Trader's Dispatch April 2020

APRIL 2020

Vol. XXI No. 3 P.O. Box 997 Conrad, MT 59425-0997

Phone 406-271-5533 Fax 406-271-5727 website: tradersdispatch.com

Private applicator pesticide license process changes

From University of Wyoming Extension The University of Wyoming (UW) Extension has implemented an online process for those seeking private applicator pesticide licenses in light of the University of Wyoming suspending all in-person activities until May 15 due to COVID-19 concerns.

Extension pesticide training coordinator Jeff Edwards said those interested can go to http://bit.ly/applicatorprep, click the Private Applicators tab, and have two options under Licensing. All of the required files are linked in the website, said Edwards.

Option 1. Self-study and take-home workbook – Download or print the Core Manual – Print the Private Applicator Workbook – Print the private applicator license application – Read the Core Manual – Complete the take-home workbook by answering questions in the workbook – Completely fill-out the private applicator license application – Mail the completed take-home workbook and the private applicator license application to: Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Technical Services Division, 2219 Carey Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82002 Option 2. Electronically scan and email the completed take-home workbook and the private applicator license application to the Wyoming Department of Agriculture at agrtshelpdesk@wyo.gov.

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

April or May, Kevin Hill Auction Services Inc., Business Liquidation, Plains MT.....................................................................................................................A12 April 2 - May 3, Smith Sales Co. Auctioneers, Spring Fever, Online......... A4, A5 April 7 - April 28, Musser Bros Auctions & Real Estate, Box L Farms, Online.... ............................................................................................................................A3 April 10 - 21, Kinsey Auctioneers & Real Estate, Ag Marketplace Equipment, Online.................................................................................................................A2 April 12 - 21, Smeltzer Auctions & Real Estate, Dawson County & City of Glendive Surplus, Online..................................................................................................A8 April 15 - 28, Smeltzer Auctions & Real Estate, Vaira Estate, Online.............A10 May 2, Ophus Auction Company, Roger Folwer Estate, Virtual/Online..........A25 May 2, Kevin Hill Auction Services Inc., Farm & Ranch, Hot Springs MT........A6 May 16, Weaver Auctions, Consignment, Drummond MT...............................A18 May 23, Matt’s Auction Service, Spring Consignment, Vaughn, MT...............A20 May 30, Shobe Auction & Realty, Cabin Fever, Lewistown MT.......................A22 June 13, Shobe Auction & Realty, MT Horse Progress Days, Moore MT.......A22 June 25, Flying D Auction, Taft Estate, Devon MT............................................A18 June 25, Shobe Auction & Realty, Taildragger Farms Equipment, Turner MT...... ..........................................................................................................................A22

Signup for Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands

From USDA Farmers and ranchers may apply to enroll grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands signup beginning March 16. The signup runs through May 15.

“Through this CRP Grasslands signup, farmers and ranchers can protect grasslands, rangelands and pastures, while CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

PRODUCTION SALES

April 23 , Mangen Angus Ranch, Belle Fourche SD..........................................A7 April 30, Nelson Ranch, Glasgow MT..................................................................A8

OTHER DATED EVENTS

June 12-14..................Montana Mule Days, Whitehall MT................................A32

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These four bum lambs got quite a bit of attention during the GATE held in Glendive, MT the weekend of February 14-15. A part of the Dawson County FFA Chapter’s fundraiser, they provided much entertainment for the children attending the event with their parents and grandparents.

Stay safe during brandings, shearings and other spring agricultural work

The Montana Farm Bureau is commending the Department of Livestock and the Montana Department of Public Health for their safety guidelines for agricultural activities in our state during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m hoping our Montana agricultural community realizes the seriousness of this pandemic and follows commonsense guidelines,” said Montana Farm Bureau President Hans McPherson. “As a farmer myself, I know how independent farmers and ranchers can be, but this is the time to act for the health and safety of everyone. I know how fun big brandings are, but we must all accept the fact that this year is unique and adjust accordingly. It’s not only our duty to keep producing food, it’s also our duty to help stop the spread of COVID-19. A lot of us in rural counties already are social distancing—which seems to be keeping the virus at bay—now is not the time to go dumb!”

“The State of Montana and the Department of Livestock recognize the importance of business continuity for farmers and ranchers. We understand that ranching activities such as branding, pregnancy checking, bull-testing and shearing may require involvement of multiple individuals,” said Montana Department of Livestock Executive Officer Mike Honeycutt. “While we continue to encourage local governments to permit continuation of ranching activities, we ask farmers and ranchers to strongly

consider implementation of the following guidelines set forth by Montana Department of Public Health.”

Individuals at risk for severe complications of COVID-19, such as those with diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, and those who are immunosuppressed should avoid performing ranch activities within a group.

Limit brandings and other activities to essential crews only (smallest crew possible to get the job done).

Do not provide a group meal. Offer sack lunches or have attendees pack their own lunch.

Do not share water bottles or utensils.

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PRIVATE TREATY

Clay Creek Angus, Greybull, WY.................................A16 Dallas Polled Herefords, Canyon Creek MT...............A45 Ehlke Herefords, Townsend MT...................................A31 Feddes Herefords, Manhattan MT...............................A31 J Bar E Ranch, Plentywood MT...................................A31 K & C Herefords, Deer Lodge MT................................A31 Little Bitterroot Ranch, Hot Springs MT.....................A34 Maloney Angus & Simmental, Turner MT....................A22 McKechnie Herefords, Shelby MT...............................A31 McMurry Cattle, Billings MT........................................A31 O’Hara Land & Cattle, Fort Benton MT.......................A33 Peterson Angus, Drummond MT.................................A28 Praise the Lord Gelbvieh, Reserve MT.......................A37 R & R Cattle, Roy MT....................................................A20 Rafter Ranch Inc., Wise River MT................................A31 Rimrock Cattle Co, Kevin MT.......................................A24 Sleeping Willow Ranch, Stevensville MT....................A23 Thomas Herefords, Gold Creek MT.............................A31 Wichman Herefords, Moore MT...................................A31

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TRACTOR, TRAILER AND TRUCK FOR SALE

1995 John Deere 8100 MFWD tractor with power shift, 1000 PTO, 3-point hitch and 7817 hours. In good condition................................................................................ Asking $46,500 2014 PJ 30-ft. flatbed trailer, 10-ft. hydraulic dovetail, dual wheels, 16,000# tandem axles and air brakes. Excellent condition...................................................................... Asking $14,000 1994 Ford L9000 daycab, Cat 3176 engine, 370 hp, 9-speed transmission, 4-way lockers.... ......................................................................................................................... Asking $9000 Phone (406) 397-3333, Hingham, Montana

AIR HOE DRILL FOR SALE

2010 New Holland P2060 60-ft. seed tool with P1060 430 bushel cart, set up for double shoot. Cart is tow between, three compartment, variable rate with Pro600 control, external switch box and is ISO compatible to run through tractor display. Dual tires, dual fans and LED lights on back. Extra meter rollers included. Seed tool has 550 lb trips with Dutch side band openers and 4.5” steel packer wheels. All packer bearings have been replaced. Primary blockage monitors. Excellent tires on seed tool. Drill and cart are in good shape and rockshafts are not all bent up. 2nd owner.........................................................$56,000 obo Phone 406-390-6477, Dagmar, Montana

AG MARKETPLACE - EQUIPMENT

ONLINE AUCTION BID ON OR BEFORE APRIL 21st – 12 NOON MDT

TIMED ONLINE-ONLY AUCTION – BID TODAY

Signup for Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

maintaining the land as working grazing lands,” said State Executive Director Lois Van MARK. “The program emphasizes support for grazing operations and plant and animal biodiversity, while protecting land under the greatest threat of conversion or development.”

Through CRP Grasslands, participants retain the right to conduct common grazing practices, such as haying, mowing or harvesting seed from the enrolled land. Timing of some activities may be restricted by the primary nesting season of birds.

Participants will receive an annual rental payment and may receive up to 50 percent cost-share for establishing approved conservation practices. The duration of the CRP contract is either 10 or 15 years. FSA will rank applications using a number of factors including existence of expiring CRP land, threat of conversion or development, existing grassland, and predominance of native species cover, and cost.

The 2018 Farm Bill set aside 2 million acres for CRP Grassland enrollment. CRP is one of the largest conservation programs at USDA. CRP marks its 35-year anniversary in 2020 with 22 million acres currently enrolled.

For more information or to enroll in CRP Grasslands, contact your local FSA county office or visit fsa.usda.gov/ crp. To locate your local FSA office, visit farmers.gov/ service-locator.

Stay safe during spring work CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

Selling for: Madonna Oeck Beach, ND - Rosebud County Forsyth, MT Lazy F Bar LLC Fallon, MT The Spring 2020 Agricultural Marketplace Auction has several pieces of quality equipment from either a complete sell out dispersal, Divorce or County entity. Bid with confidence.

TRACTORS John Deere 7800 MFWD Tractor 5441 hrs.

• John Deere 9420 4WD Tractor 4085 hrs.

• John Deere 9520 4WD Tractor 4098 hrs

TRAILERS

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TRUCKS - SEMI TRUCKS • 2006 International 9400 - 228 inch wb, 10 speed, sleeper.

• 1991 International 4900 4x2 truck, 170” wb, dump box, 120,760 , automatic.

• 1986 Mack Model DM6856 Tree Spade Truck , 19,207 miles on Odometer, Manual transmission.

• 1999 International Semi 60 series,13 spd.

• 1977 Ford 9000 11.5 yard Dump Truck • 1995 Ford L9000 Semi Truck, 13 spd.

FEED MIXER WAGON • Kuhn Knight Model 3142 Mixer Feeder Wagon- 1000 PTO, s/n 130367.

VEHICLES • 2009 Ford Expedition • 2006 Ford Explorer • 2005 Ford Explorer • 2001 Ford F250 XLT super duty 4x4 • 2001 Ford Crown Victoria • 1997 Ford wheeled coach ambulance • 1998 Ford wheeled coach ambulance

Pintle Hitch tandem axle tilt bed 1993 Kentucky moving van trailer

CONSTRUCTION • Smith 200 Air compressor on trailer (Diesel) • Genie TML 4000N Light Plant • 1970 J.I Case Crawler Dozer, angle blade MISC. IMPLEMENTS • Krause 18’ offset disc. Model 1498SN#6054 (good condition- recent disc replacements.

• Sakundiak- HD8 -1400 PTO Grain Auger • Brillion 3 point Ripper 3CP-51, s/n 71986 11’ wide, 19” ripper spacing.

VEHICLES • 1992 Chevy Cheyenne 2500 4x4 • 1990 Ford F250 4 speed • 1997 F250HD 2wd 4 speed • 1967 Chev. Truck, Model 50, v8, oil truck • 1965 Dodge 500, tandem axle oil truck • 1988 Dodge diplomat car •

NO RESERVE - NO BUY BACKS

Have water and soap available for handwashing on site.

Hand sanitizer is not effective if hands are soiled (dirt, manure, blood, etc.).

When taking breaks, maintain six feet of distance between individuals while socializing.

When branding, consider the use of branding forks to restrain animals when using a rope/drag method. When a calf table is used, identify the smallest number of people needed to operate the equipment you have.

Keep the number of people near the animal at one time to a minimum, such as having the person vaccinating wait for the person performing castration to step away.

Honeycutt added that local public health officers have the authority to require more restrictive measures than those described above so be aware of regulations specific to your local jurisdiction.

Questions, please contact the Department of Livestock at (406) 444-2976.

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JOHN DEERE COMBINES/HEADERS FOR SALE

(2) 2019 John Deere S790 STS combines with 45-ft. flex draper

By Cole Ehmke, rural entrepreneurship specialist, headers. Only 163 hours per machine. Used one season and UW Extension these are absolutely loaded with options. Still under full warranty.

Coronavirus is taking a bite out of local businesses on $520,000 each or will negotiate a discount for both machines Main Street and now the implications for agriculture are beginning to take shape, said the rural entrepreneurship Call Dean (406) 579-6557 or dean@folkvordfamily.com specialist with University of Wyoming (UW) Extension.

Those implications include falling commodity TIMED ONLINE ONLY ENDS: TUE APRIL 28th prices affecting any farmer who had March contracts for Starts Closing At 7 PM delivering grain, said Cole Larslan, Montana Ehmke in the Department 54 Larslan Rd • From Glasgow: East on Hwy 2 to Nashua, of Agricultural and Applied North on Nashua Rd 438 for 33.5 mi to Larslan Rd, East 3.5 mi Economics at UW. “And it seems likely there will be a manpower shortage,” said Ehmke. “Custom harvesters for wheat often draw crews from countries such as Australia and South Africa who may not be able to get here. Labor will likely be an issue for producers of fresh vegetables for farmers markets and horticultural products as the spring develops.”

Interrupted logistics could delay needed supplies TRACTORS • COMBINES • TRUCKS • TRAILERS of fertilizer, chemicals and SPRAYER • GRAIN HANDLING EQT • BINS seed, especially as planting AIR DRILL • CONSTRUCTION EQT time nears for some spring crops like corn, he said.

TRUCKS GRAIN HANDLING CONTRACTOR EQT “I’d guess that things are 2014 CIH 8230 Combine; 1247 2012 Deere 320D Skidsteer; 825 2004 Peterbilt 379 Semi; 905,389 okay for the next month rHrs/1685 eHrs, CIH GPS, FS Pro hrs, 76” bkt, quick attch, encl cab mi, Cat C15-550hp, 18 spd, jake, with the supplies on hand, 700, 300 bu tank, ext auger, chaff diff lock, 5th whl, 70” Unibilt sleeper, 1978 Case 580C Backhoe; 4071 chopper, 20.8R42 duals, hdr tilt, but uncertainty is an issue t/a, 11R22.5 virgin, 265” wb hrs, 4 wd, 30” bkt, 80” bkt, new elec adj, air ride, after that,” said Ehmke. “If tires 1993 Kenworth T600; 987,011 mi, 2013 CIH 8230 Combine; 1357 truckers stay home, then Erskin Skidsteer Snowblower 74” Cat 3406B, 13 spd, 20’ Renn box, rHrs/1735 eHrs, CIH GPS, Pro 700, hoist, 3 axle w/air lift, plumbed for our ability to move products HLA Skidsteer Fork Attch 48” 300 bu tank, ext auger, chaff choppup, Shurlok tarp, jake, diff lock, per, 900/60R32 may be an issue. And some Skidsteer Trailer Mover Attch 285/75R24.5 2015 MacDon Flex Draper Header technical ingredients come Generac Generator; 35kw/20kw 1993 Peterbilt 377 Semi; 711,361 FD75-0; 45’, trnspt, Flex-Float tech cont, 540 pto from China.” mi, Cat 3176, 10 spd, jake, diff lock, 2014 MacDon Flex Draper Header BINS & TANKS t/a, 285/75R24.5, 5th whl, 230” wb The future gets cloudier FD75-0; 45’, trnspt, Flex-Float tech (3) Amber Wave Hopper Btm Bins; if the human factor of panic 1963 IH 1800; 31,544 mi, 16’ 2014 Parker 839 Grain Cart; 800 3200 bu Knapheide box, hoist, Shurlok tarp, buying is added – which bu, scales, roll tarp, 30.5-32 9.00-20 (2) Grain Max Hopper Btm Bin 2016 Loftness Bag Grain Uncreates an incentive for reaGM3000; 3200 bu loader GBV-10 1961 Ford F600; 79,452 mi, 12’ sonable people to buy before Grain Max Hopper Btm Bin box, hoist, 6 cyl gas, 4 spd, Honda 2016 Loftness Grain Bag Loader there is none left.

GM1000; 1000 bu 3” pump, 350 gal tank, hose reel, GBL-10 “While the run on toihose (3) Friesen Hopper Btm Bin; 3200 2015 WF MKX130-74 Auger; bu, poly lined let paper was irrational 13”x74’, swing away 1974 IH L800; 16,271 mi, 20’ MW (3) Endurapas 10,000 Gal Poly Tank since the usage rate hasn’t box, hoist, V8 gas, 5/2 shift, twin WF MK130-61 Auger; 13”x61’, screw, 9.00-20 swing away Endurapas 7000 Gal Poly Tank changed, it may be more WF MK100-61 Auger; 10”x61’, Enduraplast 2200 Gal Poly Tank difficult for pesticide apTRAILERS swing away Enduraplast 2500 Gal Poly Tank plicators to find the needed 2010 Maurer Grain; 36’, ShurLok WF J208-31 Auger; 8”x31’ tarp, 11R24.5 respirators required for use 2600 Gal Poly Tank, 3” port Sakundiak Auger HD7; 7”x45’ with some pesticide prod100 Gal Port Fuel Tank, 12v pump 2004 Jet Grain; 40’, ShurLok tarp, Batco 1545 Belt Auger; 15”x45’, 11R24.5, t/a ucts,” he said.

Handler II Mix Tank, pump & hose hydr mover In the animal agriculDuromax 3” Transfer Pump & hose 2004 Jet Grain Pup; 20’, ShurLok Batco 1590 Belt Auger; 15”x90’, tarp, w/dollie, 40,000 gvwr swing away ture sector, illnesses at proGrain Guard Blower; 5 hp Horvack Belt Auger; 12”x40’ cessing facilities with large 2002 Neville Dropdeck; 45’, beaPICKUPS vertail, 68,000 gvwr, 255/70R22.5 6- Ipesasilo Grain Bags 10’x250’ workforces could create 2002 Chev 2500; 205k mi, 4x4, 350V8, port fuel tank DIRT WORKING & SPRAYER 1993 Wabash Flatbed L96; 45’, t/a, issues with a backlog of 75,000 gvwr, 285/75R24.5 2015 John Deere R4038 Sprayer; 1996 GMC 3500; 290k mi, 4X4, animals on a ranch or in 1466 hrs, Starfire 3000 gps, Greendually, 454V8, port fuel tank 1995 Titan Flatbed; 20’/5’ beaverfeedlots, and even traditionstar 3, 120’ booms, 5 way nzls, tail, ramps, t/a dually, gsnk, 10,000 1999 Chev 2500; 186k mi, 4x4, ally social events like spring 1000 gal, inductor tank, air susp, gvwr, 7.50-16 LT 454V8, 250 gal water tank auto fold, adj axles, deluxe cab brandings might have to be MISC 2010 PJ Flatbed; 16’, ramps, t/a, 2014 John Deere Air Seeder; 60’ reconfigured.

ST225/75R15 Pallet Scale; 3000 lb cap 1890C tool bar, dbl disc, 7 1/2”, “Many animals are taken 1910T cart, 430 bu, 3 cmprt, seed 2003 Const Dollie TSDL-18; t/a, Champion Port Air Compressor; to slaughter based on certain treater, 520/85R38 duals, Greenext tongue 30 gal, 175 psi, gas mtr Star 3 monitor size or weight. So, there may 2- Goodyear Tires 800/70R38’s TRACTORS Phillips 4305A Rotary Harrow 43’ be processing challenges 2013 John Deere 9510R; 4wd, later on,” Ehmke said. “This 2416 hrs, Starfire 3000 GPS, will also mean producers Greenstar 3, Autosteer, 5 hydr, 1000 pto, 800/70R38 duals, 510 HP will have to make larger investments in feeding and 1986 Deutz 7110; 3313 hrs, 2wd, sells w/Westendorf loader, 3pt, maintaining the health of the 540/1000 pto, 2 hydr, 18.4-38 animals.”

The situation is the coronavirus is forcing local BID ONLINE AT businesses and government agencies to adjust, “And ag will have to adjust, too,” 406.652.2266 Ehmke said.

BOX L FARMS

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20th Spring Fever Auction

Timed Online Machinery Auction Sunday May 03, 2020 Expecting Over 400 Items, Lots start closing at 1pm MST Preview Dates Online Miles City, MT Directions: From I-94 Take Exit 141 then go downhill one mile & look left. 406-234-7355 www.SmithSalesCo.net 25+ Unused Skid Steer Attachments Lowe Hyd Auger 1650 w/ 9" 12" 18" ; Lowe Hyd Auger 750 w/ 9" & 12"; Lowe Hyd Auger 750 w/ 12" ; Lowe Hyd Auger 750 w/ 9" 12" 15"; Stout Brush Grapple 66-9; Stout Grapple Bucket HD72FB; Stout Rock Bucket Grapple 72-3; Stout Rock Bucket/Brush Grapple Combo HD72-3 Open-End; Stout Rock Bucket/Brush Grapple Combo HD72-3 Open-End; Unused Stout Material Bucket 84" w/ double-cut edge; Unused Stout Tree & Post Puller ; Unused Stout Grapple Attachment AddOn; Stout Regular Weld-on Skid Steer Plate; Stout Solid Weld-on Skid Steer Plate; Stout WalkThrough Pallet Forks 48" w/ skid steer quick attach; Stout Add-on Fork Grapple; 4- Maxam 1016.5 Skd Str Tires 10-ply

10 Rolls Used 6 ft. Chain Link Fence This will be the last chain link fence we will be selling. Each roll is about 75– 85 ft. +/- heavy gauge from State Surplus.

Heavy Equipment CAT D6H high track dozer, little over 4000 hours, two owners, with book, 3306 engine 1985 John Deere 670A Motorgrader, JD 6 cyl.

Engine, power shift transmission, 12 ft. moldboard, former US Air Force machine from Great Falls.

CAT 613B Motor Scraper, Training unit from local college, perfect size for any Farm or Ranch.

20+ Pickups 1957 Chevrolet Napco 4x4; original 1967 GMC 4x4 Good body, runs good.

2 - 1969 GMC 1 ton duallys 2 - 1973 Ford F100’s drivers 2015 Chevrolet Crew Cab 4x4 flt bed 2008 Ford F350 Crew Cab V10 Gas 43K 2003 Ford Crew Cab w/ Bale Bed diesel 2003 Ford F150 4x4 25K original miles 2002 Duramax crew cab, Red, 300k 2004/5 Duramax Crew cab short bed 1997 Ford F350 Crew Cab 460 / Auto 1995 Chevy 1/2 ton 185K miles 4x4 1991 GMC 1/2 Ton 70K original miles 1984 Ford F250 4x4, 460, Auto, nice 1982 Chevrolet 1/2 ton 4x4, Nice Farm / Ranch & Misc. Items Ford Ranger ext cab 4x4 truck 2 - Hesston 6600 Swathers, field ready, 12 ft. Datsun B210 car; 1949 Studebaker Truck Headers, both slant 6 gas engines ++ More Coming! Watch for additional units.

2 Freeman 200 Self propelled Square Balers NH 1049 Self propelled, Ford 390, field ready Heavy Trucks & Trailers 3 - NH 55 Hay Rakes, Square bale Picker; 1985 IH 9370 BC400, 13 speed IH 19 ft. Draper header; NH 1033 Bale wagon; NH 1980 Kenworth 900 CAT 3406A, 15 sp 310 Square Baler; JD 2 Row corn chopper; JD 6 S/A Ford Flatbed 3208 & 5 speed row 3 pt. Planter; 25 ft. Brillion Roller Harrow; IH Volvo Cab Over T/A Feed Grinder; Hyd. Calf chute; More items online 1995Fontaine Drop Deck, Spread Axle Older Ford Flathead V8 Farm Truck Tractors & More Older 1950’s Chevrolet Farm Truck JD 4440 w/ JD 260 loader & grapple; one owner Military 4x4 Truck since 1998, Heat, AC, everything works, 3 point, 1997 Wilson & 68 TRMB Hay Train quad range, inside is well kept / clean tractor 40 ft. GN Flatbed Trailer Duals JD 4440 W/ 158 Loader, quad range JD 4430 w/ Loader; 3 pt., quad range Forklifts & Man Lifts JD 4105 Compact Tractor; like new Hyster 6K pound forklift, rubber tires JD G Tractor, one family tractor, nice Genie Z-60 34 man lift, in Billings, MT JD 620 Tractor Wide front, gas engine Genie S-85 man lift in Billings, MT Pair of 10 hole Hubs / Duals for JD 4440 JLG 60K man lift in Colstrip, MT Massey Ferguson 65, gas, 3 pt, runs grt 75 HP Electric Pumps Used Laminated Wood Beams 2 - 75 hp. Smith & Loveless 3 phase water Over 50 Laminated Beams; variety of thickness & pumps, valves, panel etc. lengths; perfect for open face sheds or center beams on modular home foundations; many uses ATV’s & Side by Sides 2012 Polaris 850 AWD four wheeler, lady Flat Bed, Enclosed & Stock Trailers owned, super clean; JD 825 efi side by side; 12 Ft. Utility Trailer; Boast Trailer Frame: Kawasaki 4 wheeler; Kawasaki side by side, Finshline Bumper pull Equipment Trailer; 2009 Small Chopper Motorcycle; Kawasaki LTD 750 Loadmax Gn Dually 29 ft. x 101” wide; 2– Enw/ 6300 miles; 2012 Polaris Ranger S+S closed Bumper Pull Trailers; 20 ft. Stock Trailer with 8 lug Dexter Axles; GN Low Pro Flatbed Misc. Items, No particular order trailer; more coming in, keep watching online.

14- 24.5 Aluminum truck rims; 2 - 22.5 aluminum truck rims; Engine crane; Quantity of BrickRV layers scaffolding, Water pump and fire hose 2016 Keystone Cougar 36 ft. Bumper pull, 3 slide reel, Amoco frame machine platform, 2 - 8 foot outs; Arctic Package; Awning; fireplace; like a tiny toppers: Variety of wheels and tires for 6 lug house on wheels, Good Kitchen / Layout.

Chevrolet pick ups, 67 to 72 Ford truck doors; First GEN Camaro sheet metal fenders doors & more: Two utility trailer's: Pallet full landscape timbers; Pallet full steel studs; Vintage truck sleeper, Sleeper off T 800 truck; 200 gallon per minute fire hose platform; 1000 gallon plastic tank and hoses, 10 - 9' x 5' tall light duty panels, round bale feeder, mound maker three point, 500 gallon fuel tank, thousand gallon fuel tank, 7 foot sickle mower, 4 - 10:20 truck tires, diesel and Onan gas generator trailer; several three point post hole diggers; 3 pt. Broadcast spreader; 1250 pcs. 3/8"X20' #3 Gatorbar; Quantity of Unused Amsco Windows 300 pcs.

4/4x3.5 x12' James Hardie primed cement bd trim; 1" 4X8 Styrofoam insulated panel; Moisture 4 - Sports Cars All 2014 Year Models shield composite decking, Several colors and ++Back in 2014 one of our customers had a mid lengths; 25 pcs. 1"X8" 18' KLEER START trim; life crisis when he was 82 years old. He went to 200 pcs. 5/16 x 7.25 X 12' James Hardie town & bought four sports cars. A 2014 Camaro, Primed cement bd siding; 30 pcs. 5/16 x 11.25 x 2014 Mustang, 2014 Challenger & a 2014 M5 12' James Hardie Primed cement bd trim; VariMiata. At 88 years old, he has decided to slow it ous bunks of Cull lumber, hem fir and also up a tad. Each car has super low miles & are well treated lumber; White Deck Railing & more; kept. Lesson here is ”LIVE your life!” - Sorry, No 1000 gal. Fuel tank w/ Pump; 500 gal. fuel tank test drives. w/ pump; Denali Bear Trap 3 ft. wide; Snap On Wheel balancer for Car & motorcycles; Snap On AC Service Machine; Car Towing Caddy; Fence Bid Online at Chargers & more!

Many Unused Items TMG Wheel Balancer & Tire Changer, TMG 3 pt. branch grinders; TMB Skid Steer buckets, root rake; TMG Container Covers; TMG 3 PT. 70” Rototillers; TMG Skid Steer HYD Breaker; TMG Forklift extensions; TMG Plate compactor & 14 inch Concrete saw: TMG 9000 Gen: 2– TMG 10,000 lb. Shop Hoists; 2 TMG 10 ft. Bamboo top work benches: TMG 2 Car Ports, 2 Greenhouses: TMG 30x60x15ft. Fabric building; TMG Chicken Plucker; TMG 252 Unused Traffic cones; TMG 10 ton Digital scale; TMG 2 - 12 ton pipe benders; TMG 10 Ton Porta power; TMG 2 & 4 inch Trash pumps; TMG 50 ton Shop Press

www.SmithSalesCo.net

Bldg. in in Forsyth, MT One Owner, Only 25,000 miles

Auction Commercial Building **Inspection Dates** 27 April 2020- 03 May 2020 From 8 am-4pm daily.

1108 US Hwy 12, Miles City, MT I-94 to Exit 141 downhill one mile

COVID-19: Use common sense. If you are sick, STAY HOME, call or text for information. Please follow State of MT guidelines. Thanks!

Terms: Look online for full terms. Everything sold as is where is. 6% BP

192 N. 10th Street Forsyth, MT Building only, Tenant has lease until Sept 2020 @ $600. per month Details online, Sells May 05, 2020

406-234-7355

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20th Spring Fever Auction

JD 4105 is like new 300+ hours

We are Still Accepting Consignments

Auctioneers Note: Our 20th year for this annual auction. Watch website for many other items coming in. Unreserved Consignments being accepted till 01 May 2020.

Items in Miles City, Colstrip & Billings, MT. Due to the Covid-19 virus, please respect a proper social distance from staff & other customers. Over 1000 pictures online. Watch the videos. Thanks & Happy Spring! - Matt Smith

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Haying Equipment this year. All of it is field ready. Quality Square Bale Machinery.

This is a partial listing about 35 days out from the Auction date.

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Due to current events please go to our website to check the status of all auctions. www.kevinhillauctions.com IRRIGATION Big Gun Sprinklers (2) 40 HP 3PH Motor w/Pump 230/460 (2) 25 HP 3PH Motor w/Pump 230/460 2 Wheel Line Movers For Parts 2 Wheel Line Movers w/o Motors Submersible Well Pumps 25HP 3PH Motor w/Pump 208-440 V Motor Starter Boxes (2) Misc Sprinkler Parts Wheel Line Mover Motors (Several) Tower Motors - Omni Gear 3PH460V

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EQUIPMENT / VEHICLES JD 4955 4WD Tractor, 15 Spd Power Shift, Rear Duals, 3 Remotes, Meter Read 3469 Hrs, SN# RW4955P001001 JD4055 Tractor w/740 Loader, 2 Remotes, Meter Reads 4721.8 Hrs, SN# RW4055H010613 JD7420 4WD Tractor w/Loader & Grapple, 2 Remotes, Meter Read 6771 Hrs, SN# RW7420R001786 Kuelker’s J5B900 Bale Processor, SN# JSB7576 2 Wheel Rake Extension NH Stackliner 1033 SN# 10433 IH 4 Bottom Rollover Plow RW Spinoff 3pt

Peerless/Joplin Grain Roller - PTO SN#13011217 Ford T08 3613 3Pt Ripper 2002 Polaris Magnum 325 4 Wheeler ATV Trailer 5’W x 8’L w/Ramp 15’ x 4” Auger John Deere 630 Disc 21-ft. Hydraulic Wings SN# N00630X003419 NH 169 Digidrive Tedder SN# B0650 Vermeer R23A Twin Rake SN# 1VRR201P9Y1001716 2015 Breviglieni B170V Rototiller 10’ SN# Z1700449 Tana GN Trailer 8’ x 24’, No Deck 12’ Culti Packer, Single

F350 Powerstroke Truck, Auto 4x4, 11’ Steel Bed, 119k Miles w/Dew Eze 487 XRM Bale Feeder Alliance 520/85R42 Tractor Tire - NEW Honda Rebel 250(?) Motorcycle JD Net Wrap 67”x7000’, 5.5 Rolls 6’ Back Blade 3Pt Quacker 6’ 3Pt Norwest Center Pivot Track Filler Post Hole Auger 3Pt, 12” Bit ATV Trailer w/Tilt Bed 4’W x 6’L 2002 F250 Powerstroke Truck, Auto 4x4, 178k Miles Delta Harrow S3 Flex Harrow 32’ Massey Ferguson 5 Bottom Plow, Pull

More than 3.4 million acres selected for CRP

From USDA Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the acceptance of more than 3.4 million acres in the general Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) signup recently completed, the first general signup enrollments since 2016. County offices will begin notifying producers with accepted offers no later than April 3.

Through CRP, farmers and ranchers receive an annual rental payment for establishing long-term, resource-conserving plant species, such as approved grasses or trees, to control soil erosion, improve water quality and enhance wildlife habitat on cropland. Farmers and ranchers who participate in CRP help provide numerous benefits to the nation’s environment and economy.

“The Conservation Reserve Program is one of our nation’s largest conservation endeavors and is critical in helping producers better manage their operations while conserving valuable natural resources,” State Executive Director Lois Van MARK said. “The program marked its 35th anniversary this year, and we were quite pleased to see one of our largest signups in many years.”

Over these 35 years, CRP has addressed multiple concerns while ensuring the most competitive offers are selected by protecting fragile and environmentally sensitive lands, improving water quality, enhancing wildlife populations, providing pollinator forage habitat, sequestering carbon in soil and enhancing soil productivity. Seventy percent of the nation’s land is owned and tended privately, and America’s farmers, ranchers and landowners have willingly stepped up to protect the environment and natural resources.

This general signup included offers for State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE), which allows producers to install practices that benefit high-priority, locally developed wildlife conservation objectives using targeted restoration of vital habitat. Over 95 percent of SAFE offers submitted were accepted under this general signup representing more than 487,500 acres. This acceptance level highlights the commitment to SAFE as an important part of CRP. The 2018 Farm Bill established a nationwide acreage limit for CRP, with the total number of acres that may be enrolled capped at 24.5 million acres in 2020 and growing to 27 million by 2023.

While the deadline for general CRP signup was February 28, 2020, signups for continuous CRP, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, CRP Grasslands and the Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP) are ongoing. The CRP Grasslands deadline is May 15, and the SHIPP signup begins March 30, 2020, and ends August 21, 2020.

Continuous and Grasslands enrollments are available nationwide. All counties located within the Prairie Pothole region states of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota are eligible for SHIPP. This spring, FSA will roll out a new pilot conservation program, the Clean Lakes, Estuaries, and Rivers 30 (CLEAR 30).

For state-by-state information on general signup results, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/crp.

National Honesty Day

Date When Celebrated: Always April 30th National Honesty Day encourages us to be honest today, and everyday. We honestly believe you try your best to be honest.

Honesty is a great virtue. If we want people to believe us when its important, then we need to be open and honest all of the time. We all know about the boy who cried wolf. When a wolf actually appeared, no one believed him.

Celebrate National Honesty Day in a completely open and honest way.

To be totally honest, there are few rules for this special day......just be honest.

Origin of “National Honesty Day”: M. Hirsh Goldberg, former press secretary to a governor of Maryland and author of five books, created National Honesty Day in the early 1990s after spending four years researching and writing The Book of Lies (Morrow). This book has been translated into Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Goldberg created this day, because he felt that the month of April, which begins with a big day of lying (April Fools Day), should end on a higher moral note.

How satellites, drones and the internet are changing agriculture

By Cole Staudt, media relations specialist at the American Farm Bureau Federation As my dad climbs into the tractor this And as more data is collected on farms spring, he’ll plug in his iPad, open an app nationwide, we can better track all the facand start planting. As the tractor rolls across tors that impact crop and animal growth, the field, the screen on the iPad turns green which will help reduce waste and produce with it. better, more nutritious products.

The app is logging seed population data, In November 2018, romaine lettuce cross-referencing the soil type with surveys was pulled from store shelves nationwide of the land. because the source of an E. coli outbreak As the plants come up, satellite photos couldn’t be found. New technology, once of his field are analyzed, and a color-coded fully implemented, will be used in the fumap shows him any trouble spots. He’ll go ture to track food from field to table. That out to the field and put the drone he purmeans if something does go wrong, like a chased last year into the air and take a closer food-borne illness, it can be traced back to look at those spots and make any necessary the place it started, allowing for an efficient adjustments. recall targeting only the products that came In the fall, he’ll plug the iPad into the in contact with the contamination. combine so it can track the yield as he harThese are just a few of the many ways vests. When harvest is complete, he can see farmers and ranchers are starting to implehow different seeds performed in different ment technology. As farmers like my dad soils, analyzing the impacts of fertilizer start using these new technologies, our food and other inputs, and make his plan for supply will become even safer, healthier and next year. more sustainable.

I never could’ve imagined my dad utilizing technology like this on the farm; it was hard enough to teach him to use his first smartphone. But it’s becoming standard operating procedure for farmers and ranchers across the country.

As technology has become more affordable, many farmers see it as a tool to help reduce inputs, increase yields and reduce runoff from fertilizers and other necessary chemicals. Technology can also decrease the time farmers spend on a task, allowing them to focus on other duties, of which there is no shortage on the farm.

There are many organizations supporting the development of this technology, especially from start-up companies in rural communities. One example is the American Farm Bureau’s Ag Innovation Challenge, which recently named Dana Mohr of HydroSide Systems Lot 119 • BD: 03/03/2019 • Reg No: 19604729 as Entrepreneur of the Year.

Sire: Gmar Active Duty • WW: 749 lbs.

HydroSide Systems developed a product that can be added to an existing wheel line which will autonomously move the line to irrigate the whole field.

Automating the wheel line’s movements means farmers save time and effort usually spent manually moving the line.

Other start-ups that were Lot 153 • BD: 03/28/2019 • Reg No: 19665544 featured in the Challenge Sire: Gmar Waylon • WW: 717 lbs. monitor swine herds in real time, use drones to spray specific areas in a field and reduce biomass waste.

By integrating data into decisions, farmers can increase their profit margins, which could make all the difference in this tight farm economy. Using drones to drastically reduce the amount of weed killer a Lot 11 • BD: 03/18/2019 • Reg No: 19604627 farmer must apply can save Sire: GS Tiger 328 • WW: 744 lbs. thousands of dollars and decrease the risk of run-off.

Implanting microchips into an animal’s ear can help specialize its diet, monitor its health and even save its life.

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DESI CHICKPEAS FOR SALE

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John Deere X728, only 40 hours, 27 hp, JD 45 loader & JD 647 rotary tiller included. Purchasing terms and delivery available.......................................... $13,500

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Lot 139 • BD: 03/01/2019 • Reg No: 19662681 Sire: MAR Long Distance • WW: 660 lbs.

Lot 1 • BD: 04/05/2019 • Reg No: 19604617 Sire: GS Tiger 328 • WW: 736 lbs.

Lot 93 • BD: 04/11/2019 • Reg No: 19604703 Sire: GS Bullseye • WW: 686 lbs.

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SAINFOIN SEED FOR SALE

Common, believed to be Old Isky. Good for pasture blends.

Phone (406) 473-2293

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BULL SALE April 30 • Glasgow Stockyards Sale starts at 1 p.m.

