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to be buffeted around by the wind when Only a grad student can drop a phrase they’re visiting the pollen bar, so a windlike “potential synergisms” without soundbreak might encourage them to stick ing like an pretentious snob. Lucky for Jim around. A windbreak made of willow Eckberg, he is one. trees, perhaps.

A grad student, that is.

Say, aren’t willow trees a perennial that Eckberg, a University of Minnesota can be harvested as a bioenergy source? agronomy grad student, uses the phrase to It shouldn’t be too difficult to visualize explain a hesitant excitement he displays how the University of Minnesota about a study — Integrative Perennial researchers set up their project in the Cropping Systems to Improve Biological LAND MINDS field. Within a 10-acre soybean field, they Control of the Soybean Aphid — that he

By Tom Royer create a 300-square-meter oasis of either and numerous others at the U have begun all “prairie polyculture,” all willow working on. trees, or a combination of the two. The He is right to be reserved about the latter set-up, with twin rows of willows project; it has only just begun and they on either side of the square to protect the good bugs are far from forming solid conclusions. But excitebuzzing about the flowers and grasses in the middle, ment is certainly well-placed, because his project is the scenario envisioned above. could very well bring together sometimes-opposiThe researchers believe this “alley cropping” techtional forces into a multi-faceted, win-win situation.

The primary goal of agriculture has always been, of nique might provide the perfect combination of habitat and food that hover flies and other good bugs course, to grow food to eat. There is would thrive on, and encourage also the modern development of them to fly to the surrounding renewable fuels, mostly ethanol soybean plants to deposit their from corn. More recently there’s a Say, aren’t willow young near the all-you-can-eat push for biofuels from perennial aphid buffet. trees a perennial that plants such as grasses and trees. can be harvested as If that concept works as While all of this is going on, we’ve planned, then the combination of a bioenergy source? got pests such as soybean aphids aphid-eating larvae plus current advancing every year, with ag aphid-resistant soybean cultivars industry giants constantly developwould keep “bad bug” numbers ing new genetics and new chemicals to battle them. below the threshold at which spraying is necessary Throw in growing public concern about an overfor control. dependence on chemical use in food production, and And if a market for the woody bioenergy source — you’ve got one big mish-mash of conflicting elements, the willows — is available, then a farmer would have leaving farmers to balance maximizing profits and a more diversified crop portfolio along with “natural” minimizing environmental impact. pest control.

What if there was a way to maybe bring these disThose are a lot of ifs and coulds and maybes. Does parate elements together, to grow food AND fuel it actually work? Well, basically, Eckberg and his AND destroy pests AND reduce chemical use? Enter pals simply don’t know yet. Their research has just Eckberg’s “potential synergisms.” begun, and there are too many variables to account It starts with figuring out how to destroy yieldfor at this time. But those “potential synergisms” are robbing soybean aphids “naturally.” Turns out that pretty exciting, nonetheless. aphids have some very hungry natural enemies, in Eckberg spoke at a recent Third Crop Producer the form of the tiny larvae of hover flies and Meeting put on by Rural Advantage in Fairmont, lacewings.

Minn. For more information on the study, contact When the larvae mature into adult bugs, however, Eckberg at jeckberg@umn.edu or log on to their tastes change (can you blame them?) and they http://agronomy.cfans.umn.edu. For information on look for nectar and pollen to satisfy their cravings. the producer meeting series or other “third crop” Flowers such as black-eyed Susans, New England opportunities, contact Linda Meschke at (507) 238asters, anise hyssop and maximilian sunflowers 5449 or linda@ruraladvantage.org. seem to be fairly tasty to them. (Eckberg calls the ••• mix of native wildflowers and grasses a “prairie polyTom Royer is assistant editor of The Land. He can culture.”) Adult hover flies and lacewings can be a be reached at troyer@TheLandOnline.com. little picky about their environment, and prefer not

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 17A — Patrick Moore: We must protect Minnesota’s ‘greatest wildlife area’ 24A — CSP, organic farming can be a profitable move

27A — Cleaner air for hog, poultry barns with ionization 3B — Tornado recovery goes beyond the immediate danger 5B — Haitians give thumbs up to modified grain bin homes

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Crop insurance no substitute for actual farm program Danger prowled Capitol Cutting agricultural Hill shortly after the Senresearch programs and ate ag committee approved chopping Rural Developits version of the 2012 farm ment is neither wise nor bill April 26. brave. It is easy, however, like taking lunch money The trouble wasn’t from from the weakest kid on the folks who might have lost school bus and declaring out when the committee “Look what I found!” “streamlined” 23 conservation programs into 13 to The centerpiece of the FARM & FOOD FILE Senate farm plan is an “save” nearly $6.4 billion over the next 10 years or expansion of crop insurance,

By Alan Guebert from angry farmers who, if the fastest-growing hottie the Senate bill holds sway, chased by everyone in Conwill lose more than $5 billion a year in gress because it looks both great and direct farm program programs begin- cheap. Two recent examinations of it, ning in 2013. however, say it is neither.

No, the real danger that day was The first, authored by Iowa State getting a bipartisan slap in the kisser University economist Bruce Babcock if you asked any committee member for the Environmental Working Group, what part of the Agriculture Reform, claims a crop insurance program that Food and Jobs Act of 2012 contained “covers crop losses of more than 30 perany reform, food and jobs. cent” — yield shortfalls, not today’s heavily subsidized revenue guarantees Certainly, the legislation contained big changes: $4 billion in cuts to nutri- — could be given free to all farmers and save taxpayers “$26 billion in pretion programs, a Rural Development title that cut over $1 billion in the com- mium subsidies over 10 years,” $3 biling decade and, touted Ranking Mem- lion more than the entire Senate bill ber Pat Roberts of Kansas, “over SIXTY saves. (his emphasis) authorizations elimi(Links to the 25-page Babcock report nated from the Research Title,” cutting and other documents are posted at “at least $770 million over five years.” www.farmandfoodfile.com.)

The reason, explains the report is because “Over 80 percent of ‘crop’ insurance policies now insure business income even if there is no yield loss ...

This has doubled the cost to taxpayers ...”

In practical terms, writes Babcock, that means “the average unsubsidized premium” for a 15 percent deductible “revenue” protection policy on a Champaign County, Ill., corn farm is $52 per acre. After the federal subsidy, however, the price plummets to $26.

A similar, 15 percent “yield” policy carries an $11 per acre subsidy and, after application, costs $17 per acre.

So, what would you do if you could insure 85 percent of total revenue — a guaranteed yield and a guaranteed price — for $26 per acre or just 85 percent of yield at $17 per acre? You’d spend the extra $9 because it offers more coverage, less risk and carries a bigger subsidy.

And that’s exactly what has happened; farmers use the bigger subsidies to, wisely, “buy up” coverage. As such, federal crop insurance subsidies have soared from $2.4 billion in 2001 to $9 billion in 2011.

A second study, done by the Government Accountability Office, calculates that if crop insurance subsidies were capped at $40,000 per individual — “as

it is for other farm programs” — federal costs would have been $1 billion cheaper in 2011.

More staggering, adds the GAO, the $40K limit would have affected only 3.9 percent of all “participating farmers, who accounted for about one-third of all premium subsidies ...”

Against that evidence, Senate aggies fattened today’s fast-expanding crop insurance program even more and House aggies are on record ready to join ’em at the subsidy trough because, as Babcock writes in his report, “the only rationale for a new federal revenue guarantee program on top of existing revenue insurance programs is that it seems politically easier to defend than direct payments.”

But crop insurance, fat or lean, is not a farm program. “Crop insurance will not provide protection against price declines that occur across years that typically persist across multiple years,” warns University of Illinois extension specialist Gary Schnitkey.

As such, the Senate’s farm bill is like trading sugar water for Kool-Aid. It’s a sweet deal for farmers, but it’s just more empty spending by Congress.

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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Commentary: A farm bill for all of rural America

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on traditional farm payments. But they did nothing to rein in unlimited crop insurance subsidies and made no commitment to rural development.

Let’s see — unlimited subsidies for the nation’s largest farms or investments in jobs for rural people

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The Senate agriculture committee recently passed the first farm bill in decades that provides no funding for rural community and economic development.

Creating rural jobs and economic opportunities should be a farm bill priority. Without real commitment and investment, the Rural Microentrepreneur Program will shut down and stop creating jobs. Little help will be available for value-added agriculture.

Jobs that would have been created won’t be there for the people of rural Minnesota.

These are tough budgetary times. But as the Senate works to tighten farm bill spending, they should make choices that reflect America’s priorities.

Investing in jobs for people who need them and in the future of America’s rural cities and small towns is one such priority.

Small and midsized farms should be another. But unlimited subsidies to some of the nation’s largest farms and wealthiest landowners should not. Today, if one huge operation farmed all of Minnesota, the U.S. Department of Agriculture would pay 60 percent of their premiums for insurance against falling crop prices and yields on every single acre in every year — even with record high crop prices and skyrocketing federal deficits.

Thankfully, the Senate agriculture committee closed loopholes that mega-farms use to evade caps

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Letter: Column was ‘incendiary, hopelessly dramatic’ To the Editor: In the “I want a divorce” drama, two truths emerge: 1) Staff Writer Dick Hagen is an excellent writer, who adds experience and insight to a natural ability; 2) A flaming torch thrown into a gasoline soaked field will create a prairie fire.

The latest issue of The Land arrived in the mailbox still smoldering with angst. Let us be clear.

There is truth and good public policy on both sides of this vitriolic landscape, and in the interest of disclosure, I have supported some of the same candidates as Hagen. Further, I have found that in working with members of Congress and staffers in Washington, D.C., that there are good people on both sides of the aisle. However, I maintain my belief in the torch and gasoline theory. The piece was beneath Hagen, beneath The Land, and did nothing to solve the problem.

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In many ways I agree with the letters that support the initial column. However, neither honestly deals with the claims made in the initial piece. The first acknowledges Hagen’s abilities but goes on to quote Colonel Jessup from the film “A Few Good Men,” suggesting that those who do not agree cannot handle the truth. Nathan Jessup arranged for the death of a Marine under his command. Is that a truth anyone would support?

Among other issues, the second makes the excellent point that responsibility for the poor does not necessarily mean the government but is an individual responsibility. However, that provides little cover for the anonymous writer who agreed to take the Bible and give up the poor. You can’t have it both ways.

Further it is somewhat awkward for those of us in agriculture who benefit from farm programs to make aspersions against those who receive public funds. I neither condemn nor defend farm programs but one

could muse about how the founding fathers would stand on the issue.

Perhaps the most egregious portion of the second letter was the claim of “nasty and bitter responses.” The reality is that they matched the tenor of the original article. It does no good in light of this difficult division to go to our collective corners and fight. The piece was a pathetic plea for help that created ill will. If you consider its value, ask how many were “converted.”

Welfare reform is important. However, the impact of corporations on this country is massive and has much to do with our national dilemma. From excessive compensation to unlimited campaign financing and “too big to fail” there is much to consider that the founding fathers couldn’t imagine.

There is the matter of common sense. For my part, impatience is thin with the “birther” claims and one candidate’s suggestion that birth control may lead people to do things they shouldn’t...

Yes, there are arguments on the fringe of both sides that will not be solved in the editorial section of a paper. However, “I want a divorce” is incendiary and hopelessly dramatic; one of the most blatant See LETTER, pg. 7A

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happened today, with the present population density, that number might be expanded to 3 million deaths.

The ship’s logs of the British Navy reveal twice as many major landfalling Caribbean hurricanes during the latter part of the Little Ice Age (1700-1850) as during the last half of the 20th century — when the planet was supposedly warming at an “unprecedented” rate.

Nor did the IPCC mention the past periods of favorable climate, such as the 800 years of the Roman Warming, 200 BC to AD 600. The Romans built their empire on grain imported from an irrigated North Africa and the Nile Valley of Egypt. At AD 600 however, the world collapsed in the drought of the Dark Ages. Barbarians invaded Italy. Rat fleas fled drought in the steppes of western China and brought bubonic plague to Europe, again, as they had during the droughts of the Dark Ages.

The population of Rome fell from more than 1 million to about 20,000 by AD 700. Simultaneously, some 15 million Mayans starved in Central America during a “century of drought” after AD 800.

People living today have seen almost nothing of extreme weather. Northern Europe, in the early stages of the Little Ice Age, became extraordinarily wet. Pioneer climate historian Hubert Lamb tells us peat bogs spread, crops failed to ripen, famines starved the people, and epidemics spread tuberculosis and ergotism (the result of harvesting wet, fungusinfected rye). Ergotism caused mass delusions, hysteria, and gangrene. At worst, the victims’ fingers, toes, and even entire limbs would literally fall off their bodies.

I’m tired of hearing about “extreme weather” from so-called experts in the midst of the warm, stable Modern Warming. History tells us clearly our climate is as good as it will ever get.

This commentary was submitted by Dennis Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. ❖

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LETTER, from pg. 6A examples of a fringe that makes us vulnerable to the real dangers of those who hate this country, and of natural disasters that require a focus on the common good.

Such exchanges have the potential to destroy this country and result in

nothing to divide.

Patricia Buschette Renville, Minn.

Editor’s note: The original “I want a divorce” column appeared in the March 16 issue of The Land, and can be found online at http://bit.ly/theland-divorce

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted recently it had no evidence to support the various claims that the planet’s weather is becoming “more extreme.”

The new IPCC report on weather extremes reads: “While there is evidence that increases in greenhouse gases have likely caused changes in some types of extremes, there is no simple answer to question of whether the climate, in general, has become more or less extreme.”

Incredibly, even this non-confirmation is false. The more correct answer is “less extreme.” Moreover, paleoclimate proxy records have already told us about the truly awful climate extremes of the past 10,000 years — most of them megadroughts during “little ice ages.”

For example, the 300-year drought that beset today’s Iraq in 2200 BC. The inhabitants all starved, and the land was left to a few nomadic shepherds until the warm phase of the 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle returned stable weather. Then the Tigris-Euphrates Valley produced a new irrigated agriculture and built the world’s first cities. This valley’s devastation/recovery pattern has happened at least seven different times, in the D-O’s 1,500-year rhythm.

Nor did the IPCC mention the 11th century AD mega-drought in the northern California mountains, with lake levels falling 70 feet below “normal.” At the same time, the Anasazi and dozens of other western Indian tribes were driven from their homes forever. In the Corn Belt, the mega-drought destroyed Cahokia, Illinois, the only city the AmerIndians ever built.

What about the four huge sea-floods that attacked Northern Europe over a period of about 40 years in the 12th century? Whole counties were buried under storm sands and are still buried there. Each of these massive storms drowned more than 100,000 people.

The biggest drowned 300,000, from a population of perhaps 75 million. If it

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DNR’s LakeFinder gets boost from electronic tablets Serious and even not-soserious anglers hang all sorts of sophisticated electronics from their boat, all to tip the odds in their favor to catch a few fish.

But nowadays, among the most important electronic fishing tools for Minnesota anglers might just be the THE OUTDOORS home computer.

By John Cross For decades, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Fisheries has conducted periodic fish population surveys on most of the state’s fishing lakes.

“Minnesota’s lake history data base is second to none in the country,” said TJ DeBates, the supervisor at the DNR’s Waterville Fish Hatchery. “The DNR has been gathering lake data for decades.”

That data, along with stocking records, lake maps and other lake information compiled over decades can be found in the LakeFinder section on the DNR’s website at www.dnr.state.mn.us.

The information makes fascinating reading and gives anglers an idea of what to expect when they hit a particular body of water for the first time.

In some cases, however, the LakeFinder information listed for a lake — population assessments, stocking records — are too old to accurately reflect current conditions.

“Most lakes are surveyed every five years or so, certain core management lakes more frequently,” he said. Typically, it has taken as long as 1 1/2 years for lake survey information to be posted for a given body of water.

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A crowd of fishermen search for fish during a recent Minnesota fishing opener on Madison Lake.

That lag time should shrink dramatically since DNR Fisheries personnel now carry electronic tablets into the field where data can be directly entered into data base templates.

In the past, catch and size rates of the various species captured in survey nets were recorded the old fashioned way — with pencil and paper — while on the water.

That data then was compiled and entered during the winter months, DeBates explained.

After being analyzed by area biologists, it would move down the line to the regional and finally to a state level, before manually being entered into the LakeFinder.

Utilizing the tablets has streamlined the operation, allowing the data to be accessed and reviewed more quickly.

Following review of lake survey data on area and regional levels, it then becomes just a matter of someone in St. Paul flipping a switch to update a particular survey.

“It will be more real time,” he said. “Where it used to take 1 1/2 years to get the latest information up on Lake Finder, it now will happen much more quickly.”

DeBates said LakeFinder data from those most recent surveys should now be online and available for viewing.

Just in time for the opener.

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

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Fountain Lake (521 acres, Freeborn County): This lake, also located at Albert Lea has a healthy walleye population at 6/net, measuring an average of 21 inches. But a 2011 test netting turned up 14 pike/net, averaging about two pounds and measuring from 19 to 26 inches. If fish with scales aren’t cooperating, Fountain Lake also has abundant catfish.

Fourteen cats per net were caught in 2011, stretching from 21 to 31 inches.

Accesses are located at the north side of the lake in Edgewater Park and on the east side of the lake in the narrows.

Mazaska Lake (681 acres, Rice County): Test nettings in 2007 turned up 7 walleye/net and 11 northern/net.

Information on sizes wasn’t listed. Public accesses are located on the southeast and southwest sides of the lake.

Fox Lake (312 acres, Rice County): Walleyes were captured at 8.6/net and pike were caught at 8.4/net.

The majority of the walleyes were “eaters” ranging from 13 to 20 inches.

Northerns were on the small side measuring from 17-23 inches. The public access is located on the south shore.

Sabre Lake (258 acres, Le Sueur County): The DNR reports made no mention of walleyes in this small lake.

Northerns were netted at the rate of 7/net in 2009. The majority of the fish were longer than 20 inches and exceptionally chunky, weighing in at an average weight of 3.5 pounds.

Horseshoe Lake (417 acres, Le Sueur County): Northern pike were caught in the most recent lake survey at a rate of 6.3/net with most of the fish ranging from 20-30 inches long. The largest fish stretched to 37 inches. While test nettings revealed few walleyes, a good walleye bite last fall suggests anglers could do well on them this spring. Access to the lake is located on the southeast shore.

Depending how much rain falls between now and the opener, anglers also might consider poking around the Minnesota River or the Blue Earth River, both of which hold good numbers of walleye. The Minnesota holds the possibility of producing some real lunkers.

Finally, while walleyes are in the crosshairs of most opening day anglers, recent warm temperatures should have panfish in local lakes going gangbusters.

And a pile of crappie or bluegill fillets fried to a golden brown can salve even the most injured ego of a walleye angler done gone skunked on opening day. — John Cross

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“Up North” is a traditional opening day destination for many Minnesota anglers. But gas prices flirting with $4 a gallon likely will inspire some anglers to scratch their fishing itch a little closer to home.

Fortunately, there are scores of lakes across southern Minnesota that thanks to regular stocking efforts, offer the potential for bringing home the key ingredient to a walleye dinner.

A list compiled by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Region 4 Fisheries Division based on recent fish population surveys names several lakes that hold the promise of hooking a gamefish or two: Madison Lake (1,439 acres, Blue Earth County): Madison Lake is a perennial opening day destination. A 2011 survey revealed a catch of 11 walleye per net, averaging 18.7 inches and weighing a little over two pounds.

The lake also has a good northern pike population at 8/net and a healthy population of black crappie. But be forewarned: It’s a very popular opening day lake, so if you choose to snooze, you lose. Access locations are North Shore Park in town, in Bray County Park and the DNR landing north of the park.

Marion Lake (594 acres, McLeod County): Test nettings of this lake about eight miles south of Hutchinson conducted in 2010 turned up an excellent walleye catch rate of 26.4/net. There was a strong 2008 year-class present that should now measure over 15 inches.

The access is located in the Lake Marion County Park on the east side. The park also offers shore-fishing opportunities.

Scotch Lake (596 acres, Le Sueur County): The lake has been stocked with fry in odd numbered years since 2009, and northern pike in even-numbered years. In 2009, 21.5 walleye and 13.7 northern turned up per net. Walleyes averaged 18.7 inches and about three pounds. Northerns averaged about 2.5 pounds. Access is on the northwest end of the lake.

Albert Lea Lake (2,658 acres, Freeborn County): Stocked with 5.2 million walleye fry in 2004 and since followed by stockings in odd-numbered years, this shallow sprawling lake near the community by the same name turned up 41 walleye/net in 2010, ranging from 13-20 inches. Yellow perch also were abundant at 141/net. A good number of the perch were over 8 inches long but the majority were smaller.

Translated, it means the walleye already are well-fed and could be tough to catch. Accesses are located in Albert

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AD can be unpredictable and affect judgment, reasoning, reaction time and problem-solving.

For those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, it is not a matter of if retirement from driving will be necessary, but when. Is it any wonder that driving safety is compromised when changes are occurring in the brain? Where dementia is concerned, driving retirement is an inevitable endpoint for which active communication and planning among drivers, family, and health professionals are essential.

Current statistics from the Alzheimer’s Association indicate that 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease and this number is expected to rise to 11 million to 16 million by the year 2050.

Many people in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s can continue to drive; however, they are at an increased risk and driving skills will predictably worsen over time. The Alzheimer’s Association’s position on driving and dementia supports a state licensing procedure that allows for added reporting by key individuals coupled with a fair, knowledgeable, medical review process.

Overall, the assessment of driving fitness in aging individuals, and especially those with dementia, is not clear cut and remains an emerging and evolving field today.

This article was submitted by Gail Gilman Waldner, Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging program developer and University of Minnesota professor emeritus.

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Driving a car is a symbol of indestatistics of older drivers show pendence and competence in the that after age 75, there is a higher United States, and is closely tied to risk of being involved in a collision The primary issue an individual’s identity. It also reprefor every mile driven. The rate of facing older drivers sents freedom and control and allows risk is nearly equal to the risk of is how to adapt to older adults to gain easy access to younger drivers ages 16 to 24. The social connections, health care, shoprate of fatalities increases slightly changes in driving ping, activities and even employment. after age 65 and significantly performance while after age 75. Although older perAt some point, however, it is premaintaining necessons with health issues can be dictable that driving skills will deteriosary mobility. satisfactory drivers, they have a rate and individuals will lose the abilhigher likelihood of injury or ity to safely operate a vehicle. Even death in an accident. though age alone does not determine when a person needs to stop driving, the decision Undoubtedly, an older adult’s sense of independmust be balanced with personal and public safety. ence vs. driving risk equals a very sensitive and Driving beyond one’s ability brings an increased emotionally charged topic. Older adults may agree safety risk or even life-threatening situations to all with the decline of their driving ability, yet feel a members of society. Statistics show that older driv- sense of loss, blame others, attempt to minimize and ers are more likely than others to receive traffic cita- justify, and ultimately may feel depressed at the tions for failing to yield, making improper left turns, thought of giving up driving privileges. Driving is an and running red lights or stop signs, which are all earned privilege and in order to continue to drive indications of a decrease in driving skills. Under- safely, guidelines and regulations must be in place to standably, dealing with impaired older drivers is a evaluate and support older drivers.

Dementia and driving cessation delicate issue.

Alzheimer’s disease and driving safety are of parThe road to driving cessation is anything but smooth. ticular concern to society. Alzheimer’s disease is the Each year, hundreds of thousands of older drivers most common cause of dementia in later life and is a across the country must face the end of their driving years and become transportation dependent. Unfortu- progressive and degenerative brain disease. In the nately, finding other means of transportation has not process of driving, different regions of the brain coopnoticeably improved in recent years, leading to reluc- erate to receive sensory information through vision tance among older drivers to give up driving privileges and hearing, and a series of decisions are made and of families to remove the car keys. The primary instantly to successfully navigate. The progression of issue facing older drivers is how to adapt to changes in driving performance while maintaining necessary mobility. Despite being a complicated issue, this process can be more successful when there is a partnership between the physician, older driver, family or caregiver.

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Elizabeth’s prom teaches lesson of unconditional love their daughter say “Hi.” It was a singlederfully, carrying herself like the beautiful young Sometimes we get a glimpse of heaven word victory that took years to accomwoman she is becoming, and never missing a beat. right here on earth. plish.

They rallied over it, and moved on to She scanned the crowd, and returned to her seat as a If the adage holds true that children the next life lessons. quiet, poised, young lady. are a handful, then it’s also true that I received a call from Elizabeth’s father For her parents, that experience was far more than they are a heart-full. For one mother and on a Saturday evening a few weeks ago. It what it is for most of us who have never lived with a father I know, both of these things hold was prom night at our local high school, special needs child. For that one day, Elizabeth got to especially true, even more so than the and he told me that Elizabeth was going to be a “normal” child, and experience the prom, as amount of truth it holds for all parents. be part of it. (Elizabeth had earlier found a every other high school girl can do if she chooses. For Elizabeth was born such a beautiful way to ask if she could Elizabeth and her family, it was baby and was such a cute little girl. As TABLE TALK go to the prom.)

Her more than just a prom event — she grew, though, her parents could tell it was a personal victory. And

By Karen Schwaller father asked if I would that something was different about her. after 17 years of day-to-day life take a few pictures of A special needs child She didn’t respond to life in the normal with an autistic child, this bitterher there. brings a lot of things to ways that other kids her age did, and sweet moment had been a long a family — patience, she wasn’t speaking like other toddler children did.

When my husband and I time in coming for her parents.

They searched for quite a long time to find out what arrived at the high school, we frustration, underWhen the grand march ended her story was — and finally one day they heard the made our way up the stands and standing, anxiety, sleep and the picture-taking was over, sat by her father, who was word “autism.” deprivation, occasional her mother’s eyes welled with already beaming with pride.

And their search for answers stopped. glares from adults who tears, showing the world how Elizabeth’s mother was not in That diagnosis began a whole new way of living and the gym waiting yet, but was don’t understand such hard they had all worked for this a brought a brand new understanding of what their day, and what it meant for their helping her get ready behind the kids, and a family’s non-verbal daughter had been trying to tell them. daughter to be part of something scenes. open-mindedness they never dreamed she would be A special needs child brings a lot of things to a By the time the grand march toward other children able to do. Elizabeth, who family — patience, frustration, understanding, anxi- began, her mom had made her like theirs. appeared to not really know what ety, sleep deprivation, occasional glares from adults way up to us, and was a bundle the big deal was that evening, was who don’t understand such kids, and a family’s of nerves, hoping that Elizabeth born into a very special family. open-mindedness toward other children like theirs. would do well in front of all those people. She had Once again, the hand of an all-knowing God at work.

But most of all, it brings out in a family a ferocious received extra encouragement and love from her desire to protect and help that child in a world that family on that night, and when that was the most I think the term “special needs” is most appropriisn’t always so eager to accept them. It brings love they could give to her for this event, they left the rest ate, because there certainly is something special to a family most of all. about children like Elizabeth. Maybe it lies in the to chance.

Every minute of Elizabeth’s life has been a teachAbout halfway through the grand march, Elizabeth fact that, without even knowing it, kids like her teach us “normal people” the most important life lesing moment. Her parents didn’t “settle” for what emerged on the arm of her big brother (who had sons — about being happy, and about what uncondiElizabeth thought she could do; they have always graduated two years before, and who also had a driven her to be her best — she was even speaking prom date on his other arm). It was three people who tional love really means. a little bit by the time she was a dozen years old or were connected not only with linked arms, but with Yes, it was a glimpse of heaven on earth. And I’m so so. After all those years, they could finally hear glad to have been part of it. linked hearts. They were a sight to behold.

Karen Schwaller brings “Table Talk” to The Land It’s hard to describe the pride that Elizabeth’s parfrom her home near Milford, Iowa. She can be ents felt in those brief few moments that their kids ❖ both walked in the grand march. Elizabeth did won- reached at kschwaller@evertek.net.

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Form the meat into oblong patties, the size that you think would fit perfectly into your pita bread.

Place the patties on the opposite side of the coals and put the lid on, all vents open. Allow to cook indirectly for 20 to

30 minutes. Then, briefly place them directly over the goals to provide some texture. Be careful, as they will cause flame ups. Bring them in, assemble your authentic gyro with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber sauce.

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1 lb. ground beef 1 lb. ground pork 1 onion finely chopped 1/8 cup chopped garlic 1 1/2 Tbs. oregano 1 1/2 Tbs. marjoram 1 Tbs. ground cumin 1 tsp. ground coriander 1 1/2 Tbs. rosemary, dried and ground 1 1/2 Tbs of ground black pepper 1 1/2 tsp. Kosher salt Sauté the onion and garlic in a little olive oil to bring out the sweetness.

Once the onion mixture is cooled, add all “meat” ingredients in a large bowl.

Mix with hands until all ingredients are thoroughly incorporated. Set aside in the fridge for an hour to let the flavors meld together. On to the sauce.

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I have always been fascinated with gyros. The combination of the spiced meats, the fresh cucumber sauce all wrapped nicely in pita bread make it the perfect meal, especially at outdoor sporting events and festivals. But I had never tried making my own, until now.

Gyros prepared the official way are layers of beef, lamb and sometimes pork, all placed on a rotisserie and slow-roasted for hours.

Practically every spice you have on hand will be used in this dish.

Gyros originated in Greece hundreds of years ago, but are fairly new here in the States. Best I can tell they started showing up in Chicago in the mid1960s. While the meat I use in this recipe is ground, the flavors are all there in full force.

But, in typical “BBQ My Way” fashion, I took it one step further. I prepared them on the grill which gave them the authentic outdoor flavor I was hoping for. If you like gyros, give this recipe a try. This recipe is a double batch. I froze half of it for future use.

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Keep an eye out for ‘doggie dementia’ in older pets If initial test results do not explain the cause for your pet’s abnormal behavior, or if the results suggest additional information is required, the next step may be to see a specialist like Mankin. Your veterinarian can refer you to a veterinary neurologist whom can help determine what the problem is.

The natural aging process can be as painless as possible for your dog if you continue routine checkups with your veterinarian, and continue to be aware of your dog’s habits.

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tion of the brain aging, and unfortunately most of the time it is inevitable.

