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Tibbetts Agland was recognized as the top grower with more than 313 acres during the Top Ten Beet Growers meeting. Their Sugar percentage was 19.27 with 37.34 tons per acre and a 34.21 rating. Brothers Cody, Brock, and Todd Tibbetts grew up farming and ranching and six years ago they began growing sugar beets as Roundup Ready Beets made the crop much less management intensive. This made it possible to grow sugar beets in addition to growing feed crops and raising cattle. The family farm, located...
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is offering additional funding through its Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to target specific resource concerns in Montana in 2016: On-Farm Energy, Organic, Seasonal High Tunnel, Prairie Pothole Wetland and Grassland Retention, Honey Bee Pollinators, Big Horn Irrigation Improvement, and Drought in the Missouri Headwaters Basin. While NRCS accepts applications for EQIP on a continuous basis, NRCS has set a deadline of Feb. 19, 2016, to apply for 2016 initiatives funding....
Upcoming trainings hosted by the Montana Food and Agriculture Development Center Network (FADC) will help Montana food-based businesses and providers institute best practices, comply with existing safety ordinances, and prepare their business for the new updates mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act. The trainings will cover a variety of food safety and food business topics and be held in locations around Montana. Trainings Include: Wholesale Success— Great Falls; Feb. 8, On Farm Food Safety Training— Bozeman, Feb. 11-12; Ronan, Feb...
5 - 312 Acres Grower Acres TPA Sugar% Quality Rating Nollmeyer Farms 263 40.07 19.25 35.28 DKS Farms Inc 78 39.82 19.21 35.14 L. Schmierer Farms Inc 83 39.55 19.15 34.97 Conradsen Bros Inc 225 40.79 18.51 34.83 Tveit Land & Cattle Co 130 41.04 18.25 34.67 313 Acres or More Grower Acres TPA Sugar% Quality Rating Tibbett’s Agland LLC 472 37.34 19.27 34.21 Triple C Farms Inc 399 37.88 18.75 33.90 Rice & Sons Inc 360 33.05 19.97 33.19 Triple H Farms 394 34.47 19.35 33.14 McPherson Farms Inc 413 34.65 19.17 33.03 20/20 Club Induction Grower A...
The Montana Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for an estimated $1.3 million in federal funding available through the Specialty Crop Block Grant (SCBG) program. Montana’s SCBG program benefits projects solely enhancing the competitiveness of Montana specialty crops. Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, peas, lentils, horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture. A list of crops commonly considered Montana specific is available on the program’s website. “The growth in Montana’s Specialty Crop Block G...
This year Haidle Farms, owned by Ryan Haidle, received the 20/20 award for Top 10 Beet Growers. The 20/20 reward is given to beet farmers that produce 20 Tons Per Acre(TPA) of beets with a 20+% sugar outage. Haidle Farms managed to produce 31.28 TPA with 20.08% sugar yield on 489 acres. "We were very lucky with nutrient soil and great weather this year," said Ryan, when asked how he achieved this year's harvest. Haidle Farms is a family run operation which Ryan Haidle manages with his brother...
Dee Ann Sifuentes of Sidney Sugars has been an employee since September of 1977. When Sifuentes first started at the factory, she began at the beet end of things. Her duties included overseeing the beets coming in as well as extracting the juice. "When I first started working for Sidney Sugars 38 years ago, there were only 7-8 women that worked here. Now there are 61 female employees at the factory out of the 251 that are employed here," said Dee Ann when asked about changes in the factory over...
USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Montana State University (MSU) Extension today announced seven Farm Bill informational meetings in communities across Montana. USDA and MSU Extension are conducting the meetings to inform Montana producers about important changes to the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) authorized by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill). NAP coverage provides financial assistance to producers of noninsurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory or prevented planting occurs due to natural...
The MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, which was formerly held in January, has been moved to March 3rd and 4th in 2016. The two-day trade show will hold educational sessions at the Richland County Event Center featuring the latest and greatest information and developments for Agricultural producers such as GMOs, livestock, and horticulture. It will begin at 9:00am on March 3rd with the Sidney Sugar's Growers Meeting taking place that afternoon; this is the first year that Ag Days and the Growers...
Red Ribbon Week was October 23-30 across the nation, and the Richland County Comes Together Committee and Checkers worked in partnership with City Council, the DUI Taskforce, District II Drug and Alcohol, RSVP and the Richland County Health Department, the Foundation for Community Care, law enforcement, city officials, and local businesses to voice a clear message about the dangers of drug use. When Checkers' owner Janette McCollum's learned that findings from a 2015 Quest Diagnostics study...
With oil production slowing down in 2015, many are wondering what's next for Richland County and how the downturn is going to effect a community that has seen so many changes over the last few years. As part of Richland Economic Development's annual report, Leslie Messer, Executive Director, interviewed nine area businesses about how the downturn had affected them. "We try to keep a pulse on how the businesses in our area are coping," said Messer. With much of the country being in recession when...
The Taphouse Bar & Grill has enjoyed a steady business since opening in July. With the best beer selection in N.E. Montana, including some not found east of Billings, as well as selections from Meadowlark Brewery and Beaver Creek Brewery, the Taphouse has a beer to suit everyone. A good selection of wine is also available. The Taphouse offers a full menu but specializes in burgers and appetizers. Bryce Baker said more appetizers have been added, with even more to come. The Taphouse is home to...