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YEARLING BULLS Thick – Meaty – Moderate Framed – Easy Calving A. I. Sires Represented

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Black Sires Leachman @ Last Trinity Accelerate Payweight 1682 H A Cowboy Up Pay Dirt

This herd has produced the top rate-of-gain steer 8 of the last 12 years at the NE Montana Fair.

“Breeding Simmentals since 1969”

Nelson Ranch

Don Nelson

Floyd Nelson, Jr.

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Montana Valley Irrigation opens new location Area growers can see the latest in Valley center pivot and linear equipment at the new Montana Valley Irrigation location in the Manchester industrial park at 1 Windmill View Loop, Great Falls MT 59404, beginning March 16.

“We are very excited to provide our community with a convenient location to fulfill all of their agricultural irrigation needs. We are committed to providing our customers the very best in parts and service, and feel confident that this new location will help us to do so,” said owner Chris Music.

As a family owned and operated Valley dealer, Montana Valley Irrigation offers growers the most reliable irrigation products, the industry’s best-trained service technicians, a dependable parts supply and knowledgeable agronomic support. We of-

fer a full line of parts for all types and brands of agricultural irrigation systems.

Valley products are manufactured by Valmont Irrigation, the leader in precision irrigation. Valmont introduced the very first center pivot irrigation unit. Among other Valmont “firsts” are corner arm units and computer control technology for center pivots and linears. Today, Valley products enhance food production while conserving and protecting natural resources in more than 100 countries.

Growers can obtain additional information about Valley Products from Montana Valley Irrigation by calling 406-761-8195, coming to our new shop at 1 Windmill View Loop, or by visiting www.montanavalleyirrigation.com

Timely snowpack recovery improves spring and summer streamflow forecasts

Montana NRCS News Release Following on the heels of January’s and volumes we experience during runoff abundant snowfall, February also delivered this year.” above normal to record-setting snowfall As the transition into spring continues, in mountain ranges supplying water to reweather patterns across Montana will gional rivers and streams. New records were change. Mountains west of the Divide set for February snowfall at seven mountain typically experience lower monthly snow SNOTEL (SNOwpack TELemetry) sites totals through spring. However, spring in southern and central Montana that were months can be significant to river basins favored by the unstable north-northwest east of the Divide. “Even though spring flow coming from Canada during the first starts on March 19, there is still typically a three weeks of the month. lot of winter left to come in the mountains, The recovery in snowpack was well and the juicy months are on the horizon for timed. “January and February snowfall some of our east of the Divide river basins. took the dismal snowpack totals reported on These months can make or break our spring January 1 along the Montana/Idaho border and summer streamflows,” said Zukiewicz. and improved snowpack to near to above Long-range forecasts issued by NOAA’s normal on March 1,” said Lucas Zukiewicz, Climate Prediction Center indicate better USDA Natural Resources Conservation than normal chances of above average temService water supply specialist for Montana. peratures across the state and near to below “This is great news for water users as we normal precipitation. “While we’ve got approach spring and summer.” Snowpack more water than we typically have stored totals in all river basins across Montana in the snowpack on March 1, I’ve learned are now near to above normal for March 1. from experience it’s never wise to assume At this point in the winter, around 75 to we will be in the same shape come May 1,” 85 percent of the seasonal peak snowpack said Zukiewicz. has typically accumulated at mountain loMonthly Water Supply Outlook Reports cations. This data gives forecasters clearer can be found at the website below after the insight into what the snowmelt may yield fifth business day of the month: https:// in seasonal water supply during spring and www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/mt/ summer. “Streamflow prospects for spring snow/ and summer look to be near to slightly above average at this time due to the healthy snowpack totals we have in the mountains,” Zukiewicz said. However, he warns that “future snowfall, spring precipitation and temperatures during the next three months will play a critical role in both the timing

Mini-grants available through GTA Program

From Montana Department of Agriculture The Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced mini-grant funding is now available through its Growth Through Agriculture (GTA) Program. All projects will need to demonstrate how they expand Montana agriculture, but given the current public health situation with COVID-19, special attention will be paid to projects that strengthen and expand local food offerings, distribution, and infrastructure.

“We’re excited to revive our mini-grant program, and now more than ever we need to invest in our food and ag companies,” said Director Ben Thomas. “In particular, we are hoping to see applications that will strengthen and diversify local food options in communities across Montana.”

To qualify for consideration, proposals must have practical, near-term relevance involving education, promotion, marketing, travel or other business-related expenses that will stimulate expanded agricultural development, economic activity, and employment growth. The maximum amount for any single application is $5,000 or $2,500 for education, promotion, marketing and travel projects. Eligible applicants include individuals, businesses and industry organizations, public and private agencies, educational institutions, and local governments.

Applications can be submitted through the Webgrants (https://funding.mt.gov/index.do) system. A review panel comprised of MDA staff with expertise in agricultural marketing and business development will begin evaluating applications on April 13, 2020. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until May 22, 2020.

For more information on the GTA Mini-Grant Program, eligibility requirements, application procedures and the award process, visit our website at: https://agr.mt.gov/GTA. The Montana Department of Agriculture’s mission is to protect producers and consumers, and to enhance and develop agriculture and allied industries. For more information on the Montana Department of Agriculture, visit agr.mt.gov.

Money management program by UW Extension

A financial management program offered by the University of Wyoming Extension that reached more than 33 social service organizations to enhance the skills of their clients has been recognized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The FDIC presented extension’s Master Money Manager Coach (M3C) program its Creative Money Smart for Adults User of the Year honor.

The program, which uses the Money Smart curriculum from FDIC, was created by a group of UW Extension’s community development educators.

“UW Extension always aims to help unlock opportunities for our clients and our communities,” said Cole Ehmke, extension personal financial management specialist. “We created M3C to train community organization staff members, including individual coaching, on how to teach money management to enhance the money management skills of their clientele.”

Project team members include Julie Daniels, Laramie County; Mary Martin, Teton County; Michelle Vigil, Campbell County; and Ehmke, Laramie. The M3C program was offered in Teton, Laramie, Campbell and Natrona counties.

Daniels said increasing the capacity of social service organizations to assist financially at-risk clients with money management exponentially increases the network of organizations and individuals available and willing to help individuals and families.

Ehmke said the CDE group found that engaging directly with organizations to get a sense of their needs, then providing a well-planned, hands-on training (that isn’t too long) increases their interest.

“Many nonprofits found a significant side benefit of our class was having a forum to network with like-minded agencies,” said Ehmke.

MC3 was funded by a grant to UW Extension from the Ellbogen Foundation in Wyoming. The foundation was founded by John P. Ellbogen to enhance the quality of life of Wyoming citizens.

“We wouldn’t have been able to offer the program without funding from the Ellbogen Foundation,” said Ehmke. “They recognized money management as an issue and provided the funds to deliver the trainings across Wyoming.”

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TRACTOR FOR SALE

1995 Ford 8630 tractor, with hay grapple, 121 hp, less than 6000 hours. In good condition. Used for haying and feeding livestock. Asking price.. ....................................... $35,000 or best offer Contact (406) 561-3110

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Williamson 10-ft. gravel box w/hoist. Complete, very clean - No Rust!

2007 International 4400 20-ft. refrigerated van body, will seperate, white 2006 Sterling SA tractor, green 2006 International 4300, 24-ft. all steel flatbed, hydraulic gate, 93,000 actual miles, white 2000 Great Dane 53-ft. reefer trailer 1995 Chevrolet 1 ton diesel pickup, consigned 1994 International 4900 tandem chassis, white

1992 Chevrolet Kodiak SA chassis, white 1991 GMC Top Kick Pepsi trucks!, 3 to choose from 1982 International SA dump, yellow 1982 Ford L8000 cement mixer, white 1979 Fruehauf 45-ft. reefer trailer, consigned 1973 International 1600 welder truck, consigned

Ali Arc elk catcher. Near new!

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(2) Omaha 16-ft. flat beds and hoists Wausau 10-ft. reversible snow plow assembly (3) wet kit assemblies 22-ft. all steel flat bed, like new National 300B truck mounted, crane (3) Heil 14-ft. gravel boxes and hoists Pacific 16-ft. all steel grain box and hoist, excellent shape (5) aluminum cab guards, various styles (9) aluminum under body tool boxes (3) underbody hoist assemblies

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VAIRA ESTATE Lambert, MT

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7 W Farms

Greg Woods (406) 399-0488 • Matthew Woods (406) 399-3640 P.O. Box 807 • (406) 292-3240 or 292-3233 (Shop) Inverness, Montana 59530 gwoods@itstriangle.com

7W Farms is now a Distributor for Parker hydraulic hose and fittings.

We can make any length of hose to meet your specific needs.

We are currently carrying 4000 psi hose only but can order whatever meets your needs.

We also have Certified and registered MSU Lanning Spring Wheat (Vida replacement) • Certified: $11.50/Bushel

• Registered: $16.00/Bushel

New varieties coming: Coming Fall 2020

Certified and Registered MSU’s “Four 0 Six” Winter Wheat Seed (Yellowstone replacement)

Coming Spring 2021:

MSU’s new “Buzz” barley seed (new malt variety bred from Hockett) Greg Woods: (406) 399-0488 - 7W Farms - Matthew Woods: (406) 399-3640

RPH IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT! RPH Irrigation Services Limited • PO Box 1201, 4056 HWY 89 Choteau, MT 59422 • PH: 406-466-2242 • FAX: 406-466-5242 Jordan Ratliff, Manager/Sales 406-799-4746

Service & Parts for All Makes, Models & Brands

Check your sump pump

By NDSU Extension Service A sump pump is the first line of defense for many homeowners to prevent water from seeping into the basement.

“Last spring, many sump pumps hadn’t run much in the previous years, but with snowmelt last spring and excess rain in the fall, they ran quite frequently and, in some houses, the sump pump has been running almost all winter,” says North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension agricultural engineer Tom Scherer. “However, before the snow starts melting this spring, homeowners should check their sump pump to make sure it works properly, and if it has been running a lot, have a backup ready in case it quits.

“Due to excess rain last fall, the soil is saturated, and as the snow starts melting, some water is sure to seep into the tile surrounding the house footings,” he adds.

Sump pumps are available in two basic models: upright (commonly called a pedestal) and submersible. Either works well with proper maintenance.

The pedestal pump’s motor usually is about a foot above the top of the sump and the pump is at the base, which sits on the bottom of the sump. The motor is not meant to get wet. A ball float connected by a rod to a switch near the motor turns the pump on and off.

“One advantage of this type of pump is that the on/off switch is visible without having to look into the sump,” says NDSU Extension agricultural engineer Ken Hellevang.

Submersible pumps are designed to be submerged in water and sit on the bottom of the sump. A float-activated switch controls the pump’s on/off operation.

The float moves according to the water level in the sump.

When the water in the sump rises to a certain level, the pump turns on, and when the water drops to a certain level, the pump turns off.

The float control mechanism can have different configurations, depending on the manufacturer. The on/off distance is adjustable on some models and not on others.

To check the pump’s operation, first make sure the discharge pipe on the outside of the house is not plugged and that it directs water away from the house. Alternatively, some cities allow the sump pump to discharge into the sanitary sewer before March 31 for a fee.

Make sure the pump is plugged in. Remove the lid (if the sump has one) and use a flashlight to check that the sump doesn’t contain any material that can plug the pump.

If the sump is dry, lift the float for about 10 seconds to see if the pump turns on and runs smoothly, then lower the float slowly.

Briefly running a pump when it’s dry will not do any damage.

If you have an electric backup pump, that can be checked the same way.

You also can check the pump’s operation by pouring water into the sump until the float turns the pump on. Try to simulate the speed that water normally would flow into the sump. Watch the on/off float operation and listen to the pump.

“Make sure the pump turns on and off at least twice,” Hellevang advises. “If the pump sounds like it is pumping gravel or the float is sluggish, then you may need a new pump or float.”

A common cause of pump failure is damaged or rusted bearings in the motor. Another common problem is the float switch doesn’t make good electrical contact and turns on slowly or not at all.

“If the homeowner is new and not familiar with sump pumps, now is a good time to call a licensed plumber,” Scherer says.

“The plumber can check to make sure the sump pump is ready for the spring thaw.”

Because of power outages or sump pump failure, many houses have additional protection in the form of an electric backup sump pump. This pump is installed in the same sump as the primary pump, but it only turns on if the primary pump fails. These pumps are battery-powered.

Battery maintenance is very important, the specialists say.

For more information, see the NDSU publication “Electric Backup Sump Pumps for Houses” (available online at https:// tinyurl.com/BackupSumpPumps-NDSU or from the NDSU Distribution Center at 701-231-7883), or contact the Extension office in your county.

Check out the video at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/flood/home/ sump-pump-tips for more information on sump pumps and the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQvjRFVtxo for information on electric backup sump pumps.

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Buying

Call Jim Filipowicz 1 800-334-5964

Automotive & Heavy Industrial Batteries

(406) 761-4848

After Hours (406) 791-6712

RAILROAD FLAT CARS For Bridges

TANK CARS

For Non Potable Water Storage

HOPPER BOTTOM CARS Great for grain storage

Fax (406) 791-6708

Steel Department & Salvage Yard Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Saturday

BLACK PIPE

USEABLE SALVAGE DIVISION • Limited Quantities

12” Standard Black & Galvanized Guard Rails

✗✗✗ Fencing Supplies ✗✗✗

Various sizes available – CALL

Round Tubing

Overseas Flats - 8’x40’

Great for corrals

Great for bridges

1 /4”, 1 /2” & 1 /4” O.D. 1

1

3

GALVANIZED STEEL GUARDRAIL POSTS - CALL

20-ft. & 24-ft. lengths

13-ft. 6” and 26-ft.

Lengths Available 20” Triple rib galvanized x 13-ft. 6”

USED SUCKER ROD: 3/4”, 7/8” & 1” 25-ft. lengths

Chicago Heights Steel Fence Posts – All made in America

51/2’ & 6’ T1.33#

Used 5-ft. Guard Rail Posts

CATTLE GUARDS

$500each 5” channel construction on bottom with 3” channel on top 10-, 12-, 14- & 16-ft. available

Overseas Containers For Sale 20-ft., 40-ft. & 48-ft.

Used Electric Motors & Boxes Round steel post caps 31/2” & 27/8”

New Red Brand and CF&I Class I Barb Wire ] Sucker Rod Hangers ] 16.5 CAL tie wire $4.95/Roll

NEW! SURPLUS STEEL TUBING

NEW 20-ft. Containers

Leather Gloves

Used Drill Pipe 2 /8”, 27/8”, 31/2” & 41/2” 3

WE SELL NEW & USED

Tubing • Pipe • Angle Iron • Plate

NEW STEEL plate & beams IN STOCK Call Adam, Joe, or Tanner

Call for Current Sizes!

(8) 2 left Hobart meat saws

• Stainless Steel Sheets • Flat Bar • Pipe • Angle • Sq. Tubing • Round Bar

#1 Railroad ties - $16 each

Sand & Slag Abrasives

7” Used Pipe good for corners and hanging gates

and Combines

We Buy Old Farm Tractors

FOR SCRAP

3/8” & 1/2” - 20-ft. lengths

#2 Railroad ties - $1000 each

New 12” - 30” Poly Culvert

Call for sizes

NEW Rebar

(1) Hobart mixer/ grinder

New 12” - 48” Steel Culvert

Misc. Used Steel Beams

In Stock

LAND ROLLER PIPE 42” & 60” Heavy Wall

HYSTER Electric Forklifts

6” and 8” New Domestic A53B well casing, 20-ft. lengths....

Call for pricing

Lifting Capacities 3000 - 4500 lbs.

2 - Lux spiral dough mixers

$4500 each 3 Available

WE BUY COPPER • BRASS • ALUMINUM • IRON TRADE SCRAP FOR CASH OR NEW MATERIAL

NEW STEEL, SALVAGE, AND RECYCLING ALL IN ONE LOCATION

GREAT FALLS 1408 52nd Street North • Great Falls, MT 59405 • (406) 761-4848

1-800-334-5964

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We’d appreciate it if you tell an advertiser you read his ad in the Trader’s Dispatch.

Montana made...

AM

Gernaat Land and Livestock for conservationist of the year From Pondera County Conservation District

Rod Weeder

Choose the 1” or 11/4” round, self-turning rod.

• Fits all cultivators • Easy to pull, saves fuel • No drive required.

• We build special applications for air drive • U-joint adapter for rocky conditions • Optional rod weeder transport bracket mounts on cultivator frame.

Remove one pin and you can set the rod in the transport bracket.

When rod is needed you can install in about 5 minutes.

Dealers for the A M Rodweeder, Quick Attach Brackets and Transport Brackets.

MONTANA DEALERS

Ben Taylor Farm Store ............................................Valier, 279-3365 Big Equipment........................................................ Havre, 265-9432 Churchill Equipment....................................... Manhattan, 282-7252 Frontline Ag Solutions.............................. Conrad, 1-877-278-5531 Frontline Ag Solutions............................ Choteau, 1-866-466-5741 Frontline Ag Solutions...........................Cut Bank, 1-800-273-5530 Gerbers of Montana Inc..................................Great Falls, 727-2203 Hoven Equipment Co.....................................Great Falls, 727-7153 Joyce Fuel & Feeds............................... Geraldine, 1-800-479-4561 Musselshell Valley Equipment ..............Roundup, 1-888-423-2605

Taylor’s True Value Farm Store................... Shelby, 1-888-220-5547 Tiber Tractor, Chester .........................................Chester, 759-5188 Torgerson, LLC..................................... Lewistown, 1-800-677-8795 Torgerson, LLC..........................................Hysham, (406) 342-5571 Zerbe Bros................................................Glasgow, 1-800-228-5393

WASHINGTON DEALERS

Ag Engineering...............................Kennewick, WA (509) 582-8900

A M Rod Weeders made by American Manufacturing Montana toll-free 1-800-345-2083 or 406-379-2676, Hogeland, MT

BUSINESS LIQUIDATION & DOWNSIZING

APRIL OR MAY, Plains, MT Due to current events please go to our website to check the status of all auctions. www.kevinhillauctions.com

EQUIPMENT / SHOP / OUTDOORS Miller Bobcat 225NT Welder/Generator, 8000W, w/Onan P216 Gas Engine Kubota Tractor L4300T, 4x4, w/ LB552 Loader Frame, Aux Hydraulics, Bobcat 61”Wx30”D Bucket Quick Coupler Attach.

Kubota Rototiller FL1521C, 66” Wide, 3Pt Mount Woods 60” Brush Hog Mower, 3Pt Bobcat 48” Loader Forks, QA Bobcat 60” Grapple Forks, Hydraulic, QA 2006 F250 Powerstroke Crew Cab Truck, Lariat Super Duty, 179k Miles 1998 Ford Work Van w/Bins & Ladder Rack, 261k Miles 1983 Haulmark Cargo Trailer Hydraulic Wood Splitter, Heavy Duty, 26” Stroke Hydraulic Post Driver Stanley PD45 28 Gal Weed Sprayer Setup, 10’ Folding Boom, 2GPM, 12VDC Pump Husqvarna Riding Lawn Mower YTH1842, B&S 1835HP, Gas, w/ Catcher Bale Spear Attachment w/2 - 2” Diameter x 36” Long Spears 2000 Polaris 500 Sportsman 4 Wheeler 2001 Polaris 400 Sportsman 4 Wheeler 100T Hydraulic Jack, Hollow Core, OTC-RH1003, 3” Stroke, 3/8” Inside Diameter, 10” High Retracted, w/Enerpac P-84 Hand Pump

SPORTING GOODS Most New In Boxes ~ Some Used Coghlans- Tableware Set, Candles, Power Pack, Tube Tent, Rentals Emergency Blankets, Matches, WIN. SXP Marine Defender 12 GA. Camp Heat, Fire Starters, Stove, 3” Pump Kitchen Supplies, Lights, Grill, Ruger LCP 380 Auto Pistol, 2.75” Roasting Forks & Rests, Mirrors, Barrel, Stainless Soap, Insect Hammocks, Saws, Sunglasses Much More…..

Ammo-.17HMR. 22 Hornet, .22, .410, 16, 20, & 12 GA., .40, 9mm, Coleman 3 & 4 Person Tents, Balls, Squirt Guns, Water & Board 10mm, .380, .38 Spec., 357, 6.5, Games 30-06, 270, 300 Savage, 300 Win Stanley Thermos, Bass Pro Eclipse Mag. Sleeping Bag, Sleeping Pads Lifetime Single Kayaks (2), Phoenix Browning Cast Iron 12” Dutch Oven 10.4 Kayak, LC 14’ +/- Raft Kit, Coleman Propane & Fuel Inflatable Paddleboards (2), 1 Person Kayaks (3), 2 Person Kayaks HOUSEHOLD / COLLECTIBLES (2) Tube Loungers, Floats, Chairs, Digital Cameras Gun Case, Briefcases, Suitcases Coolers, 17 +/- Life Jackets.

Nacqua Paddleboard light Kits, Antique Cabinet Maker Tools Paddleboard & Kayak Bags, Kay- Water Coolers, Cup Dispensers Gun Safe, Stronghold, 60”H x 30”W ak Stand & Locks x 24”D, 4 Shelves, 90 Min Air Pumps-Manual & Electric, Backpacks, T Shirts, Paddles, Neon Signs Digital Cameras Umbrella’s Raft & Kayak Paddles, Dry Bags, Gun Case, Briefcases, Suitcases Tarps, Snorkel Sets, Tackle Boxes Antique Cabinet Maker Tools Rod & Reel Combos, Reels, Rods, Water Coolers, Cup Dispensers Hard & Soft Baits, Kids Fishing Gun Safe, Stronghold, 60”H x 30”W x 24”D, 4 Shelves, 90 Min Combo’s Inflatable Repair Kits & Protectants, Neon Signs Dinner Bell, Bird Houses, SilverGoggles, Throw Bags, ware Set, Jumper Cables, Batteries, Lamps, Decks of Cards, Clocks, Very partial listing in all Pictures, Huckleberry Candles & Hand categories, please see Cream, Jewelry, website for photos and Stuffed Animals, Folding Metal complete inventory.

Chairs 40+/-, Chair Cart

Pictured in order from L-R. Bryce Gernaat, Clayton Gernaat, Julie Gernaat, Darryl Gernaat, and Bryce Johns PCCD Board Member

Gernaat Land and Livestock is being honored as our conservationist of the year for 2019. They have been a staple in the community for decades and have shown to us that they care about what they do and how they do it, in all aspects, not just conservation.

They have implemented all sorts of great techniques to enhance their place and environment, including grazing management to improve areas for their livestock and for wildlife as well. They have also included crop rotations with pulse crops for a soil benefit. They also have been improving livestock and range health using nutritional analysis. By also incorporating GPS and technology into their programs they have improved chemical and fertilizer efficiency. Thank you Gernaats

Build more effective monarch butterfly gardens

By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Installing gardens with milkweed and other flowering plants is a way for the public to help conserve the monarch butterfly, but University of Kentucky (UK) scientists have found not all gardens are equal when it comes to attracting them. A new study conducted by Adam Baker, UK doctoral student, and Daniel Potter, UK entomology professor, suggests that garden layout is important to making these socalled “Monarch Waystation” habitats more effective.

The monarch is a beloved, native butterfly whose population is declining due to habitat loss. Since the 1990s, eastern migratory populations have dropped by 80%. Scientists attribute the population decline to the loss of milkweed host plants due to agricultural practices and increasing urbanization. Baker and Potter showed in a previous study that the butterflies readily find and use small, urban gardens as steppingstones during their incredible cross-continental, annual migrations to Mexico.

“Numerous programs encourage citizens to establish gardens with milkweed and nectar plants to help offset habitat loss across the monarch’s breeding range,” Baker said. “Our recent findings suggest guidelines for garden design that can help make the urban sector’s contributions to monarch habitat restoration more rewarding for participants, and of greater potential value to monarch recovery.”

In the most recent study, Baker and Potter discovered that monarch eggs and larvae were 2.5 to 4 times more abundant in gardens with milkweeds planted around the perimeter as opposed to gardens in which milkweeds were surrounded by or intermixed with the other plants. They also found more eggs and larvae on milkweed plants in gardens that had 100 meters of north-south access unobstructed by buildings or other structures.

In a companion field study, the UK entomologists found female monarchs laid significantly more eggs on standalone milkweed plants as opposed to milkweeds that were visually “camouflaged” or physically blocked by adjacent non-host plants.

For the study, Baker monitored the presence of monarch eggs and larvae at 22 citizen-planted gardens in Central Kentucky and completed a field study of three different waystation layouts at UK’s Spindletop Research Farm.

The study was published in the open-access academic journal, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and is available as a free download at https://www.frontiersin.org/ articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00474/full.

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The best way to predict the future is to create it Roller

• Forward folding • 62-ft.

• 48” drum Buy or Lease to own $9952/yr - oac

• Forward folding • New unit • 62-ft. • 48” drum Buy or Lease to own $9602/yr - oac

NEW

Renegade

Call for Pricing Options

• Green • Roll tarp • Sight window • Hydraulic drive

Buy or Lease to own $4536/yr - oac

Chandler

NEW 12 Ton

(1) Open Slots (3) Open Slots Up to 100% of rental toward purchase!

Variable Tillage

Buy or Lease to own

$20,094/yr - oac

Rent...Lease...Purchase Pay yourself to spread!

ONLY $3.25/acre!

• Full GPS • Auto steer • Auto shift • Road at highway speed • 12 ton truck mount spreader

Buy or Lease to own $10,476/yr - oac

www.summersmfg.com • NEW unit • Built to last • 53-ft. • 3 section

Buy or Lease to own $9253/yr - oac

Used

www.summersmfg.com

Spray Fill Express Call for Pricing & Options

www.summersmfg.com

Ultimate Sprayer

Chandler

NEW 8 Ton

• Blue • Sight window • Roll tarp • Hydraulic drive

NEW

• ISO capability • PTO drive • 80-ft. spread pattern • Dual spinners • Stainless chain and floor

F6-62

F5-62

IN STOCK

www.summersmfg.com

NEW 8 Ton

RENTAL UNITS AVAILABLE

$3.00 per acre

• Hydraulic degree control • Rolling baskets • 36-ft.

• Adjustable variable tillage • Adjust gang angles • 30-ft. working width

Chandler

Roller Rentals

Roller Rental Return

• 1650 gallon tank • 90-ft.

• Agitation • Field ready

Ultimate Sprayer

www.summersmfg.com

Buy or Lease to own $9107/yr - oac

Seed Tender

Buy or Lease to own $4536/yr - oac

Chandler

Used 8 Ton

• White with red frame • Clean unit • Hydraulic drive

Buy or Lease to own $3127/yr - oac

Seed Tender

• 100-ft.

• Suspended boom

Buy or Lease to own $2839/yr - oac

12 ton truck mount fertilizer spreader

•Truck mount spreader • Auto steer • Prime-X tires • Dual spinners • New Chandler fertilizer box

Buy or Lease to own $32,645/yr - oac

• Green • LC390 • Conveyor • Remote control

Buy or Lease to own $6068/yr - oac

• Tan • LC390 • Conveyor • Remote control

Buy or Lease to own $6068/yr - oac

1-888-453-2924 3400 Old Havre Highway, Great Falls, MT

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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

2001 Case IH 2388 combine, 30-ft. 1010 header with pickup reel, grain tank extension, yield and moisture monitor, straw chopper, field ready, 2121 rotor hours, 2608 engine hours. Header trailer included.......................................................................................................... $42,000 2012 Titan 30-ft. tandem axle dually, 5th wheel trailer with beavertail, tool box and spare tire. ........................................................................................................................................ $8500 Case IH 1015 pickup header with Victory pickup attachment......................................... $4300 Westfield 13x61 grain auger with swing auger............................................................... $7300 Cattle squeeze chute..........................$750 3-point hitch cement mixer..................$500 Phone (406) 450-5359, Conrad, MT

Phone 216-3050

PROFESSIONAL Hand-Picked Quality & Selection

Done on All

2016 Ford F350

Regular cab, 8-ft. aluminum flatbed, includes gooseneck ball, 4 locking tool boxes, bumper pull receiver on backend with all the wiring, aluminum wheels, running boards, power seat, windows, locks and mirrors. Flatbed alone is worth $8500 installed.................................................. $26,999

2006 GMC 2500 HD

Extended cab, 4x4 with 9-ft. flatbed on it, 6.0 gas engine, automatic transmission, power seat, windows, locks, mirrors, 100,000 miles................................................... $12,999

2015 Ford F350 XLT

1-ton, crewcab, 4x4 with 8-ft. long bed, 6.2 liter gas engine, automatic transmission, aluminum wheels, FX4 Off Road package, power cloth seat, vinyl floor, 84,000 miles............ .......................................................................... $27,999

Vehicles!

5601 8th Ave. S Great Falls, MT

2010 Ford F250

Regular cab, 4x4 with only 40,000 miles on it. Also has brand new Ford crate motor with 3 year unlimited miles warranty on engine. Low, low miles................................. $19,999

2015 Ram 3500

Crewcab, 4x4 dually diesel, 9-ft. flatbed, 6 new tires, 6.7L Cummins, automatic transmission. Set to pull whatever you have..................................................................$34,999

2016 Ford F250 XL

Supercab, long box, 4x4 with brand new flatbed, 2 locking tool boxes, 6.2 liter gas with automatic transmission, XL trim so vinyl floor, cloth seats, power windows, lock and mirrors............................................................. $26,999

Due to the Coronavirus we are unsure of business hours. So if you have questions, or want to schedule an appointment, please call or text Brian on his cell phone: 406-868-4309 between 9 am - 6 pm. Thanks!

2015 Chevrolet 1 Ton

Double cab, 4x4 with 8-ft. long bed, 6.0 gas engine, 4.10 gear ratio, vinyl floor, cloth seats, power windows, locks & mirrors.................................................................... $23,999

2015 Chevrolet 2500 HD

Double cab, 4x4 with 6.0 gas engine, new tires, aluminum wheels, bed liner, vinyl floor, cloth seats, 8-ft. long box ....... ..........................................................................$22,999

Your Local ALiner Hard-Sided Pop-up Trailer Dealer!

New and Used available, light, low, and easy to tow! All models under 2000 lbs. and less than 90 seconds to set-up.

2015 Chevrolet 2500 HD

Double cab, 4x4 with 8-ft. long box, bed liner, running boards, vinyl floor, cloth seats, power windows, locks and mirrors, 4.10 gears, 6.0L gas with 6 speed automatic transmission................................................................... $22,999

2012 Ford F250

Regular cab, 4x4 with an 8-ft. long bed, 6.2 liter gas engine, automatic transmission, grill guard, 109,000 miles. Hard to find.................................................................... $14,999

2013 Ford F250

Supercab, 4x4, cab and chassis, 98,000 miles on 6.2 gas motor, new tires, perfect to use your own 8-ft. utility box, or flatbed, or bale bed........................................... $15,995

Visit our website at: www.a-plusauto.com

Barn quilt workshop

Karin Baker, whose home is near the little town of Dickey, North Dakota, enjoys rural life. And, she loves using art to make it more interesting. Barn quilts are one way she expresses this love. On June 6, in the banquet room of the Downtowner in Napoleon starting at 10 a.m., Karin will hold a workshop in which each participant will be provided with the materials and the guidance to create their own unique finished barn quilt, which they will take home. Karin notes that these quilts can be displayed in many ways, on homes, garages, driveways or even indoors. One doesn’t need a barn to participate. Barn quilts also make good gifts.

There is some evidence that barn quilts were used at farmsteads in pre-Civil War days to mark the locations of safe houses on the Underground Railroad. The modern versions, though, date to 2001, when Donna Sue Groves of Adams County, Ohio wanted to honor her mother by hanging a painted quilt on her barn. The idea seemed odd, but her friends encouraged her. Then, they expanded the idea.

Why not, they suggested, put quilts on barns along scenic byways of their rural area and encourage people to drive these routes as a form of recreation? And so, the first “barn quilt trail” was born.

The idea has been spreading. Nelson County (west of Grand Forks County) is home to North Dakota’s first and only barn quilt trail. North Dakota Tourism (www.bit.ly/ ndquilt) officially recognizes the trail. Though the trails are still uncommon, the website www.barnquiltinfo.com states individual barn quilts can now be found in every state as well as the provinces of Canada. That’s good progress for an art form that’s been around for less than two decades.

Karin’s mentor in barn quilting was Cynthia Buchholz from Bittersweet Barnquilt Company in Hutchinson, Minnesota. Karin learned fast. Karen says that making the quilts is relatively simple, once one understands the process. And as anyone who has ever handled a child’s kaleidoscope knows, the pattern possibilities are endless. Karin would like to see more people making and displaying this from of art. Karen notes that a 2-by-2 inch square is a reasonable size for a beginner who can go on to create a 4-by-4 or 8-by-8.

The workshop will be at the Downtowner banquet room in Napoleon on June 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This workshop is sponsored by Logan County Farmers Union and the TriCounty Tourism Alliance. Lunch will be provided.

Participant fee is $70 including all instruction and materials to make a lovely 2-by-2 quilt square painted on a board to take home the same day. To register for the event, send $35 payable to Karin Baker with “June 6, Barn Quilt Workshop” in the memo line to: Tri-County Tourism Alliance, PO Box 246, Napoleon, ND 58561. Only 20 participants will be accepted, and names will be placed on the participation list once their registration of $35 is received. The remaining $35 is payable the day of the event.

USDA sets easement application cutoff date

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service News Release The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Montana is accepting applications for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). While NRCS accepts easement applications on a continuous basis, applications for the next funding consideration must be submitted by April 17, 2020.

“Easements are sometimes a perfect fit for a landowner who is looking to protect his or her land from future development or to protect and improve wetlands or provide critical habitat for wildlife,” said Allen Persinger, NRCS assistant state conservationist for easement programs in Montana.

ACEP Agricultural Land Easements provide financial assistance to eligible partners for purchasing easements that project the agricultural use and conservation values of eligible land. In the case of working farms, the program helps farmers and ranchers keep their land in agriculture.

ACEP Wetlands Reserve Easements allow landowners to successfully restore, enhance and protect habitat for wildlife on their lands, reduce damage from flooding, recharge groundwater and provide outdoor recreational and educational opportunities. Eligible landowners can choose to enroll in a permanent or 30-year easement. Tribal landowners also have the option of enrolling in 30-year contracts.

To learn about ACEP and other technical and financial assistance available through NRCS, visit your local USDA Service Center or www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov.

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Big Sky Equipment Co. Service Corey Combs, 781-7678 cell Gary Brown, 788-9033 cell

Phone 406-278-3277 Sales Toll-free 1-800-332-7541 Kurt Christiaens, 450-3277 cell FAX 1-406-278-7882 Gary Brown, 788-9033 cell Conrad, Montana website: www.4newholland.com

GREAT VALUE ON ALL DRILLS IN STOCK

Parts After Hours/Weekends 450-6463

USED COMBINES

2014 New Holland CR8090, S3 small grain rotors, IntelliSteer, rock trap, yield and moisture............................... Just Traded

2009 John Deere 1830 60-ft. air drill with 1910 tow behind cart, 12” spacing, capped steel press wheels, single shoot, 350 bushel cart, variable rate......................................$74,500 2013 New Holland CR7090, low hours, ASP stone protection, yield & moisture........... .................................................. $228,900 New Holland TR75, Ford engine, hydro drive, good rubber, 960 22-ft. header with batt reel. Good machine for only....... $16,995

USED TRACTORS

2004 New Holland SD440 51-ft. air drill with 380 cart, 12” spacing, single shoot, blockage sensor......................................................................................................................$62,500

USED HAYING EQUIPMENT

2003 New Holland HW320 self-propelled windrower, 18-ft. sickle header. Very well maintained.................................. $44,900 New Holland 1116 self-propelled windrower, 16-ft. sickle header, rubber conditioner, gas engine..................................... $7900

MacDon A30 16-ft. swing tongue mower conditioner, rubber-on-rubber roller. Very good condition............................ $21,900 2009 Vermeer R2800 hay rake....... $19,900 New Holland 688 round baler, net/twine..... ...........................................................Call New Holland 688 round baler, net/twine..... ...........................................................Call New Holland 688 round baler, net/twine..... ...........................................................Call

SKID STEER LOADERS

We are carrying an excellent selection of skid steer loaders with great pricing available. Huge inventory of pallet forks and bale spears on hand, call today.

2012 Case IH Puma 170 with loader, auto-guide ready, NEW Alo Quicke loader. .................................................. $89,900 2005 Case IH DX40, ROPS, hydro, 84” mower, loader. Very clean, low hours.... ....................................................Just In 2016 New Holland Boomer 41, MFWD, cab, loader, hydro. Low hours.. $36,500 2015 New Holland Boomer 37, ROPS, hydro, loader. Low hours.......... $21,500 2017 New Holland Boomer 24, ROPS, hydro, loader. Very low hours.....Just In 2017 New Holland Boomer 24, ROPS, hydro, 60” mower, loader. Very low hours. ....................................................Just In 2001 New Holland TC35, MFWD, ROPS, hydrostatic transmission, 1 hydraulic outlet, loader...................... Just Traded

USED SPRAYERS

2014 Apache 1220 self-propelled, 100-ft. steel boom, Auto-Boom UltraGlide chemical eductor, Envizio Pro monitor, Ravan Smartrax.................................. $139,900 2012 Apache AS1020 self-propelled, Top-Con X20 with RTK, Auto-Steer, Auto-Boom, 100-ft. booms, 5 section control......................$159,900...............

PRICE REDUCED................... $129,900 2007 Apache 1010 self-propelled, 100-ft. steel booms, 1000 gallon tank.... $89,900

2009 Case IH 7088 combine, rock trap, chopper, yield/moisture............. $114,900 1990 Case IH 1660 combine....... Let’s Deal 2010 John Deere 9770 STS combine......... ............................................. Just Traded 2009 John Deere 9770 STS combine......... ............................................. Just Traded 2006 John Deere 9760 STS combine......... ............................................. Just Traded

NEW & USED HEADERS 2016 MacDon FD75 35-ft. flex draper, slow

speed transport.................... Just Traded 2012 MacDon FD70 35-ft. flex draper, slow speed transport.................... Just Traded 2014 MacDon D65 40-ft. draper header...... .................................................... $51,900 2014 MacDon D65 35-ft. draper header...... .................................................... $49,900 MacDon D60 45-ft. draper header with pickup reel, transport............................. $49,900 2011 MacDon D60S 35-ft. draper header, pickup reel, Case IH adapter (from 7088), gauge wheels, slow speed transport package.............................................. $44,900 2010 John Deere 635F 35-ft. flex draper, auger................................... Just Traded Case IH 1010-30 combine header, pickup reel.......................................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1010-25 header, pickup reel........... ............................................. Just Traded Case IH 1010 30-ft. header, batt reel, oilbath wobble drive................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1010 30-ft. header, batt reel, oilbath wobble drive................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 combine pickup header......... ................................................ Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 15-ft. pickup header, Victory attachment..................................... $6500 Case IH 1015-12 pickup header........ $4900 International 810-13 pickup header............ ................................................ Let’s Deal

USED BALE PROCESSORS

Bale King 880 bale processor........... $6900 Vermeer BPX7000 bale processor.... $7500

During the Governor's Stay at Home directive, we will now be keeping our doors closed but will continue to conduct business during regular hours. If you need any parts, please call and we will leave them outside. For any service needs please call. We know that this may cause some added inconvenience but we want to do our best to keep our community safe. Thank you!

