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A farm kid’s county fair dreams

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of several heats, the rider with the fewest As a kindergartner, I wanted to be a cowboy. total points is the victor.

In first grade, an artist. In second grade, I was shooting for an artist/astronaut combo. In This 9-year-old was instantly hooked by third grade, just a regular astronaut. But by the artistry of the sport, and I pleaded with fourth grade — the year I peaked athletically my dad that my next motorcycle had to be with a third-place finish in the boys 400 meter a trials bike. At some point during that relay on track and field day — I finally decided fourth grade year, he came through for me. what I truly wanted to be when I grew up.

I don’t know how he found it, but one day Dad came home with a used 1974 Bultaco I wanted to be a motorcycle trials rider.

LAND MINDS Sherpa T 250. I wasn’t aware of its signifiIt all started in the summer of 1980, By Tom Royer cance at the time, but the lightweight, twowhen I went with my family to the West stroke, Spanish-made Bultaco Sherpa Pottawattamie (Iowa) County Fair, bethad popularized the sport of trials riding ter known as Westfair. It had everya decade earlier in Europe, and even thing a farm kid could ever dream of: country music, cotton candy, barrel races, demolition managed to find mild success in the United States. derbies, weird chickens ... you name it.

For a couple of years I rode that beautiful orange While walking outside the grandstand area, my eyes bike all across the farm, oh-so-slowly through the fell upon an unusual sight. An obstacle course of some woods and over creeks. I’d climb it up cliffs, navigate between equipment and fencelines, and — only rarely sort had been set up with fences, walls and big rocks, — really open it up to see how fast it’d go down our and guys on goofy looking motorcycles were ever-somile-long gravel lane. (It could go fast, by the way.) I slowly creeping their way over and around it all. would picture myself standing on the world champiI had grown up riding motorcycles — everyone in onship podium in Barcelona, holding aloft a giant my family had one, and I learned to ride my tiny shining trophy, feeling even prouder than when I Suzuki JR50 before I could pedal a bicycle — but brought home that third-place relay ribbon. this slow-motion spectacle before me was completely As with most boyhood obsessions, however, my interalien. These guys standing up on the pedals of their est in trials riding eventually waned. By the time sixth skinny, no-seat, grunty bikes weren’t trying to go as grade rolled around I decided once and for all that I fast as they could, but rather to be as balanced and was going to be a computer programmer; the Bultaco precise in their movements as possible. exiled to the old barn, touched for years only by spiders What I had discovered was trials riding, also called and sparrows. And yet, for a brief moment in a young observed trials. Observed, because as the riders slowly boy’s life, the inspiration of something altogether new make their way around the course, they are watched by and exciting brought a tremendous amount of joy. a judge. Every time a rider puts a boot on the ground to What will inspire a child’s dreams at your county balance themselves, they are assessed a point. If they fair this summer? make it all the way around without touching down at ••• all — known as “cleaning the section” — they receive Tom Royer is assistant editor of The Land. He may the ideal zero points. If a rider can’t finish the course — a “fiasco” — they’re socked with five points. At the end be reached at troyer@TheLandOnline.com.

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Letter: Congratulations on job well done To the Editor: I’d like to offer my congratulations to the Minnesota House and Senate on a fine session. They finished on time and made some major improvements in the functioning of the state government. Most important they met the challenge of finding the resources without raising taxes in these difficult times.

The only tax that is popular is the one someone else has to pay. The governor and his party, nationwide, are trying to “tax the rich.” Unfortunately the rich are the ones who create the jobs and they simply move their business to another state or country and the jobs go with them. In the last year Camera Arts of Lewiston, Minn., Boynton Trucking of St. Charles, Minn., Filmor Trucking of Cannon Falls, Minn., and many others have closed up or moved away from Minnesota. I know of at least three hardware stores that closed their doors in our immediate vicinity. We need the jobs in Minnesota and yet the governor insists that taxing the businesses is the way to go.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Back in the ’60s we had a bill before the tax committee that would have increased the estate tax on higher value estates.

It sounds good to say we’re going to have the rich pay until one individual pointed out that most higher income people have a home down south as well as in Minnesota.You know, he said, they simply are going to change their domicile to the one down south and you won’t be getting any of their estate taxes.The same thing will occur with a lot of businesses, and the products will say,“made in Texas-China-India-etc.”

The governor proposed a budget and the House voted on it. Only one member of the House voted for his proposal, 130 voted against it. The governor is responsible for the special session and he has to call you back. I hope that you give his caucus the opportunity to vote on his proposals so the people back home know what they have done. All of us should be congratulating our legislature for the job well done.

Al Schumann Eyota, Minn.

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Horses first, carts second; any other way there’s no giddyup the beef checkoff, as currently constituted, is corrupt. What else would you call a scheme where: • the chief contractor has no competition for millions in annual contracts; • a “national” organization-contractor that has fewer than one in 32 cattlemen nationally as members; • a sledge-hammer lobbyist that survives largely through non-lobbying funds, checkoff dollars, to underwrite

its lobbying and • an organization that continues to repay misallocated checkoff funds.

Call it want you will, but the NCBA isn’t in charge of the checkoff. It’s the cart, and without the horse — the Cattlemen’s Beef Board — there’s no giddyup.

••• Alan Guebert’s “Farm and Food File” is published weekly in more than 70 newspapers in North America. Contact him at agcomm@farmandfoodfile.com.

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pinning the checkoff, the Beef You and I know that if we Board must, as June 3 memo put the horse before the cart from the NCBA to the U.S. the chances of going anyDepartment of Agriculture where are a million times explains, “carry out programs better than if we put the through national nonprofit cart first. industry-governed organizaThis barnyard variant of tions active and ongoing before Newton’s Second Law is the enactment of the 1985 well understood by the hunlaw.” dreds of thousands of cowFARM & FOOD FILE Golly, who might that be? boys who are not members of the National Cattlemen’s And just so the USDA got

By Alan Guebert Beef Association: horse the clear message as to first, cart second, giddyup. who that isn’t, the June 3 memo includes this head When it comes to who’s slap: “... CBB (the checkoff’s in charge of the national beef checkoff, however, the NCBA is, again, governing Beef Board) does not qualify as such an organization because it did attempting to flip the laws of physics not exist prior to enactment ...”

— the cart, itself, first; the horse, the checkoff’s Cattlemen’s Beef Board, secIn fact, the eight-page, June 3 memo ond; and then well, nothing. to the USDA from the USDA is a classic exercise in overkill. (Find it, and Wrongheaded as that might be it’s understandable given the fact that $45 other supporting documents, at million or so flows from the Beef Board www.farmandfoodfile.com.) It was written in response to the Beef Board’s to the NCBA for checkoff work most March 2011, 20-point years, making the NCBA proposal to streamthe biggest checkoff hired line and reform hand by far. checkoff spending The result, a confusBut bucks don’t make it and accountability. ing structure of boss. That job, by law, lies The reforms, Kiker with the 106-member state and national explained in a June Cattlemen’s Beef Board, groups organized 14 telephone interappointees of the U.S. under the NCBA’s view, “are not about Secretary of Agriculture. umbrella, gave the NCBA because the That simple line of NCBA dibs on most checkoff doesn’t work authority — the Beef for NCBA; NCBA of the checkoff pie.

Board, the NCBA, gidworks for the checkdyup — was established off. The reforms are when the checkoff was chartered by for every cattleman because every catCongress in 1985. Eleven years later, tleman pays the checkoff.” however, it became tangled when cattle That’s not how the NCBA sees ’em; it and meat groups merged. calls the reforms “dangerous,” “unworkThe result, a confusing structure of able” and “vague.” state and national groups organized What it doesn’t call ’em is overdue — under the NCBA’s umbrella, gave the NCBA dibs on most of the checkoff pie. especially after an audit of just 1 percent of NCBA checkoff contracts for In 2011, for example, the NCBA “was awarded 93 percent of available (check- 2008, 2009 and part of 2010 forced the NCBA to repay the nearly $217,000 of off) program funding,” according to misspent checkoff money last January.

Chuck Kiker, a Texas cattleman who (The amount has since grown; repayserves on the Beef Board’s operating ment now totals $305,365 and “two and budget committees. areas of billing issues” remain.)

That the NCBA is the biggest beneThe NCBA’s continued refusal to factor isn’t an accident; it hardwired it acknowledge needed reforms should from the start. send a clear signal to the USDA that According to federal legislation under-

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OPINION

The “Cookbook Corner” in the May 27 issue of The Land contained an error in the contact information for the “Cooking With Harmony” cookbook.

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Commentary: A double whammy for consumers

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U.S. Energy prices have risen to more than 6 percent of consumer spending — which may be a historic “tipping point.” Our food prices, meanwhile, have had their steepest increase in a generation, to about 6.5 percent of spending. That’s a double whammy consumers haven’t suffered since Jimmy Carter’s infamous “stagflation,” a painful mix of weak economic growth, high unemployment and rising inflation in the late-1970s.

Both the high oil prices and the high food prices trace directly back to the Obama administration. Oil has gotten no scarcer during the Obama years, but the dollar has weakened by about 17 percent. The price of oil is denominated in U.S. dollars, so the dollar decline almost exactly matches the rise in America’s oil prices.

Meanwhile, the president has engineered a stop-stall

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on domestic energy production, from Alaska to the Gulf, making even our own oil more costly.

Some months ago I sat at an energy roundtable with Congressman Markey of Massachusetts (of Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade fame), the president of Duke Power, and the former director of President Clinton’s Council on Environmental Quality. The sympathy at the table was for rigging higher natural gas prices so the huge federal subsidies for wind turbines and solar panels would seem less a drain on our economic growth.

Recently, moreover, the Congressional Research Service reported the United States has more fossil energy than any other nation when we total our coal, oil, natural gas and our new shale gas and oil reserves. Far from having “just 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves” we have centuries worth of fossil fuels — which the Obama administration is committed to not using.

The food inflation too is now Obama’s. Under both Bush and Obama, the federal government has cheerfully diverted huge amounts of grain to auto fuel, creating an artificial food shortage. That’s triggered food price inflation for the poorest around the world.

Corn ethanol may be “renewable,” but the subsidies make it expensive to use.

Why not remove the federal subsidy and let ethanol compete? Mainly because ethanol isn’t competitive or effective. And it is down right disastrous for the environment. Right now, farm woodlots are being drained in the Corn Belt, and tropical forest is being cleared for more corn and palm oil in Southeast Asia, responding to high crop prices. This is not a sustainable solution.

Last year, Stanford University praised Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution for saving about 7 million square miles of wildlife habitat from being plowed for more low-yield crops. Without the higher crop yields, we’d have gassed off soil carbon — as nitrous oxide — equal to one-third of the world’s industrial emissions since 1850. The Stanford message is clear: don’t clear wildlife habitat for trivial purposes. And this seems a trivial purpose — whether or not you believe in man-made global warming. Ethanol won’t make much difference.

Why not clean-burn coal, gas and oil to make the electricity we need and admit the “green” solutions so far just don’t work. Trillions of taxpayer dollars are poured into wind, solar and ethanol and none has proved to be an effective means of producing energy.

If the goal is to reduce CO2 the effort has not only failed, but the need is appearing less and less valid.

Thus far, the computer models have been wrong. The Pacific Ocean, our largest heat sink, has entered a cool phase, and the tree rings and coral samples tell us it will probably last for the next 25 years.

••• This commentary was submitted by Dennis Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and the director for the Center for Global Food Issues. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. Readers may write him at P.O. Box 202, Churchville, VA 24421 or e-mail to cgfi@hughes.net.

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world every child. Will we do ours by praying for children, loving them and Seeing tulips thrive in less-than-ideal conditions doing all that we can to pointed me to the God of hope who loves children. provide safe, nurturing There are children everywhere living in less-than-ideal environments for the conditions. Some live in home situations that are a children in our homes, neighborhoods and discouraging, ugly mess. across the world?

Albert Einstein said, “The ple to live with Eli, she sang a song of praise and world is a dangerous place to live. Not because of then the Bible describes how wicked Eli’s sons the people who are evil, but because of the people were. Samuel did not have an easy life, but God who don’t do anything about it.” took care of him.”

Let’s daily resolve to be people who do something Even though Samuel was surrounded by the about it. We must do all we can to weed evil out of wickedness of Eli’s sons Hophni and Phinehas, the the lives of children and point them to the God of Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let hope. none of his words fall to the ground (1 Samuel There are children everywhere. This summer 3:19). you’ll see them on the street, playing at the pool or What was true for the prophet Jeremiah is true in the park, at the mall or in your home. And Jesus for each and every child: loves them all.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the “Hey, Dad, Jesus told me to tell you, He really Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, loves the children.” plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will “Remember, Jesus really loves the children.” call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will “Hey, Daddy, don’t forget, Jesus really, really listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by loves the children!” you.” (Jeremiah 29:11-14a) ••• Think about the child in your neighborhood or Lenae Bulthuis is a wife, mom and friend who your extended family for whom your heart grieves muses from her back porch on a Minnesota grain most. God will do His part in the life of each and and livestock farm.

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Within two weeks at three different speaking events various women asked me, “Have you read the book, ‘Heaven is for Real’?” A friend of a friend had passed the book on to me to read, but because I was preparing for the speaking events, I didn’t take time to crack its covers.

THE BACK PORCH On a Sunday afternoon after things had simmered down a

By Lenae Bulthuis bit, the book became my priority. After reading it, I wish I had made the time for this special book sooner.

“Heaven is for Real” is a true story by Todd Burpo about his son Colton, who was 3 years and 10 months at time of surgery when he experienced heaven. The book’s subtitle tells it all: “A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back.”

His story is exactly what the subtitle promises it to be — astounding. Of all the amazing parts of Colton’s must-read story, the part that revisits my mind most often is how Colton would tell his parents, “Jesus told me to tell you, He really loves the children.”

He would remind his mom and dad morning, noon and night of this message. It almost hinged on annoying to them, but because of the repeated memo, they didn’t miss its significance: Jesus loves children.

Had Hank Wessels, the Ace of Spades, seen my small flower garden this spring he would’ve been horrified. It contained a dozen beautiful tulips within a grassy, weedy mess. Between my crazy full spring schedule and more rainy days than sunny ones, the small flower patch was neglected. It was a disaster. Yet the tulips bloomed.

Seeing tulips thrive in less-than-ideal conditions pointed me to the God of hope who loves children.

There are children everywhere living in less-thanideal conditions. Some live in home situations that are a discouraging, ugly mess.

• No spiritual guidance • Severed, dysfunctional families • Abuse • Poverty • Neglect • Rejection • Isolation And yet, like tulips surrounded by weeds, God can still cause children to grow, bloom and thrive.

After talking to Mary Jo, a dear friend and wise woman, about an ugly home situation that grieves my heart, she sent an e-mail filled with encouragement. The day after we talked she said that she opened her Bible to read the Old Testament selection that she was up to and it was 1 Samuel.

The child we spoke about together was fresh on her mind, and as she read she was filled with hope by the way God took care of Samuel in difficult circumstances. She wrote, “I guess it struck me that right after Hannah dropped Samuel off at the tem-

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Cookbook delights in the small, everyday gifts of life Cookbook Corner

By SARAH JOHNSON The Land Correspondent When we cook, we transform the gifts of the earth into nourishment for our bodies.

The title of the new cookbook by First Presbyterian Church of Hinkley, Minn., “Gifts Great and Small,” reminds us that although we are surrounded by “great” gifts — peace in our land, relative prosperity, sunshine, chocolate, gravity — we should delight in smaller everyday gifts as well. Homemade brownies, garden peas and those first ears of summer sweet corn are all mouthwatering testaments to the wonders of our world.

For those on restricted diets, the book contains many recipes that are low in fat, gluten-free, egg-free and dairy-free.

Whether you’re looking for a few new entrée ideas or a special beverage for those hot summer days, your search will be rewarded in “Gifts Great and Small.”

So let’s cook then! Here are some recipes celebrating the bounty of our American farmers (and their international partners). Let us give thanks for the fertile soil, the bountiful food, the energy to cook it and the family that eats it.

■ Two “hot” flavors in the culinary world right now — chipotle peppers and butternut squash — com-

In a large saucepan, sauté the squash, carrot, onion, garlic and cumin in oil for 10 minutes. Add 1 1/2 cups broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes or until vegetables are tender; cool slightly.

Transfer mixture to a blender; add the tomatoes, cream cheese, basil, chipotle pepper and remaining broth.

Cover and process for 1 to 2 minutes until smooth. Return to the saucepan; stir in the beans, corn and spinach.

Cook and stir until spinach is wilted and soup is heated through.

If garnish is desired, sprinkle butternut squash seeds with 1/8 teaspoon salt. Place on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 F for 10 to 13 minutes or until golden brown.

■ Picnic season means potato salad, and here’s a recipe using old-fashioned, clear-your-sinuses horseradish.

You may want to add a little more or less depending on your sensibilities. Some people loathe the taste of horseradish; others can’t get enough. Go figure.

Horseradish Potato Salad Submitted by Wayne Golly 10 pounds red potatoes 2 large mild/sweet onions, diced 12 eggs, hard boiled 3 cups mayonnaise 1 1/2 cups yellow mustard 2 tablespoons horseradish 1 tablespoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/3 cup sugar 1 cup milk Scrub and cook unpeeled potatoes until tender (no salt). Let cool, then dice into 1/2- to 3/4-inch cubes.

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bine their robust flavors in this substantial entréestyle soup. Tender vegetables swim in a savory stew that’s a good choice on warm days: Spicy food actually helps cool you down once the initial burn has faded.

Chipotle Butternut Squash Soup Submitted by Kathy Kendall 2 cups diced, peeled butternut squash 1 small carrot, finely chopped 1 green onion, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cups vegetable broth, divided 1 (14 1/2-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, cubed 1/4 cup fresh basil, minced 1/2 to 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, chopped 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 (11-ounce) can Mexicorn, drained 2 cups fresh baby spinach

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Making ‘trash bag’ taco salad will entertain, feed 40 Who doesn’t like dumping things in a trash bag and shaking it all up and then eating it? Needless to say, kids can’t get enough of this item, and most adults will mow it down, too.

Third Layer: Stir together until almost set the Jello, hot water and frozen strawberries. Spread on top of cream cheese layer. Refrigerate until set. Serve with whipped cream or Cool Whip.

■ If you’re making “walking tacos” for a group, here’s a recipe that’ll make you smile — it’s so easy and fun to prepare. Who doesn’t like dumping things in a trash bag and shaking it all up and then eating it?

Needless to say, kids can’t get enough of this item, and most adults will mow it down, too.

“Trash Bag” Taco Salad — Recipe for a Crowd Submitted by Kathy Carr 3 pounds ground beef 3 envelopes taco seasoning mix 3 heads lettuce, shredded 3 cups cheddar cheese, shredded 3 cups tomatoes, chopped 1 1/2 cups onion, chopped 1 can ripe olives, drained and sliced or chopped 2 (15-ounce) cans ranch or chili beans, drained 1 (16-ounce) bag corn chips 1 (12-ounce) jar salsa Brown beef and drain. Add taco seasoning and prepare according to package directions. Cool. Toss with remaining ingredients in a large plastic bag or container shortly before serving. (You can add a 16-

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••• If your community group or church organization has printed a cookbook and would like to have it reviewed in the “Cookbook Corner,” send us a copy to “Cookbook Corner,” The Land, P.O. Box 3169, Mankato, MN 56002.

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COOKBOOK, from pg. 6A Add chopped onions and eggs. In a blender, mix the remaining ingredients; blend until smooth and pour over the potatoes, onions and eggs. Fold all of the ingredients together. Cold milk or water may be added to achieve the desired consistency. Cover with film wrap and refrigerate for 12 hours. Makes 60 1cup servings.

■ This dessert is reminiscent of a popular dish served at a local hospital to its patients on holidays and to lucky staff members at special feasts. The sweet-andsalty crunch of the pretzel crust, the creamy dairy layer and the strawberries-in-gelatin topping are exquisite to taste and beautiful to look at, but this dessert doesn’t stay pretty long. People really dig in.

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Second Layer: Cream the sugar and the cream cheese together and fold it into the Cool Whip.

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Cross: Any takers for my ‘poor man’s lobster’ recipe?

Many anglers regard freshwater drum spite of its fighting spirit, is truly a plug— most of us know them as sheepshead ugly (and a bit scary) creature.

— as pesky bait-stealers.

I’ll even admit to an admiration for While they certainly can be an annoythose fish sporting whiskers and skin. ance, they sometimes offer a pleasant If not for bullheads, there are some for diversion on an otherwise eventless fishwhom the tug on a line would be a rare ing excursion. opportunity. And while a bullhead doesn’t And besides, they sometimes keep put up much of a tussle, it does eat pretty pretty good company. well, right down to its crispy-fried tail.

THE OUTDOORS Chances are that if you’re finding And catfish are not only quite tasty, but sheepshead, then you’re at least in the on the end of a line give an account of

By John Cross right neighborhood to snag a walleye. themselves that can put many other Naturally, a walleye commands a bit more respect gamefish to shame. than a croaker when you finally have it boatside.

A long time ago, I did a brief stint at a paper in Neither the walleyes nor the crappies were offer- Kansas, a state where bass, crappies and the occaing much action on an area lake last week, but the sional walleye are pursued with varying degrees of sheepshead were certainly on a furious bite. And it passion. But catfish remain the undisputed king. may seem a bit oxymoronic to say so but some “nice” Order a freshwater fish entree in most any Kansas ones gave a pretty good accounting of themselves on eatery and it will be channel catfish, probably not too the light tackle. far removed from a catfish farm.

After catching several of them and little else, a Not to imply that there is anything untoward recipe for the lowly sheepshead — charitably named about catfish farms but they are typically a series of “poor man’s lobster” — came to mind. shallow manmade ponds that resemble the settling Like the recipes I somehow have acquired over the ponds found at sewage treatment plants. years for such delicacies as coots and opossum, it is Except that they’re teeming with catfish — hungry a dish that remains unsampled. ones.

I’m not a fish snob.

Some farms allow sport fishing on their ponds on a If it’s got fins and swims, I’m game to catch ’em. per-pound basis.

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The bite, though not too sporting, was fast and furious and it would have been easy to fish one’s self into bankruptcy.

A far more interesting way to catch them, however, was with a trotline. Trotlines are long lines bristling with dozens, even hundreds of hooks. It can be a highly effective way of quickly catching a mess of fish, probably one of the reasons the practice will earn you a ticket from a conservation officer if you try it in Minnesota.

Each hook is baited and the line stretched or tossed into a catfish haunt and then anchored to a floating plastic jug or a nearby tree limb.

After a suitable length of time, frequently measured by number of beers, the line is retrieved, hopefully with several channel catfish firmly attached.

From there, it is just a short trip from the cleaning board to a pan bubbling with hot oil to a riverbank lunch, frequently washed down with a few more beers.

We Minnesotans like to crow about the culinary virtues of our beloved walleye but a fresh catfish fillet, where properly cooked, can give our state fish a run for the money.

But a sheepshead is not a catfish.

The sheepshead recipe I recalled is simple enough: Cut the skinless backstrap into bite-sized chunks and place them in boiling water for a minute or so.

Then a quick run through some melted butter and voila — poor man’s lobster.

Any takers out there?

••• John Cross is a Mankato (Minn.) Free Press staff writer. Contact him at (507) 344-6376 or jcross@mankatofreepress.com.

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Colors of fruits, vegetable provide clue to health benefits phytochemicals, Francis said. The darker the color, the more phytochemical the plant food provides. Phytochemicals have been shown to reduce the risk of many chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and macular degeneration, she said.

“For example, the red color of tomatoes comes from lycopene, which may lower the risk of prostate cancer,” Francis said. “The beta-carotene that gives sweet potatoes their orange color helps

keep our immune system healthy, and the green of spinach is rich in lutein, which helps decrease the risk of macular degeneration. By eating a colorful mix of fruits and vegetables, you increase the likelihood of consuming a larger amount of phytochemicals.”

A relatively easy to way to eat a colorful, plant-based diet is the healthy plate method. “Envision your dinner plate: one-half should be fruits and vegetables, one quarter should be lean protein and

the remaining quarter should be whole grains. Be careful though. As our portions have grown, so have our plates.

The typical plate is 12 inches wide, but the healthy plate method is based on a 9-inch plate. But you don’t need to buy new dishes; just leave space around the outside,” Francis said.

••• This article was submitted by the Franklin County office of Iowa State University Extension in Hampton, Iowa.

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For good health, eat a colorful diet, said Sarah Francis, an Iowa State University assistant professor and ISU Extension nutrition specialist.

New dietary guidelines emphasize a plant-based diet accompanied by whole grains, low fat, fat-free dairy and lean protein sources, Francis said.

“The color of fruits and vegetables provides a clue to their health benefit.”

The pigments in fruits and vegetables contain many health-promoting

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Info: $5/adult, $3/child ages 5-12, children under 5 free; Chris Cakes pancakes, sausage, milk, juice and coffee; sponsored by Olmsted County Farm Bureau and the Rochester Ag Committee; call (507) 545-0112; park at Century High School and ride the bus to the farm Breakfast on the Farm June 25, 7:30-11 a.m.

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Info: $3/person, $12/family, age 6 and under free; Chris Cakes pancakes, sausage, milk and juice; sponsored by Mower County Farm Bureau; call (507) 567-2296; park at the Hy-Vee in Austin and ride the bus to the farm

County American Dairy Association; call (507) 456-7861; park at the Mills Fleet Farm and ride the bus to the farm Breakfast on the Farm June 25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Info: Free; Chris Cakes pancakes; sponsored by Nobles County Farm Bureau, RockNobles Cattlemen and Nobles County Dairy Association; call (507) 376-4879; from Worthington west 4 miles on County Highway 35, south 6 1/4 miles on McCall Avenue (County Highway 9)

Wheat Field Day June 27, 9 a.m.-Noon Lucas Lindeland Farm, Mapleton, Minn.

Info: From Mapleton, drive east on County Road 21 (129th Street), County Road 21 will curve north, turn east Breakfast on the Farm onto County Road 21 (132nd June 25, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Street), turn north on County John Schmidt Dairy Farm, Road 14 (165th Avenue), turn Owatonna, Minn. east onto County Road 21 Info: $3/person, age 5 and (137th Street) and travel under eat free; pancakes, roughly 2 miles, wheat field sausage, cheese, milk and cof- is located just west of the catfee; sponsored by Steele tle lot on the north side of

County Road 21 (137th Street); from Pemberton, drive straight south out of Pemberton on County Road 161, turn west at County Road 21 (137th Street), the cattle lot will be on the corner; contact Jill Sackett, (507) 238-5449 or sacke032@umn.edu, Diane DeWitte, (507) 380-6098 or stouf002@umn.edu

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Sheep for Profit School July 6-9 Pipestone, Minn.

Info: Intense 3 1/2-day workshop limited to 20 participants; log on to www.pipestonesheep.com, call (800) 658-2330, e-mail jodi.christensen@mnwest.edu or write Sand Bedding and Handling Dairy Field Day Pipestone Lamb and Wool Management Program. MinJune 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Gene Duschner Farm, Farley, nesota West Community and Technical College, P.O. Box. Iowa Info: Formal presentations at 250, Pipestone, MN 56164 for 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 more information p.m. and 1:30 p.m.; from Farley, go east on 7th Avenue Ventilation Workshop for and continue as it turns into Swine Producers Cemetery Road and then to July 7, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

25364 Duschner Lane; conBorlaug Learning Center, tact Larry Tranel, (563) 590- Nashua, Iowa 7025 or tranel@iastate.edu Info: $7/person; limited to 28, with minimum of 10; Northeast Iowa Ag Experimental Association advanced registration required and available until Field Day July 6, only if space remains; June 29, 1-4:30 p.m.

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Box turtles — Slow of foot, but definitely survivors Resist the temptation to “adopt” a turtle from the wild. The box turtle confines its activities to a small area (several acres) for its home range and breeding ground. Once removed from this territory, many displaced turtles fail to establish a new home range and few find their way back to their original home range.

Since the box turtle is long-lived with a life span of 20 years or more, they experience delayed sexual maturity (anywhere from 7 to 10 years). This turtle species requires a long life span and high population density to increase its population. A box turtle must survive lawn mowers, farm machinery, predators and crossing roads during its growth years before it can add to the species.

The box turtle is also threatened by the pet trade, Heatley said. As more people collect box turtles as pets or to sell to others as pets, the turtle’s population density would be expected to decline. If levels get too low, box turtles will not be able to sustain their numbers.

“Since box turtles take a long time to reach sexual maturity, live in a limited home range and produce a small number of eggs in each clutch, this animal is hard pressed when additional pressures are encountered,” Heatley said.

“It is for these reasons that harvesting adult box turtles from the wild for pets is a concern.”

In our hurried and fast-paced world, if you make the time to look for the box turtle, may you continue to find them in their natural setting, may you marvel at this centuries-old creature who is trying to survive in an ever-changing world. Remember that it is best to leave box turtles on their home range.

••• Pet Talk is a service of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University. More information is available at http://tamunews.tamu.edu. This column is distributed by CNHI News Service.

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the fast paced world of today?

Can it “out-pace” today’s human desires for exotic pets, run-ins with automobiles and loss of habitat?

“Turtles can make good pets, but taking a turtle from the wild and placing it in your home may lead to a slow death for the animal,” cautioned Heatley. “Like any pet, turtles require daily attention, care and have specific nutritional and environmental needs.”

“Relocating the native turtle to your home can be detrimental to the animal.

Turtles establish home ranges and they will try to return to their home territory. If removed from it, they may travel long distances looking for familiar grounds. This is sometimes called ‘homing.’ In the process they may come in contact with predators, unsuitable habitat, or they may lose the race while trying to cross the highway.”

Heatley said the most common question she gets asked is, “What do I do if I see a turtle crossing the road?” She recommends pulling your vehicle safely to the side of the road and put on your hazard lights. When you can safely approach the turtle based on traffic, pick the turtle up by the back of the shell and place it off the road in the same direction that it was headed.

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In our hurried world, we can be intrigued or frustrated by the pace of a box turtle. Most of us have seen this reptile making its way across a country road or paved highway. You can stop and help it cross the road or, take it home for a pet.

Question is, “Which is the better choice?”

