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Volume IX, Issue 2 February 2015 PRST STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID OMAHA, NE PERMIT NO. 36 Section A Sharing stories Northey says producers need to celebrate Iowa’s agricultural heritage by Gordon Wolf Iowa has a lot to be proud of when it comes to agriculture, Iowa Secretary of State Bill Northey said at the 20th annual Chero- kee County Ag Show on Wednesday. “We have great agricul- ture in the state. Some- times we take it for grant- ed. Sometimes we just as- sume that after four weeks of no rain, everybody else has eight-foot-tall corn out there. We have wonder- ful production in Iowa. A great tradition of agricul- ture, as well. These events (the ag show) celebrate that,” he said. But Northey also pointed out that Iowa’s agriculture producers need to share their story with others, and not just those who live large cities in Iowa and other states, but also those who live in the producers’ communities. He also pointed out that agriculture has its chal- lenges, some of which grab headlines. One such challenge is the 60-day notice of intent to sue is- sued by Des Moines Water Works to supervisors in Sac, Buena Vista and Cal- houn counties regarding drainage districts. Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts in those counties are dis- charging groundwater with nitrate levels as high as 39.2 milligrams per liter, which is four times the federally required Safe Drinking Regulatory limit of 10 milligrams per liter. Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts should be considered point-source contributors to water and should have permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimi- nation system (NPDES). “Agriculture is great in Iowa, but we have plenty of challenges. We need to make sure we tell our story at every opportunity we have,” said Northey. He continued that, at an event at which he spoke on Wednesday morning, the conversation was how producers should invite neighbors, individuals from town, members of their church congregation and others to get in the combine in the fall and talk about what’s taking place on farms. “Show them your cover crops. Let’s tell our story a little bit, not just to a rela- tive in Des Moines, but it’s important to folks in your own community,” North- ey said. “That’s a public policy piece that we don’t want to come and clip us later simply because peo- ple don’t understand.” He continued that what is occurring on farms, with the technology, the sophistication of opera- tions and the knowledge required to operate farms, is exciting for individuals to see. “We don’t have to teach them the difference be- tween strip till and no till or about 28 percent an- hydrous, but if we show them why we’re doing the things we do, how sophis- ticated we are, how this stuff all interacts, I think we’ll have a chance to be able to still make our own decisions and hand that opportunity on to the next generation. “People have a sense of trust in many cases, but I think we see in some cases, others are trying to undermine that trust and that appreciation.” An example of how proud Iowa farmers are of their farming operations and farming history can be seen in the Century Farm Awards and Heritage Farm Awards presented each year at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Century Farm Awards are present- ed to those whose farm has been in the family for 100 years; the Heritage Farm Award signifies 150 years of family ownership. The day that he helps hand out those awards is Northey’s favorite day at the Iowa State Fair. “We’ll go eight-plus hours of families coming across the stage, pick- ing up an award for hav- ing a farm in a family for 100 years or 150 years. We gave out 344 Century Farm awards last year at the state fair, and 88 Heri- tage Farm awards. There’s a lot of hugging and cry- ing, talking about grand- pa, hugging the grandkids and talk about how some day they (the grandkids) will be back in 50 years to receive their own award,” said Northey. Northey related an in- cident that occurred three years ago on the day the awards were handed out, when an individual who was setting up the stage in the tent for a rock concert in the evening wanted to talk to him about the Cen- tury Farm and Heritage Farm awards. Northey thought the man was going to com- plain that the awards cer- emony took too long, but the individual said it was his first time in Iowa. He’d grown up in Philadelphia and moved to Houston and then to Los Angeles. The individual said watch- ing the families go across the stage to receive their awards was the coolest thing he’d ever seen. “He went on for about 20 minutes, talking about the families, the multiple generations, the hugging, how someone would say their mom lived on the farm for 92 years and that everyone clapped,” said Northey. “And he got it all, and he knew nothing about farming. I’d say he would be the last person that gets this.” Northey said the indi- vidual wanted to go back home, get a video camera and return to interview the families on why their farms connect them to the past and the future and to their communities. “I have no idea whether he did that or he didn’t. But I think if some folks are telling him that farm- ers are ruining the world again, whether it’s water quality this time or dust next time, or they’re say- ing it’s because we don’t STORIES, Page 2A The Rice Family Farm located north of Ida Grove proclaims its Century Farm status on the barn. Photo by Gordon Wolf

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Volume IX, Issue 2 February 2015

PRST STDU.S. POSTAGE

PAIDOMAHA, NE

PERMIT NO. 36

Section

A

Sharing storiesNorthey says producers need

to celebrate Iowa’s agricultural heritageby Gordon WolfIowa has a lot to be

proud of when it comes to agriculture, Iowa Secretary of State Bill Northey said at the 20th annual Chero-kee County Ag Show on Wednesday.

“We have great agricul-ture in the state. Some-times we take it for grant-ed. Sometimes we just as-sume that after four weeks of no rain, everybody else has eight-foot-tall corn out there. We have wonder-ful production in Iowa. A great tradition of agricul-ture, as well. These events (the ag show) celebrate that,” he said.

But Northey also pointed out that Iowa’s agriculture producers need to share their story with others, and not just those who live large cities in Iowa and other states, but also those who live in the producers’ communities.

He also pointed out that agriculture has its chal-lenges, some of which grab headlines. One such challenge is the 60-day notice of intent to sue is-sued by Des Moines Water Works to supervisors in Sac, Buena Vista and Cal-houn counties regarding drainage districts. Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts in those counties are dis-charging groundwater with nitrate levels as high as 39.2 milligrams per liter, which is four times the federally required Safe Drinking Regulatory limit of 10 milligrams per liter. Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts should be considered point-source contributors to water and should have permits under the National

Pollutant Discharge Elimi-nation system (NPDES).

