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You are invited to display exhibits in the Open Class Show held during the McKenzie County Fair, July 6 to 8 in the 4-H Building on the McKenzie County Fairgrounds. Top exhibit in each class can receive $10 and monetary awards have increased as follows: Grand - $5, Purple Ribbon - $4, Blue Ribbons - $3, Red Ribbon - $2 and White Ribbon - $1. All exhibits entered in The Show will receive a ribbon, with exception being those entered For Show Only. Entries can be brought to the McKenzie County...
The Three Buttes 4-H club mowed and cleaned up St. Theresa Cemetery in Lambert for the summer as a community project. The members brought lawn mowers, weed eaters, and clippers that were convenient for getting the tricky grass around the flowers and making the cemetery have a clean and neat, finished appearance. (Submitted by Amariah Hier, Three Buttes club reporter)...
Froid, Sidney, and Williston have held annual Field Day Tours for many years to showcase their involvement and research within the agricultural world. The main purpose of Field Days is to inform and make the public aware of what the research centers around our area are performing and accomplishing. It is now that time of year where research centers are planting seeds in the ground and getting ready to present new ideas and studies for the public to analyze. Froid Research Farm Field Day will be...
Once again, our farmers and communities are threatened by the Defenders of Wildlife and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a brief filed with District Court, those plaintiffs are not only asking for another injunction against the construction of the concrete weir and fish bypass, they are also asking that the entire dam be removed from the Yellowstone River, in order to protect the pallid sturgeon. The plaintiffs are not only directly contesting the previous NEPA and ESA analysis of the b...
Registration for golfers and sponsors is now taking place for the 18th annual Ag Appreciation Golf Tournament scheduled for July 10 at the Sidney Country Club. Back this year is the Partnership sponsor, which costs $1,000. This is for local businesses who want to be more involved in the network process. Partnership sponsors will have the opportunity to talk with participants and sponsors throughout the course while having a cart with beverages. Cost for a team sponsor for two golfers remains at...
Farmers, ranchers, consultants, scouts, seed inspectors, insurance adjusters, handlers, workers, and especially custom pesticide applicators are routinely subjected to ticks and mosquitos. For years, people have been advised to use DEET to treat their skin and clothing. However, treatments to clothing only provide repellency for up to six hours with DEET. Thus permethrin, either applied to clothing or impregnated into the clothing can provide much longer protection. In the case of permethrin...
The Neal Hermanson Memorial Ranch Rodeo and Calcutta will take place on Saturday, June 10 beginning at 1 p.m. at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Sidney. Admission is only $5.00 with children 5 and under admitted free. The five events of the rodeo: team branding, team trailering, team doctoring, wild cow milking and saddle bronc riding promise great action and fun as the cowboys show off their skills. Little buckaroos can get in on the action too, by participating in mutton bustin’, stick horse races and ribbon pulling. The rodeo has been h...
The Natural Resources Conservation Service along with the Richland County Conservation District will be hosting an afternoon event for agricultural women in the area on Tuesday, June 13. Kami Kilwine, NRCS area range conservationist from Miles City, Montana will lead a short “pasture walk” to learn about plant communities, grazing management systems, and noxious weed control. Bring your walking shoes and be ready to learn the local plants, proper grazing utilization levels, and how to monitor grasslands on your farm or ranch. Bridgette Feathers...
Yellow patches of leafy spurge are beginning to pop up in road ditches across North Dakota. "Leafy spurge is the most recognized noxious weed in the state, infesting approximately 746,183 acres, followed by Canada thistle (824,659 acres) and absinth wormwood (608,414 acres)," says Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University Extension Service livestock environmental stewardship specialist. "These species are the most common noxious weeds found on rangeland and pastures across the state."...
McKenzie County Fairgrounds located in Watford City will be hosting a Livestock Showmanship Day on Wednesday, June 21st at 12:45 p.m. This event provides opportunities for 4-H members no matter what skill level. It entails hands-on learning with live animals to demonstrate proper showmanship, grooming/fitting skills, and informational facts on numerous animal species. If interested, preregistration is required. Everyone is welcome to attend and add to their knowledge of showmanship skills. For additional information about the events please...
Sierra Osborne, a senior at Sidney High School, writes for a national blog called Raised in a Barn. The blog has a mission to bridge the gap between producers and consumers of agriculture. Raised in a Barn is a blog that was established by Breanna Viles who is a college student from Oklahoma. Viles started the blog after seeing anti-agriculture posts and she was determined to start something that gave a voice to agriculture. So far, the blog has 40 representatives from over 20 different states....
Using estrus synchronization and artificial insemination to control breeding in cattle has several benefits, according to North Dakota State University livestock experts. "Artificial insemination (AI) offers the opportunity to use semen from high-accuracy, genetically superior sires at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a herd bull of similar genetics," says NDSU Extension Service beef cattle specialist Carl Dahlen. "In addition, using estrus synchronization and AI can increase the number of...
