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$10,500 per acre Statewide average steady for excellent quality farmland

By Tom C. Doran

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Farmland values in the Prairie State remained stable through 2019 despite extreme swings in the commodity market.

The findings were released March 19 in the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers annual farmland values survey.

“Farmland remains a stable, safe investment in volatile times as we’ve seen so recently. Our survey data shows the farmland price trends in the state continues to exhibit a stable pattern with little deviation from a year ago,” said David Klein, First Mid Ag Service vice president and Illinois Farmland Values Survey and Conference chair.

Survey details were delivered via a webinar after the annual conference was canceled.

“In our year-end survey we capture the sentiment of what appraisers and farmland real estate brokers believe they are seeing,” Klein continued.

“Gary Schnitkey (University of Illinois agricultural economist, farm management specialist and ISPFMR A secretary-treasurer) polled their observations and outlook in our annual survey the second week of February.

“ISPFMRA and Realtors Land Institute members monitor the pulse of the Illinois farmland market every day and the information in our report suggests there is significant variation between certain local areas within each region right now.

“The general opinion of our membership’s survey showed characteristics of a market that remains stable.”

The statewide average for excellent quality farmland from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2019, was unchanged at $10,500 per acre. Good quality farmland sales averaged $8,600 per acre, down 1%.

The survey found the sales of average quality farmland from the beginning to the end of the year drop by 3% to $6,700 per acre. Fair farmland statewide averaged $5,200 per acre by year’s end, a 2% decline.

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Mike Haag chairs the Illinois Livestock Development Group, an organization that provides farm families individual assistance, helping them understand, implement, and follow rules and regulations for Illinois’ animal agriculture.

Kennay Farms Distilling workers package bottles of hand sanitizer for shipment. The distillery turned from making bourbon, vodka, beer and gin to mixing, packaging, labeling and distributing hand sanitizer on March 18.

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Rick Kennay, kicked into gear to switch over to making hand sanitizer. Kennay sourced the other two ingredients, glycerin and hydrogen peroxide, that are the basic ingredients of hand sanitizer.

“The boys were on a bourbon run until 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

They were totally switched over and by noon on Thursday, we were producing hand sanitizer,” Quinn said.

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ROCHELLE, Ill — They are used to brewing up batches of beer, vodka and gin, but on March 18, the Kennay Farms Distilling team received a new order — and a new recipe.

“The word went around that maybe distilleries could maybe make hand sanitizer,” said Aubrey Quinn, director of marketing for the Rochelle distillery and the daughter of Rick and Doris Kennay, the distillery’s founders and owners. The Kennays farm near Ashton.

They opened the distillery just a year ago in the former Hub Theater in downtown Rochelle and had been busy with a tasting room, where guests could sample and buy the craft beers, vodka and gin being brewed up in the floor-toceiling brewery and distillery, visible from the tasting room.

That was until coronavirus and the effects on public life changed things.

A stay-at-home order issued

by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on March 20 effectively closed bars and restaurants to in-house customers, but allows for carryouts and curbside delivery.

With the need for hand sanitizer increasing, distilleries, with plenty of the basic ingre-

Finding labels and bottles has been a challenge for Kennay Farms Distilling’s hand sanitizer production lines. While the distillery’s bottling machine is being used to bottle the product, labeling for the bottles of hand sanitizer must be done by hand. dient — alcohol — on hand, wondered about transitioning to the new product.

“It was not legal for us to do this until we got an email at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday from our governing agency, the TTB,” the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Quinn said.

Upon getting the OK, the Kennay Farms team, led by

ON THE MOVE Packaging has been a major limiting factor. With a need for bulk packaging, this farm family improvised and turned to seed totes as a way to transport bulk quantities of ingredients, as well as the hand sanitizer itself.

Quinn reached out to a local farmer, Mike Denton, Princeton, and owner of Hefty Seeds in Princeton, for help locating more totes.

“They called and told me what they were doing and that they needed totes, as the most practical way to get bulk quantities of the product out to the people who need it, like first responders,” Denton said.

He made some calls and put out the request for help on social media.

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EMINGTON, Ill. — The Illinois Livestock Development Group is the go-to organization for anyone needing assistance in siting an animal facility.

One of the many hats Mike Haag wears is ILDG chair. He has served on the board for five years representing the Illinois Pork Producers Association.

The Haag family, featured throughout the year in AgriNews’ “Year in the Life of a Farmer” series, operates a 17,000-head, wean-to-finish hog operation and grows corn and soybeans.

Haag talked about livestock advocacy and the ILDG in a recent interview.

How did you get involved with the group?

“The Illinois Livestock Development Group is made up of one representative each from the Illinois Beef Association, Illinois Pork Producers, Illinois Corn Growers Association, Illinois Soybean Association, Illinois Farm Bureau and Illinois Milk Producers Association.

“Most often those representatives are on one of those boards. I was on the Illinois Pork Producers board, and they asked me to step up and be on that board.”

What is the role of ILDG? “The idea behind it is to promote Illinois as a great option for livestock as opposed to other states and trying to facilitate people to choose Illinois. ILDG helps people through the process of establishing a site and going through the Livestock Management Facilities Act, following the rules, working their way through the paperwork and helping them understand how to go about that process.

“It’s also about telling of the strength of Illinois livestock and what it does for the state’s economy. The organization promotes livestock, not necessarily hogs, cattle or chickens. We have the corn, we have the soybeans, we would like to be raising livestock near those here in Illinois.”

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Slow progress in nutrient loss reduction efforts

By Tom C. Doran

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — There’s plenty of nutrient loss management research data available, but it doesn’t do much good if it isn’t disseminated to farmers to show there’s proof in the pudding.

Jennifer Woodyard, University of Illinois Extension watershed outreach associate, said that’s where Extension and other partner organizations come in.

Woodyard spoke of her outreach work for a pair of phosphorous priority watersheds, the Embarras River and Little Wabash River, in east-central and southeastern Illinois, as well as the work of her counterpart, Haley Harverbeck-Gruber, in northwest Illinois.

H a r ve r b e ck- Gr ub e r does outreach for the Mississippi Central/Henderson Creek Watershed and Lower Rock River Watershed that are nitrogen priorities.

Efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous movement into waterways were jump-started when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked the 12 states in the Mississippi River Basin to create plans addressing nutrients loads from point sources, urban storm water and agriculture nonpoint sources.

The Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy was released in 2015 with an interim goal to reduce nitrogen loss by 15% and total phosphorous loss by 25% by 2025 with an ultimate goal of reducing both losses by 45%.

“It was written to address the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, but also the local issues that we see in our own state. We can still have algae blooms and fish kills that can occur in our own area, so we need to address those, as well,” Woodyard said at the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education

Council’s Investment Insight Live event.

The 2019 hypoxic zone in the Gulf was the eighth largest mapped since 1985 at 6,952 square miles.

“Illinois contributes to this obviously, and that’s why we’re talking about this today,” Woodyard said.

“In a 2008 modeling study Illinois was the No. 1 contributor of both nitrogen and phosphorous to this problem in the Gulf of Mexico. Illinois, Iowa and Indiana were the top three for nitrogen which makes sense, we grow a lot of corn, we use a lot of fertilizer, and for total phosphorous Illinois, Missouri and Iowa are the top three.”

PRIORITY WATERSHEDS The Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy created maps of the major watersheds throughout Illinois and established priority watersheds for both phosphorous and nitrogen.

“We’re working with farmers to help them implement best management practices, conservation on the ground to help reduce nutrient losses in their respective watersheds. We directly work with farmers the most and we work with other stakeholders as well,” Woodyard said.

Best management practices that help control soil erosion and nutrient loss that are being promoted to growers include conservation tillage, cover and green manure crop, critical area planting, filter strip, forest land erosion control system, grass-line channels, grassed waterways, planned grazing systems, permanent vegetative cover, saturated buffer, terrace, water and sediment control basin, wetland restoration, woodchip bioreactor, woodland direct seeding and woodland improvement.

SLOW PROGRESS A biennial report on the progress of the state’s Nutrient Loss Reduction

River, 25% inStrategy was recrease in the leased Nov. 19.

Illinois River, 8% “Things aren’t increase in the as great as we’d Rock River, and hoped they would 36% decrease in be by now,” Wothe Green River. odyard noted.

“It’s impor tData f rom ant to note that 1980 -1996 was water flow has used as the basei ncrea se, too, line for compar- Woodyard and that helps exisons with data plain some of the collected from increase that we’re seeing 2013-2017.

From the 1980-1996 to in nutrient loss. It doesn’t 2013-2017, there was a 13% explain it all, but when increase in the amount of you have more water flowwater flowing through our ing you’re going to have a rivers in the state, a 7% in- higher load flowing down crease in nitrate-N losses the river, too, so that’s part and a 26% increase in total of the problem,” Woodyard said. phosphorous losses.

“Remember, we wanted to decrease nitrogen by COMMUNITY OUTREACH As part of their efforts 15% and total phosphorous by 25% by 2025, so to deliver information to we are going in the oppo- farmers in their respective site direction,” Woodyard watersheds, Woodyard and Harverbeck-Gruber said.

“One thing big to note organize field days, workthough is the point sources shops and public meetings have reduced their phos- to educate students, farmphorous losses by 24% ers and the general public from 2011 to 2018. So, the on nutrient loss reduction point sources, things like practices. In addition, 23 water treatment plants episodes of nutrient loss have really seen a reduc- reduction podcasts can be tion in phosphorous loss. accessed at will.illinois.

Point source nitrogen loss edu website, covering a myriad of topics. was reduced by 10%.

“At our field days and “We want to keep conservation practices volun- educational programs, we tarily adopted. We don’t demonstrate soil health want to have farmers properties, how to build forced to do anything and healthy soil and why it’s that’s the way we want important. We go out to keep it, but now we’re into the field with farmstarting to see a shift ers and help them figure where the point sources out how to manage things are phosphorous loss, like cover crops or other now we need to do more conservation practices,” throughout the rest of the Woodyard said.

“Another big thing that state, as well.”

In the Embarras, ni- Haley and I do is watrate loads increased by tershed-based planning.

28% from 1980-1996 to Watershed planning basi2013-2017. It was reduced cally helps address water by 13% in the Kaskaskia quality problems in a holisRiver and 2% lower in the tic manner by fully assessIllinois River. The Rock ing the potential contributRiver saw the largest in- ing causes and sources of crease — 104% — compared pollution, then prioritizing restoration and protection to the baseline years.

The total phosphorous strategies to address these load in the Embarras has problems.

“It’s a really collaborative gone up 3%, there was a 68% increase in the effort and Haley and I get Kaskaskia River, 51% in- facilitate those conversacrease in the Little Wabash tions in our watershed and

help develop those plans with local stakeholders.”

The Embarras River Watershed currently has a plan in place that was last updated in 2011, and stakeholders are working toward updating the plan.

Several stakeholders teamed up to raise match support to apply for an IEPA Section 319 Grant to update the watershed plan that would cover 60% of the cost.

“We were able to fundraise for the 40% match, raising early $76,000 throughout the watershed.

Illinois Farm Bureau was a huge contributor, the Soil and Water Conservation Districts in each county contributed as did different organizations, private landowners and cooperatives all came together.

They saw the importance of writing and updating a watershed plan,” Woodyard said.

T he Coles Cou nt y SWCD submitted the grant request in July 2019 and should hear in the late spring of 2020 if funds will be awarded.

Extension hosted nine meetings throughout the watershed in January through the Illinois Farm Bureau Nutrient Stewardship Grant.

“We met with farmers and talked about their resource concerns and what tools they would like to see available to them to help them improve water quality within the watershed.

We received a lot of good feedback. The Embarras is a long watershed that starts in Champaign County and ends in Lawrence County, so the variance in opinions in the watershed was very

interesting,” Woodyard said.

TAKEAWAYS Takeaways consistent from the Embarras watershed farmer meetings include: n The desire to implement conservation is there, and some will do with without cost-share, but most want and need assistance. n Some are successfully using cover crops, but many have experiences challenges or not tried them. Cost-share dollars to support implementation would increase adoption. n They desire more education farmer-to-farmer, but also for their landowners, another consistent theme especially for absentee landowners and just landowners in general. They really want education that’s targeted toward them to help them understand why these things are important and needed on the landscape so that the landowners could potentially help the farmer implement some of these practices with some money assistance. n There was a desire for local research. At several of the counties meetings it was mentioned they want plots in their own county to know what is happening on the soil types and the climate that they work with everyday and they want to hear what their neighbors are doing and if it’s been successful.

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

Consumers concerned about pesticides K ANSAS CIT Y, Mo. — New research shows the online conversation around pesticides is expected to explode by 212% over the next two years, even though consumers aren’t sure what pesticides are.

New findings from the Center for Food Integrity illustrate the confusion and growing concern around crop protection products and the lesson for agriculture that definitions don’t matter.

The study, which analyzed millions of U.S. consumer interactions online in real time to understand motivations, values, fears and maturity of trends, shows that often consumers talk about pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides as part of the same conversation. The research suggests that these types of products are viewed as part of the same category.

They’re also talking about two topics: the harm and toxicity for human consumption and alternative farming practices that reduce the need for pesticides, specifically GMOs and organic farming.

“Understandably, it’s frustrating when the public doesn’t understand the ins and outs of producing food. But it’s not realistic to expect them to,” said Terry Fleck, CFI executive director. “And while the industry can get caught up in trying to educate consumers about science, the fact that consumers can’t differentiate between a pesticide and fungicide doesn’t really matter.”

Currently, 20.5 million U.S. consumers are engaging online in the conversation about pesticides, according to the study, a number projected to grow to 63.9 million over the next two years.

“Clearly the predicted increase in the discussion reflects a real and meaningful level of concern, one that has nothing to do with science or definitions,” Fleck said.

At the heart of the issue is consumer concern about food safety, the environ-

ment and “big ag,” Fleck said.

As CFI’s past trust research has shown, there’s a fear the agriculture industry will put profit ahead of principle.

Fleck said consumers are simply putting pesticides in the bucket of “bad industrial chemicals” — any chemical used on food that should be avoided at all cost. He compares it to the GMO issue.

“Many of us have seen and chuckled at the Jimmy Kimmel Live show video when shoppers at a farmers market take a stab at explaining GMOs. Most can’t define them. But they do fear them,” Fleck said.

“Rightly so, consumers are concerned about how their food is grown. In the end, they want safe, wholesome, affordable food that is grown in a way that protects people, animals and the planet.”

Instead of pointing consumers to a dictionary, Fleck recommends that those involved in growing food engage in conversations that authentically and transparently speak to the topics consumers value most.

Demonstrate how agriculture cares for the envi-

ronment and is reducing the use of crop protection products. Engage on the topic of food safety and how the industry is continually striving to produce food more responsibly every day.

Use analogies consumers can relate to like the use of bug spray in homes to controls spiders or prod-

ucts used on lawns that control weeds.

“Farmers do the same thing, but with much more precision,” Fleck said.

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Planned acres third largest ever Nationwide survey of crop intentions

By Tom C. Doran

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CHICAGO — A nationwide producer survey found both corn and soybean planted acres expected to be the third largest ever, but not to the levels expected.

Allendale Inc., an agricultural and commodity brokerage and analysis firm, conducted the survey March 1-13 across 30 states, including 11 states representing 80% of the nation’s corn, soybean and wheat production.

The survey found corn planting intentions of 94.631 million acres would be 4.9 million over 2019.

This would be the third largest of all time and just 2.7 million off the 2012 peak at 97.291.

Allendale’s corn production estimate would imply an increase over 2019 of 1.677 billion bushels. That 15.369 billion 2020 production would be a record.

Soybean planting intentions are seen at 83.74 million acres, 7.6 million over last year. This would be the third largest acreage total, 6.4 million off the 2017 peak of 90.162.

Allendale’s 4.163 billion bushels soybean production estimate would be the fourth largest in history.

Wheat acreage is estimated at 44.465 million acres. This is down 693,000 from last year and is the lowest in history for the all-wheat data set that the U.S. Department of Agriculture started in 1919.

A ssuming nor mal abandonment and trend yields, Allendale’s all-wheat production estimate of 1.874 billion bushels is 46 million under last year.

MORE CORN Rich Nelson, Allendale chief strategist, said nine of the 11 top-producing states indicated year-over-year increases in corn acres; Nebraska and Kansas had reductions of 16,000 and 63,000 acres, respectively.

The survey results found a move to more soybeans in the northwest Corn Belt with 1.2 million more acres in North Dakota, a 1.3 million acre year-over-year increase in South Dakota, and a 964,000-acre hike in Minnesota.

Soybean acres in Indiana, Iowa and Missouri could decline slightly.

“That’s likely in the northwest Corn Belt due to the current ground moisture there now, as well as the above normal moisture forecast,” Nelson said.

Allendale’s survey suggests 222.8 million planted acres for the big three — corn, soybeans and wheat. Combined acreage dropped to 211 million acres in 2019 due to prevent plant after reaching 225.9 million in 2018.

“A lot of people mistakenly believe that acreage is fixed. It’s not, acreage flows into and out of production based on profitability and many other factors.

The main message in general is the concerns about farm profitability over the past four or five years. This has led to an acreage decline. This is normal and expected. The only question is the size of the acreage decline,” Nelson said.

MARKETING TRENDS Allendale’s survey also included the growers’ old crop and new crop marketing positions.

“For corn, it looks like producers are roughly on track with what they normally do by this point,” Nelson said.

The survey found 65% of the old crop corn sold which is at or near the trend each of the past four years.

The survey indicated 68.1% of old crop soybeans were sold at the time of the survey, slightly less than usual at this point. The high was 86.6% in the 2017 survey.

“Producers are holding a few more old crop soybeans than we expected to see. It’s not a big surprise,” Nelson said.

Old crop wheat sales are at 79.5% which is a little behind where it normally in early March.

As expected, the sales also carried over into the new crop numbers.

Producers said they have about 10.3% of new crop corn sold at this point. It’s ranged from 11% to 13% the past few years.

“The new crop soybeans sold really stands out with 5.6% sold at this point. That’s quite a bit less than the 11% to 29% of new crop sold at this point over the past 4 years,” Nelson said.

Nearly 13% of the new crop wheat was sold by early March.

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

From gate to plate NCBA focuses on operational supply chain

By Martha Blum

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WASHINGTON — As people continue to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is focused on food security and the continuation of an uninterrupted food supply chain.

“American consumers are looking for beef to fill their freezers, and we want to make sure we’re there to provide it for them,” said Ethan Lane, vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

“In order to achieve that goal, we need to ensure we have regulator y cer tainty throughout the value chain to continue operations not just from the packing plant to the retail sector, but all the way through the supply chain from the feedlots back to the cow/ calf operations,” Lane said.

“That includes all of the transportation inputs and other moving pieces of the equation that allows us to get the product from the gate to the plate.”

NCBA has been working with decision makers throughout the federal government.

“We’re pleased that we’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from the administration that they are continuing to ensure that the supply chain stays operational,” Lane said.

“And we are pleased to hear that USDA is taking steps to ensure that inspectors from the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service and the A g r ic u lt u r al Marketing Service will be able to continue their important work to ensure the sup- Lane ply chain is moving.”

The cattlemen’s group sent a letter to the White House encapsulating the needs of the beef industry during the COVID-19 situation.

“It was sent to Vice President Pence in his capacity as chairman of the COVID-19 task force,” Lane said. “We have included the concern of our Western producers to operate as they’re getting into turnout season for those working with federal lands, so there won’t be a disruption to manage these resources.”

The letter included information about the financial needs of cattlemen.

“Our request to the administration is they look for additional avenues for flexibility to reduce the burden on producers from existing loans,” Lane said, “as well as access to new forms of capital and low or no interest rates to ensure they have the operating resources necessary to sustain their operations during this disruption.”

U.S. cattle producers are concerned about the fed cattle market prices.

“We’re hearing from producers across the country that the spread between the boxed beef prices and live cattle prices doesn’t reflect the reality on the ground,” Lane said.

“We’re seeing pictures of cleaned off store shelves, so

we know this is a commodity in high demand, but the prices we’re seeing of live cattle are not reflective of that.”

Adequate price discovery has been an ongoing issue for U.S. cattlemen.

“We have been engaged with packers over the past few days to talk about the disparity and ask them to make sure they’re bidding aggressively in the cash market,” Lane said.

“It is clear to us that the futures market is not providing price discovery in this current situation, and that is something we’re searching for a good solution to.”

Restricting the number of people who can gather together at 10, 25, or 50 people may have an impact on livestock auction markets.

“We’re hearing from the federal government that there will be exemptions for food security,” Lane said. “That should apply to livestock markets and the markets are taking steps to minimize human contact.”

Although the U.S.-Canada border has been closed to non-essential travel, Lane said, there should not be a disruption to trade.

“We’ve spent some time checking in with our trading partners in other parts of the world and we’re not foreseeing any issues,” he said.

“We will continue to monitor this rapidly unfolding situation,” he said. “Our focus will remain in insuring agriculture and the cattle industry are taken care of and protected in any stimulus package that may move forward.”

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

Record-setting cow tops 78,000 pounds of milk

By Martha Blum

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HUMBIRD, Wis. — A perfect ration doesn’t guarantee high milk production in a dairy herd.

“There is no secret to high milk production,” said Pam Selz-Pralle, who owns SelzPralle Dairy with her husband, Scott. “It’s what the cow tells you.”

The Wisconsin dairymen are the owners of Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918 that holds the first and second place milk record for mature cow on the Holstein USDA National Leader List. For her world record lactation, Aftershock 3918 produced 78,170 pounds of milk, 4% fat and 3.1% protein.

“Aftershock comes from a pedigree that we would not call very sexy,” said Scott during a webinar hosted by Hoard’s Dairyman. “But a pedigree with six generations back that is filled with a lot of production.”

While setting a world record, 3918 was in a group of 85 to 90 cows.

“She always tried to stay close to everything she needed to do. She picked out two or three stalls that she laid in every day,” Scott said. “And she stayed in proximity of the feedbunk between 30 to 50 feet, so she could put all her energy in doing what she does best, which is making milk.”

This special cow also had little quirks when she went to the milking parlor.

“In the holding area, she never went in early, she waited for the third turn in the parlor, and she would go on the same side of the parlor for every milking,” Scott said. “She always went in the same stall, as well, so she was very detailed about what she did.”

Although Aftershock is not a very tall cow, Scott said, she is very sturdy.

“She has a massive front end with a wide rump,” he said.

“She also has a great set of feet and legs that helps her do what she needs to do in a timely fashion.”

Aftershock has only been in the sick pen for 10 days with one case of mastitis.

“This cow has milked 2,069 days in her lifetime, and she has averaged 153 pounds of milk per day,” Scott said.

“One of the things I find amazing about her is her combined fat and protein was 18 to 19.6 pounds per day,” Pam said. “That’s what we’re excited about, especially here in Wisconsin, where we make a

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Marijuana a hot topic in trucking Industry facing pressing issues

By Jeannine Otto

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

PEORIA, Ill. — He spoke before the widespread outbreak of coronavirus and even then, Don Schaefer, executive vice president of the Mid-West Truckers Association, said there were some pressing issues for the trucking industry.

Schaefer addressed regulation and deregulation both as concerns facing the industry for different reasons.

Schaefer likely was feeling justified. In January, state Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Cicero, resigned before pleading guilty to accepting some $250,000 in bribes from SafeSpeed LLC, a red light camera vendor, and failing to pay taxes on the money.

The federal probe into the state’s red light cameras saw the resignations of several suburban mayors and Chicago transportation officials.

Schaefer has decried the use of the cameras, which can be especially punitive for semi drivers due to the size of their vehicles, around the state.

From red light cameras to marijuana, Schaefer sat down and talked to us about hot topics in the trucking industry.

How are you feeling about the federal corruption probe into the red light cameras in Illinois?

Justified?

“We’ve been chasing that for years. From the very beginning, we opposed them, we opposed them, we opposed them. The coziness of the entire thing has been disgusting and then for these legislators to testify in committee and say ‘well, it’s about safety.’

“I testified in committee I don’t know how many times.

In the early days, when they were starting with the red light cameras, I said this is all a shakedown — but no one listened.”

What are some of the top priorities that the industry and your members are discussing?

“Regulation and deregulation is the best way to put it.”

Let’s talk about regulation first.

What’s the latest?

“We’re dealing with all the new requirements that FMCSA has put down on the industry. We get into the drug and alcohol clearinghouse and dealing with a lot of those types of issues.”

Scott Pralle and Pam Selz-Pralle. lot of cheese.”

For their herd of 500 Holsteins, the dairymen balance the ration for 105 pounds of milk per day.

“Our ration is balanced for 60 pounds of dry matter intake, and we estimate 3918 ate up to 118 pounds of dry matter per day, so no wonder she didn’t walk around very much,” Pam said.

KEEP IT SIMPLE The dairymen keep the cow ration pretty simple.

“We are big believers in BMR corn silage, and we like to feed canola because we’ve seen a real boost in components,” Pam said. “One thing that is a little bit different is we feed BergaFat because we’ve seen a little higher fat test and the cows sustain the test a little longer.”

Typically, the ration is 65% BMR corn silage and 35% haylage for forage.

“We put cameras up and saw that we needed to keep pushing in feed,” Pam said. “We push feed to the cows about every two hours.”

Minimizing stress for the cows is important for the Wisconsin dairymen.

“We have sprinklers, and we added 32 fans to drive more air,” Pam said. “And we pay attention to the sand in the stalls.”

For breeding, Scott said, the focus is to have cows that fit the environment they’re living in and for them to be mobile and agile.

“They need to be more like athletes, and we like them with strong front ends,” he said. “We like udders that work and wear, and we like cows with udders that are high above the hock to keep the manure away.”

Aftershock is now in retirement at the Wisconsin farm.

“We have done some flushing with her, and she’s been averaging 18 embryos every time,” Scott said. “We have a couple of calves on the ground now, we have 20 pregnancies coming this year and we have a bunch of embryos in the tank.”

The dairymen examine return on investment before making any decisions on new technology.

“We’re persnickety, and we believe in preventing because we don’t like to treat cows,” Pam said.

Before making a decision on a new calf barn, the dairymen took a little fantasy tour to check out other dairy facilities.

“We went to auto feeder barns, and we were excited until we got the price tag,” Pam said.

“We definitely got sticker shock, so we made our own hybrid barn,” Scott said.

“We have a positive pressure barn with fans above pushing air down on the calves,” Pam said. “We have solid panels on the sides because we want to control all the air in the entire barn, so in the summertime the calves get a complete exchange of the air every six minutes.”

The calves are housed in groups and fed with a mob feeder.

“After we feed the calves we wash out the mob feeder and floss every nipple to make sure we have a healthy environment for our calves,” Pam said.

“We have had less than a half percent of treatment rate, less than half a percent of death loss and the past year we have not lost a calf from calf scours or pneumonia,” she said. “We are really thrilled with the success that we’ve seen in this barn.”

For more information about the Selz-Pralle Dairy, go to www.selzpralledairy.com.

You mentioned deregulation, which the industry typically likes, no?

“Let’s talk deregulation, or decriminalization is the best way to put it, and the challenges that the industry faces with recreational marijuana. All of a sudden, you’ve got something that’s been a controlled substance that people are now free to use — but not for the trucking industry.