The Rod Iron Grill opened to the public in February of 2015 offering a classy, unique dining and entertainment establishment that Sidney had needed and wanted for a long time. Joel Kleinsasser, part owner said, "While we got off to a rough start, over the months we have pulled it together and the public is very happy with our food and service." Some fine-tuning is taking place with a new menu coming early in the new year which will reflect more of what they wanted to do. "We have a better idea...
When Prewitt & Co. purchased the Sidney Livestock 4 years ago, Tim Larson became manager and has been able to slowly grow the business to where it is today. The past few years, Sidney Livestock has grown substantially and has proven to be quite an asset to Sidney's Community. This year Sidney Livestock has been able to add on more cattle pens in August to make room to bring in even more animals for sale days. They even replaced their water tanks and Tim Larson goes on to say, "We definitely try...
Watford City western footwear & apparel story Saddle Up opened a new store in Sidney in May 2015. Store owners Mark and Dori Sparby opened the new store due to the request of Sidney residents that were traveling to Watford City to purchase western apparel that was not available in Sidney. The store has had great success this year and the Sparby's also opened a store in Dickinson, ND in 2015. They also have plans to open other stores in additional cities in North Dakota, Montana and South Dakota...
The Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project had its plans for the modifications to the weir diversion project put on hold pending more research on the pallid sturgeon, an endangered species which inhabits the Yellowstone River. The purpose of the project was to comply with the Endangered Species Act and address the declining number of pallid sturgeon. After 15 years and millions of dollars spent to study the fish as well as the river, the best course of action seemed to be modifying the rock...
The Sidney High School Wrestling Team placed second in at state in 2015. They had four individual state champions. Gresh Jones became a four time Montana State Champ, 24th in Montana History. Jones is currently a redshirt freshman wrestling for the University of Minnesota majoring in Kinesiology. Trace Jones became a two time Montana State Champ and is a Junior at Sidney High School. He is focusing his talents on football and track. Cody Christian was a state champ as a senior. He is attending c...
On June 7, 2015 Shopko Hometown opened at its second location at 500 North Central Ave in Sidney, the only community to have two Hometown stores. Shopko Hometown carries a range of merchandise such as Nike and Adidas brand shoes, housewares, men's, women's, and children's apparel, dry and canned goods, pet supplies, toys, electronics, and so much more of 'The stuff that counts.' Be sure to stop in and get a Shopko cash rewards card and get special offers and coupons; card members can earn a $10...
For the second year in a row, Sidney Sugars completed a record harvest, averaging 32.3 tons per acre and 18.73 sugar for the 2015 season. The crop was visually deceiving other than in the Savage area where they got an early start and no hail. "Other areas surprised us," agricultural manager Russ Fullmer said. Root samples were good with the tonnage estimate raised three times. The weather cooperated with warm, not too hot, days and cool nights in September. The new Roundup ready beets produce...
There are two housing developments that began building in 2015, Sunset Village and Sage Court. The plans for Sunset Village began about seven years ago as the housing board recognized the need to renovate or replace the existing Sunset apartments. HUD required a plan for replacement housing before they would approve the demolition of the Sunset apartments. Mountain Plains Equity Group of Billings worked with the local housing board to complete the tax credit application and home grant that is...
C4 Athletics opened in August, providing athletic gear, footwear and clothing in response to daily requests owners Clint and Sherry Hecker fielded at High Caliber Sports. After beginning with baseball equipment, the store is now packed full of wrestling shoes and gear, and hockey equipment. Athletic footwear, active wear by Under Armour, plus sports medicine supplies fill the aisles. School spirit attire in local school colors, and Richland Rangers, is now in stock as are sunglasses, athletic...
On the corner of Central, Sidney citizens can see the new Trendz Hair Salon building. Sarah Huft purchased Trendz in February of 2014, the new establishment is bigger, better and offers a lot more services and products since their smaller, hard to find salon. "We needed a new location because there was barely enough room for my three hair stylists and three nail technicians I had. We were tripping over each other constantly. There is such a lack of commercial real estate in Sidney there was...
During the warmer months of 2015, the City spent considerable time and energy upgrading Watertower, Quillings, and Lalonde parks. Watertower Park received new bleachers, dugout benches, and a new fence, as the old fence was a maintenance issue for the City. The new fence was pushed back sixteen feet allowing more room for mowing, adequate space for growing trees, and an eventual ADA compliant sidewalk. City Park Superintendent, Stephanie Ridl, received a Richland County Recreation Grant which co...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has a fantastic afternoon and evening of fun planned for Saturday, November 28. Take advantage of fantastic sales all over town, visit with your friends and neighbors, and check out all the food, beverage and craft vendors. BPA will host a kid's carnival from noon to 4pm in the Village Square Mall. For a minimum $5 charge, kids can enjoy the bean bag toss, coin toss, bowling and much, much more. Check out the tantalizing aromas in the RestorX...
(BPT) - The holiday season is often dubbed “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many Americans, it can be an incredibly stressful time financially. The National Retail Federation predicts a 4.1 percent increase in sales this year, with the average American set to spend an estimated $786 in the following categories: * $459.87 on gifts for family * $80.00 on gifts for friends * $26.03 on colleagues * $30.43 on the other people in their lives Whether shopping online or in-store, there’s often a temptation to spend too much on gifts...
