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Fire and the lessons we
learn from it ... Page D13
Friday, October 14, 2016
Eastern Idaho’s trusted ag news source since 1992
Issue 1,259 — 24th Year
Fall Fun
F&R Managing Editor Bill Bradshaw — phone: 522-1800, ext. 1144, fax 529-9683, email: [email protected]
F
FUTURE
FARMERS
KATHY
CORGATELLI
NEVILLE
An Rx for
success
S
eeing the Blackfoot
High School FFA
chapter get better
established is rewarding for
Sam Twitchell.
“Our teacher and adviser
Cameron
Flaming has
been the greatest thing to
happen to
BHS FFA
in years,”
Twitchell said. Twitchell
“We are now
on the map and becoming
known, he is a great leader.”
Twitchell, 17, is a senior
and president of the FFA
chapter that has grown
steadily in the past three
years. Twitchell attributes
the chapter’s success to
friendship and respect.
“Our officer team is really
close,” she said. “We do
everything together, whether
it’s competing against each
other during FFA competitions, or shopping for supplies for our fair and homecoming floats, eating afterwards or just hanging out.
We are really close and just
happy to be together.”
Chapter members have
traveled extensively to state
and national FFA events
where they’ve competed
individually and as a team.
“I love this organization,
it’s so fun, and it’s not just
for rednecks or farmer-type
people,” she said.
Twitchell is planning a
career as a pharmacist following graduation next spring.
“I like helping people,
and I like working with (prescription) drugs that can
help them,” she said.
She’s the daughter of
Beth Winschell and George
Twitchell of Blackfoot, both
of whom have ranches. Twitchell raises and sells championship sheep and steers.
Last fall, she won first
place with her market lamb
at the FFA show and sale at
the EISF in Blackfoot. This
follows awards from previous years.
She has also received
the proficiency award in an
Idaho FFA Career Development Event.
To be featured in Future
Farmers, email Farm & Ranch
Managing Editor Bill Bradshaw
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Getting a straw maze planned and implemented is labor and time intensive. Here, Derek Jones positions one of the 1-ton
bales into place at a straw maze located in Archer, south of Rexburg, while one of his assistants ensures that there is
enough room in the walkway.
Mazes, U-pick patches make for seasonal fun
n Farmers find a way
to pick up extra cash
in an entertaining way
B Y BECKY COOK
For Farm & Ranch
RIRIE — With beautiful
weather and crisp air, fall is a
favorite time to get out and enjoy
local haunts — corn mazes, straw
mazes, and pumpkin patches. It’s
this allure that keeps growers like
Joseph Ashcraft growing pumpkins and other vegetables each
year.
Ashcraft and his family raise 34
acres of produce between Rigby
and Ririe off of State Highway
48. Their place is called Ashland
Produce and they provide the
pumpkins that can be purchased
n Like anything in farming, there’s
a risk in U-pick patches
FUN, Continued on Page D4
If you go
Who: Ashland Produce
What: Pumpkins, sweet
corn, potatoes, tomatoes,
peppers, cucumbers, beets,
and fall peas.
Where: 158 N. 4544 East
in Rigby
When: 2 p.m. until dark
Monday to Friday; 10 a.m.
until dark Saturday
Who: Haunted Straw
Maze and Haunted Forest
Where: 7600 S. 2000
West in Archer
When: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday to Thursday, 5 p.m.
to midnight Friday and 3
p.m. to midnight Saturday
Online: www.strawmaze
.com
Olivia Davis, from Rigby, hides from her older brother in the kidsized straw maze at Ashland Produce near Ririe. The smaller-sized maze is perfect for smaller kids and their parents who
want to keep an eye on them and it is free to the public.
Firth corn-maze design firm joins tech, art
Designed by Maze Play of Firth to celebrate Star Trek’s 50th
anniversary, this maze is located at the Richardson Adventure
Farm in Spring Grove, Ill.
positioning to create functional
and enjoyable maze trails.
“I work with the clients very
closely to be able to get their ideas
from conception in their head, to
working on the computer, to out
in the field, so it’s a visual masterpiece in large proportion. (It’s)
something that’s really fun for people to go through,” Whitworth said.
Stolworthy, used to make The
Wild Adventure Corn Maze on
his own, sold it to a good friend,
Richard Johnson, in 2011. He
said it became a challenge to
design mazes and then return
home to run one.
Although the farm is now
Johnson’s, Stolworthystill works
with him on planning and executing maze designs. Johnson
said this year’s maze is more
cutting edge.
“This is our fifth year of doing
mazes, and I’ve never had a maze
be this crisp, and this sharp,”
Johnson said.
and make things more recognizable than most people are.”
Designers work for 10 to 30
n “Race to the Moon” is the theme
of this year’s Wild Adventure Maze
MAZE, Continued on Page D3
n Firm started Wild
Adventure Corn Maze
B Y NATALIA HEPWORTH
EastIdahoNews.com
FIRTH — A local company
that designs mazes travels the
country turning corn fields into a
fun, family adventures.
“It’s a marriage of technology
and art, and that’s what’s really
fun about it,” maze designer
Chayce Whitworth said.
Maze Play, which is in Firth,
was founded by Shawn Stolworthy in the late 1990s when he
first heard of the idea of a corn
maze. He built his first maze,
The Wild Adventure Corn Maze,
north of Blackfoot. Since then
he’s traveled the country crafting
award-winning mazes.
“We do about 110 corn maze
designs all across the United
States and Canada,” Whitworth
said. “Our designs look great
and they work really well as a
fun experience for people going
through. We’re able to draw faces
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Barley production
increases in Idaho
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Idaho growers planted
600,000 acres of barley this
year, down 10,000 acres
from 2015, according to the
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Harvested
area
in
Idaho, at 580,000 acres,
was unchanged from 2015.
Barley production was
62.1 million bushels, up
10 percent from last year
with yield estimated at 107
bushels per acre, up 10
bushels per acre from 2015.
Production also was up
in the rest of the Northwest
Region, while plantings
were down. Oregon farmers
planted 45,000 acres of
barley in 2016, down 4,000
acres from 2015. Harvested
area, at 32,000 acres, was
down 5,000 acres from
2015. Barley production
was 2.1 million bushels, up
Washington growers
planted 110,000 acres of
barley in 2016, down 5,000
acres from 2015. Harvested
area, at 93,000 acres, was
2015. Production in Washington was 7.16 million
bushels, up 42 percent
from last year with yield
estimated at 77.0 bushels
per acre, up 29 bushels per
The Bug Box
This bug is creeping around your property. He may be friend or foe.
Name: Family Acrididae
Alias: Grasshoppers and locusts. Most of
us are familiar with these insects. More
than 8,000 species of grasshoppers are
known worldwide. There are approximately 400 species in the western U.S.
ranging in size from 1 to 3 inches long.
Colored from green to gray to brown,
several have stripes and other marks.
The term locust is used when they migrate
long distances. They ca migrate for hundreds of miles and in this stage can cause
serious damage. Eggs are usually laid in
the fall. Each egg pod may contain from
20 to 120 eggs. A female lays about 200
eggs total. This occurs in dry, undisturbed areas, seldom in irrigated areas.
Eggs hatch in late May and June when
soils reach about 55 degrees. The
nymphs mature through the summer,
going through five instars, reaching
adulthood in August. Food consists of
several different types of plants. As the
heat of summer dries out native foliage,
grasshoppers migrate to irrigated crops
and yards. There is one generation a
year. Flooding and cool wet weather
around egg hatching can diminish grasshopper populations. The past few years
have been tough on populations.
Crimes: They can become destructive to
cropland as well as home yards.
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Redeeming qualities: Grasshoppers are a rich source of
protein. They area a highly
nutritious food source for
several species of birds.
Several people groups
throughout the world utilize
them as a food source.
Sentence: Generally in our
Merlin E. Rice
area they are merely an annoyance and do not cause serious economic
damage. If populations do build there
are baits available that are effective in
their control if applied early.
For more information on dangerous and beneficial bugs, call agent Wayne Jones at the Bonneville County Extension Office at 529-1390.
War on Weeds
This weed may invade your land. Be ready to oppose it.
The Enemy: Spotted or common catsear
(Hypochaeris radicata L. )
acre from 2015.
Barley stocks up in
Idaho, Northwest
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Barley stocks in all positions
in Idaho on Sept. 1 totaled
from 48.1 million bushels
a year earlier, according to
the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Off-farm stocks were up
50 percent, while on-farm
stocks were up 8 percent
compared to the previous
year.
Other Northwest states
reported similar holdings.
In Oregon, barley stored
in all positions totaled
from 1.74 million bushels.
Off-farm stocks were up
3 percent, while on-farm
stocks were up 10 percent
compared to the previous
year.
In Washington, all stored
barley totaled 7.58 million
bushels, up from 5.47
million bushels. Off-farm
stocks were up 9 percent,
while on-farm stocks were
up 213 percent.
Nationally, stored barley
totaled 230 million bushels,
up from 219 million bushels
a year earlier. Off-farm
down 4 percent.
Idaho winter wheat
planting stays level
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Idaho planted 760,000
acres of winter wheat this
year, unchanged from
2015, according to the
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Harvested area, at
710,000 acres, is unchanged
from 2015.
Winter wheat production in Idaho is 66.7 million
bushels, up 15 percent from
2015 with yield estimated
at 94 bushels per acre, up
12 bushels per acre.
Overall for the Northwest Region, winter wheat
production was up 28
percent from 2015, NASS
reported.
Oregon planted 720,000
acres of winter wheat in
2016, down 20,000 acres
from 2015. Harvested
area, at 710,000 acres, is
2015. Oregon’s overall production was 35.5 million
bushels, up 3 percent from
last year with yield estimated at 50 bushels per
acre, up 3 bushels per acre.
Washington
planted
1.7 million acres of winter
wheat in 2016, up 50,000
acres from 2015. Harvested area, at 1.67 million
acres, is up 80,000 acres
from 2015. Winter wheat
production in Washington
is 130 million bushels, up
46 percent, with yield estimated at 78 bushels per
acre, up 22 bushels per
acre from 2015.
Idaho spring wheat
production up
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Idaho farmers planted
410,000 acres of spring
wheat in 2016, down 40,000
acres from 2015, according
Strategy: This perennial greatly resembles dandelion, hence the nickname of
false dandelion. It has toothed or lobed
leaves like common dandelion, but the
leaves are quite hairy. The single taproot
holds a large rosette that sends up numerous narrow flower stalks that grow up to
2 feet tall. The flowers are more narrow
than that of common dandelion, and the
flower bodies have colored bracts that
give the plant the spotted catsear name.
Both produce bright yellow flowers that
can be produced throughout the warm
summer months. This plant produces a
milky sap in all parts of the plant.
Attack: This weed loves to invade sites
of great disturbance such as waste
areas, over-watered lawns, gardens,
pastures and cultivated fields. It, like its
relative the common dandelion, is more
of a nuisance than a problem as most
wildlife will eat it. The problem is that is
absorbs large amount of nutrients and
water, thus causing unseen damage to
the sites.
Defense: Taking care of your existing
land is key in keeping this and other
weeds from invading. Don’t over-water
the site and keep all disturbances to
a minimum. All of our native habitats
to the USDA’s National
Agricultural
Statistics
Service.
Harvested area in Idaho,
at 395,000 acres, is down
40,000 acres from 2015.
Spring wheat production
was 34.4 million bushels,
up 13 percent from last
year with yield estimated at
87 bushels per acre, up 17
bushels per acre.
The story was mixed
throughout the rest of the
Northwest Region.
Oregon planted 90,000
acres of spring wheat this
year, down 5,000 acres
from 2015. Harvested area,
at 87,000 acres, was down
6,000 acres, while overall
production in
Oregon was 4.44 million
bushels, down 5 percent,
with yield estimated at
51 bushels per acre, up 1
bushel per acre.
Washington
planted
540,000 acres of spring
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were created for grazing of
some sort. Since we no longer
have the mighty buffalo to
tromp and graze down the
range, we need to improvise
to maintain healthy lands.
This is one weed that can be
effectively controlled with
Richard Old
2,4-D. I still like products
such as Milestone, Telar XP, Opensight
or Tordon 22K for control, as these
products also will control other invaders
such as thistles and knapweeds ( other
Asteracea species). If it looks like dandelion, remove it as it is normally not good
for the property and fall is an excellent
time to treat.
To learn more, call Bonneville County Weed
Superintendent Jeffrey Pettingill at 529-1397 or
email [email protected].
wheat in 2016, down
100,000 acres from 2015,
while harvested area, at
530,000 acres, was down
105,000 acres. Spring wheat
production in Washington
was 27 million bushels, up
Wheat stocks up in
Idaho, Northwest
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
All wheat stored in Idaho
totaled 82.3 million bushels
Sept. 1, up from 64.1
million bushels a year ago,
according to the USDA’s
National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Off-farm stocks in Idaho
were up 50 percent, while
on-farm stocks were down
4 percent compared to
Sept. 1, 2015.
