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A family tradition Scott Supply marks 100 years of business, growth

By MARCUS TRAXLER The Daily Republic

For 100 years, Scott Supply Co., of Mitchell, has attempted to set the gold standard in selling farm equipment. Or perhaps more fittingly, the red standard.

Next month, the business is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a store.

Since 1915, the business has thrived in Mount Vernon, and since 1962 in Mitchell, selling Case IH and New Holland farm equipment. That’s a lot of tractors, combines and implements; a lot of parts, service and sales.

The four generation business hasn’t just been in the Scott family name. It’s been in their blood.

“I think this has always been a family that’s been proud of the way we’ve done things and the way we’ve treated our customers,” said co-owner Chris Scott. “And I think that’s earned us respect and trust.”

The business was started by Lewis Scott in 1915. That same year, Lewis’ son, Wally Scott was born, and he became an active partner in the business in 1936. Wally’s two sons — Bob and John — later joined the business as owners, and Bob’s son, Chris, has been onboard as an owner since 1994.

“We were born into an International Harvester family,” Bob said. “It’s all we’ve ever known.”

Most of them have also been around the business for their entire lives. Bob says he’s worked in the business

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Scott Supply Co. celebrates its 100th year of operation in 2015.

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We were born into an International Harvester family.

It’s all we’ve ever known.

Bob Scott, co-owner of Scott Supply Co.

” since he was in grade school, tinkering around with parts and odd jobs. Aside from one year when he was at South Dakota State University, he’s been operating the family business since 1963. That early work has laid the groundwork for how the business is run. Chris said that’s a matter of treating customers and employees well and providing a wide array of items.

“It’s always been pretty hands on for us,” John said. “To be successful, I think all of us know that this is something that you have to put a lot of time into.”

Scott Supply employs more than 40 people and a good percentage have been on staff for 25 years or more, Chris said.

“We really try to treat our customers well and the same should be the case for your employees,” he said. “I really think that’s a big part of our success because we have employees who are really invested in helping their customers. And it helps that we’ve always been here and they know who we are and we know them and there’s a relationship built there that is really valuable.”

Born and raised in Storla, Lewis got his start by selling automobiles in 1914. The next year, Scott took his business to Mount Vernon after he purchased the Helgerson Implement Company. In the early years, Scott sold both cars and implements before focusing on International Harvester farm equipment.

The business moved to Mitchell in 1962 to its location on West Havens Street, and for a period, the Scott family operated out of both Mitchell and Mount Vernon, until 1965. Moving to Mitchell, the family says, probably saved the business.

“If we wouldn’t have done that, who knows if we’re still here today,” Bob said. “I think Mitchell and Mount Vernon have been very good to us.”

The Scott family has always had an easy way of knowing how long the business has been around. Wally, now 99, was born in 1915. The business has been around as long as its second generation owner, who still gets out to the shop to cut the grass and help out where he can.

“I’m really proud of what this business has accomplished, especially with my dad still around,” John said. “I know this means a lot to him and it’s special to all of us.”

Without question, the size of the equipment and the amount of technology are the two biggest changes in the farming business. But thanks to Wally, the family knows up close how much farming has changed.

“I think about my dad, who remembers farming with horses in the 1920s and 1930s. Now we have 40 and 50 foot equipment and all of this technology, and it really is amazing,” Bob said. “I said in the 1970s that I would never see the changes my dad saw and then we’ve had so much more growth.”

Since then, the size of the equipment and the technology has exploded and probably will continue to do so.

“When you look at the advanced farming systems, that’s been in the last 10 years with the precision ag,” John said.

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From cattle to corn, crude oil dive ripples through economy

By KARL PLUME Reuters

CHICAGO — Craig Uden, who fattens cattle for beef on his Nebraska feedlot, expects to cut his energy costs by as much as a quarter this year because of falling oil prices — a silver lining in an otherwise tough rural economy.

The lowest energy prices since 2009, which have already benefited transport, retail and industrial companies, are giving farmers a boost just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts their incomes will plunge 32 percent this year.

Cheaper diesel to run machinery and trucks along with lower prices for propane gas used to dry grain or heat livestock buildings are all easing the pain of grain prices that are near five-year lows.

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While the company continues to focus on its own business, Chris said there’s a sense of pride in keeping a family owned business

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thanks to crude oil’s plunge of over 50 percent since June.

In the heart of the U.S. Midwest grains belt, oil’s recent drop could save farmers more than $1.1 billion in 2015, cutting $8 from the roughly $600-per-acre non-land cost of planting a corn crop, and saving about $5 an acre on soybeans, data provided by farm management professor Gary Schnitkey at the University of Illinois show.

“A penny saved in fuel is a dollar earned on cattle ranches,” Uden said.

Between transporting livestock to and from feed yards and firing up trucks and tractors to water and feed them, he estimates savings of $40,000 to $50,000 this year on production costs that normally run around $200,000,

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that way for 100 years. That’s also the case because the number of consolidations in the farm implement dealer world has continued to climb, making a family--owned dealership with just one location becoming increasingly more rare.

Bob said his business has probably had the opportunity to expand but even as Scott Supply grew,

there was a focus on making sure that the Mitchell location was as good as it could be. Even if that means long nights.

“My wife knows that I’m usually late to supper,” he laughs. “It’s always been a lot of hours every day and we’ve always been willing to devote the time it takes to be successful.”

Other winners include livestock farmers in top feed grain importers in Asia such as Japan and South Korea, and big meat producers Australia and China.

“The stars have aligned in favor of livestock farmers,” said Simon Quilty, an Australia-based livestock consultant.

Farmers in China, which accounts for more than half the world’s pork production, will get better returns, although gains will be limited by government controls on fuel and corn prices.

“Overall production cost of livestock farmers has gone down in China but not as steep as what we can see in the international

market,” said Pan Chenjun, senior analyst at Rabobank in Hong Kong.

Many exporting countries other than the United States benefit from a strong dollar as well.

Since meat products are priced in dollars in the global market, this helps producers in countries like Australia, where the local currency has dropped around 30 percent since an all-time high in 2011.

The Australian benchmark Eastern Young Cattle Indicator has climbed 37 percent to 449 Australian cents a kilogram since late last year.

South Dakota corn, soybean and wheat grower Ryan Wagner topped off his on-farm diesel tanks last month at the cheapest prices

since 2009. He is considering pre-booking propane, needed for drying harvested grain, at less than $1 per gallon — down from more than $4 seen in 2013 when tight stocks and heavy demand sent prices soaring.

Wagner paid $2.11 per gallon for diesel for the semi trucks he uses to haul grain to market, more than $1 cheaper than a year earlier.

“Fuel is not a huge item for us, compared to chemicals, seed and fertilizer, but a lot of guys who have on-farm fuel storage are taking notice,” he said.

But farmers still face steep prices for other fossil-fuel-based farm inputs.

Up to 90 percent of the cost of nitrogen fertilizer, an essential input for crops like corn and cotton, is tied to natural gas.

But for the remainder of 2015, the Scott Supply crew expects business to accelerate. In March, tune-ups for planting season will pick up in pace and it won’t stop until harvest season, when the work ratchets up another gear or two and repair employees are made available around the clock.

At some point they’ll pause and

celebrate 100 years with their customers this summer. Until then, work continues.

“I think for a lot of our customers, they know the Scotts,” Bob said. “I think we have the small-town values, just like a lot of our customers. They know that we’ll treat them fairly and they’ve always been our focus.”

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Syngenta mulls counterclaims to lawsuits Company blamed for corn decline

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CEO Michael Mack, of Swiss agrochemicals maker, Syngenta, addresses the annual news conference in Basel on Feb. 4.

ADM did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Late last year, China approved imports of Viptera corn.

Cargill then started selling seed

containing the Viptera trait and scrapped a policy requiring farmers to provide advance notice for grain deliveries that may contain Viptera corn.

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CHICAGO — Syngenta AG may file counterclaims against some of the more than 750 U.S. grain farmers and exporters who have sued the seed maker over sales of biotech corn seed that disrupted trading with China last year, regulatory documents show.

Syngenta, the world’s largest crop chemicals company, is “assessing the scope for potential counterclaims” in response to lawsuits over Agrisure Viptera corn, also known as MIR 162, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A company spokesman declined to comment on Friday due to “active litigation.”

Last year, global grain handlers Cargill Inc and Archer Daniels Midland Co, along with hundreds of farmers, sued Syngenta for damages stemming from China’s rejections of shipments of U.S. crops that contained Viptera corn.

