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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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Remembering the simple joys of Friday night lights Every farm kid who grew up before the almost therapeutic, it was compared to “change-everything 1970s” changed my mother’s “Stop moving!” cuts. almost everything will recall Friday eveThen, right before the barber finished, nings meant quick chores, a quick supper, he shaved the back of my tanned, skinny and a family night in town. neck with warm shaving cream and a Back then, nearly every store in nearly straight razor. every rural community remained open for It. Was. Life. Changing. And all for $2. I business until 9 p.m. on Fridays so everycouldn’t find a better way to spend four, one — but mostly farm families — could FARM & FOOD FILE sweaty hours of farm wages until I went shop, stroll the storefronts, or just visit to college.

By Alan Guebert friends.

A couple of years later, my next oldOn the southern Illinois dairy farm est brother, David, made the ultimate of my youth, my parents loved “going Friday-night move: He bought a used to town” on Friday nights because it 1963 Ford Fairlane (50-cents an hour was a cheap, tire-them-out method to entertain five can stack up if you only go to town once a week) children under the age of 10. and he and I often spent Friday evenings meeting Shopkeepers, however, had to dread seeing us girls at the local movie theater or enjoying an intumble out of our dull green, late-1940s Chevy statown hamburger. tion wagon and head for their stores — prepared to touch everything from candy jars to BB guns to cowboy boots. You could trace our tornadic path from Schrieber’s General Store on Market St. to Mr. Kirsch’s Western Auto Store on Main St. by following a not-very-high trail of smudged glass, stainless Visit www.TheLandOnline.com to view our complete steel, and tin. calendar & enter your own events, or send an e-mail with your event’s details to editor@thelandonline.com.

My mother, who had kept us roped and corralled since the last great Friday night breakout, gladly Oct. 26 — Livestock Mandatory Reporting Wholeturned us loose on town as she slowly (and most sale Pork Reports — Online — Insights into Liveimportantly, alone) examined sewing patterns and stock Mandatory Reporting wholesale pork reports the “material” each required to make us school and the methodology of USDA pork carcass cutout. shirts, jackets or dresses.

Learn how wholesale pork reports are used to mitigate risk, economic analysis, forecasts, and how data is utiMost times, my father just “stayed with the car” in lized in pork cutout futures contract. Register at https:// hopes of having a quiet conversation with someone www.ams.usda.gov/event/pork-LMR-webinars other than a cow, kid, or hired man. Failing any, silence served his purpose, too.

Nov. 1 — Pumpkin Grower Meet Up — Chaska, Minn. — Topics include best varieties of unique The Friday night trips took a wonderful turn pumpkins, squash and gourds; results of a white when my two older brothers and I began to earn a pumpkin variety trial; and weed control. Contact Annie twice-monthly paycheck for farm work like baling Klodd at kloddann@umn.edu. hay and milking cows. The earnings, accrued at 50 cents per hour, were usually combined into one Nov. 3 — Land Rent Meeting — Little Falls, Minn. “farm” check to all three. This single-check payout — Topics include local historic and projected farmrequired us to collectively present it to the bank land rental rate trends, current farmland values and teller the following Friday night for any of us to get sales, and a worksheet that will help determine a fair a penny. rental agreement. Contact Nathan Drewitz at ndrewitz@umn.edu or (608) 515-4414.

But, boy, when we did, off we ran — rarely with more than $10 apiece — to buy BBs, black licorice Nov. 3 — Taking Charge of Your Finances: How drops, Levis jeans (in any color but blue), or, if parto Survive and Thrive — Little Falls, Minn. — Particularly flush, a baseball to replace the old one ticipants will learn how to organize and use financial invariably lost in the corn (or wheat or alfalfa or records; develop and analyze financial statements; soybean) field the previous week. and make informed decisions regarding finances and production. A case study farm will be used to help As my older brothers got their drivers’ licenses we practice interactions with lenders. Contact Dana began to go to town on our own. That often meant Adams at adam1744@umn.edu or (320) 204-2968. going to a different, smaller town so as to not have the terminally embarrassing experience of bumping Nov. 9 — Taking Charge of Your Finances: How into our parents during any mid-teenage strut. to Survive and Thrive — Melrose, Minn. — Contact Dana Adams at adam1744@umn.edu or (320) 204During one of these “brothers-only” excursions, I 2968. made the wildly extravagant choice (I still can’t believe I was once this radical) to get my first barNov. 10 — Taking Charge of Your Finances: How bershop haircut. I was shocked with how soothing, to Survive and Thrive — Little Falls, Minn. — Con-

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My parents never spent one second worrying about their budding Casanovas, though. Because just before we’d leave those evenings, my father would quietly mention that “One of you is milking with me in the morning.”

That always put us home in bed before Dad had finished reading that day’s St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

Those freedom-filled Friday nights, like David’s ‘63 Fairlane, are long gone. Still, every now and then as I turn out a Friday’s last light, I can hear my father say, “One of you is milking with me in the morning,” and I nod to acknowledge the chance to earn another dreamy, $2-haircut.

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Calendar of Events tact Dana Adams at adam1744@umn.edu or (320) 204-2968.

Nov. 10 — Agricultural Market Situation and Outlook Webinar — Online — Hear from North Dakota State University Extension economics specialists on a variety of timely issues related to agricultural markets. Contact david.ripplinger@ndsu.edu.

Nov. 16 — Taking Charge of Your Finances: How to Survive and Thrive — Melrose, Minn. — Contact Dana Adams at adam1744@umn.edu or (320) 2042968.

Nov. 16 — Land Rent Meeting — Melrose, Minn.