“Turtles are some of the oldest reptiles on the earth,” said J. Jill Heatley, clinical associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. “They are slow-moving, but these creatures have survived virtually unchanged for thousands of years.”

“The box turtle is a land animal that can also swim well,” Heatley said. “It spends its life around water, marshes or wetlands. It is an air-breathing animal, toothless and reproduces by laying eggs. Generally, you can distinguish male from female box turtles based on the color of their eyes. Males have bright orange to reddish iris color while females have brown to tan iris color.”

The box turtle is characterized by a high domed shell that hinges so the turtle can enclose itself, thus the fitting name of box turtle, Heatley said. Box turtles eat vegetation as well as insects, slugs, snails and dead flesh.

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer With the engineering attributes of a large wind turbine, several direct-drive small wind units are springing up on both farm and non-farm installations. Permanent magnet, variable resistant direct drive systems describes the Polaris turbine which is marketed by Renewable Energy SD, an Excelsior, Minn., firm.

These Polaris units sold into the Minnesota market have a 50 kW capacity but are turned back to the 39.9 kW level to meet current Minnesota net metering laws. Net metering apparently varies from state to state. Iowa, for example, has a 50 kW net metering allowance; in Wisconsin the cap is 100 kW. New Jersey has no limit.

Two Polaris turbines mounted on 160-foot towers were erected in April on the Warren and Rachel Krohn farm northwest of Nicollet, Minn. Said Dave Thorp, Renewable Energy sales technician, “because there is no gearbox, direct-drive technology considerably reduces yearly maintenance. It also extends functional life span. These units have only three grease points needing service once a year.”

Each turbine has three 25-foot blades with hollow See WIND, pg. 14A

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Single ‘small wind’ unit can power 20 homes WIND, from pg. 13A core component resins. The direct-drive system is manufactured in Ohio. The magnet generator is Italian-made and has tremendous reliability as a diesel generator in many commercial applications. They already have 50 of these direct-drive units “in the ground” in Minnesota, with another 60-plus in the planning and permit application process for 2011.

Their primary turbine into the small-wind market is a 39.9 kW unit. This size qualifies for the Minnesota net metering program, which permits “surplus” electricity to be metered back to the local utility at the average “selling price” of electricity by that particular utility. This retail rate is about twice the wholesale rate at which wind farms sell. Rates are going up about 5.4 percent annually in Minnesota, according to Thorp .

Renewable Energy SD installs their turbines on a

160-foot steel lattice tower, which positions the hub at 164 feet. “That gets you up into that more stable wind area. The typical blade will be 189 feet, just below the 200-foot FAA ceiling limit.”

Power and pricetags How much electricity do they produce? In productive wind areas, the Polaris 39.9 will deliver 160,000 to 190,000 kWs annually. Based on an average statewide consumption of approximately 7,900 kwh per home annually, a single unit powers 20 Minnesota homes.

Turnkey cost for this Polaris 39.9 kW system is $268,000, which includes the 39.9 kW turbine/generator, 160-foot tower, permits, internal connections, etc. Federal grant money covers 30 percent of the project cost. State monies are also available for smaller wind turbines of 35 kW or less, with a maximum award value of $10,000 for residential connections and $25,000 for commercial. The turbine needs to be rated under 35 kW for this fund. Thorp clients have obtained over $200,000 of these funds used on the 34 kW Enertech turbine.

Small wind systems also qualify for rapid depreciation schedules, 85 percent over the first five years of operation. “Obviously the government is paying a large portion of that investment cost to help develop small-wind energy,” Thorp said.

Nicollet-area pork producer Warren Krohn shared

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information with The Land on two Polaris systems just installed on their home farm this spring. “We’ve got Serial No. 1 and Serial No. 3 so we obviously have the very newest units of this design,” Krohn said. He, wife, Rachel, and sons Brent, 26, and Bryce, 20, plus their business partner at their sow farm, raise about 40,000 pigs per year. Wind is now a major energy provider for this farming operation.

They have six units at three locations, all within a mile of each other. The first two towers are 3-phase, the rest are single-phase.

Early adopters Looking toward the future, the Krohns realized wind energy was rapidly becoming a growing force because of Minnesota’s net metering law which allows Minnesota residents to put “small wind” electricity back online and get paid at the same rate as See WIND, pg. 15A

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Wind turbines to power energy-sucking hog barns just wasn’t there with these older styles. Lots more maintenance plus when you go from a gear-driven to a direct-drive system there’s a 25 to 30 percent savings in energy expended.

Which is the same as saying it takes considerably less wind to generate the same amount of electricity.

“Our generator spins at the same speed as the blades, which is between 50 and 67 rpm. But in gear-driven units, that gear box cranks up the generator to 1,800 rpm on an equivalent wind basis. That’s why you’ve got maintenance issues, plus you lose See WIND, pg. 17A

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fans in operation. “We use about $1,000 of electricity per month during that summer schedule but that drops considerably into fall and winter. We should be doing some net metering back to our local utility from December to May,” Krohn said.

With electrical rates of about 8 to 8.5 cents/kw, rapid depreciation options, and 30 percent “up front” grant money, when does the Krohn spreadsheet show a positive cash flow for this investment? “It sort of depends upon which grants you get, and which you don’t. It looks like everyone will get the 30 percent grant. If we get both the 30 percent and the 25 percent, in six or seven years these units should be paid for,” Krohn said.

How long will the “up front” frosting be available? Krohn can only speculate. “The more people learn about these incentives, the more traffic there will be and if the pot stays the same size, it means fewer dollars for late arrivals. That was a reason we pushed now because that grant money seems more a certainty today that it will be two years from now.”

Big and small How did the Krohns zero in on the Polaris brand? “We found that others are still gear-box driven. And based on research we did, plus conversations with other wind users, the payback

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WIND, from pg. 14A what their local utility charges. Also there is a federal government mandate that 25 percent of the state’s energy (wind, solar, etc.) be renewable by 2025. According to Krohn, their local energy provider is already 20 percent wind generated, strongly driven by “Uncle Sam” paying 30 percent of the development costs.

“So our thinking is that it’s a good deal if you get into wind energy now,” Krohn said, “because if you wait, those state and federal dollars might not be there.” There’s another 25 percent REAP federal grant package available, and sweetening the pot is that 85 percent depreciation opportunity. “You can take all of that the first year if you want, just like you can with a new combine or tractor.”

The arithmetic is intriguing. Starting with that $268,000 initial cost, that first 30 percent grant money reduction drops the cost to $187,600.

Subtract that 25 percent federal REAP money puts the project at $140,700.

And if that 85 percent depreciation write-down is applied the first year, net investment cost of a Polaris 39.9 kW system is $21,105.

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in Minnesota. ‘Big Wind’ often has outof-state owners which certainly doesn’t help the tax issues of Minnesota,” Krohn said.

If a small wind tower generates $10,000 revenue per year, it is in fact also generating about $800 tax revenue at the 8 percent tax rate. And that’s a deposit into the state revenue coffers every year, year after year.

What tax revenue to Minnesota from the big towers? If the ownership is all out of state, you know the answer.

20-year lifespan Shawn Dooling, president of Renewable Energy SD, said the projected life of the Polaris turbine is 20 years and that after financing through one of

their affiliated lenders, a 100-percent pay back in seven to nine years can be expected, often even less. At that point the turbine could be completely remanufactured back to factory specifications to run another 20 years at a fraction of the initial project cost.

“Delivering 160,000 to 190,000 kWs annually,” Dooling said, “these efficiencies are why wind energy has been noted by energy experts as the second-most cost efficient, next to nuclear, and why we are seeing a great momentum and interest to learn more, get involved and save tons of money for years to come.”

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WIND, from pg. 15A ‘horse power’ in the process. Our units kick in at 6 mph. At 23 mph, it’s generating at that 39.9 kW capacity. At 56 mph winds, the system automatically locks up and stops.”

Could an influx of small wind generators impact the cost of electricity? That concern sparked some legislative discussion about net metering, i.e., whether it should even exist. But facts get distorted, and educating people about the “whole story” to show the many benefits of new business in rural Minnesota is important. For example, most of the “big wind” turbines sprouting across Iowa and southern and western Minnesota are 2.2 mgw or larger.

“One big 2 mgw generator is the same as 50 of these 39.9 kW units. And there’s only 60 or so of these small wind turbines in the state right now, and even if there’s going to be another 100 of these little ones, that’s like only two more of the big tower units. Today these outfits put up 75 towers in just one area so one shouldn’t worry about small wind driving up the cost of electricity.

“Plus you don’t need to rebuild the grid to handle small wind. The money these little units like we have, all stays

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‘Energy beets’ may offer ethanol alternative to corn

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Could sugar beets become a major player in the production of renewable fuels, specifically ethanol? That intriguing prospect was presented by Maynard Helgaas, partner in a West Fargo, N.D., firm called Green Vision Group.

According to Helgaas, Green Vision’s ambition is to be the catalyst in building 12 processing facilities using “energy beets” grown in the irrigated agricultural areas around Jamestown, N.D. Some specifics: • Each plant to be designed with a 20 million gallon ethanol production capacity.

• This would require 30,000 acres of sugar beets per plant.

• Anticipated production is 26.4 gallons of ethanol per ton of sugar beets.

• On a comparative basis, sugar beets can produce about twice as much ethanol per acre as corn.

• The ash byproduct would provide fuel to power the plant or be marketed as a field fertilizer.

• Each plant has a projected cost of $53 million and would employee 23 workers.

A unique construction strategy is that the components of each plant would be pre-manufactured, then shipped to the designated locations of these 12 proposed processing facilities, and assembled into the finished product.

“Based on this concept we think each plant could be operational about six weeks after delivery of component parts,” Helgaas said. A major partner, especially in the design of the processing equipment, is Heartland Renewable Energy, a Muscatine, Iowa, firm with considerable engineering and technical expertise.

“I worked at a corn ethanol plant for 28 years. I realized early in the game that corn was not the perfect way to make ethanol,” said Rick Whittaker, president of Heartland Renewable

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Energy. “We learned that the best bang for your buck was with beets.”

Helgaas said his firm began a serious study of the project in 2007. Both Heartland Energy and North Dakota State University experts in chemistry, agronomy and engineering continue to explore all aspects of this potentially huge new endeavor. The firm also has major support of Syngenta and Betaseed, both major players in the European seed industry and each with a history of genetic research on sugar beets.

According to Helgaas, this “energy beet” is similar to the current sugar beet but slightly larger and it could carry a few more “impurities.” Purity of beets grown for the sugar market is critical because of

the delicate slicing that starts the sugarmaking process and the resulting foodgrade product. Potentially there might be several cultivars of the energy beet with greater yield and higher sugar content.

“Our NDSU biofuels technology consultants have had field trials growing the beets, plus they’ve run sugar content and essay tests on the pulp material and the extracted juices. We’ll know a lot about this crop before we start signing up growers,” Helgaas said. Sugar beets for renewable fuels is already commonplace in much of the beet growing areas of Germany and France so the Green Vision Group is not dealing in new chemistry or new technologies.

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Helgaas: ‘Wanna-be’ beet farmers may drive project necessarily figure as a major impediment to growing the crop. “Based on comparative yields and today’s commodity prices,” he said, “the model suggests energy beets for ethanol could produce about twice the net income per acre of any other crop.”

Perhaps a bit of a driving force in favor of this new industrial crop is that North Dakota has lots of “wanna-be” sugar beet growers. But the Red River Valley sugar beet industry is strictly limited to an acreage allocation program with each grower growing only the beet acres he has under contract. Because growing beets for ethanol would have no such acreage allocation, Helgaas and his group think a considerable number of North Dakota farmers might strongly consider becoming energy beet farmers.

Using beets instead of corn also sidesteps the controversy associated with using a food product for fuel. The company hopes to produce 240 million gallons of ethanol. North Dakota has a current capacity to produce about 350

million gallons of corn ethanol. This “new crop” may not even be in conflict with existing corn producers. Tom Lilja, executive director of the North Dakota Corn Growers Association, said the state’s corn growers “hope anybody that can make a profit in agriculture finds a way to do so. We certainly hope they can make it work.”

Admittedly both time and money are slowing the project right now.

Experience with the proposed twomillion-gallon demo plant may be needed to “get all the ducks lined up.”

“But we know interest is building,” Helgaas said. “And if our Congress gets real serious about reducing our dependency on imported oils, we think energy beets could rapidly become a major player in our renewable fuels industry.”

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would be vital to keep the processing plant operational year-round. “We anticipate about a one-month shut down for maintenance and cleanup work for each plant.

Besides the energy beet, we’re also looking at sugar cane as a potential feedstock plus, of course, the extracted molasses.”

According to preliminary feasibility work, the processing of sugar beets for ethanol requires only about 1 1/2 gallons of water per 1 gallon of ethanol.

Corn processing takes upwards of six to seven gallons of water per gallon of ethanol. NDSU agronomists are suggesting a four-year rotation for potential growers with corn, soybeans and wheat in the mix.

Other potential pluses for adding sugar beets into the crop mix: • Because of its deep root (up to 8 feet), beets act as a mop in utilizing deep soil nutrients.

• Beets are more tolerant to alkaline soils.

• Roundup Ready beet seed reduces chemical costs and helps maintain a cleaner environment.

• Beet harvest conveniently fits in after harvest of soybeans and before corn harvest.

• About a 10-day harvest schedule is projected to handle the 30,000 acres grown for each plant.

According to Helgaas, about 50 percent of the designated growing area for these 12 plants is irrigated land so drought doesn’t

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BEETS, from pg. 18A “It would seem we could just adopt their techniques in our own work, but USDA and other licensing agencies don’t take kindly to that logic. They insist the agronomic and mechanical processing of the beets has to first be certified here in the United States,” Helgaas said.

Therein lies the rub. The Green Vision Group intends to first build a small-scale demonstration plant to verify the various mechanics and chemistries of their project. This two-million-gallon “demo plant” will cost about $7 million. “Venture capital today is hard to find. And USDA grants are even more difficult.

The questionable world economy definitely has become a bit of challenge,” Helgaas said. Even Fagan Construction, the Granite Falls, Minn., firm that rapidly became the construction leader of ethanol plants across America is hesitant to get on-board with front-end money on this project.

Helgaas has hopes the state of North Dakota, suddenly “rich” because of its ballooning oil industry, might step up to the plate with some start-up economic development dollars. He ventures, too, that both Syngenta and Betaseed might become sustaining members.

He also indicated that a German research firm is close to developing the chemistry that would permit long-term storage of both the unprocessed sugar beets and the molasses extracted via a screw-press design. Long-term storage of the harvested beets and the sugar juice

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Carbon footprint calculator designed for pork producers The Pork Checkoff recently announced the release of a new software tool for pork producers: the Live Swine Carbon Footprint Calculator. Developed with the technical expertise of the University of Arkansas’ Applied Sustainability Center, the userfriendly application allows producers to input their on-farm data from the sow or grow-finish side of production to compute the carbon footprint of an entire barn of pigs from breeding to market.

Roy Henry, a pork producer from Longford, Kan., and member of the National Pork Board, said, “America’s pork producers are among the most environmentally and socially responsible food producers in the world. The unveiling of the new carbon footprint calculator demonstrates this fact once again.”

Henry explained that the calculator will create a benchmark of a barn’s carbon footprint that producers can then use to help make production decisions to improve efficiencies and achieve a lower overall footprint. “This tool truly offers us an innovation that can help guide our management practices,” Henry said.

National Pork Board President, Everett Forkner, a producer from Richards, Mo., sees the new tool as a breakthrough. “It’s a great day for everyone on and off the farm when we can bring a new tool such as this to U.S. producers,” Forkner said. “It reflects producers’ ongoing dedication to invest in new tools that help improve upon their long history of protecting the environment.”

Randy Spronk, a producer from Edgerton, Minn., who serves on the Checkoff’s environmental committee, was one of the first to test the carbon footprint calculator. He was impressed by its ease of use and straightforward output. “With your production data available to enter into the calculator, it only takes a few minutes to determine your barn’s carbon footprint and to visually see what the biggest contributors to it are,” Spronk said. “From there, you can begin

thinking how you might make changes to increase onfarm efficiencies and reduce your baseline footprint.”

Spronk said the tool clearly shows how inputs, such as feed, energy use, manure and pig performance, are all related to the carbon footprint of a barn.

“It’s an eye-opener to see how this all interrelates,” Spronk said. “It drives home how we, as producers

from operations of all sizes, can continue to take additional steps to be environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.”

Pork producers can order a free copy of the Live Swine Carbon Footprint Calculator at www.pork.org/sustainability or by calling (800) 4567675.

National Pork Board elects new officers Everett Forkner, a pork producer from Richards, Mo., has been elected president of the 15-member National Pork Board. Forkner, the board’s vice president, is the owner and president of Forkner Farms Inc., which has 550 purebred sows and markets 7,500 hogs per year. With members of his family, he also raises corn, soybeans and wheat on 2,000 acres in west central Missouri.

National Pork Board members also elected Conley Nelson, a pork producer from Algona, Iowa, vice president and Karen Richter, a pork producer from Montgomery, Minn., treasurer. All three will serve one-year terms beginning immediately.

Forkner has traveled the world to sell his purebred pigs in Europe, China and Southeast Asia. An animal science graduate of the University of Missouri, he has maintained his passion for improving swine genetics.

He also has a long history of service to the pork industry at the local, state and national level. He is a past president of the Vernon County Pork Producers and served on that group’s board of directors from 1970 to 1995. He also has served on the Missouri Pork Producers Association Board of Directors. Additionally, he also is a member of Vernon County Farm Bureau and Vernon County Cattlemen’s Association. Nationally, he is serving his second three-year term on the National Pork Board. He has served as chairman of the producer-led Animal Science Committee. He also has served on the Niche Committee and as a member

of the Nutritional Efficiency Consortium. At the board level, he serves on the Administrative Committee.

Nelson is the general manager of the MurphyBrown LLC Midwest operations with 89,000 sows and markets 3.7 million hogs a year. He also owns a 4,400 head wean-to-finish operation. Nelson is a graduate of the Pork Checkoff ’s Leadership Academy and is serving his second three-year term on the board. At the state level, he serves on the Iowa Pork Producers board of directors, its audit committee, the membership and leadership committee and the swine health and animal well-being committees. He is a member of the Kossuth County Pork Producers and the Humboldt County Farm Bureau.

Richter of Montgomery, Minn., owns and operates a farrow-to-finish operation with 185 sows and markets 3,300 hogs per year, while raising corn, soybeans and wheat on 650 acres. Nationally, she serves on the Pork Checkoff Trade Committee and is an Operation Main Street presenter. She has also served on the Checkoff Nominating Committee, the Plan of Work Task Force and as a Pork Act Delegate. Richter served on the Minnesota Pork Board executive board and numerous committees. Locally, she is active in the Le Sueur County Pork Producers. She has held several offices including state director, treasurer and vice president and has chaired several committees including ambassador, scholarship and membership.

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Cover story: In aerial applicating, time is money

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer June 7 was too windy — and too hot, at a blazing 104 F — for aerial crop work, so 27-year veteran aerial applicator Rich Sigurdson of Olivia, Minn., took a few minutes for an interview with The Land.

“This spring brought in a little more work than normal,” he said, “and we’re already working different crops. This is the latest for putting crops in the ground since I’ve been in the business.”

Rich Sigurdson So far this spring, most of his flying has been herbicide work on sugar beets, corn and soybeans. He’s also doing insecticide work on cutworms in sugar beet fields.

Sugar beets are a huge crop in his area, so with fields too wet for ground applications it’s airplanes to the rescue. Piloting his Air Tractor (that’s the actual name) at 140 mph and with a 64-foot swath, he’s covering 125 acres — even up to 200 acres — per hour depending upon the product being applied and the crop below his wings.

Like all aerial applicators, Sigurdson is a quick read of trends in crop spraying, like the growing use of fungicides as a “protectant” product. “We’re seeing a big interest in fungicides on corn over the last couple of years,” he said. “We’ve been pretty steady on soybean aphids the past half-dozen or so years.”

His Air Tractor 502B is turbine powered and has a

Rich Sigurdson’s AirTractor 502B sits parked in his “drive-through” hangar, grounded from spraying this day due to high winds and high temperatures.

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500-gallon product tank. At a two-gallon application rate, that math works out to 250 acres per fill. That’s important in aerial application work when time is critical, especially considering the winds of Minnesota. Generally, lower gallon rates apply to most herbicides; higher rates (up to 5 gallon per acre) with some of the fungicides.

Expensive business He’s one of almost 150 licensed aerial applicators in Minnesota. Sigurdson started as a 19-year-old.

Two local college students are working with him this season. Their task is mixing the various products, precisely loading the right amount of each product for each fill, keeping the loading pad clean and restocking new chemicals as needed.

One of his employees will be enrolling in the twoyear aerial applicators program at Crookston Community College this fall. Sigurdson said, “Our average age is getting up there, probably close to 50 now.

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His take on 2011 crop season?

“Tremendously sporadic so far but that too should level out,” Sigurdson said.

“When things get in late some farmers get reluctant to do the crop work because they reason there’ll be a lesser crop so they think ‘spend less money.’ I read that just the opposite. If you think you’ll have a shorter crop then do whatever is needed to maximize that crop.”

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remember those earlier days with smaller planes when we’d use the nearest road for reloading; only 65 to 80 gallon tanks, too.”

Another advantage of the turbine is less frequent downtime and no set schedule for “majors.”

“About every 1,200 hours we break the engine down and look at the components,” he said. “That’s called a ‘hot section’ inspection and you replace only what is needed.”

Time is money Sigurdson’s operation has a new 60foot by 80-foot “taxi-through” hangar, featuring 65-foot-wide bi-fold doors on both ends.

“It’s a matter of time,” he said. “When coming in for a refill, I taxi directly into the hangar through the west door.

My guys do the refill in three minutes or less. I taxi out the east door and am airborne again in about five minutes.

That was the reason for bi-folds on both ends. In essence I’ve got a drivethrough load facility.”

Acknowledging the hazards of his profession, Sigurdson admits to crashlanding twice due to engine failure.

Fortunately he received no bodily damage from either incident.

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PLANE, from pg. 22A Used to be quite a few younger guys getting into this work but the tremendous costs have slowed that drastically.”

Spray planes are expensive. A new Air Tractor costs about $800,000. “But smaller and less costly airplanes are also available,” he said. “It’s where I was several years back and that’s OK for getting a start. Insurance is the bug-a-boo. Very expensive, like several thousand dollars per year for my rig. And often a first-year pilot can’t even get insurance.

“Today technology is big time, especially with GPS providing precise swath patterns plus guiding us from field to field and back to the hangar; also adjustable flow rates depending on the product. Plus planes are simply stronger and better than they used to be.”

Power and reliability Sigurdson is big on turbine power.

“When turbines came into the market for us aerial applicators, it was a huge step forward. The reliability factor is so much more than with a piston-powered plane. I’ve flown Air Tractors now for about 20 years. I think they make the best spray plane in the market.

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CIH 535 Quad, '10, 690 hrs ..........................................$297,500 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 570 hrs ..........................................$297,500 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 1100 hrs ........................................$282,500 CIH 530 Quad, '07, 1500 hrs ........................................$230,000 CIH 530 Quad, '07, 1750 hrs ........................................$225,000 CIH 530 Stegier, '07, 1485 hrs ......................................$211,900 CIH STX530, '06, 990 hrs..............................................$240,000 CIH STX530, '06, 2150 hrs............................................$225,000 CIH STX430, '06, 960 hrs..............................................$169,500 CIH 385 Quad, '09 ........................................................$232,500 CIH 9390, '00, 5165 hrs ..................................................$89,500 CIH 9370Q, '98, 7835 hrs................................................$90,000 CIH 9250, '92, 6585 hrs ..................................................$48,500 CIH 9150, '87, 5535 hrs ..................................................$48,500 Case 550H, '00, 1425 hrs ................................................$35,500 Cat CH85C, '95, 5940 hrs ................................................$67,000 Cat MT765B, '07, 1885 hrs............................................$179,950 JD 9630, '09, 930 hrs....................................................$229,000 JD 9620T, '04, 3575 hrs ................................................$179,500 JD 9520T, '04, 1520 hrs ................................................$168,000 JD 9400, '98, 3245 hrs..................................................$109,900 JD 8850 ..........................................................................$27,500 NH 9482, '95, 4505 hrs ..................................................$69,000 NH 9282, '97, 3360 hrs ..................................................$69,500 NH T9060, '08, 1395 hrs ..............................................$212,000 Steiger ST280, '82, 7425 hrs ..........................................$21,500 Versatile 835, '78 ............................................................$21,500

TRACTORS 2WD CIH 7120, '88, 10400 hrs ................................................$35,500 CIH 7110, '88, 13345 hrs ................................................$24,500 CIH 5230, '95, 5890 hrs ..................................................$18,500 CIH 2594, '85, 10000 hrs ................................................$15,500 Case 2290, '81, 6515 hrs ................................................$12,500 Case 1370, '78, 5270 hrs ..................................................$9,500 Case 530B, 1070 hrs ........................................................$9,500 Case 930, '66, 2185 hrs ....................................................$4,500 Case VAC ..........................................................................$2,500 Farmall 300........................................................................$2,450 Farmall H, '41 ....................................................................$1,500 Farmall Super M, '53 ........................................................$2,250 IH 1086, '79, 9770 hrs ....................................................$12,500 IH 1086, '76, 8585 hrs ......................................................$9,500 IH 1066, '73, 7925 hrs ......................................................$9,000 IH 986, '77, 8735 hrs ......................................................$11,000 IH 966................................................................................$6,500 IH 856, '69 ........................................................................$5,000 IH 686, '80, 9000 hrs ........................................................$7,500 IH 656, '69 ........................................................................$7,250 IH 460................................................................................$2,500 IH 400................................................................................$2,500 Ford 8830, '90, 7530 hrs ................................................$27,900 JD 7610, '97, 10890 hrs..................................................$38,900 JD 4840, '81, 7815 hrs....................................................$25,000 JD 4840, '79, 8000 hrs....................................................$21,500 White 2/85, '77, 9035 hrs..................................................$7,500

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

TRACTORS AWD/MFD CIH CX70, '00, 4100 hrs..................................................$18,900 CIH 305 Mag, '08, 1235 hrs ..........................................$169,900 CIH MX305, '06, 2370 hrs ............................................$134,900 CIH MX305, '06, 4325 hrs ............................................$125,500 CIH 245 Mag, '07, 3300 hrs ............................................$99,500 CIH MX200, '02, 5190 hrs ..............................................$75,000 CIH MX170, '98, 3855 hrs ..............................................$65,500 CIH 180 Puma, '08, 1290 hrs ........................................$102,000 CIH MXM140, '03, 1600 hrs............................................$71,200 CIH 115 Value, '07, 1100 hrs ..........................................$34,500 CIH 8950, 8700 hrs ........................................................$62,500 CIH 7140, '89, 6745 hrs ..................................................$53,500 CIH 5240, '92, 9390 hrs ..................................................$25,900 Case 4694, '84, 5970 hrs ................................................$18,900 CIH 2294, '86, 7350 hrs ..................................................$21,500 CIH 140 Pro, '08, 1900 hrs..............................................$75,000 Belarus 925, 2165 hrs ....................................................$10,500

Challenger CH45, '96, 2355 hrs ......................................$59,500 TRACTORS AWD/MFD Continued

Ford 8970, '94, 8140 hrs ................................................$62,500 JD 7810, '00, 2745 hrs....................................................$81,500 JD 7330, '08, 2110 hrs....................................................$67,500 JD 4755, '90, 3935 hrs....................................................$58,500 JD 2955, '89, 2330 hrs....................................................$28,950 Kubota M6800, '03, 755 hrs............................................$24,500 McCormick TTX230, '09, 580 hrs....................................$90,000 McCormick XTX165, '09, 85 hrs......................................$89,500

COMPACT TRACTORS

SPRING TILLAGE Continued

FORAGE Continued

CIH 4900, 32' Fld Cult ......................................................$7,500 CIH 4800, 31' Fld Cult ......................................................$7,950 CIH 4800, 28.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$7,750 CIH 4600, 46.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$37,500 CIH TMII, 44.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$32,000 DMI TMII, 46' Fld Cult ....................................................$35,500 Flexcoil 820, 40' Fld Cult ................................................$11,500 Glencoe 4300, 38.5' Fld Cult..............................................$7,900 JD 2210, 50.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$66,500 JD 2210, 44.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$42,500 JD 1000, 22.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$1,650 JD 985, 50' Fld Cult ........................................................$24,900 JD 985, 48.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$17,500 JD 980, 30.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$22,000 Melroe 40' Fld Cult ............................................................$2,900 Wilrich 2500, 27.4' Fld Cult ..............................................$2,995 CIH 3900, 33' Disk ..........................................................$17,900 CIH 3900, 32' Disk ..........................................................$17,500 CIH 496 Disk....................................................................$13,500 CIH 330, 34' Disk ............................................................$58,900 CIH 330, 34' Disk ............................................................$57,500 IH 770, 16' Disk ................................................................$4,950 IH 480, 19' Disk ................................................................$2,500 Big G 3026, 28' Disk..........................................................$7,500 Ezee-On 3800, 38.5' Disk ................................................$29,500

JD 3950, '94 Forg Harv ....................................................$5,500 JD 3950, '91 Forg Harv ....................................................$5,500 NH FP240, '04 Forg Harv ................................................$23,000 (3) Claas PU380HD Hayhead ........................ $14,000 - $14,500 (2) Claas PU380 Pro Hayhead ......................$20,000 & $23,000 (7) Claas PU380 Hayhead ............................ $12,000 - $14,500 (2) Claas PU300 Hayhead ................................$9,500 & $11,500 (2) Gehl HA1210 7' Hayhead..................................choice $1,250 Gehl HA1110, '95 Hayhead................................................$1,250 Gehl 7' Hayhead ................................................................$1,250 JD 630A Hayhead ..............................................................$8,500 JD 630 Hayhead ................................................................$8,500 (2) JD 7HP, 7' Hayhead ........................................$600 & $1,600 JD 5HP, 5.5' Hayhead ..........................................................$850 NH 3500 Hayhead..............................................................$6,500 NH 355W Hayhead ............................................................$8,500 NH 340W Hayhead ............................................................$5,000 NH 29P Hayhead................................................................$3,500 (2) Claas Orbis 750 Cornhead........................$75,000 & $76,000 (5) Claas RU600, 8R30 Cornhead ..................$24,500 - $59,000 Claas RU450XTRA Cornhead ..........................................$42,000 (9) Claas RU450 Cornhead..............................$29,000 - $40,000 Gehl TR3038N Cornhead ..................................................$1,400 (3) Gehl TR330 Cornhead ..................................$4,200 - $5,900 JD 688 Cornhead ............................................................$51,500 JD 676 6R Cornhead ......................................................$52,000 JD 4R30 Cornhead ............................................................$5,500 Kemper M4500CL-8 Cornhead ........................................$17,000 (2) Kemper 4500 Cornhead ..........................$26,000 & $29,500 (2) Kemper 3000 Cornhead ..........................$18,000 & $20,000 Kemper 360 Cornhead ....................................................$34,000 NH 360N6 Cornhead........................................................$15,000 NH 360U6 Cornhead........................................................$16,500 NH 3PN Cornhead..............................................................$8,500 (2) NH R1600 Cornhead ................................$39,500 & $42,500

