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Farming green in Indiana Farmer focuses on building soil health

EPA ordered to revisit exemptions for small refineries

By Martha Blum

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ROCHELLE, Ill. — Rick Clark is focused on building soil health by using no-till, cover crops and farming green practices on his farm.

Clark, who farms with his father, Richard, and his nephew, Aaron, near Williamspor t, Indiana, has no-tilled soybeans for 15 years, no-tilled corn for 10 years, planted cover crops for 10 yea rs a nd farmed green for eight years.

“My father is my mentor, and he taught Rick Clark me how to think,” said the fifth-generation farmer. “That’s what is so valuable in today’s times, you have to be able to think quickly, think forward and be nimble.”

Clark’s entire operation is in a five-crop rotation that includes corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and regen.

“In the regen part of the rotation, we’re not raising a cash crop,” he said during the Illinois Conservation Cropping Seminar in Rochelle. “We are putting in a cover crop program.”

On the acres that have a cover crop, Clark does not look at it as a zero income. “It’s doing so much for you that you will gain for the next crop,” he stressed.

“We have to stop looking at our cash flow systems on a one-year snapshot. We need to look at it over three, four or five years and average the cash flow across all the years of the rotation.”

Currently, 100% of Clark’s operation is in transition to organic. The farmers already are planting 100% non-GMO crops, and they do not use any starter fertilizer, fungicides, seed treatments or insecticides.

“Farming green means I plant corn and soybeans in a growing cover crop and sometimes I don’t terminate the cover crop for up to 30 to 45 days,” Clark said.

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Indiana Pork honors friends of the industry A3 National Farm Machinery Show preview B6 John Deere earns AE50 Awards for innovations C3

By Tom C. Doran

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This ice sculpture helped the Taste of Elegance event take “flight” and allow attendees to imagine what it might look like if pigs actually could fly.

HAMMING IT UP

Taste of Elegance showcases Indiana pork

By Ashley Langreck

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INDIANAPOLIS — During the Taste of Elegance, which was hosted by Indiana Pork, chefs from around the state prepared unique dishes featuring pork as the star of the plate.

“Taste of Elegance is everything that is great about the pork industry. It’s a gathering of family, friends and 10 chefs to showcase pork,” said Jeanette Merritt, director of checkoff programs for Indiana Pork.

Top honors went to Estaban Rosas, a chef at Black Market, for his creative twist on a churro infused with bacon flavors.

Other winners from the event included: n Superior Chef Award — Dean Sample of Northside Social. n Premium Chef Award — Tyler Carroll of Oakley’s Bistro. n Wine Pairing Award — Everardo Hernandez of Encore Catering. n People’s Choice Award — Dean Sample of Northside Social. n People’s Choice Award for Favorite Wine — Traminette from Whyte Horse Winery. n People’s Choice Award for Favorite Display — Everardo Hernandez of Encore Catering.

Chefs also participating in the event were Brian Pleasant of Crystal Catering, Erin Gillum of Spoke & Steele, Edward Sawyer of Taxman Brasserie and Taproom, Jason Crouch of Embassy Suites. Michael Gomez of Gomez BBQ, and Chip Huckaby of Smokehouse Catering.

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Besides 10 one-of-a-kind pork dishes made by top chefs in the state, attendees also could have dessert — and bacon, too.

INDIANAPOLIS — Some of the state’s top beef producers and cattlemen were honored at the Indiana Beef Cattle Association annual convention.

Joe Moore, the executive vice president for the IBCA and the Indiana Beef Council, said the association has been honoring outstanding cattlemen for several decades.

“Recognizing excellence in the beef industry is a long-

Waters of U.S. rules cleared up EPA, Army Corps clarify jurisdiction

By Tom C. Doran

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Randy Kron (left), president of Indiana Farm Bureau, presents Chef Estaban Rosas from Black Market with the Chef Par Excellence award for cooking the winning dish at the Indiana Pork Taste of Elegance.

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-426-9438, ext. 192, or alangreck@

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Indiana beef producers honored

By Ashley Langreck

DENVER — The U.S. Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revisit three small refinery exemptions issued to refineries in Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah.

The 10th Circuit Court ruling issued by Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, Senior Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr. and Judge Carlos F. Lucero focused on “extensions” of Renewable Fuel Standard exemptions granted to the refineries under the EPA’s rules.

The judges ruled the problem with the exemption extensions given to the three refineries was that they weren’t extensions at all.

The court also found that EPA abused its discretion in failing to explain how the agency could conclude that a small refinery might suffer a disproportionate economic hardship when the agency has simultaneously consistently maintained that costs for RFS compliance credits, or RINs, are passed through and recovered by those same refineries.

HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining in Wyoming, which submitted its petition for an extension in March 2017, had been awarded an exemption in 2011 and 2012, but didn’t apply for an extension until 2015. That request was denied by the EPA under the Obama administration.

standing tradition at IBCA. The first Cattleman of the Year was recognized in 1975, and the first Young Cattleman was in 1980,” Moore said.

Moore said India na is blessed with many dedicated beef producers who are passionate about the beef industry and the livestock in their care.

“The IBCA looks forward to recognizing them for many more years to come,” he said.

IBCA honored the following cattlemen: n Special Recognition

Award — Ron Manning of Macy and Rick Seehase of Logansport. n Friend of the Industry — Phil Reid of Fowler. n Young Cattleman of the Year — Jordan Eggersman of Brownstown. n Outstanding Cattleman of the Year — Tom Farrer. n Robert C. Peterson Lifetime Achievement Award — Jim Gillooly of Washington.

“It is always a great thing to be recognized by your peers for your hard work and commitment,” Moore said.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a clearer definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act that eliminates many seasonal streams, small waterways and wetlands from federal oversight.

Under the final rule, which will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, four categories of waters are federally regulated: n Territorial seas and traditional navigable waters. n Perennial and intermittent tributaries to those waters. n Certain lakes, ponds and impoundments. n Wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional waters.

All other waterways, including ephemeral streams, will fall under state jurisdiction.

The final rule details categories of exclusions that are not “waters of the U.S.,” such as features that only contain water in direct response to rainfall (ephemeral features); groundwater; many farm and roadside ditches; prior converted cropland; artificially irrigated areas; artificial lakes and ponds (water storage reservoirs, farm irrigation, stock watering); and storm water control features constructed in upland or in non-jurisdictional waters to convey, treat, infiltrate or store storm water runoff.

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Grain-quality issues hike risk of farmer entrapment 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 en-

ter their bins to check out grain quality issues or fix plugged augers, said Gary Woodruff, a grain conditioning exper t w ith GSI. Woodr uff said grain stored above 15% mois-

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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 make things go from bad to worse. ture, 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 en-

trapped.”

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: Q Wear a rope and harness to prevent falling into grain if the surface breaks.

Q Always have another person be present who can call for emergency assistance if entrapment should happen.

Q Lock out all electrical controls so augers cannot run when anyone is in the bin.

Q Consult local university websites for additional grain bin safety recommendations.

Woodruff noted that the only real fix for out-of-condition grain is to unload the bin down to where the affected grain can be removed. This likely means the grain will have to be marketed early and poor quality may receive a dock at the elevator. Or, if the grain is too out of condition to sell, it will need to be dumped back in the field.

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Hemp growers: Tread carefully

Brown rice gets new lease on life Variety packs an antioxidant punch S T U T T G A R T, A rk.

— GEDrew is a brown rice with an odd kernel trait that sidelined its commercial prospects. Now, Agricultural Research Service scientists’ re-examination of the trait and its link to increased antioxidant levels could give the rice variety a new commercial lease on life.

GEDrew is the result of a mutagenesis rice breeding program conducted more than a decade ago by retired rice geneticist Neil Rutger at the ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart.

The variety, a genetic mutant, didn’t make the cut, however, and Rutger placed it in storage in the U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS World Rice Collection, a repository of more than 19,000 accessions and 12 species representing the genus Oryza.

And there GEDrew might have remained today, were it not for the follow-up investigations of ARS chemist Ming-Hsuan Chen and the center’s current director, Anna McClung.

In 2007, they began re-evaluating the collection’s specialty rice accessions for traits that could contribute to improved grain yield or nutritional content.

Such collections, popularly known as gene banks, serve as a critical source of diversity in the face of emerging pest and disease threats, environmental change, market demands and other events.

Their investigation of GEDrew focused on a single gene mutation that results in kernels with enlarged, or “giant,” embryos. In addition to a higher proportion of bran to whole-kernel weight, the researchers observed, the giant embryo trait also correlated to a three-fold increase in alpha-tocopherol and a 20% and 29% increase in total tocotrienols and gamma-oryzanol, respectively.

FORMS OF VITAMIN E Tocopherols and tocotrienols are forms of vitamin E with important biological activity in the human body. These may include helping prevent unstable molecules called free radicals from causing cellular damage and other associated harm, Chen said.

Gamma-oryzanol, a mixture of antioxidant compounds in the bran’s oil fraction, is thought to play role in reducing blood cholesterol levels, among other health-promoting benefits, she added.

Grain yield evaluations showed that GEDrew compared well to Drew and Cocodrie, two commercial varieties the researchers used for comparison in Texas and Arkansas trials.

Even though GEDrew produced slightly smaller grains, it was unmatched in terms of its yield of bran, lipids and the three antioxidants. All are highvalue ingredients for specialty uses ranging from edible oil for cooking and salad dressings, to breakfast cereals, nutrition bars, beverages and skin-care products, according to McClung.

She credits the rice mutation breeding efforts of Rutger, a 2009 ARS Hall of Fame inductee, with setting the stage for their finding that the giant embryo trait leads to whole grain with increased gamma-oryzanol levels and vitamin E — especially alpha-tocopherol, the only form listed on the nutrition facts of food packaging labels.

At the time, “Rutger was looking for any agronomically useful traits in his mutation breeding program, like earlier flowering, male sterility, elongated internode and apomixis, but had the most success with semi-dwarfism,” McClung noted. “The giant embryo and a low phytic-acid mutant were examples of mutations that resulted in a change in grain traits.”

In the case of GEDrew, additional laboratory and field work revealed value in what initially appeared to be a genetic kernel oddity.

“This is the only study on a giant embryo rice mutant in the United States and one that’s a tropical japonica-type rice adapted to the U.S. growing conditions,” noted Chen, who co-authored a paper on the finding in the November 2019 issue of Cereal Chemistry together with McClung, Casey Grimm at the ARS Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Christine Bergman, formerly with ARS, at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

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Huge crowds were on hand for the 26th annual Midwest Ag Expo Jan. 29-30 at Gordyville USA near Gifford, Illinois. Over 190 exhibitors representing more than 460 products were featured at the popular show.

Picking up speed Kinze to unveil new planter at farm show

By Tom C. Doran

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GIFFORD, Ill. — The latest high-speed planter will be unveiled at the Feb. 12-15 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kinze Manufacturing developed the high-speed planting technology that features a new high-speed meter and seed tube to provide an accurate seed placement at speeds up to 12 mph.

The new planter technology, called True Speed, will be available for the 2021 planting season.

The system was developed with support from Ag Leader Technology, which will market it as SureSpeed. The two companies will distribute the technology through their respective dealer networks.

Gene Warner of Warner Farm Equipment, Rantoul, provided a preview of the new planter at his company’s Midwest Ag Expo booth Jan. 29.

“The competitors go up to 10 miles per hour and Kinze has decided they can plant at 12.

The 4905 planter will have upforce and downforce in each row unit to keep it level with the ground conditions at all speeds,” Warner explained.

The new 4905 also will include: n Row unit double parallel arm bushing with impregnated lubrication and double row bearing disc openers for extended wear life. n High-efficiency vacuum fans that run quieter with less hydraulic demand, utilizing 1.5 inch diameter vacuum hoses. n Redesigned bulk-fill seed delivery system that works with more crop types and at higher planting rates. n Variable displacement piston PTO pump, which provides a simpler planter operation and higher efficiency to reduce tractor horsepower demands. n Simplified hydraulics on the model 4905 planter improves serviceability and decreases planter lift times. n Firestone IVF radial tires on planter model 4905 for

Gene Warner of Warner Farm Equipment, Rantoul, Illinois, stands next to a Kinze 4900 planter featuring the Blue Drive electric drive system on display at Midwest Ag Expo. Kinze will introduce the 4905 planter at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, with the capability to plant at 12 mph. reduced compaction and a smoother ride.

The planter will offer numerous options. “You can get just about anything you want on them,” Warner added.

The new system uses an electric meter and delivery tube that operate accurately at planter speeds from 3 to 12 mph, allowing farmers to plant at any of those speeds without compromising singulation accuracy or spacing. The result is precise seed spacing at various speeds with multiple seed shapes and sizes.

Kinze’s meter, and its unique orientation on the row unit, allows seed to move seamlessly between the meter and seed tube, resulting in superior accuracy at all speeds. This enables farmers who have appropriate field conditions to increase the acres they can plant in a typical day.

Additionally, Kinze’s meter eliminates the need for singulator adjustments, which allows for quick seed type changeover and the ability to handle a variety of corn and soybean seed shapes and sizes.

True Speed is controlled by Kinze’s Blue Vantage display, which is optimized for planters and offers a highly intuitive user interface that displays all the information farmers need on one screen.

It also features a comprehensive diagnostics screen, high-definition mapping and graphs, and a quick setup enabling farmers to go from turning on the display to planting in just three clicks.

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

Indiana Pork honors friends of the industry

By Ashley Langreck

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INDIANAPOLIS — During the 2020 Taste of Elegance, Indiana Pork honored four individuals who have gone above and beyond in service to the pork industry and agriculture in general.

The individuals were recognized for their dedication to grow the Indiana pork industry through a variety of ways, including opening their barns to the public and ensuring best-quality practices are used on their operations.

Honorees were A.J. Cochran, Jordan Brewer, Dr. Bret Marsh and Brian Martin.

“This is one of the highlights of my professional career, and I’m grateful to receive this,” said Bret Marsh, the state veterinarian with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health.

Marsh said being honored wasn’t a singular effort, and he is thankful for his team at BOAH. “They are a quality team, and I hope they give quality

Chris Laque, the sous-chef at Spoke & Steele, cuts pieces of pork during the Taste of Elegance event. service to you,” he said.

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-426-9438,

ext. 192, or alangreck@ agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Langreck.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Got a hankering to grow hemp?

Consider the gamble: The crop could generate hundreds, even thousands, of dollars per acre.

Or, quite possibly, nothing at all.

The market price for CBD oil, which is derived from hemp flowers, has declined recently because of an oversupply on the market. Farmers in some states are awaiting payment for hemp they grew, but could not sell.

Some other growers are finding it can be very easy for hemp to exceed the legal limit of 0.3% THC. When this happens, the plants must be destroyed.

“Don’t jump in,” said Peggy Hall, an agricultural and resource law field specialist for Ohio State University Extension, the outreach arm of The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

“There are a lot of lawsuits already, and we can learn from those if we proceed with caution.”

Now that it’s legal to grow hemp in Ohio, a lot of people are interested in growing the crop, particularly to turn it into CBD oil, lured by high profit potential.

But the risks of growing hemp should be carefully weighed against the possible profits, said Hall, who was among the speakers at the “Growing Hemp in Ohio” conference sponsored by CFAES in Wooster on Jan 24.

Anyone who does decide to grow hemp should work with an attorney regarding the terms of the contracts with both the seed company, as well as the company that will buy the harvested crop, Hall said.

Having a contract between the farmer and the seed or seedling provider is critical to protect the farmer should something go amiss with the plants, Hall said.

MALE PLANTS CAN’T BE USED If the purchased seeds produce male plants instead of female plants, they can’t be used for CBD oil. Female hemp plants produce the flowers that are needed for CBD; male plants just produce more seed.

And if a plant comes from a seed without the proper genetics, it might be more apt to produce more than the legal limit of 0.3% THC. A plant with more than 0.3% THC is considered marijuana and is illegal to grow in Ohio and some other states; therefore, it must be destroyed.

“There are many different considerations to be made because of the unique nature of this crop,” Hall said. “This is not like a typical grain contract.”

Contracts need to be clear on who’s responsible if the harvested plant tests over the THC limit, Hall said.

A contract with a buyer likely will specify the field where hemp will be grown. Hemp grown for CBD oil cannot be within one mile of any medical marijuana plants because of the risk of cross-pollination that could spike the THC levels in the CBD plants, Hall said.

“If the plants test over the THC limit, who’s responsible for the loss of that crop?” she said.

A farmer’s contract with a buyer should specify that, Hall said.

Before any contracts are signed, a prospective hemp grower should thoroughly investigate the financial standing and background of any company the farmer plans to contract with, she said.

“We’ve already seen some flyby-night type companies spring up and leave a grower emptyhanded,” she said. “Whenever there is a lot of money to be made on something, we see that.”

How much money can be made from hemp grown for CBD oil is unclear in the current market given the oversupply, said Brad Bergefurd, a CFAES horticulture specialist.

When CBD oil prices were at their peak, $45,000 to $65,000 per acre was possible, but in 2019, prices have dropped 60% to 80%, Bergefurd said.

At the same time, the cost of planting and harvesting hemp for CBD oil is high, ranging from $10,000 to $15,000 per acre, he said.

“That’s part of why I feel uneasy about this crop,” he said.

Beginning in 2014, universities and private companies could grow hemp if the state where they were located applied for a license.

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Reducing input costs increases profitability

By Martha Blum AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

ROCHELLE, Ill. — Switching from a traditional tillage system to a no-till and cover crop program can result in major benefits, including increased return on investment.

“It is hard to get out of the mindset that I need to maximize how much I’m going to make this year,” said Aaron Clark, who farms in west-central Indiana and east-central Illinois with his uncle, Rick, and grandfather, Richard.

“I urge you when you are trying to evaluate the optimal crop plan for your farming system to take a step back and look at the return on investment for the overall crop rotation of three or four crops,” he said during a presentation at the Illinois Conservation Cropping Seminar in Rochelle.

“It takes a few years for the soil to go through

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The benefits of farming green, he explained, includes maximizing what the cover crop was intended to do.

“The last thing I want to do on April 1 is burn my cover crop to the ground because it hasn’t done much for me yet,” he said. “Barley, triticale and cereal r ye are sequestering nutrients, so I want to let them do their job.”

Although Clark was taught to plant corn before soybeans, he plans to never plant corn in April again.

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HollyFrontier Woods Cross Refining in Utah, which submitted its petition for an extension in September 2017, never had been granted an exemption.

Wynnewood Refining Co. received an exemption in 2011-2012, but not in subsequent years. It submitted its petition for an extension to the EPA in January 2018.

The court noted in its published ruling that beginning in 2016, the EPA began granting more petitions to extend the small refinery exemption.

EPA’s website indicates that while the agency granted 23 of 41 exemption petitions from 2013 to 2015 (56% approval rate, two petitions were declared ineligible or withdraw), the agency granted 85 of 94 exemptions from 2016 to 2018 (90% approval rate, five petitions were declared ineligible or withdrawn).

Beginning with the 2013 compliance year, small refineries could petition EPA annually for an exemption from their RFS obligations. EPA may grant the extension if it determines that the small refinery has demonstrated disproportionate economic hardship.

The exempted refinery is not subject to the requirements of an obligated party for fuel produced during the compliance year for which the exemption has been granted.

The amount of exempted volumes of gasoline and

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a change to begin to see more of the benefits,” Aaron Clark said. “I think you’ll see after four or five years that it was a better way to go than just doing a corn-corn-soy or corn-soy rotation and that you’re are actually financially better off to have a more diverse crop rotation.”