“The challenge there is to avoid the temptation and to be able to find qualified potential drivers who aren’t marijuana users as a result of the change in the law.”

It’s still a Schedule 1 drug, which means that truckers can’t use it, but does the fact that marijuana is legal in some states further narrow the pool for drivers — and for workers in those U.S. DOT “safety sensitive” jobs?

“Oh, sure. You’ve got people who are like ‘I can go out and smoke a joint and do what I want.’ Then they decide they want to work as a truck driver and they go and apply.

“The problem is how long has it been since you used it? The other issue is the guy who’s been a habitual user of marijuana comes in to apply and finds out, hey, I can’t use it if I want to be a truck driver.”

Any concerns at the state government level?

“The big thing is what is going to happen with this constitutional amendment on the progressive income tax.

They are saying right now that only the wealthiest will pay, but the legislators may have a change of mind and say, no, we’re going to drop that and they can do that without anyone else having input in it. It could be catastrophic.”

Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 211, or jotto@agrinews-pubs.com.

Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Otto.

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Distillery donating hand sanitizer to healthcare providers

By Martha Blum

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

DEKALB, Ill. — A new product is in production at Whiskey Acres Distilling Co. in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The estate distillery, which normally produces bourbon, rye whiskey and vodka, is working to produce hand sanitizer.

“Nick and I were in Nebraska and very excited to be opening a new state market for us when the virus really began to take hold,” said Jamie Walter, who owns the business together with his dad, Jim, and Nick Nagele.

“We started discussing if we would be able to produce hand sanitizer, but there were some challenges including the legality and supplies,” Walter said.

With the continuing spread of the coronavirus, the visitor’s center had already been closed at the farm near DeKalb.

“We shut down the public side of our business prior to the governor’s announcement because we thought it was the right thing to do to promote social distancing,” Walter said.

“This virus has thrown our industry in a little of a tailspin, so we are trying to manage our business and at the same time be a good corporate citizen, so we started to revisit the idea of producing hand sanitizer,” said the farmer who operates the family farm with his dad, where the corn is grown for their whiskey.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is providing exemptions to allow distillers to produce hand sanitizers during this emergency.

“That allows small craft distillers like us to retool, so we’re going to do that,” Walter said.

“We’re going to produce hand sanitizer and put it in sprayable 2-ounce bottles.”

In addition to alcohol, the formula requires glycerol and hydrogen peroxide.

“Those two things are in short supply and now our real bottleneck is bottles, so there may be a limit to how much we can make,” Walter said. “We’re going to make a few thousand bottles and donate them to the marketplace.”

Since the primary ingredient in hand sanitizer is ethanol, Walter said, it is not a really big change to switch to making it.

“We’re going to re-distill some of our waste ethanol because for hand sanitizer to be

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“This time of the year, nobody wants to give up any totes, but I’ve had people call and offer 10 or 15 at a time. I had 40 at one of our warehouses, so we’re bringing those up and we’ll see what they need next week,” Denton said.

Switching production over to hand sanitizer went quickly.

“The production side of things was a relatively easy transition. It’s been the packaging that’s more difficult. We used all the same equipment and we did the bottling in our bottling room,” Quinn said.

Labeling of the smaller glass bottles is done by hand. She said two of the tasting room’s bartenders were called in to help, as well as several family members.

The first batches of the sanitizer were donated to local first responders and healthcare providers who are or could be dealing with coronavirus.

“We were prioritizing the healthcare, public services and first responders, so we spent all day Saturday driving around and dropping off donations.

We certainly wanted to donate to people who are on the front lines,” Quinn said.

The distillery continues to

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“This is a challenging time for everybody, and we feel for our employees and our customers. This is a way we can give back to our community and do something that is helpful.”

Jamie Walter, co-owner WHISKEY ACRES DISTILLING CO.

effective it has to have over 60% alcohol,” he said. “To get the proof higher than we typically make for whiskey, it will take more time and energy running through the still.”

The company does not have bottle fillers and equipment to handle the pocket spray atomizers, so they will be filled by hand.

“Our staff, many which are home, has been itching to help, so when we pitched this idea to them they were all over it,” Walter said. “They are really looking forward to helping out.”

The bottles of hand sanitizer will be donated to the local healthcare providers and first responders.

“This is a challenging time for everybody, and we feel for our employees and our customers,” Walter said. “This is a way we can give back to our community and do something that is helpful.”

In addition to Illinois and now Nebraska, Whiskey Acres products also became available in Wisconsin late in 2019.

“Our products are available in over 600 locations,” Walter said.

“You can go to the location finder on our website and put in your ZIP code to find the nearest location,” he said. “If you’re downstate and don’t know where to find our whiskey, it can be ordered online at www.binnys.com, which is one of our retail partners to have it shipped to your home.”

For more information about Whiskey Acres Distilling Co., go to www.whiskeyacres.com.

Martha Blum can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 117, or marthablum@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Blum. sell its beers by the growler, as well as vodka and gin. Now, it will be adding hand sanitizer to that list of products for sale.

“We are still open for carryout hours. Vodka, gin and beer by the growler can still be carried out, and we will continue to have carryouts for as long as we are allowed to. Now we are also going to open up sales of hand sanitizer to the public.

We wanted to make sure we had plenty for the healthcare workers and first responders, and we’ve done that. We have allocated plenty of supply to that,” Quinn said.

She said for the team at the distillery, many of whom come from farms, the long hours from Wednesday through the weekend and now continuing, aren’t anything new.

“We are pretty used to working long hours and extremely hard for short durations of time, coming from the farming side of things. If you go six days in a row with hardly any sleep, that’s what you do. You sleep when it starts raining, so we are used to gearing up quickly and working until the job gets done,” Quinn said.

Jeannine Otto can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 211, or jotto@agrinews-pubs.com.

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FARMLAND FROM PAGE ONE

Excellent rated land has a productivity index of 133 and above; good rated land’s PI is 117 to 132; average, 100 to 116; and fair, less than 100.

The survey noted the general trend indicated a stable market at year-end for high quality farmland. The central belt of Illinois seems to have the most consistent position of a stableto-slightly-higher farmland market.

Characteristics of farm sales in the data set for 2019 were slightly smaller in size and higher in quality compared to 2018. Challenges exist, especially in the northeastern part of the state and the lower quality soils in southern Illinois.

Settling estates was the top reason for selling farmland and estimated as the reason for the sale 58% of the time. This has been statistically the same for several years.

W hile estate sales are estimated to be 44% of the volume of farmland sold in 2019, active farmer selling was estimated at 10%, 7% higher than the 3% estimated in 2012 when farmland values were nearing their peak.

Farmers accounted for 59% of the farmland purchases made last year.

Excellent Good Average Fair

Precise geography also continued to play a vital role in a farm’s value. Land located near well positioned neighbors in a strong ag area continues to bring a premium.

Not only are there unique Region 4 — Livingston, Woodford, McLean, Tazewell, Mason, Marshall geographic pockets of strength within the region, even the speand Putnam counties: Excellent cific counties have areas that productivity tracts sold averaged $10,514 per acre, good was are especially competitive and $8,586, average was $6,981 per strong. acre and fair — only 3 tracts — at $7,240.

Region 8 — Madison, Bond, St. Sales seemed to be steady Clair, Clinton, Washington, Monroe throughout the year instead of and Randolph counties: The reconcentrated at the beginning gion saw a broad range of prices and end of the year as typically across the board compared to seen. Though the overall averthe previous year. For example, age was steady, similar land saw excellent productivity land sales a variety of prices when located ranged from 17% lower to 6% in different areas. This led to higher. seeing more sales at both ends Limited sales for excellent of the range for the given land and good productivity farmland classification. averaged $12,780 and $10,080 Location is the number one per acre, respectively. Most of factor of a farm’s obtainable the region is made up of averAROUND THE STATE price. Furthermore, rectangular age productivity soil types and Here are some of the survey fields with no waterways or cut- those sales averaged $7,486 per findings by geographies. outs and with good or excellent acre. Fair land sales averaged soil productivity saw premiums $5,861 per acre.

Region 1 — Will, Kankakee, as compared to fields containPrior to 2008, tracts close to Kendall, Kane, DeKalb, Grundy, ing characteristics that would cities and rural subdivisions, or McHenry, LaSalle and Boone counslow down today’s large, modtransitional tracts, were selling ties: Excellent quality farmland ern, equipment. for 3 times the value of farmsales averaged $9,766 per acre, land. Most areas took very long good sales averaged $8,023 Region 5 — Champaign, Douglas, to recover, and now those parper acre, average farmland cels are selling for above-farmColes, Edgar, Vermilion, Iroquois was $6,334 per acre and fair at land values again. and Ford counties: Farmland val$4,821 per acre.

The population in the St. ues for excellent and good proWith current commodity Louis metropolitan area productivity were down 5.7% and prices and 2020 crop specula6%, respectively from the previ- vides a strong economic engine tion, land values did not seem ous year, while average produc- for the economy of the region to reflect this less than ideal and has a positive influence on tivity land increased 15%. outlook. Over the entire Region land values depending on locaExcellent productivity land 1, all land classes remained sta- sales ranged from $9,500 to tion. ble from the prior year with an $11,500 an acre, good was average amount of land trans$7,000 to $9,000, average proRegion 9 — Clark, Cumberland, actions. ductivity was $5,000 to $7,000 Lawrence, Wabash, Edwards, The steady market comes in and recreational was $3,500 to Fayette, Effingham, Richland, part from continued demand $4,500.

Marion, Jasper, Crawford, Wayne from investors and farmers.

Total sales volume increased and Clay counties: The overall These buyers have ample oppor- about 8% from 2018, although trend for the farmland market tunities as there is still a supply sales of cropland were 14 perin this region was steady yearof farms being sold from estates cent higher with fewer sales over-year. or retiring farmers. of other land types. Buyer attiTypical per acre sales were Demand for rural residential tudes are becoming increasingly noted as $8,350 for good protracts between 5 and 15 acres cautious, leading to more selec- ductivity land, $7,000 for averhas heightened over the last tivity in the quality and location age, $4,800 for fair and $3,200 year, many from smaller farms of properties of interest to them. for recreational land. There that have been split into several were not sales of excellent prolot sized tracts. These tracts are ductivity land in 2019.

Region 6 — Macon, Logan, seeing values from $10,000 to The better quality land in DeWitt, Piatt, Moultrie, Shelby and $20,000 per acre. this region has remained stable Christian counties: Values for in overall value. The market is excellent and fair productivity Region 2 — Bureau, Carroll, showing some signs of decline farmland sales were up slightly Stephenson, Jo Daviess, Whiteside, from the previous year and in the less desirable land qualiLee, Ogle, Winnebago, Bureau, down slightly for good and aver- ties. Fair productivity land indiHenry and Mercer counties: The cated a decline of almost 6%. age land. farmland market in the region The per acre sales for excelshowed a slight decline for exlent rated farmland averaged Region 10 — Gallatin, Hamilton, cellent tracts while good and $10,835, good was at $8,839, Massac, Pulaski, Saline, White, average tracts indicated a slight average farmland was $6,705 Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, increase. and fair $5,995.

Jefferson, Williamson, Union, Fair quality tracts showed staJohnson, Hardin, Perry and Pope Overall, the market was ble to slightly declining in 2019. counties: Good productivity steady for the first three quarHowever, limited fair tract sales land value increased 2% from ters of the year, with a strong data makes it difficult to deter2018 with typical sales around fourth quarter pushing values mine any definite changes in $7,550 per acre. Year-over-year up for the year.

There were a the market. average productivity farmland couple of large auctions with The median price per acre sales ranged from a 10% invery strong results that gave the of all land classes was $8,977 crease to 3% decline, ranging market strength. in 2019 compared to $8,532 from $4,450 to $7,500 per acre.

The slight increase in the per acre in 2018. The number market is due to the continued Fair productivity land typically of sales in the region is steady demand from buyers for land in sold in the $3,500 per acre range, when compared to 2018. a 3% decline from the previous Overall, the farmland market central Illinois. Buyers include in Region 2 was relatively quiet. farmers and investors in a mar- year and recreational land sales ket where supply remains tight. of $2,800 per acre were up 4%.

There are still a lot of moving Good productivity farmland parts in the market and dependRegion 7 — Greene, Calhoun, transfers which are few in the ing on which way they swing Sangamon, Macoupin, Morgan, region indicated values were could have an impact on farmScott, Montgomery, Cass and unchanged or slightly up. The land values.

Jersey counties: Farmland values volume and acreage transferred were down.

Region 3 — Stark, Peoria, Warren, remained steady to up 2% to 4% in the region, but overall Weather risks, as well as lower Henderson, McDonough, Knox and sales were down “quite heavily” commodity prices, may have reFulton counties: Excellent produring 2019 before picking up sulted in decisions to delay sales. ductivity land sales averaged speed going into 2020.

It is too soon to tell the impact $10,800 per acre, good land The report notes excellent pro- of levee breaks and flooding on ranged from $8,000 to $8,500 ductivity tracts averaged $11,338 price of good and area 1 proper acre, average land sold in per acre, good land was $8,565 ductivity tracts in the levee prothe $5,750 per acre range, fair per acre, average farmland was tected parts of Region 10. farmland averaged $3,000 per $5,192 per acre and fair was at acre and recreational lands $5,406 on limited sales.

Tom C. Doran can be reached $3,500 per acre.

The lack of supply might have at 815-780-7894 or tdoran@ There continues to be good helped give certain types of agrinews-pubs.com. Follow him demand for excellent quality lands the gains they saw. on Twitter at: @AgNews_Doran. farmland. The auction sales

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“Nic Anderson (Illinois Livestock Development Group lead) has just been real key to our organization over the years of being able to tell our story.

Nic knows the LMFA inside and out.

“He knows how to help people talk to their county boards, talk to their neighbors, work with road commissions and others and find options to be able to put these types of operations in an area.

“A lot of times it’s just talking to grain farmers and helping them understand why having livestock is good in their area, why it’s good to improve their basis and find new ways of using corn in an area.

were well attended and active competition among bidders.

With that being said, buyers are still very discerning with almost no blemish going unnoticed.

“There are a lot of family farms where livestock has provided a great opportunity to bring back another family member to the farm and Haag provides an opportunity to bring that extra income in to maybe allow that.”

It takes a strong team to promote and expand Illinois’ livestock industry.

“Tasha Bunting (Illinois Farm Bureau associate director of commodities and livestock programs) is the Farm Bureau point person. We also try to work with a lot of the county Farm Bureaus, too, in the areas

where these are being built.

Mark Gebhards (IFB executive director) has also been a part of that, too, but Nic is the main person.

“Tim Maiers (IPPA’s public relations director) also does a lot of work. The last couple of years we’ve tried to do more and more open houses with new buildings and Tim has kind of overseen that process. He does a great job going out to the communities and having open houses in those facilities.

“These open houses enable people to see inside these white buildings they see when their going down the road and show they’re really a great place for these animals to be raised and we really provide the optimum environment for them to grow and thrive.”

Tom C. Doran

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Together, we’ll get through this Pan-dem-ic / pan’demik / Definition: an outbreak of a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.

A 25-year-old member of my team of reporters asked me last week if I’d ever been Rural Issues through anything like this before. No, I have Cyndi Young- not. I have no frame of reference for what has Puyear happened in the world, in our country and in my community in the past two weeks.

It changes daily — sometimes hourly — so I’m not writing about specifics, as it could very well be obsolete when you read this. At this writing, I do not personally know anyone who has been confirmed with COVID-19.

As is the case with anything, there are those who are so frightened and panicked that it is debilitating for them. And there are those who believe COVID-19 is no more of a threat in America than Influenza A (recall the 2009 H1N1 pandemic?) or SARS (the outbreak in 2003 that was also caused by a coronavirus.)

My personal take on it lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, I am concerned about the toll this virus could take on the elderly and those with compromised immune systems.

I’m deeply concerned about the overall economic impact of the reaction to COVID-19. Very few businesses will remain unscathed.

Those of us raising cattle have taken another hard hit. The price of boxed beef continues to skyrocket, but the cash cattle price has taken a huge dive.

The Big Four packers — Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — are being called on to get more aggressive in the cash market and base bids on the increased cutout value instead of futures.

I do appreciate the support I have received from the company for which I have worked for 22 years. I know I am blessed. I have friends whose sole income is tending bar or waiting tables at a small, local establishment. The owners of those businesses simply cannot continue to pay them and cover all other expenses when the doors are closed.

I’m sorry that medical professionals are having to deal with everyone telling them how to do their jobs right now. I’m sorry they must watch as people develop their own theories and share them on social media.

I’m sorry corporate media picks up the most sensational theories and puts them out as news. None of these individuals or corporate media has any training or experience in the medical field.

American agriculture feels your pain.

I am grateful for all the medical professionals on the frontlines and those who are unseen and unsung heroes every day — pandemic or not.

God bless the truck drivers and those stocking shelves and disinfecting.

My heart goes out to those high school seniors who came into the world the year of 9/11 and are finishing out their school year taking online classes or being homeschooled because of a pandemic. They have had those rites of passage like prom and senior skip day and, for many, a graduation ceremony taken away from them.

During these days and weeks of social distancing, perhaps we will find some moderation. With school and church and other community activities postponed or cancelled, there is time that can be spent having meals together as a family.

Yes, it’s a difficult time in America, but spring has arrived. It’s National Agriculture Week. Let’s support one another in our communities and we’ll get through this together.

Cyndi Young-Puyear is farm director and operations manager for Brownfield Network.

Playing the cards you’re dealt My father wasn’t a stoic. Instead, his temperament was one of acceptance. He simply accepted the fact that he wasn’t in complete control of most things on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth.

Sure, he was boss over Farm & Food everything in sight: hunFile dreds of acres, 100 dairy cows, five farmhand Alan Guebert sons, three hired men and his unpredictable, iron-bending Uncle Honey.

But control? Never. And yet, little ever moved him to anger or anxiety.

For example, when Jackie, the farm’s principal hired hand, destroyed an Oliver 77 by driving it off the corn silage pile, Dad’s only question to the still-shaking man — who was never known for speed — was how he managed to jump to safety so quickly.

Years later while sharing one of our thousand evenings in the milking parlor, I asked him why he hadn’t even cussed when he saw the mangled 77.

Ah, he said with a wave of a wet hand, once he saw Jackie was OK, the tractor didn’t matter. “It was old and insured.

Jackie was neither.”

Acceptance. Somehow he just knew that there was little he could do to prevent bent cultivator bars (Uncle Honey), overturned silage wagons (Uncle Honey)

and two plowed-out telephone poles.

(Uncle Honey and Uncle Honey.)

In fact, I once thought that if our family had a coat of arms, its motto would have read, “I can’t prevent it, but I can fix it.”

Decades later, in one of our weekly telephone conversations, I asked my father how his best friend was dealing with a recent cancer diagnosis.

“Not good,” Dad said. “He doesn’t want to see me.”

Why? “Well,” he said, “I think it’s because he hasn’t accepted the idea that dying is the cost of living.”

Wow, what insight.

I asked him what he could do. Oh, he said, he’d find a reason to go to the friend’s house to talk about the weather or the Cardinals or the peach crop. Just chat, you know, about things that, when rolled together, make up today and tomorrow.

“I just want him to know that each day is a gift from God regardless if it brings a baptism or a funeral,” he announced.

That really was the essence of my father. Life ebbed and flowed and he rode it back and forth without fear or favor. He never asked for love or loyalty, he didn’t lighten his load by adding to anyone else’s and he was religious, but never preachy.

Two, almost opposite, traits might explain him better: he was a very good

fisherman and he loved to play cards.

Fishing, he would say, is mostly preparation — the right bait, local knowledge, good tackle — and patience. Neither, however, ensures you’ll catch fish.

That’s why “It’s called ‘fishing’ and not ‘catching,’” he’d say on the days we spent fishing more than catching.

Card playing, however, is mostly luck; you, literally, play the cards you’re dealt. Skill in playing them also matters, but skill rarely trumps the luck of the draw.

My father embodied those near-opposites; he was prepared for whatever luck — fishing or catching — brought.

One last memory: I once asked him, a diligent Bible reader (King James Version, please) what his favorite passage was. After reciting his baptism, confirmation and wedding verses, he settled on one that made perfect sense to him, Matthew 6, verse 26: “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

Ye — we — are, my father might say, today and tomorrow and everyday. That said, I’m pretty sure he’d still keep one eye fixed on Uncle Honey.

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Heroes of the food supply chain I just really want to speak from my heart to all you folks out there who are working at the front lines of our food supply chain. You know, we’re spoiled in America. You’ve provided such abundant, healthy, wholesome, afSonny fordable, available food Purdue that we take you for granted.

Department For all you people, of Agriculture from the people who are stocking those shelves, from the people who are driving the trucks to get this food to us, the people who are processing the food and the people who grow the food and all the vendors that supplied our farmers to help them grow this food whether it’s fertilizer or feed or seed or any other input — thank you so much for what you’re doing.

I know these are uncertain times, but I just want to tell you from my heart, as an American citizen, I am so grateful for what you’re doing. And I want to thank you for doing that.

I know there’s been a lot of confusion about teleworking and all that kind of stuff. You all have jobs that can’t telework, and we know that.

We’ve got our Food Safety and Inspection Service workers on the front line, day in and day out, to make sure our food is safe, just like we always have. But you’re the real heroes in this effort.

In World War II, we actually had agricultural deferments because the food supply chain was so important.

And that’s essentially what you all are doing.

From the person that makes the equipment, that supplies the farmers, to the seed, the fertilizer, the farmers that go day in and day out to produce this food and all through the processing and the

packaging and the logistics and the stocking of the shelves to greeting and checking out people — you are vital to our economy and you are vital to our needs of America having a strong food supply.

You’ve probably heard me say before, our motto at the U.S. Department of Agriculture is, “Do Right and Feed Everyone.” We can’t do that alone at USDA, but you are doing it.

And I want to just thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing day in and day out. Stay at the job.

You know that America depends on you if we are going to have the food we need to feed our families. You are the ones that can make that happen. Thank you.

God Bless you. Stay safe.

And God bless America.

Sonny Perdue is the U.S. secretary of agriculture.

Farmers and ranchers rise to the call

Things are far from business as usual in cities and towns across America. Millions of us are being called to serve our neighbors by staying home.

Our American Farm Bureau offices in D.C. Zippy Duvall have closed for the time-being to follow this guidance and to help American our employees and their Farm Bureau families and neighbors stay safe and healthy.

But staying home doesn’t mean that our work stops, and we know that it sure doesn’t mean work on the farm stops.

There is a lot beyond our control and still unknown as we face this crisis, but we can focus on and be faithful with the tasks at hand.

For farmers and ranchers our calling hasn’t changed, though its importance hits closer to home in times like these: we are committed to rising every day to grow and harvest the food we all depend on.

We can’t do that work alone, however.

In the days, weeks and months ahead, agriculture will continue to depend on access to a skilled workforce to help with the work of planting, cultivating and harvesting our crops.

For this reason, Farm Bureau is urging our nation’s leaders to classify farm workers as emergency workers on H2A guest-worker visa applications.

We understand the administration’s responsibility to act on behalf of our public health, and we must all do our part to protect the health of our families and communities.

We can — and we must — find a way to safely secure access to the workforce agriculture needs to continue our critical work of providing a healthy, affordable food supply for our nation.

We have been blessed with plenty when it comes to America’s food supply.

Empty shelves can be frightening, but empty fields and barns would be devastating.

Times like these should remind us all of the importance of ensuring our nation’s food security. While many retailers are scaling back and temporarily closing for public health, agriculture remains on call 24/7.

As Americans everywhere rush to their local grocery stores, I am reminded of and grateful for the tireless hours farmers and ranchers put in all year long to supply healthy, affordable food to be processed and packaged so stores can restock grocery shelves, produce bins and meat and dairy cases.

We can also be thankful to live in a time when advances in technology allow us to continue our work and stay connected from a distance. But this national and global crisis, now more than ever before, is a reminder that a reliable broadband connection is a necessity for all, not a luxury to be enjoyed by some.

Farmers must be able to stay connected across the supply chain. Students in rural America will need access to online classes as grade schools, high schools and universities shut down for the coming weeks, possibly months.

And rural Americans of all ages will depend on access to telemedicine and counseling services to protect and promote well-being throughout this crisis.

While the coming weeks will be long for everyone, our friends with no reliable broadband will face a greater challenge in connecting to critical information and services.

Like you, I am praying for a quick end to this pandemic. I also have faith that great stories of service, of neighbors helping neighbors and communities working together — even from a distance — to protect one another will shine brightly across this country.

Zippy Duvall is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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2020 USDA OUTLOOK FORUM

Roadmap to managing food insecurity, climate volatility ARLINGTON, Va. — Corteva Agriscience Global Plant Breeding Leader Geoff Graham told attendees of the 2020 USDA Ag Outlook Forum that advanced plant breeding techniques and proven success in improving crop productivity in developed regions provides a roadmap to managing risk from food insecurity and climate volatility around the world.

Graham’s remarks were made as part of a session track on managing risk and ensuring sustainability in production agriculture.

“Not only is agricultural productivity critical to meeting the demands of a growing population, it’s also a critical tool to combat climate volatility,” Graham said.

“We have proven that innovative breeding technologies such as molecular markers, precision phenotyping, predictive

“Not only is agricultural productivity critical to meeting the demands of a growing population, it’s also a critical tool to combat climate volatility.”

lion acres of farmland.

“We’re producing more outputs with fewer inputs,” Graham said. “But food insecurity and climate volatility do not impact the globe

uniformly, and we must also work to develop new cropping systems adapted to local conditions.”

“This will take all the tools in our toolbox, as well

as open and transparent communication between the public, academia, governments and private companies,” Graham said.

“Independently, these

technologies are just tools — but, collaboratively, they are solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.”

The panel also included

remarks from former Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel and USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig.

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USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator Martin Barbre chaired the “Mitigating Production Risk” panel discussion during the forum, which centered on the challenges that farmers and government decision makers face during growing seasons with extreme weather conditions.

He noted that 2019 was one of the wettest farming years on record, while 2012 was one of the driest.

Despite increased weather variability, overall crop yields continue to trend upward over time.

Graham said the almost seven-fold increase in average corn yields achieved in North America since 1920 means we’ve grown millions of additional bushels of grain without putting a corresponding number of acres into agricultural production.

Yield improvements over the last century have increased productivity from an average of 25 bushels per acre to 170 bushels per acre.

Further, Graham said if the top 20 world corn-producing countries improved their production levels to those found in the United States 20 years ago, it would be the equivalent of adding another 100 mil-

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Lobbying effort for ag research funding

By Tom C. Doran

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WASHINGTON — Illinois and Indiana university representatives and a Certified Crop Adviser were recently on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to continue agricultural research funding.

Todd Steinacher, AgriGold regional agronomist, was part of a four-member team in his role as a Certified Crop Adviser board member.

Other team members were Sylv ie Brouder, Purdue University agronomy professor and American Society of Agronomy president; Jeff Volenec, Purdue agronomy professor and American Society of Agronomy president-elect; and Neha Chatterjee, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign biogeochemistr y doctorate student.

The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America organized the congressional visits to lobby for research funding appropriations.

“They do a lot of advocating for production agriculture across disciplines, whether it is forestry, fruits and vegetables or corn and soybean production,” Steinacher said of the societies.

