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North Dakota anglers are encouraged to refer to the 2012-14 North Dakota Fishing Guide or the State Game and Fish Department’s website for winter fishing regulations. In addition, anglers can access the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov, for an extensive list of fishing questions and answers, and a winter fishing preview from North Dakota Outdoors magazine. Some winter fishing regulations include: A maximum of four poles is legal for ice fishing. However, when fishing a water body where both open water and ice occur at the same time, an angler i...
The Sidney Middle School Student Council organized and ran a garage sale/bake sale on November 21 to help aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The sale was a huge success with the students raising $1,073.50 to send to the Red Cross! Sidney Middle School teacher Cindy Wagner said, “It surpassed our expectations and was lots of fun!!...
Diabetes affects nearly 26 million Americans and an estimated 79 million adults are at risk for developing the disease. In Montana, diabetes affects more than 62,000 adults. It is estimated that 270,000 adult Montanans have pre-diabetes, which is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or onset delayed by lifestyle changes. The Montana Diabetes Project and National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) are Changing the Way Diabetes is Treated by working together to help people better understand how to make the necessary...
The Sidney High School Activities Office is proud to announce that the following SHS Eagle athletes have been selected for Academic All-State recognition at the conclusion of the 2012-2013 Fall Sports seasons. To qualify for this honor, the student must have lettered in the activity, and sustained a minimum grade point average of 3.5. Sidney High School athletes collecting this honor are: Seniors Abby Balcer, volleyball; Ashley Bjork, volleyball; Jalyssa Gorder, volleyball/cheerleader; Abby Haraldson, volleyball; Colton Moran, football; Jason...
Today three Farm Credit organizations announced more than a quarter of a million dollars in grants for projects that support Western North Dakota communities. St. Paul based AgriBank joined Farm Credit Services of Mandan and Farm Credit Services of North Dakota in announcing the first ever awards made under the Rural Community Grant Fund. The organizations started the fund to support infrastructure and development projects that benefit communities in Western North Dakota. Eleven grants totaling $266,984 were awarded to worthy community...
One of my “claims to fame” in life is that I once saw Mother Teresa in person. I had recently graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and read on a church bulletin board that Mother Teresa was to be the featured speaker that very afternoon at a pro-life convention being held in downtown St. Louis. I jumped in my car and drove to the convention site. I arrived late, so I didn’t hear Mother Teresa’s entire speech. However, when I saw and heard her, I was startled by two things. First, Mother Teresa was an extremely small woman. She was ve...
The Sidney High School Speech and Drama Team headed to Hardin in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Competing against 12 schools, including all of the Class A Schools from the Eastern A Division, the Speech Team finished 3rd in Speech Sweeps and The Drama Team finished 4th in Sweeps. Senior Kalen Hance brought home the 1st place win in Extemp(Speech) proving that he is a force to be reckoned with. This was Kalen’s third meet of the season and his third time finishing in 1st place. The team is h...
For FY 12/13 Missouri River Country budgeted $7,000 in Cooperative Marketing, which is designed to allow Missouri River Country to promote an area or event on a cooperative basis with a nonprofit tourism-related organization. The intent of this program is to encourage the development of new or expanded marketing projects outside the local community, thereby increasing the tourism travel to the region and extending the traveler’s stay in Missouri River Country. The cooperative marketing funds are a 50/50 split between Missouri River Country a...
North Dakota ice anglers are reminded that regulations designed to reduce the spread of aquatic nuisance species also apply in winter. It’s important to reiterate that only legal live bait can be transported in water in a container up to five gallons. Both game and nongame species cannot be transported in water, although a daily catch can be packed in snow. Other simple methods to prevent winter ANS introductions are: Do not use illegally imported baits. Do not empty a bait bucket into any water body. Do not drop plant fragments into the w...
All the things in nature have more than one use, whether it’s for food, products, or even for decoration. Patti Iversen has been donating to the Parade of Trees Auction for 4 or 5 years now, and she always uses natural elements. “It’s my own version of recycling,” she stated. She started using all-natural elements when she saw some of the store windows using them for decorations. She thought it was a great idea so she started doing that also. She spends half her summer looking for the element...
The MonDak Stockgrower’s Association held their meeting Monday, November 19th. They discussed many issues in the industry and had two main guest speakers, Dr. Jude Capper and Julie Ellingson. Following dinner, Errol Rice, Executive Vice President of the Montana Stockgrowers Association spoke briefly on the advancements in the organization. He also spoke about the new book, Big Sky Boots, the first in the five-part Montana Family Ranching Series: a photographic story-telling project of the M...
The annual MonDak Ag Days are coming up next month, January 10-12 at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Ag Days will be offering educational sessions, trade show displays, and Ag in the Classroom, with something to interest everyone. Starting out on Thursday, there will be a family program from 8:30am until noon providing different gardening topics. From 12:45 until 1:45 pm, a representative from Seitz insurance will be speaking about insurance for the farm. Thursday evening beginning at 5pm...