— Topics include local historic and projected farmland rental rate trends, current farmland values and sales, and a worksheet that will help determine a fair rental agreement. Contact Nathan Drewitz at ndrewitz@umn.edu or (608) 515-4414.

Nov. 16 — Farmers Night Out: Should they stay or should they go? — Greenwald, Minn. — Farmer panel will answer questions and share experiences with a variety of heifer raising practices. Contact Dana Adams at adam1744@umn.edu or (320) 204-2968.

Nov. 16 & 17 — National Cover Crop Summit — Online — Eight sessions featuring cover crop establishment, building biomass, weed management, pest control, plus a soil health panel featuring experienced cover crop growers. Contact Cover Crop Strategies at info@covercropstrategies.com or (866) 839-8455.

Dec. 2 — Rural Forum: Weathering the Extremes from Farm to Main Street — Mankato, Minn. — GreenSeam’s annual reception and dinner event connects public leaders and attendees from the agricultural sector. This event is an opportunity for conversations and brainstorming potential solutions.

Contact GreenSeam at info@greenseam.org or (507) 385-6672.

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If an ox yoke could talk, it would have plenty to say… come from a country officially called the Grand If an ox yoke could talk, it Duchy of Luxembourg. Now I have never been would have many stories of there, but in listening to their conversations, they various owners and oxen — liked this valley in Jackson County because it some with good temperareminded them of their homeland with its natural ments, others … well, they beauties of cliffs, nuts, wild fruits and clear water are best forgotten. from streams that were filled with fish.

A yoke enabled a team of Sure the trees and hills were beautiful, but to oxen to pull together. Oxen haul a load of timber up and down those hills? Well, were used to pull freight FROM MY that took a pulling for the oxen in my yoke (not that wagons and do farm work.

FARMHOUSE I am complaining, just saying so).

They played an important KITCHEN role in settling this country.

The Luxembourgers had cleared the land, built

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

Gehlen, who with his wife had come from Then one day, the Luxembourg, got Jonas family cleaned me up and brought Photos by Renae B. Vander Schaaf restless feet. He was Jim Hentges (left) and Jerry DeWitt (right) received the yoke from veterifull of energy and me to town. Alton, vigor and had been Iowa was celebrating narian A.J. Neumann (center) who was given the relic by a customer. very successful and their centennial. was respected in the area.

Suddenly everyone remembered it was a wagon train pulled by oxen that brought them to northHis name is still remembered in the St. Donatus west Iowa from St. Donatus, Iowa. area. A house he built stands and is used as a beautiful bed and breakfast with six lovely rooms availMany of the people who lived at St. Donatus had able. The Gehlen House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

St. Donatus Catholic Church was built by the early Luxumbourger pioneers. They had heard the storms in the area were ferocious and named the church for the patron who protects against lightening and storms. The church was dedicated on June 3, 1860.

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.

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.

Gehlen was prosperous, so there was no reason for him to endure the hardships of pioneering again.

But once a man gets a notion, it seems, there is no stopping him. And whew, did he travel. He couldn’t stop at 150 miles, or even 200. No, he had to go clear across the state to find his perfect wilderness in Plymouth County which is more like a 300 mile distance.

When he left, some said he was off his rocker and he would soon be back. Well, he did come back after 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 lagers and tearing them limb-from-limb something that could eat you.

THE BOOKWORM — though, because people there considSEZ Murder, theft, assault, destruction of property. It happens all the time between By Terri Schlichenmeyer er pachyderms as deities, the killers are rarely, if ever, treated negatively us and nature. But as Mary Roach discovfor their actions. ered, there’s a reason it’s called wildlife: That’s not quite the case with leopards in the toothed-and-clawed scofflaws don’t always get Middle Himalaya, where the animals have killed huncaught and they rarely see jail time. dreds of people through the years by seizing them So what kind of criminals are we looking at here, from behind. Incredibly, it’s not until the third attack Your Honor? that anything’s done to stop the cat-astrophe.

Take bears, for example. Roach attended WHART In India, macaque monkeys live to “harass peoclasses in British Columbia, where mutilated manple.”

Cougars can attack you (but they rarely do). nequins help officials learn how to determine bear Trees can become a “danger.” Deer, dromedaries, all bites from wolf bites from scavenger nibbles. In dangerous.

Aspen, she learned that bears are really good at Even mice can kill but yeah, there’s a trapp for gently breaking into houses to find food but they’re not the only guilty parties: we humans are partially that. culpable in the bears’ snack-pilfering habits.

You can’t pet a bison. No selfies with a bear or moose. Leopard territory is off-limits. Please don’t Elephants, as she learned, aren’t the long-lashed, feed the animals, so what can you do? You can big-eared snugglers from the movies. In India, they laugh and learn by reading “Fuzz.” can be destructive to crops and vengeful to people, especially if they have grudges or are in musth. In Make no mistake, though: while author Mary that case, elephants have been seen stepping on vil- Roach has a sneak-up-on-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 can be stomach-churning.

It can be fascinating because Roach takes readers around the world with experts who know, sometimes first-hand, about the real habits of these creatures that seem so familiar. Reading that, seeing why elephant handlers are paid more, learning about “ridiculously lovable” attackers and furry light-fingered extortionists, shows that unlawful ursas exist, camels can act like criminals, and sometimes, nothing’s more apt than the word “jailbird.”

If you’re someone who loves to read aloud passages of your current obsession, “Fuzz” is your book.

Clear your throat, prepare those around you; you shouldn’t wait to get your paws on it.

Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a library near you. You may also find the book at online book retailers.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives in Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v

U of M Extension looking for weed survey participants Extension weed scientist Debalin Sarangi and graduate student Navjot Singh shared results from a 2020 weed survey and asked that growers collect and submit weed seeds again this season.

