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Tibbetts Agland was recognized as the top grower with more than 313 acres during the Top Ten Beet Growers meeting. Their Sugar percentage was 19.27 with 37.34 tons per acre and a 34.21 rating. Brothers Cody, Brock, and Todd Tibbetts grew up farming and ranching and six years ago they began growing sugar beets as Roundup Ready Beets made the crop much less management intensive. This made it possible to grow sugar beets in addition to growing feed crops and raising cattle. The family farm,...
On Thursday, January 21st, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation held a public scoping meeting at the Dawson County High School in Glendive, MT to gather public opinion and answer questions about the alternatives being studied as part of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Intake Diversion Dam fish passage project. The EIS is being developed to better determine how fish passage, especially that of the endangered pallid sturgeon, can be improved with continued...
The Sidney Sugars Top Ten luncheon was held on Wed., Jan. 20, 2016 at the Elks Lodge in Sidney. A year in review, Agriculture Manager Duane Peters congratulated beet growers on their very successful year and discussed some of the challenges growers overcame in different areas. It was dry in the North, requiring lots of irrigation and hailstorms came through the same area as much as three times. Late May frosts required a few areas to have to replant as did springtail parasites, and damaging...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, which was formerly held in January, has been moved to March 3rd and 4th in 2016. The two-day trade show will hold educational sessions at the Richland County Event Center featuring the latest and greatest information and developments for Agricultural producers such as GMOs, livestock, and horticulture. It will begin at 9:00am on March 3rd with the Sidney Sugar’s Growers Meeting taking place that afternoon; this is the first year that Ag Days and the Growers Mee...
The Wingate Hotel by Wyndham opened November 17, 2015 at 1500 South Central Ave in Sidney, offering a number of upscale amenities for those looking for a luxurious stay. After opening the Microtel, also by Wyndham, owners began to hear from the community that there was a need for an upscale hotel that would attract upper-economy based clientele such as business executives. This launched the first of three feasibility studies to determine whether or not an upscale property that offered extensive...
The Master Gardener Program will hold classes Feb. 6 and 20 and March 5 and 19 at the MSU Extension Office in Sidney. The Saturday classes will be from 8 a.m. until noon and will cover a variety of topics including soils, botany, vegetable gardening, perennial and annual flower gardening, and tree and lawn care and will cover some specific topics based on interests of the class such as canning and composting. The Master Gardener Program began in 1972 when an extension agent in Washington state...
Sidney City Attorney Joel Krautter announced Monday, January 11th, that he will be running for Montana House of Representatives District 35, which covers all of Richland County. Filing opens January 14th, at which time Krautter will make it official and will begin meeting with voters, attending candidate forums, and further learning what concerns area residents have, so those concerns may be addressed during the next legislative session. Krautter grew up in Deer Lodge, MT and graduated from...
The Boys and Girls Club of Richland County and Arbonne Consultants Marissa Eberling and Salina Hagwood are partnering for the “Healthy Snack Fundraiser Event” now through Jan. 31. Eberling and Hagwood will be donating their commissions off of specially priced Arbonne packages via their Party with a Purpose. A goal of $1500.00 has been set to buy healthy snacks for the children in the program. Arbonne was founded in Switzerland in 1975 as a skin care line based on botanical principals; Arb...
Tony Stroh was born on a farm in Dunn County in 1930 and moved to Gladstone, ND nine years later; when he was about thirteen years old, he and his family moved to Killdeer, ND, where he still lives. "I've always liked cattle. When I was a kid I was raised in town and I always wanted to raise cattle. I became involved in 4-H and showed Hereford cattle," said Stroh. "Herefords were popular back in those days and they have paid for more ranches than any other breed." When he was in high school, he...
The Gibbs Angus Ranch and Stortz Angus ranch will be marketing 125 bulls at the Glendive Livestock Exchange on February 24th at 1:00pm. Owners Tim and Laurie Gibbs began raising bulls in 1982 and owners Ted and Tarena Stortz started raising bulls in 1990; they have been selling bulls together for the last thirteen years and both families having been involved in the cattle industry for multiple generations. The quality of their cattle is contributed to good maternal selection with an emphasis on...
Leland Red Angus will be hosting their 33rd annual production sale on March 11 at the ranch located in SW McKenzie County, 35 miles SE of Sidney in the Squaw Gap Community. The ranch, whichg has raised registered Red Angus for 50 years, is operated by Melvin and Luella Leland and their son and daughter-in-law Todd and Carla Leland. Homesteaded in 1911 by Melvin Leland's father, Leland Red Angus breeds over 500 registered Red Angus females per year and will market 180 bulls and 65 yearling heifer...
JB Angus will be at the Stockman Livestock West sale in Dickinson, ND at 1:00pm mountain time Saturday, March 5. Owners Jonathan Ficek and Bobby Kubas will be selling approximately 65 bulls with about 60 replacement heifers for sale through private treaty. Both Ficek's and Kubas' families have been ranching in the area for generations, and each of them have independent family operated ranches, but in 2013 the two men bought a herd of cattle from Tuhy Angus and established JB Angus. Their main...
