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March 13, 2020

Farmers optimistic in survey Ag barometer hits record high WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — Producers’ perception of improved current conditions in the agricultural economy pushed the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer to all-time record highs. The barometer rose to 168 in February, an increase of one point from January, and was up 18 points since December.

February’s increase was attributable to an improvement in the Index of Current Conditions, which rose 12 points from January to a reading of 154. Meanwhile, the Index of Future Expectations fell just 4 points below the record high set in January to a reading of 175. The Ag Economy Barometer is based on a survey of 400 U.S. agricultural producers.

“Almost across the board, producers indicated they were more optimistic about current conditions on their farms and in U.S. agriculture and retained most of the improvement in future expectations exhibited in January,” said James Mintert, the barometer’s principal investigator and director of Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture.

“Optimism about the agricultural trade outlook was underpinned by recent trade agreements and appeared to be the primary driver behind the improvement in sentiment.”

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Ag Economy Barometer 136

Feb. 2019

March 2019 133 April 2019

115

May 2019

101

June 2019

126

July 2019

153

Aug. 2019

124

Sept. 2019

121

Oct. 2019

136

Nov. 2019

153

Dec. 2019

150

Jan. 2020

167

Feb.2020

168

By James Henry

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

SAN ANTONIO — Describing his own state of mind after his wife, Bonnie, lost her battle to cancer only a few weeks ago, Zippy Duvall’s voice trembled.

“The first two weeks, I held a lot of that inside of me and I almost exploded and then I realized I started talking about it and it made me feel better,” said the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

“Talk about it,” Duvall urged other farmers as tears welled up in his eyes.

“There’s nothing shameful about it. These tears are from love, not anything else,” he said. “We love our farmers and neighbors. We want them to have a relief valve and a place to find some help.”

Duvall and Lisa Safarian, president of Bayer Crop Science for North America, announced the transition of the Farm State of Mind campaign, an initiative to raise mental health awareness among the farming community, from Bayer to Farm Bureau at Commodity Classic

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Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Lisa Safarian, president of Bayer Crop Science for North America, hold a press conference at Commodity Classic to announce the transition of Bayer’s Farm State of Mind campaign to Farm Bureau.

in San Antonio.

“Whether it’s been market volatility, trade talks, commodity prices, extreme weather conditions, flooding, the past few years have really brought about what I would call the perfect storm of stress.

Unfortunately, these are topics that I hear about a lot when I talk to farmers, and these are topics that keep them awake at night,” Safarian said.

LIFE OR DEATH At a meeting with the Bayer field sales organization, Safarian heard a statistic that struck her to the core: Farmers are two times more likely to commit suicide than the average American.

“It made me cry,” she said. “I think that’s devastating.”

Bayer established the Farm State of Mind campaign last year to “step up during these trying times” and provide mental health resources to farmers, Safarian said.

“After developing the initiative, we quickly realized that this is more than just one company, one brand initiative. We felt strongly that we needed to identify another organization, especially one that is as impactful as Farm Bureau, to help take this forward,” she said.

“Farm Bureau is uniquely positioned to take Farm State of Mind to the next level. In taking the lead on this campaign for our industry, Farm Bureau will be lending their expertise on a topic on which they’ve already done some incredible work through their Rural Resilience program.

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MANLIUS, Ill. — For Bureau Valley High School FFA members Bre Broers and Jason Carrington, it was a sinking feeling.

“Once I was down in the grain and they started pushing the corn on top of me, I was like, ‘I don’t like this much.’

You don’t realize what it’s like,” Broers said.

Carrington, who lives on a farm, agreed.

“You lose all movement and then you start losing feeling and the pressure gets deeper and deeper,” said the Bureau Valley High School sophomore.

Broers, Carrington and several of their fellow Bureau Valley High School FFA members took turns being the victim engulfed in grain and rescuers.

The students, coached by members of Stateline Farm Rescue, surrounded the victim trapped in grain with a metal cofferdam grain tube, then dug out corn from around them using hardhats.

Scott Larson, a firefighter with the Madison, Wisconsin, fire department and a member of Stateline Farm Rescue, led the rescue efforts and explained the dangers of grain bin entrapment to the students and others gathered at a warehouse owned by Nutrient Ag Solutions Manlius/Walnut.

Crowded onto two small metal platforms surrounding the mock bin and trapped victim, Larson and those volunteering to help rescue had a bird’s-eye view of how difficult

Fresh start for soybeans ASA officials see bright future ahead

By James Henry

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

SAN ANTONIO — The markets for soybeans are big and bright — deep in the heart of Texas, as well as around the world.

Leaders of the American Soybean Association emphasized the importance of exports and predicted better days ahead at Commodity Classic in San Antonio.

ASA President Bill Gordon, Chairman Davie Stephens and Vice President Kevin Scott answered questions about the recent truce in the trade war between China and the United States that limited markets and, subsequently, caused a drop in the selling price of soybeans in 2018 and 2019.

BILL GORDON, ASA PRESIDENT, WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA In addition to farming, you also own Worthington Tax and Business Services. So, you’ve seen how the trade war has affected not just famers, but your entire local economy.

“You look up and down Main Street across the country, you’re starting to see belts tightening up, farmers not going to town, they’re not Gordon spending as much money out to eat, they’re not spending money on new vehicles, they’re not trading, they’re keeping what they have and that’s really affecting the economy as a whole in the rural communities.

We’re starting to see it kind of snowball. But on the bright side of that, there’s still optimism.

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Apply for specialty crop funds

By Ashley Langreck

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

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Bre Broers, a junior at Bureau Valley High School, plays the role of a victim being engulfed in grain. an actual rescue can be.

“We had some good discussions up there on safety precautions if they would ever be in a grain bin, what they should and shouldn’t do, how to get help if someone is trapped,” Larson said.

Earlier, the students joined around 300 other guests, including volunteer firefighters and emergency services providers from the local area, as well as members of the public and ag community at Bureau Valley High School for a screening of the film “Silo.”

The film chronicles the fictional grain bin entrapment of

teenager Cody Rose and the ensuing efforts to rescue him, as well as the toll the event takes on people involved, from the manager of the elevator and his elderly father to Rose’s mother and the local fire chief.

Evan Hultine, president of Bureau County Farm Bureau, welcomed guests to the BVHS auditorium for the event.

“Sometimes I think we are too eager to jump in and handle it ourselves, put some of the safety issues aside. All too often, rescues turn into recoveries very quickly,” Hultine said.

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INDI A NA POLIS — T he Indiana State Department of Agriculture is encouraging Hoosier specialty crop growers to apply for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

The funds from the grant, w h ich was first established in 2006, are allocated to help better and enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops, wh ich are defined as fruits, vegeta- Kettler bles, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops.

“The USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant is intended to focus on specialty crops and promoting them,” said ISDA Director Bruce Kettler.

Although the funding for the grant comes from the USDA, Kettler said it’s the job of ISDA to divvy up the funding, go through the applications, score them and deem which proposals are worthy of receiving funding.

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Agronomist offers top tips for planting season Prepare for another wet spring

fields last year? A lot of people just want to close the book on 2019, want it to go away, want to think 2019 is never going to happen again, but the reality is we have to learn from those historically unprecedented and chalBy James Henry lenging years.

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS “So, think about your troubled fields, specifiSAN ANTONIO — Farmers likely want to for- cally the troubled fields get last year, but there are where maybe we were some important lessons to really late getting the pre- on or the pre- broke remember from 2019. and we were late getting Channel Technical the post- sprayed and we Agronomist Whitney had a ton of weed breakMonin said the previous throughs or potentially season was historically unprecedented from start the fields that were prevent planted that maybe to finish. we didn’t have the weed “Mother Nature threw control that we wanted us more than one curveball throughout the entire to because, let’s be honest, we were focused on growing season,” she the crop that we acturecalled. “It seemed that the rain would not stop in ally had in the field, not the spring and then just as the acres that we didn’t soon as we started getting plant.

“We are going to be into the really heat of the going into the 2020 growbattle, literally, in summer, she delicately turned ing season with now hisoff the water, which made torically unprecedented it ever the more challengweed seed banks that we ing for our customers in have never faced before. A the field and then, oh, lot of guys last fall did not by the way, she threw us get fall burndowns done some curveballs in the because Mother Nature fall when we were trying was playing her games to get the crop out of the with us again. We have field with some increased to start asking ourselves moisture. what worked last year, “So, really, all of this what didn’t work last year has brought us into a and where are our probsnowball-rolling point, lem spots that we have to not unsimilar to where focus on this year? Out of we were at this very sight does not mean out of same point moving into mind. the 2019 growing sea“The compaction zones son.” of yesteryear will be the Monin shared her top compaction zones of three tips for the upcom2020. There’s just no two ing planting season at ways about it. With the Commodity Classic in San lack of fieldwork that we Antonio. were able to do in the fall, 1. Know as much as you that is going to frontload can: “First and foremost, all of that moving into where were the troubled 2020.”

2. Control the controllables: “One of the great reasons at Channel why we feel so fortunate to work with farmers is we are here for farmers in tough years and Monin we’re here for farmers in great years. That’s the partnership that our Channel Seedsmen provide to farmers in the field. By being able to be out in the field at that seedling, vegetative, reproductive and mature phase, we’ve evaluated our crops and our products in some of the harshest conditions we may ever see again in 2019 and hopefully then our Channel Seedsmen are able to position those products to get the most out of every acre moving into what could very well be a very challenging 2020.

“Control the folks that you work with, control where you are getting those inputs and really take time to sit down and evaluate your plan in the wake of a very tough season. Who are those partners who stood with you?

Who were the ones that did more than just fill the planter box? Who were the ones who put their boots on the ground?

Who walked the fields with you and evaluated those situations? We at Channel have the opportunity to do that through our integration with the Climate FieldView platform.

“I’m absolutely optimistic. We all farm because we want to see big yields.

Something I noticed as

an agronomist in the field, whether it’s in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, a lot of the farmers that I work with and communicate with, they said even in this very challenging year, the products exceeded my expectations, they performed under circumstances that 20 years ago if we would have had these historically unprecedented events, they wouldn’t have performed at that level, they did not have the stress tolerance, they didn’t have the drought tolerance, they didn’t have the disease tolerance to be able to work in these unbelievable environments.

“I think that that’s a testament to what we do here within our Bayer germplasm pool and what we’ve been advancing to our customers in the field.

These aren’t just good products. They’re great products. The folks that don’t have that strength of germplasm pool, you separate the men from the boys, literally, in terms of product performance in the field.”

3. Do not hesitate: “Looking at Indiana, Illinois, looking at subsoil saturation levels, we are going into a wet spring.

We are at a critical tipping point because it is continuing to rain, it is continuing to snow, we are adding to that subsoil saturation zone. We have many farmers sitting in the Corn Belt who don’t have lime on, don’t have fall anhydrous on, who don’t have fertilizer spread. We need to be prepared when it comes to our equipment, when it comes to our fertilizer, when it comes to our early-season insecticide, fungicide, on seed treatment.

We need to be prepared

for a very wet spring.

“Instead of just sitting back and thinking that we are going to get those seven days of dry or 10 days of dry that we need to do that appropriate fieldwork, we need to be hunting on a field by field basis for those areas that are maybe more welldrained, where we can take three days of dry and use it do that fieldwork, instead of waiting for seven days where we can get across the whole operation.

“Don’t anticipate that Mother Nature is going to give you the break. You need to find the break for yourself. Flexibility and agility is going to be the name of the game this spring.”

James Henry can be reached at 815-223-2558, ext. 190, or jhenry@ agrinews-pubs.com.

Follow him on Twitter at: @AgNews.

Purdue launches online Urban Ag Certificate

By Ashley Langreck

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — Purdue University’s College of Agriculture made big strides when its urban agriculture team recently launched the online Urban Agriculture Certificate.

The new course, “Growing Guide for Healthy Crops,” begins March 16 and will be 100% online.

Nathan Shoaf, who is the Urban Agriculture state coordinator for Purdue Extension, said a similar program had been offered in Marion and Allen counties, but it was only partially online and the rest of the course was in a classroom.

Shoaf said the challenge with the course was that it was very time intensive and the program was looking for ways to widen it and Purdue Extension offering a full online course offered that.

Shoaf said the new online Urban Agriculture Certificate program al-

lows individuals to work through the course material at their own pace.

“They can work through it at their own pace and finish quickly or take their time and chip away at it,” Shoaf said.

Shoaf said that the upcoming course will cover a wide range of topics, including basic fundamentals of soil health to what would happen if a growing site were contaminated.

The material for the course was compiled by several Purdue faculty members including ones from the horticulture and entomology departments and a soil specialist from Marion County.

“I’m really excited to see what happens and offer different programs so people are more aware of urban agriculture,” Shoaf said.

Shoaf said he isn’t sure yet what type of audience the program will attract, but he is looking forward to finding out.

For more information about the certificate program or any of the courses

or to register, visit www. purdue.edu/dffs/urbanag/ programs/urban-ag-certificate.

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

Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Langreck.

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NPPC elects new leaders KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Nat iona l Pork P roducer s Council elected new officers and members to its board of directors at its National Pork Industry Forum.

Howard AV Roth, a hog farmer from Wauzeka, Wisconsin, was elected NPPC president. A fifth-generation farmer, he owns and operates Roth Feeder Pigs.

In addition to serving on the NPPC board for the past eight years, Roth previously sat on the Wisconsin Pork Association board of directors and currently serves as chairman of the association’s Swine Health Committee.

Roth takes over from David Herring, a hog farmer from Lillington, North Carolina, who becomes NPPC immediate past president and chairman of the council’s trade and nominating committees.

Jen Sorenson was elevated to president-elect. For the past nine years, Sorenson has been with Iowa Select Farms, an Iowa farming business that markets more than five million hogs per year.

She grew up on a livestock farm, raising pigs and row crops.

Previously, she was communications director for the Iowa Pork Producers Association.

Terry Wolters of Pipestone, Minnesota, was elected by the NPPC board of directors to be vice president. He is active in the Pipestone County Pork Producers Association, Minnesota Pork Producers Association, South Dakota Pork Producers, National Pork Board and committees for each organization. He is chairman of NPPC’s Animal Health Food Security Policy Committee.

Robert Ivey of North Carolina and Jeremy Pitman of Virginia were elected as new members of the board for a three-year term.

They join current directors Craig Andersen of Centerville, South Dakota; Scott Hays of Monroe City, Missouri; Lori Stevermer of Easton, Minnesota; Mark Cooper of Des Moines, Iowa; Dale Reicks of New Hampton, Iowa; Gordon Spronk of Pipestone, Minnesota; Duane Stateler of McComb, Ohio; and Kraig Westerbeek of Warsaw, North Carolina.

Hays was re-elected to a new, three-year term. Spronk was reelected to a new, two-year term representing the allied industry.

Elected for two-year terms to NPPC’s nominating committee were Jim Petrick of South Dakota and Curt Zehr from Illinois.

“AV, Jen and Terry have long-standing and diverse experience that will benefit NPPC and our producers,” said NPPC CEO Neil Dierks. “With the addition of our new board members, NPPC remains well positioned to advocate for the public policy interests of America’s pork producers.”

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

Frasier is a cow/calf, stocker operator and cattle feeder in eastern Colorado and is active in his community and local cattlemen’s association. He is a past president of the Colorado Livestock Association and serves on and has chaired the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Resolutions Committee.

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

He has served as president of the Hawaii Cattlemen’s Association, chair of NCBA Cow/Calf Council and president of the Ranchers Renaissance Cooperative. Pono also is active in many local boards in Hawaii.

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

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

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Mike Hutjens talks about the impacts of the 2019 growing season on feed for dairy rations. Dairymen are working with issues such as poor quality forage, lightweight corn and corn silage that may have mold, mycotoxins or poor fermentation.

Take stock of forage Adjustments may be needed due to 2019 feed quality

By Martha Blum

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FREEPORT, Ill. — Compiling a forage inventory is an important task for dairymen.

“2019 was an ugly year in the Midwest with the prevent plant acres,” said Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois emeritus professor of animal sciences.

“About 20 million acres were prevent plant, and a lot of that was corn acreage.”

In addition, Hutjens said during the Illinois Dair y Summit hosted by the Illinois Milk Producers Association and the U of I Extension, U.S. producers are growing a lot less hay.

“California has discovered corn silage, and they can do two crops of corn silage each year,” he said.

“If you have low quality hay below 150 RFQ (relative forage quality), sell it or feed it to dry cows or heifers,” he said. “For dairy cows, most of us want the sweet spot for hay around 170 to 180 RFQ.” Some dairymen are seeing lower milk production than usual this winter.

“The cows aren’t milking on this year’s corn silage,” Hutjens said. “There could be some anti-nutritional factors such as mold and mycotoxins, wild yeast, dirt and ash contamination or poor fermentation.”

Hutjens recommends fermentation profiles on corn si-

lage which measures the pH. “You’ve got to do that because it tells you how stable the feed is and if you have risks, as well,” he said. “Spend the $25 to $30 to get it done and then you can make appropriate adjustments.”

Many dairymen harvested light weight corn in 2019.

“Typically a bushel weighs 56 pounds, but this year there are lots of guys with corn that weighed from 47 to 52 pounds,” Hutjens said. “But the good news is this corn has the same composition of nutrients, but not as much of them.”

Don’t sell the lightweight corn to an elevator, Hutjens advised.

“You’ll take a 20% to 25% hit on it and your cows will have no problem making it work,” he said. “It might be smaller kernels, so you’re going to have to really grind it fine to be sure the starch is exposed and available to be digested.”

This may be one of the problems with silage made in 2019.

“The kernels might be harder,” Hutjens said. “If I come to your farm and see any evidence of corn kernels in your corn silage, you didn’t roll it hard enough to get the job done.”

Normal corn silage typically contains about 30% starch, Hutjens reported; however, immature corn silage has approximately 20% starch.

“So, I’m missing 200 pounds of starch which means you need to feed five more bushels of corn,” Hutjens said.

Since a 1,400-pound cow will eat about 2% of its body weight, that means she con-

sumes 28 pounds of forage dry matter every day and for a year that equals 5.1 tons of dry matter per cow per year.

“By adjusting that number for a 6% shrink and adding 30% for replacement heifers, you will need around 6.5 tons of forage dry matter per animal on your farm,” Hutjens said.

“So, let’s make the decision now because you don’t want to wait until June and discover you’re out of corn silage.”

Hutjens highlighted the importance of the marginal dry matter intake or the last pound of the ration that a cow eats.

“That will give you two pounds more milk or 25 cents because the cow ate another pound of dry matter and made it into milk,” he said. “The first 13 pounds of dry matter your cow eats every day is for maintenance.”

There are several reasons a cow might stop eating, Hutjens said.

“It could be because of lameness, heat stress, overcrowding or the ration is not balanced and it has too much fat or protein,” he said. “Or, the cow is physically full.”

For forage neutral detergent fiber, Hutjens said, it should be over 50%.

“And corn silage over 60% because that effects dry matter intake,” he said. “If you have over 5.6 pounds of undigestible NDF from forages, your cows can’t eat it.”

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

2020 USDA OUTLOOK FORUM

Roadmap to managing food insecurity, climate volatility A R L I NGT ON, Va .

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

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

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

“We have proven that innovative breeding technologies such as molecular markers, precision phenotyping, predictive analytics, biotechnology, CRISPR and digital tools can help agriculture better manage the challenges of extreme weather.”

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

He noted that 2019 was one of the wettest farming years on record, while 2012 was one of the driest. Despite increased weather variability, overall crop yields continue to trend upward over time.

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

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

Further, Graham said if the top 20 world corn-producing

countries improved their production levels to those found in the United States 20 years ago, it would be the equivalent of adding another 100 million acres of farmland. “ We’re producing more outputs with fewer inputs,” Graham said. “But food insecurity and climate volatility do not impact the globe uniformly, and we must also work to develop new cropping systems adapted to local conditions.”

“This will take all the tools in our toolbox, as well as open and transparent communication between the public, academia, governments and private companies,” Graham said.

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

The panel also included remarks from former Illinois St ate Cl i matolog ist Ji m Angel and USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig.

Commodity Classic sets attendance mark SAN ANTONIO — A record number of farmers converged on Texas for the 2020 Commodity Classic. Total farmers registered was 4,678 — the highest number in the show’s 24-year history, eclipsing the previous record of 4,595 set in 2016 in New Orleans. Total registrations of 9,350 was also second only to the New Orleans event.

Held in San Antonio, the 2020 Commodity Classic featured dozens of educational sessions, a huge trade show with

nearly 400 exhibitors, a keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, a concert performance by Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry, policy meetings of the sponsoring commodity associations, a wide variety of presentations from well-known industry leaders and top farmers and tours of area attractions.

Commodit y Classic re turns to San Antonio as the show celebrates its silver anniversary March 4-6 next

year. For information, visit CommodityClassic.com.

Established in 1996, Commodity Classic is America’s largest farmer-led, farmer-focused educational and agricultural experience. Commodity Classic is presented annually by the American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Sorghum Producers and Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Jeff Burbrink Purdue Extension

Every so often, a new plant disease comes to town. Some of them promise to be plant killers and end up fairly benign.

Others, like tar spot on corn, can knock crop yields for a

big loop.

2019 was the area’s second year to face tar spot. In fact, the western side of Elkhart County and the eastern portion of St. Joseph County was referred to “Tar Spot Ground Central” at a meeting I attended a few weeks ago. Corn growers commonly said they lost 20% of their yield, with a few fields nearing 50% by some estimates.

It does not appear tar spot will be going away, so we need to learn to manage it. I have asked Darcy Telenko, Purdue’s field crop disease specialist, to come speak from 1 to 3 p.m. on March 18.

Darcy spent many hours surveying fields and conducting trials on management of tar spot this summer. We will learn about the disease, how it overwinters and what are currently thought to be the best management practices.

I have also asked Darcy to say a few words about use of fungicides on field crops. For corn and bean growers, fungicides are a relatively new tool. Do not make the mistake of thinking fungicides are like insecticides or herbicides, where one pass can often fix the problem.

Vegetable and fruit growers have been working with fungicides for years, and we can learn from their experience how to use them to our advantage.

The meeting will be at Weaver Ag and Lawn, located at State Road 19 and Nelson Parkway in Wakarusa. The Farm Bureau organization in the area has offered to serve sandwiches at noon.

For a head count, we ask that you call the Purdue Extension office in Elkhart County at 574533-0554 by March 16.

Jeff Burbrink is the Purdue Extension agriculture and natural resources educator in Elkhart County.

Grain-dust explosions down in 2019 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — “There are many substances you might not think are explosive that, under the right conditions, actually are,” said Kingsly Ambrose, Purdue agricultural and biological engineering professor.

Ambrose studies particle technology, grain processing and particulate flow. One of the particles especially vulnerable to combustion is grain dust, found in grain handling facilities.

Explosions at such facilities can be significant, potentially resulting in fatalities, injuries and millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue.

“When the grain is getting handled or processed, dust gets separated and suspended in the air and settles around the facility,” Ambrose said.

“If there is an ignition generating spark, maybe due to the malfunction of a machine, friction or an electrical failure can ignite the dust. Although the primary explosion might be quite small, due to the amount of existing dust, the secondary explosions can be catastrophic.”

Ambrose collects annual statistics on the number of national agricultural dust explosions. For 2019: n There were eight grain-dust explosions reported in 2019, four fewer than in 2018. These explosions resulted in one fatality and four injuries. n Grain-dust explosions occurred in six different states: three in Iowa and one each in Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio and Georgia.

