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The Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project (LYIP) Board of Control has hired James W. Brower, Milton-Freewater, OR, to take over the responsibilities of manager at the LYIP. Brower, who officially begins his duties as manager of the irrigation project on Feb. 17, replaces Jerry Nypen, who will retire from the manager position effective Feb. 16. Brower will unofficially begin work this week on Feb. 8 however as he wants to familiarize himself with all aspects of the Project prior to Nypen’s departu...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will host a new event this year, the Bakken Brew Fest, scheduled for Saturday, March 10 at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Activities include sampling a variety of specialty brews, and this year one of the featured beers will be Bakken Bock, a unique microbrew dark lager beer produced by Bayern Brewery, Missoula, and developed specifically with the MonDak region and its Bakken oil resources in mind. The idea for a specialty brew...
This year’s 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show will once again offer an outstanding informative event that will provide important, timely information to area Ag producers. This year’s educational portion of the show, scheduled for Feb. 7-8 at the Williston Airport International Inn, will offer attendees information and updates on a wide variety of topics, including market information, precision farming, soil health and ecology, cropping practices, and best management practices. Peo...
The MonDak Area Stockgrowers Association, in cooperation with the Yellowstone Livestock Company, 720 10th Ave. SE, Sidney, will host a fundraising event for the All American Beef Battalion, an organization dedicated to supporting our troops fighting the global war on terror. The fundraiser, scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at the Yellowstone Livestock, will consist of auctioning off a calf to the highest bidder, then auctioning off that calf again and again and again for as many times as...
The 59th Annual Hard Spring Wheat Show Committee has scheduled two speakers to discuss commodity market issues. Mike Krueger, The Money Farm founder and president, along with Jim Peterson, North Dakota Wheat Commission marketing director, will discuss key issues in the global market during this year’s Wheat Show proceedings. Both men will speak on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 7 at the Williston Airport International Inn. Peterson will begin the market discussions at 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. He w...
This year’s 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show will once again offer an outstanding informative event that will provide important, timely information to area Ag producers. This year’s educational portion of the show, scheduled for Feb. 7-8 at the Williston Airport International Inn, will offer attendees information and updates on a wide variety of topics, including market information, precision farming, soil health and ecology, cropping practices, and best management practices. Peo...
The 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show committee has identified soil health and quality as one of the essential issues farmers and ranchers will have to deal with in the coming years. To address soil quality, the committee has invited James Hoorman, Ohio State University assistant professor and Extension educator, as one of three keynote speakers. Hoorman will present three separate talks during the Wheat Show, scheduled for Feb. 6-8 at the Airport International Inn, Williston. Hoorman...
The MonDak region has experienced excessive moisture the past few years, and in some cases this has led to salinity problems in farm fields. Water flows from high spots and pools in lower areas, leaving behind a salty residue and often a very high water table level. To address these subsurface drainage issues, the 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show Committee has asked Tom Scherer, NDSU Extension ag engineer, to discuss the use of perforated pipe to control salinity and the water table i...
The Wheat Show committee has invited Dr. Danny Klinefelter, Texas A&M University and Texas AgriLife Extension economist, to serve as one of three keynote speakers for this year’s 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show, scheduled for Feb. 6-8 at the Airport International Inn, Williston. Klinefelter will deliver two presentations on Tuesday, Feb. 7 beginning at 9 a.m. and through these discussions will present new ideas, stimulate thought and provide attendees with useful information to t...
Sidney Sugars Incorporated held its annual Top Ten Grower award luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to honor those growers who brought in an outstanding crop. Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugars agriculture manager, congratulated the top ten growers and pointed out that they, along with the rest of the Valley, faced a lot of challenges this year. “Last year, we came off a bad winter to start the growing season,” Fullmer noted at the luncheon. “We had a huge amount of snow, then spring came and it rained and...
6J Farms, Terry and Vicky Cayko, along with essential help from Toby Miller and Cayko families Jacquelyn and Chris Free and Jessica Cayko and her two boys, East Fairview, have earned top spot this year in the 246+ acre category of Sidney Sugars Incorporated’s annual top ten recognition awards. Cayko, who has farmed all his life, has been in the Top Ten six times, and has earned top spot twice. Cayko admits the year looked dismal at the start, but as the season progressed, his crop responded t...
The Tveit Land and Cattle Company, Culbertson and Fairview, has earned top honors this year in the Sidney Sugars Incorporated annual Top Ten growers list. Brothers Larry and Nolan Tveit brought in an outstanding sugarbeet crop this year which earned them the number 1 ranking in the 50-246 acre category. The Tveits, farming together since they both graduated from high school, have an irrigated farm in Culbertson and a dryland farm between Sidney and Culbertson. With the exception of a two-year hi...
After serving the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project (LYIP) for 17 years, Manager Jerry Nypen will retire effective Feb. 17 to pursue other interests. “I’ve been at this type of work for nearly 40 years, and I decided it was time to try other things,” Nypen remarks. “When you work for wages, there’s no reason to do the same thing your entire life.” Nypen began his duties with LYIP in January 1995, bringing with him 21 years of prior experience gained from different irrigation districts. “I man...
