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Dairy farm families partner to benet Feeding South Dakota “Be Our Guest” concert event will raise money to purchase dairy foods Dairy farm families will again partner with First Bank & Trust, Hy-Vee and Lewis Drug to raise money for Feeding South Dakota. For the third year, dairy farmers will invite the public to “Be Our Guest” at a concert at the annual Central Plains Dairy Expo. For a $10 donation to Feeding South Dakota, people will receive a pass to country music artist Phil Vassar’s concert on March 26. Donations will be used to purchase dairy foods to stock food banks across the state. In 2012, the Be Our Guest concert event raised more than $12,000 to purchase dairy foods for Feeding South Dakota. “We are excited to again host the Be Our Guest concert event,” said Allen Merrill, dairy farmer from Parker, South Dakota. “This is a great opportunity to enjoy a top-notch concert and raise money for Feeding South Dakota to purchase nutritious dairy products.” The program will kick-off with a special event on February 16 at the Hy-Vee location at 57th and Cliff in Sioux Falls. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., representatives of Feeding South Dakota and area dairy farmers will accept donations. A second donation event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 16 at the Lewis Drug location at 41st and Minnesota in Sioux Falls. From February 16 through the March 26 concert, donations will be accepted at First Bank & Trust locations in Sioux Falls and Canton, Lewis Drug Store locations in Sioux Falls, Brandon, Brookings, Huron and Madison, and Hy-Vee stores in Sioux Falls. Feeding South Dakota (feedingsouthdakota.org) is a hunger relief organization that serves approximately 460 nonprot hunger relief and emergency food distribution agencies throughout the state. These agencies received more than 12.5 million pounds of food and grocery items from Feeding South Dakota in 2012, providing over 10 million meals to hungry individuals in need. Feeding South Dakota now operates distribution centers in Sioux Falls, Pierre, and Rapid City, and food pantries in Sioux Falls and Rapid City. Dairy foods help make healthy eating easy. Three daily servings of dairy – milk, cheese or yogurt – provide excellent nutrition, value and taste. Few foods deliver dairy’s powerhouse of nutrients in such an affordable, appealing and convenient way. You can nd dairy recipes, nutrition information and more information on dairy farm families at www.DairyMakesSense.com.
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Why do you “We enjoy talking to others in the go to CPDE? industry and getting their views.” Londa and Grant Boogerd Hull, Iowa Sioux County 500 cows How many years have you attended the Central Plains Dairy Expo? We have attended the tradeshow most years. The years that the weather is not real conducive to getting outside work done at home is when we have spent more time at the expo. Why do you like attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? We really enjoy the trade show at the expo. It is always interesting to see what new products are out. It is also very enjoyable talking to others in the industry and getting their views and perspectives. What are three things that you are looking forward to most with the 2013 Central Plains Dairy Expo? We are looking forward to talking to others and seeing what products are at the tradeshow. This year, if time permits, I would like to attend the seminar on employee management. What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you’ve taken back and incorporated into your farm? We always like going to the booths that deal with parlor management and glean some information from them. I like to see if we can put any of those ideas to work in our parlor to continue to strive for quality milk harvested efciently.
Tell us about a favorite memory from the CPDE. We usually try to take one or two of our children along and it is always great to see them go through the tradeshow. Seeing something different always impresses them, but the free ice cream is equally impressive to all of them.
Tell us about your farm. We have 500 cows in our herd, that we farm with Grant’s parents and our children along with some hired help. Grant’s parents are 81 and 76 years old and in excellent health. They have been a great help for us. They continue to come out every day to help run errands and run kids to where they need to be; except for the
summers when they take some weekends to do some camping. We raise our own heifers and steers and also buy bull calves from another dairy of similar size. We are able to raise most of our own forages. We have nine children who range in ages 6 to 13. As they are getting older, it is very enjoyable to watch them develop into very capable help.
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SDSU renewable energy projects get proof-of-concept funding Three renewable energy projects will move one step closer to commercialization through proof-of-concept funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center. South Dakota State University researchers, Lin Wei and ZhengRong Gu, assistant professors in agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Qi Hua Fan, associate professor of electrical engineering, will use their six-month grants for work that began March 1. Sun Grant committed more than $107,000 to these projects, and each researcher provided a 25 percent match from a private source. The Sun Grant Initiative, funded through the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Transportation, promotes collaboration among researchers from land-grant institutions, government agencies and the private sector to develop and commercialize renewable, bio-based energy technologies. The proof-of-concept grants allow researchers to take their basic, exploratory work to the next level by proving their ideas work. Wei will work on improving the efciency of his patent-pending fast pyrolysis reactor, which converts plant materials, such as cornstalks and sawdust, into bio-oil. Wei estimated that his reactor produces 30 to 40 gallons of fuel from one ton of plant material; however, his goal is to increase that to 50 gallons of fuel per ton. In addition, he will experiment with a number of chemicals called catalysts that are used to remove oxygen from the biooil to convert it into a hydrocarbon mixture that is close to gasoline. Through this work, Wei said he can improve the quality and the amount of the drop-in fuel that this process produces. Wei and his co-investigator, professor Jim Julson in agricultural and biosystems engineering, have received $13,201 support from Thermo-Ag LLC, with the remainder of the nearly $53,000 in funds coming from Sun Grant. One doctoral student and one postdoc will be working on the project. Thermo-Ag works with thermo-chemical processing of agricultural residue to produce high value prod-