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PICKUP FOR SALE

Call (406) 544-2035

2017 Chevrolet 3500HD dually crew cab, loaded, 6.6L Duramax, engine brake, auto start, electric windows/locks, spray-on clear bra, running boards, splash guards front and rear, tow mirrors, backup camera, DVD player, stereo, Bluetooth, gooseneck hitch and plug in, spray-in bedliner, Weather Tech floor mats, 18,000 miles.

Like brand new condition.......................$45,995

Trucks & Trailer For Sale

2007 Kenworth T800, Cummins diesel, 8LL transmission, 16,000 lb. front, 46,000 lb. double locking rearends, double frame............................................................................. $29,950

1997 Kenworth T800, 10-speed, 420 hp Cat, with 42-ft. TrailEze hydraulic tail trailer........................$26,000 (Will separate.)

Please call 406-855-4465

Utilizing starter fertilizer in grain sorghum

By Brent Bean, Ph.D., Sorghum Checkoff Director of Agronomy Reduced and no-till cropping systems have become increasingly important as growers recognize the benefits of these systems to soil health, sustainability, yield and profitability in many regions of the U.S. However, early in the season, increased surface residue results in cooler soil temperatures at planting leading to slower emergence and reduce root growth. This reduced root growth results in a lower rate of nutrient uptake reducing early season growth and plant health. The use of starter fertilizer at planting can help minimize the effect of cool temperatures.

Starter fertilizer can be applied in band over the row, in the seed furrow, below the seed, on the surface to the side of the row, or on the side but below the surface. In-seed furrow placement, often referred to as ‘pop-up’ placement, has been shown to increase early season growth, but any yield advantage to this treatment has been inconsistent. Part of the reason for this is that the rate of nitrogen placed in the seed furrow must be kept low, generally less than 8 lb/A, depending on soil type, to prevent injury to the germinating seed.

However, much higher rates can be applied when fertilizer is placed a small distance from the seed.

CLAY CREEK ANGUS PRIVATE TREATY 80 Two-Year-Old Bulls • 160 Yearling Bulls 60 Calving-Ease Heifer Bulls • 80 Replacement Heifers

Jim & Lori French 3334 Rd. 14 • Greybull, Wyoming 82426 • 307-762-3541 www.claycreek.net • bulls@claycreek.net

Sires represented include:

Coleman Charlo

Coleman Doc 2261

BW: -0.1 WW: +51 YW: +91 Milk: +26

BW: +0.2 WW: +62 YW: +101 Milk: +15

S A V Angus Valley 1867

S A V Renown 3439

BW: +0.6 WW: +52 YW: +99 Milk: +22

BW: +2.8 WW: +72 YW: +127 Milk: +21

HL Emulation Rito 6FX5

Vermilion & Connealy Spur

BW: -0.1 WW: +60 YW: +104 Milk: +14

BW: +3.3 WW: +70 YW: +119 Milk: +32

In a three year study conducted in Kansas, positive yield results were obtained by placing nitrogen and phosphorus either dribbled on the surface two inches from the row, or by injecting the fertilizer two inches to the side and two inches deep (Figure 1). All plots received a second application of N following planting to bring the total N in each plot to 140 lbs. A combination of both N and P were needed in the starter mix to maximize yield. Best yields were obtained with 30 lbs of N and 30 lbs of P applied two inches to the side and two inches deep. Both dribbling on the surface and injecting the fertilizer improved yields, but in all treatments, injecting provided the highest yield.

Another major benefit to the starter fertilizer application was the decrease in time it took the sorghum to reach maturity. Sorghum reached mid-bloom eight days faster in the 30x30 treatment compared to when no starter fertilizer was applied.

Decreasing the time it takes sorghum to reach physiological maturity can potentially make a big difference at the end of the season to avoid damage from an early freeze event.

In the Kansas study, grain sorghum reached 15 percent moisture 13 days earlier than the sorghum that received no starter fertilizer (Figure 2).

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Social distancing doesn’t have to mean further isolation for older adults

From University of Wyoming Extension Social distancing is a necessary precaution to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean communities can’t stay connected, especially with older adults, said a gerontologist with the University of Wyoming.

About 11.7 percent of Wyoming is above the age 65 and about one out of three of the state’s older adult residents live by themselves.

“Too much isolation was already an issue before the coronavirus situation developed,” said Bernard Steinman, in the Department of Family and Consumer Services. “We’re in a situation in which a group of people who are likely to live alone already have now been told not to leave the house.”

Isolation and loneliness have negative effects on people of all ages, but research shows it can cause higher rates of morbidity among older adults.

“But social distance doesn’t need to mean social isolation,” said Steinman.

Using video chat tools like Skype, Facetime and Zoom can help connect elders with their family and friends in a safe way, said Steinman.

While some elders might be hesitant to try new technology or have bad internet connections, Steinman also suggests calling others to see how they are doing.

Even arranging a time to visit them at their home and stay outside is a positive way to connect, comments Steinman.

“I’ve seen communities rally to find creative ways to include older people from greater than 6 feet, or even through glass,” said Steinman. One neighborhood created an email list-serv to arrange times when all could go out to their front porches for friendly chats at a distance.

Neighborhood groups are also popping up with the purpose of looking out for those who are at greater risk as well as mutual aid groups that match volunteers with needs.

“We don’t know where the situation is going, but I think it has united communities in wonderful ways,” said Steinman.

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MSU student seeks to create more equitable environments

By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service Whether it’s during morning commutes, timately problem solve everything, and that dog walks or Frisbee throwing in the park, we’re separate and exceptional in some way many people probably don’t think much beyond other living things,” said Britton. about the artistic elements of the environ“This is a way of saying we’re not. How could design change with this new sort of ments they move through each day. But one precept?”

Montana State University (MSU) student That question is the one Fiske hopes to hopes to change that. answer through a series of interviews and Through interdisciplinary research that interactive experiments that explore how applies art theory to landscape architecture, people respond to and interact with different Esben Fiske hopes to create landscapes and landscape designs. The research will begin environments that are more equitable for on the East Coast, where he will travel to both the humans who populate them and the examine structures designed for community, nature they interact with — that is to say, such as a new public park in Philadelphia ensuring that spaces are accessible for marsimilar to New York City’s High Line, which ginalized groups who may not have always transformed part of the New York rail line had that access. into an elevated park in 2009.

Fiske is a senior studying landscape de“Especially with posthumanist theory, the sign, an option within the environmental High Line has some problems because of horticulture program in the Department of gentrification,” said Fiske. “If you build this Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology in MSU’s grand park through a city, people are going College of Agriculture. His passions for both to flock to it, and then it will push out the art and ecology led him to pair that major very people it was intended for. I’m curious with one in art and a minor in art history from about, in Philadelphia, what their ideas are the School of Art in the College of Arts and for avoiding that.”

Architecture.

The other part of his research will be done In his research, Fiske approaches landat MSU. Fiske and Britton will create a series scape design from a slightly different angle of preference tests — a common practice in than most, using a theory called posthumanlandscape design — to gauge the reactions ism. Posthumanism stems from the humanof visitors to different hypothetical options ist school of thought, which focuses on the for landscaping a space between MSU’s value and agency of human subjects. In art, Plant Growth Center and School of Art on humanism is represented in the work of the campus. Some options will reflect traditional Italian Renaissance. landscape architecture styles with others in“Posthumanism is essentially based on the idea that humanism has been very much focorporating posthumanist theory and some combining the two. cused on the wealthy and dominant cultures” “I’m essentially seeking to find out if this he said. “People of color and people in lower art historical theory can be used in landscape socioeconomic classes weren’t previously architecture to better inform design that can included in the humanist definition of ‘hube more equitable and more sustainable enman,’ and their struggles haven’t necessarily been included when considering design and vironmentally,” said Fiske. planning.”

Applying art theory to landscape design On the other hand, landscape design has is a unique approach in a field that generally been dominated largely by the conception seeks only “improvements” to an environof humans as problem solvers and stewards, ment or space, said Britton. Fiske hopes to controlling and molding the environment encourage a different way of thinking about around them, according to Jennifer Britton, landscape architecture and design.

Fiske’s adviser and program director for “I think this theory is very much about landscape design at MSU. Fiske’s research, how we build equality into a landscape,” said she said, probes instead the idea that humans Britton. “Equality of environment and equalaren’t separate from the nature they inhabit, ity of people. And that’s valid even for rural that they exist as part of a holistic system.

Montana, not just urban areas. These are “The inherent concept is that we can ulideas that could definitely be extrapolated.”

The U.S. Marine Corp Eugene Sara Detachment booth was a popular booth at the MATE in Billings, Montana.

The detachment was sponsoring a raffle for a rifle during the event. Kevin Kuhlman and Tom Jones man the booth on this day.

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IRRIGATED FARM FOR RENT

360 acres, most under center pivot, mostly rock free cultivated land at Harlem, Montana. Additional pasture or building site is available. Possible rent-to-own is available.

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We welcome you to check out our 2020 offering of 28 yearling Charolais Bulls Please contact Ryan or Riley Knerr for more information Riley Knerr (406) 464-5211 M (406) 366-6788 Ryan Knerr (406) 464-2004 M (406) 301-4333

Trade Shows around Montana are a popular place for friends and neighbors to gather, and also for businesses to make personal contact with some potential customers. The GATE in Glendive, held February 14-15. TriCounty Implement was one of the businesses who had a booth for the event.

Montana grazing lands education and demonstration funding available

Montana NRCS News Release April 15, 2020. The current focus is on emergThe Montana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is accepting applications ing issues in grazing land management as well for mini-grants and demonstration projects. as topics that may assist the Natural Resources Demonstration project applications are due Conservation Service with delivering Montana April 15, 2020.

Focused Conservation.

The mini-grants will provide funding for Applications will be accepted from groups educational events throughout the year and of individuals, non-governmental organizasupport partners and organizations with an tions, and state or local units of government. interest in the conservation, education, and The Montana GLCI steering committee places awareness of grazing lands and natural respecial emphasis on cooperative efforts worksources in Montana. ing with partners. Individual projects will be Mini-grant funding requests are limited to considered only if the project provides broada minimum of $50 and a maximum of $1,000. scale, community-wide impacts and education.

There is no application deadline. Submissions Projects must be initiated in 2020. Funding will be considered year-round by the Montana will be allocated on an annual basis, which GLCI steering committee. is dependent upon the yearly Montana GLCI “The GLCI mini-grants and demonstrabudget allocation. Application submission does not guarantee project funding will be tion projects help organizations to both test available. All applicants must show a one-toand implement advanced resource solutions, one match for project costs. as well as educate Montanans young and old Get more information about both the miniabout those advancements and the value of our grant and demonstration project funding opgrazing lands,” said Kirt Walstad, Montana GLCI co-coordinator. portunities, including application requirements Demonstration project applications are due and forms, at www.mtglci.org.

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2014 Kaufman 24-ft. gooseneck flatbed, no ramps ...... $5500

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Maloney Angus & Simmental Turner, Montana

Registered Angus bulls for sale Private Treaty /2 and 3/4 brothers available High Growth Easy Calving Maternal Function Phone (406) 654-7115 1

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2020 AUCTION CALENDAR Saturday

May 30th

Cabin Fever Winchester & Western Collectibles Auction 10:00 a.m. • Trade Center • Lewistown, MT 50 Old Winchester lever ActiOn rifles including Models 1873, 1876, 1886 1892, 1894’s

Win 1894 Deluxe Win 1876 .45-75 Saturday

June 13th

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June 25th

Taildragger Farms, Inc. Farm Equipment Auction Timed Online-Only Auction - Ends 1:00 p.m., THURSDAY, JUNE 25th

Owners: Chet & Leesha Wolery, Turner, MT

Equipment will be located at Hogeland, MT. Check back for inspection dates.

2008 Case IH 535 Quadtrac • 2006 John Deere 9760 Combine • 2009 Honeybee 40’ Header • 2008 Flexicoil Air Cart 2008 Bourgault 5710 Series II Air Drill • 2001 E-Z Trail 710 Grain Cart • 2008 Kenworth T800 Tandem Truck w/pup Buhler 10 x 60 Swing Hopper Auger • 2007 GMC Duramax Crew Cab Pickup • 2003 Flexi-coil Field Cultivator

Please note: We have re-scheduled our March and April auctions to later this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please view our website and the Trader Dispatch for updates!

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Cancer screening can save your life

By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist, NDSU Extension “A box arrived for you this afternoon,” my husband said.

I was not expecting a box.

“Is it a small box or a big box?” I asked.

Maybe it was a late Christmas gift, I thought to myself.

“It’s a medium-sized box,” he replied.

I saw the box on the table inside our front door. I recognized the little cartoon character, which was shaped like a box with arms and legs. I had seen the box fly in and out of homes on TV. This was the colon cancer screening test my health-care provider had ordered for me because I’m of average risk for colon cancer. It did not have a Christmas bow on the box.

I checked the weight of the box: 3 pounds.

My husband had a clever quip when he saw my wide eyes at the size and weight of the box. You will have to ask him what he said because I can’t print it here.

OK, his remark had to do with the sample size they were expecting.

I opened the box and read the illustrated directions. I noted the test detects cancer and precancer using the DNA in a stool sample. In a clinical study of 10,000 people, the testing method detected 92% of cancer for those of average risk.

I continued to pack a suitcase to leave for a conference the next day. I decided to do the test when I returned.

Sometimes you can’t “decide” to do a colon cancer screening test; your body decides for you.

Our phone rang when I returned from my conference. I saw the call was coming from the screening test manufacturer, and I looked over at the box on the shelf. They were nudging me to get it done.

I answered the phone and was prompted by an automated voice that accepted voice responses.

“Yes” I received the kit. “Yes” I planned to do the test.

“No” I didn’t need help.

Were they planning to send someone over to help? Or would a virtual assistant pop up on my phone to guide me through the process? Fortunately, no.

I carefully followed the sampling directions. The manufacturer thought of everything to make this easy.

The kit included a sample collection device that reminded me of the plastic insert I had used years ago to train three toddlers how to use a toilet. To complete the test, you collect your sample, add the chemical stabilizer, seal the plastic container and immediately mail it back.

I received an email message from my provider a few days later. My heart was beating fast. Would they send me really bad news in an email? My life flashed before my eyes.

I figured they would call instead of email if the news was grim. I opened the message right away. Hooray! The results were negative. I wanted to dance a little jig around the house.

However, if the results of the cancer screening test had been positive, then I would be having more tests and, potentially, be placed on a treatment plan. Being aware of health issues can save your life.

Don’t die of embarrassment. I encourage people to do a colon cancer screening test and all other health screening tests recommended by your health-care provider. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. More than 90% of colorectal cancers occur in people age 50 and older. Screening should begin at age 45, according to the latest guidance.

About one-third of people are not up to date with their screenings. Are you among them?

Your provider might recommend a colonoscopy that allows the detection and removal of polyps. Or your provider may recommend an at-home stool test or another clinical test.

Be aware that colorectal cancer does not cause symptoms right away. If you have symptoms, such as blood in the stool, stomach pain that doesn’t go away or weight loss without a reason, make an appointment to see your health-care provider promptly.

We cannot change our genetic tendencies toward diseases, but we can take steps to reduce our risk for cancer and other diseases through exercise, proper nutrition, not smoking and regular medical care. We in nutrition recommend that your diet includes foods high in fiber such as beans and other legumes, vegetables, fruits and whole grains such as oatmeal and whole-wheat bread. See https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/food for more information about nutrition and fitness.

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Cancer screening can save your life

Advertising Deadline for the May 2020 issue of the Trader's Dispatch will be April 29th. Call (406) 271-5533 to place your ad.

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Here’s a tasty snack to make in a slow cooker. Oats are high in fiber, which promotes a healthy colon and a healthy heart.

Slow Cooker Honey Granola 4 c. old-fashioned oats, uncooked 6 Tbsp. honey 1/2 c. flax seeds 1 c. bran cereal 1 c. raisins 1/4 c. canola oil Pour all ingredients into a 6-quart slow cooker and mix well. Put the cover on a little bit askew and cook on low for about three hours, stirring occasionally. Let cool on parchment paper and store in an airtight container for one to two weeks.

Makes 24 servings. Each (1/4 cup) serving has 130 calories, 4 grams (g) fat, 3 g protein, 23 g carbohydrates, 2 g fiber and 10 milligrams sodium.

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Farm Land South of Chester, MT

North of Devon, MT Acres: 1986.39 acres total Grazing: 76 acres approx.

Cultivated: 1910.33 acres approx.

Asking: $2,100,000 Great opportunity to own a large portion of farm ground north of Devon, with a perfect view of the hills!

This property has a larger yard with several tree rows, grain bins, several outbuildings, quonsets and a well.

Great access in a proven good growing area.

Price: $704,000 Cultivated Acres: 640 acres total Approximately one section worth of productive farm ground located south east of Chester, off Buelow Rd. Great access to improved roads. The property has been farmed to allow any type of crop rotation. AGENT OWNED

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South of US HWY 2, Joplin Rd, Joplin, MT Cultivated Acres: 1,550 acres Total Acres: 1,600 acres Asking Price: $1,627,500 Easy access to road and highway, property has several reservoirs on it.

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Price: $1,210,671 Cultivated: 1120.8 acres Graze: 31.8 acres Total Acres: 1,153 acres Several sections of productive farm ground located 4 miles North East of Chester, off Laird Rd North.

Great access to improved roads.

The property has been farmed to allow any type of crop rotation.

Farm Land North of Chester, MT

Farm Land North of Chester, MT

Price: $640,000 Cultivated Acres: 640 acres total One section of productive farm ground located 6 miles North West of Chester, off Tiber Rd North.

Great access to improved roads.

The property has been farmed to allow any type of crop rotation.

Price Reduced: $208,000 Now: $192,000!

Acres: 160 acres CRP: 74.88 approx.

Crop Acres: 80 approx.

East of Laird Rd, North of Chester Crops planted in surrounding area: Winter and Spring Wheat, Peas, Mustard, Canola, Barley, Oats, Alfalfa and Chickpeas. *Prepped for Lentils right now.

Farm Land North of Lothair, MT

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Price: $850,000 Acres: 797 acres total Graze: 46 acres approx.

Fallow: 751.6 acres approx Great opportunity to own a section and a 1/4 of farm ground north of Lothair!

This property has a smaller yard with several tree rows, 6 grain bins, several outbuildings and a small reservoir.

Farm Land North & South of US Highway 2

Price: $317,000 Cultivated Acres: 317 acres Approximately 317 acres of prime farm ground right outside of Chester.

Located on the North and South side of Hwy 2, this farm ground has easy highway access. Currently 318 cultivated acres, property has long history of yield data and fertility. Has above average APH (actual production history) and would fit into any farmers pulse or grain rotation as no adverse chemicals have ever been used on it. Currently in Summer Fallow practice for 2019 crop, owner would sell with growing crop. AGENT OWNED!

Farm Land Liberty County, MT

Price: $850,000 Acres: 680 total acres Cultivated acres: 660 approx.

Grazing acres: 20 approx.

Crops planted in area: Winter and Spring Wheat, Peas, Lentils, Mustard, Canola, Barley, Oats, Alfalfa and Chickpeas.

Great opportunity to own a piece of Black Coulee area farm land. This acreage sits conveniently 12 miles south of Joplin, on the west side of the Joplin road. This is a great parcel if you’re looking to increase current production or purchase as an investment property.The county has a total area of 1,458 square miles. 97% of Liberty County’s economy is supported by agriculture. Rich soil provides nourishment for vast fields of wheat, barley and pulse crops.

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Black blister beetle

Ash-grey blister beetle

Lately, there has been a fair amount of coverage on blister beetle toxicity to horses.

What should Wyoming hay producers know about blister beetles? Are there any management options for blister beetles in Wyoming hay?

Blister beetle is the common name given to members of a family of insects native to the United States that contain the chemical cantharidin as defense against predators.

There are more than 300 species of blister beetles in the United States. Many blister beetle species can be found feeding on the leaves and flowers on alfalfa, beans, potatoes, and various horticultural plants.

However, the black, ash-gray, and spotted blister are the most common species found in Wyoming’s alfalfa fields. The major concern is when mating swarms of blister beetles contaminate alfalfa hay during harvest. Cantharidiasis or blister beetle poisoning, from eating contaminated hay is reported most often in horses. However, sheep and cattle can be affected as well.

Adult blister beetles of the problematic species are slender, soft bodied beetles with fairly long legs that measure approximately 1/2 inch in length. The head, thorax, and abdomen are clearly visible. Adults of the pest species emerge in late spring to early summer and are most active during the summer months. Typically, first cutting hay in Wyoming escapes blister beetle infestations because their peak swarming activity occurs later in the growing season. This is because the larvae of the pest species, that mate and feed on blooming alfalfa, must find grasshopper eggs pods to develop in and grasshopper egg pod numbers increase through the summer months.

Blister beetle populations usually increase within areas that had high grasshopper populations the year prior because their larvae found more grasshopper eggs to survive on. High grasshopper populations in or around a producer’s alfalfa field, even on native rangelands, can indicate to a hay producer to be on the lookout for blister beetles the following growing season.

USDA grasshopper surveys can be found at the following website: https://www.ars. usda.gov/plains-area/sidney-mt/northernplains-agricultural-research-laboratory/ pest-management-research/pmru-docs/ grasshoppers-their-biology-identificationand-management/outbreak-information/ Toxicity levels of blister beetles vary

among the different species. The most toxic blister beetle that contaminates alfalfa is the threestriped species, (Epicauta occidentalis), just 120 of this species of beetle is required to cause mortality to an 800 pound horse. In comparison, the black blister beetle requires an estimated 1,700 beetles to cause mortality to that same size horse. Luckily, the threestriped beetle has not yet been documented as being present in Wyoming. The black blister beetle is the most commonly found in the state. The spotted blister beetle being the most toxic of the three species common to Wyoming, requiring an estimated 520 beetles to cause mortality to an 800 pound horse.

So, what can a producer do if they have blister beetles in their alfalfa field?

The best management is to avoid trapping or crushing of blister beetles during hay harvest. The risk of including blister beetles in your hay can be reduced in two ways. The first way would be harvesting alfalfa hay prior to bloom because, blister beetles swarm into fields to feed on the blossoms. The second way would be to harvest the hay with equipment that does not have a hay conditioner, such as an old sickle bar mower, or disengaging the conditioner on your swather. Crushing the beetles will contaminate the hay with the bodily fluids which contain the toxin, even if the beetle carcass does not remain in the bale. This method cuts the hay without crushing or injuring the beetles, allowing them to crawl away and leave the windrow as it dries down prior to baling. Both methods can be combined to achieve the highest mitigation of blister beetle contamination.

There are labeled insecticides that are effective at controlling blister beetles, however this is usually not the most effective management strategy. This is especially true with insecticides that have long pre-harvest intervals. This interval is the amount of time required between application of the insecticide and the harvesting of the crop and is usually measured in days. More of the alfalfa will come into bloom and new populations of blister beetles can re-infest the field during the pre-harvest interval negating the insecticide control.

This next hay season keep an eye out for high populations of blister beetles within alfalfa hay fields prior to and during harvest.

Contact your local Weed and Pest Office or University of Wyoming Extension Office for assistance identifying blister beetles.

Remainder of Great Falls hunter education course canceled

FWP News Release For the latest information on COVID-19, Due to health concerns for students and please visit the Governor’s Coronavirus volunteers, Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) Task Force website at COVID19.mt.gov or is cancelling the remainder of the current the Montana Department of Public Health hunter education course taking place at and Human Services website at www.dphhs.

North Middle School in Great Falls. mt.gov.

The Great Falls Public School District For more information about hunter and on Friday announced they are not allowing bowhunter education classes and schedules, large outside groups to use school buildings. please contact your regional FWP office.

FWP will mail the students’ certificates of completion.

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Ophus Auction Company invites you to the

Roger Fowler Inc. Estate Auction Saturday, May, 2 , 2020 nd

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MST PLEASERegister Registerearly earlyonline. online. The MST TRUCKS

TRACTORS

2012 John Deere 2320 MFWD utility tractor, 24 Hp 3 Cyl. Yanmar diesel, Hydro, ROPS, 4X4, only 107 Hr. serial Num. 1LV2320HCBH710548, sells with a JD 200CX loader with 4.5 bucket, a 48 inch 3 Pt. roto-tiller and a JD 54 inch snow blower.

2011 Case IH 535 Quadtrac, Cab air heat radio, 535 Hp, 16 speed power shift, 30 inch tracks, 4 Hyd., AFS Accu Guide, Pro 600 monitor, Diff.

Lock, Luxury cab, 2,993 Hr. Serial Number ZAF122942.

• 197? Steiger Cougar I cab air heat, Cat 333 Turbo, 10 Speed Trans, 23.1-34 duals are poor, Hr. unknown.

• Massy Ferguson 204 utility tractor, 4 Cyl. gas, 4 speed Hydro, 3 Pt., PTO, loader with 4 Ft. bucket Serial Num. A340243.

1994 Ford 9030 bidirectional, cab air heat, 3 PT, PTO, on loader end, loader with 8 Ft. bucket, pallet forks, 4,791 Hr. serial Num. D 200137 loader is in good shape.

• 1963 John Deere 4010 tractor, cab, 8 speed Trans, PTO, unknown Hr. serial Num. 49083 1970 John Deere 4020 tractor, cab, 8 speed power shift, PTO, new front Hyd. pump, The Hyd. pump in the Transmission is out so it doesn’t shift or drive.

1977 Chevy C-70 tandem twin axle truck, 3208 Cat diesel, Allison automatic, 19 Ft. ITB aluminum box 127,550 miles.

• 1974 Ford F-600 single axle truck, V-8, 4&2 speed, 16 Ft. box & hoist.

• 1973 Ford F-600 single axle truck, V-8, 4&2 speed, 16 Ft. box & hoist, 51,503 miles.

SHOP TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

1935 Ford model 85 truck, V-8 engine, 4 speed 12 Ft. box & hoist; stored inside and looks good.

• 1969 Ford F-600 Single axle truck, V-8, 4&2 speed, 14.5 Ft. box & hoist, hood is smashed.

• 1966 Ford F-600 single axle truck, V-8, 4&2 speed, 12 Ft. box & hoist, front winch.

GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT

WOOD WORKING • Powermatic 10 inch table saw with Accu-fence.

• Dust collector.

• Delta 43-431 single spindle shaper.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 1985 Steiger Panther CM325, cab air heat, Cat 3406, 20 speed Trans, 24.5-32 duals in poor condition, 5,814 Hr. Serial Num. 123-06028.

EVERYTHING ELSE • 17 Ft homemade 3 axle bumper pull trailer.

• 8 -12 Ft. mud leg portable panels.

• 1974 Oldsmobile Tornado car, green color, 117,275 miles, 455 4 barrel engine.

• Ford 6 Ft. 3 Point mower.

• 2004 Bombardier 4X4 Rotax 500 ATV. • 1985 Yamaha Moto 4 ATV shows 111 miles.

• John Deere X300 lawn tractor, 18 Hp, Hydro, 42 inch deck, only 95.6 Hr. • Walk behind concrete saw.

• Approximately 11,750 Gal. horizontal fuel tank.

Auctioneers Note:

This maybe the first virtual farm machinery auction held in the state of MT. To keep all of our staff and all of our customers’ sellers & buyers safe we are holding this auction Virtual. The only way to bid and buy at this auction is to register online with Equipmentfacts.com Do not wait until the date of the auction to register. REGISTER EARLY! You will hear the auctioneer on your computer smart phone or tablet as the bids are called. There will be pickup and loadout on May 4th and May 6th. - Shane

Hitachi model UH 07-3 excavator, 32 inch tracks, 36 inch and a 60 inch ditch cleaning buckets, unknown Hr. MFG. Num. 164-10512.

1993 Komatsu WA 380-1 articulated frontend loader, cab, 196 Hp, 3.4 Yard 9.5 Ft. wide bucket, 23.5-25 tires 11,690 Hr. sells with JRB pallet forks 64 inch long forks can go 6 Ft. wide, Serial Num. A 45179.

• 4 barrel oil dispenser.

• LeBland Regal metal lathe, 4 Ft. long, 13 inch swing, 3 & 4 jaw Chucks, steady rest.

• Set of Morris taper drill bits.

• Roll around tool box & tools.

• Miller Matic 200 wire welder.

• Thermal Dynamics Econo Pak 50 plasma cutter & cart.

• Oxygen Acetylene torch & cart.

• Gates Hyd hose machine & few fittings.

• Dayton drill press.

• Apollo metal band saw.

• Parts washer.

• Several anvils.

• Milwaukee Magnetic base drill press, & 12 new bits.

• Hyd. gear gear puller set.

• 2 - floor jacks Parts washer.

Brandt 4500 grain vac.

• 2013 Brandt 10X70 swing out auger.

• Walinga 510 grain vac.

• Wheatheart Hyd bin sweep & Honda GX 390 Hyd. unit.

• Farm King 10X70 mechanical swingout auger.

Superior disk grain cleaner with 2 universal elevator legs and screener mounted on a homemade 5th wheel trailer with tandem 7,000 # axles.

• Brandt 8X35 auger 7.5 Hp electric motor.

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Auction 10 a.m.

TRUCK SPRAYER

Genie S-40 Upright MX 19 scissor lift, battery powered, 19 Ft. lift height, 500 # capacity slide out platform.

• 1976 TT Inc. 50 ton lowboy, triple axle with 10.00R15 duals, 16 Ft. well, 96 inch wide, 38 Ft total length.

• Allis Chalmers HD-9 crawler tractor, Garwood hard nose 12 Ft. Hyd. dozer manual angle, runs well.

• 20 Yard Letourneau scraper converted to Hyd. • Ditch Witch R-30 4X4 trencher, 8 Ft. stinger, 4 Cyl. Wisconsin air cooled engine, shows 779 Hr. Serial Num. 340174.

2003 IH7400 Work Star truck, air heat radio, DT 466 diesel, 6 speed auto Trans with 2 speed gear box, 80,989 miles, high rise front axle, Trimble auto steer with a CFX 750 monitor, Raven SCS 450 auto rate controller, mounted with a 2012 Spray Flex 110 Ft. Field Star mid mount boom sprayer, 1,500 Gal, 385/85R34MPT front tires, 650/65R-38 rear tires, triple nozzles.

Allis-Chalmers AD-40 road grader, cab, 4 Cyl. GM diesel, 6 new tires, 14 Ft. blade, scarifier with no teeth, serial Num.AD40-1155 runs well.

2002 Genie S-40 self-propelled 4X4 telescopic boom lift, dual fuel 500# capacity, serial Num. S40-6225.

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SEEDING & TILLAGE

John Deere 1830 60 FT. air drill, single shoot, 10 inch spacing rubber capped packers with mud scrapers and rock guards, Serial Num. 1A81830XEBH740258 sells with a John Deere 1910 tow behind seed cart, 150 - 200 bushel split tank, 28L-26 rear rice tires, 21.5-16 front tires Serial Num. 1A811910HJBF740483 Total Acres 39,382.

• 45 Ft. Krause model 2100 • 48 Ft. Melro chisel plow, tandem rock flex disk, 18 inch 5 section, Degelman 3 bar front disks, 21 inch rear disks, mounted harrows, wing lift 2 new tires.

Cyl. missing.

• 45 Ft. Gysler chisel plow, 3 section, • Older 13 Ft. disk.

70 Ft. Degelman Strawmaster 7000 heavy harrow, 5 bar harrows, 9/16 teeth 23 inch long with weld on carbide tips Serial Num. 4746 very nice shape.

Hyd wing lift.

• 58 Ft. John Deere 1650 chisel plow, 5 section, 1 ¼ inch shanks, dead rod.

• Graham 10 Ft. chisel plow.

OPHUS AUCTION COMPANY

Shane & Gwen Ophus, Owners • Shane, Blaine & Taylor, Auctioneers • Mason Ophus , Clerk FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL SHANE @ (406) 788-6662

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USED AIR DRILLS & CART

2005 New Holland SD440 58-ft., 12” spacing, 550# trips, 51/2” rubber packers, 4350 tow between cart, double shoot. #UDNH25.........................$89,000 2004 New Holland SD440 57-ft., 10” spacing, 41/2” steel packers, double shoot, stealth openers with SC430 tow between air cart, 30.5x32 tires, mechanical drive...................................... Just In 2005 Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. drill, 12” spacing, 550 lb. trips, 51/2” rubber packers, single shoot, dual wing castors, with 2340 tow between air cart, mechanical drive. UDF259...................................$45,000 2003 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft., 9” spacing, 550 lb trips, 31/2” steel packers, single shoot with steath bodies, 3450 tow between air cart, dual fan, variable drive, 30.5x32 tires. #UDF254..........................$65,000 1999 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft., 12” spacing, double shoot, 4” VW spread, Goose shooter, 2340 tow between, variable rate drive, 5.5” rubber packers. #UDF244............................................... $50,000

2012 Seed Hawk 8412 air drill with 800 tow behind cart, section control, conveyor, single side band openers, ViperPro................................... Just In! 2014 New Holland P1060 air cart, tow between, variable rate, dual 18.4x38 tires, 430 bushel, dual fan, “Deluxe” auger system...................... Just In

USED SELF PROPELLED SPRAYERS

2013 New Holland S1070 suspended boom sprayer, 100-ft., 1600 gallon, 380/90R46 tires, screens, rinse with wand wash............ $25,500 2012 New Holland S1070 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1600 gallon, windscreens, 46” tires, rinse tank with wash............................ $35,000 2009 New Holland S1070 100-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1600 gallon tank, 46” tires, rinse tank with wash, with auto boom................... $13,000 2006 New Holland SF115 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1500 gallon, SP655 auto rate..$20,000 2006 New Holland SF115 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1500 gallon, 14.9R46 tires, SP655 control, rinse tank w/wash, windscrews..$6000

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USED SKIDSTEER

2015 New Holland L218 skidsteer, 60 HP diesel, cab with heater, hydraulic quick coupler, block heater, 237 hours. #USNH72..........$29,500

2008 Apache AS1010 1949 hours, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon, Envisio Pro monitor, Auto steer, AutoBoom, 215 hp Cummins diesel. #USAP30.......$105,000

USED PULL TYPE & SUSPENDED BOOM SPRAYERS

1998 Flexi-Coil System 67XLT twin tank, 130-ft., foam marker, hydraulic unfold, air inductor tips. #USF139....................................................$3500 2004 New Holland SF115 134-ft., 1500 gallon wheel boom, 18.4x26 tires, HMIC pump, FlexControl, dual nozzles, windscreen. #USNH00......$20,000

USED COMBINES

2004 Gleaner R65 Cummins engine, 973 MacDon 36-ft. draper header with pickup reel and transport. #UCAG20.............................................. $88,000 1992 Gleaner R72 8.3 Cummins conversion, 260 hp, 600 hours on new engine, 2667 separator hours. ............................................................... $19,000 1993 New Holland TR96 combine with twin rotor, SN 554419, 3109 engine hours, well maintained, annual service repairs, 30-ft. 971 auger head. #UCNH28.............................................. $15,000

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2013 New Holland SP240FXP Guardian front boom, 275 hp Cummins, 100 ft., 1200 gallon tank, deluxe cab, 985 hours, Auto Steer/Auto Boom/Accu Boom. #USNH62...................................$219,000

USED HEADERS

2013 Case IH 2152 (MacDon) 45-ft. draper header, double knife, transport package, cross auger. #UHCA20................................................$49,000 2007 Honey Bee 94C 40-ft. draper header, pickup reel, CR New Holland adapter with gauge wheels and transport. #UCNH87........................$19,000 2016 MacDon FD75 45-ft. flex draper, transport, cross auger, double knife, AWS air bar & finger reel with JD adapter. #UHMD51............................$69,000 2013 MacDon FD75 45-ft., trailer package, cross augers, double knives, gauge wheels, flex drapers, Case New Holland adapters...................$61,000 2012 MacDon FD70 45-ft., flex draper, double knife, finger reel, cross auger, transport...........$54,000 2005 MacDon 973 39-ft. draper transport package, upper cross auger, finger reel, gauge wheels, JD adaptor. #UCM044..................................$19,000 New Holland 94C 42-ft. draper header, finger reel and transport with cross augers, fits NHCR. #UCNH93................................................$10,500

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NEW TRACTORS WITH LOADERS - IN STOCK

1981 New Holland 1037 balewagon, 540 PTO drive, 104 bale capacity, 3 wide 7 high, 11Lx15 tires..... ...................................................................$8000

New Holland Workmaster 25S New Holland Workmaster 40 New Holland Powerstar 75 New Holland T6.175 USED TRACTORS

2009 Case IH 535 Steiger 4WD, hi-cap hydraulics, 3300 hours, luxury cab, 5 hydraulics, HID lights, Pro 600 monitor, AutoSteer, 520/85R46 triples... ..............................................................$159,000

John Deere 714A forage wagon, 540 PTO drive, 11Lx15” tires, LH discharge.......................$3000 1951 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor, 540 PTO with loader.........................................................$2500

2003 Case IH MXM175 MFD, 46” rear duals, 540/100 PTO’s, 3 pt hitch, Powershift, 7400 hours, loader, bucket & grapple fork..............................$45,000

CONSIGNMENTS

2012 Apache AS1220 sprayer, 1430 hours, 250 hp Cummins, 6 speed PowerShift, 100-ft. boom, 1200 gallon tank, Viper Pro, 10 section, rear duals, AutoSteer, AccuBoom, AutoBoom........$135,000 2006 New Holland SF115 sprayer, 120-ft. boom, 1500 gallon tank, EZ-Guide 500 with 10 valve section control and auto steer included...............$16,500 2004 New Holland SF115 134-ft. sprayer, 1500 gallon, 18.4x26 tires, HMIC pump, Flexi-Control Auto Rate, dual nozzles, windscreens.............$12,000 2008 Case IH ATX700 70-ft. air drill, 12” spacing, 550 lb trips, 5.5” rubber packers, single shoot, Stealth body with 4” Dutch spread tip, all run blockage, ADX3430 tow behind air cart, 430 bushel, duals, variable rate drive...................................$66,000 1996 Flexi-Coil 5000 33-ft. air drill with 1720 tow between, 9” spacing, stealth boots, goose shooters, 31/2” steel packers.............................$23,000

2007 Brent 7 shank ripper w/rear disc.........$15,000

1996 Wishek 842T disc, 23”, 24-ft., w/3 bar gates harrows...................................................$35,000

1980 Friggstad 53-ft. cultivator, new knock-on sweeps, with harrows..............................$13,000

USED ROUND BALERS

1999 Hesston 856T 5x6 bales, 75” wide pickup, bale kicker. #UHHS43........................................ $8500 2012 New Holland BR7090 twine & net wrap, wide pickup, 1000 PTO drive, new belts, rebuilt pickup, float tires, approx. 12,000 bales.............. $28,000 2005 New Holland BR780 twine & net wrap, 1000 PTO drive, x-tra sweep pickup, Bale Command monitor......................................................10,500 1994 Vermeer 605K round baler, 1000 PTO. #UHVM33.................................................. $5500

2000 Cat Challenger 85E 375 hp, 11.9 liter, 10 speed, Powershift, 6950 hours...........................$65,000

2011 New Holland P2050 58-ft. hoe drill, 10” spacing, double shoot, Stealth openers w/ Goose shooters, w/P1060 430 bushel TBT air cart, dual fan, variable rate, 10” auger, duals................$90,000

MISC. HAY EQUIPMENT

2013 Seed Hawk 8412 drill, double shoot, side band openers, w/800 TBH cart, conveyor, section control, Viper control...................................$239,000

2013 Bale King 5100 round bale processor, hydraulic chute. #UHBK03.....................................$11,000 2016 Haybuster 2660 knobby float tires, hydraulic chute, 1000 PTO.....................................$17,500

Bale Processors

1967 John Deere 4020 tractor, cab, 9991 hours, Powershift, 540/1000 PTO’s, no 3-pt., 2 remotes ith JD 148 loader & bucket......................$11,000 1961 John Deere 3010 tractor, 60 hp gas, 540 PTO, 3 point hitch, w/John Deere 46 loader, 5-ft. bucket. ...................................................................$5500 2008 New Holland T7050 MFD, 2600 hours, 165 PTO hp, 18.4R42 rear duals, 19x6 Powershift, 3-pt. hitch, 540/1000 PTO’s.....................$72,500

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2014 New Holland H7150 pivot tongue, 1000 PTO pump drive, 31x13.50-15 tires, (pivot only)..$7500 2013 Farm King sickle mower, 3 pt mount, 9-ft., 540 PTO drive w/skid shoes.............................$4500 2016 New Holland 366 belly mower, 66”, mid PTO drive, came off 37 Boomer tractor..............$2800 2017 Premier H015 post digger, 2” hex drive, w/12” heavy duty auger, skid steer mount...........$2500 2002 John Deere 9650STS combine, 2925 separator hours, 800/65R32 tires, chopper with 936D header....................................................$65,000 2009 New Holland 88C flex draper header, 36-ft., upper cross auger, transport, finger reel..$25,000

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Beef production, at 2.39 billion pounds, was 3 percent above the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.90 million head, up 2 percent from January 2019. The average live weight was up 12 pounds from the previous year, at 1,375 pounds.

