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Lessons learned in 2019 Late and prevent planting options

By Tom C. Doran

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Fiftyfive percent of Illinois corn acres were yet to be planted by June 2 and farmers began to weigh the options of planting regardless of the later dates or taking the prevent plant program.

Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois agricultural economist and farm management specialist, saSchnitkey id at the Illinois Farm Economics Summit that prevent plant would have yielded higher returns than planting corn in many situations in Illinois.

“Unless you have unusual circumstances, take prevent plant, particularly in the second or third week of June,” Schnitkey said.

An early June analysis indicated a $48 per acre advantage to plant corn versus prevent plant. An updated analysis in early December showed a $98 per acre disadvantage planting corn compared to prevent plant.

The December analysis included higher yields, lower prices, increased drying costs and policy changes not enacted in early June.

If prevent plant becomes an issue in the future, Schnitkey suggested that the default decision should be to take a prevent plant payment once final plant date of June 5 in most of Illinois and May 31 in the far southern portion of the state has been reached for corn if: n A Revenue Protection, RP with harvest price exclusion, or Yield Protection policy with a high coverage level has been chosen. n There is not expected to be a Market Facilitation Program or similar programs only targeted at planted acres.

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With the final acre of corn harvested, friends of the late Pat Watson who helped gathered for a photo. After the photo was snapped a “parade” of semi-trucks delivered the last bushels to a nearby elevator. Watson, 61, died July 31 and over two dozen friends gathered to harvest and ship his 1,400 acres of soybeans in November and corn in December.

Harvest helpers ‘It’s a great remembrance’ for late friend

By Tom C. Doran

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

ODELL, Ill. — With multiple combines harvesting a field, tractors pulling grain carts and semi-trucks moving corn, Ray Watson Jr. reflected on friendships and how they span generations.

Ray’s brother, Patrick, 61, an Odell area farmer, died unexpectedly July 31, and over two dozen showed up to harvest the 1,400 acres of soybeans and corn Pat planted last spring.

Eight combines, along with grain carts and semis and 28 volunteers harvested Pat’s soybeans in November, and the crews returned with seven combines when it was finally fit the second week of December to harvest the corn.

“It’s just been overwhelming. It’s unbelievable the sense of community. It’s a great remembrance of Pat,” Ray said.

Ray, of Springfield, noted many of those helping with harvest are the sons or grand-

Combines and trucks were lined up along the edge of this northern Livingston County field after the corn harvest was completed Dec. 13 for the late Pat Watson of rural Odell. sons of his dad’s friends. Those strong ties continue to this day.

“You can’t imagine what it means to us,” Ray said.

Gary Fosen of Odell and Pat were friends since their grade school days and he was among those who brought his combine to help out.

Pat and Gary both returned to their family farms after graduating from college and shared their wins and losses with one another.

“I lost my dad when I was 30, and it wasn’t too much later that Pat lost his. So, we bounced a lot of ideas off of each other. We used to confide in each other. He’d run stuff by me, and I’d run stuff by him,” Fosen said.

COMMUNITY EFFORT “Everybody was asking for two or three weeks when are we going to get together to do Pat’s crops. Always when there’s a tragedy like that the neighbors all pull together.

There was a lot of support there,” Fosen noted.

“It was a community effort.

Everybody liked Pat.” Some of those helping still had their own crops to finish harvesting.

“We worked on Pat’s corn three days and by the time we got down to the last day (Dec. 13) most guys had finished everything up and they were over there just trying to get Pat’s finished. There were some guys that left some of their own

crops go to go over and finish up to help Pat,” Fosen said.

“There was a lot of other people who also wanted to help but the day just didn’t work out.

“That last day of harvest was a beautiful day. Maybe one guy had a breakdown the whole time. So, Pat was smiling down on us.”

With such an outpouring of support Fosen added, “It just goes to show how many people love Pat and supported Pat. He was an amazing man and we all miss him.”

“I’m so grateful to everyone for helping out,” Watson said.

Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_Doran.

A farmer’s food adventure Illinois producer highlights unique experiences in book

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By Martha Blum

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GRIGGSVILLE, Ill. — Telling the agricultural story so non-agriculture people will learn more about the industry is just one reason Phil Bradshaw decided to write his memoir, “Your Food — My Adventure: One Farmer’s Journey to Feed the World.”

“I wanted it to be interesting enough that non-ag people would read it, I wanted it to be informative enough that people would get a better feel for what today’s agriculture is and I hope it will be motivational for young people to get involved,” said Bradshaw, who farms with his son and grandson near Griggsville.

“We have 1,500 acres of crops and finisher space for about 5,000 pigs,” the author said. “I started farming with my uncle in 1963, and I raised my own pigs until the early ‘90s. I also have a small ownership in my nephew’s hog business who has pigs in about seven states.”

Bradshaw has been raising pigs for many decades.

“When I was in seventh or eighth grade my father and uncle decided not to vaccinate for hog cholera and we lost 600 pigs from that disease,” he recalled.

“That was pretty devastating, so I’ve always said you can make it

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Phil Bradshaw (center); his son, Todd (left); and his grandson, Brock, check the crops in a field on their farm near Griggsville, Illinois. The farming operation also includes finisher space for about 5,000 pigs. in the livestock business if you keep them healthy.”

Fast-forward to 1968, when the pork producer was appointed to the Hog Cholera Eradication Committee in Illinois and then to the national committee.

“When pseudorabies broke out, I got involved and chaired the pseudorabies committee,” Bradshaw said.

“When the outbreak of foot and mouth disease occurred in 2001 in the United Kingdom and around the world, I contacted

the USDA and said we should be concerned about South America because people go to South America to look at farms and they go to Europe to look at castles, so if we’re going to have something carried back in the U.S., it is more likely to come from South America,” he said.

“For about 10 years, I served on the Inter-American Group for Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication,” he said. “I chaired that committee, so that took me to all the countries, but two in the western hemisphere.”

The work on these committees together with his involvement in several organizations resulted in Bradshaw traveling to more than 53 countries.

The Pike County farmer highlights some unique experiences in his book, including a trip in 1959.

“A buddy and I drove a MG car with a rag top to Mexico City and people at home took bets if we’d ever get back,” he said. “In 1959, we sold no agricultural products to Mexico.”

In 1978, Bradshaw was a member of the U.S. Agriculture Trade Mission to China.

“There are two things that happened in my lifetime that I think changed almost everybody’s life, and they don’t even realize it,” he said. “We were one of the first groups to go to China, and when we opened up trading to China, that changed everything.”

The second event, Bradshaw said, no one even guesses.

“The checkoffs started in about the 1970s and we’ve gone as farmers from putting up virtually little or no money to where we’re spending $1 billion per year on promotion, research and new products,” he said. “Everybody at least in the developed world has benefited from that.”

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LESSONS FROM PAGE ONE

n Harvest prices are not expected to be higher than projected prices by 50 cents per bushel.

Schnitkey presented six lessons from 2019 regarding plant or prevent plant.

LESSON 1: “Midwest farmers have a bias against prevent plant. It’s a good thing that we want to plant because that’s what farmers do. After June 5, you can take prevent planting.

“It does not matter if June 6 is a beautiful day and the ground is fit, it’s the farmer’s decision at that point in time. Up to June 5 you have to plant if it’s fit. After June 5, it’s the farmer’s decision and it doesn’t matter what the conditions are.

“We have to realize some of the bias of individuals with vested interests that are providing the information to farmers.

Share-rent landowners have legitimate concerns for prevent planting if they don’t have crop insurance.

“If they don’t have crop insurance, there’s no return to the share-rent landowner if no planting occurs. I would suggest that you may want to get those share-rent landowners on

“Unless you have unusual circumstances, take prevent plant, particularly in the second or third week of June.”

Gary Schnitkey UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

crop insurance.

“I’ve heard farmers who had their cash-rent landowners pressure them for planting. I don’t see any legitimate concern for a cash-rent landowner wanting that land planted, particularly with corn.

“You may be doing things worse to the ground than not. Input suppliers want to see planting occur.

“Crop insurance companies really don’t want to make prevent plant acres because they’re the biggest payments that can be made.

“Try to look at the decision objectively, which is hard to do because it is a very emotional decision.

Develop a plan for prevent plant beforehand with a strong presumption not to plant if you have a high coverage level once you reach June 5, particularly if there are no storing or drying facilities on-farm.”

LESSON 2: “Future prices are unbiased indicators of price in the future. The December 2019 CME corn contract averaged $4.50 in June and $3.90 in October.

June prices already had a significant weather premium built in, and we probably should not have expected more.

“If you’re going to do something because of price, price some of it.

Don’t bet on short crops.

Many, myself included, believed prices could go up if we had lower acres and lower yields.”

LESSON 3: “All farmers are reacting to the same incentives. All farmers saw the corn was more profitable than soybeans, and corn prevent plant is better than soybean prevent plant.

“Corn acres were only down 1% from 2018 to 2019. Soybean acres year over year went down 16%.

U.S. prevent plant acres increased from nearly 1.9 million in 2018 to 19.259

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million in 2019.

“Areas that didn’t have prevent plant planted more corn. Areas with large prevent plant, reduced corn acres. Most everyone reduced soybean acres. Acreage changes that happened in 2019 are consistent with economics.”

LESSON 4: “It’s hard to beat U.S. Department of Agriculture yield forecasts. The resources USDA devotes to yield estimates are large and include many methods including satellite imagery.

“USDA forecast an average corn yield of 166 bushels per acre in June and 167 bushels per acre in November. Don’t bet on short crops until you see them.”

LESSON 5: “Market Facilitation Program was introduced as a new policy in June. In a USDA press release on June 10, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said, ‘I urge farmers to plant for the market and plant what works best on their farm, regardless of what type of assistance programs USDA provides.’

“The press released went on to state farmers needed to plant in order to receive MFP payments.

Per acre MFP payments ranged from $50 to $87 per planted acre in Illinois.

“There was a 15% top off on RP prevent plant payments. There was a $15 per acre MFP payment for planting cover crops on prevent plant farmland.

Government aid netted out to be about the same for planting and prevent plant.

“This administration does not want to influence planting decisions with aid, but we’re not sure about future administrations. There’s a good chance of MFP payments in 2020, but how it’s built into cash rent is problematic. Commodity Credit Corp. authority was used for MFPs, and how future administrations use CCC authority will be interesting to see.”

LESSON 6: “Build in higher drying costs if you plant in June. Also, expect harvest difficulties.”

Tom C. Doran can be reached at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@agrinewspubs.com. Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Doran.

FOOD

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Bradshaw started working on a voluntary pork checkoff in 1968 as the president of the Pike County Pork Producers Association.

“That was the second-largest pork producing county in the nation at that time, and then I served as the president of the Illinois Pork Producers Association from 1971 to 1974,” he said. “That was the first major checkoff program where farmers contributed their money to benefit all.”

In 1974, the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to allow soybean farmers to decide if they wanted to establish a soybean checkoff program.

“That was voted in to have one-quarter of a cent per bushel taken out at the point of scale to promote and work for the benefit of the soybean farmer and the national program started in 1990,” Bradshaw said. “I served as the chairman of the program operating board for the soybean group that administered the checkoff program.”

At the national level, Bradshaw has been involved with several committees and organizations that include serving as the chairman of the Foreign Animal Disease Committee for the USDA and chairman of the United Soybean Board in

2010.

As a result, Bradshaw has met seven U.S. presidents.

“I knew George H. Bush and George W. Bush pretty well, I had conversations with Bill Clinton on two occasions and I met President Obama when he was in Springfield and Washington and visited with him quite a bit,” he said. “The rest of the presidents, I just shook their hands.”

“The main thing is you don’t have to be the smartest person in the world and you don’t have to be the biggest person in the world — I’m only 5 foot, 5 inches tall,” he said. “But you’ve got to show up if you want to have adventures.”

Participating on committees and serving in leadership roles did require Bradshaw to be away from the family farming operation.

“You have to give up something when you do these things,” he said.

“So, I dedicated my book to my wife, Linda, and family for putting up with me being gone and taking care of things.”

The book is available for purchase on Amazon and at Farmers National Bank of Griggsville at all branch locations.

Martha Blum can be reached at 815-2232558, ext. 117, or marthablum@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Blum.

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Phil Bradshaw dedicated his book about his lifetime of farming to his wife, Linda, and family for taking care of the family farming operation during his travels as a member of several state and national committees and organizations. The Bradshaws are the parents of three children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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Safety data sheets are stored in a locker on a farm.

Hazard communication standards on the farm

By Erica Quinlan

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

PEOSTA, IOWA — Dan Neenan, paramedic director at the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, discussed hazard communication standards during a webinar sponsored by AgriSafe.

“These safety data sheets must be made available to employees and for responding emergency personnel,” Neenan said.

“They are generally stored in readily available binders or via an online subscription.

“We need to have a written hazard communication program. It doesn’t need to be pages upon pages. But it needs to deal with how chemicals are going to be labeled and stored, where the safety data sheets are kept and training.”

Neenan shared tips for implementing a successful program: n Learn the standard and identify responsible staff. Obtain a copy of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard. Become familiar with its provisions.

Make sure that someone has primary responsibility for coordinating implementation. Identify staff for particular activities such as training. n Prepare and implement a written hazard communication program.

A written plan should include how hazard communication will

be addressed in your facility. Prepare a list or inventory of all hazardous chemicals in the workplace. n Ensure containers are labeled. Keep labels on shipped containers.

Label workplace containers where required. n Maintain safety data sheets. Safety data sheets should be maintained for each hazardous chemical in the workplace. Ensure that safety data sheets are readily accessible to employees. n Inform and train employees. Train employees on the hazardous chemicals in their work area before initial assignment and when new hazards are introduced. Include the requirements of the standard, hazards of chemicals, appropriate protective measures and where and how to obtain additional information. n Evaluate and reassess your program. Review your hazard communication program periodically to make sure that it is still working and meeting its objectives. Revise your program as appropriate to address changed conditions in the workplace — for example, new chemicals, new hazards and so forth.

Learn more at www. osha.gov/dsg/hazcom.

Erica Quinlan can be reached at 800-4269438, ext. 193, or equinlan@agrinews-pubs.com.

Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Quinlan.

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Series of farm legacy seminars BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Seventy percent of U.S. farmland will likely change hands during the next two decades.

With estimates as high as half of American farmers operating without an estate plan, Illinois Farm Bureau and COUNTRY Financial are set to provide farm legacy seminars to aid them as plans are made for the next generation.

The two organizations will host three farm legacy information meetings in February. The seminars will provide current and prospective IFB members and COUNTRY Financial clients with tools, protection and ongoing support essential to legacy planning, in order to allow them to keep their farm in the family amid today’s financial challenges.

“Illinois farm families face a series of issues, including rising costs in agriculture and surviving financial stress year to year, that may pull their focus away from planning for the future of the farm,” said IFB President Richard Guebert Jr. “This meeting series will realign that focus in sharing the resources and knowledge they need to have those conversations and preserve their farm legacy.”

Each meeting will include a keynote presentation by Dr. Ron Hanson, Harlan agribusiness professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and professional speaker on farm legacy planning.

“It is never too early for farm family members to begin a legacy planning process for their farm,” Hanson said. “Most often, farm families make the mistake of waiting until it is too late or after something unexpected happens. That is never the best time to make good objective decisions. It’s important to develop and implement a business succession plan now to continue a family farming legacy for future generations.”

Following Hanson’s talk, farm legacy planning support will be explained and offered by COUNTRY Financial specialists and Planning Support Manager Joe Buhrmann.

“Legal documents and adequate protection are a solid start to the conversation,” Buhrmann said. “Equally impor t a nt, though, is having the entire family take part in the conversation.

Having a plan will ensure that what you want to have happen will happen. At COUNTRY, our team of planning professionals has been helping farming families keep the farm in the family for over 50 years. What you’ve built with your hands, your head, and your heart is too important to leave to chance. We’re excited to partner with professionals like Dr. Hanson and the Illinois Farm Bureau to help farm families collectively begin this important conversation and process.”

Meetings are set to take place in northern, central and southern Illinois. The two-hour seminars will each begin at 5 p.m. with dinner. Dates and locations are: n Feb. 25, Hickory Grove Banquet and Conference Center, Rochelle. n Feb. 26, I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign. n Feb. 27, Kokopelli Golf Club, Marion.

Registration for the events is open to current and prospective IFB members and COUNTRY Financial clients in early 2020.

For more information, visit www.ilfb.org/farmplanning.

Senator: Banking laws must protect hemp, cannabis businesses PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s independent senator said it’s time for the federal government to update banking laws to reflect the rise of legal hemp and cannabis businesses.

Sen. Angus King represents a state where legal adult use marijuana sales are likely to begin in early 2020. He said the U.S. Senate should protect those businesses by passing the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act. King said the bill would make certain that legal hemp and cannabis businesses can have access to the same financial services as any other businesses. He said it’s important for states that have legalized medical and recreational marijuana.

King said the changes would also benefit hemp farmers who “have done everything right,” but still lack access to financial services.

The proposal already has passed the House of Representatives.

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Youth donate milk to local food pantries

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Farm Aid President Willie Nelson signs checks that will be forwarded to grant recipients, including five Illinois organizations.

Farm Aid grants to five Illinois groups

By Tom C. Doran

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Farm Aid distributed grants totaling $27,000 to five Illinois farm and food organizations as part of over $1 million in grants awarded nationally.

Illinois Farm Aid grant recipients were: n Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Springfield: $7,000 grant from Farm Aid to win state legislative priorities in 2020 and expand capacity to engage members, develop leaders and build a more powerful organization for just and regenerative agriculture. n The Land Connection, Champaign: $5,000 to support the Farmer Training Program, which provides farmers with the support, tools and network needed to begin farming and increase the longevity and success of their operations. n Angelic Organics Learning Center, Caledonia: $5,000 to support holistic training for beginning farmers, provide opportunities for socially disadvantaged individuals and develop the next generation of consumers who create demand for sustainable agriculture. n Food Works, Carbondale: $5,000 to increase the viability of beginning, sustainable family farms through value-added enterprises and farmer-tofarmer mentorship. n Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water, Vermont: $5,000 to assist small farmers and rural residents fighting against the siting of factory farms in their communities, while organizing and galvanizing them to campaign for legislative reform.

“Farm Aid started right here in central Illinois at the height of the ‘80’s farm crisis. This year’s devastating losses from extreme weather, low commodity prices, and a trade war combined to create a new crisis for farmers and Illinois rural communities,” said Liz Moran Stelk, Illinois Stewardship Alliance executive director.

“Support from Farm Aid will help farmers and eaters educate policymakers on the urgent need to support local food, address the climate crisis, and make a just transition to regenerative agriculture.”

“The Land Connection’s Farmer Training Program provides farmers with the skills, tools, support and guidance to develop and maintain viable farm businesses,” said Cassidy Dellorto-Blackwell, The Land Connection Farmer Training

“Our goal is to create real change in our farm and food system, from the ground up.”

in the region to assess the longterm needs of impacted farmers and ranchers.

LEADERSHIP FUND Farm Aid’s Farmer Leadership Fund granted $46,386 to support farmers and farm Willie Nelson, president advocates in developing leaderFARM AID ship skills and to elevate farmer voices in a variety of circles in which their expertise, exProgram manager.

“Thanks to Farm Aid we perience and best interests will be able to support more are essential to the conversafarmers, assisting them as they tion. develop and implement strategies for managing all aspects SCHOLARSHIPS Through a scholarship fund of farm health, from growing techniques to marketing to set up in 1987 by the Younkers managing soil health to plan- Department Store, Farm Aid ning for the future of the farm.” awards scholarships annuOf the over $1 million in ally to students studying aggrants, $682,615 was given riculture at South Dakota in competitive and strategic State University, University of grants to 95 family farm, rural Nebraska and Iowa State Uniservice and urban agriculture versity. In 2019, scholarships organizations in 37 states were awarded in the amount of and the District of Columbia. $20,797.

Farm Aid artists and board Grants ranged from $3,000 to members Willie Nelson, Neil $30,000.

This year’s grant review Young, John Mellencamp, and came in the midst of a worsen- Dave Matthews host an aning farm crisis. The farm crisis nual festival to raise funds to was Farm Aid’s top grant-mak- support Farm Aid’s work with ing priority this year, as was family farmers and to inspire building resilient systems of people to choose family farm agriculture to combat the im- food.

Farm Aid’s grant-making is pacts of natural disasters and climate change, and work that focused on work that enhances addresses systemic inequities, the viability of family farm agspecifically for farmers of riculture in the U.S. They issue grants to qualifying nonprofit color.

Emergency grants totaling organizations that serve family $32,000 were made to farm farmers in one of three fundfamilies to cover essential ing areas: growing the good household expenses. These food movement, helping farmemergency grants are recom- ers thrive, and taking action mended on a case-by-case basis to change the food and farm

by Farm Aid’s hotline manag- system.