“Agriculture is great in Iowa, but we have plenty of challenges. We need to make sure we tell our story at every opportunity we have,” said Northey.

He continued that, at an event at which he spoke on Wednesday morning, the conversation was how producers should invite neighbors, individuals from town, members of their church congregation and others to get in the combine in the fall and talk about what’s taking place on farms.

“Show them your cover crops. Let’s tell our story a little bit, not just to a rela-tive in Des Moines, but it’s

important to folks in your own community,” North-ey said. “That’s a public policy piece that we don’t want to come and clip us later simply because peo-ple don’t understand.”

He continued that what is occurring on farms, with the technology, the sophistication of opera-tions and the knowledge required to operate farms, is exciting for individuals to see.

“We don’t have to teach them the difference be-tween strip till and no till or about 28 percent an-hydrous, but if we show them why we’re doing the things we do, how sophis-ticated we are, how this stuff all interacts, I think

we’ll have a chance to be able to still make our own decisions and hand that opportunity on to the next generation.

“People have a sense of trust in many cases, but I think we see in some cases, others are trying to undermine that trust and that appreciation.”

An example of how proud Iowa farmers are of their farming operations and farming history can be seen in the Century Farm Awards and Heritage Farm Awards presented each year at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Century Farm Awards are present-ed to those whose farm has been in the family for 100 years; the Heritage

Farm Award signifies 150 years of family ownership.

The day that he helps hand out those awards is Northey’s favorite day at the Iowa State Fair.

“We’ll go eight-plus hours of families coming across the stage, pick-ing up an award for hav-ing a farm in a family for 100 years or 150 years. We gave out 344 Century Farm awards last year at the state fair, and 88 Heri-tage Farm awards. There’s a lot of hugging and cry-ing, talking about grand-pa, hugging the grandkids and talk about how some day they (the grandkids) will be back in 50 years to receive their own award,” said Northey.

Northey related an in-cident that occurred three years ago on the day the awards were handed out, when an individual who was setting up the stage in the tent for a rock concert in the evening wanted to talk to him about the Cen-tury Farm and Heritage Farm awards.

Northey thought the man was going to com-plain that the awards cer-emony took too long, but the individual said it was his first time in Iowa. He’d grown up in Philadelphia and moved to Houston and then to Los Angeles. The individual said watch-ing the families go across the stage to receive their awards was the coolest thing he’d ever seen.

“He went on for about 20 minutes, talking about the families, the multiple generations, the hugging, how someone would say their mom lived on the farm for 92 years and that everyone clapped,” said Northey. “And he got it all, and he knew nothing about farming. I’d say he would be the last person that gets this.”

Northey said the indi-vidual wanted to go back home, get a video camera and return to interview the families on why their farms connect them to the past and the future and to their communities.

“I have no idea whether he did that or he didn’t. But I think if some folks are telling him that farm-ers are ruining the world again, whether it’s water quality this time or dust next time, or they’re say-ing it’s because we don’t

STORIES, Page 2A

The Rice Family Farm located north of Ida Grove proclaims its Century Farm status on the barn. Photo by Gordon Wolf

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“He didn’t know the difference between the things we are doing and the difference between strip till and no till and all those kinds of things, but he would get that we care. That’s part of it.”

Northey said some news about agricul-ture might be only about the economics, but farming is more than just about the dollar, and that part of the story should also be related to people.

“We’ll still see some headlines that will make us mad and want to throw the paper on the floor. But some people will get that farmers care, that the vast majority of farmers really care what happens to that land,” said Northey. “We feel a respon-sibility to those who came before us and to those who come after us, whether they are family members or not, and to the communities we live in. If we can trans-late that, that will help us get through these challenging times as well. And you can do that by taking folks out and by sharing what’s happening.”

The driveway sign at the Les and Phyllis Lewis farm east of Denison proudly displays a Century Farm sign, as well as other informational and humorous postings. Photo by Gordon Wolf

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“Iowa is the biggest corn producing state. We also produce more corn than all but three countries in the world. Only the United States, China and Brazil produce more corn than the state of Iowa.

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Families encouraged to apply for Century, Heritage farm awards

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey encouraged eligible farm owners to apply for the 2015 Century and Heritage Farm Program. The program, sponsored by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Farm Bureau, recognizes families that have owned their farm for 100 years in the case of Century Farms and 150 years for Heritage Farms.

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Northey said several years ago agriculture officials aggressively looked at issues concerning nitrogen and phosphorus in water, recognizing it could create some regulations.

“Three years ago we started the Nutrient Reduction Strategy. We went to the Iowa Legislature, and this strat-egy was created with the Department of Natural Resourc-es, Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa State University,” said Northey.

“It was a premise that voluntary effort by farmers, by providing them the tools, and the information that can help them use those tools on their individual farms, is the best way to get some progress and some changes.”

He said the measures are designed to have positive effect on production and to positively impact the retention of nutrients on farms. The Iowa Legislature was asked for cost-share money for cover crops and bioreactors.

Northey said one measure is to put wood chips in tile lines. He said as the water goes through the tile lines, the amount of nitrates is reduced by about 50 percent.

Nutrient reduction wetlands have also been developed; about 70 exist in Iowa. Northey explained tile line water is captured and surfaced into a wetland. The result is a 40 to 70 percent reduction in the amount of nitrates leaving the wetland compared to what went in.

In the first year, the Iowa Legislature provided $2.4 million, plus $10 million worth of one-time money.

