September Utah Farm Bureau News

Small Grains: UDAF talks marketing orders 5 Dairy Farmers: Committed to Milk Safety 15

Utah Farm Bureau News SEPTEMBER 2014VOL. 60, NO. 8

Inside:National Perspective 3Farm Bureau at Work 11Member Benefits 8Baxter Black 12 Farm Safety Column 25Classifieds 31

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CORN continued on pg 13

Photo by Aurline BoyackDavis County Farm Bureau Vice President Tyson Roberts (top right) along with his daughter (Makenna) and son (Dixon) stand by their produce while participating with several Utah farmers at a ‘“Farmers Market” on the set of KSL TV’s show ‘Studio 5 with Brooke Walker’. Roberts showcased the many products available from Utah farmers and ranchers, including produce from Roberts Farms, fruit from Tagge’s Famous Fruit in Box Elder County, beef from Wes Crandall’s Jones Creek Beef in Utah County, Honey Wine Vinegar from Slide Ridge Honey in Cache County, and cheese from Kohler’s Heber Valley Artisan Cheese in Wasatch County.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The USDA’s early August report on agricultural supply and de-mand for the 2014-2015 mar-keting year suggests supplies will continue to be on the tight side for key U.S. crops despite record harvests, the American Farm Bureau Federation said recently.

Farm Bureau on USDA report: Worldwide corn yields up; wheat, cotton and soybeans, too

“The most interesting feature of the recent World Agricul-tural Supply and Demand Es-timates Report is the projected corn yield of 167.4 bushels per acre,” Farm Bureau Deputy Chief Economist John Ander-son said. “That is up from 165.3 bushels per acre a month ago, which pushes projected U.S.

corn production to just over 14 billion bushels. That’s a record.”

Increases in projected corn use largely offset the higher production, leaving stocks projections almost flat at just 7 million bushels above July’s estimate, Anderson said.

Prices are expected to trend upwards even so, since earlier forecasts had put production at about 170 bushels per acre. “Projected corn production of 14.032 billion bushels is still

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Farm Bureau organizations and all Americans should demand straight talk from the Environmental Protec-tion Agency about its pro-posed “waters of the U.S.” rule, according to AFBF General Counsel Ellen Steen.

EPA’s public talking points say the proposed rule will regulate “tributaries,” but the fine print shows the rule would go much farther than any common understanding of that word.

Steen explains that diction-aries define a tributary as a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake, but the fine print in the proposed rule reads as follows: “A tributary is a longitudinal surface feature that results from directional surface water movement and sediment dynamics demon-strated by the presence of bed and banks, bottom and lateral boundaries, or other indica-

Farm Bureau demands

straight talk from EPA

Utah Farm Bureau News2 September 2014

Utah Farm Bureau News(ISSN 1068-5960)Matt Hargreaves, Editor9865 South StateSandy, Utah 84070-3205Phone Numbers:General Inquiries: (801) 233-3000Address Changes: (801) 233-3009Farm Bureau News: (801) 233-3003Classified Ads: ..........(801) 233-3010Fax: .............................(801) 233-3030FB News E-mail: [email protected] site: .....http://www.utahfarmbureau.orgNational Ad Rep:The Weiss Group9414 E. San Salvador Dr. #226Scottsdale, Arizona 85258(480) 860-5394 [email protected] Display Ad Information:Jennifer Dahl(775) 752-3061

Utah Farm BureauFederation OfficersChairman and PresidentLeland J. Hogan, South Rim*Vice PresidentStephen A. Osguthorpe, Park City*CEO and Secretary/TreasurerRandy N. Parker, Riverton* Denotes member of the Board of Directors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS District 1 .................Scott Sandall, TremontonDistrict 2 ...............Ron Gibson, West WeberDistrict 3 ...................Ken Patterson, SyracuseDistrict 4 ................ Rex Larsen, Spanish ForkDistrict 5 ............................. Scott Chew, JensenDistrict 6 ...........Edwin Sunderland, ChesterDistrict 7 ..................................Craig Laub, BerylFB Women’s Chairman ...Belva Parr, LindonYoung Farmer & Rancher Chairman..

Meagher McConkie, AltamontPeriodicals Postage Paid at Sandy, Utah and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, 9865 South State, Sandy, Utah 84070. Published quarterly for all Farm Bureau members (April/Spring, July/Summer, Oct./Fall, Dec./Winter). Published expressly for farmer/rancher Farm Bureau members and others who specifically request copies Feb., March, May, June, Aug., Sept., and Nov. All eleven issues published by the Utah Farm Bureau Federation in Sandy, Utah. Editorial and Business Office, 9865 South State, Sandy, Utah 84070-3205.

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�oughts: Killing the American Dream

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By Randy ParkerChief Executive O�cerUtah Farm Bureau

It ’s t ime for common Americans to take uncom-mon action. The cost of overregulation is crippling the American economy. Mountains of regulations are breaking the backs of foundation industries like agriculture, oil, gas, manu-facturing, processing, trans-portation, power genera-tion, construction and more. While overregulation is kill-ing existing industries, red tape is stifling entrepreneur-ism and innovation.

Where do new ideas and new products come from? They come from innovators and entrepreneurs with little cash and great ideas. The United States should be the global leader in innovation. American entrepreneurs should be leading the world in job creation and economic contributions. Sadly, the United States of America is not the world community’s most innovative country. We fall to a distant fifth place based on the 2013 Global

Innovation Index, coming in behind Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom and the Neth-erlands.

So why do countries like Swe-

den excel and America quietly follows? In 2010, Sweden com-missioned a review of the effect of rules and regulations on business. The review looked at regulatory burden, direct and indirect costs to the economy, impacts on company behav-ior related to investment and the impacts of regulations on productivity. Sweden doesn’t have smarter innovators than America, but they understand a very important principle and economic reality. Over-regu-

lation crushes profitability, innovation, job creation and productivity!

Instead of investing in en-trepreneurs and innovation, the United States continues to allow government agen-cies to expand the regulatory juggernaut – costing our na-tion’s businesses more than $1.9 trillion a year! And worse than that regulatory reality, Congress just stands by and continues to allow it to happen. Regulations now cost small businesses $10,585 for each employee.

Is it time for Americans take uncommon action and elect a Congress that will take charge and control the regulation-happy federal bureaucrats?

At the recent “Utah Solutions Summit” sponsored by Utah Senator Mike Lee and Utah Governor Gary Herbert, the regulatory reality came into stark view. Next to the podium were 79,311 pages of the Fed-eral Register for 2013 in two neat seven-foot high stacks. For those wondering the sig-nificance of the Federal Regis-ter and the immense pile – it is

By Don ParrishThe Environmental Pro-

tection Agency’s proposal to expand the scope of “navi-gable waters” subject to Clean Water Act jurisdiction was drafted, according to the agency, to reduce un-certainty. And that it does. It’s very clear the proposed rule is designed to allow the federal government to regulate every place water flows when it rains, includ-ing small and remote “wa-

EPA grabs for dry landters” and ephemeral drains and ditches.

We all know that water flows downhill and that at some point some of that water eventually finds its way into a creek, stream or river. Yet, based on nothing more than the flow of rainwater along a natural pathway across the land, the EPA wants to call vast areas of otherwise dry land “tributaries” and therefore “navi-gable waters.”

With its proposal to regulate land that is dry most of the year

and miles from the nearest truly navigable water, EPA is hanging farmers and ranchers out to dry. For example, under the proposal, if a farmer wants to build a fence near a ditch on his property, he’d have to apply for a Clean Water Act permit, which costs money and may not ever be approved. The same goes for pesticide applications, which can be an even bigger problem. Crops will grow, fence or not, but if that pesti-cide application permit doesn’t come through on time—or at all—those same crops could

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AgAgenda: Agriculture’s new frontierBy Bob StallmanAmerican Farm Bureau President

Many of today’s farm-ers and ranchers are expanding into a new frontier—the age of “big data.”

Companies have been gathering data about consumer buying hab-its for years. For many farmers, dealing with companies that want to collect their data about planting practices and crop yields is new ter-ritory. Seed and farm equipment companies—we call them agricultural technology providers—are offering services to help farmers be more efficient and productive. Data will flow straight from a farmer’s trac-tor to the company he uses. In return, farmers will get information and recommendations on how to get the most out of every square inch of their fields. Some call it

prescriptive planting. It’s only the latest in a trend of exciting new technolo-gies that help farmers produce more or bet-

ter products while using fewer resources.

Before You SignThe promise of agricul-

tural “big data” is enough to tempt even the most private farmers to let the agricultural technology companies do a little min-ing into their proprietary information.

Before they sign up, farmers need to get an-

swers to some important questions. Farmers need to ask who owns the data they share with the com-panies and how that data will be controlled and used. Could the informa-tion make its way to com-modities traders? Could farmers’ information be subject to a legal subpoe-na? Could the informa-tion somehow end up in the hands of government agencies that regulate farm practices? Will the companies share the data with other companies that could use it to try to sell other products and services? If so, will the company pay the farmer for the value of his data?

Will farmers be able to get their data back if they end their agree-ments with the compa-nies? What happens if the farmer wants to switch to a different agricultural technology provider; will the data be portable?

Signing data shar-ing agreements without knowing the answers to these questions is too big a gamble to take. Farm-ers must also ensure that the contracts they are being asked to sign are consistent with the as-surances that companies have provided in other documents that are not legally binding, such as guiding principles, pri-vacy statements or mar-keting brochures.

The Wild, Wild West The news almost reg-

ularly includes a story about a data security breach by a large com-pany, affecting millions of consumers. PCWorld magazine recently list-ed the five biggest data breaches of 2014 “so far,” affecting customers of eBay, Michaels stores and others. Farmers should be just as concerned about their farm data as retail

customers are about their financial information. Before they agree to share their farm data, farmers need to know what pre-cautions companies are taking to protect them.

As with any fast-de-veloping technology or industry, things can seem a little lawless out there in data country. Farm Bureau is working with the agricultural technol-ogy providers to develop principles for how farm-ers’ data will be managed and secured, and we are working to help farmers be informed consumers in the data marketplace.

Rolled out on a large scale this year, the use of “big data” in agriculture is growing with the speed of a locomotive steaming across the transcontinen-tal railroad. Farm Bureau doesn’t want to put the brakes on, but we do want farmers to know where they are headed when they climb aboard.

W A S H I N G T O N , D.C. – The American Farm Bureau Federation late yesterday asked a federal appellate court in Pennsylvania to reverse a lower court ruling that upheld pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay watershed imposed by the Environmental Pro-tection Agency.

Although restricted to areas surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, the court’s decision could have sweeping effects on

AFBF again urges court to restore state authority in Chesapeake Bay cleanup

states and economic ac-tivity across the country. EPA has claimed that its Bay limits were developed in cooperation with the Bay states. But the AFBF brief points out that “if EPA can set federal limits and deadlines in a TMDL, then it can do so with or without state coopera-tion: that is why 21 State Attorneys General have supported us as amici.”

The appellate court will decide whether EPA has the power to set only

the “total” allowable pol-lutant load for waters, as AFBF and its allies maintain, or also to set individual limits for farm-ing, construction or other activities across the land-scape, as EPA claims. AFBF maintains that Congress reserved such land use decision-making exclusively for the states.

According to AFBF, under EPA’s view of its power, “EPA could assign nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment limits for

each farm, home site, or even each acre of un-developed land across the countryside.” Such broad power “amounts to nothing short of federal land use zoning authority, which cannot be squared with Congress’s clear and consistent determination to reserve such authority for the states.”

AFBF also noted that because restoration of the Bay does not depend on the unlawful aspects of the TMDL before the

court, cleanup would con-tinue with a court ruling in AFBF’s favor. Accord-ing to the AFBF brief, a ruling in its favor would not disturb the total pol-lutant limit set by EPA for each segment of the Bay. In addition, a ruling removing the challenged EPA source limits or “al-locations” from the TMDL “would in no way impair the ability of any state to achieve those objectives. It would only allow them the freedom—as Congress intended—to set different allocations and deadlines, if they so choose.”



When most people think about San Juan County they think of the wide open expanse of Canyonlands national park, the amazing rock bridges at N a t u r a l B r i d g e s National Monument, ancient Anasazi and F r e m o n t I n d i a n ruins, good hunting and other recreation opportunities. What many people don’t know is that San Juan County is also Utah’s largest producer of organic wheat.

Large tracts of the region’s red soil are very conducive to dry land farm wheat production. While most of the public is unaware of the significance of grain production in Utah’s somewhat isolated southeastern-most county, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) is not.

O n A u g u s t 2 6 , U D A F Commissioner LuAnn Adams and Jed Christensen, UDAF D i r e c t o r o f M a r k e t i n g & Economic Development traveled to Monticello along with USU’s Dr. Earl Creech to speak with local farmers about the proposed Utah Small Grain and Oilseed Marketing Order.

Farmers had the opportunity to ask question and voice concerns about the UDAF proposal to withhold money from the sale of small grains and oil seeds to help fund research to combat diseases such as dwarf bunt smut, and to develop new more productive seed varieties.

