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AGRICULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Durham Stalk Pusher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Restock The Hay Pile Or Raise $13 Soybeans? Why not both? . . 7 Pressurized Exhaust Kills Burrowing Rodents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 One Call of Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Stalk Knockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 CurseBuster®: Introducing the Eagle II Tine System . . . . . . . . . 15 EQUIPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Calmer BT Chopper® Stalk Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tractor Mounted Snowblowers Clear the Way in Record Time. . 21 Manchester Manufacturing Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 LIVESTOCK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Rawhide Portable Corral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Beefmaster Heterosis Can Impact Any Herd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 MARKETPLACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Image by David Mitchell

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The Durham Stalk Pusher

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trip Till farmers have long been considered some of the most progressive in the industry. Like most things, though, there have been challenges. One of those challenges has been tire and or trac damage caused by corn stalks left behind. Seeing a need to mitigate tire damage, The Durham Stalk Pusher was invented in 2008 by Galan Durham of Burlington, Colorado.

The idea may not have been unique, but the roller design was the first of its kind. The concept is simple.

Simply roll over the stalks to lay them down. There is no need for anything more aggressive or destructive to the corn stalk. After all, leaving the stalk in the field was the purpose behind strip till farming.

Durham Ag Tech has the best quality product among tire mitigation products and is able to boast that it is priced far more reasonably than some of the less user friendly designs currently being sold.

The top 4 reasons that the Durham Stalk Pusher should be your first choice when looking for a tire mitigation product are:

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• Cost Effectiveness – An entire unit is priced at less than two tractor tires. This is BY FAR the most reasonably priced unit on the market.

• Ease of Mounting – No need to install multiple pieces to run over each row. That's just more parts that need maintenance. Our Generation III model hangs on the front weight bracket and works for most tractor models. We currently have units available for John Deere, Case and Caterpillar. Each Stalk Pusher arrives with complete mounting hardware and can be installed in under 2 hours.

• Total Clearance – Generation III models boast up to 25" of clearance! This is especially important to the folks that farm uneven terrain. With our oscillating bar, the roller truly follows the contour of the ground.

• Ease of Use – The roller system lays stalks flat, so in contrast to an individual skid system that may catch debris, this won’t catch trash!

The Durham Stalk Pusher has branched out all over the Midwest and has units running in North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Iowa and of course its home state of Colorado. Several customers have purchased multiple units so that they can have one on each of their tractors!

For more information on the Durham Stalk Pusher visit www.durhamagtech.com

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Restock The Hay Pile Or Raise $13 Soybeans? Why not both?

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he dry summer and fall of last year and the bitter cold this winter have combined to make hay a valuable commodity.

This has made many consider putting cropland to a temporary hay crop, such as sorghum-sudangrass or teff. At the same time, the explosion in China soybean purchases has made raising soybeans a very attractive proposition as well. It is nice for a change to be faced with actual profitable choices! But when faced with two attractive choices, why not choose both?

and energy? Many people are using this very economical means of wintering livestock now with great success. In the fall, you can add yet another forage crop, drilled right into the living stubble of the summer mix as soon as it is hayed or grazed off in late summer.

At first glance, this seems to doom the new seedlings to certain failure, as they are competing with the regrowth of the established summer crop for moisture and light. But it doesn’t work that way.

The transpiration of moisture from the regrowth of the summer crop cools the soil, dropping the temperature as much as 30 degrees relative to the air temperature. The cool-season seedlings need only 10% of the moisture at 80 degrees as they do at 100 degrees, so drilling a cool-season pasture mix of oats, triticale, rye, ryegrass, turnips, radishes and peas right into unkilled stubble of a summer annual mix can actually increase the survival of the seedlings. After a hard freeze has killed and thoroughly dried the summer plants, they can be grazed off right along with the green growth of the cool-season mix, saving on winter hay needs and providing much higher quality nutrition than hay. Besides, you also save the cost of termination! Best of all, the growing of crops in rapid succession provides those vital soil microbes a continual flow of nutritious root exudates for improving soil structure and water-holding capacity for better crops in the future.