The story was much the
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same throughout the rest
of the Northwest Region
where stocks were up 25
percent from a year earlier,
NASS reported.
In Oregon, wheat stored
in all positions totaled 39.5
million bushels, up from
35.6 million bushels. Offfarm stocks were down
slightly, while on-farm
stocks were up 57 percent.
In Washington, wheat
stored in all positions
totaled 160 million bushels,
up from 126 million bushels
a year earlier. Off-farm
up 28 percent.
Nationally, wheat stored
in all positions totaled 2.53
billion bushels, up from
2.1 billion bushels a year
earlier. Off-farm stocks
were up 24 percent, while
on-farm stocks were up 12
percent.
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REGIONAL NEWS
‘Pot of Idaho Gold’
brIefly
Officials: Idaho wolf
depredation drops
BOISE AP) — Idaho officials say livestock depredations by wolves appear to
have reached a low point,
showing that the program
is on the right path.
The
Capital
Press
reported that Idaho Wildlife Services Director Todd
Grimm said his office killed
70 wolves in Fiscal Year
2016, which ended Oct. 1.
Fifty of the wolves were
tied to livestock depredations. The recent numbers
were about the same as
during FY 2015 and slightly
down from 2013.
Grimm said he believes
depredation cases have
gotten about as low as they
will be.
Idaho Governor’s Office
of Species Conservation Administrator Dustin
Miller says the state, which
recently took over wolf
management, has greater
flexibility to manage the
predators than the federal
government did. He said he
expects the depredations
trend to stay low.
Courtesy of Sherelle Christensen
A truckload of potatoes appears to be at the end of the rainbow Oct. 1, as workers try to get their
harvesting equipment out of the field after a rainstorm at the Christensen Family Farms in the Shelley/
Firth area. The mud kept them out of the fields for several days. If you have an agriculture-related
photo you’d like to see published, email it to [email protected] along with complete caption
information detailing who is in the photo, what they’re doing, when and where the photo was taken.
Meridian corn mazes
showcase Fallon, Broncos
n SW Idaho farms
receive attention
across the nation
B Y MERIDIAN PRESS
MERIDIAN — Jimmy
Fallon is bringing comic
relief to Meridian not just
through the TV screen,
but through the twists and
turns of The Farmstead
Corn Maze.
The maze features a
design of Fallon sitting
at his desk while hosting
“The Tonight Show,” with
a message that Idaho
loves him and the hashtag,
#FallonAtTheFarmstead.
“We wanted a design
this year that would invite
everyone to escape the
seriousness of the world,”
Kuna farmer Jim Lowe said
in a press release.
Each year, Lowe and his
wife, Hillary, choose a new
design and carve the maze
on their 18-acre cornfield
by the corner of Eagle Road
and Interstate 84.
“Maybe if we can get
inside Jimmy’s head, we
can all come out a little
more lighthearted,” Lowe
added.
The Farmstead Corn
Maze and Pumpkin Festival is open for its 20th
season until Oct. 29. The
festival includes hayrides,
pumpkin picking, pig races,
tasty food, hot drinks and
more. The Field of Screams
haunted maze will be open
in October.
Throughout the season,
The
Farmstead
will
host events including
the Scarecrow Jamboree
with local Scout troops,
Courtesy of Farmstead
The Farmstead’s 2016 maze design near Meridian features “Tonight Show”
host Jimmy Fallon. Another nearby maze honors the Boise State Broncos.
a celebration of Hometown
Heroes, Grandparents Day,
Dog Day, Touch-A-Tractor,
Patch’s Pumpkin Party
and the annual Pumpkin
Smash and Candy in
the
Corn
Trick-orTreating. Firework shows
are planned each Friday
night to commemorate 20
years.
The Farmstead touts
itself as Idaho’s longest-running corn maze.
It was recently nominated
as part of USA Today’s
10 Best Corn Mazes in
the country. In previous
years, the Farmstead
has been featured by
TIME Magazine, New
York Magazine, Good
Morning America, Conde
Nast Traveler and the
Today Show.
Boise State Bronco fans
and corn maze enthusiasts
won’t find a better match
than Linder Farms. Each
year, the farm’s corn maze
theme is inspired by BSU
football. This year’s design
features a football player,
a Bronco logo and the
number 30.
“We are very excited
about this year’s design,”
Linder Farms co-owner
Randy Feist said in an
email. “As the officially
licensed corn maze of the
Boise State Broncos, we
are joining in the celebration of 30 years on the Blue
Turf!”
The Linder Farms corn
maze and pumpkin patch
opened 13 years ago near
the corner of Linder and
Lake Hazel roads just south
of Meridian. This year’s
season runs through Oct.
31.
Along with the maze
and pumpkin patch, Linder
Farms offers fun games
and rides on the farm,
along with concessions.
Those who are really
seeking thrill can get lost in
The Trail of Terror haunted
corn maze.
Linder Farms will host
a Halloween Fun Run on
Oct. 29. The day will start
at 8:30 a.m. with an All
You Can Eat Pumpkin Pie
Pancake Breakfast for $5 a
person. The race begins at 9
a.m. Register on the farm’s
website, linderfarms.com.
Bend horse rescue
group board resigns
BEND, Ore. (AP) — The
entire board of directors of
a Bend horse rescue nonprofit has quit over differences of opinion between
the board and the organization’s founder.
The Bulletin reported
that Equine Outreach board
members resigned last
week over a dispute about
how to run the nonprofit,
which cares for abandoned
and neglected horses on a
ranch east of Bend.
Founder Joan Steelhammer, and her husband,
Gary Everett said they
wanted to step back from
day-to-day management
of the horse rescue so last
year they stepped away
from their board positions. Everett had served
as treasurer for 11 years
before his resignation last
summer.
The most recent dispute
MAZE
From Page D1
“We tried a lot of new
things this year on that
maze,” Whitworth said.
Instead of tilling down
the designs out of grown
corn, the maze was planted
in the desired formation.
This year’s theme is a
“Race to the Moon.”
Johnson said he enjoys
being the local resource
Stolworthy needs to test
and tweak maze ideas to
perfection.
“It’s fun because I get to
see the latest technology
put in play before anybody
else,” Johnson said. You’ve
got the face of Neil Armstrong in this maze, you’ve
got the lunar module that
lands on the moon, you’ve
got the orbiter capsule as
well, and then you’ve got
the rocket. So we’ve kinda
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came over how Everett
had organized the group’s
finances. The dispute lead
to all six board members
resigning.
Pumpkin weigh-off
winner named
HALF MOON BAY,
Calif. (AP) — An annual
pumpkin-weighing contest
in Northern California
has a new winner: a thirdgrade teacher in Washington state who raised a
giant one weighing 1,910
pounds.
Cindy Tobeck, 42, who
lives outside Olympia,
Wash., said her pumpkin
grew steadily since she
planted it in April, spending
much of that time in a
greenhouse with heated
soil. She said the secret to
growing giant pumpkins is
using the right seed.
Hers came from a 2,230pound pumpkin that won a
different contest last year.
Tobeck beat out more
than two dozen other
pumpkins from Oregon,
Washington and California,
said Timothy Beeman,
a spokesman for the
Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off
in Half Moon Bay. The
runner-up weighed 1,723
pounds. Tobeck was shy of
the contest record by about
150 pounds.
At $6 a pound, Tobeck
will receive nearly $11,500
in prize money
Water contractors
sue feds for $350M
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) —
Seventeen California water
districts have filed a lawsuit
for $350 million against the
federal government for not
delivering water to contractors in the drought year of
2014.
The Fresno Bee reported
that the districts in the San
Joaquin Valley and the
city of Fresno filed the suit
Oct. 5 in the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit said farmers
lost crops due to lack of
water and had to remove
orchards, deplete groundwater supplies and take
emergency measures.
brought it all together.”
Although he loves being
the first client to experience the latest Stolworthy
has to offer, Johnson says
the most important aspect
of the maze is about having
a good time.
“What matters though
is the quality experience
you experience in the maze
because of how precise
everything is,” Johnson
said.
Stolworthy said traveling
throughout
the
country has been a great
experience, and he enjoys
his unique job.
“Being able to work with
people across the country.
That has been really
rewarding working with
the customers that I have.
They’re a really neat group
of people. That for me is a
huge part of why I like to
do this, is build those relationships with customers,”
Stolworthy said.
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Snow, moist conditions hamper harvest
Agricultural summary
Soil, pasture, range
Fahrenheit was reported in the southwestern region. There was a statewide temperature differential of 5 degrees below
normal to 4 degrees above normal.
It was a very cold and wet week. Several
counties all over the state reported snow,
especially at higher elevations.
Caribou County cattle were mostly on fall pastures while some calves had been weaned and
shipped.
Pasture and range conditions were reported
to be 4 percent very poor, 18 percent poor, 35
percent fair, 36 percent good and 7 percent excellent.
Field crop report
Soil moisture and days
suitable for field work
The wet weather and snow slowed or even
halted harvest in many areas.
In the southeast, conditions dried towards
the end of the week and allowed workers to
get back in the field.
Winter cereal crop planting was underway
in Jerome and Twin Falls counties.
Teton County reported several potato farms
had started their harvest.
Crop Condition Table
Potatoes
Corn
Sugar beets
V.Poor
0
0
0
Poor
0
1
0
Fair
4
5
4
Good
82
87
68
Topsoil moisture was reported to be zero
percent very short, 20 percent short, 71 percent
adequate and 9 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture
was 3 percent very short, 32 percent short, 61
percent adequate and 4 percent surplus.
Statewide, Idaho farmers had an average of 5.4
days suitable for field work.
Excellent
14
7
28
Crop Progress Table
Percentages
This week Last week
Winter wheat planted
72
50
Winter wheat emerged
49
29
Potatoes harvested
77
55
Sugar beets harvested
30
23
Field corn doughed
95
94
Field corn dented
89
84
Field corn mature
71
52
Corn harvested for grain
19
16
Corn harvested for silage
77
84
Dry edible beans harvested 89
79
Onions harvested
75
74
Alfalfa fourth cutting
74
48
2015
71
36
71
35
NA
NA
86
32
79
91
NA
66
Avg.
71
28
70
28
NA
NA
NA
19
75
92
NA
66
Bill Bradshaw / [email protected]
Despite wet weather, many farmers, such as this grower
southwest of Shelley, were able to get started on next year’s
crop by planting winter grains.
Weather Data for the week ending Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016
Weather data provided by AWIS, Inc.
Station
Temperature
Low
High Avg. +/- Norm
Week’s
Total
Precipitation (Inches)
Weekly
Seasonal Cumulative
+/- Norm
Total
+/-Norm
South-central
Fairfield
Malta
Picabo
Rupert
Twin Falls
23
24
25
30
32
74
77
74
78
77
45
48
47
49
51
-5
-4
-2
-4
-2
0.01
0.04
0.18
0.00
0.05
-0.13
-0.17
0.02
-0.04
-0.09
15.18
14.35
16.01
12.37
19.31
0.65
1.42
1.48
2.19
2.46
East
Aberdeen
Ashton
Fort Hall
Idaho Falls
Lava Hot Springs
Monteview
Preston
Rexburg
30
31
29
29
29
28
30
28
74
68
76
70
70
72
72
71
47
44
47
46
47
45
48
45
-2
-5
-3
-4
-5
-4
-3
-3
0.38
0.69
0.87
0.88
0.38
0.28
0.21
0.55
-0.17
0.41
0.66
0.67
0.17
0.14
-0.15
0.34
11.12
18.57
13.92
11.28
24.72
6.27
19.78
12.48
1.49
1.87
2.77
1.80
2.74
0.43
2.42
1.58
Note: Numbers in crop tables represent a percentage of each crop.
Raising backyard chickens
A
s more people decide
to raise chickens in
their backyards, and
have flocks for either egg
or meat production there
are some basic rules of
thumb and useful information that all poultry owners
should know.
There are important
things to know in caring for
your birds from brooding
to full egg production for
optimum health and efficiency.
Those guidelines include:
• Feed a balanced diet
that is suited for the age of
the bird.
• During the first three
weeks of life, all classes
of chickens should be fed
chick starter. After the
three-week period, meattype chickens and dual-purpose birds should be placed
on a grower ration. The
meat-type chickens can eat
the grower ration until they
are butchered at around
7 to 9 weeks of age. The
dual-purpose birds should
remain on the grower until
they are 18 weeks of age or
the beginning of lay. At the
beginning of lay they should
be switched to a layer ration.
