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The first back-to-school commercial in her parochial classroom getting lesinvaded my home not too long after the sons ready, and I’d often tag along. When Fourth of July. There’s nothing quite like I was little, her preschool room was a super-sized version of the Sunday magic. There was a child-sized Red Baron Dreads to take hold of our kids for the airplane, paint easels, a marker board, two remaining months of summer. and so much more. Outside was the school playground and on the other side When unapproved TV visuals entered of the school was the gym. my childhood home, my mom — even a room away and amid the sounds of There is something very different about LAND MINDS browning hamburger and the electric can empty classrooms in the summer, and opener — could sense the approach of walking down dark hallways to get to an

By Laura Cole violence, crude language, and/or preeven more dark and vacant gym marital romance. With spatula in always felt eerie. As each step echoed, hand, she’d briskly cover the stretch of I’d recall the scariest scenes from our main floor, and with one uncereevery movie I wasn’t supposed to have monious press of the button, the show was off. ever watched.

Every once in a while, she’d hear our pleas and give A two-pronged key was used to turn on the gym the show a second chance. As our luck had it, the lights one bank at a time, and I did so hurriedly. next moment would be even worse than the first ,,, Inside the gym was a supply room that held — and that would be it. Ignoring further protest, she along with cleaning supplies and mop heads — baswas back in front of the stove before our dinner ketballs, jump ropes, and most prized of all P.E. dared to burn. equipment, the scooters. As long as my brothers Following suit, the moment the stack of notebooks, weren’t along, I had free reign with one exception. scissors and markers showed up dancing on my The gym was also used for Christmas Eve services screen, I knew it was far too early for my child’s and there was an organ installed at the top right sleepy summer eyes to absorb such content. My corner of the bleachers. The entrance was roped off instincts kicked in; but getting up to turn off the TV and was not to be crossed. Running up and down was not an option. I likely had a cat on my lap; and the bleachers, I recalled the cautionary tales of elecbesides that, I’m not actually certain where the tric fences. I convinced myself the rope must be simpower button is located (adults these days). I fumilarly rigged and steered clear. bled to get out of whatever streaming service I was When the fun of the gym was over, I turned each in, and was much too late. She saw the colorful bank of lights off, one section at a time, and the school supplies, the eager students parading down a shiver of terror would return. I had the option of hallway in their brand new shoes with their brand taking the outside route back to my mom’s classnew backpacks. What followed wasn’t necessarily room, but I always chose the fright — taking off as discernible, but I’d put the sentiment in the category soon as the last light was out and racing through of ... ugh. the school. One year a teacher’s kid, running in the Unless we come up with a glitzy August holiday gym when it was pitch-black, crashed into someone that will guarantee a cash-in for corporate America, and shattered her glasses. I never forgot the it seems the kids are out of luck. With the red, white screaming and often kept an arm outstretched in and blue decor done selling, something new has to front of me. replace it; so school it is. Vacation is vacation, but I The arrival of August brought teachers to the can’t help but think these premature reminders are school more frequently, and they’d spend their days taking something from the beauty of summer. sharing the laminator and putting up bulletin Maybe thanks to the ads, I find myself switching boards. Sometimes they would ask for my help with between a few modes during this time of year. a task and I’d get a first look at the seating Sometimes frantic to cram in as many summer mem- arrangements. They often wore t-shirts and jean ories as possible, and other days seem to call for spi- shorts, and it was always a little unsettling. They’d raling in misery that summer is coming to an end talk to me casually, to which I could never adjust, and agonizing over the projects I dreamed in knowing in just a few weeks the atmosphere would January and have yet to accomplish. But there are be much different. also times I forget just how long our winters are and For many, there’s still a month before school opt to crank the AC, cocoon into a blanket, and watch starts, and even though big business is in a conChristmas movies. I’ll take full blame for that one. stant rush to hurry along to the next thing, I hope My mom was a teacher and had a much more bal- you’re able to fully enjoy your August. As for me, I’ll anced approach to her June, July and August. On be steering clear of the back-to-school shopping secthe last day of school she made sure to have her tion for a bit longer and spending my evenings with planner for the following school year; and though the lightning bugs for as long as they’ll stay. also not a fan of the stores’ early disruption to sumLaura Cole is the staff writer of The Land. She mer, she genuinely looked forward to the start of may be reached at lcole@TheLandOnline.com. v each school year. She spent many summer mornings

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Murphy’s book details the pitfalls and promise of hemp

The dirt that’s in your garden is like a bed Let’s say you’ve done hemp farmer on a in a fairy tale: not too hard, not too soft, just small scale. If you’re thinking about buying “Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom right. land and trying to legally go big, there’s lots and Bust in the New Wild West” to learn and author Finn Murphy tells it Yep, now’s a good time to put that dirt to

by Finn Murphy plain. He shares his experience here, some use by setting plants in the ground. But c.2023, W.W. Norton & Company process, some pitfalls, problems, prices, and planting isn’t the only part of a successful $27.95 the big picture in detail. Often, despite the harvest. There’ll be ongoing maintenance to number$, that comes with a wink and an 220 pages do. As in the new book “Rocky Mountain aura of eyebrow-raising calm that wavers High” by Finn Murphy, you’ll also need to be THE BOOKWORM only sometimes. weed-ing. but they had no way to process the SEZ Readers might be a little surprised that this book harvest.

Fifteen years after ending his gig as a longBy Terri Schlichenmeyer on hemp farming can feel like it belongs on a busihaul mover, Finn Murphy was living in Seizing the moment, Murphy had ness shelf. It’s filled with workplace advice, and Colorado and thinking about something to find somewhere to construct three Murphy’s philosophy on hiring and second chances exciting: growing hemp was newly legal there, supgigantic hoop buildings, find certain kinds of workported by research and the Colorado Department of ers, and purchase the equipment to do the harvest- is worth a read for anyone in a supervisory position.

Even if you’ve never smoked in your life, even if you Agriculture. By just knowing this, he had a very ing. He hired his godson as foreman and a fellow don’t inhale, even if you have a brown thumb, that good chance of “making some serious dough.” gig-worker to act as supervisor. Then he watched makes “Rocky Mountain High” a winner.

Even better, land was relatively cheap and he had his bank account leak money as the work increased You’ll really dig it. and time ran out. funds available.

Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a The payout: possibly “almost $2 million” for “Hemp,” says Murphy, “is Mother Earth’s superlibrary near you. You may also find the book at “weedwhackers.” plant...” with what experts say has 25,000 different online book retailers. uses. One in particular is legal in some states and For Murphy, quite a different number... offers reduced levels of THC. It’s used as medicinal The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has Well … another day, another dollar. That kind of “smokable flower” and CBD. been reading since she was 3 years old and never shrug comes through plainly inside “Rocky goes anywhere without a book. She lives in That kind of crop, he says, was the plan. Alas, Mountain High,” and that makes this a highly Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v though the government seemed eager to offer supunusual book. port, paperwork delays made him miss the planting deadline in his very first year.

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Russian roulette — with missiles, drones and food The one certainty about the UkrainianNews of the drones, destruction, and Russian war is that there is little certainexport delays lit global grain markets on ty. fire. Corn, the soy complex, and wheat went up and down and then back up.

Even with Russia’s recent history of Some of the move’s energy came from conaggression, few predicted outright war. tinued dryness throughout much of the Then, when it came, no one predicted grain-producing Midwest. Most, however, Russia would so badly misplay its opening arrived courtesy of Russia’s attacks on gambit. And who could have foreseen a former television comedian rallying his FARM & FOOD FILE Ukrainian ports. out-manned, out-gunned citizenry to meet But Russia, noted Sizov, “has much to

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Putin. He pulled out of the BlackAND Sea grain deal to Ukrainian keep an estimated 40 million metric tons of 2023 Also, any increase in attacks on Russian shipping Ukrainian grain from the world’s 600 million hungry. imperils its economic lifeblood: oil exports. Experts He then sent missiles to destroy much of Odesa’s estimate that 43 percent of all exported Russian oil export infrastructure to ensure the world received is shipped through the Black Sea — mostly on Greekflagged tankers. Any move by anyone in that arena The Land his mad message. carries repercussions — market-wise, political, and By itself, however, the closing down of “Odesa shipments,” tweeted Andre Sizov, a 27-year veteran of the Black Sea grain trade, “are not a game changer.

Ukraine can ship 40-plus mmt of grain via other routes.” One of the “other” routes Sizov pointed to July 21 was a Ukrainian “Danube port” on the Black Sea’s northwestern shore.

Then, surprise, Russian drones bombed that port, Reni, too. The July 24 action took guts because the bombed side of the river is Ukraine; the other side, Romania — a NATO ally that, had it been hit, would have likely required a military response by the U.S.led, 31-nation security group.

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military — that few want to consider.

Five days after the first Putin action, European Union ag ministers met to develop a plan to move the mountain of now-stuck Ukrainian grain through its border-sharing member nations (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia) and into key markets in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

It’s not a new idea. It was used to move some of the 2022 Ukrainian crop into the world market. But it’s not very popular either.

In fact, two months ago, on June 5, the European Commission (the body that oversees EU trade policy) said it would extend its current rule that allowed the five border nations to “restrict Ukrainian grain” flowing through their nations. What’s more, the Commission allowed the same five to outright ban sales of Ukrainian wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunSee GUEBERT, pg. 6

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MARKETING

Grain Outlook Corn rally runs out of gas Editor’s Note: Joe Lardy, CHS Hedging research analyst, is sitting in this week for Phyllis Nystrom, the regular “Grain Outlook” columnist.

The following marketing analysis is for the week ending July 28.

CORN — Corn started strong on July 24 with a 32 cent gain but closed lower every day for the rest of the week. For the week, December corn was down 6 cents.

News from the Ukraine/Russia conflict continue to add a lot of volatility to the market as Russia intensified its attacks on grain related infrastructure. There were stories on July 28 that Ukraine was attacking Russian assets in the Rostov area. It is a main growing region and also a main shipJOE LARDY ping area. Almost as fast as the CHS Hedging Inc. market rallied, it sold off. We are S t. Paul going to be susceptible to increasing headline risk.

The week started with a disappointing corn inspection number. At just over 12 million bushels, it was the lowest total since last November. Inspections are below the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s pace by 40 million bushels.