The best way to avoid graindust explosions, Ambrose said, is for grain facilities to follow rigorous housekeeping practices, regularly maintaining equipment and providing extensive employee training.

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Rural fire departments face rescue challenges

By Jeannine Otto

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MANLIUS, Ill. — Many of the 300 people who filed into the Bureau Valley High School auditorium to view “Silo,” a movie about a teenager trapped in a grain bin, belong to local fire departments.

Rural fire departments are facing their own challenges these days, and those challenges can impact the communities and people they serve.

“Just getting members in volunteer departments is tough,” said Jared Doty, a firefighter and paramedic with Princeton Firefighters Local 4308.

Doty’s background is with a volunteer department before he joined the Princeton Fire Department. At one time, volunteer departments had many members who worked locally and could respond to calls during the workday.

Doty said that’s not so much the case now.

“At 1 p.m. on a weekday, you are lucky to get enough people to show up who aren’t working their full-time job somewhere else. That’s the most difficult part,” he said.

Funding to provide ongoing training and to keep up to date with fire and rescue technology is another hurdle.

“These grain tubes aren’t inexpensive. It’s not cheap to do training.

Funding is a huge challenge,” Doty said.

Doty said the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System provides a quick response for backup for rural and volunteer fire departments.

In the event of a major incident, such as a grain bin entrapment, other resources can be called on

“There are always new techniques. It’s an ever-changing world in agriculture and also in the fire service.”

Jared Doty, firefighter and paramedic PRINCETON FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 4308

for help.

“You can’t do this with seven people. You need 70, and you need resources that we don’t typically use. We are calling the Michligs of the world to bring semis and grain vacs. We’re calling the local farmers down the road who have a semi or a loader tractor, any way to move grain to make the process go faster,” Doty said.

Doty said he has taken a grain rescue class presented by Stateline Farm Rescue multiple times and he learns something new each time.

“There are always new techniques. It’s an ever-changing world in agriculture and also in the fire service,” he said.

The agencies represented at the movie screening and grain bin rescue demo included Bradford Fire Department, Bureau County Sheriff’s Department, Buda Fire Department, Sheffield Fire Department, Wyanet Fire Department, Arlington Fire Department, Manlius Fire Department, Walnut Fire Department, Dixon Rural Fire Department, Princeton Fire Department, Yorktown Fire Department and Bureau Fire Department.

Movie tells story of teen’s entrapment in grain bin

By Jeannine Otto

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

MANLIUS, Ill. — When it comes to making a movie about a grain bin entrapment, Sam Goldberg isn’t the most likely to do it.

One of the producers of “Silo,” the 2019 movie about a grain bin entrapment and how it impacts everyone involved, says so himself.

“I grew up in New York City and I knew almost nothing about agriculture,” said Goldberg in describing how he found the idea for the movie.

The idea came from Marshall Burnette, a filmmaker from Tennessee and the director of “Silo.”

“He pitched me the idea of the movie. We had a good dialogue about the prospects for a movie about grain entrapment and how that would make a really interesting plotline and how there were very few movies about agriculture in independent films,” Goldberg said.

The movie tells the story of fictional teen Cody Rose, who is sent, along with two other employees of the local grain elevator, into a grain bin full of corn to loosen the grain with shovels.

Rose becomes engulfed and the film follows his fate in the grain and the actions of others working to rescue him, from local firefighters and paramedics to Rose’s mother and the manager of the elevator.

The circumstances – teens sent into a bin full of corn to loosen it – loosely brings to mind the fatal July 28, 2010, accident in Mount Carroll, in which three young men, Wyatt Whitebread, 14, Alejandro “Alex” Pacas, 19, and William “Will” Piper, 20, were engulfed in grain.

Whitebread and Pacas died in the grain bin.

Piper was seriously injured, but was pulled alive from the bin and survived.

Goldberg said he was flattered, but not surprised to hear that a re-

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cent screening of the film at Bureau Valley High School in Manlius drew close to 300 people.

Bureau County has seen two grain entrapment deaths in the last two years. Roger Cogdal, 73, died July 10, 2018, after falling into a grain bin; LaVerne Molln, 57, died Oct. 28, 2019, after being trapped in a bin.

“We hear that a lot. It’s terrible how common they are and how many people have friends or family or know people who have died in a grain engulfment or some other farm accident,” Goldberg said.

Goldberg estimated that around 10,000 people have seen the movie since its release.

“We have another 200 screenings planned in the next couple of months and a lot of people reaching out for the summer months, between planting and harvest. We just want to get the word out there as fast as we can. We are trying to get people thinking, in a different way, about safety,” Goldberg said.

As producers, Goldberg and his filmmaking partner, Ilan Ulmer, arranged meetings for screenwriter Jason Williamson and for Burnette with ag and grain industry and safety resources.

“Our writer, Jason Williamson, and our director, Marshall, connected with Dr. Bill Field at Purdue University, an expert on grain entrapment. We connected with the Fox family, a seventh-generation farm family in Indiana and they gave us a lot of insight. We connected with Dale Dobson, the safety administrator for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Basically, we met with experts. We picked their brains and they were very generous,” Goldberg said.

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Workers with Stateline Farm Rescue hand up sections of the Great Wall of Rescue, a cofferdam that assembles in sections around a victim. After the pieces are fitted together, rescuers can push the sections down and vacuum the grain out, freeing the victim for rescue.

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Bureau County has seen two grain bin-related deaths, one in 2018 and one in October 2019.

Less than a month ago, a man was pulled alive from a grain bin near Dixon in Lee County.

“I think the fact that there are over 300 people here is indicative of the fact that people understand this is a really serious issue and something we need to seek resolution on,” Hultine said.

Major sponsors of the event were Princeton Firefighters Local 4308, which sponsored the movie screening, Bureau County Farm Bureau and the SharkFarmer Podcast.

Jared Doty, a firefighter and paramedic with Princeton Firefighters Local 4308, comes from a farm background himself. He said recent tragedies inspired the move to bring “Silo” to Bureau County.

“We’ve had a string of these incidents in the past year and a half time frame. We just really saw a need to bring awareness to the community to hopefully prevent this from happening again,” Doty said.

Doty said in rural areas, a call for a grain bin entrapment or other farm accident hits close to home for many first responders.

“They are all neighbors. They are all friends.

They are all somebody you know, and it just hits a lot harder for someone who has an ag background or who comes from a farm,” Doty said.

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With Bureau Valley High School freshman Bailey Broers as the victim in a mock grain entrapment, an instructor from Stateline Farm Rescue instructs other members of the Bureau Valley FFA on the first steps to take to secure Broers and start freeing him from entrapment in grain. The rescue demonstrations by Stateline Farm Rescue were hosted by Nutrien Ag Solutions Manlius/Walnut.

Lock out, tag out is a procedure used in agriculture and other industries to make sure that machinery is turned off and that it cannot be turned on again

To understand whether USMCA and the China “Phase 1” agreements impacted sentiment, producers were asked if the agreements relieved their concerns about the effect of tariffs on their farms’ income.

Over three-fourths of respondents, at 76%, said the agreements either “somewhat,” at 69%, or “completely,” at 7%, relieved their concerns, while 17% chose “not at all” as their response.

Although some voiced concerns about the possible impact of the COVID19 virus on agricultural trade in mid-February, when the sur vey was conducted, producers remained relatively optimistic about the resumption of trade with China.

The percentage of producers expecting the soybean trade dispute to be settled soon, which peaked at 69% in January, declined to 61% in February.

However, it was still the second most positive response since the question was first posed in March of 2019.

Producers also remained optimistic that the trade dispute will be resolved in a way that’s favorable to U.S. agriculture, with 80% expecting an outcome that is ultimately positive for U.S. agriculture.

“As the COVID-19 virus footprint continues to expand, it remains to be seen whether it will impact farmer sentiment at home,” Mintert said.

Expectations for an improvement in farmland values also rose to an alltime high in February.

When asked to look ahead five years, 59% of producers said they expect farmland values to rise, up from 50% in January. This was the most positive response to the question since data collection began in 2015.

There also was a somewhat more optimistic outlook with respect to making large farm investments. The Farm Capital Investment Index rose from a reading of 68 in January to 72 in February.

The March 16 sign-up deadline for producers to make their program choice under the 2018 farm bill is looming. This month’s survey focused on the program choice intentions of producers who grew soybeans in 2019.

Four out of 10, at 37%, said they were still uncertain regarding which program they would choose.

Meanwhile, nearly 40% of respondents said they planned to choose the A RC- County program, the most popular program under the 2014 farm bill, followed by the Price Loss Coverage program at 19% and the ARC-Individual Coverage program at 7%.

Read the full Ag Economy Barometer report at https://purdue.ag/agbarometer. This month’s report provides further insight into the impact of trade on producer sentiment.

The site also offers additional resources — such as past reports, charts and survey methodology — and a form to sign up for monthly barometer email updates and webinars.

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“These trade deals, the biodiesel tax credit, all these different things are starting to show optimism to farmers. At the end of the year, I started to see those farmers actually go out and look at new equipment, looking at trading on maybe new or used equipment. All that spurs the economy. If we can get these prices back, it’ll help.”

What is the pulse of soybean growers following the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and “Phase 1” of the United StatesChina trade deal?

“There’s definitely those that are suffering, but there’s still optimism. Farmers are historically optimistic. So, when we look at 2020, we’re trying to forget 2019 — I don’t know if we’ll ever quite forget 2019 for all the things that got thrown at us. But, really, 2020 is a new start. Every year is a new start for farmers.

“They’re looking at these trade deals not only as a factor into purchases, and that’s what’s going to give us a short-term price increase here coming up, but it’s the long-term biotechnology intellectual property right transfer, things for the next generation. You talk about sustainability in farming. For us, it’s generational sustainability, helping my sons and daughters farm in the future. This will help that.”

You talk a lot about market access and market development. What have you witnessed in your experience with the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health and U.S. Soybean Export Council?

“WISHH is a phenomenal part of our soybean association.

Look at what they did in Ghana.

They went from a country that was barely able to feed itself to

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“We feel strongly that Farm Bureau is the right organization to drive this important work and initiative forward, capitalizing on their ability to drive awareness and reach with farmers and their families on this important topic.”

At its recent annual Convention and Trade Show in Austin, AFBF provided mental health training for state Farm Bureaus and county leaders.

“That training consists of trying to make people understand how to recognize our friends and neighbors and loved ones that are showing changes in their attitudes and their moods so that we can prevent anything from happening,” Duvall explained.

WEIGHT OF THE WORLD Duvall said Farm Bureau is made up of farmers and ranchers who experience the joys and the struggles of being on the farm and producing food and fiber not only for the United States, but for the world.

Like a “spider web” across the country, the organization reaches 5.9 million members and beyond, he said.

In a survey conducted by Farm Bureau last year, 90% of rural adults said mental health is important.

“A lot of people just wouldn’t admit that,” Duvall said. “We were surprised by that number.”

Almost half of those adults said they are personally experiencing more mental health challenges than they were a year ago.

“That means the pressure is getting tougher on them,” Duvall lamented.

“Just think what’s happened

being way more self-sufficient and moving into the USSEC category of trade and now we’re in Cambodia and we’re looking at aquaculture projects. Just the number of people. Pakistan.

Afghanistan. All these different things with WISHH that help the people that need help and that teach them how to farm, teach them how to be businesspeople. We want to move them into USSEC and really help them develop their market and move to the next level.

“It was awesome to see USSEC a couple years ago really strategically change their focus of just being in China and a little bit of a presence in other parts of the world, and we’ve really expanded that right at the correct time, right before the trade war.

We’ve seen enormous growth in Egypt. We had Bangladesh part of the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program funds that the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave us.

“There are success stories all over for USSEC and WISHH. We’ll continue to work on those in the future.”

saging of how we do that.

“When we talk about China, it’s our largest export market of soybeans — and what a market it is. With this ‘Phase 1,’ before we can really enjoy the full benefits, it’s going to take a while.

It was frustrating last year a few times when they quit talking, because if two people talk, something is usually going to get worked out one way or the other. So, that’s a win. The $80 billion over two years is huge for farmers.

“When you look at the USMCA, that’s our No. 2 and No. 3 export markets of soy.

Really, when you look at these two countries and what that longstanding relationship has been, we’re taking this and moving it to the next level.

You’re really able to show them how good the U.S. soybean is in its value. We undoubtedly grow the best bean in the world.”

There has been a lot reported even in consumer media about the decisions being made in the courts and throughout companies that produce glyphosate and neonicotinoids and chlorpyrifos. What is DAVIE STEPHENS, ASA CHAIRMAN, ASA’s philosophy on crop protection and responsible farming?

CLINTON, KENTUCKY “Crop protection in general How are these new trade agreements with Mexico and Canada and is one we’ve always advocated with China protecting the future of for and making sure we hold U.S. soy and all of U.S. agriculture? ourselves responsible for what it is and how it affects our en“It’s taken vironment. We’ve always relied a while to get on science-based facts of how here, but it’s that’s measured, not just asgood that we sumptions. That’s one thing we have gained hope that goes forward. and had some “As we look at glyphosate, accomplishit’s very valuable to a farmer. ments along It’s valuable not only to a farm the way. I’m in Kentucky, but in Minnesota, really proud in South Dakota or anywhere that ASA put across these United States — Stephens that effort formaking sure we keep that out ward in reprethere and available for what is senting the soybean farmer not used in a lot of people’s everyonly in individual states, but as day life, not just farmers. We we look at the United States as want to make sure we represent that.” a whole and creating that meshe recalled.

“We do not want to ignore the problem and have those reports come out on a daily basis.

We want to help farmers before they get there.”

Farming is a complicated business — and it is only getting more difficult, Duvall said.

He cited changes and expenses in technology, as well as government regulations.

“Thank God this administration has helped us relieve some of that, but it’s going to take years for us to feel the release of that pressure that we’ve carried under the regulations that we’ve operated under,” he said.

The health and wellbeing of farmers and their families will always be top of mind for Bayer, Safarian said.

“That’s not going to change,” she said. “While we won’t be actively working with Farm Bureau in this campaign, we will continue to be a strong supporter of Farm Bureau and will continue to support this and all efforts that are about raising awareness and directing farmers and their families to resources like Farm State of Mind that may provide help.”

Combining Farm State of Mind and Farm Bureau’s Rural Resilience initiative will open up the lines of communication and increase awareness, Duvall said.

“In our conversations about mental stress and mental health, we hope that we can show our farmers and our rural communities that it’s OK to talk about it,” he said.

LEAN ON ME “Our famers can’t carry this Duvall said stress is at its highest in years for many farm- burden alone. We need to talk about it to each other. We need ers and ranchers.

“I was a young farmer during to lean on each other.” the ‘80s, and it was difficult.

There wasn’t a night that you James Henry can be reached didn’t go in and hear about at 815-223-2558, ext. 190, or some tragic thing happening jhenry@agrinews-pubs.com. to a farmer somewhere across Follow him on Twitter at: America because of the stress,” @AgNews. in the last six years in agriculture with markets and the trade war and then put yourself in the position of a young farmer coming into an industry in 2011 or 2012 with good commodity prices, starting with all kind of excitement and energy and then having the rug pulled out from under them,” he said.

“We have to really pay attention not only to all our farmers, but especially those young farmers that are totally stressed and have not had the opportunity, thankfully, to experience this before.”

Farmers are two times less likely than other rural adults to talk to a friend or family member about mental health, Duvall said.

“Farmers just don’t tell people their problems,” he said. “We spend our lives fixing things with baling wire and duct tape.

We wouldn’t dare go in our house and dump that problem on our wife who’s taking time to raise our families while we’re out working.”

And, Duvall added, farmers spend a lot of time alone.

“I milked my cows every morning by myself. During those 30 years I milked my cows, a lot of times I was just pressured to the point where I was just miserable. No one there to talk to — and I wouldn’t have shared if they were,” he said.

“But then the next day I may be singing along with the radio with country music. It is definitely a roller-coaster ride.”

KEVIN SCOTT, ASA VICE PRESIDENT, VALLEY SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA We just got good news on the Mississippi River dredging project.

The Army Corps of Engineers’ work plan includes funding to increase the ship channel from 45 to 50 feet. Why is that project important to ASA and other ag groups?

“People would think that the 5-foot extension of the depth of that channel would not mean a whole lot, but it means taking a boat from Scott 70,000 metric tons up to 80,000 metric tons. Anytime you can add that type of improvement in our shipping, it’s a great thing.

“Infrastructure in general in the United States, we’ve had the advantage over our competitors for a number of years. As the Corps is taking an interest in dredging and so forth, those are all things that have been needing to be done. Our locks and dams have been an issue. They are taking an interest in that. We need to keep an advantage over our competitors in the soybean industry. Infrastructure is the one place where we can do that yet, but it needs to be monetized.

“Brazil is going to continue to improve their infrastructure.

So, if we don’t keep up, we will be behind.”

Why is biodiesel so important to soybean growers?

“As most people know, the two products from soybean crushing are the meal, which is our animal feed, and we can get rid of that fairly easily, and the oil, on the other hand, which is a major component. Twenty percent of the bean is oil. Without

the biodiesel industry we would have huge stocks of oil. It would be a drag on the market instead of a plus. Currently, biodiesel adds about $1.10 per bushel to the price that farmers receive for soybeans. It’s very significant. We can’t underestimate what that does for us.

“Currently, the biodiesel industry is intending to grow.

That would be a positive, also.

If they can take the biodiesel numbers and double what they’re currently doing, then we can also increase our crush here in the United States, feed more livestock and export livestock instead of beans and that would be the best for us.

“The oil could be used in many, many things. The high oleic thing is coming along very well right now and that is going to be used in binders in road construction projects.

Theoretically, that will be also a huge use for soybean oil. We need all those things working together not only pricewise for us, but for the country — cleaner air and having an alternative fuel is an excellent thing.”

ASA throughout 2020 is celebrating its “First Soy Century.” What do you see in the next 100 years?

“It’s a significant milestone for us. Thinking about 100 years ago what the guys in our position were talking about, and it wasn’t trade. It was, ‘What is a soybean? How do we use it?

How do we use it in feed?’ They were just learning how to use the product. That has changed so much in 100 years.

“I get the opportunity to be the first president of the next 100 years. We volunteer for this position to make the industry sustainable for the future. That will be my focus. I think that ASA’s focus for the next 100 years will be keeping the industry viable.”

James Henry

Study shines light on the full potential of soybeans URBANA, Ill. — Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves — creating shifting, dappled “sunflecks” that illustrate plants’ ever-changing light environment.

Crops harness light energy to fix carbon dioxide into food via photosynthesis.

In a special issue of Plant Journal, a team from the University of Illinois reports a new mathematical computer model that is used to understand how much yield is lost as soybean crops grapple with minute-by-minute light fluctuations on cloudy and sunny days.

“Soybean is the fourth most important crop in terms of overall production, but it is the top source of vegetable protein globally,” said Yu Wang, a researcher at the U of I, who led this work for Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency.

“We found that soybean plants may lose as much as 13% of their productivity because they cannot adjust quickly enough to the changes in light intensity that are standard in any crop field. It may not sound like much, but in terms of the global yield — this is massive.”

RIPE is an international research project that aims to improve photosynthesis to equip farmers worldwide with higher-yielding crops needed to ensure everyone has enough food to lead a healthy, productive life.

RIPE is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and the U.K. Government’s Department for International De-

velopment.

Past models have only examined hour-by-hour changes in light intensity. For this study, the team created a dynamic computational ray-tracing model that was able to predict light levels to the millimeter across every leaf for every minute of the day in a flowering soybean crop. The model also takes into account two critical factors: photoprotection and Rubisco activase.

Photoprotection protect s plants from sun damage. Triggered by high light levels, this process dissipates excess light energy safely as heat. But, when light levels drop, it can take minutes to hours for photoprotection to relax, or stop — costing the plant potential yield.

The team evaluated 41 varieties of soybeans to find out the fastest, slowest, and average rate from induction to the relaxation of photoprotection. Less than 30 minutes is considered “shortterm,” and anything longer is “long-term” photoprotection.

Using this new model, the team simulated a sunny and cloudy day in Champaign. On the sunny day, long-term photoprotection was the most significant limitation of photosynthesis. On the cloudy day, photosynthesis was the most limited by short-term photoprotection and Rubisco activase, which is a helper enzyme — triggered by light — that turns on Rubisco to fix carbon into sugar.

The RIPE project has already begun to address photoprotection limitations in soybean and other crops, including cassava, cowpea and rice.

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to colleges and universities.

The director said that the block grant program is a very competitive process and there is a specific rubric that is followed when scoring proposals to make sure they meet all qualifications.

“One thing we try to do as a department is advocate for all sectors of agriculture,” Kettler said, adding that Indiana isn’t often thought of as a large specialty crop producing state, but it is still important that the growers in the state have proper funding available to focus on food safety, marketing and research.

Applications are due by March 22.

To find out more information about the grant or to submit a proposal, visit www.in.gov/isda.

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Farmers have a ‘brighter future’ Messages delivered at Agricultural Legislative Day

By Tom C. Doran

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nearly 50 farm commodity organizations and other diverse agriculture interest groups joined over 1,000 Illinois FFA members to meet with state lawmakers at the 50th annual Agricultural Legislative Day March 3.

During the gathering, legislators were reminded about the multiple ways that agricultural affects their lives, the lives of their constituents and the impact their choice make on the world of agriculture.

In addition, FFA members delivered 275 baskets filled with Illinoisproduced ag r icultural products and box lunches.

AgriNews tagged along with Illinois Soybean Association representatives as they met with legislators to discuss various issues and concerns.

It marked the first time two of the ISA representatives were able to experience Illinois Agricultural Legislative Day. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to visit with state representatives and let them know that we’re concerned about some of the issues that we’re facing and hoping that they can move us forward and help continue toward a brighter future for farmers,� said Roberta Si mpson -Dolbe a re of Nebo, ISA district director and Marketing Committee chairwoman.

She said another highlight of her first Legislative Day was the opening program at the Illinois State Library where Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, members of the General Assembly’s agr icu lt u re com m it tees, Illinois FFA President Gage Miller, Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert Jr. and Miss Illinois County Fair Queen Kelsi Kessler touted the importance of agriculture and how it benefits the state in a myriad of ways. “I think it provides a ver y good over view of the agriculture climate in the state. It’s good to hear from some of our state leaders, as well as our FFA and the Illinois County Fair Queen, to get t hei r per spect ive on where agriculture is goi n g ,� Si mp s on - Dol beare said. “It’s nice to see the optimism about agriculture and the far ming year coming up. Of course, I think farmers are eternal optimists, so we always

hope for a better year than what we had the year before.�

Josh Griffin of Centralia and originally from Edgar County where his family currently farms AGRINEWS PHOTO/TOM C. DORAN a lso ex per ienced h is first Legislative Day in State Sen. Steve McClure (left) met with Illinois Soybean Association representatives at the Illinois Agricultural Legislative Day March 3. Visiting with McClure are Mike Levin (from right), ISA public policy and regulatory affairs director; Jim Martin, ISA director; Springfield.

The ISA Soy Ambass- John Lumpe, ISA CEO; Scott Gaffner, ISA director; Josh Griffin, ISA Soy Ambassador; and Roberta Simpson-Dolbeare, ISA director. ador had a similar experience with ISA when

they visited lawmakers in Washington. “T he representatives and senators we’re going to meet with don’t have a lot of in-depth knowledge about agriculture, so I’m looking forward to picking their brain and kind of educating them on what we do on a day-to-day basis and telling them what our hot topics are in our industry,� Griffin said.

