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The Fairview FFA chapter held their annual Fairview FFA Banquet on April 23rd at the Double Barrel. This banquet is held each year to give awards for competitions or accomplishments, recognize new officers, and thank local helpers. Awards for competitions including Career Development Events and the John Deere Ag Expo were given out, and six members received new degrees. Greenhand degree recipients were Ashley Karst, Blake Patten, J.J. Klein, and Landin Skov. Chapter degree recipients were...
Starting today, agricultural producers who have lost livestock to disease, resulting from a weather disaster, have an additional way to become eligible for a key U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) disaster assistance program. USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey announced an administrative clarification nationwide to the Livestock Indemnity Program. In the event of disease, this change by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) authorizes local FSA county committees to accept veterinarian certifications that l...
The public is invited to attend free annual field days across Montana to tour and learn about the people, places and projects involved with agricultural research at Montana State University's College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station or MAES. Seven research stations across the state and a local Bozeman campus farm will each host a field day this summer. Field days include facility tours, explanations of research projects and results and a chance for citizens, producers,...
Farm Stress Recently in North Dakota newspapers Inforum and the Bismarck Tribune, there have been some articles about farmer suicide rates. Farming and ranching is a high stress job, as there are many aspects that need to be managed at one time. According to the 2016 study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who work in farming, fishing and forestry were 3.4 times more likely than other American workers to die by suicide on the job. Sean Brotherson, NDSU Extension...
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project held its annual meeting last Friday with the main theme of attending the hearing in Great Falls on April 19th. Several speakers highlighted how important it is for farmers, business people and the community at large to attend the hearing to demonstrate to Judge Morris how critical reliable irrigation is to the area. Encouraging farmers to take a break from planting, Steve Pust said that planting will be underway April 19th and that is a priority. But, if irrigation is shut down, farmers won’t have to w...
Wyn and Pete Reimann, with the help of their two daughters, Cassie and Livvy and Wyn's dad, Bob Walker, maintain a herd consisting of 95 Suffolk/Hampshire cross ewes and 21 registered boer does. Their operation is located just five miles west of Richey, Montana. They started the club lamb and kid business four years ago. "I started this as a great resource for our children. We had several kids in the area that were looking for competitive lambs at a reasonable price," said Wyn Reinmann. The...
North Dakota's drought-stressed pastures, especially pastures stressed during the fall of 2017, should receive special care this spring to help them recover from the drought, North Dakota State University Extension Service grazing experts advise. "It is critical that these pastures are given adequate time to recover," says Miranda Meehan, livestock environmental stewardship specialist. "Grazing too early in the spring can result in decreased total forage production for the entire grazing...
More than a decade ago when Montana's pulse crop industry was a sliver in northeastern Montana and there wasn't much money to fund alternative crop trials, a Montana State University agricultural faculty member was planting the future. Chengci Chen, superintendent of the MSU Eastern Agricultural Research Center in Sidney has spent the last 12 years developing pulse crops specifically adapted to Montana's growing conditions. One successful green pea variety with high yield and protein, currently...
Pulse crop producers have a new tool to help them identify insect pests that attack chickpeas, field peas and lentils in the major pulse-growing areas of the U.S. The new "Pulse Crop Insect Diagnostic Series" from the North Dakota State University Extension Service summarizes insect pests of the northern Plains (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) and the Palouse area of the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho and Oregon). The series was a collaborative effort among NDSU, University of...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show recently hosted Pat Gilchrist, who explained past weather trends and predicted upcoming weather trends that may or may not have a negative impact on Eastern Montana agriculture. Gilchrist serves as the National Weather Service Early Warning Coordination Meteorologist in Glasgow, Montana, which is the regional office for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show Committee and the Sidney Chamber of Commerce's Agriculture Committee have joined forces to bring you what we think is a great lineup of educational sessions, banquet entertainment, and trade show vendors. Ag Days will kick off at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 1 when the doors open for the trade show. After listening to suggestions from our ranching community, it was decided to push back the start of the educational sessions, so the first session will begin at...
Jim Beck will be speaking at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show on Thursday, March 1st at 2:30 p.m. MST. He will be speaking on the topic, “Does Exempt Water Rights Bill Apply to You?” Beck was raised and farmed in McCone and Richland Counties. He attended Montana State University in Bozeman, receiving a degree in agricultural engineering. In 1981, he moved to Townsend and worked at the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s Helena Regional Office. At the Helena Regional Office, he worked in several water resource areas, inclu...
