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2 AG ROUNDUP MARCH 2017

March 2 - 3The Event Center

Richland Co. Fairgrounds, Sidney, MT

2017 Ag Days Are Just Around the Corner

By Meredith Brose

The MonDak Ag Days for 2017 will be held at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Sidney, Montana on Thursday, March 2nd and Friday, March 3rd. There will be a wide variety of topics to learn about from crops, diseases, and water reservation to agricultural safety, the crop market outlook, the cattle market outlook, and the weather outlook with experts concentrating on this local farming area. There will also be a banquet on Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. featuring Chad Prather. Tickets are available at Stockman Bank, Richland County Extension, Tri-County Implement

Ag SafetyThursday, March 2 at 9 am

Jim Larson, Montana Agriculture Safety

Program Coordinator “Last year 126 people died from four-wheeler and side-by-side accidents, seven

in Montana,” said Jim Larson, Montana Agriculture Safety Program Coordinator. He will be speaking on Thursday morning about safety and state laws for anyone who runs a business so that all may be in compliance. This will help farmers to protect themselves from liability problems and those with volunteers on a ranch or farm. Mr. Larson will also talk about child endangerment and family safety due to the fact that eleven family members died over the past two years due to electrocutions, drowning, and suffocations. He will guide farmers through a safety plan which is required by law.

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from Montana Farm

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Weather OutlookFriday, March 3 at noon

Patrick Gilchrist, Warning Coordination

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Dr. Jessica Rupp, MSU

Plant Pathologist Dr. Jessica Rupp, MSU Plant Pathologist, will be

be about pulse diseases. Montana is presently the number one producer of pulses in the United States. Her focus will be on lentil, dry pea, chick pea, and dry bean crops as well as fungal diseases. She will discuss options to treat pulse crops, testing seed, and planting fungicide seed treatments for a healthy start for crops. She is also an expert on the topic of bacterial and viral diseases and will be looking for resistance. “The more pulse acres we grow, we set ourselves up to get the diseases our neighbors in North Dakota and Canada have.” She also says that times are changing and shifts in technology apply. She will be informing farm-ers where to send samples for diagnosis if they suspect pulse diseases. Dr. Rupp has a team working in the Regional Pulse Crop Diagnostic Lab at MSU, Bozeman and Dr. Frankie Crutcher is leading research in Sidney at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center.

spots are lesions that cause the sugar beet to use all of its energy to counteract the disease which affects the quality of the sugar. Rhizoctonia is crown and root rot that affects the root itself. She recommends “staying on top of this infection,” and will talk about poor storage quality that causes the beets to breathe hot air and can cause problems throughout the pile. Farmers will be able to see pictures to be able to scout

a photo or send a sample to MSU or the Eastern Agriculture Center for diagnosis.

Pulse Diseases & Sugarbeet Diseases

Thursday, March 2 at 1:30 pm & 2 pm

Farm Transition PlanningFriday, March 3 at 1:30 pm

Edwin Haugen,

Thrivent FinancialEdwin Haugen, CLU and FIC at Thrivent

Financial in Minot, ND, will be discussing Farm Transition Planning at MonDak Ag Days.

Haugen is a third generation farmer and rancher and his family owned operation is over 100 years old. He is a registered commercial cattle breeder and ND Organic and traditional farmer.

In 2008, Haugen co-created “Keeping the Farm in the Family” program, which is one of the most requested seminars by Thrivent Fi-nancial nation-wide. He has conducted over 150 seminars over the past 25 years and in 2010

he received the Thrivent Financial “Hall of Fame” award. Less than 2% of Thrivent Financial agents achieve this status.

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Crop Market OutlookFriday, March 3 at 9 am

Dr. Joe Janzen, MSU Department of

Agricultural Economics

The Crop Market Outlook will be predicted by Dr. Joe Janzen from the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics on Friday morning. He will recap markets in 2016 and then discuss where prices are going in 2017. “Mar-gins are tighter on farms than they used to be,” Janzen said. He grew up on a wheat and canola farm in Winnipeg, Canada and earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Commodities at U.C. Davis. He will help farmers to understand seeing prices now, factors that go into a crop year, and marketing strategies. He is focused on the Northern Great Plains and looks forward to a question and answer time following his presentation.

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Conservation District Water Reservations for irrigation. How do I apply? What is the advantage of using reserved water? What are my responsibilities as a water reservation user? Presented by Duane Claypool and Ann Kulczyk, Montana Depart-ment of Natural Resources and Conservation.

