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The results are in: Pastor Dan should Shanghai to St. Paul? just stick with being “Pastor Dan.” ■ In my March 21 “Land Minds” I noted This week’s “Back Roads” (Page 48) feathat our pastor had declared his desire to tures Jubon Juweelen, a rather eclectic do away with the formality of his title, and I shop in beautiful Orange City, Iowa. In the asked for your feedback on the importance coming days one of your favorite contribuof honorifics in society at large. Here’s an tors to The Land will be making an anonymous sampling of responses. appearance there. “People do not have much respect anyOn May 17 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. “Table Talk” more when addressing people.” ... “If you LAND MINDS columnist Karen Schwaller will sign copies of think being respectful is a bad thing, you her book “The Dirt.” (Unfortunately you By Tom Royer were not raised properly.” ... “When the pasmissed The Land correspondent Renae Vantor comes to church wearing blue jeans, we der Schaaf’s May 15 appeareance, signing have gone too far.” ... “Where does it end?” copies of her book “A Place of Refuge.”) Unfortunately we don’t have enough So be sure to stop in, buy a few copies space to delve deeper this week, but perof their books (one for the pickup, one for the tractor, haps I can convince my buddy “Dan” to pen a guest one for your seed guy), and tell the fine folks at editorial someday soon, and give him the honor of Jubon Juweelen you heard about it in The Land. speaking for himself. ■ ■ One final note: Some of you may recall a recent colA pre-packaged, “to-go” lunch my younger daughter umn in which I shared thoughts on my impending ate recently contained, among other items, a “Power- grandpahood. Well, I just wanted to give you a quick Packed, Protein-Rich, Tasty Seed Blend” packet. Not update: Despite a few last-minute concerns, everything surprisingly, this packet was left unopened. (Given a turned out wonderfully as my elder daughter gave birth choice between such a “tasty blend” — dry roasted to a healthy baby girl. Mom and Dad are tired, covered edamame, pumpkin seeds and watermelon seeds — in spit-up, smell like poop, and couldn’t be happier. and, say, practically any other edible item imaginaI’ve always said that all newborns look like tiny ble ... most teenagers would go with Option B.) alien raisin frogs — and this little girl did, too — but So when the still-sealed packet returned home, I the difference is that this alien raisin frog is my did my fatherly duty and finished her leftovers. They granddaughter, which makes her the most beautiful tasted pretty good, actually, but I had a problem alien raisin frog in the world. Let’s all be nice to one when I read the fine print: “Ingredients are products another and make that world a good one for her to of China.” Why did my seeds come from China? hop around in, OK? I know, I know, everything comes from China. But a Tom Royer is assistant editor of The Land. He may tiny packet of pumpkin seeds and soybeans? Someone be reached at troyer@TheLandOnline.com. ❖ thought that needed to be shipped 6,800 miles from

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Letter: That side was made for you and me To the Editor: The Land Editor Kevin Schulz recently wrote, “If you are not familiar with those lyrics to ‘This Land is Your Land’ you cannot consider yourself an American.” (“Land Minds,” May 2 issue, Page 2) This got me thinking of some of the lesser-known lyrics to this wonderful Woody Guthrie song such as: As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.” But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, That side was made for you and me. While I understand the importance and even necessity of some “No Trespassing” signs, still, it

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 8 — Quick rotations mean nutritious meals for grass-fed beef 10 — From the Fields: Rain keeping planters in the shed, farmers frustrated

always makes me a little sad whenever I see one. We landowners are mere caretakers of our land for a little while on this Earth. I’m also reminded of the new bestseller by the economist Thomas Piketty which details the extent to which wealth is becoming ever more concentrated in the hands of the few, and how inherited wealth is and has been the mechanism for the greatest share of this wealth and power accumulation. In other words, billionaires are increasingly born that way, and not self-made by hard work. This is troubling. Greg Rendahl Ostrander, Minn.

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Feeding the world: An issue of production, or distribution? It’s just a fact that some people see the proverbial glass half full rather than half empty, and some people say tomahto, others tomato. These tomahto/half-fullers aren’t knuckleheads. They simply view the world from a different angle and, often, that difference offers fresh insights and solutions others can’t see given their never-changing, tomato view. Tim Wise, director of the Research

and Policy Program at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, is one of those different-perspective people. For example, if you ask Wise “How will we feed the world in 2050?” his response will be “Who’s we?” and “Don’t you mean ‘How are we going to feed the world’s hungry?’” He’s right. Feeding the world’s hungry is different than “feeding the world.” According to best estimates,

about one in 11 people cultural production. There’s around the world, or 800 a lot of farm production million of our planet’s 7 bilincluded in agricultural prolion, are undernourished — duction that has nothing to “hungry” — today. That’s a do with food, like biofuels. lot but it’s not 7 billion. Indeed, the current 60Moreover, as Wise and copercent increase in the author Marie Brill, the execworld’s food need by 2050 utive director of ActionAid includes “biofuel expansion USA, lay out in an October to meet existing mandates 2013 report on food, food pro- FARM & FOOD FILE through 2020,” Wise and duction and hunger, much of Brill write. Many of those By Alan Guebert the economic forecasting and mandates, mostly in Europe many of the “public proand the United States, hownouncements” about future ever, are either on hold or global food needs are facing revision, Wise “flawed” and “misleading.” explained in a May 6 tele(Find a link at phone interview, “because the logic http://farmandfoodfile.com/in-the-news) behind them has changed drastically in the last few years.” The most misleading, according to Wise and Brill, is the oft-quoted 2008 Another often-overlooked area of prediction by the United Nations and coming food production is food already the World Food Program that foresaw produced but wasted. By most esti“a doubling of global food production by mates, “one-third of global food produc2050 to meet rising tion fails to nourish demand from a growing anyone,” Wise and Brill population” — estiwrite. In developed mated to be 9 billion — nations, we throw it Addressing “expected to consume away as waste; in develeither side of the more meat as well as oping nations, most of it from rapidly growing spoils for lack of refrigproblem (waste demand for bioenergy eration or roads to get and spoilage) crops.” it to market. will address a In truth, note Wise “Addressing either lot of hunger in and Brill, the UN’s side of that problem,” both worlds, “expert team of agriculWise remarked, “will while further tural modelers hadn’t address a lot of hunger reducing the 60 called for a doubling of in both worlds while food production by 2050. further reducing the 60percent increase Rather the models ... percent increase in food in food produchad indicated the need production predicted by tion predicted by to increase overall agrithe FAO.” the FAO. cultural production by The Wise-Brill report 70 percent from 2005-07 isn’t a rhetorical half— Tim Wise to 2050.” full/half-empty exercise. Later, in 2012, when the Instead, they write, it UN’s Food and Agriculshows that “hunger, tural Organization plugged updated now and in the future, is less a matter data into the model, “these estimates of inadequate production than brought the figure down to 60 percent inequitable access to food and food-profor the same period.” ducing resources, and a singular focus That’s an astonishing difference and on increasing production is misguided a difference never mentioned in farm ...” and ranch country mostly because the And that’s regardless how you slice newer forecast doesn’t jibe with our the tomato/tomahto. long-held, outdated beliefs. Alan Guebert’s “Farm and Food File” In short, a doubling it was and a dou- is published weekly in more than 70 bling it will remain no matter the facts. newspapers in North America. Contact Another astonishing difference in our him at agcomm@farmandfoodfile.com. current march “to feed the world,” Wise Past columns, news and events are and Brill point out, is the vast differposted at www.farmandfoodfile.com. ❖ ence between food production and agri-

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Program aims at eliminating ag teacher shortage community organization representatives. The Council represents all of the major institutions and groups in Minnesota with an interest in agricultural education and serves as a focal point for initiatives to improve agricultural education in the state.

For information specific to Minnesota, contact Sarah Dornink at tesm0010@umn.edu. For more information about the STAR program, contact Ellen Thompson at ethompson.naae@uky.edu. ❖

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Minnesota has been selected as one of eleven states to participate in the inaugural year of the State Teach Ag Results program, a component of the National Teach Ag Campaign aimed at addressing the shortage of agriculture teachers using a comprehensive framework based on the needs of each state. “Similar to states across the nation, Minnesota is facing a large shortage of agricultural educators,” said Sarah Dornink, executive director of the Minnesota Agricultural Education Leadership Council. However, the gap between supply and demand is not simply an indication of the number of individuals entering the profession. In Minnesota, the shortage is exacerbated by an increasing demand for high school agricultural education programs. In recent years, student enrollment in agriculture, food and natural resource classes has continued to increase. To accommodate heightened interest, many school districts are investing in the development of new programs. Additionally, some single-teacher programs have expanded with the addition of a second or third teacher, allowing for greater breadth and depth of agricultural courses. Dornink said, “being selected as a STAR participant is very exciting for our state, and we look forward to continuing our efforts in recruiting and retaining agricultural educators. The STAR program is a new and innovative tool to add to the collaborative work being done by Minnesota agricultural education organizations.” Minnesota’s team will be comprised of representatives of MAELC, Minnesota Association of Agricultural Educators, Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota FFA Alumni and Foundation, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, and the University of Minnesota-Agricultural Education Program. In 2012-13, more than 20 programs closed due to the lack of teachers; it is estimated that nearly 100 ag teacher positions in the United States will go unfilled in 2014. STAR program state teams will pilot new initiatives to recruit and retain agriculture teachers to help fulfill this shortage. They will be responsible for implementing proven strategies, tracking impact and reporting results of their plan to share with other states. Ellen Thompson, National Teach Ag Campaign coordinator, said, “I’m delighted with the number of states that applied to participate in the program. These states are committed to working with the National Teach Ag Campaign to find solutions that may be replicated across the country so we are able to ensure a quality supply of agriculture teachers.” Other states selected to participate in the STAR program are California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina and Oregon. Selected teams underwent an application process earlier this year that involved assembling a stakeholder group and agreeing to work with the National Teach Ag campaign to implement data-based solutions to their state’s specific challenges in agricultural education. Established in 1997 by the Minnesota Legislature, MAELC is comprised of sixteen educators, legislators, government officials, and agribusiness and

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Grass-finish beef producer passionate about process By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer The passion Redwood County beef producer Daniel Tiffany has for his young business comes through when he talks grass-finished beef. His business card even enthusiastically proclaims, “Grass Finished ... the way nature intended.” Though operating with a herd of only 10 cows this past season, his ambitions for Shady Knoll Farm are a doubling of that herd size in 2014. He direct markets 100 percent of its production to individual customers, even extending into the Twin Cities. He acknowledges quite a few Minnesota farmers are getting into the business. “We’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. There’s a growing demand. Yes, you can buy grass-fed beef at a few stores. However we’re selling direct and at much more affordable prices. “Plus we’re also talking carbon footprint,” he said. “The only transportation of my animals is from my farm to Lang’s Meat Market at Springfield. Then my product goes direct from me to my customers. My hamburger in your freezer is from just one animal; not 10 or 30 or more if processed by a larger facility.” Tiffany has always been a conventional corn-soybean farmer. Five years ago, however, his “environmental logic” told him it was time to find a way to provide a clean, healthy meat that was not pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics, and it was grown on pastures free of broadcast spraying of herbicides and other pesticides. “An article in the Stockman Grass Farmer journal got me thinking,” he said. “I then talked with several already doing grass-fed beef. I was somewhat surprised how many are doing the business. Initially I just bought stockers from a grass-based farm. My procedure is that from birth to harvest my animals eat only what is grown on my farm.” He strives for May calving on pasture because lactating cows have high energy and his pasture forage is most nutritious during May and June. There’s zero use of antibiotics, growth hormones, artificial protein, etc., on Shady Knoll Farm. Calves continue nursing as long as “mama cow” permits but weaning at 10 months is his practice. Calves then range from 450

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pounds to about 600 pounds. Tiffany is not certified organic on his crops but grazes his cattle with that strategy. He does rotational grazing, or “mob grazing” as intensive grazing is now called. “Understand what you are doing and this mob grazing gives good control of weeds, and keeps your pasture forage at maximum nutritional value.” His paddocks range from three acres up to 10 acres but electric fencing controls grazing to just a couple acres per day. “The idea is to be grazing about onethird of your forage while the other two-thirds are replenishing from the previous grazing,” he said. Converting some of his good corn and soybean ground into pasture wasn’t easy with $7 corn and $14 soybeans. That’s less an issue today, however. “But this is the route I wanted to go,” he said. “... where it will end up I don’t yet know. I just know it’s a joy to be growing this kind of beef. And my customers, many with younger families, tell me they and their kids like the taste, the flavor of our beef.” Tiffany is selling quarters and halves. He’s at 16 cows right now with intentions to keep each cow as long as it is healthy and producing healthy calves, so 12- to 15-year-old cows should be routine as his herd ages. Red Devon and grass-based Black Angus is his breeding program, with a Red Devon sire used on all the females. Tiffany said his Red Devon finish at about 1,200 pounds. A close inspection of key points such as the tail head and the brisket of each animal give him a good indication of how close to finish each animal might be. Bull calves are castrated, and then continue on the same grass finish routine. “It’s such an enjoyable atmosphere when I walk into a pasture and see my animals,” Tiffany said, his passion evident. “I think about feeding your family. I think about the nutrition this system provides. If it takes three to four months longer to get a grass-finished animal up to market weight, that’s irrelevant to me, and certainly to my customers. We’re talking healthy beef; we’re talking flavorful beef; we’re talking a livestock system that is extremely kind and considerate to our animals, our soils and our total environment.” Tiffany can be reached at (507) 6400993. ❖

Studying manure in cows, in feedlots, in fields amended with one-year or two-year manure rates. “Our study — which is one of the first studies on this question — indicates there is a significant difference in how manure application rates affect runoff loads,” Gilley said, “and even though crop residues can be effective in controlling soil erosion, the residues also slow the movement of water across fields. So there’s more time for water to pick up nutrients from the soil.” In a follow-up study, Gilley’s team found that narrow grass hedges planted at the edge of manureamended plots reduced mean runoff loads of dissolved phosphorus from 0.69 to 0.08 kilogram per hectare and total phosphorus from 1.05 to 0.13 kilogram per hectare — similar to levels from plots that had not been amended with manure. “This study shows that if you have hedges you can substantially reduce nutrient loads in runoff,” Gilley said. “Planting grass hedges is a practice that isn’t expensive and can have a substantial impact.” Results from these studies have been published in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and Transactions of the ASABE. This article was published in an early 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine. It was written by ARS information staff member Ann Perry. This research is part of Food Safety, Climate Change, Soils and Emissions, and Agricultural and Industrial Byproducts, three ARS national programs described at www.nps.ars.usda.gov. ❖

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control pathogens when they are at their weakest — outside the animal, rather than inside it.” Durso also partnered with Lincoln agricultural engineer John Gilley and others to study how livestock diet affected pathogen transport in field runoff from manure-amended soils. “Manure applications can help a farmer meet soil nutrient requirements, but it’s more expensive to apply it every year because of the costs of labor, equipment and fuel,” Gilley said. “A farmer can reduce costs by applying enough manure to meet twoyear or four-year soil nutrient requirements, but we need to understand more about how these larger applications might be affecting the environment.” Gilley’s team amended conventional-till and no-till fields at one-, two- or four-year application rates of manure from livestock that had consumed either corn or feed containing 40 percent wet distillers grains. After a series of simulated rain events, they analyzed runoff samples from the fields. They found that neither diet nor tillage management significantly affected transport of fecal indicator bacteria, but that diet did affect transport of bacteriophages — viruses that invade bacteria — in the runoff. Gilley also conducted an investigation into how wheat residues affected water quality in runoff from plots amended with one-, two- or four-year application rates of manure. Some of the plots were covered with postharvest wheat residue, and others were bare. The scientists found that runoff loads of dissolved phosphorus, total phosphorus, nitrate nitrogen and total nitrogen were much higher from plots with residue cover. In addition, they observed that runoff from fields amended with four-year application rates of manure had significantly higher levels of dissolved phosphorus and total phosphorus than fields

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Agricultural Research Service scientists at the Agroecosystems Management Research Unit in Lincoln, Neb., have been conducting some thorough investigations on the microbes that dwell in cattle manure — what they are, where they thrive, where they struggle and where they may end up. “When we look at potential pathogens that can cause foodborne illness, we need to look at the whole bacterial ecosystem,” said ARS microbiologist Lisa Durso. “For instance, some people used to think all cattle have the same bacteria in their gastrointestinal tracts. But we’ve found some big differences; so if we say, ‘Oh, it’s just manure,’ we could miss important factors in pathogen control.” That’s why Durso headed up a study that provided the first-ever “gold standard” accounting of the fecal bacterial types associated with beef cattle. The researcher used pyrosequencing, a relatively new method of rapidly analyzing bacterial DNA markers, to classify the bacteria into different taxonomic groups. “People hadn’t looked at doing this type of bacterial census before, because some bacteria could be cultured, but other types didn’t grow well,” said Durso, who conducted this investigation while she was working at the ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb. “Pyrosequencing let us give every bacterium a name tag ID.” Using fecal samples from six beef cattle, Durso identified a core set of bovine GI bacterial groups common to both beef and dairy cattle. But she also determined that prevotella was the most common bacterial genus in the cattle she studied — occurring in 24 percent of the total number of DNA sequences she analyzed. Another published study had identified prevotella in only 5.5 percent of the bacterial genes sequenced from 20 dairy cattle. While another survey had identified clostridium in 19 percent of the bacterial DNA sequenced from dairy cattle, Durso detected the genus in only 1.5 percent of the DNA sequences in her study. Durso observed bacteria in the beef cattle that had not been reported in dairy cows. She also identified a diverse assortment of bacteria from the six individual beef cows, even though all six animals consumed the same diet and were the same breed, gender and age. Given her results, Durso believes much more high-resolution community sequencing will be needed to identify “core” members of the bovine bacterial community. Durso also compared her results to a survey of bacterial types she collected from beef cattle feedlot surfaces. Of a total of 139 different bacterial genera from both groups, 25 were detected in both fecal samples and feedlot floor samples, 21 were found only in the fecal samples and 93 were found only in samples from the feedlot surfaces. She attributes the distribution differences to selection pressures bacteria face in feedlot pens that aren’t present in the oxygen-free, dark, moist cattle GI tract. The implications of these findings? “The focus on food safety is fecal contamination, and preharvest pathogen control has often been animal-centric — for instance, how to ‘fix’ the problem of E. coli in a cow’s GI tract,” Durso said, “but a bacterium has a different pathway once it’s outside of the gut. So we need to start thinking strategically about how to

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Quick rotations mean nutritious meals for grass-fed beef Cattle ideally moved twice daily; takes about 10 minutes to move cattle from one paddock to next By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Back in 1994, Mark Erickson was renting 700 acres and calling himself a “commercial crop farmer.” Today Erickson is still a crop farmer but now his only crop is grass (and hay), he’s now renting only 400 acres, his commodity is grass-fed beef, and he’s in a pasture rotation system that often has him moving his cattle twice a day. “I decided I couldn’t be both a commercial farmer and a grass farmer,” he said, “and because you can’t afford the equipment for both types of farming we decided to specialize instead on grass and do what I call mob grazing.” As you might suspect, “mob grazing” is high-density grazing. The Donnelly, Minn., farmer accomplishes that strategy by dividing his grassland pastures into

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to last? You want the ration to be the same for every meal. “When they get into that new paddock each day, the tops get nibbled off first and the eating is really good. Then about five hours later, they’re into the middle portion of those grass blades and nutrition value has declined. Soon they’re down to the bottom portion. Nutrient value is minimal.” That explains the frequent moving. He sold his first grassland beef in 1998, and got into intensive grazing just five years ago, so Erickson admits he’s still learning. “Plus we’ve had some drought the past couple of years so there’s been a bit more strategy to make that work.” Because of the drought, Erickson downsized his cow herd as those pastures couldn’t sustain as many critters. When he transitioned into grass-fed beef, those new seedlings took three to four years to get established. “On those newer seedlings we’ll graze them in May, then not get back on them until fall. On the older seedlings we get back to them every six weeks.” Erickson’s operation isn’t as labor-intensive as you might imagine because he uses electric fence lines between each paddock, and an electric lane fence at the end of these half-mile pasture strips. He claims it’s only about 10 minutes to move his stock one acre at a time from one paddock to the next, and it gives him some flexibility when weather isn’t cooperating. He also has two or three water tanks in the two fencelines separating the half-mile strips. “We have some good Reed’s canary grass bottoms,” Erickson said, “and during our dry weather these pastures sustain our cattle better than the upland pastures which are mostly old-stand grasses with a high percentage of blue grass plus some Dutch clover and Alice white clover. Alice clover grows taller. There’s a big difference in these clovers. I’m still learning about the habits of the different grasses in our pasture mix, too.” Before he got into mob grazing, he was doing rotational grazing on about 20, five-acre paddocks on a neighboring farm where his son Alan lives. Depending upon these pastures, some were seeded to what Erickson refers to as “highland” pasture mixes, a different seed mixture for lowland areas and some specifically for these five-acre paddocks. “That was our first project. We were putting 50 pairs (cow-calf) on five acres,” Erickson said. But mob grazing is like 150 to 180 various sized animals on one acre. “That’s much more intensive.” When your only crop is pasture there’s still some See BEEF, pg. 9

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such as dairy heifers; 3) Expand the beef cow herd (he has 75 beef cows on order right now, “but I don’t think we’ll get them for the price I’m offering with the order.”); or 4) Expand up to about 200 cows. Because Erickson has grazed animals on Fish and Wildlife land for several years already, he has the opportunity to do more. “And I believe that is because when we use this land we break it up into two or three pastures and rotate our cattle. This is a form of intensive grazing and cleans up all forages, including the weeds. Plus your cattle are eating a ‘better ration’ because they’re getting fresher forage with each rotation.” ❖

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Black Angus is the sire. He’s still trying different cows to see if there is a genetic difference in raising grass-fed beef. “When rent was cheap and grass was plentiful, the slower-growing animals were fine. But now, because land costs have basically tripled, I’ve got to get more productivity out of each acre, and get it quicker,” Erickson said. Because of the constantly changing landscape in the beef industry — plus having just worked his way through another tax session — he’s giving Boss Ridge Ranch the option of four different future scenarios: 1) Reduce cow numbers and raise more pigs and chickens; 2) Maintain current cow numbers and do some custom grazing

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BEEF, from pg. 8 Inspected which permits marketing of maintenance. His primary mainte- these individual packages to restaunance tool is a 15-foot Woods shredder. rants, grocery stores and food co-ops “That’s knocking down the thistles if within Minnesota. needed; also knocking down other In 2012 he sold 171 head, which was problem weeds, even the canary grass a combination of cull cows, 1,100- to if it gets too tall.” 1,200-pound grass-fed finished animals and He’s still learning 30 animals which he about the genetics side When rent was labeled as heavy yearof the business, too. For cheap and grass lings, got marketed as example, some of his feeder cattle. “These was plentiful, cows and their offspring were the animals that the slower-growsimply don’t do as well don’t finish well on on grass. “So I’m feeding ing animals grass because they are them some grain and were fine. But too large a frame,” he sending them to the pronow ... I’ve got said. cessing plant at Sisseto get more proton, S.D.” He’s pleased about ductivity out of being a 100-percent The primary market grassland beef proeach acre, and for his calves each year ducer. Seven-dollar get it quicker. is Thousand Hills, a corn changed the ecoCannon Falls, Minn., nomics of the business, — Mark Erickson firm that specializes in especially since his the production, processentire operation is on ing and marketing of rented land. grass-fed beef. But Erickson’s operation, Boss Ridge Ranch, also has a Erickson speaks highly of his landgrowing “drive-in” customer market — lords, all four of them. “They allow me people buying quarters and halves. to do this on their land. It’s only natu“That market just seems to sustain ral that landlords are looking for the itself by word-of-mouth and special highest rent but my landlords are very connections. For example, we have six supportive. I meet with them once a customers in Mankato, Minn. My year. They come out and look at what brother-in-law lives there and he circu- I’m doing. All I’ve ever heard from lates well in the community,” Erickson them is ‘we like what we see so figure chuckled, explaining his entry into out a way to keep it going’.” that market. Erickson’s operation was 2010 ConProcessing for quarters and halves is servation Champion for Stevens at the Hoffman Lockers, a custom County. Grassland buffers along operation at Hoffman, Minn. Also in drainage ditches and sloughs are part Boss Ridge’s “food chain” is Hancock of that conservation story. Quality Meat of Hancock, Minn., a few Peak cow numbers were once up to miles southeast of Morris. This facility 138; currently 70 cows and their qualifies as a “Minnesota Same” annual calf crop, plus yearlings in final branded locker — meaning the same finishing stages, occupy the pastures as U.S. Department of Agriculture — of Boss Ridge Ranch. However this because a state inspector each Tues- year’s extended and cold winter put day inspects each carcass. Each pack- extra demands on the grassland hay age is then labeled Minnesota crop baled for winter forage.