It is important to remember that not all dogs will display all the signs of this dysfunction. That is why it is important to take your dog to your veterinarian if it displays any behavioral changes. Your veterinarian can look for common disorders that might explain what is going on with your pet.

“If your pet is starting to become confused, having accidents in the house, or displaying any behavioral changes, an appointment with your regular veterinarian would be indicated,” said Mankin. “There are several other disease processes that can start with similar clinical signs, so an exam and perthere may be an association with the forming routine blood work is the first lack of dopamine and there are medicastep in diagnosing the condition and tions that can increase dopamine activruling out other common causes.” ity that can help with a patient’s clinical signs.”

Diets high in antioxidants can also be beneficial for your pet’s treatment plan. Hills has a line of diet options.

Mankin recommends implementing increased activity among your dog to help slow the degenerative process.

“Environmental enrichment in the form of playing with toys, interacting with other dogs, and learning new tricks can be effective in lessening the signs of cognitive dysfunction,” Mankin said.

There are also no proven preventative measures that an owner can take.

The best recommendations are to keep your dog healthy by giving it a balanced diet and continuing its exercise.

Canine cognitive dysfunction is a func-

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Like people, dogs are susceptible to the negative effects of aging on the mind and body. Canine cognitive dysfunction or “doggie dementia” is a disorder similar to dementia in people.

“Signs for canine cognitive dysfunction include problems with learning, housetraining, awareness of surroundings, and problems with the wake/sleep cycle,” said Joseph Mankin, clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

“Dogs may also appear confused, have increased episodes of restlessness, and may have less interest in playing or appear irritable.”

Mankin says that cognitive dysfunction cases increase with age. About a third of dogs show one or more signs at the age of 11 and most dogs show signs of the dysfunction at the age of 16.

At this time, there is no breed predisposition. The only common indicating factor for dogs is the age.

If you feel your dog is showing signs of mind degeneration, visit with your veterinarian to learn more about possible diagnosis and treatment plans.

“The syndrome is diagnosed based on the patient’s clinical signs and activity/behavioral changes at home,” Mankin said. “There is not a specific test to diagnose the problem, although changes on advanced imaging of the brain can give some indication.”

“Treatment of cognitive dysfunction includes certain medications, environmental changes, and changes in diet,” Mankin said. “With this syndrome,

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In time of war, Lincoln created Agriculture Department for founding colleges designated to teach agriculture and engineering and 2) to establish a federal department of agriculture.

In 1862, President Lincoln signed into law four bills that had a lasting effect on agriculture in our country.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Lincoln signed the bill establishing the USDA on May 15, 1862. Isaac Newton, farmer and chief of the agriculture section of the Patent Office since 1861, was selected to head the new department. He and his family were friends of Lincoln, and he sent butter to the White House each week.

Newton had the full support of President Lincoln in managing the newly created department.

In his last annual message to Congress 2 1⁄2 years later, Lincoln

By CAROLYN VAN LOH The Land Correspondent Few people realize that 1862 was a groundbreaking year for agriculture in the United States. Union and Confederate forces battled in the Peninsula Campaign of Virginia from March into July, but General McClellan abandoned the plans to seize Richmond. Meanwhile, animosity between settlers and the Dakotas in Minnesota was intensifying and would lead to the Dakota War in August.

When Lincoln campaigned for president in 1860, he ran on a Republican platform that contained a plank expressing the need for a homestead measure and another plank promoting federal aid to construct a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. Two other proposals not in the platform wanted the federal government 1) to grant land

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Morrill Act Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant College Act on July 2. This act donated public land to states for establishing colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts. Every state created at least one land grant institution. Today the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University, along with over 70 other universities in states and territories, can boast of being a land grant university.

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack addressed a general session at the Commodity Classic in Nashville March 2 on the topic of the 2012 farm bill. In his closing comments, he reminded his audience that Congress and President Lincoln didn’t use the excuse “we can’t afford it” when considering the four landmark bills that affected agriculture. ❖

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The USDA, under the leadership of Secretary Tom Vilsack, is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the department throughout the year.

Homestead Act May 20, just five days after signing the USDA bill, Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. This law provided any United States citizen or prospective citizen (head of family over 21 years of age) the opportunity to reside on 160 acres for five years while making improvements.

After that time, the settler owned the land. For those impatient to own land, they could pay $1.25 per acre after residing on the chosen property for 6 months and improving the plot of land.

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Patrick Moore: The science shows a slight decrease in the amount of sediment in the river; also a slight decrease in the amount of phosphorous. However nitrogen still remains a problem.

Q: What are the identifiable sources of these nutrient problems?

Moore: The science shows it’s a mix of several. Yes, agriculture is a contributor but so, too, are communities, waste water treatment facilities, storm sewers and natural background materials.

Q: Speaking from the data that shows where some of the agricultural landscape, “hot spots” of sediments, nutrients what needs to be done? and bacteria are problems.

Through Best Management PracMoore: We need to contices we know how to correct these tinue to work together — issues. We need to incentivize peomeaning farmers, land ple and BMPs in these “hot spot” owners, government agenareas. cies, conservation groups, recreational users plus Patrick Moore Q: And how will this happen? businesses that depend on Moore: It’s going to be volunclean water. It’s a discussion that tary; a cultural shift in the minds of needs to center on how to best spend the people that this is important and the money that we as taxpayers have needs to be done. There’s no “one size assessed ourselves to address this problem. We now have monitoring See MOORE, pg. 18A

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Patrick Moore speaks from experience.

“I consider the Minnesota River valley, especially the corridor upstream from New Ulm, to be the greatest wildlife area in Minnesota,” said Moore, for 22 years the Executive Director of Clean Up the River Environment. His CURE business card reads, “The Minnesota River: Float It, Fish It, Fix It.” Moore was interviewed at a farm show in Willmar, Minn.

Q: What’s the status of the upper

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as a foregone conclusion that taking land out of CRP and growing corn is a negative. We have several proven practices that farmers are already implementing that are virtually eliminating nutrient loss into our farm drainage systems.”

For example he credits pattern tiling with blind surface intakes as a significant improvement over the open intake system of earlier drainage. “In older systems those open inlets did act as a conduit of sediments. But a properly designed pattern system creates the effect of a sponge. Excess soil moisture diffuses through entire field area rather than surface running to the nearest open intake,” said Formo.

This sponge effect allowing the soil to filter more water and soil by itself is a great filtering system. He also pointed out that by creating a healthier root zone early in that corn plants life you created a bigger crop potential on a smaller area. His point being that successful drainage systems definitely permit more production on fewer acres.

“Without proper drainage systems, we’d have to double crop acres eventually to meet expanding food needs worldwide.”

By drainage and managing the soil water table to establish a good root zone early in the season, he contends farmers also grow healthier crops. He said that a healthy corn plant with a vigorous root system equates to more transpiration which directly relates to more efficient use of moisture by that plant.

Formo said that there aren’t management tricks to avoid water runoff from big rains and huge thunderstorm events.

Comparing tiled fields to non-tiled fields, however, he noted that you will see less erosion on the tile drained fields.

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer The Minnesota River flows more than 335 miles from its source near the MinnesotaSouth Dakota border to its confluence with the Mississippi River at Warren Formo Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The Minnesota River Basin encompasses roughly 15,000 square miles and contains all or parts of 37 Minnesota counties. The river drains nearly 20 percent of the Minnesota landscape.

Approximately 31 million acres of farmland nationwide are enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program. Minnesota ranks seventh in the nation with 1,636,094 acres involving 63,180 contracts in effect on 33,158 Minnesota farms. This year some 300,000 acres now set aside through the CRP will be up for grabs as federal contracts come up for renewal. And therein lays the rub. Will CRP payments be able to compete with cash corn?

Steve Taff, University of Minnesota economist, indicated that as global demand for food, meat and energy rises, society increasingly values corn and other crops over clean water. “We are not willing to pay that much for reduced water pollution,” he said.

But perhaps it’s not a fair equation.

Warren Formo, Executive Director of the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center, suggested instead that agriculture can and will continue to expand production capabilities without a negative impact on water quality; in fact, perhaps even improving the overall environment of the Minnesota agricultural landscape.

“It simply boils down to how can we put these acres to work growing food with the least impact,” said Formo. “I don’t take it

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Farmers, conservation groups need to work together MOORE, from pg. 17A fits all” recipe but it all needs to start with local people getting involved with their local watershed districts, their local SWCDs, and jointly coming to the table to make decisions. It’s a matter of democracy meets water quality!

Q: Elaborate a bit on Best Management Practices.

Moore: There’s been over $1 billion spent on waste water treatment upgrades in the Minnesota River basin alone over the past 20 years.

Many of the point sources of phosphorous pollution into the river have been addressed and drastically reduced. Now the question comes down to those non-point sources of river contamination. Communities can do much to reduce their storm water issues with rain gardens and other technologies. With farmers conservation tillage, blind tile intakes, temporary retention ponds for excessive storm water, buffer strips, even more grass-spaced water ways are cleaning up the river.

Q: What might this means for fish and wildlife in the Minnesota River corridor?

We need to talk, and we need to talk in a way that’s respectful.

— Patrick Moore Moore: Thanks to the implementation of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program and other conservation efforts by farmers of the upper corridor watershed basin, there has been a tremendously positive impact on the development of the natural ecosystem. People who have been fishing the Minnesota River for 30 years say that fishing the past couple of years is the best they’ve ever seen!

We’re talking walleye, catfish, bass and Northerns.

Hunting is better; so too is bird and other wildlife. The top of the food chain is doing well in the upper Minnesota River corridor. When you see an eagle’s nest every 7 miles along the river you know the rest of the ecosystem is doing pretty good. There’s even cougar coming back into the river. We really have created a world-class wildlife system from Ortonville to the Watson area and on downstream.

rain vehicle park is also on their agenda.

Q: What is CURE’s ongoing ambition?

Moore: Continued upgrading of the water quality of the entire Minnesota River watershed, and that simply means continued discussion amongst all the concerned groups. After 20 years of this effort we clearly understand that results and progress happens when you have everyone at the table, i.e. the environmentalists, the farmers, the government, the recreational users, the county commissioners, even the taxpayers from the cities.

We need to talk, and we need to talk in a way that’s respectful. Incremental steps together are what makes things happen in a positive fashion. The underlying question for all of us: How do we grow more food without making the water dirty?

The mission of CURE is to focus public awareness on the Upper Minnesota River Watershed and to take action to restore and protect its water quality, biological integrity and natural beauty for all generations. For more information, log on to www.cureriver.org or email Moore at patrick@cureriver.org. ❖

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Cover story: Cooler, less turbid water with pattern tiling ous streams and rivers in southern Minnesota is whether the various agencies and organizations driving these potential new standards clearly understand the naturally occurring ecology of the Minnesota landscape.

“When you compare today’s corn/soybean ecosystem with the prairie system of earlier generations, today’s agriculture delivers much lower soluble phosphorous quantities; even less than the forest ecosystem,” he said, adding that some soil scientists say the Minnesota River is “cleaner” today than when the pioneers discovered Minnesota.

“When the first settlers came up the Minnesota River my great grandfather used to joke that the water in the river

was too thick for good coffee and too thin to plow,” recalled John Jacobs, a veteran tiler out of Bird Island, Minn., who has installed pattern tiling systems on many area farms.

Citing the Chesapeake Bay approach with a “zero” point of reference infers that agriculture is totally responsible for everything that flows off their land. “That’s nonsense because regardless of your best management practices, you can’t control everything happening over and on that massive land area,” said Commerford. Humus, sediments, organic materials are always a factor, even without the presence of people. “We’re going to have impaired waters from See TILING, pg. 20A

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The Land Staff Writer Is pattern tiling a culprit in Eliminate intakes with water turbidity? Though often pattern tiling judged as guilty, the reality Arguably, after sudden submay be just the opposite. stantial rains, surface intakes in row crop farming generate In fact, thanks to extensive sediment runoff including soil pattern tiling and the eliminaparticles, some phosphorus, tion of surface intakes in the Steve perhaps nitrates, too. HowMinnesota landscape, drainage Commerford ever with the rapid increase water today is often cleaner and cooler resulting in new fish popula- in pattern tiling across the Minnesota tions in portions of the Minnesota farming landscape, sometimes now even at 25-foot intervals, could MinRiver and many of its tributaries.

So is better fishing in this massive nesota farmers do without surface watershed happening because of bet- intakes?

Soils types are obviously a factor, but ter farming? Indeed so, according to Commerford said, “Yes, with pattern Steve Commerford.

“Water draining through a pattern- tiling in silty/clay loam soils, most tile tiled field is considerably cooler thanks surface intakes could be eliminated. I to cooler soil temperatures in the think close to 90 percent of present tile deeper soil profile,” said the New Ulm, intakes could be removed if pattern Minn., soil scientist/land use consult- tile was put into those fields.”

He speaks from over 20 years experiant. “Also soil is an excellent filter. In essence all sediments that potentially ence advising farmers on cropping could create turbidity are filtered out strategies and drainage systems that as this water seeps down to the tile optimize the productivity of each square foot of soil. Commerford noted a lines beneath the soil surface.

“The net result is clear, cool water natural hesitancy in the mind of many much like you get in mountain streams farmers simply because of their local supporting trout fisheries in the Big weather history. When a sudden fourHorns and the Rockies. In many inch deluge hits your fields, “surface respects our tile systems are the equiv- intakes to the rescue!” However he said alent of a spring-fed discharge into our he has personally observed fields with streams and tributaries. And that is pattern tiling handling four-inch downwhy trout are showing up as part of the pours with zero ponding.

“I think pattern tile in combination ‘sport fishing’ scenario on the Minwith some blind intakes could eliminesota River and its tributaries.”

He noted that Seven-Mile Creek nate all surface intakes,” said Comnorth of Mankato has become a trout merford, noting that most farmers find stream. John’s Creek west of New Ulm intakes a nuisance, anyway — they’re encompasses a small watershed area. miserable to farm around, especially However it, too, is a naturally repro- as equipment gets bigger.

His concern in the development of ducing Brown Trout tributary nourished partly by cooler naturally occur- Total Maximum Daily Loads for vari-

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Commerford: Agriculture and fisheries go hand in hand TILING, from pg. 19A the natural contributions of the ecology we live in.”

He contends that if the natural background levels are above the proposed TDML standards, than the standards are incorrect and need to be adjusted accordingly. “We need to identify the impacts on water quality, the sources of that impact, and then quantify that particular impact,” Commerford said. “Without this information how are we as a society going to fix it?”

Can agriculture be part of that fix with Best Management Practices? Farmers by their nature

already know their soils, their fields and continually are managing in the most optimal way. Commerford said most Minnesota farmland is already being managed in a way which optimizes production per square foot of farmland.

“When farmers optimize their nutrient management and their soil management they automatically are also maximizing water use efficiency,” he said.

“Invariably when you increase productivity, you increase both water and nutrient efficiency and that simply means less runoff, fewer sediments of any kind into the drainage waters of the Minnesota River.”

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Good drainage, better water usage Sometimes arithmetic tells the better story. Commerford indicated good tile drainage increases the efficiency of water usage off that landscape significantly. In essence, intensive row-crop agriculture develops a high evapotranspiration. He indicated that throughout the Minnesota River system runoff averages 5 inches per acre per year. Trim that by 2 to 3 inches yearly with better drainage systems which permit more intensive agriculture, helps mitigate flooding issues, stream bank erosion and surface erosion of cropland.

He also pointed out that about two-thirds of nitrogen usage in the agricultural area of Minnesota comes from naturally occurring mineralization of organic matter in the soil profile, which produces about 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year. His point being that careless use of nitrogen fertilizer is simply not a contributing factor to nitrate content.

Is Minnesota in the “water quality spotlight” because it’s the headwater of the Mississippi River system and home to 10,000-plus lakes?

“Sure, you can’t deny that location of our state and the fact that we have extra water relative to total water usage is a factor in our high profile on water quality. Water moves out of Minnesota in all directions,” said Commerford, also noting that the Minnesota fishing industry is a major factor.

“Fisheries in Minnesota to a large extent drive the Minnesota tourist industry and tourism is the fifthlargest revenue source. People come to Minnesota to fish and enjoy the surface waters,” he said. “Therefore maintaining our water quality so that it is compatible with fisheries is a huge ambition in Minnesota. I like to fish. And I contend that the water quality delivered off an acre of Minnesota farmland today is extremely compatible with good fisheries.

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Lauer: Even good tiling can exacerbate erosion siderably more water. “They get blown apart and are exasperated after these rain events. That’s where a lot of the sedimentation is coming from today,” he noted.

Lauer said the energy of water traveling through these tiles has an erosive power and it happens in pulses, depending upon the severity of any given rain storm event.

He acknowledged that pattern tilling within an 80acre field, for example, does create a “sponge effect” over those acres, at least until the soil reaches full saturation. “But once that 3 to 4 feet of soil profile is saturated, tiling just moves more water quicker

Commerford: Tiling improves water quality, reduced erosion untiled and saturated, rainwater is forced to run off, carrying soil with it. Research shows about a 50 percent reduction in erosion from tiled land.

• Tiling reduces erosion. Tiling allows reduced and no-till farming practices on land that would otherwise likely need moldboard plowing in order to maintain production.

• Tiling reduces flooding. If land is tiled, the water table is normally lowered 3 or 4 feet. Soil can than hold a huge amount of water when a rain comes. Studies show a 15 to 30 percent reduction in peak flows off tiled land.

• Tiling reduces water flow. Higher yielding crops use more water, so less water flows from the farm fields.

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Steve Commerford’s key reasons why tiling is important: • Tiling improves water quality. Tiling allows water to infiltrate the soil taking advantages of the soils natural filtering powers before it is discharged into steams.

• Tiling improves water quality. Tile water is like spring water. Naturally reproducing trout streams can now be found within the Minnesota River Basin. Trout need cool high quality water. The tile water feeding these trout streams is both.

• Tiling improves water quality. Methyl Mercury is the most severe water quality impairment in Minnesota. Methyl Mercury is produced in wetlands and river and stream sediments. However the naturally occurring nitrates found in tile water dramatically inhibit the production of methyl mercury.

• Tiling reduces erosion. When farmland is

without holding it on the landscape. Yes, if this field was not tiled, you’d likely have standing water.”

Lauer challenged the notion that properly planned tiling reduces erosion. “In fact, it might exacerbate erosion depending upon the soils and the geography,” he said.

“Also, I can admit that water running underground through a field tiling system is cooler than surface water. But I don’t have any evidence that tiling is cooling ground water enough to generate trout populations. I think most hydrologists and fish scientists would agree.”

Lauer said that across the southern Minnesota agricultural area, farmers have almost maximized the per-square-foot productivity of their fields.

When asked about improvements in Minnesota River, he said diminished rainfall this spring has lessened the sediment loads. But he also said the huge increase in tiling over the past 10 years is simply moving greater quantities of water into the Minnesota River basin much quicker, and that is the ongoing source of turbidity.

“When our forefathers broke up the prairie 80 to 100 years back there was little regard for conservation,” said Lauer. “The landscape got scarred severely with lots of erosion, lots of dirty water the end result. And to farm this new horizon with corn and tilled crops, there was a need for more ditching.

“That has significantly subsided. The major damage to the landscape has been done. Now we’re just talking about getting water off the landscape.” ❖

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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Supervisor Jack Lauer questions if tiling can, in fact, improve the water quality of rivers and streams. But he also congratulates farmers for significantly better efforts in improving drainage and conservation tillage.

“I’m not trying to trash tiling,” said Lauer. “It’s a necessary and vital part of innovative crop production in our Minnesota landscape. I very much understand the economic importance of maximizing production on each acre.”

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Is it time to say goodbye to surface inlets? Perhaps the question is better answered by first explaining that there is much less sediment runoff into surface inlets than most people assume.

John Moncrief, with the Department of Soil, Water and Climate at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, explained that when heavy rains produce ponding lasting six hours or more, about 80 percent of the particulates settle out. To get at the remaining 20 percent, converting that surface inlet to a gravel intake essentially eliminates all sediments from getting into the tile system.

So can proper pattern tiling over the farming landscape significantly “clean up” our rivers and streams?

“Pattern tiling creates little turbidity to Minnesota rivers. Yes, surface runoff into open inlets is a source, but that too is a small portion of the total water quality issue,” said Moncrief. He said that a bigger source of turbidity is the sloughing off of stream banks, naturally occurring events triggered by the high water levels of the more intense rainfalls now occurring.

Can you make a case that tiling produces both cleaner water and cooler water? And that is why fishing is improving in the Minnesota River system?

Different fish need different levels of oxygen noted Moncrief, adding that the solubility of oxygen

in water is a direct funcwater off these areas, the tion of temperature. quicker you get oxygen to Trout, for example, need 8 the roots. Deeper roots percent levels of dissolved greatly increase the effioxygen and cool water. ciency of water usage. So to the extent that better “That’s why the first drainage generates better fish to die off in summer root growth, you have given heat are trout. But other game fish can survive in John Moncrief Warren Formo Dean Schneider that crop an opportunity to be more efficient is moisture warmer waters because the dissolved oxygen levels are lower. So if you can utilization. Also better-drained seed beds warm up keep water cooler it does help fish habitat. And faster and that can be an important benefit when water discharging from a pattern tiled system is def- starting the season in the dryer soil profile of 2012.” initely cooler than surface runoff into open inlets.”

Added Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center executive director Warren Formo, “The fish Moncrief said pattern tiled fields do, in fact, reduce contaminants into rivers and streams, and system recovery in the Minnesota River is largely related to tiling entire fields is an economic necessity for south- the tremendous upgrades of waste water treatment ern Minnesota agriculture because of the escalating facilities in communities that border the river. A gencosts of crop production. He questions that increased eration ago the big stressor of fish in the Minnesota tiling is the “culprit” behind increased stream bank River was inadequately treated waste water. erosion.

“Today we’re removing much of the phosphorous, “The only water that flows through tile is the water we’re converting ammonia into nitrate which is between field capacity and saturation,” said Mon- much less toxic to fish, and that’s why the recovery of crief. “And thanks to tiling, there is much more stor- fish species, even trout. age capacity in the soil to handle future rains. That “What has agriculture done? Long-term data (from is why good tiling systems incrementally cut down Minnesota State University, Mankato) shows sedion flooding occurrences.” ment levels in the Minnesota River are trending Roots need oxygen for respiration. Get saturated down. That’s especially significant in view of the past soil conditions for 24 hours or more and you have 20 years with higher rainfall patterns and more total water discharged into the river. This tells me done substantial damage to your crops. that farmers are initiating better management of “In simple terms,” he said, “the quicker you get the their crop land including the idling of sensitive areas with buffer strips, CRP acres and pattern tiling See MODERN, pg. 23A

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A natural shoreline is a healthy shoreline, benefiting the water quality of lakes and streams, the surrounding wildlife, and the people who live on or near your lakeshore property.

1. Make a sketch of your property, including buildings, decks or patios, lawn, trees, paths, dock, and swim area. Think of how you use the land now and how you’d like to use it in the future. Would it make sense to relocate your dock or reduce the size of your beach? Draw in the area you’d like to naturalize; aim to naturalize at least one-half of your shoreline frontage.

2. Identify the three shoreland zones within your proposed naturalization area: the aquatic, which is all under water; the wet meadow, which may be seasonally flooded or near the water table; and the upland zone, which is rarely flooded.

3. Prepare the site. If you have invasive plants, such as purple loosestrife or reed canarygrass, you may need the advice of a natural resource professional to help you get rid of them. You may also need to move a dock, realign a path, or grade slopes. If you expose or move soil near your shoreline, be sure to secure required permits and take action to prevent erosion and transport of soil to the water.

4. Finally, get native plants established. You can just stop mowing and clearing your shoreland, or plant appropriate plants for your area. A list is available at www.sustland.umn.edu/design/water4.html.

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Soil is a natural filter so pattern tiling is Formo cautioned that people are setting up a “false choice” if they accept resulting in cleaner water in our streams. the notion that the link between corn And definitely that water coming off a production and water quality is a system tiled landscape is cooler, too. “either-or” assumption. He stated that increasing crop production is a given, — Dean Schneider so that trend needs to be directed in the least impactful way. “I don’t take it as a foregone conclusion that taking land out of CRP and bigger yield potential. growing corn is a negative,” he said.

“Soil is a natural filter so pattern tiling is resulting in cleaner water into our streams. And definitely His thoughts on the tremendous increase in pattern tiling across the agricultural landscape? “This that water coming off a system tiled landscape is is a significant improvement over the surface runoff cooler, too. Water running 3- to 5-feet deep in the soil and open intake drainage systems of the past,” said gets cooled down quite a bit. Used to be that you Formo. “Sure, some open intake drainage systems would maybe have 4 or 5 surface inlets for an entire were conduits discharging sediments into the 80 acres. Now with system tiling that entire 80-acre drainage basin. However, pattern tiling today field acts like a sponge. mostly eliminates open inlets and gets the entire “Very rarely do we put in surface intakes anysoil profile acting as a sponge. more. Last year I think we installed just one surface “We win two ways: 1) The total soil mass is now fil- intake. On one particular field we closed up 4 tering the water and soil is a great filter, and 2) By intakes when plowing in a new system with tile creating a healthier root mass earlier in the grow- lines spaced 50 feet. Our goal is to get entirely away ing season we create a bigger crop on a smaller from surface intakes, even if that means tile laid area. Plus the added transpiration of these health- every 20 feet.” ier crops significantly improves the efficiency of Critics of farmland tiling simply don’t know that water. And that simply means less runoff.” they’re talking about, contends Jeff Schneider. “Our Sleepy Eye, Minn., corn and hog producer Dean system tiling today puts far less shock on a drainage Schneider, with sons Ross and Jeff, also does some system than when you relied on just one to two sur❖ custom tiling. Schneider said farmers are doing a face intakes to drain a 40-acre field.” better job of land management, especially when it comes to drainage. “System tiling is now very common. It makes the top 3 to 4 feet of that entire field 22’9” long w/tandem act like a sponge so when a big rain does come, it axle, 14’ blade soaks into the total soil profile rather than run off w/industrial cutting edge, the top. Also system tiling forces roots to grow 9’ wide in the narrow deeper and that means a healthier corn plant with

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CSP, organic farming can be profitable move

By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Enrolled in the Conservation Stewardship Program in 2009, Sibley County, Minn., farmers Darrel Mosel, wife Diane, and sons Christopher and Michael, are now starting their third year in the CSP on their 600-acre diversified Darrel Mosel crop and dairy operation.

Testifying before the U.S. Senate agricultural committee in January, Mosel said, “I urge members of this committee to maintain a strong funding base for the Conservation Stewardship Program. The pressures in agriculture are immense, and I’m concerned that we are losing a diversity of crops and farms that are good for rural communities, the environment and our economy. The CSP helps maintain diversity on the land.”

Mosel is a Land Stewardship Project member. His operation is both organic and conventional.

Through the CSP he receives around $15,000 a year for five years to manage existing conservation measures, and to add new stewardship practices.

Already contour strips and multiple crops are in the

mix. lesser genetics in seedstock, are organic manage“We’re signed up for a number of practices,” he ment issues that you just learn to live with. said. “Perhaps most important is the rotating crop The CSP payments start in October of the year mixture and that works well with our organic farm- enrolled, which suggests that a farmer intending to ing program.” get into the CSP likely will be spending money to He’s already a 10-year organic farming veteran initiate certain practices before that first October with corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and mixed hay. payment is issued. The program is administered by “The rules of organic production spell out the fre- the county Natural Resources Conservation Service. quency of field rotations “They provide the techof these various crops. But nical advice in regards to weather events very much the particular enhancedictate the pricing of ments you might pick. I’ve “It worked for our farm. It’s real dollars for con- had very good assistance,” organics. Last year we had lots of weather events servation and it’s the direction farm policy needs to Mosel said. “For example, across the nation so right go.” — Tom Nuessmeier, St. Peter, Minn., area hog- I have one field with now the price of organic crop farmer steeper slopes and wanted “It doesn’t have to be a choice between a working, to get that into contour corn is up significantly.

Soybeans for human food productive farm and conservation. CSP can help strips. My NRCS guy use are well above the farmers strike a balance between profits and sus- came out and measured tainability.” — Arvid Jovaag, Austin, Minn., area those strips. I have a 12conventional market.” row planter which fits That means at least a crop and livestock farmer perfectly. $10 “bonus” for soybeans; organic corn about double the price of conventional “The EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentive Procorn. He said a semi-load of corn going to a poultry gram) dollars are there at the beginning to help you producer in southern Iowa got priced at $13 a get through that transition learning period. For bushel. example, headlands on contour strips have to be The Mosels have about 35 cows in the milking grass, which takes some time, so those acres aren’t operation with about 100 head of young stock; the generating much income. EQIP tries to offset that price on organic milk right now is “very good” at the first three years; after that the CSP payments kick in.” about $30 per hundredweight.

Mosel is into GPS guidance and finds it helpful in Mosel said there is some yield drag with organic all operations, especially on the field with contour farming, and extra effort is required, but the strips.

He has closed off all his field surface intakes increase in total revenue more than offsets production declines. The struggle with weeds, and also because he said studies verify surface intakes are the source of most sediments into streams and rivers. He replaced the surface intakes with what he calls “blind intakes,” often crushed rock laid underThe Trailers We Have Come With See CSP, pg. 26A

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“It still acts pretty much as a normal tile line with greater infiltration in that lowest part of the basin.

You can mostly farm over these but you shouldn’t till over them because they may only be 12 inches to 18 inches deep,” he said.

Those contour strips were positive revenue generators in 2011 when the crop season turned drastically dry after mid-July. “We didn’t lose very much of those spring rains,” he said. “Soils held more of the moisture. Those upper strips stayed much greener than normally without the contour strips.”