In 1978 the Montana Board of Natural Resources and Conservation granted water reservations to several entities in the Yellowstone River Basin, the Missouri River Basin followed in 1985 and 1989. One of which was Conservation Districts for irrigation development. This water was reserved in order to ensure that an adequate water supply would be available for future agricultural expansion. The advantage to using Conservation District reserved water is the priority date. The date for the Yellowstone is December 15, 1978 and the Missouri is July 1, 1989. This is important if you are trying to develop irrigation or need to add to your current water rights in order to expand your acres. Use of reserved water will not infringe on any of the water rights decreed as a result of the statewide adjudication process. Currently Richland County has eight active reservations on the Yellowstone River and twenty-four on the Missouri River. They have over 15,000 acre feet of water left for allocation on the Missouri River and over 40,000 acre feet on the Yellowstone. Certain rules regarding the water reservation must be adhered to by both the conservation district and the water user. These rules are based on state statutes, board orders and conserva-tion district administrative procedures. To apply for Conservation District reserved Water contact the Richland County Conservation District or your local conservation district. The application review and approval process can take four to nine months on a complete application.

Friday morning, Dr.Bridger Feuz, a Livestock Specialist for the Universi-ty of Wyoming Extension in Evanston, Wyoming will be speaking about the livestock market outlookwith a focus on cattle and the impacts of market de-mand, economy, supply,feed, and internationaltrade. He will be shar-ing his market projection for this fall and next fall. This will help ranchersto understand where the market is trending and to decide which investments to make when knowingmore about the price risks.

Cattle Market OutlookFriday, March 3 at 11 am

Dr. Bridger Feuz, Livestock Specialist

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Chad Prather

Richland County Ag Days is excit-ed to welcome Chad Prather as enter-tainment for the banquet on Thursday, March 2, 2017. The social begins at 5 pm followed by the banquet at 6 pm at the Richland County Event Center at the Richland County Fairgrounds.

provided the following information. Chad Prather is a student of

living life to the fullest. Never one to shy away from adventure or a new experience he faces the world with a smile. Chad is an adopted Texan that calls the Fort Worth (not Dallas!) area home. Although he grew up in Augus-ta, GA he migrated to Texas in 2003.

he has managed to keep his positive attitude and tries his absolute best to bring out the best in those he meets. Chad is an entertainer. A storyteller. Whether he uses music, comedy, moti-vational speaking, or any combination of the three he feels that everyone has a story that needs to be told.

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turn helps them feed their family, puts money back in the community, andpromotes a healthy lifestyle.”

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some way related to a sugar beet farmer, either married to one or daughters of one, because we all have added interest in making sure that the sugarbeet industry thrives.” The group is led by Sugar Beet lobbyist, Luther Mark-

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Rambur Coordinates Shipment of 2,400 Calves to Turkey

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Arriving in Turkey this March will be 2,400 heifer calves from the Montana/North Dakota border area, coordinated by Howard Rambur of Rambur Charo-lais in Sidney, Montana. “The shipment of cattle started this summer when an exporter was driving the countryside in Virginia and saw a bunch of buckskin cows from one of our customers,” Rambur says. “He pulled in, asked the guy what they were and where did you get them?”

The exporter works in the private sector and has taken numerous ship-ments of live U.S. cattle overseas. Traditionally, Holstein cattle are the ones shipped the most but this time it was different.

“Buckskins”, explains Rambur, are Charolais and Red Angus cross calves. “Silvers” are Charolais and Angus cross calves. The shipment to Turkey con-sists of 700 buckskin calves and 900 silvers with the balance of the load Red Angus and Angus for a total of 2,400.

The exporter, Turkish businessmen and others involved with the cattle deal travelled to Montana three times to visit Rambur, see the cattle and discuss

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Numerous tests, blood work, papers and various quarantine sites later, the cattle shipped in early February. They were expected to have a 21-30 day boat ride before arrival.

The cattle will disperse into different areas of Turkey and be used for breeding

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population,” Rambur says.He says he was surprised to learn

from the Turkish group that their farms are modernized. “They have tractors, modern dairies and center pivots,” Rambur says. “In addition to wanting a greater protein source the Turkish farmers are wanting to diversify. It was interesting discussing day-to-day lifestyles.”

The Muslim faith also played into things, he explains. “Initially they wanted

of the country where everyone cuts and sells steer calves. Finally, we arranged for all intact females instead.”

Rambur says there is potential to sell more cattle to Turkey in the future. “And

They get the taste of American beef and we are able to market more cattle.”

Rambur says the experience has been more than interesting and he looks forward to the year ahead when he gets feedback on the acceptance rate of the Charolais cross cattle.

The calves wait in a quarantine yard in Pennsylvania before the trip to Turkey.