UDAF officials believe that it is important to talk with grain

UDAF Commissioner Adams meets with farmers in Monticello to talk about potential

small grain and oilseed marketing orderproducers and inform them of the potential benefits of the marketing order because in order to create and implement marketing order it will have to be voted on and

approved by the small grain producers themselves.

So what is the Small Grain and Oilseed Marketing Order, and how will it work? The Marketing order (if established) will withhold .035 cents per bushel on wheat, and .07 cents per cwt on barley and safflower, these numbers are consistent with the amount being withheld by neighboring states. The withholding will take place at the point of sale and will only apply to grain that is sold, grain used for seed or on farm feed will not be subject to the withholding. The money will be collected and accounted for by UDAF. Based on 2011 crop production numbers it is expected that about $250,000 would be raised annually.

Who will decide where the money is spent? A five-member board of grain producers will be formed to oversee the

expenditure of the money collected. No more than two board members will be allowed from the same county in order to ensure that representation on the

board is statewide. While the initial board members will be appointed by Commissioner Adams s u c c e s s i v e b o a r d members will be elected to four year terms by their fellow grain producers.

Will this give grain producers a voice in determining research priorities? Yes, the board will have the ability to choose what research projects they are willing to fund. They could initiate specific research projects to address the concerns of local producers, and research could be done by

any research institution, it is not limited to Utah State University.

How much difference can be made with the $250,000? In current research world a little funding can go a long way and $250,000 is more than just a little money. The funds could be used to fund local projects independent of other funding sources or leveraged as matching funds to secure federal research money, or to partner with other state marketing orders on larger research projects. The Idaho Wheat commission, for example, has expressed interest in the past in helping to fund research in Utah if matching fund were available.

What return can Utah grain producers expect to see for their money? Several potential benefits are expected as a result of available funding,

Photo by Garrick HallLuAnn Adams, Commissioner for the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food listens to questions and concerns from grain farmers in San Juan County regarding a potential Small Grain Marketing Order for the state of Utah.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.– There are now 3.2 million farmers oper-ating 2.1 million farms on 914.5 million acres of farmland across the United States, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, released today by the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture. The agriculture census presents more than 6 million pieces of informa-tion, which provide a detailed look at the U.S. farm sector at the national, state and county levels.

“Once every five years, farm-ers, ranchers and growers have the unique opportunity to let the world know how U.S. agriculture is changing, what is staying the same, what’s working and what we can do differently,” said Dr. Cynthia Clark, the retiring head of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, which admin-istered the survey. “Today, we can start to delve into the details.”

Census data provide valuable insight into the U.S. farmer de-mographics, economics and pro-duction practices. Some of the key findings include:• Both sales and production

expenses reached record highs in 2012. U.S. pro-ducers sold $394.6 bil-lion worth of agricultural products, but it cost them $328.9 billion to produce these products.

• Three quarters of all farms had sales of less than $50,000, producing only 3 percent of the total value of farm products sold while those with sales of more

2012 census of agricul-

ture reveals new trends in farming

CENSUS continued on pg 28


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The Utah Farm Bureau Communications Division is seeking historical Utah farming and/or ranching photos from Utah’s fam-ily farms and ranches for use in preparation for its upcoming centennial and for other projects.

UFBF is planning its centennial celebration in 2016 with members from across the state of Utah by collecting and sharing Utah’s agricultural heritage through snapshots of family farm and ranch life.

The state’s largest general farm organi-zation that organized in 1916 is looking for images that portray a century of food and fi-ber production in Utah. Whether you possess old photos of farmers-in-ac-tion, ancestors, historical farm structures or equip-ment, Farm Bureau would

Farm Bureau requests historic photos for 100-year anniversary

be honored and delighted to receive your contribu-tions as part of a centen-nial collection that will be displayed, cataloged and archived for the enjoyment of generations to come.

To aid to the celebration, you can send your historic photos electronically or by mail. If you have electronic copies, send them to UFBF Vice President of Commu-

nication, Matt Hargreaves at [email protected]. If you wish to mail them, send them to 9865 S. State Street, Sandy, Utah 84070.

While historic black &

white photographs are the emphasis, Farm Bureau would gladly accept any photos that pre-date the 1970s. Please indicate, if possible, any details avail-able from the photograph, including location (even County specific helps), time period, and any iden-tifying individuals, equip-ment or landmarks in-cluded.

Keep in mind if you choose to send original prints we will keep copies for display and archiving. Farm Bureau will be dili-gent in returning them, but is not liable for any postal damages or losses.

Farm Bureau thanks you for sharing your legacy and looks forward to viewing your history and having it a part of Farm Bureau’s Centennial Celebration and Utah Farm Bureau history.

Historic farming photo in former town of Clarion, in Sanpete County.

tors of [ordinary high water mark].” It also says “in some regions of the country where there is a very low gra-dient, the banks of a tributary may be very low or may even disap-pear at times.” (79 Fed. Reg. 22202)

Translating the fine print into plain Eng-lish: the proposed WO-TUS rule will regulate land where water chan-nels and flows when it rains, so long as the flowing water leaves a mark on the land. It may even regulate land where there is no vis-ible channel or marks left by flowing water.

For more informa-tion and how you can share your opinions on the proposed water rule, visit http://ditch-therule.fb.org.

W A S H I N G T O N , D.C. — Current and future generations of rural Americans will be left behind their fellow citizens if they are un-able to access affordable broadband services, the American Farm Bureau Federation said in recent comments to the Federal Communications Com-mission in support of the creation of the Connect America Fund.

“Farmers and ranch-ers in rural America rely on broadband access to manage and operate suc-cessful businesses, just as businesses do in urban America,” Farm Bureau noted. “Access to broad-band allows farmers and ranchers to utilize preci-sion agriculture equip-ment, follow commodity markets, communicate with their customers and gain access to new mar-kets around the world.”

High-speed broadband access is not only key for production agriculture, it’s a necessity for all rural Americans to help increase economic de-

Farm Bureau

warns of digital divide

in rural America


By Linda Platts and Holly Lippke Fretwell

BOZEMAN, Mont. – A journalist from an eastern newspaper called our offices in Bozeman, Montana, [earlier this summer] to ask “Why is the West always burn-ing down?” For those of us who live here, it is an exasperating question because we already know the answer. The simple explanation is that mil-lions of acres of national forest land throughout the West are stoked with fuel, and dry as tinder from a long drought and higher than average tem-peratures.

But the real answer goes deeper. Fuel stoked forests can be treated with thinning, brush re-moval, and prescribed burns, but the institu-tions that govern our public lands are so dys-functional they are un-able to perform these tasks. We are saddled with onerous bureaucra-cies incapable of imple-menting innovative pro-grams, reacting nimbly, or responding to regional differences.

Add to this dilemma the politicians who love

Why is the West al-ways burning down?

to throw money at a good crisis if it plays well with the voters. Following the fires of 2000, a new National Fire Plan was passed by Congress and supplied with more than $4 billion dollars to enhance fire pre-paredness and reduce fire risk. Unfortunate-ly, the Forest Service is already unable to ac-count for $756 million of these funds that were intended to reduce fuel loads near communi-ties at high risk.

We do know that new firefighters have been recruited, outfitted, trained and salaried. Alas, firefighters cannot stop wildfires of the propor-tions we are witnessing today. Only Mother Na-ture can do this. A shift in the wind, a little moisture, a cool cloudy day, and in some cases a change of season are the way she snuffs out a fire. The 1988 fires in Yellowstone Na-tional Park only stopped burning when fall’s first snow arrived.

Now, in the thick of summer, it is already starkly evident that all that money being tossed around did nothing to

reduce wildfires. During the first few weeks of this year’s fire season, 2.6 million acres had burned compared to 1.3 million acres for the same time period in 2000, the larg-est fire year in 50 years. Earlier in the summer, 18 major fires were burning in six states.

Yet there is an answer to this recurring cycle of deadly fires. Reducing fuel loads can change catastrophic fires that destroy watersheds, wild-life habitat, recreational opportunities, and scenic landscapes into fires that cleanse and renew the land. It is possible for fed-eral land agencies to ac-complish this goal if freed from conflicting regula-tions, political tampering, and public appeals.

Proof lies in the Mani-tou Experimental Forest in Colorado where thin-ning and prescribed burns

have been practiced for more than 50 years. Last week, the Hayman fire, the largest in Colorado’s history, burned through the crowns of pine trees until it reached the Mani-tou. There, it dropped to the ground and burned beneath a stand of mature 80-foot ponderosa pines

in an open savannah-like grove. It left behind black-ened bunch grass and some scorched trunks, but the fire-resistant pon-derosas were spared.

The management ap-proach used in Manitou is not appropriate to all western forests. Yet the flexibility that experi-mental sites and demon-stration forests allow is invaluable to learning how to better manage all types of forests. New strategies can be tested and new technologies tried, including those for preventing and fighting

wildfires.By decentralizing agen-

cies like the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and allow-ing managers to respond to the unique landscapes under their care, we will see better stewardship. Change the incentives

from pleasing politi-cians to providing good stewardship.

But don’t leave it there. Make the man-agers truly accountable. Let’s see how they de-termine high-risk ar-eas. Let’s see how they reduce the fire risk. And let’s see how the public’s money is spent. Show us the receipts. Unen-cumbered by politics, private land managers such as ranchers, farm-

ers and orchard owners do as much and are ac-countable to the bank and the families they support.

For once, let’s not play the blame game by point-ing our fingers at the For-est Service or the timber industry or the environ-mental groups. Increase demonstration sites and allow more local control. Give federal land manag-ers more authority, but require more accountabil-ity. Under the current sys-tem, good land steward-ship is impossible. Now that is the real reason why the West is always burn-ing down.

Linda Platts is an edito-rial associate and Holly Lippke Fretwell is a research associate specializing in public land is-sues at PERC—the Center for Free Market Environmental-ism in Bozeman, Montana, which explores market ap-proaches to environmental problems.


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Article courtesy of Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Twenty years of hard work were rewarded recently. On Aug. 25, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that least chub — a tiny fish found only in Utah — is doing well enough that it doesn’t need to be listed on the fed-eral Endangered Species list.

Cassie Mellon, native aquatics program coordi-nator with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR), says partner-ships with private landowners, and hard work by DWR biolo-gists, were key to keeping the fish from being federally listed.

Help from federal agencies and water user groups was also critical to the success the DWR found.

When recovery work started in 1994, DWR biologists knew of only three locations in Utah that had wild least chub populations.

“We later identified three ad-ditional ponds that had least chub,” Mellon said. “We’ve introduced least chub to 22 additional sites. Today, a total of 28 ponds and wetlands have least chub in them.”

Many of the ponds where least chub have been placed are on private property, where land-owners voluntarily “stepped to the plate” and joined with the DWR to help the fish.

“The help private landowners gave us was crucial to increas-ing the number of least chub in Utah,” Mellon says. “Without

Work in Utah keeps Least Chub o� endangered

species listtheir help, we would not have been able to establish the num-ber of least chub populations we’ve established.”

After finding landowners who had ponds and wetlands that

would support least chub, DWR biologists fenced springheads and worked with the landowners to reduce the affects of grazing in the wetlands where the chubs were placed. In one case, the DWR also purchased water rights to ensure a wetland received an adequate flow of water.

“Of the 28 locations where least chub are found in Utah,” Mellon says, “10 are considered secure ‘refuge’ populations where least chubs are doing really well. Hav-ing those populations greatly influenced the Service’s decision not to list the species.”

Mellon says the DWR’s efforts to conserve and protect least chub are far from over. “This decision doesn’t mean our efforts to conserve least chub are com-ing to an end,” she says. “In fact, just the opposite is true. We’re going to maintain and increase the security and stability of the populations we have. And we’ll continue to address threats as they arise.”

Mark your calendars now, because the Annual Utah Farm Bureau Federation Convention, held Nov. 19-21 in Layton, is right around the corner. Never to disappoint, the 98th annual convention, with the theme ‘Thriving Through Action’ comes at a time when farmers and ranchers can no longer sit on the sidelines and hope challenges blow over. They are thriving by taking active steps towards a suc-cessful future, rather than merely ‘hoping’ for success.

The convention will again take place at the Davis Conference Cen-ter in Layton, and will feature great speakers and powerful messages.

“We’re really excited about our convention in Layton this year– and to kick-off our meeting with such a great cast of speakers and issues,” said Leland Hogan, Utah Farm Bureau President. “If you’ve never been to a convention before, I sincerely hope you will come and invite you to do so. All members, leaders or not will benefit from this convention.”

Matt Rush, former Executive Vice President of the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau -- and current motivational speaker -- will be the convention’s keynote speaker. Rush is a 4th generation cattle rancher that has deep roots with Farm Bureau.

For more information, contact your County Farm Bureau Secre-tary or Susan Furner at 801-233-3040 or [email protected].

All Farm Bureau members invited to 2014 Annual Convention in Layton


Money Matters A special column for the Utah Farm Bureau News provided by USU Extension

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Targeted phone fraud is on the rise. An increasing number of Utahns are receiving phone calls from different people who have one thing on their mind…they want your money. Phone fraud continues to evolve as thieves explore new high-pres-sure ways to convince you to part from your hard-earned cash. The National Consumer League reported that 36 percent of all fraud complaints are from phone fraud, compared to 25 percent in 2012. A couple phone calls to our household brought this particular problem back into focus.

