Trader's Dispatch December 2019

DECEMBER 2019

Vol. XX No. 11 P.O. Box 997 Conrad, MT 59425-0997

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

Calving Schools offered to assist beef producers

From K-State Research and Extension News In anticipation of calving season, Kansas State University faculty and staff are planning a series of events from November through January to help boost producers’ chances of a successful year.

There is no cost to attend the calving schools, but interested persons are asked to pre-register by contacting the local site. Each workshop is hosted by faculty from K-State’s Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, and K-State Research and Extension.

The program will outline overall calving management that includes stages of the normal calving process and tips to handle difficult calving situations. K-State Research and Extension beef veterinarian A.J. Tarpoff said the event will increase knowledge, practical skills and the number of live calves born.

“Our goal is for producers to leave better prepared for calving season,” Tarpoff said. “We will discuss timelines on when to examine cows for calving problems, and when to call your vet for help if things are not going well. It’s an excellent program regardless of experience level.”

Presenters will also demonstrate proper use of calving equipment on a life-size cow and calf model. Several of the meetings will cover such topics such body condition scoring cows, colostrum management and animal health product storage and handling.

The schedule includes: • Tuesday, December 10, evening, Alfalfa County Fairgrounds, Cherokee, Oklahoma; RSVP to Barber County Extension Office at 620-886-3971, or email Justin Goodno at jgoodno@ksu.edu • Thursday, January 9, evening, Edwards County Fair Building, Kinsley, Kansas; RSVP to Edwards County Extension Office at 620-659-2149, or email Martin Gleason at mgleason@ksu.edu • Tuesday, January 14, evening, Franklin County Fairgrounds, Celebration Hall, Ottawa, Kansas; RSVP to Marais des Cygnes District Extension Office at 913-294-4306, or email Katelyn Barthol at kbarth25@k-state.edu • Thursday, January 16, midday, Lane County Fair Building, Dighton, Kansas; RSVP to Walnut Creek District Extension Office at 785-222-2710, or email Jared Petersilie at jaredp11@ksu.edu CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

PRODUCTION SALES

January 12, Ressler Land & Cattle, Cooperstown ND.......................................A6 January 17, Diamond Bar S Simmental & SimAngus, Great Falls MT...........A15 February 1, Prickly Pear Simmental Ranch, Helena MT..................................A36 February 15, Sparks Herefords, Plevna MT........................................................A9

PRIVATE TREATY

Beery’s Land & Livestock Co., Vida MT..............................................................A9 Dallas Polled Herefords, Canyon Creek MT.....................................................A10 Feddes Herefords, Manhattan MT.......................................................................A9 J Bar E Ranch, Plentywood MT...........................................................................A9 McMurry Cattle, Billings MT................................................................................A9 Sidwell Ranch, Columbus MT..............................................................................A9 Sleeping Willow Ranch, Stevensville MT..........................................................A12 Thomas Herefords, Gold Creek MT.....................................................................A9 Wichman Herefords, Moore MT...........................................................................A9 Wyse Genetics, Manhattan..................................................................................A3

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

December 2-17, Kinsey Auctioneers & Real Estate, Ag Marketplace, Online....A4 December 16, Abilene Machine, Antique Tractor Auction, Online....................A2

OTHER DATED EVENTS

January 31-February 1, Montana’s Next Generation Conference, Shelby MT.... ...........................................................................................................................A12

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Montana State University research center to host annual research roundup

From MSU News Service The Montana State University (MSU) by discussion sessions with MSU faculty.

Central Agricultural Research Station will “Our goal at each Research Roundup is to host its annual research roundup event in provide Montana farmers with a summary Lewistown from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on of ongoing and recently completed research Tuesday, December 10. The event will in central Montana and to highlight some showcase ongoing projects at the research hot topics of interest to area farmers,” said center and offer time for public input along Pat Carr, superintendent of the Central Agwith a local meal. ricultural Research Center and an associate One of seven Montana Agricultural Exprofessor of cropping systems. “This year, periment Station research centers, which an important focus is the management of constitute the research arm of the MSU low pH soils, a problem of growing concern College of Agriculture, the Central Agnot only in central Montana but across the ricultural Research Center in Moccasin state.” conducts projects focused on soil and water Research associate Simon Fordyce will management, cereal variety testing and best speak on cultivar selection in high-acidity practices against weeds and crop diseases, soil. Assistant agronomy professor Jed Ebamong other regionally-focused projects. erly will highlight cropping system diversity Along with an annual summer field day, the and soil respiration. Assistant professor winter event allows a greater opportunity for Jamie Sherman will discuss developments public involvement at the research center. in barley breeding. Professor of soil nutriThe roundup is free and open to the pubent management Rick Engel will highlight lic, sponsored by the Fergus County Farm causes and solutions for soil acidification, Bureau, Wilbur Ellis, Gavilon Grain, Stockand professor and Extension soil specialist man Bank, Moore Farmers Oil, Central Clain Jones will give an update on how Montana Propane and Corteva Agriscience.

Montana has identified and learned about The event will be hosted at the Central Feed soil acidification.

Grilling Company in nearby Lewistown, Carr will wrap up the day with a disbeginning with a welcome from Chouteau cussion of how to best select diverse crop County Extension’s Tyler Lane followed CONTINUED ON PAGE A2

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Calving Schools offered to assist beef producers CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

• Thursday, January 16, Trego County Fairgrounds, Commercial Building, Wakeeney, Kansas; RSVP to Golden Prairie District Extension Office at 785-743-6361, or email Clint Bain at bainc@ksu.edu • Thursday, January 23, KSU Polytechnic College Center, Salina, Kansas; RSVP to Central Kansas District Extension Office at 785-309-5850, or email Cade Rensink at crensink@ ksu.edu More information about the calving schools is available at KSUBeef.org.

MSU research center to host annual research roundup CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

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The Montana Agricultural Experiment Station research centers are designed to conduct statewide agricultural research locally tailored to fit the diverse needs of Montana’s regions. Each center is overseen by an advisory committee and values public input as to the needs and questions of local farmers, ranchers and producers. Research centers are located in Bozeman, Conrad, Corvallis, Creston, Havre, Huntley, Moccasin and Sidney.

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MFB elects officers during annual convention

Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire Hans McPherson, a diversified farmer from Stevensville, was re-elected as president of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation during the organization’s annual convention November 11-14 in Billings. Cyndi Johnson, a Conrad small grains farmer, was re-elected as vice president.

Newly elected to the board were: Kris Descheemaeker, District 3, a cattle rancher from Lewistown; Joy DePuydt, District 7, a cattle rancher from Saco; and Ed Bandel, District 8, a wheat farmer from Floweree.

Re-elected to the MFBF Board of Directors were Craig Blevins, District I, a cattle rancher from Ronan; District 5, Gary Heibertshausen, a sheep rancher from Alzada, and Scott Stoner, District 9, a horse rancher from Helena.

Carla Lawrence from Boyd was newly elected as the MFBF Women’s Leadership Committee Chair. Gil Gasper from Circle re-elected as the MFBF Young Farmer and Rancher Chair.

Women’s Leadership Committee District 2 – Marti Shields, Dillon; Rhonda Boyd, Alder District 4 – Lisa McFarland, Billings; Carla Lawrence, Boyd District 6 – Michelle Gibbs, Circle; Tracy Gasper, Circle District 8 – Joy DePuydt, Saco District 10 – Carol Plymale, Townsend; Haley Potter, Three Forks Young Farmer & Rancher Committee District 2 – Mark Boyd, Alder; JM Peck, Melrose District 4 – Zach Weimortz, Fromberg; Jacob Stenberg, McLeod District 5 – Fiona Mott, Miles City District 7 – John Walker, Nashua District 8 – Shay Richter, Fort Benton; Todd Standley, Cascade District 10 – Caitlin Boyd, Wilsall; Brady Richardson, White Sulphur Springs

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By Rose Malisani, MSU Cascade County Extension, Agriculture Agent Montana State University (MSU) Extension will host a free, annual cropping seminar series January 6-10 in Fort Benton, Stanford, Havre, Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, Choteau, and Great Falls. Speakers will cover crop diseases and management, oilseed crops, cropping decision tools, and international markets and world supply and demand.

Dr. Mary Burrows, MSU Plant Pathology specialist, will cover fungicide efficacy and resistance prevention in cereal grains, peas, lentils and chickpeas. She will also address upcoming crop disease concerns for crops raised in the Golden Triangle.

Patrick Carr from the MSU Central Agriculture Research Center will focus on the suitability of incorporating oilseeds into central Montana wheat-based cropping systems. Spring and winter canola, flax, hemp, and mustard will be the focus.

Variety selection, planting strategies, fertilizer management, herbicide options and IPM, and harvest options will be covered.

Dr. Kent McVay, Montana State University Extension cropping systems specialist located at the Southern Agricultural Research Center will provide an update on available web-based tools. He will demonstrate how to quickly produce a fertilizer recommendation based on a soil test, narrow herbicide choices with three simple inputs, and update chosen wheat varieties using current local data. Additional online tools will be discussed as well.

Barnett Sporkin – Morrison, Food and Ag Development Center Director from Great Falls, will give an overview of international markets and current world supply and demand.

He will also cover what’s currently happening in the world ag economy and some significant changes that will impact growers by the year 2050.

There is no charge for the seminars, and all producers are encouraged to attend. The Fort Benton, Stanford, Havre, Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, and Choteau seminars will begin at 8:30 a.m. with registration. The Great Falls seminar will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration. Seminars will finish by 3:30 p.m.

Both commercial and private pesticide licensing recertification credits will be available.

Dates, locations, and contact numbers for each cropping seminar are listed below.

January 6: • Fort Benton at the Ag Center located at 1205 20th Street.

Contact Tyler Lane at 406-622-3751 • Stanford at the City Hall located at 102 Central. Contact Katie Hatlelid at 406-566-2277 January 7: • Havre at the Northern Ag Research Center located at 3710 Assiniboine Road. Contact Tom Allen at 406-265-5481, Ext. 233 • Chester at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall located at 10 East Madison Avenue. Contact Jesse Fulbright at 406-759-5625 January 8: • Cut Bank at the Glacier County Library basement located at 21 1st Ave SE. Contact Kari Lewis, 406-873-2239 • Shelby at the Comfort Inn Conference Room located at 455 McKinley Avenue. Contact Kim Woodring at 406-4248350 January 9: • Choteau at the Stage Stop Inn located at 1005 Main Avenue North. Contact MSU Teton County Extension office at 406-466-2491 • Conrad at the Pondera Shooting Sports Complex at 972 Granite Road. Contact Adriane Good at 406-271-4053 January 10: • Great Falls at the Great Falls College MSU’s Heritage Hall at 2100 16th Ave S, Great Falls. Contact Rose Malisani at 406-454-6980 MSU Extension is an ADA/EO/AA/veteran’s preference employer and provider of educational outreach. If participants require accommodation for a disability to participate, they are asked to notify the local Extension office prior to the event. ##### Most weather-related crashes in the U.S. happen on wet pavement and during rainfall. Specifically, 74% occur on wet pavement and 46% during rainfall. About 17% occur during snow or sleet, 12% on icy pavement, and 14% take place on snowy or slushy pavement. Only 3% happen in the presence of fog.

Casper conference goal to build state food coalition, action agenda

From University of Wyoming Extension Helping empower and expand fresh local food across Wyoming is the mission of the state food coalition and action agenda conference Friday-Saturday, December 13-14, in the Casper College Union Building, Campus Drive.

“The conference goal is to come up with a way to move Wyoming’s food economy forward,” said Tim McAteer, a member of AmeriCorps’ VISTA program (Volunteer in Service to America) and the conference planner. “Wyoming took a leap forward when it passed Food Freedom – now we need a way to increase promotion, production and consumption of fresh, locally produced foods.”

Food system stakeholders across Wyoming are invited to share thoughts and opinions in building a plan of action and an entity that can engage with communities around food laws, marketing opportunities and food access.

The need for a higher entity that can advocate on behalf of all participants in the food systems around the state emerged as a theme in meetings with producers, vendors, marketers and smaller agricultural businesses and food justice advocates, said McAteer.

This conference represents a significant next step toward forming an organized coalition to work on behalf of all food system stakeholders, McAteer explained.

Cole Ehmke, extension specialist in rural business development, said he sees this coalition as way to help Wyoming improve its support to food entrepreneurs while also discussing important issues about making food accessible to the people who need it most.

Building a board and action agenda is expected to take about a year, said McAteer. His hope is to have a group that can advocate on policy to help empower and expand fresh local food across the state, which will ultimately help grow Wyoming’s economy.

“We’d love to see more production in the state, and we’d love to see more local products sold locally, but we also would like to see food produced and exported outside the state as well,” said Ehmke.

Ehmke sees extension’s role as bringing people together to help move the project forward.

From 1:30-5:30 p.m. Friday, attendees will decide goals the group would like to achieve and then on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. attendees will break out in working groups to determine the best way to reach their goals.

Wyoming First Lady Jennie Gordon is speaking Saturday about “The Wyoming Hunger Initiative” and will participate in a working group meeting.

Registration is free, and lunch is provided on Saturday as well as water, coffee and snacks. Please register at http://bit. ly/WyoFoodCoalition.

Commercial pesticide applicator study manuals available

From University of Wyoming Extension Study manuals for commercial pesticide applicator licenses are now available in 80 public libraries and community college libraries across the state.

The study materials can help licensees prepare for examinations proctored by University of Wyoming Extension county personnel.

Commercial applicators must pass an examination testing their general knowledge of pesticide use, safety and regulation and a minimum of one category exam specific to the type of applications the licensee will make, said Jeff Edwards, UW Extension pesticide training coordinator. There are 32 categories in Wyoming.

Edwards noted the cooperation of Wyoming state librarian Jamie Markus and his staff to make the manuals available to the public.

More information about pesticide applicator licensing is at https://uwyoextension.org/psep or by calling 307-837-2956.

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Long-sought opening of Brazilian wheat TRQ ahead

From U.S. Wheat Associates A significant impediment to U.S. wheat sales to the large Brazilian market is likely to end soon. Brazil’s government has announced it intends to implement a tariff rate quota (TRQ) allowing up to 750,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat to be imported duty-free from countries outside the Mercosur trade agreement.

Brazil first agreed to this TRQ some 24 years ago when it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Brazilian government is now moving forward with developing a final process and date for implementing the TRQ. Through U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the U.S. government, wheat farmers have worked and negotiated for several years with Brazil’s government to open the TRQ and create a more open market there for U.S. hard red winter (HRW) and soft red winter (SRW) wheat.

“Brazil is a quality-focused wheat market and its flour millers recognize that U.S. wheat can help them better meet their customers’ needs,” said USW President Vince Peterson.

“Opening the TRQ will give those millers more consistent access to our wheat classes while still having the option to source from other countries. That is how the market should work and we welcome this opportunity.”

“This is a perfect example of how fulfilling commitments can work for all trading partners,” said Doug Goyings, USW Chairman and a wheat farmer from Paulding, Ohio.

“We want to recognize Ambassador Gregg Doud, our Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney, as well as the career staff of USDA and USTR for their focus on this issue.

They have raised it multiple times with their counterparts in Brazil.”

Brazil is the fourth largest wheat importer in the world but Argentina and other countries in the Mercosur agreement have had a competitive advantage with mostly unlimited duty-free access to the market. Wheat imports from countries outside the Mercosur agreement including the United States are subject to a 10 percent tariff. However, USW has always conducted activities in Brazil to keep its millers and bakers informed about the quality and value of U.S. wheat.

As a result, when Brazil opened provisional TRQs in 2008, 2013 and 2014 because its Mercosur partners had wheat supply challenges, U.S. HRW and SRW made up more than 80 percent of imports.

Record red meat and pork production in September

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From USDA September 2018 contained 20 weekdays (including 1 holiday) and 5 Saturdays.

September 2019 contained 21 weekdays (including 1 holiday) and 4 Saturdays.

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.44 billion pounds in September, up 6 percent from the 4.19 billion pounds produced in September 2018.

Beef production, at 2.19 billion pounds, was 1 percent above the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.68 million head, up 2 percent from September 2018. The average live weight was down 7 pounds from the previous year, at 1,352 pounds.

Veal production totaled 6.1 million pounds, 1 percent above September a year ago. Calf slaughter totaled 49,000 head, up 1 percent from September 2018. The average live weight was up 1 pound from last year, at 216 pounds.

Pork production totaled 2.24 billion pounds, up 11 percent from the previous year. Hog slaughter totaled 10.6 million head, up 10 percent from September 2018. The average live weight was up 2 pounds from the previous year, at 282 pounds.

Lamb and mutton production, at 10.9 million pounds, was down 4 percent from September 2018. Sheep slaughter totaled 179,400 head, 4 percent above last year. The average live weight was 122 pounds, down 10 pounds from September a year ago.

January to September 2019 commercial red meat production was 40.5 billion pounds, up 3 percent from 2018. Accumulated beef production was up 1 percent from last year, veal was down 1 percent, pork was up 5 percent from last year, and lamb and mutton production was down 2 percent.

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By K-State Research and Extension News Many sorghum growers believe their crop tists at the University of Queensland in Auscan be a key to the future partly because of tralia and Corteva Agriscience (formerly its drought-tolerant nature. Now they’re DuPont Pioneer). This method of combinbanding together in an unprecedented way ing proprietary genomic and phenotyping to invest in that belief. methodologies became the cornerstone of The worsening reality of water scarcity Corteva’s highly successful Optimum® means research and increased production of AQUAmax® drought-tolerant corn hybrids. dryland crops such as sorghum, millet and G2P breeding is a leapfrog approach for other “ancient grains” is a race against time. increasing water-efficient crop yields. G2P Groundwater depletion and changing rain breeding takes the same high-tech design and snow patterns will make it difficult, if approach used by engineers to create evnot impossible, to grow some crops the way erything from race car engines to airplane they are grown today, especially in places wings. such as semi-arid western Kansas.

“We can design thousands of potential Historically, dryland crops such as sorhybrids, simulate their performance over ghum have occupied the middle range of thousands of growing scenarios, and test the crop-acreage size: viable enough to be part best designs under tough real-world condiof a commercial pipeline, but not big enough tions,” said Geoff Morris, Kansas State crop to command the resources of cutting-edge geneticist and G2P project director. “With research at universities and major privateG2P breeding, we can better connect the sector support. With genome-to-phenome genome, the genetics in your seed bag, to (G2P) breeding that’s now changing. the phenome, the crop performance across First used to increase the drought toleryour farm.” ance of corn, G2P gives sorghum growers a The challenge was to find a way to use new foundation on which to build the future this approach to improve sorghum and other of their crops. dryland crops.

G2P unlocks potential That’s where sorghum growers got creG2P breeding was developed by scienative.

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Sorghum growers opt for ‘bootstrap’ investment Through the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research’s Seeding Solutions Grant Program, K-State researchers received a $1 million grant from the foundation to expand the G2P approach to sorghum. FFAR’s model requires matching funds be contributed from private industry, thus amplifying the scope and potential

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resources. This work could be a breakthrough for sustainability and profitability.”

Firm believers in the G2P’s ability to transform crop development, farmers who make up the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission committed $500,000 in matching funds to develop next-generation sorghum.

“This research is crucial for sorghum farmers since the main long-term goal for this project will be to increase yields, impacting sorghum growers across the state and the country,” said Ignacio Ciampitti, cropping systems specialist and associate professor at Kansas State University. “The project focuses on the recent success on developing droughttolerant corn hybrids and translating some of this technology to sorghum, increasing not only productivity at the farm scale but also yield stability among farmers.”

Sarah Sexton-Bowser, who leads the Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program through the Center for Sorghum Improvement based at Kansas State University, said, “the trick was finding how to collaborate with the best of public and private science to deliver a leap-frog in approaches to advance sorghum.

Sorghum has to undergo a radical change to remain a viable crop.”

And because Ciampitti and other K-State crop production scientists work across disciplines – sorghum breeding and corn breeding, in this case – have a long-standing relationship with the KGSC, and work with industry collaborators, Corteva saw the promise of this idea and donated roughly $250,000 in the form of in-kind support, including the expertise of its scientists, precision phenotyping capabilities, and the crop models that had already proven successful through the development of Optimum® AQUAmax® corn hybrids.

“This is a true harmony of shared visions, accountability, mission and timing,” SextonBowser said.

The resulting public-private collaboration is called the G2P Bridge.

Sorghum as a bridge for crop scientists “Kansas farmers are the cornerstone of the G2P Bridge,” said Jesse McCurry, executive director of the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission. He said the commission sees G2P Bridge as “a chance to leverage farmer research investments with the best of public science and direct linkage to the market. For every dollar the commission invested, there are three additional dollars, all working toward advancing productivity in sorghum cropping systems.”

The end goal of this research is to add to diversity of crops in water-limited areas.

Specifically, the four-year study, which began in January, examines cold tolerance, length of growing seasons including when a plant experiences distress from drought and heat, and which combinations of plant genetics best respond to these stresses.

Forming the collaboration with Corteva Agriscience was critical for the success of

this project,” Ciampitti said. “Not only are they providing in-kind funds, they are also providing the strategic resources necessary to ensure that the project is successful and makes a meaningful impact.”

Corteva Agriscience research scientist Laura Mayor said the project seeks to accelerate development of other crops by building on success stories. “Sorghum is being used as the model crop for this project in terms of its adaptability to water-stressed environments and as a bridge between major crops, such as corn, and minor, unutilized crops such as pearl millet,” she said.

The project uses the proven G2P approach to characterize, test and advance two genotypeby-management systems that may increase productivity in water-scarce environments.

One system involves early planting of chilling-tolerant hybrids, shifting the season to an early and more favorable environmental water demand.

The other system involves dense planting of stay-green hybrids, shifting the growing season to even later in the year and improving synchrony with plant-water demand and use.

The G2P Bridge project will build a nationwide knowledge base by engaging in workforce development with early-career plant breeders and scientists to support understanding and adoption of G2P breeding in underutilized water-efficient crops via teleconference seminars, annual workshops, collaboration networks and mentoring.

Larger implications Kansas State University’s Dean of the College of Agriculture Ernie Minton said this project is critically important to the land and people of Kansas. “Productive and resilient agricultural systems are a focal point of KState’s research,” he said. “The G2P Bridge is an example of how K-State scientists are doing real work applying 21st century science to the challenges facing farmers and rural communities.”

By building this capacity while also developing ever-improving plant hybrids, the G2P Bridge will increase agricultural sustainability, while also achieving technology breakthroughs, and create a scientific network capable of sustaining research far into the future that shapes policy around production necessities and funding.

“Establishing this collaboration project is a great opportunity for us to interact with public researchers in a topic that is fundamental for farming, such as water use and efficiency,” Mayor said. “Using a holistic approach through different areas of research to understand water efficiency in sorghum will have a positive impact on overall productivity of water-limited cropping systems.”

All this because a number of Kansas sorghum producers found a common vision that informs their larger vision of feeding an increasingly hungry – and at the same time thirstier – world.

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UK partners with bourbon industry leaders

By Aimee Nielson, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Bourbon isn’t bourbon without the mighty white oak.

Distillers have been aging bourbon in oak barrels as far back as the Roman Empire. Oak barrels give bourbon its unique caramel, vanilla, nutty and toasted flavors. Kentucky distillers rely especially on the white oak. But what if disease hits the species? How would industry professionals protect it?

The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture, Food and Environment is partnering with Maker’s Mark Distillery Inc. in Loretto, Kentucky, and Independent Stave Company to research the DNA of the white oak.

“This research is for the greater good of the industry and the entire Eastern forest,” said Seth DeBolt, director of UK’s James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits. “We’d like to get a reference map for the white oak genome. We’ve identified a tree at the Maker’s Mark Distillery on Star Hill Farm as a gorgeous representative specimen of the species.”

This particular tree, known as “46 Tree,” is hundreds of years old. The team is already collecting grafts and acorns from the tree to begin the research.

By studying the tree’s DNA, researchers will be able to identify subtle differences that exist within a species. DeBolt said it’s almost like looking at the white oak as an agricultural crop and identifying key traits of that crop.

“The challenge here is to thoroughly understand a species, a really foundational, long-lived species that anchors the forest,” he said. “The goal is to answer questions such as: How does it live that long, in a single location? How does it maintain resistance to so many different diseases?”

Maker’s Mark Distillery and Independent Stave Company stepped in to fund this research that will ensure the production of new oak barrels for use by the entire industry for decades to come. The research team also includes individuals from the University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. Forest Service.

“American white oak is a key ingredient in bourbonmaking. The color, and much of the flavor, of bourbon come from white oak barrels, so it’s critically important that this precious natural resource be managed and preserved for generations to come,” said Rob Samuels, chief distillery officer for Maker’s Mark Distillery. “At Maker’s Mark, we’re constantly stepping up our own environmental efforts, which have become a guiding principle for everything we do, and we’re proud to play a part in this research that will reach far beyond our home at Star Hill Farm and help this vital species thrive long into the future.”

Independent Stave Company has been crafting world-class oak barrels and cooperage products for more than 100 years.

With multiple locations in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and Africa, they are committed to the health of the white oak.

“For 107 years, my family and our organization has depended on the white oak species for our livelihood,” said Brad Boswell, chief executive officer for Independent Stave Company. “We are excited to better understand its genetics to help ensure the next generation of Independent Stave Company stakeholders has a high quality, plentiful supply of this noble species.”

DeBolt said he hopes the initial stage is complete in about a year.

“I’m just really encouraged by these industry leaders coming together to ensure that our forests are healthy and productive for generations to come,” he said. “Can you imagine if we lost the white oak? It would be a fatal blow to an industry that means so much to Kentucky, to the world really. It is something that touches everyone.”

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New Livestock Loss payment requirements

From Montana Department of Livestock Montana’s Livestock Loss Board pays livestock owners for verified livestock losses due to wolves, grizzly bears and mountain lions. SB 133 was passed during Montana’s 2019 legislative session and requires a livestock owner to be current on their per-capita fees in order to receive a payment from the State for their loss. A portion of the text of SB133 bill is as follows: (b) Before the board may issue a reimbursement for losses to a livestock producer eligible for coverage for losses, the department of revenue shall certify that the livestock producer has paid per capita fees as required by 15-24-921.

Except for a tribal member or tribal entity participating in an authorized agreement pursuant to 2-15-3113, a livestock producer may not receive a reimbursement for losses until the producer has paid any delinquent per-capita fees.

Anyone owning livestock is annually required to pay per-capita fees. While not all livestock are covered for loss, there is still a requirement to pay fees on cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules, swine, poultry, bees, llamas, alpacas, bison, domestic ungulates, ostriches, rheas and emus. Per-capita fees help fund the Department of Livestock activities such as monitoring animal health, preventing and investigating livestock theft and managing predators.

Montana’s Department of Revenue collects per-capita fees for the Department of Livestock. If you have not paid your fees, contact them at 406-444-6900 or visit their website at: https://mtrevenue.gov/%20property/property-types/ livestock/ More information on per-capita fees can also be found on the Department of Livestock’s website at: http://liv. mt.gov/Centralized-Services/Per-Capita-Fees or by calling 406-444-4993.

If you suspect your livestock loss is due to wolves, grizzly bears or mountain lions, call USDA Wildlife Services at 406-657-6464 to request an investigation. The Livestock Loss Board can only pay claims for confirmed or probable death loss verified by USDA Wildlife Services.

The mission of the DOL is to control and eradicate animal diseases, prevent the transmission of animal diseases to humans, and to protect the livestock industry from theft and predatory animals. For more information on the department, visit www.liv.mt.gov.

New Wheat and Barley Bureau Chief

From Montana Department of Agriculture The Montana Department of Agriculture is excited to announce that Cassidy Marn has accepted the Bureau Chief position for the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee.

Cassidy has served as the bureau’s Trade and Marketing Manager since 2010.

“We’re thrilled Cassidy will be leading the Wheat and Barley Committee. She’s highly experienced in world grain markets and is committed to advancing Montana’s #1 industry,” said Director Ben Thomas. “I’m confident she’ll serve the state well.”

Cassidy has both hosted international trade teams and traveled abroad to promote Montana’s high-quality wheat and barley. Having grown up on a wheat, barley, and cattle operation in North Central Montana herself, she’s no stranger to the hard work producers put in.

“I was born and raised in the agricultural industry in Montana and am still involved because I believe in the value of what this state can offer and the endless potential for our grain to be shared around the world,” said Marn. “There are many challenges currently facing Montana’s producers, but I’m looking forward to creating opportunities and helping our farmers and end users thrive.”

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By K-State Research and Extension News A pair of Kansas State University agricultural economists have taken a look at the characteristics that make farms successful in Kansas and have found that bigger doesn’t always mean better.

Greg Ibendahl and Terry Griffin reviewed 10 years of data from the Kansas Farm Management Association (KFMA) to develop a ranking of several hundred farms based on their economic performance.

KFMA is a program offered through K-State’s Department of Agricultural Economics that provides production and financial management information to farm families in the state.

“Based on the farm sizes that we have in our KFMA database, there really is no advantage to being a bigger farm,” Ibendahl said. “I expected the bigger farms to be more efficient because they have the ability to buy inputs at lower prices and because they may have better marketing opportunities.”

Ibendahl noted that the K-State analysis has not yet looked at all potential factors of profitability, “but the surprising thing I’ve seen so far is that once you get to a certain size, there may not be an advantage to getting any bigger than that.”

He added that the farms in the KFMA database are mostly between 1,000 and 4,000 acres.

“The higher your debt level was, the lower you tended to rank,” Ibendahl said. “To me, when you relate that back to farm size, I don’t think farmers should be looking at the fact that they need to expand aggressively because if you’re already at a certain size, just getting bigger is not going to help you, but adding more debt is going to be more detrimental to your net farm income.

“I think it’s more important to keep your debt in check.

We’re seeing this even with interest rates kind of low. If there was a situation where we had higher interest rates, I think that debt thing would stick out even more than what it does.”

Griffin said the analysis considered the influence of five factors to profitability: farm size; level of debt; investment in machinery; machinery operation and maintenance costs; and the allocation of acres to given crops.

“Keep in mind that this is a simplistic analysis, one variable at a time, which is not realistic because we know that all variables play together at the same time,” he said. “But to make it digestible, we looked at one variable at a time.

“The takeaway here is that it’s a good, quick benchmarking for growers to see how they compare and hopefully they will realize that they are not different from average and above average farms.”

The full analysis as well as other fact sheets related to characteristics of successful farms is available from K-State online at www.agmanager.info. Griffin said some of the information they’ve been providing dates back several months.

“There is a lot of stress right now, and stress is caused by low commodity prices,” Griffin said. “The weather in 2019 is not what anyone anticipated, and so there are lots of different stresses out there.

“One of the things that I’m trying to get across to producers that I’m talking with is that this study allows you to compare yourself to the majority. A lot of farms were putting more pressure on themselves than they needed to; they thought they were being outliers or their ratios weren’t where they should be.

This allows them to get a clearer sense of where they stand.”

“By looking at a 10-year horizon,” Ibendahl added, “and keeping the same farms in there the entire time… it made a fair comparison.