“Our goal is to create real ers, who answer calls on the 1-800 FARM AID hotline and change in our farm and food connect farmers with helpful system, from the ground up,” services, resources and oppor- said Farm Aid President Willie tunities specific to their indi- Nelson.

“Farm Aid grantees strvidual needs. engthen family farmers, they build communities that can DISASTER RESPONSE In the spring, Farm Aid acti- support each other in hard vated the Family Farm Disaster times, and they organize peoFund to send immediate relief ple to stand up and challenge to farmers in the Midwest and corporate power in our food Plains affected by historic system. These are essential activities that benefit everyone — flooding.

Farm Aid raised and distrib- eaters and farmers.”

Since 1985, Farm Aid has uted more than $200,000 to provide farmers in Nebraska, raised $57 million to help famIowa, Missouri, Kansas, Ill- ily farmers thrive all over the inois, Wisconsin and South country while inspiring milDakota with emergency funds lions of people to take part in and to help them navigate their the Good Food Movement.

For a complete listing of options on the long road to disaster recovery. New flooding Farm Aid’s 2019 grant reciplater in 2019 expanded Farm ients, visit w w w.farmaid.

Aid’s disaster response to org/2019grants.

Texas.

In total, Farm Aid granted Tom C. Doran can be reached $224,100 to assist farm and at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ ranch families affected by nat- agrinews-pubs.com. Follow ural disasters. Farm Aid con- him on Twitter at: @AgNews_ tinues to work with partners Doran.

PEORIA, Ill. — Building generosity in young people though community service has always been a pillar of 4-H youth development. University of Illinois Extension staff led the way to take community service to the next level.

Throughout 2019, 4-H clubs in Fulton, Mason, Peoria, and Tazewell counties combined traditional community service with experiential learning for a new focus on “service learning.” Club members and leaders worked together to plan, organize, and execute what was referred to as the 4-H 10 Gallon Challenge, in which milk or milk vouchers were donated to local food pantries. The project provided invaluable learning experiences for the members and nutritious dairy products to over 200 families.

According to the USDA National Extension 4-H organization, service learning is defined as a form of experiential learning that combines subject matter learning and critical thinking skill development while addressing a genuine community need.

Youth are involved in every step of the process: inquiry, selection, planning, execution, and reflection. Through service learning, youth learn more, become more confident about what they have learned, improve in problem-solving ability, build leadership and social abilities, take more enjoyment in the overall learning experience, retain the subject matter longer, and are more likely to volunteer to serve the community in the future.

To facilitate this shift, the four-county unit came together to plan and implement one large, impactful project. Nearly 50 youth and adult volunteers attended trainings led by Emily Schoenfelder, Extension 4-H educator, to better understand how inquiry, planning, action, and reflection all work together in the service learning process.

“Most, if not all food pantries do not have dairy products available for low-income families that visit their facility.”

Kassie Haage NEIGHBOR KIDS DAIRY 4-H CLUB

From here, these newly trained service learning leaders were tasked with helping their clubs explore local needs and submit proposals for projects that could address these issues.

Kassie Haage and the Neighbor Kids Dairy 4-H Club wrote the proposal for the 4-H 10 Gallon Challenge, which was ultimately selected for the unitwide project. The needs described by this proposal were complex. In the proposal, Kassie explained, “Most, if not all food pantries do not have dairy products available for low-income families that visit their facility.

There are so many health benefits to adding dairy in the diet that this is a sad situation.” She continued by saying, “Dairy farmers across the country are losing their farms every day. …

If we do not help dairy farmers increase their income as well as spread this awareness, farms will close.”

The proposed solution was simple: Donate 10 gallons of milk, or other dairy products, to a local food pantry. This would help low-income families, local businesses, and farmers.

To help implement this project, a cross-county committee was formed in which youth and adult volunteers assumed responsibility to lead and guide this project. Committee members took on communication with local food banks, coordination of 4-H clubs, marketing the challenge through print and video and researching extra learning opportunities such as guest speakers and field trips.

4-H youth were able to experience the benefits of service learning firsthand. In doing so, they contributed to a dozen local food pantries, provided healthy food options to over 200 local families, and gained invaluable life skills.

Service learning projects like this are just one of the many learning opportunities in the 4-H program. Contact your local U of I Extension office and speak to the 4-H program coordinator to learn more about the upcoming 4-H events and clubs in which youth can get involved.

For more information, visit extension.illinois.edu/fmpt.

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Purdue to study organic hemp production $3 million grant from USDA WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — When the 2018 farm bill legalized production of hemp, the deluge of phone calls from potential growers to scientists and state administrators quickly made it clear how little information is available for those hoping to plant the crop.

Purdue University scientists have plans to change that with the help of a nearly $1 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant. Kevin Gibson, professor of botany and plant pathology, will lead a team exploring questions related to organic hemp production.

“There’s certainly tremendous interest and tremendous opportunities, but the reality is that this is a crop we haven’t grown on significant acreage for 70 to 80 years,” Gibson said. “The knowledge base to be successful needs to be developed.”

Understanding organic methods is especially important, Gibson said, because there are no legal pesticides that growers can use on hemp. In the United States, those chemicals are developed and approved only for specific crops, and it would be illegal to use a pesticide developed for corn, for instance, on another crop such as hemp.

“This is a great opportunity to develop organic

Uncertainty about hemp profitability WARSAW, Ind. (AP) — Some Indiana farmers have started harvesting their first legal crop of hemp without knowing for certain whether it will prove to be lucrative.

President Donald Trump signed the 2018 farm bill in December, legalizing hemp. Since then, Indiana farmers have taken out permits to grow thousands of acres of hemp for its fiber, seed and cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-intoxicating compound also found in marijuana.

The hemp flowers and seeds can be processed for fiber to make paper, cloth, rope, wood-like material or hemp concrete.

But farmers said torrential spring rains across the Midwest either washed out some of their crops, including hemp, or delayed planting efforts, the South Bend Tribune reported.

“The late planting date caused challenges because the plants didn’t get as tall, they never canopied and that created weed problems,” said farmer Mark Boyer.

Boyer cultivated 50 acres of hemp for seed production in 2018 as part of a research project authorized by Purdue University. He planted the same amount this year on his farm in Converse, about 60 miles northeast of Indianapolis. He was planning to cold-press the seeds into top quality food oil and then use the leftovers for high-protein animal feed.

But Boyer said there have yet to be any chemicals approved to regulate weeds, bugs or other issues that hemp plants might face as officials still devise hemp production regulations.

Though Boyer was able to use contemporary farm machinery to plant and harvest his seed hemp, varieties bred for their CBD content are usually planted as seedlings, which is very labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Don Zolman said the rainy spring weather also posed an issue for growing hemp at his farm near Warsaw, and extra work was needed to get new seedlings in the ground since some of the others died.

Justin Swanson, an attorney and the Midwest Hemp Council’s co-founder, said Indiana farmers planted about 3,000 acres of hemp plants in 2019.

KEVIN GIBSON PHOTO

Farmers interested in growing now-legal hemp have little information to guide them. Research from Purdue University scientists, led

by Kevin Gibson, will answer questions related to organic production of the crop. practices that can reduce the reliance on pesticides for all hemp growers,” Gibson said. “We also want to know how hemp might fit in rotation with other crops, how it might fit into a soil conservation system, and how cultivars and the timing of planting will affect growing success.”

Gibson also is interested in how hemp may improve the viability of cover crops, which are difficult to grow in some areas because of late commodity crop harvests. Since hemp has a shorter growing season, it may be more practical to plant cover crops in the

late summer.

That’s a key interest of Rodale Institute, a leading voice in regenerat ive or ganic agriculture and a partner in the research.

Emmanuel Omondi, associate Gibson scientist and director of Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial, said hemp may also reduce the tillage needed to plant cover crops.

“Reducing tillage and growing crops using organic methods has several benefits, including se-

questering more carbon in soil,” O mond i s a id.

“There is some ev idence t hat cover crops after hemp would not require tillage.

Hemp may also suppress weeds, which are always a challenge in organic systems.”

Purdue’s research team includes John Couture, assistant professor of entomology and forestry and natural resources; Janna Beckerman, professor of botany and plant pathology; and Ron Turco, professor and head of the

Department of Agronomy.

Maria Marshall, professor of agricultural economics, will explore supply chains to gain an understanding of how hemp will go from farm fields to consumers.

Marguerite Bolt, a hemp extension specialist, will help to communicate the results of the research to farmers.

Don Robison, the seed pr o g r a m administrator for the Indiana State Chemist’s Office, said Gibson’s work will be a significant help. Since the farm bill was signed into law late last year, everyone in his office has had to purchase headsets to handle the influx of calls.

He’s also logged more than 13,000 emails related to hemp.

Right now, Robison’s office is advising that hemp cannot be grown commercially until 2020 at the earliest because the USDA has not provided federal rules on growing the crop, and that’s delaying development of state rules.

Even so, people are asking his office how they can best protect the crop from pests and disease when they do plant it. The best information he has at the moment is about cinnamon oil and other items the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for all crops.

“Those solutions probably don’t work well, however,” Robison said. “Improving our understanding of organic growing methods is going to be crucial because the large pesticide companies aren’t going to race to develop chemicals for the hemp industry because it will be a drop in the bucket compared to crops like corn and soybeans.”

In the meantime, Robison is pointing those interested in knowing more about growing hemp in Indiana to a frequently asked question primer on the Indiana State Chemist’s website. That can be found at: www.oisc. pu rdue.edu / hemp/pd f / hemp_faq.pdf.

Questions about growing hemp also can be directed to Bolt at hemp@ purdue.edu.

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Granville grower hopes to go to pot World’s largest indoor hemp producer to apply for marijuana license

By Kim Shute

Where does the product go?

SHAW MEDIA

HENNEPIN, Ill. — MidAmerican Growers is cashing in on one of the most ancient crops known to man with its recent switch to hemp production.

In addition, the business operators gave a presentation to the Putnam County Board, requesting to get involved in growing marijuana at some point after recreational use becomes legal in Illinois on Jan. 1.

The Granville facility, formerly known as Color Point, is now the world’s largest indoor hemp production facility. The golf carts and bicycles used by workers to get around the 3.6-million-square-foot facility illustrate just how vast the operation is.

They can’t give public tours, due to security concerns, but President Anne Hyde gave the NewsTribune full access to tour the facility to better understand what’s going on with the former bedding plants grower.

FIRST HEMP IMPRESSIONS Upon entering, the brightly lit offices and Christmas decorations look like any other upscale office. Down a corridor to the greenhouse entrances, however, a different picture starts to emerge.

You can smell it before

Mid-American Growers President Anne Hyde said the finished products are sold locally as much as possible. They sell wholesale to dispensaries and to manufacturers alike.

Peat from bogs in Canada is imported to grow the hemp.

Hemp, unlike marijuana, can be transported across state lines.

Mid-American currently employs 192 full-time employees.

It takes twice as many employees to produce marijuana compared to hemp.

There are 32 growers on staff.

Chemicals cannot be used in hemp production, so Mid-American has a biological program in place, growing special plants and bugs that grow alongside the hemp.

SHAW MEDIA PHOTOS

Known again as Mid-American Growers, the former flower grower wants to start growing medical and recreational marijuana in addition to the hemp production they’re already involved in. you see it, the rich, earthy aroma of cannabis is unmistakable. It’s jarring for someone experiencing it for the first time.

The smell is illicit, and

confronted with an overwhelming, clothes- and hair-staining amount of it makes one look around nervously waiting for an authority to approach.

That’s not happening here.

Instead, a row of employees, clad immaculately in white, many of them with masks over their mouths and noses, hand processes the harvested hemp under a vast array of skylights.

Though hemp and marijuana both are cannabis plants, hemp does not contain detectable amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical that produces a high in the user. Instead, hemp produced at Mid-American is used for the burgeoning cannabadiol market.

CBD, commonly in oil form, is used for many medical purposes including pain relief and anxiety treatment. Hyde said it’s anticipated CBD will be a $7 billion market next year in the United States alone, so it made perfect sense for them to make the switch.

The Granville facility uses a proprietary method of processing, hand-trimming the harvested plants to remove flowers from the stalks. Machines further trim the plants, but Hyde said they’ve found that people are more efficient for the initial trimming which also yields a better product.

Hemp is a fast-growing plant, with a 12- to 16-week growth cycle, so they’re able to produce four cycles per year from seed to harvest. It’s a precise process — plants are grown, cut off at the stalk to hang dry, bagged, stored, weighed, processed then reweighed to make sure nothing is missing, Hyde said.

“We’re going above and beyond regulations for security and accountability here,” Hyde said. “This is an extremely high-tech facility. It made perfect sense to use to switch from producing over 300 varieties of bedding plants to a mono-crop.”

Hyde said very little was required to convert the operation from mass producing flowers for the various holidays and garden centers to hemp production.

They already had a tracking system in place so advanced that should a Home Depot receive a different pallet of plants than expected, they knew precisely how to pinpoint what went wrong and correct it.

This translates to a smoother operation for working with a plant that requires strict regulation.

The biggest changes they had to make were security related, Hyde said.

“We really want to set the bar here,” she said.

“We haven’t had anyone from the community express any concerns with what we’re doing here now because we’ve always been a good community partner. But we’re hoping that people seeing just how high-tech and regulated everything is here it will ease any worries.

“This isn’t your uncle throwing up a hoop-house and growing pot in his back yard. This is a very sophisticated operation, and we’re doing it the right way.”

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS As a grower, Mid-American has always strived to be a good community partner, Hyde said. They’re currently working on setting up farm partnerships, though the details aren’t yet ready for a public announcement.

“It only makes sense though,” she said. “We are right here in farm country.”

Additionally, there’s a possible partnership with Illinois Valley Community College in the works to add a program for those who may want to go into the business. Hyde said most growers have a background in agriculture or horticulture.

Additionally, Mid-American is hoping to partner with Marquis Energy for oil extraction.

WHAT ELSE IS IN THE WORKS? Hyde said it only makes sense that Mid-American

would add marijuana to its grow operation come Jan. 1 when it becomes legal.

“We have to be nimble and able to react to the market,” she said.

They’ve already approached Putnam County Board, and Hyde said she doesn’t anticipate any issues from the board regarding the request.

Board Chairman Steve M a l avolt i c on f i r me d they’re working on zoning, having already set in place the tax the county is allowed to assess from any cannabis-related businesses.

Hyde said they’ll seek a craft grower license which allows between 5,000 and 15,000 square feet for cultivation. That, she said, can be adjusted by legislation as needed.

Should their license be granted, something she also anticipates will go smoothly, Hyde said they’ll need to consider adding jobs. The plants have to be grown, stored and processed separately due to regulations.

“We hope to go as big as possible,” she said. “But right now it’s kind of up in the air. Everything about this is so new so how it goes depends on how things play out with the licensing.”

The County Board anticipates it could be about 90 days to go through zoning and permits, and Hyde said the license applications have to be completed by March so come spring, they could be ready to start growing marijuana.

Hyde’s final thought on all this?

“T his is a business.

We’ve had people here with us for 25 years.

We’re a family here, providing (financial) security for the community by growing a profitable crop,” she said.

With that, the tour ends, and Hyde is off to admire the decorations laid out for the next day’s company holiday lunch.

Kim Shute can be reached at 815-879-5200, or kshute@shawmedia.com.

Follow her on Twitter at @NT_Princeton2.

The Granville, Illinois-based grower has the largest indoor hemp production facility in the world, utilizing a 3,612,866-square-foot greenhouse and including 451,282 square feet of production and warehouse facilities on more than 231 acres of land.

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REGIONAL WEATHER

Outlook for Dec. 31 - Jan. 6

Shown is Tuesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday’s highs and Tuesday night’s lows.

Evanston 34/23 South Bend 34/25

Rockford 34/19 Rock Island 34/20

Chicago 35/26

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Peoria 36/24

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Southern Illinois: Tuesday: partly sunny.

Winds west-southwest 7-14 mph. Expect 3-6 hours of sunshine with fair drying conditions and average relative humidity 65%. Wednesday: partly sunny, except more clouds to the east.

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GROWING DEGREE DAYS Illinois Week ending Dec. 27 Month through Dec. 27 Season through Dec. 27 Normal month to date Normal season to date

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7 7 3471 0 2898

Anna 44/24

Today Hi/Lo/W 37/22/pc 35/26/c 38/23/pc 42/25/pc 34/23/c 33/20/pc 43/24/pc 36/24/pc 38/24/pc 34/19/pc 34/20/pc 38/24/pc

Tom. Hi/Lo/W 41/28/pc 39/33/pc 42/30/pc 47/35/pc 37/32/pc 38/29/pc 48/31/pc 43/31/pc 46/32/pc 40/29/pc 40/31/pc 43/31/pc

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 44/28/c 43/33/c 45/29/c 51/31/c 46/33/c 45/31/c 51/30/c 47/30/c 46/30/c 43/30/c 45/29/c 50/30/c

Indiana Bloomington Carmel Evansville Fishers Fort Wayne Gary Lafayette Indianapolis Muncie South Bend Terre Haute Vevay

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Northern Indiana: Tuesday: snow showers possible in the north and east. Winds west 10-20 mph. Expect less than 2 hours of sunshine with a 35% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average humidity 75%.

Central Indiana: Tuesday: periods of sun; windy in the afternoon. Winds west-southwest 10-20 mph. Expect 2-4 hours of sunshine with poor drying conditions and average relative humidity 80%.

For 24-hour weather updates, check out www.agrinews-pubs.com Illinois Champaign Chicago Decatur E. St. Louis Evanston Joliet Mt. Vernon Peoria Quincy Rockford Rock Island Springfield

Northern Illinois: Tuesday: breezy with partial sunshine; however, cloudy to the east. Winds west-northwest 12-25 mph.

Expect 3-6 hours of sunshine with poor drying conditions.

Central Illinois: Tuesday: partly sunny.

Winds west-southwest 12-25 mph. Expect 3-6 hours of sunshine with fair drying conditions and average relative humidity 65%. Wednesday: clouds and sun. Winds south 7-14 mph.

Indianapolis 38/25

Mt. Vernon 43/24

East St. Louis 42/25

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Thu. Hi/Lo/W 47/31/c 47/33/c 50/35/c 48/34/c 41/28/c 48/35/c 47/30/c 45/33/c 46/35/c 44/30/c 46/31/c 51/37/c

Southern Indiana: Tuesday: partial sunshine. Winds west 8-16 mph. Expect 3-6 hours of sunshine with fair drying conditions and average relative humidity 70%. Wednesday: mostly cloudy; however, sunnier in the south.

SOUTH AMERICA It will be largely dry across Argentina and southern Brazil through Saturday. A front can bring scattered rain to these areas early next week. Scattered rain is likely from Minas Gerais to Mato Grosso.

Weather (W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow flurries, sn–snow, i–ice

Pioneer introduces 89 new corn hybrids, soybean varieties Customer needs drive product development

By Martha Blum

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Pioneer uses extensive testing that is consumer focused to select new corn hybrids and soybean varieties for its product lineup.

“Pioneer is not just about being in the seed business. It’s about how we provide more profit potential for our customers,” said Judd O’Connor, president, U.S. Com mercia l Business for Corteva Agriscience. “That’s why farmers like David Hula are breaking world records with Pioneer corn at 616 buO’Connor shels per acre.”

In addition, O’Connor said, farmers that planted Pioneer corn captured 10 national and 245 state yield contest awards for 2019.

“Today, we’re announcing the advancement of 89 new corn and soybean products to commercialization,” he said.

“This represents the culmination of hundreds of thousands of man hours, historic investments and expansion of our research and testing capabilities and the most rigorous local testing program we’ve ever had.”

Pioneer is capturing not just more data, but better data, O’Connor said.

“These 89 new corn hybrids and soybean varieties beat 10,000 other contenders during our multi-years long testing process,” he said.

“Over the last decade, we’ve reduced our overall product development cycle 30% while expanding our breeding pipeline testing by 18 times-plus for corn,” he said.

BRENT WILSON The testing process for Pioneer products starts with the field teams, said Brent Wilson, leader of produc t ma na gement and agronomy for Pioneer.

“These are a g r onom i s t s who work with our customers who understand the key criteria Wilson that will make the product successful in a range of growing conditions throughout the country,” Wilson said.

“We feed this information to the research team and they begin the process of sorting through this germplasm library to find the most elite products that will move to the marketplace,” he said.

“We take a huge amount of data for soybeans about 45 billion data points and about 80 billion data points for corn and feed it into simulations all in an effort to identify those products that have the best chance to be

successful in our customers’ fields,” Wilson said.

“Those that are moved forward to field testing with our research team are grown at almost 50 multi-crop research centers scattered throughout the Corn Belt from California to Pennsylvania and from Manitoba to Mississippi,” he said. “This testing begins the process of characterizing and understanding, which are the true long-term winners.”