The first was a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft customer support. They claimed that our computer had been compromised and that we needed to visit a website so they could resolve the problem. If you visit the website, it actu-ally gives them access to your

Don’t bite on unexpected phone callscomputer and personal files. This particular scam has been around for a while, and we have also encountered a dozen similar phone calls over the last six years. To get an idea of what can hap-pen if you allow scammers access to your personal information, check out this video made by a Malwarebytes (antivirus) em-ployee who recorded the entire process. The video can be viewed at http://goo.gl/ujLY6.

The second phone call was a new one for us. A man who goes by Mel Wayne called claiming to be from the IRS. He said that our tax returns had been flagged for suspicious activity and that we were under investigation from the IRS. If we were not willing to immediately make a payment with a prepaid card or wire transfer, he threatened to have us arrested. Like most phone scammers, he was well re-hearsed, with a set script he read

from that included a fake badge ID number. He also had our first and last names and our address, in an attempt to sound official. I simply hung up and looked on the internet to see what was re-ally going on.

I started by searching the phone number he left for a return call. The number had a 202 area code and flagged as being from the Washington, D.C. area. His con-fidence, the IRS claim, the fake badge number, and the DC area code made the scam very con-vincing. A little research quickly showed the same phone number on a variety of sites reporting the fraud. This particular scam is operated out of India using Inter-net phone companies that route out of the U.S., allowing them to appear to be calling from within the country. The IRS has released several warnings about the scam, the latest of which indicates that this is the single largest attempt

to target U.S. taxpayers in his-tory, with hundreds of thou-sands of people solicited. For more information on what do if you are contacted by anyone claiming to be from the IRS visit http://goo.gl/wbGOX3.

With phone fraud on the rise in Utah and across the country it is a good time to be a skeptic. When you receive a phone call, stay calm and gather as much information as you can about the caller, such as the company they supposedly represent, a return phone number, and an employee badge or ID number. Then, call the company they are pretending to represent, not through the phone num-ber they gave you but through a customer service number from the company’s website. The company will be able to tell you if the phone call was legitimate and discuss any concerns you may have. No matter who the caller claims to represent or what personal information they have, just re-member to take a deep breath, get the details you need, do your research, and do not give out personal or financial infor-mation. Sometimes it pays to be a skeptic.

Based on conditions as of August 1, barley production in Utah is forecast at 1.87 million bushels, down 21 percent from last year’s crop. The area for harvest in 2014, at 22,000 acres, is down 8,000 acres from the 30,000 acres harvested last year. Barley yield is estimated at 85.0 bushels per acre, 6.0 bushels above last year.

Utah crop production highlights – August 2014

As of August 3, Utah’s barley crop condition was rated 8 percent fair, 69 percent good, and 23 percent excellent. Barley harvest was 42 percent complete, compared with 33 percent last year and the 5-year average of 28 percent.

Utah farmers and ranchers expect to harvest 550,000 acres of alfalfa hay this year, unchanged from 2013.

Alfalfa production is forecast at 2.20 million tons, down 5 percent from 2.31 million tons produced in 2013. Alfalfa hay yield is expected to average 4.0 tons per acre, compared to last year’s yield of 4.2 tons per acre.

Utah peach production for 2014 is forecast at 5,400 tons, down slightly from last year’s production of 5,421 tons. Utah

commercial apple production for 2014 is forecast at 21.0 million pounds, up 27 percent from last year’s production of 16.5 million pounds.


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Farmer’s Market on TV… Farm Bureau staff and volunteers arranged and were filmed for a KSL Studio 5 segment hosted by Brooke Walker. The segment featured spokesperson Tyson Rob-erts from Roberts Family Farms. Consumers were educated about the availability of fresh Utah produce (Tagge’s and Robert’s), meat (Jones Creek), honey (Slide Ridge) and cheese (Heber Valley Arti-san Cheese) at local Utah Farmers Markets. This was a Women’s Committee Food Link project funded by an AFB grant awarded to Vicki Bastian, a member of the State Women’s Committee.

Training Leaders…Farm Bureau staff, State Women’s Com-mittee members and the County Women’s Chairs from District 1 participated in an afternoon training and sharing session focused on building stronger county women’s committees and thereby expanding Farm Bureau volunteers’ opportunities to support agriculture locally.

Utah Farm Bureau… met with Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources officials and hired lobbyist to determine best strategies moving forward to keep sage grouse from getting listed on the Endangered Species list.

Utah Farm Bureau… had multiple meetings with multiple water district managers, officials representing the League of Cities and Towns and others to draft legislative language that attempts to restore Utah’s State Engineer “gatekeeper” authority. In 2010, Utah’s Supreme Court took away this traditional authority, which has served farmers, ranchers and rural Utah well.

Utah Farm Bureau… attended the Governor’s Rural Partner-ship Board of Directors meeting in which several report and ideas were exchanged aimed at increasing economic activity throughout rural Utah.

Utah Farm Bureau… met with representatives from Utah’s Office of Education to discuss ongoing High School education programs and initiatives that historically have helped a wide range of students apply various topics to real life application – FFA, welding, shop class, etc. Greater emphasis is needed to ensure funding for these programs is not decreased.

Utah Farm Bureau… participated in a meeting with Missis-sippi Farm Bureau staff and volunteers to discuss Utah’s 2012 “AgGag” legislation. Utah’s 2012 legislature passed a law that makes it illegal to trespass on private livestock or poultry opera-tions and record sound or images without the owner’s permission.

Utah Farm Bureau… attended meetings with Utah’s Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources and many other stakeholders dealing with the presence and growing concerns over quagga mussels. These mussels are found in Lake Powell and are most common transported via boats to other water bodies. In other states, these mussels have cost private landowners millions of dollars because of their presence in irrigation equipment.

Utah Farm Bureau… met with a Utah legislator and several of his constituents over growing concerns of “horse tripping” be-

SALT LAKE CITY – Tests conducted by the USDA’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory have confirmed the presence the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) at one hog farm in Beaver County, Utah. The farm in question is Utah’s largest hog farm and one of the largest in the country.

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea is a virus that causes significant sickness in young swine, affecting their growth and health, and causes high mortality in piglets. PEDv is not a threat to humans or other animal species.

• PEDv is a pig farming virus only affecting pigs. It poses no risk to other animals, humans or food safety. Pork remains safe to eat.

• C u r r e n t l y t h e r e i s a conditional license for a PEDv vaccine available to pork producers.

• PEDv is not a new virus; it’s been found in countries worldwide.

The disease is common in parts of Asia and Europe, and was first reported in the U.S. 16 months ago. Since then, more than 5,500 cases have been reported in as many as 30 states including Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona.

Acting State Veterinarian, Dr. Warren Hess is advising Utah

Tests con�rm presence of PEDv virus at one Utah

hog farmhog and pig producers to remain vigilant regarding their animal biosecurity practices on their farms.

“Increased animal health security measures can not only help defend against PEDv, but can also prevent the spread of many other livestock diseases,” Hess said.

In May, the UDAF issued an emergency order intended to protect the State’s $200 million swine industry by placing restrictions on livestock shows involving hogs and pigs. The order required any fair or show to be a “terminal” show, which means that after the show swine would go directly to slaughter and therefore reduce the threat of spreading any disease. The order also pertains to the upcoming State Fair running Sept. 4-14 in Salt Lake City.

The USDA has agreed to work with UDAF veterinarians to fund testing on the farm that has been diagnosed with PEDv, and to assure that stringent animal biosecurity practices are in place. The joint agreement also calls for expanded disease mitigation education efforts for Utah’s pork industry.

More informat ion about PEDv and livestock biosecurity information is available by contacting UDAF.

Utah Farm Bureau News12 September 2014On the edge of common sense

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I went to America last week…the middle of America, Kansas, to a county fair. I flew into Denver and drove across miles and miles of green prairie. If America has a heart, it’s out here on the Plains. It’s not an easy place to live. You have to earn its respect. It will test you with blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, dust, plagues and loneliness. It is often all or none. One learns to be self-sufficient.

The county fair is often the biggest event of the year in many Plains communities. Carnivals, tractor pulls, rodeos, cotton candy…where else can you get cotton candy? And the occasional traveling cowboy poet. For the agricultural folks it has two pur-poses; to train the next generation of farmers in the profound knowledge that it takes to feed the world and second, to meet and educate consumers about where their food comes from.

This summer the Plains have turned into a garden. Less rain at the right time is better than more rain at the wrong time, which brings me to my trip. By the time I reached the little town in Kan-sas that was my destination, the clouds were beginning to huddle, planning their next play. I went by the fairgrounds to greet the fair board and check in. My performance was to be in the outdoor rodeo arena. The bell horn speakers sounded like the announcer at the Kentucky Derby!

We, the board and I, worked on the sound system so it didn’t sound like a tornado warning! When it was perfect we moved it and broke one of the connectors. Repair required a trip to Radio Shack in the next town 42 miles away. The sky was turning a bruised blue color in the north. I went to the hotel and changed into my fancy shirt. The show was advertised as a 7:00 pm performance. At 6 o’clock I was back at the fairgrounds. The crowd was beginning to gather in the stands. Many of them had driven 50 plus miles to be there. The carnival had temporarily shut down in anticipation of rain. The clouds looked ominous. The storm hit at 6:30!

The next hour and a half was the equivalent of a fair board SWAT team! Can we have it inside? Will the rain quit? Will anybody come? Will the speaker short out? Will people go home? They examined each alternative and waited…at 7:45 the rain fizzled to a drizzle. The clouds were moving south. The word went out…8 o’clock in the grandstands, show time! It was still light, the flag was standing straight out in the wind, the crowd was bundled up, and I stood on the front walkway with my back to the rain. The whole bunch of us just smiled and shed water. Cancel the show? Not on your life.

That was the moment we shined. All of us, from the fair board, to the volunteers, the farmer who fixed the sound system, the parents of kids who had projects, the local radio announcer, the county agent and all those in the grandstands who came to see the show. I began, “I have called you all together here this evenin’ to thank the good Lord for the wonderful rain we’re havin’.” The crowd cheered and I heard an “Amen.”

Fair board drama

Cash vs. Accrual accounting: What’s best for farmers?

By Dale Newton, UFBF Director of Finance

If overreaching federal rules and regulations from the En-vironmental Protection Agen-cy and the United States Forest Ser-vice weren’t enough, now Utah farmers and ranch-ers have an-other worry. This time the concern cen-ters on the a c c o u n t i n g method allowed for farmers and ranchers. There are cur-rently proposals before the Congress to limit the account-ing methods available to vari-ous small businesses.

Many, if not most, small busi-nesses in farming and ranching (and in many other industries) use the “cash basis” method of accounting for revenues and expenses, and the determi-nation of net income. Other common accounting methods include the “accrual” method, used by most large businesses, the “modified cash basis” and the “percentage of completion” methods. Furthermore, most individuals use the cash basis of accounting for their personal calculation of income for tax purposes. Naturally, the calcu-lation of net income in a busi-ness operation is the beginning point for the determination of taxable income, which then re-sults in income tax expense.

The cash basis method of ac-counting is commonly found in smaller business operations because it is much easier to use in its application and more de-finitive in its outcome. Under

the cash basis of accounting, the primary determinant of revenue, expense and income is when the cash is received or disbursed. When cash from

the sale of a crop or an animal is received it be-comes revenue and when cash is disbursed for seeds or feed it becomes an ex-pense. The excess of rev-enue over expense, or cash receipts greater than dis-bursements, results in net income, whereas if expense exceeds revenue, or cash disbursed exceeds cash re-

ceipts, then the business has suffered a net loss.

The accrual basis of account-ing, on the other hand, uses many estimates and assump-tions to determine periodic net income or loss. It is the ac-crual basis of accounting that gives rise to such accounting terms as accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued li-abilities, unearned revenue and prepaid expenses. The accrual method of accounting requires the business to determine when the right to receive income is fixed and the amount is deter-minable with reasonable accu-racy. Under the accrual basis of accounting, a business is often required to pay income tax pri-or to receiving the cash actually related to the recognition of in-come. The accrual basis of ac-counting is more complicated, less understandable, subject to the accuracy of estimates and assumptions and costs of com-pliance are higher. This method of accounting accelerates the receiving of tax receipts by the federal government.

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massive, but it is probably about 200 million bushels below what the market had expected,” he said.

The bullish U.S. corn numbers were offset by less favorable world numbers for feed grains and wheat. Global feed grain pro-duction estimates, for example, rose by 4.9 million metric tons (MMT) over last month due not just to higher U.S. production, but higher EU corn production and higher barley production in the former Soviet zone, too. Pro-jected global feed grain carryover for 2014-15 rose 2.7 MMT month over month.

Projected global wheat pro-duction, meanwhile, rose 10.9 MMT to an expected record 716.1 MMT. Carryover is expected to rise 3.4 MMT as a result.

Soybeans held few surprises as the WASDE yield estimate

rose 0.2 bushels to 54.2 bushels per acre. The slight increase in production went straight into carryover, raising projected car-ryover to 430 million bushels.