Veal production totaled 6.4 million pounds, 2 percent below January a year ago. Calf slaughter totaled 50,000 head, 7 percent below January 2019. The average live weight was up 11 pounds from last year, at 224 pounds.

Pork production totaled 2.55 billion pounds, 8 percent above the previous year. Hog slaughter totaled 11.8 million head, 7 percent above January 2019. The average live weight was up 2 pounds from the previous year, at 290 pounds.

Lamb and mutton production, at 11.9 million pounds, was 5 percent below January 2019. Sheep slaughter totaled 182,200 head, 3 percent below last year. The average live weight was 130 pounds, down 4 pounds from January a year ago.

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Archaeologists partner with businesses to uncover forgotten past

From UM News Service Historic maps reveal an area that contained Archaeology students and researchers Chinese dwellings and stores, as well as a at the University of Montana (UM) have hardware store, saloons, boarding houses discovered artifacts in downtown Missoula and “female boarding” houses. that illuminate the lives of people from While infamous Missoula madam Mary more than a century ago.

Gleim owned multistory brothels along The finds were made during construction the south side of West Front Street, lesser for a new brewery and pub on the 200 block known women with fewer economic opporof West Main Street. UM alumni Jed and tunities worked in the cramped, tiny cribs Jennifer Heggen, owners of the soon-tothat lined the north side of West Front, a open Cranky Sam Public House, partnered detail of the area’s land-use history that the last summer with a team that included UM UM team immediately recognized. archaeology graduate students Nikki Man“We are incredibly grateful to Biga ownning and Kate Kolwicz. They salvaged artier Bob Marshall, as well as the Heggens, for facts uncovered during construction work. their sincere stewardship and support of the The Heggens had unexpectedly found research programs that are blossoming as themselves atop a major archaeological site a result of these materials,” Dixon said. “I that was in the heart of Missoula’s red-light know it is important to the business owners district and Chinese community from about and our research team to avoid sensational1880 to the early 1920s. Red-light districts izing the artifacts or using them to perpetuand “Chinatowns” were found in close ate common stereotypes based upon race, proximity to one another in many towns culture and social status. We look forward across the American West. to sharing our ongoing findings, as well as While research shows that the area was lessons from the past that are applicable to connected with the Chinese population, our complex world today.” it also was the neighborhood of “female The Heggens originally had a different boarding houses” – a euphemism for prosname for the Cranky Sam Public House titution that included brothels and one-room but interacting with the UM research cribs. team helped them learn about an English“The site has turned up thousands of speaking Chinese immigrant who played a artifacts,” Kolwicz said. “We have found central role in some illicit activities in the intact liquor, beer and medicine bottles, Chinese district. ceramics, countless ceramic sherds and Known as Cranky Sam, his 1910 obituglass shards. We also found artifact types ary reads: “He was known to every freassociated with the Chinese specifically, quenter of the restricted district as a man such as Chinese-made ceramics, pill viwho knew no law and respected no person.” als associated with Chinese traditional “Sam is the epitome of someone we medicine, opium paraphernalia and Chinese know only through the words and percepgame pieces and coins. Artifacts associated tions of outsiders,” Kolwicz said. with prostitution also were collected at the Despite the “lawlessness” mentioned in site, including perfume bottles, feminine this excerpt from his obituary, Manning hygiene products and cosmetic jars.” noted that someone in Missoula took the She said the site is part of a small but time to prepare a nicely written obituary, diverse neighborhood that once housed reminding people living today that Sam people of various economic statuses, as was an appreciated, if not iconic, member well as people with Chinese, African and of the community.

European ancestry.

“The artifacts left behind by those who Under the guidance of UM Department likely knew, worked with, socialized with of Anthropology Professor Kelly Dixon, and maybe even quarreled with the man students and community volunteers recovknown as Cranky Sam provide connecered the artifacts and moved them to an tions to Missoulians whose names did not UM archaeology laboratory for cleaning make the newspapers as much as he did,” and analysis.

Manning said.

“The artifacts collected at the site are The UM team hopes to learn more as critical to understanding what life was like they continue analyzing the archaeologifor these early Missoulians,” Manning said. cal traces of historic Missoula. Dixon said “Because of the small size of the neighborsome of the more notable artifacts will be hood and the amount of urban development displayed at the Cranky Sam Public House that has occurred over the past century, this when it opens. The remainder will form is one of the only intact archaeological a teaching and research collection that is sites pertaining to the red-light district and already providing content for master’s theChinese community in Missoula that we ses, doctoral dissertations, hands-on underare likely to find.” graduate experiences and K-12 field trips.

Dixon said the artifacts recovered at the Kolwicz said the excavation has been an site represent the lives of people largely incredible opportunity. forgotten by history. Historical sources “As a native Missoulian, I have always were generally written about these people been fascinated with the lives of ‘people of rather than by them. little note’ in historic Missoula,” she said.

“This type of archaeology helps democ“I never dreamed that I would be lucky ratize our multicultural history,” Dixon enough to find an archaeological site in said. “Right now, the sheer volume of artidowntown Missoula. This site is the topic facts will require time to properly research of my master’s thesis, and I will be expandand analyze, so it’s too early to make any ing it into a doctoral dissertation as well.” presumptions about the data. We hope to reveal more of the story as the research continues.” ##### She said a business adjacent to the Modern war dogs are trained to sniff out Cranky Sam Public House, Biga Pizza, sits bombs and drugs, track people and even atop the location of a temple that served attack when necessary. They’re like living, Missoula’s Chinese community from the four-legged Swiss Army knives…

1890s to 1910s. Dixon said recent construc##### tion work there is unearthing even more arThere are about 2,500 war dogs in service chaeological evidence that appears to align today, with about 700 serving at any given with the materials currently being analyzed. time overseas.

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From USDA The Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) received formal approval of its hemp production plan by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 6, 2020. This federal authorization comes after a nearly 60-day review period.

The 2018 Farm Bill directed USDA to develop a national regulatory framework for hemp and include a process for states desiring to have primary authority to submit their production plans. On October 31, 2019, the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program was established through the USDA’s Interim Final Rule (IFR) which included provisions for licensing requirements, sampling and testing procedures, maintaining information on land where hemp is produced, and disposal requirements. Montana submitted its state plan on January 9, 2020.

While MDA views the approval of its plan as a major accomplishment, there were some areas of compromise exchanged with USDA. “I’m pleased with USDA’s approval of our plan, but still see a need to advocate for what will work best in Montana,” said Director Ben Thomas. “Because the hemp industry is so new, and growing conditions can vary so much from state to state, there’s still potential for improving oversight at the federal level.”

The Montana State Hemp Program has been federally compliant since its formation. Operating under authority provided in the 2014 Farm Bill, the pilot program grew from nearly 20 growers and close to 525 acres in 2017, to nearly 60 growers and around 22,000 acres in 2018. With the signing of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp was removed from the controlled substances list and regulatory authority transferred from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to USDA. Interest in hemp surged and over 200 licensed growers planted approximately 50,000 acres in 2019. MDA worked diligently to develop and establish its program with input from growers, law enforcement, and stakeholders.

Growers can expect procedures similar to those implemented in 2019 for the 2020 growing season. MDA will continue to operate under authorities provided in the 2014 Farm Bill until October 2020. Montana State Hemp License applications have been available since January and MDA will continue to accept them through April 30th. Montana is one of 11 states and 12 tribes with an approved plan. The Fort Belknap Indian Community received approval of its plan on January 27th.

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By NDSU Extension Service North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension is postponing, canceling or offering in an alternative format all face-to-face contacts through May 15.

“Earlier we had announced that this postponement of activities would be through April 5,” says Greg Lardy, vice president of Agricultural Affairs and Extension director.

“However, with the continuing COVID-19 situation, we’ve decided to follow NDSU’s academic schedule with virtual learning and teach and work remotely through May 15.”

This includes 4-H meetings and activities, office visits, educational meetings, programs taught by volunteers, pesticide certification and other in-person activities.

“I’m very proud of the faculty and staff who have so quickly changed their delivery modes,” Lardy says. “For example, more than 200 people were on a webinar where our ag economists talked about the impacts COVID-19 might have on agriculture. Many of our county family and community wellness agents are teaching through Facebook Live and other technologies to teach nutrition and food safety to children who are home rather than in school. And some 4-H clubs are having their meetings virtually.”

Lardy says most Extension personnel are working at home but still can be reached by email.

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MSU research on pest-fighting fungi granted patent for biocontrol

By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service Research conducted at one of Montana State University’s (MSU) agricultural research centers was patented in January after the discovery of a group of unique fungi that may lead to strides in combating wheat stem sawfly and Hessian fly, two of the most prominent wheat-targeting pests in the U.S. Gadi V.P. Reddy, who was the superintendent of MSU’s Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center in Conrad and is now a research leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Southern Insect Management Research Unit in Mississippi, helped to isolate novel strains of five fungi from samples in Montana wheat fields. The fungi — Beauveria pseudobassiana, B. amorpha, B. bassiana, Metarhizium pemphigi and M. anisopliae — occur naturally in certain wheat plants and are lethal to both wheat stem sawflies and Hessian flies.

Wheat stem sawfly and Hessian fly cause millions of dollars in damage to wheat crops throughout Montana and the Rocky Mountain region each year, said Reddy. They pose a particularly challenging threat because they can’t be combated by spray pesticides. Sawfly lay their eggs inside wheat stems, so the plant provides protection to the very pest that ultimately kills it. Once the egg hatches, the larvae eat the inside of the stem and burrow downward for winter hibernation, which weakens the stem and causes lodging.

“We don’t have any reliable control methods for sawfly right now,” said Reddy. “Even if you spray chemicals, it doesn’t go inside the plant and kill the larvae. The flies have few natural enemies, and those are established and effective in only a few places.”

The patent, entitled “Compositions and Methods to Reduce the Population of Wheat-Stem Sawfly and Hessian Fly,” was issued to MSU and the USDA January 14 after a research and field-testing process that began in 2013. The patent will facilitate the production of commercial products that growers can apply to fields in an effort to accomplish what many adaptive management efforts haven’t yet been able to.

The most effective management method for Hessian fly and wheat stem sawfly in recent years has been the development of solid-stemmed wheat varieties. MSU breeders have released nine solid-stemmed varieties since 1995, including 2013’s Warhorse, the leading variety in Montana that year, and 2019’s Bobcat.

However, said Reddy, solid-stemmed wheat often shows lower yield and lower protein content than traditional hollow-stemmed varieties, which can make it less attractive for farmers to plant. The advent of no-till agriculture has also benefited the pests, which hibernate in the stubble left behind after wheat is harvested, waiting until the next spring to emerge.

After the initial discovery of the fungi in 2013, Reddy’s team sent them to co-inventor Stefan Jaronski at USDA’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory in Sidney, which frequently conducts research with the MSU College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Once the fungi were isolated from the wheat samples and laboratory and field tests were completed, MSU and the USDA applied for the patent in 2017.

“We found out that based on the experimental results, these fungi were specific to sawfly and Hessian fly,” said Reddy. “When spores end up on the insects themselves, they can germinate and release enzymes and substances that are toxic to the flies but are safe to both human beings and the wheat plant itself.”

Through a licensing process with MSU’s Technology Transfer Office, agricultural companies will be able to manufacture sprays or other products containing the fungi and eventually make them available to farmers.

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The Grand Forks County 4-H crop judging team placed WE CAN HELP!! first in the senior division and the Ward County team placed Homes, barns, quonsets, shops, etc. first in the junior division of the Little I 4-H crop judging LeRoy Hanson Doug Morgan contest at North Dakota State University (NDSU).

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From PennState Extension lab you await patiently for your test results, Soil tests are tools that allow you to unbut when they arrive do you know what it derstand soil fertility in your fields. With all means? the basic soil sampling tests and techniques, Each soil testing lab will represent results you can get an estimate of the average in a different way. In this article we are field fertility, but in order to get accurate going to break down the soil test reports and useful results, it’s important to get a from the Penn State Agricultural Analytirepresentative sample. Check out our soil cal Services Laboratory (Image 1 and 2). sampling video (https://extension.psu.edu/ In images 1 and 2, the soil tests are broken soil-sampling) to see how soil samples into four sections. should be taken.

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Image 1. Soil test report broken into four sections with recommendations for corn grain, corn silage, and planting alfalfa-grass.

The first section is composed of the information you filled out when you sent in the soil sample and forms -- name, contact, and field information.

In the second section, we start to get into the measured soil fertility levels- pH, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), and magnesium (Mg). Phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium are essential plant nutrients that are measured in parts per million (ppm), which measures nutrient concentration per million particles of Soil pH measures the acidity or alkalinity and pH levels will range from 0-14, with <7 indicating an acidic pH, 7 a neutral pH, and >7 a basic pH. The pH scale is based on a logarithmic scale, meaning the difference from a pH of 6.2 to 6.3 is 1.3x difference in acidity. soil.

In section 2 of figures 1 and 2, you’ll find levels of pH, P, K, and Mg represented by a numerical value and a bar chart describing the levels as below optimum, optimum, and

above optimum. The measured soil fertility values are nothing without research on how crops respond under varying soil fertility conditions. A lot of research has gone into determining what numerical values mean in terms of crop response (Image 3). Image 3 shows an example of soil test calibrations where different crops where tested in soils with different amended fertility levels for each factor measured (pH, P, K, Mg). As you can see, crop response at a certain point will start to level off and enter an optimum zone, where no additional nutrient amendments will affect crop production. Above the optimum, could be a point of concern when it comes to some nutrients like phosphorus. Where phosphorus levels are greater than crop utilization there is potential for pollution and water quality concerns. Below the optimum, the crop will respond to additional nutrient supply that can have a positive impact growth and production.

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Image 2. Soil test report broken into four sections with recommendations for planting tall fescue, planting orchardgrass, and renovating pasture with legumes.

You may notice that nitrogen (N) is not measured. Although nitrogen is a macro plant essential nutrient, required in larger quantities and is often the limiting factor in plant growth, it is very difficult to measure in the field and make accurate assumptions on how much will be available for crop use (unless it is measured in season, when plants can use it more readily). Nitrogen is a very dynamic nutrient, moving very quickly in the environment from one form to another.

If we measure nitrogen when you take soil tests, typically done in the fall through early spring, the value reported doesn’t mean much. By the time your crops are planted and actively growing, that pool of nitrogen measured might have leached, run-off, or

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In section 3 of the soil test report, the recommendations are reported. The upper portion of section 3 is used for the recommendations of limestone and magnesium.

Limestone is reported as pounds per acre required to get to a target pH of 6.5 and reducing soil acidity. It is also indicated that lime recommendations are based on the liming material being 100 on the calcium carbonate equivalency scale, meaning that it neutralizes with the same value as pure calcium carbonate. This is becoming more CONTINUED ON PAGE A42

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Image 3. Soil test calibrations, created by Doug Beegle (dbb@psu.edu), Emeritus distinguished Professor of Agronomy.

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important with the variety of liming products becoming available. This section also has magnesium recommendations because magnesium deficiencies are usually remedied with a dolomitic lime application, treating soil pH and Mg simultaneously. More information on calcium carbonate equivalency and liming can be found at the Penn State Extension article Soil Acidity and Aglime (https://extension. psu.edu/soil-acidity-and-aglime).

Moving down through section three, you will next find recommendations for plant nutrient needs. In this section you will see the cropping year, the crop, expected crop yield, crop nutrient needs, and laboratory notes.

Recommendations from the lab are based on the crop you are growing and the year of rotation. If you are producing a grass crop, the recommendations for nitrogen will be higher that the recommendations on a legume crop. Likewise, the nutrient recommendations will be higher in a crop that is being mechanically harvested, like corn silage, when compares to pasture. At their essences, recommendations are designed to keep nutrients from being the limiting resource to the crop, while maintaining economic and environmental balance.

When all nutrients are in the optimum range, recommendations are based on crop removal, meaning recommendations are to replace the nutrients removed by the harvested crop.

When nutrients are below optimum, recommendations are based on a building approach, meaning the recommendations are designed to get the soil nutrients to the optimum rage over the three years of the soil test.

As mentioned previously, nitrogen is based on average crop uptake and expected yield, rather than an analytical soil test. Opposite of nitrogen are phosphate and potash which are both recommended from soil measurements and are recommended in the forms of P2O5 and K2O, respectively. It is important that you recognize how your recommendations and nutrient levels are reported.

Below the recommendation are the laboratory notes. Often in this section you will find information about split applications of nitrogen, recommendations on applications timing, animal health issues, etc. The laboratory note section can provide valuable insights and tips into proper applications and nutrient timing.

The last section to discuss is the bottom section, or section 4. Section 4 contains many of the analytical results or other tests that can be purchased at an additional fee. A few keys to notice in section 4 are as follows: Acidity is not the same a soil pH, these are very different things. As we see in Image 2. The soil pH is 5.2 and the soil acidity is 8.7. If you have purchase additional test options, such as organic material, nitrate-N, or salts, results will be found in the sections. Also, trace mineral concentrations for zinc, copper, and sulfur are found in this section. Although recommendations are not provided for trace minerals, a normal range table can be found on the back of your soil test result.

Reading soil test results can be overwhelming and can be hard to digest all this information. Hopefully this will help take some of the pressure off, but if you have any concerns, comments, or questions about soil testing, please don’t hesitate to contact your local Penn State Extension Office and speak to an Agronomy Educator.

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From USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is standing up a new team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) staff that will lead a department-wide effort focused on serving beginning farmers and ranchers.

“More than a quarter of producers are beginning farmers,” said USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Censky. “We need to support the next generation of agricultural producers who we will soon rely upon to grow our nation’s food and fiber.”

To institutionalize support for beginning farmers and ranchers and to build upon prior agency work, the 2018 Farm Bill directed USDA to create a national coordinator position in the agency and state-level coordinators for four of its agencies – Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Risk Management Agency (RMA), and Rural Development (RD).

Sarah Campbell was selected as the national coordinator to lead USDA’s efforts. A beginning farmer herself, Campbell held previous positions with USDA and has a wealth of experience working on issues impacting beginning farmers and ranchers. She recently served as acting director of customer experience for the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, where she led the piloting of innovative, customer-centric initiatives.

In her new role, she will work closely with the state coordinators to develop goals and create plans to increase beginning farmer participation and access to programs while coordinating nationwide efforts on beginning farmers and ranchers.

“We know starting a new farm business is extremely challenging, and we know our customers value and benefit from being able to work directly with our field employees, especially beginning farmers,” Campbell said. “These new coordinators will be a key resource at the local level and will help beginning farmers get the support they need. I look forward to working with them.”

Each state coordinator will receive training and develop tailored beginning farmer outreach plans for their state. Coordinators will help field employees better reach and serve beginning farmers and ranchers and will also be available to assist beginning farmers who need help navigating the variety of resources USDA has to offer.

More on Beginning Farmers Twenty seven percent of farmers were categorized as new and beginning producers, with 10 years or less of experience in agriculture, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture.

USDA offers a variety of farm loan, risk management, disaster assistance, and conservation programs to support farmers, including beginning farmers and ranchers. Additionally, a number of these programs have provisions specifically for beginning farmers, including targeted funding for loans and conservation programs as well as waivers and exemptions.

More Information Learn more about USDA’s resources for beginning farmers as well as more information on the national and state-level coordinators at newfarmers.usda.gov and farmers.gov. For more information on available programs in your area, contact your local USDA service center.

April 28th will be...

Blueberry Pie Day

What could be more enjoyable than a slice of, delicious, Blueberry pie? Blueberries, or star berries as the Native Americans called them, are one of nature’s super foods. The humble blueberry is one of few blue foods, found in nature, and it is native to the Americas. The chemicals found in blueberries may contribute to fighting diseases and preventing against certain cancers. Rich in antioxidants and vitamins, it’s only fitting that we should have a special day, in the form of Blueberry Pie Day, to celebrate them.

Americans have been enjoying blueberry pies for years and there is no shortage of scrumptious recipes on the internet. Why not have your own blueberry pie celebration by making a pie, or eating blueberry themed dishes? As well as using traditional blueberry pie recipes, why not experiment with some new ones? Adding ricotta cheese to the filling will add a creamy twist to the pie or adding black pepper, combined with warm spices, will give your pie a real kick!

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Don’t let foodborne illness ruin your party.

Raw meat dishes such as tartare and “tiger meat” are popular this time of year, but they can pose a health risk for a couple of reasons.

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“Don’t change your plans based on what you see in the markets today because it’s not going to be a good reference point,” he says.

Livestock, grain and energy, mainly oil, prices and the stock market have dropped so dramatically because of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, and not because of a supply and demand issue, he notes. This situation is unprecedented, so people don’t know what to expect and tend to think of the worst-case scenario.

“Right now, this is a psychological battle,” Olson says.

The market volatility likely will continue until the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. starts to decline, he believes. That’s when people will feel that the worst is over. But producers shouldn’t expect conditions to improve quickly.

“It’s still going to be a slow process,” Olson cautions.

Energy and grain prices probably will recover more quickly than livestock prices, he says. Livestock prices likely will rebound more slowly than the other two because of consumer behavior, such as how quickly they are willing to return to eating at restaurants. The stock market will be the last to recover.

In the meantime, despite the low prices, some producers may need to sell grain they have in storage because they need the money, or the quality of the grain is deteriorating.

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The lowest risk strategy is to buy a call option if producers want to take advantage when prices start to rebound, he says. However, producers will need to select a broker to work with and set up an account if they don’t already have one. He also recommends producers do a bit of research, so they understand call options.

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Date When Celebrated: This holiday is always April 19 National Garlic Day promotes the many uses of Garlic.

And, there certainly are many uses. It’s a vegetable. It’s an herb. It is used in recipes around the world. Garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years.

And, Garlic is believed to ward off evil spirits. About the only negative thing you can say about it, is that it can negatively affect an otherwise romantic evening.

As a medicinal herb: Phytochemicals in garlic are believed to provide protection against heart disease and cancer. Specifically, stomach and colorectal cancers.

• Helps to fight off colds and flu.

• Lowers blood cholesterol levels.

• Reduces the buildup of plaque in arteries.

• Used as a treatment for acne and warts.

• Used for toothaches Celebrate National Garlic Day by using it heavily in your meals and snacks today. Spend some time researching its medical benefits. You might find you are adding more garlic to your menu everyday.

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UM to award three honorary doctorates at commencement

UM News Service The University of Montana (UM) will confer three honorary doctorates during its May 9 Commencement exercises.

UM benefactor and respected businessman William “Bill” Franke will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Business. The late Bonnie “Sim-Sin” HeavyRunner, a tribal court judge and staunch advocate for Native American causes, will receive a posthumous Honorary Doctorate of Law. William S. Yellow Robe Jr., a noted playwright and educator, will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts.

“It is our great privilege to present these honorary doctorates to three outstanding individuals,” UM President Seth Bodnar said. “All three have led lives of tremendous impact and service, and we are honored to count them among the UM Family.”

Franke will be the featured speaker at the 9 a.m. Commencement ceremony. Yellow Robe will speak at the 2 p.m. ceremony. HeavyRunner will be honored during both ceremonies, which will take place in the Adams Center. For more about spring Commencement, visit https://www.umt. edu/registrar/Commencement.

Franke is a renowned corporate leader and business pioneer with a legacy of achievements in forest products, banking, retail and financial companies, and, most notably, the airline industry. He now serves as managing partner of Indigo Partners LLC, a private investment company that invests in air transportation.

Franke also is respected as a dedicated mentor to young business people, as well as a teacher and generous philanthropist who has made a substantial impact at several institutions, including UM. Despite his roots in Texas and South America and his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University, Franke has a deep appreciation for Big Sky Country and UM, where both the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation and the Franke Global Leadership Initiative bear his name.

HeavyRunner was raised as one of 13 children in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation. A two-time UM graduate, HeavyRunner received an undergraduate degree in social work and a juris doctorate from the Alexander Blewett III School of Law, where she was the only American Indian law student in her class.

Beyond her numerous and impressive accomplishments as a lawyer, educator and civil rights advocate, HeavyRunner was the founding director of UM’s Native American Studies Department. She worked as a tribal court judge, administrator and consultant. Before her death in 1997 at age 46, she received many awards recognizing her unrelenting efforts to support American Indian communities, victims of domestic violence and other disadvantaged groups. The main entrance and lobby of UM’s Payne Family Native American Center was named in her honor in 2010.

Born in Poplar, Yellow Robe teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine. He cultivated his writing and performing art skills at UM before launching a career as a skilled playwright, author, poet, educator and actor.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, and his creative works have brought an American Indian perspective and experience to many new audiences. His mentorship of young Native students and playwrights has boosted the prominence of American Indian theater in the United States. His plays include “The Star Quilter,” “Rez Politics,” “Sneaky,” “A Stray Dog” and “Mix Blood Seeds,” among many others.

Yellow Robe is a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.

International Plant Appreciation Day

Date When Celebrated: Always April 13 Plants are our friends, our counterparts. We breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Why, you could say its a marriage born heaven, or at least the garden of Eden.

Today is a perfect opportunity to get closer to the plant world. Pamper your indoor plants. Don’t have any? Well, what are you waiting for? Go out and buy some. This special day falls in the spring, a perfect time for you to plant outdoor plants. If you are not yet a gardener, now is the time to start a relaxing and rewarding, lifetime gardening hobby.

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Price Contracting Inc, Stevensville MT .................B8 Price Truck & Equipment Sales, Missoula MT ....A42 R & L Seed & Machine LLC, Geyser MT ..............C8 Red House Ag Custom Fertilizer Spreading, Matt Meyers, Chester MT .........................................B10 Reddig Equipment & Repair, Kalispell MT..........A44 Rehbein Ford, Inc., Plains MT ............................C37 Reinke, RPH Irrigation Services, Choteau MT ...A10 Rock Creek Custom Sawmill, Moore MT ............A46 Rockwell Scales, Simms MT ..............................B25 Roger Rader, Inc, Sun River MT.........................C37 Rozel, Liphatech .................................................C30 RPH Irrigation Services, Reinke, Choteau MT ...A10 Rydelle Enterprises, Drummond MT ..................A28 Salois Construction, Conrad MT.........................C14 Severinsen Irrigation, GSI, Fairfield MT ..............B12 Shepherd’s Garage, Inc., Dillon, Jackson, Helena, Victor MT ..........................................................A34 Shop Specialties, Valier MT ................................C38 Shortline Ag, Scobey MT......................................C2 Skookumchuck Ag, Sunburst MT .........................C3 Sod Buster Sales, Polson MT .................... A17, C36 Sonny Todd Real Estate, Big Timber MT ..............A9 Specialty Tool & Attachment, Cody WY ..............B26 SprayFlex, Doug Henke Chester, MT .................B25 Steel Etc, Great Falls MT...................................A11 Stock Drive Trailer Sales, Dillon MT ......................C4 Stokes Fencing, Conrad MT ...............................C18 Sullivan Brothers Construction, Conrad MT .......C45 Super SmartRooms/Superform ICF, Jerry Gangstad, Avon MT ..................................................C31, C40 T & T Farm Supply, LLC, Chester MT .................A45 Tate Miller Welding, Golva ND ............................A32 Taylor Farm Store, Shelby MT ............................B17 TCB Transport LLC, Todd Bedosky, Geyser MT........ ..........................................................................B16 That Guys Fab Shop, Havre MT .........................C38 Tiber Tractor Co., Chester MT.............................A17 Tilleman Equipment Company, Havre MT ..........A39 Tom’s Shop, Grass Range MT ............................C14 Treasure State Seed, Fairfield MT ............... B7, C39 Tri County Implement, Sidney MT.......................C41 Triangle Ag Service, Fort Benton MT..................C46 Triple T Sales, Chinook MT .................................A21 TT&E Inc, Victor MT ...........................................A38 Valley Trailer Sales, Belgrade MT .........................A6 Vaughn Truck, Havre MT.......................................C5 VW Mfg, Loren Hawks, Chester MT ...................C47 Wesco Trailer Sales, Conrad MT ........................A30 Western Montana New Holland, Missoula MT .....B5 Western Water Wells, Jack Clark, Helena MT ....C25 Wichman Ag Supply LLC, Hilger MT ....................C8 Wild Horse Seed, Havre MT ...............................C45 Z-E Fencing, Whitehall MT .................................B22 Zerbe Bros., Glasgow MT .......................... A26, A27 Zimmatic, Salois Construction, Conrad MT ........C14 Zomer Truck, Conrad MT ....................................C43

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Remove limit on saturated fats in 2020 Dietary Guidelines

From the Nutrition Coalition Recently, the Nutrition Coalition, a group that aims to bring rigorous science to nutrition policy, is urging the federal government to reconsider the current limits on saturated fat intake recommended in our nation’s federal nutrition policy, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), ahead of the final meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).

The DGAC, an expert group appointed every five years to review the science for the government’s nutrition policy and make recommendations to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS), meets for the last time this week, before the release of 2020 Dietary Guidelines scientific report in early May. Last month a group of leading nutrition scientists, including three former members of previous Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, including the Chair of the 2005 committee, released a groundbreaking consensus statement challenging current DGA recommendations that limit consumption of saturated fats to 10% of energy. This group of 11 prominent scientists agreed that the most rigorous and current science fails to support a continuation of this policy.

“Americans deserve nutrition recommendations based on the most current and rigorous science available, which includes these new groundbreaking findings reversing years of traditional thinking on the health effects of saturated fats,” said Nina Teicholz, Executive Director of The Nutrition Coalition. “Before the advisory committee releases its scientific report, we urge the committee to critically review the most up-to-date evidence on saturated fats and modify their conclusions accordingly. With rates of diet-related diseases continuing to climb, it’s more important than ever that the dietary guidelines be trustworthy, reliable and based on the most up-to-date science—which now indicates that continued caps on saturated fats are not warranted.”

Members of the group of scientists also sent a letter regarding their findings to the Secretaries of USDA and HHS. The letter urged USDA-HHS to give “serious and immediate consideration to lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake for the upcoming 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”

The scientists wrote, “The effect of these fats on health cannot be considered in isolation but instead must be analyzed as part of the larger food matrix in which these fats exist. It is now known that the impact of nutrients on health needs to be considered in the context of the overall diet, the type and degree of food processing that a food undergoes, and other crucial factors such as a person’s metabolic health and propensity for disease. For example, some foods, such as dark chocolate, whole-fat dairy, and unprocessed meat, have a relatively high saturated-fat content but show no association with increased cardiovascular risk.”

The federal government has published the Dietary Guidelines—the principal policy guiding diet in the United States—with the goals of promoting good health, helping Americans reach a healthy weight, and preventing chronic disease. However, since the launch of the DGA in 1980, the rates of chronic, diet-related diseases, including diabetes, dementia, obesity and heart disease in America have dramatically increased.

For more information, please visit www.nutritioncoalition.us.

National Eggs Benedict Day

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Date When celebrated: Always April 16th National Eggs Benedict Day is a day to enjoy eggs with hollandaise sauce, canadian bacon and english muffins.

A lot of people have never had Eggs Benedict. If you’re upper crust, you most likely have enjoyed Eggs Benedict a number of times, and perhaps, on a regular basis. However, many people (regular folk) have never tried Eggs Benedict. Go ahead and do a survey. See how many of your friends can even tell you how its made, or what’s in it.

Or, ask them what hollandaise sauce is.

Celebrate today by eating Eggs Benedict. If it’s your first time, we suggest you go to a restaurant where they know from experience how to properly make it.

Origin of “National Eggs Benedict Day”: We do know that Eggs Benedict was created in New York City over 100 years ago. There are historical claims that one of two individuals are credited with its creation: Mrs LeGrand Benedict in 1893, and Mr Lemuel Benedict in 1894.

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##### Rin Tin Tin was another famous working dog from WWI. You may know Rin Tin Tin from his illustrious movie career, but the German shepherd started off as a German war dog, before being rescued from the battlefield by an American soldier named Lee Duncan.

Duncan adopted the abandoned German shepherd and after the war, brought Rin Tin Tin back to the U.S., where the canine became a famous movie star.

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Athletes awarded scholarships during Harvest Bowl

By NDSU Extension Service Scholarships were awarded to 20 North Dakota State University (NDSU) athletes during this year’s Harvest Bowl program on November 8-9.

Harvest Bowl scholarship awardees, sport, hometown and major are: • Patrick Benedict Memorial Harvest Bowl Scholarship Endowment - Austin Brenner is a freshman on the NDSU Wrestling team from St. Cloud, Minnesota, majoring in exercise science. He is the son of Mark and Annie Brenner.

• Gene Dahl Scholarship - Jacob Drew is a junior righthanded pitcher on the NDSU Baseball team from Alexandria, Minnesota, majoring in agribusiness. He is the son of David and Gail Drew.

• Scott and Ann Dau Family Scholarship - Bailey Retzlaff is a senior thrower for NDSU Women’s Track and Field from Carrington, North Dakota, majoring in agricultural education. She is the daughter of Doug and Holly Retzlaff.

• John and Kay Dean Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Tyler Enerson is a sophomore who competes in multiple events for NDSU Men’s Track and Field from Grand Forks, North Dakota, majoring in agricultural economics. He is the son of Norman and Lisa Enerson.

• Glenn and Alice Strouse Ellingsberg Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Akealy Moton is a sophomore thrower for NDSU Women’s Track and Field from West Fargo, North Dakota, majoring in animal science. She is the daughter of Alonzo and Joleen Moton.

• Farmer’s National Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Karson Schoening is a junior center for the NDSU Football team from Rolla, North Dakota, majoring in crop and weed science and minoring in animal science. He is the son of Ryan and Marie Schoening.

• Gooseneck Implement/ Green Iron Equipment Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Rylee Nudell is a senior forward on the NDSU Basketball team from Buffalo, North Dakota, majoring in elementary education and human development and family science. Her parents are Ron and Rhonda Nudell.

• Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Bryan Nohava is a freshman offensive guard for the NDSU Football team from Hawarden, Iowa, majoring in general agriculture. He is the son of Bryan and Brenda Nohava.

• Harvest Bowl Scholarship in honor of Robert Johansen - Kirstin Tidd is a sophomore middle hitter on the NDSU Volleyball team from Verona, Wisconsin, majoring in agricultural economics. She is the daughter of Ray and Sonja Tidd.

• Myron and Muriel Johnsrud HB Endowment - Garret Wegner is a junior punter on the NDSU Football team from Lodi, Wisconsin, majoring in food science. He is the son of Dan and Mary Wegner.

• LeVon C. Kirkeide and Friends Harvest Bowl Scholarship - Connor Wendel is a junior sprinter and hurdler for the NDSU Men’s Track and Field team from Carrington, North Dakota, majoring in agribusiness. His parents are Shane and Mary Wendel.

• Darrell Larson Family Scholarship - Garrett Malstrom is a senior fullback on the NDSU Football team and graduate student in business administration from Vergas, Minnesota.

His parents are Jay and Judy Malstrom.

• Bob Lauf Memorial Scholarship - Derrek Tuszka is a senior defensive end on the NDSU Football team from Warner, South Dakota, majoring in crop and weed sciences with a minor in agribusiness, biological sciences, and natural resource management. His parents are Mark and Stacy Tuszka.

• Nipstad Family Athletic Scholarship Endowment - Jackson Hankey is a sophomore linebacker on the NDSU Football team from Park River, North Dakota, majoring in agricultural economics. His parents are David and Jana Hankey.