• Do not feed hens solely
a diet of wheat, corn or
other grain (scratch grains)
and expect them to consistently lay eggs. Also, do
not expect hens to thrive
on a diet of grass, lettuce
or other low-nutrient feeds.
LANCE ELLIS
LiviNg
off the
LaNd
Lastly, do not give your
birds inappropriate medication. Always seek a veterinarian’s advice on proper
medication.
• Feed your birds a balanced diet. Commercially
prepared feeds are formulated to give your birds a
balanced nutrition for the
stage of life they are in.
Layer feeds, for example,
have higher amounts of
calcium than do other feeds
so hens can produce eggs
with strong shells.
• A little scratch or
greens is all right, but do not
over-supplement as it will
decrease the benefits of the
commercially prepared feed.
• You do not need a
rooster to have your hens
lay eggs. And furthermore
roosters can cause stress to
the hens by their behavior,
and therefore decrease egg
production. Unless you
want eggs for hatching, or
a 5 a.m., crowing, wake-up
call, a rooster is not wanted.
• To have continued
egg production through the
winter, do not allow the
chickens out of the chicken
coop when it gets cold, keep
dry bedding under them at
all times, give easy access
to feed, provide an artificial
light source so that they
have around 16 hours of
light each day and always
provide fresh unfrozen
water.
• Ventilation in a chicken coop is essential as you
must remove excess moisture and manure fumes to
prevent the buildup of
ammonia gasses. Too much
ventilation during the winter
can be hard on your hens
as they can get chilled and
cold.
• Free-ranging your
chickens is a great way to
improve egg flavor, but
remember that your bids
are vulnerable to predators
and can make messes on
driveways and sidewalks.
• If your birds start
loosing feathers, it is probably a molt. The way to get
birds through a molt is to
take them off of layer feed
for about two months, and
feed a scratch diet to stop
their laying completely and
allow them to regenerate
their feathers and bodies.
After those two months put
them back on a layer diet,
and they should return to a
full lay.
Call me for further
poultry question.
Lance Ellis is the University of Idaho Extension educator
for Fremont County. He can be
reached at 624-3102.
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at WinCo and the area
Broulim’s
markets,
however they also provide
a U-pick pumpkin patch for
people who want to pick
that perfect pumpkin for
themselves.
Ashcraft has been in
business here since 2004,
but has been involved with
agribusiness for more than
15 years, and currently is
working with Simplot. He
had clients in Utah who
had successful vegetable
ventures and once his
family moved to Idaho,
they decided that growing
vegetables would be a good
move for their family.
“Our first year raising
pumpkins was in 2005,”
Ashcraft said. “We’ve had
problems a couple of times
where the frost has gotten
us and there are always ups
and downs but I really enjoy
raising a good product.”
He said that he really
enjoys it when people come
back week after week with
smiles and say that the vegetables are the best they’ve
ever tasted.
“It’s a lot of fun and we
make pretty good money,
depending on the year,” He
said. “Some of these crops
are very labor intensive and
there is risk in everything.”
He said that he plans
on some loss each year if
they don’t get everything
harvested fast enough, it
freezes, or has damage in
the field.
His crew of 12 or 13
teenagers ebbs and flows
throughout the growing
season as he needs them
and working around regular teenager schedules with
sports practices and other
commitments.
During
pumpkin season, they make
their way through the fields
and carefully harvest the
orange squashes, leaving
greener ones to ripen fully
before harvesting.
One of the fun activities
at the farm is a kid-sized
straw maze created with
smaller bales of straw two
bales high. It’s perfect for
smaller kids who might feel
claustrophobic amongst
Joseph Ashcraft, owner of Ashland Porduce near
Ririe, gets a lot of vegetables off the 34 acres he
farms each year. The pumpkin patch is a huge draw
this time of year when it seems like everyone wants
the perfect pumpkin to carve for Halloween.
the larger bales and allows
parents to keep tabs on
their kids while watching
from the sidelines.
Derek Jones is another
man who makes his living
off of fall fun, but he has
a larger venue with a
haunted straw maze and
haunted forest located in
Archer, south of Rexburg.
Jones came up with his
idea of creating a straw
maze with one ton straw
bales in 2007 while a business student at Brigham
Young University-Idaho.
Now in partnership with
Jared Orr, whose land and
straw they use, he has
found a successful model
for his creations.
“I believe I am the first
one to do a straw maze
of this magnitude,” Jones
said. “I came up with a
workable model that we
have used for nine years
here near Rexburg.”
He said that they also
act as consultants for other
locations throughout the
United States. For something with such a simple
premise, it actually takes a
lot of work, planning and
foresight to create.
“We own some of the
straw and we rent more
straw — it takes a lot of
straw,” Jones said. “It’s
very labor intensive and
takes four or five weeks to
set it up.”
He said that they do
their own marketing, and
for the past eight years he
has been successful since
joining forces with Orr as
his creative partner.
“I actually found Jared
(Orr) while looking for
straw. He had a bunch but
he also had this land and
location and we found out
we worked together well
so we have just continued,”
Jones said.
It’s a lot of hard work,
especially the closer it gets
to Halloween but they both
really enjoy the challenge,
the work, and the satisfaction when it all comes
together successfully.
“There are a lot of
reasons we continue to
do this each year,” Jones
said. “It’s not all about the
money.”
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Idaho Envirothon inspires students
n Natural resource
issues world are focus
B Y STEVE STUEBNER
Life on the Range
CHALLIS — More than 80
kids from 10 high schools in
southern Idaho rolled into the
Living Waters Ranch in Challis
for an intense, two-day natural
resources education event called
the Idaho Envirothon last spring
and now they’re getting ready for
the 2017 event.
The Idaho Envirothon is a
competitive event held every
April. The winning team gets an
all-expense-paid trip to the North
American Envirothon in Toronto,
Canada. In 2016, the team from
Weiser High School captured the
state crown and traveled the continental competition.
“Awesome! Excited! I think we
worked really well together as
a team,” said Ali Reed. “We’ve
known each other for a while,
so that made things easier. The
teamwork helped us get through
all the quizzes.”
To prepare, high school teams
study up on soils and land use,
aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife
and a current issue — this year,
it was invasive species — for
months before they arrive. It’s
an extracurricular activity. Much
like participating in athletics,
the kids have to carve out time
outside of the normal school day
to meet as a team and learn about
the issues.
“Envirothon, to me, is an
opportunity for kids to learn
LifeontheRange.org
The Idaho Envirothon team from Weiser High School waves
state flags and Canadian flags in April after winning the state
competition that earned them the right to travel to the North
American Envirothon in Toronto, Canada.
about issues facing our natural
resources,” says Chris Banks,
chairman of the Idaho Envirothon Committee. “Learn about
those topics to better prepare
them for the future. The way we
prepare them to be leaders of
tomorrow, so if maybe they’re in
public office, we don’t have the
juggernaut that we have in Washington, D.C.”
When the students arrive at
the Envirothon, they’d better
know their stuff because everything happens really fast, and
they’re forced to think on their
feet, with little time to think or
prepare.
For example, on the first day
of the competition, the student
teams are whisked from one
natural resources station to the
next. They hear a 30-minute
presentation from a natural
resources expert in, for example,
wildlife, and then they have 15
minutes to take a test on the
topic. Then they move on to the
aquatics station or the forestry
station, for a short presentation
and test. Each test is worth 100
points, or 500 points total.
But that’s not all. After dinner
on the first day, the kids are
Simplot files lawsuit over
‘Twisted Potato’ design
n McCain Foods
allegedly copied
the ‘Sidewinder’
B Y LAURIE WELCH
The Times-News
EDITOR’S NOTE: This
story ran in Thursday’s Post
Register. It is being re-run
here for Farm & Ranch
readers who may have
missed it.
BURLEY — Idaho potato
giant J.R. Simplot Co. has
its taters in a twist and
has filed a federal lawsuit
against McCain Foods,
claiming the firm copied its
idea for a twisty french fry
it calls the Sidewinder.
Simplot wants the court
to award three times actual
damages, with the amount
to be proven at trial, to
compensate for “willful”
patent infringement plus
interest. It also wants a permanent injunction to keep
Illinois-based McCain from
further infringement.
“McCain’s conduct has
caused and will cause great
and irreparable harm to
Simplot in an amount which
cannot be adequately remedied by money damages,
leaving Simplot with no
adequate remedy at law,”
Simplot attorneys wrote in
the complaint.
A summons for McCain
was filed Tuesday, and
the company has 21 days
Philip Soulen,
of Weiser
High School,
samples water
with science
teacher Stuart
Nesbitt in
April during
the Idaho
Envirothon
near Challis.
The Times-News
This is one of the photos included in Simplot’s complaint of patent infringement against McCain Foods.
from the time the company
receives it to file an answer. Neither company responded to requests from
the Times-News for comment on the lawsuit, filed
Oct. 7 in U.S. District Court.
McCain and Simplot are
two of three major companies competing in the U.S.
french fries and frozen
potato market.
In 2013, Simplot introduced Sidewinder fries with
a distinctive twist design.
They were an “overnight
success,” attorneys said.
The company reconfigured its production lines
and added hardware to its
Caldwell facility to keep up
with consumer demand for
the product, the suit said.
In the lawsuit, Simplot
says its growth is linked
to its innovation and experience, and that it invests
heavily to protect its intellectual property. Sidewinders were invented
as an alternative to traditionally shaped fries and
are offered in several varieties including craft beer
batter, seasoned crisps and
smokey barbecue.
The company said it has
a patent covering the “ornamental features” of the
product.
The lawsuit contends McCain copied Simplot with
its own “Twisted Potato” in
an attempt to “piggyback”
off of Simplot’s investment
“and to ride the coattails of
Simplot’s success.”
In June, McCain began
advertising,
promoting
and offering its “Twisted
Potato” products for sale
in the U.S. in an effort to
“unfairly compete” against
the company and cut into
Simplot’s 100 percent share
of the Sidewinders market,
the suit says.
The Twisted Potato fries
are “deceptively and confusing similar” to Simplot’s
fries, and customers are
“likely to confuse the products and their sources of origin,” according to the suit.
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given a challenging hypothetical natural resource problem to
solve. The pressure is on because
they have to give an oral presentation on their solution the next
morning with poster board visual
aids. But it’s not easy.
“We’re not judging these kids
on whether they give a right
or wrong answer,” says Karma
Bragg, project manager for the
Custer Soil and Water Conservation District in Challis. “We’re
looking at how well they address
all the different disciplines, how
they work as a team. It’s kind
of like a science program and a
speech and debate program all
rolled into one.”
For more information about
the Idaho Envirothon, contact
Karma Bragg at the Custer Soil
& Water Conservation District,
879-4428, or Chris Banks, owner
of Conservation Basics LLC, in
Chesterfield, at 221-5681.
Youths volunteer at Inkom orchard
n Scouts turn out
to save apple crop
INKOM (AP) — When
the now-late Robert Loomis
started his apple ranch
south of Inkom, the local
potato farmers called him
crazy.
Nearly 40 years later,
the orchard boasts over
400 semi-dwarf trees with
each one producing 4 to
10 bushels each. It seems
his idea wasn’t so crazy
after all.
“As younger kids we
watered them by hand,”
said Loomis’ daughter,
Ellen
Loomis-Roberts.
“Myself and some friends
used to get paid a quarter
for each hole we dug for
the trees.”
The orchard produces
several different types
of apples including Lodi,
McIntosh, Red Delicious,
Gravenstein and Jonathan.
Though each variety has
an optimal harvest date,
the Loomis’ have found
mid-September and early
October to work best for
them.
Just as this year’s harvest
season started, Ellen’s
oldest son, who has severe
cerebral palsy contracted
pneumonia and was hospitalized. As if that weren’t
enough, Ellen works three
other jobs, which meant
this year’s harvest was in
jeopardy of spoiling before
she could get to them.
“He went to the hospital on September 19,
which is right in the middle
of starting harvest so we
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Doug Lindley / Idaho State Journal
McKay Peterson, right, loads apples onto a trailer
along with Piper Harris and her brother, Dom, in
sunglasses, and Andre Despain. These youths and
others helped pick apples before they spoiled at
the Loomis Orchard near Inkom on Saturday.
didn’t get to start on time,”
Ellen said. “I definitely put
him before the apples but
I didn’t want all of them to
go to waste.”
Ellen first contacted the
FFA and offered to pay
pickers a dollar per box
of apples. After that fell
through, Ellen didn’t know
where or who to turn to.
But after one phone call
to close friend and regional
spokesman for The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, Larry Fisher,
Ellen’s unexpectedly large
crop had a chance.
“She doesn’t ever ask
for help,” Fisher said.
“But after her son was
hospitalized she called me
wondering if there were
any youth groups who
wanted to make some
money picking apples.
I spoke to the bishop
here and asked if he
was interested and he
said he would do it but we
don’t want any money for
it.”