Pioneer researchers look for consistent performance, ability to withstand key pests and diseases, the ability to stand up under changing weather conditions and the ability to produce year in and year out.

“Yield is still a main criteria — a stable, consistent harvestable yield is what we’re looking for,” Wilson said.

“Once research has identified the best winners, we move into the IMPACT system — the Intensively Managed Product Advancement, Characterization and Testing trials,” he said.

“These are on farmers’ fields, under their soil conditions, their management and under their weather conditions to provide a true world check for corn and soybeans.”

The Pioneer field staff evaluates the hybrids and varieties to understand how they might fit in different geographies.

“This process is extensive and pretty rigorous,” Wilson said.

“Of the hundreds of products that go into IMPACT, less than 20% come out as commercial products and end up in a Pioneer bag.”

Purdue team gets $3 million to explore consequences of sustainability policies WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — A rapidly growing global population in the midst of a changing climate had led to serious sustainability issues and choices surrounding water, food and energy.

These stresses and the policy responses will vary by locality, but they will have global repercussions that will ultimately affect the success of those choices.

The National Science Fou ndat ion aw a r de d $2.5 million to an interdisciplinary team led by Thomas Hertel, a Purdue distinguished professor of agricultural economics, to build the tools necessary to understand the global-local-global linkages underpinning future sustainability policies.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture provided an additional $500,000 to enhance the economic foundations of this framework.

“Agriculture is experiencing sustainability stresses related to land, water quality and water availability, and those will intensify in the future. Most of the drivers of those stresses will be global, and we need to understand how those affect local communities,” Hertel said. “As we look at poten-

tial solutions, we need to know what is most feasible, the side effects and how those will feed back to the global economy.”

The funding supports the work of the Global-toLocal Analysis of Systems Sustainability initiative, led by Hertel and aimed at understanding the linkages between local decision-making and global sustainability outcomes.

This will allow the team to explore a policy’s ramifications in a holistic way.

BIG IDEA CHALLENGE Made up of Purdue economists, political scientists, hydrologists, climate scientists, computer scientists and others, the team grew out of Discovery Park’s Purdue’s Big Idea Challenge, which funded interdisciplinary research on global challenges and life-changing innovations.

David Johnson, an assistant professor of industrial engineering and political science and co-principal investigator, is focusing on trade-offs across different environmental and economic objectives within the food-energy-water systems and potential unforeseen consequences.

He said he’s searching for win-win policies that could lead to more sustainable agricultural practices without sacrificing

the ability to feed rapidly growing global populations.

“Local policies must be evaluated at a global scale to truly understand their impacts,” Johnson said.

“For example, restricting groundwater irrigation in the Great Plains could reduce unsustainable depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, but it could also increase food prices and lead to deforestation elsewhere in the world. Wherever regulation makes crop production less efficient, we have to think carefully about where production might shift to meet global demand.”

Already, the GLASS team’s work has offered suggestions for reducing deforestation related to palm oil production in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Findings reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that those countries would suffer economically if they don’t take leadership of the efforts to stop deforestation.

Ongoing and f uture projects will look at alternative policies to limit nitrate leaching in the Corn Belt, as well as assessing the impacts of efforts to limit groundwater drawdown in the western United States.

JERRON SCHMOLL Jerron Schmoll, product life cycle manager for Pioneer, said the new P1359AM hybrid has been a consistent perfor mer in the IMPACT trials across a lot of the Corn Belt.

“It has high yield potential and stable agronomic traiSchmoll ts,” Schmoll said.

“We are introducing 24 new Enlist3 soybean varieties, and P26T23E is really a leader in mid-group II,” he said. “It offers a wide range of adaptation from the eastern to western Corn Belt, and it has great standability and soybean cyst nematode tolerance.”

CHRIS ZWIENER “Last year, we offered Qrome products across a broad geography in the U.S., and the new product advancements continue to build on the Qrome product portfolio,” said Chris Zwiener, product life cycle manager for Pioneer. “QrZwiener ome is the most optimized balance of insect protection and agronomic performance in the Pioneer brand corn product portfolio.”

Qrome products feature

“The highlights of P1185 include consistent yield with top end yield potential.”

Chris Zwiener PIONEER

dual modes of action for both above- and below-ground insect protection.

“The highlights of P1185 include consistent yield with top end yield potential,” Zwiener said. “It is a shorter stature plant that helps reduce some of the risk associated with severe weather events that could result in brittle snap, root lodging and stalk lodging. The shorter stature also reduces crop residue and the strong roots give the product the ability to withstand adverse conditions while continuing to deliver consistent performance across a range of environments.”

The P1185 hybrid is a yellow food grade option for some geographies, Zwiener said.

“It has very good test weight and excellent grain quality,” he said. “It has performed very strongly during the last several years of research from Indiana to Nebraska.”

For more information about Pioneer products, go to www.

Pioneer.com/US. Martha Blum can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 117, or marthablum@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Blum.

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FIELD NOTES: BY MYCOGEN SEEDS AGRONOMISTS

Maximize 2020 input investments

By Melissa Bell

From a crop production standpoint, most farmers are eager and optimistic to celebrate the beginning of a new year. This past year was one of the most challenging in a long time.

And, for those unable to complete the 2019 harvest, the past year will unfortunately carry over into the new.

For others, however, the post-harvest and pre-new year has been a time for looking ahead, evaluating successes and dissecting input decisions that didn’t pan out as well as hoped in 2019. Here are a few things I recommend considering when looking ahead and planning for 2020.

SCRUTINIZE INPUT DECISIONS Given the current commodity economics, you will undoubtedly evaluate, and likely question, nearly every input cost. The challenge is how to determine if an input cost will allow you to recoup the investment.

As we well know, especially after 2019, weather is a factor that plays a major role in the payback of nearly every input. It is for this reason that evaluating multi-year data is recommended, keeping in mind your own environment and management practices.

Here are some inputs to evaluate when making decisions this year: Q Seed treatments: Seed treatments have the potential to be of great benefit by assisting in crop emergence and stand establishment early in the season. When making seed treatment decisions, consider the threats present in each field. Then select the most useful and economical treatment, after carefully evaluating all options. Several types of seed treatments are available ranging from a basic single modeof-action fungicide to versions with multiple modes of action including fungicides, insecticides, nematicides, inoculants and growth regulators.

You may be able to make less expensive treatments without reducing yield potential based on crop history.

For example, if soybeans have been part of a crop rotation within the past three years, an inoculant may not be necessary. Or, planting a soybean variety with good tolerance to sudden death syndrome will preclude you from spending money on additional fungicide that will be less likely to pay for itself.

Q Foliar fungicides: Pay close attention to the disease rating of hybrids. If you plant a hybrid with weak disease scores, make sure to monitor and scout for signs for disease throughout the growing season and be prepared to make an economic judgment call about potential yield loss and standability issues in lieu of the cost of a foliar application.

Q Specialty additives: When scrutinizing the use of specialty additives, such as foliar feeding of nitrogen, micronutrients or nitrification inhibitors, evaluate the cost vs. the potential return from yield. The input cost evaluation calculation should include recommended rates, number of applications and application costs. It probably goes without saying, but make sure you are well versed on what the product is supposed to do, how exactly it works, and if there are any risks involved.

Q Herbicides: Exercise caution when considering cutting back on weed control programs. Of all the factors with the potential to adversely affect yield, weed control is the greatest. The cost of an effective herbicide program — regardless of weather conditions, weeds will grow every year — is the most likely

to pay big dividends come harvest time. If you’re looking to save money, you may want to consider making herbicide applications yourself versus spending Bell dollars for custom application. This, however, depends a great deal on whether you have application equipment capable of doing the job in the timing window necessary

for effective control.

Q Lower seed cost: Early order programs can result in significant savings on seed. If possible, make seed purchase decisions in time to qualify for discounts.

Investigate the possibility of bundling herbicide and seed to enroll in cost savings programs. Furthermore, look to value priced products that may still have good

versities have published bulletins outlining best practices and opportunities to collaborate, RESOLVE TO TRY and looking to those reSOMETHING NEW sources may be fitting for Whether you’re pro or some. con about New Year’s If you prefer to work on resolutions, consider reyour own, I recommend solving to try something focusing on a single varinew. A suggestion you able while keeping all else may want to consider is the same. For example, try to do your own on-farm a seeding rate trial where research trial. the only variable that If you collect planting changes across the field is and harvest data, you’re seeding rates. already halfway there.

Another simple test The next step is to set up a involves trying a new meaningful experiment Several land-grant uni- fungicide or seed treatyield potential on your farm.

ment. Such trials, especially when repeated year over year, can help you to make more informed input investment decisions for future years.

Here’s to a happy and prosperous New Year!

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REACTION

EPA finalizes 2020 RFS volumes 6PDOO UHŎQHU\ waiver issues VWLOO XQUHVROYHG

By Tom C. Doran AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its final rule for the 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard blending requirements that kept the door open for the continuation of Small Refinery Exemptions.

The key elements of today’s action are as follows: Q “Conventional” biofuel volumes, primarily met by corn ethanol, will be maintained at the 15-billion-gallon target set by Congress for 2020.

Q Cellulosic biofuel volumes for 2020, and thus advanced biofuel volumes, will increase by almost 170 million gallons over the 2019 standard.

Q Biomass-based diesel volumes for 2021 will be equivalent to the standard for 2020, still more than double the statutory requirement.

Q EPA will closely examine the labeling requirements for E15 fuel and move forward with clarifying regulations as needed.

Through this rule, EPA modified the RFS program by projecting small refinery relief to ensure that these final volumes are met, while adjudicating small refinery relief when appropriate.

As proposed, EPA finalized a projection methodology based on the 20162018 annual average of exempted volumes had EPA strictly followed the Department of Energy r e c om me nd a t ion s of 770 million Renewable Identification Numbers in those years, including granting 50% relief where DOE recommended 50% relief.

“This is our general approach to adjudicating Small Refinery Exemption petitions going forward, beginning with 2019 SRE petitions and including 2020 SRE petitions and beyond, we are committed to following the DOE recom mendat ion s. By proposing effectively 15.8 billion gallons for 2020 we will ensure meeting our target of 15 billion gallons,” EPA noted in a statement.

Biofuel industr y and farm organization representatives refuted EPA’s claims in the ruling and expressed disappointment that the final rule uses a three-year average of DOE-recommended waivers as an estimate for 2020 waivers rather than the average of actual gallons waived by the EPA through Small Refinery Exemptions.

Critics said the ruling is problematic because DOE’s projections for the volume of biofuels that will be exempted are often much lower than the actual SRE exemptions.

Between 2013 and 2015, EPA granted no more than eight small refinery waivers per year. The current administration retroactively approved 19 waivers for 2016, granted 35 waivers in 2017 and another 31 in 2018 — ultimately exempting more than 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel obligations over the past three years.

Before the current administration took office, EPA approved between 50% and 62% of the applications. Under this administration, EPA ap proved 95% of the exemptions requested in 2016 and 2017 and 74% of the petitions in 2018 — after prolonged pushback from key agriculture and biofuel industry stakeholders, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Here’s what others are saying about EPA’s final RFS volumes for 2020: “Through President Trump’s leadership, this administration continues to promote domestic ethanol and biodiesel production, supporting

our nation’s farmers and providing greater energy security. President Trump committed to our nation’s farmers that biofuel requirements would be expanded in 2020. At the EPA, we are delivering on that promise and ensuring a net of 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuel are blended into the nation’s fuel supply.”

Andrew Wheeler, administrator ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

“After EPA’s overwrought abuse of the SRE program in recent years, agency officials had a chance to finally make things right with this final rule — but they blew it.

EPA’s rule fails to deliver on President Trump’s commitment to restore integrity to the RFS, and it fails to provide the market certainty desperately needed by ethanol producers, farmers, and consumers looking for lower-cost, cleaner fuel options.

While the final rule is an improvement over the original proposal, it still does not guarantee that the law’s 15-billion-gallon conventional biofuel blending requirement will be fully enforced by EPA in 2020.”

Geoff Cooper, president and CEO RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION

“The EPA has ignored the request of corn farmers across America by issuing a final rule that does not reallocate actual waived ethanol gallons.

This is disappointing.

The final rule does offer a process for reallocating waived gallons that is better than previous years.

We continue to look to the administration to address the regulatory barriers to higher blends of ethanol that we assumed were included in President Trump’s promise to farmers but have yet to see articulated in any rulemaking process.”

Bill Leigh, president

“The EPA has ignored the request of corn farmers across America by issuing a final rule that does not reallocate actual waived ethanol gallons.”

stood this rulemaking would not make farmers and the ethanol industry ‘whole’ for the damage EPA has done by abusing the small refinery exemption provision of the RFS, we were led to believe the rule would represent a step in the right direction, an opportunity to account in a meaningful way for refinery waivers.”

Brian Jennings, CEO

Bill Leigh, president

AMERICAN COALITION FOR ETHANOL

ILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION

The rule uses an accounting formula based on Department of Energy recommendations, which EPA has a poor track record of following. All eyes will now be on EPA’s next round of refinery exemptions and future targets, which will signal whether Administrator Wheeler is truly committed to ending demand destruction.”

Emily Skor, CEO GROWTH ENERGY

“Illinois farmers expected more than what EPA managed to deliver in its final supplemental rule. More than 1,600 Farm Bureau members told the agency in person and in writing that maintaining the integrity of the RFS only occurs by replacing each and every gallon in the annual Renewable Volume Obligation that is waived for the benefit of small oil refiners. The EPA seems to be missing a real opportunity to rebuild trust with farmers and the biofuels industry.”

Richard Guebert Jr., president

“Over the course of the past few months, we’ve gone from promises of a ‘giant package’ to the re- ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU ality of a lump of coal. To say we are disappointed Tom C. Doran can be is an understatement. reached at 815-780-7894 While it was well under-

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“Family farmers are sick and tired of this biofuels bait and switch.

Long before he was elected, President Trump promised to support the American ethanol industry, yet his EPA has done nothing but undermine its success. By indiscriminately granting so-called ‘hardship exemptions’ to multi-billion-dollar oil corporations, this administration has cost hardworking family farmers billions of dollars in lost sales, eliminated thousands of jobs, and slowed economic growth in rural communities across the country.”

Rob Larew, vice president of public policy and communications

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NOKOMIS EXCAVATING & TRUCKING, INC.

NOKOMIS, IL 62075 • 217-563-7267 - INSURED -

Forklift Sales • Service • Rental

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NATIONAL FARMERS UNION

“Integrity is restored to the RFS only if the agency accurately accounts for exemptions it will grant.

Bus. (309) 263-8059 Cell (309) 256-1933 Mike Cell (309) 208-7840 Chad

Shop Address 937 Detroit Ave. Morton, IL 61550 mike@unzickerequipment.com chad@unzickerequipment.com

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AUCTIONS

Auction Calendar Fri., Jan. 3

JERSEYVILLE, ILL.: 129 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 10 a.m., Glenda Jane Baker, Worrell Land Services, LLC, 217245-1618.

WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OHIO: Farm Equipment, 10:30 a.m., Jeff & Marie Fetters, The Wendt Group, 614-626-7653.

KEWANEE, ILL.: Special Cattle Sale, 12 p.m., Kewanee Sale Barn, Inc., 309-314-0187.

Sat., Jan. 4

GREENVIEW, ILL.: Farm Equipment Closeout, 9:30 a.m., David & Susie Evers, Ron Sanert Auction Service, 217-9687075.

FANCY FARM, KY.: Estate Auction, 10 a.m., McFarland Farms, James R. Cash, 270623-8466.

MONTICELLO, WIS.: Hay & Bedding Auction, 11 a.m., Jeff “Alfalfa” Malkow Estate, B&M Auctions

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JANUARY 3, 2020 | B1 of WI, LLC/Bidlingmaier Realty, LLC, 608-328-4878.

Sun., Jan. 5

SANDWICH, ILL.: Building Materials & Tools, 8 a.m., Gavin Auction Company, 815-509-8018.

Mon., Jan. 6

SIKESTON, MO.: Farm Machinery, 9:30 a.m., DeWitt Auction Company, Inc., 800-533-9488.

Wed., Jan. 8

COLCHESTER, ILL.: 98 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 10 a.m., The Kay Kennedy Farm,

Lowderman Auction & Real Estate, 309-833-5543.

WALTON, IND.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Jump Farms, Inc., Craft & Michael Auctioneers, Inc., 574-3618898.

Thurs., Jan. 9

ARCOLA, ILL.: Winter Pickers Auction, 9 a.m., Tri County Auction Co. LLC, 217-2683444. See p. B2 PALMER, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Weber Farms, Larry & Debbie Weber, Curvey Auction Service, 217824-4996. See p. B2 LANDANDHOMESALES.COM: Online Only Mount Auburn Farm Auction, 20 Acres, bidding ends at 7 p.m., United Country Land & Home Sales & Auction, 217825-7527. See p. B2

Fri., Jan. 10

BUTLER, IND.: Farm Tractors & Hay Equipment, 10 a.m.

EST, J&S Farms, Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440.

WILMINGTON, OHIO: Farm Equipment, 10:30 a.m., K&C Farms, The Wendt Group, 614-626-7653.

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± 150 Acres Thursday, January 23 • 6pm (EST) | Pulaski County • Winamac, IN

• 13± Miles SW of Winamac, IN • 8± Miles SE of Francesville, IN • Irrigated Farm • Quality Land AUCTION LOCATION: Knights of Columbus Hall • 340 E 50 N, Winamac, IN. From the intersection of SR 14 & US 35, take US 35 approximately ½ mile north to CR 50 N (Alliance Bank), turn & go east approximately ½ mile east to Knights of Columbus Hall.

PROPERTY LOCATION: From the intersection of SR 39 & SR 14, take SR 14 2 miles east to CR 700W, then take CR 700W 6 miles south. The property is on the SE corner of 700W & 600S. TRACT INFO: 150± ACRE tract of land with 135.7 tillable acres & 8.1 acres in CRP program. This tract has quality soils, A Valley 3 Tower towable center pivot, JD power unit (4906 hrs.) generator & 2017 Berkley 25 hp, 3” electric pump. This tract has frontage on CR 700W, 600S & 650 S. RE Taxes (2018 - Pay 2019): $1,671.26/yr.

Other (Ditch): $205.76/yr.

INSPECTION DATE: Wed., Jan. 8 • 3-5pm (EST) or call Jim for a private showing.

OWNERS: Doug & Cheryl Podell | SALE MANAGERS: Jim Hayworth • 888.808.8680 or 765.427.1913 & Jimmy Hayworth • 219.869.0329 AC63001504, AU08700434, AU11300081

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15 – 63± ACRES IN 3 TRACTS. Randolph County, IN. Quality Farmland with Good Road Frontage • Available for 2020 Crop Rights • Great Income Producing Farm • Beautiful Country-Style Homesites • Just outside of Farmland along SR 32. Contact Mark Smithson 765-744-1846.

22 – 70 ACRES IN 2 TRACTS. Whitley County (Columbia City, IN). Contact Ritter Cox 260-609-3306.

23 – 150 ACRES IN 1 TRACT. Pulaski County (Winamac, IN). Contact Jim Hayworth 765-427-1913 or Jimmy Hayworth 219-869-0329.

27 – 69.5 ACRES IN 3 TRACTS. Allen County (Hoagland, IN). Contact Jared Sipe 260-750-1553.

30 – 170 ACRES IN 5 TRACTS. Henry County (New Castle, IN). Contact Andy Walther 765-969-0401.

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5 - 28± ACRES IN 16 TRACTS. Elkhart County (Nappanee, IN). Historic Amish Acres • Round Barn Theatre • Large Restaurant • Kitchens and Bakery.

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CASS COUNTY, IN 82.78 ACRES WITH 82.24 ACRES CROPLAND This tract has excellent soils and frontage on CR 325 South. Call Jim Hayworth at 1-888-8088680 or 1-765-427-1913 or Jimmy Hayworth at 1-219869-0329. (JH41C) NE WHITE COUNTY, IN - 2 GRAIN FARMS These farms have quality soils and high percentage of tillable land. These farms have excellent road frontage. Call Jim Hayworth at 1-888-808-8680 or 1-765-427-1913 or Jimmy Hayworth at 1-219-869-0329.