At the time, the trait was approved for planting in the United States but not for import by China, a major corn buyer.

As of Jan. 28, 762 lawsuits had been filed, according to Syngenta’s SEC filing on Thursday. The company says the claims are without merit.

Farmers and exporters accuse Syngenta of misleading the farm industry about the timeline for

import approval by China and blame the company for a decline in U.S. corn prices. In April 2014, the National Grain and Feed Association estimated Beijing’s rejections cost the U.S. agriculture industry at least $1 billion.

Additional farmers are still seeking to take legal action over alleged losses, said Don Downing, an attorney for Gray, Ritter & Graham who is a co-lead counsel for clients suing Syngenta.

“The idea that they would sue the very people they victimized, I’d be surprised,” he said of the company.

Syngenta’s consideration of counterclaims is “a lot of puffery,” said lawyer Paul Hanly of Simmons Hanly Conroy, which is representing clients suing the seed maker.

“I’m really hard-pressed to see what the theory would be, other than some sort of disparagement claim,” he said, adding that he believes a disparagement counterclaim would be baseless.

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Yankton sale barn changes hands Distinctive artwork needs new home

By MIKKEL PATES Forum News Service

YANKTON, S.D. — A 3,800-pound steel sculpture of a longhorn bull still stands in front of Stockmen’s Livestock, but former sale barn owner Gail Sohler says it will be gone when he finds a home for it.

Sohler, 77, says his family sold about 9 million head of livestock in its 53 years of business in Yankton, St. Onge, Newell and Tripp communities. His last sale in Yankton was in December 2013. Among other things, he will be remembered for his commitment to public art at the barn.

Sohler says the new buyers of the barn decline to include the sale barn’s distinctive art in their deal to buy the barn, even at a discount, so

he’s been finding new homes for them. That has involved some work.

In 2007, Sohler commissioned the steel kinetic sculpture for $50,000. It weighs 3,800 pounds and its head bobs in the wind. Sohler chose the longhorn breed so as not to offend fans of modern, dominant beef cattle breeds. He declines to speculate on where it might go.

In 2006, Sohler installed a life-sized bronze of Bruce R. Greene’s sculpture, “An Old Dog and a New Trick.”

The $45,000 sculpture now stands in the lobby of a local bank.

In 2001, Sohler commissioned an artist to paint a red, white and blue Fiberglas dairy cow. After the sale barn sold, a large dairy farm near Waterloo, Iowa, purchased it.

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The Ryan Wasson family of Scotland, will sell these cattle in coming months through Stockmen’s Livestock, Inc., of Yankton.

Ryken family takes ownership of Stockmen’s large enterprise amid heady times for livestock

By MIKKEL PATES Forum News Service

YANKTON — Greg Ryken is starting a new era for Stockmen’s Livestock Inc., which has long been one of southeast South Dakota’s biggest sale barns.

Former owner Gail Sohler, whose family had operated the barn as Stockmen’s Livestock Market for more than half a century, held his last sale in December 2013 and auctioned off the barn in June 2014.

The Ryken family bought the whole enterprise for about $2.1 million, including an all-terrain vehicle dealership and an insurance office building.

New ownership comes amid heady times for livestock. In their first three months, Ryken and

crew have sold more than 70,000 cattle, worth about $60 million.

The barn draws much of its business from farms and ranches in a 60- to 80-mile radius of Yankton,

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The dollars are just astronomical, what it takes to operate these days.

Greg Ryken, owner of Stockmen’s Livestock Inc.

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but often reaches out 150 miles.

That’s an impressive figure, but it’s not the profit margin, Ryken is quick to say.

“It takes so much money to operate, feed costs and equipment

costs. (Higher prices are) hard on these farmers and ranchers to come up with the equity to keep things going,” Ryken says. “We sell some fat, drug-free cattle at $2,700 to $2,800 a head, and these feeder cattle at $1,500 to $2,000 and bred cows at $3,000. The dollars are just astronomical, what it takes to operate these days.”

Some producer-customers who normally would feed 1,000 head of cattle have cut those numbers in half because of the high cost of buying them.

Under Sohler’s management, the company in its heyday ranked as one of the top sale barns in the

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A distinctive patriotic painted cow sculpture once stood in front of Stockmen’s Livestock Inc. in Yankton, serving notice that Yankton is the “Cow Capital of South Dakota.” A large dairy near Waterloo, Iowa, has purchased it and installed it there.

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Lower corn acreage figures projected for 2015 season

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Blindauer: ‘Number one thing on everybody’s mind right now is profitability’

By ERIN BECK For The Daily Republic

With weather conditions still uncertain for the upcoming planting season, predictions remain stagnant for grain prices in 2015.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s long-term projection for acreage planted predicts a 2 million acre reduction nationwide in corn.

Jack Davis, the crops business management field specialist at the SDSU Extension Mitchell Regional Center, said that acreage will be shuffled into soybeans, small grains and alfalfa forage seeding.

“I would anticipate some reduction in corn acreage because economic incentives aren’t there like they’ve been in the past few years,” Davis said.

Even with lower corn acreage projected, Chad Blindauer doesn’t plan on corn prices rising much above the 2014 harvest’s mark of $3.50. A farmer northwest of Mitchell, Blindauer sees several factors playing into the 2015 growing season that could cause the markets to spike or drop, but he anticipates markets will remain where they’re at.

“The number one thing on everybody’s mind right now is profitability in this

next growing season,” Blindauer said.

And that profitability is dependent on weather conditions, crop yields and the global economy.

While drought poses a threat to any farmer, Blindauer is also concerned about how international trade will impact farmers’ expected gains. With China’s economy struggling, U.S. exports aren’t the hot commodity they once were.

“We depend on export demand and right now that’s not looking really good,” Blindauer said.

Ethanol has been an aggressive consumer of corn in the past, but

Blindauer doesn’t see corn gaining any more traction in demand from ethanol production, especially with lower oil prices competing against biofuels.

Blindauer isn’t the only one with low expectations for future grain prices. Jim Morken, general manager at CHS in Mitchell, isn’t anticipating significant movements in the market until growing conditions for the 2015 crop impact the region.

“I don’t see reasons for it to go down, but I think it’ll be more sideways until we get some weather-related input,” Morken said. “I’m not really looking for any big movements higher until

we start looking to next year’s crop and growing conditions.”

Reduced grain prices have been a boost in driving demand, and Davis said those prices have factored into the amount of 2014 crop that’s being used up.

According to Morken, shipments are current at CHS. Transporting grain hasn’t been a problem, and due to available storage, grain has been moving through without any issues.

Morken said some of this available storage stems back to producers who aren’t eager to sell right now until the markets shift higher. Low grain prices may be eating up surplus

crop, but they’re not a farmer’s friend.

“There’s a lot of pessimism right now,” Blindauer said. “Everyone’s kind of hunkering down and hoping for the best.”

Farmers have been feeling the impacts of the double-edged sword from $8 corn and $16 soybeans in 2012.

As grain markets have settled back to what Blindauer calls normal prices, profit margins have tightened for farmers.

“The problem is our costs have not come down with the commodity prices,” Blindauer said. “We’ve got a lot more at stake now than we did five years ago.”

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Mahoney Buffalo Ranch contributes to state’s stat as leading producer in the country

By CAITLYNN PEETZ The Daily Republic

Bison, it’s what’s for dinner.

Although not exactly the popular slogan known across the nation, it might as well be for South Dakotans.

South Dakota is becoming known as the state that consistently proves itself as a vital contributor to the economy in a big way: raising and producing bison.

South Dakota is the leading producer of bison in the United States — and that’s nothing new. Since bison inventory began in 2002, South Dakota has always been top in producing the mammoth creatures.

It currently produces 20.7 percent of the country’s total bison at 33,637 head, according to the most updated statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture.

These numbers are down from the last two censuses in 2007 and 2002, as the average during those years was about 39,435 head.

Not surprisingly, North Dakota follows suit as the No. 2 producer in the nation.

Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri round out the top five.

S.D. boasts 104 bison farms, 82 of which record meat sales, the most of any U.S. state besides Texas.

Humble beginnings Ralph Mahoney and his wife, Mary, of Fulton, are no stranger to the ranching scene as they founded Mahoney Buffalo and Cattle Ranch in 1963 with just three buffalo. That number ballooned to 400 to 500 head at one point, but as the Mahoney’s have aged, that number has dropped and holds steady at 35 today.

