Traders Dispatch August 2019

AUGUST 2019

Vol. XX No. 7 P.O. Box 997 Conrad, MT 59425-0997

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

Master Gardeners expertise available at after-hours clinics

By University of Wyoming Extension Natrona County Master Gardeners are holding after-hours plant diagnostic clinics from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays August 29 and September 26 in the Mills Room of the Agricultural Resource and Learning Center, 2011 Fairgrounds Rd., Casper, Wyoming.

“We are hosting these evening hours to allow folks who work access to the Master Gardener services after they finish their work day,” said Donna Hoffman, University of Wyoming (UW) Extension agriculture and horticulture educator in Natrona County.

Master Gardeners are trained horticulture volunteers available to help diagnose landscape or house plant issues and provide control solutions. Insect or other pest identifications will also be available.

They can help other gardeners know how to grow plants in our difficult dry High Plains desert conditions, said Hoffman.

For more information contact Hoffman at 307-235-9400 or DHoffman@natronacounty-wy.gov or visit the Natrona County Master Gardeners Facebook page to view the event posting.

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

August 5-19, Pate Auction, Williams Bros Const Relocation & Surplus, Online. ...........................................................................................................................A3 August 13-27, Pate Auction, United Equipment & Guest Consign, Online......A7 August 24, Springhill Auctioneers, Large Estate, Online..................................A2 August 24, Shobe Auctions & Realty, Jack Gruna Estate, Lewistown MT.......A5 August 27, Kinsey Auctioneers & Real Estate, Real Estate & Personal Property, Online..............................................................................................................A20 August 28, Shobe Auctions & Realty, Central Montana Land, Online..............A9 September 4, Shobe Auctions & Realty, Jim & Mona Lewis Farm Equip, Lewistown MT...........................................................................................................A11 September 7, Burow’s Auction Service, John Matz Farm Estate, Dutton MT..A8 September 7, RK Statewide Auction, Sandau Real Estate & Moving, Sidney MT....................................................................................................................A13 September 7, Mills Auction Service, Larry LaBree Estate, Ismay MT............A12 September 14, Weaver Auctions, Fall Consignment, Garrison MT...................A4 September 14-15, RLP Auctions, Western Auction, Hamilton MT..................A14

Women Stepping Forward for Agriculture Conference

Make plans now to attend the annual Women Stepping Forward for Agriculture Conference at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, Montana, October 1-3, 2019.

This year’s conference theme is Salute to Agriculture and is packed with speakers that will deliver information on today’s most relevant agricultural topics: Ag lending, markets and trade, hemp production, ag research, and beef cattle production.

The Women in Business panel will feature LeVonne Stucky, The Wool Mill (https://thewoolmill.com); Nikki Edmundson, Canty Boots (https://www.cantyboots.com); and Veronnaka Evenson, Swanky Roots (https://www. swankyroots.com). Attendees will hear from Dr. Sreekala Bajwa, Montana State University’s vice president, dean and director, for the College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station.

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OTHER DATED EVENTS

August 17 & 18, South Central Montana Antique Tractor Show & Threshing Bee, Huntly Project MT.............................................................................................A6 September 6-7, The Repair Shop, Liquidation Sale, Choteau MT...................A16 September 13-14, Montana Hereford Assoc Tour, Billilngs MT.......................A15 September 21-22, Teton Antique Steam & Gas Threshing Assoc, Threshing Bee and Bazaar, Choteau MT................................................................................A14

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A large crowd attended the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the APR” fundraising event in Winifred, Montana on Saturday, August 3. The goal of the event was to raise funds to fight the land takeover of Norh Central Montana by the American Prairie Reserve. Local musicians entertained the many attendees who also enjoyed a BBQ, Corn Hole tournament, live and silent auction, and multiple raffles and drawings.

3rd Annual Montana Food Show set for September From Montana Department of Agriculture

Over 100 Montana companies showcasing fresh produce, meats, foods, coffees, teas and more will be on full display at the Montana Department of Agriculture’s 3rd Annual Montana Food Show (https://agr. mt.gov/MTFoodShow), slated for September 27, 2019 at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse in Bozeman. The show will run from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and be open to both professional buyers and the public.

“We’ve been grateful to partner with and showcase Montana’s food companies at the Montana Food Show, and we’re looking forward to the third edition of the event this fall,” said Director Ben Thomas. “Interest in the event has grown each year, and we expect this year to be our biggest show yet.”

A list of Montana companies attending the event can be found at www.foodshow. mt.gov. Buyer registration is now open and professional buyers from schools, restaurants, hospitals, grocery stores, catering companies and other organizations interested in local foods can register at www.foodshow.mt.gov. New to the show this year will be the inclusion of restaurant equipment vendors.

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.

PRIVATE TREATY

ADVERTISING DEADLINE

Elk Park Angus, Columbia Falls MT..............................A4 Sleeping Willow Ranch, Stevensville MT......................A6 Feddes Herefords, Manhattan MT...............................A15 J Bar E Ranch, Plentywood MT...................................A15 McMurry Cattle, Billings MT........................................A15

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Final 2019 Great Falls hunter education course Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks News Release Anyone 10 years old or older may take It’s time to sign up for the final hunter the course. education course of 2019 in Great Falls.

Classes will run 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., SeptemOnline registration is going on now. Evber 9, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19 at East Middle eryone must register online, but there will be School, 4040 Central Ave. A field day will a two-day opportunity at Fish, Wildlife and complete the course on September 21 at FWP. Parks (FWP), 4600 Giant Springs Road, for those without access to a computer.

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Final 2019 Great Falls hunter education course CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

The first class night will start with a 10-minute, parentstudent orientation in the school cafeteria, then the students will go to their classrooms.

To register online go to the FWP website, http://fwp. mt.gov, and follow the links to Education and Hunter education. Then go to September 9 and select a classroom at East Middle School.

When registering, students must pick a four-hour time slot for the September 21 field day, either 8 a.m. to noon or 1-5 p.m. For the morning time slot register for classrooms H1, H3, H4 or H5; for the afternoon time slot register for classrooms H9, H11, H12, or H13.

The two-day opportunity to register at FWP for those without Internet is 7-8 p.m., September 5, or 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., September 5-6.

After registering, downloading and printing the attached files, students must pick up a course manual, and read it before the first class. Manuals are available at one of the following locations: North 40 Outfitters, 4800 10th Ave. S.; Scheel’s in Holiday Village; or FWP.

Women Stepping Forward for Agriculture Conference CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

10x70HP+ 10x80HP+ 13x70XL+ 13x80XL+ 13x90XL+ 13x70HP+ 13x80HP+ 13x90HP+ 13x110HP+

Harvest Grain Belt 15 Series 85’, 90’, 100’ 20 Series - 95’, 110’

The conference will also feature Montana State University (MSU) specialists providing short talks on small-scale, high value fruit production, strong people and strong bones, mental health programming in Montana, and beef cattle production.

Attendees will have plenty of time to network at a no-host social on Tuesday evening and a Bingo night on Wednesday.

Trade show vendors will also have plenty of great items for shopping fun.

Judy Wagner, vice president of marketing and communications for Montana Silversmiths will close the conference with an inspirational message for meeting attendees.

Registration for the conference is $70 prior to September 16 and $90 after that date. A one-day registration is available for $50. Registration information and a full agenda can be found on the Women Stepping Forward for Ag website at womensteppingforward.org.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a silent auction item or a door prize from their local area. Auction proceeds are used to support future conferences. Exhibit space is also space available.

For more information, contact Heidi Brewer, conference co-chairperson, at 406-539-0113, email womensteppingforwardmt@gmail.com, visit the Women Stepping Forward for Ag website at womensteppingforward.org, or follow on Facebook @womensteppingforward.

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August 2019 — Vol. XX No. 7 Published monthly by Trader’s Dispatch Inc., PO Box 997, Conrad, MT 59425-0997. Free on request to farmers, ranchers, heavy equipment owners and truckers in the Western United States.

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AUCTION

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Williams Brother Construction Relocation Surplus Equipment 1123 Cerise Rd. • Billings, MT.

Bidding ends on Monday, August 19

Online Only Auction KOMATSU PC300LC-6LE excavator GROVE RT500C 28 ton rough terrain crane TEREX TH1056C material handler 2 - CATERPILLAR 613C paddle scrapers 2008 SDMO J40UC2M Gen Set with JD diesel 2008 SDMO J30UC2M Gen Set with Mitsubishi diesel 2001 CIRCLE D tandem axle gooseneck trailer SKY JACK SIII-3219 battery powered scissor lift MMT 72” sweeper attachment for skid steer PLAINS MACHINERY 6 cu. yd. bedding box 2010 WELLS CARGO 8’x32’ job site trailer 1994 8’x32’ job site office trailer Skid mount job site office trailer THAWZALL ground heater Download the Pate BARTELL B436 power trowel Auction App to your Portable air compressors mobile device or go online GENIE material lifts and bid your price on this WACKER water pump line of tools & equipment!

FOSTORAI heaters WESCO hydraulic lift work tables FROST FIGHTER CHV-500 heater, 420,000 BTU 2013 RITMO AMERICAN 2” to 8” pipe fuser WACKER BPU5045A vibratory plate compactor High Velocity drum fans MILLER MightEvac system Job site tool boxes Concrete saws and blades Core drills and bits Large assortment of ladders Pipe laser level & precision instruments Large selection of dewatering pumps (3 ph. & 1 Ph.) Magic Screed power screed, concrete tools and coatings Large selection of concrete vibrators NEW valve flange kits, adaptors and inventory RYOBI table saw Rotary hammer drills and assorted power tools Chain hoists, chains and lifting slings Inspection: August 16th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.!

Office equipment & furniture Tools & Shop Equpment And Much More!!

Download the Pate Auction app to your mobile device or go to www.pateauction.com for a complete listing of auction items!

Pate Auction Inc.

2814 Billings Ave. • Helena, Montana 59601 Doug 406- 439-8855 • Dan 406-439-5561 www.pateauction.com

ALFALFA HAY FOR SALE $7500 per ton

Call 406-472-3294 or 472-3318, Dupuyer, MT

Elk Park Angus Selling:

Yearling full blood Black Angus bulls 18 month old full blood Black Angus bulls Yearling heifers full blood Black Angus

Columbia Falls, MT • (406) 212-4958

Selling 30 Commercial Yearling Ewes

Cowmen: Consider Sheep Work at Dickenson Research Extension Center found one ewe could be added per cow without a reduction in cow numbers because sheep and cows tend to eat different plants.

• 5 ewes = 1 animal unit • 150% lamb crop 100 lb. weaning wt x 5 @ $1.69/lb = $1267.50

Montana Stockgrowers meet, discuss cattle industry issues

From Montana Stockgrowers Association The Montana Stockgrowers Association (MSGA) congregated in Miles City in June to learn, discuss policy and enjoy camaraderie with fellow ranchers from across the state.

Three days of events filled the agenda, starting with committee meetings to update members and offer the opportunity to bring forth resolutions that guide the association in shaping policy and lobbying by the association. Representatives from various state and federal agencies spoke on current issues at the three committee meetings, which included Beef Production and Marketing; Land Use; and Tax, Finance and Ag Policy.

No resolutions were presented at this time.

Thursday evening kicked off the event with a concert by classic country recording artist Moe Bandy, which was well attended and enjoyed by the community and MSGA members.

Friday morning MSGA 1st vice president Jim Steinbeisser, a rancher from Sidney, opened the general session re- MSGA president Fred Wacker rides shotgun in front of his team of family marking, “Every time you’re members, friends and employees representing the Cross 4 Ranch at the in Miles City you automati- Old Times parade. The group won first place. cally think of the history of working closely with President Trump to the Stockgrowers,” alluding to the meetings make sure markets are open for our agriculheld 135 years ago with Granville Stuart at tural products.” He added they are keeping the helm that formed the basis of the original an eye on “fake meat,” and making sure organization. He noted as he recently read a it is labeled as such. Thirdly, he said that book Stuart authored, “Many of the issues ranchers need to be aware of and engaged they were dealing with in those days are still in animal traceability programs. ones we deal with today: cattle theft, wolves Friday’s ranch tour of Fort Keogh Liveand predators, property rights.” Steinbeisser stock and Range Research Station highsaid we are also dealing with a whole host lighted current research projects, some of new issues, such as fake meat and ongosponsored in part by MSGA’s foundation, ing dialog with state and federal agencies. that include grazing after wildfire, cow Friday’s keynote speaker was Don longevity, heifer development and prenatal Schiefelbein, who, along with his seven programming in cows. The Gala Dinner brothers and three nephews, owns and operand live auction, followed by live music ates Schiefelbein Farms, a large diversified

by Way Out West, provided entertainment farming operation in Kimball, Minnesota. and fundraising for the MSGA foundation.

Schiefelbein is also the chairman of the NaA beautiful Saturday morning opened tional Cattlemen’s Beef Association policy with the “Old Times Parade,” with all endivision. He shared some of the hot button tries either horses or livestock. The $500 items the NCBA is working on behalf of first place award went to the Cross 4 Ranch ranchers. of Miles City; Dave Hayden and Jalyn “One of our key issues is trade, trade, Klauzer of Baker took second place and trade,” said Schiefelbein. “We want to make $300, and third place and $200 went to the sure we have an open and fair playing field for all of our ag commodities, and we’re CONTINUED ON PAGE A6

• The annual operating cost/ewe = $150 x 5 = $750 Profit per animal unit = $517.50 • Proceeds from a 550 lb. steer calf @ $1.75/lb = $962.50 • Annual operating cost/cow = $711 Profit = $251.50 200 ewes could possibly net you an extra $20,680/year

Sources: SD Dept. of Ag, ND Lamb and Wool Production Association, Utah State University, Pays Sheep Market Report, Northern Livestock Video Auction

Montana Columbia Sheep Breeders Association Show and Sale

August 24, 2019 Presentation - 12:30 pm Sale - 2 pm Lewistown Fairgrounds, Lewistown, MT

Come to the Montana Columbia Sheep Breeders Association Show and Sale August 24 and learn how to raise sheep practically predator free.

For a catalog call 406-235-4227 or go to www.mtcolumbiasheep.com

The weather was perfect for the ranch tour at Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Station, which was informative and well attended.

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Jack Gruna Estate

AUCTION

Saturday, August 24th, 2019 • 9:00

Location: 213 Horseshoe Bend, Lewistown, MT

a.m.

From Lewistown, go east 3 miles and turn north on to Horseshoe Bend Rd, go 1 mile.

Owner: Jack Gruna Estate, Suzanne Gruna, P.R., Lewistown, MT

Featuring a top-quality line of Shop & Machining Equipment, Small Farm Implements & more!

Hi Standard Flite King, .22 Short 1994 JD 1600A, 14’

2009 John Deere 5101E MFWD w/ JD 563 loader

Colt Army Special, .38 Sp. Agway, 11’

NH 144

Win 1897, 12 ga TRACTOR & ATTACHMENTS 2009 John Deere 5101E MFWD, w/ JD 563 loader, 4.5L diesel, 101 hp, 1049 total hours, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540 pto, Powershift 12 fwd/ rev trans, excellent rubber. A one-owner, low-hour, well-maintained, handy-sized tractor that can go a lot of directions! It was always under the shed when not in use and is ready to go to work!

JD pallet fork, quick attach Leon 396 blade, hyd. lift, tilt & angle, excellent!

IMPLEMENTS, TRLRS & EQUIP. 1994 JD 1600A 14’ swing tongue swather, rubber chevron conditioner New Holland 144 windrow turner Agway aerator, 11’, 3 pt Woods 6’ rotary mower, 3 pt Herd Sure-Seed broadcaster, mdl 750, 3 pt Prairie Trailer Fabrication car trailer, 20’ x 80”, 15” rims, slide-in ramps, 6000” torsion axles Shop-made flatbed trailer, 20’ + 5’ beavertail, 96”w, triple trailerhouse axles, fold-down ramps, elec. winch, tool boxes, 2 5/16” hitch Double R utility trailer, 6” x 60”w, wood deck, single axle, 15” rims Metaldyne 5th wheel trailer hitch, tilting & quick-detach, 15,000# tow capacity North Star portable hot pressure washer, on trailer, B&S eng, 16 hp, elec. start, 175 gal water tank Bean 3999 sprayer, Kohler eng, elec start, 200 gal. tank, hose reel, on trailer, pintle hitch 200 gal service fuel tank, Tuthill elec. pump

SHOP EQUIPMENT

Bean 3999 Sprayer

Prairie Fab, 20’ YARD & RANCH EQUIPMENT Poly tanks, 550 gal & 400 gal, water only Assorted ladders, step & extension

FIREARMS Winchester 1894 saddle ring carbine, .30 WCF, 20” bbl, sn 646663 Winchester 1897 pump shotgun, 12 ga., sn 464500 Colt Army Special revolver, .38 Special, 6” bbl, sn 320842 Colt Navy Model cap/ball pistol, .36 cal, 7 ½” bbl, sn 80375, etched cylinder U. S. revolver, .32 spc., sn 2627-8, 3” bbl Remington Model 8 semi auto rifle, .32 Remington, sn 52571 AMT Lightning semi auto pistol, .22LR, stainless, 6 ½” bbl., sn G15132, NIB Armi San Marco revolver, 1858 Remington, .44 cal, 7 ½” bbl, in box Crescent 12 gauge single shot, Victor Special, 30” bbl H & R Topper Model 12 gauge single shot, 28” bbl, sn 584536 Hi Standard semi auto pistol, .22Short, Flite King, 6 ¾” bbl, sn 431322 Hi Standard Sentinel revolver, .22 cal.,3” bbl, sn 748187 Hi Standard Sport King semi auto, .22 LR, 6 ¾” bbl., sn 416451 Red Rider bb gun, made USA

FURNITURE Log bed, king, very nice Fancy oak kitchen hutch, glass shelves, 56” x 17” x 80”h Oak dining table, 2 leaves, 8’ w/ leaves Mahogany parlor table, brass claw feet, 26” diam.

POWER & HAND TOOLS

Hobart Fabricator tig welder w/ Hobart 2400 wire feed welder, Snap On air zip gun, in case, w/ chisels 220V, on separate carts, w/ leads & leather lead casing Snap On double box wrench set, 3/16 – 13/16” Lincoln SP-175T wire feed welder, on cart w/ bottle, 20/130 amp Snap On screwdriver sets AC/DC Snap On impact driver bits, phillips & flathead Miller Thunderbolt XL welder, 225/150 amp AC/DC Snap On crow feet wrench set Thermal Dynamics DynaPak 4xi plasma cutter, 220V, on cart Snap On 3/8” drive allen wrench sockets Airflow Systems dust & smoke collector, 1 hp, 110V, on cart Snap On mallets DeVilbiss Pro 4000 shop air compressor, 80 gal, 5 hp, 240V Snap On tach-dwell timing light, in case Sanborn portable air compressor, Kohler gas eng., 10 hp, elec. Snap On torque wrench, 1 inch-lb. start Clemco blast cabinet, foot switch, w/ dust collection JAYSON & KYLE SHOBE system AUCTIONEERS & REALTORS Sterling MD-200-E30B milling machine, 12 spd, 2 hp, 110V, on stand 408 WEST MAIN, Sterling 814 drill press, 12 spd, 1.5 hp, floor model LEWISTOWN, MT 59457 Cady Mate portable oxy-acet. welder set OFFICE: 406-538-5125 Leach Magliner cart/dolly, aluminum Jet premium pallet jack, 3-ton Jayson: 406-366-5125 Coffing elec. chain hoist, 1/4-ton e-mail: jayson@shobeauction.com Delta belt & disc sander, 9” disc, 6” belt, on cart, 110V Hammond belt sander, 6”, on stand Kyle: 406-366-0472 Delta table saw, 10”, on stand, 220V www.ShobeAuction.com e-mail: kyle@shobeauction.com

Leon 396, 8’

Win 1894 SRC, .30 WCF Wright 1” drive socket set, 1 1/4” to 3 1/2” Craftsman 3/4” drive socket set, 1”-2” CP air grinder, in case USA box end wrench set, 5/16 – 1” Utica torque wrench, 5/16 – 1” Bonney claw foot socket set Eklund allen wrenches Sunex rivet gun S&G Slugger slide hammer, in case DeWalt 718 compound miter saw DeWalt 723 portable miter saw stand DeWalt cordless drills, 1/2” impact driver, light, etc., 18V DeWalt palm sander, in case, elec.

Milwaukee hand-held band saw, w/ case Milwaukee 1/2” and 3/8” drills Milwaukee sawzall, in case Dynabrade sander set, in case, air drive Bosch jigsaw, in case Bosch hammer drill, elec., in case

ANTIQUES & HARDWARE Lewistown Creamery cream cans Red Wing 6 gal crock (2) Stoneware jugs w/ paper label “Lutey’s Pickling Vinegar, Butte, MT” John Wayne Winchester poster, model 94 promo, framed Assorted crocks & jugs Armin Trosser coffee grinder Penn Hardware tobacco cutter RR switch lantern, antique

BOOKS Louis L’Amour novel collection, Bantam Book series Zane Grey novels, complete set Time Life military series Birds of America book, 1936 edition National Rifleman magazine collection Auctioneer’s Note: Jack Gruna was a master welder and machinist. His equipment and tools are in excellent condition. Join us for this high quality auction on Saturday, August 24th.

Kyle & Jayson Auction Schedule: 9 AM – Shop Tools & Major Shop Equipment 1 PM – Tractor, Trailers & Farm Equipment Approx. 2 PM – Split into 2 Rings: Ring 1 Ring 2 Remaining Shop Firearms, Household, Equipment, Parts Reloading Equip.

Lunch Available Terms: Cash or Check day of sale.

Photo ID required to register.

Phone and absentee bidding available.

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Montana Stockgrowers meet, discuss cattle industry issues

Sleeping Willow Ranch Stevensville, MT 59870

Selling registered Irish Black Bulls, Cows, and Heifers.

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For more information and pricing, contact:

Tim Hamilton at 406-360-4710 or email swrcattle@gmail.com

M o n t A n A September R A M S A l e 12th, 2019 94 t h A n n u A l

Lunch 11am, Sale 12pm

Offering 280 head of MT born & raised production oriented range rams: Targhee, Rambouillet, Rambouillet Cross, Hampshire, Suffolk, Suffolk/Hampshire

Rams & Ewes Vet Checked, In-state Transportation Available, Online Bidding, Sale Catalog at www.mtsheep.org

September 11th, 2019

6 th A n n u A l MontAnA ewe SAle

Social 5pm, Sale 6pm

300 On-site and 450 off-site Available Targhee, Rambouillet, Targhee/Rambouillet, Columbia, Targhee/Cormo, Suffolk, Suffolk/Hampshire

Yearling Ewes and Ewe Lambs from Reputable Montana Breeders!

Both Sales held at Eastern MT Fairgrounds Miles City, MT

South Central Montana Antique Tractor & Machinery Association EDGTA Branch 29

Featuring Minneapolis Moline Visit us on the Web at: www.antiquetractorclub.org

August 17 & 18, 2019 at Huntley Project Museum (near MSU Ag. Research Center)

Between Huntley & Worden, MT on Hwy 312E (approx 15 miles NE of Billings)

MSGA members Jim Steinbeisser and Shane Eaton visit with Don Schiefelbein following his keynote presentation at the MidYear Meeting in Miles City.

Hinnaland Ranch of Circle.

“This year’s Mid-Year meeting was a great opportunity to engage with state and federal officials to discuss those issues that impact of our ranching operations,” said Jay Bodner, MSGA executive vice president. “It is important to have the latest information regarding taxes, state and federal legislation and animal health regulations and also have a direct link to those agencies detailing how

issues affect our ranches. In addition to setting policy, MSGA always has some fun at these events, and the Moe Bandy concert and the parade are a few examples.”

The Montana Stockgrowers Association MidYear Meeting is one of two annual conventions held by the Montana Stockgrowers Association. The annual convention is in December. For more information or to join MSGA, visit www.mtbeef.org.

Back to Class EVENT SCHEDULE Saturday & Sunday (10AM - 4PM)

9:00AM Worship Service, Sunday only

(at Tractor Pull Bleachers) 10:00AM - Noon Working Sawmill, Shingle Mill & Branding Kiddie Pedal Tractor Pull Corn-On-Cob & Steam Calliope by Steam Engine Threshing & Binding Dutch Oven Bread Baking & Butter Churning Homemade Ice Cream by Stationary Engine 10:00AM - 3:00PM Thresher’s Lunch by Party Pig 10:30AM - 2:30PM Musical Entertainment Noon - 4:00PM Corn-On-Cob & Steam Calliope by Steam Engine Slow Tractor Race & Barrel Race Stationary Baling 2:00PM Parade of Power 2:30PM - 4:00PM “People Working Sawmill, Shingle Mill Mover” & Branding Antique Tractor Pull available Threshing & Plowing ALL DAY! Kiddie Pedal Tractor Pull Dutch Oven Bread Baking & Butter Churning Homemade Ice Cream by Stationary Engine ~ ALL DAY EVENTS ~ Pie, Ice Cream & Coffee • Tractor Balance Stationary Engine Display Working Blacksmith/Machine Shop Shingle Branding • Arts & Crafts • Kids Barrel Ride Huntley Project Museum • Grist Mill & Spinners

Carin Larsen of Rosebud showcases the tradition of sidesaddling in the Old Times parade.

Publication examines sainfoin weed control

By University of Wyoming Extension Weed Management in Sainfoin is now available from the University of Wyoming (UW) Extension to help potential and current sainfoin growers manage weeds in their crop.

Sainfoin has become a desirable option as a forage alternative due to its adaptability to a wide range of growing conditions.

“We get a lot of questions on how to manage weeds, since most of the available information on sainfoin doesn’t provide specific weed control recommendations,” said Andrew Kniss, University of Wyoming professor for plant sciences.

The bulletin is broken into three parts: weed control considerations for pre-crop, during the establishment phase and in the established sainfoin crop.

“Weed management is different in sainfoin compared to alfalfa or some of the grass hay species because there are far fewer herbicides available,” said Kniss.

This free bulletin is available as a pdf, HTML text or ePub at bit.ly/sainfoin-weeds. ##### In 1913, a survey was carried out among US children working in tough conditions in factories. 412 of the 500 surveyed children said they would rather continue working in the sweatshops than face the “monotony, humiliation and cruelty” of school.

Funding cycle now open for GTA Program

From Montana Department of Agriculture Folks across Montana looking to create or expand their operation or agriculture business now have the opportunity to access state grant dollars, as the 2019 funding cycle for the Growth Through Agriculture (GTA) Program is open.

“Our Growth Through Agriculture program has provided Montana’s producers and small-business owners with vital funding to help create jobs in their communities and add value to our state’s ag products,” said Department of Agriculture Director, Ben Thomas. “With our ag industry becoming increasingly diverse, we are looking forward to seeing this next round of applications.”

Past recipients of Growth Through Agriculture grants and loans include: • Farver Farms of Scobey received a grant to expand their product line of wheat and lentil soup, salad and brownie mixes.

• Duckworth Inc of Dillon and Bozeman received a grant to assist with the expansion of the company’s “Sheep to Shelf” Montana wool sock line.

• Stricks Ag of Chester received a grant to expand their pulse processing facility.

The GTA program was established by the legislature to strengthen and diversify Montana’s agriculture industry by developing new agricultural products and processes. GTA grants and loans are awarded by the Agriculture Development Council, a seven member committee appointed by the Governor. GTA funding requires the investment of at least $1 in matching funds for every $1 in grant or loan assistance received.

Those interested in applying for GTA funds should visit www.gta.mt.gov and www.fundingmt.org for more information on how to apply.

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.

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HEADER FOR SALE

MacDon FD75 40-ft. flex draper double sickle header with Case IH/NH adapter Call (406) 386-2447, Havre, MT

To discover how one or both of these systems can benefit you, call us today at (406) 492-8229

AUCTION

United Equipment & Guest Consignors 2955 Cottage Rd. • East Helena, MT

Bidding ends Tuesday, August 27 TRUCK TRACTORS

2013 KENWORTH T660 w/sleeper 1999 WESTERN STAR 4964 w/sleeper 2004 WESTERN STAR 4964 w/sleeper 2008 FREIGHTLINER Cascadia w/sleeper 2005 FREIGNTLINER Columbia, sleeper 1999 INTERNATIONAL s/a truck 1999 INTERNATIONAL 8000 1993 FORD L8000 t/a truck

FORKLIFTS

CASE 584 w/diesel eng., 6,000 lb. cap.

1990 CLARK w/propane eng.

2006 TOYOTA w/propane eng.

1999 TOYOTA w/propane eng.

VAN BODY TRUCKS 1989 GMC 2 ton 2004 STERLING Acterra 1995 INTERNATIONAL 2003 STERLING Acterra 1995 INTERNATIONAL 1995 FORD L9000

MOVING VAN TRAILERS

2000 KENTUCKY 53’ van trailer 1981 MATLOCK 1984 DORSEY 53’ van trailer 1998 KENTUCKY 53’ van trailer 1984 FRUEHAUF 28’ pup trailer 1985 GREAT DANE 24’ pup trailer

TRAILERS

2008 FOREST RIVER s/a enclosed trailer 2004 WELLS CARGO s/a enclosed trailer 2000 TRAIL KING 48’ drop deck trailer 1979 VALCAN drop deck trailer 1985 WESTERN tilt bed gooseneck Aluminum end dump trailer Water tanker trailer

VEHICLES

2007 DODGE 3500 w/flatbed 2010 FORD Explorer 2013 TOYOTA Highlander SUBARU Outback

TRUCKS

INTERNATIONAL S2500 truck with side dump trailer GMC Brigadier single axle INTERNATIONAL 4700 Vac/Jet truck 6x6 truck w/rear mount auger unit

Pump, tank and hose Man basket Power tools and cordless power tools Routers & Power planer Chains, binders & extension cords Assorted household items and More!

Download the Pate Auction App to your mobile device or go online and bid your price on this line of tools & equipment!

Truck flatbed & Pickup boxes Welders and Acetylene set Tools & Shop Equipment Assorted tack and pack saddles

Inspection: Monday, Aug. 26, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Pate Auction Inc.

2814 Billings Ave. • Helena, Montana 59601 406-439-5561 or 406-439-8855

www.pateauction.com

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page A8

A huge Thank You to BTI Feeds of Cut Bank and Ernie Ratzburg for making it possible to rebuild the 4-H Horse Arena at the Marias Fairgrounds! Your generosity is amazing and makes us all thankful to live where we do!

Thanks to our great group of volunteers, the arena looks great and will be appreciated for years to come.

Sincerely, The Marias Fair Horse Committee & all of the 4-H horse members

2100 Highway 2 East Havre, Montana 59501 1-800-214-4654 406-265-6387 jim@vaughntrucksales.com

www.vaughntrucksales.com

2020 WILSON DWH-650B NEW-- 50-ft. x 96” x 72”, Hendrickson air ride, rear axle lift, black sides, 2 rows of 5 lights, 10 aluminum wheels, 11-24.5 tires, electric tarp, 3 hurricane straps, grease hubs.................................................... $54,350

2019 DEMCO/MAURER NEW-- 40-ft. steel, spring suspension, steel wheels, 1124.5 Kelly tires, roll tarp.................................. $30,850

View more online at www.vaughntrucksales.com and give us a call TODAY!

JOHN MATZ farm ESTATE

AUCTION

Sat. Sept 7, 2019 --**9** am Prev & Reg starting **8** am

#197 Hwy 379 Dutton MT Take Hwy 379 2 mile east of Dutton(Past the airport)

TRACTORS/EQUIPMENT: 1968 5010 John Deere

*IH utility w/ front end loader #32369R *IH Mod A w/sickle mower *Ford 530 baler *12.5 Turf Power riding mower *6” x 40’ Grain auger *13’ Duck foot *27’ Disc *13’ 8” stock rack *Pick up stock rack * *TOOLS: *Logan Lathe *Walker Turner drill press *Metal cutting band saw *Sand blaster *Floor jack *Chains & boomers *(20) 48” shop light NIB *HD vices *Tool box *Hand tools *Ammco Mod 1100 ¾” torque wrench *Wrenches & sockets *(2) Anvils heavily used

CAR/TRUCKS/PARTS: 1957 Ford F100 2x4 *1956 Ford 2 door sedan, custom line *1959 GMC ¾ ton, 4x4, V8, 4 spd, *1955 Kaiser *1954 Ford 4 dr *1970 Ford Ranchero *Late 40s Jeep *1966 Ford F100, 4x4, V8, 4 spd, *1981 Chevy Chevette *1966 Ford F250, Camper Special, 2x4, V8, 4 spd, w/ 12’ camper *1960 Rambler station wagon, 6cly, push button auto *1953 Ford F5, V8, grain box & hoist *1946 Chevy 1 ½ ton, 6 cly, 4 spd, grain box & hoist * Chevy, 6400, w/box & hoist *1955 Ford wagon *1953 Chevy 4 door *1965 Ford Fairlane 500 XL, 2 door hardtop, 289, 4spd *Pontiac J 2000 *Model T cars & trucks *Ford flathead V8 engines *Mod T parts *Model A body *Auto radios, radiators, radios, wheels, hub caps etc

MISC: *(9) pcs Pipe 2” x 32’ *Tarps *1000 gal Water tank *Pine single bed *Playboy magazines *Fishing poles & tackle *Lots of scrap iron

ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES: Dr Buggy *2 Seat buggy *Metal wheels *(2) 6 Gal Red Wing crocks *Assorted crocks & jugs *Waterfall desk *Gilbert #7 ½ Engineers Erector set * Smith Miller dump truck* Texaco BO tanker ship w/box *Pedal grind stone *Stanley #50 molding plane w/ knives

MUSICAL: Washburn Acorn Mandolyn *Harmony Electric Guitar *Fender Stratocaster electric guitar #E944986 Japan *Lyle acoustical guitar *Ukelin Distributed by Manufactures Advertising Co *Harmony H400 amp

MANY MORE ITEMS WILL BE ADDED AS BUILDINGS ARE GONE THROUGH. TERMS: Cash or bankable check with picture I.D. Everything must be paid for and removed day of sale. EVERYTHING SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS. Statements made day of sale take precedence over printed material. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS. For Color Pictures www.burowsauction.com

Fred Burow www.burowsauction.com

Tammy Gittins Refreshments Available

Options to re-enroll or extend expiring CRP contracts

From Farm Service Agency, USDA Farmers and ranchers with expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts may now re-enroll in certain CRP continuous signup practices or, if eligible, select a one-year contract extension. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) also is accepting offers from those who want to enroll for the first time in one of the country’s largest conservation programs.

FSA’s 52nd signup for CRP runs from June 3 to August 23.

“Agricultural producers with expiring CRP contracts have set aside land to reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife and boost soil health for at least a decade,” said U.S. Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey. “We want to make sure they – and their neighbors who may not have a CRP contract – know they have opportunities within CRP to continue their valuable contribution to our country’s conservation successes.”

FSA stopped accepting offers last fall for the CRP continuous signup when 2014 Farm Bill authority expired. The 2018 Farm Bill reauthorized the program this past December, and FSA has carefully analyzed the bill’s language and determined that a limited signup prioritizing water-quality practices furthers conservation goals and makes sense for producers as FSA works to fully implement the program.

This year’s CRP continuous signup includes such practices as grass waterways, filter strips, riparian buffers, wetland restoration and others. View a full list of practices approved for this signup (https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-andservices/conservation-programs/conservation-reserve-program/crp-continuous-enrollment/index). Continuous signup enrollment contracts last for 10 to 15 years. Soil rental rates are set at 90 percent of 2018 rates. Incentive payments are not offered for these practices.

Producers with Expiring CRP Contracts Letters are in the mail to all producers with expiring CRP contracts, describing possible options.

A one-year extension is being offered to existing CRP participants with expiring CRP contracts of 14 years or less that have practices not eligible for re-enrollment under this CRP signup.

Alternatively, producers with expiring contracts may have the option to enroll in the Transition Incentives Program, which provides two additional annual rental payments on the condition the land is sold or rented to a beginning farmer or rancher or a member of a socially disadvantaged group.

CRP Continuous CREP Signup This signup also enables producers to sign up under existing Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) agreements. CREP is part of CRP and targets high-priority conservation concerns identified by a state, and federal funds are supplemented with non-federal funds to address those concerns. Download this fact sheet to learn more (https:// www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservationprograms/conservation-reserve-enhancement/index).

Other Future CRP Signup Options FSA is still planning a CRP general signup in December 2019, with a CRP Grasslands signup to follow. Those that extend their contracts may be eligible for one of these signup types or another continuous signup in the future.

More Information On December 20, 2018, President Trump signed into law the 2018 Farm Bill, which provides support, certainty and stability to our nation’s farmers, ranchers and land stewards by enhancing farm support programs, improving crop insurance, maintaining disaster programs and promoting and supporting voluntary conservation. FSA is committed to implementing these changes as quickly and effectively as possible, and today’s updates are part of meeting that goal.

Producers interested in applying for CRP continuous practices, including those under existing CREP agreements, or who want to extend their contract, should contact their USDA service center by August 23. To locate your local FSA office, visit www.farmers.gov. More information on CRP can be found at www.fsa.usda.gov/crp. ##### High school was actually created to deter teenagers from working! Until the Great Depression, public high schools didn’t exist, as kids went only up to the 8th grade (unless they were rich). But in order to slow the flood of young men entering the workforce during the Depression, high school was created, ensuring the few jobs went to adults and family men. ##### The liquid from canned chickpeas, known as “aquafaba”, makes an effective egg white substitute.

Aspen blotch leafminer, Phyllonorycter sp.

By lauren.kerzicnik@montana.edu

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page A9

CUSTOM LAND AERATION SURVEY Survery to see if there’s a need for Custom Land Aeration.

The tandem Lawson Aerator has been shown to be very effective in reducing sagebrush cover and opening spaces for grasses and forages to increase. It loosens compacted soils, reduces erosion and allows air and water to reach the root to increase yield.

Call or text Brett with Crump Ag with your thoughts and more information.

Phone (208) 709-6168

On-The-Farm or On-The-Road

Figure 1. Cottonwood leaves with leafminer damage.

Aspens and cottonwoods are starting to show white blotches on the undersides of the leaves. The spots on the leaves are due to mining from the aspen blotch leafminer, which is a moth. The caterpillars are at a very young stage right now.

Damage: Damage is usually considered cosmetic, but sometimes heavy outbreaks can cause reduced tree growth, branch dieback, and top-kill (but generally rare for this to happen). The leafminers attack stressed trees.

Management: Normally, no treatment is necessary and the pests are controlled by natural enemies later in the summer.

Keep the aspen and cottonwood trees well cared for with frequent watering for the rest of the season. Pick off the mined leaves and dispose of them (if there are only a few but this leafminer can be on most of the leaves of these trees).

Chemical controls have only been known to be moderately effective in controlling the pest and have sometimes made the populations worse by killing a lot of the natural enemies of the caterpillars.

If chemical controls are necessary, systemic insecticides (active ingredients such as imidacloprid (example products include Xytect, Bayer Advanced Tree & Shrub Insect Control), dinotefuran (example products include Safari, Transtect), acephate (example products include Orthene, Lepitect) can be used. Allow several weeks for uptake of a systemic.

Please follow the label closely if using an insecticide and make sure it is labeled for the type of tree you are spraying.

When you need tires call us!

We carry a HUGE inventory!!!

We offer a complete line of Goodyear & Firestone tires for swathers, balers, combines, tractors, automotive, light and heavy duty trucks.

ALIGNMENT SERVICE

Cars, Light Trucks, Heavy Duty Farm & Over-the-road Trucks

Cut Bank Tire

Phone 406-873-5025, Cell. 406-949-7717 — Cut Bank

Central Montana Farm Land auction

Auction Date: Wed, Aug. 28, 2019 • 6:00 p.m.

317± acres of land in Judith Basin County, MT with US Highway 87 access, located 2 miles southeast of Moccasin, MT. Owners: Wayne & Denise Sandstrom Roundup, MT

227± acres tillable 90 ± acres grass

Moccasin

Shobe Auction & Realty Auction Calendar

2019 suMMEr AuCtion CALEndAr saT., aug 24Th • 9:00 a.m.

Wed., Aug. 14th • 7:00 p.m.

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Jack Gruna Estate

Missouri Breaks Grazing 3 miles e asT oF leWisToWN Hunting Property Shop && Machining Equipment, Small Farm implements & more!

Yogo Inn, LewIstown

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JD 5101E w/ JD 563 loader

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317 +/- acres in Judith Basin County with US Highway 87 acess, located 2 miles southeastof Moccasin mileS eASt oF leWiStoWn Wed., sepT3 . 4 Th • 10:00 a.m.

Shop& & Machining Equipment, Small Farm Implements & more!

Jim Marilyn Lewis Farm Auction

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1820 +/- acres with organic certification, located in Toole Coulnty 30 miles northwest of Shelby below the Kevin Rims Wed., Sept. 4th • 10:00 A.m.

Fri., sepT. 28Th • 10:00

Morris Air Seeder

- Auction Method Online-Only Auction www.ShobeAuction.com

Terms: G A 3% Buyer’s Premium will be added to final bid price to establish final sale price.

G Cash to Seller at closing.

G Earnest Money: $10,000 non-refundable, due within 24 hours of auction end.

G No Contingencies. Buyers must have financing arranged prior to bidding.

G Taxes: Prorated to the date of closing.

G Seller will provide title insurance.

G Closing agent fees will be equally shared between Seller & Buyer.

G Closing on or before September 30th, 2019 at Realty Title Co., Lewistown, MT G Auctioneer is acting as the sole agent for the Seller.

G Sells subject to Seller’s approval of the final bid.

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Farm Equipment, Shop Tools & more.

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Goettlich Ranch - Lone Creek Division northern Montana Farm Land

Inventory Reduction Auction ComFort inn, Shelby 14 miles Ne oF WiNiFred 1,820 +/- acres of land with organic certification history, located in Toole An excellent line-up of well caredMTfor used County, MT, 30 miles northwest of Shelby, below theequipent!

Kevin Rims.

408 W. Main • Lewistown • 406-538-5125 • www.ShobeAuction.com

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page A10

PREMIUM ALFALFA ROUND BALES FOR SALE...$115/TON Call Johnny at (406) 289-0230, Choteau, Montana area

A potential tool to manage wireworms in wheat and barley

From Ramandeep Sandhi, Anamika Sharma and Gadi V. P. Reddy, Montana State University, Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center (WTARC), Conrad, MT

Montana Department of Agriculture 2019 Pesticide Disposal Program If you have any old pesticides - insecticides, herbicides, rodent poison or fungicides - laying around unused, the Montana Department of Agriculture will take them off your hands. The agency will hold waste pesticide collections in eastern Montana in September. The collections are scheduled in Wolf Point on September 17; Sidney on September 18; Miles City on September 19; and in Billings on September 20. The disposal program is a non-regulatory, service progam that offers pesticide users the opportunity to dispose of unwanted and unusable pesticides in a safe and legal way that is economical and convenient. Disposal costs are free for the first 200 pounds and $1.00/lb. per pound for additional amounts over 200 pounds. Disposal by other services can cost 5 to 10 times more. Additional information and the required pre-registration forms are available by contacting Carli Davis in Larslan at (406) 465-0531; mail to Dept. of Agriculture, Pesticide Disposal Program, 54 East Larslan Road, Larslan, MT 59244; email Carli.Davis@ mt.gov; website http://agr.mt.gov/pesticide-waste-disposal

22-ft. & 26-ft. HILLSBORO In Stock

Load Trail dumps

are in!

Flatbeds Available

in Steel & Aluminum

UPCOMING AUCTIONS Ron Martin Farm Auction, Moore, MT Sept. 14, 2019

Figure 1. Entomopathogenic (predatory) nematode infection cycle

Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, are becoming serious pests of wheat and barley in Montana. The farmers are facing significant crop losses due to wireworm damage. The wireworms live beneath the ground, move in the soil up and down when environmental conditions are favorable and feed on germinating seeds, roots and seedlings, ultimately killing the growing plants. This cryptic (hidden) behavior of wireworm makes it difficult to monitor and control the wireworm population. Based on our survey we have come across three species of wireworms; Limonius californicus, Hypnoidus bicolor, and Aeolus mellillus that damage wheat and barley fields in the Golden Triangle region of Montana. With the ban of insecticide Lindane in 2009, there has been continuous research efforts and requirement for an eco-friendly, longlasting and dependable control techniques to manage wireworm population and to avoid yield losses.

At, WTARC, we have been researching to find an effective biological control option to manage wireworms since 2012.