One thing the cover crop movement has taught us is that growing crops in rapid sequence does not exhaust soil, rather it feeds the soil microbes that increase soil productivity. It is entirely possible to plant a crop of oats, peas or spring triticale (or a mix of all three) in March and have a hay crop made by May, in plenty of time to plant soybeans. Not only can the hay crop make as much revenue as we typically expect from a bean crop alone but growing the hay can create a nice stubble to control soil erosion and improve water infiltration and rooting depth and may offer weed control benefits as well. Spring triticale is an unfamiliar crop to a lot of people, but it is a real rising star in the forage and cover crop world. A cross between rye and spring wheat, it has hybrid vigor compared to either parent. Compared to spring oats, it can yield much higher, and is more competitive against weeds. The quality drops after heading relative to oats, but most people prefer to bale in boot stage to leave as much growing season for the following crop as they can. Peas add both additional Contact us Today! yield and additional protein to the mix. Or maybe you would prefer to focus on hay and forgo the beans altogether. In that case, why Every operation is not grow two hay crops rather than one? You different. That is why can raise the oat/pea/spring triticale, then regenerate God follow with a summer forage crop as well. 's cre d ranchers ation ers an we specialize in custom for farm fut elp ure For maximum tonnage you could try a crop to h d gen ille r era h t tio re a of dry stalk sorghum-sudangrass, which offers ns cover crop blends and e .

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talk Knockers are the most user friendly and lightest weight option on the market.

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CurseBuster Introducing the Eagle II Tine System

CurseBuster®: Introducing CurseBuster the Eagle II Tine System the EagleIntroducing II Tine System CurseBuster

Soil Regeneration Unlimited has finalized five years of field scale operations amounting to over 5000 acres on a fifteen-foot frame. The new service-free design has required no maintenance or repair during this time period. ® The system also modifies the tine attachment design while retaining the individual tine replacement capabilities. The use of two robust external clamping rings which are pulled together onto the tine base beveled corner provide the clamping force to retain the tine to the 8 inch outside diameter roller surface. Three Soil Regeneration Unlimited has finalized five years of field scale operations to over 5000 acres transverse ½” capscrews with Allen heads and a locking style nut which in aamounting hex shaped recess ® is held on a fifteen-foot frame. The new service-free design has required no maintenance or repair during this time hold the clamping rings withoutperiod. any wear on the fasteners. This system has never required retightening of these three fasteners. ®

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Calmer BT Chopper® Stalk Rolls

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o need to spend money on a new chopping processing area of the stalk roll. The 10 very sharp corn head! Calmer BT Chopper® Stalk Rolls blades of the Calmer BT Chopper then grab onto the eliminate the need for a new corn head, and give stalk (grasp and control), and shred, chop, and place you a field full of residue that is chopped, shredded, and the residue on the ground in small 1 to 2 inch pieces. in “confetti like” small pieces. Problems occur These pieces are not whole short stalks, when you have corn heads with too many they are small vertical and lateral pieces moving parts, there are more maintenance put on the ground evenly at each row. No requirements. There are problems when you windrowing to decompose slowly, or to have too many machines going through the keep the ground cold longer in the Spring. field, compaction stunts growth. There are The residue is held down by the first frost, too many expenses trying to get your field and decomposed more quickly by planting ready for over wintering with traditional time. The exploded root balls are kinder to chopping corn heads, added gas and wages the tires. There are sprocket and patented CALMER BT CHOPPER® for hired help. The Calmer BT Chopper is beveled stripper plate kits available for the STALK ROLLS an upgraded stalk roll that replaces the stock 40/90 corn head. There are patented beveled rolls of the JD 40, 90, and 600 series, CASE-IH 2200, stripper plates available for the 2200/2400, and the 96c, and 2400 series, and the NH 96c, 98c, and 996 corn 98c, and 996 corn heads. Call 309-629-9000 to talk to heads. Take off the old rolls, and put on the Calmer BT one of the Farmers who work at Calmer Corn Heads.

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The Hillco Wrap Twine Remover (WTR) safely removes netwrap and/or twine from round bales and large square bales without the need for the operator to get off the tractor.

The WTR can handle 4’x5’, 4’x6’, 5’x5’, 5’x6’ round bales or large square bales up to 8’.

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When the bale is ready to be fed the knife and hooks are engaged to cut and grab the wrap. After the wrap is cut the hooks hold onto the wrap. The pressure on the squeeze arms is released.

The arms can be rotated up, out of the way, pulling the wrap off the bale. The bale is then dumped into the feeder. The tractor operator can release the hooks and dump the wrap in a pile outside the pen.

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FUEL WHEN YOU NEED IT* WHERE YOU NEED IT* The Tanker, from Bestway Ag, is an in-field fuel solution engineered to be more than a simple pit stop for hungry machinery.

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Tractor Mounted Snowblowers Clear the Way in Record Time

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epending on where you live and how much stock you put in The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the coming winter could be a snow-filled one.