It was love at first sight for the Mahoneys.

“I was reading a story about buffalo one evening and I knew of a fellow that had just started with buffalo out in White River …

I read that story about them buffalo and I thought, ‘I’ve gotta have some.’ So I got on the phone and called him and I bought three of them over the phone that night. I fell in love with them.”

Over the years, the Mahoneys expanded.

They bought more land and more bison.

It wasn’t always easy — there were three major blows due to disease outbreaks or simply a lack in demand — but the good times were anything but uncommon.

“We butcher between 30 and 35 a year.

Pheasant season is a big one for us, and there are two hunting camps that serve buffalo to their hunters, so they take a lot.

Dakotafest is another good run. And The Depot (in Mitchell) has really been good to us,” Mahoney said.

And by good, Mahoney means that The Depot buys around 200 pounds of bison meat from Mahoney Buffalo and Cattle Ranch every month.

Bison or beef?

Along with being the reigning leader in bison production, S.D. checks in at No. 5 in beef cow production, behind Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska, begging the question: is bison or beef meat better?

The price of bison meat is about double the price of beef. There’s a reason for that, though.

Along with taking a year longer for buffalo to be mature enough to be slaughtered,

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Buffalo gather on Feb. 10 at the Mahoney Buffalo Ranch near Fulton.

according to the National Bison Association, bison meat is the healthier alternative compared to beef. Per 100 grams of cooked lean meat, bison contains 2.42 grams of fat and 143 calories compared to beef’s 9.28 grams of fat and 211 calories.

As for the taste difference, Mahoney says there really isn’t one.

“The only difference is, if you ate a 12-ounce beef steak and you were full, about 8 ounces of bison would make you full,” he said.

Contrary to what some may think, raising bison and raising other cattle, such as cows, is a vastly different experience.

“You have to know them. Everything you know about cattle is completely different than buffalo. Our corral fences have to be a lot stronger and you have to know how to be able to handle them — they’re still a wild animal. Have they gotten after me before?

Yeah, I’ve been lucky though, staying away from serious injury.”

ed to success with bison, though. Through the years of hauling buffalo to different locations, the couple has created strong friendships across the country and into Canada.

The Mahoneys have found an abundance of success making bison farming their living rather than just a hobby. But as for the future of the ranch, Mahoney said with his and his wife’s aging and lack of outside help, they’re going to continue to downsize.

“We’re starting to phase down. I’ll keep farming as long as I can, but I guess there

are times in life when you just have to slow down a little bit. Buffalo are a lot of work, and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t do it how I want to, so I’ve started slowing down. I’m going to keep some buffalo. It’s just a part of our lives. There have been ups and downs, but it has been interesting. We were blessed.”

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‘Starting to phase down’ Along with raising bison for consumption, the Mahoney’s took their talents to breeding and showing their livestock.

The couple showed their bison at the National Western Stock Show in Denver for 21 straight years before the long, nearly nine-hour drive simply became too much.

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Buffalo at the Mahoney Buffalo Ranch approach on Feb. 10 near Fulton.

ABOVE: Ralph and Mary Mahoney have raised Buffalo on their ranch, the Mahoney Buffalo Ranch, for 52 years. The mount of the very first bull they ever had butchered hangs on their wall beside the fireplace.

ABOVE RIGHT: A buffalo in the Mahoney herd is caught with it’s tongue out.

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Wally’s daughters, Janet & Marge, have also worked in the business. Chris (4th Generation) joined his father and John in business in 1994. Scott Supply received Farm Equipment magazine’s Dealership of the Year in 2007 and the Prairie Family Business Association Mitchell Area Excellence in Family Business Award in 2012.

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Mad cows boost US prices Canada confirms new case of disease and cattle market rises

By DAVID LJUNGGREN and SCOTT HAGGETT Reuters

OTTAWA/CALGARY — Canada confirmed its first case of mad cow disease since 2011 on Feb. 13, but said the discovery should not hit a beef export sector worth $1.6 billion a year.

The news, however, helped boost U.S. cattle prices.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the animal, a beef cow from Alberta, had reached the human food or animal feed systems.

Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a progressive, fatal neurological disease. It is thought that the disease can be transmitted to people from food made from cows sick with BSE. “The CFIA is seeking to confirm the age of the animal, its history and how it became infected. The investigation will focus in on the feed supplied to this animal during the first year of its life,” the agency said.

Canadian exports were badly hit in 2003 after the first case of BSE in Canada Reuters photo was detected. Canada subsequently tightened its C attle graz e in a pasture in the foothills of the Rock y Mountains west of C algary, Alberta. C anada confirmed on Feb. 13 that it had found a case of bovine sponcontrols, and many nations giform encephalopathy ( BS E ) , also k nown as mad cow disease, in a beef cow in the province of Alberta. The case is the first in C anada since 2011. A statement have since resumed the from the C anadian Food I nspection Agency said no part of the cow had reached the human food or animal feed systems. beef trade with Canada, despite the discovery of it could report up to 12 out- Oak Investment Group in would not be endangered beef, given the tougher more cases since then. discover an occasional new Chicago. breaks in a calendar year. by the discovery. measures, but it could Asked whether he was case.

BSE is believed to spread On the Chicago A CFIA official told delay Canada’s efforts to concerned about exports Dave Solverson, president when cattle eat protein ren- of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Mercantile Exchange, the reporters that Canada upgrade its international being harmed, Agriculture dered from the brains and news initially helped drive would not be allowed to risk status from the World Minister Gerry Ritz told Association, said that in prespines of infected cattle or up live cattle contracts upgrade to the “negligible reporters in Calgary: “Not at Organization for Animal vious outbreaks there had sheep. Canada banned that for delivery beginning this risk” status unless it could Health. this time, no.” rarely been more than one practice in 1997. prove that any diseased cow spring by as much as 2 perAn OIE spokeswoman He added, however, that infected animal on an indiThe CFIA tightened feed cent. found was at least 11 years markets in South Korea and said the discovery and vidual farm. rules in 2007 and said this The market rallied in old. He said the agency was reporting of the case Japan were generally very “It’s very unlikely there should help eliminate the part because of the prosstill investigating the cow’s showed the surveillance concerned about the potenwill be more cases found,” disease nationally within a pect of less beef coming age. system was working. She tial risk from BSE. he told the Canadian decade, although the agenacross the border, said Ritz said Canada’s cursaid Canada had a “conA fresh discovery of BSE Broadcasting Corp. cy said it still expected to Joe Ocrant, president of rent OIE risk status meant trolled risk” status, which may not close borders to

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The Livestock Marketing Association has 19 member-barns listed in South Dakota. The LMA, based in Kansas City, Mo., represents about 75 percent of the 1,100 markets in the country that hold at least one regular sale a week. Minnesota has 14, North Dakota has 10 and Montana has 12.

Ryken thinks the cattle market is likely to stay strong, but it’s unclear whether levels will be where they were in December.

“The numbers of people eating beef — the exports, everything’s good,” Ryken says.

Factors indicating higher prices include the drought in the southern states that reached up into the Yankton area.

Regionally, the 2013 blizzard in western South Dakota affected many producers, as well as the prohibitive cost of expansion.

“That’s what cut down the number of cows,” Ryken says. “When the numbers fell short, this is where we’re sitting. The price of corn and (soy)beans got higher, so they plowed a lot of pastures up all over the country, which caused (beef cattle) numbers not to rebound as fast as we’d like.”

January is a big month for feeder cattle sales in South Dakota, so abundance caused the market to soften for a few weeks, Ryken says. Feeder cattle were $15 to $20 lower per hundredweight than they were in December. The first part of January brought a $1.73 top on fat cattle.

“The numbers will start tightening up on fat cattle and feeder cattle, and I look forward to a rebound in February and March,” Ryken says.

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ABOVE: Stockmen’s Livestock, Inc., of Yankton, changed hands in June 2014 after being in the Gail Sohler family since the early 1960s.

LEFT: Greg Ryken, right, of Stockmen’s Livestock, talks with Ryan Wasson of Scotland, about plans for selling cattle.

Young guys Ryken, 43, grew up near Irene, in Clay County on a farm that had cattle, hogs and sheep. He joined Dick Payne Auctioneers in 1990, helping conduct farm and other sales.