(JH42WH) LAKE COUNTY, IN. 147.5± ACRES with 71.6 cropland acres of which 31.4 acres in CRP. Call Matt Wiseman 219-689-4373. (MWW12L) JASPER COUNTY, IN 160± ACRES WITH 143± ACRES CROPLAND and 14± acres of woods. 9± miles northeast of Rensselaer. Call Jim Hayworth 765-4271913 or Matt Wiseman 219-689-4373. (JH/MWW05J) MANY OTHER LISTINGS AVAILABLE

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WARREN COUNTY, ILLINOIS

LAND

AUCTION

)5,'$< -$18$5< Ä&#x192; $ 0 Auction Venue: Roseville Community Center, 265 West Penn Ave., Roseville, IL 61473

83.67 ACRES (M/L) 1 TRACT PRIME CROPLAND - POINT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP The German Farm consists of 83.67 surveyed acres located 5 miles south of Roseville, IL on Route 67 to 20th Ave., 4 miles west to 20th St. then one-half mile south or 6.5 miles north of Sciota, IL in the South Half of the NW Quarter of Section 28, Pt. Pleasant Township (T.8N.-R.3W.), Warren County, IL. The farm is 100% tillable and features Sable, Muscatune and Osco silt loam soils with a PI rating of 144! This auction offers an outstanding opportunity to farm operators and investors interested in acquiring top quality Western Illinois farmland!

View the full listing online @ www.vanadkisson.com and www.biddersandbuyers.com

MARY JOAN GERMAN TRUST

Roger A. German, Trustee Attorney: Jeff W. DeJoode â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Macomb, IL 61455 (309) 837-2904

PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday January 11, 2020 9:30 AM (No Small Items)

1458 Troy-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Fallon Rd, Troy IL

Full listing & photos at auctionzip.com/#9549

Everything is clean and in excellent shape.

Case IH 9330, Powershift 12 spd., 2800 hrs; Case IH Magnum 395, FWA, Pre Deff 2364 hrs; Case IH 2388 Combine, 4WD, Pre Deff, Sep hrs 1931; Case IH 3206 Corn Head, 6-30â&#x20AC;?; Case IH 1020 Grain Table 22½â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; 2 EZ Trail Head Movers; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;94 GMC White Semi, 9 spd N-14 Cummins, 336,532 miles; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jet Hopper Dump Trailer; 340 - 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Disk Rolling Baskets; 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 28½â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Field Cultivator Harrow & Baskets; New â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17 White MF 9200 planter, 12-30â&#x20AC;?; DMI 2500 7 shank ripper; Unverferth 2750 Seed Tender; Hyd Grain Dryer & Grain Bins; DMI 13 shank anhydrous applicator; JM 750 Grain Cart; 4 Augers; Full Line of Equipment.

Alan & Sandy Poletti 618-791-5612

Rutz Auction Service

Dave Rutz ~ Highland IL 618-644-5877 â&#x20AC;˘ IL Lic #40000368

Farm Land Auction +/- 74.4 Acres Offered in 2 Tracts, DeWitt County, IL Thursday, January 23rd, 11am Auction Site: Crang-Bennett American Legion Post 103, 219 N. Elizabeth Street, Clinton, Illinois 61727 Part of section 35, T20N-R2E, Clintonia TWP. Farm is located on the southeast side of Clinton, IL along IL RT-10. Excellent frontage on IL-10 E/500 N. and Jemima Rd, CR 640N. Open Farm Tenancy Productive Soils Development Potential Tracts are located within the Illinois Department of Commerce Economic Opportunity Zone.

T1: +/- 15.4 Acres +/- 13.40 Tillable Acres, 136.9 PI. T2: +/- 59 Acres +/- 55.59 Tillable Acres, 138.4 PI 5 grain bins, 3,500 bushel each.

Contact Stephanie Spiros 217.304.0404 stephanie@agexchange.com Auctioneer Travis Selby IL Lic.# 441001485 www.agexchange.com

Thursday, January 23, 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00 a.m.

1020 700th Street, Elkhart, IL 62634 (Located 5 miles east of Elkhart, IL) Rick Harbarger has decided to retire from farming and sell the below listed farm equipment on the farmstead located 5 miles east of Elkhart, IL where his family has worked for over 60 years.

DIRECTIONS: Travel east of Elkhart, IL on Cunty Road 700 (Elkhart-Mt. Pulaski Blacktop) 4 miles; follow the signs.

COMBINE & HEADS: 2008 JD 9670 Combine, 96705926837, 2200/1700 hrs, 18.4-38â&#x20AC;? duals; JD 625F Platform, S# H00625F730790; JD 893 Corn Head, S# 893X720382; EZ Trail HT 25 Head Transport; EZ Trail 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Head Transport; TRACTORS: JD 4955 MFWD Tractor, S# 4955P007886, 6700 hrs., power shift trans., 18.4-46â&#x20AC;? duals, 3 outlets; 1983 JD 4850 Tractor, S# RW4850P006236, 2 wheel drive, 3 outlets, power beyond, 18.4-42â&#x20AC;? duals, power shift transmission; JD 4640 Tractor, S# 4640M105830R, 2 wheel drive, 3 outlets, 8.4-42â&#x20AC;? duals, quad range transmission, selling with 280 loader; JD 4010 Tractor, S# 21T36884, no cab, wide front, diesel, 1 outlet; 1956 Farmall 400 Tractor, S#, narrow front; 1956 Minneapolis UB Special, S#09106002, wide front standard drawbar; 1948 Ferguson TE 20 Gas Tractor, needs work; TRUCK & TRAILER: 1992 White Aero WCA Semi Tractor VIN#4V1VDBCF4NN652279340,000 mile, Eaton 9 spd trans., new Jost 5th wheel plate, ; 1994, 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Jet Grain Trailer VIN# 1J9G30209RH009351; 2001 Double L Utility Trailer VIN#482UU18291A016347; WAGONS & GRAIN CART: Demco 850 Grain Cart, 30.5-32â&#x20AC;? tires; roll over tarp; 150 bu. gravity flow wagon, 10 ton gear w/ hydraulic seed auger; PLANTER & SEED CART: JD 1770NTXP 16-30â&#x20AC;? Planter, S#1770N710113, pneumatic down pressure, Keyton seed firmers, Yetter combo units, box extensions, Travis HCS 2200 Seed Tender, 3 season old, Honda engine, scales; TILLAGE: JD 726 Soil Finisher, N00726x007164, 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; knock off sweeps, 5 bar spike harrow; JD 1710A disk chisel, 11â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; 26â&#x20AC;&#x2122; hydraulic fold Harrowgator; JD 5-16â&#x20AC;? plow; JD 8-30 â&#x20AC;&#x153; row crop cultivator; MOWERS: JD HX 15 Batwing mower, 8 tires, chains; AUGERS: Mayrath 10â&#x20AC;?x61â&#x20AC;&#x2122; swing away auger; MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT: Rhino 1400, 3 point, 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; blade; Meteer Down Corn Reel; JD side rail weights; 1,000 gallon fuel tank; Pallet forks for 280 loader; extra bucket w/280 brackets;

Rick & Vickie Harbarger, Owners (217) 737-0375

Mike Maske Auction Service 119 S. Lafayette St., Mt. Pulaski, Il 62548 (217) 519-3959 website: maskeauction.com email: www.maskeauction@hotmail.com TERMS: Cash, credit card or approved check payable on the day of the auction. Registration videotaped and a valid photo ID is required to obtain a buyers number. Announcements sale day take precedence over printed material. Not responsible for accidents or property after sold. The hours listed on print advertising might be different from actual hours on sale day because of the timing of advertising. All efforts will be made to update internet websites. All purchased items must be removed from the sale site within 3 week from the day of the Auctions. Information and pictures for this auction can be seen on: maskeauction.com LOADER TRACTOR AVAILABLE ONE WEEK AFTER THE AUCTION

TRI-COUNTY WINTER PICKERS AUCTION January 9, 2020 - 9 am at Tri-County Auctions - 650 E. CR 400 N. - Arcola, IL 2 mi. N. of Arcola on Rt. 45 and 2.5 mi. W. on Rd. 400 N.

9:00 a.m. - Furniture Other booths to follow We have a very good selection of primitives &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Collectibles.

Barn Fresh Finds; Seed &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Feed Bags; Advertising Signs; Oil Cans; Wooden Advertising Boxes; Advertising Tins; Wooden Barrels; Galvanized Buckets &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Tubs; Graniteware; Cast iron Skillets (Griswold, Wagner, Lodge); Crocks; Oil Bottles; Butter Churns; Keen Cutter; Some good primitive furniture; More still being consigned!

Visit auctionzip.com #14498 for more pictures.

TRI COUNTY AUCTION CO. LLC 650 E. CR 400 N. â&#x20AC;˘ Arcola, IL 61910 Sale Mgr: Vernon J. Yoder 217-268-3444 Visa / Master Card / Discover Card accepted

Boughan Retirement FARM AUCTION Saturday, January 11, 2020 @ 10:00 a.m. Central

Oblong, IL (10 mi. southwest of Robinson) Sellers: Keith and Denise Boughan. Due to health reasons, we will sell the following @ PUBLIC AUCTION. LOCATION: 4837 E. 325th Ave, Oblong, IL 62449.

DIRECTIONS: from the west side of Robinson & Hwy 33, go west approx. 3 mi. to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stoyâ&#x20AC;? Rd., turn south for 3 ½ mi. to CR 700 N, turn west for Âź mi. to CR 575 E, turn south for approx. 3 ½ mi. to CR 325 N, turn west & proceed 1 mi.

Very little misc.; sale will last approx. 2 hrs.

For complete listing and 100â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of photos, visit bostoncentury.com Online bidding will be available at bostoncentury.hibid.com on select items.

RO-GATOR: 1997 Ag-Chem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ro-Gatorâ&#x20AC;? 554, 4x4 w/60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;/80â&#x20AC;&#x2122; boom, new 660-gal. stainless tank, 20â&#x20AC;? spacing, 3-way air induction nozzles, Raven 660, 5.9L â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cumminsâ&#x20AC;?, Hydro drive, heat, A/C, light bar, & F.S. 320/85R38 radials (local 2-owner, always farmer owned, nice, 2965-hrs, SN 5501997, comes w/fenders); (4) 24.5x32 floater tires & wheels; TRACTORS: 1981 Versatile 895 w/CAH, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barebackâ&#x20AC;?, (4) SCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 12/4 trans, and great! F.S. 20.8R38 radial duals, 855 Cummins (thought to be 5500 hrs, over 300 hp); 1979 Versatile 875 w/CAH, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barebackâ&#x20AC;?, (4) SCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 12/4 trans, and near new inside F.S. 20.8R38â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, outside are Super All-Traction F.S. (NOTE: Set up like 895 w/intercooler, been O/H, 6675 hrs, over 300 hp); 1988 White 185 MFWD, CAH, 18/6 trans, 3-pt, lg. 1000 PTO, (3) SCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, (11) front weights, F.S. 18.4-42 radial duals, 16.9R28 front, Cummins (188 PTO hp, 5393 hrs); 1980 White 2-180, CAH, 18/6 trans, 3-pt, lg 1000 PTO, (2) SCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, (11) front weights, F.S. 20.8-38 radial duals, 3208 CAT (182 PTO hp, 6792 hrs); Oliver 1650 gas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Survivorâ&#x20AC;? w/ wide front, 3-pt, 540, front weights, (2) SCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, & F.S. 16.934â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (5318 hrs); COMBINES, HEADS, and CARRIERS: CIH 2388, 4x4 w/â&#x20AC;&#x153;AFXâ&#x20AC;?, chopper, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Field Trackerâ&#x20AC;?, (2) spreaders, bin ext, Ag-Leader PF3000, F.S. 20.8-38 radial duals, & more (2808/3984 hrs, SN JJC0198434); CIH 1020, 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; w/3â&#x20AC;? cut; CIH 1083, 8R30 C.H. w/hyd. deck plates; UF HT30 carrier; EZ-Trail 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; carrier; JD 6R C.H. carrier; 1982 MF 850 Diesel/ Hydro 4x4 w/chopper, spreader, 24.5-32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Perkins eng. & newer style â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mud Hogâ&#x20AC;? (4332 hrs) sells w/MF 1859, 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; platform; (2) MF 1163-6R30 and (1) 1143-4R30 C.H.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; (2) F.S. 68x50.00-32 combine floater tires & wheels w/deep tread (low usage); GRAIN HANDLING: Brent 782 grain cart, lg 1000, 18â&#x20AC;? frt. corner auger, hyd. spout, xlnt F.S. 30.5-32 radials, tarp (new in 2012, red, very low usage, sharp); 2018 Hutchinson 62â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x10â&#x20AC;? swing away, pto transport auger w/ hyd. lift (xlnt, 16k bu. of use); (4) DMI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Littleâ&#x20AC;? side dump gravity wagons w/tarps, & 16.5L16.1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; KB 165-bu. seed wagon w/14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; hyd. auger; EZ-Trail 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; hyd. wagon auger w/ elec. shutoff (low usage); 1977 Drake tandem dual wheel GN grain trailer w/18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; M.W. steel bed and floor, hoist, 52â&#x20AC;? sides, tarp (w/title); PLANTERS: 2007 Kinze 3650, 16/31, split-row, no-till w/liq. pop-up fert, Keeton seed firmers, (1) spike & (1) rubber closing wheel, markers, KPM II, (16) Precision corn meters, & (31) lg. Kinze bean plates (only 21k total acres, very nice, SN 655911); John Deere 7240 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Max Emerge 2â&#x20AC;?, 8/15 split-row, no-till, pull-type w/3-bu. boxes, 200 monitor, radar, & (15) bean plates (w/(15) near new spider closing wheels); TILLAGE: outstanding Krause 7300, 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x8â&#x20AC;? finish disk w/rear hitch & hyds (2000 acres of use); Kongskilde â&#x20AC;&#x153;Res-Tillâ&#x20AC;? 3500, 31½â&#x20AC;&#x2122; S-Tine field cult w/dble rolling baskets (nice); IH 415, 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; flat-fold cultimulcher; PM 24â&#x20AC;&#x2122; cultimulcher; JD 712, 23â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x16-sh. disk/chisel; (2) UF 1225 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rolling Harrowâ&#x20AC;? crumblers w/bridge hitch ((1) 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; & (1) 37½â&#x20AC;&#x2122;); DMI 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; crumbler w/bridge hitch; JD 230-29â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waffleâ&#x20AC;? disk w/rear hitch & hyds; Clark 9/11-sh., 3-pt NH3 appl. w/Raven 440 monitor; JD 400-20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 3-pt hoe; JD 36024â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x9â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;swing aroundâ&#x20AC;? disk; IH 490, 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x9â&#x20AC;? disk; MF 880, 6-bott. s.m. plow; A.C. 8R30 danish-tine cult.; 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, hyd.-fold harrow-gator; JD 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 11-sh. disk/chisel; IH #55, 13-sh. p.t. chisel; IH 45, 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; field cult.; IH 12R & 6R danish-tine cults; SPECIALTY: 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide pull-type land levelor; Hurricane pulltype 36â&#x20AC;?, sm. 1000 ditcher; Amco AD10-18, 1000 PTO, 3-pt ditcher (very low usage); Eversman 2SD, 2-yd dirt pan; Clark LP 2-stage forklift w/hard tires; TRUCKS: 1996 Ford F350, XLT, crew cab, 4x4 dually w/9â&#x20AC;&#x2122; service bed, 460 V-8, auto, power equip. (NOTE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rebuiltâ&#x20AC;? title, only 67k, looks & runs good, white); 1975 Chev C60 S.A. w/10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; steel flatbed, semi 5th wheel hitch, 366 V-8, 4 & 2-spd, & PTO (90k); 1977 Chev 30, 1-T w/9â&#x20AC;&#x2122; flatbed, 350, 4-spd; 1997 Ford F150 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lariatâ&#x20AC;? ext. cab, 2WD pickup (rebuilt title, not running, 128k); GRAIN TRUCKS: 1979 Chev C70, 10-wh, twin screw w/18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; alum. Midwest bed, 60â&#x20AC;? sides, cargo doors, hoist, tarp, 427, 5 & 2-spd (127k); 1977 IH 1800, 10-wh, twin screw w/18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; M.W. steel bed, 52â&#x20AC;? sides, hoist, tarp, great! F.S. 10:00x20 rubber, 446 V-8, 5/4 trans; 1973 Chev C65 S.A. w/15â&#x20AC;&#x2122; M.W. bed and hoist, 366 V-8, 5 & 2-spd (91k); EQUIPMENT: 3-pt to pull-type equip. dolly adapter; Snyder ATV 42â&#x20AC;&#x2122; boom sprayer; 1500 & 1700-gal. poly fert. tanks; Hahn 340-gal s.s. p.t. 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; boom sprayer; 3000-gal., glass lined, steel water tank; Weatherhead hyd. hose machine & fittings; Honda 5.5hp transfer pump; Jasper â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remanâ&#x20AC;? 5 & 2-spd trans for GM. TERMS: All items sold As-Is. For questions regarding equipment, contact Keith Boughan @ (618) 562-7895

FARMLAND AUCTION Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:30 AM Sale to be held at: CedarStone â&#x20AC;˘ 610 South Division Ave â&#x20AC;˘ Polo, IL 61064 90 Acres +/- ONE PARCEL: 90 Acres +/- in Section 28 of Pine Creek Township in Ogle County, IL. For complete listing of sale bill, maps, tax info, and terms & conditions, etc. visit www.lennybrysonauctioneer.com For Information Contact: Lenny Bryson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Auctioneer â&#x20AC;˘ 11749 West Judson Road Polo, IL 61064 â&#x20AC;˘ Ph) 815-946-4120 Owner, Stan Weber â&#x20AC;˘ Attorney, Tom Suits

*** FARM EQUIPMENT *** RETIREMENT AUCTION - NEWARK, IL Saturday, January 11, 2020 @ 10:00 AM Location: 11408 Newark Rd, Newark, IL 60541 Equipment has been used on 350 acres/year since 2000.

2012 Case IH Magnum 210 Tractor, MFWD, 1378 Hrs, Cab, 210 hp; 2005 Case IH MXM120 Tractor, MFWD, 1371 Hrs, Cab, 122 hp; Kubota MX5000 Utility Tractor, 4WD, 720 Hrs, 50 hp, Woods 7500 Backhoe; 1995 Case IH 2144 Combine, 3191/2228 Hrs, New AFX Rotor; Case IH 1020 Platform, 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Case IH 2206 Corn Head, 6row 30â&#x20AC;?; Kinze 3000 Planter, 6/12-row 15/30â&#x20AC;?, No-Till Coulters & Insect Boxes; McFarlane RD4020RB 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Reel Disc, 18â&#x20AC;? Blades, 3bar drag, roll bskt; M&W Earthmaster 1160 5-Shank Disc Ripper; IH 315 Cultimulcher; Ficklin CA13000 Grain Cart, 550 bu, new front auger, camera, roll tarp; Brent 544 Wagon; Killbros 350 Wagon, w/14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; auger; M&W 375 Wagon; Killbros 350 Wagon; Brent 250 Wagon; Sure-Trac 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hydraulic Dump Trailer, Tandem-Axle; Sure-Trac 8-1/2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Deckover Trailer; Many Misc Items including (15) IH Front Weights; McKee 1101 Snow Blower, 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 3-pt; 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Snow Blade; 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Box Scraper; Woods 72 Rotary Mower; Woods 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blade; Misc Shop Items; 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hay Elevator; Antique Heider Wood Barge Box; Oxy-Acet. Torch Set; EZ-SteerÂŽ Assisted Steering System, 4-yrs old.

See website for Flyer, Terms, Owner: Art Hiller over 125 Photos and more info.

Auction conducted by Richard A. Olson & Assoc.

