the Ag industry?

I’m from a rural community, so I have a strong connection to the Ag industry. I know that if the famers are suffering, so is our little town. I’ve become very passionate about rural development & helping rural areas get the resources they need.

What are you learning on the job you did not learn in class?

How to actually apply the things I’ve learned in class. You can lecture about Learning & Development, HRIS, Benefits, etc. all day long. Applying the things that you learn in the classroom to real-life situations is a whole new ballgame, and I’m getting to do that a lot at Compeer.

What surprised you about the internship?

That everyone is constantly learning. I went in feeling super intimidated and kind of like a kid, because I’m still in school

more important to both the students and employers.

The more learning-by-doing we can do the better for all.” Four-year institutions are similar and also put resources into career development to develop these relationships with companies.

An example of a company with strong collegiate partnerships is Christensen Farms. The company is one of the largest family-owned pork producers in the United States with nearly 1,000 employees and 1,500 contract partners. So yes, they definitely need talent.

“Connecting or engaging with higher education institutions, from two-year and above, has been a key priority to source individuals to be a part of our team, from within our farms to more of the business-related functions, such as finance, HR and many others,” Christensen Farms CEO Glenn Stolt said. “Historically, we’ve had longstanding history with ag-centric colleges such as the University of Minnesota, South Dakota State University and Iowa State University. In recent years, we have focused on engaging with other schools, including Minnesota State University, Mankato, who offer those more business function-related programs to students. The simplest way to say it is our business is extremely complex that requires and welcomes hard working, committed, values-based people with a vast range of backgrounds, skillsets and experience.”

Compeer Financial, with 1,300 employees across 43 Midwest locations, is another company takes pride in creating and fostering relationships with higher education institutions.

“We enjoy connecting with students in-person and virtually, attending career fairs, events and club See GREENSEAM, pg. 10 and this is my first professional experience. There are things others know how to do that I don’t, and vice versa. Everyone knows how to do their job, but there’s a lot more “I’m not sure. Let’s look it up/try it out” than I expected. I realized that it’s okay to ask questions and not know everything off the top of my head, because everyone else is in that same boat.

In what ways has your employer worked with you to be flexible for your student life and classes?

Compeer lets me set my own schedule during the school year, and operates on the idea that “school always comes first”. They understand that I’m a student first, and that I sometimes might get my internship work done during hours outside the regular 9-5 business day.

What is your favorite animal?

It’s a tie between a housecat and a giraffe.

What is your favorite food?

Pasta!

Who is your favorite musical artist/band?

Lord Huron or Taylor Swift, depending on the day

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Safety on the farm comes in many forms this fall October is a busy and favorite time of year for all of us in agriculture. Harvest is happening and there’s a lot to be done in crisp fall weather. Most farm families are working through repeated long days and short nights.

The Covid pandemic’s residual requirements and effects on farm family health have left us with additional thoughts about how to deal with emergencies and how to practice all levels of safety at work. With that in mind, it’s a good time to review some of the most important safety issues facing swine producers.

The various stages of swine production produce different kinds of safety issues, including health challenges to both pig and caretaker.

Zoonotic diseases A zoonotic disease is one which can pass from animal to human or vice versa. A common example in cattle and small ruminants is ringworm, the skin fungus which spreads easily. While ringworm in pigs is possible, it’s not much of an issue. More common is the chance of influenza spreading from caretakers to pigs or back.

The influenza viruses found in swine can infect humans, although it isn’t a common risk. However, human influenza viruses can infect pigs and can cause the outbreak of new viruses in the herd.

Swine health professionals today lament that in many large herds, influenza is present on a regular basis. For this reason, producers vaccinate against swine influenza. Human caretakers must also get a seasonal flu vaccination to reduce the chances of variant viruses forming and infecting the swine herd.

Additional influenza information for swine producers can be found on the U.S. Center for Disease Control website at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu Children on the farm Children who have grown up on the farm often have supreme confidence in the barn and on the machinery. While it is true that many farm youth learn responsibility at an early age, their ability may not be as well-developed as their confidence.

When the children are present, ensure they understand your farm rules — both when working with pigs and when moving around the machinery.

Good safety habits should include stepping out of the way when the adults are moving pigs, unless the youth have been trained and assigned a role in the process. Know that mama pigs can get upset when their babies are handled or when they squeal.

Stay away from the barn when the manure is being pumped. Stand a safe distance from the PTO shaft when it is running. It is also important to not run up to any farm equipment until it has come to a stop and is not running.

Adults must remember to remove the keys from machinery and trucks when exiting. Keys hanging in a vehicle are a tremendous temptation to children.

Working with animals Handling piglets during post-farrowing health

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care can cause the sows to become agitated. If the pigs begin to squirm and make noise, the sow will respond to protect her young.

Caretakers working with young pigs should keep a SWINE & U sorting panel close to block the sow from causing injury.

By Diane DeWitte With the exception of young piglets and nursery pigs, most of the animals on the hog farm outweigh the caretaker. Steel-toed footwear is a must. In both Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance certification education for producers, the most highly recommended animal-handling implement is a solid sorting panel. The panel ensures the safety of both caretaker and pig.

Although many swine operations today conduct reproduction through artificial insemination, most still have a few boars on the farm for heat detection.

A large sexually mature male animal on the farm should be moved and handled with caution and protection. Again, the solid sorting panel is the tool of choice when moving boars.

Infections Farm safety statistics show that over 80 percent of farm workers and 73 percent of swine veterinarian have accidentally stuck themselves with a needle while giving injections to livestock. Most accidental needlestick injuries are minor, but secondary results could be skin infections, allergic reactions, or a wound that might need surgery.

Vaccines are the most common product that animal handlers inject into themselves. In swine farrowing settings, hormone products used to induce labor in pigs carry a warning against exposure to or accidental injection by pregnant humans. If possible, in the pig barn, pregnant employees should not handle hormones.

In addition to medical issues caused by rushed or thoughtless needle handling, mechanical problems can occur. Bent needles should never be straightened and used needles should be disposed of in proper sharps containers. Appropriate low-cost sharps containers are empty plastic detergent or fabric softener bottles with the lid screwed on tightly. Milk jugs are too flimsy for sharps containment and should not be used. When the sharps container is full, it should be tightly capped, sealed with heavy tape, and labeled that it contains sharps.

Different counties have differing methods that they recommend for sharps disposal. A call to the county environmental services department can provide

information for producers’ sharps disposal.

University of Minnesota’s collaboration with the Upper Midwest Ag Safety and Health Center (UMASH) has been at the forefront of the needlestick injury issue by providing bilingual fact sheets and producing videos to help farmers teach their animal caretakers. Needlestick prevention posters and more are available to producers on the internet at umash.umn.edu/needlestick-prevention.

Manure handling safety With crop harvest in full swing this October, we will soon see plenty of semi-truck manure tankers on the road-side and tractors moving through the fields across our counties. As harvest progresses and the soil temperature decreases, pig farmers and commercial manure applicators will be working quickly to get hog manure applied and incorporated onto the fields’ crop residue.

As drivers share the road with the large equipment needed to do this work, it’s important that attention is paid to what’s moving on the road and how fast. For drivers in farm country, this is also a time to be patient. The operator has limited speed capabilities and may not even know that a driver is behind the equipment.

Back in the barn, the manure handler has to be extra careful when pumping the pits. Methane, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide is released as the stored manure is agitated and pumped. They are naturally-occurring gases, but they pose serious safety risks and can quickly overcome a human or a pig.

Producers should make sure hog buildings are fully ventilated when moving manure from the pits beneath. Use of the “Stop” tag on barn doors will alert everyone that manure is being pumped. These “Stop” tags can be obtained by contacting the Minnesota Pork Board at (800) 537-7576 or University of Minnesota Extension swine educators Diane DeWitte at stouf002@umn.edu or Sarah Schieck Boelke at schi0466@umn.edu.

More information about safe manure handling can be found on the University of Minnesota Extension manure management website at www.extension. umn.edu/manure under the “safety” heading.

October is the time when we see more farm machinery traffic on the road and in the field, but safety is on farmers’ minds year-round. Knowing how to work safely with swine, machinery and other caretakers prevents loss or injury of humans and pigs!

Diane DeWitte in an Extension Swine Educator with University of Minnesota Extension based in Mankato, Minn. She can be reached at stouf002@ umn.edu v

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Americans are passing the cheese this football season This column was written for the marketand 2 million pounds or 3.3 percent ing week ending Oct. 8. below a year ago. Year-to-date, dry whey output hit 620 million pounds, down 4.5 You’ll recall U.S. Department of percent from a year ago. Dry whey stocks Agriculture’s preliminary data showed inched higher to 68.1 million pounds, up August milk production totaled 18.8 bil1.1 million or 1.7 percent from July but lion pounds, up just 1.1 percent from Aug. were 19.9 million pounds or 22.6 percent 2020. While school milk pipelines got below those a year ago. filled, drawing milk away from manufacturing and limiting butter and powder Nonfat dry milk output fell to 122.1 MIELKE MARKET output, the football season helped grow million pounds, down 35.6million pounds WEEKLY cheese demand and thus cheese producor 22.6 percent from July and were down

By Lee Mielke tion.

25.1 million or 17 percent below a year ago. Powder production year-to-date August cheese output totaled 1.14 totaled 1.4 billion pounds, up 6.4 billion pounds, down 0.3 percent percent from 2020. Stocks fell to from July, but 4.4 percent above Aug. 284.6 million pounds, down 28.1 mil2020. Year-to-date, cheese output hit lion pounds or 9 percent from July, but were up 7.7 9.05 billion pounds, up 3.4 percent from the same million pounds or 2.8 percent above those a year period in 2020. ago.

