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USED EQUIPMENT

MAXIMIZE FEED VALUE WITH NEW HOLLAND HAY TOOLS!

TRACTORS

IH 914, pull type, SOLDnice unit ... $5,250 Gleaner 18’ Series III bean head L/M, green stripe, consigned ... $3,250

H7000 DISCBINE® DISC MOWER-CONDITIONERS – 8 MODELS FROM 9’2” TO 15’7” ’7” H6000 HEAVY-DUTY DISC MOWERS – 4 MODELS FROM 3-YEAR CUTTERBA 6’8” TO 10’4” WARRANTY R DISC WINDROWER HEADERS – 3 MODELS FROM TO 13’ TO 18’

PUT MORE CROP INTO EVERY BALE

Need to take down big hay acres in a hurry? Get the windrower with the highest horsepower in the industry and pair it with the widest disc header on the market—the 226-horsepower New Holland H8080 Speedrower® windrower with the 18-foot Discbine® header. The new MowMax™ modular disc cutterbar provides closer cutting and added durability. It features the ShockPRO™ gear protection system to head off damage to drive components and give you peace of mind.

COMFORT RIDE™ CAB SUSPENSION FOR A SMOOTH RIDE EVEN AT HIGH SPEEDS OPTIONAL CHASSIS SUSPENSION FOR ULTIMATE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE FIELD INDEPENDENT LEFT AND RIGHT HEADER FLOTATION ADJUSTMENT THIN, LOW-PROFILE ROCK GUARDS FOR CLOSER CUTS

Low Rate Financing Or Cash Discounts!

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THE PERFECT WAY TO PACKAGE HAY PROFITS

for 48 months .9% for 60 months 1.9% for 72 months

Get the most out of every hay season with round balers that deliver the highest capacity in the industry – the NEW BR7000 Series Roll-Belt™ round balers from New Holland. The proven combination of rolls and belts forms uniform, dense bales in any crop from dry hay to silage to corn stalks. And, BR7000 balers pack more of your valuable crop into every bale with these added features: XTRASWEEP™ PICKUPS ARE THE WIDEST IN THE INDUSTRY TO GET EVERY BIT OF CROP CROPCUTTER™ OPTION PUTS MORE CROP IN EVERY BALE FOR MAXIMUM DENSITY AND FEWER BALES TO TRANSPORT AND STORE EDGEWRAP™ OPTION PROVIDES OVER-THE-EDGE WRAPPING FOR MORE PROTECTION AND EASIER HANDLING

MODERN FARM EQUIPMENT © 2012 CNH America LLC. New Holland is a registered trademark of CNH America LLC.

SPREADERS

NEW! NH T9.560 NH T8040, 305 HP, 1875 hrs., front suspension, front duals, front/rear weights, all new rubber, auto guidance $164,500 Ford 9600, cab, 6900 hrs., engine OH, consigned . $11,900

TIRES 2) New 18.4x26 Dyna Torque Radial II on rims, off NH H8080 windrower, pair...........$2,400 or Best Offer

WE SELL WESTFIELD AUGERS!

INCREASE IN OVERALL BALE DENSITY SMOOTHER FEEDING AND PERFECT BALE SHAPE EQUALS BETTER DENSITY CONTROL UPGRADED KNOTTERS ALLOW FOR HIGHER BALER PRODUCTIVITY CROPCUTTER® FEEDING OPTONS FOR BALES THAT ARE EASIER TO FEED NEW NARROW HITCH FOR GREATER MANEUVERABILITY OPTIONAL COLOR INTELLIVIEW™ III TOUCH SCREEN MONITOR

Store Hours: Monday-Friday 8-5, Saturday Seasonal

FORAGE NH FX38, RWA, 414 HP, crop processor, 15’ HH, 6 row CH.............................Just In New NH FR9050 ............... In Stock Claas RU450, 15’ ............... $27,500 New NH M2080, 353 cu. ft. ......................... In Stock New NH Hydra Box 550V, vertical beater, 442 cu. ft. In Stock

