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Montana’s mule deer populations are generally at or below long-term averages across the state, especially in the eastern half of the state where the winter was particularly severe. White-tailed deer numbers are generally better, with good numbers in many locations except for areas in central Montana where deer experienced an outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease late this summer. FWP surveys show mule deer experienced major population decreases in northeastern Montana in FWP Region 6, especially in hunting districts 611, 630, 652, and 6...
I begin my annual rebirth in August. As the last of my client’s training dogs goes home and the start of bird hunting season arrives, the process evolves. It always happens to me at some point while I’m doing my chores. I relax my muscles from the continuous tension they have felt over the last five months of training bird dogs. But more importantly my mind starts to clear. I also begin to think about where I am this year as compared to last. “OK”, I say to myself, “here I am once again. Have I done the things this year I promised myself I...
Watford City Volleyball & Football vs Stanley...
Richland County Health Department (RCHD) will hold a mass flu shot clinic at the Community Services Building on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Medicaid, Medicare & CHIPS can be billed for those who bring their cards. Everyone is encouraged to reduce their risk by getting a yearly flu vaccination which is the best way to prevent influenza and its severe complications. The Richland County Health Department will have plenty of vaccine available for ages six months old through adult (99+years) at the mass clinic. No appointment is...
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) recently announced the names of the Top 100 Critical Access (CAHs) in America and among the list was Sidney Health Center. “I received an email from the Montana Hospital Association congratulating us on the Top 100 designation,” commented Rick Haraldson, Sidney Health Center CEO. “I was thrilled to get the news and share the information with our staff. It is quite an honor when their commitment to providing exceptional care at all levels in the organization is recognized nationally!” The NRHA na...
Tristan Kohntopp watches as Jace Johnson prepares to make a pass. Sidney’s White Team defeated Williston’s Purple Team 12-0 on Sept. 24 in Sidney....
Savage Senior Bridger Rice tips the ball over the net against Brockton. Savage won the mach 3 to 0....
The Sidney Cross Country team competed in a meet in Colstrip Thursday, Sept, 22. Freshman, Lakayla Nentwig led all the Sidney runners, finishing 14th out of 59 Varsity runners with a time of 24 minutes and 02 seconds. Senior, Lizzy Gangstad finished second highest in 35th with a time of 26 minutes and 53 seconds. Full results: Place, Name, Time High School (59 Varsity runners) 14, Lakayla Nentwig, 24:02 35, Lizzy Gangstad, 26:53 36, Katie Staffanson, 26:54 40, Tori Hill, 27:01 44, Lyndsay Nesper, 28:50 57, Sam Gangstad, 31:31 (23 JV runners) 13...
Savage held its 2011 homecoming festivities last week. Go to the Photos Section for more Savage Homecoming pictures....
The Roundup is holding a photo contest to celebrate Harvest Festival 2011. Whether it's in the field or in the kitchen, women play an essential role in agriculture. Send in photos of your great grandmother homesteading or pictures from this year's harvest. We want to see them all! Top prize is two 2012 Richland County Fair packages including fair buttons, tickets to the rodeo and concert. Send your photos to PO Box 1207, Sidney, MT 59270 or drop them off at our office at 111 West Main. To be eligible the photos must be emailed or printed on...
If you farm or own land in these three states – California, Washington and Montana – the USDA Farm Service Agency has an important message that you’ll want to hear. They are encouraging the growth of camelina through FSA’s Biomass Crop Assistance Program. BCAP for short. Camelina is a seasonal grass that is highly sought-after for biofuel, especially by the air transportation industry and the military. Specific counties in California, Washington, and the entire state of Montana are eligible to participate in the program. The deal is this: t...
It turned out to be the year of the grasshopper in many areas of eastern Montana. Many regions did not notice these voracious pests early in the spring, but by summer’s end, hoppers had appeared in droves throughout eastern Montana. Dave Branson, USDA/ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab ecologist, Sidney, notes that grasshopper populations were particularly high in certain regions, with highest populations largely south and west of Richland County. “We saw areas in eastern Montana wit...
With the start of sugarbeet harvest, we all realize summer has truly come to an end. Area growers began the 2011 fall beet harvest last week, and Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugar Agriculture Manager, expects harvest will take between two to three weeks to complete, depending on weather. "The Eastern Ag Research Center harvested their plots in late September, and the neighbors harvested Nathan Langwald's beets on Sept. 28," says Fullmer. "Sugar Valley and Sidney started on Sept. 30 with some quotas...