“The Purdue researchers were there to advocate why that’s important to them, the Illinois doctorate student was there to suggest the importance of how that funding impacts her education. I was there as an Illinois CCA to kind of be the glue that pulls it all together.

“As a CCA, we didn’t receive any financial gain from it, but yet we’re kind of the glue that says here’s how this works to benefit a farmer.”

Steinacher and his group urged the congressional representatives to support the continued funding for Agriculture and Food Research Initiative at $480 million, Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority at $50 million and the Competitive Equipment Grant Program at $5 million for fiscal year 2021.

All of the programs were included in the 2018 farm bill, and funding needs to be re-appropriated.

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture awards AFRI research, education and extension grants to improve rural economies, increase food production, stimulate the bioeconomy, mitigate impacts of climate variability, address water availability issues, ensure food safety and security, enhance human nutrition and train the next generation of the agricultural work workforce.

The 2018 farm bill est abl ished A g r icu lt u re Advanced Research and Development Authority pilot program to develop technologies, research tools, and products through advanced research on long-term and high-risk challenges for food and agriculture.

AGARDA focuses on research and development that private industry is unlikely to undertake. This research will help ensure that the United States maintains its position as a leader in global agricultural research and development.

The purpose of Equipment Assistance Grants is to distribute funding allocations provided by the Agriculture Appropriations Act. State agencies competitively award equipment assistance grants to eligible school food authorities participating in the National School Lunch Program.

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Davis’ office and some oth- Rodney Davis was one of ers to teach us how to talk them and he’s a big supto the staffs, how to set porter of this program and our meetings up, how the process.”

Steinacher said since meeting is going to go. It was a full day of training,” Illinois and Indiana are major agricultural states, Steinacher said.

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most of the congressional representatives were in support of funding these projects.

“It’s been funded for the last 10 years, so it just has to be redone so the dollars don’t maybe slip to a different area. Everyone was on board with it. They’ve heard of it, they support it,” he said.

“T hey had questions more for us about what the cha l lenges are that farmers are going through over the last couple of years, whether it is pricing, late planting, env i ron ment a l i s sues.

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He added there were other groups representing states that aren’t as ag-heavy that questioned funding the programs.

“Well, at the end of the day we all get value from production agriculture, so I think that was the biggest takeaway. If we don’t stay ahead of this ballgame how are we going to provide food and fiber for all of us,” Steinacher said.

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SHP adds data manager to staff ST. LOUIS — The Soil Health Partnership introduced Carrie Roever as its new data manager. Her primary responsibility will be to assist in organizing and finding efficiencies in the SHP data.

“I enjoy assembling the puzzle that is involved with figuring out data and looking for efficiencies. I’m eager to dig into SHP’s data and make sense of how it all fits together,” she said.

SHP, a program of the National Corn Growers Association, promotes the adoption of soil health practices for economic and environmental benefits.

After her doctorate, Roever went to Oregon State University, where she studied cattle movement across the landscape during a drought. Roever then accepted a data manager position at the University of Idaho where she helped to train and educate researchers on how to manage data and ensure compliance with state and federal laws.

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Last week Chg. 56.37 62.70 71.30 72.50 72.02 60.87

5.20 -1.83 -3.35 -2.13 -2.30 -0.30

7.72 6.22 3.78 2.63 2.60 3.15

MILK CLASS III MAR 20 16.26 APR 20 16.05 MAY 20 15.31 JUN 20 15.52 JUL 20 15.92 AUG 20 16.11

16.34 15.90 15.78 15.98 16.35 16.56

-0.08 0.15 -0.47 -0.46 -0.43 -0.45

CORN MAY 20 3436 3656 -220 JUL 20 3494 3684 -190 SEP 20 3546 3676 -130 DEC 20 3632 3730 -98 MAR 21 3732 3826 -94 MAY 21 3774 3874 -100

SOYBEANS MAY 20 8624 JUL 20 8646 AUG 20 8652 SEP 20 8616 NOV 20 8606 JAN 21 8600

8486 8560 8594 8604 8644 8676

138 86 58 12 -38 -76

CHICAGO WHEAT MAY 20 5392 5060 332 JUL 20 5356 5070 286 SEP 20 5382 5130 252 DEC 20 5466 5236 230 MAR 21 5542 5336 206 MAY 21 5522 5364 158

K.C. WHEAT MAY 20 4690 JUL 20 4724 SEP 20 4796 DEC 20 4906 MAR 21 5002 MAY 21 5052

4314 4384 4474 4610 4732 N/A

376 340 322 296 270 N/A

BRENT CRUDE OIL MAY 20 26.98 33.85 -6.87 JUN 20 29.00 35.44 -6.44 JUL 20 30.63 36.77 -6.14 AUG 20 31.98 37.85 -5.87 SEP 20 33.08 38.71 -5.63 OCT 20 33.87 39.38 -5.51

ETHANOL APR 20 MAY 20 JUN 20 JUL 20 AUG 20 SEP 20

1.192 1.211 1.226 1.226 1.226 1.226

-0.210 -0.207 -0.207 -0.207 -0.207 -0.207

FEEDER CATTLE MAR 20 120.72 APR 20 118.82 MAY 20 118.25 AUG 20 123.80 SEP 20 124.87 OCT 20 126.07

113.00 112.60 114.47 121.17 122.27 122.92

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This Last 52-wk week week high

ADM AGCO BASF Bunge CF

30.61 40.30 10.58 31.78 22.25

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34.64 47.20 Corteva 22.53 24.82 32.78 55.33 81.39 Dupont 31.47 37.10 83.72 12.49 20.98 Deere 111.63 138.96 181.99 38.56 59.65 FMC 65.32 88.05 108.77 27.68 55.15 Mosaic 9.59 11.01 28.61

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

week ago this year year ago % diff.

WHEAT 449.653 385.143 19722.39 18011.087 9.50 CORN 977.879 812.893 15925.67 27424.573 -41.93 SOYBEANS 436.358 849.700 30573.72 27707.97 10.34

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This Last Year week year

week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2790 2648 2503 5.36 11.47 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 653 633 636 3.16 2.67 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

77.82 70.04 7.78 77.54 89.02 -11.48 85.55 73.57 11.98 54.76 55.80 -1.04 254.07 206.85 47.22 240.38 202.11 38.27 109.80 109.35 0.45 173.11 174.20 -1.09

OKLAHOMA CITY This week Last week Change FEEDER STEER Low High Low High Low High 4-5 Wt Mf 1’S 5-6 Wt Mf 1’S 6-7 Wt Mf 1’S 7-8 Wt Mf 1’S 8-10 Wt Mf 1’S

134.00 153.50 146.00 174.50 -12.00 -21.00 123.50 134.00 128.00 173.75 -4.50 -39.75 116.00 136.75 119.50 144.25 -3.50 -7.50 109.00 136.75 118.75 133.00 -9.75 3.75 99.50 114.75 105.00 120.50 -5.50 -5.75

Eastern Corn Belt Direct Feeder Cattle Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky and Ohio Reported sales this week, 671; last week, 129; last year, 2,637.

Demand light. Supply included 100% over 600 pounds, 100% heifers.

Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1-2 Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 536 725 725 96.50 96.50 135 725 725 96.50 96.50

Delivery May FOB Jun FOB

CASH HOGS, CARCASS PRICES, WEIGHTED AVERAGE BASE PRICE This week Last week Change National

56.10 54.03 2.07

USDA National Grain Market Review Compared to last week, cash bids for corn, sorghum and soybeans were lower; wheat was mostly higher.

For the week ending March 12, an increase of 55.6 million bushels of corn export sales for 2019-20 were reported, with an increase of 23.2 million bushels of soybean exports sales, and an increase of 12.4 million bushels of wheat export sales. Sorghum export sales showed an increase of 14.4 million bushels.

Ethanol production for the week ending March 12 reported a decrease of 9,000 barrels per day to 1.035 million barrels a day.

Ethanol stocks increased 0.264 million barrels at 24.6 million barrels.

Wheat was 5 cents lower to 62 3/4 cents higher. Corn was 20 1/4 cents lower to 45 1/4 cents lower. Sorghum was 36 cents to 37 cents lower. Soybeans were 13 1/4 cents lower to 16 1/4 cents lower.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 22 1/4 to 27 1/4 cents lower from 3.50 1/2-3.57 1/2 per bushel.

Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was 30 to 31 cents lower from 3.21-3.30 per bushel.

Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was 21 1/4 to 28 1/4 cents lower from 3.46 1/2-3.48 1/2 per bushel.

Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 39 1/4 to 45 1/4 cents lower at 3.40 1/2 per bushel.

Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 20 1/4 cents lower at 3.15 1/2 per bushel.

OILSEEDS Minneapolis Yellow truck soybeans were 14 1/4 cents lower at

8.19 1/4 per bushel.

Illinois Processors US No 1 Yellow truck soybeans were 13 1/4 to 16 1/4 cents lower from 8.50 1/4-8.57 1/4 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 16 1/4 cents lower from 8.33 1/4-8.43 1/4 per bushel.

Illinois 48 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 12.00 higher from 314.80-317.80 per bushel.

Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 0.90 to 1.00 points lower from 24.8825.98 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 62 3/4 cents higher from 5.75 1/2-5.85 1/2 per bushel.

St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 28 cents higher at 5.66 per bushel.

Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 30 3/4 to 40 3/4 cents higher at 6.79 3/4 per bushel.

Portland US Soft White wheat rail was 5 cents lower at 5.8 per bushel.

SORGHUM US No 2 yellow truck, Kansas City was 36 to 37 cents lower from 5.63-6.17 per cwt. Texas High Plains US No 2 yellow sorghum (prices paid or bid to the farmer, fob elevator) was 36 to 37 cents lower from 5.54-6.07 per cwt.

OATS US 2 or Better oats, rail bid to arrive at Minneapolis 20 day was 3 3/4 to 13 3/4 cents lower from 3.16 1/4-3.41 1/4 per bushel.

Futures Prices compiled by faculty and staff of the Ag Economics Department at the University of Missouri Direct Feeder Catttle from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, Oklahoma City. Grain Market Review from USDA Dept of Ag Market News, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Country artist Tenille Townes in the studio recording “In My Blood,” produced and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, by an all-female team, in honor of the 50th anniversary of women in agriculture.

‘IN MY BLOOD’

Country artist celebrates women in agriculture NASHVILLE, Tenn.

— Award-winning, breakout artist Tenille Townes kicked off National FFA Week with a new campaign that celebrates 50 Years of Women in FFA. Joining forces with the Ram Truck Brand, a committed sponsor of National FFA, to honor the anniversary, Townes wrote the original track, called “In My Blood,” available now.

The video features lyrics that speak to the core values of the special milestone: women, hard work, courage and integrity.

“It is an honor to have written this song with the heart of women in agriculture in mind. These are the women who inspire and shape all of us and it makes me think of the strong women in my life I grew up looking up to. The ones who made me believe anything is possible. Their legacy is something we get to keep building upon and that’s what I was dreaming about writing this song,” Townes said.

Spotlighting the daily moments of females in agriculture, the video also features Townes recording the song in the studio.

The revealing imagery shows female farmers of all ages evoking the spirit of the meaning behind the lyrics.

With history between Ram and FFA beginning in 1953, Ram recognizes women in agriculture and has committed to help FFA amplify this important message.

“It was also such a cool ex per ience recording this song with an all-female team in the studio,” Townes said. “This project has truly reminded me how many incredible women I’m surrounded by, and I’m so grateful to be a part of celebrating that in the 50th anniversary of women in FFA with this song.

‘HANGING’ WITH FFA “I had the pleasure of hanging with amazing young FFA members in Indianapolis this past year and was blown away by their character and kindness. Makes me feel like the next 50 years are in very good hands.”

In the past 50 years, women have become an integral part of FFA, helping shape the future of agricultural education and the industry as a whole.

With the help of photos and video from platforms such as FarmHer, the perception of the farmer is evolving by bringing stories of women to the forefront of agriculture.

“The studio session to record ‘In My Blood’ was such an unexpected blast

of a day. The experience was made even more significant by how the subject matter shaped our experience of bringing Tenille’s song to life,” said Jordan Hamlin, the song producer.

“Being raised by a long line of amazing women on land that had been in my family for generations, I immediately felt an inspired kinship and deep honor in helping spread these stories for women all across the country who ‘feel at home under the sky.’

Seeing the women’s faces in the photos among the fields and farms made me appreciate growing up around the same type of amazing women all over again,” Hamlin said.

“The environment in the studio that day had some of those same ingredients — a group of women coming together to get the job done right, as Tenille says, with a little ‘grit and grace.’”

Townes, who has been busy paving her own path to success as a female country artist, recently earned four Canadian Country Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year, along with being named one of CMT’s “Next Women of Country” and a member of the inaugural class of “Opry NextStage.”

Songs for hard times Here is a chapter from “Haunted by Markets,” entitled “Songs for Hard Commodity Times,” that I Insight wrote on Oct. 18, Jerry Welch 2013. You decide if times were harder back then or now with fears of coronavirus sweeping the globe.

Adversity is considered the grindstone of life. It is an old cliché, but the truth is hard times either grind you down or polish you up. On yomifavour.blogspot.com, I found some examples of how hard times polished up a few people down through history. n Ludwig Beethoven composed his greatest works after becoming deaf. n Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the History of the World during a 13-year imprisonment. n If Columbus had turned back, no one could have blamed him considering the constant adversity he endured. n Abe Lincoln achieved greatness by his display of wisdom and character during the devastation of the Civil War. n Luther translated the Bible while enduring confinement in the Castle of Wartburg. n Under a sentence of death and during 20

years in exile, Dante wrote the Divine Comedy. n John Bunyan wrote Pilgrims Progress in a Bedford jail.

Rather than listen to the doom-and-gloomers, I wish to suggest something different. In times like these, if you have to listen to bad news, I say hear it in a song.

The following are my top choices for the bestall-around songs for hard times. n “There’s Nothing Soft about Hard Times” by Jimmy Buffett. n “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?” by Blind Alfred Reed and updated by Bruce Springsteen. n “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)” by Crystal Waters n “Take This Job and Shove It!” by Johnny Paycheck. n “Coal Miner’s Daughter” by Loretta Lynn. n “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” by Randy Newman. n “Workin’ Man Blues”

by Merle Haggard. n “Ain’t Nothing Going On but the Rent” by Gwen Guthrie. n “In the Ghetto” by Elvis Presley n “Bread Line Blues” by Slim Smith. n “See the Black Clouds A’Breakin’ Over Yonder”

by Chubby Parker. n “Starving to Death on a Government Claim” by Edward L. Crain.

n “Tomorrow” from the musical “Annie.” n “Hard Time Will Be the Best Time” by Charley Pride. n “She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft” by Jerry Reed. n “Patches” by Clarence Carter.

In 1963, Ray Charles won his fourth Grammy in a row for “Busted.”

Log on to YouTube and watch Ray sitting comfortably at the piano, swaying to and fro, and head bobbing and in his own unique style singing: Yeah, my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, but I’m busted Cotton is down, quarter a pound, but I’m busted, oh yeah I got cow that went dry, hen that won’t lay Big stack of bills gettin’ bigger each day County’s gonna haul my name, know that I went and I’m busted Doom-and-gloomers may want to have “Busted” the ringtone on their cellphone, but not me. I expect the economy to turn upward, jobs to be regained and the markets to rally.

That is why the ringtone on my cell phone is from the 1939 movie classic, “The Wizard of Oz.” The second verse of the song I am referring to goes like this: Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly And the dreams that you dare to dream of Dreams really do come true

ST. LOUIS — Emma Kuhns of Mason City, Illinois, is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Soy Scholarship award, sponsored by BASF and the American Soybean Association.

The scholarship is a $5,000 award presented to an exceptional high school senior who excels in Kuhns both academics and leadership and plans to pursue a degree in an agriculture-related field at an accredited college or university.

Kuhns has been involved in FFA and 4-H for many years, currently serving as president for both her FFA and 4-H chapters. She commits time to the Illinois Pork Producers Association and American Junior Hereford Association and has been involved in various school organizations, including student council and National Honor Society.

Described as a “goal driven student,” she is recognized as being a “student who always has a plan and has used that mentality to help develop not only herself, but those around her.” Kuhns is known for encouraging other students to “think about their future and reflect upon their decisions.”

She will major in agricultural economics and pre-law at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign this fall.

Kuhns will be recognized at a regional soybean event this spring.

$1.1 million HarrisThomas endowment BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — The IAA Foundation will award more scholarships and research grants, thanks to the newly established Harris-Thomas endowment.

As part of a planned farm gift from Jacqueline Thomas, the $1.1 million fund supports students with an interest in advancing agriculture.

“A gift of this magnitude allows the Harris-Thomas legacy to bring transformational opportunities to our charitable work,” said Susan Moore, IAA Foundation director. “We are forever humbled by this blessing Jackie gave for us to help others, and our agricultural industry, in her family name.”

Born in rural Saline County in 1925, Jacqueline was raised on the family farm, attended Southern Illinois University and became a home economics teacher.

In 1965, she met and married Frank.

For 31 years, Jacqueline served as the Macoupin County Home Extension Home Advisor while her husband managed Saline, Lake and then Madison County Farm Bureaus for nearly 30 years. Frank, a decorated WWII veteran, passed in August 2004, and Jacqueline passed in January 2018.

The Harris-Thomas Endowment honors the legacy left behind by Jacqueline and Frank, as well as Jacqueline Thomas’ parents, Ewell and Josephine Harris.

Her father, Ewell, was a founding member of the Saline County Farm Bureau and an avid conservationist. Her mother, Josephine, of French descent, inspired Jacqueline’s love for cooking.

In honor of their shared passion for agriculture and education, Jacqueline designated assets of her estate, including farmland and homes, to be used to create the endowment.

In its first application season, the HarrisThomas Endowment will offer five $2,000 scholarships for undergraduate students.

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AUCTIONS

Auction Calendar Fri., March 27

HAMILTON, ILL.: 2-Day Dealer & Farmer Auction, 8:30 a.m., Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

MONMOUTH, ILL.: 79.5 +/Acres, 10 a.m., Rissing Charitable Trusts, Van Adkisson Auction LLC, 309-426-2000.

KENNETT, MO.: Annual Farm Machinery Consignment, 10 a.m., DeWitt Auction Company, Inc., 800-5339488.

PARIS, ILL.: 40 +/- Acres, 10 a.m. Central, Moss Auction Team, LLC, 217-465-4545.

Sat., March 28

OXFORD, IND.: 46th Annual Benton Central FFA Auction, 9 a.m. EST, Benton Central FFA, 765-884-1600, ext. 2164.

HOPEDALE, ILL.: Farm & Construction Equipment Consignment, 9 a.m., S&K Auctions LLC, 309-202-8378 or 309-6969019.

CAMBRIDGE, ILL.: 106.28 Acres, 10 a.m., Randall Edmund, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

ROCK FALLS, ILL.: Bull & Female Sale, 12 Noon CDT,

FARM CLOSEOUT AND CONSIGNMENT AUCTION The following described items will be offered ONLINE ONLY by Public Auction at “The Shed�, Rediger Auction Service, 401 W. Main St., Wyanet, IL 61379 on:

THURSDAY APRIL 2, 2020 @ 10 A.M. CENTRAL TIME

WILLIAM “B.J.â€? ANDERSON & KAREN KUEBEL, OHIO, IL. will sell: *2013 Case IH Magnum 290, #ZBRD03655, 1455hrs, guidance ready, 18.4R50 duals, 4 remotes, rear wheel weights, 3pt w/ qhitch; *2001 Case IH MX 240, #0111461, 4292 hrs, MFWD, 18.4R46 duals, 3 outlets, 3pt w/ qhitch, rear wheel weights; *Case IH 2594, #9934673, 5719 hrs, 18.4R34 axle duals, 3 remotes, 3pt w/ quick hitch; *International 1486, #57268, 6254 hrs, 18.4R38 axle duals, dual pto, 3pt, 2 remotes; *2013 Case IH 5130 combine, #007540, 664/943 hrs, 30.5L-32 drives, auto steer ready, 700 pro monitor, ďŹ eld tracker, deluxe cab, elec fold hopper, chopper, spreader, rock trap; *2013 Drago 630 Series II corn head, #272313, knife rolls, head sight, hyd decks; *2013 Case IH 3020 Flex platform, 25’, #210087, single point; *EZ Trail 672 head cart, 25’; *Brent 1080 auger cart, #B22520136, tarp, 20.8R42 duals; *Brent 644 gravity wagon, #B19930197, 425/65R22.5 tires *John Deere 1760 Max Emerge Plus planter, 12R30’s, yetter combos, insecticide; *2008 Case IH MRX690 disk ripper, 5 leg, adj front and rear gangs, auto reset; *Case IH Tigermate 200 cultivator, 30.5’, walking tandems, 5 bar spike; *Case IH Tigermate 200 cultivator, 28’, walking tandems, 5 bar spike; *Landoll 2205 Weatherproofer disk ripper, 5 leg, leveler bar; *Woods 3180 batwing mower, 15’; *JD 400 30’ rotary hoe; *IH 183 Cult, 12R30’s; DUSTIN PIERCSON will sell: *2011 Case IH 6088 combine, #73195249, 2282/1680 hrs, pro 700 monitor, 520/85R38 duals, spreader, chopper, elec hopper, ez-pilot; *2008 Geringhoff NS800 corn head, 8R30’s, #71628830, insight head control; *2013 Case IH 2162 30’ platform, #YDZN35921; *Unverferth 30HT head cart, #A64490174, led lights, 11L-15 highway tires; *Unverferth 30HT head cart, #A39100366, 7.50R10 tires; *Case IH 450HD, #ZBF125865, 2962 hrs, deluxe cab, 710/70R42 duals, 6 remotes, bareback; *2006 Case IH 215 Magnum, #Z6RZ04463, 4998 hrs, 380/85R34 front duals, 480/80R46 rear duals, 4 remotes, 3pt; *Case IH Maxxum 110 w/ Case IH L740 loader, #ZBBE01874, 1362 hrs, mfwd, 3 sets rear wheel weights, 380/85R28 fronts, 460/85R38 rears, 3pt, 3 remotes; *2012 Case IH 110A Farmall, #CF000366M, 570 hrs, mfwd, 18.4R38 rears, 14.9R28 fronts, 3 sets rear wheel weights; *2006 Kenworth T800 day cab, #2XKDDU9X77M184416, x0x0x miles, C13 Cat, 10 sp Eaton, Toyo 285/75R24.5 tires; *2006 Kenworth W-900, 625,150 miles, #1XKWD49X57J196578, ISX Cummins, Eaton 10 sp, 11R24.5 tires, 2 line wet kit; *2019 Wilson Patriot Belt Trailer, #1W18432A5K22718, 11r22.5 tires; *Bobcat T190 Turbo skid steer, tracks, #527716268, 2370 hrs, manual quick tach, aux hyd; *Yanmar B27 mini excavator, 3252 hrs, 21 hp diesel, front blade, 12â€? bucket, good tracks; *2014 Case IH 875 EcoloTiger, #YED077559, 9 spring shank, hyd disk gangs, 425/65R22.5 tires; *Case IH 2800 Nutri Placer, #JFH0036518, 15 row, 1300 gal, hyd pump, raven monitor; *J&M 1010 auger cart, #1407265, scales, 900/60R32 tires, hyd adj spout; *Case IH Tigermate II ďŹ eld cultivator, 42’, #JFH0014343, walking tandems, 4 bar coil tyne, rear hitch; *Case IH Crumbler, 44’, #JFH0017556, 9.5L-15sl tires; *Woods BW1800 batwing, #966180, laminated tires, full chains; *500 gal Fuel Barrel on tandem axle trailer, 20 gpm pump, 12v; *1000 gal Fuel Barrel w/ 50 gal def tank on tandem axle trailer, 18gpm pump; *2002 Big Tex 30’ gooseneck trailer BRAD WETZELL will sell: *Case IH 8230 Combine, #Y2G217367, 1200/1500 hrs, premium cab, hid lights, chopper, rock trap, 4x4, 620/70R42 drives, 600/65R28 rears; *2012 Gerinhoff Northstar 1230F, #1011201031230, folding, Insight height control, hyd deck plates, off Case IH 8230; *2014 Case IH 3020 Teraex platform, 35’, #YDH220766, full ďŹ nger, fore & aft, single point hook up; *Unverferth 35’ head cart; *Unverferth 30’ head cart; *Case IH 535 Quadtrac, XZ9F112926, 3480 hrs, premium cab, 36â€? tracs, pro 600, 5 remotes plus 2 hi o; *Case IH Magnum 290, #ZBRD02049, 2166 hrs, 480/80R46 duals, 580/85R34 front duals, 1 set rear wheel weights, premium cab, 4 remotes, 3pt, 10 front weights; *Case IH Magnum 290, #ZBRD04190, 2002 hrs, suspended axle, 480/80R46 duals, 380/85R34 front duals, 1 set rear wheel weights, premium cab, 4 remotes w/ hi-o, 3pt, 10 front weights; *Case IH MX220, #X2204C4JJA0102122, 6770 hrs, 380/85R34 fronts, 480/80R46 axle duals; *Case IH 1255 Early Riser, #YUS042050, 24R30’s, bulk ďŹ ll, pneumatic down pressure, scales, 12 row clutches; *Case IH Tigermate 200 ďŹ eld cultivator, 42’, #JFH0038780, 4 gauge wheels, rear hitch and hyd, 4 bar coil tyne, walking tandems; *Case IH 110 crumbler, 44’ *(2) Unverferth 630 gravity wagon, 445/65R22.5 tires, brakes, lights, fenders; *Great Plains 3000 Turbo Chopper, #GPA1216Y, 30’, rolling spike harrow, rolling basket; *Case IH 3900 disk, #JAG0181117, hitch hiker harrow; *Farmall M; *Farmall C OTHERS WILL SELL: *2014 JD 1590 no till drill, new, 15’, #1N01590XKE0755636, 7.5â€?/15â€?, hd seed tubes, small seed; *Horsch Joker RT-230, NEW, 23’, #310023014023; *2019 Timpte Super Hopper, #1TDH40029KB164167, 11R24.5 tires, elec tarp; *Case IH RBX 562 round baler, net wrap, solution; *2000 JD 1770 Conservation planter, 24R30’s, #H01770B670143, e sets, air down pressure, ½ width shut off, 1000 acre since rebuild; *pallet of 24 wavy coulters; *pallet of 24 insecticide boxes; *JD 1770NT, #A01770M730148, 16R30, center ďŹ ll, shark tooth row cleaners, nice; *JD 7200 front fold planter, 12R30’s, vac, markers, rebuilt last year; *JD 7000 11R15’s bean planter, 15â€? spacings; *1949 JD A, nf, 12.4R38 rears, runs good; *1993 Ford 555D backhoe, #A422757, 4817 hrs, 4x4, ext hoe, 2 way bucket, cab, air, heat; *1994 International 9200 Semi, #2HSFMAHR6RC091182, 945,668 mile, cummins M11, 10 sp spicer; *JD 980 ďŹ eld cult, #N00980X009488, 24.5’, 5 bar spike harrow, new sweeps; *Bestway 3pt 60’ boom w/ 1000 gal pull behind tank, hyd fold, hyd pump, 230/95R44; *Bestway 800 gal pull behind tank; *Glencoe F560C 3pt side dress bar, 8 knife, hyd pump; *International 496 disk, 21’; *JD 230 disk, 24’; *JD 512 disk ripper, #N00512X010153, 9 shank, 22’6â€?; *4 box Seed Shuttle on J&M gear, 8hp, Briggs, hyd drive; *Case IH 110 crumbler, 45’; *IH 806 gas; *JD 730 Gas; *Farmall 560 diesel; *1978 Ford F600 ďŹ re truck, pumper, intact, runs good; *2000 Featherlite 7.5x24’, single gate; *2012 New Holland 2600S Duratank spreader; *2003 Ford F250, 82k miles, nice; *Onan 10kw generator; ONLINE BIDDING AVAILABLE AT www.rickrediger.com Online bidding questions call Jon 815.303.4488 Not Responsible for Accidents - I.D. 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Mon., March 30

FREEPORT, ILL.: 431 Acres in 7 Tracts Sealed Bid Land Sale, bids due 3/30 by 10 a.m., Ruf Family Trust, Nicole Bauer, 815-235-1212.