These biological control methods involve Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), entomopathogenic fungi, and bio-based insecticides. EPNs are soil inhabiting biocontrol agents that can kill a variety of insects with negligible effect on non-target insects and provide an environmentally friendly option to manage insect pests. These EPNs mainly fall under two nematode genera; Steinernema and Heterorhabditis. EPNs work in association with the symbiotic bacteria present inside the EPN bodies. The infective juveniles (IJs), 3rd juvenile stage of EPNs, penetrate the insects through natural openings and release symbiotic bacteria inside the body which will release some toxins and enzymes inside the insect body and eventually insects will die in 2-3 days (Figure 1). These bacteria provide nutrition to nematodes and nematodes, in return, provide shelter to the bacteria. Because EPNs specifically target soil-living insects and are proved to be not harmful to other organisms, they are exempt from registration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as a commercial insecticide. We are using wax moth (Galleria mellonella) larvae to rear different species of EPNs in the laboratory on a regular basis.

Earlier, we wrote an article in the Traders Dispatch (January 2018) about using EPNs strains that are commercially available to

test if they can potentially kill wireworms.

In 2018, 10 different strains of Steinernematids and Heterorhabditis genera were received from Dr. David Shapiro (USDAARS) and tested against wireworms with different doses (2.5, 5.0, 10.0, and 20 × 109 IJs/ha). Some promising EPN strains like Steinernema carpocapsae and S. riobrave were found to cause 50-60% wireworm (Limonius californicus) mortality in 2-3 weeks in laboratory and green house experiments in 2018. We are testing these EPN strains in the field during the summer 2019 to assure virulence in the field.

Apart from this, in summer 2018, we surveyed different areas in Golden Triangle Region of Montana (Pendroy, Shelby, Ledger, Conrad, Brady, Sunburst, Choteau, Knees, etc.) to find and extract the native EPNs from soils of Montana. Overall, we collected 150 soil samples from 30 field sites in different areas as mentioned above.

The soil samples were left for seven days with wax moth larvae to see if they are getting infected with naturally present EPNs in the soil. Out of these 150 samples, 19 samples were found positive with naturally occurring native EPNs. However, we were able to culture only four samples out of these 19 positive samples. It might be due to the presence of some other bacteriophore nematodes or less adaptation of EPNs to the laboratory conditions. These EPN species are from Valier, Choteau, and Kalispell areas. On the basis of morphological characteristics of these EPNs and infectivity symptoms in insects, three of four species were identified as Steinernematids (members belong to genus Steinernema) and one species belong to Heterorhabditis genus. To identify these nematodes to species level, we are using molecular techniques i.e. DNA extraction and gene sequencing. These studies are being conducted at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

We tested the efficacy of these four Montana native EPN species against wireworms (Limonius californicus) in the laboratory with different doses i.e. 700 IJs, 1400 IJs, 2800 IJs, and 5600 IJs/wireworm larva. Out of four species, three species belonging to Steinernema genus caused 40-50% mortality within three weeks. However, our results indicated Heterorhabditis species was not able to kill the wireworm larvae as effectively as Steinernematids. This confirmed the results of the experiments conducted CONTINUED ON PAGE A12

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page A11

Jim & Mona Lewis

FARM EQUIPMENT

AUCTION

Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 2019 • 10:00 Location: 1014 Ware Road Lewistown, MT

a.m.

From Lewistown, go 3 miles N. on Hwy. 191, then W. on Hanover Road for 12.5 miles, north 4 miles on Danvers road, then east 1 mile.

From Denton, go E. on Hwy 81 for 11.5 miles, go 3.5 miles S. on North Danvers Rd, then 5 miles SE on Danvers Rd. Watch for Auction Arrows.

1976 Case 2670

1977 MF 230

1927 Ford Model T

Riteway 7100, 50’

Hutchmaster 20’ offset

1973 IHC Travelette

TRACTOR & BACKHOE 1998 John Deere 410E backhoe w/loader, 4 x 4, diesel, extend-ahoe, clam shell bucket, heated cab, 5,100 hrs., 24” hoe bucket, 90” front bucket, near new front rubber 1985 Case IH 4694, 260 hp., 4 x 4, 5,757 hrs., 3 pt., pto, PS trans, near new 20.8 x 34 dual rubber, turboed, crab steering, 4 remotes 1976 Case 2670, diesel, 4 x 4, 200 hp., 800 hrs on rebuilt engine & trans., cab/air, 4 remotes 1977 MF 230, 3 cyl. Perkins diesel, 3 pt., live 540 pto, roll bar, 4,276 hrs.

1961 Case 930 diesel, 4000 hrs, 2 remotes, near new rubber, duals, 6 spd trans 1956 IHC utility tractor, gas, T. A., 2 pt., live pto, turbo charger, wide front, 4679 hrs 1949 IHC Farmall M w/Farmhand F-10 loader 1943 IHC Farmall H w/ Farmhand F-10 loader 1949 Oliver 77, wide front, live pto, new front rubber 1945 Oliver 70 with tricycle gear, belt pulley, pto, nice paint and decals 1936 International Harvestor TD-40 crawler, non-runner, engine free, has 6 hrs on complete engine OH, belt pulley, been in family since new.

TILLAGE & SEEDING 2002 Morris 35’ air seeder, 10” spacing, sgle shoot, Morris 7240 tow between split tank (95/145).

Riteway 7100 50’ heavy harrow, hyd. adjustable 24” near new tines Hutchmaster 20’ offset disk, near new 23” disks Century slide-in 50’ sprayer mtd in 1998 Chevy ¾ ton Gysler 18’ chisel plow, single wing fold JD 10’ dble disk drill, steel packers Anderson rocker picker, pto drive, 540 rpm

GRAIN AUGERS Westfield 8” x 51’, pto drive, Sakundiak 7” x 39’, 13 hp. gas engine, elec. start

2002 Morris Air Seeder

1998 JD 410E

Century Sprayer - 1998 Chevy

1977 GMC 2 ton truck, newer 350 engine, 4 /2 spd, 16’ steel box, roll tarp, 92k miles 1976 Chevy 2 ton truck, 366 gas, 4/2 spd, 16’ Knapheide box, bed liner, roll tarp, all new tires and rims, 2 way hoist, 1949 Dodge 2 ton truck, 5/2 spd, Chrysler flathead six, hoist, 1600 gal. poly water tank, new 2” transfer pump, 101k miles 1947 Dodge 2 ton truck, 5/2 spd, Chrysler flathead six, 14’ box, 27k miles 1996 Ford F-250 4 x 4, air, ps, 351 gas, 5 spd, long box, 108k miles 1989 Ford F-250 4 x 4, ps, 351 gas, 5 spd, spray in bed liner, long box 1980 Chevy C-10 w/newer factory complete 5.7 diesel engine, auto, ps, air, 74k miles 1972 Chevy C-20 Camper Special, 2 wd, ps, 350 gas, hvy duty trans, 56k miles 1960 Chevy C-10, 292 gas, 4 spd, 68k miles, long box

AUTOS 1927 Ford Model T 4-dr soft top, rebuilt engine and trans, 2 spd rear axle, needs paint and upholstery, some new parts. A project for someone to take to the finish.

1956 Ford F-600 school bus/camper, 292 gas (overhauled), 4/2 spd.

1970 Chevy Custom Coupe, 2 dr hardtop, auto & ps, disk brakes, for restoration 1974 Pontiac Catalina 2 dr hardtop, air, 89k miles

1985 Case IH 4694

Case 930

1977 GMC

1949 Oliver 77

1976 Chevy

TOOLS/SHOP EQUIP/ HOUSEHOLD (PARTIAL LIST) Seelye Supreme 100 amp MIG welder w/cart Wagner air paint gun, new; Snap-On torque wrench Sears 10” table saw; Northern ½ impact wrench; Bar Lands 12,000 lb. winch, NIB McCulloch Mac 10-10 chain saw; Generac Pressure Washer, 2400 psi 2 wrench sets, metric-SAE, NIB; Kawasaki tool set; Coleman dome tent, 13’x 13’; B&S 8 hp grain dryer fan, 2 belt drive Large anvil; Master B150 kerosene heater; Bolt bins; Asst’d 1 cyl. Engines; Consolair port. air compressor Marquette 225 AC arc welder, Many assorted hand/shop tools.

Household kitchen items/ Antiques/ Collectibles

Auctioneer’s Note: Jim and Marilyn have leased their farm and are retiring. Their vehicles and tractors have been shedded and well cared for.

Join us for a grand day with Jim and Marilyn.

Jayson & Kyle

TRAILERS & OTHER 1969 Circle J 2 horse trailer 1981 Custom built flatbed trailer, 20’ 1990 Leland Artic Cat snowmobile trailer Wilray 500 gal. fuel tank w/stand, filter, hose and nozzle Signature 2000 Elite riding lawn mower, 42’, nice cond.

6’ Rotary mower, pto Danuser post auger, 3 pt, pto, 9 & 12” bits Many pieces older machinery and assorted iron

TRUCKS & PICKUPS

JAYSON & KYLE SHOBE AUCTIONEERS & REALTORS

1973 IHC Travelette 1210, 4 x 4, crew cab, 392 gas, ps, auto, 12,570 original miles, one owner 1995 Ford F-800 truck, 5.9 Cummings diesel, 119k miles, 16’ steel box w/2 way -2 cyl. hoist, 6 spd trans.

408 WEST MAIN, LEWISTOWN, MT 59457 OFFICE: 406-538-5125 Jayson: 406-366-5125 e-mail: jayson@shobeauction.com

www.ShobeAuction.com

Kyle: 406-366-0472 e-mail: kyle@shobeauction.com

1989 Ford F250 4x4

Signature 2000 Elite Lunch Available Terms: Cash or Check day of sale.

Photo ID required to register.

Phone and absentee bidding available.

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page A12

WILLOW CREEK & TRITICALE HAY FOR SALE Willow Creek winter wheat hay, 75 ton, 1200 lb. round bales, twine...........................$80/ton Triticale hay, 40 ton, 1200 lb. round bales, twine.........................................................$80/ton Will load, will deliver a limited distance from my place by Fairfield, MT for extra $.

Call or text (406) 788-2753

LARRY LABREE ESTATE

AUCTION Saturday, September 7, 2019 10:00 AM Lunch Available

Go South at Ismay off the Miles City to Baker Highway 12 for 25 miles then turn right on Ismay Mail Route for 1 ½ miles or from Ekalaka on the Miles City Cut Off Road to the Ismay right turn 20 miles then left on Ismay mail route for 1 ½ miles.

Auction signs will be posted both way!

VEHICLES & TRAILERS

1976 Chevrolet Bonanza ½ ton 4wd • 2001 Ford F350 Super Duty dually 4x4 • 1984 GMC Sierra Classic 3500 dually 4x4 • 1986 Ford F250 XLT 4WD (don’t run) • 2004 Chevrolet Silverado single cab with Bradford Flatbed • (3) Old Cadillac’s & 1 Chevrolet Blazer (don’t run) • 2015 Load Trail gooseneck dump trailer (like new) • 1992 Titan 20-ft. gooseneck stock trailer • Chevrolet Venture van • Chevrolet pickup box • 1980’s heavy duty 20 ft. bumper-pull car or implement trailer—small utility trailer, bumper pull • Pickup box trailer • ALJO Skyline Corp. gooseneck 20-ft. travel trailer #53205176 (nice shape)

TRACTORS, SKID-STEER & ATTACHMENTS, PLUS 4 WHEELERS & SNOWMOBILES

Farmall 826 diesel with cab, 3 point, duals, power shift & dual hydraulics • IH 2350 loader with grapple on above tractor • John Deere M Tractor • Bobcat skid steer S205 2 speed with cab & pallet fork • Bobcat Kwik Way 6-ft. blade attachment Bobcat Brush cat 8 ft. Rotary Mower attachments • Bobcat 12 hydraulic post hole uger, 2 augers • Bobcat grapple fork attachment • Bobcat 709 backhoe • Bobcat tire chains • pickup tire chains • 2008 Yamaha Grizzly 4-wheeler • Kawasaki Bayo 4-wheeler • 2005 Yamaha 660 Grizzly 4-wheeler • (2) Honda Rancher 4-wheelers • 1994 Kawasaki 4-wheeler • JD Spit Fire snowmobile (don’t run) • Cub Cadet R2T 54 inch zero turn mower (nice) • JAR 1 Monarch sickle 3-ft. weed mower • Ranch King Pro riding lawn mower

RANCH & SHOP EQUIPMENT

T&S Trip hopper range feeder model P-836 • Generac 50 KW W50 amp breaker PTO on trailer • Warne Chemical 200 gallon pickup sprayer • Super Rhino 3 point 8-ft. rear blade • Power-mate air compressor • (2) 300 gallon & (2) 500 gallon gas tanks • Weed eaters • Forks • Bars • Shovels • Bolt Cutters • Socket sets • Tap & Die sets • Chains • Boomers • Handy Man jacks • Cut Off saw • Aluminum ramps • Chain Saw • Pro Series battery charger • Propane bottles • Car ramps • Lots of used tires • Ranch Pro garden tiller • (16) bags of Redi Crete • Bench grinder • Warne 4-wheeler sprayer • Generac Corp. model 8435-A Arc welder & 4000 watt generator • Game carrier • Step ladders • Yard Cart • North Star 1300 pressure washer • Jacks • Hammers • Levels • Creepers • Log & Chains • Bolts & Hinges • Skill Saw • Pipe Wrenches • Nails & Supplies • Aluminum Ladder • D&R electric log splitter • Forney acetylene welder with cart & bottles • Bench vice • Twentieth Century stick welder • Central Machine 16 speed drill press • 125# shop anvil

MONTANA BRAND Cattle- Left Hip Horses-Left Thigh

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

Kalamazoo kitchen range with reservoir & warming oven (very good) • Model Car collection • Grey enamel kitchen range with warming oven & reservoir • Plus more Household Items • Wooden Boxes • 2 Man saws • Buzz saw blade • Coal bucket • Egg basket • Cream Can • Laundry Tub • Cistern Pump • Old Wrenches • Wooden Kitchen Cupboard • Old Mirror • (2) Old Carpenter Boxes • Howe Platform Scale • Servel gas refrigerator • Frigidaire box refrigerator • Wooden doors • Single trees & double trees • Several animal traps • Wood pile • Rolled newspapers • Common Sense Bobsled • Fresno • Farm Wagon • Horse Drawn Plows • (2) Dump rakes • Several ton of miscellaneous iron • PLUS MORE!

LIVESTOCK & WESTERN EQUIPMENT

25-ft. steel alley with working tub • Johnson steel calf chute • Powder River heavy duty cattle chute • Powder River regular chute • Priefert palpation cage • (11) 12-ft.

Stock Panels • 5 Ton cattle cake • Cake scoop • Al Furstnow MC youth saddle • Miles City Coggeshall ladies or youth saddle • Denver Colorado roping saddle • Wilson Miles City original Coggeshall saddle • (2) Old High Back saddles • Saddle Bags • Bareback Rig • (2) Sets Harness with collars & lines • Several more harness & collars • Collar Pads • Lots of shoeing supplies • Several horseshoes • Dehorners • Vet Supplies • Hemp rope corral • Binoculars • Spotting scope & some ammo

OWNER: LARRY LABREE ESTATE JOHN EMMETT LABREE P.R.

406-934-1702

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: It’s worth the trip to see how good this country can be. Several pieces of good using equipment plus lots of collectibles from the past. Plan to be with us on September 7th!

TERMS: **CASH OR BANKABLE CHECK **NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS **SALES TAX COLLECTED

**RINGLING ESTATE CONSIGNMENT**

Buffalo Skull Caps & Horns • Elk Horns • Cream Can • (3) Well Pumps & Handles • (3) Post Vice • Old Forge • Lots of Forge Tools • New Buggy Poles • Wagon Spokes • Lots of Buggy Parts and Frames • (2) Common Sense Bob Sleds • (2) Heavy Wrought Iron Beds • Wooden Black Pulleys • 2 Man Saws • Wooden Levels & Planes • Ironic Wood Bit Set--125# Anvil • Large Cast Cauldron 40 gallon • Cast Pot • (2) Duplex Pump Jacks • Chain Hoist • (2) Little Chief & Giant Thread Sets • Sheep Wagon Stove • Lanterns • Scythes’ • Branding Irons • Single Trees • 150 gallon Pickup Fuel Tank • Maytag Washing Machine • Cast Iron Tub • Wood Bolt Bin • Oak Chairs • Platform Scale • Large Trunks • John Deere 1550 10-ft. No Till Drill with PTO #001081N OWNER: RINGLING ESTATE; ANN RINGLING, P.R. --- Sale Conducted by --

MILLS AUCTION SERVICE

BOX 128 BOYES, MT 59316

406-427-5317, Cell 605-645-9611 www.mills-auction.com

MSU to purchase pigs from 4-H’ers for use in dining halls

From MSU News Service Buyers for Montana State University’s (MSU) Culinary Services have begun fanning out across the state to purchase pigs at 4-H auctions that will end up on the plates of college students.

Last year, MSU purchased 42 pigs from 4-H’ers at eight county fairs held across the state from Plentywood to Hamilton, which accounted for 5,000 pounds of pork used in the university’s two dining halls. This year, MSU expects to purchase about 60 pigs at 12 fairs across Montana.

“We’re committed to buying as much Montana food as we can, and there is nothing more Montanan than livestock raised by a 4-H kid,” said Rich Huffman, MSU Culinary Services director.

This year, MSU buyers plan to visit the following fairs on the following dates: • Gallatin County Fair, Bozeman, July 19 • Lewis and Clark County Fair, Helena, July 27 • Carbon County Fair, Red Lodge, July 27 • Sheridan County Fair, Plentywood, July 27 • Butte-Silver Bow County Fair, Butte, August 1 • Richland County Fair, Sidney, August 2 • Western Montana Fair, Missoula, August 10 • Madison County Fair, Twin Bridges, August 10 • Northwest Montana Fair, Kalispell, August 17 • Ravalli County Fair, Hamilton, August 31 • Beaverhead County Fair, Dillon, August 31 • Sanders County Fair, Plains, September 1 “We so enjoy meeting the 4-H youth; their enthusiasm and professionalism stands out,” Huffman said. “They often approach us before the auction with a firm handshake and introduction, tell us all about raising their pig, how much they feed it each day, how much it weighs and how well it was judged. And, to a person, they always thank us afterwards, and often send us a nice thank you note and picture of their hog. These individuals are our future, and we know we’re in good hands!”

Each year, MSU Culinary Services purchases approximately $2 million in local food, Huffman said, which amounts to about 25% of its total food purchases. That includes purchases of more than 60 MSU lambs and more than 25 steers from the MSU College of Agriculture’s SteerA-Year student program.

Culinary Services provides more than 12,000 meals in its dining facilities each day during the academic year. More information is available at montana.edu/culinaryservices/.

A potential tool to manage wireworms CONTINUED FROM PAGE A10

with already available EPNs where Steinernematids were more infective than Heterorhabditis species. In 2019, these three effective native EPNs from Montana are being tested against wireworms in greenhouse studies to explore the possibility of using the native EPNs for management of wireworms.

In addition, these experiments are being conducted in different soil types present in the Golden Triangle Region.

These soil types include sandy loam soil, clay loam, clay, loam, and others. The variation in efficacy of these native and available EPNs against wireworms in different soil types are being investigated at WTARC. Since these soil types are prevalent in different parts of Montana, it will be practical to see if specific EPN species can suppress wireworm population in specific soil type.

We believe, the Montana native EPNs would be more efficient than non-native commercially available EPNs for wireworm management. There are many reasons for this assumption. These strains are adaptive to Montana’s extremely cold and hot weather as compared to non-indigenous EPN species. Also, these Montana native EPNs can persist in the soil for a longer period of time as compared to available EPNs, which can make them more suitable for commercial application in Montana. There will be no need for repetitive application of native EPNs in fields. Overall, these EPNs can play a significant role in wireworm management in Montana especially Golden Triangle Region in the suppression of wireworms, helping the farmers to reduce crop yield losses. These EPN species can be integrated with other biological tactics particularly in high wireworm infested areas to manage the populations, making them safer to the environment as well as other non-target organisms.

Herbicide carryover in garden

By Lesley Orloff, MSU Extension

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WANTED 1964 TO 1969 DODGE A100 PICKUP Prefer one with automatic transmission and 225 slant 6 engine. Corner windows too if possible. Don’t really want one that is too rusted. Let me know what you have please.

Willing to make you a good offer on the right one.

Also interested in any 1960’s Artic Cat snowmobiles with the bigger engines.

634-760 cc for example Milt Erickson, milt_nd@yahoo.com 701-685-2247 or cell 308-360-3923 text would be best way to contact

Thank you for purchasing my pig “Sam the Ham” and for your continued support of 4-H Don Kolste

Tomato showing symptoms described below.

The Schutter Diagnostic Lab is receiving garden vegetable samples showing symptoms consistent with synthetic auxin, also known as plant growth regulator, herbicide injury. In many of these cases, we suspect carryover of persistent herbicides in garden amendments such as compost, manure, or topsoil. Symptoms include extreme cupping and twisting of leaves, twisting and/or cracking of stems, and general distortion of plant parts. Leaves may feel thicker than normal and may have veins that look more parallel than usual. Commonly these symptoms are most pronounced on newer growth. These symptoms can come from other sources, including herbicide drift, or insect or disease issues if symptoms are not widespread. Clues that herbicide carryover may be the issue include many different hosts being affected, but usually most pronounced injury is to tomatoes and potatoes, with peppers, beans, peas, squash, and other vegetables also showing some symptoms. Another clue is a recent application of manure or compost, or a recent load of topsoil being brought in to fill raised beds.

Please see the link below for more information about this issue, and for instructions on how to perform a simple bioassay to determine if an amendment may be contaminated. http://msuextension.org/ publications/AGandNaturalResources/MT201612AG. pdf Contact Noelle Orloff (994-6297; noelleorloff@ montana.edu) with further questions.

OPEN HOUSE AUGUST 25TH FROM 2:00-4:00 Legal Description: S24, T22 N, R58 E, C.O.S. 27-477, 1 AC TRACT SE4SW4 AS PER COS 27-477 & 1 AC TR IN SESW AS PER COS 27-291 (2 ACRES) House & Buildings: 1120 sq ft home w/full basement, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, forced air, central AC, privacy fenced deck, unattached 29X32 double car garage, 28X62 dog kennel building w/3 overhead doors, 30X40 shop building w/4 overhead doors, 14x16 storage shed

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ALFALFA/GRASS MIX FOR SALE Net wrapped 5x6 round bales. Tested at 117 RFV. Excellent cow or horse hay. Priced FOB Contact Mitch at 406-467-3151 or 406-590-2649

2 day WESTERN AUCTION

Sat., September 14, 2019 at 10:00 am Sun., September 15, 2019 at 10:00 am at RLP Sale Barn, Hamilton, MT

Preview: Fri., September 13 -10:00 am - 5:00 pm Offered online through icollector.com

Cowboy Collectibles, Americana, Native American, Guns, Gold, Tack, and much more.

RLP Auctions (406) 369-2640

www.rlpauctions.net

$8, under 6 FREE / $25 for Family 2019 Threshing Bee in honor of Willis Heron

— Daily Attractions —

• Breakfast 7:00 a.m. • Threshing 1:00 p.m.

• Parade of Tractors 3:00 p.m.

• Choteau Train Depot • Print Shop • Homestead House • One Room Schoolhouse • TASGA Country Church • Collins Post Office • Swap Meet • Blacksmithing • Sawmilling & Planing • Shingle Milling • Grain Grinding • Steam Engines • Stationary Engines • Tractors • Antique Vehicles See the “Do Nothing” Machine!

Photos with Alpacas, Train Rides for Kids

Saturday - Dutch Oven Supper - 4 pm Sunday - Church Service - 9 am Live Music

Square Dancers, Fiddlers, Accordian Group, Open Jam Sessions

RAFFLE

Handcrafted Rocking Chair and multiple other prizes

(Tickets available from club members starting July 1 and at announcers stand during show)

EXHIBITORS & VENDORS WELCOME!

TETON ANTIQUE CLUB, P.O. BOX 278, CHOTEAU, MT 59422 Dave Klette (406) 450-1803 or Rick Corey 466-5409 or email rcorey@3rivers.net No Camping at Show Grounds. Lodging & Restaurants nearby

So, you think you want to work outdoors

By Bruce Auchly, FWP Region 4 Information Officer Depending on your point of view, the summer is either beginning, half over or nearly done.

Recent graduates of both high school and college probably wish the summer would never end and people would stop asking them what’s next. Neither will happen, of course. A graduate’s next step is getting a career, a job or a clue.

The following is a tutorial for anyone who has thought working in the fish, wildlife and parks field would be just swell.

Coulees don’t look steep until you are at the bottom and must climb out to leave a days-old elk calf after ear One method of keeping tabs on an elk herd is capture newborn elk calves tagging it because its momma and fitting them with radio ear tags. is barking and pacing impadawn count of prairie songbirds. The counts tiently a couple hundred yards away. Of are based primarily on recognizing bird course, you hope the cow elk doesn’t reject songs. Beginning at 5 a.m., drive 25 miles its newborn after you leave or worse try to on a deserted gravel road, stop every half stomp on you before your exit. mile for three minutes, count every bird Mountain rivers don’t look swift and deep singing, then drive a half mile and repeat. until you have to cross with a backpack Can you name that song in three notes? full of nets and gear to capture, tag, then Like putting worms on hooks for hunrelease Harlequin ducks so we can keep dreds and hundreds of children at a local tabs on these heart-stoppingly beautiful sea kids fishing day. Just so a five-year-old can ducks that breed and nest in remote Rocky catch her first fish, hold it up for a photo, Mountain streams. Don’t even think about smile and make a grown-up cry tears of joy. falling, but if you do, try to remember who Fish and wildlife and parks are about your beneficiaries are. people.

That may sound contrary but it’s And no matter how breathtaking the true.

While wild animals and beautiful canyon that squeezes the Smith River State places can exist without human presence, Park looks to floaters, someone must regiswe appreciate and admire beauty we see, ter each floater, pull weeds, make sure the touch and hear and with that admiration campsite signs have not washed away, pick comes understanding. up trash, check the levels in the latrines and The purpose of the elk calf capture is to dig new ones when the old ones are full. Yes, find out where the local elk herd spends the sir, hand me that shovel. winter.

Capturing an adult elk is expensive Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists, park both for the cost of a radio collar and the rangers, technicians, game wardens and helicopter crew that must swoop down and even volunteers know about these hazards shoot a net over the animal. and unpleasant tasks because it’s what they Catching an adult elk in any season but do to keep tabs on Montana’s resources. winter (important if you are trying to find Of course, sometimes it’s neither dangerout where they spend the winter) is danous nor taxing but rewarding. gerous for the animal as it can overheat.

Like getting up at 3 a.m. to start a preGrabbing a newborn calf and fitting it with a radio encapsulated earring is a low tech, low price solution.

It’s generally known that the magnificent Harlequin duck breeds and nests in the Rockies from western Wyoming north to the Arctic, then winters on the Pacific Coast.

But the timing of when Montana’s population nests and where specifically they spend the winter is not known.

Hence an effort to capture them and fit them with ankle bands or geolocators.

Then there is the Smith River, like many state parks, that people enjoy and love.

Maybe too much.

A job with Fish, Wildlife and Parks is strenuous, fun, Harlequin ducks nest and raise their young in remote Rocky Mountain dirty, glamorous, and above streams, then winter on the Pacific Coast. all necessary. ##### Cute animals have a higher chance of being saved from extinction. Being considered cute by humans clearly presents an evolutionary advantage. In millions of years, we can expect many species to be supercute.

##### Just came home from a training session.

Two hours on the treadmill did me really good. If only I could somehow stop the constant beeping and the irritated comments of the cashier.

Publication addresses home garden potato diseases

From University of Wyoming Extension Diseases and Disorders of Potatoes in the Home Garden is now available as a pdf, HTML or ePub at bit.ly/DiseasesDisordersPotatoes from the University of Wyoming (UW) Extension.

“A quick reference for home gardeners addressing potential problems associated with growing potatoes in Wyoming,” said William Stump, extension plant pathologist and assistant professor for plant sciences.

This bulletin provides information regarding environmental disorders (physiological) and some infectious (biotic) diseases Wyoming gardeners may encounter with the potato plant and tuber. ##### Do I lose when the police officer says papers and I say scissors?

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2012 New Holland BR7090 Round Baler - A great machine - A great price - ONLY 1780 bales, like new Twine and net wrap, Super Sweep pickup, Gandy granular inoculate applicator, 1000 PTO, moisture tester, Bale Command monitor, hydraulic pickup, Speciality Crop attachment, very clean, always been shedded.

Again Only 1780 Bales............................................................................. $24,500

1992 Case/IHC 1680 Combine cab, air conditioning, heater, power steering, Cummins 6 cylinder diesel engine, Case 3-speed hydro transmission, high capacity threshing body attachment, Cross-Flow cleaning fan, moisture monitor, grain loss monitor, new grain tank auger and liners......................... $24,650

ALSO: 1-IHC 1010 25-ft. header with adjustable pickup reel & pickup guards.

1- Like new header trailer 1-2003 CIH 2206 6-row, 30” spacing row crop head with poly row dividers, like new.

For complete listing of equipment and attachments call: Dick Henry, Sales Coordinator

(406) 322-5617

Montana Hereford Directory A & L Livestock Anchor Polled Herefords

H Hanging J

Duncan Ranch Co

Hanly Loyning

406-292-3503, Joplin, MT

406-880-9211, Frenchtown, MT

406-425-2344, Roberts, MT

Sam Anderson

406-288-3330, Gold Creek, MT

406-570-5519, Willow Creek, MT

406-799-2973, Stevensville, MT

Bar Star Cattle

406-266-4121, Townsend, MT www.ehlkeherefords.com

406-323-1686, Roundup, MT

406-891-0973, Baker, MT www.facebook.com/MD-Herefords

406-467-2880, Vaughn, MT

Dutton Hereford Ranch

Dave Hanson

Ehlke Herefords

406-848-2588, Emigrant, MT 406-947-5322, Musselshell, MT www.barstarcattle.com

Beery’s Land & Livestock Co 406-979-5720, Vida, MT www.beeryherefords.com

Brownell Polled Herefords Pendroy, MT

Churchill Cattle Co

406-284-6421, Manhattan, MT www.churchillcattle.com

Cooper Hereford Ranch

Harper Herefords

Holden Herefords

Elings Polled Herefords

406-450-1029, Valier, MT www.holdenherefords.com

406-278-3406, Conrad, MT

Feddes Herefords

Dan 406-570-1602, Manhattan, MT www.feddes.com

406-287-9947, Whitehall, MT

406-835-2501, Glen, MT

Curlew Cattle Co

Dallas Polled Herefords

406-368-2244, Canyon Creek, MT

Garrison Ranches Inc

Griffin Polled Herefords 406-821-0247, Darby, MT

Montana Hereford Association Directors

Hyer McKechnie, Pres. (406) 432-2296 Denise Loyning, VP (406) 425-2252 Chad Murnin (406) 399-7811 Jon Bouma (406) 799-2973 Dave Hanson (406) 467-2880 Austin Frank (307) 631-6012 Richard Sidwell (406) 322-4425 Emily Pederson, Sec. (406) 322-8541

McMURRY CATTLE

Added Genetic Balance Trait And Carcass Value ONLY THE BEST SELL Private Treaty Bull Sales

Fred & Doreen McMurry 2027 Iris Lane Billings, MT 59102

JZ Livestock

Laurel, MT

HP 406 254 1247 Cell 406 697 4040 mcmurrycattle@gmail.com www.mcmurrycattle.com

Mohican West

Sidwell Ranch

406-322-4425, Columbus, MT www.sidwell-land.com

Sparks Herefords

406-778-2320, Plevna, MT www.sparksherefords.com

Storey Hereford Ranch

406-580-8255, Bozeman, MT www.facebook.com/ Storey-Hereford-Ranch

Thomas Herefords

NJW Polled Herefords

406-240-9301, Deer Lodge, MT

307-672-3248, Sheridan, WY www.njwherefords.com

406-544-1536, Gold Creek, MT www.thomasherefords.com

406-584-7571, Lindsay, MT

On Point Cattle Co

406-350-3123, Moore, MT www.wichmanherefords.com

K & C Herefords

406-580-1303, Willow Creek, MT

McMurry Cattle

406-254-1247, Billings, MT www.mcmurrycattle.com

Hamilton, MT

406-539-6885, Willow Creek, MT www.cooperherefords.com

406-432-2296, Shelby, MT

J Bar E Ranch

Frank Herefords

307-631-6012, Absarokee, MT

McKechnie Hereford Ranch

406-549-4442, Missoula, MT 406-765-7068, Plentywood, MT

406-874-8200, Miles City, MT

M/D Herefords

Indreland Ranch

Fort Keogh Livestock Research

G & R Farming, LLC

Lucky U Cattle Company

Rafter Ranch Inc

406-832-3219, Wise River, MT

K.L. Slagsvold Herefords L Bar W Cattle Company

406-425-2484, Absarokee, MT www.lbarw.com

570-637-2644, Absarokee, MT

Modest birth, massive meat Our production sale is any time you want.

We sell Hereford bulls and females by private treaty. Find out more at feddes.com.

Better yet, visit the ranch.

Feddes Herefords www.feddes.com 2009 Churchill Road Manhattan, MT 59741 tfeddes@msn.com Tim 406.570.4771 Dan 406.570.1602

Otis Ranch

406-223-4518, Emigrant, MT

Wichman Herefords Yorlum Cattle Co

406-882-4086, Trego, MT

Your Northern Montana source for quality Hereford bulls

J Bar E Ranch Plentywood, MT

Arvid Eggen - 406-765-7068 Lorrie Eggen - 406-765-8219 Jay-De Eggen - 406-671-7149

Join us for our Fall tour held September 13th-14th with the headquarters in Billings. We have a hotel room block with special rates at the DoubleTree hotel for September 12-15.

Friday, September 13th stops include: Origen, McMurry Cattle Co. and Bar Star Cattle.

Saturday, September 14th stops include: L Bar W Cattle Company, Sidwell Land & Livestock with Frank Herefords and Mohican West.

Contact Chad Murnin with any questions: barstarcattle@hotmail.com or (406) 399-7811.

You can also go to our website for more information. www.montanahereford.org

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HEADER FOR SALE

2015 John Deere 640D, top cross augers, dual knife drive, full skid package, fine-cut cutter bar. Like new, low acres.. $55,000

Call Arron (406) 390-2434 or Ed (406) 390-9380

The Repair Shop Liquidation Sale Equipment, Tools & Inventory September 6 & 7, 2019 • 8:00 AM Cash & Credit Cards ONLY

1501 Airport Rd. • Choteau, MT 59442 406-466-2955 or 406-590-5447

DBL Sales and Service, LLC US Dealer for K-Hart Direct Seeding Disc Drills Dave and Brock Linker • 6960 North Coffee Creek Rd, Coffee Creek, MT 59424

Now Available 2014 K-Hart 42-ft. drill.

Coming in on trade. $75,000

2018 K-Hart 66-ft. single shoot drill,with 8612 openers, 10” spacing, 6000 acres, nice condition, as new $135,000 2010 Crustbuster No till, double disk, 30-ft. box drill, good cover crop drill, 8000 acres $29,995

Why K-Hart Disc Drills?

2000 Dodge diesel 1-ton pickup, 500 gallon Summers sprayer with 60-ft, boom, Ezee Guide and Auto Boom $17,500

• Seed into wetter soils than most other drills • Seed faster • Seed with less horsepower & fuel • Simplest design on the market Call for more • Perfect combination with stripper header information.

• 34-ft. to 76-ft. Gen II Drill widths K-Hart drills are ready to seed direct from the manufacturer.

Don’t have to spend $300 - $500 per row to seed in our conditions.

NOW AVAILABLE: Dave cell: 406-350-2266, home: 406-567-2632

Brock cell: 406-350-2886, home: 406-567-3633

Applied Urban Integrated Pest Management workshops

From MSU Extension Are you interested in Urban IPM Certification or do you want to learn more about plant diseases, insect pests, and weed identification in urban environments in Montana? If the answer is yes, this workshop is for you! Montana State University’s Urban Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is hosting an in-depth training for 1.5 days from September 10-11, 2019. Continuing education credits will be available.

Our guest speaker is Dr. Raymond Cloyd from Kansas State University. Dr. Cloyd is a professor and extension specialist in horticultural entomology for the state of Kansas with a major clientele that includes homeowners, master gardeners, and professional and commercial operators. His research and extension program involves plant protection/ pest management in greenhouses, nurseries, landscapes, turfgrass, conservatories, interiorscapes, Christmas trees, vegetables and fruits, and pollinators. Additional key speakers will be MSU Extension specialists Dr. Tim Seipel and Dr. Eva Grimme.

Topics will include IPM for greenhouses and local food production, biocontrol options, tree related abiotic and biotic issues, insect diagnosis and management recommendations, and weed identification. Examples of plant diseases, insect pests, and abiotic issues will be demonstrated and discussed during a tour of the MSU campus.

The 35 available spaces will be filled on a first-serve basis. A registration fee will be charged per participant and workshop.

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Eva Grimme at eva.grimme@montana.edu or 406-994-5150.

Session 1: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Time: 12:00 – 3:15 pm IPM for Greenhouses and Local Foods 1. Sanitation – Dr. Raymond Cloyd This session will discuss the importance of sanitation in regard to insect, mite, and disease management in horticultural cropping systems. The various methods that should be implemented to maintain ‘sound’ sanitation practices will be discussed in detail.

2. Biocontrol/Biopesticides – Dr. Raymond Cloyd This session will discuss the fundamentals and characteristics of biological control and biopesticides, and how to properly use them in order to succeed in suppressing insect and mite pest populations in horticultural cropping systems.

Location: MSU Campus, Plant BioScience Bldg., Room 108 Cost: $30; Snacks provided Session 2: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Turf to Trees – Pests of Woody Ornamentals 1. Insect Diagnosis/Identification – Dr. Raymond Cloyd This session will address how to properly identify insect and mite pests in horticultural cropping systems. The session will discuss insect and mite pest feeding behaviors and symptoms associated with plant damage, and other means by which to accurately identify insect and mite pest problems.

2. Weed Identification in the Urban Landscape – Dr. Tim Seipel 3. Scale Insect Pests – Dr. Raymond Cloyd This session will discuss the biology, ecology, scale types, plant damage, and provides information on management strategies that can be implemented to avoid problems with scale insect pests on outdoor plants (trees and shrubs).

4. Hands-on Disease Diagnosis on Woody Ornamentals – Dr. Eva Grimme This session will focus on identifying symptoms and signs of selected plant diseases common in Montana. We will discuss appropriate management strategies and share diagnostic tools and resources that are useful for the diagnostic process.

Location: MSU Campus, Plant BioScience Bldg., Room 108 Cost: $100; Lunch and snacks provided ##### Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ##### A beheaded cockroach could keep on living for 9 days before it would finally die of hunger.

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FARM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE MacDon 973 36-ft. draper header with pickup reel, 6 wheeled header transport. Has been used on a Case IH 7088. Extra new and used canvases included............... $21,000 - offer 1997 New Holland 664 round baler in good working condition, 15,526 bale count, edge-toedge net wrap. Includes Bale Command monitor, cable, etc........................... $4500 - offer 1995 MacDon 5000 swing tongue swather, 12-ft. cutter bar, steel conditioner. In good working condition........................................................................................................... $4500 - offer Phone 406-480-1772, Plentywood, Montana

CONSTRUCTION SPECIALS!

1992 Vermeer V-450 45 hp John Deere diesel, trencher w/blade, backhoe, cable plow..............$11,900

2013 Case ZTS excavator, cab, 18” bucket, 924 hours. .....................................................................$32,900

2011 Gehl DL 12-H40 John Deere engine, Dyna Lift, cab, heat, 72” pallet forks, 96” bucket, 40-ft. reach... .....................................................................$65,000

2012 Coyote C14D wheel loader, 80 hp, Cummins, 4WD, 111 hours, 1 1/2 yard bucket, pallet fork........... .....................................................................$49,000

Alyson Leach of Liberty County with her 110 lb Grand Champion goat at the 2019 Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana. JW Feeds purchased Alyson’s goat.

Finding a house

Two police officers saw this old woman staggering down the street, stopping her they can tell she has had far too much to drink and instead of taking her to jail they decide to just drive her home. They loaded her into the police cruiser, one of the officers gets in the back with the drunk woman. As they drove through the streets they kept asking the woman where she lived, all she would say as she stroked the officers arm is “Your Passionate.” They drove awhile longer and asked again, again the same response as she stroked his arm “Your Passionate”. The officers were getting a little upset so they stopped the car and said to the woman, look we have driven around this city for two hours and you still haven’t told us where you live. She replied I keep trying to tell you: “Your Passin It!”

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Conservation program funding application cutoff August 30

From United States Department of Agriculture The USDA Natural Resources Conserto improve rangeland health. vation Service (NRCS) in Montana has • Big Horn and Yellowstone Counties – Irrigation Improvement Project set an August 30, 2019, application cutoff Convert less efficient irrigation systems for agricultural operators to be considered to subsurface drip irrigation to increase irfor the next conservation program funding rigation efficiency, improve soil health and cycle through the Environmental Quality reduce soil compaction.

Incentives Program (https://www.nrcs.usda.

• Broadwater County – Elkhorn Cooperagov/wps/portal/nrcs/mt/programs/financial/ tive Management Area Range Health and eqip/stelprdb1240190/).

Conifer Encroachment Treatment NRCS provides funding and technical Remove conifers to restore plant proassistance to help farmers and ranchers ductivity and health, improve forest health, implement conservation practices that proreestablish proper hydrologic function and vide environmental benefits to help sustain reduce wildfire risk. agricultural operations. Conservation pro• Lewis and Clark County – Hazardous gram participation is voluntary and helps Fuels Reduction landowners and operators defray the costs Manage unhealthy forest conditions to of installing conservation practices. reduce fuel hazards, improve rangeland Conservation funding is available for the health by removing encroaching conifers, following initiatives: prevent runoff of sediment and heavy metals • Capital 360 Forestry Project: This partpost fire, and control the spread of noxious nership project will improve forest health by weeds and undesirable plant species. integrating resource management across all • Lake County – Miller Coulee Water administrative boundaries through reducQuantity Improvement Project tion treatment projects strategically placed Improve water quantity by reducing offacross Broadwater, Jefferson, Lewis and field movement of irrigation water in the Clark, and Powell counties.

Miller Coulee project area.

• High Tunnel Systems: These systems • Lincoln County – Edna-Fortine Creek extend the growing seasons for high value Forest Resiliency Project crops in an environmentally safe manner.

Implement forest management practices High tunnel benefits include better plant to reduce hazardous fuels around homes and soil quality and fewer nutrients and and structures within the wildland urban pesticides in the environment. interface, improve resiliency to insects and • Honey Bee Pollinators: Combats fudiseases, increase wildfire preparedness, ture honey bee declines by implementing and improve overall forest health. conservation practices that provide forage • Stillwater County – Pasture Monoculfor honey bees while enhancing habitat for ture Diversification Project other pollinators and wildlife.

Diversify a monoculture, tame pastures • National On-Farm Energy Initiative: to a diverse mix of introduced and native Agricultural producers work with an NRCSplants to improve available forage, expand approved technical service provider to grazing options, and increase grazing anidevelop agricultural energy management mal carrying capacity. plans or farm energy audits that assess enEQIP offers financial and technical asergy consumption on an operation. NRCS sistance to eligible participants to install may also provide assistance to implement or implement structural and management recommended measures identified in the practices on eligible agricultural land. In energy audit through the use of conservation Montana, socially disadvantaged, limited practice standards. resource, and beginning farmers and ranch• National Organic Initiative (NOI): ers will receive a higher payment rate for Producers currently certified as organic, eligible conservation practices applied. transitioning to organic, or National OrNRCS accepts conservation program ganic Program exempt will have access to a applications year-round; however, applicabroad set of conservation practices to assist tions for the next funding consideration in treating their resource concerns while must be submitted by August 30, 2019. Apfulfilling many of the requirements in an plications made after the cutoff will be conOrganic System Plan. sidered in the next funding cycle. Additional • National Water Quality Initiative: Proinformation is available on the Montana ducers implement conservation systems to NRCS website at www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov reduce nitrogen, phosphorous, sediment under the Programs tab or by contacting a and pathogen contributions from agricullocal NRCS service center (https://offices. tural land in the Lower Gallatin Watershed sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app?state=MT).

(Camp and Godfrey Creeks).