TILLAGE New - Salford 31’ RTS HD Exteme .....................In Stock New - Salford 14-bottom plow ................................In Stock New - Salford 4, 6, 8, 12 bottom plows ..............................In Stock New - Salford 19’ HD disc ripper ................... Coming In John Deere 3710, 8 bottom, clean ................................$29,500 Wilrich 2900 10 bottom. ex frame, coulters, good bottoms, paint faded, consigned ......$14,500 IH 800 10 bottom, coulters ...$9,500

HAY

New Holland BB9000 large square balers deliver perfectly shaped,high-quality bales that stand up to handling and transport. It’s the perfect way to package your hay profits. These new balers offer features and improvements that boost your baling success this season and next.

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3) New L220, 2000# lift, cab, heat, AC, 12.00 tires ............... In Stock Bobcat 873, cab/heat, new SOLD 12.00x16.5 tires, 72” bucket ....................... $17,500

AUGERS

© 2012 CNH America LLC. New Holland is a registered trademark of CNH America LLC.

FARM RAISED.

SKIDLOADERS

IN STOCK NEW! T5050 Cab, FWA NEW! T5070 Cab, FWA NEW! NH T8.300

CUT CLEAN, TURN SHARP, REST EASY The New Holland MowMax™ disc cutterbar not only gives you the best disc cutting performance in the business, it gives you peace of mind with 36 months of protection coverage. That’s two years of additional protection on the MowMax cutterbar after the base one-year warranty on the full machine. Along with other MowMax advantages, every MowMax cutterbar features exclusive ShockPRO™ disc drive hubs. They absorb the shock of a field impact before damage to drive components can occur. Get the quiet, trouble-free MowMax Protection advantage with these models:

COMBINES/HEADS

New Krone and New Holland hay tedders .................... In Stock NH 1431 discbine, 13’, std. hitch ......................... $15,500 NH 1431, 13’ std. hitch, either 1-3/8 or 1-3/4, 1000 PTO $15,900 CIH RBX 563, 5x6 bale, net wrap, like new ........... $24,000 NH BB940, tandem axle, preservative kit, 30,000 bales, 1 owner, consigned......... $54,500

NH BR780A, 2.07 meter pickup, net wrap, endless belts, nice 1 owner, Red Armor Extended Warranty .......................$26,900 NH 166 inverter, STD table, consigned .......................$4,500 NH 644 RB, 4x5, auto tie, wide pickup, nice ............$9,250 Massey Ferguson 124 small square baler, above avg. $2,500

MODERN FARM EQUIPMENT 320-352-6543 • Sauk Centre, MN

When When time time is is of of the the essence, essence, choose choose excellence. excellence.

CHOOSE KRONE KW Tedders Krone KW Tedders work hard to speed up your drying time while being gentle on your crop.

These rotary tedders impress with their rugged design and innovations such as the OctoLink 8-finger drive clutch and maintenance free gearboxes for the rotor drive. Tines wrap around the tubular tine arms five times for increased strength and the angle of the tines ensure even ground contact, reducing crop contamination.

Available in working widths of 18’, 22’, 25’7”, 28’10”, 36’, 43’ and 50’.

CHOOSE KRONE Rotary Rakes.

Krone is an industry leader in hay and forage equipmen offering a wide range of Rotary Rakes, making Krone the best choice for any size hay operation.

MODERN FARM EQUIPMENT

320-352-6543 • Sauk Centre, MN • www.modernfarmequipment.com

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St. Joseph Equipment EYOTA, MN 507-545-2000

AMPM Dairy Livestock Supply ESSIG, MN 507-794-6155

Lindstrom Equipment MONDOVI, WI 715-946-3168

Bag Man, LLC HAMMOND, WI 1-800-796-5333

Mid-Central Equipment HENNING, MN 218-583-2931

Woller Equipment SWANVILLE, MN 320-573-3241

Gorter’s Clay & Dairy Equipment PIPESTONE, MN 507-825-6371

Roeder Implement DUBUQUE, IA 563-557-1184

Zoske’s Sales & Service IOWA FALLS, IA 641-648-2980

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St. Joseph Equipment LEWISTON, MN 507-523-2114

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Longtime Customers:

“… the best product for fresh cows.”