This week’s crop conditions were unchanged at 57 percent good/excellent. Even though conditions have bounced back a little bit, they are still well behind the five-year average of 65 percent. Crop conditions have gone up or held steady the past four weeks, which is the opposite of what normally happens this time of the year. But since crop conditions fell off the

Cash Grain Markets corn/change* Stewartville $5.17 -.75 Edgerton $5.44 -.27 Jackson $5.42 -.32 Hope $5.52 -.32 Cannon Falls $5.16 -.62 Sleepy Eye $5.32 -.32 St. Cloud $5.12 -.32 Madison $5.07 -.37 Redwood Falls $5.17 -.32 Fergus Falls $4.97 -.12 Morris $5.17 -.32 Tracy $5.07 -.45 Average: $5.22 Year Ago Average: $6.84

soybeans/change* $13.15 -1.41 $12.96 -.79 $13.10 -1.22 $13.12 -1.09 $13.13 -1.32 $13.16 -1.09 $13.16 -1.06 $13.06 -.99 $13.16 -.99 $12.61 -1.19 $12.91 -1.04 $13.01 -1.04

$13.05 $14.11

Grain prices are effective cash close on Aug. 1. *Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

cliff so early, there was some room for a rebound.

Ethanol production as a nice surprise the week rising by 24,000 barrels per day to 1,094,000 bpd.

Production was a marketing year high and also was the highest level in nearly two years. Ethanol margins remain very strong at 64 cents.

Export sales this week were in the middle of expectations at 12.4 million bushels, but still the total is not enough to give the market some bullish tailwinds. The combined total of old crop and new crop sales of 25.6 million bushels is the lowest total of the past month.

Outlook: The corn market failed to hold the early week rally and that doesn’t bode well longer term.

The hot weather this week should be reflected in lower condition scores, but a tame weather outlook has brought out the possibility for additional selling.

SOYBEANS — The bean market also had an up and down week. Overall, November futures ended the week down 19.25 cents. The bean market received

some spillover strength from the row corn and wheat markets.

Soybean inspections continue to be seasonally slow.

For the past 11 weeks, the current inspection total has been below both the five-year average and last year. Inspections are ahead of the USDA pace by 88 million bushels. We are shaving 25 to 30 million bushels off the pace per week. We still have five weeks of data left in the marketing year, so it looks like the current export level might still be a little too high.

The good/excellent rating drop by 1 percent to 54 percent this week. That is 5 percent lower than last year and 8 percent less than the five-year average.

Soybean export sales were decent with 7 million bushels of old crop but 20 million of new crop. The big story of the week on exports was the wave of flash sale announcement in the morning. We saw announcements every day except July 25 and the weekly total was a very robust 37 million bushels. The destinations were China, unknown (presumed China), and Mexico.

Outlook: Will we continue to see more sales announcements? It looks like there is a window of opportunity that’s opened up a bit for U.S. beans to move into China. It would definitely be welcomed; but new crop sales are so far behind the five-year average it will take a lot more announcements to catch up.

A calmer and cooler weather forecast is going to get a few more bears to take notice again.

OUTSIDE MARKETS — The Dow was on pace for its best run in 126 years. If the Dow would have closed higher on July 27 it would have been the 14th consecutive session of gains. That would be its longest run of consecutive gains since May, 1897. Sadly it failed. If the Dow could have pulled off a higher day on July 27, and for a 15th straight day on July 28, that would mark the index’s longest daily winning streak ever. Sooooooooo close. v

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.

The threat to global commodity markets is far from over GUEBERT, from pg. 5 flower seeds in their countries.

Any new deal now will be met with quiet derision, not boisterous unity. “The road and rail routes through neighboring countries have stirred anger from local farmers faced with a glut of Ukrainian grain that has driven down prices and hurt their livelihoods,” ABC News reported July 25.

It’s not great for Ukrainian farmers either. Shipping delays and higher transportation costs mean lower farm prices and smaller profits for the already warweary group.

In the meantime, unsurprisingly, Russia keeps raising the stakes. When EU ag ministers suggested Ukrainian grain exports might be diverted through Baltic ports in Lithuania, a Russian spokesman said, sure, go ahead and try it.

Be forewarned, he added, “We will continue to counter that.”

What does that mean? The chances are good that

not even Vlad the Invader knows, but it’s certain that the threat to global commodity markets is far from over.

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Finding a clearer vision in the haze of humanity Grief is such a strange local, gospel-focused outemotion. It can come at you reach center to serve and all at once like a landslide build relationships with event, burying you so deeply those who live in underthat there is a real fear served neighborhoods and you’ll never see the light of those who have found day again. Grief can also themselves without a home. creep in slowly, like the wildMy reality has shifted, and fire smoke we’ve been expemy eyes have been opened.

DEEP ROOTS riencing. A once-clear line of A sly prejudice has been sight becomes slowly hazed

By Whitney Nesse ever-present in my mind until you forget what it feels and in my heart against like to see clearly, and life lived under a those who are homeless and undercloud of smoke becomes normal. served, and I am ashamed to admit I am in a state of an all-at-once that. Although it went unspoken, the landslide event of grief. I am grieving flashing marquee in my mind read, the death of life as I once knew it. My “Get a job and get off the streets! Make eyes have been opened to a stark real- a better life for yourself!” The Lord ity I only knew existed from afar. That changed my heart when, in my mind, stark reality now has names and faces that nameless and faceless people for me. The grief and the burden are group became individuals with stories, real, and I am now left to navigate names and faces. this heartbreaking newness, walking a As I worked distributing food on a tightrope while balancing grief and street corner, the faces of the nearly reality, sorrow and joy, burden and 400 people we served became clearer. hope.

Elderly men and women, children and My oldest daughter and I recently infants, and pregnant mothers all returned from a week-long mission came — many with their heads hung trip to Los Angeles. While there, our in shame as they received their stichurch’s youth group partnered with a pend with nothing but thankfulness. I

learned that day that many of these individuals work full-time but are still unable to make ends meet.

The faces of the individuals became more and more clear as the Lord allowed me to serve others. I sat on a street in Skid Row and conversed with two lovely women whose roots are similar to mine! Both grew up on family farms in Texas, working alongside their grandparents, raising cattle, chickens, and hogs. We shared stories back and forth, and all the while, the Lord was doing work in my heart, revealing to me the names and faces of the ones that he loves so dearly.

The next face the Lord unveiled to me still brings me to tears. The face of a four-year-old boy who loves Captain America and the color blue! God ordained this encounter to change my heart. How could I have known that this boy’s favorite color was blue when I had dressed in blue shorts that day? Or when I reached into a wagon, pulled out a blue sports drink, and handed it to him? I know now that the Lord wanted me to learn the boy’s name, to get on my knees, look directly into his face, and see the joy in his eyes as we talked

about the things we had in common.

The Lord broke the prejudice in my heart while I served in the middle of the night outside Union Station. Lying on the sidewalk was a man soaked in urine and heavily under the influence.

As cockroaches scattered and rats rummaged in the street next to him, the Lord spoke to my heart and said, “My son died for him, too.”

As I dig myself out of the landslide of grief with the help of my Savior, I weep over the fact that my heart was so calloused towards those that God loves deeply. Yet I am beginning to balance the grief with hope. Everyone is on a journey towards our eternal home, and some of us — including me — have taken wrong turns. However, when we turn the compass over to the one who holds the map, he will evermore truly navigate us, bringing back our wayward hearts, bringing clarity once more to the places that have become hazy, and rescuing us from landslides.

Whitney Nesse is a sixth-generation livestock farmer who is deeply rooted in her faith and family. She writes from her central Minnesota farm. v

Hostas are a flexible ornament for any yard and garden Hostas come in many sizes clumps that may be two or and shades of green — three feet tall and as much including variegated veras four feet wide. The leaves sions. Their large leaves can be smooth, veined or radiate out from the center have puckers. Their shape area. These herbaceous can be heart-shaped or perennials, sometimes called cupped and able to hold rainplantain lilies, are found in water. Light purple or white GREEN AND many gardens, and are now blooms appear on tall stalks.

GROWING starting to bloom.

Deadhead blooms when they Different varieties have dif- By Linda G. Tenneson begin to fade to keep the plant’s energy in the roots ferent tolerance to the sun based on the color of the leaves. Many for the following growing season. Hostas hostas grow best in deep shade or with are attractive to pollinators. four or less hours of sun each day. This Hostas are tough plants that will plant will show damage if exposed to too grow in various types of soil, but do much sun. However, there are some best in moist soil with organic content. varieties with yellow or white variegated Hostas spread by underground rhileaves that can tolerate more sun expo- zomes and can be divided. This is best sure. Hostas grow with wide leaves that done in the spring when it is easier to shade out weeds and this plant can be see the growing tips emerging from the used in areas where there is not enough ground. A shovel blade can be used to sun to grow grass. separate the clump into pieces. Plant There are over 1,000 hosta varieties the divisions at the same soil level as which have been given creative names. their original depth and water well There are dwarf varieties which are until they are established. only a few inches wide and tall; and Hostas will survive periods of drought extremely large versions which produce and prefer infrequent deep watering to

frequent shallow watering. Fertilizer may be applied in the spring. They will show damage but will recover from a late spring freeze.

There is also a virus that has affected hostas. Check the leaves for irregularities when selecting hostas for purchase.

Voles, snails and deer will eat hostas.

The website extensionpublications. unl.edu/assets/html/g1683/build/ g1683.html from the University of Nebraska provides the most detailed information about hostas.

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Have commodity checkoffs strayed from their intent?

By Tim King The Land Correspondent WABASSO, Minn. — Late last March, 131 organizations got together and sent a joint letter to the leadership of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees in support of The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (S.557 and H.R.1249). The organizations, which included Minnesota’s Land Stewardship Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, asked the legislators to support the Act and to make it part of the upcoming Farm Bill.

The Act, according to the letter’s signees, would enact meaningful reforms to our nation’s commodity checkoff programs.

The checkoffs were set up through the 1985 Farm Bill as a way for producers to pool resources to promote beef,

pork, dairy, soybeans, and other agricultural commodities. The Beef Checkoff program requires every rancher to pay $1 on each live cow sold, and the Pork Checkoff requires producers to pay 35 cents per $100 in live pig sales. Last year, the Beef Checkoff brought in $43.1 million dollars, while the Pork Checkoff collected $106 million from farmers.

