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You will be seeing a lot of progeny from daughters as she really stamps them.

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FALL 2019 COVER PHOTO BY ROBYN KOELLING

CONTENTS

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14 #NEBRASKASTRONG Photo Essay 16 Tri-State Livestock News Archives

during the Floods: Bombogenesis A Hero in a Green Tractor Cattlemen in Crisis Spring Break Flood Relief Hay Drive White River Flooding

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46 One Day at a Time 58 Rain, Surrender, Hope and Miracles 68 Kindness Through Devastation 74 Through the Lens

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Stuck in the Mud

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Hot Meals To Go

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Chopped Hay

104 Head Above Water, Financially

108 The Gift of Giving 120 Water Water 126 Using Water to Fight Water 134 Ag Events

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#NEBRASK As editors of Tri-State Livestock News

we don't just write about the livestock industry, we live it. While we are assigning stories and writing about saving baby calves and the stresses of the cattle market, we're trying to save baby calves and doing our own stressful cattle market calculations. When the news is chaos and heartache in the livestock industry we're feeling it too. And when it's bootstraps and grassroots making news, we get to feel that pride and community along with everyone else in the livestock industry who sees disaster not as an opportunity to profit from the misfortune of our neighbors, but as an opportunity to share our good fortune with them.

The news was bleak for several months as much of Nebraska and surrounding states were doused with rain after rain on top of snow, followed by hail. We're all too 14

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familiar with drought, have the backup plans, the trigger dates, but we don't have plans for too much water. Most of us didn't think that was even possible.

We're happy to report that the water eventually subsides, Photos courtesy of Jenny Stortz but the sense of community and encouragement that was shared so readily will last a lot longer than the sense of doom.

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The March 13-14 storm brought sleepless nights for many in plains and midwest stat es with rain, sleet, snow, wind, mu d, flooding and freezing temperatu res as producers are in the thick of calving.

“Bombogenesis,” a popular term used by meteorologists, occurs The Kottwitzes of Lusk, Wyom ing canoed their calves across Mule Creek after they when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly were threatened to be closed in by Mule Creek and the Cheyenne River after the mid -March blizzard. SAVANNA SIMM intensifies, dropping at least 24 ONS PHOTO millibars over 24 hours. A milliba and blocks of ice bigger than sem r i last night. Thank God it was onl measures atmospheric pressure. y trucks are wreaking havoc. two head,” Christi Leonard said This can happen when a cold air .

Joe and Christi Leonard ranch “One piece of ice was bigger tha mass collides with a warm air n north of Bassett, Nebraska and had Joe’s pickup, and knee high thic mass, such as air over warm oce k.” cattle pastured along the Niobra an ra Joe moved the cattle using a sha waters. The formation of this rap rp River. During the night of March shod horse. idly strengthening weather system 13th the ice went out on the rive r Tyrel Licking reports that the is a process called bombogenesis, and propelled by massive amoun ts county roads in north Lincoln and which creates what is known as of runoff, huge ice blocks pushed a sou theast Logan Counties Nebraska bomb cyclone, according to the over the banks, across the road are impassible in many places, wit National Weather Service. And by h and even trapped a bull and a cow wat er crossing them in numerous many accounts, the March 13-14 among the chunks. “There is onl y places after more than an inch and storm “Ulmer” qualified. a half of rain. The extremely high The storm delivered and then wind even blew over a large creep some. Snowfall was estimated at fee der out on a pivot. Licking works more than a foot, possible floodfor Lincoln County Feedyard in ing and extremely high winds. In Sta pleton, Nebraska. “Cattle are many cases the snow piled up eve n bunched up, tails to the wind and higher. While heavy snow fell are alm ost impossible to check,” he said in Wyoming, South Dakota and on March 14. “The wind is horribl northwest Nebraska, much of the e, gat es are harder than hell to open or cornhusker state received inches close.” Licking said. “Not many of rain, preceded by a 50 degree are sick -T YR this morning but the next few EL LICKING day that melted much of the sno w days might be bad.” that was still on the ground from about 50 feet of fence left on the Mike and Lori Waldron, who the previous storms. The ground eas t sid ran e of pasture he had them ch north of Draper, South Dakois still frozen so the melting sno w in, the ta, ice figu wa re they got 16 inches or more she d it all out. I can’t and rain has pooled in all the bel iev of e the cow and bull were still snow.. “We have 10 foot drifts low areas, flooding towns, roads, aliv e, in the pla y ces. It is a really wet heavy we re on ground but and swelling rivers and streams. sur rou sno nded by huge chucks of ice, w.” Lori said. “We have cattle Dams and bridges are washing out I do believe God was on their sid trap ped in a smaller pasture due to e

“Our yearling colts were all ice and couldn’t see, we had to knock the ice off their eyes so they could see.”

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blowing snow bad,” he said, of the g in nd sta e lik st k was the winds, it was ju nd. Another windbrea e ar wi d we an ly ul kf g an in Th ar s. ro , just the crazy drift next to a freight train buried with snow. t.” ye rm was way g sto in is Th lving so he g. not calv in am re sc and briel is nearly done ca e Ga liv n ya t Br las O’ d e ha di d we Scot and Jo avies in a shed. worse than the blizzar and was able to put the he ta ko Da e, h bl ut va So lie e, be er un id e in Belv oisture.

April. The drifts ar “You can’t cuss the m horn cattle ot fo lf ha a d an e fiv raise registered Long e re,” he said. the alleys ar We’ve been so dry he y say 18 he ar “T cle s. rse ow sn ho th ter wi ar and Qu ries of the panels packed solid And he’s heard the sto corrals are 8 e W ff. stu t we y av inches of snow. Our he h of him. across. It is flooding east and sout ss and our ro to ac g all in try ep de ay ot sd fo ur aling to 10 worked all day Th thankful we aren’t de re wn e’ do g “W di to . d ws ha co e W ed and fe barn is buried. id if the weather move snow to water with that.” Gabriel sa shovel a en ht th d fig an be or ll do wi rn we ba have a to the I’m worried if now t get much colder, he’ll n’ am es I . do or do e e th th en in s op knes 8 foot path to a day or two. ing pneumonia and sic lot of bare ground in e had to “W . id sa e di Jo .” ted exhaus r family es we saved.”

Kathy Fortune and he t all are alive. calv e), ill sv ile M r ea (n dig some calves out bu h Dakota rli ut In the Ku ice and figure their Interior, So all re we k ee lts Cr co g ep lin De ar , Our ye 0 inches of uth Dakota, area ranch got about 17-2 to knock the ice So d just ha iel br Ga J. T. couldn’t see, we had r ne l Weather Serow snow and the Nationa d see.” The Angus ul co ey irs th pa so of es h ey nc eir bu d gotten off th gotten to the first d told her the wind ha ha are d ce vi an als d ke im an tal e ws liv e k Ne O’Bryans se when Tri-State Livesto as high as 70 mph. sed.” es bl so e ar e on.

“W no . ter ul af n calves ay thankf sd ur Th m hi Fortunes had newbor in a to e re Th we es lv ca r ed de ol ow e t sn Many of th mper and in a “I don’t think any go in a horse trailer, a ca ried under bu s d wa fe he ich at wh th er ng elt di warm. calf sh under,” he said, ad g pickup to keep them in onn m t ru ha “T . to ow sn re fo of about 10 feet ed the evening be es with duct The marked the calv er is buried and bedd elt sh to lf xt ca ne ur y yo sta en to wh ’d know ment encourage the cows and a sharpie so they d e an tap el ov sh d d an ke el ec ov ch he deep. You sh them to. the windbreak. When which cow to return ing, their wl e ba on es d lv un ca fo e m he so t, ar gh ranch becan he them during the ni ally ul and Tamara Kearns fin Pa u Yo y. . az ow cr sn g in of ll go lf fu mothers are Lakeside, Necalf shelter blown ha tween Rushville and and everyg in at th en in op e en th se to er ev wn e get do “I don’t think I’v ck at you and thing in there looks ba e this ol’ girl they are all alive. Mad k you Jesus.” bawl like a baby, than cebook.

O’Bryan posted on Fa exhaust“I was so emotionally myself to see ed and had prepared es. I literala bunch of dead calv ed. I can’t ly collapsed and bawl busted our explain the relief. We 30 below zero butts through all the em all and I just weather and saved th were dead.” for sure thought they O’Bryan said. mp are Judd and Jamie Scho , South Daranchers from Martin rting to get kota. “We were just sta g, eight to ten hot and heavy calvin a good inch calves a day. We had essing 24 of rain first and I’m gu . JOY LANGE PHOTO 70mph winds.”

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braska. “We got a little over an inc h of rain before the wintry mix and we are figuring about 20 inches of snow. It’s making it very difficul t to get around. The drifts have covere d some gates that we had to dig out to feed, we have lost some calves due to drifting and the water. It’s rea lly a sloppy mess.” Tamara said. “M y husband was checking every two hours. It has been very emotional wondering if we did everything we could have or what we could hav e done differently to save the ones that didn’t make it.”

Zach and Erin Cox ranch 27 miles northwest of Mullen, Nebra ska. They are guessing they had two and a half inches of rain. Immedi ately following, they were hit wit h eight to ten inches of snow and lots of wind. Zach checked the cows with a snowmobile and was hap py to report that their livestock fare d very well through the storm.

Cody and Stephanie Wolf from Cattle in the snowy lot. COURTES Y OF KARINA JONES Cozad, Nebraska are flooding. “W e gro und . didn’t even get an inch of rain, its banks and over their road, but Not too far away, on the Wyoit’s all snow melt. There is water Laura Gray thinks the road may still ming side of the state line, the Ko everywhere. Highway is closed. tt- be intact when the water rec ede s. witz family was getting creative.

We had to get a port-a-potty at She worries more flooding could be The family decided to try canoeing our house because the toilet won’t in their future when the snow fro m calves across Mule Creek as the flush.’ Cody said. “I feel bad tha y “Ulmer” melts. t fea red the creek and the Cheyenne we don’t have a dry place to get Paul Allen, a Bristow, Nebraska , River would close the cattle in. The them to. (His livestock) I have rancher answered an early mornin g, mother cows followed the calves never seen it this bad before.” in March 14 phone call to learn tha t a canoe similar to how they would Rod and Laura Gray of Harrithe Spencer dam had given way foll ow a calf sled. son, Nebraska, said rain turning seven miles up the Niobrara Riv er. to snow was on the menu on the Pau l and Lana, and Paul's son's ir ranch, too. “That made it really family escaped safely while the muddy underneath, then the win wa ter came within a few feet of the d came and it started snowing really main home. heavy.” Even with zero visibility, Paul was able to open panels tha t they checked cows constantly would allow some of his cattle to through the storm, and brought escape the impending floodwate rs. in new calves, after working all "His horsetrailer and 3/4 ton pic k-CODY WOLF day prior to the storm to bed cal up floated around for awhile but f shelteres and windbreak and mo his buildings are still standing and ve The Niobrara River was out of cattle out of muddy lots to dryer his machinery is still there, some

“I have never seen it this bad before.”

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hter. moved," said his daug 's brotherlen All structures on Al shed away in-law's place were wa gel remains upstream and Ken An missing. rm will be The effects of this sto r a long while widespread and felt fo th the warmto come, especially wi sted melting er temperatures foreca ntral Nebraska more snow. Here in ce have much we are thankful not to r those who new snow and feel fo t hit. have been the hardes th flooding Those needing help wi eck out the are encouraged to ch ta and Iowa Nebraska, South Dako ok page or Flooding Alert Facebo cal extension connect with their lo suggestions representative or find u.edu/flood or at: https://www.ag.nds https://flood.unl.edu/.

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March 23, 2019

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By Savanna S immons Photos courtes y of the Wilke family ames Wilke was the epitome of a kind, giving, Godly pers on, so much so that he left this earth in an effo rt to help his fe ll ow man. The 50-year-old farm er from Colum ka, about 90 m bus, Nebrasiles west of Om aha, answered March 14 to re a call scue a motorist stranded in swel floodwaters in ling Platte County, Nebraska.

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his Papa’s death. onaserflow bridge along M ov an g sin os cr s wa As he rs, the strucemergency responde by ed id gu , ad Ro y ter water. r plummeted into the cto tra s hi d an y wa ture gave downstream, vered on a creek bed co re s wa dy bo ’ es m Ja at James a way, family said, th near his home. It was Hefti wrote family friend Jodi L. e, m ho is he y sa d ul co on Facebook Friday. e wrote. “I capes or uniforms,” sh “Not all heroes wear work a T-shirt, blue jeans, re wo o wh ro he e tru know a hn Deere tractor.” boots, and drove a Jo baserest Tuesday, and the to m hi d lai ily m fa ’ James was set up an Church, where a TV ment of Christ Luther tament room only, a great tes g in nd sta s wa w, flo for over usin Paul James was, said his co to the kind of person ch. elder at the rural chur Wilke. James was an together their ds, brothers, farmed James’ and Paul’s da t and lived only a mile apar ey Th . id sa ul Pa , es entire liv es stepped d labor. Paul and Jam shared equipment an close d farmed in a similarly an les ro s’ er th fa eir into th fashion.

bout “He didn’t just talk a be better, things that needed to ” he made stuff better.

-PAUL WILKE

lton in lp James’ only son Co Paul will step in to he eks, and the coming days, we much the same way in boots. ll step into his dad’s months. Colton, 23, wi e neighbors m out, and a lot of th “We’re going help hi care ttle needed to be taken ca he “T . id sa ul Pa ” will too, . He loves to t of people pitched in of right away, and a lo to sit in ce he was old enough sin g in rm fa en be ’s farm, he d.” the tractor with his da hardest e loss of his father the th g in tak en be s ha n Colto ss of their dad r, Paul said, but the lo of any family membe bie. Rahters, Julianne and Ab ug da s hi on sy ea m is far fro id, is leaning y strong wife, Paul sa chel, James’ amazingl her life. ith during this trial in on her tremendous fa , including lved in his community James was very invo Neark Township Board, sm Bi e th of r be em m being a an. He was d Platte Valley Cattlem braska Cattlemen, an and keview High School, La at s ee itt m m co l ra on seve mni. active in the FFA alu 22

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ere tractor with his farm in his John De to ed lov e ilk W s Jame in the buddy seat. grandson Breckin

erned s friend. He was conc y’ od yb er ev s wa es “Jam ends and his d very close to the fri about other people an “He was t to him,” Paul said. os m e th nt ea m at th family munity. He church and in the com very involved in the better, he gs that needed to be in th t ou ab k tal st ju didn’t made stuff better.” ing due to re spared in the flood we e ttl ca e’s ilk W e Th els went down int, and the water lev their high vantage po at is left se, but the damage th ro ey th as ly ick qu just as ul lives only , Paul said. While Pa behind is astounding ht-mile e, he has to take an eig us ho ’ es m Ja m fro a mile between. to the damage done in route to get there due tock. s suffered loss of lives or hb ig ne eir th of y Man dad, grandfal that their husband, The family is gratefu e grand and g remembered for th in be is in us co d an ther, was. loving person James read,” Paul w fast the word has sp ho e bl va lie be un t’s “I be more like ll inspire someone to said. “Hopefully it wi James.”