Last year the Iowa Legislature provided $4.4 million.

Northey said the request for this year and the gover-nor’s recommendation to the legislature is for $7.5 million to provide incentives for farmers to try nutrient reduction measures that work on their farms.

The dollars are used as a cost-share measure, matched by the farmers who apply for and receive the funds. Northey said a large part of the cost-share is for farmers trying cover crops for the first time.

“The first year, we had $2.8 million we could put towards that. We had 1,000 farmers come forward in 10 days and put in $2.8 million of their own money to be able to participate in that cost-share program,” said Northey.

“Again, there’s no requirement. Nobody has to do this. To those who say farmers won’t do this without some sort of legal requirement to do it, I’d say we’ve had cooperative cost-share programs on the conservation side for gen-erations. Farmers have proven they will step forward on that, and they certainly stepped forward two years ago on the cover crops, strip till, no till and nitrification inhibitor program as well.”

The question, he added, is how to get from a few per-cent participation in cover crops to 10, 20 or 30 percent participation.

“Is it field days, is it sharing equipment; what is it we need to know?” he asked.

“What makes farmers more comfortable with making that choice and that decision on their own?”

Last year $1.4 million was put toward the statewide cost-share initiative; 500 farmers came forward in five days to access all those dollars and matched it with their own $1.4 million.

“I’d say the investment we’re making as a state, the encouragement we get from our farm groups, the type of

adoption we’re getting from our farmers, exceeds what’s happening in any other place that I’m aware of. So we have farmers that are engaged,” said Northey.

He said last week Iowa received an award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) for the work Iowa farms are doing on a voluntary basis to implement additional measures that will help keep nutrients on their land and in their crops.

“The only way we want to lose these things (the nu-trients) is in our grain truck. We don’t want to lose them through our tile lines or in any other ways,” said Northey.

“And we’re looking at ways we can make us more pro-ductive but also be able to make sure we have a better water quality impact within this state as well.”

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey spoke Tuesday in Cherokee. Photo by Gordon Wolf

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by Gordon WolfIowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill

Northey said Tuesday that if a lawsuit is filed by Des Moines Water Works against drainage districts in Sac, Buena Vista and Calhoun counties, it could spend a decade in the courts.

Northey commented Tuesday at the 20th annual Cherokee County Ag Show on the Des Moines Water Works 60-day notice of intent to sue supervisors in Sac, Buena Vista and Calhoun counties re-garding drainage districts.

Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts in those counties are discharging groundwater with nitrate lev-els as high as 39.2 milligrams per liter, which is four times the federally required Safe Drinking Regulatory limit of 10 mil-ligrams per liter.

Des Moines Water Works says the drainage districts should be considered point-source contributors to water and should have permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination system (NPDES).

Northey explained the 60-day notice is required because Clean Water Act provi-sions are being addressed.

The 60-day notice was filed on January 9. Northey said there is no requirement that Des Moines Water Works has to file a lawsuit at the end of the 60 days.

“They don’t have a time frame in which they have to have that lawsuit filed. They can decide to not file it; they could de-cide to file it right away or we could be standing five years from now saying that they provided notice but we haven’t seen a lawsuit yet. There are a lot of different possibilities,” Northey said.

Northey doesn’t believe Des Moines Water Works is seeking damages but is asking for drainage districts to be regu-lated as point sources, to be required to have a permit and to not allow water that has more than 10 parts per million of ni-trates to leave the draining district.

Northey believes what Des Moines Water Works is asking for confuses parts of the drinking water standards and the Clean Water Act.

“The Clean Water Act doesn’t have those kinds of provisions,” Northey said.

“Certainly, a permitting process is not instituted by districts themselves. That’s instituted by regulating agencies, like the Department of Natural Resources or the Environmental Protection Agency. That would be a more logical place why you might expect that type of lawsuit to occur, and there have been lawsuits like that.”

He continued that drainage district laws in Iowa don’t allow the districts them-selves to impose regulations on their members. He said drainage districts just provide a common drainage area. Those whose tile lines are connected to the dis-trict pay, based on the benefit received from the common drainage area.

“Generally, drainage districts are not seen to have the authority to tell you or me that we can’t till up an old building lot and be able to have crop production there, or that we can’t put another tile line in our field and access that drainage,” Northey explained.

“They are about providing that com-mon drainage, providing a way to pay for it. This would be quite an extension from their current accepted legal respon-sibilities for some type of a regulatory process.”

Northey said some drainage districts

have planned to replumb their areas, add additional drainage and engineer a nutri-ent reduction wetland.

“That’s something we want to engineer to start, done on a voluntary basis, not on a regulatory basis, and if this was a regu-lation, you can quickly see and quickly ask what kind of regulation would that district have on its farmers,” he said.

Northey said plenty of information is available on methods to use cover crops and to look at more precise nitrogen ap-plication on farm land. He believes new tools will be developed to more precisely determine how much nitrogen is left in the soil and how much nitrogen the crop needs.

“To regulate around this, I think, would create all kinds of issues,” he added.

“First of all, I think there’d be folks that would sue right away if they were told to do something that probably didn’t have or wasn’t proven to have an impact on water quality,” Northey said.

He continued that if Des Moines Water Works proceeds with a lawsuit, it won’t stop with the 10 drainage districts in Sac, Buena Vista and Calhoun counties. It would affect the other draining districts

in Iowa (more than 3,000 exist).Northey said secretaries of agriculture

from other states are closely watching what is happening in Iowa to gauge the potential effect in their states.