Although they are run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the checkoff programs do not directly promote their commodities. Instead, they contract with private trade associations to promote products made from the commodities. The trade associations submit proposals to the checkoffs seeking funding for public relations campaigns and research projects. It’s at that point where problems have arisen over the years.

“Several of these programs and associated boards have well-documented histories of waste, conflicts of interest, misuse of funding, anti-competitive behavior, and other related issues,” the letter’s authors wrote to the Congressional leaders. “For these reasons, farmers and ranchers across the country have grown disillusioned with the effectiveness of many of these checkoff programs as they operate today,” The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act asks for basic oversight and accountability for how money is spent and to whom it goes. It would also require financial transparency through the publication of check-off program budgets and expenditures, prohibit employees and agents of the check off boards from engaging in activities which may involve a conflict of interest, and require periodic audits by the USDA’s inspector general, among other things.

“This legislation is important first step in bringing accountability to the mandatory check off programs,” said Paul Sobocinski, a Wabasso, Minn. independent pork producer.

Sobocinski is a long-time critic of the checkoff programs and he sees the fingerprints of the Pork Check Off and the National Pork Producer Council (NPPC) all over the disappearance of Minnesota’s independent pork producers.

“Once the checkoff became mandatory, in about 1986, it set up the situation that allowed the NPPC to assemble the largest producers, cut deals with packers, and use independent producer’s checkoff money to drive them out of business,” Sobocinski said.

To make his point that small independent farmers have been largely driven out of business, he points to the village of Vesta, Minn.

“In 1998, in my county of Redwood we had about 45 to 50 producers utilizing the Vesta NFO collection point. Today there is only one or two producers using that collection point,” he said.

It’s not that fewer hogs are being raised, but that the checkoff has created an environment where there are just a few large hog producers and even fewer processors. Sobocinski says the mandatory checkoff played a big role in creating that high level of concentration.

“In 1998, Al Tank, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council said, “Now is the time to expand and seize market share”,” Sobocinski recalls. “At the time those of us who were independent hog producers thought, ‘is he crazy?’ but he meant exactly what he said. This is the time for big operations like Boerboom in Marshall, Minn. and Christensen Farms in my former home town of Sleepy Eye, to grab and seize market share.”

Sobocinke says farmers thought Tank, now a consultant operating out of Washington D.C., was crazy because hog prices had tanked from 50 cents to 8 cents per pound.

“That was lower than my grandpa got during the Great Depression,” Sobocinski said.

But, Sobocinski says, after some reflection he realized Tank and his NPPC colleagues weren’t crazy. They had big market consolidation sugar plum fairies dancing in their heads.

“Al Tank’s idea was about having a few large producers seize the market share, through production contracts, from small independent hog farmers,” Sobocinski says. “If the checkoff for hog producers was actually working, we wouldn’t have seen most of the independent hog producers driven out of business.”

Sobocinski says he thinks the checkoff is working just fine for big producers, big processors, Washington PR firms, and well-connected consultants.

It is not working well for the roughly 700 independent pork producers remaining in American agriculture, however.

“Under NPPC’s decades of leadership, the bargaining power of farmers has diminished and opportunities of where to sell our hogs has significantly narrowed,” Sobocinski said. “The same NFO representative that told me about the collection point at Vesta told me that the current sow market is 14 cents for light sows and 18 cents for heavy sows, Now that is depression prices!”

It’s not just independent pork producers, those who don’t have contracts with big producers like Boerboom and Christianson, that are critical of their respective checkoff. R-CALF USA, a signatory to the letter to Congress and an organization run by independent See CHECKOFFS, pg. 15

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Malting grain experiments has Thomas doubting no more

By RICHARD SIEMERS The Land Correspondent When Lee Thomas brought his new wife, Noreen, to the 1,200-acre Thomas family farm near Kragnes, not far from Moorhead, he may have known he brought a researcher and an educator; but may not have known that he was one of those who would be educated.

Noreen Thomas had degrees in Food Nutrition and in Chemistry and a minor in Microbiology from North Dakota State University in Fargo.

(Back in those days, she said, there was no Food Science course which later would combine those areas.) She worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a researcher, and the North Dakota Department of Health on pesticide residue. She used to get headaches from the chemicals.

“I’m the canary in the coal mine,” she said. “If anyone is going to get a headache from something, it’s me.”

Lee and Noreen were married in 1987, while Lee was still farming with his father and brother.

When she came to the farm, she advocated for taking the whole 1,200 acres organic. That was not an easy sell for a farm that had been in the Thomas family since 1878; and there were plenty of Thomas skeptics who feared it wouldn’t work — including Lee. (While Thomas is their last name, Doubting Thomas Farms is not only a catchy name, it was descriptive of the reaction of many family members.)

Ten years later, Lee (who is now the sole proprietor of the farm and the one who asks the practical questions about Noreen’s many ideas), agreed. In 1997

it became an organic farm raising a Foundation Awards. They are very rotation of small grains (buckwheat, discriminating, able to taste the difoats, barley, rye, wheat, and winter ference between flours, and they wheat), alfalfa, and soybeans. know what they are looking for in their baking and entrees they create.

“It’s definitely a learning curve,” Noreen said. And learning is someOne grain Thomas has not yet thing Noreen likes to do. Rather worked with, but wants to, is buckthan selling all the grain on the wheat. She has started researching organic market, she is researching winter wheat. malting small grains. She has malt“Our sourdough people need a ed for a brewery and may again, but lower protein, so I’m just starting her focus is the culinary market. to experiment with winter wheat,” “That field has really opened up,” she said. “I’m intrigued because she said. “We’re just starting to there is a baker in central understand some of the malting Minnesota that has to have low process for grains. It’s a totally difprotein for the sourdough she is ferent flavor profile.” One that chefs making the old-fashioned way.” and bakers are interested in.

Doubting Thomas Farms is She described the basic process indeed plural when you consider like this: “You soak the grain and that — as an organic sanctuary — get it wet, and then it sprouts. You Photo submitted it supports eight enterprises, “farms knock off the sprouts and then you Noreen Thomas visits with author and chef Dan Barber within the farm,” as Noreen who serves Thomas’ malted oats at Blue Hill in Manhattan. describes it. roast it with dry heat.”

Her research is experimenting 1. When I arrived at the farm, a with the malting process — steeping and bakers in Fargo-Moorhead and blender of herbal teas was leaving with time, drying time — to achieve differ- Minnesota, even California. Many have her harvest of fresh ingredients. ent taste profiles, something akin to a been on the Food Network and have been coffee bean roaster. Except Thomas has nominees for the James Beard See THOMAS, pg. 14 a variety of small grains from which to choose. Barley is a proven grain for malting, having been used in making beer for centuries. Thomas is researching other grains.

“One we have worked on is malting oats,” she said. “You get a caramelized flavor.”

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Proper diet is vital to maintaining pig gut health

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By Diane DeWitte produce by-products which especially in today’s pig prohelp prevent pathogens from growing duction where we use fewer antibiotics. on the gut wall. Resident microflora The digestive tract serves as a direct may start immune factor production, path for disease-causing organisms such as immunoglobulins (antibodies) (pathogens) to enter the pig and cause and inflammatory responders. disease. The intestine protects the pig Direct-fed microbials and from pathogens in several ways. It probiotics maintains a healthy natural commuThe use of probiotics or direct-fed nity of “bugs” (microflora) in the gut. microbials (DFM) to enhance intestinal The intestine releases antibodies and health has been studied for many years. restricts pathogens through the physiIn fact, probiotics have been used for as cal environment. While the intestine long as people have eaten fermented moves food through the digestive sysfoods. Probiotics are traditionally tem it also produces a mucus protein defined as viable microorganisms that (mucin) barrier. have a beneficial effect in the prevenNutrition can greatly affect all these tion and treatment of specific pathoprotections. Understanding how diet logic conditions when ingested. Pigs interacts and affects a healthy gut can have a diverse gut microflora, containhelp in developing nutritional plans to ing over 400 bacterial species: with maintain or improve pig health and, in bacterial cells outnumbering host cells turn, performance. by a factor of 10. One strategy to prevent pathogenic bacterial colonization Microflora Gut microflorae are normal “bugs” of the gastrointestinal system is to which live in the gut and aid in diges- include DFM in the diets of pigs. tion and immunity. Greatly altering Direct fed microbials are defined by gut microflora through diet is hard the Food and Drug Administration as because producers feed a large amount “a source of live (viable), naturally of cereal grains to provide high-energy occurring microorganisms.” The use of diets at a lower cost. “naturally occurring microorganisms”

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Many direct-fed microbial products can be added to the diet or water supply to supplement or aid in building a healthy gut microflora. These products can benefit animal health and performance — especially right after weaning and in cases where conditions are good for pathogenic infections. Supplementing early nursery diets with specific carbohydrates, such as galactose, may help maintain carbohydrate balance and decrease break-down by gut bacteria. This may not be a big issue in older growing pigs but may be important for newly-weaned pigs in improving their protective microflora and mucin.

Avoid sudden dietary changes Promoting increased or continued feed intake post-weaning is key to lowering the risk of health problems and improving performance. Sudden changes in diet intake and content greatly affect microflora.

Adequate feed intake improves nutrients available for growth and immune function; along with decreasing potential for opportunistic pathogens which are organisms that cause disease under abnormal conditions.

Each of these factors is important to optimize intake: adequate feeder space; proper adjustment of feeders; removal of stale or spoiled feed; and proper maintenance and adjustment of waterers Volatile fatty acids Many feed nutrients go through fermentation in the intestine. This activity produces fermentation acids, including volatile fatty acids (VFAs). Diet can greatly affect VFA levels. Providing fiber in the diet is most effective in promoting increases of VFAs. But you must also consider the negative effects on growth and feed conversion when feeding more fiber. Higher VFA levels in the intestine increase resistance to opportunistic pathogens such as pathogenic E. coli. This resistance may be partly due to the ability of VFAs to help reduce gut

pH. VFAs also aid in the health of the intestinal tract by providing a ready source of energy for gut tissues. VFAs meet a large part of the energy needs for these tissues.

