JUNE 2017
Vol. XVIII No. 5 P.O. Box 997 Conrad, MT 59425-0997
Phone 406-271-5533 Fax 406-271-5727 website: tradersdispatch.com
Carbon Conservation District to host Range Days
The Carbon Conservation District, along with the local and state Montana Range Days planning committee, is hosting the annual Montana Range Days event at the Fairgrounds in Red Lodge, Montana, June 19-21, 2017. Montana Range Days began in 1976 in Jordan, Montana, and has continued throughout the years to provide an educational format to youth ages 4-19, as well as adults of all ages, to have an on-the-ground, hands-on learning experience. Rangeland professionals and landowners alike learn new and innovative ways of managing natural resources in Montana. Rangeland is the largest of those natural resources with rangelands, grazable pasture and forestlands covering 70 percent of the state. “We are excited to have this opportunity to educate youth and others about Montana’s rangelands and all our natural resources and to showcase the Red Lodge area,” said Scott Blain, chairman for the local planning committee. Estimating an average of 300 participants each year, this event has reached more than 10,000 people. The value of the increased knowledge and awareness of rangelands in Montana cannot be overstated, Blain said. “Montana Range Days is the premier rangeland educational event in Montana. Montana Range Days plays a critical role in educating, training, and inspiring future natural resource managers.” CONTINUED ON PAGE A2
AUCTION SALES
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PRIVATE TREATY
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Highwood Bench low pH soil Field Day
By Tyler Lane, Chouteau County Extension Office MSU Central Agricultural Research Center (CARC) and MSU Extension will be hosting a field day on the Highwood Bench on Wednesday, June 28, at 10:00 a.m. The field day will take place approximately one mile east of the Long farm on 1221 Shonkin Road. The field day will begin with a tour of the CARC cereal variety plots, which have been seeded in low pH soil to determine tolerance to soil acidity. Dr. Jamie Sherman (MSU Barley Breeder) will share research based information on barley varieties for Southern Chouteau County and share her goals for developing low pH tolerant varieties. Various other MSU researchers will be present to answer variety and low pH soil information. Northern seeds will also be present to talk about low pH tolerant cereal grain varieties. Montana Salinity Control will also present a brief update on salinity problems and solutions.
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Andrew Williams, Wool Lab manager at Montana State University tests wool fleece from Targhee-Rambouillet cross-breed sheep with a wool coring machine on Thursday, March 16, 2017, at the MSU Red Bluff Research Ranch, near Norris, Mont. The wool coring machine was designed by the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center for the MSU College of Agriculture’s Wool Lab. MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez
UW Extension accepting applications for ranch management school
By University of Wyoming Extension The longest-running and most successful munity College with outside activities and ranch management school in the region is ranch tours. accepting applications for 2017, said the Four areas are emphasized: range and University of Wyoming (UW) Extension forage management, nutrition and reproduceducator who helped develop the program. tion, financial management and family and The High Plains Ranch Practicum is an employee working relationships. in-depth ranch management program hosted Most ranchers are great at the production by UW Extension and the University of part of the business, said Mount, excelling Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Extension. at raising cattle, putting up hay and keeping The course begins in June and ends in the ranch running. November, combining case studies and Those are not the skills that make for a hands-on applications to bring concepts successful ranch business, he said. and principles to life, said UW Extension “We focus on the skills no one ever taught educator Dallas Mount. you about running a successful business “Don’t expect to be lectured to,” he said. from projecting profit, to wise use of debt, “If the ranch practicum school doesn’t make to cash flow and organizing the people ina significant difference in the bottom line volved to get everyone on the same page,” of your ranch business and/or your quality Mount said. of life, then we failed. Our goal is to help A $600 fee for individuals or $900 for a you move your business to the next level.” pair covers materials, instructor costs and Dates are June 28-29, August 23-24, meals. September 20-21 and November 1-2. The For more information or an applicaschool is based at Laramie County Comtion, contact Mount at 307-322-3667 or dmount@uwyo.edu, instructor Aaron Berger with UN-L Extension at 308-235-3122 Advertiser Index Page B1 or aberger2@unl.edu, or visit the website at http://HPRanchPracticum.com for the Recipe Patch Page A47 complete agenda and other information.
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