Wisconsin produced 294 million pounds of that Skim milk powder production totaled 60.5 million cheese, up 0.8 percent from July and 5.1 percent pounds, up 9.3 million pounds or 18.1 percent from above a year ago. California output, at 201.7 million July, but 8.7 million pounds or 12.7 percent below a pounds, was down 0.6 percent from July but 5.4 peryear ago. Year-to-date, skim milk powder, at 345.1 cent above a year ago. Idaho produced a tad under million pounds, is down 20.7 percent from 2020.

78 million pounds, down 9.5 percent from July and 4.2 percent below a year ago. n Italian-style cheese totaled 484.8 million pounds, Traders were looking for strength in Oct. 5’s up 0.3 percent from July and 8.8 percent above a Global Dairy Trade auction; but the weighted averyear ago. American type cheese, at 451.9 million age was unchanged following the 1 percent increase pounds, was down 3.1 percent from July but 1.5 per- on Sept. 21 and 4 percent jump on Sept. 7. Traders cent above a year ago. Mozzarella totaled 379.4 mil- brought 63.2 million pounds of product to market, lion pounds, up 6.7 percent from a year ago. up from 54 million on Sept. 7, and the highest since Feb. 2.

Cheddar, the cheese traded daily at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, totaled 318.4 million pounds.

Buttermilk powder led the gains, up 9.7 percent.

This is down 5.8 million pounds or 1.8 percent from GDT cheddar was up 0.7 percent following a 1.2 July, and 4.8 million pounds or 1.5 percent below a percent drop on Sept. 21, and skim milk powder year ago. Year-to-date, cheddar was at 2.6 billion inched up 0.5 percent after gaining 0.9 percent last pounds, up 4 percent from 2020. time. Lactose was up 0.4 percent, as were both butter and anhydrous milkfat, following butter’s 1.9 Churns produced 148.4 million pounds of butter, down 2.2 million pounds or 1.5 percent from July, and 2.5 million pounds or 1.7 percent below a year ago. Year-to-date, butter output was at 1.4 billion pounds, down 2 percent from 2020.

GREENSEAM, from pg. 8 Yogurt totaled 401.1 million pounds, up 4.9 permeetings where we can share information about cent from a year ago.

Compeer, learn more about them and assist stuDry whey output slipped to 76.2 million pounds, dents with their career path,” said human resource down 4.9 million pounds or 6.1 percent from July, professional Stacy Grunden. “Throughout the year

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percent decline last time, and anhydrous milkfat being unchanged. Whole milk powder was down 0.4 percent following a 2.2 percent rise StoneX Dairy Group says the GDT 80 percent butterfat butter price equates to $2.1587 per pound U.S., up almost a penny from the last event and compares to CME butter which closed Oct. 8 at $1.72. GDT cheddar, at $1.9493, is up from $1.9387 and compares to Oct. 8’s CME block cheddar at $1.81. GDT skim milk powder averaged $1.5038 per pound, up from $1.4979. Whole milk powder averaged $1.7005 per pound, down from $1.7131. CME Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Oct. 8 at $1.46 per pound.

GDT prices were stable, according to broker Dave Kurzawski in the Oct. 11 “Dairy Radio Now” broadcast; but “stable at higher prices” and “the stability of the GDT is not bearish.” He said the GDT may “chop around for a few sessions, but we’ll see where the tides take us in the fourth quarter. If buyers need to get more done, you’ll start to see that GDT price go up.” n As the Asian countries come out of the Covid lockdowns, Kurzawski believes there will continue to be strong demand for dairy. When asked about the port congestion and the lack of help and shipping supplies, he said he doesn’t know how that will play out. It needs to be addressed, he said, but “Watch the money. If there’s money behind this, the darkest days may be behind us.” He said he remains optimistic, concluding, “We have brighter days ahead.”

Meanwhile, U.S. dairy industry exports continue to excel. August cheese exports totaled 80.6 million pounds, up 18.1 percent from August 2020 and was a record high for the month, following a recordbreaking July, according to HighGround Dairy, See MIELKE, pg. 12

Industry is actively recruiting students you will find our team members on campus attending and sponsoring events, engaging with students and having fun doing so! We enjoy connecting with students, giving them work experiences, and teaching students about agriculture and lending and the value it brings to rural America. We find great candidates through our partnerships.”

Connecting to higher education institutions to bolster a company’s recruiting efforts is imperative in this highly competitive talent attraction environment; and the schools definitely welcome the partnerships. When companies engage with the schools, a number of positive things can happen — including

the students becoming more aware of the numerous opportunities with the agriculture and food industries. If your business is looking for talent, do not hesitate to connect with a school in your area.

Rogers offered a view we all need to ponder as we work to enhance our region: “It is our agricultural partners from this community that put the word “community” into Minnesota West Community and Technical College.

Talent in the GreenSeam focuses on developing talent and promoting careers in agriculture and food.

Dr. Shane Bowyer is the Director of AgriBusiness & Food Innovation in the College of Business at Minnesota State University, Mankato and is on the GreenSeam Talent Committee. He can be reach for comments or talent ideas at shane.bowyer@mnsu. edu v

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2021 harvest soon to be in the rearview mirror Mark Wettergren, Blair Hoseth,  St. Peter, Minn.  FROM THE Mahnomen, Minn. — — Oct. 7 Oct. 7

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“I set new record on my bean field.” The Land spoke to Blair Hoseth on Oct. 7 as he reported this is a record he never set out to break, as one of his fields yielded two bushels per acre. “Beans were anywhere from two to 40.” He finished beans on Sept. 27 and started immediately on Compiled by KRISTIN KVENO, The Land Staff Writer corn. “We’ve been rolling ever since.”

The corn yields are between 75 to 150 bushels Steve Wertish, Olivia, Minn. — per acre. “It’s kind of about where we expected.

Oct. 7 The test weight is ok, it’s average. Fourteen to 17 Soybean harvest is complete on the Wertish farm. for moisture, that’s beautiful.” The yields are half The Land spoke with Steve Wertish on Oct. 7 as he to two-thirds of Hoseth’s average yields. He reported the beans were at 48.5 bushels per acre on expects to finish corn on Oct. 8. “Then we’ll be off the worst field. The first field he did was running at baling corn stalks.”

60 bushels per acre. “Very pleasant surprise.” He “We haven’t had rain in 10 days. Good harvest suspects that all that moisture from the last four years in the soil helped weather.” This is early for Hoseth to be wrapping the beans deal with the lack of rain this year. Wertish finished the beans up harvest, three weeks early to be exact. “Crazy on Oct. 5. “A lot of the beans in the area are gone now.” Wertish estiearly, crazy dry.” mates that around 80 percent of the area beans are harvested. “I think “It’s been a nice fall, though we definitely need everyone’s having the same experience (yields).” a bunch more moisture in the subsoil for next Wertish started corn on Oct. 2 and he’s now on his third field. He year.” On the plus side, Hoseth reported the believes the field he’s currently harvesting could go over 200 bushels machinery didn’t get stuck once in the mud this per acre. He hopes to finish corn around Oct. 20-25. year.

The sugar beet pre-pile has started. Full beet harvest won’t happen for While the crops’ yields are down, his cover another few weeks, thanks to the warm temperatures. crops look good. “Cover crop has never been betAs Wertish is in the midst of harvest, he’s certainly feeling better ter.” The rye and triticale look great. Hoseth is an about the crops than he did a month ago. “It’s a lot better than optimist and is looking ahead to what he hopes is expected.” Wertish hopes that the yields continue to surprise him in a a better year of farming next year. For now, he’ll good way, all throughout the rest of harvest. v just enjoy his beautiful-looking cover crops. v

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Soybean harvest is mostly complete on the Wettergren farm. The Land spoke with Mark Wettergren on Oct. 7 as he reported there are still 15 acres left to combine. He won’t be harvesting that until a freeze, as the crop isn’t ready yet.

He started corn harvest on Sept. 29.

“It’s running really well.” Wettergren had a field where he hauled the corn from there directly to the elevator. The corn today is running at 18 to 18 and a half percent moisture. “It’s a good crop, going well.”

Rain last weekend stalled out harvest.

Wettergren was able to get back in the field on Oct. 4. “If everything goes well, we should be done by next week. I don’t anticipate us slowing down.” The forecast looks promising for Wettergren to stay in the field and wrap up harvest without any rain delays. He’ll focus on tillage this week as well.

At this point in harvest, Wettergren is happy with the yields and looks forward to getting the rest of the crop off the fields. “No complaints. We’re just really blessed.” v

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Cost of producing milk highest since 2013 MIELKE, from pg. 10 which listed Mexico, Japan and Chile as the top destinations.

HighGround Dairy reports trade with Mexico improved and marked the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year gains, adding “While 2020 figures are skewed to the downside, shipments to Mexico were higher vs. 2019 levels as well during June, July and August.”

The biggest jump was in nonfat dry milk. The U.S. shipped almost 73 million pounds to Mexico. Total nonfat and skim milk powder exports amounted to 174 million pounds, up 15.4 percent from a year ago, with year-to-date up 15.4 percent.

sonal weather promoted stronger output. But cheese plant contacts say staffing shortages and plant maintenance ahead of the holiday season are a definitive factor in more milk being dispersed.

Butter plant managers report slight improvements in hiring, but cheese plants are mixed. Some are very concerned about upcoming holiday schedules with skeleton crews. Others say wage increases enabled them to maintain sufficient staffing.