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From the Fields: This just in — it’s wet out there By KRISTIN KVENO The Land Correspondent

The Thronsons Gary, Minn.

“Pretty wet.” That about sums up the weather in most of the region, but most certainly on Jared Thronson’s Jared Thronson farm. The Land spoke with Thronson on April 28 as he was anticipating more rain and even a chance of snow. White stuff or no, it was “supposed to be pretty cool this week.” Thronson hasn’t begun planting yet but was able to drive his four-wheeler out to check on one field that had lighter ground; reporting that “it looked in pretty good shape.” Thronson hopes that next week the field conditions would be right to begin planting. He has his planters ready to go, is looking over his tillage equipment and is working on his air seeder. The fields in the area have been quiet — no one in his area was seeding yet — but with “some wheat seed being delivered this week,” plus getting the fertilizer spreader ready to go, planting is just around the corner. Thronson counts on a few special people to help him get the crop in the ground: his dad, Lloyd, his great uncle Harlow, whose specialty is cultivating, and Thronson’s girlfriend, Kristin Sirjord, who runs the cultivator for him on the weekends. He has a new sprayer this year, and has been busy working on the nozzles. “I think it’s ready to go once I check it over.” Thronson is planning on doing some pre-emerge spraying this season. For the past two years he’s battled ragweed and he hopes the preemerge spraying will be an end to this stubborn weed. With planters ready to go, a new sprayer to try out and good people to help with planting, Thronson has all he needs to start the 2014 season off. Well, almost everything — a little heat and sun would be welcome. “I’d like to see the sun come out and see some 70-degree days,” he said. “That would do a lot.”

The Wiltses Herman, Minn.

The rain that’s been hanging over the Wilts’ farm for the previous six days was wearing out its welcome. When The Land spoke with Dennis

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Wilts on April 28 he was dealing with rain that had been coming down since April 23. The rain is pushing off getting the crop in the ground and “now it looks like we’ll be a little behind schedDennis Wilts ule,” he said. Before the rain fell he was able to plant on April 20 and 22. “We got about 170 acres of wheat in,” Wilts said. That’s about one-third of his total wheat acres for this year. He also got 120 acres of sugar beets in, accounting for 15 percent of those acres. Planting was going smoothly until the rain halted everything, but he knows that “a little rain was welcome.” A lot of rain, however, is what showed up — and seems to be staying for a while. “We won’t be doing anything all week,” Wilts said. The forecast for the week shows that it “won’t be drying weather.” Cold temperatures have made it “too cold to put corn in,” he said, and that lack of warmth was forecast to stick around for a while. “It’s going to be on the cool side for the next 10 days.” He continues to work in the shop waiting for the sun to come out, and the fields to be ready to plant again. Wilts is ready to go.

The Hoffmans New Ulm, Minn.

“There are little puddles here and there.” Don Hoffman reported “right around three inches” of rain in two days at his farm, and with that amount of mois-

ture a puddle or two is to be expected. When The Land spoke with Hoffman on April 29, he was happy to get some moisture. Seven days earlier conditions were “beautiful” and he was able to get 23 acres of alfalfa in the ground. On this day, however, things weren’t quite as lovely. “It’s going to take some heat to get things dried out,” Hoffman said. He believes that the “earliest possible time to get back in the fields is in the middle of next week.” On the dairy side of things, Hoffman has most of the barn cleaned out and is using this week to “work on fans and Don Hoffman sprinkler systems.” This involves cleaning each of the sprinkler nozzles and checking the systems for any repairs that may be needed. The fan system has already been used this year. On Easter the temperature reached 80 and due to the sudden rise in temperature the fans were needed to cool the cows down. While the weather isn’t warm right now, Hoffman knows it won’t be long until the sprinkler and fan systems will be running quite often. “There’s never a dull moment on a dairy farm,” he said. Meanwhile, the “field equipment is fueled and ready to go,” Hoffman said. His brother plants while he does the tillage, a system they’ve perfected over the years. He’s hoping they can put that system to use soon, as he’d like to have “the corn in the ground by the 15th.” Once the fields are dried out it

should only take about two weeks for Hoffman’s crop to be planted. He’s been working long hours, even on these cold and rainy days, knowing that soon even longer hours will be necessary. Hoffman hopes those hours will be spent in the sun and with good field conditions.

The Hagens Lake Mills, Iowa

When it rains, it pours ... and it was certainly pouring down at the Hagen farm. The Land spoke with Jim Hagen on April 28 as the rain Jim Hagen was coming down — “two-and-a-half inches of rain in the last two days” — but talk wasn’t all dark skies and dismal weather; he had been able to get some crops planted before the rains came. On April 22 Hagen planted 200 acres of corn, then another 40 acres on the April 26. “The big field I planted was real nice conditions,” Hagen said. “I’m the only one I knew of that planted any corn (yet).” Once the conditions were right, he knew “it was time to go.” Hagen has a 24-row planter, “so it goes pretty quick.” He was also able to re-seed 20 acres of waterways with an oatswaterway seed mix. Being in the fields seemed like distant memory with all of the standing water, but Hagen knows that “as soon as it dries up it’s go, go, go.” Of course he’s not sitting around the farm twiddling his thumbs waiting for the rain to stop. He’s busy hauling corn — prices have improved and the time was right for Hagen to sell some of his crop. The corn he planted last week is already sprouting under the ground. Nature is ready for spring even if the weather isn’t cooperating. Hagen believes that “you want to get all your corn in (the ground) by the 15th of May,” and then he’ll “go right from corn to beans on the same day.” Hagen is ready for sunny skies, warm temperatures, and for planting to continue. ❖

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then we forward contract for 800-pound deliveries. and the chores of having year-round cattle. We have We have two groups of Minnesota buyers but these cattle only about nine months out of the year.” animals travel everywhere.” With her dairy background, do dairy steers someThey handle commercial stock so they times appear at the Schaefer farm? aren’t breed-specific. Her husband is a “We have not done that,” she said, “at firm believer in rotational grazing and least not yet. But Minnesota is someThe marbling of also has a high-tensile fencing business. what unique. We don’t talk much about the dairy steer industry but it’s dairy beef is “So we do a lot of our back grounding a big business. And with sexed semen especially good, on grass,” Schaefer said. “In the fall now so common, dairy steer numbers we’ll supplement with corn silage and particularly could multiply rapidly.” some grain feedstuffs to get them up to when we’re our 800-pound contract weights.” A concern for local meat markets is talking Jersey the bigger frames of cull dairy cows, These are not organic reared animals and other especially the Holstein breed. “The and they are not considered grass-fed smaller breeds bigger the animal the more difficult because most are “grain finished” before to fabricate that carcass to the sizes of dairy anithe Schaefers move them off to feeders the consumer wants. You get rib eyes mals. for the final finishing. that are just too big and need to be She said it’s that final cycle when cut thin to get down to that 8 ounce — Karin Schaefer these animals are grain finished rib eye for example,” Schaefer said. which improves the meat quality, the Cross breeding could be the answer. marbling and the final efficiencies of providing a Someone already cashing in on this “dual” breed steer ready for the meat market. label is Wulf Farms of Morris, Minn., which crosses Exciting times with Riverside Dairy both Jersey and Limousine Schaefer admits to the economic challenges of the animals. The Limousine is a heavy-muscled, lean back grounding business the past couple of years, but animal. The Jersey is smaller framed but highly readily speaks of exciting times in the beef business, too. marbled. “Looking back, we perhaps did sell the cow-calf “Wulf Farms is getting national recognition for operation too soon,” she said, “because obviously those this new breeding concept that is catering to the calves would have been good income generators, too. consumer and in the process enriching the market But this is a good structure for us. We have a young value of these animals,” Schaefer said. ❖ family so don’t need to worry about the calving season

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By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Did you know that 25 percent of Minnesota’s beef industry comes from dairy animals? Minnesota Beef Council Executive Director Karin Schaefer does. “Every dairy animal is also a source of meat,” said Schaefer, a Karin Schaefer beef producer in the Howard Lake, Minn., area. In fact, she noted that more of these market dairy animals (cull cows) are being used for whole muscle meat. “They’re not all going to ground beef like most people assume,” she said, because of a growing recognition of the quality flavor, tenderness and especially the leanness of dairy beef. Relating to taste test panel measurements, Schaefer said often dairy beef scores comparable with choice cuts of beef; sometimes even ranking with prime cuts of beef. “The marbling of dairy beef is especially good, particularly when we’re talking Jersey and other smaller breeds of dairy animals.” She said dairy farmers can get some premium prices for marketing high-quality dairy beef. That’s why the MBC is working with the dairy industry on issues of early culling and then a two- to threemonth grain ration finish to add that “special flavor and extra yield” of muscle meat. Back grounding Schaefer grew up on a dairy farm in the Hastings, Minn., area. But after college and meeting her husband, who already had a cow-calf operation, things changed. The beef cows are now gone; instead the Schaefers have a back grounding operation in beef steers. “We sell throughout the Midwest,” she said. “We have a contract business buying these steers at about 400 pounds; usually in ‘semi load’ quantities;

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Getting the most out of your hay is fair treatment By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer Various reasons have beef and dairymen looking to get the most out of their hay crop. “Cattlemen, both beef and dairy, have ramped up their interest in getting maximum nutritional value out of every bale of hay. ... I’ve had lots of conversations on this topic of hay quality,” said Scott Nagel, TransAgra Sales representative. Leaf retention is what makes good alfalfa even better, and leaf retention is better if you bale that alfalfa when it is higher in moisture. “We’re talking bringing in that hay when the alfalfa is a little tougher, a little wetter than normal. Since the alfalfa leaf contains the most protein, baling at 23percent moisture as compared to 15-percent moisture provides 19-percent crude protein versus 13percent crude protein with the drier hay.” Baling at higher moistures can increase the chance of mold, spoilage and heat damage which decreases nutritive value. This, in turn, can

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That green hay stands out from the other hays. Guys like to bid on that first ’cause it goes quicker. — Scott Nagel decrease feed intake and even produce serious problems such as abortion and death in the livestock. TransAgra International Inc., headquartered at Storm Lake, Iowa, has a microbiological rescue. By using Culbac Hay, “instead of letting your hay dry down to 12 to 13 percent before baling, use this product and bale at 15-percent to 17-percent moisture. You’ll have more leaf retention; that automatically gives you more tonnage per acre and you’ve increased the palatability. Your cattle like it better,” Nagel said. Alfalfa treated with Culbac Hay is a greener hay, “and that usually means a higher dollar amount when you take that hay to auctions and sales barns. That green hay stands out from the other hays. Guys like to bid on that first ’cause it goes quicker,” Nagel said. He even talks of “softer hay” with the Culbac treat-

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ment and that means a better nutrient intake, because more of it will be eaten, more of it will be digested. Because of higher protein, you’re likely to note a boost in milk production, or rate of gain when feed to feeder cattle. The chemistry of Culbac is patented, and the product is sold worldwide. The product is fermented, which is different treatment than most live cultures. It’s a non-viable byproduct unlike an enzyme. Culbac can be applied as a dry product through a Gandy applicator in the baling chamber when the hay is being rolled; or you can spray it on when cutting hay with your haybine. Most guys are going with the cutting application, Nagel said, simply because it’s an easier and quicker method of treating the hay. Nagel said the cost per ton of hay treated would be $2.50. TransAgra also has feed additives, as well as haylage and silage products. Rumen-bac is a lactobacillus fermentation product involved in a research study conducted at New Mexico State University. Besides Rumen-bac, two other products tested were a yeast culture and probios during a 35-day starter period. Cattle fed Rumen-bac recorded the highest daily feed intake (14.6 pounds per day) and the greatest average daily weight gain (3.37 pounds per day). “This is an appetite stimulator. And because the feed tastes better, they eat more and grow faster. It’s about that simple,” he said. If health problems such as scours, dysentery are an issue, this product gives some help. Nagel was interviewed at the TransAgra booth at the Central Minnesota Farm Show in St. Cloud in February. Log on to www.transagra.com or call (800) 238-6075 for more information. ❖

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Expo in review — Horse business is big business By DICK HAGEN The Land Staff Writer The recent Minnesota Horse Expo continued its reputation for outstanding speakers, vendors galore (more than 700), a nice assortment of food (28 different eateries), and mostly good weather, but it was a little harder than usual to come across, well, actual horses. Horse numbers were down, but this was a deliberate measure on the part of the Expo. Because of equine herpesvirus — EHV-1, a neurologic disease that spreads by direct horse-tohorse contact — the Minnesota Horse Expo Board cautioned against bringing a large number of horses to this year’s expo. Security measures Jenny Buskey, vice president of the board, said the decision to limit the number of horses was accepted by virtually everyone. “If we had our usual numbers of 400 or so horses, security would have been much more an issue. And because this virus also spreads by human contact it seemed wiser to be prudent. If a horse sneezes or slobbers on someone’s hand as they pet the horse, it just potentially posed a problem.” She said vendors stepped

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If my boarders visit other horse farms I ask that they wear different clothing, change or disinfect their boots. We all have concerns about this (EHV-1) virus and take the necessary precautions.

up to support this decision. Special attractions such as pony rides, barrel racing, the big Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo and a special drill team that performed each day kept the audiences entertained when they were not walking among the hundreds of vendor stalls. Educational demonstrations on any and all aspects of owning, training, feeding and caring for a horse provided opportunities for going home knowing lots more about the equine industry. The horse business is big business in Minnesota. Exact numbers aren’t available because the Minnesota Agricultural Statistics Service yearbook simply does not have data on horse farms and horse numbers. Travel in any direction across Minnesota, how-

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ever, and you can find a Certified Minnesota stable. An April 24 listing put out by the Minnesota Horse Council identifies 68 stables. The listing includes name of the stable, owner, address, phone number and e-mail contact. For the most current information, log on to www.MnHorseCouncil.org. Buskey owns and operates Amador Acres, a 17-horse boarding stable including six of her own horses, at Shafer, Minn. She’s a stickler on security. “If my boarders visit other horse farms I ask that they wear different clothing, change or disinfect their boots. We all have concerns about this virus and take the necessary precautions,” she said. Horses are an expensive hobby, especially with grain and hay prices “off the charts” in recent months. Buskey thinks the tighter economy has slowed the horse business somewhat. She relies on her pastures to defray costs, but buys all her hay. “Hay quality and prices have been a big issue the past couple of years, especially with so many drought areas across our state and the Upper Midwest. I mostly just buy grass hay. Alfalfa-rich forages are sometimes detrimental so it is important to watch your mixtures and the relative nutritional value of your forages,” said Buskey, whose love for horses started as a hobby. Four years ago she decided a boarding and training stable would help finance her hobby. Smooth gait Mike Moszer of Forest Lake, Minn., has been a horseman all his life. He’s now 62 and also is president of the Northern Lights Peruvian, a group dedicated to Mike Moszer the Peruvian Pasos, a South American breed noted for its remarkably smooth-gaited movements. Moszer used to train Quarter Horses

but accidents happen. He had his legs “busted up” as he puts it, so could no longer train Quarter Horses due to their diagonal gait. “I got introduced to the Peruvians. They have a lateral gait and are extremely smooth. So I made that switch 25 years ago and have been with them ever since.” This gait is so unique with the Peruvian breed (a four-beat lateral gait) that when you buy that breed, you get that gait. “It’s there at birth,” Moszer said. It’s becoming a popular breed, with approximately 17,000 now registered in the United States. California, Texas and Oklahoma have the majority of the breed but the largest Peruvian breeder is Dale Benson of Sioux Falls, S.D. Benson has 50 to 80 Peruvians on hand at any time. Moszer has four at Sunny Way Acres, his Forest Lake, Minn., stable. To demonstrate that smooth ride, Moszer rides his favorite Peruvian horse carrying a wine tray with three glasses of wine. “This breed is remarkable for that silky smooth gait,” he said. Northern Lights Peruvian includes Peruvian horse owners in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and western Wisconsin. Members from all five states participated in the 2014 Horse Expo. Moszer said Peruvian horse owners from across the country attended the St. Paul event, one of the largest horse expos in the nation. If you want to buy a Peruvian horse to enjoy the ultimate in horseback riding comfort, what will it cost you? “$4,000 to $6,000 will get you a nice little 4-year old Peruvian,” Moszer said. “Get into show quality and you’re at $8,000 and up.” When asked if a Peruvian comes with a warranty, Moszer chuckled, “30 feet or 30 seconds.” Because of that comfortable walk, the Peruvian is becoming a popular horse with senior citizen riders who enjoy trail riding. Moszer said that horses are also definitely becoming more popular with youth. “A lot of FFA members, 4-H kids and other youngsters are getting into horses,” he said. “It’s good therapy and it keeps them out of trouble.” Moszer thinks the Minnesota horse population is rebuilding the past couple of years after a definite reduction during the 2008-10 economic crisis. “Here at the Expo we’re finding out people are willing to spend some money again,” he said. “So I think it’s starting to turn around.” See EXPO, pg. 15

Horse ownership pricey, but bond ‘makes it worthwhile’ euthanized because of the residue risk of the horse that was smooth and easy. They’re euthanasia drug. Horse cremation is a 13very intelligent and willing to please, so hour process with temperatures ranging three years ago I became a horse owner. from 1,600 to 2,000 degrees F. “I love trail riding but horse ownership Older horses often enrich the lives of othcosts a few dollars — $220 a month boarders. Moszer said many stables will donate ing fee, and this year $300 more because of their animals to charity groups who use the increase in hay prices. You have a farthese “senior” horses for therapy sessions rier fee every six to eight weeks who trims with challenged children, senior citizens, Karen Larson the hooves of your horse.” A horse owner military veterans, even wounded warriors. also needs to account for routine vet bills of vaccinations, blood tests and health certificates if “They’re used for a variety of helpful causes,” said Moszer, who noted that horses can have long lives. you take your horse out of state. “My stallion that I do my Champaign ride on is now “I checked out the costs of owning a horse before I 24 years old.” made my purchase. But there’s just a special bonding that makes it all worthwhile,” said Larson, who is Special bond “The smooth gait of the Peruvian Pasos is what got also a member of the Northern Lights Peruvian club. me into riding,” said Karen Larson of Andover, Minn. Log on to www.MnHorseExpo.org for more infor“I’ve got some issues with my back so I needed a mation. ❖

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EXPO, from pg. 14 Equine cremation Perhaps because the Minnesota Horse Expo is such a big event, you can expect to touch base with most anything relating to the equestrian world — including cremation services. James Scheffler operates Midwest Cremation Service of Min- James Scheffler nesota. His Anoka firm dispenses trucks throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin to pick up dead horses for cremation. His website is www.mcsofmn.com. “We’ve been in Anoka for 18 years. As far as I know we’re the only firm that does a full-body cremation for horses,” Scheffler said. A partial cremation, common with race horses, is the head, heart and hooves. Cost within 50 miles of his firm is a flat fee of $1,600 which includes pick-up of the animal, a full body cremation and ash remains in an oak urn. Animal cremation is a year-round business. Most of the equine centers in the Midwest know about his service. If horses don’t get cremated, what’s the usual disposal? Either burial on your own property if not prohibited by ordinance, or making a call to an area rendering service. Pick-up charges vary depending upon the firm. Scheffler pointed out that rendering services will no longer pick up horses that have been

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Wayne Knewtson, president of Knewtson Soy Products of Good Thunder, Minn., explains to Sen. Al Franken, far right, the efficiencies of the corn dryer they were able to purchase through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Renewable Energy for America Program. Knewtson also educated Franken on his company’s soybean processing and exporting business, stressing the need for better infrastructure to get his soybeans into the Asian markets. Franken made three stops in south central Minnesota on May 2.

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Welcome to summer Fill this summer with the down-home goodness and the fun of town celebrations and festivals. Chances are you won’t have to travel too far to get a unique take on life. Taking a trip down the road can be a cheap alternative to taking that big family vacation this summer, and you’ll get to know your neighbors better, too. Enjoy the summer, and enjoy Minnesota and Iowa.

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Preston Trout Days May 16-18 Preston, Minn. Adult fishing contest, kids’ fishing contest, car show, family fun activities, golf tournament, tractor pull and more. preston@prestonmn.org (507) 765-2153 Tree Town Music Festival May 23-25 Forest City, Iowa Premiere country music festival featuring today’s hottest country music artists, including Brad Paisley, Brantley Gilbert and Toby Keith among many others. www.treetownfestival.com treetownfestival@gmail.com (877) 569-7767

Sailboard Beach Lake Okabena, Worthington, Minn. Windsurfing races; food vendors, live music, arts on the shore and more. www.worthingtonwindsurfing.com Eddie Cochrane Weekend June 13-14 Albert Lea, Minn. Cruise in, June 13, Green Mill and County Inn & Suites parking lot, free music, car awards; June 14 car show, 4 p.m. car cruise. susie@albertleatourism.org (507) 373-8003 Flagfest June 13-15 Spencer, Iowa Patriotic community celebration hosts outside dance, family amusements, grand cruise, petting zoo, dual zip line, river float and more. www.spenceriowachamber.org (712) 262-5680 Fairmont Triathlon June 14 Gomsrud Park, Fairmont, Minn. 6-8 a.m. registration, 8:30 a.m. Olympic event starts, 8:40 a.m. mini event starts, 9:30 a.m. spring event starts, 11:25 a.m. awards ceremony. FairmontTriathlon.org director@fairmontcvb.com

Riverfront Park, Mankato, Minn. Gates open at 11 a.m. both days; $5/child ages 8-14, children 7 and under free, $15 for June 14, $10 for June 15, $20 weekend pass. www.mankatosolstice.com Moondance Jammin’ Country Fest June 19-21 Walker, Minn. Country music starts highlighted each day; open festival seating, camping, well-kept facilities, two indoor regional stages, excellent security and some of the best country music you hear all summer. (877) MOONJAM Nicollet Friendship Days June 20-22 City Park, Nicollet, Minn. Miss Nicollet coronation, 8 p.m. June 21; antique tractor pull and kiddie pedal pull; demo derby, 2-6 p.m. June 21; grand parade June 22; full carnival all weekend; craft sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. June 21. delvu@hickorytech.net (507) 381-9232

Crazy Days June 26, July 24, Aug. 14 Walker, Minn. Downtown Walker will be filled with the best deals of the season; tents will be set up on the sidewalks and in the streets; dining specials will be available indoors and outdoors. (218) 547-1313 Watertower Festival June 26-28 Pipestone, Minn. Kids pedal tractor pull, free street dance, parade, arts and craft show, car show ’n shine, youth baseball tournament, Little Miss pageant, ranch rodeo. (507) 825-3316 pipecham@pipestoneminnesota.com Riverside Days June 26-29 Springfield, Minn. Bean bag competition, pork chop feed, grand parade, kiddie parade, street dances, baseball and volleyball tournament, 5K run, children’s walk, trap shooting, classic car show, fishing derby, ice cream social. spfdchamber@newulmtel.net (507) 723-3508 Kaposia Days June 27-29 Various locations, St. Paul Family oriented city festival including parades, queen pageant, children’s activities, athletic competitions, craft and flea markets, musical entertainment and fireworks. carol@riverheights.com

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Greater Vision Concert June 21, 6 p.m. Riverview Conference Center, Cedar Falls, Iowa 35th Annual Spring Arts and Concert by award-winning SouthCrafts Festival ern Gospel trio, that since organMay 24-26 Twin Cities Juneteenth Festival izing in 1990 has been inspiring Triangle Park Downtown, McGre- June 14 audiences with their rich blend gor, Iowa North Mississippi Regional Park, and their ability to communicate Held every Memorial Day weekMinneapolis the message of he Gospel. end; take time to enjoy handStarts at 10 a.m.; radio music, out- $20/$15 available at Riverview crafted arts from an array of ven- door pool, food and live entertainConference Center Office, (319) dors, live music and great food. ment; nonprofit, health and wellness 268-0787 or online at www.mcgreg-marq.org information-sharing vendors. itickets.com, $3 more at the door; mcgregormarquettechamber@gmail.com www.juneteenthminnesota.org doors open at 5 p.m. (563) 873-2186 info@juneteenthminnesota.org www.RiverviewMinistries.com (612) 238-3733 (319) 268-0787 Windsurfing Regatta & Unvarnished Music Festival Solstice Wind Down Wednesday June 11-15 June 14-15 June 25, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

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74th Annual Tulip Festival Through May 17 Orange City, Iowa Celebration of town’s Dutch heritage features twice daily parades, musical theater production, carnival midway, horse-drawn trolley rides, quilt show, flower show, museums, community members dress in authentic Dutch costumes and perform traditional Dutch dances and songs. www.octulipfestival.com

• Crazy Days – June 26, July 24, August 14 • Chase The Police Triathlon – July 26 *** July 4th Celebration, in Walker *** • Yikes! Bikes! – July 12 • Moondance Jammin’ Country Fest – June 19-21 • Moondance Jam 23 – July 16-19 • Walker Bay Day – August 2 • Leech Lake Regatta – August 8-11 • Art Fair at Forest Edge Winery – August 16-17