March 23, 2019

Cattle trying to cross flooded Clear Creek.

CATTLEMEN IN CRISIS Flooded with No Place to Go

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ebraska, a land of corn and cattle, is half underwater, two thirds of the state declared disaster areas and over a score of towns evacuated. Farmers and ranchers were cut off from their livestock or were unable to get them out due to the rapidly rising water and ice. Many lost all their feed, and calving supplies and don’t know how they are going to care for the animals they still have.

At this point producers are just trying to survive, hauling hay by boat and helicopter to marooned cattle, saving calves and treating sickness. With so much of the state still covered by water, ice chunks and bottomless mud, the actual numbers of dead livestock are yet to be

By Deanna Nelson Licking Photos Courtesy of Karina Jones and Leah Peterson

truly known. Some ranchers are estimating they lost at least 25 percent of their 2019 calf crop. This comes at a time when the weigh-up market is low, yet producers can’t afford to feed a non-producing cow. These were some of the best and most productive members of the herd, the first ones to breed back, the ones who kept their calves alive through the bitter cold only to lose them now.

Talia Goes, Communications Director for the Nebraska Cattlemen spoke of the need these ranchers will have for fencing and vet supplies, feed, tools--many lost everything. “One producer knew the water was coming so he pulled all his calves and put them in a high barn TRI-STATE LIVESTOCK NEWS

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e them. Thankfully the because he knew he could sav st of his cows survived.” flooding wasn’t as bad and mo bility is the standard, In an industry where unpredicta ources. ranchers are running out of res hard on producers.

“This winter has been really , they are resilient and Ranchers are always preparing hing they could do here.” self-sufficient but there was not e feedlots moved their Goes said. “We heard that som on high enough ground that cattle, most of the others are waters.” the cattle are safe from flood ily near the small Tye Bloom ranches with his fam ey have a cow/calf optown of Scotia, Nebraska. Th ng. He woke up in the eration along with a little farmi their usually dry creek was, night to a raging river where s that were calving heavy cutting them off from their cow ter a foot from the porch, at the time. My house had wa ing, trying to get to dry I could see rats and mice swimm und boarding things up so ground. We were running aro My grandpa is 73 and he they couldn’t get in the house. ce Creek flood like that. said he has never seen Walla snow and the gale force It was the good eight inches of calves drowned, others winds that got us. Some of the e wind and snow pushed the were tromped in the mud. Th ng out once we could get to cows. The worst part was goi calves. The mommas were them and picking up the dead them, trying to get them still standing over them, licking six of them were ET (emup. We lost 34 calves; five or our biggest calves.” Bloom bryo transplant) bull calves, s for the first few days, but said. “We had a lot of sick one hard to get around now haven’t lost any since. It is so gone. Our Rangers are with the bridges out and roads und now. the only ways we can get aro forced to leave their veBloom and his family are now nger ride just to get home. hicles and take a four-mile Ra n farmer/rancher at Leah Peterson, fifth generatio r Weissert, Nebraska, told Cooksley Clear Creek Far, nea her story: a.m., I woke to the sound Last Wednesday morning at 6 roof of our old farm house of gentle rains hitting the steel unty, Nebraska. along Clear Creek in Custer Co the kids and put them on As I scurried around to roust home from making an early the bus, my husband returned wore a worried expression. run through the heifers and he hered his things to head He didn’t say much as he gat with local farmers who down the road for a meeting planting season. were gathering to talk all things our toddler to head out As the sun rose, and I readied local weather man was the door to morning chores, our 24

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Victim of the blizzard.

ns for localized flooding. cautioning us all about concer ut helping move the big I had been more concerned abo paration for the blizzard cow herd that morning in pre ecting later that night. and 70 mph winds we were exp the bridge at Clear Creek It wasn’t until I drove across sider the idea that flooding at 8 a.m., that I began to con a blizzard. would pose as much danger as

ot “As we approached a low sp that occasionally has standing water, I stopped in my tracks h when I saw cows going throug in water up to their bellies.” ves in the lot and then We hurriedly fed all the fat cal I began to plan for moving my dad, our ranch hand and wind. As we set out to drive the cows to shelter out of the grounds to the safety of them from their usual calving startled under the falling a large shelter belt, I became inning to appear. Everyrain. Small streams were beg

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Mud and snow made daily cho res

a challenge.

where. Those that were running downhill from melting snowpack moved quickly. As we approache d a low spot that occasionally has standing water, I stopped in my tracks when I saw cows going through in water up to their bellies .

Water that was rushing. I quickl y grabbed a set of hobbles and put them on a new calf and threw him in my Polaris.

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flow away because the ground remained frozen.

The feed wagon we used to tease the cows out got stuck.

Dad bailed out and waved us in.

It was at that moment, that fear crept in.

My father, ranching along Clear Creek since 1976, was worried.

We hashed our backup plans.

We began to try and execute the m.

One by one, they failed.

And the water continued to rise.

The cows were getting exhausted and so were we.

The eye of the storm passed over and we knew that we had one moment of calm to enjoy before the winds turned to the north and the

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sun began to set.

Worry turned to some panic.

And the water rose more.

In a final desperate attempt, we went to move the cow herd one las t time before the final bridge that remained above water disappear ed.

By then, Clear Creek had risen to level none of us had ever seen. We were cut off from the main ranch headquarters by waters rushing high enough that we could cross by tractor only. The cattle, being exhausted, were then in shock. The y would not cross the bridge. Finally , we gave up and had no choice but to send them all through the rag ing waters for safety in a smaller she lterbelt. By the grace of God, the y

all made it. And so did we.

We fenced them in and put out as much hay as we were able and retreated as darkness set in.

Nothing was left to do but pray to God almighty to see our cows through the blizzard that raged the next 24 hours.

When the winds calmed and waters began to recede, we took sto ck of our losses. We were spared mu ch of the heartache that our fellow Nebraskans were not. Now, almost a full week later, it’s difficult to even recall all that has transpired .

For as much as we are grieving and concerned, life has gone on as it always does this time of year.

The appearance of new life has remind ed us that hope springs eternal and that we will persevere through these times.

With the help of God and one another we will get through all of this.

Nebraska is our home and we are Nebraska Strong.

Calf lying dead in the snow.

Fifth generation rancher Karina Jones and family were hit hard by of our AI heifers, we prepared for a terrible hail storm in 2017 and the storm like we would any bliz were just getting back on their fee t zard. We fed everything up with when the storm hit. This is her extra hay. We made sure that eve rystory: thing had access to canyons which The National Weather Service have always served as their shelter s and all local news outlets gave us from the spring blizzards that hav e ample warning in the days leadin g come in the years before. up to our “Bomb Cyclone.” The As the rain began to fall the y talked about the moisture that afternoon of Tuesday, March 12, we would start as rain and switch were starting to see the runoff from over to snow and the category 2 these rolling hills and some water Hurricane force winds that were was beginning to go over low-lyexpected. But, really, who has eve r ing roads. We thought we had experienced a “Bomb Cyclone” in everything tucked in pretty good central Nebraska? to handle whatever the weather Although extremely weary from was going to hand us that night a brutal, record-breaking cold but as we laid sleepless in bed, our February in which we calved all stomachs in knots, we were start-

ing to get a grasp that this storm was of a different beast. I honestl y feared that the windows were goi ng to blow into our home. The force of the wind and the driving rain is something I will never forget.

As the sun rose on the morning of March 13, the rain let up, the wind was still fierce. Our school called at 6:30 am and asked tha t we meet the bus at another location because they didn’t think the y could get down our road. I did not want to put our girls on the bus that morning, but they both had their Science Fair presentations and the y were anxious about missing that.

When my husband returned from meeting the bus, my mother heart

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March 13. They said we were only supposed to get a few inches of snow. Surely, this has to be better than the driving rain. This was the blizzard we had been preparing for!

We had a barn full of goats kidding, so my husband, Marty, and I took turns through the night going back and forth to the barn to help new baby goats nurse and such. It was the blinding, driving blizzard conditions we were all used to.

mud.

Attempting to pull a tractor out of the

sank when he said, “I don’t think we will be getting the girls home today. These roads are in too bad of shape.” I called my motherin-law, who lives along Highway 2 and she agreed she could get to Ansley and pick them up and keep them until our roads would be safe.

The rest of Wednesday was spent trying to feed cattle and accessing the health and safety of our February calves. Surely, those pairs would be fine. They were behind a cedar tree windbreak, with guard rail fence, not to mention they had an open-front calf shed bedded down with fresh hay. We had done all we could.

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the run became torrential; the dams had all they could hold. We have three dams that hold water out of our corrals and lots. They were all spilling over and running right through our corrals like a river, including the one dam that breeched, the water running right to that open front shed.

We worked to try and divert the water around that shed but we just couldn’t keep up. We kept clinging to some hope that our cows were supposed to be another week off from calving and they were out on winter range and had those canyons to go to. We were hoping they were fairing far better than our first-calf heifer pairs.

The rain changed to snow in the afternoon and evening hours of

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“Our cows, unfortunately, did indeed start calving during the storm.

They took refuge in those canyons which have always served as their safe birthing center. They had no way to know that those canyons would turn into raging rivers.”

When the sun came up on Thursday, March 14, our dig out from snow began. Snow had drifted as tall as the guard rail fences and right over them. The open-front calf shed was now filled with snow that had drifted in. At noon on this day the sustained winds in Broken Bow, NE were still clocked at 77 mph. This was now day three of this extreme weather phenomenon. The winds didn’t subside until well into that late evening.

The sun came out Friday, March

Clear Creek flo od

waters.

14 and we bega n to grasp our real- are no ity. Snow was st w a state in cris arting to melt an is. We are d we were finding no w this really is ju an ag industry in dead baby calv st the beginnin crisis. es g, underneath. O A th s we continue, e be gi nn ur cows, unfort in g of a lot of diff day by day, unate- we ar er ent ly, did indeed st stresses, rebuil e now full into art calving duri di ng th , e an th d ro de es ng cisions. of the storm. The calving cows. So I am seeing op y took refuge in me cows were erators with in those too stre ju a 60 st canyons which miles radius of ssed from wha have always se us sa t th yi ey ng w rv th ent ed ey are as their safe bi through. Cows selling out. The rthing center. T that were in th y are not going hey e to had no way to prime of their rebuild after th know that thos life, the heart of es e lo ss es e . ca R anchour n- genetics, yons would turn ing has been so and optimal bo into raging rive tough the last fe dy condirs. tion. Whi We started seei w years. Emotiona le we lost calves ng the how badl ll y, m os du t of ri y ng us have our fences wer the storm, now been running on e washed out an it is the cows w empty. Financi d e dams comprom ally, seem to be nurs it should be no ised. We starte ing after the st se cr et th at d w or orking m. seeing the sadn Their bodies ar capital has been ess in the faces e trying to carr depleted the la of y a st our neighbors calf to full term few years. Hon and we didn’t ev or are lactatin estly, I think I sp en g and for all of eak have to ask. The that is big enou rural America n we watched th gh pull on a fe w he m e n al I e’ news and realiz s body. But the st say that we need ed that everythi ress of the stor the whole nation ng m ha s in Nebraska ha ju st be be hind us as farm en too much fo s changed and ers and ranche r some. we rs I think many of because this w ay of life is on us are realizing the brink of extinc tion.

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ned to Petersen, had plan na La , om m r he her She and iling trip, but on ob snowmom t n’ ow is sn a a sk r ra fo eb y N was OK leave the next da college student in had planned mom, asking if it r e sh he e d lik lle , ca ta e so sh ne e, way hom biling in Min eak this week. br g e trip. rin sp er ov e could. to do ys, to cancel th da ur ho out in any way sh en te lp fif he ng to d ki te or w an s w e’ Petersen Instead, sh 16, Petersen and so on March ines to help those ic s, ed ye m id d sa an om ed m fe ska affect- Her collecting animal rth central Nebra no in rs he nc swung into action. ra d ore, armed with farmers an cal farm supply st lo r he . to t od en flo w g e in ying Sh ed by the devastat it out at $1,000, bu major at the ed e ax nc m ie d sc an , al rd im ca an , an her credit Katelyn Petersen icken feed. and a resident of n ol nc Li ahorse, dog and ch sk e, ra ttl eb ping to ca N of r ity fa rs e Unive ons, in th undMe account, ho Ly oF G in a e d m te ho ar r st he so ed to She al Lyons, Neb., head s. t 115 miles east of ou ab e, at ,500 to buy supplie st $2 e e th is of trailer, ra rt pa st on , ea north occurred her mom and the d ith ha w g f in of od ok flo to e re , whe Then sh the Niobrara River March 15.

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dropping off th e feed whereve r it was needed, in has also donate cluding in Verdi d six pallets of gre, trace where they star m ineral and white ted. salt block, whi ch She and her m “has been huge om traveled ar to th e ra nc he ou rs nd their catt and Verdigre and L le,” Lana said. ynch, Neb., so metimes not even talking to the fa rmer or rancher but leaving supplies .

“Katelyn would get out (of the truck), see a ra ncher and a ho rse, and she’d throw a bag of horse feed by their mailbox . If she saw they had a dog, she’ d leave dog food ,” her mom said.

Sometimes the two had to take back roads, sinc e main roads an d highways were closed due to flooding. The producers wer For a few days en’t during the wee usually availabl k, e because they Katelyn has team ed up with a were working to save animal s and veterinarian in Lynch who sh their facilities. e is And sometimes working with to distribute supp they wouldn’t lies. ask for goods She’s been mak when ing rounds wit she offered them h her, helping treat an . “A lot of thes imals. A few da e guys are proud, ys ” Katelyn said ago, they visite . d a rancher who “You’d talk to had them, and they lost multiple bu ’d lls and cows an say, ‘Oh, we’re d fine.” an unknown nu mber of calves During the mot .

The calves are in a her and daughpile, and Katel ter’s trip to Lyn yn ch last weekend started counting , but quit when they had one of she the most movin got to 25, even g though she was moments of th n’t e devastation. A halfway throug s h the pile. they came over a bridge, they sa w a rancher loadin g a dead baby calf into a side -by-side, with the mama cow stan ding there, look ing at the calf. The rancher tipped hi s hat to the cow, as if in tribute to her loss. They cried. That mom ent “changed (Kat elyn’s) life righ t there,” Lana sa id.

Donations have poured in to help her with he lping the ranchers, “the animal s’ first responders,” as she call ed them. On Sun day night, she got a call from a feed company wanting to dona te.

She expected a few pallets of horse feed, but the company se nt a semi load full . Another busine ss

“Katelyn would get out (of the tru ck), see a rancher and a horse, and sh e’d throw a bag of horse feed by th eir mailbox.”