The lawsuit could also affect the dis-charge of storm water from storm sewers in urban areas, he added. He said storm sewers need to be managed correctly, and in many cases, cities are making invest-ments on a voluntary basis to clean up storm water.

The implications of a lawsuit over

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, right, discussed a potential lawsuit that may be filed by Des Moines Water Works in Polk County, against Sac, Buena Vista and Cal-houn counties regarding drainage districts. The counties are highlighted above. Photo by Gordon Wolf

Why Calhoun/Buena Vista/Sac/Counties?•Buena Vista, Calhoun, and Sac Coun-

ties are in the Des Moines Lobe. Hun-dreds of drainage districts are in these three counties. Under Iowa law, drain-age districts are responsible for con-structing, administering, and maintain-ing drainage infrastructure. Within each drainage district, a network of pipes and ditches moves groundwater and agricultural pollutants quickly into our drinking water sources.

•RecentwatermonitoringbyDesMoinesWater Works at 72 sample sites in Buena Vista, Sac, and Calhoun Coun-ties have shown nitrate levels as high as 39.2 mg/L in groundwater discharged by drainages districts. This is four times the federally required Safe Drinking Water regulatory limit of 10 mg/L.

•Laws require that “point sources”dis-charging into rivers must have permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Because drainage districts transport nitrate pol-lution through a system of channels and pipes, they should be recognized and held accountable like every other point source contributor. NPDES permits have been successful nationwide in control-ling pollution caused by industrial waste and sanitary sewer discharge.

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“Somebody is using the water from someplace, and if they had reason to believe someone else is causing a prob-lem, believe me, there’d be a lawyer ready to sue,” said Northey.

He said a lawsuit would create a legal nightmare, uncertainty and a regulatory system that would remove incentives for innovation and creativity, which are needed to manage farms in the long term.

“I think it would be a real mistake for Des Moines Water Works to potentially go forward with this. I certainly think it would be a mistake if they had any suc-cess in this,” Northey said.

“I don’t know what they’re going to do. We’ve had conversations. Others have as well. I’m not sure that there’s anything anybody else brings to them that will change their mind on what they’re going to do, but I believe they’ve not made up their mind yet on whether they’re going to file a lawsuit or exactly what that would look like. So it’s one of those pieces of uncertainty that’s out there.”

He said if a lawsuit is filed, the lawyers involved would be able to build second homes, buy boats and take long vacation from the legal fees that would be gener-ated by lawsuits around the Clean Water Act.

“There will be a lot of people who will have to pay for that cost. It will make life more expensive. It will make it more un-certain,” he said.

Northey said voluntary reduction of nu-trients is a better method.

“I believe that those who oppose this lawsuit are not anti-clean water. We

have a better way, and that’s engaging agriculture in a way that will let us bring new tools that will find our engagement,” Northey said.

He added that solutions for nutrient re-duction are different from farm to farm and even among areas on the same farm. Farmers need to be able to select methods that work on their farms, Northey said.

Northey believes that 10 or 15 years from now, some of the methods that will be considered the best tools for nutrient reduction are things that don’t yet exist.

“The things we’ll be able to develop over the next 10 or 15 years will give us

those tools to do a better job,” he said. “When we do that better job, I think

we’ll have the opportunity to feed that crop even more correctly as well and be more productive when we do it, as well.”

Northey added later that farmers need to find things that reduce nutrients on their farms and to tell others what they are doing.

“We’re seeing lots of different ways for folks to engage,” said Northey.

“When we do that, I think we get the chance to tell folks that we are figuring out what’s working and we’re doing more things that will do a better job and raise a

better crop but have less of an impact off the farm as well.”

Des Moines Water Works explained its reason for issuing the January 9 notice of intent to sue in its answers to frequently asked questions posted on its website.

What is a Notice of Intent to Sue?•On January 8, 2015, the Board of

Water Works Trustees voted unanimous-ly to issue a notice of intent to sue to the Sac County Board of Supervisors, Buena Vista County Board of Supervisors and Calhoun County Board of Supervisors in their role as governing authority for 10 drainage districts that are point sources discharging pollutants into the Raccoon River.

•Thenoticeisdirectedatthelocalgov-erning authorities of drainage districts, not individual farmers.

•Thenoticeofintenttosueisa60daynotification under the citizen suit provi-sion of the Federal Water Pollution Con-trol Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) and Iowa Code Chapter 455B. The notice communicates the in-tent of the Board of Water Works Trust-ees to sue for discharge of pollutants into the Raccoon River by point sources without the permits required by law.

•If thenameddrainagedistrictsdonotcease to discharge pollutants without permits or act within 60 days to cor-rect the ongoing violations, Des Moines Water Works will seek relief in federal court under the Clean Water Act and Iowa Code citizen suit provisions.

What is the Nitrate Pollution Problem?

•Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for nitrate is10 mg/L. This standard is set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Des Moines Water Works is legally obligated to provide clean and safe drinking water that meets this MCL standard.

•NitratelevelsabovetheMCLareapublichealthrisk.Thegreatesthealthriskposedbyhighnitrateconcentrationsisforinfantsundersixmonthsofage.Nitratecanreducetheabilityofthebaby’sbloodtocarryoxygen.ThismayresultinBlueBabySyndrome.

•StandardDesMoinesWaterWorkstreatmentprocessesdonotremovenitratefromdrinking water. Des Moines Water Works staff monitors nitrate concentrations in the source waters and activates a costly nitrate removal facility when necessary in order to produce a safe water supply meeting the MCL.

•DesMoinesWaterWorkshascontinuouslyrunitsdenitrificationfacilitiessinceDe-cember 4, 2014. In 2013, when nitrate levels in the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers wereatarecordhigh,DesMoinesWaterWorksincurredapproximately$900,000in treatment costs and lost revenues.