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5th Annual Lazy River Beer & Wine Fest June 28, Noon-4 p.m. Riverfront Marina, Marquette, Iowa Takes place on the banks of the Mississippi River; come enjoy great brews, wines and foods while listening to live music. www.lazyriverfest.com

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4th of July Celebration July 4, 8 a.m.-Midnight Church picnic grounds, North Morristown, Minn. Parade, 10 a.m.; patriotic program, 11 a.m.; silent auction, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; rides, food, entertainment, refreshments; fireworks, 10 p.m. schmidtke@bevcomm.net (507) 685-2314

Mission Sunday July 13 Lac qui Parle Mission, Watson, Minn. 10:30 a.m. Dakota worship service with a performance by the Dakota choir; potluck picnic at noon, afternoon program at 1 p.m. Chippewahistory@qwestoffice.net (320) 269-7636 Cedar Valley Praise Fest July 14-19 Riverview Conference Center, Cedar Falls, Iowa Six days of gospel music, featuring Forgiven Quartet, The Morgan Family, Keepers of the Faith, The Browns, Soul’d Out Quartet and others. www.RiverviewMinistries.com (319) 268-0787 Wind Down Wednesday July 16, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Downtown, Albert Lea, Minn. Artisans, crafters, food, live free music. www.winddownwednesday.com (507) 373-2316 susie@albertleatourism.org

July 4 Celebration July 4 Walker, Minn. Parade down Main Street at 11 a.m.; games, food, kids activities and beer garden at the city park; fireworks over Leech Lake at dusk. Moondance Jam 23 (218) 547-1313 July 16-19 Walker, Minn. International Festival A classic rock and roll music festival July 11-12 held each year on the 300-acre MoonNobles County Government Cen- dance event grounds; fans are treated ter Lawn, Worthington, Minn. to outdoor and indoor stages, open fesCelebrate the many cultures in Wor- tival seating, camping, great music in thington with a talent contest, music a clean, safe and friendly atmosphere. and food from around the world, (877) MOONJAM children’s activities and more. www.worthington 32nd Annual Root River Antique internationalfestival.org Historical Power Show July 18-20 Wilder Pageant Spring Valley, Minn. July 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 Features Minneapolis Moline Twin Walnut Grove, Minn. City and Orphan tractors; demonOutdoor drama based on the life strations, parade everyday, tractor of Laura Ingalls Wilder; Little pull, truck pull, horse pull, railHouse Reunion, July 25-26. road, blacksmith shop and more. pageant@walnutgrove.org www.rootrivershow.org (888) 859-3102 (507) 254-0622 Yikes! Bikes! July 12 Walker, Minn. The 18-, 40- or 60-miles bike tour features one of the most scenic rides on the Midwest; bicyclists of all abilities are invited to participate. info@leech-lake.com (218) 547-1313

Bavarian Blast July 18-20 Brown County Fairgrounds, New Ulm, Minn. Pre-party July 17, 6-Midnight; music entertainment, craft fair, wiener dog races, sauerkraut eating contest, barrel rolling race, parade, among other events. www.bavarianblast.com www.newulm.com (507) 359-2222

St. Mary’s Craft Beer Tasting Festival July 19 Winsted, Minn. A fund raising event for St. Mary’s Care Center; early bird ticket sales of $25 end June 1; gates open 2 p.m.; games, German music and more. www.stmarysbrewfest.com (320) 485-3139 info@ stmarysbrewfest.com

Aebleksiver Days July 26 Danebod Folk School Complex, Tyler, Minn. Danish foods, dancing, tours of the complex. www.danebodlutheran.org (507) 247-5616 (507) 530-2960 Sixth Annual Blues on Belgrade July 26 Belgrade Avenue, North Mankato, Minn. July 25 pub crawl kicks off the event; music starts at noon July 26; free and open to the public. businessonbelgrade@gmail.com

Sweet Corn Days July 24-27 Elkader, Iowa Ice cream social, Chamber golf tournament, live music July 2526 nights, kids amusement rides July 26, kiddie tractor pull, parade on July 26, car cruise, free Chase the Police Triathlon sweet corn served 5 p.m. July 26. July 26 www.elkadersweetcorndays.net City Park, Walker, Minn. Come to Walker City Park to challenge Water Carnival those officers in uniform in a triathlon July 24-27 or just come to watch the fun. Hoyt Lakes, Minn. (218) 547-1313 Citywide picnic, queen coronation, info@leech-lake.com turtle races, battle of the bands, parade, fireworks, beer garden, food Steve Green Concert concessions, golf tournament, softball July 26, 7 p.m. tournament, live bands, Shockwaves Riverview Conference Center, water show, firemen’s Olympics, pan- Cedar Falls, Iowa cake breakfast, bingo, art show, 5K No tickets required, a love offerrace, kids’ games, pet sanctuary. ing will be taken. csgrams@frontiernet.net www.RiverviewMinistries.com (218) 780-6144 (319) 268-0787 riverviewministries@ Pow Wow RiverviewMinistries.com July 25-27 Pipestone, Minn. 93rd Annual Cedar Falls Bible Native American tribal dance, Conference singing, drumming, arts, crafts and July 26-Aug. 3 food open to the public; everyone River View Conference Center, welcome to enjoy the celebration of Cedar Falls, Iowa our tribal culture; native food cook- Nine days of inspired Bible teaching, off 4-6 p.m. July 25; pow wow concerts, worship, fellowship and fun. grand entry 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. July www.RiverviewMinistries.com 26, 1 p.m. July 27. (319) 268-0787 www.pipekeepers.org (507) 825-3734 Tall Timber Days Aug. 1-3 Survival Days Grand Rapids, Minn. July 25-27 Lumberjack show, kids games, West Concord, Minn. arts and crafts, parade, beer garLive bands, garden tractor pull, clas- den, bands, lumberjack carvings. sic and antique tractor pull, 5K www.talltimberdays.com run/walk, car show, Miss West Contalltimberdays@yahoo.com cord pageant, food stands, beer gar(218) 326-3231 den, softball and volleyball tournament, bean bags, grand parade. Walker Bay Day www.westconcordmn.com Aug. 2 (507) 527-2668 City Park, Walker, Minn. The day begins with the Walker Bay Day 5K; then the day is filled

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39th Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Festival Oct. 4-5 Triangle Park, McGregor, Iowa Take time to enjoy hand-crafted arts from an array of vendors, live music and great food. www.mcgreg-marq.org (563) 873-2186 28th Annual Big Island Rendezvous and Festival Oct. 4-5 Freeborn County Fairgrounds, Albert Lea, Minn. Over 1,200 participants and 300 tents and tipis showcase what life was like hundreds of years ago; blacksmiths, jewelers, candlemakers, potters, weavers, woodworkers and all types of craftsmen sell their wares; food galore such as grilled pork chops, smoked ribs, buffalo, corn on the cob, pulled pork, funnel cakes, kabobs and homemade root beer; stage entertainment both days. www.bigislandfestivalandbbq.org pvining@smig.net (800) 658-2526 23rd Annual Leaf Arts & Crafts Festival Oct. 11-12 Triangle Park, McGregor, Iowa Take time to enjoy hand-crafted arts from an array of vendors, live

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Fall Has It All Sept. 18-Oct. 4 Walker, Hackensack, Longville and Remer, Minn. Four communities celebrate the beauty of the fall by hosting Ethnic Fest events and activities in all of the Sept. 12-13 towns. info@leech-lake.com Walker, Minn. Ethnic entertainment indoors and (218) 547-1313 outdoors; food and craft vendors, Dozinky — 30th Annual Fall a parade down Main Street and Harvest Festival diverse ethnic foods served in Sept. 19-20 area restaurants. New Prague, Minn. (218) 547-1313 Classic car cruise, street dance, info@leech-lake.com food booths, beer garden on Sept. Guy Penrod Concert 19; ethnic crafts, food booths, Sept. 13, 7 p.m. entertainment and parade on Riverview Conference Center, Sept. 20. Cedar Falls, Iowa info@newprague.com $25/$20 and will be available at (952) 758-4360 the Riverview Conference Center Corn Shredding Autumn Harvest Office, (319) 268-0787 or online Days at itickets.com, $5 more at the Sept. 27-28 door. Lake City, Minn. (319) 268-0787 64245 355th Avenue; 9 a.m.-5 www.RiverviewMinistries.com p.m.; antique harvest festival, Horse Power Event threshing, corn shredding, silo Sept. 13 filling, potato digging, machines Swensson Farm Museum, Granite and equipment on display, counFalls, Minn. try store and gifts, parade of

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King Turkey Day Sept. 12-13 Worthington, Minn. Start your day at the free pancake breakfast; during the Great Gobbler Gallop live turkeys are raced down the street in a friendly rivalry with Cuero, Texas; right after the gallop, one of the area’s largest parades kicks off; a featured speaker, 10K race and carnival are all part of the festivities. www.kingturkeyday.com

Minnesota FFA Association holds annual awards program FFA members from around the state were awarded on April 28 at the 85th Minnesota FFA Convention for their hard work and dedication to the organization. Students who excelled at their Supervised Agriculture Experience were presented with their Minnesota State Degrees, the highest award the state can give a member.

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LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Opening day of the Minnesota fishing season on Leech Lake arrived May 10, cloudless and with nary a breath of wind. It was the nice weather one might expect all winter-weary anglers to embrace as we motored away from harbors, resorts and other access sites around the sprawling 111,500THE OUTDOORS acre walleye mecca. Then By John Cross again, perhaps not. Not to complain here, but the weather Saturday morning in this neck of the woods was just too nice for walleye angling. High skies, flat water ... they can be any walleye angler’s recipe for snake bite. In the clear waters of Leech Lake, such conditions can make it tough to hook a few of the fish at just about any time of the year. But this spring, with the last ice having gone off days earlier and the water still cold, the walleyes likely But this spring, would be shallow and with the last ice especially skittish. having gone off Nevertheless, Brian days earlier Fowler of Eagle Lake, and the water Minn., Larry McCreary of Faribstill cold, the ault, Minn., Gary walleyes likely McCreary and Tim would be shalSuhr of the Twin low and espeCities, still were opticially skittish. mistic as we motored John Cross/Mankato Free Press out of the harbor at Larry McCreary (left) shows off a healthy 23-inch Leech Lake walleye that was in the protected slot, while Brian Brindley’s Resort on Fowler showed off the 18-incher that would be a guest of honor at an opening day fish fry. Trader Bay. After all, Leech Lake has in recent years been Spray Tips restored to its previous glory, once again a prime Minnesota destination to catch walleye. Foam Markers For a while, the lake had fallen on hard times. Norwesco Poly Tanks While it has always been possible to catch walleyes on Leech Lake, it had grown increasingly difficult. “SPECIALS for on-hand Tanks” 14 or 25 gal. ATV Sprayers Over the last several years, thanks to a restrictive 450 Motorized Boom Valves LG Seeds & Gold Country slot limit, some cormorant control measures and intensive stocking programs to supplement natural Broad Range of SmartStax, VT Triple Top Air Spray Booms, reproduction, the lake is back, teeming with fish. & Double Pro, Roundup Ready and 3 pt., or trailer mount More significant, the protective slot limit which previously had required that all walleye measuring Conventional Varieties Micro Trak Spraymate Controllers 18- to 26-inches be released has been relaxed a bit this year. Anglers are still limited to four fish, with Raven Controllers one measuring over 26 inches permitted, but the slot Seed Tenders - DEF TANKS Astro Series of GPS Based has been narrowed to 20- to 26-inches. Farm Chemicals-Major and Generic Those extra two inches mean that anglers will Speed Sensors have better opportunities to catch fish they can keep. Enduraplas Poly Tanks-Liquid Fertilizer While a limit is always a target, our main goal on Traeger Smoker Grills - Nurse Trailers opening day was to catch enough for a fish fry back at the cabin. Armed with fatheads — our preferred bait of shin27296 730th Avenue - Albert Lea, MN 56007 ers was in short supply and bait shops quickly sold www.dahlfarmsupply.com See OUTDOORS, pg. 27

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CIH 550 Quad, ‘11, 625 hrs. ......$334,900 CIH 600 Quad, '14, 115 hrs ....................................................$401,915 CIH 600 Quad, '14, 240 hrs ....................................................$400,835 CIH 600 Quad, '13, 380 hrs ....................................................$375,000 CIH 600 Quad, '12, 1135 hrs ..................................................$335,000 CIH 600 Quad, '12, 1350 hrs ..................................................$332,000 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 630 hrs ....................................................$353,000 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 820 hrs ....................................................$353,000 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 925 hrs ....................................................$299,500 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 930 hrs ....................................................$339,000 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 1270 hrs ..................................................$338,500 CIH 550 Quad, '14, 245 hrs ....................................................$367,900 CIH 550 Quad, '14, 250 hrs ....................................................$365,670 CIH 550 Quad, '14, 300 hrs ....................................................$365,125 CIH 550 Quad, '14, 340 hrs ....................................................$365,125 CIH 550 Quad, '13, 240 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ......................$277,149 CIH 550 Quad, '11, 625 hrs ....................................................$334,900 CIH 550 Quad, '13, 290 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ......................$314,390 CIH 550 Quad, '11, 1000 hrs ..................................................$315,000 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 1375 hrs ..................................................$287,500

TRACTORS 4WD Continued CIH 9390, '97, 8000 hrs ..........................................................$74,500 CIH 9370, '00, 6705 hrs ..........................................................$82,000 CIH 9350, '99, 3000 hrs ..........................................................$90,000 CIH 9330, '96, 6970 hrs ..........................................................$66,000 CIH 9270, '91, 7130 hrs ..........................................................$55,000 Cat 75, '92, 7290 hrs ................................................................$49,000 Challenger MT855B, '07, 4420 hrs ........................................$210,000 Ford 946, '89m 7595 hrs ..........................................................$29,900 JD 96560, '12, 320 hrs ..........................................................$320,000 JD 9620T, '06, 3485 hrs ........................................................$169,500 JD 9620, 04, 3680 hrs ............................................................$165,900 JD 9620, '04, 3835 hrs ..........................................................$167,900 JD 9460RT, '12, 1010 hrs ......................................................$292,000 JD 9400T, '01, 4560 hrs ........................................................$119,500 JD 9400, '98, 7860 hrs ............................................................$84,500 JD 8450, '84, 6460 hrs ............................................................$29,500 NH 9682, '98, 6545 hrs ............................................................$74,500 NH 9682, '96, 4965 hrs ............................................................$69,900 NH 9680, '95, 5970 hrs ............................................................$53,500 NH T9.505, '11, 215 hrs ........................................................$205,500 NH 9020, '10, 580 hrs ............................................................$159,500 Steiger ST325III, '78 ................................................................$15,500 Versatile 875, '79, 9605 hrs......................................................$16,000

TRACTORS AWD/MFD

CIH 340 Magnum, ‘11, 1665 hrs. $198,500

CIH 535 Quad, ‘10, 1375 hrs. ....$287,500

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CIH 315 Magnum, ‘11, 1430 hrs. $172,500

CIH 485 Quad, ‘08, 1950 hrs. ....$270,000

CIH 315 Mag, '11, 1430 hrs....................................................$172,500 CIH 305 Mag, '10, 3655 hrs....................................................$145,500 CIH 305 Mag, '10, 3695 hrs....................................................$145,500 CIH 305 Mag, '09, 1795 hrs....................................................$172,500 CIH 305 Mag, '07, 2250 hrs....................................................$159,500 CIH 290 Mag, '13, 235 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ........................$173,621 CIH 290 Mag, '13, 405 hrs......................................................$199,500 CIH 290 Mag, '11, 960 hrs......................................................$179,500 CIH 290 Mag, '11, 1730 hrs....................................................$169,500 CIH MX285, '04, 4955 hrs ......................................................$106,000 CIH MX285, '04, 7300 hrs ........................................................$87,500 CIH 275 Mag, '10, 2430 hrs....................................................$152,500 CIH 260 Mag, 595 hrs ............................................................$179,900 CIH 260 Mag, '12, 830 hrs......................................................$177,500 CIH MX255, '05, 3400 hrs ......................................................$106,000 CIH 245 Mag, '07, 3510 hrs....................................................$119,500 CIH MX240, '00, 9140 hrs ........................................................$67,500 CIH 235 Mag, '13, 670 hrs......................................................$179,500 CIH 235 Mag, '11, 560 hrs......................................................$155,000 CIH 225 Mag, '13, 145 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ........................$162,676 CIH 225 Mag, '12, 325 hrs......................................................$149,500 CIH MX200, '01, 6000 hrs ........................................................$75,000 CIH MX200, '99, 8900 hrs ........................................................$69,500 CIH 190 Mag, '09, 3660 hrs....................................................$109,500 CIH 180 Mag, '13, 1930 hrs....................................................$117,500 CIH 180 Mag, '12, 125 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ........................$142,011 CIH MX170, '98, 10,295 hrs ....................................................$44,500 CIH 200 Puma, '11, 435 hrs ..................................................$141,500

Financing provided by

COMPACT TRACTORS/RTV’s Cont.

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FORAGE EQUIPMENT Conti

Kubota L3130HST, '04, 3485 hrs..............................................$10,800 NH TC29D, '10, 650 hrs............................................................$13,500 Artic Cat 700EFI, '11, 1120 hrs ................................................$16,500 Bombardier 500 Traxter, '03........................................................$2,500 Cub Cadet 4x4 Trail, '06, 610 hrs................................................$6,900 Kawasaki 650, '06, 600 hrs ........................................................$4,500 Kubota RTV1100CWXH, '12, 105 hrs ......................................$17,900 Kubota RTV1100CW, '09, 340 hrs ............................................$17,800 Kubota RTV1100, '08, 105 hrs..................................................$15,500 Kubota RTV1100, '08, 1590 hrs................................................$11,250 Kubota RTV1100, '07, 850 hrs..................................................$14,250 Kubota RTV900, '05, 500 hrs....................................................$10,900 Kubota RTV900, '05, 845 hrs......................................................$7,900 Kubota RTV900W, '04, 840 hrs ..................................................$7,200 NH 125 Rustler, '11, 250 hrs ......................................................$8,750 Polaris 500HO, '00, 2340 hrs ....................................................$4,995

CIH 180 Magnum, ‘13, 1930 hrs. $117,500 CIH MXM140, '03, 9750 hrs ....................................................$37,500 CIH 125 Maxxum, '13, 282 hrs ................................................$79,000 CIH 125 Maxxum, '11, 1160 hrs ..............................................$89,000 CIH 125 Value, '07, 5000 hrs....................................................$49,900 CIH 115 Maxxum MC, '13, 85 hrs ............................................$75,500 CHI MX100, '00, 7600 hrs ........................................................$29,900 CIH 8920, '98, 6250 hrs ..........................................................$68,500 CIH 7120, '92, 5740 hrs ..........................................................$57,500 Case 1490, 5000 hrs ..................................................................$5,500 IH 5488, '84, 9360 hrs..............................................................$24,500 Agco RT120A, '07, 2400 hrs ....................................................$66,900 JD 8760, '90, 6545 hrs ............................................................$49,500 JD 8310R, '12, 475 hrs ..........................................................$249,900 JD 2520, '08, 450 hrs ..............................................................$17,800 Massey 5460, '04, 2765 hrs ....................................................$34,900 NH 9680, '94, 4855 hrs ............................................................$53,900 NH T8040, '10, 1110 hrs ........................................................$169,500 NH T8010, '08, 2010 hrs ........................................................$119,500 NH 8.360, '11, 2050 hrs ........................................................$180,000 NH T7.250, '11, 950 hrs ........................................................$114,900 NH T5.115, '13, 20 hrs ............................................................$64,900 NH TS6.140, '13, 105 hrs ........................................................$72,500 White 6144F, '95, 940 hrs ........................................................$44,500

TRACTORS 2WD

CIH 340 Mag, '13, 560 hrs......................................................$234,000 CIH 340 Mag, '13, 865 hrs......................................................$235,000 CIH 340 Mag, '13, 935 hrs......................................................$225,000 CIH 340 Mag, '13, 950 hrs......................................................$225,000 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 1665 hrs....................................................$198,500 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 1780 hrs....................................................$199,000 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 1920 hrs....................................................$197,500 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 2125 hrs....................................................$196,500 CIH 335 Mag, '11, 900 hrs......................................................$192,500 CIH 335 Mag, '08, 3600 hrs....................................................$144,900 CIH 335 Mag, '08, 2645 hrs....................................................$144,900 CIH 315 Mag, '13, 200 hrs......................................................$234,500 CIH 315 Mag, '13, 815 hrs......................................................$210,000 CIH 315 Mag, '13, 935 hrs......................................................$210,000 CIH 315 Mag, '12, 1560 hrs....................................................$190,000

CIH 535 Quad, '09, 2215 hrs ..................................................$271,500 CIH 535 Quad, '08, 1785 hrs ..................................................$265,000 CIH 535 Quad, '07, 1795 hrs ..................................................$271,500 CIH 500 Quad, '13, 130 hrs ....................................................$344,080 CIH 500 Quad, '13, 175 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ......................$310,631 CIH 500 Steiger, '13, 210 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ....................$267,703 CIH 500 Quad, '11, 1070 hrs ..................................................$300,000 CIH STX500Q, '05, 3670 hrs ..................................................$199,500 CIH 485 Quad, '10, 1155 hrs ..................................................$275,000 CIH 485 Quad, '10, 1415 hrs ..................................................$225,000 CIH 485 Quad, '10, 910 hrs ....................................................$269,500 CIH 485 Quad, '10, 2100 hrs ..................................................$256,500 CIH 485 Steiger, '10, 1600 hrs................................................$226,500 CIH 485 Quad, '08, 1950 hrs ..................................................$270,000 CIH STX480, '06, 3085 hrs ....................................................$182,500

CIH 450 Steiger, '13, 95 hrs, AVAILABLE NOW ......................$230,669 CIH 450 Quad, '11, 625 hrs ....................................................$285,000 CIH STX450Q, '02, 4935 hrs ..................................................$164,500 CIH 435 Steiger, '10, 895 hrs..................................................$235,000 CIH 435 Steiger, '09, 1780 hrs................................................$199,500 CIH 400 Steiger, '12, 475 hrs..................................................$239,500 CIH 380 Steiger, '07, 2280 hrs................................................$180,000 CIH 350HD Steiger, '12, 1090 hrs ..........................................$210,000 CIH 335 Steiger, '10, 1460 hrs................................................$185,000 CIH 335 Steiger, '09, 2695 hrs................................................$166,500

TRACTORS AWD/MFD Continued

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

CIH 105C, ‘13, 115 hrs. ............$40,000

TopAir 1200R90, ‘09 ................$27,500

CIH 5140, '91, 5840 hrs ..........................................................$25,000 CIH 5130, '91, 14,065 hrs ........................................................$17,000 CIH 5130, '90, 9140 hrs ..........................................................$22,500 Case 2394, '84, 6165 hrs..........................................................$17,500 Case 1570, '77, 590 hrs..............................................................$7,900 CIH 885, '88, 6350 hrs ............................................................$13,500 CIH 485, '88, 1535 hrs ..............................................................$7,950 IH 5088, '82, 4765 hrs..............................................................$25,000 IH 3488, 11,000 hrs..................................................................$29,500 IH 986, '80, 5185 hrs................................................................$13,500 IH 966, '75, 7530 hrs................................................................$12,500 IH 584, 1630 hrs ........................................................................$6,500 IH A, '41......................................................................................$4,250 IH M, '40 ....................................................................................$1,800 AC D-17, '58 w/loader ................................................................$4,250 Allis WD45 ..................................................................................$2,950 JD 7600, '94, 8000 hrs ............................................................$46,900 JD 2630B, '75, 5840 hrs ............................................................$8,900 JD 2155, '88, 4795 hrs ............................................................$14,900 Kubota MX5000SU, '06, 155 hrs ..............................................$13,900 MF 1100, '72, 5530 hrs ..............................................................$4,950

Ag Chem 750, 60' ....................................................................$10,900 Demco 1200 Nav ......................................................................$14,900 Fast 9500, 1850 Gal ..................................................................$34,900 (2) Hardi Commander, 1200 Gal ..............................starting at $29,500 Hardi 1100 NAV ........................................................................$19,900 Hardi NP1100, 90' ....................................................................$23,500 Hardi TR500................................................................................$2,950 (2) Redball 690, 2000 Gal........................................starting at $24,900 (2) Redball 680, 1600 Gal........................................starting at $15,500 Redball 680, 1600 Gal ..............................................................$17,900 Redball 680, 1350 Gal ..............................................................$16,500 Redball 670, 90' ......................................................................$20,000 Redball 665 ..............................................................................$14,300 Spray Air 3600, 120' ................................................................$29,700 Summer Ultimate, 90' ..............................................................$18,500 Top Air 1600, 132' ....................................................................$44,900 (3) Top Air 1600, 120' ............................................starting at $32,500 (3) Top Air 1200 Gal ................................................starting at $20,900 Top Air 600, 3 pt ......................................................................$26,500 Top Air ATV150 ..........................................................................$6,900 Wilrich 500 Gal ..........................................................................$7,500

COMPACT TRACTORS/RTV’s

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CIH SPX3200B, ‘01, 3825 hrs. ....$79,000 CIH 4430, '14, 120 hrs ..........................................................$298,000 CIH 3230, '10, 1300 hrs ........................................................$174,000 CIH SPX3200B, '01, 3825 hrs ..................................................$79,000 CIH 3200B, '01, 2270 hrs ........................................................$97,500 Ag Chem 1074SS, '07, 2200 hrs ............................................$136,000 Ag Chem 854 Rogator, '99, 4300 hrs ......................................$69,900 Hagie STS12, '12, 550 hrs ......................................................$259,000 Miller 4365, '10, 820 hrs ........................................................$259,000 Miller 4365, '09, 2050 hrs ......................................................$199,500 Miller 2200T, '05, 2050 hrs ......................................................$99,900 Rogator 884, '09, 2415 hrs ....................................................$149,500 Rogator 854, '96, 7690 hrs ......................................................$39,900 Spray Coupe 220 ......................................................................$10,500 Tyler Patriot XL, '96, 3025 hrs ..................................................$36,500

SPRAYERS PULL-TYPE

Bobcat CT440, '13, 100 hrs ......................................................$23,500 Cub Cadet 6284, '07, 245 hrs ....................................................$8,875 JD 4610, '04, 4720 hrs ............................................................$14,900 JD 4320, '04, 1100 hrs ............................................................$22,900 JD 3203, 795 hrs ........................................................................$9,850 JD 2305, 495 hrs ........................................................................$8,975 JD 855, '95, 1275 hrs ..............................................................$14,900 Kubota B750HSD, '02, 1310 hrs ................................................$8,900 Kubota B7300HSD, 1265 hrs ......................................................$6,500 Kubota B2710, '04, 755 hrs ......................................................$13,950 Kubota B2620, '12, 45 hrs ........................................................$17,500 Kubota B1700HST, '98, 1170 hrs................................................$9,900 Kubota BX2660, '09, 320 hrs....................................................$11,950 Kubota BX2360RV, '09, 355 hrs ..............................................$12,400 Kubota BX2230, '04, 1985 hrs....................................................$7,750 Kubota BX2200, '02, 465 hrs......................................................$6,700 Kubota BX1800, '00, 1510 hrs....................................................$6,600

Claas 900, ‘05, 3205 hrs. ........ Claas 900, '05, 3000 hrs Claas 900, '05, 3205 hrs Claas 900, '01, 3975 hrs Claas 900, '01, 4200 hrs Claas 900, '01, 4320 hrs Claas 880, '97, 4525 hrs Claas 870, '03, 2865 hrs

FORAGE EQUIPMENT Bob Joubert • East - (507) 402-3147 Randy Olmscheid • West - (320) 583-6014 Claas 980, '13 ........................................................................$365,000 Claas 980, '10, 1685 hrs ........................................................$295,000 Claas 980, '09, 1860 hrs ........................................................$275,000 Claas 980, '08, 2730 hrs ........................................................$220,000 Claas 980, '08, 1145 hrs ........................................................$289,000 Claas 970, '08, 1875 hrs ........................................................$239,000 Claas 960, '10, 1685 hrs ........................................................$285,000 Claas 960, '10, 1950 hrs ........................................................$275,000 Claas 960, '09, 1650 hrs ........................................................$285,000 Claas 960, '08, 3710 hrs ........................................................$175,000 Claas 940, '12, 1655 hrs ........................................................$239,000 Claas 900, '09, 1880 hrs ........................................................$239,000 Claas 900, '08, 1975 hrs ........................................................$229,000

Claas 870, ‘03, 2900 hrs. ........