The Clarks have been planting no-till corn, notill soybeans and cover crops for many years, as well as farming green for eight years.

Their entire farm is in a five-crop rotation that includes corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and regen — which is a cover crop. In addition, the farmers plant 100% non-GMO seeds and 100% of the farm is in transition to organic.

“I’m striving to be a low cost input producer,” Rick Clark said. “My cost per acre of corn is $70 for nonGMO, untreated seed.”

Aaron Clark compared costs for the farm between 2011 and 2019, including items such as applying ni-

less than 5 bushtrogen, lime and els,” he said. “Soychemistry costs. beans is a similar “For 2 011, story with almost which was the a 9-bushel fluclast year we did a tuation in yield, sizable portion of and today it’s less tillage, we used 3300 horsepower than 3 bushels.” to cover an acre A more conof corn,” Clark sistent yield aids said. with marketing Aaron Clark “In 2019, we the crops. were not run“You feel more ning the tractor over those comfortable in the amount acres, not burning the fuel of bushels you’ll have to and not putting wear and sell earlier, so if there’s a tear on the machine,” he marketing event like China said. “Our requirement is buying soybeans, you have down to 1200 horsepower the confidence to make and our actual cash leav- sales a little earlier than ing the operation went when the combine moves from over $650,000 to less through the field,” Clark than $120,000 in eight said. years and that doesn’t even “This is a system about include machinery costs.” building soil health, being Moving to a no-till sys- a good steward, being retem with cover crops, generative and the yield Clark said, has resulted in will come along for the yield stability for corn and ride,” Rick Clark said. soybean crops.

“You can adjust the “Before cover crops, our fixed costs to better fit corn yield would fluctuate your yield environment 28 bushels for our farm like how much debt you average, and after cover can take on, the cash rent crops that went down to you can pay, or the capital

expenditures you want to make,” Aaron Clark said.

Although some farmers are concerned they will see reduced yields with a no-till and cover crop system, that is not the case for the Clarks.

“The national corn trend line yield is 4 bushels per acre, and we’re seeing our corn yield going up around 3 bushels per acre,” Aaron Clark said. “And it is a similar story with soybeans.”

Purdue University does a mock budget that estimates the cost for a farmer to plant one acre of corn, and Clark did a similar budget for his farm. The Purdue numbers are based on an expected yield of 211 bushels per acre and a market price of $3.70 per bushel.

“For my budget, I have our yield at 200 bushels per acre with the same market price,” Clark said.

“This mock farm will lose money in 2020,” he said. “To breakeven, the corn needs to yield 222 bushels an acre, or the price needs to go up to

$3.80 per bushel.

“With our system, our contribution margin is $100 per acre higher and our breakeven yield is 140 bushels per acre and the price can go to $3.11 per bushel,” he said. “That is all coming from keeping the inputs low, so we don’t need the same amount of yield.”

Clark talked about the debt service coverage ratio that measures the ease that an operation has to pay off a debt the farmer has with a lending institution.

“The Purdue mock budget has a debt service coverage ratio of negative 21 cents, and that means for every $1 of debt, the farmer has only 79 cents to pay it,” he said. “For every $1 of debt, our operation has we have $1.45 to pay it, and the industry standard is $1.20.”

Day,” he said. “I want to plant every acre of beans first and then focus on corn because I’ve got plants out there fixing free nitrogen, so I don’t want to shut the legume off at 20 to 30 pounds of nitrogen when I know it can fix 180 to 200 pounds of nitrogen.”

Farming green helps with erosion control.

“It’s all about biomass and how much material we can get on the ground,” Clark said. “You can walk into our fields right now and still see last year’s cereal rye, and I want to drill into that in the spring.”

Farmers need to get their fields in a position to handle 2-, 3- or 4-inch rains.

“We’ve got infiltration

rates of 4 to 5 inches per hour,” Clark said. “Very little, if any, rain will run off our farm — it is all going straight down.”

Increasing the pounds of biomass provides food for the microbes throughout the year.

“In June and July, if you’ve got bare ground those microbes are getting scorched,” Clark said. “But if we have an a r mor protect i ng t he soil, under that mat it is a minimum of 10 degrees cooler than a bare spot in the field.”

Cover crops help to limit evaporation.

“We don’t think about this enough,” Clark said.

In 2019, Clark didn’t plant any crops in April, he planted one day in May and the remainder of his

fields were planted after June 2.

“T hat whole time it was raining, we were filling our portfolio full,” he said. “Then Mother Nature turned the water off and we had 90 degrees and although we had some stress and yield loss, our systems hung in better than our neighbor’s with conventional tillage.”

Clark has changed the maturities of the corn and soybeans he plants on his farm. He now plants 99to 106-day corn and soybeans that range from 2.0 to 2.8.

“The hardest crop to get prepared for is corn because corn does not like competition,” he said. “So, we have to put species out there that will winter-

kill or something I can terminate with a roller crimper.”

The cocktail of cover crops Clark uses to get prepared for organic corn includes Haywire oats, Austrian winter peas, Balansa Fixation clover, sorghum/sudan and tillage radish.

Clark has selected these specific varieties for reasons. Haywire oats provide lateral branching, he said, and the Austrian winter peas overwinter very well.

“Sudan is one of the best promoters to grow mycorrhizal fungi, which are the fungi in the soil that are the net work backbone of communication,” he said.

Tillage radish is great for compaction, Clark said.

“It is better for sequestering deep-rooted minerals pulled back up into the tuber,” he said. “That tuber will store those nutrients and release them the next spring.”

“Farmers can mitigate climate change more than any other sector in the world,” he said. “If we put a cover crop on every acre and stop tilling the soil, we wouldn’t have climate change because of the carbon dioxide would be in the ground where it belongs.”

“Change is necessary,” he said. “If we continue to do things the way we’ve always done them, we’re never going to get any better, so change is the answer.”

diesel increased from President Kevin Ross.

“Ethanol is an incrediabout two billion gallons in 2013 to a peak of 17 bil- bly important value-added market for corn farmers, lion gallons in 2017. and EPA’s waivers have reduced RFS volume reEPA CHALLENGE The court ruling stems quirements by more than from a May 2018 chal- four billion gallons over lenge brought against the past three years, imEPA by the Renewable pacting corn demand. We Fuels A s s o c i a t i o n , are optimistic this deciNational Corn Growers sion will finally put an end Association, A merican to the demand destrucCoalition for Ethanol and tion caused by waivers and keep the RFS back on National Farmers Union.

“We think the implica- track.”

“This ruling comes at a tions go far beyond just those three exemptions critical time for America’s and we really see this as farmers and the biofuels a game-changer. We think industry,” said National it’s fundamentally going Farmers Union President change the way EPA ad- Roger Johnson. dresses these petitions for “Due in large part to small refinery exemptions EPA’s rampant and ongounder the RFS,” said Geoff ing abuse of the SRE proCooper, RFA president and gram, 2019 was one of the CEO. most challenging years in “This finding is much history for the agriculture broader than that and we and biofuel sectors. We bethink it applies to dozens of lieve this ruling will help exemptions that were inap- restore the ability of the propriately waived. So, we RFS to drive demand and think those exemptions are expand markets for renewalso vulnerable to challenge able fuels, as Congress innow. We’re looking at how tended, providing a badly best to do that, and hold- needed shot in the arm for ing EPA’s feet to the fire to rural America.” make sure they’re complying with this court order.”

Tom C. Doran can be “The court’s decision reached at 815-780-7894 is welcome news for corn or tdoran@agrinews-pubs. growers,” said National com. Follow him on Twitter Corn Growers Association at: @AgNews_Doran.

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6 For 6-Pack program to support organic farming NEW YORK — Less than 1% of America’s farmland is organic and American farmers hoping to transition their fields to organic face monumental challenges.

Michelob Ultra Pure Gold launched its 60-second Super Bowl spot featuring 6 For 6-Pack, a new program that allows consumers to join the brand in helping farmers transition six square feet of farmland into organic with each purchase of a six-pack of Michelob Ultra Pure Gold.

Michelob Ultra Pure Gold — the first national beer brand to be U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified organic — is on a mission to help U.S. farmers who have an interest in converting to organic farming by assisting them through the transition process, which can be time consuming and challenging without support.

A portion of sales from each Pure Gold six-pack will go directly to farmers looking to transition to organic, allowing consumers to help drive change.

“There’s an imbalance between consumer preference for organic products and the amount

Anheuser-Busch’s Michelob Ultra Pure Gold is a U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified organic beer. The company says it is on a mission to help farmers who are interested in being certified organic actually do so.

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Michelob Ultra Pure Gold launched a new program during this year’s Super Bowl. The 60-second advertisement highlighted the 6 for 6-Pack program that means every six-pack of beer purchased helps transition six square feet of farmland to organic production. of organic farmland we currently have in the U.S. to support this need,” said Azania Andrews, Michelob Ultra vice president of marketing.

“The future of organic beer relies on more farmers converting to organic.

We feel a responsibility to help provide choice and support to those who want to transition, so that together we can help farmers sustain and grow their business and provide

consumers the products they want.”

6 For 6-Pack is an expansion of an existing program launched in 2019 called Contract for Change. Contract for Change offers three- to six-year transitional barley contracts with premiums for transitional and organic barley production.

Anheuser-Busch’s expert agronomists are working in partnership with the CCOF

Foundation, the leading organization in organic certification and training, to provide technical assistance to farmers as they navigate the steps required to grow certified organic crops.

As demand for organic barley increases, Contract for Change aims to inspire the entire organic industry to assist farmers during the transition process by paying a premium for transitional and

organic products and providing the needed technical training for farmers to succeed.

The 6 For 6-Pack program will provide the additional funds needed to expand Contract for Change and help increase the 1% of organic farmland.

“We are eager to help farmers transition to organic production through the visionary Contract for Change program.

Michelob Ultra is truly an organic champion and we are inspired by their commitment to helping farmers overcome barriers, while advancing the benefits of organic agriculture throughout the United States,” said

Martha Blum

‘It’s Fair Time’ at John Deere Gathering of the Green event Son of former John Deere CEO to attend QUAD CITIES, Ill. — If you are a John Deere enthusiast, do you have your tickets for the reunion?

This year’s Gathering of the Green Conference in the Quad Cities on March 18-21 will remind you when friends and families gathered annually at the county fair with a theme of “It’s Fair Time.”

Enjoy the elaborate displays of equipment from the 1930s to 1970s and the midway atmosphere as you attend workshops, tours and the vendor area which has ever ything green and yellow you might need.

It has just been announced that Alexander “Sandy” Hewitt, son of former Deere & Company CEO William Hewitt, will be the guest at the Beer & Bull Gears

event on March 20. The event will be open to f u l l- con ference reg is trants only.

Gathering of the Green has added a new tour at the Figge Art Museum on March 20 to see the new exhibit “Henry Dreyfuss: Designs for the Modern Age.” Dreyfuss was an industrial designer, and his firm designed the styled John Deere tractor and other iconic products.

Tour attendees will enjoy a Deere-focused narrative from a Figge docent and then free time to enjoy the rest of the museum exhibits.

There are over 75 workshops in a variety of topics to attend as part of Gathering of the Green, including plows, timber frame barns, Gators, engine heads, hydraulics, LP tractors, trailers, tires, combines, “G” tractors and more.

It’s not all about machines. Find workshops about photography, de-

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — During the biggest game in football, IL Corn went on offense to remind consumers around the state that Illinois runs on homegrown corn.

A 30-second Super Bowl commercial, “Illinois Runs on Homegrown Corn,” showcased the Swanson family, one of the more than 100,000 farmers in Illinois who grow corn, a product that drives the state’s economy.

“As farmers, we take great pride in sustainably growing a crop that can be used in so many ways,” said Krista Swanson of Oneida. “Our family enjoys sharing that pride and that story with others who might not have the same agricultural roots.”

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Kelly Damewood, CEO of CCOF. Tied to AnheuserBusch’s Better World efforts, 6 For 6-Pack also aligns with the company achieving its 2025 U.S. Sustainability Goals, one of which focuses on Smart Agriculture and financial empowerment across the company’s 1,000 direct contract barley, rice and hops farmers.

With the success of Pure Gold, Michelob Ultra recognizes the importance of making organic ingredients more accessible, and this starts with supporting farmers in local communities across the country.

“I want to thank Anheuser-Busch for their continued support of farmers. The efforts put forward by Michelob Ultra Pure Gold with their ‘Contract for Change’ program have created opportunity for American barley farmers to diversify and capture extra value for their production,” said Buzz Mattelin, president of the National Barley Growers Association. “We are excited that Americans can now participate with the new 6 For 6-Pack program.”

For more information on 6 For 6-pack, visit PureGold.com, or follow @MichelobULTRA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Corn farmers go on offense during game

cals, quilting, scrapbooking, beekeeping, toy collection, rock painting and wreath making.

The Gathering of the Green has kept the conference registration at $40 again in order to offer an extraordinar y value.

The registration provides multi-day access for enthusiasts and antique equipment restorers who come from all over the United States and the globe to the conference site at the RiverCenter in downtown Davenport, Iowa.

Register for the conference and find hotel information at www.gatheringofthegreen.com.

Organizers of the event are all volunteers who are members of one of four tractor clubs in the Quad Cities region — Deer Valley Collectors, Illinois Valley Two-Cylinder Club, North Eastern Illinois Twin Cycle Club and Northwest Illinois Deer Collectors.

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THE PLAY BY PLAY Ever ything that can be made from a barrel of crude oil can also be made from corn oil — like bioplastics, food packaging and clothing.

Corn winds up in a wide array of products, from tennis shoes to medicines to award-winning whiskey.

And it’s used to make ethanol, a renewable fuel that reduces harmful greenhouse gas emissions by up to 43%.

Illinois corn farmers are ready to go on offense, mused IL Corn Chairman Roger Sy, a farmer from Newman.

“Illinois corn farmers are proud of the work we do. Our game plan is to help Illinois understand that corn farmers are constantly finding ways to farm more sustainably and with new technologies that protect our environment. Plus, more than 100,000 Illinoisans have jobs thanks to corn. That’s a story worth telling.”

IL C or n e nc ou r aged farmers to use the #FieldGoals hashtag on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter during the game and share why they’re proud to grow Illinois corn all year long.

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REGIONAL WEATHER

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The final rule clarifies key elements related to the scope of federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction, including: Q Providing clarity and consistency by removing the proposed separate categories for jurisdictional ditches and impoundments.

Q Refining the proposed definition of “typical year,” which provides important regional and temporal flexibility and ensures jurisdiction is being accurately determined in times that are not too wet and not too dry.

Q Defining “adjacent wetlands” as wetlands that are meaningfully connected to other jurisdictional waters, for example, by directly abutting or having regular surface water communication with jurisdictional waters.

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Southern Indiana: Friday: mostly cloudy.

Winds west-southwest 4-8 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine with poor drying conditions and average relative humidity 80%.

SOUTH AMERICA A front will bring showers and storms to northern Argentina on Friday and Saturday, then southeast Brazil and Paraguay on Sunday and Monday. Scattered rain likely daily from Parana on northward.

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

REGULATORY CERTAINTY Earlier definitions of the 2015 WOTUS were considered too vague and subject to interpretation that critics said went to far with its jurisdiction stretching onto farmland ditches and field low spots that temporarily have water after a rainfall.

“EPA and the Army are providing much needed regulatory certainty and predictability for American farmers, landowners and businesses to support the economy and accelerate critical infrastructure projects,” said EPA Administrator A ndrew Wheeler.

“After decades of landowners relying on expensive attorneys to determine what water on their land may or may not fall under federal regulations, our new Navigable Waters Protection Rule strikes the proper balance between Washington and the states in managing land and water resources

while protecting our nation’s navigable waters, and it does so within the authority Congress provided.”

“Having farmed A merican land myself for decades, I have personally experienced the confusion regarding implementation of the scope of the Clean Water Act,” said R.D. James, Army for Civil Works assistant secretary.

“Our rule takes a common-sense approach to implementation to eliminate that confusion. This rule also eliminates federal overreach and strikes the proper balance between federal protection of our nation’s waters and state autonomy over their aquatic resources.

“This will ensure that land use decisions are not improperly constrained, which will enable our farmers to continue feeding our nation and the world, and our businesses to continue thriving.”

Northern Indiana: Friday: a couple of flurries, accumulating up to an inch in the east and with little or no accumulation in the north and west. Winds west-southwest 4-8 mph. Little or no sunshine.

Central Indiana: Friday: mainly cloudy.

Winds west 4-8 mph. Expect less than two hours of sunshine with poor drying conditions and average relative humidity 70%. Saturday: a chance for a bit of snow or flurries.

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Northern Illinois: Friday: cloudy; a couple of flurries to the east. Winds south 3-6 mph. Little or no sunshine with poor drying conditions and average relative humidity 70%. Saturday: a couple of flurries; dry in the west.

Central Illinois: Friday: cloudy. Winds southwest 7-14 mph. Little or no sunshine with poor drying conditions and average relative humidity 75%. Saturday: a chance for a bit of snow or flurries; dry in the west.

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PRO WOTUS was considered by many farm groups to be an over-reaching, burdensome regulation that extended beyond navigable waters to certain non-navigable water bodies and insolated waters and wetlands.

“Illinois farmers have a deep care and appreciation for the land and protection of clean water, both essential resources that provide our families and future generations the means to produce healthy food and fiber for the world. This action is the last step in the regulatory process to repeal the 2015 WOTUS rule and replace it with a common-sense rule protecting water quality,” said Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert Jr. “The Navigable Waters Protection Rule provides a new, clear definition for WOTUS that protects the nation’s navigable waters from pollution and will result in economic growth

across the country. It respects the right of the states to regulate water while providing farmers and landowners certainty and clarity,” said Roger Johnson, National Farmers Union president.

“Family farmers and ranchers have been confused by ambiguous water regulations for many years. Now that we have a more precise definition of WOTUS, we hope that farmers will better understand which kinds of water are subject to federal authority and which are not.

“But farmers don’t just need greater clarity – they also need access to clean, safe water for their families, their farms and their communities. These needs are not mutually exclusive; when regulating natural resources, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers must balance certainty for farmers, ranchers and property owners with protections for our water supply.”

CON Other organizations did not agree with the move.

“The administration eliminated clean water protections to protect polluters instead of protecting people,” said Senior Attorney Blan Holman, leader of Southern Environmental Law Center’s Clean Water Defense Initiative.

“This rule is the culmination of an insider campaign to gut bipartisan protections that have safeguarded the nation’s water for decades and will endanger the health and environment of families and communities across the entire country.”

“This effort neglects established science and poses substantial new risks to people’s health and the environment. We will do all we can to fight this attack on clean water. We will not let it stand,” said Gina McCarthy, Natural Resources Defense Council president and CEO. Tom C. Doran

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‘Dust’ new option for seed box lubrication

By Martha Blum AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Dust is a seed box treatment that provides singulation and lubrication when planting corn and soybean seeds.

“Dust is a play on words because it is actually less dusty than talc or graphite,” said Michael Musselman, business development for Low Mu Tech, which markets Dust.

“It’s cleaner, it’s safer and it’s soy.”

“This product is the first real change in planter box lubrication in 40 years,” said Brian Tulley, developer of Dust, who worked on the product for several years and received the patent for Dust on Oct. 1, 2019.

Tulley began his work to develop a new product after using talc and graphite while helping his friends during planting season.

“I looked for something that would be different than what we were currently using and realized everything on the market was a combination of the two existing products in different percentages of talc or graphite as a base,” he said.