From there, Bishop
Dustin Young of the Inkom
1st Ward, organized a
group of roughly 25 volunteers consisting of local
youths from a Boy Scout
group and young women’s
group.
“To see the youth be
willing to come out on a
Saturday and choose to
serve someone else that
they don’t even know is
a blessing,” Young said.
“This may not bless her a
whole lot. She may feel that
it does and she may feel
a lot of gratitude towards
it, but it really helps us
to understand what life is
all about and that’s serving
each other.”
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Lamb Weston to be an instant Idaho giant
n Potato firm to spin
into own company
away from ConAgra
B Y ZACH KYLE
Idaho Statesman
AND
WENDY CULVERWELL
Tri-City Herald
A new corporate heavyweight
will join Micron Technology
Inc., J.R. Simplot Co., Albertsons
and other influential companies
calling the Treasure Valley home.
Lamb Weston is in the process
of spinning out of food manufacturing giant ConAgra into its
own, publicly traded company,
specializing in manufacturing
and distributing fries and other
frozen potato products. At nearly
$3 billion in annual revenues,
Lamb Weston would probably
be the sixth-largest company
based in Idaho when it becomes
a stand-alone company sometime
this fall.
Without knowing much about
the new company’s plans, adding
another corporate player to the
Valley can only portend good
things for the business and nonprofit world, said Bill Connors,
Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce president and CEO.
Courtesy of ConAgra
ConAgra Food’s Lamb Weston Plant is seen in Twin Falls. The potato-processing company
Lamb Weston is going independent of ConAgra this fall.
“Any time you add high-end
jobs, everybody is positively
impacted,” Connors said. “For
local charities, car dealerships, real estate agents, banks,
retailers, you name it, that’s a
good thing.”
Lamb Weston is the largest
domestic frozen potato product
supplier, as well as the second-largest in the world. Its
international portfolio touches
more than 100 countries. Though
spuds make up the majority of
its sales, the company will also
retain ConAgra’s frozen sweet
potato, appetizer and other vegetable products business. ConAgra
will keep its consumer foods
segment that includes Marie Callender’s, Hunt’s, Slim Jim, Orville
Redenbacher’s, P.F. Chang’s and
Healthy Choice. The split will
allow each company to better
specialize their operations and be
more nimble, driving shareholder
value, ConAgra said in a release.
Located at 599 S. Rivershore
Lane, the Eagle office houses
employees working in sales and
marketing, as well as human
relations, communications and
finance, ConAgra spokeswoman
Shelby Stoolman said. Most of
the company’s potato-buying and
much of its processing happens
in the Tri-Cities area in Washington, where it employs more
than 4,000 people. With 321 corporate positions in Kennewick,
Wash., it is one of the city’s Top 5
five private employers. .
The company has 1,300 Idaho
employees split between its Eagle
office and manufacturing plants
in Twin Falls and American Falls,
Stoolman said.
The Eagle office, which was
selected over Kennewick as
company headquarters, will
receive high-level executives
moving from ConAgra headquarters in Chicago, Stoolman said.
But, for the most part, the same
Eagle employees will perform the
same tasks as before the split,
she said.
“Fundamentally, we’re not
really changing the way we
operate,” Stoolman said.
Sheep showcase: Crowds flock to Hailey folklife fair
n Annual Trailing of
the Sheep Festival
draws thousands
B Y JULIE WOOTTON
The Times-News
HAILEY — Under sunny
skies Saturday, a crowd of
children gathered around
a pen to pet two sheep at
Roberta McKercher Park in
Hailey.
Gooding County 4-H
members brought their
sheep to showcase at a
free folklife fair — part of
the five-day Trailing of the
Sheep Festival.
Gooding
teenager
Charlotte Brockman, 14,
answered a variety of
questions from children
and adults alike, ranging
from the sheep’s names to
whether the animals sweat.
The purpose of the
display: “Mainly to inform
people about the sheep
industry,” Charlotte said,
because many people don’t
know about it.
Hundreds of people
came through the folklife
fair. Some brought dogs on
leashes, while others took
pictures in front of cartoon
cutouts of sheep.
Dozens of vendors sold
items such as pottery,
jewelry,
decorations,
artwork, clothing and wool
products such as dryer
balls.
The Trailing of the Sheep
Festival ran Oct. 5 through
Sunday. The headlining
event Sunday was the migration of 1,500 sheep along
Main Street in Ketchum to
their winter pastures.
The festival draws huge
crowds — about 26,000
people last year.
On
Saturday,
the
schedule included the 2016
National Point Qualifying
Sheepdog Trials at Quigley
Canyon Field in Hailey, a
lamb fest, quilt show, and
classes covering topics
such as simple wool dying
and how to clean wool
fleece.
It’s the 20th year for the
festival. An anniversary
celebration and sheepherder’s ball was slated for Sat-
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Noelle Williams’ dog Dusty herds sheep Saturday
during the 2016 National Point Qualifying Sheepdog
Trials at Quigley Canyon Field in Hailey. Michele
Preuss, sheep dog trials coordinator, said 67 dogs
were entered in the competition.
urday night at nexStage
Theater in Ketchum.
“We’re kind of standing
here
looking
back,”
said Diane Peavey, who
co-founded the festival with
her husband, John Peavey.
Event
spokeswoman
Carol Waller said she
hopes attendees come
away with a better appreciation of where their food
comes from and of the
sheep industry.
The industry is “so much
smaller than it used to be,”
she said.
But some millennials are
choosing to take over their
family’s sheep operations,
Waller said, or are getting
into the business because
of the lifestyle — the connection with family and the
land.
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Traditionally, multiple
generations are living and
working together, she said.
“The bonds that are established are really, really
special.”
Gooding resident Jaime
Oneida has several generations of family members
who were sheepherders, up
until the 1970s. They ran
sheep from outside of Shoshone up to Stanley.
Members of the Oneida
family were at the folklife
fair Saturday displaying
three covered wagons.
They got one of the wagons
at a yard sale.
It wasn’t for sale, but it
caught Oneida’s attention.
“We said, ‘Hey, what are
you going to do with that?’”
He ended up getting it for
free.
The family brings the
covered wagons to a few
events, including a Basque
festival in Boise and the
Trailing of the Sheep Festival.
“People like the character,” Oneida said, as he
sat with his son Benito near
the covered wagons. People
are often interested in the
history of sheepherders, he
added.
Nearby, Carey resident
Tyler Wilde and his father,
Edric Wilde, waited for
their sheep to arrive at the
festival.
They were planning to
have sheering demonstrations throughout the day
and answer questions.
Most people sheer their
sheep in the spring, Tyler
Wilde said. The family has
between 30 and 40 sheep
at their farm. And the most
they’ve ever had was 300.
Edric Wilde has been
working with sheep for
about 50 years, and Tyler
grew up helping out. “It’s
kind of tough to get away
from it,” Tyler said.
Tyler said he hates how
some people have become
disillusioned about the way
the farming culture works.
There are many benefits
to sheering, he said, adding
that leaving the wool on
the sheep would be cruel. A
sheep can grow 10 pounds
of wool per year.
At one of the vendor
booths, Dee Wilbur of
Nampa was selling items
such as fleece and handspun yarn.
She raises sheep at her
family’s farm — RW Farms
— and harvests the fiber
and meat.
Sometimes, the public
thinks sheep aren’t treated
well, Wilbur said, but that’s
not true. “We have a lot
invested in these animals.”
Between talking with
customers, Wilbur was
hand-spinning wool roving
into yarn. “It’s kind of fun
to see the process from
start to finish,” she said.
Wilbur’s daughter and
granddaughters are also
involved in the business.
And at her booth, a poster
board displayed pictures of
her granddaughters showing sheep at a county fair.
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FARM & RANCH
Century award goes to Caldwell family farm
n Family bought
farm in 1909
B Y SEAN BUNCE
Idaho Press-Tribune
CALDWELL — Terry
Roedel has lived in the
same place his entire life,
or at least most of it.
In 1942, Roedel was
born on his family farm
in Caldwell, just off Middleton Road, where he was
raised until going off to
college. After living in Buhl
for five more years after
that, Roedel moved back
to the farm he grew up on,
and hasn’t left since.
The story doesn’t start
there, however. Before the
property was owned by
Roedel and his brothers, it
belonged to his father, and
his father before him.
On Sept. 17, the Roedel
family farm was honored
as a Century Farm by the
Idaho State Historical
Society. A Century Farm
is a property of at least
40 acres that has been
owned and farmed by only
one family for at least 100
years.
“It’s important that the
family has stayed on the
farm and kept it in our
family for that amount of
years,” Roedel said.
According to Steve
Barrett, program manager
for the Idaho State Historical Society, there are just
nine families in the Canyon
County area who have
qualified for the Century
Farm award, and 439 statewide.
“(This is about) the
State Department of Agriculture and State Historical
Society recognizing what’s
becoming a pretty incred-
Idaho Press-Tribune
Terry Roedel shows the farmland that has been in
his family for over 100 years. The farm has recently
been awarded the Century Farm award by the Idaho
State Historical Society.
Idaho Press-Tribune
Terry Roedel
points out a photograph of his
grandparents
from a scrapbook at his family
farm which was
just honored
with the Century
Farm award
from the Idaho
State Historical
Society. Roedel’s
grandparents purchased the land
in 1909.
This house has evolved over the years at the Roedel farm in Caldwell, which
was just honored with the Century Farm award from the Idaho State Historical
Society. The house originally was a single story and white. Terry Roedel’s parents added the second story and raised all their children in the house.
ible achievement by these
families,” Barrett said.
“That they’ve been able to
stay in family agriculture
all this time.”
The original Roedel
farm was purchased in
1909 by Roedel’s grandfather. It was bought in two
separate purchases of 60
and 80 acres, costing just
over $17,000 total.
Eighty acres of the property was given to other
family members and eventually sold for development.
The remaining 60 acres
was passed down to Roedel
and his two brothers.
In the time they’ve
owned the property, the
Roedels have grown sugar
beets, wheat, alfalfa, corn
and at one time it was used
to grow turnips. The land
is still farmed by Roedel’s
brother and nephew, who
pay rent for his portion of
the property.
“I’m sure we could up
the rent a little more and
he could still make money,
but that isn’t the purpose
of it, of the family,” Roedel
said. “As long as we can
just break even we’re fine.”
The 60 acres seems to
be enough space for Roedel
and his family, where many
of them still live themselves.
Roedel said one of his
brothers lives on the corner
of the property, another
brother lives next door, his
daughter and her family
live next door as well,
and the original house on
another part of the property is owned by the family
but rented out.
Despite
developers
approaching the family
throughout the years with
offers to buy his property
and the property around
him, Roedel is content with
staying on the property he
grew up on and passing it
on to later generations.
“Since I’ve always lived
out in the country I enjoy
the rural area, I like to have
a little bit of freedom to
be able to move around
a bit, but the subdivisions
are closing in fast,” Roedel
said.
Barrett said it’s common
for families of Century
Farms to share the property, like the Roedels have.
“What we look for is
that at least 40 acres of
the original farm is still in
the family,” Barrett said.
“Sometimes that parcel
belongs to one family
member, and the rest of
property is parceled to
other relatives or sometimes it has been sold to
other families, but if they
held on to 40 acres that’s all
that we’re really requiring.”
The Century Farms
program started in 1990.
Since then, the Idaho State
Historical Society has
honored 10 to 12 farms a
year with the Century Farm
award.
agement will continue to
manage Wyoming’s wild
horses for the health of
both the horses and range-
lands, she said in statement.
Idaho Press-Tribune
Court rules against Wyoming wild horseroundup
n Activists praise
federal ruling as a
possible precedent
B Y MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A
federal appeals court ruled
Tuesday against Wyoming
officials who sought to
require the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management to
round up wild horses from
overpopulated herds, a
decision praised by horse
advocates as potentially
precedent-setting for managing the animals across
the West.
The 10th Circuit Court of
Appeals in Denver upheld
a ruling last year that the
Wild Free-Roaming Horses
and Burros Act doesn’t
mandate roundup of overpopulated wild horses.
Wild horse advocacy
groups including the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign hailed the
latest decision. The groups’
attorney, Bill Eubanks,
said the ruling could affect
similar federal cases originating in Utah and Nevada.
“This is, in our view,
pretty important,” Eubanks
said. “There are two other
pending cases in the American West right now that
raise exactly the same legal
issue.”
The appeals court found
that Wyoming’s wild horses
aren’t necessarily overpopulated because the Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and
Burros Act doesn’t clearly
define at what point they
would be, Eubanks said.
Even so, Eubanks said,
the Bureau of Land Management has other options
besides roundups to protect
rangeland health, including
giving them fertility-control
drugs and reducing cattle
grazing.