Western cheese demand is mixed. Some contacts report strong demand in retail and food service markets; others report a decline. International demand remains strong but transportation continues to be delayed due to port congestion. Strong demand for cheese barrels in recent weeks has reportedly contributed to the higher prices. Some Whey exports totaled 38.8 million pounds, down 17.3 percent from a year ago as well as year-to-date. plants are running full schedules, as milk is available, but others are running under capacity due to However, they were up 27.7 percent from 2019. labor shortages, says Dairy Market News.

Butter totaled 7 million pounds, up 90.5 percent Butter fell to $1.69 per pound on Oct. 4 (the lowfrom a year ago, with year-to-date up 130.1 percent. est since Aug. 20), but closed Oct. 8 at $1.72. This is Canada was the biggest destination, followed by 2.75 cents lower on the week and 30.75 cents above South Korea and Bahrain. a year ago on 31 sales for the week.

Interestingly, butter imports amounted to 10.9 Butter plant managers continue to report producmillion pounds, up 29.9 percent from a year ago, tion being hampered by staffing shortages. Many with year-to-date imports up 8.1 percent. Cheese say hiring has increased; but new employees are imports totaled 35.5 million pounds, up 8.8 percent undergoing the training process which takes time. from a year ago, with year-to-date up 16.6 percent.

Cream is available from the West, but locallyn sourced cream is priced too high for some. Butter Dairy prices here at home were mixed the first market tones softened a bit, but with the limited week of October. After jumping 14.25 cents the pre- output during the busier demand season, “some vious week, the CME cheddar blocks closed Oct. 8 at foresee more bulls than bears for the short term.” $1.81 per pound. This is 4 cents lower than the preCream was tighter in the West this week but vious Friday and 83.75 cents below a year ago. meeting needs. End users reported some delays in The barrels closed at $1.79, up 4.5 cents on the receiving packaging supplies including boxes, paper week (the fifth consecutive week of gain), but 26.5 and foil. Production at some supply-making factocents below a year ago. The spread narrowed to 2 ries is hampered by staffing issues and construction cents. Seven cars of block were traded on the week of shipping boxes for high levels of online consumer at the CME and nine of barrel. shopping is said to be monopolizing corrugated cardboard. These supply snags are not yet indicated Spot milk was more available this week in the to be limiting butter production but, with the holiMidwest, according to Dairy Market News, as sea-

day season on the horizon, butter makers are monitoring packaging supplies extra closely. Butter inventories are “sturdy.” Retail sales are picking up.

Food service orders are steady to lower. Restaurant demand, in particular, has declined as some areas experience higher Covid case counts or dine-in restrictions, according to Dairy Market News.

Grade A nonfat dry milk shot up to $1.46 per pound, up 6.25 cents on the week, highest since Aug. 13, 2014, and 33.5 cents above a year ago, with 27 sales.

Dry whey saw its Oct. 8 finish at 59.5 cents per pound, up 1.5 cents on the week (the highest since June 21) and 20 cents above a year ago, with only one sale.

StoneX Oct. 7 “Early Morning Update” summed things up well: “There are more and more questions about the impact of labor issues. The impact depends on where the lack of labor is most acute: farm level, bulk commodity on plant, packaging plant, retailer, restaurant, port, or at any of the transportation links in between. We could have too much milk and not enough bulk product, too much bulk product and not enough finished product, or too much finished product in warehouses and empty refrigerators at home. It could have very different price impacts depending on where the biggest disruption is seen.” n The costs of producing milk aren’t going down.

The Daily Dairy Report’s Sarina Sharp pointed out in the Oct. 1 Milk Producers Council newsletter that, according to the Dairy Margin Coverage program income over feed calculation, the average dairy producer spent $12.45 on feed to produce 100 pounds of milk in August.

Sharp says, “That’s the highest national average feed cost since 2013, on the heels of the devastating 2012 drought. Even at eight-year highs, the index See MIELKE, pg. 15

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Albert Lea Seeds Viking 72-06 www.alseed.com Viking 77-83

Relative Maturity: 83 days Showy hybrid with good ear flex that is widely adapted east to west, with strong southern movement as a late or re-plant option. Outstanding disease tolerance leading to excellent season-long plant health.

Relative Maturity: 106 days Excellent tolerance to tar spot, Goss’s wilt and northern corn leaf blight. Widely adapted east to west and moving north as a full season hybrid. Best kept on well-drained soils.

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504R

Roundup Ready Corn 2 Relative Maturity: 104 days Very good yielding, stable hybrid. Excellent late season health. Taller plant with strong stalks and roots.

Outstanding dual purpose hybrid. Excellent digestibility and tonnage ratings for silage.

742VT2P

VT Double Pro RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 92 days Viking 52-96 Impressive yields across varying conditions. Strong Relative Maturity: 96 days stalks and roots. Very good seedling vigor and early Conventional Strong emergence for early planting and reduced tillplanting. Good southern adaptation. Medium-tall Relative Maturity: 102 days age. Excellent stalk and root strength as well as good Strong yield potential. Adaptive variety performs well plant performs well as a dual purpose silage hybrid. drought tolerance. in zone. Very good stalk and root system. Semi-flex 726VT2P Viking 46-02 ear with very good test weight. Very good Goss’ toler- VT Double Pro RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 102 days ance.

Relative Maturity: 98 days Excellent yield potential across a wide range of locaHigh yields on medium to heavy soils. Strong emer507R tions and environments. Great agronomics, including gence and early vigor. Excellent stalks and roots.

Roundup Ready Corn 2 strong stalks and roots. Strongly adapted in-zone and Heavy test weight with quicker dry down. Taller in statRelative Maturity: 102 days north as a full season hybrid. ure, could double as a silage hybrid.

Excellent yield potential across environments. Very good agronomics including stalk and roots. Medium tall plant with excellent plant health. Strong adaptation in zone and north.

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681VT2P

VT Double Pro RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 100 days Dominant yield performance. Flex ear allows for ranging populations. Medium-tall hybrid with very good standability. Strong tolerance to Anthracnose Stalk Rot.

681SRC

Smart Stax RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 100 days Broadly adapted across environments. Very good stalk and root strength. Strong tolerance to Anthracnose Stalk Rot. Stacked version of 681VT2P

507SRC

Smart Stax RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 102 days Very strong yield potential. Outstanding agronomics and plant health. Broad adaptability across environments. Stacked version of 507R.

472SRC

Smart Stax RIB Complete Relative Maturity: 106 days Outstanding performance across the corn belt. very good tolerance to Goss’ wilt, NCLB, GLS. Strong stalks and roots. Widely adapted east to west. Semi-flex ear can handle a wide range of populations.

Brevant Seeds www.brevant.com B97K12AM B97K12Q

Relative Maturity: 97 days Top yield potential with stability for a wide variety of acres. Strong roots and drought tolerance. Early flowering supports northern movement.

B00M18 B00M18Q

Relative Maturity: 100 days Widely adapted with excellent agronomics and high yield potential. Strong stalks, roots and stress emergence. Good tolerance to northern corn leaf blight and gray leaf spot.

B06Y18Q

Relative Maturity: 106 days Consistent, high yield potential in a broadly adapted hybrid with strong agronomics. Very good stress emergence. Strong roots, stalks and greensnap tolerance.

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Dahlman Seed www.dahlmanseed.com R46-313SSRIB

Relative Maturity: 94 days Exhibits top-end yield with flared husks, rapid drydown plus excelling in low yield environments.

A medium-tall statured plant with excellent stay green and drought tolerance, a season long healthy appearance plus very good stalk & root strength. R46313SSRIB has a very solid disease package including excellent Goss’s wilt, eyespot and common rust tolerance.

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with excellent stalk and root strength and consistent, dominant yields across years and environments. SSRIB Relative Maturity: 98 days A tall statured plant with excellent late season intact- version of R50-25VT2PRIB. R50-25VT2PRIB ness that excels in high or low yield level environRelative Maturity: 100 days ments. This hybrid handles drought stress very well Handles medium plant populations due to a strong and carries a very strong all around agronomic packability to flex the ear size. This hybrid has great plant age. The ear is a uniform long girthy block style with health yet a higher yield potential may be attained with good ear flex and top-end yield potential with a wide a fungicide application. A taller statured plant with area of adaptation west to east. excellent stalk and root strength and consistent, domiR49-29VT2PRIB nant yields across years and environments. VT2PRIB Relative Maturity: 98 days version of R50-355SSRIB. Has excellent yield potential in zone and south of R52-26VT2PRIB adapted zone to perform extremely well versus later Relative Maturity: 104 days hybrids. A taller statured hybrid with excellent Goss’s An extremely solid hybrid with a very high tolerance wilt tolerance, very good stay green and great late for Goss’s wilt, excellent drought tolerance and early season intactness. Strong emergence for early plantplant vigor. Its range is very broad with a solid agroing in colder soils and very good drought tolerance. nomic and disease package that flowers a bit later for R50-355SSRIB maturity while having excellent drydown. R52-24VTRelative Maturity: 100 days 2PRIB makes an excellent companion hybrid.

Handles medium plant populations due to a strong ability to flex the ear size. This hybrid has great plant health yet a higher yield potential may be attained with a fungicide application. A taller statured plant

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Relative Maturity: 106 days A taller statured plant with a solid disease package including very good Goss’s wilt, NCLB and GLS tolerance. R53-350SSRIB has a uniform girthy ear with a good ability to flex with a proven consistent top-end performance potential in high and low yield environments across years over a wide geography.

Relative Maturity: 80 Days A new 80-day Optimum AcreMax hybrid with huge yield potential. Early flowering for its maturity, with good brittle stalk rating. Nice toughness and drought tolerance with solid resistance to Northern Leaf Blight.