Higher VFA levels may increase movement of feed through the gut by increasing gastric emptying and muscle activity in the gut. Slower movement of food material in the gut can increase pathogen growth.

Stomach and intestinal pH Stomach and intestinal pH influence the amount of nutrients available to the animal by affecting digestive enzyme activity and digestive rates. In addition, pH affects the ability of pathogens to grow in the gut.

The stomach’s low pH provides an initial barrier against pathogens.

Opportunistic pathogens, such as E. coli and salmonella, grow in neutral pH conditions. Lowering pH in the gut tends to favor growth of resident bacteria, including lactobacilli. This growth contributes towards a healthy microflora. Research shows that, right after weaning, pH in the gut increases, which results in an increase in the proportion of pathogenic bacteria.

Intestinal mucins The outer thin layer of cells in the intestine (epithelial cells) produce proteins called mucins. Mucins protect the gut from the scraping of feedstuffs and from bacterial growth. Gut mucins may bind to pathogens and thus reduce the risk of pathogens attaching to the gut wall. Researchers report that mucins are the major blockers to certain types of attaching E. coli. When mucins bind to pathogens it reduces pathogen attachment to gut tissues. In turn, this may prevent or reduce immune response and infection. Microflora can ferment mucins. Some intestinal bacteria may select certain carbohydrate parts of the mucins to use for nutrient substrates.

Additional discussion of probiotics and direct-fed microbials can be found in Pork Information Gateway’s (PIG) Feed Additives fact sheet. (https://porkgateway.org/resource/feed-additivesfor-swine-2/).

Save the date The University of Minnesota’s 84th Minnesota Nutrition Conference will See SWINE & U, pg. 14

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Aphid watch is underway in reporters’ soybean fields

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Corey Hanson Gary, Minn.

July 28

On July 28, Corey Hanson reported finishing his second cutting of alfalfa the week prior. He applied fertilizer afterward, a task he prefers to do after each cutting, but is dependent on the weather. Hanson’s optimal cutting timeframes are June 1-10, July 10-20, and August 20-30. When he had dairy cattle, he spaced his cuttings closer together; but with his beef cattle operation, he very seldom does a fourth cutting, choosing to wait to get more tonnage with each crop.

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David Tauer Hanska, Minn.

July 27

The alfalfa at David Tauer’s farm seems to be doing okay after being sprayed for leafhoppers. Tauer reported on July 27 that he’ll begin his third cutting the following week.

Northern corn rootworm didn’t cause an issue for Tauer last year, but over the past week he sprayed for the beetles. He stated the pressure becomes more when planting corn-oncorn and he may change his insecticide program next year.

Hanson’s farm received about half an inch of rain the week of July 16, the Compiled by Laura Cole, The Land Staff Writer only significant rainfall since the third full week of June.

“I haven’t seen much disease or insect pressure on the corn,” Hanson stated. His soybeans are in their last phase of flowering, and he hasn’t seen a lot of white mold yet. He reported a current average of 20-40 aphids per plant. Should he see the number climb to 150-200 per plant, he explained he’ll likely get the sprayer ready in case they surpass the 250 mark.

Coming up, Hanson will be handing out candy at local parades with the Norman County Soybean and Corn Growers Association. The group welcomes new members, as he stated, “Membership is what drives policy.” v

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Within just an hour, Nick Pooch’s farm Nick Pooch received 4.4 inches of rain on July 25. “We Farwell, Minn. only had a 30 percent chance of rain,” he said July 27 on July 27. “The ground soaked it up like a sponge.”

Prior to the rainfall, Pooch stated the corn was stressed, but the following day everything was dark green again. While the crops are looking good, he noted how beneficial it would have been if they had received half that rain a bit sooner.

Aphids haven’t been spotted yet on Pooch’s soybeans, but he said historically this is the time he has to watch closely for them.

Pooch finished combining rye on July 23 and baling was completed the following day. He stated the yield was 32 bushels and a little over 50 small square bales per acre. He added the 4-H kids who use the bales built up some sweat equity by helping out. The acres will be planted with a mix of soybeans and oats.

At press, the Pope County Fair will be underway. Pooch’s brother, Austin, is on the fair board. They both have children who will be showing animals, and as a member of the Glacial Ridge Cattlemen’s Association, Pooch will grill steaks on Aug. 5. v

Tauer expects the millet he planted to sprout once there’s more moisture.

There have been some light showers, but nothing substantial. “Just enough to wet the ground a few times over,” he remarked. “We have heavy soil, so we’re lucky there.”

The cows are tolerating the heat that recently hit the area. “Milk production has not dropped yet,” Tauer commented, but noted it may fall over the following days. Calving has picked up. From July 23-27, the farm had 10 additions, and every one has been a bull calf. Until January, there will typically be one to three calves born each day.

Ruby and Adam wrapped up their softball and baseball seasons, with the last games canceled due to the heat. Luckily they have an upcoming trip visiting extended family to look forward to. v

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Jim Hagen Lake Mills, Iowa July 27

Earlier in the day, Hagen drove 40 Iowa farmers to the Hefty Field Day in Baltic, S.D. It’s his sixth year driving for this event, and he enjoys being able to take part in the happenings.

The soybeans are currently waist-high and flowering. On July 24, Hagen sprayed the crop with a fungicide as well as a preventative against aphids. He finished on July 26.

Hagen stated corn pollination went well. The corn looks clean and is still without sign of tar spot or fungus. At this point, he’s not sure if there will be a need to spray.

The big event in Iowa from July 22-29 is RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa).

Hagen brought the U.S. Airforce Cycling Team to the start of course. Describing them as “a good bunch of people,” Hagen stated the members provide goodwill and fix flat tires and offer first aid as needed. He’ll pick them up at the end of the last day. v

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Thomas estimates 8,000 people have visited the farm THOMAS, from pg. 9 2, A beekeeper has two million bees on the farm. (“That buckwheat honey is beautiful,” Noreen said.)

3. The Thomases do not harvest around the perimeter of the fields because it is not considered organic.

A farmer uses that to graze beef cows.

4. The USDA has plots where they research perennial flax and perennial sunflowers.

5. A French chef has an herbal garden on the farm.

6. An organic milk goat dairyman harvests hay on the farm.

7. The Thomases grow rare indigenous seeds of plants which are near extinction for the White Earth Reservation.

8. Most important is their daughter-in-law, Melany.

While their three sons were very enterprising growing up on the farm, none have an interest in farming.

But Melany is interested. This year she is renting 600 acres of the farm which she farms herself. It’s the beginning of transitioning the farm to her.

Those numerous enterprises and Doubting Thomas Farms both benefit from the relationship; but it happens in part because Noreen Thomas thinks they have an obligation to share the farm and what is happening. That’s why the farm is also a kind of learning center.

“I think I counted in five years we had 8,000 people through the farm,” she said.

That is not just on-farm tours, which can be arranged. They also host family events with entertainment, cooking demonstrations, and vendors — many who are emerging farmers introducing their produce and products. Plus, Thomas teams with a local Extension educator to host classes at the farm.

She has brought out children from a shelter to learn gardening. (They are fascinated that there are no sidewalks and they are free to explore.) They host college students, too.

“The environmental science professor at Concordia College (in Moorhead) always brings her classes out in spring and fall,” Thomas said. “She loves the farm because it has all the different things they are studying.”

While the Thomas family may have doubted the success of the way Lee and Noreen were taking the farm, you might say the couple was following the example set by Lee’s father. He dared to experiment and try something new when he was the first in the area to get into sugar beets. Still, the family’s concern was understandable. No one wants to see a multigenerational farm fail. So it was a powerful validation when Lee’s father, who had doubted the move to organic, before he died, said, “I’m glad you guys did what you did.”

Lee and Noreen Thomas are satisfied, too. They have a productive 1,200 acre organic farm that will stay in the family, a farm which is also a learning center for others. And Noreen continues her research on malting small grains.

“We’re still learning, too,” she said. v

Nutrition conference is Sept. 20 and 21 SWINE & U, from pg. 10 be held on Sept. 20 and 21 at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza in Mankato, Minn.

This event is a highly regarded and well-known Midwestern livestock nutrition forum. The conference delivers leading-edge, research-based knowledge to advance sustainable production of beef, dairy, poultry and swine. The event is presented by the Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, and University of Minnesota Extension.

All animal nutrition professionals in the Upper Midwest are invited to participate. Preconference symposium will start at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 20, with the Conference main session beginning at 1:30 p.m.

The event will wrap up at 3 p.m. on Sept. 21.

The preconference symposium, sponsored by Danisco Animal Nutrition and Health/IFF, is “Feed Challenges? Rethinking nutrition for today and tomorrow’s productivity demands” and includes discussions by nutrition leaders in all species of livestock and poultry.

Registration will include the conference General Session, species sessions with concurrent ruminant and nonruminant presentations, light continental breakfast, lunch, break refreshments and welcome reception. Online preregistration is $225 through Sept. 15 with on-site registration of $275. University of Minnesota faculty/student registration is $75. To register, visit mnnutritionconf.umn.edu.

Diane DeWitte is an Extension Educator specializing in swine for the University of Minnesota Extension.

Her e-mail address is stouf002@umn.edu. v

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Cover crops helped rescue eroded farm land

By RICHARD SIEMERS The Land Correspondent Doug Bos is Assistant Director of Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District, where he has worked for 27 years. When he talks about cover crops, he is not only talking of programs, he is speaking of personal experience.

Bos grew up on a farm, the oldest of six children. The farm wouldn’t be able to support a second family, so he went to work at Hills-Beaver Creek Co-op and also provided agronomist services. Doug Bos But he still had farming in his heart, so he and his wife, Lynette Stensland, bought a 100-acre farm in Rock County in 1987. The terrain is fairly steep, and the previous owner had farmed up and down the hills. Some areas had significant erosion.

“The hillsides and knolls would barely grow a crop,” Bos said. The soybeans were short with few beans, the corn about three feet tall. “You’d look at it and ask whether it was really worth planting this ground. Overall, it was an average farm in yield; but those hillsides took a lot of the profit out of what it cost to put in a crop.”

Bos had no-till beans, but more was needed. About eight years ago he took half of the farm — the most-eroded half — and put it in cover crops. The other half he continued to farm as he had before.