“We use Udder Comfort™ for mastitis, hard quarters, and especially for swelling before and after calving,” says Randy Knapp (above left). He and wife Wanda have registered Guernseys near Epworth, Iowa.

Their sons Austin and Landen earned Premier Exhibitor at the 2010 World Dairy Expo, and had Grand Champion of the Junior Guernsey Show at the 2011 Expo. The Knapps have been using Udder Comfort faithfully for 6 or 7 years.

“Take this cow (pictured above left),” says Knapp. “She had a tremendous amount of edema when she calved.

We used Udder Comfort: Her udder looked 100% better, and she made a lot of milk. This is a very good product, and it’s important to our operation.

We’re sold on it.”

After 5 to 6 years of using Udder Comfort, Dru Mercer (above right) of Bryant, Indiana, agrees. He and wife Sara have registered Ayrshires.

“Udder Comfort is the best product for fresh cows, I cover the udder and into the crease after each milking for the first 3 days after calving,” says Mercer.

“Udder Comfort gets the swelling out faster. So, she comes into her milk faster and is more comfortable when she goes to eat or lie down. Removing the swelling eases her stress, and that, in turn, helps production and guards against mastitis.

“We had tried other products, but we are sold on this one and have used it ever since.”

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For external application to the udder only after milking, as an essential component of udder management. Always wash and dry teats thoroughly before milking.

Dairy Star • Saturday, April 28, 2012 • Page 33

The mom-mobile There’s a minivan parked in our garage.

And our names are on the title.

No, another wheel didn’t fall off the Lumina and the old lady didn’t break down in any other way.

Glen jokingly said he’s the one who broke down.

We’ve been talking about purchasing a bigger vehicle for quite some time now, but since it wasn’t a necessity, the decision kept getting delayed. I even delayed the decision once.

Last July, when we were running cash ow projections to purchase our calf feeder and remodel our heifer yard, our farm business management instructor asked if we needed to plan for the purchase of a vehicle. I told him and Glen, “No, we don’t. I’ll ride my bike to town for a year if that’s what it takes to buy a calf feeder.”

Glen hasn’t let me live those words down.

We talked about a vehicle again in January when we ran this year’s projections. Our plan was to see how the crops turned out and then decide.

But, without completely thinking things through, I scheduled myself into a situation that requires a bigger vehicle sooner than after the corn harvest.

Dan will be going to a morning preschool program this summer with our neighbors’ two boys. Their mom and I agreed to share rides so that we each only have to make one trip to town on school days.

While thinking about the arrangement afterwards, I realized that getting three boys to or from school wouldn’t work with the Lumina. Add in the fact that some days Monika would need to ride along and that means I would need room for four child safety seats.

The Lumina only has room for two carseats.

I presented the problem to Glen along with the information from a well-timed email from the credit union about a promotion on vehicle loan interest rates.

A couple phone calls, a test drive and a couple days later, we picked up our shiny, new-to-us minivan.

I really wanted one of those sexy, new crossover vehicles. But none of those – even used – come with a price tag that ts into an already tight budget.

So now I’m driving a mom-mobile. And I’m starting to like it.

After getting my driver’s license, the vehicle assigned to me was my parents’ minivan.

And it became my job to haul my sisters, their friends, my friends and anyone else who could t back and forth to school and wherever else we needed to be. (Maybe that was foreshadowing.) It wasn’t very cool to drive a minivan in high school.

But our new van is a lot cooler than my parents’ van was. For starters, it’s a sleek silver color, not the two-tone magenta and gray color my parents’ van was.