A friend, who became Tulley’s business partner, suggested he try soy protein.

“This product is the first real change in planter box lubrication in 40 years.”

Brian Tulley, Dust developer “I bought some soy protein from a feed mill and worked to find the right percentage to use,” he said.

“It took about four years to find the percentage of soy protein and soy lecithin to give us the singulation of talc and the lubricant of the graphite.”

Dust can be used in all types of planters and meters, Musselman noted from his booth at the 29th annual Quad Cities Farm Equipment Show.

“Dust was used on just under 4 million acres last year,” Tulley said.

“The flow agent is used in planters, so the seed w ill release from the seed disc or finger in a proper time and fashion,” Musselman said. “Sing ulat ion mea ns g rab bing one seed at a time in a timely fashion so the spacing is done correctly.”

Research conducted at Kansas State University, Musselman said, shows that Dust is equal for singulation performance in Vac planters to talc or graphite.

“We also have data from The Ohio State University and University of Missouri for the performance of Dust,” he said.

“Last year, we actually sold out of product because I underestimated the hatred of talc and graphite,” Tulley said.

“Farmers have never really had an option that worked that didn’t have adverse side affects,” Tulley said. “With other products, if you didn’t hit your application rate spot on then you ended up with things sticking to the sensors or sticking to the planter plates, and we wanted to avoid that.”

Dust, Tulley said, has a broad application window, which is both good and bad.

“Dust can be used in a lot of different planter t y pes, but when peo ple s t a r ted u si ng it , they were use to adding higher rates of product,” he explained.

“The use rate for Dust is one to two ounces per unit of seed,” Musselman said.

“We’re a manufactured product, so we want it to work the same today as it did yesterday,” Tulley said.

“We’re never going to be less expensive than something that is mined out of the ground,” he said. “But farmers are really tired of the fact that

today talc may be a dark gray color and flow pretty good and tomorrow it is a light grey color and sticky.”

Dust is available in 7and 14-pound pails.

The seed lubricant product is sponsored by the United Soybean Board.

“The USB has given us grants to commercialize the product,” Musselman said. “Because it is a soy protein product, research shows within 28 days it’s broken down in the soil and it becomes a food source for microbes.”

Dust is sold through a distributors and the web-

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Dust is product farmers can use to replace graphite or talc when planting corn. Dust is environmentally friendly since it is made from soy protein that will break down in the soil within 28 days and provide a food source for microbes.

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site at www.lowmutech. com.

“You can order on the website, or find a distributor in your area from our website to purchase Dust,” Musselman said. “We have over 150 distribution points and we’re adding dealers and distributors.”

For more information

about Low Mu Tech or to purchase Dust, go to www. lowmutech.com, or call 844-438-3878.

Martha Blum can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 117, or marthablum@ agrinews-pubs.com.

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Drew McNally (center) along with her faculty adviser Kirsten Matteson (right) and project partner Kirby Hancock look at a sample of hempcrete, a building material made mostly of byproduct hemp stalks.

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Crop byproduct finds new use as ‘hempcrete’ Leftovers become building material BOZEMAN, Mont. — The leftovers of the tall industrial hemp plant often languish on Montana farms because they’re difficult to till back into fields or otherwise dispose of.

But it’s because those stalks are so tough and woody that this agricultural byproduct is finding a new purpose in a lab at Montana State University.

In a research project funded in part by the Montana Farmers Union, Drew McNally, a junior majoring in civil engineering, combines the plant’s chipped-up inner stalk, called hurd, with a limebased binder to make what’s called hempcrete.

“It doesn’t really flow like normal concrete,” said McNally as she explained how she tamped the material into forms to make standardized cylinders for testing.

The material is relatively lightweight and could be used to provide insulation and structure in walls, she said.

Working with Kirsten Matteson, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in MSU’s Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, McNally uses massive hydraulic pistons to measure the crushing strength of soup can-sized cylinders of hempcrete made with different proportions of cement and lime.

“I really like the hands-on side of it, seeing how each of the different mixes perform,” said McNally, whose involvement is funded by MSU’s Undergraduate Scholars Program.

The team, which includes associate professor of civil engineering Michael Berry, will also measure the insulating properties of the different hempcrete mixes.

“As far as we know, this hasn’t been done yet for hempcrete,” said Matteson, who has years of experience in materials testing and is leading the project.

“We’re always exploring possible uses for what would otherwise be waste materials,” said Matteson, who is also studying new applications for recycled plastics in plastic-aluminum composite beams.

“When we use waste materials in these applications, we often sacrifice some strength, but that’s OK if we get other properties that are desirable.”

The results of the project could help builders fine-tune their mixing of the material as well as provide data necessary for building officials to approve its use in structures, according to Kirby Hancock, lead architect at local design-build firm Constructive Solutions, who approached MSU with the research idea and secured funding from the multi-state Farmers Union Enterprises to cover the project’s material costs.

“I think there’s a lot of potential for this material, which is why I’m excited about it,” said Hancock, who earned his bachelor’s degree in environmental design and master’s in architecture at MSU. According to Hancock, hempcrete is commonly used in many parts of the world, especially Europe and Asia, and is sought-after by those trying to minimize their environmental impact — the material is made mostly of the crop byproduct and requires little energy input.

Hempcrete also is valued for its resistance to

fire, mold and pests, and as a more natural alternative to foam-based insulation, he said.

It is typically packed into wall spaces between wooden members to create a solid, insulating panel, but the MSU research could lead to other construction applications.

The 2018 farm bill legalized hemp cultivation in the United States, and last year, 209 licensed growers in Montana planted 50,000 acres of the crop, more than double the amount of the previous year.

Industrial hemp is regulated to ensure the plants have minimal THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

Most hemp is grown for its CBD, a compound touted for its medicinal properties, or for hempseed oil used in food and cosmetics.

Once the seeds and flowering parts of the plant are harvested, the remaining stalks are problematic for many growers, said Justin Loch, a director with the Montana Farmers Union.

“It just sits there and farmers have to figure out what to do with it — bale it and use it as animal bedding, or even burn it,” he said. “Being able to use the whole plant would mean more revenue and more markets for growers.”

McNally will present initial findings from the study at the 2020 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which MSU will host on March 26-28.

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AUCTIONS

Auction Calendar Fri., Feb. 7

MONROVIA, IND.: Large Public Auction, 9 a.m., Ted Everett & Kurt Everett, 317-996-3929.

VICKERY, OHIO: Farm Equipment, 10:30 a.m., Sutorius Farms LLC, The Wendt Group, 614-626-7653.

Mon., Feb. 10

WOLCOTT, IND.: Farm Equipment, 11 a.m. EST, Brooks Farms, Inc., Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709.

ROCKVILLE, IND.: 195 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 6 p.m., Chris Cox Booe & Marty Ratcliff (Sarah Warner Farm), Allen Auction & Real Estate, 765-585-0116.

Thurs., Feb. 13

HALDERMANAUCTION. COM: Online Only, 37.15 +/- Acres Bartholomew County, bidding opens 2/12 at 8 a.m. & closes 2/13 at 4 p.m., M3 Farms LLC, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324.

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PRINCETON, IND.: 204 +/Acres in 7 Tracts, 7 p.m.

EST, Frank & Marlene Brittingham, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709.

Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709. See p. B1 GIBSON CITY, ILL.: 397.1 Acres in 6 Tracts, 11 a.m.

CST, Nancy Stock Estate, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-847-2161.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.: 6 +/Acres, 2 p.m., Roger & Kathy Sturgeon, Johnny Swalls, 812-495-6119.

Willoughby, James C. Knowles, 217-826-2527.

DAWSON SPRINGS, KY.: Retirement Liquidation Auction, 10 a.m., Delbert Fireline, Herron Auction & Realty, 270-826-6216.

SILVER LAKE, IND.: 658 Acres in 17 Tracts, 1 p.m., Metzger Auction, 260-982-0238. See p. B1

Dairy LLC, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324.

See p. B2 VERMILION COUNTY, ILL.: 95 +/- Acres in 3 Tracts, 6:30 p.m. CST, Walter R. Swift Family Trust, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324. See p. B2

Fri., Feb. 14

Thurs., Feb. 20

Mon., Feb. 24

Fri., Feb. 28

WHEELING, IND.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m.

Eastern, Frank & Marlene Brittingham, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709. See p. B1

Tues., Feb. 18

MONTICELLO, IND.: 245 +/Acres in 2 Tracts, 12 Noon Eastern, Brad Neihouser, 765-427-5052.

NEWTON COUNTY, IND. & IROQUOIS COUNTY, ILL.: 948 +/- Acres in 10 Tracts, 6:30 p.m. CST, BushDowell Trust, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324.

See p. B2

Wed., Feb. 19

GREENVILLE, OHIO: Fertilizer Equipment, 11 a.m., Harvest Land Co-op, Schrader Real Estate &

BRAZIL, IND.: Retirement Farm Auction, 11 a.m. EST, William (Bill) Loughmiller, Jeff Boston Auction Service, LLC, 812-382-4440.

See p. B2 VENICE, FLA.: State of the Farmer’s Economy Update, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709. See p. B1 WABASH COUNTY, IND.: 77 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., MARROW Trust, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324.

HUNTINGTON, IND.: 158 Acres in 6 Tracts, 6:30 p.m., Metzger Auction, 260-982-0238. See p. B1

Sat., Feb. 22

MARSHALL, ILL.: Machinery Estate Auction, 10 a.m., Jim Douglas Estate & Carolee

BOONE COUNTY, IND.: 157.83 +/- Acres in 2 Tracts, 6:30 p.m., Fred-Rick Farm Inc., Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324. See p. B2

Tues., Feb. 25

DECATUR COUNTY, IND.: 503 +/- Acres in 8 Tracts, 6:30 p.m., Thornburg Farm, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324. See p. B2

Thurs., Feb. 27

WINGATE, IND.: Grain Facility Auction, 11 a.m., Ceres Solutions, Hahn Auctioneers, 574-773-8445.

HALDERMANAUCTION.COM: Online Only, 18.13 +/Acres in 3 Tracts LaPorte County, bidding opens 2/26 at 8 a.m. CST & closes 2/27 at 4 p.m. CST, Lindborg

Company, 765-586-3428. See p. B2

Sat., March 7

PARIS, ILL.: Multi-Consignor Farm Retirement Auction, 10 a.m., Henry Setzer Farms, Phil Landes Farms, Tucker Wood Auctions, 217-822-2386. See p. B1

Wed., March 11

HENDERSON, KY.: 416 +/Acres in 3 Tracts, 12 Noon, Elizabeth Embry Heirs, Herron Auction & Realty, 270-826-6216.

Sat., Feb. 29

BUSHNELL, ILL.: Farm & Construction Equipment Consignment, 9 a.m., Bedwell Farm Equipment, 309-772-2343.

ROBARDS, KY.: 83 +/- Acres, 10 a.m., Herron Auction & Realty, 270-826-6216.

Wed., March 4

GREENFIELD, IND.: 1122 +/Acres in 24 Tracts, 11 a.m., Elanco US Inc., Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-4512709. See p. B1 FRANKFORT, IND.: 76.21 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., Kerr Farm, Farmers National

GREENE COUNTY, IND.: 58.99 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., Tieman, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324. See p. B2

Fri., March 13

FORT WAYNE, IND.: State of the Farmer’s Economy Update, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709. See p. B1

Tues., March 24

ST. ANNE, ILL.: Farm Machinery, 8 a.m., St. Anne Consignment Auction & Equipment Sales, 815-4278350. See p. B2

Sat., March 28

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

Improvements to hemp regulation needed to support farmers WASHINGTON — Improved testing rules, an expanded testing timeline and clarity around hemp transportation would help farmers grow and market this new crop, the American Farm Bureau Federation said in comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The comments relate to USDA’s Interim Final Rule regulating hemp production nationwide.

Farmers and ranchers at AFBF’s annual convention voted to support an increase in the allowable THC level in hemp up to 1%. The vote gives AFBF leaders and staff the flexibility to engage in discussions with regulators and lawmakers about the appropriate legal limit on

THC. Current law limits THC content in hemp to 0.3% or below. In addition, regulations require testing to be conducted only on the flower of the plant, despite the harvesting and use of the entire plant.

AFBF is requesting that USDA allow THC testing of the entire plant, including the flower, leaf and stem, to be averaged together. Since hemp’s legalization, there is growing demand for hemp fibers to make everything from clothing to rope and flooring, none of which is impacted by the THC level.

The Interim Final Rule requires the collection of plant samples needed for THC testing within 15 days of the anticipated harvest date. In comments

to USDA, AFBF noted this narrow window places an unnecessary burden on farmers, who risk losing their entire crop if they cannot complete harvest in just 15 days, and fails to consider the potential for delayed test results due to a lack of THC testing facilities.

AFBF is urging USDA to extend the 15-day window to 45 days before the anticipated harvest date to remove this unfair and

expensive burden on farmers.

USDA requires that all THC testing labs be certified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. With only 44 DEAcertified labs in 22 states to serve hundreds of hemp farmers, many believe testing delays and backlogs are inevitable.

Without a certified lab in each state, hemp growers may have to transport untested samples across

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duct THC testing, based on guidelines in the 2014 farm bill. These labs are regularly assessed and must meet international performance requirements to maintain certification.

AFBF is requesting that USDA allow testing in private labs that have obtained third-party accreditation, to minimize delays and costs to hemp farmers.

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state lines to comply with the regulations.

However, if the hemp being transported is above the 0.3% THC threshold, farmers will have shipped an illegal product across state lines, opening them up to potential prosecution.

Many states have used private labs with thirdparty certifications to con-

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Multi-Consignor Farm Retirement Auction Saturday, March 7, 2020 • 10AM Tucker Wood Auction Facility 7464 IL HWY 1, Paris, IL 61944

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217-822-2180 2008 Case IH Magnum 275 #z8rz06692, 1907 Hours, Single Front 380/85 R34 Goodyear Dynatorque, Dual Rears 480/80R46 Goodyear Super Traction, 18 gear powershift, 4 remotes with power beyond, 600 Screen with 262(open) 540, Small & Large 1000 PTO, CMI at 1545hrs; 2001 Case IH MX 220 #z204c4JJA0-109632, 2690 Hours, Single Fronts 380/85 R34 Michelins, Dual Rears 480/80 R46 Goodyear Supertraction, 18 gear powershift, 3 remotes with power beyond, 540, Small & Large 1000 PTO, CMI at 2551hrs; 2007 Case IH 2577 #HAJ 301915, 1841/1334 Hours, 4WD, Pro 600, Bin Extension, Front 30.5-32 Firestone SuperTract, Rears 18.4-26 Titan HI Tract, CMI last year and not used this year; 2007 Case IH 2206 6 Row, with stalk stompers and outside cones; Case IH 1020 20f Bean Platform 3in cut; 25ft Bean Platform carrier; Kinze 3600 1224 Planter #618674 no-till, row cleaners, cast closing wheels, insecticide boxes, KPM II monitor; 2002 Freightliner FL80 83,135 miles, C7, Automatic, Single Axle; 2008 Dakota Grain Trailer excellent condition, 2 Compartment, Roll tarp, 28ft Tandem Axle; Great Plains Turbo-Max 1800 18Ft Turbo Till, Like New; Case IH MRX 690 5 shank; Unverferth 1225 Rolling Harrow 25ft Double Basket; John Deere 980 Field cultivator, 24ft, new sweeps; Yetter Caddy cart Heavy duty 4 wheel; DMI 2500 5 Shank Subsoiler New shanks, Spring trip; CIH 496 Disc; Hiniker 7700 30ft flat fold rotary hoe; IHC 20ft rotary hoe; Brent 544 Wagon Brakes, only used at unloading auger; Unverferth 430 Wagon with brakes; Parker Wagon with 6in Auger; Westfield WR 80-31;Westfield 70ft auger; Plus More....

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DIRECTIONS TO PROPERTY: From Princeton: Take Hwy 65 north approx 7 mi. to Ford Rd (Co Rd 500 N) turn east & proceed 4 mi. to the property. From Petersburg: Take Hwy 56 west 6.7 miles to the jct of Hwy 56 & Hwy 65, continue on Hwy 65 1.5 miles to Coal Haul Rd (N Co Rd 700 W) turn south 2.5 miles to the property.

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Disease outbreak in China puts downward pressure on soybean prices UR BA NA, Ill. — Soybean futures prices fell again on reports of a coronavirus outbreak rattling the Chinese economy and the prospects of a huge Brazilian crop, according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Todd Hubbs. “A double hit associated with increased production from the United States’ main competitor and a potential drop in Chinese demand appears set to drive prices lower in the near term. If present consumption trends stay in place this marketing year, the prospect of ending stocks dropping substantially below the current projection of 475 million bushels seems remote,� Hubbs said.

The coronavirus outbreak continues to spread around the world. The Chinese gover nment’s attempt to contain the virus appears to have fallen short and brings up the possibility of a hit to China’s economic growth, Hubbs noted. “While China’s growth and integration in world markets helped commodity prices, the risk-o approach to most equity markets under the prospect of reduced growth in China is hurting agricul-

tural commodity prices.

Soybeans are particularly impacted by this development,� he said.

Hubbs explained that skepticism over the capability of China to meet the dollar amounts put forth in the Phase 1 trade agreement gets exacerbated by any reduction in Chinese economic growth.

Over the short term, soybean purchases from China look to be muted due to the Chinese government’s reaction to contain the disease and extension of the lunar New Year holiday.

Expectations of demand loss due to the virus outbreak likely remain in place over the short term and look to put downward pressure on soybean prices. “While potential demand loss from China is bad enough news, the harvest of the Brazilian crop begins with expectations of a possible record production level,� Hubbs said.

After a start to the growing season that included delayed planting and sporadic rainfall, reports in Brazil place production near 4.55 billion bushels.

Early yield reports out of Mato Grosso indicated yields over 10% higher

than last year. Areas in southern Brazil and the northern part of the country got planted later and still require cooperative weather conditions to meet these elevated projections.

T he release of the January projections by CONAB, the Brazilian ag r icu lt u ra l st at ist ics agency, set production at 4.48 billion bushels, up approximately 36.7 million bushels from December.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s current projection sits at 4.52 billion bushels.

On top of the massive crop, the dollar strengthened approximately 4% against the Brazilian real since the turn of the year.

U.S. old crop exports face stiff competition out of Brazil this spring.

Despite a large amount of bad news last week for U.S. soybean prices, soybean consumption remains on pace to reach USDA’s forecast of 4.008 billion bushels thus far in the marketing year, Hubbs noted. “The soybean crush forecast for the 2019-20 marketing year sits at 2.105 billion bushels. NOPA’s crush estimate for December totaled 174.8 million bushels. Per the relationship between NOPA crush and

USDA’s Oilseed crush report, total crush through December comes in at 710 million bushels. This estimate sits slightly behind last year’s crush total over the same period,� he said. “To reach the USDA crush projection, crush for the remainder of the marketing year needs to average 174 million bushels per month. A crush pace at that level comes in about 4 million bushels per month higher than last year’s estimates.�

Soybean oil and meal prices also dropped on the news out of China. Crush margins look to remain relatively stable.

Large export sales of soybean oil and meal reect issues with crush capacity in Argentina. A continuation of these issues in Argentina do not appear likely to overcome price pressure in the soybean complex due to the disease outbreak in China.

The export projection of this marketing year for soybeans sits at 1.775 billion bushels. Soybean export calculations thus far in the marketing year use USDA weekly export inspection reports and Census Bureau export estimates.