• Sage Grouse Initiative: Landowners ##### can work with NRCS on three different Even though Thomas Jefferson was all components to improve sage-grouse habifor free public education, and tried to protat. One is a general category to implement mote it, only America’s wealthy were able prescribed grazing management practices. to get an elementary school education until The others are to seed cropland back to pethe 1840s when Horace Mann and Henry rennial species to improve the connectivity Barnard and other reformers tried to get taxfor sage-grouse that depend on large, intact funded schools. They did this because they landscapes and the removal of conifers to thought that if they had schools paid for by increase nest success rates. taxes, more people would attend, and this • Wildfire Adapted Missoula: A partnerspread of education would help produce betship project that addresses shared wildfire ter citizens, unite the societies, and prevent risk by mitigating current wildfire hazards much crime and poverty. surrounding the Missoula community via ##### prescribed fire and thinning maintenance.

The children in Holland start school Montana Focused Conservation – 2019 on their fourth birthday so there’s always Targeted Implementation Plans: someone new in class. While this does mean • Big Horn County – Ventenata Invasive that older students get more time to settle in Grass Control and make friends, it does at least mean that Control the spread of Ventenata in Big students should be at a similar development Horn County through proper rangeland level by the time their first day at school management and chemical control methods rolls around.

Summer 2019 – Lichens

By Chance Noffsinger, MSU Research Assistant

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Financial Security

By Trampus Corder, Certified Crop Advisor and Broker/Owner of Corder and Associates, LLC Financial security is a goal that everyone wishes to reach, and there are certainly many ways to achieve that goal.

Buying and owning real estate is one of the most exciting as well as profitable strategies to obtain that much sought after lucrative return on your investment.

Prospective real estate owners can use leverage to buy a property by paying a portion of the total cost up front.

Leverage is the use of various financial tools or borrowed capital to increase the potential return of an investment.

After acquiring property, you can pay off the balance, plus interest, over time.

Leverage gives you the ability to control the asset the moment the papers are signed giving both real estate “flippers” and landlords the opportunity to take out a second mortgage on the property in order to make down payments on additional properties. A traditional mortgage generally requires a 20% to 25% down payment. But in some cases a 5% down payment is all you need to purchase the entire property and you are on your way!

The four ways in which you can invest your hard earned money through real estate are: 1) becoming a landlord for rental properties, 2) real estate trading, 3) real estate investment groups, and 4) real estate investment trusts or REIT’s.

Becoming a landlord of rental properties can supply you with a regular income while at the same time maximizing your available capital through leverage. Also as an added benefit, many of the expenses associated with rental properties are tax deductible. Any losses can offset gains in other investments. Even so, rental property can be riddled with constant headaches. However, once the mortgage has been completely paid off, the majority of the rent becomes all profit. Still, the rental income you receive as a landlord is not the only focus. Ideally, a property appreciates over the course of the mortgage, leaving you with a more valuable asset than you started with.

As an alternative to managing rentals as a landlord, real estate investment groups would be ideal for you. This is a much more hands-off approach to real estate investment, but it nevertheless provides you with that added income as well as appreciation. Real estate investment groups are like small mutual funds that invest in rental properties. A company will buy or build a set of apartment blocks, condos, or parcels.

The company will then allow investors to purchase them as rental properties. In exchange for finding tenants, handling maintenance, and other responsibilities, the company receives a portion of the investors’ monthly rent proceeds.

While these groups are theoretically a safe way to invest in real estate, they are vulnerable to the same pricey membership fees that sometimes haunt the mutual fund industry.

Real estate trading or “flipping” is another supplemental way to invest in real estate, usually best for people with significant experience in real estate valuation and marketing. Real estate traders purchase properties and hold on to them for a period of time after which they hope to sell for a profit. Flipping requires capital and the ability to either do or oversee repairs as needed to get started. Real estate trading does have a shorter time period during which your capital as well as your time are tied up in the property.

Flipping can produce significant returns depending on the market conditions, even in shorter time frames. Be aware that real estate trading requires a deeper market knowledge often times paired with a shot of good luck. Hot markets can cool unexpectedly, leaving short-term traders with losses or long-term headaches. Flipping is the wild side of real estate investment, and pure property flippers often do not invest in property improvements. Instead, they buy properties that are undervalued or in a hot market. The investment must already have the value needed to turn a profit without any alterations or that property will be eliminated from contention.

Flippers can find themselves in trouble if they cannot quickly unload a property. This is because they typically don’t keep enough uncommitted cash on hand to pay the mortgage over the long term. This can lead to snowballing losses.

Real estate investment trusts or REIT’s are for investors who want portfolio exposure to real estate without a traditional real estate transaction. REIT’s are basically dividendpaying stocks whose core holdings constitute commercial real estate properties with long-term, cash producing leases.

So essentially, REIT’s are stocks without the advantage of leverage associated with traditional rental properties. A REIT is created when a corporation or trust uses investor’s money to purchase and operate income properties. REIT’s are like CONTINUED ON PAGE A21

Irrigation specialist’s publication draws recognition

From University of Wyoming Extension University of Wyoming (UW) Extension’s irrigation specialist has received recognition for a publication detailing the basics of soil water.

Vivek Sharma received the Educational Aid Blue Ribbon Award for “Irrigation Management: Basics of Soil Water” from the American Society of Agricultural Biological Systems Engineers (ASABE).

He is an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of Plant Sciences and based at UW’s Powell Research and Extension Center.

The publication discusses the fundamental concepts of soil and water relationships for efficient irrigation scheduling.

“Understanding soil water relationships assist in decisionmaking in agriculture and natural resource management,” said Sharma.

He received the award at the ASABE annual international meeting in Boston. The awards competition promotes excellence in informational materials that contribute to the understanding of agricultural and biological engineering subjects outside of the traditional classroom setting.

The publication can be viewed at bit.ly/IrrigationManagement.

Financial Security CONTINUED FROM PAGE A20

regular dividend paying stocks and offer a solid investment if you are looking for a regular income.

REIT’s allow investors into properties that are generally not feasible for individuals to purchase directly.

In this day in age, investing money and looking for ways to earn more is a popular concept. If your goal is to make money in Real Estate, it is essential that you hire a pro.

Buying a property can be complicated. The right real estate advisor can guide you through the process and be there to assist you in making a great decision that works with your personal financial goals.

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Enjoy lounging outdoors with a refreshing beverage

By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist, NDSU Extension “Wait. Stop the van,” I said to my husband.

He knew what I saw and pulled to the side of the street.

“We can fix them!” I said with enthusiasm.

He sighed rather heavily.

Yes, he’s usually the fixer and I am the painter.

Actually, sometimes I just decide where to put things.

I had just spotted two more Adirondack chairs, bringing my total to six in various states of disrepair this year. All the chairs needed was a little tightening of the screws and a fresh coat of paint.

I guess we like to save or preserve things, including furniture.

I began my furniture-saving trend last year. I have two sunny yellow Adirondack chairs in my backyard from last year’s curbside finds. My chairs offer an inviting space to enjoy snacks on our patio.

Moving dining outdoors is a fun way to enjoy beautiful summer weather.

A couple of years ago, I asked one of North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) interior design faculty members, Ann Ragan, to write an article for our “Eat Smart. Play Hard.

Together” magazine. I will share some of Ann’s tips below as you create an outdoor living and dining space.

• Provide a variety of furniture to create an inclusive space capable of accommodating a variety of users. Include seating that is sturdy, has a seat height of 17 to 20 inches, and has a full back and arms to assist individuals who may have difficulty rising from a seated position.

• Offer flexible seating when the number or size of people using the space varies. Providing benches with one continuous cushion allows for people to sit anywhere on the bench without the discomfort often associated with sitting where two cushions meet.

• Remember that lounge furniture can take up a large amount of space, but it provides the most comfortable reclining positions and often is equipped with cushions. The depth of a seat can affect comfort. If a chair is too deep, properly sized back pillows with firmer filler can improve comfort.

• Consider whether your space is protected from the weather, which will determine what types of furniture, materials and fabrics are best to use. Consider water/hail resistance when selecting furniture. Metal furniture is durable and less likely to be damaged, tip over or blow away during a strong storm.

• Carefully consider the color of the paint used on the metal because this often can impact how warm the material will get on a hot, sunny day. Lighter colors reflect more of the light from the sun, which helps keep the metal cooler to the touch.

• Consider how the furniture fits into the space. Because wood is a natural material, wood furniture blends seamlessly into the natural elements of an outdoor environment. Some wood furniture may need to be stained and sealed properly to protect the wood and reduce fading or discoloration from exposure to the sun and weather.

• Consider a variety of plastics, including recycled plastic furniture. One of the biggest challenges with plastic outdoor furniture is connected to weight. A piece of furniture that is too light has the potential to tip over or blow away during a storm.

Now that you have a comfortable spot to sit, be sure to slather on sunscreen (at least SPF 30) and stay hydrated and nourished with plenty of colorful fruits and vegetables.

As you lounge, consider making some snacks and perhaps some infused water to sip in the summer heat. Remember that perishable food, including cut fruits and vegetables and various dips, should spend no more than one hour outside on a 90-degree day.

This week, instead of a typical recipe, I am providing several tips to make “flavored water” safely at home.

If plain water is kind of boring, try infusing the water with fruit and/or herbs. Be creative and invent some new flavor sensations.

Start with clean hands, containers, cutting boards and knives. Rinse fruit and herbs thoroughly.

Try one of these flavor add-ins: • Citrus water: 1/2 cup sliced oranges, lemons or grapefruit plus 2 quarts water • Strawberry kiwi water: three sliced strawberries plus one peeled, sliced kiwi plus 2 quarts water • Watermelon rosemary water: 2 cups seedless water melon (cut in chunks or balls) plus one sprig rosemary plus 2 quarts water • Raspberry lime water: 20 crushed raspberries plus two sliced limes (without rind) plus 2 quarts water Refrigerate overnight.

Don’t mix batches. Use up the batch, clean the container and make a new batch.

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By University of Wyoming Extension Publications, animations and photography produced by University of Wyoming (UW) Extension communications personnel received golds and bronzes from the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE).

The work was produced by the Office of Communications and Technology. ACE members include communication offices, faculty members and administrators in agriculture colleges at land-grant universities and at agriculture-related industries.

The awards were received during the association’s annual conference in San Antonio June 24-27.

“I feel fortunate to be part of such a great team of communicators who regularly place at the top of their fields nationally,” said David Keto, communications and technology office manager. “Thanks also to our UW Extension and College of Agriculture and Natural Resources colleagues who help make it easy to tell great stories with their good work.”

Graphic designer Tanya Engel received a gold in the still life photography category. The photograph helped promote UW Cowboy Branded Meats offered through the Department of Animal Science.

Reflections, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources research magazine, received the gold award in technical publications. The magazine presents research from each of the college’s seven departments and the top student research article. The publication can be viewed at bit.ly/2018wyoreflections. The magazine was produced by former office manager and graphic designer Tana Stith and editor Steve Miller.

CONNECT, the publication representing UW Extension, received a bronze award in one to full color publications. The magazine, available at bit.ly/2018uwconnect, shows how educators and specialists engage with citizens. The magazine was produced by Stith, Miller and Chavawn Kelly, former editor/writer in the department.

Video producer David Keto and videographer Lindsay Hadfield received a bronze award in motion graphics/ augmented reality/animation for the animated videos that accompany the online tax facts course free to the public at bit.ly/wyotaxfacts.

The communications office also produces and manages the online news site for the college, https://uwagnews.com. ##### Why do we give our teacher an apple? The tradition goes back to 16th century Denmark, where teachers didn’t earn enough for food so parents would send their children to school with an apple for them. ##### All told, including college students, and about 78 million kids head back to school every fall. That’s 25% of the entire U.S. population over 3 years old!

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Poplar borer

Say you saw it in the Trader’s Dispatch

By Lauren Kerzicnik, MSU Extension

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This spring, we have had many emails and calls about possible poplar borer damage on aspens, poplars, and cottonwoods throughout the state.

Hosts: Aspen, cottonwood, poplar Damage/symptoms: The larvae bore into the sapwood and girdle trees. If they are heavily infested, the tree branches will establish a blackish stain on the bark below the attack. Sometimes it almost looks like the tree is “shedding tears”. During high winds, branches can break off, which can allow for further invasion of wood rot.

Life cycle: The adults emerge in June and can remain until August. The females will feed on the leaves and shoots for a couple of weeks. They will then lay eggs within the bark, and the larvae will move into the sapwood. The larvae are a cream/yellow color, and they can reach 1 3/8” long when

they mature. The larvae will pupate in late spring beneath the bark. The life cycle of this beetle can reach up to 3 years.

Management: Cultural: Make sure the tree is watered properly. For other trees that might be planted in the future, plant trees in large groups so the trunks can be shaded. If the tree is heavily infested with these beetles, it should probably be removed as it can negatively affect other trees in the area.

Biological: For biological control, there are insect-attacking nematodes that can be injected into borer holes.

Chemical: A contact insecticide can be sprayed on the trunk prior to egg laying to prevent further infestation from the immature beetles in the tree. Timing is crucial for insecticide treatment, and most treatments

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By University of Wyoming Extension Fifty years of providing nutrition education for Wyoming youths and families with limited resources is being recognized.

University of Wyoming (UW) Extension has provided the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) since its start in 1969. Programming is offered in Natrona, Laramie, and Niobrara counties through the Cent$ible Nutrition Program. Laramie and Natrona counties have always had EFNEP, while the third county has changed over the years.

Prior to Niobrara County, EFNEP was delivered in Goshen and then later moved to Fremont County.

Annual data from Wyoming EFNEP graduates has shown improvements in nutrition practices, ability to stretch food dollars, food safety practices and physical activity, said Mindy Meuli, CNP director.

In 2018, EFNEP participants saved an average of $899 annually, and 82 percent improved food safety practices, such as thawing meat safely, said Meuli. EFNEP programs collect and report impacts using a national reporting system.

EFENP was the nation’s first nutrition education program of its kind and is funded through the USDA’s national Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition. The program was implemented nationally to address food insecurity and improve health through nutritional intake, food resource management, physical activity and food safety practices.

Wyoming classes were initially offered in homes. Classes now are offered in group settings, often at UW Extension offices or other community buildings.

Jill Shire of Natrona County took her son to a class 15 years ago and then her daughter last year.

“I feel really honored to have been part of this program because it gave me the opportunity to introduce my children to nutritional facts and lifestyle changes,” said Shire.

Shire said her son is a great cook today, in part because of his experience with EFNEP. “When I was visiting him, we were putting together some burritos and he was adding spinach because he knew he needed to add more veggies,” said Shire.

The program uses hands-on activities including cooking, menu planning, and budgeting to help families make healthy lifestyle choices. Lessons are based on the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

A recent participant, who attended group classes in Laramie County, reported EFNEP allowed them to cook more meals at home that were healthier and use meal preparation practices to help save money each month.

Another participant in Fremont County, who first took a class in their home in 1991, reported proper food storage was one skill learned through EFNEP they continue to use today.

For more information about EFNEP, contact the CNP state office at 307-766-5181.

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are aimed at adults during egg laying (see life cycle above). Insecticides for trunk spraying that are currently labeled for borer control on poplars include certain formulations of the active ingredients carbaryl and permethrin. For maximum protection, the first treatment should be applied around the first of June and continue with monthly treatments through early August. Applications should be mostly through existing areas of attack, if any, and on the middle areas of the tree, including the trunk and large branches, which is where egg laying primarily occurs. A systemic insecticide can also be used as either a soil drench or trunk spray. A soil drench or a trunk spray with the active ingredient dinotefuran (products such as Safari, Transtect, or Zylam) can work against the poplar borer. Please note: the systemic and active ingredient imidacloprid is not very effective on the poplar borer and other round-headed borers (most effective on flat-headed borers).

Please follow the label for personal safety and for the protection of pollinators.

Disclaimer: These recommendations are provided only as a guide. It is always the pesticide applicator’s responsibility, by law, to read and follow all current label directions for the specific pesticide being used. Due to constantly changing labels and product registration, some of the recommendations given in this writing may no longer be legal by the time you read them.

If any information in these recommendations disagrees with the label, the recommendation must be disregarded. No endorsement is intended for products mentioned. The authors and Montana State University assume no liability resulting from the use of these recommendations.

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Grant to refine Montanaspecific lentil growing practices

By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service A Montana State University College of Agriculture researcher received a grant in April that will allow a team at the Central Agricultural Research Center to refine pulse crop growing methods to better fit the diverse environments of Montana.

Jed Eberly received the $20,000 grant from the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), which funds exploration into organic practices across the nation, often with a focus on localized projects. An assistant professor in agronomy and soil microbiology and a faculty member of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, Eberly is based at the CARC in Moccasin, Montana.

Eberly’s team will explore seeding and inoculation rates for lentils, which he said are a crop of increasing interest to Montana farmers. Lentils and other pulse crops infuse nitrogen into soil, making them useful rotational crops and helping to revitalize acreage that may become nutrient-deficient after multiple years of planting the same crop. In 2018, Montana led the nation in lentil production by weight, and it has been the nation’s top pulse crop grower by acreage since 2011.

That upward trend led to a need for more research specific to Montana.

Because they are a newer crop, Montana doesn’t have a lot of history from which to draw the best practices for growing lentils, particularly in organic systems, Eberly said.

Planting lentils at the right density means ensuring that there are enough plants to “outcompete” the weeds, Eberly said. Too few plants and the weeds take over; too many and the lentils hinder one another’s growth.

“There’s been research done in Canada and other places in the U.S., and that’s what growers here are typically basing their seeding rate on,” he said. “In organic systems we can’t use chemical weed control, so we want to try to optimize the seeding rate to minimize the weed pressure.”

The OFRF grant will help Eberly’s team find the sweet spot, which will allow Montana’s organic lentil growers to plant as efficiently as possible.

“We have a strong interest in innovative proposals, but also ready-for-the-field work that we think will have direct applications,” said Heather Darby, chair of the OFRF committee that selected Eberly as the recipient of the first of its five 2019 grants. “We were really excited to see a proposal that was very farmer focused, with strong farmer involvement, that addressed an issue we care about, which is trying to diversify crop rotation.”

In addition to researching seeding rates, Eberly’s team will attempt to pinpoint the ideal inoculation rate for lentils— how much and how frequently to apply helpful bacteria to organic fields to maximize growth and help protect against crop diseases. This was another research question brought up directly by Montana growers, Eberly said. Some growers had been experimenting on their own fields to determine how frequently and to what extent they should inoculate their organic crops for maximum yield. Because widespread lentil cultivation is still new in Montana, guidelines for applying inoculants aren’t as refined as they could be.

Growers’ experiments can provide useful insight, but they aren’t scientific, Eberly said. The OFRF grant will help fill that void and provide growers a Montana-specific benchmark.

While Eberly is based at the CARC, which is one the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station’s seven statewide research centers, the testing for his project will take place on organic farms in Geraldine, Great Falls and Rudyard. That will allow the team to tailor their experiments and provide localized results for growers around Montana.

“That’s one of the very exciting things about it. We have the research team doing research on agricultural production fields,” said Darrin Boss, department head for the MAES research centers. “There’s no better way for a producer to learn how to adopt research than to have those researchers on site.”

Boss says the knowledge that will come out of Eberly’s project is something for Montana producers to look forward to. Eberly expects the endeavor to last three years, with the OFRF grant funding the first growing season this year. The researchers will then present the preliminary results back to OFRF in hopes of renewing similar funding for the remainder of the project.

“It’s great seed money to get a new project, a new idea, started and start collecting some data,” Eberly said. “This is something that’s been discussed by growers. They see a need for this research, and that’s really what motivated this project.”

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They are so prevalent one must keep a sharp eye out for them, even in town. Injuries and deaths associated with ATVs have increased over the past couple decades. An estimated 400,000 injuries and 800 ATV-related deaths occur each year in the United States.

Many times, the dangers of common, everyday tasks are overlooked. One is loading, unloading, and transporting ATVs. This can be done several times a day and multiple days per week, which can make an individual complacent.

County weed and pest crews use ATVs regularly and cover multiple areas in a county daily. They are constantly loading, unloading, and transporting ATVs. In situations like this, individuals might be tempted to skip steps or take shortcuts to save time and effort.

A trailer with an attached ramp is safest for loading, unloading, and transporting ATVs. These trailers typically have lower profiles than pickups, making loading and unloading easier. The attached ramps typically have more space to maneuver on and will not kick out from underneath an ATV. Never load or unload a trailer not attached to a vehicle. Always secure portable ramps prior to loading and unloading.

Never improvise ramps, such as using 2x6 lumber. Improvised equipment can lead to higher chances of accidents.

Wearing proper protective equipment and following good riding habits are also overlooked. Wear all protective equipment (long pants, long sleeves, boots that provide ankle support, gloves, helmet, and eye protection) anytime an ATV is loaded or unloaded.

When loading or unloading, stand up and use your knees as shock absorbers while shifting your weight forward or backwards to keep the ATV from lifting off the ramp. Lean forward if driving an ATV up the ramp or backing down the ramp. If driving the ATV forward down the ramp, standup and shift weight back.

Loading or unloading an ATV, especially into the back of a truck, can be intimidating. Instead of driving an ATV up the ramps, use a winch to pull the ATV up the ramps. The winch can also be used to lower the ATV down the ramps.

An anchor point mounted on the front of a trailer or truck bed (next to the cab) will be needed. Put the ATV into neutral and operate the winch.

Once loaded, properly secure the front and back of the ATV with heavy tie-down straps. When tightly secured, the suspension system of an ATV should be compressed several inches to ensure minimal movement during transportation.

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Focusing on the details, like securing the ramps and not taking shortcuts, will decrease chances of injury and equipment damage.

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From University of Wyoming Extension “Wyoming, please follow the moderator into your competition room,” shouted someone from the front room at the Meat Science Quiz Bowl June 22.

Four students from the University of Wyoming (UW) meats judging team, along with their coaches McKensie Harris and Sierra Jepsen and Cowboy Branded Meats summer intern Sarah Dey of Cheyenne, attended the Reciprocal Meat Conference (RCM) in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) hosts the annual event with JBS USA Food Company and Colorado State University.

Haley Cole from Cheyenne, Jacob Lugar from Douglas, Clara Ritchie from Golden, Colorado, and Erika Eckhardt from Sterling, Nebraska, competed at the Quiz Bowl.

“I am blown away by how much these students changed over the course of the conference,” said Harris. “They went into the Quiz Bowl competition on the first day a little hesitant of their abilities but left the RMC on the final day with a lot of pride knowing they competed very well against many impressive teams.”

The conference hosts technical programming, social events and student activities, like the Quiz Bowl competition.

Each round of competition involved 40 questions covering meat science topics. During the first 20 questions, students competed head-to-head where one student from one team would compete against one student from the other team to see who could press the buzzer faster and answer the question correctly.

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The UW team won their first two rounds against Utah State University and UC Davis.

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Cole, Lugar, Ritchie, Eckhardt and Dey attended the career fair and reciprocation sessions, which allowed them time to network with professionals.

“This conference brings together people from all corners of the industry and gives our youth the chance to interact with students from other universities, academic professionals, industry leaders and research visionaries,” said Jepsen.

They ended their time at the conference at the RMC Family Picnic. There was a softball game, live t-shirt auction and an opportunity to socialize.

UW plans to attend next year’s RMC, hosted in conjunction with the International Congress of Meat Science and Technology in Orlando, Florida at Disney World’s Resorts. Coaches hope to have more students to compete in the Quiz Bowl, Iron Chef and expanded student opportunities.

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By University of Wyoming Extension chimera, akin to a sphinx with a lion body Strange things at the University of Wyoand a human head,” he said. “That’s perhaps ming (UW), as one hears molecular biologist a crude analogy, but I like it. It illustrates the Mark Gomelsky talk about head replacescope of the challenge. Enzymes are not readments as routine laboratory procedures.

A little more conversation and things ily amenable to such drastic manipulation.” become MUCH clearer – bioengineering a To test whether the engineered enzyme protein. can be activated by external light in a live Researchers took the head from one promammal, the lab turned to collaborator Protein and put on the body of a different professor Qian-Quan Sun in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, who studies mouse tein, allowing scientists for the first time to neurobiology. demonstrate near-infrared light can control a Memory formation in mice and humans is cellular process in a mammal’s brain. one of many processes controlled by cAMP, More formally, he said the light-sensitive said Gomelsky. The transfer of information enzyme they engineered disrupted the flow from short-term to long-term memory shows of information from one part of a mouse’s up as electrical spikes, called spindle waves. brain to another when activated with external Electric currents are initiated by specific ion near-infra-red light. channels and are transmitted through neurons “This is a really cool piece of work,” said from one brain region (thalamus) to another Gomelsky, in the College of Agriculture and (cortex).

Natural Resources. His lab worked with colIf a gene for the light-sensitive enzyme laborators from the Department of Zoology were delivered in the brain region where and Physiology at UW. the spikes originate, the near-infrared light “Engineering Adenylate Cyclase Actiwould stimulate the production of cAMP, vated by Near-Infrared Window Light for which would open ion channels and disrupt Mammalian Optogenetic Applications” was the electrical circuit. That was the prediction. published May 30 in the American ChemiGraduate students in professor Sun’s cal Society’s journal ACS Synthetic Biology. laboratory placed the gene into the brain of The paper can be read at bit.ly/infraredcamp. a mouse and used a hand-held, near-infrared The near-infrared light-activated enzyme, laser to turn on the enzyme while the mouse adenylate cyclase, makes the cell-signaling was sleeping. molecule abbreviated as cAMP that is almost “One of the students, Chen Zhou, meauniversally present in mammalian cells. In specific brain neurons, cAMP controls the sured the spindle waves in these mice and transfer of information related to long-term saw them decrease when a mouse head was memory formation. irradiated, like we predicted,” said Gomelsky.

The lab’s result is a long-held dream of Emmanuel Tzanakakis, a bioengineering engineering an enzyme that can make cAMP professor at Tufts University, is testing the when irradiated with near-infrared light beengineered enzyme in insulin-producing cells in mice. Gomelsky said collaborators cause such light can be delivered with spatial in Germany are looking at whether the lightprecision and for a specific duration, said activated enzyme can be used to stimulate fat Gomelsky. degradation.

The key is that external near-infrared light Meanwhile, Gomelsky’s lab is working to penetrates several centimeters deep through improve the protein. human flesh and bones, he said. In this re“We made a great tool but still fairly search, the light penetrated the mouse skull crude,” he said. “We need to optimize it to and brain tissue. ensure the head communicates well with the “Because cAMP controls various processbody of the protein.” es dependent on the cell type, this enzyme Gomelsky also works on modifying the can be used to turn on production of insulin protein to make another important signaling in pancreatic cells, send electrical impulses molecule in mammals, known as cGMP. to the heart pacemaker cells and even stimu“It’s a one-letter change in the name but late fat burning in fat-storing cells,” said a big change in the protein,” said Gomelsky.

Gomelsky. “cGMP is not quite as omnipresent in cells The Gomelsky lab’s first protein prototype as cAMP but is very important.” failed in mice because it was made from He commended contributions of two bacteria that cannot grow at 37 degrees Laramie High School students working in Centigrade (98.6 Fahrenheit). The second his laboratory on this project, Aru Nair and prototype failed, too.

Alhena Islam, described by Gomelsky as “It took us quite a while to find the proper talented and tenacious. ’body parts,’ or protein modules, that are Nair won this year’s Wyoming State stable and active at mammalian temperaScience Fair and took first place at the Intures,” Gomelsky said. “This paper describes the success in finding those bacterial protein ternational Science and Engineering Fair parts, and Anastasia Fomicheva, a Ph.D. sponsored by Intel. Nair was also invited to student in my lab, made these parts work present at the Army Science and Technology together.”

Symposium and Showcase in Washington, Gomelsky calls it head replacement surD.C. Islam was second in the Wyoming State gery.

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From American Malting Barley Association, Inc. The American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) Board of Directors added the following variety to the recommended list of malting barley varieties for 2019.

LCS Violetta, a winter two-row malting variety, was developed by Saatzucht Breun in Germany and is marketed in the US by Limagrain Cereal Seeds. It has performed well in the mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, but may not perform as well in the upper Midwest and northeast during severe winters.

With this change, the list of recommended malting barley varieties for 2019 is as follows: Two-Rows AAC Synergy Hockett Thunder* ABI Growler LCS Genie Wintmalt* ABI Voyager LCS Violetta* Six-Rows AC Metcalfe Merit 57 Celebration Bill Coors 100 Moravian 37 Innovation CDC Copeland Moravian 69 Lacey Charles* Moravian 165 Legacy Conlon ND Genesis Quest Conrad Newdale Thoroughbred* Endeavor* Pinnacle Tradition Expedition Puffin* *winters Explorer Scarlett

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Spotted-wing drosophila

By Laurie Kerzicnik, Montana State University Associate Extension Specialist should be 3/16” to 1⁄4”. Fill the cup with The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila 1-2 ounces of a liquid attractant. The most suzukii (SWD), is a significant pest of many common attractant available to the homeripe and overripe small fruits. Originally owner is apple cider vinegar. Adding 3-4 from Japan, SWD was detected in North drops of dishwashing detergent will break America in 2008 and in Montana in 2011 the surface tension of the liquid, making (Flathead County). It is currently estabthe trapped flies sink and drown. Several lished in Lake and Flathead Counties. In lures (commercially available attractants) 2018, it was collected in Ravalli, Missoula, are available online. and Gallatin counties. Its presence in other The flies prefer cool and shady areas. counties, such as Yellowstone, is also susTraps should be placed out of direct sunlight pected. (if possible) and hung above ground close to Damage: The female inserts eggs into suspected host plants. One to two traps are the fruit. This causes the fruit to soften or sufficient for backyard growers. Otherwise, become “sunken in” within a couple of days. one trap per five acres is recommended in Additionally, the egg insertion areas on the commercial or larger settings. Check traps outside of the fruit can result in scarring and weekly and refill the attractant as needed, can allow for fungal and bacterial pathogens particularly in windy or drier areas. to enter the fruit. The maggots or immature Other fruit fly species will be present in flies develop within the fruits. The maggots the traps, so make sure the flies (both males will also poke breathing holes in the outside and females) are properly identified. You of the fruit during development, creating might need a hand lens or another way to further wounds for pathogen entry. magnify the flies. Males will be easier to Hosts: Late-maturing small, soft-skinned detect because of the spots on the wings. fruits are preferred, such as raspberries, The females, without the spots, are harder strawberries, and blackberries. Some of to identify. the other hosts include cherry, plum, curManagement: For proper management rant, gooseberry, blueberry, serviceberry, of insect pests, integrated pest management elderberry, peach, and apple. is important. Integrated pest management involves a combination of cultural, physical, biological, and – when necessary - chemical controls to manage a pest.

Physical/Cultural: • Pick up fallen fruit on the ground and discard, particularly for the larger fruits.

Avoid putting softened or infested fruit in a nearby compost pile to avoid further Figure 1. Female (left) and male (right) SWD. breeding.

Photo by Laurie Kerzicnik.

• Netting (mesh size of about 1 mm) can be placed over fruits prior to ripening to Identification: Like all fruit flies, SWD stop flies from depositing eggs. The timing is small (2-3 mm) with red eyes. Adult males of the mesh placement is important, ideally have one dark spot toward the tip of each just prior to ripening. Beneficial insects/ wing (Figure 1), which distinguishes them natural enemies of many fruit tree pests are from other fruit flies found in this region. also excluded by the mesh, so avoid using The female has an ovipositor (to lay/deposit it earlier than necessary. eggs), which is serrated on the end (Figure • Harvest fruit at frequent intervals, 2). This distinguishes her from females of avoiding overripe fruit. If not eating fruit other closely related fruit fly species. immediately after harvest, refrigerate Life cycle: Adults emerge in late spring/ promptly. Any overripe fruit should be disearly sumcarded and removed from the area. mer, mate, • Proper cultivar selection is important. create small As SWD is an issue later in the year (Julyslits in the August), choosing cultivars that ripen earfruit, and lay lier can help alleviate issues with the pest.

1-3 eggs per Biological: fruit. In MonThe minute pirate bug, Orius insidiosus, tana, SWD is an important predator of SWD in both has been deFigure 2. Female ovipositor. Photo blueberries and strawberries, particularly in tected from

by Laurie Kerzicnik. combination with the beneficial nematode, July through Heterorhabditis bateriophora. There are November (currently monitoring for the also parasitic wasps that are predators of pest in several areas statewide). An average the pest. of a dozen eggs per day are produced with Chemical: up to 300 eggs generated throughout the Chemical controls* are available for summer. Several generations of the fly occur controlling adult flies when they are active. per year. Many researchers have suggested Chemical control is most often necessary that the flies overwinter as adults in wooded when the marketability of the fruit is of areas under leaf litter and snow. There is concern. Contact with the fly and full covalso speculation that they overwinter in erage is critical when applying a contact compost piles or other debris close to cominsecticide. SWD reside mainly on the mercial or residential buildings. undersides of leaves. Depending on the Monitoring: SWD is easily monitored chemical chosen for control, insecticides using bait traps (Figure 3). normally need to be applied on a weekly These can be handmade or basis. It is critical to avoid spraying durordered online. The traps ing pollinator visitation. Pesticides should need to be placed near the never be applied during the day when bees developing fruit prior to are active. Rather, they should be applied ripening. For handmade at dawn or dusk when bees are not present. traps, red plastic cups with Follow the label closely. a clear lid are preferred by • Reduced-risk insecticides include the the ovipositing females. following active ingredients: spinetoram Holes need to be punched (Delegate) and spinosad (Success) Figure 3. Com- or drilled along the edge • Organic insecticides include the followof the cup close to the lid. mercial SWD trap.

The diameter of the holes

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Spotted-wing drosophila CONTINUED FROM PAGE A38

ing active ingredients: pyrethrin (products such as Pyganic) and spinosad (Entrust) • Broad-spectrum insecticides include the following active ingredients: bifenthrin (Brigade), lambda-cyhalothrin (Warrior), beta-cyfluthrin (Baythroid), malathion, carbaryl, beta-cyfluthrin, and zeta-cypermethrin (Mustang Maxx) • The systemic active ingredients acetamiprid and imidacloprid (Provado) are labeled for control.

• For commercial areas or more acreage, the following website/guide is very useful for control options. *Example products are listed in parenthesis

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Date When Celebrated: Always August 31st National Trail Mix Day features a high energy, tasty treat for the trail or snacks. You can buy packages of trail mix at a store.

Or, you can make up your own, using the ingredients you like best.

When you head out to a campout, a hike or to go biking, take the Trail Mix along with you. It provides the extra energy boost to keep you from getting tired and running out of energy along the trail. Don’t limit trail mix to the trail. It is also good at campouts.

How to make Trail Mix: Here is a fun way that the Boy Scouts make Trail Mix: Ask each hiker or camper to bring a box or bag of their favorite cereal, nuts, pretzels, raisins, dried fruit, M&Ms, etc. For younger hikers or new members of the group, it’s best to provide them with a list of the types of food that can go into trail mix. That way, the inexperienced hiker won’t bring something that can not be easily carried. At the campout or before the hike, bring the group together and mix all the food in a big, big bowl. Put the mix into sealable baggies and pass them out to each hiker.

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Peach Month Ronald Reagan, when President of the United States of America, proclaimed August “Peach Month” and called upon the people of the United States to incorporate this nutritious fruit into their diets, and call upon interested groups to celebrate this month with appropriate programs and activities. Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:05 a.m., June 16, 1982.

The peach (Prunus persica) is a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach.

It is a deciduous tree growing to 5–10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. It is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus within the genus Prunus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.

The leaves are lanceolate, 7–15 cm long and 2–3 cm broad.

The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves; they are solitary or paired, 2.5–3 cm diameter, pink, with five petals. The fruit is a drupe, with a single large seed encased in hard wood (called the “stone” or “pit”), yellow or whitish flesh, a delicate aroma, and a skin that is either velvety (peaches) or smooth (nectarines) in different cultivars. The flesh is very delicate and easily bruised in some cultivars, but is fairly firm in some commercial cultivars, especially when green. The seed is red-brown, oval shaped and 1.5-2 cm long. Peaches, along with cherries, plums, and apricots, are stone fruits (drupes).

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Stock #67644 ..................................................... $57,500 (14) 2000 John Deere 9650 4186 engine/3179 separator, no Contour Master, fixed speed feederhouse, 20-ft unload auger, twindisk straw spreader no chopper, deluxe header control.

Stock #67118...................................................... $38,500 (14) 2002 John Deere 9750 3599 engine/2515 separator, 800/65R32 singles, lateral tilt, variable speed, chopper/spreader, 20-ft unload, Yield Monitor. Stock #66696................... $49,000 (12) 2001 John Deere 9750 3996 engine/2800 separator, singles, chopper, Yield Monitor. Stock #67200................. $45,000 (12) 2001 John Deere 9550 3401 engine/2151 separator, 30.5L32 duals, lateral tilt feederhouse, slide away chopper, Yield Monitor, 20-ft unload auger, mulit-step straw walkers. Stock #58472.................................................................. $43,500 (3) 1990 John Deere 9600 5786 engine/3724 separator, singles, chopper, fore/aft. Stock #67834........................... $20,000 (12)

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International Clown Week: always August 1 - 7 Both International Clown Week was created to give recognition to those funny clowns that make us laugh and smile. It is estimated that there are over 10,00 clowns in organized clown groups, and over 20,000 clowns world-wide. They all have one goal in mind, and that’s to make us happy.

On this day, clowns around the world do what they do best.... they clown around, holding events at malls, nursing homes, schools, and educational events.

Originally, this event was called “National Clown Week”.

In 1991, the group Clowns of America renamed it “International Clown Week”, recognizing that there are many clowns around the world, and this event should be a world-wide celebration.

We hope a clown or two brightens up your day, today!

Origin of International Clown Week: On October 8, 1970 a joint resolution was passed in Congress (Public Law 91-443), authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a proclamation making August 1-7, 1971 National Clown Week. On August 2, 1971 U.S. President Richard Nixon issued Proclamation 4071 , making August 1-7, 1971 National Clown Week.

While the proclamation and resolution was made for a specific date and year, this celebration of clowns has occurred at exactly the same time every year. It is always August 1-7.

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From Lauren.kerzicnik@montana.edu fall. Since the top leader and upper branches Some samples and pictures have come are the only parts of the tree affected by the into the Schutter Lab with white pine weevil insect, non- chemical controls are perfectly damage. It is very common on blue spruce. suitable to control this insect; you just have The larvae or immatures are still underneath to keep an eye on the “wilting” in the early the bark right now in several places in Monsummer and prune accordingly. tana, which is important for management Chemical options are recommended only (see below).

When temperat u r e s start to w a r m ( m i d - Figure 3. Larvae or immatures underneath the bark.

March if absolutely necessary. Contact insecticides Figure 1. White pine weevil adult. to early can be sprayed on the terminal in spring to May), the weevil adults (Figure 1) become try to kill the egg-laying females before active and seek out spruce trees. They feed laying eggs on the terminal. Some of these on the main branches near the leader and products include the active ingredients biinsert eggs into feeding cavities that are fenthrin, permethrin, or cyfluthrin. Contact formed (Figure 2). Eggs hatch in about 2 insecticides will not be as effective once the weeks, and the larvae will tunnel under the eggs have hatched and the larvae have burbark (Figure 3). rowed underneath the bark. A systemic can be applied as a soil drench in the fall or early spring (active ingredient such as imidacloprid) followed by several days of watering to allow for root uptake. Please follow the label to protect both the applicator and pollinators.

If needing to apply controls this time of year, contact insecticides could be targeted at the terminal but would not be as effective as in Figure 2. Egg deposits of white pine weevil. the spring. A systemic could also be applied, Feeding by the developing insects causes but the adult weevils might have emerged the top terminal to suddenly wilt and die by the time the systemic reaches the upper in early summer (Figure 4). This is often terminal. referred to as a “shepherd’s crook” type of Disclaimer: appearance. Only the top leader and upper These recommendations are provided only branches are affected by the insect. Once as a guide. the top leader is killed, some side branches It is always will change their growth habit and will grow the pesticide upward to replace the killed leader. applicator’s Management: responsibilNon-chemical: In general, you can clip ity, by law, the infested terminal (two whorls) and train to read and a new leader by tying (not tightly) it to a follow all vertical stake. It’s a pretty common practice current laand works fine. You have to do this when the bel direclarvae are still inside the branch (will be tions for the for a couple of weeks before emerging as specific pesadults-need to check for presence). Termiticide being nals should be cut only as far down as necesused. Due sary to remove the weevil larvae. Destroy the to constantpruned terminals, as the insects can complete ly changing their development in the pruned terminals. labels and Rake up the needles and debris under the CONTINUED Figure 4. Spruce tree with leader tree (to remove overwintering stage) in the ON PAGE A45 dying.

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1/4 cup cooked spinach 4 large eggs 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese (2 ounces) 2 scallions, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil Freshly ground pepper to taste Squeeze spinach to remove any excess water. Blend eggs with a fork in a medium bowl. Add feta, scallions, dill, pepper and the spinach; mix gently with a rubber spatula.

Set a rack about 4 inches from the heat source; preheat the broiler. Heat oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Pour in the egg mixture and tilt to distribute evenly.

Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook until the bottom is light golden, lifting the edges to allow uncooked egg to flow underneath, 3 to 4 minutes. Place the pan under the broiler and cook until the top is set, 1½ to 2½ minutes. Slide the omelet onto a platter and cut into wedges.

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2 medium sweet potatoes 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil Coarse salt Freshly ground pepper 1 tbsp. packed light-brown sugar 2 boneless, skinless chicken-breast halves 4 slice bacon 1/2 medium red onion Preheat broiler with rack 6 inches from heating element.

Place sweet potatoes on a rimmed baking sheet and toss with 2 tablespoons oil; season with salt and pepper. Spread in a single layer and sprinkle with brown sugar. Wrap each cutlet with a bacon slice; tuck onion between bacon and chicken.

Arrange alongside potatoes on sheet, onion side up; season with salt and pepper. Broil until chicken is cooked through and potatoes are tender, 8 to 10 minutes.

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2017 Ford Escape Turbo

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A young man saw an elderly couple sitting down to lunch at McDonald’s. He noticed that they had ordered one meal, and an extra drink cup. As he watched, the gentleman carefully divided the hamburger in half, then counted out the fries, one for him, one for her, until each had half of them.

Then he poured half of the soft drink into the extra cup and sat that in front of his wife. The old man then began to eat, and his wife sat watching, with her hands folded in her lap.

The young man decided to ask if they would allow him to purchase another meal for them so that they didn’t have to split theirs.

The old gentleman said, “Oh no. We’ve been married 50 years, and everything has always been and will always be shared, 50/50.”

The young man than asked the wife if she was going to eat, and she replied, “It’s his turn with the teeth.”

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Once there was a little boy that lived in the country. They had to use an outhouse, and the little boy hated it because it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and stank all the time. The outhouse was sitting on the bank of a creek and the boy determined that one day he would push that outhouse into the creek.

One day after a spring rain, the creek was swollen so the little boy decided today was the day to push the outhouse into the creek. So he got a large stick and started pushing.

Finally, the outhouse toppled into the creek and floated away.

That night his dad told him they were going to the woodshed after supper. Knowing that meant a spanking, the little boy asked why.

The dad replied, “Someone pushed the outhouse into the creek today. It was you, wasn’t it son?”

The boy answered yes. Then he thought a moment and said, “Dad, I read in school today that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and didn’t get into trouble because he told the truth.”

The dad replied, “Well, son, George Washington’s father wasn’t in the cherry tree.”

2008 Ford F350 Lariat

Crew cab, diesel, black exterior, medium stone leather interior, heavy duty shocks, tow package, 98,105 miles

Crew cab, turbo diesel, blue exterior, navigation w/voice, heated seats and steering wheel, 59,500 miles

2016 Ford Fusion SE Luxury

Turbo, silver exterior, key pad power door locks, 6,394 miles

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2018 Ford Expedition Limited

2017 Ford F150 Lariat

Short box, black exterior, black leather interior, remote start, rear view camera, 50,404 miles

COURTESY PRICE: $31,995

2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 2009 GMC Sierra 2500

Dark privacy glass, bull bar with flood lights & built in winch, 25,739 miles

Gray exterior, black interior, power locks & windows, grille guard, 139,399 miles

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2016 Ford F150 Lariat

Crew, V8 diesel, gray exterior, leather interior, cab steps, rear view camera, remote start, 41,427 miles

Silver exterior, 44,472 miles, fully loaded, remote start, Navigation

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2015 Ford F350

2016 Ford F350 Lariat Ultimate

Turbo diesel, black exterior, black leather interior, remote start, 32,342 miles.