The 60th National Hard Spring Wheat Show scheduled to be held in Williston, February 4, 5, 6 will feature several exciting topics and well known experts. One of the featured speakers will be Jolene Brown. Ms. Brown is a farmer, author and an award winning communicator from West Branch, Iowa who has made numerous appearances on television and radio broadcasts. Her work has been featured in several major agricultural publications. As a founder of the Business-First Family Institute, she knows the...
A Crop and Pest Management School on small grain crops will be held from Jan. 2 to 4 at the Burns Technology Center at Montana State University. Enrollment is limited so those who wish to attend are asked to register now. Guest speaker for the 2 ½-day workshop will be Tim Murray, professor and chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University. Murray, who will speak about cereal diseases, has 20 years of experience researching small cereal grain pathology and an extensive publication record. Also speaking will be...
Ken Overcast, singing and writing Montana cowboy, is slated to be the entertainer at this year’s MonDak Ag Days. He will be performing the evening of January 10th, 2013. When talking with Overcast about his upcoming performance he stated, “We try to have a variety. We try to keep things rolling. I’ll tell stories, play music, a lot of music, and read some poetry. It doesn’t matter what you do, if it’s the same the whole time people are going to start yawning and fall asleep.” Overcast me...
The Williston State College is accepting steer donations through December 10th from area livestock producers for their 3rd Annual Carcass Challenge. Donated steers will be used to raise funds for establishing and maintaining an Ag Ambassador program to help recruit and maintain enrollment for the WSC agriculture program and advocate for agriculture. By donating a steer at weaning time and you’ll be providing educational opportunities for students which include: * Brand inspection process * Brand...
As the December 31 deadline for tax reform looms, the Montana Farm Bureau is expressing urgency in solving the estate tax issue. The current rate, 35 percent with a $5 million exemption, will revert to 55 percent and a $1 million exemption at midnight on Dec. 31, which will strike a real blow to farm and ranch families. “It is imperative we get this tax issue resolved immediately in Congress,” says MFBF Executive Vice President Jake Cummins. “Ideally, there would be no inheritance tax at all, since that property has already been taxed. Howev...
“The People’s Celebration” for the 150th Birthday of the USDA was held the evening of Thursday, Nov. 8th. The celebration included informational booths, speakers, a dinner, and an award presentation. The evening started off with Sidney’s 5th Grade students exploring the booths and getting a brief presentation at each one. Booths covered numerous topics including: invasive species, national grasslands, grain products, healthy food choices, and information about Abe Lincoln from his “cousin...
This past growing season came with several issues for growers from getting the crop planted in dry conditions, to quality issues, to recurring dry conditions. Crop rotation and diversity are considerations producers must think about while managing their farm operation. One of the biggest question marks in irrigation is how to achieve consistency in crop management and yields along with maintaining quality. To address some of these questions, an irrigation workshop has been developed emphasizing research taking place in the region and specific m...
A former Montana State University student has discovered the rarest ladybug in the United States, according to MSU entomologist Michael Ivie. Described in the journal “Systemic Entomology,” the new ladybug was crawling across a sand dune in southwest Montana when it dropped into a trap set by entomology grad student Ross Winton. The ladybug was so small that Winton said he originally thought he had found the body part of an ant. Then he thought the insect was missing its head. He wasn’t even...
A microscopic mite and the disease it carries, wheat streak mosaic, are destroying wheat fields throughout the western Great Plains. Now Montana State University faculty and students are fighting back through a new collaboration that involves the Agricultural Research Service and six universities in Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant to be shared by the seven institutions, starting in January 2013. MSU’s portion is $800,000, b...
Vernon Boline is no stranger to hard work and manual labor. His family homesteaded the land he grew up on in Oliver Township over a century ago and he never left. While Vernon worked for neighbors on their farms, his brother farmed the family land until he had a stroke and could no longer work. Vernon then stepped up to the plate, took care of his brother and ran the farm. At the time, they had 40 to 50 head of cattle, grew wheat, barley and some oats. There’s more to the story though. n 1...
Doris Galleske 1st Place cookies Apricot Pinwheel Cookies ½ cup butter, softened ¾ cup sugar, divided ½ cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour ¼ tsp. baking soda 1/8 tsp. salt 1 ½ cups finely chopped dried apricots or dates 2/3 cup water 1 Tbsp. hazelnut liqueur, optional 1 cup finely chopped pecans, optional 1. In a large bowl, cream the butter, ½ cup sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into cream...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has designated Burke and Divide counties in northwest North Dakota as primary natural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by the recent drought. The complete list of primary natural disaster areas includes Barnes, Benson, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Cass, Dickey, Divide, Eddy, Foster, Golden Valley, Grand Forks, Griggs, Logan, Lamoure, McIntosh, Nelson, Ramsey, Ransom, Sargent, Slope, Stark, Steele, Stutsman, and Traill. In addition, farmers and ranchers in Mountrail, Renville, Ward and Williams...