The Early Morning Red Angus Ranch, located twelve miles south of Tioga, ND, will be marketing forty yearling Red Angus bulls and fifty yearling Red Angus heifers at Sitting Bull in Williston, ND, Friday April 29th at 1:00 pm central time. Owner and operator Carl Frisinger bought the ranch in 1965. Having grown up in a ranching family, Frisinger grew up raising Herefords. However, when they became hard to sell, he bought six Red Angus Cows from the Leland Drought Reduction Sale and started...
Stroh Herefords and Stroh Hereford Ranch will be holding their 26th annual production sale on Thursday, February 4th at 1:00pm mountain time at the ranch, located 1.5 miles east of the Killdeer Roundabout on Highway 200 and 5 miles west of Dunn Center, ND. Tony Stroh established Stroh Herefords in 1950 and owns it with his wife Leona. Stroh Hereford Ranch is owned by their youngest son Mike and his wife Dawn along with their sons Lucas and Matthew Stroh. Fifty-four Coming two-year-old bulls and...
Regency Acres, located eight miles southeast of Lambert, MT, will be marketing approximately 90 bulls and 40 heifers at the Sidney Livestock Sale, Friday April 1st beginning at 1:00pm. Regency Acres is owned and operated by Russ and Jill Thiessen along with their daughter Téa and son Tyler. Thiessen's family has been in the cattle business since moving to the area in the 1890s; Russ Thiessen's grandfather established the registered herd in 1957. Formerly the Thiessen Angus Ranch, it was changed...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, which was formerly held in January, has been moved to March 3rd and 4th in 2016. The two-day trade show will hold educational sessions at the Richland County Event Center featuring the latest and greatest information and developments for Agricultural producers such as GMOs, livestock, and horticulture. It will begin at 9:00am on March 3rd with the Sidney Sugar's Growers Meeting taking place that afternoon; this is the first year that Ag Days and the Growers...
Red Ribbon Week was October 23-30 across the nation, and the Richland County Comes Together Committee and Checkers worked in partnership with City Council, the DUI Taskforce, District II Drug and Alcohol, RSVP and the Richland County Health Department, the Foundation for Community Care, law enforcement, city officials, and local businesses to voice a clear message about the dangers of drug use. When Checkers' owner Janette McCollum's learned that findings from a 2015 Quest Diagnostics study...
With oil production slowing down in 2015, many are wondering what's next for Richland County and how the downturn is going to effect a community that has seen so many changes over the last few years. As part of Richland Economic Development's annual report, Leslie Messer, Executive Director, interviewed nine area businesses about how the downturn had affected them. "We try to keep a pulse on how the businesses in our area are coping," said Messer. With much of the country being in recession when...
The Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project had its plans for the modifications to the weir diversion project put on hold pending more research on the pallid sturgeon, an endangered species which inhabits the Yellowstone River. The purpose of the project was to comply with the Endangered Species Act and address the declining number of pallid sturgeon. After 15 years and millions of dollars spent to study the fish as well as the river, the best course of action seemed to be modifying the rock...
On June 7, 2015 Shopko Hometown opened at its second location at 500 North Central Ave in Sidney, the only community to have two Hometown stores. Shopko Hometown carries a range of merchandise such as Nike and Adidas brand shoes, housewares, men's, women's, and children's apparel, dry and canned goods, pet supplies, toys, electronics, and so much more of 'The stuff that counts.' Be sure to stop in and get a Shopko cash rewards card and get special offers and coupons; card members can earn a $10...
There are two housing developments that began building in 2015, Sunset Village and Sage Court. The plans for Sunset Village began about seven years ago as the housing board recognized the need to renovate or replace the existing Sunset apartments. HUD required a plan for replacement housing before they would approve the demolition of the Sunset apartments. Mountain Plains Equity Group of Billings worked with the local housing board to complete the tax credit application and home grant that is...
During the warmer months of 2015, the City spent considerable time and energy upgrading Watertower, Quillings, and Lalonde parks. Watertower Park received new bleachers, dugout benches, and a new fence, as the old fence was a maintenance issue for the City. The new fence was pushed back sixteen feet allowing more room for mowing, adequate space for growing trees, and an eventual ADA compliant sidewalk. City Park Superintendent, Stephanie Ridl, received a Richland County Recreation Grant which co...
Tami Christensen was voted president of the Montana Equipment Dealers Association (MEDA) on October 8, 2015, being the first female president in the 107 year history of the organization. "I'm honored to be the first woman president," Christensen commented. MEDA is a group of equipment dealers from around the state that work to foster good relations between manufacturers, dealers, and consumers. The organization stays current on Ag related issues and is an active trade group on regulatory and...
By March of 2013 we were well aware that our lives were going to change forever; I was pregnant with our third child and busy thinking about the tiny life that would have such a big impact on our family. My thoughts were of baby names and little clothes the day I walked into Sidney Health Center and found out we would be having a boy. That was also the day I learned that my son had spina bifida and would later learn he had, and still has, OEIS Complex. "Don't go online and research it (OEIS...
St. Joseph’s Church, 106 6th St. West in Williston, will be holding a traditional twelve course Polish Christmas dinner on December 6th at 5:30pm central time. St. Joseph’s Youth Group will use the proceeds to attend World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland in July of 2016. In addition to the fifteen high school students that are going, there will also be twelve adults including two youth leaders and Father Kovash. St. John Paul II established World Youth Day in 1984 as an opportunity for Catholic You...
