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Official Program

33rd Annual

QUAD CITIES FARM EQUIPMENT SHOW January 14-16 Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

QCCA Expo Center

2621 Fourth Avenue Rock Island, Illinois

Admission and Parking Free

SPECIAL SECTION

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Welcome to the 33rd annual Quad Cities Farm Equipment Show The QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island is extremely pleased to once again host the Quad Cities Farm Equipment Show.

Hours for the show Jan. 14-16 are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.

See 60,000 square feet of new equipment, products and services designed for today’s farmer and farming op-

erations plus the latest in supply and livestock equipment.

Discover new technologies that are so vital to profit for full- and parttime farmers.

Free admission and free parking.

For more information, go to qccaexpocenter. com/farmshow.

Rob Junker, farm show director QCCA EXPO CENTER

The 2024 Quad Cities Farm Equipment Show features the latest in new equipment, plus farm products and services.

QCCA Expo Center Floor Plan

The 2024 Quad Cities Farm Equipment Show is set for Sunday through Tuesday, Jan. 14-16, at the QCCA Expo Center, 2621 Fourth Ave., Rock Island, Illinois.

AGRINEWS PUBLICATIONS 205 ANTIQUE ENGINE & TRACTOR ASSOCIATION 322 APEX 709-712 AZTECH AG 903 BAD BOY MOWERS 424 BANK ORION 204 BATH FITTER 804 BEHNKEN CONCESSION / THE ALMOND HUT 929 BEIERMANN AGRI-SYSTEMS INC. 813 BIRKEY’S FARM STORE 408-410 BLUNIER BUILDERS INC. 407 BODIN SOLAR 408-409 BRAD’S WELDING SHOP LLC 712-715 CALMER CORN HEADS INC. 225 CARLSON WHOLESALE INC. 815-816 CASE IH / KUNAU 417 CEN-PE-CO — CENTRAL PETROLEUM CO. 922 COMPEER FINANCIAL 317 CORNELIUS SEED CO. 203 CROP IMS 932-933 CSI MANUFACTURING 403 DAVIS SEED 909 DULTMEIER SALES 200-201

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Exhibitors ERDMAN CONSTRUCTION LLC 928

LEAFFILTER NORTH 406

FARMERS NATIONAL BANK 216

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FBI BUILDINGS 914 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS 921 FINANCIAL WEALTH SOLUTIONS 920 FREEDOM BUILDINGS 717 & 800 FRIEDMAN DISTRIBUTING INC. 718-720 & 801-803

LEWIS CATTLE OILERS

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LSI EQUIPMENT 622 MAGNOLIA MITIGATION 214 MAXIMUM-MACHINE 102

MARTIN EQUIPMENT 206-209

Since 1976

GRAIN BINS & DRYERS

MIDWEST BIO-TECH INC. 916-917

GRIPP CUSTOM FARMING CORP. 233-236

MINNESOTA PNEUMATIC PRODUCTS 820

HANK’S POWER & EQUIPMENT 101

MRO SYSTEMS 323-324

MIDWEST SEED GENETICS 912-913

HANSON INDUSTRIAL INC. 905

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Quad Cities Farm Show Jan. 15-17 QCCA Expo Center Rock Island, Illinois Fort Wayne Farm Show Jan. 17-19 Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Fort Wayne, Indiana Midwest Ag Expo Jan. 25-26 Gordyville USA Arena Gifford, Illinois

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Exhibitors NATE ULLRICH PHOTOGRAPHY 210

REXCO EQUIPMENT 333-336 & 413-416

NEXTLINK INTERNET 249 OTTAWA PLANT FOOD INC. 237 PARALLEL AG — FORMERLY AG SOLUTIONS 435 PARTS4FARM 400-401 PEABUDY’S INC. 425A PIVOT BIO 215 POWERLIFT DOORS 216 PRAIRIE HYBRID SEEDS 902 PROPEL SLIDING DOOR AUTOMATION 906 RADIO RANCH INC. 251