COURTESY PRICE: $48,495

Red exterior, black leather interior, rear view camera, voice activated navigation, 22,526 miles

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2015 GMC Canyon

Crew cab, gray exterior, black interior, power locks and windows

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3V Distributing, Conrad MT ................................C37 A-Plus Auto, Great Falls MT ...............................A32 Abilene Machine Inc, Abilene KS .......................C34 Accelerated Metal Solutions, Brady Smelser, Glendive MT ...................................................................B10 Action Toys, Billings MT ......................................C40 Affordable Construction Equipment, Billings & Bozeman MT ...........................................................A29 Ag Trucks & Equipment, Great Falls MT .............A31 Ag West Distributing Co., Great Falls MT .............C7 Ag Wise, Kremlin MT ..........................................C23 Aggressor, Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Ft. Collins CO . .........................................................................C25 American Manufacturing, Hogeland MT .............B12 BALPAQ, Riley Denning, Sun River MT..............A38 Basin Seed, LLC, Stanford MT ...........................A20 Bass Auction Co. Inc., Lewistown MT .................A10 Batco, Bench Industries, Great Falls MT ............C19 Bell Motor Co., Cut Bank MT ..............................C26 Ben Taylor, Valier & Shelby MT .............................B7 Bench Industries, Great Falls MT .............. A28, C19 Big Equipment Co., Havre MT ..............................C1 Big Horn Sainfoin Seed Co., Powell WY .............A46 Big Sky Equipment, Conrad MT .........................C35 Big Sky Pipe, Great Falls ....................................A45 Big Sky Sawmill & Wood Products, Vaughn MT....A44 Big Sky Wholesale Seeds, Shelby MT ...............A36 Billings Farm & Ranch Supply, Billings MT .........C40 Billings Kubota, Billings MT ................................A17 Bouma Post Yards, Choteau MT .........................B12 Brandt Agricultural Products LTD........................C31 BTI Feeds, Cut Bank MT ......................................B7 Buckley Auction MT ............................................C18 Cascade Machine & Supply, Great Falls MT ......A25 Central Steel Building & Construction, GSI Bins, MT & ND ..................................................................C5 Cervus Equipment, Stettler AB Canada ...............B3 Chic Harbine Sales, Missoula MT ......................C36 Chvilicek, LLC, Steve Chvilicek, Havre MT.........C44 Circle G Salvage, Walhalla, ND ..........................C25 Circle S Seeds, of Montana, Three Forks MT.....A18 Clearview Seed, Denton MT.................................B4 CoAXium, Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Ft. Collins CO .. .........................................................................C25 Corder & Associates, Fort Benton MT ..................B3 CoreCivic, HireClix, MA ......................................C21 Courtesy Ford, Conrad MT .................................A48 Crazy Mountain Fabrication, Travis Klein, Big Timber MT ...................................................................A21 Cut Bank Tire, Cut Bank MT .................................A9 Darling Ingredients, Inc.......................................A45 DBL Sales & Service, Dave & Brock Linker, Coffee Creek MT .................................................. A16, C9

Index

Reddig Equipment & Repair, Kalispell MT..........C30 Rehbein Ford, Inc., Plains MT ............................A19 Dick Irvin Trucking, Shelby MT............................A33 JGL Grain, Blue Springs, MO ...............................C3 Rockwell Scales, Simms MT ..............................A30 Doane Western of Montana, Bozeman MT ........C36 Jim Nielsen Trucks & Parts, Butte MT.................A24 Roger Rader, Inc, Sun River MT.........................A19 East Slope Kennel & Game Bird Farm, Conrad MT . Jim Taylor Chevrolet, Fort Benton MT.................A39 RWI Enterprises, LLC, Moore MT.......................A45 .........................................................................A44 Joe Judisch Custom Swathing & Baling, Conrad...A22 Rydelle Enterprises, Marion Jones, Drummond MT. Equipment Connection, Columbia Falls MT ............. JT Harvesting, Jim Bartsch, Brady MT ...............A26 .........................................................................B10 ................................................................C47, C48 Knobel Welding, Dutton MT ................................C13 Severinsen Irrigation, Fairfield MT ......................A32 Exchange Services, Inc, Whitefish MT .................B8 Krogmann Mfg. ...................................................C29 Shop Specialties, Valier MT ..................................C8 First State Bank, Shelby MT ...............................A46 Lane Judisch Swathing, Conrad MT ...................A28 Shortline Ag, Scobey MT......A2, A38, A39, C7, C38 Flaman Sales & Rental, Power MT ............ A44, B13 Larry’s Tractors, Trailers & More, Hamilton MT ...C28 Sod Buster Sales, Polson MT ....................C22, C46 Fort Benton Realty, Fort Benton MT ...................C32 Lemken, T&T Farm Supply, Chester MT.............A42 South Central MT Antique Tractor Assoc, Worden Fox Ford, Wolf Point MT .......................................B4 Lewistown Honda, Lewistown MT ......................C22 MT .....................................................................A6 Fraser’s Oil Inc., Inverness MT ...........................C44 Lewistown Rental, Lewistown MT.......................A47 Specialty Tool & Attachment, Cody WY ..............B11 Frieling’s Agricultural Equipment, Great Falls MT ..... Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Zach Gaines, Ft. Collins SprayFlex, Doug Henke Chester, MT ...................C6 CO ...................................................................C25 Steel Etc, Great Falls MT...................................A23 ..........................................................A35, B5, C39 Frontline Ag Solutions Dillon, Dillon MT .............A43 M & W Machine, Three Forks MT .......................A19 Steinhatchee Inc, Lance Nelson, Stevensville MT ....

Frontline Ag Solutions, Choteau, Conrad, Cut Bank, MDS Construction Supply, Great Falls MT ...........B8 .........................................................................C10 Dillon, Lewistown, Havre, Chester, Great Falls, Midland Implement , Billings MT.........................C13 Stokes Fencing, Conrad MT .................................C8 Belgrade, Livingston MT ......................... A40, A41 Montana Department of Agriculture ...................A10 Stricks Ag, Chester MT.......................................A37 Fuson Excavation & Trucking, Conrad MT ..........C24 Montana Fiberglass Inc, Lewistown MT .............A40 Sullivan Brothers Construction, Conrad MT .........B6 Gateway Arch & Fence, Wayne Thiem, Bozeman Montana Holster & Shoulder Rig, Norm Schertenlieb Super SmartRooms/Superform ICF, Jerry Gangstad, MT ...................................................................C29 MT ...................................................................C42 Avon MT.................................................... A7, A48 Glacier Sotherby’s Int’l Realty, Angie Friedner, White- Montana Livestock Ag Credit, Helena MT ..........C38 Swains Spring Service, Great Falls MT ..............C30 fish MT .............................................................A33 Montana Metal Fabrications, Great Falls MT ......C10 T & T Farm Supply, LLC, Chester MT .................A42 Glasgow Rental, Glasgow MT ............................A47 Montana Valley Irrigation, Great Falls MT ...........C29 Taylor Farm Store, Shelby MT ..............................B7 Glass Trucking, Denton MT.................................B18 Mountain Equipment, Belgrade MT ....................B14 TCB Transport LLC, Todd Bedosky, Geyser MT....C10 Golden Harvest Seeds, Big Sandy MT ...............A30 Mountain View Metal Works, Wilsall MT ...............B1 Teton Antique Steam & Gas Assoc, Choteau MTA14 MT Swathing Inc., Matt Baker, Bynum MT .........C25 Golden Triangle Seeds, Rudyard MT ..................A42 Gordon Repair, LLC, Miles City MT ....................C24 MT Tractors, Matt Pendergast, Stevensville MT ..A37 That Guys Fab Shop, Havre MT ...........................C6 Great Falls Fence, Great Falls MT ......................C20 Musselshell Valley Equipment, Roundup MT............ The Repair Shop, Choteau MT ...........................A16 ............................................................. C4, C5, C9 Tiber Tractor Co., Chester MT.............................C20 Greyn Fertilizer, Choteau, Dutton, Valier MT ......B19 Grossenburg Equipment, Winner, Pierre, Philip SD, Nature Safe, Darling Ingredients Inc...................A45 Tilleman Equipment Company, Havre MT ..........C11 Wayne, Bloomfield, Harrington ........................C27 New Homes of the Future, Billings MT ...............A18 Tom’s Shop, Grassrange MT ................................C4 GSI Bins, Central Steel, MT & ND ........................C5 North Star Equipment, John Myers, Simms MT.....A36 Townsend Seeds, Inc, Townsend MT ..................A48 H & H Spreading, Conrad MT.............................C22 Northern Ford, Cut Bank MT ..............................C41 Treasure State Seed, Fairfield MT ......................A25 Harris Custom Swathing, Conrad MT .................A24 Northern Prairie Auto Sales, Wolf Point MT........B20 Tri County Implement, Sidney MT.......................B11 Hedman, Inc, Brett Hedman, Grass Range MT.....C17 Northern Seed, Conrad & Shelby MT...................B2 Triangle Ag Service, Fort Benton MT..................B15 Helfert’s Helena Farm Supply, East Helena MT....C12 Northwest Plastics, Libby MT .............................C40 Triple “O” Sales, Milk River AB Canada ..............C42 Henke Enterprises, SprayFlex & Big Dog Mowers, Oxbow Engineering LLC, Randy Pierce PE Three Triple T Sales, Chinook MT ........................C28, C33 Forks MT..........................................................A34 TT&E Inc, Victor MT .............................................C2 Chester MT .......................................................C6 Hi-Line Rental, Havre MT ...................................A47 Poteet Construction, Missoula MT ......................C43 Van Motors, Conrad MT......................................A21 Highline Communications, Cut Bank MT ............B20 Power Motors Implement, Fort Benton MT .........B15 Vaughn Truck, Havre MT.......................................A8 Precision Truck & Trailer, Havre MT ......................C3 VW Mfg, Loren Hawks, Chester MT ...................C45 Hoven Equipment Co., Great Falls MT ....................................................... C14, C15, C16 Prescription Tillage Technology, DBL Sales, Denton Weaver’s Fencing Co., Johnny Weaver, Fort Shaw MT .....................................................................C5 MT .....................................................................C9 Huggy Bear’s Consignment, Cut Bank MT ...........B9 Hwy 12 Equipment & Repair, Baker MT .............C24 Price Contracting Inc, Stevensville MT ...............C47 Wesco Trailer Sales, Conrad MT ........................A46 Iron Horse Express, Coffee Creek MT..................B8 Price Truck & Equipment Sales, Missoula MT ....A22 Western Montana New Holland, Missoula MT ...B13 J & T Equipment Sales, John Jones, Stevensville Pro-Tech Steel LLC, Great Falls MT ...................B10 Wichman Ag Supply LLC, Hilger MT ..................C24 MT ...................................................................C18 R & L Seed & Machine LLC, Geyser MT ............C24 Wild Horse Seed, Havre MT ...............................A33 J Bar T Bins & Steel Buildings, Jeremiah Johnson & R & R Custom Spraying & Fertilizer Application, XB Trailer Sales, Great Falls MT .........................C43 George Richard, Loma MT ..............................B12 Zerbe Bros., Glasgow MT .......................... B16, B17 Thad, Chester MT............................................B18 Jamieson Motors, Inc., Chinook MT .......... A26, C34 R & R Land Fencing, Ron Wilson, Fairfield MT ..A20 Zomer Truck, Conrad MT ....................................A27

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SWATHER FOR SALE

Like new 2010 MacDon M100 swather, 604 hours, Case IH 2010 header, 30-ft., double windrow, good canvas, pickup reel, new battery............... $65,000 Call (406) 336-7495, Cut Bank, MT

ITEMS FOR SALE

New 255/75R22.5 trailer tires.

New 295/85R22.5 trailer tires.

4-New recapped 295/85R22.5 trailer tires.

8-Used 295/85R22.5 trailer tires. Good tread and casings.

1-Used 295/75R24.5 trailer tire. Good tread and casing.

7-3 gallon stainless steel air/water fire extinguishers. 5 with brackets, 2 with out.

3-Padded windshield covers, Universal fit for combine, tractor, payloader, swather, backhoe, etc.

4-Winch/chain binder tightening bars.

6-DOT safety vests. Universal fit.

9-Pairs of mud boots, size 7 to 12.

John Blue NH3 applicator for a 53-ft. toolbar.

2-35-ft. x 11/4” tow cables with eyes and clevises.

1-35-ft. x 3” tow rope and 1-40-ft. x 12” tow strap.

72-Metal lift guards for headers.

4-Shurco roll tarp Smart 1 controllers for tarp or traps.

3-Handheld moisture testers.

2-Chrome front bumpers for Peterbilt 379.

Shulte single stage, front mount, PTO drive snow blower.

Contact Irvin @ 406-480-9537 or irv@odegardharvesting.com

Mitch Wanken of Liberty County with his 1360 lb steer at the Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana.

National Potato Day

Date When Celebrated: Always August 19th National Potato Day is a day to celebrate and enjoy a few potatoes. The versatile spud can be enjoyed in some way for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and as a snack. While it can be eaten raw, it is usually cooked, boiled, baked or fried.

It is used in countless recipes. Americans can’t seem to get enough of them.

Potatoes are one of the largest vegetable crops in the world. They were first cultivated in Peru, around 5,000- 7,000 BC. Pardon the broad estimate, but records were sparse back then, often written on the inside wall of a cave. While most potatoes grow to about the size of your fist or less, the largest potato ever grown, weighed in at 18 pounds, 4 ounces. Now, that’s a whole lot of french fries!

In celebration of National Potato Day, make certain to include potatoes at every meal today, and for snacks, too!

Happy National Potato Day!

National Senior Citizens Day

Date When Celebrated: August 21st National Senior Citizens Day honors our elderly population. On this day, we are encouraged to recognize and show appreciation for the value and contribution of elderly people to home, family and society.

In his Presidential Proclamation (August 19, 1988), President Ronald Reagan said “For all they have achieved throughout life and for all they continue to accomplish, we owe older citizens our thanks and a heartfelt salute. We can best demonstrate our gratitude and esteem by making sure that our communities are good places in which to mature and grow older.”

On National Senior Citizens Day, we should: • Spend some time with senior citizens • Show our appreciation for senior citizens • Do volunteer work in support of the elderly If you are a senior citizen, enjoy your day any way you desire. After all, this is your day! Make sure to take advantage of senior citizens specials and discounts. There’s bound to be plenty offers today.

The Origin of National Senior Citizens Day: On August 19, 1988, President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation 5847 creating National Senior Citizens Day to be August 21.

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World Daffodil Day

Date When Celebrated: August 18, 2019 - date varies Daffodil Days are held on a wide range of dates at the world, national, and local level. There is definitely no consensus on a common date.

And that’s okay, as the goals are the same. Whether you are commemorating World Daffodil Day today, or any other Daffodil Day in any country or locality, the goals are critical and vital.

Daffodil Days are held to raise the awareness of cancer and how to avoid it. Other goals of World Daffodil Day, are to raise funds for cancer research, raise public education and awareness, and to help those affected by this deadly and devastating disease.

Why are Daffodils a symbol in the fight against cancer?

Daffodils are a worldwide symbol of life.

In some way and at some time, cancer touches everyone in the entire world. Chances are you or someone you love will have cancer at sometime in their lives. We all certainly know many people who have or had cancer. All over the globe, there are cancer societies and groups organized to help in the fight against cancer, and to find a cure. We strongly encourage you to become active in the fight against cancer.

At the very least, make a contribution... give what you can.

Four friends

These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to go up to Dallas and party with some friends up there.

They had a great time. However, after all the partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn’t make it back to Austin until early Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their professor after the final and explain to him why they missed it.

They explained that they had gone to Dallas for the weekend with the plan to come back and study but, unfortunately, they had a flat tire on the way back, didn’t have a spare, and couldn’t get help for a long time. As a result, they missed the final.

The professor thought it over and then agreed they could make up the final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved.

They studied that night and went in the next day at the time the professor had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet and told them to begin.

They looked at the first problem, worth 5 points. It was something simple about free radical formation. “Cool,” they thought at the same time, each one in his separate room.

“This is going to be easy.”

Each finished the problem and then turned the page. On the second page was written: (For 95 points): Which tire? ##### If two people on opposing side of the Earth simultaneously dropped a piece of buttered bread and the breads landed buttered side down, the Earth would become a sandwich.

##### Common sense is not a common thing at all.

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United States Department of Agriculture News Release A new online tool can help farmers and ranchers find information on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) farm loans that may best fit their operations. USDA has launched the new Farm Loan Discovery Tool as the newest feature on farmers.gov, the Department’s self-service website for farmers.

“Access to credit is critical in the agriculture industry, especially for new farmers,” said Bill Northey, Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation. “This new interactive tool can help farmers find information on USDA farm loans within minutes. We are working to improve our customer service, and part of our solution is through improving how farmers can work with us online.”

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) offers a variety of loan options to help farmers finance their operations. From buying land to financing the purchase of equipment, FSA loans can help. Compared to this time last year, FSA has seen an 18 percent increase in the amount it has obligated for direct farm ownership loans, and through the 2018 Farm Bill, has increased the limits for several loan products.

USDA conducted field research in eight states, gathering input from farmers and FSA farm loan staff to better understand their needs and challenges.

“We received suggestions from both farmers and our staff on how to improve the farm loan process, and we wanted to harness this opportunity to be more efficient and effective,” Northey said. “This feature is one step in our efforts.”

How the Tool Works Farmers who are looking for financing options to operate a farm or buy land can answer a few simple questions about what they are looking to fund and how much money they need to borrow. After submitting their answers, farmers will be provided information on farm loans that best fit their specific needs. The loan application and additional resources also will be provided.

Farmers can download application quick guides that outline what to expect from preparing an application to receiving a loan decision. There are four guides that cover loans to individuals, entities, and youth, as well as information on microloans. The guides include general eligibility requirements and a list of required forms and documentation for each type of loan. These guides can help farmers prepare before their first USDA service center visit with a loan officer.

Farmers can access the Farm Loan Discovery Tool by visiting farmers.gov/fund and clicking the “Start” button.

Follow the prompts and answer five simple questions to receive loan information that is applicable to your agricultural operation. The tool is built to run on any modern browser like Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or the Safari browser, and is fully functional on mobile devices. It does not work in Internet Explorer.

About Farmers.gov In 2018, USDA unveiled farmers.gov, a dynamic, mobilefriendly public website combined with an authenticated portal where farmers will be able to apply for programs, process transactions, and manage accounts.

The Farm Loan Discovery Tool is one of many resources on farmers.gov to help connect farmers to information that can help their operations. Earlier this year, USDA launched the My Financial Information feature, which enables farmers to view their loan information, history, payments, and alerts by logging into the website.

USDA is building farmers.gov for farmers, by farmers.

In addition to the interactive farm loan features, the site also offers a Disaster Assistance Discovery Tool. Farmers can visit farmers.gov/recover/disaster-assistance-tool#step-1 to find disaster assistance programs that can help their operation recover from natural disasters.

With feedback from customers and field employees who serve those customers, farmers.gov delivers farmer-focused features through an agile, iterative process to deliver the greatest immediate value to America’s agricultural producers – helping farmers and ranchers do right, and feed everyone.

For more information or to locate your USDA Service Center, visit farmers.gov. ##### Potato Chips were invented by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, NY on August 24, 1853. ##### Prior to the 1950s, farm tillage equipment was usually attached to the tractor via a what?

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2016 John Deere S670

JU ST IN!

2010 John Deere 9530

• 800’s GreenStar Ready!

• Buddy seat • Very nice!

Sale Price

2011 John Deere 4830

2014 John Deere 640 FD

• Good canvases • Pickup reel • HHS in ridged mode • Field Ready!

John Deere 9570R

• 700 engine hours • 500 separator hours • small wire • single tires • 2630 display

Buy or Lease to own

$38,570/yr - oac

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page B6

##### Make your house smell amazing by simmering some orange peels with 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon on medium heat. ##### Out of brown sugar?

You can make your own by blending one cup of white sugar and two tablespoons of molasses.

The deadline for advertising for the September issue of the Trader's Dispatch will be August 28th.

TRAILERS FOR SALE

1999 Manac 8-ft. 6” x 53-ft., 3 axles, all slide and air ride, good shape..... ...................................................................................................$13,500 2000 Lode King 8-ft. x 6” x 45-ft. tandem axle, slide and air ride....$6000

Call 406-696-5431 • Shephard, MT

Coalter Littrell with his 1330 lb Reserve Champion steer at the Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana. Coalter’s steer was purchased by Cut Bank Tire.

Exercise options

Licensed - Bonded - Insured

(406) 289-0053 • 303 N. Virginia - Conrad, MT

Statewide Service

www.sullivanbrosconstructioninc.com

“When you need the job done, and you need it done right.......

Feel free to give us a call during the day or at night!”

Plow in your water lines, gas lines, etc.

Up to 4” in diameter and up to 6-ft. deep

ALSO SEE US FOR

✓ Directional Boring ✓ Excavation Needs ✓ Road Grading

Fencing Now .

Available r o f Call details..

☛ WE HAVE

✔ Excavator - ✔ Backhoes - ✔ Trucks ✔ Compactors - ✔ Skid Steers - ✔ Loader

Job completed from start to finish - Call for price quote

Horses can be exercised using the following equipment: A treadmill designed for horses.

A hot walker machine that leads horses around a circle, tied to overhead arms, to exercise them or cool them down after a race or workout (in effect, a clothesline for wet horses).

A circular moving chute that keeps the horse moving in a compartment similar to a gigantic revolving door.

A custom-made swimming pool that is adapted for horse use (imagine the pool filters!).

A lunge line to lunge the horse in large circles, with the handler in the middle (stare at the head,or get dizzy).

Stolen car

After shopping for most of the day, a couple returns to find their car has been stolen. They go to the police station to make a full report. Then, a detective drives them back to the parking lot to see if any evidence can be found at the scene of the crime. To their amazement, the car has been returned.

There is an envelope on the windshield with a note of apology and two tickets to a music concert. The note reads, ‘I apologize for taking your car, but my wife was having a baby and I had to hot-wire your ignition to rush her to the hospital. Please forgive the inconvenience. Here are two tickets for tonight’s concert of Garth Brooks, the countryand-western music star.’

Their faith in humanity restored, the couple attend the concert and return home late. They find their house has been robbed. Valuable goods have been taken from throughout the house, from basement to attic. And, there is a note on the door reading, ‘Well, you still have your car. I have to put my newly born kid through college somehow, don’t I?’

National Dog Day

Date When Celebrated: Always August 26th National Dog Day has two goals: to honor dogs, and to rescue dogs from homelessness and abuse. It’s an opportunity for us to recognize and appreciate the value and importance of dogs in our lives.

This day is intended to honor dogs for all that they do for us.

In addition to giving love and companionship, dogs help us out in countless ways. They are watchdogs for our safety. They lead the blind. Dogs aid in search and rescue, and they seek out bombs and drugs.

The second goal of National Dog Day is to rescue dogs in need. On occasion, dogs need us to save them from homelesness and abuse. The goal of the National Dog Day foundation is to rescue 10,000 dogs a year. Lend a hand to help a dog in need today, or any day.

Origin of National Dog Day: National Dog Day was created by the National Dog Day Foundation. Their motto is “Saving 10,000 Dogs - One Day at a Time”.

President George W. Bush, a dog owner himself, sent a letter to the foundation in support of National Dog Day. ##### Orange juice tastes bad after you’ve brushed your teeth because the toothpaste blocks the sweetness receptors on your tongue. ##### If we shouldn’t eat at night, why do they put a light in the fridge?

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page B7

Your grass is drying out...

Keep adding pounds this fall with BGF-30 Protein is often the first limiting nutrient on most forage programs, minerals and vitamins play an important role in helping cows stay healthy and in maintaining reproductive efficiency.

CRYSTAL-PHOS™ is a weather and waste proof mineral supplement that cows will consume readily along with BGF-30™. Place a BGF-30™ barrel with every 20-30 head of cows and a CRYSTAL-PHOS® barrel for approximately every 40-70 head. Studies have shown that cows will consume mineral better from CRYSTAL-PHOS. Try the “combo” program ~ it works!

Taylor’s Farm Store Ben Taylor Valier

BTI Feeds Call toll-free 1-800-873-0336 — Local 406-873-4433 Highway 2 East, Across from railroad crossing, Cut Bank Bulk Plant toll-free 1-888-878-2812 — Local 406-873-2812

STEEL & WOOD FENCE POSTS

Farm Store toll-free 1-888-220-5547 — Local 406-434-5547 Bulk Plant toll-free 1-800-824-8366 — Local 406-434-5546 Chemical Warehouse 406-434-5253 — Store on Highway #2 in Shelby

39% more steel per panel than conventional fence.

Larger, stronger, heavier pipe More attractive

Fiberglass, Steel, Poly Livestock Waterers on hand Johnson Artificial Spring - Franklin Ritchie – Cancrete

Call Taylor’s Farm Store: 406-434-5547 for information on Franklin & Ritchie Waterers.

Call BTI Feeds: 406-873-4433 for information on Cancrete & Ritchie Waterers and Franklin parts

Energy efficient, easy to install fountains.

Stur-D Loading Chutes

See us for all your baler twine and net wrap needs

1/4” - 3/4”

Fans & air conditioners 15% off

Goulds Jet & Submersible Pump Water Systems Available at Taylor Farm Store

Call 1-800-824-8366

Barb Wire

BOLTS • NUTS • WASHERS

Farmaster

Installations • Delivery • Inspections

Call BTI Feeds for your cattle feed needs.

GRADE 5 & 8

Bulk and case lot anti-freeze Round bale feeders • Bunk feeders and RV Gates • Panels • Handling systems anti-freeze

PROPANE

6-rail—20-ft. x 48”

IN STOCK! Call Us for Prices Bunk feeders - Gates - Panels Handling systems

Stur-D Portable Tub and Alley

For your crop inputs Call Gregg Schnee at 434-5253

Call toll-free 1-866-279-3360 Store & Bulk Plant 406-279-3365 – Shop 406-279-3693 Cut Bank Highway - Valier - Highway 44 East

Continuous fence that is: Bigger - Stronger - Less Expensive

STOCK TANKS

NEW!

WeatherAll® is a protective coating applied to the BioBarrel® as a final step in the manufacturing process. It is composed of an edible, food-grade, wax coating that helps protect and slow down BioBarrel® degradation when encountering wet conditions. The protective coating also helps reduce the attraction that some cattle have to the BioBarrel® container once it is softened under extreme wet conditions, thus reducing the incidence of cattle consuming the container faster than the CRYSTALYX® product. WeatherAll® Protective Technology broadens the application and effectiveness of the BioBarrel® container to all geographies within North America.

Roller chain Sprockets Hubs

Solve rodent problems with “Gladiator”

We make up hydraulic hoses in our Shelby & Valier stores

15% OFF

all gallons paint

Nichols Sweeps

Conventional, Ultrawing, Klip Wing and conventional sweeps, spikes and drill shoes at Taylor’s Farm Store, Shelby

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page B8

MDS CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY • IN STOCK • Shop-Style Rolair Compressors

ALL SHOP COMPRESSORS INCLUDE VIBRATION ISOLATOR PADS

Pressure Washers • Hose Reels

Saylor-Beall Air Compressors American Made and Industrial Quality

MANY PURCHASES QUALIFY FOR FREE SHIPPING IN STATE! MDS SUPPLY is central Montana’s source for Fillrite fuel pumps.

MDS SUPPLY carries Justrite all metal with metal flex spout fuel cans.

We Also Have Available:

4 Several affordable options in DEF pump systems 4 Flexzilla hose IN STOCK, 3/8-1” sizes 4 Fuel/Water/Fire/Air Hose Suction and Discharge 4 Black Pipe Fittings 4 Aluminum Camlocks 4 Stainless T-Bolt Clamps/Band Clamps 4 Brass Ball Valves 4 Cimtek Fuel Filters 4 Inline Air Filters, Regulators, and Lubricators 4 Fire and Garden Hose Fittings/Adapters 4 Air Compressor Parts and Oil 4 Grease and oil pumps 820 9th Street North, Great Falls, MT

406-453-5451 or 800-332-1816

Active pharmaceutical ingredients can persist in the environment

Soil Science Society of America News Release stimulant. Each reacts differently with soil in the septic field in different ways. These chemicals can bind physically to soil particles. They also can react with soil, soil microbes, and other compounds in the septic field. It’s a virtual chemistry experiment when active pharmaceutical ingredients reach the septic tank.

Gall found that medicines’ ability to get to groundwater was mostly controlled by two factors: sorption potential and biodegradability.

Sorption refers to the likelihood of the Homeowners who rely on private wells medicine attaching to another substance like as their drinking water source can be vulnersoil or water. Medicines with low sorption able to bacteria, nitrates, and other contamiare not likely to attach to soil in the septic nants that have known human health risks. field. That makes them more likely to move Because they are not connected to a public quickly through the soil profile and reach drinking water supply, the homeowners groundwater. The medicine most likely are responsible for ensuring that their own to reach groundwater was ofloxacin. This drinking water is safe. antibiotic was the most frequently detected Similar to concerns that public drinking medicine in the groundwater samples. water treatment plants face, groundwater Naproxen, an anti-inflammatory drug, wells may be impacted by another group had the highest sorption, and was most of contaminants — and they might be part likely to stay in the septic field. This could of your daily use! be the reason it was not detected in any of Ingredients in personal care items, overthe groundwater samples of the study. the-counter and prescription medicines, and Biodegradability is the ability of the drug even food and drink products are introduced to break down in the soil. Medicines that into domestic wastewater streams and can break down quickly are unlikely to reach persist through treatment technologies. the groundwater. However, some medicines “This causes trace-levels of these chemireach the groundwater before they begin cals to be found in the environment,” says breaking down. Scientists measure this facHeather Gall. “Recently developed analytitor using “half-life”, which is how long it cal technologies are now advanced enough takes for half of the medicine to break down. for us to detect these compounds in water at For example, ofloxacin, which was the increasingly low levels.” Gall is an assistant most frequently detected, has a half-life of professor at Pennsylvania State University CONTINUED ON PAGE B12 who studies contaminants of emerging concern in surface and groundwater.

Selling farm or ranch property and A fully-functioning septic system releases the effluent tired of paying capital gains tax?? slowly into a septic field.

The soil, roots, and soil HELP IS HERE!!! microbes biodegrade polSave by deferring capital gains tax. lutants in the water before it For example, a 1031 exchange to sell a farm gets back into groundwater. valued at $2,000,000 can creat a tax savings However, in the U.S., 10of approximatley $250,000,000; this tax savings can be used to purchase 20% of septic tanks function substantially more replacement property. poorly. This can increase the chance of these contamiCatherine Witmer, EXCHANGE SERVICES INC. nants getting to groundwaQualified Intermediary for 200 Parkhill Drive 1031 tax-deferred exchanges Whitefish, Montana 59937 ter, especially those that Esi1031@gmail.com 1-888-244-1031 biodegrade slowly in the For more information go to www.exchangeservicesinc.com environment. After that, they can enter a downgradient household’s well water.

The presence of medicines in drinking water raise public health concerns.

Impacted water may have harmful effects when consumed, but whether the levels present in private wells are high enough to pose a threat is an understudied area of research.

So, Gall partnered with the Pennsylvania Master Well Owner Network.

Twenty-six homeowners volunteered to collect water samples from their private wells. “Since our project engaged private well ownIron Horse Express trucking dedicated to meeting ers, we wanted to focus on your commercial/industrial and farm/ranch needs, compounds they may be local and out of state, fully licensed and insured, familiar with,” says Gall. multiple trailer configurations to meet your needs.

Gall’s team chose to test Marty Cunningham Matthew Goldman water samples for four com406.212.5843 406.380.0857 mon antibiotics, two over(leave message) 406.567.2313 the-counter anti-inflamma3367 Tesarek Road, Coffee Creek, MT 59424 tory drugs, and one common

Trader’s Dispatch, August 2019 — Page B9

HUGGY BEAR’S CONSIGNMENT & APPRAISAL Phone 406-873-4819, cell 229-0662, e-mail khbear59427@yahoo.com, Cut Bank, Montana

Website: www.huggybearsconsignments.com

NEW ITEMS

“If You Want To Sell or Buy...Huggy Bear Is Your Guy”.

New Holland 2300 14-ft. header. Tag #GlennP0819.................................. $2500 New Holland 16H hay header with Versatile 276 tractor adapter. Tag #Russ0819.

Versatile 4022 22-ft. DSA draper header with Versatile 276 adapter. Tag #FredV0619......................................................................................... $6000 Alloway 30-ft. aerator. Tag #RickW0819.

Massey-Ferguson 850 combine with 15-ft. pickup header and attachment. Tag #Rog0819............................................................................................ $9500 Massey-Ferguson 750 combine with 24-ft. header with air and batt reel. Tag #GaryS0819......................................................................................... $5500 Du-Al loader to fit John Deere 4520 tractor. Tag#GaryS0819.................... $4500 Gysler 36-ft. plow with 12-ft. center section, AM rod weeder, Degelman mounted harrows. Tag #GaryS0819.................................................................... $5600 John Deere 6410 tractor with loader, grapple, MFD, 3-point, dual PTO. Tag #Dan0819............................................................................................ $4500 Polaris pull-type fertilizer spreader. Tag #BC0819....................................... $200 Case IH 1015 pickup header with a Sund pickup. Unit is like new. Tag #Harry0819...................................................................................................$6500 1997 John Deere 9600 combine with 30-ft. 930 header. Header is rebuilt. Combine has 3500 hours. Tag #AlanM0819..............................................$40,000 John Deere 1010 tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, power steering. Loader is available.

Tag #ANF0819......................................................................................$6500 M&W grain dryer with 75 hp electric motor, portable dryer, new bearings. Tag #Vermulum0819....................................................................................$7500 2009 Bourgault 5725 air seeder with 6700 4-compartment air cart. Tag #GaryG0819.

2001 Case IH 2388 combine with 2856 separator hours, 40-ft. 1042 draper header and 1015 pickup header with Sund pickup. Tag #Vince0819.........$60,000 Hesston 1200 30-ft. pull type swather. Tag#Seville0819.............................$3500 1989 Ford F600 truck (less box or tank). Tag #Paul0819............................$2500 Golf cart. Tag #Paul0819..............................................................................$3500 Homemade 17-ft. gooseneck trailer. Tag #Paul0819....................................$3500 Push blade to fit on Gehl telehandler. Tag #Paul0819.................................$2500 125-ft. of 14 gauge link fence with 4 gates. Tag #Paul0819...........................$500 10-ft. cattle guard. Tag #Paul0819..................................................................$250 12-ft. cattle guard. Tag #Paul0819..................................................................$350 Bobcat skid steer loader V-blade. Tag #DaveT0819.

Ford F900 lineman’s truck. Tag #DaveT0819.

Fire trailer with 3 fire hoses, 500 gallon tank, Honda, great for upcoming harvest.

Dave T0819...........................................................................................$6500 Service trailer with fuel tank, Miller welder, crane. Tag #DaveT0819.

Case grapple fork to fit skid steer loaders. Tag #DaveT0819.

2011 Ingersol Rand light plant, excellent shape. Tag #SteveM0819..........$5500 John Deere 212 pickup header with Sund pickup attachment. Fits JD 8820 combine. Tag #JerryS0818..........................................................................$6500 John Deere 214 pickup header with Rake Up pickup attachment. Fits John Deere 8820 or Case 2188 combines. Tag #0819..................................$6500 L shaped 90-gallon fuel tank with electric fuel pump. Tag #JasonB0819.......$900 Steiger PTA 310 Panther tractor with Degelman front blade with 24.5x32 tires.

Tag #Reid0819...................................................................................$27,000 Case IH 100 WDX haybine. Tag #DougR0819.........................................$19,500 Case IH LBX 432 big square baler. Tag #DougR0819.............................$37,000 John Deere 4020 tractor, no 3-point, almost new tires. Tag #ANF0819......$7500 John Deere 7520 tractor, 1000 PTO. Tag #ANF0819..................................$7500 John Deere 9650 STS with MacDon 962 36-ft. header, 2400 separator hours.

Tag #Gordon0819..............................................................................$35,000 John Deere 6620 combine with John Deere 925 25-ft. header. Tag #Jeff0819.... ..............................................................................................................$7500 2012 Ford F150 pickup, 4x4, 68,500 miles, automatic. Tag #Doug0819..$17,000 2005 Case RBX562 round baler with net wrap. Excellent shape. Tag #Doug0819........................................................................................$13,500 Wilray 4000 gallon double wall tank. Tag #Doug0819.................................$4000 Case 4490 4x4 tractor with 1000 PTO. Tag #BillB0819.

Wheatheart 8x45 auger with 10 hp electric motor drive. Tag #GraldC0819...$4500 4-Tires for John Deere sprayer, 620/70R46. Tag #Zenith0819..............$2600 ea.

Vermeer 2300 rake with very little use. Tag #DougP0819........................$19,000 MacDon 36-ft. header to fit TV 45. Tag #DaveTu0819.

Ford 145 roll over plow. Tag #HiddenL0819................................................$2500 Flexi-Coil System 65 sprayer with 90-ft. booms. Tag #Ron0819................$3500 Degelman 12-ft. blade. Tag #Reid0819.......................................................$7500 Allis Chalmers WD restored tractor. Tag #Jim0819....................................$5000 John Deere 60 restored tractor. Tag #Jim0819...........................................$5000 Minneapolis-Moline Z restored tractor. Tag #Jim0819...............................$5000 Minneapolis-Moline R restored tractor. Tag #Jim0819...............................$5999 Massey 44 tractor. Tag #Jim0819................................................................$5000 Allis Chalmers WG in excellent shape. Tag #Jim0819...............................$5000 Rollamatic 8N tractor with new motor. Tag #Jim0819.................................$5000 Fordson Major diesel tractor. Tag #Jim0819..............................................$5000 New Keho 71/2 hp aeration fan, 3 phase, 480 volt. Tag #Rod0819..............$2995 John Deere 544E wheel loader. Tag #Jeff0819.

John Deere G wheel loader. Tag #Jeff0819.

JCB 330 skid steer loader, 1430 hours. Tag #Austin0819.

Case IH 2188 combine with 2800 hours. Tag #Roger0819.

2011 Case IH 1203 windrower, 30-ft. draper header. Tag #Roger0819....$55,000 New Holland 94C 36-ft. header off Case IH combine. Tag #Roger0819..$27,000 Great Plains 40-ft. drill with 1400 tank, 7.5” spacing. Tag #Reid0819......$70,000

PICKUPS & CARS

1984 Ford F250 pickup, 4-speed manual, 2 wheel drive. Tag #Jack0419...... Call 1973 Ford F250 pickup, set up as a fire truck. Tag #Hugh0219................. $6000 1981 Ford F250 2WD pickup with service box. Tag #Ruth0618..................$1500 1996 GMC 3500 pickup with service box. Tag #JackW1218.......................$7500

MOWERS & MISC. HAY TOOLS

New Holland 456 sickle mower with 9-ft. sickle. Tag #Vern0918.................$3500 Kubota out-front mower, 6-ft. deck. Also has rotary broom, hydrostat 4x4, 3 cylinder diesel, 2201 hours. Tag #Leon0419..........................................$12,500

PLOWS

Massey 8-bottom plow. Tag #Hug0419........................................................$3500 John Deere 5-bottom pull-type plow with 16” shears. Tag #DanG1218......$2500 Massey-Ferguson 880 8-bottom moldboard plow in excellent condition. Tag #Hug0916............................................................................................... $6500

SWATHERS & MOWER CONDITIONERS

1980 Hesston 6650 swather with 14-ft. auger header and 21-ft. DSA header with pickup reel, cab and air, 6353 hours. Tag #ArtH0519.........................$13,500 1981 Hesston 6650 swather with 14-ft. auger header with 3044 hours, cab and air. Tag #ArtH0519..............................................................................$11,000 2001 John Deere 4890 windrower with 16-ft double sickle header, 1700 cutting hours. Tag #Harvey0219...................................................................... $42,000 New Holland 910 swather with 14-ft. header, gear drive. Tag #D&B0419...... Call

GRAIN AUGERS

Westgo 1310 10”x60-ft. side delivery auger. #Hugh0219.......................... $2500 Wheatheart drive-over unloading auger, like new. Tag #Riley0219.

Brandt 1060 swing hopper grain auger. Tag #JohnA1118..........................$8500 Versatile 54-ft. PTO grain auger. Tag #Hugh0219........................................ $500 Westfield MK100 10”x61-ft. swing hopper auger. Tag #GaryS0918...........$3900

Financing Available

2WD & 4WD TRACTORS

John Deere 6140 MFD tractor with loader and grapple, only 212 hours on tractor. Tag #Doug0519............................................................................$68,000 Case 4490 4WD tractor, 18.4x38 tires with 1000 PTO. Tag #BillB0219... $12,000 Big Bud HN360 tractor, 855 Cummins engine, 400 hp. Tag #ArtH0519..$45,000 John Deere 8630 4WD tractor with 3300 hours on 50 Series engine, PTO, new air ride seat. Tag #Miles0519.............................................................$13,500 2015 John Deere 6140D MFD tractor with loader and grapple, 2100 hours. Tag #Mike0419..........................................................................................$59,000 1979 John Deere 4840 tractor, 2WD, new engine, new clutch, large 1000 PTO. Tag #Rog0219...................................................................................... $28,000 Case IH Puma 180 FWD tractor with loader and grapple, Tag #Wayne1118........ ...........................................................................................................$80,000 Case 1200A 2WD tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, 1/2 cab, power steering, power drawbar, new 18.4x30 rear tires, 92 hours. Tag #RodB1218.................$7500 1993 Versatile 876 (blue) tractor, 20.8x38 duals, weights, manual transmission, only 2438 hours, tractor is immaculate. Tag #JackW0419........................ Call Case David Brown 990 tractor with loader, 3-point. Tag #Leon0419.

BACKHOES, LOADERS, SKID STEERS GRADERS, CRAWLERS & EXCAVATORS

Bobcat 863 skid steer loader. Tag #Debbie0519........................... Price Coming 2016 New Wacker Neuson WL34 wheel loader. Tag #LarryB0617.

New Holland L220 skid steer loader. Tag #Pack1018.

Lowe 30C trencher. Tag #CarlT0119.............................................................$6500 Kohering C66 bantam excavator, 4005 hours, hydraulic thumb. Tag #ArtH0519.. $15,000 Stihl forklift 8000 lb. capacity, 18,883 hours, propane, side shift. Tag #Leon0419.

John Deere 50 3-pt. backhoe. Tag #Dan1216.............................................$2500 10 John Deere 624K wheel loader. Tag #Brent0718...............................$97,000

COMBINE & HAY HEADERS

2004 MacDon 972 36-ft. header to fit NH TV140 tractor. Tag #DaveT0916 Case IH 1015 pickup header, Sund pickup. Tag #RonD0818......................$6500 Case IH 1015 pickup header with Rake-Up pickup attachment. Tag #Paul0219.. .......................................................................................................... $10,000 New Hollland 16H header with 276 Versatile tractor adapter. Tag #Russ0818.

Victory 12-ft. pickup. Tag #BobC0618...........................................................$600 Case 810 pickup header with Sund pickup attachment. Tag #Hugh0219... $5000 Case 810 pickup header with Rake-Up pickup attachment. Tag #Hugh0219....... ............................................................................................................. $6500

TUB GRINDERS & PROCESSORS

2013 Haybuster T1130 tub grinder. Tag #CodyY0219............................ $28,000 Vermeer BPX 9000 bale processor, round and square bales. Tag #KlintS1118... ...........................................................................................................$24,000

SPRAYERS & SPREADERS

Summers 60-ft. sprayer mounted on pickup. Sprayer has triple nozzles, 8 hp Honda motor. Tag #JackW0419................................................................ Call Flexi-Coil 67XL 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer with wind screens. Tag #Paul0219......................................................................................... $15,000 2007 New Holland SF216 sprayer, 80-ft. booms, windscreens, 1600 gallon tank.

Tag #Dale0319.................................................................................. $15,000

ROUND & SQUARE BALERS

John Deere 567 twine tie round baler, 10,500 bales, new chains and belt drive.

Tag#Harvey0918................................................................................$18,000 2005 Challenger RB 56 round baler, twine wrap, 1000 PTO, only 4400 bales.