SPRAYERS - SELF-PROPELLED Rudy Lusk - (507) 227-4119 Miller 4275, '08, 615 hrs ..............................................$209,000

SPRAYERS - PULL-TYPE Blumhardt Trailmaster ......................................................$4,900 (2) Demco Conquest......................................$18,900 & $22,500 Fast 1000 Gal ....................................................................$7,950 Hardi 500, 60'....................................................................$8,500 Hardi Commander............................................................$47,500 Hardi HAC900 ....................................................................$8,950 Hardi HC800 ......................................................................$7,250 Millerpro 1000, 60' ..........................................................$8,500 Redball 690......................................................................$39,500 Redball 690, 2000 Gal ....................................................$32,900 Redball 690, 2000 Gal ....................................................$26,500 Redball 670, 1200 Gal ....................................................$22,900 Redball 565......................................................................$15,500 Top Air NAV1100 ............................................................$22,500 Top Air 1100R60XF..........................................................$14,500 CIH 40 Farmall CVT ........................................................$36,250 Agco ST 40, '02, 425 hrs ................................................$18,500 JD 3520, '10, 65 hrs........................................................$34,750 Kubota B7800, '03, 895 hrs ............................................$13,500 Kubota B3030, '06, 1045 hrs ..........................................$14,900 Kubota B1750, '96, 225 hrs ..............................................$6,000 Kubota BX2230, '05 ..........................................................$7,995 Kubota BX2230, '04, 685 hrs ............................................$7,950

SELF PROP. FORAGE HARVESTERS Chase Groskreutz, East - (320) 248-3733 Randy Olmscheid, West - (320) 583-6014

PLANTING & SEEDING JD 1260, 36R22 ............................................................$185,000 CIH 1240, 16R30 ............................................................$72,900 CIH 1240, 12R30 ............................................................$89,900 CIH 1200, 36R22 ............................................................$95,500 CIH 1200, 36R20 ............................................................$97,500 CIH 1200, 32R22 ............................................................$72,500 (2) CIH 1200, 24R22 ............................................choice $42,500 CIH 1200, 24R20 ............................................................$73,500 (3) CIH 1200, 12R30 ......................................$26,000 - $48,500 CIH 955, 6R30 ................................................................$11,500 CIH 900, 6R30 ..................................................................$5,900 IH 800, 12R30 ..................................................................$1,950 Friesen 2400RT................................................................$15,500 JD 7000, 12N ..................................................................$10,950 (2) JD 7000, 8R30 ............................................$4,250 & $4,900 JD 1770, 16R30 ..............................................................$46,300 JD 1770NT ......................................................................$71,500 Kinze 3700, 36R20 ..........................................................$62,500 Kinze 3140, 12R30 ..........................................................$39,500 White 8524, 24R30........................................................$117,500 White 8100 ......................................................................$23,000 White 6100, 24R22..........................................................$24,500 CIH 5500, 30' Drill ..........................................................$22,000 CIH 5500MT ....................................................................$18,000 CIH 5400MT, 20' Drill ........................................................$7,500 (2) IH 510 Drill ..................................................$1,500 & $2,600 (2) Great Plains 20' Drill ....................................$4,950 & $5,500 JD 750NT, 15' Drill ..........................................................$15,000 JD 520, 20' Drill ................................................................$4,500 JD 455, 30' Drill ..............................................................$18,500 Sunflower 9412, 20' Drill ................................................$17,900 CIH SDX40, 40' Seeder..................................................$129,500

HAY EQUIPMENT

Claas 980, '08, 1495 hrs................................................$255,000 Claas 970, '08, 1245 hrs................................................$288,000 Claas 900, '02................................................................$115,000 Claas 890, '05, 2230 hrs................................................$159,900 Claas 890, '02, 1560 hrs................................................$189,500 Claas 890, '02, 2555 hrs................................................$147,000 Claas 880, '95, 3820 hrs..................................................$68,000 Claas 870CC, '07, 760 hrs ............................................$189,000 Claas 870 GE, '06, 2580 hrs ..........................................$184,500 Claas 870, '05, 1820 hrs................................................$165,000 Claas 870, '04, 2915 hrs................................................$137,500 Claas 870, '03, 2790 hrs................................................$162,000 JD 7500, '03, 3635 hrs..................................................$109,500 JD 6810, '96, 4590 hrs....................................................$59,500 JD 6850, '98, 4865 hrs....................................................$65,000 JD 5830, 3800 hrs ..........................................................$42,500 JD 5730, '91, 3210 hrs....................................................$34,000 NH FX60, '03, 1970 hrs ................................................$115,000 NH FX58, '02, 1410 hrs ................................................$108,000

SPRING TILLAGE

FORAGE

CIH 60.5' Fld Cult ............................................................$69,500 CIH 4900, 53.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$8,950 CIH 4900, 43.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$5,500

Gehl CB1265 Forg Harv ....................................................$7,500 Gehl 1075, '00 Forg Harv ................................................$14,500 Gehl 1065, '96 Forg Harv ..................................................$6,950

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BALERS (3) CIH RBX562 Rnd Baler ............................$14,500 - $18,500 CIH RBX561 Rnd Baler ......................................................$9,500 CIH RB564, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..............................................$27,500 CIH 8460, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..................................................$5,950 Claas 280RC, 5x4 Rnd Baler............................................$19,900 Claas 280 Rnd Baler ........................................................$16,500 Gehl RB2580 Rnd Baler ....................................................$9,950 Gehl 2880, 5x6 Rnd Baler..................................................$9,950 JD 567, 5x6 Rnd Baler ....................................................$22,500 JD 566, 5x6 Rnd Baler ....................................................$15,500 (2) NH BR780A Rnd Baler ............................$16,500 & $19,800 NH BR780 Rnd Baler ......................................................$17,900 CIH LBX432 Rec Baler ....................................................$67,500 CIH 8575 Rec Baler ........................................................$32,750 CIH 8530 Rec Baler ........................................................$10,400 Claas 255UNI Rec Baler ..................................................$27,900 JD 327 Rec Baler ..............................................................$3,950 JD 100, 3x3 Rec Baler ....................................................$28,900 NH BB940A Rec Baler......................................................$67,500 NH 590 Rec Baler ............................................................$35,500 CIH 8830, '96, 1430 hrs ..................................................$17,900 JD 4995, '07, 525 hrs......................................................$78,000 CIH DC515, 15' Mow Cond................................................$9,500 NH 1441, 16' PT Windrower............................................$24,400 CIH DCX161 MowCond....................................................$17,800 CIH 8360, 12' MowCond ..................................................$6,900 CIH 8312, 12' MowCond ................................................$12,500 Claas 8550C MowCond....................................................$28,750 Gehl DC2412 MowCond ....................................................$8,500 Gehl 2412 MowCond ........................................................$9,950 JD 956 MowCond ............................................................$15,900 IH 1190 MowCond ............................................................$1,500 NH 1475 MowCond ..........................................................$9,000 Vermeer 1030, 13.5' MowCond ......................................$19,500 NH 456, 7' Sickle Mower ..................................................$1,950 CIH FC60, 60" Rotary Mower ................................................$550 (2) Farm King 72" Rotary Mower ........................$1,50 & $1,250 Landpride FDR2584 Rotary Mower ..................................$2,750 Woods BB48 Rotary Mower ................................................$550 H & S TWN2-P Wind Merg..............................................$22,500 Kuhn 300, 9' Wind Merg ................................................$21,500 (5) Millerpro 14-16 Wind Merg .................... $28,500 - $38,500 NH 166 Wind Merg............................................................$3,750 Tebben 4200 Wind Merg....................................................$1,900 Kuhn GA8521 Rake..........................................................$23,500

COMBINES CIH 9120, '10, 295 hrs ..................................................$314,900 CIH 9120, '10, 395 hrs ..................................................$285,500 CIH 8120, '10, 210 hrs ..................................................$279,000 CIH 8120, '09, 590 hrs ..................................................$255,500 CIH 8120, '09, 840 hrs ..................................................$265,000 CIH 8010, '08, 910 hrs ..................................................$235,000 CIH 8010, '07, 1100 hrs ................................................$220,000 CIH 8010, '07, 1650 hrs ................................................$192,500 CIH 8010, '06, 1430 hrs ................................................$184,500

COMBINES Continued

CIH 8010, '05 ........................................................

CIH 8010, '04, 1605 hrs ........................................

CIH 8010, '04, 1685 hrs ........................................

CIH 8010, '04, 2100 hrs ........................................

CIH 8010, '04, 2440 hrs ........................................

CIH 7120, '09 ........................................................

CIH 7088, '10, 240 hrs ..........................................

CIH 7088, '10, 810 hrs ..........................................

CIH 7088, '09,745 hrs ..........................................

CIH 7010, '08, 900 hrs ..........................................

CIH 7010, '08, 955 hrs ..........................................

CIH 7010, '07, 1100 hrs ........................................

CIH 7010, '07, 1150 hrs ........................................

CIH 7010, '07, 1365 hrs ........................................

CIH 6088, '10, 600 hrs ..........................................

CIH 6088, '10, 680 hrs ..........................................

CIH 6088, '10, 710 hrs ..........................................

CIH 2588, '08, 1420 hrs ........................................

CIH 2588, '08, 1480 hrs ........................................

CIH 2577, '07, 1870 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '06, 1425 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '03, 2740 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '03 ........................................................

CIH 2388, '02, 2455 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '02, 2505 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '02, 2930 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '01, 2385 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '01, 2835 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '01, 3015 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '98, 3775 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '98, 3065 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '98, 2565 hrs ........................................

CIH 2388, '98, 3750 hrs ........................................

CIH 2366, '02, 3125 hrs ........................................

CIH 2366, '01, 2705 hrs ........................................

CIH 2366, '00, 2810 hrs ........................................

CIH 2366, '99, 3845 hrs ........................................

CIH 2366, '98, 2490 hrs ........................................

CIH 2166, '97, 4145 hrs ........................................

CIH 2166, '97 ........................................................

CIH 2166, '96, 3000 hrs ........................................

CIH 2166, '96 ........................................................

CIH 1688, '94, 4160 hrs ........................................

CIH 1688, '94, 4205 hrs ........................................

CIH 1688, '93, 4325 hrs ........................................

CIH 1680, '86, 4920 hrs ........................................

CIH 1660, '92, 3615 hrs ........................................

CIH 1660, '91, 6940 hrs ........................................

CIH 1660, '90 ........................................................

CIH 1660, '88, 3675 hrs ........................................

CIH 1640, '89, 3300 hrs ........................................

CIH 1640, '86, 2640 hrs ........................................

IH 1480, '82, 4100 hrs ..........................................

IH 1480, '79 ..........................................................

IH 1480, '79, 5860 hrs ..........................................

IH 1460, '82, 4535 hrs ..........................................

Gleaner R52, '96, 2795 hrs....................................

Gleaner R50, '89, 3150 hrs....................................

JD 9870STS, '09, 830 hrs ....................................

JD 9660STS, '06, 2100 hrs ..................................

JD 9660STS, '04....................................................

JD 9650STS, '03, 2050 hrs ..................................

JD 9610, '96, 3265 hrs..........................................

JD 9600, '89, 4020 hrs..........................................

JD 8820, 7325 hrs ................................................

MF 750, '77 ..........................................................

NH CR940, '04, 1185 hrs ......................................

NH TR97, '95 ........................................................

NH TR86, '89, 3860 hrs ........................................

NH TR86, '85, 3245 hrs ........................................

NH 970, '03, 2020 hrs ..........................................

BEANHEADS & CORNHEA

CIH 2162, 40' Beanhead ........................................

(4) CIH 2062, 36' Beanhead............................$49 (5) CIH 2020, 35' Beanhead............................$25 (2) CIH 2020, 30' Beanhead ..........................$24,5 (20) CIH 1020, 30' Beanhead ..........................Sta (15) CIH 1020, 25' Beanhead ..........................Sta (4) CIH 1020, 22.5' Beanhead ............................$ (5) CIH 1020, 20' Beanhead..............................$4 CIH 1015 Beanhead ..............................................

IH 820 Beanhead ..................................................

Deutz Allis 320 Beanhead ......................................

(2) JD 930F, 30' Beanhead ............................$13,9 (2) JD 635F, 35' Beanhead ............................$26,0 Macdon 974, 35' Beanhead ..................................

(2) NH 973, 25' Beanhead ................................$5 (2) NH 74C, 30' Beanhead ............................$19,9 (3) CIH 2612 Cornhead ..................................$79 (2) CIH 2608 Cornhead..................................$55,0 CIH 2412 Cornhead ..............................................

(3) CIH 2212 Cornhead ..................................$32 (10) CIH 2208 Cornhead ................................$26 (2) CIH 1222 Cornhead ..................................$12 (11) CIH 1083 Cornhead ................................$10

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ST. MARTIN, MN • 320-548-3285 Sales: • Dan Hoffman • Joe Mehr • Erik Mueller • Randy Olmscheid • Jamie Pelzer

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Sales: • Brad Wermedal • Tim Wiersma • Tim Engebretson

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SKID LDR’s/RTV’s/EXC Continued Case 1840, '01, 3830 hrs ................................................$10,950 Case 1840, '96, 5045 hrs ................................................$10,500 Case 1840, '91 ..................................................................$9,850 Case 1840, '90 ..................................................................$8,750 Case 1840, '90, 8035 hrs ..................................................$6,900 Case 1840, 4355 hrs........................................................$10,750 Case 1835B, 3150 hrs ......................................................$7,950 Case 465, '08, 2000 hrs ..................................................$31,500 Case 435, '08 ..................................................................$23,900 Case 435, '06, 2650 hrs ..................................................$19,900 Case 430, '08, 3950 hrs ..................................................$19,800 Case 430, '06 ..................................................................$22,000 Case 420, '08, 1410 hrs ..................................................$21,900 Case 420, '08, 3615 hrs ..................................................$16,900 Case 420, '07, 1160 hrs ..................................................$16,900 Case 60XT, '03, 1775 hrs ................................................$16,900 ASV RC50, 445 hrs..........................................................$21,650 Gehl 7800, '01, 6395 hrs ................................................$18,500 Gehl 7810 Turbo, '04, 3215 hrs ......................................$34,500 Gehl 6625, '94, 3695 hrs ..................................................$8,500 Gehl 5640E, '08, 2975 hrs ..............................................$21,700 Gehl 4825SX, '98, 5640 hrs ..............................................$8,500 Gehl 4625SX, '92, 4470 hrs ............................................$10,800 Gehl 3935SX, '01, 1735 hrs ..............................................$9,950 NH LS170, '01, 1160 hrs ................................................$17,900 Erskine 1812, 6' Skid Snowblower ....................................$3,200 Felling FT12P, 16' Trailer....................................................$4,690 Case Maxi-C, '99, 745 hrs Excavator ..............................$13,500 JD Pro900, '03 Excavator ..................................................$3,900 Kubota KX1213R1, '02 Excavator....................................$25,650 Cub Cadet 4x4D Trail, '06 ..................................................$7,975 Kubota RTV900W, '06, 800 hrs ........................................$9,900 Kubota RTV900W, '05, 370 hrs ........................................$8,000 Polaris 500, '00, 2000 hrs ................................................$3,995 Steiner Hawk, '00 ..............................................................$3,250

FALL TILLAGE

Alloway 20' Shredder ......................................................$10,500 Balzer 2000, 20' Shredder ................................................$8,500 Balzer 5205M, 30' Shredder ..............................................$8,900 Balzer 520PT, 15' Shreder ................................................$8,500 JD 520, 20' Shredder ......................................................$18,500 JD 220, 20' Shredder ......................................................$11,500 JD 120, 20' Shredder ........................................................$7,500 (2) Loftness 264, 22' Shredder ..........................$8,000 $15,900 Loftness 2644SM54S Shredder ........................................$7,500 (2) Loftness 240, 20' Shredder......................$19,500 & $20,500 (2) Loftness 20' Shredder..............................$14,000 & $19,500 Wilrich 22' Shredder........................................................$12,900 Wilrich 20' Shredder........................................................$14,900 Wilrich 20' Shredder........................................................$10,900 Woods S20CD Shredder ..................................................$16,750 Woods 20' Shredder........................................................$12,500 Woods 15' Shredder........................................................$12,500 Dump Chief 504CF, 12' Forage Box ..................................$7,500 Field Queen 1408N Forage Box..........................................$3,000 (7) CIH 600 Forage Blower..................................$2,850 - $5,500 Gehl 1580 Forage Blower ..................................................$1,250 Ag Bag G6009 Forage Bagger..........................................$19,750 JD 350 Manure Spreader ..................................................$1,250 (2) Feterl 8x60 Auger ........................................$2,900 & $3,000 Feterl 8x56 Auger ..............................................................$1,350 Grain King 8x65 Auger ......................................................$4,580 GSI 10x31E Auger ............................................................$3,800 Snowco 8x65 Auger ..........................................................$2,850 Unverferth 16' Auger ........................................................$1,200 Westfield 8x26 Auger ........................................................$2,150 Degelman 14' Blade ........................................................$10,500 Farm Star 72" Blade ..............................................................$345 CIH LX760 Loader ..........................................................$10,500 IH 2000 Loader..................................................................$1,750 GB 800 Loader ..................................................................$1,500 Kubota LA514 Loader ........................................................$3,200 Bradford 240/316 Grav Box ..............................................$2,650 Farm King 200 bu Grav Box ..............................................$2,500 Huskee 225, 250 bu Grav Box ..........................................$2,300 JD 500, 500 bu Grav Box ..................................................$6,250 Killbros 500 Grav Box........................................................$4,500 Killbros 385, 400 bu Grav Box ..........................................$3,750 Parker 4800, 480 bu Grav Box ..........................................$5,900 Brent 1282, 1200 bu Grain Cart ......................................$48,500 (2) Brent 1194 Grain Cart ....................................choice $41,500 Brent 672, 650 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$14,500 Brent 572, 550 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$13,500 Brent 570, 550 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$12,500 J & M 1326-22 Grain Cart ..............................................$50,900 Killbros 1810, 975 bu Grain Cart ....................................$28,900 Kinze 840 Grain Cart........................................................$15,500 Summers 60" Rockpicker ..................................................$3,500 Tractor Snowblowers ........................................$1,450 & $1,695

(3) CIH MRX690 Suboiler ..............................$18,900 - $28,500 (6) CIH 9300, 22.5' Subsoiler ........................$27,500 - $38,500 CIH 9300, 22' Subsoiler ..................................................$48,500 CIH 9300, 9 Shank Subsoiler ..........................................$26,500 (3) CIH 870, 22' Subsoiler ..............................$61,875 - $72,500 CIH 870, 18' Subsoiler ....................................................$46,800 CIH 870, 14' Subsoiler ....................................................$35,000 CIH 730B Subsoiler ........................................................$23,500 (3) CIH 730C, 17.5' Subsoiler ........................$42,500 - $43,500 CIH 730C, 7 Shank Subsoiler ..........................................$32,500 CIH 530B, 12.5' Subsoiler ..............................................$26,500 CIH 530C, 12.5' Subsoiler ..............................................$32,000 DMI 9300, 22' Subsoiler..................................................$29,500 DMI 2500 Subsoiler ..........................................................$8,500 (3) DMI 730B Subsoiler ..................................$17,500 - $23,500 (2) DMI 730B, 17.5' Subsoiler ......................$16,500 & $19,000 (3) DMI 730B, 7 Shank Suboiler....................$18,500 & $25,500 DMI 730, 17.5' Subsoiler ................................................$11,000 DMI 530B, 12.5' Subsoiler ..............................................$16,900 (2) DMI 530 Subsoiler ..................................$13,500 & $16,500 DMI TMII, 5 Shank Subsoiler ............................................$7,950 DMI Tiger II Subsoiler........................................................$5,900 DMI Turbo T Subsoiler ......................................................$9,500 Bourgault 2200, 30' Subsoiler ........................................$92,400 Brillion LC Subsoiler ..........................................................$8,500 Glencoe SS7400 Subsoiler ................................................$9,500 (6) JD 2700 Subsoiler ....................................$20,000 - $37,500 JD 915 Subsoiler ..............................................................$8,500 JD 512, 9 Shank Subsoiler ..............................................$32,500 JD 512, 12.5' Subsoiler ..................................................$15,900 JD 510, 7 Shank Subsoiler ..............................................$11,500 JD 510, 5 Shank Subsoiler ..............................................$10,950 JD 510 Subsoiler ............................................................$12,500 Krause 4850, 18' Subsoiler ............................................$43,500 Landoll 2320, 5 Shank Subsoiler ....................................$15,950 M & W 2900 Subsoiler ....................................................$19,900 M & W 2500 Subsoiler ....................................................$32,500 M & W 2200 Subsoiler ....................................................$19,500 M & W 1875 Subsoiler ....................................................$15,500 NH ST770, 7 Shank Subsoiler ........................................$24,900 (2) Sunflower 4412, 7 Shank Subsoiler ..............choice $32,000 Sunflower 4411, 7 Shank Subsoiler ................................$18,500 Wilrich V957DVR Subsoiler ............................................$36,900 Wilrich V957DDR Subsoiler ............................................$23,500 DMI CCII, 12' Chisel Plow ................................................$4,500 JD 610, 23' Chisel Plow ..................................................$10,000 Kent 21098, 9 Shank Chisel Plow......................................$3,950 White 445 Chisel Plow ......................................................$7,950 White 445, 13 Shank Chisel Plow......................................$7,950 JD 3710, 10 Bottom MB Plow ........................................$21,500 DMI 50' Crumbler ............................................................$10,500 Summers 54' Crumbler ..................................................$24,000

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...........$66,000 ,000 - $49,500 ,000 - $37,500 500 & $28,500 rting at $3,550 rting at $7,900 6,000 - $7,900 ,900 - $17,900 .............$3,000 .............$1,500 .............$4,300 900 & $16,900 000 & $39,500 ...........$48,500 5,000 & $5,500 900 & $29,900 ,000 - $83,500 000 & $59,500 ...........$49,500 ,500 - $41,900 ,500 - $32,500 ,500 - $15,000 ,500 - $21,000

BEAN/CORNHEADS Continued (3) CIH 1063, 6R30 Cornhead ..........................$8,500 - $10,900 CIH 1000, 12R22 Cornhead ............................................$16,900 (2) CIH 12R22 Cornhead ..............................$15,000 & $16,900 CIH 10R22 Cornhead ......................................................$15,500 CIH 9R22 Cornhead ........................................................$15,000 IH 12R22 Cornhead ........................................................$15,500 IH 983, 9R22 Cornhead ..................................................$11,500 (3) IH 963 Cornhead ..........................................$4,950 - $5,900 IH 944 Cornhead................................................................$2,500 IH 883 Cornhead................................................................$7,500 Cat 1622 Cornhead ..........................................................$39,500 Clarke 922, 9R22 Cornhead ............................................$25,500 Cressoni 6R30 Cornhead ................................................$21,500 (6) Drago 12R22 Cornhead ............................$52,500 - $84,500 (3) Drago 12R20 Cornhead ............................$43,900 - $84,500 Drago 10R22 Cornhead ..................................................$65,500 (10) Drago 8R30 Cornhead ............................$38,500 - $53,500 Drago 8R22 Cornhead ....................................................$33,000 (5) Drago 6R30 Cornhead ..............................$42,500 - $54,500 (4) Geringhoff Roto Disc ..................................22,900 - $43,500 Geringhoff PC63 Cornhead ................................................$8,000 Gleaner Hugger Cornhead..................................................$9,950 Gleaner 830 Cornhead ....................................................$12,000 Gleaner 630 Cornhead ......................................................$5,500 Harvestec 4113C Cornhead ............................................$59,500 (4) Harvestec 8R30 Cornhead ........................$29,500 - $39,500 JD 1293, 16R22 Cornhead ..............................................$24,500 JD 1293, 12R30 Cornhead ..............................................$51,500 JD 1290, 12R20 Cornhead ..............................................$12,500 (3) JD 893, 8R30 Cornhead ............................$17,500 - $22,500 JD 843 10R22 Cornhead ................................................$14,500 JD 643 6R30 Cornhead ....................................................$7,500 Lexion C512-30 Cornhead ..............................................$38,000 (4) NH 974 Cornhead ..........................................$4,500 - $5,500 (2) IH 810, 13' Pickup ..........................................$400 & $3,500 Gleaner 10' Pickup ............................................................$1,200 JD 100, 13' Pickup ..............................................................$350

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.........$149,500 .........$169,500 .........$157,500 .........$155,000 .........$159,000 .........$259,900 .........$245,000 .........$231,000 .........$225,500 .........$239,900 .........$207,900 .........$197,500 .........$195,500 .........$209,000 .........$225,000 .........$217,500 .........$217,500 .........$194,500 .........$194,500 .........$169,500 .........$164,900 .........$135,000 .........$113,500 .........$124,000 .........$119,000 .........$115,000 .........$108,500 .........$103,500 ...........$94,500 ...........$89,000 ...........$87,900 ...........$89,500 ...........$89,500 ...........$93,500 ...........$98,500 ...........$92,500 ...........$79,500 ...........$85,500 ...........$65,500 ...........$69,500 ...........$69,500 ...........$67,900 ...........$39,500 ...........$52,500 ...........$39,500 ...........$26,500 ...........$39,500 ...........$33,900 ...........$32,500 ...........$30,000 ...........$26,500 ...........$25,000 .............$7,500 .............$9,500 .............$5,500 .............$7,500 ...........$42,500 ...........$19,900 .........$275,000 .........$159,500 .........$155,000 .........$115,000 ...........$69,500 ...........$36,500 .............$8,500 .............$3,500 .........$137,500 ...........$32,000 ...........$22,500 ...........$15,000 .........$139,000

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Cash Grain Markets corn/change* Dover Edgerton Jackson Janesville Cannon Falls Sleepy Eye Average: Year Ago Average:

$6.52 $6.82 $6.83 $6.57 $6.52 $6.78

-.33 -.24 -.24 -.61 -.34 -.29

soybeans/change* $12.93 $13.06 $13.00 $12.85 $12.87 $13.04

-.55 -.43 -.39 -.60 -.51 -.48

$6.67

$12.96

$2.96

$9.00

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Grain prices are effective cash close on June 21. The price index chart compares an average of most recently reported local cash prices with the same average for a year ago. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Grain Outlook Big reversal in grain markets

Livestock Angles June positive for livestock

Grain Angles It’s all about the weather

The following market analysis is for the week ending June 17.

CORN — What a reversal this week in the grain markets. After a jump to new contract highs last week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture June crop report, an improving weather picture and sharply higher U.S. dollar pushed money out of commodities in astonishing volume. July corn topped out at an all-time high of $7.99 3/4 last week before crashing to a low this week of $6.91 1/4 per bushel (a plummet of $1.08 1/2 or 13.6 percent of value). Corn closed lower every day this week. PHYLLIS NYSTROM Country Hedging The concern that Greece may St. Paul have a financial default pushed money back into the U.S. dollar. If Greece defaults, the spillover effect of decreasing demand for commodities could spread into Europe and beyond.

While it took us awhile to get the crop in the ground, now that it’s there the weather has been cooperating for good crop development. It’s too early to say the crop is made, but the concern that we won’t have a crop is fading. Reports of ethanol plants closing or curtailing production have picked up with a corresponding pullback in corn basis at mostly eastern locations.

U.S. corn is competitive in the export market which could help balance a portion of any lost domestic demand. The weekly export report didn’t lend support to this thought this week. Export sales were just in line with expectations at 11.7 million bushels for old crop and 23.6 million for new crop. The old crop See NYSTROM, pg. 27A

June is proving to be a positive month for livestock prices. Both cattle and hog prices have improved since the start of the month on the increase in domestic demand, as the weather improved.

The cattle market has experienced a sharp rally coming on the heels of short covering in the futures market and aggressive buying by the packers.

The large discount the futures were carrying created hedges to be lifted as the basis was at an unusual discount to the current cash trade.

This blossomed into the packers paying higher prices for live inventory since their profit marJOE TEALE gin was extremely positive. These Broker events created the sharp rally in Great Plains Commodity Afton both cash and futures over the past few weeks.

On June 17, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the Monthly Cattle on Feed Report. The results are: cattle on feed as of June 1, 104 percent; placed during May, 89 percent; marketed in May, 107 percent. This report was seen as bullish by the trade as the lower placement number and the higher marketing figure were a positive. This will likely keep the market on the recent rally into the following week.

As we pass the Fourth of July holiday buying, demand will once again become a question mark with the faltering economy. Therefore, producers should continue to monitor the market and consider protecting inventories as the market heads into the $114 area.

The hog market has been creeping higher, unlike

Summer has finally arrived to the Upper Midwest.

Heat units and rain are kicking the row crops into gear. As the young crops set roots, the ear size will soon be established for corn. Without much stress on the crop, the potential for large ears becomes a real possibility.

As the pollination window has been pushed back due to later planting, the weather in the latter part of July will become more critical. It is all about weather for the next 60 days.

Commodity markets have experienced some significant retracements. Crude oil has lost $21 since its high on May 2. Corn lost TOM NEHER $1 in six trading days after AgStar VP Agribusiness & Grain Specialist nearly topping the $8 mark.

Rochester Wheat has lost over $1.50 since late May. Soybeans have languished in a sideways trading range, with most traders focusing on the corn market. The Dow Jones Industrial Index has lost more than 500 points as traders fear a double dip recession.