Calves being loaded on to trucks for the journey to the east coast.

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MSU Extension Offers Free Farm Management Workshops

From MSU News Service

Montana State University Extension economists George Haynes, Kate Fuller and Eric Belasco will offer free farm management workshops in four Montana communities in February and March.

The two-and-a-half day workshops will cover: risk management, focusing on crop and livestock insur-ance; grain and cattle marketing, focusing on hedging, forward contracting and other marketing alternatives;

on farm programs and changes in farm policy. Video presentations will address estate planning and crop and livestock production issues.

The farm management workshops will be held at the following locations on the following dates:

• Sidney, March 13-14, at Richland County MSU Extension, 1499 N. Central Ave.

• Wolf Point, Feb. 20-22, in the Dumont Building, Fort Peck Community College, Wolf Point campus

• Lame Deer, March 2-4, at Chief Dull Knife Col-lege, Room 2015, 1 College Dr.

• Browning, March 7 (risk management and cattle marketing only), in the Blackfeet Tribal Conference Room in the Roland Kennerly Building (the new ad-

-ernment Square

Participation in the Wolf Point, Lame Deer and Sidney workshops will satisfy the requirements for

-agement training.

There is no cost to attend the workshops.To register, contact Keri Hayes at (406) 994-3511

or [email protected] or George Haynes at (406) 994-5012 or [email protected].



By NDSU Agriculture Communication

Soil samples in North Dakota indicate low levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2017 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 2016 to estimate the regional risk for wheat midge in 2017. The distribution of wheat midge is based on unparasitized cocoons found in the soil samples.

“Only 2 percent of the soil samples had economic population densities of wheat midge (greater than 500 midge larvae per square meter) this past year,” Knodel says. “These higher populations were located in east-central Divide and southeastern Burke counties in northwestern North Dakota. Fortunately, the majority of the soil samples, 68 percent, had zero wheat midge cocoons.”

Knodel adds, “This is good news for North Dakota wheat producers as it will reduce the likelihood that insecticide will be needed for wheat midge control in wheat in 2017.”

Wheat midge populations ranged from zero to 2,071 midge larvae per square meter, with an average of 42 larvae per square meter, in 2016. In 2015, wheat midge populations were slightly lower, ranging from zero to 429 midge larvae per square meter, with an average of 25 larvae per square meter.

“Other areas with low wheat midge populations (200 to 500 larvae per square meter) occurred in small, localized areas in northeast Bottineau, southeast Burke, central Divide, central McLean, northeastern Mountrail, northwestern Renville, northwestern Towner and central Ward counties,” says Knodel. “These population levels are still considered noneconomic and low risk for wheat midge.”

wheat midge degree day model predicts the emergence of wheat midge and helps producers determine when to scout.

Producers can access the wheat midge degree day model on the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN) at https://ndawn.ndsu.nodak.edu/wheat-growing-degree-days.html.

Select your nearest NDAWN station and enter your wheat planting date. The output indicates the expected growth stage of the wheat and whether is susceptible to midge infestation, as well as how far along the wheat midge emergence is, such as 50 percent females emerged.

scan the heads of wheat plants for wheat midge adults, counting the number of

The economic thresholds for wheat midge are: one or more midge observed for

for every seven or eight heads on durum wheat.-

etrans, which kills wheat midge eggs and larvae, also was low, with an average of 4.8 percent parasitism rate in 2016, according to Knodel. Eighty-nine percent of the larval cocoons had zero incidence of parasitism in 2016, similar to the level in 2015 with 91 percent.

The highest parasitism rates were found in Burke, Bottineau and McLean counties. Because the parasitic wasp is dependent on its host, wheat midge, its populations are usually higher in areas where midge populations also have been high the past year.

Knodel adds, “We need to continue to conserve parasitic wasp populations when possible by spraying insecticides only when wheat midge populations are at economic threshold levels, and avoiding any late insecticide applications to minimize the negative impacts on parasitic wasps that are active at that time. This tiny, metallicwasp does an excellence job keeping the wheat midge in check by providing free

NDSU Extension Service agents collected the soil samples. The North Dakota Wheat Commission supports the wheat midge survey.

2 Hot Spots for N.D. Wheat Midge Populations in 2017

East-central Divide and southeastern Burke counties had higher population densities.

We encourage everyone to attend Ag Days!

Thank you to the committee for providing another excellent program

this year.