•ThisisnotaboutthedailycoststooperatetheNitrateRemovalFacility.Itisaboutmeet-ing a public safety need for customers. Des Moines Water Works cannot continue to meet the increasing water demand of our customers without regulation of pollutants in our source water. Record high nitrate concentrations will demand significant future capital investments to remove this pollutant and provide safe drinking water to a grow-ing central Iowa.

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411 acres M/L, Montgomery County FarmlandSelling in 2 Parcels - 205 acres M/L & 206 acres M/L.Located north of Villisca, IA approx. 10 miles on Highway 71

General Descriptions:Parcel #1 Nodaway River bottom ground with approximately 19 acres of timber.Parcel #2 Upland cropland with terraces, tile and pasture land with good fences. This parcel has a 4000 bu. bin and older open front hog confinement building located on the south side of the farm, the acreage site on the north side of the property is exempt. The has been in the Bashaw family for many years and has been well cared for.Parcel #1 - Brief Legal: Fractional NE1/4 and N1/2 SE1/4 section 4 Washington Township, Montgomery County, IA. Complete legal according to abstract.• Taxable acres - 205.5 • Cropland acres - 182.52 (Non Hel) • Crop Bases & Yields - See Below • CSR II - on entire farm 67.6 / on crop acres 70.2 / CSR I - on entire farm 69.6 • Net Taxes - $6,454Parcel #2 - Brief Legal: S1/2 SW1/4 except Parcel A, and S1/2 NW1/4 SW1/4 section 34 Douglas Township and north 62.16 acres of S1/2 frac-tional NW1/4 and N1/2 fractional NW1/4 section 3 Washington Township, Montgomery County, IA. Complete legal according to abstract. • Taxable acres - 206.02 • Cropland acres - 137.69 M/L • Pasture acres - 60 M/L • Crop Bases & Yields - See Below • CSR II - on entire farm 67.2 / Cropland CSR 68.8 • Pasture CSR - 63.7 • Net Taxes - $5,488FSA Info - Note to be split according to FSA rules after auction and new program. Terms to be announced at auction. • Cropland - 320.21 • Pasture land - 60 • Corn Base - 163.60 • Corn Yield - 102/102 • Bean Base - 127.60 • Bean Yield - 34/34Terms - 10% down day of auction with balance due at closing on March 17, 2015 when abstract and deed will be given, taxes will be prorated to closing. Full pos-session at closing time. • Closing Agent - Deborah Peterson, Att., Council Bluffs, IA • Agency - Bergren Real Estate & Auction are seller’s agents only.Auctioneer & Seller Disclosure -The information has been received by sourcesbelieved to be reliable. Seller and Auctioneer make no guarantees to their accuracy.

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What lies beneathIowa’s bridges show signs of wear, tear and age

by Dan MundtThe bridges of Iowa may appear to be

fine to drivers passing over them, but many have problems that can only be seen from underneath.

“We’re seeing the rapidly declining and deteriorating condition of timber piling in many bridges that were all built about the same time, probably in the 1940s and 50s, and so those pilings are all just wearing out,” said Crawford County Engineer Paul Assman.

“It starts to manifest itself when the heavier loads go over it and you start to see fracturing and cracking of the piling, in addition to the decay.”

Assman said many of Iowa’s bridges that were suitable for loads passing over them twenty-five years ago are not suit-able today.

“The loads that we’re seeing have in-creased much more rapidly than we’ve

been able to replace bridges,” he said.Heavier farm machinery and vehicles

are a fact to be dealt with, Assman said.“Agriculture is what it’s all about out

here and it’s our job to try to figure out how accommodate it,” he explained.

Each bridge in Crawford County is in-spected at least once every other year. All the bridges on the north half of the county are inspected one year and all the bridges on the south half of the county are inspected the next.

Assman said bridges in the area of a flooding event will be inspected to make sure there are no issues that would cause the bridge to fail.

He does all the bridge inspections him-self for a period of four years and then has a bridge specialist consultant inspect the bridges for two years.

“I think it’s good to mix them up, be-cause there are sometimes things I’ll

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“It’s a built-in way to make sure we’re not missing something.”

Consultants also assist Assman with the inspection of steel truss bridges, which sometimes require specialized equipment.

Assman said the condition of the bridge is evaluated, along with the amount of traffic the bridge is carrying.

When a bridge shows signs of deterio-ration that diminishes the capacity of the structure, the county will post a weight limit for the bridge, restricting the loads that can be carried across the bridge.

Structural members of a bridge are per-manently weakened when overstressed.

“If it’s stressed beyond the yield point, it will never get back to the strength it had,” Assman explained. “That can hap-

pen in steel and concrete and timber. It progressively starts to crack and fail. While it still is holding the bridge up, it’s been overstressed, so its capacity is reduced.”

A bridge with a posted weight limit can support a greater load than posted, but not safely.

“Almost every year, in the state of Iowa, a bridge fails because somebody went over it with too heavy a load,” Ass-man said.

Posting a weight limit is an acceptable, if less than ideal, temporary solution for a bridge on a gravel road, but is not a good option for deteriorating bridges on paved roads.

“That’s something we really want to try to avoid on our paved system,” Ass-man said.

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The goals for updating these procedures are to: 1) implement consistent multi-state procedures; 2) improve efficiency; 3) in-corporate the use of new technology and; 4) main-tain the level of determina-tion quality and accuracy.

Prior to publishing these draft procedures NRCS conducted an exhaustive development process that included public explana-tion and multiple listening sessions and a review by each state’s State Techni-cal Committee.