They are also de aling with calv es that have to be put down, due to frozen feet, from standing in icecold water. Ano ther calf they ar e doctoring is trap ped by a huge pi ece of ice. To treat it, they have to walk across ice to ge t to it. The Nio brara River banks ha ve large blocks of ice dug out from bridges and pile d on the embank ments. It will ta ke

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ted. to melt, Lana predic e ic of es ec pi e th r sitive, Katelyn weeks fo rs, the people are po he nc ra e th s sit vi e y says, Every time sh sitive and everybod po so e ar le op pe se odhe told her mother. “T “Their homes are flo . id sa yn el at K e,” ’re not fin and their ‘I’m fine.’ And they out of their houses, n w ro th ff stu et w of ed, there are stacks . ad hing like this animals are de ’ve never seen anyt ey th y sa rs he nc ra me “The farmers and I hope I never see so d an , 22 ’m “I d. rte yn repo in their lives,” Katel n.”

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ica, help in rural Amer hen people need the call. someone answers a found out that a And Hannah Such e call. ople will answer th whole bunch of pe Nebraska were rthern and eastern no of rts pa n he rdigre, W a, a resident of Ve ch Su , 13 ch ar M flooded on the Knox Counok post put out by bo ce Fa a w sa ., for the Neb , asking for help 16 ch ar M on s ew ty (Neb.) N d all their farm lost their home an ho w , ily m fa ka ic Ruz oke. e Spencer Dam br ner buildings when th erer, the former ow m m Zi t ur C d, da She called her m to take the Market, asking hi k oc st ve Li re ig merer of the Verd to the family. Zim d ha he y ha of s lls, and an three round bale ade some phone ca m e H . er rth fa ep took it a st

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said, “we’re ck. “Hannah,” he ba r he d lle ca r, te .” She hour la re and make a sign he t ou et G e. iv dr having a hay in an hour, the ok page, and with bo ce Fa r he on it gentleposted rnoon, an elderly te af at Th . es ar sh ck. post had 300 ith a bale in the ba w , rd Fo 98 19 s hi d Sucha, man pulled up in told Zimmerer an he ” h, uc m t n’ is “I know this d I know this bale I have left an od go e on e th s t “brought “but it’ do.” His commen I an th e or m it s family need . tears,” Sucha said le, all lome and my dad to , March 16 21 peop , ay rd tu Sa y, da That first l over. cals, donated hay. d coming from al te ar st lls ca e th , r 300 After that the Ruzickas. Thei lp he to as w al s who Sucha’s first go een three neighbor tw be lit sp e er w e head of cattl

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were feeding them. Then Sucha and Zimmerer reali zed that destruction and devastation had occurred up and down the Niobrara River Valley and farmers and ranchers needed help. “My dad knows the livestock guys ,” Sucha said, since he and his wife Sherri owned the lives tock market for 23 years. “He said, ‘we have to do some thing for these guys.”

The donations started pouring in. Hay and supplies from sixteen states: Nebraska, Kansas, South Dako ta, North Dakota, Wyoming, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Texas, Minnesota, Mon tana and Missouri have been delivered. A farmer and his wife and daughter from Pennsylvania even brought a picku p and trailer load of hay.

“People wanted to help,” she said. Someone bring ing hay from Kansas commented that they were retur ning the favor that Nebraskans had done for them. “We bring hay to you, because Nebraska sent it to us during the wildfires,” Sucha was told.

The drive continues, and the donation and distributi on center is the Verdigre Livestock Sale Barn (now owned

by Sara Anthony and Matt VanDriel), and Zimm erer’s buildings. Three local men, all hay haulers, dona te their time and equipment to man the center. They recei ve hay, unload it, and deliver it. One of the men brought his own

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ashingm their farm near W fro e ov dr t gh hio, and brou , a one-way trip transported from O n, Penn. to Verdigre to id sk s e d’ th da g y in us “M . of s. tractor, instead igre on March 26 of about 1,000 mile use it was to Verd e ca m be ca d, s ha ck er tru er e m os m th in Pennsylvaloader Zi eyes lit up when Beechy, who farms ue sc Re rm Fa , 24 e floodfaster. On March hio, had heard of th in,” Sucha said.

O d an a ni as r fo or ct is tra ng shop anted to help. donated the use of a The Zimmerer weldi g in Nebraska and w in g in be . e ar ed at ed hay s th long as it is ne d a little bit of extra full of donated item ha e “W e th re he . w rs s te s and ranche a ran out of hay Zimmerer coordina passed on to farmer d is year and Nebrask an th , ed er ed liv fe de a e ar of s t bi as somehay and supplie e’re kind of a little st, a week ago. It w “W fa ty et d pr an s er rm fa l e e have it al help that didn’t he knows some of th store,” she said. “W ing we could do to r th fo k as n, to bi d a ou in pr e o ar es s money.” ranchers are to organized. The glov much more than ga us a st ch co Su ,” ys s, gu e irt es s, sweatsh up in the Omahelp. “He knows th there are boots, coat Beechy’s wife grew ou ‘y , er , ck od fo tru e g th do d to an reason said. “He says and that was also a hats, tons of cat food , ea ar is ha th , op dr ire u w yo the whole nce pliers, barbed go to this place and help out. “It makes u’ll insulators, fe to yo y, sa , d ed an fe , em um th str ll much colo off, and I’ll ca a flooding thing that vaccines, syringes, sk ra eb N un to e er th ne ckets. ” need to have someo milk replacer, and bu closer to our hearts. e fill w , in e m co le Facebook that op on pe load it.’” d “When he poste n he W d an ul . ef or at do gr e em out th more hay The recipients are them up and send th was making the trip, u he yo n he of l “W . al id ed sa ne a ’t ast two positive, Such And maybe they didn nated. He plans at le do g as bi w a ve ha u ’ll yo ey u know if d bales, square go to their place, th those things, but yo more trips, with roun gh ou t th n’ en do ev , ey th ce d fa r an , smile on thei send it with a farmer bales, and grain. u ask how Yo h. uc m so eir neighbor st th lo e be dMe page: ay m t they’v bu it ed ne He’s started a GoFun ing do I’m y, sa .” ’ll ey em th th to lief, and they are, and does, they’ll give it r Nebraska Flood Re fo ay H e nn ia Br s wife posts, another good today.”

David Beechy and hi te, because of Facebook da to a n, up tio ed na ad do lo t es na le following Their bigg and daughter Magda from Ohio plans on er rm fa of r ile d tra an a s le y, round ba was ten loads of ha trailer with fourteen all n, ai gr of ad lo a d supplies, an 38

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Beechy on his ne xt trip to Nebrask a While the two ha with hay. The Ohi d coffee one o hay will be take n m orning, discussing to flooded livesto ck producers sout the hay drive, h Zimmerer told hi of Omaha. s daughter one of the reasons he’s w Beechy was glad orking so hard. to do it. “Be“He said, ‘Hanna cause we farm, it h, the government struck us. All can’t solve all ou farmers go throug r problems. We h difficult times. have to solve our We had extra hay own problems. W this year, and I e ha ve to help our neig guess it seemed rig hbors.’” ht to do.”

She is quick to em When Sucha and phasize that her dad started th ere are many othe this, they didn’t th rs donating their ink it would last time and talents be this long. “We th sides her and her ought it would be fa mily. Andrew Ols a Saturday and Su on, from Nornday and we’d folk, has made m be done,” she said or e than eight trips . “My dad hasn’t to Verdigre to brin set foot in his busi g donated items. ness since last They’ve seen so Saturday. He’s ov much of him that erjoyed. He loves Su cha says, “he’s lit this stuff.” Sucha erally become has gone back family this last w to her fourth grad ee k. e teaching job in And I had no idea who this guy Creighton, Neb., was before a wee and she misses it. k ago.”

“I was so sad I di dn’t get to see the And the commun twelve trucks com ity has responded e in.” as well. The projec t encompasses so

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and fencing. d be looking for hay e’ w ry ve “E w. on we rs no very well be the reas many other voluntee ay m u Yo to g ity is comin a better year body in the commun go on and hope for n ca lp he ed ne e say, w gether. We call and next year.” and they’re ng hi et that summed m so g in ad unlo She got another text t. It read, right there. t ag people are abou ha w up mmunity u, your “It’s brought the co annah, the actions yo “H g in th le ib g are poss d volunteers are doin together. The worst an ily m fa a gs and it brin bringing light happens (the flood) unbelievable. You’re hour. .” ople at their darkest community together pe e es th to ht s the plig r hearts with Her dad understand ank you for filling ou Th e “H . in e ar enting ers the future and repres the livestock produc r fo pe ho ” il, anybody fa st possible doesn’t want to see e Midwest in the be th e w re su e ak m to ur actions.” she said. “He wants rs way through yo he nc ra d an s er rm e account can keep these fa Beechy’s GoFundM ll sti s it’ on as re be found in the area. He’s the for flood relief can om/ going.” https://uk.gofundme.c at iat gr r ei th d se ska-flood-relief People have expres her hay-for-nebra pt ke s ha at th d an to tude to Sucha, To make donations and lots s ur ho ng lo h ’s ug er ro er going th cha and Zimm from a farmer Su xt te a t go mer“I k. or w of hay drive, Curt Zim for everyu yo k an ‘th , id at sa and he er can be reached for me and my thing you’re doing 402.841.2835. ur dad, yo d an u yo t ou ith W family.

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Two men and two calves in a boat during a flood rescue.

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WHITE RIVER FLOODING

Ranching Almost Impossible Due to Water and Mud

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he river has shown her true nature, she’s rather greedy.” said Ann Kustar, horse breeder at Solomon Farm in extreme south-west Jones County, South

Dakota.

The Big White River has flooded across their bottom land, washing away fences, broke through the bank

into their old gravel pit and flooded the basement of her home. Everyone there now is crowded into the apartment above the barn. The alfalfa fields resemble an inland ocean and they are almost out of feed since their hay supply is in water. “Thankfully we have a load of hay coming the end of the week.” Kustar said.

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. JAMIE SCHOMP PH edented flooding ec pr un g rin du r water and dry were unde a to keep cattle safe on t un co s er ch ran Grandpa’s cows to Facilities the White moved

lot just g on al h the water Frank Carlson, ranc of the house in case h , ut so nd ou gr er gh s hi k’ m Fran d get to them the young horses to River. They lease fro rose higher he coul or ct ’s tra ni a To ly is on is ud Th m . e an was on the but due to th grandpa Lyle O’Bry r to move them (this or ste ct fa tra r ei th d an r lped him, he could pull the traile experience.

18th). After Frank he ute a in m st id la lv e Be th t of A h ut rt. where wouldn’t sta “We are located so his horse to the east d tte d tro an or ct it tra en s hi wh ng heifer pairs ghway 63. Well, neighbor came with re on ere along hi we had what remaini stu pa e rm th to sto g up bi r e ile th r pairs got pulled the tra started to thaw afte the river. The heifer g on le al ab as w , or er hb riv ig to the e blizzard and we top and another ne all of the runoff went hit pretty hard in th and d rte at sta th or ct So t. tra ye t r’s river and to get Kusta and the ice wasn’t ou pile of calves to the a st ts lo ca o Tw . e. ic nd e ou th g over t them moved moved to higher gr water started runnin snow already. We go in e on , of od le flo up e co th a r by fo e heavy were trapped It continued like this hills at dark. But th e th o to Tw r. er ile riv tra e a th t in ou ere a tree and another . I was concerned ab still in the corral. Th ys re da we rs ife he e m ca ighbor d in 2010. Frank , two lower days later a kind ne ur lots in the corral . flooding like it ha fo es e lin ar fe e th m d ue fro sc ll re the heavies on with a kayak and (my fiancé) got a ca ones where we had get flood Carlson t es n’ liv ca o e w wh e p, liv ar e Sh w ey the new pairs “Where n a neighbor Rodn lower east bottom, e tio th op an e ’t th d isn ar A he M said he d upper west insurance and FE up the river and he were in the lower an s es d oc ha pr we ng if lo d a an be r, ill rio either. It w ice went out at Inte lots. es and fields. nc fe s, ad ro ttoms by the river g bo in e , on the ild th on rebu e ttl ca y an I have the night shift of nt ou am se en m im er was We lost an to get them moved. g of the 19th the riv in . en ev nd la of e s sid re st ac d we ong the fence and acres an ill over its banks. Al e have our cows on sp W to ng t, rti ye g sta in al fo re en’t lls so they we s water I’m thankful we wer of the road, in the hi wer east lot, there wa lo e d th an e lif le ’s ho an w ry y le O’B by the corral.

I’ve lived here m fine. But Grandpa Ly starting to come up e it.” s lik hi ng of hi h yt ut an so m en se tto r I’ve neve cows were on the bo uncle Casey . id sa r ta us K use. Frank and his ho é nc fia r Toni Romero and he

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Frank moved th e heavy heifers to the lower west to the corral, I lot and the pair ran to see wha s t was were in the high go ing on. All I co er east lot. The uld think of was , river was flowin they all drowne g slowly all nigh d because I didn t. ’t let I went for my 4: them in on the 30 am check on higher ground. the heavy he The 20th, it was stil ifers in the low l calm. Nothing er lot were was standing going on with on the highest the heifers and po int they I noticed our calf pu could get to al ller and strap w ong the fence an as d leaning agains alley way. The t the corral fenc lower lot fence e. w as Frank had pull completely was ed a calf witho hed away, and ut so getting the heif was the lower er in the calvin east lot. So I co g m pen, and he lean bined the heav ed it against th y heifers and ne e wer fence. So I thou pairs. I filmed ght I should ta a short video w ke it hi le to the barn, it w driving back to as frozen down. highway 63. The I re was going to le was ice and wat ave it but somet er all across th hing south bo e said I better gr ttom where we ab it. So I chip previously ped the chain out of had our heifer the ice and haul pairs. Whateve r ed remains it to higher grou of the calves w nd. I went and e lo st in the hauled a few ba storm, that we les of hay while didn’t find, wer e lost the forever to ground was stil the river. Thank l frozen and fed goodness the we moved horses. My son the remaining had forgotten hi to higher s backpack in th ground. Part of e pickup that w the hayfield was as left at the river, under water, th so I drove dow e tank on the so n to bottom uth get it at 7 am. w as covered in wat The river had ri er se an n d an incredible am large chunks of ount with large ice. ice chunks flow The water was ing. So when I flowing fast got through the low er lots, the ice was

hitting and brea king trees, it w as scary. We lost the lower lot co rral fence, and the fences we had in along the river.

If we didn’t rece ive that call, we w ould t have gott en to them fast en ough and we w ould have lost them all. We are very thankful to Rod ney for keeping us

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to the it’s been. It came in t es gh hi .

Lyle’s barn Lyle’s barn, in and on in Grandpa ley way to Grandpa al ce sin ay id Fr on in yet in mind.