In 2020, the scientists received about 30 waterhemp samples, mostly from southern Minnesota.

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They grew them in the greenhouse and conducted resistance screening. They found that the majority of waterhemp populations were resistant to ALSinhibiting herbicides (e.g., Pursuit, Raptor and Classic) and glyphosate.

They reported that the results also showed that 14 and 15 percent of waterhemp populations were resistant to atrazine and PPO inhibitors (e.g., Flexstar), respectively. If at least 40 percent of plants survive a 3X labeled dose of a certain herbicide, that population is considered to be resistant.

The researchers noted that two populations from Carver and Olmsted County showed resistance to four herbicide sites of action, significantly reducing herbicide choices for farmers. These populations survived the 3X application of glyphosate, Raptor, Atrazine, and Flexstar or Callisto (a HPPD inhibitor).

In three populations, 7 to 14 percent of waterhemp plants have survived the 3X dose of 2,4-D-choline (Enlist One), showing that the less-sensitive individuals to 2,4-D are present in Minnesota. Given the results, growers are advised to take a diversified management approach to slow down the resistance evolution.

Sarangi and his team are again collecting weed seed samples this year. They ask that growers follow the steps given for sample collection and submission: Select the fields with lower-than-expected weed control from herbicide applications. Avoid sampling plant escapes due to lack of spray coverage.

Collect the seed heads from at least 10 mature (black color seeds) female waterhemp plants or 20 mature (brown seeds) ragweed plants and place the samples in paper bags. Do not mix the seeds of different species; bag them separately.

Fill out the 2021 Herbicide-Resistant Waterhemp/ Ragweeds Survey and send it along with the samples.

Mail the samples directly to the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus: Attn: Debalin Sarangi, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Samples may also be submitted to local Extension educators in crops.

For questions, contact Sarangi at dsarangi@umn. edu.

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Travel with oxen more practical than horses or mules FARMHOUSE KITCHEN, from pg. 5 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. He said there was plenty of land for the taking. Others soon caught his dream and made plans to relocate.

Obviously they didn’t ask me if I thought a team of oxen would find the trip pleasurable.

But they did talk to our parish priest. Father J. Michael Flammang. He strongly discouraged them from going, which added another element to consider.

fit. It had to rest on the necks of the oxen just above his shoulder blades, or the oxen could become sore.

After each use, I was cleaned and rubbed with boiled linseed oil to protect my wood from drying out.

The ring that the tongue of the wagon went through has also been replaced. Yes, I saw plenty of work; but now I have a different job to do. You see, I am no longer hidden in a barn.

I left the Jonas farm when this nice gentleman, Doc Neumann, saw me on one his veterinarian calls to the farm. A collector of historical items he was pleased when they told him to take me home as they had no need for me.

He warned them, “It would be better to throw For many years I hung on the wall of his baseyour children into the Mississippi; because they ment until he recently donated me to the Alton would all lose their faith if they moved.”

Museum which shares a building with the town’s public library. Now I get to tell my part of the story I don’t think I was the only one filled with a mixof the Luxembourgers who settled in northwest ture of trepidation and excitement when we left Iowa. that spring on May 2, 1870. We numbered 18 covered wagons — all pulled by oxen.

By the way, these pioneers did not lose their faith St. Maray’s Catholic Church in Alton, Iowa was dedicated on and their farms prospered. A wood frame church Sure, strong horses and mules would have been was first built on the prairie shortly after they July 14, 1909 by Bishop O’Gorman of Sioux Falls, S.D. The faster. They could travel 15 to 20 miles a day, while came. Later the parish relocated to a more central church is still being used and can be seen for miles.

The my oxen would only make 10 miles on average. church clock tower still rings out the time on the quarter hour. location in the town of East Orange, now called That might have been the only drawback. Oxen Alton.

I’m a fairly common size for a yoke. My beam are more reliable and it wasn’t necessary to take On a hill, they built a grand brick church building which is 54 inches wide is made from one solid piece grain along for feed. They can get their nourishment of Romanesque and Gothic style which is still in use of hard wood.

With my bows I measure 26 long. from grazing the grass that was plentiful as we today.

Every day the bells ring out the time on the Probably one of my bows has been replaced as they travelled. Not to brag, but my oxen do navigate the do not match. If you look closely you see that one of quarter hour. sloughs better than other draft animals. the bows has been worn thinner.

Renae B. Vander Schaaf is an independent writer, There were plenty of rivers, creeks and sloughs to author and speaker. Contact her at (605) 530-0017 My owners would first place the beam over the cross. Once we left eastern Iowa, bridges and roads or agripen@live.com. v neck of the oxen, then put the bows in, securing were pretty much non-existent. Often times it was them with wooden pegs which have been whittled to necessary to unhitch several ox teams and then hitch several teams to a single wagon to make the crossing.

We arrived safely with our 40 pioneers on May 19, 1870. When we arrived at Le Mars, where Mr. Projects are published annually in the ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Gehlen was, he told us that all the good land nearby MDA’s Greenbook, which provides a summary of each Agriculture anticipates awarding up to $250,000 to was taken and that we should settle a little ways project along with results, management tips, locademonstrate and publicize the energy efficiency, north of there. environmental benefit, or profitability of sustainable tions of previous projects, and other resources.

We immediately took his advice, and traveled to a agricultural techniques or systems, from production Past grants have funded a wide range of projects, beautiful spot in Iowa where we began building our through marketing. such as exploring farm diversification; cover crops homes along a line east of the Floyd stretching from and crop rotation; conservation tillage; input reducThe Agricultural Growth, Research, and Innovation Nassau Township down into Floyd Township. Each (AGRI) Program’s Sustainable Agriculture tion strategies; and alternative energies such as farm was about three miles from the next farm.