“If you were consistently a good farmer and ranking in the top five or ten percent of the rankings every year, that probably says you are doing something better than your competing farmers, and the same thing on the low end.”

In another surprise finding, the economists noted that farmers who had higher investments in machinery were ranked as more profitable farms in the long haul.

“Normally you would think extra machinery would be a drag on profitability, but it’s really not,” Ibendahl said. “I think farmers are using machinery as a cash flow tool, so that when they do have good years, they tend to take those extra profits and invest in more machinery as a way to hold down their taxes.”

Griffin added: “If we dig into it, we probably would find out that farms that had more invested in machinery might be more efficient, might be able to plant and harvest more timely. But we have not tested the hypothesis of whether more profitable farmers are investing more in machinery or did the investment in machinery lead to more profitability.”

Learn more about KFMA and its services online at https:// www.agmanager.info/kfma.

FGIS gives U.S. wheat a differential advantage

By Casey Chumrau, USW Marketing Manager, Santiago Office The Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) may be somewhat unfamiliar to most farmers but serves as a major competitive advantage for U.S. grains on the international market. Based on two congressional acts establishing a standardized inspection process, all wheat exported from the United States is inspected and given a grade as it is loaded onto the export vessel, whether it be a train or ship. This independent process sets the United States apart by providing a form of certainty and protection for buyers.

An official FGIS grade certificate is sent to buyers before the vessel arrives, allowing them to make important production decisions in advance based on the characteristics of the wheat before it arrives. In addition, the buyer knows that an independent agency will certify that every shipment meets the grade requirements specified in their contract, avoiding costly conflicts between the buyer and seller. The U.S. farmer works hard to produce a high-quality crop demanded by the market, and the FGIS inspection process helps maintain that quality all the way to the end user. This is a significant differential advantage of purchasing U.S. wheat versus other origins.

FGIS has an international affairs office that provides educational training programs explaining the roll and procedures of the agency. U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) has used this service many times over the years, most recently July 15 to 19, 2019, in Peru, an import market of about 2.0 million metric tons (73.5 million bushels).

FGIS agent Jose Robinson traveled to Peru to conduct half-day seminars in the five largest wheat importing companies in the country.

Robinson gave presentations and demonstrated parts of the inspection process to 53 participants from the quality control departments of the five mills. The participants shared their processes with Robinson, showed examples of the wheat they inspected in plant and were able to test their abilities to conduct similar inspections while receiving guidance from an expert.

The participants gained a deeper understanding of the FGIS inspection protocol and testing methods and left with increased trust and confidence in the FGIS certification process. The changes implemented in the mills following the training sessions will result in fewer discrepancies between the FGIS grade and the results of local, in-plant inspections, leading to increased satisfaction with U.S. wheat.

The ability to send an FGIS agent overseas allows USW to train a large number of participants at a fraction of the cost it would require to train even a few customers in the United States.

The USW Santiago Office plans to repeat this training activity in four other South American countries over the next two years.

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From K-State Research and Extension News Kansas State University researchers are reporting findings of a study in which they tested the effects of varying levels of fumonisin-infected corn on the growth performance of nursery pigs.

They say their work will help to increase the safety of feeding corn, as well as heighten swine producer’s awareness of testing the quality of grain after harvest.

“Testing the corn after harvest is important, especially when we have had wet harvest conditions,” said Mike Tokach, a swine nutritionist with K-State Research and Extension. “That becomes even more important if the wet harvest follows a period of drought.”

Fumonisin is a kind of mycotoxin that is more likely to develop in corn under those weather conditions. Mycotoxins are toxic chemicals that are naturally produced in certain types of fungi, usually in certain crops. K-State’s work with 20- to 60-pound nursery pigs showed a decrease in the animals’ performance when their diets contain more than 30 parts per million (ppm) of fumonisin.

“Up to 10 ppm, corn can be fed without impacts on pig performance,” Tokach said. “Up to 20 ppm, the corn can be fed for short periods, such as five weeks, without reducing pig performance.”

Johnson Rao, a K-State graduate research assistant who helped conduct the study, said levels of 30 ppm or higher should never be fed to pigs without a mitigation strategy.

“Based on our data, when a producer has a load of corn with high levels of fumonisin contamination, they should dilute it to a safe range for swine feed production,” he said.

Tokach added that producers who receive corn that tests high for fumonisn can also contact a nutritionist or K-State experts for guidance. “There are products that can be used to lessen the impact of some mycotoxins,” he said. “But it’s important to seek professional guidance.”

High levels of fumonisin in corn were reported in Kansas and the Midwest in 2018 when the early portion of the growing season was hot and dry, followed by heavy rains late in the growing season. While the conditions were less ideal for fumonisin this year, the toxin still can be present.

Tokach noted that fumonisin does not make food products unsafe for consumers. “The meat is safe to eat,” he said. “The concern we have is for animal health and performance.”

Forgotten firsts in robot history

350 B.C.: The first known robot is a mechanical wooden bird, powered by steam, built by the Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum.

1927: “Maria,” a female robot, appears in Fritz Lang’s science-fiction movie Metropolis. It’s the first eve on-screen robot.

1940: Isaac Asimov publishes “Robbie” in Super Science Stories, the first piece of robot-themed fiction.

1954: George Devol receives the first patent for a robot.

Five years later, his Unimate, a robotic arm, is installed at a General Motors plant in New Jersey. It moves pieces of hot metal from a die-casting machine.

1966: Shakey, developed by the Stanford Research Institute, becomes the first robot that can actually react to its surroundings. Using “reason,” it can identify and move small objects.

1968: “Humanoid Boogie” by the British group Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band is released, making it the first pop song about robots.

1969: A remote-controlled robot washes the windows of the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas.

1983: Ropet-HR, built by Personal Robotics Corp., lobbies the House of Representative for increased spending in robot technology. It is the first robot to address Congress.

1983: “Robot Redford” becomes the first robot to deliver a commencement address when it speaks to the graduating class at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland.

1984: A robot named “Rebecca” runs for president of the United States as an independent. Her supporters say she’s eligible because she was “born” in Maryland.

2006: A team at Carnegie Mellon University creates “McBlare,” the first robot bagpipe player. (Was that really necessary?)

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Ways to increase yields of sorghum—and other crops

By Dennis O’Brien, Agricultural Research Service Scientists with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are working on field trials and genetic studies that could one day double the yields of sorghum, which is one of the world’s most important sources of food, animal feed and biofuel.

The efforts follow recent discoveries by ARS scientist Zhanguo Xin, who is based in Lubbock, Texas, and Doreen Ware, who is also with ARS and is an adjunct professor at CSHL, showing how a basic genetic change in sorghum can double its yield of grain.

Their findings, spelled out in a series of papers, are based on years of research by scientists with ARS and CSHL that initially focused on a search for the genetic underpinnings of high yielding strains of sorghum that were first developed by Xin at the ARS Cropping Systems Research Laboratory in Lubbock. They also lay out a potential strategy for increasing the yields not only of sorghum but of other grain crops, such as corn, wheat and rice.

Sorghum is drought tolerant, is an important crop for farmers worldwide and increasing production is considered a key to addressing the threat of food shortages in the years ahead with changing climates, growing populations overseas and the loss of arable land in many parts of the world.

Sorghum grain is produced in clusters of flowers and the plant has two types of flowers, one type that produces grain and another that does not. The researchers have shown in a series of published reports that mutating a key gene in sorghum inhibits production of a hormone, known as jasmonic acid, and that plants with reduced levels generate more of the fertile type of flowers -- and more grain.

Their results show that the gene, known as MSD1, is a major regulator of a cascading series of events along a genetic pathway that controls the production of jasmonic acid, particularly during flower development. They identified the role of MSD1 in a paper published last year in Nature Communications. Their subsequent papers in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences show that genes they have identified as MSD2 and MSD3 also play important roles further along in the genetic pathway and that mutating of any one of the three genes causes a similar increase in grain yield. Their most recent paper can be found at https://www. mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/21/5359/htm.

Xin and his colleagues are conducting field trials to see if the genes they have found could be used by breeders to improve yields in commercial varieties of sorghum.

K-State swine nutritionists continue refining pig diets

From K-State Research and Extension News When Kansas State University swine nutritionists design diets for pigs, they typically think of medium chain fatty acids as ‘good guys.’

Over the past five years, K-State researchers have consistently found that those fatty acids lead to better health and well-being of pigs – just as they do in humans – and have a positive impact on the feed efficiency and growth of pigs.

Now they are reporting that more isn’t necessarily better.

“Our initial studies used rather high concentrations of medium chain fatty acids in swine feed to demonstrate their effectiveness,” said Jason Woodworth, a swine nutritionist with K-State Research and Extension. “As we progressed in the research, we found that lower levels of MCFA generated similar benefits.”

That’s good news for swine producers because when nutritionists include smaller amounts of medium chain fatty acids in feed, those diets cost less. Further, Woodworth notes, “these findings will allow more options for feed ingredients that can be used to enhance the overall feed biosecurity in swine operations.”

As the weather gets colder, Woodworth said one virus of particular concern to swine producers is porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, which causes severe diarrhea in pigs and leads to nearly 100% mortality in pre-weaned pigs.

“More and more research is showing the benefits of medium chain fatty acids in reducing or mitigating PEDv risk in feed,” Woodworth said. “With this research, there will likely be new products coming to the market that will be available for producers to consider as part of their entire biosecurity program.”

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From Freedom Ranger Hatchery When it comes to raising chickens, health Since Newcastle disease is caused by a is always a top priority. After all, healthy virus, there is no current treatment available. chickens are more productive and more However, a vaccine can help prevent the profitable in the long run. Unfortunately, disease when given between 14 and 21 days many diseases can wipe out a large percentof age. The vaccine is administered in water. age of your chickens or leave them more On commercial poultry farms, the vaccine vulnerable to other infections, costing you is re-administered every 2 weeks to 90 days time and money. as a continued preventative measure.

The good news is that vaccinations exInfectious Bursal Disease ist for many of the most common chicken A highly contagious viral disease, infecdiseases, providing effective preventative tious bursal disease affects young chickens measures to keep your chickens healthy. under 17 weeks of age. The virus attacks Curious about vaccinations your chickens the tissues of a chicken’s immune system, should receive and when? Read on to find resulting in suppressed immune function, out which chicken vaccinations are right along with high sensitivity to other infecfor your flock. tions such as Marek’s disease, Salmonella, Do I have to vaccinate my chickens?

E. coli, coccidia, Mycoplasma, and others.

There are no rules that say you must vacThe virus that causes infectious bursal cinate your chickens for certain diseases. disease is hardy, difficult to decontaminate, Your choice to vaccinate your chickens and can survive for months in a variety of will depend on many factors, including the environments. types of chickens you raise, whether you Vaccination is recommended for chicks raise birds to sell, and the immediate threats between 14 and 21 days old. The vaccine in the area where you raise your chickens. is administered in water.

Vaccines have long been used in the comFowlpox mercial poultry industry to control disease Fowlpox is a common viral infection among birds who are kept together in small found in backyard chickens that have not spaces. In recent years, backyard flock ownreceived a vaccination. Infected birds deers have also begun vaccinating their birds velop white blisters on their comb, wattles, against many common chicken diseases. and other skin areas. Most birds survive Vaccines are designed to mimic the natuthe infection and the lesions scab, heal, and ral infection of many diseases, giving birds drop off in about three weeks. the opportunity to build up immunity to a Scarring can occur in some birds, so exhidisease without harm. However, vaccines bition breeders usually vaccinate their flock are not a cure all and won’t prevent every against the disease. Mosquitos often carry infection. the disease from flock to flock, so mosquito It is also important to implement strict control is important to reduce outbreaks. biosecurity measures to keep your birds A vaccine is available for Fowlpox and is healthy and productive. typically administered in the wing web of These measures include: birds at 10 to 12 weeks of age. The vaccine • Regular cleaning and disinfection of exposes birds to a mild version of the active chicken coops virus, so birds should be completely healthy • Feeding fresh food that is free of mold before the vaccine is administered to avoid • Isolating new flock members for at least complications.

30 days Avian Encephalomyelitis • Limiting exposure to wild birds Avian encephalomyelitis (AE) is a viral In some cases, it is not advisable to vacdisease that affects young chickens, as well cinate broilers, since many vaccine warning as pheasants, pigeons, turkeys, and Japanese labels specify that birds cannot be butchered quail.

Infection can be spread vertically if they have just received shots. Most rec(from mother to chicks) and horizontally ommend a waiting period of 15 to 60 days (from chicken to chicken). for butchering.

Many infections are the result of a Chicken Diseases and Vaccinations breeder flock infection that is passed on Marek’s Disease to the eggs. Infected birds show clinical Also known as fowl paralysis, Marek’s signs of infection during the first week after disease is caused by a contagious virus and hatching, which can include ataxia (wobbly is typically seen in chickens between 12 and and clumsy walking) and leg weakness that 25 weeks old. Symptoms of the disease inprogresses to paralysis. Afflicted birds are clude tumors, irregularly-shaped pupils that often destroyed since most don’t recover. often lead to blindness, and partial paralysis.

Immunization of breeder pullets is recThere is no current treatment for Marek’s ommended at 10 to 15 weeks of age to disease, but many birds do survive the illprevent vertical transmission of the virus. ness and remain carriers of the disease for The commercial live vaccine provides offthe remainder of their lives. If you suspect spring with maternal immunity. Vaccination one of your chickens has contracted Marek’s of table-egg flocks is also recommended disease, it’s best to isolate the infected bird to prevent decreased egg production. AE from your flock as soon as possible to avoid inoculations are usually combined with the spread of the disease to other birds.

A vaccine is available to reduce the likeliFowlpox vaccine and administered through hood of infection. The vaccine is typically an injection in the wing web. administered to day-old chicks, both broilLaryngotracheitis ers and layers, below the skin of the breast.

Acute and highly contagious, infectious Newcastle Disease/Infectious Bronlaryngotracheitis (ILT) is a respiratory inchitis fection caused by the herpesvirus. Chickens Newcastle disease is a viral infection that and pheasants are the most susceptible to is spread primarily through the droppings the disease. and secretions of infected birds. The disease Symptoms include severe breathing can vary from mild to severe. difficulty, coughing, and rales. LaryngoSymptoms include coughing, sneezing, tracheitis has a 10-20% mortality rate, but nasal discharge, greenish/watery diarrhea, in some cases up to 70% of a flock may and depression. Layers may show a marked die. Recovered survivors and vaccinated decrease in egg production or produce thinchickens are both long-term carriers of the shelled eggs. Severe symptoms include infection. drooping wings, swelling of the eyes or A vaccine can be administered to control neck, muscle tremors, paralysis, or sudden the virus and is typically administered with death.

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By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service A faculty member and a doctoral student in Montana State University’s College of Agriculture received national awards for teaching at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) conference in Twin Falls, Idaho, in June.

Tracy Dougher, associate dean for academic programs and academic director for the College of Agriculture, received the Murray Brown Leadership Award for her continued involvement with NACTA. Dougher has served the organization for years in various leadership roles, including as president, and was nominated for the award by a colleague at Pennsylvania State University.

“NACTA is focused solely on teaching agriculture in the broadest definition,” Dougher said. “We leave our disciplines at the door when we talk about teaching. Everybody is focused on the student and excellent teaching.”

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The second MSU winner from the NACTA conference was Jeff Pashnick, who was nominated by Dougher for a graduate teaching award. Pashnick, a Michigan native who is working to complete his Ph.D. in plant genetics in the spring in the plant sciences and plant pathology department, has taught a number of horticulture classes over the past few years after he realized that he wanted his career to include teaching in addition to research.

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eye drops at 10-12 weeks of age. However, the vaccine should not be administered unless there is a known issue with the disease on your farm or in the immediate area.

Implementing strict biosecurity measures can also prevent outbreaks.

Avian Rhinotracheitis A viral disease found in chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, and pheasants, avian rhinotracheitis is also known as swollen head syndrome. Signs and symptoms of the disease include decreased appetite, lack of weight gain, swelling of the head and face, ocular or nasal discharge, voice loss, and conjunctivitis. The disease is transmitted from bird to bird through the respiratory tract.

Live vaccines have been shown to reduce clinical symptoms. Inactivated vaccines are also used in breeder hens prior to egg lay.

While it can seem daunting to protect your chickens from every disease out there, vaccinations are a solid preventative measure that can lead to happier, healthier birds and better productivity of your flock. Just remember that vaccines are no substitute for strict biosecurity measures including proper disinfection, segregation of new birds, and feeding fresh, healthy food.

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By Russell Nemetz, Montana Ag Network Montana continues to lead the nation in pulse crop production. And as demand grows for food products made with pulses like peas, lentils and chickpeas, finding new international markets is important for Montana pulse growers. And an emerging market for Montana pulses in Colombia.

“The Spanish word for it is ‘ritmo’ which is rhythm and vibe and Colombia is really good,” said Montana Department of Agriculture’s Marketing Officer Weston Merrill. “They love American made products and American grown products.”

He says the South American country is an exciting opportunity for Montana pulse growers.

“Colombia consumes lots of lentils and our trade data shows that Montana is one of the largest exporters to Colombia already” said Merrill. “So, they know our product. It’s just a matter of haven’t keeping a presence in that market so that they continue to buy our product.”

He says emerging markets like Colombia are important, especially with ongoing trade disputes with China and India; two of the U.S. pulse industry’s top export markets.

“You hear all the doom and gloom with China and India and those markets being closed” said Merrill. “But, these emerging markets all of a sudden really become attractive to move some product.”

He says Colombian food companies and others are interested in coming to Montana to meet farmers and see where their food is coming from.

“One of the most exciting things that’s going to be born from this trip is we’re looking to organize an inbound trade mission and invite food importers directly from Panama and Colombia to Montana to see our producers, to see exactly where the product comes from and make some deals” said Merrill. “So, that’s one of the most exciting things about the trip, is it’ll breed pretty immediate success.

Thru checkoff dollars, the Montana Pulse Crop Committee works closely with the Montana Department of Agriculture to help grow and develop markets both here in the United States and worldwide for the high-quality pulse crops grown in Montana.

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By NDSU Extension Service Ethiopian farmers and university staff have a better understanding of crop production, thanks to two North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension specialists.

NDSU Extension agronomists Hans Kandel and Joel Ransom traveled to Ethiopia for two weeks this fall to share their technical skills and expertise with local agricultural producers and staff at two universities.

“Ethiopian farmers are eager to obtain new knowledge about the essential principles of farming: for instance, the utilization of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, composting, proper plant distribution and new tools to weed the crops in a timely fashion,” Kandel says.

“There are several new universities in Ethiopia,” Ransom says. “However, the new faculty has limited experience doing agricultural research and statistical analysis. I was able to work closely with faculty on improving their skill level.”

The NDSU Extension agronomists were part of the Catholic Relief Services’ Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) program that promotes economic growth, food security and agricultural development in East Africa.

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the FTF program matches the technical assistance of U.S. farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives and universities with farmers in developing countries to help those farmers improve agricultural productivity, access new markets and increase their incomes.

In Ethiopia, Kandel worked with the Wolkite University, training faculty and a group of farmers about grain crops production. Providing technical assistance to smallholder farmers will enable them to increase their food security.

The major production constraints these smallholder farmers face are poor land preparation, uneven distribution of the plants, a lack of suitable crop varieties, poor crop rotation systems, poor soil fertility management, ineffective traditional pest control practices, inadequate crop storage and little knowledge of farm planning. Producers also have relatively low levels of production technologies.

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Faculty at the university have a responsibility to conduct applied research and provide outreach to small-scale farmers near the university, so learning research skills was critical for the faculty to assist nearby farmers effectively with relevant technology that could improve their productivity, Ransom notes.

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By University of Wyoming Extension A 38-year employee of the University of Wyoming (UW) Extension in Uinta County has received the organization’s Administrative Professional of the Year Award.

Suzy Holmes was presented the honor Thursday, September 12, in Lander during the annual UW Extension training conference.

“Her institutional knowledge, her willingness to tackle difficult tasks and her commitment to clientele is unmatched,” her presentation announcement stated. “When the county faced being without a 4-H educator for over 18 months, this steadfast, resilient admin stepped up to lend her vast experience and knowledge to the continuation of the 4-H program in a professional and competent manner.

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Holmes was also a recipient of the Frances Freese Award, also recognizing administrative support excellence, in 1995.

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Helping quinoa brave the heat

By Kaine Korzekwa, American Society of Agronomy process or even be a part of a selection index Quinoa is a healthy food many know and for heat tolerance.” love. As its popularity grows, more farmers He adds that breeding for heat tolerance are interested in planting it. However, the plant is becoming more and more important. This doesn’t do well in high temperatures, so plant is because some areas either have slowly inbreeders are trying to help.

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These measurements — although involving complex math — are easy, cheap, and quick to take in the field. They are called spectral reflectance indices. They are rapid measurements of the wavelength of the energy collected.

“The primary benefit is that it can be cheaper, quicker, and more efficient to select for heat tolerant plants with these technologies,” Murphy says. “This is especially helpful when we are looking at thousands of distinct genetic lines during different times in the testing process.”

In their latest study, Murphy’s team started with 112 genetically different quinoa plants. By introducing the plants to heat stress and taking leaf-greenness and seed yield measurements, they identified eight varieties for further testing. Of these eight, four were considered as potentially heat tolerant and four as heat susceptible varieties.

Next, they planted the varieties in the field and took more measurements to try to predict how much grain they would produce in different conditions, such as high temperatures.

Murphy and his team found that one type of measurement, the leaf greenness index, could be useful for evaluating quinoa for heat tolerance. They also found that a measurement, called the normalized difference vegetation index, shows promise for predicting yield in quinoa plants.

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By Jan Suszkiw, Agricultural Research Service Descendants of the fungus-like pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s—Phytophthora infestans— may have had a “helping hand” in recent U.S. outbreaks of the costly blight disease.

Reporting in the September 2019 issue of Virus Research (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0168170219303181), a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Cornell University (CU) and Rutgers University scientists announced they had identified a virus that infects P. infestans and appears to increase the pathogen’s ability to cause the disease, known fully as “late blight.” Late blight attacks on tomato and potato crops worldwide inflict more than $6.7 billion annually in yield losses and control costs.

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In collaboration with William Fry and Bradley Hillman, with CU and Rutgers, respectively, Cai used molecular methods to detect for the virus in 73 samples (or “isolates”) of late blight collected from North America, Mexico, The Netherlands, Estonia and South Africa.

They also used high-throughput sequencing and mapping techniques to identify late blight genes that were either “up-” or “down-regulated” by the virus, finding 848 of them. Up- or down- regulation of genes refers to their role in either increasing or decreasing cellular activity (like making proteins) in response to external stimuli—in this case, PiRV-2.

Based on their analysis, the researchers found PiRV-2 in 11 of 13 (85 percent) isolates of US-8 and three of four isolates of another common North American lineage, US-22. PiRV-2 was harder to find in late blight isolates from the other countries, including Mexico, the pathogen’s center of origin and greatest source of genetic diversity.

The researchers also conducted a series of petri dish experiments using potato leaves from a susceptible variety to compare the virulence of late blight with and without PiRV2, determining that cultures of the pathogen with the virus produced nine to 125 times more spores and caused larger lesions on the leaves.

“The number of spores produced by a late blight lesion is an important factor in late blight epidemics,” Cai explained.

“More spores could lead to more transmission and infection”— a boon, in turn, to the virus’s own survival and spread.

PiRV-2’s prevalence in the majority of US-8 late blight isolates tested suggests it could have contributed to the lineage’s dominance and persistence in U.S. potato and tomato crops compared to others that have come and gone since being introduced in the late-1980s.

Further study is needed to determine how prevalent the virus is among all populations of late blight worldwide, and whether this holds any implications for new ways to control the disease or to predict its severity in crops.

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1 cup butter, softened 1-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted 1/2 cup chopped Diamond of California® Pecans 3 to 5 drops green food coloring 1/4 cup finely chopped candied red cherries 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 3 to 5 drops red food coloring In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well. Divide dough in three portions. Stir chocolate into one portion. Add pecans and green food coloring to the second portion. Add cherries, almond extract and red food coloring to the third. Roll each portion between two pieces of waxed paper into an 8-in. x 6-in. rectangle. Remove waxed paper.

Place chocolate rectangle on a piece of plastic wrap. Top with the green and pink rectangles; press together lightly. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill overnight. Cut chilled dough in half lengthwise. Return one rectangle to the refrigerator. Cut remaining rectangle into 1/8-in. slices. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 5-7 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks.

Repeat with remaining dough. Yield: about 7 dozen.

Pistachio Buttons

1/2 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup Imperial Sugar® / Dixie Crystals® Granulated Sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon almond extract 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, melted 1/3 cup finely chopped pistachios 10 drops green food coloring, optional In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough in half. Mix melted chocolate into half of dough; add pistachios and food coloring if desired to the remaining half. Divide each dough into four portions.

Roll out one chocolate portion into an 8-in. x 3-in. rectangle. Roll one green portion into an 8-in. log; place on chocolate dough 1 in. from a long side. Roll dough around filling and seal edges. Repeat with remaining dough. Wrap each in plastic wrap; refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm. Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 10 dozen.

Pink Ice

10 ounces white candy coating, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons crushed peppermint candies (about 7 candies) 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract 2 drops red food coloring In a microwave, melt candy coating at 70% power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Stir in the candies, peppermint extract and food coloring. Spread onto waxed paper to cool completely. Break into small pieces; store in an airtight container. Yield: 10 ounces.

Texas Brittle

Local ownership – personal service

pretzel sticks, a few handfuls corn chips, a few handfuls chopped pecans, a bunch milk chocolate, about 4 ounces On a 9×13 cookie sheet, spread the pretzel sticks in a single layer. Top with the corn chips. Melt the chocolate and drizzle it over the top of the pretzels and corn chips. Sprinkle on the pecans. Place in the freezer until the chocolate has hardened. Break into chunks and enjoy!

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Say you saw it in the Trader’s Dispatch

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Study of soybean meal reveals energy boost for swine

From K-State Research and Extension News Kansas State University researchers have discovered that soybean meal, a common feed ingredient in swine diets, can provide higher levels of energy to growing pigs than originally thought.

Their work included feeding more than 2,200 mixedgender nursery pigs with varying amounts of soybean meal for 21 days, then comparing their findings to the energy commonly provided in corn diets.

“For a long time, soybean meal has been thought to provide about 78% (of) the energy value as corn,” said Bob Goodband, a swine nutritionist with K-State Research and Extension. “So, it hasn’t been thought of as a significant source of energy. What we found was that feeding increasing amounts of soybean meal increases the net energy value to approximately 105% and 121% of the energy provided by corn.”

Goodband notes that soybean meal is the primary plant protein source for swine diets in the United States. Soybean meal is a good source of amino acids, which are important for building protein and muscle growth in swine. By changing the amount of soybean meal in swine diets, the K-State researchers were essentially trying to find the energy value of soybean meal measured by its improvement in feed efficiency for those animals.

“Our findings will allow nutritionists to have a better understanding of the energy content of the complete diet, and therefore make the appropriate adjustments to the other nutrients in the diet,” Goodband said. “This will hopefully be a potential benefit for producers by making pigs more efficient. Now that we know exactly how much energy is in soybean meal, we can adjust our diets accordingly and hopefully see improvements in gain and efficiency.”

As with all new management techniques, producers interested in adjusting their feed strategies should consult with a nutritionist or contact their local K-State Research and Extension agent for assistance.

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N.D. 4-H team takes first in national competition

Trader’s Dispatch, December 2019 — Page A34

By NDSU Extension Service

North Dakota’s 4-H meats judging team places first in national competition. Pictured are (from left) coach Gary Martens and team members Rhea Laib, Evan Bornemann and Ryeleigh Laib. (NDSU photo)

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North Dakota’s 4-H meats judging team took first place overall in the meat judging contest at the American Royal national 4-H meat evaluation and identification competition in Manhattan, Kansas.

The team members were Rhea Laib, Ryeleigh Laib and Evan Bornemann, who all represented Kidder County.

The team members brought home several team and individual awards: • Rhea Laib - high individual overall • Bornemann - third high individual overall • Ryeleigh Laib - sixth high individual overall Beef Judging • Team - second place • Rhea Laib - first place high individual Pork Judging • Team - first place • Rhea Laib - first place high individual • Bornemann - third place high individual • Ryeleigh Laib - ninth place high individual Retail Cut Judging • Team - second place • Bornemann - second place high individual • Rhea Laib - eighth place high individual Retail ID • Team - second place • Bornemann - third place high individual • Ryeleigh Laib - fifth place high individual • Rhea Laib - sixth place high individual Reasons • Team – first • Rhea Laib - first place high individual • Bornemann - eighth place high individual “North Dakota 4-H is very proud of their outstanding performance and achievement,” says Leigh Ann Skurupey, North Dakota State University Extension 4-H youth development animal and equine science specialist. “The many skills they have gained and utilized for this contest will influence their future careers in such a positive way as they impact the future of agriculture.

“I want to thank coaches Gary Martins, Shawn Feiring, Rick Vannett and Devin Volk for investing their time in these young adults and preparing them for such greatness,” Skurupey adds. “I also want to thank the 4-H Foundation for its sponsorship in helping this team get to nationals.”

Twins in horses: Double trouble

Surviving twins are extremely rate–approximately one percent of all births.

Ultrasound technology reveals that twins are more common in the first 30 days of embryonic growth, with most dying off by the 45th day. After that, 70 percent of twins are usually naturally aborted.

Full-term twins often result in one or both dying or having complications. Some survive to lead productive lives.

In 1917 there was a claim that a mare, in nine pregnancies, produced three set of twins. Supposedly, two of the sets were mules, fathered by a donkey.

Trader’s Dispatch, December 2019 — Page A35

Shiloh Neal, a 4-H Teen Ambassador for Pondera County, with her 1265 lb steer at the 2019 Marias Fair held in Shelby, Montana. Shiloh received Beef Interview Purple and Top Beef Interview, Senior Market Beef Purple, Senior Beef Showmanship Purple and 3rd place Senior Beef Showman.

Dead horse

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”

However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And, of course…

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. ##### A cow produces an average of 6.3 gallons of milk daily and 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime. ##### A cow is more valuable for its milk, cheese, butter and yogurt than for its beef.

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2018 Montana State graduate wins award for economics research

By Reagan Colyer, MSU News Service A recent graduate of the applied economally volatile because it’s connected to energy markets and also the agricultural market,” ics master’s program in Montana State Unisaid Gumbley. “Our study tried to look at, in versity’s (MSU) College of Agriculture and the whole U.S., what are the price dynamCollege of Letters and Science was selected as the winner of a regional excellence award ics within this industry? And we set out to for his work examining economic trends in measure how information flows around the the national fertilizer market. country.”

Thomas Gumbley’s 2018 thesis, “Price ReFollowing that information flow, said Gumlationships in the U.S. Nitrogen Fertilizer Inbley, allows for better understanding of how prices are set and helps economists refine the dustry,” (https://scholarworks.montana.edu/ models that help forecast trends. That in turn xmlui/handle/1/14550) won the Outstanding makes it easier for farmers—particularly in Master’s Thesis Award from the Western the Great Plains where nitrogen-hungry crops Agricultural Economics Association in April. like wheat and corn make up a large percentGumbley was a student in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics while age of cropland—to make more informed conducting his research, which the association production decisions. noted for its unique approach to identifying The majority of the price information in the how market trends and legal policies impact nitrogen fertilizer industry flows from New price fluctuations of nitrogen fertilizer.