Morris, IL - 815-942-4266

Call Art for Info (815) 922-7649

www.richardaolson.com

FARM EQUIPMENT RETIREMENT AUCTION January 9, 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00 am 733 N. 965 E. Rd., Palmer, IL 62556

TRACTORS: 2010 John Deere 8295R front wheel assist, 2002 hours S/N 1RW8295RJAP009709; Rear 480/80R50 Fronts 380/80R38 No DPFâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;DEF; 2005 John Deere 9420, 4328 hours S/N RW9420P032158 710/70R42 Bareback; 1992 John Deere 8560, 7792 hours S/N RW8560H003135 480/80R38 PTO with 3-pt hitch; 1991 John Deere 2555 with 146 loader 7077 hours S/N L02555A721345; 1977 CASE skid steer 1816B, updated motor, 1802 hours COMBINE: 2011 John Deere 9770 STS Combine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2414 hours engine, 1772 machine hours; S/N 1H09770SB0741836, extended wear annual Sloan inspection; 2005 John Deere 893 corn head, 8 row; 2011 John Deere 630 grain platform; Unverferth 630 Road Runner grain head trailer, 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; TRUCKS: 2008 Pro Star International ISX Cummins deleted Automatic Wet Kit 588,031 miles; 2000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; C7500 Chevy Tandem with Kann 20 ft bed, air tag on back, 112,500 miles with 10 speed; Eaton Caterpillar motor; 1978 Chevy C65 grain truck with 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; bed; 1981 Shien 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; dump trailer, no liner EQUIPMENT: 2004 Kinze 3600 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 16-31 split row planter bean & corn units; 2010 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Harrow for rear of disk; 2004 John Deere 980 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; C-shank field cultivator with 3 Bar Harrow and Basket, new shovels; John Deere 980 29â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Danish tine field cultivator with Remlinger Harrow; 2010 John Deere 512 disk chisel, 7 shank; 2008 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; J&M 1000 grain cart, with tarp; 2009 Westfield PTO 10-31 auger; 2009 Westfield low pro swing away auger 10-71; 2002 GSI low pro swing away auger 10-71; 2010 New Holland H6750 S/N YAN078390 disk mower; 2615 Bush Hog â&#x20AC;&#x153;Legendâ&#x20AC;? bat wing mower; John Deere 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; rotary hoe end transport; M&W 400 bu split compartment wagon; M&W 400 bu split compartment with seed auger and roll tarp; 1994 CASE IH 1250 feed grinder with scales; Kewanee culti-packer 20 ft folding; Fair snow blower 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 1000 rpm small PTO; 1997 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; goose neck Boss livestock trailer; 2005 Mateer corn reel, 8 row; Homemade 6 row corn reel; 1000 gallon liquid manure spreader with injection knives; Win Power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PTO generator 25 KVA 540 rpm; 2004 EPX 2305 airless paint sprayer; Weber weeder with Honda motor; 2012 John Deere 2600 Green Star Monitor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Auto Track Activation, John Deere Starfire 3000; John Deere ATU 200 universal steering wheel; John Deere 85 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 row folding cultivator with shields; 6â&#x20AC;? auger on wheels; 2008 CASE disk 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 7â&#x20AC;? spacing disk Auctioneerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Every machine has amount of quarts of oil and type of oil written down on side of block, every filter is changed yearly. All equipment is kept inside and maintained very well. The combine has extended wear package and has been inspected every year after harvest by Sloans. There will be several rack wagons of items that have not yet been inventoried.

For on-line bidding go to www.curveyauction.hibid.com.

Online bidding starts December 26, 2019.

Seller: Weber Farms â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Larry and Debbie Weber

Curvey Auction Service 611 Springfield Rd., Taylorville, IL â&#x20AC;˘ 217-824-4996 All announcements made day of the sale take precedence over all printed advertisement.

Bernard Curvey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; License # 440.000247 Joe Curvey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; License # 440.000900 For full listing and color photos go to www.auctionzip.com

Boston Auctions (812) 382-4440 Lic# AU01027041

No-Reserve Farm Auction Retirement of Ken Fornoff

Mount Auburn Farm, Christian County Online Only Auction Bidding Ends January 9th 7:00pm Bid Now at LandandHomeSales.com

This 20 acre farm is located approximately 2.3 miles West of Mount Auburn Illinois and 8 miles straight south of Illiopolis Illinois on County Rd 1350 East. The farm is approximately 19 tillable acres with a productivity index of 131.1.

Call Chad Michel at 217-827-0960 or Brad Graham (Managing Broker and Auctioneer) at 217-825-7527 for more information.

Visit LandandHomeSales.com to view more information and to Bid!

Combines â&#x20AC;˘ Tractors â&#x20AC;˘ Trucks â&#x20AC;˘ Planters â&#x20AC;˘ Drills Exceptional line of John Deere farm equipment 5534 Spring Lake Rd., Manito, IL 61546 2 miles north of Manito on Manito Blacktop then 2 miles west on Spring Lake Rd.

Fri. Jan. 31, 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00 am

Tractors & Online bidding begin at 12:00 CST Palmer Auction Service & Shelabarger Auction Co. 309-253-2128 309-241-2306 Online bidding provided by: For a complete auction listing and photos visit www.palmerauctionservice.com

www.agrinews-pubs.com | ILLINOIS AGRINEWS | Friday, January 3, 2020

B3

Lifestyle ANTIQUES & COLLECTING

KITCHEN DIVA

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

Forgeries abound in glassware

Turmeric for arthritis pain

By Dr. Keith Roach

By Terry and Kim Kovel

It is very difficult to identify early blown glassware from the 18th century because talented modern glass blowers can make good copies in the earlier styles and colors.

Today, chemical analysis of the glass, along with other modern methods, can identify the source of the sand, or silica, used in glass. This led to the discovery that many museums had 1930s Mexican copies.

If you are lucky enough to find a piece of early American blown glass, look at the shape and clarity of the glass, ask about the history and look for scratches and other marks that indicate wear. Then get a bill of sale that describes the piece and includes the probable age and history.

Also, be sure there is a money-back guarantee if the piece turns out to be a fake. Most auctions do this, but online sales of unknown dealers or galleries can be dangerous, especially when you are buying old glass.

A bright cobalt blue-blown covered sugar bowl was sold at a Norman C. Heckler & Co. auction for $2,340. It is 6 3/4 inches high and 4 3/4 inches in diameter. Of course, it has a scar from the pontil rod.

The finial on the lid is shaped like an acorn, but the best clue to its age is the engraving “A.G. 1780” on the glass and the knowledge that it has been in a famous glass collection for many years. Experts think it was made in the Pittsburgh area.

New Year, new you

By Angela Shelf Medearis

This year, instead of trying yet another diet, resolve to This is the time of year when make a positive change for many people start diets. But good health. Focus on taking after a few weeks of not getone step at a time, as changing ting enough to eat or eating behavior and attitudes is diffifood that does not taste good, cult and takes time. most dieters give up, having Here are some great tips “failed” once again. The truth from Linda Rellergert, regional is, though, it is the diets that nutrition specialist at St. are the failures, not the people Charles County University of who try them.

Missouri Extension: Instead of improving health, Accept that there is no ideal dieting is often harmful and body size, shape or weight. counterproductive. Health staPeople come in a variety of tistics show that only 5% to 10% sizes and shapes, and all can of those who diet and are able to benefit from a healthy lifestyle. lose weight are able to maintain Research conducted by that weight loss for more than a Steven Blair, director of reshort time. Most dieters quickly search at the Cooper Institute regain the lost pounds — plus a for Aerobics Research in few extra — and end up heavier Dallas, has shown that people than they started. can be both fit and fluffy.

Diets promote unhealthy eatHe notes: “There will always ing habits, often by eliminating be tall, skinny people and nutritious foods. Dieters are short, stocky people. That’s out encouraged to ignore internal of our control. What we can body signals of hunger and do is exercise regularly, follow fullness. good health practices and live Eventually, the ability to life to the fullest.” respond appropriately to these Make physical activity a part normal physiological processes of every day. Benefits include is lost. Chronically hungry reduction in blood cholesterol people become obsessed with and lipids, lower blood presfood and are likely to overeat sure and relief from stress. when an opportunity to do so Find activities that are fun presents itself. and enjoyable and that fit into

Basic Muffin Mix INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 large egg 1/4 cup maple syrup or honey 1 cup milk any kind 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

variations of this recipe: 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen and 1/4 cup sliced almonds or; 1/2 cup natural peanut butter or nut butter, or; 1/4 cup cocoa powder and 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips, or; 1/4 cup chia seeds, 1/4 cup shelled pumpkin seeds, 1/4 cup shelled sunflower seeds, 2 tablespoons ground flax and 1/4 cup chopped, toasted almonds.

You can prepare the basic mix or add the following ingredients to the recipe to create four

PROCEDURE Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Line a muffin tray with silicone

Servings: 6 to 8 muffins

This piece of blown blue glass made in 1780 in Pittsburgh is a rarity that sold for $2,340. But be careful when buying antique glass; many fakes were made in the 1930s and may still fool buyers.

I have a Carlton Ware walking teapot, four cups and sugar bowl with Hawaiian decoration. What are they worth?

Walking Ware tea sets are creamy rounded earthenware pieces mounted on quirky legs.

They were designed in 1974 by husband-and-wife team Roger Michell (1947-2018) and Danka Napiorkowska (b. 1946) and made in their English studio called Lustre Pottery.

Pieces were handmade

by Roger, then decorated by Danka. Later, Walking Ware was also made by Carlton Ware, a Stokeon-Trent pottery factory started in 1896.

After a trip to the island of St. Lucia, the couple designed the Caribbean Series in 1978 with a tropical theme decoration in light blue, green and yellow.

The legs are wearing white socks with a blue band and yellow shoes. Pieces were made

by Lustre Pottery and also by Carlton Ware until they closed in 1986.

Limited-edition items were made in the 2000s. Plain Walking Ware pieces sell from $10 for an egg cup to about $50 for a teapot. Caribbean-decorated pieces sell for about twice that.

CURRENT PRICES Mary Gregory jug, cobalt blue, child holds out arms, tree, 1900, 7 inches, $45.

Gouda vase, stick, flowers, leaves, curlicues, multicolor, signed Zuid Holland gouda, 1905, 15 x 6 inches, $115.

Lithophanes, panel, Jesus, cross, cut glass border, red, blue, green, KPM, 11 inches, $190.

Chanel purse, leather, caviar, tote, quilted, stitched logo, medallion, goldtone hardware, 9 x 12 inches, $780. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

daily routines. Walking, skating, dancing, bowling, gardening or playing with the kids are excellent ways to get physical.

Get more sleep. Most of us get seven or fewer hours of sleep rather than the eight hours a night recommended by the National Sleep Foundation.

This may seem like just a small deficit, but the effects are cumulative. Chronic sleep deprivation contributes to stress and tension, accidents in the home, workplace and on the road, and can cause difficulty in coping with the little everyday annoyances of life.

Adopt normal eating patterns.

Normal eating means regular meals and one or two snacks a day to satisfy physical hunger.

Healthful food choices provide variety, moderation and balanced nutrition.

Respect the body’s signals of hunger and fullness by eating when hungry and stopping when satisfied. Normal eating also means eating more on some days and less on others and trusting that it will balance out over time. Finally, find nonfood ways to cope with stress. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. or parchment liners, or spray generously with spray oil.

In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together for preferred recipe.

Spoon in or use a cookie scoop to place into the prepared muffin liners or tin. Try to get oat mixture and liquid evenly divided between all liners.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until lightly golden and no longer jiggling in the center. Cool completely before storing.

TO STORE: Keep in a sealed container at room temperature for up to four days.

DONNA’S DAY: CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Creative ways to use holiday photo cards

By Donna Erickson

If you sent holiday photo cards, you probably know from experience that the final image may be stunning, but the production process wasn’t easy.

First comes the search for that photo that tells a story of your year’s highlight. If there wasn’t a wedding, graduation or significant birthday that brought everyone together, the challenge begins, at least for me.

Last fall, when my family was on an outdoor trek, a hiker on our trail took a photo of us poised in front of a breathtaking backdrop.

Perfect photo, but… whoops, my eldest son had taken off on a kayak that day. A no-show for the photo.

Combine the group photo challenge with writing that accompanying paragraph that’s funny and informative, but not bragging, finding recipients’ current addresses, buying stamps and doing it all in the busiest time of the year.

I appreciate how my friends overcame the challenges and their cards arrived in time in my mailbox from all over the world. Tangible gifts of correspondence in an email world. I can’t toss them.

Here are two ways to use and enjoy the cards in the New Year.

Snap a pic for your smartphone contact list: Maybe my circle of contacts and their kids is expanding, or maybe my brain

Josh Adams, 9, takes photos of the photos on his family’s 2019 holiday cards to add to the contact list in his mom’s phone. isn’t, but I can always use a little help remembering names and faces. Here’s a trick to help remember, using your smartphone and holiday card photos.

Go to your contact list on your smartphone. Tap the name of the key person in the holiday photo on your contact list and tap “edit.” Tap the photo space and take a smartphone photo of the person or family.

Let your school-age child help you out with this fun project. Talk with him about the people in the photos as you go through and photograph them.

Next, go down the contact page to information fields of names of family members. You

can even add birthdays. Make the project an exercise in geography, too. Set a country or world map or globe nearby to locate where the individuals live as you type in their addresses. Click done when complete.

Make a “book” of cards: Punch two holes evenly on the left side of each card. “Bind” them together with office style metal clasping rings. Set out on the coffee table and flip them over one by one to enjoy throughout the year.

To find more of Donna Erickson’s creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com. © 2020 Donna Erickson distributed

by King Features Synd.

I am 88 and have had osteoarthritis in my hands and knees since I was in my 50s. I began taking Tylenol and Advil for pain. But on a recommendation from a health food store clerk, I started taking turmeric. Since that first dose, I have never had to take any pain medication again. I also have not had a knee replacement.

My specialist is very pleased with my condition and encourages my use of turmeric. I plan to up the dose from 150 mg daily because of research that shows its benefits in avoiding Alzheimer’s disease.

Turmeric has been shown to be helpful in some people with osteoarthritis and is unlikely to have serious side effects.

However, stomach upset is possible, and turmeric should be used with caution in people on warfarin or other anticoagulants.

However, there is no good evidence showing that turmeric prevents or treats dementia.

I have been hearing a lot about making yogurt at home. Is homemade yogurt a recipe for food poisoning?

Homemade yogurt is easy to make, can be more healthy than store-bought as it has very little sugar and can be made very safely with minimal precautions.

The key is to make sure the milk is fresh and sterile, then to carefully add in healthy bacteria. All you need to do is boil fresh milk to a bare simmer, to kill any unhealthy bacteria.

Cool it down to 100 to 110 degrees, which is an optimal temperature for growth of the healthy bacteria that help prevent the growth of unhealthy bacteria or yeast. Stir in a few tablespoons of plain yogurt with active healthy bacterial cultures and keep it in a warm place for six to 12 hours or so.

You can use the yogurt you just made as the starter for the next batch. Add in some pureed fresh fruit and you have a healthier, tastier and cheaper yogurt than you can buy at the store. © 2020 North America Synd., Inc.

SENIOR NEWS LINE

Dealing with rude people

By Matilda Charles

I’m not the only one who’s been muttering around town about drawing a line over how we seniors are sometimes treated. Some of us have decided to take a stand and speak up. Want to join us?

One elderly man was in the middle of placing his order at the counter of a coffee shop bakery that he visited every day.

The cashier stopped in the middle of taking that order to speak at length with someone who came into the shop.

There was no, “I’ll be with you in a minute,” to the person who was interrupting. The man was just ignored for a very long three minutes… when he walked out. He won’t be going back, I’m sure, but he did call the bakery’s owner.

Then there was the senior who’d made it clear – or, so she thought — at her doctor’s office that she couldn’t make morning appointments, that they needed to be scheduled in the afternoons because of transportation reasons.

She was irritated when she received a message from the office that her appointment would be at 8 o’clock the next morning.

Her solution? She left a message for the doctor himself.

Another person who gets delivery of his drugs from the pharmacy in town asked for a one-hour window when they’d be delivered. He was told, “They’ll be there sometime this afternoon. You weren’t going anywhere anyway, were you?”

His solution? He called the pharmacy manager.

When we’re trying to make a fairly large purchase and we’re continually steered toward more expensive items… when the tech guy thinks we don’t know how to operate a computer… when it’s assumed we’re uninformed… when we’re not amused to be called “young lady” or “sweetie.”

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The announcement came as European automakers are under pressure to

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WIOTA, Wis. (AP) — One of the farm workers examined by Dr. Emily Jewell had persistent back pain after he was kicked by a cow.

Another had an ear infection and a rash. A man complained of tenderness in his abdomen, prompting Jewell to clear the desktop in the dairy farm’s office — her makeshift exam room for the day — and ask him to lie down.

As she felt his sore area, she didn’t detect anything suspicious. But a test later found blood in his urine.

“This is concerning,” she said. “We’re going to have to check it out further.”

Community Connections Free Clinic in Dodgeville, which has treated patients without insurance since 2006, has started bringing its services to southwestern Wisconsin farms, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

Using an old Head Start bus that has been repainted and repurposed as a “free clinic on wheels” — with the apt acronym FCOW — clinic staff and volunteers visit farms roughly once a month and offer basic check-ups and treatments.

Most of the workers who sign up are Hispanic, Spanish-speaking and uninsured.

“We’re trying to make sure people are taking care of themselves,” said Rebecca Steffes, nurse manager at Community Connections.

“Our goal is to do screening exams, like what we would do in the clinic, to find chronic diseases” such as high blood pressure and diabetes, said Jewell, the main doctor involved.

“If we treat them, maybe 20 years from now they won’t be having heart failure or losing toes,” she said.

Wisconsin has about 24,000 farm workers, and more than half of those who work full time are Hispanic, according to UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Profitability.

It’s not clear how many are immigrants, uninsured or undocumented.

Nationwide, more than half of farm workers are immigrants, according to Texas A&M University, and about 24% are unauthorized, the Pew Research Center said.

Some migrant workers qualify for Medicaid, and 29% of farms in Wisconsin say they offer insurance to workers, according to the dairy center.

But many workers don’t qualify, coverage can be costly and farm schedules can make it difficult to travel to a clinic, Steffes and Jewell said.

Community Connections is the only one of Wisconsin’s 100 or so free or charitable clinics known to be doing outreach on farms, said Connor Dopler, manager of the Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics.

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As a result, today’s DDGS is typically higher in the amino acid leucine than is necessary to meet nutritional requirements of pigs. According to research from the University of Illinois, excess leucine in pig diets can decrease protein synthesis and reduce feed intake.

“If you feed diets high in corn or sorghum protein in the form of DDGS, you could easily get to 200% of the leucine requirement. We are seeing more and more of these high-protein products in the market, so it’s going to be something we have to deal with in the future,” said Hans Stein, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the U of I. Stein is co-author of a recent study published in the Journal of Animal Science.

Proteins are made up of amino acids, so why would a high amount of one amino acid lead to decreased protein synthesis and reduced feed intake?

To find the answer, Stein, along with graduate student Woong Kwon and others, fed diets with varying levels of leucine to growing pigs over 15 days.

The experimental diets were formulated with identical quantities of corn, soybean meal, wheat and barley, but varied in the amount of added leucine: zero, 150%, 200%, 250% and 300% of the daily requirement.

“We saw linear reductions in feed intake, gainto-feed ratios and other measurements as leucine increased. So, clearly, excess leucine was detrimental to growth performance of the pigs, particularly when we got to 200% or more of the daily requirement,” Stein said.

Stein’s study shows pigs fed excess leucine eat less because their brains are not making enough serotonin, the hormone that controls appetite.

Before serotonin can be made, tr y ptophan, an amino acid precursor, needs to get into the brain through membrane transporters in the blood-

brain barrier. Leucine also fits into those transporters. With excess leucine swamping the transporters, tryptophan can’t get into the brain.

“We saw a reduction in serotonin in the brain as we increased leucine in the diet,” Stein said.

The research team also determined that leucine decreased protein synthesis by breaking down related amino acids isoleucine and valine. The key is that the three amino acids are all in the same molecular family — the branched-chain amino acids — which means the body treats them similarly.

“If you have excess leu-

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The reality is that many pig diets currently deliver 200% of the leucine requirement, so producers may already be seeing these consequences. Stein is currently conducting follow-up studies to test amino acid supplements

that could counteract the problems related to highleucine diets.

“We have demonstrated the negative effects of excess leucine. Now we have to focus on finding out how we can prevent this from reducing pig performance. We may have to add more valine, isoleucine and tryptophan in the diet,” Stein said.

The article, “Excess dietary leucine in diets for growing pigs reduces growth performance, biological value of protein, protein retention and serotonin synthesis,” is published in the Journal of Animal Science.

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AUCTION FROM PAGE B1

Sat., Jan. 11

TROY, ILL.: Farm Machinery, 9:30 a.m., Alan & Sandy Poletti, Rutz Auction Service, 618-644-5877. See p. B2 OBLONG, ILL.: Farm Auction, 10 a.m. Central, Keith Boughan, Boston Auctions, 812-382-4440. See p. B2 NEWARK, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Art Hiller, Richard A. Olson & Assoc., 815-942-4266. See p. B2 FANCY FARM, KY.: Machinery, 10 a.m., Jamie Armstrong, Harris Real Estate & Auction, 800-3804318.

Mon., Jan. 13

PIKE COUNTY, ILL.: 188 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 10 a.m., Harry Law Trust, Wheeler Auctions & Real Estate, 660-327-5890. See p. B1 HOOPPOLE, ILL.: 155 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 5 p.m., David Baumann, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Tues., Jan. 14

TOLUCA, ILL.: 189.62 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 10 a.m., Hertz Real Estate Services, 815-935-9878. See p. B2 VIRGINIA, ILL.: Farm Machinery Estate Auction, 10 a.m., Martin Davidsmeier Estate, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

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ARCOLA, ILL.: Farm Retirement Auction, 9:30 a.m., Steve & Vicky Bright, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

POLO, ILL.: 90 +/- Acres, 10:30 a.m., Stan Weber, Lenny Bryson, 815-9464120. See p. B2 GREENFIELD, OHIO: Farm Equipment, 10:30 a.m., Estate of Gary W. Cockerill II, The Wendt Group, 614626-7653. See p. B1

Thurs., Jan. 16

MACOMB, ILL.: 87.56 Acres, 6 p.m., Harley G. Lafary Estate, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Fri., Jan. 17

RUTLEDGE, MO.: 120 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 5 p.m., Scott & Cassandra Bryant, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Sat., Jan. 18

MORRISON, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Gary & Darlene Myers, David Damhoff Auctioneering & Appraisal Service, 815-5354470.