Claas 870, '03, 2900 hrs ............................................. Claas 870, '02, 2765 hrs ............................................. Claas 860, '00, 5100 hrs ............................................. Claas 860, '99, 4300 hrs ............................................. Claas 850, '02, 2375 hrs ............................................. JD 7850, '09, 1300 hrs ............................................... JD 7800, '05, 3870 hrs ............................................... JD 7500, '04, 2840 hrs ............................................... JD 6810, '93 ............................................................... NH 900......................................................................... NH FX58, '01, 3665 hrs ............................................... NH FX38, '01, 2120 hrs ............................................... (2) CIH FHX300 PT Forg Harv..................................sta IH 781 PT Forg Harv ................................................... Gehl CB1265 PT Forg Harv ......................................... Gehl CB1075 PT Forg Harv ......................................... Gehl 860 PT Forg Harv................................................. NH FP240 PT Forg Harv............................................... NH FP230 PT Forg Harv............................................... CIH HDX20P Hayhead ................................................. CIH HDX10P Hayhead ................................................. Claas PU430 Hayhead ................................................. (6) Claas PU380HD Hayhead ..................................sta (17) Claas PU380 Hayhead ......................................sta (2) Claas PU300 Hayhead ..........................................st Gehl HA1210 Hayhead ................................................. JD 645C Hayhead......................................................... (2) JD 640B Hayhead ..............................................sta JD 630A, 10' Hayhead ................................................. NH 3500 Hayhead ....................................................... NH 365W Hayhead....................................................... NH 355W Hayhead....................................................... NH 340W Hayhead....................................................... (2) CIH HDX3R Cornhead ..........................................st (5) Claas Orbis 900 Cornhead................................start (8) Claas Orbis 750 Cornhead..................................sta (5) Claas Orbis 600 Cornhead..................................sta (12) Claas RU600, 8R30 Cornhead..........................sta Claas RU450XTRA Cornhead ....................................... (9) Claas RU450 Cornhead ......................................sta Claas 4 Row Cornhead................................................. Gehl TR330 Cornhead ................................................. (2) JD 686, 6R30 Cornhead ....................................sta (2) JD 678, 8R30 Cornhead ......................................... JD 666R, 6R30 Cornhead ........................................... JD 4R30 Cornhead....................................................... JD 3R30 Cornhead....................................................... Kemper 6008 Cornhead ............................................... Kemper 4500 Cornhead ............................................... Kemper 3000 Cornhead ............................................... NH 3PN Cornhead .......................................................

SKIDLOADERS/EXCAVATORS

Case SR220, '12, 510 hrs ........................................... Case SR200, '11, 805 hrs ........................................... Case SR200, '11, 855 hrs ........................................... Case SR200, '11, 1300 hrs ......................................... Case SV300, '12, 1625 hrs ......................................... Case SV300, '11, 2055 hrs ......................................... Case SV250, '12, 1425 hrs ......................................... (2) Case SV250, '11, 1100 hrs ................................sta Case TV380, '12, 650 hrs ...........................................

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SKIDLOADERS/EXC./TLB Continued

PLANTING & SEEDING Continued

Case 1840, '95, 4955 hrs............................................................$9,500 Case 445CT, '06, 1570 hrs........................................................$35,500 Case 430, '07, 5650 hrs............................................................$16,400 Case 430, '06, 2205 hrs............................................................$17,900 Case 420CT, '08, 2390 hrs........................................................$30,900 Case 60XT, '04, 4065 hrs..........................................................$16,000 Case 60XT, '02, 1090 hrs..........................................................$16,500 Case 40XT, '02, 2620 hrs..........................................................$17,900 Bobcat S-205, '08, 3500 hrs ....................................................$25,900 Bobcat S-205, '08, 3765 hrs ....................................................$23,500 Cat 236B, '06, 1990 hrs ............................................................$19,500 Gehl 7810E, '10, 1770 hrs ........................................................$38,000 Gehl 7810E, '07, 1170 hrs ........................................................$40,900 Gehl 5640E, '11, 1750 hrs ........................................................$27,500 Gehl 5640E, '11, 2500 hrs ........................................................$27,500 Gehl 5640E, '08, 3900 hrs ........................................................$21,900 Gehl 5640, '08, 1275 hrs ..........................................................$26,500 Gehl 5635SXT, '98 ....................................................................$10,900 Gehl 5240E, '11, 2400 hrs ........................................................$22,900 Gehl 5640, '06, 1380 hrs ..........................................................$26,900 Gehl 4840, '05, 3755 hrs ..........................................................$16,500 Gehl V330, '12, 640 hrs ............................................................$42,500 Hydramac MMII, '75 ..................................................................$5,500 JD 323D, '11, 800 hrs ..............................................................$40,900 Mustang 2109, '07, 1600 hrs ..................................................$42,900 Mustang 2066, 3045 hrs ..........................................................$18,900 NH L230, '12, 220 hrs ..............................................................$42,500 NH LS180, '02, 1600 hrs ..........................................................$18,900 Kubota KX91-352, '11, 990 hrs ................................................$28,900 Groomer BR180MP, '02, 1940 hrs............................................$37,000 JD 27ZTS, '04, 770 hrs ............................................................$23,750

IH 900, 16R30 ..........................................................................$13,500 IH 800, 16R30 ..........................................................................$14,500 Flexicoil 2340 ............................................................................$17,500 (2) JD 7200, 16R30 ................................................starting at $26,500 CIH 7200, 12R30 ......................................................................$12,500 JD 7200, 8R30 ............................................................................$9,900 (2) JD 1770, 16R30 ................................................starting at $39,900 (2) JD 1760, 12R30 ................................................starting at $32,500 JD 1750, 6R30 ..........................................................................$23,500 Kinze 3600, 12R24....................................................................$75,500 White 8800, 24R30 ..................................................................$93,500 White 8524, 24R22 ..................................................................$77,500 White 8180, 16R30 ..................................................................$62,500 White 6100, 12R30 ..................................................................$11,000 White 6100, 6R30 ......................................................................$3,500 Brillion SS12 Seeder ..................................................................$6,900 Killbros 385 Seed Tender ............................................................$4,300

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SPRING TILLAGE

PLANTING & SEEDING CIH TM 200, ‘07, 60.5’ ..............$75,000

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(2) CIH TM 200, 60.5' ACS Fld Cult ........................starting at $65,000 CIH TM 200, 56.5' ACS Fld Cult................................................$65,000 CIH TM 200, 54.5' Fld Cult ......................................................$55,950

$156,000 CIH 1240, 24R20, ‘12 ..............$129,900 CIH 1265, 36R22 ....................................................................$239,500 (4) CIH 1260, 36R22..............................................starting at $179,000 CIH 1260, 36R20 ....................................................................$178,900 (5) CIH 1250, 24R30..............................................starting at $105,900 (8) CIH 1250, 16R30................................................starting at $79,000 CIH 1240, 24R22 ....................................................................$119,000 (2) CIH 1240, 24R20................................................starting at $99,500 CIH 1240, 12R30 ......................................................................$67,900 CIH 1230, 12R30 ......................................................................$39,900 CIH 1220, 8R30 ........................................................................$49,500 CIH 1220, 6R30 ........................................................................$37,500 CIH 1200, 32R22 ......................................................................$59,900 (6) IH 1200, 24R22..................................................starting at $45,900

CIH 1200, 24R22, ‘01................$49,900 CIH 1200, 16R30 ......................................................................$49,500 CIH 1200, 12R30 ......................................................................$67,000 CIH 1200, 6R30 ........................................................................$17,900 (3) CIH 950, 12R30....................................................starting at $9,500 (2) CIH 900, 12R30....................................................starting at $9,500 CIH 900, 8R36 ............................................................................$7,500 CIH 900, 8R30 ............................................................................$7,900 CIH 900, 6R30 ............................................................................$3,250 CIH 900, 4R38 ............................................................................$2,800

S/TLB

.............$36,900 .............$31,500 .............$32,500 .............$30,000 .............$36,900 .............$41,500 .............$33,000 arting at $33,500 .............$45,500

CIH 950, 12R30, ‘95 ................$18,500

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Yard-sale find proves to be full of recipe treasures By SARAH JOHNSON The Land Correspondent I love hearing the word “vintage” being thrown around these days, because at my age, half my stuff is vintage. Much of my clothing, book collection, furniture, dishes, knickknacks and body parts are vintage, and it’s not because we tried: They just grew old with me with no effort on anybody’s part at all. One of the few benefits of aging is that your stuff can get more valuable. (With the exception of the body parts, of course.) Vintage cookbooks are all the rage, but you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to collect them. Try the book section of your local thrift shops: You can often pick them up for a quarter apiece. Ask your friends and relatives who might have a stash in their cupboards they could part with. Garage sales and library book sales are great spots to search, too. I found a 1979 gem — “Sunshine Secrets” from the Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa — in the free box at a yard sale. It’s certainly been worth the price. Here are some of its treasures. ■ Hello Dolly Bars are similar to seven-layer bars but with a crust of crushed vanilla wafers instead of graham crackers. You can use whatever chips you like — semi-sweet, dark or milk chocolate, peanut butter, butterscotch — but don’t forget to cut them while still slightly warm or they’ll get too hard. My family gobbled up a pan of these in no time. Four out of four sticky-fingered “yums” from the Johnsons. Hello Dolly Bars 1 stick margarine

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Ham Steak With Orange Rice Stuffing 2 cups cooked rice 1/2 cup seedless raisins 3 tablespoons undiluted frozen orange juice concentrate Dash of pepper Pinch of nutmeg 1 egg, well beaten 2 ham slices, 1-inch thick 2 tablespoons brown sugar Combine rice, raisins, orange juice concentrate, pepper, nutmeg and beaten egg in large bowl. Place ham slice in baking pan; spoon rice stuffing evenly onto slice. Top with second slice and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake at 350 F for 35 to 40 minutes. ■ Mushroom lovers will love this three-ingredient salad — just ‘shrooms, celery and radishes — adorned with a luscious homemade dressing that you’ll want to use on all your salads. Try this recipe if you get a hold of some morels this spring. Raw Mushroom Salad 1/2 pound mushrooms, cleaned and sliced thinly 2 stalks celery, cut into 2-inch strips 1/4 cup grated raw radishes Dressing 3/4 cup heavy cream or half-and-half 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1/2 tablespoon red wine vinegar 3 tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper Dash of Tabasco sauce Prepare dressing and mix well. It should be tangy; add more mustard if necessary. May be prepared an hour or two in advance of serving time. Use this dressing on fresh spinach salads, too. ■ Here’s a tangy twist on plain ol’ cole slaw that features tiny shrimp and a dollop of blue cheese dressing. This fresh combo will put store-bought slaw to shame. Slaw & Shrimp 3 cups shredded cabbage 1 small onion, chopped fine (or use dry minced onion) 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped fine 1/2 cup celery, chopped fine 3 tablespoons Miracle Whip 2 tablespoons blue cheese dressing 1 can (4.5 ounces) shrimp, drained Mix all ingredients and chill. Very good with fried chicken. ■ Finally, I include a recipe that I wish I could unsee. When I saw the first two ingredients — cream of asparagus soup and lime gelatin — I just about hurled. Cream cheese, Miracle Whip, raw onions, green peppers, and chopped nuts complete the nightmare. I dare you. Emerald Green Salad 1 can cream of asparagus soup See COOKBOOK, pg. 27

Ice is piled 15 feet high on Leech Lake’s Stoney Point as anglers, bundled against the morning chill, fish for walleyes on May 10, the opening day of the Minnesota fishing season. The ice went out on that northern Minnesota lake just days before the opener.

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Enough bites for a fish fry to catch 11 fish from their boat, six of which had to be released. Our boat also managed to catch 11 fish, including a dandy 27-incher. Four were outside of the protected slot and made it into the live well. While hardly a gang-buster bite, our appetite that night was sated with an adequate pile of walleye fillets, all washed down with the requisite opening-day adult beverages. The Mother’s Day forecast was for brisker winds, overcast skies, maybe even a possibility of some showers. With apologies to those of you who had hoped for a pleasant day to perform those lawn and garden chores, we were kind of hoping the forecast was right. It’d be perfect weather to put all of those Leech Lake walleyes on a bite. John Cross is a Mankato (Minn.) Free Press staff writer. Contact him at (507) 344-6376 or jcross@mankatofreepress.com or follow him on Twitter @jcross_photo. ❖

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OUTDOORS, from pg. 23 out the limited numbers they had — we joined a flotilla of opening day anglers first on Stoney Point and later, Pine Point. Action early on was measured but steady. In spite of the calm water and clear skies, we found a few cooperative fish in eight to 13 feet of water. But as the sun climbed higher, the action slowed. We saw few nets flashing in the sun. Then by noon, the wind had freshened a bit, creating not quite a walleye chop, but at least enough surface disturbance apparently to activate the fish once again. We joined the congregation of boats drifting off of Pine Point, where under the strengthening breeze, a few rods began to bow and nets dipped as walleyes were brought boat-side. Most were measured, perhaps photographed, and then returned to the water. But many were measured and then satisfyingly slipped into live wells. Through the course of the afternoon, Gary McCreary and Suhr had managed

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COOKBOOK, from pg. 26 1 (3 ounce) package lime gelatin 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, mixed with 5 tablespoons water Heat soup; add gelatin and cream cheese. Cool. Add: 1/2 cup Miracle Whip 1 cup chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped green pepper 1/4 cup chopped nuts Grated onion Chill in 9x9-inch pan. Serves 9.

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den with my husband in the You know how it is — if one designated planting tractor thing doesn’t work, the as he has gone about the whole operation goes down business of seeding a crop. ... and you know how well people handle strings of He plants the seeds that Christmas lights that don’t allow me to stand at the work. check-out counter and purchase a box of corn flakes, The truth is, you can which cost almost as much throw Christmas lights as an entire bushel of corn away for the stress they TABLE TALK — when there can’t be a cause, and get another quarter cup of corn in the By Karen Schwaller string for a couple of bucks. entire box, if that. But that’s At the cost of these cables another day’s soap box. and wires, selling classified information to the Russians is about Once I’ve gained access into the capthe only way to pay for replacements. tain’s deck of the rural version of the Starship Enterprise, I’m amazed at all And the shipping would be atrocious. the gadgets, monitors, cables and techBeing tech-savvy is a must for today’s nology that are all gathered into that progressive farmer, though it’s been small tractor cab. known to involve a few colorful words It’s an information in the height of the superhighway; a proprocess when things ducer’s Command Cenaren’t going well, foltral — the likes of which lowed by the need to There’s probathe CIA would find susvisit the nearest confesbly a hidden picious if they had any sional because of said screen that idea that their food language. A visit to the monitors the comes from the work of local watering hole hygiene our nation’s farmers and should take place only ranchers who use this after confessing the sins habits of the technology. of the day, lest the sins person opersound more like someThere are screens that ating the tracthing that should be contell you where you are in tor. That’s fessed in front of a fedthe field, how many fine, as long eral judge. seeds you’re planting, as it doesn’t how many acres you’ve Times have changed say what I covered, whether or not a since the days when my planter box is working, husband was first able to weigh. devices that shut off cerplant his own crop. He tain planter boxes as had a Farmall Super M they are not needed, and and an older I-H Cyclo far more. planter. He just backed up and hooked There’s probably a hidden screen that on to the planter, filled the box and monitors the hygiene habits of the per- started down the rows. son operating the tractor. That’s fine, Truly, I don’t know how they take all as long as it doesn’t say what I weigh. that pressure. I think it’s a relief they It’s so high-tech today — at least for have such a thing as auto-steer now, so the farmer can spend the time he needs producers who don’t want to be left in the dust as the rest of the agricultural watching the monitors, making sure the planter and all those cables stay world moves ahead. Last spring I slipped around outside the tractor cab hooked up, making sure the planter doesn’t plug up, creating field maps, one day to get the view of the great hoard of cables and cords that keep all calculating seed use and estimated bushels, and dreaming about what of those monitors running, which in equipment he can buy before next year turn, keeps the farmer running. All to make the process easier and more wadded up in one corner of the cab, they looked more like the innards of a profitable. large and pregnant raccoon, but somePersonally, I think it would be easier how they are responsible for keeping and more profitable to sell classified the day on track. information to the Russians. While these monitors and new techKaren Schwaller brings “Table Talk” nological advances can make us much to The Land from her home near Milsmarter about how we plant our crops, ford, Iowa. She can be reached at they can also lead to early dementia. kschwaller@evertek.net. ❖

Local Corn and Soybean Price Index

Sauk Rapids Madison Redwood Falls Fergus Falls Morris Tracy Average: Year Ago Average:

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corn/change* soybeans/change* $4.28 $4.34 $4.55 $4.12 $4.23 $4.55

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The weather appears to have changed as May began. However, that does not appear to be the only thing that is in the process of changing. After months of an upward charging livestock complex, particularly the cattle and hog markets, the direction may be seeing a lower price trend developing. The cattle market, which has been advancing higher in price nearly every week in the cash trade, now seems to be slowing in its ascent. The futures market has fallen from the highs made in February in anticipation of greater cattle numbers and JOE TEALE decreasing demand for beef. Broker The fact that the beef cutout Great Plains Commodity continues to find resistance in the Afton, Minn. mid-$230 per hundredweight range basis choice reflects that demand has found a level where buyers are reluctant to acquire beef above this area in quantity. Based on previous U.S. Department of Agriculture Cattle on Feed reports, the number of available cattle ready for market should be on the increase over the next couple of months. This increase in more available beef product and a questionable demand could put pressure on cattle prices during the several upcoming months. With packer margins slim to, at times, in the red, there is not likely to be a real aggressive stance taken by the packers in regards to gathering inventory. Cattle numbers are still down in comparison to recent years and are not expected to recover to previous levels for many months. Therefore, the market prices paid for finished cattle will still be most affected by the demand for beef products. Cattle feeders are urged to keep abreast of developments about the cattle market and protect inventories as needed. The hog market has fallen quickly from the highs

It appears we are looking at another slow, wet start to the planting season. As a grain producer, as well as a lender, I understand the stress that comes along with waiting for field conditions to improve. It seems that again this spring we have both the weather and markets working against us. Unfortunately, we can do little to control either one. Let’s face it, if the return to adequate profitability needs to come primarily from the cost side of the equation, some progress can be made working on our seed, fertilizer and chemicals. However, meaningful change in cost of DAREL NESS production will come from man- AgStar Assistant VP Financial Services aging land cost. But who wants to Rochester, Minn. approach their landlord and discuss lowering rent when you know other producers with strong cash positions are chasing these assets? Given the strong liquidity that still remains in the grain production industry, even after a difficult 2013, the land market could be slow to change. This volatile environment will create opportunities; however, it may require patience. Will your operation be positioned to take advantage of them when the time comes? I like the old adage “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.” Evaluating your operation’s ability to weather a storm and remain viable to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves involves looking at a couple key things. • Stress-test your operation’s financial ratios. What will they look like if we have another year or two of poor margins? Will you have adequate liquidity to operate? For many, 2013 was the first poor earnings year we’ve seen in quite a stretch. If one more year of tough margins drains your liq-

See TEALE, pg. 30

See NESS, pg. 30

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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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The following market analysis is for the week ending May 9. CORN — Corn got off to a sterling start this past week with planting progress behind normal, and fund buying and rain in the forecast. The bloom began to come off the rose as the week progressed and planting progress spread, wheat prices reversed lower, and as traders positioned for the May crop report. Early in the week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Spain canceled 100,000 metric tons of old crop U.S. pur- PHYLLIS NYSTROM chases and another 120,000 mt CHS Hedging Inc. were canceled by unknown (thought St. Paul to be Spain). The monthly USDA crop report was friendly old crop and bearish new crop, but new crop pressure and higher world ending stocks ruled the day to pressure all corn prices lower to end the week. The May 9 USDA crop report saw significant changes on the 2013-14 balance sheet. Food-seed-industrial was raised 35 million bushels (50 million bushel increase for ethanol) and exports were aggressively increased 150 million bushels to 1.90 billion bushels. This resulted in an additional 185 million bushels of usage which brought ending stocks down to 1.146 billion bushels, a bullish number when the trade was anticipating ending stocks of 1.314 billion bushels. The April ending stocks were 1.331 billion bushels. The stocks-to-use ratio fell from 9.9 percent to 8.4 percent. The average farm price went from $4.40 to $4.80 to $4.50 to $4.80 per bushel. World ending stocks for old crop were 168.42 million mt versus estimates for 157.31 mmt and last month’s 158.0 mmt figure. Our first look at the 2014-15 balance sheet was more bearish than anticipated, with ending stocks of See NYSTROM, pg. 30

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Balance sheets more bearish than trade expected NYSTROM, from pg. 29 1.726 billion bushels compared to the average estimate of 1.672 billion bushels. The USDA’s 2014-15 numbers were as follows: 91.7 million acres, down 3.7 million acres from 2013-14; yield 165.3 bushels per acre versus 158.8 bu./acre in 2013-14; record production of 13.935 billion bushels, nearly identical to last year. In comparison to 2013-14, ethanol usage is unchanged at 5.050 billion bushels. Exports are down 200 million at 1.7 billion bushels, feed down 50 million at 5.25 billion bushels. The 201415 stocks-to-use ratio is predicted to rise to 12.9 percent. The average farm price is $3.85 to $4.55 per bushel. New crop world ending stocks were sharply higher than forecasts at a record 181.73 mmt compared to estimates for 159.41 mmt and the highest forecast since 2001. Weekly export sales were poor at 6.4 million bushels, bringing total commitments to 1.739 billion bushels. The new USDA export projection is 1.9 billion bushels, meaning we need to average 9.47 million bushels of sales per week

with 17 weeks left in the marketing year. This week’s sales were the lowest since the first week of January. New crop sales added 4.8 million bushels, bringing new crop commitments to 108.8 million bushels. Next year’s initial export forecast is 1.7 billion bushels, 200 million bushels lower than this year. Brazil slightly lowered their corn estimate from 75.5 mmt to 75.2 mmt. The USDA came into line with Brazil’s estimate on the crop report by raising the forecast from 72 mmt to 75 mmt. Weekly ethanol production was 894,000 barrels, down 4,000 barrels for the week. Since the beginning of the year, annualized production is 5.055 billion bushels, making the new 5.050 million bushel forecast credible. OUTLOOK: Corn planting is expected to be anywhere from 50 percent to 65 percent complete as of May 11, compared to 58 percent on average and 29 percent last week. Price direction will focus on weather forecasts and whether or not we’ll see significant switching from corn to bean acres.