Tag #Harvey1018...............................................................................$13,000 Case IH 3450 soft core round baler, makes 900# bales. Tag #JohnP1018...$4500 1992 New Holland 2000 big square baler. Tag #ArtH0519......................$12,000 New Holland 275 small square baler. Makes 14x16 bales. Tag #Ben0619......$2500

HARROWS

1998 Flexi-Coil System 82 60-ft. harrow with straight tines, down pressure springs. Tag #Paul0219..................................................................... $13,000 Riteway 8100 heavy harrow. Tag #Doug0518......................................... $39,500 25 harrow teeth for Morris mounted harrow. Tag #Mrshal0619......................$100

TRAILERS

2019 PJ 18x43 trailer Tag #EquipC0419.....................................................$2450 Eddie Bauer gooseneck trailer with new brakes, new LED lights. Tag #DBK1118.............................................................................................$4800 Donahue 24-ft. trailer. Tag #CarlT1018.

42-ft. drop deck trailer, 25-ton capacity. Tag #Pack1018...........................$12,000 1998 PJ 24-ft. gooseneck trailer, 7500 lb. axles, tie down straps. Tag #Pack0617. ..............................................................................................................$7500 1991 Aljo 21-ft. gooseneck travel trailer, sleeps 6, has refrigerator and sink, air conditioning, sound system. Tag #Mary0918........................................$8500 2000 Trailman 4-horse trailer. Tag #Debbie0519........................... Price Coming Trail King low boy. Tag #Debbie0519............................................ Price Coming

MISCELLANEOUS

12-ft. blade off of Cat 85 track tractor. Tag #Russ0519................................$6500 Calf scales. Tag #TomS0519.

NEW!! Danuser 48” pallet fork for skidsteer loader. Tag #Hug0519..............$980 Farmhand small bale clamp. Tag #D&B0419..............................................$1750 New Holland 1048 2-wide bale wagon, 90 bale capacity. Tag #D&B0419..... Call Summers sprayer for parts. Tag #JackW0419.

Booms for Summers sprayer. Tag #JackW0419.............................................. Call Flex-Coil trailer type post pounder. Tag #BobS1118...........................Just listed Degelman 5178 hylift rock picker. Tag #Doug0518.....................................$9500 John Deere 7 mower, 3-point hitch. Tag #CarlT1018....................................$800 Hutchinson 36-ft. belt conveyor. Tag #Jess0918.....................................$18,000 Country Clipper 48” Zero Turn mower. Tag #DonW1217...........................$3500 1977 M&W 450A grain dryer. Tag #WahlF0618...........................................$7500 Morand squeeae chute, used very little. Tag #Jake0519............................$8000 New pasture harrows. Tag #Hug0519....................................... $179 per section Ezee-On 2130 loader off a Case 2590 tractor. Tag #Don0519....................$3500 Peterson 50-ft. rock roller. Tag #Dan0519................................................$10,000 2000 BoMag 138AD roller. Tag #Debbie0519............................... Price Coming Richardton 1200 silage wagon. Tag #DaveH0519......................................$6000 John Deere 3970 forage harvester. Tag #DaveH0519................................$7500 NEW!! Danuser pallet forks for skid steer. Tag #Hug0419............Preseason Price New!! Tebben 5-ft. 3-point mowers. Tag #Hug0419...................Preseason Price New Tebben 10-ft. 3-point mowers. Tag #Hug0419...................Preseason Price 1989 Ford, 12-ft. van body, 4-speed overdrive, 7169 miles. Tag #D&B0419.. Call 1-ton box off Chevrolet pickup. Tag #D&B0419............................................... Call Jarco lift with 25-ft. bed. Tag #Leon0419..................................................$11,000 Wheatheart Heavy Hitter post pounder. For Sale or Rent. Tag #0616.Call Huggy!!!

New Fair bale processors & snowblowers. See Huggy Bear.

Batch Boy chemical mixer. Tag #BK0117...................................................$4500 Bale elevator with electric motor. Tag#CarlT1018..........................................$500 Dura 100 amp welder. Tag #HowardW0219............................................... $11,500 Utility bucket for skid steer loader, new cutting edge. Tag #Hug0119............$1500 Magic Chef microwave oven. Tag #Terra1018...............................................$250 (39) 4-ft. perforated aeration tubes. Tag #DickS1018...............................$135 ea.

(136) rings for aeration tubes. Tag #DickS1018.........................................$35 ea.

8-ft. 3-pt. snowblower, PTO, Tag #BobC0618...............................................$3500 Bale spear for Furo-Style attachment. Tag #Hug0619...................................$665 2-prong bale spear. Tag #Fey0619.................................................................$600

LAST MONTH’S NEW ITEM

24-ft. portable corral panels. Tag #BCreek0719.............................................$350 DuAl loader off IH 806. Tag #ANF0719......................................................$1950 New PJ trailers for sale. Tag #Wyatt0719.

B&W turnover ball. Tag #BooBoo0719..........................................................$600 John Deere 9500 combine with 930D draper. Tag #Ralph0719...............$72,000 2010 John Deere 9770 STS combine with 971 engine hours and 671 separator hours. Tag #Ralph0719.

John Deere 940D 40-ft. draper header. Tag #RalphJ0719.

John Deere 730 tractor with narrow front. Tag #ANF0719.

2-Allis Chalmers graders. Tag #Jess0719.......................................... $6000 pair Bazooka 8”x35-ft. auger with PTO drive. Tag #LarryB0719..........................$950 Hesston 65SD 21-ft. header, fits 6450 or 6550 swather. Tag #HarryV0719..$4500 New Holland 21-ft. DSA header, fits New Holland 1100 or 1116 swathers. Tag #KemA0719..............................................................................................$4500 New Holland 644 round baler. Tag #Fred0719............................................$5000 3-point bale unroller. Tag #BigSky0719........................................................$1500 24” culvert, 3 sections. Tag #ANF0719.

3-point snowblower for Allis-Chalmers 170. Tag #J&J0719.........................$1900 30-ft. 930 flexheader. Tag #ArtH0719........................................................$11,000 2011 Cat 420 tractor/loader/backhoe. Tag #0719.....................................$75,000 Finn T30 hydroseeder on 2-ton flatbed. Tag #Brent0719.........................$15,000 2010 John Deere 624K wheel loader. Tag #Brent0719...........................$97,000 1986 International 560 loader. Tag #Brent0719......................................$22,000 2011 John Deere 304 loader. Tag #Brent0719........................................$67,000 Snow blower for John Deere 304. Tag #Brent0719......................................$7000 John Deere HH80 hammer. Tag #Brent0719..............................................$9500 2012 John Deere drum roller. Tag #Brent0719...........................................$9000 2012 John Deere 73” sheepsfoot roller. Tag #Brent0719............................$8000 2012 Marv Haugen trencher. Tag #Brent0719............................................$5700 John deere RC78 skid steer mounted mower. Tag #Brent0719.................$5000 2011 Marv Haugen broom. Tag #Brent0719...............................................$4000 2012 Marv Haugen land plane. Tag#Brent0719..........................................$3500 Cat 650H dozer/crawler. Tag#Brent0719..................................................$46,000 1994 Ford LT9000 dump truck. Tag#Brent0719.......................................$36,000 1999 Kenworth W900 truck. Tag #Brent0719..........................................$26,000 1994 Ford LT900W truck. Tag #Brent0719...............................................$22,000 1981 IHC cement truck. Tag #Brent0719.....................................................$3000 1992 Twanco trailer. Tag#Brent0719........................................................$17,500 2012 Cross Country belly dump trailer. Tag#Brent0719..........................$36,000 2013 Cross Country belly dump trailer. Tag#Brent0719..........................$38,000 PJ tilt trailer. Tag#Brent0719........................................................................$6000 2015 Hitachi 50G mini excavator. Tag#Brent0719...................................$79,000 1996 Dodge 2500 fuel pickup. Tag #Brent0719...........................................$5000 New Holland 1112 windrower with 3200 hours. Tag #Marty0719............$15,000 Flexi-Coil 67XL sprayer, 100-ft. booms with John Deere rate controller. Tag #BigSky0719...........................................................................................$5500 Haukaas marker for 45-ft. Flexi-Coil air seeder. Tag #BigSky0719..............$3500 John Deere 785 manure spreader, hydra push. Tag #BigSky0718.............$5500 50 pig panels. Tag #D&B0719...............................................................$12.00 ea.

Several T-posts. Tag #D&B0719..............................................................$3.00 ea.

Hutchison 36-ft. conveyor with power unit. Tag #Jess0719.....................$18,000 1993 Chevrolet Corisca 4-door sedan. Tag #Bob0719................................$950 Case 2388 combine with 40-ft. draper header and 1015 pickup header, 3527 engine hours, 2856 separator hours. Tag #Vince0719..........................$55,000 Hesston 8450 windrower with 14-ft. auger header. Tag #Neal0719.........$25,000 Allis Chalmers 170 2WD tractor, loader, 3-point, 540 PTO.Tag #Neal0519...$7500

Aeration Equipment Available COMBINES

2005 Case 2388 combine with 36-ft. 2042 draper header, 2610 engine hours, and 1899 separator hours. Tag #Paul0219........................................ $65,000 2001 Case IH 2388 combine with bin extensions, yield monitor, Auto Steer, 30-ft.

MacDon draper header, 2130 separator hours. Tag #Hugh0219...... $70,000 John Deere 9650 STS combine with 36-ft. MacDon 962 header, 2400 separator hours. Tag #Gordon0818....................................................................$35,000 2012 John Deere 9770STS combine with JD 940D draper header, 1000 engine hours and 771 separator hours. Tag #Ralph1218............................$255,000 Gleaner L2 combine with 24-ft. header with Crary air reel, 2766 engine hours.

Tag #Richard0918.................................................................................$6000 Gleaner L2 combine with 24-ft. header with Crary air reel, 2092 engine hours.

Tag #Richard0918.................................................................................$6000 New Holland TR 86 combine with 30-ft. header and 13-ft. pickup header with RakeUp pickup attachment, 3650 hours. Tag #Lyle0918.

MM 4292 combine with 16-ft. header. Tag #Joanne1018.

John Deere 6620 combine with John Deere 925 25-ft. header. Tag #Jeff0818.... ..............................................................................................................$7500 2012 Case IH 8230 combine with 2015 pickup header, Mega Cut chopper, 1600 separator hours, extended warranty. Tag #Roger0119.

Massey Ferguson 850 combine, 24-ft. header, air reel. Tag #KenT1116..... $6500

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

TRUCKS

Kenworth W900 semi. Tag #Debbie0519...................................... Price Coming 2006 Freightliner truck with automatic, 20-ft. box, 700 bushel capacity, 300,000 miles, excellent truck. Tag #Kyle0519.................................................$56,000 International 190 fire truck. Tag #JohnR0519.............................................$6000 1987 GMC truck with 427 gas engine, 24-ft. van body.. Tag #D&B0419.

1952 rockpicking truck with 12-ft. box and hoist. Tag #JackW0419................. Call 1970 Ford LN600 truck with 18-ft. box and hoist, ShurLok tarp, 4&2 speed, 83,500 miles. Tag #JackW0419................................................................ Call 1983 International 1724 2-ton truck with 18-ft. flatbed with tailgate hoist. Tag #BrokenP0119..................................................................................... $5500 Ford 900 lineman’s truck. Tag #DaveT0818.

1979 International cab-over grain truck, 20-ft. ITB box, Cummins engine, 452,000 miles, tandem axle, 13 speed transmission. Tag #JohnA0619.............$25,000

BALE MOVERS

New Holland 1068 bale wagon with Mil-Stack loader, makes bale wagon work with medium size square bales. Tag #ChrisF1218.

New Holland 1049 bale wagon. Tag #MarionT1018.

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

Round bale mover, hauls 4 bales. Tag #Scotty0918....................................$4500 3-point round bale retriever. Tag #BigSkyC0617..........................................$1500 New Holland Super 1049 3-wide bale wagon. Tag #BobB0619..............$14,000

AIR SEEDERS & DRILLS

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 50-ft. set of John Deere 9400 drills, 10” spacing, fertilizer boxes, transport hitch, packer wheels are capped. Tag #Wayne0519....................................$25,000 John Deere 10” spacing drill with fertilizer. Tag #JackW0417.

1997 Flexi-Coil 5000 air seeder with 1720 tow behind cart, 7.2” spacing. Tag #Paul0219......................................................................................... $25,000 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 1 set of (3) John Deere 1010 drills, 10” spacing, grain and fertilizer boxes, clean.

Tag #Guy0416......................................................................................... $2500

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Left Hander’s Day 2019

GLEANER COMBINE FOR SALE

1994 Gleaner R62 5769 engine hours, 3960 separator hours comes with 30-ft. Agco 400 header. Lots of recent work and has only cut wheat........................ $20,000 obo Call anytime 406-724-7268 for more information Richland, MT

RYDELLE ENTERPRISES LLC 406-288-3883 80,000 bushel storage at Choteau, MT

Marion L. Jones 406-544-4766, cell

• Sale and erection of Brock grain storage • Sale and erection of grain legs, conveyors, and towers

by Brock • Complete millwright and concrete service • Projects completed in Montana, Idaho and Washington

Selling good quality used production tubing and sucker rods • 3/4”, 7/8”, 1” rods • 23/8” and 27/8” pipe

Very competitive prices

Other sizes available upon request

Delivery Available

Phone Brady at 406-480-2979, Glendive, Montana

For All Your Metal Roofing Needs!

Metal Roofing • Siding • Trim

Pro-Tech Steel is a premier metal roofing, siding, and trim supplier for contractors and do-it-yourself customers.

Here at Pro-Tech Steel, we strive to provide you with the best metal roofing, siding, and trim products available but more than that our goal is to serve you with excellence. Our metal is made to order giving us the ability to meet your every need.

Our facilities in Great Falls and Billings can service a large portion of Montana efficiently.

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Date When Celebrated: Always on August 13th If you are a Leftie, Then Left Handers Day is just for you!

Left Handers, also commonly referred to as Southpaws, are the brunt of more than their share of jokes all year long.

How do I know? Yup, you guessed it! It ain’t easy being a leftie. But those of us who are, would have it no other way.

Lefties are proud of it.

• The world is built for right handers. Examples are everywhere. For example: • In school, have you ever seen a left handed desk? They don’t exist.

• Many left handed items cost more.

• Novelty coffee mugs are made with the picture or text for a right handed pick-up.

• Scissors are for right handers. Only a lefty would understand this.

• The computer mouse you are using as you read this is designed for right handers.

Did you Know? Right handed people operate in the left side of the brain. Left handed people use the right side. Therefore, only left handed people are in their right mind.

Left Hander’s certainly earned the right to have a day dedicated to them. August 13th is that day. Take a minute to appreciate your left handed friends and loved ones. Don’t forget to send them a Left Handed Day Ecard to show your respect.

Remember today and every day: “Lefties have rights!”

As lefthanders, we never do anything right....kewl!

Left Handed Facts and Trivia: • Sinistrophobia is the fear of left-handedness or things on the left side.

• While many people are left handed, very few are 100% left handed. For example, many Left handers golf and bat right handed. On the other hand, there is a high percentage of righties who are 100% right-handed.

• Lefties are also called “southpaws”. The term was coined in baseball to describe a left handed pitcher.

• Tuesdays are Lefties lucky day.

• Only about 10% of the population is left handed.

• During the 1600’s people, thought left handers were witches and warlocks.

• International Left Hander’s Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1976. It was started by Lefthander’s International.

• History is filled with famous lefthanded people, including: Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Baden-Powell, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles.

• Presidential Lefthanders: James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

• Famous notorious left handers include: Osama bin Laden, Boston Strangler, and Jack the Ripper • They say everyone was born right handed, and only the greatest overcome it. (he, he, he) • It is believed that all polar bears are left handed. Also see Polar Bear Day. • Left handed people are more likely to suffer insomnia.

Now, that will keep me up at night!

• There is a rumor that octopuses have but one right hand.

Scientists are diligently studying this issue.

• Left handed people process information more quickly.

• Left handed college graduates have a 26% greater chance of becoming rich. Im all for that!

Think about it: Everyone is a Left Hander in Left Hand, West Virginia.

Lefthander’s Slogan: “Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it”. ...Brilliant Author unknown Origin of Left Hander’s Day Left Handers International created this special day, and first celebrated it on August 13, 1976. ##### The first pregnancy tests on record were in Ancient Egypt.

Women would pee on a field of wheat and barley. If the wheat sprouted, it was going to be a girl. If the barley sprouted, it was going to be a boy. If neither sprouted, the woman wasn’t pregnant. ##### In 1926 Harry Ferguson applied for a patent for a threepoint hitch for hooking implements to tractors.

National Eat Outside Day

Date When Celebrated: Always August 31st Ahh, the last day of August! Summer is almost over, yet you can’t get enough of the great outdoors. The sun is bright and warm, the weather is great. National Eat Outside Day couldn’t come at a better time.

People have been eating outdoors since the days of the caveman. Nowadays, people eat most, if not all, of their meals indoors. Eating outdoors has become more of a special event, than a regular occurrance. National Eat Outdoors Day, is an opportunity to change that, if only for a day.

Celebrating this special day is very easy. Find a picnic table, a park bench, or an outdoor restaurant. You can also spread a blanket out on the lawn. Use one of these special places to eat all of your meals, snacks, popsicles and ice cream, outside in sunshine and fresh air. You will be glad you did!

Did You Know? Sidewalk cafes first appeared in the early 1900’s in Manhattan in New York City.

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THE EQUIPMENT YOU NEED TO RUN YOUR FARM! New Harvest Equipment In Stock Case IH 8240 Combine Case IH 3152 40' Header

New Skidsteer Attachments In Stock Danuser Pallet Forks - 48”, 4000 lb.

Danuser Hydraulic Post Hole Digger & Augers Danuser T3 Hydraulic Post Drivers NEW Grabtec skid steer bucket and grapple Snowblowers, Snow Buckets

Used Harvest Equipment:

2005 2042 35’ draper head ... $32,000 MacDon 960 35’ draper head, CIH adapter ... $10,000 1999 Case IH 2388, 2580eng/2071 Sep Hrs., very nice condition ... Just Traded Case IH 6088, 970 Hrs, duals ... $185,000 Case IH 2042 draper, transport ... Just Traded

CASE IH PUMA 165 Miscellaneous CASE IH MAXIM 125 New

Haybuster 2650 bale processor with hydraulic chute Schulte FX 1200 batwing mower Rem VRX grain vacs

Used Miscellaneous: New Equipment In$9,500 Stock Farmhand 25’ mulcher ...

• Case IH 120A Farmall NewLease Haying Equipment In Stock Returns Available 12, 14 & 16-Wheel H&S High Capacity Wheel Rakes Farmall 120A • Puma 165 (2) ProAg 1400 Hayhiker, 14-Bale Movers Maxxum 125Windrower • Puma 185With • Magnum 310 CVT Case IH WD 1504 16' HDx162 Header

Used Combines

Mowers In Stock 2013 New Case IHGrasshopper 3152 40-ft. with slow speed transport and cross All Available With 52”, 61” or 72” Powerfold Deck auger. . ................................................................ $40,000 623, 727K Fuel Injected, 729 Big Block, 729 Liquid Cooled 2005 Case IH 2042 36-ft., 725D finger reel, good condition.... $26,000 Diesel Are Available All Models 2000 Case 2388Baggers combine with 30-ft.For 1010 header, 3469 engine hours/2636 separator, hopper extensions, Used Mowers In chopper.

StockConsigned..... ...................................................................... $40,000

New Skid Steer Attachments In Stock

Used Tractors In Stock

Case IH LB434 Big Square Baler, 3x4 Bales Case IH RB 565 Round Baler

1997 Case IH 9370 7600 hrs, 12 speed......................

Used Haying Equipment In Stock$49,000 1979 Deere 4840 3 point, PTO........................ $19,500 2002 John Case IH LBX331 Square Baler ................................$29,000 2008Holland Case IH9682 RB564 round 8700duals, bales,weight mesh kit, wrap, wide New 4600 hrs, baler, Trelleborg EZ-steer pickup, endless belts, hydraulic pickup lift, central lube ......$26,500 guidance........................................................... $69,000 2003 1999 1995 1994 1990

CaseIH RBX562, MeshWrap, Like New $24,500 Case IH RS561 .....................................................$12,500 Case IH 8465 .........................................................$8,995 Case IH 8480 Softcore ............................................$6,995 Hesston 560 Round Baler ........................................$5,500

New Seeding, Tillage, Sprayers Case IH Precision Air 100 Pull-Type Sprayer New Tractors In Stock

Case IH Farmall 356B w/loader CaseIH Magnum 315, front & rear duals, lease return

Lease Returns Available This Fall Case IH Farmall 75C, cab & loader

CaseIH Puma 130 •Tillage, CaseIH Maxxum 125 Used Seeding, Sprayers

CaseIH Maxxum • CaseIH Puma 165 2013 Brillion WLS360 30-ft.140 mulcher, very good condition.........

CaseIH Puma 185• CaseIH Magnum 260 ...................................................................... $32,000 In cart..............

Stock Concord 4710Used air drill,Tractors 3400 tow behind $28,000 Case IH Farmall 356B w/loader Brandt SB4000 suspended boom sprayer, 90-ft. booms...

2008 Case IH Steiger 480, 1480 Hrs, Cummins$19,900 engine, Johnradials, Deere 2100 inline ripper................................... $3500 710 like new .................................... $179,000 1979 JD 4840, 3 pt, PTO .............................. $22,500 2009 Case IH Puma 155, MFD, loader ........ Just Traded

2013 2003 2013

Case 60” Rotary Cutter Case 72” Broom Case 72” Hopper Broom Case 72” Snowblower Brandt 5200EX grain vac,Forks 360 hours.................. $11,500 Danuser Palet - 48”, 4000# Danuser Hydraulic Post Hole Digger & Augers Case IH RB562 twine and mesh........................ $22,000 Danuser T3 processor.

Hydraulic Post Drivers Haybuster 2650 bale ....................... $17,000

Miscellaneous Used Equipment

New Skidsteer Loaders Case SV280 Cab, air, heat Case SV300 Cab, air, heat

New Seeding, Tillage, Sprayers

Farmall 40C

Case IH Precision Air 100 Pull-Type Sprayer Case IH 30 Turbo, 25’ w/ rolling baskets Case IH 530C Diskripper, 5 shank Parma 24’ Landplane

Used Seeding, Tillage, Sprayers:

Concord 4710 Drill, 3000 tow behind cart, hydraulic drive ... $30,000 2005 Brandt 2SB4000, suspended boom, 90’, 1500 gal. tank ...$25,000

New 3pt. Equipment In Stock

Farm King Rear Blades, 10' & 12', All Hydraulic Bobcat 7' Rear Blade • Bale Carrier • Gooseneck Hitch Tebben 10' Rotary Cutter

New Haying Equipment In Stock ProAg 1400 bale carrier Twinstar GS3-7 rake Case IH 1504 windrowers

Case IH 1504

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TRACTOR FOR SALE

Active pharmaceutical ingredients can persist CONTINUED FROM PAGE B8

1993 John Deere 3350 MFWD tractor, low hours, 5500 QuadRange transmission. Good tractor.

$27,500

Phone Rod Luinstra, 406-590-5297, Choteau, MT

3.5”-4” x 6.5’ POSTS pointed, full treat $4.25 ea. in bundle lots

$4.00 ea. for 5 or more bundles 100 pieces per bundle

5”-6” x 8’ POSTS pointed, full treated (#2 quality) $7.00 ea. in bundle lots 50 pieces per bundle

Sale prices subject to inventory on hand.

3x12 bridge planks available. New supply just arrived.

E-mail: harold@postyard.com – Web site: www.postyard.com

Bouma Post Yards Lincoln, Montana — 406-362-4222 — 9365 E. Montana Highway 200 Choteau, Montana — 406-466-2140 — 4365 US Highway 89N

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four years. However, acetaminophen, an anti-inflammatory drug, has a half-life shorter than one day. Luckily, so does your morning caffeine. Acetaminophen and caffeine were detected in less than half of the collected water samples.

Overall, the sorption potential and biodegradability of a medicine influences its ability to contaminate groundwater. Gall’s results also show that septic tanks can impact a household’s well water quality. But, the amount of medicines found in the samples suggest minimal risk to human health.

The issue of active pharmaceutical ingredients being present in drinking water sources is unfortunately something we have little control over from a use perspective. We can’t control how much we excrete, and even when our septic tanks are working, it’s clear that some compounds persist in the treated effluent. “We can do our best to be good environmental stewards by bringing expired and unused medicines to take-back locations, and of course, by maintaining septic tanks for many water quality reasons,” says Gall.

For private well owners concerned about their water quality, she recommends getting a water quality test done for primary drinking water standards and ensuring all existing standards are being met. Then, additional treatment technologies that can be adopted on site to help reduce emerging contaminants.

Read more about this research in Journal of Environmental Quality (https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/jeq/ articles/48/4/1057). This research was supported by funding from the PA Sea Grant, Penn State University, and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Federal Appropriations under Project PEN04574 and Accession number 1004448.

International Bacon Day

Date celebrated: the Saturday before Labor Day Bacon Day and International Bacon Day celebrates crispy strips of salted pork...Bacon! This is a day to thoroughly enjoy bacon at every meal. Snack time, too. It is recommend that you enjoy bacon today in social gatherings. So, go ahead, and have a bacon party!!

Suggested Bacon Menu for this Day: Start the day with bacon and eggs. Go ahead, take a couple extra strips.

For lunch, its definitely a BLT or Turkey Club with Bacon sandwich. And, don’t forget a cup of potato and bacon soup.

Dinner can be a wide range of entrees, from a bacon cheeseburger to a bacon wrapped steak or bacon wrapped scallops. Your salad should be topped with bacon bits, as well as your loaded baked potato.

For snack, it’s cheesey bacon dip with crackers.

It appears that Bacon Day in December and International Bacon Day evolved separately.

Today’s Motto: Everything tastes better with bacon!

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 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

Alyson Leach of Liberty County with her 130 lb blue ribbon lamb at the 2019 Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana.

Try these questions about storing fruits and vegetables

By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist, NDSU Extension “This would be a good follow-up article,” my husband said with a grin.

I pondered his suggestion as I grabbed a grocery cart.

A while back, I wrote about a grocery shopping trip I took with our son. I was providing a “kitchen warming” gift for him after he moved into his own place. I stocked his cupboards, refrigerator and freezer with a variety of foods that he chose during our shopping trip.

I was amazed at the healthful choices he made. I should have had him be my guest writer that week, or perhaps our personal chef.

More than a year had passed. Was he still on the right track with eating?

“I mainly need fruits and vegetables,” our son noted as we entered the grocery store recently. My husband glanced in my direction with raised eyebrows. I nodded.

He placed peppers, tomatoes, carrots, raspberries, potatoes, grapes, bananas and mushrooms in the cart.

He had filled the cart with the amount of fruits and vegetables I might buy for a family of four to last for several days.

“Are you sure you are going to eat all the fresh fruits and vegetables before they spoil?” I asked.

“Yes, I’ll eat them, Mom,” he responded as he looked at some avocados. He thought they were a little pricy at this time of the year, so he didn’t add any to the cart.

I was fine with his choices. Fruits and vegetables typically are the food groups most lacking in the American diet. Only about one in 10 adults meets the daily 4 1/2-cup recommendation. All forms of fruits and vegetables, whether fresh, canned, frozen or dried, count toward the total.

Eating more fruits and vegetables can lower our risk for chronic disease, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

They’re naturally low in calories and high in fiber.

Unfortunately, fruits and vegetables also are the foods most commonly wasted by Americans. Our son grew up in

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Flaman Rental & Sales 1-877-528-8467, Lattin & Sons, Power, Montana 1-406-278-3432, Lattin & Sons, Conrad, Montana

We Rent or Sell ALL Equipment!

Give us a call TODAY! • K-Line Speedtiller 30-ft. Multiflex.....$89,000 • Summers 35-ft. vertical till • J&M Grain Carts - Other Equipment For Rent • Grain baggers and extractors - have bags for these • Hay rake • Bale pickers • Grain Vacs • Batco 15-ft. x 45-ft. Belt Conveyor for Pulse Crops • Grain Bag Extractor • K-Line Speed Tillers • Heavy Disk • No-Till Drills • Heavy Harrows & Land Rollers - 50-ft. & 20-ft.

• Meyers 440 Manure Spreader with Vertical Beaters - For SALE • Farm King double arm 14 bale picker. Like new

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NEW New Holland Equipment New Holland Tedders and Rotary Rakes Here Now!

For your small square baler needs, we have new and used models to choose from!

New Holland BC5080 16x18, hydraulic bale tension, hydraulic tongue swing, hydraulic pickup lift................................................ Call for Price

2018 New Holland T6.175 MFWD, Dual Command transmission, 3 remotes Call for Special Price!

New Holland H7220 disc mower conditioner, 9-ft. 2” cut, roller conditioner Call for price

New Holland ProCart rakes, 10, 12, and 14 wheels Call for Special Price!

USED New Holland Equipment

New Holland 560 Round Balers IN STOCK!

Western Montana New Holland 1-406-728-1996 • 1-877-728-1996 Missoula, MT

2014 New Holland LM9.35 telehandler, 7700 lb. lift capacity, 29.8-ft lift....................... $92,000

2014 New Holland T7.250 cab, 2008 hours, PS, MFWD............. ...................................... $85,500

Other Used Equipment Kubota DM1022 3 point disc mower, 7-ft. 2” cut, like new.... . ..................................... $7800 2016 H&S HT8 hay tedder, 8-ft.... . ..................................... $4000

Watch our website for upcoming online auctions!

2016 New Holland L228 skid steer, open cab, mechanical controls, auxiliary hydraulics, 1140 hours.. ...................................... $37,000

2006 New Holland TV145 bidirectional, cab, hydro transmission, 5498 hours.................... $68,000 2016 New Holland Boomer 41 cab, hydrostat, loader, R4 tires, 239 hours..............................$36,000 New Holland 1049 balewagon, no cab....................................$9500 New Holland header frame, fits TV145...............................$2500

We Sell Parts For Ford Tractors and other makes

Western Montana New Holland 1-406-728-1996 • 1-877-728-1996

7719 Thornton Dr. Missoula, MT

Wayne Miller, Manager – 406-369-0348 Find more listings and upcoming auctions at: www.westernmontananewholland.com

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##### In 1894, Deere & Company started manufacturing bicycles for a few years (Deere Roadster and Moline Special). ##### Most of the nutrients are in the skin of the potato. ##### The hottest hot pepper in the world is the California Reaper, at 2,200,000 SHU

FARM MACHINERY FOR SALE Flexi-Coil 5000 39-ft. air drill, 3450 cart, 12” paired row, double shoot, rubber packers............................. $18,000 1999 John Deere 9610 combine, 2807 threshing hours, big topper, 300 bushel, dual tires....................... $35,000 1993 John Deere 9600 combine, 3016 threshing hours, 4241 engine hours, dual tires. Comes with 30-ft. auger header................................................................ $30,000 John Deere 936D draper header........................... $15,000 International 30-ft. pull-type swather, pickup guards. Excellent shape......................................................... $6250 Call 605-580-5886

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MISC. EQUIPMENT

BACKHOES

2013 Cat 272C skidsteer, cab, heat, air conditioning, auxiliary hydraulics, 2 speed. Low hours!.$31,000

2014 Deere 310SK, extend-a-hoe, quick-coupler, forks included, heat, air conditioning, ride control................................ $74,900

EXCAVATORS & PARTS

2016 Case CX210D, auxiliary hydraulics, quick-attach, 2 buckets included. Only 350 hours! Save thousands from new!.. $149,900

Caterpillar V150 forklift, 15,000 lb capacity, 218 inch lift height.

Starts and runs well......$12,900

2009 Case 580 Super M, ride control, extend-a-hoe, cab, heat, air conditioning. Comes with 3-ft. and 2-ft. digging buckets. Very clean machine!............. $43,900

LOADERS

2003 Deere 35C ZTS, auxiliary hydraulics, 75% tracks, good glass and interior....................$24,500 Komatsu excavator buckets, 200 and 300 size.........Call for Price

SCRAPERS 2000 Kohler 50RZG, transfer switch included, low hours!..........$9500

1990 Cat 936, cab, heat, 85% tires, tight pins. Ready for work!......... ..................................... $39,500

CRAWLERS/DOZERS

2007 Deere 210LE skip loader, new front tires, 20-30% rears, 8300 hours. Ready for work!..... ..................................... $26,000 1999 CAT Challenger CH75E, 30% undercarriage, 3-pt., strong motor, 15,000 hours..... $26,900

OCEAN CONTAINERS Steve Swan

Steve’s cell - 406-580-2937

across from Fremont Ford on Big Horn Ave.

TRAILERS

TRACTORS 2014 ABU 3 axle, 30-ft. gooseneck, 21,000 GVW. As new!.......$7000

MOTOR GRADERS

1987 Caterpillar 140G motor grader, cab, heat, ripper, 40% tires remaining. Starts and runs well.... ..................................... $57,900

1995 Cat 627F, new injectors in rear motor, cushioned hitch in good condition, 30-40% rubber.. ....................................$135,000

1967 John Deere 4020, OROPS, 540/1000 PTO, powershift transmission. One owner tractor......... ......................................$10,900

TRADES CONSIDERED

2005 Trailmax TD42-T, tilt deck, steel wheels, 50% tires and brakes remaining...........$21,900

Try these questions about storing fruits and vegetable CONTINUED FROM PAGE B13

a family who tries to avoid wasting food. Throwing away food is like throwing money in the trash.

Try these questions about fresh fruit and vegetable storage: 1. Why should you avoid storing fruits and vegetables, such as apples and broccoli, in the same refrigerator drawer?

2. Where should you store fresh tomatoes?

3. What’s the best way to clean fruits and vegetables?

4. Should you rinse your weekly supply of fruits and vegetables before refrigerating? Why or why not?

5. You check the strawberries you purchased a few days ago and notice they are moldy. Should you cut away the bad parts and use the rest?

6. Why do “baby carrots” sometimes turn whitish?

7. Let’s say you bought a lot of tomatoes, apples, carrots, peppers and other vegetables, and you have an unexpected trip that will take you out of state for many days. What should you do?

Here are the answers: 1. Keep fruits such as apples, pears and plums away from vegetables such as lettuce, carrots and broccoli. Many fruits release ethylene gas naturally. In fruits, ethylene promotes ripening, but it can promote color changes or spoilage in ethylene-sensitive vegetables. However, if you use your fruits and vegetables quickly, you probably won’t have an issue with spoilage.

2. Fresh tomatoes should be stored at room temperature to maintain their flavor and quality. However, cut tomatoes (and any other cut fruit or vegetable) should be covered and kept in the refrigerator for safety. Use within a few days.

3. Use plenty of running water to clean vegetables and fruits. You should use a vegetable brush on fruits with “netted” skin, such as cantaloupe. Do not use soap.

4. For best quality and longest storage life, rinse fruits and vegetables just prior to eating them.

5. Throw away moldy strawberries.

6. Baby carrots may “dry out” and become whitish. They are safe to eat. They will rehydrate in soups and stews.

However, if baby carrots are slimy and soft, do not eat them.

7. You could give your extra fruits and vegetables to a friend, or you could freeze, dry or can them. See https:// www.ag.ndsu.edu/fieldtofork for information about storing and preserving various fruits and vegetables, and growing them, too.

Here’s a recipe and nutrition analysis courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It features a variety of fresh vegetables and is ready in 30 minutes or less. Each serving has 2 cups of vegetables. I think my son had almost all the ingredients for this colorful, tasty recipe.

Chicken Ratatouille 1 Tbsp. oil, such as olive, sunflower or canola 4 medium chicken breast halves, without skin, cut into 1-inch pieces 2 7-inch zucchini, unpeeled and thinly sliced 1 small eggplant, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 1 medium green pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced 1 (16-ounce) can diced tomatoes 1 clove garlic, minced 1 1/2 tsp. dried basil, crushed 1 Tbsp. fresh parsley, minced Black pepper Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet. Add chicken and sauté about three minutes. Add zucchini, eggplant, onion, green pepper and mushrooms. Cook for about 15 minutes. Add tomatoes, garlic, basil, parsley and pepper. Continue to cook for five minutes or until chicken is tender.

Makes four servings. Each serving has 270 calories, 7 grams (g) fat, 32 g protein, 21 g carbohydrate, 8 g fiber and 240 milligrams sodium.

Crazy teacher

2004 Kidron 42-ft. reefer trailer, 2 curbside doors, 3 temp zones, approximately 50% tires and brakes............................$10,900

The teacher noticed that Johnny had been daydreaming for a long time. She decided to get his attention. “Johnny,” she said, “If the world is 25,000 miles around and eggs are sixty cents a dozen, how old am I? “Thirty-four,” Johnny answered unhesitatingly.

The teacher replied “Well, that’s not far from my actual age. Tell me…how did you guess?”

Oh, there’s nothing to it,” Johnny said. “My big sister is seventeen and she’s only half-crazy.”

Three Montana winners of AARP Community Challenge grants

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GRAIN AUGERS ON SALE

Power Motors - George - 799-7459

From AARP Montana NEW WESTFIELD entering the cave. This project will also proRecently, AARP announced the awardees MKX Series Augers vide specialized training for park staff and for its 2019 AARP Community Challenge inform target communities about this new (https://www.aarp.org/livable-communi2 - 73x10 Westfield MKX Low profile hopper adaptive recreation opportunity. Without the ties/about/info-2017/aarp-community-chal2 - 83x10 MKX Westfield. Adjustable axle, low profile structure and training, park and volunteer lenge.html) grant program, including three 3 - 74x13 Westfield MKX series. Low profile hopper guides will have no sheltered location to recipients right here in Montana. A total 94x13 Westfield MKX. Metal backbone, adjustable begin and end the accessible Paradise Room of nearly $1.6 million will be distributed 84x13 Westfield Gulp 2. Drive over hopper tour and visitors would be exposed to a varito fund 159 “quick action” projects across 94x13 Westfield MKX Gulp 2. Drive over hopper ety of inclement weather and environmental the country, helping communities make *** 110-ft. Westfield Conveyor *** weather and environmental conditions. immediate improvements and jumpstart WCX 20110 big conveyor, PTO drive $10,580 – Bozeman: Western Translong-term progress to support residents of portation Institute all ages. Nearly 1,700 applications were USED HARVEST AUGERS Grant funds will be used to continue the received from non-profits and government 74-13 Westfield MKX Series traffic-calming projects implemented by entities across the nation for the program, 71-13 Westfield MK Plus Series Western Transportation Institute and the now in its third year. Each of the projects, 70-13 Brandt Twin Flight hopper City of Bozeman over the past two years. which must be completed by November 4, These projects utilized a Traffic Calming is designed to achieve one or more of the *Large stock of Westfield parts , accessories* Trailer funded by a previous AARP Comfollowing outcomes: munity Challenge Grant. These new funds KRAUSE PARTS ON HAND • Create vibrant public places that will help the City take these projects from improve open spaces, parks and access to temporary to interim by providing more other amenities.

CALL GEORGE ... 799-7459 durable materials such as concrete plant• Demonstrate the tangible value of ers, flexible delineator posts, and pavement “Smart Cities” by engaging residents and POWER MOTORS IN FORT BENTON policymakers in accessing, understanding CONTINUED ON PAGE B18 and using data to increase quality of life for all.

• Deliver a range of transportation and mobility options that increase connectivity, walkability, bikeability, wayfinding, acOPEN OR LEAKING cess to transportation opCART LID tions and roadway improvements.

LEAKING OR BLOCKED • Support the availabilPRODUCT BRIDGING PRIMARY ity of a range of housing IN BIN that increases accessible and affordable housing options.

METER ROLL Here in Montana, grantBUILDUP LEAKING OR BLOCKED ees include: MANIFOLD $1,500 -- Anaconda: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County BLOCKED OPENERS This grant will provide two ADA Accessible picnic tables for the Kennedy Common area in Anaconda.

The Kennedy Common was donated to Anaconda in 1906 by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and a covenant requires it always remain a park. The area is Acoustic sensors instantly detect used for a variety of comblockages or reduced flow. munity activities. This grant Information is wirelessly transmitted to will build on work done by the cab. iPad with easy to use Wireless Blockage App the City of Anaconda in 2018 to replace the circular sidewalk and provide a safe walking area for residents.

Although there are currently park benches available in this area, there are no picnic tables for the public to and use and enjoy. Because the tables will be ADA compliHear the problem. Acoustic sensors function like a stethoscope, resulting in a more durable solution for ant, they will serve residents real seeding conditions. Because the system doesn’t rely on optical or electro-mechanical technology, of all ages and abilities. you’re better protected from the dust, debris and residues that are an accuracy-killing fact of life on the farm. $10,000 – Lewis & Clark Caverns: Montana State See the problem. Using the easy iPad app, get a clear, complete view of your implement’s performance, Parks Foundation whether it’s flow levels or flow variance from manifold to manifold. If there’s a blockage or even a decrease This grant will fund a in flow, you’ll know. shade/weather shelter for the Lewis and Clark Caverns Paradise Room Accessibil“NO false alarms. But when I ity Project which will open had a bad batch of fertilizer it the caving, speleology, and went off right away and we spelunking opportunities Triangle Ag-Services were able to find the problem at the state park to visitors with mobility challenges. easily.” www.triangleag.com 406-622-3887 The shelter is where tour Dave Reid PO Box 1476 : 2705 Front Street participants can gather to reGeraldine, MT Fort Benton, MT 59442 view tour guidelines prior to

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New Holland Equipment

™

New Holland T9 SmartTrax Tractor

New Holland T-9 Series Tractors

New Holland Swathers New Holland Round Balers

New Holland Guardian Sprayer

Zerbe Bros.

New Holland Combines

406-228-4311

Glasgow, Montana

©2016 CNH Industrial America LLC. All rights reserved. New Holland is a trademark registered in the United States and many other countries, owned by or licensed to CNH Industrial N.V., its subsidaries or affiliates.

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... ................................................................. Just In 1975 John Deere 4230 2WD, 100 PTO hp, diesel, Quad transmission, like new rear tires, 540/1000 PTO, no 3 point, John Deere 148 loader, bucket & grapple................................................$16,500

2009 New Holland T7060 MFD, 4550 hours, 540/1000 PTO, 3 point hitch, Powershift, 180 PTO hp, duals, New Holland 860TL loader, bucket & grapple...... ................................................................$75,000

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

2012 New Holland CR8090 1020 separator hours, 42”duals, extended wear, HID lights, new bars and legs, new feeder chain & sprockets, auto steer, DLX chopper, leather seats, air compressor....... .................................................................Just In 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

USED SELF PROPELLED SPRAYERS

2017 Apache AS1220 Plus II 770 hours, 275 hp Cummins, 100-ft. boom, 1200 gallon tank, 380/90R46 duals, deluxe cab, premium seat, AutoBoom, AccuBoom, AutoSteer, Viper 4 monitor with varitarget nozzles, duals................................ Just In 2008 Apache AS1010 1880 hours, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon, Envisio Pro monitor, Auto steer, AutoBoom, 215 hp Cummins diesel. #USAP30.......$110,000

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 2-2013 MacDon FD75 45-ft., trailer package, cross augers, double knives, gauge wheels, flex drapers, Case New Holland adapters.................... Just In 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

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 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. 1200 bales................ JUST IN 1994 Vermeer 605K round baler, 1000 PTO. #UHVM33.................................................. $5500

Call or stop by and see us for all your equipment needs!

Zerbe Bros.

