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Hello and Welcome to the 64th Hard Spring Wheat Show, I don't need to tell anyone that farming is a dynamic business. Keeping up with innovations, the markets, and ways to handle production challenges is a fulltime job. The Wheat Show Committee strives to supply answers to many of your challenges all packed into two days of relief from the winter doldrums! The flour flies as area 5th graders gather in the courtyard on the 7th to get hands on with making bread dough. I've talked to parents who...
Importance of Soil Sampling Thursday, February 9 at 2:40 pm Chris Augustin, NDSU Area Soil Health Specialist Chris grew up on his family farm in northeastern North Dakota near the town of Crystal. Helping out with small grains, sugar beets, and potatoes operation gave Chris a love of agriculture and respect of the land. This carried over into college as he earned a B.S. and M.S. in Natural Resources Management emphasizing Soil Science from North Dakota State University. During Chris' time at...
Richland County Ag Days is excited to welcome Chad Prather as entertainment for the banquet on Thursday, March 2, 2017. 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 calls the Fort Worth (not Dallas!) area home. Although he grew up in Augusta, GA he migrated to Texas in 2003. Through life’s many winding roads he has managed to keep his pos...
Meadowlark Brewing founder Travis Peterson will speak with Dr. Rich Horsley from NDSU at the 64th National Hard Spring Wheat Show at 4:45 pm on Feb. 8 at the Grand Williston Hotel in Williston. Peterson and Horsely will talk about how two-row barley is used in the brewing process of craft beer. They will also focus on what traits are important to craft malters, the current trends in the industry and explain how brewers write a recipe for a style of beer. Following the presentation Peterson will...
Mark the second weekend in February (February 10 & 11th) on your calendars for the Glendive Agri-Trade Expo (GATE) as we celebrate the 39th year of this exceptional agricultural tradeshow at the Eastern Plains Event Center (EPEC) in Glendive. Every year, vendors from surrounding states and Canada convene in Glendive to showcase their products and get up close and personal with area residents. Northern AgNetwork and KXGN will again be on hand for interviews and live broadcasts during the show. This is a great chance to break the ho hum of...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini today announced that USDA will accept over 300,000 acres in 43 states that were offered by producers during the recent ranking period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands enrollment with emphasis placed on small-scale livestock operations. Through the voluntary CRP Grasslands program, grasslands threatened by development or conversion to row crops are maintained as livestock grazing areas, while providing important conservation benefits....
Damaging floods caused by ice jams are a fact of life along many Montana rivers and streams. With warmer conditions expected this week, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) would like to remind residents that the heavy ice covers on waterways could break apart in some areas, producing prime conditions for ice jams and associated flooding. “Montana experiences the highest number of reported ice jams in the continental US, with most occurring in February and March” said DNRC Director John Tubbs. “Flooding can happe...
Farm succession planning is complex and requires careful thought, according to Roger McEowen, Washburn University School of Law. He addressed workshop attendees at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2017 Annual Convention & IDEAg Trade Show in Phoenix. Top things to consider are whether or not you want to keep your farm going and what needs to be done to prepare your family for you not being there, according to McEowen. Montana Farm Bureau members Kenny and Kathy Hanson found the workshop to be valuable. “He suggested starting your pla...
Fairview's Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter has started off the new year with a new advisor, Vanessa Pooch. On Monday, January 23, Fairview's FFA members attended a competition in Medicine Lake where they participated in Agriculture Sales and Farm Business Management. Pooch is originally from Glenwood, Minnesota where she was a part of the FFA program and served as the 2005- 2006 Region lll FFA President. She has a lot of experience with FFA and when she was asked to take on the job she...
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! Recently USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed a set of rules to implement key provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA). The Fair Practices Rules (aka GIPSA rules) are intended to facilitate competition in the livestock and poultry markets. First proposed in 2010,...
If you are like me, when the term livestock producers in Richland County is mentioned, your thoughts almost immediately turn to our ranchers who are working with cattle every day. And while our cattle ranchers certainly make up a large portion of the livestock inventory in our county, we still have a fair amount of sheep producers who often times get little or no attention or thought. In February, Richland County will be hosting the Eastern Montana Sheep symposium to hopefully bring some much needed educational programming and shed some light o...
Montana State University Extension economists George Haynes, Kate Fuller and Eric Belasco will offer free farm management workshops in four Montana communities in February and March. The two-and-a-half day workshops will cover: risk management, focusing on crop and livestock insurance; grain and cattle marketing, focusing on hedging, forward contracting and other marketing alternatives; finance and accounting, focusing on recordkeeping and financial analysis; and agricultural policy, focusing on farm programs and changes in farm policy. Video...
Beginning Jan. 20, Brian Haugen will serve as the Acting State Executive Director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in North Dakota until the permanent appointment is made to that position. Brian Haugen, a Hawley Minn. native and a 1986 Animal Science graduate of North Dakota State University began his career with the Farm Service Agency in 1987 where he entered in the County Operations Trainee Program. Later that year he became a County Executive Director in Lakota, ND for the Nelson County FSA...
The Richland County 4-H sewing program just got better. The 4-H council voted to fund money to purchase new sewing machines. Quilts & More provided an opportunity to purchase 2 machines and then generously donated 2 more to the sewing program. Pictured are Nancy VanHook from Quilts & More, Emma Torgerson- 4-Her and Amy Conlin representing the 4-H Council. These will be put to good use in the monthly sewing classes held. Thank you to Quilts and More for your continued support of the Richland...