Wild horse numbers
exceed federal population
goals in several areas across
the West. The animals
compete with cattle and
other livestock for forage,
especially around watering
holes where animals of
every sort congregate,
ranchers say.
Each year, the Bureau
of Land Management
rounds up thousands in a
never-ending attempt to
control their numbers. The
agency adopts many out to
Courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management
Wild horses are seen in this photo from the Bureau
of Land Management.
the public and sends others
to live out their days on
sanctuaries.
Wild horse advocates
object to roundups as cruel
and unnecessary.
Wyoming
filed
its
lawsuit against the Interior
Department and Bureau
of Land Management in
2014, saying too many
wild horses can damage
rangelands
and
that
federal law requires land
managers to curtail their
numbers.
The wild horse groups
and
federal
government didn’t dispute Wyoming’s claim that wild
horse numbers topped the
Bureau of Land Management’s population objectives in seven of the 16
federal wild-horse management areas in the state.
As of March, wild horse
numbers had exceeded
population objectives in
15 of the 16 areas, Gov.
Matt Mead said in a statement. “Wyoming wildlife,
including wild horses, are
treasured assets. Mismanagement adversely affects
all species and the rangelands necessary for their
health and survival,” Mead
said.
Mead said he was disappointed by the ruling
and had asked Wyoming
Attorney General Peter
Michael to review the
state’s options.
Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman
Kristen Lenhardt declined
to comment on the ruling,
citing agency policy not
to discuss litigation. The
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Farmers delve into quinoa as demand grows
n First crop in Wash.
soon to be harvested
B Y MANUEL VALDES
Associated Press
SEQUIM, Wash. — To the
south of Nash Huber’s farm
fields are the Olympic Mountains, peaking at nearly 8,000
feet. Due north is the end of a
channel of Pacific Ocean waters
that separate the United States
from Canada.
Yet in this corner of the
country is where the 75-year-old
Huber hopes the South American
grain quinoa takes root.
Last month, Huber harvested
quinoa commercially for the first
time on about 30 acres, making
him the latest addition to a small
number of U.S. farmers trying to
capitalize on American eaters’
growing demand for the Andean
grain.
“It’s a beautiful crop,” Huber
said as he surveyed his combine
grinding the plants and spitting
out the seeds. He chose a variety
called Redhead, which turned his
field lipstick red for a couple of
weeks before harvest. “We’re still
learning. I kind of stepped off the
end of the dock here with a bit of
a bite this year.”
Americans consume more
than half the global production of
quinoa, which totaled 37,000 tons
in 2012. Twenty years earlier,
production was merely 600 tons,
according to the United Nation’s
Food and Agricultural Organization.
Yet quinoa fields are so rare
in American farming that the
total acreage doesn’t show on
an agricultural census, said Julianne Kellogg, a Washington
State University graduate student
monitoring quinoa test plots
around the Olympic Mountains,
including one next to Huber’s
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Dad squashes son’s
giant pumpkin record
WARREN, R.I. (AP)—
A Rhode Island man has
squashed a record set by
his son by taking first prize
in a pumpkin contest with a
2,261.5-pound gourd.
WJAR-TV
reported
Richard Wallace’s 2,261.5pound pumpkin beat the
North American giant
pumpkin record set by
his son, Ron, at the same
event last year. Ron Wallace’s pumpkin topped the
scales at 2,230 pounds at
the Frerichs Farm Pumpkin
Weigh Off in Warren in
2015.
Ron Wallace was the
Ted S. Warren / Associated Press
A stalk of quinoa grows
in a field farmed by Sam
McCullough, near Sequim,
Wash.
Ted S. Warren / Associated Press
Farmer Sam McCullough uses his combine to harvest quinoa near Sequim, Wash. Quinoa, a
trendy South American grain, barely has a foothold in American agriculture, but a handful of
farmers and university researchers are working toward changing that.
field. A rough estimate puts the
country’s quinoa fields at 3,000 to
5,000 acres.
Quinoa’s nutritional punch has
pushed the grain beyond health
food stores and into general consumption, propped up by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.
It has all the amino acids
humans need, making it a complete protein, Kellogg said. That’s
hard to find in grain crops, she
said. It’s also gluten-free.
The grain’s future is marked
with possibilities, including milk,
beer, cereals, hair products,
snacks — products well beyond
the salad bar.
“I think we’re witnessing the
start of a staple,” said Sergio
Nuñez de Arco, a Bolivia native
whose company, Andean Naturals, has been instrumental in
bringing quinoa north, distrib-
first person in the world
to break the 1-ton barrier
when he grew a 2,009pound pumpkin in 2012.
The younger Wallace
said last year that his secret
is “a lot of hard work” and
what he calls the Wallace
organic wonder fertilizer.
Frerichs Farm has
hosted the event since
2000.
Wis. officials check
flooded vegetables
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —
State food safety inspectors are checking vegetables from farms in flooded
areas of Wisconsin for contamination.
State Agriculture Secretary Ben Brancel said
inspectors have taken
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The spike in demand from
the U.S. and Europe led big
farm operations in Peru to enter
quinoa farming a few years ago.
That resulted in an oversupply,
and prices have been falling.
According to a July report
from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, quinoa prices plummeted about 40 percent between
September 2014 and August
2015.
“Farmers are rotating out of
quinoa,” Nuñez de Arco said.
“They went back to the city to
look for work. It was good while
it lasted, so it’s back to rural
migration.”
Nuñez de Arco has opened a
California processing plant for
the bitter coating that covers the
western and central counties hit by heavy rainfall in
August and September.
State and federal food
safety regulations don’t
directly address flooding,
but produce that has
come in contact with flood
water is considered unfit
for human or animal consumption because it could
be contaminated by pathogens or chemicals.
Brancel said that inspectors aren’t waiting for a
phone call before visiting a
farm or food processor.
Corn disease, weather
affect Kansas yields
HUTCHINSON, Kan.
(AP) — A corn disease that
is new to the heartland is
infecting Kansas crops and
may be contributing to this
quinoa grains. It wasn’t welcome
news for his Bolivian farmers.
“There needs to be some
improvement to practices and
they’re gonna get that through
some healthy competition,” said
Nuñez de Arco, now based in San
Francisco. “My push has been to
protect the smaller farmer in a
top-shelf niche, where they will
have the demand.”
In Washington state, Huber’s
quinoa will head to Lundberg
Family Farms, a California-based
company that has been a leader in
domestic quinoa production. This
year, Lundberg and its network
of contracted farmers along the
West Coast hope to harvest 2
million pounds of quinoa.
“It’s great to have product
available where folks are consuming it,” said Tim Schultz, vice
president of research and devel-
year’s decline in yield.
The USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed
the presence of bacterial
leaf streak in a swath of
land from Pratt County to
Edwards County in late
August, according to The
Hutchinson News.
Justin Gatz, a Preston-area farmer and crop
consultant, said the disease
is probably a factor in
this year’s lower yield,
but weather also had an
impact.
Edwards County farmer
David Wood said other
crops are doing well, but
his corn yield potential has
fallen by 40 to 60 bushels
an acre compared with last
year.
The federal department
began a survey of cornfields across the region
opment at Lundberg. “You have
less food miles on it.”
For more quinoa to grow in
the United States, farmers and
researchers must find the right
mix of varieties and environments. The Washington State
University plots are testing varieties for heat resistance and latesummer sprouting, among other
benchmarks. Next year, they’ll
test plots in Maryland and Minnesota.
“From a farmer’s perspective,
it’s more options for rotations,”
said Kevin Murphy, an assistant
professor at the university.
That’s an option that attracted
Huber. Quinoa represents his
first commodity crop. On a
harvest day, he eyeballed a lower
yield than he wanted, in part
because the elk that roam the
nearby woods frolicked in the
quinoa fields.
“I hope I break even,” he said
with a laugh. “If we break even or
make a little bit of money, that’ll
be good because I learned quite a
few things here.”
of the corn crop already
completed in Iowa. That’s a
day behind last year’s progress at this time. Rain likely
has something to do with it.
The USDA’s weekly
crop status report released
Monday indicates weather
was favorable for farmers
but there were reports
of muddy conditions and
standing water in some
fields from earlier storms.
Iowa Corn and soybeans
are rated at 81 percent
good to excellent.
It was nearly ideal for
harvest in Nebraska where
farmers reported 15 percent
of corn harvested, behind
the five-year average and
27 percent of soybeans in
bins, right at average.
The USDA reported 73
percent of Nebraska corn
and 78 percent of soybeans
are rated good to excellent.
after the disease was discovered in samples submitted to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014,
Kansas State University
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statement. It is unknown
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The disease has been
found in about a dozen
states, including Nebraska,
Colorado and Oklahoma.
Neb. harvest slightly
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Nebraska dairies see decreased demand
n State lost 20 dairies
as of September
B Y NICHOLAS BERGIN
Lincoln Journal Star
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska’s
wide grasslands, fields of golden
corn and gushing aquifers make
the state a nearly perfect home
for cows that are content to live
a quiet life of chewing cud and
being milked.
That was the sales pitch the
past several years as Nebraska
sought to woo dairy farms from
states like Texas and California,
where the Holsteins were being
squeezed out by drought, development and environmental regulations.
Last year, it seemed to be
working. After decades of decline,
the number of registered dairies
in Nebraska bumped from 181
in 2014 to 184 in 2015, according
to the state Department of Agriculture.
But it turned out to be more
of a blip than a renaissance. The
state lost 20 registered dairies as
of September, dropping the total
to 164.
It’s not because of a lack of
interest in the state. Nebraska
has a list of dairy farmers who
have said in writing they’d be
happy to move here, state Ag
Director Greg Ibach said during a
recent interview.
The problem is that they can’t
find anyone to buy their milk.
“All of the sudden the plants
that were begging for more milk,
the cows caught up with the
amount of processing capacity,”
said Rod Johnson, executive
director of the Nebraska Dairy
Association.
“The pipeline is full.”
It’s an issue up and down the
Interstate 29 corridor, the dairy
belt of the Midwest, Johnson said.
Dairy Farmers of America,
the main cooperative force in
southeast Nebraska, confirmed it
doesn’t need any more milk from
the state.
Tessa Lighty/The Journal-Star
An employee prepares to milk the cows in the milking barn at the De Hoog Dairy Farm in
Seward, Neb. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the state lost 20 registered dairies as of
September, dropping the total to 164.
“Due to a number of factors,
including the export market,
supply is currently outpacing
demand in the Nebraska area,”
spokeswoman Kim O’Brien said
in an email.
This summer, dairy farmers
were losing on every gallon
because of overproduction,
although prices have rebounded
slightly since. The National Milk
Producers Federation recently
reported prices in the region
ranging from $14.20 to $15.70
per 100 pounds.
In August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it
would buy 11 million pounds of
cheese to help reduce a 30-yearhigh national surplus. The cheese
is to be distributed to schools and
food banks across the nation.
U.S. butter and cheese has
been expensive on the world
market for much of the past
couple years compared with dairy
from other places like Europe and
Australia, causing U.S. suppliers
to lose market share, although
price disparities have narrowed
in September, according to the
U.S. Dairy Export Council.
Dairy is an economic development cash cow. A study done last
year by the state Ag Department
at the direction of the Legislature
found a single cow has a $5,000
local economic impact.
“Taken a step further, Nebraska’s 55,000 dairy cows generate
$275 million annually in local
economic activity,” the study
said. That doesn’t include the
value added by Nebraska’s 10
milk processing plants.
In two other studies, economists at Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota estimated a dairy cow’s
statewide economic impact with
in-state processing at $23,000 and
$25,000, respectively.
Hoping to tap into the rich
dairy bounty, a coalition of state
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Sean Hurley / New Hampshire Public Radio
Chris Owens stands beside his outhouse-turned-voting booth at Owens Truck Farm in Ashland, N.H.
Manikins of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump hang outside the booth, while
ballots are deposited into side-by-side toilets inside
the booth.
N.H. farm stand
turns outhouse
into voting booth
n Man says votes
for president belong
‘down the toilet’
ASHLAND, N.H. (AP)
— A New Hampshire farm
stand is letting customers
put their votes for president where he thinks they
belong: right in the toilet.
Owens Truck Farm
is home to an outhouseturned-fake-voting booth
with mannequins of presidential nominees Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump,
and toilets to cast ballots.
Farm stand owner Chris
Owens tells New Hampshire Public Radio that customers have been stopping
by for photos and to vote at
the Ashland farm.
He said he’s collected
a couple hundred ballots
already.
Above the Trump mannequin is a sign that reads,
“If I am elected, we will
build a wall between Plymouth and Rumney, and
Rumney will pay for it,”
referring to two nearby
towns.
LANTRY, S.D. (AP) —
Hay donations are showing
up at a South Dakota ranch
where a former employee
says wild horses are dying
of starvation.