EDUCATE, PROMOTE ISA directors Jim Martin, Pontiac, and Scott Gaffner, Greenville, have attended several Ag Legislative Days, as well as visits with legislators in Washington. “It’s really an impressive day to get to visit with some of our legislators and see the all of the FFA kids walking around and learning the way the legislative process works,� said Martin, who also serves as ISA treasurer. “As an Illinois Soybean Association director, it’s a great opportunity to get out and advocate for our 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois. We can talk about our own farming operations and talk about things we’re promoting like higher blends of biodiesel made from soybean oil and educate them about how we’re advocating for the farmer and educating consumers about what we do.� “I think this is a great opportunity for us to be able to educate, promote the great things that we as farmers are doing and make our legislators aware of the things that are concerning to us,� said Gaffner, who is also ISA assistant secretary-treasurer. “Everybody has a story and agriculture has such a rich heritage. We want to continue to promote that, to continue to push that forward and just to show where we’ve come from and to what we’re doing now to be conservationists and be good stewards of our land. This is just a great opportunity to promote that and tell them about the things that are important to us with trade and with biodiesel, things that help promote soybeans.�

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

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Illinois governor touts state’s top industry

By Tom C. Doran

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SPR INGF IELD, Il l.

— Gov. J.B. Pritzker reiterated his administration’s commitment to expanding opportunities in rural communities across the state during Illinois Agricultural Legislative Day March 3.

“This is a gathering of people representing the largest industry in the state of Illinois and I’m proud of that,” the governor said to representatives of nearly 50 agriculture-related groups.

“It’s a testimony to many of you in this room that Illinois continues to lead the nation in agriculture.

Ag chief ‘humbled, honored’

By Tom C. Doran

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Jerry Costello II noted it was his sixth time as a speaker at the Illinois Agricultural Legislative Day, with the first five in his capacity as chairman of the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee.

He donned a different “hat” at the March 3 event as the newly appointed acting director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

“I was honored and privileged to chair the Agriculture and Conservation Com-mittee for just over five years, two years as vice chair, and now I am so excited, so humbled and so honCostello ored to take this position as the director of the Department of Agriculture,” Costello told representatives of more than 50 agriculture groups.

Costello, of Smithton, represented the 116th District in the Illinois House from 2011 to 2019.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker appointed Costello acting director Feb. 28 after serving as Department of Natural Resources law enforcement director since May 2019.

Costello provided a list of reasons that make Illinois uniquely positioned to be the leader in the nation’s ag industry.

“Many people don’t realize that we have 2,600 food processors in Illinois — we’re No. 1 in the country. Think about how many jobs come along with processing food in the state.

“Now we are regulating the growth of adult-use cannabis, a totally new industry to this state and something that I believe will bring in a lot of capital that is much needed in the state,” Costello noted.

“We’re also expanding our market in the delivery of hemp in the state. We have over 20,000 acres that are growing hemp in the state.

“Our state is very, very unique, and it’s important that people realize that. We have over 2,000 interstate miles in the state. We have over 34,000 highway miles.

We have the largest rail gateway in the entire country in Chicago. We have over 1,100 miles of navigable waterways. We have 1,100 airports in the state.”

T he acting director thanked the agriculture industry for what it does for the state.

“You feed our state and you feed the nation. What I pledge to you is what I believe I’ve always done is sat down, listened, been honest and try to find a path to move forward in the best way possible for the state of Illinois,” he said.

“Whatever I can do to help, my door is always open. If you don’t ask, I can’t help you. I’m humbled and honored by the opportunity and I really look forward to moving this industry forward in this nation.”

We are the largest producer of pumpkins in the United States, but we’re also the largest producer of soybeans, the second largest producer of corn, we lead the nation in the production of horseradish, we’re the fourth largest pork-producing state and we created a new industry when we licensed more than 21,000 acres for industrial hemp production last year.”

CONNECT ILLINOIS Pritzker noted a new rural broadband expansion program that will help farmers build on the state’s success.

“I want Illinois to lead in the 21st century. This is

going to affect all of your communities and businesses. I think it’s a huge advancement and I hope you’ll join me in making Connect Illinois the most successful program that we’ve Pritzker ever had in our rural communities,” Pritzker said.

T h roug h bipa r t i sa n suppor t, the General Assembly approved the Rebuild Illinois initiative, the state’s largest infrastructure investment in a generation, and Connect Illinois is part of that initiative.

“Connect Illinois is the

largest matching grant program for high-speed internet development in national history, a program whose i mpact will be doubled w ith matching funds from the federal government, from local governments and from private partners,” Pritzker said.

“We’ve already begun to deliver on an ambitious fou r -yea r pla n to deliver open access, shared use broadband to homes, businesses and community institutions like hospitals and libraries in every corner of our

state. In an increasingly competitive global economy, we simply cannot afford to leave any community without connectivity.”

FLOOD PROTECTION Pritzker recently delivered Illinois’ concerns regarding long-term f lood protection and federal aid to President Donald Trump and U.S. Agriculture Director Sonny Perdue.

“A few weeks ago I met with the president and got his commitment directly to provide greater support for Illinois from the Corps of Engineers to address long-term f lood protection. We’re working very

hard in the near-term to address and fight flooding such as it may be this spring. Rebuilding our levies and protecting our basic infrastructure is a top priority.

“Nobody in this room is a stranger to the difficulties that we experienced over the last year here in our state. Homes and businesses, farmland and crop production were severely impacted by some of the worse flooding in a quarter century.”

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

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Study shows positive effect of cover crops on soil microbiome URBANA, Ill. — Only a fraction of conventional row crop farmers grow cover crops after harvest, but a new global analysis from the University of Illinois shows the practice can boost soil microbial abundance by 27%.

The result adds to cover crops’ reputation for nitrogen loss reduction, weed suppression, erosion control and more. Although soil microbial abundance is less easily observed, it is a hugely important metric in estimating soil health.

“A lot of ecological services are done by the soil microbiome, including nutrient cycling. It’s really important to understand how it functions and how agriculture can form a healthier soil microbiome,” said Nakian Kim, doctoral student in the Department of Crop Sciences at the U of I and lead author on a new paper in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Other studies have shown benefits of cover cropping on the soil microbial community, but most of them have been one-offs influenced by specific site conditions, unique seasonal effects, idiosyncratic management regimes and the researchers’ chosen analysis methods. Kim’s work is different in that he looked for universal patterns among dozens of these one-off studies.

“Our analysis shows that across 60 field studies, there was a consistent 27% increase in microbial abundance in fields with cover crops versus no cover crops. It’s across all these studies from around the world,” said Maria Villamil, associate professor in crop sciences and co-author on the paper.

The research team performed a search of the existing studies on cover crops and wound up with some 985 scientific articles. Of these, they only kept studies that directly compared cover crops and bare fallow soils and omitted studies conducted in greenhouses or that

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They also ensured that the studies were statistically sound, with reasonably large sample sizes. In the end, they mined and reanalyzed data from 60 studies reporting on 13 soil microbial parameters.

“That’s why the criteria of selection had to be so strict. We wanted to compare studies that were solid and with enough replications that we could make valid claims about global patterns,” Villamil said.

The research team divided the 13 microbial parameters into three categories: microbial abundance, activity and diversity. Microbial abundance wasn’t the only category to show a significant increase with cover cropping compared to bare fallow soils.

Microbial activity was also up 22%, and diversity increased 2.5%.

DIVERSE MICROBIOME “All the categories are important, but especially diversity, because a diverse microbiome is more resilient. Considering the close linkage between microbial diversity and the provision of ecosystem services, small impacts could go a long way to increase sustainability. In that sense, I think the cover crops are really helping,” Kim said.

The researchers also were able to tease out several factors that layered on top of the main effect of cover crops. For example, how did climate, cover crop termination method, or tillage regime affect the ability of the cover crops to benefit the soil microbial community?

Kim said the use of burndown herbicides as a cover crop termination method had a strong moderating effect on the microbial community.

“The results were very interesting,” he said. “With chemical termination, the effect sizes were consistently smaller compared to mechanical termination.

In other words, the bene-

fits from the cover crops are diminished somehow from the herbicides. I think that’s one big takeaway.”

Tillage also made a difference, according to Kim. He expected conventional tillage to reduce the effect of cover crops on the soil microbes, but instead, conservation tillage did that.

“My guess is that because conservation tillage included not tilling at all, that allowed weeds to grow on the land,” he said. “The weeds could have mimicked what the cover crops do. So, the difference between the control treatment and the cover crop may decrease because of the weeds.”

Because their effects were indirect, these secondary factors need more research before real claims can be made. Villamil’s research team already has studies in the works to get more definitive answers.

But in the meantime, she’s heartened by the results of the analysis as a whole.

“For me, it was surprising to see the consistent, positive effect of cover crops — surprising, but good.

Finally! I’ve been researching cover crops in our typical corn-soybean rotations in Illinois since 2001, yet in these high-fertility environments, it has proven difficult to show any effects beyond cereal and annual rye capturing nitrogen (weather permitting). Changes in chemical and physical properties related to cover crop use are difficult to see,” Villamil said.

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AUCTIONS

Auction Calendar 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.

Sat., March 14

MAYFIELD, KY.: Jackson Purchase Farm Machinery Auction, 9 a.m., James R. Cash, 270-623-8466.

Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709.

Fri., March 20

PENFIELD, ILL.: Farm Toys, 5 p.m., I & I Antique Tractor & Gas Engine Club. See p. B2

Sat., March 21

MILFORD, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 8 a.m., Mowrey Auction Co., Inc., 815-8894191.

FRANCISCO, IND.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m. CST, Dave & Deloris Watkins, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-451-2709.

HANNA, IND.: Farm Machinery & Construction Equipment Consignment, 9 a.m. Central, Lestinsky Auction Service, 219-6089615. See p. B1 OXFORD, IND.: Spring Farm Machinery Consignment, 10 a.m. EST, Scherer’s Auction Service, LLC, 765385-1550. See p. B2 PENFIELD, ILL.: Farm Equipment, 10 a.m., I & I Antique Tractor & Gas Engine Club. See p. B2

Thurs., March 19

Tues., March 24

Wed., March 18

WARSAW, IND.: Retirement Auction, 9 a.m. EST, Dennis Polk Equipment, Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, 844-8472161. See p. B1 COVINGTON, IND.: 874 +/- Acres in 16 Tracts, 1 p.m. CST, GRD Limited Partnership & TIPRAD Broadcasting Company,

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ST. ANNE, ILL.: Farm Machinery, 8 a.m., St. Anne Consignment Auction & Equipment Sales, 815-4278350. See p. B1

Fri., March 27

CULVER, IND.: Farm Equipment, 2 p.m., Morris Family Farms, Ryan Morris,

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Sat., March 28

Sat., April 4

OXFORD, IND.: 46th Annual Benton Central FFA Auction, 9 a.m. EST, Benton Central FFA, 765-884-1600, ext. 2164. See p. B2 HOPEDALE, ILL.: Farm & Construction Equipment Consignment, 9 a.m., S&K Auctions LLC, 309-202-8378 or 309-696-9019.

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

Tues., April 21

HOWARD COUNTY, IND.: 152 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., Silver Dawn Farms, Inc., Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324.

SEE AD: Upcoming Auctions & Featured Farms, Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc., 800-4512709. See p. B2

Sat., April 11

BOURBON, IND.: Triton FFA Consignment, 9 a.m. EST, Bates Auction & Realty, 574-342-2955.

Wed., April 1

RUSH COUNTY, IND.: 100 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., Forgey Family Farms LLC, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324.

Tues., April 14

RANDOLPH COUNTY, IND.: 40 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., David L. & Marjorie L. Moore, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324. See p. B2

Thurs., April 2

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Wed., April 15 to 3 p.m. EDT March 21 at Purdue Fort Wayne Walb Union, Union PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO: Circle Drive, Fort Wayne. Speakers include Closed Loop Farming 111 +/- Acres in 3 Tracts, 6:30 p.m., Brown Revocable by Geoffrey Parker, Wildwood Farms; Planting Native Plants for Pollinators by Marissa Renz, Plant Happiness, LLC; Everyday SusLiving Trust, Halderman tainability by Aiste Manfredini, Allen County Department of EnviReal Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324. ronmental Management; Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens by Sharon See p. B2 Partridge, Tri-State Water Shed Alliance; and Building Fruit Guilds

by Scott Kreig, Three Rivers Fruit Growers Club. Cost is $40. For Thurs., April 16 more information, visit extension.purdue.edu/allen/event/27857.

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

WAYNE COUNTY, IND.: 76.78 +/- Acres, 6:30 p.m., Louis & Doris Kettler Revocable Trust, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800424-2324. See p. B2

DELAWARE COUNTY, IND.: 36.919 +/- Acres in 2 Tracts, 6:30 p.m., Horton Living Trust, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management, 800-424-2324.

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Fri., April 3

NEW PARIS, IND.: Annual Spring Collector Tractor, Toy, Literature & Memorabilia Auction,

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TRACTORS: AC 8030, MFWD, CAH, ps, 18.4-38 duals, 540-1000 pto, 7600 hrs, retirement; IH 1486, CAH, 18.4-38, 90%, 540-1000 pto, Westendorf QT Ldr w/ grapple, joystick, 4 yrs old, like new, can sell sep; AC 8010, CAH, farmer retire, 540-1000 pto; AC 7040, CAH, approx. 4000 hrs, retirement; JD 4620, dsl, no cab, engine OH, 20.8-38; JD 4440, approx 7200 hrs, 18.4-38 9 bolt duals, original straight tractor; JD 4030, dsl, no cab, quad range; Ford TW35, CAH, 18.4-38 duals, frnt wts, cold air, doesn’t use oil, 5900 hrs; Ford 7000, dsl, flat top, frnt wts, 5960 hrs; INDUSTRIAL: 2018 Case TR310 Track Skid Loader, 400 hrs, enc cab, heat, a/c, quick tach, hyds, 2 sp, 1 yr full warranty, like new; Terex Telescoping Forklift, 6000#, low hrs; Skytrak JLG 6036, 6000#, foam filled tires; PLANTERS: JD 1780, 12/23R, nt, 3 bu boxes, 4 spring HD DP; 2002 JD 1780, 6/11R, nt, 3 bu boxes, vac, 1 owner; JD 7200, 8R, cons frame, vac, poly boxes, new air pump, clutch, chains, bearings, Yetter trash whips; CIH 900, 8R-30”, end trans, nt combos, pto pump, folding hitch; IH 900, 6R-30”, nt, liquid fert; GP 1520P Bean Planter, 3pt, sharp; GRAIN DRILLS: JD 1560, 15’ 7.5” sp, dolly wheel, markers, sharp; JD 8300, 13’, 7.5”; JD VanBrundt, 10’; IH 5100, 21x7, press wheels; TILLAGE: JD 726 38’ SF, rockflex, walking tandems on main & wings, 5 bar spike drag, no welds; JD BWA 18’ Disk, cone blades; Kewanee 1100 21’ Disk; IH 490 24’ Disk, 7.5” sp, remlinger rake, coil-tine, nice; CIH 4800 24’ FC, coil-tine harrow, walking tandems on wings; IH 4500 24.5’ FC, good shovels; JD 980 25’FC, coil-tine harrow, 250# shanks, walking tandems, sharp; JD 980 FC, 3 bar coil-tine harrow, 2 new tires, new shovels; 2014 Kuhn 8000 25’ Excelerator VT, only worked a total of 700 acres; Brillion 32’ Packer, vertical fold; Brillion 32’ Packer, cast rolls, scrapers; Brillion XL144 36’ Packer, ductile rolls, no welds; Brillion XL 32’ Packer, ductile rolls, scrapers; Dunham Lehr 30’ Packer, solid rolls; Blue Jet 3x Inline Ripper, coulters; CIH 730B 7x Disk Ripper, hyd leveler, 3 bar spike drag; JD 510 7x Disk Ripper; MOWERS: Woods BB720 Brush Bull Mower, 3pt, sharp; M&W 5150 15’ Batwing Mower; FORAGE: 2016 NH 185 Manure Spreader, top beater, slop gate, like new; 2007 FNH 1411 Haybine, 9’, hyd hitch, good rolls; Agco NI 5409 Discmower, 9’ cut, 3pt, 540 pto; FNH 855 Round Baler, elec, bale kicker, retirement, sharp; Gehl 1160 Front Hay Merger; NH 1049 Stack Cruiser Hay Stacker; COMBINES: Case IH 2166, 1997, 4200/2900 hrs, ben ext, chopper, chaff spreader, rock trap, yield monitor, very good cond; AUGER CARTS & WAGONS: UV GC3500, good auger; Brent 472, roll tarp, good auger; J&M 525, corner auger, tarp, 24.5-32; 2007 UV 7200, corner auger, tarp, sharp; (2) J&M 350 Wagons; TRUCKS & TRAILERS: 2007 Transcraft 53’Step-deck Trailer, beavertail, air ride, alum wheels; 1976 IH 1700 Grain Truck; (4) Bundles of (32) Red Pine Posts; (10) Bundles of (32) Red Pine Posts; (8) Bundles of (28) Red Pine Posts; All CCA Treated!

MISC EQUIPMENT: Kewanee 40’ Elevator, pto drive, good shape; Land Pride 3pt Power Seeder; Howard 60” Rotavator Fast Hitch; (3) 1700 Gal Poly Tanks; Harvest Air Belt & Trailer; 8’ 3pt Blade; Rawson 20’ Tool Carrier, 800 gal tank, 3 system nt coulters; Yetter 12R Strip-till, hyd fold, markers, pull-type; Woods 3pt Hyd Ditchbank Mower, 540 pump; Kuhn FL102 Roto-Tiller, 8’, 1000 pto, gauge wheels, good tires; DMI Disk Leveler; 30’ Spike Tooth Harrow off JD 637 Disk; Rear Hitch off JD 637; Lockwood 2 Row Potato Windrower; Land Pride RGR1266 Roto-Tiller, new; Antique McCormick Corn Binder, ground drive, complete; UV 13’ Cultiplanter II, danish-tine, crumbler, sharp!; Yetter 20’ NT Caddy; Black 30’ Head Cart; Horse Buggy, 4 seat, lights, roll down sides, brakes, sharp; Horse Buggy, 2 seat, lights, front windshield, roll down sides, brakes; Holland 1R Transplanter, 2 seat, 6 pot, 110 gal water tank, 3pt; 20’ Storage Container; Remlinger 14’ Pull-type Harrow, rolling basket, 3 bar spike drag, 4 wheel, light kit; UV 26’ Rolling Harrow, double rolling basket, used on 500 acre farm, like new; 110 Gal Transfer Tank, 12 volt elec pump, auto shut off nozzle, like new; 18’ Harrowgator, hyd cyl; JD 201 30’ Planter Trailer, new oak floor, 7.00-15, 80%; Phoenix H14 42’ Harrow, always shedded, like new; Hyd Disk Leveler; Befco 10’ Power Harrow, sharp; AB-8B FF Grain Dryer; Bushhog 18’ Harrowgator; 3pt Yellow Bale Spear; 8’ 3pt Blade; Blue Jet 5x Sub Tiller; Bervac 25’ Baskets; Patriot 100 Seed Tender, 2017, 2 box, tandem axle, Honda 160 elec start, light kit, fenders, hardly used; Ritchie Hog Waterer; 72” Box Blade, w/ scarified teeth; McFarland 34’ Harrow on Cart, 8 bar, spike teeth; JD 130 Lawn Mower; Westfield 13”x81’ Grain Auger; MISC: (16) JD No-tills; JD Front Fuel Tank; (1) 380/85R34 Tire; Buffalo Guidance Control Box; (24) Hiniker Cult Disks; Pr Yetter 30’ Markers, complete, very nice!; Pr of Pallet Forks; Pr JD Gauge Wheels; (10) JD Weights off JD 4430; (10) Cutting Blades for Ldr Bucket; (4) JD Corn Head Gear Boxes; Pr 18.4-38 Tires off JD 8630; (12) 11L-15 T/R; (4) 12L-15 T/R; (3) 100 lb Frnt Wts; (12) JD No-tills; (3) DMI Parabolic Shanks, auto reset; (9) Ford Frnt Wts; JD 3020 Fenders w/ lights; Pr 18.4-38 Clamp on Duals; Pr 11.00-16 Tires; Pr 18.4-46 Duals 60%, 10 bolt; Pr JD 10 Bolt Hubs; (8) JD Trash Whips; IH Radiator; Pile Cast Closing Wheels; Pr Furrow Fillers; Pr Planter Drive Sprockets & Wheels; (4) Martin Closing Wheels; (6) 20” NT Blades, 4 hole; (1) 14L-16.1 T/R, 6 bolt; (4) JD Squeeze Pump; (8) IH 100# Frnt Wts, stamped; Pr JD Front Fenders; (6) JD SD Liquid Fert Tubes; 7.50-20SL T/R, 6 bolt; Pile Knock-on Cult Sweeps; Pr JD Lift Cyls; (2) 18.4-26 T/R, MFWD; (8) Martin Spike Closing Wheels; (12) Row Chain Drag; Several Piles of New 7” Sweeps; (60) Danish-tine Sweeps; 110 Gal Fuel Tank w/ pump; 20’ Drill Harrow; (5) JD 40 Series Frnt Wts; JD 40-50 Series Wt Bkt; (4) JD 70 Gal Fert Tanks; (2) JD Planter Trans; Remlinger Brush Quick-fill; IH 3588 Hood; (30) Closing Wheels, 3”, stem bearings; (15) 24” Disk Blades; Pr 14.9-46 T/R; (4) 12.16-5 Skid Ldr T/R, foam; (2) Skid Ldr Track Chains; ‘03 F-350 Utility Bed; (2) Turf Tires off 3600/3000 Ford, bolt pattern; (4) Michelin 445-50R22.5 Super Single Tires on alum rims, new recaps; (4) 255/75-17 Tires; (4) 18.4-42 Tires; (5) 24” Culverts; (22) 3’x10’ Pallets; . . . with much more to be added before the auction!