Payne started auctioneering professionally at age 16, and died in 2010. Ryken got more into cattle sales 15 years ago and bought into one of the sale barns, before starting with Stockmen’s.

He’s anxious to make it work.

“We’ve got young guys that care about their customers; they just work hard,” Ryken says. “We’re young. We want to do it for another 25 or 30 years and you have to take care of customers to keep things going.”

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Corn Belt farmland values down in 2014, first fall since 1986

By CHRISTINE STEBBINS Reuters

banks in the north-central United States, the main production area for corn, soybeans and hogs. “Still, at the end of 2014 the index of inflation-adjusted agricultural land values for the District was 68 percent higher than at its 1979 peak from the 1970s boom.”

The Chicago Fed said half of the regional farm bankers, citing the depressed price outlook for grains, expect farmland prices to continue to fall in the first quarter of 2015 despite holding steady in the last three months of 2014 with the previous quarter.

CHICAGO — The average price of quality U.S. farmland fell 3 percent in 2014, marking the first annual decline in almost 30 years, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said in its quarterly survey of district bankers on Thursday.

“The District’s annual decrease of 3 percent in good farmland values for 2014 was the first loss for a year since 1986,” the bank said in its survey of 224 regional farm

The bank’s district includes Iowa, northern Illinois and Indiana, and most of Wisconsin and Michigan. Aside from producing about a third of U.S. corn and soybeans, the region is a major producer of hogs, beef and dairy cattle, wheat, sorghum and other crops.

Farmland prices are closely watched by Fed policy makers, bankers and farm suppliers since land is the basic collateral for most farm loans.

Since 2010, the price of farmland has set record highs amid a

large crops drove grain prices to five-year lows in 2014 and will weigh on farm land economic returns and thus pricing in 2015, the Fed said.

A spectacular drop in grain and feed prices, on the other hand, benefited long-suffering livestock producers and aided grass land prices.

The St. Louis Fed reported earlier Thursday that farmland values in its district were steady in late 2014 compared with a year ago.

The Kansas City Fed will release its bank survey on Friday.

boom in biofuels and exports that also drove grains prices to all-time highs.

“Even though there is a softness to farmland markets it’s not severe pressure,” David Oppedahl, a Chicago Fedeconomist, told Reuters. “Look at where we’ve come from - a strong increase over the past 5-10 years and we are still at very high levels relative to past history.”

Farmland values were down in 2014 even though the district as a whole set records for both corn and soybean production. Record

Land markets decrease after long rise; Minnesota rents saw steeper decline, SD chapter not surveyed

By MIKKEL PATES Forum News Service

FARGO, N.D. — Farm managers and rural appraiser groups from North Dakota and Minnesota have recently published reports confirming what most farmers and landowners already sense — land values and rental markets softened in the 2014 calendar year.

Tim Terras, AgCountry Farm Credit Services in Fargo, N.D., organizes the survey for the North Dakota Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

The report is based on professional observation from 38 participants, as well as documented sales.

The average farmland value in the North Dakota index was at $2,930 in 2014, down just 1 percent from 2013, though prices are still more than double the level five years ago. Land values increased 16 percent in the southwest and fell 8 per-

cent in the northeast. Value increases have turned slightly lower through much of the state.

Values fell by 8 percent in the northeast and climbed by 17 percent in the southwest.

Meanwhile, Minnesota’s survey shows some softening of upper levels for land prices, and a variable decline in rents. South Dakota’s chapter doesn’t do a corresponding survey.

North Dakota regions • Cropland price averages $4,935 per acre, down 5 percent in 2014, after increasing 11 percent in 2013 and five successive increases, including a 42 percent jump in 2012.

• Prices fell more than any area of the state — an 8 percent decline to $2,539 per acre, after successive 24 percent and 32 percent gains the two previous years.

• The $1,854 average was a 1 percent decline, after 18 percent and 45 percent increases the

two previous years.

• The $2,009 price average was the biggest increase at 17 percent, following a string of annual increases of 21, 37, 31 and 12 percent in the previous four years.

• Land prices averaged $3,313, which is 3 percent higher than the previous year, after annual increases of 17, 37, 23 and 23 percent for the previous four years.

Minnesota reports Minnesota does a report for its own members’ use, says Leon Carlson from Olivia, Minn., who organizes it. The report involves survey responses from 11 appraisers, reporting conditions in their local areas.

Carlson says generally values are trending down a little, more on the rental side than on the sale side.

“That’s not true in all areas,” he says. “You go into a specific area and you find land sales that

Small farmers hold key to seed diversity

By CHRIS ARSENAULT Reuters

ROME — Up to 75 percent of the seeds needed to produce the world’s diverse food crops are held by small farmers, researchers said following a review of international census data.

Growers with farms of less than seven acres preserve diversity through “networks of seed and knowledge exchanges,” Karl Zimmerer, a Penn State University geography professor who led the research, told a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday.

Some 75 percent of the world’s plant genetic diversity has been lost since the 1900s, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has reported, as farmers shift from local varieties to genetically uniform, high-yielding crop breeds.

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world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species, the FAO has said.

Unlike large plantations which are monocultures, small farmers often plant several different species of staple crops, like potatoes, improving the resilience of their food and increasing its diversity.

While less efficient for some large farms, planting a variety of seeds can help food systems build resilience to pests or climate change, growers said.

“How many resources are going to monocultures and how many are going to diversifying food production systems?” Nicaraguan indigenous activist Myrna Cunningham asked during a U.N. conference on Monday.

“If we (start to) base food production on the richness of our diverse societies, we can improve the situation.”

Small farmers are often the first to face hunger or displacement, but their role in preserving varied types of seeds is crucial, activists said.

The new research from 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America underlines the importance of supporting small farmers, particularly women, who are leading the way in preserving diversity in their use of seeds, they said.

The 25 percent of seeds for food crops not held by small farmers are preserved in gene banks, researchers said.

“As a society, we are increasingly exposed to shocks and risks (in our food systems),” Adolfo Brizzi, director of policy for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, told the U.N. conference.

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are very steady, not showing much of a decrease.”

Carlson says his own area near Olivia has seen a more rapid downturn in cash rents.

“We’re still seeing sales in the $10,000-per-acre range and we saw highs in 2012 and 2013, and there were sales in the $12,000-per-acre area. We also saw cash rents, some in up to the $400 range. Those have come down, but there’s still some out there. Cash rents are harder to get information on.”

Rodger Tinjum, an appraiser in Detroit Lakes, Minn., says land values were ranging from $4,000 to $6,000 per acre in 2014, compared with $4,000 to $7,000 in 2013, but with the average sale about the same at $5,000. Cash rents continue to range from $125 per acre to $225 per acre, with a medium rent at $175.

“Land prices are generally flat,” he says. “Rental rates are varied. Attitudes generally

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Paul Schutte, appraiser in Luverne, Minn., reports cash rents in the southwest part of the state ranged from $175 to $350 per acre, with the average of $275.

The range had been $175 to $400 per acre in 2013, with an average of $300. Land value ranged from $6,000 to $15,000 per acre in 2014, with top sales $500 per acre less than in 2013.

The average sale price was steady at $10,000 per acre.

Klay Walinga, an appraiser in Windom, Minn., reports cash rents of $200 to $325 per acre, with an average of $285 per acre for 2014, down from $140 to $205 per acre, and the $180-per-acre average in 2013.

Walinga says land values in 2014 declined some to a range of $4,000 to $8,000 per acre, with an average of $6,750. The 2013 land price range was $4,500 to $9,000 per acre and the average was $7,500.

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United States farmers’ $100 billion-a-year profit is fading Nation’s farm income poised to drop for third straight year in 2015; budget picture negative

By ALAN BJERGA Bloomberg News

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The squeeze worsens on U.S. farmers as low crop prices and rising costs erode incomes that not long ago were the highest ever. Shown, a barn along a rural road at Plow Creek Farm in Tiskilwa, Ill., in October.

data show. At the same time, seed costs rose 2.7 percent and rents paid by farmers on land they didn’t own rose 2.9 percent.

That’s eroding Farm Belt income that the USDA says insulated rural areas from the worst of the recession that lasted from the end of 2007 to mid-2009.

Moline, Illinois-based Deere, the largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery, said last month it will lay off 910 factory workers as profit falls for a second straight year. Monsanto, the world’s top seed seller, said last month there will be fewer U.S. corn acres planted this year, which will be a drag on the St. Louis-based company’s profit.