The Rapid City Journal
reported that the donations
to the International Society
for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros ranch
near Lantry are coming
from other wild horse organizations.
Former ranch employee
Colleen Burns estimated
more than 30 horses have
died since June. The Dewey
County Sheriff’s Office and
the state Animal Industry
Board have investigated
and turned over their findings to local prosecutors
for review.
Society President Karen
Sussman has said Burns is
a disgruntled employee.
Illinois farmers fret
over feral hogs
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP)
— A new study of Illinois
farmers has found that they
are worried about property
damage caused by feral
hogs.
Researchers from the
Illinois Natural History
Survey said Monday that
they reviewed surveys
from more than 3,000 Illinois farmers. The study
commodity groups has been
sinking time and effort into
attracting new processors to
Nebraska.
“We call ourselves Grow
Nebraska Dairy,” said Johnson.
The issue, he said, is that
processors want to know there
are enough cows and milk to
meet their needs, but to get those
farmers, the state needs a processor.
“It’s kind of the chicken or
the egg, which comes first? Our
challenge is to bring everybody
together at one time,” Johnson
said.
Half of the state’s 10 processors, including Prairieland Dairy
near Firth, process milk produced
by their own cows.
Dwaine Junck gets up each
morning at about 5 a.m. to check
the cows and get his kids ready
for school.
His family has run a dairy near
Carroll since the 1940s.
found that 84 percent of
the surveyed farmers in Illinois agree that feral hogs
should be eliminated whenever possible.
Feral hogs were once
only in the southern U.S.
but have spread and are
now in 12 Illinois counties, most in the southern
part of the state. Survey
scientist Craig Miller says
the animals are known
to damage soil and water
quality and destroy agricultural crops.
The
survey
found
farmers trapping and eliminating the hogs instead of
hunting them. Miller says
that’s because hunters may
hit one or two hogs and the
rest scatter.
Ind. officials try to
eradicate feral pigs
BLOOMINGTON,
Ind. (AP) — Efforts are
underway by federal and
state workers in Indiana to
eradicate feral pigs from
the state.
Feral pigs are considered an invasive species
that can root out huge portions of agriculture lands,
crops and fields.
The
Herald
Times
reports that plans to rid
Indiana of an estimated
500 wild pigs don’t include
hunting. Officials say
they’re using baiting traps
to take out groups of pigs at
once. Indiana Department
of Natural Resources wildlife research biologist Steve
Backs says wild pigs have
been in Indiana for the past
25 years.
They can be genetic
combination of Eurasian
wild pigs, domestic pigs
and pot-bellied pigs.
The state received
federal funding through
the 2014 Farm Bill that
allotted $20 million for
a five-year effort to help
combat the increasing population of wild pigs across
the country.
Mich. dairy recalls
some products
NORTHVILLE, Mich.
(AP) — A Michigan dairy
is conducting a voluntary
recall of some of its products due to the failure of
equipment used to verify
proper
pasteurization
during processing.
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For him, Nebraska’s full milk
pipeline means less competition
and lower prices for his milk. And
the declining number of dairies in
the state means fewer local businesses catering to dairy’s unique
needs.
“If we had more dairies in
the area . there would be more
support industries, the equipment
dealers, the repair people,” he
said. “Well, we can’t get more
dairies in the area if there is no
place to sell the milk.”
His milk went to a string cheese
processing plant in Ravenna until
Leprino Foods closed it in 2013
citing, among other reasons, difficulty in getting enough milk.
Now, like 60 percent of the
milk produced in Nebraska,
Junck ships his out of the state.
Nebraska’s dairy herd peaked
in 1934 with 820,000 cows producing 2.9 billion pounds of milk
annually. Today, the number of
cows is closer to 55,000, but each
of them produces more milk.
In 1934, each cow produced
an average of 3,500 pounds of
milk; today, an individual cow
produces an average of more
than 21,000 pounds, thanks to
improved nutrition and genetics.
Nebraska’s dairy farms have
also gone through consolidation.
The state lost 553 dairy farms over
the past 15 years, a 75 percent
decrease. The average number of
cows per dairy farm went from 98
in 1999 to 214 in 2010, according
to USDA statistics.
Last year, 52 percent of the
dairy cows in the state were
housed on just 14 farms.
Still, the amount of milk produced in the state has remained
relatively stable at just over 1.1
billion pounds a year, according
to USDA statistics.
The vast majority of Nebraska’s remaining dairy farms are in
the eastern portion of the state,
where they are closer to processors, highways and population
bases like Lincoln and Omaha
that have plenty of mouths to
gobble up ice cream and cheese.
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Feds to bail Wash. farmers out of low prices
n State’s growers can
expect about $95M
B Y JOHN STUCKE
The Spokesman-Review
SPOKANE, Wash. — The
federal government will pay
about $95 million to 26,500 Washington state farms to help offset
the lowest crop prices in 10 years.
The money is part of the
USDA’s expansive safety net
program to rescue farmers from
years of poor harvests or low
prices. Across the United States,
farmers who enrolled in the government’s farm program will
collect $7 billion.
Much of the money destined
for Washington will go to farmers
who grew wheat, barley, corn,
canola, peas and lentils during
the summer of 2015. Drought
and record heat gripped the
state, cutting yields and fueling
the worst wildfire season in state
history.
For example, the average
wheat yield in 2015 was 50.4
bushels an acre. This year, the
yield was 71.5 bushels an acre,
said Mary Palmer Sullivan with
the Washington Grain Commission.
Making matters worse for
the 2015 crop, prices began a
steady slide after the harvest.
By Thursday, the price of the
most common wheat grown in
Washington sat at $4.50 a bushel
delivered to Portland. That’s well
below the recognized break-even
point for Washington farmers
after the cost of seed, fuel, fer-
tilizer, equipment, land leases,
insurance and other costs of
doing business, said Michelle
Hennings, executive director of
the Washington Association of
Wheat Growers. In 2014, a bushel
was $6.55 on average.
The payments for last year’s
struggle are arriving weeks after
farmers across the country —
including in Washington state —
brought in this year’s bumper
crop.
Northwest Farm Credit Services, the region’s largest agricultural lender, noted the rub in a
Thursday report.
“Northwest wheat producers’
yields are bursting bins, but low
prices are squelching profits,” the
statement read. “Year over year,
U.S. wheat supplies are up 17
percent and global wheat sup-
lonely SIlo
plies are a record 745 million
metric tons … The USDA projects 2016-17 all-wheat prices at
$3.30 to $3.90 per bushel, at or
below producers’ cost of production.”
Gordon Stoner, president of
the National Association of Wheat
Growers, said: “The program
payments being announced today
will provide a needed cushion
for farmers during these tough
economic conditions in wheat
country.”
The USDA predicted in
August that national farm profits
would fall 11.5 percent to
$71.5 billion during the past
year because of low prices. That
would be the lowest mark in
seven years.
The money to farmers this
year is different from the historic
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n Spokane Valley has a
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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — It’s peak
apple season and across the area a large
crop is weighing down neighborhood trees.
At the Resurrection Community Garden
behind the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane Valley, about a dozen
old apple trees are reminders of the area’s
history in orchards and vegetable farming.
The Spokane Edible Tree Project —
a countywide organization that gleans
unused fruit and donates it to local food
banks — has formed a partnership with
the church, and this year the nonprofit
harvested 4,200 pounds of apples. So far.
“People even came out in the rain the
other weekend,” said Kate Burke, Edible
Tree Project director.
In 2015, the Resurrection Garden grew
and donated more than 5,000 pounds of
fruits and vegetables to local food banks.
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Richard Chan, spokesperson for the
Episcopal Vestry, said it’s been great to
have the Edible Tree crews on site, and
nice to see the apples being used for something.
“Some of the trees may be 100 years old
or so,” Chan said. “We are just so happy
someone gets to use the fruit.”
Chan is not certain which apple varietals are on the church’s trees, though
initial taste testing point toward some
being old style Red Delicious.
Regardless of variety, the apples are
sweet and can be eaten right off the tree.
Burke got the idea for the Edible Tree
Project from Portland’s Fruit Tree Project.
“If the apples aren’t picked, not much
will happen to them,” Burke said.
Edible Tree will send a gleaning crew
to anything from one backyard tree to an
orchard.
Burke said she hopes the church can
become a home base for Edible Tree.
“We’d like to teach ladder safety and
pruning classes here,” Burke said. “That
way we’d actually have an address.”
Volunteers harvest for injured farmer
n August accident
left Illinois man
blind in one eye
B Y CHRIS LUSVARDI
(Decatur) Herald and Review
Farm Succession &
Estate Planning Course
NEWMAN, Ill. — Dave
Young is facing many
adjustments after an accident in August left him
blind in his right eye.
At first with little depth
perception, he was having
problems with seemingly
simple tasks such as putting
toothpaste on a toothbrush.
It took him a few days to be
able to do that again.
The hardest part for
Young, a farmer in Douglas
County, might be watching
others in the fields this fall
after years in the driver’s
seat of a combine. Unable
to operate the equipment,
Young, 59, wasn’t sure how
he was going to get this
year’s crop out of the fields.
Luckily, a group of
neighbors in the Newman
area and others from
across the county rallied
to his aid, taking a day
off from working their own
fields last week to harvest
Young’s corn last week.
“I’ve been stewing about
it for a month,” Young said
while still making phone
calls to make sure the grain
was delivered to nearby
elevators. “This feels like
a great big hug. It’s a good
feeling.”
Tyler
Harvey,
the
Douglas County Farm
Bureau manager, found
that everyone who heard
about what Young needed
was more than willing to
help. Young was injured
when a pry bar slipped,
hitting his face while
working on a semi-truck.
Young said one of the
messages he wants to
spread is about safety.
“All the time we think
about wearing safety equipment using power tools,
but hand tools can hurt just
as bad,” Young said. “One
little slip and I’m paying
for it.”
Harvey said 230 acres
in five fields needed to be
harvested, a task that normally takes several weeks.
Instead, it got done in a day
with the volunteer help.
“Seeing so many people
come together, it takes the
weight off,” Harvey said.
“This is really what the
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payments that put a spotlight on
farm subsidies in the 1990s and
2000s, said Judy Olson, the Washington state executive director
of the USDA’s Farm Service
Agency.
Legislation passed in 2014
ended the practice of automatic
payments to farmers. The new
Farm Bill established what Olson
described as a true safety net
that allowed farmers to enroll
in crop-specific programs that
would trigger federal payments
determined by crop prices and
yields.
“In previous bills, farmers got
a payment regardless of price
and yield,” she said. “This time,
there are years when there’s no
payment.
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agriculture community is
like when there is a time of
need. Once word got out,
the help flowed in.”
Dave Young’s wife,
Debby, was among the
family members and neighbors helping to prepare
sack lunches to take to the
fields as a way to thank
the volunteers. They even
made sure an FS truck was
available to replenish any
fuel that the volunteers
used for their equipment
during the day.
Debby Young said it’s
been a hard adjustment at
a time of year when Dave is
usually out in the fields for
more than 12 hours a day,
something she knows he’d
rather be doing now.
“We can’t express how
much we appreciate the
help,” Debby Young said.
“Harvest is a stressful time
in farming. This is when we
get our pay day.”
Family members have
driven in from both nearby
and out of state to help.
They were impressed to see
the show of support.
“I drove in here and I
was almost in tears when I
saw all the guys lined up,”
said Gerald Day of Monticello, Dave Young’s fatherin-law.
Taking any time off during harvest can be a lot to
ask as farmers want to complete the work as efficiently
as possible, not knowing
how weather conditions
can change, Harvey said.
“It’s always a race
against the clock,” Harvey
said.
Some of the neighboring
farmers shrugged off what
they were doing, saying it
was just what they do.
“We’ve got to help when
somebody needs it,” said
Greg Luth while preparing
to hop back in a combine to
finish off one of the fields.
Harvey
said
after
knowing Young through
various Farm Bureau activities that he would do the
same thing if somebody
else needed the help.
“I’m glad we could help
out and coordinate this,”
Harvey said. “It’s easy to
help somebody like him.”
Young isn’t sure what
the future will hold for his
recovery, but he remains
hopeful that he will be
back in the fields for spring
planting.
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FARM & RANCH
Food surplus has stuffed American freezers
n Overproduction will
likely keep prices low
highest for the month of August
since U.S. records began in 1921,
and includes nearly 770 million
pounds of American cheese and
25.7 million pounds of Swiss.
Other stockpiles include:
• 322 million pounds of butter
(up 52 percent from a year ago)
• 1.52 billion pounds of frozen
fruit, including 377 million
pounds of strawberries and 313
million pounds of blueberries
• 1.31 billion pounds of frozen
poultry (chicken and turkey), up
4 percent from a year ago.