Sidebar: Dan really wanted a red car, because he thought red cars were the fastest. So we told him silver cars are actually the fastest.

But then he wanted to know why other vehicles were passing us on the freeway. That led to a lesson about following the law. Next time, I’ll think twice before appeasing him with a

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Our van also came with some pretty nifty accessories. The feature I’m most excited about is the remote keyless entry. I can even open the sliding doors with my remote. I taught Dan how to buckle Monika up, so now getting into the car and ready for departure requires signicantly less parental involvement.

I could really get used to the idea of pressing a button and watching the kids do jobs that used to be mine.

The feature the kids are most excited about is the DVD player. Before Glen and I had cows and kids, we used to spend a lot of time on the freeway scofng at vehicles with video players. We’re eating those words now.

And they’re really tasty. Because when you have a 5-year-old who can ask questions for ve hours straight, the value of silence easily overrides principle.

Beyond features, though, our minivan is downright functional. Not only can it haul people, it can haul stuff. Our van has the presto-chango stowable seats that turn it from a bus into a cargo van in a matter of seconds.

On our maiden voyage to town for stuff, I was able to t both kids, all of our groceries and supplies, and 10 bags of milk replacer and calf starter in the van with room to spare – and everything was under cover. Neither of our other vehicles can do that.

Needless to say, it’s pretty exciting to have a newer vehicle, especially one that meets our needs and lls our fancies at the same time. I think Dan and Monika are even more excited than we are (possibly because they’re not making the loan payments).

They’d spend all afternoon in the van if I let them. The day we picked the van up, I let them watch a movie on the way home. When we got home, Dan said, “You can just leave us in here to nish the movie while you go do chores.”

From that moment, I knew we’d be returning to a habit that we left behind when we moved out of the city: locking the doors at home. But this time it wouldn’t be because of concern about theft – who’d want to steal a used minivan, anyway? – it would be to keep the kids and their dirty barn boots out.

We’ll be in trouble when Dan and Monika gure out how to unlock the doors.

Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 70 cows near Melrose, Minn. They have two children – Dan, 5, and Monika, 3. Sadie also writes a blog for the Dairy Star at http:// dairystar.blogspot.com. She can be reached at gsfrericks@meltel.net.

FULL LINE OF CHEMICALS & MILKING EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICE

Call Gary Von Wahlde for a quote....

OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE

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Equipment Sale HW GATES

4 ft. HW 6 ft. HW 8 ft. HW 10 ft. HW 12 ft. HW 14 ft. HW 16 ft. HW 18 ft. HW 20 ft. HW 10 ft. Corral panel 12 ft. Corral panel

$72.95 $81.95 $99.95 $121.75 $133.40 $156.80 $165.15 $193.50 $241.00 $81.50 $91.50

$68.00 $75.80 $92.15 $113.65 $123.90 $145.95 $153.95 $181.90 $223.95 $75.35 $83.90

BALE FEEDERS

Skirted Unskirted Goat hay feeder

$265.00 $243.00 $150.00

$239.00 $221.00 $115.00

WIRE

Hi Tensile Wire, 170,000 PSI 4000’ $124.95 14 ga. wire $105.25

$109.95 $89.75

Strong Hold chute with alley $3,900 $3,620

ALL POSTS 15% OFF Wood 5”- 8’ T-Post 6’ T-Post 6-1/2’ Wood 3-1/2”x7’ pointed 7’ seconds varying width 6”x8’ pointed Electric Fence Post (rebar)

TARTAR FARM EQUIPMENT 5x8 Utility Trailer 7x12 Utility Trailer 165 bu. creep feeder (red) 10000# red calf creeper 8’ blue gate 10’ blue gate 12’ blue gate Walk thru gate, 4’ Walk thru gate, 6’

$917.62 $1,791.43 $3,550.68 $875.00 $79.80 $89.64 $99.50 $109.95 $119.95

$860.00 $1,710.00 $3,420.00 $820.00 $69.90 $77.90 $86.80 $100.00 $110.00

Vern’s Calving Pen, green $850 $625

CREEP FEEDERS

Vern’s 125 bu Vern’s 150 bu.