Sun., Jan. 19 STAUNTON, ILL.: 121 +/- Acres, 1 p.m., Jeffrey Metrick Trust, Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auctions, 618224-9800.

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Thurs., Jan. 23

ELKHART, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Rick & Vickie Harbarger, Mike Maske Auction Service, 217-519-3959. See p. B2 CLINTON, ILL.: 74.4 +/- Acres in 2 Tracts, 11 a.m., Ag Exchange, 217-304-0404.

See p. B2 WINAMAC, IND.: 150 +/Acres, 6 p.m. EST, Doug & Cheryl Podell, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-4512709. See p. B1

Fri., Jan. 24

ROSEVILLE, ILL.: 83.67 +/- Acres, 10 a.m., Mary Joan German Trust, Van Adkisson Auction LLC, 309426-2000. See p. B2

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Sat., Jan. 25

PARIS, MO.: Annual January Consignment, 9 a.m., Wheeler Auctions & Real Estate, 660-327-5890.

Wed., Jan. 29 MASON CITY, ILL.: 193.083 Acres in 3 Tracts, 10 a.m., The Nelson G. Kiesling Trust & Lela M. Kiesling Trust Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

GALVA, ILL.: 134.24 +/Acres, 10 a.m., Dorothy E. Thomson Estate, Folgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auction Service, Inc., 309337-2150.

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AUCTION FROM PAGE B6

Tues., Feb. 4 Thurs., Jan. 30

PRINCETON, ILL.: 283.13 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 10 a.m., James E. Albrecht Trust & Laura D. Albrecht Trust, Capital Agricultural Property Services, 815-8757418. See p. B1

Fri., Jan. 31

MANITO, ILL.: Farm Auction, 10 a.m., Ken Fornoff, Palmer Auction Service, 309-253-2128. See p. B2

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LEESBURG, IND.: Annual Farm Equipment Auction,

LINCOLN, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., Dale Lessen Estate, Mike Maske Auction Service, 217-5193959.

Thurs., Feb. 6

ROCHELLE, ILL.: 330 +/Acres, 10 a.m., John & Jennifer Kruse, Bearrows Real Estate & Auction Co., 815-562-5113.

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Data gathered from more than 106,000 samples at 182 North Carolina farms shows significant reductions in ammonia levels and manure nutrient content. The improvements are attributed to gains in feed eďŹ&#x192;ciency, which means it takes less feed to raise a pig. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For an industry that is continually striving to become more sustainable, this study shows that pig farmers are making significant progress toward reducing the environmental impact of their farms,â&#x20AC;? said Lowry Harper, president of Harper Consulting, who conducted the study from decades-long data.

The study, funded by the Pork Checkoff and conducted by Harper Consulting in consultation with Southern Utah University, found that North Carolina pig farmers have significantly increased feed efďŹ ciency over the past 17 years. Long-term, continuous improvement has resulted in trending reductions in nutrient content in manure lagoons at the farms.

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2019 CASE IH STEIGER 470 HD 18.4-50 Duals, 3Pt, 1000 PTO, Guidance Complete, 5 Valves, 210 Hrs.

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2018 CASE IH STEIGER 420 HD

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2019 CASE IH MAGNUM 250

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2014 CASE TR320

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2018 GREAT PLAINS 3500TM 35â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Rolling Spike Harrow w/Flat Bar Reel, Wgt Pkg

$54,500

2013 KRAUSE 4850-18 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dominator

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2018 CASE IH MAGNUM 310

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$26,500

2015 CAT 242D

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$32,500

2016 KUBOTA SSV65

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2001 JOHN DEERE 1770

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rohlwing Farm - 2020 Farm Lease open

80.00± tax ac (69.92± till ac, 7.0 CRP ac) PI 115.2 Sec 20, Pigeon Grove Township, E200N, N800E Rds frontage. $6,900/ac Chip Johnston, Broker

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BirCh trust Farm | ALL PATTERN TILED

113.00± tax ac (101.56± tillable ac, 6.6 CRP ac). PI 123.2. Sec 23, Broughton Township. 2020 lease open. $8,700/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

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Piasa Farm | PLATTED FOR SUBDIVISION

83.591 survey ac (81.10± tillable ac). PI 112.1. Sec 21&22, Piasa Township.

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Woodford County Illinois - For Sale

Clayton townshiP Farm | CLASS A Soils

79.41± tax ac (78.14± till ac). PI 139.5 (Elpaso, Flanagan). Sec 26, Clayton Twp. 2020 lease open. IL Rt 116 frontage. $10,300 Ray Brownfield, Broker

Kendall County Illinois - For Sale

Parkhurst Farm | FUTURE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT 66.8013± total ac. Borders Oswego IL corp limits. City sewer runs Minkler Rd frontage. Sec 24&25. Oswego Twp. $18,000/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

Bureau County Illinois - For Sale

aaron Farm | Class a soils

155.17± tax ac (155.37± tillable) PI 136 (Muscatune, Osco soils) Hall Township, Section 4. Near Ladd IL. $9,900/ac Chip Johnston, Broker

turner Farm | UNDER CONTRACT 400.80 survey ac (384.82± tillable ac, .90 CRP ac). PI 113.1. Sec 18, Artesia Township. 2020 lease open. Ray Brownfield, Broker

reynolds townshiP 160 Farm | UNDER CONTRACT

160.00± tax ac (158.44± till ac). PI 138.7. Sec 34, Reynolds Twp. 2020 lease open. McGirr, Town Hall frontage. Ray Brownfield, Broker

mount Zion townshiP Farm | SOLD

80.07 survey ac (78.77± tillable ac) Mt Zion Township, Macon County IL

roBBins road Farm | sold

12.26.19

170.00± ac (156.84± tillable) Nachusa Township, Lee County IL

Ray L. Brownfield ALC AFM Managing Broker, Owner | 630.258.4800 Chip Johnston | Broker | 815.866.6161 Jason Lestina AFM | Broker | 815.546.8276 Pat Tomlinson | Broker | 217.864.5733 Dave Oster | Broker | 708.732.3802

• NEW LISTING! 146.65± Acres, Henry County, Galva Township, Illinois L-1900676-01 • Class A soils with overall productivity index of 139. Located four miles northeast of Galva. All weather road frontage and close to local grain markets. Lease is open for 2020 crop year. • $9,900 per acre.

For details please contact agent John Kennedy at (309) 337-9335.

• NEW LISTING! 120± Acres, Lee County, Reynolds Township, Illinois L-1900676-00 • Located south of Rochelle with excellent access. 100% tillable Class A farm with productivity index of 142. Lease free for the 2020 crop year. • $10,900 per acre.

• NEW LISTING! 128.95± Acres, Lee County, Ashton Township, Illinois L-1900676-04 • Farm is located about 3 miles northeast of Ashton. Being sold lease-free for the 2020 crop year. Gently sloping, long running north/ south rows with a productivity index of 120. • $7,500 per acre.

• 57.92± Acres, Stephenson County, Illinois A-16185 • Located southwest of German Valley, IL. Gently sloping farm G CRP acres with average is comprised of 51.85± tillable 5.39± DIN PENand SALE acres productivity index of 134. • $638,568 or $11,025 per acre.

For details please contact agent Marlon Ricketts at (815) 751-3467.

• NEW LISTING! 99.275± Acres, Douglas County • Newman Township Class A soils, All tillable, Lease free for 2020; L-2000124 • $10,500 per acre; • 45.18± Acres, Coles County • Humboldt Township L-1900747 • Located about three miles south of Arcola. Class A farm! All tillable, lease-free for 2020 crop year. • $9,900 per acre • 40± Acres, Moultrie County • Lovington Township L-1900618 • Located about 4.5 miles northeast of Lovington or about 13 miles west of Arthur. Top-quality Class INGA all tillable farm! Being sold SALE PEND lease-free for the 2020 crop year. • $10,700 per acre • 193.26± Acres, Moultrie County • Nelson and Sullivan Townships L-1900528 • Located at east edge of Sullivan. Class A farm. • $10,200 per acre • 103.47± Acres, Coles County • Pleasant Grove Township L-1800522 • Located about 8.5 miles southeast of Mattoon in Pleasant Grove Township. This mostly level farm offers good soils along with all-weather road frontage on the west and south sides of the farm. • Call for details!

• 69.9± Acres, Edgar County • Embarrass Township L-1900026 • Farm is located at west of Redmon with good road frontage along Route 133. Excellent quality land with Class A soils.• $8,500 per acre For details, please contact agents Winnie Stortzum or Tucker Wood at (217) 268-4434.

• 293.5± Acres, Iroquois County, Illinois • A-30788 • Highly productive soils, nearly 100% tillable, great road access. • $8,500 per acre.

For details please contact Patrick Gooding, AFM/Agent, at (217) 607-0118 or Brian Neville, AFM/Agent, at (217) 304-4317.

• 247± Acres, Piatt and Macon Counties, Illinois Class A Soils! Close to grain markets. Open lease for 2020 crop year.

Tract 1 - 80± Acres Piatt County, Goose Greek Township, L-1900732-00 $11,000 per acre • Tract 2 - 138.86± Acres Macon County, Friends Creek Township, L-1900732-01 - $10,000 per acre • Tract 3 - 28.488± Acres Macon County, Friends Creek Township, L-1900732-02 - $10,500 per acre • 230± Acres, Cass County, Illinois A-20267-01 • Farm is located southeast of Virginia, IL. • $2,875,000 For details please contact Patrick Gooding, AFM/Agent, at (217) 607-0118.

• 159.28± Acres, Marshall County, Illinois A-18575 • Located one mile north of Evans Station. Mostly level farm has 154.15 tillable acres with a productivity index of 131. Excellent road frontage and access on both the north and east sides of the farm. • $10,000 per acre.

For details please contact Thadd Fosdick, AFM/Agent, at (815) 867-6915.

• 192± Acres, Iroquois County, Lovejoy Township, Illinois L-2000050 • Highly productive farmland with PI of 131 is located 3 miles north of Hoopeston and 1 mile east of Rt 1. Close to grain markets and being sold lease-free for 2020 crop year.• $1,593,600.

• 173.23± Acres, Vermilion County, Illinois L-1900576 • Located just east of Danville Regional Airport. 114.40± tillable acres & 58.83± timber acres with a productivity index of 133, • $975,000.

For details please contact agent Phillip Poppe at (815) 848-8121.

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FARMS FOR SALE ADVERTISE YOUR FARMLAND FOR SALE...

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Littlefield Ag Group 855-834-1919 www.littlefieldag.com

Farmland for Sale 253.89 ac in 3 tracts - PI 143.4

Edgar County MYERS 166 - 1050 E US ROUTE 36, METCALF, IL 61940 166 +/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARMLAND. EDGAR TOWNSHIP. NO BLDGS. PI 139.2. $8,900/A FOR SALE PRICE REDUCTION

VOIGT GROUND - 1815 US HWY 36, CHRISMAN, IL 61924 32.11 +/- ACRES OF PRIME HUNTING GROUND. SHED, H2O, POLLINATER PROGRAM. 5 MINS FROM WORLD RECORD BUCK FOR SALE HUNTING SPOT.

Champaign County HORSE FARM - 1090 CR 2400 E, HOMER, IL 61849

2 mi E of Urbana, Champaign Cty, IL

154.86 ac - PI 119.5

S of Buckley, Iroquois Cty, IL

78.56 ac - PI 102.5

2 mi SW of Keyesport, Clinton Cty, IL

4 FENCED ACRES. AMISH BUILT FENCING. 60X160 SHED. INDOOR RIDING ARENA. 5 STALLS WITH FANS.

FOR SALE

BARNES 100 - 3803 N RISING RD, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61822 100+/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARMLAND. PI 143.2.

HENSLEY TOWNSHIP. $11,200/A PENDING

Douglas County BLAGG FARM - IL-130, ARCOLA, IL 61910 SOLD IN 4 DAYS! 80+/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARMLAND, LOCATED IN BOWDRE TOWNSHIP. PI 138.3. $875,000 PENDING BLAGG FARM - IL-133, ARCOLA, IL 61910 SOLD IN 4 DAYS! 80+/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARMLAND, LOCATED IN BOWDRETOWNSHIP. PI 132.7. $860,000 PENDING

Contact: Brian Waibel, Managing Broker Seth Waibel, Broker Office phone: 217-590-0233 www.WaibelFarmlandServices.com

KINCAID FARM - 2580 E CR 1050 N, NEWMAN, IL 61942 62.25+/- ACRES OF CLASS A FARMLAND. PATTERNED TILED. PI 137.2. $10,250/A PENDING

CONTACT US TODAY! Steve Littlefield, Broker (217) 202-7950 Matt Rhodes, Broker (217) 251-7067 2441 Village Green Pl. Champaign, IL 61822 Trey Coffey, Broker (217) 841-2542

RICH HANSEN Managing Broker, ABR Licensed in Illinois and Indiana â&#x20AC;¢ E-mail: RHansen972@aol.com â&#x20AC;¢ Cell: 815-383-4558 â&#x20AC;¢ Fax: 815-933-4558

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38 acres NEW Beecher............................... $8,750/ac 80 acres NEW Beecher............................... $7,750/ac 100 acres NEW Herscher............................ $8,250/ac 4 Commercial Lots Available Manhattan .............CALL 47.8+/- acres Residential Development 93 Lots Manhattan ...................................................... CALL 4.58+/- acres Commercial Site Elwood ...............CALL 20+/- acres Zoned Commercial Gilman...............CALL 22+ acres Commercial Lots Available Channahon ..CALL 13.79+/- acres Zoned C-3 Channahon................CALL 218+/- acres St. Anne.................................. $5,850/ac 40+/- acres Pilot Twp............ PENDING...$6,500/ac 75 acres NEW Grant Park............SOLD...$7,200/ac DFUHV %RQ¿HOG..........................SOLD...$6,750/ac 134 acres NEW Grant Park......................... $8,150/ac 80 acres NEW Towanda ............................$10,300/ac 221 acres NEW Towanda ..........................$10,300/ac 105 acres Clifton........................................$10,750/ac 80 acres Chebanse Twp.............................. $8,450/ac 178 acres Wilmington Rt 102 .......SOLD...$7,950/ac 8 acres Wilmington Rt 102 ..............................$80,000 39 acres Monee............................SOLD...$7,450/ac 90+/- acres Kankakee - close to town .................CALL 119 acres NEW Manteno........... SOLD...$12,500/ac 160 acres NEW Manteno ..........................$12,500/ac 72 acres deer, turkey CRP, CREB, 2 creeks, river Best hunting in Iroquois Co..................... $5,250/ac 75 acres NEW Otto Twp ..... REDUCED...$7,800/ac 51 acres NEW just outside Ashkum ............ $9,000/ac 182 acres Pittwood/Watseka area............... $5,500/ac 68 acres Demonte IN................................... $6,950/ac 80 acres Martinton................ PENDING...$6,900/ac 86 acres NEW Manteno Rt 50...................$11,900/ac 75 acres Donovan ....................................... $8,350/ac 17 acres Clifton............................................ $5,500/ac 80+/- acres Ashkum Twp ..............SOLD...$9,200/ac

161 acres Brenton Twp, Piper City .............. $6,950/ac 79 acres Sheldon..........................SOLD...$9,800/ac 116 acres Ashkum ...............................................CALL 159 acres Bourbonnais..............................$30,000/ac 76 acres Manteno - Development .......................CALL

20.39+/- acres I-57 Interchange Manteno ...........CALL 44.66+/- acres Danville..............................$12,000/ac 75 acres Grant Park .................................... $8,400/ac 80 acres Kempton ....................................... $8,950/ac Lot 46 RT 45................................................. $146,328 Lot 2 Prairie Harbor ...................................... $230,901 Lot Prairie Harbor ......................................... $330,000 Lot 47 Prairie Harbor .................................... $368,550 New River Run Lot ..........................................$15,000 30 acres Bourbonnais......... REDUCED...$7,900/ac 137 acres corner of Rt 45 and Peotone/Wilminton Rd ....................................CALL 48 acres Momence area - Good Cash Rent $7,400/ac 158 acres Manteno..............................................CALL 5 acres Manteno .................................................CALL 80 acres Peotone with home........................ $675,000 142 acres Otto Township.... REDUCED...$8,250/ac 134 acres Grant Park .................................. $8,100/ac DFUHV %RQ¿HOG................................................ SOLD 10 acres Gilman .........GREAT FISHING...$80,000 39 acres Limestone ......................SOLD...$5,950/ac 8 acres -Development Potential ......................$67,900 50 acres Kankakee-Development ............... $750,000 20 acres intersection of I-57 Peotone/Wilmington Rd. ........................................................................CALL

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ORR FEEDER PIGS demand for quality groups, feeder pigs, early weans, licensed and bonded Call Tim at 563-920-2680

PRESCOTT ANGUS Yearling Angus Bulls For Sale Richard Prescott 815-228-2069 prescottangus.com PURE-BRED RED ANGUS bull, born March 5, 2018, $2,000.

Call 513-284-6760

(10) BLK COWS, preg checked for early 2020 calving, all very quiet elec. fence broke & good ages, $1,0000/ea. (309)678-5540 th

(12) 3 AND 4 calf Red Angus cows will calve 2/20/20 thru 3/20/20. (12) Red Angus short yearling replacement heifers, Call 309-945-8840 rd

REG. RED ANGUS cows, preg. checked, spring calving, A.I. growthy, gentle. bloodline, Finch Red Angus, 815-236-0936 BRED HEIFERS, SPRING calving, BLK, BWF and Red Angus. 618-528-8744 POLLED HEREFORDS bred cows & heifers, heifer calves, also fertility tested bulls, Call 608-235-9417

RED AND BLACK ANGUS BULLS. (618)528-8744 Reg Polled Hereford Bulls, low birth wgt, high weaning/ yearling weights, easy calving. Sierra Bravo Farms, 618-218-4890 Reg. Angus Bulls, ages 1 & 2, birth wgt & EPD, calving ease & growth. Metropolis, 618-6387693 www.bremerbrothers.com

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Trucking available.

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HESSTON-10 STACKER W/MOVER, $2,500; Call 815-539-7117 TURN TRACTOR TIRES into hay and silage bunks!

Cell Phone: (309)738-9531 www.ecofeeder.com FOR SALE SAW dust for cattle bedding sold by the ton. Call 815-539-7117 Harvestore Aliance Unloader w/automatic oiler, for 20' silo, good cond. Backbone is good, probly needs new cutter shank, conveyor chain is good, come with 3-ph. Motor or a 220 motor, has been removed from silo $9,500 obo Call 309-944-7384

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(712)470-0554 JD-9510 2900 HRS., $26,900; JD-9500 2500 hrs. $18,900 both exc. appearance and good cond., Call 815-988-2074

Off Patent GT (Glyphosate Tolerant) Soybeans Different Maturity Ranges available. Treated or nonTreated - Realistically Priced!

Call for details. 618-667-6401, 618-407-3638, 618-407-3637 OPEN POLLINATED SEED corn, out produces Hybrids for silage. $67 per bu.

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1998 GLEANER R42, 2wd., sn. #R4248043, Maurer bin ext., 2487/1845 hrs. Hugger 630 corn head w/rollacone, less than 2500 ac. Gleaner 800-20' platform w/3" cut. Pkg. $44,000.

Ph. 217/483-4379.

2001 JD-9650 STS, 2700 hrs., well maintained, $34,900.

815-988-2074 2008 JD-9770 4WD, duals, contour master, high rate unload, 3200/2200 hrs., just came out of field, well maintained, $67,500 Call 815-383-4040 2009 612C stalk master, $23,500. 217-242-9105 2009 CIH-5088, AFX rotor, chopper, FT, RT, YM, 1903 eng.

Hrs., 1317 sep. hrs., choice of duals or singles, $79,500; 2012 3020 25', $15,000; 2012 Drago, 8-30”, $17,500 (618)562-4819

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2011 JD-9670 2592/1715 hrs., Contour Master, high cap.

Unload, all options, purchased new, dealer inspec, Exc, machine, $90,000 847-514-8844 2013 GEHRINGHOFF RotaDisc 1230F Elite XL Folding Cornhead, 12R, 30" Chopping, Hyd Fold, Hyd Strippers, Green Poly, JD Single-Point Hookup, Rola-Cones, Auto Leveling, Row-Sense, Field Ready, Waxed Annually, Kept Inside & Well-maintained, Galesburg, IL, $67,800 OBO, Call Brian 309-337-1600 2013 GLEANER-S67 COMBINE, 482 sep., 730 eng,.