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Mosel’s CSP agreement includes an agreement to seeing $8 or $10 corn. And I’m sitting here locked do no moldboard plowing. Instead he uses a chisel into a rotation when continuous corn would likely be plow which leaves a high surface residue. Last generating lots more revenue. But I’ve got a degree spring’s excessive rains were a in economics (from Augsburg College) challenge, but Mosel figures it was and have learned that generally what a challenge for all farmers, goes up, also comes down. regardless of tillage. His acres cut “Without the Conservation ... with the program I for corn silage get just a light Stewardship Program, it may was able to maintain a disking. have been more profitable the four-crop rotation, which last couples years to plant my His one additional enhancehelps reduce erosion and entire farm into one crop, like ment? The use of GPS maps to is good for the land. verify he doesn’t double-spray any continuous corn. But with the portion of any field. This means all program I was able to maintain — Darrel Mosel a four-crop rotation, which spray valves are programmed into his onboard computer. If there are point helps reduce erosion and is rows, or any instance which would lead to double good for the land.” spraying, the computer automatically shuts off that He told the Senate ag committee, “the temptation particular sprayer valve. is there to just forgo conservation, but CSP helps and Set to go this spring, his “Raven Controlled” in the long run I think it is better for us all.” sprayer will have five different zones continuously In addition to the Land Stewardship Project, Mosel reading when, and when not, to be spraying as the is active in numerous farm and civic organizations field is covered. including the Minnesota Farmers Union, Minnesota Already with shelterbelts planted around the Corn Growers, Sertoma, the Gaylord Lake Associafarmstead, Mosel hopes to further improve them this tion and the Gaylord United Church of Christ. He season. New trees — hardwood deciduous including also served a term in the Minnesota House of Repreoak, maple, linden and walnut, plus some conifers sentatives (1993-95). and high bush cranberry — incorporated into their CSP is offered in all states through a continuous green ash shelterbelt is their process since the ash sign-up. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture borer disease will likely decimate the existing tree data, 2,342 CSP contracts involving almost 1.5 milline eventually. lion acres have been enrolled in Minnesota since So why don’t a whole lot more farmers get into the CSP? 2009. The average Minnesota agriculture land con“For me it was a tough decision, taking me over tract in 2011 was $25,651 over a five-year period. five years to finally decide,” said Mosel. “And the Iowa farmers contracted 368,585 acres for fiscal argument was what if corn really takes off and we’re year 2011, with a total obligation of $10.6 million.

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The 54.5 mpg by 2025 standard, set to be finalized in August, will double today’s average level of fuel efficiency.

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Commented Bob Coffelt, business development manager, Murphy-Brown Western Operations, “When we first looked at this the system appeared to be fairly unorthodox. But the results tell the story. Pigs simply do better.

“This convinced us fairly quickly that this appears to be an innovation well worth our time and investment. I commend the BEI people in their commitment to this new approach to an environmental challenge. Their work has been almost miraculous in getting this technology developed. We’re looking forward to future progress in the overall improvements in our production systems.”

Low maintenance and the unobtrusiveness of these EPI systems is an additional value point noted Coffelt. “It tends to challenge one’s concept of the improbable values of dust suspension and odor issues.”

Added Steve Pollmann, President, Murphy-Brown Western Operations, “This is a significant step change in environmental systems. We’re excited.

The science is sound. Even though understanding the technology is a challenge, the take-away is that EPI in our test runs provided documented evidence of the potential benefit.”

John Baumgartner, BEI President, indicated a driving factor in their fouryear development of EPI technology was the ongoing health and performance challenges swine producers were facing. Baumgartner Environics is an environmental solutions company spe-

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer It may sound a bit strange on first reading, but negatively charged ions may soon be clearing the air of dust and other harmful emissions such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from hog and poultry facilities across North America and northern Europe. Electrostatic particle ionization is the buzzword for this environmental technology breakthrough.

Explained Matt Baumgartner, general manager of Baumgartner Environics Inc., the Minnesota firm that developed, patented and now markets EPI system, “This technology works by emitting negative ions which capture and hold particles onto interior surfaces. Net result is ventilation enhancement that results in faster gain and less mortality.”

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Meanwhile; California’s The nation’s benchmark Farmdale Creamery has farm milk price took a proposed a “new” but old breather following four alternative for consideration months of decline. The U.S. when a hearing is held on Department of Agriculture the state’s 4b milk pricing announced the April Federal formula, May 31-June 1. order Class III price at Headquartered in San $15.72 per hundredweight, Bernardino, Farmdale said unchanged from March, but the value of whey used in $1.15 below April 2011, MIELKE MARKET determining the price farm$2.29 above California’s comWEEKLY ers receive for milk parable 4b cheese milk price, processed into cheese should and equates to about $1.35

By Lee Mielke go back to 25 cents/cwt., as per gallon. That put the 2012 Class III average at $16.14, down from it was prior to adjustments made on $16.69 at this time a year ago, and com- Sept. 1, 2011. Details are posted at CDFA’s website. pares to $13.62 in 2010 and meager $10.33 in 2009. The April Class IV price ■ is $14.80, down 55 cents from March The cash dairy markets don’t portend and $4.98 below a year ago. much hope. The Chicago Mercantile Class III futures portend further Exchange block cheese price finished declines in May and June and were the first week of May at $1.5350 per trading late Friday morning as follows: pound, unchanged on the week but May, $15.06; June, $14.19; July, $14.27; 11.25 cents below a year ago. The barAugust, $14.73; September, $15.33; rels gained almost 7 cents to correct October, $15.45; November, $15.60; and the spread with the blocks but gave December at $15.39/cwt. some of it back and closed Friday at The Agricultural Marketing Service- $1.47, up 3.5 cents on the week but 19 cents below a year ago and still 6.5 surveyed cheese price averaged cents below the blocks. Eight cars of $1.5361 per pound, up 1.1 cent from March. Butter averaged $1.4634, up 2.9 block and 14 of barrel found new homes on the week. The lagging AMScents. Nonfat dry milk averaged surveyed block price averaged $1.5030, $1.2514, down 8 cents, and dry whey down 0.2 cent. The barrels averaged averaged 59.21 cents, down 1.9 cents. $1.4904, down 1.3 cents.

■ Cheese production across the country The California Department of Food is robust. Milk supplies are up and and Agriculture announced its April 4b much of that production is finding its cheese milk price at $13.43/cwt., down way to cheese plants. Excess milk vol24 cents from March, 91 cents below umes are often being discounted to April 2011 and as stated above well encourage additional cheese manufacbelow the FO Class III. Taking a quick turing. Cheese inventories are building look back, it has lagged the Class III and this was reflected in the March from as little as 8 cents in February Cold Storage data.

2011 to as much as $3.63 in December ■ 2011. The 4b 2012 average now stands at $13.69, down from $15.13 at this time Cash butter fell for the sixth consecua year ago, but above the $12.28 in 2010. tive week and is now at the lowest level The 4a butter-powder price is $14.72, since February 2010, closing May 4 at down 61 cents from March, the eighth $1.31, down a nickel on the week and consecutive month of decline, and $4.73 78.5 cents below a year ago. Thirteen cars traded hands on the week. AMS below a year ago. The 4a average now stands at $15.44, down from $18.22 a year ago but up from $13.23 in 2010.

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Increased milk production being funneled to churn, dryer $13.80/bu., up 80 cents; and alfalfa hay prices rose $6 per ton to $207/ton.

Looking back into USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service archives, Natzke found milk-feed price

ratios frequently averaged 1.3 to 1.4 in the early 1990s. However, in some cases those ratios were revised up substantially a couple years later.

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Anhydrous milkfat plunged 13.6 percent, to $1.2937 per pound, or $1.037 per pound adjusted to 80 percent butterfat equivalent. Milk protein concentrate 70 prices dropped 11.7 percent to $1.8099/lb.

Other product prices that moved lower include rennet casein, down 0.5 percent to $2.9008/lb; skim milk powder, off 4.6 percent to $1.2383/lb; and whole milk powder, down 2.2 percent to $1.2592/lb. Only cheddar and lactose prices moved higher: The average price for cheddar rose 3.1 percent to $1.3336/lb; and lactose advanced 3 percent to 91.45 cents/lb.

■ Back at home; increased milk production is being funneled to the churn and the dryer. March butter production amounted to 176 million pounds, up 3.9 percent from February and 6.4 percent above March 2011, according to USDA’s latest Dairy Products report. Nonfat dry milk output hit 188.6 million pounds, up 9.7 percent from February and a whopping 49.9 percent above a year ago.

American cheese amounted to 382.3 million pounds, up 9.9 percent from February and 4.1 percent above a year ago.

Total cheese production hit 946.3 million pounds, up 10.3 percent from February and 3.7 percent above a year ago.

■ While there are signs the nation’s economy may be improving, the situation for U.S. dairy farmers appears to be headed in the opposite direction, according to Dairy Profit Weekly editor Dave Natzke in Friday’s DairyLine.

He was referring to the April 2012 milk-feed price ratio in USDA’s latest Ag Prices report. He said the ratio may be the lowest in almost two decades, even below June 2009, “when we saw extremely low milk prices and dairy producer income bottomed out, or more accurately, when economic losses were the greatest.”

The index is based on the current milk price in relationship to feed prices for a ration of 51 percent corn, 8 percent soybeans and 41 percent alfalfa hay. The higher hay and soybean prices, combined with lower U.S. average milk prices, sent the April milkfeed price ratio to 1.45, down from a revised estimate of 1.48 in March and 1.81 in April. At $16.90 per cwt., the U.S. average milk price is the lowest since January 2011, Natzke reported.

Corn prices averaged $6.14 per bushel in April, down 21 cents from March, but soybean prices rose to

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MIELKE, from pg. 28A butter averaged $1.4268, down 1.3 cents. AMS Nonfat dry milk averaged $1.2180, down 2.4 cents, and dry whey averaged 57.13 cents, down 2 cents.

Churning schedules remain seasonally strong as cream supplies are readily available, according to USDA. In most instances, churning was surpassing demand, thus clearances to inventory are strong. Butter producers and handlers indicate that buying interest is fair at best with most buyers cautious and procuring near term needs.

Retailers state that butter feature activity has slowed significantly since the recent Easter/Passover holiday period and overall butter demand is typical for this time of year. Food service buyers report fairly steady needs as traffic flow through restaurants is holding steady at fairly good levels.

■ Milk production showed signs of leveling off at or near the seasonal peak in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Arizona had marginally lower production, caused by recent heat. California production was uneven; Florida was steady with the rest of the nation showing various degrees of increased milk production. Coops in the Pacific Northwest are warning dairy producers of possible penalties, like those imposed in California, for excess milk above their established bases.

Processors across the nation are operating plants on extended schedules.

The added volumes of finished dairy products are creating more supplies that are not readily clearing the market. Demand for cream from ice cream plants has registered only slight improvement, according to USDA. ■ Milk production is strong the world over. The European production season is off to a strong start. Some handlers project peak output may only be 4 weeks away. Preliminary reports indicate volume is running 2.5-3 percent ahead of last year.

The Oceania milk production season continues to wind down but remains positive. New Zealand milk output is projected to be 9-10 percent ahead of last season and Australia up around 4 percent.

Speaking of the international market; FC Stone reported in its May 1 eDairy Insider Closing Bell that this week’s Global Dairy Trade prices were mixed, but the trade-weighted average price for all products fell 2.4 percent.

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MIELKE, from pg. 29A With milk prices headed lower, so are the prices dairy farmers are willing to pay for replacement cows, according to Natzke. USDA announced an April average of $1,440 per head, down $20 from the previous quarter. And, even though it’s up slightly from a year ago, average replacement cow prices remain about 30 percent below their peaks in 2007 and 2008.

“There is some good news for dairy farmers who want to sell cows for beef,” Natzke concluded. “The April average cull cow price reached a record high of nearly $85 per hundred pounds. That’s up $6 from a year ago, and puts the beef value of a cull cow at more than $1,000.”

The Ag Prices report also established the March Milk Income Loss Contract payment to producers at 82.62 cents/cwt. according to the University of Wisconsin’s Brian Gould, who expects MILC payments to top $1 into early fall. For complete details and Gould’s future projections, log on to http://tinyurl.com/6rl2hju.

■ Cooperatives Working Together accepted 13 requests for export assistance this week to sell a total of 866,417 pounds of cheese and 1.57 million pounds of butter to customers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America. The product will be delivered through July 2012 and raises CWT’s 2012 cheese exports to 46.9 million pounds plus 40.8 million pounds of butter to 26 countries. On a butterfat basis, the milk equivalent of these exports is 1.322 billion pounds, or the same as the annual milk production of 62,950 cows.

■ In dairy politics; the Department of Labor withdrew its proposed rule restricting the work that children could do on farms. The DOL issued a statement indicating that the proposed rule would not be pursued “for the duration of the Obama administration,” according to a National Milk Producers Federation press release.

The press release stated: “The National Milk Producers Federation is encouraged by the Department’s recognition that the path it was on with this proposal was an affront to millions of family members on farms and ranches across America. Many of them had objected to what the Labor Department was planning to do, and they voiced their concerns to the DOL, as well as to Congress. The withdrawal of the proposal is a victory for common sense.”

The proposed child labor rule would have changed the definition of the “parental exemption,” changed the student learner exemption, and significantly redefined what practices would be acceptable for youth under the age of 16 to participate in. Instead, the DOL says it will “work with rural stakeholders to develop education programs to reduce accidents to young workers and promote safer agricultural working practices.”

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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One thing that moisture deficit did was allow farmers and the market to start thinking about getting the 2012 growing season off to a jackrabbit start. Many itchy farmer fingers were gripping tractor steering wheels to get the planter touching soil as soon as the crop insurance start date kicked in; some perhaps even sooner.

We were all praying for rain, yet we were looking forward to a good dry start. Well, we got the good dry start. In Iowa, corn planting was 64 percent completed, compared to 50 percent for the week prior. That’s 12 percent ahead of last year’s planting progress. Twenty-three percent of the crop had emerged. In Minnesota 73 percent

of the corn crop had been planted, over 48 percent from the week before. Last year, 20 percent had been planted. Twelve percent of the corn crop had emerged.

Had emerged may be the key phrase here.

That rain that we all had been praying for decided to finally come, in buckets.

Obviously it remains to be seen what impact the drought-buster will have on the corn that had emerged and is now under water, as well as the subterranean seeds.

The spring of 2012, as with every growing season, will prove that weather comes and goes in all amounts and variety regardless what we think we need. So just be careful what you ask for; you just might get it — and then some. ❖

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May hasn’t been kind to prices

Lace up your boots; let’s march

Editor’s Note: Tim Emslie, Country Hedging market analyst, is sitting in this week for Phyllis Nystrom, the regular “Grain Outlook” columnist.

■ The following market analysis is for the week ending May 4.

CORN — Old-crop corn continued to distinguish itself as a separate commodity from the newcrop contract during the week.

The May contract, which is in the delivery period, gained 9.25 cents, the July contract was down 5.25 TIM EMSLIE cents, and the December contract Country Hedging fell 14.5 cents, hitting the lowest St. Paul level since March 2011.

Cash basis for spot delivery is setting records in many locations for this time of year, and the May-July corn spread traded at as much as a 49-cent inverse, also a new record for that spread. Futures markets, on the other hand, remained relatively weak, under pressure from broader weakness in commodities and the favorable production conditions in the Corn Belt.

Planting progress was reported at the second highest level ever at 53 percent complete on April 29, behind only 2010. Rainfall was widespread across the belt this week, easing some of the concern about a dry winter.

On May 10, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will issue its May supply and demand report, which will include the first official look at its 2012-13 balance sheets. The production estimate will use the 95.9 million planted acres from the March survey, and the yield is expected to be raised above the 164 bushels See NYSTROM, pg. 2B

So far May has not been overly kind to livestock prices. Both cattle and hog markets have seen some extreme pressure during the last few weeks of April which carried over to May. The cash and futures markets in the cattle have been on different paths for the most part, for quite some time. Money has been a dominant feature in the futures, while the cash trade has been focused more on the current fundamentals and the packers’ desire to accumulate inventory. The money flow JOE TEALE into the futures has been mainly Broker from funds as the technically Great Plains Commodity trend in cattle turned from bullish Afton, Minn. to bearish drawing selling from the hedge and index traders.

The packers continue to be aggressive in their quest to buy cattle paying well over the normal basis levels at this time of year. Export business has been fairly decent while domestic demand for beef has certainly been sluggish. Beef cutouts have increased over the past few weeks, but once again as the price has risen the demand for beef the demand slowly subsides. With the economy appearing to slow once again, the outlook will continue to remain questionable as to how much recovery can be seen.

From a technical perspective the cattle futures appear to have made a near term low and could now narrow the gap to the current cash prices erasing the discount to cash. From a producers standpoint, taking advantage of the current positive basis is suggested and to keep a good prospective of the longer term price direction is imperative.

The spring rains that we have received this year have certainly taken much of the fear of drought out of the market in corn and soybeans. Corn prices continue to struggle, while the soybean market continues to attract more acres to be planted. The winter wheat crop is starting to be harvested in Oklahoma and yields look to be strong.

The profit margins on corn versus soybeans are nearly identical when looking at new crop projections. The old crop corn supply TOM NEHER continues to be rationed out as AgStar VP & Team the inverse between the May and July contract continues to Leader — Grain Industry Rochester, Minn. advance at a staggering rate.

This is the type of market environment that can lull one into complacency.

When looking up complacency in the dictionary, you find that it is an adjective that means: self-satisfied and unaware of possible dangers. The thesaurus gives us synonyms such as: smugness, gratification, self-righteousness and anxiety. These synonyms indicate a wide range of emotional response and seem to explain our reactions to the current market environment. How do we manage margins in such an environment?

We are now entering into a market environment that will test the very best of managers. Do we sell now that margins have tightened up, or should we wait until harvest, like we should have done the last two years? Many people that I have interviewed over the last month have indicated that they have sold little new crop corn and a few more soybeans.

See TEALE, pg. 2B

See NEHER, pg. 2B

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.

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Soybean spreads show big moves this week as well EMSLIE, from pg. 1B per acres used at the February Outlook Conference due to the fast planting pace.

Demand should rebound some from the current marketing year, but not enough to offset that kind of production. This expected huge build in stocks year-on-year is the dominant source of weakness in the market.

Weekly export sales were very large, building on the series of daily announcements from the previous week that included the 1.4 million metric tons new-crop sale to China.

Weekly sales ended up totaling 1.33 mmt for old-crop and 2.14 mmt for new crop. Additional daily sales announcements during the week were reported for Mexico, South Korea, and unknown, which should lead to another strong weekly total next week.

Weekly ethanol production rebounded 29,000 barrels/day to 894,000.

SOYBEANS — Soybeans spreads showed big moves this week as well,

although unlike corn, the strength was in the new-crop. The new crop contract rose 4.75 cents, while the July contract lost 15.25 cents and the May contract was down 21.75 cents.

The weakness came late in the week after the July contract hit a new contract high of $15.125 on Wednesday, but closed lower creating a negative reversal on the chart. There was daily sales activity reported by the USDA’s reporting system each day during the week, primarily for the 2012-13 marketing year, which will translate into a big sales number for the next weekly report.

This week’s weekly exports were 598 tmt for old-crop and 1,134 tmt for newcrop. China is stepping up demand in response to the declining South American production. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange in Argentina lowered its estimate to 41 mmt from 43 previously. A reduction in Argentina’s production estimate on the May USDA report is expected to be the catalyst for

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Hogs continue slide TEALE, from pg. 1B The hog market has continued on its long-term slide in prices right into the first part of May. Ample supplies of live inventory has kept the market on the defensive since February. Pork cutouts have been sliding along with the live price reflecting ample supplies of pork.

However the movement of pork product has been better than expected as confirmed by the recent Cold Storage report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which indicated a good draw down on pork supplies. Therefore the demand for pork has been good as

the cutout price has declined.

Considering the difference between the cutout price for beef compared to the cutout price of pork, it would seem logical that the domestic retailer and the consumer will be enticed by the value of pork.

Another potential positive building for the hog market is the fact that the market is now technically oversold and could produce a short term low in the near future. Producers should remain weary of the market since the downtrend remains in place and use significant price rallies to protect inventories. ❖

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We expect to see a 25 million bushel increase for the current marketing year, and a big enough new-crop program to push the 2012-13 ending stocks-to-use ratio to a rather tight 4.5-5 percent. The USDA export projections will drive whether the report is bullish or bearish for soybeans. The projected farm prices might be worth paying attention to, to see if the USDA implies any price rationing of demand in the face of the reduced South American crop.

On the U.S. production side, it would break precedent if the USDA were to adopt anything other than the March acreage number and the trend yield calculation used in the February outlook.

That means that production should come in close to 3,205 million bushels.

Privately, there are expectations that the strong soybean prices relative to corn this spring will result in higher final soybean acreage, but that won’t be reflected on the May report.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced this week that it will be expanding trading hours starting on May 20. Most days, electronic trading will start at 6 p.m. Central time and not stop until 4 p.m. the next day. The open outcry hours will remain the same, and each day’s settlement will still be established at 1:15 through the existing procedure. Futures markets will now be trading when USDA reports are released, which will be a new experience for the grain industry.

The expanded trading time should facilitate less risky afternoon grain buying as well. ❖

Good intentions don’t count NEHER, from pg. 1B Have we been lulled into complacency?

In his book “Great by Choice,” Jim Collins introduces us to a concept that he calls the “20 Mile March.” Collins asks us to imagine that we are standing in San Diego, Calif., and setting out for a 3,000-mile walk to the tip of Maine. He tells the story of two people who set out on the walk with different tactics. The one walks 20 miles out of town on the first day and then 20 miles the next day. Twenty miles a day through the heat of the desert and the snow storms of the Rockies. When the weather is nice and the wind is his back, he only walks 20 miles and then rests for the next day. When the weather is nasty, he gets up. He gets dressed. He marches his 20 miles.

Eventually he gets to Maine.

Now, the other person who starts out with him on the same day, got all excited by the journey and logs 40 miles the first day. Exhausted from his first gigantic day, he goes to bed and wakes up to 100-degree temperatures in the desert. He decides to hang out until the weather cools, thinking, “I’ll make it up when the conditions improve.” He maintains this pattern of big days with good conditions, whining in his tent on bad days.

Just before he gets to the Colorado high mountains, he gets a stretch of great weather and he goes all out, logging 40- to 50-mile days to make up the lost ground. But then he gets hit with a big winter storm and it about kills him. He hunkers down in his tent and waits for spring. By the time spring

arrives he emerges from his tent weakened and stumbles off toward Maine.

By the time he reaches Kansas City the other hiker has just reached the tip of Maine.

Collins states, “The 20 Mile March creates two types of self-imposed discomfort: (1) the discomfort of unwavering commitment to high performance in difficult conditions, and (2) the discomfort of holding back in good conditions.”

He further suggests, that “a good 20 Mile March lies largely within your control to achieve. You shouldn’t need luck to achieve your march… A good 20 Mile March is designed and self-imposed by the ‘enterprise,’ not imposed from the outside or blindly copied from others…A good 20 Mile March must be achieved with great consistency. Good intentions do not count.”

He suggest that 20 Mile Marching helps turn the odds in our favor for three reasons. First, it builds our confidence in our ability to perform well in adverse circumstances. Second, it reduces the likelihood of catastrophe when we’re hit by turbulent disruption. Thirdly, it helps us exert self-control in an out-of-control environment.

Margin management is all about “hitting those singles and doubles and not swinging for the homerun.” It is all about marching our 20 miles a day, every day. If we can consistently remain disciplined and capture the profits when the market presents them, we will fulfill our goals. Twenty miles a day is a grain angle that will give us the edge to success. Let’s lace up our boots and get to marching! ❖

Tornado recovery goes beyond immediate danger

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moments after the initial response and for the next five or six weeks. When the danger is gone the fire departments and police from other towns go home.”

“It’s very apparent that when you’re about two or three weeks into the disaster response they say we’re out of here and you better be ready,” Del Moen, a Lutheran pastor and Chairman of the Long Term Recovery Committee, said.

With large parts of the town of Wadena and the village of Almora, along with dozens of farms, in various stages of ruin it was hard to be ready. But thanks to the assistance of Lutheran Social Services Disaster Recovery Services and Ottertail-Wadena Community Action Council, a Long Term Recovery Committee and a financial management system were set up.

“I finally came to comprehend the meaning of longterm recovery on the 17th of August (2010) when we had a group of people here from Siren, Wis.,” Dave

Evert said “They were the long-term recovery committee and they were completing their sixth year of work following a similar tornado disaster.”

The Ottertail-Wadena Committee will not likely operate that long. They are planning to shut down at the end of the summer. If all goes well they will have taken care of most, if not all, of the of the unmet needs of the tornado victims.

“For us long-term recovery started about six to eight weeks after the event,” Evert said. “Its principle focus is to identify who are the people who have needs associated with this disaster that cannot be met with their own resources.”

Those needs can include things that were underinsured, uninsured, or could never have been insured. They can be entire homes, automobiles, barns and outbuildings, 40 acres of twisted and destroyed timber, 80 acres of farmland strewn with tons of debris, or a broken heart.

“You start realizing days after a disaster that you are intimately involved in the response and that you become emotionally and physically exhausted and in pain,” Evert said. “You begin to encounter

THE LAND, MAY 11, 2012

By TIM KING The Land Correspondent WADENA, Minn. — The 2012 tornado season is already wreaking damage across wide swaths of the United States.

But the affects of a June 2010 tornado are still being felt in Central Minnesota.

“We have a list of projects for this spring and summer,” said Tanya Nelson, the volunteer coordinator for the Wadena-Ottertail Long Term Recovery Committee.

Immediately after a series of powerful tornadoes swept across part of east Ottertail County and into the town of Wadena on June 17, 2010, volunteers poured into Wadena. Police and fire departments from neighboring communities came to assist. The Red Cross was there within hours to provide water, food and shelter. Hundreds of volunteers came from around the state to clear debris from the streets. It was a remarkable outpouring of generosity.

“Organizations such as the Red Cross will overwhelm you with their capacity to get things done,” Dave Evert, a member of the Long Term Recovery Committee, said.

“Immediately following the storm they show up with people, experience, food, trucks, trailers. They know how to make things happen and how to get food and water out to people in the streets. They know how to cause people to look at what they need to know as far as safeguarding themselves. They will come in with such a head of steam it will take your breath away.”

But they don’t stay.

“Having never been involved with a disaster like this I, like everyone else, was focused on trees to remove, homes to repair, people to find homes for,” Evert said. “Disaster response is what happens

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Long-term recovery ‘emotional, psychological healing’ TORNADO, from pg. 3B people at a much more intimate level than usual and they have conversations with you about how hurt they are psychologically and emotionally and how scared they are.

“You begin to understand that we need to replace this person’s fence that’s gone but that’s not really their first priority. The first priority is that I spent an hour and a half in conversation with them and we never talked about the fence. You begin to understand that this long-term recovery process is going to be more about emo-

tional and psychological healing.”

Everyone who comes in contact with the disaster needs to heal. When, in November 2011, Wendy Molstad, the Committee’s Case Manager, received a phone call during a meeting she hung up and started crying. When she was under control she explained that she had just found warm winter housing for a disabled veteran who had lost everything in the storm 17 months earlier.

“Health and safety were our initial priorities for unmet needs,” Molstad said. “Then our priority became getting people back into their homes.

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They ities this spring ... You begin to underfinally got it. They and summer will stand that this long-term realized how be to clean up recovery process is important what some of the going to be more about they were doing downed timber and to bring farm was to this family.” emotional and psychofields back into logical healing.

If you are interproduction. ested in volunteer— Dave Evert ing in Otter Tail “Volunteers need and Wadena counto feel that their time was put to good use,” Tanya ties you can go to their website at Smith, the Committee’s volunteer www.wadena-ottertailcountyrecovery.com. coordinator, said. “We had a farmer Lutheran Social Services Disaster that lost everything on his farmstead. Recovery Services coordinates volunAll that debris was spread across the teer response to disasters across the fields that he planted each year. There State. They can be contacted at was about 80 acres close to his home www.lssmn.org/disaster. that we needed to clean up. It was a Editors Note: The author of this article huge undertaking. is the author of a paper about the lessons “If he and his family set out to do learned by the Wadena-Ottertail Long that it would take them a considerable Term Recovery Committee. The paper amount of time. We had a youth group will be located at the website of the Minof about 35 kids with adult chaper- nesota Department of Public Safety’s ones. They worked on that project. It website as a resource for other communi❖ was hot and tedious. It wasn’t much ties to use in case of a disaster. fun tramping through the field. They

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The $334 million in loans are provided by USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service. The funding helps electric utilities upgrade, expand, maintain and replace rural America’s electric infrastructure.

USDA Rural Development also funds energy conservation and renewable energy projects.

The following is a list of rural utilities in Minnwesota and iowa that will receive USDA funding, which is contingent upon the recipient meeting the terms of the loan agreement.

Minnesota • Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative — $18,450,000. Funding will be

used to build and improve 101 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements. The loan also includes $5.9 million in smart grid projects.

Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska • Atchison-Holt Electric Cooperative — $5,000,000. Funding will be used to build and improve 62 miles of distribution line and make other system improvements.

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It wasn’t the case, DeYoung said.

Haitians eagerly joined Americans who flew to Haiti earlier this year to assemble the homes — 11 structures in 5 1/2 days. By the last day the Haitians built a home by themselves. Each home comes with a 1/2-in open-end wrench, a speed wrench and punches to line up holes — the only tools needed for assembly.

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By DEE GOERGE The Land Correspondent One Iowan grain farmer’s response to personally help Haitians after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake has rallied agricultural businesses, the citizens of Iowa and states and countries beyond to unite for common sense emergency solutions. At the heart of the plan is Safe T Homes — modified grain bins, designed for human shelter by Sukup Manufacturing Co. of Sheffield, Iowa.

“People ask me, ‘Aren’t they hot?’” said Ken DeYoung, who created Global Compassion Network based out of his hometown, Laurens, Iowa. “It’s the design that makes it work. The double roof, that’s the key. And there is ventilation as well. It’s 8-10 degrees cooler inside.”

Organized just last fall, GCN has partnered with the Iowa Soybean Association’s Iowa Food & Family Project — www.iowafoodandfamily.com — to launch “Special Delivery. Homes. Help.

Hope. For Haiti.” The goal of the campaign, which runs through June 1, is to set up 48 of the homes at the Village of Hope, 10 acres DeYoung purchased in Haiti after wrangling through red tape.