The USDA’s weekly ex-

U.N. declares 2020 as the Year of Plant Health WA S H I N G T O N — Plants make the oxygen we breathe and give us 80% of the food we eat. But plants are under attack by invasive pests.

These pests destroy up to 40% of the world’s food crops and cause $220 billion in trade losses each year, according to the United Nations.

That leaves millions of people worldwide without enough food to eat and seriously damages agriculture — the primary source of income for rural communities.

To bring worldwide attention to this challenge, the U.N. has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. It is calling on people, organizations, industries, scientists and governments to work together to protect plants against the introduction and spread of invasive pests.

The U.S. National Plant Protection Organization — the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Protection and Quarantine — is leading the eort in the United States. “At USDA, we do all we can for our farmers, ranchers, foresters and producers so that they can continue to feed and clothe this nation and the world,â€? said Greg Ibach, USDA under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs.

According to USDA, everyone can help avoid the devastating impact of pests and diseases on agriculture, livelihoods and food security. You can get started today by taking a few important actions, including:

Q Look for and report unusual signs of pests or disease in trees and plants to your local Extension, state department of agriculture, or local state oďŹƒce.

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ensure tree-killing beetles hiding inside can’t spread to new areas.

Q Always declare food, plants, or other agricultural items to U.S. Customs and Border Protection when returning from international travel so they can make sure these items are free

of pests.

Q Contacting your local state oďŹƒce before you buy seeds or plants online from other countries to ďŹ nd out if they need to be inspected and certiďŹ ed as pest free or meet other conditions to legally bring them into the United States.

port inspections report shows that cumulative marketing year inspections attained 926 million bushels through Jan. 23, above last year’s total by 174 million bushels. Through the ďŹ rst quarter of the marketing year, cumulative Census export estimates exceeded inspections by 20 million bushels. “If that margin persisted through the current period, cumulative exports reached 946 million bushels this marketing year,â€?

Hubbs said. “Export inspections this marketing year need to average 26.2 million bushels a week to reach the USDA projection. This pace is slightly below the 29.8 million bushels per week seen last marketing year over the same period.�

Out st a nding sa les through Jan. 16 sat at 256

million bushels, down 203 million bushels from last year at the same time.

China accounted for approximately 49 million bushels of those sales.

Without an expansion of Chinese buying this marketing year, the required export pace may be tough to attain given the crop coming out of Brazil, Hubbs said. “Uncertainty about the eect of the coronavirus outbreak on economic growth in Asia may stay around for a while,â€? he said. “Expect soybean prices to continue reecting a risk-o scenario over the next few weeks. The absence of substantial buying out of China looks to conďŹ rm the pessimism associated with the trade deal and place downward pressure on soybean prices.â€?

LAND AUCTION 76.21Âą Acres

Kirklin Township • Clinton County, Indiana Lease free for 2020!

Wednesday, March 4, at 6:30 PM Clinton County 4-H Building

1701 South Jackson Street • Frankfort, Indiana Good natural drainage • Well maintained and cared for Good production history with great upside potential For property details, please contact:

Kyle Rule, AFM/Agent Forest, Indiana Phone: (765) 586-3428

KRule@FarmersNational.com www.FarmersNational.com/KyleRule SELLER: Kerr Farm

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BRAZIL, IN (15 mi. East of Terre Haute) LOCATION: 811 E. US Hwy 40, Brazil, IN 47834.

DIRECTIONS: From I-70 (Brazil Exit 23), take St. Rd. 59 North 5 miles to US 40, turn east and proceed 1 ž miles.

Nice Retirement Auction of well-maintained, mostly shedded equipment.

For complete listing and photos visit bostoncentury.com Online bidding available on select items at bostoncentury.hibid.com TRACTORS: 2011 Massey Ferguson 7499 MFWD (1-owner, only 2678 hrs, 215 eng. hp); 1995 Massey Ferguson 8160 MFWD (only 4763 hrs, 180 PTO hp); COMBINE, HEADS, CARRIERS: 2010 Massey Ferguson 9695 “Fieldstar IIâ€?, 2- wh. dr., well equipped w/ “Lateral Tiltâ€?, chopper, spreaders, single point, power fold bin (only 1311/2086 hrs); 2015 MF 9250 “Dyna Flexâ€?, 30’ “Draperâ€? head (2000 total acres); MF 3000, 8R30â€? “Polyâ€? C.H.; 2017 E-Z Trail 1084 “AWSâ€?, 35’ carrier; E-Z Trail 672, 25’ carrier; PLANTER: Kinze 3660 ASD, 16/31, bulk ďŹ ll, split row, no-till w/ 600-gal. liquid fert., scales, & more; TILE MACHINE and RELATED: (Sold Separately) 2012 Soil-Max “Gold Diggerâ€? Stealth ZD, CAT III, 3-pt tile plow w/ 6â€? & 4â€? boots, & Ag-Leader “Integraâ€? monitor w/ “Intel-A-Slopeâ€? (a 1-“Farmerâ€? owned plow, 200 total acres); 25’ x 7/8â€? wire rope, plow tow cable; 18’ x 3â€? rope plow tow strap; Outback A321 base station w/ tripod and a A320 receiver; 2012 Chamberlain tile cart; GRAIN TRUCKS: 1993 Int. 8100 twin screw 10-wheeler w/ 18’ Scott bed, 62â€? sides, “L10 Cumminsâ€?, 9-spd (390k); 1994 Ford L8000 “Dieselâ€? twin screw 10-wheeler w/ 20’ bed, 60â€? sides, “8.3L Cumminsâ€?, E.F. 8LL 9-spd (166k); 1973 Ford F600 S.A. w/ 14’ M.W. steel bed & twin cyl. hoist (only 73k); EQUIPMENT: Land Pride 3515, 15’ batwing, sm.1000 (nice, 1-owner); 2004 E-Z Trail 510, sm. 1000 PTO grain cart (very nice, 1-owner); Phillips 3003A, 30’ rotary harrow (nice, 1-owner); MF 820-19’ disk; Glencoe 4300, 18’ soil ďŹ nisher; Landoll 275, 12’, 9-sh. disk/chisel, DMI 11-knife p.t. or 3-pt NH3 appl.; WestďŹ eld 80-61, 61’x8â€? PTO auger; Danuser 12â€?, 3-pt p.h. digger; pr. of GoodYear “Optitracâ€? 900/60R32 combine /cart tires, (1) booted & (1) not (As-Is); Very little MISCELLANEOUS. For info concerning equipment, contact Bill Loughmiller at (812) 239-7106.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE A LARGE INVENTORY OF EQUIPMENT FOR SALE. VISIT US AT: www.stanneconsignmentauctions.com

Boone County | Clinton Township

Auction

February 24 • 6:30 p.m. th

Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds

Clay Township | Decatur County

Auction

February 25th - 6:30 P.M. Knights of Columbus - Greensburg

Productive Cropland 503¹ Acres 6-(, 32/12(.3.# 50-Ÿ 157.83+/- Acres - 2 Tracts 8 T R A C T S of Productive Farmland Brett Salyers: 419.806.5643 Sam Clark: 317.442.0251 | Jim Clark: 765.659.4841

Jeff Boston Auction Service, LLC (812) 382-4440 Lic# AU01027041 “A Farmer, Working For Farmers� Serving IN-IL-KY

Auction 95 Acres ¡ 3 Tracts Blount Twp - Vermilion County - Illinois

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February 27 th | 6:30 p.m. CST Cloud 9 Banquet Center at Vermilion Regional Airport

Productive Farmland and Farmhouse John Bechman: 765.404.0396

Michael Bonnell: 812.343.6036 | Dave Bonnell: 812.343.4313 Owner: Thornburg Farm

Owner: Walter R Swift Family Trust

Owner: Fred-Rick Farm Inc. A ti Auctioneer: R Russellll D. D Harmeyer, IN Auct.

Lic. #AU10000277 HRES IN Lic. #AC69200019

HLS# BJS-12467

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Auction

Noble Twp LaPorte County

AT HALDERMANAUCTION.COM

Auctioneer: Russell D. Harmeyer, IN Auct.

Lic. #AU10000277, HRES IN Lic. #AC69200019

Jefferson Township | Newton County | Indiana Concord Township | Iroquois County | Illinois

Auction

February 18th - 6:30 P.M. CST - South Newton Elementary School

948 ACRES Âą

Bidding Opens: February 26 8 a.m. CST Bidding Closes: February 27th 4 p.m. CST th

18.13

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Acres - 3 Tracts

10 TR ACTS

300 Cow Dairy, Supporting Facilities & Country Homes

High Qualit y Farmland with E xcellent Recreational Piece

Online Personal Property Auction to Follow: Opens - February 28 @ 8 a.m. CST | Closes - March 2 @ 4 p.m. CST

Larry Smith: 219.716.4041 | Kelsey Sampson: 219.608.4341 Owner: Lindborg Dairy LLC Auctioneer: Toni L. Benysh, IN Auct. Lic. #AU19400019, HRES IN Lic. #AC69200019

HLS# LAS-12455 (20)

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HLS# MDB-12460 (20)

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John Bechman: 765.404.0396 Auctioneer: Russell D. Harmeyer, IN Auct.

Lic. #AU10000277, IL Auct. Lic. #441.002337 HRES IN Lic. #AC69200019, F. Howard Halderman, RE Managing Broker IL Lic. #417.013288

Auctioneer: Russell D. Harmeyer, IL Auct.

Lic. #441.002337 F. Howard Halderman, RE Managing Broker IL Lic. #417.013288

Washington Twp - Greene County

Auction

March 11th | 6:30 p.m. | Lyons Community Center

58.99+/- Acres of Excellent Quality Farmland Todd Litten: 812.327.2466

Owner: Bush-Dowell Trust

HLS# JRB-12452 (20)

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HLS# JRB-12470 (20)

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Owner: Tieman Auctioneer: Russell D. Harmeyer, IN Auct.

Lic. #AU10000277 HRES IN Lic. #AC69200019

HLS# TML-12474 (20)

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Calendar FEBRUARY ALLEN COUNTY Feb. 17 – Understanding Wills and Trusts: 1 to 2:30 p.m.

EST, Allen County Extension office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.

DELAWARE COUNTY

Feb. 9 – Greene Township 4-H Club Awards Banquet: 4 to 6 p.m. EST, Greene Township Community Building, 24600 Roosevelt Road, South Bend, Ind.

LAWRENCE COUNTY Feb. 7 – Cooking Under Pressure: 10 a.m. to noon EST, Lawrence County Extension office, 924 16th St., Bedford, Ind.

ELKHART COUNTY

MARION COUNTY Feb. 10 – Produce Safety Alliance Grower Trainings: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St., Indianapolis, Ind.; safeproducein.com.

Feb. 11-13 – Indiana Horticulture Conference and Expo: 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. EST, Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St., Indianapolis, Ind.; www. indianahortconference.org.

NEWTON COUNTY Feb. 19 – City Farmer: 6:30 to 8 p.m. CST, Dowtown Lounge, 312 E. Dunlap, Kentland, Ind.

NEWTON COUNTY

PUSLASKI COUNTY

Feb. 18 – 4-H Volunteer Training Series – Civic Engagement: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. EST, Harrison County Extension office, 247 Atwood St., Corydon, Ind.

Feb. 20 – STEM with Extension: 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. EST, Westside Center, 510 E. Main St., Medaryville, Ind.

HENDRICKS COUNTY Feb. 8 and March 14 – 4-H Shooting Sports Safety Class: 9 a.m. to noon EST, Conference Complex, 1900 E. Main St., Danville, Ind.

LAPORTE COUNTY Feb. 12 – Master Gardener Brown Bag Series: Noon to 1 p.m. CST, Michigan City

VANDERBURGH COUNTY Feb. 18 – Area Corn and Soybean Day: 7:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. CST, Vanderburgh 4-H Center Activities Building, 201 E Boonville-New Harmony Road, Evansville, Ind.; extension.purdue.edu/ vanderburgh/event/27738.

WARRICK COUNTY

Feb. 17 – PARP Class: 9 a.m. to noon EST, Family Arts Building, 500 Frank St., Shelbyville, Ind.; 317-392-6460.

Feb. 20 – Communicating with Farmers under Stress: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST, Spencer County Youth & Community Center, 1101 E.

Feb. 10, 11, 12 and 18 – Purdue Pesticide Programs: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST, William Daniel Turf Center, 1340 Cherry Ln., West Lafayette, Ind.; 765-494-4566.

Feb. 19-20 – 2020 Indiana Organic Grain Farmer Meeting: 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Beck Agricultural Center, 4540 US 52 West, West Lafayette, Ind.; 765-284-8414; purdue. ag/organicgrain2020.

Feb. 14 – Crop Marketing and Farm Finance Workshop: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

EST, Vermillion County Fairgrounds Community Building, 325 W. Maple St., Cayuga, Ind.; 765-494-7004; purdue.ag/workshop20.

SHELBY COUNTY

SPENCER COUNTY

TIPPECANOE COUNTY

VERMILLION COUNTY

Feb. 18 – STEM with Extension: 4 to 5 p.m. EST, FrancesvilleSalem Township Public Library, 201 W. Montgomery St., Francesville, Ind.

HARRISON COUNTY

The class “Ins & Outs of Seed Starting Success” will be from 6 to 8 p.m. EST Feb. 12 at the Allen County Extension office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. The class will include information on seeds, lighting, watering and a discussion of what can go wrong along the way. Instructor will be Megan Kosiak, a master gardener who has worked in the Display Gardens for a number of years. No registration required. For more information, call 260-481-6826.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY

Feb. 19-20 – Midwest Women in Ag Conference: All day, Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie., Ind.

Feb. 10 – Cooking Under Pressure: 6 to 7:30 p.m. EST, Elkhart County Extension office, 17746 County Road 34, #E, Goshen, Ind.; 574-5330554.

Feb. 12 – Heart Healthy Nutrition: 10 to 11 a.m. EST, Elkhart County Extension office, 17746 County Road 34, #E, Goshen, Ind.; 574-5330554.

Feb. 18 – Managing Stress Educational Program: 1 to 2 p.m. EST, Elkhart County Extension office, 17746 County Road 34, #E, Goshen, Ind.; 574-533-0554.

Feb. 20, Feb. 27, March 5, March 12 – Dining with Diabetes Educational Series: 1 to 3 p.m. EST, Elkhart County Extension office, 17746 County Road 34, #E, Goshen, Ind.; 574-533-0554.

Starting Seeds

County Rd. 800 N., Chrisney, Ind.; 812-362-8066.

Star Center, 22 Franklin St., Michigan City, Ind. Feb. 15 and 29 – Public Speaking Workshops: 9:30 to 11 a.m. CST, LaPorte County Extension office, 2857 W. State Road 2, Suite A, LaPorte, Ind.

Feb. 19 – 2020 Indiana Legislative Session Update: 10 a.m. to noon EST, Warrick County Courthouse, 107 W. Locust St., Boonville, Ind.; 812-897-6100; www.cdext. purdue.edu..

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2018 KINZE 3000 6/11 2014 CIH 1245 12/23, LIQ FERT SUNFLOWER 9421 30FT DRILL

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Feb. 21 – Teens As Teachers: All day, Camp Tecumseh, 12635 W. Tecumseh Bend Road, Brookston, Ind.

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Seductive salmon for Valentine’s Day

By Angela Shelf Medearis

are farm-raised.

Eating two to three I love preparing a servings per week of romantic dinner for foods rich in omega-3 is Valentine’s Day. Cooking a healthy choice. A servis one of the ways I show ing of salmon — about 3 my love for my sweet to 4 ounces — is about husband, Michael. We’ve 200 calories. been married for 45 Salmon is low in meryears, so I’ve had plenty cury and saturated fat. of opportunities to create It’s a good source of proromantic meals, from tein, and one of the best breakfast in bed to latesources of vitamin B12, night fireside suppers. potassium and other What better time to nutrients like iron and prepare a heart-healthy vitamin D. meal than on the one If you’ve never tried day of the year that roasted salmon, get ready celebrates matters of for a treat. The heat from the heart — Valentine’s the oven seals in the flaDay? My recipe for vor of the salmon much Roasted Salmon with better than moist-heat Pomegranate Butter methods like poaching or Sauce is an elegant way steaming. to make a special day The pomegranate buteven more memorable ter sauce is what makes and provides the gift of this dish so deliciously good health. unique. Pomegranate While 80% of all the juice is fairly easy to find salmon sold is farmin most grocery stores, raised, wild salmon is and the flavor marries the best choice. You can beautifully with the choose from a handful of salmon. different Pacific salmon, including Sockeye, Angela Shelf Medearis is Pink Coho and King an award-winning chil(Chinook). Atlantic dren’s author, culinary salmon also is an ophistorian and the author tion. The United States of seven cookbooks. Her prohibits fishing for it, website is www. divaso the ones you’ll find in pro.com. © 2020 King American supermarkets Features Synd., Inc.

Roasted Salmon With Pomegranate Butter Sauce

PROCEDURE Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Lightly oil a large rimmed baking sheet.

Run your fingers over the cut side of the salmon, feeling for any pin bones.

If necessary, pull out the bones with sterilized tweezers. Season salmon on both sides with the salt and pepper. Place the salmon on the baking sheet, flesh side up. Cut the salmon vertically into 6 equal portions, but do not separate the pieces. This makes the salmon easier to serve after cooking.

Roast until the salmon

‘Send’ in-house Valentines

By Donna Erickson

Who doesn’t like receiving a little compliment now and then? Positive, sincere words are an affirmation of actions and intent, and they give the recipient a boost, sometimes just when least expected.

Blush!

Face it — validation from others just makes us feel good and creates that internal glow.

Provide the good medicine of encouragement and positive vibes in a large dose with this decorative in-house family valentine box. All ages, even your preschoolers, can put pen to paper and compose simple heartfelt messages of love and appreciation to one another, day to day until Valentine’s Day, adding a hand-drawn emoji for that special touch.

Here’s how to make the box and share kind Valentine’s Day sentiments: Cut a 3-inch slot down the middle of a shoebox lid. Cover the lid and the box separately with colorful paper, leaving the slot

shows just a hint of bright pink when prodded in the center of the fillet at one of the cuts with the tip of a knife, 12 to 15 minutes.

Meanwhile make the butter sauce. Bring the pomegranate juice, balsamic vinegar, orange juice, honey, shallots, rosemary, salt and the pepper to a boil in a nonreactive medium saucepan over high heat. Cook until the liquid is reduced to 1/4 cup, about 8 minutes.

Reduce the heat to very low.

Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in 1 tablespoon of the butter.

Whisk until the butter softens into a creamy texture, occasionally returning the pan to the heat to keep it warm, but not hot. Repeat with the remaining butter, one tablespoon at a time.

Season with salt and pepper to taste. Do not bother to try to keep the sauce piping hot; it will be heated by the warmth of the salmon.

Remove the skin and any fat from the salmon and discard. Serve the salmon on individual dinner plates and spoon the sauce on top.

Serve immediately.

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open. Decorate the lid and the box with Valentinethemed materials, such as heart-shaped doilies, stickers and hearts cut from construction paper.

For extra writing fun, cut out letters or words from the newspaper to create simple Valentine’s Day sayings and glue them on the box, too.

Place the lid on the box and tape the sides to-

gether. Next, tape a small notepad and pencil or pen on a string to the top of the box.