JOHN DEERE BACK-HOE – LINK-BELT EXCAVOTOR - WHEEL LOADERS – CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT - BUCKETS

John 310SG 4x4 Back-Hoe w/ext. Hoe, CAH, 7195 hrs., 4 in 1 bucket; Link-Belt 145X3 Spin-Ace with blade 3,487 hrs. 36” bucket; John Deere TC62C wheel loader; Alpha ZL30B wheel loader, Cummins diesel engine; Shock wave agricultural tree shaker; Central Fabrication 24” excavator bucket; Kraken Stump Shear; Mulch quick attach bucket 6’; Material quick attach bucket 5…

ROTOCHOPPER’S

Rotochopper B66 3,329 hrs. 755 hp, Full rebuild; Rotochopper CP118 356 hrs. CP factory refurbished…

FARM EQUIPMENT

John Deere 510 round baler; M&W Little Red wagon auger wagon w/scales; John Deere 726 soil finisher 33’ w/rolling baskets; CASEIH 575 hyd. end gate; IH 440 square baler; John Deere 3pt. 20’ drag; Woods Cadet 3pt. 7’ rotary mower; King Kutter 3pt. 7’ rototiller; Mayrath 10”x72’ Mayrath auger; Westfield 10”x58’ pto auger; many 3pt. grader blades 6’,7’,; Header cart; Running gear 12 Ton; Kilbros 1280 12ton running gear; New Idea md. 517 7’ snow blower; various running gears; John Deere Van Brunt grain drill; Massy-Ferguson 725 haybine; John Deere 6BTM 2700 plow; Landoll Till-all 15’ field finisher; New Holland 644 round hay baler; 13 shank Anhydros applicator; Top Air sprayer, 45’ boom, 500 gallon, electric controls, sprayer has been winterized, (nice sprayer); Badger Honey wagon; IH single axle manure spreader w/end gate; Blue Jet 15 Knife Anhydrous bar, hyd. fold and Hyd. shut off, Hiniker 8605 controller with cold floe tube, all cables and books for monitor, (lots of extra cables and hook up for various tractors); John Deere 1518 bat wing mower; Woods D315 batwing mower…

COMBINE: HI 1440 combine; Grain Head: HI 1020 15’ Grain Head; CORN HEADS: 2013 CASEIH 3408 8R30” corn head; New Holland 8R30” corn head, hyd. deck plates, single point hook-up…

TRUCKS &TRAILERS

2000 International Semi day cab, Md.920016X4 674000 miles, Cat C-10 engine, 9 speed trans., double line wet-Kit, 2HSCEATRXC83799; 1990 Volvo Wrecker/tow truck w/Holmes 750 twin boom, twin wench, NRC hyd. underneath axle lift with attachments, Cummins 444 hp. Engine, 9 spd. Trans 40,000 rears on air ride suspension; 1993 Volvo WG tri-Axle dump truck 17’ body 330 hp Cummins 8LL trans. T-Ride suspension 4.33 ratio, new dump body in 2017, End chassis overall in 2018, recent tires and brakes (one 0wners); 1984 Ford 8000 tandem, 58,691 miles, Cat 3208 engine, 20’ 600 bu. metal grain box w/hoist, cargo w/grain doors; International 4700 DT466 single axle dump truck, non-running; 2006 Load Max 40’ hydraulic dove tail gooseneck, electric over hydraulic brakes, winch, load lights, chain rack, tool boxes, ramp holders, many options; Hillsboro 28’ aluminum 3 axle livestock trailer; 1995 Trail King hyd. dove tail equipment trailer 46’ 2” air ride suspension, hyd. winch., 255/70R 22.5 tires ; 1978 steel hopper bottom grain trailer, 950 bu.; 1969 Wilson 35’ hopper bottom steel grain trailer, good tarp; 1978 Semi-trailer hog hauler 45’; Semi van trailer 53’; Semi van refrigerator trailer 53’; 45’ Flatbed semi trailer; Owens Classic 22’ tri-axle trailer, pinto hitch, needs floor; 2006 Ford E350 with a Supreme fiberglass enclosed utility body; 2007 Ford F-250 6.0, 118,000 miles 4x4, ext. cab; 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT 4x4 reg. cab long bed, 4.7 V-8, E-85; 2008 Jeep Commander 4x4; 2005 Ford Expedition, Eddie Bauer, 146,000 miles; 1995 Ford F-450 Super Duty Powerstroke, Auto trans.; 19’ Jerrdan aluminum flatbed, 196,036 miles; 2006 Chevy Silverado 1500, 5.3 auto 2WD, crew cab, 190,000 miles; Volkswagon TDI 4 door car, automatic, leather, (no-reverse)…

KAWASKI MULE – GENERATOR – FENCE POSTS – MISC.

AUCTION NOTE: We have a great selection of equipment, with more arriving daily. We are still accepting additional equipment. Partial Listing expect more by auction date. Sale Order: 9:00 am starts 2 rings misc. 9:30 a.m. starts Equipment and On-line Auction.

TERMS: Cash or Good Check w/proper I.D. All Listings derived from sources deemed to be correct. We have attempted to list items accurately, however, we are not responsible for misprints or no show items. When equipment is sold it becomes the responsibility of the buyer.

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AUCTION HELD AT DENNIS POLK EQUIPMENT • 4916 NORTH STATE ROAD 15 • WARSAW, INDIANA 46582 TRACTORS: ‘12 JD 9360R 4wd, PS, PTO, 3-pt., 3,609 hrs; ‘06 JD 8230 MFWD, 3,748 hrs; ‘98 CIH 8920 MFWD, 4,106 hrs; ‘93 C-IH 5250 w/loader, 2,397 hrs; ‘91 JD 4055 2wd tractor, 6,280 hrs; JD 6320 MFWD w/loader; JD 4105 MFWD w/loader, 388 hrs; ‘74 JD 4030 2wd, 6,795 hrs; ‘70 JD 4000 2wd, restored; ‘69 JD 3020 2wd, restored; JD 2030 2wd tractor w/loader, 3,310 hrs; JD 2010 2wd, restored; ‘80 IH 1086 2wd, 6,612 hrs; ‘74 IH 966 2wd, 4,426 hrs; ‘92 Kubota L4350DT MFWD w/loader, 2,036 hrs; ‘86 Kubota L2850 MFWD w/loader, 1,338 hrs. COMBINE & HEADS: ‘14 JD S680 4wd, 1,800/1,400 hrs; ‘14 JD 635FD 35’ draper; Gleaner 9250 40’ draper; JD 930F 30’ platform; JD 925F 25’ platform; JD 920 20’ platform; JD 693 6R30” corn head; C-IH 1020 20’ platform; Misc. head trailers. TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: ‘12 Kuhn 8000 Excelerator 30’ VT tool; ‘16 Great Plains 24’ TurboMax VT tool; Sunflower 4710 inline ripper; DMI Tiger-Mate II 30’ field cultivator; Remlinger 30’ rolling basket; Elk Creek 3-pt. implement caddy. HAY EQUIP & MOWERS: JD 338 square baler; JD 702 8-wheel rake; Woods HS106 6’ 3-pt. Ditchbank mower; JD HX14 14’ 3-pt. mower; BH 2010 2-pt. mower; BH ATH900 8’ 3-pt. grooming mower. GRAIN HANDLING: J&M 385 gravity wagon w/seed conveyor; Parker 2500 gravity wagon. PLANTERS: Kinze 3600 12/23 planter; (2) JD 7200 6R30” planters. LIVESTOCK EQUIP: NH 355 grinder mixer; Valmetal AM450 TMR feed mixer wagon; Kuhn 5135 Vertical Maxx feed mixer wagon; 2015 Kuhn Primor 4270M bale processor; NI 3639 manure spreader; JD L manure spreader. TRUCKS: ‘05 Peterbilt 378 daycab, Cat C15, 10-spd, 555k miles – Platinum overhaul @ 543k miles; ‘94 Freightliner FL70 rollback; ‘16 Chevrolet 3500HD 4wd service truck, diesel; 22k miles; ‘16 Chevrolet 2500HD 4wd pickup, gas, 14k miles; ‘19 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali 4wd pickup, 24k miles. TRAILERS: ‘19 Landoll 440B 45’ traveling axle flatbed equipment trailer; ‘11 Kaufman DT50 detach trailer; ‘06 Witzco RG35 Challenger detach trailer; ‘16 Direct Trailer LP 53’ alum. stepdeck; ‘99 Alum-Line 30’ enclosed trailer; ‘15 PJ 21’ tilt deck trailer; ‘14 PJ 21’ tilt deck trailer; ‘94 Maurer 20’ flatbed trailer; Retriever 2-pt. equip. transport hitch for truck. LOADER & ATTACHMENTS: Cat IT38G wheel loader, 10,692 hrs; ACS telescoping boom; ACS pallet forks; PWI 3-pt. hitch mover; (2) PWI head movers. SKIDSTEERS & ATTACHMENTS: ‘13 Bobcat S650, 1,402 hrs; ‘15 Bobcat S630, 1,991 hrs; Case 1840, 940 hrs; 84”, 78” & 60” buckets; 72” grapple bucket; receiver hitch. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT: ‘08 Cat 320DL excavator, 5,718 hrs; ‘14 Bobcat E35 mini excavator, 2,119 hrs; Deere 570A motor grader, 1,510 hrs; JLG 450AJ 4wd manlift, 3,098 hrs; Manitou MLT526 Turbo 4wd telehandler; Komatsu 15 forklift, 4,102 hrs. UTV’s: Kubota RTV1100 4wd UTV; JD TX 2wd Gator, dump bed, 176 hrs. ALSO SELLING: misc. smaller implements; pallet racking; flat steel; tractor dyno; HD jump pack; dual tire changer; PTO shafts; tires; tanks; planter parts; weights; hitches; generators; chains & binders; jacks; service manuals; huge selection of tools & parts; and much more!

DENNIS POLK EQUIPMENT

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Calendar MARCH ALLEN COUNTY March 18 – Success with Seeds and Seedlings: 7 to 9 p.m. EDT, Allen County Extension office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.; extension.purdue. edu/allen/event/27449.

March 21 – Spring Brings Flower Power: A Gardener Symposium: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT, Purdue Fort Wayne Walb Union, Union Circle Drive, Fort Wayne, Ind.; extension.purdue.edu/allen/ event/27857.

CARROLL COUNTY March 19 – Ag Day: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

EDT, Delphi United Methodist Church, 1796 US-421, Delphi, Ind. March 27 – R/C Truck Pull & Scale Tractor Pull: 7 to 8 p.m. EDT, 4-H Building - East Side Tech Room, 102 N. Fourth St., Flora, Ind.

Larew elected NFU president and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Fulton County Historical Society Museum, 37E 375N, Rochester, Ind.; 574-223-4436; www.fultoncountyhistory.org.

HARRISON COUNTY March 17 – Dining with Diabetes: 10 a.m. to noon EDT, Harrison County Extension office, 247 Atwood St., Corydon, Ind.; 812-738-4236.

March 26 – Cooking Under Pressure: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT, Harrison County Extension office, 247 Atwood St., Corydon, Ind.; extension.purdue.edu/ harrison/event/27843.

HENDRICKS COUNTY March 14 – 4-H Shooting Sports Safety Class: 9 a.m. to noon. EDT, Conference Complex, 1900 E. Main St., Danville, Ind. March 19 – 4-H Photography Workshop: 7 to 8:30 p.m. EDT, Hendricks County Fairgrounds, 1900 E. Main St., Danville, Ind.

CASS COUNTY

JOHNSON COUNTY

March 24 – Extension Homemakers Spring District Meeting: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT, Cass County FairgroundsCloverleaf Complex, 2281 E Co Rd 125 N, Logansport, Ind.

March 18 – PARP Recertfication Training: 9 a.m. to noon EDT, Scott Hall, 484 N. Morton St., Franklin, Ind.; 317-7363724.

FLOYD COUNTY

LAGRANGE COUNTY March 20 – Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT, LaGrange County 4-H Fairgrounds, 1030 East 075 North, LaGrange, Ind.; www.purdue. edu/dffs/smallfarms/small-farmconference-2020.

FOUNTAIN COUNTY

LAKE COUNTY

March 23 – Extension Homemakers Spring District Meeting: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CDT, Beef House, 16501 Indiana 63, Covington, Ind.

March 25 – Plants You Gotta Have in 2020: 1 to 2 p.m. CDT, Lake County Extension office, 2291 N. Main St., Crown Point, Ind.; extension.purdue.edu/lake/ event/27832.

LAPORTE COUNTY

March 12-14 – Antiques and Collectibles Show and Sale: 4 to 7 p.m. EDT Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday,

March 18 – Extension Homemakers Educational Retreat: 3 to 6 p.m. CDT,

John Deere Historic Site opens for season GRAND DETOUR, Ill. — The John Deere Historic Site opened its gates to the public for its 56th season on March 2.

L ocated i n Gra nd Detour, the site is the original Illinois homestead of John Deere and where he built his first self-scouring steel plow. This year, guests will be treated to an updated archeologic exhibit with new hands-on features that explore a blacksmith anvil and a replica of John Deere’s first plow. They will also learn more about the story behind the birthplace of the company.

Also new this year, the John Deere Historic Site will host a special family event on Oct. 10. Forge Into Fall Fun is the site’s signature event, celebrating the age-old trade of blacksmithing and the bounty of the fall harvest season.

Guests will see dozens of blacksmiths and other artisans crafting one-ofa-kind pioneer-era items while kids can decorate pumpkins, bob for apples, pet farm animals a nd t a ke hor s e - a nd wagon rides.

“We are very excited to open our doors to the public and show off our new exhibit, enhancing the experience guests have when they visit,” said Kristen Veto, manager of the John Deere Pavilion.

“Coming to the John Deere Historic Site is like taking a step back in time.

From watching a blacksmith demonstration to seeing how John Deere and his family lived, there is so much to explore and learn about an important part of history.”

A highlight of any visit to the site includes seeing a recreation of John Deere’s original blacksmith shop. Entering the exhibit is like walking into a time warp to early pioneer days as guests see the shop as it would have looked over a century ago.

Throughout the day, resident blacksmiths demonstrate what it takes to be a

skilled ironworker. Works created by the blacksmiths along with a variety of John Deere licensed products are sold in the site’s Gift Shop.

When visiting the John Deere Historic Site, guests can register for the free John Deere Passport Program to commemorate their experience. By collecting seals and stamps in a passport booklet, participants earn gifts and discounts along the way.

The John Deere Historic Site is open March through December. Gates are open 1 to 5 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; the facility is closed Sunday.

Admission is free.

For more information, call 815-652-4551, or go to VisitJohnDeere.com.

March 16 – Purdue Pesticide Program: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT, William Daniel Turf Center, 1340 Cherry Lane, West Lafayette, Ind.; extension.purdue.edu/ event/27826.

WELLS COUNTY March 13 – Crop Marketing and Farm Finance Workshop: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT, Wells County Community Center, 1240 4-H Park Road, Bluffton., Ind.; 765-494-7004; purdue.ag/ workshop20.

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Auctioneer: Russell D. Harmeyer IN Auct. Lic. #AU10000277 HRES IN Auct. Lic. #AC69200019

FEBRUARY

29 – FARM EQUIPMENT. Morenci, MI. Contact Ed Boyer 574-215-7653 or Ted Boyer 574-215-8100.

MARCH

2 – FARM EQUIPMENT. Wolcottville, IN. Contact Robert Mishler 260-336-9750.

800-451-2709 260-244-7606

April 16 • 6:30 p.m.

1210 N. Wheeling Ave., Muncie, IN 47303

LOCATION SW quadrant of the intersection of W Petty Rd and N Morrison Rd (300 W)

| Lauren Peacock: 765.546.7359 Owner: Horton Living Trust

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6 – FARM EQUIPMENT. Dansville, MI. Contact Robert Mishler 260-336-9750 or Eric Ott 260-4130787.

14 – FARM EQUIPMENT. Hudson, IN. Contact Rick Williams 765-639-2394.

21 – FARM EQUIPMENT. Willshire, OH. Contact Ritter Cox 260-609-3306.

28 – FIREARMS CONSIGNMENT. Columbia City, IN. Contact Phil Wolfe 260-248-1191 or Ritter Cox 260-609-3306.

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Well-Maintained Productive Cropland with Home & Shop Open Houses: Mar 14 (10:30 - Noon); Mar 26 (4:30 - 6:00 pm) AUCTION CONDUCTED BY: RUSSELL D. HARMEYER, OH Auct. Lic. #2001014575

Chris Peacock: 765-546-0592 Craig Springmier: 937-533-7126 H. John Kramer: 937-533-1101 Owner: Brown Revocable Living Trust dated August 14, 2005

To consign toys, contact Barry Maury 217-202-0967

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Saturday, March 21, 2020 • 10:00 am To consign equipment, contact Chuck Stelter 217-497-7686

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Located at Scherer’s Auction Facility, 3 miles east of Oxford, IN on 600 S; or, one mile east of Junction S.R. 352 & U.S. 52 on 600 S; or, 15 miles northwest of Lafayette, IN on U.S. 52 to 750 E & north one mile to 600 S & 1/4 mile west, on

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WOLVERTON ESTATE: 1964 John Deere 4020 gas, synchro range, year-round cab, WF, shows 4870 hours, with Freeman loader; Kewanee 12’ disc; John Deere 145 5-bottom plow; Glencoe 3-pt, 15’ field cultivator; Massey 3-pt, 10’ chisel plow; Galvanized flare-bed wagon; 3-pt, 6’ Blade; 16’ Hay rack; Pipe gates; 3-pt, 6’ Bush Hog rotary mower; IHC 3-bottom pull plow on steel; 4’x6’ Single-axle trailer; 5’x10’ Tandem-axle trailer; Acetylene cutting torch; Lincoln welder; Two 3-wheel bikes; John Deere fenders; And assorted shop tools VERLEN & WILMA WIGGINS ESTATE: Oliver 1755 gas, WF, front weights, fenders, 3-pt, 2215 hours, runs great; 1975 Ford F350 Custom, 4-speed, 360 motor, 10’ Knapheide bed & hoist, 730x16 tires, only 37,600 miles, sharp; Caldwell 3-pt 8’ blade; Woods Model 184 3-pt rotary mower; Workhorse GT 1100 lawn tractor; Power unit with cultivator & 3’ disc, sulky; John Deere 425 lawn tractor, 918 hours; Craftsman yard cart; Craftsman 9” band saw; John Deere 4’ blade Farm Primitives: Steelyard scales; Wood planes; Antique wrenches; Scythe & cradle; Lard press; Lots of screw & hydraulic jacks; Single trees; Pair hand garden cultivators; Cow kickers; Coal bucket; Wash tubs; Wagon seat; Pitcher pump; Cistern pump; License plate collection; Long-handled tools; Fence stretchers; 2-man Saws; And lots of other items too numerous to mention

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JASPER COUNTY, IN 160± ACRES WITH 143± ACRES CROPLAND and 14±acres of woods. 9±miles northeast of Rensselaer. Call Jim Hayworth 765-427-1913 or Matt Wiseman 219-689-4373. (JH/MWW05J) NEWHITECOUNTY,IN.139±AC.(138.66±TILLABLE).

These farms have quality soils and excellent road frontage. SE side of Burnettsville, IN. Call Dean Retherford 765-427-1244. (DRETH03WH) 392.4± ACRES. NEWTON CO., IN. 355± Acres Cropland of which 17.1 Acres are in CRP, Woods for Hunting/ Recreation, Stocked Pond, Beautiful setting for a home or cabin. 48’ x 96’ Machine shed with c/c floor.

Northeast of Morocco on Meridian Road and 200 S. Call Matt Wiseman 219-689-4373 or Jim Hayworth 765-427-1913. (JH/MWW06N) 82.78ACREPARCELOFLANDWITH82.24CROPLAND ACRES. This tract has excellent soils and frontage on CR 325 South. Call Jim Hayworth at 1-888-808-8680 or 1-765-427-1913 or Jimmy Hayworth at 1-219-8690329 (JH43C)

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tive advocacy in Congress and the executive branch, as well as its public relations activities.

Prior to his employ ment w ith N F U, Larew served over 22 years in Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, most recently as the staff director of the House Committee on Agriculture.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota congratulated Larew on his election.

“Rob is a smart leader and a knowledgeable voice on food and farm issues,” Peterson said. “Farmers Union will benefit greatly from his experience, and I look forward to continuing to work with NFU to protect and strengthen America’s farm and ranch families.”

John Bode, president and CEO of the Corn Refiners Association, praised Larew as “a longtime leader in the agriculture policy world.”

“His years of experience on Capitol Hill and with NFU make him a great choice to carry on the impressive leadership of Roger Johnson,” Bode said.

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4 - 1122± ACRES IN 24 TRACTS. Hancock County (Greenfield, IN). Productive Cropland • Commercial/Industrial Potential • Excellent Development Property • Tax ExchangePotential•911.38±TotalFSACropland•2020Crop Rights Conveyed. Contact Steve Slonaker 765-969-1697 or 800-451-2709.

17 – 56± ACRES IN 4 TRACTS. Allen County (Harlan, IN).

4 Bedroom Home • Small Barn • Large Multi-use Building.

Contact Jerry Ehle 866-340-0445.

19 - 874± ACRES IN 16 TRACTS. Vermilion County, IL. 2020 Farm Rights w/ Immediate Possession • Excellent Productive Farmland • Wind Income on 4 Turbines • InvestmentPotential•Tiledon40’Centers. Contact800-451-2709.

23 – 75± ACRES IN 3 TRACTS. Dane County (Deerfield, WI.) Country Home with small storage building on 3.25± Acres • 70± Acres Tillable Land. Contact Gary Bailey 260417-4838.

24 – 62 ACRES IN 4 TRACTS. Allen County (Grabill, IN) Contact Jerry Ehle 866-340-0445.

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March 17 – STEM with Extension: 4 to 5 p.m. EDT, Francesville-Salem Township Public Library, 201 W. Montgomery St., Francesville, Ind. March 19 – STEM with Extension: 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. EDT, Westside Center, 510 E. Main St., Medaryville, Ind.

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LaPorte County Extension office, 2857 W. State Road 2, Suite A, LaPorte, Ind. March 18 – Small Engines Workshop: 6:30 to 8 p.m. CDT, Seymour Sales & Service, 101 S. Forrester Road, LaPorte, Ind. March 19 – Poultry Workshop: 6 to 7 p.m.

CDT, LaPorte County Extension office, 2857 W. State Road 2, Suite A, LaPorte, Ind. March 21 – Master Gardener Garden Show: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT, Michigan City High School, 8466 W. Parr Road, Michigan City, Ind. March 24 – Dining with Diabetes Series: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT, Patricia J. Smith Hall, 0185 S. Holmesville Road, LaPorte, Ind.

S AVA N N A H , Ga. — Delegates to the National Farmers Union 118th Anniversary Convention elected Rob Larew to succeed Roger Johnson as the organization’s president. Larew Patty Edelburg, a Wisconsin dairy farmer, was re-elected to serve a second term as vice president.

Their two-year terms begin immediately and will conclude at NFU’s 120th Anniversary Convention in 2022, at which point both may seek re-election.

“I am so honored that the farmers and ranchers, rural Americans and advocates who make National Farmers Union all that it is have entrusted me with this great responsibility,” Larew said.

“Under Roger’s leadership, this organization has grown and flourished. I look forward to building on those accomplishments to further expand the reach and strengthen the reputation of Farmers Union.”

Larew, who was raised on a West Virginia dairy farm, served as NFU’s senior vice president of public policy and communications since fall 2016.

In that role, he oversaw the organization’s legisla-

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Follow flu tips to stay safe from coronavirus

By Matilda Charles

Guidance from the Centers for Disease We can’t turn on the Control and Prevention news now without hearis mostly common sense, ing about the new virus but every step is importthat’s sweeping the world. ant: Coronavirus, now called n Wash your hands freCOVID-19, is a serious quently. Use warm water virus that came out of and soap and wash for China. At this point, the a minimum of 20 secvirus has spread to more onds. Try singing “Happy than 30 countries and Birthday” to mark the there have been over time.

2,800 deaths. n Keep your hands away Protecting ourselves from your face, even if from COVID-19 is much you’ve just washed your like how we avoid the sea- hands. sonal winter flu that’s now n Cover your mouth and in high numbers in every nose with a tissue when state. you cough or sneeze and

then throw away the tissue. n Disinfect surfaces in your environment frequently, such as countertops and doorknobs. n When you go out, take a pack of antiseptic wipes to wet down grocery cart handles. If you don’t have those, put hand sanitizer on your palms and wet the cart handle. n Never share cups or plates or anything else with those who are sick. n If you have to be out in public, keep your distance. Stay at least 6 feet away from others. For

now, avoid shaking hands. n If you feel sick, don’t rush to the doctor. Call first and explain your symptoms. If they want you to come in, there might be a special entrance for you to use to keep from spreading germs to others.