“Setting The Standard”

1-800-228-5393 – 406-228-4311 SALES: Mike Guttenberg - Travis Volk

1950

69 Years

2019

Glasgow, MT

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CONSIGNMENTS

2012 Haybuster 2650 Bale Buster, round bale processor, 14Lx16.1 floats, hydraulic chute.......$12,500

2014 MacDon R85 swing tongue discbine, 16-ft. cut, pull-type, 1000 PTO drive, steel conditioner, 31x13.50-15LT.........................................$16,000

2008 New Holland T7050 MFD tractor, 2600 hours, 165 PTO hp 18.4R42 rear duals, 19x6 powershift, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO’s.............................$72,500

1996 Flexi-Coil 5000 33-ft. air drill with 1720 tow between and 1720 tow behind air carts, 9” spacing, stealth boots, goose shooters, 31/2” steel packers....................................................$29,000 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 2013 Seed Hawk 8412 drill, double shoot, side band openers, w/800 TBT cart, conveyor, section control, Viper control...................................$239,000 2010 Seed Hawk 80-ft. drill, 12” spacing, twin wing openers, double shoot, SBR hitch, Ag-Tron monitor, 30.5x35 tires, dual fans...................$140,000

2015 New Holland 313 discbine, 13-ft. cut, 3 pt. swivel hitch........................................................$33,000 2006 Versatile 2145 MFD, 5800 hours, 145 PTO hp, 540/1000 PTO, 3 point, 42” rear tires, 3895 loader w/bucket & grapple..................................$65,000 2012 New Holland L230 skid steer, 480 hours, 3000 lb. lift, hydraulic coupler, 14x17.5 tires.....$38,000

1992 Case IH 8820 windrower, Cummins diesel, 3358 hours, cab w/air conditioning, 16-ft. hay header, and 21-ft. draper header..........................$14,000

1994 Peterbilt semi, 500 hp Cummins, N14 diesel, 13 speed transmission............................$18,000 2007 Wilson 42-ft. grain trailer, dual axle, spring suspenson, good tires............................$20,000 Melroe 1000 plow, 29-ft. 13-18” bottoms.........$6500 Nutri-Placer 5252 40-ft. liquid fertilizer applicator with carbide points.............................................$6000 2010 Kenze 3600 planter, 16 row, 30” spacing, rubber closer wheels, coulters & row cleaners w/liquid fertilizer 2-160 gallon tanks.....................$61,000

2006 Agco Gleaner R65 3150 engine hours, 2340 separator hours, Sisu water cooled engine, GTA Field Star monitor, 30.5R32 tires, auger extension.........................................................$79,000

2002 John Deere 9650STS combine, 2925 separator hours, 800/65R32 tires, chopper with 936D header....................................................$71,900

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

1996 Wishek 842T disc, 23”, 24-ft., w/3 bar gates harrows...................................................$38,000 2011 Summer DT9530 22-ft. tandem disc with rolling basket.....................................................$35,500 Farmhand CM41 roller harrow........................$7000 Rhino 10-ft. rear blade, 3 pt. mount, hydraulic angle, offset & tilt..................................................$5800 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

2008 Fisher Liberty 240 26-ft. pontoon boat, 60 hp, Big Foot 4 stroke engine, all new lounger style seats.......................................................$14,900

USED SKID STEERS

2013 New Holland L230 401 hours, 3000 lb. lift capacity, 2 speed drive, mechanical controls, cab with heat and air conditioning, suspension seat, hydraulic coupler, 14x17.5 large tires...... $41,000 1981 New Holland 1037 balewagon, 540 PTO drive, 104 bale capacity, 3 wide 7 high, 11Lx15 tires..... ...................................................................$8000 1994 Hesston 4655 inline square baler, 16’x18” chamber, 540 PTO drive, 1/4 turn chute....$8800 1951 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor, 540 PTO with loader.........................................................$2500 1972 Case 1070 2WD tractor, 540 PTO, cab, 18.4-38 rear tires, w/Great Bend loader & grapple.$5000 1992 John Deere 8960 4WD tractor, 370 hp Cummins, 4823 hours, 42” tires @ 90%.........$48,000

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 2013 New Holland T9.670 Smartrax tractor, 1625 hours, Hi Flow hydraulics, PTO, new 36” tracks... ................................................................. Just In

USED PULL TYPE & SUSPENDED BOOM SPRAYERS

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 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 2004 New Holland SF115 134-ft. sprayer, 1500 gallon, 18.4x26 tires, HMIC pump, Flexi-Control Auto Rate, dual nozzles, windscreens.............$12,000 Flexi-Coli S67 XLT 104-ft. wheel boom sprayer..$1500 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

Call or stop by and see us for all your equipment needs!

2015 New Holland CR8.90 combine, 1305 seperator, 517 engine hp, Luxury cab and seat, DSP stone trap, extended wear package, AutoSteer, dual displays, hydraulic fold bin covers, full LED package, duals, Redekopp chopper, reconditioned last year.......................................................$240,000

2000 New Holland TR99 combine, 36-ft., 994 draper header, chopper, 2640 separator hours..$55,000 2018 MacDon FD145 flex draper, 45-ft., transport, cross auger, double knife, finger reel......$99,000 MacDon 972 36-ft. draper header, batt reel, transport, TR New Holland adaptor............................$4700 2009 New Holland 88C flex draper header, 36-ft., upper cross auger, transport, finger reel..$25,000 2000 New Holland 973 30-ft. flex header, finger reel, CR adaptor................................................$9800

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2010 New Holland T7070 MFD tractor, 2800 hours, 195 PTO hp, 480/80R42 duals, 3 pt. hitch, 1000 PTO.........................................................$88,000

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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 AIR DRILLS

2012 New Holland P2060 70-ft. drill, 10” spacing, 41/2” steel wheels, 550 lb. trips, basic blockage with New Holland P1060, 430 bushel tow between, single shoot, dual fan, variable rate fan.............. Just In 2010 New Holland P2060 70-ft., 10” spacing, 550# trips, double shoot, stealth bodies w/goose shooters, 41/2” steel packers, P1060 TBT cart, VR drive, duals, 10” auger. #UDN260.....................$89,000 2005 New Holland SD440 58-ft., 12” spacing, 550# trips, 51/2” rubber packers, 4350 tow between cart, double shoot. #UDNH25.........................$89,000 2005 Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. drill, 12” spacing, 550 lb. trips, 5 1/2”rubber packers, single shoot, dual wing castors, w/2340 TBT air cart, mecanical drive..... ................................................................$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

USED WINDROWERS

Morris Hay Hiker 1400 14 bales • Morris Hay Hiker 900 8 bales

Zerbe Bros.

Glasgow, MT

406-228-4311

Zerbe Bros.

Glasgow, Montana 406-228-4311 TOLL FREE 1-800-228-5393

2012 New Holland H8040 windrower, 1894 hours, deluxe cab, rear axle suspension, 16-ft. header.. ................................................................... CALL

SALES Mike Guttenberg Travis Volk

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HARVEST HELP WANTED

Harvest help wanted on local farm in north central Montana.

R Mid July-October R Late model Case IH equipment R Peterbilt trucks R Excellent wage Call or text Adam 406-390-3048, serious inquiries only

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

• John Deere 2010 with New Farmhand loader, 3-pt., PTO, one remote, chains.

• Cockshutt Model 30 tractor, runs good.

• John Deere 40 crawler with dozer.

• (2) John Deere 10-ft. disks.

• 1979 Chevrolet 3/4-ton, 4x4, with 4-speed running gear.

• Lincoln 140 wire feed welder.

• Pole Climbers gear, excellent shape.

Phone 406-735-4464, call evenings

RAKE FOR SALE

2008 Twin Star 2030 rake, 30-ft., excellent condition, low acres.

Call (307-864-3929) leave message - Thermopolis, WY.

GLASS TRUCKING, INC.

Grain, Liquid, Hay & Livestock Hauling • In business since 1960 • Visit us at www.glasstrucking.com

Denton, MT 406-567-2232 800-325-8859

Three Montana winners of AARP Community Challenge grants CONTINUED FROM PAGE B15

paint to create traffic circles, curb extensions and pedestrian islands that remain in place all year-round for up to several years.

These projects provide the safety improvements of permanent projects at less than one quarter of the cost. Interim projects allow for further adaptation and refinement of designs as the community experiences and evaluates projects before investing in long-term capital projects.

“These grants will enable AnacondaDeer Lodge County, the Montana State Parks Foundation and the Western Transportation Institute to make their communities more livable and enhance the quality of life for the people that they serve,” said AARP Montana State Director Tim Summers. “We are thrilled to provide funds to these community partners, who provide tremendous service to Montanans every day.”

The full list of grantees can be found at www.aarp.org/communitychallenge.

“AARP has teams on the ground in communities across the country who hear from mayors, community leaders and local residents about the value of getting quick

The Dutch uncle

A man was taking his wife, who was pregnant with twins, to the hospital when his car went out of control and crashed. Upon regaining consciousness, he saw his brother, a relentless worldclass practical joker, sitting at his bed side.

He asked his brother how his wife was and his brother replied, “Don’t worry, everybody is fine and you have a son and a daughter. But the hospital was in a real hurry to get the birth certificates filed and since both you and your wife were unconscious, I named them for you.

The husband was thinking to himself, “Oh no, what has he done now?” and said with trepidation, “Well what did you name them?”

The brother replied, “I named the little girl Denise.”

The husband, relieved said, “That’s a very pretty name! What did you come up with for my son?”

The brother replied, “Denephew.” ##### Sheep can’t right themselves if they’re on their back. ##### Every day, around 18 acres of pizza are eaten in America. ##### Sheep have an excellent sense of smell, and have scent glands both in front of their eyes and on their feet.

These glands are used in reproduction and in marking territory.

wins to create long-term change. We developed the Community Challenge grant program to answer that call and help build momentum for more livable communities nationwide,” said Nancy LeaMond, AARP Executive Vice President, Community, State and National Affairs. “This year, we are proud to fund more projects in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.”

The Community Challenge grant program is part of AARP’s nationwide Livable Communities (https://www.aarp. org/livable-communities/?cmp=RDRCTLIVABL_SEPT09_012) initiative which helps communities become great places to live for residents of all ages. As part of this, AARP staff and volunteers are working across the country, engaging and mobilizing residents, delivering technical assistance and expertise to local leaders and organizations, and supporting the work of the 381 communities and four states that have enrolled in the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities (https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/network-age-friendly-communities/).

##### Khorasan grain is a wheat variety that was brought to the US as a souvenir from an Egyptian tomb - it was sold as ‘King Tut’s Wheat’. Now known as kamut, an ancient Egyptian word for wheat, this rich, buttery-tasting wheat is certified organic.

USED TANKS FOR SALE

8-ft. diameter x 28-ft. long......................................... $2350 8-ft. diameter x 18-ft. long......................................... $1550 Purchase both tanks for............................................ $3500 Both tanks are in good condition, 1/4” wall thickness Prices do not include delivery, but delivery available upon request Call Chris at 406-490-4418, located in Butte, Montana

Equipment for Sale CAT 950 Loader with quick attach bucket & 8’ forks

$18,900

Komatsu 200 excavator

$16,000

Warner Swasey Forklift 22’ high, 6000# lift (towable)

$ 4,500

International (gas) 10 wheeler 2000 gal vacuum truck

$ 6,500

Champ Forklift 8000# lift (towable)

$ 5,500

Call or text Ron

(406) 220-3474

Harlowton, MT

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2009 Terra Gator 8204, Cat, Airmax Precision, 5415 2014 RoGator 1300, 3220 hours. Very clean...... $69,000 hours, with new leader bed.... ................................ $107,000

2010 Case IH Titan 4020 Cummins, automatic, 1800 gallon, 85-ft. boom, defco pump, Envizio Pro, 3753 hours......................... $88,000

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2004 KBH 25-ton semi tender with back auger, self-contained......................... $32,500 Waconia 8-ton vertical blender $18,500

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2012 RoGator RG 1300, 1300 gallon, SS liquid system, 120ft. boom, Raven ViperPro, 2200 hours.............. $133,000

2005 Peterbilt Stahly Cummins, Allison automatic, New Leader L3020 G4, monitor, 2000 Loral AT530 automatic, New Leader controller, StarAir Max 5..................$29,000 link GPS, 4145 hours.$78,000

1999 Felling trailer, spread axle with 24-ton Willmar side shooter, ShurLok tarp.$37,500

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2013 Willmar Wrangler 4565, 1800 hours................ $29,500 2010 Willmar Wrangler 4550. .................................. $24,000

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A large crowd attended the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the APR” fundraising event in Winifred, MT on Saturday, August 3. The goal of the event was to raise funds to fight the land takeover of Norh Central Montana by the American Prairie Reserve, which threatens the livelihood of those in production agriculture and future generations. Local musicians entertained the many attendees who also enjoyed a BBQ, Corn Hole tournament, live and silent auction, and multiple raffles and drawings.

Cole Waldusky of Pondera County with his 145 lb blue ribbon lamb at the 2019 Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana.

Common horse vaccines

Horses are routinely vaccinated for the prevention of the following diseases: Rabies–An infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system.

Tetanus–A paralytic disease caused by bacterium from the soil or feces that enters wounds.

Equine Viral Encephalomyelitis–Transmitted by mosquitoes, the contagious disease caused brain and spinal cord inflammation. There is a wester strain (W.E.E), an eastern strain (E.E.E.), and a Venezuelan strain (V.E.E.).

Influenza–A contagious viral disease affecting the upper respiratory tract.

Strangles–A contagious bacterial disease that affects the upper respiratory tract and causes abscesses in lymph nodes (especially in the throat area).

West Nile Virus–Mosquitoes transmit this disease to horses, humans, birds, and other mammals, often causing swelling of the brain and paralysis.

Potomac Horse Fever–A summer disease caused by a rickettsia organism that can result in a high fever, extreme diarrhea and severe founder.

Rhinopneumonitis–A viral disease that affects the respiratory and circulatory systems, often leading to abortion in pregnant mares.

What a suck up

A cribber is a horse that has the odd habit of pushing down its upper teeth on an object, such as the edge of a feed tub or board and sucking in air.

This sucking in of air is thought to have a euphoric effect on the horse and is believed to be initiated by boredom.

Cribbing collars can be placed on the horse’s neck to prevent the horse from widely opening the airway. However, the habit is extremely hard to break.

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Cade Hanson of Toole County with his 1105 lb steer at the Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana. BTI Feeds purchased Cade’s steer.

When do cover crops pay?

From Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education question. It explores seven common manFarmers around the country are planting agement situations for commodity farmers cover crops on millions of acres to protect that can affect how quickly they receive and improve the soil, and the more that a positive net return from cover crops. In farmers use cover crops, the more they reviewing national survey data and informavalue this conservation practice. Cover tion from other studies and farmers experiCrop Economics (https://www.sare.org/ ences, the publication describes a number Learning-Center/Bulletins/Cover-Cropof situations in which cover crops may Economics), a new report published by the increase profitability within a year or two.

USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research Prime examples of fast returns include and Education (SARE) program, looks at when drought occurs when herbicide-resisthe economics of cover crops to help farmtant weeds are a challenge, or when cover ers answer that big question: “When do crops are grazed. Other management situcover crops pay?” ations which can speed up positive returns The key, says North Dakota farmer Jusfrom cover crops include when a farmer is tin Zahradka, who has been planting cover dealing with compacted soils or is transicrops since 2011, is to “look at cover crops tioning to no-till, or when cover crops are as an investment rather than a cost.” contributing to a commodity crop’s nutrient Based primarily on yield and economic needs. Also, receiving federal or state incendata gathered through five years of national tive payments while transitioning to cover cover crop surveys, Cover Crop Economcrop use can make a major contribution to ics: Opportunities to Improve Your Bottom a quick economic return.

Line in Row Crops addresses the kinds of Some key findings from the report ineconomic returns that can be expected from clude (see the full report for details on the cover crops, both under various managecalculations and assumptions underlying ment scenarios and as cover crops improve these conclusions): soil health over time. The report is timely, • When herbicide-resistant weeds are as the latest Census of Agriculture revealed a significant problem, cover crops can be that national cover crop acreage increased profitable in the first year of use by 50% from 2012 to 2017. It’s also timely • When cover crops are grazed, they can due to the interest in cover crops for plantprovide a profit in the first year of use if ing on fields that were flooded or otherwise fencing and water are already available unplanted (prevent plant situations) this • When soil compaction occurs, cover spring, in order to suppress weeds while crops can provide a profit by the second protecting and improving the soil. The year of use report finds that planting a cover crop as a The findings in Cover Crop Economlivestock grazing opportunity is one of the ics: Opportunities to Improve Your Bottom fastest avenues to profitability.

Line in Row Crops are based on an analy“The five years of national cover crop sis of five years of data from the National surveys showed us that cover crops do Cover Crop Survey (https://www.sare.org/ improve commodity yields over time as Learning-Center/Topic-Rooms/Coverfarmers gain experience with cover crops Crops/Cover-Crop-Surveys), conducted by and the soil is improved,” says lead author the Conservation Technology Information Rob Myers, of the University of Missouri Center (CTIC) and SARE in the 2012-2016 and North Central SARE. “We saw this patgrowing seasons. This survey provides the tern in all five years of the survey for both largest multi-year data set on cover crop corn and soybeans.” yield response that has ever been assembled, Because there is no one-size-fits-all anaccording to Myers, with about 500 farmswer to when cover crops start paying for ers providing yield data in most years of themselves, Cover Crop Economics: Opthe survey. portunities to Improve Your Bottom Line in Row Crops takes a holistic look at the CONTINUED ON PAGE C3

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Organizers share information with attendees of the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the APR” fundraising event in Winifred, MT on Saturday, August 3.

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In 2015 and 2016, the survey captured more detailed data on yield response in a given field based on the number of years cover crops had been planted in it. In those years, average corn and soybean yield increases in response to covers were: • After one year of cover crop use, corn yields increased 0.5% and soybean yields 2.1% • After three years of cover crops, corn yields increased 1.8% and soybeans yields 3.5% • After five years of cover crops, corn yields increased 3% and soybean yields 5% In the drought year of 2012, there was a significantly bigger yield boost from cover cropping on the majority of farms responding to the survey. Corn yields increased by

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6% and soybeans by 11.4% after one year of cover crop use due to impacts on rainfall infiltration, reduced soil evaporation from cover crop residue, changes to soil biology such as increased mycorrhizal fungi, and potentially deeper rooting of cash crops.”

Other smaller studies on yield response to cover crops have found a variety of results, some showing modest yield increases and some showing no yield response. “I think yield response to covers depends on how the farmer or researcher manages the cover crop and the soil types they have, but clearly there have been a range of yield impacts reported,” says Myers. “As with other crop management practices, it takes planning to get the best results, and mistakes can lead

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Brandon Froslie of Conrad braces his lamb in preparation for judging at the Marias Fair held in Shelby, MT.

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When do cover crops pay?

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to a yield loss, particularly if cereal rye is used before corn without adjustments to fertilizer practices or without appropriate termination timing.”

For this report, the authors used $25 per acre as the cost of cover crop seed and $12 per acre as the cost of seeding (when hired), for a total of $37 per acre to establish cover crops. These figures are based on median data from the surveys.

Experienced cover crop users often find ways to use them for less. One large Iowa

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farmer grows his own cereal rye seed and plants a bushel of rye per acre as a cover, according to Myers. He finds his cost for seed is $9 per acre and his cost of seeding is $5 per acre by using a high capacity fertilizer spreader to broadcast the rye seed, making a total of $14 per acre for seed and seeding. Others may keep the cost of seeding to a minimum by seeding cover crops with a vertical tillage tool they would be operating in any case. Some farmers have CONTINUED ON PAGE C5

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termination costs for cover crops, but many do not, as they are already applying a spring burn down herbicide.

Alan Weber, an ag economist who has used cover crops on his own farm and who co-authored Cover Crop Economics: Opportunities to Improve Your Bottom Line in Row Crops, says, “One of our key takeaways from the review we did of data and farmer approaches is that when farmers start to adopt cover crops, they frequently start to determine other ways to make their cropping system more economically efficient, finding they can save costs in certain areas such as fertility or weed control. For some farmers those cost savings from cover crops can be significant, particularly in certain situations with herbicide-resistant weeds.

In other cases, those cost savings will be more minor, but the input savings generally increase over time. Some aspects of soil health respond quickly to cover crops, such as more earthworms and mycorrhiza, while other soil changes take longer.”

In the longer term, as aggregate soil structure starts to improve, cover crops in combination with no-till can allow farmers to get into the field a little earlier for planting or harvest in wet years, which can be another way that cover crops provide a positive economic impact. Several years of

cover crop use can gradually start to improve soil organic matter, which can improve soil water-holding capacity and help improve the inherent fertility of the soil.

As a bottom line, Myers says, “Thousands of farmers are finding the profitability benefits of cover crops on their farm do improve over time. Depending on circumstances specific to each field and farm, cover crops may provide a relatively quick profit, such as from grazing, or may take 2-3 years to provide a return. It’s not unlike how applying ag lime can take 2-3 years to pay or buying a new piece of equipment can take a few years to cash flow. However, if producers use cover crops to address problems specific to their farm, such as weeds, fertility, erosion, or compaction, they can quickly gain cost efficiencies with their commodity cash crops.

The cover crops also provide a management tool to make soils more resilient to excessively dry or wet weather while building towards long-term improvements in profit.”

Download or order your free print copy of Cover Crop Economics: Opportunities to Improve Your Bottom Line in Row Crops at www.sare.org/cover-crop-economics or by calling (301) 779-1007. Cover Crop Economics is available in quantity for free to educators for use in educational workshops, classes or tours.

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Bees required to create an excellent blueberry crop

By Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service Getting an excellent rabbiteye blueberry harvest requires helpful pollinators—particularly native southeastern blueberry bees—although growers can bring in managed honey bees to do the job, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

This is especially true for commercial rabbiteye blueberry producers in Mississippi and Louisiana. With sufficient pollinators, they have been able to increase the percentage of flowers setting fruit from 10-30 percent to 70 percent or more. A mature rabbiteye blueberry bush can produce as much as 15 pounds of berries.

Fully pollinated berries also are bigger and mature earlier than fruit from inadequately pollinated flowers. So, beepollinated flowers produce fruit that bring a premium in the marketplace.

“We looked at multiple species of bees to see which did the best job of pollinating rabbiteye blueberries. We tested managed honey bees, native bumble bee species, southeastern blueberry bees and carpenter bees,” explained research entomologist Robert Danka with the ARS Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who co-led the study.

Of these bees, only the southeastern blueberry bee and the honey bee significantly increased fruit set, according to Danka “And the native southeastern blueberry bee did the best job,” he said.

But the only way for commercial growers to have enough southeastern blueberry bees to provide a superior level of pollination is to provide habitat on the edges of their fields that encourages their population to grow.

“What commercial growers can do is provide woodlands near the edges of their fields because that’s where southeastern blueberry bees prefer to nest. They are ground-dwelling bees that like shade and leaf litter but don’t like wet or soil heavy with organic material,” explained research entomologist Blair Sampson with the ARS Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory in Poplarville, Mississippi.

A small grower with 1-3 acres of blueberries can probably get by solely with the pollination of native bees, especially if they have encouraged them with attractive habitat. But a grower with fields of 25 acres and more should probably consider supplementing by bringing in honey bee colonies, Sampson pointed out.

Complicating the matter is that some southeastern blueberry bees’ population vary greatly from year to year, depending on rain and other weather conditions while other populations were reliably present every year in the study.

“A farmer who sees that during the first few days of bloom they are not getting prolific visits from the native bees should probably arrange to bring in some honey bee colonies. But even that may not guarantee ample pollination, because there is no way to be sure honey bees will stay on blueberries if there is something else in bloom that is more attractive to them,” Sampson added. “After all, rabbiteye blueberries are native North American bushes and honey bees are not natives so there was no co-evolved adaptation between these species.”

Managing the ups and downs of coffee production

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Sidewalk stencil project encouraging kids to get outside and play

By University of Wyoming Extension part of the Centers for Disease Control and Stencils painted on the Bear River GrePreventions’ State Public Health Actions enway in Evanston are the latest painted at grant. CNP agreed to house the stencils in sites around Wyoming encouraging kids to UW Extension offices around the state when get outside and play. the grant ended.

Games like hopscotch and Simon says Bear River Greenway is the seventh have been set aside as kids have become less stencil site in Wyoming. The greenway active. The Cent$ible Nutrition Program stencils are unique because they are in a (CNP), part of the University of Wyoming park setting. The stencils have been painted (UW) Extension, and its community partat schools and daycares in other Wyoming ners state they are trying to change this by communities. painting game stencils on sidewalks and The idea to paint them at the greenway, a playgrounds. public space, came from Uinta County CNP Spray and Play, an event coordinated by educator Beth Barker.

CNP and the Evanston Parks and Recreation “I just had this thought that we have this District (EPRD), celebrated the last day really nice greenway and there are activof school for Evanston students and their ity stations for adults along the path,” said families. The families had a lunch, followed Barker. “And, I thought it’d be great to have by painting sidewalk stencils at the Bear activities for kids to do while their parents River Greenway. are doing the adult activities.”

The greenway follows the Bear River Through community contacts and some through Evanston, providing over 2 miles perfect timing, Barker connected with the of paved trails. The new Health Trail Fitboard of the Better Environment and River ness Course is at the main entry. The course (BEAR) Project Inc. Barker and Kim Profincludes 14 fitness stations for adults. While fit, the Uinta County Public Health Nurse the trail and fitness course encourage adults manager, presented the stencil idea to the to be active, there are no kid-specific activiboard March 20. The project was approved ties. shortly afterward.

“There are a number of people who ac“The thing that really grabbed (the BEAR cess this (area) daily, and we’ve got some board) is getting kids outside,” said Jackson, new exercise equipment,” said Marilee a 20-year BEAR Board member. “We’re Jackson, business manager for Evanston finding, especially my generation, that Parks and Recreation. “But we don’t have nobody knows what hopscotch is, nobody a lot for kids because we never put a playknows what jacks are.” ground over here and we probably won’t.

Cody Webb of the Evanston Police DeBut, with that said, stuff on the sidewalk partment talked a little during the lunch would be great!” before the event about using public spaces.

Six sets of stencils were purchased by the Wyoming Department of Health as CONTINUED ON PAGE C9

Ty Backen of Liberty County with his 253 lb swine at the 2019 Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana.

Horses and electricity

Keep all extension cords and outlets away from horses.

They love to chew on cords or play with them.

Electric fencing can be a good choice for pastures and large turn-out areas. Many products are available in the form of highly visible fencing strands containing electric elements. Such fencing cannot be chewed or rubbed on and the horses cannot get their feet or shoes stuck on the fence, as is possible with wire-mesh fencing.

Controversial electric shock collars, which are similar to those used on dogs, are now on the market for disciplining horses for certain poor behaviors, such as kicking the stall walls. If considering such an extreme device, consult a professional trainer who knows how to implement the procedure properly.

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He explained when painting the sidewalks is OK and when it is not OK. The EPRD is hoping that by getting kids involved in the process, they will have some ownership of the stencils. EPRD is also hoping this ownership will help prevent destruction of the stencils. This is one of the biggest concerns for this project because the greenway is tucked away from town, said Jackson.

Nicholas Winn, a custodian at the Evanston Recreation Center and an artist, demonstrated how to paint the stencils using spray paint before everyone divided into groups. Over the course of two hours, thirteen stencils were painted along a portion of the fitness path.

With everyone gathered on the sidewalk bordering the parking lot, Barker and Jackson pulled out the huge stencil boxes from the truck bed. Kids start pulling on plastic gloves and masks. Nicholas Winn, a custodian at the Evanston Recreation Center and an artist, shook a can of spray paint. It was time.

Hopscotch was the first stencil. Winn offered a few tips on how to use spray paint on the stencils and demonstrated the constant movement and proper distance for even coloring. Barker showed how to use extra cardboard to cover parts of the stencil. Armed with information and cans of paint, the group applied the stencils along the course.

“The idea is to just go outside and play. It doesn’t have to be this big, organized, structured thing,” Jackson said of kids being active.

The stencils hardly dried before kids start playing hopscotch, their parents showing them how. Mirror Me drew a crowd as groups of kids tried the new game.

Jackson noted that, while nothing is set, EPRD is eager to paint more stencils after seeing how this initial set works.

“We’re excited,” Jackson said. “We just threw this together kind of last minute. We thought, ‘Let’s feed them and then get them here, then go see what we can do.’”

Barker and Jackson plan to post signs next to the stencils with instructions on how to play the games.

CNP is funded by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). This stencil project was funded by SNAP-Ed. CNP provides nutrition education to individuals and families with limited resources. CNP also partners with community organizations serving populations with limited resources to help make the healthy choice the easy choice for everyone, according to the program information. Visit www.uwyo.edu/cnp to find out more.

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Test effect of high nighttime temperatures on wheat

By K-State Research and Extension News shut down overnight.”

Can a small circuit board, barely the size The heated tents are kept at a temperaof a credit card, help the world’s wheat to beat the heat? ture 4 degrees Celsius above the outdoor Kansas State University researchers temperature. Six sensors inside each tent think so, and they say that they’ve built the are strategically located to make sure the world’s first facility to help them prove it. temperature is held uniformly across the In a lush field north of the university’s 320 wheat cultivars.

Manhattan campus, the scientists are testing “The Pi (computer) operates like a thermore than 300 wheat cultivars under heatmostat in your house,” Hein said. “Once the controlled tents to show that high nighttime temperature drops too low, it flips the relay temperatures are robbing the nation’s wheat and turns the heater on. When the tent’s growers of both the quantity and quality of temperature is 4 degrees Celsius above the their crop. outside temperature, then the Pi shuts the “A small computer, called a Raspberry heaters down.”

Pi, is used to monitor temperature and adJagadish said that causing stress unijust conditions inside the tents so that the formly to the cultivars in a common setting researchers can determine the cultivars that provides valuable clues to which ones will are less – and more – susceptible to high perform better in actual field conditions. temperatures,” said Dan Wagner, a gradu“We may find that specific lines coming from a region are more susceptible to heat, ate student in computer science who built and that the quality of the wheat gets even the system. worse as nighttime temperatures increase,” “This is not just the wheat grown in he said.

Kansas,” said crop physiologist Krishna JaThe researchers have been studying the gadish, an associate professor of agronomy. effect of nighttime temperatures for more “These lines represent the entire U.S. hard than a year, first in a smaller pilot project red winter wheat collection.” and now in a more expanded, fully opJagadish walks among eight sections of wheat, each split into 40 rows containing erational facility. Jagadish said it’s clear one wheat cultivar. It adds up to 320 wheat that high nighttime temperatures cause a cultivars, many of the hard red winter wheat deterioration in the wheat crop; the key is or their offshoots that are grown somewhere to minimize the damage. in the country.

“When exposed to high nighttime temThe researchers have built six such tents, peratures during grain filling, the grain each growing the same 320 cultivars but weight, yield and starch content goes down, held under different environmental condiand the protein content increases,” Jagadish said. tions. There is no facility like this in the “That changes the dynamics of what world, Jagadish said, noting that the project is required for maintaining the quality of will provide researchers with precious data bread, including the elasticity, and qualities to help them generate newer wheat varieties like that. High level of protein with increaswith tolerance to heat.

“We will be harvesting each of the culing nighttime temperature will make the bread crusty, which means that you may not tivars through the end of June,” said Raju get the loaf of bread as you really like it.”

Bheemanahalli, a post-doctoral fellow in Research has beer implications too K-State’s Department of Agronomy. “Then Jagadish said that much of Kansas State’s we will analyze the size and number of work in the past has been directed toward grains, protein content and more. From that, ensuring quality bread wheat, but his team’s we will identify the genomic regions that current study also has some implications will help in developing markers controlling for another growing industry – craft beer. heat tolerance.”

Brewers prefer grains that are plump, but Eventually, he said, those markers can high nighttime temperatures tend to shrink be used by wheat breeders to develop the size of the grain. Jagadish said there are varieties that yield well even under more indications that smaller wheat grains will intense heat. not only affect the quantity of beer but also Regardless of where it’s grown, all wheat the quality. is susceptible to heat, and researchers now In addition, the concept of using tents believe that high nighttime temperatures to test heat stress on wheat can be applied can be equally damaging as high daytime to other farm crops, notably corn and sortemperatures.

Controlling the test environment ghum. “This facility can be used for any The tents that K-State has built are decrop,” Jagadish said. “That’s how it’s built.”

K-State’s work is funded for two more signed to expose wheat to typical field conyears by the National Science Foundaditions while comparing it closely to wheat grown under more controlled conditions. tion through its Established Program to “We have three control tents in which Stimulate Competitive Research program, we don’t roll the side walls and end walls known as EPSCoR. K-State is working on down so that we let fresh air in,” said Nathe study in partnership with the University of Nebraska and Arkansas State University, than Hein, an assistant scientist in K-State’s which currently is looking to build its own Department of Agronomy. “And then we heat tents. have three heated tents that we completely

Manes and forelocks

The forelock is the portion of the mane that grows between the ears and over the face.

Forelocks and manes aid in protection from flies and insects and can be tossed like a fly swatter.

Not all horses can grow a long, luxurious mane and tail. Just like humans, you either have great hair genes or you do not.

Some horses grow manes that pass the shoulders and knees, and tails that drag on

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When loved horses die, some owners cut off the horse’s forelock to keep as a memento.

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Fits various models.................$2500 Wagner loader for Ford 8N, 9N, and NAA. Complete with front pump & mounts....................................$1500 White Cab to fit Oliver 55 Series tractor ..................................MAKE OFFER Running gear................................$1000 Massey Ferguson 302 loader/backhoe. ................................................$5500 Shaver HD8 front mount post driver....... ................................................$1295 Heavy duty post hole auger, 3-pt....$995 NEW SPEECO POST HOLE AUGERS IN STOCK

MISCELLANEOUS ATTACHMENTS

New Front Mount QA bale spears for skid steer loader mount..... $1011

Good Selection Of Spike Tooth Harrows Starting At $150.00 Tarter Equipment 6-ft. rotary mower...................$1545 5-ft. rotary mower...................$1350 4-ft. rotary mower...................$1250 7-ft. heavy duty disk plow.......$1500 6-ft. heavy duty disk plow.......$1000 3-ft. 1 bottom plow....................$695 7-ft. rock rakes, 3-point............$600 (3) 6-ft. rock rakes, 3-point.......$575 7-ft. back blade.........................$475 6-ft. back blade.........................$425 Super Spear quick attach bale spear..................................$499

New Red Devil

6-ft. snow blower with QA skid steer mount.

In Stock $6250

Helfert’s Helena Farm Supply

MILLER LOADERS

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By Dennis O’Brien, Agricultural Research Service When the sample of semen from the Duroc boar—a breed of domestic pig—arrived in Fort Collins, Colorado this spring, it went largely unnoticed. But the scientists and staff at the Agricultural Research Service’s National Animal Germplasm Collection knew they had reached a milestone.

The boar semen was the one millionth sample of animal germplasm to arrive at the facility, which began operating in 1999. “It was a pretty big moment for us,” says geneticist Harvey Blackburn, who leads the ARS National Animal Germplasm Program, based in Fort Collins.

The ARS collection is the largest of its kind in the world and it’s designed to ensure that there is enough genetic diversity available for breeders to meet the changing needs of the farmers and ranchers who provide much of our food supply. Only with such a diverse collection of genetic stock, available for breeding, can farmers and ranchers address the potential threats posed by emerging diseases, invasive pests, illnesses and fertility problems. Producers and breeders also need to be able to respond to changing consumer demands.

The collection is made up of samples of sperm, embryos, and tissues (e.g., ovaries and blood) of 167 breeds (36 species) of domesticated animals, such as cattle, pigs, chickens and sheep, along with farmed aquatic species, such as catfish, trout, salmon, and oysters. It also includes less common domesticated species like bison, elk, and even yaks. The million samples have been sent to Fort Collins voluntarily over the years by approximately 3,500 animal breeders, universities and in some cases, private companies that market genetic resources for cattle, swine, poultry, and trout, Blackburn said. Most of the cattle semen samples come cryogenically preserved. Semen from pigs, rams, goats, and fish often arrives fresh and is packaged and cryopreserved at the laboratory.

Why build such a collection? It’s a valuable tool for exploring animal genomes and, when appropriate, it’s used to reintroduce livestock and aquatic species into living populations, Blackburn said. It’s also less expensive to store animal germplasm than to maintain live populations. The samples of semen and embryos, some of which predate the collection, have been stored in liquid nitrogen since the 1950s, at minus 300° F, a temperature cold enough to stop all biological processes, essentially putting them in “suspended animation,” Blackburn added.

Research scientists say the collection is vital to their work.

“Our project would not have been possible without the collection,” said Chad Dechow, an associate professor of dairy cattle genetics at Penn State University. He used the collection to produce Holstein offspring from 1950 era bulls with genetic variability no longer found in the living populations.

Holsteins are critical to the nation’s dairy industry, but breeding for specific traits, such as milk production, that began in earnest in the 1950s have limited the breed’s genetic diversity, which makes it difficult to address more recent problems, such as infertility. Breeding Holsteins with DNA from older lines, that were stored in the collection, should replenish the genetic diversity of Holsteins and give breeders better genetic tools to address modern day challenges, Dechow said.

“When we started artificially inseminating cattle in the 1950s and 60s, certain traits didn’t appear to be valuable, but our selection goals will always change with time. The collection ensures that we have the genetic resources we need to meet those goals,” he said.

Blackburn estimates that he and his colleagues have sent out about 6,000 samples to scientists, researchers and breeders in the past 10 years. Along with Dechow’s Holstein project, scientists have used samples in a variety of efforts, including studying the meat quality in pigs and addressing a lethal genetic mutation that can cripple and kill Angus beef cattle.

There are 128 animal gene banks in the world, but the USDA collection is by far the largest, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Collections kept by the Dutch and French are the next closest in size, with each of them having about half a million animal germplasm samples.

“It’s a comprehensive resource and it provides a critical backup for the nation’s food security,” Blackburn added. ##### There are about 8 million teachers in the U.S. Add in parents, school staff, and retailers, and it’s hard to find someone not impacted by the Back to School exodus every year.

Watermelon rootstock knocks out disease and pests

By Sandra Avant, Agricultural Research Service A new watermelon line, developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Clemson University scientists, gets to the root of the problem of a major disease and pest of watermelon crops in the southern United States.

Carolina Strongback is a rootstock watermelon that is resistant to Fusarium wilt and the southern root-knot nematode, according to William “Pat” Wechter, plant pathologist with the ARS U.S. Vegetable Research Laboratory (USVL) in Charleston, South Carolina. Fusarium wilt, a soilborne disease that threatens vegetable crops, can stay in the soil for 30 years or longer, and fumigants used to control it are no longer available, he added. In addition, watermelon is extremely susceptible to nematodes, which are especially brutal on crops in the Southeast.

Susceptible watermelons can be grafted onto resistant rootstocks of other vegetables such as squash and pumpkin to control certain pathogens, Wechter said. Grafting, which has been used in other countries for years, is a new concept in the United States. Some watermelons grafted to squash rootstock have shown to be resistant to Fusarium wilt, but they were susceptible to southern root-knot nematode.

When tested in highly infested soils with fusarium and nematodes, Carolina Strongback performed well and maintained a high production level of harvested fruit, according to Wechter.

To develop this watermelon line, Wechter worked with two wild citron watermelon (Citrullus amarus) lines that possessed resistance to Fusarium wilt and nematodes. Working with USVL geneticist Amnon Levi, Wechter crossed the Citrullus amarus lines, and then made selections for numerous generations to produce the best plants. Wechter partnered with Clemson University horticulture scientist Richard Hassell, an expert at grafting rootstock, to test the plants. They continued to make more selections to produce the final resistant line—Carolina Strongback.

Selected for its grafting qualities and seed production, Carolina Strongback material can be used by seed companies, vegetable grafting companies and watermelon growers as a rootstock for growing susceptible watermelon cultivars in soils infested by the watermelon Fusarium wilt pathogen and root-knot nematodes.

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CHOPPER AND BALER FOR SALE

John Deere 7300 chopper, 6-row 676 Big Drum Kemper head for corn, $ 630A hay head, 2684 engine hours, 2009 cutter head hours......................

2007 Massey-Ferguson 2170 3x4 baler, low bale count, $ field ready condition........................................................................................

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DUTTON, MONTANA

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New Vermeer 605N Balers

5x6 bales – Mesh and Twine Call for more information

New Vermeer R2300 & R2800 TwinRakes Get great-looking bales quickly and easily. It all starts with the Vermeer R2300 & R2800 twin rakes, which produces box-shaped windrows. Built to last, the twin rakes allow you to adjust the width of the windrows to match your baler. Control the width, basket lift and folding/unfolding systems right from the cab of your tractor.

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ROUND BALERS

New Holland BR780 net & twine....... $14,000 New Holland 688 baler................. Coming In New Holland 688 round baler....... Coming In Case RB564 baler..............................$25,000 Case RB564 baler..............................$23,000 Vermeer 605 Super M baler...............$21,900 Vermeer 605XL baler. Stk #23475........$9000 Vermeer 605L mesh & twine baler........$7900 Vermeer Super 605J twine only............$4900

Vermeer 5410 twine baler..................$11,000 John Deere 466 baler................... Coming In

SQUARE BALERS

Massey Ferguson 2190 baler............$49,900 Case IH LBX432 3x4 with cutter........$54,900 Hesston 4910 large square baler..Coming In

HAYING EQUIPMENT

Allen 8803 26-ft. hydraulic rake..........$18,000

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USED SWATHERS

New Holland HW340 16-ft. rotary disc............ .......................................................$28,000 John Deere W235 swather...............$149,000

Case WD 2303 swather......................$85,000 Hesston 8400 swather.......................$17,000 MacDon 7000 with 16-ft. head...........$14,500

Ken – 788-4588; Anna – 231-4251; Andy – 590-0372; Lance – 788-8012; Matt – 231-4028

Hoven Equipment

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USED AUGERS Farm King 8x61 belt drive auger...........$1500 Westfield MK13x91 swing auger.......$10,500

Batco 13x65 conveyor auger.................... Call Alloway 10x60.........................................$500

USED SPRAYERS Ag Shield 1500 sprayer...................... $20,900 Flexi-Coil 67XL sprayer...................... $14,000 Miller 3275 HT sprayer....................... $67,000 Brandt 85-ft. pull type sprayer............... $3900 Demco skid mount sprayer. #23959...... $2700

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When it comes to mid-range tractors, you’ll be hard-pressed to find another brand with more years of experience, working in more crops and conditions, in more places around the world, then Massey Ferguson®. And every bit of that experience went into the creation of our brand new 5700SL Series. Stylish on the outside, comfortable on the inside and premium from top to bottom. Offering unmatched visibility with our steep-angle hood design, unparalleled versatility to handle any attachment and the high performance you’re looking for, all in a smaller 110-130 HP package. You can find a bigger tractor. But it would be tough to find a better one.

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USED TRACTORS

New Holland T7.185 tractor......... $98,000 (L) John Deere 8450 tractor....................$15,500 Valtra C120 with loader......................$53,900 International 84 tractor, loader/grapple..........

Versatile 835 tractor...........................$14,900 .......................................................$10,000 Massey Ferguson 6180 with loader, grapple.. Ford 5000 tractor with loader.................$6500 .......................................................$32,000 Versatile 700 parting out, engine and some Agco RT135 with loader, FWD, grapple.......... tires gone. .......................................................$64,900 Ken – 788-4588; Anna – 231-4251; Andy – 590-0372; Lance – 788-8012; Matt – 231-4028

CHECK OUT THE MASSEY FERGUSON 5700SL SERIES

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IN STOCK

Rely on T6 for unrivaled performance.

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It’s hard to believe you can take the best loader in the industry and make it better. But that’s exactly what Bobcat has done. Our loaders offer more cab space, improved visbility, increased fuel capacity and more. It’s increased comfort and performance all across the board.

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2016 Bobcat T595 compact track loader, S/N B3NK11957, cab. #21161

Payment as low as $975/month

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WEEDit: Spot & Precision Spraying

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USED SKID STEERS AND ATTACHMENTS

Bobcat LR65 land rake.........................$6000

Gradall telehandler forks, hydraulic angle.$900

Ken – 788-4588; Anna – 231-4251; Andy – 590-0372; Lance – 788-8012; Matt – 231-4028

WEEDit’s intellgent sensors sample the ground 40,000 times per second searching for living plant matter and applies chemical only to the target, allowing you to increase chemical rates and still save money on applications.

Come in and get more details!

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Turbo Drum for the draper headers It is smaller in diameter, more fingers, & staggered flighting.

It reduces bunching in heavy and bushy crops.

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New Belt Conveyors Offers: Gentle Handling Low Horsepower High Capacity Clean Convenience Low Maintenance/ Long Wear Unique “S” Drive Unique collapsible Hopper

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Great Falls, MT

Degelman 4100 round & square processor..$15,000 Gates Magnum 48-ft. heavy harrow........... $23,000 Gates 56-ft. harrow..................................... $17,000 Morris 50-ft. heavy harrow.......................... $18,000 Morris CP743 chisel plow........................... $14,900 Melroe 501 with Valmar................................. $6500 Renn 5501 39-ft. chisel plow.......................... $6500 International 75 39-ft.................................... $3500 Case IH MX150 tractor/loader.................... $52,000 John Deere 5020 tractor, PTO & loader..$13,250 (L) Versatile 800 tractor................................... $12,000 1968 Allis-Chalmers 170 tractor................... $6000 Ford 5000 tractor with mower........................ $5000 Case IH 7240 combine............................. $287,455 Case IH 2188 combine, 1015 pickup header........... ............................................................... $33,000 Case IH 1680 30-ft. head, pickup head...... $19,000 Massey Ferguson 9540 combine............ $190,000 Gleaner R65 combine with Agco 327 header, air reel & Agco 400 header................................ $60,000 Gleaner R72 combine................................ $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 Massey Ferguson combine, pickup header..$6500 John Deere 8820 combine......................... $18,000 John Deere 7700 combine............................ $5500 White 9700 combine..................................... $5294 New Holland 971 header.............................. $6000 MacDon FD75 45-ft. header, cross auger with Crary pickup air reel......................................... $93,000 MacDon 962 36-ft. header.......................... $16,900 Case DHX302 draper header..................... $15,000 Honeybee 36-ft. header with MF bracket... $14,900 Westfield MKX13x84 auger....................... $19,900 Westfield TFX10x36 auger............................ $9900 Farm King 10x60 auger................................ $6000 Buhler FK 7x41 electric auger...................... $2000 Feterl 7x41 electric auger.............................. $2000

USED COMBINES

Plant more acres per day with the new 15 inch shank spacing and ShieldCore paired row opener.