While heavy snowfall brings much needed moisture, moving it and making areas passable creates its own set of challenges. For light snows and smaller areas, bucket loaders and skid steers can get the job done, but when you live in an area where deep snow and high winds are the norm, it may be time to consider a tractor-mounted snowblower.

Clay Zimmerman of Evanston, Wyoming bought a HitchDoc HDS8205 two winters ago. He and his wife own High Uinta Pack Goats, the only pack goat rental service in the country.

“Where I live, it’s all rolling hills and normal snowfall starts at 6 feet deep. The gravel road is only maintained by my neighbor and myself.” For years, Clay’s neighbor

cleared the snow with a bucket mounted to his tractor and it took him all day. That just wasn’t efficient enough, so, Clay started looking into options for a snowblower to mount to his tractor.

“I looked at a dozen brands and even bought one before I bought the HitchDoc, but it wasn’t heavy duty enough.” After more research, Clay opted for the HDS8205 from HitchDoc. He mounted it to the front 3 point hitch of his 140 horsepower tractor so he wouldn’t have to look backwards the whole time and connected it to the hydraulics so he could control it with the joystick.

Now Clay clears the snow for him and his neighbor in about an hour. Clay says his snowblower has enough power to throw snow 100 feet. Reflecting on his purchase, Clay said, “it’s been a life saver. It’s the best purchase I could’ve made.”

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Manchester Manufacturing Company

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anchester Manufacturing Company has been engineering grain harvesting innovations since 1919.

Force Feed Feeder Chains, Hillside Raddles, Plastic Inserts, and Weed Wipers are available. We can help your grain feeding problem.

Available for ALL combines. If your combine won’t feed at the auger, especially in short, weedy or tangled crops, it’s because it isn’t feeding at the cylinder. We solved the problem by designing a slat with a flap on it. Each slat on our Force Feed Feeder Chain works like a beater to feed material into the cylinder. Our Hillside Raddle holds grain while harvesting on a hillside. The Hillside Raddle has patented lugs attached to the steel slats. These lugs prevent grain from sliding to the downhill side of the raddle pan before it reaches the chaffer, thus preventing overloading of the lower side of the chaffer sieve and cleaning shoe. We can replace your wooden slat raddles with steel slat raddles on all Gleaners built

before 1971. The Plastic Inserts convert the Force Feed Feeder Chain to an all-purpose chain to harvest all crops. They are ideal for grain stripping headers, handling only the grain and not the stalk and straw. They prevent wear on the feeder house floor, splitting,

cracking, crushing of grain. The Manchester Weed Wiper is the perfect solution for eliminating nuisance weeds from your crops.

It works excellent on rye, weeds, Johnson grass, or any growth above your crop to be harvested. Available in a front mount boom system.

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Rawhide Portable Corral

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or over 22 years, Rawhide Portable Corral has been leading the portable corral market with its innovative design and ability to adapt the corral based on customer needs. One such need throughout the years was that of a windbreak. With the same design in mind as the Rawhide Portable Corral, John McDonald has developed a patent pending portable, foldable, windbreak on wheels.

“The portable windbreak will include a hydraulically raised loafing shed roof on both sides of the main frame and will utilize the same patented torsion axle suspension that we recently added to our portable corrals,” said John McDonald, Owner and Inventor of Rawhide Portable Corral.

The portable windbreak is designed so that it may also be used in conjunction with the portable corral.

The Rawhide Portable Corral flexible pinning system can be used to pin them together if necessary. The options on the windbreak also include small calving pens on each side of the main frame and a head gate.

“We expect this to be another revolutionary product for the livestock industry, similar to when we first developed the Rawhide Portable Corral,” McDonald says.

This design has been something that McDonald and his team have been working on for quite some time. Designs were tested and used in the Kansas wind throughout the research and development process.

“Our goal was to get it exactly like we wanted it before introducing it to the industry,” McDonald says.

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The breed intraits, Southern in to Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Panama, and Essential traits.

It is the only any other cattle breed for commercial They excel post-weaning as well, with in the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s. The Lasater family severalbreed otherin Latin American regions.

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The breed faster weight gains, excellent feed conoriginally developed a largeoriginated herd of Hereford cattletocarefully for higher-quality beef growing geometrically, Beefmasters sure productive as opposed to breed in Southern Texas in the late 1800’s version yields around 64%. selected to withstand the heat and insects of thefor Texas Gulf traits, provide the perfect to and crosscarcass on commercial cattle to aesthetics. into theregion, early 1900’s.

The Lasater In a timeand when sustainability is becomCoast but they were still famnot perfectly suited to that improve production efficiency carcass quality, while not In 1937, thewith herd wassacrificing closed to outside ily originally developedSo a large herdbegan to experiment ing increasingly critical, Beefmasters difficult environment.