Farm income this year may benefit from cheaper fuel, which accounts for about 5 percent of expenses. Amid a glut of crude oil, the price of diesel used in tractors and harvesters is down 22 percent

since Oct. 31, touching a five-year low of $2.793 a gallon on Feb. 2, motoring group AAA said.

Property values are also showing signs of easing. Lower- quality farmland has dropped about 15 percent from its peak, while prices for better land has leveled off, Farmers National Co., which manages 2.1 million acres of farms in 24 states, said Feb. 5.

Such declines may not provide much help this year to farmers who rent their land in multi-year agreements, said Pat Westhoff, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

“Many farmers are paying a lot more in rent now than they were three-four years ago, and once you take that into account, some will actually lose money,” Westhoff said in an e-mail.

While crop farmers are getting squeezed, most livestock producers are making money and probably will surpass crop receipts for a second straight year, said Chad Hart, a farm economist at Iowa State University in Ames.

In 2014, revenue from chickens, cows, hogs and other animals jumped to a record $208.7 billion, surpassing crops for the first time since 2006, USDA data show.

That’s prompted a shift on Don Steinbeisser Jr.’s farm and ranch near Sidney, Montana, where he has 3,500 acres of crops and grazes about 650 cattle. He is planting less corn and using it to feed his livestock rather than sell in the market.

“With corn under $4, we’ll take that for the cattle,” said Steinbeisser, who also grows wheat, soybeans, barley and sugar beets. “Times like these, I’m glad I’m diversified.”

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Illinois grower Jason Lay said he will buy 30 percent less fertilizer for his 2,500 acres of corn and soybeans, and 7 percent fewer seeds for spring planting. After his most profitable year ever in 2012, Lay said he upgraded his combine, tractor, sprayer and planter. With crop futures now near fiveyear lows, he has no plans to buy any new equipment.

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Farm income in the U.S., the world’s top agricultural producer and exporter, is poised to drop for a third straight year in 2015.

While raising livestock remains profitable, as tight meat supplies keep prices high, growers of corn, soybeans and wheat saw crop and land values fall faster than many of their costs. That’s pinching sales for equipment maker Deere & Co. and seed and chemical producers including DuPont Co. “The budget picture for corn and soybeans is as negative as we’ve seen in a long time,” said Brent Gloy, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. “You will see some farmers not able to cover their production costs.”

Last year, cash income dropped 17.5 percent to $108.2 billion, as expenses jumped to a record $370 billion and crop receipts tumbled 11.5 percent, USDA data show.

Even a 14 percent increase in livestock receipts, which topped crop revenue for the first time in eight years, wasn’t enough to prevent a 2014 decline in overall farm profit.

The agriculture industry has boomed over the past decade as record land and crop prices boosted sales of seed and farm equipment. Net net-cash income touched a record $137.1 billion in 2012. Land values have kept rising, up 8.1 percent last year to an all-time high of $2,950 an acre, while beef and pork prices were the highest ever.

Record-high crop prices in 2012 helped fuel a surge in global output, creating a surplus that sent futures tumbling. \ On Feb. 10, corn was trading at $3.87 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, down 54 percent from a record in August 2012, and soybeans were at $9.7275 a bushel, down 46 percent from their all-time high.

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New generation on the farm The transition of operation ownership has become more difficult and important than ever

By JONATHAN KNUTSON Forum News Service

EUCLID, Minn. — Don Strickler has faced many tough calls in his long farming career.

But the 70-year-old Euclid, Minn., producer says his most important professional challenge, one he’s still working on, is passing on the family farm to the next generation.

“It’s the biggest decision my wife (Ellen) and I have ever had to make,” he says.

The Stricklers aren’t alone.

Farmers and ranchers throughout the Upper Midwest are struggling with what experts call farm transition, or the process of transferring ownership and, in some cases, management of the family farm or ranch to their children or grandchildren.

Because farm transition is taken so seriously in ag circles, South Dakota State University Extension and the North Dakota State University Extension Service are holding farm transition workshops this winter.

“There are lots of people trying to put plans together,” says Heather Gessner, SDSU Extension livestock business management field specialist. She’s worked closely with farm transition for several years.

Passing on the family farm has never been easy — mixing money and emotion, family and finance, is bound to lead to complications.

But the challenge today is greater than ever, experts say.

Farmers’ advancing age — the average age of producers nationwide is 58 — gives the issue greater relevancy to a growing number of farm families.

Americans are living longer, too, adding another layer of complexity. More farm property is owned by people in their 70s and 80s, with children in their 40s, 50s and early 60s farming the land and grandchildren in their teens and 20s hoping to enter agriculture.

“These operations are needing to support not just two, but three generations,” says John Baker, an Iowa attorney who coordinates the International Farm Transition

• Realize what’s equal isn’t feel entitled to an equal share, cover annual, ongoing expenses Network and administers the and also pay off the siblings’ comalways fair. Dividing farm ownerespecially if they helped on the Beginning Farmer Center at Iowa bined $750,000 stake, experts say.

State University. ship equally among multiple chilfarm as a child.

“I understand that the nonbusiHe and other experts say farmdren isn’t equitable if one of them But siblings have no right to ness heirs would like an equal land’s rising value — many fields is taking over the farm. expect that, Goetting says. share of the wealth. Hell, I’d like and pastures across the region are “Parents don’t owe their kids to win the lottery,” Baker says. selling for four or five times more anything,” she says. “Children Fair vs. equal But an equal share probably now than a decade ago — increasneed to realize that.”

Trying to treat all their children doesn’t make sense from a busies the economic stakes. Even a equally may be the biggest, most ness viewpoint, he says. relatively small farm, one with Other keys common mistake farm couples The treat-them-all-equally 1,500 acres or fewer, can easily be make in passing on farm ownerPassing on a family farm is approach is discouraging, to say worth more than $1 million today. ship, especially when one child is even more complicated when its the least, to a child who’s taking The value of bigger farms can taking over the farm, experts say. over the farm, says Brent Strickler, business and family aspects aren’t reach into the tens of millions.

“They need to get past the idea separated, experts say.

Don Strickler’s son.

There’s no one-size-fits-all of treating all their children the Keeping the two apart can be “We’re the ones who stay here approach or solution to farm traneasier when family meetings to and keep things going during the sition. Every farm is different, and discuss farm transition are held lean times, and that (treating all individual transition plans will vary outside the home at a neutral children the same) de-incentives accordingly. location such as a restaurant. doing it,” he says. “Fair and equal I understand that the nonbusiBut experts stress that successAlthough doing so isn’t always aren’t always the same thing.” ness heirs would like an equal ful transition requires five things: feasible, holding such meetings at Some siblings realize children share of the wealth. Hell, I’d like to • Start early. Waiting until the times other than holidays can be who farm need to be treated difwin the lottery. farm operator is at or near retirehelpful, too.

John Baker, coordinator of ferently, says Jean Johnson, marment to begin the transition can Using business titles instead International Farm Transition keting communications consultant be disastrous. of family designations — “CEO” Network with AgCountry Farm Credit “All the statistics show that the rather than “dad” or “chief finanServices in Grand Forks. chances of success are much She grew up on a family farm cial officer” rather than “mom” — higher when you get an early near York, N.D. Now her brother is worth considering. start,” says Willie Huot, a Grand operates the farm and is its primaForks, N.D. County extension Setting goals, and communicatsame,” Huot says. ry owner, while Johnson and her agent who’s been involved with ing them, is another priority.

Here’s a simple example using sister both own a slice of it. farm transition education for Keep in mind goals can vary round numbers: A farm couple The arrangement recognizes years. within each generation, as well as with four children and a farm both her brother’s need to make • Don’t focus too much initially from one generation to the next. worth $1 million gives each child a living from the farm and the in specific legal or accounting For instance, a husband and $250,000 in land or other assets. desire of Johnson and her sister tools. Those things are essential, wife nearing retirement might That might be fine if none of for an economic tie to it. but they’re not the starting point. have different goals, just as their the kids is taking over the farm.

Johnson notes both she and her • Stress communications and goals might differ from those of But it’s destined for failure if one sister have close connections to goals. Failing to make sure everytheir son and daughter-in-law of the four is taking over the farm agriculture. Siblings without those one’s goals are understood will transitioning into the operation, and will need to rent or buy the ties might not be so understandlead to confusion and almost cersays Huot, the North Dakota ing, she says. siblings’ shares. The operation tain failure.