The water receded e lots it hadn’t been th of e e th on on t ou ec nt El t Central it came up to Frank and Casey we the ice went out. Wes shing out it’s fence, y wa da rth ng bi ki ’s ec er ch ht ug en th da lls it. out 19th after our tric was out and ab cement barn as he ca d ol e th ed ov m d wn an es were do ng fast through party, at about 11 pm all the poles. The lin ena The water was flowi ar e th m e ic fro e th ws e co er ’s wh we gathGrandpa Lyle on the south bottom just 20’ from where n pe e th y ha e . th nk to ta e rth les by th e. lot they were in, no knocked down the po ered our horses to rid n. ow dr ’t dn ul the north wo rd wa to le po wing fast from e flo lin d bottom so they The high ll high an sti s l It’ al d re ve co to y heifers are, fell in t thank goodness The river completel and of where the all of the runoff. Bu er riv e th , g ay on aw al s ed m sh were wa of Lyle’s botto the river. The bank s are full again, they m da e rth tte Pa r to ou on e away wher ar.” water was backed up completely washed fully low after last ye aw . nd la ’s es re tre du e Ba Th . of lls bu , South son’s and part gate is to get to the Judd Schomp, Martin rve where g cu in e th iss m on rk ed ba m m of ja ks e es along the Little The ic have large chun Dakota rancher, liv e th to in ws ow bl flo r k te ee af ting Black Pipe cr ver. The snow is mel where they took blow Ri te hi in W nt co k r te an wa Fr . The 21st ers and creeks White River. Ice and from the ice chunks m rapidly, flooding riv tto bo h ut at so m e ja th e th er ng made ued to flow ov got another call sayi water and mud has e th d an e th en e th Th e. to We went Bennett County where our heifers ar Rodney’s just broke. almost every road in way gh hi er st fa ov w ng flo wi to flo d s ing out water starte river, it had risen, wa ible. “We are all runn ss pa s im wa d an so gh ng hi wi d it was flo t reach our hay 63. The river staye and we hoped since of farm fuel, we can’ ed em se It . m y. ja da e ing to th jammed all fast it would Break it to the cows. I’m go t ge or gh hi d ye on sta d er ter recede ws to the hay The 21st, the riv to work and the wa have to move my co ey Th . ed m m ja ll sti e in five and ice was Friday the 22nd. rt hauling fuel hom sta d r an te wa to te Sa du up on p said. “We are closed highway 63 The water came back evegallon jugs.” Schom at Th . el e av th s gr e wa th it er e, washing ov urday the 23rd. To m ckering off fli re we s ht lig e th ning

ROMERO highway 63. TONI White River along

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far from back to normal life, thankrancher seems to always have that fully the weather has been nice for spirit that next year will be bet ter. calving, because we can’t get aro und.” That is what helps kee p the m in the Cole and Joy Lange ranch nea r ranching business.”

Oglala, South Dakota along wit h Gilbert Grooms is one of the their son Brad and his family.

Joy Lange’s neighbors and has bee n just left home on March 12th to hel p trying to survive first dealing wit with her grandkids in Harrison, h bigger drifts than he has ever seen Nebraska during the blizzard, so and now with flooding and unb elievson Bryan and his wife Jolene could able mud. “Our hou se was drifted focus on calving. The snow and then shut, just trying to dig out was hard. the flooding made getting hom e We lost some calves, the drifts were impossible for Joy, two weeks later, so choppy, like waves on the oce she finally made it home. Co an. le has It was so rough it was tough drivan airplane, as soon as the bli zzard ing a snow mobile across the m.” passed he cleared the landing strip Grooms said. “Now with the mud and helped his neighbors find miss- getting feed to the cat tle has bee n ing cattle. “I’d fill my suburb an up almost impossible. My cows are with groceries and we would find further away in the only pastur eI some decent road for Cole to land had grass left in. We were hai led out on and we would transfer eve ryreally bad last summer and tha t was thing to the plane. So at least they the one that didn’t get ruined . So the had something to eat. There has cows weren’t on the bottom wh en it been no other way into the ran ch, flooded.” we are eight and a half miles off the main road and with West Horse Creek flooding we couldn’t cro ss it.

Now we can kind of get around in a side-by-side.” Lange said.

Like many ranchers who live along rivers, the Lange’s hav e always relied on the river bot toms for protection during calving.

The White River has flooded their bottoms, surrounded the calvin g barn and destroyed fences for miles. “Cole is able to fly and check on the cattle, it gives som e peace of mind. But he can onl y see the problem, he can’t do anything about it. We had some cat tle trapped and Cole called a nei ghbor who was able to cut the fen ce and save them.” Lange said.

“The Flo od waters all the way around

“The frost going out has caused a lot of problems with the Ru ral Water system, the pipes are mo ving and breaking. Much of Pine Rid ge was without water for severa l days.”

Grooms said. “My yard still has ice, snow, mud and running water, it will be a while drying out, but the water is going down.”

The flooding continues across the region, the Yellowstone River in Montana has forced evacuatio ns and the Missouri river and its trib utaries are now flooding their way tow ards the gulf. Dams are stressed due to the high runoff volume and are failing, causing flashfloods downst ream.

The Cheyenne and Moreau riv ers in north central South Dakota are threatening lives and livelihood s. As more rain and snow are foreca sted, ranchers are bracing for the wo rst and for once praying that it wo n’t rain.

the Lange calving barn. JOY

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Sunday April 7 th, 2019 We found our way to the next

stop where we met the owner of

the farm on the road. Not sure he knew what to think as he saw a

semi with a cargo trailer leading

Battle Creek, Nebraska

just give up...” he said.

water rushing over roads was

Nick replied, “that’s why we’re

we talked on that 65-degree sunny

“We don’t want you to do that,”

here.”

These guys had lived through

insane. Hard for us to imagine as day.

Like others we had helped that

the small convoy of three, as most

the “100 year flood” less than 10

day, they were no strangers to the

for home.

year flood” again this year. The

did their best to hold back the

our other volunteers were headed “I see you have some supplies

for me.” he said. “How about I just load up my cows on a trailer and

years ago, just to re-live the “100 stories and videos they shared

of water rushing through fields

making them look like lakes, and

challenges that life brought. They emotion when we talked about

the hay and supplies we brought

them. They were so thankful and

I’m pretty sure if one of us started crying, we all would have been crying.

We were lucky to have been

informed that their neighbor could also likely use supplies. They

called him up and he came down.

He sorted through and was able to

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take some needed items home to

got there—the 460 Farmall.

red!”

After most of the sorting was

of that old thing!” he said.

handles have a lot of stories to tell.

no idea how much I love old

couples we could have met, they

“You don’t want to take pictures

his cattle, too.

Of course I replied, “You have

through, I got my chance to go

take a peek and photograph the

one thing I had my eye on since I

tractors! Especially when they’re

One thing we agreed on, those old Not only being one of the nicest

fed us supper and gave us a place to stay for the night, too. While

the goal was to get to bed early and have a good night’s rest, it

was a late night for most. I don’t

think you’d hear any complaining though, as it was filled with

stories, jokes and some good

conversation around their old

family kitchen table. Felt like it

was where were just meant to be that night. We left that morning

with bellies full of breakfast, new

friends, and warm hearts knowing we had been led to the right place.

We drove down to the

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neighbor’s, chatted with him, looked at his cows, of course,

took advantage of them being so

photogenic, maaaaybe did a little

wheelin’ and dealin’… then headed on our way to the next stop.

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Monday April 8th, 2019 This place made news as

Wolfe Family, Richland, Nebraska

I first connected with this

Again, not a strong yes but said

called to talk to him about a

to supply him with. We had to

the 800+ acre farm that was

rancher Sunday morning. I

from the overflowing Platte River.

hay delivery it sounded like he

completely covered under water

You’ll see tiny islands of cattle, the house, some buildings and trees.

I asked if he knew it was under

water before seeing it on the news.

He said “I got a text message from my sister saying there’s a video of Fremont completely under water.

She said, I think it’s the farm.”

And it was.

The stories this rancher has are

unbelievable... disturbing... scary... heartbreaking.

could use. I asked what else he

thought he needed, asked about

fencing supplies and vet supplies.

Like everyone else, there was no astounding “yes, we need

supplies.” We sent out trucks of hay on Sunday and I told him

we could probably deliver some

fencing supplies on Monday and he was ok with that.

I called him Monday and

asked if he was still interested.

he would use what we were able drop the hay at a location off the farm on Sunday since the roads were so bad, but when I talked

to him Monday he said we could probably make it to the farm,

that there had been trucks in and out. If the roads were “better”

when we drove on them, I could only imagine what they were

like before. I came to find out

later those trucks on the road he

mentioned were hauling the dead livestock away from his farm.

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You know it’s serious when

one of the first things you see

when you pull in the driveway

is a rescue airboat parked on the

farm. What we didn’t realize when we got there was the extreme

devastation this farmer and his family actually had going on.

I walked down a mile or so of

dirt road, completely shocked at how things had been destroyed.

Dirt cut and carved out, trees

uprooted, feed bunks thrown

around, a stream of water still

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rolling through. “There’s about 40 bunks buried out there” he said later that night... I think I saw about 10.

But these things were absolutely

nothing compared to what we saw later.

When we finished unloading

supplies we took a quick ride

around his farm. We asked him if he wanted to come. We realized later why he told us to go on without him.

“How many cattle do you think

are out there?” I asked after we

returned.

“Probably about a thousand...”

he said

Completely shocked, I asked “of

dead cattle?!”

“Yeah...” he answered as he

started going into detail about the numbers he had and the numbers he figured he lost.

Dead cattle scattered around like

a handful of confetti that had been thrown up into the air and fallen

back onto the floor... strewn across over 200 acres. Stuck along fence

lines, buried in brush, shoved up against corner posts, mangled in

the trees. We saw a small handful of this mess.

It was absolutely,

heartbreakingly, unreal....

He talked with Mike about the

ridge out in the pasture. As the

water rose, the cattle went to the ridge. As the water continued to rise, and the current continued to strengthen, the ridge was

compromised. Little by little, the

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So. Much. Sand.

The future for this generation

farm and farmer has so many questions now.

“I can see the river from my

house, I never used to be able to...

it’s kind of an eerie feeling, seeing that. Scary.”

away to their death.

sand that was 3 to 6 feet deep,

mutter while we drove through

Hearing it was one thing. Seeing

and he said yes. When asked

another thing.

“Two weeks,” he replied. “We just

The only thing I could come to

the disaster zone was “oh my God... oh my God...oh.. my...

God...” There were no words we could use to describe what we were seeing.

We had heard about it... dead

cattle hanging in trees, stuck along fences or mangled in brush, dead cattle half buried in sand, acres

of land completely taken over by sand... acres of land covered in

covering pastures and fences. it... seeing it was so much of

And this rancher had all of that...

hundreds of cattle gone, many

to never be found.... feet of sand

over almost all of his pastures and fields. So much sand we could

barely see the tops of fenceposts.

We could barely see the fence lines at all. So much sand it covered the wheels on the irrigation system.

I asked him if he evacuated

how long he was evacuated for,

moved back in the house a week ago Thursday. It was really hard on the kids.” Between the roads

and driveway getting washed out, it was a challenge for them to get home sooner.

When they evacuated everyone

took something to the road.

“I led with my bulldozer to

“We’ll just take it one day at a time.

We don’t have any other choice.”

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make sure there were no holes in

His goal right now is to get the

the ground.”

cows to pasture. They typically

followed and last was the truck, in

graze. He’s hoping by the second

An end loader and tractor

it, the rest of his family.

“The water was over the hood of

the truck. That’s when I got scared.

We should have left sooner. There were kids in there, you know.”

On this ranch, his fences were

completely destroyed and wiped out. Miles and miles of fence that need replacing. He said

he wouldn’t be surprised if it

wouldn’t happen until June, as wet as it was.

He was hoping to get some seed

take them to central Nebraska to week in May they can go, if not

sooner. The feed he has now has

been soaked in feet of water. He’s hoping tests may show it still has

some value. He’s being challenged by sick calves, often unable to

keep them alive, spending time

and money to treat and care for

Not to mention a farmer.

And like everyone else we met,

like we didn’t do nearly enough,

have to sell some cows. Their

fields will never be planted this year. I’d be surprised if they’re

planted next year. He’ll be buying feed or selling cows. I think his

decision is already made if he gets to that point.

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did what we could. Us, we felt

knowing there will be struggles and challenges, there will be

unanswered questions, and that

the future he is looking into is so unknown.

“One day at a time,” he said

quite often. “We’ll just take it one day at a time. We don’t have any

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We STILL have funds that we are looking to use

up, spending it like we did in the spring on supplies from our local stores, and delivering it to specific

individuals. Right now, we have over $10,000, which is so impressive, considering all of that was donated after we came back. It’s been a challenge returning since my husband farms full time, and I work full

time and the summer has been busy as well as into fall now.

We are looking forward to going back, hopefully

with a lot of our same crew. It was really neat

hearing their expressions of how they felt good

giving like they did. I think it was an eye-opening experience for most if not all, considering the

majority hadn’t done anything like that before.

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AFTER READING ABOUT ALL THE WOLFE FAMILY HAD DEALT WITH THIS SPRING (SEE PAGE 51), WE WANTED TO FIND OUT HOW THEY WERE FARING AFTER A SUMMER OF UPS AND DOWNS. HERE’S THE REST OF THEIR STORY. TRI-STATE LIVESTOCK NEWS

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KINDNESS THROUGH DEVASTATION Dirty laundry on the floor. Folding

chairs leaned up against a tree.

was just fine.”

On the banks of the

These threads of normalcy were

Platte River the family

family of Richland, Nebraska when

spot that they shared with

welcome lifelines for the Wolfe

they returned to their farm and

ranch after evacuating during the flood that started March 14, 2019.

had set up a camping

friends. They would grill while the kids played in

the river. “There were two

bunkhouse and other outbuildings.

tree. They’re still there. We have no

feedyard were shoved around and

folding chairs leaned up against a

Concrete feedbunks from the

idea why,” Wolfe said.

half-buried.

the dirty laundry was still sitting

father had said it would never

1,000 head of cattle ended up.

behind when we did leave that

nothing this all-consuming.”

entirely, plenty still had to be

Outside there was nothing normal.

of silt on productive cornfields,

their fields that they’d never seen

in the house and see everything

was mud in the calving barn,

how far up the Platte River.

“There was water all the way

around our house, but none in the

house,” said Kristi Wolfe. “The first time we got to come in the house

where I’d left it. The things we left Thursday were completely normal.

It was a very surreal feeling to walk

Wolfe’s husband, Drew and his

flood. “We’d had minor floods, but The flood dropped several feet

burying parts of pivots. There

They don’t even know where

While a lot of them washed away disposed of. And they had cattle in before, washed in from who knows

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“As overwhelming as the

devastation was, equally

overwhelming was the love,

kindness and help people shared with us,” Kristi said. “I honestly

can’t say how things might have gone if it hadn’t been that way.

Every time we needed something, someone showed up with what

we needed. Hay, meals, fencing supplies. Things came from

everywhere. People came from Arkansas, two cowboys from

Louisiana came up for 11 days.

People from all over helped out,

plus people from Nebraska and our neighbors.”