Cotton acreage forecasts got significant adjustments, too. Projected harvested acreage rose from 9.7 million acres to 10.24 million acres over the month. Projected yield was up 4 pounds to 820 pounds per acre, adding about 1 million bales to expected production this year. The USDA consequently raised ending stocks projections from 5.2 to 5.6 million bales, which would result in the largest US carryover since 2008-2009 if realized. Changes in the U.S. cot-ton market will likely be offset by declining stocks abroad. China, meanwhile, is expected to hold even, exerting continued down-ward pressure on cotton prices.

In 2013, Utah producers in-sured over $33.5 million in crop value, and over 39 percent of policies received an indemnity payment with total program indemnities totaling over $5.3 million (all figures as of Septem-ber 1, 2014). Clearly, for many Utah producers, crop insurance “Guaranteed a Payday.” With October (forage production) and November (apples, cher-ries, pasture/rangeland/forage, and peaches) sales closing dates quickly approaching, now is the time for producers to evaluate their crop insurance needs and coverage options.

Local crop insurance agents are skilled at helping producers make good decisions about crop insurance program participa-tion. An agent locator tool is available on the Risk Manage-ment Agency (RMA) website at www.RMA.USDA.gov. The web-site also provides premium cal-culators and additional details and tools to facilitate participa-tion in Federal crop insurance programs. For a high-level look at the impact of crop insurance on Utah agriculture, please review the following program

Federal crop insurance programs - Are they

working for you?summaries:• Utah 2013 Crop Insur-

ance Profile: http://www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/2014/stateprofiles/utah13.pdf.

• Utah Detailed 2013 Crop Insurance Program Results: http://www3.rma.usda.gov/apps/sob/current_week/stcrop2013.pdf.

Livestock producers are re-

minded that two crop insurance programs – Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) and Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) – can be very effective in helping to manage production and market risk. For the PRF Program, producer face a November 15 sales closing date; so, careful consideration should begin now. Find out more about these programs online or visit with your local crop insurance agent. The balance sheet you save may be your own.

Federal crop insurance program policies are sold and serviced by private crop insurance companies. Custom Ag Solutions works with RMA and other partner organizations to educate Utah producers about risk management and Federal crop insurance programs. To receive information by mail, call CAS at 877-227-8094. USDA, RMA, and CAS are equal opportunity providers.

Applications for the next round of the American Farm Bureau Foun-dation’s White-Reinhardt mini-grants & scholarships are available at http://goo.gl/ycz9tV. All applications must be submitted electronically.

Once the application window closes on Oct. 15, an email with all of the applications to be approved by the state Farm Bureau will be sent to ag literacy coordinators in each state. Applications must be approved by the State Farm Bureau and recommendations written by November 1.

Mini-grants are offered to state & county Farm Bureaus in amounts up to $500 for classroom education programs for grades K-12 to initiate new programs or expand existing programs, which support ag literacy.

White-Reinhardt mini-grant and scholarship applications


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1 Offer available through 4/1/17. Available on qualified 2014 and 2015 Chevrolet vehicles. This offer is not available with some other offers. Only customers who have been active members of an eligible Farm Bureau for a minimum of 30 days will be eligible to receive a certificate. Customers can obtain certificates at www.fbverify.com/gm. Farm Bureau and the FB logo are registered service marks of the American Farm Bureau Federation and are used herein under license by General Motors. 2 Dependability based on longevity: 1987–April 2013 full-size pickup registrations.


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By Garrick Hall, UFBF Central Regional Manager

July 24, 2014 started much the same as any other Pioneer Day for the residents of the small community of Levan in Juab County, not unlike how it started in many towns across the State of Utah. A flag raising ceremony was followed by the annual fi reman’s b r e a k f a s t , a s m a l l p a r a d e ( y o u k n o w the kind with m o r e p e o p l e in the parade than watching it!), games and entertainment in the park scheduled to last all day, followed by the big fireworks show at dark. The day was perfect, good weather, good food (a fundraiser for LDS young women), and friends and family to enjoy it

Levan residents help out from � re-to -� ood

with. Little did anyone know things were about to change.

Just after 4:00 PM smoke could be seen rising just south of town. Not just a little smoke – a lot of smoke. It soon became apparent that a fast moving wild

fire had started and was heading right for several homes in the community. Quickly, without anyone having to ask for help, a line of vehicles headed out to evacuate the threatened homes and ranches. Personal items were loaded in trucks and trailers and moved to safety.

Livestock that could be easily caught were loaded up and moved out, while the rest were herded off through the fields. Local farmers rushed in with tractors and discs to help create firebreaks around the homes. Local volunteer fi refi ghters from

every nearby town were soon on scene placing themselves and their trucks between the homes and the approaching fi re.

With the help of some quick arriving helicopters and air tankers, the fi re was prevented from reaching any of the homes, although it was quite close. The much-anticipated fi reworks had to be postponed, but watching the helicopters and air tankers attack the fi re from above provided entertainment throughout the evening. The fi re

continued to burn for the next six days ultimately burning more than 4,000 acres and leaving Levan in the shadow of a very black mountain.

On the afternoon of the sixth day of the fire, skies in Levan began to darken as thunderclouds fi lled the sky. With fi refi ghters still on the mountain, the rain began to come. In less than an hour, almost an inch of rain fell on the very mountain that had

Photo by Garrick Hall� e a� ermath of the � re and � ooding in Levan, Juab County.

Statement courtesy of Dairy Council of Utah and Nevada

Recently, 45 people became ill as a result of a campylobacter infection linked to raw milk con-sumption from Ropelato Dairy in Weber County, a licensed raw milk distributor. The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is closely monitoring the situation and working with the dairy to ensure safe, consistent practices that will reduce risk of bacterial contamination.

“Utah dairy farm families are committed to producing high quality nutritious dairy products for consumers to enjoy,” said Jenn Harrison, CEO of the Dairy Council of Utah/Nevada. “We

Utah dairy farmers are committed to milk safetywork closely with local agencies and our farmers to ensure adher-ence to strict safety standards.”

Raw milk refers to milk that has not been pasteurized and as a result may contain potentially harmful bacteria that can cause illness or death. Food safety is of fundamental importance to gov-ernment agencies, dairy farmers, and consumers, and because of the inherent risk in the consump-tion of raw milk, Utah state law requires raw milk producers to meet high production require-ments and only allows the sale of raw milk from licensed distribu-tors. Customers must sign a waiv-er prior to purchase recognizing the potential health risks.

Aside from licensed raw milk distributors, all milk sold at local grocery and convenience stores has been pasteurized. Pasteuriza-tion, which began in the 1800s as a means of reducing illness, is the process by which raw milk is heat-ed to a specifi ed temperature for a very short period of time to kill potentially harmful pathogens.

“Unlike raw milk, conventional milk along with other dairy prod-ucts, such as cottage cheese, yogurt, and sour cream are all “Grade A” products which have been pasteurized and manufac-tured under strict federal guide-lines, which ensures the safety of the dairy product,” says Travis Waller, Director of Regulatory

Services at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

The science and the health safe-ty benefi ts of pasteurization are supported by numerous health organizations including: the Utah Department of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the World Health Organization.

Additional Resources:CDC: www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/raw-

milk/raw-°©‐milk-°©‐index.htmlFDA: www.fda.gov/Food/Resources-

ForYou/Consumers/ucm079516.htmFood Safety.Gov: http://www.food-

safety.gov/keep/types/milk


Diane Alston, an entomologist for USU Extension presented a summary of research findings related to pest control at the field day, concentrating on fruit flies and cane-boring insects.

For the Western cherry fruit fly, three new diamide insecti-cides were evaluated with and without sugar-based baits for their efficacy in preventing fruit fly larvae in cherry fruits. Di-amides are a new class of in-secticides with a number of positive attributes: new mode of action that targets nerves and muscles in insects; lo-cal systemic activity where leaves and fruit take up the insecticide; medium to long persistence on plants (2-3 weeks); and moderate-to-high rainfastness.

All three diamide insecti-cides prevented fruit infesta-tion. The addition of sugar baits slightly reduced adult trap catch, but not signifi-cantly. Altacor, Exirel, and an unregistered diamide showed good efficacy for western cherry fruit fly con-trol.

Yellow plastic traps that allow light to pass through (translucent) caught more western cherry fruit fly than non-translucent, cardboard traps. All traps were bright yellow and had sticky adhesive to retain the flies. On yellow plastic traps, more flies were caught on the side facing the canopy than on the outside of the trap. Cherry fruit flies spend the majority of their time within the cherry tree canopy. For translucent traps, the bright yellow color is visible to the flies within the canopy, whereas cardboard traps do not allow light to pass through and the yellow color is obscured within the canopy. Yellow plastic

USU Extension holds horticultural �eld day at research farm in Kaysville

traps out-performed yellow card-board traps, which have been the industry standard for many decades.

For raspberry cane-boring insects, the raspberry horntail is the major cane-boring insect pest in northern Utah. Larvae tunnel in the cambium and pith of the cane, cause shepherd’s crook wilting at the cane tip, and re-duce berry size, yield, and winter survival. Twenty-three summer bearing raspberry cultivars and 18 fall-bearing cultivars of rasp-

berries have been screened for their susceptibility to raspberry horntail at the USU research farm since 2009. Horntails are more abundant in summer-bear-ing cultivars than fall. The least susceptible summer raspberries included the ‘Cascade’ Series, ‘Bounty’, ‘Dawn’, ‘Delight’, and ‘Gold’; ‘Chemainus’; ‘Octavia’; and ‘Royalty’. Most fall-bearing cultivars were resistant to rasp-berry horntail; the best per-formers were ‘Brice’, ‘Caroline’,

‘Polana’, and ‘Polka’.Best practices for management

of raspberry horntail include selection of cultivars with higher resistance, removal of infested canes before adults begin to emerge in May (look for horntail tunnels in canes), frequent prun-ing of infested cane tips (shep-herd’s crook) during summer months, encouraging naturally occurring parasitic wasps that attack horntail larvae within the cane tips, and judicious use of insecticides timed to coincide with adult egg-laying (a degree-day model has been developed).

Brent Black, USU Extension’s fruit specialist, went on to ex-plain the second-phase rasp-berry variety trial as part of the field day. The first trial compared 10 varieties of fall-bearing and 17 varieties of summer-bearing raspberries for yield, fruit size, harvest season and susceptibil-ity to Utah’s most prevalent raspberry pest the Raspberry Horntail. Field day participants were able to sample fruit from some of the newest fall raspber-ries in the second phase planting. Among the fall-bearing varieties tested, Polka, Polana, Joan J and Caroline have given consistently good yields. Of these, consumers prefer Joan J and Polka for fla-vor. The second-phase summer bearing plots are producing their first full crop in 2014, and results for these are still being analyzed.

Trails are underway to com-pare rootstocks of apple, peach and cherry for adaptability to Utah’s conditions. A major focus of the peach research is to iden-tify rootstocks that can tolerate Utah’s alkaline soil and avoid de-veloping iron chlorosis. Several new rootstocks, including Atlas, Viking and Paramount have been very promising. A major limita-

Photo by Diane Alston�e Dr. Brent Black demonstrates a new over-the-row harvester for high density tart cherry orchards.

tion to apple production in Utah is the bacterial disease fire blight. Several new apple rootstocks with fire blight resistance look promising, but it is still too early to evaluate them for long-term survival and productivity. Cherry research is focusing on develop-ing dwarf trees that are suited to over-the-row mechanical har-vest. It is too early to determine how this approach will compare to the current commercial prac-tice of growing large trees that are harvested with trunk shaking equipment.

Dan Drost, USU Vegetable Specialist, then presented a sum-mary of his research findings per-taining to onion crop rotations.

According to Drost, onion thrips and Iris Yellow Spot Virus (IYSV) were identified as major pests each year and their com-bined effect is to reduce onion productivity. Onions are very responsive to added nitrogen but increasing nitrogen levels in the plant also increases thrips pres-sure and IYSV incidence. USU research has been investigating how changing crop rotations and reducing nitrogen application levels influences thrips, IYSV and onion bulb yield.

Onions grown in a Low-N (140 lbs. N/acre) and High-N (330 lbs. N/acre) have been grown after silage corn or wheat since 2011. In most years there is no difference in onion growth or bulb yield when onions are grown with Low-N. However, Drost found that there is sig-nificantly fewer thrips in onions grown after silage corn than when grown after wheat. In addition, there is generally few thrips in Low-N onion than in High-N onion. IYSV incidence has been quite high each year and differences between nitrogen levels and prior crop history has been more difficult to quantify.

For more information on the research presented, contact Brent Black at 435-797-2174 or [email protected].


velopment through new business opportunities, improve health care and educational services, en-hance public safety and allow for participation in government.

The CAF was created under the first phase of Universal Service Fund reform to replace the cur-rent high-cost program that subsidizes telephone service. It is designed to preserve and advance voice and robust broad-band services, both fixed and mobile, in high-cost areas of the country that would not otherwise be served.