Rapid uniform crop emergence is the hallmark of well-designed seeding equipment.

USED AIR DRILLS

USED DRILLS

Case 800 50-ft., 10” spacing, 43 VRT Preci- John Deere 9450 40-ft. with 12” spacing. Sold individually......................................... $2000 sion SS drill, 3430 cart tow between, single chute..................Lease for $15,628/yr-oac John Deere 50-ft. drill hitch................... $1400 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft. air seeder, 12” spacing, Ken – 788-4588; Anna – 231-4251; 4350 cart....................................... $50,000 Andy – 590-0372; Flexi-Coil 5000 39-ft. air drill, 9” spacing and Lance – 788-8012; Matt – 231-4028 2320 air cart.............................$26,000 (L) “Partners in Production” Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. air drill, 12” spacing....... www.hovenequipment.com .................................................$24,900 (L)

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New Holland 9060 combine, no header...$150,000 New Holland TR98 combine......................$29,900 New Holland TR97 combine......................$19,900 Gleaner R75 combine................................$60,000 Gleaner R65 combine................................$32,000

USED MISCELLANEOUS

New Holland LM 445A telehandler.... $45,000 Bobcat 323 mini excavator................. $16,000 International 2-ton truck....................... $1900 Matthews MC flail mower...................... $7900 Gates 48-ft. harrow............................. $21,000 Gysler 39-ft. chisel plow........................ $3500 KC 3-pt. disc.......................................... $1900 Canola roller........................................... $1100 Spear with 4-ft, & 2 1-ft., fits Westendorf quick attach................................................... $500

Brandt drive over transfer auger................. $17,000 Wheatheart PT13 drive over deck................ $5675 Wheatheart transfer auger............................ $1500 2-Wheatheart bin sweeps. Each..................... $600 Brandt 5000 grain vac................................... $8500 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 Vermeer 605L round baler............................ $8000 Case 8465 round baler.................................. $5000 Hesston 5585 baler....................................... $1200 New Holland 269 square baler....................... $900 Case WRX301 rake................................$12,000 (L) New Holland 166 hay inverter........................ $4500 New Holland 1000 bale stacker..................... $3500 New Holland C1002 balewagon................... $2300 Spra-Coupe 4640, 60-ft. booms................. $29,500 Versatile SX275 sprayer........................... $127,000 Bourgault 950 sprayer, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon tank........................................................... $8000 2006 Chevrolet/Summers sprayer............ $15,500 1977 GMC/Summers sprayer........................ $8500 1987 International 9670 truck with 3000 gallon stainless steel tanks............................... $19,000 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 Chevrolet C60 truck...................................... $9500 Grizzley 660 ATV, 60” broom, front blade...... $8470 Degelman rock picker.................................... $5500 Quicke 660 loader - grapple.......................... $5000 2500 gallon poly tank....................................... $900 1500 gallon poly tank....................................... $500

USED HEADERS

Case IH FD70 40-ft. header with pea auger............ .......................................................... Coming In MacDon D60S 35-ft. draper header............$29,900 MacDon 973 30-ft. header..........................$20,000 MacDon 972 30-ft. header..................... Coming In MacDon 972 30-ft. draper header...............$14,000 MacDon 960 36-ft. draper header, pickup reel........ ...............................................................$14,900 MacDon 960 30-ft. header..........................$10,900 MacDon 960 25-ft. draper header..................$5000 MacDon A40D 18-ft. header.......................$19,900 MacDon A40D 16-ft. header.......................$19,000 MacDon DWA double windrow attachment...$2900 Agco 5200 36-ft. draper header..................$19,900 Gleaner pickup header, Super 8 attachment..$5000

USED PROCESSORS

Vermeer BP9000 round..............................$18,900 Vermeer BP8000 with final cut....................$15,500 Vermeer BP8000 processor........................$11,900 2012 Highline CFR650 final cut processor.............. ......................................................... $18,500 (L) Highline 6800 processor with Highline 500 mover... ...............................................................$14,900 Haybuster 256 Plus processor......................$8000

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Lewistown, MT

Tables Tow Ropes

Various Sizes up to 200.000-lb breaking strength

Montana Post Driver

4-in bore 8-in stroke - $85Dispatch, Trader’s

Slide-in FIRE Units

Flat Bottom Storage Tanks

• Tank capacities ranging from 60 - 400 gallons • High-volume spray nozzle

Bolt together fence brace kits

$120

2.5-gal water Fire Extinguishers

Pallet forks skidsteer mount:$930 Global mount: $950

7’ & 8’ Road Grader

$6,900

•Brace rail with hardware $29 •Complete brace with 8-ft posts $60 •Wire gate latches for 2-7/8 posts $18

REDI

Driver Classic $1,600

ATV & UTV Sprayers

Free Standing Portable Panel

Shipping Containers 20-ft - Used $3,400 New $4,300 40-ft - Used $4,900 New $7,800 *Rental return containers availabile 40-ft $6,000

Continuous Fence

• 6-rail 1-1/4” 14 ga.

20-ft long • 6-rail 1.66” 14 ga.

20-ft long

24-ft long $430

Portable Tub & Alleyway

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2-7/8” x 8-ft $15.50 2-7/8” x 10-ft $19 5-in galvanized octagon 9’9” posts $26

Mineral Feeders

6K torsion axel - $2,200

Portable Panels

All panels are constructed with 12 & 14 ga. 1.66” OD tubing • 10-ft heavy portable panels • 12-ft standard portable panels (Will latch to Winkel™ panels)

Gates

All gates are constructed with 12 & 14 ga. 1.66” OD tubing

• 10-ft bow gates $280 • 12-ft bow gates $300 Corral gates - 6-bar 8-ft $160 10-ft $170 12-ft $190 14-ft $210 16-ft $230

Large selection of Grade 5 & 8 BOLTS

$2.77/lb for Grade 5 $4.40/lb for Grade 8 Metric bolt assortment with 72-hole bin $680

Cattle Guards

Constructed with all new material 10-ft $1,550 12-ft $1,750 16-ft $2,100 Cattle guard kits with used pipe available.

10-ft $880 12-ft $990 16-ft $1,325

12x24-ft All steel portable buildings - use for horse sheds, calving sheds, storage, etc.

- Starting at $4,300

Portable Loading Chute

Steel Workbenches (5/16” top)

Poly DEF & Fuel Tanks

Folding Pipe Jack Pipe & Tubing

Call us for all your steel needs

• Plate - 5’x10’ .188” • 5-in galvanized octagon tubing (39-ft lengths) • Used 2-7/8 pipe • 1.25” 14 ga round tubing • 1.66” 14ga round tubing • 3-1/2” used pipe 31-ft • Pipe Caps: various sizes!

Semi load quantities of used 2-7/8 available Call for delivered A lot more steel…too prices!

much to list - Call us!

Adventure Trailers!

• Camper/ toy hauler/ ice house • Hybrid wheel/skid system • Lightweight, waterproof & tough!

• Four Season usability!

Knipex tools!

Grinding and Cutting Wheels

- 36”x24’ 22ga Prime galvanized SuperSteel - Use for windbreaks, corrals, etc.

Secondary Square Tubing

• 1x1x14ga • 1.25x1.25x11ga • 1.5x1.5x.188”

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2x2x16ga 2x2x14ga 2x2x11ga 2.5x2.5x11ga

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2x4x11ga 3x3x11ga 5x5x11ga 4x4x3/16” 4x4x1/4”

2-rail & 3-rail

$3,950

2,500-lb capacity

SuperSteel/ Steel Decking

Used Guardrail

Pocket Gopher & Mouse Poison

*Pipe posts can be cut to length

Portable Panel Trailer

Harrow 6’x6’x5/8”: $630 Drawbar:$180

Portable Buildings

Diablo Metal & Wood Cutting Saw Blades

Posts

Rotary mower skidsteer mount: $5,250

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Bale spears skidsteer mount: $695

750R: 1000E: 1500E: $5,900 $7,900 $9,900

Danuser Hammer Post Pounder

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ESAB Wire

Flux Core .045 $4.30/lb

1-in Sucker Rod Miscellaneous

• Feedbunk (constructed with 10ga and heavy tube legs) 20-ft x 38-in x 12-in $790 (other sizes including bottomless)

• Skidsteer Light Material Bucket (constructed with 3/16-in plate) 8-ft: $1,150 and 10-ft: $1,350

• Skidsteer Plates: $110 • 2.5-gal Water Fire Extinguishers: $120 • Extinguisher Mount: $40 • Bale Spears: $85 • Head Catch: $690 • 2”x27’ Ratchet Strap: $13 • 5/16” Grade 70 Transport Chain: 20-ft @ $36.50 • 3/8” Grade 70 Transport Chain: 20-ft @ $50 • Lever Chain Binders 5/16-3/8”: $25 • Ratchet Chain Binder 5/16-3/8”: $30

Brett 406.390.1110 | Jenni 406.366.9939 |Office 406.428.1110 PO Box 180 | Grass Range, MT 59032 www.HedmanInc.com August 2019

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BUCKLEY AUCTIONS AND APPRAISERS

We have auctions booked for fall 2019 and spring 2020 but not yet dated. If you are planning an auction or appraisal give us a call.

25 Year celebration of Master Gardeners in Yellowstone County From Amy Grandpre, Yellowstone County

We specialize in farm, ranch, industrial and business type auctions.

We do it ALL from start to finish. Including advertising, setup and display work, auctioneering and clerking. We also do all types of appraisals in farm and ranch equipment and inventory, business properties, collectibles, etc.

Remember - auctioneers make excellent appraisers as we see everything saleable being sold at our auctions.

57 years in the business.

Phone (406) 450-2244, leave a message or call 278-5880.

GreenRainy day BBQ cooks - Greg Thomas, Sharon Wetsch and Steve Resdad Sullair 125 cfm Diesel Screw Compressor 572 hours, 120 PSI, John Deere diesel, runs excellent..... .......................................$4000

1994 John Deere 4039T 4 cylinder turbo diesel, 324 hours, PTO bellhousing, runs excellent.........................$3500

2000 GMC C7500 32,000 GVW, 250 hp 3126 Cat diesel, 9 speed, exhaust brake, cruise, PS, AC, air brakes, 90% 11R22.5’s, 16-ft. service bed, slip tank, hitch, 126,000 miles.

Runs and drives nice...$13,500 2001 International 4700 175 hp T444E diesel, AT, AC, PS, PB, cruise, 25,000 GVW under CDL, 15-ft. service bed, 3-ft. workbench bumper, 60% 22.5 tires, 96,000 miles. Runs and drives nice............$12,500 1965 John Deere 4020 Diesel 3 point, 8 spd, Synchro, decent 18.4 x 34 tires, good rims, was shut off for excessive blowby, will crank over but does not run, loading available.....$3500 1993 Fiat-Allis FG105A Series B 5044 hours, 6x6, 200 hp 8.3 Cummins turbo, 6 speed Powershift, heat and air conditioning, 14-ft. blade, 60% 14:00R24 tires, auxiliary hydraulics, articulated. Nice tight machine with no computer!...... ....................................$32,500

A rainy day, indoor, BBQ/Potluck was held at MetraPark on May 18, 2019 to celebrate 25 years of Master Gardeners in Yellowstone County. There were prizes, a chalk art contest, good food and good memories shared.

The Yellowstone County Master Gardener program started in 1994 with a total of 9 participants: • Annette Bayley • Johanna Freivalds • Bobbi Hylton • Diane Kostelecky • Joe LaRue • Berta Morrison • Merita Murdock • Evelyn Popelka • Edith Yapuncich The classes consisted of 6 training sessions done through MetNet video teleconference sites. One of those sites being Eastern Montana College (now MSU Billings). Several of these sites were hooked up to Bozeman for live classes, taught by Bozeman professors. Classes taught: • Composting – Mike Vogel • Urban IPM – Sherry Lajeunesse • Insect Id – Will Lanier • Plant Disease – Jack Riesselman • Soils & Fertility – Jeff Jacobsen • Horticulture Wrap-up – George Evans Projects that year involved answering Extension phone-in questions, a plant exchange/pot luck and a garden tour, featuring our own Master Gardener gardens. Total volunteer hours for 1994 = 43 It was 1998 when Bob Gough took up the

state Master Gardener program. Bob was witty, charming, and had seemingly inexhaustible knowledge, taking opportunity to teach in front of a classroom, on TV, or in the pages of the many excellent books he wrote…and the program across the state exploded under his watch. We lost Bob to cancer September 14, 2011.

Since Bob we’ve have had Cheryl Gough (Bob’s widow), Toby Day and currently Dara Palmer coordinating the Montana State Master Gardener program, each with their own unique input.

Fast Forward to 2019. Now 130 Participants, hundreds more have gone through program these past 25 years. Volunteer hours donated for 2018 = 3087 Total recorded hours volunteered since 1994 = 50,000 (This is lean! More likely 75,000+) Projects: 25+ Of these projects, two are exclusively Yell. Co. Master Gardener’s: 1. Square Foot Demo Garden Started in April 2003 Have had some minor upgrades during the years, but none like last year when Brian Godfrey, along with Merita Murdock, Rick Shotwell, Joann and Cory Glasser, Roy Wahl, Murry Lyda, Elaine Allard, Charlie, Ron and Joyce Hendricks and many others, forged ahead to make the switch to raised bed boxes and weed barrier and scoria paths.

That garden pops now!!!

This year Brian is coordinating a remodel of the front fence/entry area.

2. Education Center Gardens & CONTINUED ON PAGE C22

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By Chris Branam, Oregon State University Consumers are more willing to pay for sumers would be willing to pay more for wine that comes with an organic or organic wine labeled as either organic or made with grape label but providing information about organic grapes compared to conventional certification standards and organic producwine. When consumers were given information practices reduces consumer willingness tion about certification standards for labelto pay for all wines, according to an Oregon ing wine as organic or made with organic State University (OSU)-led study. grapes, willingness to pay for all wines Further, the study found that additional declined, but willingness to pay for organic information about conventional wine makwine, wine made with organic grapes, and ing practices restores consumer willingness conventional wine remained the same. to pay for wine labeled organic, but not for Consumers were less willing to pay for wines made with organic grapes, or contwo out of three types of wine – conventionventional wines. al or made with organic grapes – when they The study provides insight on consumer were given additional information about perception of organic and organic grape conventional wine production practices that labeling, and how labels that highlight the consumers might be less familiar with, such absence of ingredients are perceived by as the use of yeasts, the protein casein or egg consumers who aren’t familiar with stanwhites, among others, in wine production, dard production practices, said study lead or genetically modified wine yeast. author Nadia Streletskaya, an economist at Willingness to pay for organic wine, Oregon State University who collaborated however, rebounded to original levels when on the research with colleagues at Cornell information about conventional wine makUniversity. ing practices was provided.

The difference between organic wine Information about wine production and wine made from organic grapes is the practices might “remove the cultural and amount of sulfites added for preservation, mythical appeal of wine,” Streletskaya said. and whether other ingredients used in pro“Wine is a very peculiar product,” she duction, such as egg whites or yeasts, are said. “A lot of people who consume wine certified organic. don’t really know much about wine. They The results have implications for winethink it grows in a bottle in a wine cellar. For makers who are increasingly providing example, once people find out something is information to consumers about how wine added that doesn’t make it spoil, they aren’t is made, either on their websites or in their as excited. Another strong possibility for tasting rooms, said Streletskaya, an assistant their less willingness to pay is that adding professor in OSU’s College of Agricultural information might make it harder for people Sciences. to choose a product because they have more “Not many wineries will take people information to work through.” through all of the steps of production, but In their study, the researchers conducted a there is a growing tendency to share more series of auctions with three different groups details on production, and that might be of people, in which each person was given counterproductive,” she said. $35 to bid on a bottle of wine. In one case The researchers found that given no they weren’t given any information about information about how wine is made, conCONTINUED ON PAGE C20

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In the third, they were given information about conventional winemaking practices in addition to the information about organic and organic grape certification standards provided in the second treatment.

“This is where we found a very strong impact,” Streletskaya said. “Suddenly their willingness to pay for pure organic wine shoots up, compared to organic grape wine and conventional wine. But their absolute level of willingness to pay for organic wine is the same as when no production information is given.”

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Chalk art winners Annette Bayley and Linda Williams

house Greenhouse started in September 2014.

It started when Bob Wicks asked “What’s your dream” …and Amy said a greenhouse.

At the time the Zoo happened to have a hoop house they weren’t using, so we had a greenhouse to put up. Miracle Worker Greenhouse Coordinators: Bob Wicks, Corry Mordeaux (and wife Boots), Merita Murdock (and husband Jeff), Gloria Ervin (and husband Mike). A most unique funding opportunity presented itself…for each 20 hours Mike volunteered (who by the way isn’t a Master Gardener), he received $500 from Exxon/Mobile towards a chosen nonprofit organization…the Master Gardener GREENHOUSE! Total received: $3000 (Thanks so much Exxon/Mobile!)

Gardens Followed in August 2015 The oasis Joann Glasser and husband Cory have coordinated in that little corner of the Metra is awe inspiring. Cory volunteers as a non-Master Gardener and has done so much to support Joann with all the hard work it’s taken for this project. But as with the greenhouse funding, Joann retired from Conoco and has the same volunteer perks that Mike Ervin had. For every 20 hours of volunteering she could get a $500 to her chosen non-profit…the Master Gardener GARDENS! Total received: $3500 and still adding! (Thank so much Conoco!)

These two gardens have become a yearround feature at MetraPark and are wonderful volunteer projects for Master Gardeners to share their education with the public… especially during fair time.

The Yellowstone County Master Gardener Association Started in 2011, a 501 (c) (3) organization, the first Master Gardener Association of the state. Bob Wicks, Ann Guthals, Sharon Wetsch, Corry Mordeaux, Merita Murdock, Joann Glasser and Marion Grummett worked very hard to make our association a reality. Our Association has helped me in endless ways as my Advisory Committee, besides the fundraising options it provides.

Many dedicated people have contributed to our program to make it what it is today.

We were honored to have 2 Master Gardeners from the original 1994 class:

• 1994 Annette Bayley • 1994 Diane Kostelecky Others in attendance from past years included: • 2000 Dwayne Bondy – ZooMontana • 2001 Anne Finley – 2002 Program Coordinator • 2002 John and Nan LeVar – John 2003 Program Coordinator • 2003 Karen Lindeke – 2004 Program Co-Coordinator • 2003 Ruth Sheller – 2004 Program CoCoordinator • 2004 Ann Hillman – 2005 through 2014 Program Event Notification Coordinator • 2006 Rosemary Power – Major helper with Billings Annual Flower Show As with all long-standing organizations, we have had our losses. A moment of silence was given as these names were read: • Roger Pitet 2003 • Jackie Bradshaw 2005 • Joe LaRue 2006 • Berta Morrison 2007 • Bob Gough 2011 • Vicki Thomas 2011 • Jane Howell 2012 • Shirley Spildie 2013 • Edith Yapuncich 2013 • Julie Halverson 2019 The festivities were wrapped up with a Mock Orange Tree Dedication in memory of Bob Gough.

This Mock Orange is now a feature tucked inside our Education Garden center and greenhouse facility with plaque markers.

It was Dr. Bob’s teaching technique blended with his humor, his knowledge and love of all things horticulture and his passion for the Master Gardener program that had impacted the gathers this day. So much of who he was has been passed on to so many in the state of Montana. It’s these things that will be Dr. Bob’s ongoing legacy, a testament to the impact of one life’s mission on others, and encouragement to us all to pursue and follow those passions we hold dear. He was a big part of us making 25 years of service to our community.

Dr. Bob, your legacy lives on in us….

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605M, reconditioned ...........&....Models ........................$22,000 Vermeer TM1200 , 15.5’ cut, demo unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Hesston 9435, 16’ header, 1475 hours............................$60,000 NEW &...USED Hesston 9635 , 16’ header ....................EQUIPMENT ....Reduced to $70,000 406-538-5686 or 350-2676 cell Hilger, MT tongue .......few ........acres................................. ..............................$13,500 $14,500 Hesston 1275, swing 2013 Vermeer R2300 very Walter 406-350-0380 Hesston 4790, 3x4 square rake................................................ baler........................................$27,500 $13,500 2014 Vermeer R2300 1999 Vermeer R23A rake..................................................... $7000 Connor 406-778-3777 • hwy12equip@gmail.com 51⁄2’ x 24’ Stand Alone Panels $375 ea.

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3PT Worksaver, post pounder, all hydraulic........................$2,150 New Cannonball/Chisholm Trail bale beds, dumping beds, arms.

2015 Vermeer BPX9000 processor. Great condition........... $15,900 Hay Liner trailers.................................................................... $6200 Vermeer 605M , reconditioned..........................................$22,000 NEW & USED EQUIPMENT Vermeer BP8000 , used bale processor............................$13,500 NEW Vermeer TM1410, 21’ cut.................................COMING IN NEW STOCK & USED EQUIPMENT NEW Vermeer TM850, trailed mower............................IN New Holland TV140 w/loader & 2300 header....................

Vermeer 605N net,cut, ramp, Vermeer TM1200 , 15.5’ demofloats, unit........1000 ............PTO..................NEW .....IN STOCK Cliff Cox 406-594-2204, Winston, MT NEW Vermeer R2300....trailed ...............mower, .................21-ft. ............cut....................NEW .....IN STOCK .................................................................. Call for price Vermeer TM1410 Nate Cox 406-594-2205, Winston, MT with center splitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Vaccine investigators use bacterium’s own protein against it

By Jan Suszkiw, Agricultural Research Service A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists is investigating a new “ingredient” for use in vaccinating cattle against Johne’s disease, a chronic wasting affliction that costs the U.S. dairy industry more than $200 million per year.

The ingredient in question is a type of protein on the surface of the bacterium Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), which causes Johne’s disease.

The researchers found that the protein, dubbed 35 kDa membrane peptide, helps the bacterium invade epithelial cells lining the cow’s small intestine, thickening it and blocking the uptake of nutrients from feed or forage. This can lead to diarrhea, weight loss, diminished milk production and sometimes death. Calves are especially vulnerable and if their mothers are infected, they can acquire the bacterium from the colostrum of their mothers. Adult animals typically become infected after grazing on forage or pasture areas where MAP has been excreted or “shed” in feces.

Vaccinating the animals with dead MAP cells can prevent such fecal shedding; however, this process can also generate misleading results called false-positives when vaccinated cattle are tested for bovine tuberculosis, a disease caused by a close relative of the bacterium.

An alternative approach could come from vaccinating the animals with specific pieces of MAP rather than using the entire bacterium, notes John Bannantine, a microbiologist with the ARS National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa.

Toward that end, he and colleagues from Washington State University and Inje University in Gimhae, South Korea, devised a new laboratory procedure called an ex vivo bacterium viability assay. Using it, they evaluated the peptide’s potential as a vaccine through its ability to mobilize certain immune system cells in blood samples drawn from infected cattle rather than using the animals themselves.

The results, among others reported in the May 2019 issue of Vaccine, showed that the peptide helps prime immune cells called cytotoxic CD8 T cells to seek out infected cells and kill MAP bacteria present within them. There is no haven from cytotoxic T cells, adds Bannantine, with the ARS center’s Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit.

Upcoming studies will focus on ways to formulate and deliver the peptide. Once there is a successful formulation, they will conduct cattle vaccine trials. Ultimately, the research could open the door to a new way of preventing Johne’s disease without interference with bovine tuberculosis tests. ##### Back to School has also become its own shopping phenomenon. In fact, the majority of parents will spend more than $100 on back to school shopping. ##### Polls reveal which items parents “hate buying,” including: 32% Textbooks, 25% Clothing, 19% Electronics, 18% Supplies, 7% Sports equipment.

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USDA opens signup for Market Facilitation Program

MT SWATHING INC. 16’ & 35’ Headers Available

From United States Department of Agriculture in up to three tranches, with the second Signup opened recently for the Market Call Matt (406) 590-5201 or and third tranches evaluated as market Facilitation Program (MFP), a U.S. DepartNate (406) 396-3886 conditions and trade opportunities dictate. ment of Agriculture (USDA) program to If conditions warrant, the second and third assist farmers who continue to suffer from tranches will be made in November and damages because of unjustified trade retaliearly January. ation from foreign nations. Through MFP, MFP payments are limited to a combined USDA will provide up to $14.5 billion in $250,000 for non-specialty crops per person direct payments to impacted producers, part or legal entity. MFP payments are also limof a broader trade relief package announced Fire damaged or non-running tractors ited to a combined $250,000 for dairy and in late July. The sign-up period runs through hog producers and a combined $250,000 December 6. for specialty crop producers. However, no “Our team at USDA reflected on what Allis-Chalmers, John Deere, IHC, Moline, Massey-Ferguson applicant can receive more than $500,000. worked well and gathered feedback on or what have you got?

Eligible applicants must also have an averlast year’s program to make this one even NEED ALL MECHANICAL FRONTS. age adjusted gross income (AGI) for tax stronger and more effective for farmers. Our International 806, 1206, 1256, 1456; Allis Chalmers D21, pieces years 2015, 2016, and 2017 of less than farmers work hard, are the most productive or parts; Minneapolis-Moline AT1400 or AT1600; Oliver 4WD’s $900,000, or 75 percent of the person’s in the world, and we aim to match their or legal entity’s average AGI for those tax enthusiasm and patriotism as we support Phone Circle G Salvage years must have been derived from farmthem,” said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Robert Grube, 403 Emmerling Circle, Walhalla, ND 58282 ing and ranching. Applicants must also Perdue.

Tractor and Combine Buyers comply with the provisions of the Highly MFP payments will be made to producers Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation of certain non-specialty and specialty crops Phone 701-549-2737 or 701-265-2220 regulations. as well as dairy and hog producers. leave message More information can be found on farmNon-Specialty Crops Please send pictures to: ers.gov/mfp, including payment informaMFP payments will be made to producE-mail: bomar@utma.com tion and a program application. ers of alfalfa hay, barley, canola, corn, crambe, dried beans, dry peas, extra-long staple cotton, flaxseed, lentils, long grain and medium grain rice, millet, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, rapeseed, rye, safflower, sesame seed, small and large chickpeas, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower seed, temperate japonica rice, triticale, upland cotton, and wheat.

MFP assistance for 2019 crops is based on a single county payment rate multiplied by a farm’s total plantings to the MFP-eligible crops in aggregate in 2019.

Those per acre payments are not dependent on which of those crops are planted in 2019. A producer’s total payment-eligible plantings cannot exceed total 2018 plantings. View payment rates by county at https:// www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/marketfacilitation-program/index Dairy and Hogs Dairy producers who were in business as of June 1, 2019, will receive a per hundredweight payment on production history, and hog After our first season in the ground, we took this picture of CoAXium® Wheat Production System performance. producers will receive a And, WOW, what a story it tells. CoAXium®, driven by Aggressor® herbicide, not only cleared the field of payment based on the numextremely high feral rye pressure, it delivered cleaner seed and more bushels at the elevator. This season, trust ber of live hogs owned on a your wheat to CoAXium® Wheat Production System. Side by side, there really is no comparison. day selected by the producer between April 1 and May Go to www.CoAXium.com/performance to see more side by side performance.

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Specialty Crops MFP payments will also be made to producers of almonds, cranberries, cultivated ginseng, fresh grapes, fresh sweet cherries, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts. Each specialty crop will receive a payment based on 2019 acres of fruit C L E A N E R F I E L D S . H I G H E R Y I E L D S . or nut bearing plants, or in the case of ginseng, based © 2019 Albaugh, LLC; CWRF and Limagrain Cereal Seeds, LLC. CoAXium and Cleaner Fields. Higher Yields are trademarks of Albaugh, LLC; CWRF and Limagrain Cereal Seeds, LLC. on harvested acres in 2019.

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BELL MOTOR CO. 2019 Heavy Duty Discount Month

Montana continues its sweep

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For the fourth year in a row, a Montana fleece has been named Overall Champion at the National Columbia Show and Sale, held this year in Tooele, Utah. This ram fleece was exhibited by Crossroads Columbias of Simms, Montana.

Conner Klick is a former starter flock recipient whose other notable achievement has been consigning the high gaining ram to the 2016-2017 Montana Ram Test.

Blackman Columbias, Wolf Creek, exhibited the first place ewe fleece.

Another win for Montana fleeces was when Hart Columbias’ yearling ram was awarded champion fleece while judged on the sheep. This ram went on to be the second high selling ram, selling to Jarvis Sheep Company for $2,600.

For more information regarding Montana’s Columbia Show and Sale, please check out the Montana’s Columbia Sheep Breeders Facebook group page.

2018 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 1500 LT Black leather, heated seats, sunroof, rear DVD player, 2nd row heated seats, 21,310 miles. #19U07.............. $48,250

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2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU LT Black cloth interior, heated seats, 8” touch screen, remote start, 24,949 miles. #18U25.................................. $20,250

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Verbal battle

Little Johnny and Billy were engaging in the time-honored tradition of a verbal battle like little boys all over the world.

“My father is better than you father!” Billy declared.

“No, he’s not!” Johnny responded.

“My brother is better than your brother!” Billy said.

“He is not! He is not!” yelled little Johnny.

“My mother is better than your mother!” Billy continued.

A long pause ensued, then little Johnny said, “Well I guess ya got me there. I’ve heard my father say the same thing more than once.

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Liliana Barcus with her 238 lb purple ribbon swine at the Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana. Lily’s pig was purchased by Cut Bank tire.

Payments for new Dairy Margin Coverage program

United States Department of Agriculture News Release The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) opened enrollment for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program on June 17 and has started issuing payments to producers who purchased coverage. Producers can enroll through September 20, 2019.

“Times have been especially tough for dairy farmers, and while we hope producers’ margins will increase, the Dairy Margin Coverage program is providing support at a critical time for many in the industry,” said Bill Northey, USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation. “With lower premiums and higher levels of assistance than previous programs, DMC is already proving to be a good option for a lot of dairy producers across the country. USDA is committed to efficiently implementing the safety net programs in the 2018 Farm Bill and helping producers deal with the challenges of the ever-changing farm economy.”

Authorized by the 2018 Farm Bill, DMC replaces the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy). The program offers protection to dairy producers when the difference between the all-milk price and the average feed cost (the margin) falls below a certain dollar amount selected by the producer. To date, nearly 10,000 operations have signed up for the new program, and FSA has begun paying approximately $100 million to producers for January through May. May Margin Payment DMC provides coverage retroactive to January 1, 2019, with applicable payments following soon after enrollment.

The May 2019 income over feed cost margin was $9.00 per hundredweight (cwt.), triggering the fifth payment for eligible dairy producers who purchase the $9.50 level of coverage under DMC. Payments for January, February, March and April also were triggered.

With the 50 percent hay blend, FSA’s revised April 2019 income over feed cost margin is $8.82 per cwt. The revised margins for January, February and March are, respectively, $7.71, $7.91 and $8.66.

Coverage Levels and MPP Reimbursements Dairy producers can choose coverage levels from $4 up to $9.50 at the time of signup. More than 98 percent of the producers currently enrolled have elected $9.50 coverage on up to 95 percent of their production history.

More Information On December 20, 2018, President Trump signed into law the 2018 Farm Bill, which provides support, certainty and stability to our nation’s farmers, ranchers and land stewards by enhancing farm support programs, improving crop insurance, maintaining disaster programs and promoting and supporting voluntary conservation. FSA is committed to implementing these changes as quickly and effectively as possible, and today’s updates are part of meeting that goal.

For more information, visit farmers.gov DMC webpage or contact your local USDA service center. To locate your local FSA office, visit farmers.gov/service-locator.

Herbicides, bugs on plant strategies wrestle tenacious invasive weed

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Montana 4-H welcomes students from eight countries

From MSU News Service Montana 4-H (http://www.montana4h.org) welcomed 18 international students from eight countries this month at the organization’s annual congress at Montana State University (MSU).

The students will spend three weeks to three months with families across Montana in places like Chester, Glendive, Hinsdale, Plevna and Whitehall, according to Stephanie Davison, program coordinator with Montana 4-H. The students hail from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The students will help out on their host farms and ranches, participate in everyday Montana life and visit a few of the state’s attractions, Davison said.

“Students are learning farm and ranch practices, with a focus on differences in scale and differences in type of operation between their home operations and operations in Montana,” Davison said.

In addition to hosting international students, Montana 4-H sends students abroad. Those students currently include Randee Shannon from Prairie County, who is spending several months in Finland and Germany; Katie Koterba from Cascade County, who is in the United Kingdom; and Myla Cundall from Glacier County, who will head to Greece in September.

The 4-H international programs are part of MSU Extension (https://www.msuextension.org) and its youth development program. The programs have operated since 1948, when the first delegation traveled from Montana and several other states to European countries for six months.

Known as the International Program for Youth Adults, participants receive a partial scholarship from the Montana 4-H Foundation. The funds come from an endowment set up by one-time participant and former state 4-H director Geraldine Fenn. Fenn was recognized recently as one of 125 extraordinary, ordinary MSU women (http://www.montana. edu/president/universitywomen/extraordinary/index.html) as part of the university’s 125th anniversary celebration.

“The 4-H international programs are important to MSU’s mission of providing information and knowledge to the people of Montana,” Davison said. “4-H is an experiential learning program, and few things are more experiential than the process of learning from people with different backgrounds who may have different values and customs. The knowledge gained from these experiences is something that can’t be taught in a classroom.”

Partial scholarships are available from the Montana 4-H Foundation for outbound travelers. For more information, contact Davison at sdavison@montana.edu.

Relaxation Day

Date When Celebrated: August 15 th Relaxation Day is a day to kick back and do nothing. Ahhhh! What a great day.

The stresses, the hustle and bustle seemingly consumes us, every day of the year. Even Sundays are no longer days of rest and relaxation. There never seems to be a day to just kick back and relax. For those us with a hectic lifestyle, Relaxation Day is a day to look forward to. It provides a break from the madness of your busy work and personal schedule.

Todays is the day to enjoy either doing absolutely nothing, or partaking in your favorite relaxation activity.

Avoiding stressful activities today is the rule. For example, if golf is your favorite hobby, yet it can cause you stress, then make plans to play golf another day. Spending the day in a hammock is a far more appropriate activity.

Top Ten ideas to enjoy on Relaxation Day: • Do nothing today • Go to a Spa • Go fishing • Play a round of golf (caution: not always relaxing) • Lounge around in a hammock • Take a bubble bath • Spend the day at the beach • Go to the movies • Do a little gardening (no heavy duty work, though) • Have a picnic in the park

August, 2019 will be...

Fishing Month

If you don’t know how to fish, then this is your big chance to do so because this month is Fishing Month! Fishing is a great activity to do for people of all ages, as it practically has been around since the beginning of humanity itself.

Throughout Fishing Month, people go out to their local parks and recreation centers and fish to their heart’s content, learning from coaches how to cast the lines and catch the biggest fish they can find.

History of Fishing Month Fishing has been around as far as humanity, as fish are a staple part of people’s diets and have influenced cultures going back thousands of years.

As fishing turned from a necessity into a commodity, fly fishing had become a popular sport and leisure activity from the 19th century onward. Inventions such as the Nottingham reel, fiberglass rods, and synthetic bait has made fishing an easier and more accessible activity for many to do.

Fishing competitions can now be seen everywhere on TV, and whenever there’s a local park with a lake or river near it, it’s now easy enough for anyone to buy a fishing pole and go out fishing to see what’s the catch of the day.

Fishing, both a common necessity, a sport, and a recreational activity, bring people of all ages fun as well as tasty fish. Fishing Month, inspired by fishing enthusiasts alike, is a month when people come together to learn about fishing, practices their reeling-in skills, and make the most fun out of this activity.

Throughout the month, coaches help new fishers learn the techniques of fishing, such as preparing the line, hooking the bait, and seeing where the best fishing spots are in the area and how to spot them.

In some places, the fees for fishing are waivered, allowing people of all ages to try out fishing for themselves. Hundreds of localized events happen all over the world as people come together to celebrate fishing and teach each other the craft.

How to Celebrate Fishing Month Want to learn how to fish?

Take a fishing class and learn from a taught coach about the wonders of fishing. Don’t have the equipment to fish?

Tell your friends and family about the month ahead and plan for a fishing trip.

Invite your friends out to fish with you and see what kind of local fish you can reel up. ##### Doctor: “You must lose weight immediately! Do not take in more than thousand calories per day!”

Mrs Mummel: “Before or after meals?” ##### Need cheering up? Start a fight with somebody when they have the hiccoughs! ##### They say every piece of chocolate you eat shortens your life by 2 minutes. I did the math. Seems I died in 1543.

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Trailers & Trucks For Sale

Loadline 20-ft. box, hoist, hinge, tarp and 22-ft. box, beet/grain combo gate, hoist, tarp, hinge. Both in good condition............... ...........................................................................Choice $7500 2007 International 4300 DT466, Allison automatic, twin screw, new 8.5-ft.x20-ft.x69” unibody grain box with grain and silage/ beet gate. Nice truck......................................................$57,500

2001 International 4900 DT466, Allison automatic with PTO provision, double framed, ready for feed box or grain box......... ......................................................................................... $9500

Please call 406-855-4465

2004 Peterbilt 330 Cummins diesel, 10 speed, long double frame, tires at 75%, Pete air ride, clean truck................ $19,900

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TRUCK FOR SALE – RETIRED

1967 Chevrolet 50 2 ton truck, 15-ft. Knapheide box and hoist, Shur-Lok tarp, electric tail gate, new wheels and tires on front.......................................................... $6500 Call Gerald Christensen (406) 278-3742 or 450-1133

LAND FOR SALE IN HAVRE, MT 20 acre home sites (1 left) New water well at 20 gpm

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Geraldine Area Farm: 3,000 acres with approximately 2,800 acres cropland located about 20 miles NE of Geraldine. All in one block. Shop, equipment bldg, & lots of grain bins for crop storage. Good production area.......................................................................................$5.25 Mil. Montana Farm 9,200 Acres: located in Central MT, N of Lewistown.

Includes 7,200 acres of dry cropland, two homes & two sets of farm buildings with feedlot set-up. Local cropping practices include Winter & Spring Wheat, Barley and Pulse Crops. Irrigation rights and development are possible. There’s Elk, Deer, Antelope & bird Hunting & fishing in this area............................................... Farm is priced at $16.8 Mil.

Please contact Broker Mark Pyrak @ 406-788-9280 for any questions or a showing of these properties Home and acreage located approximately 28 miles east of Brady MT in Chouteau County. Sale includes a 4 bdrm, 2 3/4 bath home, garage, quanset shop/garage and 4 small grain bins. Mature landscaping.

Tiber water to home and yard, all on 3.14 acres/C.O.S. 200B.............. ..................................................................................... Price $174,500 Home and acreage located approximately 39 miles east of Brady MT in Chouteau County. Sale includes an older 3 bdrm, 1 bath home, garage, large shop/building, quanset storage building, several older grain bins, mature landscaping, Tiber water to home and yard. All on 11.4 acres/C.O.S. 200A........................................................ Price $216,500

Call Broker Roger Axtman today @ 899-4098 for any questions

“We look forward to assisting you with all of your Real Estate needs”

406-622-3803 www.fbrealty.com

Largest, most comprehensive hemp research center in the nation

By Heidi Happonen, Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) officials material will be harvested as the plants are announced plans Thursday, June 13 to flowering and will be provided to OSU relaunch the nation’s largest research center searchers for study. No pollen or seeds will devoted to the study of hemp and announced be produced from this year’s research crop. that OSU will begin certifying hemp seed Jay Noller, professor of crop and soil for planting in Oregon. science at OSU, will serve as director and The Global Hemp Innovation Center will lead researcher for the new center. be based in OSU’s College of Agricultural “We want to understand how to efficientSciences with research taking place across ly and sustainably grow hemp for seeds, for the state and world. Currently, there are hemp fiber materials that can be used in texmore than 40 OSU faculty representing tiles and construction materials, including as 19 academic disciplines engaged in hemp an alternate to gravel in concrete, for hemp research, teaching and extension services. essential oils that have popular health and The center will serve as a research hub conwellness uses, and for hemp grain for use necting faculty and researchers engaged in in foods and feed. Multi-use hemp is what plant research, food innovation, pharmacy, we are excited about globally.” public health, public policy, business and Noller said OSU’s hemp research center engineering. will have a global impact.

Hemp has the potential to become a major “It’s tempting to think of growing hemp agricultural commodity in the United States to both build your house and treat disease,” and abroad with hemp plant fiber being used Noller added. “I also like to remind people in manufactured products, including cloththat hemp food is highly nutritious.” ing, construction materials and packaging.

Noller said Oregon State researchers are Meanwhile, hemp seed oil is being invesworking with faculty at universities in Eutigated for use in pharmaceuticals, cosmetrope and China to explore the propagation ics, foods and nutraceuticals. For example, and uses of hemp. Meanwhile, Oregon State hemp has a long tradition of use in treating will host in Corvallis a National Academies ailments by eastern medicine. of Sciences symposium on hemp in the comAlan Sams, dean of the College of Agriing months. cultural Sciences, said the OSU center will OSU is well-situated to provide research, be the world’s most comprehensive resource teaching, and outreach and engagement asfor the study of hemp. sociated with hemp, Noller said. “We have “Our faculty are already recognized inincredible alignment between our research ternationally as the go-to experts for hemp community, the university’s experiment research,” Sams said. “The launch of this stations and the OSU Extension Service center signifies our commitment to continue to engage in strong basic research, applied to build upon that established expertise and research and scholarly teaching. grow our impact across the state, the nation “We have very few agencies nationally and globally.” involved in understanding the agricultural, Oregon State’s decision to launch the new economic assessment and public health hemp center follows Congress’ adoption benefits of hemp. Oregon’s location on the of the 2018 Farm Bill that removed hemp 45th parallel is optimal for hemp growth from the list of controlled drug substances and a unique hemp germplasm – the genetic and initiated the creation of a framework material used for breeding – was developed for hemp to become a fully legalized comin the state over the past several decades.” modity in the future.

Noller said the engagement of 40 OSU “Hemp has incredible potential across faculty, 19 academic disciplines, 10 uniseveral industries and sectors, including versity experiment stations and the OSU in food and health products and as a fiber Extension Service will combine to make commodity in many products,” Sams said.

Oregon State’s hemp research effort the na“We believe that Oregon State University is tion’s largest. uniquely positioned to serve the global need Beginning in 1936, the federal government for research-based understanding of hemp prohibited the propagation of hemp plants. as a crop and for its use in new products.”

Oregon authorized hemp cultivation in 2009, According to the Brightfield Group, an but the Oregon of Department of Agriculture analytics firm that tracks the cannabis indusdid not license its first hemp grower until try, the hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) 2015. Just three years later, Oregon ranked market is expected to grow from $618 milthird in the United States in licensed hemp lion in 2018 to $22 billion by 2022. acres planted behind Montana and Colorado.

OSU already is a go-to partner with OreThe 2018 farm bill decriminalized propagagon agriculture. The university collaborates tion of hemp, and it is anticipated that over with the Oregon Department of Agriculture the next year the federal government will and various state commodity commissions have a framework in place to commercially to certify seeds for as many as 48 agriculproduce and utilize hemp grown in the U.S. tural commodities grown in Oregon.

As of mid-May, Oregon has licensed 1,342 As it launches its seed certification sergrowers to plant 46,219 acres of hemp this vices for hemp, the seeds will be for use year, according to the Oregon Department by farmers that are registered by the state. of Agriculture. That total is nearly six times Oregon State will be the only university in greater than the 7,808 acres planted in 2018. the nation presently to certify hemp seed.

Nationally, the number of licensed acres At this time, only state departments of devoted to hemp cultivation increased by agriculture in Colorado, North Dakota and 204% from 2017 to 2018, according to Vote Tennessee certify hemp seed for use in Hemp, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit those states. organization.

By the end of June, OSU researchers will Both Oregon and OSU have a long history plant the university’s third crop of hemp of hemp cultivation and research. The uniplants at 10 university experiment stations versity, then known as Oregon Agricultural located in different climates and soil condiCollege, partnered with scientists in the U.S. tions throughout Oregon. Up to eight plots Department of Agriculture to host a national of hemp totaling no more than five acres will hemp research center from the 1880s until be planted at each experiment station. Hemp 1932.

