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Sidney Sugars agricultural manager Duane Peters is very pleased with how the sugar beet season is starting out. “We’re having a good spring right now, which hopefully will lead to a very good harvest.” In the first year of a three-year contract, 33,500 acres have been contracted, 25,527 of which were planted as of May 2. The 7,000 acres, which were planted early, are now emerging. The contracted acres are up from 30,900 last year due to several factors including the prices of other commodities and the stage in farmers’ 3 year rotatio...
The MonDak area is home to a unique "research triangle" featuring three agricultural research facilities in Sidney, MT and Williston, ND that regularly share the results of their work with producers through annual summer field days. This year, the group's field days are scheduled as follows: The 2016 Froid Research Farm Field Day will be held Thursday, June 23rd, from 1:00pm until 5:00pm mountain time at the farm site located eight miles north of Culbertson, MT on MT Hwy 16. In addition to a...
While use of “Roundup Ready” sugarbeets has provided producers with many benefits for weed management in that crop, the technology can also compound weed problems without proper management by building weed resistance to the popular herbicide. New strategies for slowing the spread of resistance are the focus of the next BrownBagger presentation at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab in Sidney this coming Friday, March 11. Dr. Tom Peters, Extension Sugar Beet Agronomist at North Dakota State Unive...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, Thursday March 3rd and Friday March 4th, will hold educational sessions at the Richland County Event Center featuring the latest and greatest information and developments for Agricultural producers. Topics on Thursday include UAV/Drone usage in crop production, cover crops, Glyphosate Resistant Marestail, GMOs, sugar beet disease, optimum sugar beet health strategies, and sugar beet weed control, beginning at 9:00am. The afternoon educational sessions held on M...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, Thur., March 3 and Fri., March 4, will hold educational sessions at the Richland County Event Center featuring the latest and greatest information and developments for Agricultural producers. Topics on Thursday include UAV/Drone usage in crop production, cover crops, Glyphosate Resistant Marestail, GMO’s, sugar beet disease, optimum sugar beet health strategies, and sugar beet weed control, beginning at 9 a.m. The afternoon educational sessions held on March 3...
Rhonda Steiger, who attended the University of Wyoming and got her degree in Agriculture, will be discussing the importance GMOs at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show on March 3 at 1 p.m. Steiger grew up on a farm in South Central Montana and her favorite times of the year include beet harvest and calving season. She currently lives in Clark Fork Valley with her husband, Cliff, and their two children. They grow sugarbeets, malt barley, cattle, corn and alfalfa. They also have a few pigs that...
March 3 at 3 p.m. during the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, Dr. Mohamed Khan will be discussing his thesis on optimum sugar beet health strategies. Dr. Mohamed Khan is responsible for developing, conducting, and evaluating educational programs that will improve sugarbeet production practices in North Dakota and Minnesota and is currently Extension Sugarbeet Specialist for North Dakota State University and the Univeristy of Minnesota. Dr. Khan is also the secretary of the Sugarbeet Research and...
Extension Plant Pathologist Jessica Rupp will be discussing sugar beet diseases as one of the educational sessions to be held on Thur., March 3, during Ag Days in Sidney. She will be presenting diseases of concern for 2016 and their management as well as 2015 research compiled by Dr. Barry Jacobsen and Dr. Ken Kephart. Rhizoctonia Crown and Root Rot and Cercospora Leaf Spot are at the center of concern for Montana growers. Both diseases are caused by fungal organisms and Rhizoctonia Crown and...
The Sidney Sugars Top Ten luncheon was held on Wed., Jan. 20, 2016 at the Elks Lodge in Sidney. A year in review, Agriculture Manager Duane Peters congratulated beet growers on their very successful year and discussed some of the challenges growers overcame in different areas. It was dry in the North, requiring lots of irrigation and hailstorms came through the same area as much as three times. Late May frosts required a few areas to have to replant as did springtail parasites, and damaging...
During the top ten beet grower dinner, Nollmeyer Farms was recognized as the top grower in the 50-312 acres category. Del and Kim Nollmeyer, who farm north of Savage, averaged 40.07 ton per acre, 19.25 percent sugar, which resulted in a 35.28 rating on a 263-acre crop. Del Nollmeyer grew up farming, started out by renting farmland from his father when he was still in high school. In 1989, he began farming on his own, and his wife Kim credits the quality of their crops to her husband's...
Tibbetts Agland was recognized as the top grower with more than 313 acres during the Top Ten Beet Growers meeting. Their Sugar percentage was 19.27 with 37.34 tons per acre and a 34.21 rating. Brothers Cody, Brock, and Todd Tibbetts grew up farming and ranching and six years ago they began growing sugar beets as Roundup Ready Beets made the crop much less management intensive. This made it possible to grow sugar beets in addition to growing feed crops and raising cattle. The family farm, located...
5 - 312 Acres Grower Acres TPA Sugar% Quality Rating Nollmeyer Farms 263 40.07 19.25 35.28 DKS Farms Inc 78 39.82 19.21 35.14 L. Schmierer Farms Inc 83 39.55 19.15 34.97 Conradsen Bros Inc 225 40.79 18.51 34.83 Tveit Land & Cattle Co 130 41.04 18.25 34.67 313 Acres or More Grower Acres TPA Sugar% Quality Rating Tibbett’s Agland LLC 472 37.34 19.27 34.21 Triple C Farms Inc 399 37.88 18.75 33.90 Rice & Sons Inc 360 33.05 19.97 33.19 Triple H Farms 394 34.47 19.35 33.14 McPherson Farms Inc 413 34.65 19.17 33.03 20/20 Club Induction Grower A...