The FCC’s five perfor-mance goals for the CAF are: preserve and advance universal availability of voice service; ensure universal availability of modern networks capa-ble of providing voice and broadband service to homes, businesses and community anchor in-

stitutions; and ensure universal availability of modern networks capable of providing advanced mobile voice and broad-band service.

Along with the creation of the CAF, Farm Bureau also supports increas-ing downstream and up-stream speeds and al-lowing new entities to participate in the CAF. The FCC is proposing an increase in the minimum broadband speed to 10 Mbps downstream, as well as an increase for the Mbps upstream.

The FCC must also en-sure the broadband in-frastructure supported by the CAF has the ability to increase that minimum speed in future years, Farm Bureau said. “The digital divide will con-tinue if the proper in-frastructure is not able to meet the needs of the future.”

DIVIDEContinued from pg. 6

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-Don’t miss seeing thousands of pounds of pure muscle in one place on one night! The Draft Horse Pull begins on Wednesday, September 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the arena. Utah Farm Bureau donates the belt buckles for the winners of this compe-tition.

-Saturday, Septem-ber 13, is Farm Bureau Day at the Fair. The Utah Farm Bureau and the Utah State Fair will partner again to pres-ent the Great American Dutch Oven Cook-off on September 13, 2014 in the Specialty Tent. This contest is open to the first ten teams or individuals to register. Teams will present to the judges a three pot meal consisting of a bread, main dish and dessert. The Grand Champion of this con-

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test will be awarded $300 and receive an invitation to compete at the IDOS (Interna-tional Dutch Oven Soci-ety) World Dutch Oven Contest. Many of the winners of this annual competition go on to win the World Dutch Oven Contest. Judging be-gins at 4 p.m. If you are interested in competing in this contest please visit www.utahstatefair.com/greatamerican for more information and to register.

New this year: The Contest Supervisor and Great Ameri-can Cook-Off Con-sultant will be Col-leen Sloan! Colleen Sloan has been spread-ing the Dutch Oven gos-pel for more than 50 years! She’s written and self-published six cookbooks, traveled to 49 different states and given hundreds of dem-onstrations.

According to Michael Brandy of the Deseret News , “The Beehive State’s own Dutch oven diva, Sloan may be the only woman in Utah who makes her living with a cast-iron pot. At last count she had approximately 170 of them.”

Camp Chef and Rhodes Bake—n—Serve will be holding cooking demon-strations throughout the afternoon

**Make it a point

to visit Farm Bu-reau’s table in the Specialty Tent dur-ing the Cook-Off for an opportunity to play games and win prizes!**

-Jr. Livestock Auc-tion begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Livestock Show Ring. Support our 4-H/FFA youth by bidding on their livestock. If your son or daughter will be participating, call 801-233-3010 by Tuesday, September 9 with the name of your youngster and the type of animal they will be selling. Farm Bureau would like to bid on the livestock of our member families.

-Little Hands on the Farm – Septem-ber 4 – 14, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. west of the arena. Take your chil-dren or grandchildren to visit this interactive experience especially designed for children ages 2 to10. Kids and their parents will enjoy learning more about the farm to grocery store process. Farm Bureau is a sponsor of this out-standing activity.

**We recommend you plan enough time to visit the Dairy Farmers of Utah Butter Cow sculp-ture and all the other outstanding exhibits displayed throughout the fairgrounds. **


County ConnectionVice President- OrganizationDavid Bailey

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Farm Bureau agents come in all shapes, sizes, experience, knowl-edge and backgrounds. My agent happens to hale from a rural part of the state in Emery County. My agent, Tyler Jeffs, was born and raised in Castle Dale, Utah and fulfilled a lifelong dream of returning to his roots nearly 10 years ago when he became an insurance agent for Farm Bureau. After learning and work-ing in Price for several years, Jeffs opened his own Farm B u r e a u o f -fice on Main Street in Cas-tle Dale seven years ago. He continues to provide insurance and financial planning not only to his rural community neighbors locally, but also to many Utahns across the state.

Though my home and small farm is nearly 200 miles from Jeffs office in Castle Dale, I chose to do business with Jeffs because of a relationship we struck up when we both became associated with Farm Bureau. We are both farm boys and we each have sto-ried, yet diverse backgrounds in agriculture growing up on sepa-rate farms. When it came time for me to own a home, I called Jeffs. I found out soon enough that my agent was not just a guy who sells insurance, I found a friend who has the knowledge, skills and the tools to protect livelihoods. I also found a professional who cares about what matters most to me.

Our common backgrounds and love of agriculture has spurred innumerable conversations about the many challenges farm-ers and ranchers face every day. Our families, our faith and our futures are all topics we have debated from time to time over the last many years. I’m quite sure that the friendship I have

Got Sorghum-Sudangrass?with my agent isn’t unique to just me. I’m certain that many agents have similar relationships with many of their clients.

Last year during one of our phone visits Jeffs introduced me to his experiment of grow-ing Sorghum-Sudangrass in Castle Dale. Sorghum-Sudan’s are hybrids and are unequaled in adding organic matter back into worn-out and compacted soils. Utah farmers experimented with

Sorghum hybrids as early as 1937 as part of a USU Ag Experiment Station study. The results from the study were not encouraging, as the varieties in that era could not adequately survive Utah’s short and arid growing season.

Fast-forward 65 years and to-day Sorghum-Sudan is now mak-ing a comeback. Today’s varieties are fast growing, heat loving and are expert at suppressing weeds. They can withstand drought con-ditions by going nearly dormant and can tolerate pH as high as 9.0 and as low as 5.0. Many farmers have also found Sorghum-Sudan to be a great rotation crop with barley to reclaim alkaline soils.

In addition Sorghum-Sudan provides a sweet, tasty forage that cows can’t resist. The forage can be cut or mowed when stalks get 3-4 feet tall and then cut again later in the season. Most farmers in Utah take one large cutting when the stalks get 8-10 feet tall. If you do choose to make multiple cuttings, be certain to leave at least six inches of stubble to ensure adequate regrowth. Summer cuttings encourage tillering and roots grow deeper with every cutting. Sorghum-

Sudan can also be ensiled if con-ditions won’t allow for complete dry down.

Sorghum-Sudan is very sus-ceptible to frost and as a general rule of thumb, planting should be done about two weeks after the normal planting time of corn. Seeding rates vary from 35-40

lbs./acre and can be drilled or broadcast. Grazing Sorghum-Sudan can be done, but great care should be taken to prevent cattle from prussic acid poisoning. This poisoning can be a lethal prob-lem for cattle grazing sorghum. According to a recent SARE report, plants pose the most risk


YF&R Focus: Kole & Kelle NielsenYoung Farmer & Rancher Couple from Weber CountyKole and I met on a blind

date in February 2013. It must have been love at first sight, as they say, because a month and a half later on March 28 we were engaged! We were mar-ried four months later in the Brigham City LDS Temple and just celebrated our one-year an-niversary.

We are both from very small farming towns and felt that being raised in that type of a setting helped shape us into the individuals that we are; so we decided to continue our lives in a similar setting where we could eventually raise our children to have those same values and morals. We are both very close with our families and wanted to live near them, so when the op-portunity came up to purchase a house in Kole’s hometown of West Weber we were thrilled. The house we purchased also came with a little bit of land so naturally we had to fill it up with animals! We have four goats, a couple cows, seven chickens, a rooster and our precious puppy Huck (he’s a little spoiled if you can’t tell). I was raised with horses and have loved them all my life. Kole worked on his grandpa’s dairy farm driving a tractor at seven years old, so in one way or another, agriculture has been a part of our lives since either of us can remember.

I knew I always wanted to marry a good ol’ country boy, but I had no idea what I was getting into until I did! Kole has stepped away from the dairy farming side of things and has embraced the role of a crop farmer. If he can sit behind a tractor, that’s his kind of work. We rent a small amount of ground where Kole grows wheat crops and helps his partner with oat as well. Kole was born to

be a farmer and that is what he loves to do, but sometimes that doesn’t pay the bills. When he is not farming, he works for a farm-ing equipment company called MacDon as a product support rep – which is really the next best thing! He travels his terri-tory ranging from Montana to Arizona visiting dealers and go-ing out to the local farms to help farmers with their equipment. He also has a little fun while he’s at it! I work at a private Mon-tessori school here in Ogden, while I am finishing up my early childhood degree at Weber State University before we have some kids of our own.

Being involved with the YF&R gave us the amazing opportunity to travel to Virginia Beach to at-tend the annual national confer-ence. It was such a great chance for us to mingle with other young farmers and ranchers our age from all across the country. We were able to learn so much about the importance that farmers make not only in our community and state, but at a national level as well. It is so important that we are actively educating our own children and our communities on the importance of farming so that they will understand the role that farming plays in their lives, even if they themselves are not farm-ers. The Farm Bureau is such a great way for individuals from all backgrounds to support and be actively involved in helping local farmers succeed and gives them the proper knowledge and understanding of what it takes to for their food to go from our farm to their table.

When Kole and I are not busy feeding animals or having late night tractor dates, we love to go camping and hunting with our families and friends all around Utah. We love taking our Razor out to explore the country and

see all the beautiful wildlife as well as the land. We also love to take road trips together and spend time with each other while we can. I love traveling through different states and seeing Kole’s eyes light up every time he sees farm ground and to hear how passionate he is about what he does. He is very educated about the world of farming. Much of that has come from his daily interaction with farmers from around our community and surrounding states that he met through the Farm Bureau as well as the lessons he learned grow-ing up on a farm himself. It is one of the main reasons I fell in love with him and why I still do to this day!

Living the farm life has taught us so much about hard work and determination. It is definitely a tough business, but to know that you are really making a differ-ence in your community and that we truly love what we do makes

all that hard work worthwhile. We are excited for our farm to continue to grow as we take on new land with our family over the next few years and start teaching our children the same values and work ethic that we have been given.

This life is truly a dream come true for both of us and as we con-tinue to work hard and help our dreams grow into a reality, we hope to help our children see the importance that farming plays in the lives of everyone and hope that they may have a legacy of their own to leave behind some-day. I love this life I married into. It is worth every late night in the tractor and farm full of animals to care for when my husband is in that tractor. They say it takes a community to raise a child and I can think of no better community to raise my child in than one that teaches them to be a hardwork-ing and trustworthy individual. Yes, it’s a farmer’s life for me!

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the official journal of the federal government that contains government agency rules, proposed rules and public notices.

Does anybody really wonder why the United States economy contin-ues to sputter? The 79,311 pages in 2013 is only the fourth highest total in history. That unimagi-nable number somehow falls short of President Obama’s record setting 81,405 pages in 2010. For an economy that has been on life support throughout much of the Obama Presidency, it should be pointed out that four of the five high-est Federal Register page counts have occurred on his watch.

Is the cause and effect of a lackluster economy and high unemployment clear?

Unti l fa ir ly recent years, Congress and the federal agencies estab-

lished parameters or regulatory guidelines for doing business. It was kind of like the reason for building a corral. Inside of the corral you could do business without govern-ment interference. That was what our Founding Fathers envisioned with an American free market economy – limited gov-ernment interference. Today, the rules are so specific they have become impossible to comply with. More than 400,000 federal regulators go to work every day and their entire existence is based on promulgating more rules and regulations to unleash on the American economy! This over-regulation reality means the average household pays $14,974 in hidden regulatory taxes, or 23 percent of an average $65,596 family income according to the Wall Street Journal.

Senator Lee, at the Utah Solutions Confer-ence, pointed out we

have a “helicopter gov-ernment” that hovers over America because government knows best what the people need. He noted that regulations are rarely evenly distributed so the system in-vi tes corrup-tion. Either the government is p i c k i n g w i n -ners or losers through regula-tions or lobby-ists are working to protect their particular inter-ests.

In a system a v e r a g i n g o f 80,000 pages o f p o t e n t i a l new rules and regulations ev-ery year, is it any wonder the growing amount o f i n f l u e n c e peddling that is going on in our nation’s capital?

Tom Coburn United States Senator from Oklahoma was a special guest speaker at the Con-ference. He has dedicated his political career to fighting overregulation. He said recent studies have concluded grow-ing U.S. regulations are reducing growth in our economy by an average of two percent per year and the rules and regulations just keep on coming. He noted the regulatory im-pacts of “Obamacare” alone have already cost the U.S. economy more than $60 billion.

Coburn shared what he calls the Law of Bu-reaucracy: “Government bureaucracies never do

what is best for the peo-ple; they do what is best for the bureaucracy!” He recommended that

Congress – not the agen-cies – do what Congress is elected to do – define how the laws Congress passes are implemented. And quit blaming the agencies for doing what they do best.

For American agricul-ture, government over-regulation is – “Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg.” The Aesop Fable provides a nice par-allel. Throughout much of our history, farmers and ranchers have been thriving, creative, and successful, providing abundance to the nation. The government allowed the farmers and ranchers to prosper and continue providing wholesome, abundant and afford-able food. The formula

worked fine until the government started med-dling and stealing the eggs. Productivity de-

clined. Food pro-ducers left their fields. Beef prices skyrocketed. Con-sumers cried foul, but the greedy government want-ed more!