He was enrolled in the Minnesota Natural Resource Conservation Services’ Soil Health Initiative funded

through EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentives Program). It was a five-year program which required annual soil health field and lab samples.

“By the years 2 or 3 you still kind of question whether it is worth it, with the cost of the [cover crop] seed and planting, and changing your practices so you can gain benefit from the cover crops. By year 5, I was sold on it.”

Over the period of five years, both dry and wet years, Bos said they increased organic matter from 3 to 3.8, and increased the phosphorous levels from 11 parts per million to over 40.

“The change in organic matter started to affect water-holding capacity, so in the dry years those [once eroded] knolls had crops just like the rest of the field,” he said. “That’s what really made a difference in what we thought cover crops could do for the farm. It’s building the soil structure and organic matter, it’s holding water, it’s making nutrients more available, and a lot of it is because of what happens under the surface. With cover crops you’re adding organic matter on top, but it’s all that root development, the biological activity that happens under the ground.”

As for the cover crop, Bos has had the best results with cereal rye, but has also added canola and turnips to the rye with success.

“If possible, we like to plant our beans into growing rye, then terminate it with herbicide,” he said. “The corn we spray the rye before we plant.”

As for the cover crop, they have had the best results with cereal rye, but have also added canola and turnips to the rye with success.

“If possible, we like to plant our beans

Checkoffs may play favorites CHECKOFFS, from pg. 8 cattle and sheep producers, is suing the USDA and the National Cattleman’s Beef Association because it says the Beef Checkoff operates unconstitutionally. It believes NCBA uses checkoff funds to benefit meat packers at the expense of small ranches.

Reggie Rucker, of the Minnesotabased Institute for Local Self Reliance, pointing to anti-competitive activities

of the Egg Checkoff explained why his organization signed the letter.

“ILSR signed onto this letter because of our concern that checkoff programs as currently constituted enable certain boards and board members to engage in anti-competitive behavior that advantages large producers, despite their remit to simply promote sales in an industry,” Rucker said. v

into growing rye, then terminate it with herbicide,” he said. “The corn we spray the rye before we plant.”

Two to three years ago Bos put the whole farm into cover crops. And this is the third year they planted no-till corn.

There have been good results with the no-till corn.

“Those factors altogether have sold us on cover crops, and so have practices like no-till,” Bos said.

Bos has seen the benefits, but that doesn’t mean he advocates that farmers blanket their farms with cover crops.

“Every farmer’s situation is different,” he said, “so every farmer finds a way that will work for them. We suggest farmers take a small portion, plant it, and then compare it to their existing practices.”

That comparison on his farm persuaded Bos of the value of cover crops.

The annual soil health sample which made it possible to track improvement in soil health was also an important convincer.

The NRCS and SWCD incentive programs help offset the cost of trying cover crops. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, which once did not look positively on cover crops, now also has a $5.00 per acre incentive to encourage cover crops.

But, Bos said, it still comes down to whether or not it is worth the effort and expense. In his experience, it definitely is.

“We have steadily increased our [average yield] using no-till and cover crops,” Bos said. “Looking back, in the very wet years of 2017, ’18, and ’19, we had some areas that before struggled to grow a crop and they were great, and we had two really dry years in ’21 and ’22 that it didn’t miss a beat on yields — especially on those eroded knolls. I think we’re accomplishing what we want to with this farm.”

Contact your NRCS and SWCD office for information about cover crop incentive programs. You can also contact Doug Bos at doug.bos@co.rock.mn.us and at (507) 283-8862. v

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Taking consignments: Tractors • Combines • Haying Equip. • Tillage Equip. • Planters • Wagons • Farm Pickups & Trucks • Construction Equip. • All Types of Farm Machinery • Recreational Items Welcomed (No car or truck tires)

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Auctioneers Note: After 50 years of farming the Guse’s have decided to retire and hold a public auction. A very good auction to attend with some well cared for farm equipment. Please note: Approx. half hour of mics. items. – Tracy Holland

LOW HOURED VERSATILE - J.D. TRACTORS - COMBINES - WAGONS • Versatile 2375 4WD Classic, Only 1446 Hrs, Auto Steer, 710/70R-38” tires, rear suitcase weights, Cummins engine, 4 Hyd., Tractor No. 334929, No Def., one owner, NICE • John Deere 4640, Quad range, shows 8617 Hrs, 18.4R - 42” tires with axle duals, two Hyd., RockBox, S.N. 020612R • John Deere 4430, Quad range, Aprox - 8952 Hrs tach replaced at 3157 hrs, two Hyd., 18.4R-38” tires with axle duals, Rock Box, S.N. 003032R • John Deere 4020 Diesel, Quad range, tach not correct shows 4410 Hrs, 18.4-34’’ tires, rear weights, two Hyd., Rock Box, S.N. T213R137222R • John Deere 5055E Diesel, Only 240 Hrs., single Hyd., 3 pt.

14.9-28” tires, S.N. IPY5055ECGG101820, one owner like new • Oliver 770 Gas, WF, with Westendorf Hyd. loader and bale and pallet fork attachments

• Oliver super 88 Gas, NF, with Vaughn Hyd. loader with bale fork and manure buckets • John Deere 6620 Sidehill, Diesel shows 4123 Hrs, chopper, plumbed for RWA, w/rear wheel assist attachment sells w/combine, S.N. 504474 • John Deere Titan II side hill, chopper, head reverser, shows 3259 Hrs, S.N. H06620X615553 • John Deere 6620 sidehill, shows 3958 Hrs, chopper, S.N. 505620 • John Deere 643 corn head, 6 row x 30”, pixel stalk rolls • 4 - Crysteel 600 Bu gravity wagons, center unload, lightsbrakes • 2003 - Chevy 2500, 4x4, V-8 engine, auto, reg. cab, longbox, Aprox. 150,000 miles, one owner • 1972 - Chevy C-60 Grain truck, single axle, newer floor

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Case I.H. Ecolo-Tiger 530C Disc Ripper, 5 Shanks, Disc. levelers, lights John Deere 980 field cultivator, 44 1/2’, w/ 3 Bar Harrow Riteway model 1200 rock rake, 12’, Hyd. Driven Riteway model 700 reel type rock picker, high lift L + D Ag. Land Tender, 1000 gal. tandem axel, w/ Honda motor DMI 17 shank Anhydrous Applicator, cold flow, 42 1/2’ I.H. 480 Disk, 18 1/2’, w/ 2 Bar Harrow I.H. 720 Plow, 4 bottom x 18”, Auto reset M.C. Stalk chopper, 20’, 1000 PTO, 4 wheel Hardi sprayer frame, 1250 gal., 90’ Booms, Hyd. pump, 380/95-38” tires, Raven 450 monitor White 550 L.P. Fork lift, side shift, 14.9-24” tires New Idea 5407 Rotary cutter, 5 disc, 3 pt.

J.D. 400 Rotary Hoe, 20’ John Deere 7100 Planter, 12 row x 30”, liquid Fert, kinze corn units, 2 sets of plates, monitor J.D. 12 row x 30” FM front Mount cultivator w/ rolling shields J.D. AT600A 8 row x 30” front Mount cultivator w/ rolling shields Hopto model 120TM54 Portable Backhoe 7 1/2’ x 16’ Flat Rack w/ gear 5 section spike tooth drag on cart J.D. 6000 Sprayer, shows 6272 Hrs, air ride seat, 60’ x-fold century booms, Accumulator, Raven 440 monitor w/ single front wheel assembly and fenders McCormick 10’ grain drill, Double Disc, mechanical lift, low rubber, grass seed 500 gal. Diesel Tender, tandem axle w/ Honda motor N.H. 510 Apron type manure spreader, single axle SnowCo portable grain screener N.H. 855 Round Baler N.H. 55 side rake J+M seed tender wagon, 2 compartments, MN gear w/ sudenga Brush auger, tarp Drive over grain Hopper, Hyd. motor 3 pt. Stump grinder Westgo 10” x 51’ grain auger, PTO drive Westfield WR 60-51 grain auger, 6”x 51’, w/ 7 1/2 HP electric motor

3” Grain Blower, 3 phase, 15 HP motor, air lock bad Farm King 6’ rotary cutter, 3 pt.

3 pt. 60’ x-fold Booms w/ Raven 440 monitor, electric shut off 1000 gal. Fuel Barrel w/ 2-Pumps 500 gal. Fuel Barrel w/Pump 500 gal. fuel Barrel 300 gal. used oil Barrel Homemade single axle trailer J.D. RM cultivator, 6 row x 30” Portable Grain dryer shed Lindsay fanning Mill 14-J.D. combine weights Hydraulic oil cooler www.proxibid.com/holland Portable cement mixer MBW Hyd. hitch w/ controls Inductor tank w/ pump Pair of 28L-26” combine tire and rims Pair of Poly saddle tanks w/ brackets Alumacraft 17’ canoe Alumacraft 12’ boat w/trailer Larson 12’ Boat Drive shafts for sidehill 220 Grain Head Brush Auger 6” x 22’, electric motor 2-Hook system quick hitches Bulk seed fork frame FOR FULL COLOR PICTURES & LISTING Large chain Hoist, 4 ton VISIT OUR WEBSITE Hossfeld Bender www.hollandauction.

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DAVE + KATHY GUSE - OWNERS - 507-521-1189 33684 100th St. Waseca, MN, 56093

HOLLAND AUCTION - 507-684-2955 Terms: Cash or Good Check, & Picture ID Required. No property removed until fully settled for.

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Auctioneers: Tracy Holland and Associates Ellendale, MN #7405002 (507) 684-2955 or (507) 456-5128 (cell)

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FOR SALE: 2022 4x5.5 round FOR SALE: 3800 bushel grain FOR SALE: EPA fuel bales, first crop, mixed, in bin, 18’ diameter, full aera- tank containment shell, shed, $55; 2023 alfalfa grass tion floor, $3,000.

16’x88”x32”, light in color, mixed, 3’x3’x8 squares, in Call 320-220-3114 bought new, never installed.