Orleans, said Gumbley, because that is where The work filled a void in the field of agria large percentage of the U.S. fertilizer supply is imported and distributed to other states. cultural economics, said Anton Bekkerman, Data from price trends during the period chair of Gumbley’s graduate committee. from 1995 to 2010 showed that information “The motivation for this work was the flow was fairly efficient: If the industry saw somewhat surprising lack of empirical rean abrupt price change in New Orleans, that search that characterizes U.S. nitrogen fertilshift permeated the rest of the country within izer markets,” Bekkerman said. “The major a few weeks. But after the first decade of the objective was to help provide insights to 2000s, Gumbley found there was an element stakeholders about the underlying structure that increased that efficiency even further. and dynamics of these markets.”

“After a volatile period in 2010, there was A native of Rhode Island, Gumbley rean increased efficiency in the transmission of ceived undergraduate degrees in economics price shocks throughout the country,” he said. and environmental science from Stonehill “We think this is a result of the renewable fuel College in Massachusetts before moving standards coming into effect, which increased to Bozeman to pursue his graduate degree. the production of corn around the country.

His primary interest was data- and statisticsThat increased the efficiency of fertilizer price driven research; inspired by guidance from transmissions in the U.S. as well.”

Bekkerman in the first year of his graduate Those renewable fuel standards were the studies, Gumbley said he homed in on the result of two major pieces of legislation: the variability of price trends in the fertilizer 2005 Energy Policy Act and the 2007 Energy market as an ideal way to apply his skills and Independence and Security Act. Prior to interest to fill a knowledge gap.

Gumbley’s research, it was unclear to what “Nitrogen is this really important input extent those policies impacted the agricultural in producing all the crops in the U.S., but in the nitrogen fertilizer industry, prices are reCONTINUED ON PAGE A38

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NDSU Extension honors staff for years of service

By NDSU Extension Service North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension faculty and staff were honored for their years of service at the October 22-24 NDSU Extension/Research Extension Center fall conference in West Fargo.

Those recognized were: 5 Years • Jason Adams, Plant Sciences • Robin Barnes, Stutsman County • Amanda Dahners, Grant County • Ronda Gripentrog, Richard County • Katelyn Hain, Nelson County • Breana Kiser, Dickey County • Chandra Langseth, Richland County • Tom Peters, Plant Sciences • Sue Quamme, Center for 4-H Youth Development • Nicole Wardner, Sheridan County • Shaundra Ziemann-Bolinske, Burleigh County 10 Years • Randy Mehlhoff, Langdon Research Extension Center • Karla Meikle, Morton County • Sharon Query, Parent and Family Resource Center - Region 5 • Christina Rittenbach, Stutsman County • Blaine Schatz, Carrington Research Extension Center • Scott Swanson, Agriculture Communication 15 Years • Ellen Crawford, Agriculture Communication • Crystal Schaunaman, McIntosh County • Ron Wiederholt, Central District Office • Brian Zimprich, Ransom County 20 Years • Mark Boetel, School of Natural Resource Sciences • Michelle Effertz, McLean County • Mohamed Khan, Plant Pathology • Cindy Klapperich, Sargent County • Lisa Pederson, Central Grasslands Research Extension Center 25 Years • Lynette Flage, Assistant Directors’ Office • Dave Franzen, School of Natural Resource Sciences • Julie Garden-Robinson, Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences • Barb Laschkewitsch, Plant Sciences • John Nowatzki, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering • Ona Vig, Agriculture Budget office 30 Years • Dan Folske, Burke County • Marcia Hellandsaas, McKenzie County • Deb Lee, Ransom County • Kevin Sedivec, School of Natural Resource Sciences 40 Years • Brad Cogdill, Center for 4-H Youth Development

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industry, said Bekkerman.

“The renewable fuel standards increased the demand for corn, increased corn prices and ultimately increased acreage planted to corn. These actions increased the demand for nitrogen fertilizer,” he said. “[Gumbley’s] data provided an opportunity to assess U.S. fertilizer markets with a level of detail that has previously not been available.”

Bekkerman, along with Gary Brester and Joseph Janzen, who made up the rest of Gumbley’s thesis committee, nominated the thesis for the award earlier this spring. Bekkerman said Gumbley’s ability to describe and synthesize a complex field such as the fertilizer market speaks to his ability as an applied economist.

“He took initiative to really understand the empirical methods and the economic, practical interpretation of empirical results,” said Bekkerman. “His goal was to answer questions that can help stakeholders in the U.S. agricultural industry be more informed. He succeeded.”

For Gumbley, who currently lives and works back on the East Coast, the award is an acknowledgement of two years of hard work to answer an important real-world question. He credits his time at MSU for his success in his chosen field.

“After leaving MSU, I felt very prepared to tackle anything,” he said. “I felt like in my two years there, which seems like a short time, I was able to develop a strong foundation in data analysis and economics. They prepared me for the job market and the direction I wanted to go.”

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By Andrea Kocher, PennState Equine Extension Specialist and Instructor of Equine Science and Lew Trumble, PennState Equine Extension Associate with equestrian-related injuries.

Wearing a helmet is an important part • Helmets that are not safety certified of horseback riding. Choosing the proper offer no protection whatsoever and are design and build of a helmet is key to ridstrictly for cosmetic purposes. ing safely.

• ASTM/SEI approved helmets have Unfortunately, equestrian accidents reduced all riding-related head injuries and falls can happen at any time. While by 30% and severe head injuries by 50%. these accidents are a part of the equestrian Design world there are pieces of equipment that Helmets for each sport have design can help prevent some of the injuries that characteristics and safety features specifimake these accidents life changing, if not life threatening. In this case, we are talking cally for that activity. So, if you are riding about headgear designed specifically for horses, wear a helmet specifically designed the equestrian. And we are talking about for riding horses. You wouldn’t wear figaccidents that can occur in every disciure skates to play hockey. The design of equestrian helmets protects a rider’s head pline, to riders who are youth, adult amain two ways. First, your helmet cannot be teur, or professionals! No one is exempt pierced by sharp objects, such as sticks, from a potentially life changing incident. jump cup pins, and other various materials As more and more medical communifound on trails or in the ring. The second ties, equestrian organizations, and local way is through the combination of the and national sports organizations become helmet and the foam to cushion your head aware of the dangers of multiple injuries from hard impacts. These are the reason for to an athlete’s head, the safest methods of safety standards and testing. Any model of protecting the brain has become a science, ASTM/SEI approved equestrian helmet an industry, and even a mandate. While is tested in a lab to be sure they meet or no helmet can protect against every head exceed required standards of safety. Proof injury, studies show a dramatic reduction of this is the SEI seal inside the helmet. in the severity of injuries when a properly Equestrian helmets have a unique design fitted helmet is worn every time you ride different from helmets from other sports. a horse.

Made in various shapes and many differ• In the United States, each year approximately 70,000 people are treated in ent sizes, some of the differences are that emergency rooms because of equestrian they cover a broader area of the head, and related activities. they account for the potential differences • 60% or more of horse-related deaths of performance, such as the terrain, speed are caused by head injuries. of travel, and the natural objects that may • Helmets can reduce this possibility by suddenly become an issue for the horse.

70-80%.

While your bike or your skis do not have • Equestrian head injuries were the leada mind of their own, your horse certainly ing cause for hospital admission in patients CONTINUED ON PAGE A40

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does! Another feature is that the helmet is designed to slide across environmental objects like a broken log or sharp stick.

The retention system (harness) is designed to secure the helmet to the rider, but the helmet should be light enough to not interfere with balance and abilities. Different styles of helmets have different retention systems. Be sure you read the instructions for adjustment of your helmet.

Helmet Build The foam in your helmet is designed to protect your head in the case of a serious fall or other forceful impact. Concussion against the helmet during impact can cause the foam to flatten. Unlike memory foam, this foam never recovers and may no longer be as protective as it was prior to impact. After a helmet has been in that situation it needs to be replaced! The integrity and structure have been compromised.

In addition to foam being compromised by a fall, glues, resins and additional materials used in creating the helmet also may break down through use and age. Residues from sweat, oily hair, and cosmetic products further contribute to deterioration.

For these reasons it is recommended that a helmet should be replaced after 5 years.

The date a helmet is manufactured can be found in the helmet, with the SEI seal.

You may find that some manufacturers will offer a new helmet at a reduced cost after the original has been deemed necessary to be replaced due to a fall or serious concussion against the helmet. If you have your user’s manual, or tag from the helmet, that information can be found there. However, you may need your original receipt.

Storage • Helmet foam can be damaged by exposure to extreme heat, UV rays and chemicals. Therefore, helmets should not be stored anywhere that can be excessively warm, out in the sun, or near chemicals. This includes a hot car or a tack trunk/box that contains fly spray, bleach or other chemicals.

Care • To clean a helmet, use a mild detergent or, for a velvet helmet, use a brush.

Proper Adjustment A properly fitted helmet is essential when working with horses. Your brain controls your body, so your head is the most important thing to keep safe. A helmet that fits correctly fit is one that will

also be more comfortable and more likely to be worn.

As you adjust your helmet, keep in mind that the retention straps or harness design are quite different on various makes and models of helmets. When you first get your new helmet, be sure to read the instructions for that helmet, regarding adjustment. When you are in the market for a helmet, whether buying a new one, or borrowing one from a friend, here are some tips for fit: • Try it on and adjust it.

• Move front/back and side/side, with your hand on top of the helmet. Do your eyebrows move?

• Bend over from the waist. Does it stay on?

• Wear it for 15 minutes. Do you see forehead marks?

Fit has a direct impact on the effectiveness of a helmet. A comfortable helmet is also more likely to be used regularly. It is a good idea for a rider to try on many helmets before settling on one, as each model fits a little differently.

What does ASTM/SEI Mean?

The ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Certification Program covers products (including materials, processes, and services) and personnel for industries that desire an independent third-party demonstration of compliance to standards and/or are facing regulatory pressures to prove compliance to standards. The ASTM standard is widely used internationally as a basis for the standards developed in other countries.

SEI, (Safety Equipment Institute) a Global Leader in Certification, is a subsidiary of ASTM International, which certifies protective equipment, including head protective products. Any product bearing the SEI mark is manufactured to stringent requirements. In the case of equestrian helmets, every helmet bearing the SEI mark must be able to satisfy the impact and retention requirements of the ASTM standard, which is proven to reduce the risk of head injuries in equestrian activities.

So, give it some thought. How much is your head worth? Many top professionals in all disciplines are on the bandwagon to see that all equestrians wear a helmet so they may continue to enjoy their passion safely!

What is phytoremediation?

From Soil Science Society of America What could be greener than using plants to clean up polluted soil? Phytoremediation, the use of green plants to repair unhealthy soil, has sparked the curiosity of scientists and plant lovers for decades. Plants can do things that people can’t, like pull pollutants out of soil while leaving the soil in place. The Soil Science Society of America’s (SSSA) October 15th Soils Matter blog looks at the emerging field of phytoremediation.

According to blogger Sarick Matzen, it is much more environmentally-friendly to leave the soil in place and let plants do the work. Pulling out contaminated soils from old industrial sites, mining, or even a chemical spill, can take more energy in the form of bulldozers. Plus, that soil is still contaminated.

“When we want to pull contaminants out of soil, we turn to superhero plants known as hyperaccumulators,” says Matzen. “These special plants take up pollutants and store the toxins in their leaves. About 450 hyperaccumulators are known to exist. They can accumulate arsenic, nickel, cadmium, and other metals.”

“From fancy ferns to common poplars, phytoremediation offers great potential to sustainably clean up and preserve precious soil for future generations. Because plants are living beings, developing these plant-based technologies for practical use takes time and effort. Most research to date involves short term, controlled experiments. That means that scientists must do large scale pilot projects to launch phytoremediation towards commercial remediation use.

Think about old, polluted industrial sites in your area. Clean up now would likely involve excavators and dump trucks full of hazardous waste. Let’s work towards a greener future where remediation professionals carefully tend fields of green plants!” Matzen works at University of California, Berkeley.

To learn more about phytoremediation of soils, read the entire post here: https://soilsmatter.wordpress. com/2019/10/15/what-is-phytoremediation/. SSSA also has an entire section of their website devoted to soil contamination and solutions: https://www.soils.org/discover-soils/ soils-in-the-city/soil-contaminants

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By Laura Kenny, PennState Extension Educator, Equine and Andrew Frankenfield, PennState Extension Educator, Agronomy Hay is an extremely important part of your horse’s winter diet. It is an important source of calories and the internal heat of fiber fermentation helps to keep your horse warm.

Many of us are starting to think about stocking up on hay for the winter. There are many factors that will influence your purchase.

1. Hay market. After a wet spring and a dry fall for 2019, high quality hay is in tight supply. These difficult hay making conditions are contributing to continued high prices for quality hay. However, by tracking “good” quality hay prices at hay auctions over 3 full years (2016-2018; USDA PA Weekly Hay Report; discontinued in May 2019), it appears that yearly hay prices at auction have been lowest from June to September, before increasing in October. Private sale prices may not vary as much month to month as auction prices, but they will follow the same general trends.

2. Storage. How much space do you have to store your hay? While it would be nice to stock up on all the hay you will need for the winter, you need to consider how much will fit in your available storage space.

3. Bale type. Most horse owners buy small square bales for ease of handling. However, you can save money if you have the capability to handle and store larger bales. According to the USDA PA Weekly Hay Reports, buying “good” quality grass hay in large square bales would save an average of $50 per ton. Another way of looking at it is that in the PA hay auctions, buying small square bales was 28% more expensive.

4. Nutritional needs. Not all horses need premium quality hay with very high protein and energy levels. While we certainly want our hay to be high quality in terms of minimal weeds, dust, and other contaminants, mature hay with lower nutritional value can be safe and healthy for obese horses or easy keepers. For these horses, it is better to feed more of a lower calorie hay than to restrict intake of a premium quality hay. Hay/forage should be the foundation of a horse’s ration, and they should have access to forage as often as possible for gut health and normal feeding behavior. Remember, there is only way to know for sure what the nutritional quality of the hay is: analyzing a sample of each load.

5. Fiber for warmth. It is advisable to purchase a bit extra for extremely cold periods. Fiber is fermented in the horse’s cecum, which produces heat and helps to keep the horse warm. Horses with heavy winter coats that are acclimated to the climate need extra forage for warmth when the temperature drops below 18°F. Clipped horses will need extra hay at warmer temperatures. An extra flake from a small square bale per horse should be plenty.

Hay Waste Before calculating the amount of hay you will need to purchase, you should also consider how much of your hay gets wasted either from storage or by your horses. Storage waste can range from 2-40%, depending on how you store the bales. Round bales stored outside produce the most waste, as the bottom and outermost 4” layer will be exposed to moisture. Storing hay inside or covering it well can reduce the amount wasted.

Then you must consider the amount wasted by your horses as they eat. Feeding hay on the ground is a huge source of waste, as horses trample and defecate on it. Studies at the University of Minnesota (https://extension.umn.edu/horsenutrition/selecting-small-square-bale-feeder) have found that using feeders significantly reduces hay waste. When feeding small square bales, the study found the following amounts of hay waste: • No feeder: 13% • Hay rack: 5% • Basket feeder: 3% • Slat feeder: 1% While purchasing feeders is an added cost, based on the price of hay and how much can be wasted without a feeder, these feeders pay for themselves in 9 to 12 months.

Researchers at Minnesota also looked at round bale feeders (https://extension.umn.edu/horse-nutrition/feedinghorses-round-bale-feeder), testing 9 feeders and a no-feeder control. The feeders tested allowed either complete access to the hay or restricted access (slow feeders). They found the following amounts of hay waste: • No feeder: 57% • Circular free choice feeders: 13-33% • Restricted access feeders: 5-11% Without a feeder, the herd actually consumed less hay and lost weight because so much of the hay was trampled CONTINUED ON PAGE A43

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and spoiled. The payback period for these feeders was far less than the small square bale feeders because of the huge reduction in waste compared to using no feeder.

Calculating Hay Needs To estimate how much hay to buy, you can run a few simple calculations. We will assume that horses eat approximately 2-2.5% of their body weight in hay per day as their full ration. If your horses have higher energy needs and also receive grain meals, you can subtract the weight of grain from the 2% figure based on your horse’s weight. We will also assume that the hay season lasts from November to March, and that horses have high-quality pasture for forage during the rest of the year.

1 horse at 1100 pounds x 2% BW = 22 lbs hay per day (if you feed grain, subtract its weight from this number) 22 lbs x 150 days = 3300 lbs hay per horse Don’t forget to account for wastage! ##### Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you are donating blood.

Here, we will assume 5% storage waste because our bales are stored inside and 13% waste from feeding small square bales on the ground.

3300 lbs x 1.05 (storage waste) x 1.13 (ground waste) = 3915 lbs hay per horse If you buy your hay by the ton, this would be 3915/2000 = almost 2 tons of hay per horse.

If you buy your hay by the bale, you will need to find out the approximate weight of each bale. Assuming a 40 lb bale, 3915/40 = 98 bales per horse.

Conclusions Forage is the most important part of your horse’s diet, and during Pennsylvania winters, hay is the most economical way to provide forage. By planning ahead and running some simple calculations, horse owners can save money and ensure that they have purchased the right amount of hay to last through the winter.

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By Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service USDA Red, the world’s first true red spinach variety has been developed and released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

Spinach has always been known as a green leafy vegetable. There are leafy vegetables often called red spinach.

But these are actually red-leaf amaranths (Amaranthus spp.) or other plants such as Red Goosefoot (Blitum rubrum), not true spinach (Spinacia oleracea). There are currently some true ‘’red’’ spinaches on the market, but the red color is limited to the veins of the leaves. The red-veined spinach variety Bordeaux is a parent of USDA Red. Spinach consumption (and production) in the United States dropped from 2.3 pounds per person to 1.6 pounds in 2006 following an Escherichia coli outbreak in 2006, and it has never fully recovered.

“A true red spinach like USDA Red will bring excitement to the spinach market and could help attract people back to eating spinach. It can be used as baby or ‘’teen’’ leaf in salad bags, as bunched products, and in spring mixes for fresh-market consumption. The red color in spring mixes is currently provided by red lettuce, radicchio or chard. Red spinach will give processors another choice,” said ARS research geneticist Beiquan Mou, who developed the new variety. Mou is with the Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit in Salinas, California. USDA Red spinach also works frozen or canned.

Spinach is one of the most desirable leafy vegetables with high levels of beta-carotene (provitamin A), lutein, folate, vitamin C, calcium, iron, phosphorus, and potassium.

The red color of USDA Red comes from the phytonutrient betacyanin rather than the more common anthocyanin.

Betacyanin is a potent antioxidant that has been shown to significantly reduce oxidative stress in patients and may even help in preventing chronic pathologies, inflammation, and cancer, according to the scientific literature.

The antioxidant capacity of USDA Red was 42–53 percent higher than other spinach cultivars in five tests conducted over three years.

‘Betacyanin adds another benefit to a plant already loaded with phytonutrients, making spinach a true ‘’super food,”’ Mou added.

USDA Red is a semi-flat type of spinach with a medium growth rate and semi-erect leaves. Its leaves are spadeshaped with round-pointed tips and purple-red veins and petioles. Compared with other spinach varieties, it has moderate resistance to bolting.

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In the 16th Century in northern Europe, after the reformation, the stories and traditions about St. Nicholas became unpopular.

But someone had to deliver presents to children at Christmas, so in the UK, particularly in England, he became ‘Father Christmas’ or ‘Old Man Christmas’, an old character from stories plays during the middle ages in the UK and parts of northern Europe. In France, he was then known as ‘Père Nöel’.

In some countries including parts of Austria and Germany, present giver became the ‘Christkind’ a golden-haired baby, with wings, who symbolizes the new born baby Jesus.

In the early USA his name was ‘Kris Kringle’ (from the Christkind). Later, Dutch settlers in the USA took the old stories of St. Nicholas with them and Kris Kringle and St Nicholas became ‘Sinterklaas’ or as we now say ‘Santa Claus’!

Many countries, especially ones in Europe, celebrate St. Nicholas’ Day on 6th December. In The Netherlands and some other European Countries, children leave clogs or shoes out on the 5th December (St. Nicholas Eve) to be filled with presents. They also believe that if they leave some hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas’s horse, they will be left some sweets.

St. Nicholas became popular again in the Victorian era when writers, poets and artists rediscovered the old stories.

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2012 Ford F150 5.4L motor, cloth seats, tow package, backup sensors, 57,826 miles. #19T64A..................................................... $19,999

This Day in History December December 10 Wyoming, a territory of the U.S., allowed women to vote and hold office (1869).

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. (1964) December 13 The Clip-on tie is created. (1928) December 15 The Bill of Rights are enacted, amending the U.S. Constitution (1791) -Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed by Indian police.

(1890) -Gone With the Wind premiered in, where else but Atlanta, Georgia. (1939) -Infamous band leader Glenn Miller died in a plane crash over the English Channel.(1944) December 16 Boston residents protesting British taxation threw tea overboard on a British ship . The Boston Tea Party was the beginning of the American fight for independence.

-The famous World War II “Battle of the Bulge” began.

(1944) December 17 The Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. (1903) December 19 Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol”. (1843) December 21 The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. (1620) -“Snow White” premiered at theaters. (1937) December 23 The transistor was invented by U.S. physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brittain, and William Shockley. (1947) December 24 Franz Joseph Gruber composed “Silent Night”. (1818) December 25 Jesus Christ is born in a little town in Bethlehem (0) -William the Conqueror is crowned the King of England.

(1066) December 26 James Mason invents the coffee percolator. (1865) December 27 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens. (1932) December 28 William F. Semple patented chewing gum.

(1869) December 30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems. (1924) Yes, the Hubble telescope was later named after him.

Christmas Candy Canes

The first recorded ‘candy stick’ comes from 1837 at an exhibition in Massachusetts in the USA. They started as straight white sugar sticks and a few years later the red stripes were added.

The first time they are documented as being called ‘candy canes’ comes in 1866; and their first connection to Christmas comes from 1874.

Early recipes had them as simply ‘sugar’ flavored.

But we’re now used to them being flavored with peppermint or wintergreen.

Around 1920, Bob McCormack, from Georgia, USA, started making canes for his friends and family. They became more and more popular and he started his own business called Bob’s Candies. Bob McCormack’s brother-in-law, Gregory Harding Keller, who was a Catholic priest, invented the ‘Keller Machine’ that made turning straight candy sticks into curved candy canes automatically! In 2005, Bob’s Candies was bought

by Farley and Sathers but they still make candy canes!

A story that’s rather nice but probably isn’t true, says that a German choirmaster, in 1670, was worried about the children sitting quietly all through the long Christmas nativity service.

So he gave them something to eat to keep them quiet! As he wanted to remind them of Christmas, he made them into a ‘J’ shape like a shepherds crook, to remind them of the shepherds that visited the baby Jesus at the first Christmas.

Sometimes other Christian meanings are giving to the parts of the canes. The ‘J’ can also mean Jesus. The white of the cane can represent the purity of Jesus Christ and the red stripes are for the blood he shed when he died on the cross.

The peppermint flavor can represent the hyssop plant that was used for purifying in the Bible. However, all of these meanings were added to Candy Canes after they had become popular. ##### What to do when somebody is trying to start an argument with you? Simply eat a few cookies. They taste very nice and you can’t hear anything over the crunching.

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406-982-7064 or 888-265-9554

200 2nd ST, HAVRE, MT 59501 • www.bigequipment.com Parts: Teresa 406-265-9554

2 to choose from!

2 Versatile 875’s to choose from, give us a call for more info!

General Manager: Dan Spicher CELL: 406-399-4435

Sales: Marty Lundstrom Owner: Ron Harmon CELL: 406-265-0096 406-654-7255

3 to choose from!

3 Versatile 895’s to choose from, give us a call for more info!

2014 Versatile 550DT 36” tracks, PTO, hi-flow hydraulics, 6 electric hydraulics $305,500

Versatile 450 1900 hours, PTO, high flow hydraulics, Powershift $207,550

Take your pick!

Take your pick!

Versatile 825 with 12-ft. Leon blade, 250 hp, 7666 hours, 3 hydraulic remotes Just In - Call!

2009 Versatile 435 Very clean one owner tractor.

Tractor has been professionally tuned up to 480 hp $160,000

2011 Case IH Maxxum 125 Very clean tractor with very little use on the loader $75,000

1996 Case IH 7120 Call for details! $60,000

Great Plains 40-ft., 7.5” spacing, double disc drill, liquid fertilizer, 4500 acres $75,000

2019 Wil-Rich 2550 CPW55-59 Heavy duty harrows, 12R225 tires $128,000

3 Big Bud 525/50’s to choose from!!

John Deere 6150 with loader, 2780 hours, very nice clean tractor $120,000

Case 1150 8990 hours, 118 horse power, ripper $49,000

2015 John Deere 1790 CCS 2-50 bushel tanks, 1-400 gallon liquid tank, 16-30” rows or 32-15” rows $95,000 1979 Friggstad 53-ft., super clean and straight for its age, tires are good.

Ready to go to work $20,000

2015 Seedmaster 6012 Nice, clean 60-ft. double shoot air drill with Onboard $230,000

3 Big Bud 400/30’s to choose from!!

2 to choose from!

Flexi-Coil 800 Harrows, shanks and frame are good $27,500 2015 Versatile SX280 100-ft. booms, 3 auto, 3 sensors, full guidance Raven controls, 1200 gallon stainless tank, 3” side fill, mixing cone, 200 gallon fresh water tank, triple nozzle bodies, 5 boom control. Very clean $259,000

2 Case IH ATX700’s with ADX3430 carts to choose from!!!

2019 Versatile 345 Soil razor blades, 9” spacing, heavy duty scrapers, bearing wear plates, rolling basket $98,000

Happy Holidays from all of the Crew at Big Equipment!

Trader’s Dispatch, December 2019 — Page B4

Fall and winter darkness may affect health

THANK YOU to all of our customers! We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you in the future. from

& the staff at

JIM NIELSEN TRUCK & PARTS, INC.

P.O. Box 3072 • 4075 Wynne Avenue • Butte, Montana 59702 • (406) 494-3394 • Mobile (406) 565-7235

Reddig Equipment and Repair 406-755-7595 • 2866 Highway 2 East • Kalispell, MT

2008 Deere 225DLC, QC, hyd thumb, dig bucket, 6500 hours..................................................................... $89,000

BACKHOES

Cat 416, 24” dig bucket, 88” loader bucket, 8339 hours.......... .............................................................................. $13,250 2013 Deere 310K EP, 4x4, 600 hours from new extend-a-hoe, 11/8 yard loader bucket, 24” dig bucket, cab, AC. Nice as they come............................................................. $60,000

CRAWLERS

Cat D7F, angle blade with tilt cylinder, winch, engine runs great, good undercarriage, transmission inoperable....... $17,500 (3) Deere 550G LGP, 6-way hyd blade, winch. Very nice.POR 1996 Deere 650G LGP, low ground pressure machine, torque converter, 26” shoes, John Deere 4000 series winch, 6-way hyd blade that’s very tight, has had very light work load.

This is a very nice crawler......................................... POR John Deere 850B, enc cab, ripper, angle dozer with tilts. Runs excellent, needs to go through shop. Before shop.$22,000 Komatsu D37E, 6-way hyd blade, good undercarriage.. POR 2006 Komatsu D61 PX-15, 6-way blade, 5888 hours..... POR

EXCAVATORS

1989 Cat EL 200B............................................................ Call 2012 Cat 305.5E, bucket, thumb, blade.......................... POR 2005 Cat 314 CLCR, blade, long arm, 36” dig bucket, blade, 10,500 hours......................................................... $45,000 2008 Deere 35D, AC, heater, JD hyd thumb, QC, auxiliary hyd, 16” dig bucket, short arm, Yanmar engine, 69” dozer blade, 4600 hours............................................................ $29,900 2001 Deere 35ZTS........................................................... Call Deere 50D, open station, bucket, hyd thumb, hyd angle blade, new tracks, 4800 hours......................................... $28,500 Deere 50G, QC, hyd thumb, rubber tracks, 42” smooth lip bucket, 16” dig bucket, 49” blade.......................... $41,000 2004 Deere 135C, blade, 36” bucket, hyd dual link thumb. Nice, operates very well and job ready.......................... $47,500 2006 Deere 200CLC....................................................... POR Kobelco K905LC II, 36” dig bucket, link hyd thumb, good undercarriage, new batterys, starts very good..... $19,500 2004 Komatsu PC138 USLC-2EO, blade, hyd thumb. Job ready, very nice machine...................................... $54,000 2008 Komatsu PC400.................................................... POR 2012 Hitachi ZX60.......................................................... POR 1988 Hitachi EX 200LC, 42” bucket, hyd thumb, no rust, runs excellent. Very good older machine. We have bucket cylinder to reseal.................................................. $32,500

FORESTRY

Cat 320B LL log loader. For parts.................................... Call Danzco PT20 delimber, high mount. Good operating condition........................................................................ $11,500 Deere 648GII skidder, 28L rubber, winch, cab, some glass missing. Before running through the shop............ $18,000 Deere 693D Denis delimber. Nice older machine............ Call Hurricana 20 saw head, accumulator arm, hyd tilt, low hours on saw motor rebuild, came off a 2520 Timber Jack, a very good head................................................................ $7250 Timbco T425D feller/buncher........................................... Call Timberjack 2520 feller/buncher, parts machine.............. Call Several slide booms for parts available

Komatsu PC138 USLC-8, hyd dual link thumb, hyd QC, 36” dig bucket, blade, rear camera, 8644 hours. Very nice work ready machine...................................................... $69,000

We have heavy duty chains for tractors, loaders, skidders, trucks, etc.

Can be delivered to your door.

FORKLIFTS & MANLIFTS

1993 JLG 60HA lift, 4WD, 60-ft. reach....................... $10,900 1992 JLG 120HX lift, 4WD, Deutz diesel engine, telescopic boom, 120-ft. ........................................................ $12,500

Many 5 - 10,000# forklifts available

GRADERS/COMPACTORS

2006 Bomag BW211D compactor, 84” drum, 3200 hours.

Operates excellent, very good condition............... $38,500 Deere 770-D, ripper, good tires, push block, 7757 hours. Real nice grader............................................................ $72,000 2010 Deere 770GP, new cutting edges, good tires, operates well, 168” moldboard extension length, 14-ft. moldboards. .............................................................................. $92,000

LOADERS

2009 Komatsu WA 320-6, ACS hyd QC, 3.75/4.0 yard bucket, new rubber, 20.5x25, 9900 hours. A very nice loader with light duty usage for its life. This is a good loader and will perform very well for a long time............................ $53,900

SKIDSTEERS

Bobcat S185, auxiliary hyd, traction lock override, very nice tires. Runs and operates very well, work ready.... $16,900 2014 Cat 279D, enc cab, heat, AC, 80” bucket, reversible edge, extra counter weights, 2 speed.................................. POR 2013 Kubota SVL75W, OROPS, new tracks, 74” bucket, aux hyd, open station, forks, 3200 hours..................... $29,000

TRUCKS & TRACTORS

1971 Ford F9000, roll back bed, winch. Ready to haul your equipment............................................................. $11,000 1982 Freightliner Conventional for parts including: Cat 3406A with low miles, 15 speed, Rockwell differential, SQHD, hi/ low lockers, good components................... For parts only 1980 Kenworth, 14-ft. box, 12R22.5 radial tires, Cummins engine, Jake brake, walking beam suspension, pintle hitch on back. Good older dump truck........................... $10,500 Deere 2950 4WD tractor, new tires, loader, enc cab.. $17,500

View our entire inventory with pictures at www.reddigequipment.com

By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist, NDSU Extension We’ve reached the point in autumn when many of us leave home for work in the dark and return to our homes in the dark.