B Y DAVID PITT
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Warehouses, distribution centers and
grocery stores are overflowing
with some food staples, such as
milk, eggs and frozen fruits and
vegetables, the result of increased
production
and
decreased
exports.
Take dairy, for example: With
the most milk ever produced
in the U.S. — about 24 billion
gallons — that means there are
record amounts of butter and
cheese. The glut of food means
lower prices for consumers.
Here’s a short explanation of
how the surplus came about and
where it all goes:
Food banks a beneficiary
High prices, production
Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press file
Cows feed at the Schilter Orgainic Dairy near Adna, Wash. Warehouses, distribution centers
and grocery stores are overflowing with some food staples, which is the result of increased
production and decreased exports.
Two years ago, high prices
for milk, pork, poultry and eggs
encouraged farmers to expand
livestock operations.
Plus, American consumers
were opening their wallets and
trade partners were willing to
keep buying U.S. products.
Add to that the cheap cost
of animal feed that encouraged
farmers to boost livestock’s
weight before taking them to
market.
Rising dollar, bird
flu take a bite
caused many trade partners to
stop taking eggs and turkey and
chicken meat, and while production of eggs has returned, demand
isn’t fully restored.
Those factors and others
have suppressed demand, but
the cows keep pumping out milk
and veggies continue to grow,
Agriculture is a cyclical business: The relative high value of
the dollar makes U.S. products
more expensive to importers, so
they’ve slowed their buying.
Last year’s bird flu crisis also
resulting in a surplus of certain
types of food.
Cooling demand
leads to surplus
Step into the freezer. The
1.24 billion pounds of cheese in
refrigerated warehouses is the
Not everything is being stored.
The USDA announced in August
it was buying 11 million pounds
of cheese for $20 million and
sending it to food banks and food
pantries through a government
nutrition assistance program.
Farm organizations also are
boosting their efforts to improve
U.S. exports and move some of
the glut out of the country.
Prices likely to stay low
Food prices depend on factors
beyond just supply, such as
weather and oil prices.
Given those unpredictable
factors, the USDA expects supermarket prices overall to rise
between 1 and 2 percent next
year for beef, veal, pork, eggs,
poultry and fresh fruit.
Hotline to help farmers with pipeline protesters
n Activist denies
harassing farmers
B Y BLAKE NICHOLSON
Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. —
North Dakota’s Agriculture Department has set up
a hotline to help farmers
and ranchers south of the
Bismarck-Mandan area
who’ve been affected by
protests against the Dakota
Access oil pipeline.
Many producers need to
finish seasonal work before
winter sets in, and they’re
having problems trying to
find willing truck drivers
and custom silage-chopping services, Agriculture
NATONAL NEWS
briefly
Farm worker dies
after falling in silo
FOREST CITY, Iowa
(AP) — An Iowa farm
worker died this week
after falling roughly 30 feet
inside a silo.
The Mason City Globe
Gazette reported the fatal
fall happened early Oct.
3 at Branstad Farms near
Forest City, Iowa.
The Hancock County
Sheriff’s
office
said
46-year-old Julian Santos
Martinez died at the farm
after the fall. The sheriff’s office said the death
appears to have been an
accident.
Officials with the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration say they
won’t investigate the death
because the farm doesn’t
have more than 10 nonfamily employees, so the
agency doesn’t have jurisdiction.
The farm is owned by
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s
brother, Monroe “Monte”
Branstad.
Commissioner Doug Goehring said Wednesday.
“We are appealing to
those who can provide
these services to contact
the hotline,” he said.
The protests have drawn
thousands of people to the
area where Texas-based
Energy Transfer Partners is
trying to wrap up construction on the $3.8 billion,
1,200-mile pipeline from
North Dakota to Illinois.
Opponents of the pipeline worry about potential
impacts to drinking water
on the Standing Rock
Sioux reservation and
further downstream, as
well as destruction of cultural artifacts.
But a protest camp
spokesman
said
the
notion that protesters are
harassing farmers or farm
workers is “not true.”
“(W)e’ve had quite a few
farmers and ranchers stop
by the camp to show their
support and thank us for
taking a stand against Big
Oil,” spokesman Cody Hall
said.
Rancher
Matthew
Rebenitsch told The Associated Press earlier this
month that many people
are locking their doors and
carrying guns. And Morton
County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier has said his office
has received reports of
people in rural areas being
stopped on roads and
intimidated, a claim Hall
denied.
Goehring
said
the
Farm/Ranch Emergency
Assistance Hotline (701425-8454) is aimed at
helping producers and
those looking for work to
connect with one another.
Department
employees
will answer calls weekdays
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
callers can leave messages
on evenings and weekends.
Goehring also said the
Morton County Sheriff’s
Department will work to
“assist in providing safe
passage” to farmers who
need it in the course of
their fall work.
1870s, and some donated
equipment for the job. A
few area businesses provided fuel for equipment.
The volunteers began
the harvest Sept. 8 and
have nearly finished. Burck
was known for planting
and harvesting early.
The homestead has 160
acres, including 75 farmable acres.
Burck grew up on the
land, and farmed alongside
his father from a young
age. He started school at
Iowa State University, but
lasted one semester before
returning home to continue
his love for farming.
“He tried the whole
college thing,” his daughter
said. “His dad asked him,
‘Do you want to stay up
there or come back?’
(LaVerne Burck) answered,
‘I wanna come back.’”
Jessica Burck also grew
up helping her father on
the farm and works there
full time, but she said
she couldn’t have coped
without the volunteers’
help. Without that, “I would
still be trying to get the
combine to work,” she said.
current farming operation,
which includes irrigated
and dryland acreage.
HUTCHINSON, Kan.
(AP) — A couple has
bought a former central
Kansas plantation that was
once a large shipping point
for fruit between the Missouri River and California.
The 1,260-acre Yaggy
Plantation near Nickerson
was auctioned off this
week. Auction participants
said the land sold for more
than $5 million. The buyers
were Craig and Lucinda
Piligian, who have homes
in Reno County.
Descendants of the
plantation’s founder, Levi
Walter Yaggy, sold the
acreage. The property,
which has been in the same
family for 130 years, at one
time had as many as 50,000
apple trees and a million
catalpa trees.
Lucinda Piligian said the
land’s history was part of
the attraction. She said they
plan to continue the land’s
FARM & RANCH
FALL SPECIAL
Friends help with
dead farmer’s harvest
COUNCIL
BLUFFS,
Iowa (AP) — Friends of an
Iowa farmer who died in
July came together to help
with his final harvest.
The Daily Nonpareil
reported that 59-year-old
LaVerne Burck died after
being diagnosed with
lung cancer, leaving his
daughter Jessica Burck
about 1,300 acres in Pottawattamie County, south
of Council Bluffs.
About 30 of LaVerne
Burck’s
friends
and
members of the farming
community teamed up to
harvest corn and soybeans
on the farm, which has
been in the family since the
Couple buys former
Kansas plantation
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cut carbon emissions
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) —
New York state is spending
$2.5 million on efforts to
help local farmers reduce
their carbon emissions.
The funding announced
this week can also be spent
on local initiatives to help
prepare farms for droughts
and other effects of climate
change.
The money will be
awarded to local soil and
water conservation districts.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
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change is a “new reality”
and that helping farms
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Excavators are in place as work resumed Tuesday
on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline near St.
Anthony, N.D. A federal appeals court ruling on
Sunday cleared the way for work to resume on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where
thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights
have gathered for months.
reduce their greenhouse
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He said 26 counties in
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summer’s drought.
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No. 2 Feed barley prices
Sept. 30, 2016
Rexburg
$4.75-5.15
Idaho Falls
$5.00
Blackfoot/Pocatello NQ
Burley/Rupert
$5.50
Malt barley prices
Rexburg
Idaho Falls
Pocatello
Burley/Rupert
NQ
$8.33-8.35
$6.50
NQ
Prices in Cwt NQ: No Quote
Source: Idaho Barley Commission
Milling
SWW
Rexburg
$3.44-3.65
Idaho Falls $3.40-3.70
Blackfoot/Poca. $3.40
Burley/Rupert
$3.70
HRW
DNS
HWW
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
$3.64
$4.98 $3.85-3.89
$3.70-3.90 $5.14-5.15 $3.70-4.10
$3.90
$5.15
$3.70
$3.40
$5.05
$3.77
Portland prices
No. 2 Feed Barley
No. 1 SWW
No. 1 HRW
No. 1 DNS
NQ
$4.50
$4.90
$6.14½
NQ
$4.75
$5.10
$6.49½
Prices in Cwt (barley) and bu. (wheat)
NQ: No Quote
Source: Idaho Barley Commission
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Thursday:
Open
High
Low
Settle
Chg.
CATTLE
40,000 pounds.; cents per lb.
Oct
96.62
97.12
94.30
94.45 —2.30
Dec
97.70
98.47
96.10
96.17 —1.83
Feb
99.20
99.75
97.80
97.95 —1.57
Apr
98.75
99.20
97.25
97.35 —1.92
Jun
92.67
93.07
91.30
91.45 —1.92
Aug
91.32
91.57
89.87
90.00 —2.00
Oct
93.45
93.45
91.75
91.75 —2.15
Dec
94.30
94.30
92.82
92.82 —2.10
Est. sales 51,552. Wed.’s sales 67,897
Wed.’s open int 265,064, up 1,884
FEEDER CATTLE
50,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
Oct
121.65
121.90
119.30
119.45 —2.55
Nov
117.27
117.62
114.65
114.82 —2.95
Jan
113.52
114.00
111.17
111.55 —2.72
Mar
111.90
112.20
109.25
109.65 —2.95
Apr
111.77
112.15
109.30
109.55 —3.05
May
111.10
111.25
108.92
109.22 —2.95
Aug
113.00
113.00
110.42
110.57 —3.38
Sep
110.80
—2.70
Wed.’s open int 42,819, up 308
HOGS,LEAN
40,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
Oct
52.60
52.77
52.45
52.62
+.25
Dec
44.35
44.92
43.87
44.17
+.12
Feb
50.97
51.50
50.65
51.20
+.28
Apr
58.12
58.55
57.72
58.37
+.27
May
66.45
66.90
66.45
66.67
+.07
Jun
70.77
71.45
70.65
71.32
+.17
Jul
71.30
71.90
71.30
71.82
+.30
Aug
71.40
71.77
71.22
71.70
+.15
Oct
62.10
62.42
62.02
62.40
+.20
Dec
58.95
58.95
58.95
58.95
—.25
Feb
62.10
—.25
Wed.’s open int 229,898
Idaho Potatoes
Upper Valley, Twin Falls-Burley District
Potatoes, Oct. 12. Demand bales good on light supplies, others
fairly light. Market Burbank cartons 40-80s and Norkotah cartons
80-100s lower, others about steady.
Russet Burbank U.S. One 2” or 4-oz Min: baled 5 10-lb mesh
sacks non sz A 5.00-6.50 mostly 5.50 occas lower; baled 5 10-lb
film bags non sz A 4.50-6.25 mostly 5.00-5.50 occas lower; baled
10 5-lb mesh sacks non sz A 6.00-7.00 mostly 6.50 occas lower;
baled 10 5-lb film bags non sz A 5.50-6.50 occas lower.
50 lb cartons: 40s 6.50-8.00 mostly 7.00-7.50; 50s 6.50-8.00 mostly
7.00-7.50; 60s 6.50-8.00 mostly 7.00-7.50; 70s 6.50-8.00 mostly
7.00-7.50; 80s 6.50-8.00 mostly 7.00-7.50; 90s 6.50-8.00 mostly
7.00-7.50; 100s 6.50-7.50 mostly 7.00-7.50.
U.S. Two 50 lb sacks: 6 oz min 5.50-6.00 mostly 6.00; 10 oz min
6.00-7.00 mostly 6.00-6.50.
Russet Norkotah U.S. One 2” or 4-oz Min: baled 5 10-lb mesh
sacks non sz A 5.00-6.00 mostly 5.50 occas lower; baled 5 10-lb
film bags non sz A 4.50-5.50 mostly 5.00 occas lower; baled 10 5-lb
mesh sacks non sz A 6.00-7.00 mostly 6.50 occas lower; baled 10
5-lb film bags non sz A 5.50-6.50 mostly 6.00 occas lower.
50 lb cartons: 40s 5.00-6.50 mostly 5.50-6.00; 50s 5.00-6.50 mostly
5.50-6.00; 60s 5.50-6.50 mostly 6.00; 70s 5.50-6.50 mostly 6.00;
80s 5.50-6.50 mostly 6.00; 90s 5.50-6.50 mostly 6.00; 100s 5.506.50 mostly 6.00.
U.S. Two 50 lb sacks: 6 oz min 4.50-5.50 mostly 4.50-5.00; 10 oz
min 4.50-6.00 mostly 5.50-6.00.