Bridger Feuz, Livestock Marketing Specialist at the University of Wyoming Extension, will be speaking at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show on Thursday, March 1st at 10:00 a.m. MST. He will be speaking on the topic, "Cattle Market Outlook" and at 11:30 a.m. MST he will also be talking about economic ranch tools and risk management. "Ranchers face many challenges each day that require their attention. These challenges include things like dealing with and preventing disease, getting cows fed or...
Livestock producers are concerned about how federal reporting requirements for hazardous substances could affect them. Two environmental laws - the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), often referred to as Superfund, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) - require facilities to report releases of hazardous substances that meet or exceed a reportable quantity within a 24-hour period. For U.S. livestock operations, the reporta...
Edward Usset will be speaking at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show on Friday, March 2nd at 10 a.m. MST. He will be speaking on the topic, "Five Common Mistakes in Grain Marketing." Usset is the author of the book, Grain Marketing Is Simple: It's Just Not Easy. He is also the Grain Marketing Specialist at the Center for Farm Financial Management and Coordinator of the Minnesota Master Marketer Program. Usset grew up in Minnesota, in the midst of a number of farms. "My family did not farm, but I...
The family farm or ranch often is more than a business; oftentimes it also is a family legacy that has been cultivated, nurtured and maintained for generations. This makes each farm/ranch operation unique and, in turn, makes designing a farm succession plan just as unique and challenging for each family. No two plans will look alike. The goal is to find a personalized plan that will reflect your family’s goals and objectives. Creating a plan will bring value not only to your operation but to y...
Narrowleaf hawksbeard and marestail are two invasive annual weeds that resist a widely used herbicide called Glyphosate. These weeds have become increasingly problematic over the years in the Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana area. Marestail, commonly known as horseweed, is a broadleaf weed that germinates in the fall, spring, and early summer. Marestail has become a big problem in no-till fields, reduced tillage production systems, and more recently a problem in some tilled fields. The...
The Richland County Extension Office is hosting MonDak Ag Days, and along with it, the Ag Days Banquet, on March 1 at 6 p.m., with a social beginning at 5 p.m.. Extension Agent, Tim Fine, spoke to the Roundup and explained the purpose of Ag Days. “The purpose of Ag Days,” Fine said, “is really about educating our agriculture producers on the latest and greatest in what’s going on in the agriculture world, both in educational presentations and by our trade show exhibitors.” As a part of Ag Day...
Farmers, crop scouts, agronomists and other agricultural professionals will have an opportunity to enhance their pest identification and management skills at the North Dakota State University Extension Service’s 2018 Western Crop and Pest Management School. The school will be held March 6-7 at the Williston Area Recreation Center on the Williston State College campus. Participants also will be able to hear about current research results on topics such as weed control and pulse crop disease management. This is the first time the school has b...
The Defenders of Wildlife and Natural Resources Defense Council (plaintiffs) continue their ongoing battle with Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation (defendants), focused only on the comeback of a wild pre-historic fish. The defendants are attempting to balance the survival of the pallid sturgeon with the well being of thousands of people from Glendive to Williston, as well as allowing an entire ecosystem to thrive. In their summary brief to the district court, the plaintiffs are...
Soil samples in North Dakota indicate low levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2018 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 2017 to estimate the regional risk for wheat midge in 2018. The distribution of wheat midge is based on unparasitized cocoons found in the soil samples. "Less than 1 percent of the soil samples had economic population...
On Feb. 18, R&J Ag Supply of Sidney held their second annual Feed Like A Champion seminar for area 4H and FFA members raising show and market animals. The multi-species workshop featured speakers....
A Montana State University scientist who is striving to overcome a widespread problem for U.S. farmers – herbicide-resistant weeds – has won a national award for his achievements so far. Prashant Jha, an associate professor at the Southern Agricultural Research Center in the College of Agriculture and the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, was named Outstanding Early Career Weed Scientist during the Weed Science Society of America's 2018 annual meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The soc...
“I sure hope I get a drone for Christmas,” my son said as though he simply was making an observation. After many years of motherhood, I am quite skilled at ignoring statements made to no one in particular; and this was my strategy. We have dozens of “have to haves” that still occupy a storage bin in the hopes my grandchildren will have more use for the toys than their parents. After he became a bit less subtle, I asked him, “What are you going to do with it?” He started to respond but quickly paused when he realized he had not thought bey...
