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The Wheat Show committee has invited Dr. Danny Klinefelter, Texas A&M University and Texas AgriLife Extension economist, to serve as one of three keynote speakers for this year’s 59th Annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show, scheduled for Feb. 6-8 at the Airport International Inn, Williston. Klinefelter will deliver two presentations on Tuesday, Feb. 7 beginning at 9 a.m. and through these discussions will present new ideas, stimulate thought and provide attendees with useful information to t...
Farm management practices, commodity markets, and soil health are key issues to be discussed during the 59th National Hard Spring Wheat Show scheduled Feb. 6-8 in Williston. One of the keynote speakers for the event will be Dr. Danny Klinefelter, Texas A&M University Extension economist. Klinefelter was scheduled to speak last year but a Denver-based storm prevented his flight to Williston. Klinefelter is a specialist in ag finance and is the man behind 'The Executive Program for Agricultural...
According to Adnan Akyuz and Barbara Mullins, both of the NDSU Department of Soil Science, the 2011 growing season (the period from April-September) for North Dakota can simply be characterized as “wetter” than normal compared to the 30-year average from 1981-2010. No one will argue that statement, even those retired farm producers who have lived a lifetime in this area. I have yet to come upon a farmer who remembers so many prevent-plant acres as we had this year. Here are some of the numbers w...
Producers looking for information regarding the 2012 cropping season and a review of 2011 are invited to attend a special interactive video meeting on Monday, Dec. 5, at 1:30 p.m. in the 2nd floor Conference Room of the Williams County Courthouse. Staff of the North Dakota State University Extension Service will present a crop market outlook, information on maximizing winter wheat yields and an update on farm program legislation. In addition to these topics there will be discussion about...
An interactive video program to assist agriculture producers and tax preparers with year-end farm business decisions and retirement planning is scheduled Friday, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m.-12 noon CST at the 2nd Floor Conference Room of the Williams County Courthouse. The three-hour program will address the following tax issues: when to accelerate or defer income in conjunction with expense timing and income averaging; updates on tax rates; 1099s and IRS programs such as electronic accounting and...
Do you want to design an orderly and successful transition plan for your farm/ranch business? Are you uncertain about how to choose those who are best suited to continue your business into the future? Are you concerned about the financial impacts and tax consequences of your transition plan? What are the best tools and strategies available to create this plan? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered at the Farm/Ranch Transition Planning workshop series the North Dakota State University Extension Service is hosting on Nov....
A tax management program will be offered to agricultural producers and tax preparers from 9 a.m.-noon CST on Friday, Nov. 18, at 11 interactive video sites in North Dakota. The North Dakota State University Extension Service and Internal Revenue Service are sponsoring the program. It will feature presentations by Ann Makres, IRS; Steve Eckroth, Eide Bailly, Bismarck; Brenda Laub, CPA, Valley City; Steve Troyer, Eide Bailly, Fargo; and Andy Swenson, NDSU farm management specialist. Experts will provide federal income tax updates and tax...
Although I have not been overwhelmed with callers asking for information about water quality tests, there is a growing trend of requests regarding testing services and interpretation of test results. I suspect much of this is being driven by the desire to document the quality and safety of ground water sources. When someone inquires about testing water I usually ask if an analysis is desired for bacterial or mineral content. The reason for this question is because a bacterial analysis requires...
Do you want to design an orderly and successful transition plan for your farm/ranch business? Are you uncertain about how to choose the successor(s) that are best suited to continue your business into the future? Are you concerned about the financial impacts and tax consequences of your transition plan? What are the best tools/strategies available to create this plan? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered at the Farm/Ranch Transition Planning workshop series the North...
Designing a farm/ranch estate plan that is consistent with dreams and values is a personal and often complex process. Thus, the process is often delayed for another day and it ends up on a road of perpetual procrastination. To help ease the challenges of developing a transition plan, North Dakota State University Extension Service has scheduled a series of workshops at 12 locations across the state on the following dates: Nov. 16 and 30, and Dec. 7. Locally, Williston and Watford City will host...
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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...
Just about every homeowner cherishes a lawn. Many hours of labor and dollars are spent each year making sure the grass is properly manicured, watered, fertilized and free of nasty weeds. When the grass starts to grow in the spring, I can’t wait until the first mowing just to smell the scent of freshly cut grass but by summer’s end I have thoughts of covering it with scoria and ornamental rocks. To add plant life, I think yucca and big sagebrush would put a special touch and smell to the yard’s l...
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...
Winter wheat growers of North Dakota and Montana now have a new variety to add to their list of selections. The new variety is named Decade. It was developed by the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and released jointly with North Dakota last fall. The Williams County Agricultural Improvement Association received a small allocation of foundation seed which was purchased by Leon Helstad, Williston. Helstad has grown this allocation under contract to the Association and North Dakota State...
4-H members of Williams County are beginning to understand how tough it is to produce finished beef steers whose carcasses will grade USDA Choice. For the past four years Dr. J.J. Hovde has been using ultra-sound technology to evaluate the amount of fat and muscle tissue of every steer brought to the Upper Missouri Valley Fair. Dr. Hovde’s scanned readings are sent to The National Centralized Ultrasound Processing Laboratory at Ames, IA, for interpretation. The laboratory information gives us d...
Based on a June survey of approximately 2700 producers, the top two hard red spring wheat varieties in North Dakota remain Glenn and Faller, according to Jim Peterson, North Dakota Wheat Commission marketing director. Combined, the two varieties account for nearly 30% of the acres. Barlow, RB07 and Brennan round out the top five. Divide remains the leading durum variety in the state with nearly one third of the acres. Acres planted to Divide have grown each of the past five years. The other top...
Bonus bids for a total of 32,180 acres (19,292 acres in North Dakota and 12,788 acres in South Dakota) at the Bureau of Land Management’s July 12 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $66,259,552. Two North Dakota parcels received the highest bid per acre of $8,800, which were submitted by Irish Oil and Gas of Bismarck, ND, and Continental Resources Williston. The highest single-parcel bid, submitted by Hess Corporation, Houston, TX, was $6,217,800 for a 723-acre parcel in Williams County, North Dakota. All 111 parcels offered for lease r...
Based on reports of growers, I estimate that approximately 70% of crop acres in Williams County were not planted this spring due to excessively wet conditions. Many of these prevent plant acres remain too wet for farm vehicle travel meaning weeds have been taking advantage of the good growing conditions. Many of the weeds are either biennial or winter annual plants that have progressed from rosette to bolt and flowering with seed-set to follow closely. Experienced growers know that once...