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Glyphosate 5.4 totes, $15.95 Gen Liberty totes, $26.50; 507-236-9446 Enlist 1 totes, $49.95. Surestart 2 totes, $44.95. We ship Stormor Bins & EZ-Drys. most everywhere & all tote 100% financing w/no liens or FOR SALE: Lorenz Modprices include Free Delivery red tape, call Steve at Fair- el 1250 Grinder/Mixer, 100 to your farm or business. fax Ag for an appointment. bushel, long unload auger, Please call or text for all $6,500. 507-649-0883 Lake 888-830-7757 your chemical needs. Phone City, MN. 612-210-3685

Estate Auction Thursday, August 17th - 9:00 am 57272 422 St, New Ulm, Mn 56073 Live only Auction to start approx. 12: 00 PM This is a live & online simulcast auction.

For more information & pictures go to: magesland.com Tractors & Combines: IH Farmall 1486 diesel turbo tractor, 2134 hrs (needs transmission repair & split to repair); IH Farmall 1466 diesel turbo, 9055 hrs; IH Farmall 1468 tractor, 3027 hrs, DV - 550, M&W; IH Farmall 1066 diesel turbo tractor, 6942 hrs, FWA; IH Farmall 1256 diesel turbo tractor w/ Hiniker cab, 7903 hrs; Steiger Panther KM360 tractor; Steiger Panther KM360 tractor, 3879 hrs; IH Farmall 756 tractor w/ Farmhand 228 loader w/ utility bucket & Hiniker cab; IH Farmall 656 tractor; Farmall 300 tractor; Farmall H tractor, not running; Case IH 1688 Axial Flow Combine, 5309 hrs; Case IH 1688 Axial Flow Combine, 5272 hrs; combine hopper ext; 2 - Case IH 1083 corn head, 8 row 30”; Case IH 1064 corn head, 6 row; 4 - Case IH 1020 bean heads, 30’; Machinery & Equipment: Koehn Danish tooth cult, 12 row 30”; 2 - Case IH 800 plow, 9 btm; DMI ripper, 5 shank; DMI ripper, 7 shank; Case IH 4900 field cult, 52’; Case IH 4900 field cult, 42’; Danish Tooth cult, 12 row 30”; Case IH 900 folding planter, 12 row; dry van tailer, 48’; 2 - dry van trailers, 48’; 2 - Parker 6500 grain carts w/ extension; multiple 350 bu Parker gravity boxes on gears; multiple 250 bu gravity wagons on gears; Farm Fans corn dryer; Feterl auger, 10” x 34’; Feterl auger, 10” x 66’; Feterl auger, 8” x 55’; Feterl auger, 6” x 34’; 300 gal Clark water tank; 1000 gal water cart w/ transport; 2500 bu holding bin w/ transfer auger; 8’ Notch box scrapper; 8’ Lorenz snow blower, 3 auger; portable air comp on cart w/ engine; quick attach pallet forks; 10’ snow bucket w. quick attach; 7’ utility bucket; cherry picker attachment mounts in bucket; 4’ x 8’ trailer w/ ramp; May West 25’ head trailer; Case IH 35’ & 25’ head trailers; hayrack on MN gear; 2 - hayracks; multiple gas and diesel barrels w/ pumps or stands; IH 06 - 56 series fenders/ flat tops Vehicles: 1999 Kenworth semi, 677845 miles; 1994 International Semi w/ sleeper, 723054 miles; 1991 Chevy utility service farm truck, 294000 miles; 1995 Chevy pickup, 136363 miles; 1980 Chevy 3/4 ton pickup; Polaris Sportsman 500; Polaris Magnum 330; JD 1600 11’ lawn mower, diesel, front & side folding deck; Tools, Shop Items & Misc (Live Only): industrial air compressor w/ hose reel, portable bin aerations; drill press; Lincoln stick welder; 4 section buddy lube w/ tray & storage; IH suit case wights w/ brackets; 140lb wheel weights; IH 915 combine housings & trans; new DeWalt 18V 4 tool combo kit; multiple new/used DeWalt 18V tools; 15W40, 10w-30, SAE-30, 55 gal barrels of oil; 1”, 3/8”, 1/2” drive socket sets; 3/8 & 1/2 impact socket sets, standard & metric; multiple sets of open end wrenches, standard & metric; floor, stand & misc jacks; multiple asst of tools; chain binders & chains; IH tool cart; tool cabinets; upper tool boxes w/ drawers; come alongs; new fuel nozzles & hoses; multiple hyd hoses; new air hoses; 50’ of 5/8 cable w/ hooks; roll of tubing; multiple new rachet straps; new/used ext cords; digger & cult shovels & sweeps; fasteners, nuts, bolts; large selection of new/used tires & rims; tow rope w/ metal rings; 16’ portable belt conveyor w/ motor, 4 - 55 gal barrel lube buddy on stand; & so much more!

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Listing Auctioneers: Ryan Froehlich ~ 507-380-9256 & Joe Maidl ~ 507-276-7749

For more information on specific items, contact Bryan Portner: 507-420-1983 Auctioneers: Matt Mages, New Ulm Lic 52-22-018; Larry Mages, Lafayette; Joe Wersal, Winthrop; Joe Maidl, Lafayette; John Goelz, Franklin; Ryan Froehlich, Winthrop; Clerk: Mages Land Co. & Auction Service, LLC. Terms: No Buyer’s Premium on live bidding

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‘08 CIH 305 MFWD Magnum, 4088 Hrs, Front & Rear Duals, 18sp. PS, LH Reverser, 3 Pt., QH, 4 Hyd., PTO, Pro-600 Screen, GPS; ‘12 CIH 290 AFS MFWD Magnum, 2483 Hrs, Front & Rear Duals, 19sp. PS, LH Reverser, Deluxe Cab, 4 Hyd., 3 Pt., QH, PTO, Ag Junction GPS, Bought New; ‘08 CIH 275 MFWD Magnum, 3952 Hrs, Pro-600 Screen, Front & Rear Duals, 3 Pt., QH, 5 Hyd., PTO, 19sp. PS, LH Reverser, Deluxe Cab ***(All Tractors Above have Matching Firestone Tires); CIH 7240 MFWD, 4709 Hrs, 18x4sp PS, 3 Hyd., PTO, 3 Pt., QH, 18.4x42 Duals; ‘16 CIH Farmall 105U MFWD, Cab, 12x12 Trans, 695 Actual Hrs, 3pt., 2 Hyd., 540 PTO, CIH L735 Loader, Joystick; Set of Pallet Forks, Manure Bucket and Bale Spear for L735 Loader; (10) IHC Suitcase Weights; (10) IHC Wheel Weights

Brent Cart, Rem Vac, Augers, Other Machinery, IHC Tractors

Brent 882 Grain Cart, Tarp, 1000 PTO, 30.5x32; Rem 2700 Vac, 1000 PTO, 6 Flex Pipes, 433 Hrs, Tube Ends; Hutchinson Swing Hopper Auger, PTO, 10”x71’; JD 28’ Donahue Imp. Trl; MN 250 Gravity Box, 9T Gear, Hyd. Seed Auger; Taarup 3 Pt. Disc Bine, 6’, 540 PTO; Farmall 706 Gas, WF, 3 Pt., PTO, 2 Hyd., Good TA, Axle Duals; Farmall C Tractor, NF, Fenders

Drain Tile Plow, Tile Stringer, Backhoe

Soil Max Gold Digger Pro Drain Tile Plow, 3pt., 4”-5” Boot; Agri Drain Maxi Stringer Drain Tile Stringer, Electric Over Hyd.; JD 310 Backhoe/Loader, Turbo Dsl, 4x4, 6074 Hours, Extend-Hoe, (3) Hoe Buckets; Top Con RL-H15 with Tripod

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49.36 ± ac Bldg Site $575,000

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OWNERS/SELLERS ‘05 IHC 9200I Semi, Eagle Package, Sleeper, 10sp., Cat C-13, Overhauled Approx 2,000 Miles Ago, Jake, 22.5 Aluminum MARING AUCTION, LLC. Wheels, 618,750 Miles; ‘92 Mack CH613 Semi, Mini Sleeper, PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502 350hp Mack, 9 Speed, 22.5 Tires, 265,528 Miles Showing, 17,486 Matt Maring Lic# 25-28 Hours; ‘99 IHC 9100 Day Cab Semi, Cummins M-11, 9 Speed, Kevin Maring Lic# 25-70 22.5 Tires, 410,788 Miles; ‘19 Wilson Pacesetter DWH-600 Hopper Adam Engen Lic# 25-93 Trl, 34’x66”x96”, 24.5, Electric Tarp; ‘13 Wilson Pacesetter DWHAndrew Hamilton Lic# 50-128 500 Hopper Trl, 34’x66”x96”, Electric Tarp; ‘09 Wilson Pacesetter DWH-500 Hopper Trailer, 34’x66”x96”, Electric Tarp; ‘77 Mack R Terms: Cash, Check, Credit Cards. All Sales Final. All Sales Selling As Is, Where IS Model, Tandem Axle, Mack Diesel, Twin Stick Trans., Scott Steel with No Guarantees or Warranties Expressed by the Seller or any of Their Agents.

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FOR SALE: Two 18.4-38” FOR SALE: 2018 340 row Demco LIL Thumper, single FOR SALE: Dakon 300 bush- Spot, Duroc, Chester White, FOR SALE: 1972 - Ford F600, Firestone tractor tires, tread Trac, C.D.T., 926 hours, all piston pump #5232, New/ el gravity wagon, extra big Boars & Gilts available. V8-330 motor, 15 1/2’ grain 35%; 6 gathering chains for options, 18” tracks, one 20” Spare/Sold planter. $1,200. tires, nice condition. Asking Monthly PRRS and PEDV. box with hoist, 41,000 miles, $3,000. 507-227-2602 IHC 800 Series cornhead. spacing, rented out land. David 612-374-1933 Delivery available. Steve always shedded, excellent 507-236-7930 Call 320-808-5723 Resler. 507-456-7746 condition, $3,500.

612-751-6049 Livestock Hay & Forage We buy NEW AND USED TRACTOR Sell your livestock in The Land Equipment Equipment PARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, Salvage Equipment with a line ad. 507-345-4523 FOR SALE: Ford 7.3 Power Parts Available 55, 50 Series & newer tracStroke Engines, TransmisFOR SALE: Original owner, Hammell Equip., Inc. tors, AC-all models, Large FOR SALE: Gehl 300, 2RW sions and Parts, Low MileLS 300 Minneapolis Moline Inventory, We ship! Mark pull type corn chopper $300/ (507)867-4910 Sheep age with Warranty. Will inmanure spreader, new tires, OBO; Gehl RC800 high throw Heitman Tractor Salvage stall. 320-583-0881 ground drive, working condiblower w/ recutter combo, 715-673-4829 Dorset & Hampshire rams, tion.