Dynneson Ranch is a 4th generation farm and ranch in Sidney. We operate a custom, backgrounding feedlot along with a cow-calf ranch, and farm both dryland and irrigated cropland. In 1906, Dennis Dynneson, who was only a teenager at the time, began his own farming and ranching career on the current farmstead in the Brorson community. He raised Hereford cattle along with wheat, flax, barley, oats and other small grains. In 1961, Sherman Dynneson returned to farm and took over the operation with...
Stroh Herefords and Stroh Hereford Ranch will be holding their 27th annual production sale on Thursday, February 2nd at 1:00pm mountain time at the ranch, located 1.5 miles east of the Killdeer roundabout on Highway 200 and 5 miles west of Dunn Center, ND. Tony Stroh established Stroh Herefords in 1950 and owns it with his wife Leona. Stroh Hereford Ranch is owned by their youngest son Mike and his wife Dawn along with their sons Lucas and Matthew Stroh. Fifty-one coming two-year-old bulls, ten...
Best Angus & Quarter Horses started as a 4-H and FFA project in 1987 with the purchase of a heifer from the placement pen at McCumber Angus Ranch. Many of the cows in the herd are descendants of the original heifer, Rosetta 622 of McCumber. Best Angus grew slowly focusing on quality. Pete and Vawnita Best worked together in building their business; Vawnita worked as a meat inspector and Pete worked as an Agricultural Lender. The Best’s continued to keep top heifers as replacements and i...
The Early Morning Red Angus Ranch, located twelve miles south of Tioga, ND, will be marketing 32 yearling Red Angus bulls, eight two-year old bulls, and yearling Red Angus heifers at Sitting Bull in Williston, ND Friday, April 28th at 1:00 pm central time. Owner and operator Carl Frisinger bought the ranch in 1965; having grown up in a ranching family, Frisinger grew up raising Herefords. However, when they became hard to sell, he bought six Red Angus Cows from the Leland Drought Reduction Sale...
Begger’s Diamond V Ranch is a family owned ranch that has its fourth generation living on it. The ranch is a diversified outfit that has been in the seedstock business for 42 years; in 1975 they calved their first Simmental cattle. Bill and Bob were young and ambitious, just out of school, and looking to improve their ranch income. They decided that in order for the ranch to be able to support three families, they needed to put more value in their operation. They saw right away the value of black solid patterned Simmental cattle, so they b...
Rambur Charolais is located just south of Sidney, MT and was founded more than 30 years ago by Howard Rambur. When he started in the ranching industry, Howard wanted to work with a breed of cattle distinctly different from any other breeds in eastern Montana, so he chose the Charolais. The Charolais, at the time, was a relatively new breed to the area and was still able to retain its full French heritage. Even though the breed grew quite large as adults, Howard had a goal to modify the Charolais to not only suit his customers, but also to...
"I found a supreme parking spot!" my husband noted as he arrived at the mall with our younger daughter. She nodded and grinned. Then she began eyeing the food court for a snack. Parking a distance from your destination is a common recommendation for increasing your physical activity. Winter tends to push that recommendation out of people's thoughts, and my family was no exception. I was drinking coffee with our older daughter after an afternoon of last-minute holiday shopping. The mall was swarm...
Gartner-Denowh Angus Ranch (GDAR) is located just on the outskirts of Sidney, MT, a close-knit family run ranch that focuses on raising efficient and functional cattle bred for the commercial cattle operation. GDAR began in 1957 when Joe Gartner and Russel Denowh bought 20 head of registered Angus cows from a dispersion sale in Montana. In 1974, Russ and his son, Micky, bought out Joe Gartner but kept the commercial name. At this time, they were calving about 150 cows and selling around 60 bulls...
Leland Red Angus will be having their annual production sale on March 10th at 1pm at the ranch located in SW McKenzie County, 35 mile SE of Sidney in the Squaw Gap Community. The Leland’s have been raising registered Red Angus for 50 years. The ranch is operated by Melvin and Luella Leland and their son and daughter-in-law Todd and Carla Leland. Homesteaded in 1911 by Melvin Leland’s father, Leland Red Angus breeds over 500 registered Red Angus females per year and will market 185 bulls and 65...
Regency Acres will be marketing approximately 100 bulls and 30 heifers at the Sidney Livestock Sale Friday, April 14th beginning at 1:00pm. Regency Acres, located eight miles Southeast of Lambert, MT, is owned and operated by Russ and Jill Thiessen along with their daughter Téa and son Tyler. Thiessen’s family has been in the cattle business since moving to the area in the 1890s; Russ Thiessen’s grandfather established the registered herd in 1957. Formerly the Thiessen Angus Ranch, it was chan...
Montana State University, in conjunction with the University of Wyoming, will host a malt barley and sugarbeet symposium Jan. 10-11 at the Big Horn Resort in Billings. The first day of the event will focus on barley production, precision agriculture techniques, reducing tilling practices and farming business issues. The keynote speaker will be Wade Malchow, sourcing manager for barley, malt and elevator operations with MillerCoors. The second day will focus on sugarbeet production, with Luther...