NESS, from pg. 29 uidity to the point where simply having adequate operating money is an issue, I would suggest looking at restructuring some debt to replenish working capital now. • If margins improve you may not need it, however, but waiting may have risk.We know long-term fixed rates are attractive now. Will they still be favorable a year from now? One year can make a lot of difference when it comes to ease of underwriting. It’s difficult to predict whether or not your lender will underwrite a newterm note 12 months from now. Lenders hang a lot of weight on historic earnings. Today most producers have a good earnings history with one blemish (2013) in the three-year average. Underwriting new credit is fairly straightforward today. What if we experience another tough earnings year in 2014? Now a three-year earnings history is much more difficult for underwriters to use. Ensure your records are accurate and reflect the accrual earnings of your operation. Why accrual? Because cash profit and loss statements are what you make them, and most producers show as little profit as possible for income tax reasons. That’s not exactly the picture you’re trying to paint when working with your lender to finance the farm next door you’ve been waiting 30 years to buy.

Accrual earnings reflect the real earnings of your operation and when margins get tight it’s more important than ever to tell the story of your operation’s true earnings. Good records make for good financial decisions and a smooth relationship with your lender. It would be a shame to lose out on an opportunity simply because your records missed the mark. I talk to producers daily and hear comments about how the market is out of alignment and irrational and that it has to adjust to profitable levels in time. I agree that profitability will likely return for “most” in time, however, it does not necessarily have to be an increase in commodity prices that gets us there. There are many ways grain producers can position our operations for opportunity. Remaining diligent about costs of production, maintaining adequate working capital and building relationships with trusted partners, like your insurance experts seed dealers and lenders, are all strategies that will serve grain farmers well into 2014 and beyond. AgStar Financial Services is a cooperative owned by client stockholders. As part of the Farm Credit System, AgStar has served 69 counties in Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin with a wide range of financial products and services for more than 95 years. ❖

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an El Nino alert, saying conditions are favorable (65 percent) for it to develop in the next six months. El Nino usually means favorable crop weather for the central United States. It also suggests drought across southern and eastern Australia. First resistance in the July corn contract is $5.22 with support at $4.97 1/2, then $4.90 3/4 per bushel. For the December contract, support lies at $4.92 1/4 to $4.87 1/2 and resistance at $5.15 to $5.17 per bushel. Basis levels were better this week with farmer movement dismal and ethanol margins still good. For the week, July corn gained 8 cents to settle at $5.07 1/2 per bushel and the December contract was 4 3/4 cents higher at $4.98 3/4 per bushel. SOYBEANS — Soybeans struggled until the end of the week when export sales and the USDA crop report provided support. Bean imports year-todate are 23.5 million bushels, with talk that another 20 million bushels are headed our way over the next 45 days. The updated import estimate on May 9 went from a record 65 million bushels to a new record of 90 million bushels. Brazil officially upped their bean production estimate to 86.6 mmt. This is well below the Brazilian ag ministry’s comments recently that the crop could be 89 mmt to 90 mmt. On this week’s USDA crop report, the USDA left Brazil’s number unchanged at 87.5 mmt. The refreshed 2013-14 balance sheet included an increase in imports of 25 million bushels to 90 million bushels, crush was raised 10 million and exports upped 20 million bushels. Ending stocks fell 5 million bushels to 130 million versus trade expectations for just a 1 million decline from 135 million to 134 million bushels. Ending stocks-to-use ratio declined from 4.0 percent to 3.8 percent. World ending stocks for old crop were

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less than anticipated at 67.0 mmt versus estimates for 69.7 mmt and last month’s 69.42 mmt number. The first official 2014-15 balance sheets were more bearish than the trade was expecting. The USDA is using 81.5 million planted acres, 5 million acres higher than last year; yield a record 45.2 bu./acre versus 43.3 bu./acre in 2013-14; record production of 3.635 billion bushels, 347 million bushels higher than last year. On the usage side, crush is projected to increase 20 million bushels year-onyear and exports 25 million higher than last year at 1.625 billion bushels. Ending stocks of 330 million bushels would be 200 million bushels higher than 2013-14. The ending stocks-to-use ratio is forecast at 9.6 percent versus 3.8 percent in 2013-14. The average farm price is predicted at $9.75 to $11.75 per bushel. World ending stocks came in at 82.23 mmt versus estimates for 80.34 mmt. It’s interesting and a little puzzling that China’s bean import estimate for 2014-15 is 72 mmt when it’s questionable that this year’s 69 mmt number will be met. Weekly export sales were back on the positive side this week at 1.5 million bushels. Total export commitments stand at 1.64 billion bushels, still higher than the new USDA export projection for 2013-14 of 1.60 billion bushels. For the 2014-15 crop year, this week’s sales were 600,000 bushels for a total commitment of 286.3 million bushels. The USDA’s starting point for 2014-15 exports is 1.625 billion bushels, 25 million bushels higher than this year. China will reportedly hold an auction for 300,000 mt of state reserve beans this coming week after delaying it a week ago. This material has been prepared by a sales or trading employee or agent of CHS Hedging Inc. and should be considered a solicitation. ❖

PEDv impact lesser than expected TEALE, from pg. 29 made in April. The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus was the main factor behind the rapid rise in prices as many worried that supplies of hogs would diminish at a rapid rate. This did not necessarily hold true as hog numbers actually ended up being greater than many had anticipated in the short term. That fear of reduced numbers made the industry scramble to secure inventories of pork, which in turn drove the pork cutout to all-time highs. As inventories of pork increased and demand began to falter at the higher prices, the highs were

set by reduced demand at all levels. This created the rapid descent in live prices as well as in pork cutout prices and thus the rapid decline ensued. It would still appear that future inventory of live hogs will decline because of the PED virus and prices will stabilize and rebound. However, because of the high prices seen in the previous month, demand for pork has likely been reduced. This will likely keep prices more defensive and not driven by fear as was the case earlier. Producers should stay in touch with market conditions and protect inventories when opportunities present themselves. ❖

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This column was written ■ for the marketing week endMeanwhile, the slippage in ing May 9. the Global Dairy Trade aucThe value of U.S. dairy tion is slowing. This week’s exports in March topped event saw the weighted $700 million for the first average for all products drop time, reports the U.S. Dairy just 1.1 percent, following Export Council. last week’s 2.6-percent fall, 8.9-percent plunge in the Exports of cheese, whey April 1 event, 5.2-percent MIELKE MARKET proteins, lactose and milk drop in the March 18 event, WEEKLY protein concentrate all and a 4-percent drop on reached new highs, while By Lee Mielke March 4. The price index butterfat exports were the has seen declines since most in more than 20 years reaching its recent high Feb. 4. and nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder rebounded from the level of the previThe downfall was led by a 2.3-percent ous four months. drop in SMP (down 4.4 percent in the U.S. suppliers shipped 201,380 tons of last event), and a 1.8-percent decline in the Cheddar cheese (down 3.3 percent milk powders, cheese, butterfat, whey last event). WMP was down 1.7 percent and lactose in March, up 33 percent from last year. Total value of all exports (down 1.6 percent in the last event), and buttermilk powder was down 1.2 was $717.0 million, up 46 percent. percent (down 8.6 percent in the last Exports to China nearly tripled in event). March, to $91 million, paced by gains in NDM/SMP and whey products. Ship- There were products that headed up, led by rennet casein, up 6.8 percent, ments to Mexico were up 60 percent, Southeast Asia up 43 percent and Mid- anhydrous milkfat, was up 2.4 percent, after inching up 0.6 percent in the last dle East/North Africa up 33 percent. event, and butter was up 1.6 percent These four customers accounted for Tuesday, following a decline of 4.9 pernearly two-thirds of U.S. exports durcent in the last event. ing the month. China remains the major customer for U.S. whey products, ■ with first quarter purchases up 29 perFC Stone reported the average butter cent from a year earlier. price equated to about $1.7652 per U.S. exporters also continue to pound U.S., up from $1.7383 in the expand shipments of whole milk powApril 15 event ($1.7222/lb. on 80-perder (plus-236 percent in the first quar- cent butterfat, up from $1.6959/lb.). ter) and milk protein concentrate (plus- Chicago Mercantile Exchange butter 55 percent). Major customers for WMP closed Friday at $2.1675/lb. The GDT are Vietnam, Mexico, Algeria and Cheddar cheese average was $1.9029, China. Top buyers for MPC are New down from $1.9384. The U.S. block Zealand and Morocco. price stands at $2.0450. GDT skim milk powder, at $1.7568, is down from U.S. exports (on a total milk solids basis) were equivalent to 17.7 percent $1.8715, and the whole milk powder of U.S. milk solids production in March average was $1.7819, down from — the most ever. Imports were equiva- $1.8004 in the last event. The CME Grade A nonfat dry milk price stands lent to 3.1 percent of production, according to the USDEC. Read more at at $1.78/lb. www.usdec.org. See MIELKE, pg. 32

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Cheese production steady to building slowly MIELKE, from pg. 31 The Cooperatives Working Together program accepted six requests for export assistance this week to sell 3.166 million pounds of Cheddar cheese

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down 6.7 cents. Dry whey averaged 67.52 cents/lb., down 1.2 cents. Cash cheese prices, while they tried another rally this week, have plummeted from their recent highs again, but are still well above historic levels for this time of year. When asked in Friday’s DairyLine, what was behind the downfall and if there was a drop in commercial disappearance, Jerry Dryer, editor of the Dairy & Food Market Analyst, said, “not through the first quarter.” Through March, American cheese disappearance was up 2.7 percent and other cheese disappearance was up 4.2 percent, he said, and he credited “very strong exports and pretty good domestic use,” but blamed the recent correction in the cheese price to “more recent history, the month of April,” due to push-back from the higher prices. That combined with seasonal increases in milk production and a small bump up in the solids content of milk, he said, and “the market is trying to find a new level.” Dryer believes the market will put in a floor at current levels for the nearterm. Dryer doesn’t put a lot of stock in the GDT, and he doubts if the GDT cheese price downfall may have contributed to the domestic price falling. He believes it was “probably things happening right here in this market.” Most of the product available from Oceania is pretty well committed, Dryer said, “and is pretty thinly traded in the GDT.” When asked about butter at an unseasonable $2.1550/lb., he credited strong exports, adding that “commercial disappearance hasn’t been a pretty picture.” Domestic sales have been “sluggish,” he said, but exports have been strong and “is a poster child for the way prices swing.” Commercial disappearance for butter was up double digits for the three months ending in January and flat for the three months ending in March, according to Dryer’s data, “and now we got a pop again in April,” which he attributes to “strong exports given tight supplies in Europe and tight supplies here for a whole host of reasons.” ■ The National Milk Producers Federation said it has soured on efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to devote attention to regulating the names of certain types of sugar, while See MIELKE, pg. 35

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The 2014 Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference will be held June 11-12 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa. The conference will present the latest research on issues concerning the dairy industry including feed efficiency, calves and transition cows. This conference is a collaborative effort of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, University of Illinois Extension, University of Minnesota Extension and University of Wisconsin Extension. The program starts on June 11 with a pre-conference symposium. Milo Wiltbank will cover reproduction and amino acid balancing, and Dan Luchini will discuss the benefits of feeding methionine during transition. Other topics include amino acid balancing for lactating cows and factors affecting vitamin availability. Select breakout topics include: • Can genomics improve feed efficiency? • What cows have to say about NDF and starch digestion • The first 60 days: can we make it better? • Economics of intensified calf feeding programs • Automatic calf feeders study update • Can amino acids improve use of non-milk proteins on milk replacers? • Wisconsin cost of raising heifers survey results • Transition cow health: meeting lactation demands while maintaining a healthy liver • How robotic dairies are feeding their cows “This conference has more than 20 different speakers during the symposium and breakout sessions. Every producer will find something relevant to their work in the dairy,” said Jim Salfer, University of Minnesota Extension educator. Other topics to be covered include understanding mastitis diagnostic results, dairy title of the farm bill, dairy nutrition models, hemorrhagic bowel syndrome and transition cow crowding. For more information and to register, log on to http://wiagribusiness.org/fourstate.php or contact Wisconsin Agri-Service Association, (608) 223-1111, or Salfer at salfe001@umn.edu or (320) 203-6093. The conference registration fee is $150 until May 31 and $175 after. ❖

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MIELKE, from pg. 32 at the same time the agency is ignoring the misuse of dairy-specific names in foods with no milk content. In a letter sent Monday as part of an FDA request for comments, the NMPF questioned why the FDA is focused on clarifying the common or usual name for “dried cane syrup” or “evaporated cane juice” — a type of dried sugar used as a food ingredient — even as it allows soy, rice, nut and hemp products to define themselves as milk, in violation of long-standing food standards. “Getting a sugar fix is fine and well, as long as the FDA also turns its attention to a problem that has been ignored for more than a decade,” said Beth Briczinski, NMPF vice president of Dairy Foods & Nutrition. “Unfortunately, the agency’s lack of effort on misbranded and mislabeled imitation dairy products has left a bitter taste in our mouths.”

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FOR SALE: 225 acres bare land in Erin twp in Rice Cty MN, sections 23 & 24, 80 acres of wooded land, good for hunting & wild life, 100 acres in CRP, idle for 20+ years. 507-334-3652

NH 116 14' haybine, $3,900; Vermeer 5 x 5 rd baler, $1,700. Both field ready. Used wood & 6' T post. 715273-5756 Wic small bale shredder, a new 13hp Honda engine, $500. (715)772-3138

Seasonal Yard Technician Wanted Envirotech Services inc., Randolph, MN, is seeking applications for Seasonal yard technician to provide support to day-today plant operations supporting distribution of dust control products for road, site, and industrial applications. Duties include loading & unloading of trucks and rail cars, blending and mixing of product, and other misc. duties as assigned.

Call Chris Oehler at 952-679-3572 or email: coehler@envirotechservices.com for full job description and application.

Notch Equipment: • 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 Smidley Equipment: • Steer Stuffers • Hog Feeders • Hog Huts • Calf Creep Feeders • Lamb & Sheep Feeders • Cattle & Hog Waterers • Mini Scale Sioux Equipment: • Gates • Calving Pens • Haymax Bale Feeders • Cattle & Feeder Panels • Head Gates • Hog Feeders • Sqz. Chutes & Tubs • Calf Warmer JBM Equipment: • Feeder Wagons - Several Models • Self-locking Head Gates • Self-locking Bunk Feeders • Tombstone Horse & Horned Cattle Feeders • Skid Feeders • BunkFeeders • Bale Wagons • Bale Thrower Racks • Flat Racks for big sq. bales • Self-locking Feeder Wagons • Fenceline Feeders • Several Types of Bale Feeders • Port-A-Hut Shelters (Many Sizes) • Bergman Cattle Feeders – Special Prices

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• Grasshopper 227, 61” deck, 15 hrs., Demo • Bergman Cattle Special Grasshopper 620Feeders ZT, 48” –fold deck,Prices 140 hrs.! • Toro Z-Master ZT, 72” deck, dsl., 590 hrs. • 6’ 3 pt. Reverse Tine Tiller • 15’ JD BWA Disc w/duals, Very Good • 12x21 Porta Hut w/door • 8x14 Porta Hut • Bale Baskets • New Idea 213 Spreader, Very Good

Keith Bode Fairfax, MN 55332 507-381-1291

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

Wanted to Buy:

• Green Choppers • Hog & Cattle Scales • Good Smaller Manure Spreaders • Cattle & Calf Feeders, Hog Feeders • Cattle Handling Equipment

FARM, HOME & CONSTRUCTION

320-587-2162, Ask for Larry

LOCAL TRADES New Farmall 31, MFD w/60” & 74” blower - $22,500 ‘08 CIH 95, 2WD, w/cab - $29,500 ‘09 CH 245, 1335 hrs. - $145,000 ‘10 CIH 305, 1575 hrs. - $179,500 ‘11 CIH 315 w/Soucy tracks, 550 hrs. - $253,500 ‘05 CIH 500 Quad w/PTO, 2350 hrs. - $215,000 ‘12 CIH Puma 130 CVT, 350 hrs. - $96,500

CIH 183, 12-30, V.S. CIH 900, 8-30, liq. fert. ‘07 CIH 1200, 16 row, bulk fill - $69,500

COMBINES

‘93 1666 - $26,500 ‘91 1680 - $24,500 ‘95 2166 - $44,500 ‘99 2388 - $79,500 ‘98 1020, 25’ - $6,500 ‘02 1020, 25’ - $9,500 ‘03 1020, 30’ - $11,500 ‘01 2208 - $21,500 Brent 644 - $14,500 EZ-Trail 510 cart - $8,950 620 cart PLANTERS & TILLAGE J&M Brent 420 cart ‘08 JD 1760, 12-30 - $39,500 Like New 25’ reel - $2,000 CIH Tigermate II, 44’, 4 bar - $34,500

RABE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

1205 Bixby Road (across from fairgrounds), Fairmont, MN 507-235-3358 or 800-813-8300 • Get the Rabe Advantage

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w/heat & air, extend-a-hoe, 4WD, pilot controls, ride control, 235 hrs.......................................$77,500 ‘11Case 580SN, WT tractor/loader/backhoe, PS, cab w/heat & air, 4WD, extend-a-hoe, pilot controls, 1625 hrs. ........................................................$69,500 ‘12 NH Boomer 50, compact tractor, MFWD, hydro, 250TL loader, 340 hrs., Warranty ........$21,000 ‘10 JD 7230 Premium, MFWD, IVT, 650/65R38 single rear tires, 540/65R28 front tires, rear wgts., air seat, 741 self-leveling loader w/joystick control, 885 hrs. ..........................................................$98,000 ‘11 JD 7830, MFWD, 16 spd. power quad trans., 4 remotes, HD front axle, 380/90R50 duals, front wgts., 2950 hrs., Powertrain Warranty till March 2015 or 4000 hrs. ........................$104,000 ‘09 JD 8430, PS, 1300 front axle, 380/90R50 duals, 380/85/R34 single fronts, 4 remotes, wgts., 5200 hrs.......................................................$109,500 ‘11 JD 635F flexible platform ......................$215,000

DR® POWER EQUIPMENT

Office Location - 305 Adams Street Hutchinson, MN 55350

TRACTORS

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ‘12 Case 580SN tractor/loader/backhoe, cab

• GT (Tox-O-Wic) Grain Dryers, 350-800 bu. EARLY ORDER DISCOUNTS NOW IN EFFECT! • Sheep & Calf Feeders • Livestock Equipment by Vern’s Mfg. • Mister Squeeze Cattle Chutes & Hd. Gates • Peck Grain Augers – Big Discounts • MDS Buckets for Loaders & Skidloaders • Powder River Livestock & Horse Equipment • Tire Scrapers for Skidsteers, 6’-9’ • EZ Trail Wagons & Boxes • EZ Trail Bale Baskets, • MDS Roto King Round Bale Processor • Parts for GT Tox-O-Wic Grain Dryers • Sitrex Wheel Rakes • Bale Baskets • SI Feeders, Wagons & Bunks • (Hayhopper) Bale Feeders • Calftel Hutches & Animal Barns • R&C Poly Bale Feeders • Amish Built Oak Bunk Feeders & Bale Racks • Goat & Sheep Feeders • Mist Sprayers, gas or PTO • NEW ITEM! * 3 Pt. Fence Mowers* • Fainting goats & min. donkeys

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033 Sell your land or real estate Bins & Buildings in 30 days for 0% commis- FOR SALE: Lesters buildsion. Call Ray 507-339-1272 ing, 26' wide x 46' long, 8' tall, insulated, $11,500; Selling or Buying Farms Lesters building, 26' wide x or 1031 Exchange! 30' long x 8' tall, insulated, Private Sale or $5,800. Please call 320-220Sealed Bid Auction! 3114 Call “The Land Specialists!” Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys. Northland Real Estate 100% financing w/no liens 612-756-1899 or 320-894-7337 or red tape, call Steve at www.farms1031.com Fairfax Ag for an appointWe have extensive lists of ment. 888-830-7757 Land Investors & farm buyers throughout MN. We al034 ways have interested buy- Grain Handling Equip ers. For top prices, go with Fanning mill w/a variety of our proven methods over screens, $200. Feterl grain thousands of acres. cleaner, $200. 715-671-3142 Serving Minnesota Mages Land Co & Auc Serv FOR SALE: 300 bu Bradford www.magesland.com gravity wagon, 300 bu 800-803-8761 Dakon gravity wagon, both have 10T gears, good rubReal Estate Wanted 021 ber, no fert, always shedded. $1,900/ea or $3,600/pr. WANTED: Land & farms. I 507-451-9614 or 507-213-0600 have clients looking for dairy, & cash grain opera- FOR SALE:Used grain bins, floors unload systems, stitions, as well as bare land rators, fans & heaters, aerparcels from 40-1000 acres. ation fans, buying or sellBoth for relocation & ining, try me first and also vestments. If you have call for very competitive even thought about selling contract rates! Office contact: Paul Krueger, hours 8am-5pm Monday – Farm & Land Specialist, Friday Saturday 9am - 12 Edina Realty, SW Suburban noon or call 507-697-6133 Office, 14198 Commerce Ask for Gary Ave NE, Prior Lake, MN 55372. paulkrueger@edinarealty.com Farm Implements 035 (952)447-4700 '04 Gehl 1085 chopper; 9' hay Hay & Forage Equip 031 head, 2R narrow cornhead, kernel processor, very nice, FOR SALE: '08 Kuhns MFG $17,500. 715-418-0483 1834 small square bale accumulator & a 6/8 grabber '78 IH model 8200 w/350 Cummings, tandem axle, 18' box w/ JD mounts, excellent for manure or silage shape, $12,500. Call 507-317w/grain door, $4,000. (715) 8103 962-3497 FOR SALE: 499 New Holland hay bine. (715)796-5521 '90 IH single axle, w/ air brakes, DT 466, good rubFOR SALE: JD 338 baler, ber, runs perfect, $3,500. quarter turn chute, preser(715)962-3497 vative applicator, very good condition. 763-295-2724 (2) H&S TWM12 twin mergers. Both one owner, exc. FOR SALE: JD 5400-5830 & shape & always shedded. 6000 & 7000 series forage Asking $36,000/ea. Also '06 harvesters. Used kernel H&S 8' fluffer/tedder processors, also, used JD bought new. Asking $2,800. 40 knife Dura-Drums, & Please call for photos or indrum conversions for 5400 fo. (715)296-6039 & 5460. Call (507)427-3520 310 H & S manure spreader, www.ok-enterprise.com w/ top beater, tandem axle, FOR SALE: NH 310 baler w/ w/ 40 bu ext., very nice, hydraulic tension, Kosch $7,900. 270 H & S manure side mounted mower for H spreader, good cond. $3,450. or M Cunningham hay (715)223-3664 crimper. 320-552-2142 310 H & S manure spreader, FOR SALE: NH 790 chopper, w/ top beater, tandem axle, electric controls, no heads, w/ 40 bushel ext, very nice, always shedded, $7,900. 270 H & S manure $3,000/OBO. 952-292-6870 spreader, good cond, $3,450. (715)223-3664 Gehl 2415 pivot tongue haybine very nice, $9,250; JD 7 section hyd drag, spike. 673 right discharge hay Skids: Case 1840, only 2600 rake, $2,500. NH double hrs, sharp; Case 1825, 900 rake hitch, $500. (715)419hrs; Gravity Wagons: 3502560 600 bu. Ford digger, large JD 530 round baler, very wagon plus more! good condition $4,000. Shell Peterson Equipment Lake, (715)205-0493 New Ulm 507-276-6957 or 6958

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HELP WANTED: Herdsman JD 946 Moco 13' center pivot on 100 cow Dairy, looking disc bine, hyd tilt, low for long term commitment. acres, always shedded, Osceola, WI. (715)294-3104 $15,000. (715)772-3138

