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Montana State University will present a beginning beekeeping workshop on Saturday, Feb. 25. New beekeepers, including youth, can learn how to get started, first year management strategies and integrated pest management of honeybee pests and diseases. Participants will also learn about honeybee biology and beekeeping equipment. Presenters are from MSU, Western Bee Supplies, Polson, and the Montana Department of Agriculture’s Apiary Division. The workshop runs from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and takes place at the Plant Bioscience Building room 108 o...
The Eastern Agricultural Research Center (EARC) invites the public to join them for an open house held in honor of Dr. Jerry Bergman. The event will run from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27 at the new EARC facility, 1499 N. Central Ave. Everyone is invited to stop in and wish Bergman well in his new endeavor as director of the Williston Research Center....
For the fourth year in a row, organizers will offer an evening of family fun with a dummy roping competition for kids and adults. This year’s event will be held at the VFW on Saturday, Jan. 21 with registration held from 4-5 p.m. and the roping action beginning at 5:30. Kids under the age of 10 will rope first, followed by the adult roping competition. The event features a progressive roping format. People can pick one and draw one for $20; with a three head progressive after the first round. A...
Innovative and sustainable grazing strategies, wheat stem sawfly biocontrol and Russian olive management are just some of the topics featured in this year’s tenth annual BrownBagger series which begins this Friday at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory (NPARL) in Sidney. The 2012 seminar series kicks off with two special grazing presentations by area ranchers, Ray Bannister of Wibaux and Wayne Berry of Fairview. First up is Ray Bannister whose presentation entitled “Adapting to change” will...
The Lambert Hi-Liters held their third and fourth meetings of the 4-H year on Dec. 11, 2011 at 1 p.m. and Jan. 8, 2012 at 2 p.m. at the Fox Lake Senior Center, Lambert. Roll call was naming your favorite animal and choosing Coke or Pepsi. We discussed the basketball court project, steer weigh-in, Junior Leaders winter party, project meetings, beef and cheese stick sales and RecLab. For new business, we discussed the upcoming county speech and demonstration day, Ag Days livestock judging contest, shooting sports, horse workshop. We also had a...
Once again Greytak Calendars can be purchased through your local MSU Extension Office or financial institution. Don Greytak, Havre MT, is celebrating over 25 years of drawing rural life. These realistic portraits portray rural life and will help one appreciate the history of farm and ranch families and how they lived. Many of the scenes in the yearly calendar include youth, farming and ranching, and other memorable moments in time. Profits from the sale of each calendar benefit Montana 4-H youth, club and county programs, Montana 4-H...
Diversity, Directions and Dollars 2012, an agricultural forum, will be presented on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the Ramada Inn Grand Dakota Lodge, Dickinson. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. MT followed by a welcome given by Haylie Schipp, Northern Ag Networking at 9 a.m. This program will feature internationally-known speakers on topics affecting agriculture in the western Dakotas and eastern Montana. It will provide producers with ideas for improving productivity and decreasing costs while providing high quality food produced in a suitable manner....
The MonDak Ag Days Committee is pleased to announce that Trent Loos, an extremely entertaining man who always give his audience their money’s worth, will serve as the Thursday night, Jan. 12 Ag Days after dinner speaker at their banquet to be held at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Tickets are now on sale at Stockman Bank and the Richland County Extension office for $30 each. Loos, a 6th generation rancher who cares about agriculture and passes this message along in an interesting m...
“Mend Them Teach Them” The Empty Saddle Memorial Foundation’s motto defines its focus on our youth. In the past three years, the ESMF has worked to honor the lost horsemen of the area by helping out with the education and the medical needs of area youth with donations made to the foundation in memory of its honorees. Honorees for 2010 were Neal Hermanson and Levi Wisness and Richard Bahm, A.J. Franzen and Bud Sperry were honored for 2011. ESMF honorees spent an important part of their lives in the lives of their horses. This time shaped who t...
USDA is establishing a special advisory board to help USDA officials ensure Native Americans participate in and benefit from USDA programs. The board is being put in place as part of the Keepseagle settlement. The Council for Native American Farming and Ranching will work closely with the Office of Tribal Relations, Farm Service Agency and other USDA agencies to improve the success of Native farmers and ranchers who access USDA’s entire portfolio of programs to build and achieve profitability in their businesses. Keepseagle vs. Vilsack was a l...
The Sidney High School FFA and AgEd students have begun Phase II of the Learning to Serve Grant, obtained through the USDA Rural Youth Development Program. This grant focuses on developing and applying leadership and classroom skills in youth who then use these newly learned skills to improve their own lives and the health of their rural communities. The grant partners the students with the county, city and ROI (Richland Opportunities, Inc.) to improve and enhance recycling efforts within...
Farm management practices, commodity markets, and soil health are key issues to be discussed during the 59th National Hard Spring Wheat Show scheduled Feb. 6-8 in Williston. One of the keynote speakers for the event will be Dr. Danny Klinefelter, Texas A&M University Extension economist. Klinefelter was scheduled to speak last year but a Denver-based storm prevented his flight to Williston. Klinefelter is a specialist in ag finance and is the man behind 'The Executive Program for Agricultural...