Directions STUEVEN AG 625

RIVER VALLEY COOPERATIVE SUNBELT 907 818 TARPS ROCK ISLAND COUNTY MANUFACTURING INC. FARM BUREAU 631-632 406 TIMPTE INC. ROCK ISLAND SWCD 332 404-405 SCHULTE CATTLE EQUIPMENT TRI-STATES GRAIN CONDITIONING 819 319 SELLMAN COX AGENCY ULTIMATE CHOCOLATES 911 900-901 SOLAR GRIDS QUAD CITIES UNITED RENTALS 624 245 SOLARUP LLC VERN’S FARM SUPPLY 624 100 SPRAYTEC FERTILIZER WALZ SCALE 321 704 STATE BANK OF TOULON WATERS EQUIPMENT 918 908 STINE SEED COMPANY WEST ENTERPRISES 923 211-213 STOR-LOC WYFFELS HYBRIDS 705-707 617 & 700

The QCCA Expo Center is at 2621 Fourth Ave. in Rock Island, Illinois. It is easiest to take Fifth Avenue and then turn left at 26th Street onto Fourth Avenue at the Expo Center parking lot.

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New construction, completing repairs available from FBi Buildings

By MARTHA BLUM mblum@shawmedia.com

REMINGTON, Ind. — FBi Buildings does more than constructing new post frame buildings — the company also completes repairs and renovations on existing structures.

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t know we do repairs and renovations because it’s relatively new for us, although we’ve always done it on our own buildings,” said Kyle Gardiner, regional sales manager for FBi Buildings.

“We’re finding there’s nobody in the marketplace doing repairs and renovations, so we get calls all the time and it could be an FBi building or anybody else’s building,” Gardiner said.

“There’s a lot of memories people have of buildings on their property, so we can put some extra life into them and get some more use out of them,” he said.

“We’ll do anything from work-

ing on a door or window to fully reskin a building or repair rotten posts,” he said.

“I tell people I won’t tell you no until we look at it.”

Gardiner FBi Buildings has repair and renovation crews that are separate from the new construction crews.

“Next year I think repairs and renovations will be 30% of our business,” Gardiner said.

“There’s no company of our size that I know is doing that.”

Based in Remington, the sales area for FBi Buildings includes all of Indiana and Illinois.

“We also go north into Michigan and Wisconsin, east into Ohio and west into Iowa with plans to grow our Iowa presence,” Gardiner said. “We just started going into Missouri and Kentucky, so our expansion path is west and south.”

Currently, FBi Buildings is offering a winter special of 12% off any repair, renovation or new construction.

“We are giving customers until Dec. 31 to engage with us and find the right solution,” Gardiner said.

Buildings for agricultural operations is the predominate customer base for FBi Buildings.

“But we do anything from suburban buildings in people’s backyards to indoor basketball courts, and pickleball courts have been a popular one recently,” Gardiner said. “We also serve the commercial market and have done a lot of municipality buildings the last couple of years.”

Customers interested in a FBi Building may be able to have it completed quicker than they expect.

“A lot of people don’t realize we build in the wintertime, but we’re scheduling for January,” the sales manager said. “That’s a big advantage to us because we have cus-

tomers say that they didn’t know we could get to them that soon.”

For the repair and renovation work, Gardiner said, from the time a contract is signed, the FBi crews mobilize within three to five weeks.

“Really it’s the time it takes to get the materials,” he said.

For basic structural components, about 95% of the materials are readily accessible and don’t cause delays that impact customers.

“Some of the specially colored windows or cupolas have longer lead time, but most of the lead time falls into the time we’ve been scheduling for projects,” Gardiner said.

FBi has a large set of standard sizes for buildings to give customers a good starting point when thinking about the construction of a new building.

“But we don’t limit ourselves to that. We try to meet with customers on site to understand what their needs are and their future

needs,” the sales manager said.