Demonstration Grant program will accept applica- wind, methane, and biomass.

The work was not done by any means. I was still tions through 4 p.m. on Dec. 9.

Applicants must be Minnesota residents, and projused on oxen to plow the land, plant crops and ects must take place on Minnesota farms.

Applicants may request up to $50,000 per project. drain sloughs. Although many times five bull ox yokes were brought in to drain a slough. They would The first $25,000 does not need to be matched by the For more information, visit https://www.mda.state. applicants. For requests between $25,000 and mn.us/business-dev-loans-grants/agri-sustainabledrag a large iron ball through the slough to open it $50,000, applicants must provide a dollar-for-dollar agriculture-demonstration-grant up so that the water would drain. This made the match on the amount above $25,000. land useful for farming.

This article was submitted by the Minnesota Funding will be awarded in 2022. Projects must Department of Agriculture.

Maybe I wasn’t used for that, but if you take a v last two to three years and grantees must be willing closer look at me, you will see that I have sat on to share what they learn with others. many an oxen neck. It is their horns that keep me from sliding off their necks. Did you know oxen use their necks for pulling?

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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. 14 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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2021 harvest soon to be in the rearview mirror Mark Wettergren, Blair Hoseth,   St. Peter, Minn.

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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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Grain Outlook No big surprises in Oct. WASDE report

Cash Grain Markets

cents to 75 cents per gallon. Gasoline demand fell 241,000 bpd to 9.2 million bpd but is up 7 percent from last year.

Outlook: History shows when the corn yield increases from September to October, it tends to increase on the November report. Over the last ten years, December corn tends to rally in October but re-test lows in November/December. The 200-day moving average in December corn has acted alternately as support and resistance. As of Oct. 15, it became support once again at $5.19 per bushel, but there’s a lot of harvesting still to be done. Overall, corn continues to feel comfortable in a $5.00 to $5.50 per bushel trading range where it has resided since the end of August.

For the week, December corn fell 4.75 cents to $5.25.75, March was 5.25 cents lower at $5.34.25, and December 2022 was 2.75 cents lower at $5.23 per bushel.

SOYBEANS — A bearish October WASDE report slammed November soybean prices 30 cents lower on a record crop and the second-highest yield in history.

The record yield was in 2016 at 51.9 bu./acre.

November soybeans came within a half-cent of the March 31 low of $11.84 per bushel before bouncing in response to strength in the soyoil market. The very strong world vegetable oil market has lent support to soyoil prices and helped limit further losses in soybeans. Palm oil traded to record levels in response to India cutting their palm oil import duties. The oil share of the soybean crush ran to its highest level since 1998. Keep an eye on the world vegetable oil markets for insight into soybeans.

The 2020-21 balance sheet didn’t hold any surprises with planted and harvested acreage each up 300,000 acres to 83.4 and 82.6 million acres respectively. The yield was raised .8 bu./acre to 51 bu./acre and production up 81 million bushels at 4.216 billion bushels. On the usage side, residual was lowered 7 million to a negative 3 million bushels. Ending stocks were 256 million bushels, as expected from the Grain Stocks as of Sept. 1 report. The stocks-to-use ratio increased from 3.9 to 5.7 percent and the onfarm average prices fell a dime to $10.80 per bushel.

The 2021-22 balance sheet raised this yield .9 bu./ acre to 51.5 bu./acre, the top of the estimates. Production rose 74 million bushels to 4.448 billion bushels compared to estimates for 4.415 billion bushels. The crush was increased by 10 million and the residual was up 1 million bushels. Soybean exports were unchanged at 2.09 billion bushels despite inspections so far this year are down 64 percent from last year. Exports year on year are forecasted to be down 7.8 percent. Ending stocks jumped 135 million bushels to 320 million bushels vs. 300 million bushels estimated. The stocks-to-use ratio soared from 4.2 to 7.3 percent and the average on-farm price dropped 55 cents to $12.35 per bushel. In 2016/2017 we had a similar carryout at 302 million

corn/change* soybeans/change* St. Cloud $5.10 -.03 $11.98 -.18 Madison $5.18 -.03 $12.25 .00 Redwood Falls $5.20 -.07 $11.98 -.22 Fergus Falls $5.14 -.04 $12.08 -.23 $5.17 -.07 $12.08 -.22 The following marketing analysis is for the week Morris Tracy $5.19 .00 $11.98 -.17 ending Oct. 8.

CORN — The October World Agriculture Supply Average: $5.16 $12.06 and Demand Estimates report was released this week and it didn’t disappoint us in prompting the Year Ago Average: $3.62 $9.95 market out of its recent comfort zone. December corn Grain prices are effective cash close on Oct. 19. punched through its 200-day moving average sup*Cash grain price change represents a two-week period. port and dropped to its lowest level since the Sept. 10 WASDE in the marketing year. Ending stocks were 1.5 billion report when it posted a key bushels, up 92 million bushels from last month and reversal higher after trading to compared to estimates for 1.432 billion bushels. $4.97.5 per bushel. This is the next support level in the short On this report, Illinois corn yields were slashed 4 run. Otherwise, fresh news was bu./acre, but still a record at 210 bu./acre. Minnesota thin this week as harvest was yields were pumped up 4 bu./acre to 178 bu./acre. stalled in several areas due to Iowa was raised 3 bu./acre to 201 bu./acre, Indiana rain. The week of Oct. 18 looks PHYLLIS NYSTROM lowered 3 bu./acre to 194 bu./acre (record), and drier and warmer; which should Nebraska up 2 bu./acre to 190 bu./acre.