Overreaching agencies and over-regulation by the federal govern-ment on Amer-ica’s farms and ranches is making it almost impos-sible to produce food, putting our national security at risk. We have seen U.S. Depart-ment of Labor reg-ulations proposed to outlaw farm-ers from allowing their children to work alongside of

them on their farms. The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) wants to treat spilled milk like an oil spill because it con-tains milk fat. How about EPA wanting farmers to till their fields, produce and harvest crops all without causing dust? The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management have reduced historic livestock grazing on Utah’s feder-ally-controlled land by 70 percent, contributing to beef shortages and high prices. EPA and USFS are seeking greater control over sovereign state wa-ters and private property rights through expansive rulemaking redefining

Utah Farm Bureau CEO Randy Parker stands at the Utah Solutions Summit with the laws passed by Con-gress in his hands, compared with the executive agency rules & regulations stacked in 7 foot piles next to him.

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Utah Farm Bureau News 21September 2014worked fine until the government started med-dling and stealing the eggs. Productivity de-

clined. Food pro-ducers left their fields. Beef prices skyrocketed. Con-sumers cried foul, but the greedy government want-ed more!

Overreaching agencies and over-regulation by the federal govern-ment on Amer-ica’s farms and ranches is making it almost impos-sible to produce food, putting our national security at risk. We have seen U.S. Depart-ment of Labor reg-ulations proposed to outlaw farm-ers from allowing their children to work alongside of

them on their farms. The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) wants to treat spilled milk like an oil spill because it con-tains milk fat. How about EPA wanting farmers to till their fields, produce and harvest crops all without causing dust? The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management have reduced historic livestock grazing on Utah’s feder-ally-controlled land by 70 percent, contributing to beef shortages and high prices. EPA and USFS are seeking greater control over sovereign state wa-ters and private property rights through expansive rulemaking redefining

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inc luding increased a b i l i t y t o d i s c o v e r n e w s e e d v a r i e t i e s that produce better in Utah, development and enhancement of existing management practices to increase production, increased educational o u t r e a c h t o g r a i n producers, and possibly the development of new marketing opportunities.

Will the withholding discourage producers from selling their products in the state? No, neighboring states already withhold money for marketing orders from their producers. When a wheat producer from Idaho sells a load of wheat in Utah, the Utah elevator that purchases that wheat withholds the money and sends it to Idaho. That is a common practice that the large buyers are used to dealing with. There should not be an advantage one way or the other by crossing a state line.

T h e m e e t i n g i n Monticello was quite informational for the grain producers who were able to attend. People seemed to have a much better understanding of the marketing order after being able to discuss the

pros and cons and have the answers to question explained to them. While the idea of a Small Grain and Oilseed Marketing order is new to Utah, the idea of marketing orders generally is not new. Six marketing orders for other commodities already exist in Utah; including the Apple, Sweet Cherry, Turkey, Egg, Red Tart Cherry, and Sheep marketing boards. Small grain marketing orders have been established in many states around the country.

T h e d e c i s i o n o n whether or not to form the Utah Small Grain and Oilseed Marketing Order ultimately is one that will be made by the producers themselves. UDAF plans to send out ballots to all grain producers in the state. To qualify as a grain producer you must grow at least 40 acres of grain or oilseed crops. In order for it to pass, 50% + 1 of the returned ballots must be in favor of the marketing order. It is expected that the ballots will go out in early November, so if you raise grain watch your mailbox, regardless of how you vote, only the ballots that are returned can be counted.

Utahns interested in learning about emer-gency preparedness can visit the South Towne Expo Center in San-dy on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for workshops, speakers, emergency preparedness vendors, door prizes and give-aways.

“We began this Utah State University Exten-sion-sponsored confer-ence in 2009 to help people understand that there are things they can do to be in charge, even when there is much out of their con-trol during an emer-gency,” said Teresa Hunsaker, USU Exten-sion family and con-sumer sciences agent. “By thinking ahead and having necessary items on hand, they can bet-

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ter ride out the storm, so to speak.”

Workshop topics in-clude mock root cellars, meals in minutes with food storage, shelter-ing in place, emergen-cy fuel storage, emer-gency communications, emergency childbirth, powerless cooking, spe-cial needs preparation, survival tips from the experts, water purifica-tion, preparedness and terrorism, water and emergency first aid.

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thousands of classes across the United States for 40 years.

“We really try to have this be a one-stop shop where Utahns can be-come educated and learn what they can do to help themselves, their families and their pets in the event of a barrage of emergency scenarios,” said Hunsa-ker. “Our goal is to help keep damage and ca-sualties to a minimum should one of these events take place.”

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Practical PolicyVice President- Public PolicySterling Brown

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Protecting investments from the crow

In English-speaking lands, the crow has always been called by that name. Each Na-tive American tribe had a name for the crow and because of its non-secretive habits; it is one of the most familiar birds to the casual observer. The Sioux tell the story of how a white crow used to warn buffalo of ap-proaching hunting parties. The buffalo would then stampede, and the hunters would be left hungry. Eventually, an angry Native American threw the bird in a fire, which turned it black.

Historically, crows were simply classified as varmints and could be shot anytime of the year. How-ever, the United States negoti-ated a treaty with the Mexican government to protect several species that move back and forth between the two countries. The treaty covers the entire major bird family Corvidae, which in-cludes crows, ravens and jays. So without it necessarily being intended, the crow is now a pro-

tected species with limitations on how they can be hunted.

In recent years, regions of Utah have experienced signifi-cant population increases of the American crow. These regions include far northern Utah, the Wasatch Front, the I-15 trans-portation corridor and far east-ern Utah. Crows use a mixed habitat including woodlands for roosting, nesting and perching, open areas, agriculture fields, marshes, rivers and streams. They are attracted to garbage dumps and have a well-known fondness for melons and corn. More recently, farmers have reported crow damage to plastic silage bags and fruit crops.

In an effort to protect Utah’s agriculture industry from dam-age and possible spread of dis-

e a s e , f r o m crows and to further provide wildlife manag-ers with addi-tional tools to help control an increasing crow population in Utah, Utah’s Di-vision of Wild-life Resources (DWR) board of directors re-cently voted to support enact-ing a depreda-tion order and establishing a Utah crow hunt.

U n d e r t h e depredation or-der provisions, folks are not re-quired to obtain a certificate of registration or a federal permit to kill a crow. This provision only applies when the crow is committing or about to commit depredations on ornamental or shade trees, agriculture crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in large numbers that could constitute a health hazard. In addition, before kill-ing, landowners must first at-tempt to control the birds using

non-lethal methods. Afterwards, landowners must dispose of the crow at a landfill, burn or incin-erate. Furthermore, landown-ers must report to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service by January 31 of the following year information relating to the depredation.

Effective immediately, Utah now has a crow hunt. When considering the dates of the

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been burning. The fire didn’t last long in the rain, but a new challenge was quickly facing the small community. With no vegetation left on the mountain, there was nothing to hold back the water. Soon the same homes that less than a week earlier were in danger of burning up were now in the path of the flash flood, along with many other homes further down as the water worked its way through town. Rivers soon formed and carried mud, ash, and debris racing down the mountain.

For the second time in less

than a week, volunteers came out to help divert water and try to protect homes from the flood. Local farmers used tractors to build makeshift dams and ditches to divert the flood water away from home. City and county road crews worked to protect roads and bridges, and volunteers with shovels worked to keep water flowing away.

Before long, the highway was covered with several feet of mud and rocks, several yards and gardens were destroyed by a layer of thick, gooey mud, and many acres of crops were washed away and lost. However, the water was diverted away from basements

and major home damage was avoided. Even more important, no one was injured – although many firefights spent a long, wet night on the mountain. Levan will feel the long-term effects of the pioneer day fire for several years to come, but one thing is for sure, if and when disaster strikes again, the residents of Levan will be there to look out for and help their neighbors.

Recent events across the state lead me to believe that Levan is not unique. I could site many examples from my own personal experiences and stories I have read in the news of good people helping their neighbors. Most of

you have experiences from your own communities that you could share. When trials arise people seem to step up to meet the challenge, often thinking more about their neighbors than their own safety or personal comfort. In a time when bad news seems to dominate the media cycle, it is nice to know that we live in communities filled with good people. One of my neighbors remarked that when trouble rises, many people run away as fast as they can away, while others run right to it. How blessed we all are to be surrounded by those who run towards the trouble and meet it head on.

Utah Farm Bureau News24 September 2014SORGHUMContinued from pg. 18

ACCOUNTINGContinued from pg. 12

when “plants are young (up to 24 inches tall), drought stressed or killed by frost”.

This past spring, I followed up Jeffs’ experiment with one of my own and planted 10 acres of Sor-ghum-Sudan in my hometown of Liberty. To my knowledge I am only the 2nd farmer to plant this crop in our little mountain

valley. I have not yet harvested my illustrious sorghum crop, but it has reached a height of seven feet tall and is still growing. I’m told that the optimum cutting timing is when the plant begins to head out and go to seed. At this time in the plant’s life cycle, sugars are drawn up the plant and make the plant more desir-able for livestock.

I love agriculture and I love ex-perimenting with new crops and

farming methods. Since planting my Sorghum-Sudan crop a few months ago, I’ve fielded a host of questions from my neighbors and friends about what it is and what I was going to do with it. It’s been a great learning experience for my kids and I to watch grow. Who knew that I could not only get a good insurance quote from my Farm Bureau agent but some good farming advice as well?

its members to ask their Sen-ators and Representatives to sign “dear colleague” letters protecting unfettered access and use of the cash basis of accounting. The Utah Farm Bureau participated in this effort. The goal was to have enough members of Con-gress sign the letters to stop cash accounting limitation discussions from resurfacing when Congress returns to tax reform next year. Other or-ganizations have also joined in the effort. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has also testified before Congress encouraging the continued use of the cash basis method of accounting.

In its written testimony, the AICPA stated that “…we strongly believe that Con-gress should not restrict the use of the long-standing cash method of accounting…forc-ing more businesses to use the accrual method of ac-counting for tax purposes would increase their admin-istrative burden, discourage business growth in the U. S. economy and unnecessarily impose financial hardship on cash-strapped businesses.”

The Utah Farm Bureau feels that continuation of the availability of the cash basis method of accounting for Utah’s farmers and ranch-ers is an important factor in maintaining a healthy ag-ricultural industry in Utah. With dozens of critical issues already bombarding farmers and ranchers, UFBF mem-bers don’t need one more impediment to the success-ful operation of their farm or ranch.


Farm SafetyVice President- Farm SafetyA.J. Ferguson

Safety, Safety, Safety and Safety…does it get old? As the Vice President of Utah’s farm safety program, the answer is no. I love my job and I love working to keep our state’s farmers and ranchers safe. This is the 70th anniversary of the National Farm Safety week, being celebrated September 21-27. The theme this year is “Protecting What Matters”. Our state has already had a farmer severely injured and two fatalities. These injuries and fatalities can help remind us to put safety first. Now is the time to protect what matters most. It is my hope – and that of Utah farm Bureau and Utah Labor Commission – to help keep the farming and ranching commu-nity safe and strong.

Safety in the farming and ranch-ing commu-nity should n e v e r b e a b o u t s i t -t i n g b a c k and waiting to see if one becomes a statistic. It is about be-ing proac-tive. I have s a i d m o r e t h a n o n c e concerning safety pro-crastination that too often there is a misconception that nothing can be done but to wait and see if it will happen. That is the wrong attitude for safety. Safety shouldn’t be retroactive; it should be proactive. Who wants to wait and do their work with the loss of a hand, foot or a loved one? No one thinks this

Protecting what mattersway. Now is the time to review near misses, old practices that our parents and grandparents did that are not safe, and change what we are doing.

A kneejerk reaction is very common in farm related in-cidents, which leads to many trainings and a cry for change. Then, as sudden as it started,

the concern for safety fades. It is important to have a proactive approach toward safety, keeping it in the forefront. That is the standard to maintain, leading to less downtime due to injuries,

a better run o p e r a t i o n , lower insur-a n c e p r e -miums, and i m p r o v e d employee re-tention.

U n d e r -standing the potential out-come from a poor or hast-ily made de-cision is an i m p e r a t i v e part of being safe . Dai ly exposure to

our heavy machinery, animals, chemicals and other dangers can lead to a false sense of security or over-confidence that leads to individuals feeling, ‘There is no way that can hurt me.’ As a child and youth, I loved going to the orchard to work with my Dad. It’s what I lived for! I remem-ber playing and working on our

tractors, forklifts, fruit bins and other things we had on the farm, and thinking that the equipment knew me like I knew it. I thought to myself, “How can I get hurt? It isn’t going to hurt me, and it has never happened before.” This type of attitude will lead to life changing consequences that are not always easy.

It is important to stop and look at what you are doing and ask, ‘Is it safe? Could it be done in

a safer way? What will the outcome be if I do it this way?’ These are great questions to ask before jumping in and getting the day’s work done. Understanding the potential outcome or dangers will help change

careless behavior. Agriculture makes up about

two percent of the United States population – excluding the pro-cessing portion of agriculture – yet we still have one of the high-est fatality rates in the nation. The National Safety Council’s Injury Facts book of 2014 shows the final count for 2011 as being 16,220 nonfatal injury cases and 566 fatal injuries in agriculture, and in that same year 26 youth under the age of 20 died. With our families as part of this work force, it is up to us to make safety the priority not the exception. For assistance or question in regards to safety please call me, AJ Ferguson at 801-233-3006.