Montana-based WestBred® has donated $25,000 to the Montana Grains Foundation (MGF) to help fund a new initiative designed to find better ways to manage and control the wheat stem sawfly, a multi-million dollar pest that inflicts major damage to wheat crops in Montana as well as surrounding states. A unit of Monsanto Company, WestBred breeds and markets a full line of small grains varieties that help farmers increase the yield and profitability of wheat and barley crops across most of the United States and in two Canadian provinces. The MGF is a...
After an extensive review of proposals, the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center (MCHF & WHC) is one more step closer to construction by announcing the field of communities to continue into the third and final phase of the organization’s building site selection process. The review of nearly 2,500 pages of submitted proposal materials from 10 Montana communities was conducted by the MCHF & WHC Board of Directors, the MCHF & WHC’s preliminary architect, Scott Cromwell, Helena, and the nationally recognized non-profit con...
Until recently, sulfur did not often limit crop growth in most Montana soils. However, modern NPK fertilizers contain less sulfur as a manufacturing by-product. Also, higher yielding varieties and more intense cropping are leading to the removal of more sulfur from fields, increasing the chance for sulfur deficiencies. Sulfur deficiency may be confused with nitrogen deficiency. Sulfur deficient plants are often stunted with yellowing upper leaves, in contrast to yellowing lower leaves, which are an indication of nitrogen deficiency....
The Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) is praising the Congressional ratification of three bilateral free-trade agreements between the United States and Korea, Colombia and Panama, as well as approval of Trade Adjustment Assistance. “Passage of this agreement is a real boon for Montana’s farmers and ranchers,” says MFBF President Bob Hanson. “Whether you’re a grain farmer or a cattle rancher in Montana, these trade agreements open up new markets and it’s about time.” The three agreements in total are expected to increase direct export...
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Sidney, have recently confirmed the arrival of a new, troublesome form of net blotch in barley in the MonDak region. Sidney ARS Plant Pathologist Robert Lartey identified the new form recently at the Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory from samples collected near Sidney and at Nesson Valley in Williston. Dr. Lartey used a new DNA technique which he developed that can accurately identify the presence of the disease in just two days...
Every year, McCone County invites all of the Fair Round Robin Showmanship Contest winners from surrounding counties to compete in the Champion of Champions Overall Round Robin Showmanship. The youth that compete are the best that each of their counties has to offer. Each 4-H member is asked to show all the different species of 4-H livestock and they are scored on their showmanship abilities. Richland County is very proud to announce that the winner of the 2011 Champion of Champions Showmanship...
The MonDak Area Stockgrowers Association held its annual dinner and meeting Nov. 29 at the Sidney Country Club....
The Richland County Conservation District has named Craig and Cel Iversen as this year’s Cooperators of the Year. For the past 15 years, the Iversens have worked diligently with the NRCS and the Richland County Conservation District to improve their land for cattle and for wildlife. They have accomplished this by drilling wells, laying pipeline, installing stock tanks, cross fencing, reseeding old cropland to grass and planting shelterbelts. “When we picked up this place 15 years ago, there wer...
A Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) is available for producers who share in the risk of producing the crop. To be eligible, a producer must maintain continual beneficial interest in the crop from harvest through the earlier of the date the loan is repaid or CCC takes title to the commodity. Once beneficial interest in a commodity is lost, the commodity is ineligible for loan-even if the producer regains beneficial interest. Commodity loan eligibility also requires compliance with conservation and wetland protection requirements; beneficial intere...
This year’s Bovine Connection, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, Dec. 1-2 in the meeting room at the MSU EARC and Extension building, 1499 N. Central Ave., Sidney, promises to provide an interesting program, complete with a variety of pertinent information for cattlemen and agribusiness people. Committee members have worked hard to provide a quality program for those who attend. Richland County Extension Agent Tim Fine points out that people will certainly benefit by attending this year’s pro...
The 2011 Montana Stockgrowers Association (MSGA) and Montana CattleWomen (MCW) Annual Convention and Trade Show will meet at the Holiday Inn Grand Montana, Billings, on Dec. 15-17. The convention will offer opportunities for attendees to learn tips to improve their ranch or business, find out about new products available for their animal health and ranch supply needs at the trade show, and for members to weigh in on policy discussions. Members who attend convention will be eligible to win a Ford super duty truck from the Montana Ford stores....
Following a hearing examiner’s proposed decision regarding the State’s 12-day milk labeling rule, the Montana Board of Livestock on Monday said it will “carefully weigh all possible options” before making any rule changes. “It’s important that we give this issue due process,” said Montana Board Chair and Hobson rancher Jan French. “We want to thoroughly review all of the available information and issue a decision that is fair and in the best interests of Montana’s milk consumers.” According to the State’s existing administrative rule (...
“The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA) is pleased that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) has decided to postpone action on its proposed livestock competition rule as it relates to the beef industry,” states Jason Schmidt, North Dakota Stockmen’s Association president, Medina. “Cattle producers want good prices, fair practices and the freedom to operate our businesses without unnecessary government intrusion. We support value-based marketing and were very concer...