Between now and Valentine’s Day, keep the box on your kitchen table. Encourage all family members, and even friends who stop by, to pull a piece of paper off the notepad and jot down a special Valentine’s note to each member of the

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

Start a collection of Valentine’s Day cards Valentine’s Day is an old holiday that started with a Christian martyr, St. Valentine, about 500 A.D., or the Roman fertility fest Lupercalia. In the 1860s, insulting comic valentines called “penny dreadfuls” were sold. A few commercial cards were made by the 1870s from homemade paper, lace and ribbons.

By late Victorian times, there were “mechanical” cards with moving parts, embossed cards, cards with “honeycomb tissue” to make them three-dimensional and, by the 1900s, postcards.

A beginning collector can find reasonably priced postcards and die-cut cards that were sold in dime stores. Teachers insisted every student receive a card so there would be no hard feelings. Sets sold for 29 cents for 25 cards plus a larger one for the teacher.

Each 3-1/2-inch card was punched free of the stiff paper, signed on the back and put in the envelope provided. The cards featured a friendly comic drawing and a heart with a message that often was a pun.

Collectors of postcards specialize and look for cards with out-of-town postmarks, city views, jobs, comics or current events or items that were typical of the year and will seem old in the future. Save the cards you get, and ask friends and older relatives for theirs to start a collection.

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No matter how you celebrate Valentine’s Day with your significant other, be sure to embrace the fun that you can have with your children on this day of love, too.

family. Keep the comments coming and encourage one another to be positive.

Adults or older siblings might help the younger ones with the writing or encourage them to draw a picture that expresses their feelings. Notes might include comments such as the following: “Katie, you bake great cookies! Love, Dad” or “Mom, Thanks for picking me up from volleyball practice every day. Jessie.”

On Valentine’s Day, Friday, Feb. 14, gather together for a special meal. Open the box and take turns reading the big stack of “love” notes that have accumulated.

Enthusiasm will have been building throughout the days preceding Valentine’s Day, so expect your kids to be quite excited.

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It’s not too late to get your flu shot

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Here we are, halfway through winter, and the flu season is in full swing.

As of now, all 50 states have widespread levels of flu. And at this point far too many people still haven’t gotten their flu shot.

The senior version of the shot, for those over age 65, has four times the amount of vaccine of three of the four types — two A and one B.

While this isn’t ideal — it’s still missing one B — it’s what we have. The high-dose vaccine was created to give our bodies a high immune response.

Because of our age, we’re in the high-risk group for complications, even if we don’t have any medical concerns. Seniors had more hospitalizations from flu than any other age group.

At this writing there have been more than 6,000 deaths from the flu.

How many of these could have been avoided by getting the flu shot?

One big concern is that it’s possible to be contagious and pass the flu to others days before someone starts to feel sick. Going to the grocery store, attending church, reading to kids at the elementary school, there are too many opportunities to give the flu to others — or have them give it to you — before anyone even suspects they have it.

But it’s not too late to get the shot. Even if it doesn’t keep you from getting the flu, it will keep you from getting as sick as you might have.

A delay can arise in areas where they’ve temporarily run out of the flu vaccine.

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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

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After many years of various treatments, including allergy shots, food studies and an ear tube, I was recently diagnosed with “semicircular canal dehiscence.� Can you explain what this is and the treatment, besides surgery, to relieve the symptoms of inner ear pressure, dizziness and pressure and pulsation in the head? Are there any medications?

Semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome is an unusual cause of vertigo.

Vertigo is sometimes referred to as dizziness, but “dizziness� may refer to both unsteadiness, a feeling that you are going to pass out, which medically is referred to as “presyncope�, or true vertigo, a sensation of movement when the person is actually still.

The vertigo in semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome is different from most other causes of vertigo because it can be provoked by loud noises, coughing or sneezing.

It is caused by abnormally thin bone in the semicircular canals, part of the organ of balance in the inner ear. The diagnosis is confirmed by a CT scan of the temporal bone.

The only treatment I have read that consistently is effective is surgery. An ear tube is sometimes tried in people who have symptoms with pressure changes.

Medications used in some cases of vertigo, such as meclizine, or Antivert, usually will make SCDS symptoms worse in the long term. Anti-nausea medications like ondansetron or Zofran may help if nausea is severe, but have their own side effects.

Vestibular rehabilitation by a specially trained physical or occupational therapist may have some benefit if surgery isn’t contemplated.

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Enlargement of the prostate gland is a common problem for men in their 70s and older. Sometimes it gets so bad that a man cannot urinate at all or the pressure in the bladder is at risk of damaging the kidney. In those cases, a catheter often is used as a temporizing measure.

Unfortunately, a catheter causes inflammation, so it may actually worsen the prostate problem temporarily while still protecting the kidneys. Because of this, the catheter usually needs to be kept in only for about one to two weeks.

During this time, medication usually is started to try to reduce prostate size.

For most men, a benign, not cancerous, enlarged prostate can be treated with medication — an alpha blocker, like tam-

sulosin, sometimes with a second medicine, like finasteride. If that doesn’t work, there are several surgical options.

His doctor needs to be sure that the enlarged prostate isn’t cancer. A physical exam and blood tests may answer that question; other times, a biopsy is needed.

There is no best treatment for everyone. It depends on how large his prostate is, any other medical problems he may have and the expertise of the

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In the United States, the options include a traditional surgery, called a transurethral resection of the prostate; laser-based treatments; other heatbased treatments — microwave, water vapor ablation and radiowave; and even more newer treatments that are less well-studied.

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National Farm Machinery Show features free seminars LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In addition to acres of indoor exhibits and thousands of new products, the National Farm Machinery Show offers a full schedule of free seminars for farmers and agribusiness professionals.

The seminars are open to all show attendees and are offered Feb. 12-15 in the South Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 10 a.m., South Wing B 103 — The Future of Precision Ag Technology: Join this session to learn about the newest features in Beck’s precision farming tool, FARMserver and what future advancements you can expect that will help increase your efficiency and profitability. Presented by Beck’s Hybrids.

11:30 a.m., South Wing B 103 — Nutrient Removal Rates for Corn Revisited: Discover what we’ve learned and how we can adapt this information to increase production and profitability on your farm. Presented

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1 p.m., South Wing B 104 — What’s New with Combines: Speakers will share the latest information and answer attendee questions about how to make the most of harvest in 2020 and beyond. Presented

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2:30 p.m., South Wing C 104 — 2020 Market and Weather Outlook: JPresentation will offer the audience a wide-range of crop marketing perspectives, including current commodity market trends, pricing opportunities, benchmarking, weather patterns and national and international forecasts, plus planting and supply forecasts. Presented by DTN/The Progressive Farmer.

THURSDAY, FEB. 13 8:30 a.m., South Wing C 104 — 2020 Market and Weather Outlook.

10 a.m., South Wing B 103 — Utilizing UAVS and Remote Sensing to Improve Your

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10 a.m., South Wing B 105 — Machinery Pete Updates on the Used Machinery Market: This seminar will share the top trends in the used equipment market. Presented by Farm Journal Media.

11:30 a.m., South Wing C 104 — Producing Record Corn and Soybean Yields: Presentation will offer the audience farmer to farmer and industry experts input on how growers prepare for a new growing season, showcasing seed plot trials and efforts to push for optimum crop health and record yields. Presented by DTN/ The Progressive Farmer.

Noon, South Wing B 103 — PFR Proven Strategies for Success in 2020: This session will focus on the unique, agronomic insights generated by Beck’s Practical Farm Research program. Learn about the top five PFR Proven practices that will likely increase your profitability. We will also be discussing our newest findings around sulfur applications on corn and soybeans, as well as new equipment we’ve tested that can increase your productivity.

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1 p.m., South Wing B 104 — Why Consider a Pull-type Sprayer: What’s the future of a pull-type sprayer? What value do they have in today’s farming operation? And what new technology are companies bringing to this market? Speakers will share their insights on this tool and advancements in this area of farm equipment. Presented

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2 p.m., South Wing B 105 — U.S. Farm Report Live Market Roundtable Taping: Join U.S. Farm Report for a live taping of its marketing roundtables. As questions surrounding policy and trade continue to grab the eye of the market, host Tyne Morgan will ask leading analysts how it could impact the markets in 2020. Market volatility can create opportunity, and the analysts will explore what opportunities could be ahead in the new year. Plus, a leading agricultural lender will join the panel and help prepare you for key conversations with your ag banker this year. Presented by Farm Journal Media.

2 p.m., South Wing C 101 — How Technology Can Change Your Farm: Hear real stories of how technology can make a big impact throughout your operation. Plus, see the latest in full farm connectivity and planter technology. Presented

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4 p.m., South Wing B 104 — Material Handling and Livestock: Livestock need care and to make that easier companies offer a range of tools for feedmaking, feed handling and more. Speakers will share information on the latest developments in this area of agriculture. Presented by Farm Futures.

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competing in the marketplace, how do you decide what is the best fit for your farm and your situation? Join this session to discover the keys to unlock the best performance for each system and how you can use the current technologies to battle herbicide resistance now and in the future. Presented by Beck’s Hybrids.

10 a.m., South Wing C 104 — 2020 Market and Weather Outlook.

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Noon, South Wing B 103 — PFR Proven Strategies for Success in 2020.

1 p.m., South Wing B 104 — What’s New with Farm Tires: What’s in a tire? A lot more than just a few years ago. IF/VF/ LSW and more. These speakers will share the latest information on tires and how best to manage them on the farm, including new tech and the latest on efficiency information.

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1 p.m., South Wing C 111 — The Connected Farm and the Value of Autonomy: A discussion with producers, breaking down the tools, technology and the desired support that make the next generation farm a reality. Presented by the National Farm Machinery Show.

2 p.m., South Wing B 103 — If I Could Build a Planter from the Ground Up: Planter technologies are evolving at a rapid pace. The challenge is to distinguish what technologies add the most value and provide the highest return. Does high speed planting pay? What are the differences in seed tubes and row units that will make the greatest impact? Join this session to learn how we might build a planter from the ground up. Presented by Beck’s Hybrids.

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The National Farm Machinery Show will be Feb. 12-15 at the Kentucky Exposition Center.

National Farm Machinery Show features cutting-edge agriculture LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Farm Machinery Show offers the most complete selection of cutting-edge agricultural products, equipment and services available in the farming industry.

Business professionals from around the world gain knowledge and handson access to various technological advancements needed for the upcoming farming season during the four-day show.

The year’s event runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 12-15 at the Kentucky Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville.

The Kentucky Exposition Center is completely filled with 890 exhibitors, making it the country’s largest indoor farm show.

Nearly every major line of farming equipment will be on display allowing attendees to compare products side by side.

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Dates: Wednesday, Feb. 12, through Saturday, Feb. 15 Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Location: Kentucky Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville.

Seminars: Seminars are free for all attendees.

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Industry officials and manufacturers seem to universally agree that, while large equipment sales remain strong, significant opportunities exist with the smaller- acreage farming machines.

In addition to seeing the newest products on the market, visitors can attend free seminars led by industry experts.

Take a break from the show floor and explore the aisles of the new and expanded Gift & Craft Market in the South Wing Mezzanine of the Kentucky Exposition Center.

In the Gift & Craft Market, you’ll find unique merchandise for the whole family that won’t break your budget.

Browse through over 80 booths for special gifts, souvenirs for friends, toys and collectibles for the kids and unique accessories for the house.

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Championship Tractor Pull at Farm Machinery Show LOUISVILLE, Ky. — High-octane intensity explodes into Freedom Hall during the evenings of the National Farm Machinery Show as pulling trucks and tractors battle it out at the Championship Tractor Pull.

This invitation-only event stars the nation’s best drivers and their machines — Pro Stocks, Super Stocks, Modified and Alcohol Tractors, as well as Two-Wheel and FourWheel Drive Trucks. The drivers compete in five exciting performances.

The National Farm Machinery Show is scheduled Feb. 12-15 at the Kentucky Exposition Center, 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville.

Drivers gear up for the unequaled thrill of winning at this nationally-recognized pull, but also for the chance to bring home a share of more than

$200,000 in prize money.

The Championship Tractor Pull will be available through livestream pay-per-view and on-demand.

Filming is from multiple angles with replays and score overlays.

DVDs will also be available.

Pay-per-view prices are the same as tickets, $40 to $45, or $150 for all pulls. DVDs range from $25 to $30, or $100 for all pulls.

SCHEDULE Wednesday, Feb. 12 — 7 p.m.: 6,350-pound Modified 4x4 Trucks, 9,300-pound Super Farm Tractors, 7,500-pound Modified Tractors and 10,200-pound Pro Stock Tractors.

Thursday, Feb. 13 — 7 p.m.: 6,400-pound Lightweight Super Stock Alcohol Tractors, 9,300-pound Super Farm Tractors, 6,200-pound 2WD Super Modified Trucks and 10,200-pound Pro Stock Tractors.

Friday, Feb. 14 — 7 p.m.: 9,500-pound Limited Pro Stock Tractors, 6,200-pound 2WD Super Modified Trucks, 8,200pound Diesel SS and 8,000pound Alcohol SS Tractors Combined and 10,200pound Pro Stock Tractors.

Saturday, Feb. 15 — Noon: 7,500-pound 4x4 Super Stock Diesel Trucks,

The Championship Tractor Pull at the National Farm Machinery Show has transformed into a premiere event of its own.

8,500-pound Light Pro Stock, 6,400-pound Lightweight Super Stock Alcohol Tractors and 10,200-pound Pro Stock Tractors.

Saturday, Feb. 15 — 7 p.m.:

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pound Lightweight SS Alcohol.

For more information about the pullers and results, to obtain tickets or watch the event online, visit www.champpull.org.

Register to win a John Deere Gator or Bobcat Compact Tractor LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Farm Machinery Show spans 1.2 million square feet and features 900 booths of the agricultural industry’s latest and most comprehensive display of equipment, services and technology.

“It’s important to know who is attending the National Farm Machinery Show. There are many facets of the agribusiness industry and we want to make sure we’re offering seminars and exhibitors that align with our customers’ needs,” said David

Beck, president and CEO of Kentucky Venues.

This annual event is the largest indoor farm show in the country and the premier winter show within the industry. In an effort to help the show continue to grow and improve the guest experience, Kentucky

Venues is adding attendee registration this year.

As part of the registration process, attendees will have the option to enter for a chance to win some giveaways sponsored by Wright Implement, Bobcat Co. and Milwaukee Tool.

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As the nation’s largest indoor farm show, NFMS brings an economic impact of $17 million to

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Decatur County, IN: February 25 • 503+/- Acres - 8 Tracts Contact: Michael Bonnell 812.343.6036 or Dave Bonnell 812.343.4313

LaPorte County, IN: February 26-27 • 18+/- Acres - 3 Tracts *ONLINE ONLY* BIDDING OPENS 2/26 - 8 A.M. CST & BIDDING CLOSES 2/27 - 4 P.M. CST Contact: Larry Smith 219.716.4041 or Kelsey Sampson 219.608.4341

Vermilion County, IL: February 27 • 95+/- Acres - 3 Tracts Contact: John Bechman 765.404.0396

Montgomery County, OH: March 10 • 80+/- Acres - 1 Tract Contact: John Kramer 937.533.1101 or Craig Springmier 937.533.7126

Contact: Todd Litten 812.327.2466

Jackson County, IN: March 11-12 • 298+/- Acres - 1 Tract LAND FOR SALE IN INDIANA

GT SOYBEANS FOR SALE, Call 765-719-3995 Med Red Clover Seed, $89/50-lb bag, Paulding OH, 419-796-8871, c 419-399-4097 h (lv msg) OPEN POLLINATED SEED corn, out produces Hybrids for silage. $67 per bu.

Plus shipping. 217-857-3377

'13 JD 8235R, 849 hrs, IVT, ILS, 60 gal pump, 1000/540 PTO, $172,000; 2011 JD 8235R, 2966 hrs, 16/4ps, 60 gal pump, 1000/540 PTO, $125,000. shedded, 217-827-3630, 217-825-9063 '77 JD 4630, 500 hrs on new motor, 18438 w/duals, frt & rear wts, good condition. Asking $16,000. Call 309-235-4147 1972 JD 4620, good condition, $8500; 1967 JD 4020, with cab and M&W Turbo, $8000. 1965 JD 2510 diesel w/2520 engine, $7250. 815-235-9345 2004 VERSATILE-2425, 3300 hrs., exc cond., $72,500, OBO retiring. 563-357-4300

DELTA TRAILERS & LOW PRO HOG TRAILE R S 6-1/2 tall, 16 long, 2 axle brake & spare tire, Starting at $5,495. Wackerline Trailers Sandwich,IL. 815-786 2504 wackerlinesales.com

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Greene County, IN: March 11 • 58+/- Acres - 1 Tract

Call Your Local AgriNews Representative or 800-426-9438 Ext. 113

BRED HEIFERS, SPRING calving, BLK, BWF and Red Angus. 618-528-8744

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CASE-4890 CAH, 3-pt., PTO, 4 remotes, duals, starts and runs great, $18,000 Call 309-734-2706 or 309-337-2706 CIH-7120 TRACTOR, 1910 hrs, Call 217-456-7641 JD 2950, MFD w/260 SL loader, 8ft bucket, bale spear, pallet forks, $22,000; Bushhog 2615 legend, Batwing mower, $5000.

309-337-0482 JD 4840 tractor, 6600 hours, exc tires, quick hitch, shed kept , top condition, $25,900.

618-927-7858, 618-927-7857

Montgomery County • 170A, 165 tillable, near Linden.

• 12.99 Ac, 12.79 tillable, 6 miles S of Waynetown.

Newton County • 137.08 A, 130.75 Tillable, 3.7 CRP, W of Brook.

Boone County • 76.96A, 76.22 tillable

Quality farmland located 2.5 miles southwest of Thorntown.

Sale Pending

-Farmland Sales - Farmland Investments & Management - Sale Leaseback Options For more information go to hagemanrealty.com

HAGEMAN REALTY

18390 S. 480 W. Remington, IN 47977 219-261-2000

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!

*ONLINE ONLY* BIDDING OPENS 3/11 - 8 A.M. & BIDDING CLOSES 3/12 - 4 P.M. Contact: Dave Bonnell 812.343.4313 or Michael Bonnell 812.343.6036

FEATURED LISTINGS LaPorte County, IN: 5 Properties all located within LaPorte County 60+/- Acres • Building Sites, Rolling Hills, Woods, Ponds Running Stream & Tillable Farm Land

30+/- Acres • Secluded & Wooded Building Site with Pond 58+/- Acres • Level Farmland, Rural Building Site 2+/- Acres • Rural Building Site 3+/- Acres • Rural Building Site • Contact: Julie Matthys 574.310.5189 Tipton County, IN: 109+/- Acres • Contact: Jaret Wicker 765.561.1737 or John Miner 765.438.2699

Starke County, IN: 44 Acres • Contact: Julie Matthys 574.310.5189 +/-

Experience. Knowledge. Professionalism.

For over 90 years.

For more information, visit halderman.com

HRES IN Auct. Lic. #AC69200019, IL Lic. #417.013288 MI Lic. #6505264076 AUCTIONEER: RUSSELL D. HARMEYER, IN Auct. Lic. #AU10000277, IL Auct. Lic #441.002337 & OH Auct. Lic. #2001014575

Pair of JD 22” center cast wheels, w/wedges, Part# R36190R; Pair of JD 27”x32”, deep well rims, works with above cast wheels, fits 30.5x32 tires; JD quick hitch for 4440 or newer tractor; Pair of JD 650x15” rims; Pair of JD 16.1 rims for 16.5L tires; Pair of Vented side shields for JD 4030 tractor. 815-493-6420 Steinbauer performance chip, #220414, fits 9530 JD, $1000.

