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The Western Stock Show, held in Denver for its 111th year, attracted 684,580 visitors from across the country. Beginning on January 7 and ending 16 days later, the agricultural extravaganza displayed a variety of over 15 thousand animals. Numerous awards were given to the best livestock in several categories, and over ten million dollars in livestock dealing transpired. Among the participants drawn to the Western Stock Show was the Olsen family of Williston, North Dakota. The Olson family, led...
We’re on the downhill slide of the 65th Legislature with just about a month of the session left, and bills are beginning to shake out of the process on the home stretch. This week, the Seed Bill - Senate Bill 155 - passed its last legislative vote by a wide majority and is in its final preparation process to become law. Next stop: the governor’s desk. This bill will provide important regulatory consistency for farmers and ranchers across Montana. The Seed Bill is not about limiting local control; rather, it’s about putting the regulation of se...
On Thursday, March 2, Fairview’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) helped serve food at the Richland County area at the Mondak Ag Days banquet. Mondak Ag Days & Trade Show is an annual event that provides the newest technology and education related to agriculture production with new innovations in the farming world. The FFA members served cranberry cake with butter sauce dessert and helped clean up after the event. Lexie Selting, Fairview’s FFA secretary said,” I enjoyed helping out and talking to farmers from around our area. Our FFA chapt...
As the days get longer and the weather warms, many of us begin to plan and dream of the upcoming growing season. Warmer seasons for many mean connecting with the land and enjoying the fresh produce from our efforts. This connection to our food and how it is produced is a fundamental aspect of our nature. For those in Montana on the nearly 25,000 family farms and ranches, their connection is year-round. Whether they are feeding their livestock or protecting newly born calves from extreme weather and wildlife, ranchers are always on the clock....
The MonDak Ag Days for 2017 will be held at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Sidney, Montana on Thursday, March 2nd and Friday, March 3rd. There will be a wide variety of topics to learn about from crops, diseases, and water reservation to agricultural safety, the crop market outlook, the cattle market outlook, and the weather outlook with experts concentrating on this local farming area. There will also be a banquet on Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. featuring Chad Prather. Tickets are available at Stockman Bank, Richland County Extension,...
Jim Larson, Montana Agriculture Safety Program Coordinator "Last year 126 people died from four-wheeler and side-by-side accidents, seven in Montana," said Jim Larson, Montana Agriculture Safety Program Coordinator. He will be speaking on Thursday morning about safety and state laws for anyone who runs a business so that all may be in compliance. This will help farmers to protect themselves from liability problems and those with volunteers on a ranch or farm. Mr. Larson will also talk about...
Patrick Gilchrist, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service...
Dr. Jessica Rupp, MSU Plant Pathologist Dr. Jessica Rupp, MSU Plant Pathologist, will be giving two talks on Thursday afternoon. The first will be about pulse diseases. Montana is presently the number one producer of pulses in the United States. Her focus will be on lentil, dry pea, chick pea, and dry bean crops as well as fungal diseases. She will discuss options to treat pulse crops, testing seed, and planting fungicide seed treatments for a healthy start for crops. She is also an expert on...
Edwin Haugen, Thrivent Financial Edwin Haugen, CLU and FIC at Thrivent Financial in Minot, ND, will be discussing Farm Transition Planning at MonDak Ag Days. Haugen is a third generation farmer and rancher and his family owned operation is over 100 years old. He is a registered commercial cattle breeder and ND Organic and traditional farmer. In 2008, Haugen co-created "Keeping the Farm in the Family" program, which is one of the most requested seminars by Thrivent Financial nation-wide. He has...
Dr. Joe Janzen, MSU Department of Agricultural Economics The Crop Market Outlook will be predicted by Dr. Joe Janzen from the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics on Friday morning. He will recap markets in 2016 and then discuss where prices are going in 2017. "Margins are tighter on farms than they used to be," Janzen said. He grew up on a wheat and canola farm in Winnipeg, Canada and earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Commodities at U.C. Davis. He will help farmers to understand seeing...
Duane Claypool and Ann Kulczyk, Program Specialists, MT DNRC, Conservation and Resource Development Division Conservation District Water Reservations for irrigation. How do I apply? What is the advantage of using reserved water? What are my responsibilities as a water reservation user? Presented by Duane Claypool and Ann Kulczyk, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. In 1978 the Montana Board of Natural Resources and Conservation granted water reservations to several entities in the Yellowstone River Basin, the Missouri...
Dr. Bridger Feuz, Livestock Specialist University of Wyoming Extension Friday morning, Dr. Bridger Feuz, a Livestock Specialist for the University of Wyoming Extension in Evanston, Wyoming will be speaking about the livestock market outlook with a focus on cattle and the impacts of market demand, economy, supply, feed, and international trade. He will be sharing his market projection for this fall and next fall. This will help ranchers to understand where the market is trending and to decide...
Richland County Ag Days is excited to welcome Chad Prather as entertainment for the banquet on Thursday, March 2, 2017. The social begins at 5 pm followed by the banquet at 6 pm at the Richland County Event Center at the Richland County Fairgrounds. Prather's website, watchchad.com, provided the following information. Chad Prather is a student of living life to the fullest. Never one to shy away from adventure or a new experience he faces the world with a smile. Chad is an adopted Texan that cal...