See TRANSITION, Page B6 In some cases, siblings might won’t generate enough income to Too often, parents and children keep silent on important issues for fear of upsetting other family members, says Marsha Goetting, professor and extension family economics Obtaining maximum profit from your crop depends on timely planting.

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Pork’s continued sizzle Department of Agriculture expects US hog production to surpass beef in 2015

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There’s this pathetic sign I used to drive by a lot in rural Alabama.

It was disintegrating, and tangled in kudzu, but the saddest part was the slogan on it: “Pork Is Health!”

It was clearly the remnant of a failed and somewhat ridiculous marketing campaign for the forgotten meat. And while “The Other White Meat” has proved more durable, it too always struck me as kind of sad and wannabe-ish.

Still, no need to feel sorry for pork now! It hasn’t gained any ground on chicken, which has risen from No. 3 meat in the U.S. in the 1970s to utterly dominant No. 1 today. But the Department of Agriculture expects U.S. pork production to surpass beef in 2015 for the first time since 1952.

Pork actually might have beaten beef in 2014 if it hadn’t been for a big outbreak of something called porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.

We’ll get back to that appealing topic in a moment, but first, the big picture.

The pork-beef switch has come for reasons of both demand and supply. First, demand: The Pork Board’s health-focused Other White Meat campaign, introduced in 1987, actually did work.

By the 1990s, in fact, hog farmers were clamoring for help in selling the parts of the pig that weren’t lean and white.

In response, the Pork Board methodically laid the groundwork for what is now a national mania for bacon.

Add to that the arrival of tens of millions of immigrants from Latin American and Asian countries where pork is a big part of the cuisine, and you have the makings of strong demand here in the U.S. Exports have been rising, too, and now account for about 20 percent of U.S. production, up from 11 percent a decade ago.

China is especially hungry for

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One more thing to understand: A successful farm transition requires passing on management of the farm, as well as ownership of it.

“The decision-making authority is so important,” Baker says.

ANALYSIS pork — the biggest takeover so far of an American company by a Chinese one was of Smithfield Foods, a pork producer and processor.

The beef industry, meanwhile, continues to battle concerns that red meat is unhealthy, and has been unable to come up with a cult product on the level of bacon. Jerky apparently isn’t enough. Beef bacon, anyone?

The even bigger differences, though, may be on the supply side. “Beef just takes a long time,” says Bob Young, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau.

Young predicted pork’s triumph last fall, partly on the basis of such temporary factors as a slow rebuilding of cattle herds after droughts in Texas and California.

But the longer time needed to raise beef cattle than hogs or chickens helps explain the diverging long-run trendlines as well.

Basically, hog farming and chicken farming in the U.S. have become indoor, industrial activities.

This started with chickens in the 1960s, in the process launching, as Smithsonian Magazine put it a couple of years ago, “a vast national experiment in supply-side gastro-economics.”

Giant chicken operations, most with more than 250,000 birds, many with more than a million, churn out meat with staggering efficiency.

It now takes just five or six weeks from hatching to slaughter.

In the process, chicken has gone from expensive delicacy to cheap, abundant protein source.

Chicken factory farming in the U.S. is centered in the Southeast, and in the 1970s a few hog farmers in North Carolina decided to imitate their chicken-raising neighbors with their own enclosed operations.

These were a big success there,

That can be difficult if an outgoing farmer is reluctant to give it up, he says.

As preparation to make such decisions, the incoming generation needs to be educated about things such as insurance, Gessner says.

One family’s approach Don Strickler and his wife don’t have all the details worked out yet.

But they’ll be transferring management and partial ownership to two

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soon spread to the traditional hog-raising heartland of the Midwest, and have since made inroads in unlikely places like the high desert of western Utah (the reason being, I think, that there’s no one around to smell them).

Most hogs are raised in facilities with more than 5,000 animals, where it takes about six months to raise a pig to slaughter weight.

The beef business also has its industrial side, the giant feedlots where young cattle are quickly fattened for slaughter not long after they turn a year old. That’s much younger than in the past, but is still a lot older than six months or six weeks.

Plus, for the first six months of their lives, beef calves live on the range with their mothers and are subject to drought and other dan-

gers. Basically, raising beef still has something in common with actual farming/ranching — which makes it less efficient than chicken or pork production.

As you can probably tell, I am not entirely comfortable with these developments (and yes, I am one of those insufferable people who buys almost all his meat at the farmer’s market and brags about it).

The changes in agricultural technology that have enabled the rise of chicken and the revival of pork have made chicken and hog farmers much more productive than they were before.

It is productivity gains that bring economic growth and rising living standards, and these particular productivity gains have made it possible for people to consume

chicken and pork at much lower prices than would otherwise have been possible. Yay. On the other hand, they’ve made it a lot less fun to be a chicken or a pig, and have brought with them major environmental and health concerns.

Hog manure runoff is a big problem in several states, tightly packed indoor farms are a breeding ground for diseases like porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, the liberal use of antibiotics to fight or even preempt diseases spreads antibiotic resistance and the meat produced most likely isn’t nearly as good for you as the non-factory kind.

I really like pork, so it’s hard for me to root against it. But I’m not sure this triumph is really worth celebrating.

of their five children, son Brent and daughter Kaydi Grunhovd, both of whom are involved in the farm’s operation.

The Stricklers’ other three daughters will have a financial interest in the farm, but won’t be involved in operating it.

“It’s not equal. It never will be equal,” Don Strickler says of how ownership will be divided. “But it’s a way for them (the other three

daughters) to share in the farm.”

Grunhovd says communication is crucial.

“It’s important that it’s all communicated, even if the details aren’t spelled out, to give an overall view of what’s anticipated,” she says.

“The person who’s been in charge for so many years has a vision of what they want to see happen in the future. But that’s

not necessarily the same vision as the person who’s transitioning in,” Grunhovd says. “So get that overall view of what’s going to happen.”

Don Strickler stresses that he and his family don’t have all the answers on farm transition.

“We’re still learning, we’re still fine-tuning,” he says. “But we know how important it is, and we’re trying to get it right.”

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Americans are in denial about our genetically modified crops 88 percent of scientists believe GM foods are safe to eat, compared to 37 percent of public ANALYSIS

By FRED HIATT The Washington Post

Sophisticated readers know a science denier when they see one: the libertarian irresponsibly attacking vaccine safety, the oilstate senator mocking climate theory, the Southern Biblethumper denying the fossil in front of his nose.

But the biggest gap between public opinion and scientific consensus in the United States is not in the realm of vaccines, global warming or evolution but regarding the safety of genetically modified ( G M) foods.

And the science deniers on this topic are more likely to be Democratic than R epublican, with college-educated Americans almost evenly split.

According to a survey conducted by the P ew R esearch Center in association with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 8 8 percent of scientists believe G M foods are safe to eat, compared with only 37 percent of the public — a gap of 51 percentage points.

An equally overwhelming majority of scientists ( 8 7 percent) believe that climate change is

mostly caused by human activity, and 50 percent of the public agrees — a gap of 37 percentage points. Fully 98 percent of scientists believe that humans have evolved over time, and 65 percent of the public agrees — a gap of 33 points.

The P ew/ AAAS report does not attempt to explain why so many Americans reject the scientific consensus on G M foods. It notes that educated Americans are less skeptical of the science than the public at large, but not by that much: 49 percent of people with college degrees believe eating G M foods is safe, while 47 percent believe it isn’t.

The report also doesn’t delve into political differences on these issues, but Lee R ainie, P ew’s director of Internet, science, and technology, shared some background.

On climate change, the political breakdown is what you might expect: R epublicans believe by 53 to 43 percent that the evidence is real, whereas Democrats are convinced 8 7 to 10 percent.

On vaccine policy, there was no difference between parties when P ew asked in 2009: 68 percent thought vaccination should be mandatory, while 30 percent thought parents should decide.

Since then, R ainie said, the share of R epublicans favoring parental choice rose by eight points, while the share of Democrats favoring parental choice declined by five.

And on genetically modified foods?

“Declared R epublicans were more likely than declared Democrats to say G M foods are generally safe — 44 percent vs.

34 percent,” R ainie said in an e-mail. “But when you add those leaning towards each party to the mix, the differences between them become statistically insignificant. There are no differences on this issue among people who describe themselves as conservative, moderate, or liberal.”