CHS Hedging Inc. allow for a big week of harvest.

World 2021-22 ending stocks rose from last month St. Paul U.S. corn is the cheapest origin to 301.74 million metric tons and compared to 298.76 through December and after the mmt expected. Argentina’s corn production estimate price, decline many traders will for this coming year was unchanged at 53 mmt and be looking for additional business to be announced.

Brazil’s was steady at 118 mmt. Brazil’s first corn The WASDE report incorporated the Grain Stocks crop was 44 percent planted as of Oct. 12 compared as of Sept. 1 number for 2020-21 ending stocks at to 41 percent on average. Argentina’s corn planting 1.236 billion bushels. To get to this number, planted was 28 percent complete as of Oct. 15 vs. 26 percent acres were down 100,000 acres to 90.7 million, har- on average and 29 percent complete last year. vested acres down 200,000 acres at 82.3 million, and Russia’s corn crop was lowered .5 mmt to 15 mmt yield down .6 bushels per acre at 171.4 bu./acre. and Ukraine’s corn crop was down 1 mmt to 38 mmt.

Production was down 71 million bushels at 14.111 China’s corn imports for 2021-22 were left at 26 billion bushels. Again, this is old news. mmt despite the U.S. attaché cutting it to 20 mmt.

Feed was cut 128,000 bushels to 5.597 billion, FSI China’s corn imports for last year were raised 2 mmt down slightly, ethanol down 3 million at 5.032 billion to 28 mmt. China’s corn prices have fallen 15 percent bushels, and exports up 8 million at 2.753 billion from their March highs and are working their way bushels. This adjusted ending stocks down 49 million back into feed rations to replace wheat. In some bushels to 1.236 billion bushels. The stocks-to-use areas, the percentage of wheat in rations has dropped ratio rose from 7.9 to 8.3. percent, but the on-farm from 40 to 20 percent. average price increased 8 cents to $4.53 per bushel.

Weekly export sales were within expectations at The 2021-22 balance sheet showed an increase in 40.9 million bushels. Total commitments stand at yield of .2 bu./acre to 176.5 bu./acre and v. estimates 1.087 billion bushels which is 4 percent ahead of last for 176 bu./acre. Planted acres were steady at 93.3 year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is predictmillion acres, bringing total production to 15.019 bil- ing year-on-year exports will be down 9 percent. lion bushels vs. 14.973 billion estimated. This is the Mexico was the largest buyer of U.S. corn for the second-highest production and yield on record. The week. Their total purchases are up 45 percent at record yield was in 2017 at 176.6 bu./acre.

279.5 million bushels vs. last year. China’s total purOn the demand side, feed cut 50 million bushels to chases for this year are 468.5 million bushels. Fresh 5.65 billion, FSI was up 5 million, ethanol was sales announcements during the week total 13 milunchanged at 5.2 billion, and exports were increased lion bushels split between Mexico and unknown.

25 million to 2.5 billion bushels. Exports year-on-year Weekly ethanol production was up 54,000 barrels are expected to be 9.2 percent, but inspections are per day to 1.032 million bpd. Stocks fell 100,000 barcurrently down 36 percent from last year at this time rels to 19.8 million barrels. Net margins improved 24 See NYSTROM, pg. 13

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. 14

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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

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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.

SWINE & U Good safety habits should

By Diane DeWitte 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 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 sorting panel close to block the sow from causing injury.

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-han-

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dling 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 See SWINE & U, pg. 14

Agronomic insights and innovations for forward-thinking farming.

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production efficiency. Most cover crops that are used fall into one of three groups:

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grasses, legumes or brassicas. The time

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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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R53-350SSRIB

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.

Dairyland Seed www.dairylandseed.com DS-2080AM

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.

DS-3022AM

Relative Maturity: 90 days A new 90-day Optimum AcreMax hybrid with awesome top-end yield potential and an excellent foliar health package. Responds to high management and performs best in higher yield environments.

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.

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DKC46-50RIB

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.

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.

DS-3959Q DS-3959AM

DKC48-68RIB DKC48-69RIB

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.

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.

DS-4510Q

DKC50-87RIB DKC50-88RIB

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.

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

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DKC57-29RIB

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.

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.

DKC44-97RIB DKC44-98RIB

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.

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

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8150 GTA

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.

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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 www.heftyseed.com Relative Maturity: 106 days H5554 An exciting new Trecepta hybrid with great fall SmartStax Hybrid appearance and solid stalks and roots! It’s a shorter Relative Maturity: 105 days hybrid with nice tar spot tolerance and plenty of ear Short in stature, but BIG in yield! Don’t let the shorter flex for medium populations. plant type fool you — this is a yielding machine with

broad acre placement. Hefty 5554 is good on Goss’s and late-season plant health. It also holds up better www.mustangseeds.com than most on tar spot too.

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H6354

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SmartStax Hybrid Relative Maturity: 113 days Great choice for continuous corn acres! You’ll love H6354’s early vigor and drydown in the fall! It handles Goss’s wilt well and has an overall solid defensive package.

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

H5952

Relative Maturity: 78 days Very adaptable hybrid for high or low yield environments. Very good emergence and vigor for the colder soils. Very solid agronomics and healthy corn. Semiflex ear adaptable to varied planting populations.

VTDoublePro Hybrid Relative Maturity: 109 days Hefty 5952 is a national placement line with high yield and fantastic stalks! It’s a fantastic choice for grain or silage production on good to great land. This hybrid loves irrigation and fertility enhancements and flexes especially for length with deep kernels and heavy test weight.