217-621-4956

* Tile Lift Pumps * 150 to 15,000 GPM *Electric Motors * *Farm Drainage Pumps * * Generator Sets *

Shoemaker Welding North Liberty, IN

For sale by owner, 475Ac's, Pope Co., IL 25 mi's NE of Paducha KY Consist of 340 Ac's till. cropland, 25 Ac's pasture, & over 100 Ac's of hard wood timber. 40,000 bu. Grain storage, large barn, large field & exc deer hunting, w/good lease income. Open crop lease for 19, price below appraised value, 618-528-8744

574-656-4412 2018 White 9924 VE, 24Row30in. w Camso Tracks, Precision Technology, speed tube, Delta Hydraulic Down Force, Keetons, 2-75bu seed tanks, markers, hyd. jack, 20/20 Gen. 3 Flat Screen 10” monitor, Dawn GFX hydraulic row cleaners, copperhead Ag Furrow closing w/reels, corn & bean seed disks, new cond., low acres, $240,000 319-209-0305

3. We now rebuild computer control boxes for Steiger tractors 1982-1999.

800-982 -1769 www.bigtractorparts.com JD-4440 1500 hrs on new motor, $22,500; JD-4240 w/loader, $19,500 ; JD-4020 $6,500 all well maintained tractors, Call 815-716-6895 JD-7830 MFD, IVT Trans, frt susp., active seat, higher hrs., nice, $42,500 715-574-4561 JD-8285R MFD, duals, frt duals optional, auto track ready, exceptional, some warranty, $94,500 Call 715-572-12344 JD-8400T TRACK TRACTOR, 9000 hrs., $26,500 Call 573-576-1919 JD-8430 2007, ILS, Firestone, 4146 hrs., nice tractor, $114,900 Call 217-249-3912

24 JD liquid applicators, off of a 1770 planter, $350-each or best offer. 618-562-7550

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greendrills.com (740)756-4810 Hizey Farm Service LLC 1994 JD-310D, 4x4, Cab, extend-a-hoe, new batteries & rubber, showing 5,860 hrs., from estate, $15,500 Call 309-734-2706 or 309-337-2706

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

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REDBALL SPRAYER

Crawfordsville, IN (765) 866.0253 Eaton, OH (937) 456.6281

Small farmer owned, 1200 gal. Tank, 90' booms, w/triple nozzle body's, foam marker, clean water rinse, w/rinse balls, chem. Inductor, hyd pump, Raven 440 monitor, w/lots of spare parts,

We Buy Damaged Grain In Any Condition Wet or Dry Including Damaged Silo Corn At Top Dollar We have vacs & trucks

Ag Gypsum for Sale

Call Heidi or Mark

La Crosse, IN (219) 754.2423

Leb. Spray Center, IN (765) 481.2044

through Clean Green Soil Amendments, LLC. (309)337-6242 or email cleangreensoil@gmail.com

Iroquois Equipment Bush Hog Dealer

DAMAGED GRAIN WANTED STATEWIDE

Call/text 815-791-8664

Georgetown, OH (937) 378.4880

Lebanon, IN (765) 482.2303

JD-637 32ft Disc; JD-630 25ft disk, excellent condition, 618-528-8744

Onarga, IL. 815-351-8124 *New/used Bush Hog mowers on hand. *Full line of Bush Hog parts.

*Fast, low rate shipping.

We can help keep your Bush Hog mower running like new!

JD-345 SNOW BLOWER (42") Used - Good Condition $650.

Contact Don (815) 257-6082

Northern AG SERVICE, INC. 800-205-5751

WOODS-BW126 SINGLE Wing Mower (10-ft.) Very Good Condition $7,400. Contact Don (815) 257-6082

Pendleton, IN (765) 778.1991 Plymouth, IN (574) 936.2523 Remington, IN (219) 261.4221 Terre Haute, IN (812) 234.2627 Wilmington, OH (937) 382.0941 Winamac, IN (574) 946.6168 Wingate, IN (765) 275.2270 LS-779039

Bane-Welker.com JD-7000 RECONDITIONED PLANTERS; 4-row 30”, 3-pt, $2,850; 8-row 30” $6,850; JD7200 4-row 30” $3,150. All repainted, NICE, can send pics Call 309-242-6040

2015 Schulte XH 1500, Series 3, 15' cutting width, tandem axles on main frame and single on wings, laminated tires, small 1000-rpm., pto, 1/4” thick stump jumpers and double safety chains, always shedded, top condition, $15,000.

319-209-0305

(4) 2500 GAL. green polly fertilizer tanks, $2,000 or $900. ea, Call 815-252-7117 17 SHANK pull type NH3 bar, can be used to preplant or sidedress, 440 Raven controller, $8500 obo. 618-562-7550 2013 ETS SOIL warrior strip till unit, 12R30”, dual dry fert.

SS Morris Compartment, meters, pneumatic down pressure, row cleaners, Avery scale, Ag Leader Versa mon., both shallow & deep tillage set ups, $95,000 call 815-716-6895 New Steel Storage tanks available Capacity up to 50,000 gal. 618-553-7549, 562-4544 www.dktanks.com TANKS: STAINLESS. PIPE For Culverts 10-inch to 10ft DIA. 618-553-7549, 618-562-4544, www.dktanks.com

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

BETTERBILT-2600 VAC. SPREADER, 3 knife plow down, 1000 RPM pump, good paint & tires, Call 217-756-8268

WANTED DAMAGED GRAIN WE PAY TOP DOLLAR!

>All Grains >Any Condition > Immediate Response Anywhere >Trucks and Vacs Available

2005 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA 120, Air Ride Tandem Axle; 14L Detroit Engine; 12,000 lb Front Axle Weight; 40,000 lb Rear Axle Weight; Very Nice 641,000 Miles, 10 Spd. Trans, $28,500.

217-924-4405 8-5pm.

2005 International 4400 tandem, DT466 eng., auto trans., air ride, Scott 20ft bed, rear controls, Shur-lock tarp, 22.5 tires, 20,900 miles, exc cond., retired, pictures available. $47,500.

217-304-7195 2007 International 8600, AR, tandem axle, 10-spd. transmission, C13 Cat eng., 167-wb, Nice Truck, $19,500.

217-924-4405 8-5pm.

2010 KENWORTH-T660, full 450 ISX Cummins, 13-spd trans., 3:36 rear ends, 232” WB, 62” sleeper, 11R225 tires, eng.

Less than 80,000 on OH, asking $35,000 obo Call 815-246-8000 or 815-378-1717

CALL FOR A QUOTE TODAY PRUESS ELEVATOR, INC (800) 828-6642 Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC Buying Corn Clint Davidson Commodity Mgr 10406 N 1725th St Palestine, IL 618-586-2321 or 888-586-2321

REPAIR FLIGHTING Helicoid Super Edge & Sectional. FOR Grain Augers, Dryers, & Grain Carts, Feed Wagons, Mixers, Combines, Sweeps and Stirring Machine. Down Minimum

Same Day Shipment Perry Equipment, Inc. 115 West 580 North Crawfordsville, IN

765-362-4495 800-433-8783

www.perry-equip.com

Used Zimmatic center pivot 9 tower 1500 ft long, $17,000; Kisco water winch & alum pipe, 815-303-3650 Putnam, IL Wanted: Irrigation Equipment Pipes, Pumps/Travelers.

HOEKSTRA FARMS, LLC. St. Anne, IL. Call 815-427-6510

New& Used REM & Kongskilde grain vacs. Used Kongskilde 1000 & 500 grain vacs.

Cornwell Equipment, Arthur, IL 217-543-2631 5X6 NET WRAPPED Grass hay or large squares of alfalfa for horses and dairy cows. Delivery to your farm. (217)370-4342

(2) 1983 Meyer Morton 450 continuous flow grain dryers, 30-hp 3-phase fan, very good condition, simple design, well maintained, need to move! $4500-each. Or $8000/pair, make offer.

309-678-6902, email: dcstreit@gmail.com

QUALITY HAY AND STRAW , limited quantity of 1st and 2nd cut, big & small squares, delivery available, Call us David 815-685-5344, Mike 815-685-9646

Generators: used, low hr takeouts. 20KW to 2000KW. Dsl, Propane, Nat. Gas. 701-3719526. abrahamindustrial.com

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

20FT hay or silage wagon, 20ft long, 8ft wide, new floor, $3000. 217-259-3374

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

ROUND BALE SPEAR for 148/158 JD loader, 3 prong, Exc. Shape, $600. Call 217-371-1229 or 217-473-6774 Vermeer 4 basket tedder, like new, $6500. 618-528-8744

GSI FANS 25hp - 50hp Centrifugal fans 60% OFF. Brush Enterprises, Bethany, IL 800-373-0654

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

4450 SPRACOUPE, 60' booms, 400 gal. tank, floater tires also avail. $25,000 Call 573-576-1919 MILLER SELF-PROPELLED SPRAYER, Model 4240, 1000gallon tank, 90ft booms, Ag Leader Integra Monitor, lots of options, 720-hours, like new cond., $160,000-obo. Delivery Possible. 814-322-8090

We Manufacture All Steel Irrigation Bridges! Abbott Fabrication Winamac, IN 574-225-1326 Shop: 574-946-6566

2006 DMI NH 30' ST250 field cultivator, spring tine harrow, w/rear hitch, $13,500 obo Call 812-242-0701 JD MULCH MASTER, MODEL 550, 25FT, EXTRA SWEEPS, GOOD COND., $5750.

812-204-4587

GSI FLOORING New-Weather: 18' , 21' , 24' Floor. 50% off.

While They Last. Call Place Order.

Brush Enterprises, Bethany, IL 1-800-373-0654 NEW GT RECIRCULATING Batch Grain Dryers. Cornwell Equipment. (217)543-2631

Winco Generators.

PTO portables and eng. sets available, Large Inventory. Albion, IL. Waters Equipment. 618-445-2816

1956 JD-620, 3-pt. hitch, fenders, restored, parade ready, $5,700 obo Call 618-344-1134 FARMALL-560 DIESEL, 99% original owned by same family since 1963, runs good, 15.5x38 rear tires @ 20%, TA works, $4,200 obo Toms antiques 618-292-7187 JD-MT, 1950, SERIAL # 24645, new rear tires & tubes, frt & rear wheel wts., $2,700; 1950 Farmall-H good paint, $1,800 Call 618-934-3481 or 618-934-5221

16 ROW DAWN PLURIBUS on B&D tool bar w/liquid, $40,000; Call 815-252-7117 JD7200 MAX EMERGE II, 6x30in, no-till, finger pickup. liquid fert., insect., bean cups. monitor, good cond. $8,250.

812-204-4587.

Meet the announcers for the Championship Tractor Pull LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Due to the ever-changing landscape of the Championship Tractor Pull, the event’s announcing team has added knowledgeable members to help boost the fan experience.

In the world’s longest-running indoor pull, only nine people have been announcers.

Dan Mayer, Leslie Mears, Miles Krieger and Dave Bennett will serve as the 2020 Championship Tractor Pull announcing team.

Mayer is a recent addition to the Championship Tractor Pull, joining the team in 2017.

He started announcing pulls in 2006 with the Empire State Pullers and is a truck and tractor pulling historian, operating Pulling-Reference.com, a valuable resource to learn about the history of organized pulling.

For Mayer, the Championship Tractor Pull is a very special event.

“The greatest part about the

pull is that it brings together the best of the pullers and organizations to a single location. It’s one big family reunion,” he said.

Mears is joining the announcing team this year. The Southern Indiana-based Mears started in 2006, when her husband needed an announcer for an event in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Mears credits her growth as an announcer to her mentor, former Championship Tractor Pull announcer Scott Douglass.

She strives to spread her enthusiasm for the sport to all fans watching.

“Louisville is really such a special place. I’m honored to be announcing at the Championship Tractor Pull, and I will make it my duty that fans are as engaged as I am,” she said.

The Krieger family is a familiar name in the sport of pulling.

Miles Krieger grew up watching his father, Butch, announce the

Championship Tractor Pull.

Miles Krieger began his announcing career at America’s Pull in Henry, Illinois, and is still at it 17 years later.

Krieger operates his blog, MilesBeyond300.com, and hosts the Miles Beyond 300 Road Show, where pullers are interviewed at select events including the Championship Tractor Pull.

“Announcing the Farm Show is the very reason I chose this career path. I’ve attended the show my whole life and this pull has a special place in my heart. Listening to my father has pushed me to keep gaining experience at every event. Being able to continue the Krieger legacy on the Championship Tractor Pull microphone is a dream come true,” he said.

Bennett is an 11-year veteran of the Championship Tractor Pull. Bennett’s announcing career began in 1980 at events across the Southwest.

(2) 2018 TINPTE 40x66”, super hoppers, all light weight options, Ag Tubs, 22-oz Black tarps, super singles w/Dura-Bright wheels, empty weight 7650, priced to sell. Call 608-751-0606 1986 INTERNATIONAL-1954, 16' steel grain bed, DT466 diesel, w/5+2 trans, 210,000 mi., very good tires, $9,000 Call 217-276-5529 1992 GMC Topkick, Cat engine, 10ft bed, new paint, good condition, $7500.

618-528-8744 1995 FORD F800, grain truck, 5.9 Cummins, 6-sp., 14' bed w/roll tarp, 118,000 mi., Exc tires, $11,000 (217)276-5529 1998 43' Wilson hpr btm, 78' sides, 80% tires, 90% brakes, Shur-lock tarp, VG cond, $10,900. 618-927-7858, 7857 1999 PETERBILT-378 RED day cab, Cat-C15, 475 hp., great rubber, 850,000 mi. $34,000 Call 309-781-1899

Film about Henry Ford awarded grant DETROIT (AP) — A film exploring the significant, complicated legacy of Henry Ford has received a financial boost from a Detroit nonprofit that supports the region’s automotive and labor history.

“Ten Questions for Henry Ford” was among more than a dozen projects to receive a share of $66,000 from the MotorCities National Heritage Area.

The movie, billed by its creator as a blending “of historical fact and poetic imagining,” garnered about $9,000 through the University of Michigan Department of Performing Arts Technology. “(MotorCities is) very interested in portraying the positive aspects of Ford’s legacy, as well as the negative,” said Andrew Kirshner, the film’s writer, director and producer, who also teaches at the university. “I think it’s a pretty human portrait, but it doesn’t shy away from the aspects that are less savory.”

Kirshner said the story encompasses Ford’s creative and innovative brilliance in automotive manufacturing and marketing, as well as the worldwide reach of his anti-Semitic publications and violent union crackdowns.

The film, preparing for a fall 2020 release, features Ford’s ghost, who returns to the Detroit area in the present day “to confront his complex legacy,” according to text accompanying a trailer. Ford’s apparition is played

by John Lepard, who teaches at Michigan State University and leads the Williamston Theatre.

Other grant recipients include the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn for events about the history and innovations of honorees; the Flint Cultural Center Corp. for research and development of programs accompanying the Vehicle City Gallery at the Sloan Museum of Discovery; and the Packard Motor Car Foundation for revitalization efforts at the Packard Proving Ground site in Shelby Township.

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John Deere earns AE50 Awards for latest ag innovations OLATHE, Kan. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John Deere was recently presented with a pair of AE50 Awards for outstanding innovations that improve production agriculture.

Every year, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers recognizes the 50 most innovative product-engineering designs in the food and agriculture industry with its AE50 Awards, as chosen by international engineering experts. Winning products are recognized for ingenuity in product development and for saving producers time, costs and labor while improving safety.

This year, John Deere received AE50 awards for the LS475 Liquid System and the N500C Series Air Drill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;AE50 Awards reaffirm the innovative spirit of our employees and illustrate John Deereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to bring those linked to the land the most useful, high-quality products possible.

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The high-capacity liquid application system is purpose-built for ag service providers and large-acre producers who want application rate-volume flexibility. It gives them the ability to cover a large number of acres during short application windows while minimizing soil compaction and disturbance.

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Vanity plate rules and free speech butt heads

By Andrew Wolfson and Sarah Ladd THE COURIER JOURNAL

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in February denied a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request for a vanity license plate bearing his last name, saying it was oďŹ&#x20AC;ensive, David Assman got the last laugh.

Assman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yes, his real name, but pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;OSS-man â&#x20AC;&#x201D; painted a huge version of the plate on the back of his pickup truck.

Regulating language on personalized plates has long pitted the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in maintaining decency on the roadways with the free speech rights of motorists.

In November, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled the state had improperly denied a plate saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;IMGODâ&#x20AC;? to a Northern Kentucky atheist.

Then, 12 days later, a disabled former Marine sued the state for rescinding his plate that read â&#x20AC;&#x153;INFDL,â&#x20AC;? which he said was a term of camaraderie used by Marines who served in the Middle East.

First Amendment scholars, including Dav id Hudson of the Freedom Forum Institute, says that states are â&#x20AC;&#x153;maddeningly inconsistentâ&#x20AC;? in applying vanity plate rules, so much that it makes their decisions look â&#x20AC;&#x153;arbitrary and unreasonable.â&#x20AC;?

In Indiana, for example, the Department of Motor Vehicles once denied a plate saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;CNCR SUX,â&#x20AC;? but said â&#x20AC;&#x153;WNTR SUXâ&#x20AC;? was OK. In K ent uck y, t he Transportation Cabinetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Division of Motor Vehicles has allowed plates sayi ng â&#x20AC;&#x153;GODLVSâ&#x20AC;? a nd â&#x20AC;&#x153;TRYGODâ&#x20AC;? while rejecting 80 -year-old retired postal worker Bennie Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request for â&#x20AC;&#x153;IMGOD.â&#x20AC;?

Branch manager Ainsley Snyder testiďŹ ed in Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case that if a motorist requests a plate that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;BLUEâ&#x20AC;? because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his favorite color or because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

a Kentucky Wildcat fan, he would get the plates.

But if he said he wanted it to signify heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Democrat, it would be rejected because state law bans plates that promote a political belief or party.

Motor Vehicle Commissioner Matt Henderson said that while heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d reject a plate that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;JESUSâ&#x20AC;? because the law also prohibits promoting â&#x20AC;&#x153;any speciďŹ c faith, religion, or antireligion,â&#x20AC;? he would allow one that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;IPRAY2â&#x20AC;? because â&#x20AC;&#x153;no speciďŹ c religion is stated there.â&#x20AC;?

Hudson and other experts, including Leslie Gielow Jacobs, a professor at University of the PaciďŹ câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s McGeorge School of Law, predict vanity plate rules in Kentucky and other states eventually will be struck down because they improperly allow state oďŹ&#x192;cials to impose their viewpoints.

That would force states to allow virtually anything on personalized plates or to abandon them entirely, which would cost them much needed revenue.

In Kentucky, where it costs an extra $25 a year to get a vanity plate and there are about 40,000 on the road, the state would stand to lose about $1 million annually. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;RATHER BE GOLFINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The law on vanity plate speech is unsettled because the U.S. Supreme Court hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ruled on the issue.

In 2015, on a narrow 5-4 vote, it held that Texas could block a â&#x20AC;&#x153;special plateâ&#x20AC;? promoting the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which would have in-

cluded a Rebel ďŹ&#x201A;ag.

But the court said its rulings applied only to special plates, not personalized ones. Special plates carry the name and logo of a university, hobby, sports team or industry, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Friends of Coalâ&#x20AC;? in Kentucky.

The majority held that special plates are government speech, not personal speech protected by the First Amendment, in part because the public assumes the state is endorsing their message.