Every day was a new challenge,

Kristi said. Things they’d taken for

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KINDNESS THROUGH DEVASTATION granted, like being able to safely drive down the road or across a

field, were suddenly dangerous.

One of Kristi’s nephews, in his

early 20s, was helping gather cows and saw a calf struggling in a mud puddle. He jumped in to save the calf and went all the way under.

The next day a friend brought

her horse out to help and they went into one of those hidden

puddles. She said she knew it was time to bail off when the horse’s head went under water.

“Thankfully both of those turned

out okay. There were so many

things we didn’t know,” Kristi

said. “Some of that sand was like quicksand.”

Their daily routine has changed

now, and is likely to never be the same again. “I keep saying it’s a new normal, but none of it feels

normal,” Kristi said. “Things still take longer than they used to.

We’re slowly getting the feedlot

put back together, hoping to take some feedlot cattle this fall. Our

remaining pairs went out to grass in mid-June, later than usual.

Normally we’re chopping silage by now. We’ve had more rain over the

last couple days, so that puts things even further back. It’s a different process of the daily things that happen.”

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at a landscape so foreign it might as well have been the moon,

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accept. “The first call we had about

needs this more than we do?’ You

would have a very hard time,”

we can’t do this by ourselves. At

donated hay I knew my husband Kristi said. “It was very hard for

me. That first ‘yes’ was the absolute hardest. You cry afterwards,

thinking ‘what if somebody else

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know you’re going to struggle, but some point you come to realize you can’t do it on your own. People were incredible.”

A group from Michigan brought

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“It’s hard to be on the receiving

kids, and others. “There were so

end of everything we’ve been

said. A group from York, Nebraska

supplies, meals. You can never say

many thoughtful things,” Kristi

knew it was going to be Kristi and Drew’s daughter Alyse’s eighth

birthday and they got some gifts

together. “There were a lot of really

given,” Kristi said. “Prayers,

thank you in an adequate way. It would have been an even bigger

struggle if all those people hadn’t

stepped in out of the goodness of

their hearts. It was overwhelming,

just the feeling of love and care that people were providing us with.

You hear all the bad things, but we know there’s amazing goodness, because we’ve seen it.”

amazing personal things like that.”

Wolfes have spent nearly six

months getting things put back

together enough to function and hopefully collect a paycheck of

some sort. Their banker has been supportive through the whole ordeal. “The bank has been

amazing,” Kristi said. “They’ve

continually asked what they can do, how they can help.”

The bank had funds set aside they

put toward the recovery, which

allowed the Wolfes to rent an extra

skidloader when they needed to get a lot of things moved.

But Kristi knows there are some

difficult conversations down the

road. “We haven’t had to make any definite decisions about permanent

things that will need to be changed.

The bank has been very good about knowing this is going to take some time to figure out.”

The Wolfes have also gotten

some help from Nebraska Farm

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May 28

Farming is the most humbling of

professions. The notion that we are in charge here is quickly smashed

is exactly what we pray for in late

got it.” And when he says, “God’s

I ache for my husband, and for

all the farmers across the USA

and Canada. They stand at their

windows, arms crossed over their

chests, watching as rain puddles in swamped fields.

Over and over again this

weekend, the farmers at church were saying, “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Today, out of spiritual necessity, I

drove these country roads, praying for farmers everywhere. Then,

when I got home, I re-read words

I wrote in my book, "It’s All Under Control."

“Farming is putting yourself in

a position to trust God. It’s a way

of life in which you can’t miss the

truth: God is God of the clock, God

author of the book It’s All Under Control.

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Scott says he has no choice but

to trust God. For years, he’s gone

July.

an Iowa farm wife and

overlay…

by relentless and unwanted rain.

The thing we despise in May …

Jennifer Dukes Lee is

things lie beneath the idyllic

around this farm saying, “God’s

got it,” he is talking himself into the truth. That’s a form of active trust

— which is like giving yourself the gift of future faith, in advance.”

So here we are. We are farmers:

at the mercy of God, relying on the grace of God, certain of the care of God.

June 3

My husband always tells me that

he didn’t learn the art of surrender

in a church. He learned it in a field.

Farming is constantly putting

yourself in a position to trust

God. This profession requires the

knowledge that God is in control, whether you are standing under blue skies or rainclouds.

Today, my husband finally

of the calendar, God of the weather,

stepped into the tractor to plant.

knows when the rain will come,

for him. And I prayed for every

God of the to-do list. God alone

when the heat will rise, when it’s

time for the seed to push up from the dark into the light.

A lot of people have romantic

notions about farm life. But hard

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Standing here in this field, I prayed other farmer, and for other every

spouse who stands in the shadows, asking God for His great mercy.

This year, farmers have faced

historic delays in planting due

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“The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you” (Deuteronomy 28:8)

to unrelenting rains. That’s on

our fingernails and in our hearts.

door and held in his hands the

circumstances: low prices, rising

For the skies above to be blue. For

bag filled with cookies, along with

wonder farmers feel battered.

the equipment to work, and for

top of an already shaky set of costs, trade disputes. It’s no

It’s no wonder that the phones at the farm-crisis hotline won’t stop ringing.

Some people wonder why

farmers keep going, in a profession with so much risk and uncertainty.

Farmers keep going because

farming is more than a job, it’s a way of life.

So today, I pray for the farmers.

the ground below to be dry. For

wheel to know that God truly is

through."

every farmer with a hand upon a in control, and that He has called

feel the call and duty to take care

of all that God has asked them to steward.

Farmers keep going because, to

them, dirt is more than dirt. It’s potential. It’s life.

Out here on the farm, we live

where we work, and we work where we live, and you can

scarcely tell the difference, ...

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The guy was from the city ... from

the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of

where we also grow in faith.

city for the day to drive around the

we grow more than crops, but This is God’s promise:

"The LORD will send a blessing on

God will bless you in the land he is

Farmers keep going because they

we understand what you're going

them to the field — a place where

working the same fields that their grandfathers worked.

"Cookies won't make it better," he

said. "But we wanted you to know

your barns and on everything you

fathers, grandfathers, and great-

a note.

the markets to flourish. And for

Farmers keep going because,

like my husband, they are

most unexpected surprise: a paper

put your hand to. The LORD your giving you" (Deuteronomy 28:8).

June 4

Today, my husband stood on the

edge of a soggy cornfield when a stranger pulled onto the farm yard. The stranger wasn't from

Commerce. And he had left the

countryside with cookies and notes.

He had zero motive. He came only to deliver hope to farmers like my

husband, who are really struggling right now.

The note read: "We know the

ag sector -- this region's number

one industry -- is struggling. We recognize your hard work and

perseverance through one of the

most difficult times the ag industry has ever seen."

In an instant, this stranger

around here. He was dressed like

became our friend. Simply because

up in a shiny car -- clean, not like

someone who was hurting. Simply

someone from the city, showing

the way a truck looks from driving the muddy, rutted country roads around here.

The stranger stepped out the car

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he cared. Simply because he saw because he understood the basic human need for community.

You might not be a farmer, but

I'll bet you know the gift of being

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seen, of being heard, of feeling like someone who doesn't even know you truly cares. Or maybe you

know what it's like to leave your

comfort zone, like that man left the city, to make sure someone who is struggling feels a little bit less alone. What a priceless gift!

We all need to know that we

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June 25

Today, I stood at the edge of this

field, knelt down and snapped this photo. I wanted to capture what a

weren't ideal. Some crops were

"miracle" should be reserved for big

had to skip over whole patches of

experience. But Einstein once said,

planted straight into the mud. We ground that won't get planted at all this year.

Everything is late, and growth

miracle looks like.

has been spotty.

a soggy mess. Like most farmers,

field with ideal growth.

unrelenting rains. The sun came,

The crops are growing, thickening

we wanted, but it came just the

green and touching. There is

Four weeks ago, this field was

we were kept out of the fields by

not always as hot and plentiful as same.

And then, little by little, we

were able to plant. Conditions

So this is not a picture of an ideal But look at it there... the miracle.

over the rows so everything is

something quite beautiful and hopeful about that.

Some people say that the word

things, like surviving a near-death “There are only two ways to live

your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

So I choose to call this a miracle.

You might not be a farmer, but

I am guessing you plant seeds

in your own way — seeds that you hope will produce good

fruit, stronger faith and everyday miracles.

May our fields be an

encouragement to you to keep

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All of us have been in the middle of a hard but important lesson: farming is an act of faith.

planting — even if you're dropping

My husband, Scott, is a crop

seeds into the mud.

farmer. And like farmers across the

front of you, and the seeds cupped

some of his crops due to too much

heartland, he was unable to plant

It will come in time. The field in

rain. Months later, in the middle of

in your hands, were intended for you, by God's design.

And when you do see growth,

take a moment to pause at the edge of your field. Snap a picture. Say a prayer. Hold the moment close so

you won't forget the gentle bursting

Sept 4

forth of an everyday miracle.

out over the gentle slope of our

the seeds.

All of us have been in the middle

of a hard but important lesson: farming is an act of faith.

It takes great courage, but we

wake up each day with hope.

We accept that disappointments

happen, but we don’t lose hope.

A single bit of hope is a very

powerful thing. In time — if the

you and see a wound in the fields

hands were intended for those

you’ve been called to plant.

Perhaps, for you, the inaccessible

text you anymore. Perhaps it’s

season, all was not well.

That’s what the people of God do

bet you know what it feels like to

where crops should have been

giant wound, a reminder that, for a

This is what we do: We stand at

— we hope.

field looks like the heart of a

planted but weren’t. It looks like a

What then?

to grow, because we couldn’t plant

spot, where nothing was allowed

land. As I scan this field, I see a

bald spot in the middle of the field,

field.

the window, and we dwell in hope.

look out on what God has given

front window of our house, looking

marriage, but you can’t reach the

a field, there remains this ugly, bare

You may not be a farmer, but I’ll

Every morning, I stand at the

flailing ministry or a fractured

seeds that God has placed in your fields rolled out before you — they will open.

Until then, cast your seeds where

wayward child who won’t even

you can. Wait for the time to enter

an unfulfilled dream on which

hope given to you, in the name of

someone closed a door. Perhaps you’ve tried to plant seeds in a

the fallow fields. But never lose the the One who gave you the seeds in the first place.

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Through their Lens

Robyn and Larry Koelling Ord, Nebraska August 12, 2019 From an interview with editor Maria Tibbetts.

e’ve never seen so

much rain in our whole

life.

It didn’t stop with the bomb

cyclone—it just continues.

We keep thinking if it would

straighten out, you could make plans and adjust, get things to

somewhere normal. We’re on plan E and F.

Everything’s a question.

We continue to get a lot of rain—a dam in our back yard runs over like a waterfall. Sometimes the bridges are up to the very top.

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wash out. So we make adjustments

on routes to town or to the pasture.

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ended up abandoning their calves.

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take them back. It’s so unusual.

Everything is not as it should be.

There’s no capacity in any of the

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or washed out. Some of them don’t even have water sometimes, and

now they’re 20 feet deep. The soil has no more holding capacity; it’s totally saturated. Any rain we get

runs off. There’s no place for it to go.

It’s taking a lot longer to do things

than it used to because of the mud.

Everybody’s in the same boat. It’s just difficult with all the rain.

We got maybe 60 percent of our fields planted with the planned

crops. We were planning on getting more corn in. Then you shift over

to beans. When you didn’t get the

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STUCK IN THE MUD ONGOING EFFECTS MAKE RECOVERY DIFFICULT

BY JAN SWAN WOOD

Gene Dubas, Fullerton,

Nebraska, was born into a dairy farming family, and after the

dairy was sold when he was in sixth grade, he continued to be

involved in the livestock industry.

“I knew I liked livestock at an early age. I ran some cows,

worked for neighbors, the local

PHOTOS COURTESY OF GENE DUBAS

Moly Manufacturing in Lorraine, Kansas. “When I took it around

renting it to people to work their

better with that chute,” says

the U.S., Canada and Mexico, plus

their cattle worked faster and Dubas, adding, “So, I started selling them in 1994.”

“Jon Mollhagen changed the

do. When I got out of school

Silencer. He was the first one to

people.”

It was while working for other

people in 1993 that he noticed a

chute that was different. “It was quiet and allowed the cattle in

and out of the chute easily. So, though I didn’t have enough cattle of my own to justify

owning one, I bought one with

the intention of renting it out and

helping people work their cattle.” says Dubas.

That was the Silencer, made by

“I attend trade shows,

conventions and fairs all over,”

industry’s view on how to handle

I continued to work for other

own cattle.

cattle they started noticing that

vet and salebarns,” says Dubas, “We always had something to

tried on his own place with his

animals when he developed the

come out with the noise reduction system on hydraulic chutes,”

explains Dubas. Selling the chutes in a saturated hydraulic chute

market was daunting, but Dubas

says Dubas. With sales all across other countries, it’s proof of one

man’s belief in a product that he’s selling. By using the equipment and being a cattleman himself,

he understands the value of the equipment much better than

most dealers. “I take great pride in the fact that I bought one for

my operation before I ever sold them.”

The Nebraska cattleman’s life,

persevered and started educating

as did many others, changed with

in the Silencer chutes. Dubas

whole mess actually started in the

people about the difference

Equipment and Dubas Cattle are one and the same entity as Gene Dubas started the cattle end of

the enterprise while still in high school. Now in his mid 50s, he doesn’t sell anything he hasn’t

the March storms of 2019. “This

fall of 2018 though. It was a wet

fall, lots of rain, then heavy rain in December. Cornstalks rotted in the fields, there was mud

everywhere, then it turned cold,”

says Dubas. “The condition of the

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STUCK IN THE MUD cows was bad in spite of lots of

inevitable floods were in full

safely carrying her to firmer

in January it was tough. The

of ice the size of vehicles were

to Facebook to show the world

feed, so when we started calving calves didn’t have any get up and go. Looking back now, the cows

had used up all of their nutrients just to survive themselves.” It

force. Raging water and chunks inundating southeastern South

Dakota, northeastern Nebraska and northwestern Iowa.

In spite of being on higher

didn’t get any better as spring

ground, Dubas Cattle had water

sick, then it got colder and stayed

stuck in the mud and couldn’t

approached. “Calves were getting cold. Some froze their feet after they were several days old, in

spite of shelter. It was the worst you could get,” Dubas said.

But it did get worse. Much

worse. On March 17, a Sunday

morning, there had been snow,

melting, rain, all on top of ground that was still frozen in spots. The

everywhere. “We had cows get

get out. There was nowhere to go with them, there was just water

ground. The video was shared

what was happening along with the flooding in Nebraska. As

of the end of August, 2019, the

video had been viewed around 2.9 million times and shared

thousands more. It drew attention to the situation in Nebraska like few things could.

That same Sunday, Dubas

and mud everywhere.”

talked to some other people and

of a bogged cow, Dubas had

and a lot of it. People started

During one rescue operation

someone video it. He carefully

pulled into the lot with a tractor and gently plucked the cow

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“People started donating stuff like calving sheds

and other items. I called my friend Dan Broz

at DVAuctions and he agreed to resell them on the auction to raise more money,” says Dubas.