Lasater adaptability. genetics internal deof Hereford cattle have repeatedly demonstrated that incorporating Boscarefully indicus selected or Zebutogenetics, in thewith formcontinued of Commercial cattlemen have noted substantial economic velopment to cull low-performers and withstand the heat and the and Nelore they are highly efficient converters of Gyr and Guzerat bullsinsects from of India from Brazil. gains from using Beefmasters to provide an average increase upgrade all traits together equally. By Texas region, but they were was virtually both forage and feeds into lean, tender, WhileGulf the Coast practice of crossbreeding unheard of 60 lbs., or more at weaning when compared with other 1954 the foundation herd was recogstill not perfectly suited to that difhigh-quality beef. A recent study at the of at the time, they immediately saw a tremendous jump in breeds. They excel post-weaning as well, with faster weight nized by USDA the name of ficult environment.

So Lasater began U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat productive traits, such as weight gain and reproductive rates.under gains, excellent feed conversion and carcass yields around 64%.

Beefmaster. to experiment incorporating Animal Research Center (MARC) demThis is geneticwith advantage known Bos as heterosis or hybrid vigor.

In a time when sustainability is becoming increasingly The breed has rapidly grown around indicus or Zebu genetics, in the form of onstrated Beefmasters dominance when By the early 1930’s, the ranch also incorporated Milking critical, Beefmasters have repeatedly demonstrated that the world and has become known as Gyr and Guzerat bulls from India and compared to 18 of the most widely used Shorthorn genetics, to augment milk production and carcass they are highly efficient converters of both forage and feeds the prime maternal cow for serious Nelore from Brazil. While the practice beef breeds in the United States. quality. They could immediately see that the three-way hybrid lean, tender, high-quality beef.

A recent study at the commercial cattlemeninto that appreciate of crossbreeding was virtually unheard Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU) is was far superior to the two-way crosses. The final composite U.S. Department Agriculture Meat Animal Research their production excellence, particular- of headquartered of at the time, they immediately saw a in Bryan, Texas.

Beefended up at roughly 50% Bos indicus and 50% Bos taurus Centerenviron(MARC) demonstrated dominance ly in harsh desert or tropical tremendous jump in productive traits, master ranks Beefmasters fifth in the U.S. in terms (25% Hereford and 25% Shorthorn). when compared the most widely used beef breeds ments. The breed has excelled across to 18ofofmembership such as weight gain and reproductive and is the largest of the As Lasater developed the breed, he also most formed a unique in theStates United regions of the United andStates. American breeds. The association has rates.

This is genetic advantage known selection philosophy is the Philosophy. leading breed of choice for com-Breeders as heterosis or hybrid known vigor. today as The Lasater overUnited 3,000 members registering around Beefmaster (BBU) is headquartered The concept is to only select cattle for economically relevant in Mexico, mercial cattlemen South By the early 1930’s, the ranch also 19,000 calves annually. in Bryan, Tx. Beefmaster ranks fifth in the U.S. in terms traits, whichMilking he distilled to these Six Essential It is Panama, Africa,traits.

Thailand, Columbia and is Beefmasters incorporated Shorthorn genetalso enjoy a rapidly growof membership the largest of the American breeds. the to only breed milk in history to be and selected only pressure andusing several other LatinThe American ics, augment production ing 3,000 international footprint, with around estabassociation has over members registering for productive as opposed to aesthetics. regions. With global demand carcass quality. traits, They could immediatelished associations in eight countries 19,000 for calves annually. higher-quality beef growing geometrily see thethe three-way hybrid wasto faroutside worldwide.

These innovative cattlemen In that 1937, herd was closed genetics with Beefmasters also enjoy a rapidly growing international cally, Beefmasters the perfect superior to the two-way crosses. The have seen the tremendous strengths continued internal development to cull low-performers and provide footprint, with established associations in eight countries to cross on commercial cattleThese innovative final composite ended up at roughly Beefmasterscattlemen bring to their ownseen genetic upgrade all traits together equally. By 1954breed the foundation worldwide. have the to improve productiontremendous efficiency and 50% and by 50% Bos taurus improvement programs.

For more herd Bos was indicus recognized USDA under the name of Beefmaster. strengths Beefmasters bring to their own genetic quality, while not sacrificing programs.

(25% Hereford Shorthorn). information what Beefmasters The breed and has 25% rapidly grown aroundcarcass the world and improvement For moreabout information about what adaptability.

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