Fairview’s future farmers wrapped up the year with a chapter banquet on Monday, May 22nd at the Double Barrel in Fairview, MT. All members received their Greenhand Degree and pin, Chapter FFA Degree pin, and also their Chapter Officer pins. Chapter officer interviews were held May 5th and new officers for 2017-2018 were announced at the banquet. Serving as Fairview’s 2017-2018 FFA President is a junior at Fairview High School, Lexie Selting. Alex Young, a sophomore at Fairview High School, was elected 2017-2018 Vice President. Jaycie Rau, also...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that the nomination period for local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees begins on Thursday, June 15, 2017. “County committees allow farmers and ranchers to make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally to best serve their needs,” said Acting FSA Administrator Chris Beyerhelm. “We strongly encourage all eligible producers to visit their local FSA office today to find out how to get involved in their county’s election. There’s an increasing need for...
Do you have a pasture(s) that is not performing? This sounds like some of the pasture around our ranch or some old CRP acres that are now in permanent pasture with water. So what do we do? You need to come and hear the great speaker we have coming to the open the gate workshop- rejuvenating soils, pastures, and profits in Wibaux, MT. Greg and Jan Judy of Clark, Missouri run a grazing operation on 1620 acres of leased/owned land. Greg and Jan went from being nearly bankrupt in 1999 to paying off a 200 acre farm and house in three years with cust...
About twenty people gathered at the Ullman Center at Dawson Community College at ten o’clock Friday, May 26, to take part in Senator Jon Tester’s Farm Bill Listening Tour. Beginning with the pledge of allegiance led by Tester, the session was led by the Senator and seven other panelists from various public and private agricultural agencies in Montana. Taking part in the session were Ben Thomas of the Montana Department of Agriculture, Kurt Voss and Justin Loch of Montana Farmer’s Union, Scott...
MSU Extension and Sidney FFA students held their "Ag In The Classroom" day April 27th at the Richland County Event Center. A range of agricultural topics were presented to Sidney area students....
Mandaree's Jace Johnson is making strides in his career as a team roper, and hasn't let his young age stop him. In March, Jace was the youngest winner ever of the National Team Roping Finals in Wickenburg, Arizona, taking home a trophy saddle, belt buckle, and $100,000, shared with his draw partner, Tyler Jiron. Despite having only three solid years of roping experience, Jace, who was 14 at the time of the Finals, teamed up with Jiron to rope four steers in just 40.53 seconds. Jace competed...
Do you have a pasture(s) that is not performing? This sounds like some of the pasture around our ranch or some old CRP acres that are now in permanent pasture with water. So what do we do? You need to come and hear the great speaker we have coming to the Open The Gate Workshop- Rejuvenating Soils, Pastures, and Profits in Wibaux MT. Greg and Jan Judy of Clark, Missouri run a grazing operation on 1620 acres of leased/owned land. Greg and Jan went from being nearly bankrupt in 1999 to paying off a 200 acre farm and house in three years with...
There are certain things that happen annually with my job that I really look forward to. One of those things is the delivery, grading, and bagging of wool at the annual wool pool. When I first moved here, I had no experience with this type of event but consider myself very fortunate to take part in it now. The Lower Yellowstone Wool Pool has been a great asset to area producers for many years. The sole purpose of the pool is to gather wool from area sheep producers in one central location, grade said wool, and then combine that wool with other...
In a crucial victory for the farmers and communities along the Yellowstone River, the preliminary injunction halting the construction of the concrete weir and fish bypass at Intake has been dissolved by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris. Citing resolution of the concerns that led to the injunction, as well as precedent set by other projects, the judge granted the defendants' (Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project and Federal agencies) motion for partial dismissal and to dissolve the...
We have about a dozen bills still pending in the final week of Montana’s 65th Legislative Session, but as we review each piece of legislation Montana Farm Bureau members directed our lobbying team on, we’d say this session has been a win for Montana agriculture. This is certainly not an exhaustive list of 67 bills we worked on this session, but it is an overview of each one we tracked in this column over the past four months. Each of the following eight bills that became law this session was supported by Montana Farm Bureau members. Thanks to...
BOZEMAN -- Nine wild mustangs stepped foot onto Montana State University's Agricultural Research and Teaching Farm on Jan. 3. They came to MSU virtually untouched, hailing from Bureau of Land Management facilities in Burns, Oregon, then were adopted by the Montana nonprofit, Heroes and Horses, to ultimately be used for therapeutic mountain pack trips with combat veterans. Heroes and Horses is a program that uses horses and the remote wilderness to challenge and inspire combat veterans suffering...
BOZEMAN – Montana State University Assistant Professor of Rangeland Ecology Craig Carr has received the Range Science Education Council's 2017 Early Career Undergraduate Teaching award. Carr, who is also the MSU College of Agriculture's undergraduate range management team faculty adviser, received the award at the Society for Range Management's annual meeting, held in St. George, Utah, in February. "We're very proud of Dr. Carr and applaud his dedication and passion for teaching range m...
Montana State University College of Agriculture has received a $99,896 grant from the USDA Farm Service Agency to increase education and awareness of FSA programs to new and non-traditional agricultural producers over the next year. Shannon Arnold, project director and an associate professor in MSU’s Division of Agricultural Education, will manage the grant. She said that many people don’t realize they may qualify for a low interest rate loan through the FSA. And, some FSA farm programs have recently been expanded, some are new or improved, and...