• Ron and Karen Offutt Scholarship - Isaac Huber is a freshman distance runner for NDSU Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field from Jud, North Dakota, majoring in exercise science. His parents are Bryon and Emmy Huber.

• Red River Commodities Scholarship - Dan Stibral is a senior on the NDSU Wrestling team from Tabor, South Dakota, majoring in agricultural systems management. His parents are David and Darla Stibral.

• Richard and Kelly Sager Harvest Bowl Endowment Cameron Sykora is a senior on the NDSU Wrestling team from Wheaton, Minnesota, majoring in sports management.

He is the son of Denny and Jenny Sykora.

• Titan Machinery Scholarship - Spencer Waege is a sophomore defensive end on the NDSU Football team from CONTINUED ON PAGE B5

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Athletes awarded scholarships CONTINUED FROM PAGE B4

South Shore, South Dakota, majoring in general agriculture. His parents are Lynn and Lana Waege.

• #64 Bob Yaggie and #58 Bruce Yaggie Father – Son Football Scholarship - Cordell Volson is a junior offensive tackle on the NDSU Football team from Balfour, North Dakota, majoring in general agriculture. He is the son of Ralph and Wendy Volson.

• Bob and Darlene Yaggie Football Scholarship - Dimitri Williams is a senior running back on the NDSU Football team from Lakeville, Minnesota, majoring in economics. His parents are Steve and Jennifer Wentworth.

The NDSU Harvest Bowl program also recognizes the work of agriculturists in 53 counties in North Dakota and 7 counties in western Minnesota.

A special agribusiness award goes to an individual who has a distinguished career in agriculture and business. This year’s award recipient is Bill Bowman, former North Dakota state senator.

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Caregiving in the era of COVID-19

By Tim Summers, AARP Montana State Director Even in ordinary times, the 114,000 unpaid family caregivers in Montana face a daunting set of daily tasks. Oftentimes with little or no training, they may be responsible for wound care, tube feedings, dressing, transportation, managing the finances and medical bills of their loved ones and more.

Of course, these are no ordinary times.

The coronavirus pandemic has complicated the lives of family caregivers, especially those with older loved ones who are most susceptible to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. It has added fear, anxiety and isolation to an already-stressful situation. Here in Montana, routines have been upended as communities cope with this disease. Among other measures, Governor Bullock has suspended visitation in Montana’s nursing homes, except for certain compassionate care situations, to help stop the spread of the virus to especially vulnerable populations.

Since the outbreak of the virus, AARP has been urging family caregivers to develop a plan in case they get sick or their loved one does. Our recommendations include: Pull Together a Team. Develop a list of family and friends who can perform daily caregiving tasks. If available, identify local caregiving services that may offer a respite for family and friends.

Identify Local Services. In response to the virus, many restaurants, pharmacies and grocery stores are adding or increasing their pick-up and delivery services.

AARP Montana has launched a new webpage to help locate resources for those affected by COVID-19 (found at aarp.org/montanacoronavirus).

The federal government’s Eldercare Locator (found at eldercare.acl,gov) can help you find support services in your area.

The new online “AARP Community Connections” (found at aarpcommunityconnections.org) enables people to enter their zip codes and find informal groups of neighbors and friends offering help right in their own communities.

Inventory Essential Items. Determine how much food, medication, and basic supplies your care recipient has on hand. We recommend a two-week supply of food, water, household cleaning supplies and medical materials and equipment.

Get Prescriptions in Order. Make sure you have a list of medications, medical contacts and important information about your loved one, such as drug allergies. If there are upcoming routine medical appointments, reschedule those or, if possible, switch to a virtual visit. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) recommends having an extra 30-day supply of essential medications on hand.

Don’t forget over-the-counter medications such as cough suppressants and fever reducing drugs like acetaminophen.

Stay Connected. Isolation is a big issue as we all follow the social distancing guidance from the CDC. However, social distancing doesn’t have to lead to social disconnection. Develop a communication plan and identify times when members of the care team will check in on your loved one.

Skype, Zoom and Facetime are useful digital apps that can help, but so are lower-tech options like email, texting and telephone calling. To help fight the isolation, encourage people to send cards, letters, magazines, puzzles or other items a loved one would be happy to receive.

Protect Yourself. Now more than ever, it is important for family caregivers to take care of themselves. Follow the CDC guidelines of washing hands frequently, avoiding crowds, practice social distancing and, by all means, if you feel sick stay home. If you develop the virus, you will be of little use to those who are counting on you.

To help caregivers, AARP has a dedicated, toll-free family caregiving line for people looking after a loved one. Live operators are available to take calls Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (MT) at 877-333-5885.

AARP also has a Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/ aarpfamilycaregivers) where caregivers get tips from experts, share their own stories and sometimes just get a little encouragement from others in a similar situation.

You can also find answers to many of your questions online at the AARP Caregiver Resource Center aarp.org/ caregiving.

Our caregiving information and services are free and available to everyone.

Our founder, Ethel Percy Andrus, said, “What we do, we do for all” – that founding principle continues to guide us and has never been more important than it is today. Working together – and caring for each other – we will get through this.

April 21st will be...

Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

Bulldogs are known for the stocky physique, wrinkly faces, and short snouts. While not the most elegant of dogs, bulldogs are beloved by many. Many people find bulldogs to be cute and lovable. Bulldogs are Beautiful Day aims to show this appreciation through celebrating this adorable breed.

History of Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day Bulldogs are Beautiful Day corresponds with the day that the bulldog was officially recognized by dog breeders back in 1886.

Bulldogs are associated with the Asiatic Mastiff, which lived around 4,000 BC in Mesopotamia. The mastiff was introduced to Europe by traveling nomads.

Since then, breeders helped form the different kinds of bulldogs that exist today. These include the English bulldog, French bulldog, and American bulldog. As one of the most popular breeds, bulldogs are known to be lovable. They provide overall general happiness to every dog owner.

Some of the most famous bulldogs to have existed were Tillman, an English Bulldog with skateboarding skills that made him a celebrity. Another bulldog, Uga, was the official live mascot of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Chesty was a bulldog take on the role of the next official mascot of the US Marine Corps.

Each year, people celebrate Bulldogs are Beautiful Day by showing appreciation for these lovable, fuzzy creatures.

At Drake University, an annual contest for the most beautiful bulldog is held. Owners showcase their bulldogs and walk the pageant runway, showing off their clever tricks and beauty.

Owners post funny videos of their bulldogs and treat their dogs by giving them goodies like treats and stuffed toys. People also take the time to learn the history of bulldogs and how they earned their cute, wrinkled faces that everyone knows and loves.

How to Celebrate Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day If you own a bulldog, take this time to treat them well and show how much you appreciate them in your lives. Give them treats, let them sleep in your bed for the day, and dress them up in cute outfits. You can also share this love for your bulldog by posting pictures of you and your dog on your favorite social media websites.

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The deadline for advertising in the May 2020 issue of the Trader's Dispatch will be April 29th.

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There are alfalfas and there are alfalfas.

Some do well in one climate or region and just can’t make it in another. That’s why Ladak’65 is so right for the dryland, intermountain grower.

Ladak’65 proves a real winner, offers winterhardiness you probably can’t match with any other strain.

Resists Bacteria Wilt

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Out-yields other Alfalfas

In normal, dryland conditions Ladak’65 shows its colors fast. In ideal, irrigated conditions Ladak’65 may not prove your biggest yielder, but, when the going’s tough, moisture is limited, Ladak’65 will outperfom the rest.

Holds its vigor

In dry years, when moisture is light, Ladak’65 retains its vigor. Recovers fast when moisture comes to give you good tonnage in adverse conditions.

Animals love it

Outstanding palatability is one of the secrets of Ladak’65. Fine-stemmed and leafy, animals prefer Ladak’65.

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Microplastics can be harmful to farm crops

K-State Research and Extension News A Kansas State University crop physiologist has found that plastic products – which are well known to cause negative impacts on fish and other aquatic animals – also have an adverse effect on land-based organisms, such as farm crops.

Mary Beth Kirkham, University Distinguished Professor in agronomy who specializes in the relationship between soil, plants and water, said that fact should throw caution to such industries as agriculture in which plastic products are part of doing business.

“Ideally, plastics should break down into water and carbon dioxide, which are two very innocuous (harmless) molecules,” Kirkham said “But studies have shown that the plastics we use just don’t break down. Microorganisms just have not yet evolved to break down the plastics.”

In a greenhouse experiment with wheat, Kirkham showed that the presence of tiny particles of plastic in soil caused water to pool up on the surface and the flooded conditions prevented oxygen from getting to a plant’s roots. She also found that plastic serves as a vector (or vehicle) for plant uptake of such toxic materials as cadmium.

“Many plants died in the month-long experiment,” Kirkham said. “In the plants where cadmium was in the soil with plastic, the wheat leaves had much, much more cadmium than in the plants that grew without plastic in the soil.”

Kirkham explained that plastic is used in agriculture in many ways, commonly as plastic mulch in fields to warm soil in the spring, or to keep weeds out during growing seasons. Greenhouses often are made of plastic material, and fertilizer bags are often made of plastic.

“On the farm, eventually that plastic will break down (due to ultraviolet light, temperature or wind) into what we call microplastics, or very small particles that settle in the soil,” Kirkham said. “So, we end up with all of these tiny particles that remain in the soil or move into the aquatic environment.”

In the ocean, fish eat plastic particles, eventually causing them to die. On land, microplastics build up to form a barrier against water infiltration, or they might attract toxic materials to the plant’s roots.

“I know it’s a drastic statement to say,” Kirkham said, “but we just need to get rid of plastics in the environment, because they are never going to break down. They are around forever.”

Plastics used in agriculture are less likely to be recycled, Kirkham said, because residue that is left on such products as fertilizer bags and plastic mulch is hard to clean and, thus, is costly.

Instead, she said, it might be beneficial to simply reduce the use of plastic materials and products, when possible. “I do think it would be beneficial in growing plants, as well as for the whole environment,” Kirkham said.

Kirkham has recently co-edited a book, titled Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments, which will be published by CRC Press later this year. She said her work on that project raised her overall concern about plastic in the world’s environment.

“The problem with all of our plastics in the United States is that we used to ship them off to China, but China and a lot of other countries won’t accept them anymore,” Kirkham said. “All of this plastic is being shipped back to the United States. We are going to have to find a way to get rid of our plastics. And so far, we don’t have it.”

Look Up at the Sky Day

Date When Celebrated: Always April 14 Look Up at the Sky Day is a fun day to check out what’s up there. ‘Ya never know what might be going on up there.

An asteroid or meteor may be on it’s way.

A solar eclipse could be on display. A flock of geese or birds may be over head (you may need to duck for cover). Or, the clouds may be forming into interesting characters and patterns.

Take a few minutes out from your busy day to look up at the sky today. If nothing else, the break from the routine will be relaxing.

Important Note: If you look up at the sky too long, people are going to think you have nothing better to do. And, maybe you don’t!

Deep Thought for Today: Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

National Zucchini Bread Day

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Fire damaged or non-running tractors Date celebrated: This holiday is always April 23 National Zucchini Bread Day is a day to enjoy Zucchini bread. In researching this day, we first asked ourselves “why hold this day in the spring, when this prolific garden squash in not in great supply?” The answer quickly dawned on us....they hold this at a time when you are not sick of all that zucchini.

In the summer months, the prolific zucchini plant produces more fruit than gardeners can use. As summer progresses, everyone becomes sick and tired of the eating zucchini. But, the harvest goes on, day after day, after day.

By mid summer, gardeners are resorting to all sorts of tricks to get rid of the mountains of fruit produced in their gardens. Some even stealthily leave zucchini on neighbors’ door step in the middle of the night.

So here you are in the month of April. Zucchini finds its way in small supply to grocery stores in your area.

Now, you’ve got the urge for zucchini bread. Hence, the creation of this day in April!

April 15th will be...

Banana Day

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Banana Day is a bit like a heady mix of April Fool’s Day and Halloween (without the sweets or vandalism) and with a helpful portion of healthy eating thrown in for good measure.

The origins of Banana Day, which is aimed at celebrating bananas in every conceivable sense of the word, are murky. However it’s known that every year students at many prestigious American universities use Banana Day as a way of celebrating this humble lunchbox standard. They eat and share weird and wonderful banana concoctions (banana punch, anyone?), they dress as bananas and they generally go a bit…well…nuts.

And bananas too, of course.

There aren’t many days in the year when you can legitimately goof off and have a little fruit-based fun, so why not take a (banana) leaf out the students’ book and go a little bit bananas today?

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Ranchers consider diverse factors in managing their land

From UM News Service with Virginia Tech In a new study published in Rangeland it helps conservation professionals unEcology and Management, researchers exderstand the social context of agricultural plore the diverse factors that influence how irrigation decision-making in the West,” ranchers manage their land. Missoula-based said Dave Smith, Intermountain West Joint collaborators on the project include UniverVenture coordinator. “The findings will sity of Montana Assistant Professor Alex enable the conservation community to Metcalf and the Intermountain West Joint increasingly support agricultural irrigators Venture, a Missoula organization commitin continuing to provide vital habitat for ted to bird habitat conservation by fostering wetland-dependent birds on working lands.” public-private partnerships.

The relationships between conservaWetlands in the Intermountain West, a retionists and ranchers can be complicated. gion nestled between the Rocky Mountains, People are quick to assume that ranchers the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada, are solely concerned with profit, but this are home to a diverse range of flora and research found that ranchers’ decisions fauna. Wetlands may only make up 2% of are much more complex. This needs to be the region, but 80% of wildlife rely on the taken into consideration when developing rich habitat wetlands provide. programs and policies to foster private lands The majority of these wetlands are conservation. located on private ranchlands. While the “The workshops created an open, trusting persistence of these “working wetlands” space where there was social learning and depends on the management decisions of social exchange happening,” said Sketch, ranchers, their perspectives are often missthe lead author on the paper. “It was imporing from conservation and policymaking tant for ranchers to know the researchers and discussions. the conservation professionals alike were The Montana researchers partnered with there to hear them.”

Ashley Dayer, an assistant professor at This study specifically focused on Virginia Tech, and her graduate student, choices about flood irrigation, a traditional Mary Sketch. The research team hosted two method involving complex reservoir and landowner-listening workshops – one in ditch systems that spread water across a southern Oregon and another in southwestfield, recharging areas once sustained by ern Wyoming – and invited various landnatural flooding. When the water flows from owners and conservation professionals to the ditches, saturates the field and seeps encourage dialogue between the two parties. into the groundwater, it provides forage for Partners for Conservation, a landowner-led cattle while also providing rich habitat for conservation organization, played a key migrating and breeding water birds, like role in successful implementation of the ducks and cranes, as well as sage grouse, workshops. an iconic ground-dwelling bird in decline.

Metcalf said they evaluated the complex “Flood irrigation is often vilified for not decision-making process of how ranchers being water efficient,” Sketch said. “The choose to manage their land – specifically numbers don’t always add up when it comes how they choose to irrigate their land and to saving water because there’s so much why. They found that various factors go into more in the game of land management and deciding how land is managed, and it’s not conservation, like creating wildlife habitat. just money.

This traditional definition of efficiency “Our project was able to add nuance to doesn’t grasp that social-ecological comthat understanding. There is a lot more to plexity. it,” said Metcalf, a social scientist and as“Our work suggests an expanded definisistant professor in the W.A. Franke Coltion that considers how flood irrigation prolege of Forestry and Conservation at UM. vides bird habitat on working wet meadows, “Yes, ranchers have to meet the bottom line recharges the groundwater for communities because they have to make sure they have downstream, creates in-stream flow for fish food on the table, but other concerns and and keeps ranchers ranching.” considerations are at play in the choices Ranchers described factors that either they make for their lands.” help or hinder the use of flood irrigation on The study “Western Ranchers’ Perspecprivate lands. The study identified cultural tives on Enablers and Constraints to Flood considerations as a key enabler for continuIrrigation” was published Jan. 14 in Rangeing flood irrigation. land Ecology and Management and can be “Ranchers have strong ties with the found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j. ranching lifestyle, so many choose to conrama.2019.12.003. tinue flood irrigation because of its history “In order to have effective conservation and their personal connection to it,” Sketch in the West, where ranchers own huge tracts said. “It’s something they do every year, the of land, the conservation community is keen generation of ranchers before them did it, to work together with them,” said Dayer. and they want to maintain that tradition.”

“Ranchers can make choices to manage “What stands out to me in this work is their land for the benefits of wildlife or they that there are a group of ranchers commitcan make choices that don’t prioritize wildted to the future of their land,” Dayer said. life. We aimed to facilitate a better under“They rely on that land for their livelihood. standing of how conservation professionals They’re closely tied to it; they spend every could work with ranchers toward conservaday outside. It’s something that they’re very tion and wildlife management goals.” passionate about. I think that’s just a critical The Intermountain West Joint Venture thing for the majority of the U.S. public livhas a long history of working alongside ing far from ranches to keep in mind – our landowners and conservationists and has food isn’t just coming from grocery stores. become trusted in the region. Their connecIt’s coming from people who are making tions, experiences and on-the-ground work choices about how land is used and whether proved valuable in executing the research. to contribute to conservation.”

As a result, co-authors were better able Despite the commitment of ranchers to to understand ranchers’ experiences and their land, nearly half of all U.S. ranches perspectives. The joint venture also now is are sold every decade, and recruitment of playing a critical role in ensuring the results younger generations into the ranching lifeof this study are used. style has declined. Most of these once-open CONTINUED ON PAGE B12 “This research is groundbreaking in that

April 21st will be...

Chocolate Covered Cashews Day

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There are times in life when two perfect things come together to create something that is absolutely sublime.

Sometimes they’re two people, other times it’s the perfect song and mood, but Chocolate Covered Cashew Day celebrates the coming together of a nut and bean to create what may very well be the penultimate snack food. Rich flavorful chocolate wrapped around the distinctly nutty flavor of roasted cashew, could you imagine anything better? Chocolate Covered Cashew Day just blows Extended Discount Pricing our tastebuds out of the water!

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On another planet. However, the chocolate bean comes from the Cacao tree and has been cultivated for almost 3000 years in Mesoamerica, (that’s Central and parts of South America).

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Billboards promote health, fitness

University of Wyoming Extension to about 69 in the general population of the Two billboards featuring a Native Americounty and 71 in the general population of can in full traditional dance regalia is helpWyoming. ing send a culture-specific message of the The billboard idea began two years ago importance of health and physical activity when, as a CNP member, Pingree joined a to residents of the Wind River Indian Resreservation group concerned about health ervation. and fitness. There were a few billboards The billboards, one just south of Riveron the reservation showing the culture and ton, Wyoming and the other near Lander, native ways. depict John Pingree in a traditional dance “I brought up the idea of using the billwith the message “More Your Way Every boards to introduce CNP that way, by putDay.” ting something cultural out there for people The billboards, a project of the Cent$ible to see,” she said. “Since our people are more Nutrition Program in the University of Wyophysical and visual, I thought it was a very ming Extension, went up in January and are good way to get out who we are and what expected to be taken down this month, said we are doing out here.”

Kelly Pingree, extension educator on the Meuli and marketing coordinator Kali WRIR. CNP is a free, income-qualifying, McCrackin Goodenough agreed. Mccooking and nutrition education program Crackin Goodenough, Meuli, and Pingree in Wyoming that can help people cook and developed the message and started to work eat better for less money. on the design.

Kelly said the billboards are an effort to “Native people relate to anything dealing raise overall health on the WRIR. with native,” said Pingree. “We had to have “We have such a pandemic of obesity, some sort of cultural or physical activity up diabetes and heart disease, and that’s on there they can relate to.” pretty much any reservation,” she said.

Pingree thought of the photograph of “Since we’ve gotten colonized more than her husband taken by photographer Mike 180 years ago, our lives have gotten more Jackson of Best of the Tetons in Jackson sedentary. There is really not a lot of movHole. The photograph had been taken near ing about or having to work and hunt and their home and featured in Cowboys and gather like we used to.”

Indians magazine.

Pingree started with CNP, a program “When Kelly showed me the photo, I in the College of Agriculture and Natural thought, ‘This is perfect!’,” McCrackin Resources, in 2016. Billie Spoonhunter Goodenough said. “I love that the photo was recently joined her in the CNP office on taken on the Wind River Indian Reservation the WRIR. and that it features someone many people “The ability to engage with local partknow.” ners for community changes, in addition The message and billboard design were to direct education, has opened up ways to shown to CNP participants prior to the billincrease health impacts on the Wind River boards going up. McCrackin Goodenough Indian Reservation,” said Mindy Meuli, said the feedback was positive, and CNP CNP director. “Due to their community went ahead. connections, Kelly and Billie have been a “Any native will understand that mesgreat asset to CNP.” sage – traditional dancing and moving in our Pingree said she saw the health of the cultural way,” said Pingree. “Dance regalia WRIR in a new light when she joined CNP. is one of the most powerful symbols of his “It really opened my eyes to how big of or her native identity. In that regard, it can a problem we do have on the reservation,” be considered sacred.” she said. “I think a lot of Indian communiMany outfits could be several generations ties have really woken up about that. There old and of family design. is serious talk about how we are going to Pingree said she believes community rechange that. What are some of the ideas action has been good, and the CNP logo and to change this, to start getting our people message are becoming more recognized. healthier?”

“I have had people come up and recThe average life expectancy of Native ognize John, and then some people who Americans in Fremont County is about 55, don’t,” she said. “And they see the CNP according to information from Wyoming symbol up there. A lot of the community has Vital Statistics in In the Heart of Wyoming taken notice we are trying to get healthy and is Indian Country: Home to the Eastern physical. That’s also a U.S.-wide initiative.

Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes We are starting to work getting us healthier.”

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spaces have been lost to subdivisions and other development. Land conversion not only erodes the sense of community and cultural identity among ranchers, it also eliminates important wildlife habitat.

To keep ranches both environmentally and economically sustainable, both workshops highlighted key areas where conservation professionals can increase rancher engagement and ensure working wetlands continue to benefit both landowners and wildlife. Ranchers identified partnerships and open communications with conserva##### If you’re struggling to keep an even keel, let Him take over the oars for a while.

tion professionals and policymakers as critical to maintaining successful operations in addition to effective, long-lasting conservation practices.

Central to strong partnerships is building trust and “honest people sitting around, getting over their biases, their agendas and listening to one another,” said one rancher.

Listening turned out to be an effective conservation tool, and the research team hopes this work inspires closer collaboration between conservation professionals and ranchers across the West.

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April, 2020 will be...

Garden Month

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Diarrhea can be deadly for calves

By NDSU Extension Service late in life.”

Cattle producers need to be on the lookout Under range conditions, a calf adapts a patfor calf diarrhea, according to North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension livestock tern of nursing that fills its needs. Calf scours experts. can be the result of anything that disrupts this The majority of scours, or diarrhea, cases normal habit, such as a storm, strong wind occur when calves are 3 to 16 days old. Unor the dam going off in search of new grass.

When the calf eventually nurses, it is treated calves essentially die of shock from overly hungry, and the cow has more milk a loss of fluids and electrolyte imbalances. than normal. This inconsistent nursing may “Calf scours is most often associated with lead to a condition known as enterotoxemia. infectious, environmental and nutritional The organism most often involved with this stresses,” says NDSU Extension veterinarian is clostridium perfringens, which has several Gerald Stokka. types.

A number of infections can cause viral and The disease has a sudden onset. Affected bacterial calf scours. Viral infections associcalves become listless and strain or kick at ated with calf diarrhea include rotavirus and their abdomen. Bloody diarrhea may or may coronavirus. not occur. In some cases, calves may die Rotavirus causes the calves’ intestinal without any signs being observed. tract to secrete fluid into the intestinal tract, Treating Scours resulting in severe dehydration and electro“The key to successful treatment is identilyte imbalances. The coronavirus destroys the cells lining the intestinal tract and causes fying and successfully treating a dehydrated malabsorption, resulting in severe diarrhea animal early,” Stokka says. and lack of nutrient absorption.

Calves that have lost significant amounts Neither of these viruses is associated with of fluid will have skin that “tents” (stays up infections in people. E. coli and salmonella for more than 3 seconds when you pull it species are bacterial pathogens associated away from the body), a dry mouth, cold ears with calf diarrhea and can be associated with and sunken eyeballs. They often have low infections in people. blood sugar, low body temperature and low A different infectious organism called urine output, and decreased blood electrolyte cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite (sodium, potassium, bicarbonate, chloride) that causes scours. Cryptosporidia usually levels that adversely affect organ function, are found in conjunction with other scoursparticularly the heart. They are visibly decausing bacteria or viruses and may cause pressed. infections in people as well.

The critical first step in treating cases of “Unfortunately, this organism presents calf scours is correcting dehydration and elecmanagement problems as there is no vactrolyte loss. Antibiotics can be administered if your veterinarian deems it to be appropriate. cine or licensed therapeutic agent available,” Stokka recommends using a nipple bottle Stokka says. to replace the calf’s fluids if scours are deConditions Leading to Scours “Inadequate nutrition for the pregnant tected early, when the calf still is standing dam, particularly during the last third of and relatively bright. gestation, as well as the calf’s exposure to “In these situations, it is best to leave the poor environmental conditions, insufficient calf on milk and add several 2-quart electroattention to the newborn calf or a combinalyte feedings a day to replace the fluid that is being lost through diarrhea,” he says. tion of these often result in scours outbreaks,” Calves that are down but alert probably says Karl Hoppe, Extension livestock sysneed to have fluids administered with a tems specialist based at NDSU’s Carrington stomach tube. They will need 2 quarts of a Research Extension Center. high-energy electrolyte solution containing Not meeting the pregnant dam’s energy glucose several times a day. and protein requirements will decrease the Producers may need to provide a heat quality and quantity of the cow’s colostrum. source as well. Calves that are comatose or Colostrum is a form of milk that mammals lying down must be administered fluids inproduce in late pregnancy. It contains energy, protein, fat and vitamins, plus antibodies to travenously. Producers need to be thorough protect newborns against disease until their when replacing fluids in a scouring animal, own immune system is totally functional. according to Stokka.

Deficiencies in vitamins A and E, and trace “First of all, the amount of fluid lost must minerals have been associated with greater be replaced,” he says. “It is a common misincidence of calf scours. take to give the animal too little fluids. A “Inadequate environment conditions, such 100-pound calf that is 10% dehydrated will as mud, overcrowding, contaminated lots, need about 10 liters of fluid a day just to calving heifers and cows together, wintering replace fluid loss.” and calving in the same area, storms, heavy Diagnosing Scours snow, cold temperatures and rainfall are all • Consult your veterinarian about collectstressful to the newborn calf and increase its ing appropriate samples. exposure to infectious agents,” says Janna • Send samples to a laboratory as early as Block, Extension livestock systems specialist possible. based at NDSU’s Hettinger Research Exten• If your veterinarian is not available, colsion Center. lect a fresh fecal sample from an untreated “Attention to the newborn calf is essential, calf. Place this sample in a sterile plastic particularly during difficult births or adverse container and submit it to the lab chilled for weather conditions,” Stokka advises. “The analysis. calf is born without most antibodies, includ• If you have a dead animal, submit it to the lab within 24 hours of death. ing those that fight the infectious agents that Prevention Strategies cause scours. The calf will acquire these • Maximize the calves’ ingestion of colosantibodies only from colostrum. Because of this, any effort to prevent scours by vaccinattrum immediately after birth. When necesing cows is wasted unless the calf actually sary, use colostrum from cows in the same receives colostrum, preferably before it is 2 herd or colostrum replacement products. to 6 hours old.

• Maintain the cows’ proper nutrition and “As the calf grows older, it rapidly loses body condition. its ability to absorb colostral antibodies,” he • Minimize the dose of an infectious agent adds. “Colostrum given to calves that are to which the calf is exposed through sanitamore than 24 to 36 hours old will be less than tion. ideal as antibodies are seldom absorbed this CONTINUED ON PAGE B18

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By Ronald Goldy and Jonathan LaPorte, Michigan State University Extension problematic fields and areas of fields. For Most agricultural producers are facing an example, planting occurs on large land areas economic crisis. Prices for most agricultural prone to flooding even in moderate rains. products have declined while input costs This wastes resources that could have been increase (https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/ used on better sites. agricultural-economic-situation-placingNext comes improved plant and animal pressure-on-producers). Producers’ genergenetics followed closely by optimizing ally fall back to two solutions: reduce input nutrient usage, implementing timely pracand increase output. This approach genertices addressing critical animal or plant ally leads to bigger farms, bigger equipment production challenges. By taking these ideas and bigger everything and causes mid- and and using them effectively, it is possible to small-size farmers to go out of business, make money more efficiently off less by specialize or go into direct marketing. This managing the best in such a way that they is a dangerous cycle since in a supply and reach a higher potential. If it is a dairy herd, demand economy, increasing yield further cull the bottom performers and spend those decreases price, speeding the downward resources nurturing high performers. That spiral. Agricultural supply companies and combination is how to obtain high per acre, university researchers continually develop per animal and per farm yield. products and practices to increase yield, Much is said about being the “low cost or improve efficiencies further fueling the producer.” This concept is often associated chasing yield dilemma. This tends to cause with an increase in scale to spread cost short-term solutions to solve long-term over larger acreage, herds, poultry houses, problems. etc. However, the concept applies to any In some ways, this is self-inflicted. Averoperation. There is a difference between age U.S. corn and soybean yield is 170 and maximum yield and economic yield. Many 47 bushels per acre, respectively. However, growers strive for maximum yield taking record corn yield is 542 bushels and 190 them beyond economic yield. Inputs beyond bushels for soybeans. Average U.S. potato economic yield will not provide justifiable yield is 444 cwt per acre while the world return. This is seen often in leaf nutrient record is 2400 cwt. Average U.S. milk analysis. Many producers think the resulting production per cow is 23,100 pounds annutrient levels need to be above optimum. nually, but the record is 78,170. Granted, In reality, above optimum wastes money. these are from limited acres and exceptional To become an economically successful, individuals that have been treated extremely low cost producer requires decision-making well, but it does show existing production based on current monitoring, sampling and potential. Everything has a record yield and record keeping technology. an average yield, but if producers achieve Another thing that might help farmers even half of record yield, farm gate prices is for end users to identify characteristics would be even lower. they most want and pay a premium for OK, we have stated the obvious, almost that trait versus just yield. This is already the entire U.S. (and maybe most of the done to some extent with sugar, butterfat, world) agricultural system is geared toward color and other traits. However, production more yield, but what alternatives are there? goals could be developed for multiple traits The reality is that one way a producer has to including nutraceuticals. Maximizing yield affect their gross income is to produce more, in plants can actually lower the desired no matter the market signals. Someone once ingredient. In direct market situations, the said, “The American farmer has the right to producer can be the end user if they further overproduce.” However, should we always process the raw product. Self-processing has exercise that right since it gets us in trouble? limitations, but many have found it a way Overproduction increases competition to maximize profit and capitalize off “buy within the current year but potentially over local” interest and at the same time provide several years, causing the current year’s an educational experience to customers. crop to compete with last year’s crop. Some Better distribution systems also need to would say the quick answer is to raise food be considered. The world still has underfed prices. Realistically, that is just not going to people. While one area has excess, another happen. There would be 98% of the people has a shortage. This indicates a distribuin the U.S. upset with 2%, and the 2% would tion, not a production problem. However, still chase yield. There is not an easy answer producers of excess cannot be expected to but that does not mean we should not braingrow crops without fair compensation. storm possible solutions.

Chasing yield is not always the solution.

Every farm, field and herd has varying When something is developed that increases yield potential. Record crop yield starts yield, it is not uncommon for the industry as with identifying the best areas based on soil a whole (e.g., farmers, suppliers, university type, drainage, inherent fertility and other extension) to want to adopt the new practice characteristics. No matter how hard you try, widely. Yet ultimately, more production can you will not get record yield from a poor reduce commodity price and farm profitabilsite. A simple drone flight before and during ity. Therefore, the biggest change needs to the growing season can reveal poor, good, be a different mindset from producer to end better and best areas. Plant only the better user and everyone with supporting interests. and best, do soil building on the good to A change of mind is not an easy task. The determine if they can be made better, and let conversation, however, needs to begin. poor sites go for wildlife. Consider avoiding

Diarrhea can be deadly for calves CONTINUED FROM PAGE B16

• Minimize the density of susceptible calves.

Spread them out if possible.

• Keep calving premises clean and dry.

• Isolate sick animals. Quarantine them and don’t comingle them with uninfected calves.

• Do not bring in 1- to 5-day-old calves from neighbors or that were purchased at an auction market.

• Sanitize equipment.

• Avoid traveling to operations experiencing calf diarrhea problems.

“Also remember that many infectious agents that cause calf scours can cause disease in people as well,” Stokka says. “Wear gloves and wash your hands. When working with sick animals, treat them last, and wear dedicated coveralls and boots that can be washed.

“Individuals with any disorder of the immune system and pregnant women should not work with sick calves in any way as they are more susceptible to zoonotic disease,” he notes.

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MSU agriculture student earns national leadership honor

By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service impact how nutritious that crop is. It’s been A Montana State University (MSU) really neat to get to experiment with that student will travel to Washington, D.C. both in the lab and in the field.” after earning a spot in a selective national While busy with undergraduate research program from the U.S. Department of Agprojects, Sturm has reserved time for enriculture. gagement in the greater MSU and Montana Natalie Sturm, a senior studying agrocommunities. She’s been a member of the ecology in MSU’s Sustainable Food and College of Agriculture’s ambassador proBioenergy Systems program in the College gram for three years, currently serving as of Agriculture’s Department of Land Rechair, and calls it one of her favorite parts of sources and Environmental Sciences, was her college experience. As an ambassador, one of 20 undergraduate students selected Sturm interacts with prospective students as part of the USDA’s 2020 Future Leaders and their families and helps organize events in Agriculture Program. The goal of USDA such as MSU Friday and the college’s anprogram is to assist young agriculturalnual Celebrate Agriculture weekend. She ists from around the nation in shaping the judges middle school and high school FFA current and future state of agriculture by events, coordinates ambassador involveinteracting with policymakers, producers ment in the annual FFA convention and has and industry leaders at the annual USDA long been engaged in showing younger stuAgriculture Outlook Forum. dents how agriculture can become a career.

“Natalie always amazes as she leaps to “A lot of times it’s hard for people to new heights with her achievements in acafeel connected and find a community and demics, discovery, leadership and service being an ambassador has really helped me to Montana State University, the Bozeman with that,” Sturm said. “It’s helped me to community and the field of sustainable food cultivate that community for myself and has systems,” said Selena Ahmed, associate also given me the opportunity to hopefully professor in sustainable food and bioenshow prospective students that those comergy systems, an interdisciplinary program munities can exist at a university.” between College of Agriculture and the Sturm will travel to Washington, D.C. College of Education, Health and Human later this month for the Agricultural Outlook Development, who nominated Sturm for Forum and a week of networking with legisthe program. “She shines in every class and lators, agricultural experts and the 19 other in the lab with her unparalleled enthusiasm undergraduate and 10 graduate members of and deep curiosity characteristic of a strong the Future Leaders in Agriculture program. researcher.”

That trip will cause her to miss the presenSturm became involved with Ahmed’s tation of MSU’s annual Awards for Excelwork in MSU’s Food and Health Lab after lence, of which she is one of three student her freshman year at MSU, but she said recipients from the College of Agriculture. she was inspired to pursue work in the field Once she returns, she plans to present her of sustainable food and agriculture much research at the National Conference on Unearlier, after taking a human nutrition class dergraduate Research to be hosted by MSU while in middle school in her home state March 26-28 — a weekend that coincides of Illinois. with Montana’s annual FFA convention in “I grew up north of Chicago, definitely Great Falls, an important event for agriculnot an agricultural area at all. That class ture ambassadors. She plans to make room opened my eyes to the idea that agriculture for both events. doesn’t have to be harmful to the environ“Natalie is that student, only once or ment, which was the story I’d always been twice in your entire faculty career, that you told,” said Sturm. “When I realized that have a chance to watch grow as a person agriculture can actually help to solve some and an academic at every turn,” said Perry of our most pressing environmental probMiller, one of Sturm’s advisers. “It seems lems, I knew that was what I needed to do like yesterday when a bright-eyed freshman with my life, from the time I was 13 or 14.” cornered me after a lecture, asking questions Drawn by MSU’s Honors College and about sustainable agriculture and literally sustainable agriculture curriculum options, abuzz with the unlimited potential of her Sturm arrived in Bozeman in 2016 and imdegree.” mediately became involved in both research For Sturm, who hopes to pursue a masand her new community. She spent the ter’s degree after she graduates in the spring, summer after her freshman year studying the same curiosity and drive sparked by that local food systems in eastern Montana and first middle school nutrition class burns just later took a trip to Morocco to participate as brightly nearly a decade later. in a research project focused on sheep graz“My time here has been a lesson in being and plant surveying. But some of her ing open to things happening in ways that I favorite work has been done in the Food didn’t expect,” she said. “It’s been a lot of and Health Lab, examining how agricultural learning about how to be a problem solver management and the environment impact and how to approach questions. I definitely the nutrient density of agricultural crops. have a much more refined understanding of “I had never really thought of that before I agriculture now, but I feel really grateful started working in Dr. Ahmed’s lab,” Sturm that I still get to carry that initial passion for said. “I’d never made the connection that sustainable agriculture with me.” where and how a crop is grown can actually ##### The first mascot of the USMC was an English Bulldog named Jiggs. Jiggs enlisted in the Marines in 1922 and quickly climbed through the ranks, attaining the rank of Sergeant Major in 1925. Sgt. Maj. Jiggs died in 1928 and his death was mourned throughout the Marine Corps. ##### 85% of military working dogs are purchased from Germany and the Netherlands.

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NEW ITEMS

Massey 8-bottom plow. Tag #Hug0420........................................................$3500 Massey 35 25-ft. pull type swather in excellent shape with extra parts. Tag #Hug0420................................................................................................$2500 New Wessex pasture harrows. Tag #Hug0420......................... $170 per section Farm King 10”x70-ft. swing hopper auger. Tag #HiddenLake0420.............$3500 NEW!! Danuser hydraulic post hole digger, 9” & 12” auger. Tag #Hug0420.......... ...............................................................................................Preseason price NEW!! Spike tooth harrow. Tag #Hug0420.

NEW!! Danuser pallet forks for skid steer loader. Tag #Hug0420.......................... ...............................................................................................Preseason price Tebben 6-ft. 3-point mowers. Tag #Hug0420.............................Preseason price NEW!! Tebben 5-ft. 3-point mower. Tag #Hug0420...................Preseason price NEW!! Tebben 10-ft. 3-point mower. Tag #Hug0420.................Preseason price New!! Danuser skid steer mounted hammer. Tag #Hug0420...Preseason price Smithy lathe, Tag #Ruth0420......................................................................$1700 1948 Dodge grain truck with Knapheide box. Tag #Ruth0420.....................$1900 (2) 22-ft. tip-tops for Knapheide box. Tag #StanW0420...........................$500 ea.