Stay healthy this winter. Get enough sleep, eat well and keep your stress down. All of those affect your immune system. And if you haven’t had a flu shot, get one now. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

Hand washing with soap, water and the right length of time can slow the spread of viruses.

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DONNA’S DAY: CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

St. Patrick’s Day the traditional way

By Angela Shelf Medearis

When we see a rainbow, sunlight is being refracted by tiny raindrops in the sky. The raindrops act as prisms, and when sunlight passes through them, the wavelengths in white light are refracted by the drops to reveal the colors of the rainbow.

Discover your pot of gold

By Donna Erickson

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner on March 17, and the first day of spring follows on the March 19. Both celebrations bring thoughts of colorful rainbows to mind.

While we might not see them often, when we do, we marvel at their beauty.

Like the Irish, we ponder the thought of finding the legendary pot of gold at the end of one.

Even if rain isn’t in the forecast, enjoy a rainbow-filled day with kids learning the rainbow spectrum.

DISCOVER Learn the sequence of colors in the spectrum.

My artist friends use the catchy name “Roy G Biv” to help children remember.

The letters stand for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Then, discover the basic spectrum indoors on a sunny day. Pour water in a clear glass, tilt it sideways and move it slowly along the edge of the kitchen counter until you

catch rays of sun shining through the water.

A ribbon of rainbow colors will appear on a white floor or on a white sheet of paper placed on the floor. Look closely to see that the colors of the spectrum are on a continuous gradient. They are distinct yet meld into one another.

DRAW Create rainbow place mats for springtime snacking. Line up washable markers in the order of the spectrum, then draw a rainbow with them on construction paper. Dip a paintbrush in water and swipe it over the rainbow to meld the distinct colors into one another, creating hues.

MAKE Recycle clear plastic water bottles into artistic rainbow “Discovery Bottles,” each filled with items representing a conventional color of the spectrum.

While I rarely purchase water in plastic bottles anymore, I purchased a six-pack of Voss artesian water for this eye-catching

activity. The labels peel off easily, and the lids are handsomely designed in gray. I used the six bottles for the basic colors, combining blue and indigo.

Children over 4 years old will enjoy rooting through their craft supplies and toys for unbreakable items to drop and stuff into each bottle by color.

We used pipe cleaners twisted in spirals, crayons, ribbon, tissue paper wadded into balls, buttons and wooden beads — which add the bonus of nice sound when shaking.

Sort items in six piles by color, then fill each bottle.

Drizzle glue around the outside mouth of bottles and screw on caps tightly.

For play, name the colors, line them up in order of the spectrum and describe contents by shape.

Make up rainbow stories.

Display your rainbow on a shelf.

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

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‘Paddy and the Pig’ rode off in history

By Terry and Kim Kovel

Famous mascots, logos and characters from books and songs are being tossed aside in this modern, more politically correct world. The Aunt Jemima of today doesn’t resemble the original. Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians baseball team made his last appearance at the end of the 2018 season.

But has it gone too far?

It has been suggested that the Fighting Irish Leprechaun, mascot of the University of Notre Dame sports teams, be dropped as not politically correct. Though derived from Irish folklore, some think he is a negative stereotype that is insulting to those of Irish background.

As always, there are two sides to the argument, and so far, those who like their leprechaun are winning.

“Paddy and the Pig” was a caricature used by British political cartoonists since the 1840s to

manufacturer, depicts Paddy trying to ride an uncooperative pig that moves back and forth while Paddy holds on for dear life. It sold at a Bertoia auction in New Jersey for $1,320.

Paddy and the Pig is a caricature found in political cartoons during Victorian times. A toy based on the caricature sold recently for $1,320. represent Ireland and the Irish people.

Paddy was the ignorant peasant; the pig was the backward agricultural nation. Paddy wore breeches, a patched coat and a strange hat.

Most of the political arguments were about Irish Home Rule, a hot topic in Victorian England politics. The comic Paddy was re-created as a toy.

A version made by Lehmann, a German toy

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want to serve a traditional Irish dinner. The If you’re planning to main course is an allcelebrate the St. Patrick’s in-one-pot lamb stew Day holiday at home, you with root vegetables and are part of growing num- pearl barley with a side ber of Americans who of Northern Irish potato like to commemorate the bread. Here’s a little day with a family dinner. history about these Irish A national St. Patrick’s recipes.

Day survey found that Irish Stew: This dish regardless of family roots originated from the old or Irish heritage, the hol- ways of cooking over an iday is more about food open fire. A good Irish and family than drinking. stew should be thick and More than 30% of creamy, not swimming in respondents said they juice. celebrate at home or at a Adding potatoes and friend’s or family mempearl barley gives the ber’s house. Less than stew body and texture 14% of those surveyed and makes it a hardy, celebrated at a bar or main-course meal. local pub.

Carrots are typically This year, you may added for extra color and

interest.

The authentic Irish recipe calls for mutton, which is usually an older lamb with a tougher texture of meat, which made it perfect for stewing.

Potato Bread: Northern Ireland’s love of the potatoes is part of a rich legacy of dishes such as this recipe for potato bread, also called fadge or farls.

Typically, this bread recipe incorporates leftover boiled potatoes, but leftover mashed potatoes will work just fine. The finished bread is like a flat bread in texture. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

Lamb Stew with Root Vegetables INGREDIENTS 2 pounds boneless lamb shoulder, trimmed of fat and cut into bite-size pieces 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper, divided 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided 2 large yellow onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 or 2 medium Irish or white potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1/8-inch rounds 3 medium carrots, cut into 1/4-inch rounds 1 cup pearl barley 4 cups water or chicken broth 2 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley PROCEDURE In a medium mixing bowl, toss the lamb with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, 1/2 teaspoon of the pepper and the flour. Heat 1/2 tablespoon olive oil in a 4- to 5-quart Dutch oven set over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Add half of

the lamb, and brown on all sides, about 7 to 8 minutes total. Remove the lamb to a bowl and repeat with the remaining oil and lamb.

Remove the second batch of lamb and add it to the bowl.

Add the onions to the pot and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.

Add the garlic, potatoes, carrots and the remaining teaspoon of salt and pepper.

Cook for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Return the lamb to the pot with the barley. Stir to combine.

Add the water or chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Then, decrease heat to low, cover and simmer for 30 to 45 minutes or until the liquid is absorbed and the lamb and barley are tender. Add the parsley. Stew will be thick.

Potato Bread INGREDIENTS 1 cup mashed potatoes

(leftovers are fine) 1 tablespoon unsalted butter or Irish butter 1/4 cup flour plus more for sprinkling 1/2 teaspoon salt PROCEDURE Place the potatoes into a large, microwavable bowl.

Mix in the butter and salt.

Heat on high for 3 to 4 minutes or until warm. Mix in the flour until the mixture turns into a dough.

Split the dough into two equal pieces. Sprinkle a cutting board with the remaining flour. Roll the dough on the floured board to create two circles about 1/4-inch thick.

Cut the circles into quarters.

Brown on both sides on a lightly greased hot griddle or heavy-bottomed pan about 5 to 6 minutes. Serve warm with stew.

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‘IN MY BLOOD’ Country artist celebrates women in ag

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

The video features lyrics that speak to the core values of the special milestone: women, hard work, courage and integrity. “It is an honor to have written this song with the heart of women in agriculture in mind. These are the women who inspire and shape all of us and it makes me think of the strong women in my life I grew up looking up to. The ones who made me believe anything is possible. Their legacy is something we get to keep building upon and

that’s what I was dreaming about writing this song,�

Townes said.

Spotlighting the daily moments of females in agriculture, the video also features Townes recording the song in the studio. The revealing imagery shows female farmers of all ages evoking the spirit of the meaning behind the lyrics.

With history between Ram and FFA beginning in 1953, Ram recognizes women in agriculture and has committed to help FFA amplify this important message. “It was also such a cool ex per ience record i ng this song with an all-female team in the studio,�

Townes said. “This project has truly reminded me how many incredible women I’m surrounded by, and I’m so grateful to be a part of celebrating that in the 50th anniversary of women in FFA with this song. “I had the pleasure of hanging with amazing young FFA members in Indianapolis this past year and was blown away by their character and kindness. Makes me feel like the next 50 years are in

“I had the pleasure of hanging with amazing young FFA members in Indianapolis this past year and was blown away by their character and kindness.�

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very good hands.�

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

With the help of photos and video from platforms such as FarmHer, the perception of the farmer is evolving by bringing stories of women to the forefront of agriculture. “The studio session to record ‘In My Blood’ was such an unexpected blast of a day. The experience was made even more significant by how the subject

Country artist Tenille Townes in the studio recording “In My Blood,� produced and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, by an all-female team, in honor of the 50th anniversary of women in agriculture. matter shaped our experience of bringing Tenille’s song to life,� said Jordan Hamlin, the song producer. “Being raised by a long line of amazing women on land that had been in my family for generations, I immediately felt an inspired kinship and deep honor in helping spread these stories for women all across the country who ‘feel at home under the sky.’ Seeing the women’s

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

Plant-based diets are trending. T he Mediterranean Diet — a meal pattern with a high proportion of plant foods — was ranked the “Best Overall Diet� in 2020 by The U.S. News and World Report.

And the Produce for Better Health Foundation is encouraging people to eat more fruits and vegetables with their “Have A Plant� campaign. “It’s a way to get people stressing less about ‘I have to eat healthy,’ but thinking more about ‘If I can just eat more plants,’� said Caitlin Mellendorf, University of Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educator and registered dietitian.

The terms vegan, vegetarian and plant based are often thrown around interchangeably, but each diet includes plenty of plantbased foods with variations based on personal preference. n Plant based: Proportionally includes more foods from plant sources. n Semi-vegetarian/flexitarian: Plant based, occasionally includes eggs, dairy and meat products. n Vegetarian: Plant based,

Mediterranean Bean Salad Servings: 4

excludes animal flesh foods. n Lacto-ovo: Vegetarian, but includes eats milk, dairy and eggs. n Pescatarian: Mostly vegetarian, but includes seafood. n Vegan: No animal foods or products. “Shifting toward more plant-based foods is trending,� Mellendorf said. “In the research, we see regularly the reiteration that people who eat more produce have better health.�

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

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

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

Tips for starting a plantbased diet n Focus on vegetables: Make vegetables the focus of meals. Good options include lettuce and leafy green salads, roasted or grilled vegetables and veg-

etable sauces like tomato pasta sauce. n Snack on plants: Munch on vegetables with a healthy dip such as guacamole or almond butter. Fresh and dried fruits make great snacks, as do unsalted nuts and seeds. n Add plant proteins: Combine plant proteins with meats like beef and bean chili or egg and bean burritos. n Try a Meatless Monday: Cook a vegetarian meal once a week.

For recipes and more information about vegetarian and vegan diets, visit vegetariannutrition.net and oldwayspt.org.

faces in the photos among the fields and farms made me appreciate growing up around the same type of amazing women all over again,� Hamlin said. “The environment in the studio that day had some of those same ingredients — a group of women coming together to get the job done right, as Tenille says, with a little ‘grit and grace.’�

Townes, who has been busy paving her own path

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

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

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

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

And don’t forget your pets. It’s recommended that you should also have on hand dry or wet food in cans or sealed containers or bags, in addition to enough water for each pet.

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

The site also offers an emergency supply list that you can download and take with you when shopping so that you’ll know what they recommend you purchase.

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

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There are hundreds of different types of cancer, and they vary widely in their capacity to grow and damage the individual, and in their response to treatment. For decades, this has meant mostly surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but now includes newer treatments, including immune therapy.

While not all cancers are curable in everybody, every year brings sometimes incremental, sometimes dramatic improvements in life expectancy for individual cancers.

Some cancers that were rapidly fatal even a few years ago are now curable in most cases. Getting the right diagnosis quickly and getting to an expert in treating that cancer are critical to having the best chance of a good outcome.

Treating some cancers remains difficult, and in many cases the treatments have significant side effects. Surgery scars may impair function, and chemotherapy can cause severe symptoms and may permanently affect body systems, as can radiation.

It can be very hard on a family member observing these treatments, and if his or her loved one nevertheless succumbs eventually to the cancer, it is understandable to think the suffering the person went through was in vain.

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Research from the University of Illinois shows CubeSats, also known as nanosatellites, can detect crop nitrogen stress early in the season, allowing farmers to take action in real time.

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Space-age products Corn productivity delivered in real time UR BA NA, Ill. — University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time.

The research, published in Remote Sensing of Environment, combines field measurements, a unique in-field camera network and high-resolution, high-frequency satellite data, providing highly accurate productivity estimates for crops across Illinois and beyond.

“Our ultimate goal is to provide useful information to farmers, especially at the field level or sub-field level. Previously, most available satellite data had coarse spatial and/or temporal resolution, but here we take advantage of new satellite products to estimate leaf area index, a proxy for crop productivity and grain yield. And we know the satellite estimates are accurate because our ground measurements agree,” said Hyungsuk Kimm, a doctoral student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I and lead author on the study.

Kimm and his colleagues used surface reflectance data, which measures light bouncing off the Earth, from two kinds of satellites to estimate LAI in agricul-

tural fields.

Both satellite datasets represent major improvements over older satellite technologies; they can “see” the Earth at a fine scale — 3-meter or 30meter resolution — and both return to the same spot above the planet on a daily basis.

Since the satellites don’t capture LAI directly, the research team developed two mathematical algorithms to convert surface reflectance into LAI. While developing the algorithms to estimate LAI, Kimm worked with Illinois farmers to set up cameras in 36 corn fields across the state, providing continuous ground-level monitoring. The images from the cameras provided detailed ground information to refine the satellite-derived estimates of LAI. The true test of the satellite estimates came from LAI data Kimm measured directly in the corn fields.

Twice weekly during the 2017 growing season, he visited the fields with a specialized instrument and measured corn leaf area by hand.

In the end, the satellite LAI estimates from the two algorithms strongly agreed with K imm’s “groundtruth” data from the fields.

This result means the algorithms delivered highly accurate, reliable LAI information from space and can be used to estimate

LAI in fields anywhere in the world in real time.

“We are the first to develop scalable, high-temporal, high-resolution LAI data for farmers to use.

These methods have been fully validated using an unprecedented camera network for farmland,” said Kaiyu Guan, assistant professor in the Department of NRES and Blue Waters professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is also principal investigator on the study.

Having real-time LAI data could be instrumental for responsive management. For example, the satellite method could detect underperforming fields or segments of fields that could be corrected with targeted management practices such as nutrient management, pesticide application, or other strategies. Guan plans to make real-time data available to farmers in the near future.

“The new LAI technology developed by Dr. Guan’s research team is an exciting advancement with potential to help farmers identify and respond to in-field problems faster and more effectively than ever before,” said Laura Gentry, director of water quality research for the Illinois Corn Growers Association.

“More accurate measurements of LAI can help us to be more efficient,

timely, and make decisions that will ultimately make us more profitable.

The last few years have been especially difficult for farmers. We need technologies that help us allocate our limited time, money and labor most wisely. Illinois Corn Growers Association is glad to partner with Dr. Guan’s team, and our farmer members were happy to assist the researchers with access to their crops in validating the team’s work. We’re proud of the advancement this new technology represents and are excited to see how the Guan research team will use it to bring value directly to Illinois farmers,” Gentry said.

The article, “Deriving high-spatiotemporal-resolution leaf area index for agroecosystems in the U.S. Corn Belt using Planet Labs CubeSat and STAIR fusion data,” is published in Remote Sensing for Environment.

C o - aut hor s i nclude K imm, Guan, Gentr y, C hong ya Jia ng, Bi n Peng, Scott Wilkin, Sibo Wang, Yaping Cai, Carl Bernacchi, Jian Peng and Yunan Luo. The work was supported by NASA programs, including NASA New Investigator, NASA Carbon Mon itor i ng System and NASA Harvest Program.

Laser technology for pathogen detection WEST LAFAYET TE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have been working to develop new technologies to help stop the spread of foodborne illnesses by detecting them more efficiently.

They have developed a lanthanide-based assay coupled with a laser that can be used to detect toxins and pathogenic E. coli in food samples, water and a variety of industrial materials.

The two key features of the new technology are the incorporation of lanthanides and simple lateral flow paper-based assays.

The Purdue team created a method for combining different heavy metals that when linked to antibodies can detect multiple agents in a single analysis.

The Purdue team’s work is published in the January

edition of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

“Our goal was to incorporate easily detectable elements into a paper-based assay which is low-cost and effective,” said J. Paul Robinson, the SVM Professor of Cytomics in Purdue’s College of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of biomedical engineering in Purdue’s College of Engineering.

“Designing a technology that is both low-cost but also accurate and can detect multiple antigens simultaneously was a critical factor in our decision to work on this problem.”

The innovators worked with the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization to patent the technology in the United States and in Europe.

They are looking for partners. For more information, contact Dipak Narula of OTC at dnarula@ prf.org and reference track code 2019-ROBI-68413.

“We are very excited about the acceptance of the intellectual property as this will enhance the possibility of finding commercial partners,” Robinson said. “The potential for moving this to handheld, field deployable use is something we see in the future.”

The group is evaluating the potential for fully portable use that would allow field use in virtually any environment.

The approach uses a high-powered laser pulse to obliterate a sample, while simultaneously collecting the spectral signature of the resultant emission. These signals are then compared with

a database that translates the signals into an identification of the toxin or pathogen.

The work presented in this paper shows the proof of principle and is the basis for significant expansion of the studies.

What makes the technology effective is the linking of antibodies to different heavy metal tags. This creates a unique fingerprint of atomic signatures that can be used to determine if any particular pathogen of interest in present in a sample.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Center for Food Safety Engineering provided funding for the technology research in addition to Hatch Funds, which support agricultural research at landgrant institutions across the United States.

URBANA, Ill. — For corn growers, the decision of when and how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply is a perennial challenge.

Scientists at the University of Illinois have shown that nanosatellites known as CubeSats can detect nitrogen stress early in the season, potentially giving farmers a chance to plan in-season nitrogen fertilizer applications and alleviate nutrient stress for crops.

“Using this technology, we can possibly see the nitrogen stress early on, before tasseling. That means farmers won’t need to wait until the end of the season to see the impact of their n it rogen appl icat ion decisions,” said Kaiyu Guan, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, and Blue Waters professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

He also is principal investigator on a new study published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Being able to detect and address changes in crop nutrient status in real time is vitally important to avoid damage at critical periods and optimize yield.

In general, existing satellite technology cannot achieve both high spatial resolution and high revisiting frequency — how often a given satellite comes back to the same spot above the Earth.

Alternatively, drones can detect nutrient status in real time, but they usually can only cover local areas. Thus, their utility is limited in scale.

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With more than 100 of the relatively tiny satellites currently in orbit, Guan said, “CubeSats from Planet get down to a 3-meter resolution and revisit the same location every few days. So, right now we can monitor crop nitrogen status in real time for a much broader area than drones.”

Guan and his collaborators tested the capabilities of both drones and CubeSats to detect changes in corn chlorophyll content, a proxy for the plant’s nitrogen status. The researchers focused on an experimental field in central Illinois during the 2017 field season.

Corn in the field was nitrogen-stressed to varying degrees due to multiple nitrogen application rates and timings, including all nitrogen applied at planting, and split applications at several developmental stages.

The analyzed field was one of several in a larger study looking at nitrogen rates and timing, set up by Emerson Nafziger, professor emeritus in the Department of Crop Sciences at Illinois and co-author on the study.

“The idea was to see how much effect timing and form of nitrogen fertilizer would have on yield. This study allows an evaluation of how well the imaging could capture yield responses to nitrogen applied at different rates and times,” Nafziger said.

The scientists compared images from drones and CubeSats, and their signals matched well with tissue nitrogen measurements taken from leaves in the field on a weekly basis. Both technologies were able to detect changes in chlorophyll contents with a similar degree of accuracy and at the same point in the season.

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Consumers speak out about crop protection products KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New research shows the online conversation around pesticides is expected to explode by 212% over the next two years, even though consumers aren’t sure what pesticides are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the heart of the issue is consumer concern about food safety, the environment and “big ag,” Fleck said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use analogies consumers can relate to like the use of bug spray in homes to controls spiders or products used on lawns that control weeds.

Since its start nearly four years ago, the Monarch Challenge has flourished, receiving interest from across the agriculture and golf course industries. Farmers, farm families and golf courses have been enthusiastic about stepping up and getting involved in the program.

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20,000 milkweed seedlings shipped across the country during another successful year RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The BA SF Liv ing Acres Monarch Challenge has completed another successful year. In 2019, 20,000 milkweed seedlings were shipped to farmers and golf courses across the Midwest to help preserve monarch populations.

Milkweed is the essential plant for the monarch butterfly life cycle and the sole food source for the monarch caterpillar. It has become less common over the years, which is why the BASF Monarch Challenge encourages the planting of milkweed in non-crop areas of farm land and out-of-play areas of golf courses.

Since its start nearly four years ago, the Monarch Challenge has flourished, with increasing suppor t from across the agriculture and golf course industries. Farmers, farm families and golf courses have been enthusiastic about stepping up and getting involved in the program.

“Last year, we visited a number of events across the U.S. and learned firsthand how many farmers’ perceptions of milkweed have shifted,” said Chip Shilling, BASF North A merica Agricultural Products sustainability strategy manager.

“Milkweed has been known as a problem weed for generations,

but throughout the last few years, farmers are beginning to understand milkweed can thrive in non-productive areas of farmland.”

With the support of many this year, the challenge successfully garnered more than 2,500 farmers, farm families and others interested in monarch conservation, and led to partnerships with more than 56 golf courses.

“Every critter is a beneficial critter, is the way I see it,” said Andy Herring, a North Carolina farmer who has participated in the Monarch Challenge for several years. “I think what we’ve been doing with milkweed is going to help in some way.”

Terry Hills Golf Course, located in upstate New York, took the Monarch Challenge two years ago, and since then the milkweed has flourished.

“It has especially flourished within our community,” said Thad Thompson, superintendent at Terry Hills.

“People will stop in to look at the habitat.

They’re excited to see a golf course giving back to their community by doing something positive for the environment.”

The Monarch Challenge first spread its wings in 2016 as part of the BASF Living Acres biodiversity program. Since taking flight, over 6,500 participants have signed

up for the Monarch Challenge, and 65,500 milkweed plants have been established on farmlands and golf courses from Rhode Island to Idaho.

BASF Living Acres has put years into preserving and reestablishing milkweed habitats, and it has become greatly rewarding as more and more people become interested in aiding monarch populations.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been tasked with determining whether the monarch butterfly warrants Endangered Species Act protection.

Since the deadline for that decision is Dec. 15, it is important that the Monarch Challenge continues to spread as many milkweed seedlings as possible throughout the country next year.

“No matter the decision, we will continue to educate and grow our program in aiding monarch butterflies and other pollinators,” Shilling said. “All the measures we take are to ensure we are helping farmers and golf courses leave a sustainable operation for future generations.”

To learn more about Living Acres and the Mona rch Cha l lenge, visit MonarchChallenge. com. Follow #MonarchChallenge on social media to see what participants already have achieved.