This year Haidle Farms, owned by Ryan Haidle, received the 20/20 award for Top 10 Beet Growers. The 20/20 reward is given to beet farmers that produce 20 Tons Per Acre(TPA) of beets with a 20+% sugar outage. Haidle Farms managed to produce 31.28 TPA with 20.08% sugar yield on 489 acres. "We were very lucky with nutrient soil and great weather this year," said Ryan, when asked how he achieved this year's harvest. Haidle Farms is a family run operation which Ryan Haidle manages with his brother...
Dee Ann Sifuentes of Sidney Sugars has been an employee since September of 1977. When Sifuentes first started at the factory, she began at the beet end of things. Her duties included overseeing the beets coming in as well as extracting the juice. "When I first started working for Sidney Sugars 38 years ago, there were only 7-8 women that worked here. Now there are 61 female employees at the factory out of the 251 that are employed here," said Dee Ann when asked about changes in the factory over...
During the top ten beet grower dinner, Nollmeyer Farms was recognized as the top grower in the 50-312 acres category. Del and Kim Nollmeyer, who farm north of Savage, averaged 40.07 ton per acre, 19.25 percent sugar, which resulted in a 35.28 rating on a 263-acre crop. Del Nollmeyer grew up farming, started out by renting farmland from his father when he was still in high school. In 1989, he began farming on his own, and his wife Kim credits the quality of their crops to her husband’s c...
Tibbetts Agland was recognized as the top grower with more than 313 acres during the Top Ten Beet Growers meeting. Their Sugar percentage was 19.27 with 37.34 tons per acre and a 34.21 rating. Brothers Cody, Brock, and Todd Tibbetts grew up farming and ranching and six years ago they began growing sugar beets as Roundup Ready Beets made the crop much less management intensive. This made it possible to grow sugar beets in addition to growing feed crops and raising cattle. The family farm,...
The Sidney Sugars Top Ten luncheon was held on Wed., Jan. 20, 2016 at the Elks Lodge in Sidney. A year in review, Agriculture Manager Duane Peters congratulated beet growers on their very successful year and discussed some of the challenges growers overcame in different areas. It was dry in the North, requiring lots of irrigation and hailstorms came through the same area as much as three times. Late May frosts required a few areas to have to replant as did springtail parasites, and damaging...
This year Haidle Farms, owned by Ryan Haidle, received the 20/20 award for Top 10 Beet Growers. The 20/20 reward is given to beet farmers that produce 20 Tons Per Acre(TPA) of beets with a 20+% sugar outage. Haidle Farms managed to produce 31.28 TPA with 20.08% sugar yield on 489 acres. “We were very lucky with nutrient soil and great weather this year,” said Ryan, when asked how he achieved this year’s harvest. Haidle Farms is a family run operation which Ryan Haidle manages with his broth...
For the second year in a row, Sidney Sugars completed a record harvest, averaging 32.3 tons per acre and 18.73 sugar for the 2015 season. The crop was visually deceiving other than in the Savage area where they got an early start and no hail. "Other areas surprised us," agricultural manager Russ Fullmer said. Root samples were good with the tonnage estimate raised three times. The weather cooperated with warm, not too hot, days and cool nights in September. The new Roundup ready beets produce...
Russ Fullmer, who has worked as the Agricultural Manager for Sidney Sugars since 1999, is retiring after 30 years in the sugar beet industry. Fullmer began working at the Sidney factory in 1985 as an Agriculturalist and after four years was transferred to California. In 1993, he was promoted to Agricultural Manager and moved to Wyoming where he worked for six years before returning to Sidney. Space planting has been one of two impactful changes in growing sugar beets; for many years sugar beets...
Russ Fullmer, who has worked as the Agricultural Manager for Sidney Sugars since 1999, is retiring after 30 years in the sugar beet industry. Fullmer began working at the Sidney factory in 1985 as an Agriculturalist and after four years was transferred to California. In 1993, he was promoted to Agricultural Manager and moved to Wyoming where he worked for six years before returning to Sidney. Space planting has been one of two impactful changes in growing sugar beets; for many years sugar beets...
Area cooks and bakers will be sweetening the season during this year's Make It with Sugar contest, which will be held Friday Oct. 23 at Reese & Ray's IGA in Sidney. Former Make It with Sugar judge, Randy Jones is looking forward to his first year as a participant. Jones, former Ag Finance Superintendent at Sidney Sugars, had been a contest judge every year since Make It with Sugar got its start, almost fifteen years ago. The contest was started by the Roundup as part of Sugar Days, now Harvest...
Memorial services for Michael "Ike" Rambur, 86, of Sidney were at 2:00 P.M., Friday, September 4, 2015, at the Ebenezer Congregational Church in Sidney with Pastor David Meehan officiating. Inurnment was in the Sidney Cemetery, Sidney, MT under the direction of the Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home of Sidney. Remembrances, condolences and pictures may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com. Michael "Ike" Rambur was born September 22, 1928 to Michael and Barbara (Pfau) Rambur. He was the...
Sidney Sugars Incorporated is pleased to announce the promotion of Duane Peters to agricultural manager. Duane will replace Russ Fullmer who after 30 years in the sugar industry will retire in December. This promotion will allow for a smooth transition of leadership in the agriculture department. Duane will manage the activities of district agriculturalists, who are responsible for providing expertise to growers in the production of a high quality beet crop resulting in an increasing in the...