MENDOTA, ILL.: 96.42 +/- Acres, 10 a.m., Jack Heidelmeir Trust, Rediger Auction Service, 815-6997999.

CARROLLTON, ILL.: 837 Acres in 16 Tracts, 10 a.m., Sherrie A. Heaton, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Tues., March 31

CARROLLTON, ILL.: Equipment, 9 a.m., Sherrie A. Heaton, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

CLINTON, ILL.: 553.78 Acres, 10 a.m., Schmid Family, Martin Auction, 217-9353245.

PECATONICA, ILL.: 122.218 Acres in 2 Tracts, 11 a.m., Heidelmeier Investments, LP, Lenny Bryson, 815-9464120.

MACOMB, ILL.: 40 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 5 p.m., Otto Ullrich IV, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Wed., April 1

BUSHNELL, ILL.: 80 +/Acres, 10 a.m., F & L Ridle Family Farm, LLLP, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

STOCKTON, ILL.: 130 +/Acres, 11 a.m., Linda Nadig Trust, Powers Auction Service, 608-439-5760.

BUSHNELL, ILL.: Land Auction, 11:30 a.m., Andrew Stuckey, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Thurs., April 2

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction, 8:30 a.m., Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440.

RICKREDIGER.COM: Online Only Farm Closeout &

Consignment, 10 a.m.

Central, Rediger Auction Service, 815-699-7999. See p. B1 BLOOMINGTON, ILL.: Business Retirement Auction, 9 a.m., Grieder Sod & Landscaping, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

LIBERTY, ILL.: 371 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 5 p.m., Raymond J. & Clara T. Neisen Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

LANGHAMAUCTIONEERS. HIBID.COM: 104.31 +/Acres, Online Only, bidding closes at 6 p.m. CST, Martin E. Hoerath & Karen L. Price, Langham Auctioneers, 618410-6286. See p. B2 SCHMIDAUCTION.COM or TRENTSCHMID.COM: Online Only, Equipment, Boos Stainless Steel, Building Material & Misc., bidding ends 4/2 at 6 p.m., Schmid Auction, 217-857-1507. See p. B2

Wed., April 8

Fri., April 3

CLARENCE, MO.: 239 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 5 p.m., Betty Jane Gildehaus Trust, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction, 8:30 a.m., Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440.

RICHFIELD, ILL.: Farm Machinery, 9 a.m., Raymond J. & Clara T. Neisen Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

GRIDLEY, ILL.: 10th Annual Production Sale, 6:30 p.m., Prairie View Farms, Alan & Theresa Miller, 217-8406935, Brandon & Cathy Jones, 309-370-1081.

Sat., April 4

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction, 8:30 a.m., Polk Auction Company, 877-915-4440.

Tues., April 7 MACOMB, ILL.: 120 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 1 p.m., Stan Danner, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

MONROE CENTER, ILL.: 30 +/Acres, 11 a.m., Holcomb Bank, Lenny Bryson, 815946-4120.

PRINCETON, IND.: 336 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5:30 p.m.

CT, Estate of Lester Moore, William Wilson Auction Realty, Inc., 812-682-4000.

Thurs., April 9

FT. MADISON, IOWA: Real Estate & Personal Property, 10 a.m., Real Estate sells at 11 a.m., Leroy R. Payne, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

ROCK FALLS, ILL.: 142.191 Acres in 2 Tracts, 11 a.m., Nick Hermes, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161.

Sat., April 11

CONGERVILLE, ILL.: Livestock Equipment & Machinery, 9 a.m., Reel Livestock Center, 309-448-2288.

Tues., April 14

Wed., April 15

BIGGSVILLE, ILL.: 145 +/- Acres in 3 Tracts, 10 a.m., David W. Blake, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Thurs., April 16

CAMP POINT, ILL.: 93.125 Acres, 10 a.m., Michael G. Dittmer Special Needs Trust, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

BLOOMFIELD, IOWA: 400 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5 p.m., The Short-Woodruff Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Fri., April 17 ARCOLA, ILL.: 2-Day TriCounty Spring Auction, 10 a.m., Tri-County Auction LLC, 217-521-0246.

8 a.m., Tri-County Auction LLC, 217-521-0246.

YORKVILLE, ILL.: Farmland, 10 a.m., Estate of Mark Coffman, Brian DeBolt Auction Service, Inc., 630552-4247.

Mon., April 20

RUSHVILLE, ILL.: 102.59 Acres in 2 Tracts, 6 p.m., The Schafer Family Farm, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

Tues., April 21

MEMPHIS, MO.: 157 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 10 a.m., Lorna Jester, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. See p. B1 MONROE CITY, MO.: 162 +/Acres in 4 Tracts, 5 p.m., Kyle Kendrick, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. See p. B1

Thurs., April 23

PHILADELPHIA, MO.: Personal Property, 10 a.m., Roger & Marilyn Sublette, Gary & Karyl Sublette, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. See p. B1 PALMYRA, MO.: 312 +/Acres in 5 Tracts, 5 p.m., Roger & Marilyn Sublette, Gary & Karyl Sublette, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161. See p. B1

Fri., Aug. 21

ANNAWAN, ILL.: Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700.

Sat., Aug. 22

ANNAWAN, ILL.: Hatzer & Nordstrom Consignment Auction, 8:30 a.m., Owned & Operated by Anderson Enterprises & Equipment, LLC, 309-935-6700.

Multiple Dates

SEE AD: Upcoming Auctions & Featured Farms, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709. See p. B2

Sat., April 18

ARCOLA, ILL.: 2-Day TriCounty Spring Auction,

Nufarm to market Goal 2XL and GoalTender herbicides MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Nufarm Americas Inc. has entered into a distribution agreement with Nutrichem to market GoalTender and Goal 2XL herbicides.

The marketing rights will transition from Corteva Agriscience to Nufarm in

September 2020.

The Goal brands are a logical expansion of Nufarm’s specialty crop herbicide portfolio, which the company plans to strengthen to support the needs of its U.S. channel partners and the growers they supply.

LAND AUCTION 365.68 Acres, M/L, In 4 Parcels Marshall & Stark County, IL Located ½ Mi. N. of Camp Grove

Distributors, retailers and growers of tree nuts, grapes, tree fruit and many vegetables crops can begin to source Goal 2XL and GoalTender this fall to manage dozens of broadleaf weeds and grasses.

These herbicides work

on contact to deliver postand pre-emergence control. Both formulations provide strong control of actively growing weeds and also form a soil barrier to block the establishment of emerging weeds for an extended period of time.

Marion County, Missouri

LAND AUCTION

TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020 AT 5:00 P.M. WATCH WEBSITE FOR UPDATES!

Excellent-Quality, Productive Soils!

March 31, 2020 @ 10:00 a.m.

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(SUBJECT TO SURVEY)

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Scotland County, Missouri

LAND AUCTION

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162Âą ACRES

TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST AT 10:00 A.M.

157Âą ACRES (SUBJECT TO SURVEY)

2 TRACTS ➤ PRODUCTIVE TILLABLE CROPLAND (CURRENTLY IN CRP EXPIRING 9-30-2020)! ➤ 7+ ACRE LAKE! ➤ HIGHWAY FRONTAGE! Land is located in Sections 11 & 14, T66N•R10W, Johnson Township, Scotland County, MO.

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Land is located approximately 4 miles north of Monroe City, MO in Sections 27 & 28, T57N•R8W, Warren Township, Marion County, MO. Land represents productive tillable cropland, improved pasture land, excellent building sites with highway frontage and offers outstanding hunting/recreational acreage. Farm is improved with a nice ranch style country home, multiple outbuildings and includes a well designed livestock handling facility with continuous fencing. Farm sells free and clear for the 2020 crop year.

KYLE KENDRICK

Representing Attorney: Joe Brannon | Briscoe & Brannon 423 South Main St. | New London, MO | Ph: 573-985-3411 Title Work By: Accurate Land Title Co. 218 Broadway | Hannibal, MO | Ph: 573-221-1002

Auction Manager: Bill Fretwell (660) 341-7735

SULLIVAN AUCTIONEERS, LLC • TOLL FREE (844) 847-2161 www.SullivanAuctioneers.com • IL Lic. #444000107 PLEASE NOTE - 2 DIFFERENT TIMES & LOCATIONS!

Marion County, MO Land & Personal Property Auction

THURSDAY, APRIL 23 AT 10 AM & 5 PM

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312Âą ACRES (SUBJECT TO SURVEY)

5 TRACTS

Land is located approximately 2.5 miles northwest of Philadelphia, MO in Sections 3 & 4, T58N • R8W, Union Township, Marion County, MO.

Land represents productive, tillable cropland, improved pastureland, hardwood timber, excellent stocked ponds and offers “premier� hunting/recreational acreage.

Farm is improved with an older country home and outbuildings.

Personal property (sells at 10:00 A.M.) to include hay equipment, tillage equipment, harvest equipment, tractors, trucks, trailers, cars, large quantity of tools and other farm related items.

ROGER & MARILYN SUBLETTE GARY & KARYL SUBLETTE

Title Work By: Accurate Land Title Co. | Hannibal, MO | Ph: (573) 221-1002 Representing Attorneys: John Briscoe | New London, MO | Ph: (573) 985-3411 John Morthland | Hannibal, MO | Ph: (573) 221-3225 Auction Manager: Bill Fretwell (660) 341-7735

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Lifestyle

Don’t ‘splash and dash’ when washing hands water reduces bacteria on your hands by 92% compared to washing with water, which only removes 77% of bacteria, according to a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and P ublic Health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends these steps to washing hands: wet hands with water, apply soap, rub hands all over – including fingers, palms, back

of hands and wrists – for at least 15 seconds, rinse hands with water, and dry with a clean towel or paper towel.

Friction and running water lift germs off your hands and wash them down the drain. Germs can hide in jewelry and hard-to-clean crevices, including knuckles, between fingers, folds of the palm, and under the nails, so focus on scrubbing those areas.

It is important to wash

hands after using the bathroom, after sneezing or coughing, after changing diapers or after taking out the trash. Also, wash your hands before tasks such as touching food, before using medical syringes or before changing contact lenses.

“We touch a lot of surfaces throughout the day – phones, computers, door handles – and so we want to wash our hands later to defend ourselves,” Mellendorf said. However,

By Angela Shelf Medearis

During a visit to Germany, I was introduced to all things asparagus. Nothing says spring is here in Germany like a beautiful bunch of crisp, white asparagus, or as they call it, Spargel.

The white variety of asparagus is harvested in Germany from about midApril to June 24, which is known as St. John the Baptist Day. Rich in nutrients and very low in calories, asparagus has become a culinary status symbol for many Germans.

According to the website germanfood.org, it takes three years for an asparagus plant to produce its first tip. For white asparagus, soil is piled into knee-high banks, which give the fields their characteristic appearance.

White asparagus grows best in sandy soil surrounded by mounds of earth, which protects the slender stalks from sunlight exposure and keeps them from turning green.

This also affects the subtle flavor of the vegetable.

From BadenWurttemberg to Brandenburg, certain rural areas in Germany take special pride in being prime asparagus growing regions. Four states are even home to scenic “Asparagus Routes,” which have created an asparagus tasting tourism.

Green varieties of asparagus are more pop-

Fresh, green asparagus is a well-loved vegetable, delectably crisp and sweet. ular in America and are available year-round.

Asparagus is easy to select and to prepare and comes in a variety of vibrant colors, including green, violet, purple and white.

Asparagus also grows wild and is commercially available fresh, frozen and canned. Various types and colors of asparagus can be used without any noticeable difference in the taste, so mix and match colors and sizes for visual interest.

Asparagus should be crisp and firm, not limp or wrinkled, with tightly closed tips. Dull colors and ridges in the stems are an indication of a lack of freshness. The stalks should not be limp or dry at the cut and of uniform thickness.

If you’re planning to use the asparagus on the same day, rinse it under cool

water, pat the stalks dry with a paper towel. Smaller stalks can be broken or cut at the point where the stem naturally snaps.

Peeling the end of thicker stalks with a paring knife or a vegetable peeler removes any woody stems and can be done up to two hours before cooking. Place the prepared asparagus in a plastic bag in the refrigerator to stay crisp until ready to cook.

Fresh asparagus should never be washed or soaked before storing. If the asparagus is bound with a rubber band, remove it, as it will pinch and bruise the stalks.

Asparagus can be stored for up to two days if the stalks are trimmed and placed upright in a jar with about an inch of water in the bottom.

if your hands are not visibly dirty. Wash them instead. Dirt, grease, food particles and other surface contaminates reduce how effective hand sanitizers are. Use enough hand sanitizer to cover your hands fully before it dries. This should take about 20 seconds.

For additional information about hand hygiene, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at cdc. gov.

Time to prune raspberry and blackberry plants

KITCHEN DIVA

Spring into asparagus

since you can’t wash your hands after every encounter, try not to touch your face, eyes, nose and mouth to avoid introducing germs to your system.

“Your first defense is going to be hand washing with soap and water,” Mellendorf said. “But when a sink is not available, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, with at least 60% alcohol, can be used to kill the germs on your hands.”

Only use hand sanitizer

Asparagus With Fusilli Pasta And Peas Servings: 4 INGREDIENTS 12 ounces fusilli pasta (or penne or farfalle) 1 pound asparagus, white, green, purple or violet or a mixture 4 ounces sugar snap peas 1 cup frozen peas 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 3/4 cup minced onions (1/2 large white onion) 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper 2 cups chicken broth 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon zest 1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan or Romano cheese, plus more for sprinkling PROCEDURE Bring a 5- to 6-quart pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook as package directs.

Add asparagus and sugar snap peas about 3 minutes before the recommended time for the pasta to be done. Add frozen peas 2 minutes before the recommended time for the pasta to be done.

Drain pasta and vegetable mixture, reserving 1 cup of the pasta water. Return pasta and vegetable mixture to pasta pot.

While pasta cooks, heat oil in a 10- to 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onions, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes or cayenne. Sauté 5 minutes until tender. Add broth and simmer 2 to 3 minutes.

Add onion mixture and lemon zest; gently toss to mix and coat the pasta.

Toss with 1 cup of the Parmesan and 1/2 cup of the pasta water, as needed, to create a sauce that coats the pasta. Use the rest of the cheese to sprinkle on pasta.

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FREEPORT, Ill. – While most fruit trees have been pruned for the season, homeowners should look to prune raspberry and blackberry plants in the next couple of weeks.

Your first step in pruning these is to know that brambles produce primocanes and floricanes. “A primocane would be a cane that grew in summer of 2019 that will then be called a floricane in spring 2020,”said Grant McCarty, Extension local foods and small farms educator. “These floricanes will produce your fruit this summer. When we talk about pruning in the spring, you are removing the canes the produced fruit last summer.”

For pruning purposes, you need to know the type of bramble you have.

Blackberry pruning will consist of pruning out canes that produced fruit last summer. Then, you’ll cut your main canes back to 3 to 4 feet. Next, side branches of the blackberr y canes will be pruned to 12 inches with five to six buds on each.

Raspberry plants are a different story. “You have three types: Everbearing, Summer Red, and Black/ Purple Raspberry. Each of these will be pruned

s l i g ht l y d i f f e r e nt l y.

However, the first step is to remove canes that produced raspberries last summer,” McCarty said.

For summer red raspberry, you’ll prune back this year’s floricanes to 5 feet. If you have summer black/purple raspberry, these can be pruned three times a year. From this year’s floricanes, cut side branches to 8 to 10 inches in length and then months later, do a summer tipping when canes are 24 to 30 inches in height. This summer tipping involves removing 2 to-3 inches of new shoots at the top of the floricane.

The Everbearing raspberry plants can produce twice a season which will dictate how you prune them. For summer and fall yields, thin out this year’s floricanes to 5 inches between. These will produce fruit in early summer. This summer, newly grown primocanes may then produce fruit in the fall before overwintering, thinning out next spring, and producing again in the summer to start the cycle over again. For just fall raspberries, mow all canes down this spring.

You’ll have primocanes develop this summer and produce fall fruit.

Spring Hazelhurst, scheduled for April 4, has been postponed due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

We will reschedule when we get the “all clear”, hopefully this summer. Follow our web and Facebook pages plus the newspapers.

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We appreciate your business.

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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) NEWTON COUNTY, IN. 392.4± ACRES with 355± Acres cropland of which 17.1 are in CRP. Woods, stocked pond, 48’ x 96’ Machine Shed with c/c floor.

Beautiful setting for home or cabin and hunting/ recreational opportunities. Northeast of Morocco.

Call Jim Hayworth 765-427-1913 or Matt Wiseman 219-689-4373. (JH/MWW06N) 82.78 ACRE PA RCEL OF L A ND W ITH 82.24 CROPLAND ACRES. This tract has excellent soils and frontage on CR 325 South. Call Jim Hayworth at 1-888-808-8680 or 1-765-427-1913 or Jimmy Hayworth at 1-219-869-0329 (JH43C)

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7 – 30.7± ACRES IN 1 TRACT. Gibson County (Princeton, IN). 18.5 Cropland acres (FSA) • Productive Alford Soils • 8 Miles Northeast of Princeton • Woodland • Excellent Deer Hunting • Food Plot Area. Contact Brad Horrall 812-8908255.

14 – 82.59± ACRES IN 1 TRACT. Madison County (London, OH). 79± FSA Tillable Acres • 2020 Cropping Rights to the Buyer • Nice Field for Ease of Farming Operation • Quality Soils in Top Agricultural Area. Contact Andy Walther 765-969-0401 or Travis Kelley 740-572-1525.

21 – 250± ACRES IN 10 TRACTS. Franklin County (Brookville, IN). Picturesque Southern Indiana Farm • Abundant WHITETAIL & TURKEY • Rolling Pastures with Beautiful Elevated Views • GREAT LOCATION within 30 minutes to Cincinnati • Impressive Country Home with Picturesque Barns • 2020 Crop Rights to BUYER, 68± FSA Crop Acres • Potential Building Sites. Contact Andy Walther 765-969-0401.

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DECATUR, Ill. — When it comes to hand washing, don’t splash and dash.

Take the time to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water to stay healthy and stop germs from spreading to others.

“Hand washing is our No. 1 defense against germs,” said Caitlin Mellendorf, an Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educator ser ving DeWitt, Macon and Piatt counties.

Washing with soap and

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‘Have a Plant’

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Growing trend in vegetarian eating

DECATUR, Ill. — Whether it’s due to health concerns, ethics or sustainability, American diets are changing. While only 6% of Americans are vegetarian and 3% vegan, almost 40% are shifting toward eating more plant-based foods, according to a 2018 Nielsen Report.

Plant-based diets are trending. The Mediterranean Diet — a meal pattern with a high proportion of plant foods — was ranked the “Best Overall Diet” in 2020

by The U.S. News and World Report.

And the Produce for Better Health Foundation is encouraging people to eat more fruits and vegetables with their “Have a Plant” campaign.

“It’s a way to get people stressing less about ‘I have to eat healthy,’ but thinking more about ‘If I can just eat more plants,’” said Caitlin Mellendorf, University of Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educator and registered dietitian.

The terms vegan, vegetarian and plant based are often thrown around interchangeably, but each diet includes plenty of plant-based foods with variations based on personal preference. n Plant based: Proportionally includes more foods from plant sources. n Semi-vegetarian/flexitarian: Plant based, occasionally includes eggs, dairy and meat products. n Vegetarian: Plant based, excludes animal flesh foods. n Lacto-ovo: Vegetarian, but includes eats milk, dairy and eggs. n Pescatarian: Mostly vegetarian, but includes seafood. n Vegan: No animal foods or products.

“Sh i f t i ng t ow a rd more plant-based foods is trending,” Mellendorf said. “In the research, we see regularly the reiteration that people who eat more produce have better health.”

Nutritional research shows that diets centered around plant-based foods, such as the Mediterranean or vegetarian diets, have a variety of health benefits.

In 2016, the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics confirmed that appropriately planned vegetarian and vegan diets are nutritionally adequate for everyone from pregnant women to children to athletes.

These plant-based diets reduce risks of health conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer and obesity.

Plant-based diets are high in fiber and provide all the nutrients our bodies need when planned well. Vegetarians may rely on some animal foods for their daily protein needs.

Both vegetarians and vegans use plant-based protein sources such as beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, soy foods and protein powders.

“Because all animal foods lack Vit amin B -12, vegan diets are missing this nutrient,” Mellendorf said. “Vegans should include supplements, nutritional yeast and foods with added B-12, such as fortified soymilk or breakfast cereals.”

Tips for starting a plant-based diet n Focus on vegetables: Make vegetables the focus of meals.

Good options include lettuce and leafy green salads, roasted or grilled vegetables and vegetable sauces like tomato pasta sauce. n Snack on plants: Munch on vegetables with a healthy dip such as guacamole or almond butter. Fresh and dried fruits make great snacks, as do unsalted nuts and seeds. n Add plant proteins: Combine plant proteins with meats like beef and bean chili or egg and bean burritos. n Try a Meatless Monday: Cook a vegetarian meal once a week. n Rotate whole grains: From brown rice, farro, quinoa, oatmeal and more, explore the long list of whole grains. Grain bowls and grain salads are very filling.

For recipes and more information about vegetarian and vegan diets, visit the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at vegetariannutrition.net and Oldways at oldwayspt.org.

Social distancing or self-quarantine is increasingly seen as the best hope to fight coronavirus.

Stay put to stay out of harm’s way

By Matilda Charles

You can handle stress better when you are as healthy as possible, so eating nutritiously is a good defense against stress.

Eat healthy when stressed My kids are out of school for several weeks now, as part of my state’s efforts to lessen the spread of coronavirus. As a result, I’m stressed, the kids are stressed, and I’ve found myself reaching for rich, high-sugar foods that I typically avoid because they’re not the healthiest options. Any tips on how I can eat better during this time of high stress?

You’re not alone. People often reach for comfort foods during times of high stress.

Many times, those foods tend to be high in sugar and low in fiber.

It’s best to avoid those foods because they can increase the development of chronic inflammation in our bodies, according to Patricia Brinkman, family and consumer sciences educator with Ohio State University Extension.

That’s an issue because high levels of chronic inflammation are believed to cause rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma, reduced kidney function and inflammatory bowel disease and prolonged chronic inflammation increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, Brinkman wrote in Eating Healthy During Stressful Times, an Ohioline fact sheet.

Ohioline is OSU Extension’s free online in-

formation resource and can be found at ohioline.osu. edu. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

“Even low amounts of inflammation can increase your risk of obesity, depression and the effects of aging,” she wrote. “By eating a healthier diet, we may reduce our risk of chronic inflammation and diseases.”

Some examples of healthy eating habits can be found by following these three plans, Brinkman says: n Healthy U.S.-Style Eating Pattern, based on guidance found in the 2015 USDA Dietary Guidelines n Healthy MediterraneanStyle Eating Pattern n DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet “All three plans encourage us to eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, low-fat or fat-free dairy and seafood and plant proteins,” she said. “All three plans limit or encourage people to avoid consumption of empty calories including foods with added sugar, or drinking excess, as well as alcohol, refined grains, saturated fat foods and high sodium foods.”

When crafting a healthy

eating plan for a person on a 2,000-calorie diet per day, Brinkman says to consider consuming the following: n Vegetables — 2 to 4 cups n Fruits — at least 2 cups a day n Whole grains — 3 to 4 ounces a day n Fish/seafood — 8 to 16 ounces a week, for omega-3 n Lean plant proteins or meats — 6 to 8 ounces a day n Nuts and soy — 4 to 6 ounces a week n Olive oil — 1 to 2 tablespoons a day n Dairy (1% or skim) — 1 to 3 cups a day n Alcohol — 0 to 1 drink a day Brinkman advises that you eat lots of fiber by eating vegetables, fruits, whole grains and nuts, noting that, “fiber increases the anti-inflammatory properties from these foods.

Add some garlic, onion, pepper, ginger, turmeric, oregano, thyme and rosemary for additional anti-inflammatory properties.”

“When you are in a very stressful time, choose to eat vegetables, fruits, whole grains, 1% or fat-free dairy, seafood and plant proteins, rather than comfort foods or junk foods,” she said. “You can also choose to eat fruit for dessert instead of other sweet foods.”

How to stock up for emergency I keep hearing that people should have an emergency supply of food on hand in case of emergency, but I have no clue what to get. What food supplies should I stock up on in case of emergency?

Good question. Some consumers have found grocery stores with empty shelves, as many people responded to coronavirus fears and went out in what some have described as a panic, to stock up on supplies.

But that’s not a good idea, because panic-buying could lead to shortages of supplies for others if people overbuy items they otherwise really don’t need.

To avoid scenarios like that, it’s a good idea to always have on hand at least a three-day supply of nonperishable essentials such as canned foods, dry mixes and other staples that do not require refrigeration, cooking, water, or special preparation, according to Ready.gov.

Additionally, you should have at least three days’ worth of water on hand, says the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The average person needs one gallon of water per day, depending on their age, physical activity and health, FEMA says.

And don’t forget your pets.

It’s recommended that you should also have on hand dry or wet food in cans or sealed containers or bags, in addition to enough water for each pet.

Ready.gov, which is run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, advises consumers to choose foods your family will eat and items that won’t make you thirsty, when planning your three-day emergency food supply.

The site also offers an emergency supply list that you can download and take with you when shopping so that you’ll

Whether you’re waiting until the last minute or simply preparing in advance, there are plenty of items that every home should be stocked up on — just in case. know what they recommend you purchase.

Some of the foods Ready.gov and FEMA suggest include: n Milk in either shelf-stable or powdered form in case you lose power. n Cans of soups, stews, vegetables, beans and other items that can be eaten hot or cold. n Dried meats such as beef jerky and canned or vacuum-sealed pouches of tuna, chicken, potted meat, or sausages. n Snack foods such as wholegrain crackers and cereal, granola bars, dried fruit, applesauce, fruit cups, trail mix, nuts and peanut or other nut butters. n Fresh fruit that has a longer shelf life, such as apples, oranges and pears. n Protein or fruit bars. n Dried fruit. n Canned juices. n Food for infants.

Also, it’s important that you have a manual can opener as part of your emergency supply list, officials say, in case of a power outage.

If the emergency you are experiencing involves a power outage, remember to keep the refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible to maintain the cold temperature, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service advises.

The refrigerator will keep food safely cold for about four hours if it is unopened.