Official notice of the change can be found in the Federal Register. Elec-tronic comments must be submitted through regula-tions.gov.

Comments also can be hand carried or mailed to State Conservationist Jay Mar, 210 Walnut Street, Room 693, Des Moines, Iowa 50309-2180, tele-phone: (515) 284-4769, email: [email protected].

The proposed SOSM procedures and informa-tion on how to submit comments is available at the Federal Register’s website.

USDA extends public comment period for proposed State Offsite Methods for Iowa until February 20

USDA adds EQIP signup cutoff deadline

Iowa farmers have an opportunity to receive conser-vation planning and financial assistance through USDA this year. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is adding a second Environmental Quality Incen-tives Program (EQIP) signup deadline of April 17.

Through EQIP, NRCS provides financial and techni-cal assistance to install conservation practices such as nutrient management, terraces, grassed waterways, cover crops, manure management facilities, and pasture management. Many of these practices help reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, and even create much-needed wildlife habitat to the Iowa landscape.

EQIP, one of USDA’s most popular conservation pro-grams, is offered through a continuous signup, but NRCS periodically makes application selections as funding al-lows. Last year, NRCS provided more than $27 million in EQIP financial assistance to Iowa farmers.

Several EQIP initiatives are included in the signup, where NRCS sets aside financial assistance for specific practices and producers.

Those interested should visit their local NRCS office for more information about conservation planning and financial assistance to fund conservation practices on their farm, or go to www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov.

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Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey is the in-augural podcast guest followed by Mills County farmer Steve McGrew.

“Audio storytelling via podcasts is an excellent way of getting at unique perspectives on those people driv-ing conservation and water quality initiatives in Iowa,” said Comito.

“We think the material will be engaging to farmers and all Iowans.”

Podcasts, downloadable digital audio shows, began in 2005 to a small audience of iPod owners. Today, pod-casts can be downloaded quickly and directly onto any computer, smartphone or mobile device.

According to a recent article in the Washington Post, “Americans spend more than three hours a day commut-ing, working out, and doing household chores that can be accompanied by audio entertainment… smartphones and Bluetooth-enabled cars have made it easier than ever for listeners, who are still mostly men, to load up their favorite programs.”

Although there probably aren’t too many places in Iowa that sustain commutes as long as three hours, farmers spend a lot of time in tractors and have other instances when listening is more convenient than read-ing or watching.

“We want to introduce listeners to the diversity and depth of the folks who are doing their part to improve the land,” said Comito. “A conversation is the best format to

do more than skim the surface of a person’s motivations and attitudes.”

In the chat with Northey, listeners are reminded that he comes to his political position with experience of managing his own farm and as a former soil and water conservation district commissioner. Listeners can also learn that although his farm in Dickinson County is near the Iowa Great Lakes, he is not a water person.

“There is always something to do on the farm,” said Northey. “It [Spirit Lake] is a wonderful lake. We love getting out on our friends’ boats… But there was always hay to make, livestock to care for; it was hard to get away. ”

In the interview with McGrew, listeners learn about his 20 years of experimenting with cover crops, that he is considering fish farming and that he plays a unique musical instrument.

For the podcast series, Comito plans to talk to a broad pool of people who are concerned about water quality and soil health.

“We are open to suggestions of who to interview in upcoming shows,” she said. “We don’t want to be lim-ited by who we know. We will be starting with ILF part-ners and branching out from there. I look forward to meeting new people, hearing their stories and sharing those stories with a larger audience.”

The “Conservation Chat” podcasts are available through iTunes, the ILF webpage, and at www.conser-vationchat.org.

Individuals can subscribe to “Conservation Chat” through iTunes and get new episodes automatically downloaded to your computer or devices.

For more information about Iowa Learning Farms, visit the website: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/.

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Iowa Learning Farms February webinar focuses on forage crops and grazing

The Iowa Learning Farms (ILF) February webinar will feature Iowa State University Extension Beef Specialist Joe Sellers. The free webinar will be live at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18.

Sellers will present the feeding value of various annual forage crops, the pros and cons of grazing these crops compared to harvesting them as silage or hay. He will also discuss issues with establishing and utilizing cover crops after Iowa grain crops, as well as other applications for forage crops including pasture renovation and using annuals to fill forage supply gaps.

Sellers has been with ISU Extension and Outreach since 1987 and has worked primarily with beef, sheep and forage clients throughout his career. He has exten-sive background in beef and sheep management systems and works with producers as they decide feed rations, bull selection, grazing management and marketing. He has been a partner in the family farming operation in Lucas County since 1976.

The ILF webinars are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 1 p.m. They are free; all that is needed to participate is a computer with Internet access. To partici-pate, go to https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/ at 1 p.m. on the afternoon of the webinar and log in through the guest option.

Webinar participants will be able to converse with Sell-ers by typing their questions through the chat function. The webinar will be recorded and archived on the ILF website for viewing any time. All past webinars are ar-chived on the ILF website: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/Webinars/.

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Barry Fisher, an Indi-ana farmer and nation-ally recognized soil health specialist with the USDA’s Natural Resources Con-servation Service, recom-mends that they ask their farming partner these five questions.

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Organic matter (carbon) may be the most important indicator of a farm’s pro-ductivity. The amount of soil organic matter often determines the price farm-ers will pay to rent or buy land.

Finding a farmer who is interested in building organic matter by using practices like no-till and cover crops is like finding a bank with a better rate on a Certificate of Deposit, Fisher says.