We are not necessarily working on special projects requiring early mornings and late nights. That’s just how the seasons work in the Midwest.

What’s your comfort level with darkness? My family is all about living in a bright, well-lit environment. I feel like I live in a department store because nearly every lamp, overhead light and undercabinet light tends to be “on.”

In fact, I typically walk around our home turning off lights in rooms with no one present.

“Alexa” or some other electronic helper is not attempting to maintain a well-lit ambience in our home. My family has the “lights on in every room” habit.

When I finish my rounds of seeing where everyone is and extinguishing light bulbs, the lights already are back on in some of the unoccupied rooms.

Maybe my family is just messing with me.

I was raised to save on power by flipping off lights. My parents taught me correctly, according to Energy.gov.

If you are going to be out of a room for 15 minutes, you should turn off the lights to save energy. Somehow, I think this 15-minute rule will be difficult to police in my home.

I agree that artificial lighting makes living spaces inviting. However, having access to natural light can affect our mental and/or physical health.

You may be aware of a condition known as “SAD,” or Seasonal Affective Disorder, which has symptoms that appear in the fall and can become more severe in the winter.

A person with SAD may feel depressed, have low energy or trouble sleeping, or experience changes in appetite.

Be sure to discuss persistent SAD symptoms with a health-care provider to access appropriate treatment. Special lighting and other interventions are available.

Our lack of regular sunlight in the Midwest can have other effects on our health, too.

Without access to sunny days and adequate food or vitamin supplements, we may become “deficient” or at least “insufficient” in vitamin D. Vitamin D is known as the “sunshine vitamin” because sun exposure causes our skin to go into “vitamin D manufacturing mode.”

People in the northern U.S. are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than people in other parts of the country, especially during October to April.

For example, in a study of more than 2,839 women who had given birth in a Michigan hospital, 92.5% had insufficient blood levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced in our body by the action of sunlight on our skin. The process also requires naturally occurring conversions by the liver and kidneys to become active.

In general, depending on where you live and the color of your skin, getting adequate vitamin D may take only 15 minutes of sunlight exposure in the summer and 30 minutes in the winter.

Standing outside with bare arms in the winter in North Dakota is not advised, though.

Vitamin D is important in maintaining strong bones and helping prevent rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis.

Vitamin D also has roles in immune function and functioning of our neuromuscular system. Some researchers have linked vitamin D deficiency to various forms of cancer, heart disease, depression, chronic pain, diabetes, high blood pressure and other health issues, but the researchers haven’t established that the lack of vitamin D causes the disease.

More research is needed.

In the meantime, when sunlight is sparse, make efforts to get adequate vitamin D all year through food or supplements.

The Food and Nutrition Board recommends 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D for ages 1 to 69 and 800 IU for people over the age of 70. However, the Vitamin D Council and the Endocrine Society recommend higher daily doses.

Visit the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements at https://ods.od.nih.gov/ to learn more about dietary supplements.

Check in with your health-care provider about taking a vitamin D supplement, particularly during winter months.

Taking a vitamin D supplement certainly won’t hurt you and probably will help maintain your vitamin D status. Stay within the limit of supplementation recommended by your health-care provider or pharmacist.

New nutrition labels that include the amount of vitamin D CONTINUED ON PAGE B8

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HUGGY BEAR’S CONSIGNMENT & APPRAISAL

Phone 406-873-4819, cell 229-0662, e-mail khbear59427@yahoo.com, Cut Bank, Montana Website: www.huggybearsconsignments.com “If You Want To Sell or Buy...Huggy Bear Is Your Guy”.

MANURE SPREADERS

John Deere ground drive manure spreader. Tag #VicC0219.......................... $750 H&S 2212 manure spreader, 125 bushel, 540 PTO, like new. Tag #FredV0119...... .............................................................................................................$10,500

GRAIN AUGERS

Brandt 1060 swing hopper grain auger. Tag #JohnA1118..........................$8500 Brandt 1070 10”x70-ft. swing hopper auger. JohnA0619............................$9500 Westfield MK100 10”x61-ft. swing hopper auger. Tag #GaryS0919...........$3900

DISCS

Miller 21-ft. offset disc, 8” spacing. Tag #Paul0219.................................... $9000 John Deere 360 36-ft. swinger disc. Tag #BC0319.

TRAILERS

TUB GRINDERS & PROCESSORS

See Me about your bale processor needs.

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

New Harsh mixer wagons. Tag #Larry0419.

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

Tag #ANF0219..................................................................................... $5500 New Luck Now Tmr mixers. Tag #Larry0419.

NEW ITEMS

2011 Dodge new long box, fender flares, rear bumper and tailgate. Black in color.

Tag #DanG1219....................................................................................$5500 John Deere 5-bottom pull type moldboard plow. Tag #DanG1219..............$2500 John Deere 5-bottom pull type plow with 16” shears. Tag #DanG1219......$2500 John Deere 2750 2WD tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, loader. Tag #Art1219...$18,000 Shaver HD10 3-point mounted post pounder, Tag #TedH1219...................$3500 Farmhand 82C grinder/mixer. Tag #BobS1219...........................................$4500 1976 Ford F250 pickup, 2-wheel drive, manual transmission, gas. Tag #JackW1219.........................................................................................$6500 1996 GMC 3500 pickup with service box. Tag #JackW1219.......................$7500 1928 Ford Model A car. Tag #MontyL1219..............................................$16,000 2018 Case IH 580Q quad track tractor, twin hydraulic pumps, PTO, Luxury cab, full auto steer, 1330 drive line hours. Next to new. Tag #Kem1219...$275,000 John Deere 7520 tractor, 1000 PTO. Tag #ANF1219.

Challenger SP 185 windrower with 14-ft. auger head. Tag #Karen1219.

Valmar 245 pull type granular spreader. Tag #Karen1219.

Vermeer R23A rake. Tag #Karen1219.

John Deere 970 cultipack. Tag #Karen1219.

60-ft. conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

2-20-ft. conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

Potato custer. Tag #Karen1219.

Simonsen granular trailer type spreader. Tag #Karen1219.

4-Aeration fans. Tag #Karen1219.

Green single bag bagger. Tag #Karen1219.

Potato conveyor. Tag #karen1219.

John Deere Yielder 1520 no till drill. Tag #Karen1219.

Lockwood potato conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

Potato bucket. Tag #Karen1219.

White 9700 combine with 25-ft. header, pickup reel. Tag #Karen1219.

White 9700 combine for parts. Tag #Karen1219.

Potato truck. Tag #Karen1219.

Tandem axle utility trailer. Tag #Karen1219.

White conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

Brillion 15-ft. cultipacker. Tag #Karen1219.

John Deere 8630 tractor, 20.8x34 tires, 8696 hours. Tag #Karen1219.

PTO conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

Yellow 20 heavy disc. Tag #Karen1219.

John Deere 8630 tractor, 23.1x34 tires, 3-point, PTO, 9681 hours. Tag #Karen1219.

White semi truck with flatbed hay trailer. Tag #Karen1219.

Anhydrous tank. Tag #Karen1219.

Weighmatic potato bagger. Tag #Karen1219.

Green potato conveyor. Tag #Karen1219.

500 gallon fuel tank. Tag #Karen1219.

Aeration tubes. Tag #Karen1219.

22-6” irrigation pipe. Tag #Karen1219.

22-4” irrigtion pipe. Tag #Karen1219.

SEASONS GREETINGS PLOWS

Ford 145 roll over plow. Tag #HiddenL0819................................................$2500 Friggstad B3-31 34-ft. plow, 1 1/4” shanks. Tag #JohnA0619.......................$9500 1982 Friggstad 80-ft. plow with 3-bar Flexi-Coil harrow. Tag #Rog0619.

Flexi-Coil 340 40-ft. plow. Tag #ArtHanson0219........................................$11,500 Flexi-Coil 600 36-ft. plow with air rank. Tag #BillO0519...........................$12,000 John Deere 335 3-bottom roll over plow. Tag #Hug0219........................... $3500 Melroe 30-ft. plow. Tag #GaryS0119.......................................................... $4000 Melroe 36-ft. plow, no wing lift, Honey Bee rod. Tag #JohnA0619...............$4500

HARROWS

Degelman 6-ft. harrow. Tag #JackW0419....................................................... Call 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

COMBINE & HAY HEADERS

2-Case IH 810 13-ft. pickup headers. Tag #Brandon0919.

Case IH 810 30-ft. straight cut header. Tag #Brandon0919.

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

Case IH 1015 pickup header with a Sund pickup. Unit is like new. Tag #Harry0819...................................................................................................$6500 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 Versatile 4022 22-ft. DSA draper header, Versatile 276 adapter. Tag #FredV0619...$6000 John Deere 105 combine with 22-ft. header. Tag #MikeMc0916................... $3500

2008 Case 180 Puma trailer, w/L770 loader, bucket and grapple, 3-point, 540 PTO, 2289 hours. Tag #Wayne1019...................................................$88,000 Donahue 28-ft. trailer. Tag #Carl0919..........................................................$3000 1991 Aljo 21-ft. gooseneck travel trailer, sleeps 6, has refrigerator and sink, air conditioning, sound system. Tag #Mary0919........................................$8500 2019 PJ 18x43 trailer Tag #EquipC0419.....................................................$2450 Eddie Bauer gooseneck trailer with new brakes, new LED lights. Tag #DBK1118.............................................................................................$4800 1987 Holiday Rambler 35-ft. RV, sleeps 6, has new awning, 70,000 miles. Tag #JackW0419............................................................................................ Call New PJ trailers for sale. Tag #Wyatt0719.

1998 PJ 24-ft. gooseneck trailer, 7500 lb. axles, tie down straps. Tag #Pack0617.. ..............................................................................................................$7500 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.

1974 Homemade flatbed trailer with 107” deck, wide enough for older swathers.

Tag #TSimo1118...................................................................................$2500

COMBINES

Gleaner L2 combine with 24-ft. header with Crary air reel. Tag #Richard0919...... ..............................................................................................................$6000 Gleaner L2 combine with 24-ft. header with Crary air reel, 2766 engine hours.

Tag #Richard0919.................................................................................$6000 Gleaner L2 combine with 24-ft. header with Crary air reel, 2092 engine hours.

Tag #Richard0919.................................................................................$6000 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 Case 2388 combine with 40-ft. draper header and 1015 pickup header, 3527 engine hours, 2856 separator hours. Tag #Vince0719..........................$55,000 1978 Case 1480 combine. Tag #BlakeS1118..............................................$8500

SKID STEERS and MANURE SPREADERS FOR RENT

MISCELLANEOUS

(39) 4-ft. perforated aeration tubes. Tag #DickS1019...............................$135 ea.

(136) rings for aeration tubes. Tag #DickS1019.........................................$35 ea.

Bumper off 2012 Dodge pickup. Tag #DickS1019..........................................$450 Bale spears to fit skid steer loaders. Tag #Hug1019.

NEW Airway 30-ft. aerator. Tag #RickW1019...........................................$50,000 Airway 20-ft. aerator. Tag #RickW1019....................................................$33,000 Hutchinson 36-ft. belt conveyor. Tag #Jess0919.....................................$18,000 NEW!! Danuser 48” pallet fork for skidsteer loader. Tag #Hug0519..............$980 Degelman 5178 hylift rock picker. Tag #Doug0518.....................................$9500 New Fair bale processors & snowblowers. See Huggy Bear.

Utility bucket for skid steer loader, new cutting edge. Tag #Hug0119............$1500 40-ft. spring tine harrow cart. Tag #JohnA0619...........................................$1500 Degelman R570S rockpicker. Tag #Fey0619..............................................$4500 1982 Cadillac Eldorado diesel engine. Tag #Marshal0619.....................$10,000 New H&S 1460 wheel rake. Tag #Hug0619..............................................$19,500 Wilray 4000 gallon double wall tank. Tag #Doug0819.................................$4000 Bobcat skid steer loader V-blade. Tag #DaveT0819.

Vermeer 2300 rake with very little use. Tag #DougP0819........................$19,000 New Keho 71/2 hp aeration fan, 3 phase, 480 volt. Tag #Rod0819..............$2995 JCB 330 skid steer loader, 1430 hours. Tag #Austin0819.

12-ft. blade off of Cat 85 track tractor. Tag #Russ0519................................$6500 1977 M&W 450A grain dryer. Tag #WahlF0618...........................................$7500 Peterson 50-ft. rock roller. Tag #Dan0519................................................$10,000 2-prong bale spear. Tag #Fey0619.................................................................$600 Minn-Kota high lift rock picker, hydraulic drive. Tag #JackW0419...............$1500 24-ft. portable corral panels. Tag #BCreek0719.............................................$350 New pasture harrows. Tag #Hug0519....................................... $179 per section New Danuser hammer skid steer mounted post pounder. Tag #Hug0119....$4995 Golf cart. Tag #Paul0919..............................................................................$3500 Push blade to fit on Gehl telehandler. Tag #Paul0919.................................$2500 Vermeer 625 wood chipper. Tag #LarryK0919............................................$7500 Paul calf scale. Tag # TomS0619...................................................................$600 Feterl 8-ft. snowblower. Tag #Fey0619........................................................$6500 3-point hitch sickle mower. Tag #Fey0619......................................................$500 17 rollers for Cat dozers. Tag #Marshal0619.................................Price Pending New!! Danuser skid steer mounted hammer. Tag #Hug0419...Preseason Price Vermeer R2800 hydrauic rake. Tag #Riley0219...................................... $18,500 Farmhand 8-bale clamp. Tag #TomS0619...................................................$1500 Farmhand 8-bale clamp. Tag #TomS0619...................................................$1600 John Deere 78 7-ft. 3-point, rear blade. Tag #Glenn0619.............................$950 Case IH 2188 combine with 2800 hours. Tag #Roger0819.

Great Plains 40-ft. drill with 1400 tank, 7.5” spacing. Tag #Reid0819......$70,000 Hi-Hog alley way. Tag #Fey0619..................................................................$2500 Hi-Hog squeeze chute. Tag #Fey0619........................................................$2800 Crowding tub. Tag #Fey0619........................................................................$3500 Hi-Hog alley way. Tag #Fey0619..................................................................$3500 30-ft. portable corral gates. Tag #BirchCr0117.........................................$450 ea.

Melroe rockpicker. Tag #Riley0219............................................................. $1000 Calf scales. Tag #TomS0519.

Booms for Summers sprayer. Tag #JackW0419.............................................. Call 2000 BoMag 138AD roller. Tag #Debbie0519............................... Price Coming 1989 Ford, 12-ft. van body, 4-speed overdrive, 7169 miles. Tag #D&B0419.. Call Batch Boy chemical mixer. Tag #BK0117...................................................$4500 NEW!! Danuser hydraulic post hole digger, 9” & 12” auger. Tag #Hug0619..$3000 NEW Farm King rototillers available. Tag #Hug0519.

625 gallon plastic tank. Tag #Harry0618........................................................$700 1000 gallon storage tank. Tag #Harry0618..................................................$1000 5-ft. 3-point rotary mower. Tag #DonW1217...................................................$600

GRAIN DRYERS

BALE MOVERS

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

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

Financing Available

John Deere 60 restored tractor. Tag #Jim0819...........................................$5000 John Deere 4520 tractor. Tag #ANF0619....................................................$9500

Round bale mover, hauls 4 bales. Tag #Scotty0919....................................$4500 3-point round bale retriever. Tag #BigSkyC0617..........................................$1500

ANTIQUE TRACTORS

TRUCKS

1983 International 1724 2-ton truck with 18-ft. flatbed with tailgate hoist. Tag #BrokenP0119..................................................................................... $5500 1994 Ford L9000 Aeromax Tag #Marshal0619.......................................$25,000 1999 Sterling semi truck. Tag #Marshal0619...........................................$25,000 1993 Ford L9000 truck for pulling trailers. Tag #Marshal0619.................$35,000 1975 International 4300 conventional truck, 19-ft. Rtena box, 13 speed transmission, tandem axle, good rubber. Tag #JohnA0619........................$25,000 1972 Ford F900 dump truck with 10-yard. Tag #JackW0419......................... Call 1981 Kenworth flatbed truck, Cummins diesel engine. Tag #Marhsal0619...$4500 1952 rockpicking truck with 12-ft. box and hoist. Tag #JackW0418................. Call 1979 International cab-over grain truck, 20-ft. ITB box, Cummins engine, 452,000 miles, tandem axle, 13 speed transmission. Tag #JohnA0619.............$25,000

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2WD & 4WD TRACTORS

International 444 2WD tractor, loader, 3-point, 38 HP, 540 PTO, 1976 hours. Tag #Wayne1019.........................................................................................$7500 John Deere 6140 MFD tractor with loader and grapple, only 212 hours on tractor. Tag #Doug0519............................................................................$68,000 John Deere 2750 2WD tractor, 3-point, 540 PTO, loader., 5232 hours, has 18.4x30 rear tires. Tag #ArtH0619.....................................................$19,500 1996 New Holland 9030 bi-directional, 6000 hours, with Case 18-ft. auger header, loader and grapple fork. Tag #Tanner0619............................................$59,000 International 706 2WD tractor with loader. Tag #Leon0419.

Case IH Puma 180 FWD tractor with loader and grapple, Tag #Wayne1118........ ...........................................................................................................$80,000 Case David Brown 990 tractor with loader, 3-point. Tag #Leon0419.

Steiger PTA 310 Panther tractor with Degelman front blade with 24.5x32 tires.

Tag #Reid0819...................................................................................$27,000 1993 Versatile 876 (blue) tractor, 20.8x38 duals, weights, manual transmission, only 2438 hours, tractor is immaculate. Tag #JackW0419........................ Call Case 1486 2WD tractor. Tag #Gary0919.....................................................$9500 Case MX120 MFD tractor with L300 FEL loader, 96” bucket, square bale fork.

Tag #Rog0919....................................................................................$45,000 Big Bud HN360 tractor, 855 Cummins engine, 400 hp. Tag #ArtH0519..$45,000 John Deere 730 tractor with narrow front. Tag #ANF0719.

Allis Chalmers 170 2WD tractor, loader, 3-point, 540 PTO.Tag #Neal0519...$7500 John Deere 4520 tractor with 158 loader/grapple. Tag #Riley0219........ $14,000 Case 4490 4x4 tractor with 1000 PTO. Tag #BillB0819.

Massey 44 tractor. Tag #Jim0819................................................................$5000 John Deere 4020 2-wheel drive tractor with cab, 3-point, dual PTO. Loader may be available. Tag #ANF0519..................................................................$7000 John Deere 8650 4WD tractor with 3-point and PTO. Tag #Reid0519.....$25,000

SPRAYERS & SPREADERS

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

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

Compu Spray 60-ft. sprayer. Tag #Hugh0219............................................ $3500 1982 Valmar 240 granular applicator, hydraulic drive, mounted on homemade cart. Tag #HerbK0916

SWATHERS & MOWER CONDITIONERS

2001 John Deere 4890 windrower with 16-ft double sickle header, 1700 cutting hours. Tag #Harvey0219...................................................................... $42,000 2012 Case 1203 swather, less header. Tag #Lorenze0619......................$40,000 Hesston 8450 windrower with 14-ft. auger header. Tag #Neal0719.........$25,000 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

BACKHOES, LOADERS, SKID STEERS GRADERS, CRAWLERS & EXCAVATORS

Badger Hopto trailer mounted backhoe. Tag #Hug1019............................$1500 New Wacker Neuson skid steer loader and other construction equipment available.

Kohering C66 bantam excavator, 4005 hours, hydraulic thumb. Tag #ArtH0519.. ...........................................................................................................$15,000 Bale spear for skid steer loader. Tag #Hug0619............................................$650 Bale spear for skid steer loader. Tag #Fey0619.............................................$750 1998 Harris skid steer loader. Tag #Marshal0619.......................................$4500 Ford 655C tractor/loader/backhoe, rebuilt engine. Tag #Lorenze0619.....$18,000 Stihl forklift 8000 lb. capacity, 18,883 hours, propane, side shift. Tag #Leon0419.

Cat D4 dozer, pull start Pony motor. Tag #MarvinC0218............................... $6000

AIR SEEDERS & DRILLS

Great Plains 40-ft. air drill with 7.5” spacing, 1400 bushel tank. Tag #RogWill0919.............................................................................................$62,000 John Deere 665 air seeder with 40-ft. JD plow. Tag #Gary0919.................$6500 1997 Flexi-Coil 5000 air seeder with 1720 tow behind cart, 7.2” spacing. Tag #Paul0219......................................................................................... $25,000 40-ft. of John Deere drills, 4-10-ft. with 10” spacing, steel packers, John Deere transport, markers. Tag #JohnA0619.................................................$12,500 Victory 35-ft. air seeder, 14” spacing with 5” spreader (actually will spread 7” spacing), 2320 tow behind tank with auxiliary 3rd tank, rubber packers. Can be either single or double shoot. Tag #Rick0416....................................... $18,500 1 set of (3) John Deere 1010 drills, 10” spacing, grain and fertilizer boxes, clean.

Tag #Guy0416......................................................................................... $2500 Haybuster 32-ft. drills, for parts. Tag #Russ0519........................................$5000

ROUND & SQUARE BALERS

2013 John Deere 569 Premium round baler. Tag #Abe0919..................$16,500 John Deere 567 twine tie round baler, 10,500 bales, new chains and belt drive.

Tag#Harvey0918................................................................................$18,000 2005 Case RBX562 round baler with net wrap. Excellent shape. Tag #Doug0819........................................................................................$13,500 New Holland 644 round baler. Tag #Fred0719............................................$5000

PICKUPS & CARS

2008 Dodge 3500 pickup, grill guard, flatbed with tool boxes, 299,000 miles, Cummins, 10,000 miles on new transmission. Tag #TagLorenze0619....$15,000 1999 Ford E350 van, 15-passenger, 459,893 miles. Tag #Lorenze0619....$6000 2012 Ford F150 pickup, 4x4, 68,500 miles, automatic. Tag #Doug0819..$17,000 1993 5-seat bus, 138,000 miles. Tag #Lorenze0619...................................$6000 1981 Ford F250 2WD pickup with service box. Tag #Ruth0618..................$1500

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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

2008 John Deere 936D header w/batt and pickup reel, good shape........ ...................................................................................................$18,000 1995 John Deere 9600 combine w/Ag Leader yield monitor, Trimble 500 w/EZ Steer, service and maintenance records available, all 4 tires new, great shape, w/930F w/Crary air reel and 930R headers and trailers.... ...................................................................................................$49,500 2008 John Deere 9770 2263 engine hours, 1595 separator hours, all 4 tires new, Powercast tailboard, John Deere Greenstart 2 with Trimble 500 w/EZ-Steer, service and maintenance records available. Completely rebuilt the last 2 seasons......................................................$125,000 TRX26 snowblower, like new..............................................................$500 2004 Ford F150 extended cab.........................................................$8500 Call Greg Woods (406) 399-0488 or Matthew Woods (406) 399-3640 7W Farms, Inverness, MT

EQUIPMENT & EL CAMINO FOR SALE 1996 New Holland 9030 bidirectional, PTO front and rear, hydraulic front and rear, 3-point cab end, loader 1978 El Camino SS 350, with grapple, new seat, new automatic, AM/8-track, air radio, new AC, new shocks conditioning, new tire, have on window and doors, 80% headliner, recent tune-up, tires, 10,500 hours. Great black, 58,000 miles.............. Shape............. $26,500 obo .......................... $5500 obo

Call 406-278-3970, leave message New Holland 144 hay inverter................. $2500 obo

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Rockwell Scales

The deadline for advertising for the January 2020 issue of the Trader's Dispatch will be January 1st.

Bred Sim/Angus Heifers still available

Christmas Card Day

Date When Celebrated: Always December 9 Christmas Card Day, honors Sir Henry Cole (1818 - 1874) of England. Cole created the first commercial Christmas Card in 1843.

Just a few decades ago, sending Christmas cards through the mail was a holiday "must". Sending cards through the mail continues to be very popular. The cost and time for writing and sending cards has caused many people to stop sending them. Free Ecards have surged in popularity. Animated Christmas and seasonal Ecards have made sending and receiving them a lot of fun.

Today is a good day to send out your Christmas cards and holiday greetings.

If you have yet to do so, use today to get a start.

Origin of Christmas Card Day: We suspect that on this date, Henry Cole marketed the commercial Christmas card. The timing is certainly appropriate.

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Wishing you a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS from the staff at the Trader’s Dispatch!!

Thank you for your continued support in 2019.

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Unharvested corn can be feed for cattle

By NDSU Extension Service ing corn, make sure they’re ready for it. AfThe 2019 growing season has not been ter a brief learning period, cattle will graze conducive for corn grain production in corn ears if any have developed. However, many areas of the northern Plains. the cattle first need to adapt to a higher grain The late planting season, combined with diet; otherwise, acidosis or other digestive cooler temperatures, has left many fields disorders could develop. unharvestable or not cost effective for har“It is important to control the amount of vesting corn for grain, especially with latecorn and forage to which the animals have season varieties. Alternative uses for corn access,” says Miranda Meehan, Exteninclude grazing, chopping it, harvesting as sion livestock environmental stewardship earlage or harvesting high-moisture corn specialist. “You can effectively do this by and using it for livestock feed. cross-fencing or grazing in controlled strips.

However, producers must take precauThis technique will reduce high overload of tions when grazing unharvested corn to grain and waste through trampling. assure animals don’t develop health issues, “Cross-fencing and strip-grazing are North Dakota State University (NDSU) usually recommended with access to no Extension livestock specialists say. more than a two-day supply of fresh corn Grazing Standing Corn at a time; a one-day supply is even better, “When grazing standing corn with cobs especially for younger, growing cattle,” that are filled with grain, the grazing has to she adds. “If you cannot limit feed grazing be managed to reduce any risk of causing animals in standing corn, this option is not health issues and even death to livestock,” recommended because the risk for high cautions Kevin Sedivec, Extension rangedeath loss is great.” land management specialist. “Consuming A basic rule of thumb for determining too much grain can cause digestive upsets two days’ worth of feed is that each acre of (acidosis), lameness, abortions, and death standing corn that is about 6 feet tall and in extreme cases. Some issues will develop tasseled should provide enough grazing for through time, making them difficult to about 125 to 150 cows for one day. Observe detect.”

Before turning cattle out to graze standCONTINUED ON PAGE B10

EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY NEED!

Fall and winter darkness may affect health CONTINUED FROM PAGE B4

D L O S 1991 John Deere 3155 95 PTO D L SO

1994 Kubota B7100 HST-D 16 hp, 4WD, hydrostatic transmission, diesel tractor with front loader and 48” bucket, 659 hours......... ......................................$11,900

1978 Kubota B7100DT 16 hp, 4WD, gear transmission, diesel tractor with front loader and 40” bucket, new rear tires w/Bio-Balast, 60” 3 pt. rear blade, 2,083 hours................................$5900

Call or stop in for more information on any of these units!

hp, 4WD diesel tractor with cab, heat and air, rebuilt engine and new front tires. Tractor has been serviced, EZEE-ON loader with 7-ft. bucket and grapple ........... ..................................... $35,900

1977 John Deere 2640 tractor, diesel, 70 PTO hp, 5377 hours, EZee-On loader, 7-ft. bucket, new rear tires w/Bio-Guard ...... ........................................ $9700

1973 John Deere 2030 tractor, diesel, 61 PTO hp, 5377 hours, Du-Al loader, 6-ft. bucket .......... ........................................ $7500

1963 John Deere 3010 tractor, gas, 55 PTO hp, 4129 hoursFarmhand loader, 5-ft. bucket... ........................................ $7900

2013 Case ZTS excavator, cab, 18” bucket, 924 hours.........$29,900

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

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

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

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per serving in foods will be appearing in 2020. Some companies already use the new format.

Unfortunately, few foods naturally contain vitamin D in high amounts. Fatty fish such as swordfish, salmon, tuna and mackerel are among the best natural sources of vitamin D. A 3-ounce portion of cooked salmon, for example, has 447 IU. An egg has about 41 units of vitamin D. Fortified foods, such as milk and some types of orange juice and cereal, have added vitamin D. Here’s an easy recipe featuring vitamin D-rich salmon.

Try it with your other favorite fish.

Breadcrumb-crusted Salmon (or Cod) 1 pound salmon (or cod) fillets (fresh or, if frozen, thawed) 1/4 c. Italian-seasoned breadcrumbs 1 Tbsp. dried parsley 2 Tbsp. olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste Cooking spray Preheat oven to 425 F. Grease small baking dish or pan with cooking spray. In a small bowl, combine breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, pepper and olive oil. Place fish in pan and spread mixture over the top. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until fish flakes easily with fork and reaches 145 F. Makes four servings. Each serving has about 180 calories, 8 grams (g) fat, 5 g carbohydrate, 21 g protein and 180 milligrams sodium.

National Flashlight Day

Date When Celebrated: Always December 21 Don’t be left in the dark on National Flashlight Day. The basic requirement for this day, is a flashlight and good batteries. Flick the switch, and you can put anything into your spotlight.

We’d like to shed a little light on this special day. National Flashlight Day arrives on Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day...and longest night.... of the year. “Watt” that means, is that there’s lots and lots of darkness. With all of those dark hours, your flashlight is apt to get a good workout.

You never know when you will need a flashlight. National Flashlight Day is a good day to make sure you and your family know where the flashlights are. Test each flashlight, to be sure the batteries are good. When in doubt, replace the batteries with new ones. It is also a good idea to put a flashlight in your car.

Did You Know? The flashlight was invented in 1898 by Joshua Lionel Cowen. However, this wasn’t his greatest invention. He also invented the Lionel train.