Patents for potassium acetate technology MARION, Ohio — Nachurs Alpine Solutions, a division of Wilbur-Ellis, announced that it has received two patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its potassium acetate technology.

This technology is a method of fertilizing an agricultural crop using an environmentally friendly and versatile high potassium-content liquid fertilizer.

Speci f ica l ly, t hese patents pertain to the use and application of potassium acetate, either alone or mixed with other nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphate.

Plants extract a variety of nutrients from the soil to maintain healthy growth and development. With vital nutrients becoming less plentiful in soil, it is important to provide supplemental nutrients to the crop throughout its stages of development.

Potassium is required by a growing plant to stimulate early growth, increase protein production and activate enzyme and hormone systems within the plant.

These systems impact the plant’s ability to withstand biotic and abiotic stress and improve the plant’s resistance to diseases and insects.

Potassium also increases the efficiency of water

use and transforms sugars to starch.

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ALBANY, Calif. — U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have shown some freeze-dried berry powders — especially freeze-dried strawberry powder — can act as outstanding stabilizers in ice cream and other frozen dairy desserts.

Freeze-dried strawberry powder is so effective a stabilizer that frozen dairy desserts with it included will maintain their shape even after reaching room temperature, according to USDA Agricultural Research Service research food technologist Cristina Bilbao-Sainz with the Healthy Processed Foods Research Unit in Albany.

To be technically classified as ice cream, it must contain between 10% and 16% milkfat. Everything else is called a frozen dairy dessert.

Without a stabilizer, ice cream — homemade or commercial — can become u nplea sa nt ly cr u nchy with the growth of large ice crystals. It can happen in either or both the ice-cream maker or the freezer, when temperatures change.

Stabilizers also slow down melting, prevent wheying off, the leaking of a clear watery serum, help avoid shrinking during storage and increase your mouth’s perception of creaminess.

St andard st abilizers such as sodium alginate, guar gum, iota carrageenan, xanthan gum and carboxymethyl cellulose are commonplace. But people tend to react negatively to these unfamiliar, chemical-sounding names when they appear on an ice-cream label, assuming these must be artificial ingredients.

Actually, many do come from natural sources. For example, sodium alginate is extracted from brown seaweed.

Bilbao-Sainz became intrigued with the idea of freeze-dried fruit powders as ice-cream stabilizers when an all-natural dessert maker came looking for scientific facts about them. The possibilities of freeze-dried fruit powder have been previously known, but not technically quantified.

“We discovered that some of the freeze-dried fruit powders — especially strawberries — completely prevent the melt-down of dairy frozen desserts similar to ice cream made with whole milk, whole whipping cream, sugar and skim milk powder,” Bilbao-Sainz said.

“Freeze - d r ied ber r y powder will absorb moisture from the premix base, improving its stability and texture to the point where the frozen dessert will keep its shape even after melting to room temperature.”

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Freeze-dried berry powders can act as excellent stabilizers for ice cream and other dairy desserts. ing, adding 3.5% of either strawberry, raspberry or blackberry freeze-dried powder reduced the water available for ice crystal formation during stirring and freezing, preventing crystal growth and slowing melting. That translates to adding about 0.7 ounces for a 1-quart home ice cream maker.

Strawberry powder was the best stabilizer, completely preventing meltdown, followed closely by raspberry. While blackberry powder prevented the frozen dessert from wheying off, the foam structure still collapsed, so it lost its original shape.

Blueberry powder, on the other hand, did not prevent meltdown or ice crystal formation during refreezing, and the frozen dessert showed a little wheying off.

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HEART OF AMERICA HEREFORD ASSOCIATION Cattlemen's Livestock Center, Wayne City, IL Spring Sale Saturday March 28 2020, 11am CST SELLING 63 LOTS 9 - Hereford Bulls, 17 - Open Hereford Heifers 18- Bred Hereford Heifers / Cows 11- Hereford Cow/Calf pairs 8 Hereford Influenced (Baldy)Lots Please contact for a catalog or sale info.:

Contact: Kevin Babbs 3605 Bannister Road, Salem, IL 62881 Cell 618-322-5880 Email: kevinbabbs@sbcglobal.net heartofamericanherefordassociation.com

SWINE EQUIPMENT FARMWELD FARROWING CRATES w/SS dividers and cast iron flooring, 4 x 5 nursery pens w/tenderfoot flooring, Farmweld gestation crates.

Call 618-553-3672 MISC. LIVESTOCK EQUIP Ashland I950 scraper, 9-1/2 yard, front dolly wheels, like new condition, $28,500.

815-275-0699 For Sale 24ft feeder wagon hay and silage, Heavy duty, exc shape, several available, $4500. 618-528-8744

19 open heifers, coming yearling Reg. Hereford heifers, all shots, 217-827-5796, 217-565-3275 BRED HEIFERS, SPRING calving, BLK, BWF and Red Angus. 618-528-8744

RED AND BLACK ANGUS BULLS. (618)528-8744

MODERN MILL 2" seed blower, single ph. 7.5 HP motor, complete unit, $2,500. obo Call 574-315-9657 Roto-grind bale grinder, less waste, feed less hay, I use a 85hp w/540 or 190-hp w/1000. $12,500-obo. 618-777-2077

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Westendorf loader fits several models will fit MFWD, $3500.

618-528-8744

30th Annual Bull and Female Sale

Cattlemens Choice Sat. March 28th 1:00pm Arthur Livestock Arthur, IL

March 14, 1 pm, at the farm Fairview, IL.

LIVESTOCK TRAILERS FEATHER LITE LOW profile livestock trailer, model 81076716, great condition, maybe pulled 6 times a year. Comes with spare tire & plexieglass inserts, bought new in Jan. 2017, clean title, asking $9,250 call 309-224-8935

Selling yearling and fall bulls, open heifers, bred cows, pairs and fall bred heifers Stacked AI pedigrees EXCELLENT EPDs, calving ease genetics Call or Email for Info: 309-338-2957 or

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Larry Martin 217-433-0242 lmcs2000@gmail.com

Sale book on sunnyhillangus.com and angus.org 3 miles North of Fairview on Rt 97 SWINE EQUIPMENT

POLLED SHORTHORN BULLS, 2-yr. olds & yearlings, calving ease genetics, prices to sell, Call 217-737-1023

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(12) FARMWELD JUMBO feeders, SS 3 hole, Very Good Cond., (36) SS double drinkers, 4'; D&M portable loading chute, 217-756-8268

COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS 2000 CAT-460, 3037 Eng. 2225 sep., rice package, duals @ 70%, Ag Leader, yield monitor w/mapping, inspected yearly, shedded, clean machine, w/S30 platform, & 830 corn head, will separate, $32,500 obo Call 815-848-2300 2005 CIH-2388, 2145R, 2725 eng. Hrs., new 30.5x32 tires, chopper, 4wd, through shop, good paint, $39,850. Call 217-556-5807 436 International turbo diesel, $1600.

618-214-2194 466 JD turbo diesel out of 8820 combine, runs good, $2500.

618-214-2194 640 V8 Perkins turbo diesel, $2500. 618-214-2194

COMBINES/PLATFORMS/ HEADS Cat Track w/JD final drive, rebuilt after last used, good shape, $5000. Can Deliver. 618-777-2077 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 JD 9750 combine, 2000 eng/.

1500 sep hrs, exc tires, field ready, shed kept, top cond, $58,500. 618-927-7858, 7857 JD-9650, 2192 SEP. hrs., 3108 eng. Hrs., $48,000 obo; JD-893 corn head, $11,000 0b0; JD925 bean head, $7,000 obo Call 309-546-2831

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(618)339-2200 OPEN POLLINATED SEED corn, out produces Hybrids for silage. $67 per bu.

Plus shipping. 217-857-3377 TRACTORS 1983 JD-4650 MFWD, 5640 2 owner hours, Power shift trans.

Excellent Condition, asking $36,500. Text or call for pictures 815-693-1041 1996 JD-7800, 2600 hrs., Power shift, 42" tires & duals, $69,5000.; 1969 JD-3020, DSL, side console, dual hyd., frt & rear wts. $10,500; 1980 IH1086, dual PTO & hyd. 18.4x38 tires, $11,900; 1976 IH-986, 2100 one owner hrs. 18.4x34, dual PTO & hyd., $17,900; Ford-5610, dsl, w/loader, 429 one owner hrs., very nice. $17,900; JD-4020, dsl, side console, dual hyd. ROPS, $7,900. Call 815-592-3656

TRACTORS 2004 VERSATILE-2425, 3300 hrs., exc cond., $72,500, OBO retiring. 563-357-4300 2005 CIH MX255, 2950 hrs, near new front tires, heated leather seats, hi-flow hyd. pump 3 remotes w/power beyond, hammer strap. $75,000. Call 815-693-7695.

2007 AGCO-DT180, 4890 hrs., $70,000 obo Call 309-546-2831 2010 FARMALL-95C, 97 hp., 540 PTO, 1830 hrs., MFD, A/C, Heat, CD radio, 2 remotes, 3 pt.

W/quick attach L730 loader, w/quick attach 97" bucket, block heater, stored inside, Like New, $40,000 obo, (309)883-6340 580 Super D backhoe, w/cab, 4&1 front bucket, farmer owned, 4490-hours, $13,000.

217-348-0394 Bushhog 2615 legend, Batwing mower, $5000. JD 2950, MFD w/260 SL loader, 8ft bucket, bale spear, pallet forks, $22,000. 309-337-0482 IH-3688, 3800 HRS. dual plot hyd, cab, heat, air, 18.4x38, $14,900 Call 815-592-3656 JD-7830 MFD, IVT Trans, frt susp., active seat, higher hrs., nice, $42,500 715-574-4561 JD-8200, 1997, 6618 hrs., SN P011285, MFWD, 18.4x46, nice tractor, $60,000, Call 217-249-3912 JD-8430 2007 ILS, Guidance Ready, Firestones, Front Duals SN P016327 60 gal. pump, active seat, nice tractor 4148 hrs. $105,000 (217)379-3912 JD-8430 MFD DUALS, IVT, wts., active seat, 50" tires, HID lighting, guidance ready, 5032 hrs., $79,900 Call 715-572-1234 JD-8630, W/50 SERIES eng., air seat, 2000 hrs., on eng., $11,500 Call 618-267-1647 NH-T6175 TRACTOR, LESS than 1200 hrs. Call 219-869-5433 STEIGER PANTHER III, 310 with cummins 955.

217-274-0632 INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT 684 HOES TILE trencher, Call 608-295-9287

INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT BERMEER T600C TRENCHER, can install up to 10" field tiles 7' deep, laser ready, Detroit diesel, always shedded, great cond., $24,000 obo Call 618-530-5311 CASE 580K, CAB, 2wd, 4 in 1 bucket, 3391 hrs., $14,900; CASE-580M 4x4 cab Extend-AHoe, 1800 hrs., no welds, $38,900.; JD-310J, 4x4 cab, Extend-A-Hoe 2071 hrs., $39,900; NEW Holland B95B, 4X4, cab, Extend-A-Hoe $28,900; CASE-686 GXR, Telehandler, 4X4, good tires, $23,900; CAT. D3B Dozer, 6 way blade. $12,900 Call 815-592-3656 JD-310C, 4x4, CAB, extend-ahoe, $13,90; Gehl-553 Telehandler, 4x4 cab, 5091 hrs., $19,900 Call 815-592-3656 FARMS FOR SALE/RENT 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 FARMLAND WANTED FAMILY FARM LOOKING for tillable acreage for 2020 and beyond. Pay up to $250 per tillable ac. Call (765)719-3995 PLANTERS 1998 CIH-955 SOLID stand, 23 row planter, $13,000 Call 217-839-4284 2004 JD-1750 Conservation planter, 8R30”, 250 monitor, corn & bean units, nice low acres. $13,900 309-826-8347 2011 White 8531, 16x31, 2 bu. boxes, hi-rate sensors, pt row clutches, HD down springs, unit mount no-till cutters, Keeton seed firmers, 4 insecticide boxes, GTA console 1 monitor, always been shedded, $33,000.

217-246-5600 2015 JD-1755 PLANTER, 8 row liq. Fert., planted less than 3000 ac., Call 219-869-5433

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WAGONS & GEARS JD-716A SILAGE WAGON, SN 01266zw, 3 beaters, roof, wood floor, unloading apron ext., PTO shaft, variable floor spd. On a JD-1075 4 wheel running gear, SN 014541w with tongue ext., trails straight, well maintained and shedded, Asking $6,000.

Wanatha IN. 219-252-0510 KILLBROS 375 WAGON JD 1075 gear, Shur-lok roll tarp, Ficklin 16-ft. bean auger. Call 815-488-6553.

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Eaton, OH (937) 456.6281 Georgetown, OH (937) 378.4880 La Crosse, IN (219) 754.2423 Lebanon, IN (765) 482.2303 Leb. Spray Center, IN (765) 481.2044 Pendleton, IN (765) 778.1991 Plymouth, IN (574) 936.2523

Wilmington, OH (937) 382.0941 Winamac, IN (574) 946.6168 Wingate, IN (765) 275.2270 LS-779039

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DEUTZ ALLIS-385 6 ROW, notill, liquid fert. $1,800 Call 574-875-5648 greendrills.com (740)756-4810 Hizey Farm Service LLC Harms Land-Rollers, Brand New! 12 - $6,800, 14 -7,300, 16 - $8,000 , 24 - $14,800, 32 - $17,500, 42-$21,500 Any size Available. 715-234-1993 INT'L-800 PLANTER, 12R30”, insect & herb., Chedderman fold, hyd., 900 update, $2,600 (815)257-8712 JD 1760 12Row 30 inch planter, equipped w/insect boxes, no-till cutters, Yetter residue managers, very sharp, no welds, used on small acreage. 217-259-2168 JD-7200 6-ROW 30" planters, dry fertizler and insect boxes, like new no-till cutters seed firmers w/monitor ,$7,500 Call 812-865-3238 KINZE 3600-ASD 16-30", loaded, low acres, 2012, $67,500. Call 563-357-4300 MERIDIAN-240RT, LIKE NEW, $15,000 obo Call 309-546-2831 ROTARY 2017 JD-1570 TERRAIN CUT front mount mower, dual wheels, 4wd, air seat, hyd. Wts, transfer kit, 37 HP diesel, 72" 7iron pro side discharge mower deck, Excellent Condition, 430 hrs, $19,750. (618)836-5906, 618-535-2800 cell HAY & STRAW 5X6 NET WRAPPED Grass hay or large squares of alfalfa for horses and dairy cows. Delivery to your farm. (217)370-4342 LARGE SQUARE BALES of grass hay, 1, 2nd & 3rd cutting, Call 815-757-4951 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 STRAIGHT GRASS, $130/ton; alfalfa grass mix, $160/ton; corn stalks, $80/ton. All big square bales. 815-848-7899 UNVERFERTH PLANTER FILL conveyor, $1,500 obo; 1790 12 row liquid Fert. Attachment, $7,500 obo Call 217-473-9161 FORAGE NEW HOLLAND 27P windrow pickup, off of fp230 pull-type chopper, will fit other models.

2015 model, good as new.

309-255-4000.

Vermeer 4 basket tedder, like new, $6500. 618-528-8744

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WEST LAKE 135K App. $1,900; PMI 135K App., $1,600; DMI-4200II, 125K, App w/marker, $2,500; 3 pt. West Lake 115K 28% App. W/1000 gal, pull tank & ground driven pump, no till coulters, $3,200.

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16 ROW DAWN PLURIBUS on B&D tool bar w/liquid, $40,000; Call 815-252-7117

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CARS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS DODGE RAM 3500, flat bed truck, gas, new tires, 1000,000 mi., 4wd, Excellent, Call 217-415-6405 or Email nobes99@hotmail.com for pictures, Call 217-415-6405

I saw it in AgriNews SPRAYERS 1000 GAL. BEST Way, 60-ft. rear folding hyd. boom, hyd. pump, foam marker. Extra parts.

Raven monitor. $6,500. Call 815 946 2748, Polo, IL.

AUGER High capacity Westfield Augers Early Season Pricing

1100 GALLON TOP AIR Sprayer, 60-ft. folding hyd. boom, foam maker, Raven monitor. $6,000. (815)471-8088 2014 JD-4630 SPRAYER, 1669 hrs., 600 gal. Poly tank, 80' boom, 20" spacing, 38" tires, Greenstar-III 2630 display, Starfire 3000 receiver or globe, $79,500 636-528-6141- Jeff 8-ton Chandler stainless fertilizer spreader, $11,500; 2000 Apache 790 sprayer, 780 hours, 90' boom, $39,000.

618-839-0438 GREGSON, 1000 GAL., 60' booms, Foamer, hyd. Pump, nice. $4,900 Call 815-592-3656

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HAGIE 280 SPRAYER, 60' booms, Raven 440 mon., 4wd, A/C, 500 gal. capacity, new pump, field ready, $8,500 obo Call 618-530-5311 JD-6700, 3-WHEEL, 60-ft. boom, triple nozzles, w/drops 2375 hrs, spray star monitor, Trimble light bar, foamer, Good Cond., $41,000. 815-260-0249, can text pics.

FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT (4) 2500 GAL. green poly fertilizer tanks, $2,000 or $900. ea, Call 815-252-7117 1903 w/16ft Chandler litter bed, Cat power, torque boost trans., 4800-hours, 73x44-32, $39,500.

618-562-7550 6-Row corn liquid nitrogen applicator, 3pt hitch, red ball monitor, PTO pump, includes tractor tanks, can also spray herbicide, Delivery possible, $4500. 814-322-8090 DMI 13-SHANK 3-PT., anhydrous applicator, coulters, disc sealers, Dicky John controller, $3,500 815-693-8952 DMI-3300 NUTRI PLACER, NH3 applicator, pull type, 13shank, no-till coulters, Blu-Jet independent cover disk, Hiniker 8150 controller monitor, stored inside, exc., $15,500.

765-426-5711, Frankfort, IN 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 LOANS/ FINANCIAL SERVICES FARM LOANS. We have the Best term/interest rates avail.

Fixed rates, 5-25 yrs. 618-5282264 c, 618-643-2264, The BelRay Co, Don Welch and Jeff Welch, McLeansboro, IL MANURE EQUIPMENT BETTERBILT-2600 VAC. SPREADER, 3 knife plow down, 1000 RPM pump, good paint & tires, Call 217-756-8268

Bunker Hill Supply Co Hutsonville, IL 618-563-4464

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT/ PLOWS ETC. 2007 JD-637 DISC, 32', 7-1/2" spacing, hyd. leveling, sngl pt. dpt. control, 3-bar Remlinger, low ac. VGC., always shedded, $25,000 Call 217-304-5646

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

Cornwell Equipment, Arthur, IL 217-543-2631 BINS & DRYERS

CIH 200 field cultivator 43-1/2ft, knock off shovels, 4 bar tine harrow, hitch, exc cond.

Farmer owned. 309-224-9186 CIH-496 24' 7-1/2" spacing, 21" frt. 19-1/2 rear blades, 3-bar Remlinger harrow, Ser. JAG0162738 $7,900; IH-490, 21' 2-1/2" spacing, 19-3/4 frt., 19-3/4 rear blades, Ser. 04700004032969, $3,500; JD235, 25', 7-1/2" spacing, 21-1/4 frt, 19-1/4 rear blades, Ser. 015828A, $3,700; Brillion XL 144 33' Packer Xfold, good rolls, weld on hitch, Ser. 164772, $5,900; Krause, 2011, 15' offset disc, 11" spacing, 251/2" blades; Glencoe, 55K soil saver, New paint, Hoses & Points, $3,300. (815)592-3656

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Used Zimmatic center pivot 9 tower 1500 ft long, $15,000; Kifco water winch & 6" alum pipe, 815-303-3650 Putnam, IL

IH-496, 22' DISC W/HARROW, 7-1/2" spacing, $6,900; Sun Flower-7252, 35' Crumbler, $4,900; CIH-160, 21' Crumbler, $5,500' Kin Kutler 6' tiller, Call 815-592-3656 JD MULCH MASTER, MODEL 550, 25-FT., EXTRA SWEEPS, GOOD COND., $5,250.

812-204-4587 JD-637 32ft Disc; JD-630 25ft disk, excellent condition, 618-528-8744 JD-726 2005 34ft finisher, knock on sweeps 5 bar spike harrow, field ready, nice cond., $23,500. 815-275-0669

CAMPING & HIKING COLEMAN 30' 5TH wheel camper, by Dutch, cold weather kit, 5 remotes, much more, call for more info. 765-654-7473 ELEC. MOTORS/GENERATORS

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

JD-980, 24' FIELD cultivator, 5bar harrow, very nice, $10,900; Salford 24' Vertical till, $15,900 Call 815-592-3656

Winco Generators. PTO portables & eng. sets avail., Large Inventory. Albion, IL. Waters Equip. 618-445-2816

Krause TL6200-45 45' Soil Finisher w/knock-on sweeps, updated, walking tandems, single point depth control, rear hitch, plumbed w/hyd. Motivated seller. 269-876-8939, Galien, MI

CARS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS

KRAUSE-8200 CLASS II, 25' with rolling basket, Call 219-869-5433 LANDOLL-876 TILLOLL 30' soil finisher, Excellent Condition Located near Yorkville, IL. $23,500 Call 630-669-0437 M&W-1875, 7-SHANK W/HARROW, great shape, $7,500 obo Call 815-848-2300 FEED & GRAIN Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC Buying Corn Clint Davidson Commodity Mgr 10406 N 1725th St Palestine, IL 618-586-2321 or 888-586-2321

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

While They Last. Call Place Order. Brush Enterprises, Bethany, IL 1-800-373-0654 SHIVERS DRYER SYSTEM for a 30' bin, w/level dry, 2 blue flame fans w/turbo fans, inclined auger and unloading auger, still set up can see work, Call 618-267-1647

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Deere adds C650 Air Cart for small-grains producers OLATHE, K AN. — John Deere has expanded its lineup of air-seeding equipment to include its new C650 Air Cart to help small grains producers and custom farmers seed more acres per day in less time. The C650 Air Cart can be ordered in either tow-behind or tow-between configurations.

Thanks to its 650-bushel capacity, high-flotation tires and fill rate of up to 100 bushels per minute, the C650 Air Cart helps customers be more productive by seeding more acres per day in less time.

“This cart fills a need for producers or custom operators who are looking for an air cart with a capacity of more than 550-bushels, without having to make the leap up to our 850-bushel cart,” said Ryan Hough, marketing manager for planting and seeding for John Deere.

Integrated John Deere technology helps make the C650 Air Cart a smart cart. Technology includes a durable, digital cartside display to make filling and calibration push-button easy.

ActiveCal is an on-demand calibration feature that allows operators to automatically calibrate meters right from the Gen

4 Display in the cab. An integrated wiring harness provides connections for five camera locations, one in each tank and a fifth that provides a rear-hitch view.

The C650 Air Cart can improve seeding accuracy, too.

SectionCommand manages seed and fertilizer application by minimizing overlaps and skips.

AirPower 2 provides dual fans, one for seed and one for fertilizer. Thanks to large, 3-inch primaries, AirPower 2 can accurately deliver product rates across the full width of even the widest air seeding tools, from opener to opener for consistent product application.

Additional features found on the larger John Deere C850 Cart are also included on the C650, including hydraulic rear disc brakes, in-tank camera mounts, LED working lights, conveyor weather cover and digital tank air pressure monitoring.