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1078 GT

Relative Maturity: 82 days Very good early plant vigor with good stalks and very good roots. Medium-tall plant with medium ear placement. Very good dry down and defensive agronomics.

Attractive looking late season appearance.

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.

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

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.

6298 VT2P RIB

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.

5800 SS

Relative Maturity: 100 days Excellent performance as the 5200 VT2P in 2020.

Flex style girthy ear allows lower populations. RIB proven performance in two years of research testing.

Medium-statured corn with very good standability.

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RK615SSTX

Very good greensnap tolerance and Goss’s Wilt rating. Yields will excel in highly productive fields. Very adaptable east to west hybrid. Exciting new hybrid with the new Trecepta trait.

RK625DGVT2P

A SmartStax RIB hybrid Relative Maturity: 105 days Relative Maturity: 102 days Medium stature corn plant. Good green snap and This hybrid pollinates with the 95 day hybrids and drought tolerance. Medium to early flowering with very yields with the 105-110 day hybrids. Its medium good dry down. Suited for variable yield conditions. plant stature along with the ASR gene makes it an 9311 TRE RIB attractive plant through to harvest.

Relative Maturity: 111 days

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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.

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RK726

A conventional hybrid Relative Maturity: 105 days A SmartStax RIB hybrid RK726 has an excellent combination of yield potenRelative Maturity: 105 days A VT2P RIB hybrid tial and solid agronomics. What you need in a convenThis hybrid will surprise you with its early flowering. tional hybrid. It is medium tall with large flexible ears.

Relative Maturity: 89 days Strong seedling vigor helps this hybrid perform in the Its medium plant stature and ASR gene, combined RK782VT2P with strong Goss and Green Snap scores will make early season environments. It has a medium stature A VT2P RIB hybrid this hybrid a western favorite. plant with large girthy ears.

Relative Maturity: 109 days RK300RR This hybrid combines racehorse yields with excellent A Roundup Ready 2 hybrid stalks and roots. It responds well to high yield environRelative Maturity: 90 days ments, higher populations and fungicide application.

RK300RR has consistent top performance across all environments from tough acres to the highly productive ones. Late season intactness helps harvest go Agriculture has changed smoothly.

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A VT2P RIB hybrid Relative Maturity: 98 days This racehorse hybrid is perfect for those acres that have a history of high yields. Together with excellent standability and fall appearance, it will be a favorite in the 95-100 day zone.

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Tighter supplies will prop up dairy product prices This column was written for the marketin 2019. The 2022 average was projected ing week ending Oct. 15. at $1.715, up 6 cents from last month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture lowThe 2021 butter price average was proered its estimate for 2021 milk production jected at $1.685 per pound, down a nickel in the latest World Agricultural Supply from a month ago, and compares to and Demand Estimates report, fourth $1.5808 in 2020 and $2.2431 in 2019. The month in a row, and lowered its 2022 esti2022 average was put at $1.755 per pound, mate, citing lower dairy cow numbers and up 2.5 cents. output per cow.

Nonfat dry milk was projected to averMIELKE MARKET 2021 production and marketings were age $1.245 per pound in 2021, up 2 cents WEEKLY estimated at 227 and 226 billion pounds from last month’s estimate, and compares

By Lee Mielke respectively, down 800 million pounds to $1.0417 in 2020 and $1.0419 in on production from last month’s esti2019. The 2022 average will climb to mates, and 700 million lower on mar$1.38, up 11 cents from what was ketings. If realized, 2021 production expected last month would still be up 3.8 billion pounds or 1.7 percent Whey was projected to average 56.5 cents per from 2020. pound in 2021, up a penny from last month, and com2022 production and marketings were estimated at pares to 36.21 cents in 2020 and 37.99 cents in 2019.

229.7 and 228.6 billion pounds respectively, down The 2022 average will slip to 51 cents, up a penny 900 million pounds on both. from last month’s estimate.

Cheese, nonfat dry milk and whey price forecasts Look for the 2021 Class III milk price to average for 2021 were raised, based on current prices and $17.05 per hundredweight. This is up 40 cents from lower expected production. The butter price was low- last month’s projection and compares to $18.16 in ered slightly. All dairy product prices for 2022 were 2020 and $16.96 in 2019. The 2022 Average was estiraised, largely on tighter supplies, according to the mated at $17.10, up 65 cents.

WASDE. The 2021 Class IV average was pegged at $15.70, The 2021 cheese price average was projected at up 15 cents from a month ago, and compares to $1.68 per pound, up 40 cents from last month’s esti- $13.49 in 2020 and $16.30 in 2019. The 2022 average mate, and compares to $1.9236 in 2020 and $1.7586 was projected to hit $17.15, up $1.10 from last

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month’s estimate.

The WASDE had some good news on the feed front.

The U.S. corn outlook is for slightly higher production, increased exports, lower feed and residual use, and larger ending stocks. Soybean production was forecast at a record 4.45 billion bushels, up 2 percent from the previous forecast, and up 74 million or 5 percent from 2020 on higher yields.

In the week ending Oct. 2, 60,700 dairy cows were sent to slaughter, up 300 from the previous week, and 2,900 or 5 percent above that week a year ago. The four-week rolling total is up 4.53 percent from a year ago, according to StoneX, as cull prices continue to hold a premium over last year’s levels.

Analyst and editor of the Dairy and Food Market Analyst newsletter Matt Gould said in the Oct. 18 “Dairy Radio Now” broadcast “We’re far from a world where we’re talking about cheap feed. With corn at $5 per bushel and higher, it costs significantly more to feed a cow this year than it did last year.” Farmers tell him their break evens are $2-3 higher this year than they were a year ago, and run around $18.80 per cwt.