Writing for the dissenters, Alito said that was ridiculous, given that there are more than 300 special plates on the road in Texas. Watching those plates speed by, he asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you really think that ones that say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rather Be

GolďŹ ngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mean the oďŹ&#x192;cial policy of the state is that it is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;better to golf than to work?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Regulating plates without running afoul of free speech rules have vexed oďŹ&#x192;cials in both Indiana and Kentucky.

In fact, after a Hoosier judge ruled in 2014 the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DMV had unconstitutionally denied a plate saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;O1NKâ&#x20AC;? to a resident who said the message was a light-hearted reference to his work as a police oďŹ&#x192;cer, agency threw up its hands and stopped issuing vanity plates for two years.

It resumed doing so when the Indiana Supreme Court, following the U.S. Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead in the special plate case, said personalized plates have

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In Kentucky, after Hart sued, the state also brieďŹ&#x201A;y stopped issuing vanity

plates so it could ensure â&#x20AC;&#x153;relevant statutes are consistently followed,â&#x20AC;?

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National Pork Industry Forum set for March 4-6 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Producer delegates from across the United States will gather in Kansas City March 4-6 for the annual National Pork Industry Forum.

The 15 producers who serve as members of the National Pork Board and Pork Checkoff staff leadership will hear directly from Pork Act delegates appointed by the U.S. secretary of agriculture.

T his year’s annual meeting of the Pork Act delegate body will emphasize the new checkoff vision, strategic plan and structure.

Each year the delegates confer, vote on resolutions and advisements and provide valuable direction on the important issues facing pork producers and the industry.

“The new, agile checkoff is obtaining industry input throughout the year as part of its new annual planning process and focusing on fewer top priorities,” said David Newman, president of the National Pork Board and a pig farmer representing Arkansas.

“Delegates will learn more about the results of this work to date and provide future direction for staff, especially related to the priority to anticipate

and proactively address risks and opportunities.”

At the meeting, Pork Act delegates will rank 10 candidates for the National Pork Board and submit the list to the secretary of agriculture for approval. The candidates are: n Deborah Balance, North Carolina. n Ben Barcovtch, Pennsylvania. n Jeremy Burkett, Wyoming. n Todd Erickson, North Dakota. n Heather Hill, Indiana. n Larry Leipold, Minnesota. n Scott Phillips, Missouri. n Mike Salter, Wisconsin. n John Scanga, Colorado. n Alan Wulfekuhle, Iowa.

Prior to the annual meeting, members of the National Pork Board also will convene their March board of directors meeting.

Included on the 2020 Pork Forum agenda will be opportunities for pork producers to become Pork Quality Assurance Plus certified, as well as learn more about other pork industry programs.

For more information, visit www.porkindustryforum.com.

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Higher livestock feed values Soybean varieties boost bottom line BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Widespread planting of soybean varieties that are low in livestock-feed value is one of the driving forces behind the alarming 70% drop in soy-inclusion rates for U.S. swine feed rations since 1990, according to checkoff-funded research.

As long as these lower-value soybeans continue to be planted, producers and the soybean industry will see quality and livestock feed sales continue to decline, according to the Illinois Soybean Association.

The inverse also is true.

If more farmers planted only soybean varieties that feature higher livestock feed value scores, then market-share erosion could be thwarted.

To help make this happen, the soybean checkoff is providing livestock feedvalue scores for a wide range of soybean varieties that can be accessed at soyvalue.com.

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evating soybean feed value can help to recapture some feed-market share from the synthetic amino acids and corn byproducts that have replaced soybean meal in swine rations. The makers of synthetic amino acids are not backing off in their quest to increase their own feed-market share.

So, which soybean varieties offer the best livestock nutritional value?

That information is readily available to soybean producers thanks to extensive, multi-year research and analysis of more than 50,000 soybean samples conducted by the Illinois Soybean Association and the soybean checkoff as part of ISA’s High Yield Plus Quality initiative.

It’s the amino acid levels in soybeans — not protein — that determine livestock feed value and drive animal growth, productivity and profitability. Using that criteria, the rankings of soybean varieties range from 1, the lowest, to 10, the highest. A value score at or above 5.5 represents the varieties that have higher-than-average livestock nutritional value.

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stock feed values on the variety level is currently not included in many seed company catalogs, but we expect that to change as both producers and seed companies become more aware of its importance,” said Linda Kull, ISA director of ag innovations.

“Planting the higher-quality soybeans is the very important first step to improve the lost-marketshare situation for soy inclusion in swine feed.”

Fortunately, seed companies are beginning to take a closer look at livestock feed values and encouraging their customers to do likewise.

“In addition to yield potential and agronomic traits, feed value should be taken into account as part of the variety-selection process,” said Chuck Hill, specialty products manager at AgReliant Genetics, which sells under the AgriGold and LG Seeds seed brands.

“The good news is that many growers are already planting these varieties with high feed value for a number of reasons.”

Hill adds that many of the soybean varieties available today already have

high livestock nutritional value, and many of these are also high yielders with desirable trait packages.

AgriGold and LG Seeds, for example, have more than 20 varieties in their portfolios for 2020 planting that meet the HY+Q criteria for designation as superior varieties for livestock feed.

“If farmers can find varieties from the upper half of the feed-value equation that meet yield and trait considerations, farm profitability should remain steady,” Hill said.

“As more producers plant these varieties, seed suppliers will have to focus more on feed-value criteria in their selection processes. The end result will likely be more high-value variety-selection options and fewer low-value options for farmers.”

The detailed list of topperforming varieties across many national and regional seed brands developed by extensive soybean checkoff sampling data can be accessed online at soy value.com. Farmers who want to know the livestock feed value of their harvested soybeans can also request test sample kits at this site.

Pig farmers donate 2M servings of pork DES MOINES, Iowa — The National Pork Board announced more than 2 million servings of pork have been donated in the last two months by pig farmers working together to help fight food insecurity in their local communities.

The donations — made through the national Hams Across America effort — showcase the pork industry’s commitment to the We Care ethical principles, including a focus on community.

“Giving back to our communities is an important part of who we are,”

said David Newman, president of the National Pork Board and a pig farmer representing Arkansas.

“Our Hams Across America program gives me and other pig farmers another way to live out the We Care ethical principles, but my favorite part is getting to share our love of the food we produce with neighbors in need.”

The Hams Across America program helps overcome food insecurity, especially in rural areas where pig farmers farm and live. In November, the Oklahoma

Pork Council kicked off the #GiveAHam challenge, a grassroots effort that encourages farmers to pay it forward with pork donations to local food pantries and to challenge colleagues and others in their communities to do the same.

The challenge was supported by a record number of participants, with more than 200 individuals and businesses contributing time, resources and pork to the nationwide effort.

In its fourth year, the Hams Across America campaign also received strong

support from Smithfield Foods, Prairie Fresh Pork and JBS USA Pork. These companies provided more than 170,000 pounds of pork to food banks across the country.

During the campaign, the National Pork Board partnered with nine YouTube creators who paid it forward with pork by donating over 25,000 servings to their communities.

For more information on pig farmers’ commitment to giving back to their communities, visit porkcares.org.

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Passing judgment on trade deal

Preparing for changes that lie ahead Change is hard.

Sometimes failing to make a change is even harder.

Resilience could very well be the most importRural Issues ant quality a farmer or Cyndi Young- rancher has in his or her skill Puyear set.

The average age of farmers in the United States is a little north of 58 years. In the next decade and in those to come, we will see more baby boomers hopping down off their tractors for the final time, turning the keys to the kingdom over to a son, daughter, nephew, neighbor or perhaps a stranger.

Even if the new person at the helm has worked alongside the retiree for decades, there will surely be some changes made in practices or equipment. It’s inevitable.

Because practices and tools are ever-changing, managing risk doesn’t look like it did 20 or 30 years ago. Just because it worked for your dad and mom and grandpa and grandma or the person who farmed the farm or led the organization before you did shouldn’t mean you have to do it the same way.

Different isn’t necessarily right, nor is it necessarily wrong. It’s just different. We should celebrate the diversity in American agriculture today that satisfies a diverse consumer population.

Whether you are farming, leading an organization or managing any business today, to grow and prosper, you’ll have to “stick your neck out” from time to time. Manage risks, but don’t be afraid to take them.

A wise person once told me to “risk more and fail faster.”

That little nugget of wisdom has made a great difference in my decision-making.

Prosperity generally comes with a price. The investment might be of the financial kind or it might involve a new practice that requires you to learn and do new and different things. Whatever it is, chances are it will entail a shift or perhaps a total transformation.

What man and woman farming with horses in the 1940s would have imagined an unmanned aerial vehicle would one day fly over and scout crops in the very fields where they toiled? Or, fly over to check their cow herd?

Technology has had an impact on every aspect of our lives, from the vehicles we drive to the appliances with which we do laundry and cook food for our families to how we communicate in our personal and professional lives to the medical and dental treatments we receive.

Along with resilience, acceptance and respect for science and technology, passion for the land and livestock as well as intrinsic good old-fashioned horse sense are important traits and tools today’s farmer should possess.

Put that with a strong work ethic and hunger for knowledge and he or she is well-prepared for those changes that undoubtedly lie ahead.

After the White House announced its twin trade triumphs, passage of NAFTA 2.0 and Phase 1 of a multi-phase deal with Farm & Food China, readers emailed to sugFile gest I should write a column Alan Guebert on — to quote two — the “absolutely amazing trade deals” “only President Trump” could have done.

Before I pass judgment on so humble a request, it might be prudent to hear what other actual global trade professionals have said about both deals.

One of the most experienced pros is Robert Zoellick who, as U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, helped create today’s giant Chinese market by prying the nation into the World Trade Organization. Later, he delivered several farmer-favoring trade deals with Central America and Southeast Asian countries.

Zoellick’s view of the China and NAFTA pacts is simple; he hates both. His reasons, outlined in a scorching,

Jan. 22 Wall Street Journal op-ed, hinge on what the U.S gave away in the China deal and the added costs Americans will pay under the North American Free Trade Agreement update.

“Historians,” wrote the former USTR, “will puzzle over this turn of events: A Republican U.S. president endorses central planning for trade while a communist government in China cautions … that international commerce must reflect ‘market conditions.’”

Upside down as that is, Zoellick continued to note that the U.S.-China pact is made worse because it “permits each side to use its own statistics, so China will likely ‘meet’ some quotas by reclassifying U.S. exports to Hong Kong” while redirecting “commodity purchases — fuels, food chemicals … from U.S. producers to third countries.”

To ensure that even headline readers got his point, Zoellick titled his red-hot, NAFTA/ China review “Trump’s Pyrrhic Trade Victories.”

Other ag trade and finance pros saw the market impacts in similar terms.

A week after the China deal was signed, a DTN column —

excerpted by the University of Illinois’ Farm Policy News website — asked a China agricultural university professor for his on-the-ground view.

“It will take along time for the two countries, as well as the world market, to reestablish a balance to facilitate the deal,” he said.

That’s a diplomatic way of saying, “Don’t hold your breath.”

A “purchasing manager” for a Chinese soybean crusher told the same DTN writer that he expected little market push.

“We already booked our positions all the way to June 2020 from Brazil … Buying more old-crop beans from the U.S. will mean importing U.S. beans in the Brazilian market season.

This will flood the China market.”

So far, U.S. futures prices prove both views correct.

Nearly two weeks after the president signed the China deal, both old and new crop soybean futures prices were 40 to 50 cents per bushel lower.

Pork futures, the other predicted beneficiary of the deal, were as flat as an Illinois interstate.

In fact, most soybean futures contracts stumbled to a 13 cents per bushel loss the day

the president signed the China pact, Jan. 15.

Six days later, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue told the American Farm Bureau Federation convention that a third “tranche” of directfarm payments — this one an estimated $3 billion to $3.5 billion — will be sent to farmers as the final part of the White House’s 2019 tariff mitigation effort curiously named the Market Facilitation Program, or MFP. In the same speech, however, Perdue warned farmers that neither he nor the president saw a need to continue MFP in 2020. The reason, he offered – by slyly turning the farmers’ own catchphrase on the farmers themselves – “you want trade, not aid, and we’re going to get our trade.”

Well, “good luck on that” seems to be the clear consensus on both deals among trade negotiators, trade analysts and actual commodity traders.

And my view?

It’s an election year; start pushing for another MFP. Fast.

Farm & Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. Source material and contact information are posted at www.farmandfoodfile.com.

Three centuries of export hope and heartache

By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray

some ended up in the Central Valley as farmers where they raised wheat on the flat fertile As we look at the Phase 1 land. trade agreement between the Their market was England United States and China, we and Europe, and the prices want to begin with a brief over- were good, despite significant view of the history of U.S. agri- shipping costs. And then farmcultural exports. ers in Argentina began to grow In the early 17th century, wheat, and with lower shipping tobacco smoking became fashcosts, the California wheat ionable in England, so farmers market collapsed. in Colonial America received Regular readers of this colfavorable prices for all that they umn are familiar with the could produce. agricultural boom of WWI The prices were so profand a bust that subsequent to itable that colonial farmers the signing of the armistice. A increased production to the farm depression in the 1920s point where 40 years later the was followed by the Great price had dropped to a point Depression in the 1930s. WWII well below the full cost of protriggered an increase in production. In response, some of duction followed by a slow slide the American colonies enacted in agricultural prices into the production restrictions on their 1950s and beyond. farmers in hopes of increasing The Soviet Union’s purchase the price. of U.S. wheat in 1972 triggered A similar story can be told a surge in optimism about for both indigo and cotton agricultural prices, and farmproduction. By the 19th ceners were encouraged to plant tury, the production of cotton fencerow to fencerow by a in the colonies exceeded the former secretary of agriculture. amount that English cotton They did, and the price spike mills could weave into cloth turned once again into a slump and market. that resulted in the farm crisis As a result, a once profitable of the 1980s. crop was being produced at an In the early 21st century, extremely low price for lack of the combination of the adopa profitable alternative crop for tion of the Renewable Fuels some of cotton’s acres.

Standard — increasing the In the mid-19th century, use of corn to make ethanol as a sea of men flooded to nearly 6 billion bushels — California in search of gold, along with below trend line

It is our observation that exports have been the great hope and great heartbreak of U.S. agriculture while steadily growing domestic demand has been ignored. yields in 2010 and 2011 ahead of the 2012 drought across a wide swath of the Corn Belt doubled and tripled corn prices, only to see them plummet in the century’s mid- to late-teens.

It is our observation that exports have been the great hope and great heartbreak of U.S. agriculture while steadily growing domestic demand has been ignored.

When faced with a new source of demand for one or more agricultural products, U.S. farmers have repeatedly shown the ability to increase production to meet the new demand to the point of overproduction and falling prices.

Export demand is ephemeral depending on the needs of others. Historically, long-term high levels have not been sustainable.

While we don’t want to min-

imize the importance of the trade agreement with China; we think a little restraint in expectations is in order. n We have been told to expect $50 billion in agricultural exports to China; the largest sales to China was $26 billion in 2012. n The bulk of Chinese soybean demand for U.S. soybeans has been to feed hogs. Currently, the Chinese hog herd has been decimated as the result of the spread of African swine fever, tempering any increase in the need for soybeans. n In recent years, China has increased its imports of U.S. ethanol to be mixed into its fuel supply, but there are indications the increase could taper off. n Lastly, there is a glimmer of hope among U.S. producers that China might increase its imports of U.S. pork, but that will likely not be a long-term source of demand.

The thing that is the longterm source of increasing demand for U.S. agricultural products is domestic demand.

Perhaps then we should design our production systems and agricultural policies to meet this demand at a profitable price and treat exports for what they are — “icing on the cake.” © 2020 Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.

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

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USMCA signing increases optimism WASHINGTON — Indiana Farm Bureau’s oncoming Young Farmers and Ag Professionals state chair Deidra Gottbrath was present for the signing of the United St-atesMexico-Canada Agreement on Jan. 29 at the White House.

“It was an honor to have been invited to the White House to witness the signing of the USMCA,” she said. “It was a oncein-a-lifetime experience.

Healthy trade relationships with our neighboring countries are essential for the success of Indiana farm families, like mine in Washington County.”

The USMCA trade deal is expected to increase agricultural exports from the United States by $2 billion and result in an overall

increase of $65 billion in gross domestic product.

“Of course, it will take time for new deals to go into effect, which will result in increased sales for farmers, but we’re hopeful that in the end this agreement will increase exports for farmers in Indiana and across the country,” said Gottbrath, who raises row crops with her family and also is a critical care nurse.

Canada will increase quotas on U.S. dairy products, benefiting American dairy farmers by $242 million. Canada also will treat wheat imports the same as domestic wheat for grading purposes.

Mexico also has agreed that all grading standards for ag products will be non-discriminatory. The agreement also enhances

science-based trading stan- full swing supplying safe, dards among the three na- high-quality food and agricultural products around tions. the world.”

President Trump’s signaSTEP BY STEP The signing of USMCA ture was the final step in

by President Donald Trump enacting the agreement in increases hopes that 2020 the United States. Mexico will begin a stronger de- approved the USMCA last cade for America’s farmers year.

Canada must still ratify and ranchers.

“There is definitely in- the pact, which is expected creased optimism on to occur in the next few farms and ranches across months. The agreement America and we’re grate- will take effect 90 days ful for the advances, but after all countries have apwe’re also realists eager proved it.

USMCA comes on the to see results — especially for our dairy and wheat heels of a string of trade producers,” said American successes.

The United States-Japan Farm Bureau President Trade Agreement signed Zippy Duvall.

“We know it will take last fall went into effect time for the new deals to in January, and the China go into effect and translate Phase 1 Agreement signed into increased sales. We’re in January goes into effect eager to get back into in mid-February.

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Deidra Gottbrath, Indiana Farm Bureau’s oncoming Young Farmers and Ag Professionals state chair, was invited to be present for the signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement at the White House.

Market data Old-timers and the February Break FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 31, 2020

Futures Prices This Last This

week week Chg. week CATTLE HOGS FEB 20 121.37 124.85 -3.48 FEB 20 57.12 APR 20 119.67 124.30 -4.63 APR 20 61.60 JUN 20 111.57 116.02 -4.45 MAY 20 70.02 AUG 20 109.77 113.62 -3.85 JUN 20 76.85 OCT 20 112.82 116.15 -3.33 JUL 20 78.12 DEC 20 117.02 119.45 -2.43 AUG 20 77.85

Last week Chg. 67.22 -10.10 73.45 -11.85 79.97 -9.95 86.40 -9.55 87.15 -9.03 86.07 -8.22

-3.60 -4.98 -4.77 -4.43 -3.77 -3.07

MILK CLASS III JAN 20 17.04 FEB 20 17.14 MAR 20 17.75 APR 20 17.57 MAY 20 17.45 JUN 20 17.52

17.04 18.00 18.25 18.00 17.82 17.82

0.00 -0.86 -0.50 -0.43 -0.37 -0.30

CORN MAR 20 3812 3872 -60 MAY 20 3864 3926 -62 JUL 20 3910 3976 -66 SEP 20 3876 3956 -80 DEC 20 3906 3982 -76 MAR 21 4004 4076 -72

SOYBEANS MAR 20 8724 MAY 20 8866 JUL 20 9004 AUG 20 9054 SEP 20 9064 NOV 20 9122

9020 9156 9294 9342 9342 9386

-296 -290 -290 -288 -278 -264

CHICAGO WHEAT MAR 20 5536 5734 -198 MAY 20 5524 5724 -200 JUL 20 5524 5730 -206 SEP 20 5590 5782 -192 DEC 20 5680 5862 -182 MAR 21 5754 5926 -172

K.C. WHEAT MAR 20 4654 MAY 20 4724 JUL 20 4800 SEP 20 4886 DEC 20 5002 MAR 21 5110

4860 4934 5006 5086 5192 5294

-206 -210 -206 -200 -190 -184

BRENT CRUDE OIL MAR 20 58.29 60.69 -2.40 APR 20 56.62 59.89 -3.27 MAY 20 56.42 59.19 -2.77 JUN 20 56.24 58.58 -2.34 JUL 20 55.98 57.96 -1.98 AUG 20 55.79 57.51 -1.72

ETHANOL FEB 20 MAR 20 APR 20 MAY 20 JUN 20 JUL 20

1.315 1.335 1.355 1.371 1.371 1.371

0.025 0.015 0.011 0.011 0.011 0.011

FEEDER CATTLE MAR 20 136.07 APR 20 137.52 MAY 20 139.70 AUG 20 146.87 SEP 20 148.60 OCT 20 149.60

139.67 142.50 144.47 151.30 152.37 152.67

1.340 1.350 1.366 1.382 1.382 1.382

Stocks of Agricultural Interest

This Last 52-wk week week high

ADM AGCO BASF BG CF

44.76 70.14 16.90 52.43 40.28

44.30 47.20 71.81 81.39 17.50 20.98 54.32 59.65 40.93 55.15

This Last 52-wk week week high

CTVA 28.92 27.95 32.78 DD 51.18 59.39 83.72 DE 158.58 170.12 180.48 FMC 95.59 95.68 101.95 MOS 19.84 19.14 33.91

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

week ago this year year ago % diff.