“Checks started rolling in from everywhere!”

With all that money coming in, Dubas knew

he had to do something with it to make sure it

was safe and could be used properly. He tried to

open a bank account for it but couldn’t without a 501(c)(3) status. So, he tried the local cattlemen’s organization with the same results. Time was of

the essence so attaining the correct tax status was too time consuming.

“I wanted it to go to individuals that it could

help, honoring the donators wishes,” says Dubas, frustrated. “We came close to raising $40,000

and needed to get it in the hands of those who

needed it immediately. So, the decision was made to divide it between the first responders within

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route was very

the expenses that fire departments

beneficial.

flood rescues in the local

of Agriculture, in mid-April,

and EMTs were accruing with

The Nebraska Department

communities.

estimated that the livestock sector

an individual, so I finally figured

the crop sector $440 million. No

in particular. I had donors write

it’s an ongoing loss.

“Some people wanted it to go to

in Nebraska had lost $400 million,

out a way to get it to someone

recent estimate has been made, as

the checks to the local lumber

Dubas says, “When it’s going

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“I look out from my booth and I see people in

ag that are just beaten down. The ag community

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this situation and it affects everybody in the whole community. I’ve done 12 shows since July and it’s been that way at every one.”

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the ag sector. Dubas had found a listening ear in the Ricketts with Dubas. “I explained what was going

STUCK IN THE MUD on in a big area and I told him that I’m worried

about the economy and mental health of the people in farming and ranching. He really listened to my concerns and I was impressed with that.

“People need to be aware of the problems we’re

being faced with here. Not many people, myself

included, can handle another bad winter and that’s what’s being forecast,” says Dubas. “This whole

thing won’t be over for years to come, even if the weather is better. The decisions made this fall by

banks and lenders will not be positive for many. Ag

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communities together. Out of

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Hot Meals USA founder, Dick

Chochran was living just 11 miles from the devastation of the EF5

tornado when it tore through 22 miles of Joplin and surrounding

communities. Chochran was able to gather some food and buddies

“We spent three days feeding those firemen and policemen,” said Chochran, “They were the real heroes there, not us.”

before the bomb cyclone hit

who loaded up eight barbecue

an organization like this started

and nearly 500 hotdogs. When

Nebraska. The idea and need for in 2011 in Joplin, Missouri.

grills, 500 pounds of hamburger they arrived in Joplin seven hours

after the

tornado hit, an

emergency center worker

said food wasn’t needed at that time of day.

Chochran responded, “What

about the police and firemen who have been working through this all night?”

Having forgotten about feeding

those people, the woman had

Chochran and his crew escorted to the command center, and

within 40 minutes burgers were on the grill.

“We spent three days feeding

those firemen and policemen,”

said Chochran, “They were the real heroes there, not us.”

It was this event that led

Chochran to build an organization equipped to help victims,

management personnel, and

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meals a day from their portable

trailer, and have two more units in the works.

“We just want to help people

when they are down. We are

trying to do what we already do every day,” said Chochran.

Dickey’s BBQ Franchise owner

and 30-year veteran of Schwan’s, Cochran has connections in the destruction. Before getting too

involved, Cochran met with the Red Cross to discuss the idea,

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Cross was enthusiastic, and other major players Chochran brought in said “this is exactly what we

need right now.” Now, Hot Meals USA has the ability to feed 2,500

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food industry. Hot Meals USA was the product of a desire to

help people in need and seeing a

need for it during large disasters.

“People my age, 9 times out of

10 you can show up to volunteer

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“We’re just a bunch of cooks and certified chefs who want to go out and cook food for people who have lost everything.”

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After the bomb cyclone in

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ham, mashed potatoes, and green beans.”

A few weeks later in Hamburg,

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provide food for the Red Cross to deliver in Kearney, Neb. totaling

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CHOPPED HAY It’s a friendly act to drop in and check on your

neighbor.

It’s even kinder to drop in – literally, out of the sky

– and bring hay to their stranded cattle following a massive natural disaster.

As the flood waters started rising on March 14,

2019, the infrastructure of Nebraska – not just

the dams, roads and bridges, but the heart of its

sustaining industry, agriculture – began to wash away. Trapped in the aftermath were pockets of cattle that overnight became inaccessible.

On the evening of the 14th the governor had

activated the Nebraska National Guard, which

performed more than 100 human rescues by air

and five via ground transportation that night. As

the waters remained unrelenting over the next few days, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture

requested the governor to mobilize the Guard for

Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers used a CH-47 Chinook helicopter with Company B, 2-135th General Support Aviation Battalion, to secure multiple bales of hay, March 20, 2019, and airdrop them to cattle isolated by historic flooding across the state. The Nebraska National Guard has been supporting the ongoing response in Eastern Nebraska following massive flooding on the state’s river systems, which began March 13, 2019 and has caused catastrophic damage to the state’s infrastructure, agriculture and personal property.

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feeding isolated livestock as well. Requests were put out to other states for additional assistance

and the Minnesota National Guard answered the call, sending two aircraft and crews to assist the

Cornhusker state in what became officially called Operation Prairie Hay Drop.

Video footage from the Nebraska National Guard

of the hay drop could be mistaken for the opening sounds of M.A.S.H., with the steady drum of a

chopper in the background and aerial dispatch

jargon filtering through the radio. But interspersed among the dialog is the sound of “Whoop! There

goes one!” and a hay bale falls from the cargo hold of a CH-47 Chinook.

This wasn’t the first time the National Guard has

delivered hay following a natural disaster, but this was the first time this unit had. Starting March 20

and for the next several weeks they delivered a total of 94 round hay bales – 12 by ground and 82 by air, and 80 square hay bales – all by ground.

“We had never tried or practiced this before,” says

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“There was just really a lot of fulfillment in being able to help out our own.”

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CHOPPED HAY on a farm and ranch near Big

Springs, Neb. As hay bale pounds can vary widely, McGreer said they first had to get accurate

weights on their load to estimate capacity. “We ended up running out of space before we maxed

out on our weight capacity,” says McGreer. Each load ended up

carrying four bales. The chopper crew made every effort to land the plane and unload the bales

on the ground. In some cases that wasn’t possible, resulting in the widely viewed videos of “hay

bombs” delivered to appreciative cattle.

Most of the hay was donated

from out-of-state and hauled in

by volunteers. The team initially

worked out of a hay dispatch area at the state fairgrounds in Grand Island and then out of a second

collection area near the livestock sale barn in Columbus. Like

most of the accounts of volunteer responses activated following

the flood, the identification and location of cattle needing fed was mostly “crowdsourced,”

as Major Scott Ingalsbe, public

affairs specialist for the Nebraska National Guard says.

“The Department of Ag put

a cell phone number on their site and on Facebook for the

guy on the ground in Columbus dispatching hay, and we started getting addresses where people

had livestock in need,” Ingalsbe

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pallets of bottled water and 11 pallets of medical supplies animals delivered by ground rescued people rescued by air, 66 of which were by vertical hoist

107 449

total National Guard Soldiers and Airmen served on this state active duty mission, not all at once but over several weeks

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CHOPPED HAY says. Most of the hay drops ended

many of us like myself grew up

as the owners were still unable

and the surrounding area.

just really a lot of fulfillment in

destroyed infrastructure.

up being near Columbus, Neb., McGreer said dropping hay

bales through the air from a

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helicopter was interesting for

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him was being able to help out

the last, although the missions

sure, but the biggest reward for the farmers and ranchers. “Most

of us are native Nebraskans, and

weeks from the first hay drop to weren’t constant. A couple

locations required repeat drops

“There were 30 cows over there, standing at the fence wanting some of that hay we were bringing” -Brent Wulf

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to access their cattle due to

Brent Wulf, a private chopper

pilot and owner of Hexagon

Helicopters in Elkhorn, Neb.,

came to the aid of some cattle, and their owners also, as a

volunteer responder. “In the

days after the flood hit, someone

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posted on Facebook that there

agronomy business doing crop

bales, neighbors and friends

stranded in their house near

seeding. Wulf just happened to

together, then Wulf hooked on

was a couple who had been

Genoa, Neb., for about four days

and their cattle also were without feed.

“I thought, that’s not too far

away – I can help them out,” says Wulf.

Wulf operates a Robinson R44

chopper, which he uses to run his

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spraying and aerial cover crop have the perfect tool – a large,

handmade stainless steel treble hook he had constructed to try

helped ratchet strap the bales

with a long line and the treble hook from the air.

“We hauled 110 bales over to

out his new tig welder. “It was

the island – it probably took an

I hadn’t used it yet, but it looked

over there, standing at the fence

just hanging on my garage wall – cool.”

Someone donated small square

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hour or so. There were 30 cows wanting some of that hay we were bringing,” says Wulf.

CHOPPED HAY

A farmer affected by the floods awaits hay as the Nebraska National Guard continued hay drop operations, April 1, 2019, supporting farmers and ranchers in need near Columbus and Scotia, Neb. Using a Ch-47 Chinook helicopter from Company B, 2-135th General Support Aviation Battalion, the Nebraska National Guard Soldiers picked up donated hay bales collected at the Nebraska State Fair Grounds in Grand Island and delivered them to farmers unable to move feed to their livestock after historic flooding damaged infrastructure and limited equipment movement.

Wulf said the number of people

“It was something neat to do –

and the ways the communities

definitely out of the ordinary. When

other was incredible. With

equipment for a good purpose, it’s

were pitching in to help each

transportation means under water, many people couldn’t get to work

you get the chance to use your a lot of fun,” says Wulf.

McGreer noted one thing that

family and neighbors show up

with food … we basically had a

tailgate picnic beside the Chinook helicopter as we were loading bales.”

Because when an emergency

even if they wanted to. Despite the

will always stand out in his mind

strikes in rural America, everyone

great sense of camaraderie during

and ranch families they were

people, for the cattle and for the

tragedies, Wulf said there was a the ordeal.

is the appreciation from the farm helping. “At one stop we had

shows up with food. For the people feeding the cattle.

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Head Above Water,

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FINANCIALLY nexpected disaster

such as the flooding

experienced throughout most of Nebraska this

spring and summer

can leave ag producers in an

exceptional financial bind, and

knowing the best route to take to

crawl out of financial devastation can be a difficult choice. After

claiming the appropriate insurance damages, reaching out to state and

federal aid, such as through FEMA or the USDA, is often the best

option before turning to existing loan officers to extend or adjust current loans or apply for new.

Once all federal aid avenues

have been exhausted, several

options exist when exploring the best fitting loans with the lowest interest rates and best terms.

Choosing a loan that doesn’t make a producer take more than is

Business Association’s office of

can still be felt in the lack of feed

can be individual and helps

throughout the Cornhusker state

disaster assistance. “One type business owners, renters, and

non-profits. The other is public

assistance that is a program that FEMA administers to help the

state municipalities and cities and counties to rebuild.”

The declarations started March

9 and extended to include

disasters, like flooding, tornados,

“Sometimes we think disasters are really quick and then they’re gone, but these are things that will take time.” and storms, through July 14.

flood water has subsided.

opportunities have closed and are

“There were two major

presidential declarations in

parts of Nebraska this spring,”

said Garth MacDonald, a public

information officer with the Small

and seen in the skinny, sick cattle and other livestock that will be hard to winter and challenging to breed back for another year,

affecting the income in the calf

crop a complete year from now.

Many agriculture and other

businesses still have bills rolling in for that unused nearly-new

John Deere tractor or their acres of unusable land this summer.

Tim Kock, a chief credit officer

with Farm Credit Services of

America (FCA), has been assisting producers in navigating the best financial plan moving forward,

which can include reconfiguring a payment loan.

FCA offers both short- and long-

term disaster assistance planning

-Tim Kock

necessary is helpful when income

has been compromised, even after

available as barren fields stand

Many state and federal assistance already distributing aid; SBA has doled just over $44.1 million to

producers in Nebraska thus far.

While most of Nebraska is no

longer under water, the effect

to provide financial relief. Their short-term plan “allows us to extend loans or payments as

needed to give producers time

to focus on cleanup and assess the availability of funds from

insurance and/or financial aid,” as listed per FCA’s terms.

Long-term planning allows for

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Head Above Water, Financially FCA to “begin to plan for the

future. . . Our goal is to provide

flexible loan terms customized to

fit the needs of each producer and operation,” states FCA’s terms.

FCA hasn’t seen many

producers reach out for help yet, as they are still deciding the best plan of action to take and what losses have to be considered.

When they’re ready for assistance, FCA is ready to step in and make a plan of action.

“We look at where everybody

is and we understand what

remedies are provided from insurance, through disaster assistance at the federal or state level, then we have a

conversation about where there are shortfalls or what needs to

be addressed,” Kock said. “Then we can focus on that new loan

request or if we need to provide cash flow relief.”

“Sometimes we think disasters

are really quick and then they’re gone, but these are things that

will take time,” Kock said. “The

impacts of these things, depending on how individual producers were hit, will last multiple years.”

Often federal or state assistance

is a one-time occurrence, but other loan avenues, like FCA or FSA,

can cover financial gaps over an ongoing period.

The Farm Service Agency (FSA)

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in Nebraska has implemented

coming into their county FSA

including a Livestock Indemnity

paperwork and complete their

programs throughout the state, Program, for producers who have lost livestock above

normal mortality rates due to

adverse weather, and Emergency Conservation Program, to aid in

office to provide supporting LIP application. We are working

with producers to finalize this paperwork and move their

applications through for payment.”

If producers haven’t applied

the rehabilitation of farmland or

for either program and still

disasters.

assistance, other aid alternatives

structures damaged by natural

“Regarding LIP, producers who

filed an initial Notice of Loss,

which had to be done within 30 days of when they noticed the loss, have until March 2020 to

submit their completed application for payment,” said Bobbie KrizWickham, Public Affairs and

wish to reach out to FSA for exist, including payment

deferrals or loan restructures for those already borrowing from FSA. Emergency loans

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debt forgiveness or interest rate reduction.

“The earlier the discussion,

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to farmers and ranchers,” Kriz-

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“March thirteenth

was our defining moment,” recalls Julie Kreikemeier, an Extension

Educator who works with 4-H and

Youth Development in Colfax County, Nebraska. “Looking back over this

year, everything is either ‘pre-flood’ or

‘post-flood,’ before or after. I remember I was travelling to meetings that day,

and I could see hour by hour that the

water was getting deeper. I was talking to my dad on the phone while I was

driving, and as I came over a hill I said, ‘Holy Water! The creek is out of its

banks!’ Dad hung up on me and went to go check our creek.”

The fierce storm that hit the northern

Great Plains that weekend caused

historical flooding across much of

eastern Nebraska, and ag producers are still dealing with the aftermath half a year later.

The flood waters were

overwhelming, yet so was the

response of generosity from people everywhere.

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The Gift of Giving

Literally.