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(PI) Pierre, SD 605-224-1631

(PH) Philip, SD 605-859-2636

(SU) Sundance, WY 307-283-2971

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2018 NDE U850D (WI), Stk #62841, 1 Owner Machine Used For Back Grounding, Just Needed A Smaller Unit....................................$46,500

2017 Kuhn/Knight RC270 (HA), Stk #62001, Big 700 Cu Ft Mixer W/ Helix Reel, Large 1,000 Constant Velocity Drive Shaft...........$52,000

2015 NDE 804 (WI), Stk #59895, 650 Cu Ft, Right Hand Discharge, Walking Tandem Axle, 9-24” Carbide Knives........................$29,000

2012 Farm Aid 430 (WI), Stk #62797, 430 Cu Ft. Mixer W/Scale & Right Hand Discharge...$17,500

Kuhn Knight 4072 (PI), Stk #61024, 720 Cu Ft. Auger Mixer, Hydraulic Controlled Discharge, 2 Scale Head.................................$24,900

2010 Kuhn/Knight 3136 (HA), Stk #61967, 36” Auger Discharge, Airplane Tires, 540 PTO, Liner Welded On Discharge...............$17,500

2010 Kuhn 3136 (BL), Stk #62653, 2010 NDE 804 (WA), Stk #62919, 1 Flighting Looks Good & Liners, 3 Owner Locally Owned, Single AuAuger Discharge, 640XL Scale...... ger, Right Hand Discharge, 640XL ..........................................$17,500 Scale.................................$18,000

2006 Knight 3136 (WI), Stk #56032, Just Had $5K In Repairs Done, New Knives & Springs On Reel, 1000 PTO, Good Unit........$18,000

2005 Kuhn/Knight 3150 (PH), Stk #56764, All New Bearings & Floor In Great Shape, 2 Scales, Slide Tray W/Magnet................. $18,900

2002 Knight 4063 (WI), Stk #60472, 3 Auger Discharge, 1,000 PTO, Weigh-Tronix Scales, Pretty Decent Unit........................... $16,600

Kuhn/Knight 4072 Botec (PI), Stk #61024, 720 Cu Ft Auger Mixer, Hydraulic Controlled Discharge, 2 Head Scale.......................$24,900

Wishing you all a very Happy Holiday Season!

Thanks to all of our customers for your business this year.

Grossenburg Implement will be closed on Christmas Day & New Year’s Day.

Kuhn/Knight 3136 (PI), Stk #60973, EZ200 DigiStar Scale, Flighting & Tires Are Good, Nice Entry Or Backup Feed Wagon.........$14,900

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2019 John Deere 6155R (PI), Stk #58609, 240 Hrs, County Rental Return, Loader Ready, Premium Light Package.................$152,000

2017 John Deere 6155R (WA), Stk #60819, 792 Hrs, DD Eco Trans, Front Suspension, Weighted Up In Rear................................$126,000

2018 John Deere 6195R (WI), Stk #62368, 329 Hrs, 660R Loader, Weights, Panoramic Roof............... ........................................$173,500

2018 John Deere 6155R (HA), Stk #58123, 483 Hrs, County Rental Return, 640R NSL Loader, Grapple, Suspension..............$149,800

2018 John Deere 6215R (PI), Stk #60218, 489 Hrs, 7” Color Touch Display, IVT Trans, Premium Cab... ........................................$164,000

2018 John Deere 6120E (BL), Stk #56618, 65 Hrs, MFWD, H310 Loader, Air Suspension Seat, Dual SCV’s................................$77,000

2014 John Deere 6150M (WI), Stk #62837, 5,062 Hrs............$76,500

2014 John Deere 6210R (HA), Stk #60048, 7,501 Hrs, H380 Loader, 4 Electronic SCV’s, 3 Function Joystick, Duals................$105,500

2014 John Deere 6170R (SU), Stk #60474, 4,075 Hrs, Very Nice One Owner Unit W/Loader......$112,000

2014 John Deere 6150R (WI), Stk #62367, 3,666 Hrs, H360 Loader & Grapple, IVT, Electric Joystick, 100” Rear Axles..............$101,500

For more info on these units give us a call...

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2013 John Deere 6210R (PI), Stk #63117, 5,201 Hrs, TLS, 2012 John Deere 7330 (WI), Stk #62373, 3,793 Hrs, IVT Trans, 480/80R16 Duals, 4 SCV’s, AutoFront Suspension, 741 Loader & Trac Ready, IVT, 1 Owner Unit!......

Grapple.............................$99,500 ........................................$105,000

1976 John Deere 4430 (BF), Stk #62276, Open Station, SyncroRange Trans, Degelman 10HD Dozer................................$17,000

2004 Case IH MXM175 (PI), Stk #62844, 5,983 Hrs, Includes LX172 Loader & 4 Tine Grapple, PS Trans 18F/6R...............$45,000

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The Advertising Deadline for the January issue of the Trader's Dispatch will be January 1st.

Phone us at (406) 271-5533

Unharvested corn can be feed for cattle CONTINUED FROM PAGE B8

animal behavior and the amount of grazeable corn each day, as well as in-field variations, to determine whether to increase or decrease the area allotted with each new grazing strip. Do not bother with back fences so animals can travel back to water.

Producers can mitigate the risk of grazing standing corn by: • Carefully considering the class of cattle allowed to graze cornstalks. Cattle new to eating corn (calves or yearlings) will take some time before they actively seek corn.

This delayed consumption can serve as a good acclimation period (or explain the suddenly dead calf after being on the corn field for two weeks). Cows with experience grazing corn will look for grain and ears immediately when turned out. Consider grazing calves, yearlings or cull cows on fields to clean up some of the corn before turning out pregnant cows.

• Adapting cattle to corn before turning out to graze corn stalks. Start with 3 pounds daily and move up to 7 or 8 pounds during a 10-day period before turnout.

• Cross-fencing fields to minimize the amount of the field that cows have access to

at any one time. Early in the grazing period, this may mean moving the fence daily. Then progress to two-day moves.

• Not turning hungry cattle out to graze.

Provide good-quality hay for two to three days so cattle don’t overeat corn immediately. Cows experienced in eating earn corn will shell it off the cob.

• Watching the concentration of corn kernels in manure because as the amount of whole corn kernels in the manure decreases, the feed value in the field is decreasing.

3 CNC Lathe Work with 81/2" spindle bore When you no longer find whole corn kernels ✓ Irrigation Pump Repair in the manure, the cows will need supple✓ Heavy Duty Industrial Machining and Repair mental feed or to be moved to new grazing. ✓ Portable Line Boring ✓ Welding Chopping Corn ✓ Large Lathe and Mill Work Corn still can be chopped for feed but ✓ Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Machine Work achieving “true” silage likely will be impossible without adding water to the pile.

Largest Capacity CNC Cylinder Boring Because most of North Dakota has experi& Line Boring within 500 mile radius enced a killing freeze, the corn will be too dry to harvest as silage.

“The whole corn plant is probably run1-855-285-0179 or 406-285-0179 ning at 25% to 45% moisture, and even Mark Oelke – Owner up to 60%, so harvesting as silage is still 20 W. Cedar • PO Box 788 • Three Forks, MT 59752 an option,” says Karl Hoppe, Extension Visit us on the web at: www.mwmachine.net livestock systems specialist at NDSU’s Carrington Research Extension Center. “Silage that is below the recommended moisture content (65% to 75%) still should be chopped finer and packed repeatedly to remove as much oxygen from the pile, but it will not fully ferment; thus, it is susceptible to spoilage.”

Inoculates may be beneficial in speeding the onTMX 2050 GFX-750 set of fermentation. Using products containing oxygen eliminators may enhance Save on oxygen elimination. Silage your Trimble Display piles should be covered with two-ply plastic to decrease spoilage and maintain the longevity of the pile.

“Producers also have add a steering system to your display for more savings chopped corn that was frozen and stored frozen,” Hoppe notes. “This feed, if it remains frozen, will make good feed. However, frozen whole-plant chopped corn, TMX 2050 GFX-750 when it thaws, will spoil next spring. So, plan to harSave on your vest only what you can feed Trimble Display & Steering System this winter season.”

Corn as Earlage Earlage is ensiled corn grain, cobs and, in some cases, husks and a portion of AutoPilot the stalk. Earlage allows the AutoPilot EZ-Pilot EZ-Pilot Pro Motor Drive production of a relatively high-energy feed product, which can be harvested, stored and fed much like corn silage, using the same types of equipment used to produce corn silage.

It is higher in energy than corn silage with similar protein content, but it has lower energy than dry or high-moisture corn grain.

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several ways. Many custom forage chopping operations have equipment to produce goodquality earlage. The most common harvesting method is a snapper head on a forage harvester with a kernel processor so that just the ear, cob and husk are harvested.

Earlage can be stored in bunkers, trenches and plastic silage bags. However, whatever storage method is used, oxygen must be limited. Earlage is denser than corn silage; consequently, ensuring that your unloading equipment and storage facility can handle the extra weight prior to filling is important. For more information, see the NDSU Extension publication “Harvesting, Storing and Feeding Corn as Earlage” (https://tinyurl.com/ Earlage).

High-moisture Corn High-moisture corn offers many advantages for producers who feed beef or dairy cattle.

However, successfully using high-moisture corn requires attention to harvest timing, processing, storage conditions and feeding management. High-moisture corn is corn harvested at 24% or greater moisture (maximum 40% moisture), stored and allowed to ferment in a silo or other storage structure, and used as feed for livestock.

This type of corn should be processed (ground or rolled) prior to storage, Hoppe says. Grinding or rolling and subsequent packing of the corn facilitates oxygen exclusion. The goal with processing should be to have no more than 5% fines and no more than 5% whole kernels.

For feeding purposes, rolling is the preferred method of processing (compared with grinding) because rolling will result in less fines and lower probability of acidosis due to rapid fermentation when feeding.

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“This is the best option for large volumes of corn harvested in a short period of time but will require a large-volume roller or hammer mill to process grain rapidly,” says Janna Block, livestock systems specialist at NDSU’s Hettinger Research Extension Center. “Packing is done with tractors, which may be equipped with a dozer blade or front-end loaders.

“During feed out, the face of the bunker must be kept fresh to avoid heating, so the width of the high-moisture corn bunker should match the rate of use,” she says.

“Bunkers constructed of a cement base and sides will reduce spoilage better than earthen structures and provide a firm surface for equipment throughout the year.”

The specialists also recommend that producers take care when feeding high-moisture corn because it has a faster ruminal digestion rate than dry corn. Consequently, better bunk management typically is required for successful feeding. For more information, see the publication “Harvesting, Storing and Feeding High-moisture Corn” (https://tinyurl.com/ High-moistureCorn).

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Date When Celebrated : Always December 28 Card Playing Day is the perfect time to spend an hour or so playing cards with family and friends. And, it arrives at just the perfect time of year........ a few days after Christmas.

The holiday hustle and bustle is over. The kids are getting bored of their new toys.

It’s time to turn to card games for a calmer, relaxing, and more slow-paced form of fun and entertainment.

Enter the world of card games. Cards have survived for centuries as a form of “play” and entertainment. Sure, there are a few serious gambling types among us, who view cards a serious “business”. To most of us, card games are just ....games.

Spend the day playing cards with family and friends. If you have kids, make sure to play some age appropriate card games with them. You’ll find its quality time with the kids that will create many warm memories.

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Date When Celebrated: Always December 12 Today is National Ding-a-Ling Day, a very special day to “Ring your Bell”. Nope, we’re not talking about the Salvation Army Bell Ringers, standing with their bells and kettles, outside of every store in the country. On National Ding-a-Ling Day, you should brace yourself for bizarre and crazy behavior, from all of the people you encounter today. Even normally conservative people have been known to go a little crazy on this day.

Some people say this is a day for wackos, lunatics, and others who are off their rocker.

We say, it is simply a day to cut loose, act a little weird.

What do you do to celebrate this day? Be ever vigilant to the ding-a-lings that will come out of the woodwork. Dinga-Lings will be everywhere: on the road, on the street, in stores, and even in your house! We suggest you get into the holiday spirit, and become a ding-a-ling yourself......But, please do so for just one day.

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First genome of Spotted Lanternfly built from a single insect

By Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Center Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and Penn State University, have published the first genome of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) in the journal Gigascience and they did it from a single caught-in-the-wild specimen.

Not only is it the first published genome for this pest, but no closely related species has had its genome sequenced, making the data even more important, according to entomologist Scott M. Geib with the ARS Daniel K Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center.

SLF, a native of China, Bangladesh and Vietnam, was first found in Pennsylvania in 2014 and has now spread to Virginia, Maryland and New York. This invasive pest has a taste for almonds, apples, apricots, grapes, peaches, blueberries and hops as well as hardwoods such as oak, walnut, and poplar. Various estimates put the potential economic damage in the billions of dollars, if the SLF becomes widely established in the United States.

“Having the genome for this pest opens the door to a better understanding of its biology and behavior, and makes coming up with potential control methods much more likely to happen, such as developing a lure for a trap through understanding the insect’s olfactory genes, or exploring avenues such as gene editing or RNAi,” said Geib.

While having the SLF genome is critical for the management and control of this invasive pest, the approach taken to obtain the genetic data is an achievement of remarkable note as well.

For the first time, all of the DNA required to generate a whole genome sequence was taken from a single insect picked from a tree in the wild in Reading, Pennsylvania, across the street from the Reading Pagoda on Mt. Penn.

One hurdle for deciphering this species’ genome is its relatively large genome size, at about 2.2 billion base pairs. Typically, with previous sequencing systems, many sequencing runs would have been needed to do the complete job, with each run using up the available DNA for the organism being sequenced.

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Celebrated on: December 31st There is one beverage that is commonly thought of as the pinnacle of drinks to be brought to an important event. Whether it’s a graduation, a retirement, a wedding, or a promotion, it’s champagne that is brought out and poured to celebrate the event.

But is it Champagne? It may be merely a sparkling white wine, which is decidedly not the same thing. What’s the difference? Find out as we talk about Champagne Day. History of Champagne Day It is important to understand that when one is speaking of Champagne, it is not the lackluster sparkling white wine that is often served by those who don’t know any better.

While they use the name champagne, typically incorrectly, the only true Champagne comes from the French province of the same name. Anything else you find on the shelf can only be called “sparkling white wine” as there are laws and regulations that govern what can be called white wine, and the French guard these rules jealously.

It’s no surprise that they do, as the four styles of true champagne that exist on the market are produced according to very strict

standards set by the organizations in charge of such things. The four types of champagne are distinguished both by which area of the province they come from, and what forms of grape are used in their manufacture. If you’re a fan of champagne or think you are, we encourage you to get your hands on the true article and enjoy it.

In spite of all the bottles out there that may bear the name “sparkling white wine,” there are only a few that are truthfully Champagne, and it is worth your time to ensure that you’re drinking the genuine article.

After all, the holiday is called Champagne Day, not sparkling white wine day.

How to Celebrate Champagne Day The best way to celebrate Champagne Day is to organize an event with your friends and family that will be a tasting, and get four bottles of real Champagne to try. Additionally, you might write up cards that describe the manner in which these wines are produced, and what distinguishes one from another. There are some things in life that are truly worth the effort to enjoy properly, and it is our opinion that the sparkling white wine known as “Champagne” is among them.

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sequence, many organisms would need to be pooled, introducing more opportunities for errors to be generated. To avoid such potential for errors, the subjects—especially insects—often have to be raised in colonies and inbred.

“In cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and using their new sequencing platform—the PacBio Sequel II—that produces 10 times the data from a single sequencing run, we were able to generate sufficient coverage from just a single specimen. This allows for a very fast turn-around of data and assemblies as well as lowers cost, in this case under $2,000 in consumable supplies, not including the purchase price of the sequencing instrument of course,” explained Geib.

For genome completeness, and since there aren’t many related genomes to compare that of the SLF to, the team checked a set of “core genes” that should be present exactly one time in all insects and verified how many of these were found in this genome project. In this case, they found about 97 percent of these single copy core genes, with a very low rate of duplication.

“Sequencing such a large insect genome quickly and showing there is no need to pull the insect into a colony raises the feasibility that we can complete the Ag100Pest Project,” Geib said. The ARS Ag100Pest initiative is focused on deciphering the genomes of 100 insect species that are most destructive to crops and livestock and that are projected to have profound bioeconomic impacts to agriculture and the environment.

“Now, with this system, doing 100 or even 1,000 genomes is not unrealistic,” he added.

The ability to get a complete genome from a small amount of DNA also makes it practical to consider sequencing the genomes of physically tiny insects without having to catch or raise a large number of any one species. That expands the list of insects that may be genetically sequenced.

Moral of the story

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.

“Greg, do you have a story to share?”

“Yes, ma’am, my daddy told a story about my Aunt Judy.

Aunt Judy was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a small flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t fall into enemy hands and then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, ‘til the blade broke ad then she killed the last one with her bare hands.”

“Good heavens,” said the horrified teacher, “What kind of moral did you daddy teach you from that horrible story?”

“Stay away from Aunt Judy when she’s been drinking.”

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WEED-IT SPRAYER WEED-IT Spot Sprayer, 34 sensor kit, 98 feet wide.

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Alfalfa and potassium: It’s complicated

By Rachel Leege, American Society of Agronomy Has anyone ever told you to eat a banana when you have a muscle cramp or eye twitch? That’s because bananas have potassium. Potassium is an important nutrient for humans, and an even more important nutrient when it comes to alfalfa.

With an economic value of $9 billion annually in the United States, alfalfa is the most valuable crop behind corn and soybeans. Because of its high nutritional content, alfalfa is a common feed source for farm animals like cattle, horses, sheep and goats. So, understanding this relationship between alfalfa and potassium is a worthwhile goal.

“Potassium plays a role in many processes within an alfalfa plant,” says Jacob Jungers, a researcher at University of Minnesota. “For example, it’s important for converting sunlight to energy, transporting molecules and growing new cells.”

However, too much potassium can be a problem. “When alfalfa plants are given more potassium than they need, the concentration of potassium in the tissues increases,” says Jungers. “This is called luxury consumption.”

Our bodies do this too. We store certain vitamins in our fat cells when we consume more than we need.

This increased concentration of potassium affects the nutritional balance of alfalfa as a feed source for livestock.

High potassium concentrations are especially concerning if fed to lactating dairy cows. “In addition to being costly for growers, over-fertilization can put dairy cows at risk of milk fever,” says Jungers. Milk fever is a metabolic disease cows can get around the time of calving that causes weakness, and sometimes even death.

So, Jungers and his team wanted to identify potassium fertilization rates that increase yield and nutritive value, while reducing potassium concentration in the tissue.

Researchers experimented with five different rates of potassium fertilizer on alfalfa fields. Throughout the four-year study, they took measurements of the yield, nutritive value, and potassium concentrations in the plant tissue. Soil samples were also taken to track the potassium levels in the soil.

“Potassium fertilization increased alfalfa yield, but decreased forage quality,” says Jungers. “This tradeoff was consistent among all alfalfa cultivars in the study.” Intensively harvested alfalfa did differ in overall yield, but it did not differ in its yield response to potassium fertilization.

When applied at recommended levels, potassium fertilization is important for high alfalfa yields. However, potassium fertilization will not prolong alfalfa stand life or productivity beyond the third production year.

“Many soil types are abundant in potassium, but relatively little is available to crops at any given time,” he says. “The amount of potassium that might someday be available to crops is largely dependent on soil texture, moisture, and other environmental factors.” Potassium fertilizer rates for alfalfa should be determined based on expected yield, soil test levels, and if the crop will be fed to cows.

The next steps in this work may be to consider the timing of potassium fertilization. In this study, potassium fertilizer was incorporated in the soil prior to planting the first year.

Then, it was applied in the spring the following years. In the Midwest, application of potassium fertilizer is common in the fall or after the first cutting.

Understanding tradeoffs between alfalfa yield and quality is important for fertility management and sustainable production. Measuring and reporting these tradeoffs helps growers make the best decisions for their operations.

Prehistoric Myth-conceptions

Myth: Pterodactyls were dinosaurs.

Fact: Technically speaking, dinosaurs were land-dwelling reptiles with their legs positioned directly underneath their bodies. Pterodactyls were pterosaurs–flying reptiles which, when on land, crawled on all fours with their feet sprawled out to the sides, like lizards and crocodiles (which are also not dinosaurs).

Myth: Fossils are the preserved remains of animals or plants.

Fact: Very few fossils are the actual remains of the organism itself (such as an insect trapped in amber). Most are actually trace fossils: When the dead plant or animal was covered by sediment, the organic matter decayed and was slowly replaced by minerals in the groundwater. Over time very little (if any) of the original living thing was left, except for its cast, or shape. Now it’s basically a rock.

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American Farm Bureau President covers successes, challenges

Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall addressed a crowd of more than 400 Montana Farm Bureau members during MFBF’s Centennial Celebration Gala Wednesday evening in Billings. In 2019, Montana Farm Bureau and American Farm Bureau are both celebrating 100 years of farmer and rancher involvement.

“We are celebrating a century of accomplishing together what none of us can achieve on our own,” said Duvall to an enthusiastic crowd. “We’ve enjoyed looking back over our history, but we’re also enjoying looking ahead to the future of Farm Bureau.”

Duvall recognized many Montana Farm Bureau members who are active on national Farm Bureau committees and thanked MFBF President Hans McPherson for his leadership, especially on western issues.

“Hans is a strong advocate for you on federal land policies, endangered species and other so-called ‘western issues.’ I say “so-called” because I believe they are important issues for all farmers and ranchers, not just ones in the west,” Duvall said.

“Of course, Montana Farm Bureau is on the front lines in the western region, but what I try to help Farm Bureau leaders in other states understand is if we let the federal government get away with over-reach here, then it will come to their backyards, too.”

Duvall listed other critical issues to America’s farmers and ranchers including trade, labor and regulatory reform.

With trade on everyone’s mind, Duvall covered steps forward in trade. “Trade has been a tough issue for farmers and ranchers. Interestingly, it is also an area where we have seen some wins this year, such as the recent trade agreement with Japan for U.S. beef. Farm Bureau has had a seat at the table like never before and I’ve been invited to the White House several times to be part of trade announcements. However, it’s not about me it’s about you and the power of the grassroots members of this organization.”

Duvall explained the need to pass the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, as it would grow U.S. farm exports by at least $2 billion a year and address biotechnology issues that were not on anyone’s radar when NAFTA was negotiated almost 30 years ago. He also noted that there is continued progress in working with China on a trade deal.

He covered regulatory reforms that Farm Bureau is working on including a new Clean Water Rule and common-sense reforms to the Endangered Species Act as well as AFBF working with both sides of the aisle in Congress to develop a workable agricultural labor bill.

“I’ve often talked about the importance of getting outside our fencerows in agriculture. The policy wins I’ve talked about are the result of you and your fellow grassroots members doing just that,” Duvall said. “However, if we look inside our fencerows, we see a lot of what is right in America. We see people who work hard—people who are self-reliant and people who love our country and keep food on our plates.”

The president of the nation’s largest agricultural organization concluded his address by noting, “As the Montana Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau look ahead to the next 100 years, we are pressing forward with diligence and dedication to serving you even better—amplifying your voice and making sure that this great organization is here for you, your children and grandchildren, for many years to come.”

Go Caroling Day

Date When Celebrated : Always December 20 Go Caroling Day is a wonderful, rewarding, and memory filled day. By far more popular decades ago, Christmas holiday caroling is a great opportunity to enjoy the holiday and appreciate its meaning.

Christmas caroling remains popular in many area and among many groups.

Scouts and youth groups often partake in this special musical event. Even family parties and business parties sometimes produce an impromptu caroling event.

It may take a little planning to make your Christmas Caroling happen. For example, scout groups frequently go caroling to nursing homes and senior citizen centers. A phone call to the facility management to arrange a date and time is a must. Transportation to/from the facility also must be arranged. And, afterwards, a caroling event is often topped off with hot chocolate and cookies.

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Gingerbread House Day

Celebrated on: December 12th.

Gingerbread houses are a favorite holiday pastime with families, be it with parents, grandparents, or even both! But these delicious, decorative bread houses have always been a staple of the holiday season for as long as people can remember. Where did they come from? Who came up with the idea? To answer those questions, we must follow the ghost of holiday’s past into the history of Gingerbread House Day! History of Gingerbread House Day Food historians ratify that ginger has been seasoning foodstuffs and drinks since antiquity. It is believed gingerbread was first baked in Europe at the end of the 11th century when returning crusaders brought back the custom of spicy bread from the Middle East. Ginger was not only tasty; it had properties that helped preserve the bread. According to a French legend, gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 A.D. by the Armenian monk and later saint, Gregory of Nicopolis (Gregory Makar). Gingerbread figurines date back to the 15th century and baking human-shaped biscuits was practiced in the 16th century.

The gingerbread bakers were gathered into professional baker guilds. In many European countries, gingerbread bakers were a distinct component of the bakers’ guild.

Gingerbread baking developed into an acknowledged profession. In the 17th century, only professional gingerbread bakers were permitted to bake gingerbread except at Christmas and Easter.

In Europe, gingerbreads shaped like hearts, stars, soldiers, trumpets, swords, pistols and animals were sold in special shops and seasonal markets.

The tradition of making decorated gingerbread houses started in Germany in the early 1800’s.

According to certain researchers, the first gingerbread houses were the result of the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. In modern times the tradition has continued in certain places in Europe. In Germany, the Christmas markets still sell decorated gingerbread before Christmas. (Lebkuchenhaus or Pfefferkuchenhaus are the German terms for a gingerbread house.)

How to celebrate Gingerbread House Day To celebrate Gingerbread House Day, take the family out for a shopping trip and pick up the supplies necessary to make a gingerbread house. Then let the younger members of the family pick out the decorations that they want to add to the gingerbread house. Finally, pick out the decorations that you want and add them to the house.

Bill of Rights Day

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When : Always December 15 To Americans, the Bill of Rights are key amendments to the U.S. Constitution, that protect our individual rights.

On March 4, 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified by the (former)13 colonies, and went into effect.

States and individuals were concerned that the Constitution did not properly cover and protect a number of rights of individuals. The Constitution was signed by the original 13 states with the requirement, or understanding, that a Bill of Rights would be created, amending the new U.S. Constitution.

On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution. 10 of these amendments were added to the Constitution on December 15, 1791.

The Bill of Rights includes these Amendments: •Amendment 1- Freedom of speech, press and religion •Amendment 2 - The right to bear arms •Amendment 3- Protection of homeowners from quartering troops, except during war.

•Amendment 4 - Rights and protections against unreasonable search and seizure •Amendment 5 - Rights of due process of law, protection against double jeopardy, self incrimination •Amendment 6 - Rights of a speedy trial by jury of peers and rights of accused •Amendment 7 - Rights to trial by jury in civil cases •Amendment 8 - Protection from cruel and unusual punishment, excessive bail •Amendment 9 - Protection of rights not specified in the Bill of Rights •Amendment 10 - States rights, power of the states Of the 12 original amendments, which ones were not approved? The original Amendments # 1 and #2 did not pass These dealt with the number of representative to congress, and compensation to representatives. Had they passed, there would be over 6,000 congressman today!!!

On Bill of Rights Day, we hope you celebrate you American Citizenship, and spend a few minutes reflecting upon the freedoms that you enjoy. These freedoms do not exist in many countries of the world.

Studying better ways to detect worms in apples

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By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Worms poking out of apples may be a cute back-to-school theme, but they are not a welcome sight in orchards. Researchers at the University of Kentucky (UK) are studying noninvasive ways to improve detection methods for the codling moth in apples.

Codling moths are the most devastating insect pests of apples. Each spring, adult moths lay their eggs on or around developing apples. When the eggs hatch, the larva, or worm, tunnels into the apple, where they feed on the fruit and develop for three to five weeks. Then they exit the fruit to pupate in a nearby location over the winter.

As the world’s largest exporter of apples, having a codling moth infestation can mean huge profit losses for U.S. apple growers.

Many countries have strict laws related to insects and will not accept codling mothinfected apples. If an inspector finds one infested apple in a shipment, it can reduce producers’ profits by more than 50%. In recent years, incidences of codling moth findings in U.S. apples have increased by 276%.

A team led by Akinbode Adedeji, assistant professor in UK’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, plans to develop a way to quickly and noninvasively identify moth-infected apples.

Their project is funded through a nearly $475,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

“With no current method to rapidly scan every apple, U.S. producers are vulnerable to having their shipments rejected or greatly devalued,” said Adedeji, a food process engineer in UK’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering.

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“Our goal is to help the multibillion dollar U.S. apple industry remain globally competitive and sustainable.”

Currently, inspectors at apple processing plants randomly determine a select number of apples from each shipment to inspect for moths. If the inspector finds a potential spot where a moth may have entered, they physically open the apple to see if the insect is inside.

The UK research team, which includes CAFE entomologist Raul Villanueva and electrical engineer Kevin Donohue from the College of Engineering, will combine two noninvasive sensing methods, acoustic emission and hyperspectral imaging, to greatly increase the rapid detection of insect-infected apples.

“This will increase detection accuracy, assurance and effectiveness without physically cutting the apple in instances where the inspectors cannot visually see an insect damage point on the apple,” Adedeji said.

To do this, they will determine the acoustic emission, or sound, an infected apple emits and if the sound is impacted by the storage conditions of the apples. They will use that knowledge combined with hyperspectral imaging data, which uses remote sensing to detect problems in the fruit, to teach machines how to quickly identify an infected apple. Plant operators can channel infected apples to a lesser premium use or discard them before they enter the supply chain.

Not only will the research help U.S. growers but it can also help U.S. inspectors rapidly scan apples coming into the U.S. from other countries to ensure that those apples are also insect free.

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Massey Ferguson WR 9870 swather.$135,000 New Holland HW340 16-ft. rotary disc............ .......................................................$28,000

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USED PROCESSORS Vermeer BPX9000 round & square.............$19,900 Vermeer BPX9000 round............................$18,900 Vermeer BPX8000 with final cut.................$15,500 Vermeer BPX8000 processor......................$11,900

2012 Highline CFR650 final cut processor.............. ......................................................... $18,500 (L) Highline 6800 processor with Highline 500 mover... ..................................................................$9900 Haybuster 2660 processor..........................$19,000 Haybuster 256 Plus processor......................$8000

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USED TRACTORS New Holland T7.185 tractor......... $98,000 (L) Valtra C120 with loader......................$44,900 Versatile 835 tractor...........................$14,900 Massey Ferguson 8650 tractor........$114,900 Massey Ferguson 7475 with loader, grapple.. .......................................................$79,900

Agco RT135 with loader, FWD, grapple.......... .......................................................$64,900 Ford 5000 tractor with loader.................$6500 Versatile 700 parting out, engine and some tires gone.