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BUILT HEAVIER We Trade/Deliver Anywhere Dealer 319-347-6282 A & W all hydraulic loader, off of an 1850 Oliver, $1,200, paint is still in the bucket. (715)962-3497 CIH 183 RC cult, 8x30, FF, R shields, shedded, very good cond., $2,500; Feterl 7'x41' auger, PTO, good shape, $700 OBO. 3pt round bale fork, good cond, $300. All shedded. 320-328-5794

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Seasonal Dust Control Applicator Envirotech Services inc., Randolph, MN, is seeking applications for Seasonal Dust Control Applicator/Class A CDL drivers with tanker endorsement and Class B CDL drivers to use truck & trailer to apply dust control products to gravel roads. Position includes loading & unloading of trucks and rail cars, operation of product blending and mixing equipment and other duties as assigned. Full job description & application at:

FOR SALE: (3) Gehl silage boxes, 3 beater, all new wood floors, sides & rear, Super MD Farmall; 766 Int'l tractor, 3600 act hrs; Lundeen tractor cab; 766 factory cab; '67 Mustang convertible. 320-282-4846 FOR SALE: Int'l 12R30” cult; also 1600 gal poly tank & pump; 3pt hitch category 3; also 4 used 18.4x42 tractor tires, 35% tread. 320543-3656 Harms Mfg. Land Rollers, Brand New, 12'-$6,500; 14'$7,000; 16'-$7,500; 24'$14,000; 32'-$16,500; 42'$19,500. Any size available. 715-296-2162

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Westfield 10x60 auger, PTO, FOR SALE: '51 Massey Har$1,500; Pair of Stompers, ris 44, sharp, restored. $250 OBO, all in good cond. (608)544-3580 507-237-2644 FOR SALE: '68 Oliver 1650 dsl, late model w/ 1810 Tractors 036 heavy ldr, tractor has 3spd over & under, 3pt, cab w/ '07 7730 JD tractor, 177hp, heat, tires 90%, motor has MFD, IVT trans., low hrs & 300 hrs on OH, looks & runs sharp, $99,500. (715)572-1234 good, $7,950. 218-564-4273 or '07 7730 JD tractor, 177hp, 218-639-0315 MFD, IVT trans., low hrs & sharp, $99,500. (715)572-1234 FOR SALE: '68 Oliver 1950T, w/ 3spd over & under, HD 1949 Farmall C, runs well, 3pt, WF, 18.4x38 tires w/ $1,700/OBO. (608)754-2065 hub duals, cast iron centers, has complete eng OH, 2 MF tractors, 1 model 50 looks & runs exc, $9,500. has ldr included, $3,500 & 1 218-564-4273 or 218-639-0315 model 65, $4,500. Both gas, 3pt, WF, LPTO, PS, nice FOR SALE: '99 JD 8400T, tires. (715)442-6020 24” tracks, auto steer ready. 507-340-2937 4640 JD tractor, power shift, $13,995. 4840 JD tractor, FOR SALE: 14.9x34 duals for nice, $16,850. (715)772-4255 front wheel assist tractor, new or used rubber, buy4850 JD MFD, needs trans er's choice. 507-227-9792 rebuilt, $13,900. (715)2233664 FOR SALE: JD 4055, pwr shift, 3 hyds., rear tires 4850 JD MFD, needs trans. 90%, 5900 hrs., exc. cond., rebuilt, $13,900. (715)223726 loader w/high volume 3664 bucket, like new, $42,500. 770 Oliver w/ WF, ldr w/ trip 507-639-6325 or 507-236-4835 bucket, runs good, $2,200. (715)962-3497 FOR SALE: JD 5083E, MFWD, cab tractor, 335 hrs FOR SALE: '05 AGCO 240, 8 w/ 563 SL ldr, bucket intertires, nice. (715)796-5521 changes w/ skidsteer atFOR SALE: '50 B JD; and 45 tachments, very clean, JD loader. 320-669-7492 $41,500. 507-526-5671

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(2) ‘13 SEED SHUTTLE 400 Green, 7 function remotes, self-loading 1 with scale- $24,600 1 without scale- $21,500

(2) SEED SHUTTLE 290 Green - $15,250 Each

FOR SALE

WOODFORD AG, LLC

Farm King 13-85 grain auger, hydro swinging hopper, hydro lift, low hrs ............Asking $10,000 Feterl White 10-76 grain auger, PTO drive, winch cable lift................................Asking $3,000 ‘94 Case 580 4x4 SK backhoe ldr, extend-a-hoe, 24” bucket, cab, very tight pins, tires fair, 4660 hrs ........................................Asking $25,000 ‘78 Corn Husker alum hopper btm trailer, tarp, DOT inspection, brakes & tires are good ........................................................Asking $4,500 ‘90 Corn Husker alum hopper btm trailer, tarp, DOT inspection, brakes & tires are good ........................................................Asking $9,000 ‘07 CIH 2588 combine, Pro 600 monitor yield, mapping w/252 GPS receiver, AFX Specialty rotor, 1571 sep hrs, 18.4/42 duals, axle ext., rock trap, chopper, hydro reverser, rock retard drum, new feeder chain, rear weights, new long unload auger, Maurer bin ext, bubble up auger, new clean grain elev. chain w/cross auger, ext. chaffer & shoe adj. levers, 2 spd. propulsion, new transmission drive coupler, Lincoln auto greaser & oiler, will sell w/’97 CIH 1020, 30’ bean platform, 1 yr. on cutter bar rebuild ..........Asking $149,500 ‘86 Lund Baron 20’ boat & trailer, newer motor & IO rebuild, great large water boat..Asking $4,500

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FOR SALE: NH 512 manure JD 12' blade, w/ brackets to spreader, Artsway 450 feedfit JD 8 wheel, $2,000. (715) mill. 507-995-9676 or 507-854684-9549 3463 JD 1250 corn planter, 6R30”; JD 6R30” cultivator; 4 Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Rewheel trailer, flair box & pair Repair-Troubleshoothoist; 21' anhydrous appliing Sales-Design Custom cator. 507-319-7056 after 7 hydraulic hose-making up pm call 507-726-2786 to 2” Service calls made. STOEN'S Hydrostatic SerKent 24 Ft Discovator/ vice 16084 State Hwy 29 N Glenwood, MN 56334 320- Finisher Series 7 (No Welds) Shedded Very Good. H&S 20 634-4360 Ft Big Bale Feeder On IH 770, 15' offset disk, 24” Wheels. J&M 350 Bu Wagblades, $4,650; Hardi Comon/Truck Tires, Nice Unit. mander 1200 gal. sprayer, 319-347-6676 Can Deliver 100' boom, PTO pump, 320x46 tires, $13,900; JD MACHINERY FOR SALE: 9300, 20' press drill, $2,650; 1086 Int'l, $10,750; 966 Int'l, JD BB 12' end wheel drill $8,750; (2) JD 3950 Forage w/grass seeder, $2,250; JD Harvester, both have new 1075 running gear, 12.5x16 knives, $4,000 & $3,750; 14 ply tires, $1,500; JD Badger Forage boxes, radar gun, $175. 320-769-2756 $2,500 & $500, one box is slightly damaged; NH ForIH 800 eleven bottom plow, age Box, $2,300; Dion Blow$8,250; JD 346 baler, $4,750. er, $300. (715)235-9272 (715)684-9549 Patz belt feeders & conveyJ&M 12' hyd brush auger, or, several available taken $275; Parker 2600 gravity down into sections & ready box w/truck tires, $2,850; to move. Good condition. JD 2510 gas tractor, WF, 3 Call for info (320)358-4225 pt., $4,450; JD 328 baler w/40 bale thrower, $6,950; We buy also, JD 30 bale thrower for Salvage Equipment parts; JD 946 diskbine Parts Available w/tine condit., $11,500; NH Hammell Equip., Inc. 258 rake, $2,450. 320-769-2756 (507)867-4910

2 Box Defender w/Scale - $13,050

120’ Boom, 7 Section, Norac boom height, 320x46 duals, Runs with Raven Controller - $22,000

4 Box Defender w/Scale, Talc and Pivoting Auger - $21,500

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‘12 JD 9460R, 185 Hrs., 800/70R38’s, Ext. Warr. ..$265,000

‘10 JD 9630T, 1589 Hrs., Auto Trak ready ..............$269,900

‘11 JD 4930, 1725 Hrs., 1200 Gal. SS, 120’ SS Boom ..........$229,500

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(N) ‘13 JD 9560RT, 260 hrs ......................................$369,900 (OS) ‘10 JD 9650T, 930 hrs ......................................$315,000 (OW) ‘12 JD 9460RT, 1013 hrs, ext warranty ..........$299,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 9630T, 1472 hrs ..................................$288,900 (H) ‘10 JD 9630T, 1650 hrs ......................................$287,500 (OW) ‘13 JD 8335RT, 391 hrs, 18” Tracks ..............$269,900 (B) ‘10 JD 9630T, 1586 hrs ......................................$269,900 (B) ‘09 JD 9630T, 1482 hrs ......................................$264,900 (B) ‘11 JD 9530T, 1452 hrs ......................................$254,900 (N) ‘08 JD 9530T, 2035 hrs, 36” tracks ....................$238,000 ‘11 JD 568, Surface Wrap (N) ‘07 JD 8430T, 3170 hrs, 18” tracks ....................$170,000 ............................................$32,500 (OS) ‘06 JD 8430T, 3062 hrs, 18” tracks ................$165,000 (OW) ‘07 JD 8430T, 3184 hrs, 25” tracks ................$159,900 (H) ‘06 JD 9520T, 3808 hrs ......................................$149,900 (B) ‘03 JD 9320T, 4641 hrs ......................................$139,900 (H) ‘00 JD 9300T, 4375 hrs, 36” tracks ....................$105,000 (OW) ‘00 JD 8410T, 5100 hrs, 18” tracks ..................$79,900 (B) ‘97 JD 8200T, 5233 hrs, 16” tracks ......................$62,900

Row Crop Tractors

Hoppers..............................$37,500

‘09 Miller Nitro N2XP, 2800 Hrs., 1000 Gal., 90’ Boom........$133,900

Utility Tractors

(OS) ‘04 Kinze 3650, 23 row 15” ..............................$65,000 (H) Kinze 3700, 36 row 20”, liq fert............................$62,500 (OS) ‘97 JD 1770, 24 row 30” ....................................$62,000 (N) ‘06 JD 1770NT, 16 row 30” ..................................$58,500 (B) ‘00 JD 1760, 12 row 30”, finger pickup................$48,500 (OW) ‘96 JD 1760, 12 row 30”, 3 bushel ..................$46,500 (OS) ‘96 JD 1770, 16 row 30” ....................................$37,500 (B) ‘97 JD 1710, 12 row 30”, vertical fold ..................$29,500 (OW) ‘07 JD 1750, 6 row 30” ....................................$25,900 (B) ‘93 JD 7200, 16 row 30” ......................................$23,900 (OW) ‘95 JD 7200, 8 row 30”, liq fert ........................$20,900 Combines (OS) ‘93 JD 7200, 12 row 30” ....................................$19,500 (B) ‘13 JD S680, 282 sep hrs, PRWD ......................$377,500 (N) JD 7300, 12 row 30”, vacuum ..............................$12,000 (H) ‘12 JD S680, 108 sep hrs, 650/38’s ..................$358,000 (OW) JD 7200, 8 row 36” ..........................................$11,500 (OW) ‘13 JD S680, 239 sep hrs ..............................$352,900 (OS) JD 7000, 16 row 30” ............................................$8,000 (OW) ‘12 JD S680, ext warranty ..............................$345,000 Sprayers (OW) ‘13 JD S670, 260 eng hrs ..............................$332,000 (OW) ‘13 JD S670, 190 sep hrs, duals ....................$329,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4940, 756 hrs, 120’ boom ..................$281,500 (H) ‘13 JD S670, 270 sep hrs, PRWD ......................$329,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 386 hrs, 120’ Pommier boom....$279,900 (N) ‘13 JD S670, 223 sep hrs ..................................$326,000 (OW) ‘13 JD 4830, 405 hrs, 120’ boom ..................$269,700 (B) ‘12 JD S660, 163 hrs, PRWD ............................$299,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 4830, 410 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$259,900 (OW) ‘12 JD S660, 215 hrs, duals............................$299,000 (OW) ‘13 JD 4830, 442 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$259,500 (OW) ‘11 CIH 9120, 727 sep hrs, tracks, PRWD ....$295,000 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 668 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$236,500 (OW) ‘11 JD 9870, 700 sep hrs, PRWD ..................$294,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 1155 hrs, 90’ boom ..................$235,750 (OW) ‘12 JD S670, 350 sep hrs, ext warranty..........$289,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 775 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$234,500 (OW) ‘12 JD S660, 420 sep hrs, duals ....................$279,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4830, 792 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$233,000 (B) ‘11 JD 9870, 511 sep hrs, PRWD, 800/70R38 ..$279,900 (OW) ‘11 JD 4930, 1725 hrs, 120’ boom ................$229,500 (B) ‘11 JD 9770, 511 sep hrs ..................................$256,500 (OW) ‘11 JD 4830, 1011 hrs, 90’ boom ..................$225,000 (N) ‘11 JD 9670, 405 sep hrs, duals ........................$255,000 (OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 694 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$215,500 (B) ‘10 JD 9870, 1067 sep hrs, PRWD ....................$244,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 800 gal, 90, boom ....................$209,900 (OS) ‘10 JD 9670, 431 sep hrs, duals ......................$240,000 (OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 490 Hrs, 90’ boom ....................$209,600 (B) ‘09 JD 9770, 1323 eng hrs, PRWD ....................$214,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 800 hrs, 90’ boom ....................$208,500 (N) ‘09 JD 9770, 772 sep hrs ..................................$210,000 (OW) ‘09 JD 4830, 2400 hrs, 90’ boom ..................$200,000 (H) ‘07 JD 9570, 888 hrs, duals................................$208,000 (OW) ‘09 JD 4930, 2403 hrs, 120’ boom ................$169,900 (OW) ‘09 JD 9770, 1041 sep hrs..............................$204,900 (OW) ‘07 JD 4930, 3093 hrs, dry box ......................$160,000 (H) ‘09 JD 9570, 700 sep hrs, duals ........................$197,000 (OW) ‘09 Ag-Chem 1084SS, 2094 hrs, 80’ boom ..$159,500 (OS) ‘07 JD 9760, 1206 sep hrs, auto trac ready ....$174,500 (OW) ‘09 Ag-Chem 1286C, 1994 hrs, 90’ boom ....$158,900 (H) ‘07 JD 9660, 1203 sep hrs ................................$169,900 (OW) ‘09 Ag-Chem 1084SS, 2951 hrs, 90’ boom ..$145,500 (H) ‘05 JD 9660, 1792 sep hrs, duals ......................$168,500 (OW) ‘09 Miller Nitro N2, 2787 hrs, 90’ boom ........$133,100 (OW) ‘06 JD 9760, 1500 sep hrs..............................$167,500 (OW) ‘07 JD 4720, 2450 hrs, 90’ boom ..................$126,900 (B) ‘07 JD 9560, 876 sep hrs, PRWD ......................$163,900 (B) ‘05 JD 4720, 3794 hrs, 80’ boom ......................$124,900 (B) ‘06 JD 9760, 1750 sep hrs, PRWD ....................$154,900 (OW) ‘10 Apache AS715, 1200 hrs, 90’ boom ........$109,900 (OW) ‘05 JD 9660, 1442 sep hrs, duals ..................$151,900 (OW) ‘03 Ag-Chem 1264, 3785 hrs, 90’ boom..........$82,000 (OW) ‘06 JD 9760, 1760 sep hrs, PRWD ................$149,000 (OW) ‘97 Ag-Chem 854, 90’ boom............................$49,900 (H) ‘04 JD 9760, 2350 hrs, duals..............................$132,500 (OW) ‘95 Ag-Chem 844, 750 gal, 60’ boom..............$36,900 (OS) ‘01 JD 9550, 1872 sep hrs, walker, duals ..........$89,000 Hay Equipment (H) ‘92 JD 9500, 2840 sep hrs, 10 Series updates ....$49,900 (OS) ‘11 JD 568, surface wrap ..................................$32,500 (H) ‘99 JD 9610, 2064 sep hrs, duals ........................$45,000 (OW) ‘96 JD 9600, 2790 sep hrs, duals ....................$39,900 (B) ‘10 JD 568, surface wrap......................................$31,900 (OS) ‘90 JD 9500, 3250 sep hrs, duals ......................$37,500 (N) ‘09 JD 568, surface wrap......................................$30,900 (N) ‘90 JD 9500, 2636 sep hrs ..................................$37,000 (N) ‘12 JD 468, silage special ....................................$29,900 (B) ‘92 JD 9500, 2803 sep hrs, duals ........................$29,900 (B) ‘11 JD 946, 13’ rotary moco ................................$25,900 (N) Vermeer top gun bale processor ........................$22,500 Planters - Seeding (OS) ‘01 JD 567, surface wrap ..................................$17,500 (N) ‘13 JD 1770, CCS, 24 row 30” ..........................$164,500 (B) Cat RB46 round baler ..........................................$14,900 (OW) ‘08 JD DB44, 24 row 22”, CCS, liq fert ..........$141,000 (B) ‘03 NH BR740, silage special ..............................$13,500 (OS) ‘11 JD 1790, CCS, 32 row 15” ........................$135,000 (OS) ‘90 JD 535, surface wrap ..................................$11,500 (N) ‘08 JD 1770NT, CCS, 24 row 30” ......................$129,000 (B) JD 328 square baler, ejector ..................................$8,900 (OS) ‘05 JD 1770NT, CCS, 24 row 30” ....................$120,000 (B) ‘94 JD 3950, chopper ............................................$7,900 (OS) ‘07 JD 1770NT, 24 row 30”..............................$110,000 (B) NH 315 square baler, thrower ................................$5,900 (N) White 8524, CCS, 24 row 30”, liq fert................$109,900 (B) ‘96 Hesston 565A round baler ..............................$5,500 (N) ‘10 JD 1770NT, CCS, 16 row 30” ........................$99,000 (B) JD 530 round baler ................................................$5,000 (H) ‘04 JD 1770NT, 16 row 30”, 3 bushel ..................$79,900 (H) Hesston 1120 haybine ..........................................$4,995 (OW) ‘03 JD 1770NT, 16 row 30”, liq fert ..................$76,900 (OS) Sitrex 10 wheel rake ............................................$2,000 (OS) ‘97 JD 1770, 24 row 30” ....................................$68,000 (OW) ‘09 JD 5105M, 1600 hrs, loader ......................$67,900 (OS) ‘11 JD 6330, 625 hrs, OS, loader ......................$65,000 (OS) ‘12 JD 5075E, 2012 hrs, MFWD, OS ................$29,500 (N) ‘12 JD 5075E, 63 hrs, MFWD, OS........................$29,250 (OW) ‘96 White 6105, 5480 hrs, MFWD, cab ............$24,900 (N) ‘12 JD 5065E, 138 hrs, MFWD, OS......................$24,500 (N) Ford 5610 II Special, 2077 hrs, loader ................$14,900 (N) ‘11 JD 5045D, 110 hrs, 2WD, OS ........................$14,800 (B) ‘74 Oliver 1655D, 5973 hrs. cab ............................$6,995

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(OS) ‘10 JD 8320R, 1877 hrs, ILS, PS ....................$225,000 (N) ‘12 JD 8260R, 357 hrs, ILS, PS..........................$216,500 (OS) ‘12 JD 7215R, 295 hrs, IVT ..............................$172,500 (OS) ‘11 JD 7215R, 760 hrs, IVT ..............................$167,000 Kinze 3700, 36R20”, (OS) ‘12 JD 7200R, 135 hrs, IVT ..............................$162,500 Finger Pickup ....................$62,500 (B) ‘13 JD 6150R, 669 hrs, IVT ................................$131,900 (B) ‘07 JD 7830, 1379 hrs, auto quad ......................$129,900 (OW) ‘09 JD 7830, 1274 hrs, 2WD, Auto Quad ......$114,900 (OS) ‘97 JD 8200, 7800 hrs, MFWD, PS ....................$75,000 (OW) ‘93 JD 4960, 7096 hrs, PS ................................$60,000 (H) ‘90 JD 4755, 5500 hrs, 2WD, PS..........................$57,500 (OS) ‘00 JD 7410, 6342 hrs, power quad ..................$49,500 (OW) ‘85 JD 4450, 11,000 hrs, 2WD, loader ............$39,500 (OW) ‘79 JD 4440, 8052 hrs, quad ............................$25,900 (OW) ‘74 JD 4030, open station ................................$12,900 (OW) Ford TW-10, 4950 hrs, 18.4x38........................$12,500 (OW) ‘76 IH 1586, 5178 hrs, 18.4R38 ........................$11,900 ‘96 JD 1770, 16R30”, 3.0 Bushel (OW) ‘75 Case 1070, 4924 hrs, 20.8x38......................$9,000

‘12 JD 4730, 1065 Hrs., 800 Gal. SS, 90’ Boom ..................$208,500

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(N) ‘13 JD 9560R, 172 hrs........................................$346,500 (N) ‘13 JD 9560R, 218 hrs........................................$346,500 (N) ‘12 JD 9560R, 330 hrs, 800/38’s ........................$315,000 (H) ‘13 JD 9560R, 605 hrs........................................$314,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9560R, 606 hrs, ext. warranty ............$304,900 (OW) ‘12 JD 9560R, 579 hrs, ext. warranty ............$285,900 (B) ‘12 JD 9560R, 840 hrs........................................$288,900 (OW) ‘13 JD 9510R, 450 hrs, lease return ..............$284,500 ‘12 JD 8260R, 357 Hrs., (N) ‘12 JD 9460R, 325 hrs........................................$278,500 ILS, PS ............................$216,500 (OW) ‘13 JD 9410R, 435 hrs, lease return ..............$269,900 (N) ‘12 JD 9460R, 185 hrs, 800/38’s ........................$265,000 (OS) ‘11 JD 9430, 195 hrs, 800/38’s ........................$245,000 (OW) ‘09 JD 9530, 2450 hrs, 800/38’s ....................$214,900 (B) ‘97 JD 9200, 4695 hrs, 710/38’s ........................$105,000 (OW) ‘02 Case IH STX325, 6525 hrs, 3 pt ..............$102,900 (OW) ‘98 JD 9200, 3963 hrs, 20.8x42’s ....................$96,900 (H) ‘97 JD 8770, 5640 hrs, 20.8x42’s ........................$59,500 (OS) ‘90 JD 8760, 4906 hrs........................................$56,500 (H) ‘90 Case IH 9170, 4418 hrs, PS ..........................$54,500 (B) ‘92 JD 8760, 6878 hrs ..........................................$52,900 (OS) ‘89 JD 8760, 6915 hrs........................................$52,000 ‘03 JD 9320T, 4641 Hrs. (B) ‘93 JD 8970, 9000 hrs, 20.8x42’s ........................$46,900 ..........................................$139,900 (H) ‘76 JD 8430, 9164 hrs, 3 pt, PTO ........................$14,900

‘09 JD 4830, 2400 Hrs., 1000 Gal., 90’ Boom..........................$200,000

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‘90 JD 4555, 2WD, 155 hp., 380-90-50, 3 hyds., 5759 hrs. ..................$45,500

‘12 JD 4720, MFWD, 66 hp., 17.5L24, 3 hyds., loader, 1014 hrs. ..................$41,500

‘13 JD 6150R, MFWD, 150 hp., 380-90R50, 3 hyds., loader, 756 hrs. ......$119,000

‘13 JD 6170R, MFWD, 170 hp., 380-50, 4 hyds., 80 hrs. ....................$141,900

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‘11 JD 7200R, MFWD, 200 hp., 4 hyds., loader, 815 hrs. ..................$165,000

‘12 JD 7215R, MFWD, 215 hp., 480-80R46, 4 hyds., 408 hrs. ..................$171,000

‘12 JD 8285R, MFWD, 285 hp., 380-90R54, 4 hyds., 708 hrs. ..................$241,000

‘12 JD 8310R, MFWD, 310 hp., 380-90R54, 5 hyds., 801 hrs. ..................$250,000

‘11 JD 9430, 4WD, 425 hp., 710-70R42, 4 hyds., 2206 hrs. ................$220,000

‘13 JD 9460R, 4WD, 460 hp., 800-70R38, 5 hyds., 223 hrs. ..................$295,000

‘12 JD 9510R, 4WD, 510 hp., 76x50, 210 hrs. ............CALL

‘10 JD 9530T, TRACK, 475 hp., 36” belts, 4 hyds., 1100 hrs. ................$289,000

‘12 JD 9560RT, 4WD, 560 hp., 800-70R38, 4 hyds., 403 hrs. ..................$325,000

‘09 JD 9630, 4WD, 530 hp., 800-70R38, 4 hyds., 2109 hrs. ................$238,000