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

Foreign, domestic buyers waiting on soybean purchases NYSTROM, from pg. 10 bushels and the average farm price was only $9.47 per bushel. Yields in the top five soybean producing states were changed as follows: Illinois unchanged at 64 bu./ acre (record), Iowa up 2 bu./acre at 61 bu./acre (record), Nebraska up 2 bu./acre at 61 bu./acre (record), Minnesota up 2 bu./acre at 49 bu./acre, and Indiana unchanged at 60 bu./acre (record).

World ending stocks for 2021-22 were unchanged from last month at 98.89 mmt and 100.72 mmt estimated. Brazil’s soybean production for this year was kept at 144 mmt and Argentina’s was lowered 1 mmt to 51 mmt. Brazil’s soybean crop was 10 percent planted as of Oct. 12 vs. 9 percent on average. The U.S. attaché in Argentina later in the week cut its soybean acreage estimate 1.2 million acres to 42 million acres. This put its crop production forecast at 49.7 mmt; so not only is it lower than the latest USDA number, but the direction of change is also opposite the USDA. They cited a better return on corn for the switch. Their soybean planting will begin in the next two weeks. The attaché’s Argentine ending soybean stocks forecast is 11.8 mmt and well above the USDA’s 9.3 mmt outlook. La Niña is still in play for Argentina and southern Brazil which may keep conditions on the dry side.

China’s soybean imports were just 6.9 mmt in

September and the smallest for September since 2014. China’s hog herd contracted in August by 0.9 percent vs. July. In July it saw a 0.5 percent contraction, the first decline in nearly two years. We may need to see adjustments to China’s soybean demand if this trend continues. The USDA kept China’s soybean import forecast at 101 mmt for 2021-22 and vs. last year’s 99 mmt. Also on traders’ radar is the energy crunch in China and the closing in recent weeks of soybean plants.

The September National Oilseed Processors Association Soybean Crush report was a letdown at 153.8 million bushels compared to 155.1 million bushels estimated. Soyoil stocks were 1.684 billion pounds vs. 1.663 billion pounds estimated. Soyoil stocks are the largest September total since 2012.

Weekly export sales were very good at 42.2 million bushels. However, total commitments at 969.7 million bushels are running 39 percent behind last year.

The USDA is forecasting year-on-year exports to decline by just 7.7 percent. China has 481.3 million bushels of U.S. soybeans bought for this marketing year, down 44.7 percent from last year’s 870.8 million bushels bought by this date. During the week, the USDA announced fresh sales of 55.6 million bushels of soybeans sold of which 17 million bushels were to China and the balance to unknown.

Outlook: There is a tendency for soybean yields to increase on the November WASDE report when they rose from the September to October reports. This will be on traders’ minds as we move into the last half of the soybean harvest. We could expect demand to pick up from under-bought domestic and foreign end-users if prices continue to erode. November soybeans missed the March 31 low of $11.84 by a half cent this week.

With yields running better than expected into the second half of harvest and basis staying firm, we could see extra bushels get sold across the scale. I’m ruling out another visit to the downside with November soybeans in a range from $11.50 to $12.50 per bushel.

For the week, November soybeans tumbled 25.25 cents to $12.17.75, January crumbled 28 cents to $12.26.25, and November 2022 dropped 27 cents to $12.22.25 per bushel. And an FYI: December oats traded to an all-time high of $6.86.25 per bushel on report day and closed the week at $6.60.25 per bushel.

Nystrom’s notes: Contract changes for the week as of the close on Oct. 15: (December contracts) Chicago wheat was unchanged at $7.34, Kansas City gained 6.25 cents to $7.43.75, and Minneapolis surged 22.25 cents higher at $9.68.75 per bushel.

Minneapolis wheat hit a new contract high at $9.80 per bushel in post-report trading when Canada’s wheat crop was cut. v

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Details on safe manure handling on Extension website SWINE & U, from pg. 12 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 BACKED BY A YEAR-ROUND

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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

Industry is actively recruiting students GREENSEAM, from pg. 8 meetings where we can share information about Compeer, learn more about them and assist students with their career path,” said human resource professional Stacy Grunden. “Throughout the year 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

Consider your crop insurance options THIESSE, from pg. 11 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

2022 EQIP signup deadline is Nov. 19 Farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners can plan for next year and apply for U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation funding. Applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) or the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) are due Nov. 19 for the first cutoff of funding in 2022. Applications are being taken at all USDA Service Centers in Minnesota.

EQIP is the primary program available to farmers and landowners for farm, ranch, and woodland conservation work, offering payments for more than 100

conservation practices. ACEP protects agriculture by restoring or conserving eligible grazing land and restoring and enhancing eligible wetlands.

Farmers who are interested in practices that may require permits, such as manure storage or streambank restoration, to begin planning and seeking permits as soon as possible.

For more information, visit www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov This article was submitted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. v

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FARMLAND AUCTION 72.56 Acres +/- in Kiester Twp., Faribault Co., MN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 @ 10 AM

Auction to be held at the Kiester Community Center 106 S 1st Street, Kiester, MN

PROPERTY LOCATION: From Kiester, MN go 1/2 mile East on County Road 2

PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION: 72.56 Deeded Acres located in the W ½ of the SE ¼ of Section 22 in Kiester Township, excepting a strip of land 100’ in width across said premises conveyed to Iowa-Minnesota & Northwestern Railway Company and also excepting 3 acres of land South of the railroad tracks, Faribault County, MN T101N, R24W. *Legal will be updated upon completion of survey.