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By Dianne Swanson

James Johnson is the newest member of the team of agriculturalists at Sidney Sugars. Growing up on a farm at Oberon ND, he has been involved in farming his whole life, and worked for sugar beet growers during college learning the industry from the ground up. Johnson earned his degree in Ag systems management from NDSU Fargo in May 2016 and is now putting that degree to use. His responsibili-ties include helping the growers in his area grow a high quality crop. He will cover Savage, Pleasant View and Powder River, also overseeing harvest activities.

He sees some differences with the Sidney Sugars growing area compared to the

while the Red River Valley has no irrigation, and perfect squares of 80 to 160 acres.

nothing but good things about them. I hope to help in any way I can to help improve their crops,” he said.

Sidney Sugars agricultural manager Duane Peters welcomed Johnson stating,

growers. We are going to miss Todd Erickson who is moving back to Fargo where he is from.”

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Spotlight on Economics: Is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for You?

Examples of the use of UAV direct visuals in precision agriculture include

evaluating planting success, crop scouting, and locating

and counting livestock.By Cheryl J. Wachenheim

Professor NDSU Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department

Along with my agribusiness class, I watched, in considerable awe, the beau-

The soundless video showed crystal-clear footage taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also called a drone and, by the Federal Aviation Adminis-

while remembering our traditional method of sending one of the kids out to start

-ences to the role of UAVs in achieving tasks that best fall under one or more of

follow, the question facing many farmers and ranchers is whether they should

the estimated return on investment be based on its value, not in generating

Assuming the second argument is correct, or to test whether it is correct, we

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By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist

NDSU Extension Service

For years, the kitchen table has been the center of planning for those in agriculture.

Conversations of the past, present and future surface around the table. Today, the kitchen table may be in the warming shed, the barn, the seed-clean-ing facility, the shop or an available room slightly warmer than outside. In some cases, a meeting room, built to accommodate the input and planning

The point is, time must be set aside to develop a plan, which can be implemented successfully by including individual opinions of those involved in the operation. Individual input is critical. Without such input, the operation eventually could be dispersed or, at best, the working environment deterio-rates, employee turnover goes up and hard feelings develop.

All of these scenarios can be prevented with a good session around the kitchen table. The Dickinson Research Extension Center is no different. As spring nears, the center personnel, like producers, initiate summer planning. This is not a time of rest. Cows start calving, equipment needs servicing and seed needs to be fetched, pushing winter out.

The center personnel, as well as the numerous agricultural producers around the area, must sit down around the table because the time for deci-sions is now. How are we going to get through another production year with pounds of calves or bushels of grain to pay the bills?

Like many agricultural operations today, various production units are not contingent on each other; in fact, 10 to 20 miles may separate the various units, thus the need to plan the movement of equipment, livestock and the many other pieces needed for farming and ranching.

The other day, while walking around the shop, I pondered how many wrenches, nuts, bolts, various chains, wire, metal pieces and other assorted hardware are needed to run a farm or ranch. Let us just say, “A lot.” And even when one thinks he or she has everything, when you need a certain-sized

to make an agricultural operation work.For the center, each unit is discussed individually, with various options

facilities tab providing access to the various sections of land by township and

maps for ease of discussion.These maps are the foundation for the discussion, followed by the actual

current needs are put on the table for discussion, followed by a consensus as to how to proceed. Essentially, the question is, “What does the center need

discussion as we focused on the

Research Farm at Richardton, N.D. The d iscuss ion started with the 2016 cropping his-tory and proposed 2017 land usage intentions. The ob-vious points were

The native pasture would be utilized for grazing approximately 53 cow-calf pairs starting in early June and ending in late October.

pairs after summer grazing. In 2016, these acres were seeded to German millet, piper sudangrass, medium red clover and common vetch as a covercrop blend and produced 478 large bales. After discussion, these acres would be split for grazing after Oct. 15, half to a 100-plus-day corn and half to a cover crop mix. A suggested blend of seven crops for this year was discussed

The next discussion turned to 474 acres of cool-season pasture. Thispasture was re-seeded to a cover crop blend, including buckwheat, German

The cool-season grass will be rested this year to allow for the further de-velopment of the crested wheatgrass and tall wheatgrass, pending any fall grazing developments.

medium red clover and common vetch as a cover crop blend in 2016. The

of Stockford barley, berseem clover, crimson clover, forage pea and sorghumsudan for hay. Harvest timing and hauling of the 2017 hay crop also were discussed, assuring that the various equipment and labor will be available.

weeks. Never underestimate the value of discussion at the kitchen table.

For more information, contact your local NDSU Extension Service agent

Research Extension Center, 1041 State Ave., Dickinson, ND 58601; 701-456-1103; or [email protected].

BeefTalk: A Lot Happens Around the Kitchen Table

Take time to gather input from those involved

in the operation and develop a plan.


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