Have we been seeing the beginning of a bear market or is this just a correction? Have the fundamentals of supply and demand changed?

I am of the opinion that they have not changed. We are still looking at a tight stocks-to-use ratio in corn.

I do think that some of the market’s perceptions have changed. It has been said that the “reaction of markets to news is more important than the news itself.”

It appears that some of the fear that was priced into the markets has diminished. It appears that the

See TEALE, pg. 27A

See NEHER, pg. 28A

Information in the above columns is the writer’s opinion. It is no way guaranteed and should not be interpreted as buy/sell advice. Futures trading always involves a certain degree of risk.

Questions linger on acres lost due to flooding tion. No statement as to what crop it went to.

Informa is pegging the corn yield at a spiffy 163.8 bushels per acre versus the USDA’s 158.7 and last year’s 152.8 bu./acre. The condition report as of May 12 pegged 69 percent of the crop as good/excellent, only 2 percent behind the five-year average. Conditions are expected to show improvement again this week.

OUTLOOK: July corn closed 86 1/4 cents lower for the week at $7 1/4. The December contract “only” lost 52 1/2 cents to settle at $6.60/bu. It appears rationing has begun to take place with the nosedive in prices and narrowing of the old crop-new crop price inverse.

While the crop has a long way to go before it’s in the bin and old crop supplies are still tight, the bloom is off the rose. The stage is set for more widerange trading with the next support in the December contract at $6.30 1/2 and resistance close to $6.90/bu.

SOYBEANS — Soybeans maintained their follower role again this week, but questions linger over how many acres are being lost to flooding, how many acres were switched to beans, and how the high heat in the Delta is affecting that area’s yield potential.

China also raised their bank reserve rate 50 basis points after their inflation rate climbed to 5.5 percent. China has been absent from the U.S. market, which was expected with plentiful supplies available from South America.

In their latest release, Informa Economics predicted that 76.4 million acres were planted to soybeans. This corresponds to the June USDA esti-

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mate of 76.6 million planted acres.

Informa is pegging the yield at 44.1 bu./acre versus the USDA’s 43.4 bu./acre and last year’s 43.5 bu./acre yield. Soybean planting was 87 percent complete as of May 12, just 2 percent behind the five-year average.

Emergence was 64 percent compared to 76 percent on average. In the year’s first condition report, 67 percent of the bean crop was rated good/excellent, better than the 65 percent average.

Soybean conditions should show a modest improvement on the report June 20.

The monthly National Oilseed Processors Association soybean crush was neutral at 120.3 million bushels, in line with estimates but lower than the previous month. Weekly export sales of 6.6 million bushels for old crop, but only 200,000 bushels for new crop, were considered neutral.

OUTLOOK: In addition to the stronger dollar and improving

tained as we come into more available inventories of live animals.

From an economic standpoint, demand for pork product will also be in question as discretionary income is shrinking from inflation and high taxes, causing less money to be available for more expensive cuts of meat.

This would suggest that producers be extremely careful and protect inventories on the current rally.

Nystrom’s notes: Contract changes for the week ended June 17: Minneapolis wheat crashed $1.02 3/4 lower, Chicago declined 87 cents, and Kansas City dipped 63 1/2 cents lower. July crude oil fell to four month lows, losing $6.28 per barrel to close at $93.01; heating oil fell 12.18 cents; gasoline eroded 7.17 cents, natural gas was down 43.2 cents. At mid-afternoon on June 17, the U.S. dollar index was up 0.33 points, gold had gained $8.70, and the Dow was up 55 points for the week.

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Seasonal patterns would also suggest that we have more than likely put in the late-spring high, so an extended rally would more than likely not be in the picture in the weeks ahead.

Until we see the Planting and Quarterly Grain Stocks reports on June 30, look for soybeans to maintain their follower role in the $13 to $14 area.

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Hogs are creeping higher TEALE, from pg. 26A the rapid rally experienced by the cattle.

In recent weeks there has been fair demand for pork product, which has warranted packers aggressively accumulating product. The available numbers of hogs has been fairly consistent and, with the renewed interest for product and the strength in the cattle market, hogs began to follow higher.

A problem has begun to arise, though. As the pork cutout rose, the demand for product has once again slowed. This is, of course, a concern as to whether the recent rally can be sus-

weather, sharply lower energy markets also lent pressure this week. July soybeans dropped 54 1/4 cents to close at $13.33 on June 17; November beans were 48 1/2 cents lower at $13.33 1/4 per bushel.

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NYSTROM, from pg. 26A number is below what we need to achieve the USDA forecast.

Ethanol production was down this week, but that could be attributed to localized flooding hindering inbound corn and outbound ethanol shipments.

Politics reared its head in the ethanol arena this week. A vote to “immediately” end the 45-cent ethanol blenders’ credit and the 54-cent per gallon ethanol import tax failed in the first half of the week.

When it was attached to a different bill later in the week, it passed 73-27 in the Senate. The entire bill must still make its way through the House and get the president’s signature, which appears unlikely according to reports.

Is this just a shot across the bow that the credit will be allowed to expire at the end of the year?

In the meantime, nothing has really changed. Last week we mentioned that there was talk about switching or combining feed wheat with corn for ethanol production. Since then the word is that it is not an easy switch and at current prices we won’t see it happen.

On the wheat substitution in feed rations issue, Pilgrim’s Pride (No. 2 U.S. chicken producer) and Tyson (No. 1) confirmed they are both using small amounts of wheat in their feed rations.

Informa Economics updated their acreage forecast to 90.6 million corn acres. This is in line with last week’s USDA 90.7 million acres figure. The USDA announced this week that 2.8 million Conservation Reserve Program acres had been put back into produc-

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Report: Crop farm income rose in ’10, livestock on upswing The median net farm income among crop farmers more than doubled, and livestock farmers moved their median net farm income back into the black in 2010, a joint report by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota shows.

Overall, median net farm income was $119,915 among about 2,500 Minnesota farms in 2010, up from $33,417 in 2009 when net farm incomes were depressed by low profits in the livestock sector and increased production costs, the analysis shows. Median net farm income means half of the producers earned more and half earned less.

“Most Minnesota producers had a good year in 2010,” said Richard Joerger, system director for agriculture and business at the Minnesota

State College and Universities system. “However, these results occurred in an extremely risky and volatile environment.”

“The biggest change in 2010 was the return to profitability of hog farms, which tend to be larger in gross sales than other Minnesota farms,” said Dale Nordquist, Extension economist with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Farm Financial Management. In 2010, hog farms earned median profits of more than $250,000 compared to losses of $73,000 in 2009.

The report analyzed results from 2,362 participants in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities farm business management education programs and 97 members of the Southwest Minnesota Farm Business Management Association. Net farm income is used for living

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expenses, income taxes, retirement and business reinvestment.

For crop farms, the median net farm income increased to $161,441 in 2010, up from $60,128 in 2009, Nordquist said. Increased profitability was driven largely by the run-up in crop prices at year-end. Prices received on sales were actually down.

“Most of the increase in crop farm earnings was reflected in increased values in inventory on producers’ balance sheets at the end of the year. Producers have to sell those crops at profitable prices to realize these profits, but they certainly have had that opportunity,” Nordquist said.

“Dairy producers made some comeback in profitability. Yet many still produced milk at breakeven prices or at a loss,” Nordquist said. The median dairy farm made a net farm income of $57,853 in 2010 compared to just over $2,000 in 2009.

“Agriculture is one bright spot for the Minnesota economy,” Joerger said.

“The farms that participate in our farm business management education programs contribute $1.4 billion to rural Minnesota’s economy.” The analysis also showed: • As usual, there was wide variation in returns. The 20 percent of the farms with the highest incomes earned a median net farm income of $462,348; the median for the low 20 percent was $7,443.

• Profits for crop farmers were up 169 percent after a down year in 2009.

Average prices received for major commodities were: corn, $3.67, down from $3.81 in 2009; soybeans, $9.66, down

from $9.84; and spring wheat, $5.03, down from $5.81.

• For the 423 dairy farms, median net farm income was $57,823, compared to $2,193 in 2009. The average price received for milk was $16.26 per hundred pounds, up from $13.56 in 2009.

Production costs increased to $16.19 per hundredweight, leaving a profit of only pennies per hundred pounds of milk.

• The median hog producer earned a net farm income of $265,649 compared to a loss of $73,525 in 2009. The priceper-hundred pounds sold increased from $43.30 to $54.63.

• Beef farm profits improved but were lower than other operations. The median beef producer generated net farm income of $34,451 compared to a net loss of $13,138 in 2009.

• Corn yields were virtually unchanged from 2009 at 181 bushels per acre. Soybeans yields averaged 45.5 bushels per acre, up from 42 bushels, while spring wheat yielded 60 bushels compared to 62 bushels in 2009.

• Average cost of production for an acre of corn decreased by 6 percent due mostly to lower fertilizer costs. Seed cost increased 9 percent, fertilizer decreased by 27 percent, and land rent increased by 5 percent.

• Overall, the average farm earned a 12.5 percent rate of return on assets, up from 3.1 percent in 2009.

••• This article was submitted jointly by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and the University of Minnesota Extension.

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Time to enjoy friends, family NEHER, from pg. 26A old trading adage: “Buy the rumor, sell the fact” may be at work. I do not believe that the volatility has left the markets and that there will be plenty of reaction.

There will be plenty of volatility in the basis as well as the futures prices.

The current hot spots for basis bids are around the ethanol plants. Ethanol plants typically have less storage and must rely on a steady flow of grain from the country. The fact that it is difficult to fix ethanol prices for more than 30 days, keeps more of their buying in the nearby markets.

In their efforts to manage margins, they try to keep their input costs closely tied to the price of ethanol. This creates some opportunity to capture

some strong basis moves that may only be available for a short time. As we make our final old crop sales one could capture a Grain Angle by checking around for bids in the market, more often than not.

As we wrap up our spraying and clean up our equipment from the planting season, we have a little time to enjoy the summer activities. Some like to play golf, while others like to fish or go camping. Many in these parts of the country enjoy a family cabin.

It is a time for families to come together and enjoy nature and the great outdoors. Let us take the time to appreciate the relationships that we have with friends and family during the next few weeks.

Impact of Hilmar cheese contamination incident unknown

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California’s July Class I milk price was announced at $22.38 per hundredweight for the North and $22.65 for the South. Both prices are up 97 cents from June, $5.23 above July 2010, and equate to about $1.92 and $1.95 per gallon respectively. The northern price average is now $19.85, up from $16.24 a year ago. The southern price average is $20.12, up from $16.51 a year ago.

The July Federal order Class I base milk price is $21.03, up 71 cents from June, $5.37 above a year ago, the highest since November 2007, and equates to about $1.81 per gallon. Its 2011 average now stands at $18.55, up from $14.60 a year ago, and compares to $11.08 in 2009.

■ The National Milk Producers Federation’s Roger Cryan does not project an Milk Income Loss Contract payment to producers. Feed prices would have to go up quite a bit for the target to reach the announced price, he said, and “would take something like $10 corn and $16 soybeans.”

The NASS-surveyed butter price averaged $2.1343/lb., up 8.8 cents from the previous month.

Nonfat dry milk averaged $1.6462, up 4 cents.

Cheese averaged $1.7934, up 15.2 cents and dry whey averaged 52.01 cents, up 2.9 cents.

See MIELKE, pg. 30A

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rels averaged $1.8565, up 9.7 cents This column was written for the marketing week ending June 17.

The CME’s Daily Dairy Report points out that the run-up in cheese prices put The fallout is still settling over the the U.S. price above the Oceania price for Hilmar cheese withhold and the cash the first time since the fall of 2009 and cheese market may be viewed with a that, prior to that, it had been running degree of skepticism, not knowing how about 32 cents below the Oceania price. much of the $2-plus-per-pound level was triggered by the unusual situation. The Cash butter closed at $2.14, up a penny big questions are, will prices slip back to on the week, and 50.5 cents above a year “reality” — and what is “reality?”

MIELKE MARKET ago. Five cars were sold on the week. NASS WEEKLY butter averaged $2.1453, up 2.1 cents. The You’ll recall that Texas cheese manufacbutter price has slipped a little in the last turer Hilmar put a hold on about 15 milBy Lee Mielke two weeks but inventories are low for lion pounds of cheese due to “plastic this time of year and exports have contamination.” Kate Sander, editor of been good, according to eDairy broker Cheese Market News, said that Dave Kurzawski. “The market has a Hilmar officials told her the plastic mixed tone,” he said. “Product is making its way to the was likely from the disintegration of a salt vent filter. She emphasized that, while the cheese was deliv- exchange, but there seems to be a good mix of buyers and sellers at the current price level.” ered to customers, it never hit store shelves but there’s no answer as to what was being done with ■ the cheese or exactly how much was involved.

A lot of eyes were on this week’s Global Dairy Hilmar’s Denise Skidmore told me that they stand Trade auction where weighted average prices on by their original statement last week, which I most contracts were down. Anhydrous milk fat fell included in this column, and would not comment on 5.9 percent and the adjusted butter price for 80 perthe amount of cheese involved or what would be done cent butterfat in New Zealand is now $1.96, 18 cents with it. below the U.S. price. Milk protein concentrate (70) was down 0.3 percent; rennet casein, down 2.4 perSander said, “it’s anybody’s guess as to whether cent; and skim milk powder, was down 7.1 percent. cheese prices will slip back but it depends on what Only whole milk powder increased, up 2.6 percent. they do with that cheese.” One insider told her that perhaps the plastic could be filtered out and the Cash CME Grade A nonfat dry milk closed the cheese made into processed, which could in turn week at $1.6525, up a quarter-cent. Extra Grade drive down the barrel market. held at $1.61. NASS powder averaged $1.6524, up 1.4 cents, and dry whey averaged 52.39 cents, up 0.8 ■ cent.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash block cheese price closed Friday at $2.12 per pound, up a penny on the week, 71.5 cents above a year ago, and the highest it’s been since June 2008. Barrel, after inching a penny higher earlier in the week, gave it back Friday, the first decline in 24 sessions, and closed at $2.0675, unchanged on the week, and 68.25 cents above a year ago. Only one car of block and five of barrel traded hands on the week. The National Agricultural Statistics Service-surveyed U.S. average block price hit $1.7901, up 8.4 cents, while the bar-

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ments through August.

The CWT announced this week that it accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 3.5 million pounds of Cheddar and Monterey Jack to customers in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Central America. Cheese exports for 2011 now total 43.1 million pounds.

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“with wholesale prices for cheese, butter USDA’s latest Liveand other products used in complex fedstock, Dairy and Pouleral milk marketing order formulas which try Outlook predicts set minimum milk prices paid to farmers, milk production will continue to rise. accurate and timely information is necesContinued herd expansion is aiding this year’s production, the report said, sary. For years, that has meant processors filed weekly paper reports.” but next year’s forecast production increase will come from higher producElectronic reporting was required by tion per cow while herd size is expected the 2008 farm bill, but only when the to contract fractionally.

USDA was able to come up with the High feed prices will continue to affect money to implement the program. Last the livestock sector and dairy in particu- year, Congress passed the Mandatory lar, for the balance of 2011 and into 2012. Price Reporting Act, setting a one-year The season-average corn price is forecast deadline for the USDA to implement at $5.20 to $5.50/bu. for 2010-11 and $6 to electronic reporting. $7/bu. in 2011-12. The forecast is an The plan introduced by the USDA doesincrease from last month’s projections as n’t change the frequency or numbers of wetness has delayed planting in major dairy products that must be reported, parts of the United States and may ultiNatzke said, and it mately curtail exempts processors planted acreage marketing less than Electronic reporting was from earlier indi1 million pounds of required by the 2008 farm cated intentions. products a year. The bill, but only when the plan requires the Soybean meal USDA was able to come up USDA to publish price forecasts were weekly price report raised to $350 a ton with the money to implesummaries every for 2010-11 and to ment the program. Last Wednesday, instead $375 to $405 in year, Congress passed the of the current Fri2011-12. Hay prices Mandatory Price Reporting day morning report. are up sharply and Ace, setting a one-year The USDA is reflect concerns deadline for the USDA to accepting public about supplies in the comments until face of disappointing implement electronic Aug. 9, and will weather patterns in reporting. issue a final rule many parts of the sometime this fall. country. The price of IDFA has voiced support for the plan. other feedstuffs may affect hay prices more this year than in the recent past, Natzke also reported on another bill according to the Outlook. introduced this week that would impact farmers and also has to do with electronic The feed price outlook is expected to reporting but deals with the system that impact dairy herd size this year and tracks workers in the United States. next. Although cow numbers are projected to rise in 2011, the year-over-year Under the “Legal Workforce Act,” introrise of 0.7 percent, to 9.18 million head, duced by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is small, according to the USDA, and fol- use of the federal government’s “E-Verlows herd reductions in 2009 and 2010. ify” system would become mandatory for Herd size in 2012 is forecast to dip frac- all U.S. employers within two years. tionally, to 9.16 million head, as higher Designed to identify illegal immigrants feed prices impact producer returns. in the U.S. workforce, the bill repeals the current “I-9” paper-based system, and Milk per cow is expected to climb to 21,305 pounds in 2011 and is the small- requires businesses to verify the immiest year-over-year increase in a number gration status of all new employees on a of years. Next year, yield per cow is fore- federal electronic database. The bill offers a one-year extension to agriculture cast at 21,685 pounds about the same making use of E-Verify mandatory rate as 2011 on a per-day basis. High within three years, Natzke said. feed prices will act to limit productivity gains, while herd freshening, which likely The Senate, by a 40 to 59 vote, has been underway the last year or so, rejected an amendment that would will ultimately increase output per cow. have eliminated the current ethanol tax incentive. Growing numbers question ■ converting corn into gasoline, believing Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of the practice is driving up feed costs for Agriculture proposed a rule this week mandating electronic dairy product price dairy, beef, pork and poultry farmers, reporting. Dairy Profit Weekly editor Dave thereby driving up consumer food costs.

Natzke said in Friday’s DairyLine that, See MIELKE, pg. 31A

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Rep. Colin Peterson, D-Minn., the ranking Democrat on the House ag committee, stated that “a justcompleted Congressional Budget Office scoring shows the proposal would cost taxpayers less than existing dairy policy and therefore would not add to the budget deficit, thus satisfying a key demand of Republicans.”

Speaking in Wednesday’s DairyLine, Vandenheuvel said there’s as many opinions on how to change dairy policy as there are dairy farmers but the key question is how to get it through Congress. He said that the NMPF “has the infrastructure and the resources to make that kind of a legislative push.”

Other groups, including the MPC, have formed various proposals the past couple years, he admitted, and “may be the best proposal in the world but if they can’t get the votes in the House and the Senate they’re essentially worthless.”

“Producers have very little ability to collectively respond to market conditions,” he argued, and he cited 2009 as a prime example, calling it the worst market condition any dairyman today has ever seen and yet milk production was down less than 1 percent for the year.

“You’re dealing with live animals and bills that have to be paid,” Vandenheuval said. “You have to keep cash flowing and every dairyman, even when times are bad, has an inherent incentive to continue producing as much as they can.”

He said it seemed like it had to “get so bad for so long to get the supply correction that we need,” but “the Foundation proposal enables that to happen more quickly and unite the 60,000 dairy farmers in the country to pull back production temporarily when we have those market imbalances and that’s very empowering to the dairy farmers and scary for the processors because processors have been enjoying the status quo for quite some time.”

“The status quo has protected them (processors) over the last number of years,” he said, “and as the dairy industry has been going through a downturn, it’s been the producers that carry all that risk, not the processors. Under Foundation that would begin to change.”

••• Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnist who resides in Everson, Wash. His weekly column is featured in newspapers across the country and he may be reached at lkmielke@juno.com.

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N o rt h l a n d B u i l d i n g I n c . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A Ol s en D i es el I n c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 A P ed ers o n s A g ri S erv i ce I n c . . . . 4 4 A P i n s k e R ea l E s t a t e & A u ct i o n 3 4 A P ru es s E l ev a t o r I n c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 A R a b e I n t ern a t i o n a l I n c . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 A R i v ers i d e Ti re . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A Run of the Mill ........................8A Ry a n C h em i ca l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 A S ch l a u d era f f I m p l em en t . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 A S ch w ei s s I n c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 A S i l v ers t rea m - P et e S ch i l l i n g . . 2 9 A S m i t h s M i l l I m p l em en t I n c . . . . 3 9 A S o ren s en S a l es & R en t a l s . . . . . . . . 3 3 A S o u t h C en t ra l S eed & C h em i ca l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 A S o u t h w es t M N K- F en ce . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 A S t ef f es A u ct i o n eers . . . . . . . . 3 2 A , 3 4 A T h e A m eri ca n C o m m u n i t y . . . . . . 4 1 A T HR & A s s o ci a t es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A Ti t a n M a ch i n ery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Tri a d C o n s t ru ct i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 A U n i t ed F a rm ers C o o p era t i v e . . 4 1 A U n i v ers i t y o f M i n n es o t a E x t en s i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A Ven t era Wi n d P o w er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 A Wa g n ers Tru ck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 A Wa h l S p ra y F o a m I n s u l a t i o n . . 1 2 A Wa s eca M o t o r & B ea ri n g s . . . . . . 1 8 A Wes t b ro o k A g P o w er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 A Wes t m a n F rei g h t l i n er . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 A W h i t co m b B ro t h ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 A Wi l d u n g I m p l em en t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 A Wi l l m a r F a rm C en t er . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 9 A Wi l l m a r P reca s t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 9 A Wi n g ert R ea l t y & L a n d S erv i ces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 A Wo o d f o rd A g L L C . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 A , 4 2 A Z i eg l er R o g a t er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 A C OU N T Y FA I R S E C T I ON . . . . . . . . . . . .

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• Sheep & Calf Feeders • Livestock Equipment by Vern’s Mfg. • Powder River Crowding Tub & Alley • Mister Squeeze Cattle Chutes & Hd. Gates • Garfield Earth Scrapers • Peck Augers • MDS Buckets for Loaders & Skidloaders

• Powder River Livestock & Horse Equipment • Tire Scrapers for Skidsteers, 6’-9’ • Jari Sickle Mowers • Grasshopper Lawn Mowers • “Tire” feeders & waterers • MDS Roto King Round Bale Processor for skidsteers, tractors, loaders or telehandlers • Good Stock of parts for GT Tox-O-Wic Grain Dryers, Also, Some Used Parts • Sitrex Wheel Rakes - MX Model In Stock • Brillion Alfalfa & Grass Seeders • Bale Baskets • SI Feeders & Bunks • (Hayhopper) Bale Feeders • Enduraplas Bale Feeders, Panels & Tanks • E-Z Trail Wagons, Boxes & Grain Carts • Calftel Hutches & Animal Barns • R&C Poly Bale Feeders • Farm King Augers and Mowers • Corral Panels & Horse Stalls • EZ-Trail Head Movers & Bale Racks • Roda Mini-Spreaders • Amish Built Oak bunk feeders & bale racks • Walco log splitter • Goat & Sheep feeders

• We Buy & Sell Used Smidley Steer Stuffers Or We Can Rebuild Your Steer Stuffer For You

~ USED EQUIPMENT ~ • 45’ Mandako Lanroller, ‘10, used on 3200 acres • 48” Grasshopper Zero Turn Mower, Very Good • 60”, 3 pt., PTO, Rototiller • Bush Hog GT 48” Rotary Cutter w/13 hp Eng., PT • Brady 5600, 6K stalk chopper/windrower • Hiniker 1700, 15’ stalk shredder/end trans., Exc.

• Steer Stuffer & Hog Feeders • Farm Hand tub grinder • 3 pt. Brillion 6’ Landscape Seeder • 380 GT Tox-O-Wic grain drayer, rebuilt • (2) 8-yard scrapers

FARM, HOME & CONSTRUCTION

Office Location - 305 Bluff Street Hutchinson, MN 55350

320-587-2162, Ask for Larry

New Holland TG285, S.S. duals ..........................................$97,500

NEW Apache 1010, 80’, w/90’ ..............................................CALL

Hardi Commander 6600, 120’, duals ..................................$68,500

TRACTORS

AUGERS

Century 750, 60’, T/A, clean hyd. fold......................................CALL Century 500, 40’, man. fold........$3,250 Red Ball 665 1000 gal., 60’ X-fold ....................................$14,900 Bestway 750, 60’, Raven 440 ....$4,500 Demco 600, 45’, hi-lo T/A ..........$3,900 Ag-Chem 502, 42’, S/A, clean ....$3,250 Many More In 1000-1500 gal. ......CALL

NH TJ500................................$175,000 NH TG285, duals, 4055 hrs ......$97,500 NH TM175, FWA, duals, 50” ....$69,500 NH T9020, PTO ..................COMING IN NH 8770, SS, 3600 hrs. ..........$67,500 NH TV145 ......................................CALL ‘08 NH 3040, loader ................$25,500 NH TC34D, 4WD, SS, 30 hrs. ..$17,250 NH TC34DA, loader ..................$16,700 JD 8970, near new tires, C2 steer, 4600 hrs. ..............................$90,500 JD 6400, loader ............................CALL JD 4010, 2WD, no cab ..............$7,450 JD B ............................................$1,500 IH 706, NF, w/loader ..................$4,750 Versatile 876, 5938 hrs............$42,500 Versatile 876 ......................COMING IN Ford TW35, MFD, 2675 hrs. ....$33,000 Ford 8730, FWA, 7970 gearshift ..............................................$29,500 Ford 8000, open station ................CALL Agco RT-115, loader............COMING IN

GRAVITY BOXES/GRAIN CARTS Parker 500, corner auger ..........$9,500 J&M 1075 ................................$21,500 M&W 400, T/A, 540 PTO............$3,750 New Parker & J&M Grain Carts On Hand

We Are Your Harvestec Corn Head Headquarters Call Us For New & Used Heads

COMBINE HEADS ‘06 Harvestec 4308C................$42,500 ‘09 Harvestec 4306C................$44,000 Harvestec 4212C, 1000 acres ..$85,400 Harvestec 4212C, 1500 acres ..$79,500 Harvestec 4308C, 2500 acres ..$44,500 Harvestec Gen. III, 8R30 ........$33,500 Harvestec Gen. III, 8R30 ........$22,500 Harvestec Gen. III, 8R30 ........$29,000 Harvestec Gen. III, 8R30 ........$26,500 JD 43 Series Units, 12R22 ......$22,500 IH 963, 6R30 ................................CALL IH 1063 ......................................$7,950 JD 643, 6R30 ................................CALL JD 12R22, tin, Clean ..................$8,950 Geringhoff 6R30, PC ..................$8,500 JD 643, 6R30..............................$5,500 JD 843 ......................................$10,000 JD 843, Decent ........................$14,500 Gleaner 6R30 ............................$7,500 MF 864, 36”................................$3,000

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Westfield MK 10x71 GLP ..........$8,250 Westfield MK 10x71 GLP ..........$7,750 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$11,950 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$17,800 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$11,250 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$11,750 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$11,500 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ........$10,900 DISK RIPPERS & CHISELS Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ..........$9,950 Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ..........$7,500 (2) Krause 4850-18, all parabolics, Westfield MK 13x71 GLP ..........$7,750 10’..........................................$44,500 Westfield MK 8x51........................CALL Krause Dominator, 21’ rolling Farm King 8x51 ..........................$1,950 basket ....................................$57,500 Westfield MK 10x61 ..................$7,500 Krause 4821, 28’ w/heavy harrow ..............................................$39,500 Many Other Used Straight & Swing Hoppers On Hand - CALL ‘05 JD 2700, 9-24 ....................$26,500 DMI 7-30 w/lead shanks ......COMING IN ROCKPICKERS Glencoe 7400, 7-shank, spring Riteway RR1 windrower ............$4,250 shank ......................................$6,900 Glencoe 11-shank ......................$6,400 SKIDSTEERS NH LS180, cab, 2-spd. ..................CALL DMI 730, standard shanks ............CALL NH L150, heater ............................CALL DMI 530B, 5-shank leads ........$12,000 NH LS160 ................................$14,900 CIH 530B, lead shanks, Red ..........CALL NH LX885 ................................$17,500 DMI 2500, 5-shank w/coulters ..$6,250 JD 6675, 2600 hrs. ..................$13,000 Kent 9-shank, S/A, newer blades $2,750 Mustang 345 ..............................$4,850 Sunflower 4511-11, low acres, Clean ......................................$32,000 SPREADERS Brillion 5-shank, 30” ..................$8,500 Knight 8124 ..................................CALL DMI Coulter Champ II ................$2,995 Knight 1230, 1-season ..............$9,500 Krause 4850-18, 200 acres ......$52,000 Krause 4850-15, Clean Mach. ..$38,800 SPRAYERS White 445, 5 deep tills, 17-shank CALL Hardi Commander 1500, 132’, White 445, 5 deep tills, 15 shank duals ..........................................CALL ................................................$7,500 Hardi Commander 1200 Plus, HAYBINES & INVERTERS 120’, clean ........................COMING IN ‘06 CIH DX101 ..........................$14,950 Hardi Navigator 1100, 90’, flush & rinse ..........................$27,500 ‘97 NH 1431 ............................$15,900 NH 276, for bidirectional ............$2,750 Hardi Navigator 1000, 60’, controller................................$14,500 Gehl 2240 ......................................CALL Hardi Navigator 1000, 60’........$13,500 Gehl 2412, std. hitch................$11,250 Hardi Commander 1200, 120’..$35,900 JD 946, 200 acres ....................$25,000 JD 1209, 9’ ................................$1,900 Hardi 6600, 120’, steering duals ......................................$68,500 MacDon 5020, hydra swing......$11,900 Hardi HC950, 90’......................$13,500 MacDon, 9’, nice ........................$9,200 Hardi TR1000, 60’, T/A, clean ....$6,500 ‘99 NH 1465 ..............................$8,750 NH 499 ......................................$5,250 Hardi TR1000, 60’, chemical inductor....................................$7,750 NH 166 ..........................................CALL Hardi TR500, 42’, S/A ................$2,750 Tebben hyd. drive inverter ..........$1,150 NH 144, decent ..........................$2,950 Century 1000, 60’, chemical inductor....................................$9,950 NH 166, decent ..........................$3,500 Hesston 1120, 9’, Rolls Good ....$4,950 Century 1000, 60’, X-fold hydraulic ..................................$8,950 Hesston 1160, 12’, hydra swing Century 750, 60’, FM..................$7,500 ................................................$4,950

chlauderaff Impl. Co. 320-693-7277

60240 U.S. Hwy. 12 Litchfield, MN Ask for John, Jared, Roger or Rick

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• We Also Buy & Sell Used GT Tox-O-Wic Dryers Or We Can Rebuild Your Dryer For You

S PECIAL L O W R ATE F INANCING O N A L L E QUIPMENT ~ 3 YRS. - 4% • 4 YRS. - 4.5% • 5 YRS. - 4.75%

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JD 275, 9’ disk mower, FOR SALE: JD 5830 forage $4,200; Ford NH 492 hayharvester, 4WD, iron bine, $4,500; NH 68 baler, guard, 3370 hrs, new eng, low acreage, $900. new paint, re-built, $56,000.