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NEW STOCK & HORSE TRAILERS

New Circle D 24-ft. gooseneck stock trailer with 7200 lb. axles, 2 sliding center gates, full bull package, 14-ply tires..................................................................$12,695 New Circle D 24-ft. gooseneck stock trailer with 2 sliding center gates, full bull package, 14-ply tires.....$11,995 New Circle D 20-ft. gooseneck stock trailers with sliding center gate. 14-ply tires. Bull Package............$10,995

New Circle D 24-ft. stock trailer, 8K axles, 14 ply tires, 2 sliding center gates, full bull package.............. $13,295 New Travalong 20-ft. stock trailer, sliding center gate, 14,000 lb. GVW............................................... $11,995

New Circle D pickup flatbeds

Stop in or call for more info.

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NEW HEAVY DUTY FLATBED TRAILERS

NEW DUMP TRAILERS

New Diamond C 14-ft. gooseneck.....................$10,195 New Diamond C 14-ft. bumper pull with tarp........$9295 New Travalong 14-ft. gooseneck.......................$11,895

LOTS OF NEW BUMPER PULL UTILITY TRAILERS 5-ft. x 8-ft. to 83” x 14-ft.

Prices Range from $1425 - $2295

Diamond C tandem dual, 2 piece with folding beavertail, dual jacks, tool box, engineered I-Beam frame, torque tube........................................................ 32-ft. $13,395 ............................................................... 30-ft. $13,195 Circle D 31-ft. (3) 7,000 lb./6 torsion axle, 2 piece with folding beavertail, chain basket, dual jacks........$9995 Circle D 29-ft. tandem dual, 2 piece with folding beavertail, dual jacks, chain basket..................................$10,995 Circle D 27-ft. tandem dual, 2 piece with folding beavertail, dual jacks, chain basket..................................$10,795 Circle D 25-ft. (2) 7,000 lb. torsion axles, dual jacks, chain basket, 2 piece with folding beavertail................$7995

NEW GOOSENECK TILT TRAILERS

G ll steel flatbeds

(2) Diamond C 25-ft. partial tilt, (2) 7,000 lb. axles, tool box......................................................................$7595 Diamond C 24-ft. full tilt deck-over power tilt, (2) 7,000 lb. axles, tool box.....................................................$8995

Large Trailer Parts Inventory

Axles • Springs • Lights • Fenders • Straps • Tie-downs Jacks • Bearings & seals • Etc.

New LOOK Enclosed Trailers Excellent Selection On Hand

$1250

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IN STOCK

TURNOVER BALL A hitch when you need it...

A level bed when you don’t

2001 Travalong Bandit 3-horse slant, walk-in tack compartment............................ $7500

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

Give us a call about any of our trailers or let us find what you need!

Load King lead trailer, 42-ft., triple axle.................................$25,000 & pup..............................$15,000 As a pair.........................$39,000

2000 Load King 42-ft. triple axle....... ......................................$22,500

1995 R-Way 42-ft. triple axle, good tires, aluminum wheels..$19,500

2014 Titan 15-ft. tilt. Like New! ...... ....................................... $4500 1982 Landoll hydraulic tilt equipment trailer w/winch................$14,500 1997 Titan 3-horse slant, bumper pull.............................. $4500

1980 Alray 22-ft. stock trailer stocktrailer ................. $2500

5th WHEEL RV HITCH

4x7’ Heavy Duty Trailer Mats $65 each

Diamond C 24-ft. full power tilt deck-over, (2) 7,000 lb. axles...................................................................$7995 Diamond C 22-ft. partial tilt.....................................$6495

USED SEMI TRAILERS

2001 Belly Dump Pup 20-ft., roll-up tarp, aluminum wheels ..$10,000

2013 Circle D flatbed gooseneck, 24-ft. with beavertail, used very little................................ $6295

1995 Wilray 24-ft. pintle hook flatbed trailer, 2-7000 lb. axles, slide-in ramps, always shedded, excellent shape ............. $4500

COMPANION™

Mounts to rails bolted under the bed, or attaches easily to B&W’s turnover ball gooseneck hitch. Easy adjustment of height & lateral positions.

NEW BUMPER PULL TILT TRAILERS

MISCELLANEOUS USED EQUIPMENT

Includes cylinder and hoses.

New Diamond C car haulers 3500, 5200 & 7000# axles

Circle D flatbeds, gooseneck hitch plate, lights, headache rack, rear skirt. Black 7x7..................................................................$1650 71/2x81/2...........................................................$1650 71/2x9..............................................................$1700 8x9..................................................................$2000 8x11................................................................$2350

2003 Ford V10 automatic, with 1995 51-ft. wedge car hauler, winch, NEW Hydrabed ........ $21,995 Country Side carriers, 3-7000 lb. axles..................................$7500

1992 Interstate 24-ft. tilt deck, 20ton equipment trailer...... $8500 Ford F250 with flatbed & snow plow ........................... $6500

Route 66 4-ft. x 6-ft. enclosed trailer ............................ $900

Triple axle, 20-ft. x 83”, pintle hitch, completely rebuilt, LIKE NEW! . ........................................$6500

(2) 1980 Kentucky van trailers, offices in front, 2 doors on 1 side, 1 door on other ............. ............................$6500/each

Big Tex 20-ft. flatbed gooseneck, 1994 International 4900 flatbed, new floor, 2-7,000 lb. axles...... air brakes, diesel, 9 speed, ....................................... $3900 tool boxes ....................$9595

Triple T Sales

Contact Dave Taylor: 406-357-2166

2002 Container chassis, like new..... ..........................................$7500

1992 Wilray heavy duty flatbed trailer, 45,000 lb. GVW, 24-ft. beavertail......................................$8500

Chinook, MT

Home Phone - 406-357-2162 Highway 2 West, Chinook, MT 1/2 miles west of Chinook

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By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist, NDSU Extension I remember the “you-pick” strawberry patches we would visit in the early summer when I was a kid.

You could see the plump, red berries peeking out from under the green foliage. I thought walking down the rows in a large field of strawberries was fun.

I also remember a lady in a broad-brimmed floppy hat who sat in a high lifeguard-style chair peering out at all of us.

We were crawling on our knees along the rows and putting berries into crates and buckets.

“Do not eat berries while you pick!” she’d yell gruffly on occasion.

She was the “berry guard,” I guess.

As a 10-year-old, I was very obedient and I didn’t eat one strawberry. However, I saw adults discreetly popping berries in their mouths, which were hidden by their equally floppy hats.

Despite the scarecrows flapping in the breeze, many birds were flying around the fields and nipping at the berries. I could feel the sandiness on the berries on my hands.

Besides the yelling lady, the combination of potential bird waste and sandy grit also were deterrents to my tasting. Before we began picking, my mother told me not to eat berries that hadn’t been rinsed.

That meant “do not eat any berries in the field.”

My aunt helped us pick berries one year. When we brought our 25 buckets of berries to settle our bill with the owner, my aunt said she only needed one bucket.

I knew what I’d be doing when we arrived home. I was the “huller,” so I used a little tool to remove the leafy end cap and core. By the time I was done rinsing and hulling 24 buckets of berries, the skin on my fingers was shriveled.

My skin also turned grayish from the reaction of the metal in the tool and the acid in the strawberries. My elephantcolored hands eventually returned to normal; however, I wasn’t interested in eating strawberries for a while.

Strawberries are perishable, so we needed to begin the preservation process quickly. Strawberries are “in season” in the spring and summer. This is when strawberries are at peak quality and, usually, a lower price in grocery stores and at farmers markets.

When buying strawberries, look for fruits that are bright red with green caps and are free from moisture or bruising.

Many varieties of strawberries are available, but only some are suitable for North Dakota’s growing conditions.

Strawberries are available as ever-bearing and June-bearing.

Ever-bearing plants produce a crop in late June and early July, with a second lighter crop in late summer. They continue producing until freeze-up if the conditions are favorable. Two ever-bearing varieties recommended for general planting are Ft. Laramie and Ogallala.

June-bearing strawberry plants produce their entire crop between mid-June and mid-July. Recommended Junebearing varieties include AC Wendy, Annapolis, Honeoye, Glooscap, Mesabi and Sparkle.

The best time to plant strawberries is in early spring, but they can be planted into late summer.

For more information on planting and growing strawberries, visit https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/foodnutrition/strawberries-1 to view the North Dakota State University Extension publication “Strawberries.”

Fresh strawberries should be stored in the crisper drawer of a refrigerator. Rinse berries with cool running water just before eating them to delay spoilage. Handle gently to avoid bruising the strawberries.

You can preserve berries by freezing, drying, and making jams and jellies to enjoy all year long.

One cup of strawberries has about 55 calories. Strawberries are an excellent source of vitamin C and a good source of folate, potassium and fiber.

Strawberries are one of the specialty crops that can be grown in North Dakota. Visit NDSU Extension’s Field to Fork website at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/fieldtofork and click on “Learn More about N.D. Specialty Crops” for information about growing, preparing and preserving a variety of locally grown produce, including strawberries.

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Warned

Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Ms. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child.

Smiling sweetly, the Sunday school teacher said, “Peter, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay like that.”

Peter looked up and replied, “Well, Ms Smith, you can’t say you weren’t warned.”

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Big Sky Equipment Co. Phone 406-278-3277 Sales Toll-free 1-800-332-7541 Kurt Christiaens 450-3277 cell FAX 1-406-278-7882 Gary Brown 278-3373 home, 788-9033 cell Conrad, Montana Parts After Hours/Weekends website: www.4newholland.com 450-6463

Service Corey Combs 271-5435 home, 781-7678 cell Gary Brown 278-3373 home, 788-9033 cell

USED COMBINES

2008 Case IH 7010 combine, yield and moisture, lateral tilt.................................... $119,900

USED TRACTORS

2009 Case IH 7088 combine, rock trap, chopper, yield/moisture............................. $114,900

2015 New Holland CR8.90 combine, DFR stone protection, yield & moisture........... .................................................. $289,900 New Holland TR75, Ford engine, hydro drive, good rubber, 960 22-ft. header with batt reel. Good machine for only....... $16,995

USED HAYING EQUIPMENT

2014 New Holland Speedrower 130, low hours, pre-DEF, 18-ft. sickle header.

Excellent condition.................... $89,900

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

2013 New Holland CR7090, low hours, ASP stone protection, yield & moisture........... .................................................. $228,900 2007 Case IH 2588 combine, rock trap, yield and moisture............................... $89,900

2014 New Holland T9.565HD 4WD, 55 gpm, autoguidance ready, low hours..... ...........................................Just Traded

2012 Case IH Puma 170 with loader, auto-guide ready, NEW Alo Quicke loader. .................................................. $89,900

2013 John Deere 9510R 4WD tractor, 4 remotes, GreenStar, PTO....... $219,500

2009 McCormick XTX145 tractor, powershift, self-leveling loader, rear wheel weights, low hours.................... $64,900

USED SPRAYERS

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................. ............................................. Just Traded Flexi-Coil S67XL, 120-ft. wheel boom, manual fold, 1500 gallon, FlexControl or Raven interface, TeeJet double nozzle bodies, inductor cone, hydro pump, 6 ball valves, foam marker, windscreens, 18.4x26 diamond tires (U21171) Reduced...... $5995

2013 Sprayflex sprayer on 2005 International 4300 truck, International DT466 engine, Allison transmission, pushbutton shift selector, auto steer, Raven Auto Rate, Field Star 1500 gallon, good tires, 120-ft. booms.................................. Just Traded

USED BALE PROCESSORS Bale King 880 bale processor........... $6900 Vermeer BPX7000 bale processor.... $7500

NEW & USEDCaseHEADERS IH 1010-30 combine header...............

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 MacDon D60S 35-ft. rigid draper header, pickup reel, Case IH adapter (from 2588). Very good condition......... $44,900

MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT 2014 Demco 850 grain cart, fixed, hydrualic

or PTO drive package, roll tarp, scale..... .................................................... $29,900

TRAILER

2005 Trail-Eze 80HT drop deck equipment trailer with 2-stage hydraulic tail, 80,000 lb GVW, triple axle, hydraulic winch, slide outs widen to 13-ft., good rubber.............

Was $52,500......................Now $45,000

................................................ Let’s Deal 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 pickup header....... Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 pickup header....... Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 15-ft. pickup header, Victory attachment..................................... $6500 Case IH 1015-12 pickup header........ $4900

GREAT VALUE ON ALL DRILLS IN STOCK 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 2004 New Holland SD440 51-ft. air drill with 380 cart, 12” spacing, single shoot, blockage sensor.................................... $62,500 Ezee-On 7400 40-ft. air drill, 12” spacing, 160 bushel cart, ground driven fan. Very good condition........................................ $12,900

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If you have items you want advertised in the September 2019 issue THE VERY LATEST WE CAN ACCEPT THEM is August 28th.

8360 Hwy 10 West Missoula, MT 406-549-1047 or 544-0655 www.chicharbineequipment.com

2014 Kenworth T800 tractor, 550 hp Cummins ISX with records, 400,000 miles, Eaton RTL018918B new 60,000 miles ago, 13,200 lb front, 13,200 lb steerable left axle, 40 rears on air ride, 245” wheel base, very clean.....................................$71,500

2011 Kenworth T800B ISX 500 hp Cummins, FRO16210C transmission, DS401 rears w/differential locks, new clutch, fresh DOT, 2 line wet kit....................................$47,500

2006 Kenworth T800B extended day cab tractor, Cat 475, FRO16210C, 40,000 lb. rears, steerable lift axle, runs out good. New paint......$35,500

2011 Kenworth T800 tractor, Cummins ISX 500 hp, 283,000 miles Eaton RTLO 18718B, 13,200 lb front axle, 13,200 lb steerable lift axle, New Way suspension, 46,000 lb rears with double differential locks, 2 line wet kit, new tires, new paint, 220” wheel base, well-maintained, very clean truck............................$65,500

2006 Kenworth T800 dump truck, 530 hp ISX Cummins, 18 speed, 13,200 front, 13,200 steerable lift axle, 46,000 lb. rears with double lockers, new 16-ft. box with high lift gate, plumbed for pup, 306,000 miles, Hendrix Primaax suspension, new paint..............................$65,500

2011 Peterbilt 365 sleeper truck, Caterpillar C13, 30,000 original 2004 Mack Granite CV713 AI, 350 miles, Eaton Fuller 8LL Air Trac sus- hp Mack engine, 18 speed, Mack pension, 13,200 lb. front, 40,000 lb. Camelback suspension, air ride cab, rears, 224” wheelbase, 36” flat top aluminum wheels, new 15-ft. box, sleeper, and wet kit...............$47,500 plumbed for pup, 450,000 miles, very clean.....................................$44,500

1998 Kenworth T800 Cummins N14, 1992 International 9400 Caterpillar 460 hp, Eaton 18 speed, 2 steerable 3406B, 18 speed, 230” wheelbase, lift axles, 40,000 lb. rears, 19.5-ft.

12,000 lb. front, 40,000 lb. rears, ex- box, plumbed for pup............$46,000 logger, plumbed to rear with pintle hitch......................................$11,500

1998 Ford dump truck, Cat 3126, 1979 Cozad 65 ton combo lowboy, 3 axle, 21-ft. deck air ride, Cozad 2 axle Eaton 9 speed, 14,400 lb. front, jeep with self-contained power tower, Cozad air operated steerable booster 43,000 lb. rear axle, 10-ft. box, front axle. Almost all new tires and spares................................................$36,500 & rear auxiliary hydraulics, set up for snow plow capability, 104,000 miles, Many other construction trucks & trailers available ex-county truck, 85% rubber..$14,000

At home on the range

By Faye Maddox

A sea of native grasses became a classroom during the 43rd Montana Range Days event, held on June 17-19th.

Youth and adults, from ages 5-85, engaged in workshops and educational tours in and around Beaverhead County.

Volunteers from the United States Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), and Natural Resources and Conservation Services (NRCS) came together to provide youth workshops in plant anatomy, range plant identification, soils, and rangeland inventory, monitoring, stocking rates, utilization, and management, while the adults boarded buses and toured local ranches to experience different range practices being implemented.

Adults and kids partook in range knowledge competitions and were awarded prizes at the closing ceremony. The highest ranked award given by the organization is the Top Range Hand Award. This award is presented to the high school division participant who earns the highest score in the range contest, produces a pressed plant collection, educational display, and an illustrated talk pertaining to a range related topic. Melanie Powers, of Wheatland, Montana was awarded the Top Range Hand this year- she outscored her competitors by 60 points. Melanie received the coveted belt buckle, a $1,000 scholarship, and a pair of boots, donated by local bootmaker Atomic 79.

The event is hosted by the Beaverhead Conservation District with great efforts from numerous donors to make the event possible. Local ranches donated their time and meat to feed the record breaking crowd of 350 people. The Montana Wool Growers Association was awarded into the Range Days Hall of Fame.

Beaverhead County will be hosting the yearly event again next summer. If you would like to participate, or learn more about the event, visit the Montana Range Days website at www.montanarangedays.org

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Kyle Hardin, left side and black hat, discussing elk problems they face each fall.

The June 18th tour kicked off at the nearby 460,000-acre Matador Cattle Company headquarters, resting on the slopes of the Blacktail Mountains, at an altitude in excess of a mile. Managed by Kyle Hardin, the ranch runs over 7,000-head of HerefordAngus mother cows on ranges extending to Yellowstone Park. Founded in 1865

by Poindexter and Orr, it holds the oldest brand registered in the state, the square and compass.

Hardin said that he was surprised to find when he moved here that altitudes of 8,500ft. can produce such exceptional range with only 12 inches of rain. “In fact, it’s the best I’ve ever seen,” he said.

The ranch works closely with Montana Fish and Game to enhance fish and game habitats including sage grouse and is in the process of reintroducing Arctic Grayling into the Centennial Valley. In 2002, the ranch became the first, and only, operation in the nation to receive Wildlife at Work certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council by voluntarily managing their lands to support sustainable ecosystems and surrounding communities. Since then, the ranch has been the recipient of many awards related to conservation.

Hardin described their strategy to improve their hay and range lands, and the success they have seen. He said, “It is a challenge. We only have 54 frost-free days here...” “It’s too bad they aren’t consecutive!” quipped a bystander.

Immediately bordering the Matador is another historic ranch, the 88,000-acre La Cense Ranch, running Angus and Anguscross cattle, managed by Race King and his family.

Hardin and King both described the difficulty controlling elk herd invasions into their pastures and hay fields, numbering in the vicinity of 2,000 head each fall. The two ranches coordinate their efforts, pushing the animals back into the mountains and by encouraging hunting, though safety concerns limit the number of hunters that can be allowed in at one time. Hardin said that one year 330 elk were harvested on the Matador alone, and it barely dented the population.

On top of the feed lost to the elk herds, they also carry Brucellosis (Bangs), a highly contagious disease that affects several species, resulting in stillborn offspring. The disease is also transmissible to humans, known as Undulant fever. Both operators emphasized that it is paramount to keep their cattle separated when the elk are calving to prevent transmission of the disease through contact with amniotic fluid, because its high population of Brucella bacteria.

Transmission may also occur through other contaminated body fluids. A single vaccina-

tion is only about 70% effective, so double vaccination is required.

Because of their proximity to Brucellosis infected elk and/or buffalo, both ranches are included in the Designated Surveillance Area (DSA), and subject to rigorous annual testing. La Cense Ranch bleeds and tests all their females over 6 months of age, as well as bulls. The Matador tests 2,000 head of their cows annually to prove 98% Bangs free status.

Peter Kolb, Montana State University Extension Forestry Specialist, discussed the reason elk were invading the ranches.

He observed that part of the problem was over-crowded timber, coupled with wolf predation. He said, “F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. no longer has a sawmill here.

Where sawmills once were numerous, now the closest ones are at Livingston and Deer Lodge. Lack of timber removal has resulted in tall trees, but too small to saw.

Our climate has been the catalyst for conifer encroachment. 1940 to 1980 were wetter than normal years. Wet years result in good cone production, and if followed by another wet year, it’s perfect environment for those seedlings to establish themselves.

Trees that are 20-30 feet apart are good for grass production, thereby enhancing wildlife habitat and grazing. Areas where trees are 13-feet apart or less, results in no grass production what so ever.”

Pointing to a scattering of trees growing within the grassland at the base of the mountain illustrates how conifers take over. He said, “In a few years, the gaps between those trees will fill in, and the process repeated.”

Kolb noted that conifer encroachment has eliminated most of the grassy parks inside the forest as well. He also noted that elk prefer easy food and warmer temperatures that lower altitudes offer, and at the same time the herd can spot predators more readily. Once they learn about these fields, it is pretty difficult to change their habits.

The next stop was to the family owned Helle Ranch, a Rambouillet sheep producer running 10,000 head, in conjunction with an irrigated farm. The ranch is operated by Joe and Aggie, and their sons Tom and John and John’s wife, Karen.

Fourth generation rancher, John, briefed the crowd on the history of sheep in Beaverhead and Madison Counties. In 1869, the Bishop family trailed the first 1,100 ewes into the area from The Dalles, Oregon, taking 80 days. Eventually there were a half million sheep in the area. By the mid-1970s Helles were about the only ones left.

Taking advantage of the long, soft, fibers in their wool, John and Karen diversified.

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duce upscale knit fabric and a clothing line under their label, has more natural crimp and wave than competitive fibers produced in Australia and New Zealand. Helle credits the high altitude and extreme temperatures for the quality of the wool they produce.

Helle maintains that their fabric is zero-itch and feels good on the skin. On top of that, it is 100% American made, start to finish.

Helle showcased their 10,000-acre pasture located in the Sweetwater basin.

Originally sagebrush infested, the ranch uses the pasture for spring grazing and again in the fall. They began burning sagebrush many years ago and now follow a 20-25 year rotation. The sagebrush is burned in a patchwork pattern, allowing the native Idaho Fescue to flourish. The process has increased their carry capacity by about 400%, while also improving the habitat for game birds and big game. As Helle pointed out, grass doesn’t grow under dense sagebrush.

The patches are only burned in the fall and spring based on favorable wind predictions, allowing them to fine tune the selected areas. Helle said, “The entire crew gets mad at me because it’s all hands on deck during burn days. When I see the conditions I’m looking for, we drop everything and do it, in spite of what projects get put on hold.”

The upside to their method is they can keep the fire cool so it doesn’t damage the grass crowns, resulting in good recovery.

From that range the herds are trailed to the Gravelly Range each spring, then to the Ruby Range, back to the Gravelly’s, then home, covering about 50 miles. “Yes, we chase melting snow up the mountains, and falling snow chases us back down,” Helle stated.

Each fall, their ewes go to a Manhattan operation, while the yearlings go to the Sun West Ranch, where they graze in subdivisions. Looking for an easy way to maintain their property, homeowners stand in line to get put on the list. It is a great deal for the rancher, as well as the homeowner, according to Helle. Their market lambs are shipped to Colorado for finishing.

“As far as predation,” Helle said, “coyotes are a worse threat to our sheep than wolves, though a few years back we had in incident where wolves killed 80 sheep in a single night attack, though it was hard to get an accurate count because of the sheer carnage left behind.”

The tour participants were treated to an excellent lamb barbecue before getting back onto the buses.

The final site on the schedule was the Maloney Ranch where efforts are being made to rehabilitate the watershed after extensive encroachment by Juniper on one side and Douglas fir at the head of the drainage. The

ranch is privately owned and surrounded by BLM and Forest Service land.

The road to the site follows the drainage paralleling a dry stream bed for 5 miles. The upper section is a tiny stream containing a captive population of 100 native Arctic Grayling. Historically, the stream ran all year long. A couple of miles from the bottom, a drop was recently installed to protect the Graylings from any invasive fish species that could navigate upstream in the event of a 10-year, or better flood.

Bill Malony, grandson of the original 1868 homesteaders described what the ranch was like when he grew up there in the 1930s. He said at that time the area was grass, and the stream was used for irrigation.

Peter Kolb, MSU Extension Forestry Specialist directed the crowd’s attention to the hill at the head of the drainage covered by a thick stand of Douglas fir. He said, “Looking at historic photographs, the hill you see behind you was once all grass.

See the tall trees on top of the ridge? That was the extent of the forest here a hundred years ago.”

Evidence supports the theory that it is the dense forest and thick sagebrush that is responsible for the drought conditions exhibited in today’s forests throughout the west, coupled with much reduced stream flows. Kolb said, “If you drive up here in the winter there will be 2 feet of snow on the road. Under the trees and sagebrush there will only be 4 to 6 inches of snow on the ground. All of the snow trapped in the canopy simply evaporates, adding nothing to the water supply.” The timber is now stressed, making the entire forest susceptible to bark beetles and fires.

Grass doesn’t grow in a dense forest where the tree population is under 13 feet apart. On top of that, the canopy limits sunlight penetration and available moisture. As the water source dried up beyond the timber, sagebrush eventually took over the grassy areas due to its deep root system. Then Junipers began encroaching on the sagebrush.

Kolb stated, “When I was a kid, forest fires were generally small. Now they are widespread and enormous and very intense.

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Ventenata, also called wiregrass, is an aggressive winter annual grass that can outcompete native vegetation and other invasive plants, including cheatgrass. It tends to occupy rights-of-way, rangeland, pastures, and agronomic fields where it can impact forage and crop production, wildlife habitat, and native plant diversity. Infestations have been confirmed in 19 Montana counties spanning from Lincoln County to Rosebud County. Sanders and Gallatin Counties had already declared it as a county listed noxious weed.

Because infestation size and spread are largely unknown, listing ventenata as a Priority 2A noxious weed will allow counties to prioritize the species as needed. Economic impacts of ventenata in Montana are unknown at this time.

Few control options currently exist and are estimated to cost between $26-$75 per acre. Ventenata is present in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and British Columbia. It was estimated in 2018 that Montana had 55,000 acres infested with ventenata. For more information on ventenata, read the MSU MontGuide, publication number MT201810AG (http:// msuextension.org/publications/AgandNaturalResources/ MT201810AG.pdf).

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

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The rise and fall of the Polish joke

Though rarely told today (thankfully), Polish jokes were a huge craze for much of the 20th century.

You can blame Adolf Hitler for these jokes. In his quest to conquer Poland in the 1930s, Hitler pushed the racist “dumb Polack” stereotype so the rest of Europe wouldn’t sympathize with the country’s fate. The Nazi propaganda machine claimed, among other things, that Polish soldiers on horseback had once attacked German tanks with swords. That stereotype spread to the United States after the war, and by the 1960s, Poles had become a punch line. The TV show Laughin (1967-73) featured a regular segment dedicated to Polish jokes. Books of Polish jokes followed over the next decade.

The perception began to change in 1978 when Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became the first Polish pope (John Paul II).

The fad tapered off after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

First step toward treating honey bee parasite

By Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have taken the first step towards a weapon against the major honey bee parasite Nosema ceranae.

There is currently no treatment for this parasite.

The scientists found that feeding honey bees a small amount of an interfering RNA compound (RNAi) could disrupt the reproduction of N. cerana by as much as 90 percent in the laboratory study, according to a study recently published in Insect Molecular Biology.

This RNAi compound targets a single N. ceranae gene called Dicer, explained Jay Evans, research leader of the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, who headed the study.

“Dicer is a critical part of Nosema ceranae’s machinery for defeating honey bees’ immune responses to infestation by these parasites. It also encodes an essential protein in N. ceranae’s reproduction. So, it could be a double-barreled, practical route for attacking N. ceranae. Even better, RNAi against Dicer is specific to the parasite and will not interfere with the health of the honey bees,” Evans said.

In earlier studies, the lab had looked at attacking N. ceranea genes that encodes for proteins that make N. ceranae a better parasite such as a polar tube protein that is important in the invasion of bee cells by the parasite.

“But by striking at a single gene that affects N. ceranae reproduction and the ability of this parasite to counter honey bee immunity, I think we may have found an even better—an excellent avenue of attack,” Evans added.

But this is just the first step toward a possible treatment.

The researchers need to prove the concept in the field and beekeepers’ apiaries.

Nosema ceranae is widespread problem of honey bees, although the impacts on colony health remain unclear. The best measure of the damage of Nosema comes from Europe where this parasite has been linked to long-term colony declines in Spain.

A chemical treatment had been available, but it was taken off the market due to production challenges.

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By University of Wyoming Extension There were many pin-worthy events in 1975.

The Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon; Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft (Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would create Apple the following year); “Jaws” dominated the big screens; and David “Tex” Taylor joined University of Wyoming Extension as a senior economist.

After 43 years, the professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics is retiring this month. His career spans beginnings as a loan officer in Nebraska to a research assistant in Washington, D.C., an extension educator and then faculty member in 1985.

Taylor said he would tell his 1975 self-starting the career journey to be patient and expect the unexpected.

The Edgar, Montana, native was raised on a farm near Billings with two brothers. The 6-foot 8-inch Taylor attended Montana State University, played varsity basketball and earned his bachelor’s degree in economics in 1972 and master’s in 1973. That year, a teammate from the MSU basketball team asked if he would work on a study in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.

“I came down here and basically never left,” quipped Taylor, who earned his Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 1985.

Taylor said a three-year stint in Teton County as an extension educator taught him how to frame things in a clearer, more easily understood and helpful way. He also came away with a wife. He met Rebecca in Jackson. They have two children, who live in Laramie.

Taylor has been the go-to guy for economic analyses of environmental, tourism and recreation, endangered species, and many other issues affecting Wyoming and its communities, noted Dale Menkhaus, professor emeritus in the department, who worked with Taylor for decades.

“His achievements and contributions have gained for him a distinguished reputation, not only in Wyoming, but also in the western region and nationally,” said Menkhaus.

His mentoring also drew respect.

Taylor was always patient, kind and generous as a mentor, said Chris Bastian, a professor in the department. Taylor helped Bastian with his dissertation.

Taylor taught the details that need to be considered pertinent to analyses, information not found in textbooks or software manuals, said Bastian.

“It was this kind of mentorship and expertise that sets Tex apart from many so-called experts,” he said.

Applied research, studies that help understand a given issue or question, always appealed to Taylor.

“Driving through a community somewhere in Wyoming, I’d always think, ‘What makes this community’s economy work, what drives it, what are the important factors, why is it here?’” said Taylor. “I always found that interesting.”

Taylor has been a longtime member of the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group, which tries to estimate nearfuture revenues received by Wyoming’s government. It’s a cocktail of annual estimates in October to assist in the governor’s preliminary budget, with a revision in January.

Mineral prices, natural gas prices and the stock market all come into play.

Very difficult to predict, he said.

Taylor said he will miss that experience. Getting the inside perspective on how Wyoming state finances work has always been very interesting, he noted.

“The economist does the analysis, and that’s wonderful and great, but to be useful, and where I get satisfaction, is when people actually use it,” he said.

Taylor said his plans are to remain in Laramie.

Kiss and Make Up Day

Date When Celebrated: August 25th Kiss and Make Up Day is a great way to end a spat. Everyone has an argument, a fight, or a tiff once in a while. Family, friends, lovers, no one escapes without an occasional fight. Today is a day to end the fight, kiss, and make up. Oh, what fun this day can be!

Today is a day to end the fight, be it a short spat, or a long standing feud. C’mon, get over the issues, and resolve your differences.

Then, kiss and make up. After all, making up can be oh, so sweet.

For lovers, it is the best part of the fight. Some might suggest that the kissing and the making up part makes fighting worthwhile.

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reclaiming land when the timber has no commercial value. Kolb then turned everyone’s attention to the Juniper trees invading down the hill. He said, “Junipers need a cover crop to grow from seed. Go up the hill and look under the sage, and you’ll find Juniper seedlings growing there.

If moisture conditions are adequate, and those plants grow for 2 years, they will have a root system 2 feet long, and will survive to Peter Kolb, MSU Extension Forestry Specialist, left, discusses the mechamaturity. nism employed by Juniper trees to encroach on grassland and sagebrush at He said that using tradi- the Malony Ranch. tional tree removal methods such as cutting and leaving the tree to rot, gone. The downside of this type of mulcher or cutting and stacking debris for eventual is that debris flies far enough to make it burning, costs involved start at $80/acre unfeasible to use in populated areas. and go up from there, to over $800 in some Experiments with this tool in other areas areas. One option is to burn, but it is too indicate that costs have been reduced to high of a risk. about $28/acre, making large scale waterRDO Equipment Co., Bozeman, was on shed restoration a possibility. Government hand to demonstrate a tracked skid-steer agencies are in process of devising a plan loader equipped with a rotary Diamond for cross boundary restoration, regardless Mowers forestry mulching attachment. of ownership.

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From MSU News Service Nebraska-Lincoln in human sciences with Montana State University (MSU) has a specialization in nutrition and is also liannounced the hiring of Suzanne Stluka as censed as a registered dietitian. the associate director of MSU Extension and Prior to his hiring, Dorsi developed best Chris Dorsi as the director of the Weatherpractices in the housing industry for 40 ization Training Center. Both Stluka and years, authored textbooks and technical curDorsi began work July 1. riculum, developed training programs and As associate director, Stluka will help operated private construction organizations. oversee an educational network that stretchHe is the co-author of the books “Residenes into 54 Montana counties and all seven tial Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Native American reservations in the state.

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Record high red meat and pork production in May

From USDA May 2018 contained 23 weekdays (including 1 holiday) and 4 Saturdays.

May 2019 contained 23 weekdays (including 1 holiday) and 4 Saturdays.

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.57 billion pounds in May, up 1 percent from the 4.50 billion pounds produced in May 2018.

Beef production, at 2.33 billion pounds, was 1 percent above the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.94 million head, up 1 percent from May 2018. The average live weight was unchanged from the previous year, at 1,316 pounds.

Veal production totaled 6.3 million pounds, 1 percent below May a year ago. Calf slaughter totaled 46,200 head, down 1 percent from May 2018. The average live weight was down 2 pounds from last year, at 236 pounds.

Pork production totaled 2.22 billion pounds, up 2 percent from the previous year. Hog slaughter totaled 10.4 million head, up 1 percent from May 2018. The average live weight was up 2 pounds from the previous year, at 287 pounds.

Lamb and mutton production, at 13.4 million pounds, was down 2 percent from May 2018. Sheep slaughter totaled 209,200 head, 4 percent above last year. The average live weight was 128 pounds, down 8 pounds from May a year ago.

January to May 2019 commercial red meat production was 22.4 billion pounds, up 2 percent from 2018. Accumulated beef production was up 1 percent from last year, veal was down 1 percent, pork was up 3 percent from last year, and lamb and mutton production was up 1 percent. ##### I asked my daughter if she’d seen my newspaper. She told me that newspapers are old school. She said that people use tablets nowadays and handed me her iPad. The fly didn’t stand a chance.

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2019 Trail Max TRD-54-TD 3 axle tilt trailer 66,980 lb GVWR, distributed capacity 53,950, trailer weight 12,650 lb. Tubular subframe with high tensile perimeter rails, 5 inch tubular crossmembers, 100,000 lb drawbar eye, 2 speed landing gear, 35,000 lb lift capacity, (18) 2-way chain/stake pockets, (3) 20,000 lb axles, S-Cam full air brakes with maxi spring brakes, Hutch H-9700 tri-axle suspension. Price includes F.E.T.

Bridges: (2) 55’x13’ Steel Girder - Wood deck....... $40,000 each (1) 28’x15’ Timber Bridge.................................. $25,000 (2) 17’x13’ Timber Bridges.......................... $5000 each (1) 12’x13’ Timber Bridge..................................... $3000 (2) 35’x10’ Rail car with concrete decking...................... . ....................................$5000 each, Both for $7000 . (other sizes available also)

Freeman 1390 In-Line Square Baler 16x22 bales, 3 knotter, Duetz 4 cylinder 67 hp, very low use....$10,000

Call Carol 406-274-3064 Stevensville, MT

$21,500

2013 Champion Office/Tiny Home Trailer 10-ft. x 48-ft. office trailer or tiny home, (3) main offices/rooms with closets, 1 bathroom.

Can be moved with 1-ton dually.

$4600

$10,000 1988 Clark CY300 Forklift 30,000 lb mast lift, enclosed cab, 5.9L Cummins engine, good tires. Nice machine!

$39,500 2002 Peterbilt 379 Day Cab Truck Cat C12 engine, 435 hp, 10 speed transmission, wet kit, 5th wheel blocks, 22.5 rubber, aluminum wheels, 926,000 miles. New paint! Very clean!

$4750

1992 Chevrolet 2500 Pickup 350 gas engine, automatic transmission, new transmission, power locks and windows, new tires, 201,000 miles.

Cold air conditioning, hot heater, well maintained.

$47,500 Farmall 756 Tractor dual PTO, 6300 hours. Good machine!

2011 Skytrack 8042 Telescoping Forklift 8000 lb lift, 42-ft. reach, new solid rubber tires, 5200 hours. Nice lift.

1998 Cornhusker Aluminum Gravel Pup Trailer 23-ft. tongue, 14-ft. box, new floor, Tri/Axle....................$10,000

$8000 each 2010 Genie GR20 Scissor Lift 25-ft. 9 inch working height, 350 lb lift capacity, 2450 lb dry weight, 194 hours.

$3750

$61,500

Caterpillar D8H Dozer cab, heat, air conditioning, u-dozer, hydraulic tilt, ripper, less than 10 hours on new undercarriage and new engine.

$57,500

2015 Deere 244K Wheel Loader cab, heat, air conditioning, quick attach for John Deere or skid steer, creep, high-flow hydraulics, tire chains, 1700 hours, includes 1.25 yard bucket

$70,500

2014 John Deere 210K Skip Loader 4WD, ride control, differential lock, cab, heat, air conditioning, float, scarifier box, rear weight kit, 3459 hours. Very nice machine!

Atlas Copco 185 cfm Air Compressor John Deere diesel engine. 3 available!

$10,000

$16,000 $7650

John Deere 328T Baler Like new, barely a season on it, works like a charm!

Frost Fighter Heater 500,000 BTU, diesel, indirect flame heater.

8-ft. Kage Skidsteer Snowfire Plow skidsteer mount, hydraulic, 8-ft. wide.

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346 Sunrise Creek Loop Columbia Falls, MT

406-892-3915

$7000

1991 Vibratory Rex Roller smooth drum, 72” drum, John Deere diesel engine.

2005 Sullivan 185 cfm Air Compressor Deere diesel engine, trailer-mounted, 4200 hours.

Good machine!

$8000

$2350

2012 Krone Easy Cut 280 Side Cutter Just a few seasons on it, works great!

10-ft. Manbasket OSHA approved, black powder coated, gates at each end, fork mount.

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$4000

Genie TML-4000 Light Plant Kubota diesel engine, 4000 watt generator, 4 lights.

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Equipment Connection, LLC

Your Largest PJ Trailer Dealer In Montana Largest Inventory, Best Prices, Financing & Delivery Available

406-892-3915

346 Sunrise Creek Loop; on Hwy 2 West, PO Box 958 Columbia Falls, MT 59912 email: wyatt3406@gmail.com equipmentconnectionsales@gmail.com

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PJ Utility Trailers

Check out our Great Selection of Dump Trailers!

PJ Gooseneck Trailers

PJ Roll-Offs $9850

$10,500

2019 PJ 14-ft. Gooseneck “Rollster” Roll-Off Dump Trailer Scissor hoist, 18,000 lb. Talon winch, 15,680 lb. GVWR Eliminate job dumpster fees! $9000

2019 PJ 16-ft. x 83” 3 axle dump trailer (3) 7000 lb. axles, scissor hoist, bumper pull.

$10,150

2019 PJ 16-ft. x 83” landscape trailer 7000# GVW, 4-ft. expanded metal sideboards, front landscape box, rear ramp gate, spare tire.

Also available: 14-ft, single axle.......$3500

2019 PJ 16-ft.x83” XL dump trailer scissor hoist, 15,000 lb GVW, ramps, spare tire.

Also available: 3 axle...$11,100

14-ft. x 83” “Rollster” Roll-Off Dump Bins 14-ft. long x 83” wide x 48” high, 10 gauge steel, tarp kit, rear barn doors. Leave one at each job site! $4000 each

$3700

2019 PJ 18-ft. channel utility trailer heavy duty rear ramp, sides, spare wheel and tire, (2) 3500 lb axles. Also available: 16-ft......$3550

20-ft......$3850

$8750

2019 PJ 22-ft (16+6) gooseneck tilt trailer (2) 7000# axles.

Also available: 3 axle.....$9650

$8500 2019 PJ 14-ft. x 83” utility trailer rear ramp, 3500# axle, ATV ramps on front.

Also available: 12-ft. x 77”.....$2350 12-ft. x 77” tandem axle....$3350 14-ft. tandem axle.....$3550

$9150

$2200

2019 PJ 12-ft. x 83” dump trailer (2) 7000# axles, scissor hoist, spare, tarp.

2019 PJ 14-ft.x96” deckover dump trailer fold-down sides, 14,000# GVW, 16” rubber

$8850 $6500

2019 PJ 5 x 10-ft. tandem axle dump trailer (2) 5200# axles, tarp.

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New Enclosed Trailers $7350

$4150

$3650

2019 Royal 8-ft. 6” x 22-ft.

Tandem Axle Enclosed Trailer 78” rear ramp door, side door, (2) 5200 lb. axles, radial tires, spare tire.

Also available: 8-ft. x 16-ft.....$6150

2019 Royal 6-ft. x 14-ft. Enclosed Trailer Single axle, V-nose, rear ramp door side door, radial tires.

See us for all your trailer needs 2019 Royal 7-ft. x 16-ft. Enclosed Trailer Tandem axle, V-nose, rear ramp door, side door, 78” height.

$11,100

2019 PJ 28-ft. gooseneck tilt trailer 22-ft. tilt, 6-ft. front stationary, winch plate, (2) 7000 lb axles, spare.

$2550

2019 PJ 16-ft. x 83” bumper pull dump trailer (2) 7000# axles, scissor hoist, spare, tarp.

2019 PJ 12-ft. x 72” tandem axle dump trailer (2) 5200 lb. axles, tarp, split gate, ramps Also available: 10-ft. .....$7550

2019 PJ 14-ft. x 83” dump trailer tandem axle, 16” rubber, tarp

$13,700

2019 PJ 30-ft. gooseneck with duals trailer (2) 12,000 lb axles, beavertail with monster ramps.

Also available: 25-ft......$13,200

2019 PJ 14-ft. x 83” high side dump trailer scissor hoist, tarp, (2) 7000# axles, spare tire, 4-ft. sides Also available:16-ft.........$10,000

$9300 $7750

$4600

2019 PJ 16-ft. carhauler trailer (2) 5200 lb axles, rear ramps, spare tire.

Also available: 18-ft.....$4200 and 20-ft.....$4400

$5450

2019 PJ 8-ft. x 60” utility trailer rear ramp, spare tire, 15” rubber.

Also available 10-ft.x60”.....$2300 10-ft.x77”....$2200

$8850

2019 PJ 25-ft. gooseneck trailer 20-ft. deck, 5-ft. beavertail with monster ramps, tandem 7000# axles, 16” rubber.

PJ Deckover Trailers $8550

PJ Tilt Trailers $7750 2019 PJ 22-ft. powered full tilt (2) 7000# axles, spare tire, winch plate.

2019 PJ 22-ft. Deckover Tilt Trailer 22-ft. deck, 8’6” wide, (2) 7000# axles, power up/ down hoist, 16” rubber, winch plate.

Also available: 24-ft......$8650

$6700 2019 PJ 20-ft. tilt trailer 16-ft. tilt, 4-ft. stationary, 14,000# GVW, radial rubber.

Also have: 16-ft. + 6-ft. stationary tilt.....$6800 Also available: 3-axle

$7550

2019 PJ 20-ft. x 8” heavy duty deckover trailer with Monster ramps 4-ft. tail, 14,000# GVW.

$6500

2019 PJ 16-ft tilt trailer Full tilt deck, (2) 7000 lb. axles, radial rubber.

TJ HR 22-ft. tilts......$9650

$6300 2019 PJ 22-ft. deckover trailer 19-ft. deck, 3-ft. beavertail with standup ramps, 14,000# GVW.

2019 PJ 20-ft. equipment trailer bumper pull, 14,000 lb. GVW, 18-ft. deck, 2-ft. beavertail with standup ramps.

$5350

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$5850

2019 PJ 20-ft. quick tilt trailer (2) 5200 lb axles, electric over hydraulic full tilt.

$6100

2019 PJ 20-ft. heavy duty deckover flatbed trailer 14,000 GVW, rear ramps, spare tire.

Also available 22-ft......$6300 And 24-ft.....$6500

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