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Every summer, area extension offices along with the Williston Research Extension Center and the Eastern Agricultural Research Center host field days so agricultural interests can learn what researchers and others have learned about crop varieties and crop management techniques. Growers can observe for themselves which crop varieties perform best under local environmental conditions and how well these same varieties perform under experimental conditions. The tours also provide disease management...
There are lots to learn this coming week at two ag research Field Day events planned in Froid and Sidney June 28th and 29th. The back-to-back events include discussions on crop weed herbicide resistance; spring- and fall-seeded cover crops; new oilseed variety studies, wheat stem sawfly management and yield loss, Russian olive removal and revegetation, and more, including a plastic pesticide container recycling opportunity for tour participants. Free meals and pesticide points are also provided. Agronomist Jeff Stachler, a weed science...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has settled its administrative enforcement action against Armstrong Operating, Inc. for violations of the Clean Air Act of Montana. Armstrong is the owner of the Peterson 2-13 well in Roosevelt County, Montana, and the BR 29-1 and Butka 17-1 wells in Richland County, Montana. Owners or operators of an oil and gas well facility with the potential to emit 25 tons per year or greater of a regulated air pollutant must apply for a Montana Air Quality Permit or register the facility within 60...
Recycling was the theme at this year’s Tri County Sewing Camp. Thirteen area sewing students and fifteen adults from surrounding counties gathered on Thursday at the Roosevelt County Complex to create unique sewing items. “The recycled items are nice and inexpensive products to learn on. There isn’t a lot of cost involved, and they can give them as gifts or keep them for themselves,” Leslie McMillen, Richland County 4-H sewing leader, said. Students created recycled animal food hand bags. T...
Producers interested in recycling their plastic pesticide containers will have an opportunity to do so at two back-to-back field days set for June 28th and 29th at Froid and Sidney. A specially equipped, pesticide container recycling truck from the Montana Department of Agriculture will be on hand at both events to recycle cleaned containers from tour participants. On hand to demonstrate the portable unit will be Recycling Technician Ron Ahlgren from the Montana Department of Agriculture. As...
The Northern Plains Agricultural Research Service is helping host two dryland field days highlighting research being conducted at farmsites near Froid and Sidney on Thursday and Friday, June 28th and 29th.This year’s lineup for the two tours includes several shared speakers, demonstration studies and other festivities, so if you have to miss one event, you can still catch much of the information at the other. Field Day Talks: Headlining both events is North Dakota State University Professor Jeff Stachler, who will discuss herbicide r...
North Dakota county fair season is about to get its jump start. For some reason several counties in the northwest are usually the first to have their fairs. Williams County is one of those. The fair in Williams County is actually known as the Upper Missouri Valley Fair (UMVF). I can only assume that its early founders speculated the UMV Fair could involve people beyond the boundaries of Williams County. To some extent, that has become a reality as several of the events involve youth from many...
Two award-winning programs in Medora a few summers ago are returning for encore performances this summer: Footsteps into Medora’s Past and Recollections of Murder and Mayhem in Medora. The Footsteps into Medora’s Past program features a walking tour of old Medora, now available in MP3 format. It is a collaborative effort between the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Dickinson State University, the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation, and the Billings County Historical Society and Museum. Pre-loaded MP3 players can be borrowed at the...
There will be a scheduled AARP Safe-Driving Class held at the Roosevelt Complex Building Meeting Room at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9 for four hours. With limited instructors in the area and trying to get those participants that need to get the course taken for insurance on vehicle discounts, a meeting has been set in Culbertson. You need to pre-register by May 7. To register you need to send a copy of your driver’s license and AARP membership card, if you are a member, and a check payable to AARP for $12 for members of AARP or $14 for n...
Sagebrush Cellular d.b.a. Nemont, a leading telecommunications carrier in Northeastern Montana, Western North Dakota and South Central Montana, has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Verizon Wireless to participate in the LTE in Rural America program. Under the LTE in Rural America program, Verizon Wireless is working with rural carriers to jumpstart the delivery of fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) services to rural communities throughout the United States. Mike Kilgore, Nemont chief executive officer, the...
There will be a scheduled AARP Safe-Driving Class held at the Roosevelt Complex Building Meeting Room at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9 for four hours. With limited instructors in the area and trying to get those participants that need to get the course taken for insurance on vehicle discounts, a meeting has been set in Culbertson. You need to pre-register by May 7. To register you need to send a copy of your driver’s license and AARP membership card, if you are a member, and a check payable to AARP for $12 for members of AARP or $14 for n...