(320)864-3837 Also, JD 6950 forage harvester, 4WD, 3100 hrs/4400 JD 338 baler w/#40 JD kicker hrs. $59,000. 507-427-3520 hydraulic tension adjust.

Nice condition. $7,950. 320FOR SALE: NH 1000 bale 221-0319 wagon, holds 54 bales.

Saves the Back! $1,500. JD 567 round baler. Mega712-297-7951 wide coverall & silage special.

Exc. cond.

For Sale: NH 479 hay bine. $17,000/OBO. 608-792-8051 Has many new parts. $1,000. 920-779-6654 or 920- JD 945 Moco 13’ disc cut, 250-0747 $12,000. JD 446 4x4 round baler, double twine arms, FOR SALE: NH hayliner bale ramps. $8,200. Both #68, small square baler, shedded & exc. 715-296-2162 works great, $1,500. 712297-7951 Lilliston 30” rolling cult; JD F145 semi mounted plow.

FOR SALE: RMS bale han10’ IH hyd field cultivator. dle, 10 bale capacity, fits All in working condition. ldr/quicktach, $2,250. 712952-649-9533 297-7951

Hay & Forage Eq. FOR SALE: SnoCo 40 & 48’ bale elevators, extra sections avail; H&S 500 forage box unloading unit; Hesston stack mover; 14 & 16’ bale flat racks on gears.

320-864-4583 or 320-779-4583

THE LAND, JUNE 24, 2011

FOR SALE: JD 3970 forage FOR SALE: Versatile 400 swather, 15’ cut, hydroharvester, used very little, matic drive, $1,000. 712-297w/ hay & cornhead. Ex7951 tras. (2) Badger forage boxes model 1416, 14’ w/ newer 12T running gear. GEHL 1400 round baler, completely dealer gone IH model 56 silo blower. thru, all new belts, plus up507-359-1164 dates, new tires & 1 extra tire, 3.2 wheel rake, good FOR SALE: JD 5400-5830 paint, always shedded. and 6000 series forage har320-282-2925 or 320-286-2926 vesters. Used kernel processors, also, used JD 40 knife Dura-Drums, and Hesston 8400 self-propelled haybine. 14' cut, exc. cond. drum conversions for 5400 Asking $19,000/OBO. 608and 5460. Call (507)427-3520 792-8051 www.ok-enterprises.com IH 1190 mower-conditioner, FOR SALE: JD 5830 forage good cond., shedded & exharvester, 4WD, iron tra clean, $3,000; Cam guard, 3370 hrs, new eng, Spray hot water washer new paint, re-built, $56,000. model 1450, 2 gal/min, like Also, JD 6950 forage harnew cond., $1,000. vester, 4WD, 3100 hrs/4400 (507)354-3987 hrs. $59,000. 507-427-3520

THE LAND, JUNE 24, 2011

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Bins & Buildings

Bins & Buildings

SILO DOORS Wood or steel 2 bins w/floors, holding bin, augers, etc. (715)832-4527 doors w/ stainless steel fas teners shipped promptly to your farm. Hardware Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys.

100% financing w/no liens available. 1-800-222-5726 or red tape, call Steve at LandWood Sales LLP Fairfax Ag for an appointment. 888-830-7757

Grain Handling Eq. Grain Handling Eq. Grain Handling Eq. Grain Handling Eq. Grain Handling Eq. 4000 bph grain leg w/struc- Farm King 13x70 Auger w/ FOR SALE: (2) Gravity 54’ Stanhoist & Kewanee ture, 110’ tall, new belt & Low Hopper. J&M 750 Bu boxes, 1-Kilbros & 1-M&W, grain elevators, great buckets, 8 hole 10” distribGrain Cart/Corner Auger 265-270 bu; (2) Feterl augshape. $500/ea. 712-363-3843 utor, $19,900; 10’ Kansun w/ Tarp. Both Real Good. ers, 1-6”-52’ long, 1-8”-55’ FOR SALE: ‘01 Super B drydryer, 22’ high, $5,000.

M&W #1165 5 Shank Disk long. Call evenings. 507er, Model 375, 3 phase elec, (320)224-1968 Ripper. Excellent Cond.

375-4289 stainless steel, $25,000.

Can Deliver. 319-347-6676 Faribault, MN 507-475-7021

126 ACRE TOP BARE FARMLAND AUCTION Wednesday Evening, June 29th • 7:00 p.m.

Located 4 mi. North of Swea City IA on Blacktop P30 & 1 mi. West on Gravel.

Located in Section 30 Grant Township, Kossuth County Iowa.

Auction to be held on South edge of Subject Property.

120.6 acres tillable, one large field.

For info on terms, county tile, soil types & other info contact Auctioneer Alley-Auction America main office at Fairmont, MN, (507) 238-4318, or Allen Kahler, Broker, (507) 841-1564 or internet www.auctioneeralley.com

PATRICIA J. BLOMSTER TRUST-OWNER

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Mike Gabor of Buchanan, Bibler & Gabor & Meis Attorney of Seller Kahler’s, Pike, Wedel & Hartung Auctioneers Auctioneer Alley-Auction America—Land Services Unlimited

If you’re having a Farm Auction, let other Farmers know it!

Upcoming Issues of THE LAND Southern MNNorthern IA July 08 July 22 August 05 August 19 Sept 02 Sept 16

Northern MN July 01 July 15 July 29 Aug 12 Aug 26 Sept 09

FOR SALE: FarmFans 1000H dryer. Call Steve Fairfax Ag - 888-830-7757

Steffes Auction Calendar 2011 For More info Call 1-800-726-8609 or visit our website: www.steffesauctioneers.com Tuesday, June 28th @11 AM: Richard & Jane Nerem, Lamberton, MN, Farm Retirement Auction Thursday, June 30th @ 10 AM: Cass County, ND Farmland Auction, Arthur Town Hall, Arthur, ND, Farmland in Arthur Township

Deadlines are 1 week prior to publication with Holiday deadlines 1 day earlier ** Indicates Early Deadline

PO Box 3169 Mankato, MN 56002 Phone: 507-345-4523 or 800-657-4665 Fax: 507-345-1027

FOR SALE: 3000 bu per hr universal grain leg, 85’, new boot & head covers, new cups & belt 2 yrs old ago, new paint, $14,000.

St. James, MN 507-920-8217

For Sale: Used grain bins, floors unload systems, stirators, fans & heaters, aeration fans, buying or selling, try me first and also call for very competive contract rates!

Office hours 8am - 5pm Monday-Friday Saturday 9am - 12 noon 507-430-4866 or call 507-6976133 Ask for Gary

Ask Your Auctioneer to Place Your Auction in The Land!

Website: www.TheLandOnline.com

e-mail: theland@TheLandOnline.com

Friday, July 22nd @ 10 AM: George Ohmann Antique Tractor Auction, Montgomery, MN, Seam & Stationary Engines, Antique Tractors & much more!

Wednesday, July 27th @ 9 AM: AgIron 58 Consignment Event, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND, Tractors, Combines, Heads, Trucks, Semis, Tillage, Construction Equipment, Hay & Livestock Equipment & Much More! Advertising Deadline: Friday, June 29th Thursday, August 11th @ 9 AM: AgIron 26 Consignment Event, Steffes Auctioneers Facility, Litchfield, MN, Tractors, Combines, Heads, Trucks, Semis, Tillage, Construction Equipment, Hay & Livestock Equipment & Much More! Advertising Deadline: Friday, July 15th

Large Auction

ADVANCE NOTICE

ANTIQUES - TOOLS - FARM ITEMS HOUSEHOLD

Location: Red River Valley Fairgrounds on the west edge of West Fargo, ND

Saturday, July 9th - 9:30 A.M. Mrs. Gladys (Les) Bartels - Owner

AGIRON 58 CONSIGNMENT EVENT

WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2011 — 9:00 AM

Located: 19496 461st Ave. • Glencoe, MN 3 miles West of Arlington on Cty. Rd. #12, 5 miles North on Cty. Rd. #13, 2 miles West on Cty. Rd. #15 and 1 mile South on 461st Ave. Selling in 2 rings all day. Ring 1 starts with good antiques at 9:30 A.M. Ring 2 starts with good woodworking shop tools & equipment.

Tractors and larger items at Noon.

This is an exceptional auction. No buyers premium

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Farm items include: 1959 JD 530, 3 pt.; 1938 Farmall F-12, new paint; Bobcat M-700 hydro skidsteer; 1990 Chev. Silverado 4x4, 66,000 mi. & clean; 14’ Aluminum Boat w/trailer & 15 hp. Johnson; JD F911 mower w/60” outfront deck; JD 214 Lawn Tractor, And More!

This is a large multi-ring event with many items already consigned.

Tractors, Combines, Heads, Trucks, Semis, Tillage, Construction Equipment, Hay & Livestock Equipment & much more!

CONSIGN EARLY! ADVERTISING DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th Call (800) 726-8609 or (701) 237-9173 or email at mail@steffesauctioneers.com

Complete line of woodworking shop equip. including: Shopsmith Mark 5 home workshop system w/attachments; Grizzley 15” Planer, Many hand & power tools Antiques: Many farm primitives; Crocks; Toys; Paper Items; Furniture; Advertising items; 11⁄2 hp. gas engine; 1950’s Japanese jackets. Also, complete line of household items

For a complete listing, call for poster or click on: Pinske at wwwmidwestauctions.com

Bill Pinske Auctioneers • 507-964-2250 Arlington, MN 55307

Brought to you by: Steffes Auctioneers Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319, Bob Steffes ND82, Clark Sather ND463 www.steffesauctioneers.com

Grain Handling Eq.

Farm Implements

$875. JD Loader Mount $1000. 715-296-2162

‘96 JD 6675 skid loader, 1454 actual hrs, used to move snow around farm yard & pick rocks, tires 75%, cab & heat. $12,500. Mike 320237-4255 Early Summer Sale On New RHINO Bat-Wing Cutters, 15 & 20 Ft. Heaviest Gear Boxes on Market. Rhino Heavy Duty 3 Pt Disk Mowers 7-8-9 Ft. Rhino 10 & 12 Wheel Hi-Capacity Wheel Rakes & Hay Tedders. All On Hand. Old Price. Can Deliver Dealer 319-347-6282 Let it Ring Feed Haulers-HydWet Kitair switch, PTO, tandem pump, 40 gal reservoir, all couplers, ball valves, fittings, only used 6 months. $3,100. 515-846-6391 FOR SALE: 710 JD WF, all new tires, $5,800; Tires: (15”, 16” 18” 20”) (2) 18.4x26. JD & Int’l whl wgts. 712 12 btm Int’l semi mounted plow. 507-380-1856

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Sealed Bid Land Auction July 12th • 433± acres, Getty & Raymond Township, Stearns County • Farm Land “Call or View Online for all upcoming Auction Details” Auctioneer # 07-53

Online: www.wingertrealty.com/Kulzer @ 800-730-LAND (5263) or 507-345-LAND (5263)

Now Taking Consignments For Area’s Largest Machinery & Vehicle

Absolute Auction No Buyers Premium

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 - 9:00 am Auctioneers taking consignments: Matt Mages: 507-276-7002 & Joe Maidl: 507-276-7749 Location: Excellent Location - 55780 St. Hwy. 19 - located on N side of the Hwy. 1⁄2 mile W of the St. Hwys. 19 & 15 intersection on the W end of Winthrop, MN Turn your equipment into cash, CONSIGN your tractors, combines, field & livestock machinery, livestock equipment of all kinds, grain handling equipment, wagons, trailers, trucks, pickups, cars, RVs, construction equipment, guns, tools, hay, straw, just about anything. Absolutely no junk. We have the right to reject items we feel won’t sell. All items sold in “AS IS”condition.

Advertising deadline is Monday, June 27th. We advertise this auction over a very wide area and have had excellent results. If you want top dollar, it shoud be advertised, we’re not miracle workers, if it isn’t advertised, no one will know it’s there.

Items can be brought to the sale site starting on Thursday, July 14th. We’ll have someone to check you in from 8:30 am-5:00 pm daily except Sunday. Sunday our hours will be 1:00 pm-5:00 pm. If it is just impossible for you to deliver your items during these hours, call and we’ll try to work something out for you. All items must be on the lot no later than 5:00 pm, the day before the auction.

Vehicles & Titled items MUST have clear title along to be considered. We will not consign your item without it. No Exceptions!

Commission for this Sale: If the combined total of your items sold is $1000 or less the commission rate is 12%. If the total is $1001-$50,000, the commission rate is 8%, over $50,000, commission is 5%. We still have the lowest commission rates around for this type of auction.

There will be absolutely no protection on ANY items. If you decide to buy back an item you will have to pay for it at the window like normal, then we will send a check to you minus the commission. This is one of the reasons we always have an excellent auction, buyers know what they’re bidding on will sell.

Considering an auction of your own? Call for our very reasonable rates and excellent service. The bigger the auction, the lower the rates.

To Consign Call Matt Mages @ 507-276-7002 or Joe Maidl @ 507-276-7749

magesland.com

They want how much to sell your Farm??

We have sold thousands of acres using proven methods throughout MN at commissions that are often half that of other companies

8 Acre Farm w/Extraordinary Home, turn of the century home built w/Artstone brick & top quality materials & craftsmanship, original woodwork & hardwood floors throughout, beautiful yard & excellent outbuildings, $129,900 • 64197 460th St., Fairfax, MN Beautiful Wooded Country Lot, $24,900 • Section 34, Courtland E. Twp., Nicollet County Perfect 3.36 Acre Lot for Business w/3 BR home, 2 heated shops & home, $114,900 • 391 Lafayette Ave., Lafayette, MN 5 Acre Hobby Farm, 4 BR, 2 bath, hardwood floors, heated garage, barn, WOW! $129,900 • 25684 595th Ave., Gibbon, MN Wonderful 10 Acre Farm Site, 3 BR home & pole barn, $159,900 • 57821 300th St., Winthrop, MN 100 Acres Hunting Land, $1,350/Acre, Section 14, Hawk Creek Twp. Excellent Hunting Land, 80 Acres in Renville Cty., $890/Acre, near Cty. Rds. 11 & 54

Mages Land Co. & Auction Service

507-276-7002

magesland.com

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

FOR SALE: ‘84 JD 8450, 90% 18.4x38 duals, PTO, quick 3pt, 3 hyds, eng trash screens, 6400 hrs.

Clean, great cart tractor, $25,000; ‘97 JD 680 15’ chisel plow, 15 standards, 3 bar JD harrow, w/walking tandems; 05/06 JD Buck 650 EXT ATV, (dump box), WS & mirrors, 813 mi, mint, collectible, $4,000. Dave - 320-855-2428

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7 section spiked toothed hyd cart drag; (2) 20’ whl disks, hyd fold; NH 55 rake; 7’ finishing mower, like new; 5’ Woods rotary cutter; (2) 7’ mowers, 3pt or trailer. Skids: Case 1835C; NH 250. (13) gravity wagons: Demco, Parker, Kilbros, 300-600 bu; Peterson Equipment New Ulm 507-276-6957 or 6958

Farm Implements

FOR SALE & FOR SALE: Frontier 450 bu. FOR SALE: White 374 6/8 FOR SALE: JD CX15 Bat- 1000 gal fiberglass water wing, used on 300 acres, R30 cult, RS, set up to WILL PURCHASE: tank, good running gear, Hydrapush manure has all options, $11,500. push or pull, used w/bi-dir, NH BALE WAGONS. motor & chem tank, good spreader, exc cond.

Canby, MN 507-223-7365 $350; Ford 3 pt Tumble ROEDER IMPLEMENT cond. $1,750. 712-424-3843 (608)792-8051 Bug dirt bucket, $150; AugSENECA, KS 66538 New Oak flatbeds, hay FOR SALE: JD 520 high er 6x26 w/Wis gas eng, Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Repair (785)336-6103 bunks, silage bunks, green speed stalk chopper, used $150; Platform scale, 1500 Repair - Troubleshooting chop boxes.

(715)269-5258 on 500 acres. $20,500. lb, $50; 2- screw in grain Sales - Design 507-530-3156 aerators, $40 ea; 2 wheel Custom hydraulic Parker 2600 gravity box, 383 Tractor Loaders for older trailer w/wood box, hose-making up to 2”.

AC, Ford, IH, Oliver. $150 bu w/ JD 1075 running FOR SALE: JD 567 baler w/ 44x57x26, $150. 507-340-2820 Service calls made. to $3,650. Pomeroy 712gear, 12.5x16 tires. $2,250; mega wide hyd pickup & STOEN’S 299-6608 JD 85 12R cult w/ stabilizer net wrap, $13,750; NH 617 Hydrostatic Service coulters & rolling shields, disk mower, re-condi16084 State Hwy 29 N very nice, $1,550; JD 3940 Tractor Plows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5B, tioned, $5,750; JD 1610 31’ Haybuster 3106 rock picker, Glenwood, MN 56334 2/3pt or pull, AC, Ford, current model, good cond, forage chopper w/ 2RN C chisel plow, $8,900; JD 2800 (320)634-4360 IH, JD, MM, Oliver. $100 $13,900; JD 148 loader, head, hay head, very nice, 6-18 onland spring reset to $1,050. Pomeroy 712grapple fork, joy stick, $2,950. 320-221-0319 plow, $2,900. 320-361-0065 299-6608 power beyond, JD 4440 JD 3800 Chopper in good mounts, welded, but cond; NH 28 Whirlapeed Forks for JD 148 ldr, JD 50 strong, $3550; JD 704 12 Silo Blower; (2) H&S 16' 7’ mower; JD 350 7’ mowwheel bi-fold rake, $4,595. chopper boxes w/ running er; IH 100 7’ pull mower; 320-543-3523 gear. 715-399-2615 JD 640 rake; JD 24T baler; New 16’ bale racks; JD 606 3pt 6’ cutter; Gehl 6’ pole cutter; JD 425 60” all whl steer mower; (2) post hole augers; B Farmall tractor, very nice; Schweiss 16’ 3 Land axle trailer; Hesston 10 Specialists stack hand.

Koestler 1160 Victory Drive, Suite 6, Mankato, MN 56001 Equipment 507-399-3006

THE LAND, JUNE 24, 2011

FOR SALE: Sukup 5” air FOR SALE: ‘98 Polaris Trail Boss 250, excellent system, 40 hp blower mocondition, runs good. tor w/air lock & central $1,500. 507-249-3985 panel w/ 5” pipe for 3-48’ dia bins & cyclones.

St. James, MN 507-920-8217 FOR SALE: IH 706 tractor, German dsl, 3pt, WF, $4,750; JD 671 LH rake w/ FOR SALE: MC 2000 tower dolly whl, $1,950; Westendryer, 2000 bph, dryer was dorf 12T HD running damaged by fire in ‘09 seagears, 12.5x16 tires, $1,750; son, dryer taken down & Westendorf WL40 ldr w/ on pallets, very repairable. grapple fork, $1,900; JD Call for more info.

535 baler w/ green pickup $35,000/OBO. 715-797-9510 & net wrap, exc cond, NEW 10X71 WESTFIELD: $8,900. 320-769-2756 Brand new low profile swing hopper auger, $8,599. Contact: Mike @ FOR SALE: JD #35 forage chopper w/cornhead & hay 507-848-6268, Trimont, MN head; Owatonna 42’ elevator; Killbros 250 bu. grav.

Farm Implements box w/11T running gear & truck tires. (320)327-2769 15 Ft Rhino Model SE15-4A Flex-Wing Cutter, 6 FOR SALE: JD 400 15’ roto Wheels, Good Cond. Bush hoe, JD RM rear mntd Hog 8-30 Danish Row Crop cult, JD #38 sickle mower, Cult, Hyd Fold. Balzer 16’ super 7+4 H&S silage #1200-4RW Shredder. A-1 box w/ 10T wagon RH unCond. 319-347-6138 Can Del loading. EZ Trail 230bu grav box w/ 8T wagon; 21’ 5500# capacity pallet forks motorhome. 320-395-2207 NEW. Skid steer Mount

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Farm Implements

FOR SALE: ‘01 JD 250 skid FOR SALE: Vittetoe chaff spreader, works on JD or loader, 1700 hrs, excellent CIH combine, $1,000. 712condition. 320-864-4755 786-3341 WANT MORE READERS We buy TO SEE YOUR AD??

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FOR SALE: ‘57 JD 620, w/ (507)345-4523•(800)657-4665 3800 original hrs, one owner, NH 256 rake. 507-8475489

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Farm Equipment For Sale ‘08 Challenger 965B, 800 hrs ......$199,500 ‘07 JD 9230, 3 pt., PTO ..................$130,000 ‘08 Cat MT755, 1900 hrs. ..............$160,000 ‘07 CIH MX305, 4600 hrs., warranty ........................................................$115,000 ‘05 JD 9660, 700 sep. hrs. ............$145,000 ‘95 Ford 9680, 4600 hrs. ..................$64,000 ‘78 JD 2940, MFWD w/loader ..........$18,500 ‘93 JD 410D backhoes, cab 4x4, ext-hoe ..............................................$28,000 ‘08 Krause Dominator, 18’ ..............$42,000 ‘06 Lexion 590R, 950 sep. hrs ......$170,000 ‘98 JD 1770, 24-30 planter, E sets, airforce trash whippers ......................$61,000 ‘00 Hagie STS12 ..............................$85,000 ‘08 Cat 226B2 skidsteer, 400 hrs. ....$23,000

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Tractors

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FOR SALE: ‘66 3010 JD, FOR SALE: JD 4230 Quad gas, NF, 3pt, dual hyds, Range, dual hyd, 5600 hrs, exc cond all Heat/AC, hub duals, 75% around. 612-581-3220 or 952tires, 8200 hrs, can 466-5661 deliver.. $14,500/OBO. 320360-6487 FOR SALE: ‘93 JD 4755 FOR SALE: JD 6110, 2WD, tractor, exc cond, duals, 900 hrs, canopy, excellent frt wgts, FWA, pwr shift, tires, $20,000. 507-236-4835 5450 hrs, $51,500. Call Curtis at 507-553-3319 FOR SALE: JD 7800 MFWD, PS, FF, rock box, FOR SALE: ‘97 CIH 9330, radar, 540/1000 PTO, 3 18.4X38 Michelen Agri SCVs, 14.9x46(90%), 2340 Ribs, 4450 hrs, no PTO, hrs, exc cond, $81,500/ wgts, P/S. 507-524-4675 MaOBO. Mankato, MN 507pleton 351-1176 FOR SALE: Bobcat 500, 52” FOR SALE: Used Oliver bucket, $1,500. tractor parts for most (507)546-3162 or (507)340-6934 Oliver Series 66-2255 incl 880D parts hyd unit, WF, FOR SALE: JD 4030 w/cab, sheet metal, power boosall restored, very nice, ter, tires & rims, frt wgts $13,000; Flex coil 750 slap type & rear whl wgts, sprayer, 80’ boom, $1500; Also have a lot of motor Case 680 backhoe, needs parts for most Olivers, work, $3500. 507-330-3945 gas & dsl. 218-564-4273

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Tractors

THE LAND, JUNE 24, 2011

FOR SALE: 9270 CIH w/ 560 Farmall. WF, gas, JD 50, 1953 model, exc tires, 1000 PTO, Cummins pwr, $2,700. 608-637-2066 runs good. 608-386-7994 400+HP, pwr shift, 23.1x32 tires w/ duals, everything Oliver 550 Utility w/ 1505 hyd Harvesting Equip. loader, newer bucket, 1850 works, no leaks, very hrs. nice tractor. $6,000. 9500 JD sidehill combine. ‘93 straight tractor, & ‘92 models. 4200 eng/2800 515-824-3656 $65,000/OBO. 715-797-9510 sep hrs. $37,850 & $39,985.

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FOR SALE: ‘04 JD 9660STS, 18.4x42 duals, 1736 hrs, ContourMaster & hopper extension. 320-815-9889 FOR SALE: ‘97 Case 2188, Fields Tracker, RWA, hopper ext, well maintained, 6500eng, 4800 sep hrs, feeder house reverser. $35,000 in work orders done over last 3 yrs. $42,000/OBO. Greg 320-304-1668 FOR SALE: ’97JD 922F poly skid plates, auto reel speed control, $9,500. 320-212-4462 FOR SALE: Combine Header Transports. 2 Wheel, 4 Wheel & Caster Wheel models. Brackets sold separately to build your own.

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HANCOCK, MN ‘87 CITY 45’/96” AL Flatbed, SX/AR, 50% T, New B........................$6,750 ‘97 Red River, 42’ Live Bottom, New ‘78 Transcraft 40’/96” Steel, SR, Plastic, Sandblasted & Painted ............................................$17,500 Good Paint ............................$4,750 ‘90 Fontaine 48’/102” Steel, Spread HOPPERS Axle, 80% T&B, Sandblasted & ‘80 Wilson Chamberlain, 42’, All Painted..................................$6,500 Aluminum, New: Brakes, Cross ‘99 HAULIN Expandable Truss Trailer, Members, Suspension Parts, 48’-70’, 102” wide, 22.5 Rubber, Lights, Tarp, 5th Wheel & Hopper Excellent Paint ....................$15,500 Gates/20” Hopper Height; AL ‘89 Hot Shot Steel, 48’x96”, Wheels; New Recaps..........$16,750 Spread Axle, New B, 70% T, ‘87 Cornhusker 42’/66” AL Hopper New Paint ............................$4,250 Bottom, 50% T, New B, Clean & w/haysides ..........................$5,250 Straight ..............................$14,500 Custom Haysides for flatbed VANS & WATER TRAILERS or drop-deck on any trailer ..$1,250 ‘96 Featherlite, 50’/102”, Drop Deck FRAME TYPE END DUMPS Furniture Van, AR, 80% T&B, 3 Side ‘05 Spek Tek 28’ AL, SR, 80% T, New Doors ....................................$6,750 Brakes & Lights, w/Air Lift Door for ‘89 Kentucky 48’/102” Drop Deck Trash or Silage, New Cylinder, Furniture Van, AR, 80% T&B, 3 Side Plastic Liner, Like New ......$26,500 Doors ....................................$6,000 ‘75 Fruehauf 28’ Steel, Roll Tarp, ‘95 Utility Curtainside Flatbed, 80% T&B, New Plastic Liner, 48’/102”, Great for Water Trailer Good Paint ..........................$10,750 ..............................................$6,500 DROP-DECKS & (10) ‘96 To ‘01 53’/102” AL, AR DOUBLE DROPS Roadworthy Dry Vans for Freight or Seed, etc. ............$4,500-$7,500 ‘86 Dorsey Drop Deck, 48/96, Closed Tandem, SR, New Brakes, (10) 48/53x102 trailers for storage or water....................$3,500-$6,000 80% T, New Paint................$10,500 Engineered Beavertails for Drop DAY CAB TRUCKS Deck or Double Drops, w/ramps, ‘03 Freightliner FLD12064ST Includes All Electrical & Paint Conventional, 12.7 Liter Detroit, ..............................Installed $5,000 400 HP, 10 Spd. Trans., 3.73 Ratio, ......................Unassembled $3,000 AR, 195” WB, New 11R22.5 MISCELLANEOUS Recaps, AL Wheels, 620,000 Mi., Very Clean ..........................$19,750 AR/SR Suspensions For Trailers ............................$1,000 to $2,000 ‘93 International 8000 Series, 3406 Used Truck 22.5/24.5 Steel Truck Cat, 9-spd., AR, 270,000 Miles, Wet Kit, New 22.5 Tires ......$10,500 Wheels ................................Ea. $45 ‘93 White GMC Aero, N14 Cummins, 1/4” Thick Plastic Liner, 10’ Wide ..............................$30/Ft. 10-spd., AR, new B, 70% T, Nice Truck ............................$9,500 (5) Thermal King Refrigeration Units ............................$750-$1,250 FLATBEDS ‘97 Transcraft, 48’x102”, AL Floor, AL ‘03 Thermal King Whisper Refrigeration Unit, 8000 Hrs., Slight Cross Members, Closed Tandem Slider, 50% T, 80% B, Clean ..$8,000 Damage ................................$3,000

BELTED TRAILER

www.westbrookagpower.com Hwy. 30 West • WESTBROOK, MN • Ph. (507) 274-6101 USED EQUIPMENT Wilrich 957, 5-30, Nice..........................................$33,900 TRACTORS ‘08 Wilrich 957, 7-30 ............................................$29,900

‘96 NH 9682, 4500 hrs. ........................................$72,500 ‘03 NH TV-140, 617 hrs.........................................$59,900 ‘90 Ford 876, 3 pt., 5400 hrs.................................$39,900 ‘85 JD 8450, 6470 hrs. ........................................$28,900 ‘09 NH T8050, FWA, 1170 hrs. ............................$149,900 ‘09 NH T7040, FWA, 300 hrs. ............Coming In $103,900 ‘05 Massey 8460, FWA, PS, 3200 hrs. ..................$89,900 ‘05 Genesis 2210, FWA, SS, 3000 hrs. ..................$89,900 ‘04 Genesis 2210, FWA, SS, 2800 hrs. ..................$84,900 ‘02 Genesis 2210, FWA, SS, 3400 hrs. ..................$79,900 ‘03 NH TV-140, 617 hrs.........................................$59,900 ‘95 JD 8100 ......................................................Coming In Ford 8830, FWA, 6400 hrs. ....................................$31,900 White 2-75, Westendorf ........................................$14,900 Versatile 256 bi-directional ....................................$27,900 AC 7045, 2WD, 6000 hrs. ......................................$10,900 Ford 8000................................................................$8,900 Farmall H w/belly mower ........................................$1,950

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Harvesting Equip.