Loaded with options. $165,000.

815-488-2835, text or leave message, Ladd, IL. Case IH 3408 corn head, always shedded, very good condition, $19,700-obo.

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FARM FOR SALE 80 AC. M/L Bureau County Milo Township, Section 8 NE ¼ S ½ NHEL 75.24 Ac. Tillable 130.6 PI CRP Waterway-6.0 Ac. Rate $334.14 per ac.

Contract until 09/30/23, 2014Grid Tile $10,150.00 per ac.

Call 309-238-2330

'77 JD 4630, 500 hrs on new motor, 18438 w/duals, frt & rear wts, good condition. Asking $16,000. Call 309-235-4147 1976 JD-4230 Cab/Air/Quad, 5987 hrs., nice orig. paint, VG COND. $15,900. 815-988-2074 1984 JD-8650, 8700-hours, good shape, $28,000.

1978 JD-4440, 9200-hours, 2000 on overhaul, like new tires, $28,000. 217-304-1764 2002 JD-5105 DIESEL, w/JD521 loader, FWA, 1225 hrs., Exc Cond. Like new, $18,500 Call 815-252-2061 no text 2003 JD-7810, 2320 hrs., MFWD, duals, 740 loader, 3-SCVs, 540/1000 PTO, $87,200. Call (815)405-4020 2004 VERSATILE-2425, 3300 hrs., exc cond., $72,500, OBO retiring. 563-357-4300 2005 CIH-MX285, 6900 hrs., duals, wts. Guidance ready, $52,500 Call 618-407-6875 2008 JD 5525 MFD, 764 hours, cab, 2 remotes, plus loader joy stick, economy pto, 38k, obo.

217-621-6117 2009 CASE-95C UTILITY tractor 4WD 1350-hrs., rear weights, mechanical wheel shuttle, 12-spd. 540/1000 PTO $32,000. obo (618)895-2116 2011 JD-8235R 370 hrs.

Michelin duals front & rear.

IVT, ILS, leather , premium lite pkg. 540/1000 PTO, 5 remotes, No DEF., $172,500 OBO. Call 309-443-5454 2012 CASE-550 QUADTRAC Pro 700 with Full Guidance and RTK unlocked. 6 remotes with high flow hyd, tow cable, dual diff locks, ONE OWNER Call 269-449-8358 2013 JD-8285, 2900 hrs. IVT, 480x46 duals, $119,900 obo 217-242-9105 2013 JD-8285R, 4100-hours, 4 SCV's, IVT, weights, $109,900. 217-242-9105 2014 CIH-280, MFD, 4-hyd., frt 7 rear duals, $106,900 obo 217-242-9105 Allis Chalmers 7000, no motor, new radiator, parts only, $2500obo. 618-599-4935 ENGINE KITS

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FORD-8730, PS, 3700 hrs., 3 hyd., 1000/540 PTO, VG duals, cold air, $21,000 Pana IL. 217-710-0841 JD 4240, low hours, 3427 hours, 1982, excellent condition, $30,000.

309-236-6077 JD 8335R, ILS, IBT, 2600hours, $149,000-obo.

217-242-9105 JD-3020 DIESEL, 69 model, just like new inside & out; '69 JD-4020 diesel 4200 hrs. all orig., very nice, $21,500 choice 815-988-2074 JD-4440 less than 5000 hrs., good tires, had to work very little, nice piece, $28,500 Call 815-878-9620 JD-7830 MFD, IVT Trans, frt susp., active seat, higher hrs., nice, $42,500 715-574-4561 JD-8285R MFD, duals, frt duals optional, auto track ready, exceptional, warranty, $98,500 Call 715-572-1234 JD-8430 MFD duals, wts., active seat, 50” tires, HID lighting, guidance ready, 5032 hrs., $82,500 Call 715-572-1234 JOHN DEERE-8270R, 2011, 3200 hrs, MFW, IVT, looks like new, always shedded, $119,000. Call 812-483-4899 We Have Parts for MM tractors, & others! riverdalefarmshop.com Call River Dale Farms @ (920)295-3278

For sale by owner, 475Ac's, Pope Co., IL 25 mi's NE of Paducha KY Consist of 340 Ac's till. cropland, 25 Ac's pasture, & over 100 Ac's of hard wood timber. 40,000 bu. Grain storage, large barn, large field & exc deer hunting, w/good lease income. Open crop lease for 19, price below appraised value, 618-528-8744 For Sale Grundy Co., Felix, Twp, 160 acres, 140 tillable. $8500/per acre. 252-943-9419

Farms for Sale DeWitt Co. - 76.13 acres - Prime Farmland - Sec. 19 - Tunbridge Twp. (2 mi. SW of Kenney).

Douglas Co. - 93.25 acres - Top Quality Farmland - Sec. 11 & 12 - Garrett Twp. (4 mi. NW of Tuscola).

Macon Co. - 80.00 acres - Prime Farmland - Sec. 24 - Maroa Twp. (2 mi SW of Maroa).

Macon Co. - 31.11 acres - Farm/ Development Land along the north side of U. S. Route 36 - Sec. 12 - Harristown Twp. (directly E of Harristown).

Macon Co. - 21.74 acres - Farm/ Development Land along the south side of U. S. Route 36 - Sec. 13 - Harristown Twp. (directly E of Harristown).

Macon Co. - 40.00 0.00 acres acre - Prime

Farmland - Sec. Friends Creek 13 F

Twp. (22 mi. N ofo Argenta).

Macon Co. - 31.77 77 acres - Prime Farmland - Sec. 12 - Wh Whitmore Twp.

(2 mi. S of Argenta Argenta).

Piatt Co. - 129.69 acres - Prime Farmland - Sec. 8 - Willow Branch Twp. (3 mi. NE of Cerro Gordo).

Piatt Co. - 93.58 588 acres - Top Quality Farmland - Sec. 3 & 34 - Sangamon Twp. (3 mi.i.

N of White W Heath).

Special Offering DeWitt Co. - 590.10 acres and a 230,000 bushel modern grain storage system located around the south side of Clinton (in 6 tracts). See website for details.

Tract #2 - 135.84 acres in Sec. 5 Creek Twp. (3 mi. E of Clinton).

Tract #3 - 43.24 acres in Sec. 3 Texas Twp. (S edge of Clinton).

- includes 230,000 bushel grain handling site.

Tract #4 - 68.60 acres in Sec. 2 Texas Twp. (1 mi. SE of Clinton).

Tract #5 - 155.00 acres in Sec. 11 & 12 - Texas Twp. (1 mi. SE of Clinton).

Tract #6 - 151.10 acres in Sec. 9 Texas Twp. (2 mi. SW of Clinton).

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JD 7200 12RN vac, wing fold, $4000. 217-397-2404 JD-7000 RECONDITIONED PLANTERS; 4-row 30”, 3-pt, $2,850; 8-row 30” $6,850; JD7200 4-row 30” $3,150. All repainted, NICE, can send pics Call 309-242-6040 KINZE 3600-ASD 16-30”, loaded, low acres, 2012, $72,500. Call 563-357-4300 White 5100 12RN hydraulic fold, $1500. 217-397-2404

5X5 NEW WRAPPED cornstalk rounds bales, dry $45./bale, Small square bales straw $4.00/bale, DeKalb IL. Call 815-970-5115 5X6 net wrapped Grass hay or large squares of alfalfa for horses and dairy cows.

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574-656-4412 Central Culvert & Tile, LLC Mahomet, IL. Steel and Alum.

Culverts. Plastic Tile and fittings.

8-inch to 36-inch in stock. up to 144-inch avail. 217-637-8453 NEW HOLLAND-L455 KUBOTA diesel, 2040 hours, new tires, one year old bucket, $8,250. Call 309-238-6445

500 AC. Row Crop Farm Enterprise Realty (660)582-7160 entrealty.com

Knight Complete Line-up, New Pro Push, Slinger PS 235 Vertical Spreaders.

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Hindsboro, IL 217-346-2737

Hesston 3312 ROTARY mower conditioner, 1000 PTO, 12ft cut, steel on rubber rolls, $13,500 Call 309-781-6829

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1992 GMC Topkick, Cat engine, 10ft bed, new paint, good condition, $7500.

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Calendar JANUARY

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BUREAU COUNTY

LA SALLE COUNTY

Jan. 23 – Bee Production Management Program: 7 p.m., Bureau County Extension office, 850 Thompson St., Princeton, Ill.; 815-875-2878.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Jan. 3-4 – Illini Farm Toy Show: 4 to 8 p.m. Jan. 3, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 4, Garden Hotel Urbana 1001 W. Killarney St., Urbana, Ill.; www.facebook.com/ events/1342955602538422.

Jan. 9 – Financial Well-Being Series: Improve Your Credit Score: 6 to 7:15 p.m., Urbana Park District: 505 W. Stoughton St., Urbana, Ill.; tinyurl.com/s6vqh64.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY Jan. 16 – Starting Seeds Indoors: 1:30 to 3 p.m., Kehias Farm, 2152 Illinois Route 16, Pana, Ill.; tinyurl.com/t59oop2.

CLARK COUNTY Jan. 16 – Private Pesticide Applicator Testing: 9 to 11 a.m., Clark County Extension office, 15493 N IL State Hwy 1, Marshall, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ v75ucp8.

Jan. 8 – Mindful Eating: 6 to 7 p.m., Reddick Library, 1010 Canal St., Ottawa, Ill.; tinyurl. com/tv6jzpm.

LAWRENCE COUNTY Jan. 7 – Embarras River Watershed Farmer Meeting: 8 to 10 a.m., The Coffee Shack, 101 S. Christy Ave., Sumner, Ill.; tinyurl.com/qwvc7dt.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY Jan. 13 – Wits Fitness: 10 to 11:30 a.m., O’Dell Public Library, 307 S. Madison St., Morrison, Ill.; go.illinois.edu/ odellwitsfitness.

LOGAN COUNTY Jan. 13 – Private Applicator Testing: 10 a.m. to noon,

Logan County Extension office, 980 N. Postville Drive, Lincoln, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ uanvxss.

McLean County Fairgrounds, 1106 Interstate Drive, Bloomington, Ill.; tinyurl. com/uwrrvbo.

MACON COUNTY

PEORIA COUNTY

Jan. 11 – String Art Workshop: 2 to 3:30 p.m., A Crafting Experience Creative Gym, 1146 Hickory Point Mall, Forsyth, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ wvnbafs.

Jan. 16 – The Big Table: Rural Matters: 4 to 7 p.m., American Legion, 121 W. Knoxville St., Brimfield, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ tqlpmvs.

MCHENRY COUNTY

Jan. 8-10 – Illinois Specialty Crop Conference: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 3000 S. Dirksen Pkwy., Springfield, Ill.; www. specialtygrowers.org/iscc.

Jan. 11 – Lake and McHenry County 4-H Shooting Sports Orientation: 10:30 a.m., McHenry County Fairgrounds, Building D, 11900 Country Club Road, Woodstock, Ill.; 815-338-3737.

SANGAMON COUNTY

MCLEAN COUNTY Jan. 13 and 27 – 4-H Youth Archery Workshops: 6:15 p.m.

Level 1; 7:30 p.m. Level 2;

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COLES COUNTY Jan. 3 – Scrapbooking Workshop: 9 to 11 a.m., Daisy Lane, 2619 Lake Land Blvd., Mattoon, Ill.

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COOK COUNTY Jan. 14 – How to Grow Your Own Microgreens and Baby Greens Workshop: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Cook County Extension office, 4747 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 601, Matteson, Ill.; go.illinois.edu/ microgreens.

CRAWFORD COUNTY Jan. 7 – Embarras River Watershed Farmer Meeting: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Crawford County Forest Preserve, 5886 E. 1050th Ave., Robinson, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ qwvc7dt.

KINZE 1051 w/Tarp

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STEPHENSON COUNTY Jan. 14 – Northwest Illinois Agronomy Summit: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Highland Community College Conference Center, 2998 W. Pearl City Road, Freeport, Ill.; 815-235-4125.

TAZEWELL COUNTY Jan. 15 – The Big Table: Rural Matters: 4 to 7 p.m., Delavan High School, 907 S. Locust St., Delavan Ill.; tinyurl.com/ tqlpmvs.

WASHINGTON COUNTY Jan. 6 – MyPI Teen Training:

6 p.m., Washington County Extension office, 9623 Wall St., Nashville, Ill.; tinyurl. com/t6dsta3.

WOODFORD COUNTY Jan. 9 – Exploring Current Diet Trends: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Eureka Public Library, 202 S. Main St., Eureka, Ill.; 309-467-2922.

Jan. 11 – 4-H Greeting Card Workshop: 10 a.m. to noon, Woodford County Extension office, 109 E. Eureka Ave., Eureka, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ tgdkhcb.

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DEKALB COUNTY Jan. 4 – Wee Naturalists - Owls: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Russell Woods Nature Center, 11750 State Rt. 72, Genoa, Ill.; tinyurl.com/y35zd6f9.

DUPAGE COUNTY Jan. 14 – Gateway to Gut Health: 7 to 8 p.m., Warrenville Public Library, 28W751 Stafford Place, Warrenville, Ill.; events.warrenville.com/ event/3334376.

EDGAR COUNTY Jan. 15 – Nutrition Bang for Your Buck: 1:30 p.m., Paris Public Library, 207 S. Main St., Paris, Ill.

EDWARDS COUNTY Jan. 4 – Edwards Unit Poultry and Rabbit Clinic: 9 a.m. to noon, Edwards County Extension office, 350 N. Seventh St., Albion, Ill.; 618-445-2934; tinyurl.com/ sb22egd.

Jan. 7 – Scrumptious Science: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Edwards County High School Home Economics Room, 361 W. Main St., Albion, Ill.; 618.445.2934; extension. illinois.edu/elrww.

EFFINGHAM COUNTY Jan. 8 – Certified Livestock Manager Training: 9 a.m., Effingham County Extension office, 1209 N. Wenthe Drive, Effingham, Ill.; extension. illinois.edu/lfmm/certifiedlivestock-manager-training.

Jan. 9 – Natural Lawn Care Focus Group: 6 to 8 p.m., Effingham County Extension office, 1209 N. Wenthe Drive, Effingham, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ wobxsxn.

Early season win.

HENRY COUNTY Jan. 16 – Private PSEP Test Only: 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m., Woodhull Community Center, 150 N. Division St., Woodhull, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ tdhytch.

JACKSON COUNTY Jan. 7 – Visual Arts: Leather Workshop: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Jackson County Extension office, 402 Ava Road, Murphysboro, Ill.; 618-6871727.

JO DAVIESS COUNTY

End of season rewards.

Jan. 15 – Timber Sales and Marketing: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Elizabeth Community Building, 402 West St., Elizabeth, Ill.; 815-858-2273; tinyurl.com/yx6md5fo.

Jan. 16 – Woodland Management: 9 a.m. to noon, Elizabeth Community Building, 402 West St., Elizabeth, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ tf637l5.

KANE COUNTY Jan. 16 – Think Spring! Growing and Using Herbs: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Kane County Extension office, 535 S. Randall Road, St. Charles, Ill.; tinyurl.com/ su3g8zf.

KENDALL COUNTY Jan. 9 – Kendall County 4-H New Family Orientation: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Kendall County Extension office, 7775B IL Route 47, Yorkville, Ill.; 630-553-5823.

KNOX COUNTY Jan. 8 – Pesticide Safety Education Program – Training and Test Site: 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Lake Storey Pavilion, 1572 Machen Drive, Galesburg, Ill.; 877-626-1650;

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OPINION

WHAT’S TRENDING These are this week’s most read stories on the AgriNews website: 1. Pie’s the limit: Young baker transforms love of cooking into business, FFA SAE 2. SuperU boasts of 229 bushels per acre

made, says farmer 5. IFB president urges no vote on progressive tax question

3. Consumer spending drives growth: U.S. experiencing historic economic expansion 4. Trade, not aid, but payments need to be

What’s your opinion? Send correspondence to: Letters, Illinois AgriNews, 420 Second St., La Salle, IL 61301; or email: letters@agrinews-pubs.com

Resolve to Reader writes, ‘Get rid of this guy’ manage risk At the top of most Americans’ New Year’s resolutions are things like eating healthier, exercising more and losing weight. Being health-conscious coming into the New Year is a great way to get started on the right Doug foot.

Schroeder But beyond physical health, it’s also a great Illinois idea to place the health Soybean of your finances, business and crop manageAssociation ment practices on your resolution list, too.

We start each year with an idea of what we hope to achieve and how we want our businesses to operate.

Although we can’t predict every factor that will affect our farms, we can start the year with a list of goals to shoot for.

I don’t think anyone expected to have such a short growing season in 2019 or that trade with China, or lack thereof, would shift the marketplace so significantly.

That’s why managing risk is at the top of my New Year’s resolutions. By taking proactive measures to manage what we can, growers like you and me are able to soften the impact of stressors.

So, how do you manage risk? There are a number of ways you can protect your farm from unpredictable factors.

One simple way is to continually stay up to date on farming practices and agronomic tips.

The Illinois Soybean Association recognizes the value in continued learning.

That’s why the Illinois soybean checkoff program funds Soybean Summit, a free one-day ILSoyAdvisor event for growers. This year’s conference will be held March 10 in Springfield.

Producers and production industry participants will hear from experts on a variety of topics ranging from in-season agronomics to agribusiness management practices and ag technology advancements that could help find efficiencies and increase on-farm profitability. Certified Crop Advisers can earn CEU credits at qualifying breakout sessions.

Throughout the year, listening to ILSoyAdvisor podcasts and webinars is another easy way to learn how to overcome challenges like soil compaction, soybean stress and other crop risks.

Through continuous learning, you have the opportunity to advance your onfarm practices.

But beyond this, there are experts who can help you manage risk, as well.

Building an advisor team that includes a banker, crop insurance expert, local co-op supplier and any other trusted individuals can help your farm become more profitable.

Bringing trusted advisers into your farm plans can help you mitigate risk and develop strategies for unfavorable events. You and I both know that it’s not a matter of if something adverse will happen, it’s when. So, being proactive can pay off in the end both through greater profit and less stress and worry.

Here are a few risk management practices to add to your list of New Year’s resolutions: n Upgrade or purchase on-farm technology to capitalize on agronomic opportunities. n Create a succession plan to prepare your farm and assets for the next generation. n Invest in a comprehensive crop insurance plan to protect you against unpredictable factors. n Subscribe to ILSoyAdvisor weekly updates to tap into resources and find actionable information on the best farming practices.

Wishing you a happy and successful 2020. Don’t forget to start the New Year off right by registering for Soybean Summit at www.ILSoyAdvisor.com/ SoybeanSummit.

When readers of this weekly effort take the time to write me a letter or email, it’s a safe bet they want to have the final word on whatever riled them to write. I’m fine with that.

In fact, because Farm & Food of their remarkable diligence, I turn this File space over to reading writers every June and Alan Guebert December so everyone might enjoy some of the more colorful ways people think I should spend my time other than writing.

Take Joe from Ohio who was so steamed about a mid-July column on climate change that he wrote (in all capital letters) “…we totally reject your columns because of your evil hatred of President Trump!! If we were the editor (of this newspaper) we would kick you out the first minute.”

Five months later, another email arrived from Ohio — this one didn’t include a name, only an email address — equally steaming: “These are not news articles but paragraphs of Trump — and Republican — bashing. Get rid of this guy.”

A similar, but much longer, email from Bill arrived in October to — correctly as it turns out — note that my column isn’t a “news article” at all. In fact, wrote Bill, “Funny how I can tell

your political affiliation from the content of the article and the slant of your opinions. This would not have been tolerated 40 or 50 years ago…”

In fact, Bill, it would have been tolerated because the Farm and Food File began as an opinion column 26 years ago and remains an opinion column. It wouldn’t be much of an opinion column if it didn’t include an opinion — like yours just now.

Several emailers thought columns that dissected the White House’s trade policies weren’t just wrong, they were downright unpatriotic. In attempting to make that argument, however, Norm from Indiana gave me more credit than I either possess or deserve.

“AG, if you spend just a little time explaining how the Chinese Commies have been ripping off the USA instead of attacking the President, perhaps they would be more willing to come to a trade agreement.”

Well, Norm, I can certainly give it the old US of A try. I wouldn’t count on the “Commies” changing soon because of me and my musings, though.

John from New York wrote to make a similar point but he got lost in the ongoing tariff tangle that is U.S. trade policy.

“Trump is the FIRST PRESIDENT that has acted to end these tariffs. See what our President is fighting for?”

Not really, John, but then again I’m focused on converting communists into socialists right now.