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USED SKID STEERS AND ATTACHMENTS

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Bobcat LR65 land rake.........................$6000 Gradall telehandler forks, hydraulic angle.$900

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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.............................................. $69,000 John Deere 50-ft. drill hitch................... $1400 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft. air seeder, 12” spacing, Ken – 788-4588; Anna – 231-4251; 4350 cart....................................... $45,000 Andy – 590-0372; Flexi-Coil 5000 39-ft. air drill, 9” spacing and Lance – 788-8012; Matt – 231-4028 2320 air cart.............................$19,900 (L) “Partners in Production” Flexi-Coil 5000 45-ft. air drill, 12” spacing....... www.hovenequipment.com .................................................$19,900 (L)

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CONSIGNMENTS

Degelman 4100 round & square processor.... ....................................................... $15,000 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.......... .....................................................$8500 (L) Versatile 800 tractor........................... $12,000 Ford 5000 tractor with mower................ $5000 Case IH 1680 30-ft. head, pickup head........... ....................................................... $19,000 Massey Ferguson 9540 combine.... $190,000 Agco 400 header.......................................Call 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 John Deere 8820 combine................. $18,000 White 9700 combine............................. $5294 New Holland 971 header...................... $6000 MacDon 962 36-ft. header.................. $16,900 Case DHX302 draper header............. $15,000 Honeybee 36-ft. header, MF bracket..$14,900 Westfield TFX10x36 auger.................... $9900 Farm King 10x60 auger........................ $6000 Buhler FK 7x41 electric auger.............. $2000 Feterl 7x41 electric auger...................... $2000 Brandt drive over transfer auger......... $17,000 Wheatheart PT13 drive over deck........ $5675 Wheatheart bin sweep............................ $600

New Holland 200 rotary swather with 416 disc head & 430HB 30-ft. draper head with pickup reel............................................... $138,755 MacDon M200 swather with D60D 35-ft header............................................ $65,000 New Holland 1112 swather................ $18,000 New Holland BR7090 net/twine baler..$26,000 Case 8465 round baler.......................... $5000 New Holland 664 (as is) parts baler..... $1000 New Holland 269 square baler............... $900 Case WRX301 rake........................$10,900 (L) Morris 1400 Hayhiker......................... $16,750 New Holland 1000 bale stacker............. $2500 New Holland C1002 balewagon........... $2300 Spra-Coupe 4640, 60-ft. booms......... $29,500 Versatile SX275 sprayer................... $127,000 Bourgault 950 sprayer, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon tank......................................... $8000 1977 GMC/Summers sprayer................ $8500 1987 International 9670 truck with 3000 gallon stainless steel tanks....................... $19,000 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 2500 gallon poly tank............................... $900 1500 gallon poly tank............................... $500

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New Holland BR780 net & twine....... $14,000 New Holland 688 baler................. Coming In New Holland 688 round baler....... Coming In USED COMBINES Case RB564 baler..............................$23,000 New Holland 9060 combine, no header........... Case RB564 baler..............................$22,169 ......................................................$138,993 Vermeer 605 Super M baler...............$21,900 New Holland TR98 combine...............$19,900 Vermeer 605XL baler. Stk #23475........$9000 New Holland TR97 combine...............$19,900 Vermeer 605L mesh & twine baler........$7900 Gleaner S88 combine.......................$199,500 Vermeer Super 605J twine only............$2500 Gleaner R75 combine.........................$60,000 Vermeer 5410 twine baler..................$11,000 John Deere 569 net & twine..............$39,500 USED HEADERS John Deere 569 net & twine..............$28,000 Case IH FD70 40-ft., pea auger..... Coming In John Deere 568 net & twine..............$18,000 MacDon FD75 40-ft., Gleaner adapter..$56,000 MacDon D60D 40-ft. with cross auger, JD SQUARE BALERS adapter DS.....................................$33,000 Massey Ferguson 2190 baler............$42,000 MacDon D60D 40-ft., JD adapter DS..$30,000 Case IH LBX432 3x4 with cutter........$47,900 MacDon D60S 35-ft. draper header....$29,900 Hesston 4910 large square baler.......$42,000 MacDon 973 30-ft. header..................$20,000 John Deere 466 small square baler..Coming In MacDon 972 30-ft. draper header.......$14,000 MacDon 960 35-ft. draper header, pickup HAYING EQUIPMENT reel....................................................$9900 Allen 8803 26-ft. hydraulic rake..........$18,000 MacDon 960 25-ft. – 30-ft. headers................. ............................................$5000 – $6000 MacDon A40D 18-ft. header...............$19,900 USED MISCELLANEOUS MacDon A40D 16-ft. header...............$19,000 New Holland LM 445A telehandler.... $45,000 Massey Ferguson 5200 36-ft. draper header.. Kelly 47 3-point backhoe....................... $3100 .......................................................$12,500 International 2-ton truck....................... $1900 Gleaner 400 header..............................$6500 Gysler 39-ft. chisel plow........................ $3500 Spear with 4-ft, & 2 1-ft., fits Westendorf quick attach................................................... $500

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Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains

By Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty, American Society of Agronomy Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us.

However, for soil scientists like Matthew Ricker, pollen can be an invaluable tool. By tracking fossil pollen in soil, scientists can look back in time to better understand past land use and climate dynamics.

For example, when European settlers cleared forests in the eastern United States and planted crops, the pollen profile in soil changed. Ragweed and grass pollen became more common. Tree pollen became rarer.

But, the study of fossil pollen has been restricted to relatively few sites, usually those near lakes or bogs. In a new study, Ricker and colleagues report that fossil pollen can be a viable tool in floodplain soils.

“We show that floodplains can contain abundant preserved pollen,” says Ricker, a scientist at North Carolina State University. “Therefore, floodplains can be useful sites to explore past climate and land uses.”

The study also showed that certain soil properties, such as the concentration of organic matter, are positively correlated to pollen abundance. That’s important because pollen extraction and counting is relatively expensive if sent to a commercial lab. “It can often cost hundreds to thousands of dollars,” says Ricker. “If done in-house, it can be a very time-consuming process.”

The new findings will allow scientists to use easy-tomeasure soil properties to predict whether preserved pollen is likely to be found in specific soil layers. Soil properties that correlate with pollen abundance include organic matter concentration and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio.

For the study, the researchers collected a total of 117 soil samples. Study sites were spread across 18 locations in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

The researchers measured several soil properties, including organic matter, particle size and iron content. “We measured these soil properties as proxies for processes known CONTINUED ON PAGE C14

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HAY FOR SALE

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Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains CONTINUED FROM PAGE C13

to impact the preservation of pollen in natural systems,” says Ricker.

Fossil pollen can break down over time in soils with high levels of oxygen. “One of the challenges of working in floodplains is that these soils are usually well oxygenated,” says Ricker. “That can result in greater pollen degradation.”

Very wet landscapes, such as lakes and bogs, are good sites to find preserved pollen. “These sites lack oxygen, which limits microbial breakdown of pollen,” explains Ricker.

However, many areas of the world lack natural lakes or bogs. “So, alternative landscapes – such as floodplains – need to be used for climate and land use reconstruction,” he says.

Surprisingly, even within floodplains, up to 40% of soil layers contained no pollen. Other nearby horizons had abundant preserved pollen. “This highlights the importance of being able to use easily measured soil properties to estimate the likelihood of pollen presence in specific soil layers,” says Ricker.

In addition to land use changes, fossil pollen can also help reconstruct past climate shifts. For example, certain soils in the eastern United States show shifts in pollen over the past 11,000 years.

After the last ice age, as glaciers retreated, pollen analysis showed changes in tree species that corresponded with the change in climate. Tundra sedges, characteristic of arctic regions, were replaced by spruce trees – which we now find in the boreal forests of the subarctic regions. Then, as the climate continued to warm, mixed pine and deciduous forests (like we see today) became more common.

“Pollen can tell us how plants responded to past climate changes,” says Ricker. That can allow scientists to better predict future shifts in plant species and agriculture as global temperatures continue to rise. “We hope that researchers start to use floodplains more frequently to reconstruct land use and paleoclimate,” he says.

Ricker is already looking beyond floodplains. “We are aiming to expand studying fossil pollen to other areas that have not been extensively studied,” he explains.

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2016 John Deere 333G, cab, heat & air conditioning, wide rubber tracks, ISO switchable controls, 90” bucket, rear view camera. Stock #64758..................................... $62,500 (15) 2018 John Deere 330G, cab, heat & air conditioning, 3-way switchable controls, 14x17.5 Xtra Wall tires, air ride seat, 3 sets counter weights, 84” bucket, 77 hours. Stock #66064....................................... $54,950 (1) 2012 John Deere 329D, cab, heat & air conditioning, foot controls, hi-flo hydraulics, wide rubber tracks, 84” bucket, 1555 hours. Stock #65826..................................... $41,500 (11) 2012 John Deere 320D, cab, heat & air conditioning, foot controls, standard hydraulics, air seat, 72” bucket, 1063 hours. Stock #68815. ................................................. $29,000 (11) 2012 Case TR270, cab, heat & air conditioning, switchable hand controls, auxiliary hydraulics, ride control, wide rubber tracks, 84” bucket, 717 hours. Stock #67935.................. ................................................. $37,500 (14)

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2017 John Deere 6175R, TLS with HD brakes, IVT, premium cab, PTO, H380 loader, grapple, 786 hours. Extended warranty 3/2022 or 2000 hours. Stock #67126........ $190,000 (1) 2018 John Deere 6155R, 20/20 AutoQuad+, TLS+, PTO, 3 SCV’s, 640R loader, bucket, grapple, full GPS, 626 hours. Extended warranty 7/2023 or 3000 hours. Stock #68667... ............................................... $150,000 (11) 2018 John Deere 6145M, 16/16 PowrQuad+ with left-hand reverser, PTO, 3 SCV’s, cold start package, 660R loader, bucket, grapple, 520/85R38 rear tires, 278 hours. Stock #64658................................... $137,500 (14) 2016 John Deere 6130R, 24/24 AutoQuad+, TLS, 45 ccm hydraulic pump, 3 SCV’s, 460/85R38 rear tires, PTO, 620R loader, bucket, grapple, 330 hours. Extended warranty 3/2022 or 2000 hours. Stock #67068... ................................................. $132,500 (1)

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2014 John Deere 6170R, 20/20 AutoQuad, 3 SCV’s, 3-pt., PTO, deluxe cab, H380 loader, grapple, 520/85R42 singles, cold start package. Stock #67103.................. $112,500 (16) 2008 John Deere 7230 Premium, 16 speed PowrQuad, PTO, 3 SCV’s, deluxe cornerpost exhaust, 480/80R42 rear tires, 380/85R30 front tires, 740 loader, bucket, grapple, 10,425 hours. Stock #67741............ ................................................. $54,000 (16)

1991 John Deere 4455, 15/4 PowerShift, 3-pt., PTO, 2 SCV’s, 20.8R38 singles, loader, bucket, overhaul 1000 hours ago. Stock #68107..................................... $47,500 (11) 2015 Case IH Magnum 250, powershift, 1100/45R46 rear tires, 1000/40R32 fronts, PTO, 4 SCV’s, front and rear weights, receiver and NAV II, 2002 hours. Stock #61632..... ................................................. $129,000 (3) 2015 Case IH Magnum 180, 19 speed powershift, 37 gpm hydraulic pump, 4 SCV’s, PTO, 620/70R42 singles, 1000 lb rear weights, L785 loader, bucket, grapple, 2731 hours.

Stock #62318......................... $104,000 (14) 2006 Vultra T140, 36F/36R transmission, 4 SCV’s, 3-pt., PTO, 480/65R28 fronts, 600/65R38 rears, Quicke loader, grapple.

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AIR DRILLS

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2018 John Deere 1895, 60-ft., 7.5” spacing, double shoot, C850 cart with SectionCommand, spoked gauge wheels, all run blockage, 12” conveyor with wireless remote.

Stock #67436........................... $525,000 (1) 2017 John Deere 1890, 60-ft., 7.5” spacing, single shoot, all run blockage, 550 bushel tow behind cart, hydraulic drive, SectionCommand, 10” auger with wireless remote.

Stock #61498........................... $315,000 (2) 2014 John Deere 1890, 60-ft. 7.5” spacing, all run blockage, 550 bushel tow behind cart, hydraulic drive, SectionCommand, 10” auger, spoked gauge wheels, NEW disks, dual tires on cart. Stock #51458...... $259,000 (1) 2015 John Deere 1890, 50-ft., 7.5” spacing, all run blockage, 350 bushel tow between cart, SectionCommand, hydraulic auger lift, 10” auger. Stock #64099.............. $170,000 (15) 2011 John Deere 1835, 60-ft., 10” spacing, double shoot, 4” capped steel press wheels, all run seed blockage, primary blockage on fertilizer, 430 bushel tow behind cart, ground drive, 10” fill auger.Stock #68666.................. ............................................... $132,500 (11) 2009 John Deere 1830, 60-ft., 7.5” spacing, single shoot, all run blockage, capped 3” steel press wheels, 270 bushel tow between cart, 8 run, 12” conveyor, mechanical drive.

Stock #68765........................... $75,000 (12) 2013 Bourgault 6550, 66-ft., 10” spacing, double shoot, primary blockage, 550 bushel tow between cart, duals on cart. Stock #66530... ............................................... $142,000 (12) 2011 Seedhawk 6612, 66-ft., 12” spacing, double shoot, 500 bushel tow behind variable rate cart, 2500 gallon liquid tow between fertilizer cart. Stock #58822...... $125,000 (1)

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Stock #68520........................... $209,000 (1) 2005 John Deere 8520T, 16” wide spread tracks, PTO, 4 SCV’s, deluxe cab, 7025 hours. Stock #66628................. $62,500 (15) 1998 John Deere 9300, 24 speed PowerShift, differential lock, 710/70R38 duals, rear weight package, 3 SCV’s, no PTO, 9204 hours. Stock #67408................... $52,000 (1) 2013 Buhler 550, 18 speed PowerShift, big hydraulic pump, 6 SCV’s, 800/70R38 duals, Raven GPS, front and rear weight packages, 1980 hours. Stock #68801...... $206,000 (11) 2009 Case IH 485 Quadtrac, 16/2 powershift, 4 SCV’s, 1000 PTO, no 3-pt., 30” tracks, differential lock, hi-flow hydraulic pump, Power Beyond, HID lights, 485 hp, 4355 hours.

Stock #64836......................... $142,500 (14) 2006 Case IH STX530Q, 16/2 powershift, 36” tracks, 4 scv’s, no 3-pt. or PTO, Power Beyond, HID lights, 535 hp, 4700 hours. Stock #65154....................................... $99,000 (4) 2005 Buhler 2425, 12F/4R manual transmission, Cummins N14 engine, 30.5L-32 duals, Trimble GPS with EZ-Guide and FM750, 4 SCV’s, no PTO or 3-pt., 2576 hours. Stock #67947..................................... $99,500 (14)

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Stock #62231......................... $285,000 (11) 2014 John Deere S680, 1317 engine/968 separator hours, 520/85R42 duals, fine cut chopper with manual vane tailboard, TriStream rotor, manual fold grain tank extensions, 26-ft. unload auger, full GPS system.

Stock #68123........................... $260,000 (1) 2009 John Deere 9870, 2502 engine/1847 separator hours, dual 20.8R42 tires, 3 speed transmission, CommandTouch variable speed feederhouse, Powercast tailboard, 22.5-ft. unload auger. Stock #62981............... .................................................$117,500 (11) 2008 John Deere 9770, 2887 engine/2189 separator hours, Level Land feederhouse, chopper, yield monitor, 22.5-ft unload auger, 800/65R32 tires. Stock #67394.$95,000 (12) 2016 Case IH 8240, 919 engine/656 separator hours, IF520/85R42 duals, full GPS, fine-cut chopper, manual grain tank cover, rock trap.

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1997 Freightliner FL60 hauler 250 hp 3126 Cat, 7 speed, locker, Jake, AC, tilt, air ride suspension and cab, 75% 19.5 tires, 12-ft. flatbed, gooseneck, 182,000 miles. Needs TLC....... .......................................$8500 1981 International Dresser 510 low hours, 3.9 turbo Cummins, 50% 16.9x24 tires, 96” 1.75 yard bucket, cab with heat, lights, weighs 14,000 lbs. Runs and works excellent, starts excellent in the cold.........$20,000 1990 Toyota 4Runner 1994 Mustang 302 V8, rebuilt 4 speed automatic AOD, Dana 44 front and rear, 70% 33x12.50R15’s. Runs and drives nice......................$5000 2001 International 4700 5 Yard Dump 10-ft. bed, roll tarp, 64,000 miles, 7.3L turbo diesel, Allison automatic, 25,500 gvw, AB, PS, 50% 10R22.5’s, trailer hookups. Runs and drives nice..............................$16,500

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............$10,500

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Put out the welcome mat for birds in winter

By Kym Pokorny, OSU Extension Service larger garden allows for more feeders and As we begin the slide into winter and summore areas for placement. mer’s bounty recedes, birds welcome the “You’ll notice no matter how many ports extra nutrition offered by backyard feeders. you have, there will be competitions,” When putting out a banquet of suppleSanchez said. “It’s a matter of ‘Get off that mental food, high quality is essential, said perch; it’s mine.’ You’ll see a lot of moveDana Sanchez, a wildlife specialist for Oregon State University (OSU) Extension ment around.”

Service. Mixes with red millet, golden Regardless of how many feeders you have millet, flax seed, rape seed and oats are a and how you’ve arranged them around the waste because birds will just kick those yard, be sure to provide shrubs and trees for fillers out of the feeder, where they’ll fall shelter from wind and predators. on the ground and attract unwanted visitors “Birds at feeders are always on the looklike rats. They’ll also sprout and grow into out for danger,” Sanchez said. “There are undesirable plants. times when you put feeders where humans Put black oil sunflower seeds top on the can see them, but birds won’t use them if list because they attract so many different there’s not a shrub nearby. Having food bird species, Sanchez said, including chickasomewhat close to cover is a key considdees, black-headed grosbeaks, house spareration.”

Bird need water, too. Serve it up in a shalrows, northern flickers and song sparrows.

To enjoy finches, offer their favored nyjer low, flat-bottomed bowl with 1/2 to 1 inch of seed, also called thistle seed, in specialized water. Place it in either sun or shade, clean it feeders with openings small enough to hold often and change the water daily or at least the seed in and perfect for their tiny beaks. every other day.

Many birds – waxwings, grosbeaks, chickaTo reduce the chance of rats visiting your bird stations, keep seed off the ground, Sandees and robins – love fruit, which can be put out on elevated platform feeders. chez said. Choosing or modifying feeders For future bird feasts, plant a native, fruitto have a catch pan on the base can prevent bearing tree or shrub. Elderberry, servicemost spillage from reaching the ground. If ground-feeding birds like doves, quail and berry, dogwood and snowberry are attractive juncos are a favorite, experiment with eloptions that are well-adapted to our region and great sources of fall food for birds. evating a platform feeder a bit off the ground People enjoy watching woodpeckers goand keep the area under it cleaned up. It may or may not work. Rats might still be able to ing at suet blocks. The fat-and-seed mixtures access the feeder and birds might not. are best used in fall and winter when birds Squirrels drive some people crazy with need the extra energy to keep warm. In warm their tenacious – and often successful -weather suet goes bad quickly, which is not attempts to steal bird food. Others enjoy good for birds. So, if you want to use suet their antics and put out peanuts especially in summer, check it often and remove it as for them. soon as it starts to smell.

“I don’t mind them,” Sanchez said. “But Hummingbirds are a class unto themsome people find themselves in conflict with selves. These high-energy birds need a spesquirrels. A feeder is like an Eat at Joe’s sign, cial diet high in sugar. To make your own, a good place to hang out. And while they’re use a 4-to-1 ratio of water and sugar. Bring there, they can do other activities like cache the mixture to a gentle boil for 1 minute. their food in the lawn or damage plants.

Let it cool and pour into feeder. Don’t use Plus, these voracious little animals eat a lot red coloring, Sanchez said, and remember of expensive food.” to make only enough nectar for a few days To thwart them, Sanchez recommends usso mold doesn’t become an issue. Colored feeders will attract hummingbirds and once ing baffles, which are half-moons of plastic they find it, they’ll be back. that go above a feeder. Though some people Cleaning all bird feeders once a week insist it doesn’t work, putting feeders on a is essential. Moisture contributes to mold, pole hanger in the middle of the lawn can which causes diseases transmitted on avian stop squirrels from reaching the food. There feet after perching on feeders. Discard any are also feeders surrounded with cages that feed left in the feeder, scrub inside and out will fall with the weight of a squirrel and with a long-handled brush – available in cover the feeder’s holes but stay in place different sizes and lengths at bird shops or for the more lightweight birds. Check bird online – and follow with a rinse of bleach shops or online for these specific feeders. solution at a ratio of 10 parts water, one part Most of all, if you’re going to attract birds bleach. Let it dry thoroughly before filling. to the garden, don’t spray chemicals or use How you arrange feeders around the yard pelletized weed and feed or moss killer. doesn’t seem to matter to birds. In patio gar“We really need to be thinking about what we’re putting on our gardens,” Sanchez said. dens or apartments, gathering them together “We need to be cautious.” in groupings is usually the only option. A

The flaming underpants that inspired a nation The 1956 Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia. Nine students from the University of Sydney thought it was appalling that the Olympic torch relay–created by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Games–was elevating the torch to the level of a religious icon, with thousands of Australians lining the streets of Sydney wherever the relay passed through.

So they devised a plan to protest the torch with a phony relay. In the real relay, crosscountry athlete Harry Dillon was supposed to run through downtown Sydney and hand the torch to Mayor Pat Hills who would then

make a speech and give the torch to another runner. Moments before Dillon was to arrive, however, one of the protesters began running in the streets with a different kind of torch–a silver-painted chair leg topped with a flaming pair of underpants.

The crowd laughed at the prank, but then the underwear fell off and the runner panicked and ran away. Another student took up the torch, relit the underpants, and continued to run the route…and police thought he was the real deal. They escorted him all the way to the town hall, where he presented the flaming underpants to Mayor Hills.

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World War II Items

1942 Cletrack M2 high speed tractor, runs and steers good, front and rear hydraulics, front blade for snow or dirt, rubber tracks. Decent tractor with parts................................$5500 1940s GMC Dukw 6x6. Hull only, no running gear...........................$1000 TD18 beach tractor, front winch only, with grill guard..........................$500

The Central Montana Cattle Women presented this hay sculpture for the Montana Bale Trail near Hobson and Utica, Montana in late September. Although local farmers and ranchers construct the majority of the creations, there have been entrants from all parts of Montana as well as California, Arizona, and as far away as New York.

Did my horse eat a rock?

Stones may be found in a horse’s manure, and it is likely they were created inside the horse’s digestive system.

Intestinal stones (enteroliths) are primarily made up of magnesium, calcium, ammonium, and phosphate.

The stones are created when the horse ingests a foreign object like sand, wire, or baling twine, and minerals build up around it in rings, layer upon layers.

Smaller stones can be passed in the feces, but larger stones cannot pass and often end up disrupting

digestion, resulting in colic (stomach ache). A large stone can be lethal when it leads to the rupturing of the intestinal tract.

Surgery is the common solutions for large stones, which are usually spherical or tetrahedral (having four faces, like a pyramid building block), as large as 3 ½ feet in length and weighing up to 15 ½ pounds.

Kidney stones are rare in horses. Urinary tract stones are typically found in the bladder and are commonly in males because of the length of the urethra.

Sizes range from 3 to 4 inches.

New methods to turn biorefinery waste into valuable products

From SD Mines News A research team at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is beginning work on pilot scale testing of new methods that turn biorefinery waste into valuable products.

The waste biomass or byproducts generated by ethanol plants and other biorefineries, such as corn stover, are normally thrown-away—but finding cost-effective means of using this waste to make new products will generate extra revenue for the facilities, help lower fuel costs, reduce carbon emissions, and ultimately help farmers.

“This is one more way SD Mines is pioneering research that helps the environment while increasing efficiency and profit margins for our industry partners. This is the kind of work that can have a positive impact on the economy,” says SD Mines Vice President of Research Ralph Davis, Ph.D. Rajesh Shende, Ph.D., professor in the chemical and biological engineering department at SD Mines is leading the research. This work began in Shende’s lab with a $2.16 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office that was awarded in 2017. This initial validation stage in the research proved successful; Shende’s team is now working on the effort to optimize processes at the laboratory level and scale up the work to prove it can work for industry.

“This is a great milestone in this project and we’re excited,” says Shende. “We had been doing something on a lab scale looking at a few grams at a time, we’re moving to processing one ton of per day.”

A pilot scale testing facility for one of the processes set to be established at SD Mines. Pilot scale processing of corn stover will be performed at Idaho National Lab, SD Mines and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to make products such as carbon nanofibers, lactic acid, phenol, and battery grade biocarbon. These valuable products have wide ranging use in industry, from disinfectants to carbon fiber materials to batteries and fuel. The products that can be created with these processes include clean-burning oils, “This can be blended with commercial bio-diesel and used in diesel generators,” says Vinod Amar, Ph.D., a SD Mines research scientist working on the project.

Some of the partnering institutions on this project will also have processing facilities including, Old Dominion University (ODU), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).

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1971 International 10-yard dump, gas V8, 5+4 transmission, air brakes, new clutch, good tires. Runs good, decent ranch truck. Under CDL.........................................$3750

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Wisconsin 20-ton tilt bed trailer, hydraulic tilt and tail, 30-ft. bed x 102”, 17.5 tires, factory electric brakes, oil filled hubs. Works great...........$8500 5-yard pup trailer, air brakes, 18,000# axle, 8.25x15 rubber, pintle hitch, like new...................................$5900

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##### Did you know? Mistletoe promotes wildlife! Although it’s poisonous to us, it provides a great source of food for many animals. Birds rely on the plant and butterflies lay their eggs on it and use the nectar. Bees also get important pollen from Mistletoe. ##### What WAS the best thing before sliced bread?

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Mapping millet genetics

By Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty, American Society of Agronomy In the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa, conditions can be difficult for crops. Plants need to have short growing seasons, survive on poor soils and tolerate environmental stresses.

Enter, the millets.

Close to 97% of millets grown worldwide are produced in developing countries. Millets are a diverse group of cereal crops. Importantly, they generally have high nutritional content.

“However, millets have been largely overlooked by modern genetics research,” says Matthew Johnson, a researcher at the University of Georgia. In a new study, Johnson, along with colleagues in India, have generated some of the first genetic resources for three different varieties of millets.

As genetic resources are created for less-studied crops, researchers can better leverage the genetic diversity within the crop family. This can lead to the development of new varieties of crops. “Our results will give researchers tools to develop better millet varieties for farmers,” says Johnson.

Most farmers who grow millets are smallholders (farming less than 5 acres). Millets are crucial for their livelihood.

That’s because they can grow on marginal lands and need less water than most crops.

“Millets also grow much quicker than most other major crops,” says Johnson. That’s important because farmers can plant millets if weather or natural disasters cause initial plantings to fail. “So, with millets, the farmers can at least get some harvest,” he says.

Johnson’s team sequenced and analyzed DNA from three species of millets – kodo, little and proso. “These are three crops that have had relatively few resources developed for them,” Johnson explains.

The plant source materials were obtained from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in India. The researchers’ goal was to better understand the genetic diversity within and between each variety of millet.

“Understanding this diversity is an important step in developing better varieties of the crop,” says Johnson.

They uncovered tiny differences in the DNA sequences of the various plants. These genetic differences may ultimately be connected to characteristics, such as drought tolerance and growth rate.

“Genetics and field testing go hand-in-hand,” says Johnson. Growing different kinds of millets can provide information about yield and flowering time, among other characteristics. “We need to pair these results with knowledge of the genetic relatedness of the millet plants,” he says.

By collating field results and genetic data, researchers identify desired traits and develop improved varieties. “We can continue improving these varieties year after year,” says Johnson.

An important part of breeding desirable varieties of a crop is understanding how existing ones are related to each other.

“We were able to find evidence that the previous understanding of how the millet varieties are related to each other didn’t always reflect their genetics,” Johnson explains.

The existing classifications were done based on physical characteristics. But it turns out those may not be accurate reflections of close genetic relationships.

“Think of it as trying to classify genetic relationships among humans by hair color,” he says. “Hair color is genetically controlled. Everyone with blonde hair, for example, has some genetic relatedness.”

“But there is so much more than just hair color that determines who we are related to genetically,” says Johnson.

“Sometimes siblings can have a different hair color. However, they will be more closely related to each other than to a stranger who happens to have the same hair color.”

Uncovering the underlying genetics, as in this study, can help plant breeders develop millet varieties with desired physical characteristics. “Millets are a great crop,” says Johnson. “I believe they can diversify our diet and contribute to food sources and security as our climate continues to change.”

Standing snoozers

By nature, horses are prey animals. Although horses may lie down to sleep, doing so makes them vulnerable to predators.

A locking mechanism, called the stay apparatus, allows muscles to rest while tendons and ligaments lock for a standing state of sleep. One hind leg can remain unlocked but not a foreleg.

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Vermeer R2300, rake...........$32,500 .................................2017’s In Stock Vermeer 605N, low bales............................................ ..............................RENTAL RETURN CFR 650, chopper..$17,500 Vermeer 605M, twine, net, floats,Highline ramp.........................

Hesston 9435 , 16’ header, hours............................$60,000 2 - Vermeer 605SM................................ $24,000 to 1475 $28,000 Hesston 9635, 16’ header...........................Reduced to $70,000 Call about McCormick 406-538-5686 or 350-2676Tractors cell Hilger, MT Vermeer R2300 rake....................................................$13,500 Hesston 1275, swing tongue.............................................$13,500 2 - Vermeer R23A rake. Each..........................................$7500 Walter 406-350-0380 Hesston 4790, 3x4 square baler........................................$27,500

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NEW & USED EQUIPMENT Massey Ferguson WR9870 windrower....................... $85,000 Vermeer 605N net, twine, floats................................USED DEMO 24’ Stand Alone Break Panelscell $875 ea.

406-538-5686 or Wind 350-2676 Haybuster 2650 bale processor....................................$12,500 2017 Vermeer R2300, rakes..............................................In Stock HDPE pipe, fittings, and welder Bale King 3110 bale processor with grain tank...............$13,000 MT Walter 406-350-0380 ...........$14,600 Vermeer 605XL, completely rebuilt........................Hilger, McCormick X7.650 w/loader, rental return.........................CALL Geotherm Waterers & Parts In Stock Vermeer 555, rebuilt.............................................................$9,250 www.wichmanagsupply.com 24-ft. stand alone panel.....$400 (2)24-ft. break. ..........$775 Demos.................................IN STOCK 2016 wind Vermeer R2300,

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Full line of feed and mineral products in stock New Vermeer BPX9010 bale processor. New Vermeer 605N. 2015 Vermeer BPX9000 processor. Great condition........... $15,000 New HD 4-wheeler EZ Lifts.......................................................$1000 New Cannonball/Chisholm Trail bale beds, dumping beds, arms.

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Helena rancher wins Young Farmer and Rancher Discussion Meet Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire Rocky Forseth, a young rancher from Helena, bested three other competitors to win the Montana Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Discussion Meet. He got the keys to a Ranger® 570 EFI and an all-expense paid trip to compete in the national competition in Austin, Texas in January. The three other contestants were Mark Boyd from Alder, Kim Gibbs from Miles City and J.M. Peck from Melrose. The Discussion Meet was held November 12 during the MFBF 100th Annual Convention in Billings with the winner being announced at MFBF’s Centennial Celebration Gala the next evening.

The Discussion Meet, which is open to Farm Bureau members age 18-35, is meant to simulate a committee meeting with ideas discussed and solutions developed. The question for the final round: Products like cell-based food products have demonstrated the food system is rapidly changing.

How can future food technologies and related products be beneficially integrated into modern agricultural production without hampering the success of traditional products and the farmers and ranchers who grow them?