A full freezer will hold the temperature for approximately 48 hours, or at least 24 hours if it is half full and the door remains closed.

You should throw out refrigerated, perishable foods such as meat, poultry, fish, soft cheeses, milk, eggs and leftovers if they’ve been without power for more than four hours.

Chow Line is a service of The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and its outreach and research arms, Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.

A show of hands, please: How many of us are getting nervous since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that seniors and those with medical conditions should stay at home as much as possible due to the coronavirus? Those medical conditions include heart disease, diabetes and lung disease.

I’ve spent several days wondering whether I actually have to go out as often to get the things I need. I’ve learned: n Petco, PetSmart and Chewy, the pet food and pet supplies companies, will deliver. If you get on a repeat delivery schedule, the prices are lower than at the stores, and the heavy packages come right to your door. n Instead of standing in line at the always-crowded post office, I can order stamps online at usps.com. Call 800-782-6724 to learn more. n My grocery store still doesn’t deliver, but if I order online they will at least bring my purchases out to the car. n CVS, however, does deliver, and as of now, it’s free. In my area, either the post office or a courier will make the delivery.

I decided to have my prescriptions sent by mail. n I made a few calls and two restaurants in my area will now deliver when they didn’t before. n There’s even a mobile oilchange company that will come to my house to service my car.

So, what will I do with all my non-shopping spare time, now that I don’t need to go out as often? My list looks like this: order puzzles and paperbacks from Amazon, start spring cleaning, begin outlining a novel to write this summer, sign up on Duolingo — www.duolingo. com — for free language lessons on the computer and order seeds and all the supplies to get a head start on growing a few vegetables on the porch this year.

Money-saving tips I’ll be worse off financially this year, despite the Social Security increase we just received. I won’t be the only one.

For the average recipient who receives $1,460 per month, that 1.6% equates to a gain of $23.36 per month.

Medicare went up $9.10 to $144.60, so that drops the extra cash to $14.26. Except my Medicare supplement went up $42 and the drug plan went up, as well. Rent went up $20 per month, justified by management with the “big increase” in Social Security we all got.

With so many of us in the same situation, we need to think of ways to save money.

If you take a daily newspaper and pay for it by the month, calculate whether you’ll save money if you pay for it by the year. If you have a tablet, ask if they offer a digital subscription at a lower rate. Making yearly payments might also work for your car or homeowner insurance.

Call the local food bank about getting free food. Don’t worry about running into someone you know. Just make the call.

Whatever you get from them you won’t have to buy at the store.

Check into “senior helper” groups in your area. These are people who volunteer to take care of home repairs for free, instead of paying a plumber $150 per hour.

If you have a credit card, make payments on time. Check AARP’s member discounts.

Buy at Goodwill. Ask for lower prices. Buy generic groceries.

Get serious about clipping coupons. Ask about senior discount day. If you love movies, consider that the price of Netflix for one month is the same as seeing one movie at a theater.

Check online for a Freecycle Network in your area — freecycle.org — and get things you need or want for free. And always, always ask for your senior discount. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Create fake spills for April Fool’s Day

By Donna Erickson

By Terry and Kim Kovel

Advertising signs with bold-colored graphics, interesting product names and pictures of Uncle Sam and other patriotic designs sell for high prices. They sell best in the size sometimes called a “sofa picture,” since it’s big enough to hang between the ceiling and the top of the sofa.

Many collectors want advertising for the historic content and authentic pictures of costumes, rooms and occupations and as a way to date popular messages and sayings.

The large, cardboard American Family Soap poster offered at a Morford auction in upstate New York brought $1,652. It was a bright-yellow “sofa-sized” picture of Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty with the slogan, “It is cheaper to buy good soap than new clothes.

Every atom cleanses.”

American Family Soap was made by James Kirk & Co., a firm that started in 1839. It was purchased in 1930 by Proctor & Gamble, which made the American Family brand for the hard water of the Midwest. They also included a coupon on the wrapper that could be used for gifts.

I have a Rudolph pianola with serial number 63034. It was reconditioned 25 years ago into a piano and no longer works as a pianola. It’s in good condition and has been tuned regularly. What year was it made and what might it be worth?

Pianolas, or player pianos, were popular in the

A large, cardboard American Family Soap poster brought $1,652 at auction. late 19th and early 20th century. The instrument works by pumping the foot pedals to operate bellows that make the keys play without being touched.

The music is on a punched paper roll inserted in the upper part of the piano.

Thousands of music rolls were made, and new ones are still made for people who own player pianos.

After phonograph records became popular, player pianos became less popular.

The Rudolph Piano Co. was founded in New York in 1903. The serial number indicates that your pianola was made in 1925.

Old pianos are hard to sell. Your piano might have some interest to a collector if it still operated as a player piano, but will have little value as is.

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“A mess is the sign of a good time” is one of my mantras in life. That is, as in disorder after a party or craft project.

But spills? Not that kind of mess. Grape juice on white carpet, chocolate milk on a child’s party dress, coffee spilled on my lap during a flight.

No one likes to accidentally spill or be spilled on. Except on April Fool’s Day! This fun caper of placing “fake” spills around the house, office or school, fools, surprises and, above all, creates spontaneous laughter. We all know, you can’t have too much of that in your life.

Fool friends and family into thinking that ketchup really spilled on the kitchen floor, or that fingernail polish is dripping down the side of an upholstered chair.

The ingredients are basic for this clean “messy” prank: household glue, acrylic paint and props appropriate to enhance the spill.

Here’s how: 1. Choose an empty container, cup or jar as the prop for your spill. For example, an empty juice box, a coffee mug or a mustard jar works well.

Wash it thoroughly.

2. In a small paper cup, stir food coloring for translucent spills or acrylic paint for opaque spills into 1/2 cup of white household glue. Or, if you have a wide-mouth prop, combine directly in it. When adding the paint or food coloring, try to imitate the color of the product that was previously in the container.

Mix colors to get an authentic effect.

3. Place plastic wrap or parchment paper on a flat surface. Set the prop you have chosen on its side on plastic wrap or parchment paper.

Carefully pour the glue mixture onto the plastic wrap or paper next to the spout or edge of the prop in such a way that it simulates a real spill. If you stirred the glue mixture in the prop, slowly pour it out and set the prop on its side next to the spill.

Add realistic touches as part of the spill, such as mini marshmallows for a spilled mug of hot chocolate, or a wooden stick for an ice-cream bar.

4. Keep out of reach until completely dry, up to 24 to 36 hours.

Remove the “spill” from the plastic wrap or paper. Check to make sure it is dry under-

If you are a trickster who enjoys pulling pranks, learning the art of a fake spill is another stunt to add to your grab bag. neath. You don’t want a real spill on your hands!

Finally, it’s time place your fake spill in the perfect spot to surprise your friends and family on Wednesday, April 1.

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Hours of Service exemption doesn’t include all ag trucks

By Jeannine Otto

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — While the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may have issued a national emergency declaration that exempts trucks and drivers hauling supplies critical to the coronavirus effort, that declaration doesn’t include all agriculture and farm trucks.

“Currently, the exemption from Hours of Service issued

by FMCSA does not necessarily apply to all of agriculture,” said Kirby Wagner, assistant director of transportation and infrastructure for Illinois Farm Bureau.

Wagner led a series of “Rules

for the Road” seminars across the state recently to educate and update farmers and ag haulers on transportation law and updates to those laws and regulations.

On March 13, the FMCSA issued a national emergency declaration that exempts trucks and drivers hauling emergency supplies critical to coronavirus mitigation efforts from the federal Hours of Ser v ice regulations.

The FMCSA expanded that declaration on March 18. According to the Livestock Marketing Association, the FMCSA expanded declaration includes livestock haulers.

Drivers who are hauling under

“We wanted agriculture to be deemed critical. It needs to continue.”

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the expanded declaration are being advised to print out a copy of the expanded declaration and keep it in their trucks.

In the U.S. Department of Transportation FMCSA Frequently Asked Questions page, “Are livestock a covered commodity (under the expanded declaration), the FMCSA resp-

onded: “Yes. Livestock are covered as a precursor to food.

The emergency declaration covers ‘immediate precursor raw materials such as paper, plastic or alcohol that are required and to be used for the manufacture of items’ including food needed for the emergency restocking of stores.”

Wagner said that doesn’t include all livestock movement.

“They’ve said they are going to allow certain livestock movements. The general day-to-day operations are not included,” he said.

In addition, the exemption from Hours of Service does not cover all of agriculture.

“There is a definition called

‘direct assistance’ and that is very specific. It means transportation or other relief services provided by a motor carrier to the immediate restoration of essential services, like electricity, medical care, sewer/water or essential supplies like food and fuel. If you are just hauling feed to the feedlot or something that’s in a normal operation, that is not exempt,” Wagner said.

One definition that could become important later is the Department of Homeland Security’s inclusion of agriculture as “essential, critical infrastructure.”

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TULARE, Calif. — Hesston by Massey Ferguson, the industry-leading hay equipment brand from AGCO, gave North American producers their first look at the new Bale Link bale management app during World Ag Expo 2020.

The app allows hay producers to identify each bale via an attached RFID chip, then track the bale

“That designation is going to be a lot more key down the road. We wanted agriculture to be deemed critical. It needs to continue. We want to make sure that farmers are continuing their operations and being prepared in the event that things get a little shaky. That designation could come in handy down the road where we are having sticky situations where we are short on feed or other types of products,” Wagner said.

Even without the federal Hours of Service exemption, Wagner said he is reminding ag haulers and farm truckers in Illinois that they do have other exemptions.

“We are reminding them of current exemptions that are offered to agriculture, which a lot of Illinois farmers operate under. We are reinforcing the current exemptions and watching to see what goes forward,” Wagner said.

In addition, with the approach of spring and planting season, Wagner said he also is reminding truckers about weight limits.

“Weight limits apply to everyone. Right now, the ground is thawing out so the road system is a little more sensitive to heavy movement across it. Our big thing is for truckers to be aware of those road postings and bridge postings out there,” Wagner said.

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Farmweld marks 40 years serving the pork industry

Low-oil DDGS in pig diets URBANA, Ill. — Given greater oil extraction efficiencies at corn-ethanol plants, the resulting co-products, distiller’s dried grains with solubles, are lower in fat.

That means less energy for pigs and other livestock consuming DDGS as part of their diet, according to research from the University of Illinois.

“Fat contains more energy than all the other nutrients. So, if you lower fat in DDGS, we would expect the energy to go down,” said Hans Stein, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the U of I and co-author of a study published in Translational Animal Science.

Along with co-authors Charmaine Espinosa and Su Lee, Stein tested eight sources of low-oil DDGS from feed mills across the Midwest. In one experiment, they fed these DDGS products in cornbased diets to 72 barrows averaging 18 kilograms at the start of the two-week experiment.

By analyzing feces and urine from the animals, the researchers were able to quantify how much energy was absorbed and retained in the animals.

Compared to a cornbased diet without DDGS, there was less metabolizable energy in all eight sources of low-oil DDGS. “We didn’t see a lot of variability among the eight sources, which was a little surprising. There were only two sources that were significantly different from each other in terms of energy. But, most importantly, all were lower than corn. In the past, corn and DDGS were considered to have the same amount of energy,” Stein said.

He added that producers may have to add additional sources of fat in pig diets if using low-oil DDGS. However, according to a separate experiment reported in the study, the ingredient still has value.

In the second experiment, researchers analyzed amino acid digestibility in seven low-oil sources of DDGS. Partially digested material was extracted from the ileum of 24 pigs after a week on the experimental diets.

“The digestibility of amino acids in these lower-fat DDGS sources is a little bit greater than we’ve seen in the past,” Stein said.

“We think the industry is doing a better job of heating or drying the DDGS. If they overdry the material, the amino acids are damaged. It appears they are doing a better job of avoiding overdrying, which results in greater amino acid digestibility of amino acids.”

Stein’s group has studied DDGS for many years, and has chronicled a steady rise in amino acid concentration — specifically lysine — since 2002, indicating an increasingly favorable feeding value as a protein source.

With the combination of lower energy and greater protein in new low-oil DDGS, Stein said he’s not recommending a change to the standard DDGSto-corn ratio in diets for growing pigs.

The National Appaloosa Horse Show and Youth World Championship will be held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and Event Center in Indianapolis in 2021.

Indiana to host 2021 Appaloosa Horse Show INDIA NA POLIS — For the first time since 1992, when it was held in Columbus, Ohio, the Nat iona l Appa loos a Horse Show and Youth World Championship is coming back to the Midwest.

The Appaloosa Horse Club and the Indiana State Fair Commission signed a three-year agreement to hold one of America’s oldest and most prestigious horse shows in Indianapolis beginning in 2021.

The show dates for each year will be July 5-17, following completion of NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In 2022, the national show will celebrate its 75th anniversary in Indianapolis.

“We are very excited about our new partnership with the Indiana State Fair Commission,” said ApHC President Ken Johnson. “The Indiana State Fairgrounds and Event Center is a first-class facility, and Indianapolis is a thriving, modern and centrally located city. It’s the perfect place to host one of America’s great horse shows, which is expected to draw thousands of participants from coastto-coast.”

The National Appaloosa Horse Show began in 1948 and was first held in Lewiston, Idaho. Over the years, it has moved to various venues across the country.

This year, the National Appaloosa Horse Show and Youth World Championship will conclude a successful eight-year run in Fort Worth, before moving to Indianapolis in 2021.

Last year, the show drew participants from 40 states, in addition to Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

“Our team first started knocking on the door of this high profile, national show in the summer of 2018,” said Indiana State Fair Commission Executive Director Cindy Hoye.

“Ultimately, our modern facilities, customercentered staff and rich history of presenting iconic, national events, made us an ideal venue for hosting this show. We’re thrilled to welcome the Appaloosa Horse Club to Indianapolis and know that it will add a new, exciting element to the more than 400 events offered at the fairgrounds.”

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“I want to thank Commission officials and the ApHC Board of Directors for their tireless efforts to bring this great horse show to Indiana for the first time since 1988,” Johnson said.

The Appaloosa Horse Club was established in 1938 with a mission of preserving, promoting and enhancing the Appaloosa breed. The ApHC has since registered nearly 700,000 Appaloosas, which are known for their distinctive color, intelligence and even temperament.

The international breed registry is headquartered in Moscow, Idaho, the heart of the Palouse region — the Appaloosa breed’s namesake and point of origin.

TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. — Over the past 40 years, U.S. pork production has made tremendous advancements, including moving from outdoor lots to environmentally controlled building and raising more pork with less land and water.

The industry has seen consolidation and many other business changes.

At each turn, Farmweld has worked in partnership with producers to fulfill their equipment needs and make raising hogs easier.

In May 1979, Frank Brummer, a welder by trade and a son of a pig farmer, saw a need for innovative equipment in the swine industry. From those humble beginnings and driven by a passion to finding ways to make raising hogs easier for pork producers, he created Farmweld.

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Farmweld is an innovation leader. The company is on the forefront of wean-to-finish technology and designs high-quality, durable products that reduce waste, promote pig comfort and labor savings.

When pork producers buy Farmweld equipment, they enlist a team of energetic, competent people geared to help them achieve their goals. From the sales people who carefully help determine what’s needed to equip a facility to the AutoCAD operators who design a project, the welders who build feeders and the warehouse personnel who oversee shipping, customer satisfaction is Farmweld’s priority.

“We are grateful to our customers and everyone in the Farmweld family who have been part of our 40-year history,” said Brummer, Farmweld president.

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CattleFax elects officers CENTENNIAL, Colo.

— Mark Frasier of Fort Morgan, Colorado, was elected 2020 president of CattleFax at the organization’s annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in San Antonio.

Frasier is a cow/calf, stocker operator and cattle feeder in eastern Colorado and is active in his community and local cattlemen’s association.

President-elect is Pono Von Holt of Kamuela, Hawaii. Von Holt is a cow/ calf and stocker operator, as well as a cattle feeder.

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Jef f Ster nberger of Ingalls, Kansas, was elected as the new Central Region director while Jerry Adams of Broken Bow, Nebraska, and Dale Smith of Amarillo, Texas, were re-elected as directors for the North Plains and Southwest regions, respectively.

Other directors currently serving terms for CattleFax are: Don Quincey, Chiefland, Florida, Southeast director and immediate past president; Jeff Sparrowk of Clements, California, director for the Western Region; and Midwest Director Nick Hunt of Atlantic, Iowa. Chris Kalkowski of Omaha, Nebraska, continues to serve as finance director.

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National Pork Board announces senior leadership changes The Illinois Pork Producers Association leadership team attended the annual Pork Forum in Kansas City, Missouri. Pictured are Mike Woltmann (from left), district 2 director; Gary Asay, National Pork Board director; Curt Zehr, National Pork Producers Council nominating committee elect; Dale Weitkekamp, IPPA President; Phil Borgic, retiring NPPC director, Pam Janssen, current-past president; Alan Kollmann, district 5 director; and Jason Propst, IPPA at-large director.

Illinois Pork leaders attend joint forum KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Illinois sent voting delegates to the National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City, which is a joint meeting of the National Pork Producers Council and National Pork Board.

Those who attended were: Mike Woltmann, district 2 director; Gary Asay, NPB director; Curt Zehr, NPPC nominating committee elect; Dale Weitkekamp, Illinois Pork Producers Association president; Phil Borgic, retiring NPPC director; Pam Janssen, IPPA current-past president; Alan Kollmann, district 5 director; and Jason Propst, IPPA at-large director.

During the meeting, Borgic was presented with a plaque to signify his retirement from the NPPC board of directors. He has served a total of six years on the national board, after serving 17 years on the IPPA board. While on the IPPA board, he held all officer positions, including president, and served on multiple committees.

In addition, Zehr was elected to the NPPC nominating committee, where he previously served as an appointed member for three years. He is the managing owner and operator of Zehr Farms. He is also a past IPPA board member and served as president in 2015.

While there, delegates from Illinois and Iowa proposed a resolution to support the reauthorization of the Mandatory Price

Phil Borgic (left), a pork producer from Raymond, Illinois, receives a retirement plaque at the 2020 Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, from current past-president David Herring, for serving six years on the National Pork Producers Council board of directors.

Reporting. The motion was proposed to ensure that it provides timely, comprehensive and transparent data on pork and by-product sales.

Spe c i f ic a l ly, N PP C should consult with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the following items: n Make the weekly USDA By-Product Drop Value — Hog (NW_LS446) mandatory. n Make the Carcass Cutout Value of the National Daily Pork Report FOB Plant — Negotiated Sales (LM_ PK602) mandatory. n Include exported carcass sales in the National Weekly Pork Report FOB Plant — Export Sales (LM_PK640). n Include exported carcass sales in the National Weekly Pork Report FOB Plant — Comprehensive (LM-PK680).

n Include all export sales in the cutout report.

The amendment was passed by the full delegate body without opposition.

The delegate body adopted other several important resolutions, including those that call on NPPC to: n Strengthen efforts to prevent African swine fever — an animal disease affecting only pigs and with no human health or food safety risks — and other foreign animal diseases from entering the United States. Separate resolutions were adopted directing NPPC to encourage federal regulatory agencies to investigate the risks of imported pet food and pet products containing pork from foreign animal disease-positive countries; take a position on feeding hogs from plate waste; and support and advance responsible

import policies to safely introduce essential feed ingredients from high-risk countries. n Advocate for accurate and truthful labeling of plant-based and cell-cultured products, while supporting enforcement of fair labeling by the Food and Drug Administration and USDA. NPPC supports consumer choice and competitive markets.

Plant-based and cell-cultured products designed to mimic real meat must face the same stringent regulatory requirements as livestock agriculture, including truthful labeling standards. n Support reauthorization of and increased export data transparency in the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, which provides information on the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs and products from those animals. Twice daily mandatory price reports published by USDA include information on pricing, contracting for purchase, supply-and-demand conditions for livestock, livestock production and livestock products. LMRA is set to expire on Sept. 30.

Delegates also passed a resolution reaffirming plans to increase the contribution rate of NPPC’s strategic investment program from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of hogs marketed, effective July 1, 2021.

DES MOINES, Iowa — The National Pork Board has announced senior leadership changes to better implement a new Pork Checkoff vision, structure and operating plan supported by its board of directors — the first major restructuring in nearly 20 years.

The new plan was developed with grassroots input from across the industry, including more than 1,000 pork producers, and focuses on two overarching goals, to build trust and to add value.

To deliver on these goals and the expectations of pork industry leaders for nimbleness and for ward-thinking, the National Pork Board has restructured staff teams and elevated high performers to lead them.

“We have our marching orders — to move at the speed of business and to be consumer-focused, producer-led. That is how we will keep pork relevant and competitive,” said Bill Even, National Pork Board CEO. “These changes align highly capable leaders and staff with the work that must be done, such as making continuous improvement through We Care and protecting swine health from foreign animal disease.”

Highlights of the changes include: n Jerry Flint, who has served as vice president of outreach and engagement for the National Pork Board since August 2019, is assuming the role of chief operations officer. n John Johnson is transitioning to consultant status after more than 10 years serving the

National Pork Board as vice president of strategic administration and as chief operations officer. n Jarrod Sutton, the previous vice president of domestic marketing, is now senior vice president of strategy and innovation. n Angie Krieger has been promoted to vice president of domestic marketing after nearly three years with the National Pork Board in packer relations and channel outreach roles. n Brett Kaysen is the new vice president of sustainability. n Dave Pyburn, as the National Pork Board’s chief veterinarian, will lead a team of veterinarians and swine production experts.

Pyburn rejoined the Pork Board in 2013 after 13 years as the senior veterinary medical officer at USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. n Jill Criss is now senior vice president of human resources and administration. Criss has provided human resources and operations services and leadership to the National Pork Board for more than 16 years. Criss will be on the front lines of hiring and training the high-quality talent needed to implement the new strategic plan, as well as ensuring internal administrative processes are streamlined for success.

“In short, we’re ready and excited to be starting 2020 and the new decade with a new vision, a few clear priorities and the resources — people, budget and organizational structure — to accomplish them,” Even said.

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RUTLAND TOWNSHIP FARM | PRICED TO SELL

155.80 survey ac (143.95± till ac, 15.2 CRP ac). PI 114.7. Sec 35, Rutland Twp. I-80, N30 frontage. $6,700/ac Ray Brownfield, Broker

PIASA FARM | PLATTED FOR SUBDIVISION

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

2020 lease open. Lageman Rd frontage. $9,875/ac Dave Oster, Broker

ROHLWING FARM - UPDATED PRICE

80.00± tax ac (69.92± tillable ac, 7.0 CRP ac) PI 115.2 Section 20, Pigeon Grove Township. $6,500/ac Chip Johnston, Broker

AARON FARM | FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL EXPIRED 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

BIRCH TRUST FARM | SOLD 111.79 survey ac (101.56± tillable ac, 6.6 CRP ac) Livingston County IL

ZIMMERMAN FARM | SOLD

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

SM-LA1765657

3.20.20

65.10± ac (30.51± till ac) Dover Township, Bureau County IL

80 acres NEW Greer............................... $8,800/ac 120 acres NEW Watseka ........................ $5,300/ac 6.08 acres HIGH TRAFFIC Bradley .................CALL 56 acres Loda......................REDUCED...$6,450/ac 130+/- acres NEW Momence area .........$8,200/ac 78+/- acres NEW St. George area ......................................... PENDING...$7,850/ac 80+/- acres NEW St. George area .......... $7,500/ac 160 acres Milks Grove Twp ..PENDING...$8,250/ac 80 acres NEW Ashkum........................... $8,950/ac 20 acres Rockville ...................... SOLD...$7,600/ac 51 acres 1800’ River Frontage Aroma Park ........................................ $9,000/ac 38 acres Beecher........................ SOLD...$8,750/ac 80 acres Beecher.................................... $7,300/ac 100 acres 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 134 acres Grant Park.............................. $8,150/ac 80 acres Towanda .................... SOLD...$10,900/ac 221 acres Towanda .............................. $10,500/ac 105 acres Clifton .................................. $10,250/ac 80 acres Chebanse Twp .........................$8,450/ac 8 acres Wilmington Rt 102 .......................$80,000 90+/- acres Kankakee - close to town.... $8,700/ac 72 acres deer, turkey CRP, CREB, 2 creeks, river, Best hunting in Iroquois Co...............$5,250/ac 75 acres Otto Twp ............... REDUCED...$7,800/ac 51 acres just outside Ashkum................$8,500/ac 182 acres Pittwood/Watseka area .........$5,500/ac SM-LA1764430

FARMLAND 68 acres Demonte IN.............................. $6,950/ac 86 acres Manteno Rt 50....................... $10,900/ac 75 acres Donovan...................................$8,350/ac 17 acres Clifton ......................................$5,500/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 20 acres Solar.....................................$800,000 75 acres Grant Park................................$8,400/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/Wilmington Rd ............................CALL 48 acres Momence area Good Cash Rent................................. $7,400/ac 158 acres Manteno.........................................CALL 5 acres Manteno.............................................CALL 134 acres Grant Park.............................. $7,500/ac 10 acres Gilman ...........GREAT FISHING...$80,000 8 acres -Development Potential ................ $67,900 50 acres Kankakee-Development............ $750,000

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FARMS

Open Tenancy 2020

PUBLIC AUCTION LASALLE COUNTY FARMLAND 96.42+/- SURVEYED ACRES

The following described farmland real estate will be offered by PUBLIC AUCTION on:

Open Tenancy 2020

Monday, March 30th, 2020 • 10:00 A.M.

FOR SALE

Sale Day Location: MENDOTA MOOSE LODGE, 211 E. 12th ST., MENDOTA, IL 61342 Farm Location: East of Meriden, Illinois ¾ mile on Rt 34 or 4 ½ miles West of Earlville, Illinois on Rt 34. NE ¼ of Section 29, Meriden Twp., LaSalle County, Illinois.

Farm Description: 96.42 +/- surveyed acres with 93.2 +/- tillable acres. A 138.9 +/- Productivity Index as per Surety. Tillable soils include Muscatune-Buckhart, Sable, Drummer, Osco and Catlin. No Improvements.

Taxes: Tax ID #02-29-204-000 • 2018 taxes paid in 2019 $4,160.22 Plat locations, Aerial Photos, Soil Maps and improvement information available at rickrediger.com TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 1.) Tract will be sold by the surveyed acres. The existing survey will be provided by Seller.

2.) The successful bidder will be required to enter into a standard purchase agreement contract. 10% of the contract purchase price will be due immediately following the auction.

The balance will be due and payable at closing on or before April 29, 2020.

3.) The seller shall provide a title insurance policy in the amount of the purchase price of the subject property.

4.) The 2019 real estate taxes due and payable in 2020 will be credited, based on the most current evidence available, by the Seller to the Buyer at closing. All subsequent real estate taxes will be the responsibility of the buyer.

5.) The property is being sold in “AS IS” condition, with no implied warranties of any kind.

6.) The information is believed to be accurate. However, we strongly urge all prospective buyers to thoroughly research all pertinent data and to draw their own conclusions.

7.) All announcements made the day of the sale take precedence over any previously printed material.

ADVERTISE YOUR FARMLAND FOR SALE...