Could it be that in this one case the public is right and the scientists are wrong? I’d say, only if you believe G regor Mendel was risking our health when he began playing around with pea shoots in the 18 50s. A more sober analysis, from the World R esources

Institute last June, granted that “genetic modifications using genes from diverse species pose a greater risk of producing unexpected effects than conventional crossbreeding,” which “justifies mandatory safety studies.”

But WR I concluded that “there is no evidence that G M crops have actually harmed human health” and that “food safety does not justify rejecting genetic modification outright.”

The anti-G M movement seems to be fueled by a combination of anti-corporate suspicion, smallfarm nostalgia and anxiety about unfamiliar technologies. It raises questions of environmental safety and corporate control as well as food safety.

Some would argue that, unlike climate-change denialism or vaccine resistance, it’s harmless even if baseless — who cares if Manischewitz now feels compelled to offer a line of G M-free kosher foods?

Unfortunately, this form of denialism also has victims, and they’re not the folks who may choose to pay a few cents more for G M-free matzo. As the WR I paper points out, farmers need to

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Though far from the only solution to this challenge, genetic modification can provide seeds that are more resistant to pests, drought or disease and that produce greater yields with less water or in poorer soil.

They could be, in other words, one significant component to avoiding mass hunger over the next generation.

Unfortunately, resistance in rich, consuming nations discourages innovation and makes it more difficult for farmers in poor countries to adopt useful new technologies.

It’s no less an affront than ever that the U.S. Senate has installed as chairman of its environment committee a man who believes that global warming is “the greatest hoax,” or that a senator who is also a medical doctor would stoke unwarranted fears about vaccine safety. But the P ew survey suggests we might want to check our Whole Foods grocery carts before dialing up the outrage too high.

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USDA proposal intends to tighten up loophole that allows non-active farmers to collect money

By DANIELLE PAQUETTE The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Farm subsidies have for decades disproportionately benefited richer Americans.

Even if they live in posh Manhattan penthouses.

Even if they’re, say, on hit television shows. Chris Soules, this season’s star of “The Bachelor,” for example, has raked in more than $370,000 in farm subsidies since he turned 19 in 2001.

Call it agricultural inequality. The country’s top recipients swept 77 percent of subsidies from 1995 to 2012, said Craig Cox, senior vice president of agriculture policy at the Environmental Working Group.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon propose a rule that could drive that percentage down, Politico reports, starting with tightening the definition of an “actively engaged” farmer.

The eligibility for agricultural subsidies remains broad: Anyone who invests time, money or guidance in a farm can qualify for a fat government handout.

“It’s a loophole some folks not ‘actively engaged’ in farming are using to collect farm benefits,” USDA spokesman Cullen Schwarz said, “and we’re trying to close that to the extent that we can.”

The USDA proposal is parked in the Office of Management and Budget, Schwarz said. Change could take months. Farm subsidies, meanwhile, continue to cushion the privileged.

What ‘The Bachelor’ tells us about farm subsidies Soules, a 33-year-old Iowa native, bills himself as a small-town farmer.

The show’s host described him differently: “[Soules is] a fourth-generation land baron,” ABC’s Chris Harrison told USA Today.

“If you say he’s just a farmer, you’re missing it. He’s a

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millionaire. Very good-looking guy. He really wants to find a wife and live the American dream.”

The bottom 80 percent of farm subsidy recipients in his home state — ostensibly not millionaire land barons — collected far less: an annual average of less than $1,565. The majority of agricultural subsidies nationwide go to commercial farms with average incomes of $200,000 and net worths of nearly $2 million, a Heritage Foundation report found.

Records show “Prince Farming” is actually a farmer. Soules, one of the top 20 percent of recipients in Iowa, didn’t do anything wrong. He simply played by the rules — rules built on years of Big Agriculture’s

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Farm subsidies have long drawn political ire.

Economists don’t really like them, either.

In the past 20 years, at least $11.3 million in farm subsidies went to 50 billionaires — including Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, investment giant Charles Schwab and Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy.

“That just shows how really skewed these farm subsidies have become and how far they’ve drifted from their original purpose, which was to give a leg up to smaller, struggling family farmers,” said Cox, who pushes for farm subsidy reform.

This time last year, Congress passed a fiveyear farm bill that sought

to squash $16 billion in government spending and update a broad range of agricultural policies, including how farm subsidies are distributed.

The 959-page bill ended direct subsidy payments, a broadly reviled policy where farmers received a fixed check for every acre they owned — planted or not.

(Most of Soules’ farm subsidy haul came from direct payment subsidies.)

Detractors say the bill dealt a blow to poor families, cutting $8.7 billion from the food stamp program, which helps provide sustenance to nearly 47 million people.

The change reduced benefits for about 850,000 households, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

As help for the poor shrank, relief for the wealthy remained.

Today, rich farmers —

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Furthermore, there is no limit to individuals who can claim to help “manage” the same operation, regardless of whether or not they’ve stepped foot on a farm. They can bank the same amount.

themselves on the back for repealing subsidies to farmers have found a surreptitious way to deposit these savings right back in the pocket of agribusiness.

That’s because the farm bill will expand subsidies for crop insurance, which looks like a private-sector program but which actually hands over virtually the same amount of taxpayer money to farmers, mostly wealthy ones, as the old direct payment program.”

The shift from direct payments to crop insurance, Dayen notes, means it will be much harder to track how the handouts are distributed.

Language in the Federal Crop Insurance Act prohibits the USDA from releasing some information agriculture watchdogs have enjoyed for years: Names, information about individual policyholders, underwriting gains ...

That could slow reform, said Marion Nestle, a professor of food studies and public health at New York University who teaches classes on the farm bill.

A lack of transparency, she said, further muddles Americans’ understanding of an already complicated policy.

“I have students who say, ‘that’s a really great deal,’” Nestle said of crop insurance, “because they think no matter how much money you pay out, the government will compensate.”

On the first day of farm bill class, Nestle asks the room: What should an ideal agriculture policy do? Her students, she said, respond predictably: It ensures there’s enough food to go around, pays farmers a decent living, preserves the land ...

“Does our farm bill do this? No,” Nestle said. “It protects agriculture business. Very, very little help is available for poor farmers. It mostly serves the most successful people.”

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We Salute Our FFA Members

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The FFA Mission: FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

The Agricultural Education Mission: Agricultural Education prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources system.

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996-4711 Riverside Road Exit Mitchell

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A&G DIESEL TRUCK REPAIR Complete Diesel Repair

123 E. Spruce

996-4137

A&G II, SERVICE & TIRE REPAIR I-90 & Hwy 37

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Construction Services and Building Materials

Terry Moody & Toby Moody, Owners

Members of the 2015 Mitchell FFA chapter are: Front row, (l-r): Advisor Jeff Hoffman, Leah DiPippo, Abby Sudbeck, Nicole Conrad, McKenzie Patton, Shelby Riggs, Rachel Robertson, and Patricia Weins; 2nd row: Jennilee Wipf, Isaak Peitz, Tanner Hines, Lane Jorgensen, Mahayla Foos, Stacie Knigge, Adrionna Long, and Morgen Mahrt; 3rd row: Johnna Jorgensen, Rhiannon Johnson, Makayla Grissom, Lily Hoffman, Bailey Kahler, Natalie Buckley, Hailey Axemaker, Shalynn Klunder, and Caitlin Baltzer; 4th row: Alexis Vander Wilt, Hunter Frankie, Lacee Amussen, Jared Sorenson, Luke Novak, Logan Kommes, Dillon Cronk, and Dalton Kummer; 5th row: Tyler Sypnieski, Nick Johnson, Zach Spanos, Micah DiPippo, Jesse Tegethoff, and Taylen Trisco; FFA members not pictured are Ally Goldammer, Katelyn Biggerstaff, Tyler Prickett, Briggs Havlik, and John Patton.

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W. Hwy 16, Mitchell

996-9607

MITCHELL FFA CHAPTER OFFICERS

“Job done right, quality, price, expert advise”

400 North Ohlman • Mitchell • 996-9175

Hours: M-F 7:30-5:30 • Sat 7:30-1:00

President: Johnna Jorgensen Vice President: Ally Goldammer Secretary: Lily Hoffman Treasurer: Shelby Riggs Reporter: Hailey Axemaker

Sentinel: Taylen Trisco Student Advisor: McKenzie Patton Parliamentarian: Luke Novak Historian: Abby Sudbeck Chaplain: Micah DiPippo

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See you at our 100th Anniversary Open House March 23-27th!