In the discussion, Forseth noted that accurate labeling is essential to addressing consumers questions and concerns about both animal protein and cell-based products. “Beef is known to be safe and nutritious. We need to focus on what makes our product better and promote our product in that way,” he said.

Forseth, who is member of the Lewis & Clark County Farm Bureau, said being involved in the Discussion Meet makes one realize Farm Bureau’s value. “At the end of the day, the policy Farm Bureau develops is the origin of everything agriculture is doing. Participating in the Discussion Meet is a great way to sharpen public speaking skills and drive the conversation towards action. This competition allows you to have difficult conversations and develop solutions to those challenges.”

The young rancher, who grew upon a ranch in Fairfield raising Sim-Angus Cattle, is a Superior Livestock representative and works with Allied Genetic Resources. “The majority of my employment is in beef cattle marketing, and my wife and I have a registered herd of cows.”

Forseth was thrilled and honored to win the Polaris UTV. “I want to thank all of the participating Montana Polaris dealers who feel so strongly about supporting Montana’s Young Farmers and Ranchers. It’s outstanding that they donate this amazing utility vehicle to the winner. I am really looking forward to using it on the ranch.”

Kyle Hoover, district retail manager, Polaris and Chad Adams, Yellowstone Polaris, noted that all of the participating Montana Polaris dealers were proud to be the Discussion Meet sponsor for the fifth year in a row.

The Montana Farm Bureau YF&R Committee thanks the participating Polaris dealers in Montana who made the amazing final prize possible: Gallatin Recreation, Bozeman; Helena Cycle, Helena; Sports City Cyclery, Great Falls; Yellowstone Polaris, Billings; Beaverhead Motors, Dillon; Riverside Marine & Cycle, Miles City; Montana Power Products, Ronan; Jesco Marine, Kalispell; Kurt’s Polaris, Missoula; Redline Sports, Inc, Butte; Lewistown Honda & Polaris, Lewistown; and Hiline Polaris, Havre. Be sure to stop by their dealerships to say thank you for supporting the Montana Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers and check out their inventory.

Christmas Cactus

Now here’s a gift that is right to the point....ouch. Sorry for that one! Christmas Cactus are so named because they are a flower that blooms a tiny red flower right around the Christmas season.

Cactus are easy to care for and thrive well in the cool and dry conditions of your home during winter. Sure, your cactus plant can withstand long periods of dry weather and the soil need not be very wet. But, your plant will need water. The common belief is that cactus live in deserts filled with sand.

In reality cactus live in fringe areas. These plants appreciate a healthy level of compost or humus in the soil.

There is a wide variety of cactus to choose from. By far the most common is the Christmas Cactus.

Did you Know? Terrariums are enclosed indoor environments for tropical and subtropical houseplants. What are they called for cactus and other desert plants? Give up? They are called Desertariums.

Roots Day

Date When Celebrated: Always December 23 Celebrate your genealogy, as today is Roots Day. It’s a great day to celebrate your heritage. Many of us are returning to our roots today, as we head home for Christmas. Returning to our roots is a warm, cozy and comfortable feeling, a sense of belonging.

A hobby and a quest: Many people get caught up, and become captivated, with researching and uncovering their family roots. This hobby is the study of Genealogy. Genealogy can take interesting twists and turns. We often discover we come from exciting and fascinating places. We find links to famous people in history.

Sometimes, we come upon dead ends to our genealogical family tree. Other times, we find a distant relative, who has performed some of the very same research. The result of the encounter could be huge sections of the family tree, literally handed to you.

Celebrate this day, by learning more about your family tree, and exploring your roots.

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It’s part of the cycle.

We’ll state the obvious – weaning can add up to stress for both you and your calves.

Stress can rob your calves of fast, healthy gains and proper lifetime development. CRYSTALYX® Brigade® and Blueprint® Battalion® are highly palatable self-fed supplements that are designed to help calves overcome the nutritional stress associated with weaning, shipping and receiving.

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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

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 MAGNUM 310 CVT CASE SV 280 New Miscellaneous

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

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

• Case IH 120A Farmall • Case SV280 skid steer

Returns Available NewLease Haying Equipment In Stock 12, 14 & 16-Wheel H&S High•Capacity Wheel Rakes • Farmall 120A Puma 165 (2) ProAg 1400 Hayhiker, 14-Bale • Maxxum 125 • Magnum 310 Movers CVT

Case IH WD 1504 Windrower With 16' HDx162 Header Case IH LB434 Big Square Baler, 3x4 Bales Case IH RB 565 Round Baler

Used Tractors In Stock

Used Haying Equipment In Stock$49,000 1997 Case IH 9370 7600 hrs, 12 speed......................

2002 Case IH LBX331 Square Baler ................................$29,000 1995 Case IH 7220 5608 hrs, MFD, loader, no grapple. Consigned.

2008 Case IH RB564 round baler, 8700 bales, mesh wrap, wide ..pickup, .................................................................... $42,500 endless belts, hydraulic pickup lift, central lube ......$26,500 2003Holland CaseIH RBX562, MeshWrap, Like New $24,500 New 9682 4600 hrs, Trelleborg duals, weight kit, EZ-steer 1999 Case IH RS561 .....................................................$12,500 guidance........................................................... $69,000 1995 Case IH 8465 .........................................................$8,995 1994 Case IH 8480 Softcore ............................................$6,995 1990 Hesston 560 Round Baler ........................................$5,500

New Seeding, Tillage, Sprayers New Tractors In Stock IH Farmall 356B w/loader Case IHCase Precision Air 100 Pull-Type Sprayer

CaseIH Magnum 315, front & rear duals, lease return

Lease Returns Available This Fall

Case IH Farmall 75C, cab & loader CaseIH Puma 130 • CaseIH Maxxum 125 CaseIH Maxxum 140 • CaseIH Puma 165 CaseIH Puma 185• CaseIH Magnum 260 Brillion WLS360 30-ft. mulcher, very good condition.........

Used Seeding, Tillage, Sprayers

2013 Used Tractors In Stock ...................................................................... $32,000 Case IH Farmall 356B w/loader Concord 4710 air drill, 3400 tow behind cart.............. $28,000 2008 Case IH Steiger 480, 1480 Hrs, Cummins engine, Brandt SB4000 suspended boom sprayer, 90-ft. booms... $19,900 710 radials, like new .................................... $179,000 John Deere 21003inline ripper................................... $3500 1979 JD 4840, pt, PTO .............................. $22,500 2009 Case IH Puma 155, MFD, loader ........ Just Traded

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

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

New Miscellaneous Equipment In Stock

• REM VRX GrainVac • Garfield 10-ft. drag scraper New Grasshopper In Stock • Danuser HammerMowers post pounder All Available With 52”, 61” or 72” Powerfold • Patriot 3 bar pivot track filler Deck 623, 727K Fuel Injected, 729 Big Block, 729 Liquid Cooled • Schulte FX1800 rotary mower 725D Diesel Baggers Are Available For All Models

Used Mowers In Stock

Used Combines

2013 Case IH 3152 40-ft. with slow speed transport and cross New Skid Steer Attachments In Stock auger.................................................................. $40,000 Case 60” Rotary Cutter Case 72” Broom Case 72” Hopper Broom Case 72” Snowblower Danuser Palet Forks - 48”, 4000# Danuser Hydraulic Post Digger & Augers Brandt 5200EX grain vac, 360Hole hours.................. $11,500 Danuser T3 Hydraulic Post Drivers Case IH RB562 twine and mesh........................ $22,000

Miscellaneous Used Equipment

2013 2003 2013 Haybuster 2650 bale processor........................ $17,000 Degelman 5700New dozer, Skidsteer 14-ft. MX series Loaders Magnum mounts....... Call 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

Case IH 1504

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ALL I WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS MELTON ALFALFA! Montana’s latest Certified Alfalfa Seed Release Other varieties available

Call Ernie Johnson 406-357-4182 or cell: 262-3081 or 262-3809

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• 2008 Case IH 8010 2700 separator hours, lateral tilt, AHHC, rock trap, long auger, fine cut chopper, EZ-Steer system, extended wear, very well maintained with several pages of work orders every season. Call for details. Excellent machine!...........................................$77,000 obo • 2011 MacDon FD70 45-ft. flex drapers, upper cross cut auger, double knife drive, knife reverse, gauge wheels. slow speed transport, Seed Saver kit, all new guards and knife at start of season, Case IH adaptor......................................................................................$47,000 obo

Delivery available on all items, all equipment stored inside Call or text Adam (406) 390-3048 • Joplin, MT

Don’t be tempted to graze unharvested soybeans

By NDSU Extension Service don’t find the animal soon enough and don’t have Producers should not introduce hungry cattle to enough vinegar on hand to deal with an outbreak.” unharvested soybean fields, according to a North Cows can consume small amounts (2 to 4 Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension livepounds) of soybeans per day as part of a balanced stock specialist. ration. This would provide additional protein to “Ammonia toxicity is a threat to cattle that overthe ration. After 4 pounds of soybeans in a mature consume soybeans,” says Karl Hoppe, livestock cow ration, the oil content of the ration starts to systems specialist at NDSU’s Carrington Research interfere with digestion by the rumen microbes.

Extension Center. “Whether it’s a pile of harvested When the oil content of the ration gets above 7% soybeans lying on the ground or an unharvested to 8%, the oil becomes toxic to rumen microbes. soybean field where cows have unlimited access, Plus, when cows eat soybeans, they are eating eating too many soybeans can lead to dead cattle.” the bean pod and stems. If the cows consume too Ammonia toxicity has been seen in cows that much, ammonia toxicosis will lead to tremors found a pile of harvested soybeans and gorged and the cows will lie down and die. Treatment is themselves. Consumption of a large amount of generally unsuccessful. whole soybeans and an active rumen, combined The unknown is how many soybeans a cow will with the urease enzyme in soybeans, can lead to eat if she gets into an unharvested soybean field. more ammonia production than the rumen miIf grass or corn stover is available, the cow might crobes normally can use. Excess ammonia spills limit her soybean consumption. into the bloodstream, causing death.

“I usually associate raw soybean overload with “If you catch the toxicosis early enough, you death and would not recommend any grazing can drench the cow with 1 to 2 gallons of vinegar of a soybean field,” says Michelle Mostrom, a (5% acetic acid) to change the ammonia to amtoxicologist in the NDSU Veterinary Diagnostic monium,” Hoppe says. “The ammonium ion won’t Laboratory. leave the rumen. Unfortunately, most producers

GOOD USED EQUIPMENT FOR YEAR-END TAX SAVINGS! 2003 Kenworth T800 truck...............................................................................................$29,900 2011 Neville 48-ft. grain trailer..........................................................................................$22,500 1995 Wilson 40-ft. grain trailer..........................................................................................$10,000 1979 Fruehauf 7800 gallon tanker.......................................................................................$6500 2010 MacDon M100 swather, includes 30-ft. draper header.............................................$60,000 2018 Brandt 20110 conveyor w/swing hopper..................................................................$53,000 Call for more information - (406) 336-7495 • Cut Bank, MT Cell: (406) 470-1641 or Cell: (406)949-7495

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Complete all estate planning forms!

By Cole Ehmke, Specialist in Ag Entrepreneurship and Personal Finance, UW Extension & Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming If your beneficiary forms are blank or missing, your spouse may not get the money in your pension, 401(k) or IRA account after your death.

The dreadful experience of a lady in New Mexico highlights the situation. Libby Leask suffers from multiple sclerosis, and her husband, a New Mexico State University employee, died suddenly at 66. She was denied his pension because no one could find his beneficiary form. The state wouldn’t accept his will as proof that he wanted her to inherit the money. After a two year struggle, and after a newspaper story on her plight – she was having to sell her house since she could not return to work – the state agreed that she was her husband’s beneficiary.

Unfortunately, lost forms and mistakes are fairly common.

A good policy is to keep a portfolio of paper records and review them regularly – recent tax forms, beneficiary forms, account numbers. Also keep a list of property (including life insurance policies) and advisors so that your executor can trace and manage property.

In Libby Leask’s case, there was a single form that no one had a copy of – the beneficiary form for his pension.

So, let’s ask the question: if your beneficiary forms are blank or missing, will your spouse be able to benefit?

Money columnist Jane Bryant Quinn points out that, it depends. “One key factor is whether your retirement plan is covered by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Private-sector pensions are covered by ERISA, which requires that the spouse get the pension in the case of an early death, before benefits begin.” ERISA also protects spouses of workers with 401(k)s – they almost always get the money and can roll it into an IRA. If you want the kids to get your retirement, then you’ll need to inform your plan.

ERISA has gaps in its protections, as Leask found out.

“ERISA does not cover spouses in pension plans run by federal, state and local governments, or by the military, churches and church-related entities such as hospitals,” writes Quinn.

The rules for each will vary.

And IRAs have their own rules too about what happened without a signed form. “Sometimes the money passes to a surviving spouse or children. More likely, the funds will be paid to the IRA owner’s estate and distributed according to his or her will (or state law, if there is no will). The IRA will be subject to probate, which would not happen if there were a beneficiary form,” writes Quinn.

The clearest advice comes from attorney Bruce Steiner: “Choose beneficiaries. Sign the forms. Check back to be sure that’s still what you want.” And keep a copy. ##### Fantastic exercise that really helps you to lose weight: Turn your head to the left. Good. Turn your head to the right. Very good. Repeat this exercise whenever you are offered any food.

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2019 Harvest Bowl celebrates county agriculturists

By NDSU Extension Service The success, dedication and hard work of outstanding agriculturists in 53 counties in North Dakota and seven counties in Minnesota were honored during the 46th annual Harvest Bowl program at North Dakota State University (NDSU) on November 8.

Information on the outstanding agriculturists listed by county is available at http://bit.ly/19HarvestBowlBios, and photos are available at http://bit.ly/19HarvestBowlPhotos.

2019 Harvest Bowl honorees by county, name and city: • Adams – Jordan and Jacki Christman, Hettinger • Barnes – Bruce and Jeanne Shanenko, Valley City • Benson – Tom and Pam Schmid, Oberon • Billings – Kasey and Darnyl Malkowski, Fairfield • Bottineau – Charlie and Jaime Adams, Mohall • Bowman – Jerry and Patricia Palczewski, Scranton • Burke – Ron and Allie Sagness, Bowbells • Burleigh – Will and Jerilyn MacDonald, Bismarck • Cass – Toby and Susan McPherson, Page • Cavalier – Brian and Julie Hardy, Walhalla • Dickey – Robert and Erica Thorpe, Oakes • Divide – Keith and Betty Brown, Crosby • Dunn – David Twist, Manning • Eddy – Greg and Brenda Rue, Sheyenne • Emmons – Dave and Kathy Bauman, Linton • Fort Berthold – Yvette Young Bear, New Town • Foster – Jeff and Kim Edland, Glenfield • Golden Valley – Paul and Jessie Schmeling, Golva • Grand Forks – Bob and Melanie Joerger, Mayville • Grant – Merlin and Lorele Leithold, Elgin • Griggs – Duane and Janell Feiring, McHenry • Hettinger – Garret and Jennifer Jo Swindler, Mott • Kidder – Robin and Shelly Ziesch, Pettibone • LaMoure – Davin and Kristi Wirrenga, Adrian • Logan – Tony and Barbara Braun, Napoleon • McHenry – Trenton and Rachel Bruner, Drake • McIntosh – Gene and Mary Knoll, Ashley • McKenzie – Jason and Peggy Leiseth, Arnegard • McLean – Tom and Lena Volochenko, Butte • Mercer – Ryan and Nikki Wolf, Hazen • Morton – Chad and Julie Ellingson, St. Anthony • Mountrail – Allen and Debbie Lund, Ross • Nelson – Bruce and Deb Ellertson, Michigan • Oliver – Randy and Susan Henke, Stanton • Pembina – Kent and Lori Schluchter, Cavalier • Pierce – Don and Paula Jelsing, Rugby • Ramsey – Matthew and Sharlene Olson, Devils Lake • Ransom – Warren (Bud) and Carmen Lyons, Lisbon • Renville – Blake and Shelly Carlson, Lansford • Richland – Kelly and Mickie Klosterman, Mooreton • Rolette – Darrel and Phyllis Abrahamson, St. John • Sargent – Kyle and Kathy Marquette, Rutland • Sheridan – Alvin Burkart and Charlene Martwick, Kief • Sioux – Charles and Elaine McLaughlin, Cannon Ball • Slope – Kevin J. Thompson, Bowman • Stark – Arthur and Cindi Ridl, Dickinson • Stark – Kurt and Laurie Ridl, Dickinson • Steele – Thomas and Mary Kay Klabo, Sharon • Stutsman – Curtis and Laurie Brown, Montpelier • Towner – Martin and Sheri Amble, Sarles • Traill – Larry and Diane Young, Mayville • Walsh – David and Jana Hankey, Park River • Ward – Gregory and Margie Marshall, Burlington • Wells – Steven and Kristen Jones, Bowdon • Williams – Vaughn and Becky Cornell, Williston Minnesota honorees by county, name and city: • Becker – Shawn and Dawn Eckert, Frazee • Clay – Richard and Cindy Menholt, Felton • Grant – Scott and Mareen Biss – Elbow Lake • Kittson – Michael and Kristi Morrison, Hallock • Norman – Lynn and Patty Johnson, Ada • Traverse – Jeff and Sherry Borgheiinck, Browns Valley • Wilkin – Duane and Bonnie Stuehrenberg, Breckenridge An agribusiness award recipient also is chosen annually.

This award recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field of agriculture and business in North Dakota and beyond. This year’s award recipient was Bill Bowman, former North Dakota state senator. More Bowman information is available at http://bit.ly/2019HBAgriAward.

Several scholarships also were awarded to outstanding male and female athletes during Harvest Bowl. Scholarship winners and photos are available at http://bit. ly/2019HBAthletes.

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MSU student wins MFB Collegiate Discussion Meet

Montana Farm Bureau Federation Ag NewsWire How farmers and rancher deal with consumer priorities was the main topic during the Collegiate Discussion Meet November 11 during the Montana Farm Bureau Annual Convention in Billings. The six competitors included Andee Baker, MSU; Sheridan Johnson, MSU; Jake Christenson, UM-Western; Carson Houser, Miles Community College; Kelly Rehm, Miles Community College and Taylor Lindeman, UM-Western. Johnson was named the winner following the competition and received an all-expense paid trip to compete at the Young Farmers & Rancher National Conference in March in Louisville.

The Collegiate Discussion Meet is open to Farm Bureau members attending a college with a recognized MFBF College Young Farmers and Ranchers program and is meant to simulate a committee meeting with ideas discussed and solutions developed.

The question: “The customer is always right. How do farmers and ranchers think and respond, through the lens of consumer priorities and marketing trends, to build common values and confidence in modern production methods to build consumer acceptance?”

“Farmers and ranchers need to meet consumers at their level and make sure their concerns are addressed,” Johnson, a junior in college, said during the discussion. “We need to ensure marketing isn’t confusing and that consumers aren’t feeling deceived.”

Johnson, who was raised in a wheat farming and Farm Bureau family in Conrad, said she decided to participate in the Collegiate YF&R Discussion Meet because she saw it was a great way to build connections with other students.

Another reason? “I love to talk.”

The ag communications/political science major encourages other students to participate in the Discussion Meet.

“I recommend that other students get out of their comfort zones and try this. This competition creates an opportunity to practice at the collegiate level. Realize it’s a discussion where people can share ideas, it’s not a debate.”

Autumn 2019 has been an exceptional time for Johnson.

Not only did she win the Collegiate Discussion Meet but received her American FFA Degree during the FFA Convention in late October in Indianapolis. The American FFA Degree is awarded to members who have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to FFA and made significant accomplishments in their supervised agricultural experiences (SAEs).

UW horse judging team wins first of season competition

From University of Wyoming Extension The University of Wyoming (UW) horse judging team won the collegiate division of the U.S. National Arabian Horse Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in its first competition of the season Friday, October 25.

“This was the first time UW had ever been to that particular contest,” said team coach Lacey Lindsay. “We made our debut, and the team was awesome.”

Six teams of five members each and 40 individuals competed in the collegiate division.

Results were: Team • First overall, first in performance, second in halter and third in reasons Individual • Tanner Sperle, Parker, Colorado, first in performance, second overall • Mikaela Moore, Ranchester, second in reasons, fourth in performance, ninth in halter, fourth overall • Hannah Jankovsky, Cheyenne, seventh in halter, seventh in reasons, eighth in performance, seventh overall • Josey Bailey, Moorcroft, fifth in performance • Kaylee Davis, Johnstown, Colorado, fourth in halter, eighth in reasons, 13th in performance, eighth overall Lindsay thanked Kendra McConnell, Denver, and Katie Ogden, Laramie, for their extra help and expertise and also team sponsor Kimes Ranchwear.

The team competed November 16 at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship in Oklahoma City.

“That’s a bigger contest and generally harder, but I think the burst of energy the team got from this contest will carry over in their confidence level to help us have a pretty good show,” said Lindsay.

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Stalk-worn sensor to measure crops’ water use

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By University of Nebraska-Lincoln IANR News growing season but really on a day-by-day Wearable technology will soon move or hour-by-hour basis.” from wrist to stalk, swapping measures of Understanding water use is especially imblood flow and respiration for sap flow and portant, Schnable said, given that a plant’s transpiration. ability to resist drought competes with its Their design won’t have anyone confusability to produce food. When a plant opens ing growing season with fashion season, the tiny pores in its leaves to welcome the but the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s carbon dioxide essential for photosynthesis (UNL) James Schnable and Iowa State — and eventually, food — some of its water University colleagues are developing a escapes through those same pores, making Fitbit-like sensor to be worn by corn and it more susceptible to drought. Crops bred other thick-stemmed crops. for higher yields invite in even more carbon Funded by a Breakthrough Technologies dioxide, giving water more opportunities award from the National Science Foundato depart. tion, the researchers are pursuing an elusive Managing that physiological tug-of-war goal: measuring rates of sap flow in real — or even finding ways to lengthen the rope time, actual fields and changing weather at both ends — will become more critical conditions. by 2050, when the world will likely need Because sap flow indicates how much to feed an additional 2 billion people while water a plant is using vs. conserving, meaaccounting for more-sporadic rainfall. suring it with hourly or minute-by-minute As of now, crop breeders usually assess precision would help researchers better new genetic lines by planting a series of triunderstand how crops are responding to als under drought conditions, measuring the drought conditions. That, in turn, would yields and comparing those yields to what’s allow researchers to compare the drought produced in a water-rich environment, resistance of different genetic lines with Schnable said. The smaller the difference greater speed and accuracy, Schnable said, in yield, the better. leading to more water-efficient hybrids that “So, they’re (currently) taking a lot of difcan tolerate ever-harsher climates from ferent things that could all feed into drought Nebraska to Nigeria. tolerance — they’re all lumped together — “There are different strategies plants can and they get this one output value, which take and different strategies plant breeders is: What’s the final yield,” Schnable said. can pursue depending on their goal, the enThe research team — which also includes vironment they’re breeding for and the crop Schnable’s father, Patrick, at Iowa State — they’re working on,” said Schnable, associinstead wants to pinpoint the conditions ate professor of agronomy and horticulture. under which different crop varieties begin or “All of these, though, do require (that) you stop conserving water, potentially helping actually be able to look at how much water the plant is using, not over just an entire CONTINUED ON PAGE C30

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By NDSU Extension Service self-awareness, decision making, strategic Twenty-seven people have been selected planning and managing conflict. Particito participate in Rural Leadership North pants also learn about agricultural and rural Dakota’s ninth class. policy, the agricultural economy and future Rural Leadership North Dakota (RLND) trends that could affect North Dakota, is a North Dakota State University (NDSU) finding innovative ways to fund local and Extension leadership development program. regional development projects, marketing, Beginning in November, participants will civic engagement, the value of coalitions spend 18 months developing skills to help and partnerships, industry and community them shape the future of their organization, advocacy, and how to work with the state community and state.

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Class IX participants include producers, In addition, participants create a network farm assistance program representatives, of contacts and resources they can continue educators, city and county officials, healthto tap into for ideas, answers and support care and bank personnel, a pastor and a long after they graduate from the program. communications specialist.

They also will practice the skills they learn Those selected for the 2019-21 class are: by creating a project that benefits their opStephanie Blumhagen, Bottineau, North eration, business, organization, community Dakota; Charlie Sorenson, Ross, North Daor region. kota; Shana Forster, Minot, North Dakota; Class VIII participants created opportuniKaren George, Watford City, North Dakota; ties for community members and consumers Christel Laskowski, Minot; Tom Jones, to learn about agriculture and its impacts Wyndemere, North Dakota; Paula Moch, on the community, state and world; helped Braddock, North Dakota; Becky Peterson, develop a forage management program for Mandan, North Dakota; Kylee Merkel, local producers; turned empty buildings Bismarck, North Dakota; Kelly Richardand lots into a once-again useful spaces; son, Dickinson, North Dakota; Dantae branded and marketed their community Anderson, Lemmon, South Dakota; Jasmin or county to bring more visitors and new Fosheim-Turner, Hettinger, North Dakota; residents to the area; organized an event to Eric Muller, Hillsboro, North Dakota; Julie empower women with knowledge and tools Johnson, Hillsboro; Seth Erickson, Galesto improve their farm and ranch operation; burg, North Dakota; Donna Georgeson, increased community knowledge of concusMichigan, North Dakota; Fayme Stringersion prevention and recovery; developed Henry, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Collin affordable rodeo clinics to give youth a Voeller, Grand Forks; Kayla Lawson, Buftaste of what rodeo competition and life falo, North Dakota; Susan Milender, Valley on a ranch are like; created a mentorship City, North Dakota; Emily Alm, Streeter, program to ease the transition from college North Dakota; Sandy Franke, Jamestown, to the workplace by connecting young emNorth Dakota; Elicia Jacobson, Mandan; ployees with senior industry leaders; started Andrea Nelson, Valley City; Kayla Miller, a Backpack Program to meet the weekend Wahpeton, North Dakota; Kristina Dick, nutritional needs of students struggling with Englevale, North Dakota; Kerri Kraft, hunger; and planted a community orchard.

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“With this experience from RLND, I have “Rural Leadership North Dakota is the been able to challenge myself to be a better premier statewide leadership program person and leader in my professional and in North Dakota,” says Marie Hvidsten, personal life,” says Class VIII participant RLND program director.

Kasey Bitz of LaMoure, North Dakota She RLND includes in-state seminars with is a teacher and owner of Bitz Farms. experts; tours of agricultural and commuSince RLND began in November 2003, nity businesses; out-of-state trips (Washing166 people from 78 communities in 39 ton, D.C., and Minneapolis in 2018) to meet counties have graduated from the program. with agricultural, business and government “Starting a new RLND class is an excitleaders; and a trip to another country (desing time for the 27 class IX participants,” tination to be determined) to learn about Hvidsten says. “They will meet other North international agricultural and community Dakotans who want to have an impact in issues. Previous classes visited Brazil, Costa their industry, organization and community.

Rica, Panama, Thailand, Vietnam and Chile.

Class IX participants are beginning an exThe program helps participants enhance perience that will take them across North leadership skills, such as thinking critically Dakota, the U.S. and the world.” and creatively, communicating effectively,

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customize varieties to different climates.

Pairing those observations with genetic analyses of the varieties could also offer more detailed information about the practical influence of various genes in the field, guiding modification efforts in the lab.

“The more we can actually measure some of those (individual factors) in the field and look at the differences between varieties, the more we can make precise judgments about how two different lines with the same level of drought tolerance got there,” Schnable said. “You could separate those (different factors) out and then breed for those individual factors separately.

“Think of it like this: You can compare two cars by how fast they go or, once you

can start to pull apart (and) look at different parts of the engine, figure out how each part of the engine works well or poorly, then maybe start to combine the best of different engines together. But you can only do that if you can measure the performance of different parts separately instead of looking at just the final speed.”

Poor sap?

The team’s project qualified for the Breakthrough Technologies program — which the National Science Foundation developed for “high-risk, high-reward” pursuits — in part because no one has managed to develop a sensor that can monitor sap flow over a full growing season in the field.

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By Kym Pokorny, OSU Extension Service against prickles and hormone, and a soilless Snipping some cuttings from the garden will mixture of 80 percent perlite and 20 percent peat produce your own private nursery of plants by moss. If you’ve used the tray before, wash with spring. soap and water or a mild bleach solution and let Whether you plant the results of your “snip it dry thoroughly. and stick” project or give them away, propagat• Start with a healthy plant. Those stressed ing by cuttings can be a rewarding process. by disease, pests or drought will have a high Although some sources of information can be failure rate. intimidating, Neil Bell, a horticulturist for Or• Fill tray with perlite-peat moss mixture. egon State University (OSU) Extension Service, • The easiest cuttings to take are shoot tips has good news. from strong-growing twigs. Cut the twig about “I do lots of them at home,” he said. “I don’t 3 to 4 inches long, which will leave a cutting use a greenhouse or even bottom heat. What that with at least a couple of nodes (where the leaves means is that the average gardener can propagate and buds attach to the stem). With deciduous their own plants with nothing more than a tray, cuttings, make sure to keep track of the top and a decent medium, a bit of rooting hormone and bottom of the cutting: buds on the shoot always a place to keep them out of the way.” point to the tip. If you can’t tell which side is up, Greenhouses are advantageous, but not neccut the tip at an angle and the bottom straight. essary. Using bottom heat can help as well if • Bundle them up and take them to your workyou’ve got room in the house to set up a system.

But Bell keeps his trays of cuttings outside in a station. Remove bottom foliage from the cutting, sheltered area and has reasonable success. leaving two leaves or leaf buds at the top. If they Not all cuttings will “take” and produce roots, have berries or fruit, remove those, too. Be carehe said, but enough will to make it worth the ful not to tear the bark. If the plant is evergreen attempt. Up to 100 to 125 cuttings can fit in one and has large leaves like a rhododendron, cut off tray so, if you’ve never propagated by cuttings, half of each leaf. try one or two trays and you’re bound to get some • Snip off a bit from the bottom of the stem to plants out of your efforts. refresh the cut. Dip the bottom end of the stem “There’s no need to complicate it,” he said. in rooting hormone and stick in the tray one-half “Even if you end up with 10 percent rooting, to 1 inch apart. Press “soil” around the cutting. you’ve succeeded and most of the time you can • Apply water so that the mixture is thoroughly do far better.” moist but not sopping wet.

This list of possible plants to propagate from • Place in a sheltered spot where the cuttings hardwood cuttings in October and November is get the most shelter you can provide. long, but some common ones include rosemary, • If it doesn’t rain or the cuttings are under an rhododendron, hydrangeas, flowering currant eave, keep them watered.

(Ribes), Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium), • When the forecast predicts freezing weather, mock orange (Philadelphus), redtwig dogwood bring the trays inside. Put them out as soon as (Cornus sericea), rock rose (Cistus), manzanita the temperature comes back above 32 degrees.

(Arctostaphylos), Hebe, Cotoneaster, barberry • Don’t worry if leaves start to fall off; it’s (Berberis) and Pyracantha. If you grow halfnatural. But clean them out of the tray to keep hardy shrubs like salvia, cuttings taken now are them from rotting and causing disease. great assurance against winter injury.