‘10 JD 9630T, TRACK, 530 hp., 36” belts, 5 hyds., 2205 hrs. ................$280,000

‘06 Polaris Sportsman ATV, 4WD, front winch, 151 hrs. ....................................$5,450

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. Immediate response anywhere. CALL FOR A QUOTE TODAY

PRUESS ELEV., INC. 1-800-828-6642

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EQUIPMENT

DMI Tigermate II Field Cult., 49’, 7” shovels, harrow ..................................$37,900

‘12 JD 2210 Field Cult., 51’6”, 111 shank ......$79,000

‘08 Salford RTS27, RTS, 27’, harrow................$38,500

‘12 Salford 570, RTS, 50’, harrow..............$110,500

‘03 JD 557 Round Baler, 540 PTO, single axle ..................................$14,500

‘11 JD 568 Round Baler, Mega Wide Pickup, 7400 hrs. ..................................$36,750

‘11 JD Gator, 50 hp., cab, power box, 280 hrs...$14,995

‘11 JD Gator 825I, 4WD, power dump, 288 hrs. ....................................$9,950

CIH 8950, MFD ........................................$59,900 CIH 7130 ..................................................$29,900 CIH 7120, 4900 hrs. ................................$39,900 (2) IH 1026, hydro ..........................From $15,900 JD 4230, w/JD 720 loader ......................$18,900 JD 4040, Quad ........................................$22,900 ‘74 JD 4430, Quad ..................................$16,900 ‘77 JD 4430, Quad ..................................$18,900 JD 4240, Quad ..................................5 Coming In ‘69 JD 4020, diesel ..................................“CALL” JD 2640 w/JD loader ..............................$10,900 IH 460, 560, 560D ....................................“CALL” Gehl 4635 skid steer ..................................$9,900 IH 826, 856, 1256, 1456 ............................“SAVE” (2) JD 4030, Open Station ......................$14,900 JD 720, diesel ............................................$6,900

LOADERS

‘11 JD 315 Skid, 49 hp., cab, 1290 hrs. ..................$19,900

‘11 JD 323D Skid, 66 hp., tracks, 2-spd., cab, 76” bucket, 695 hrs. ........$41,000

‘13 JD 1810E Ejector Scraper, fixed blade ................................$102,620

‘99 Cat IT28G Wheel Loader, 20.5R25, bucket, 6600 hrs. ..................................$65,000

JD Loaders, Many to Choose From Starting @ $2,495 “New” Koyker Loaders - “CALL” JD 48, 58, 146, 148, 158; Koyker 510, K5

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FOR SALE: Int'l 826 dsl hy- 23 Ft LANDOLL Model #6230 dro w/ Hiniker cab, $7,500. (2008)Heavy Tandem Disk 507-525-2473 Front Blades 23”, Rear 23 1/2”, Shedded Like New. FOR SALE: JD 8630 tractor, Kent 26 Ft Series VII Dis50 Series engine, 3pt, 1000 PTO, 9100 hrs, nice shape, covator (Disk Blades) (NO $12,900. Call 952-769-3277 or Welds) Nice Unit! 319-347952-467-9697 6138 Can Deliver IH 7140 MFD, cab, air, duals, 6700 hrs, $40,000. (715) C-IH 41 Ft (2003) 962-3497 (DMI) Tigermate Kubota 5580 dsl w/ M1410 ldr, Field Cult w/ New Style 4 cab, snowblower, grapple Bar Drag Will Rent; 42 Ft fork, 1300 act hrs, shuttle Mandako Land Roller w/ trans, always shedded, Floating Hitch. Both Like $37,500/OBO. IHC 415 cultiNew. 319-347-2349 Can Del packer, 16', new cond, $7,850. 507-760-8132 FOR SALE: '07 Case IH 530C disk ripper, cushion Mechanic Special JD 4960 gang, always shedded, nice, MFWD, $30,000. 715-977-1802 $26,500. 515-320-2398 NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, FOR SALE: (2) 8R cultivators; Gravity Flow wagon, 55, 50 Series & newer trac300 bu; fanning mill to tors, AC-all models, Large clean grain; 7 section drag; Inventory, We ship! Mark Artsway feed mill; whl Heitman Tractor Salvage wgts for combine. 507-854715-673-4829 3362 River Dale Farms Engine building, cylinder head- FOR SALE: Case IH Tigerwork, port polishing, mate II 45 ½' digger, red, 2 restorations. (920)295-3278 bar drag w/ rolling baskets, sharp. 320-579-0557 Harvesting Equip 037 FOR SALE: White model 548 '03 JD 9650STS, 2WD, Duals, spring reset semi mount eng hrs 2494, sep hrs 1679, plow 5-16 w/ gauge wheel, Bin Extensions, $76,000. $1,400; Oliver 6 btm spring (715) 296-2162 reset plow, trail type w/ 3 hyd cyl & coulters, $1,450. '89 JD 9400 combine 4050, & 218-564-4273 or 218-639-0315 3150 hrs, good shape, 24.5x 32 tires, 10 series updates. IHC 183 8R36” flat fold culti(320) 894-0196 vator, always shedded, like FOR SALE: '04 MF 9690 new. 507-764-3943 combine, 8R Geringhoff cornhead, 30' MF 8000 bean JD 75, 12R30” cultivator, like head, through the dealer's new shovels, $2,000. 320-522winter program & field 1260 ready. 320-220-1481 or 320REDUCED PRICES !!! 212-0327 Great Plains Finishers FOR SALE: '07 JD 635F FOR SALE OR RENT bean head, SN 721342, 33 Ft 5 In (2012) #8333 $14,000. 507-526-7491 or 50726 Ft 5 In (2009) #8326 525-4792 Kent 26 Ft 5 In (2001) #6326 FOR SALE: '08 NH flex 24 Ft (2000) Kent #6324 draper, 88C, 36', Lots of Great Plains Parts $29,500/OBO. Also, 630 JD A. L. Buseman 319-347-6282 flex head, $10,000. Both heads are very low acres. Used parts for IH 720 701-640-4697 plows, toggle/auto reset. Planting Equip 038 ½ price of new or less. We ship anywhere. FOR SALE: '82 JD 7100 Call Maple Valley Farms 12R30” planter, radial bean Randy Krueger units, precision corn units, (715)250-1617 liq fert, insect, 1.6 boxes, $7,500. Call 507-317-8103 040 FOR SALE: (2) 6R30” Machinery Wanted planters w/ dry fert, monitors, (Landoll & Duetz), All kinds of New & Used both very good condition. farm equipment – disc chis763-295-2724 els, field cults, planters, soil finishers, cornheads, FOR SALE: NYB 80' pickup feed mills, discs, balers, sprayer & Chevy Heavy haybines, etc. 507-438-9782 Duty pickup, foam markers, auto rate controller, Honda engine, new engine Disc chisels: JD 714 & 712, Glencoe 7400; Field Cults in pickup, $5,500. 701-640under 30': JD 980, small 4697 grain carts & gravity boxes JD 1750 6 X 30 no till conser300-400 bu. Finishers under vation planter, dry fertiliz20', clean 4 & 6R stalk choper finger unit, cross auger, pers; Nice JD 215 & 216 $16,900. 608-387-2679 flex heads; JD 643 cornheads Must be clean; JD JD 7100 Soybean Special, 3 corn planters, 4-6-8 row. bu. boxes, 12R20” spacing 715-299-4338 tire track rows offset 2”, lift assist, JD 250 mon., WANTED TO BUY: 800 or field ready, $4,900. 612-756900 rear folding Interna0271 tional corn planter, pull White 6100 6 x 30 no till type. 605-268-1872 planter, trash whippers, no till fert coulters w/ fert WANTED: Leyland Tractor auger, shedded & sharp, Front Suitcase Weights. $16,900/OBO. 608-387-2679 715-234-1993

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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

Advantages we offer: • We unload directly from the trucks to a floater (Terra Gator) without stockpiling material. This gives us a more uniform spread with no foliage to plug up the spreader. • With direct loading there is no stockpile, no wasted lime or mess in your field. • We use a floater (Terra Gator) to spread so we have less compaction. • We are equipped to spread variable rate using GPS mapping. • We service Minnesota and northern Iowa. Why apply Aglime: • A soil ph level of 5.5 nitrogen efficiency is only 77 percent. • A soil ph level of 6.0 nitrogen efficiency still is only 89 percent. • At a soil ph level of 7.0 fertilizer efficiency is 100 percent.

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Top Air 1600 gal., 120’ boom, 380x60 duals ..................................$55,000 Top Air 1600 gal., 132’ boom ..........................................................$53,000 Top Air 1600 gal., 90’ boom, 14.9x46 tires ......................................$40,000 Top Air 1600 gal., 120’ boom, Raven 450, hyd. pump....................$33,000 Fast 9500, 1800 gal. tank, Raven 450, Chem inductor..................$32,000 Brandt 1600 gal., 90’ boom, 46” tires..............................................$29,000 Sprayer Specialties, 1250 gal., 90’ boom......................................$21,000 Schaben 1600 gal., 90’ boom ..........................................................$19,500 Red Ball 670, 1200 gal., 90’ boom..................................................$19,000 Gregson 1000 gal., 90’ boom, 13.6x38 tires....................................$18,000 Top Air 1100 gal., 80’ X-fold boom ..................................................$17,000 Top Air 1100 gal., 90’ boom ............................................................$17,000 Top Air 1100 gal., 80’ X-fold boom ..................................................$16,000 Spraymaster 1000 gal., 80’ boom, 13.6x38 tires............................$14,000 Red Ball 680, 1000 gal., 90’ boom, 380x90x46 tires ....................$13,000 Great Plains 1000 gal., 80’ Top Air boom, 13.6x38 tires................$12,500 Hardi 1000 gal., 66’ boom, 13.6x38 tires ........................................$12,500 Sprayer Specialties 1000 gal., 60’ boom, Raven 440 ..................$11,000 Sprayer Specialties 1000 gal., 60’ boom, Raven 440......................$9,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, Big Wheel ......................................$8,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, tandem ..........................................$6,800 AgChem 1000 gal., 60’ X-fold boom, tandem ..................................$6,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 72’ boom, tandem ..........................................$6,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 90’ boom, tandem ..........................................$6,500 Blumhardt 750 gal., 90’ boom, tandem ............................................$6,000 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 80’ NYB boom, tandem ..................................$6,000 Demco 1000 gal., 60’ X-fold boom, tandem......................................$6,000 Top Air 750 gal., 60’ vertical fold boom ............................................$5,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 60’ boom, tandem ..........................................$5,500 Blumhardt 1000 gal., 60’ boom, tandem ..........................................$5,500 Pleasure Products 1200 gal., 90’ boom, tandem ............................$4,500

DELUX 20’ MODEL 6030, LP/NG, 3 PH, 600 BPH DELUX 20’ MODEL 5030, LP/NG, 3 PH, 500 BPH DELUX 15’ MODEL DPX7040, LP/NG, 3 PH, 700 BPH KANSUN 1025 215, LP, 1 PH BEHLEN 380, 1 PH, LP, HEAT RECLAIM BEHLEN 700, 3 PH, LP, HEAT RECLAIM BEHLEN 700, 3 PH, LP, DOUBLE BURNER

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WANTED: Motors & gear- Alfalfa grass, grass, straw, FOR SALE: Excellent Holcorn stalks in round bales, steins, 48 cows, 12 springboxes for Big Dutchman ing heifers, home bred, 82# feeders or DeLaval feeders net wrapped. Delivered in tank average. 26500# RHA. for milking parlor. semi loads. Call Tim at 320130,000 SCC. Select sires & Lonsdale MN (507)744-5360 221-2085 Semex breeding. Owner reWANTED: Semi Truck, day Dairy Quality Alfalfa tiring. (715)273-4638 cab, '98 to '05, auto shift, Tested big squares & round excellent condition, low bales, delivered from South FOR SALE: Top Quality miles. 320-232-0556 Dakota John Haensel (605) Herd, 59 head including 7 351-5760 head of bred & springing WANTED: Want to find my heifers. Of the 59 head, 19 Dad's (1968) 1750 Oliver Brown Swiss, all reg. w/ gas tractor SN 203401. Call Dairy quality western alfalfa, big squares or small 22,000 RHA. Balance of the 507-317-8103 squares, delivered in semi herd is Holsteins w/ 27,000 loads. Clint Haensel RHA, 14 Holsteins are reg. Spraying Equip 041 (605) 310-6653 all AI bred & sired, vacc & wormed to date. SCC 105 & FOR SALE: Western Hay & B.F is 4.0, PRO is 3.2 & Straw In large squares or neg. for micro plasma. round bales by the semi (715)579-7200 load. Protein 18-26%, RFV up to-200. Smikrud Reg. Holstein bulls, good '96 Rogator, 80' boom, new maternal lines & good Galesville, WI 608-582-2143 Raven Controller, new sires. We also have red & 608-484-0916 cell (Over 23 plastic tank, 2 sets of tires, white. Merritt's Elm-Chris years in the Hay Business) has 75% narrow 320s, have Farm (715)235-9272 4 380s avail, straight WANTED AND FOR SALE Boom, fenceline nozzle, ALL TYPES of hay & WANTED TO BUY! USED approx 3800 hrs, $32,500. straw. Also buying corn, BULK MILK COOLER Al Hein Mabel, MN 507wheat & oats. Western Hay ALL SIZES 920-867-3048 259-8371 available. Fox Valley Alfalfa Mill. 920-853-3554 WANTED TO BUY: Dairy FOR SALE: '04 1000 gal HD heifers and cows. 320-235Century pull type sprayer, 2664 60' booms, 320/85R tires, WANTED TO BUY: Dairy and Beef quality hay, also 8605 controller, foamer, straw, corn stalks, any type WANTED: Holsteins Springrinse tank, hyd pump, 20” of bale. 608-633-7340 ing heifers and Jersey Holspacings, used very little. stein cross springers. Bred 612-554-0052 8-9 months. 715-928-3526 054 FOR SALE: '97 Tyler Patri- Livestock ot 150, 750 gal tank, 75' 056 booms, Mid Tech con- FOR SALE: Purebred Black Cattle Angus bulls, calf ease & troller, 2750 hrs, $29,800. good disposition; also York, 25 Limousin bulls, 2 yr olds 507-458-3125 Hamp & Hamp-Duroc & yrlings, low birth wgt., FOR SALE: 400 gal Campboars & gilts. 320-598-3790 super growth, black or red. bell pull type sprayer, 26' John Goelz, Franklin, MN + extensions, $250; (2) 200 507-557-8394 gal saddle sprayer tanks, $100/pr. 952-442-4259

Cattle

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USED TRACTORS

‘05 Challenger MT255B hydro, FWA..........$9,950 Versatile 2425, 4WD, 3500 hrs. ..............$99,500 Agco DT200, 3300 hrs.............................$79,500 ‘96 Agco Allis 9655, 2WD, 6100 hrs. ......$39,500 AC 7060 PD ..............................................$7,950 ‘00 CIH MX240, 5100 hrs. ......................$74,500 ‘09 MF 8650, 1800 hrs. ........................$134,500 ‘05 MF 6480 w/loader, 4200 hrs. ............$59,500 ‘08 MF 1560, FWA, w/loader, 800 hrs. ....$21,900 ‘08 MF 1540 w/loader, 500 hrs. ..............$17,900

‘08 MF 1533, hydro, loader, 250 hrs. ......$16,900 White 140, 2WD, 6500 hrs., duals ..........$24,900 ‘80 Steiger ST-270, 4WD ........................$14,900 ‘80 White 2-105 ........................................$7,950 Oliver 1600, gas ........................................$4,950 Belarus 500A, 2WD, 60 hp. ......................$3,950 AC rebuilt engines for D021, 210, 220, wheel loaders ........................Exchange - $4,950 ‘08 MF 596 w/loader, joystick, 1400 hrs. $34,500

‘10 Gleaner R-66, 300 hrs., duals..........$219,500 ‘09 Gleaner R-66, 700 hrs., duals..........$189,500 ‘08 Gleaner R-65....................................$179,500 ‘05 Gleaner R-65....................................$129,500 ‘03 Gleaner R-65, 1200 hrs. ..................$119,500 ‘96 Gleaner R-72, 2100 hrs., duals LTM..$59,500 ‘891⁄2 Gleaner R-60, 3500 eng. hrs. ..........$19,900 ‘94 Gleaner R-62, 3200 hrs., Cummins ..$39,500 ‘93 Gleaner R-62, 2600 hrs., duals..........$29,500 ‘92 Gleaner R-52, 2000 hrs., CDF............$39,500 ‘81 Gleaner N6 w/20’ Cummins ................$7,950 ‘81 Gleaner N5 w/20’ ................................$5,950 ‘79 Gleaner M2 HY, 18’, A430 pkg.............$8,950 ‘83 Gleaner L3 hydro, duals, 3200 hrs. ....$7,950

MF 8570, 9320 flex, 1163 hrs. ................$29,500 Harvest Tech 4306C, 6R30 chopper head ..............................................................$26,900 ‘03 Gleaner 3000, 12R30 cornhead ........$39,500 ‘08 Gleaner 3000, 8R30 ..........................$39,500 ‘05 Gleaner 3000, 6R30 ..........................$26,900 ‘05 Gleaner 3000, 8RW ..........................$26,500 (5) Gleaner 8R30 huggers ........$11,900-$39,900 ‘99 Gleaner 6R30 hugger, poly ................$14,900 (6) Gleaner 6R30 huggers ..........$9,950-$15,900 ‘03 MF 3000, 6R36 cornhead ..................$17,950 ‘99 Gleaner 820 flex w/air reel ................$19,900 ‘96 Gleaner 525 flex w/air reel ................$12,900 (15) Used Flexheads ......................................Call

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Angus Bulls for sale. Year- FOR SALE OR LEASE: 19 Black Angus Cows w/ ling & 2 yr olds. Breeding Calves, started calving late Purebred Registered soundness exam. Tschanz March, $3,000/Each Pair, Charolais bulls, heifers, & Farms, Hwy 53, Blair, WI. Withee, WI. 715-613-2072 cows. Great bloodlines, ex(608)989-2223 cellent performance, balanced EPD's, low birth FOR SALE: Purebred Black FOR SALE OR LEASE Angus bulls, long yearlings weights. Delivery availREGISTERED BLACK able. & 2 year olds, great EPD's. ANGUS Bulls, 2 year old & Laumann Charolais John 507-327-0932 or Brian yearlings; bred heifers, Mayer, MN 612-490-2254 507-340-9255 JRC Angus calving ease, club calves & balance performance. Al FOR SALE: Angus Bull FOR SALE: Registered & yearling & 2 yr. olds, stout sired. In herd improvement purebred British white heavy muscled bulls with program. J.W. Riverview bulls; semen checked, vacexcellence performance geAngus Farm Glencoe, MN cinated & poured. 14 yrs of netics. Sullivan Angus, Kel55336 Conklin Dealer 320progressive breeding. Delogg MN. (507)767-3361 or 864-4625 livery possible. 320-815-5192 (612)799-7736 after 6pm.

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OMC 280 windrower, 14 head, trlr ............$3,950 White 6175 FWA, duals, wts, 6700 hrs ..$47,500 AC 8070, 2WD, PS, new tires ..................$17,900 ‘06 Wilrich 37’ crumbler ............................$7,950

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

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Polled Hereford bulls, yearlings & 2 year olds, semen tested, delivery available. Jones Farms, LeSueur, MN. 507-317-5996

WAKEFIELD FARMS Performance tested Charolais & Red Angus bulls, 50+ yrs in the seed stock business. Delivery available. Put more profit in your pocket with a Wakefield bred bull. 507-402-4640

MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT

‘10 Bobcat CT235B w/loader, 180 hrs ....$14,900 ‘08 Peck 8x31 EMM auger ........................$1,750 ‘13 Wilrich 513 Soil Pro, 9x24 ................$47,500 Tebben 5x30 deep til..................................$2,950 DA 1400, 36’ field cult. ..............................$3,950

FOR SALE: Registered yearling Shorthorn Bull, performance tested, had BSE exam. (715)425-0237

Top Quality Holstein Steers 200-800 lbs. in semi load lots. 319-448-4667

Versatile 305, FWA ............................................................................................................$164,500 Versatile 375, 4WD ............................................................................................................$194,500 Versatile 450, 4WD ............................................................................................................$219,500 Wilrich QX2, 50’, baskets..............................................................................................$69,900 White 8824, CFS, 24R30 ............................................................................................$139,500 Hesston 4760 baler w/accumulator ........$39,900 Artsway 240, 20’ shredder ........................$3,950 DMI 730 ....................................................$9,950 ‘01 NI 5408 disc mower............................$4,750 ‘06 Hesston 1006 disc mower ..................$5,950 ‘08 Agco Hesston 3008 disc mower ........$6,750 ‘02 Parker 737 grain cart, duals..............$17,500 ‘02 Parker 737 grain cart ........................$16,900 Unverferth GC5000 grain cart ................$11,900 Parker 510 grain cart ................................$9,950 ‘11 Parker 1048 grain cart, tarp, scale ....$39,500 Demco 325 wagon ....................................$2,950 Feterl 10x60 HF w/hopper ........................$2,950 ‘04 Feterl 10x62 GSW auger ....................$5,450 ‘11 Peck 12x43, PTO ................................$4,950 Farm King 10” DOH, hyd. drive, NEW ....$10,900 Feterl 8x46 PTO auger ..............................$2,950 Feterl 8x60 PTO auger ..............................$1,995 White 588, 4x18........................................$2,495 Brandt 500 EX grain vac. ........................$12,900 Westendorf CC360 off RT155A ................$7,950 JD 610, 25’ chisel plow ............................$9,950 Miller 12 loader off AC175 ........................$3,450 ‘10 Farm King Y840, 84” snowblower ......$2,950 ‘10 B. Hog PZ2861, 28 hp. 61”, 600 hrs...$4,950 ‘11 B. Hog PZ3073, 30 hp., 73”, 138 hrs..$7,950 Davis loader for 8N Ford ..............................$895 Bush Hog PZ2661, 26 hp., 61”, 100 hrs., Demo ......................................................$7,950

FOR SALE: Registered Hereford yearling bulls, from the top of our program. Ready to go now and delivery available anytime. LamBros. 715-308-1347

RED ANGUS YEARLING BULLS SEMEN TESTED A.I. BRED, $2,000. (320) 212-9441 Registered Texas Longhorn breeding stock, cows, heifers or roping stock, top blood lines. 507-235-3467

NEW SPECIALS

‘13 White 8816 CFS, 16R30, cable drive $99,500 White 8500, 36R20, CFS ......................$109,500 ‘03 White 8222, 12R30, 2 bu. ................$32,500 ‘02 White 8222, 12R30, 2 bu. ................$29,500 White 8122, 12R30, VF, LF......................$24,500 White 8122, 12R30, 2 bu., dry fert. ........$29,500 White 6700, 20R22 ................................$17,900 White 6100, 12R30, I..............................$11,900 White 6100, 8RW, VF, w/6900 splitter ......$8,950 ‘94 White 6100, 12R30, VF, LF................$12,900 Crustbuster 3400, 15’ no-till drill ..............$7,950 White 227, 31’ field cult. ..........................$3,950 Case IH 4300, 42’ field cult., 3 bar..........$12,900 JD 724 soil finisher, 30’ ..........................$11,950 ‘05 Krause 7300, 27’ rock flex disc ........$22,900 Sunflower 4511, 15’ disc chisel ..............$34,900 WilRich 2500, 26’ FC, 4 bar ......................$4,950 ‘05 Wilrich V957, 7x30............................$17,900 ‘06 Wilrich V957, 5x30............................$19,900 ‘04 Sunflower 1444, 40’ disc ..................$39,500 Sunflower 1830, 22’ disc, New Demo ....$67,500 ‘12 Wishek 862NT, 16’ ............................$32,500 ‘09 Wishek 862NT, 34’ disc w/harrow ....$59,500 M&W 1865, 9x24 Earthmaster..................$9,950 ‘02 CIH 730B ..........................................$19,900 Sunflower 4511-15, 10’ ..........................$39,900 NI 6365 (Hesston 856A), 5x6 baler ..........$9,950 ‘05 Hesston 740, 4x4 baler ......................$9,950 Hesston 5800, 5x6 baler ..........................$2,950

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FOR SALE: Red & Black Angus cow heifers, 22 yrs ABS breeding. (608)547-9265

175,000

WOODFORD AG, LLC 37666 300th St. • Redwood Falls, MN • (507) 430-5144 www.woodfordag.com

WANT TO BUY: Butcher cows, bulls, fats & walkable cripples; also horses, sheep & goats. 320-235-2664 Horse

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5 yr old 3/4 brother Belgians, dark red sorrel, light mane & tail, strip in the face, stand 17.2, weigh 1900 lbs., broke to all farm equip. & traffic safe. Kids have been skimming firewood, & hauling manure all winter, kid safe & ready to work. $7,000. (715)308-7208 Sheep

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Blue Face rams, CVM 2 yr old rams, Merino/Finn cross rams 2 yrs (quad), ewes w/ lambs, yearling CVM ewes, weaned ewe lambs. Rainbow Fleece Farm (608)527-5311 FOR SALE: 500 ewe lambs from OPP tested negative flock. 605-997-2060 or 605864-8811 Goats

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FOR SALE: 125 Dairy Goats. Young herd, good quality $275/ea/OBO. Shawano (715)758-6661 Swine

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Compart's total program features superior boars & open gilts documented by BLUP technology. Duroc, York, Landrace & F1 lines. Terminal boars offer leanness, muscle, growth. Maternal gilts & boars are productive, lean, durable. All are stress free & PRRS free. Semen also available through Elite Genes A.I. Make 'em Grow! Comparts Boar Store, INC. Toll Free: 877-441-2627

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DAMAGED GRAIN WANTED

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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. 6 miles East of

CAMBRIDGE, MN 763-689-1179 We Ship Daily

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SPRING SPECIALS! ‘13 Can Am 1000XT Utility Vehicle, windshield, winch..................................................................$13,000 Polaris 500cc dsl. ATV, 1800 mi., 4WD, winch ........$2,900

USED EQUIPMENT

Ford 4000 SU, 52 hp. gas, 8 spd., power steering, HD loader..............................................................$7,500 Ford 960 row crop, 35 hp. gas, 5 spd., 12 volt, NF..$3,500 AC WD, gas NF........................................................$1,450

BLADES

Ford 782, 6’, 3 pt. blade, w/extra weight bracket ......$300 Kewanee 8’ HD 3 pt. blade, angles, pivots, offsets ....$975 Land Pride RB2596, 8’ blade - NEW ......................$1,071

LOADER

Bush Hog Model 200, all hydraulic, Ford mounts ....$1,175

MOWERS

‘08 Exmark-Lazer ZXS, Kubota dsl., Zero-Turn ........$8,000 Farm King 6’ rear discharge grooming mower, 3 pt. mounted................................................................$1,075 Walco 6’ rear discharge grooming mower, 3 pt. mounted................................................................$1,275 Land Pride 6’ rear discharge grooming mower, 3 pt. mounted................................................................$1,675 Bush Hog SQ84, 7’ 3 pt. mounted rotary cutter ......$1,675 (2) Cartner 6’ side mounted flail mowers w/sub frames ......................................................................$1,075 Ea.