This year’s early frost could make drying corn more difficult. The corn’s moisture content likely will vary greatly, according to Ken Hellevang, North Dakota State University Extension Service grain drying expert. “The first step is to determine the corn’s maturity and expected harvest condition,” he advises. For example, corn just in the dough stage contains about 70% moisture, moisture content is about 52% in corn at the 75% milk stage, 40% at the 50% milk stage, 37% at the 25 milk stage and...
Once again area rural folks demonstrated to the rest of us what it means to be good friends and good neighbors. A band of over ten Fairview area growers got together on Sept. 28 to harvest 120 acres of beets planted by Nathan Langwald. Langwald suffered an injury this summer and could not harvest his crops, so neighbors took it upon themselves to complete the harvest. “Nathan had an accident,” says Laurie Hurley, who along with Ross Buxbaum organized the beet dig. “Sidney Sugars opened the F...
In response to a request from the public, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has extended the public comment on Montana’s Water Quality Assessment Method until Oct. 7. The DEQ uses available data to assess water quality based on established standards and reports its findings on the status of water quality in Montana’s biennial Integrated Report. The method document describes how the Department will make assessment decisions about water quality (i.e. whether surface water quality standards are being met). A significant cha...
This year’s Bovine Connection, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, Dec. 1-2 in Sidney, promises to provide an interesting program, complete with a variety of pertinent information for cattlemen and agribusiness people. Although the agenda was not quite finalized by press time, Richland County Extension Agent Tim Fine points out that people will certainly benefit by attending this year’s event. “We will offer a diverse program that includes everything from genetics and nutrition to people manageme...
Bovine Connection organizers have invited Steve Dittmer, Agribusiness Freedom Foundation, to speak at the Thursday, Dec. 1 session of the Bovine Connection. Dittmer will discuss free marketing and the preservation of free market options. “We promote free market principles throughout the food chain,” Dittmer comments. “We aren’t just promoting cow calf production or packers, but rather the entire chain all the way through to the plate. The more free market options and the less government involve...
This past week I participated in two meetings scheduled to plan the educational programs for next year’s Wheat Show and Pulse Day. These meetings involved farm producers, agribusiness folks and county agents. Both groups are at the initial stages of identifying issues that have positive impact on farm profits and what producers want to learn more about. Both committees sited ‘soil health’ as a broad area for which there is opportunity to improve productivity of cropland acres. Researchers acros...
The Dry Redwater Regional Authority (DRWA) has asked the Richland County Commissioners to fund a portion of the DRWA rural water system. Without this funding, the project will go on hold for several years due to new government regulations and required paperwork. Brian Milne, Interstate Engineering president, Sidney, the consulting firm assisting DRWA in its efforts to provide water for rural residents, explains that if the county provides funding, the project can begin construction as early as...
Most of us have heard the ‘first in time, first in right’ slogan when someone refers to water rights and water usage in Montana. With the increasing demand for water for both business and domestic purposes, now may be a good time to review water rights and what it all means to rural folks who depend on well water. “The system of water rights goes way back,” says Denise Biggar, unit manager at the DNRC Glasgow unit office. “Montana is a Prior Appropriation state, as are most of the western s...
Heifers being prepared for breeding don’t have to eat like pigs, stuffing themselves at all-you-can-eat feed bunks with unlimited refills, according to scientists at a Montana State University experiment station. Researchers at the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, Miles City, conducted a two-year study that showed that heifers can safely eat 20% less during the seven months between weaning and breeding. They won’t suffer from reduced rations, and producers save $21 per ani...
Noxious weeds are often found growing along roads and trails and vehicles have long been suspected of picking up weed seeds and dispersing them to new locations. A new Montana State University Extension publication describes field studies conducted by the university’s weed ecology and management group that showed the extent to which vehicles pick up and disperse seeds. Three separate field studies quantified the number of seeds gained and lost by vehicles over varying distances. The first study determined how many seeds all-terrain vehicles p...
At the August meeting held in Forsyth, the Yellowstone River Conservation District Council issued a Position Statement for modernizing age old irrigation ditches. Chairman of the Resource Advisory Committee John Moorhouse said “Most irrigation ditches in Montana can lose up to 50% of the water they diverted from their source.” The YRCDC is chaired by Don Youngbauer, Forsyth, and is made up of the 11 Conservation Districts along the Yellowstone River. For over 10 years the YRCDC has been studying...
The Eastern Agricultural Research Center (EARC) has completed its move to the new facility. The staff moved on Wednesday, Sept. 21 following the arrival of furniture and the installation of telephone and computer services. Along with the Richland County Extension staff, which made the move to the new facility in June, the EARC staff now will conduct its work from the new building. “It’s nice to finally move in,” says Jerry Bergman, EARC director. “It’s a thrill to be here, to have computers and...