• In late March or early April, tug on a couple Bell’s recommendations for taking hardwood of the cuttings. If they don’t budge, they’ve cuttings: rooted. If so, transplant them into a 4- or 6-inch • You’ll need: clean small clippers (the sharper pot, depending on the size of cutting. If more the better), clean 3- to 4-inch deep tray, rooting roots have grown than will fit in the pot, don’t hormone, tight-fitting gloves to protect hands be afraid to trim them.

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But Iowa State’s Liang Dong has crafted a design, which consists of sophisticated technology packed into a small but flexible package, that the team hopes will prove equal to some of the most stubborn challenges.

To gauge the rate of sap flow, the bracelet-like device will administer small amounts of heat to the stem it fits around. Tiny sensors above and below the micro-heater will then record the amount of heat that passes by, effectively measuring how quickly the sap is carrying the heat away — and, by association, how fast the sap is flowing. A combination of nanoscopic structures and fibers within the device should help insulate the sensors, preventing a loss of heat that could otherwise invalidate their readings.

Its flexibility comes by way of an elastic band that can stretch to accommodate the growth of corn stalks or other crop stems, including those of soybean and sorghum, that can widen substantially within weeks. The elasticity also serves another purpose: allowing the device to monitor a stem’s diameter, which factors into the equations that describe how fast the heat is traveling and sap is flowing.

“The power of the sensors is (that) we can measure something that has not been practical to measure before, which is how much water the plant is using on a very fine resolution,” Schnable said. “The challenge is (that) if you

design a tool to measure something that hasn’t been measured before, how do you know if you’re getting it right or not?”

The answer? Compare the sensor data against a known quantity — in this case, finely calibrated technology at Nebraska’s Greenhouse Innovation Center. There, a series of conveyor belts, hyperspectral cameras and scales can detect faint changes in the water weight of individual plants that either do or don’t sport the new sensors. Then, it’s essentially just a matter of weighing one set of measurements against the other, Schnable said.

“That way we can tell if we’re producing useful data or gibberish,” he said.

It also captures what most excites him, on a personal level, about the project.

“My favorite collaborations are those where I’m working with people who have completely different skill sets than mine,” Schnable said.

“Dr. Dong came out of the biomedical field, which is why he knows how to build wearable sensors to address all sorts of different questions and problems. We’re coming at the same problem from completely different backgrounds and completely different motivations.

“Just getting to have those conversations and learn about topics I never would have been exposed to in any sort of a normal plant science job is really fun.”

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By Trampus Corder, Certified Crop Advisor and Broker/Owner of Corder and Associates, LLC For most of us, the end of the year marks the beginning of new diets, resolutions, goals, and a wrap up to the festivities of Christmas and Thanksgiving. It is time to remove the lights and pack up the ornaments. For business owners, farmers, and ranchers, the end of the year denotes gathering information needed for filing taxes. I know. I said it. Taxes.

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However, special tax benefits do exist for those of us in the demanding profession of farming. Let us dive into some of the basics of taxes in the land of agriculture.

A tax accountant can be beneficial when attempting to navigate the confusing and complicated tax policies.

Such professionals can even help provide information on tax breaks that farmers are not aware exist. Thus, keeping thorough and organized records for filing all throughout the year is critical for saving time and your sanity as it can become overwhelming scrambling to get the proper materials gathered!

Investors may also find themselves interested in such information, because investing in agriculture is considered to be a relatively low risk opportunity to diversify a portfolio. Not only does investing in agriculture hold tangible community benefits, but it can also provide investors with various and unique tax advantages. Such tax benefits would depend on the type of crop and how the investment deal is structured. Additionally, tax breaks can help out homeowners that are surrounded with complemented acreage. Paying out large sums in property taxes on this adjoined land can get expensive and frustrating, so consider this. What if you could utilize that land for a small farm? If you can prove that your farm is a business and not just a recreational pursuit, you may be eligible for both property and income tax breaks.

Do not be fooled into thinking that you have to be a fulltime farmer to take advantage of the tax breaks available.

Sometimes, it is as simple as owning a piece of land that is not being currently used.

It is becoming quite common for farmers to place a piece of their ground into a conservation trust through conservation easements. As stewards of the land, farmers look to preserve and protect the land that is available to be able to continue to pass it on. A conservation trust protects sensitive natural areas such as cultural resources or significant landmarks but also seeks to preserve farmland, ranchland, and water sources. Conservation easements offer a variety of different tax advantages. For example, most conservation easements are donated. If the requirements of federal law are met, you could claim the value of the easement as a tax-deductible charitable donation resulting in a lower federal income tax.

Depending on state laws, it could potentially lower your state income tax as well.

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By NDSU Extension Service North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension agents and a specialist were recognized for their work at the recent National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) annual conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Julie Garden-Robinson, food and nutrition specialist; Cindy Klapperich, family and community wellness agent in Sargent County; and Kristi Berdal, former family and community wellness agent in Nelson and Steele counties, received a second-place Central Region Communications Award in the educational curriculum package category for the Healthwise for Guys program. Healthwise for Guys provides health information for adult males in rural areas primarily working in agriculture.

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This is also dependent upon the type of agriculture that they choose to invest in.

Qualifying for an agricultural tax exemption could mean saving thousands on your property tax bill! This is definitely incentive for familiarizing yourself with the available options for doing so. When planning for your tax strategies, you may want to consider speaking with neighboring or local farmers about using your land. Perhaps one of them can utilize it to harvest hay or graze a few cattle. It is important to understand that you do not need be personally doing the work in order to claim the exemption.

Most investors are familiar with the concept of depreciation in real estate investments and may believe that the same principles apply to the depreciation of farm ground.

The cost of land, however, does not depreciate because it does not wear out, get used up, or become obsolete.

Agricultural land typically includes some buildings or equipment and if there are capital improvements on those that are located on the land, depreciation expense can then be deducted from the gross income.

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Bridger Molenda and poultry interview judge, Kent Sheble, visit about his project during the Marias Fair interviews. Molenda also had a market swine at the fair. Photo by Kari Lewis.

10 low-water perennials that thrive in dry situations

By Kym Pokorny, Oregon State University ers. The blooms traditionally were greenishPacific Northwest gardeners are faced white, but now come in purple, rose, yellow, with the pleasant dilemma of choosing from some lined, spotted or speckled with darker an encyclopedia-length list of perennials that colors. Most recently doubles have hit the grow in our friendly climate, and many of market. Hardy to Zone 6. those thrive in low-water situations.

• Hummingbird mint (Agastache): To transition the landscape to water-wise Flowers climb up spires that average anyplants, start with a small area such as a parkwhere from 18 inches to 3 feet and appear ing strip or an already-dry area of the garden, throughout the summer right through to the said Gail Langellotto, a horticulturist with first frost. Deer are usually uninterested in Oregon State University’s (OSU) Extenthe fragrant foliage, but pollinators and humsion Service. Conversely, keep high-water mingbirds can’t resist the flowers that come plants in areas naturally moist or that have in an impressive array of colors, including well-amended, claylike soils that tend to hold lavender, pink, rose, orange and white. Hardy water longer. to Zone 5.

Even low-water plants need regular irri• Oregano ‘Kent Beauty’ (Origanum): A gation for the first two years while roots get great choice for cascading over a wall or in established, she said. After that, a good soak a pot, this ornamental oregano takes full, hot every two weeks, less in milder weather, is sun with aplomb. White blooms tinged with sufficient. purple look like rose-and-cream hop flowers Before planting, consider installing a on a silvery blue plant that only gets 6 inches drip system or soaker hoses, which direct tall. Hardy to Zone 4. water most efficiently. If using a sprinkler, • Penstemon hybrids: Draw hummingLangellotto said it’s a good idea to periodibirds and the admiration of visitors with the cally check to make sure they’re delivering showy, long-blooming flowers of this semithe correct amount of water to the proper evergreen perennial that grows to 2 to 4 feet areas. Use a rain gauge or other container tall. Hummingbirds and bees cannot pass up to measure. the spikes of blooms in shades of purple, red “A lot of drought-tolerant plants have a and pink, often with white throats. Needs double benefit,” Langellotto said. “They’re very good drainage. Most hardy to Zone 7. great for water conservation, but also for • Pineapple sage (Salvia elegans): Pineattracting all kinds of bees.” apple sage comes by its name honestly with To get ideas of how to garden with waterunmistakably scented foliage. A handy plant wise plants, visit one of the OSU Master for the pure red flowers that bloom in late Gardener demonstration gardens around summer and fall when many other perennials the state. To find the closest, call a Master have finished. It also provides some added Gardener hotline or your county Extension sustenance for hummingbirds. Grows 3 to 4 office. feet tall. Hardy to Zone 8.

Here are Langellotto’s recommendations • Sea holly (Eryngium amethystinum): If for drought-tolerant perennials: you’re looking for drama in the garden, try • Bishop’s hat (Epimedium): Typically, this perennial with spiky, thistle-like, ice blue it’s difficult to find an exciting plant for dry flowers that stand up to about 2 feet. Deer shade situations, but this evergreen perentend to stay away from sea holly, which pairs nial fits the bill. The plants come in various well with small ornamental grasses. Great as sizes from very short ground covers to 2-foot a cut flower. Hardy to Zone 3. mounds. Heart-shaped leaves set off the • Sedum (Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’): A staldainty flowers that look like tiny, upsidewart, fall-blooming perennial with dense, down bishops’ hats, hence the name. Hardy dome-shaped clusters of flowers that start to Zone 5. out pink, darken to rose and then to russet • Catmint (Nepeta): A plant consistently red. Succulent foliage grows about 2 feet tall rated in the top three for attracting bees, and wide. Attracts bees and butterflies. Don’t catmint is just as beloved by people. And amend the soil or the plant can get floppy. why not? This free-blooming beauty cranks Hardy to Zone 4. out lavender-blue flowers on upright, 2-foot • Yarrow (Achillea millefolium): Discstems from spring until fall. Hardy to Zone 4. shaped white flowers from June to Septem• Hellebore (Helleborus): A good candiber are like runways for bees and butterflies date for the difficult situation of dry shade, that land on a regular basis. Soft, ferny though this evergreen perennial will also foliage grows 2 feet tall and wide. Hybrids enjoy some morning sun. Starts blooming are available most commonly in yellow and very early in spring before other perennials have even thought about showing their flowpink. Hardy to Zone 3.

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This entry at the Montana Bale Trail showed what everyday life might be like in the small town of Utica, Montana. Numerous television spots and countless print media articles in newspapers and magazines ranging from local papers to national publications like People and Sunset have featured this rather unusual and eye-popping event.

Nebraska program helps guard against food allergens

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When Nebraska’s Steve Taylor founded the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP) nearly 25 years ago — with the support of seven companies — he couldn’t have anticipated what came next.

“We started (the program) just as food allergy awareness started to explode among the food industry, consumers and publichealth agencies,” said Taylor, professor emeritus of food science and technology.

“We realized that no single food company could afford to develop all the tools and research to meet these needs, but perhaps a consortium of companies, working together, could do it.”

The program’s early research included a method to detect peanut residue. Through an industry partnership with Neogen Corporation, a company that develops solutions for food and animal safety, that method became a product: the first commercially available food-allergen test kit.

“We saw an opportunity to combine (the program’s) capabilities in antibodies with our chemical conjugations and put together a good program. It’s been a strong relationship,” said Jim Herbert, founder and chairman of Neogen Corporation, which developed and manufactured the kits.

The kits are now widely used to help companies detect undeclared traces of food allergens — including peanut, milk, egg, almond, hazelnut, coconut, soybean, sesame and shrimp — in food processing facilities.

“We generated the entire market category for allergen test kits,” Taylor said. “With the test kits, scientific expertise and testing facilities, (our program) became the go-to place for industry.”

Today, FARRP is an industry consortium with an international reputation for its foodallergen research expertise and outreach.

One hundred food-processing companies support the program and help fund its operations, including 25 staff members and several graduate students.

In return, the companies have access to the latest food-allergen information, including FARRP’s food-allergy database and staff consultations. Companies also submit food and ingredient samples, as well as equipment swabs, for quantitative analysis and receive confidential results about the presence of potential allergens.

Using commercial test kits, FARRP processes 50,000 samples annually at its facilities on Nebraska Innovation Campus.

Many of the test kits are still produced by Neogen Corporation, the result of a 22-year university partnership. NUtech Ventures, the university’s technology commercialization

affiliate, continues to work with Neogen to license the university’s food science research.

Neogen is also among FARRP’s member companies, which all have a seat on its board of directors. They gather twice a year to learn about the program’s latest research and share common interests related to food allergens.

According to Taylor, it’s a collaborative space because everyone is working toward the same goal: preventing consumer illness.

Company interactions help shape FARRP’s applied research, which often involves undergraduate and graduate students working on solutions directly related to industry.

Faculty and doctoral students conduct independent research on topics that include developing the next generation of allergentest methodology, exploring safe doses of allergenic foods and assessing how allergens are digested and absorbed.

“We get really positive feedback from our company members,” said Taylor. “With an industry-funded consortium, the most important thing to do is to sit and listen, because you’ll learn the research gaps.

Someone will ask a question that you can’t answer.”

The program also prioritizes outreach to companies, consumer groups and government agencies, regularly hosting training for the food-manufacturing industry in the United States. It’s also developed relationships with policymakers and public-health agencies around the world. A partnership with Canada’s national public-health department has resulted in an international conference, the Workshop on Food Allergen Methodologies, that is now in its 17th year.

The program’s positive reputation and connections have also led to distinctive opportunities for students, Taylor said. Former students are employed at a prominent think tank in the Netherlands, a research university in Germany, the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C., and a startup company spun out of Stanford University.

Student outcomes, industry and policy outreach, research and technology commercialization all align with FARRP’s larger purpose: consumer safety. To sustain it, Taylor has focused on building a program that will continue after his 2019 retirement. Joe Baumert, associate professor of food science and technology, has already been named Taylor’s successor as FARRP director.

“I’m really proud of FARRP’s impact,” Taylor said. “The food industry is doing a much better job in allergen control and labeling. There’s still more work to be done, but we’ve made a difference.”

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2012 Apache AS1020 self-propelled, Top-Con X20 with RTK, Auto-Steer, Auto-Boom, 100-ft. booms, 5 section control......................$159,900...............

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

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.................................................... $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 Case IH 1010-30 combine header, pickup reel.......................................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1010-25 header, pickup reel........... ............................................. Just Traded Case IH 1010 30-ft. header, batt reel, oilbath wobble drive................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1010 30-ft. header, batt reel, oilbath wobble drive................... Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 combine pickup header......... ................................................ Let’s Deal Case IH 1015 15-ft. pickup header, Victory attachment..................................... $6500 Case IH 1015-12 pickup header........ $4900 International 810-13 pickup header............ ................................................ Let’s Deal

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2009 Case IH 7088 combine, rock trap, chopper, yield/moisture............. $114,900 2007 Case IH 2588 combine, rock trap, yield and moisture............................... $89,900 1990 Case IH 1660 combine....... Let’s Deal

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

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

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Balewagons & Retrievers 3-New Holland 1089 balewagons, very nice condition. $85,000 - $105,000

New Holland 1075 diesel...................................................$32,500 New Holland 1069 gas balewagon, nice............................$36,500 New Holland 1068 with Chev 454 engine with automatic transmission.................................................................................$38,500 New Holland 1068 gas balewagon with MilStak 1030S bale clamp, get your 3x4 bales off the field fast $28,000 New Holland 1063 pull-type, hauls 160 bales....................$16,500 5-New Holland S1049 bale wagons..........................$7500-19,500 New Holland Super 1049 balewagon................................$18,500 New Holland 1046 self-propelled, hauls 80 bales.................$7500 2006 New Holland 1037 balewagon, sharp.......................$35,000 6-New Holland 1037 balewagons, rebuilt........ $18,000 to $25,000 New Holland 1033s rebuilt balewagons.............. $10,500-$13,000 New Holland 1032 pull type...............................................$10,500 New Holland 8500 round bale wagon. Nice condition........$50,000

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Cull cow considerations

By Chance Marshall, University of Wyoming Extension educator based in Fremont County reproductive success. Cows that lack body The annual costs of maintaining a beef condition have higher probabilities of becow is at least $700 per year for most cowcalf operations. ing open cows. Additionally, thin cows That number may seem ridiculously have greater chances for calving difficulty. high; however, once the many expenses Even if thin cows are getting bred during required to maintain her (feed, equipment, the breeding season, it may be possible labor, vet expenses, etc.) is considered, she is calving a few days later each year, costs can add up quickly! her calf weights are declining, and she will Most cow-calf producers (including eventually fall out of the 365-day ideal myself) are probably guilty of keeping calving window. one of their favorite cows for “one more Udder quality year” after she comes up open. Most times, Not only is milk production important these decisions are made because of sentifor calf growth, but so is the structure and quality of the udder. Ask yourself if her mental reasons. Many of these operations udder is still adequate to meet the needs also have cows that are 13+ years old and of her calves going forward. Does she even though they are still productive, are have four good productive quarters with starting to show signs of aging. good teat attachments? Will her calves be These decisions can be impactful when able to easily access the milk they need? studied from a business perspective. ReSelection for udder quality is a moderately ceipts from cull-cows make up about 15heritable trait, so maintaining dams with 20 percent of gross income for cow-calf good udder attachment should be included operations; however, the costs of mainin the selection criteria. taining a non-productive cow can be the Mouth real difference maker. Culling decisions The cow needs to have enough teeth directly affect the quantity and quality of to graze and ruminate effectively. Aged calf production and, ultimately, influence cows may lose teeth or wear them down profitability. enough to negatively impact their ability The truth is, putting cows on the truck to maintain the demands of pregnancy and that have sentimental attachments to and/ her environment. A bad mouth can affect or have been some of our most producdigestibility and intake, putting her at risk tive herd members in the past is hard. But of being an open cow. knowing when it’s time to make these Disposition tough decisions can be very impactful to It always seems like the meanest cows genetic progress and your bottom line. breed back every year and raise some of How do you know when? the best calves! However, maintaining With profitability in mind, here are a few cows with attitude problems will likely key things to consider when developing mean future generations with attitude a systematic process for culling cows to problems. Even if these crazy calves do which ALL members of the herd should well in a range setting where they are not be exposed. handled much, they will likely struggle to Pregnancy status gain as much in the feedlot compared to This is probably the most obvious factor their gentle herd mates. Additionally, meat when determining whether to keep a cow quality in temperamental cattle is often or not. It’s recommended producers deterless desirable. mine how long they want their breeding Other health issues and calving periods to last (45-60 days is A cow’s history of various health isusually ideal) and then cull cows that aren’t pregnant after that. If she’s not producing a sues that have been costing you money calf, she is costing you hundreds of dollars and may cost you more in the future are per year to keep her around! How much are the last things to keep in mind. Cows with you willing to pay to keep an open cow? incidences of retained placentas or proStructural soundness lapses are at risk for reoccurring issues and We in Wyoming have high expectations should be strong culling candidates. Also, for cows to graze and perform in harsh, cows that have dealt with infections, lump vast environments. Cows that remain jaw, and other issues are also at risk. Consound enough on their feet to maintain sider selling these females while they are body condition, calve, and rebreed every recovered and more valuable and before year is imperative. Structure issues tend they are sick again. to only get worse with time and eventuMaking the reasonable decisions to cull cows is not easy, but these decisions ally will catch up with them. Identifying are an important piece of the profitable structure problems early should always production puzzle. Hopefully, these conbe a priority.

Body condition siderations will make those decisions a Body condition is a huge indicator of little bit easier.

The Tradition of Mistletoe at Christmas

Mistletoe is a plant that grows on a range of trees including willow, apple and oak trees. The tradition of hanging it in the house goes back to the times of the ancient Druids.

It is supposed to possess mystical powers which bring good luck to the household and wards off evil spirits. It was also used as a sign of love and friendship in Norse mythology and that’s where the custom of kissing under Mistletoe comes from.

When the first Christians came to Western Europe, some tried to ban the use of Mistletoe as a decoration in Churches, but

many still continued to use it! York Minster Church in the UK used to hold a special Mistletoe Service in the winter, where wrong doers in the city of York could come and be pardoned.

The custom of kissing under Mistletoe comes from England. The original custom was that a berry was picked from the sprig of Mistletoe before the person could be kissed and when all the berries had gone, there could be no more kissing!

The name mistletoe comes from two Anglo Saxon words ‘Mistel’ (which means dung) and ‘tan’ (which means) twig or stick!

So you could translate Mistletoe as ‘poo on a stick’!!! Not exactly romantic is it!

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AG-TRK 430 Wishing You A Happy Holidays! * 430 HP CUMMINS * TIER 4 PERFORMANCE * ALLISON 4000 SERIES AUTO * MERITOR #33,000 AXLES * TWIN BAG REAR SUSPENSION * TANK SIZE: SS 1600, 2000, 2400 GAL * BOOM WIDTHS: 90-132’ * SPECIALTY ALUMINUM BOOMS * CHOICE OF CONTROLLERS * 50 MPH TRANSPORT SPEED

We Specialize In Providing Quality Application Equipment Our Equipment Provides:

Mobility • Capacity • Durability • Economics • Simplicity ! AVAILABLE SOON !

SPECIALTY ALUMINUM BOOMS 2014 VECTOR with 1600 gallon 120-ft. boom, 1700 hours, 350 hp, 8.9 Cummins, Allison 3000 Auto, Capstan Nozzle Control, Raven Viper, Smart Trax, Auto Boom height

“Call For Details”

SIMONSEN 2584 8 TON PULL-TYPE CART Very, very nice cart, spreads 50’-70’, tandem float tires, hydraulic chain and fan, roll tarp, always shedded, no rust. Immaculate!...................................... $20,000

REMEMBER: Ag Trucks is Your Montana Dealer for SPECIALTY ALUMINUM BOOMS

• High Strength Aluminum Alloys • Light and Durable Construction • Engineered Welds • Outer Boom Sections Hyd Breakaway • 100, 120, 132-ft. widths • SS Plumbing

Come see us at MAGIE in Great Falls, MT January 16-18, 2020 Booth Numbers B11-14 & B28-31 WHY AN AG TRUCKS MACHINE?

· Only Spray Systems with Only Application System · Your Sprayer System is Built By Us, For You · All Units Are Assembled By Us: We know Your System Intimately · Built From Generic/Domestic Parts = All Readily Available · More Power To The Ground With Mechanical Drive · Heaviest Drive Train In The Industry 2015 John Deere 4038 2200 hours, 1000 gallon SS tank, 120-ft. boom, 5 way nozzle bodies, · Smooth Shifting Allison Automatic Transmission JD 2630 Controller, section control, boom height, two sets of tires. · Large Capacity: 1600, 2000, 2400 Gallons Very nice condition.........................................................$185,000 · Tig Welded Stainless Plumbing · Our AG TRUCKS Chassis: “Will Climb A Tree If The Bark Doesn’t Slip!”

Call Today!

Ag Trucks sells Simonsen Equipment • Pull Type Carts • Truck Mount Boxes: 85-ft. spread • Tender Bodies • AG-TRK 430: 10 ton Spreader Boxes • Plan for Spring and Call Now!

SOLD

Capstan Pinpoint System near new for 120ft. boom, 15” spacing, only 200 field hours. This Capstan system came off of a 2016 John Deere 4045........................................ List price: $44,000 .............................................. Sale Price: $30,000

TRUFLEX ROLLERS

1-, 3-, 5-, & 7-section rollers available.

20- to 85-ft. widths • 3/4” wall thickness • Very tough and well built Plan for Spring and Call Now!!

! SIMONSEN FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT!

1997 MARFLEX FL 106

2007 Flexi-Coil 95XL 1500 gallon tank, 132-ft.

Caster wheel boom, boom shields, Flex controller, very nice shape............................................$9000

with 1250 tank, 100-ft booms, row crop tires, hydraulic steering, Trimble 750 GPS.............................................................. $70,000

Great Falls, Montana Steve Raska • 406-788-5361

Garfield, Washington

Justin Honcoop • 509-338-7346

www.agtrucksandequipment.com

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• Individual Nozzle Control • Control Pressure Independent of Rate or Speed • Row-to-Row Liquid Fertilizer Uniformity While Automatically Changing Orifice Sizes Based on Rate or Speed • No Need to Change Orifices for Anhydrous Ammonia Apps

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New Holland Equipment

™

New Holland T9 SmartTrax Tractor

New Holland P2060 Drill with New Holland P4950 Tank

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 SELF PROPELLED SPRAYERS

2017 Apache AS1220 Plus II 868 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 1949 hours, 100-ft. boom, 1000 gallon, Envisio Pro monitor, Auto steer, AutoBoom, 215 hp Cummins diesel. #USAP30.......$110,000

USED ROUND BALERS

1999 Hesston 856T 5x6 bales, 75” wide pickup, bale kicker. #UHHS43........................................ $8500

2012 New Holland BR7090 twine & net wrap, wide pickup, 1000 PTO drive, new belts, rebuilt pickup, float tires, approx. 12,000 bales.............. $28,000 1994 Vermeer 605K round baler, 1000 PTO. #UHVM33.................................................. $5500

USED HEADERS

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 PULL TYPE & SUSPENDED BOOM SPRAYERS

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

USED AIR DRILLS

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 2013 MacDon FD75 45-ft., trailer package, cross augers, double knives, gauge wheels, flex drapers, Case New Holland adapters...................$61,000 2012 MacDon FD70 45-ft., flex draper, double knife, finger reel, cross auger, transport...........$54,000 2005 MacDon 973 39-ft. draper transport package, upper cross auger, finger reel, gauge wheels, JD adaptor. #UCM044..................................$19,000 New Holland 94C 42-ft. draper header, finger reel and transport with cross augers, fits NHCR. #UCNH93................................................$10,500

1999 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft., 12” spacing, double shoot, 4” VW spread, Goose shooter, 2340 tow between, variable rate drive, 5.5” rubber packers. #UDF244............................................... $50,000

2012 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.UDN261........... ..............................................................$110,000 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.

UDF259...................................................$45,000 2003 Flexi-Coil 5000 57-ft., 9” spacing, 550 lb trips, 31/2” steel packers, single shoot with steath bodies, 3450 tow between air cart, dual fan, variable drive, 30.5x32 tires. #UDF254..........................$65,000

USED SKIDSTEER

2012 Seed Hawk 8412 air drill w/800 TBH cart, section control, conveyor, single side band openers, ViperPro.................................................. Just In!

USED DISC

2015 Riteway HCD32 32-ft. high speed compact vertical tillage disc, 5” spacing, coil packers.....CALL

USED COMBINES

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

Zerbe Bros.

“Setting The Standard”

1-800-228-5393 – 406-228-4311 SALES: Mike Guttenberg - Travis Volk

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

1950

69 Years

2019

Glasgow, MT

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CONSIGNMENTS

1961 John Deere 3010 tractor, 60 hp gas, 540 PTO, 3 point hitch, w/John Deere 46 loader, 5-ft. bucket.. ...................................................................$5500

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

2012 Haybuster 2650 Bale Buster, round bale processor, 14Lx16.1 floats, hydraulic chute..........$9500

2015 New Holland 313 discbine, 13-ft. cut, 3 pt. swivel hitch........................................................$33,000

2013 New Holland T9.670 Smartrax tractor, 1625 hours, Hi Flow hydraulics, PTO, new 36” tracks... ................................................................. Just In

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

1981 New Holland 1037 balewagon, 540 PTO drive, 104 bale capacity, 3 wide 7 high, 11Lx15 tires...... $8000 1951 Allis-Chalmers WD tractor, 540 PTO with loader.........................................................$2500

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

2006 Versatile 2145 MFD, 5800 hours, 145 PTO hp, 540/1000 PTO, 3 point, 42” rear tires, 3895 loader w/bucket & grapple..................................$65,000 Nutri-Placer 5252 40-ft. liquid fertilizer applicator with carbide points.............................................$6000 1996 Wishek 842T disc, 23”, 24-ft., w/3 bar gates harrows...................................................$35,000

2010 Kinze 3600 planter, 16 row, 30” spacing, rubber closer wheels, coulters & row cleaners w/liquid fertilizer 2-160 gallon tanks.....................$61,000 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

USED TRACTORS

2004 Case IH JX95 MFD tractor, 1075 hours,80 PTO hp, 12 speed transmission, cab with heat & air conditioning, 540/1000 PTO, 2 remotes, 3 pt., 18.4R30 rear tires. .................................$25,000

International CM41 roller harrow...................$7000 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

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 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

2002 John Deere 9650STS combine, 2925 separator hours, 800/65R32 tires, chopper with 936D header....................................................$65,000 2009 New Holland 88C flex draper header, 36-ft., upper cross auger, transport, finger reel..$25,000 2013 New Holland S1070 suspended boom sprayer, 100-ft., 1600 gallon, 380/90R46 tires, screens, rinse with wand wash............ $25,500 2012 New Holland S1070 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1600 gallon, windscreens, 46” tires, rinse tank with wash............................ $35,000 2009 New Holland S1070 100-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1600 gallon tank, 46” tires, rinse tank with wash, with auto boom................... $13,000 2006 New Holland SF115 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1500 gallon, SP655 auto rate..$20,000 2006 New Holland SF115 90-ft. suspended boom sprayer, 1500 gallon, 14.9R46 tires, SP655 control, rinse tank w/wash, windscrews..$6000

MISC. EQUIPMENT

2010 Haybuster 2650 bale processor, 14Lx16.1 float tires............................................................$9500 Vermeer R23 twin rake, hydraulic drive baskets, nice shape.........................................................$5500

Bale Processors

Zerbe Bros. 406-228-4311 Glasgow, Montana

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

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

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

IN STOCK Vaderstad Precision Hoe Drill

DEMO UNIT SPECIAL PRICE!

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

60-ft., 12” spacing, with 800 bushel Tow Behind Tank

Zerbe Bros.

Glasgow, MT 406-228-4311

Zerbe Bros. www.zerbebrothers.com

Glasgow, Montana 406-228-4311 TOLL FREE 1-800-228-5393

SALES Mike Guttenberg Travis Volk

zerbesales@nemont.net

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Galen Zerbe

Carl Laumeyer, Parts

Nick Kennedy, Parts

David Skiff, Shipping

Marv Pratt, Parts

Curt Ross, Parts

James Meland, Parts

Vic Puchalla, Parts

Travis Volk, Sales

Mike Guttenberg, Sales

Scott Nelson, Service

Randy Barnett, Service

Galen and the entire crew at Zerbe Bros. want to say Merry Christmas to all our wonderful friends and customers. We hope the joyous season finds you all happy and healthy.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve you this past year.

We hope 2020 will be happy and prosperous and we’re looking forward to meeting your needs.

Happy New Year!

Jay Rice, Service

Kyle Loewen, Service

Arlie Armbrister, Service

Tony Hlad, Parts

Brayden Ross, Service

Brodie Boreson, Service

McKenzie Kalinski, Linda Pischel, Brookelynn Schulz

Zerbe Bros.

We “measure” our success by the “level” of your satisfaction

1-800-228-5393 – 406-228-4311

1950

69 Years

2019

Glasgow, MT