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FARMLAND AUCTION 111.98 Acres +/- in St. James Twp., Watonwan Co., MN

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021 @ 10 AM

Auction to be held at the American Legion at 620 First Avenue South, St. James, MN. PROPERTY LOCATION: From St. James, MN go 2 1/4 miles West on County Hwy 3 or from Butterfield, MN 2 miles North on County Hwy 5 then 5 miles East on County Hwy 3.

PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION: 111.98 Deeded Acres located in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 & the N 1/2 of the NW 1/4 Less 8.02 acre building site in Section 16 of Township 106 North, Range 32W, Watonwan County, MN.

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Real Estate to sell LIVE onsite! Personal Property will be sold ONLINE ONLY! Terms: No buyers premium on real estate.

This farm site is a must see! The home is a 5 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, with a two-stall attached garage and a 2-stall detached garage. Features of this home include main-floor laundry, family room in the basement, new carpet and flooring throughout the home!

Outbuildings include a machine shed, Quonset shed, shop, 3 large grain bins, 2 smaller grain bins. All of this set on 10 ac with shade trees and mature grove area.

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Inspection: October 28th, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Lots Start Closing: October 28th, 5:30 pm Pick-Up Date: October 29th, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Tractor, ATV & Equipment: ‘76 JD 850 tractor, 2840 hrs, diesel, 3pt, PTO w/ belly mower; Farm King 3 pt mower; ‘01 Polaris Sportsman 400 ATV, 4x4; ‘06 JD Gator, 519 hrs, missing front drive shaft; skid steer grapple bucket; yard trailer; Shop Tools: Miller Big 40G CC-DC Welding Generators on transports (two units, one runs); Black Max tank mounted air compressor; Powermate VX air comp; Craftsman, Montezuma & Remline tool chests; Campbell Hausfeld paint sprayer; KT drill press; All American pressure washer; Lincoln ARC SP-150 welder; Century welder; Chicago generator; many hand & power tools; Furniture, Household & Antiques: LG 55” flat screen tv; full sized bed w/ new Poturepedic mattress; 5 pc bedroom set; table & chair set; sofas; sectional sofa; desk; end tables; lamps; toy chest; record player w/ cabinet; record collection; surround sound speakers; freezer; dorm fridge; 8-channel surveillance DVR; fire safes; Schmidt hanging light; Budweiser pool table lamp; Grain Belt beer lighted sign; Old Style lighted sign; large collection of Schmidt Beer outdoor mug sets, pitchers; Miller stein set; Grain Belt glasses; Miller High Life wildlife mirrors; Winchester mirror; wildlife prints; Redlin collector plates; JD mug set; novelty JD signs; DeKalb mug set; leather jackets; Clydesdales figurines; clay pigeon thrower; gun stabilizer; Keurig; small kitchen appliances; kitchen utensils;

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Auctioneers: Matt Mages, Lar r y Mages, J oe Wer sal, J oe Maidl, J ohn Goelz, & Ryan Fr oehlich Clerk: Mages Land Co & Auction Ser vice, LLC. All Items Sold “AS IS”. Buyer is responsible for pick-up, Mages Land Co. does not provide any shipping. For all full terms and bidding go to magesland.com. Not responsible for accidents.

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Auction to be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall 920 E 1st St, Fairmont PROPERTY LOCATION: From Ceylon, MN go 1/2 mile East on MN-263, then South on 130th Avenue for 1/4 mile, then East on 30th Street for 1 mile, then south on 140th Avenue for 1 mile.

PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION: 155.99 Acres +/- in the N 1/2 of NW 1/4 and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 & Government Lot 5 and the North Five Acres of Government Lot 4 in Section 32 & Government Lot One of Section 33 of Township 101 North, Range 31W, Martin County, Minnesota (See booklet for full legal description & exceptions).

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315 Acres to be sold in 3 Parcels - Section 20 OF Marysland Township and Section 15 of Tara Township, Swift County, MN Parcel 1: 80.32 Deeded Acres (+-) 76.42 Tillable Acres (+-); Excellent Soils CPI of 93.7!

Parcel 2: 155.06 Deeded Acres (+-); 145.84 Tillable Acres (+-); Soils CPI of 62.3 Drainage ditch on east and south boundaries. Good future drainage access.

Parcel 3: 79.40 Deeded Acres; 73.88 Tillable Acres (+-); Soils CPI 62.3 Drainage ditch on west & south boundaries.

Good future drainage access. Property has been surveyed.

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TIMED ONLINE AUCTION • NOVEMBER 15-19, 2021

157.49 ACRES IN SECTION 20, SIX MILE GROVE TWP., SWIFT COUNTY, MN

NW1/4, Section 20 • 157.49 Deeded Acres (+-); 148.63 Tillable Acres. Good soils with a CPI of 85.5! Extensive Drain Tile Included AND Open Ditch for Future Drainage. Danvers, MN

• Capable of spreading wet or dry manure • We sell and apply turkey and chicken litter

TIMED ONLINE AUCTION • NOV. 29-DEC. 3, 2021

156.27 ACRES IN SECTION 36, Torning TWP., SWIFT COUNTY, MN

SW1/4, Section 36 • 156.27 Deeded Acres (+-); 152.36 Tillable Acres. Excellent Soils with a CPI of 91.2! Extensive Drain Tile Included. County Road Access. DeGraff, MN Jesse Hughes ∙ #76-24 ∙ Broker/Auctioneer Phone: 320-815-0460 Address: 1222 Atlantic Ave, Benson, MN 56215 Email: info@HughesRealEstate.net

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

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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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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.

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