International feed grinder, complete with PTO. Tag #Neal0420...................$400 1994 Top Kick truck with 18-ft. van box, 6 speed transmission. Tag #D&B0420.... .................................................................................................................$8000 1991 Ford F700 truck with 24-ft. van body with tail lift, 427 gas engine, new radiator, 247,727 miles. Tag #D&B0420...................................................... Call 1987 Ford F250 pickuyp with no bed, parts pickup, new exhaust system, engine runs, transmission work done. Tag #D&B0420.

1987 GMC truck, 24-ft. van body, 427 gas engine. Tag #D&B0420.

Pickup rack. Tag #D&B0420...........................................................................$275 Squeeze chute, good shape. Tag #D&B0420 1989 Ford, 12-ft. van body, 4-speed overdrive, 7169 miles. Tag #D&B0419.. Call Pickup rack. Tag #D&B0420...........................................................................$350 2-500 gallon round fuel tanks. Tag # #D&B0420......................................$500 ea.

Fuel stand for 500 gallon tank. Tag #D&B0420..............................................$100 International 160 truck with 14-ft. box and hoist. Tag #D&B0420.................. Call International L160 truck with 16-ft. box and hoist, 4x2 speed transmission. Tag #D&B0420.................................................................................................. Call Chevrolet 60 truck with box and cattle rack, 4x2 speed transmission, 68,290 miles. Tag #D&B0420.................................................................................. Call 1984 GMC truck without tail, gas engine, 5 speed transmission, 24-ft. van body.

Tag #D&B0420............................................................................................ Call John Deere 896A 12-ft. side delivery rake. Tag #D&B0420........................$1000 2- 6-ft. spike tooth harrow with drawbar. Tag #JackW0420............................. Call Minn-Kota high lift rock picker, hydraulic drive. Tag #JackW0420...............$1500 John Deere LZB drills, 32-ft., 4) 8-ft. JDS drills with fertilizer boxes, hitch for the 32-ft. Tag #JackW0420.......................................................................... Call 2-John Deere 628 28-ft. plow, Noble mounted harrow. Tag #JackW0420...... Call John Deere 10” spacing drill with fertilizer. Tag #JackW0420.

Noble M 24-ft. of V-blades, 3 – 8-ft. Tag #JackW0420.................................... Call Cat D7 for parts. Tag #JackW0420.

Valmar 320 Fargo spreader mounted on 54 harrow cart, good shape. Tag #JackW0420.

2-John Deere LZB 12-ft. 10” spacing drills, steel packers. Tag #JackW0420.

John Deere 16-ft. plow. Tag #JackW0420...................................................... Call 18-ft. drawbar spike tooth harrow. Tag #JackW0420....................................... Call 4- 6-ft. mounted harrow. Tag #JackW0420...................................................... Call Degelman 6-ft. harrow. Tag #JackW0420....................................................... Call 3-8-ft. John Deere LZB 12” spacing drills. Tag #JackW0420......................... Call 4-12-ft. 10” spacing drills with steel packers, manual lift. Tag #JackW0420.... Call 1972 Ford F900 dump truck with 10-yard. Tag #JackW0420......................... Call Case IH 1010 straight cut header. Tag #JackW0420...................................... Call 1993 Versatile 876 (blue) tractor, 20.8x38 duals, weights, manual transmission, only 2438 hours, tractor is immaculate. Tag #JackW0419........................ Call Versatile 800 tractor with 18.4x38 tires, (2 new tires), manual transmission, 5953 hours. Tag #JackW0420.................................................................. Call Tulsa 12-ft. flatbed with tail roll and winch. Tag #Jack0420............................ Call 14-ft. truck body. Tag #JackW0420.................................................................. Call Summers sprayer for parts. Tag #JackW0420.

Mineral feeder. Tag #JackW0420.................................................................... Call Booms for Summers sprayer. Tag #JackW0420.............................................. Call 3 spike tooth harrows. Tag #JackW0420..................................................$125 ea.

Noble harrows. Tag #JackW0420.

18.4x26 tires, 24.5x32 lug tires, 18.4x38 tires. Tag #JackW0420................... Call Case IH 1680 combine, 30.5x32 tires, good feeder chain. Tag #JackW0420..Call 1987 Holiday Rambler 35-ft. RV, sleeps 6, has new awning, 70,000 miles. Tag #JackW0420............................................................................................ Call GMC 7000 truck with 1500 tank, 16-ft. flatbed, 5 speed manual, 114,363 miles.

Tag #Jack0420.

2-1500 gallon storage tanks. Tag #JackW0420.............................................. Call Summers 60-ft. sprayer mounted on pickup. Sprayer has triple nozzles, 8 hp Honda motor. Tag #JackW0420.................................................................. Call 1952 rockpicking truck with 12-ft. box and hoist. Tag #JackW0420................. Call 1984 Ford F250 pickup, 4-speed manual, 2 wheel drive. Tag #Jack0420...... Call 1970 Ford LN600 truck with 18-ft. box and hoist, ShurLok tarp, 4&2 speed, 83,500 miles. Tag #JackW0420................................................................ Call Feterl 7”x27-ft. grain auger with Wisconsin engine. Tag #Jack#W0420.......... Call 2010 John Deere 85F 83 hp orchard tractor, FWD, runs great. Tag #RicjT0420... ..............................................................................................................$15,000 New Luck Now TMR mixers. Tag #Larry0420.

New Fair bale processor. Tag #Larry 0420.

New Harsh mixer wagon. Tag #Larry0420.

MacDon 973 36-ft. header with pickup reel, fits Case IH 2188 combine. Tag #Jim0420...........................................................................................$18,000 2008 John Deere 568 net wrap baler. Tag #Gordon0420.

John Deere 567 loader. Tag #0420..........................................................$11,000 Kubota out-front mower, 6-ft. deck. Also has rotary broom, hydrostat 4x4, 3 cylinder diesel, 2201 hours. Tag #Leon0420.............................................$12,500 Case David Brown 990 tractor with loader, 3-point. Tag #Leon0420.

International 706 2WD tractor with loader. Tag #Leon0420.

Oliver 80 Hart Par tractor. Tag #Leon0420.

Crown rock picker. Tag #Leon0420.

6-ft. rotary mower. Tag #Leon0420.

Stihl forklift 8000 lb. capacity, 18,883 hours, propane, side shift. Tag #Leon0420.

Hyster 1140 forklift, 2650 hours, side shift. Tag #Leon0420.

Jarco lift with 25-ft. bed. Tag #Leon0420..................................................$11,000 2019 PJ 18x43 trailer. Tag #EquipC0420.....................................................$2500 Doepper Super 8 hay trains, hauls 40 round bales. TAg #JeffH04201.....$10,500 1978 Steiger tractor, 9300 hours. Tag #DarwinZ0420.................................$9900 Case IH 310 Magnum FWD. Tag #RogerW0420...................................$220,000 2018 Versatile 610 4WD tractor, 350 hours, 870x38 tires. Tag #RogW0420.......... .........................................................................................................$280,000 Minneapolis Moline G900 2WD tractor. Tag #ANF0420.

Minneaspolis Moline G706 tractor, 2WD. Tag #ANF0420.

Bougault 7200 84-ft. heavy harrow. Tag #Rog0420.................................$40,000 1985 Champion 780 road grader with Detroit diesel engine. Tag #Rog0420........ ...........................................................................................................$17,000

GRAIN DRYERS

M&W grain dryer with 75 hp electric motor, portable dryer, new bearings. Tag #Vermulum0919....................................................................................$7500 M&W 450 grain dryer. Tag #DaveB1018.

Keho grain drying equipment........................................................Call for prices

GRAIN CARTS

Kinze 1050 grain cart, duals. Tag #Rog0916...........................................$36,000 2009 Avalanche 1100 bushel grain cart, tarp. Tag #Rog0916.................$44,000

LAST MONTH’S NEW ITEM

TUB GRINDERS & PROCESSORS

1995 Concord 4012 air seeder, 40-ft. 12” spacing with 3400 air cart, 5” carbide tips. Good condition. Tag #RonH0320................................................$29,000 Melroe 36-ft. plow with 1 1/4” shanks. Tag #JoeK0320.................................$4500 2007 New Holland SF216 sprayer, 80-ft. booms, windscreens, 1600 gallon tank.

Tag #Dale0320...................................................................................$15,000 John Deere 360 36-ft. swinger disc. Tag #BC0320.

2-35-ft. pickup reels. Tag #BC0320.

MacDon 24-ft. reel. Tag #BC0320.

Shop lights. Tag #Zenith0320.

John Deere 9400 40-ft. drills. Tag #Klint0320............................................... $9500 New Holland 1048 2-wide bale wagon. Tag #Klint0320.

Massey Ferguson 1841 center line square baler. Tag #Klint0320.

Tender box. Tag #Klint0320............................................................................ $3500 Used Bale King bale processor. Tag #Larry0320......................................... $8500 Versatile 276 bidirectional with loader, no grapple. Tag #RonC0320......... $25,000 New Holland 664 twine wrap baler. Nice shape. Tag #BobS0320.

BALE MOVERS

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Highline 6800 multi bale processor. Tag #JR1019...................................$14,900 2013 Haybuster T1130 tub grinder. Tag #CodyY0219............................ $28,000 New Fair bale processors. Tag #Larry0419.

New Harsh mixer wagons. Tag #Larry0419.

New Luck Now Tmr mixers. Tag #Larry0419.

New Fair bale processors & snowblowers. See Huggy Bear.

International 1150 grinder mixer, 20” mill, 2 screens, new drive belt, shedded.

Tag #ANF0220......................................................................................$5500

New Holland 1032 bale wagon. Tag #Lyle0120.

1985 New Holland 1032 2-wide bale wagon, 69 bale capacity. Tag #HerbK0519.

New Holland Super 1049 3-wide bale wagon. Tag #BobB0619..............$14,000 New Holland 1049 bale wagon. Tag #MarionT1019.

3-point round bale retriever. Tag #BigSkyC0617..........................................$1500

2WD & 4WD TRACTORS

Farm King 10x60 swing hopper auger. Tag #JohnA0619...........................$9500 Brandt 1060 swing hopper grain auger. Tag #JohnA1118..........................$8500 Westgo 1310 10”x60-ft. side delivery auger. #Hugh0220...........................$2500

International 444 2WD tractor, loader, 3-point, 38 HP, 540 PTO, 1976 hours. Tag #Wayne1019.........................................................................................$7500 John Deere 2750 2WD tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, loader., 5232 hours, has 18.4x30 rear tires. Tag #ArtH0619.....................................................$19,500 1996 New Holland 9030 bi-directional, 6000 hours, with Case 18-ft. auger header, loader and grapple fork. Tag #Tanner0619............................................$59,000 Allis Chalmers 170 2WD tractor, loader, 3-point, 540 PTO.Tag #Neal0519...$7500 John Deere 1010 tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, power steering. Loader is available.

Tag #ANF0819......................................................................................$6500 Big Bud HN360 tractor, 855 Cummins engine, 400 hp. Tag #ArtH0519..$45,000 2018 Case IH 580Q quad track tractor, twin hydraulic pumps, PTO, Luxury cab, full auto steer, 1330 drive line hours. Next to new. Tag #Kem1219...$275,000 Case IH Puma 180 FWD tractor with loader/grapple, Tag #Wayne1118...$80,000 Case MX120 MFD tractor with L300 FEL loader, 96” bucket, square bale fork.

Tag #Rog0919....................................................................................$45,000 Versatile 610 4WD tractor, only 250 hours, has 8:00x38 dual tires, power shift, 60 GPM hydraulics, weight package. Tag #RogW1019....................$385,000 John Deere 4020 tractor with loader, engine overhaul.Tag #TedH0519.....$15,000 Ford 8000 2WD tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, cab, loader. Tag #Glenn0619.

2008 Case IH 535 4WD tractor, 20.8x46 triples, PTO, PowerShift transmission, 3800 hours. Tag #Roger0120.

2014 Case IH 550 quad track tractor, 1200 hours. Tag #Roger0120........$280,000 Versatile 895 4WD tractor. Tag #Riley0219............................................. $17,500 Case 4490 4WD tractor, 18.4x38 tires with 1000 PTO. Tag #BillB0220....$12,000 Steiger PT225 tractor. Tag #Paul0220......................................................$12,500

ROUND & SQUARE BALERS

2013 John Deere 569 Premium round baler. Tag #Abe0919..................$16,500 Case IH 3450 soft core round baler, makes 900# bales. Tag #JohnP1019...$4500 2005 Challenger RB 56 round baler, twine wrap, 1000 PTO, only 4400 bales.

Tag #Harvey1019.............................................................................. $13,000 1992 New Holland 2000 big square baler. Tag #ArtH0519......................$12,000 2008 John Deere 568 round baler, net wrap, Gandy Hat preservative kit.$25,000 New Holland 275 small square baler. Makes 14x16 bales. Tag #Ben0619......$2500 2005 Case RBX562 round baler with net wrap. Excellent shape. Tag #Doug0819........................................................................................$13,500 New Holland 644 round baler. Tag #Fred0719............................................$5000 Case IH LBX 432 big square baler. Tag #DougR0819.............................$37,000

SPRAYERS & SPREADERS

Flexi-Coil 67XL sprayer, 100-ft. booms with John Deere rate controller. Tag #BigSky0719...........................................................................................$5500 Valmar 245 pull type granular spreader. Tag #Karen1219.

Simonsen granular trailer type spreader. Tag #Karen1219.

Bourgault 1460 sprayer, 110-ft. booms. Tag #KeithD0716 John Deere 335 pickup sprayer with 35-ft. booms, QuickJet nozzles. Tag #Ruth0619 NYB 60-ft. sprayer for parts. Tag #DanRP0619.

Flexi-Coil 67XL sprayer, 100-ft. booms with double nozzles. Tag #HerbK0519.

1982 Valmar 240 granular applicator, hydraulic drive, mounted on homemade cart. Tag #HerbK0916 Polaris pull-type fertilizer spreader. Tag #BC0819....................................... $200 Barber 34-ft. spreader. Tag #BDawson0316 F/S sprayer mounted on 21/2 ton Kaiser Jeep, 80-ft. booms, 1000 gallon tank. Tag #GBrunner0516.................................................................................$22,000 Century sprayer. Tag #HugBr0914................................................................$200 Flexi-Coil 67XL 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer with wind screens. Tag #Paul0220......................................................................................... $15,000 Compu Spray 60-ft. sprayer. Tag #Hugh0220............................................ $3500

SWATHERS & MOWER CONDITIONERS

2001 John Deere 4890 windrower with 16-ft double sickle header, 1700 cutting hours. Tag #Harvey0220...................................................................... $42,000

PICKUPS & CARS

1999 Ford E350 van, 15-passenger, 459,893 miles. Tag #Lorenze0619....$6000 2012 Ford F150 pickup, 4x4, 68,500 miles, automatic. Tag #Doug0819..$17,000 1993 5-seat bus, 138,000 miles. Tag #Lorenze0619...................................$6000 2008 Dodge 3500 pickup, grill guard, flatbed with tool boxes, 299,000 miles, Cummins, 10,000 miles on new transmission. Tag #TagLorenze0619....$15,000 1976 Ford F250 pickup, manual transmission, gas. Tag #JackW0120........$6500 1996 GMC 3500 pickup with service box. Tag #JackW0120.......................$7500 2002 Chevrolet 3/4-ton pickup, automatic transmission, crew cab, gas engine.

Tag #RichT0120.................................................................................$10,500 2011 Dodge new long box, fender flares, rear bumper and tailgate. Black in color.

Tag #DanG1219....................................................................................$5500 1981 Ford F250 2WD pickup with service box. Tag #Ruth0618..................$1500 1948 CJ Jeep. Tag #MartyD1019.

1995 Chevrolet 2500 pickup, long box. Tag #DP0919.

1973 Ford F250 pickup, set up as a fire truck. Tag #Hugh0220................. $6000

Harsh Feeder Equipment ----------------------------------Wacker-Neuson Construction Equipment FINANCING AVAILABLE

MANURE SPREADERS

H&S 2212 manure spreader, 125 bushel, 540 PTO. Tag #FredV0120.......$10,500

GRAIN AUGERS

AIR SEEDERS & DRILLS

Flexi-Coil 5000 33-ft. air seeder, 1720 tow behind tank, 7.5” spacing. Tag #Paul0120.

2012 New Holland P1060 70-ft. air drill with 10” spacing, steel packers, stealth opening, complete with 430 bushel V-R tow between cart. Tag #Rog0120.

Great Plains 40-ft. air drill with 7.5” spacing, 1400 bushel tank. Tag #RogWill0919.............................................................................................$62,000 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft. air seeder with Flexi-Coil 3450 tow behind tank, 12” spacing, variable rate, double shoot. Tag #ArtH0519................................$49,000 Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. 9.5” spacing air drill with 1720 tow behind cart, double shoot. Tag #ArtH0519.........................................................................$45,000 2013 Sunflower 60-ft. air seeder, 10” spacing, single shoot, 3 Rank Edge on shank with 360 bushel air cart. Tag #KevinB1118............................$145,000 Concord 6012 3 rank air seeder with Fargo 3350 stainless steel air cart. Tag #DBK1118..........................................................................................$25,000 Victory 35-ft. air seeder, 14” spacing with 5” spreader (actually will spread 7” spacing), 2320 tow behind tank with auxiliary 3rd tank, rubber packers. Can be either single or double shoot. Tag #Rick0416....................................... $18,500 Haybuster 32-ft. drills, for parts. Tag #Russ0519........................................$5000 2-Melroe 8-ft. 9” spacing drills. Tag #CarlT1019......................................$700 ea.

2006 New Holland 57-ft. air seeder with 430 tow-behind cart, single shoot. Tag #Rog0219..........................................................................................$65,000 Versatile 2000 42-ft drills on transport hitch, 12” spacing. Packers have been recapped. Tag #GaryS0220................................................................. $6500 2006 New Holland 57-ft. air seeder with 430 tow behind cart single shoot. Tag #Rog0220......................................................................................... $65,000 1997 Flexi-Coil 5000 air seeder with 1720 tow behind cart, 7.2” spacing. Tag #Paul0220......................................................................................... $25,000

PLOWS

Melroe 33-ft. plow, no wing lift cylinders, Flexi-Coil mounted harrows. Tag #GeraldB0120...............................................................................................$4500 Gysler 36-ft. plow with Degelman mounted harrows and rod weeder. Tag #GaryS0120......................................................................................... $5000 John Deere 5-bottom pull type moldboard plow. Tag #DanG1219..............$2500 Gysler 36-ft. plow with 12-ft. center section, AM rod weeder, Degelman mounted harrows. Tag #GaryS0819.................................................................... $5600 Melroe 36-ft. plow, no wing lift, Honey Bee rod. Tag #JohnA0619...............$4500 Gysler 24-ft. plow with wing lift. Tag #Tex0519............................................$3500 Flexi-Coil 340 40-ft. plow. Tag #ArtHanson0220........................................$11,500

COMBINES

1991 Case IH 2188 combine, 4400 engine hours, 3021 separator hours, 36-ft.

Honey Bee draper header. Tag #DaveP0220.....................................$28,000 2005 Case 2388 combine with 36-ft. 2042 draper header, 2610 engine hours, and 1899 separator hours. Tag #Paul0220........................................ $65,000

HARROWS

Riteway 8100 heavy harrow. Tag #Doug0518......................................... $39,500 25 harrow teeth for Morris mounted harrow. Tag #Mrshal0619......................$100 1998 Flexi-Coil System 82 60-ft. harrow with straight tines, down pressure springs. Tag #Paul0220..................................................................... $13,000

MISCELLANEOUS

2012 Marv Haugen land plane. Tag#Brent0719..........................................$3500 1979 Wilderness travel trailer, 20-ft. bumper pull, 2” ball, good tires, 2 30# bottles ..............................................................................................................$5000 2011 Marv Haugen broom. Tag #Brent0719...............................................$4000 NEW Farm King rototillers available. Tag #Hug0519.

3 spear bale spear, fits bidirectional tractor. Tag #DonB1218......................$1200 2011 Ingersol Rand light plant, excellent shape. Tag #SteveM0819..........$5500 Techno-Paul portable squeeze chute with AgTronic scale with 5 panels. Tag #TonyS0617.

Canola roller. Tag #Hugh0220..................................................................... $1500 2 new scraper tires, 32.25x29 E-3 32-ply. Tag #Riley0220....................$5500 ea.

Degelman 5178 hylift rock picker. Tag #Doug0518.....................................$9500 Degelman R570S rockpicker. Tag #Fey0619..............................................$4500

BACKHOES, LOADERS, SKID STEERS GRADERS, CRAWLERS & EXCAVATORS

New Holland L220 skid steer loader. Tag #Pack1019.

Cat D4 dozer, pull start Pony motor. Tag #MarvinC0218............................... $6000 Caterpillar D7E with dozer. Tag #Oween0619.........................................$21,500

Financing Available COMBINE & HAY HEADERS

Case IH 1015 pickup header with Rakeup pickup attachment. Tag #Paul0220..... ...........................................................................................................$10,000

PJ Trailers & Mini Trucks Call Huggy Bear

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Say you saw it in the Trader’s Dispatch

PUMP FOR SALE

Kelderman 18 inch water pump with 75hp electric motor 8000 GPM 10 TDH............................................. $15,000 Call, 406-489-6489, Sidney MT

Call Garrett Harshbarger

COMBINE FOR SALE

1998 John Deere 9610 combine, 2806 separator hours, very clean deluxe cab. Combine is field ready. New concave and cylinder bars, Crary Big Top grain tank extension installed, straw chopper with hydraulic chaff spreader, unloading auger extension. Very clean and well maintained........................... $35,000 or Best Offer Phone Aaron (406) 355-4402 or Shawn (406) 355-4404, Rudyard, Montana

ITEMS FOR SALE

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How drones can help farmers

From American Society of Agronomy very useful to pros. “Purchasing a used or Have you seen a drone buzzing by in refurbished drone or an older model can a park and wondered what all the fuss is help reduce the initial cost but still provide about? These flying vehicles may seem like a lot of the same features.” just an upgrade to the remote-controlled There’s only so much you can learn helicopters of yesteryear. But drones are reabout drones online. That’s why de Koff ceiving a lot of attention for good reasons. also takes drones around Tennessee so Drones can help people, including farmfarmers can try them out firsthand. ers and scientists, look at and analyze pretty “Farmers get the chance to fly a drone,” much anything. When it comes to farm says de Koff. “And then I talk about differfields, they can help track flooding, hail damage, or even plant health — fast. ent uses in agriculture, drone regulations “The easiest advantage of drones is and then different types of drones and opthat they can be a huge time saver,” says tions as well as cost.”

Jason de Koff, an extension professor at So, it takes a lot of work — and a good Tennessee State University. “Rather than amount of money — just to start flying. going out and scouting fields on foot or by But it can pay off for farmers and ranchers, truck, they can scout them with a drone in and the scientists who want to help them. a lot less time and pinpoint specific areas Ranchers can keep close eyes on their that they might want to visit for closer herds using drones to keep animals safe. inspection.”

Or drones can help farmers spot diseases But drones aren’t a toy, and they take on their crops. That knowledge could help training to use safely. In fact, the Federal farmers spray pesticide only at the time and Aviation Administration (FAA) requires place it’s needed. drone pilots get certified to use drones lePlus, farms are bigger than they used to be. So, it can be hard for a farmer to see all gally. That’s why de Koff offers a webinar their land. Farmers can use drones to keep series through the American Society of up with their operations.

Agronomy so farmers and researchers can But maybe the most exciting possibility learn about drones. is the chance to study how plants grow.

Those FAA requirements are all about Special cameras attached to drones can acsafety. Drones can only fly during daylight, to make sure they’re visible. And pilots quire a lot of information from a picture of must be able to see their drones at all times. fields. “Software is available that can take Drones are also limited to flying under 400 images captured by the drone and measure feet to prevent them from colliding with things like plant health, plant populations, airplanes. And drones can’t be flown near plant cover,” says de Koff. people who aren’t part of a flight. So, if That wealth of information can help scisomeone buzzes their drone too close to entists help farmers. Researchers could use you, they’re breaking the rules. that special software to tell when drought is Getting a remote pilot license takes more starting to slow plant growth. Then water than just knowing what not to do. Weather could be used where it’s needed most. Or is a big factor. If it’s raining or snowing, software could automatically track how flying is impossible. But a professional many weeds are in a field. Eventually, drone can handle windy conditions. Plus, phone apps might be available that analyze de Koff teaches how to read airport charts. drone images and give farmers the informaThese maps give drone pilots the info they tion they need to keep their farms running need to stay away from passenger planes. smoothly.

In his course, de Koff covers these rules So, with a little know-how — and the to prepare would-be drone pilots to take the right license — farmers can turn to drones FAA test. He also discusses the confusing to grow food more efficiently. That’s betworld of commercial drones. More drones ter for their business, for consumers, and are becoming available all the time, which for the environment. Knowing how useful makes it hard to know which one to buy they are, you’ll never look at a drone the and how much to spend. same way again.

“A good drone can cost around $1,200 Learn more about de Koff’s recent webito $1,800,” says de Koff. The toys that nar series by visiting the American Society cost just a couple hundred dollars aren’t of Agronomy.

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UM shares this list with esteemed procom. “My adviser in the department was grams at the University of California-Davis, encouraging and went above and beyond the University of Vermont, Arizona State in order to make sure my class schedule and the University of North Carolinawasn’t overwhelming but challenging and Chapel Hill. made sure I had internship opportunities The rankings are based on annual tuition, whenever they became available – even in median debt and median salary a year after her ancient DNA lab.” graduation, as reported by the U.S. DepartThrough their program, anthropology ment of Education. UM anthropology stustudents receive a hands-on education. dents pay around $25,000 annually and take Recently, students in Kelly Dixon’s on $26,750 in debt, but then make a median archaeology class discovered artifacts in salary of $27,900 after they graduate. downtown Missoula that illuminated life The UM Anthropology Department demore than a century ago. fines anthropology as the study of people, Last year, an anthropology doctoral stuboth ancient and contemporary, in their dent received three prestigious awards and biological, archaeological, cultural and linfellowships, including the Philanthropic guistic context through integrating findings Educational Organization Sisterhood from the social sciences, natural sciences Scholar Award, for her work connecting the and the humanities. UM’s program offers goals of cultural collections with Indigenous seven undergraduate degrees, including communities. archaeology, forensic anthropology, linLearn more about an UM anthropology guistics and more, as well as three minors education on the Anthropology Department and three undergraduate certificates. The site (http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com). program also boasts four master’s and two

Planting Potatoes

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Thank You Thursday

All too often in our lives, we find ourselves in utterly thankless situations. We have dedicated our heart and soul to various projects and goals, only to find that, in the long run, these efforts are utterly pointless.

Or so that’s what we’re led to believe by the level of gratitude we receive from others.

Thank You Thursday is a great opportunity to start making a positive change in this situation by recognizing those in your life who make things easier, those who love you, and those who just make your day better by tossing you a smile and a friendly hello.

History of Thank You Thursday In situations from interpersonal to corporate, a show of gratitude can make a huge difference in the happiness and morale of those involved. Productivity can be improved by showing those who work for you that their efforts matter, simply by thanking them and showing them the full gratitude for all they’ve done.

When it comes to interpersonal relationships, there’s a lot of hurt and misunderstanding that can be waved away with a simple “I’m thankful for you and all that you do.” Thank You Thursday was established to remind us that there’s always an opportunity to thank someone and that gratitude can happen on any day, for any reason. This one is for those who need the excuse and a reminder.

Originally inspired by the inspirational work of Jon Gordon, Thank You Thursday was established both to embrace the power of positivity, and to show the boost you can give to another life and how such a simple act can even improve the life of the one showing gratitude. Jon Gordon is a motivational speaker who has published multiple books on how to improve attitudes, morale, and the end result of doing so.

Fortune 500 companies like Campbell Soup and Wells Fargo and sports teams alike have benefitted from his lessons.

How to celebrate Thank You Thursday Quite simple really, celebrating Thank You Thursday requires little more than recognizing the amazing people in your life. Grab donuts to thank your team, or pass out cards for a personalized touch, or even just give a word of praise for those who make your life or business run smoothly and bring a smile to your face.

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Considerations for potential hemp producers

By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture As much uncertainty continues to swirl around the hemp industry, University of Kentucky (UK) agricultural economists remind producers to consider their personal risk tolerance, business contracts and all possible production scenarios before committing to grow hemp.

“This is still a developing industry that has long-term viability but is going through significant growing pains as it tries to find its footing and develop the infrastructure needed to support the industry,” said Tyler Mark, economist in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

With the 2018 Farm Bill removing hemp from the controlled substance list, growers from more states will be producing hemp this year, increasing the supply for a market that is struggling to build the infrastructure needed to support the current supply. While consumer demand continues to increase for hemp-based products, U.S. producers more than doubled their hemp acreage from 2018 to 2019.

In Kentucky in 2019, producers licensed 60,000 acres for hemp production, up from 15,000 acres in 2018. Of those acres, farmers planted 26,000 acres and harvested a little more than 20,000 in 2019. This was up from around 5,000 acres for both in 2018.

“Farmers across the nation are looking for a ‘magic bullet’ to help counter an overall depressed farm economy. While future demand for hemp-related products remains positive, farmers must understand the market risks they face with competition from producers across the U.S. and the world,” Mark said.

While UK economists’ preliminary budgets continue to show potential for favorable returns for the production of cannabidiol, federal regulations concerning CBD content need clarification. Those budgets show a significant drop in farm-level prices for hemp biomass since July.

With many producers not only new to hemp production but also to agriculture, they will likely be unfamiliar with agricultural lending and crop insurance.

It is an exciting time right now for agriculture as new producers enter the hemp sector, however, there is a steep learning curve with this crop for both experienced and inexperienced producers, Mark said.

Here are some questions the economists recommend potential and current producers ask themselves: • How many acres can I effectively manage?

• Do I have market access?

• How much money do I have to invest?

• Who and how will I finance the crop?

• Do I have a contract? Do I understand its terms?

• Have I effectively researched the company I am contracting with?

• What can I do to lessen my risk?

• What is my plan B? CONTINUED ON PAGE B27

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Add “true” low-carb diet to U.S. Dietary Guidelines

From the Low-Carb Action Network The Low-Carb Action Network (L-CAN), a coalition of doctors, academics, advocates and Americans with personal success stories, is strongly urging members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) to support adding a “true” low-carb as just one dietary option for Americans.

L-CAN believes that adding a true low-carb (properly defined as 25% of calories as carbs or less) could go a long way towards reversing the epidemics of chronic illnesses faced by 60% of Americans. Clinical trial research shows that subjects are losing weight, lowering high blood pressure and even reversing type-2 diabetes and prediabetes on lowcarb diets. This is why the American Diabetes Association included low- and very-low carbohydrate eating patterns in its 2020 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes.

Dr. Nadir Ali, Chairman, Department of Cardiology, Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, and Research Professor, Dept. of Nutrition and Applied Science, University of Houston, is a national leader in the use of low-carb diets to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease.

“As a cardiologist, I regularly prescribe a low-carb diet to treat patients with type 2 diabetes and other heart-related diseases to better their health and improve their quality of life,” said Ali. “Given the significant amount of scientific research and evidence supporting this diet, it’s time for U.S. nutrition policy leaders to prescribe a low-carb option for those who are tipping into obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and more.”

Dr. Charles Cavo, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Pounds Transformation in West Hartford, CT, stated that USDA and HHS officials have defined “low-carb” inaccurately for their scientific reviews. They’ve defined the diet as having a carbohydrate intake of less than 45 percent or less of overall daily calories, while leading experts in the field define a low-carb diet as less than 25 percent or less.

“If USDA and HHS continue to wrongfully define lowcarb diets, they will skew the results of their analyses,” said Cavo. “Defining ‘low-carb’ as 45 percent of calories will wash out any positive results, which are largely achieved only when people significantly reduce carbohydrates, down to 25 percent of calories or less. It’s not clear why USDA chose their definition of low-carb, since the agency provided no documentation or footnotes. But it’s clearly not consistent with leading research in the field or what we see working for weight loss and disease reversal in clinical practice.”

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) are updated every five years and are supposed to provide nutrition advice for the entire nation. With obesity rates and nutrition-related illness rates hitting all-time highs, it’s imperative that the guidelines are updated to include viable dietary options for all Americans, including the majority of our population suffering from a nutrition-related illness.

L-CAN members have been urging the DGA committee that the current guidelines are incorrectly defining a low-carb diet. There were over 350 public comments submitted to the USDA on low-carbohydrate diets – at least 85% of the total submissions during a two-week allowed for public comment on the scientific protocols last year.

L-CAN members say they have one simple ask for the committee: to include a true low-carb diet as just one option in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

More information on L-CAN can be found at http://links. lowcarbaction.org.

Considerations for potential hemp producers CONTINUED FROM PAGE B26

• What happens if I have to destroy my crop for high THC content?

UK agricultural economists developed interactive, enterprise budget models for hemp producers that they can use to evaluate different production methods and scenarios. They are available online at http://hemp.ca.uky.edu/.

“While competition is tight and risks exist, Kentucky producers have significant advantages for growing hemp compared to producers in other states, including an experienced farmer base, one of the top research programs in the nation, existing infrastructure and investments, and administrative support from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture,” Mark said.

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From University of Wyoming Extension The same science that powers Google searches, Siri and Alexa and self-operating cars may steer laboratory analysis in the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Microsoft has awarded two $15,000 grants through its “AI for Earth” program to scientists in two departments in the college. Researchers Todd Schoborg and Jay Gatlin in molecular biology will examine biomedical imaging datasets to understand the molecular basis of human disease, and Brant Schumaker in the Department of Veterinary Sciences will evaluate migration congregation points and potential for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) transmission.

Scientists in both departments will collaborate with Lars Kotthoff, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, whose research combines artificial intelligence and machine learning. He also leads the Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Center (AIM) on campus.

The grant enables scientists to use Microsoft cloud computing resources.

“Their idea is to use artificial intelligence to address some of the big problems we haven’t been able to address through other means,” said Schoborg. “It’s their ‘Let’s bring computing thinking into the mix,’ which is where the artificial intelligence comes in.”

AI would perform image analyses in much the same way a human would, relying on the ability to “learn” what features are present in an image and then using that information to automatically identify those same features in subsequent images.

This process is known as training, said Schoborg. The more images fed to the AI algorithm containing a particular feature, the more accurately AI can identify them. For example, distinguishing between the brain and the heart in a CT scan, or the difference between an elk and a mule deer at a wildlife camera trap.

“The AI will analyze data to reach conclusions about things that there’s not really a way to get these answers otherwise,” said Schoborg.

Schumaker’s grant will help automate camera trap image analysis to identify wildlife and livestock captured within thousands of images.

“Our goal of the project is to evaluate congregation points and potential for CWD transmission among cervids at agricultural salt sites,” said Schumaker, an epidemiologist and supervisor of diagnostic and regulatory serology at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory.

The projects will most likely have students feed images into the programs, building up machine learning to be able to identify features scientists want. Personnel could be freed from spending hours in front of computers going through thousands of images.

“These grants are designed to get this framework in place,” said Schoborg. “The image analysis becomes more streamlined. Then we can use it for many things, whether it be for (wildlife) migration initiatives or analyzing biological samples, for example, looking at brain slices to determine whether an animal has CWD.” Schoborg said he and Gatlin do not have experience in machine learning or AI. “That’s where we need Lars and his experience,” Schoborg said. “He’s the brains behind the whole computational aspect of this project. That’s right in his wheelhouse.”

The AI for Earth program is funding two graduate students in the College of Engineering to support the two agriculture college projects. Graduate funding has also been provided for College of Education/College of Engineering to support the training of in-service teachers for K-12 computer science deployment for UW as the Code.org regional partner. Code. org helps expand computer science in schools, teaching students and providing curriculum to educators. Its goal is to expand diversity in computer science.

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Horsefeathers is a slang term meaning absurd and nonsensical, thought to be first used in a political cartoon, “Barney Google,” written by William De Beck.

It is the name of a 1932 Marx Brothers film.

The Friesian breed of horse is sometimes called the feathered horse because of the long hairs on the lower leg that resemble feathers.

Many draft breeds have these long hairs, called feathering.

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Skookumchuck Ag, Sunburst, Montana is liquidating a complete modern line of equipment as they close down the farm division.

This is mostly late model, lower hour equipment with dealer maintenance on much of it.

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2012 John Deere 4830 self-propelled sprayer, 100-ft. booms, 1000 gallon stainless tank, 5 way nozzles includes TeeJet bodies for 4, 7.5, 10, 15 gpa tips plus three hole fertilizer dribble nozzles, 2630 controller with Starfire 3000, full spare set row crop (85%) and floater tires (pictured) (75%), 2591 hours........... ....................................................... $125,000

2005 Case IH 2388 combine, factory straw choppers, maxi tops for 300 bushel capacity, large and small wire concaves, third feederhouse lift cylinder factory kit installed for use with CASE 3020 flex header, recent work orders. Comes with 30-ft. 1010 header with trailer, 2015 pickup header with Swathmaster attachment, 1689 rotor hours, 2078 engine hours........................................................................$75,000 2005 Case IH 2388 combine, factory straw choppers, maxi tops for 300 bushel capacity, large and small wire concaves, recent work orders. Comes with 30-ft. 1010 header with trailer, 2015 pickup header with Swathmaster attachment.

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2005? Summers 70-ft. heavy harrow, hydraulic adjustable tines, new hoses on main lines................................$15,000 2000 Castleton grain trailer, 42-ft., 102” wide, 72” tall, steel bins, spring ride, newer canvas, pintle hitch, plumbed for pup...........................................................................$15,000

Case IH 3020 35-ft. flex auger head with pickup reel and air reel...........................................................................$27,000 2006 Brandt 65-ft. auger. Has been repaired..................$7000 1977 International 490 30-ft. disc, 18” blades................$4500

1965 Eversman scraper, 3 yard. Good condition............$6000 2000 gallon horizontal tank..... ................................ $1250

1983 Case IH 1390 2WD tractor, 60 PTO hp, cab, loader.................... $12,500 8”x10 poly flighting bin unloader, hydraulic drive, Gerber’s built........... $1000

1999 Bench Industries barley upgrader, 400 bushel/ hour with 6” auger, single phase power.............$4500 Seed treater unit............ $450

1996 John Deere 7600 FWA tractor, 112 hp, PowerShift, 540/1000 PTO, 740 loader, 8-ft. bucket and forks. Newer rubber on front, 4000-5000 hours............................$47,500 2009 E-Z Trail 710 grain cart, PTO or hydraulic drive, tarp.