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5th International Orchard Bee AssociationGeneral Meeting & SymposiumIn 2009, a small group of government research scientists, educators and extension agents presented ongoing science related to the successful use of Blue Orchard Bees (Osmia lignaria) to pollinate commercial orchards.Since then, the Orchard Bee Association was formed and meets each year with the end goal of improving orsupplementing traditional pollination efforts to increase food supply.

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Enjoy a tasty lunch and attend the Orchard Bee Association’s annual Symposium & Expo.View the complete agenda and register online at: www.OrchardBee.org P W ($15)

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“waters of the United States” and claiming greater control for the federal government over groundwater and surface waters originating on Forest Service lands.

Utah has been a leader in dealing with the impacts of regulatory burdens resulting in our state being the top ranked “business friendly state.” While the nation languishes in high unemployment and economic stagnation, Utah’s job creation and unemployment leads the nation. Utah’s private–public partnership is working. Utah’s “Sunset Clause” provides for a legislative review of the costs and benefi ts of various laws and regulations every fi ve years, re-quiring legislative reauthoriza-tion. Early in offi ce, Governor

Herbert implemented a review of Utah regulations and their impact on businesses. The re-view found 1,969 such regula-tions. The review and public input led to 368 being revised or rescinded.

The Wall Street Journal touts Utah’s business success and rec-ognizes Utah is a national leader for business and innovation. Congress and the federal gov-ernment should look at the Utah model and better understand overregulation is “killing the American dream!” To capture the crown as the most innovative country in the world, we need to do as Sweden did and remove the regulatory shackles and let entrepreneurs do what they do best – innovate!

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Jay Olsen of the Sanpete County Farm Bureau explains the many products that come from agriculture to students at the Sanpete County Farm Field Days in Manti in August. County Farm Bureaus throughout Utah hold Farm Field Days in the Spring and Fall as a way of reaching out to students, teachers and parents about the contributions of agriculture in society. � e � eld days, which are closely correlated with curriculum subjects students are learning about, serve to reinforce what is being taught in the classroom.


Leader Feature: Rob SmithCache County Farm Bureau President

Tri‐State Range Tour and Symposium

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September 24, 20149:00 AM – 3:30 PM

Cokeville, WY Town Hall

Agenda9:00 AM – Investing in Weed Control

11:00 AM – Low Stress Cattle Handling Basics11:30 AM – Lunch and Travel to Clark Ranch

12:30 PM – Hands on Low Stress Cattle Demonstration1:30 PM – Tour Clark Ranch3:30 PM – Head for Home

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Residence: Trenton, Cache CountySpouse: Macall Family: 4 boys and 2 girlsBegan Farming: At least three generations have been involved in ranching in various parts of Utah.Kind of Operation: Cow/calf range operationOther organization involvement: Member of the Utah State Bar AssociationFarm Bureau Service: former Cache County YF&R Chair

What got you involved with Farm Bureau? My parents were involved with they were young, and a friend got Macall and I involved in the YF&R in 2001.

If you could, what is one thing you would change in agriculture? It’s been nice to see the increase in commodity prices lately. I would like to see that continue.

What do you see for Utah agriculture 20 years from now? Some challenges from development, but more opportunities for specialty products.

What do you like most about being a farmer/rancher? The opportunity to work together as a family

Why should farmers and ranchers get involved in Farm Bureau? It’s an eff ective way to have a hand in issues that directly aff ect agriculture.

Why should anyone join Farm Bureau, and what are the benefi ts? Membership in Farm Bureau is great because whether you are really involved or simply pay your dues, you are promoting agriculture.

What have you learned as being a Farm Bureau county president or what do you like the most about it? I like working with such good people.

What are some of your fondest memories about Farm Bureau? Summer Farm Bureau picnics in the rain!

What advice do you give to young farmers and ranchers? Marry wisely

What equipment do you use? (i.e. John Deere vs. Case) Or you can have another comparison question, like Holstein vs. Jersey, Angus vs. Hereford, Ford vs. Chevy, etc. We raise primarily red angus cattle. I like Ford and Dodge, and any brand of tractor that will start in the winter.

What is the most recent book you’ve read or movie you’ve seen? Or which is your favorite? Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford

What did you want to be when you ‘grew up’? A bull rider, for about 5.5 seconds!

If you could be on any “reality” television show, which would it be? We don’t watch much TV, so I haven’t seen any reality shows. But “Ponch” on the TV show CHiPS was my favorite when I was a kid. Any unique hobbies/interests? Reading legal treatises on trust law late at night!

Utah Farm Bureau News28 September 2014CROWSContinued from pg. 23

Utah hunt, Utah’s DWR board of directors followed the United States Fish and Wildlife Service general guidelines for sport hunt, which include: cannot exceed 124 days and cannot occur during the peak breeding period. In the end, the Utah hunt is September 1 through September 30 and De-cember 1 through February 28 and all areas of the state are open to the hunt with the exception of national wildlife refuges. The bag limit is 10 and the possession limit is 30.

Crows should not be mistaken for blackbirds or ravens. Crows average 17 inches tall. They are larger than the blackbird (9 inch-es) and smaller than common ravens (24 inches). Crows have square-shaped tails and small, flat bills. The top and bottom of the bill appear even in length. Crows beat their wings quickly

and rarely glide. Their call is a quick, high-pitched “caw” that is repeated multiple times. Crows hop when they are on the ground.

Ravens are large birds with v-shaped tails and large, rounded bills. A raven’s top bill is larger than its lower bill. Ravens are smooth, graceful flyers and of-ten glide. Their call is a low and hoarse “croak” that is repeated once or twice. While on the ground, they walk smoothly.

Utah agriculture producers are pleased with Utah’s DWR recent actions to expand management and control practices of the crow. Farmers and ranchers invest thousands, millions of dollars into land, habitat, livestock and other capital. Much of this pri-vate property is at risk of disease that can be spread by crows and other wildlife. Laws and rules must allow these landowners with necessary authority to take any wildlife that destroys crops and livestock.

than $1 million – 4 percent of all farms – produced 66 percent.• Much of the increased farm income was concentrated geo-

graphically or by farm categories.• California led the nation with 9 of the 10 top counties for value

of sales. Fresno County was number one in the United States with nearly $5 billion in sales in 2012, which is greater than that of 23 states. Weld County, Colorado ranked 9th in the top 10 U.S. counties.

• The top 5 states for agricultural sales were California ($42.6 billion); Iowa ($30.8 billion); Texas ($25.4 billion); Nebraska ($23.1 billion); and Minnesota ($21.3 billion).

• Eighty-seven percent of all U.S. farms are operated by families or individuals.

• Principal operators were on average 58.3 years old and were predominantly male; second operators were slightly younger and most likely to be female; and third operators were younger still.

• Young, beginning principal operators who reported their pri-mary occupation as farming increased 11.3 percent from 36,396 to 40,499 between 2007 and 2012.

• All categories of minority-operated farms increased between 2007 and 2012; the Hispanic-operated farms had a significant 21 percent increase.

• 144,530 farm operators reported selling products directly to consumers. In 2012, these sales totaled more than $1.3 billion (up 8.1 percent from 2007).

• Organic sales were growing, but accounted for just 0.8 per-cent of the total value of U.S. agricultural production. Organic farmers reported $3.12 billion in sales in 2012, up from $1.7 billion in 2007.

• Farms with Internet access rose from 56.5 percent in 2007 to 69.6 percent in 2012.

• 57,299 farms produced on-farm renewable energy, more than double the 23,451 in 2007.

• 474,028 farms covering 173.1 million acres were farmed with conservation tillage or no-till practices.

• Corn and soybean acres topped 50 percent of all harvested acres for the first time.

• The largest category of operations was beef cattle with 619,172 or 29 percent of all farms and ranches in 2012 specializing in cattle.

“This information is critical to understanding the conditions of U.S. agriculture and determining future policy,” said incoming NASS Administrator Joseph T. Reilly. “Today’s data release is the culmina-tion of years’ worth of planning and work that NASS has made openly available for public use.”

Conducted since 1840, the Census of Agriculture accounts for all U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Cen-sus tells a story of how American agriculture is changing and lays the groundwork for new programs and policies that will invest in rural America; promote innovation and productivity; build the rural economy; and support our next generation of farmers and ranchers.

For access to the complete data series and tools to analyze this information, visit www.agcensus.usda.gov. A link to census data will also be available on the USDA Open Data portal, www.usda.gov/data.

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easily be lost or badly damaged. And let’s not forget there are al-ready very stringent rules farm-ers follow when using pesticides.

Losing a crop could break a farmer, as could the hundreds of thousands of dollars a day EPA is looking to reap if a farmer missteps under this proposed rule.

EPA and other supporters of the proposed rule have made much of the so-called exemption for agriculture, but it offers no protection.

The “normal farming and ranching” exemption only ap-plies to a specific type of Clean Water Act permit for “dredge and fill” materials. There is also no farm or ranch exemption from Clean Water Act permit re-quirements for what EPA would call “pollutants,” but farmers would call plant nutrients and protection products. Exemp-tions or not, under the proposed rule, many common and impor-tant practices like weed control and fertilizer spreading will be prohibited in or near so-called “waters” without a Clean Water Act permit.

Ultimately, the new permit-ting requirements that will come with this proposal mean everyday weed control, fertilizer applications or any number or other common farm activities may trigger Clean Water Act li-ability and section 402 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit liability. If mate-rial could incidentally be depos-ited into features like ditches, ephemerals and other features EPA now plans to drown in federal jurisdiction, farmers and ranchers have something to worry about.

At the same time EPA and the Corps are telling farmers and ranchers they’re got nothing to worry about because the exemp-

tions put them in the clear, the agency is moving forward with a guidance document that will govern how they interpret the “normal farming” exemptions contained in Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

This interpretive rule makes fundamental changes in how the exemptions for normal agricul-tural activities at “established” farms will be applied and en-forced. Contrary to assertions by proponents, this rule narrows how the exemptions are applied and increases farmers’ liabil-ity. Under the interpretive rule, Natural Resources Conservation Service conservation standards that were previously voluntary are now fully enforceable as part of the CWA regulatory program.

Like the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule, the interpretive rule flies in the face of congres-sional intent. In 1977 Congress amended the Clean Water Act to exempt “normal” farming, ranching and silviculture from Section 404 “dredge and fill” permit requirements. However, EPA and the Corps are now as-serting that farmers need Sec-tion 404 permits to conduct any of the 56 practices listed in the interpretive rule, despite the fact that those practices qualify as the “normal” farming, ranching and silviculture activities Congress addressed 37 years ago.

While we’re talking about “nor-mal” agricultural practices, also alarming in the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule is EPA and the Corps’ interpretation of “normal farming and ranching” to mean only farms and ranches that EPA determines to be “established” and “ongoing”—not newer or expanded farms and ranches. Where does this leave the chil-dren and grandchildren of farm-ers and ranchers who want to work the land but need to grow the operation to support an ex-panding family? What does this mean for the billions of people

who will need to be fed in the future?

Worried about the answers to those questions and the many threats the proposed rule poses to agriculture, Farm Bureau has launched a website at ditch-therule.fb.org to help farmers, ranch-ers , l andowners and others express the need for EPA to “Ditch the Rule.” Focused on topics and analysis related to the proposed rule, the easy-to-navigate site includes several sections: Take Action, Go Social, Find Answers and Get Resources. We encourage you to visit the site, sign up to learn more, com-ment on the proposed rule and send tweets using the hashtag #DitchTheRule. You should also

voice your concerns to your state and local officials and your U.S. representative and senators.

Don Parrish is senior director of regulatory relations at the American Farm Bureau Federation. This column was originally published in the August/September 2014 issue of Sugar Pro-ducer magazine and is reprinted with permission.

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ing practiced in Utah public rodeos. Horse tripping originates from Mexico and, in recent years, has increasingly been sponsored in a number of western states in local, county rodeos. Horse tripping is an event where a horse rider ropes another horse by the neck and legs then “trips” the horse for sport and entertainment.

Utah Farm Bureau… attended Utah’s Division of Wildlife Re-sources board meeting and spoke to the importance of increased predator control eff orts throughout the state. The board took action on a one-year Cougar Management Plan. Next year, the board hopes to take action on a multi-year Cougar Management Plan.

Searching for Solutions… At the invitation of Utah Senator Mike Lee, the Utah Farm Bureau participated in the Utah Solutions Summit in late August, held at the Little American Hotel in Salt Lake City. The Summit featured business and government leaders, including Utah Lt. Governor Spencer Cox and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, talking about regulation compliance and the relation-ship between regulation and economic development. Chief Executive Offi cer Randy Parker participated in the Energy, Natural Resources, and Public Lands roundtable with 15 other industry leaders, talking about overregulation on public lands in Utah.

Utah Farm Bureau comments… were submitted for a variety of projects and meetings, including the Mitchell Springs Vegetative Project, Grand Staircase grazing plan and Monroe Mountain sage grouse tour, and Utah Mule Deer Committee meeting.

