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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced today that farmers should start receiving notices updating them on their current base acres, yields and 2009-2012 planting history. The written updates are an important part of preparing agricultural producers for the new safety net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill. “We’re sending these reports to make sure that farmers and ranchers have key information as they make critical decisions about programs that impact their liv...
Over the past 10 years the “E-rase your E-waste” program has collected more than 164 TONS of outdated electronics for recycling, preserving space in the local landfill as well as protecting the environment and human health through the proper disposal of hazardous materials contained in those electronics. Organizers are hoping to push that total over 175 tons during their upcoming fall weekend collection event set for Friday and Saturday Sept. 5-6, in Sidney. “We’d love to celebrate our 10th year by topping the 175-ton mark,” E-rase your E-waste...
Montana State University closed out another strong year of research successes with significant work in energy, agriculture, health and biomedicine, and the environment leading the way. The university's overall research enterprise did $109.6 million in work for the fiscal year ending June 30. That includes $90.5 million in competitively won federal funds, as well as $1.6 million in gift funds for research. It also includes $15 million in state and $2.6 million in federal funding both largely for...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced today that farmers should start receiving notices updating them on their current base acres, yields and 2009-2012 planting history. The written updates are an important part of preparing agricultural producers for the new safety net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill. “We’re sending these reports to make sure that farmers and ranchers have key information as they make critical decisions about programs that impact their liv...
R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization; we’re your organization! USDA Approves Checkoff Advertisements Featuring “North American Beef” Last February R-CALF USA submitted a complaint to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack alleging unlawful use of U.S. beef checkoff program dollars in advertisements that improperly encouraged consumption of “North American Beef.” In response, U...
U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) North Dakota Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Aaron Krauter announced today that a public meeting will be held on August 6th at the Courtyard by Marriot in Moorhead, Minnesota to solicit comments on a recently completed draft analysis that examines the potential environmental impacts of changes to the Conversation Reserve Program (CRP) enacted by the 2014 Farm Bill. CRP encourages farmers and ranchers to establish long-term vegetative species, such as grasses or trees, on environmentally...
U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan Garcia reminds farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers that Aug. 1, 2014, is the deadline for local FSA county committee nominations. County committees are an important link between the farm community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers and ranchers elected to local committees share their opinions and ideas on federal farm programs. “There’s still time for eligible farmers and ranchers to get involved in this year’s county committee elect...
MSU – EARC will be presenting an interesting program with many knowledgeable speakers on Thursday, July 24th from 8:30 am until approximately 12:30 pm. Among the speakers will be three talented people from MSU-Bozeman; Dr. Talbert, on spring wheat breeding, Dr. Burrows on diseases in wheat, barley and pea (pulse crops) and Roshan Acharya on spring stay-green characteristic study. From USDA-ARS, Dr. Stevens will present on phosphorus study in sugar beet and crop rotation and Dr. TheCan Ceasar on...
MSU – EARC will be presenting an interesting program with many knowledgeable speakers on Thursday, July 24th from 8:30 am until approximately 12:30 pm. Among the speakers will be three talented people from MSU-Bozeman; Dr. Talbert, on spring wheat breeding, Dr. Burrows on diseases in wheat, barley and pea (pulse crops) and Roshan Acharya on spring stay-green characteristic study. From USDA-ARS, Dr. Stevens will present on phosphorus study in sugar beet and crop rotation and Dr. TheCan Ceasar on...
The opening lyrics to the popular song “Summertime,” - or most of them anyway - aptly highlight a special summer BrownBagger planned at the USDA-ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab this coming Thursday, July 17th. While the cotton may not be high, the fish ARE jumping in the nearby Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, where many are the focus of a new study looking at changing “food webs” and their impacts on native fish species, such as pallid and shovelnose sturgeon. Brittany Trushel, a doctoral student in Montana State Univers...
For people younger than myself, it is hard to imagine a time when there was no search engine to go to when you wanted to know about something. It can also be hard for them to believe that, IF a person graduated from high school (and many times that was a big IF) there were not many career opportunities aside from staying at home and helping mom and dad make a living. In 1914, these were almost exclusively the conditions in our part of the country and across much of the rest of the nation. That...
Schedule of Events for Thursday, July 24th 8:30 am Refreshments & Registration for Pesticide Application Credits 9:00 am Welcome – Hans Schneider, MSU/MAES EARC Superintendent & Glenn Duff, Interim Dean & Director, MSU College of Agriculture/Agricultural Experiment Station or Barry Jacobsen, MSU Interim Dept. Head of Research Centers Dr. Jeff Bader, MSU Extension Director, DRC & Extension 9:15 am Tour Begins 9:30 am Roshan Acharya MS, MSU Graduate Student, MSU Spring Wheat Stay-Green C...