Seller: JACK HEIDELMEIR TRUST

Trustee – Midland States Bank Attorney: Gary R. Gehlbach, 215 E. 1st St., #100, Dixon, IL 61021 Number System will be Used – I.D. Required Not Responsible for Accidents

CALL YOUR LOCAL AGRINEWS REPRESENTATIVE OR 800-426-9438 EXT. 113

RICK REDIGER, Auctioneer REDIGER AUCTION SERVICE – WYANET, IL 815.699.7999 SM-LA1764462

FARMS FOR SALE

51 Acres, Byron, 141 PI . . . . . . . . .$11,500/acre 54 Acres, Near Triumph, 136 PI . . .$11,500/acre 64.9 Acres, Lee County, near West Brooklyn, 125.7 PI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CALL 81 Acres, Putnam Co, 141 PI . . . . .$11,000/acre 112 Acres, Morrison, 128 PI . . . . . .$6,750/acre 188 Acres, Erie, 180 acres CRP, $46K/year CRP income! SALE PENDING . . . . .$4,925/acre 77 acres Whiteside County . . . . . . . . . . . . SOLD 54 acres Whiteside County . . . . . . . . . . . . SOLD

LAND FOR SALE Macon County, IL - 107.11 Acres - $11,200/acre Harristown Township, West edge of Decatur, IL

Lots of potential, A unique property with excellent soil - 143.1 PI

Macon County, IL - 124.00 Acres - $10,850/acre

BIRD REALTY

South Wheatland Township, Corner of Elwin & Cornthwaite Rd. Just south of Decatur, A great farm - 138.4 PI

Mt. Zion Township, One mile south of Long Creek Productive Macon County land - 129.8 PI

Macon County, IL - 32.46 Acres - $9,500/acre Hickory Point Township, North edge of Decatur, IL Just west of Camelot subdivision - 142.3 PI.

1688 Brandywine Lane, Dixon, IL 61021 • (815) 973-6768

birdrealtysells.com

SM-LA1764744

Macon County, IL - 65.85 Acres - $10,150/acre

~REAL ESTATE SERVICES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL~

LAND FOR SALE

FARMLAND FOR SALE

DEKALB OFFICE 815-748-4440 DEKALB CO.- PRICE REDUCED! 142.0 Ac. 1 mi. S of Kirkland. 135.10 est. crop ac. w/ 132.5 PI. $9,788.83/Ac.

KANKAKEE OFFICE 815-935-9878 IROQUOIS CO.- 138.29 Ac. NW corner of Ashkum.

139.75 crop ac. w/ 122.10 PI. $7,300/Ac. IROQUOIS CO.- 238.60 Ac. 7 mi. E of Clifton. 233.12 crop ac. w/ 123.60 PI. $8,350/Ac. KANKAKEE CO.- 53.63 Ac. on the east side of Herscher. 47.94 crop ac. w/ 126.8 PI. $9,800/Ac.

Grundy - Kendall - Livingston

KANKAKEE CO.- 76.50 Ac. 3 mi. NW of St. Anne. 74.2 crop ac. w/ 120.3 PI. $7,300/Ac.

McLean County, IL - 78.75 Acres - PENDING

Real Estate & Auction Professionals

Nice property along 136 - 128.5 Soil PI

Morris, IL - 815-942-4266

LIVINGSTON CO.- NEW LISTING! 156.54 Ac. 4 mi. SW of Emington. 158.07 crop ac. w/ 122.10 PI. $7,500/ Ac.

Macon County, IL - 31.70 Acres - $3,250/acre

Hickory Point Township, Northwest portion of Decatur, IL Wooded Tract - Picturesque Views

Richard A. Olson & Assoc, Inc

Randolph Township, West of Heyworth, IL

Shelby County, IL - 121.38 Acres - PENDING Big Spring Township, Southeast of Strasburg, IL

Nice productive 80.00 acres and recreational 41.38 acres

Grundy County

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Shelby County, IL - 90.00 Acres - $6,450/acre Rose Township, Five miles west of Shelbyville, IL Half mile south of 16 - 100.2 PI.

Washington County, IL - 190.90 Acres Beaucoup Township, Offered in Two Tracts

150.9 acres ($7,700/acre) and 40.0 acres ($6,000/acre)

First Illinois Ag Group Management I Sales I Auctions I Appraisals

Bruce Huber, Managing Broker 217 521-3537

225 N. Water St. Decatur, IL 62523

Logan Frye, 217-872-6294

Broker 225 N. Water St. Decatur, IL 62523

www.FirstIllinoisAgGroup.com

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NEW: 160 Ac includes 158Ac Tillable - 132 PI - Full Set of Modern Farm/Shop Buildings, 50k Bu Grain Storage & Continuous Flow Dryer - Morris, IL. 158 Ac Tillable Farm - 132 PI - Morris, IL. 128 Ac Tillable Farm - 120 PI - Minooka, IL.

MONTICELLO OFFICE 217-762-9881 PEORIA CO.- 144 .00 Ac. 2 mi. W of Peoria 74 & 474 Junction along State Hwy 8. 134.54 crop ac. w/ 120.20 PI. $6,500/Ac.

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

Kendall County

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230 Ac Tillable Farm - US-52 Frontage - 120 PI - Minooka, IL.

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315 Ac Tillable Farm - 125 PI - South of Dwight, IL.

80 Ac Tillable Farm - 131 PI - Lisbon, IL. 80 Ac Tillable Farm - US-52 Frontage - 123 PI - Minooka, IL. 80 Ac Tillable Farm - US-52 Frontage - 120 PI - Minooka, IL.

Livingston County

365.68 Acres in 4 Parcels– Marshall and Stark Co. Tuesday, March 31, 2020 @ 10:00 a.m.

Bradford Fire Department, Bradford, IL Contact Kankakee Office @ 815-935-9878 All Acres are ‘More or Less’ Unless noted www.Hertz.ag

Real Estate | Auctions | Land Sales | Land Valuations

www.richardaolson.com

Also Offering Professional Farm Management & Appraisal

SM-LA1765777

SM-LA1764396

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

BEEF CATTLE

BEEF CATTLE

BEEF CATTLE PRESCOTT ANGUS Yearling Angus Bulls For Sale Richard Prescott 815-228-2069 prescottangus.com Registered Yearling Hereford Bulls, good genetics, docile, 217-543-3259 217-543-3063

(3) 2-YEAR OLD Angus bulls, 2 Yearling Polled Herford bulls, mostly low birth wts. All shots, starting @ $1,950. (10) mostly black grass feeder calves, Call Brent Behren 217-971-5897

RESCHEDULED

Cattlemens Choice Sat. April 25th 1:00pm Arthur Livestock Arthur, IL

(3) REG. ANGUS yearling bulls.

Gentle, well built, calving ease, 50k tested. Double S Ranch Roanoke IL. (309)634-8756

COPPERAS CREEK RED Angus, Bull For Sale Reg.4087992 Sire H2R Profitbuilder B403. Dam Conquest and Right Kind. More information please call 309-224-1107 Canton, Illinois

SWINE EQUIPMENT 40 Auqua feeder tube feeders, stainless steel, like new condition. Make Offer.

641-660-6838 DAIRY EQUIPMENT WANTED: USED BULK MILK COOLERS, ALL SIZES. (319)330-2286

ANGUS BULLS - Large selection of Big Stout Yearlings, semen tested, balanced EPDs, birth wts., Ready to work. Priced right, Can Deliver! Lantz & Dickinson, Congerville, IL. 309-838-0272, 309-838-0271 BULLS FOR SALE! Purebred Angus & Composite Simmentals, Performance EPDs,Yearling & aged Bulls.

Runner Farms, Blandinsville, IL (405)334-2653 or (309)255-1727 runnerfarms@mtcnow.net

DAIRY CATTLE WISCONSIN CALVES AND FEEDER CATTLE Good quality Holstein and beef cross calves, started calves and feeder cattle are available thru Reynolds Livestock. Give us a call today for prices.

Trucking available.

Reynoldslivestock.com 608-574-7338

MISC. LIVESTOCK EQUIP

FARM FENCE Construction hi-tensile elec., woven, barb, board, quality work reasonable prices, Hood Bros Fence Co. 217-364-4995 For Sale 5 Bred Heifers AngusSalers cross breds. bred to Angus Bull. Aviator Son, calve around April 1st, $1500; Coming 2 year old Salers bulls, Angus/Angus $2500-up. Kassing Farms, Mt. Sterling, IL 217-430-4417

Bulls, Breds, Cow-Calf pairs To Consign.

Larry Martin 217-433-0242

lmcs2000@gmail.com THREE 2 YR. old Polled Shorthorn bulls, easy calving, AI Sired, calves on ground Sired by each. Also, a yearling Horned Hereford and Polled Shorthorn bull. Priced to move. text 815 494 5588

(2) FRIESEN PROTEIN bulk tanks, 5-1/2 ton, $1,500/ ea.

Call 815-539-7117 MODERN MILL 2" Feed blower, single ph. 7.5 HP motor, complete unit, $2,500. obo Call 574-315-9657 Roto-grind bale grinder, less waste, feed less hay, I use a 85hp w/540 or 190-hp w/1000. $12,500-obo. 618-777-2077 TURN TRACTOR TIRES into hay and silage bunks!

Cell Phone: (309)738-9531 www.ecofeeder.com

LIVESTOCK TRAILERS

HIEL TRAILER SALES • Wilson Alum. Gooseneck

• Titan • Haulmark • Stealth • Aluma, LTD #LTD Route 41 S., Prairie City, IL

(800)255-4435 WINTER SPECIALS!!

Livestock Bumper Pulls: 16Lx6Wx6-1/2H, Corn Pro, LED LIGHT, SPARE TIRE, HEAVEY ROCK GUARD IN STOCK. Only $5,950! Wackerline Trailers Sandwich, IL. 815-786-2504 wackerlinesales.com SEED CORN EQUIPMENT MODERN FLOW MALE row destroyers for sale. 3 to choose from or get all 3. John Deere Diesel engine. Well maintained and a lot of spare parts. $14,000 ea. Call 815-590-8500 WANTED NEW IDEA hydrostatic Uni Power Units, Husking beds and Attachments.

563-568-7923 COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS 2001 JD-9650 STS, 2700 hrs., well maintained Exc. appearance; 03 JD-930F head, good shape, $36,900. (815)988-2074

COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS 1998 CIH-2366 COMBINE w/3900 eng. hrs, 2900 sep. hrs, recently had work at Stollers, good working cond. 2004 2206 corn head, 6R30, very nice cond. 2008 CIH-1020 bean head, 25-ft., 630-803-2970 2000 CAT-460, 3037 Eng. 2225 sep., rice package, duals @ 70%, Ag Leader, yield monitor w/mapping, inspected yearly, shedded, clean machine, w/F30 platform, & 830 corn head, will separate, $32,500 obo Call 815-848-2300 2004 JD-893 CORN head, 2 years on knife rolls, 1 year chains & sprockets, hyd. Deck plates, $12,000 (217)415-1804 216 John Deere bean head, very gd cond., $1600. 426 Allis turbo out of N6 Gleaner, runs very gd, $2500. 618-214-2194 25ft 925 John Deere grain platform w/30ft head mover, $8900. 618-927-7858, 618-927-7857 436 International turbo diesel, $1600.

618-214-2194 466 JD turbo diesel out of 8820 combine, runs good, $2500.

618-214-2194 640 V8 Perkins turbo diesel, $2500. 618-214-2194

www.agrinews-pubs.com | ILLINOIS AGRINEWS | Friday, March 27, 2020 COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS Cat Track w/JD final drive, rebuilt after last used, good shape, $5000. Can Deliver. 618-777-2077 CIH-1063 and 1083 corn heads, completely rebuilt. CIH 2000 and 3000 series also available!!

(712)470-0554

TRACTORS Retiring: JD 4960 tractor, FWA w/new Remand engine, 1991 .........................$45,000.

309-314-1384, call for pictures WANTED; WHITE AND Oliver tractors, running or need of repair, 920-526-9915 INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

PLANTERS 01 KINZE-3600, 16R32, air clutches, insect boxes, $36,000 Call 815-791-6207 12 JD vac meters c&b disks 1.6 bu hoppers, $1000-obo.

815-821-3397, leave voice mail.

INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

FOR SALE GRAIN Bin Drying System, 42' Shivvers Drying System w/level dry & computer system & Cross Augers, 2 turbo Fans & Burners, 26hp a piece, Call 217-821-6232 for price

NGMO SEED CORN,

OPEN POLLINATED SEED corn, out produces Hybrids for silage. $67 per bu.

Plus shipping. 217-857-3377

Protect Your Yield From Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome And White Mold A Complete Management Plan Starts With Heads Up® 1-866-368-9306 headsupST.com/ Illinois TRACTORS 1970 JD 4020, syncro, wf, fenders, weights, straight, runs and shifts great, $9000-obo.

309-333-0580 1978 JD 4640 , 5000 hrs, power shift, 1 owner. 217-874-2440.

1980 AC-7080, 5192 hrs., has had motor work, good cond., $8,000 obo call 217-491-6224 1992 CIH-7140, MFWD, 6600 hrs., new frt. tires, like new rears, duals @ 50%, Exc. Paint, new turbo, injectors, rebult fuel pump & head, $42,500 Call 815-760-0798 1996 JD-8570 4WD. 6626 hrs. bareback 3-hyd. Outlets, 24 spd. good 18.4R38 Firestone tires 60%, $32,000.; 1981 IH1086, can air & heat. 2 hyd.

Outlets 3-pt. 2-PTO. New front tires rear Firestone 18.4x38 w/duals.Western cab. $12,000.

Call 217-737-8640 2004 VERSATILE-2425, 3300 hrs., exc cond., $72,500, OBO retiring. 563-357-4300

* Tile Lift Pumps *

2017 JD 8270R, 2200 hours, PS, 5 hyd., $138,500-obo.

217-242-9105 BIG TRACTOR PARTS ~ Geared For the Future~

STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALISTS

1.We are your source for new & used Steiger drivetrain parts - S.I.9300 2. We rebuild Spicer manual transmissions, Fugi power shift transmissions, dropboxes & axle with ONE YEAR WARRANTY! 3. We now rebuild computer control boxes for Steiger tractors 1982-1999.

800-982-1769 www.bigtractorparts.com Case 2290, 3597-hrs., recent engine overhaul, 540-1000 PTO, retiring. $16,300.

618-973-8316 ENGINE KITS Clevite - FP Diesel - Reliance Quality SINCE 1988 ENGINE KITS: sleeves, pistons, pins, rings, bearings & IN-FRAME GASKETS

INTERNATIONAL

DT414 ......................................... $995 DT436 ....................................... $1025 DT466B&C Series ....................... $995

For More Kits - Just Call

Dons Diesel 800-345-6513 www.donsdiesel.com Lawrence, KS

JD 8130 MFWD, front weights, duals, 540/1000 PTO, 4 remotes, high hours, asking $52,500. 309-781-6829 JD 8130, PS, 4-hyd., front rear duals, 4200-hours, $92,000-obo. 217-242-9105 JD-7830 MFD, IVT Trans, frt susp., active seat, higher hrs., nice, $42,500 715-574-4561 JD-8430 MFD DUALS, IVT, wts., active seat, 50" tires, HID lighting, guidance ready, 5032 hrs., $79,900 Call 715-572-1234 OlIVER-880 STANDARD DSL restored Exc. Cond., Super 77 restored, Oliver 70 restored.

550, 971 hrs., (618)670-9474

PLANTERS

150 to 15,000 GPM *Electric Motors * *Farm Drainage Pumps * * Generator Sets * Shoemaker Welding North Liberty, IN 574-656-4412 684 HOES TILE trencher, Call 608-295-9287 Ashland I950 scraper, 9-1/2 yard, front dolly wheels, like new condition, $28,500.

815-275-0699 Ashland I950 scraper, 9-1/2 yard, front dolly wheels, like new condition, $28,500.

815-275-0699 Central Culvert & Tile, LLC Mahomet, IL. Steel and Alum.

Culverts. Plastic Tile & fittings.

8-inch to 36-inch in stock. up to 144-inch avail. 217-637-8453 EMPLOYMENT Full-time large grain farm, Coles Co., Must have CDL, sprayer, planter, combine experience preferred.

Paid Vacations.

217-348-0394 FARMS FOR SALE/RENT

180 Ac. Edgar Co. 143 PI Under Contract $10,900/AC 161 Ac. Ford Co. 108 PI $5.900/Ac 80 Ac. Beecher, IL. 117 PI $5,900/Ac 200 Ac. Iroquois Co. PI 124 $7,650/Ac 560 Ac. of Industrial Development land, Normal.

Next to the Rivian auto plant.

33 Different Parcels of farm and development land in Will County.

129 Ac. & 253 Ac parcels of timber/recreational land in Schuyler County $3,950/Ac 110 Ac. Chebanse Farm, Iroquois Co. 127.3 PI $8,900/Ac

258 Ac. Rollo Farm, Dekalb Co.PI of 129.9 $9,750/Ac

2007 AGCO-DT180, 4890 hrs., $70,000 obo Call 309-546-2831 2007 JD-8430 TRACTOR, front wheel assist, 4wd, frt & rear duals, PS, 4 SCV'S, 2773 hrs., Exc. Cond., $142,500 Call 660-341-1150 2009 CIH Magnum 245 MFD 3510 hours, PS, field ready, Guidance Equipment, very nice, 217-304-1937 2010 FARMALL-95C, 97 hp., 540 PTO, 1830 hrs., MFD, A/C, Heat, CD radio, 2 remotes, 3 pt.

W/quick attach L730 loader, w/quick attach 97" bucket, block heater, stored inside, Like New, $35,000 obo. (309)883-6340

(319)698-4005 More than 25 Years!

Specializing in Planter Attachments & No-Till Equip

ROTARY 2015 WOODS BATWING model BW180X, 1000-PTO, only used 2 summers, very nice, Call 630-803-2970 2017 JD-1570 TERRAIN CUT front mount mower, dual wheels, 4wd, air seat, hyd. Wts, transfer kit, 37 HP diesel, 72" 7iron pro side discharge mower deck, Excellent Condition, 430 hrs, $18,000. (618)836-5906, 618-535-2800 cell

SEED Certified Patriot & Williams82 non gmo Soybean Seed, $19.00 per unit. Cleaned & Tested in 50 lbs bags or 2000 lb totes. 217-235-4322

(618)339-2200

Moeller Ag Service Inc.

www.moelleragservice.com moellerag@cloudburst9.net

JD-9650, 2192 SEP. hrs., 3108 eng. Hrs., $48,000 obo; JD-893 corn head, $11,000 0b0; JD925 bean head, $7,000 obo Call 309-546-2831

107-113 Day Maturity, $85.00 for 80,000 Per Kernel Count,

PLANTERS

Goodwin & Associates Real Estate, LLC Mark Goodwin Office 815-741-2226 Doug Deininger 630-258-4801 doug@deininger-land.com 39+/- AC. MARSHALL Cnty, IL.1872 Cnty Rd. 900 N. Varna, IL., Surveyed, 2 creeks, partial timber, $7,800/ac. Call Ray 417-217-9688 500 AC. Row Crop Farm Enterprise Realty (660)582-7160 entrealty.com FOR SALE 175-AC, class A soils, in Big Rock IL, Kane Co., solid investment. Serious inquires only. 847-980-7956

Farms for Sale 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).

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

Special Auction Offering DeWitt Co. - 553.78 acres and a 230,000 bushel modern grain storage system located around the south edge of Clinton (in 5 tracts). See website for the details. This will all be sold at public auction in conjunction with MartinAuction Company on March 31, 2020.

Heartland Ag Group Ltd. Dale E. Aupperle - President (217) 876-7700 www.heartlandaggroup.com

We Have Buyers looking for farms.

Burgener Auction and Realty.

Moweaqua, IL 217-768-4999 FARMLAND WANTED WANTED TO PURCHAS, A quality soils 80-240 ac. Lease back possible, Call 618-768-4424 or 618-768-4477

1978 JD-7000 12R30” front fold, all no-till attachments.

Call 630-803-2970 1998 CIH-955 SOLID stand, 23 row planter, bean drums, corn drums and milo drums. $13,000 Call 217-825-3670.

1998 CIH-955 SOLID stand, 23 row planter, $13,000 Call 217-839-4284 1999 JD 1770, 16Row, no-till coulters, heavy duty down pressure, liquid fertilizer, $18,500. 309-781-6829 2000 JD-1760 FINGER pick up planter, 12R30”, flex frame, half width disconnect, precision meters, bean & corn, Keetons, sensor one seed population monitor, w/GPS speed sensor, 1 cast iron spike closing wheel per row, books & spare parts, small farm, retired, can send photos, 217-473-2548 2000 JD-1770, 16-30 MAXEmerge plus vac, 250 monitor, insecticide, Shedded, well maintained. Good paint. Farmer Retiring, $13,000. Rochelle, IL. Call 815-751-7642 2004 JD-1750 Conservation planter, 8R30”, 250 monitor, corn & bean units, nice low acres. $13,900 309-826-8347 2005 Case IH Model 1200, 16-31 split row planter, $2000 of updates, (2) 200-gallon liquid fertilizer tanks w/ground pump, always shedded, 309-208-3613 2005 JD-177NT, MAXEMERGE XP plater, 16R30” precision meters, row cleaners, HD springs, box ext., insect.

Boxes, veriable rate drive, asking $35,500 (815)440-5850 2009 JD-1770 16-ROW narrow, CCS planter w/E-set, veritable rate, shaft drive, Precision hoppers w/shut off, 2020 generation one monitor, air force down pressure, Yetter shark tooth Short Titan row cleaners, Schlagel closers, 450 gal. Starter tank w/infernal starter, smart box insect system, will have new openers, can upgrade to Delta Force if wanted, 608-774-6800 2011 White 8531, 16x31, 2 bu. boxes, hi-rate sensors, pt row clutches, HD down springs, unit mount no-till cutters, Keeton seed firmers, 4 insecticide boxes, GTA console 1 monitor, always been shedded, $33,000.

217-246-5600 2018 JD 1795 ccs planter, 16x31, row command, hyd drive, markers, $144,900 217-242-9105 24 JD 1770 liquid fertilizer applicator, $250-each.

618-562-7550 2700 KINZE 24 Row 30inch planter, c and b meters, 2000 acres on complete rebuild, $15,000. 217-556-4106 greendrills.com (740)756-4810 Hizey Farm Service LLC Harms Land-Rollers, Brand New! 12 - $6,800, 14 -7,300, 16 - $8,000 , 24 - $14,800, 32 - $17,500, 42-$21,500 Any size Available. 715-234-1993 JD 1760 12Row 30 inch planter, equipped w/insect boxes, no-till cutters, Yetter residue managers, very sharp, no welds, used on small acreage. 217-259-2168 JD 7200, 8r30”, hydraulic wing fold, no-till, finger meters, insecticide, nice cond., $15,500.

815-275-0699 JD-7000, 4-36, PLANTER, Good Shape, $2,500 Call 815-988-2074 Kinze 3600, 16/31 row, great shape, ready to go, no-till, insecticide, corn & bean meters, KPM II monitor, 815-712-3703 KINZE 3600-ASD 16-30", loaded, low acres, 2012, $67,500. Call 563-357-4300 Kinze 4900 24R planter with electric drive, good condition, $93,000. 712-579-1825 KINZE-2200, FLEX FRAME, 12 row, no-till, $10,000. Call 815-541-1275.

MERIDIAN-240RT, LIKE NEW, $15,000 obo Call 309-546-2831

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MISC JAMESWAY CATTLE feed conveyors, Call 815-252-7117

HAY & STRAW (24) 4x5 ROUND bales, of 2nd cutting alfalfa, very leafy, plastic wrapped, call 815-822-3565 (53) LARGE NET wrapped round bales of mix and straight alfalfa, 1st & 2nd cut., Eureka IL. 309-251-2957 5X6 NET WRAPPED Grass hay or large squares of alfalfa for horses and dairy cows. Delivery to your farm. (217)370-4342 5x6 round bales, grass hay, net wrapped, no rain, $60 a bale. 815-651-7426 60 BALES OF cerial rye net wrapped 2019 hay, 5-1/2' dia. bright bales $60.00/bale; 50 corn stalk bales, shucks & cob only, no dirt or roots,$50.00 picked up, we will load 309-525-5520 ALL KINDS OF Hay & Stray Big Squares, Small Squares, & Big Rounds. Delivered in 18-24 ton loads. 217-322-4663 CORN STALK BALES & hay Please call 815-878-7222 HAY AND BEDDING Auction!

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Reynolds Feed & Supply Cobb, WI. (608)623-2121 reynoldslivestock.com HAY AND STRAW, Pandemic Sale, existing inventory 10% off plus 50% off delivery cost for qualified orders, Call David 815-685-5344, Mike 815-685-9646 Need bedding? We got BEANSTALK bales to meet your need. Call Brad @ 618-322-5231 Texico, IL TOP OF STATE Hay & Straw, 3x3x8 bales and rounds. Davis, IL. Please Call 815-238-8372 FORAGE

FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT Propane/Ammonia Tanks 12,000, 18,000, 30,000 & 60,000 Sales, Installation & ServiceCall For A Quote!

Dibble Enterprises 815-237-2247 TANKS: STAINLESS. PIPE For Culverts 10-inch to 10ft DIA. 618-553-7549, 618-562-4544, www.dktanks.com WANTED: 4 USED Y drops, Call 708-921-3484 Chemical

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Farmers Helping Farmers Co. Hinckley, Illinois 815-739-7700 BUILDING & SUPPLIES INSULATION, 4x8 SHEETS foil-back foam, Factory Seconds Call Ken Nichols. Sullivan, IL. 800-424-1256, nichols5.com LOANS/ FINANCIAL SERVICES FARM LOANS. We have the Best term/interest rates avail.

Fixed rates, 5-25 yrs. 618-5282264 c, 618-643-2264, The BelRay Co, Don Welch and Jeff Welch, McLeansboro, IL COMMUNICATIONS 2-WAY RADIO Radio Ranch, Inc. 10924 Hoover Rd, Rock Falls, IL 61071, (815)622-9000 www.radioranchinc.com

STEPHENS Trailer Sales

IH-4900 FIELD CULT. 37', exc. tires & hoses,has rear hitch, $4,500 obo; (40) Landoll disc blades, 22-1/4” diam., 1-3/4 round hole, low concavity 1-1/2” blades, used on 20 ac. $30.00/blade, 815-303-1960 JD MULCH MASTER, MODEL 550, 25-FT., EXTRA SWEEPS, GOOD COND., $5,250.

812-204-4587 JD-726 2005 34ft finisher, knock on sweeps 5 bar spike harrow, field ready, nice cond., $23,500. 815-275-0669 LANDOLL-876 TILLOLL 30' soil finisher, Excellent Condition Located near Yorkville, IL. $23,500 Call 630-669-0437 M&W SOIL FINISHER, 24', good cond., retired, $7,000 obo Call 217-671-3287 MCFARLAND 20FT reel disc, vertical tillage tool, $21,000.

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SUNFLOWER 26' SOIL finisher, 300 ac. Since complete rebuild, new 20” blades & Bearings, 10” hard serface shovels, rolling basket, 5 bar harrow on rear. Call 217-725-5236 YETTER 30' VERTICAL till, w/500 gal. Balist tank, could be converted to side dress, $5,500; JD single disc fert. Openers, $150/ea. Call 815-789-4740 GRAIN DRILL JD-8200 12' GRAIN drill, w/grass seed. $2,850 Call 815-988-2074 FEED & GRAIN

MANURE EQUIPMENT Knight Complete Line-up New pro push, Slinger PS 235 Vertical Spreaders.