As of January 1, 2015, the Section 179 limit as been reduced to $25,000 and no bonus depreciation is available for the 2015 tax year.

VISIT US TODAY FOR GREAT LEASE PRICES ON NEW CASE IH TRACTORS! JUST ANNOUNCED!

FREE LOADER with new Maxxum or Puma purchase.

Lease a new 2015 Magnum 180 (155 PTO hp)

Lease a new 2015 Maxxum 140 (120 PTO hp) with L765 Loader 3 years, 300 hours per year†

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Lease a new 2015 Puma 150 (125 PTO hp) with L765 Loader 3 years, 300 hours per year†

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3 years, 300 hours per year†

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Lease a new 2015 Puma 185 (155 PTO hp) with L765 Loader 3 years, 300 hours per year†

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Lease a new 2015 Steiger 370 Wheeled (370 PTO hp)

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At the end of 3 years, BUY IT, TRADE IT, or RETURN IT ... NO QUESTIONS ASKED! All leases include $0 deductible extended powertrain warranty.

2015 1255 16R & 24R EARLY RISER PLANTERS STILL AVAILABLE!

30% Off (1) Remaining 340 25 ft. Disk!

12 MONTHS INTEREST FREE + CASH BACK! NEW 335VT TURBOS JUST ARRIVED!

Free Full Machine 24 Month/1,000 Hour Extened Warranty or $5,000 Parts Reward Card Heavy Duty Earth Metal Blades or $5,000 New Header Discount Hydraulic Lift & Active Down Pressure Baskets ------------------------------------------

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5140 & 6140 Combines

BEST BUYS IN USED EQUIPMENT

2014 Case IH Magnum 235 CVT MFD, 9 hours to 266 hours, 480/80R46 Rear Duals, 380/85R34 Front Tires, 4 Valves, 540/1000 PTO, Autoguidance Ready, Factory Warranty

2013 Case IH Steiger 350 4WD, 512 hours, Powershift, 480/80R46 Duals, 4 Valves, PTO, Autoguidance Ready, Factory Warranty

2013 Case IH Farmall 95C MFD, 80 PTO hp, 61 hours, 12x12 Power Shuttle, 18.4x34 Rear Tires, 14.9x28 Front Tires, 2 Valves, Factory Warranty

2012 Case IH Steiger 550 4WD, 568 hours, Powershift, 800/70R38 Duals, 4 Valves, Autoguidance Ready, Factory Warranty

2010 Case IH 7120, 1,490 Engine hours, 1,170 Rotor hours, 20.8x42 Dual Drive Tires, 28Lx26 Rear Tires, Field Tracker, Rock Trap, Stone Drum, AFX Rotor, Chopper, Chaff Spreader, Yield Monitor

Used Tractors

Used Mower Conditioners & Windrowers

100+ hp & 4WD – 18 Months Interest Free or 1.9% for 3 Years!

0% for 4 Years on Used Mower Conditioners!

2007 Case IH 2020 30 ft., 3 in. Cut 2006 Case IH 1020 30 ft., 3 in. Cut 2005 Case IH 2208 8R30, Hyd. Deck Plates, Field Tracker 2010 Case IH Steiger 435 4WD, 555 hours, Powershift, 710/70R42 2003 NH 98C 8R30, Hyd. Deck Plates, Field Tracker Case IH 1000 Series 12R30, Poly Duals, Luxury Cab, 4 Valves, Autoguidance Ready 2010 Case IH Magnum 215 MFD, approximately 1,450 hours, Used Balers 18.4x46 Duals, 14.9x34 Front Tires, 3 Valves, 540/1000 PTO 0% for 5 Years!

2009 Case IH Magnum 275 MFD, 1,777 hours, 18.4x46 Rear 2012 NH BR7090 Specialty Crop, Net Wrap, Endless Belts, Duals, 14.9x34 Front Duals, 4 Valves, 540/1000 PTO 21.5Lx16.1 Tires, 1000 PTO 2009 Case IH Farmall 80 MFD ROPS, 18.4x30 Rear Tires, 2006 NH BR780A, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO 12.4x24 Front Tires, 2 Valves, 540 PTO, Canopy 2005 NH BR780, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 1000 PTO 2007 Case IH Magnum 215 MFD, approximately 4,500 hours, 480/80R46 Duals, 380/85R34 Front Tires, 3 Valves, 540/1000 PTO, 2004 NH BR780, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 1000 PTO With Case IH L780 Loader, 102 in. Bucket, 5-Tine Grapple, Joystick 2004 NH BR780, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO 2003 NH BR780, Bale Command, Laced Belts, 1000 PTO 2005 Case IH MXM190 MFD, 160 PTO hp, 3,338 hours, 18.4x46 2003 NH BR780, Net Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO Rear Tires, 14.9x34 Front Tires, 4 Valves, Suspended Cab 2003 NH BR780, Auto Wrap, 1000 PTO 1946 IH Farmall M, Wide Front, With Farmall F11 Loader 2002 NH 688, Bale Command, Laced Belts, 540 PTO 2002 NH 688, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO Used Combines & Heads 2001 NH 688, Bale Command, Laced Belts, 540 PTO Financing As Low As 0% for 5 Years!

(2) 2001 NH 688, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO 2011 Case IH 3020 30 ft.

2000 NH 688, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 540 PTO (2) 2010 Case IH 2020 30 ft., 3 in. Cut 1996 NH 664, Auto Wrap, Laced Belts, 1000 PTO 2009 Case IH 2020 30 ft., 3 in. Cut 1986 Case IH 3650, 540 PTO

1995 NH 2550 SP Windrower, 3,023 hours, With NH 2218 18 ft.

Head 2009 NH H7150 16 ft., 1000 PTO 2005 NH 1441 16 ft., 1000 PTO 2003 NH 1475 16 ft., 1000 PTO (2) 2002 NH 1475 16 ft., 1000 PTO 2001 NH 1475 16 ft., 1000 PTO 1994 NH 116 16 ft., 1000 PTO 1990 Hesston 1160 14 ft, 540 PTO

2012 Sunflower 1435-40 40 ft. Disk, Cushion Gang, 3-Bar Mulcher 2013 Case IH Patriot 3330 Self-Propelled Sprayer, 437 hours, 90 ft. Boom, 1,000 gal., 380/90R46 Tires, Active Suspension, Pro 700 Monitor, AIM Command, Autoguidance Ready, Factory Extended Warranty 1995 Patriot Self-Propelled Sprayer, 2,983 hours, 75 ft. Boom, 750 gal., 12.4x42 Tires, EZ-Guide 500 Controller, EZ-Steer Autoguidance, 3-Section Shutoff 2004 NH/Flexi-Coil SF110 Sprayer, 90 ft., 1,000 gal., 14.9x46 Tires, SP655 Controller 2013 Schaben Sprayer, Trailing, 110 gal., 18 ft. Boom, Electric Controls

Used Crop Production Equipment

Used Miscellaneous

6-Month Interest Waiver on Used Crop Production 2005 JD 2700 7-Shank 17.5 ft. Disk Ripper, 30 in. Spacing, Individual Front Disks JD 2700 9-Shank Disk Ripper, 24 in. Spacing, Individual Front Disks, Spring Reset Shanks, Rear Disk Leveler, 3-Bar Mulcher 2009 Case IH 330 42 ft. Turbo, Double Fold, New Earth Metal Blades, Rear Flat Bar Baskets

2006 Case IH 8010, 2,385 Engine hours, 1,720 Rotor hours, 20.8x42 Dual Drive Tires, 540/65R30 Rear Tires, Field Tracker, Rock Trap, Stone Drum, AFX Rotor, Chopper, Chaff Spreader, Yield Monitor, Crary Grain Tank Ext.

2012 NH C238 Compact Track Loader, 90 hp, approximately 400 hours, 18 in. Tracks, Pilot Controls, Cab w/Heat & A/C, High-Flow Hyd., 84 in. LPE Bucket 1977 Bobcat 610 Skid Steer Loader, 30 hp Gas, 1,000 lb. Lift Brent 672 650 bu. Grain Cart, Scale, Tarp, 24.5x32 Tires Rem 2500 Grain Vac, 170 hours Rem 1026A Grain Vac Unverferth HT25 25 ft. Header Transport – JUST TRADED!

“Where Service Means More Than The Sale Itself”

www.scottsupplyco.com

2800 W. Havens Mitchell, SD

605-996-7704 1-800-952-2308

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