Talia Goes, Communications

Coordinator for the Nebraska

Cattlemen’s Association said they received a total of $1.7 million from all across the world.

information officer for the

had working the phones people

Agriculture said that while the

coordinate drop spots for the hay

Nebraska Department of

Department did not handle any monetary donations they did

coordinate donations of hay and

knew where to find us. We helped and checked on a daily basis to

verify that they were legitimate.”

“Floods, blizzards and disasters

fencing materials.

‘R’ us,” laughed John Hansen,

“Within days after the disaster

producers could call to ask for

“We’re still at it.”

Nebraska Cattlemen’s Disaster

contributions,” she said. “We had

has given out $105,000 in $500

people who wanted to donate

ranch families affected by this

“There were a lot of very

generous donors,” she said.

we got a new 501c3 set up: the Relief Fund. One month into the recovery period we had

applications ready for producers

who had been affected. In August, all the applications were reviewed by a private committee, and we just distributed the funds, so

people are getting their checks, and we are done processing donations now.”

Christin Kamm, public

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“We had a number that

help and donors called to make far more calls coming in from

than from people asking for help.

It was truly a heartwarming

response from across the nation

to help our Nebraska producers.

We worked with Nebraska

of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union, Nebraska Farmers’ Union

grants to Nebraska farm and spring’s disastrous flooding.

Farm Aid contributed $75,000 and the balance from the Nebraska Farmers’ Union Foundation.

“Just recently we went through

Emergency Management and had

$5,000 in two weeks. Earlier it

and all over social media. On the

that fast,” Hansen said. “We have

the information on our website basis of the number of staff we

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was going out two or three times

another $5,000 earmarked to give

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The Gift of Giving to families if the need continues.

We really struggled to know how

Fence posts.

“We were simply helping do the

much to put in each family’s

nuts and bolts things in family life

begin to deal with the amount

have it anymore you don’t even

hands. We know $500 doesn’t

of damage, but we still wanted to send an amount that was

that unless you suddenly don’t think about,” Hansen said.

Nebraska Farmers’ Union is

meaningful so that they would

uniquely qualified to deal with

cares. The letters of thanks we

along with Interchurch Ministries

receive the message that someone got about how people used the money were really touching.”

Paying the phone bill.

Replacing tools or family things

lost in the flood.

disaster response. In 1984, they,

of Nebraska, the National Farmers Organization, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture,

Legal Aid of Nebraska, Women in Farm Economics, the UN-L Ag Extension Division, and

Clothes.

ag lenders started the Rural

Gloves.

Response Hotline.

Boots.

“We thought we would just

Barbed wire.

help get folks through the ag economy crisis at the time,”

Hansen said, “But we’re still

going strong. There has never

been a time when there wasn’t a

need. This is a collaborative effort between the farm and church communities. Because of this

high level of networking we are

able to meet more needs. We are plugged in to the food pantry

system. With funding through the Nebraska Department of

Health and Human Services we

are able to provide vouchers for mental health counseling with

ag-knowledgeable professionals across the state. We work with the Nebraska Department of

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“We were simply helping do the nuts and bolts things in family life that unless you suddenly don’t have it anymore you don’t even think about.”

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All this was already in place prior to the March

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The Gift of Giving Hansen said that donations

came from a wide variety of

places and from people in diverse walks of life.

A tattoo parlor in Omaha.

Ohio.

Pennsylvania.

to help other farm families in need.

“One thing we did was to

help pick up the transport cost

Former Nebrasakans.

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Julie Kreikemeier said the

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got a lot of random cold calls affected by the flood.

“They figured we would know

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saw a four pound can of tuna that day. I’ve never seen anything like

it. We went through a lot of water

test kits, because of contamination from the flood water. People

ended up with coliform and e. coli in their wells, so even when they

could finally go home their water wasn’t safe to drink. And bleach.

We went through lots of bleach.

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The Gift of Giving Michigan, Arkansas, Minnesota,

see cows!’”

someone saying they had three

passed, Nebraskans are slowly

Florida. I would get a call from

trucks of hay coming, or a load of barbed wire. I don’t even know

As the summer months have

finding a new normal.

Three roads in Colfax County

how it all came together.

are still closed due to bridges that

mindset run together in my

Evert, the county’s Deputy

“All those weeks in disaster

mind. We were just trying to get over the next hurdle. And the next. One of my good friends

finally got home to their ranch and sent me a video. She was

crying, because she found they

washed out this spring. Michelle Emergency Manager, says it will

be at least two years until they can get all the roads fixed, and that

there is still a sense of shell-shock lingering.

“Every time it rains, awareness

still had cows left. The water had

sets in,” she said. “People are

husband left, he almost didn’t

pretty closely.”

been over the pickup when her

make it out of the driveway. She

said, ‘I’ve never been so happy to

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watching the river and creeks Evert said needs remain that

FEMA cannot meet.

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“Colfax County, along with

Boone, Butler, Nance and Platte counties have formed the East Central Long Term Recovery

Group to help with these lingering needs. United Way is our fiscal

agent, because you need a 501c3

designation in order for donations to be tax deductible. Anyone

donating through United Way

can specify which county they

wish their gift to go to and United Way will relay it to the long term recovery group.”

Some things, though will never

be the same.

“We’ve had 100-year floods that

weren’t even close to this one,”

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The Gift of Giving a lot of ground. A 500-year flood scours not just the river bottoms

but the whole flood plain. In some places it was three miles wide. To put it in perspective, Nebraska

has more miles of river than any

other state, plus all the tributaries and creeks. There was as much

water measured in the North Fork of the Elkhorn River this spring

as normally flows in the Missouri River. And that was just one tributary of one river.

“There’s a lot of ground with a

combination of cornstalks, mud and timber piled up on it. It’s

going to take an incredible amount of work to clean that up. Some of the ice slabs­—and they were as

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big as cars—took until mid-June to

“There’s a large area where the

melt. A lot of sand moved. In some

Platte and Missouri rivers meet

acre field is under sand four feet

under water; they’re still waiting

places and entire thirty or forty

deep. Some of that farm ground

will probably never be reclaimed.

where there is still corn ground

for the water to go down. Being

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water,

eveywhere, nor any

ver had a nightmare

Between a lingering cold

ran rampant.

where you’re lost

leading to ice and excessive

and dying of thirst?

nowhere to go, Douglas Fox,

affected,” Fox said. “People rely

Management Agency, said the

when that went away, it caused

adrift in the ocean

You’re simultaneously parched

and surrounded by water – but

not a single drop of it will quench your thirst.

This nightmare modified itself

amounts of rainwater with

director of Region 24 Emergency entire state was tormented by flooding.

Region 24 serves five counties in

to become a frightening reality

Nebraska – Boyd, Brown, Cherry,

during the early weeks of March

suffered a unique challenge

for individuals living in Nebraska this year when flooding plagued the state. Residents found

themselves surrounded by water

but unable to safely consume any of it.

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“Everything and everyone was

on the rural water system, and a lot of problems for drinking

water and cattle confined and in pasture. Nobody had water.”

Fox said the waterline served

Keya Paha and Rock – and all

three towns and over 500 farms

accompanying the flooding.

to fresh drinking water for the

Ice jammed the Spencer Dam and gouged the Boyd county

rural waterline in early March,

eliminating all fresh water in the

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and ranches, eliminating access

public and livestock alike. Due to the high water tables in the area, he said drilling a well is nearly impossible to do affordably, a

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challenge that served to only

He said the past two winters

situation, Fox said help was

the northern central areas of

hay production low and the

need. Milk delivery companies

further the troubles people in Nebraska faced.

With a lack of water for all

living creatures in the affected

were exceptionally wet, making nutritional value of the little crop harvested even lower.

Combining these factors with

areas, things only got more

the floods and lack of available

rainwater washed away roads

than desirable environment in

complicated, Fox said. Excess

and bridges, preventing ranchers from going out to search for help or bring assistance back to their herds.

Even worse, according to Fox,

problems faced farmers and

ranchers of Region 24 long before the rains began to fall in March.

drinking water created a less

which to raise cattle, Fox said.

These changes resulted in a high number of livestock deaths.

“I’ve been in this business a

long time, and this was the worst devastation I’ve ever seen,” he added.

Despite the bleakness of the

provided and offered to all in volunteered their vehicles to

transport water from a district in

South Dakota and ranchers within Region 24 offered each other as

much assistance as they could, he said.

At the end of the day, however,

Fox said it was people both in and out of the ranching community from across the country who

stepped up to help those effected in Nebraska.

Fox said he was humbled by the

amount of support the counties

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he manages received from other states.

“We had assistance from

everywhere,” he said. “People

brought food and bottled water

and anything else we might need

Top, US-281 Bridge south of Spencer. Above, Rock County Road damage.

for the towns that were affected.”

In addition to food and water,

items like port-a-potties were

shipped into Nebraska to help

fulfill basic human needx. For the livestock themselves, states like Texas and Oklahoma donated

hay. Fox said the National Guard even helped distribute the feed

to livestock that were in locations unreachable by farmers and ranchers.

While people of backgrounds

offered help, Fox said the

amount of support from rural

communities was astounding. He said he believes livestock people

help their own, and this case was no exception.

“I would just like to thank

Pine Creek Bridge northwest of Bassett.

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could mean the land is at a lower elevation or downstream.

When warnings for severe

weather are issued, ranchers

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livestock located in an area with access to high ground or be

prepared to move their herds to

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website adds. Cattle will naturally seek higher ground to escape the rising water levels.

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Flooded roads and fields in the Wood River, Nebraska area.

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f you have driven

to protect grain from moisture,

during harvest season,

Nebraska are thankful for these

through farm country

there is a good chance

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9 or 10 feet wide and

200-300 feet long, with a grain

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trucking the harvest to bins and are much cheaper than steel

bins. The bags are a one-time use product and cost between $900 and $1,000 each.

While the bags are designed

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the residents of Wood River, bags and outside-the box-

thinking. Ken Christensen of the Grand Island, Nebraska Aurora

Cooperative had seen a YouTube video showing grain bags used in place of sand bags. When

the massive flooding started in

March, they were brainstorming options and he remembered the online video and the Aurora

Cooperative donated a bag to

use as a temporary dam which

helped divert the flood waters.

The bag was used together with traditional sand bags along

highway 30 near Alda, Nebraska and diverted the water around the town.

Unfortunately, the flooding in

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Volunteers working on the dam. BRIAN URBOM PHOTO

“It has been an unprecedented year, the reality of working in agriculture, whether in crops or livestock, we have to work through all the challenges and keep working for a good outcome.”

-Brian Urbom

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March was only the beginning

empty bags, they were used along

much of the state already having

Dirt was piled along the bags

of an extremely wet year, with

received more than twice their

normal precipitation. Early July brought yet another flooding

event to Nebraska when up to 9 inches of rain fell overnight,

flooding the area and swelling rivers. To save their town,

volunteers created a temporary dam to hold back the Wood

River from flooding the town of Wood River. Since the grain bag

had been effective in March, the

Highway 30 and Cottonwood.

from a field. “We found out that we had to have the white side out, the black side got too hot and we had one rupture. We

used a garden hose to run water

over the bags to cool the plastic,” said Brian Urbom, local manager for the Cairo, Wood River and Sodtown Aurora Cooperative

and paramedic/volunteer on the Wood River Fire Department.

The Aurora Coop was

Aurora Cooperative donated

established in 1908 and

fire truck to pump water into the

joining together, farmers can

two of the huge bags. Using a

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committed to the belief that by

The natural habitat of the big grain bags.

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accomplish things they cannot accomplish alone. They have

a strong commitment to their communities and employees.

“They have been really good

to their employees during the

flooding. They never questioned

time off and paid for hotel rooms for those whose homes flooded.

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the volunteer fire department and organizations, like 4-H,” Urbom said. “It has been an

unprecedented year, the reality of working in agriculture, whether

in crops or livestock, we have to work through all the challenges and keep working for a good outcome.”

The March flooding was mainly

north of highway 30, while

the July event affected those

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living south of the highway. The grain bag dam is still in place, with plans being made for a

permanent water barrier. The farming outlook is grim with the fields beyond saturated,

some of the crops were drowned out or planting was prevented completely. “Farmers are

worried about the cool weather,

(possibility of an) early frost and the fields not drying out. Folks who have never had water in

their basements are pumping it out this year,” Urbom said.

FEMA has helped some of the

residents of Wood River. Different church organizations and groups came to help cleanup homes and

offer support. “Some of the houses still have $20-50,000 worth of

damage. The owners’ incomes

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Giant water filled tubes together with a dirt bank, serve as an impromptu dike, diverting water around the town. BRIAN URBOM PHOTO

are too high to qualify for federal

was truly overwhelmed by the

the money to repair the damage

lady with a bad back brought

assistance but they don’t have themselves,” Urbom said.

Urbom has been a paramedic

for many years, so he was one of the many who stepped forward during the March nightmare. “I

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people who offered help. One

us coffee. People came from all

over Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, it was pretty cool.