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Hindsboro, IL 217-346-2737 KNIGHT-252 SPREADER W/HYD. end gate, Very Good Cond., $4,250. Call 815-988-2074 TIRES 28Lx26, 23 degree Firestone tires, like new, $1200; On JD Rims. 23L-26 tires, V gd, $750.

On JD Rims. 618-214-2194, 4 GoodYear Tractor Tires Size 620/70R26. Asking $2000.

563-920-1125 PARTS & SALVAGE

SPRAYERS 1100 GALLON TOP AIR Sprayer, 60-ft. folding hyd. boom, foam maker, Raven monitor. $6,000. (815)471-8088 1985 GMC TIPKICK, floater, 1600 gal. Tank, 60' booms, Allison auto, exc. Tires, $8,800 obo call 815-674-0720 1995 INTERNATIONAL Silver wheels, floater, 466, Allison auto, 1600 gal. Tank, 60' booms, good shape, $23,000 obo Call 815-674-0720 3000-GAL. SS TANK, 93 Mack, pump, 5-hp. $11,500. obo.

5th wheel, sprayer trailer, dual tandems, electric brakes, lights. $6,700-obo. 309-531-7576 GREEN SEEKER RT200, variable rate, application & maping system, new in box, Call 815-672-7640 HARDI NAVIGATOR 550, 60-ft. Eagle boom, foam and rinse, $6,500. Call 815-541-1275.

JD-4940 SPRAYER, 1200 gallon tank, 120-ft. booms, 15" spacing, like new tires, globe and 2630 monitor, HID lights, 3640 hours, super sharp, always shedded, 417-343-8787 JD-6700, 3-WHEEL, 60-ft. boom, triple nozzles, w/drops 2375 hrs, spray star monitor, Trimble light bar, foamer, Good Cond., $41,000. 815-260-0249, can text pics.

FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT 16 ROW DAWN PLURIBUS on B&D tool bar w/liquid, $40,000; Call 815-252-7117 1903 w/16ft Chandler litter bed, Cat power, torque boost trans., 4800-hours, 73x44-32, $39,500.

618-562-7550 6-Row corn liquid nitrogen applicator, 3pt hitch, red ball monitor, PTO pump, includes tractor tanks, can also spray herbicide, Delivery possible, $4500. 814-322-8090 Humates Omri cert organic carbon 2400-lb super sack, liquid humate applied with starters, folliar, or with sidedress nitrogen. 563-920-3674 MISC PARTS FOR Gandy Orbit Air, Call 815-252-7117 New Steel Storage tanks available Capacity up to 50,000 gal. 618-553-7549, 562-4544 www.dktanks.com NH BB940A 3X3 baler, 15,000 bales, price reduced.

563-920-3674

CIH-496 24' 7-1/2" spacing, 21" frt. 19-1/2 rear blades, 3-bar Remlinger harrow, Ser. JAG0162738 $7,900; IH-490, 21' 2-1/2" spacing, 19-3/4 frt., 19-3/4 rear blades, Ser. 04700004032969, $3,500; JD235, 25', 7-1/2" spacing, 21-1/4 frt, 19-1/4 rear blades, Ser. 015828A, $3,700; Brillion XL 144 33' Packer Xfold, good rolls, weld on hitch, Ser. 164772, $5,900; Krause, 2011, 15' offset disc, 11" spacing, 251/2" blades; Glencoe, 55K soil saver, New paint, Hoses & Points, $3,300. (815)592-3656

DMI FIELD CULTIVATOR, 28-ft., coil tine harrow, rear hitch,$7,000. Call 815-541-1275

Rt 29 N. Taylorville 217-824-2815 stephenstrailers.com

WANTED HAY HEAD for New Holland-717 chopper; FOR SALE NH-489 hay bine, new gear box, works good, $900.

Call 847-445-8476 We Repair Baler Knotters on your Farm!

Service Calls also available for farm equipment! Used Rakes & New Tedders for Sale!

Kings Repair, Marshall IN 765-597-2015

CIH 200 field cultivator 43-1/2ft, knock off shovels, 4 bar tine harrow, hitch, exc cond.

Farmer owned. 309-224-9186

CUSTOM TILLAGE I have the new style high speed disk. I will work down your prevent plant acres & chiseled ground. I charge $12./ac. plus fuel & DEF. Also $2./mi. road charge. Call Munro 815-303-1960, LaMoille IL

Trailerman - Corn Pro EBY- Imperial Implement - Utility

maintained, always shedded, Exc. $8,000; JD-510 disc ripper.

7-shank, $8,000. (618)799-9307

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT/ PLOWS ETC. Case IH 25ft 3950 disk, w/271/2ft Case IH Crumbler, both in very good condition, field ready, $22,900. 618-927-7858, 618-927-7857

CIH-700, HIGH CLEARANCE 8 bottom 16” pull type on land plow, $3,500; CIH-516 720 plow, 3 pt. $2,000. Call 217-456-7641

EBY (Aluminum) Corn Pro (Steel) Livestock - Horse

2015 NEW HOLLAND-316 disc bine, used on 1200 acres, like new, 16-ft. cut. Shedded.

815-861-7087.

JD-330 ROUND BALER, well

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FEED & SEED OATS, large quantity available. Bulk bin run at $4. per bu. (32 lbs). 50. bu super sacks cleaned at $5. per bu. Cleaned and bagged in 50lb bags at $8. Kewanee, IL. 309-853-7517 Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC Buying Corn Clint Davidson Commodity Mgr 10406 N 1725th St Palestine, IL 618-586-2321 or 888-586-2321

WANTED: YOUR DAMAGED GRAIN We Pay Top $$, by the Load or by the Job...

YOU decide! Honest & Dependable Trucks & Vacs Available!

- Don't Worry Call Murray! Murray Enterprises, Inc. Bonded Grain Dealer since 1959 800-284-5686 AUGER 2018 WR100-31 Westfield PTO 10"x31' auger, like new, $3250.

Arthurs Repair Shop, Hindsboro, IL 217-346-2737 CULTIVATORS CIH-183, 12R30" FLAT fold, Vibra shanks, rolling shields, Neese levelers, shedded, Exc. Cond., $3,500. 309-303-2848 JD-845 12R30" FLAT fold, C shanks, rolling shields, Neese levelers, shedded, Exc. Cond., $6,000. Call 309-303-2848 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT/ PLOWS ETC. (2) IH-4600 FIELD cultivators, 24-1/2', $1,800 each.; Wilrich field cultivator, 27', $1,000 Call 815-326-1190 Case 3950 disk, 24ft, 22” blades, 9” spacing, show room condition, retiring, $16,800.

618-973-8316

Backhoe conveyors, several reconditioned, $5500 & up.

Complete backhoe parts.

Arthurs Repair Shop, Hindsboro, IL 217-346-2737 High capacity Westfield Augers Early Season Pricing Bunker Hill Supply Co Hutsonville, IL 618-563-4464 GRAIN VACS New& Used REM & Kongskilde grain vacs. Used Kongskilde 1000 & 500 grain vacs.

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BINS & DRYERS 3-ACRES INCLUDES GRAIN elevator w/80-ft. scales, office, 3 storage buildings & bins, etc.

6 miles East of LeRoy, IL $220,000. 309-825-5017

WAGONS & GEARS JD-716A SILAGE WAGON, SN 01266zw, 3 beaters, roof, wood floor, unloading apron ext., PTO shaft, variable floor spd. On a JD-1075 4 wheel running gear, SN 014541w with tongue ext., trails straight, well maintained and shedded, Asking $6,000.

Wanatha IN. 219-252-0510

MISC. FARM EQUIPMENT YEAR ROUND TRACTOR cab Fits 66 series tractor, Call (309)854-2708

SILOS

Yetter seed vac II pneumatic seed tender on M&W 2 compartment 300-bu wagon w/ tarp, very gd. 319-759-669675

Jetcrete (Pneumatically applied concrete) Reline your Silo w/ Jetcrete Bunker Silo Restoration & Repair Barn wall and Basement Resurfacing

48ft 12 ring 2.66 bin with bolts, floor supports and unloads also available. 217-474-8820

Used Zimmatic center pivot 9 tower 1500 ft long, $15,000; Kifco water winch & 6" alum pipe, 815-303-3650 Putnam, IL

WANTED: HARVESTORE SILOS, 25' diam., will also build to suite Steel Constructors Inc. 507-346-2374

Generators: used, low hr takeouts. 20KW to 2000KW. Dsl, Propane, Nat. Gas. 701-3719526. abrahamindustrial.com

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GSI FLOORING New-Weather: 18' , 21' , 24' Floor. 50% off.

While They Last. Call Place Order. Brush Enterprises, Bethany, IL 1-800-373-0654

Onarga, IL. 815-351-8124 *New/used Bush Hog mowers on hand. *Full line of Bush Hog parts.

SHIVERS DRYER SYSTEM for a 30' bin, w/level dry, 2 blue flame fans w/turbo fans, inclined auger and unloading auger, still set up can see work, Call 618-267-1647

Drying Floors W/12 Supports & Flashing 21 . . . . . . . . . . $1437 27 . . . . ... . . . . . 2400 42 . . . . . . .. . . . . 5705

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KILLBROS 375 WAGON JD 1075 gear, Shur-lok roll tarp, Ficklin 16-ft. bean auger. Call 815-488-6553.

98 TRAILSTAR 40' Aluminum Dump Trailer, N.H. 195 Spreader, Westgo PTO Auger 10" 31',CIH-4800 F. C. Call 847-764-4210 Jerry JD-2305 COMPACT TRACTOR, loader, 62” mower, 110 hrs. on tractor, like new, $12,500; DMI-470 wagon, roll up tarp, $3,600; Krause-2200 12' disc, $2,600; 815-848-5376 JD-700 DIRT SCRAPER, 7-1/2 yard, Good Shape, $7,950 Call 815-988-2074 NEW 2020 HSC2200 Travis Seed Carts For Sale Wireless Remote Programmable Scale Honda 8HP Choice of Red or Green $13,400. Call Walsh Hunt Seed Service 815-997-2401

CARS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS 2007 Kenworth T800 day cab, Cat C15, 10-spd., 550,000 miles, recent overhaul, excellent condition, 309-368-1562 2010 DELTA HYD. tilt bed goodeneck trailer 24', (2) 7,000 lb. Single axles, floors in good cond., pic avail. Asking $6,500 obo 309-525-2390 2013 Freightliner Cascadia 125, Air Ride susp., tandem axle, Detroit engine, 241,000 miles, auto, Very Nice truck Call for price.

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2015 Timpte 40-ft. super Hopper trailer, auto tarp, alum wheels, good tires & brakes, min.use, 815-257-3288 or 815-368-3288 DODGE RAM 3500, flat bed truck, gas, duel wheels, new tires, 1000,000 mi., 4wd, Excellent, Call 217-415-6405 or Email nobes99@hotmail.com for pictures, Call 217-415-6405 WANTED 18' GRAIN BOX WITH OUR WITHOUT HOIST. CALL 309-635-4575 CARS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS

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Serving IL, IA, WI 800-866-7327

FARM FAN DRYERS AB350, 500H, 1000H, 1500H 650 Mod, Super Prices on bin bolts. Harms Grain (815)-568-4000

YETTER SEED JET II with wireless remote, mounted on yetter seed cart. $3,000/OBO.; JD-400 15-ft. rotary hoe. $700/OBO. (217)491-4089

CARS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS 1978 Chevy C65, grain truck, 16ft bed, twin hoist w/tag axle, been kept inside, 65,000 miles, exc condition, $5500.

618-927-0255 1986 ALLIED FUEL tanker, 9000 gal., 5 comp. 11R22.5 tires, air ride, tires & brakes 50%, new dollies, painted silver & blue, nice looking trailer, $12,000 Call 309-335-0573 1997 REITNOUER STEP deck, 48 X102, all alum.,10.2 spread. $9,250 obo; 2007 Manac, step deck, 48x102, all alum.10.2 spread, $12,500 obo; 1999 Roadmaster rgn, 50-ton tri-axle, 48x102 with 26-ft. well, $25,000 obo. 815-674-0720.

2003 IH TANDEM, 600-bu. grain truck w/466 International engine, 20-ft. Scott aluminum box, telescoping hoist, Best offer. 630-803-2970 2004 FORD F350, diesel w/service body, 98,000 miles, good condition, $8000.

815-499-4900 2007 International 8600, AR, tandem axle, 10-spd. transmission, C13 Cat eng., 167-wb, Nice Truck, $19,500.

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KATOLIGHT & WINPOWER. Generators, automatic & PTO engine sets. Swits Farms Sales & Service. (217)752-6213 Winco Generators. PTO portables & eng. sets avail., Large Inventory. Albion, IL. Waters Equip. 618-445-2816 WANTED LOOKING FOR A good used Mix Mill or Sentry stationery hammer mill grinder. Call or text 309-238-1439 WANTED: IH-153 OR 53 row crop cultivator, 6 OR 8 row, Call 815-291-8235

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Data-analysis solutions New artificial intelligence algorithm better predicts corn yield

Expert dog detector Maci spots a citrus tree infected with HLB during an orchard review.

Dogs sniff out sick trees FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Dogs specially trained by Agriculture Research Service scientists have proven to be the most efficient way to detect huanglongbing — also known as citrus greening — according to a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Currently, the only solid hope of curtailing the spread of citrus greening is to eliminate trees with the disease as quickly as possible to prevent further spread.

Early detection of the citrus greening pathogen is crucial because trees can be infected and act as a source to spread the disease months or years before showing symptoms that are detectable by the naked eye.

ARS plant epidemiologist Timothy Gottwald with the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce discovered that dogs can be trained to sniff out the presence of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, the bacteria that causes citrus greening, with greater than 99% accuracy.

“We found that, once trained, these dogs were able to identify infected trees within two weeks of the trees being inoculated,” Gottwald said. “The dogs also were able to distinguish the citrus greening pathogen from a variety of other citrus bacterial, viral, fungal and spiroplasma pathogens, including closely related Liberibacter species.”

During testing, the citrus greening detector dogs had total of four to 15 false negatives and false positives on 950 to 1,000 trees per dog.

Occasionally, the dogs alerted on clean trees that were in the same spot where an inoculated tree had been placed in previous tests due to residual scent.

In contrast, the only currently USDA-approved method

for confirming the presence of the citrus greening pathogen — a DNA-based assay called a polymerase chain reaction test detected less than 3% of infections at two months, 16 of 30 inoculated trees at 16 months and 20 out of 30 in 17 months.

PCR tests also require considerable time, financial and human resources for sampling, processing and laboratory work.

They are very expensive to use as a general surveillance tool.

The training is similar to that of explosives sniffing dogs, in which the dogs are taught to recognize a particular odor and to sit down next to the source once found. The dogs are rewarded with play time with a toy.

However training is more extensive and specific because the dogs are trained to detect a bacteria infecting a plant, and the two cannot be separated.

So far, Gottwald’s program has trained 19 dogs obtained from European breeders of detection canines because of their keen abilities and drive.

“When we ran epidemiological models, we found canine detection combined with infected tree removal would allow the citrus industry to remain economically sustainable over a 10-year period, compared to using molecular assays or visual inspection combined with tree removal, which failed to suppress the spread of infection,” Gottwald explained.

Citrus green sniffing dogs have been deployed for nine months in California and northern Florida.

In the past decade, huanglongbing has caused more than 70% decline in the production of oranges for juice and the fresh fruit market in Florida and threatens other states, making it the largest economic threat to the $3.35 billion U.S. citrus industry.

URBANA, Ill. – With some reports predicting the precision agriculture market will reach $12.9 billion by 2027, there is an increasing need to develop sophisticated data-analysis solutions that can guide management decisions in real time.

A new study from an interdisciplinary research group at University of Illinois offers a promising approach to efficiently and accurately process precision ag data.

“We’re trying to change how people run agronomic research.

Instead of establishing a small field plot, running statistics and publishing the means, what we’re trying to do involves the farmer far more directly. We are running experiments with farmers’ machinery in their own fields. We can detect site-specific responses to different inputs.

And we can see whether there’s a response in different parts of the field,” said Nicolas Martin, assistant professor in the U of I Department of Crop Sciences and co-author of the study.

“We developed methodology using deep learning to generate yield predictions. It incorporates information from different topographic variables, soil electroconductivity, as well as nitrogen and seed rate treatments we applied throughout nine Midwestern corn fields.”

Martin and his team worked with 2017 and 2018 data from the Data Intensive Farm Management project, in which seeds and nitrogen fertilizer were applied at varying rates across 226 fields in the Midwest, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. On-

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Nicolas Martin (foreground) works with student to visualize digital field data. ground measurements were paired with high-resolution satellite images from PlanetLab to predict yield.

Fields were digitally broken down into 5-meter — approximately 16-foot — squares. Data on soil, elevation, nitrogen application rate and seed rate were fed into the computer for each square, with the goal of learning how the factors interact to predict yield in that square.

The researchers approached their analysis with a type of machine learning or artificial intelligence known as a convolutional neural network. Some types of machine learning start with patterns and ask the computer to fit new bits of data into those existing patterns.

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are blind to existing patterns. Instead, they take bits of data and learn the patterns that organize them, similar to the way humans organize new information through neural networks in the brain.

The CNN process, which predicted yield with high accuracy, was also compared to other ma-

chine learning algorithms and traditional statistical techniques.

“We don’t really know what is causing differences in yield responses to inputs across a field.

Sometimes people have an idea that a certain spot should respond really strongly to nitrogen and it doesn’t, or vice versa. The CNN can pick up on hidden patterns that may be causing a response,” Martin said. “And when we compared several methods, we found out that the CNN was working very well to explain yield variation.”

Using artificial intelligence to untangle data from precision agriculture is still relatively new, but Martin said his experiment merely grazes the tip of the iceberg in terms of CNN’s potential applications.

“Eventually, we could use it to come up with optimum recommendations for a given combination of inputs and site constraints,” he said.

The article, “Modeling yield response to crop management using convolutional neural networks,” is published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

ISA names Soybean Master Adviser BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Brendan Marshall, Monmouth, received the 2020 CCA Soybean Master Adviser award at the annual ILSoyAdvisor Soybean Summit in Springfield.

The award, funded by the Illinois soybean checkoff program, recognizes certified crop advisers who excel in helping farmers improve soybean production.

Marshall has experienced a lot of growth in the soybean industry, with top-end soybean yields around 55 bushels when he first started his career 30 years ago.

By retirement, he hopes to help his growers break 100 bushels.

“I think we are going to have to grow more beans to stay competitive in the global marketplace,” Marshall said. “I think the industry as a whole will bring better variety and technology to the market, and I think growers will also spend more time fine-tuning their soybean acres in order to achieve those high yields.”

Marshall helps soybean producers fine-tune their management decisions as a crop specialist for West Central FS Inc., where he provides value-added sales and service of crop inputs including fertilization, crop protection, seed products and technical services to soybean farmers.

Marshall has been a certified crop adviser for 27 years and is a committed member of his community, supporting local FFA chapters by providing products for the Agricultural Education Experience Program that helps students learn about soybean best management practices.

Marshall earned a degree in agriculture from Western Illinois University in 1989. Following graduation, he began his 30 plus year career in the Growmark FS system at Stockland FS, which later became West Central FS. It was his boss at the time who encouraged Marshall to become a CCA in addition to his status as a certified crop specialist.

“Being a CCA keeps me current in the industry,” Marshall said. “Every year when I’m earning my CEUs, there is always one speaker, university professional or presenter that brings a new idea to the table and gives me a new perspective on soybean management. Being a CCA keeps me from getting complacent in the workplace.”

Marshall works with soybean growers to find the best recommendations for each individual operation, all while promoting the correct and sustainable use of seed treatment, foliar fungicide products and soybean fertilizer applications.

ISA created the CCA Soybean Master Adviser award in 2016 as part of its mission to help Illinois soybean farmers excel in the global marketplace.

The award acknowledges the significant role that CCAs play in improving soybean production by offering insight and advice on practices to improve yield and profitability.

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Bayer converts R&D investment into innovation 450 new hybrids, varieties created

MONHEIM, Germany — Bayer announced pipeline project advancements and newly unveiled research in a dedicated research and development pipeline update for the Crop Science Division.

In 2019, Bayer’s pipeline delivered 55 key project and formulation advancements while providing farmers around the world with more than 450 newly commercialized hybrids and varieties of corn, soybeans, cotton and vegetables.

Bayer’s annual investment of $2.5 billion in crop science R&D powers the most productive pipeline in the industry. With an estimated peak sales value of up to $32.5 billion, Bayer continually converts its R&D investment into innovative products that match the complexities farmers, consumers and the planet are anticipated to face.

“At Bayer, we are driven to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. In agriculture, this means helping feed the world without starving our planet. Farmers with operations of all sizes need innovation not only to grow enough nutritious food, but also to do this in a sustainable manner that respects our planetary boundaries,” said Liam Condon, member of the Bayer Board of Management and president of the Crop Science Division. “Our employees are

united around this goal, and our in-season crop access for preunrivaled pipeline is delivering cision applications of inputs, such as nitrogen, which can against it.” be made when the plant needs them most.

HERBICIDE MOLECULE Some short stature corn hyBayer announced a new herbicide molecule: the first new brids also can be planted closer post-emergence mode of action together, enabling the producfor broad acre weed control in tion of more corn on the same 30 years. Multiple MOAs for amount of land and potentially weed control are important for reducing requirements for land managing herbicide resistance and water.

Shorter stature also will help and enabling practices that help to sequester greenhouse gases, improve standability, including better green snap and stalk like no-till farming.

Bayer announced a molecule lodging tolerance, helping rein Phase 2 of early development duce crop loss from challenging which has demonstrated ef- environmental conditions such fective control of key resistant as high winds from extreme weather. grasses in early research.

Bayer announced that both The work demonstrates progress toward Bayer’s long-term the breeding and biotechnology commitment to investing about approaches to create short stat$5.4 billion in additional meth- ure corn are advancing to Phase ods to combat weeds over the 3 and also unveiled a third pathway to short stature corn, next decade.

Discovery of this molecule is a Discovery Phase project that being complemented by a discov- has achieved proof of concept ery-phase program to identify through gene editing.

XtendFlex soybeans, the next and develop a corresponding biotechnology trait to convey generation of weed control for herbicide tolerance and initial soybeans, is advancing to launch approaches are under evalua- phase this spring in the United States, pending regulatory aption. provals. This product builds on the foundation of Roundup SHORT CORN Bayer’s short stature corn is Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and expected to provide environ- adds tolerance to another herbimental sustainability benefits cide, glufosinate.

Beyond XtendFlex, Bayer adthrough a transformational shift in crop management flex- vanced both fourth- and fifthgeneration soy herbicide toleribility.

Because it is several feet ant traits, leading the industry shorter than today’s hybrid fi- with tolerances to six herbicide eld corn, the product concept classes expected to be launched allows farmers to have better by 2030.

DIGITAL TOOLS There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to farming. Every combination of products must be tailored to meet the needs of each customer’s field. Digital tools deepen understanding of those needs, accelerating Bayer’s ability to help farmers with individualized challenges.

The Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform, now available in more than 20 countries, continues to lead the industry with its comprehensive, connected suite of tools that help farmers make data-driven decisions to increase their productivity.

Adoption of the platform has quickly accelerated due to the value farmers around the globe find in the technology, and FieldView’s innovation in turning data into actionable insights has led farmers to connect more than 95 million acres globally of their farm data to the platform, making it the leader in data connectivity.

The first offering of its kind, Seed Advisor enables better decision making with a predictive model that combines the industry’s largest proprietary seed genetics library with regional seed performance data to help predict the best performing hybrids for each of a farmer’s fields.

Performance testing from 20172019 demonstrated a consistent 6 to 9 bushel per acre yield advantage in farmer field trials.

Planned pre-commercial expansions for 2021 include an additional three states vastly growing the number of U.S. corn acres.

In South America, Advanced

Seed Prescriptions are unlocking yield potential using a farmer’s historical field data or field health imagery, combined with Bayer proprietary field-testing results, to provide variable rate corn density planting prescriptions tailored to their unique yield or profitability goals. Recent trials have demonstrated an average yield benefit of 3.2 bushels per acre across Brazil and Argentina.

Bayer’s breeding advantage is the product of sophisticated breeding techniques, data science and digital analytics platforms in concert with the world’s largest germplasm library.

Novel applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence continue to improve the speed and scale at which we can arrive at the best products to meet each grower’s needs.

Identifying the best possible products earlier in the pipeline enables more extensive field testing in diverse conditions and more valuable product insights collected over the course of product development.

Bayer’s ThryvOn Technology, a trait for lygus and thrips control in cotton, is expected to launch in 2021, pending regulatory approval.

ThryvOn Technology is predicted to provide immense value to farmers by supporting healthy plant growth and helping protect yield potential against pests that, until now, couldn’t be managed through a biotech trait.

Advancements in insect-protection traits reduce the need for foliar insecticide applications and improve productivity per acre.

NAS receives patents for potassium acetate technology MARION, Ohio — Nachurs Alpine Solutions, a division of Wilbur-Ellis, announced that it has received two patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its potassium acetate technology.

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Grain quality issues raise entrapment risk ASSUMPTION, Ill. — Due to the late 2019 harvest, many farmers stored grain at higher-than-recommended moisture levels this fall.

That increases the risk of entrapment if they enter their bins to check out grain quality issues or fix plugged augers, said Gary Woodruff, a grain conditioning expert with GSI. Woodruff said grain stored above 15% moisture, often related to insufficient drying capacity or relying only on aeration, can cause it to degrade in the bin and become more susceptible to mold.

“Grain went into bins at a lower quality, higher moisture and with more fines this fall, which makes this year much more dangerous,” he said.

“That’s why we always emphasize that farmers should never enter a bin when there is a risk of becoming entrapped.”

Woodruff said he recommends

that farmers regularly check the quality of their grain this winter.

In addition to grain monitoring controls, he said they should visually inspect their grain at least every other week.

“Climb to the bin manhole and, without entering, look at the grain surface to see if there is crusting or any off-smells that may indicate a mold issue,” he advised.

“Most problems show up on the surface first. It’s best if a sample from the surface is checked for moisture. Any increase in moisture indicates condition problems in the bin.”

New technology currently in development, GSI GrainViz, will further help farmers monitor and manage grain quality remotely by creating a three-dimensional moisture map using technology similar to that of an MRI or CT scan. Operators can see the moisture content of each individual bushel of grain

and its location within the grain mass, without having to enter the bin.

Woodruff cautioned that entering the bin and walking on the surface runs the risk of the crust breaking and the farmer tumbling into the grain, becoming quickly engulfed.

“That’s why we always preach a policy of zero entry,” he said.

“But if farmers decide to do so anyway, there are precautions they should take.”

Woodruff said these include: n Wear a rope and harness to prevent falling into grain if the surface breaks. n Always have another person be present who can call for emergency assistance if entrapment should happen. n Lock out all electrical controls so augers cannot run when anyone is in the bin. n Consult local university web- Twenty seconds is roughly how long it takes for a grown man to become entrapped in a grain bin — that speed and the fear such a situation creates can sites for additional grain bin safety recommendations. make things go from bad to worse.