Always shedded. $300/OBO. 320-522-1184 Calls Your ad Hopper Bottom Trailers- Mauewes & yearlings for sale.

320-808-5723 Oliver 99, Detroit eng, com- only. could be here! er, 38’, sgl spd, 24.5 tires, Lambs, large framed w/fast plete, needs restoration, 507-345-4523 aluminum, good condition, growth that will put extra lbs $9,500. David 612-374-1933 $7,800; Timpte, 1981, 42’, 2 Wanted on your lambs. I can deliver.

Classifie spd, real nice, $13,900. David d line Gene Sanford (507)645-4989 ad dea 612-374-1933 dline is All kinds of New & Used farm noon o n Mond equipment - disc chisels, field ay Auction Location: 25836 170th Street, New Richland, MN Pets & Supplies cults, planters, soil finishers, Miscellaneous cornheads, feed mills, discs, balers, haybines, etc. 507- FOR SALE: Purebred collie FOR COMPLETE DETAILS & BIDDING GO TO: 438-9782 puppies: Both males and fe- PARMA DRAINAGE PUMPS www.maringauction.com males. All sable and white. New pumps & parts on hand.

WANTED: 726 John Deere Make excellent farm dogs.

Call Minnesota’s largest disINSPECTIONS DATES: soil finisher, 30’; Flexicoil 75 7 weeks old. 507-822-2111 tributor (\N\Z[ [OYV\NO (\J[PVU +H[L ࠮ ! H T [V ! W T 30’ packer. 320-232-0556 HJ Olson & Company John Deere Combine & Heads 320-974-8990 Cell - 320-212-5336

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Friday, August 11, 2023 • 9:30 a.m.

JD 9650 STS, 2WD, 4247/2968 Hrs, 20.8x38 Duals, Brown Box, Contour Master, Auto Steer; JD 893 Corn Head, Hyd. Deck Plates, Header Height; JD 925F Platform, 25’, Flex, Header Height

FOR SALE: Black Angus bulls CAT Crawler, D3BZ, real nice, also Hamp, York, & Hamp/ shedded, P.S., 3204 Eng, 3/1 Duroc boars & gilts. Alfred trans, Enclosure panels, $15,900. David 612-374-1933 (Mike) Kemen 320-598-3790

John Deere Tractors

JD 8760 4WD, 6247 Hrs, 4 Hyd, Clevis Hitch, 24sp; JD 4440, 9341 Hrs, Quad, 3pt, Weights, 50 Series Engine; JD 3020 Dsl, 3pt, 2 Hyd, Syncro, 2nd Owner; JD 630 Gas, Rock Shaft; JD 48 Hyd. Loader

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Willmar 8100 Sprayer, 90’, 800 Gal SS, New R54, 4524 Hrs, Raven SCS 450 & Light Bar; JD 7200 MaxEmerge II, 8R30”, Dry Fert.; CIH 5400 Mulch-Till Drill, 20’, 10”; JD 230 Disk, 24.5’; Balzer 2000 Stalk Chopper, 20’; DMI 1300 Ecolo-Champ Disc Ripper, 11 Shank; JD 980 FC, 38.5’, 3 Bar; IH 475 Disk, 20.5’, Hyd. Wings; VanBrundt 10’x6” Drill, Hyd. Lift

Wilson PaceSetter, IH 8300 Day Cab

‘97 Wilson PaceSetter Hopper Trl, 42’x96”x66”, Elec. Tarp, Air Ride; ‘93 IH 8300 Day Cab, 9 Sp, 350HP Cat, Rebuilt Engine; Older Single Axle Belly Dump Semi Trailer

Grain Equipment & Farm Equipment

Westfield WR100-51, WR80-31, 10”x31’, TR100-51 Augers; Drive Over Pit; Hi-Cap Grain Screener 40”; Farm Fans AB-12B & AB180A Dryers; 2500 & 1000 Bu. Cone Holding Bin; Parker 525 & 450 Wagons; Parker 2000 Wagon, Hyd. Fert Auger; Bradford BII 528 Cart, 1000PTO; (7) 6” Roof Top Augers; 11,000, 10,000 & 7,500 (4) 4,400 Bushel Grain Bins; Gehl 72 Flail Forage Chopper, 540PTO; 3pt. Backhoe, Hyd. Controls; Pearson Cattle Chute w/ Head Gate; Badger 11000L Manure Tank, Tandem Axle, 2800 Gal; SS Stand Fill Pipe; 10 Sioux Livestock Gates; Cattle Water; Pine Mountain Pickup Pop-Up Camper

Allen & Jane Nelson Owners/Sellers • 507-456-2561

MARING AUCTION, LLC. PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502 Matt Maring Lic# 25-28 Kevin Maring Lic# 25-70 Adam Engen Lic# 25-93 Andrew Hamilton Lic# 50-128

Terms: Cash, Check, Credit Card, All Sales Are Final, All Selling AS-IS Condition, No Warranties Or Guarantees Expressed Or Implied. All Items Paid In Full On Auction Date.

REINKE IRRIGATION Sales & Service New & Used For your irrigation needs 888-830-7757 or 507-276-2073

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Auction Location: 29642 County 53 Blvd, Red Wing, MN (Take County 53 Boulevard South of Red Wing, MN)

Saturday, August 19, 2023 • 10:00 a.m.

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Saturday, August 12 - Auction Date, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

John Deere 4560 MFWD & 4430, Kubota M6800 w/Loader

‘92 JD 4560 MFWD, 7872 Hrs, 2000 Hrs Overhaul W/Paperwork, 15sp. PS, 480/80R42 Michelin Duals, Fenders, Suitcase Weights, 3pt QH, 3 Hyd, 1000PTO, Very Clean; ‘77 JD 4430, 8533 Hrs, Quad, 18.4R38 Duals, 3pt QH, LED Lights, 540/1000 PTO, (4) Rear Wheel Weights, Very Clean; ‘03 Kubota M6800 MFWD, Kubota LA1002 Hyd Loader, Joystick, Skid Loader Plate, 2625 One Owner Hrs, Hyd Shuttle 8 Speed, 17.5L24, 540PTO, 3pt, 2 Hyd ; (6) JD Suitcase Weights

2004 Cadillac SRX, Dodge Pickups, Dodge 800 Tandem Grain Truck

JD 1760 Conservation MaxEmerge Plus, 12R30”, Liquid Fert., Row Cleaners, Vacuum, Spike Closing Wheels, Precision Corn & Regular Bean, 250 Monitor, InFurrow ; JD 2210 FC, 26.5’, 4 Bar Harrow, Walking Tandems, Good 7” Sweeps, SP Depth Control; JD 1710 Disc Chisel Plow, 9 Shank, 11’, Front Cone Disc, Spike Harrow; JD 27 Stock Chopper, 15, 4 Wheel Transport, 1000PTO; Hinker 1000 Row Crop Cultivator, 6R30”, Wide Sweeps, HD Springs, 3pt; 1400 Gal. Poly Nurse Tank ; B&S Transfer Pump; JD 4x16’s Plow; JD 1350-1450 Plow, 5x18’s ; Frontier DH1276 Notch Blade Disc

Grain Carts, Augers, Brush Mowers & Machinery

Parker 710 Grain Cart, Corner Auger, 1000PTO, 800/65R32, Rear Hitch; Parker 614 Grain Cart, Corner Auger, 1000PTO, 800/65R32; Kuhn GMD 600-GII HD Discbine Mower, 540PTO, 6’ Cut; Bush Hog 3210 Rotary Brush Mower, 12’, 540PTO; Farm King 1031 Auger, 10”X31’, 540PTO; Westfield MK100-71 Swing Hopper Auger, 10”X71’, Hyd Lift; Fetrel 8”X66’ Auger, PTO, Hyd Lift, Screener Section; Westendorf 400 Bu Gravity Wagon, 14T Gear, 11-22.5, Lights; H&S 9’x16’ Wagon, NH 234 Running Gear; (4) Keho 16900 Bin Fans, 10HP; Mineral Feeders ; Fence Post; Poly Grain Hoppers; (10) Livestock Gates, 10’, 12’, 14’, 16’; SnowCo 48” Grain Screener, 9’x8” Auger; CL Fab 5081 EZ-Grapple Bucket, 81”, Universal Plate; North Star 2760PSI Hot Water Pressure Washer, 2.5GPM

Emery & Ginny Fitschen OWNERS/SELLERS • 651-380-0313

MARING AUCTION, LLC. PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502 Matt Maring Lic# 25-28 Kevin Maring Lic# 25-70 Adam Engen Lic# 25-93 Andrew Hamilton Lic# 50-128

‘04 Cadillac SRX SUV, AWD, 4.6L V8, 114,433 Miles, Leather, Navigation, Touch Screen Radio, Clean; ‘79 Dodge 150 Power Wagon Pickup, 4x4, 318 V8, 83,820 Miles; ‘76 Dodge 200 Pickup, Club Cab, 440 V8, Auto, 4x4, Non-Running; ‘76 Dodge Power Wagon Rolling Chassis, 4x4, Auto; Dodge 440 V8 Engine and Tires Terms: Cash, check, credit card, all sales are final, all sales are as-is, all items & Rims; ‘72 Dodge 800 Twin Screw Grain Truck, 18’ Steel Box & must be paid in full day of auction, no-reserves, view online bidding terms at Hoist, 5x4, 418, Needs Brakes www.maringauction.com

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AUCTION

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18

2023

Live & Oline Bidding!

• 10:30 a.m.

50+ YEARS

LARRY AND LORAN HACKLER OWNERS PH. 218-402-0576 / 218-371-1051 15411 140TH ST. WADENA, MN

Consignment

HELD AT OUR SAUK CENTRE, MN OFFICE & AUCTION SITE: 40274 408th Street, Sauk Centre, MN (home of the Hay Auctions).