With the support of campaign cochairs Iowa Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey, farm groups, businesses and individuals, DeYoung expects to exceed the goal. Thirteen homes have already been shipped and set up.

Despite initial doubts, “The response from the Haitians for the design was pretty exciting,” DeYoung said. He explained that Haitians live in concrete block homes with cement roofs, which were deadly during the earthquake. Now, many survivors are afraid to go into concrete structures. Because the steel building is different, some Haitian immi-

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Soybean, Farm Bureau, FFA groups aiding effort HOMES, from pg. 5B Making it simple to erect and easy to transport to remote areas were a couple of the considerations made by Brett Nelson and his design team at Sukup. Nelson had been thinking about the design, then got permission from the company’s owners to work on it after the earthquake.

“It’s an engineered system that draws on our experience making grain bins,” Nelson explained.

“It’s very durable — specifically it’s fireproof, near earthquake proof and anchored to withstands wind.

It’s termite proof and cool.”

The 20-gauge steel, 18 feet wide by 13.5 feet tall structures weigh less than 3,500 pounds, with the longest roof sections at 9 1/2 ft. so they can easily be transported by hand or with carts. They include two windows and a door. The lip at the edge of first layer of the 24-gauge steel roof is turned up to help channel the water for collection under the eave. The top heat shield layer is made of perforated steel that shades the roof. The double roof combined with a cupola and continuous ventilation under the eave, keeps the unit cooler than outside.

“This shelter is suitable for all phases of recovery,” Nelson said. “It can be deployed quickly, but is durable enough for transitional and permanent shelters.”

Cost per Safe T Home is $5,700. With another $1,000 for shipping and a concrete slab, the units have a 70-year life expectancy. The partnership with Sukup is just one of many.

The Iowa Soybean Association pledged $1,000 per

Each structure weighs less than 3,500 pounds, costs $5,700, and has a 70-year life expectancy.

Safe T Home (up to $48,000) to purchase Meals from the Heartland — food packets of soy protein, rice, vitamin powder and dried vegetables to feed six.

Cargill-Iowa Region is also donating meals.

County Farm Bureau groups, FFA clubs and other

organizations have rallied around the “Special Delivery” that Iowans plan to make to Haiti through GCN. DeYoung said the Village of Hope is transitional to get families back on their feet, provide education and opportunities for future sustainability.

“It’s not a free ride for them,” DeYoung said. They will sign contracts and be expected to help with the village and pay rent to hopefully make the village self-sustaining. He hopes to build larger, 48-ft. diameter Safe T Homes to set up as a clinic and community center/church. Donations of a tractor and grinder for rice will make it easier to grow and process food.

“We don’t plan to shut down after June 1,” DeYoung said. The need is great, and another community has offered land to set up a similar village.

People can help by contributing money, goods or by volunteering their skills by going to Haiti. “I want to get as many down there as I can,” he said.

DeYoung is a pilot and flies his plane on many trips to Haiti delivering medical and other supplies. Early on, he worked with others welding and fabricating shipping containers into an orphanage, which was frustrating work in a country where there is no acetylene gas and few tools that most people take for granted.

The simplicity and durability of Safe T Homes make them a great housing option.

“My heart and my faith tell me I have a responsibility to take care of the orphans and widows of the world and do my part,” DeYoung said. He invites anyone with the same belief to support GCN to help with its Special Delivery project.

For more information, log on to www.globalcompassionnet.org or call (712) 358-2226. This article first appeared in Farm Show magazine, online at www.farmshow.com. ❖

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OF LITCHFIELD Potential Hobby Farm Call “The Land Specialists!” (since 1977) 40 acres farmable land & 40 Northland Real Estate Hwy 12 N Litchfield, MN acres low land. Old house & 612-756-1899 or 320-894-7337 Specializing in Custom barn, $45,000. Located in www.farms1031.com Modular & Manufactured Southern Ashland Co. WI Homes & Pre-Owned 715-373-2279 or email We have extensive lists of barbara149@centurytel.net Full-Line Contracting Land Investors & farm buyServices ers throughout MN. We alBasements, Garages, Decks Rustic 2 story Log Cabin & ways have interested buy125 acres at $100,000.

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WANTED: Land & farms. I have clients looking for dairy, & cash grain operations, as well as bare land parcels from 40-1000 acres.

Both for relocation & investments.

If you have even thought about selling contact: Paul Krueger, Farm & Land Specialist, Edina Realty, SW Suburban Office, 14198 Commerce Ave NE, Prior Lake, MN 55372. paulkrueger@edinarealty.com

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“Where Farm and Family Meet”

13452 110TH ST. - HANSKA, MN Directions: From New Ulm, take St. Hwy. 15 South approx. 11 mi. to 110th St., then go West 2 mi. and look for sign.

Tractors: IH 574 w/IH 2250 all hyd. loader w/buckets, 3 pt., single hyd., 2048 hrs.; IH 986 w/cab, d, dual hyd., 3 pt., PTO, 2606 hrs., Farmall Super C, PTO; Farmall C implements to be sold following the Super C include: complete mtd. 2-row planter & 2-row cult.; 10-bolt IH dual hubs; 18.4x34 hub duals; Farm/Livestock Equipment: Loftness #1 8’ single auger, 2-stage snowblower; MF 110 man. spreader; Patz Barn Cleaner w/head unit & chain; Cat 3 pt. quick hitch; Trailblazer 3 pt. blade; Bush Hog #105 3 pt. 60” mower; Husq. lawn tractor, 48” deck; Barge box w/hyd. hoist; Hay rack on gear; Hyd. loader controls; Grass seed box; Drag evener; Wagon jack; Hyd. rams; elec. fencer; Woven wire; Gates; Stanchions & pens; Chicken & hog equip.; Cattle water tank; Corn pick wheel shield; Truck topper system; Fence posts; Small electric water pump; 1970 Mustang Grande’ w/351 Windsor eng., bucket seats, center console, new tires, 1-owner, 89K mi.; ‘02 Cadillac Deville, 78K mi., loaded; Shed: Approx 24x65 shed to be dismantled &/or removed by buyer. Tools, Yard/Garden Equipment & Misc.: 2 wheel 5x8 trailer w/mesh floor & drop gate; Small 2 wheel trailer; Craftsman garden cart; Tiller w/5 hp. eng.; Stihl 041 Field. Boss chain saw; Push mowers; Waterloo tool case; Floor 5/8” drill press; 2 loads of hand, power & shop tools; Pump jack w/trans. & elec. motor; Garden tools; Cement mixer; Anvil on stand; Pipe vise; Post drill; Ladders; Flood lights; Oil barrels; Planters; Misc. lumber; BB Guns, Old Toys, Household & Glassware: Daisy BB guns include: older Red Rider BB gun w/box & 2000 mill ed, new in box; Cowboy Joe’s toy wagon; Glassware; Enamel ware; Canning jars; Wood dining table; Bikes; Grills; Antiques/Collectibles: Crocks including RW; JD corn sheller #1B; JW Hance fan mill w/screens; IH 2-bottom plow on steel; IH #7 horse drawn sickle mower w/hitch; Old metal signs; Binder wheel & canvas; Many farm related antiques; Saws; Block planes; Milk cans & buckets; Chick debeaker; Garden gates; Wood sled; Floor grates; Trike; Red Flyer scooter & wagon; Model T windshield; ‘27 cooper fire ext.; bobsled; Pot & corn planters; Grind stone; Old brick pattern tin; Stone axe head.; Nettles wood pop case; Many old raise panel interior doors, some w/windows; Wood ext. door w/oval window; Misc. horse equip.; Misc. advertising including Hanska Farmers Co-op dust pan & local hats; Large ornate frames; Old pics; School desk; Fish reels, include Ocean City #112 & Great Lakes SR91; Note: Sellers & Seller’s agents have represented property to the best of their knowledge & are not responsible for errors in info. This is a guide. Buyers are responsible & encouraged to gather their own info.

Auctioneers have the right to run the sale however they feel best serves the seller.

OWNER: JOHN ANDERSON ESTATE Auctioneer: Matt Mages (08-12-006) 507-276-7002 Auctioneers: Larry Mages - Lafayette • Joe Maidl - Lafayette • John Goelz - Franklin • Joe Wersal - Winthrop Clerk: Mages Land & Auction Service LLC • All Items Sold “As Is” and must be removed by August 1st Not Responsible for Accidents Preview 2 Hours Before Sale • Restroom & Lunch Available on site

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SILO DOORS Wood or steel doors shipped promptly to your farm stainless fasteners hardware available.

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Farm Fans grain dryer, CF- 2 Parker 300 bu. wagons, SA650M, 3 ph, LT, exc, 3277 shedded, $4,250 pair; Parkhrs, $25,000. 563-532-9687 er 200 bu., w/JD gear, $1000; WANTED: JD 290 planter; 12-14' disk; 520-530 Parker 710 grain cart, tractor. 507-330-3945 w/24.5x32 tires, asking $12,000. 320-366-3834 57' JD Hay conveyor w/hangers, Allied ldr w/ 60'' buckWestfield Augers, New: et, 48' grain elevator, HS 10-61...... $8,199 9x16 steel bale rack, JD 2 10-71...... $8,799 bottom plow to restore, HS All sizes available. feeder wagon w/ a bad Call Mike 507-848-6268 floor, Super EZ ldr w/ 80'' bucket, Patz barn cleaner Farm Implements 035 unit w/ 2hp motor, Badger 560 barn cleaner unit w/ 3hp 48 Ft Kent/Great Plains Semotor. 28' clock wise barn ries 7 Discovator/Finisher cleaner chute. 715-671-3142 w/ Harrow Well Maintained. (Will Rent). Heavy 6-18 JD Automatic re-set full Duty Rock Picker w/ Reel size plow; 6-16 Int'l Auto(5 Ft Wide) 3 Way Hyd matic re-set full size plow; (Built Heavier) Like New. 930 Case dsl tractor.

319-347-2349 Can Deliver (320) 760-5622

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DAMAGED GRAIN STATE-WIDE We pay top dollar for your damaged grain.

We are experienced handlers of your wet, dry, burnt and mixed grains.

Trucks and Vacs available.

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SALE: B&H 9100 30' (12 row) Loftness stalk FOR 12R30” cult, fully equipped, chopper, good, $3,900/trade. always shedded (no fert) 319-296-2236 like new cond; Orthman Tracker III; set of 12R 7 ton NH wagon, new 9.5L-15 Kinze markers, (4) JD dry tires, telescope pole, fert boxes w/ ext, mounted $625/OBO. (651)345-3164 on 20' bar. 507-456-1164 FOR SALE & WILL PURCHASE: NH BALE WAG- FOR SALE: Deutz-Allis 4R ONS,FARMHAND ACCUcorn planter, dry fertilizer, MULATORS & FORKS. w/ moniter & manual; ROEDER IMPLEMENT Knowles 10 shank pull type SENECA, KS 66538 chisel. 715-926-5896 785-336-6103 FOR SALE: 3pt grader FOR SALE: JD 1100, 25' field cult.; 4-18.4x42 10-ply blade, 7' wide, pull-type, radial tractor tires, approx. $350. Ray Moeller 50% tread. 320-543-3656 712-297-7951

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FOR SALE: JD 3970 chopper iron guard wide hay head, 2R cornhead, $7,500/OBO. 8R frt mount JD cult, fits Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys.

30, 40 & 50 Series JD trac100% financing w/no liens FOR SALE: JD model 44 2tors, $800/OBO. 715-410-5975 or red tape, call Steve at 14 hyd lift plow very nice & Fairfax Ag for an appointFOR SALE: JD 5400-5830 reconditioned; JD F145 H 4ment. 888-830-7757 and 6000 series forage har16 semi mount plow in good vesters. Used kernel pro- Grain Handling Equip cond; JD F360 6-16s, hyd 034 cessors, also, used JD 40 re-set plow w/ onland hitch, knife Dura-Drums, and '07 Mauer Grain Hopper, good cond. 320-732-3370 drum conversions for 5400 electric, tarp. $12,500. and 5460. Call (507)427-3520 641-425-9070 Hay & Forage Equip 031 www.ok-enterprise.com 10/72 Grain Auger. New last SALE: NH 1112 fall. Hydro lift 8' loading 855 NH Big Round Baler w/ FOR swather, 14' auger head & sweep. $8,250. (715) 723-4259 Bale Command & Chowder crimper; also Hesston 6450 Wheels. Always Kept in Delux DP 2515 Grain Dryer swather, 14' auger head & Shed, Very Good Cond. 489 300 BPH with 3 phase concrimper; NH 654 round Haybine 9'. (715)669-3331 verter. $2500. 12'x26' Butbaler. All machines field ler hopper bin. $500. ready. BO. 507-368-4896 Case IH 8370 14' haybine, 507-274-5936 after 4 pm.

FOR SALE: NH Hayliner 68, new guards, sickle & hold small square baler, $1,500. FOR SALE: 5” air system w/ downs, ready to go! $4,200.

30hp 3 phase motor, 8' Ray Moeller 712-297-7951 jump auger & 3 phase moFOR SALE: '08 Kuhns, MFG FOR SALE: NH Stackliner tor, enough pipe for (2) 60' 1834, small square bale actall bins, $11,500.

1000 automatic bale wagon, cumulator & a 618 grabber 320-220-0202 $1,500. Ray Moeller w/ JD mounts, exc shape.

712-297-7951 FOR SALE:Used grain bins, $12,500. Call 507-317-8103 floors unload systems, stiFOR SALE: RotoPress Bagrators, fans & heaters, aerger, 10' tunnel. Stored inFOR SALE: 10 bale handler, ation fans, buying or sellside. Call 920-333-0049 small square bales, fits 3pt ing, try me first and also or tractor loader, $1,500. call for very competitive Bins & Buildings 033 712-297-7951 contract rates!

Office hours 8am-5pm Monday – FOR SALE: Lester Building, FOR SALE: 12' Mac-Don Friday Saturday 9am - 12 26'Wx46'Lx8'H, insulated, 5020 haybine. Low acres, noon or call 507-697-6133 $6,000. 320-877-7577 or 320$11,500. (715) 797-2552 Ask for Gary 220-3114 1959 541 Offset Ford, with cultivator, mint condition, $10,000. 712-297-9926

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FOR SALE: JD 327 thrower baler & steel thrower wagons, nice shape, call 507-227-0573

e-mail: theland@TheLandOnline.com

Directions: From the W edge of New Ulm by Walmart, go 2.5 mi. W on Hwy. 14

Note: Sellers and Seller’s agents have represented property to the best of their knowledge and are not responsible for errors in information.This is a guide. Buyers are responsible & encouraged to gather their own information. Auctioneers have the right to run the sale however they feel best serves the seller.

OWNER: STANLEY, MIKE & STEVE GOBLIRSCH ESTATE Auctioneer: Larry Mages (72-004) • 507-240-0030

Auctioneers: Matt Mages-New Ulm • Joe Maidl-Lafayette • John Goelz-Franklin • Joe Wersal-Winthrop Clerk: Mages Land Co. & Auction Service LLC – All Items Sold “As Is” – Not Responsible for Accidents Preview 2 Hours Before Sale • Restroom & Lunch Available on site

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Tractors & Trucks: JD 3020, WF, gas, single hyd. w/Vaughn hyd. loader, syncro & cab, 5357 hrs.; IH Farmall M, NF, single hyd. w/Cozy cab & loader frame; Ford 9N, 3 pt.; ‘92 Dodge Dakota LE, V8, 4x4 w/ext. cab & topper; Bronco XLT 4x4, auto. w/snow plow; 15.5x38 tractor chains; ‘52 Chevy 11⁄2-T grain truck w/wood box & hoist, (shedded-very nice); JD rock box; JD quick hitch; Truck tool boxes.

Farm Equipment: JD 350, 7’, 3 pt. sickle mower; Rotomec 5’ 3 pt. PTO tiller; Co-op Black Hawk side rake; Single 12’ disc; Fordson 3 pt. 6’ digger; Oliver 12’ hyd. double disc; Bushhog 3 pt. 8’ rotary mower; JD 14T baler; 3-pt. Red 1-row cultivator; IH 3 bottom plow w/hyd. lift; Dearborn 2 bottom, 3 pt. plow; VanBrunt 10’ grain drill w/wood boxes & wood wheel; 3-Section spike tooth drag w/evener; 3 pt. sprayer w/PTO pump, 100 gal. tank & boom; 4’x8’ 2-wheel trailer; 4’x6’ 2-wheel trailer; 8’x12’ 2-wheel implement trailer w/light kit.

Tools, Yard/Garden Equipment & Miscellaneous: 2 loads of hand & power tools & large selection of shop items; Socket sets; 4T portable power hyd.; 2T floor jack; Hyd. jacks; Screw jack; Battery charger; Tire balancer; Coats air powered tire changer; Hyd. rams; Aluminum ATV pickup ramps; Chain hoist; Engine hoist; Sand blaster; Forney welder; Air compressor; Taryak bench top drill press; Scaffolding; Ladders; Shop wood stove; Orange cones; 300 gal. gas barrel w/stand; Misc. lumber & scrap iron; Old trailer houses, elevator & spreader; Car parts; (3) Car engines.

Guns, Sporting Goods & Golf Cart: Ruger .27 cal. Model 10/22 semi auto.; Stevens 511 (Series A) double barrel hammerless 12 ga.; Montgomery Wards Aurcels 12 ga. single shot; H&R 922 8 shot revolver pistol w/holster; WWII Japanese rifle bolt w/bayonet; Australian bolt rifle; Cross bow w/bolt; Fishing rods; Tree stand; Cushman elec. golf cart w/rear seat.

Antiques/Collectibles, Yard/Garden Equipment & Household: Farm related antiques; Buck saw blades; Fanning mill; Clipper; Egg baskets; Glassware; Collectibles; Sausage stuffer; 10 gal. Red Wing crock; Shot glasses; Salt & peppers; Wheel barrels; Garden planter; Big Mow rider; Snapper riding mowers; 3 pt. potato plow; 4’ garden roller/packer; New Idea 7’ 2-stage 3 pt. snowblower; Ariens snowblower w/24” chains, 710m; Homelite chain saw; Mailboxes; Grills; Picnic table.

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MACHINERY SPECIALS

3 Parcels:

IH 856, Custom ......................................$8,900 IH 1086 w/46” rubber ..........................$10,900 IH 1066, open station ..........................$12,900 IH 1026, Hydro ..........................................$AVE IH 460 & 560, gas ..........................from $3,000 JD Sound Guard Cabs................................Call Gehl 4635 Skid Steer, 6’ bucket ............$7,995

#1 - Buildings with 5.71 Acres (more or less) #2 - 12.06 Acres of Very Good Tillable Land (currently planted in Alfalfa & Prairie Grass.) #3 - 23 Acres of CRP enrolled land, 5 years left on contract (Mostly Tillable Land)

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FOR SALE: Bakko Brothers FOR SALE: JD 7000 8RN Ag Wrap 6x6 bale wrapper, Gravity Wagon w/ brush Gehl 3pt 10 whl V rake. Exc planter, dry fert, $4,000. '70 auger; JD 400 hoe 8-30”, 3pt or loader mt, w/plastic Haybuster Used Haybuster cond, $1,750. 515-570-5215 IH grain truck, 20' box & Case 325 skid; (7) gravity rolls, $9,950. 641-425-5478 rock pickers. Call John at Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Rehoist, twin screw, DOT'd, & wagons; Barge wagon 712-249-5951 pair Repair-TroubleshootFOR SALE: NH 885 skid hoist; 3pt 6' finishing mow11R22 tires, $5,000.

FOR SALE: JD 24 ½' 1100 ing Sales-Design Custom steer, 4000 hrs, good cond, er; Ford 800 utility tractor; 507-381-3776 mounted digger w/ 3 bar hydraulic hose-making up 320-693-2716 or 320-221-0786 560 & loader; plus mower. harrow & 7” shovels. FOR SALE: NH 185 sprdr, to 2” Service calls made.

Peterson Equipment $1,000; 12R30” Hiniker tungood shape, $7,900; Gehl Gehl 125 grinder/mixer, hamSTOEN'S Hydrostatic Ser507-276-6957 or 6958 nel sprayer, $500. mers never turned, all 100 grinder mixer scale & vice 16084 State Hwy 29 N 507-375-3979 hyd.; JD 78, 8' back blade; magnet, $4,500; '75 IH 1066, Hardi 1100 Navigator Glenwood, MN 56334 320NH 256 side rake, new FOR SALE: JD 6000 hi boy 5500 hrs, new torque & sprayer, 60' boom, OH 1000 634-4360 teeth; MN 8T wagon, big sprayer, cab, air, 60' boom, clutch, good tires & tin, PTO pump, $21,000.

JD 568 round baler, twine & tires; JD 5 sect. drag, all boom markers, new tires.

Hiniker CAH, $8,500. 507641-425-5478 net wrap w/ mega wide + good cond. 952-955-1810 507-840-1108 642-3479 pickup, 21.5Lx16.1 tires, varible core & moisture tester, $21,750; Case IH 183 12x30 folding cult, $1,275; JD 845 12x30 folding cult, NH TC29, MFD ......................................$7,995 $1,450; Kinze 16x20 3pt JD 5403, MFD, 600 hrs. ......................$19,900 planter w/ lift assist & 40.77 ACRES to be Split into 3 parcels Kinze bean meters, $2,650.; JD 4650, PS ..........................................$29,900 Real Estate Auction to be held on May 30, 2012 Brittonia 500 gal mid mount ‘77 JD 4630, PS....................................$15,900 pickup sprayer, 80' boom, OPEN HOUSE DATE: May 16th, 4-7 PM 8hp Honda, $1,600.

JD 4620, w/cab, air ..............................$11,900 AUCTION WILL BE HELD ON SITE 320-769-2756 JD 4440, PS ..........................................$18,900 WEDNESDAY EVE. MAY 30th AT 6 PM JD 643 corn head $4500, JD 4belt grain pick-up head JD 4430, Quad, open station ..............$14,900 At: 38342 State Hwy. 99, St. Peter, MN $3000, 16' tandem trailer (Approx. 3 mi. SW of St. Peter, MN on 99 or JD 4230, Quad......................................$14,900 $2000, 6x12 Bobcat trailer 9 mi. NE of Nicollet, MN on 99.) $800. 507-462-3589 (2) JD 4020, dls., PS ............................$12,900

See more Details at www.midwestauctions.com/ediger Ediger Auctioneers • Belle Plaine & Arlington, MN Ph. 952-873-2292 or 612-702-9005 Realtor for this Auction: Mary Stier • Chestnut Realty Belle Plaine, MN • Ph. 952-873-2052 or 612-598-7771

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MANDAKO NEW & USED Land Rollers-11 Sizes From 12 to 75 Ft. (Several On Hand) Heaviest Roller on The Market (5/8” Wall x 42” Dia.) Larger 3” Shafts & Bearings Not 2 7/16”.

DON'T WAIT. We Rent Trade/Deliver Anywhere Dealer 319-347-6282 New Haybusters: #2655 short cut bale processor, list $25,170, 1 only @ $21,900; good used 256, 2 pt. bale processor, $4,995; like new Allied 695 loader, JD 2950 mnts., $5,795. 320-543-3523

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Mowers 5, 6, 7, 9, $150 to '58 JD 520, 1 owner, electronic ignition, dual hyds., fac$1,850; plows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5B, tory 3 pt., new brakes, $150 to $950. 712-299-6608 clutch & rims, WF, FarmNH BR7090 Baler, applicahand ldr. w/hyd. bucket. tor, bale command net & 320-289-3066 twine, 1200 bales, $31,000.

1990 CIH 5140 tractor, 2WD, 641-425-5478 18.4x38 tires at 80%. Cummins diesel cab, a/c, air NH HW345 windrower, 437 ride seat, 7500 hrs. $23,000. hrs, 15.6' discbine head, Red Wing (651) 261-1730. cab/AC, $71,000. 641-425-5478 NH489 haybine, $3,000. 424 Case 930, cab, good shape, tires good, 4400 hrs, $7,500 Weaverline S.S. silage cart, OBO; Case 2390, 6600 hrs., $3,000; 240' R.H. gutter good motor, pwr shift needs chain 18", $2,000. work, w/ldr., $2,000 OBO. (715)428-2941 320-274-5862 Notch Green Feed Wagon, 24' long x 5' wide - $2,100. FOR SALE: '00 JD 9200, 4WD, 24spd, diff lock, 8 new Gehl 120 Feed Mill - $800.

20.8x42R tires, fresh eng (715) 643-2545 OH, 9000 hrs, (10 hrs on OH) have papers, (new Paraplow; Buffalo Cultivahinge pins). $69,000. tor; Electric Feed Cart; 40' 507-381-1723 Zabel Belt Conveyor; Proquality Hay Basket; Ma- FOR SALE: '48 Farmall M, nure tire scraper; Schultz power steering, M&W Flail Chopper; Fertilizer 9spd., 80% rubber, fenders Wagon w/auger; H&S 14' & 2 way hyds, very good Silage Wagon; Knight Litcond. '53 Super M, power tle Augie Used as stationsteering, 85% rubber, 2 way ary unit inc. motor/wheels. hyds, fenders, very good (608)325-4521 cond. 563-580-9844 or 563-552-2176 Wanted-14' Chisel plow with Harrow. Call 1-218-739-3979 For Sale: '74 Case 1370. very or 1-218-770-9139. clean. 18.4 x 42 rears w/duals. 14L x 16.1 fronts, rock We buy box, 8370 hrs. 507-360-1482 Salvage Equipment FOR SALE: '77 Int'l 1086, Parts Available Call for details. 320-543-3656 Hammell Equip., Inc. (507)867-4910 FOR SALE: '80 Ford 6700 Winpower 50/30 pto alternaone owner, 5100 hrs, dual tor, like new, used once, on power, dual hydraulics, 540factory cart, $3,250; JD 158 1000 PTO, new 69x38 tires, ldr., 7' bucket, exc. cond., 3pt, good condition, $7,750. $3,900; (8)JD 3 bu. boxes 952-873-3069 off 7000 planter, $125 ea.; FOR SALE: IH 784 row crop 320 80R42 frt. duals, 4 tires utility tractor, like new + 4 rims & 22” drums, 15.5-38 tires, has TA, $3,000 OBO; 380 90R50 tires 540/1000 PTO, 2 hyd outlets, on JD rims, $1,950/pair. 320inj pump just gone through, 361-0065 new paint & clutch 2 yrs ago, $8,500. 507-830-0213 Tractors 036 FOR SALE: JD 8430 9150 '53 Ford 8N Tractor. New hrs, 18.4x38 tires, duals rubber, Runs great, $3,200. hyd, 3pt, exc cond, $13,500.

515-227-0702 507-661-5045

Midwest Ag Equip

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Farm Equipment For Sale ‘08 Cat 965B, 800 hrs ....................$196,500 ‘04 Cat 855, 3000 hrs. ....................$185,000 ‘07 JD 9860STS, 800 hrs., loaded w/all options....................................$175,000 ‘07 Cat MT755B, 2100 hrs. ............$150,000 ‘89 Versatile 846, 4000 hrs., (So. MN tractor) ................................$40,000 ‘08 Lexion 595R, 650 hrs. ..............$245,000 ‘08 Krause Dominator, 18’ ..............$38,000 ‘04 DMI Tiger Mate II, (50.5’) ..........$37,500 ‘96 Terragator 1844, 1800 gal., 3900 hrs. ............................................$45,000 ‘09 Hagie STS14, 120’ boom, loaded ........................................................$195,000 ‘03 Wilrich 957 VDR, nice shape ....$12,000

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NORTHERN AG SERVICE INC 800-205-5751 Steffes Auction Calendar 2012 For More info Call 1-800-726-8609 or visit our website: www.steffesauctioneers.com Friday, May 11 @ 10 AM: Allan & Phyllis Forness, Colfax, ND, Farm Auction Saturday, May 12 @ Noon: Robert Kadelbach, Litchfield, MN, Real Estate & Moving Auction Tuesday, May 15 @ 10 AM: Leroy & Ruby Olson Estate, Farmland and Equipment, Wadena, MN, 123+/Acres in Wadena County, MN, & Small Farm Equipment Line and Household Items Opening Friday, June 1 & Closing Monday, June 11: IQBID June Auction, Selling Ag, Construction, Trucks, RV’s & More! Advertising Deadline: Tuesday, May 15th Wednesday, June 13 @ 10 AM: D&D Heating & Sheet Metal Inc., Real Estate & Business Liquidation, Manvel, ND Thursday, June 14 @ 10 AM: Dwain & Stacy Kaiser, Fairmount, ND, Farm Auction Opening Thursday, June 14 & Closing Wednesday, June 27: IQBID Park River Implement, Equipment located in Park River, Rolla & Cando, ND Opening Friday, June 15 & Closing Monday, June 25: IQBID Oppegard’s Inc. Collectible Auction, Steffes Auctioneers Facility Friday, June 22 @ 11 AM: Becker County, MN Land Auction, Calloway Community Center, 119 +/Farmland Acres in Calloway Township Friday, June 29 & Saturday, June 30 @ 9 AM: Keith Johnson Estate, Ayr, ND, Antiques, Collectibles, & Cars Opening Sunday, July 1 & Closing Tuesday, July 10: IQBID Oppegard’s Inc. Pre-Harvest Auction, Hillsboro, ND Opening Tuesday, July 10 & Closing Wednesday, July 18: IQBID Kibble Equipment Inc., Montevideo, MN Wednesday, July 25 @ 9 AM: AgIron 61 Consignment Event, Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo, ND, Advertising Deadline: Wednesday, June 27

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TRACTORS • • • • • • • • • •

‘12 MF 8660, MFD, cab, 225 PTO hp.

‘12 MF 2680, MFD, cab, 83 PTO hp.

‘12 MF 2680, MFD, cab, 83 PTO hp.

‘11 MF 8690, MFD, cab, 280 PTO hp.

MF 5460, MFD, cab, 95 PTO hp.

‘11 MF 2680, MFD, 83 PTO hp.

IH 70 Hydro w/F11 Farmhand loader ‘05 MF 451, 45 PTO hp., 400 hrs.