ucts, including bio-oil. Speaking on behalf of Thermo-Ag, Mary Beth Fishback, operations director for South Dakota Innovation Partners, said, “Given our region’s abundance of corn stover feedstock and global interest in an economically feasible process, we are excited about the technology development milestones outlined for this partnership.” In another proof-of-concept project, Gu will work on a technique that will efciently harvest biofuels while minimizing the repercussions for the fuel-producing cell cultures. Current technologies use a chemical to extract the biofuel that damages the bacteria or yeast used to produce the fuel. The project includes professor William Gibbons and associate professor Ruanbao Zhou, of the biology and microbiology department, who work with bluegreen algae called cyanobacteria, which have been genetically engineered to produce drop-in fuel using only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. According to Zhou, cyanobacteria factories can be built as additions to ethanol plants because they utilize the carbon dioxide emitted as a byproduct of ethanol production, an estimated 12.5 tons per second just in South Dakota. Gu’s new alcohol-harvesting technique will work with both ethanol and cyanobacteria. “We’re trying to keep the cell at a stable stage so biofuel continues to be released,” he explained. Recycling will reduce the cost of production, Gu said, “because they don’t need to expend more nutrients to grow the cell again.” Professor Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan from agricultural and bioprocessing engineering will help integrate the separation unit into a bioreactor. Two doctoral students will work on Gu’s project. South Dakota Innovation Partners provided the 25 percent match for the grant that totals nearly $40,000. One of its portfolio companies, Cyanosun Energy, works with cyanobacteria and can benet
Farm Safety Short course scheduled in Pipestone
Agriculture ranks third in the total number of fatal work injuries, behind construction and transportation/warehousing. It ranks rst in the rate of non-fatal injuries per thousand workers, which is more than double the rate of the next two highest industries, mining and transportation/warehousing. Agriculture can potentially be a dangerous business. Agricultural professionals not only do work in it, but many involved live in it as well. University of Minnesota Extension in cooperation with the Center for Dairy Farm Safety is offering a series of Farm Safety Short Course. The purpose of these courses is to help dairy farmers develop an engaged understanding of these hazards, be able to identify those that exist around their farms, and accordingly be able to develop plans to make their farms a safer place to live and work. These courses also are aimed toward helping farms meet OSHA standards should they be audited. The two-day short courses will address the following topics: Introduction to OSHA; Injury Trends; Hazard Identication and Risk Assessment; Hazard Communications; Tractors and Farm Machinery; Hazards with Animal Handling; Hazards in Farm Structures; Personal Protective Equipment While these topics my often be overlooked in day to day farming operations and procedures, they are taken into consideration by those auditing farms. During the course, farmers will be developing appropriate outlines for the implementation of a safety plan on their own farms. Tools will be offered to comply with OSHA standards, in an effort to make their farm a safer environment. Short courses will be offered on March 12-13 at Pipestone County EMS Bldg., 811 5th St SE, Pipestone, Minn. and at State Bank of Belle Plaine in Belle Plaine, Minn. on April 5 and April 12. All the course locations take both days for completion. We will start at 10 a.m. and conclude by 4 p.m. Lunch is included in the registration. Registration can be done on line at www.uwrf.edu/CenterForDairyFarmSafety/. You may also call 715-425-3240. This is a jointly sponsored program of University of Minnesota Extension, the Center for Dairy Farm Safety, the North Central Risk Management Education Center and a Susan Harwood Training grant.
from Gu’s separation technologies. On the electrical engineering side, Fan will use his expertise with electronic materials and devices to develop a more cost-effective means of storing renewable energy. Supercapacitors, an advanced means of storing electric energy, use expensive activated carbon as the electrodes. Fan will use biochar, a byproduct of Wei’s reactor, in place of activated carbon to reduce the cost of these storage devices. Fan has developed a patent-pending method for depositing carbon lm, which has been licensed to Applied Nanolms LLC. The company’s lead research and development engineer, Braden Bills, said his rm invested in Fan’s project as part of its work to develop a platform technology for depositing nanoparticles on thin lms for many applications. “The amount of charge stored in a capacitor depends on the surface area,” Fan explained, “and the biochar nanoparticles
can create an extremely large surface area which can then hold more charge.” The biochar coatings form the electrodes in the supercapacitor. Once this work is completed, Fan and Gu will determine the energy-storing capacity of the resulting supercapacitor. Though the biochar device may not compete with other carbon materials in terms of storage capacity, its decreased cost will make it competitive in the marketplace, Gu explained. By using biochar for energy storage, Fan said, “We’re trying to reduce carbon emission into the atmosphere.” One master’s degree student will work on this project. These proof-of-concept grants will allow the researchers to show that their bio-based technologies have potential and merit a greater investment on the part of commercial entities to bring them to the marketplace.
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Why do you “I like to see certain vendors.” go to CPDE? Leroy Eggink Sibley, Iowa Osceola County 60 cows How many years have you attended the Central Plains Dairy Expo? I think I have missed two times and once because of weather. Why do you like attending the Central Plains Dairy Expo? I like to see certain vendors. What are three things you are looking forward to most with the 2013 Central Plains Dairy Expo? Visiting with all the people who attend, seeing new products and picking up items I know will be there. What have you learned from a previous CPDE that you’ve taken back and incorporated into your farm? I spent a lot of time looking at new products that could help with concerns I am dealing with. I also have the opportunity to see some of the things that work for other farms Tell us about a favorite memory from the CPDE. Having dinner with old friends that we had not seen for a number of years Tell us about your farm. We milk 46 registered Holsteins, farm around 400 acres and raise most of our feed supply with only part-time seasonal help plus family.
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