We all remember West Nile, a virus passed to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes. Because this disease was new to the human population, we did not have antibodies for it. Some people caught the virus and never knew it as their bodies could handle it; others became mildly ill, and a few people who caught the virus became quite sick. A handful of people died from this disease. Well, it is now the turn of our canine companions to go through the same process. Canine influenza is spreading...
Boys never grow up; their toys just get bigger and more expensive. Or so says Dave Vanek, Billings, who delights in acquiring old tractors and then restoring these antiques to working condition. Vanek recently sold one of his three restored ‘toys’, a 1912 Case Steam Traction Engine, to Jerry Satra, Crane. “I bought this Case Steam Traction Engine (tractor) in 1987 from a family estate sale near Medicine Hat, Alberta,” Vanek remarks of the tractor now in Crane. “I restored it in 1989 and took...
This year’s 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show will once again offer an outstanding informative event that will provide important, timely information to area Ag producers. This year’s educational portion of the show, scheduled for Feb. 7-8 at the Williston Airport International Inn, will offer attendees information and updates on a wide variety of topics, including market information, precision farming, soil health and ecology, cropping practices, and best management practices. Peo...
Sidney Sugars Incorporated held its annual Top Ten Grower award luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to honor those growers who brought in an outstanding crop. Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugars agriculture manager, congratulated the top ten growers and pointed out that they, along with the rest of the Valley, faced a lot of challenges this year. “Last year, we came off a bad winter to start the growing season,” Fullmer noted at the luncheon. “We had a huge amount of snow, then spring came and it rained and...
The Tveit Land and Cattle Company, Culbertson and Fairview, has earned top honors this year in the Sidney Sugars Incorporated annual Top Ten growers list. Brothers Larry and Nolan Tveit brought in an outstanding sugarbeet crop this year which earned them the number 1 ranking in the 50-246 acre category. The Tveits, farming together since they both graduated from high school, have an irrigated farm in Culbertson and a dryland farm between Sidney and Culbertson. With the exception of a two-year hi...
6J Farms, Terry and Vicky Cayko, with essential help from Toby Miller and Cayko families Jacquelyn and Chris Free and Jessica Cayko and her two boys, East Fairview, earned top spot this year in the 246+ acre category of Sidney Sugars Incorporated’s annual top ten recognition awards. Cayko, who has farmed all his life, has been in the Top Ten six times, and has earned top spot twice. Cayko admits the year looked dismal at the start, but as the season progressed, his crop responded to sun and m...
The MonDak Area Stockgrowers Association, in cooperation with the Yellowstone Livestock Company, 720 10th Ave. SE, Sidney, will host a fundraising event for the All American Beef Battalion, an organization dedicated to supporting our troops fighting the global war on terror. The fundraiser, scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at the Yellowstone Livestock, will consist of auctioning off a calf to the highest bidder, then auctioning off that calf again and again and again for as many times as...
With the return of January, every publication in creation tackles the subject of New Year’s resolutions. When the new year dawns bright and fresh, writers, figuring this is a good way to fill blank pages, devote a lot of space discussing how and why to make resolutions, how to keep them, tricks and hints on how to follow through on those well-meaning resolves, and a host of other spin-offs on the subject of resolutions of all sorts. Personally, I shake my head at all this hoopla, and I g...
January generally ushers in the coldest month of the year. Daytime highs plummet to subzero temperatures for weeks at a time, winds howl, people only venture outdoors for short periods and only when bundled up in heavy coats, mittens, and warm boots, and those with wood stoves keep the fires stoked and blazing hot all day long to chase the gloom and cold. Animals hunker down as well, as domestic animals stay in their coops or shelters and the wild animals burrow deep into their dens or dense...
Remember when we had strength in our fingers and wrists? Peanut butter jar lids opened easily, bottle caps twisted off with a flick of the wrist, and we figured we could conquer any lid or bottle cap that passed our way. Not so, my friends. I spend more time now trying to open some jar lids than I do vacuuming the floor. Lids can present formidable problems, refusing to budge a millimeter regardless of how many little tricks I try or handy gadgets that I use on them. Sometimes this unmoving lid...
The tavern has always been an important social aspect of American life. Knowing that my great great grandfather operated a tavern/rest stop for travelers over a century ago, the history and information concerning these watering holes has always interested me. Therefore, when I saw the book, America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies, and Grog Shops, written by Christine Sismondo, I couldn’t resist reading it. The book did not disappoint me. Sismondo p...
After serving 38 years as agronomist, plant breeder and director of the Montana State University’s Eastern Agricultural Research Center (EARC) in Sidney, Dr. Jerry Bergman has retired from the MSU university system effective Dec. 31, 2011. Bergman has accepted a permanent position with the Williston Research Extension Center (WREC) as director of the facility, a position he has held on a part time basis for the past 18 years. Bergman began his duties with WREC on Jan. 1, 2012 and will oversee d...