DS-2828AM

Relative Maturity: 88 days A new 88-day Optimum AcreMax hybrid with excellent performance across the yield spectrum. Nice toughness and drought tolerance with a good brittle stalk rating. Solid foliar health package including our highest rating for Goss’s wilt.

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DS-3345C

Relative Maturity: 93 days A new 93-day conventional hybrid with elite test weight, grain quality and strong stalks. A shorter statured plant type. Early flowering with good drydown in the fall.

DS-3727AM

Relative Maturity: 97 days A new 97-day Optimum AcreMax hybrid with bigtime yield potential. Early flowering with fast drydown.

Nice toughness, drought tolerance and very good test weight.

DS-3959Q DS-3959AM

Relative Maturity: 99 days New 99-day Qrome and Optimum AcreMax hybrids that can handle variable conditions but still hit top-end yields. Excellent drought tolerance and toughness with solid stalks and roots. Highest ratings we give for brittle stalk and Goss’s wilt. Very good grain quality and test weight.

DS-4510Q

Relative Maturity: 105 days A new 105-day Qrome hybrid with game-changing yield potential at this maturity. Elite drought tolerance, can handle tough environments. Strong emergence and early vigor with nice grain quality and test weight.

Best performance is east of I-35.

HiDF-4073Q

Silage Maturity: 100 days A new 100-day Qrome silage hybrid with high tonnage potential. Tough rugged hybrid with strong drought tolerance and solid resistance to Northern Leaf Blight. A very showy, attractive plant type.

DeKalb DKC42-64RIB DKC42-65RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 92 days 92-day SmartStax and VT Double PRO products offering exciting yield potential with very good roots and stalks and excellent greensnap tolerance. An attractive plant profile, especially late in the season.

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Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 94 days 94-day SmartStax and VT Double PRO products with strong agronomics. Manage this product to feed the yield potential. Offers good emergence and medium stature.

DKC46-50RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 96 days A 96-day SmartStax product providing strong emergence and seedling vigor, consistent down the row with nice tip fill. Top rated drydown and test weight.

DKC48-68RIB DKC48-69RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 98 days 98-day SmartStax and VT Double PRO products that offer strong yield performance across geographies with a good northern disease package. Will handle movement south. A medium population is recommended.

DKC50-87RIB DKC50-88RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 100 days 100-day SmartStax and VT Double PRO products offering excellent emergence, favorable drought tolerance and big yield potential.

DKC52-99RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 102 days A 102-day Trecepta product that has average appearance, but comes with a yield punch. A highinput, high-output type of product with consistent performance.

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 107 days A 107-day Trecepta product providing excellent agronomics, good stress and drought tolerance, and a semi-flex ear that prefers a medium to high population.

DKC57-71RIB

Biotech Hybrid Relative Maturity: 107 days A 107-day SmartStax medium profile plant with excellent agronomics that performs well as it moves south. Average fall appearance, but has excellent drydown.

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H4653

DroughtGard Hybrid Relative Maturity: 96 days This is a full flex hybrid with DroughtGard for the tough, low-population acre. Hefty 4653 is big, tall corn with dual-purpose potential.

H5055

Trecepta Hybrid Relative Maturity: 100 days Hefty 5055 is a flex hybrid with outstanding grain and silage performance! It carries the Trecepta trait for added insect protection. This hybrid has a large ear with deep kernels, can handle low to high populations with very good roots and stalks, plus tolerance to Goss’s wilt.

H5655

Trecepta Hybrid Relative Maturity: 106 days An exciting new Trecepta hybrid with great fall appearance and solid stalks and roots! It’s a shorter hybrid with nice tar spot tolerance and plenty of ear flex for medium populations.

SmartStax Hybrid Relative Maturity: 105 days Short in stature, but BIG in yield! Don’t let the shorter plant type fool you — this is a yielding machine with www.mustangseeds.com broad acre placement. Hefty 5554 is good on Goss’s and late-season plant health. It also holds up better 1274 VT2P RIB than most on tar spot too.

Relative Maturity: 74 days Excellent choice for the northern corn belt. Very high H6354 yield potential with fast dry down. Very good roots, SmartStax Hybrid stalk and test weight. Consistent ears allow for higher Relative Maturity: 113 days plant populations.

Great choice for continuous corn acres! You’ll love H6354’s early vigor and drydown in the fall! It handles 1078 GT Goss’s wilt well and has an overall solid defensive Relative Maturity: 78 days package.

Very adaptable hybrid for high or low yield environments.

Very good emergence and vigor for the colder H5952 soils. Very solid agronomics and healthy corn. SemiVTDoublePro Hybrid flex ear adaptable to varied planting populations.

Relative Maturity: 109 days Hefty 5952 is a national placement line with high 4082 RR yield and fantastic stalks! It’s a fantastic choice for Relative Maturity: 82 days grain or silage production on good to great land. This Very good early plant vigor with good stalks and very hybrid loves irrigation and fertility enhancements and good roots. Medium-tall plant with medium ear placeflexes especially for length with deep kernels and ment. Very good dry down and defensive agronomics. heavy test weight.

Attractive looking late season appearance.

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8150 GTA

Relative Maturity: 86 days This hybrid will move west to east. Very high yields with very good agronomics. Can be a good choice in productive to less productive soils.

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8200 RR

Relative Maturity: 92 days Excellent choice for dual purpose. Nice grain quality and flex ear. Keep in zone for best performance.

3795 VT2P DG RIB

Relative Maturity: 95 days 95-day hybrid with very good flex. This hybrid will handle the low productive acre. Very good drought tolerance and greensnap ratings. Solid hybrid with dual purpose potential.

4397 TRE RIB

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A VT2P RIB hybrid Relative Maturity: 89 days Strong seedling vigor helps this hybrid perform in the early season environments. It has a medium stature plant with large girthy ears.

RK300RR

Relative Maturity: 97 days Later flowering hybrid but fast dry down. Large girthy ears, with good root and stalk rating. Good Goss’s Wilt rating, corn on corn would be an option. Robust plant for grain and dual purpose option.

A Roundup Ready 2 hybrid Relative Maturity: 90 days RK300RR has consistent top performance across all environments from tough acres to the highly productive ones. Late season intactness helps harvest go smoothly.

6298 VT2P RIB

RK429-3220A

Relative Maturity: 98 days Nice flex on this hybrid allowing medium to higher populations. Very nice late season health and dry down. Very good plant vigor and roots. Very good yield potential east to west.

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RK625DGVT2P

A VT2P RIB hybrid Relative Maturity: 104 days RK625DGVT2P is a tall plant with unique, extremely upright leaves. Strong Goss and Green Snap ratings make this hybrid an excellent choice for Iowa and Minnesota growing conditions.

An Agrisure 3220 Artisian RZ refuge hybrid Relative Maturity: 94 days This hybrid emerges fast and has rapid early growth. RK718SSTX In addition to having excellent grain yield, its tall stat- A SmartStax RIB hybrid ure makes it an excellent silage corn as well.

Relative Maturity: 105 days This hybrid will surprise you with its early flowering.

5800 SS RK485DGVT2P Its medium plant stature and ASR gene, combined Relative Maturity: 100 days A DroughtGard RIB hybrid with strong Goss and Green Snap scores will make Excellent performance as the 5200 VT2P in 2020.

Relative Maturity: 94 days Flex style girthy ear allows lower populations. RIB Strong stalks and roots characterize this high yield- this hybrid a western favorite. proven performance in two years of research testing. ing hybrid. It has the consistency to perform in tough RK726 Medium-statured corn with very good standability. environments as well as the high yield ones.

A conventional hybrid Relative Maturity: 105 days 7805 SS RIB RK590VT2P RK726 has an excellent combination of yield potenRelative Maturity: 105 days A VT2P RIB hybrid tial and solid agronomics. What you need in a conMedium stature corn plant. Good green snap and Relative Maturity: 98 days drought tolerance. Medium to early flowering with very This racehorse hybrid is perfect for those acres that ventional hybrid. It is medium tall with large flexible ears. good dry down. Suited for variable yield conditions. have a history of high yields. Together with excellent standability and fall appearance, it will be a favorite in RK782VT2P 9311 TRE RIB the 95-100 day zone.

A VT2P RIB hybrid Relative Maturity: 111 days Relative Maturity: 109 days Very good greensnap tolerance and Goss’s Wilt ratRK615SSTX This hybrid combines racehorse yields with excellent ing. Yields will excel in highly productive fields. Very A SmartStax RIB hybrid stalks and roots. It responds well to high yield environadaptable east to west hybrid. Exciting new hybrid Relative Maturity: 102 days ments, higher populations and fungicide application. with the new Trecepta trait.

This hybrid pollinates with the 95 day hybrids and yields with the 105-110 day hybrids. Its medium plant stature along with the ASR gene makes it an attractive plant through to harvest.

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MARKETING

Grain Outlook Higher yields hold down corn prices

The following marketing analysis is for the week ending Oct. 8.

CORN — There was a lot of market action this week, but not all of it directly in the corn and soybean markets. November crude oil hit seven-year highs.

Crude oil is on its longest streak of higher weekly closes since December 2020. The nearby crude oil briefly traded above $80 per barrel. November ultra-low-sulfur diesel, reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending, and natural gas contracts set new contract highs.

Oats surged to all-time highs at $6.59 per bushel. Cotton and Matif wheat moved to new contract highs. Palm oil hit record PHYLLIS NYSTROM highs. December corn in the CHS Hedging Inc. meantime couldn’t stay above its St. Paul 50-day moving average which was $5.39 per bushel on the close Oct. 8. December corn traded the entire week within the trading range set Sept. 30 when the Grain Stocks report was issued.