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UM research center on population health

As emergent pathogens like coronavirus and climaterelated health challenges like wildfire smoke plague human populations, the University of Montana has received funding for a center dedicated to understanding and addressing public health challenges to Montana and the region.

The National Institutes of Health awarded the University a five-year $10.75 million grant to establish the Center for Population Health Research (CPHR, pronounced “see-far”).

The center will support epidemiological and mathematical modeling approaches to better understand risk and resilience factors for children’s health outcomes. It also will create disease prevention strategies developed for, adapted to and tested in rural communities.

“We are excited about this opportunity to improve the health of children in Montana and the region,” said Curtis Noonan, center director and a professor of epidemiology in UM’s School of Public and Community Health Sciences.

“This comes at a challenging time for the public health community.

“We could not have predicted the current coronavirus threat when we started building this center over two and a half years ago,” he said, “but we did recognize the importance of developing the capacity to work with medical and public health data to better understand health risk in our communities and identify disease prevention strategies that are relevant to rural states.”

CPHR research projects establish scientific capacity and a collaborative infrastructure highly relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin Landguth leads a project to better understand the factors that influence respiratory infection among children.

“In the face of today’s infectious disease complexities, mathematical models offer essential tools for synthesizing information to understand epidemiological patterns and for developing the quantitative evidence base for decisionmaking in public health,” Landguth said. “Partnering with pediatric health care providers, my project will integrate novel data streams, computational capacity and new modeling tools, allowing for the description of how respiratory infections vary across space and time – particularly in rural communities where such work is limited.”

Public health leaders anticipate that a coronavirus vaccine, when developed, will be an essential component of controlling the current pandemic. A CPHR project led by Sophia Newcomer focuses on identifying the barriers to early childhood vaccinations, especially in rural areas where childhood vaccination rates are lower than public health targets.

“Vaccines are the most effective tool we have for infectious disease control and prevention,” said Newcomer.

“Working with the state health department and local providers, my project seeks to identify why some Montana children fall behind or don’t receive recommended vaccines and to develop strategies to increase vaccination rates across the state.”

Environmental epidemiologist Erin Semmens leads a third research project investigating the impact of community exposures to smoke from wildfires – an increasingly recognized and now constant public health threat to the region.

“Wildfire events are increasing in frequency, duration and intensity due to climate change,” Semmens said. “Through a collaboration with the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, local health systems and UM colleagues across campus, our project aims to quantify how these exposures influence early childhood development, as well as birthweight and risk of preterm birth. Both are linked to long-term susceptibility to disease and infections.”

A key feature of CPHR is to provide core resources to support both current and future researchers who explore important population health questions. The Data and Modeling Core, led by Jon Graham, provides center researchers with tools and infrastructure for working with sensitive electronic data such as medical records and state health tracking systems.

To effectively translate research findings to action, the Intervention Support Core, led by Tony Ward, provides CPHR investigators with the expertise and tools for designing novel disease prevention and health promotion strategies. Such strategies will be further informed by the CPHR Stakeholder Advisory Board, which includes key players in the health care, public health and policy arenas.

Reed Humphrey, dean of the College of Health that includes the School of Public and Community Health Sciences, said the award to establish CPHR at UM demonstrates the CONTINUED ON PAGE C5

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college’s capacity and commitment to grow its reach in public health.

“Importantly, it opens the doors to enhanced collaboration across our health professions at UM and our Family Medicine Residency that are consistent with our parallel commitment in interprofessional education and collaborative practice,” Humphrey said.

CPHR resources and research projects also provide fantastic opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to engage in cutting-edge, NIH-funded research.

“This project provides undergraduate and graduate students from several departments across campus the opportunity to work with our world-class faculty in research areas that have become increasingly relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said UM Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship Scott Whittenburg. “The University of Montana is rapidly becoming a leader in vaccine development and implications for public health.”

#### An aged farmer and his wife were leaning against the edge of their pig-pen when the old woman wistfully recalled that the next week would mark their golden wedding anniversary. “Let’s have a party, Homer,” she suggested. “Let’s kill a pig.”

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By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service Research, which will be held at MSU in Montana State University (MSU) student March. She hopes to present the findings Katherine Hezel’s research project started at the American Marketing Association’s with a dream – literally.

International Collegiate Conference, which Hezel is a member of the American Marwill be held in New Orleans in March, and keting Association student organization at she has submitted proposals to present at MSU. Last year, another student member, several other national conferences for unKrista Lauring, conducted research and dergraduates. She and Van Steenburg also went on to win first place at a prestigious hope to publish the results in an academic research competition. She also presented journal. her findings at a large academic research The results could impact a large industry. conference.

According to the nonprofit Brewers AsHezel said she dreamed one night that sociation, craft beer makes up more than she followed in Lauring’s steps by cona quarter of the $114.2 billion U.S. beer ducting her own research and successfully market. It’s also growing quickly: From presenting it at conferences. Hezel, a senior 2014 to 2017, the industry saw double-digit working toward a degree in marketing from growth in sales, and it 2018 it experienced the Jake Jabs College of Business and Ena 7% jump in sales. Nationwide, there are trepreneurship and a second degree in ecomore than 7,300 craft breweries. nomics from the Department of Agricultural “The industry is growing so much that Economics and Economics in the College there’s a lot of competition, but there’s also a of Agriculture and College of Letters and lot of opportunity,” Hezel said. “The results Science, decided to give it a shot. of this research could help craft breweries Under the guidance of Eric Van Steenbe more strategic and, ultimately, more burg, assistant professor of marketing at successful.”

MSU, Hezel is conducting research about Van Steenburg said the benefit of the craft beer drinkers’ brand loyalty, a research findings to the craft beer industry could be idea Van Steenburg shared with her. The “immense.” research will test the hypothesis that people “If we can determine how craft beer who drink craft beer are not loyal to a certain drinkers perceive the brand personalities of beer brand. If they find that to be true, the their favorite beers, those marketing in the researchers would like to better understand craft beer industry can develop marketing why and learn how marketers can still sucstrategies along those dimensions to support cessfully market craft beer. The research is their brands and foster brand loyalty,” Van supported by funding from MSU’s UnderSteenburg said. graduate Scholars Program.

He added that the strength of the research The results could have implications for is that it provides, for the first time, empiricraft breweries, including an estimated 92 cal evidence about whether or not craft beer breweries across Montana. drinkers are brand loyal. More importantly, “Brand loyalty is super important, behe said, it provides information on what cause it is much simpler to keep your current marketers should do to communicate their customers than to try to get new customers,” beer’s brand to these consumers. said Hezel, who graduated from high school “With the craft beer industry on the rise, in Great Falls. “When you have loyal custhis information is crucial for anyone who tomers, your company will thrive.” does marketing related to craft beer,” Van Hezel began her research by going with Steenburg said.

Van Steenburg and Graham Austin, an asHezel expects her experience conducting sociate professor of marketing who is also research to help her meet her career goals. working on the project, to two BozemanShe plans to graduate in May and hopes to area businesses that serve craft beer. The work in a position where she can use both three interviewed a total of 30 respondents. her economics and marketing degrees to The researchers used the respondents’ understand and analyze consumer behavanswers to create a survey that they then ior. Her dream job, she said, is working in shared on social media via a technique branding – perhaps for a craft brewery. One called snowball sampling, in which research day, she hopes to have her own marketing participants recruit other participants for a consulting firm. test or study. They used the responses they Undergraduate research and creative received from the survey to create a second activity in all corners of the MSU campus survey, partnering with a company called will be highlighted throughout the 2019Qualtrics to administer it nationally.

2020 academic year as the university marks The nationwide survey seeks craft beer its Year of Undergraduate Research, or drinkers’ evaluation of their favorite beers YOUR. Monthly events showcase outstandalong five dimensions of brand personaling research by undergraduate students and ity: excitement, competence, ruggedness, highlight research opportunities for students sincerity and sophistication. The survey in all disciplines. YOUR culminates with also asks craft beer drinkers why they drink NCUR 2020, the National Conference on craft beer, their favorite craft beer brands Undergraduate Research, which will bring and demographic questions. more than 4,000 undergraduate researchers Once the survey has closed, Hezel will to Bozeman to celebrate research, scholaranalyze the data and search for trends. She ship and creative achievement. More inforhas applied to present the findings at the mation is available at montana.edu/your/.

National Conference on Undergraduate ##### The Democratic Party’s donkey symbol was adopted because someone called Andrew Jackson a “jackass.” Yep, the animal associated with one of the United States’ two major political parties was basically the result of Andrew Jackson going “nyah nyah nyah” at a troll in 1828. ##### Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

##### Malt is used in brewing beers, making malted milks and baby food (the malting process has the same effect as partial digestion). ##### Donkeys get depressed very easily when left alone. That is the reason why they live in herds. In absence of other donkeys, they will need some other companions like goats or humans.

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I opted for kid-friendly snacks with a nutrition twist.

No, I didn’t stock the fridge with Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

On this inaugural use of our basement, I filled the fridge with water bottles. The counter had a basket of 100-calorie portion packs of whole-grain crackers, multigrain chips, lightly salted whole-grain popcorn, and trail mix with nuts and dried fruit.

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Kid- and adult-friendly healthful snacks can be tasty CONTINUED FROM PAGE C7

would be teen-friendly treats, too.

I could do some interesting nutrition research with this focus group of kids. Trust me, I didn’t pop down to do a quick nutrition assessment of my daughter’s friends, although embarrassing her a little might have been fun.

I won’t be the “weird mom” just yet. Give me some time, though.

Snacks are an important part of the diet of kids and teens, who often are growing at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, many kids shortchange themselves on fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and drink too many sweetened beverages.

Liquid calories can add up quickly. One can of pop (12 ounces) has up to 170 calories and no nutrients, plus sometimes a lot of caffeine. You can replace pop with more healthful options, such as water, low-fat/fat-free milk or 100 percent juice. Flavor-infused water and/or sparkling water with a squirt of juice are other options.

These beverages provide children with the hydration and nutrients they need to grow and develop properly.

Consider these 100-calorie snack options with a kidfriendly twist: 1 cup of raw carrots with 3 tablespoons of nonfat dressing, 10 grapes with 2 tablespoons of cream cheese fruit dip, half an English muffin (or half an apple) with a teaspoon of peanut butter or sunflower seed butter.

Teaching kids to be comfortable preparing food for themselves also is an important part of parenting. Here are some basic rules for keeping kids safe in a kitchen: • Lay out specific rules so they know what they are allowed to do.

• Teach them how to retrieve items from the toaster safely if the items become stuck. (Do not stick in a utensil while the toaster still is plugged in. Unplug it and allow it to cool first.)

• Make sure they know metal and microwaves don’t mix.

• Supervise them when using an oven.

• Teach them to wash their hands properly.

• Teach them to clean up after themselves.

Next time, I need to reinforce the last tip on the list. I know a little “cleanup” song we all could sing. Yes, that would embarrass my daughter.

For more resources about snacks and food preparation, see https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/food-nutrition/ myplate-resources to view more after-school snacks for kids and teens. See https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/familytable to subscribe to a free monthly newsletter and be eligible for prizes on Facebook.

This fun, do-it-yourself snack is courtesy of the Midwest Dairy Council.

Pizza Dip 1 (6-oz.) package light cream cheese, softened 1/2 c. light sour cream 1 tsp. oregano 1/2 c. pizza sauce 1 c. shredded low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella cheese 1/2 c. grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 c. diced red peppers 1/4 c. diced green onions Whole-wheat breadsticks or crackers Combine cream cheese, sour cream and oregano in bowl.

Stir until smooth. Spread evenly into a small pie plate or 8by 8-inch-square pan. Top with pizza sauce, cheese, peppers and onions. Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve warm with breadsticks or crackers.

Makes five servings. Each serving has about 210 calories, 13 grams (g) fat, 10 g carbohydrate, 13 g protein, 0 g fiber and 380 milligrams sodium.

Nordic mythological horses

Hofvarpnir (Hoof Flourisher) was the horse of the goddess Gna. It was capable of moving over water and through the air.

Skinfaxi was the horse of Dagr, god of the daytime, and Hrimrfaxi was the horse of Nott, goddess of the nighttime.

Each horse had a shining mane that lit up the sky for day and night.

Sleipnir (meaning smooth or gliding) was an eight-legged horse belonging to Odin, the chief god of Norse mythology.

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By Cole Ehmke, Specialist in Ag Entrepreneurship and Personal Finance, UW Extension & Agricultural and Applied Economics The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many people to get their estate plans up to snuff – the search term “getting a will” has risen sharply since March 8, according to Google Trends.

Luckily doing estate planning isn’t as difficult as it used to be. Many tech companies are streamlining the process of getting wills, trusts, and life insurance so that the process is more palatable to young families who tend to push estate planning to the bottom of the ‘to do’ list. But estate planning is a lot more concrete today.

About 60% of Americans don’t have a will – the cornerstone of many estate plans. And one in five don’t have life insurance, and one in five who do have it say they don’t have enough. Many young families have nothing in place to protect their assets if they die.

Some of these new companies include the website Fabric which is a platform to create a will, organize bank account information, and get term life insurance quotes. Or Tomorrow, which does similar things. The website SoFi helps people apply for life insurance.

Estate planning apps aren’t for everyone. People with multiple properties and complex investments are better off with lawyers. And permanent life insurance is far more expensive than term. So perhaps the value of some of the websites is that it prompts you to think about what you want and get further down the road to being protected.

A well-structured estate plan often is made up of a will, a trust detailing the handling of parents’ holdings both while living and after death and naming of trustee(s) and estate executor(s). It should include instructions for what happens when the author becomes incapacitated. The plan also accounts for assets that automatically transfer to heirs who are named beneficiaries, such as life insurance. A durable power of attorney, living will with medical directives and a letter of intent—instructions that outline a person’s wishes—are also commonly part of an estate plan. For all these, it may take coordinating several professionals. It will certainly take conversations with family members to understand their wishes.

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By Cole Ehmke, Specialist in Ag Entrepreneurship and Personal Finance, UW Extension & Agricultural and Applied Economics The coronavirus pandemic highlights how much we need to have conversations about end-of-life issues.

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Talking about Death Here’s how one person opened a conversation about death with her own parents recently: “Mom, Dad, seeing a lot of people getting very sick with the coronavirus made me think of both of you. None of us knows what’s around the corner, and I want to be sure I know what you would want for yourselves when you get very sick. I want to be your voice so that I can make decisions for you, not for myself.”

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Get rid of chicken mites and lice naturally

From Freedom Ranger Hatchery feed on the dead skin of your birds, while When you hear the words “lice,” “fleas,” Pivot Sales, chicken mites feed on their blood. or “mites,” if you’re anything like us, you Parts, Irrigation Signs & Symptoms of Lice or Mites likely already start to feel itchy.

Just the pipe, fittings While it may seem obvious, one of the thought of those tiny eight- or six-legged and supplies tell-tale signs that your flock is lice or mite pests crawling anywhere near you, your infected is if they seem to be over preenfamily, or pets probably has you on edge.

Phone (406) 278-7910, cell 289-7910, Justin 289-0030 ing themselves. The thought of these pests But did you know that your chickens can Conrad, Montana makes most of us itch, so imagine how it also contract pests called chicken mites or must feel on your birds! So, if you notice chicken lice? your birds pecking at their feathers more With all of the possible illnesses or disthan usual, you may want to check them a eases (https://www.freedomrangerhatchery. bit more closely. com/blog/how-to-prevent-and-treat-theWhen you inspect your birds, you’ll want 5-most-common-chicken-diseases/) your to part their feathers and look for the pests flock can get, a lice infestation can be one 44/45/357 500/460/454 and the egg clusters that we mentioned of the most annoying to get rid of.

Even if 1911’s Taurus Judge above. If you’ve ever dealt with human lice you get new birds from a reputable source Great for Horseback Riding, Bowor fleas on your pets, chicken mites look hunting, Backpacking, ATV riders like Freedom Ranger, you always want to very similar. practice good biosecurity and check your Carry your gun with comfort • Fully lined • Premium American tanned leather If you don’t see any of these parasites chickens before introducing them to your or egg clusters yet, it may be too early to flock.

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JD 8420 TRACTOR FOR SALE It’s important to note that chicken mites Most Common Types of Chicken Mites or lice should not go untreated. Not only If you’re asking yourself, “There’s more will this stress out your flock, but anemia, than one type of mite that can infect my lameness, or even death can occur in your birds?!” then you’re probably not alone. birds from the blood loss and stress.

Unfortunately, there’s more than one type of How to Naturally Treat Mites & Lice chicken lice that exists and will be attracted While there are plenty of methods to to your flock. Here are a few of the most prevent chicken mites or lice in your flock, common ones: once you have an infestation, you’ll need to • Northern Fowl Mites: As the most treat your birds to avoid further spread. The common type of poultry mites found on problem is, most treatments use harmful birds, the Northern Fowl Mite can be chalchemicals that are not good for you, your lenging to detect early. If you see white birds, or the environment. clusters of eggs around the shaft of the Here at Freedom Ranger Hatchery, we chicken feathers, you know it’s a Northern always want to show our dedication to traFowl Mite. ditional and environmentally-friendly farm• Red Roost Mites: Very similar to the 2003 John Deere 8420 front wheel assist, 1000 PTO, ing. We want our birds and your birds to be Northern Fowl Mite, are Red Roost Mites.

3-point hitch, good tires, Greenstar ready, reman transmisas healthy and natural as possible, which But unlike their counterparts, these ectosion at 8000 hours, JD reman motor with warranty - has 30 is why we suggest a few of these natural parasites (a parasite that lives on or in the 03 JD 8420 1000 PTO, 3 point tires, greenstar hoursFront on it.wheel Total assist. hours 8272.

Good clean hitch, tractor.good .. $80,000 treatments for chicken mites. skin) do not live their entire life cycle on the Call or textat (406) Carter, Montana dy, reman transmission 8000750-2210, hrs, JD reman motor with warranty has 30 hrs Dust Baths birds.

If your bird is mite-infested, you’ll it. Total tractor hours 8272. Good clean tractor. -------------------------- $84,500 If you don’t have a dust bath area for only notice these pests coming out to feed Call or text (406)750-2210 Carter, MT your chickens, consider making one in your on the birds at night. yard. Chickens will use a dust bath naturally, • Scaly Leg Mites: If your chicken’s feet which helps prevent a lot of parasites before are looking a bit scaly or crusty, they may they become a problem. have fallen victim to the Scaly Leg Mite.

To help avoid chicken mites, you can put Unfortunately, these chicken mites are not some wood ash or food-grade diatomaceous visible to the naked eye. Instead, they burearth (more on this later) into their dust area. row under the scales of your chicken’s feet Both are natural, and your chickens will and legs, creating tunnels and leaving feces thank you for the extra help against pests. behind, which causes the infection.

Diatomaceous Earth While there are many more types of these Diatomaceous Earth (DE) may sound pests, you can rest assured that you and scary, but it is actually a naturally occurring your family won’t get a lice infestation as type of sedimentary rock. When it’s ground a result. While chicken mites will still bite up, it creates a white powder that can be you (so take precaution when you’re treatsprinkled into your chicken’s dust bathing ing your birds), they won’t stay on you and area, or even directly onto their feathers. will return to the chickens.

When using it, be sure to use a food-grade Most Common Types of Chicken Lice brand, and be careful you don’t breathe too It’s a little confusing, but yes, there is a much of it in. You’ll also want to keep it slight difference in chicken mites versus away from your chicken’s eyes. If you are chicken lice. Regardless, they’re both pests still unsure about it, wood ash can do the and a nuisance for your birds, so here are a trick as well. few common chicken lice types: Keep the Coop Clean • Body Lice: Similar to mites, body Just like with humans, your chickens chicken lice can be found by parting a bird’s don’t get lice because they’re dirty. Mites feathers and looking for egg clusters near or lice can easily latch on to your birds from the base of the feather. You’ll mostly find other animals, wildlife, or even you! them near the less feathered areas of your With that in mind, though, it’s still a good bird by the vent, breast, and thigh. idea to keep your coop clean. Especially • Shaft Lice: Slightly smaller than body during the warmer months, which chicken lice, the shaft lice will lay individual eggs mites and lice prefer, take the time to clean along the feather shaft or feather barb. All of out bedding and the resting areas for your these types of louse are tiny but will be easBeefcake by DewEze birds. ily identifiable when examining your birds.

• Tackle daily livestock feeding chores Coop Mite Spray If you’re still unsure of the difference be• Designed to fit any feeding style Coop mite sprays are relatively easy to tween chicken mites and chicken lice, that’s • Featuring electric or hydraulic models come by, but you’ll want to make sure it okay—they’re both pests that are treatable uses natural ingredients that won’t harm in the same way (we’ll get to that later). The main thing to remember is that chicken lice 2020 Chevrolet 3500HD SRW, 6.6L gas, regular cab, 4x4.

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your birds. Using a mite spray while you’re doing other preventative treatments is a great extra step to do to help fight off chicken mites.

If you need some spray in a pinch, you can do a natural mixture of water, dish soap, and oil. There are several recipes you can find online that use various ingredients, but ultimately the spray will help to suffocate the pests and prevent mites or lice from spreading further in your flock.

Garlic Juice The adage of “garlic cures everything” may not necessarily be accurate, but it can help in several ways in your battle against chicken lice and mites.

Putting garlic or garlic juice in chicken’s diet can help since most of the parasites don’t like the taste of it in the chicken’s blood. You can also create a mix of water, garlic juice, and a type of essential oil (like lavender), and spray it directly on your chickens and around their coop.

Start Your Flock Off Right Practicing good biosecurity is essential to making sure your chickens stay happy and healthy. Taking precautionary measures similar to what we mentioned above will also help you prevent mites or lice infestations in the future.

But one of the best things you can do for your flock is to make sure you get any new birds from a reputable breeder like Freedom Ranger Hatchery. While infestations can occur anywhere and anytime, you can rest assured you’ll always receive happy and healthy chickens from Freedom ba18rc Ranger. Contact us today (https://www.freedomrangerhatchery.com/contact.asp) to learn more about our birds and to see how we can help your flock take flight!

Getting the nails done

Ladies go to the beautician to get their nails done. Well, horses sometimes get their hooves done. Only certain horse competitions allow the hooves to be polished, as part of their rules and regulations.

Here is how to get that highgloss shine on your horse’s hooves.

Have someone hold the horse on a large rug or rubber mat.

Use sandpaper to smooth off the rough, crusty surface of the foot.

Use steel wool to buff the surface.

Apply a clear wax shoe polish with a rag, and buff dry.

Apply black or clear liquid hoof polish (or shoe polish), starting at the coronary band (top of the hoof) and letting it slide down the hoof, quickly smoothing out the liquid.

Allow the first coat to dry thoroughly, buff with steel wool, then apply a second coat.

Use a hoof polish remover immediately after the competition or parade.

It is wise to consider using feed supplements formulated for hoof care, and the regular application of hoof conditioners.

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Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire takes time to say thank you. Montana Farm Even in months long before the thought Bureau farmer and rancher members, along of COVID-19 pandemic, farmers and with everyone growing crops and raising ranchers across the state were experiencing livestock across this country, are working hard times with low commodity prices and hard to ensure this country continues to natural disasters. American Farm Bureau have an abundant, safe and nutritious food and state Farm Bureaus were stepping up supply.” to the plate by highlighting issues about ORDERS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR: McPherson hopes that markets will mental health, stress in rural areas, and the rebound, and farmers will become increasimportance of helping each other.

• Pheasant hens - year old - spring delivery ingly optimistic. “It’s good to see consumers Times have changed rapidly and now • Pheasants - 10 weeks old - 50/50 mix - deall over the country realizing that our food it’s an exceedingly hard time for everyone livery August through September 15th system is not broken and realizing what across the world with the onslaught of the • Pheasants & Chukars - Mature flight birds farmers and ranchers do, whether they are Coronavirus. Consumers are worried about delivery starting September 1st opting to buy products from a local farmer shortages of everything from water to toilet or heading to the big grocery chains. Howpaper to all types of food. Yet, hard as times Call now for pricing and available delivery ever, this is still a trying time for everybody, are, it’s important to have a positive outlook. dates. Brochures mailed upon request. and Farm Bureau understands that it’s also “Recently, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture a time of depression---these are scary, unSonny Perdue sent a message where he exTONY FOWLER certain times.” pressed his strong appreciation for everyone PO BOX 640 238 SPUR RD As people around the country look for involved in the food chain, from the farmers CONRAD, MT 59425-0640 big and small ways to help their neighbors and ranchers who grow the food to those inthrough the uncertainty that has come with (406) 278-5814 volved in processing it to those who deliver COVID-19, the Rural Resilience Training it and finally, those who make sure those Pheasant - Chukar Program now available at no cost for all grocery shelves stay stocked,” noted MFBF NPIP: #81-67 Farm Bureau members and staff, is a chance Lab President Hans McPherson.

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NCBA announces 2020 BQA award winners

National Cattleman’s Beef Association throughout the U.S., WVM has seen that The National Cattleman’s Beef Associalots of cattle from BQA certified producers tion, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, has are more likely to be sold at a premium, announced the winners of its 2020 Beef yielding benefits to both producers and buyQuality Assurance (BQA) Awards during ers who recognize the value of the program. the 2020 Cattle Industry Convention in San 2020 BQA Educator Award Antonio, Texas.

The winner of the 2020 BQA Educator The National BQA Awards annually of the Year Award is Curt Pate. For more recognize outstanding beef and dairy prothan a decade, Pate has educated tens of ducers and marketers. Winners not only thousands of beef industry professionals demonstrate high-quality animal care and on safe and effective stockmanship and handling principles as part of their day-tolivestock handling throughout the United day operations but express a strong desire States. His insights on best practices for to improve their operations through BQA. low-stress livestock handling have not only As good stewards of the cattle industry, a led more producers to embrace BQA but common trait among nominees is encouragshaped the program itself. Pate has been ing others to implement the producer edua major proponent in developing BQA’s cation program. Award categories include: clinics and demonstrations throughout the Cow-Calf, Dairy, Feedyard, Marketer and program’s history. He continues to advocate Educator. for the program’s use to encourage improve2020 BQA Cow-Calf Award ment in cattle care throughout the industry.

The recipient of the 2020 BQA Cow-Calf Award winners are selected by a commitAward is IX Ranch in Big Sandy, Montana. tee comprised of BQA certified representaThe 126,000-acre ranch has prioritized raistives from universities, state beef councils, ing high quality cattle throughout its history sponsors and affiliated groups, who assess and has found that having exceptional cattle nominations based on their demonstrated goes hand-in-hand with training exceptional commitment to BQA practices, their service employees. Implementing BQA fits right in as leaders in the beef industry and their with the ranch’s goal to have a ‘blue-ribbon dedication to promoting the BQA message operation,” as said by the Roth family, who to grow consumer confidence. have owned and operated IX Ranch since Four National BQA Awards (Cow-Calf, the 1950s. All full-time employees at the Feedyard, Dairy and Marketer) are funded ranch are required to be BQA-certified, and in part by The Beef Checkoff program with IX Ranch has seen improvement across its additional financial support provided by operations through low-stress animal hanCargill. The BQA Educator Award is funded dling and increased awareness of employee in part by The Beef Checkoff program with safety. additional financial support provided by 2020 BQA – FARM Dairy Award Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health.

Boadwine Farms is the winner of the IX Ranch – Big Sandy, Montana 2020 BQA – FARM Dairy Award. The BalOver the last century, countless innovatic, South Dakota dairy cares for more than tions have shaped modern ranching, such as 2,000 Holstein dairy cows, with 2,500 acres new research, faster transportation, better planted with rotating feed and forage crops. equipment, and greater access to telephones The dairy takes pride in opening its doors and internet. But no matter the changes that to educate interns at South Dakota State affect the industry, there’s one principle that University, local students, and consumers guides everyone from the owners to sumacross the state. Boadwine Farms’ adoption mer interns at IX Ranch: “Remember, the of modern technology and animal handling important thing is the cattle.” practices, including following BQA and The IX brand was first registered in MonFARM guidelines across its facilities, not tana in 1877, with the ranch established not only ensures that visitors gain a clear unlong after to the southeast of Big Sandy, a derstanding of best practices, but that cow small town in the north central part of the comfort and care is always the number one state. The current owners, Steven Roth, priority among its employees. president of IX Ranch, and Richard Roth, 2020 BQA Feedyard Award vice president, are now the fourth generaBledsoe Cattle Company is the recipient tion of the Roth family to work the ranch. of the 2020 Feedyard BQA Award. The Throughout its history, IX Ranch has company is headquartered in Wray, Coloremained committed to raising high quality rado and has feedyard facilities in several cattle, continually adopting new innovations Colorado counties and a stocker ranch in to improve its operations and sharing stories South Dakota. With its diverse operations, and experiences with both the beef industry the company places high value on BQA and consumers. For all of these attributes, guidelines to ensure consistent, high-quality and more, the ranch was nominated and care for its more than 8,000 head of cattle. chosen for the 2020 Beef Quality Assurance Bledsoe Cattle Company provides BQA (BQA) Cow-Calf Award. training and certification every three years Implementing BQA made sense with for its employees. The company also reguthe ranch’s existing goal to have a ‘bluelarly provides BQA training to its contracted ribbon operation,’ as the Roth family calls crews, sharing the benefits of proper chuteit. BQA guidelines combine common side BQA techniques with livestock operasense husbandry techniques with scientific tions across eastern Colorado. knowledge to raise better quality cattle. The 2020 Marketer BQA Award guidelines are designed to make sure all The winner of the 2020 BQA Marketer beef consumers can take pride in what they Award is Western Video Market (WVM). purchase and can trust and have confidence Founded in 1989, WVM has been a propoin the entire beef industry. nent of BQA programs and guidelines for Applying BQA practices has further nearly as long as BQA has been around and improved the ranch’s operations. IX Ranch encourages adoption of BQA practices with has seen increases in attention to animal its producers, buyers, and auction partners. care, more awareness of employee safety During broadcast auctions where buyers and improved low-stress animal handling are limited to seeing video of cattle, having techniques. a BQA certification shows that producers “For us to be assured that we’re doing a follow industry standards for high qualgood job, we have to do the little things and ity animal handling and health care. As BQA programs have grown in recognition CONTINUED ON PAGE C22

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USED AIR DRILLS AND CARTS

Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft. air seeder, 12” spacing with 4350 tow behind cart............... $45,000

Case IH 800 Precision SS air drill, 50-ft., 10” spacing............................................$14,900

Flexi-Coil 5000 39-ft. air drill, 9” spacing, steel packers with 2320 cart...............$19,000 (L) Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. air drill, 12” spacing........ ..................................................$17,000 (L) Case IH 3430 340 bushel cart, V rate, tow between.......................................... $44,900

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Massey Ferguson 2190 baler..............$39,000

Gradell MT80 fork lift............................$13,250 Degelman 4100 round & square processor...... .........................................................$15,000 Schuler SRM 262 mixer..........................$6825 Morris CP743 chisel plow.....................$12,000 Melroe 501 plow with Valmar...................$6500 Renn 5501 39-ft. chisel plow....................$6500 International 75 39-ft. plow.....................$3500 Wilray 20-ft. roller, water filled.................$8050 John Deere 5020 tractor with DuAl loader........ ............................................................$8500 John Deere 3020 tractor, no loader with Shaver post pounder........................................$8500 Versatile 800 tractor.............................$12,000 Ford 5000 tractor with mower..................$5000 Massey Ferguson 9540 combine......$190,000 Agco 400 header........................................ Call Gleaner R72 combine with MacDon 962, 36-ft. header..............................................$41,900 Massey-Ferguson 850 combine with 24-ft. header, air reel....................................$4500 New Holland TR97 combine, 36-ft. Honeybee header, 13-ft. pickup with Swathmaster pickup attachment........................................$42,500 International 1660 combine. #13168... $12,000 John Deere 9610 combine...................$44,275 John Deere 8820 combine...................$18,000 White 9700 combine...............................$5294 New Holland 971 header........................$6000 Case IH 1680 30-ft. head, pickup head.$19,000 Honeybee 36-ft. header, MF bracket....$14,900 Farm King 10x60 auger..........................$6000 Feterl 7x41 electric auger........................$2000 Brandt drive over transfer auger...........$12,000 Wheatheart PT13 drive over deck..........$5675 New Holland 200 rotary swather with 416 disc head & 430HB 30-ft. draper head with pickup reel.................................................$138,755 New Holland 1112 swather..................$18,000 New Holland BR7090 net/twine baler.$26,000 Case IH RB564 round baler.................$25,750 Case 8465 round baler............................$5000 Case WRX301 rake........................ $10,900 (L) Morris 1400 Hayhiker..........................$16,750 New Holland 1000 bale stacker..............$2500 New Holland C1002 balewagon.............$2300 Spra-Coupe 4640, 60-ft. booms...........$29,500 Versatile SX275 sprayer.....................$127,000

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John Deere 9450 40-ft. with 12” spacing. Sold individually...........................................$1500 John Deere 50-ft. drill hitch.....................$1400

Case IH LBX432 3x4 baler with cutter, tandem $39,000 Hesston 4910 large square baler.........$25,000 New Holland BB960 big square baler, 3/4 John Deere 569 net & twine................$39,500 turn...................................................$28,000 John Deere 569 net & twine................$28,000 John Deere 466 small square baler..Coming In John Deere 568 net & twine................$18,000

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Bourgault 950 sprayer, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon tank................................................$8000 1977 GMC/Summers sprayer..................$8500 1987 International 9670 truck with 3000 gallon stainless steel tanks.........................$19,000 Chevrolet C60 truck................................$9500 1997 Ford F350 diesel pickup.................$8000 Morris Contour I 41-ft. air drill with 7240 cart.. .................................................. $99,000 (L) Case 2400 40-ft.x10” spacing air drill with 240 cart............................................ $23,450 (L) John Deere 9400 40-ft.x12” drills.........$12,000 150 grass seeder.......................................$800 2500 gallon poly tank.................................$900 1500 gallon poly tank.................................$500

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USED SKID STEERS AND ATTACHMENTS

Bobcat T740 with cab, air conditioning, Power Bob, hand & foot...............................$55,000

USED AUGER

Farm King 8x61 belt drive auger............ $1500

Bobcat S650 skid steer with cab, air conditioning, heat, Power Bob........................$44,000 Bobcat MT52 mini track.......................$12,500 Bobcat LR65 land rake...........................$6000 Gradall telehandler forks, hydraulic angle..$900

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MacDon FD75 40-ft. header, transport, pickup reel, Gleaner adapter, double sickle..$56,000 MacDon FD70 40-ft. header with pea auger..... .................................................... Coming In MacDon D65D 40-ft. with cross auger, JD adapter DS.......................................$33,000 MacDon D65D 40-ft., JD adapter, double sickle.................................................$30,000 MacDon D60S 35-ft. draper header......$25,900 MacDon 973 30-ft. header....................$20,000 MacDon 972 30-ft. draper header.........$14,000 MacDon 960 35-ft. draper header, pickup reel.. ............................................................$9900 MacDon 960 25-ft. – 30-ft. headers................... ..............................................$5000 – $6000 MacDon A40D 18-ft. header.................$19,900 Massey Ferguson 5200 36-ft. draper header... .........................................................$12,500 Gleaner 400 header................................$6500

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Gleaner S88 combine........................$199,500 Gleaner R75 combine. 836 separator hours, duals, spreader & chopper...............$60,000

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Valtra C120 tractor with loader, grapple, 3 pt., PTO................................................. $40,000

Miller 3275 HT 90-ft. front boom sprayer, 1000 gallon, 2WD, Raven Smart Trax...... $64,000 Massey Ferguson 8650 with variable transmission, suspension, 3 pt., PTO.......... $114,900 Massey Ferguson 1526 tractor with loader and angle dozer.......................................$17,000

New Holland LM 445A telehandler..... $45,000 Kelly 47 3-point backhoe........................ $3100 Ford spreader truck. Coming in.............. $6500 International 2-ton truck........................ $1900 Gysler 39-ft. chisel plow......................... $3500 Spear with 4-ft. & 2 1-ft., fits Westendorf quick attach.................................................... $500

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Agco 7650 Spra Coupe, mechanical rear drive, front hydraulic assist, 90-ft. boom, hydraulic extend axle...................................... $69,900

Case IH MX150 tractor with loader.......$52,000 John Deere 7330 tractor with loader....$66,000 Allis Chalmers 8610 tractor with loader............ .........................................................$19,500 Versatile 835 tractor............................ $11,900 Versatile 700 parting out, engine and some Agco 7660 Spra Coupe...................Coming In tires gone.

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Massey Ferguson WR 9870 16-ft. rotary disc, auto steer, suspension...................$135,000 New Holland HW340 16-ft. rotary disc..$28,000

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NCBA announces 2020 BQA award winners CONTINUED FROM PAGE C18

we have to do them correctly,” said Richard Roth.

As crew are brought to work on the ranch, BQA trainSteel Buildings Concrete Slab Work ing is included in the on-boarding process. All full-time employees are required to be BQA-certified. The ranch has also hosted interns from colleges and universities across the United States since 2003, and all are encouraged to take BQA’s online certification courses. At times when the ranch brings on additional help, such as brandings, each person is now instructed about BQA practices for handling cattle, administering vaccines, and record keeping.

Additionally, IX Ranch’s two chief operating officers, SHELBY Custom Welding & Rusty Sparks and Todd Amsbaugh, have worked there for Epoxy Floors 406-291-2988 Shop Fabrication more than 30 years. Through their efforts, the ranch has hired exceptional employees and continually offers numerous opportunities for professional development. Quarterly safety training seminars cover topics from wildland fires to montanaseeds.com • NON BLOAT montanaseeds.com MontanaSeeds.com equipment and animal handling. Employees can also learn montanaseeds@gmail.com montanaseeds@gmail.com montanaseeds@gmail.com horse care and handling, and managers take yearly trips to • NATURALLY GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT • NON BLOAT other ranches, universities, experiment stations and industry • APHID & WEEVIL RESISTANT seminars to remain at the forefront of ranch management.