Not all correspondence contained

suggestions on when, where and how to fire me. Most, in fact, contained warm praise and good wishes.

David, for example, emailed on July 18 to say, “I’m sure you get lots of negative feedback, so I want to say I always enjoy your columns.”

Joe, from Florida, seconded Dave’s motion with more enthusiasm. “You are one of the top five writers in the U.S.!

You get the message out through the lines!”

Thanks, Joe! Another emailer, Roy from Nebraska, was nearly as effusive: “First, I love your column. Next, I don’t know how you do it… You are spot on in my opinion…”

What’s more, adds Roy, “Since when is the definition of a good Lutheran farm boy one that covers his eyes and sticks his head in the ground?”

Amen, Roy. There’s enough of that going around already and, in 2020, we don’t need more sand in our eyes, ears and gears.

We will, however, need more cards, letters and emails because, honestly, the June “letters” column that you’ll need to write is just around the corner.

So, Happy New Year and happy writing. Yes, even to my fiery friends in Ohio.

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About 98% of farms are family farms, according to the USDA.

There’s room for all kinds of farms Factory farm. It sounds so mechanical.

Cold. Unfeeling.

We see and hear the words “factory farm” everywhere on social media and in the news.

Major brands paint “factory farms” as places that are uncaring Jennifer and with little interacDorsett tion between humans and animals.

Texas Farm But you know what I Bureau see? Farms. And families.

I travel across the Lone Star State talking to these farmers and ranchers, seeing how they operate and how much they truly care about their families, livestock, land and the crops they grow.

These farms are owned by families.

In fact, about 98% of farms are family farms, according to the Agriculture Department.

What’s more, U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows that 89% of farms are classified as small. Sure takes some of the air out of that “factory farm” term, right?

Those farmers and ranchers are community leaders, the people you go to church with or see at school functions.

Yes, farms have changed over the years. In some cases, they’ve grown larger, and modern agriculture uses more technology. The big red barns many of us associate with farms have been replaced with modern barns of all colors, shapes and sizes.

But the values haven’t changed.

Farmers and ranchers share the same values as their parents, grandparents, great grandparents and great, great grandparents. They work with nutritionists and veterinarians to ensure animals are well cared for.

We’ve been led to believe big is bad when it comes to agriculture. There’s a lot of talk about big farms squeezing out

small farms. Big farmers not caring about their land or livestock. But that’s not true.

Those farms grow because more family members come back to the farm — the family business. They have to grow larger in size to generate income to support the increased family members playing a part.

They’re also growing more food using fewer resources, including less land and water than ever before. They strive to be economically sustainable — just like any business — in order to provide for their family and their employees.

The term “factory farm” is used to show lack of emotion and care. And that’s just not the case.

Family farms can be big, small, or medium-sized. There is room for them all.

They work together to supply our food, resulting in quality and choice.

For all of us.

Jennifer Dorsett is a field editor at Texas Farm Bureau.

Doug Schroeder is chairman of the Illinois Soybean Association Board of Directors.

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The roaring twenties Market data FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 27, 2019

As the new deNature knows not when one decade cade of the twenends and another ty-twenties dawns, begins.” my column this However, in week will dip the decade of the into the past. I’ll 1990s, there were touch on the first no drought-like column I wrote years that hurt for the decade crop yields and of the 2000s and Commodity production. And the first column I in the decade of penned for the de- Insight the twenty-tens, cade of the twenJerry Welch only 2012 was a ty-tens. The indrought year that formation comes sparked sharply higher from my book, “Haunted grain prices. Thus, over

By Markets.” I hope you find something of interest the course of 20 years, two decades back-toin my ramblings from deback, American farmers cades ago. and ranchers only had to On Jan. 1, 1990, in a endure one drought year, chapter entitled “Grocer and that was eight years to the World,” I wrote: ago.

“The historic events unOn Jan. 8, 2010, in a folding in Eastern Europe chapter entitled “One signify not only the deof the Best Starts Ever,” mise of communism, but provide further proof that I wrote: “On the first the most dynamic markets trading session of 2010, the Dow rose 155 points in history for agribusiwhile the CRB Index ness are just around the gained 1,025 points. It corner. The 1990s will was one of the best starts come to be known as the Golden Age of Agriculture in history for stocks and as the entire world moves commodities going into to a New Year and new towards democracy and decade. The robust perforthe free-market system.” mance sparked numerous I went to write: “Interestingly enough, the forecasts for even higher values for the months warmest years globally since records began about ahead.”

I also wrote: “However, 100 years ago were all in on the final trading day the 1980s. In order, they of 2009, the Dow fell 120 are: 1988, 1987, 1983, points and the S&P GSCI 1981, 1980 and 1986.

Index of 24 raw materials Since weather patterns closed in the red. The tend to linger, the decade of the ‘90s may be nothing dismal performance was one of the worst endings more than a repeat of the to a year and decade, and ‘80s. It is quite possible that the unusually hot and the poor performance was viewed as a bearish omen dry weather that plagued suggesting lower values farmers and ranchers were likely.” all over the globe in the Yes, the final trading 1980s will do so again day of 2009 was negative in the final decade of the but the first trading day of 20th century. Mother

2010 was quite positive.

From a historical standpoint, there is no hard evidence to suggest how a market ends one year (or, one decade) that it is a harbinger for the upcoming year as a whole. As for the year 2019, it was one of the best in history for stocks, and despite the trade war with China, was a good year for most commodities.

And from the second column I wrote in 2010, entitled “Paper and Hard Assets Doing Quite Well,” I wrote: “‘The fundamentals (for agriculture) have gotten better,’ said legendary investor Jim Rogers.

‘The inventories are now at the lowest they’ve been in decades, not in years.

Sometime in the next few years we’re going to have very serious shortages of food everywhere in the world and prices are going to go through the roof.’”

Obviously, commodity prices did not “go through the roof” in the twenty-tens. Stocks or equities certainly did as they improved fivefold. But the twenty-twenties have now arrived. Expect weather issues never before faced by agricultural producers in the U.S. and other regions on the globe to surface – serious issues, at that.

And once a trade deal with China is signed, it will be one more bullish fundamental setting the stage for much more robust and bullish agriculture markets. The combination of unexpected demand from China and climate change will spawn historically volatile markets with a decidedly bullish bent.

HELM Agro US hires VP of sales TAMPA, Fla. — HELM Agro US Inc., a global manufacturer of high-quality crop protection and fertilizer products, announced the hiring of Aaron Locker as vice president of sales for the organization’s U.S. business.

Locker has 30 years of experience in the crop protection sector with a proven track record in national sales and marketing management, business development and channel strategies.

In his new role, Locker will be responsible for the leadership, planning and execution of crop protection product sales and channel partner programs for the company’s distributor and retailer networks.

Previously, Locker was vice president of market development for Vivid Life Sciences. Prior to that, he was North American marketing director for FMC Agricultural Solutions.

For that same company, Locker also served in the role of director of strategic accounts.

Locker started his career in crop protection with Syngenta’s predecessor, Ciba-Geigy, where he had a variety of sales and channel strategy roles.

“Aaron will significantly strengthen our crop protection business by driving improvements already under way,” said Dave Schumacher, president and CEO of HELM Agro US. “The HELM team looks forward to integrating Aaron’s high-impact strategies, customer-centric focus and solution-oriented approach to marketplace success.”

“With a commitment to adding new patented product solutions to our portfolio offerings, expanding our footprint with experienced sales professionals and strengthening our long-held channel relationships, HELM is poised for tremendous growth potential over the next several years,” Schumacher said.

Currently, HELM has one of the fastest growing portfolios in the U.S. crop protection arena. In total, the company now has 18 products available for sales activities in the row crop, specialty crop and horticultural markets.

According to Schum-

acher, the company plans to add more offerings in 2020 following anticipated Environmental Protection Agency registration approvals.

Locker holds a bache-

lor’s degree in agricultural economics from The Ohio State University. He resides in Alexandria, Ohio, and can be contacted via email at alocker@helmagro.com.

Futures Prices

This Last This

week week Chg. week CATTLE HOGS DEC 19 123.50 122.22 1.28 FEB 20 70.57 FEB 20 126.70 125.80 0.90 APR 20 77.87 APR 20 127.77 126.72 1.05 MAY 20 84.32 JUN 20 119.10 118.12 0.98 JUN 20 89.72 AUG 20 116.65 115.82 0.83 JUL 20 89.67 OCT 20 118.37 117.50 0.87 AUG 20 88.65

Last week Chg. 70.67 77.50 83.70 89.27 89.22 88.35

-0.10 0.37 0.62 0.45 0.45 0.30

MILK CLASS III DEC 19 19.30 JAN 20 17.10 FEB 20 17.13 MAR 20 17.28 APR 20 17.24 MAY 20 17.22

19.36 17.36 17.40 17.40 17.29 17.25

-0.06 -0.26 -0.27 -0.12 -0.05 -0.03

24 26 32 28 18 12

SOYBEANS JAN 20 9294 MAR 20 9414 MAY 20 9552 JUL 20 9666 AUG 20 9706 SEP 20 9680

9282 9382 9512 9624 9662 9634

12 32 40 42 44 46

CHICAGO WHEAT MAR 20 5562 5422 140 MAY 20 5584 5460 124 JUL 20 5596 5486 110 SEP 20 5646 5536 110 DEC 20 5734 5622 112 MAR 21 5812 5702 110

K.C. WHEAT MAR 20 4796 MAY 20 4880 JUL 20 4954 SEP 20 5024 DEC 20 5124 MAR 21 5224

4622 4702 4776 4844 4940 5040

174 178 178 180 184 184

BRENT CRUDE OIL FEB 20 68.16 66.14 2.02 66.87 65.20 1.67 MAR 20 APR 20 66.14 64.51 1.63 MAY 20 65.52 63.96 1.56 64.93 63.42 1.51 JUN 20 JUL 20 64.32 62.84 1.48

ETHANOL JAN 20 FEB 20 MAR 20 APR 20 MAY 20 JUN 20

1.390 -0.004 1.412 0.008 1.429 0.010 1.460 0.010 1.460 0.010 1.460 0.010

FEEDER CATTLE JAN 20 145.55 MAR 20 144.80 APR 20 147.30 MAY 20 148.50 AUG 20 153.32 SEP 20 153.95

144.27 144.37 146.50 147.47 152.27 152.60

1.28 0.43 0.80 1.03 1.05 1.35

CORN MAR 20 3900 3876 MAY 20 3966 3940 JUL 20 4026 3994 SEP 20 4022 3994 DEC 20 4034 4016 MAR 21 4122 4110

1.386 1.420 1.439 1.470 1.470 1.470

Stocks of Agricultural Interest

This Last 52-wk week week high

ADM AGCO BASF BG CF

46.30 77.75 18.82 57.37 47.55

45.79 47.20 77.69 81.39 18.69 20.98 57.55 59.65 48.28 55.15

This Last 52-wk week week high

CTVA 29.14 28.18 32.78 DD 63.73 63.55 85.47 DE 175.81 174.65 180.48 FMC 101.13 99.04 101.95 MOS 21.22 21.71 33.91

Export Inspections (MIL BU.) This Year Cumulative Cumulative Cml.

week ago this year year ago % diff.

WHEAT 578.458 578.794 14158.34 12296.653 15.14 CORN 387.188 1014.931 7627.22 17019.797 -55.19 SOYBEANS 1083.866 699.629 19794.11 15870.912 24.72

Livestock Summary % diff.

This Last Year week year

week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2034 2810 1902 -27.62 6.94 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 468 668 442 -29.94 5.88 MEAT PRICES This week Last week Change Pork Cutout Bellies Loins Hams Yld Gr 3 Choice Beef Select Beef 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Live 5-Mkt Fed Cattle Carcass

76.98 2.37 79.35 108.93 90.13 18.80 72.68 69.92 2.76 65.91 70.35 -4.44 209.32 209.88 -0.56 205.40 200.97 4.43 121.89 120.20 1.69 192.00 191.85 0.15

CASH HOGS CARCASS PRICES This week Last week Change National

48.67 48.06 0.61

National Grain Market Review Compared to last week, cash bids for wheat and corn were steady to higher, sorghum and soybeans were higher.

Ethanol production for the week ending Dec. 13 was at 1.064 million barrels, a decrease of 8,000 barrels a day. Ethanol stocks reported 21.8 million barrels, a decrease of 17,000 barrels.

For the week ending Dec. 19, an increase of 24.6 million bushels of corn export sales for 2019-20 were reported, with an increase of 27.1 million bushels of soybean export sales, and an increase of 26.3 million bushels of wheat export sales.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 2 to 7 cents higher from 3.93 1/2-3.98 1/2 per bushel.

Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was 2 to 4 cents higher from 3.74-3.86 per bushel.

Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was steady to 5 cents higher from 3.92 1/2-4.00 1/2 per bushel.

Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 2 cents higher at 4.08 1/2 per bushel.

Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 8 cents higher at 3.57 1/2 per bushel

OILSEEDS Minneapolis Yellow truck soybeans were 13 1/4 cents higher at 9.02 3/4 per bushel.

Illinois Processors US No 1 Yellow truck soybeans were 10 1/4 to 13 1/4 cents higher from 9.44 3/4-9.59 3/4 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 13 1/4 cents higher from 9.12 3/4-9.37 3/4 per bushel.

Illinois 48 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 1.10 higher from 299.50-301.50 per bushel.

Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 0.59 points higher from 33.78-34.63 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 10 cents higher from 5.66 1/2-5.76 1/2 per bushel.

St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 4 cents higher at 6.13 per bushel.

Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 6 cents higher from 6.82 1/47.02 1/4 per bushel.

Portland US Soft White wheat rail was steady to 10 cents higher from 5.90-6.10 per bushel.

SORGHUM US No 2 yellow truck, Kansas City was 3 cents higher from 6.22-6.40 per cwt. Texas High Plains US No 2 yellow sorghum (was 3 to 4 cents higher from 6.48-6.84 per cwt.

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LESSONS FROM PAGE ONE

n Harvest prices are not expected to be higher than projected prices by 50 cents per bushel.

Schnitkey presented six lessons from 2019 regarding plant or prevent plant.

LESSON 1: “Midwest farmers have a bias against prevent plant. It’s a good thing that we want to plant because that’s what farmers do. After June 5, you can take prevent planting.

“It does not matter if June 6 is a beautiful day and the ground is fit, it’s the farmer’s decision at that point in time. Up to June 5 you have to plant if it’s fit. After June 5, it’s the farmer’s decision and it doesn’t matter what the conditions are.

“We have to realize some of the bias of individuals with vested interests that are providing the information to farmers.

Share-rent landowners have legitimate concerns for prevent planting if they don’t have crop insurance.

“If they don’t have crop insurance, there’s no return to the share-rent landowner if no planting occurs. I would suggest that you may want to get those share-rent landowners on

“Unless you have unusual circumstances, take prevent plant, particularly in the second or third week of June.”

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crop insurance.

“I’ve heard farmers who had their cash-rent landowners pressure them for planting. I don’t see any legitimate concern for a cash-rent landowner wanting that land planted, particularly with corn.

“You may be doing things worse to the ground than not. Input suppliers want to see planting occur.

“Crop insurance companies really don’t want to make prevent plant acres because they’re the biggest payments that can be made.

“Try to look at the decision objectively, which is hard to do because it is a very emotional decision.

Develop a plan for prevent plant beforehand with a strong presumption not to plant if you have a high coverage level once you reach June 5, particularly if there are no storing or drying facilities on-farm.”

LESSON 2: “Future prices are unbiased indicators of price in the future. The December 2019 CME corn contract averaged $4.50 in June and $3.90 in October.

June prices already had a significant weather premium built in, and we probably should not have expected more.

“If you’re going to do something because of price, price some of it.

Don’t bet on short crops.

Many, myself included, believed prices could go up if we had lower acres and lower yields.”

LESSON 3: “All farmers are reacting to the same incentives. All farmers saw the corn was more profitable than soybeans, and corn prevent plant is better than soybean prevent plant.

“Corn acres were only down 1% from 2018 to 2019. Soybean acres year over year went down 16%.

U.S. prevent plant acres increased from nearly 1.9 million in 2018 to 19.259

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million in 2019.

“Areas that didn’t have prevent plant planted more corn. Areas with large prevent plant, reduced corn acres. Most everyone reduced soybean acres. Acreage changes that happened in 2019 are consistent with economics.”

LESSON 4: “It’s hard to beat U.S. Department of Agriculture yield forecasts. The resources USDA devotes to yield estimates are large and include many methods including satellite imagery.

“USDA forecast an average corn yield of 166 bushels per acre in June and 167 bushels per acre in November. Don’t bet on short crops until you see them.”

LESSON 5: “Market Facilitation Program was introduced as a new policy in June. In a USDA press release on June 10, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said, ‘I urge farmers to plant for the market and plant what works best on their farm, regardless of what type of assistance programs USDA provides.’

“The press released went on to state farmers needed to plant in order to receive MFP payments.

Per acre MFP payments ranged from $50 to $87 per planted acre in Illinois.

“There was a 15% top off on RP prevent plant payments. There was a $15 per acre MFP payment for planting cover crops on prevent plant farmland.

Government aid netted out to be about the same for planting and prevent plant.

“This administration does not want to influence planting decisions with aid, but we’re not sure about future administrations. There’s a good chance of MFP payments in 2020, but how it’s built into cash rent is problematic. Commodity Credit Corp. authority was used for MFPs, and how future administrations use CCC authority will be interesting to see.”

LESSON 6: “Build in higher drying costs if you plant in June. Also, expect harvest difficulties.”

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FOOD

FROM PAGE ONE

Bradshaw started working on a voluntary pork checkoff in 1968 as the president of the Pike County Pork Producers Association.

“That was the second-largest pork producing county in the nation at that time, and then I served as the president of the Illinois Pork Producers Association from 1971 to 1974,” he said. “That was the first major checkoff program where farmers contributed their money to benefit all.”

In 1974, the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to allow soybean farmers to decide if they wanted to establish a soybean checkoff program.

“That was voted in to have one-quarter of a cent per bushel taken out at the point of scale to promote and work for the benefit of the soybean farmer and the national program started in 1990,” Bradshaw said. “I served as the chairman of the program operating board for the soybean group that administered the checkoff program.”

At the national level, Bradshaw has been involved with several committees and organizations that include serving as the chairman of the Foreign Animal Disease Committee for the USDA and chairman of the United Soybean Board in

2010.

As a result, Bradshaw has met seven U.S. presidents.

“I knew George H. Bush and George W. Bush pretty well, I had conversations with Bill Clinton on two occasions and I met President Obama when he was in Springfield and Washington and visited with him quite a bit,” he said. “The rest of the presidents, I just shook their hands.”

“The main thing is you don’t have to be the smartest person in the world and you don’t have to be the biggest person in the world — I’m only 5 foot, 5 inches tall,” he said. “But you’ve got to show up if you want to have adventures.”

Participating on committees and serving in leadership roles did require Bradshaw to be away from the family farming operation.

“You have to give up something when you do these things,” he said.

“So, I dedicated my book to my wife, Linda, and family for putting up with me being gone and taking care of things.”

The book is available for purchase on Amazon and at Farmers National Bank of Griggsville at all branch locations.

Martha Blum can be reached at 815-2232558, ext. 117, or marthablum@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Blum.

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PEOSTA, IOWA — Dan Neenan, paramedic director at the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, discussed hazard communication standards during a webinar sponsored by AgriSafe.

“These safety data sheets must be made available to employees and for responding emergency personnel,” Neenan said.

“They are generally stored in readily available binders or via an online subscription.

“We need to have a written hazard communication program. It doesn’t need to be pages upon pages. But it needs to deal with how chemicals are going to be labeled and stored, where the safety data sheets are kept and training.”

Neenan shared tips for implementing a successful program: n Learn the standard and identify responsible staff. Obtain a copy of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard. Become familiar with its provisions.

Make sure that someone has primary responsibility for coordinating implementation. Identify staff for particular activities such as training. n Prepare and implement a written hazard communication program.

A written plan should include how hazard communication will

be addressed in your facility. Prepare a list or inventory of all hazardous chemicals in the workplace. n Ensure containers are labeled. Keep labels on shipped containers.

Label workplace containers where required. n Maintain safety data sheets. Safety data sheets should be maintained for each hazardous chemical in the workplace. Ensure that safety data sheets are readily accessible to employees. n Inform and train employees. Train employees on the hazardous chemicals in their work area before initial assignment and when new hazards are introduced. Include the requirements of the standard, hazards of chemicals, appropriate protective measures and where and how to obtain additional information. n Evaluate and reassess your program. Review your hazard communication program periodically to make sure that it is still working and meeting its objectives. Revise your program as appropriate to address changed conditions in the workplace — for example, new chemicals, new hazards and so forth.

Learn more at www. osha.gov/dsg/hazcom.

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