‘09 Brent 1082 grain cart, green in color, 20 ply diamond tread tires, roll tarp, scale, very low use, basically new. $32,000. 715797-9510

‘05 Wilrich 957, 7-30 ............................................$26,900 JD 512, 7-shank....................................................$20,900 Wishek 862NT, 30’ ................................................$54,900 Wishek 842NT, 26’, w/harrow................................$34,900 Wishek 862NT, 16’, w/harrow................................$31,900 Wilrich Quad Four, 35’, chisel plow ........................$22,500

DRILLS & PLANTING

Kinze 3600, 16/31, Nice ........................................$74,900 White 6100, 12R30 w/11 row trailer......................$23,900 JD 1520, 20’ markers..............................................$9,900 Kinze 12R30 hyd. fold to 12R15” ..........................$14,900 JD 7300, 12R30 ....................................................$11,900 JD 7000, 12R30, fold ..............................................$6,900 JD 7100, 12R30 ......................................................$3,500 CIH 900, 12R30 ......................................................$7,900 Case 5400 drill w/coulter cart................................$13,500 Great Plains 20’, 10” w/coulter cart ......................$10,900 IH 800, 12R30 ........................................................$2,500 CORN HEADS ‘07 NH 98C, 8R30..................................................$29,900 (12) Used Kinze brush meters ................................Ea. $90 HAY EQUIPMENT ‘07 Gleaner 3000, 8R30 ........................................$32,900 ‘05 98C, 8R30 ......................................................$29,900 NH 616 disc mower ................................................$6,250 NH 96C, 8R30........................................................$23,900 NH 499 haybine ......................................................$7,900 ‘03 Gleaner 3000, 8R30 ........................................$23,900 ‘06 NH BR780, net ................................................$22,900 ‘98 JD 893, 8R30 ..................................................$21,900 NH 688 baler, twine ..............................................$12,500 NH 996, 8R30........................................................$19,500 NH 660 baler, twine/net ..........................................$9,900 NH 996, 8R30........................................................$16,900 Gehl 1475 baler ......................................................$6,900 NH 974, 6R30..........................................................$3,950 NH 275 baler ..........................................................$2,499 Gleaner R-436 ........................................................$1,750 NH 273 baler ..........................................................$1,250 NH TH154, 12 wheel rake........................................$8,900 GRAIN HEADS ‘07 Glenaer 8200, 35’ w/Crary ..............................$32,900 Tonutti 10 wheel V-rake ..........................................$4,500 ‘03 Gleaner 8000, 30’ w/Crary ..............................$23,900 New Tonutti 9-wheel rake........................................$4,650 JD 930F w/Crary ..................................................$16,900 2300 Series, 16’ hay head ....................................$12,000 ‘97 JD 925, 25’ ....................................................$10,900 NH Super 717 chopper, hay & corn head ................$2,950 SKIDLOADER ‘98 NH 973, 30’ ....................................................$10,900 ‘07 NH L-185, 1200 hrs.........................................$29,900 COMBINES ‘08 NH L-150, 886 hrs...........................................$16,900 ‘07 Gleaner R75, 1040 hrs...................................$179,900 MISCELLANEOUS ‘01 Gleaner R62, 1500 hrs.....................................$89,900 ‘00 NH TR-99, RWA, 2255 hrs. ..............................$84,900 ‘10 Demco 1350 cart, scale, Demo Unit ................$54,900 ‘94 JD 9500, 3000 hrs. ........................................$42,900 ‘08 Demco 850 cart ..............................................$22,500 ‘95 NH TR-87, 1850 hrs. ......................................$39,900 ‘10 Demco 650 cart ..............................................$19,900 Parker 710 cart, scale............................................$18,900 TILLAGE MORE ITEMS - See Our Wesbsite ‘09 CIH 330, turbo till 25’, w/baskets ....................$39,900

USED DRYERS 700 BEHLEN, 3 Ph., LP 700 BEHLEN, 3 Ph., DOUBLE BURNER 10’ DELUX LP 3Ph., 300 BPH, 5 PT 10’ DELUX LP 3Ph., 300 BPH, 5 PT 20’ DELUX DPXSL, 1000 BPH, 5 PT. SS SCREENS

USED AUGERS 10”X61’ MAYRATH SWINGAWAY 10”X71’ MAYRATH SWINGAWAY 8”X57’ KEWANEE PTO 8”X62’ MAYRATH EMM

TRAILERS 40’ STOUGHTON GRAIN TRAILER - NEW TARP, AIR RIDE

We carry a full line of Behlen & Delux dryer parts; Mayrath and Hutch augers parts.

Large inventory of welda sprockets, hubs, bearings, chain & pulleys.

See us for your Fall Farm needs

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Harvesting Equip.

Harvesting Equip.

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Planting Equipment

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USED TRACTORS NEW Massey 1635, FWA, w/loader ......................ON HAND NEW Massey 5480 FWA, w/loader ........................ON HAND ‘01 CIH STX440 ........................................................$112,000 Buhler 2210, SS, 1475 hrs..........................................$94,900 ‘79 Versatile 875, 4WD, w/3 pt ..................................$24,000 Versatile 256 Bidi ........................................................$26,500 JD 2020, 2WD ..............................................................$6,950 Massey Ferguson 220 ..................................................$7,000 Ford TW20, FWA ......................................................COMING Massey 1190, FWA ....................................................$11,500 MM 302 w/loader..........................................................$4,500

PLANTERS

NEW White planters ......................................................CALL Hiniker 30’ seeder ......................................................$19,500 ‘92 JD 455, 30’ ............................................................$14,000

TILLAGE

‘03 NH ST740, 7-shank ..............................................$18,500 JD 2700, 7-shank........................................................$27,500 DMI 530 w/leveler ......................................................$10,500

COMBINES ‘06 Gleaner R75 w/CDF............................................COMING

THE LAND, JUNE 24, 2011

FOR SALE: JD 215 rigid FOR SALE: JD 3950 chop- RETIRING. ‘82 JD 6620 hy- FOR SALE: Clark & Welsh per, new knives, 2 RW head, low use, good head, dro combine, 2168 act hrs, 300 gal field sprayers, good cornhead. 320-250-7552 $3,000/OBO; JD 444 corn216 flex platform & 443 pumps; (2) E-Z 220 gravity head, very good cond, cornhead. Always shedded. boxes on 10 ton Easy Trail $2,750/OBO. 715-797-9510 507-235-5843 gear; JD RM 6 RN cult.

FOR SALE: JD 9400 comGlencoe, MN bine, 3100 sep hrs, 4000 eng 320-864-4583 or 320-779-4583 hrs, always shedded, very good machine. 320-232-8567

NEW Fantini chopping cornhead ..................................CALL

HAY TOOLS

New Hesston & NH Hay Tools On Hand Hesston 1150, 12’ ........................................................$1,800

MISCELLANEOUS

NEW Salford RT units ....................................................CALL NEW Westfield augers..........................................AVAILABLE NEW Rem 2700 vac........................................................CALL NEW Century HD1000, 60’ sprayers ............................CALL NEW Riteway rollers ......................................................CALL NEW Lorenz snowblowers ............................................CALL NEW Batco conveyors ..................................................CALL NEW Brent wagons & grain carts ..................................CALL NEW E-Z Trail seed wagons ..........................................CALL NEW rock buckets & pallet forks.................................. CALL NEW Hardi sprayers ......................................................CALL REM 2700, Rental ..........................................................CALL Unverferth 8000 grain cart ........................................$19,000 Kinze 1050 w/duals ....................................................$48,500 ‘09 Artsway 5165 mill ................................................$21,000

(DMI Parts Available)

SKIDSTEERS

NEW NH skidsteers on hand ........................................CALL ‘05 Gleaner R65 ........................................................$150,000 ‘08 L175, 2-spd., 360 hrs. ..........................................$25,500 ‘03 Gleaner R65 ........................................................COMING ‘06 Mustang 2066, 1623 hrs.......................................$18,500 Gleaner R60 ................................................................$29,500 ‘02 NH LS170 w/bucket & fork ..................................$14,500 ‘08 Fantini 12-30 chopping cornhead ......................$68,000

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SMITHS MILL IMPLEMENT Hwy. 14, 3 miles West of Janesville, MN

Phone (507) 234-5191 or (507) 625-8649 Mon. - Fri. 7:30-5:00, Sat. 7:30-Noon

TRACTORS • MF 8660, MFD, 225 PTO hp.

• ‘09 MF 3645, MFD, cab, loader • ‘02 MF 481 platform • ‘04 MF 481, MFD, cab, 700 hrs, loader, 70 PTO hp.

• ‘05 MF 451, 363 hrs., 45 hp. - Like New • MF GC2600 Compact, 26 hp.

• MF 1529 Compact, 29 hp., loader • ‘86 CIH 2294, 5665 hrs, duals, 130 PTO hp.

• ‘93 Agco 5680, MFD, loader

COMBINES • • • • • • • • •

‘09 MF 9795, 282 hrs.

‘05 Challenger 670, 1476 hrs.

‘96 MF 8570, RWA, 2330 sep. hrs.

‘90 MF 8570 ‘77 MF 750 ‘82 MF 850, variable speed, 3535 hrs.

MF 9750 pu table MF 9120 beantable MF 1859 beantables, 15’, 18’, 20’

CORNHEADS • ‘07 Geringhoff 630, RD • ‘94 Geringhoff 630, PC • ‘91 Geringhoff 630, PC • ‘92 Gleaner 1222 hugger • ‘94 Gleaner 830 hugger • ‘04 CIH 2206, HDP • ‘06 CIH 2208, 8R30” • CIH 922 GVL poly • ‘90 CIH 1083 • ‘00 JD 893, knife rolls, HDP, HHC • ‘02 JD 893, knife rolls • MF 9483 • ‘03 MF 3000, 6R30” • ‘96 MF 864 • ‘99 NH 996, 12R20” • ‘09 NH 98D, 18R20” • ‘05 NH 98C, 12R20”

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Brandt GBU-10 grain bag unloader Brandt GBL-10 grain bag loader Brandt 5200 EX grain vacs Brandt 1515 LP, 1535, 1545, 1575, 1585 belt conveyors Brandt 1390 HP swing Brandt 1080 swing hopper Brandt 1070 swing Brandt 10x35 auger Brandt 8x47 auger Brandt 8x42 auger Feterl 10x60 auger Parker 1348 grain cart, 1300 bu., PTO drive Parker 938 grain cart, 1000 bu.

Parker 505 gravity box, 550 bu., brakes Feterl 10x60 straight auger

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Chandler litter spreader 22’&26’ Sitrex DM5, DM6, DM7 disc mowers Sitrex RP5 3 pt. wheel rake Sitrex MK12 & MK 14 wheel rakes Sitrex 10 & 12 wheel rakes on cart Westendorf 3 pt. bale spear

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JD 330 disc, harrow Balzer 22’ stalk chopper Balzer 20’ stalk chopper Leon rock picker, reel type Loftness 30’ stalk chopper, SM (5) Mauer 28’ to 42’ header trailers WRS 30’ header trailer Sunflower 1550 disc, 50’ Degelman 6000 HD rock picker Degelman RR1500 rock rake Degelman RD320 rock digger Degelman LR7645 land roller Degelman 7999 Straw Master, 50’

HAY & LIVESTOCK

MISCELLANEOUS

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

• ‘08 Geringhoff 1822, RD • ‘07 Geringhoff 1822, RD • ‘07 Geringhoff 1622, RD • ‘04 Geringhoff 1622, RD • ‘07 Geringhoff 1222, RD • ‘03 Geringhoff 1222, RD • (2) ‘08 Geringhoff 1220, RD • ‘05 Geringhoff 1020, RD • ‘98 Geringhoff 830, RD • ‘06 Geringhoff 830, RD • ‘03 Geringhoff 830, RD • ‘01 Geringhoff 830, RD • ‘00 Geringhoff 830, RD • ‘92 Geringhoff 830, PC • ‘06 Geringhoff 822, RD • ‘05 Geringhoff 822, RD • ‘07 Geringhoff 820, RD • ‘08 Geringhoff 630, RD

GRAIN HANDLING • • • •

Tillage Equipment

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DMI 500 3 pt ripper, cltrs, cover boards, $7500; IH 4600 fld cult, 28’ 3 bar mlcher, new shanks, shvls, rear hitch, $6500; JD No. 21, hay cond, $500. All in very gd cond. 320-328-5794 FOR SALE: ‘09 4511 Sunflower disc chisel, 9 shank, nice shape, 952-467-3081.

FOR SALE: IH 720 plow, 518” onland hitch, auto reset, coulters. Delivery possible. $4,950. 507-380-7863 JD 825 8R30” cult, rolling shields & extra sweeps, exc cond. Bought new & has always been shedded. $575. 507-236-8898

‘10 CIH 305, Autoguide Ready, 438 hrs. ........................$178,900

‘90 JD 5830, 4200 hrs., 2 heads ..........................$46,000

4WD TRACTORS

COMBINES

(B)’10 JD 9530, Lease return..........................................$248,500 (O)’06 JD 9620, 1449 hrs ..............................................$201,900 (B)’99 JD 9400, 3653 hrs. ..............................................$109,900 (H)’03 JD 9520, 5775 hrs. ..............................................$108,900 (O)’98 JD 9400, 3822 hrs. ..............................................$107,900 (W)’96 JD 8870, PTO, 6200 hrs. ......................................$76,900

(O)’10 JD 9870, 380 sep. hrs. ........................................$310,000 (O)’10 JD 9870, 300 sep. hrs. ........................................$289,000 (B)’09 JD 9870, 497 sep. hrs. ........................................$279,900 (O)’08 JD 9870, 635 sep. hrs. ........................................$242,000 (O)’09 JD 9770, 466 sep. hrs. ........................................$242,900 (B)’07 JD 9870, 722 sep. hrs. ........................................$239,900 (O)’10 JD 9670, 395 sep. hrs. ........................................$239,900 (O)’10 JD 9670, 328 sep. hrs. ........................................$239,900 (H)’08 JD 9670, 564 sep. hrs. ........................................$217,900 (B)’08 JD 9670, 532 sep. hrs. ........................................$214,900 (O)’08 JD 9670, 627 sep. hrs. ........................................$199,900 (H)’09 JD 9570, 447 sep. hrs. ........................................$199,900 (O)’06 JD 9760, 1175 sep. hrs. ......................................$189,000 (W)’06 JD 9660, 1361 sep hrs. ......................................$179,900 (H)’06 JD 9660, 1331 hrs. ..............................................$159,900 (H)’04 JD 9760, 1237 hrs. ..............................................$155,900 (B)’06 Case 2388, 1201 sep. hrs. ..................................$154,900 (H)’00 JD 9750, 2132 sep. hrs. ......................................$121,900 (O)’99 JD 9650, 2238 sep. hrs. ........................................$95,000 (W)’98 JD 9610 ................................................................$69,500 (W)’97 JD 9600, 2682 sep. hrs. ......................................$52,500 (H)’96 JD 9500, 1637 sep. hrs. ........................................$49,900 (O)’91 JD 9600, 2195 sep. hrs. ........................................$36,000

TRACK TRACTORS (B)’09 JD 9630T, 450 hrs. ..............................................$299,900 (O)JD9630T, Lease return ..............................................$299,900 (B)’10 JD 8320RT ..........................................................$238,500 (B)’07 JD 9520T, 1415 hrs. ............................................$199,900 (B)’03 JD 9520T, 1787 hrs..............................................$179,900 (H)’00 CIH 9380, 4819 hrs. ..............................................$87,900

ROW CROP TRACTORS (H)’10 JD 8345R, 767 hrs...............................................$229,500 (O)’10 CIH Magnum 305, 350 hrs. ................................$178,900 (B)’10 CIH Magnum 305, 350 hrs...................................$178,900 (O)’08 CIH MX275, 1258 hrs. ........................................$155,000 (O)’10 CIH Magnum 245, 250 hrs. ................................$149,900 (O)’03 JD 8320, 4701 hrs. ..............................................$109,900 (O)’94 JD 7800, MFWD, 7267 hrs. ..................................$52,900 (W)’89 JD 4555, 7240 hrs. ..............................................$49,500 (W)’87 JD 4850, 6300 hrs. ..............................................$45,500 (B)’90 JD 4455, 2WD, 8220 hrs. ......................................$38,900 (O)’83 JD 4650, 2WD, 7600 hrs. ......................................$37,900 (B)’84 JD 4650, MFWD, 12,708 hrs. ................................$37,900 (W)’94 MF 3660, 5712 hrs. ..............................................$24,500 (H)’77 JD 4230, open station............................................$13,900 (W)’77 White 2-155, 20.8x38 ..........................................$11,900 (W)’78 White 2-135, 5927 hrs. ........................................$11,900 (B)’67 JD 4020, gas............................................................$6,900 (B)’67 Oliver 1650 ..............................................................$5,500

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‘07 JD 9870, 722 sep. hrs., PRWD ..........................$239,900

(B)’10 JD 6430, IVT, 626 hrs. ..........................................$71,000 (B)’99 Ford NH TN75S, loader, 1029 hrs. ........................$29,900 (H)’84 JD 2750, loader, 4260 hrs. ....................................$16,900 (H)’83 JD 2950, 6705 hrs ................................................$15,900 (B)’93 JD 5200, loader......................................................$15,900 (W)’78 JD 2840, loader, 4000 hrs.....................................$12,500 (B)’59 JD 730, 3 pt., PTO....................................................$9,900 (B)’74 Ford 5000, gas ........................................................$7,500 (O)’69 IH 656, gas ..............................................................$6,900 (W)’65 Farmall 656 ............................................................$5,750 (B)’59 IH 460, diesel ..........................................................$4,900 (O)’65 JD 2510, gas, loader................................................$4,800 (B)’49 Ford 8N, loader ........................................................$2,750 (B)’47 JD “A” ......................................................................$2,500

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SPRAYERS (O)’08 JD 4930, 1500 hrs. ..............................................$205,000 (O)’08 JD 4830, 1450 hrs. ..............................................$179,000 (O)’06 JD 4920, 2335 hrs., dry applicator ......................$170,000 (H)’04 JD 4710, 2284 hrs. ..............................................$121,500 (O)’05 Spray Coupe 7650, 1690 hrs. ................................$87,500 (B)Top Air TA1200 ............................................................$25,900 (O)Sprayer Specialties, 80’ boom ....................................$21,500 (B)Ag-Chem 750, 60’ boom................................................$7,950

PLANTERS & DRILLS (H)’09 JD 1790, 24R20”, liq. fert. ..................................$115,500 (O)’06 JD 1790, 31R15” ..................................................$97,500 (B)CIH 1200 Bauer Built bar, 36R20”................................$94,900 (O)’05 JD 1790, 16R30” or 31R15”..................................$84,900 (H)’00 JD 750, 20’ no till drill ..........................................$26,900 (B)’97 JD 455, 30’ drill ....................................................$22,900 (B)Friesen bar, 24R30” ....................................................$19,900 (B)’94 JD 455, 25’, 10” spacing........................................$19,900 (B)’91 JD 450, 13’ @ 6” spacing ........................................$9,900 (O)JD 7000, 8R30” ............................................................$6,595 (H)JD 7100, 12R30” ..........................................................$5,000

TILLAGE (B)’08 JD 2310, 39’9” mulch finisher ..............................$69,900 (B)’02 JD 2200, 64’6” ......................................................$49,900 (H)’07 JD 2210, 45’5’ ......................................................$41,500

Top Air TA1200, 90’ boom ........................................$25,900

(O)’08 Riteway 42’ Land roller ..........................................$29,900 (H)’05 JD 2210, 38.5’ ......................................................$29,500 (H)’01 JD 980, 36.5’ ........................................................$24,900 (O)’95 DMI Tigermate, 50.5’ F.C. ......................................$14,500 (B)JD 960, 44.5’ ..............................................................$13,500 (H)JD 960, 36.5’ ................................................................$4,950 (H)JD 230, 25’ disk ............................................................$4,200 (B)Glencoe 12R30” ............................................................$2,900 (B)’91 JD 845, 12R30” ......................................................$2,595 (H)JD 825, 8R30” ..............................................................$1,200

HAY & FORAGE (O)’90 JD 5830, heads, 4200 hrs. ....................................$46,000 (B)’07 JD 568, surface wrap ............................................$34,900 (B)’08 JD 458, silage special ............................................$25,900 (B)’05 JD 956, 14’6” center pivot ....................................$24,900 (H)’03 JD 557, surface wrap ............................................$24,500 (W)’02 JD 567, surface wrap............................................$22,900 (B)’08 JD 946, 13’ MoCo ..................................................$21,900 (B)NH 1431, MoCo ..........................................................$20,900 (W)’03 JD 457SS, surface wrap ......................................$18,900 (B)’05 JD 525 MoCo ........................................................$13,900 (O)’93, JD 535, Heartland chopper ....................................$9,900 (B)’98 NH 664, 2200 lb. bale ..............................................$8,995 (B)Vermeer MC830, rotary MoCo ......................................$8,900 (B)’89 Gehl 1865 round baler, 6’ bale ................................$6,900 (H)JD 336 square baler ......................................................$3,950 (H)’05 JD MX8, 8’ rotary cutter ..........................................$3,795 (H)’85 NH 858 round baler, 7’ bale ....................................$2,900 (B)NH 40 forage blower ..............................2 @ $1,995 & $3,900 (B)Hesston 10 stacker ........................................................$1,995 (H)Bale Basket, holds 90 bales ..........................................$1,895 (H)Gehl 1090, MoCo ..........................................................$1,295

FALL TILLAGE (H)’07 JD 2700, 7-shank, folding......................................$33,500 (H)JD 3710, 8-bottom ......................................................$33,500 (B)’06 JD 2700, 7-shank ..................................................$32,900 (B)’03 JD 512, 9-shank ....................................................$29,900 (H)’03 JD 2700, 7-shank, folding......................................$29,500 (B)’01 JD 2700, 7 @ 24” ..................................................$26,900 (H)’07 JD 2700, 5-shank ..................................................$26,500 (B)’03 JD 2700, 5-shank ..................................................$24,900 (O)’04 JD 2700, 7 @ 30” ..................................................$24,900 (B)’03 JD 2700, 7-shank ..................................................$23,500 (W)’99 JD 510, 7-shank....................................................$13,900 (H)’96 JD 510, 7-shank ....................................................$13,500 (H)’96 JD 510, 7-shank ....................................................$10,900 (B)’97 JD 510, 7-shank ....................................................$10,500 (O)Glencoe F553A, 32’ chisel plow ....................................$7,950 (H)M&W 1475, 7-shank......................................................$7,950

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Machinery Wanted All kinds of New & Used farm equipment - disc chisels, field cults., planters, soil finishers, cornheads, feed mills, discs, balers, haybines, etc.

(507)438-9782 Disc chisels: JD 714 & 712, Glencoe 7400; Field Cults under 30’: JD 980, small grain carts & gravity boxes 300-400 bu. finishers under 20’, clean 4 & 6R stalk choppers; Nice JD 215 & 216 flex heads; JD 643 cornheads Must be clean;JD corn planters, 46-8 row. 715-299-4338 WANTED TO BUY: Oliver or White tractors, can be good running ones, parts tractors, or ones that need fixing, all years & models.

218-564-4273 WANTED: 6 row cultivator in good shape.

320-254-3580 or 320-248-4580 WANTED: B&H 9100 16 row ridge till cult. 507-259-2677 WANTED: Gleaner R60 w/ 6-30 head. 320-597-2544 WANTED: IH planter, model 950 or 955, 16R22”. 320968-6616 WANTED: JD 343 cornhead, w/or with out picker.

Avon, MN 320-250-7552 WANTED: JD 4055 or 4255 2WD tractor w/ cab in good condition. Daytimes only.

651-564-0606 WANTED: Pull type sprayer w/90’ booms. 320-7660720

Spraying Equip.

FOR SALE: ‘05 Nitro 2275 sprayer, 90’, 1400 gal S/S. 1650 hrs, $120,000. Also, ‘99 Nitro 200, 1200 gal S/S, 2900 hrs, new frt tires, call for price. 507-427-3520 FOR SALE: ‘01 JD 4700 sprayer, 3100 hrs, 90’ boom, $55,000. 507-475-7021

Spraying Equip.

FOR SALE: ‘80 JD 6000 sprayer,, 60’ boom, foam markers, new tires, cab, air, shields, & drop nozzels, asking $5000.

Westbrook, MN 507-274-5936

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Dairy quality western alfalfa, big squares or small squares, delivered in semi loads.

Clint Haensel (605) 310-6653

FOR SALE: Hardi Navigator 1100 sprayer, 80’ booms, diaphram pump, rinse tank, foam markers, 1100 gal tank, triple nozzles, 14.9x46 tires, $17,500.

Ortonville, MN 320-760-9314 FOR SALE: Top Air 1000 gal pull sprayer 80’ x fold boom, foamer, Raven 440 monitor, 18.4x26 single tires, good cond. $10,500/Offers. 641-561-2739 Hagie 284 Sprayer, 80' boom, good cond, $32,000/OBO. 515-689-2547 or 515-689-0907

USED PARTS LARSON SALVAGE Good selection of tractor parts - New & Used All kinds of hay equipment, haybines, balers, choppers parted out.

New combine belts for all makes.

Swather canvases, round baler belting, used & new tires.

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SprayRite sprayer, 3pt, 60’, w/ 400 gal midmount tank. $800. 507-830-1276

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IH 863 corn head ..............................$2,250 ‘00 CIH 1020, 30’ flex head ..............$9,900 NH 8RN, plastic snoot, Low Acres ..$17,500 NH BR 780A baler, net wrap ............$15,000 NH BR 780 baler, net wrap ..............$14,000 NH BR 780 baler, twine....................$10,500 JD 566 baler, net wrap ....................$11,000 JD 535 baler, net wrap, Sharp............$8,900 (2) JD 566 round balers ........$7,900/$8,900 New, 12 wheel rakes, hi capacity ....$7,800 12 wheel rake, Like New ..................$4,500 JD 2020, gas, Nice ............................$6,900 JD 3010, gas, loader..........................$5,500 (3) JD 4010 D........................$4,900-$6,500 (2) JD 4020, PS ....................$7,500/$8,900 (2) JD 4020, PS, side console ........................................$12,500/$15,500 JD 4430, PS ....................................$14,500 JD 4240, Quad ................................$18,000 JD 4240, Quad, (B range needs work) ........................................................$9,500 JD 4440, PS ....................................$19,250 JD 4650, PS ....................................$23,500 (2) JD 4960, MFD..............$39,000/$51,000 JD 7800, FWA, JD 740 loader..........$45,000

IH 7110, FWA, FH 1140 loader ........$37,500 ‘84 IH 5088, cab, air ........................$13,900 IH 986 ..............................................$12,500 IH 1066, red cab, WF, 3 pt. ................$6,200 ‘94 CIH 9280, 12-spd., triples, Nice $55,000 IH 1066 ..............................................$4,500 JD 843 loader, Like New ..................$12,500 JD 840 loader, JD 8000 mts...............$9,500 JD 148, JD 158 loaders ..........................Call JD 146 loader....................................Coming (3) IH 2350 loaders ..............$2,800/$3,500 Leon 1000 grapple, off JD 8100 ........$5,500 Leon loader, off JD 4020....................$1,500 Dual 3100 loader, blue cylinder ........$1,250 Dual 310 loader ................................$3,000 Farmhand 27, grapple ......................$1,000 Farmhand F358 loader, IH mts. ........$3,250 Miller loader, black/grapple ..............$2,500 Miller PL-4 loader..............................$3,500 Buhler 2595, New!, JD 6000 mts. ....$3,500 JD 331, 30’ disc ................................$3,900 New Box Scrapers, 10’/12’ ....................Call New & Used Skidsteer Attachments......Call Pallet Forks, Grapples, Rock Buckets ..Call

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FOR SALE: 1000 gal. SS tank & pump on 8T trlr, $2,800; 1000 gal. poly tank & pump on AgChem tandem trlr, $3,250; 500 gal.

SS tank on 6T trlr, $1,750; 8’x16’ tilt bed trlr, $1,100.

Olivia, MN (320)523-1099

Wanted

WANTED: Harvestor or Alfalfa mixed & grass hay in Straw, Grass, Alfalfa & Corn rounds & big squares, deStave silos for salvage & Stalks livered from South Dakota, large volumes of scrap In Large Rounds & Jerry Haensel iron. 952-292-5255 Large Squares, (605)363-3402 or (605)321-9237 in net & plastic twine.

Delivered in semi loads.

Farm Services Call Tim at 320-221-2085 Dairy Quality Alfalfa Custom round baling w/ late Tested big squares & round model JD baler. Makes up bales, delivered from to 5x6 bale. Twine or net South Dakota wrap. Contact Steve MesJohn Haensel serli 507-276-4595 (605)334-0643 Will Travel

‘98 Geringhoff 8-30 2206-2208

‘97 CIH 8940 ‘97 CIH 8920 SPRING EQUIPMENT JD 8450, 4W ‘09 CIH 1250, 12-30, bulk fill, liq‘05 Case 445, cab, air uid fert.

‘07 LX770 Ldr, Like New ..$11,900 ‘08 1200, 16-30 pivot CIH 5400, 20’ drill COMBINES CIH 1830, 12-30 VS cult.

‘10 CIH 7120, 350 hrs.

‘07 CIH 2577, 800 hrs.

TILLAGE ‘08 CIH 7010, 429 hrs.

DMI 530B ‘06 CIH 2388, 1570 hrs.

DMI 730B ripper ‘98 2388, 2670 hrs.

CIH 930, 9 shank ripper ‘97 CIH 2166 JD 2700, 9 shank ‘01-’08 1020, 25’ J&M 750 grain cart w/scale

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USED DRYERS & AUGERS Good Selection of Used Dryers - Call!