‘07 MF 3645, MFD, 75 PTO hp., cab, loader ‘93 Agco 5680, MFD, 73 PTO hp., loader

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‘07 Geringhoff 1822, RD ‘03 Geringhoff 1222, RD ‘08 Geringhoff 1222, RD ‘07 Geringhoff 1220, RD ‘05 Geringhoff 1220, RD ‘04 Geringhoff 1220, RD ‘08 Geringhoff 836, RD ‘08 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘06 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘04 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘03 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘01 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘00 Geringhoff 830, RD ‘07 Geringhoff 820, RD ‘08 Geringhoff 630, RD ‘08 Geringhoff 630, RD ‘07 Geringhoff 630, RD ‘01 Geringhoff 630, RD ‘05 NH 98C, 12R20” ‘99 NH 996, 12R20” ‘04 JD 1290, reg. rolls JD 822 JD 1022 ‘93 JD 843 ‘06 CIH 2212, 12R20” w/8010 mounts CIH 1083 CIH 822, GVL, Poly CIH 822 White 708N ‘03 MF 3000, 8R30” MF 1163, fits MF 8570 combine

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‘06 ‘07 ‘92 ‘98

CORNHEADS

COMBINES MF 9690, duals, 429 hrs.

MF 9790, duals, 1034 hrs.

Gleaner R62, 2063 hrs.

Gleaner 800, 25’ flexhead

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‘90 MF 8570, duals ‘85 MF 9720, 3292 hrs.

MF 9750 PU table MF 9120 bean table MF 1858 bean table, 15’, 18’, 20’ MF 8000, 30’ bean table

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Brandt 1070XL, swing hopper auger Brandt 1080XL, swing hopper auger Brandt 1390XL, swing hopper auger Brandt 7500 hp. grain vac.

Brandt 5200 EX grain vac.

‘05 Brandt 1070XL swing hopper Brandt GBU-10, bagger Brandt GBL-10, unloader Brandt 1515 LP, 1535, 1545, 1575, 1585 belt conveyors Brandt 10x35 auger Parker 605 gravity box, 625 bu.

Parker 505 gravity box, 550 bu., brakes Hutchinson 10x61 auger Wheatheart transfer auger, 8”

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Kodiak 60”, 72”, 84” 3 pt. rotary cutters Gehl WR520, 12 wheel rake MF 1328 & 1329 3 pt. disc mowers MF 828 round baler, auto tie MF 200 SP windrower, cab ‘11 MF 1372 disc mower conditioner Sitrex DM7 & DM5 disc mower Sitrex RP2 or RP5 3 pt. wheel rake Sitrex MK 14 wheel rake Sitrex 10 & 12 wheel rakes on cart Westendorf 3 pt. bale spear H&S 16’ bale wagon Chandler 22’, litter spreader Meyer 4620 TSS forage box w/19T gear

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Sunflower 5055-62 field cult., 5-section, 62’ Brady 20’ stalk choppper ‘08 JD 520 stalk chopper Loftness 30’ stalk chopper, SM Maurer 28’-42’ header trailers ‘11 Degelman LR7645 land roller ‘11 Degelman RR1500 rock rake Degelman 320 rock digger ‘11 SB Select snowblowers, 97” & 108”, 3 pt.

Lucke 8’ snowblower, 3 pt.

GRAIN HANDLING

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J.D. 4430, CHA, new style 3 Concave small wire type to fit 1440 – 1460 Case IH Comsteps, new rear rubber, bine. No extension $400. front & rear wgts plus flu952-657-2541 id. Very nice condition.

(608) 687-8265, FOR SALE: Case IH 1020 Cell - (507) 429-4561 bean head, 25', 3” cut , like new, w/ Unverferth head JD 8430 tractor, front diff cart, $15,000. 507-753-2128 OH'd, new hi low unit, 18.4x38 tires, new of rear, For Sale: Massey U2, 13' ok on front $12,000. bean head & Massey 4 row 515-890-9793 cornhead. (2) Wide 18-L-26 MF 1135 C/A; MF 1190 comfront tires for a Massey combine & 2 back tires, 1 is pact; MF 175; hydraulic brand new! Big tire 18.4boom off truck; 12Kw-45Kw PTO generators; Batco 35' 26, little tire 11-L-16. Call conveyor. 320-760-1634 evenings 320-286-5059.

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FOR SALE: LA Case, ready JD 3010, dsl, WF, Hiniker to go. (715)537-5783 cab, good clean tractor, 4000 hrs, $8,900/OBO. FOR SALE: M5 Moline, 75% 712-260-6400 rubber, new paint & parts, powershift wheels, NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, $5,000/OBO. 608-423-4039 55, 50 Series & newer tracFOR SALE: Used Oliver tors, AC-all models, Large tractor parts for most modInventory, We ship! Mark el Olivers and White tracHeitman Tractor Salvage tors, including a lot of mo715-673-4829 tor parts for most Olivers both gas & dsl, parts for a Specializing in most AC 1755 & 1955 dsl, block & used tractor parts for crank shaft, hyd pump, cab sale. Now parting out for 1955, WF, sheet metal, WD, 190XT, #200 & D-17 PTO unit & 3spd unit. For tractors.

Rosenberg used Oliver parts, call 218Tractor Salvage 564-4273 or cell 218-639-0315 507-848-1701 or 507-236-8726 IH 766 G, good cond, good TA, w/GB hyd loader good White 2-155 tractor, very good cond, AC/ heat work cond, $7,600/OBO. well, 5500 hrs, duals, 641-847-1992 $10,250/OBO. 515-681-6279 IH SMTA tractor, TA works good, excellent tires, very Harvesting Equip 037 good tractor. 608-386-7994

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TRACTORS 4WD

CIH 535 Quad, '10, 800 hrs ..........................................$299,000 CIH 500 Steiger, '11, 405 hrs ........................................$265,500 CIH 485 Steiger, '10, 425 hrs ........................................$229,500 CIH STX450Q, '02, 5095 hrs ........................................$149,000 CIH 435 Steiger, '08, 1250 hrs ......................................$205,000 CIH STX375, 2475 hrs ..................................................$143,000 CIH 335 Steiger, '09 ......................................................$169,500 CIH 330 Steiger, '07, 1840 hrs ......................................$150,000 CIH STX275, '02, 2875 hrs............................................$125,000 CIH 9390, '97 ..................................................................$88,500 CIH 9380, '97 ..................................................................$79,000 CIH 9380, '97, 4600 hrs ..................................................$79,500 CIH 9380, '96, 8075 hrs ..................................................$65,000 CIH 9370, '97, 4325 hrs ..................................................$84,500 CIH 9270, '91, 4815 hrs ..................................................$72,900 CIH 9180, '89, 7600 hrs ..................................................$39,900 CIH 9170, '89, 7825 hrs ..................................................$56,500 Case 2670, '78, 6370 hrs ..................................................$7,900 Challenger MT865B, '06, 3745 hrs ................................$199,500 Ford 846, '93, 5785 hrs ..................................................$39,900 JD 9620T, '06, 3205 hrs ................................................$195,000 JD 9330, '09, 2150 hrs..................................................$195,000 JD 8960, '91, 6540 hrs....................................................$64,500 NH T9060, '08, 1440 hrs ..............................................$212,000 NH TJ330, '07................................................................$139,500 Steiger ST325, '78 ..........................................................$17,500 Versatile 846, '88, 5510 hrs ............................................$30,000 Versatile 835, '78, 11,000 hrs..........................................$15,500

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TRACTORS AWD/MFD Continued

CIH MX230, '04, 4400 hrs ..............................................$89,500 CIH 215 Mag, '11, 335 hrs ............................................$152,000 CIH 215 Mag, '11, 695 hrs ............................................$130,000 CIH 215 Mag, '10, 3100 hrs ..........................................$105,000 CIH 215 Mag, '09, 770 hrs ............................................$129,000 CIH 215 Mag, '09, 880 hrs ............................................$129,500 CIH MX200, '99, 8865 hrs ..............................................$65,000 CIH 180 Mag, '09 ..........................................................$102,500 CIH 8950, 8725 hrs ........................................................$62,500 CIH 7240, '95, 5125 hrs ..................................................$64,900 CIH 7140, '91 ..................................................................$45,900 CIH 7130, '87, 5610 hrs ..................................................$45,500 CIH 5130, '91, 13670 hrs ......................................................Call CIH 585, '88, 4975 hrs ....................................................$14,900 Case 580M, '06, 4400 hrs ..............................................$39,500 IH 6388, 7785 hrs............................................................$16,500 Challenger MT665C, '09, 755 hrs ..................................$148,500 Ford 8970, '94, 8140 hrs ................................................$57,500 McCormick TTX230, '09, 615 hrs....................................$90,000 McCormick XTX215, '06, 870 hrs....................................$85,000 NH TC55, '05, 2785 hrs ..................................................$18,500 White 6175, '94, 8020 hrs ..............................................$42,500

COMPACT TRACTORS / RTV’s CIH 40 Farmall CVT ........................................................$36,250 CIH DX25E, '04, 175 hrs..................................................$13,900 Agco ST 40, '02, 435 hrs ................................................$15,500 Deutz 5220, '87, 1540 hrs ................................................$5,995 JD 4310, '02, 1090 hrs....................................................$21,000 Kubota B2920HSD, '08, 180 hrs......................................$17,100 Kubota BX2360T, '09 ........................................................$8,950 Kubota BX2230, '04, 1965 hrs ..........................................$7,750 Kubota BX2200, '01 ..........................................................$8,750 Kubota BX1830, '04 ..........................................................$6,950 Kubota BX1500, '04, 1235 hrs ..........................................$6,100 Artic Cat 500, '02, 950 hrs ................................................$2,950 Cub Cadet 4x4D Trail, '06, 670 hrs....................................$7,975 Kawasaki Mule, '02, 2670 hrs............................................$5,500 Kubota RTV900W, '06, 800 hrs ........................................$7,900 Kubota RTV900, '06, 935 hrs ............................................$7,950 Kubota RTV900A, '05, 1170 hrs ........................................$8,400 Kubota RTV900, '05, 950 hrs ............................................$8,550 Kubota RTV900W, '04, 830 hrs ........................................$8,200 Steiner Hawk, '00 ..............................................................$3,250

PLANTING & SEEDING

CIH 2404, '68, 5805 hrs ....................................................$4,950 Farmall 706, 7610 hrs........................................................$5,000 IH M, '49............................................................................$2,500 IH 5088, '82, 9545 hrs ....................................................$19,500 IH 986, '77, 8735 hrs ........................................................$9,950 IH 756................................................................................$7,500 IH 656, '68 ........................................................................$6,250 Allis 7060, '76, 3140 hrs ..................................................$9,900 Ford 640, '56, 180 hrs ......................................................$2,950

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

TRACTORS AWD/MFD CIH 335 Mag, '11, 50 hrs ..............................................$219,000 (2) CIH 335 Mag, '10 ........................................choice $151,900 CIH 305 Mag, '11, 1300 hrs ..........................................$167,500 (2) CIH 305 Mag, '10 ........................................choice $182,500 (2) CIH 305 Mag, '10 ........................................choice $151,900 CIH 305 Mag, '09, 1595 hrs ..........................................$182,500 CIH 290 Mag, '11, 180 hrs ............................................$192,500 CIH 275 Mag, '11, 600 hrs ............................................$172,500 CIH 275 Mag, '10, 600 hrs ............................................$172,500 CIH 275 Mag, '10, 800 hrs ............................................$175,000 CIH 275 Mag, '10, 950 hrs ............................................$155,500 CIH 275 Mag, '09 ..........................................................$175,000 CIH MX275, '06, 2020 hrs ............................................$129,500 CIH MX270, '00, 5085 hrs ..............................................$69,900 CIH 245 Mag, '11, 300 hrs ............................................$153,500 CIH 245 Mag, '09, 2250 hrs ..........................................$129,500 CIH 245 Mag, '09, 2460 hrs ..........................................$129,500

CIH 1260, 36R22 ..........................................................$185,000 CIH 1250, 24R30 ..........................................................$113,900 (2) CIH 1200, 24R22 ....................................$49,900 & $66,900 CIH 1200, 16R30 ............................................................$59,500 CIH 1200, 16R22 ............................................................$30,000 (2) CIH 1200, 12R30 ....................................$48,500 & $52,500 CIH 955, 12R30 ..............................................................$15,000 CIH 950FF ........................................................................$19,500 CIH 950, 12R30 ..............................................................$16,900 CIH 900, 16R30 ..............................................................$14,900 CIH 900, 12R30 ..............................................................$11,000 CIH 900, 8R30 ..................................................................$6,500 IH 800, 8R30 ....................................................................$2,100 (2) JD 7300, 12R30 ......................................$12,500 & $12,900 JD 1770, 16R30 ..............................................................$46,300 White 8524, 24R30........................................................$109,900 CIH 5400MT, 20' Drill ........................................................$6,950 CIH 5400, 20' Drill ............................................................$6,500 Great Plains 30' Drill........................................................$10,500 (4) Great Plains 20' Drill ....................................$4,500 - $5,800 JD 520, 20' Drill ................................................................$4,500

SPRING TILLAGE (2) CIH TM 200, 60.5' Fld Cult ............................choice $67,500 CIH TM 200, 50.5' Fld Cult ..............................................$57,900 (2) CIH TM 200, 48.5' Fld Cult ........................................$55,000 CIH TMII, 54.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$35,500 CIH TMII, 50.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$46,900 CIH TMII, 46.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$39,895 DMI TMII, 49.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$39,500 DMI TMII, 38.5' Fld Cult ..................................................$22,900 DMI TM, 44.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$12,500 Flexcoil 820, 40' Fld Cult ................................................$11,500 JD 2210, 64.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$61,500

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COMBINES Continued

JD 2210, 50.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$55,900 JD 2200, 38.5' Fld Cult ....................................................$24,500 JD 1100, 24.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$1,295 JD 1000, 26.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$1,000 JD 980, 44.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$17,500 JD 980, 43.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$16,900 JD 980, 36.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$13,900 JD 980 Fld Cult ................................................................$14,500 JD 960, 36.5' Fld Cult ........................................................$6,900 Sunflower 5053, 39' Fld Cult ..........................................$19,900 Sunflower 5034, 22' Fld Cult ..........................................$12,000 White 375 Fld Cult ............................................................$3,500 Wilrich Quad5, 32' Fld Cult..............................................$16,500 Wilrich 2500, 27.4' Fld Cult ..............................................$1,950 CIH 3950, 22.5' Disk........................................................$21,500 CIH 3900, 33' Disk ..........................................................$14,900 CIH 370, 31' Disk ............................................................$52,500 CIH 330, 34' Disk ............................................................$61,500 JD BWF, 19' Disk ..............................................................$2,000 Sunflower 1434, 23' Disk ................................................$33,000 White 6x16 Disk ................................................................$1,500 Worksaver 940420 Disk........................................................$525

JD 9870STS, '09, 830 hrs ............................................$275,000 JD 9870, '09, 1100 hrs..................................................$256,000 JD 9770S, '08, 890 hrs..................................................$217,000 JD 9660, '07, 1805 hrs..................................................$169,500 JD 9660STS, '04, 2115 hrs ..........................................$149,000 JD 9610, '96, 3265 hrs....................................................$62,500 JD 9500, '89, 4520 hrs....................................................$37,950 JD 9400, '97, 3250 hrs....................................................$44,500 JD 9400, '91, 4720 hrs....................................................$35,950 MF 750, '77 ......................................................................$3,500 NH TR97, '95, 3955 hrs ..................................................$29,500 NH TR86, '89, 3860 hrs ..................................................$18,500 NH TR86, '85, 3245 hrs ....................................................$9,900 NH 970, '03, 2020 hrs ..................................................$139,000

COMBINES CIH 9120, '11, 290 hrs ..................................................$320,000 CIH 9120T, '10, 655 hrs ................................................$329,000 CIH 9120, '09, 725 hrs ..................................................$289,000 CIH 8120, '11, 260 hrs ..................................................$319,000 CIH 8120, '11, 210 hrs ..................................................$309,000 CIH 8120, '11, 250 hrs ..................................................$309,000 CIH 8120T, '10, 970 hrs ................................................$319,000 CIH 8120, '10, 190 hrs ..................................................$315,000 CIH 8120, '09, 930 hrs ..................................................$253,400 CIH 8120, '09, 1120 hrs ................................................$265,000 CIH 8120, '09, 1265 hrs ................................................$249,500 CIH 8120, '09, 1060 hrs ................................................$260,000 CIH 8010, '07, 1100 hrs ................................................$215,000 CIH 8010, '07, 1740 hrs ................................................$195,000 CIH 8010, '06, 865 hrs ..................................................$175,000 CIH 8010, '06, 1410 hrs ................................................$191,500 CIH 8010, '06, 1900 hrs ................................................$164,500 CIH 8010, '06, 1900 hrs ................................................$166,000 CIH 8010, '04, 2115 hrs ................................................$139,000 CIH 8010, '04, 2440 hrs ................................................$159,000 CIH 7120, '10, 465 hrs ..................................................$245,000 CIH 7120, '09, 915 hrs ..................................................$252,500 CIH 7088, '11, 585 hrs ..................................................$249,000 CIH 7088, '11, 640 hrs ..................................................$249,000 CIH 7088, '10, 470 hrs ..................................................$245,000 CIH 7088, '10, 810 hrs ..................................................$225,000 CIH 7088, '09, 845 hrs ..................................................$215,000 CIH 7010, '07, 2875 hrs ................................................$155,000 CIH 6088, '11, 470 hrs ..................................................$239,000 CIH 6088, '11, 545 hrs ..................................................$239,000 CIH 6088, '11, 500 hrs ..................................................$239,000 CIH 6088, '10, 450 hrs ..................................................$228,500 CIH 6088, '10, 525 hrs ..................................................$235,000 CIH 6088, '10, 500 hrs ..................................................$225,000 CIH 2588, '07, 1910 hrs ................................................$178,900 CIH 2388, '06, 1125 hrs ................................................$172,500 CIH 2388, '06, 1440 hrs ................................................$159,500 CIH 2388, '05, 2320 hrs ................................................$126,900 CIH 2388, '04, 1270 hrs ................................................$125,000 CIH 2388, '03, 2740 hrs ................................................$135,000 CIH 2388, '03, 2415 hrs ................................................$140,000 CIH 2388, '03, 2540 hrs ................................................$117,900 CIH 2388, '03, 2550 hrs ................................................$125,000 CIH 2388, '03, 2760 hrs ................................................$119,900 CIH 2388, '02, 2975 hrs ..................................................$99,000 CIH 2388, '01, 2400 hrs ..................................................$99,500 CIH 2388, '01, 2580 hrs ................................................$106,500 CIH 2388, '01, 2840 hrs ..................................................$99,500 CIH 2388, '01, 3250 hrs ..................................................$99,900 CIH 2388, '00, 2000 hrs ................................................$115,000 CIH 2388, '00, 3295 hrs ..................................................$86,500 CIH 2388, '98, 3210 hrs ..................................................$77,500 CIH 2388, '98, 3250 hrs ..................................................$85,700 CIH 2388, '98, 3780 hrs ..................................................$82,500 CIH 2366, '00, 2810 hrs ..................................................$89,500 CIH 2366, '00, 3135 hrs ..................................................$89,500 CIH 2366, '99, 3845 hrs ..................................................$79,500 CIH 2188, '97, 3800 hrs ..................................................$69,500 CIH 2188, '97, 2365 hrs ..................................................$79,000 CIH 2188, '96, 2950 hrs ..................................................$72,500 CIH 2188, '96, 3045 hrs ..................................................$79,500 CIH 2166, '97, 4150 hrs ..................................................$62,500 CIH 2166, '96, 3250 hrs ..................................................$59,500 CIH 2166, '96, 3430 hrs ..................................................$63,500 CIH 1688, '94, 3305 hrs ..................................................$49,500 CIH 1688, '94, 4160 hrs ..................................................$39,500 CIH 1688, '94, 4325 hrs ..................................................$39,500 CIH 1688, '93, 4560 hrs ..................................................$47,500 CIH 1666, '93, 3180 hrs ..................................................$49,500 CIH 1660, '91, 3650 hrs ..................................................$27,000 CIH 1660, '90, 4360 hrs ..................................................$29,500 CIH 1660, '87, 4605 hrs ..................................................$27,500 CIH 1640, 86, 3845 hrs ..................................................$14,500 CIH 1460, '80, 3500 hrs ....................................................$7,500 CIH 1440............................................................................$5,900 Gleaner N6, '84, 3120 hrs..................................................$9,500

BEAN/CORNHEADS CIH 2162, 35' Beanhead ..................................................$59,900 (2) CIH 2062, 36' Beanhead ..........................$45,000 & $48,000 CIH 2062, 30' Beanhead ..................................................$39,500 (4) CIH 2020, 35' Beanhead............................$27,900 - $32,500 (6) CIH 2020, 30' Beanhead............................$19,500 - $33,500 (3) CIH 2020, 25' Beanhead..........................$$18,900 - $23,000 CIH 2020, 20' Beanhead ..................................................$24,000 (30) CIH 1020, 30' Beanhead ..........................Starting at $4,900 (23) CIH 1020, 25' Beanhead ..........................Starting at $5,500 (3) CIH 1020, 22.5' Beanhead ............................$4,950 - $9,700 (3) CIH 1020, 20' Beanhead............................$10,500 - $15,500 CIH 1020, 15' Cornhead ....................................................$8,500 CIH 920 Beanhead ............................................................$3,500 Deutz All 320 Beanhead ....................................................$3,500 (4) JD 930F, 30' Beanhead ................................$9,550 - $11,900 JD 920, 20' Beanhead........................................................$5,900 (3) JD 635F, 35' Beanhead ..............................$32,000 - $34,500 JD 630F Beanhead ..........................................................$36,900 MacDon 2162, 40' Beanhead ..........................................$55,000 MacDon 2162, 35' Beanhead ..........................................$47,000 Macdon 974, 35' Beanhead ............................................$45,000 Macdon 30' Beanhead ....................................................$41,500 MF 9750, 25' Beanhead ....................................................$7,000 NH 960 Beanhead ..............................................................$1,400 CIH 3408, 8R30 Cornhead ..............................................$44,000 (2) CIH 2612 Cornhead..................................$81,500 & $82,300 (4) CIH 2608 Cornhead ..................................$52,900 - $65,000 (9) CIH 2208 Cornhead ..................................$26,500 - $35,500 (4) CIH 2206 Cornhead ..................................$24,500 - $30,000 CIH 1222 Cornhead ........................................................$16,900 (14) CIH 1083 Cornhead ..................................starting at $9,500 (4) CIH 1063 Cornhead ....................................starting at $9,500 IH 12R22 Cornhead ........................................................$15,500 IH 983, 9R22 Cornhead ..................................................$10,500 (2) IH 963, 6R30 Cornhead ..............................$4,500 & $7,950 (2) IH 883 Cornhead ..........................................$3,500 & $4,000 (2) IH 863 Cornhead ..........................................$2,500 & $4,500 Cat 1622 Cornhead ..........................................................$29,500 Cressoni 6R30 Cornhead ................................................$21,500 (7) Drago 12R22 Cornhead ............................$49,500 - $85,000 (2) Drago 12R20 Cornhead ............................................$84,500 Drago 10R30 Cornhead ..................................................$65,500 (3) Drago 10R22 Cornhead ............................$39,500 - $65,500 (16) Drago 8R30 Cornhead ............................$29,500 - $57,500 (2) Drago 8R22 Cornhead..............................$33,000 & $44,900 (2) Drago 6R30 Cornhead..............................$41,500 & $42,500 Geringhoff 12R30 Cornhead ............................................$89,750 Geringhoff 12R22 Cornhead ............................................$69,500 Geringhoff 8R30 Cornhead ..............................................$29,900 (3) Geringhoff Roto Disc ................................$29,900 - $36,500 Gleaner Hugger Cornhead..................................................$8,950 Gleaner 6R30 Cornhead ....................................................$3,500 Harvestec 4306C Cornhead ............................................$34,000 (4) Harvestec 8R30 Cornhead ........................$25,000 - $39,500 Harvestec 6R30 Cornhead ..............................................$15,900 JD 1293, 12R30 Cornhead ..............................................$45,500 JD 1290, 12R20 Cornhead ..............................................$49,950 JD 10R22 Cornhead ..........................................................$8,500 (5) JD 893, 8R30 Cornhead ............................$14,500 - $33,000 JD 843, 8R30 Cornhead ....................................................$7,500 JD 843, 8R22 Cornhead ..................................................$10,000 JD 643, 6R30 Cornhead ....................................................$5,500 Lexion C512R30 Cornhead ..............................................$38,000 NH 962 Cornhead ..............................................................$1,400 (2) IH 810 Platform............................................$1,500 & $2,250 JD Platform........................................................................$1,500 Homemade 4 Wheel Head Transport ................................$1,000 Maurer 1230, 30' Head Transport......................................$3,995

FALL TILLAGE (7) CIH 870, 22' Subsoiler ..............................$59,000 - $75,000 (6) CIH 870, 18' Subsoiler ..............................$43,500 - $57,900 CIH 870, 14' Subsoiler ....................................................$43,000 (4) CIH MRX690 Suboiler ..............................$20,900 - $28,500 (5) CIH 9300, 22.5' Subsoiler ........................$24,500 - $45,000 (2) CIH 9300, 9 Shank Subsoiler ..................$36,000 & $36,500 (6) CIH 730B Subsoiler ..................................$17,500 - $26,000 (4) CIH 730C, 17.5' Subsoiler ........................$32,500 - $41,500 (3) CIH 730C, 7 Shank Subsoiler ....................$34,900 - $39,900 (2) CIH 730B, 7 Shank Subsoiler ..................$22,500 & $24,000 CIH 530B, 12.5' Subsoiler ..............................................$18,500 DMI 9300, 22.5' Subsoiler ..............................................$40,000 DMI 9300, 22' Subsoiler..................................................$29,500 DMI 1300, 17.5' Subsoiler ................................................$9,500

FALL TILLAGE Continue

DMI 730B Subsoiler .............................................

(5) DMI 730B, 17.5' Subsoiler ........................$15 (3) DMI 730B, 7 Shank Suboiler ....................$17 (4) DMI 730, 7 Shank Subsoiler .................... $12 DMI 530, 12.5' Subsoiler .....................................

(2) DMI 530, 5 Shank Subsoiler ....................$11, DMI 530B, 12.5' Subsoiler ...................................

DMI 527, 5 Shank Subsoiler.................................

(2) DMI CCII, 11.5' Subsoiler ............................$5 DMI Tiger II Subsoiler...........................................

Bourgault 2200, 30' Subsoiler .............................

Glencoe SS7400 Subsoiler ...................................

(16) JD 2700 Subsoiler ..................................$21 JD 960 Subsoiler .................................................

(3) JD 512, 22.5' Subsoiler ............................$29 (3) JD 512, 22' Subsoiler................................$40 (2) JD 512, 17.5' Subsoiler ..................................c (3) JD 512, 9 Shank Subsoiler ........................$23 JD 510, 7 Shank Subsoiler ...................................

Krause 4850, 18' Subsoiler .................................

M & W 2900 Subsoiler .........................................

M & W 2200 Subsoiler .........................................

M & W 1875, 17.5' Subsoiler ...............................

M & W 1860, 9 Shank Subsoiler .........................

NH ST770, 17.5' Subsoiler ...................................

Sunflower 4411, 9 Shank Subsoiler .....................

(6) Wilrich V957DDR Subsoiler ......................$23 IH 4700, 30' Chisel Plow .....................................

Hiniker 816M Chisel Plow.....................................

(2) CIH 800, 10 Bottom MB Plow ....................$8, CIH 800, 9x18 MB Plow .......................................

JD 3710, 9 Bottom MB Plow ...............................

JD 724, 30' Combo Mulch ...................................

DMI 18' Crumbler .................................................

Great Plains 20' Crumbler.....................................

SELF PROP. FORAGE HARVE

Chase Groskreutz, East - (320) 2 Randy Olmscheid, West - (320) 5

Claas 980, '10, 655 hrs.........................................

Claas 980, '10, 915 hrs.........................................

Claas 980, '09, 1135 hrs.......................................

Claas 980, '08.......................................................

Claas 980, '08, 1495 hrs.......................................

Claas 970, '08, 1040 hrs.......................................

Claas 900, '09, 1625 hrs.......................................

Claas 900, '07, 1935 hrs.......................................

Claas 900, '07, 2430 hrs.......................................

Claas 900, '06, 2645 hrs.......................................

Claas 900, '03, 2275 hrs.......................................

Claas 890, '02, 2100 hrs.......................................

Claas 890, '02, 2555 hrs.......................................

Claas 870 GE, '06, 2590 hrs .................................

Claas 870, '05, 1995 hrs.......................................

Claas 870, '03, 2790 hrs.......................................

JD 6810, '96, 4590 hrs.........................................

JD 5400, 2660 hrs ...............................................

NH FX60, '03, 1970 hrs .......................................

NH FX58, '02, 1410 hrs .......................................

FORAGE

Gehl CB1265 PT Forg Harv...................................

Gehl CB1065 PT Forg Harv...................................

Gehl 1075 PT Forg Harv .......................................

NH FP240 Forg Harv.............................................

(6) Claas PU380HD Hayhead ........................ $12 (2) Claas PU380 Pro Hayhead ......................$23, (8) Claas PU380 Hayhead .............................. $11 Claas PU300 Hayhead...........................................

(4) Gehl HA1210 7' Hayhead ................................

Gehl HA1110, '95 Hayhead ..................................

Gehl 7' Hayhead....................................................

JD 630A Hayhead .................................................

JD 7' Hayhead ......................................................

JD 5HP, 5.5' Hayhead ..........................................

NH 3500 Hayhead.................................................

NH 355W Hayhead ...............................................

NH 340W Hayhead ...............................................

(3) Claas Orbis 900 Cornhead ....................$110,0 (3) Claas Orbis 750 Cornhead ........................$76 Claas Orbis 600 Cornhead ...................................

(13) Claas RU600, 8R30 Cornhead ................$24 (2) Claas RU450XTRA Cornhead ..................$42, (12) Claas RU450 Cornhead............................$28 (4) Gehl TR330 Cornhead ..................................$ (2) JD 688 Cornhead ....................................$28, JD 666, 6R30 Cornhead .......................................