Harvest moved along during the week, but periods of rain slowed down movement in areas of the Midwest — particularly in the eastern belt. Yield reports continue to be mixed vs. expectations. The upcoming Oct. 12 World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report may have kept traders on the sidelines after the surprising numbers on the Grain Stocks report Sept. 30.

The average trade guess for the Oct. 12 WASDE report: U.S. corn production at 14.973 billion bushels using 176 bushels per acre and 85.095 million harvested acres. In the September WASDE report, the crop was estimated at 14.996 million bushels using 176.3 bu./acre and harvested acres at 85.085 million acres. Ending corn stocks are estimated at 1.432 billion bushels vs. 1.408 on the September WASDE report and 1.236 billion bushels on the Grain Stocks as of Sept. 1 report. World ending stocks are estimated at 298.86 million metric tons vs. 297.63 mmt in September.

Weekly export sales were significantly higher than expected at 49.8 million bushels. Total commitments of 1.046 billion bushels are 3 percent higher than a year ago. We need approximately 29.3 million bushels of sales per week to hit the USDA’s current 2.475 billion bushel outlook.

Cash Grain Markets corn/change* soybeans/change*

Stewartville Edgerton Jackson Janesville Cannon Falls Sleepy Eye Average:

$4.84 -.29 $5.13 -.20 $4.97 -.08 $4.82 -.22 $4.84 -.24 $5.02 -.05

$4.94

$11.45 -.67 $11.68 -.79 $11.57 -.76 $11.62 -.70 $11.45 -.64 $11.63 -.79

$11.57

Year Ago Average: $3.44 $9.68 Grain prices are effective cash close on Oct. 12. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Selling at these levels should still put a profit in your pocket. There are alternatives to take advantage of rallies which may present themselves later. Once the bin doors slam shut on this harvest, attention will focus on South American conditions and Chinese demand. For now, the $5.00 to $5.50 trading range feels comfortable for December corn.

For the week, December corn fell 11 cents to $5.30.5, March was 10.25 cents lower at $5.39.5, and December 2022 was down 5.75 cents at $5.25.75 per bushel.

SOYBEANS — November soybeans staged a rally when soyoil jumped higher, but pulled back when soyoil retreated. Palm oil traded to record highs during the week on higher demand and lower supply.

China was on holiday through Oct. 7, so we didn’t see any fresh sales announcements from that quadrant.

Brazil’s weather has improved allowing their soybean planting to progress in favorable conditions.

Brazil’s soybean planting was 4 percent complete as of Oct. 5 and in line with the average. Argentina’s soybean planting will begin later this month, but they need rain.

La Niña’s dry conditions would likely affect Argentina to a greater extent than Brazil. November soybeans traded to their lowest level since March 31 before finding support and reversing higher.

However, they still closed lower for the week.

Weekly export sales were at the high end of expectations at 38.3 million bushels but were the lowest for this week since 2017. This brings total commitments to 930.6 million bushels but are down 38 percent from a year ago. The USDA is forecasting just a 9 percent decline in year-on-year exports. We need 24.5 million bushels of sales per week to achieve the USDA’s current 2.09 billion bushel forecast. China has purchased 455.6 million bushels of U.S. soybeans for the 2021-22 crop year.

Trade estimates for the Oct. 12 WASDE report: U.S. soybean crop at 4.415 billion bushels using 51.1 bu./ acre and 86.349 million acres. On the September WASDE report, the crop was 4.374 billion bushels using 50.6 bu./acre and harvest acres at 86.436 million. On the Grain Stocks report as of Sept. 1, U.S. ending stocks were pegged at 256 million bushels.

World ending stocks are estimated at 100.72 mmt compared to the September 98.89 mmt figure.

Conab this week predicted Brazil’s 2021-22 soybean crop at 140.8 mmt. The USDA is estimating their crop at 144 mmt.

Palm oil traded to record levels during the week on supply concerns and rising demand.

Outlook: Soybeans face the same outlook factors as corn, but they also face a growing ending stocks number, i.e., 2020-21 ending stocks rose to 256 mil-

Weekly ethanol production was the highest in eight weeks at 978,000 barrels per day, up 64,000 bpd for the week. Stocks fell 290,000 barrels to 19.9 million barrels and were the lowest in 18 weeks.

Margins were 8 cents lower at 51 cents per gallon.

Gasoline demand was slightly higher and up 6 percent from a year ago.

Conab is estimating Brazil’s corn crop for 2021-22 at 116.3 mmt. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using 118 mmt — but both numbers are records.

Brazil’s first corn planting as of Oct. 5 was 37 percent complete vs. 31 percent average.

Argentina’s corn planting was 26 percent complete vs. 20 percent on average.

Fertilizer prices are sharply higher along with natural gas prices. Is it too early to talk about how this may affect next spring’s acres?

The U.S. attaché in China cut their corn import estimate to 20 mmt. The USDA is at 26 mmt.

Russia’s gas company Gazprom said they were filling underground natural gas storage facilities and would make their home market a priority this winter over exports. They expect a cold and snowy Russian winter. There was chatter that Russia is looking for leverage in getting the new pipeline open which would move Russian gas to Germany. The United States and other EU nations are against the pipeline, saying it would make the EU more dependent on Russian fuel. U.S. propane prices are the highest for this time of year since 2012 with stocks the lowest since 2013.

Outlook: Looking ahead, the upside may be limited by better-than-expected U.S. corn yields, higher ending stocks estimates, favorable planting conditions in South America, and a lack of new demand.

However, limiting the downside are arguments on the opposite side of the same topics: lower than expected corn yields, stagnant or lower ending stocks, dryness in Argentina, and a return of buyers playing catch-up. Carries on the Board of Trade have been steady to slightly wider. Take a look at your See NYSTROM, pg. 15 cash markets to determine whether to store or sell.

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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Higher prices can impact 2021 crop insurance payment potential Since Sept. 1, both corn and soybean Revenue Protection crop insurance calcuprices on the Chicago Board of Trade lations. have been steady to slightly lower, as Level of insurance coverage have local cash prices being offered to The level of crop insurance coverage crop producers across the Midwest. will be a big factor in determining the However, prices are still quite strong. amount of insurance indemnity payment Maintaining crop prices at favorable levreceived for crop revenue reductions, with els is certainly welcome news to all promost producers having 75, 80, or 85 perducers, especially those facing reduced cent Revenue Protection insurance coverFARM PROGRAMS age on their 2021 corn and soybeans. For crop yields due to the drought this year, but the continued higher level of crop example, a producer with a soybean actuBy Kent Thiesse prices will have an impact potential 2021 al production history yield of 60 crop insurance payments for some bushels per acre, carrying a 75 perfarmers. Farm operators in the cent Yield Protection insurance poliUpper Midwest who have final corn cy or a RPE policy without revenue and soybean yields which are near or slightly below protection in 2021, would have a revenue guarantee their 2021 crop insurance actual production history of $534.15 per acre. This would increase to $569.76 crop yields will likely not receive any crop insurance at the 80 percent coverage level and $605.37 at 85 indemnity payments. percent coverage.

Crop producers in North and South Dakota, westBy comparison, a producer with the same actual ern Minnesota, and portions of Iowa, Nebraska and production history yield and a Revenue Protection other states which were impacted by the varying policy with harvest price protection, would have degrees of drought conditions during the 2021 grow- 2021 revenue guarantees of $578.25 per acre at 75 ing season may have final corn and soybean yields percent coverage, $616.80 per acre at 80 percent that are well below their actual production history coverage, and $655.35 at 85 percent coverage. crop yields. Other areas of the Upper Midwest may If the actual farm yield for 2021 in the previous have also been impacted by severe storms which example is 45 bushels per acre (which could be comcaused some yield reductions. Farmers in any of these areas could potentially realize some 2021 crop mon on some farms in the areas impacted by moderate drought conditions or severe storms), a proinsurance indemnity payments, due to the reduced ducer with a 75 percent Yield Protection policy yields this year. A yield reduction below actual prowould not receive a 2021 crop insurance indemnity duction history yields will be necessary in order to receive any 2021 crop insurance payments — due to payment for soybean losses. By comparison, the prothe final corn and soybean harvest price being high- ducer with an 80 percent Yield Protection policy in 2021 would receive a gross indemnity payment of er than the spring base price for both crops. $35.61 per acre, and the producer with an 85 perThe federal crop insurance harvest prices for corn cent Yield Protection policy would receive a gross and soybeans are based on the average CBOT price indemnity payment of $71.22 per acre. for December corn futures and November soybean Harvest price protection on Revenue futures during the month of October. The harvest Protection policies prices will be finalized by the U.S. Department of Revenue Protection policies with harvest price Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency on Nov. 1. protection will function similarly to a yield only The final harvest prices will be used to calculate the (Yield Protection) policy, with payments based on value of the 2021 harvested crops for all Revenue yield reductions. However, the insurance indemnity Protection crop insurance policies, as well as to payments will be based on the harvest price for the determine the revenue guarantee for the Revenue Revenue Protection policies. For example, a producProtection corn and soybean policies which include er with a 200 bushel per acre average production harvest price protection. The estimated 2021 harhistory corn yield would have either Yield vest prices as of Oct. 8 were $5.37 for corn and Protection or Revenue Protection insurance pay$12.44 for soybeans. ments initiated below 170 bushels per acre with an The established base (spring) prices for 2021 85 percent Revenue Protection policy. The insurance Revenue Protection and Yield Protection crop insur- payments would be initiated below 160 bushels per ance policies were $4.58 per bushel for corn and acre with an 80 percent Revenue Protection policy $11.87 per bushel for soybeans. The base price will and below 150 bushels per acre with a 75 percent be used to calculate and crop insurance indemnity Revenue Protection policy. The difference would be payments on farms insured by Yield Protection poli- that the Yield Protection insurance indemnity paycies in 2021, as well to determine the revenue guar- ments would be calculated at the 2021 crop insurantee for corn and soybeans that were insured by a ance corn base price of $4.58 per bushel, while the Revenue Protection policy that did not include the payments for the Revenue Protection policy with harvest price option. For corn and soybean Revenue the harvest price option would be calculated at the Protection policies with the harvest price option, the 2021 estimated final corn harvest price of $5.37 per expected higher harvest prices will be used for bushel.