Study full of beans

FIELD NOTES: BY MYCOGEN SEEDS AGRONOMISTS

Anhydrous ammonia application anxiety common this spring

Citizen scientists participate in fast-cook project

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Karen Cichy, a plant geneticist with the Agricultural Research Service in East Lansing, needs your help. Over the past several years, she’s worked to breed dry bean varieties that take less time to cook.

Kidney, pinto and other dry beans contain protein, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients critical to human health.

However, Cichy doesn’t want consumers to skip preparing the beans as part of a healthy meal plan because of the inconvenience of a long cooking time or other considerations — such as using extra wood, charcoal or other fuel sources that households in some regions of the world may find hard to obtain.

This is where you come in.

Cichy is seeking citizen scientists who can provide valuable data and insight she can use to breed faster-cooking varieties of dry beans and other pulse crops, such as lentil and chickpea.

Toward that end, she has teamed with the Global Pulse Confederation, which has created a dedicated website where citizen scientists can enter information about which type of pulses they chose to cook, what cooking methods they used — for example, boiling and pressure cooking — how long it took and how often they eat pulses.

Cichy will download all the data entered onto the GPC server and start analyzing them.

“I hope to gain an understanding of real-world cooking methods and actual cooking times for beans and other pulses,” explained Cichy at the ARS Sugarbeet and Bean Research Unit, which is located on the Michigan State University campus.

“I’m developing fast-cooking beans through plant breeding, and the information from this study will help inform my bean variety selection traits and methods.”

Cichy said the GPC site will ask participants whether they soaked the beans before cooking and where the participants are located — city, state, province or country only.

Geographic location is important because elevation and climate can strongly influence cooking time.

Previously, Cichy had done all the cooking experiments in the laboratory, using edible dry bean seed specimens shipped from locations in the United States, Caribbean and Africa.

The data provided by citizen scientists will significantly expand her efforts and findings.

Cichy emphasized that the project is open to everyone worldwide, whether they’re regular pulse consumers or not. Citizen scientists who would like to participate but don’t know how to cook pulses can click on a link for standard cooking instructions on the GPC survey page.

Once her analysis is complete, Cichy will publish her findings in a scientific journal and summarize them on the GPC site for participants to view and learn how their valuable feedback was used.

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The prehistoric-looking alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in North America and among the largest in the world.

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Environmental DNA used to detect rare turtle URBANA, Ill. — The prehistoric-looking alligator snapping turtle may be the largest freshwater turtle in North America, but that doesn’t make it easy to spot.

The up-to-200-pound armored beasts have only been officially recorded in Illinois 16 times since the late 1800s. But in a recent study, University of Illinois scientists have demonstrated an effective new method to detect the secretive reptiles in the wild.

“You can’t conserve a species or population without knowing where they are. Once we have that foundational information, we can do the nitty gritty of conservation biology: trying to boost populations through habitat restoration, reintroductions, or any number of established conservation tools,” said Ethan Kessler, doctoral student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois.

Kessler is the lead author on the study.

He and his collaborators tested how well an emerging environmental sampling technique known as environmental DNA, or eDNA, could detect alligator snapping turtles in a southern Illinois river system.

The idea is that all organisms shed DNA in the environment as they go about their daily business. Therefore, a simple scoop of soil or water should theoretically contain trace amounts of DNA from all the organisms recently inhabiting or passing through a given area.

“We’re finding that eDNA is really sensitive to the presence of a variety of organisms in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats, and that expands our ability to find hard-to-detect creatures in hard-to-sample environments,” said Eric Larson, assistant professor in NRES and co-author on the study.

The research team knew alligator snapping turtles were in Clear Creek, a southern Illinois stream feeding into the Mississippi River, because they put them there.

A reintroduction program has put 400 to 500 young turtles into the system since 2014 and work is ongoing to determine the introduced population’s viability.

Each turtle is outfitted with a tracking device. To find them, researchers have to walk or kayak around the site with a less-than-waterproof radio receiver, set up and check traps, and interact with potentially dangerous snapping turtles.

“It’s time consuming and a

lot of effort. And we’re limited by the number of traps that we can check in a day,” Kessler said.

“With eDNA, we can just show up at a location and pull a quick water sample. You can cover a wide geographic area relatively rapidly. That saves money, too, considering the cost of traveling to these remote locations.”

To prove eDNA is capable of detecting alligator snapping turtles, the research team first identified genetic markers that matched all of the subpopulations across the species’ range, but differed from any other turtle species.

After radio-tracking each turtle, they took water samples near the turtles, as well as in dozens of random sites to determine how eDNA travels in a riverine setting.

The eDNA method was able to detect alligator snapping turtles up to a kilometer, or twothirds of a mile, downstream.

Remarkable, considering less than a gallon of water was taken from each sampling location.

“This was a great place to test the performance of eDNA, because there are only so many alligator snapping turtles in Clear Creek, and we know where many of them are. That gave us something like the control of a laboratory experiment, but under very natural conditions in a real ecosystem,” Larson said.

The study also identified shortcomings of the method. For example, the researchers found that stretches of the river that were exposed to more sunlight represented gauntlets of DNA degradation.

“We know ultraviolet light destroys DNA, but we didn’t know how much the sun would affect our ability to detect alligator snapping turtles,” Kessler said.

“We ended up finding that UV exposure does have a slight effect on our ability to detect.

It’s reducing the copy number, or the amount of DNA, in our samples.”

Even with reduced copy number in some samples, the researchers were able to detect the elusive species with fairly high fidelity. The results suggest eDNA detection could be used as a first step to find turtles in locations where their status is unknown.

“We developed a tool to rapidly go out and look for this species. This could be used in regions that historically have records for the species, but they either haven’t been found in many years or have really low population levels,” Kessler said.

“But I think just in general, as long as you have a species-specific primer, this is a good tool to use for any rare species. And it’s a way to maximize our time and effort. A lot of animals need help, and conservation biologists have limited resources and time to try to get the most good out of the work that we do.”

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ber, but it’s advisable to delay planting by as many days as If you didn’t apply anhypossible after anhydrous amdrous ammonia last fall, you’re monia applications to reduce likely getting somewhat anxincidence of crop injury. When ious. That’s understandable that isn’t realistic, follow these coming off the previous spring planting tips to minimize inwhen wet, cold conditions not jury: only prevented preplant ann Do not plant directly over hydrous applications, but also ammonia injection tracks. delayed planting well beyond n Use GPS technology to offthe ideal time across most of set planter rows 4 to 6 inches the Corn Belt. or more from ammonia injecAside from factors largely tion tracks to avoid root and out of our control, fall-applied seedling injury. nitrogen applications are on n Apply ammonia on an angle the decline. Agronomic, ecofrom the direction of crop nomic and environmental planting to reduce crop rowfactors have led farmers away length exposure to ammonia from fall in favor of spring pre- bands. plant, early-summer sidedress n Reduced application rate and top-dress applications as and narrower band spacing advances in fertilizer formureduces the concentration of lations and equipment offer ammonia in each injection more flexibility as to when band. nitrogen — in various forms — n If the injection zone is offset can be efficiently applied. away from future corn rows, Today, little, if any, fall apan application can be done the plication is occurring in south- same day as corn planting. ern Illinois and Indiana, due Lowering N rate is proven largely to increasing incidence to minimize risk of injury. of warmer fall temperature.

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What’s worse is that getting Entering fields in wet conin a hurry often leads to acciditions increases soil comdents. Slow down, apply right paction and ultimately affects and protect yourself. crop emergence and eventually MISSED PREPLANT yield. Additionally, there’s APPLICATION? DON’T PANIC a greater risk of nitrogen Although, in most cases, leaching as the frequency of preplant applications of anhyextreme rain events is higher drous ammonia are preferred, during spring and early sumyou still have options if impedmer months. iments cause fertilizer applicaUsing a nitrification inhibitor such as N-Serve or Instinct tion delays and planting takes precedence. nitrogen stabilizer is proven Be prepared with a Plan B, to impede the leaching and denitrification process, making especially if conditions unpredictably would turn cool and more applied nitrogen available to the crop longer into the wet. The plan should include alternate nitrogen sources growing season. such as UAN solutions or APPLY PREPLANT ANHYDROUS urea.

AND PLANT WISELY Sidedress and top-dress A common concern for applications after crop emerfarmers is how soon corn can gence prove beneficial in be planted following a spring maximizing yield by supplying application of anhydrous ama more continuous supply of monia to avoid injury. Like nutrients when the corn crop much about farming, there’s no needs it most. standard answer.

Crop injury can be avoided, or at the very least minimized, by applying anhydrous at least 7 inches deep and at a slight angle to the row. It’s important ® Trademarks of Dow to achieve a good seal of the injection track to avoid ammo- AgroSciences, DuPont or nia placed in or movement into Pioneer, and their affiliated companies or their respecthe corn root zone. tive owners. Instinct is not Movement from the initial registered for sale or use in injection site is more likely to all states. Contact your state occur in coarse, dry or cloddy pesticide regulatory agency soils. If injection sites aren’t to determine if a product is sealing properly, install wing registered for sale or use in sealers directly above the outlet port on the injection system your state. Do not fall-apply anhydrous ammonia south to help close the injection of Highway 16 in the state of track, limit the size of the reIllinois. Always read and tention zone and reduce vertifollow label directions. cal movement of ammonia. © 2020 Corteva.

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Technology screens plants for key traits Progress toward higher yields

David Voegtlin is pictured with suction trap in Wisconsin.

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Aphids sucked from sky Suction traps used to collect pests for study

URBANA, Ill. — Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived in the Midwest in 2000, it brought none of its natural enemies along for the ride. So, naturally, finding itself in the soybean capital of the world, the tiny insect went bonkers.

Taking advantage of a nifty ability to reproduce without mating, populations exploded and the soybean aphid quickly became the number one insect pest affecting the crop.

Scientists from the University of Illinois got to work almost immediately to track the pest’s movement. They have been collecting soybean aphids throughout the Midwest for the past 18 years, but along the way, they learned a lot more than they expected.

In a new report published in American Entomologist, the researchers share their insights.

In 2001, David Voegtlin of the Illinois Natural History Survey set up the first in what would become a regional network of suction traps: PVC pipes extending 20 feet into the air above agricultural fields.

Inside, a fan whirls and directs sucked-in insects down into a solution of water and antifreeze, which turns out to be an excellent preservative for bugs, microbes and genetic material.

For many of the past 18 years, 30-odd traps across the Midwest have been running continuously during daylight

hours. And weekly, the contents of the trap are collected and sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture research lab at the U of I for analysis.

That’s where Doris LagosKutz comes in.

“There is so much we have learned about the soybean aphid, including spatial and temporal patterns of migration, and about other bugs found in the traps,” said Lagos-Kutz, research associate in the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Department of Crop Sciences at the U of I, suction trap analyst, and co-author on the report. “Ultimately, data from the suction traps will help explain the factors that affect insect population dynamics on a continental scale.”

PATTERN OF OUTBREAKS Glen Hartman, report co-author and soybean pathologist for the department and USDAARS, added the pattern of aphid outbreaks often differs from year to year.

“By learning where the aphid outbreaks occur, we can associate that back to weather patterns, which could help us project the distribution of these insects under various weather and climate change scenarios,” Hartman said.

Because the traps don’t discriminate, the scientists have been able to identify many other insects, including some that appear to be expanding their range due to climate change or habitat suitability.

For example, in 2015, the traps allowed Lagos-Kutz to detect sugarcane aphid in Kansas and northern Wisconsin for the first time. Detection of the insect, usually only found in

southern coastal regions in the United States, could signal an early threat to sorghum, Miscanthus, and other economically important crops outside the sugarcane growing region.

The traps have also captured cannabis aphids near industrial hemp operations; thrips, which can be vectors for crop-damaging viruses; and mosquitoes, an important vector of human diseases.

Lagos-Kutz noted that the contents of the traps are preserved and available for investigation by other scientists and hinted that there’s an untapped mine of information in the collection.

“Using next-generation sequencing, we could potentially discover previously unknown organisms in these samples,” Lagos-Kutz said.

Hartman said the traps could also provide information about the air microbiome and air pollutants.

“We have a goldmine here.

The traps collect all kind of things in the air, inert and biological,” Hartman said. “Who knows what other biological and chemical entities could be pulled out of these samples?”

The ultimate aim is to find funding and collaborators to spread the suction trap network nationwide and keep it going indefinitely. There’s already a set of traps in the Pacific Northwest, but the two networks aren’t formally linked.

“We’d certainly like to have a bigger footprint. This is an extremely valuable source of information that extends well beyond agriculture,” Hartman said. “It’s the monitor for life in the air.”

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Like many industries, big data is driving innovations in agriculture. Scientists seek to analyze thousands of plants to pinpoint genetic tweaks that can boost crop production — historically, a Herculean task.

To drive progress toward higher-yielding crops, a team from the University of Illinois is revolutionizing the ability to screen plants for key traits across an entire field.

In two recent studies — published in the Journal of Experimental Botany and Plant, Cell & Environment — they are making this technology more accessible.

“For plant scientists, this is a major step forward,” said cofirst author Katherine MeachamHensold, a postdoctoral researcher at the U of I who led the physiological work on both studies.

“Now we can quickly screen thousands of plants to identify the most promising plants to investigate further using another method that provides more in-depth information but requires more time.

Sometimes knowing where to look is the biggest challenge, and this research helps address that.”

This work is supported by Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, an international research project that is creating more productive food crops by improving photosynthesis, the natural process all plants use to convert sunlight into energy and yields.

RIPE is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development.

The team analyzed data collected with specialized hyperspectral cameras that capture part of the light spectrum — much of which is invisible to the human eye — that is reflected off the surface of plants.

Using hyperspectral analysis, scientists can tease out meaningful information from these bands of reflected light to estimate traits related to photosynthesis.

“Hyperspectral cameras are expensive and their data is not accessible to scientists who lack a deep understanding of computational analysis,” said

Carl Bernacchi, a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and affiliate of the Department of Crop Sciences at the U of I. “Through these studies, our team has taken a technology that was out of reach and made it more available to our research community so that we can unearth traits needed to provide farmers all over the world with higher-yielding crops.”

The RIPE project analyzes hundreds of plants each field season. The traditional method used to measure photosynthesis requires as much as 30 minutes per leaf.

While newer technologies have increased efficiency to as little as 15 seconds per plant, the study published in JExBot has increased efficiency by an order of magnitude, allowing researchers to capture the photosynthetic capacity of hundreds to thousands of plants in a research plot.

In the JExBot study, the team reviewed data from two hyperspectral cameras; one that captures spectra from 400 to 900 nanometers and another that captures 900 to 1,800 nanometers.

“Our previous work suggested that we should use both cameras to estimate photosynthetic capacity; however, this study suggests that only one camera that captures 400 to 900 is required,” said co-first author Peng Fu, a RIPE postdoctoral researcher who led the computational work on both studies.

In the PC&E study, the team resolved to make hyperspectral information even more meaningful and accessible to plant scientists. Using just 240 bands of reflectance spectra and a radiative transfer model, the team teased out how to identify seven important leaf traits from the hyperspectral data that are related to photosynthesis and of interest to many plant scientists.

“Our results suggest we do not always need ‘high-resolution’ reflectance data to estimate photosynthetic capacity,” Fu said.

“We only need around 10 hyperspectral bands — as opposed to several hundred or even a thousand hyperspectral bands — if the data are carefully selected.

This conclusion can help pave the way to make meaningful measurements with less expensive cameras.”

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University of Illinois Research Technician Evan Dracup (left) and Postdoctoral Researcher Katherine Meacham-Hensold use hyperspectral cameras to screen entire research plots for high-yielding photosynthesis traits.

U of I field research results on diseases, pests URBANA, Ill. — Researchers from the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and the Illinois Natural History Survey have published their 2019 field research results related to crop pests and diseases in Illinois.

The report, “2019 applied research results: Field crop disease and insect management,” is available online and includes evaluations of plant varieties, management practices and products for insects, nematodes and diseases in corn and soybean, as well as results of statewide pest surveys.

Report author Nathan Kleczewski, a plant pathologist in the Department of Crop Sciences and University of Illinois Extension specialist, said the report serves multiple purposes.

“This annual publication is a nice, one-stop shop for applied research results for the season.

It’s not just diseases; it’s weather, production and insects. In the future, we hope it can continue to expand to include other areas and crops,” he said.

“Having these data published annually and stored for posterity is extremely important. You might forget that a year was particularly wet or dry, and that is why certain diseases were problematic or non-issues.”

Kleczewski said the report also includes information on management practices that didn’t work.

“In applied research, the lack of an effect of a management practice is just as important as if a practice has an effect. Why? Because management costs money and we want our produc-

Results online

To see the 2019 field reseach results, visit uofi.app.box. com/v/2019PestPathogenARB.

ers to be as profitable as possible. If something doesn’t work, we want that information out there just as much as if something works,” he said.

According to the report, the wet 2019 spring favored fusarium head blight in some areas, and late planting resulted in pockets of corn impacted by southern rust.

Tar spot, a major player in the 2018 season, was not impactful due to dry conditions in the middle of summer, increased prevent-plant acres in the northern part of the state and other environmental factors. Although

diseases in soybeans were not a major issue, soybean cyst nematode was still present in the majority of fields to some degree.

“In this year’s soybean nematode survey, we saw that soybean cyst nematode is really starting to adapt to the commonly used PI88788 source of resistance.

This means that this nematode is not being controlled as efficiently as it was in the past,” Kleczewski said.

“This first year of data really shows that producers need to be monitoring their fields for this nematode to ensure that their yields are not being impacted.

Often you don’t see the damage caused, and fields suffer ‘hidden’ yield losses.

“Routine sampling and implementation of integrated management practices can help keep this pathogen in check. We

will be doing more surveys this spring, as the wet and cold end to the season prevented us from sampling in a significant portion of the state.”

The report also contains evaluations of Bt trait packages and soil insecticides in corn, as well as foliar insecticides in soybean.

Nick Seiter, an entomologist in the Department of Crop Sciences, headed up the evaluations for western corn rootworm, bean leaf beetle and others.

“With these field experiments, we continue to monitor trait and insecticide performance for rootworm control every year to document resistance development and provide efficacy comparisons to our clientele. Our hope is that producers will be able to use this guide to inform their decisions on insect control,” he said.

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Science

New test measures corn nitrogen needs tests, to predict nitrogen needs of corn crops across 56 experimental field sites from the late 1990s.

The researchers then applied a machine-learning algorithm capable of finding the best combination of tests to predict optimal nitrogen fertilizer application for corn.

The best combination of tests included a chemical test that measured nitrogen trapped in clay and a biological test that measured nitrogen released by soil microbes in a 14-day incubation at optimal temperatures and moisture to cause the microbes to release nitrogen from soil organic matter.

They also compared the results from their combination of chemical and biological tests with those of the standard chemical tests. They found their combination testing method reduced overapplication and underapplication of nitrogen fertilizer by about 40%.

That’s important because farmers want to make the most efficient use of their fertilizer as possible.

Overapplying nitrogen can result in excessive runoff and other environmental impacts, while underapplication can lower crop yields.

Typically, farmers take soil samples in the spring or soon after their crops emerge and send them to a laboratory that conducts the chemical test.

McDaniel said biological tests, such as the one incorporated in his experiments, have grown in popularity over the last few decades.

But he said the 14-day incubation period required for the biological test carried out in his lab probably will prevent the method from being used more broadly.

HOW SHOULD A CORN CROP BE MANAGED ON PREVENT PLANT ACRES FROM 2019?

LANCE TAROCHIONE DEKALB® ASGROW® BRAND TECHNICAL AGRONOMIST London Mills, Illinois

Seeds and agronomy. They’re the one-two punch for improving performance in any field. That’s why farmers in West Central Illinois rely on DEKALB® Asgrow® brand technical agronomist Lance Tarochione for management advice. He’s been working in the region for 27 years and is a great source for local knowledge. Here he addresses some of this year’s pressing management questions.

Planting a cover crop on those acres last season was recommended to suppress weeds and protect the health and quality of your soil. If you didn’t plant a cover crop and instead used tillage or herbicide applications to keep the field essentially barren most of the season, Fallow Syndrome could negatively impact this year’s crop.

When soils lay fallow for an extended period of time (especially when combined with prolonged flooding or saturated soil conditions), the health and biology of the soil is negatively impacted, which can inhibit the ability of crop roots to find and take up essential nutrients.

If you are in this situation, you should consider adding a biological seed treatment, such as QuickRoots®, to your seed. If your field was a weed patch most of the summer, that will make weed control more difficult in the future, but any plants growing in the soil can help maintain the soil biology and prevent Fallow Syndrome.

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As for nitrogen management, these fields can generally be treated like first-year corn. In some cases, a little supplemental nitrogen (over what you would apply on rotated ground) might be warranted, but less than that required for a corn-oncorn field.

HOW WILL SOYBEAN WEED CONTROL CHANGE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS?

The times certainly are changing when it comes to options, strategies and practices to control weeds in soybeans.

For nearly 40 years, post-emergent weed control programs have dominated soybean weed control.

Due to the expansion of weed resistance, the use of residual products has been increasing over the past 10 years. The

ideal herbicide program of today is using residuals pre and post, combined with post-emergent chemistry to achieve top yields, clean fields and hopefully delay additional resistant weeds.

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THE IDEAL HERBICIDE PROGRAM OF TODAY IS USING RESIDUALS PRE AND POST, COMBINED WITH POST-EMERGENT CHEMISTRY TO ACHIEVE TOP YIELDS, CLEAN FIELDS AND HOPEFULLY DELAY ADDITIONAL RESISTANT WEEDS.

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AMES, Iowa — The soil fertility tests farmers have used for decades to measure nitrogen levels don’t account for the vast majority of the nitrogen in soils, so Iowa State University scientists helped develop a new test that yields more accurate results by using soil biology.

Ma rsha ll McDa niel, an assistant professor of agronomy, recently led a study published in the peer-reviewed Agronomy Journal that analyzed a combination of soil tests to gauge corn nitrogen needs more accurately than standard chemical tests.

Nitrogen plays an essential role in plant growth, and farmers need to know how much nitrogen is present in their soil to optimize their application of nitrogen fertilizer.

McDaniel said the study, completed in collaboration with other universities, could lead to more accurate fertilizer nitrogen recommendations, resulting in economic benefits to farmers and improved environmental quality.

McDaniel said farmers have relied on chemical extraction tests for roughly 50 years. Most of these tests measure only immediately plant-available forms of nitrogen such as nitrate and ammonium.

But those tests don’t account for the majority of nitrogen stocks stored in soil organic matter. This form of nitrogen requires soil microorganisms, which McDaniel referred to as nitrogen “gatekeepers,” to release the plant nutrient from soil organic matter to become available to corn.

To address that, McDaniel and his colleagues used 30 biological and chemical soil tests to find the best test, or combination of

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The key to success is to use the right rates of the right products at the right time, allowing the residual products to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Using a program that combines products with multiple effective sites of action and overlapping residual control, combined with targeted use of post-emergence products, will provide the most sustainable system and protect the efficacy of remaining classes of herbicides.

In the future, more and more herbicidetolerant traits will be stacked together in a single soybean, offering growers more flexibility and easier management of herbicide programs. However, no post-emergence herbicide-tolerant trait technologies will reduce the need for increased reliance on residual products for effective and sustainable weed control.

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REGIONAL WEATHER

Outlook for March 27 - April 2

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

Rock Island 52/42

Chicago 48/42

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Decatur 61/48

Quincy 58/45

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Peoria 57/44

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Gary 50/43

Champaign 59/47 Lafayette 58/51

Springfield 61/48

Central Illinois: Friday: rain. Winds east-southeast 8-16 mph. Little or no sunshine with a 75% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average relative humidity 80%.

Fort Wayne 52/43

Muncie 59/50

Southern Illinois: Friday: a shower and thunderstorm around; however, periods of rain in the north. Winds south-southwest 4-8 mph. Little or no sunshine with a 65% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions.

Indianapolis 61/51

Mt. Vernon 70/57

East St. Louis 72/56

TEMPERATURES

Evanston 44/41 South Bend 51/41

Rockford 51/40

Terre Haute 64/56

Vevay 70/57

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Northern Indiana: Friday: periods of rain.

Winds east-northeast 6-12 mph. Little or no sunshine with a 70% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average relative humidity 75%.

Evansville 73/59

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AGRICULTURE FORECASTS Northern Illinois: Friday: rain; chilly to the east. Winds northeast 7-14 mph. Little or no sunshine with a 70% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average relative humidity 75%.

9 16 16 0 0

Anna 77/59

Central Indiana: Friday: rain. Winds east 6-12 mph. Little or no sunshine with an 80% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions. Average relative humidity 85%.

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Southern Indiana: Friday: rain in the north; a couple of showers and a thunderstorm elsewhere. Winds west-southwest 6-12 mph. Little or no sunshine with an 80% chance of precipitation and poor drying conditions.

SOUTH AMERICA Dry and warm in most of Argentina and southern Brazil on Friday. A front will spread showers and thunderstorms from Argentina across Uruguay to southern Brazil this weekend into early next week.

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

2020 USDA OUTLOOK FORUM

Roadmap to managing food insecurity, climate volatility ARLINGTON, Va. — Corteva Agriscience Global Plant Breeding Leader Geoff Graham told attendees of the 2020 USDA Ag Outlook Forum that advanced plant breeding techniques and proven success in improving crop productivity in developed regions provides a roadmap to managing risk from food insecurity and climate volatility around the world.

Graham’s remarks were made as part of a session track on managing risk and ensuring sustainability in production agriculture.

“Not only is agricultural productivity critical to meeting the demands of a growing population, it’s also a critical tool to combat climate volatility,” Graham said.

“We have proven that innovative breeding technologies such as molecular markers, precision phenotyping, predictive

lion acres of farmland.

“We’re producing more outputs with fewer inputs,” Graham said. “But food insecurity and climate volatility do not impact the globe

uniformly, and we must also work to develop new cropping systems adapted to local conditions.”

“This will take all the tools in our toolbox, as well

as open and transparent communication between the public, academia, governments and private companies,” Graham said.

“Independently, these

technologies are just tools — but, collaboratively, they are solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.”

The panel also included

remarks from former Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel and USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig.

TURN WHAT IF INTO WHAT IS.

“Not only is agricultural productivity critical to meeting the demands of a growing population, it’s also a critical tool to combat climate volatility.”

Geoff Graham, global plant breeding leader CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE

analytics, biotechnology, CRISPR and digital tools can help agriculture better manage the challenges of extreme weather.”

USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator Martin Barbre chaired the “Mitigating Production Risk” panel discussion during the forum, which centered on the challenges that farmers and government decision makers face during growing seasons with extreme weather conditions.

He noted that 2019 was one of the wettest farming years on record, while 2012 was one of the driest.

Despite increased weather variability, overall crop yields continue to trend upward over time.

Graham said the almost seven-fold increase in average corn yields achieved in North America since 1920 means we’ve grown millions of additional bushels of grain without putting a corresponding number of acres into agricultural production.

Yield improvements over the last century have increased productivity from an average of 25 bushels per acre to 170 bushels per acre.

Further, Graham said if the top 20 world corn-producing countries improved their production levels to those found in the United States 20 years ago, it would be the equivalent of adding another 100 mil-

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