NEW EQUIPMENT SPECIALS

Land Price BH2485, 3 pt. mounted backhoe ..........$8,000 Land Pride BS10, univ. quick attach bale spear..........$535 Land Pride RB2596, 8’ blade ..................................$1,075 Ramrod stand on skidloader, 5000 lb. lift cap. ......$12,000 Artsway 10”x34’, 540 PTO truck auger, ................ $3,800 Paquea 50 bu. spreader, poly floor, T-bar chain ......$3,500 Paquea 80 bu. spreader, poly floor, T-bar chain ......$3,800

New Ulm Tractor & Equipment Inc. 13144 Co. Rd. #25 New Ulm, MN

507-354-3612

Kubota, Land Pride, Vicon, Meyers, Artsway

TRACTORS

• ‘14 MF 6616 tractor & loader • ‘13 MF 8690, MFD • MF GC1705 w/loader • ‘13 MF GC1705 Compact • ‘05 MF 451, 45 PTO hp., 400 hrs. • JD 4440, cab, loader • Ford 7600 w/Schwartz loader

CORN HEADS

• Geringhoff 1822RD, ‘09 • Geringhoff 1820RD, ‘09 • Geringhoff 1630RD, ‘09 • Geringhoff 1622RD, ‘07 • Geringhoff 1622RD, ‘07 • Geringhoff 1622RD, ‘04 • Geringhoff 1230RD, ‘09 • Geringhoff 1222RD, ‘11 • Geringhoff 1222RD, ‘08 • Geringhoff 1222RD, ‘07 • Geringhoff 1222RD, ‘05 • Geringhoff 1222RD, ‘03 • Geringhoff 1220RD, ‘11 • Geringhoff 1220RD, ‘05 • Geringhoff 1220RD, ‘04 • Geringhoff 1220RD, ‘02 • Geringhoff 1220RD, ‘12 • Geringhoff 830NS, ‘08 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘08 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘06 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘05 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘04 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘04 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘01 • Geringhoff 830RD, ‘07 • Geringhoff 630RD, ‘07 • Geringhoff 630RD, ‘05 • Geringhoff 630RD, ‘97 • JD 622, GVL poly • JD 822 KR, HT, steel • ‘04 Gleaner 1222 hugger, GVL poly • MF 844 4RW • MF 1163 • ‘12 CIH 2608, HHC, end row augers, chopping

COMBINES

• ‘07 MF 9790, duals, RWA, 1001 hrs. • ‘14 MF 9540, RWA • ‘98 MF 8780 combine. RWA. duals

• ‘91 MF 8570, RWA • MF 2856 baler, w/kicker • ‘86 MF 8560 w/net-twine wrap • ‘97 Gleaner R62, duals, 2052 sep. hrs. • MF 1372 mwr cnd, 12 steel rollers • ‘92 Gleaner R62, 2063 hrs. • Used MF 200 SP windrower, cab w/14’ auger head GRAIN HANDLING • ‘13 760 Roto-Grind tub grinders • Parker gravity box, 250 bu. • 13’ 2881 Bale King bale processor, • ‘05 Parker 625 gravity box, 4-wheel RH discharge brakes • A&L 850S grain cart w/tarp, 850 bu. MISCELLANEOUS • Brandt 20110 swing hopper • WRS 30’ header trailers • Brandt 7500HP grain vac. • E-Z Trail 39’ header trailer • ‘00 Brandt 4500 EX, grain vac. • Mauer 28’-42’ header trailers • ‘03 Brandt 1070 auger, PTO Drive, • Degelman 5 ft. skidsteer buckets w/swing hopper • Degelman RP 570 prong pickers • Brandt, 1515, 1535, 1545, 1575, 1585 • Degelman RD 320 rock digger belt conveyors • Degelman 7200 rock picker • Brandt 8x62 auger, PTO drive, SC • Melroe 600 rock picker • Brandt 8x45 auger, 18 hp. Briggs • Degelman 6000HD rock picker • Brandt 8x35, 8x37, 8x40, 8x47, 8x52, • Degelman RR1500 rock rake, PTO 8x57, 8x62, 8x67, 10x35 straight drive augers • Sunflower 1435-21 21ft. disc, 3 bar • Brandt 1060XL, 1070XL, 1080XL, harrow 1380XL, 1390XL swing hopper • Degelman 7651, 51’ land roller augers • (2) Degelman LR7645 land rollers • ‘12 Buhler 1282 sling hopper • Everest 84” finish mower • Parker 1048 grain cart, tarp, 1000 bu. • ‘08 JD 520 stalk chopper • Parker 1020 seed tender, bulk boxes • Loftness 20’ stalk chopper • Parker 839 grain cart, tarp, 850 bu. • Wil-Rich 25’ stalk chopper • Parker 165-R gravity box • Loftness 240 stalk chopper, • Hutchinson 10x61 auger semi-mount • ‘08 Unverferth grain cart, 500 bu. • ‘06 Kodiak 60”, 72” & 84” rotary • Killbros 1175 grain cart, 750 bu. cutters w/tarp • Loftness 84” snowblower, hyd. spout • ‘05 Demco 650 gravity box, 4-wheel • Loftness 8’ snowblower brakes • 2011 SB Select snowblower, 97” & 108”, 3 pt. HAY & LIVESTOCK • Lucke 8’ 3 pt., snowblower • JD 38, sickel mower. 7’ • Sunflower 4610-9 disc ripper • IH 14, 5 bar rake • Sunflower 4511-15 disc chisel • ‘12 NH H7450 disc mower condit., 13’ • Sunflower 4412-07 disk ripper • MF 1361 disc mowers • Sunflower 4412-05 disk ripper • MF 1329 & 1330, 3 pt. disc mower • Sunflower 4311-14 disk ripper, • ‘11 NH H6750, 3 pt., disk mower, 7 shank 110” • Sunflower 5056-63 field cult. • Sitrex RP2 wheel rakes • ‘14 Sunflower SF 5056-49 field cult. • Sitrex RP5 wheel rakes • Sunflower 5035-36 field cult. • Sitrex 10 wheel rakes on cart • ‘10 Sunflower SF 4213-13 disk chisel • Sitrex 10- & 12-wheel rakes on cart • Sunflower 1435-21 disc • Sitrex MK12 & MK16 hy. cap. wheel rakes

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ANYWHERE We buy damaged corn and grain any condition - wet or dry TOP DOLLAR We have vacs and trucks

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FOR SALE: Yorkshire, 1995 Dodge 1/2 ton pickup, Hampshire, Duroc & good rubber, runs good, Hamp/Duroc boars, 4-H $850. (715)962-3497 pigs, also gilts. Excellent selection. Raised outside. FOR SALE: '71 Ford F600 Exc herd health. No PRSS. wrecker w/large winch, evDelivery avail. 320-568-2225 erything works, $950. 507869-3755 ORR FEEDER PIGS Tim Orr. Call for availability. FOR SALE: '73 Chev C60, no (563) 920-2680 rust, 81K miles, 2spd, 15' grain box, 40” sides, HD Livestock Equip 075 hitch, white w/ blue trim, $3,950. 952-442-4259 Wieser cement hog feeders, w/ stainless steel feed flow control, $175/ea. Eau Galle. Miscellaneous 090 (715)495-1984 FOR SALE: 72” 3pt finishing Industrial & Const. 083 mowers, Land Pride & Douglas; 37T log splitter, '93 721 Case 3 yd payloader. horitzontal & vertical, Very good, 6300 hrs, brand new. 320-583-0881 $29,500. Frederic 715-4722717 One call does it all! With one phone call, you can Trucks & Trailers 084 place your classified ad in The Land, Farm News, '06 Kiefer Genesis 22' 3 horse AND The Country Today. all alum gooseneck trailer Call The Land for more w/ living quarters finished info @ 507-345-4523 • 800-657in a knotty pine, electric 4665. hook ups, but no appliDRAINAGE ances. Living quarters are PARMA PUMPS New pumps & well insulated, HD axles, well maintained, cleaned parts on hand. Call Minafter each use, stored innesota's largest distributor doors year round, lots of HJ Olson & Company 320storage. One owner—only 974-8990 Cell – 320-212-5336 reason for selling is that we have upgraded to a larger trailer. Must see to appreciate. Asking $19,800/OBO. Call 507-381-9315

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4WD & TRACK TRACTORS ‘12 JD 9560RT, 799 hrs., 36” tracks, 1000 PTO, 5 hyd. hi-flow ............................$269,000 ‘13 JD 9560R, 416 hrs., 4 remotes, 800x38” tires & duals ..............................$259,000 ‘12 Cat 865C, 1171 hrs., 30” tracks, 5 hyd., big pump, HID lights ........................$235,000 ‘12 Cat 865C, 992 hrs., 36” tracks, 5 hyd., hyd. swing draw bar, HID lights ........$250,000 ‘12 JD 9560R, cab, powershift, 808 hrs., 4 hyd., Michelin 800x38 tires & duals....................$250,500 ‘11 JD 8360RT, 1101 hrs., 16” tracks, 1000 PTO, 3 pt., 5 hyd., big pump, front wgts. ......................................$220,000 ‘11 JD 8360RT, 1167 hrs., ultra wide stance up to 160”, 16” tracks, 5 hyd., big pump, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, front wgts. ......................................$220,000 ‘12 CIH Steiger 400HD, 298 hrs., power shift, 3 pt. hitch, 1000 PTO, 480x50 duals, diff. lock ..$225,000 ‘12 CIH Steiger 400, 318 hrs., power shift, 4 hyd., big pump, 520x46 tires & duals ......$195,000 ‘11 Case Steiger 400HD, 702 hrs., Luxury cab, 1000 PTO, 710x42 duals, complete auto guidance setup ..............................$198,000 ‘09 Versatile 485, 1704 hrs., 4 hyd., 12-spd., manual front & rear wgts., 800x38 tires & duals 80% ................................$155,000 ‘93 JD 8570, 6682 hrs., 12-spd., 3 hyds., 18.4x38 tires & duals ........................................$39,000

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ROW CROP TRACTORS ‘11 JD 8335R, MFWD, 1777 hrs., ILS, IVT trans., 4 hyd., big pump, front wgts., 18.4x50 tires & duals............................$187,500 ‘11 JD 8285R, MFWD, 1214 hrs., powershift, 4 hyd., big pump, 18.4x46 tires & duals ......$165,000 ‘13 JD 6190R, 585 hrs., Premium cab, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, IVT trans., 18.4x46 tires & duals ......................................$125,000 ‘13 JD 7200R, MFWD, IVT trans., 540/1000 PTO, 3 pt., 3 hyd., 710x38 rear tires ............$132,000

Miscellaneous

‘12 CIH Magnum 260, MFWD, 525 hrs., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, complete auto guidance setup, 420x46 tires & duals ......................................$149,000 ‘08 JD 8430, MFWD, 4468 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, front wgts., 480x50 tires & duals ..........................$120,000 ‘07 CIH Magnum 245, MFWD, 3050 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., 420x46 tires & duals ......................................$100,000 ‘07 CIH Magnum 245, MFWD, 4090 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., 420x46 rear tires w/18.4x42” duals ..............$92,000 ‘06 CIH MX245, MFWD, 4975 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 14.9x46” tires & duals......................$82,000 ‘80 Ford TW20, 2WD, 8075 hrs., cab, air, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 2 hyd., 18.4x38 tires, 10 front wgts. ................................$16,500

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COMBINES ‘12 JD 690 ..............................CALL ‘11 JD 9670, 1160 eng./736 sep. hrs., Contour Master, chopper, SLS shoe, 20.8x38 duals ..............................$160,000 ‘11 CIH 8120, 934 eng./729 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, tracker, 520x42” duals ....$189,000 ‘11 CIH 7120, 871 eng./732 sep. hrs., Luxury cab, rock trap, tracker, chopper, 520x42 tires & duals............................$188,500 ‘87 CIH 1640, 3468 hrs., rock trap, auto header controls, 24.5x32 tires ....................$18,500 ‘09 JD 9870STS, 1895 eng./1233 sep. hrs., Premier Cab, Pro-drive, 5 spd. Feederhouse, CM, 520x42” duals, 28L-26 rears ........$145,000 ‘09 CIH 7088, 1193 eng./895 sep. hrs., tracker, chopper, rock trap, 30.5x32 tires ..$142,000 ‘11 JD 9770, 880 eng./613 sep. hrs., CM, 5 spd. feederhouse, Pro-drive, chopper, 520x42 tires & duals............................$189,000 ‘08 JD 9770, 1380 eng./938 sep. hrs., 4x4, CM, chopper, 1250/45/32 tires..............$155,000 ‘98 JD 9610, 3578 eng./2379 sep. hrs., chopper, bin ext., 20.8x42 duals....................$49,000

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USED TRACTORS

NEW NH T9.505, 4WD ....................................CALL NEW NH T8.300, FWA ....................................CALL NEW NH T8.275, FWA ....................................CALL NEW NH T7.200, FWA ....................................CALL NEW Massey 8670, FWA ................................CALL NEW Massey 7620, FWA ................................CALL NEW Massey 6615, FWA ................................CALL NEW Versatile 450, 4WD ................................CALL NEW Versatile 310, FWA ................................CALL NEW Versatile 305, FWA ................................CALL NH TV6070 bi-directional ............................$95,000 ‘00 NH 8870, FWA........................................$64,900 ‘08 NH 6070 w/cab, 2WD ............................$69,000 Versatile 895, 4WD ......................................$23,500

TILLAGE

Sunflower 4630, 11-shank, Demo ..................CALL Sunflower 4412-07, 7-shank ......................$29,500 Wilrich 957, 7-shank ....................................$18,500 Wilrich 513, 5-shank, Demo............................CALL ‘09 Wilrich QX2, 55.5’ w/bskt. ....................$54,500 ‘12 JD 3710, 10 bottom ..............................$52,500 ‘08 JD 3710, 10 bottom ..............................$34,500 JD 980, 32’ ......................................................CALL CIH 4900, 46.5’ ............................................$12,500 ‘08 JD 2210, 44.5’ w/3-bar ..........................$38,900

SKIDSTEERS

NEW NH skidsteers on hand ..........................CALL NH LS170 ....................................................$13,750 NH L170 cab, new rubber ..............................CALL

PLANTERS

NEW White planters ........................................CALL ‘11 White 8516 CFS, loaded ......................$97,500 White 6222, 12-30, front fold ......................$29,500

White 6186, 16-30 w/ins..............................$21,500 White 6122, 12-30........................................$16,500 White 6100, 12-30 w/twin row ....................$18,500

COMBINES

NEW Fantini chopping cornhead ..................CALL (2) Fantini pre-owned 8-30 chopping CH ......CALL ‘10 Gleaner R76, loaded............................$235,000 ‘03 Gleaner R75, loaded............................$129,500 ‘01 Gleaner R72, just thru shop ................$110,000 ‘00 Gleaner R72 ..........................................$78,000 ‘90 Gleaner R60 w/duals ............................$24,500 ‘90 Gleaner R50 w/20’ ..............................COMING

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‘13 CIH Steiger 600Q, 564 hrs., 36” tracks............................$369,900

‘01 JD 9400, 3542 hrs., 425 hp. ............................................$115,000

‘09 CIH Magnum 305, 3119 hrs., full Pro 600 auto steer, loaded ..$135,500

‘87 Steiger Cougar 1000, 280 hp., PS, 8455 hrs. ........................$39,500

‘11 CIH Magnum 235, 1074 hrs., Lux. cab ..............................$144,500

‘13 CIH Magnum 235, 337 hrs., full Pro 700 auto steer ........$169,900

‘13 CIH Puma 145, 258 hrs., 125 PTO hp., w/loader ........$119,900

‘12 CIH Puma 160 CVT, 356 hrs., w/loader ..............................$126,900

‘13 CIH Puma 160 CVT, 110 hrs. ............................................$135,800

‘11 Bobcat S-750, joystick control ..............................................$41,900

‘97 Bobcat 863, 3500 hrs. ..............................................$11,500

‘11 CIH 7120, 579 sep. hrs. ............................................$239,900

‘06 CIH 8010, 1223 sep. hrs. ............................................$129,900

USED 4WD TRACTORS

USED COMBINES

5 Years Interest Waiver Available Thru Case Credit* • Call For Details ‘13 CIH 9230, 323 sep. hrs., track drive, RWA, HID lites ............................................................................................$369,900 ‘11 CIH 7120, 579 sep. hrs., duals, HID lites, Lux. cab..............................................................................................$239,900 ‘10 CIH 6088, 694 sep hrs.,......................................................................................................................................COMING IN ‘06 CIH 8010, 1223 sep. hrs., duals............................................................................................................................$129,900 ‘02 CIH 2388, 2074 sep. hrs., duals, RWA ....................................................................................................................$79,000 ‘95 CIH 2188 ............................................................................................................................................................COMING IN ‘13 CIH 2612, New 12-row chopping cornhead............................................................................................................$99,000 ‘13 CIH 2608, 8R30” chopping cornhead......................................................................................................................$64,500 ‘13 CIH 2608, 8R30” chopping cornhead......................................................................................................................$64,500 ‘13 CIH 3408, New 8R30” cornhead ..................................................................................................................................CALL ‘12 CIH 3408, 8R30” cornhead ....................................................................................................................................$44,900 ‘89 CIH 1083, 8R30” ......................................................................................................................................................$7,900 ‘10 CIH 2020, 25’ platform w/Crary air reel..................................................................................................................$26,800 ‘05 CIH 1020, 30’, 3” knife, rock guard ........................................................................................................................$13,900 ‘04 CIH 1020, 30’, 3” knife, rock guard ........................................................................................................................$12,900

USED 2WD TRACTORS

18 Months Interest Free • Call For Details • ‘13 CIH Magnum 235, 337 hrs., susp. Lux. cab, Full Pro 700 auto guide, hi capacity hyd. pump, 360 HID lites ......$169,900 ‘11 CIH Magnum 235, 1000 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, front & rear duals ......................................................................COMING IN ‘09 CIH Magnum 305, 3120 hrs., Lux. cab, susp. front axle, HID lites ......................................................................$135,500 ‘13 CIH Puma 160, 250 hrs., powershift trans., L765 loader, susp. axle ..................................................................$129,900 ‘12 CIH Puma 160, 300 hrs., CVT trans., L765 loader, susp. axle ..............................................................................$135,500 ‘13 CIH Puma 145, 258 hrs., powershift trans., CIH loader ......................................................................................$119,900 ‘14 CIH Farmall 105C, MFD, cab, power shuttle, w/loader, Rental Return Unit ..........................................................$55,500 ‘12 CIH Farmall 95, MFD, 677 hrs., cab, dual PTO ......................................................................................................$34,500 ‘71 JD 1520, w/JD loader ........................................................................................................................................COMING IN

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USED SPRAYERS

‘12 CIH 4330, 880 hrs., 120’ boom, aim, auto boom, Pro 700 steering, active suspension ......................................$287,500 ‘09 CIH 3330, 1750 hrs., 100’ boom, aim, auto boom, Pro 700 steering, active suspension ....................................$183,000

‘12 CIH 9230, 323 sep. hrs., tracks, RWA ....................................$369,900

‘14 CIH Tigermate 200, 50’ w/rolling basket

‘04 DMI Tigermate II, 54’, w/mulcher ............................$34,900

‘12 CIH Tigermate II, 54’ W/crumbler............................$59,900

‘90 CIH 4800, 28’ Field Cult. ................................................$9,800

‘09 CIH 3330, 1750 hrs., 100’ boom ............................................$183,000

‘12 CIH 4430, 880 hrs., 120’ boom ............................................$287,500

‘13 CIH 3330, 546 hrs., 90’ boom ............................................$210,000

Frontier DH1615, 15’ tandem disc ................................................$9,950

Gehl 5625 Skidloader ................................................$7,900

‘06 Kinze 1050 Cart, tracks, scale, trap ........................................$77,500

‘14 Leon 10 yard scraper ..............................................$24,000

‘13 Ashland I-130 scraper ..............................................$39,000

‘12 Ashland I-950 scraper ..............................................$29,500

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Jubon Juweelen, Orange City, Iowa

magine a store where a grandson can’t wait to take his grandmother shopping. Jubon Juweelen in Orange City, Iowa, is just that kind of store. The name Jubon is a combination of letters from the owners’ names — Ju (Julie), bo (Bonnie), and n (Clinton). Juweelen is an old fashioned Dutch word for jewels. Lee and Bonnie Meier were both retired from successful careers when they saw a local need. Bonnie, who was on the city council, had heard plenty of complaints that there were not enough businesses downtown. She decided to do something about it. They would open a store that would serve the community by merchandising things that were needed. A place to buy a spool of thread grew into an abundant selection of knitting, quilting and sewing supplies. It would be an outlet to sell books from their vast collection. Bonnie is the daughter and niece of librarians. The Meiers have always savored reading, but it was time to downsize and begin letting others enjoy their books. Their book nook contains old and brand new books, many from local authors. Since opening in 2010, the business has evolved as needs began to present themselves. At one time three businesses in town handled Delft — Dutch pottery — but a fire and business direction changes left a void. It was a natural fit for their store, and since then other Dutch imports including chocolate and licorice have been stocked.

When wooden shoes, including the popular wooden shoe slippers, or mens’ or womens’ Dutch hats are needed, Jubon Juweelen is the place to go for a bountiful selection. For the young girls, there are American Doll items including crafts and knitted clothing. They also have jewelry-making supplies, and there is a good supply of hand-made jewelry to complement anyone’s style. At times consignments are made of different collections. “People who have loved collecting anything are always hoping that items from their collections will go to others who appreciate the item,” Bonnie said. “It’s fun being the middleman on those transactions that result in two happy parties.” The store often features local artists’ work — water color paintings, leather workings and stained glass creations have been displayed. Antiques, predominantly but not exclusively Dutch, elicit many memories from store visitors who

have come from many states and countries. For young adults, they have disc golf supplies for sale, and for a good reason: Juliana Korver, one of the store owners, is a disc golf champion. Her personalized disc is stocked along with a good assortment to meet anyone’s skill or needs. But Jubon Juweelen offers more than simply a varied selection of items for sale. On Tuesday mornings, a group of knitters gather for two hours until noon, to knit or crochet. While there is a core group, the knitters welcome anyone, and will teach all ages this art. At 3 p.m. each day, the coffee festival begins. “Much like the days of Ben Franklin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, or Henry David Thoreau, when people gathered around the potbelly stove,” Bonnie said. “We do a lot of talking, solving the world’s problems.” Jubon Juweelen is located at 107 3rd Street NE, Orange City, IA 51041. Call (712) 707-8920 or (712) 737-7012 or log on to www.jubonjuweelen.biz. ❖

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