“I rode in the airboat doing

water rescues from vehicles and

A fire truck pumping the bags full of water. BRIAN URBOM PHOTO

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Ag EVENTS

3-4

Jamison Ranch Performance Horse and Weanling sale, Quinter, KS

5

Colyer Hereford Female Sale, Bruneau, ID

6

Fawcett’s Elm Creek Hereford Ranch Female Sale, Ree Heights, SD

8-12

Western Jr. Livestock Show, Rapid City, SD

8

Coleman Angus Ranch Female Sale, Charlo, MT

11

Mettler Polled Herefords Production Sale, Menno, SD

11-12

Farmers & Ranchers Livestock Fall Classic Catalog Horse Sale & Futurity, Salinas, KS

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19th Annual WYO Quarter Horse Sale, Thermopolis, WY

12-19

NILE Livestock Show, Billings MT

12

Schrag 605 “Family Event” Production Sale, Marion, SD

12

25th Annual New Direction Simmental Sale, Seward, NE

17

Jacobson Red Angus Complete Cowherd Dispersal at the farm, Hitterdal, MN

17

Dubas Cattle Co. Spring Herd Dispersal, Fullerton, NE

17

Pine Coulee Angus Sale, Billings, MT

18

37th Annual Prestigous NILE Red Angus Sale, Billings, MT

18

Isaak Ranch Complete Dispersal, Golden Valley, ND, sale at Dickinson, ND

19

Jed Stevenson Complete Cowherd Dispersal, Billings, MT

21

J & L Livestock Montana Angus Female Bonanza, PAYS Livestock, Billings, MT

22

Stevenson Angus Online Female Sale, Hobson, MT

23

Micheli Ranch Hereford Bull Sale, Ft. Bridger, WY

24

Jensen Bros. Hereford Female Sale, Courtland, KS

26

Pieper Red Angus Fall Production Sale, Hay Springs, NE

28

Rust Mountain View Ranch “Queens of the Pasture Sale” Mercer, ND

28-29

TC Ranch Angus Female Sale, Franklin, NE

30

Bumgarner Angus Sale, Wibaux, MT

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Ag Events

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Sales Shows

November 2019

Oct 31 Nov. 2

South Dakota Stockgrowers Convention, Rapid City, SD

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Jamison Herefords Female Production Sale, at the ranch, Quinter, KS

2

Cottonwood Angus Female Sale, Pipestone, MN

2

Jungels Shorthorn Farm “Durham Nation” Production Sale, Kathryn, ND

3

Triangle J Ranch “Harvest Select” Simmental Female Sale, Miller NE

5

Cobb Charolias Ranch Ranch Fall Bull Sale, Great Falls Livestock, Great Falls, MT

14

Diamond D Angus Sale, Valier, MT

14

K-2 Red Angus Fall Sale, Wheatland, WY

15

Green Mountain Angus Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch, Rygate, MT

15

Schurrtop Ranch Charolais & Angus Bull Sale, McCook, NE

16

Baldridge/Tiedeman Angus & Guests Sale, North Platte, NE

16

Redland Angus Bull Sale, Buffalo, WY

16

Campbell Red Angus Commercial Bred Heifer Sale, Mobridge Livestock, Mobridge, SD

16

Fuchs Angus Dispersion, Mandan, ND

6

Geppert’s Rock Creek Livestock Mature Cow Dispersion, Mitchell, SD

18-20 Range Beef Cow Symposium 19

Idland Cattle Co. Complete Female Dispersal Sale, Billings, MT

7

5 L Red Angus Profit Seeker Bull and Female Sale, Sheridan, MT

20

Spickler Ranch North Bull Sale, Glenfield, ND

7

Montana’s Choice Simmental Sale, Billings, MT

21

8

Montana Ranch Bull Sale, Columbus, MT

Largent and Sons Herefords Desert Mart Bull Sale, at the ranch,Kaycee, WY

9

South Dakota Hereford Assn. Excellence Sale, Brookings, SD

21

South Dakota Simmetal Source Sale, Mitchell, SD

9

Leachman Cattle of Colorado Red & White Bull Sale, Leachman Bull Barn, Ft. Collins, CO.

23

Amdahl Angus & Hereford Bull & Female Sale, Rapid City, SD

23

Diamond Peak Angus Female Sale, Loma, CO

9

Vedvei Charolais Ranch “The Dakota Standard V” Female Sale at the ranch, Lake Preseton, SD

23

Sonderup Charolais Ranch Inc. & Friends Foundation Female Sale, at the ranch Fullerton, NE

9

Nebraska Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Grand Island, NE

23

Bear Mt. Angus Female Sale, Palisade, NE

10

Nebraska Hereford Assn. Cornhusker Classic Sale, Grand Island, NE

25

Connealy Angus Fall Bull Sale, at the ranch, Whitman, NE

10

Wyoming Angus Assn Select Female Sale, Casper, WY

25

R-Math Angus Bull Sale, Glascoe, MT

10

Pearls of the Prairie Angus Sale, Mandan, ND

26

Paint Rock Angus Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch, Hyattville, WY

11

Mohican West Polled Hereford Bull Sale, Laurel, MT

26

Weller Angus Annual Production Sale, Philip Livestock, Philip, SD

12

Jorgensen Land & Cattle Online Sale, Ideal, SD

29

Chestnut Angus Female Sale, Pipestone, MN

12

Sitz Influence Commercial Replacement Female Sale, Dillon, MT

29

Wilken Angus “Black Angus Friday” Fall Production Sale, Faith Livestock, Faith, SD

12

ZumBrunnen Angus Female Sale, Lusk, WY

30

Vermilion Angus Ranch sale, Billings, MT

13

Heart K Ranch Production Sale, at the ranch, Lewistown, MT

30

The Event Simmental Sale, Tecumseh, NE

14

Bieber Fever Fall Production Sale, at the Ranch, Leola, SD

30

Ward Livestock Red White & Blue Sale, at the ranch near Laramie, WY

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Stevenson’s Diamond Dot Angus Sale, Hobson, MT

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Nebraska Angus Banquet, & Jr. Angus Preview, Kearney, NE

2

CK Cattle “The Inagural Female Sale” at the ranch, Highmore, SD

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Inderland Angus Bull Sale, Big Timber, MT

2

TK Angus Bull Sale, Valentine, NE

9

Cross Diamond Cattle Co. Red Angus Sale, Bertrand, NE

3

Stevenson Angus Bull Sale, Hobson, MT

10

PAYS Blue Ribbon Stock Cow Sale, Billings, MT

3

Badlands Angus Alliance Sale, Dickinson, ND

10

Slovek Angus Ranch Fall Bull Sale, Philip, SD

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South Dakota Cattlemens Assn. Convention, Pierre, SD

10-12 MT Stockgrowers Annual Meeting & Trade Show, Billings, MT

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Beef Country Genetics Bull Sale, at Midland Bull Test facility, Columbus, MT

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Shipwheel Cattle Co. Sale, Chinook, MT

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Big Sky Elite Red Angus, Logan, MT

Armstrong Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Cardwell, MT

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Nebraska Cattlemen Convention, Kearney, NE

Spruce Hill Ranch Angus & Sim-Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Ludlow, SD

5

Sitz Angus Sale, Harrison, MT

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Richard Angus Ranch Sale, at the ranch, Belfield, ND

6

KG Angus Bull Sale, Three Forks, MT

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Carr Angus Sale, Lewistown, MT

6

Evans Cattle Co. Red Angus Production Sale, Cozad, NE

14

Spickler Ranch Sale, Glenfield, ND

6

Harmon Angus Annual Production Sale, at the ranch Lavina, MT

14

ND Red Angus Red Select Sale, Mandan, ND

7

Currant Creek Angus Bull Sale, Roundup, MT

14

ND Simmental Select State Sale, Mandan, ND

7

Lonesome River Ranch Sale, Anselmo, NE

14

Laubach Red Angus Sale, Big Timber, MT

7

Pyramid Beef Angus & Hereford sale, Spearfish, SD

14

Gaugler Angus Bull Sale, Judith Gap, MT

7

Sonstegard Red Angus, Montevideo, MN

14

Minnesota Hereford Assn. “Gopher Sale” Hutchison, MN

7

Altenburg Simmental “Super Baldy” Sale, Ft. Collins, CO

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Hunt Creek Angus Bull & Replacement Heifer sale, Miles City, MT

7

North Dakota Hereford Assn. Sale and Annual Meeting, Valley City, ND

18-19 Shearer’s Spear U Angus Ranch Dipersal, Rushville, NE

7

Montana’s Choice Simmental Sale, Billings, MT

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SD Simmental Source Sale, Mitchell, SD

ADVERTISER INDEX Agri-Best Feeds ........................................ Back Cover Alltech South Dakota ........................................... 141 Amdahl Angus ...................................................... 131 Assman Implement ............................................... 123 Bear Mountain Angus Ranch ..................................71 Bejot Feed Lots ..................................................... 115 Bieber Red Angus ......................................................1 Black Hills Stock Show.......................................... 109 Bobcat Angus .............................................................8 Bridger Steel ..............................................................5 Brooks Chalky Butte Ranch ....................................65 Butte Co Equipment ...................................... 61 & 90 Callicrate PRO Bander.......................................... 117 Cammack Ranch Supply .........................................54 Cross Diamond Cattle Co .......................................13 Cross Five Cattle Coolers, Llc. ............................. 115 Crystalyx.....................................................................85 Dean Odden & Sons ...............................................96 Diamond D Angus ................................................ 144 Diamond Peak Cattle Co ........................................49 Farm Credit Services -Rapid City .............................4 Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch .......................................3 FMG Feed & Seed ...................................................75 Greg Goggins ....................................................... 111 Heartland Tanks & Supply .................................... 116 Hewitt Land Company ......................................... 140 High Plains Genetics ...............................................83 Hoffman Ranch .........................................................67 Hutchison Western ............................................... 105 Insure My Forage .................................................. 117 Jamison Herefords & Quarter Horses .Inside Back Cover Jenner Equipment ......................................... 50 & 51 K R Rauch Co. ...........................................................91 Kammerer Livestock ............................................. 129 Kennedy Implement ...................................... 18 & 19 Kyle Shobe ............................................................. 130 Lakeside Livestock Equipment ........................... 123 Lindskov Implement ...................................... 61 & 90 Little Goose Ranch ...................................................35

Livestock Market Directory............................ 28 & 29 Lone Creek Cattle Co. .............................................59 Lynn Weishaar ..........................................................48 Matt Lowery ........................................................... 114 Meyerink Farm Service ......................................... 112 MH Equipment & Truck Repair Inc. .......................70 Modern Farm Equipment .......................................77 Mount Rushmore Angus ...........................................7 MRG Marketing Tools...............................................89 National Western Stock Show ................................77 New Direction Media ..............................................53 Orwig’s Tubs, Inc. .....................................................47 Penny Newman/Cowbos ..................................... 113 Pharmco.................................................................. 122 Pieper Red Angus ......................................................2 Quality Liquid Feeds ...............................................76 Rafter T Angus ....................................................... 143 Ranchers Choice.................................................... 120 Ranchers Livestock Equipment ..............................33 Raven Angus Ranch ...................................................6 Redland Black Angus ..............................................10 Repro Scan ...............................................................32 Rowdy Benson ...................................................... 111 Rowse Rakes Inc .......................................................58 Seth Weishaar ....................................................... 137 Sinclair Cattle Company .............Inside Front Cover South Central Livestock...........................................84 Spickler Ranch North ............................................ 142 St Onge Livestock.....................................................55 Stuart Concrete ..................................................... 137 The NILE.....................................................................23 Tippmann Industrial....................................... 68 & 80 Tri-State Livestock News........................81, 99 & 127 VitaFerm ....................................................................37 Western Ranch Supply ......................................... 110 Wilken Angus .............................................................9 Willrodt Motor ..........................................................84 Zumbrunnen Angus ................................................74

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Because it’s more than a deal.

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Flat Top Ranch | Squaw Gap, ND 4,867 Acres | $3,400,000 Comprised of nearly equal deeded and low-cost leased acres, the Flat Top Ranch is an economicallysized and priced opportunity that is hard to find!

Renner Ranch | Beach, ND Acres | $2,100,000 Exceptional improvements, grassland in excellent condition with pipeline water to every pasture, superb hunting, and fully finished HQ with built-in living quarters.

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Coalbank Creek Grassland | Mill Iron, MT 1,880 Acres (1,240 acres Deeded, 640 acres Private Lease) | $810,000

Corrals, cross-fenced, pipeline, wells. This property makes an ideally sized tract of grassland with enough scale to make it efficient and yet very affordable.

NEW

Tres Crosses Grassland | Newell, SD 1,348 acres | $940,000

K-S Ranch | Nisland, SD 280 Acres | $700,000

The Tres Crosses Grassland is comprised of 1,348 deeded acres along with 80 BLM acres, bringing the total to 1,428 acres. Presently fenced as one unit, this property has exceptional water availability and fences.

With 69 acres irrigated hay meadows and 200+ acres pastureland, this well-diversified ranch can accommodate many different operations.

Oahe Lakefront Acreage | Pierre, SD 40 Acres | $325,000 This 40-acre property offers a view with physical access to Lake Oahe, is home to wildlife, and provides options for building sites.

ABSOLUTE PUBLIC AUCTION: Bennett County Farmland Auction Martin, SD | 845 Acres | October 9, 2019 HQ improvements/site, 90% tillable with Hwy 18 frontage!

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Peoria Flats Lakefront Home | Pierre, SD 4.58 Acres | $575,000 This property has a 4.58 acre view & physical access to Oahe Lake. Built in 2007, 3,177 sq. ft. home, attached 2-car garage.

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OUR BUSINESS is Coming-Two-Year-Old ANGUS Bulls!

140 Coming-Two-Year-Old Bulls 150 Bred Angus Cows/Heifers S Powerpoint WS 5503 #18159093

BW -1.1 WW +69 YW +118 M +21

25 Sons Sell Nov 20th!

Ellingson Transcend 5212 #18182675

BW +2.2 WW +71 YW +130 M +26

We are really excited to offer this set of bulls for sale this fall. During the last 5 years our cowherd and program have really evolved. Over 70% of our cowherd is 4 years old and younger.

Our young cows represent the proven cow families that our program is built on. We rigorously cull our herd for udder quality, hoof structure and disposition; while improving performance and carcass quality.

Coming two year old bulls offer many unique advantages. One that is often overlooked is their proven data and predictability. This sale offering represents the top 50% of the bull calves born at our ranch in 2018. 70% of this offering is sired by Powerpoint, Thrive, Diligent and Transcend. By the time our sale rolls around on November 20th, we will have 3 years of weaning data on these young sires, plus their daughters will have weaned their first calves. These four young sires are quickly becoming cornerstones for our program not just because of the performance they possess, but specifically as a result of the daughters they are producing.

Powerpoint, Thrive and Diligent are all sired by Tehama Revere. Why use 25 Sons Sell 3 half brothers and 2- ž brothers?

Nov 20th!

The answer is simple: they all possess and transmit different genetic and phenotypic strengths. All three sires have donor dams who rank in the top He Sells Nov 20th ten cows in our herd for udder qualiLot 1: S Resurgence 8785 #19171916 ty, fleshing ability and solid maternal BW-0.2 WW+74 YW+119 M+34 strength. Transcend is an outcross This Donor Sells bull for our program and a high perS Cora 204 Nov 20th! formance, extremely potent sire of Bred to Transcend! muscle and pounds. His dam is a #17298577 S Summit 956 x beautiful, productive daughter of Tehama Blackcap Revolution.

S Chisum 6175 x S Gridmaker 5131 Transcend is a favorite of many who BR 5/96 WR 5/106 YR 4/105 visit our ranch due to Dam of S Axiom 4525, Lead off his overwhelming depth, Bull in the 2015 sale! muscle and power.

Wednesday,

S Thrive JAS 5515 #18159105

BW +1.3 WW +74 YW +132 M +20

25 Sons Sell Nov 20th!

S Diligent 5548 #18159131

BW -1.9 WW +65 YW +108 M +19

25 Sons Sell Nov 20th!

He Sells Nov 20th Lot 3: S Diligent 8500#19139856 BW-3.1 WW+63 YW+111 M+25

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Bred Females Selling:

1 Featured Donor Dam 30 Single Lot Registered Cows 40 Purebred Commercial Cows 80 Purebred Commercial Heifers

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November 20, 2019 1pm cst at the Ranch

Call/Text: Justin 701.650.8840 or Sara 701.650.9890

8377-7th Parkway NE Glenfield, ND 58443 w jsspickler@gmail.com m

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Annual Production Sale Thursday November 14, 2019 at the ranch in Valier, Montana

I am 15 years old and weaned a 600 lb calf. I will be calving again next spring.

My mother had a calf every year until she was 18 years old.

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I am 5 years old and I weaned a 750 lb calf. I will not be calving next year.

Due to my great E.P.D. numbers, my owner will ï¬&#x201A;ush me.