$2,325.00 $2,640.00

$2,200.00 $2,500.00

Sale runs May 1 - June 30th - While Supplies last - NO COUPONS NECESSARY

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MAXIMIZE FEED VALUE WITH NEW HOLLAND HAY TOOLS!

CUT CLEAN, TURN SHARP, REST EASY The New Holland MowMax™ disc cutterbar not only gives you the best disc cutting performance in the business, it gives you peace of mind with 36 months of protection coverage. That’s two years of additional protection on the MowMax cutterbar after the base one-year warranty on the full machine. Along with other MowMax advantages, every MowMax cutterbar features exclusive ShockPRO™ disc drive hubs.

They absorb the shock of a field impact before damage to drive components can occur. Get the quiet, trouble-free MowMax Protection advantage e with these models: 3-YEAR CUTTERBA H7000 DISCBINE® DISC MOWER-CONDITIONERS – WARRANTY R 8 MODELS FROM 9’2” TO 15’7” H6000 HEAVY-DUTY DISC MOWERS – 4 MODELS FROM 6’8” TO 10’4” DISC WINDROWER HEADERS – 3 MODELS FROM TO 13’ TO 18’

PUT MORE CROP INTO EVERY BALE

Need to take down big hay acres in a hurry? Get the windrower with the highest horsepower in the industry and pair it with the widest disc header on the market— the 226-horsepower New Holland H8080 Speedrower® windrower with the 18foot Discbine® header. The new MowMax™ modular disc cutterbar provides closer cutting and added durability. It features the ShockPRO™ gear protection system to head off damage to drive components and give you peace of mind.

COMFORT RIDE™ CAB SUSPENSION FOR A SMOOTH RIDE EVEN AT HIGH SPEEDS OPTIONAL CHASSIS SUSPENSION FOR ULTIMATE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE FIELD INDEPENDENT LEFT AND RIGHT HEADER FLOTATION ADJUSTMENT THIN, LOW-PROFILE ROCK GUARDS FOR CLOSER CUTS

Low Rate Financing Or Cash Discounts!

0%

for 48 months

THE PERFECT WAY TO PACKAGE HAY PROFITS

.9% for 60 months 1.9% for 72 months

Get the most out of every hay season with round balers that deliver the highest capacity in the industry – the NEW BR7000 Series Roll-Belt™ round balers from New Holland. The proven combination of rolls and belts forms uniform, dense bales in any crop from dry hay to silage to corn stalks. And, BR7000 balers pack more of your valuable crop into every bale with these added features: XTRASWEEP™ PICKUPS ARE THE WIDEST IN THE INDUSTRY TO GET EVERY BIT OF CROP CROPCUTTER™ OPTION PUTS MORE CROP IN EVERY BALE FOR MAXIMUM DENSITY AND FEWER BALES TO TRANSPORT AND STORE EDGEWRAP™ OPTION PROVIDES OVER-THE-EDGE WRAPPING FOR MORE PROTECTION AND EASIER HANDLING

New Holland BB9000 large square balers deliver perfectly shaped, high-quality bales that stand up to handling and transport. It’s the perfect way to package your hay profits. These new balers offer features and improvements that boost your baling success this season and next.

INCREASE IN OVERALL BALE DENSITY SMOOTHER FEEDING AND PERFECT BALE SHAPE EQUALS BETTER DENSITY CONTROL UPGRADED KNOTTERS ALLOW FOR HIGHER BALER PRODUCTIVITY CROPCUTTER® FEEDING OPTONS FOR BALES THAT ARE EASIER TO FEED NEW NARROW HITCH FOR GREATER MANEUVERABILITY OPTIONAL COLOR INTELLIVIEW™ III TOUCH SCREEN MONITOR

Stop By One Of These New Holland Dealers For Details...

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PIERZ, MN

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