2. Do you test the soil at least once every 4 years?

Fisher says maintaining fertility and pH levels are important to your farm’s productivity. Regular soil testing can give an indica-tion of trends in soil fertil-ity, pH and organic matter

levels in each field. These tests will determine the amount of fertilizer each field needs. If a field has a history of manure applica-tion and very high fertility, a farmer could save money by planting cover crops to keep those nutrients in place rather than applying more nutrients that may not be needed.

3. Do you use no-till practices?

Some landowners like the look of a clean-tilled field in the springtime. That “nice look” is short lived, though. “The real-ity is a field that has bare soil is subject to erosion and loss of organic matter, since it no longer has the protective cover from the crop residue on the sur-face,” Fisher says.

“No-till farming utilizes the crop residue to blanket the soil surface to protect it from the forces of in-tense rainfall and summer heat. This protective blan-

ket will conserve moisture for the crop and prevent loss of soil from wind ero-sion, water erosion and CO2 (carbon) that could be burned off by summer heat.”

4. Do you use cover crops?

“Like no-till, cover crops provide a green, protective blanket through the winter months or fallow times. The green-growing cover is collecting solar energy, putting down roots and providing habitat when the soil would otherwise be lifeless and barren,” says Fisher. This habitat provides food and shel-ter for a broad population of wildlife above ground and beneficial organisms below ground. As the new life emerges, cover crops hold onto the nutrients left from the previous crop and in turn releases them to the next crop. The solar rays these plants collect are powering photosynthesis, taking in CO2 from the at-

mosphere to produce food for the plant and the or-ganisms living in the root zone. This same process also releases clean oxygen to the air and builds nutri-ent rich organic matter in the soil.

5. What can we do together to improve soil health on my land?

To improve soil health, landowners and tenants have to think in terms of the long-term. According to Fisher, the duration of the lease agreement is perhaps the most criti-cal matter in encouraging the adoption of these soil health management sys-tems. “Farmers can actu-ally build the production capacity and resiliency of their landowner’s soil, but it may take several years to realize the full benefits of doing so,” Fisher says. He suggests that landown-

ers consider multiple-year leases that provide tenure security for the tenant. Longer tenures give both landowners and tenants more opportunities to improve soil health and realize the resulting lon-ger-term production and profitability gains through sustainable conservation practices.

“Improving soil health can provide long-term, stable dividends for you, your family and your farming partner,” Fisher says. “Improving soil health also can decrease the effects of flooding, make food production more resilient to weather extremes, and improve the health of water and wild-life, as well,” he adds.

Fisher encourages land-owners to learn more about the basics and bene-fits of soil health manage-ment systems and to begin the soil health discussion with their farming partner right away. “Even if you’re not a farmer or landowner, everyone has a great stake in improving the health of our soil,” he says.

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Could someone please come to my house and take down my Christmas tree? Please?

It’s still up.In all fairness we’ve had

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This weekend, we’ll be busy at the Iowa Beef Expo in Des Moines, showing cattle again.

Other Saturdays have included speech, show choir, and Scout events,

and snowstorms. OK, to be fair we could have done it the snowstorm weekend but where would the fun have been in that?

Plus, the little kid and I were too preoccupied with our bird feeders. The poor birds could not get to their food because it was so laden with snow. And we couldn’t get to the feeder because of the nice drifts from the door to the feeder.

I finally took the screen off the window, and stepped out into the snow (barefoot) to grab the feeder hanging on the deck. The little kid thought it was “cool” but golly was it cold!

We worked for awhile to get all the snow off, and the soggy bird seed out.

In the meantime we threw some seed on top of a plastic lid, weighted down of course, and let the birds have a bit to eat.

The little minions went to town with the lunch. Muammar and Genghis, our visiting blue jays, so named because they are bullies around the feeder, even had a bit of lunch too after they chased everyone else away of course.

Bonnie and Clyde en-joyed a bit of lunch, but they share with everyone when they eat. Clyde’s been hanging out by my

bedroom window for quite some time, trying to fight with himself. I eventu-ally open the window and turn up the music and that seems to chase him away for awhile. When we no-ticed the lady, we named her Bonnie because it fit well with Clyde.

A couple days later, I asked the little guy to scoop the front entrance so I could use it. We had been coming and going through the garage. When I turned around, he was on the deck, making a snowman.

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Construction on the $14.4 million project in Arcadia is scheduled to begin this spring, with completion targeted for the summer of 2016. The new mill will be built because FAC’s existing mill has been running at capacity for several years, said FAC Operations Manager Dar-rell Henkenius.

“We are turning feed business away because our current feed mill is maxed out,” he said.

Although FAC’s existing plant currently produces pelleted feed, it does not meet the demands of live-stock producers in the co-

operative’s delivery zone. “It would be hard for us

to update our current feed mill to create more capac-ity for pelleted feed,” Hen-kenius said.

When the new mill is fully operational, FAC ex-pects an 11-million-bushel increase in demand from its customer-owners, al-lowing FAC to become a more competitive grain market for local farmers.

“We’re basically adding another market for area farmers’ corn,” said Hen-kenius. “We’re going to be aggressively bidding for corn to use in this feed mill.”

Other benefits of the project include future mar-ket growth and the addi-tional income gained from producing more feed tons.

Fifteen jobs will be cre-ated when the new, steel

frame feed mill is fully op-erational.

“Some of the jobs will be truck driving oppor-tunities, delivery people, and mixing/warehouse employees,” Henkenius said. “In a community like Arcadia, with 400 people, that’s an opportunity for possible new homes and other improvements.”

The new mill will feature a truck scale, receiving, loadout, warehouse, and adequate bin and storage space for raw ingredients and mixed feed. Exist-ing FAC infrastructure, including roads, grain re-ceiving, drying and stor-age facilities, fuel storage, offices, lab and computer networks, will be used to support the new mill. The existing FAC mill will re-main in production when the new mill is completed.