JD 4R30 Cornhead ...............................................

JD 3R30 Cornhead ...............................................

Kemper 4500 Cornhead .......................................

Kemper 3000 Cornhead .......................................

NH 3PN Cornhead.................................................

(2) NH R1600 Cornhead ................................$39,

HAY

CIH 8830, '96, 1430 hrs .......................................

Versatile 400, '76 .................................................

POWER PULL NATIONALS

ST. MARTIN, MN • 320-548-3285

June 15th & 16th

ALDEN, MN • 507-874-3400

Arnold’s has tickets for sale!

Sales: • Bob Pfingston • Nate Scharmer • Brian Lingle • Christy Hoff • Bob Lindahl • Tim Hansen • Jeff Ruprecht

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ESTERS

248-3733 583-6014 .........$335,000 .........$295,000 .........$275,000 .........$275,000 .........$255,000 .........$279,000 .........$242,000 .........$175,000 .........$180,000 .........$165,500 .........$168,000 .........$158,500 .........$147,000 .........$184,500 .........$175,000 .........$162,000 ...........$59,500 ...........$24,000 .........$115,000 .........$108,000

...........$15,900 .............$2,800

SKID LOADERS/EXCAVATORS Case SR250, '12, 2 hrs....................................................$42,500 Case 1845C, '96, 7080 hrs ..............................................$10,000 Case 1840, '95, 4395 hrs ................................................$10,500 Case 1840, '91, 6355 hrs ..................................................$9,850 Case 1840, '89, 3350 hrs ..................................................$9,900 Case 1825, '89, 4000 hrs ..................................................$5,500 Case 450CT, '08, 1570 hrs ..............................................$41,500 Case 445CT, '06, 455 hrs ................................................$37,500 Case 445, '06, 1975 hrs ..................................................$30,500 Case 440CT, '10, 1690 hrs ..............................................$38,900 Case 440, '10, 575 hrs ....................................................$31,500 Case 440, '10, 1920 hrs ..................................................$28,000 Case 440, '07, 1250 hrs ..................................................$24,900 Case 440, '07, 2330 hrs ..................................................$22,500 Case 435, '09, 2125 hrs ..................................................$24,500 Case 435, '07, 1050 hrs ..................................................$20,900 Case 430, '09, 2560 hrs ..................................................$21,500 Case 430, '08, 400 hrs ....................................................$27,500 Case 430, '06, 2105 hrs ..................................................$17,900 Case 430, '06, 3905 hrs ..................................................$22,000 Case 90XT, 2505 hrs........................................................$22,900 Case 40XT, '02, 1735 hrs ................................................$15,900 Bobcat 863C, '97, 2140 hrs ............................................$13,900 Bobcat 743B, '92, 3270 hrs ..............................................$8,350 Bobcat S185, '08, 1475 hrs ............................................$25,000 Bobcat S185, 2565 hrs ....................................................$22,500 Cat 257B, 2705 hrs..........................................................$22,500 Cat 236B, '06, 1975 hrs ..................................................$23,500 Daewoo 2060XL, '02, 3070 hrs ........................................$9,500 Gehl 7800, '01, 6395 hrs ................................................$18,500 Gehl 7810 Turbo, '04, 3350 hrs ......................................$34,500 Gehl 5640E, '06, 1650 hrs ..............................................$19,750 Gehl 5240E, '10, 380 hrs ................................................$27,500 Gehl 5420E, '08, 400 hrs ................................................$27,500 Gehl 4840, '05, 770 hrs ..................................................$19,900 Gehl 4835SXT, '00 ..........................................................$10,900 Gehl 4825SX, '98, 5640 hrs ..............................................$8,500 Gehl 4640, '05, 3295 hrs ................................................$18,000 Gehl 3825 ..........................................................................$9,500 Hydra Max 1600, '91, 3735 hrs ........................................$4,500 JD 328, '05, 5180 hrs......................................................$19,500 JD 320, 2210 hrs ............................................................$19,900 Rounder L600....................................................................$2,300 Kubota KX91-2, '97 ........................................................$14,500 Kubota U35SS, '05, 140 hrs ............................................$28,000

BALERS (2) CIH RBX562 Rnd Baler ............................$12,500 & 14,500 CIH 8530 Rec Baler ..........................................................$7,500 CIH 8460, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..................................................$5,950 CIH 8480, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..................................................$6,000 CIH 3650, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..................................................$6,995 (2) Claas 280RC Rnd Baler ............................$19,500 & $21,500 Hesston 530, 4x4 Rnd Baler ..............................................$8,500 JD 567, 5x6 Rnd Baler ....................................................$19,500 NH BR780A Rnd Baler ....................................................$17,800 NH BR780 Rnd Baler ......................................................$15,900 NH 664, 5x6 Rnd Baler ....................................................$12,900 New Idea 4865, 5x6 Rnd Baler ..........................................$9,500 Vermeer 504I Rnd Baler ....................................................$5,950 CIH LBX432 Rec Baler ....................................................$64,500 CIH 8575 Rec Baler ........................................................$29,500 (2) CIH 8530 Rec Baler ..........................................choice $7,500 (2) NH BB940A Rec Baler ..............................$49,500 & $67,500 NH 315 Rec Baler ..............................................................$3,500 NH 276 Rec Baler ..............................................................$3,195

SPRAYERS - SELF-PROPELLED Rudy Lusk - (507) 227-4119

CIH 4420, '09, 1570 hrs ................................................$175,000 CIH 4260, 98, 4270 hrs ..................................................$79,900 Rogator 854, '01..............................................................$83,500 Tyler Patriot XL, '94, 4360 hrs ........................................$37,900

SPRAYERS - PULL-TYPE Ag Chem 1000 ................................................................$13,500 Bestway 500 Gal ..................................................................$975 Demco Conquest ............................................................$19,500 Hardi 500, 60'....................................................................$7,900 Hardi TR500, 60' ..............................................................$4,000 L & D Landpro ................................................................$21,900 Redball 690, 2000 Gal ....................................................$29,500 Redball 670, 1200 Gal ....................................................$21,500 Redball 670, 90' ............................................................$20,000 Redball 565......................................................................$15,500 Top Air 500, 45' ................................................................$3,800

MISCELLANEOUS Alloway 22CD, 22' Shredder............................................$12,500 (2) Alloway 20' Shredder ..................................$4,500 & $5,500 Alloway 15' Shredder ......................................................$11,500 Balzer 5205M, 30' Shredder ..............................................$7,400 Hiniker 5600, 15' Shredder..............................................$12,500 Hiniker 1700, 20' Shredder..............................................$11,500 JD 520, 20' Shredder ......................................................$17,500 JD 220, 20' Shredder ......................................................$12,500 JD 120, 20' Shredder ........................................................$3,950 JD 115, 15' Shredder ......................................................$12,000 Loftness 360BS Shredder................................................$10,000 Loftness 264, 22' Shredder ............................................$15,900 (2) Loftness 240, 20' Shredder......................$13,500 & $19,500 (2) Loftness 20' Shredder..................................$3,500 & $8,500 Rhino RC15, 15' Shredder ..............................................$12,500 Wilrich 22' Shredder........................................................$12,900 (2) Woods S20CD Shredder ..........................$15,900 & $16,750 (2) Woods 22' Shredder ..................................$5,500 & $10,500 (2) Woods 20' Shredder ..................................$7,900 & $10,900 Woods 15' Shredder........................................................$10,500 Alcart 1520 Forage Box ..................................................$44,000 Millerpro 9015 Forage Box ..............................................$42,000 (5) CIH 600 Forage Blower..................................$1,500 - $4,500 Gehl 1580 Forage Blower......................................................$500 CIH 1360 Grinder Mixer ..................................................$11,900 Lorenz 100 Grinder Mixer..................................................$3,500 Brandt 1060 SWD Auger ..................................................$5,500 Feterl 8x60 Auger ..............................................................$2,500 Feterl 8x55 Auger..................................................................$750 GSI 10x31E Auger ............................................................$3,300 Handlair 560 Auger............................................................$7,500 Hutch 8x72 Auger..............................................................$1,850 Hutch 8x71 Auger..............................................................$2,500 Westfield W130-61 Auger..................................................$5,500 Westfield WR100-51 Auger ..............................................$4,000 Degelman 7200, 14' Blade ..............................................$25,000 Degelman 10HD, 10' Blade................................................$4,500 Kubota V4208A Blade ........................................................$2,100 Farmhand F235 Loader......................................................$3,500 Lindsay Bale Transport ......................................................$1,000 (2) Brent 544, 550 bu Grav Box ..........................choice $14,950 Dakon 350, 350 bu Grav Box ............................................$1,750 (2) DMI 400, 400 bu Grav Box ..............................choice $3,500 EZ Flow 300 bu Grav Box ..................................................$2,500 J & M 250-7 Grav Box ......................................................$2,300 Minnesota 350BA Grav Box ..............................................$2,650 (2) Parker 505, 550 bu Grav Box ........................choice $14,900 A & L F500, 500 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$8,995 Balzer 1250 Grain Cart ....................................................$57,000 Brent 1194 Grain Cart......................................................$41,500 Brent 880, 850 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$27,500 Brent 876, 800 bu Grain Cart ..........................................$26,500

TEC

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

.............$7,500 .............$5,500 .............$9,500 ...........$23,000 2,500 - $15,000 000 & $24,500 ,500 - $14,500 .............$9,500 . $500 - $1,850 ................$500 ................$500 .............$8,500 ................$800 ................$400 .............$6,500 .............$8,500 .............$5,000 000 - $111,000 6,000 - $79,000 ...........$68,000 4,500 - $59,000 000 & $46,000 8,000 - $48,000 $2,600 - $5,500 000 & $51,500 ...........$12,500 .............$5,500 .............$2,600 ...........$29,500 ...........$22,000 .............$8,500 500 & $42,500

HAY Continued NH 1441, 16' PT Windrower............................................$21,500 CIH DHX181 Windrower Head ........................................$20,000 (2) CIH 8360, 12' MowCond..............................$4,900 & $6,900 CIH 8340, 9' MowCond ....................................................$7,950 (2) CIH 8312, 12' MowCond ..........................$8,500 & $ $9,500 CIH DCX161 MowCond....................................................$20,500 CIH DCX131, 13' MowCond ............................................$19,500 CIH SC412 MowCond ........................................................$7,900 Hesston 1160, 14' MowCond ............................................$5,350 JD Moco946 MowCond ..................................................$29,500 JD 1600, 14' MowCond ....................................................$6,995 JD 945, 13' MowCond ....................................................$15,000 NH 1475 MowCond ..........................................................$7,500 NH 415, 11' MowerCond ..................................................$5,500 (2) NH 116, 14' MowCond ................................$5,900 & $6,500 Vermeer 1030, 13.5' MowCond ......................................$18,500 Kuhn GMD55 Disc Mower ................................................$3,900 NH 615, 6' Disc Mower ....................................................$4,950 IH 120, 7' Sickle Mower ......................................................$795 CIH FC60, 60" Rotary Mower ................................................$550 Frontier GM2084 Rotary Mower ........................................$2,500 Landpride FDR2584 Rotary Mower ..................................$2,750 Tonutti FM180 Rotary Mower ............................................$1,850 Woods RD7200D Rotary Mower ......................................$1,895 H & S HM2000 Wind Merg................................................$9,600 H & S TWM9 Wind Merg ................................................$26,500 (4) Millerpro 14-16 Wind Merg...................... $28,500 - $41,000 NH H5410, 9' Wind Merg ................................................$17,900 NH 166 Wind Merg............................................................$3,750 NH 56 Wind Merg..............................................................$1,250 Oxbo 14-16 Wnd Merg ....................................................$48,000 Tonutti RCS10 Wind Merg ................................................$2,250 Kuhn GA8521 Rake..........................................................$23,500 Kuhn GA7301 Rake..........................................................$14,500

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13 B THE LAND, MAY 11, 2012

WILLMAR, MN • 320-235-4898

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14 B THE LAND, MAY 11, 2012

Notch Equipment:

Smidley Equipment: • Steer Stuffers • Hog Feeders • Hog Huts • Calf Creep Feeders • Lamb & Sheep Feeders • Cattle & Hog Waterers • Mini Scaler

Sioux Equipment: • Gates • Calving Pens • Haymax Bale Feeders • Cattle Panels • Feeders Panels • Head Gates • Hog Feeders • Squeeze Chutes & Tubs • Port-A-Hut Shelters (Many Sizes) • Bergman Cattle Feeders • Lorenz & Farm King Snowblowers • Mandako Land Rollers, 12’-60’ • GT (Tox-O-Wic) Grain Dryers, 350-800 bu.

• Sheep & Calf Feeders • Livestock Equipment by Vern’s Mfg. • Powder River Crowding Tub & Alley • Mister Squeeze Cattle Chutes & Hd. Gates • Garfield Earth Scrapers • Peck Grain Augers, 8” - 10” - 12” • Special Price • MDS Buckets for Loaders & Skidloaders • Powder River Livestock & Horse Equipment • Tire Scrapers for Skidsteers, 6’-9’

• Jari Sickle Mowers • Grasshopper Lawn Mowers - Special Price Now! • “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

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.

DR® POWER EQUIPMENT • Field & Brush Mowers • Roto-Hog Power Tillers • Stump Grinders • Log Splitters • Chippers • Power Graders • Power Wagons • Leaf & Lawn Vacuums • Versa-trailers

• Gehl #312 Scavenger II spreader, 260 bu., VG • Steer Stuffer & Hog Feeders • 225 bu. Meyers poly board spreader w/endgate • 125 bu. 1-beater spreader WANTED TO BUY: • GT (Tox-o-wik) Grain Dryers • 4 & 6 Row Stalk Choppers • Earth Scrapers • Steer Stuffer • Rock Picker

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#726 JD 21 Ft 9” Late Model Finisher (Heavier Shanks) w/ Harrow, Shedded Real Nice. 45 Ft Mandako Land Roller (Floating Hitch) Heavy Duty Model Like New. 319-347-6677 Can Del

FOR SALE: Case IH 4300 field cult, 27', tandem wheels, $10,500. 320-979-6313 FOR SALE: IHC 700, 6 btm. pull-type plow, 6-16”s, new wear parts, $5,500. 320-8777577 or 320-220-3114

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‘90 White 273, 25’ disk, 9” spacing, blades measure 22” on frt. & rear, scrapers are all exc., 125LX15 tires, center coil tooth, furrow fillers, rear hitch w/anhyd. kit - Stock # 60741 - $13,450 inc $ Lis lud 70, ts a & ing 300 t se fr , tup eig ht

‘75 White 2-85, 2WD, cab w/heat, 18.4x34 rear tires @ 70%, top link. One owner tractor.

Good runner. Could use paint - Stock # 60587 - $8,350

Parting out a JD 7000, 8RW planter.

Wheels, tires, cylinders, markers, frame, all very good cond. 507-3274892

FOR SALE: Brillion duct tile packer x fold 32' good cond, $15,000/OBO. 320-393-7677 or 320-292-0030

Disk in exc. condition. Unit is field ready

‘09 CIH Puma 180, 4WD w/540/1000 PTO, 3 valves, 8 frt. wgts., 18-spd. PS trans, 480/80R42 rear tires w/duals, 380/85R30 front tires, only 805 actual hrs., 180 hp. - Stock # 60732 - $109,450

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JD 7300 vacuum planter, 16 or 18R 22”, vertical fold, 250 monitor, nice shape, $12,500; also, 100' 2pt Brittonya high pressure sprayer, windscreen, $2,500. 701-640-4697

Case IH 181 rotary hoe, 20' front gauge whls, $950. 320238-2269

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~ USED EQUIPMENT ~ • IHC 250 2-row corn planter w/fert., disk openers, markers & rubber press whl. (good for feed plots) • #206 Vermeer stump chipper, 16 hp. rebuilt engine • Aitchinson 7’ 3-pt. (grass farmer) inter-seeder • Kewanee rock flex disk, 141⁄2’ • 9’ 3 pt. Ford disk • 6’ Green chopper • IHC 500 plow disk, 12’ w/new front notch blades • H&S 9x16 bale rack w/JD wagon

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FOR SALE: JD '89 925 bean '93 JD 7200 Maximerge front IHC 800 pull-type planter w/900 updates, 8R36”, 1000 fold 12R30" poly seed & inhead, $7,500. 320-221-3574 RPM pump, high perforsect, trash cleaners, Precimance mon., liq. fert., insion Planting system, many Planting Equip 038 sect. & herb. boxes, trash other new parts on only 500 whippers, exc. cond. 507acres. $22,500. 507-381-6820 764-3943 Can also e-mail pictures '92 JD 7300, 8R30", vacuum, insect monitor, & trash cleaners, $6,400.

220 Friesen seed tender, no 712-480-4564 trailer, good condition, Great Plains 6-30 Twin Row $5500. 515-545-4246 #1525P Planter for Corn & Beans. Loaded (Plant in FOR SALE: JD 7000 6R30”, Standing Stalks) Like New, trasher whippers, seed Only 900A, $24,500 OBO. firmers, Sensor One County Less Than Half Price of Monitor, dry fert, $4,900; New. 319-347-6138 Can Del JD 7000 4R36”, dry fert, seed firmers, $2,400.

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~ NEW EQUIPMENT/BIG INVENTORY ~ • Rock Buckets • Grapple Forks • Manure Forks • Bale Spears • Hi-Volume Buckets & Pallet Forks • Bale Transports & Feeder Wagons, 16’-34’ • Adult & Young Stock Feeders & Bale Feeders • Land Levelers

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The Affordable Way To Tile Your Fields Building Quality Tile Plows Since 1983

Available in 3 Point Hitch And Pull Type Models

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Unit is ready for the field

NEW ‘12 Summers 700 rock picker with hydraulic swing tongue, 165LX16.1 14-ply tires, field ready. List Price: $21,548 - Stock # 60742 - $16,975

NEW ‘11 Unverferth 1225, 31’ double-basket rolling harrow w/diagonal round tooth leveler, wing lift assist wheel kit, transport light kit, Green color - Stock # 60123 - $16,260

'12 Rite-Way F5-62 62’ land roller, forward fold, light kit, safety tow chain, 13’6” transport width, set of 8 125LX15 12-ply fact. whls./tires, weighs 30,250 lbs. - Stock # 60531 - $56,670

JD 2700 4-bottom plow w/20” bottoms, cushion trip, coulters measure 191⁄2”, excellent moldboards/ shins/landslides/cover boards. All original; looks like new condition - Stock # 60552 - $3,350

New ‘12 Top Air 112 1200 gal. sprayer w/60’ frontfold boom, 3-sect. 20” Flo-Bak valves w/sgl. nozzle bodies, Raven 440 mon. w/GPS ground speed sensor, 320/90X42 tires - Stock # 60693 - $32,950

Red Ball 670 1200 gallon big wheel pull-type sprayer w/90’ front-fold boom, rinse syst., foam marker, 4 valves w/Raven 450 cont., 120” fixed axle, 320/85R30 tires - Stock # 60184 - $22,750

Werner Implement Company, Inc. Vermillion, MN 55085 • www.wernerimplement.com Call Mel, Randy or Charlie

(651) 437-4435 • (800) 770-4634

• Our Design Pulls Straight Through the Soil for Better Grade Control and Easier Pulling • Laser or GPS Receiver Mounts Standard on all Units • Installs Up To 8” Tile Up To 5 1/2 Ft. Deep

O’Connell Farm Drainage Plows, Inc. Earlville, IA • Potosi, WI 53820

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USED EQUIPMENT FROM A NAME YOU CAN TRUST! ‘05 A-300, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 850 hrs. ..........................................$30,900 (2) ‘05 T-250, glass cab & heater, 1875 hrs. ........................................$29,500 ‘11 T-190, glass cab w/AC 565 hrs.....$35,900 ‘07 S-330, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 4000 hrs. ........................................$29,500 ‘08 S-300, glass cab w/AC, 3600 hrs. $29,900 ‘10 S-250, glass cab w/AC, ACS controls, 1800 hrs. ........................................$30,000 ‘01 873, glass cab w/AC, 4200 hrs. ....$18,000 ‘01 863, 1760 hrs...............................$15,000 ‘07 S-205, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 4250 hrs. ........................................$20,500 ‘09 S-205, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 2650 hrs. ........................................$23,900 (2) ‘08 S-185, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 1200 hrs. ......................Starting at $22,900 ‘10 S-175, glass cab & heater, 4000 hrs. ........................................................$18,950

IHC #183, 8R36” flat-fold Rotary Hoe - M&W 15', Exc cond.

Always shedded. cult., w/rolling shields, 5 $1,250. 907-378-9001 shanks per row. 507-764-3609 040 IHC #475 tandem disk, 19.6' Machinery Wanted w/hyd. wings, exc. cond.

All kinds of New & Used 507-764-3609 farm equipment – disc chisels, field cults, planters, JD 1518 Rotary Mower. 10', soil finishers, cornheads, 6 aircraft tires stump feed mills, discs, balers, jumpers.

1,000 PTO, $4,200/OBO. (715) 821-5301 haybines, etc. 507-438-9782

‘04 S-160, glass cab & heater, 3650 hrs. ........................................$18,900 ‘04 S-130, glass cab & heater, 3200 hrs. ........................................$14,900 ‘01 753, glass cab & heater................$14,500 ‘84 743 ................................................$7,500 ‘84 642B, 1450 hrs...............................$8,900 ‘06 NH L-185, glass cab & heater, 1275 hrs. ........................................$22,900 (3) ‘08 NH L-175, glass cab w/AC, 1500 hrs. & Up..............Starting at $20,750 ‘03 NH LS-160, glass cab & heater ....$13,900 ‘08 JD 328, glass cab & heater, 2-spd., 4000 hrs. ........................................$21,750 ‘03 Cat 236B, glass cab w/AC, 4300 hrs. ........................................................$16,900 ‘09 Gehl 5240E, glass cab & heater, 1900 hrs. ........................................$17,900 ‘06 Gehl 4240E, glass cab & heater, 2375 hrs. ........................................$14,500 Berlon Silage Defacer ..........................$3,000

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FOR SALE: JD 400 rotary JD 220, 20' disk, field ready; hoe, 30', hyd. fold, gauge JD 145, 3-16's SR plow; whls, nice shape. 612-72018.4x34 band duals; 5T & 6T 3283 running gears; sprayer & fertilizer tanks, 500-1500 FOR SALE: JD field cultivagal.; sm. 200 gal. field tor, 24' w/ leveler, pull type, sprayers w/pumps; 200 bu. $600. 515-827-5162 grav. boxes. 320-864-4583 or 320-779-4583 IH 12R30" 183 cult, $1,200. IH Remlinger 12R Strip Till 8R30" cult, $200. folding bar $10,000.

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40+ Used Sprayers On Hand We are dealers for Top Air, Sprayer Specialties, Gregson Sprayers, new & used on hand Wheathart, Westfield, FarmKing, Brandt Vacs & Balzer Equipment • We have NEW Balzer stalk choppers on hand • Truckload prices on NEW Westfield augers, Brandt grain vacs, Batco belts Financing Available

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JD 500 gal, 45’ boom, Raven 440..$2,500 Hardi 500 gal, 50’ boom, Hardi control, Hardi PTO pump ..........................$2,500 Rodman 300 gal, 50’ hydra-fold, foamer, PTO pump, 203 control ................$2,300 Blumhardt 560 gal, 60’ boom, foamer, hyd pump, 203 control ................$2,400 Demco pull between, 60’ hyd tip lift boom, no pump ............................$2,000 Kuker 500 gal, 45’ boom, single wheel, 203 controller ................................$1,500 Pony Cart 500 gal., hyd pump, boomless nozzle ............................................$1,200 500 gal. pasture sprayer w/water tank ..........................................................$600 NEW WATER & FERTILIZER TANKS ON HAND! CALL FOR PRICES

SELF PROPELLED SPRAY Willmar 4WD, 750 gal, Raven 440, hyd adj axle ........................................$24,000 (2) Spray Coupes 220, 3-wheel, foamer, air, Raven 440 ..................Choice $7,000 Hahn 670 ........................................$3,000

3 PT. SPRAYERS (3) Top Air 500 gal, 80’ X-fold boom, hyd pump, 4 section ..............Choice $9,500 NYB 500 gal, 90’ boom, pump & control ......................................................$7,500 Top Air 500 gal, 60’ X-fold boom, hyd pump, no controller ......................$5,700 NYB 500 gal, 90’ boom, hyd pump, hyd tilt, ball valves, 203 controller ......$5,500 Blumhardt 500 gal, 90’ boom ........$3,500 500 gal, 45’ boom ..........................$3,500 Demco 500 gal, 60’ Blumhardt boom, Raven 440, no pump ....................$2,500 Sprayer Specialties 500 gal ..........$2,000 300 gal, 45’ boom ..........................$1,800

PICKUP SPRAYERS NYB 500 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, Honda motor ................................$5,000 NYB 500 gal, 60’ boom, foamer, Raven 450, ball valves ............................$3,000 F&S 500 gal, 80’ boom, hyd tilt, manual height, triple nozzle body, no-drip plbg, 8 hp Honda engine ......................$3,000 AgChem 450 gal, 58’ boom, Micro Trak controlller ......................................$2,500 Blumhardt 500 gal, 60’ boom, Raven 440 ......................................................$2,000 Blumhardt 300 gal ..........................$1,800 Blumhardt 500 gal, 60’ boom ..........$1,200

Norwood Young America 952-467-2181 A family business since 1946 with the Lanos: Jack, Paul, Bob and Andy

USED TRACTORS ‘07 NH TG-245, MFD, 2100 hrs.................$108,900 ‘94 Ford 6640SLE, MFD, loader, 6000 hrs. $17,000 ‘78 Ford 4600, loader, 2398 hrs. ..................$9,250 ‘46 Oliver 70, Restored ................................$4,500 AC 7060 ..................................................Coming In ‘83 AC 6080, 4488 hrs. ................................$8,950 ‘64 IH 806, cab ............................................$5,750 ‘68 JD 3020, dsl., 1000 hrs. on eng. OH........$7,950 ‘76 JD 2640, 148 loader, 4000 hrs. ............$12,900 Zetor 8540, cab ..........................................$10,500

USED COMBINES ‘89 Gleaner R-60, 2400 hrs. ......................$28,500 ‘80 NH TR-75, 4x30 cornhead ......................$7,250 ‘08 Gleaner 8200, 30’ flex header ..............$26,500

USED TILLAGE ‘09 Wilrich XL2, 60’, 3 bar harrow w/rolling basket ......................................................$58,500 ‘98 JD 985, 49’, 3 bar harrow ....................$21,000 ‘96 JD 980, 44.5’, 3 bar harrow..................$18,500 ‘94 JD 980, 36.5’, 3 bar harrow..................$14,900 Brady 27’ cult., 3 bar harrow ........................$2,250 ‘07 Wilrich 957, 7-shank ripper, harrow ....$26,500 ‘03 DMI 730B, 7-shank disc ripper ............$19,900 ‘03 CIH 530B, 5-shank disc ripper ..............$17,750 Wilrich chisel, 17-shanks..............................$2,650 Kovar 30’ Multi Weeder, 400 gal. tank ..........$2,500 Case 25’ disk ................................................$8,000 JD 230 24’ disk ............................................$2,650

USED PLANTERS ‘96 White 6700, 12x30, 3 pt., lift assist ......$13,500 ‘89 White 5100, 12x30 ................................$8,950 ‘00 Kinze 3700, 24 row, 20” spacings ........$56,000 ‘01 JD 1770, 16 row, 30” spacings, liquid fert. ................................................................$47,500

Flexi Coil 2340 air cart ..............................$22,500

USED HAY EQUIPMENT ‘88 Hesston 8200, high contact rolls ..........$20,750 ‘99 C-IH DC-515, 15’ discbine....................$12,500 ‘07 NH 1441, 15’ discbine ..........................$22,600 ‘09 NH H7230, 10’ discbine ........................$17,900 ‘00 NH 1411, 10’ discbine ..........................$10,900 ‘98 NH 1465, 9’ haybine ..............................$9,780 ‘98 JD 1600A, 14’ MoCo ..............................$7,500 ‘98 JD 820, 9’ MoCo ....................................$5,750 ‘06 Hesston 1120, 9’ haybine ......................$7,950 Hesston 1091, 9’ haybine ............................$3,000 ‘87 Gehl 2170, 9’ haybine ............................$2,250 ‘84 Versatile 4814, 14’ haybine for 276/9030 ..................................................................$3,500 ‘08 NH BR-7080 round baler, netwrap & twine........................................................$21,900 ‘07 NH BR-780A round baler ......................$20,000 ‘05 NH BR-780 round baler ........................$16,500 ‘03 NH BR-780 round baler, netwrap ..........$20,900 ‘06 NH BR-750A round baler, netwrap ........$17,500 ‘78 NH 310 square baler w/70 thrower ........$2,950 JD 336 w/40 kicker ......................................$2,750 Hesston 4600 baler ......................................$4,000 ‘09 NH FP-240, 29P hay head, chopped hay only ..................................................$38,900 ‘88 NH 900, 900 W hay head, 824 cornhead ................................................................$12,500 NH 790 chopper, 2 row cornhead, hay head ..$7,500 NH F62B forage blower ................................$2,950

USED MISCELLANEOUS ‘06 NH 185 spreader ....................................$9,000 ‘04 H&S 270 spreader ..................................$7,250 NI 3639 spreader ..........................................$5,500 ‘11 Meyers 190A spreader ..........................$6,750 ‘05 NH 3110 spreader ..................................$4,750