The C650 is compatible with select hoe drills and no-till drills.

See your local John Deere dealer for a complete list of compatible drills.

A Relative Flow Blockage Detection Performance Upgrade Kit from John Deere can also

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The C650 is compatible with select hoe drills and no-till drills. See your dealer for a list of compatible drills. be added to the C650 to make it compatible with competitive tools and tractors.

“This gives operators greater

confidence from row to row in John Deere will begin taking product applied regardless of orders for the C650 Air Cart the brand or age of their tools,” starting June 1, with shipments Hough said. taking place later this fall.

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FMCSA administrator gives update on trucker issues

By Jeannine Otto

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Indiana Corn Marketing Council Biofuels Director Helena Jette (left) accepts the Driver of Change — Ethanol Education award from Mark S. Smith, program manager of technology integration at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Kerri Garvin, director of Greater Indiana Clean Cities, during a ceremony in Indianapolis on March 3.

Driver of Change Greater Indiana Clean Cities recognizes ICMC INDIA NAPOLIS — The Indiana Cor n Ma rketing Council received the Driver of Change — Ethanol Education award from the Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition during the organization’s annual awards reception in Indianapolis.

The Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition annually recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the Coalition’s mission advancing alternative, domestically fueled transportation including energy efficient technologies across all sectors in Indiana.

“This award recognizes ICMC’s work in improving the information and education about ethanol, an alternative fuel produced with Indianagrown corn and supported by the Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition,” said Helena Jette, ICMC biofuels director.

“There are only a handful of awards given each year by the Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition, recognizing the leaders of alternative fuels in our state.”

Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition stakeholders include fuel providers, equipment manufacturers, schools, municipalities, state agencies, U.S. Department of Energy

staff and Clean Cities support staff from the National Energy Technology Lab, National Renewable Energy Lab, Argonne National Lab and many others.

“Greater Indiana Clean Cities is on the ground helping us to deploy alternative fuels, such as biodiesel and ethanol to Indiana fuel consumers,” said ICMC Vice President Mike Beard, a corn farmer from Frankfort.

“This is a great honor because Greater Indiana Clean Cities is a tremendous partner for what we do. They host educational sessions, workshops, webinars and other outreach measures to help companies and consumers adopt the use of ethanol. By increasing ethanol use, we are supporting the Indiana farmers.

Greater Indiana Clean Cities also advocates for renewable fuels to elected officials on both a national and state level.”

Indiana is the fifth-largest producer of ethanol in the United States. The state’s 14 ethanol plants pump out an estimated 1.2 billion gallons of ethanol each year.

Year-round sales of E15 is one of last year’s big steps forward for ethanol, Jette said.

E15, also known as Unleaded 88, has a higher-octane rating of 88, but costs less than regular unleaded gas, is safe for engines and is better for the environment. This gives retailers a lower-priced fuel to help attract new customers to their station.

PEORIA, Ill. — Dan Meyer is no stranger to his audience. The Illinois division administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has spoken to the truckers, owner/operators and truck company owners at the Mid-West Truck and Trailer Show in the past.

Meyer brought news and updates on different issues and programs that FMCSA is working on to ease driver shortages, hours of service issues, and maintaining and increasing safety for truck drivers and other travelers.

“We’ve been working to reduce the regulatory burden on the industry and we’ve been successful in some of that effort.

As we continue to do that work, FMCSA is developing more efficient and effective rules to promote safety and reduce costs,” Meyer said.

ELDS On Dec. 16, 2019, the use of electronic logging devices, became mandatory in the U.S. With that, automatic on-board recording devices that were temporarily grandfathered into the rule are no longer allowed in place of ELDs. Meyer said the mandatory ELD rule has shown positive results and thanked the trucking industry for cooperation.

“Since the out-of-service criteria put the lack of an ELD or a grandfathered AOBRD as an outof-service criteria, less than 1%, only 42,000 of the over 5 million inspections conducted since the out-of-service criteria went into effect, have resulted in a driver being cited for operating without the required ELD or grandfathered AOBRD,” Meyer said.

Meyer said the transition to ELDs also has shown results in other areas.

“Over the last year, our hoursof-service violations have decreased by 52%, as well, so it’s reducing the number of violations we’re finding roadside,” Meyer said.

DRUG AND ALCOHOL CLEARINGHOUSE The Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse had some technical glitches in its initial phases but is up and running, Meyer said.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says the mandatory ELD rule for truckers has brought positive results The clearinghouse is an online registry where drivers register any drug or alcohol violations and where employers and others can check to see if drivers are in violation. Meyer offered tips to those trying to set up new accounts to make sure they have an updated email address, phone number and mailing address so they can receive information from the clearinghouse.

“The clearinghouse rule does require that carriers query all new drivers and do an annual query on all existing drivers so you are going to have to do that going forward,” Meyer said.

HOURS OF SERVICE Along with the move to ELDs, Meyer said FMCSA also received feedback about the current hours of service.

“We put forward a proposal.

We are evaluating those comments right now. We received over 3,000 comments to the rule that was proposed,” Meyer said.

The rule that FMCSA put forth includes changes to the shorthaul exemption by lengthening the maximum on-duty time to 14 hours and the distance from 100 to 150 air miles; extension of the adverse driving conditions exception by two hours; increasing flexibility for the 30-minute break; modifying the sleeper berth exception to allow drivers to split the 10 hours off duty time into two periods; allowing drivers to pause their 14-hour drive time window with a break of at least 30 minutes but not more than three hours.

ENTRY-LEVEL DRIVER TRAINING FMCSA is delaying the rule that will require any new CDL holders to have entry-level training before they can take the road test required to obtain a commercial driver’s license. The delay pushes the rule back to Feb. 7, 2022, Meyer said.

“The extension is reflective of our efforts to develop and secure an effective website and training registry for the rule. It will work like the medical registry, where the companies will certify themselves and they will have to enter their information on the training registry, then the candidates will select a trainer from that registry,” Meyer said.

MILITARY PILOT PROJECT A program announced in 2018 could offer some hope to the industry that is struggling to find drivers.

FMCSA is in the midst of a three-year pilot program to allow 18-, 19-, and 20-year-old military veterans who have the military equivalent of a CDL to operate trucks in interstate commerce.

“Those participating in the program must have the training and experience from one of the seven military occupational specialties, or MOSs, and must be sponsored by a par ticipating tr ucking company,” Meyer said.

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

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Pork industry honors Marsh State vet earns Distinguished Service Award KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The National Pork Board presented its Distinguished Service Award to Bret Marsh during the National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City. Marsh is the state veterinarian at the Indiana Board of Animal Health.

Each year, the Distinguished Service Award is presented at the U.S. pork industry’s annual business meeting to recognize an outstanding leader’s lifelong contribution to the pork industry.

“Bret has transformed the way producers work with government offi-

cials on regulatory issues,” said David Newman, National Pork Board president and a producer representing Arkansas.

“What he was able to do in Indiana, and then Marsh transfer to a national level, has not only improved animal health and well-being, but his efforts have elevated the industry’s working relationship with state and federal government agencies.”

Marsh grew up in rural Indiana and earned a degree in animal science from Purdue University. After graduating from Purdue’s veterinarian medicine school, he began his career in regulatory medicine

as the director of swine health programs with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health. Marsh has served as the state veterinarian for Indiana since 1994.

As a leader in multiple aspects of the pork industry, key highlights of Marsh’s service include: Co-chairing a working group to address Influenza in exhibition swine, serving on a special detail to the U.S. secretary of agriculture’s Homeland Security staff, serving on the national PEDV Task Force and the National Swine Disease Council and helping to make Indiana one of the first

states to implement mandatory premises identification. Marsh has leveraged his key governmental position to effectively serve his office, producers, veterinarians and allied industry.

T he National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council also presented Ken Horton, former state executive for the Texas Pork Producers Association, the Paulson-Whitmore State Executive Award.

The award, which recognizes outstanding leadership and commitment of state pork association executives, is named in honor of two top leaders — Don Paulson, past Minnesota state pork executive, and Rex Whitmore, past Wisconsin state pork executive.

Training available for Certified Livestock Producer

By Ashley Langreck

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Department of Agriculture is currently hosting training for Hoosier livestock producers who are interested in the Certified Livestock Producer Program.

It is a voluntary program which is open to all livestock species and recognizes producers that go the extra step in their farm management in the areas of environmental stewardship, animal well-being, biosecurity, emergency planning and community relations.

Bruce Kettler, the director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, said the trainings

are meant to help producers understand what the certified livestock program is about and help them understand the different parts of the program they must complete.

Kettler said the training breaks down what the program looks like and how producers will have to set up and implement a biosecurity plan on their farming operation and ways to create an emergency plan with the help of local emergency personnel.

Another big part of the livestock program, Kettler said, is that all participants must take part in a quality assurance program for the particular species of livestock that they raise.

“We are proud to say that

the number of Certified L i ve s t o ck P r o duc e r s who have completed this training grow each year.

Currently, we are up to 145 producers,” Kettler said.

He said the Certified Livestock Producer Program is a great opportunity for Hoosier livestock producers to become prepared and master safety protocols in the event of an emergency.

“I encourage all livestock producers to look into this program and see if it is a good fit for them, their families and their farm,” he said.

Training sessions will be held: n March 13, 10 a.m. at the Purdue Extension office in Elkhart County. n March 17, 11 a.m.

National Dairy Board to award 13 scholarships

ROSEMONT, Ill. — Applications are being accepted for college scholarships that are awarded by America’s dairy farmers and importers through the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.

Eleven scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded, in addition to a $3,500 James H. Loper Jr. Memorial Scholarship to one outstanding recipient.

NDB funds, in part, Dairy Management Inc., which manages the national dairy checkoff program.

Undergraduate students in their sophomore through senior year for the 2020-2021 academic school year and majoring in one of the following fields are eligible: communications/public relations, journalism, marketing, business, economics, nutrition, food science and agriculture education.

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Prepare livestock for severe weather

By Ashley Langreck

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INDIANAPOLIS — As March gets underway in Indiana, the chance of a pop-up spring shower or severe thunderstorm is right around the corner.

Sandra Norman, director of companion animals and equine at the Indiana Board of Animal Health, shared important advice for livestock producers to keep in mind as they prepare for potential severe spring weather.

Nor man said live stock producers need to make sure that as severe weather season quickly approaches they have a full stock of food and water to care for their animals, in case the ability to get feed and water to their farming operation is no longer viable.

Norman said that one can never predict if a storm will knock out power or access to get to and from a farm, like the recent tornadoes that ripped through Tennessee did.

Norman stressed farm-

ers need to make sure to have a backup pump so that adequate water is available to their livestock.

Norman also noted that sometimes during severe weather it’s safer for livestock to be outside in open pastures and not shut in a barn.

“Sometimes animals are safer outside in the open pasture, because a barn could come down and crush them or catch on fire,” she said, adding that there are some exceptions to leaving animals in the barn, such as newborn animals.

Norman said producers also should make sure to have a generator on hand, because during severe weather power is usually the first thing to go, and farms need power to run pumps and milking equipment.

Ashley Langreck can be reached at 800-4269438, ext. 192, or alangreck@agrinews-pubs. com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_ Langreck.

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Prescription for profits Amino acids can boost milk checks

By Martha Blum

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS

FREEPORT, Ill. — A total mixed ration is a prescription for dairy herd profitability.

“You want your cows to give a lot of milk, be healthy and rebreed. Those are the signals for profitability,” said Phil Cardoso, University of Illinois Department of Animal Sciences associate professor.

“A cow seven days in milk needs a lot of energy and usually she can not get all the energy and that’s when she goes to negative energy balance,” Cardoso said during the Illinois Dairy Summit hosted by the Illinois Milk Producers Association and U of I Extension.

“Metabolizable protein is the same story, so she has a negative protein balance, as well, which usually lasts three to four weeks, and that is a big deal,” he said.

Research shows that a ration for dairy cows with 13% crude protein or 25% crude protein results in the same milk production, Cardoso said.

“That tells us the crude protein is not a good determinant on how the cows are performing,” he said. “Metabolizable protein is what cows use and should be our focus and proteins are made of amino acids.”

The two limiting amino acids for milk production are methionine and lysine, Cardoso said.

“We need to formulate diets with the focus of getting the cow these amino acids,” he said.

“Check your cattle diets. They should have 1.200 grams of metabolizable protein per day during the pre-fresh period,” he said.

“Talk to your nutritionist because you need to know the profile of that protein so the amount of methionine and lysine are sufficient,” he said. “It should be a 2.8-to-1 ration with 2.6% of the protein made of methionine and 7% made of lysine.”

The challenge for researchers,

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University of Illinois professor Phil Cardoso discusses the importance of including amino acids in dairy rations to increase the milk production. He encourages dairymen to formulate diets with the focus on making sure they contain adequate amounts of methionine and lysine.

Cardoso said, is to determine where energy is coming from in cow’s diets.

“I can have a diet with high fat and low starch or high starch and low fat with the same amount of energy,” he said. “So, we need to figure out which component of energy will work better for your cows.”

Cardoso talked about a research project where cows were fed rumen-protected lysine before and after calving.

“Cows that were fed lysine preserved a little more body condition score,” he said.

“If you feed lysine before calving there was a tendency for the cows after calving to eat more,” he said.

Increasing the amount of protein cows produce in their milk can impact the profitability of a dairy herd. A herd of 100 cows producing 90 pounds of milk per cow per day totals 9,000 pounds of milk production per day.

“With 3.3% protein, if you increase that by 0.2 and you’re getting paid $3.65 for protein, that’s an increase of $65 per day or $1,900 per month,” Cardoso said.

“With the cost to feed amino acids at 20 to 30 cents, that equals

$600,” he said. “So, it costs you $600 to get almost $2,000, which is a no-brainer since it is almost a 4 to 1 ratio of return.”

At the U of I, a research project that included 32 cows split into two groups looked at the impact of feeding methionine during heat stress.

“For the heat stress we used electric heat blankets,” Cardoso said.

“We evaluated the cows for nine days for the baseline and the next nine days they had heat stress.”

During the heat stress period, the cows had higher vaginal and rectal temperatures and the respiration rate was pretty high, as well as the heart rate.

“The intake from the two groups was pretty close, but the one thing that surprised us was the heat stress cows produced more milk,” Cardoso said.

“The cows dropped less milk protein with heat stress when they were fed the rumen-protected methionine, and the same thing happened with casein,” he said.

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

Survey: Consumer confusion about plant-based fake meat SAN ANTONIO — The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association released survey results that show widespread consumer confusion regarding the ingredient composition and purported benefits of plantbased fake meat products.

In an online survey of more than 1,800 consumers, less than half of the respondents understood the labeling term “plantbased beef” was intended to describe an entirely vegetarian or vegan food product.

One major source of confusion uncovered by NCBA’s research is that approximately one-third of surveyed consumers believed that plant-based fake meat products contained at least some real beef in them.

When asked to evaluate specific product labels and marketing materials from some of the leading plant-based fake beef products currently on the market, the results were astonishing: n Nearly two-thirds of respondents believed the fake meat products produced by Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and LightLife contained real beef or some form of animal byproduct. n 32% of consumers who were shown a package of Beyond Meat’s “Beyond Burger” plantbased patties — which features a cow icon — told researchers that they thought the patties contained at least small amounts of real meat. n 37% of consumers who were shown a package of Lightlife’s “Gimme Lean”, which features the word “Beef” highlighted in a red box, said the product contained at least some real beef. Neither product contains any real beef.

“The fact that so many consumers look at these labels and think that the products include meat or other animal by-products is a clear sign that the misleading labeling and deceptive marketing practices of plantbased fake meat companies has caused real consumer confusion,” said NCBA President

Jennifer Houston.

“Many of these fake-meat products purposely use graphics and words that trade on beef’s good name, and it needs to stop immediately. Consumers rely on names and product packaging to inform their purchasing decisions, and they have a right to know that this information is accurate and not misleading.”

When asked to rank plantbased fake meat versus beef on a host of food attributes, the results were even more startling.

For example: n 44% of consumers believed plant-based products were lower in sodium, when leading plant-based fake beef is anywhere between 220% to 620% higher in sodium than the same size serving of real ground beef. A mere 24% of respondents correctly identified beef as being lower in sodium. n Scientifically speaking, beef is considered to be an unprocessed or minimally processed food, whereas plant-based fake meat products are classified as an ultra-processed food product. Unfortunately, 34% of respondents believed plant-based fake meat to be less processed and another 34% believed fake and real beef products were equivalent on the food processing scale. n On the broad category of healthfulness, more than half of consumers believed plantbased meat was better.

“This research is a wake-up call for our industry, the news media, and for federal regulators,” Houston said. “We in the beef industry need to do a better job educating consumers about the fact that beef is a nutrient-rich source of high-quality protein and essential nutrients that can play a key role in any healthy lifestyle. We also need reporters and regulators to understand how many consumers are confused and/ or misinformed about exactly what’s in these new plant-based alternatives.”

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Expressing our views in D.C. One of the main themes of today, and likely all of 2020, is cautious optimism. Caution, because many questions remain in the coming months concerning trade, purchase commitments and farm income.

And optimism, because Richard new beginnings on the Guebert Jr. trade front give hope for improved export Illinois Farm markets and farm profBureau itability.

During the last week of February, I had the great opportunity to travel to D.C. and share some of this cautious optimism with our country’s legislators. On Feb. 26, I testified at the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means committee hearing.

The hearing was held to discuss the U.S.-China trade relationship, competition and the recently implemented “Phase 1” agreement. I was one of two farmers giving testimony on a panel of six.

During my testimony, I explained the importance of trade to Illinois farmers, the impacts of the trade war and reasons for optimism.

I also spoke of the reassurance I received while meeting with Chief Agricultural Negotiator Gregg Doud concerning the “Phase 1” agreement, which went into effect on Feb. 14.

The U.S.-China “Phase 1” agreement is an 86-page agreement, 27 of which relate to agriculture. Within those pages there are over 50 specific issues to be fixed and over 50 timelines going along with each of them.

Ambassador Doud spoke to some of these issues and of the enormous amount of effort it took between the two countries to hammer out a deal.

Some would say this agreement doesn’t go far enough in addressing some of those issues. To that, I would say that this deal was never intended to address all the issues. Arguably, doing so would take years — years that farm country doesn’t have as prices decline and markets shrink.

I look at this as a beginning. We are at the beginning of an exciting new chapter as we patiently await the benefits of this new trade agreement.

We must manage our expectations going forward. Illinois Farm Bureau recognizes that China is managing a deadly coronavirus outbreak and that the billions of dollars’ worth of agricultural purchases called for in the agreement have not happened yet. U.S. Department of Agriculture economists have not built those anticipated “Phase 1” sales into their export reports.

Understandably, I’ve heard concerns about China’s credibility and their history of being a rule breaker.

What’s important about this agreement — in terms of enforcement — is that it lays out specific and unique enforcement mechanisms to hold each country accountable in their promises.

If China doesn’t live up to what it’s agreed to, the United States has the right to implement tariffs proportionate to the value of whatever the issue at hand is — and the other side cannot retaliate.

One of five Illinois Farm Bureau 2020 board priorities is working to improve farm income and profitability, including continued efforts to restore and expand global trade relationships. “Phase 1” is a good start.

Getting an agreement into place has been a long time coming, and the jury is still out to see where this goes and how soon China can come back to the U.S. marketplace.

It was a great honor for me to express the views of our membership about how this China “Phase 1” trade deal impacts them and what they see going forward.

My full testimony is available at www. ilfb.org/media.

Grain bin safety, especially with the condition the grain is in this year, is a high priority. If entry is unavoidable, please have an observer stationed outside to get help immediately if needed.

Even one accident is one too many.

Richard Guebert Jr. is the president of Illinois Farm Bureau. His family farm in Randolph County grows corn, soybeans and wheat.

The end is nowhere in sight In just one, unwelcome week in America, the coronavirus drained $3.6 trillion from the stock market, clipped Apple shareholders for $220 billion and sent millions of Americans to stores to Farm & Food buy every facemask, surgical glove and galFile lon of bleach they could get their now-sanitized Alan Guebert hands on.

It’s what we do; we panic first and ask questions later.

Well, it’s now later and questions are rolling in. The biggest, “What’s next?” has no clear answer, but most national governments — including ours — have finally seen enough to act.

In their first coordinated move, the world’s central bankers informally agreed to lower target interest rates to stave off what many forecast will be a 0.5% to 1%, virus-affected slowdown in the global economy.

The high side of that number, 1%, sounds tiny but, it’s actually a $900 billion hit on the estimated $90 trillion world economy.

What’s $900 billion in terms of jobs?

It’s hard to calculate on a global scale, but in 2017, Georgetown University estimated that a $1 trillion infrastructure-spending plan for the United States would create 11 million jobs. As such, it’s a safe bet that a $900 billion hit to worldwide growth would eliminate at least as many jobs.

More importantly, some market seers now claim the U.S. Federal Reserve

Remember the Magic 8-Ball? Inside the toy is an object that displays random answers to any question you might have. Will it rain tomorrow? “Without a doubt.” Will it rain money? “My sources say no.”

Looking over the Zippy Duvall various forecasts for the farm economy, I feel American Farm Bureau as if I’m looking at a Magic 8-Ball, because Federation there are many possible answers.

Speaking at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Outlook Forum, the department’s chief economist, Rob Johansson, said that farm exports would go up this year as China increases its imports of farm products from the United States.

China agreed to as much as $40 billion in agricultural, forestry and seafood imports under the new “Phase 1” trade deal with the United States, but until more evidence presents itself, Johansson and others are content to say the ag total will be closer to $14.5 billion in 2020. “Outlook good.”

That $14.5 billion estimate is a slight improvement over the $13.8 billion we’ve seen over the past year, but it’s still below the almost $20 billion in U.S. agricultural exports to China in 2017, before the trade war began.

China’s problems with African swine fever and, now, coronavirus have dampened demand for soybeans and other agricultural products, but any increase is good news.

It’s also important to realize that the United States’ share of China’s market has shrunk as China looked to our competitors to fill their market basket.

In 2016, imports from the United States made up 22% of China’s total agricultural imports by value. By 2018, our share had dropped to 12%.

Now, with China’s new “Phase 1”

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commitments, we can expect our share to grow, but our competitors aren’t walking away from such a huge market.

We certainly have the potential to reach $40 billion per year in agricultural exports to China, but U.S. agriculture will have to fight for market share to achieve that goal. “Cannot predict now.”

One prediction that’s been consistent so far is that we’ll have more farm goods to find markets for in 2020. Most forecasts assume that farmers will plant and harvest more crops this year because they won’t face the freezing, wet weather that kept many of them out of their fields last spring. “Signs points to yes.”

Of course, that’s great news for farmers and ranchers. A good crop is what we work so hard to achieve. But it also puts pressure on our prices. “Outlook not so good.”

For 2020, cash receipts from crop and livestock sales are projected at $384.4 billion, up 2.7% from 2019. However, the higher cash receipts will not fully offset the loss of Market Facilitation Program payments. If you take away trade support and other federal support, net cash income will be down 2% this year.

Agricultural markets aren’t like a water faucet; it will take time to go from a trickle to a steady stream. In the meantime, farmers and ranchers still have to buy inputs, pay interest and, for quite a few, pay rent.

That could make this year difficult, even if exports and cash receipts are on an upward trend. So, have we turned the corner in the farm economy? “Ask again later.”