Sagebrush Cellular d.b.a. Nemont, a leading telecommunications carrier in Northeastern Montana, Western North Dakota and South Central Montana, has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Verizon Wireless to participate in the LTE in Rural America program. Under the LTE in Rural America program, Verizon Wireless is working with rural carriers to jumpstart the delivery of fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) services to rural communities throughout the United States. Mike Kilgore, Nemont chief executive officer, the...
The pace of ringing telephones has quickened in recent days at the Roosevelt County Agricultural Extension Services Agency, Culbertson, as more people are getting anxious about getting in the garden. The unseasonably mild winter has many locals ready to get out and get planting. “Everyone seems to be getting the itch to plant but at this time it is still a gamble. There is still time for Mother Nature to throw us a curve and then all of that effort would have been for nothing,” said Ann Ron...
Areas receiving large increases in population because of the oil boom that has hit Northeast Montana and Western North Dakota aren’t the only people adapting to the times. As new types of housing come into the area the Montana Department of Environmental Quality is experiencing growing pains of their own as they scramble to define how these subdivisions are to be regulated and how to fit them into their statutes. In the last 20 years, there have been less than 30 new lots created in Northeast Mo...
The body of a man found near Bainville has been identified and one man is in custody. Charles Bowman Bowen, 46, Florida, has been arrested and charged with negligent homicide for the death of Brian Doyle, 49, also of Florida. Doyle’s death was discovered after a call was placed on Jan. 20, to the Roosevelt County Dispatch Center reporting that a male body had been discovered in a ditch off U.S. Highway 2. Area law enforcement spent several days processing the scene and transported the body to t...
Montana State University Extension and North Dakota State University are collaborating to present MonDak Pulse Day on Feb. 15 at the Elks Club, Wolf Point. More than 12 years ago, Extension personnel in both Montana and North Dakota saw a need to address agronomic questions related to the rising amount of pulse production (peas, chickpeas and lentils) being done in Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. Today this area, known as the MonDak area, produces 88% of the peas, 86% of lentils and 18% of chickpeas grown in the United States. The...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will be holding three public meetings in eastern Montana to discuss permitting requirements and procedures for subdivisions and public water supplies in response to increasing demand for housing in areas of oil and gas development. Department staff will be discussing the Sanitation in Subdivisions Act, creating new lots, recreational vehicle camps, trailer courts, and the submittal and review process. Montana Public Water Supply Laws will also be discussed including how public water supply...
The Roundup has selected the Richland County Conservation District as one of this year’s Top Ten recipients because of the years of service the district has given to landowners within Richland County. The district has served landowners for the past seven decades, and the dedicated people who serve on the board and who administer the programs can take credit for the success of the district as it matured and changed through the years. These people care deeply about conservation, natural r...
The oil industry activity in the MonDak region increased in 2011 more than anyone ever imagined. The recent activity being called a boom had everyone skeptical, but the refinement of horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, has made this boom possible. During the current boom the workers have come ahead of the infrastructure and the region is scrambling to accommodate but sometimes with hesitancy. Many remember the region’s last boom 30 years ago. When crude p...
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The Missouri River Conservation District Council (MRCDC), comprised of the 15 conservation districts in the Missouri River Corridor held their quarterly meeting in Culbertson on Sept 26. The MRCDC provides leadership, assistance and guidance to conservation districts along the Missouri River Corridor, their goal is to share perspectives, solve problems and exchange information on Missouri River resource management. In this light the Lower Missouri Coordinated Resource Management (LoMo CRM), the...
Governor Brian Schweitzer has said that the Montana Department of Natural Resource and Conservation’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale held this week produced $7.9 million for K-12 education in Montana, the fourth-highest income from a sale since the 1970s. A total of 483 tracts of school trust land totaling 201,000 acres were leased in 20 Montana counties. Judith Basin had the largest number of tracts leased with 253, followed by Chouteau and Cascade counties with 43 tracts each. In Roosevelt County, just two tracts were leased, but for a t...
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...
The Montana State University Pesticide Education and Integrated Pest Management Programs will offer a 2011 Pest Management Tour for private, commercial, and government applicators in eastern Montana. The tour will cover a ten-county area over a five-day time period, Oct. 3-7. The information provided will include a variety of topics, and participants who attend the full day will receive six credits towards certification. “The 2011 Pest Management Tour will cover many subject areas of local i...
The Richland County, McKenzie County and Williams County Extension offices will once again offer the Bovine Connection, scheduled this year for Dec. 1-2 at the Extension office in Sidney. “We have the dates set, but we do not have the agenda finalized yet,” says Richland County Extension Agent Tim Fine. “This two-day event held every second year for beef cattle producers and associated Ag businesses alternates every second year between Sidney, Williston and Watford City. This year it’s Sidney...