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Top Air 1600 gal, 90’ boom, tracks, Raven 450, hyd pump, adj axle $59,500 Top Air 1600 gal, 120’ boom, duals, Command Center........................$56,000 Top Air 1600 gal., 120’ boom, 380x46 duals, Rven 450 ..........................$55,000 Top Air 1600 gal, 90’ new boom, hyd pump, Raven 450, adj axle, 14.9x46 tires ..............................................$38,000 Top Air 1200 gal, 90’ boom, hyd pump, rinse tank, 320x90x46 tires ........$34,400 Top Air 1600 gal, 90’ boom, hyd pump, rinse tank, Raven 450, 320x90x46 tires ....................................................$30,000 Top Air 1600 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, 380x90x46 tires ..........................$30,000 Schaben 1600 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, rinse tank, inductor ............$29,000 Brandt 1600 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, adj axle, 46” tires ........................$29,000 Sprayer Specialties 1500 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, hyd pump, rinse tank ....................................................$27,000 Redball 670, 1200 gal, 90’ boom, 120” axle, 320x90x38 tires, Raven 440 ..............................................$24,000 Redball 680, 1000 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 450, rinse tank, foamer, 320x90x42 tires ..............................................$23,000 Top Air 1100 gal., 80’ boom, hyd. pump, Raven 440, adj. axle 60-120 ......$19,000 Gregson 1000 gal, 90’ boom, 20” no-drip plbg, hyd pump, Raven 440, rinse tank, 72-120 axle, 14.9x46 tires ..........$16,000 Demco Conquest 1100 gal, 90’ boom, adj axle, hyd. pump, foamer, elec. over hyd, 844 Teejet control ..............$16,000 Spraymaster 1000 gal, 80’ boom, hyd pump, rinse tank, Raven 440, 88-120 axle, 13.6x38 tires ......................$14,000 Great Plains 1000 gal, 80’ Top Air X-fold boom, Tee Jet control, hyd pump, 120” axle, 13.6x38 tires ......................$12,500 Top Air 1000 gal, 60’ boom, Raven 440, hyd pump, rinse tank, adj axle, 13.6x38 tires ..............................................$12,500

Blumhardt 1000 gal, 90’ boom, Big Wheel, PTO pump, 203 controller ......................................................$8,500 NYB tandem, 1000 gal, 90’ boom, hyd pump, Raven 440 ..................$7,800 Blumhardt 1000 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 440, radar, foamer ........................$6,800 Blumhardt 1000 gal, 72’ boom, tandem, hyd pump, 203 controller ............$6,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal, 90’ boom, tandem, hyd pump, Raven 440 ..................$6,500 Blumhardt 750 gal, 90’ boom, tandem, Raven 440 ....................................$6,000 Flex-i-coil 1600 gal, 120’ boom, Tee Jet control ..........................................$5,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal, 60’ boom, hyd tip & center lift, hyd. pump, Spray System plbg, no control ............................$5,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal, 60’ boom, hyd fold, hyd center lift & fold, hyd pump, rinse tank, foamer, Micro Trak.......................... ............................Choice of three $5,500 Top Air 750 gal, 60’ boom, vertical fold, 203 control, hyd pump ................$5,500 Ag Chem 400 gal, 60’ hyd fold boom ......................................................$5,100 Pleasure Products 1200 gal, 90’ boom, Raven 440, Honda gas w/pump, tandem ..........................................$4,500 Bestway 750 gal, 60’ Top Air boom, vertical fold....................................$4,500 Blumhardt 500 gal, Raven 440, foamer, hyd pump, tandem, 120”..............$4,500 Top Air 800 gal, Blumhardt boom, foamer, 203 controller, hyd pump $4,500 Broyhill 750 gal, 60’ boom, 203 control ......................................................$4,200 Big John 500 gal, 60’ X-fold boom, Raven 440, hyd pump ..................$3,500 Broyhill 1000 gal, 60’ hyd X-fold boom, Raven 440, tandem ......................$3,500 Homemade 750 gal, Big Wheel, AgChem boom, Raven 440, PTO ................$3,500 Homemade 500 gal. RD tank, 60’ Demco boom, tandem, foamer ................$3,500 Ag Chem 500 gal, 50’ boom, hyd pump, no control ......................................$2,000 AgChem 500 gal, 60’ boom, Raven 440, hyd pump, tandem........................$3,500 AgChem 500 gal, 50’ boom, hyd pump, no control ......................................$2,000 Bestway 500 gal, 60’ boom, hyd pump, 203 control, tandem......................$3,000 Demco single wheel, 203 control, hyd pump ............................................$2,500 Horvick 500 gal pull between, hyd pump, 203 control, 60’ NYB boom ............................................$2,500

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Silverwing Broyhill 1250 gal., 60-120 adj. axle, 90’ boom, 20” spacing, Raven 450, hyd. pump, rinse tank, galvanized booms..........................................$34,890 Gregson 1000 gal., 60-120 adj. axle, 60’ boom, Raven 440, hyd. pump, 12.4x38 tires ..............................................$26,100 Top Air 1600 gal, 120’ boom, Raven 4400 (Hard to Find) ........................CALL

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Lodermeiers.net TRACTORS ALLIS CHALMERS C WOODS 5' MOWER JOHN DEERE 2750 W/245 LOADER, JOYSTICK, 84” BUCKET, FORKS, 2WD COMBINES & HEADS ‘11 GLEANER S77 COMBINE, DUALS, 255 SEP, 355 ENG ‘05 GLEANER R75 COMBINE, DUALS, TURRET, 1400 SEP, 1700 ENG ‘03 GLEANER R75 COMBINE, DUALS, 1490 SEP, 1950 ENG GLEANER 8000 FLEX HEAD, 30' GLEANER 320 FLEX, R MTS, HYD DRIVE REEL, OLD STYLE CRESSONI 8 ROW 30" CHOPPING CORN HEAD, JD MOUNTS HARVESTEC 4308C CUTTER CORN HEAD, 8 ROW 30", JD MOUNTS HARVESTEC 4308C CUTTER CORN HEAD, 8 ROW 30" HARVESTEC 4312C, 12 ROW 30" CUTTER CORN HEAD TILLAGE/FIELD CULTIVATORS BUSH HOG 1445 DISC, 21' JOHN DEERE 726 SOIL FINISHER, 24’9” BAR SPIKE HARROW JOHN DEERE 2700 MULCH RIPPER 7-SHANK SOIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ALLIS CHALMERS 1500 MIN-TIL 7-SHANK CHISEL PLOW WILRICH 657 DCR 11-SHANK 5 DEEP TILL 6 CHISEL KNOBLE 4R36” ROW CROP CULTIVATOR KORVAIR 42' DRAG FLEX SPIKE TOOTH HAY & FORAGE, STALK CHOPPERS MASSEY 2150, 3X3 BALER, 24,000 BALES W/PRESERVATIVE CHALLENGER LB33B 3X3 BALER, 22,000 BALES W/PRESERVATIVE H&S CR12 WHEEL RAKE H&S 12 WHEEL BIFOLD RAKE H&S 12 WHEEL HI-CAP RAKE HESSTON 7500 FORAGE HARVESTER W/HAY & CORN HEAD HESSTON 6610 SELF PROPELLED HAYBINE NEW IDEA 406 SIDE RAKE WITH DOLLY WHEEL NEW IDEA 5212 DISCBINE NEW IDEA 5212 DISCBINE, GRAY NEW HOLLAND 144 HAY INVERTOR

ROUND BALE WAGON, 8 BALE ‘11 ARTS WAY 180C, 15' STALK CHOPPER ROW CROP, DRILLS & SPRAYERS HARDI TR 500, 45' BOOM, TANDEM AXLE DEMCO 500 GALLON SADDLE TANKS, JD 8000 SERIES MOUNTS GRAIN CARTS & WAGONS DEMCO 325 GRAVITY BOX W/12 TON GEAR ‘11 EZ TRAIL 510 GRAIN CART, WITH LIGHT KIT BADGER 14' FORAGE BOX W/BADGER 10 TON GEAR GEHL FX1620 FORAGE BOX W/12TON BADGER GEAR GEHL 920 14' FORAGE BOX W/12TON GEAR MINNESOTA 10 TON RUNNING GEAR MINNESOTA 8 TON RUNNING GEAR MINNESOTA 7 TN RUNNING GEAR MANURE SPREADERS GEHL 1329 SPREADER NEW HOLLAND 518 SPREADER, NO ENDGATE NEW HOLLAND 195 SPREADER, 16.5X16.1 TIRES, TOP BEATER NEW HOLLAND 195 SPREADER, 16.5X16.1 TIRES, TOP BEATER GEHL 1322 SPREADER, 19X16.1 TIRES GRAIN EQUIPMENT HUTCH 8X57 PTO HUTCH 8X51 EMD WESTFIELD WR8X56 EMD, LESS MOTOR WESTFIELD WR6X61 EMD, 3 PHASE MOTOR WESTFIELD WR8X29 EMD, LESS MOTOR WESTFIELD MK13X71 GLP WESTFIELD MK10X71 GLP WESTFIELD MK10X61 GLP, 3 YRS OLD WESTFIELD MK10X61 GLP, NEW CONDITION MISCELLANEOUS ‘95 ROAD BOSS PINTLE HITCH TRAILER, 35’ WOOD DECK ‘90 CHEV KODIAK TRUCK W/23’ ROLLBACK BED, GOOD RUBBER IH 2600 TRUCK, LT CUMMINS 300 HP, 24' GRAIN BOX, 2 TAGS BUSH HOG 84" 3PT OFFSET MOWER BUSH HOG SQ600 MOWER WESTENDORF TA26 LOADER & BUCKET, JD 4020 MOUNTS JOHN DEERE 48 LOADER, 6’ BUCKET McKEE 7' SNOWBLOWER, MANUAL CHUTE JOHN DEERE 42” PALLET FORKS, USED

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Disc chisels: JD 714 & 712, '91 Patriot 66' booms, 9.5x42 WANTED: Kansun 10-25-215 Glencoe 7400; Field Cults tires, $24,000. 320-366-3834 single phase dryer, must be under 30': JD 980, small or 320-894-2594 good. 320-264-5172 grain carts & gravity boxes 300-400 bu. Finishers under Fast sprayer 7420, 1250 gal Farm Services 045 20', clean 4 & 6R stalk choptank w/ 100 gal rinse tank, pers; Nice JD 215 & 216 80' boom, inductor, Raven flex heads; JD 643 cornMonitor, fully hyd, hyd Barn roofing, Hip or round roof barns & other buildheads Must be clean; JD drive pump, used very litings. Also, barn & quonset corn planters, 4-6-8 row. tle, always shedded. 507straightening.

Kelling Silo 715-299-4338 370-2977 or 507-360-1480 1-800-355-2598 WANTED: Complete cultiva050 tor for Super A Farmall. FOR SALE: '97 Rogator 854, Feed Seed Hay SS tank, 60-90 booms, 715-220-5283 foamer, 460 Raven, new pump, new boom controls, Dairy Quality Alfalfa Tested big squares & round WANTED: Marooka Crawler $45,000 OBO. 507-383-8030 bales, delivered from South tractor. Call for informaDakota John Haensel (605) tion, (608) 254-7144 FOR SALE: 500 gal sprayer, 351-5760 45' boom, hyd pump, $1,200.

WANTED: Readi Haul or Dairy quality western alfal515-291-7721 Maurer 5th wheel grain fa, big squares or small trailer suitable for behind 1 For Sale: Fast 80' 3 pt boom, squares, delivered in semi ton truck. 507-438-9623 loads. Clint Haensel 1800 AL pull tank, tall tires, (605) 310-6653 450 Raven 20” nozzles Hyd WANTED: Want to find my pump. $10,000. 507-525-2270 Straw, Grass, Alfalfa, & Dad's '68 1750 Oliver gas Corn Stalks in Large tractor, Serial# 203401. Call Miller Pro 1000, 13.638 ad507-317-8103 Rounds & Large Squares, justable wheels, Raven conin net & plastic twine. Detroller, foam marker, 60' livered in semi loads. Call hydraulic fold boom & Spraying Equip 041 Tim at 320-221-2085 pump. (715)821-5711 '79 Chevy 3/4 ton Pickup WANTED AND FOR SALE Sprayer. 454 engine. 500 gal Top Air 3 pt. sprayer, hyd.

ALL TYPES of hay & Blumhardt sprayer w/ 60' 60' boom, saddle tanks, straw. Also buying corn, boom. MT3000 Microtrac very good cond., $3,500. 507wheat & oats. Western Hay monitor. $2,200/OBO 438-6742 available Fox Valley AlfalJeff 320-420-9995 fa Mill. 920-853-3554

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Rogator 854, 90’ sprayer ..................$35,000 JD 750, 15’ no-till drill ......................$12,500 JD 750, 30’ no-tll drill ......................$21,000 JD 7000, 6R30 planter ........................$2,500 JD 7000, 12R30 planter ......................$3,500 JD 7000, 12R30 planter, liq. fert.........$4,500 JD 9600 combine, new duals............$25,000 IH 300, nice tires ................................$1,750 IH 460, IH WF ....................................$2,000 IH M loader, new tires, Nice ................$2,750 IH 384 utility, WF, 3 pt. ........................$5,000 IH 856..................................................$6,500 IH 1256 ................................................$7,500 IH 100 hydro, 5,500 hrs. ....................$8,500 JD 2510, gas, Nice ..............................$6,500 (2) JD 3020, gas, PS ..............$5,500/$6,500 ‘70 JD 3020, gas, late ........................$6,500 ‘72 JD 3020, syncro, diesel ..............$10,500 JD 2355, utility, diesel, 2200 hrs. ....$11,500 (2) JD 3020, PS....................$9,500/$17,500 JD 4020 w/Dual 3000 loader ..............$7,500 JD 4020 D, new clutch, synchro........$6,750 (4) JD 4020, PS, SC ..........$11,500-$15,500 JD 4440, PS ......................................$19,500 JD 4250, Quad, JD 4450, PS ..........$24,500 JD 4250, PS, FWA ............................$28,500 JD 4450, PS, FWA ............................$32,500 JD 4450, PS, FWA/JD 740 ldr. ..........$41,000 JD 4960, FWA, 18.4-42, Nice............$46,000 JD 4255, Quad, new engine ..............$37,500 Case 1370, white, good engine, doesn’t move........................................Offer 9 wheel wire rake ................................$2,250

NH BR 780A baler, net wrap..............$17,500 NH BR 780 baler, net wrap..................$9,500 MJ 855 round baler ............................$1,500 JD 556 round baler..............................$7,500 JD 535 round baler..............................$4,500 JD 843 loader, Like New....................$12,500 JD 840 loader, JD 8000 mts. ..............$9,500 JD 720 loader ......................................$5,500 (2) JD 725 loaders ..................$6,500/$7,500 JD 740 loader, self leveling..................$8,500 JD 260 loader, grapple ........................$4,000 JD 741 loader, Sharp, hardly used ....$11,500 JD 158, JD 148 loaders..........$2,500/$4,500 JD 146 loader, Clean............................$2,750 (2) IH 2350 loaders ................$3,000/$3,250 CIH 520 loader ....................................$3,750 Dual 345, (off IH 856) ........................$1,250 K5 loader, (off IH) ................................$1,250 Leon 1000 grapple, (off JD 8100) ......$5,500 Woods 3150 loader (off Case), Sharp $4,500 Farmhand F358 loader, (IH mts.)........$3,250 Miller PL-4 loader ..............................$3,500 Miller M12 ..........................................$1,500 New Box Scrapers, 10’/12’ ....$1,750/$1,850 New & Used Skidsteer Attachments ......Call Pallet Forks, Grapples, Rock Buckets ....Call New & Used Batco & Conveyall belt conveyors ..............................................Call Conveyall 1085 belt conveyor ............$4,900 Batco 1575, w/swing hopper ..............$5,900 8”, 10”, 13” Augers, various sizes ........Call (4) Gravity Boxes ......................$750/$4,000 Bobcat T300 skidsteer ......................$27,500

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3 bred cows, $3,800. Top AI pedigrees. Johnes free.

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• 5/8” drum roller wall thickness • 42” drum diameter • 4”x8” frame tubing 3/8” thick • Auto fold

WANTED TO BUY! USED BULK MILK COOLER ALL SIZES 920-867-3048 WANTED TO BUY: Dairy heifers and cows. 320-2352664 Cattle

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GREENWALD FARM CENTER Greenwald, MN • 320-987-3177 14 miles So. of Sauk Centre

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Ag Chem SS1074 Rogator 2450 hrs., liquid 1000 gal. rating, 100’ SS boom, Poly Chem eductor, Viper Pro, 55 G. aux. tank, fenders, 36 G. foam marker, customer mounted front reload, Raven auto steer, Accuboom, Autoboom, Radio, A/C, AC3152

PLANTING New White Planters ....................................Call White 6100, 12R, VF ..........................$13,000

HARVESTING Special 24 Month Waiver On Used Combines Standard Rate Thereafter MF 9795 ....................................................Call MF 9250, flx, drp ........................................Call MF 9790 ....................................................Call CIH 1680, 1083, 8R30 plastic, Consigned Call New Fantini Cornheads ..............................Call

AUGERS New: Farm King Y1060, swg. hpr. ..................$9,800 Farm King Y1060, swg. hpr./hpr. mvr...$11,250 Farm King Y1070, swg. hpr. ................$10,800 Farm King Y1080, swg. hpr./hpr. mvr. $13,250 Used: Koyker 8x56, bottom drive ........................$850 Sudenga 8x55, brush auger ..................$2,500 Farm King 10x61 ..................................$4,800

GRASSHOPPERS 1212, 48" deck, s/n 275700 ..................$1,000 720K, 61", Vac, hopper, s/n 473803 ......$5,950

LAWN MOWERS JD 318, 46" deck, pwr steer ..................$2,500

Agco Allis 1718 ......................................$2,500

TILLAGE JD 512, 9 shank ..................................$45,000 (2) Wil-Rich 957, 7 sh ..........................$22,000 Wil-Rich Quad X, 42’7” ........................$35,000 Wil-Rich F.C. ..........................................$3,500 (3) CIH #14 rippers ....................................Call IH Disc 21 ft ..........................................$2,000 M&W 1165 E.M. ....................................$9,500 Sunflower 4412, '05 ............................$29,000 Sunflower 4311, '07 ............................$12,500

MISCELLANEOUS Parker 737 ..........................................$18,000 Unverferth 630, New, Gr. box ..............$15,900 Unverferth 3750 seed tender......................Call NH 455, skidloader ................................$5,500 MF DL280, loader ..................................$9,500 Gehl 5240E, NEW ......................................Call Gehl 4240E, 350 hrs............................$22,500 New Disc Mowers ......................................Call New Hiniker Shredders ..............................Call (2) Hiniker 1700, 20' shredders....$10,000-13,000 Hiniker 4000, 20' shredder ..................$ 8,000 Alloway, 20' ..........................................$6,500 REM 2700, grain vacs ................................Call REM 2100 ..............................................$9,500

AGCO • MF • SUNFLOWER • WIL-RICH HINKER • VERSATILE • WHITE PLANTERS • GEHL NEW REM GRAIN VACS NEW GEHL SKIDLOADERS NEW FARM KING SNOW BLOWERS NEW FARM KING AUGERS NEW GRASSHOPPER MOWERS NEW LAND ROLLERS NEW HEADS & TRAILERS NEW UNVERFERTH SEED & GRAIN CARTS NEW WIL-RICH TILLAGE

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(2) Versatile 535, New ................................Call Versatile 305, New......................................Call Versatile 280, New......................................Call Agco RT155A, New ....................................Call Agco DT240A ....................................$129,500 MF 8450, CVT ....................................$99,500 MF 2745 ..............................................$13,950 MF 1552, loader ..................................$22,500 JD 8760 ..............................................$59,000 JD 4440 ......................................................Call JD 60, loader ........................................$3,500 Ford 6600, loader ................................$12,500 Ford 901 ................................................$4,950 Oliver 1800, gas ....................................$5,500 AC 8030, MFWD..................................$24,995

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10 BIG Fall Born Reg. Polled Hereford Heifers. Vaccinated, open & ready to breed now. 715-772-4680 or

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Black Angus Yearling bulls: 25 Limousin bulls, 2 yr. olds 8 Registered Yearling Here- (6) Normande Heifers For Sale. 9-12 mos. old.

Hamp, Duroc & Yorkshire & yearlings, low birth ford Bulls. Ready to go (715)669-5492 wgts., super growth.

Boars & Gilts now. Out of heavy milking John Goelz 507-557-8394 Alfred Kemen 320-598-3790 cows & top Hereford bulls.

Larry Goelz 507-825-5509 $1,950 each. (715) 308-1347 FOR SALE OR LEASE: Lamb Brothers Purebred Registered FOR SALE: Registered 6 Registered Yearling HereCharolais bulls, Heifers & Polled Hereford yearling Angus Yearling Bulls w/ exc ford Heifers.

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Cows.

Great bloodlines, exc bulls, big growthy & mostly performance records. InReady to breed now. performance, balanced AI sired, 8 to choose from. formation on website. $1,750/ea.

(715) 308-1347 EPD's, low birth weights.

651-438-3882 Steve Schmalenberger Lamb Brothers Delivery available. www.reedstockfarm.net 515-570-5215 Laumann Charolais. centuryacresangus.com Always wanted a herd of Mayer MN 612-490-2254 Dairy 055 registered Simmentals? FOR SALE OR LEASE Selling as a group, 6 pureREGISTERED BLACK Calf Star Continuous Flow FOR SALE: 50 years in the bred heifers to calf end of ANGUS Bulls, 2 year old & Pasturizer w/40 gal. cooling Charolais seed stock busiApril/first of May, along w/ yearlings; bred heifers, tank & transportation wagness, performance tested the full blood Fleckviech calving ease, club calves & on. Call (715)495-1984 Charolais bulls for sale, sire of the calves. Call 715balance performance. Al polled, easy calving w/ exc 643-4074.

Widespread sired. In herd improvement Reg. Holstein RC Bull out of dispositions. Put more profFarms. program. J.W. Riverview a good cow family. 715-265it in your pocket w/ a Angus Farm Glencoe, MN 7105 or William 715-977-0633 Charolais bull. Wakefield 55336 Conklin Dealer 320or Stephanie 715-977-1906 Farms 507-402-4640 864-4625

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FOR SALE: Angus Bulls. FOR SALE: Pure bred Stout, heavy muscled bulls Black Angus bulls, Long w/exc. performance genetYearlings & 2 yr olds, great ics. Semen tested. Sullivan EPD's. John 507-327-0932 or Angus, Kellogg, MN. Brian 507-340-9255 507-767-3361 JRC Angus – LeCenter, MN SALE: Registered FOR SALE: Hereford bulls, FOR Black Angus 2 yr old bull. great disposition, semen AI sired, fertility tested. tested, exc EPDs, get them Big, bold & ready to go to baldy calves & top the sale. work on your cow herd.

507-215-1037 or 507-825-2383 Miller Angus, Kasson, MN. 507-634-4535 evenings

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‘12 JD 6430, MFWD Premium w/673SL loader, Only 3 Hours! 24-spd. AutoQuad w/LHR ............................$98,500 ‘11 JD 9570STS, 345 hrs., CM w/HD rev., 18.4x38’s w/duals, chopper, J&M bin ext. ..........................$205,000 ‘09 JD 9870STS, 4WD, 566 hrs, CM w/5-spd. rev., chopper w/Powercast Tailboard ................................$229,500 ‘09 JD 9870STS, 4WD, 613 hrs, CM w/5-spd. rev., chopper w/Powercast Tailboard, SLS........................$225,000 ‘10 JD 635F Hydra Flex ..........$34,500 2008 & 2010 JD 612C Non-Chopping Corn Heads ..................................CALL Lease/Finance Programs Available!

(1) = GLENCOE 320-864-5571 800-558-3759 4561 HWY 212 GLENCOE, MN 55336

(2) = HOWARD LAKE 320-543-2170 866-875-5093 5845 KEATS AVE. SW HOWARD LAKE, MN 55349

(3) = STEWART 320-562-2630 800-827-7933 78412 CO, RD 20 STEWART, MN 55385

(4) = ST. CLOUD 320-252-2010 800-645-5531 1035 35TH AVE. NE SAUK RAPIDS, MN 56379

Bus. 800-432-3564 800-432-3565 • Res. 507-426-7648

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USED EQUIPMENT NEW EQUIPMENT • Wilrich Quad X, 55’, rolling basket • JD 985, 55’, harrow • CIH TII, 45’, harrow • Hardi Com., 90’ • Hardi Nav. 1100, 90’ • Hardi Nav. 1100, 88’ • Hardi Nav. 950, 88’, (2) • Hardi Nav. 1000, 66’ • Top Air 800, 66’ • Amity 11’, 12-22 (2) USED EQUIPMENT • Amity 10’, 12-22 • Amity 11’, 8-22 • Westfield 10x60 hopper • Amity 10’, 8-22 • Wishek 862, 38’ disc • Amity 8-22, (3) • Wishek 862, 30’ disc (2) • Amity 6-22 • Pickett thinner, 24-22 • ‘11 Artsway 6812, 12-22 • Alloway 20’ shredder • ‘07 Artsway 6812, 12-22 • Wilrich 20’ shredder • ‘05 Artsway 6812, 12-22 • Balzer 20’ shredder • Artsway 898, 8-22, (2) • Killbros 1810 cart, tracks • Artsway 692, 8-22 • UTF 760 grain cart • Amity 12-22 topper St. Ft. • J&M 750 grain cart • Wilrich 957, 7-30 w/harrow • Alloway 12-22 topper St. Ft. • Alloway 12-22 folding • DMI 730B, 7-30 topper • Wilrich Quad X2, 60’, rolling • Alloway 9-22 topper basket • Wilrich Quad X, 60’, rolling • Alloway 8-22 topper basket • Agco-Challenger • Hardi Sprayers • REM Grain Vac • Woods Mowers • J&M Grain Carts • Westfield Augers • Sunflower Tillage • White Planters • Wilrich Tillage

Clara City, MN 56222 320-847-3218 www.wearda.com

(5) = GLENWOOD 320-634-5151 888-799-1495 1710 N. FRANKLIN GLENWOOD, MN 55334

(6) = SAUK CENTRE 320-352-6511 888-320-2936 1140 CENTRE ST. SAUK CENTRE, MN 56378

(7) = ALEXANDRIA 320-763-4220 888-799-1490 5005 STATE HWY 27 E ALEXANDRIA, MN 56308

(8) = PAYNESVILLE 320-243-7474 866-784-5535 725 LAKE AVE. S PAYNESVILLE, MN 56362

(9) = PRINCETON 763-389-3453 800-570-3453 3708 BAPTIST CHURCH RD PRINCETON, MN 55371

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FOR SALE: Red & Black FOR SALE: Registered Angus & Black Simmenpurebred Simmental Bull, tals, Yearlings & 2 yr old Black, 1 yr old. Calving bulls. 507-724-2211 ease, very docile, halter broke, Dam out of Triple C FOR SALE: Registered herd. Must see!

Black Angus cows w/ calves Call 715-377-2971 inside, Breeding out of 100% Schiefelbein genetics.

320-597-2747

for CLASSIFIED LINE ADS

Due to the Memorial Day holiday our ‘deadline’ for the June 1st issue is Friday, May 25th — at Noon

HANCOCK, MN ‘99 Transcraft, 48/102, AL Combo ........................$9,250 Custom Haysides 3’-6’ Custom Extensions to fit any trailer back....................$350 Standard..............................$1,250 NEW Tip-In Tip-Out..............$1,750

END DUMPS ‘04 Mac, 32’, 72” sides, new cyl., brakes & lights, 50% tires ........................................$27,900

DROP-DECKS

Will Consider Trades!

Call 320-212-5220 or 320-392-5361

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE!!! www.DuncanTrailersInc.com Delivery Available!

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‘92 Trailmobile, 48x96, SX/AR ........................................$16,500 DAY CAB TRUCKS ‘87 Transcraft, 48/96, SPAX/AR, ‘90 Int’l 9400, 196” WB, AR ..................................$11,500 22.5 tires, new brakes, paint & lights ..............................$16,500 ‘04 Freightliner, CL12042ST Engineered Beavertail for Century Class, 350K, 350 Mercedes, 10-spd., 3.70 ratio, Drop Deck ........Installed $5,500 SX ..................................$17,500 ..................Unassembled $3,500 or w/Twin Screw ............$22,500 VAN TRAILERS ‘02 Freightliner, CL12064ST, Good Selection (over 30) of Van 410 hp. Cummins, 10-spd., Trailers ‘95-’01, 48/102-53/102, 800K, 3.90 ratio, 230” WB, great for water storage or over New Rods & Main, New Recaps, the road hauling ..$4,000-$8,250 48” Flattop......................$18,500 48’ & 53’ Van Trailers to rent. – $135.00 per month plus tax.

FLATBEDS $1.50/mile for pickup & delivery ‘79 Ravens, 45/96, Winch Rail w/winches, SX/AR ............$7,250 MISCELLANEOUS ‘97 Wilson 48/102, All Aluminum, Axles & Suspensions Spread Axle, AR ..............$10,000 For Trailers........$1,000 AR/Axle, ‘74 Fontaine, 40’ ................$4,750 ..............................$500 SR/Axle ‘77 Wilcox, 42’, New Paint, 1/4” Plastic Liner, Floor & Lights, 80% Tires & 10’ Wide ......................$27.50/Ft. Brakes ..............................$5,500 Rims - 22.5 & 24.5 steel & ‘95 Utility Curtainside, 48/102, aluminum ..$60/steel or $175/AL steel trailer w/wood floor, Air Compressor, Ingersoll Rand sandblasted, new paint ....$8,500 185, John Deere engine, 3200 hrs. ..........................$5,500 • All Trailers DOTable •

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HOPPERS ‘87 Cornhusker, 42’, 20” hopper height, new brakes/tarp, 80% tires ................................$12,900 (2) ‘90 Timpte, elec. tarp, 80% tires/brakes, Al wheels, ........................................$15,900 ‘92 Wilson, 41’ AL hopper, roll tarp, 80% tires/brakes, 20” hopper height ..........$15,900 Lift Kits - adds 20” to hopper height ................Kit $650 ..........................Installed $1,350

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Beef Up your herd. Online bull sale. www.millrd.com or call 715-665-2605 FOR SALE: Shorthorn cattle (weaned heifer calves w/ papers, $1200/ea, bull calves w/ papers, $1,100/ea).

320-510-1123 Holstein steers, 275#, $1.50/lb.

275# Beef calves, 450# Holsteins. W585 Granton Rd., Chili, WI 54420.