International Visitors… � e Utah Farm Bureau hosted a group discussion with visitors from Australia, Hungary, Japan, Serbia and Uzbekistan in partnership with the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy in early August. � e group was visiting under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program to learn about agricultural trade and food safety. � e group had speci� c objectives in visiting with the Farm Bureau, including examining U.S. policies related to agricultural trade and food safety; analyzing the political and economic forces that in� uence trade policies; learning how U.S. food com-modities are regulated and marketed; and examining how federal, regional and local programs for agricultural research, inspection and trade promotion help ensure U.S. agricultural competitiveness around the world.


CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINGIMPORTANT NOTICE1. Non-commercial ads for Utah Farm Bureau members selling items they grow or make themselves, or used machinery, household items, etc., they themselves have used in the past. Each member family is entitled to one such ad free in each three-month period. Ads can be up to 40 words or numbers such as phone number or Zip. Words such as “For Sale” are included, initials and numbers count as a word. All words over 40 cost 25 cents each. Ads over 40 words not accompanied by the extra payment, or not meeting the above requirements, will be returned to the sender.Family memberships cannot be combined to create larger ads, nor can a membership be used for free classifi ed ad purposes by anyone other than immediate family members. Ads run for three months.2. Commercial ads for Utah Farm Bureau members where the member is acting as an agent or dealer (real estate, machinery, handicraft items made by people outside the member family, etc.) cost 25 cents per word. Payment MUST accompany such ads or they will be returned to the sender. Members are entitled to one such ad. Ads run for one month.3. Ads for non-Utah Farm Bureau members cost 50 cents per word. Payment MUST accompany such ads or they will be returned to the sender. Ads run for one month.In all ads, short lines requested by the advertiser, extra lines of white space, and lines with words in all caps count as 6 words per line. Ads with borders and bold headlines may be submitted and placed within the classifi ed section, but will be charged the display advertising rate. Please contact the classifi ed advertising department for further information. No insurance ads will be accepted.***DEADLINE: ALL ADS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE 15TH OF THE MONTH IN ORDER TO APPEAR IN THE NEXT ISSUE. EXCEPT FOR THE JANUARY ISSUE, WHICH HAS A CLASSIFIED DEADLINE OF DEC. 5.Only free ads (Category 1 ads of 40 words or less) will be accepted by telephone at 801-233-3010, by fax at 801-233-3030 or e-mail at [email protected]. Please include your membership number. Ads must be received no later than the 15th of the monthMail ads, typed or neatly printed, with any payment due, to Utah Farm Bureau News, Classifi ed Ad Department, 9865 South State Street, Sandy, UT 84070-2305. Free ads must be resubmitted by mail, telephone or fax after running for three months. Ads for which there is a payment due will be run as long as payment is received in advance.ALL CLASSIFIED ADS will be listed on the Utah Farm Bureau web page unless the Utah Farm Bureau member specifi es otherwise when placing the ad. The ads on the web site will run concurrently with the classifi ed ads in the Utah Farm Bureau News. NOTE: The appearance of any ad in the Utah Farm Bureau News does not constitute an endorsement or approval of the service or merchandise off ered. While every eff ort is made to ensure the legitimacy of services or merchandise advertised, the Utah Farm Bureau News or the Utah Farm Bureau Federation accepts no responsibility or liability for services or products advertised.AUTOMOTIVE:FOR SALE: ’67 Chev C30 Truck. V8, 4 sp., rear dual wheels. 12’ steel fl atbed with 4’ sides. Make off er. Doug, 801-277-1578.FARM EQUIPMENT:FOR SALE: 2008 Massey Fergusson 2050 3x3 baler complete with; 2002 Phiber AC 3102 tag-along hydraulic hay stack wagon. Jeff Christensen, 435-760-2324.FOR SALE: 1953 John Deere Model 40, Wide Track. Great for parades, work or plowing you drive way. PTO,

3-point. New head, valves, points and wire, starter, 6v battery and exhaust. Built in Jan. 1953. First year, First Month of the NEW MODEL. $4,300. Possible trades welcome. Call Dan at 801-641-1666. Visit http://goo.gl/eDF4oL for online listing and photos.FOR SALE: 6’ wide pull behind tandem disk. $350. 435-828-1904.FOR SALE: Hay shed comprised of 165 -2’x12’x20’ beams & 9 – 2’x40’ solid beams. 12’ International packer; 14’ International Disk; 840 Allis Chalmers front-end loader (needs a motor). Lots of steel fencing. Kaysville 801-698-7014. FOR SALE: Farm Machinery: 3 forage wagons, 1 JD corn & hay chopper, 1 Knight 350 manure spreader, 1 Knight 7725 manure slinger. Call 801-254-4550 or Cell: 801-259-5161.INTERNATIONAL PLOW: Model 314. 2 way, 3 bottom. In good condition. Asking $1100. 801-876-3390. Best time to call is from noon on. CORRAL PANELS: gates, new, 16 gauge, top quality, best prices. Delivery possible. St. George, Ken. 435-632-5536.FOR SALE: Limb chipper, Vermeer 9 inch capacity, 50 horsepower diesel engine. Mower, 5 foot Bush Hog. Loader, off of a Ford 860 tractor. For more information call Larry, 801-254-3094. FOR SALE: 1982 1290 Case Tractor, 53hp, 4 cycle diesel, 2405 hrs. $8,000. 2090 Case Tractor, 108hp, 6 cycle diesel, power shift, 4970 hrs. $12,000. 435-724-5688.SOLD THE FARM: JD 2840 85 HP tractor with loader. 42 series 18” plow, 2-way, 3 bottom. ’87 Volvo truck FE613 diesel with 22’ box bed. International 10’ disk model 330. Syphon tubes of various sizes. 801-825-1701, Ray Child, 701 North 1500 West, Clinton. FEED: Straw 3x3x8 bales. Barn stored, weed free. $18.00 per bale. 801-940-2260. Layton FOR SALE: LIVESTOCK:FOR SALE: Columbia Breeding Stock. Good selection of yearling rams and replacement ewe lambs. 30 years of breeding to the best. 2014 Micron 22.4. Come pick your own at the farm. Reed F. Christensen, 435-436-8792 evenings or early morning. 20 Top Quality Hereford females for sale. Weaned heifers and mature cows available. Line One registered and commercial females for sale. See more at www.johansenherefords.comor call Jonathan/Craig Johansen @ 435-650-8466/435-

381-2523.FOR SALE: Holstein Springer heifers. All A.I. bred, using sex semen from 50 yr. A.I. herd. Call Kent, 435-851-6786 or 435-528-7546.SALERS & OPTIMIZER Bulls for sale. Performance tested. Semen & Trich tested. Will feed until April 1. Will deliver. Jasperson Cattle Co. Goshen, Utah 801-667-3565.

REAL ESTATE: HOME ON 12 ACRES, 5 bedroom, 5 bath, 2 car garage. Presently a Bed & Breakfast. 4 acres fenced pasture, 3 miles from Spring City. 13 water shares Horseshoe Irrigation. 435-462-3850 www.BedsAndRoses.comOPERATING DAIRY FARM for sale. Approx. 848 acres with 492 acres irrigated & 112 acres dry land. 780 milking cows, 75 dry cows & 700 heifers of various ages. Excellent condition, great location south of Levan, UT. Kent: 801-514-9959, Doug: 801-514-9960, Lynn: 801-514-9962 for information. DWELL REALTY GROUP, BRENT PARKER, (435)881-1000 Cache Valley Home with large 16’ x 30’ covered patio. Drip system for garden. Storage shed plus lean. Heated 24’ x 36’ workshop with 220 power. 60 Acres in Cache Valley. Majestic setting with incredible views of the valley. Beautiful home site with recreational land. 642.94 Acres of Farm Property in Cache Valley. Price Reduced. Unique. Part in CRP. Year around spring. 7.51

Acres in Cache Valley. Building lot with irrigation water. Lots at The Reserve at Bear Lake. Gated community, private beach area.Cache Valley home on almost 11 acres. Beautifully landscaped, water rights, fruit trees and berries, two ponds, horse pasture, solarium and koi pond. 6.41 Acres in Cache Valley. Also 10.01 acre parcel. Views. Horse Property. Well permit. Home on 1.49 acres in Cache Valley. Price Reduced! Great ranchette. Shop and 2 pole barns.Home on 1.52 acres in Franklin. Fish pond and well landscaped. Beautiful setting. 2,414 Acres in Cove. Beautiful recreational property with cabin and campsites. Located up High Creek Canyon. 10.23 acre feet of water.Two Wellsville Parcels. Stream runs through. Beautiful building lot. Horse property. 60.96 acre ranch in Morgan Valley. Could be divided. 65 shares of water and a 6 bedroom home. Great views. Two parcels in Nibley in Cache Valley. 3.76 acre and 3.61 acre adjoining lots Horse property. Can be subdivided. Irrigation shares. 18.75 Acres in Cache Valley. Artesian well already dug. Secondary gravity pressure irrigation. Hunter’s Paradise in Idaho. 779 acres with year around developed springs. Cabin in Logan Canyon. Beautiful setting close to river. View lots near Wellsville between 1 and 5 acres. Horse property. Dairy Farm in Cache Valley 41 acres. Irrigated. Updated home, excellent crops. Double 5 Herringbone parlor. 185.38 Acres in Cache Valley with views. Can be divided. Located in popular Maple Rise area. Borders national forest. 37.91 Acres located on the foothills of the Wellsvilles. Can be divided in up to fi ve lots. Water shares. Canal runs through. 400 Acres Bordering Oneida Narrows Reservoir. Beautiful and secluded. Adjacent to campground and boat dock. Could be

subdivided into camp sites. Seller fi nancing. MISCELLANEOUS:GREEN AND YELLOW scale buckboard/freight wagon. Deck: approx 8’ long x 4’ wide with removable sides and end boards. Set up for single horse pull or draw bar for tractor. $3,000 OBO Call Doug, 801-277-1578.FOR SALE: AKC registered Chesapeake Bay Retriever pups. Champion Bloodline. 435-851-6786 or 435-528-7546. AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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County Scenes

Salt Lake County▶ Board meetings are the first Tuesday of each month. Next meeting October 7, 7 p.m. at UFBF State Office BoardroomMorgan County▶ Board meeting, September 9, 7 p.m. at County CourthouseNorth Box Elder County▶ Board meeting, September 18, 7 p.m. at Insurance Office in TremontonWeber County▶ Board meeting, September 25, 7 p.m. at Extension OfficeSevier County▶ Board meetings on 4th Wednesday of each month. Next meeting is Sept. 25, 7 p.m. at the insurance office.▶ Monroe Mountain Working Group meeting, Sept. 10, 9 a.m. in RichfieldWashington County▶ Board meetings are the first Wednesday of each month. Next meeting is October 1, 8 p.m. at Insurance office.Beaver County▶ County Social, Sept. 20, at County Fairgrounds in MinersvilleCarbon County▶ Board meetings on 2nd Tuesday of each month. Next meeting planned for September 9 and October 14.Emery County▶ Board meetings on 3rd Wednesday of each month. Next meeting is September 17 at County building at 7:30 p.m.Utah County▶ Board meetings on 4th Thursday of most months. Next meeting September 25.▶ Fall Farm Field Days, Sept. 30-Oct. 3 at County Equestrian ParkMillard County▶ Board Meeting, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. at Insurance Office in DeltaGarfield County▶ GSENM Coordinating Meeting, Sept. 15, Panguitch▶ Mt. Dutton Goat Tour, Sept. 16 in John’s Valley, 9 a.m.

State and Regional Activities ▶ County Annual Business Meetings to be scheduled▶ UFBF Center Closed for Labor Day, September 1▶ UFBF Farmers Markets in South Jordan & Murray, July 25 - Oct. 25▶ The Great Utah State Fair, September 4-14 in Salt Lake City. Farm Bureau Day at the fair is September 13.

▶ DWR Board & RAC MeetingsDWR Board meeting, October 2. Meeting takes place at DNR Salt Lake Office Auditorium, 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. They are typically held at 9 a.m, on the first Thursday of each month., except this month. October meeting will focus on Fishing Recommendations and Guidebook (2015); 2015 Fishing Dates approval; Conservation Permit allocation (1 year); and Conservation permit allocation (3 year).

For September, the RAC schedule is below:

▶ Southern RAC, Sept. 9, 7 p.m. at Richfield High School▶ Southeastern RAC, Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m. at John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River▶ Northeastern RAC, Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m. at Wildlife Resources NER Office in Vernal▶ Central RAC, Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m. at Dept. of Natural Resources (1596 W. North Temple, SLC)▶ Northern RAC, Sept. 17, 6 p.m. at Brigham City Community Center.

FB County Corner

[Top] Bronson Iverson, son of Kelby & Kathie Iverson of Washington County, keeps a calf balanced on his horse in Hurricane. [Middle] Karen Smart (standing) helps kids make living necklaces at the Utah County Farm Bureau’s booth at the County Fair in Spanish Fork. [Bottom] Cattle of Dustin & Harmony Cox of Kane County graze on rangeland in Southern Utah.

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September Utah Farm Bureau News