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2015 Mystery Quilt ~ FebruaryAdventurous quilters will love this

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Refer to January’s instructions for fab-ric and cutting instructions.

HAlF SQUARE TRIANGlESStarting with this month, each section

will have half square triangles created with main, background and border fab-rics.

Be sure to mark and keep track of the squares not used that month. Remember letters represent the 15 main colors (A to O), numbers represent the 12 background colors (1 to 12), and “X” represents the 8-12 border prints.

*If are making a scrappy quilt, use “A” to label your main fabrics, “1” to label your background fabrics, and “X) to label your border fabrics.

The 3” squares will be used to make the half square trian-gles. First, cut the 3” square in half diagonally (see diagrams at left). Use two triangles that

match sections, sew the triangles togeth-er, press, and trim to 2½” square. Again, remember to mark each block as you make it to avoid confusion when piecing

each section. The example at left was taken from Section II, and uses the “G” main fabric print, and an “X” border print.

PIECINGRemember to use a quarter inch foot

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Also, remember that “X” marks the miscellaneous medium background fab-rics.

Each finished block within the sections should be 2” square so you can match everything in the final month.

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BRIDGES, from Page 1A

“When you post a load restriction on a paved road, then you can substantially restrict the traffic flow, es-pecially in this day and age when semis are going up and down those highways all the time.”

Bridges on paved roads may receive a higher prior-ity, but most of the coun-ty’s deteriorating bridges still need to be replaced.

In the 15 years Assman has been the county engi-neer, 104 of the county’s 280 bridges have been replaced, with four on the schedule for this year.

Six bridges have been eliminated by abandoning and vacating roads in that time, but Assman said per-manently abandoning and closing a bridge is not a popular option.

The six bridges that have been abandoned were on dead-end roads or clearly were no longer needed, he said.

Assman said any move to abandon a bridge should be initiated by the county residents who would be affected.

“What we try to do is ad-dress the situations where there is the greatest need and where we can hope-fully impact more people,” he said. “But sometimes the greatest need is one or two residents, because they can’t get a school bus over the bridge or they can’t use it at all.”

Assman said the roads and bridges are here to serve the public.

“The people out there use the roads,” he said. “I’ve always been an ad-vocate that if they want it, we should try to take care of it and provide that ser-vice to them.”

About five bridges per year need to be replaced to try and stay ahead of the work, according to Ass-man.

After identifying a

bridge he believes should be moved onto the replace-ment schedule, the process begins by presenting the plan to the county board of supervisors.

Assman said he ex-plains to the board the concerns about the bridge and the number of users affected. “If (the supervi-sors) agree, then we move forward with the design process, which generally takes about a year and a half to two years before we actually let the project,” he said.

“When you use federal dollars, there are a lot of federal requirements that have to be met in order to get the project to a letting.”

County crews handle smaller bridge projects,

Assman said. “On the lower volume

roads, where we have drainage areas of a mile to two square miles, we can generally put in a corru-gated metal pipe structure and eliminate a bridge,” he said.

County crews also build steel girder bridges with timber decks. “A lot of times, we’ll use salvaged steel beams and that will help us on the cost of the project.”

Steel girder/timber deck bridge projects cost from $75,000 to $100,000, depending on how much salvaged material is used, Assman said.

Steel/timber bridges will last 50 to 60 years, though their decks will likely

need to be replaced after 20 or 25 years.

Bridges on high volume/long-term roadways will be replaced with concrete structures handled by an independent contractor.

Projects of this type typi-cally cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and up.

Concrete structures are much more permanent structures and are used in locations where a timber deck bridge would not be suitable.

County Road L51, a paved road south of Char-ter Oak, is such a location. The Willow Creek bridge on L51 will be replaced by a concrete twin box culvert this summer.

This type of structure

will last 75 years or more, Assman said.

As with everything, the available money limits the amount of work that can be done.

“Right now, we could probably build four to five contract bridges a year for the next five years, if the funds were there,” Ass-man said.

Those kinds of funds are not available. The average rate of contract bridge replacement proj-ects in Crawford County is between two and three per year.

Another complication is that both of the contract bridge replacement proj-ects scheduled for this year were bid significantly higher than the original

estimates.One project came in at

125 percent of the esti-mate and the other came in at 140 percent.

Assman said there are signs that the upward price trend will continue.

“If the prices continue to stay at those levels, it will mean fewer bridges,” he said. “It’s just simple math.”

Assman said the county will continue to look for ways to get the needed work done.

“Our charge is to ensure that the roadways are as safe as we can make them for the traveling public,” he said.

“You take the money you have and try to do the best that you can.”

Once a bridge falls below minimum safety standards, the bridge must be closed until it is repaired or replaced. a third option is abandonment, but that is usually not a popular deci-sion and should only happen if affected users agree the bridge is no longer needed, according to Crawford County engineer Paul assman. Photos by Dan Mundt

a popular option for bridge replacement is the box culvert design, according to assman. This design has no railing or other structure along the roadway, which eliminates the is-sues of larger machinery passing over.

Once a bridge begins to show signs of deterioration and structural weak-ening, the first step is to post weight restrictions for vehicles using the road. If the bridge continues to deteriorate, the weight limits will be lowered.

Many of the bridges built in the 1940s and 1950s are now rapidly deteriorating. The timber piling of this bridge, south of Denison just off of highway 59, shows obvious signs of decay.

Newer concrete structures, such as this bridge north of Manilla, will last 75 years or more.

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