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Producers who chose not pay the extra premium to include the harvest price option on their 2021 Revenue Protection policies will likely receive less crop insurance indemnity payments for the same yield loss. For example, a producer with a corn actual production history yield of 200 bushels per acre that had an 85 percent Revenue Protection policy with harvest price protection would have a revenue guarantee of $912.90. If that same producer had a RPE policy that did not have the harvest price protection the revenue guarantee drops to $778.60. If the actual corn yield is 150 bushels per acre, the final crop value would be $805.50 (150 bushels per acre times $5.37 per bushel). The estimated gross crop insurance indemnity payment would be $107.40 per acre on the 85 percent Revenue Protection policy with the harvest price protection versus zero on the RPE policy without the harvest price option.

The difference between carrying the harvest price option and not having the protection for soybeans in 2021 on a crop insurance policy could also be significant. For example, a producer with a soybean actual production history yield of 60 bushels per acre that had an 85 percent Revenue Protection policy with harvest price protection would have a revenue guarantee of $634.44. If that same producer had a RPE policy without the harvest price protection, the revenue guarantee drops to $605.37. If the actual soybean yield is 40 bushels per acre, the final crop value would be $497.60 (40 bushels per acre times $12.44 per bushel). The estimated gross crop insurance indemnity payment would be $136.84 per acre on the 85 percent Revenue Protection policy with the harvest price protection versus $107.77 per acre on the RPE policy without the harvest price option.

Optional units vs. enterprise units Farm operators in areas with variable yield losses on different farm units that chose optional units for their 2021 crop insurance coverage rather than enterprise units may be in a more favorable position to collect potential indemnity payments on this year’s crop losses. Enterprise units combine all acres of a crop in a given county into one crop insurance unit, as compared to optional units which allow producers to insure crops separately in each township section. In recent years, a high percentage of crop producers have opted for enterprise units due to substantially lower crop insurance premium levels. Crop losses in many areas in 2021 were highly variable from farm to farm within the same county and township, which would favor the optional units for collecting crop insurance indemnity payments this year.

There will be considerable variation in potential crop insurance indemnity payments across the Midwest in 2021 — even within the same county or township. Producers who had crop yield losses in 2021, with the potential crop insurance indemnity payments, should properly document yield losses — See THIESSE, pg. 15

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Dairy margins improve with higher prices, lower feed costs MIELKE, from pg. 12 likely understates feed costs because it fails to account for this year’s stiff markups due to regional scarcity and expensive freight. Other costs are higher too. Wages and fuel are taking an especially big bite out of dairy producer incomes.”

Sharp adds, “Rising expenses are pushing dairy producers to take a hard look at their less productive cows, and high beef prices make culling more attractive. Today, the beef check from a heavy cull cow will generally cover the cost of a springer to fill her stall.”

“Dairy cow slaughter volumes are high and likely to remain so, which will continue to chip away at the massive milk-cow herd. That could slow growth in milk production in the months to come. But the weather has turned and milk yields are once again strong,” according to Sharp.

In the week ending Sept. 25, 60,400 dairy cows were sent to slaughter. This is down 2,000 from the previous week, but 1,100 or 1.9 percent above that week a year ago.

Dairy margins did improve the second half of September as stronger milk prices combined with steady to weaker feed costs strengthened projected profitability, according to the latest Margin Watch from Chicago-based Commodity and Ingredient Hedging LLC. “A slowdown in milk production was considered supportive for the market,” the Margin Watch stated, “although dairy stocks remain high from a historical perspective.”

Margin Watch adds that the drop of 19,000 dairy cows from July to August tied the largest month to month decline dating back to September 2018.

The Margin Watch attributed the 30 million

Soybean grower sales increasing NYSTROM, from pg. 13 lion bushels on the Sept. 30 report. China has been noticeably absent from the market due to its Golden Week holiday which ended Oct. 7. The trade is expecting fresh export sales news and will be disappointed if it’s not forthcoming.

Grower sales have picked up the deeper we get into harvest and yield reports have improved. The Oct. 12 WASDE report will give us short-term direction before we focus on South American growing conditions and China’s appetite for soybeans.

For the week, November soybeans were 3.5 cents lower at $12.43, January was down 2.25 cents at $12.54.25, and November 2022 rallied 9.25 cents to $12.49.25 per bushel.

Nystrom’s notes: Contract changes for the week as of the close on Oct. 8: (December contracts) Chicago wheat plunged 21.25 cents to $7.34, Kansas City dropped 22 cents to $7.37.5 while Minneapolis rallied 17.5 cents to $9.46.5 per bushel. December Minneapolis wheat hit a new contract high this week at $9.53 per bushel. v

Consider your crop insurance options THIESSE, from pg. 14 regardless of their type or level of insurance coverage.

It is also important for producers who did not have crop losses in 2021 to understand the dynamics of the various insurance options when making crop insurance decisions in future years. A reputable crop insurance agent is the best source of information to make estimates for potential 2021 crop insurance indemnity payments and to find out about documentation requirements for crop insurance losses, as well as to evaluate future crop insur-

ance options.

Details on various crop insurance policies can be found on the USDA Risk Management Agency website at https://www.rma.usda.gov/. There is also some good crop insurance information and spreadsheets to estimate crop insurance payments available on the University of Illinois FarmDoc web site, which is located at http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/ Kent Thiesse is a government farm programs analyst and a vice president at MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, Minn. He may be reached at (507) 726-2137 or kent.thiesse@minnstarbank.com. v

Farmers Night Out is Nov. 16 ST CLOUD, Minn. — “Farmers Night Out: Should The program will be held on Nov. 16 at the they stay or should they go?” is a program offered by Greenwald Pub and begin at 7 p.m.

University of Minnesota Extension and Minnesota To register, contact Dana Adams at adam1744@ Dairy Initiative, offering education and networking umn.edu or (320) 204-2968. about heifer raising. This program will begin with a This article was submitted by Dana Adams, farmer panel addressing options around heifer raisv ing and provide an opportunity for dairy producers to University of Minnesota Extension. gather with their fellows.

pound drop in August butter stocks to “an earlier than normal drawdown,” and stated that the 4 percent higher cheese inventory than a year ago was the largest August level on record.

The Margin Watch concluded on a positive note: “Despite this, both block and barrel cheese markets advanced sharply this past week, as availability of fresh cheese remains limited due to labor shortages at processing plants.”

The U.S. corn harvest was 29 percent complete as of the week ending Oct. 3 according to this week’s Crop Progress report. That’s 5 percent ahead of a year ago and 7 percent ahead of the five-year average. Fifty-nine percent of the crop is rated good to excellent, 3 percent behind a year ago.

The soybean harvest is at 34 percent, 1 percent behind a year ago, but 8 percent ahead of the fiveyear average. Fifty-eight percent is rated good to excellent, 6 percent behind a year ago n In politics, National Milk Producers Federation CEO Jim Mulhern says, “Dairy farmers welcome the launch of the administration’s new approach to the U.S.-China trade relationship — given China’s tremendous importance to global dairy markets. To date, China has delivered on the multiple dairy regulatory commitments they made in the Phase 1 agreement.

But retaliatory tariffs continue to put a drag on our sales, and our market share in key dairy commodities such as milk powder and cheese lags far behind our competitors. We urge the administration to press China for substantial progress on these two fronts so that dairy farmers and cooperatives are better positioned to supply China’s growing dairy needs.”

USDEC President and CEO Krysta Harden added, “What China does impacts dairy markets all around the world given what a large purchaser of dairy products they are. American dairy farmers and manufacturers count on the ability for our products to meet China’s appetite for dairy, yet retaliatory tariffs continue to weigh down our prospects there.

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 BACKED BY A YEAR-ROUND

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Prime Farmland in Lac qui Parle County Auction – November of 2021

Prime Farmland Auction in Redwood Co.

83.21 Surveyed Acres, 59.54 +/- Tillable Acres, 15.55 CRP Acres, CPI=92.6 Located in Hantho Twp., Lac qui Parle County Legal Description: Part of the SW1/4 of Section 31, Township 120, Range 43.