TURALLY GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT Alfalfa loses 1/4 to 1/3 of its digestible “The IX Ranch is a beacon when it comes to best manage• APHID WEEVIL RESISTANT protein & through bloat, lack of condensed tannis ment practices and their positive beef storytelling ability,” montanaseeds.com • • NON NON BLOAT BLOAT said Chaley Harney, executive director with the Montana • montanaseeds@gmail.com • NATURALLY NATURALLY GLYPHOSATE GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT TOLERANT •• APHID & WEEVIL RESISTANT montanaseeds.com Beef Council. “Starting with the ranch owners and passing it APHID & WEEVIL RESISTANT down to their managers and employees, they are excellent at montanaseeds@gmail.com transparency on the ranch to help a consumer feel confident in the quality beef they produce.”

Because of IX Ranch’s performance and standards, Har• NON BLOAT ney frequently uses the ranch as an example in industry and • NATURALLY GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT • APHID & WEEVIL RESISTANT consumer outreach. She said the Roths not only communicate stories from their experiences, but that they tell them in a way that connects with all audiences.

The Roths have spoken at industry events and are active Go Green And Pink • NON BLOAT Livestock, wildlife, wildlife, and and even even honey honey bees bees prefer prefer Sainfoin Sainfoin over over other other forages. forages.

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Researchers put cornstarch to use fighting pests

By Jan Suszkiw, Agricultural Research Service Add yet another use for cornstarch—besides thickening soups and gravies, making adhesives, soothing skin and removing stains.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Peoria, Illinois, are now using the versatile commodity to make products that can fight insect pests, prevent disease and decay and impart water resistance to surfaces. Underpinning that effort is the team’s use of patented procedures for converting cornstarch into a new class of material known as amylose inclusion complex (AIC)—an advance aimed at increasing the commodity’s value even more.

Products created from the AIC include emulsions using essential oils from garlic, asafoetida (a type of spice) and other plants to control mosquito larvae in aquatic habitats.

The emulsions are toxic to mosquito larvae but not the environment, which makes them promising botanical alternatives to synthetic insecticides, noted one of the ARS scientists, Ephantus Muturi, who is with the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria.

Muturi said the emulsions envelope droplets of the oils, stabilizing them and protecting them from extremes of heat or oxidation that can reduce their potency when applied to mosquito larvae habitats, like storm water catch basins and old tires. The emulsions also allow the oil droplets to disperse in water, contrary to their natural tendency. This, in turn, increases the likelihood of their contacting and killing the larvae, improving control of the young pests.

In laboratory trials, exposure to the essential oil emulsions killed the larvae of yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) in 24 hours. The number that died upon exposure was dependent on the type of oil and formulation used, noted Muturi, who reported the findings in the October 2019 issue of the journal Insects together with NCAUR colleagues William Hay, Robert Behle and Gordon Selling.

Ultimately, the team envisions using the essential oil emulsions as part of an integrated approach to controlling mosquitoes and preventing the diseases they can spread, such as West Nile virus, yellow fever, dengue and Zika.

On another front, Hay, Behle and their colleagues are examining cornstarch-based emulsions that could put the kibosh on wood-damaging termites and rot-causing fungi, including species that cause stored potato losses of up to 25 percent annually.

Other products include films and coatings that regulate gas exchange or impart water repellency to paper and other cellulosic materials, as well as glass. Like the emulsions, they too were derived from the AIC. Selling and ARS chemist George Fanta used current industrial techniques such as steam-jet cooking to produce the AIC from high-amylose cornstarch, fatty acid salts, and other biobased ingredients.

The team’s efforts support a broader push at Peoria to develop new, value-added uses for Midwestern crops like corn that will help diminish the reliance on petroleum-based goods and the environmental “footprint” their use can leave behind.

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The Dawson County FFA held a “Kiss a Sheep” fundraiser for their chapter during the GATE February 14-15 in Glendive, MT. They had four bum lambs at the event which were very popular for the small children who attended. Pictured are Ryan DeSaye, Hannah Beach, holding Buddy the lamb, and Ryleigh Mittelstaed with Remi, who is a 9 month old GoldenDoodle being trained as a service dog.

Commitment to continue export grain inspections

From USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rising to meet the challenges associated with the new coronavirus disease, Covid-19. As leaders of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Agricultural Marketing Service, we can assure you that the agencies are committed to ensuring the health and safety of our employees while still providing the timely delivery of the services to maintain the movement of America’s food supply from farm to fork.

These agencies are prepared to utilize their authority and all administrative means and flexibilities to address staffing considerations. Field personnel will be working closely with establishment management and state and local health authorities to handle situations as they arise in your community. As always, communication between industry and government will be key. We are all relying on early and frequent communication with one another to overcome challenges as they arise.

In this time of much uncertainty, we know that many of you have questions about how the department will continue to ensure that grading and inspection personnel are available.

We have all seen how consumers have reacted to the evolving coronavirus situation and how important access to food is to a sense of safety and wellbeing. It is more important than ever that we assure the American public that government and industry will take all steps necessary to ensure continued access to safe and wholesome USDA-inspected products.

As we come together as a country to address this public health threat, know that USDA remains committed to working closely with industry to fulfill our mission of ensuring the safety of the U.S. food supply and protecting agricultural health.

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If you have items you want advertised in the May 2020 issue THE VERY LATEST WE CAN ACCEPT THEM is April 29th.

SERVICE TRUCK FOR SALE

2001 Ford F450 service truck, 7.3L, 162,000 miles. Call for rest of equipment on truck..........................$29,000

How does flooding affect farms?

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2019 CASE IH MAXXUM 125 W/L105 LOADER/GRAPPLE When farmers have advance notice that river levels are high, and there may be flooding, they can take precautions. In 2019, there was no advance notice. Shown, overflowing grain bins from grain that absorbed floodwater bursting through the bin. Credit: John Wilson

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Severe flooding caused devastation for farmers across the Midwest in the spring of 2019. The March 7th Sustainable, Secure Food blog explores the effects flooding has on farms and the steps taken to recover.

Blogger John Wilson explains, “In the spring of 2019, a perfect storm of conditions led to severe flooding across the Midwest. Farmers in many states had to delay spring planting because fields were too wet.”

Rapid snowmelt, precipitation and flooded waterways played into the problem. “The results were catastrophic; some farms still had standing water 6 months later,” says Wilson. “Floods have long-term impacts.”

Issues farmers must address after flooding include: 1. Sediment and debris 2. Erosion repair 3. Soil repair and nutrient management 4. Crop repair “Repairing farm fields after floods is possible, but it can be time-consuming and labor-intensive,” says Wilson. “Patience is a virtue when bringing flood-damaged cropland back into production. Inventorying what needs to be done and planning your course of action is critical for flood recovery.”

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Walking pastures - Important step in pasture management

From PennState Extension Pasture Deterioration Pasture deterioration occurs over time, even though it may appear to happen suddenly. Good grazers routinely walk their pastures, looking for changes in populations of desirable plants, increases in weeds, loss of plant vigor, and increasing bare spots. It is important to catch and address problems early.

From Reward to Disappointment How many times have you patted yourself on the back when looking at your pastures in spring, congratulating yourself for a job well done? How many times have you been dismayed in August to find that the same pastures turned into weeds, seemingly overnight?

Maintaining a productive pasture requires year round attention. Walking pastures in spring and summer will also allow you to develop an inventory of weeds that are present.

Cool Season Grasses Remember that the mainstay of most pastures in Pennsylvania is cool season grasses such as Kentucky Bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, orchardgrass, brome, and timothy. These grasses prefer temperatures between 65 and 80 degrees and are very productive in spring and fall. When temperatures increase, cool season grasses slow down their production and become dormant.

If a pasture manager is not watching closely and allows animals to continue to graze plants to ground level during hot, dry conditions, the grass can be eliminated from the pasture.

Rotating pastures will allow grasses to recover and will keep pastures productive. Tall grasses can be grazed to maintain a height of 4-5 inches; short grasses should be maintained at 2 to 3 inches. If grass is grazed closer than this, the animals should be removed from the pasture and rotated to another pasture.

As you walk your pastures, try to estimate what percent is desirable cool-season grasses compared to summer annual weedy grasses, like crabgrass or foxtail. Summer annual grasses will look vibrant in the heat of summer when coolseason perennials are looking dry and dormant. They will also die off in the fall while cool-season grasses thrive in the cooler weather.

Sacrifice Areas If there is not enough land on the farm to allow for rotation, then stress lots or sacrifice areas can be constructed to contain animals during periods of adverse growing conditions. Stress lots are generally constructed by excavating the topsoil, then adding a layer of small stone and covering it with packed stone dust so that manure can be scraped from the surface. The lot is slightly sloped to allow water to run off. Vegetation should be maintained around the stress lot to absorb water and excess nutrients.

As you walk your pastures, look for large bare areas where forage won’t grow. This might be a good spot for a sacrifice area. You might also locate one in a central part of the pasture to subdivide it into a rotational grazing system and allow access to one field at a time. Avoid locating these near sensitive areas like surface water or wells.

Weed Control Continual grazing combined with slow summer forage growth creates bare spots, allowing sunlight to reach the soil surface. This creates a wonderful opportunity for weed seeds to germinate and for weeds to become established. Herbicides today are very safe but are selective and are not always effective on all the weeds that are present. It is important to choose the best herbicide to control the weeds that are in the pastures and equally important to use that product at the right time.

Late summer is a good time to control perennial weeds.

Summer annual weeds should be identified and controlled in early spring when the weeds are very small and have not had time to produce seeds.

Remember that the best weed control agent that exists is a thick, healthy stand of pasture grasses that will not allow weed seeds to germinate in the first place. In a badly overgrazed pasture, weeds can play an important role in absorbing excess manure nutrients and protecting soil from erosion. So, if you choose to eliminate weeds, be sure to develop a plan to thicken up your pasture forages and then keep the plants healthy and thick. Remember that it is easier to keep a pasture productive than to repair one that has deteriorated.

As you walk your pastures, try to identify the weeds you see and note the time of year you see them. Create an inventory and decide which weeds are becoming a problem by taking over large areas. Take samples to your local Extension office if you can’t identify them.

Why do farmers care about conservation?

From American Society of Agronomy An American poet once said, “Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” This quote especially rings true for farmers and ranchers. The March 22nd Sustainable, Secure Food blog explores why farmers care so much about conservation.

Blogger Rachel Leege explains, “It’s easy to find examples of public land being set aside for conservation efforts and wildlife habitat. However, conservation on private lands makes up the majority of habitat for wildlife in the United States. Private landowners, like farmers, play a vital role in the game of conservation.”

Ultimately, farmers cannot afford to not take care of the land – it supplies their income, recreation and future dreams.

Over 90% of American farms are family owned. So, the preservation of natural resources will also likely determine the success of a farm as it’s handed down to the generations to come. Caring for these resources is also like an unwritten agreement between neighbors, as the resources, like water, are shared.

“Farmers and ranchers are looking into ways to protect the ecological balance on their land now more than ever,” says Leege. “And, the public is paying attention.”

In this blog, Leege explores how natural systems were broken, farmer challenges and solutions, and restoring ecological balance.

“It’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t love the outdoors.

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To learn more about the conservation efforts of farmers, read the new Sustainable, Secure Food blog: sustainablesecure-food-blog.com/2020/03/22/why-do-farmers-careabout-conservation

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By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service addition to the MSU Department of Health A group of individuals and organizations and Human Development and MSU Extenfrom across Montana, led by Montana State sion, partner organizations include Montana University (MSU) Extension, are collaboFarm Bureau, Custer County Commission, rating to provide resources and solutions for Garfield County Commission, Montana farmers and ranchers under stress.

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The website is a direct response to a need “There is, in fact, quite a lot of stigma MSU Extension staff continue to hear about still surrounding discussions about mental from people across the state, said Suzanne health, mental illness, mental disorders Stluka, associate director of MSU Extenand suicide,” Brennan said. “My hope is sion. that by providing a centralized location for “MSU Extension staff began to share relevant information running the gamut of tough stories of how chronic stress was topics — from plant diseases, weather and impacting agriculture producers,” she said. financial management, to stress manage“We knew we needed to do something.” ment techniques, to suicide prevention The team working on the website is combest practices — we can start some crucial posed of more than 20 members representconversations about mental health in rural ing agricultural, health, tribal, veteran, local Montana, reduce stigma and save lives.” government and MSU communities. Project Darla Tyler-McSherry, a member of the leaders are Grocke, Stluka and Alison BrenMontana Farm/Ranch Stress Prevention Adnan, MSU Extension mental health specialvisory Council and director of student health ist and assistant professor in the Department at Montana State University Billings, said of Health and Human Development. In goals for the website include bringing attention to the issue of suicide in Montana’s farm and ranch communities and giving people practical, easy-to-incorporate strategies to improve their mental health.

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The Noxious Weed Trust Fund (NWTF) grant hearings and deliberations took place in Helena on March 2-6th. Grant requests totaled $2,582,556. 45 local cooperative projects were funded at a total of $1,154,600 or 68% of all dollars awarded. Ten research projects were funded at $265,556 or 16%, and 12 educational projects were funded for $279,935 or 16%.

A list of funded grant projects for 2020 is available on the MDA website at https://agr.mt.gov/NWTF-FundingHistory.

The Montana Noxious Weed Trust Fund grant program was established by the Montana Legislature in 1985. The advisory council reviews applications, hears applicant testimony, and provides funding recommendations to the director for final approval. Funding is typically passed through a governmental organization, local weed district, conservation district, extension office, or university.

Applications for 2021 Noxious Weed Trust Fund grants will be available at https://funding.mt.gov in mid-July and must be submitted by January 6, 2021.

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By Cole Ehmke, Specialist in Ag Entrepreneurship and Personal Finance, UW Extension & Agricultural and Applied Economics Even if you haven’t been laid off or had a reduction in work hours, the coronavirus situation is a reminder about how close to the edge many people are. When the income drops but the bills keep coming, keep these things in mind.

Steps to take if you have trouble paying your bills If you have trouble paying your bills or loans, or paying on time, contact your lenders and servicers to let them know about your situation. Being behind on your payments can have a lasting impact on your credit. They may be able to offer you options such as: waiving ATM, overpayment, and late fees, as well as allowing you to delay, adjust, or skip some payments. Some landlords have reduced or deferred rental payments. When contacting lenders, be prepared to explain: • Your situation • How much you can afford to pay • When you’re likely to be able to restart regular payments • In the case of mortgages, be prepared to discuss your income, expenses and assets If you’re having trouble with a car loan, your lender may be able to change the date of your payment, create a payment plan, and allow a payment extension.

What to do if you lose your income 1. State and federal programs may be able to help people in need. Look at the requirements for making an unemployment insurance claim through the state. Even if you haven’t been laid off or had a reduction in your hours, do collect the information you’ll need for an unemployment claim, like your recent pay stubs and tax filings. You’ll want to have your own records ready, especially if your employer is closed.

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Date When Celebrated: This holiday is always April 27 This is my kind of day, the kind of day you can sink your teeth into. National Prime Rib Day gets your mouth watering, and starts you drooling. Many of us look to this day on the calendar to enjoy one of America’s favorite steaks.

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Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage Advisory Council

The Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) is currently recruiting for open positions on its Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage Advisory Council. The following council terms are currently vacant: Certified Weed Seed Free Forage Producer (Eastern Region) Certified Weed Seed Free Forage Producer (Any Region) Outfitter’s or Guide’s Organization The following council terms expire September 2020: Certified Weed Seed Free Forage Producer (Central Region) Western County Weed District Representative Eastern County Weed District Representative Forage Product Processor Members of the advisory council provide guidance to the Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage (NWSFF) Program, which implements a cooperative forage and product certification system with federal, state, local, and private land managers that benefits Montanans and other states by producing and making available forage free of noxious weed seeds. Council meetings take place annually on one day in January or February.

Those interested in serving on the Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage Advisory Council can submit a letter of interest and apply to MDA by July 1, 2020. More information and applications are available on the NWSFF Council website.

Nominations can be submitted to Montana Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 200201, Helena, MT 59620-0201, or agr@mt.gov.

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By NDSU Extension Service The forecast is for a rapid warmup starting the last weekend of March, which will cause a rapid thaw, releasing the water in the snow cover.

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Here is some advice from NDSU Extension on how to protect rural residences and other structures, livestock and stored grain from flooding: Protecting Your Home and Other Structures Do the following based on the probability of flooding or wet conditions: • Test your sump pump to make sure it is operating properly.

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• Build small ditches to divert water away from your property.

• Build a dike around your home or other structure. See NDSU Extension publication AE626, “Sandbagging for Flood Protection,” for information on the correct way to build a dike. It’s available online at https://tinyurl.com/ Sandbagging-NDSU. • Put appliances such as washers, dryers and freezers in basements up on wood or cement blocks if flooding is threatening.

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• If your septic system’s drain field will become flooded or saturated, plug all basement drains and drastically reduce water use in the house or any other water entering the septic system. Unbolt toilets from the floor to plug the outlet pipe.

• Tie down fuel tanks and other equipment or material to keep it from floating away in floodwaters.

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Balewagons & Retrievers 3-New Holland 1089 balewagons, very nice condition. $85,000 - $105,000

New Holland 1075 diesel...................................................$32,500 New Holland 1069 gas balewagon, nice............................$36,500 New Holland 1068 with Chev 454 engine with automatic transmission.................................................................................$38,500 New Holland 1068 gas balewagon with MilStak 1030S bale clamp, get your 3x4 bales off the field fast $28,000 New Holland 1063 pull-type, hauls 160 bales....................$16,500 5-New Holland S1049 bale wagons..........................$7500-19,500 New Holland Super 1049 balewagon................................$18,500 New Holland 1048 balewagon...........................................$10,500 New Holland 1046 self-propelled, hauls 80 bales.................$7500 2006 New Holland 1037 balewagon, sharp.......................$35,000 6-New Holland 1037 balewagons, rebuilt........ $18,000 to $25,000 New Holland 1033s rebuilt balewagons.............. $10,500-$13,000 New Holland 1032 pull type...............................................$10,500 New Holland 8500 round bale wagon. Nice condition........$50,000

Used and New parts available for ALL models of New Holland balewagons

Swathers New Holland HW325 swather, 16HS header, new conditioning rolls, 2450 hours....$47,500

2008 New Holland H8060 swather with 13-ft. discbine header, 1137 hours.................................................................................$69,500 2002 New Holland HW320 swather, 16HS header, 3642 hours. Nice condition............................................................................$38,500 2002 New Holland HW320 swather, 16-ft. 2300 header....$27,500 2007 Hesston 9345 16-ft. swather, 3300 hours..................$39,500

Haying Equipment

New Holland 1425 square baler, diesel..............................$10,500 2007 New Holland BR7080 round baler.............................$10,500 1991 John Deere 435 round baler.........................................$4500 Bush Hog BSR 10-wheel rake, very nice..............................$6500 New Holland 56 rake...............................................................$600

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Supreme 1200TM twin auger mixer mounted on 2007 Sterling truck, nice shape.........................................................................$95,000 John Deere 650 grain cart.....................................................$8500 1972 Freightliner 20-ft. box and hoist, with drill fill auger..$10,500 1973 International 4300 truck with 20-ft. box and hoist, Detroit diesel, 13 speed...................................................................$7500

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USDA seeks public comment on more revised conservation practice standards

USDA News Release used by farmers, ranchers, and private forest The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s landowners nationwide.

Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS helps the nation’s farmers, ranch(NRCS) is seeking public comment on proers, and forest landowners plan and carry posed revisions to 49 national conservation out conservation practices to protect natural practice standards through a posting in the resources on their operations. Farm Bill Federal Register. The proposed revisions conservation programs such as the Enviposted this week with the public comment ronmental Quality Incentives Program, period closing April 23, 2020.

Conservation Stewardship Program and the The 49 updated national conservation Agricultural Conservation Easement Propractice standards include: gram help producers cover the costs to plan • 12 agronomic practices for water quality and implement these conservation practices. and erosion control Submitting Comments • Two aquaculture practices NRCS is encouraging agricultural pro• Three forestry practices ducers, landowners, organizations, tribes, • Six practices affecting waterways and others that use its conservation practices • Five drainage-related practices to comment on these revised conservation • Seven livestock-related practices practice standards. NRCS will use public • Three energy and air quality practices comments to further enhance its conserva• Eight water conservation practices tion practice standards. NRCS sought the • Three farm traffic-related practices public’s input for 13 other conservation The 2018 Farm Bill required NRCS to repractice standards in October 2019. This folview all 169 existing national conservation lowed the March 11, 2019, announcement practices to seek opportunities to increase that the agency was commencing review flexibility and incorporate new technoloof the practice standards in the National gies to help the nation’s farmers, ranchers, Handbook of Conservation Practices. and private forest landowners better protect Copies of the proposed revisions to natural resources on their working lands. the 49 conservation practice standards “NRCS is committed to efficiently and are available through http://regulations. effectively implementing the Farm Bill gov by accessing docket number NRCSand delivering on our promise to America’s 2020-0001. The proposed revised stanfarmers, ranchers and forest landowners,” dards can also be downloaded or printed NRCS Chief Matthew Lohr said. “We are at https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portaking a close look at our conservation tal/nrcs/detailfull/national/technical/cp/ practice standards to make sure they make ncps/?cid=STELPRDB1097426. sense – both for farmers and for natural When submitting comments, please inresources.” clude the volume, date and page number of As part of its review, NRCS wanted to this issue of the Federal Register. Comments ensure, as much as possible, that the stancan be submitted using several methods: dards used to carry out the conservation • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to practices are relevant to local agricultural, https://www.regulations.gov and search for forestry and natural resource needs, includdocket number NRCS-2020-0001. Follow ing specialty crops, native and managed instructions for submitting comments. pollinators, bioenergy crop production and • Mail or Hand Delivery: Mr. Bill forestry. NRCS plans to seek public comReck, National Environmental Engineer, ment on additional conservation practice Conservation Engineering Division, U.S. standards through the Federal Register Department of Agriculture, NRCS, 1400 process throughout 2020.

Independence Ave., South Building, Room Improvements to the 49 revised conserva6136, Washington, D.C. 20250. tion practice standards include expanding For more information on how NRCS is imand updating their scope to incorporate new plementing the 2018 Farm Bill, visit NRCS’s technology and increase flexibility, enhancFederal Register Notices webpage (https:// ing water conservation practices such as www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ irrigation, and addressing wildlife issues. national/home/?cid=nrcseprd1500814) or NRCS’s conservation practices offer farmers.gov/farmbill. guidelines for planning, installing, operating, and maintaining conservation practices

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Industrial Equipment

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By NDSU Extension Service

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ley becomes one of the most flood-prone A statewide citizen science network is areas in the U.S.,” Akyuz says. “In fact, looking for volunteers for rain and snow the Red River in Fargo has slightly more reporting in North Dakota. than a 25% probability of exceeding the These observers will measure rainfall, major flood stage in any given year, based snowfall and snow depth as part of the Comon historical data.” munity Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow The likelihood for major flooding along (CoCoRaHS) Network. Some observers the Red River’s main stem from Wahpeton also measure the water equivalent of the to Pembina is greater this spring. Based on snow after it melts. the National Weather Service’s North Cen“This is your chance to become part tral River Forecast Center, the Red River of the state’s climatological history and at Fargo has a greater than 95% chance of contribute to an accurate flood potential exceeding major flood stage. That percentforecast in your local areas,” says Adnan age for Grand Forks and Pembina is greater Akyuz, state climatologist and professor than 75% and 95%, respectively. of climatological practices at North Dakota “There are different economic and psyState University (NDSU). chological implications of being ready for North Dakotans have been collecting the 40-foot river stage and the 35-foot river precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) data stage in Fargo,” Akyuz says. “Therefore, it since the early 1900s in most places. When is more important today than ever before farmers, engineers, and weather and river that we make accurate snow measurements forecasters ask for precipitation data for Allis Chalmers tractors that go into hydrologic models that predict a given location, that information comes the flood stage. The quickest and the easiest mostly from volunteer observers.

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“We need as many volunteer observers as possible around the state to help forecast flood potential, as well as drought assessments,” Akyuz says.

“We have a lot of training materials for you to become an observer,” he adds. “All you need is an interest in weather to participate in the program and a cylindrical rain gauge.”

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N.D. 4-H Camp offers something for everyone

By NDSU Extension Service Youth ages 8 to 18 will have an opportunity to learn new skills while having fun at the North Dakota 4-H Camp this summer.

The fully modern camp is on 80 acres nestled in the cottonwoods along the Missouri River near Washburn, North Dakota. The facility was updated in 2013 and an outdoor education building was added in 2018. The cabins and other facilities are air-conditioned.

“The North Dakota 4-H Camp has been committed to providing a safe environment where youth build new friendships, master new skills, and gain independence and confidence for more than 50 years,” says Karla Meikle, North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension’s 4-H youth development agent in Morton County. 4-H is an NDSU Extension program.

The 4-H Camp program is staffed by NDSU Extension agents, state specialists and volunteers who are experts in their field. They design the camps to provide campers with a solid foundation of knowledge and experience to strengthen their abilities.

The camp also has counselors who care for campers, monitor camp chores and conduct the recreational activities.

All camp staff strive to be mentors and positive role models for the campers.

A variety of camps are offered every summer. They include special-topic camps, such as the Livestock Camp and Hardcore Archery Camp, which have a hands-on educational component. The Livestock Camp teaches youth to improve their animal care, handling and show skills, Hardcore Archery Camp is three days of intense archery activities designed to improve practice and shooting skills.

Other camps, such as the Adventure Camps, are packed with a variety of content and fun hands-on activities such as robotics, rocketry, shooting sports, crafts and cooking.

Other 4-H camp experiences include fishing, flying drones, caring for small animals, geocaching, learning about soils and woodworking.

“These provide youth with a perfect opportunity to try out a new interest,” says Lindsey Leker, NDSU Extension’s 4-H youth development science specialist.

The Outdoor Skills, Whopper Club Fish Camp and Survivor Outdoor Recreation camps are very popular camps.

The Whopper Club Fish Camp is for youth who want a fishing experience to better their understanding of equipment, fish biology and techniques. Survivor Outdoor Recreation Camp teaches teamwork and problem solving, with tribes competing in challenges for the coveted immunity idol and special privileges.

Two new camps are being offered this year: Energy Camp and Entrepreneurship Camp. Campers in the Energy Camp will spend a week learning about energy science and job opportunities in that field, interacting with North Dakota energy leaders and taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour energy assets across western North Dakota.

Campers in the Entrepreneurship Camp will experience how entrepreneurs innovate, think creatively, build teams, collaborate and develop the skills necessary to pitch a new product or service.

In addition to the planned educational programs, each counselor will lead recreational opportunities such as hiking on walking trails, getting dirty in the mud pit, archery, Dutch oven cooking, evening campfires, going down the waterslide and dances. The ga-ga pits are a popular attraction at the camp. A waterslide and obstacle course were added in 2019.

“We strive to make each child’s camping experience safe, fun, educational and memorable,” says Adrian Biewer, an NDSU Extension 4-H youth development specialist. “We have campers who return for multiple camps each season and have returned for as many as eight years in a row.”

Camps also include a Healthy Camp Challenge in which campers get points for making healthful food choices, having healthful habits and getting exercise. In addition, campers can win the Golden Plunger Award for cabin neatness.

“Our campers become more confident to try new things, and they learn to solve problems, building their confidence and feeling better about themselves,” Meikle says. “The camp program teaches them lifelong skills while having fun.”

The cost of the camps varies. Scholarships will be available for the Energy and Entrepreneurship camps.

Registration is open for the 2020 camps. Visit https:// ndsu.edu/4h/camp for the camp schedule and descriptions.

Contact the Extension office in your county for more information. Also check out the camp Facebook page at https:// www.facebook.com/ND4HCAMP to see the fun campers had last year.

Easy recipes in not-so-easy times

From the Montana Beef Council While families are spending more time at home, the Montana Beef Council is here to help by sharing beef recipes using common freezer and pantry staples. Some of these options include: • Beef and Egg Breakfast Mugs – Four basic ingredients and a mug is all that is needed for this recipe. (https://www. beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/recipe/6039/beef-andegg-breakfast-mugs) • Beef Quesadillas – This complete meal can be table ready with just five ingredients and 30 minutes. (https:// www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/recipe/1410/crazyquesadillas) • Beef Jerky Trail Mix – A convenient and customizable snack with as few as four ingredients. (https://www. beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/recipe/55673/beef-jerkytrail-mix) • Classic Beef Meatloaf – This simple meal calls for fewer than 10 pantry staples and 1.5 pounds of ground beef. (https:// www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/recipe/55558/ classic-beef-meatloaf) • Chocolate Beefy Brownies – An easy brownie recipe that can be made with items commonly kept on hand. (https:// www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/recipe/55737/ chocolate-beefy-brownies) “Beef It’s What’s For Dinner is here to help with meal solutions by providing recipes that use common staples many families already have in their pantries and freezers,” said Chaley Harney, Montana Beef Council Executive Director.

“These recipes are easy to make with the step-by-step directions on BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com.”

In addition to these simple recipes, check out BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com for a full collection of cooking lessons. With detailed instructions and tips for a dozen different cooking methods, from grilling to pressure cooking, these cooking lessons are a great resource for all levels of home chefs.

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$24,500 2006 Frieghtliner Business Class M2 106

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Winners of Montana Ag in Color contest

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From Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire

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Drawing by Kaitlyn Noyes, a 6th grader at Townsend Middle School.

The Montana Farm Bureau Federation has announced the winners of the Montana Youth Agriculture Literacy program drawing contest. “Montana Ag in Color” was developed in recognition of National Ag Week, March 22-28, as a creative competition for elementary school children. Each grade was given a different agricultural theme ranging from “Grains of Montana” and “Cattle of Montana” to noxious weeds, farm safety and ag-related careers. One winner was selected from each grade with judges selecting one drawing from the winners to receive the “Farm Bureau Proud” designation.

Kindergarten – Kimber Ross, Ekalaka Elementary, Carter County First Grade – Piper Frye, Ekalaka Elementary, Carter County Second Grade – Dylan Johnson, Chester Joplin Inverness Elementary, Liberty County Third Grade – Rhiaunna Simonson, Whitewater Elementary, Phillips County Fourth Grade – Eva Mitchell, Hillcrest Elementary, Wheatland County Fifth Grade – Emerson Downing, Saco Elementary, Phillips County Sixth Grade – Kaitlyn Noyes, Townsend Middle School, Broadwater County Noyes received the “Farm Bureau Proud” designation.

Entries were judged by the Montana Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee on agricultural content, originality, neatness and reproducibility.

“It was fun to be on the selection committee for the Montana Ag in Color contest, which welcomed kindergarten through sixth grade students,” said MFB Women’s Leadership Committee’s Carla Lawrence. “It was a difficult task to select winners with all the talented artists who entered the contest. We hope the students who participated in this contest increased their knowledge about agriculture.”

Winning entries will be printed and distributed on usable items and educational materials and posted on Montana Farm Bureau’s website and Facebook page.

Young Ag Leadership Conference 2020

From AgNewsWire Mark your calendars! Montana’s Seventeenth Annual Young Ag Leadership Conference (YALC) is set to take place October 16-18, 2020 at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls, Montana. Young people involved and interested in agriculture, ages18-40, are invited to attend this one-of-akind conference where leadership, personal development, education and networking take center stage.

Planning is currently in the works to bring in an exciting lineup of speakers, entertainment, tours, and more. YALC’s action-packed program is planned specifically with young agriculturalists in mind by representatives from each of these fine Montana Ag organizations: Montana 4-H Foundation, Montana Wool Growers Association, Montana Grain Growers Association, Montana Farm Bureau Federation, Alpha Gamma Rho Alumni, Montana FFA Foundation, Montana State University College of Agriculture, Montana Stockgrowers Association, and Montana Farmers Union.

Follow @mtyalc on Facebook, Instagram, and on our newly launched website: www.mtyalc.com for updates. For questions regarding the 2020 Young Ag Leadership Conference, contact Leah Johnson at leah.nelson.johnson@gmail. com.

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Teresa Walker and Jeanne Downey were recognized at MATE for the “Best Booth”. The MATE show was held in early February in Billings, Montana.

THE EQUIPMENT YOU NEED TO RUN YOUR FARM! New Harvest Equipment In Stock Case IH 8240 Combine Case IH 3152 40' Header

Used Harvest Equipment:

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By Jonathan LaPorte, Bruce MacKellar, and Dennis Pennington, Michigan State University Extension (Updated from an original article written by Dennis Pennington, and Dennis Stein, Michigan State University Extension.) land. For example, individual fields can vary on soil type and field quality, making the potential yield and productivity a significant factor in determining value. Quality land with good fertility, well-spaced tile, a good Farm Service Agency base (i.e. base acres for government programs) are all plus factors toward stronger rental rates. Those fields that are capable of producing a higher yield often warrant a higher land rent payment. Exactly how high needs to be reasonable for both the landowner and producer.

Farmland Rent Paid from 2011-2019 The definition of reasonable is often Almost ten years have passed since the helped by understanding what efforts are record high prices in commodities helped made to increase or maintain productivity drive farmland rental rates to their own by all parties. Over the past decade, many record highs. In recent years, those same farmers have made improvements to the commodities have receded to pre-2009 land including installation of tile drainage, prices with net farm income (NFI) falling to removing fencerows and installing irrigaor below where they were during that same tion systems. All of these improvements period in time. Despite the reduced income, lead to higher long-term yields, which tend the rents being paid have remained steady, to help support higher land rental rates. with an upward trend still being seen in irriHowever, with lower commodity prices, gated acres. Farm economists are expecting you can expect that the amount of money only moderate price increases in the next invested in these improvements paid for by five to six years, which indicates that there the farm producer will continue to taper off. will continue to be lower amounts of income Landowners that are looking to maintain to support the rents being paid. This makes their current land rental rates and the yields understanding the impacts that rental prices that supply them may want to consider have on cost of production even more vital taking on these investments. Historically, to a farm’s overall success. landowners that have not made efforts to assist in maintaining their farmland or invest in improvements generally receive lower farmland rental rates. On average, the rental rates received on these farms are 25 to 30 percent lower than other properties in the same area. This presents an opportunity to discuss what improvements are needed and how they will be implemented to maintain yields and profitability for both parties.

Having good communication between the landowner and the farmer-tenant is one of U.S. Grain Prices Projected to 2028 (USDA ERS) the most important first steps in establishing a win-win farmland rental agreement.

It is important to remember that land rent Another consideration on reasonable land prices vary tremendously not only from rent is what producers can afford to pay. state to state, but also from county to county.

To assist in comparing the impact of land In Michigan, the higher productivity soils rent payments against the farm’s net farm that are tile drained in areas where specialty income, MSU Extension offers a land rent crops are grown (such as sugar beets and calculator (https://www.canr.msu.edu/revegetables) tend to command a higher price. sources/land-rent-calculator). By inputting Other factors such as field size, access, soil estimated income and expenses, a producer type, soil fertility, previous cropping history, can determine whether the land rent being fencerows, telephone poles, wet spots, and paid is reasonable or if a discussion, or even proximity to their farm operation all impact a possible re-negotiation, of the land rent the price that farmers are willing and able to agreement should take place. pay for land rent. Looking at data like this If a discussion with the landowner is will give you a place to start but may not needed, producers can use the calculator reflect the true value of the farmland. to discuss rental values as well as the chalOne place that both landowners and lenges and potential impacts to the farm’s producers like to use as a starting point is production and profitability. the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics So, what does the future hold for land Service (NASS). It reports information rent? Farmers will want to hold onto the based on surveys sent to and returned by land they farm as long as possible. It is hard producers across the nation. For the state to make a living if you don’t have any land of Michigan, the average land rent price acto farm. If the prices hold for the next year or cording to these surveys was $127 per acre two, Michigan State University Extension in 2019. Non-irrigated farms averaged $120 would expect that farmers will need to rewhile irrigated lands were upwards of $220 negotiate with landowners about their price per acre. The same database contains county and type of rental contract being used. The level data, which would more accurately recent commodity prices and lowered net reflect rental rates in your area. Michigan farm income generates an additional risk to is very diverse from north to south, with farms as they look to move their businesses land rent in southern Michigan often much forward. Farmers may want to share some higher than in the Upper Peninsula. of that risk with landowners, so that when It’s important to keep in mind that while crop prices are good, rental prices reflect those surveys are a helpful starting point, that, but when prices are down, rental prices they should not be used as the final detergo down. mination of rent. As outlined previously, For information on average rental rates there are a lot of differences that exist from in your county, visit the following report one field to another. These differences can be significant in determining the value of CONTINUED ON PAGE C45

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The same can be said of cattle breeding, only in this case the ingredients include cycling females, quality bull semen and a knowledgeable producer who can plan for a timed breeding through artificial insemination or natural exposure.

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VW IS YOUR ‘GO TO’ SOURCE FOR FULL CARBIDE POINTS, CARBIDE PAIRED ROW ATTACHMENTS, ETC., FOR FLEXI-COIL, CNH AND NH AIR HOE DRILLS

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Billings, Montana Big Timber, Montana

• BUY • SELL • RENT

1991 John Deere 310D Backhoe Excellent condition! Cab with heat, 2WD, great backhoe!........... . ...............................................................................$17,000

2013 Bobcat T590 Track Skid Steer cab with heat, new tracks, excellent condition, strong mid-sized machine!.................................................................$27,500

2015 Doosan DX140LC-3 Excavator 2012 Skyjack SJ111 3219 Electric Scissorlift 2009 Deere 27D Mini Excavator

19-ft., 36” extension platforms, non-marking tires, power to the platform, low hours........................$5600 per machine

Very nice machine! Only 1154 hours, hydraulic thumb & coupler, 24” and 36” buckets................................................$87,500

2900 hours, hydraulic thumb, quick attach with 2 buckets........... . ...............................................................................$22,500

2005 Cat TH460B Forklift 45-ft./8800 lb. capacity, 2450 hours, good tires, nice machine!... . ...............................................................................$41,000

2011 Kubota M9540 MFWD Tractor Only 1700 hours, Absolutely excellent condition, 94 hp with both PTO options, fully loaded UltraGrand cab..............$33,000

2016 Case CX57C Excavator Like New!, Only 448 hours, quick attachment with 2 buckets, 1 owner, 1 operator Ever!..........................................$58,000

2002 Fleming Tilt Deck Trailer

tandem 20,000 lb. axles, pintle hitch, good tires!.........$11,500

2012 Kelly Mfg B70D Backhoe Attachment 3-point attachment, 70 hp and up tractor, 8-12 GPM, ripper tooth, Like New!

$9500

2012 Cat 299D HXP Track Skid Steer cab with heat and air conditioning, two speed, pilot controls, high flow hydraulics, one owner machine!......................$38,500

2007 Gehl RS842 Forklift cab, 4900 hours, 4 wheel drive & steer, 8,000 lb./42-ft................ . ...............................................................................$37,000

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Greg 406-690-2754

Jim 406-690-0737

For Help With All Your Equipment Needs!

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