Gardiner encourages anyone who is thinking about purchasing a post frame building to contact FBi. “Even if it’s a future project, we want to be a source of education and support to talk through things,” he said. “It’s our job to not only meet the customer’s wants and needs, but to propose some things that they haven’t considered.”

The FBi representatives will bring marking flags to a farm to help farmers get a visual picture of a future building.

“We do tours of other buildings because if someone is uncertain about the size, it’s a lot different when you see a building with items in it, so we like to bring a conceptual idea to reality,” Gardiner said.

“That’s been part of our success to engage a little differently with customers,” he said. “We don’t look at it as a building. We look at it as a solution to a problem.”

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Farmers can ‘bank’ Magnolia Land Partners’ wetland mitigation program

By TOM C. DORAN tdoran@shawmedia.com

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Magnolia Land Partners believes environmental conservation and economic development can support one another.

Representatives of the company highlighted the Wetland Mitigation Banking Program that it facilitates with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

The “banks” provide agriculture producers a streamlined mitigation option to remain compliant for USDA farm bill programs while maintaining wetlands to support functions and environmental values.

Magnolia is a key partner as a statewide agricultural mitigation banking instrument.

“One side of the program is land enrollment. So, if you’re a farmer and you have a wetland on your property and it’s too big to farm and it’s not economically

worth it, then you decide to restore it for conservation purposes, hunting, whatever, then you’d reach out to Magnolia,” explained Nikki Palella, Magnolia analyst.

“We would assess the site and place a permanent conservation easement on the wetland restoration area. We pay 100% of the cost associated with restoring the property, and the landowner who’s willing to host it would get a fixed price per acre.

“You still own the property.

You could still hunt in the area and still farm in the area outside the easement.

“Once that bank site is approved with NRCS, the credits are generated. They’re online and we can sell them to other ag producers who have wetlands on their property, but instead of them willing to host restoration, they have a different need and they want to get rid of their wetlands or they already have got rid of them.

“This is for past, present and

future wetlands on people’s properties.”

An example is a farmer that already has a wetland and wants to return it to crop production. That farmer can buy credits from Magnolia that are sourced from another wetland restoration site. That one-time transaction transfers liability to Magnolia.

The program allows the farmer to continue to be eligible for USDA programs such as crop insurance.

“It’s quick one-time payment and the credits are essentially traded among ag producers within the same service area in the state,” Palella said.

“Since we’re an environmental mitigation company, we specialize in developing conservation banks across the United States that benefit endangered species critical habitat. We specialize in this super-niche market and that’s why we wanted to apply for this NRCS program

because the ecological uplift is a net positive.

“Through this program, a lot of the wetland restoration sites are maybe 10 to 70 acres in size, but the wetlands that are getting mitigated for that have been harmed or have been lost are usually one-half acre on average.

“So, if you think about it, the program is really successful at increasing overall wetland habitat in the state while assisting producers with wetland compliance, swampbuster compliance, highly erodible land compliance, all of that. It’s kind of a win, win, win.”

Magnolia also continues its work with landowners beyond the first steps.

“We have a restoration team that would take care of the site for up to the first five years to make sure it’s meeting performance standards and is of certain criteria as set by the NRCS,” said Eric Phillips, Magnolia land development manager.

“We then usually set up en-

dowment funds, too, with money set aside for future restoration and then we partner with local land trusts for the long-term stewardship of the site.

“So, they’re local and they know the landscape and can handle any kind of maintenance that may be needed in the future. That way, these wetland projects are of a high quality for the future.”

Magnolia has been awarded three NRCS grants so far for the program in Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska.

“We’re the furthest along in Illinois. In the next couple of months we anticipate that we’ll get our fifth bank site approved.

So, with five bank sites in central, southern and northern Illinois, we have a ton of credits available,” Palella said.

“So, right now we have enough land enrolled and we’re really trying to connect with ag producers in the state who would benefit from buying credits.”

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