Parcel 1 – 82.89 Surveyed Acres; 82.56+/- Tillable Acres; CPI=93.5

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Steffes Auction Calendar 2021 For more info, call: 1-800-726-8609 or visit our website: SteffesGroup.com

Opening October 11 & Closing October 20 at 7PM Tom Springett Estate Auction, Ellsworth, WI, Timed Online Auction Opening October 14 & Closing October 21 at 1PM Ken & Kathie Krueger Farm Retirement Auction, Garrison, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 14 & Closing October 21 at 7PM Aluminum Concrete Forms Auction, Fargo, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 15 & Closing October 20 Online Steffes Auction – 10/20, Upper Midwest Locations, Timed Online Auction Opening October 19 & Closing October 22 Watford City, ND Shorty Johnson Estate Home Auction, Watford City, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 19 & Closing October 26 Leroy Nepstad Excess Inventory Auction, West Fargo, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 19 & Closing October 26 at 11AM Jerome Trucking Equipment Reduction Auction, Watford City, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 20 & Closing October 27 at 7PM Gustafson Estate Auction, West Fargo, ND, Timed Online Auction Thursday, October 21 at 10AM MDT Nelson, Nelson & Nelson Estates Auction, Homestead, MT Opening October 21 & Closing October 28 at 1PM Dirt Dynamics Inventory Update Auction, West Fargo, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 21 & Closing October 28 at 10AM MDT Schweigert Ranch Inc. Equipment Reduction Auction, Baker, MT, Timed Online Auction Opening October 21 & Closing October 28 at 2PM Loren Jepson Construction Equipment Auction, Killdeer, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 22 & Closing October 26 at 12PM Online Hay Auction – Quality Tested, Litchfield, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening October 25 & Closing November 3 at 1PM Yellow Medicine County, MN Farmland - 110± Acres Auction, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening October 25 & Closing November 3 at 7PM Gerald Goblirsch Estate Auction, Redwood Falls, MN, Timed Online Auction Opening October 26 & Closing October 28 at 12PM Ramsey County, ND Land Auction - 480± Acres, Lawton, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 26 & Closing November 2 Don & Terry Berge Farm Retirement Auction, Litchville, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 28 & Closing November 2 at 12PM Northern RRV Grain Handling Facility Auction, Grand Forks, ND, Timed Online Auction Opening October 28 & Closing November 4 at 12PM Norman County, MN Land Auction - 480± Acres, Hendrum, MN, Timed Online Auction Friday, October 29 at 10AM Norman County, MN Land Auction – 237.74± Acres, West Fargo, ND

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Fall Consignment Auction Saturday, October 23rd - 9:30 am Mages Auction Site 55780 St Hwy 19, Winthrop, MN Ring 1 - Live & Online Simulcast - Guns, Machinery & Vehicles Saturday, October 23rd - 9:30 am (guns & ammo will sell LIVE ONLY prior to all other items) Tractors, Farm Machinery & Equipment: J D 4230 WF, 4881 hr s, 3 pt, 2 hyd; Far mall Super A Demonstrator WF, serial #282078, completely restored; IH 350 WF w/ loader & Kelly backhoe, gas; Farmall 400 NF w/ loader & trip bucket, sng hyd, PTO; H&S 310 manure spreader, tandem axle, slop gate; Dearborn 10-156 2-bottom plow, 3pt; Bobcat 3pt bale spear; aeration tubes, 12” x 20’, dbl walled; hog gates; hog feeders; Vehicles, Trucks & Boat: ‘04 International 4300 truck, 321912 mi, 24911 hrs, bare rear chassis; ‘78 Mercury Grand Marquis, 129000 mi, 2-door, super clean vehicle, 460 V8; ‘09 Ford F150, 202000 mi, 4-door crew-cab, needs engine work; ‘07 Chevy Malibu, 208000 mi, has electrical issues; Can-Am Outlander 500 XT, 2285 mi, w/ Moose Plow snowplow attach; ‘70 Lund 16’ boat w/ 60 HP Johnson o/b motor & trailer; Guns & Ammo: Coast to Coast Mod 288A, .22cal, semi; Sig Sauer MCV, .177 cal, air r ifle; Umarex Steel Force, .177 cal, air rifle; CO2 cartridges; (Note: air rifles will have to be registered); Ring 2 - Online-Only - All Other Items Ring 2 Bidding Ends: Saturday, October 23rd - 4:00 pm Payment & Pick-up: Monday, October 25th - 9 am to 5 pm Lawn & Garden: ‘07 Craftsman ZTS7000 zero-turn mower, 52” deck, 26 HP B&S motor, push button auto deck height adjuster; snow blowers; walk-behind mowers; Murray 20” snow thrower; JD walk-behind edger; Weber gas grill; electric leaf blowers; hedge trimmer; garden hose; lumber; bird houses; metal patio furniture; Shop & Tools: Honda EU3000i Handi 3k watt portable inverter generator; Michelin 235/80 R22.5 radial tires; Craftsman radial arm saw; table saw; dust collector; Sear’s router; tile saw; Craftsman drill set; Handyman drill set; Sunbeam drill; Skilsaw; jig saw; trash pump; pressure washer; sand blaster; Daytona body repair jack, 4-ton; electric grinder; jointer; palm sander; 30lb LP tank; shop-vac; many hand & shop tools; socket sets; tool box; C-clamps; ladders; screw jacks; jack stands; benchtop grinder stone; roof hanging brackets; Appliances, Furniture, Toys, Antiques & More! see magesland.com for complete terms & details.

Area Neighbors Auctioneer: Matt Mages, 507-276-7002 Lic: 52-20-018 Auctioneers: Lar r y Mages, Lafayette; J oe Maidl, Lafayette; J oe Wer sal, Winthr op; John Goelz, Franklin; Ryan Froehlich, Winthrop.

Broker/Clerk: Mages Land Co & Auction Ser vice, LLC Terms: 10% Buyer ’s Premium. 15% Buyer’s Premium on Online items. Everything sold “AS IS”.

Everything to be paid for immediately after the auction. Sales tax, license & registration fees may apply on some items. Fire arms buyers must have valid drivers license.

Not responsible for accidents. Lunch & restroom on grounds.

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THE LAND — OCTOBER 15/OCTOBER 22, 2021 Bins & Buildings

Farm Equipment

SILO DOORS Wood or steel doors shipped promptly to your farm stainless fasteners hardware available.

(800)222-5726 Landwood Sales LLC

We buy Salvage Equipment Parts Available Hammell Equip., Inc. (507)867-4910

Tractors

Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys.

100% financing w/no liens or red tape, call Steve at Fair- FOR SALE: ‘78 White 4-210, fax Ag for an appointment. 3208 Cat eng w/ turbo, motor has less than 1000 hours, 888-830-7757 A/C not working, tires & duals are about 60%, nice paint & nice interior, $17,000/OBO. Farm Equipment Cosmos, MN. 320-583-3535 FOR SALE: John Deere mod- FOR SALE: 1968 4020 John el #1600 16’ 3pt chisel plow, Deere diesel, syncro cab $2,500. 507-236-3623 dual hyd, dual tires, tranFOR SALE: John Deere snow- ny needs 5 & reverse gear. blower, hydraulic lift, excel- $6,000. 763-856-4220 lent condition. 507-340-0967

FOR SALE: John Deere 5103 Stalk Cutter Repairs--Knives, tractor, 45HP, 800 hours, D-Rings Etc. Belts, Bearings loader and mower, all like For Hiniker/Brady, Balzer, new, $15,000. Ottertail, MN JD, C-IH, Etc. Used Drive 218-583-2752 Shafts, PTO Shafts, Pulleys, Sheaves, Axle Legs. New FOR SALE: 4 Farmall F12s Rolled Hoods. Can Ship. Re- parts tractors, best offer. tiring. A. L. Buseman 319- Other tractors for sale also.

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2013 John Deere 7230R, IVT transmission, TLS suspended front axle, 59 GPM hyd. pump, 5 remotes, 540/1000 PTO, HID lights, front 3 point hitch, 480/80R46 duals, 420/90R30 single fronts, 2126 hours ......................................................$133,000 2011 John Deere 8285R, IVT transmission, 1300 front axle, 480/80R50 rear duals, 420/85R34 single fronts, 6200 hours ...........................$95,000 1995 John Deere 8300 MFWD, 18.4R46 duals, 4 remotes, 6439 hrs...................................$60,000 2014 John Deere S670 combine, 4WD, 520/85R42 duals, 1720 sep. hrs. ...........$112,000 2008 John Deere 9870 combine, 520/85R42 duals, 4 wheel drive, 2732/1798 hours ...................................................................$79,000 2010 John Deere 8320RT, IVT transmission, 18” tracks set on 120”, front weights, 6543 hours, through service program ...........................$92,500 2012 John Deere 8235R, IVT transmission, 1300 front axle, 380/90R54 rear duals, 380/80R38 single fronts, 6100 hours, through service program ...................................................................$95,000 2017 Case 621G XR extended reach wheel loader, ride control, coupler, 4.0 cubic yard bucket, 5800 hrs., through service program, remaining powertrain warranty .........................................$88,000 2018 Case 621G wheel loader, ride control, coupler, 4.0 cubic yard bucket, 5620 hours, through service program ........................................$83,000 - AgDirect financing available, rates as low as 2.89% fixed. Please call before coming to look at equipment.

Keith Bode

70786 510th St. • Fairfax, MN 55332 507 381-1291• www.keithbodeeq.com

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NEW AND USED TRACTOR FOR SALE: 1460 combine FOR SALE: 15’ Massey bean FOR SALE: Westfield auger, All kinds of New & Used farm Wanted to Buy: JD 4430 1975 PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, w/ 1020 20’ bean head; 1460 head; 1143 Massey corn- 8”x61’, PTO, like new, $3,925. equipment - disc chisels, field or newer. JD 725 6, 8 & 12 7x51 Westfield auger, w/ elec cults, planters, soil finishers, row - front mount cultiva55, 50 Series & newer trac- combine w/ 863 6R30” corn- head. 763-682-4462 motor drive, includes motor, cornheads, feed mills, discs, tors; Stanhoist and Bushhog tors, AC-all models, Large head, both in good condition.