Kathryn Cayko has been spreading the word about genetically modified organisms (GMO) to people around the community. Cayko is the Montana Biotech Spokeswoman for the Montana Dakota Sugar Beet growers. Cayko had worked in plant biotechnology for several years before starting her position as an agriculturalist at Sidney Sugars. She is honored that she was given the opportunity to speak for farmers that are busy growing, planting, and harvesting crops. "Farmers are very unrepresented in Washington...
Arriving in Turkey this March will be 2,400 heifer calves from the Montana/North Dakota border area, coordinated by Howard Rambur of Rambur Charolais in Sidney, Montana. "The shipment of cattle started this summer when an exporter was driving the countryside in Virginia and saw a bunch of buckskin cows from one of our customers," Rambur says. "He pulled in, asked the guy what they were and where did you get them?" The exporter works in the private sector and has taken numerous shipments of live...
Have you ever thought about what makes people, including you, happy? What role does happiness play in our overall health? The other night, I was at a meeting at a women's group called P.E.O. Chapter V, which is a philanthropic educational organization. We work to expand educational opportunities for women. We also teach each other things. As a bonus, we have tasty snacks at the end of the meetings. Our recent topic, happiness, was led by a psychiatrist member of the group. The happiness topic pe...
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project (LYIP) held its annual meeting on Valentine’s Day, beginning with a delicious dinner prepared by members of the Moose Lodge. Project manager James Brower reminded everyone that water rights are being adjudicated and that anyone wishing to extend their irrigation boundaries to include current or proposed areas not already covered needs to stop by the irrigation office by February 24. A main focus of the meeting involved the canal breach south of Sidney. High praise and deep thanks were given to Franz C...
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! Group Launches “COOLin100” Campaign One of the staunchest supporters of mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) for beef, R-CALF USA, is launching anew campaign called “COOLin100.” The campaign calls on the new Trump Administration and new Congress to reinstate COOL for beef and pork during the Trump Administrat...
20th National Hard Spring Wheat Show Photography Show Winners Advanced Division: Miscellaneous, champion, Shannon Scott; reserve, Roger Riveland. Animals, champion Roger Riveland; reserve, Mary Elizabeth Youngs. People, champion, Burton Youngs; reserve, Roger Riveland. Equipment, champion, Roger Riveland. Landscape, champion, Shannon Scott; reserve, Roger Riveland. Novice Division: Miscellaneous, champion, Cherette Brunelle; reserve, Kaden Olson. Animals, champion and reserve, Cherette Brunelle. People, champion, Cherette Brunelle;...
Soil samples in North Dakota indicate low levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2017 season, according to Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension Service entomologist. A total of 201 soil samples were collected from 21 counties in the fall of 2016 to estimate the regional risk for wheat midge in 2017. The distribution of wheat midge is based on unparasitized cocoons found in the soil samples. "Only 2 percent of the soil samples had economic population...
James Johnson is the newest member of the team of agriculturalists at Sidney Sugars. Growing up on a farm at Oberon ND, he has been involved in farming his whole life, and worked for sugar beet growers during college learning the industry from the ground up. Johnson earned his degree in Ag systems management from NDSU Fargo in May 2016 and is now putting that degree to use. His responsibilities include helping the growers in his area grow a high quality crop. He will cover Savage, Pleasant View and Powder River, also overseeing harvest...
Professor NDSU Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department Along with my agribusiness class, I watched, in considerable awe, the beautiful video images of the fields and facilities of a local seed company as they were projected on the classroom screen. The soundless video showed crystal-clear footage taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also called a drone and, by the Federal Aviation Administration, an unmanned aerial system (UAS). Two decades previously, my family received a knock on the door of our farmhouse in central Illinois. Ou...
In 2015, a federal court judge in Great Falls issued an injunction against the construction of the fish bypass and concrete weir on the Yellowstone River at Intake. At risk is water for 58,000 acres of irrigated cropland, the economic vitality of several communities, and any project being completed for the recovery of the endangered Pallid Sturgeon. Acting assistant US Attorney General Jeffrey Wood filed a motion Feb 1, 2017 on behalf of federal agencies asking the court to dissolve the construction injunction and dismiss most of the case...
For years, the kitchen table has been the center of planning for those in agriculture. Conversations of the past, present and future surface around the table. Today, the kitchen table may be in the warming shed, the barn, the seed-cleaning facility, the shop or an available room slightly warmer than outside. In some cases, a meeting room, built to accommodate the input and planning for today's agricultural enterprises, is the designated center. The point is, time must be set aside to develop a...
The Richland County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee is opening up a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating senior, who is either a member of Farm Bureau, or whose parents are members of Farm Bureau. There will be one winner chosen, and a runner up. Both the winner and runner up will be forwarded to the Montana Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee to be entered for an additional scholarship of $1,000. These applications will be judged on scholastic achievement and goals for college courses as well as community and school activities. App...