WHEAT 223.994 367.604 16223.91 14384.336 12.79 CORN 668.559 968.585 10150.56 21584.077 -52.97 SOYBEANS 1038.840 944.680 25214.90 20484.903 23.0

Livestock Summary % diff.

This Last Year week year

week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2703 2720 2372 -0.63 13.95 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 637 647 593 -1.55 7.42 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

70.82 77.60 -6.78 97.17 115.52 -18.35 69.89 68.45 1.44 59.42 71.53 -12.11 213.34 214.78 -1.44 210.90 210.44 0.46 122.07 124.28 -2.21 194.47 198.86 -4.39

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

151.75 135.00 135.00 131.50 115.00

199.00 152.75 171.50 138.00 147.75 137.50 145.00 133.00 141.00 130.00

201.00 179.00 159.50 150.50 150.50

-1.00 -2.00 -3.00 -7.50 -2.50 -11.75 -1.50 -5.50 -15.00 -9.50

USDA National Grain Market Review Compared to last week, cash bids for wheat were mostly lower, with Soft White Wheat flat; corn, sorghum and soybeans were lower.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 rail White Corn was 9 cents lower from 4.03 1/2-4.10 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 12 1/4 to 14 1/4 cents lower at 3.89 1/2 per bushel.

Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was 9 to 13 cents lower from 3.75-3.83 per bushel.

Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was 14 1/4 cents lower from 3.91 1/2-3.93 1/2 per bushel.

Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 14 1/4 cents lower from 3.97 1/2-4.02 1/2 per bushel.

Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 14 1/4 cents lower at 3.49 1/2 per bushel.

OILSEEDS Minneapolis Yellow truck soybeans were 33 1/4 cents lower at 8.34 1/4 per bushel.

Illinois Processors US No 1

Yellow truck soybeans were 31 1/4 to 33 1/4 cents lower from 8.76 1/4-8.88 1/4 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 28 1/4 to 36 1/4 cents lower from 8.53 1/48.76 1/4 per bushel.

Illinois 48 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 7.40 lower from 291.50-293.50 per bushel.

Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 1.85 lower from 30.13-30.88 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 16 1/4 cents lower from 5.515.61 per bushel.

St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 26 cents lower at 6.25 per bushel.

Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 19 1/4 cents lower to 10 3/4 cents higher at 6.71 1/2 per bushel.

Portland US Soft White wheat rail was steady from 6.20-6.30 per bushel.

From 1900 to 2000, approximately, one of the most reliable seasonal for Commodity trades the agriInsight culture markets Jerry Welch was to sell short or hedge aggressively in the month of February.

The weakness associated with February was so well known, so anticipated and so feared it was given a name. It was called the “February Break.”

However, when commodity values, per se, in 1998 fell to a 54-year low, weakness in February was no longer a sure thing, so to speak. In early 2000, a number of money-managed commodity funds were formed that only played commodities from the long side of the ledger.

The funds were created

by Wall Street simply because commodities were woefully undervalued — a 54-year low — and it was assumed, rightfully so, that the line of least resistance for commodity values was higher.

And from around 2000 to 2012, commodities, even in the month of February, rallied more than they declined. In fact, in the first decade of the 2000s, buying almost any commodity was a new and reliable seasonal trade for the ag markets.

But since 2011, the ag markets have been twosided in February with neither the bulls nor the bears having the upper hand during the second month of the year.

But the old-timers, such as yours truly, have not forgotten about the February Break and the bearish impact it can have on most markets.

Granted, the markets mostly impacted on the downside in February are agricultural markets. Still, I can offer some examples of stocks, bonds, metals and so on being slammed hard in February, as well.

The February Break was and has been cruel and bearish to most markets at some point in time despite the years between 2000 and 2012, when few gave a whit about February — except for the old-timers.

Nonetheless, when the second month of the year arrives, I always remind everyone in my weekly column that oftentimes, in February, “if you are long, you are wrong.”

But over the past years, my warnings about how bearish February can be for a host of markets have been ignored. And that is why I was surprised when ccn.com posted the following headline this week entitled “History says a February stock market crash is inevitable.”

Here are the three main points from the ccn.com article: n “Sentiment indicators suggest a stock market crash is on the horizon.” n “Today’s market has

become incredibly similar to that of 2018 just before a major market correction in February.” n “Without a significant pullback, the market is headed into bubble territory.”

And here was their out loud and high-pitched warning: “As the market races higher, investors should be cautious of a February stock market crash that looks all but certain.”

During the years 1900 to 2000, the February Break would, at times, arrive a week early. Or, arrive a week late. This year, with February close at hand, crude oil, silver, cattle and cattle feeders fell to levels not seen since October.

Cotton prices fell back to where they were in November and copper down to levels not seen since September. Soybean prices dropped to a 1 1/2-month low with hog futures hitting a 16-month low.

The major commodity indexes hit five-month lows. All that took place with February but a week away.

Based on history, an argument can be made that the February Break this year arrived a few days early. The weakness seen in recent days may have more to go. Only with the benefit of hindsight will we know for certain how things unfolded.

Most analysts argue that the weakness seen in recent days with commodities and the stock market is due to the coronavirus

sweeping China, causing millions to be quarantined and many deaths. From a market viewpoint, the fear is that demand and trade will suffer greatly and prices for commodities will suffer.

But I am not in the camp that believes coronavirus will cause long-lasting damage to trade or demand.

Certainly, it will take time to gauge how contagious the illness truly is as well as how dangerous.

I also do not believe the dramatic decline seen in recent days with a host of commodity markets was due entirely to the virus. Playing a big part in the weakness was the infamous February Break that history shows clearly rears its ugly head when the second month of the year rolls around, give or take a week.

Moving forward, commodities may fall further since February has arrived. But any weakness with commodities should end no later than the end of March, just as the growing season in the United States gets underway.

After that, the fate of the grain and livestock markets rests with the domestic food needs of China and climate change.

And it will be more than interesting to see if stocks succumb to the infamous February Break as commodities have done in recent days. It will be very interesting, indeed. Stay tuned and remain buckled up. The ride is going to be bumpy.

Indiana counties declared disaster areas WA S H I N G T O N — A g r icult u re Secret a r y Sonny Perdue designated three Indiana counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Fountain, Parke and Vermillion counties who suffered losses caused by excessive rain that has occurred since March 1, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Ser vice Agency emergency loans.

This natural disaster designation allows FSA to extend emergency credit to

producers recovering from natural disasters.

Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.

Producers in the contiguous Indiana counties of Clay, Montgomery, Putnam, Tippecanoe, Vigo and Warren, along with Edgar and Ver milion counties in Illinois, are

also eligible to apply for emergency loans.

The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is Sept. 23. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.

FSA has a variety of additional programs to help farmers recover from the impacts of this disaster.

FSA programs that do not require a disaster declaration include: Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-

Raised Fish Program; Emergency Conservation Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Livestock Indemnity Program; Operating and Farm Ownership Loans; and the Tree Assistance Program.

Farmers may contact their local USDA service center for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs.

Additional information is also available online at farmers.gov/recover.

Feb. 28 deadline for Conservation Reserve sign-up WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture reminds agricultural producers interested in the Conservation Reserve Program 2020 general sign-up to enroll

by Feb. 28.

This sign-up is available to farmers and private landowners who are either enrolling for the first time or re-enrolling for another 10- to 15-year term.

“This is the first opportunity for general sign-up since 2016, and we want producers and private landowners to know that we have just one month remaining,” FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce said.

Farmers and ranchers who enroll in CRP receive

yearly rental payments for voluntarily establishing long-term, resource-conserving plant species, such as approved grasses or trees, known as “covers,” which can control soil erosion, improve water quality and develop wildlife habitat on marginally productive agricultural lands.

CRP has 22 million acres enrolled, but the 2018 farm bill lifted the cap to 27 million acres.

Signed into law in 1985, CRP is one of the largest private-lands conservation programs in the United States. It was originally intended to primarily control soil erosion and potentially stabilize commodity prices by taking marginal lands out of production.

The program has evolved over the years, providing many conservation and economic benefits. Marking its 35th anniversary in 2020, CRP has had many successes, including: n Preventing more than 9 billion tons of soil from eroding, enough soil to fill 600 million dump trucks. n Reducing nitrogen and phosphorous runoff relative to annually tilled cropland by 95% and 85%, respectively. n Sequestering an annual average of 49 million tons of greenhouse gases, equal to taking 9 million cars off the road. n Creating more than 3 million acres of restored wetlands while protecting more than 175,000 stream

miles with riparian forest and grass buffers, enough to go around the world seven times. n Benefiting bees and other pollinators and increas-ed populations of ducks, pheasants, turkey, bobwhite quail, prairie chickens, grasshopper sparrows and many other birds.

In addition, FSA plans to open the Soil Health and Income Protection Program, a CRP pilot program, in early 2020, and the 2020 CRP Grasslands sign-up runs from March 16 to May 15.

To enroll in CRP, contact a local FSA county office, or visit fsa.usda.gov/ crp. To locate a local FSA office, visit farmers.gov/ service-locator.

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Indiana farmers sought for United Soybean Board I N DI A NA P OL IS — Indiana soybean farmers interested in serving on the United Soybean Board must submit an application to Indiana Soybean Alliance by Feb. 28.

Comprised of 78 volunteer farmer-directors, the USB oversees the investments of the national soy-

bean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers.

All USB directors serve three-year terms.

Four directors represent Indiana on the USB board, and one of these positions is open for re-appointment in 2020.

The soybean checkoff program allows farmers to

contribute to the market development, promotion, production and utilization of soybeans. The USB farmer-directors ensure the investment of checkoff funds create value for soybean farmers in appropriate programs.

USB asks that directors commit to attending three

board meetings each year, usually in February, June and December. In addition, directors serve on action teams or other subgroups. If appointed, the term would begin this December.

Any Indiana farmer eligible to apply must grow soybeans or own or share in the ownership and risk

of loss of soybeans.

Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary appoints directors to the USB board, the ISA — as the state soybean checkoff organization — submits director candidate names to the USDA for consideration.

Indiana soybean farm-

ers who want to be an ISA nominee to the USB board, should complete a background form and a candidate questionnaire.

Visit www.indianasoybean.com/elections or call 317-644-2791 for an application. All forms must be received in the ISA office

by Friday, Feb. 28.

Indiana Soybean Alliance seeks candidates for board elections INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Soybean Alliance is calling for farmer leaders to join a 24-member board that is responsible for annually investing Indiana’s soybean checkoff funds in programs that benefit biofuels, livestock production,

grain marketing, environmental research, new uses, aquaculture programs and more.

The ISA Board of Directors represents nearly 24,000 soybean farmers in Indiana who contribute their dollars through the

checkoff program, and it manages soybean farmer investments. Applications for the 2020 election are due by March 6. n District 1 — One open seat and one seat up for re-election. n District 2 — Two seats

up for re-election. n District 3 — Two seats up for re-election. n District 4 — Two seats up for re-election.

Each candidate must meet these requirements: n Has paid into the federal soybean checkoff

within the last two years. n Certify ownership or share ownership and risk of loss of soybeans n Completes a director expectation statement and returns it to ISA by March 6.

Go online to www.indi-

anasoybean.com/elections to learn more about serving as an ISA director or to download a director expectation statement.

For more information, call Hannah Vorsilak, ISA director of education and training, at 317-644-2791.

Support for Ag in the Classroom

INFB to award 13 scholarships

WASHINGTON — The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has recognized the outstanding agricultural literacy efforts of educators and communities across the country with a total of $25,000 in scholarships and grants to build on their work to connect students with how their food is grown.

The foundation, through the White-Reinhardt Fund for Education, sponsors the scholarships and grants in cooperation with the American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee.

The fund honors two former committee chairwomen, Berta White and Linda Reinhardt, who were trailblazers in early national efforts to expand the outreach of agricultural education and improve agricultural literacy.

“We are excited to celebrate and boost the efforts of these outstanding educators and community programs through the White-Reinhardt Fund,” said Daniel Meloy, executive director of the foun dation.

The foundation awarded 10 teachers and classroom volunteers with $1,500 scholarships to attend the National Ag in the Classroom Conference, to be held June 23-26 in Salt Lake City.

This year’s recipients a re: L ea h Slaug hter, Lake Weston Elementary School, Orlando, Florida; Jenna Stevens, Clinton County Ag in the Classroom, DeWitt, Iowa; Nancy Smith, Bentwood E l e m e n t a r y, Olat he, Kansas; Audrey Varney, Maine Cooperative Extension Maine 4-H/University of Maine Farmington, Turner, Maine; Christopher Arrington, Marion Public Schools, Marion, Michigan; Karrie Newton, Northern Granville Middle School, Bullock, North Carolina; Matthew Koth, Highland Elementary School, Omaha, Nebraska; Brianne Willson, Camden Middle School, Ava, New York; Debra Nelson, Bottineau High School, Bottineau, Nor th Dakota; and Melissa Shirk, Philadelph ia E lement a r y, Loudon, Tennessee.

The foundation also awarded 10 communities with $1,000 grants, which will be allocated through county Farm Bureaus this spring and used to create new agricultural literacy projects or expand existing agricultural literacy efforts.

The 2020 spring grant recipients are: Kent County Farm Bureau, Delaware; Ba n k s Cou nt y Fa r m Bureau, Georgia; Barrow County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Douglas County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Hall County Farm Bureau, Georgia; Franklin County Farm Bureau, Illinois; McLean County Farm Bureau, Illinois; Randolph County Farm Bureau, Indiana; Washington Farm Bureau, Tennessee; and Moore County Farm Bureau, Texas.

I N DI A NA P OL IS — Indiana Farm Bureau is accepting applications for its student scholarship program for the 2020-2021 school year. Each year, INFB awards 13 scholarships to incoming or current college students who are pursuing a career in agriculture.

The scholarships offered are the Marion Stackhouse Memorial Scholarship, two Collegiate Farm Bureau Scholarships and 10 Carolyn Hegel Memorial Scholarships. The scholarship money can be applied to tuition, housing, books and other educational expenses.

The Marion Stackhouse Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship named after the former INFB president, who ser ved from 1976 to 1987.

The scholarship is awarded to one student annu-

“It’s a great honor to grant these scholarships each year.”

Isabella Chism INDIANA FARM BUREAU

INFB welcomes new district leaders INDI A NA POLIS — Indiana Farm Bureau welcomes four new district leaders into state leadership roles this year, including a new district director and three new district education and outreach coordinators.

The newest member of the INFB board of directors is Bruce Herr of Wells County. He now serves as district director for District 4, which is made up of the following counties: Adams, Blackford, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Tipton, Wabash and Wells.

P r ior to replacing Steve Maple, who retired as District 4 director in December, Herr served as Wells County Farm Bureau president.

Herr is a first generation farmer. He and his wife, Twilla, and their children operate a grain and livestock farm.

They raise chickens, producing fertile eggs for a local hatchery, as well as corn and soybeans.

They also have Dorset ewes and are taking steps to open a small farm

winery.

Having been involved with INFB for 30 ye a r s, Br uce Herr is passionate about the future of the organization.

“My passion for agriculture Herr is what has always driven me to do more,” he said. “ Without a doubt, Far m Bureau is the most influential and forward-thinking agricultural organization in the country. I want to do my part to continue providing strong leadership.”

Active in his community, Herr also serves as a township trustee and a school bus driver.

The INFB women’s leadership committee also welcomes three new education and outreach coordinators, who work to educate the public through programs and events that promote a positive image of agriculture.

Now representing District 2 is Colleen Johnson of Whitley County. In

her new role, Joh nson rep resents the following counties: Allen, DeKalb, Elkhar t, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben and Whitley. Prior to her district position, Johnson was a member of the Whitley County Farm Bureau board of directors.

Now representing District 7 is Michelle Stanger of Monroe County.

As district education and outreach coordinator, Stanger represents Clay, Davies, Greene, K nox, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Owen, Sullivan and Vigo counties.

St a nger pr ev iou sly served Monroe County Farm Bureau as their county education and outreach coordinator.

She cur rently assists her family on their farm near Bloomington.

Now representing District 10 is Theresa Gottbrath of Washington County.

In her new role as district education and outreach coordinator, Got tbrath represent s the following counties: Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio, Ripley, Scott, Switzerland and Washington counties.

In 2019, Gottbrath was named INFB Volunteer of the Year for her devotion to student education for nearly 30 years, including participation in INFB’s Agriculture in the Classroom program.

Gottbrath farms with her family in Washington County.

“I’m looking forward to working closely with our three new women’s leadership committee members and with Bruce Herr on our board of directors,” said Randy Kron, INFB president.

“I know firsthand how much time and energy our district leaders spend serving this organization. They each bring a fresh perspective and passion for agriculture that will greatly benefit the organization.”

ally, based on their educational successes and career aspirations. Additionally, INFB awards 10 district scholarships.

The Carolyn Hegel Memorial Scholarship is a $500 scholarship named after the long-time INFB second vice president, who served the organization for 26 years.

Applicants for the Marion Stackhouse Memorial Scholarship and the Carolyn Hegel Memorial Scholarship must be incoming or current college students pursuing a degree in agriculture and members of INFB. For existing Collegiate Farm Bureau members, INFB awards two $1,000 scholarships annually.

Winners of these scholarships must be members of an INFB collegiate chapter at Purdue University, Vincennes Universit y, Huntington University or Ancilla College.

“Indiana Farm Bureau is pleased to help support young men and women pursuing a future in agriculture through our annual scholarship program,” said Isabella Chism, INFB’s second vice president and chair of the women’s leadership committee. “It’s a great honor to grant these scholarships each year. If you know a student who meets the criteria, please encourage them to apply.”

To apply for a scholarship, visit INFB’s scholarships and grants page. The deadline to apply is March 1. The application asks students to detail their educational successes and answer several questions about their future educational and career goals.

Many count y Far m Bureaus also offer annual scholarships for students in their area. To learn more, visit www.infb.org and visit the Grants and Scholarships page under the Resources tab.