Reg Angus Bulls, calving ease, EPDs, 3 calfs & a small ass, fertility tested, Lausted's Green Meadows, Menomonie, WI 715-308-9954 Reg. Highland Cows. Bred to Angus, due this Spring.

715-532-7501, evenings

‘07 JD 4720, 1305 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$149,900

‘02 JD 567, surface wrap ........................................$19,900

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4WD TRACTORS (W)’11 JD 9630, Lease Return ......................................$279,000 (O)’11 JD 9630, Lease Return ........................................$279,900 (O)’11 JD 9630, Lease Return ........................................$279,900 (B)’11 JD 9630, 285 hrs., Lease Return ........................$279,900 (O)’11 JD 9530, 207 hrs., Lease Return ........................$264,900 (O)’10 JD 9630, 810 hrs., Extended Warranty ................$255,900 (O)’04 JD 9620, 5630 hrs. ..............................................$137,900 (H)’97 JD 9300, 4343 hrs. ................................................$99,900

TRACK TRACTORS (B)’09 JD 9530T, 1556 hrs. ............................................$259,900 (O)’11 JD 8310T, 300 hrs., 25” tracks ............................$233,900 (O)’11 JD 8310T, 400 hrs., 18” tracks ............................$226,900 (B)’07 JD 9620T, 2283 hrs. ............................................$209,900 (O)’00 JD 9400T, 6150 hrs., 36” tracks ..........................$109,000

ROW CROP TRACTORS (O)’04 Case IH MX285, 1183 hrs. ..................................$130,900 (B)’89 JD 4755, 9781 hrs. ................................................$49,900 (B) ‘01 NH TM165, 10,136 hrs., MFWD............................$37,900 (H)’76 JD 4430, Quad ......................................................$14,500 (W)IH 560, loader, diesel ....................................................$5,495

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COMBINES (W)’10 JD 9870, 295 sep. hrs., PRWD ..........................$325,000 (O)’11 JD 9870, 1467 sep. hrs. ......................................$314,900 (O)’11 JD 9870, 261 sep. hrs. ........................................$297,500 (O)’11 JD 9770, 256 sep. hrs. ........................................$268,900 (H)’10 JD 9870, 559 sep. hrs. ........................................$259,900 (H)’09 JD 9870, 490 sep. hrs. ........................................$257,900 (O)’10 JD 9530, 577 hrs ................................................$254,900 (H)’10 JD 9770, 405 sep. hrs. ........................................$239,900 (H)’10 JD 9770, 552 sep. hrs. ........................................$233,500 (O)’10 JD 9570, 419 sep. hrs., duals..............................$206,000 (O)’09 JD 9670, 990 sep. hrs., auto trac ready ..............$199,000 (H)’08 JD 9570, 475 sep. hrs., duals..............................$198,900 (O)’08 JD 9570, 418 sep. hrs. ........................................$196,000 (B)’08 JD 9770, 1011 sep. hrs. ......................................$188,000 (O)’07 JD 9660, 1032 sep. hrs. ......................................$179,900 (O)’07 JD 9660, 1185 sep. hrs., duals............................$164,900 (H)’04 JD 9560, 1200 sep. hrs., duals............................$153,900 (B)’04 JD 9560SH, walker, 1525 sep. hrs.......................$139,900 (H)’04 JD 9860, 2121 sep. hrs. ......................................$136,900 (W)’01 JD 9650, 2932 sep. hrs., PRWD ..........................$99,500 (O)’01 JD 9550, 3433 hrs, walker ....................................$86,900 (H)’98 JD 9510, 2284 sep. hrs., PRWD............................$79,900 (H)’95 JD 9500, 1851 sep. hrs., duals..............................$53,900 (H)’96 JD 9500, 2100 sep. hrs. ........................................$45,000 (O)CIH 1660, 3800 hrs ....................................................$36,500 (B)’83 JD 6620SH, sidehill, 3700 hrs. ..............................$15,900 (B)’79 JD 6620 ................................................................$15,900 (H)’80 JD 7220, 4365 hrs. ................................................$11,900

‘06 JD CT332, 950 hrs. ........................................$39,900

‘04 Case IH MX285, 1183 hrs. ......................$130,900

(H)’79 JD 7720 ................................................................$11,900 (O)’05 Hardi CM1500, 90’ boom ......................................$23,900 (B)’81 JD 7720, 4590 hrs. ..................................................$9,900 (O)Sprayer Specialties, 110 gal., 80’ boom ......................$21,500 (B)MF 550, 2 heads, diesel ................................................$6,995 (W)Hardi NP1100, 90’ boom ............................................$20,900 (O)Spraymaster, 1100 gal., 80’ boom ..............................$18,500 (B)’05 JD 2210, 36.5’........................................................$37,900 (H)Top Air 1000, 60’ boom ................................................$6,500 (B)’05 JD 2210, 36.5’........................................................$37,900 (O)Wilrich Quad 5, 42’ ......................................................$35,900 (B)’06 JD 1770NT, 16R30” ......................................................Call (B)’03 JD 2200, 38.5’........................................................$33,900 (B)’96 JD 1770, 16R30” ..........................................................Call (W)’03 JD 2200, 34.5’ ......................................................$32,900 (H)’10 JD 1990, 40’, 15” spacing, CCS ............................$84,500 (H)’90 JD 630, 30’ disk ....................................................$27,500 (B)CIH 1200, Bauer Built bar, 36R20” ..............................$79,900 (O)’94 JD 980, 44.5’ ........................................................$18,500 (H)’03 JD 1790, 16/31 row ..............................................$79,500 (H)’98 JD 980, 36.5’ ........................................................$17,900 (B)’05 JD 1770NT, 12R30” ..............................................$54,900 (B)’07 Nitro, 62.5’ tool bar................................................$17,875 (O)’97 JD 1780, 24R20” ..................................................$48,500 (H)’96 JD 980, 38.5’ ........................................................$16,900 (B)’02 JD 1560, 15’ no till ................................................$24,900 (B)’94 JD 980, 39.5’..........................................................$16,900 (O)Case 4300, 54.5’ ..........................................................$13,950 (B)’07 JD 568, surface wrap ............................................$29,900 (H)’92 JD 960, 35.5’ ..........................................................$5,795 (H)’08 JD 468, silage special, 6800 bales ........................$25,900 (H)JD 960, 36.5’ ................................................................$4,950 (B)’05 JD 956, 14’6” center pivot ....................................$19,900 (H)JD 960, 30.5’ ................................................................$3,595 (W)’02 JD 567, surface wrap............................................$19,900 (B)Hiniker 35’ cultivator ......................................................$2,900 (B)’08 NH BR7090, twine only..........................................$19,900 (B)JD 1000, 32.5’ ..............................................................$2,795 (B)’05 NH 1431, 13’..........................................................$19,900 (B)’03 JD 467, cover edge ................................................$16,500 (B)’11 JD 855 XUV diesel, Lease Return ..........................$11,900 (B)NH 499, 12’ center pivot ..............................................$11,900 (B)’10 JD 850 XUV diesel, loaded, camo ..........................$10,900 (H)’04 JD 275, 9’ disc mower ............................................$7,295 (O)’10 JD 620I XUV, 83 hrs., loaded ................................$10,700 (B)’98 NH 664, 2200 lb. bale ..............................................$6,995 (B)’10 JD 620I XUV, 117 hrs., loaded ..............................$10,500 (B)’92 JD 1600, center pivot, MoCo ..................................$5,900 (O)’09 JD 620I XUV, 60 hrs., loaded ................................$10,200 (B)JD 1219 MoCo ..............................................................$4,995 (B)’11 JD 625I, 219 hrs., loaded ......................................$10,200 (B)NI 5408 disc mower ......................................................$3,995 (W)’09 JD 620I XUV, 270 hrs., loaded................................$9,750 (B)NH 278 square baler ......................................................$3,500 (H)’10 JD 620I XUV, 1500 hrs., cab....................................$9,500 (B)Meyer throw wagon ................................................2@ $1,995 (B)’08 JD 620I XUV, 226 hrs., loaded ................................$9,500 (B)JD 100 forage blower ....................................................$1,595 (O)’08 JD 620I XUV, 257 hrs., loaded ................................$9,500 (O)’10 JD 620I XUV, 454 hrs., loaded ................................$9,350 (W)’06 JD CT332, 943 hrs., tracks ..................................$39,900 (O)’07 JD HPX, 4x4, 204 hrs. ............................................$7,800 (B)’08 JD CT332, 1496 hrs., tracks ................................$37,900 (O)’08 Kawasaki Brute 750 ATV, 47 hrs. ............................$6,250 (W)’08 JD 332, 1200 hrs., cab/heat/AC ............................$34,900 (B)Cub Cadet Big Country 4x2, 439 hrs. ............................$4,500 (O)’10 JD 326D, 625 hrs., EH joystick ..............................$29,900 (B)’07 Yamaha 660 ATV, 2694 mi. ......................................$4,250 (B)’97 AVS, MD70, 1728 hrs., tracks................................$23,900 (O)’02 JD 4x2, 1497 hrs. ....................................................$2,495 (W)’05 JD 328, 3200 hrs., cab/heat/AC ............................$21,900 (B)’06 JD 328, 4100 hrs., 2-spd., cab ..............................$19,900 (O)’10 JD 4930, 1010 hrs., 120’ boom ..........................$235,900 (O)’04 JD 260, 4600 hrs., cab/heat/AC ............................$16,900 (O)’10 JD 4930, 1330 hrs., 120’ boom ..........................$228,500 (B)’96 Gehl 6625SX, 72” bucket ......................................$12,500 (O)’11 JD 4730, 155 hrs., 100’ boom ............................$203,500 (W)’01 JD 240, 3900 hrs. ................................................$11,900 (O)’09 JD 4930, 2213 hrs., 120’ boom ..........................$199,750 (B)’75 Hydra Mac, 3100 hrs., gas ......................................$6,500 (O)’09 JD 4930, 1619 hrs., 90’ boom ............................$189,500 (O)’10 JD 4730, 1032 hrs., 90’ boom ............................$181,500 (B)JD 845, 16R30” ............................................................$4,950 (O)’07 AgChem 1074, 1700 hrs., 100’ boom..................$154,900 (B)White 378, 12R30” ........................................................$2,495 (B)’07 JD 4720, 1305 hrs., 90’ boom ............................$149,900 (B)Glencoe 12R30” ............................................................$1,995 (O)’04 Willmar 8650, 1200 gal., 90’ boom ......................$74,900 (B)Royal 4 row 30/36 ............................................................$250 (O)’99 JD 4700, 3525 hrs., 90’ boom ..............................$74,900 (O)’99 Ag-Chem 854, 3190 hrs., 90’ boom ......................$43,900

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- JD 4555, QR, 18.4x42 tires, 3831 hrs.

- C-IH Puma 165, MFWD, 14.9x46 rears, 535 hrs.

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‘09 CIH 7088, 1235 eng./910 sep.hrs., 20.8x42 duals, tracker, rock trap, Pro ‘11 CIH Magnum 275, MFWD, 850 hrs., 600 monitor w/yield moisture ..$167,000 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., HD ‘03 CIH 2388, 3300 eng./2195 sep. hrs., drawbar, 18 front wgts., 380x54 duals, tracker, chopper, 18Hx42 duals, AFS, 380x38 front duals ..................$152,000 yield & moisture monitor, Maurer bin ‘07 NH TG215, MFWD, 1288 hrs, 4 hyd, ext...............................................$82,500 840/1000 PTO, 380x54” tires & duals ‘06 CIH 1688, 3734 eng. hrs., rock trap, ..................................................$95,000 chopper, auto header, thru shop $34,500 ‘03 NH TG255, MFWD, 3463 hrs., 3 pt., COMBINE HEADS 4 hyd., 1000 PTO, frt wgts, 18.4x46 tires & duals ......................................$80,000 JD 693, 6R30” cornhead ..............$12,500 ‘95 JD 8100, 2WD, cab, 540/1000 PTO, LOADER TRACTORS 3 pt., 3 hyd., 9426 hrs., 18.4x46 tires & duals ......................................$42,500 ‘10 JD 6330 Premium, MFWD, 2000 hrs., cab, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, JD 673 self‘94 JD 7800, 2WD, cab, air, 3 pt., leveling loader w/joystick............$65,000 540/1000 PTO, 9760 hrs., 14.9x46 ‘09 NH T7030, MFWD, cab, 1080 hrs., duals, front wgts. ......................$42,500 3 pt, 540/1000 PTO, NH 860TL loader, JD 4755, MFWD, cab, air, 9813 hrs., 20.8x4 tires ........................$92,000 3 pt., 4 hyd., 1000 PTO, 14.9x46 tires & duals ......................................$39,500 ‘07 NH T7040, MFWD, cab, 3056 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, NH 860TL loader, ‘88 JD 4650, 2WD, 7450 hrs., PS, 3 pt., 18.4x42 tires ..............................$78,000 1000 PTO, 28.8x38 tires & duals ‘89 JD 4755, 2WD, cab, 3 pt., PS, 3 hyd., ..................................................$29,500 1000 PTO w/Westendorf TA46 loader COMBINES w/8’ quick tach bucket & joystick, loader ‘05 JD 9660, 1633 eng./1147 sep. hrs., Like New......................................$39,000 hi-cap unload, Contour Master, 20.8x38 ‘05 JD 5525, MFWD, 1100 hrs., cab, duals, touchset, chopper ..........$125,000 JD 542 loader, 3 pt., 2 hyd., 540 PTO ‘06 JD 8010, 1325 eng./1050 sep. hrs., ..................................................$38,500 20.8x42 duals, tracker, chopper, rock Case 685, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO trap, auto header, Sharp! ..........$138,000 w/CIH 2255 loader ......................$12,500 ‘08 JD 9670, 919 eng./1389 sep. hrs., WHEEL LOADERS Contour Master, chopper, Premium cab ................................................$162,000 ‘11 Case 621E, 6 hrs., ride control, aux. hyd. bucket ......................$135,000 ‘05 JD 9760STS, 1462 eng./1086 ‘00 Volvo 90D, cab/air, 3-yd. bucket, sep. hrs., Contour Master, 20.8x38 duals, 7896 hrs. ....................................$65,000 chopper, header controls ..........$128,000 ‘05 JD 444J, cab/air, 3rd valve, bucket ‘06 JD 9660STS, 1777 eng./1282 sep. w/grapple, 10,600 hrs. ..............$57,000 hrs, Contour Master, bullet rotor, chopper, 20.8x38 duals ............$129,000 ‘04 JD 9760STS, 2358 eng./1612 Check Out Our Website For sep. hrs., hi-capacity unload, Contour Pictures & More Listings @ Master, chopper, Greenstar yield & www.larsonimplements.com moisture monitor, 800x32 tires $119,000

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SALE: Electrical Born 1-28-2012, English Shep- '97 F250 4x4, 7.3 power FOR parts. All square D Equipherd Pups, Sweet temstroke, crew cab. $4,000. ment. Breaker panels-3 pered, papered parents,1 608-343-8972 phase; various amps, 3 female 3 males, 715-263-4443 phase, 240 volt disconnects FOR SALE: Very nice '69 ask for Val. http://pogueenw/ fuses & circuit breakers, Mack tri axle, new paint, lishshepherd.webs.com 3 phase fuse blocks, & other good low hr engine, starts misc equip. Call or email & runs great, 20' steel box, Livestock Equip 075 for complete list. Everyhigh sides, 3 pc end gate, thing 25% of new price or good tarp, extra wide steer5 rolls of 40'' high x 330' long make offer. 320-760-2987 or ing tires, asking $19,000. field netting. 3 roll 48" High giesefarms@runestone.net 507-339-3745 x 330' long field netting. All are new but stored outside.

GENERATORS: 15kWFully enclosed 12' trailer, 715-671-3142 500kW PTO & automatic drop down ramp door, near gen sets, new & used. Low new tires, $2,500.

FOR SALE: '08 AgCo - New time hospital take-outs.

712-297-7951 Idea 3739 - 390 bushel maStandby Power-Windom nure spreader, 2spd apron, Serving farmers since 1975 540 PTO, hyd end gate, like Recreational Vehicles 085 800-419-9806 9-5 Mon-Sat new shedded condition. $8,750/OBO. (651)345-3164 th ONAN ENGINES 25 hp reFor Sale:2007 Montana 5 built engine for skid loader; wheel, 3475RL, very good FOR SALE: Rotogrind tub rebuilt Onan engines 16 to condition.

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TILLAGE M&W 9-shank, 24” w/leveler ..................$14,500 DMI Tigermate II, 5-shank ........................$8,500 Brillion HC 32’ ........................................$13,950 DMI Chisel Champ, 11-shank ..................$2,500 JD 960, 36’ w/3-bar ..................................$6,950 ‘07 JD 3710, 10-bottom..............................CALL White 588, 4-bottm ..................................$1,800 Wilrich 3400, 50.5’ w/4 bar ....................$14,900

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TJOSVOLD EQUIPMENT Sales & Service • West Hwy. 212 — Granite Falls, MN 56241 800-337-1581 • 320-564-2331 • After Hours (320) 212-4849 www.tjosvoldequip.com

USED TRACTORS

‘11 NH 8N Collector, loader ready, 35 hrs...........Call ‘11 NH T6030 w/830TL loader, 200 hrs. ......$79,500 ‘04 NH TG230, susp. FWA, mega-flow, 320 metric F&R duals, 2450 hrs. ................................$125,500 ‘03 NH TJ450, 710/70R42 duals, rear wgts., 3350 hrs. ..................................................$155,000 ‘87 CIH 2294, MFWD, 18.4R38 duals, 5600 hrs. ....................................................................$27,000 ‘94 Ford 9880, 20.8R42 triples, 5300 hrs., Nice!............................................................$89,500 ‘09 Grasshopper 223 mid-mount, 61” deck, 110 hrs. ........................................................$7,500 ‘08 Grasshopper 729 G2, w/61” power fold deck, 225 hrs. ......................................................$10,950 ‘08 Grasshopper 620 T6, w/52” power fold deck ......................................................................$6,950 ‘09 Dixon Grizzly, 27 hp., 61” deck................$7,500

MISCELLANEOUS EQUIP.

‘08 Wilrich 9x24’ 957DDR w/harrow............$34,500 ‘08 Wilrich 5850, 45’ chisel plow w/harrow $41,500 ‘09 NH H6750, 7 disc mower....................Coming In ‘08 NH 615, 5 disc mower w/shock hubs ......$6,500 ‘01 Wilrich QX, 47’ field cult. w/4 bar harrow ....................................................................$35,500 ‘06 NH BR740, ATW round baler..................$15,500 ‘97 NH 499, 12’ haybine ................................$6,950 Black Max 96” snowblower, 2-stage/auger, hyds. ............................................................$3,950 Used Case 12’ mtd./hyd. chisel plow, Nice ....$1,950 ‘05 Wilrich 957, DDR, 9-shank, 24” w/harrow ....................................................................$29,900 ‘02 JD 2400, 29’ chisel plow ....................Coming In ‘01 Flexi-Coil 340, 34’ chisel plow ..........Coming In ‘85 CIH 4800, 30’ field cult. w/3 bar harrow ..$6,500 ‘93 DMI 5000, mounted, 5-shank ..................$5,500 ‘11 Tebben TC94, 10’ rotary cutter ................$5,950 ‘04 Brent 640 wagon w/tarp ........................$12,950 ‘08 NH CR9070, 520/80R42 duals, Y/M, ‘05 Parker 6250, red wagon ........................$12,000 7805 hrs., Loaded ....................................$239,000 Several 7’ & 8’ Snowblowers ‘05 NH CR960, RWA, 18.4R42 duals, Y/M, ..........................................From $1,500 to $3,500 1587 hrs. ..................................................$159,500 ‘03 NH CR960, 18.4R42 duals, Y/M, GPS ..$129,500 ‘03 NH 74C, 30’ flex head ............................$21,000 ‘94 Commander 8000, 72 hp., 72” bucket, (2) ‘01 NH 73C, 30’ flex head ......................$20,900 rubber tracks ..............................................$19,000 ‘07 NH 74C, (CR) 35’ flex head ....................$26,500 ‘08 NH L185, 2-spd., w/cab, A/C, hi flow hyd., ‘08 NH 99C, 8F30” chopping cornhead........$59,500 Q/A, pilot controls, 475 hrs. ........................$31,900 ‘09 NH 99C, 8R30” chopping cornhead ......$64,500 ‘06 NH L185, 2-spd., w/cab, A/C, hyd., Q/A, ‘99 NH 996, 6 row 30” cornhead..................$19,950 1650 hrs. ....................................................$26,500 ‘98 NH 973, 25’ flex head ..............................$9,500 ‘92 NH L250, 42” bucket, 1800 hrs. ..............$7,950 ‘88 NH 974, 6R30” cornhead ........................$6,950 ‘07 JD 332, AC, hyd. QA, 1750 hrs. ............$26,500 ‘97 NH TR98, 30.5-32, 1212 hrs., Loaded ..$65,000 ‘96 JD 6675, 2-spd., cab/heat, 3100 hrs. ....$11,900 ‘95 NH 973, 30’ flex head ............................$10,900 Visit Us At: ‘90 Gleaner R50 w/6 row cornhead & www.tjosvoldequip.com 20’ flex head ......................................Pkg. $38,500

COMBINES/HEADS

SKID STEERS

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

NEW NH skidsteers on hand......................CALL Westendorf WL40 w/IH mts ....................$2,600

PLANTERS NEW White planters....................................CALL

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‘11 CIH Steiger 435, 420 hrs., PTO, auto. steer ..........................$228,900

‘92 JD 8960, 6650 hrs., PTO, triples, JD auto steer ........................$79,900

‘08 Magnum 215, 835 hrs., 360 HID lgts., 320R54 tires & duals $122,900

‘10 CIH Puma 155, PS, 555 hrs, w/loader. ............................$114,900

‘10 CIH Puma 140 w/L760 loader, 457 hrs., susp. axle, PS ........103,000

‘89 CIH 7120, 8106 hrs.......$42,500

‘11 CIH 9120, Tracks, RWA, 290 hrs. ..........................................$359,000

‘11 CIH 7120, 205 eng./170 sep. hrs. ....................................$257,000

CIH 5088, 290 hrs. ............$189,000

‘01 CIH 2388, 3907 hrs.......$80,000

‘07 Bobcat S250, 935 hrs., cab w/air ....................................$28,900

11 Bobcat S650, 199 hrs., 2-spd., hi-flo hyd., cab w/AC ............$37,900

Bobcat 642............................$5,500

Bobcat 5600 Toolcat ..........$26,900 60” SB200 snowblower..........$4,500

‘11 870, 18’ Ecolo-Tiger, Demo CALL

USED 4WD TRACTORS Up To One Year Interest Free ••• Call For Details ••• ‘11 ‘12 ‘11 ‘11 ‘11 ‘92

CIH Steiger 600Q, 36” tracks, Full Pro 700 Auto Guide, 390 hrs. ..................$376,800 CIH Steiger 550Q, Lux. cab, big pump, HID lights, 183 hrs., Very Nice ........$360,000 CIH Steiger 550Q, scraper tractor, Lux. cab, big pump, HID lights, 638 hrs. $311,000 CIH Steiger 550Q, scraper tractor, Lux. cab, big pump, HID lights, 732 hrs.$306,000 CIH Steiger 435, Lux. cab, HID lights, 1000 PTO, 710/70R42 tires, 450 hrs. $228,900 JD 8960, PTO, JD auto steer, 20.8x42 triples, 6650 hrs. ....................................$79,900 STX and STEIGER PTO, TOW CABLE & 3 PT. KITS ON HAND!!!

USED 2WD TRACTORS

USED COMBINES Interest Waiver or Low Rate Financing Available ••• Call For Details ‘11 ‘11 ‘09 ‘07 ‘01 ‘11 ‘95 ‘08 ‘03 ‘92

CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH CIH

9120, track drive, RWA, 290 eng./248 sep. hrs., leather, loaded..............$359,000 7120, 205 eng./170 sep. hrs. ......................................................................$257,000 5088, 290 eng./230 sep. hrs., 30.5x32 tires, hyd. folding covers ............$189,900 2588, 970 hrs., topper, chopper ................................................................$169,000 2388, 3907 eng./2800 sep. hrs., duals, chopper, topper ............................$80,000 2608, 8R30” chopping cornhead..................................................................$64,500 1083, 8R30” cornhead ..................................................................................$13,900 2020, 35’ w/air reel ........................................................................................$34,900 1020, 30’ platform, 11⁄2” knife, tracker ..........................................................$14,900 1020, 20’ platform, 3” knife ............................................................................$6,500

Up To One Year Interest Free ••• Call For Details ••• ‘10 ‘10 ‘08 ‘89

CIH CIH CIH CIH

Puma 155, PS, suspension axle, L760 loader, 555 hrs.............................$114,900 Puma 140, PS, suspension axle, L760 loader, 457 hrs.............................$103,000 Magnum 215, Lux. cab, 360 HID lights, 320R54 tires & duals, 835 hrs. $122,900 7120, MFD, 18.4x42 tires & duals, 8016 hrs. ..............................................$42,500

USED SKIDLOADERS

LOW RATE FINANCING AVAILABLE thru

“Where Farm and Family Meet”

‘07 Bobcat S250, ADV control, 2-spd., cab w/air, 935 hrs.......................................$28,900 ‘10 Bobcat S650, std. controls, cab w/air, 2-spd., float tires ..................................$32,900 ‘08 Bobcat T190, std. controls, cab w/air, new wide tracks, 1815 hrs. ..................$28,900 Bobcat 642, water cooled Ford motor ........................................................................$5,500 ‘03 Bobcat 5600 Toolcat, 605 hrs.............................................................................$26,900

Call For Details Paul

I-35 & Highway 60 West • Faribault, MN • 507-334-2233 CNH Capital’s Commercial Revolving Account provides financial assistance for parts and service when you need it, keeping your equipment running as its best with the quality parts and service you’ve come to expect from Case IH. Contact your local dealer or visit www.cnhcapital.com today for details. ©2012 CNH Capital America LLC. All rights reserved. CNH Capital and Case IH are registered trademarks of CNH America LLC. Printed in the USA.

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SOUTHERN EDITION

Fuel Containment - Bin Floors & So Much More...

K&S Millwrights • Buffalo Lake, MN • 320-833-2228 FLOOR SPECIALS 18’ Floor 21’ Floor 24’ Floor 27’ Floor 30’ Floor 36’ Floor 42’ Floor 48’ Floor

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perf. ..............................$1,080 perf.................................$1,421 perf. ..............................$1,873 perf. ..............................$2,394 perf. ..............................$2,942 perf. ..............................$7,233 perf. ..............................$5,976 perf. ..............................$7,831

* Supports Can Be Quoted For Height Of Bin • Freight not included

On-Farm Containment

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SPRINGLAND

Setting the Standard

MFG

Bin unloaders are available in 11” U-Trough or 8” Round Auger Models Unloaders fitting under most standard aeration floors.

Gearbox for sweep drive.

Double length centre gate provides 24” of exposed flight for maximum unloading capacity.

Unloader extensions for custom installations are available.

MAY TRUCKLOAD SPECIAL (FOB Buffalo Lake) Price good only until June 1st BIN D

PACKAGE PART #

INT SUMPS

24’ 27’ 30’ 33’ 36’ 39’ 42’ 48’ 54’ 60’

UT24-8-EHE UT27-8-EHE UT30-8-EHE UT33-8-EHE UT36-8-EHE UT39-8-EHE UT42-8-EHE UT48-8-EHE UT54-8-EHE UT60-8-EHE

1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

PULLEY 12.7” 2V 12.7” 2V 12.4” 3V 12.4” 3V 12.4” 3V 12.4” 3V 12.4” 3V 12.4” 3V 18.0” 3V 18.0” 3V

WEIGHT 883 907 972 1014 1056 1098 1161 1245 1464 1912

PRICE $3,899.00 $4,275.00 $4,512.00 $4,635.00 $4,732.00 $4,837.00 $5,108.00 $5,360.00 $6,604.00 $7,585.00

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LEGS

1 - 85’ 5,700 Bu/hr.

Grain Leg

1 - 90’ 8,000 Bu/hr.

Grain Leg

1 - 100’ 10,000 Bu/hr.

Grain Leg

1 - 90’ 15,000 Bu/hr.

Grain Leg

• Head Platform • Distributor Platform • 2 Rest Platforms, 10” Sq. to Rnd. • Ladder & Cage • Gear Reducer Drive • Galvanized Construction • Requires 20 hp. motor (not included) • Dual motor mount available for single phase power

• Head Platform • Distributor Platform • 2 Rest Platforms, 12” Sq. to Rnd. • Ladder & Cage • Gear Reducer Drive • Galvanized Construction • Requires 30 hp. motor (not included)

• Head Platform • Distributor Platform • 3 Rest Platforms, 14” Sq. to Rnd. • Ladder & Cage • Gear Reducer Drive • 12 ga. Turnkey Galvanized Construction • Requires 40 hp. motor (not included)

• Head Platform • Distributor Platform • 2 Rest Platforms, 16” Sq. to Rnd. • Ladder & Cage • Gear Reducer Drive • 12 ga. Turnkey Galvanized Construction • Requires 60 hp. motor (not included)

$25,03600

$35,41500 $39,80100 $55,71800 * Freight & Sales Tax not included

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BIG to SMALL – K&S has a dryer for you all!

K&S - your Minnesota NECO Distributor

Hector

Lafayette

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Buffalo Lake, MN 320-833-2228 Hutchinson

YOUR NUMBER O NE SOURCE F OR: • Aeration Fans • Fan Transitions • Angle Rings • Full Aeration Floors • Grain Bin Unloading Equipment

• Grain Spreaders • Gooseneck Roof Vents • Bin Ladders • Hoppers • Bearings • V-Belts

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• Roof Augers • Platforms • Cages • Grain Dryers • Air Systems • Electric Motors

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• Motor Pulleys & Shieves • Crane Service • Grain Dryer Repairs All Makes • Grain Bins • Site Design & Layout

• Bin Level Indicators • Portable Augers • Grain Legs • Spouting • Spouting Accessories

Cellular: 320-979-9221