Feterl 8”x66’ electric ......................$1,200 Feterl 12”x60’ PTO ..........................$4,600 Sudenga 10”x71’ elec dr auger ......$6,100 Batco 1535 ......................................$5,550 Hutchinson 10”x62’, swing drive....$4,495 Mayrath 8”x47’ w/motor ................$1,695 Feterl 8” transfer auger w/motor....$1,695

SKIDLOADERS Bobcat S300, heat, 2 spd. ............$26,975 ‘02 Bobcat 873, heat, 2 spd. ........$19,500 Bobcat 743 w/bucket......................$8,950 Gehl 4835, open cab, clean..........$15,750 ‘05 Gehl 4640, fork, bucket ..........$14,800 Gehl 3510, bucket ..........................$6,950 Gehl 4240E, heat, 2007 ................$17,400 Gehl 6625, fork, bucket ................$10,950 ‘06 Case 430, heat, bucket ..........$22,700 Case 1825B w/bucket ..................$10,650 NH L425, gas ..................................$3,350

TILLAGE Wilrich 957, 7 shank......................$22,600 CIH MRX690, 5 shank ..................$18,900 JD 3 pt. plow, 5 btm........................$2,850 IH 720 plow, 5-18” ..........................$1,650 Brillion 40’, 4 bar ..........................$12,900 DMI 7-24 w/leveler ........................$13,900

507-228-8224 or 800-642-4104 www.ufcmn.com LeSueur • 800-252-5993

Wishek 16’ disc ............................$28,600 Yetter 3541, 41’ rotary hoe ..........$14,900

SPRAYERS Fast 1000 gal., 90’ boom ..............$10,300 Fast 1000 gal., 60’ boom ................$7,850 Redball 680, 1350 gal., 88’ boom $14,500 Century 750 gal., 60’ boom ............$6,650 Demco 850 gal.,, 60’ front end ....$23,800 Demco 500 gal., 40’ boom..............$1,050 Top Air 500 gal., 45’ boom..............$3,450

MISCELLANEOUS Balzer chopper, 20’ ........................$4,350 Loftness chopper, 20’ ..................$13,650 JD 2700, 7-shank ..........................$27,900 JD 510, 7-shank ............................$10,700 DMI 730, 7-shank ..........................$13,750 JD Gator, 6 wheel............................$5,950 Woods stalk chopper, 3 pt, 20’ ......$8,750 Woods 20’ stalk chopper................$9,300 Kilbros 690 grain cart....................$12,950 Parker 510 grain cart ....................$11,900 J&M 250 box ..................................$2,550 Used grain legs ....................................Call Gehl 1315 ........................................$7,950 NI 3739 spreader ............................$7,950 Gehl 322 spreader ..........................$6,275 Gehl 1287 spreader ........................$5,650 Loftness rock picker, 48” ................$2,850 Used Snowblowers ............................Call

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COMBINES & HEADS GLEANER F2 COMBINE, 438 CORN HEAD, 13’ PLATFORM ‘10 GLEANER R76 COMBINE, DUALS, 288 SEP./412 ENG. HRS. ‘03 GLEANER R65 COMBINE, 14” AUGER, 750 SEP./1055 ENG. HRS. ‘05 GLEANER R75 COMBINE, DUALS, TURRET, 1400 SEP./1700 ENG. HRS. CRESSONI 8R30" CHOPPING CORN HEAD, JD MTS. HARVESTEC 4308C CUTTER CORN HEAD 8R30” JD MTS. HARVESTEC 12R30” CUTTER CORN HEAD HARVESTEC 4308C CUTTER CORN HEAD, 8R30” IH 863 CORN HEAD ‘04 GLEANER 8000 FLEX HEAD, 30’, W/AIR REEL ‘05 GLEANER 8000 FLEX HEAD, 30’, SOLD NEW IN ‘07 GLEANER 320 FLEX HEAD, R MOUNTS., HYD. DRIVE REEL, OLD STYLE

SKID STEERS MUSTANG 930A, 60" DIRT BUCKET, 2000 HRS. ‘07 CASE 445, 1600 HRS ‘07 CASE 430, 72” BUCKET, 1600 HRS. ‘01 MUSTANG 2070, HEATER, 1250 HRS. 66” ROCK GRAPPLE BUCKET

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Chemicals Hay for Sale: LeRoy Ose, Round bales of hay & straw WESTERN ALFALFA. Exc FOR SALE: Alfalfa 3x3 South Dakota Western Alfalquality, 1st crop tested. Lg Thief River Falls, MN 218fa & Grass 3x3x8. Various squares, first cutting, 160 for sale. (715)748-2533 NH3 Applicator, hydraulic square bales 3x3x8. Mill681-7796 or cell 218-689-6675 RFB's RFV, using super condishut-off, 11 knives, 3pt, ard Brothers 800-535-7715.

KNS Hay & Transport tioning rows, $135 a ton. $2,000/OBO. 515-368-3732 605-999-1118 Delivery available.

507-427-2050 Mountain Lake Livestock • 5/8” drum roller WANTED TO BUY: DAMAGED CORN. Wet or dry- Black Angus Yearling bulls; WANTED & FOR SALE wall thickness almost any condition.

ALL TYPES of hay & Hamp, Chester & YorkSchwieger Grain straw. Also buying corn, shire boars & gilts.

• 42” drum diameter Fairmont, MN wheat & oats. Western Hay Alfred Kemen(320)598-3790 800-658-2314 • 4”x8” frame available. Fox Valley Alor 507-236-5181 cell falfa Mill. 920-853-3554 Dairy

WILRICH 657 DCR 11-SHANK, 5 DEEP TILL, 6 CHISEL JD 1010, 22’ FIELD CULTIVATOR KORVAIR 42’ DRAG FLEX SPIKE TOOTH

HAY & FORAGE, STALK CHOPPERS VERMEER 1030, 13' CENTER PIVOT DISCBINE MASSEY 2150, 3X3 BALER, 24,000 BALES ‘10 HINIKER 1734, 15’ STALK CHOPPER, USED VERY LITTLE FOX BRADY 1680 STALK CHOPPER W/WINDROWER, 15’ H&S 860 BLOWER HESSTON STACKHAND 10, NICE SHAPE HESSTON 7500 FORAGE HARVESTER W/HAY HEAD MILLER PRO 1100 ROTARY RAKE

NI 406 SIDE RAKE W/DOLLY WHEEL NI 272 CUT CONDITIONER NH 144 HAY INVERTER NI 486 ROUND BALER, 5X6 BALE, GRAY ROUND BALE WAGON, 8 BALE

ROW CROP, DRILLS & SPRAYERS HARDI TR500, 45’ BOOM, TANDEM AXLE HARDI DELTA, 90’, 3 PT. BOOM, FOAM MARKER, RATE CONT. JD 7000 PLANTER, 4R38”, DRY FERT. NAVIGATOR 1000, 60’ HYD. FOLD BOOM, RAVEN 440 CAMPBELL 500 SPRAYER

GRAIN CARTS & WAGONS EZ-TRAIL SEED WAGON, 300 BU, DIVIDER, TARP, AUGER GEHL FX1620 FORAGE BOX W/12-TON BADGER GEAR DEMCO 325 GRAVITY BOX W/12-TON GEAR (4) BADGER BN1055, 16’ FORAGE BOX W/14-TON TANDEM GEAR (2) BADGER 16’ FORAGE BOX W/BADGER TANDEM GEAR

MANURE SPREADERS NI 3639 SPREADER NI 3732 SPREADER H&S 430 MANURE SPREADER, TOP BEATER, 16.5X16.1 TIRES GEHL 1329 SPREADER HAGEDORN 276 HYDRA PUSH SPREADER, 400 BU. NH 795 SPREADER, TOP BEATER, 16.5X16.1 TIRES

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FOR SALE: Red & white springing heifers, a few black & white (NICE). $1,750/ea. Also, milk cows available. Mike Gerner, Sand Creek Area, 715-6581603. If no answer, leave message FOR SALE: Registered breeding age Jersey bulls.

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Herd of 50 Reg. Holstein 15 polled Hereford bulls, fer- COWS FOR SALE: (5) 3rd 2 Registered Black Angus For Sale: Watusi cattle. PINZGAUER Breeding Age tility tested, delivery testcalf, cow/calf prs, & (5) Bulls. 1 yearling; (1) 3-yr cows. Herd average 25,000 Heifers from registered Breeding stock & young ed. (715)772-4680 3rd calf cows yet to calve. old. Calving ease. lbs of Milk. (608)723-2987 stock. Choice or all 18. stock. 715-296-4485 or 715larsonherefordfarms.com PACMA Limousin, Odin 715-667-5245 or (608723-2989 715-344-7133 537-3193 MN 507-736-2413 Young herd of 23 Holsteins & Angus Bulls: Yearlings & 2 FOR SALE OR LEASE yr olds. Stout, heavy mus6 cross breds. Nice udders cled bulls w/ exc perform- REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS low SCC, $1,275/each for all Bulls, 2 year old & yearance genetics.

Fertility or will sep. Please leave 888 210 Ave. • Avoca, MN 56114 • Ph. 800-653-2676 or 507-335-7830 • Fax: 507-335-7808 • Mobile: 507-227-6728 lings; bred heifers, calving tested. Sullivan Angus Kelmessage. (608)214-1617 ease, club calves & ballogg, MN 507-767-3361 Den40+ Used Sprayers On Hand We are dealers for Top Air, Sprayer Specialties, Gregson Sprayers, new & used on hand Wheathart, Westfield, FarmKing, Brandt Vacs & ance performance, AI ny 612-799-7736 Tim WANTED TO BUY: Dairy Balzer Equipment • We have NEW Balzer stalk choppers on hand • Truckload prices on NEW Westfield augers, Brandt grain vacs, Batco belts Financing Available sired. In herd improveheifers and cows. ment program.

(320)235-2664 Bull for Sale: Black polled Truckload Special on 2 semi loads of Enduraplas water/fertilizer tanks at early order prices! yearling South Devon, low J.W. Riverview Angus Farm Glencoe, MN 55336 Redball 680, 2 pt., 90’ boom, Raven Demco 500 gal., 3-wheel, 45’ boom, birthweight good disposiNEW SPRAYERS Conklin Dealer tion, $2,000. 715-594-3805 440, hyd. pump, elect. over hyd.

203 control ........................................$2,000 (320)864-4625 Several New Sprayers On Hand evenings or weekends control, 380x90x46..........................$14,000 Demco pull between, 60’ hyd. fold boom, Early Order Pricing - Top Air 1100- Hardi 650 gal., 60’ F-fold boom, 60” no-drip plbg, no pump......................$2,000 2400 gal. w/60’-132’ booms axle, Big Wheel, Hardi pump & control, Pony Cart 500 gal., hyd pump, boomless Early Order Pricing - Gregson 1000 13.6x38 tires ....................................$13,000 nozzle ................................................$1,200 4WD & TRACK TRACTORS ‘07 NH TG275, MFWD, 1050 hrs., 18.4x50 gal. w/60’ booms Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, NEW WATER & FERTILIZER TANKS duals, front duals, front wgts., 540/1000 Early Order Pricing - Sprayer ‘08 C-IH 435 Steiger, 470 hrs., powershift, Big Wheel, PTO pump, 203 controller ON HAND! CALL FOR PRICES PTO ..............................................$115,000 Specialties 1000-1500 gal. ..........................................................$8,500 luxury cab, 620x42 tires & duals ..$176,000 Allis 7080, cab/air, 3 pt., 3 hyd., 1000 SELF PROPELLED w/60-90’ booms Top Air 80’ boom & saddle tanks ......$8,500 ‘08 C-IH 435 Steiger, 404 hrs, 24 spd.

PTO ....................................................$7,500 Silverwing Broyhill 1500 gal., 60”-120” Willmar 4WD, 750 gal. tank, Raven NYB tandem, 1000 gal., 90’ boom, trans., 710x42” duals, big pump, diff. adj. axle, 90’ boom, 20” spacing, Raven hyd. pump, Raven 440......................$7,800 440, hyd. adj. axle ..........................$24,000 COMBINES lock ................................................$168,000 450, hyd. pump, rinse, galv. booms Spray Coupe 220, 3-whl., air, foamer, Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, Raven JD 8770, 12 spd. syncro, 5211 hrs., 20.8x38, ‘06 C-IH 8010, 1350 eng./1050 sep. hrs., New to the Market ..........................$35,455 440, radar, foamer ............................$6,800 Raven 440, 1831-2200 hrs. Choice $7,000 Silverwing Broyhill 1200 gal, 60”-120” radial tires & duals 85%, 4 hyd.......$65,000 chopper, rock trap, tracker, Hahn HiBoy 312, 45’ boom, drop Blumhardt 1000 gal., 72’ boom, tandem, hyd. pump, 203 controller ................$6,500 nozzle, P.S. ............................................$800 adj. axle, 90’ boom, 20” spacing, Raven JD 8870, 24 spd., 6330 hrs., eng. OH ‘09, 20.8x42 duals ................................$159,000 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, tandem, 450, hyd. pump, rinse, galv. booms, 20.8x38 tires & duals 75%, 4 hyd., PICKUP SPRAYERS ‘06 JD 8010, 1325 eng./1050 sep. hrs., - New to the Market........................$34,890 hyd. pump, 440 controller ................$6,500 diff. lock ..........................................$67,000 20.8x42 duals, tracker, chopper, rock trap, NYB 500 gal., 90’ boom, Raven 450 Demco 500 gal., 45’ boom, hyd. pump, NEW Top Air 1600, 60”-120” adj. axle, ‘97 JD 9300, 24 spd., 5568 hrs., 20.8x42 230 controller, foamer ......................$6,000 ..........................................................$5,000 132’ boom, 20” spacing, Raven 450, auto header, Sharp!........................$155,000 duals ................................................$80,000 ‘06 JD 9660STS, 1815 eng./1315 sep. hrs., NYB 500 gal., 60’ boom, foamer, hyd. pump, rinse, duals ..................$61,000 Blumhardt 750 gal., 90’ boom, tandem, Raven 440..........................................$6,000 Raven 450..........................................$3,000 ‘87 JD 8760, 12 spd., 6600 hrs., 20.8x38 NEW Top Air 1600, 60”-120” adj. axle, Contour Master, bullet rotor, hi-capacity Blumhardt 60’ boom, hyd. fold, hyd.

F&S 500 gal., 80’ fold-up , hyd. tilt, 90’ boom, 20” spacing, Raven 450, duals ................................................$49,000 unload, chopper, 20.8x38 duals ....$135,000 manual height, no-drip plbg., 8 hp. hyd. pump, rinse, 380x90x46 tires $43,655 center lift, hyd. pump, rinse, foamer, Micro Trak, Nice Shape ....................$5,500 Honda eng. ........................................$3,000 ‘06 JD 9760STS, 1783 eng./1207 sep. hrs., ROW CROP TRACTORS NEW Gregson 1000 gal., 60”-120” adj.

Top Air 750 gal., 50’ boom, tandem, Ag Chem 450 gal., 58’ boom, axle, 60’ boom, Raven 440, 12.4x38 Contour Master, bullet rotor, Touchset, ‘04 Cat 765, 3000 hrs., 18” tracks,, 120” tires ..................................................$26,100 Raven 440, PTO pump......................$5,500 Micro Trak control ............................$2,500 HID lights, 20.8x42 duals ..............$145,000 track spacing, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., frt.

Top Air 750 gal., 60’ boom, vertical Blumhardt 500 gal., 60’ boom, Raven USED SPRAYERS fold, 203 control, hyd. pump ............$5,500 440 ....................................................$2,000 wgts., Nice ....................................$125,000 ‘05 JD 9760STS, 1462 eng./1086 sep. hrs., Contour Master, 20.8x38 duals, Century 750 gal., 60’ X-fold boom, Raven Top Air 2400 gal., 132’ boom, duals, Blumhardt 500 gal., 60’ boom ............$1,200 ‘97 JD 8300, MFWD, 8350 hrs., 3 pt., 440, PTO pump, foamer, tandem ....$5,500 54” tires, Raven 450, adj. axle, rinse 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., 14.9x46 duals ....$60,000 chopper, header controls ..............$135,000 3 PT. SPRAYERS tank ..................................................$61,000 Blumhardt 1000 gal., tandem, 90’ boom, ‘04 JD 9760STS, 2358 eng./1612 sep. hrs., ‘03 JD 8420, 4486 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, hyd. tip & center lift, Spray System plbg., NYB 500 gal., 90’ boom, pump Top Air 1600 gal., 90’ boom, tracks, hi-capacity unload, Contour Master, P.S. trans., 380x50 tires & duals, front no control ..........................................$5,500 & control ............................................$7,500 Raven 450, hyd. pump, adj. axle, Top Air 500 gal., 60’ X-fold boom, hyd. wgts. ..............................................$108,000 chopper, Greenstar yield & moisture Excellent ..........................................$61,000 Flexi-coil 1600 gal., 120’ boom, TeeJet monitor, 800x32 tires ....................$125,000 control................................................$5,500 pump, no controller ............Choice $5,700 Top Air 1600 gal., 90’ new boom, ‘03 JD 8220, MFWD, 4470 hrs., 3 pt., ‘04 JD 9660STS, 1761 eng./1289 sep. hrs., 500 gal., 60’ boom, 230 control..........$5,500 NYB 500 gal., 90’ boom, hyd. pump, hyd. pump, Raven 450, adj. axle, 1000 PTO, 5 hyd., big pump, 380x50 hyd. tilt, dripless plbg., ball valve, 18.4x42 duals, Green Star, yield & moisture Pleasure Products 1200 gal., 90’ boom, 14.9x46 tires ....................................$38,000 tires & duals ....................................$93,500 203 controller ....................................$5,500 Raven 440 controller, Honda gas Top Air 1600 gal., 90’ boom, duals, monitor, touch set..........................$124,000 ‘02 JD 8120, MFWD, 4921 hrs., 3 pt., 46” tires, hyd. pump, rinse tank ....$34,400 w/pump, tandem ..............................$4,500 Blumhardt 500 gal, 90’ boom ............$3,500 ‘03 JD 9650STS, 2732 eng./1962 sep. hrs., 1000 PTO, 540 capable, big pump, 500 gal., 45’ boom ..............................$3,500 Broyhill 1000 gal, 60’ hyd cross fold Schaben 1600 gal., Big Wheel, 380x50 tires & duals........................$89,000 Contour Master, bin ext. 18.4x42 duals 90’ boom, Raven 450, rinse tank, inductor, boom, Raven 440, tandem ..............$4,500 Demco 500 gal., 60’ Blumhardt boom, ........................................................$92,500 Raven 440, no pump ........................$2,500 Excellent ..........................................$29,000 Blumhardt 500 gal., Raven 440, foamer, ‘08 JD 7230 Premium, MFWD, 450 hrs., ‘01 JD 9550, 2348 eng./1729 sep. hrs., hyd. pump, tandem, 120” ................$4,500 Sprayer Specialties 500 gal. ..............$2,000 Brandt 1600 gal., 90’ boom, Raven cab, air, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 3 hyd., 300 gal., 45’ boom ..............................$1,800 450, adj. axle, 46” tires ..................$29,000 Top Air 800 gal., Blumhardt boom, 18.4x38 tires....................................$78,000 hi/lo Contour Master, chopper, yield & foamer, 203 control, hyd. pump ......$4,500 Brandt 1600 gal., 90’ boom, Raven moisture monitor, 18.4x38 duals ....$85,000 BOOMS ‘90 JD 4455, 2WD, 8801 hrs., 3 hyd., 3 pt., 450, 46” tires ..................................$29,000 Broyhill 750 gal., 60’ boom, 203 ‘05 Cat 560 Lexion, 1032 eng./810 sep. hrs., New & Used Top Air 60’ X-fold Booms, 540/1000 PTO, 14.9x46 tires & duals controller............................................$4,200 Red Ball 670, 1200 gal., 90’ boom, 120” 20.8x42 duals, auto contour, 3D sieves, 3-Pt. & Trailer Mount ........................................................$37,500 Ag Chem 500 gal., 60’ boom, Raven axle, 320x90x38 tires, Raven 440, chopper, walker machine ................$98,000 Excellent ..........................................$24,000 440 control, hyd. pump, tandem ......$3,500 Marflex 90’ front fold, hyd. boom, ‘09 C-IH 275 Magnum, 795 hrs., 3pt., 1000 gal. tank, Raven 440, hyd.

Homemade 750 gal., Big Wheel, Sprayer Specialties 1250 gal., XLRD, 540/1000 PTO, 420x46 tires & duals LOADER TRACTORS pump, radar ....................................$12,000 Ag Chem boom, Raven 440, 90’ S-3 boom, 20” no-drip plbg., ......................................................$137,500 ‘08 NH T7030, MFWD, 1085 hrs., 18.4x42 PTO pump ........................................$3,500 Top Air 80’, X-fold, Excellent ..............$8,000 60”-120” adj. axle, Raven 450, foamer, ‘07 C-IH 305 Magnum, 2100 hrs., New Top Air 60’, hyd. X-fold booms, chem inductor ................................$24,000 Homemade 500 gal. RD tank, tandem, duals, 540/1000 PTO, NH 850TL loader 3 pt. & trailer mount ..........................$7,450 380/54” tires & duals, 380x46 front 60’ Demco boom, foamer, Raven 440, Redball 680, 1000 gal., 90’ boom, w/grapple & joystick........................$89,000 PTO pump ........................................$3,500 (2) Top Air 60’, hyd. X-fold booms tires & duals, 3 pt., 1000 PTO ......$123,000 ‘02 NH TM125, MFWD, 3483 hrs., cab, Raven 450, rinse, foamer, Big Wheel, ..............................................Choice $4,000 walking tandem, 320x90x42 Bestway 500 gal., pull-between, ‘06 C-IH MX215, MFWD, 1850 hrs., air, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, Buhler 2795 Hardi 60’, H-frame, trailer mount, tires ..................................................$23,000 60’ Blumhardt boom, Raven 440, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 20.8x42 duals $92,000 loader w/joystick control..................$49,000 Demco Conquest 1000 gal., 60’ boom, hyd. pump..........................................$3,200 hyd. fold ............................................$3,000 ‘06 C-IH 120MXM, MFWD, Pro cab, (2) Blumhardt 80’-90’ booms 60-120” adj. axle, 13.6x38 tires, Micro Bestway 500 gal., 60’ boom, hyd.

1699 hrs., 3 hyd., 540/1000 PTO, ..............................................Choice $2,800 Trak controllers ..............................$19,750 pump, 203 control, dripless plbg., 18.4x42 tires....................................$52,000 Gregson 1000 gal., 90’ boom, 20” no-drip tandem wheels ..................................$3,000 Blumhardt 80’ trailer mount or 3 pt. ..$2,600 Ag Chem 60’ X-fold boom..................$2,000 plbg., hyd. pump, Raven 440, rinse, Demco 500 gal., 45’ boom, tandem, Case 2096, cab/air, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, Blumhardt 60’ narrow cener ..............$1,200 14.9x46 tires ....................................$16,000 new tank, Micro-Trak, hyd. pump, 18.4x38 singles, 6300 hrs. ..............$17,500 Demco Conquest 1100 gal., 90’ foamer................................................$2,900 Wheel boom, 60’, flat fold, 20” no-drip F-fold boom, Big Wheel, adj. axle, Blumhardt 500 gal., 60’ boom ............$2,800 plbg. ......................................................$700 Bestway wheel boom, 60’, 20” no-drip hyd. pump, foamer, elec. over hyd., Horvick 500 gal., pull-between, hyd. plbg. ......................................................$700 844 Teejet control............................$16,000 pump, 203 control, 60’ FT NYB 5 miles east of Cambridge, MN on Hwy. 95 Sprayer Specialties, 1000 gal., 60’ boom..................................................$2,500 (4) Demco 45’ flat fold ..............Choice $450 Several more items on hand!

F-fold boom, hyd. pump, Raven 440, Blumhardt 550 gal., 60’, hyd. fold boom, Free delivery on combines in MN, Eastern ND & SD 12.8x38 tires ......................................16,000 foamer, hyd. pump, 203 control, Nice Sprayer Specialties VLU, 1000 gal., ..........................................................$2,300 Look at our Web site for pictures & more listings 60’ F-fold boom, Raven 440, hyd.

300 gal., 50’ boom ..............................$2,200 www.larsonimplements.com pump, adj. axle, 38” tires................$14,500

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• New 900 x 32 flotation tires, under 10psi • 24” Unload Auger “Fastest in the industry!”

• Auto-Trail Steerable Axle System • New independent horizontal “feeder” & vertical “unload” auger operation

New Tanks & Pumps: Any Size Available Used Tanks: - Houle 7300 gal. slurry w/5-unit disk injector - Balzer 6350 gal. slurry tank w/5 shank, spring shank inductor - Houle 6000 gal. slurry w/4 units, disk injector - Calumet 4500 gal. vacuum tank - Balzer 4200 gal. vacuum w/3-tank injector - Calumet 4000 gal. slurry manure tank w/5-unit chisel injectors - Auto Car 6-wheel drive w/4000 Calumet slurry tank w/4-unit disc injector - Calumet 3750 gal. vacuum manure tank w/3-unit disc injector - Better Bilt 3350 gal. vacuum manure tank w/3-shank rear injector - Van Dale 3000 gal. vacuum tank - Better Bilt 2600 gal. vacuum tank - Calumet 2250 gal. vacuum tank w/2-shank injector - Balzer 2250 gal. vacuum tank - Better Bilt 1500 gal. vacuum tank - Dietrich 5 unit sweep injector

Misc.Equipment:

- TA 112, 1200 gal., 80’ boom, Reven 440 - Redball 570, 1200 gal., 90’ boom w/Raven 450 monitor - Top Air 1100 gal., 80’ boom, Raven 450 monitor - Top Air 1000 gal., 60’ boom, MT 3000 monitor - L & D 1000 gal., 88’ boom, no monitor - Blumhardt tandem axles, 1000 gal., 90’ boom w/foamer - Top Air 1000 gal., 60’ X-fold boom w/Raven 440 monitor, tandem axle V-Pump - Red Ball 565, 1000 gal., 60’, FF boom - AgChem 750 gal., 60’ X-fold boom, • Up to 4000 tandem axle gallons - Blumhardt 500 gal., 60’, FF boom, PTO drive per minute The most durable and - Walsh 500 gal., 45’ boom dependable high capacity - Brent 1084 grain cart pump available.

- Brent 976 grain cart Other: - Brent 772 grain cart - N Tech vari width vertical - Clay 12’ vertical manure pump - Kilbros 1200 grain cart - J&M 525 grain cart manure pump - Van Dale 10’ vertical manure - Brent 472 grain cart - Farmstar horizontal 540 pump - Parker 450 grain cart transfer manure pump - Nuhn 540, 8’ vertical manure - JD 1210A grain cart - Balzer Afi 35 horizonal pump - JD 2700, 5-bottom plow manure pump - Balzer 55’ wall walke lagoon - Fork type rock picker - Balzer Rovatti horizontal pump manure pump - Hydro Engineering, 23-shank, - Glencoe model 4300 soil finisher - Tyler pull-type fertilizer spreader 46’ direct injector tool bar - Mobility 4-ton spreader, full hyd. drive - 10”x30’ load stand - Dempster 4-ton pull-type fert. spreader - 8’ Power Angle Hyd. Plow for skidloader - Leon 650 hyd. pull-type scraper - Balzer Model 1200 pull-type windrower - Miller 12 silage dump box - New Lee Mfg. 975 & 475 trailer dsl. fuel tanks - IH 80 snowblower - CIH 527B Ecolo Tiger chisel plow - Balzer 1400, 14’ stalk chopper - Glencoe 23’ discovator - NH ST460, 28’ disk, like new - ‘05 Featherlite 16’ gooseneck livestock trailer - NH 9884 w/4316 hrs.

- JD 456 round baler - ‘07 CIH 245, MFWD, 2908 hrs.

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JD 8430, 4WD w/PTO/50 series engine ....................$12,900 ‘79 JD 4840, w/power shift, new tires ......................$27,000 ‘85 Versatile 876, 4WD, SN: 223103, Good Unit ......$35,000 ‘97 CIH 4210, MFD w/loader, SN: JJE0926042..........$22,900 ‘99 CIH MX240, MFD, front/rear duals, high output hyd, Nice Unit....................................................................$89,500 ‘03 CIH MX255, MFD, front/rear duals, large hyd. pump, 3100 hrs., SN: JAZ125470 ......................................$105,000 ‘04 CIH MX285, MFD w/auto guidance ready, triples, Excellent ................................................................$129,000 ‘03 CIH STX450, Quad Track, 4200 hrs., SN: JEE0100799......................................................$148,000 Case 40XT skidsteer, w/cab/heater, 2200 hrs., SN: JAF0369935, Excellent! ......................................$22,500

FOR SALE: (6) Black Simmental bulls, Polled, exc quality, good disposition; Black Yearlings & 2 yr old heifers, open or bred, by the lb. **40 yrs of Simmental breeding. Jerry Polzin Polzin Riverside Simmentals Cokato, MN 320-286-5805

PLANTERS / TILLAGE CIH 1200, 16R31” planter, SN: CBJ0018890, Excellent ..................................................................................$59,000 CIH 1200, 16R31” pivot planter, Excellent, SN: CBJ025653 ........................................................$66,000 NEW CIH 50’ crumbler ................................................$16,000 IHC 485, 24’ disk, New 22” blades on front, gang main frame ..........................................................................$3,350 CIH 5600, 26’ chisel plow w/mulcher ..........................$7,800 CIH 4900, 40’ field cultivator w/mulcher, SN: JAG0067353 ....................................................................................$8,500 CIH 9300, 9 shank Ecolo Tiger, SN: JFH0017320 ......$36,000 ‘05 JD 512, 9 shank disc/ripper ..............................$34,500

COMBINE & HARVEST EQUIP. ‘97 CIH 2188 combine, 2561 hrs., SN: JJC0195483 ..............................................................................Coming In ‘98 CIH 2388 combine, 3000 hrs., SN: JCC0197410..$75,000 ‘00 CIH 2388 combine, 2800 hrs., SN: JCC0268246..$99,000 ‘04 CIH 2388 combine, RWA, field tracker, 2200 hrs., SN: JJC0275552......................................................$129,000 ‘07 CIH 8010 combine, RWA, 1300 hrs., SN: HAJ200285 ................................................................................$219,000 ‘96 CIH 1020, 25’ flexhead w/3” cutting, field tracker, SN: JJC0220057........................................................$11,000 CIH 1020, 25’ flexhead, field tracker, SN: JJC0220272 ..................................................................................$10,500 CIH 1020, 25’ flexhead, field tracker, SN: JJC00063532 ....................................................................................$7,900 ‘02 CIH 1020, 30’ flexhead, SN: JJC0328308, Good..$18,500 CIH 1083, 8R30” corn head, SN: JJC0150471 ..........$12,500 CIH 2208, 8R30” corn head, Excellent ......................$31,000 CIH 1000 Series, 12R22” corn head, plastic dividers ..................................................................................$17,000 Artsway 240B, 20’ shredder, AW 240B, Good Unit, Needs Knives, SN: M982931 ..................................................$5,500 Alloway 22CD, 22’ shredder, SN: 25782 ......................$8,900 Balzer 2200, 22’ shredder, recent overhaul, SN: 1262-0998 ..........................................................$10,500 J&M 875 grain cart w/duals ......................................$23,500 ‘09 J&M 1151 grain cart w/walking tandems, scale, 22” row spacing, Excellent ......................................$44,500 Farm King 10”x60’ auger w/swinghopper, SN: 9101788................................................................$3,900

MISCELLANEOUS Feterl 8’ snowblower....................................................$3,250 Dual 3100 loader w/IHC 86 Series MTG’s ....................$3,900 J&M 6-wheel header trailer..........................................$4,900 Cub Cadet 1440 w/42” deck mower, engine OH’d ......$1,500 ‘08 Leon 425 bu. manure spreader, vertical beater, New ..........................................................................$30,425

Pederson’s Agri-Service, Inc. 320-677-2255 Fax: 320-677-2257 101 3rd St. E, Herman, MN E-mail: pedersonsag@frontiernet.net Web site: www.pedersonsag.com ©2010 CASE CORPORATION Visit our web site at http://www.caseih.com Case IH and Case Credit are registered trademarks of Case Corporation

FOR SALE: Holstein steers 95 @ 565lbs, 120 @ 640lbs, raised from calves, Sell any number and can deliver. Jeff 320-732-6259 FOR SALE: Semen tested Limousin bulls, 2 yrs olds & yrlings, low birth wgt, super growth, John Goelz 507-557-8394 or Larry 507825-5509 LIMOUSIN BULLS for sale from top AI sires, red & black, yearling & 2 yr olds, Green Fields Crossing Limousin (715)273-0310 LIMOUSIN BULLS for sale.