Follow the Mid-American Auction Co. signs; roads will be plainly marked.

Located: 5 MI. EAST OF WADENA, MN ON US HIGHWAY 10, 1 MI. NORTH ON 151ST. AVE, 3/10 MILE EAST ON 140TH ST. TO # 15411 Note: ONLINE BIDDING ON MAJOR ITEMS THROUGH PROXIBID. FOR COMPLETE LISTING SEE: midamericanauctioninc.com OR PH. 320-760-2979 • TRACTORS • 84 CASE 1896, PS, 8240 HRS. SHOWING; 81 CASE 2290, PS., 8962 HRS. SHOW; 83 CASE 4690 4 WHL. DR. 7712 HRS. SHOW; CASE 970, FORDSON MAJOR DIESEL, • COMBINES, UNI-SYSTEM & HEADS • MASSEY 8560 COMBINE, RWA, SHOWS 4435 HRS.; MASSEY 860 COMBINE, RWA, SHOWS 1828 HRS; NEW IDEA UNI W/727 HUSKING BED 4R X 38 CH; MF 9320 20 FT. BEAN HEAD, U2 REEL W/AWS AIR SYSTEM; MF 9122 – 22 FT. BEAN HEAD; MF 863 – 6R-30 CH; 1980 HESSTON 6450 WINDROWER • GENERAL FARM MACHINERY • HARMS 32 FT. SMOOTH DRUM ROLLER; AGRI CHOPPER 5600 BALE PROCESSOR; HENKE KWIK KRUSHER 24 IN. GRINDER / BLOWER; (2) NEW IDEA 4845 ROUND BALERS, NET WRAP ON ONE; HARMS 10 X 20 STEEL BALE TRAILER ON HARMS HD GEAR; JD 8200 12 FT. DRILL; BRILLION 14 FT. PACKER; DEUTZ 385 12 R X 30 CORN PLANTER; CASE 20 FT. OFF SET DISC; KEWANEE 21 FT. DISC; KRAUSE 26 FT. CU. GANG DISC; JD 1509 BAT WING MOWER; PLUS: SPRAYER; GRAVITY BOXES; FORAGE BOXES; AUGERS; TRUCK; TRAILERS AND ADDITIONAL FARM EQUIPMENT; LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT AND FARM SUPPORT ITEMS.

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ATTENTION: Farmers, Ranchers, Contractors, Consign Today and Be a Dealers, Seller in An Aggressive Lenders Market

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TO CONSIGN YOUR ITEMS OR FOR MORE INFORMATION Call: Mid-American Auction Co. Inc • Al Wessel Lic. #77-60 (320) 760-2979 Kevin Winter Lic. #77-18 (320) 760-1593 • Frank Roering 320-290-8490 Mid-American Auction Co.

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50+ YEARS

AL WESSEL LIC # 77-60 PH. 320-760-2979, KEVIN WINTER 320-760-1593 FRANK ROERING 320-290-8490, SCOTT TWARDOWSKI, JASON MUELLER

LARGE MELROSE, MN AREA LIVE ONSITE WITH ONLINE BIDDING FARM RETIREMENT Large Staples-Motley, MN Area Live Onsite with Online Bidding Farm Estate

AUCTION

TUESDAY, AUGUST 15

FAMILY FARM FOR 130 YEARS

2023

• 10:30 a.m.

Located: 2.4 MILES NORTH OF STAPLES, MN ON AIRPORT RD. 2.5 MILES EAST AND NORTH ON COUNTY 30 & 9/10 MILE EAST ON COUNTY 32 Note: NICE LINE OF FARM EQUIPMENT & VEHICLES. ONLINE BIDDING AVAILABLE ON MAJOR ITEMS THROUGH PROXIBID. FOR COMPLETE LISTING SEE: midamericanauctioninc.com, INSPECTION BY APPOINTMENT. • TRACTORS • CLEAN 2000 WHITE 6710 MFWD, CAB, LH REV., ALLIED 795 LOADER, SHOWS 2115 HOURS 90 WHITE AMERICAN, OPEN STA., 6946 HRS.; WHITE 2-75 W/ ALLIED 590 LOADER; MASSEY 1130, 8066 HRS. • CLEAN LOW MILE CHEV TRAVERSE, JD COMPACT TRACTOR, GENERAL FARM EQUIPMENT • 14 CHEV. TRAVERSE LT AWD, ONLY 18,481 MILES; 89 CHEV 2500 4 X 4 PICKUP; JD 4310 MFWD COMPACT TRACTOR & LOADER, SHOWS 790 HRS. PLUS ATTACHMENTS; 05 PACE SETTER 6 X 16 LIVESTOCK TRAILER, CLEAN; NICE NEW IDEA 5209 – 9FT. DISC MO-CO; NEW IDEA 4845 ROUND BALER, CLEAN; MCKEE ROUND BALER, EXC. COND.; NEW IDEA 3615 SPREADER; IH 11 FT. DRILL; NH 273 BALER; JD 14 FT. BWA DISC; GRAVITY BOXES; CORN PICKER; FORAGE BOXES; AND SEVERAL OTHER PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, ALSO LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT, COLLECTIBLES, TOOLS AND MUCH MORE.

FRI., AUG. 11 2023 • 10:30 a.m.

125 ILY YEAR FAM FARM

10790 COUNTY RD. 32, MOTLEY, MN ANNE CONVERSE PR. PH. 218-760-6043

MID-AMERICAN AUCTION CO. INC.

50+ YEARS AL WESSEL LIC # 77-60 PH. 320-760-2979, KEVIN WINTER 320-760-1593 FRANK ROERING 320-290-8490, SCOTT TWARDOWSKI, JASON MUELLER

AUCTION

Located: 3 MILES NORTH OF MELROSE, MN ON COUNTY 13, THEN 1.2 WEST ON WESTFIELD ROAD ONLINE BIDDING ON MAJOR ITEMS THROUGH PROXIBID. FOR COMPLETE LISTING SEE: midamericanauctioninc.com OR PH. 320-760-2979

• TRACTORS• 97 CIH STEIGER 9390 4 WHL. DR. TRPLES, PS, 8175 HRS. SHOWING 76 IH, 1586, 8008 HRS. SHOWING; RARE 72 IH 1468, 10,189 HRS. SHOWING 72 IH, 966 DSL.; 67 IH 806 DSL.; 58 IH 560 DSL; 49 FARMALL M; FORD 8N; FARMALL B; FARMALL H; • JD FORAGE HARVESTER-HAY-FORAGE • 08 JD 7550 SP FORAGE HARVESTER, RWA, KP, ARCH SPOUT, AUTO TRAC CAPABLE, 3342 E-2236 SEP. HRS. SHOWING; JD 698 20 FT. ROTARY CH; JD 645 13 FT. HH; 92 JD 535 NET WRAP ROUND BALER; (2) BADGER 1200 18 FT. REAR UNLOAD BOXES ON HD 4 WHL. GEARS; 83 JD 337 BALER AND EJECT.; HESSTON 1345 11 FT. HYDRA SWING. DISC MO-CO NICE H&S 860 BLOWER , PLUS MORE • PLANTING – TILLAGE • RITE WAY 42 FT. LAND ROLLER; CIH 730-C 7 SHANK DISC RIPPER; JD 7200 6 R X 30 PLANTER; JD 8300 13 FT. DRILL; IH 4500 24 FT. FIELD CULT. PLUS MORE • COMBINES – HEADS • 01 CIH 2388, 4016 E – 2978 SEP HRS. SHOWING; 93 CIH 1688, 3115 E HRS. SHOWING; 07 GERINGHOFF ROTA-DISC 12 R X 22 CHOPPING CH; CIH 2206 6 R X 30 CH , IH 1063 6 R X 30 CH, 1H 1020 BEAN HEAD • LIVESTOCK TRAILER & GENERAL FARM EQUIPMENT • 94 FEATHERLITE 7 X 20 5TH WHEEL ALUMINUM STOCK TRAILER; NH 195 TANDEM AX. MANURE SPREADER; EVERSMAN 2 YD SCRAPER • PLUS: AUGERS, LORENZ GRINDER MIXER, WAGONS, TOOLS & MISC. ITEMS •

GENE DENNEMEYER ESTATE OWNER

Mid-American Auction Co.

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Mid-American Auction Co. 50+ YEARS

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This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Correspondent Tim King. Photos by Jan King.

Bohemian hams are welcome

T

he BoHo Cafe, along the Lake Woe be gone bicycle trail in Holdingford in central Minnesota, welcomes Bohemians of all sorts: travelers, artists, appreciators of art, musicians, wanderers, bicyclists, and people of Bohemian and Slavic descent.

Greg Konsor, who is proudly Bohemian by both birth and inclination, founded the cafe and the adjacent Art-inMotion art gallery, art studio, live music venue, and art classroom.

We chose to visit the Boho on a Tuesday evening (they’re open until 8 p.m.) after a hard day of field work. A good sandwich (there are 11 of them on the menu), a glass of crisp cold cider from a St. Joseph cidery, and a side order of fruit in a cool and well-lit space surrounded by colorful art was just what these two farmer-bohemians needed.

The cafe itself is filled with wall-to-wall murals and comfortable seating; but we ate in the outdoor pavilion, which is set up for Saturday night live music performances and an outdoor pizza oven. The July 15 pizza and live music performance featured a St. Cloud folk-rock trio. Saturday performances and pizza require a ticket; but Sunday-Funday music performances

Holdingford, Minn.

are free, requiring only a free will tip for the musician.

Since its founding in 2020, Art In Motion has hosted 90 concerts and 20 art shows in the gallery, according to Lily Brutger, the Art In Motion’s art coordinator.

A cafe, art gallery, and music venue might seem to be all that could fit into one building. But the cafe and gallery host a classroom that, by its third birthday, had been home to 80 art workshops for the community — including a mending night led by two in-residence artists from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Mending night is a chance to repair your favorite pair of jeans or a wool sweater that moths chomped on.

An open-mic night for wanna-be musicians, poets, and hams is also a regular feature of the BoHo’s busy schedule.

But, since we were just bohemians passing through, we enjoyed our meal, spent some time being wowed by the art in the gallery, and went on our way again. We’ll likely be back, however. There’s always something new happening at Art In Motion and the BoHo Cafe. v

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