Watford City officials and contributors broke ground on McKenzie County Health System's new $59 million, 120,000 square foot facility on June 27. Pictured are (L-R) Jody Renbarger, Roughrider Fund; Brad Thompson, Bank of North Dakota; Ron Anderson, Chr. County Comissioners; Jasper Schneider, The State Director of USDA; Brent Sanford, Mayor; Myra Anderson, Chairperson of the Benefit Fund Board; Wayne Stenehjem, State Attorney General; Patsy Levang, President of MCHS Board of Directors; Dan...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the nomination period for local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees begins Sunday, June 15, 2014. “County committees are a vital link between the farm community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” said Vilsack. “I hope that every eligible farmer and rancher will participate in this year’s county committee elections. Through the county committees, farmers and ranchers have a voice; their opinions and ideas get to be heard on federal farm programs.” Vilsack added, “We’ve se...
Conservation Reserve Program participants with general signup contracts that are scheduled to expire on September 30, 2014 may be able to extend all or part of their contract acreage for an additional year at the same payment rate as the existing contract. North Dakota Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Aaron Krauter encourages producers to contact their local FSA office to get more information about the extension. “There is no general signup scheduled for the 2014 fiscal year, so producers that want to keep those acres in CRP are e...
USDA Rural Development partnered with Reservation Telephone Cooperative (RTC) to provide Wolf Run Village a $2 million loan to construct Wolf Pup Daycare Center in Watford City. “There is a child care shortage across the state, but it is particularly evident in western North Dakota, which is experiencing a great population influx,” said Jasper Schneider, USDA Rural Development state director. “This project will provide much needed services as daycare facilities in Watford City are at maximum capacity.” The growth in jobs and populat...
Schedule of Events for Thursday, July 24th 8:30 am Refreshments & Registration for Pesticide Application Credits 9:00 am Welcome – Hans Schneider, MSU/MAES EARC Superintendent & Glenn Duff, Interim Dean & Director, MSU College of Agriculture/Agricultural Experiment Station or Barry Jacobsen, MSU Interim Dept. Head of Research Centers Dr. Jeff Bader, MSU Extension Director, DRC & Extension 9:15 am Tour Begins 9:30 am Roshan Acharya MS, MSU Graduate Student, MSU Spring Wheat Stay-Green C...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $6 million to universities and cooperative state extension services to develop online decision tools and other materials and train experts to educate producers about several key farm bill programs. The new Web tools will help farmers and ranchers determine what participation in programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill will mean for their businesses. The University of Illinois (lead for the National Coalition for Producer Education),...
Montana State University’s Eastern Ag Research Center (EARC) and the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab (NPARL) are teaming up for a joint Dryland Research Field Day set for Tuesday morning, July 1st near Sidney. “We share adjoining research space and already work together on a number of projects, so it only made sense to combine our dryland field day efforts, too,” NPARL Research Leader John Gaskin said, in announcing the joint venture. “We both host other Field Days – ARS at Froid in June and ou...
A slate of speakers on topics as varied as orange wheat blossom midge, cover crop mixes, and oilseed plant breeding for jet fuel highlight this year’s annual Froid Research Farm Field Day on Thursday afternoon, June 26th, beginning at 1 pm. This year the event begins in Culbertson with a tour of the new United Grain Corporation’s (UGC) recently completed 1.4 million bushel capacity elevator. Field Day participants are asked to meet at the elevator located at 111 1st Ave SW in Culbertson at 1 pm. Following the UGC tour, activities will move to...
USDA Rural Development partnered with Reservation Telephone Cooperative (RTC) to provide Wolf Run Village a $2 million loan to construct Wolf Pup Daycare Center in Watford City. “There is a child care shortage across the state, but it is particularly evident in western North Dakota, which is experiencing a great population influx,” said Jasper Schneider, USDA Rural Development state director. “This project will provide much needed services as daycare facilities in Watford City are at maximum capacity.” The growth in jobs and populat...
Montana State University’s Eastern Ag Research Center (EARC) and the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab (NPARL) in Sidney have teamed up for a joint Dryland Research Field Day set for Tuesday morning, July 1st at their adjoining research plots located northwest of Sidney. The combined half-day event begins at nine am at the ARS research farmsite located about 4 miles north of Sidney on the Culbertson highway. Take a left at County Road 129 and a second left on County Road 346 to get to the far...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the nomination period for local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees begins Sunday, June 15, 2014. “County committees are a vital link between the farm community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” said Vilsack. “I hope that every eligible farmer and rancher will participate in this year’s county committee elections. Through the county committees, farmers and ranchers have a voice; their opinions and ideas get to be heard on federal farm programs.” Vilsack added, “We’ve se...
A slate of speakers on topics as varied as orange wheat blossom midge, cover crop mixes, and oilseed plant breeding for jet fuel highlight this year’s annual Froid Research Farm Field Day on Thursday afternoon, June 26th, beginning at 1 pm. This year the event begins in Culbertson with a tour of the new United Grain Corporation’s (UGC) recently completed 1.4 million bushel capacity elevator. Field Day participants are asked to meet at the elevator located at 111 1st Ave SW in Culbertson at 1 pm. Following the UGC tour, activities will move to...