Shortly before the Agricultural Outlook Forum, USDA released its long-term projections for agriculture — all the way out to 2029. USDA is careful to emphasize that projections are not a forecast.

The projections are based on assumptions that the state of play at the time the report is written are continued for

the entire projection period. For this report, that meant that China’s retaliatory tariffs of 25% or more would remain on U.S. agricultural exports. “Very doubtful,” as China already is reducing tariffs on some agricultural products under the “Phase 1” agreement.

Still, the long-term projection is for prices for most crops, except soybeans, to rise slowly over the next decade.

That’s good news, because if you then take away the assumption about retaliatory tariffs remaining in place, prices should fare even better than projected.

The report also says relatively low feed costs will benefit livestock-sector returns. Meanwhile, population in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, where the United States currently is seeking new trade deals, is expected to grow modestly.

Even where population growth rates are slowing down, they’re doing so because of rising incomes and higher life expectancy, both of which, “without a doubt,” benefit demand for higher-value farm goods.

Finally, the report projects the value of the dollar will decline slightly as the currencies of major trading partners appreciate or remain steady. That also will benefit demand for U.S. agricultural exports. “Signs point to yes.”

When it comes to any economic outlook and, especially, long-term projections, the answer is bound to be “reply hazy, try again.” But it sure is good to see a few good forecasts and projections to pin our hopes on as many of us prepare to plant spring crops and welcome spring flocks, calves, lambs and piglets.

One thing I know is the American farmer and rancher will keep doing what we do best — being highly efficient and productive and meeting global demand for our high-value farm goods. “It is decidedly so!”

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Zippy Duvall, a poultry, cattle and hay producer from Georgia, is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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production to thin the oversupplied market. OPEC’s muscle, however, is overmatched as China’s newest export, coronavirus, has now hit oil importers like Japan, South Korea and Italy.

The waves caused by China’s slow action on its epidemic are now also hitting U.S. farms and ranches.

DTN contributing analyst Elaine Kub noted in late February that the “shocking collapse of freight demand out of China, which accounts for 40% of global dry bulk seaborne shipments,” has dropped shipping costs so low that “you can hire a big ocean vessel” — with a 2 million-bushel cargo capacity — for “around $500 per day,” or one-third its usual cost.

Kub additionally notes troubling signs of virus-slowed ag exports. U.S. Gulf ship loading in mid-February was only 80% of normal. Also, slow grain sales to the “top five U.S. corn customers have stunted rail movement not only to the ports, but also south across the border.”

U.S. meat exports are backing up too, reports the March 2 Wall Street Journal. Incredibly, nearly 1 billion pounds of frozen chicken, a 12% increase over normal, currently crowd U.S. warehouses. Frozen beef and pork are now stacking up, too.

All portend a long, slow recovery once the world and the U.S. truly stop the coronavirus’ still mysterious, steady march. That end, however, is nowhere in sight.

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will make another, and possibly even a third, interest rate cut in the coming (election) year to ensure U.S. companies remain well positioned for recovery.

If so, the Fed-weakened dollar is welcome news for U.S. ag exports.

Cheaper dollars lead to more exports, right?

Usually, but this is not any usual time. In fact, forecasts Refinitiv, a financial data firm owned jointly by Blackstone and Thomson Reuters, deep U.S. interest rate cuts are just as likely to fuel “an all-out (international) currency battle” that will worsen today’s tariff-based trade wars as much as help them.

As Refinitiv sees it, few coronavirus-weakened nations can afford to concede crucial global markets to any competitor — including the American elephant — without weakening their already sickened domestic economies.

That means they will fight U.S. rate cuts with cuts of their own and, just like that, the world’s economy staggers toward more problems.

It makes frightening sense. Let’s hope it makes frightening sense to the White House, too.

A more focused look at some key commodities proves the virus has already sickened global markets like crude oil. Since Jan. 1, crude futures prices have tumbled from near $65 a barrel to under $50 a barrel. Hard hit Chinese oil imports, estimated one-third lower since the coronavirus struck, are the key cause.

On March 3, traders lifted crude prices off lows when rumors circulated that OPEC oil barons would cut

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Market data Counties designated disaster areas FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 6, 2020

Futures Prices This Last This

week week Chg. week CATTLE HOGS APR 20 105.75 107.57 -1.82 APR 20 65.92 JUN 20 100.02 101.20 -1.18 MAY 20 71.37 AUG 20 101.07 102.27 -1.20 JUN 20 79.75 OCT 20 106.20 107.52 -1.32 JUL 20 80.95 DEC 20 110.47 112.27 -1.80 AUG 20 80.80 FEB 21 113.45 115.62 -2.17 OCT 20 69.42

Last week Chg. 62.27 69.02 77.22 78.30 78.15 67.12

3.65 2.35 2.53 2.65 2.65 2.30

-0.57 -2.65 -2.37 -3.05 -3.60 -4.12

MILK CLASS III MAR 20 16.37 APR 20 16.03 MAY 20 16.28 JUN 20 16.48 JUL 20 16.73 AUG 20 16.87

16.31 16.17 16.27 16.42 16.70 16.86

0.06 -0.14 0.01 0.02 0.03 -0.01

CORN MAR 20 3772 3664 108 MAY 20 3760 3682 78 JUL 20 3792 3724 68 SEP 20 3774 3724 50 DEC 20 3814 3770 44 MAR 21 3916 3874 42

SOYBEANS MAR 20 8832 MAY 20 8912 JUL 20 9000 AUG 20 9016 SEP 20 9016 NOV 20 9054

8834 8926 9014 9040 9042 9082

-2 -14 -14 -24 -26 -28

CHICAGO WHEAT MAR 20 5212 5290 -78 MAY 20 5156 5250 -94 JUL 20 5166 5262 -96 SEP 20 5240 5330 -90 DEC 20 5352 5434 -82 MAR 21 5450 5522 -72

K.C. WHEAT MAR 20 4392 MAY 20 4462 JUL 20 4534 SEP 20 4630 DEC 20 4760 MAR 21 4876

4454 4532 4602 4692 4826 4944

-62 -70 -68 -62 -66 -68

BRENT CRUDE OIL MAY 20 45.27 49.67 -4.04 JUN 20 45.52 49.59 -4.07 JUL 20 45.80 49.58 -3.78 AUG 20 46.14 49.70 -3.56 SEP 20 46.50 49.85 -3.35 OCT 20 46.84 49.98 -3.14

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

1.271 1.289 1.289 1.289 1.289 1.289

-0.030 -0.027 -0.012 -0.012 -0.012 -0.012

FEEDER CATTLE MAR 20 130.70 APR 20 130.05 MAY 20 131.15 AUG 20 138.50 SEP 20 139.92 OCT 20 140.70

131.27 132.70 133.52 141.55 143.52 144.82

1.241 1.262 1.277 1.277 1.277 1.277

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated nine Indiana counties as primar y natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses caused by three separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency emergency loans.

This natural disaster designation allows FSA to extend much-needed 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.

who suffered losses due to excessive rain that has occurred since March 1, 2019, are eligible to apply for emergency loans.

Producers in the contiguous Indiana counties of Boone, Clinton, Crawford, Dubois, Grant, Hancock, Howard, Jasper, LaPorte, Madison, Marion, Newton, Starke and Warrick, along with Cook, Kankakee and Will counties in Illinois and Breckinridge, Daviess, Hancock and Meade counties in Kentucky also are eligible to apply for emergency loans.

EXCESSIVE RAIN, FLASH FLOODING AND FLOODING Producers in Floyd and Harrison counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding and flooding that has EXCESSIVE RAIN Producers in Hamilton, occurred since March 1, Lake, Perry, Porter, Spen- 2019, are eligible to apply cer and Tipton counties, for emergency loans.

Producers in the contiguous Indiana counties of Clark, Crawford and Washington, along with Hardin, Jefferson and Meade counties in Kentucky, also are eligible to apply for emergency loans.

EXCESSIVE RAIN AND FLOODING Producers in Vanderburgh County who suffered losses due to excessive rain and flooding that has occurred since March 1, 2019, are eligible to apply for emergency loans.

Producers in the contiguous Indiana counties of Gibson, Posey and Warrick, along with Henderson County, Kentucky, also are eligible to apply for emergency loans.

The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is Oct. 19. FSA will review the loans based on the

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Stocks of Agricultural Interest

This Last 52-wk week week high

ADM AGCO BASF Bunge CF

37.64 61.41 14.89 46.85 36.84

This Last 52-wk week week high

37.65 47.20 Corteva 25.30 27.20 32.78 60.43 81.39 Dupont 40.50 42.90 83.72 14.67 20.98 Deere 164.04 156.48 181.99 46.95 59.65 FMC 90.53 93.10 108.77 36.86 55.15 Mosaic 14.30 17.03 32.09

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

week ago this year year ago % diff.

WHEAT 54.097 488.829 18825.73 17010.229 10.67 CORN 896.221 865.617 14117.93 25818.110 -45.32 SOYBEANS 670.608 848.895 29556.69 25969.58 13.81

Livestock Summary % diff.

This Last Year week year

week week ago ago ago Hog Slaughter-est 11000 HD 2680 2556 2526 4.85 6.10 Cattle slaughter-est 1000 HD 647 627 607 3.19 6.59 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

65.30 66.65 75.45 75.66 70.05 63.86 57.11 61.15 207.57 205.30 203.29 200.55 113.31 115.07 181.05 185.45

1.35 -0.21 6.19 -4.04 2.27 2.74 -1.76 -4.40

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

166.00 140.00 123.00 120.50 117.50

191.00 146.50 171.50 140.00 155.50 125.00 137.50 118.75 130.00 105.50

202.00 19.50 -11.00 178.00 0.00 -6.50 166.00 -2.00 -10.50 138.25 1.75 -0.75 136.50 12.00 -6.50

Eastern Corn Belt Direct Feeder Cattle Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky and Ohio Reported sales this week, 1,135; last week, 207; last year, 1,267.

Demand light. Supply included 100% over 600 pounds, 95% heifers.

Feeder Steers Medium, Large 1-2

Avg. Avg. Delivery Head Wt. Price (FOB) 58 825 115.00 Current

Feeder Heifers Medium, Large 1-2 71 715 116.00 Current 200 750 112.00 Current 739 725 110.50 May 67 725 110.50 June

Indiana FFA members served as pages for the General Assembly during National FFA Week.

FFA students gather to serve, learn in Statehouse INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana FFA Association invited 81 members to be pages for the General Assembly in celebration of National FFA Week. This opportunity allowed students to meet with elected officials and see first-hand how the legislative process operates.

“It was wonderful to see so many blue jackets in the Statehouse,” said Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, secretary of agriculture and rural development.

“These students were directly involved in the action of the day, were able to speak to the General Assembly and received a better understanding of

An Eastern Hancock FFA member talks with state Rep. Bob Cherry, R-Greenfield. the legislative branch of our government.”

While paging, FFA members spoke with their representatives and senators, assisted aides and interns and attended session. Additionally, they

received a tour of the historic Indiana Statehouse and a tour of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office.

“The FFA Organization provides a multitude of ways for students to be involved in what they are passionate about and today’s event at the Statehouse is a perfect example,” said Sam Miller, assistant director of the Indiana FFA Association.

“Each year, we look forward to this event to help show our members how the legislative process works and encourage them to exercise their right to vote when the time comes.”

CASH HOGS, LIVE PRICE This week Last week Change Interior Illinois

35.00

35.00

0.00

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

For the week ending Feb. 27, corn export sales for 2019-20 increased of 30.3 million bushels, soybean export sales increased 12.7 million bushels, and wheat export sales increased 19.9 million bushels.

Ethanol production for the week ending Feb. 28 reported an increase of 25,000 barrels per day to 1.079 million barrels a day.

Ethanol stocks increased 0.246 million barrels to 24.96 million barrels.

Wheat was 19 cents lower to 8 cents higher. Corn was 11 1/4 cents lower to 19 3/4 cents higher. Sorghum was 30 cents to 33 cents higher. Soybeans were 3/4 cent higher to 12 3/4 cents higher.

CORN Kansas City US No 2 truck Yellow Corn was 12 1/4 to 13 1/4 cents higher from 3.91 3/4-3.93 3/4 per bushel.

Omaha US No 2 Yellow Corn was 14 cents higher from 3.773.79 per bushel.

Chicago US No 2 Yellow Corn was 11 1/4 to 16 1/4 cents higher from 3.92 3/4-3.93 3/4 per bushel.

Toledo US No 2 rail Yellow corn was 11 3/4 cents lower to 14 1/4 cents higher from 3.67 3/44.01 3/4 per bushel.

Minneapolis US No 2 Yellow corn rail was 19 3/4 cents higher at 3.53 3/4 per bushel.

OILSEEDS Minneapolis Yellow truck soybeans were 12 3/4 cents higher at 8.62 per bushel.

Illinois Processors US No 1 Yellow truck soybeans were 3 3/4 to 5 3/4 cents higher from 9.019.09 per bushel.

Kansas City US No 2 Yellow truck soybeans were 3/4 to 5 3/4 cent higher from 8.86-8.97 per bushel.

Illinois 48 percent soybean meal, processor rail bid was 0.30points higher from 303.90306.90 per bushel.

Central Illinois Crude Soybean oil processor bid was 0.46 to 0.56 points higher from 29.2929.64 per cwt.

WHEAT Kansas City US No 1 Hard Red Winter, ordinary protein rail bid was 5 1/2 cents lower from 5.19 1/4-5.29 1/4 per bushel.

St. Louis truck US No 2 Soft Red Winter terminal bid was 9 cents lower at 5.55 per bushel.

Minneapolis and Duluth US No 1 Dark Northern Spring, 14.0 to 14.5 percent protein rail, was 8 cents higher from 6.62-6.72 per bushel.

Portland US Soft White wheat rail was 18 to 19 cents lower from 5.93-6.00 per bushel.

SORGHUM US No 2 yellow truck, Kansas City was 31 cents higher from 6.28-6.82 per cwt. Texas High Plains US No 2 yellow sorghum (prices paid or bid to the farmer, fob elevator) was 30 to 33 cents higher from 6.20-6.71 per cwt.

OATS US 2 or Better oats, rail bid to arrive at Minneapolis 20 day was 1/4 cent lower to 5 3/4 cents higher from 3.19 1/2-3.40 1/2 per bushel.

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

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 FarmRaised 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.

Rossville FFA members pose with state Rep. Don Lehe, R-Brookston.

I N DI A NA P OL IS — Indiana Pork and the Indiana Soybean Alliance announced a partnership to allow more school-aged children to visit Fair Oaks Farms.

Both groups have partnered to provide discounts to school field trips and to provide transportation grants for their travel to and from Fair Oaks.

“Indiana Soybean Alliance is excited to help provide field trip and transportation grants to schools visiting Fair Oaks Farm,” said Hannah Vorsilak, marketing operations and leadership director for the Indiana Soybean Alliance.

“Because of funding restrictions, schools don’t have as many opportunities to take field trips outside the classroom, so we are excited to take a bit of that burden off their shoulders and give students the opportunity to visit a really progressive and innovative farm.”

“The Pig Adventure at Fair Oaks is an excellent opportunity for students to see the inside of a pig barn,” said Jeanette Merritt, director of checkoff programs for Indiana Pork.

“A field trip to the Pig Adventure allows them a chance to see a modern farm and interact with the people raising those pigs.”

“The partnership with Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Pork has made it possible for more educators and future generations to learn about modern agriculture and where food comes from,” said Julie Basich, COO for Fair Oaks Farms.

The partnership allows a $3 discount for tours of Fair Oaks. School groups can also apply for transportation grants to help with busing costs.

For more information on the grant, visit https://fofarms.com/plan-my-visit/ educators.

Remaining bearish on stocks and bonds The year is but a few months old and already history has been made for entire Commodity the Big Four, Insight stocks, bonds, Jerry Welch currencies and commodities. For investors, traders and agriculture producers, 2020, thus far, has been surreal, to say the very least, and all because virtually markets of all kinds have declined sharply due to coronavirus fears.

I described the first month of this year as the most bearish January for commodities in history.

The month flashed red ink immediately as commodity values did a swan dive.

On the final trading session of January, the Dow fell a few points shy

of 600 points, making for one of the most bearish starts to a new year in history for stocks.

The weakness with stocks and commodities was a shock because so many on Wall Street and Main Street believe deeply that “as January goes, so goes the rest of the year.”

Unfortunately, February was more bearish yet.

Global equities in the final week of February endured their worst week since 2008 as fears of the coronavirus deepened.

Commodities did as bad if not worse than stocks.

I believe February was likely the most bearish February in history. If correct, that means the first two months of this year were also the most bearish back-to-back months in history — if not the most bearish, certainly the most volatile.

Jim Paulson, chief investment strategist for Leuthold Group, was interviewed by CNBC

and said the stock market decline of recent days reminded him of the Crash of ‘87, when the Dow fell 22% in one day.

Paulson said, “Well, it’s certainly a full panic. I’d say … it really reminds me of 1987.”

This year, I turned bearish stocks and bullish bonds because China announced they were having issues with coronavirus in early January. I specifically wrote various articles in various publications with headlines such as “Get Long Hogs, Get Short Stocks,” “Do Not Confuse Brains With a Bull Market,” “ASAP,” “Time to Embrace Bonds and Shun Stocks,” “Buy Bonds, Shun Stocks,” “Events, My Dear Readers, Events,” “Still Comes Down to Events.”

I touted the potential for a sharp decline with the stock market in January long before it unfolded.

And this week, the Fed cut rates for the first time since 2008 out of fears coronavirus would slow domestic and global growth. The rate was dubbed an “emergency” cut, and it caused the U.S. dollar to drop to a multimonth low along with stocks and yields for the debt markets.

Until new all-time highs are posted for the stock market, I will remain bearish. I cannot suggest buying bonds, either. With interest rates now below 1%, coupled with the largest job force in 50 years and the dollar weakening significantly and based on history, such a scenario is bullish hard assets, not paper markets.

For more information, take a peek at my twicea-day newsletter. Drop me a line at commodityinsite1@gmail.com. Or, feel free to call me at 406-682-5010.

But please wear a face mask, if you call.

C8 Friday, March 13, 2020

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(A) 2017 MF 5712SL 120 HP, 530 Hrs.

$79,500

(A) 2015 Versatile 290 290 HP, 1246 Hrs

$115,000

(A) 1988 JD 4450 115 HP, Loader, 6516 PS Hrs.

$32,500

$67,500

(A) 2003 GLEANER R65 LTM, 2883/1789 Hrs.

(G) (A) (G) (G) (A) (A) (A) (G) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (G) (A) (G) (A)

(A) 2012 MF 8660 295 HP, 1410 Hrs.

(A) 2019 Versatile 610DT 605 HP, PTO, 60 Hrs.

$115,000

$95,000

(A) 2018 Versatile 265 265 HP, 129 Hrs.

(A) 2014 Versatile 375 375 HP, PTO, PS, 1835 Hrs.

(A) 2018 Versatile 460 460 HP, PS, PTO, 99 Hrs.

$149,500

$145,000

(G) 2013 JD 6115D 115 HP, Loader, 1565 Hrs.

(A) 1996 JD 8100 177 HP, 6953 Hrs.

$45,000

(A) 2009 CASE IH PUMA 210 (A) 2009 Challenger MT565B 210 HP, CVT, 2927 Hrs. 168 HP, 1806 Hrs.

$69,500

$55,000

(A) 2014 Gleaner S68 LTM, 1467/1010 Hrs.

(G) 2012 MF 9520 LTM, 1341/1014 Hrs.

$149,500

$115,000

(A) 2019 Versatile HS250 (A) 2019 VERSATILE HS300 (A) 2015 VERSATILE TD500 30’ Hi Speed Disk, Demo 25’ Hi Speed Disk, Demo 24’ Disk Low Acres

$76,000

(A) 2010 MF 8650 270 HP, 1603 Hrs.

$99,500

$49,500

(A) NH TS6.120 118 HP, Loader, 457 Hrs.

$62,500

(A) 2014 MF 7622 (G) 2014 MF 7624 215 HP, CVT, 32 MPH, 2002 Hrs. 235 HP, CVT, 32 MPH, 808 Hrs.

$89,500

USED TRACTORS

$20,000

2018 Fendt 1050, FWA, 500 HP, 250 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$355,000 2017 Challenger 10.8, FWA, 380 HP, 561 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$245,000 2013 MF 8660, FWA, 295 HP, 1227 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2012 MF 8660, FWA, 295 HP, 32 MPH, 1164 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2014 MF 8650, FWA, 270 HP, 1940 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2013 MF 8650, FWA, 270 HP, 1065 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 2010 MF 8650, FWA, 270 HP, 1701 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 2013 MF 7624, FWA, 235 HP, 32 MPH, 1938 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 2017 MF 7715, FWA, 145 HP, Dyna 6, 750 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 89,500 2017 MF 7714, FWA, 135 HP, Dyna 4, 131 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 85,000 2015 MF 7714, FWA, 145 HP, 32 MPH, 1585 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 79,500 2004 MF 6490, 2WD, 168 HP, 2058 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 52,500 2003 Case IH MXM 130, FWA, 129 HP 1965 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 39,500 2015 Versatile 260, FWA, 260 HP, 357 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$115,000 2013 Versatile 310, FQA, 310 HP, 2212 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 89,500 1989 NH Versatile 846, 4WD, 230 HP, 5138 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 37,500 1984 Versatile 875, 4WD, 280 HP, 6144 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 18,500

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(A) (A) (A) (G) (A) (A) (A) (G) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (G) (G)

$105,000

$259,500

$395,000

(G) 2002 JD 7810 175 HP, 5255 Hrs.

(G) 2012 JD 9510RT 510 HP, Reman Tracks, 2496 Hrs.

(A) 1975 AC 7040 151 HP 4442 Hrs

(G) 2018 Fendt 1038 380 HP, 32 MPH, 688 Hrs.

$12,000

$295,000

(A) 2014 MF 9560 LTM, 1517/895 Hrs.

(A) 2017 MF 9545 LTM, 739/491 Hrs.

$59,500

Lease for $39,000 yr.

$195,000

$159,500

$259,500

(A) 2000 WHITE 6322 12-30”, Front Fold.

(A) 2015 White 9831 31-15”

$14,500

$115,000

USED COMBINES

2016 MF 9545, LTM, 807/560 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$239,500 2013 MF 9560, LTM, 1558/1055 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,000 2013 MF 9540, LTM, 1339/936 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,500 2013 MF 9520, LTM, 705/467 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$135,000 2011 MF 9695, LTM, 1714/1107 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$105,000 2008 MF 9690, LTM, 1825/1229 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 89,500 2004 MF 9690, LTM, 33212/2188 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 55,000 2016 Gleaner S97, LTM, 925/605 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$229,500 2014 Gleaner S78, LTM, 1339/871 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,500 2011 Gleaner S77, LTM, 1138/772 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$139,500 2010 Gleaner R66, LTM 1797/1253 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 99,500 1998 Gleaner R52, 2184/1528 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 35,000 2009 Case IH 1250 24-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 69,500 2010 Case IH 1250 16-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 67,500 2008 Case IH 1200 12-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 29,500 2007 Kinze 3800 SDS 24-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 45,000 2000 White 6322 12-30” Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 14,500

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Sales: Rodger Burton, Brandon Stewart, Paul Kuhns

(G) Gibson City, IL 800-870-KUHN • (217) 784-4731

Sales: Brent Scott, Roger Mishler, Ben Kuhns

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