Reds, Blacks, yearling & two yr olds. Performance bred. Mill Road Limousin 715-665-2605 Reg. Polled Hereford yearling bulls & heifers. Top genetics. Christ the Rock Herefords. St. Croix Falls, WI 715-483-1184, www.CTRherefords.com

USED EQUIPMENT • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

NH 9882 tractor Ford 7700 tractor David Brown 1210 NH T8020 tractor Ford 7710 tractor w/Tiger mower NH 96C, 8N corn head NH TR96 combine 96C, 12N corn head NH LS170 NH 660 baler CIH RBX562 w/net Sitrex 10-wheel rake IHC 133, 8RN cult.

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‘10 CIH Steiger 535Q, 1250 hrs. ............................................$265,000

‘11 CIH Steiger 600Q, full auto guide, 36” tracks, Lux. cab..............$379,900

‘09 CIH Steiger 535Q, 1479 hrs. ............................................$229,000

‘10 CIH Steiger 385, full auto guide, PTO ......................................$199,500

‘10 CIH 535Q, 36” tracks, Lux. cab, full auto guide, 395 hrs. ......$309,900

‘11 Magnum 340, susp. front axle, full auto guide......................$235,000

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CIH 9120, track drive, RWA, 313 hrs., leather, loaded, On Hand ..........................................$339,500 CIH 9120, track drive, RWA, 275 hrs., leather, loaded, Coming In........................................$345,500 CIH 8010, corn & bean use, 935 eng. hrs., 620/42 duals ......................................................$199,900 CIH 7010, 782 eng./632 sep. hrs., duals, Excellent ..............................................................$194,500 CIH 3408, 8R30” ........................................................................................................................$44,500 CIH 2208, 8R30” ........................................................................................................................$32,500 CIH 2608, 8R30 chopping corn head........................................................................................$64,500 CIH 3408, 8R30 corn head ........................................................................................................$48,500 CIH 3208, 8R30 corn head ........................................................................................................$38,500 CIH 2020, 35’ platform, 1 ⁄ ”, rock guard..............................................................................COMING IN CIH 2020, 35’ platform, air reel, 1 ⁄ ” ....................................................................................COMING IN CIH 2020, 35’ platform, Crary air reel ......................................................................................$39,900 CIH 2020, 35’ platform, Crary air reel, 3” knife ........................................................................$39,900 CIH 2020, 35’ platform, 3” knife, rock guard ............................................................................$32,900 CIH 1020, 30’ platform, 1 ⁄ ” knife, tracker ................................................................................$14,900 CIH 1020, 25’ platform, 3” knife ................................................................................................$12,800 CIH 1020, 25’ platform, 1 ⁄ ” knife ........................................................................................COMING IN CIH 1020, 30’ platform, 3” knife, Crary air reel ........................................................................$24,900 CIH 1020, 25’ platform, 3” knife ................................................................................................$12,800 1

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This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Correspondents Tim King (story) and Jan King (photo)

Soda jerks

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The MinneSODA Fountain, downtown Park Rapids, Minn.

f you have just one malt this summer IAvenue at The MinneSODA Fountain on Main in downtown Park Rapids, you will remember it through the following fall, the long dark winter, spring’s hopefulness, until finally, you can once again make a summer pilgrimage to this 90year-old icon of sweetened dairy products.

So, it’s just a malt, the uninitiated skeptic may say. I say you can have a malt in any one of hundreds of Minnesota cafes with back-to-the-’50s decor and it just isn’t the same. A malt is not a malt because the waitress wears bobby socks, there are James Dean photos on the wall, and Coca-Cola are in even the rest rooms.

That’s decor.

Don’t get me wrong. Since The MinneSODA Fountain was actually around in the ’50s, there’s decor. But malts require more than decoration. It’s the malt powder. And something else. Whatever the magic is you will taste the difference in MinneSODA’s chocolate, cherry, vanilla, marshmallow, blueberry, root beer, butterscotch and 11 other flavors of malts. And you’ll remember.

Beth Belfiori and her staff at The MinneSODA call themselves soda jerks. Now I know what a soda jerk does because I’m old enough to have been served by a genuine 1950s soda jerk named Bunny Eifert. It was at Schenk’s Drug Store. I don’t know why Mr. Eifert was called a jerk, however.

“It’s because you jerked the handle of the fountain back to get charged water in the phosphate drinks,” Belfiori said.

The original fountain is visible, but idle, at MinneSODA so there’s no actual sodajerking going on. I suppose that’s decor.

But staff does serve up real phosphates in cherry, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, lime, lemon and green river. Bunny Eifert made something with all the flavors combined that he called The Suicide. Belfiori says she’s never made one but would be glad to try.

MinneSODA serves other concoctions that regulars at Schenk’s Drug Store would remember. There are orange floats, brown cows (an ice cream soda with chocolate syrup and a touch of root beer), banana or hot fudge splits and banana slides. There is also a line-up of 10 different sundaes, including four named after candy bars.

Since milk and sugar do not provide all the nutrients necessary to sustain life, MinneSODA serves 17 different sandwiches. I’d recommend the Chicago Style Hot Dog. Think of it as sort of a vitamin supplement.

Do you have a Back Roads story suggestion? E-mail editor@TheLandOnline.com or write to Editor, The Land, P.O. Box 3169, Mankato, MN 56002.

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2011 Fair-Goers Guide The Land’s 2009

2011 Minnesota county fair schedule This year’s Minnesota county fairs are listed below in alphabetical order.

Websites and Midway providers are listed where available. Turn to Pages 4F-5F to map your summer fun!

Aitkin County Fair, Aitkin July 13-16 Crescent City Amusements www.aitkincountyfair.org

Benton County Fair, Sauk Rapids Aug. 1-7 Gopher State Expositions www.BentonFairMN.com

Carlton County Fair, Barnum Aug. 18-21 Stipe’s Shows www.carltoncountyfair.com

Chisago County Fair, Rush City July 14-17 Magel Carnival Midways www.chisagocountyfair.org

Big Stone County Fair, Clinton July 14-17 Minnesota Magic Midway www.bscfair.org

Carver County Fair, Waconia Aug. 10-14 Gold Star Amusements www.carvercountyfair.com

Clay County Fair, Barnesville July 14-17 Mighty Thomas Carnival www.mnclaycountyfair.com

Anoka County Fair, Anoka July 26-31 Gopher State Expositions www.anokacountyfair.com

Blue Earth County, Garden City July 28-31 Superior Rides www.blueearthcountyfair.org

Cass County Fair, Pillager July 6-10 www.pillagerfair.com

Clearwater County Fair, Bagley Aug. 3-7 Family of Fun Shows

Becker County Fair, Detroit Lakes July 27-30 Amusement Attractions beckercountyfair.tripod.com

Brown County Free Fair, New Ulm Aug. 10-14 All American Amusements www.browncountyfreefair.com

Cass County Fair, Pine River June 30-July 3 All American Amusements www.thecasscountyfairmn.org

Cook County Fair, Grand Marais Aug. 19-20 Game World

Beltrami County Fair, Bemidji Aug. 10-14 Gopher State Expositions beltramicountyfair.org

Cannon Valley Fair, Cannon Falls June 30-July 4 Crescent City Amusements www.cannonvalleyfair.com

Chippewa County Fair, Montevideo Aug. 4-6 Bounce Around Inflatables www.chippewacofair.com

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Wed., July 27 - Sun. July 31, 2011

GRANDSTAND EVENTS: Motorcycle Supercross Wed. July 27 @ 7:00 pm

Auto Cross Racing Extravaganza Fri. July 29 @ 7:00 pm

Tractor, Pickup & Semi Pull Thurs. July 28 @ 7:00 pm

Demolition Derby Sat. July 30 @ 7:00 pm

Draft Horse Shows, Stock Dog Trials, & Carnival Fun

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Fillmore County Fair, Preston July 19-23 J&K Concessions and Rides www.fillmorecountyfair.com

Houston County Fair, Caledonia Aug. 17-21 Crescent City Amusements www.houstoncountyfair.com

Kanabec County Fair, Mora July 20-24 Magel Carnival Midway www.kanabecfair.org

Dakota County Fair, Farmington Aug. 8-14 Midwest Rides www.dakotacountyfair.org

Freeborn County Fair, Albert Lea Aug. 2-7 Merriam’s Midway Shows www.freeborncountyfair.com

Hubbard County Fair, Park Rapids July 6-10 All American Amusements

Kandiyohi County Fair, Willmar Aug. 10-13 MCM Carnival Midway www.kandifair.com

Dodge County Fair, Kasson July 13-17 Midwest Rides, Inc. www.dodgecountyfreefair.com

Goodhue County Fair, Zumbrota Aug. 9-14 Amusement Attractions www.goodhuecountyfair.com

Douglas County Fair, Alexandria Aug. 18-21 Magel Carnival Midways www.mndouglascofair.com

Grant County Fair, Herman July 21-24 Cody Rides www.grantcountyfair.net

Faribault County Fair, Blue Earth July 19-23 Minnesota Magic Midway www.faribaultcountyfair.com

Hennepin County Fair, Corcoran June 16-19 Gopher State Expositions www.hennepincountyfair.com

Isanti County Fair, Cambridge July 20-24 Gopher State Expositions www.isanticountyfair.com

Kittson County Fair, Hallock July 7-10 Game World

Itasca County Fair, Grand Rapids Aug. 17-21 Gopher State Expositions www.itascacountyfair.org

Koochiching County Fair, Northome Aug. 12-14 Rentertainment

Jackson County Fair, Jackson Aug. 3-7 www.jacksoncountyfairmn.com

Lac qui Parle County Fair, Madison Sept. 8-11 McDermott Family Shows

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Kid’s Pedal Pull - 12:30 pm Lollipop the Clown - Afternoon Raptor Center Shows - 3:00 pm & 4:00 pm Downtown Sound - 8:30 pm - Midnight

- 3:00 pm NTPA Truck & Tractor Pull - 7:00 pm Sunday: Demo Derby - 2:00 pm FOOD, FUN, ANIMALS ~ EVERY DAY!!!

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Novotny the One Man Band - 12:30 pm Seniors Award & Century Farm Program - 1:00 pm Ranch Rodeo - 1:00 pm Lollipop the Clown - Afternoon

North American Strong Man Challenge VI: Saturday at 10:00 am Kid Davie - 3 times daily Antique Tractors on display daily Auto & Cycle Show & Shine - Sun., 12-5 pm

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4-H Judging

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Advance Ride Tickets - 20 tickets: $25 (One Ride Per Ticket!)

Available June 30th at HyVee & Waseca County Extension Office

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2011 Le Sueur County Fair

GRANDSTAND EVENTS:

THE LAND, SUMMER 2011

Crow Wing County Fair, Brainerd Aug. 2-6 Minnesota Magic Midway www.brainerd.com/fair

• Wheaton

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LINCOLN

• Canby

Madison

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LAC QUI PARLE

• Clinton

BIG STONE

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YELLOW MEDICINE

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Bemidji

Park Rapids

• Bird Island

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Willmar

KANDIYOHI

STEARNS

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CASS

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Arlington

McLEOD

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Aitkin

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SCOTT

Jordan

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• • Rush

Pine City

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DAKOTA

Farmington

WASHINGTON

Lake Elmo

Maplewood

CHISAGO

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Barnum

RAMSEY

• Anoka

ANOKA

HENNEPIN

CARVER

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Floodwood

PINE

Cambridge City

Corcoran

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Elk River

• Mora

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Chisholm

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Proctor

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Two Harbors

LAKE

COOK Grand Marais

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ST. LOUIS

CARLTON

KANABEC

ISANTI

AITKIN

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MILLE LACS

Waconia

Howard Lake

WRIGHT

Hutchinson

Litchfield

MEEKER

ITASCA

Grand Rapids

SHERBURNE

Sauk Rapids

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BENTON

MORRISON

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Brainerd

CROW WING

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Northome

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Littlefork

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KOOCHICHING

Little Falls

• •Motley

Pillager

• Pine River

Sauk Centre

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Long Prairie

TODD

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Wadena

WADENA

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BELTRAMI

HUBBARD

RENVILLE

•Montevideo

CHIPPEWA

Appleton

Glenwood

POPE

• SWIFT

• Morris

STEVENS

Alexandria

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Herman

• Perham

DOUGLAS

• Fergus Falls

OTTER TAIL

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Detroit Lakes

BECKER

Mahnomen

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MAHNOMEN

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Bagley

Baudette LAKE OF THE WOODS

CLEARWATER

GRANT

Breckenridge

WILKIN

Barnesville

CLAY

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Oklee

RED LAKE

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Ada

• Roseau

• Thief River Falls

PENNINGTON

ROSEAU

Fertile NORMAN

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TRAVERSE

POLK

Warren

MARSHALL

Hallock

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KITTSON

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Princeton

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LYON

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BUENA VISTA

Spencer

CLAY

• Spirit Lake

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• Algona

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KOSSUTH

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Britt

HANCOCK

• Thompson

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CERRO GORDO

Mason City

WORTH

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Albert Lea

FREEBORN

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Osage

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Allison

BUTLER

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Charles City

FLOYD

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• Waverly

BREMER

Nashua

• West Union

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FAYETTE

• Decorah

WINNESHIEK

CHICKASAW

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Cresco

HOWARD

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Preston

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National

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• •Postville CLAYTON Waukon

ALLAMAKEE

HOUSTON Caledonia

•St. Charles

WINONA

FILLMORE

• Rochester

WABASHA

Wabasha

OLMSTED

MITCHELL

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Austin

MOWER

• Kasson

DODGE

• Cannon Falls Zumbrota • GOODHUE

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Winnebago County Junior Show & Fair, Thompson July 21-24

Humboldt County Fair, Humboldt July 26-Aug. 1

Check our website for complete schedule - www.browncountyfreefair.com

Demo Derby - Wednesday, Aug. 10 — 7 p.m. • $10 Moto Cross - Friday, Aug. 12 — 7 p.m. • $10 Demo Derby - Saturday, Aug. 13 — 7 p.m. • $10 Truck/Tractor Pull - Sunday, Aug. 14 — Noon • $5

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Sioux County Youth Fair, Sioux Center July 11-14

Mighty Howard County Fair, Cresco June 21-26

O’Brien County Fair, Primghar July 16-21

Mitchell County Fair, Osage July 27-31

Lyon County Fair, Rock Rapids July 25-28

Kossuth County Fair, Algona Aug. 2-7

Pocahontas County 4-H & FFA Fair, Pocahontas July 14-18

Hancock County Junior Fair, Britt July 26-Aug. 1 Emmet County Agricultural Show, Estherville July 28-31

Franklin County Fair, Hampton July 13-17

Dickinson County 4-H/ FFA Fair, Spirit Lake July 25-28

FREE ENTERTAINMENT on the grounds DAILY...

Buena Vista County Fair, Chickasaw-Big Four Fair, Alta Nashua July 20-24 Sept. 1-5

Cherokee County Fair, Cherokee July 7-10

Plymouth County Fair, Le Mars July 28-31

Floyd County Fair, Charles City July 20-24

Clayton County Fair, National Aug. 2-8

Wright County District Junior Fair, Eagle Grove July 6-11

Worth County Fair, Northwood June 15-19

Winneshiek County Fair, Decorah July 12-16

Palo Alto County Fair, Emmetsburg July 21-24

Fayette County Fair, West Union July 26-30

Clay County Fair, Spencer Sept. 10-18

Osceola County Fair, Sibley July 13-16

2011 Iowa county fair schedule

Bremer County Fair, Waverly July 31-Aug. 6

Free Gate!

• Owatonna •

Waseca

WASECA STEELE

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Faribault

RICE

WINNEBAGO Northwood

Blue Earth

FARIBAULT

EARTH

• BLUE Garden City

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Mankato

• • LE SUEUR

Le Center

POCAHONTAS WRIGHT FRANKLIN HUMBOLDT Eagle Grove Humboldt Hampton Pocahontas

Emmetsburg

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PALO ALTO

EMMET

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Fairmont

MARTIN

St. James

DICKINSON Estherville

• •Alta

Cherokee CHEROKEE

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Jackson

JACKSON

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COTTONWOOD Windom

WATONWAN

BROWN

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SIBLEY NICOLLET St. Peter New Ulm

This year’s Iowa county Butler County Fair, fairs in The Land’s coverage Allison area are listed below in June 22-26 alphabetical order.

Cerro Gordo-North Iowa Allamakee-Big Four Fair, Fair, Mason City Postville July 20-24 June 17-19 Cherokee-Marcus Allamakee County Fair, Community Fair, Waukon Marcus July 20-24 Aug. 11-14

PLYMOUTH

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Marcus

• Primghar

O’BRIEN

OSCEOLA

• Sibley

Worthington

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• Slayton

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Redwood Falls REDWOOD

MURRAY

NOBLES

Le Mars

Sioux Center

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SIOUX

LYON Rock Rapids

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Luverne

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ROCK

Pipestone

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PIPESTONE

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Tyler

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Marshall

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2011 Minnesota county fair schedule Lake County Fair, Two Harbors Aug. 25-28 www.thelakecountyfair.com

Mahnomen County Fair, Mahnomen Aug. 25-28 Gopher State Expositions www.mahnomencountyfair.com

Mille Lacs County Fair, Princeton Aug. 11-14 Stipe’s Shows Inc. www.millelacscountyfair.com

Lake of the Woods County Fair, Baudette Aug. 25-28 Cody Rides

Marshall County Fair, Warren July 27-31 Family Fun Shows

Morrison County Fair, Motley June 24-26 Cody Rides www.motleyfair.com

Le Sueur County Fair, Le Center Aug. 18-21 Cody Rides www.lesueurcountyfair.org

Martin County Fair, Fairmont Aug. 15-21 Gold Star Amusements www.theotherbigfair.com

Lincoln County Fair, Tyler Aug. 21-24

McLeod County Fair, Hutchinson Aug. 17-21 Gold Star Amusements www.mcleodcountyfair.com

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Lyon County Fair, Marshall Aug. 3-6 Cody Rides www.lyoncountyfair.com

Meeker County Fair, Litchfield Aug. 4-7 All American Amusements

2011 BENTON COUNTY FAIR August 1st - 7th ~ Sauk Rapids, MN Military Day: Friday, August 5th

GRANDSTAND EVENTS Tues., Aug. 2nd - Motocross: 7:00 pm Wed., Aug. 3rd - Demolition Derby: 7:30 pm Thurs. Aug. 4th - Truck Pull: 6:00 pm Fri., Aug. 5th - Tractor Pull: 5:00 pm Sat. Aug. 6th - Demolition Derby: 6:30 pm Sun., Aug. 7th - Demolition Derby: 1:00 pm For More Info Call 320-253-5649 or Checkout our website: BentonfairMN.com

HAIRBALL TUESDAY, AUGUST 2

KIDS DAY SATURDAY, AUGUSt 6

GOODHUE COUNTY FAIR

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

AUGUST 9-14, 2011 • ZUMBROTA, MN GRANDSTAND EVENTS:

Tuesday, Aug. 9th - Johnny Holm Band - 8:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 10th - Demolition Derby - 7:00 pm Thursday, Aug. 11th - Tractor Pull & Truck Pull - 6:30 pm Friday, Aug. 12th - Rockie Lynne/A Tribute to the Troops - 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 13th - Demolition Derby - 6:00 pm Saturday, Aug. 14th - Ranch Rodeo & Talent Show - 1:00 pm • Carnival • Contests • Exhibits • Free Entertainment • Food

www.goodhuecountyfair.com

Morrison County Fair, Little Falls Aug. 11-14 Crescent City Amusements www.morrisoncountyfairlittlefalls.com Mower County Free Fair, Austin Aug. 9-14 Merriam’s Midway Shows www.mowercountyfair.com Murray County Fair, Slayton Aug. 17-20 Mad Jax

Nicollet County Fair, St. Peter Aug. 10-14 www.nicolletcountyfair.net Nobles County Fair, Worthington Aug. 11-14 McDermott Shows www.noblescountyfair.com Norman County Fair, Ada June 22-25 Mighty Thomas Carnival www.krjbradio.com Northern Minnesota District Fair, Littlefork Sept. 2-5 Cody Rides www.northernmndistrictfair.com Olmsted County Fair, Rochester July 25-31 Gold Star Amusements www.olmstedcountyfair.com

2011 Minnesota county fair schedule Polk County Fair, Fertile June 29-July 3 Murphy Bros. Expositions www.polkcountyfairfertilemn.com

Renville County Fair, Bird Island Aug. 17-19 All American Amusements www.renvillecountyfair.com

Sherburne County Fair, Elk River July 14-17 Gopher State Expositions www.sherburnecountyfair.org

Otter Tail County Fair West, Fergus Falls July 20-23 Mighty Thomas Carnival www.wotcountyfair.com

Pope County Fair, Glenwood Aug. 3-7 www.popecountyfair.org

Rice County Fair, Faribault July 19-24 Gold Star Amusements www.ricecountyfair.net

Sibley County Fair, Arlington Aug. 3-7 JK Concessions and Rides www.sibleycountyfair.com

Rock County Fair, Luverne July 21-23 Midwest Rides

South St. Louis County Fair, Proctor July 6-10 Midwest Rides and Concessions www.proctorduluthfair.com

Ramsey County Fair, Maplewood July 13-17 Pennington County Fair, Thief River Gold Star Amusements Falls www.ramseycountyfair.com July 20-24 Todd Armstrong Shows Red Lake County Fair, Oklee www.penncofair.com June 24-26 http://ow.ly/5kevw Pine County Fair, Pine City Aug. 3-7 Redwood County Fair, Redwood MCM Shows Falls www.pinecountyfair.com July 7-10 Merriam’s Midway Shows Pipestone County Fair, Pipestone www.redwoodcountyfair.com Aug. 3-6 Midwest Rides and Expositions

Roseau County Fair, Roseau July 17-22 Crescent City Amusement / Amusement Attractions www.roseaucountyfair.com

St. Louis County Fair, Chisholm July 27-31 Todd Armstrong Shows www.stlofair.org

Scott County Fair, Jordan July 27-31 Merriams Midway www.scottcountyfair.com

Stearns County Fair, Sauk Centre July 27-31 Crescent City Amusements www.stearnscountyfair.com

WINONA COUNTY FAIR St. Charles, MN •

JULY 6-10, 2011

GRANDSTAND EVENTS:

n Free Admissio to Fairgrounds Daily Parking: $4 Season Pass: $7

Thur., July 7 Fri., July 8 Sat., July 9 Sun., July 10 -

7:00 pm - Tractor Pull 7:00 pm - Trailer Races 1:00 pm - Donkey Races 7:00 pm - Rodeo 8:30 am - Antique Tractor Pull 6:00 pm - IPM Demolition Derby

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CELEBRATING 153 YEARS in 2011

THE LAND, SUMMER 2011

Otter Tail County Fair East, Perham July 21-24 Family Fun Shows www.eotcountyfair.org

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Midway-Gopher State Exposition Visit Our Website: www.winonacountyfair.com

Visit our website for a detailed list of events

August 3rd-7th, 2011 GRANDSTAND EVENTS Wed., August 3 - Free ATV Pull • 7:00 PM Thurs., August 4 - Night of Destruction • 7:00 PM Fri., August 5 - Redneck Drag • 7:00 PM Sat., August 6 - Auto Races • 7:00 PM Sun., August 7 - Demolition Derby • 7:00 PM For more information call 507-327-7652

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

Livestock Shows Lumberjack Shows Demolition Derbies Motocross Tractor Pull Free Entertainment Nightly Dakota City Heritage Village

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2011 Minnesota county fair schedule Steele County Free Fair, Owatonna S.W. St. Louis County Fair, Aug. 16-21 Floodwood Merriam’s Midway Shows Aug. 26-28 www.scff.org Swift County Fair, Appleton Stevens County Fair, Morris Aug. 17-21 Aug. 10-14 Family Fun Shows Family Fun Shows www.swiftcountyfair.org www.scfair.net

WATONWAN COUNTY FAIR FAIRGROUNDS - ST. JAMES, MN • JULY 21ST

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Featuring: “ALL AMERICAN AMUSEMENT” Ride Special - Mega Wristband ride for the whole fair Entertainment Grandstand Events: in the Beer Garden: Thursday: 7 am - Tractorcade • 507-375-5118 Thursday - Tammy & Friends Karaoke 6 pm - Antique Tractor Pull Friday - “Undefined Purpose” Friday-6:00 pm: Saturday - “Sweet Siren” Out of Field Tractors & Trucks Sunday - Noon - Honor Sr. Citizens 4:30 pm - Medallions in Paper Saturday-5:00 pm: Demolition Derby Thursday thru Sunday Fireworks at Dark Bingo under the Big Tent Sunday-1:00 pm: Purchase pre-fair “All American Compact Enduro Race Amusement” ride tickets from the Other Events: Extension Office, St. James Chamber of Commerce or Farmers State Bank in Friday, 6 pm - Horse Pull Madelia. For Booth rental, Thursday-Friday - Livestock Shows call 507-630-0058 Saturday, Noon - Dart Tournament Sunday, Noon - Bean Bag Tournament For More Fair Details www.co.watonwan.mn.us

Todd County Fair, Long Prairie July 28-31 Magel’s Carnival Midways www.toddcountyfair.com

Washington County Fair, Lake Elmo Aug. 3-7 Gold Star Amusements www.washingtoncountyfair.org

Traverse County Fair, Wheaton Aug. 25-28 Midwest Rides www.co.traverse.mn.us/traversecounty-fair

Watonwan County Fair, St. James July 20-24 All American Amusements www.co.watonwan.mn.us

Wabasha County Fair, Wabasha July 13-16 J&K Rides and Concessions www.wabashacountyfair.org Wadena County Fair, Wadena July 27-30 Midwest Rides www.wadenacountyfair.com Waseca County Fair, Waseca July 13-17 www.wasecacountyfair.org Crescent City Amusements

Winona County Fair, St. Charles July 6-10 Gopher State Expositions www.winonacountyfair.com Wright County Fair, Howard Lake Aug. 3-7 Amusement Attractions, Inc. www.wrightcountyfair.com Yellow Medicine County Fair, Canby July 28-31 All American Amusements www.ymcfair.com

NEW AT THE FAIR THIS YEAR!

August 18th through the 21st * * * FAIR HIGHLIGHTS * * * “Where Farm and Family Meet”

Wilkin County Fair, Breckenridge July 14-17 All American Amusements http://ow.ly/5kefg

Tri-County Fair, Mankato Aug. 17

• Free entertainment at the 4-H stage every day • 25 delicious food booths • 100 commercial vendors • Daily K-9 demonstrations • Several buildings full of interesting 4-H and open class exhibits • Many farm animals and pets on display in the 4-H barns • An exciting petting zoo and children’s barnyard • DNR barn displaying wild animals and fish • Magel’s Carnival Midway • Public safety equipment on display • Free parking for everyone • Savings bond, bicycle and bicycle lock giveaways daily • Children’s coin hunt • Turtle Races • Kids toy tractor pull • Vintage tractor displays • Vintage car parade • Available for an additional fee: Douglas County Pork Producer’s pork chop feed • Wissota Stock Car Racing • Tractor and Truck Pull, and Demolition Derbys

• All new entertainment at the 4-H stage.

• Rock climbing wall located in the East Runestone Arena sponsored by the Minnesota Army National Guard. Also in the Runestone Center is a display by the Alexandria Model Railroad Club.

• The new Agricultural Commodities Corner in the Bus Garage.

• A 2:00 p.m. Sunday tractor and truck pull (additional ticket required).

• Balloon artist & face painting on Friday & Saturday, kids days.

• Several new food vendors in Calorie Lane.

• New activities at the Old Country Schoolhouse includes: kids coloring contest, apron contest, quilting contest, kids construction contest, and a senior’s spelling bee.

PARKING! West gate, free parking for the general public.

East gate, parking is for bicycles, motorcycles and handicap permit parking only.

Gates open at 8:00 a.m. each day.

Kids under 12 enter for free.

Adults may purchase a $6.00 daily ticket or $15.00 4/day pass.

For additional information watch our website at www.MnDouglasCoFair.com