WANT TO BUY: Gleaner bean $1,125; 8x46 Feterl auger, balers, haybines, etc. 507- steel barge boxes; Gehl and Inventory, We ship! Mark 952-873-6483 head, 800, 8000/8200 series, elec, no motor, $825. WANT- 438-9782 Heitman Tractor Salvage Lorentz grinder/mixers; plus FOR SALE: 1979 John Deere 20’ to 25’, or older in good ED: 10 sidewall panels from all types of farm machinery.

715-673-4829 4400 combine, 329 diesel with shape. 507-995-2513 14’-15’ diameter bin. 651-503- WANTED: 12’ chisel plow, 507-251-2685 2525 hours with John Deere good condition. 320-697-5550 5087 Looking for something special?

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2019 JD S780 PRWD, 916-674 Hrs, PowerFold Bin 2017 6155R, 3637 Hrs, AQ Plus 20/20-40K, Ext, Chopper, Leather Frts, Trim, Auto-Trac Ext Wear Sep320/90R50, 320/85R24 Ready Concave Pkg, 540-1000 Inspection-Repair-Service Less Receiver, PTO, 18 Frt Wts Completed, JD PowerGard $84,500.Warranty, $316,500.

2017JD JD S670 1202-907 Factory 2017 S670PRWD, PRWD, 1200-910Hrs, Hrs,JD Factory Bin Ext W/Maurer Ext, Chopper, Ext Wear Bin Ext W/Maurer Ext, Chopper, ExtSep-Concave Wear-SepPkg,Pkg, 800800 Singles (520/85R42's Available), Concave Singles or 520/85R42’s W/Duals, Inspection-Repair-ServiceCompleted, Completed, $205,000. $205,000 Inspection-Repair-Service

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Miscellaneous

5FOR SALE: Black Angus bulls WANTED: Your next season PARMA DRAINAGE PUMPS 2 also Hamp, York, & Hamp/ Billies and Nannies. A couple New pumps & parts on hand.

- Duroc boars & gilts. Alfred days old to wean age. Write Call Minnesota’s largest disto: Frisky Goat Farm, 11713 tributor g Kemen 320-598-3790 County 15, Harmony MN d HJ Olson & Company s 55939 320-974-8990 Cell - 320-212-5336 Cattle .

REINKE IRRIGATION Trucks & FOR SALE: 11 Feeder Cattle, Sales & Service Trailers 8 Herefords, 3 Black, 400LB New & Used to 450LB. 507-213-8670 For your irrigation needs 1977 GMC grain truck, 20’ box, roll tarp, twin screw, 888-830-7757 or 507-276-2073 427 gas, hyd brakes, 5x4 Swine transmission, showing 137k Winpower Sales & Service miles, clean truck, nice Reliable Power Solutions Spot, Duroc, Chester White, cond, pics available. $7,250. Since 1925 PTO & automatic Emergency Electric GenerBoars & Gilts available. 320-894-3303 ators. New & Used Monthly PRRS and PEDV. Rich Opsata-Distributor Delivery available. Steve 800-343-9376 Resler. 507-456-7746 with a classified line ad!

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THE LAND — OCTOBER 15/OCTOBER 22, 2021

This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Staff Writer Kristin Kveno.

Historic splendor

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n the shores of Lake Superior on 12 acres of luscious lawn, idyllic woods, complete with the peaceful sounds of the flowing Tishcher Creek, you’ll find the grand Glensheen mansion. Construction began on the Duluth, Minn. home in 1905 and was completed in 1908. Chester and Claire Congdon and their six children lived there and built memories until the last of the Congdon children died in 1977.

Chester Congdon was a capitalist and lawyer. He also served in many public service positions including being a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1909-1913. He made much of his fortune from investments in the Mesabi Iron Range.

The home is 27,000 square feet and has five floors. At the time it cost $854,000 to build; today it would be worth about $23 million. Glensheen was donated to the University of Minnesota and opened as a historic house museum in 1979.

When you begin the tour at Glensheen you’ll start at the carriage house which sheltered the Congdon family’s horses and cows — as well as a vehicle repair shop. These weren’t your average livestock accommodations.

Cork tiles on the floor protected the animals’ hooves, there was automatic waterers and covered manure troughs. Luxury wasn’t just for the humans at Glensheen.

In exploring the mansion, visitors are taken back to the early 20th century where fine works of art, beautifully crafted furniture and various pieces from travels across the globe are all on the display.

Each of the rooms on the tour are bursting with glimpses of what life was like for the Congdon family.

The home, while filled with elegance and charm, has been also filled with curiosity and intrigued since the murders of heiress Elizabeth Congdon (daughter of Chester and Claire Congdon) and her nurse, Velma Pietila in 1977. While docents will answer questions about the murders, the focus of the tours is on those early years at the Glensheen mansion.

There has been a resurgence in popularity for the mansion and grounds as it’s now being used in many capacities from hosting weddings to flash light tours, to concerts on the pier.

While the Congdon family may no longer reside at Glensheen, the beauty and allure of the home and grounds remain timeless for visitors to enjoy. v

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With tens of millions of acres planted in the U.S., the Enlist® weed control system is rapidly gaining in popularity, thanks to near-zero volatility and reduced potential for drift. Plus, Pioneer® brand Enlist E3® soybeans have a proven yield advantage vs. Asgrow varieties.1 Learn how better technology is better for your operation.

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Data is based on an average of 2020 comparisons made in the U.S. for Pioneer’s top 10 volume-forecasted Enlist E3® products with 973 comparisons through December 10, 2020. Comparisons are against any number of products of the indicated competitor brand, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Please contact your Pioneer sales professional for information and suggestions specific to your operation. Product performance is variable and depends on many factors such as moisture and heat stress, soil type, management practices and environmental stress as well as disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary.

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ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL DIRECTIONS. Enlist® herbicides refers to Enlist One® and Enlist Duo® herbicides featuring 2,4-D choline with Colex-D® technology. In-crop dicamba herbicides refers to XtendiMax® herbicide with VaporGrip® technology and Engenia®. Federal herbicide label facts applied. Additional state restrictions and requirements may apply. Applicator must comply with any additional state requirements and restrictions. All qualified tank-mix partners for Enlist herbicides can be found at EnlistTankMix.com. Engenia is a registered trademark of BASF. Engenia is a federally Restricted Use Pesticide. Engenia is not registered for sale or use in all states. VaporGrip® is a registered trademark of the Bayer Group.

Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides are not registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency to determine if a product is registered for sale or use in your area. Enlist Duo and Enlist One are the only 2,4-D products authorized for use with Enlist crops. Consult Enlist herbicide labels for weed species controlled. Always read and follow label directions.

The transgenic soybean event in Enlist E3® soybeans is jointly developed and owned by Corteva Agriscience and M.S. Technologies L.L.C. Pioneer ® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents. ™ ® Trademarks of Corteva Agriscience and its affiliated companies. © 2021 Corteva.

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ENLIST SEE FOR YOURS3 3 3LF.

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IN-CROP DICAMBA HERBICIDES

No Calendar Date Cutoff No Time-of-day Application Limitations Greater Tank-mix Flexibility

®

No Volatility-reducing Agent Required for Each Spray Broader Range of Approved Nozzles

With tens of millions of acres planted in the U.S., the Enlist® weed control system is rapidly gaining in popularity, thanks to near-zero volatility and reduced potential for drift. Plus, Pioneer® brand Enlist E3® soybeans have a proven yield advantage vs. Asgrow varieties.1 Learn how better technology is better for your operation.

Pioneer.com/PickYourSystem

Data is based on an average of 2020 comparisons made in the U.S. for Pioneer’s top 10 volume-forecasted Enlist E3® products with 973 comparisons through December 10, 2020. Comparisons are against any number of products of the indicated competitor brand, unless otherwise stated, and within +/- 3 RM of the competitive brand. Please contact your Pioneer sales professional for information and suggestions specific to your operation. Product performance is variable and depends on many factors such as moisture and heat stress, soil type, management practices and environmental stress as well as disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary.

1

ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL DIRECTIONS. Enlist® herbicides refers to Enlist One® and Enlist Duo® herbicides featuring 2,4-D choline with Colex-D® technology. In-crop dicamba herbicides refers to XtendiMax® herbicide with VaporGrip® technology and Engenia®. Federal herbicide label facts applied. Additional state restrictions and requirements may apply. Applicator must comply with any additional state requirements and restrictions. All qualified tank-mix partners for Enlist herbicides can be found at EnlistTankMix.com. Engenia is a registered trademark of BASF. Engenia is a federally Restricted Use Pesticide. Engenia is not registered for sale or use in all states. VaporGrip® is a registered trademark of the Bayer Group.

Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides are not registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency to determine if a product is registered for sale or use in your area. Enlist Duo and Enlist One are the only 2,4-D products authorized for use with Enlist crops. Consult Enlist herbicide labels for weed species controlled. Always read and follow label directions.

The transgenic soybean event in Enlist E3® soybeans is jointly developed and owned by Corteva Agriscience and M.S. Technologies L.L.C. Pioneer ® brand products are provided subject to the terms and conditions of purchase which are part of the labeling and purchase documents. ™ ® Trademarks of Corteva Agriscience and its affiliated companies. © 2021 Corteva.

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Pioneer.com/PickYourSystem

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Pioneer® brand Enlist E3® soybeans have a proven yield advantage.1 And that’s on top of benefits like near-zero volatility and reduced potential for drift that come with the Enlist® weed control system. Learn more about why Pioneer brand Enlist E3 soybeans is simply a better choice.

B:10.166"

®

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ENLIST MORE ACR3 3 3S.

ENLIST THE MOMENTUM HAS SHIFT3D. ®