CHICAGO — USDA — Major U.S. One potato markets FOB shipping points Oct. 12.
Big Lake & Central Minnesota Round Red U.S. One no
report.
Columbia Basin, Wash., & Umatilla Basin, Ore., Russet
Norkotah U.S. One 2” or 4-oz Min: baled 5 10-lb film bags
non sz A mostly 4.50; baled 10 5-lb film bags non sz A mostly 5.50.
50 lb cartons sz A 70s mostly 6.00; 100s 6.00. Round Red U.S.
One baled no report.
Florida Round Red U.S. One baled 50 lb cartons: sz A no report.
Kern District Round Red U.S. One 50 lb cartons: sz A no
report.
Klamath Basin, Northern Calif. & Ore., Russet Norkotah U.S.
50 lb cartonsNorkotah
8/17 8/24
8/31
70s
Intermountain Grain
Oct. 13, 2016
Blackfoot
Burley
White wheat
Hard red winter
DNS
Barley
Hard white
$3.45
$3.55
$5.13
$3.75
$3.70
$3.50
$5.13
$5.00
$3.90
Meridian
Soft white
Hard red winter
DNS
Barley
$3.72
$3.89
$5.29
$6.50
Portland, Ore.
Soft white
White club
Hard red
DNS
Corn
Oats
$4.86-4.91
na
$4.69-4.79
$6.63-6.57
$4.25-4.29
$3.26/bu
Ogden, Utah
Soft white
Hard red winter
DNS
Barley
Hard white
Corn
$3.96
$3.84
$5.52
$5.75
$4.34
$3.99
Source: Idaho Farm Bureau
One no report.
Minnesota-North Dakota (Red River Valley) Round Red U.S.
One baled 10 5-lb film bags sz A mostly 15.00. 50 lb cartons sz A
mostly 13.00. Creamers 3/4-1 5/8” 25.00-30.00.
Nebraska Russet Norkotahs U.S. One baled 5 10-lb film bags
sz A mostly 6.50. 50 lb cartons sz A 70s 7.00-9.00; 100s 7.50-8.00.
Northwestern Washington Round Red U.S. One 50 lb cartons
sz A mostly 145.00-16.00. Creamers 3/4-1 5/8” mostly 35.00.
San Luis Valley, Colo. Russet Norkotahs U.S. One baled
5 10-lb film bags sz A 6.00. 50 lb cartons sz A 70s mostly 7.50;
100s 7.00-8.00. Round Red U.S. One baled 10 5-lb film bags sz
A 15.00-19.00.
Wisconsin Russet Norkotahs U.S. One baled 5 10-lb film bags
sz A mostly 6.50. 50 lb cartons sz A 70s mostly 8.00-9.00; 100s
mostly 8.00-8.50. Round Red U.S. One baled 10 5-lb film bags
sz A mostly 13.00. 50 lb cartons sz A mostly 13.00 .
Portland Grain
Burbank
9/7 9/14 9/21 9/28 10/5 10/12
Source: Market News Service
White wheat
Hard red winter
DNS
Hard white
Idaho Norkotah potato prices
10 pound mesh sack
Idaho Norkotah potato prices
70 & 100 count cartons
Wheat prices
Livestock futures
Potato Prices Elsewhere
FARM & RANCH
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13. — Bids for grains delivered to Portland, Ore., during October by unit trains and barges, in dollars per
bushel, except oats and corn, in dollars per cwt. Bids for soft white
wheat are for delivery periods as specified. Hard red winter wheat
and dark northern spring wheat bids are for full October delivery.
Bids for corn are for 30-day delivery.
December wheat futures closed 10.25 to 19.25 cents per
bushel higher compared to Wednesday’s closes.
Bids for US 1 Soft White Wheat delivered to Portland in unit
trains and barges for October delivery ordinary protein trended
steady to 19.25 cents per bushel higher compared to Wednesday’s
noon bids for the same delivery period. Some exporters were not
issuing bids for nearby delivery. Bids for guaranteed maximum 10.5
percent protein trended 14.25 to 19.25 cents per bushel higher
compared to Wednesday’s noon bids for the same delivery period.
Some exporters are not issuing bids for nearby delivery.
Bids for 11.5 percent protein US 1 Hard Red Winter Wheat
for October delivery trended 15.5 cents per bushel higher compared to Wednesday’s noon bids.
Bids for 14 percent protein US 1 Dark Northern Spring
Wheat for October delivery were 10.25 to 20.25 cents per bushel
higher compared to Wednesday’s noon bids.
Bids for US 2 Yellow Corn delivered full coast in 110 car shuttletrains for October delivery had no recent price comparison
available as Wednesday’s bids were not available. Some exporters
were not issuing bids for nearby delivery.
All wheat bids in dollars per bushel.
US 1 Soft White Wheat
Ordinary protein
Oct
$4.50-4.86
Nov
$4.60-4.86
Dec
$4.65-4.86
Jan
$4.90-5.0975
Feb
$4.95-5.0975
Gtd 10.5 pct
Oct
$4.86-4.91
Nov
$4.60-4.91
Dec
$4.65-4.91
Jan
$5.0975
Feg
$5.0975
US 1 White Club Wheat
Oct
$4.71-4.86
Gtd 10.5 pct
Oct
$4.86-4.91
100s
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
8/17 8/24
per cwt Norkotah Burbank
8/31
9/7 9/14 9/21 9/28 10/5 10/12
Source: Market News Service
US 1 Hard Red Winter Wheat
Ordinary
$4.09-4.19
11 pct. protein
$4.69-4.79
11.5 pct protein
Oct
$4.99-5.09
Nov
$4.99-5.09
Dec
$4.99-5.09
Jan
$4.89-5.04
Feb
$5.06-5.21
12 pct. protein
$5.14-5.24
13 pct protein
$5.44-5.59
US 1 Dark Northern Spring Wheat
13 pct protein
$5.84-6.09
14 pct protein
Oct
$6.32-6.57
Nov
$6.27-6.52
Dec
$6.32-6.52
Jan
$6.3175-6.4675
Feb
$6.3175-6.4975
15 pct protein
$6.56-6.81
16 pct protein
$6.80-7.05
US 2 Yellow Corn trains-Delivered full coast Pacific Northwest
Oct
$4.095-4.45
Nov
$4.145-4.45
Dec
$4.245-4.295
Jan
$4.315-4.335
Feb
$4.335-4.345
Mar
$4.335-4.365
US 2 Heavy White Oats in dollars per cwt
$3.265
Exporter Bids Portland Rail/Barge
September 2016
Averages in Dollars per bushel
No. 1 Soft White by Unit Trains and Barges
$4.78
No. 1 Hard Red Winter Ordinary protein
$4.41
No. 1 Hard Red Winter 11.5 pct protein
$5.00
No. 1 Dark Northern Spring 14 pct protein
$5.98
Grain futures
Close 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
Dec
396½
417
396½
Mar
415½
435¼
415½
May
430
448¾
430
Jul
442½
460¼
442½
Sep
459½
474¾
459½
Dec
477
493
477
Mar
507¾
+16¾
May
513¼
+16½
Jul
510
+16¼
Sep
519¼
+16¼
Dec
533½
+16¼
Mar
533½
+16¼
May
533½
+16¼
Jul
525½
+16¼
Wed.’s open int 484,592, up 3,883
CORN 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
Dec
337½
349¾
337¼
Mar
347¼
359¾
347¼
May
354½
366¼
354
Jul
361¼
373
361¼
Sep
368½
379½
368¼
Dec
377¾
388½
377¼
Mar
390½
397½
390½
May
394¾
402¾
394¾
Jul
400
406½
400
Sep
405¾
+9¾
Dec
397¾
407¼
397¾
Jul
423
+10¼
Dec
414¾
+10¼
Wed.’s open int 1,320,921, up 14,925
OATS 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
Dec
197¾
199½
191
Mar
199¾
201
195
May
199½
203
199½
Jul
205
—1¼
Sep
214
—1¼
Dec
214½
—1¼
Mar
214½
—1¼
May
214½
—1¼
Jul
214½
—1¼
Sep
214½
—1¼
Jul
214½
—1¼
Sep
214½
—1¼
Wed.’s open int 9,210
416
434¾
448½
460¼
474½
493
+19¼
+18¼
+18½
+18¼
+17¼
+17
349½
359½
366
372½
379½
388¼
397½
402¾
406½
+12½
+12½
+12¼
+12
+11¾
+11
+10½
+10
+10
407¼
+10¼
195¾
198¾
202
—2¼
—1¼
—1¼
Post Register D13
FARM & RANCH
Fire and the lessons we learn from it
W
e have personally been
touched by major fires
twice in the past two
years. Both were traumatic in a
sense, and hopefully we learned
from both.
The first fire was in the late
summer of 2015. We had the
Ammon Fire Department have
a training as they burned down
our mother’s home. Mother lived
in this home until the last five or
six months of her life. She and
Dad had the home built around
1945 and she passed away in
2001, so she lived in that home
for 56 years. Mother loved her
home and worked hard to keep
it up. She wasn’t one to work in
the yard as Dad always mowed
the lawn. She had shrubs in
front of the house and lilac
bushes at the back. She came
from a humble but loving home
and she never lost that humble
and loving attitude.
When mother passed away
we, as her children, decided to
rent the home out. We had some
good renters and some poor renters. One renter stripped the carpets from the floors and went
back to hardwood floors. Those
floors were beautiful. Mother
kept them shined and bright all
the time until she and Dad decided to put carpet in the home. But
the house started to fall apart
from having so many different
people in it, people who didn’t
take the responsibility of keeping
the home in good condition.
The front windows of the
home faced South, and I can
remember sitting in the living
room in late fall and watch the
first snow of the year coming
down Taylor Mountain toward
us. In the summer we would
watch the rain storms coming,
again down Taylor Mountain.
We watched for the school bus
through those windows, watched
for Dad to come home when he
had been checking the sheep out
on the summer pastures.
Yes, when we burned down
the house plus the shed out back
of the house we were sad. Those
of us who stood by to witness this
had tears in our eyes. The home
and shed were gone in a short
time, but the memories of the
good times will always be with us.
The second fire was the
Henry Creek Fire, just a few
weeks ago. That fire was a
bigger fire touching many more
lives. It is a blessing that no
one died in it, but there was a
lot of damage. We were one
of the lucky ones that the fire
bypassed, but if it hadn’t been
for people working on the fire
lines, we too would have had
much destroyed. Farmers were
JEAN
SCHWIEDER
stRAddLIn’
the fence
quick to get their tractors and
disks or plows and start working
the ground to keep the fire from
spreading toward their land. A
group of hot-shot firefighters
from Utah actually saved our
land by the corrals. We were
able to keep our animals safe.
However, there were livestock
destroyed, a lot of fences burned,
livestock feed burned, one cabin
destroyed and wildlife habitat
burned. Fences, pastures and
habitat can be rebuilt and new
growth will be coming; a home is
harder to recreate.
There will be long-lasting
problems from this fire: fences
are expensive to build and take
a lot of man power; pastures will
probably take a couple of years
to become as good as they were
before; wildlife have been displaced which will mean they will
move into places that domestic
animals use for feed, which will
cause problems.
This year’s drought has been
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Fresh Russet Market Report: Week ending Oct. 8
State
FWA
Chg
GRI
Chg
70ct
Chg 10 lbs Film Chg
NA
$5.26
NA
$15.00
NA $10.50
NA
Idaho Burbank $12.52
Idaho Norkotah $10.75 $0.00 $4.13 $0.00 $11.50 $0.00 $10.00 $0.00
San Luis Valley $13.01 -$0.29 $6.46 -$0.25 $15.00 -$1.00 $12.00 $0.00
Columbia Basin $10.68 -$0.38 $4.14 -$0.24 $12.00 -$1.50 $9.00
$0.00
Klamath Basin
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Wisconsin
$14.13 -$0.14 $7.38 -$0.11 $17.00 -$0.50 $13.00 $0.00
Market commentary: Idaho russet prices held steady, as wet weather slowed harvest.
Other areas continued to adjust carton prices to be competitive with Idaho.
Sources: North American Potato Market News and USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
Notes: Prices are Friday quotes. All prices are in $/per cwt. FWA is a weighted average of shipping point prices for common
packs in each area. Weights differ by area. GRI is the Grower Returns Index for each individual area, on a delivered-packing
shed basis. Idaho GRIs are based on a 60% packout for Burbanks and a 75% packout for Norkotahs.
HAY REPORT - OCTOBER 7TH
This Week tons FOB: 3,100
Last Week: 6,800
Last Year: 6,800
Year-Date FOB: 170,380
YTD FOB Last Week: 162,830
YTD FOB Last Year: 283,955
Today’s report: http://tinyurl.com/IdahoHayReport
Hay Table
Compared to Sept.
23, all grades of alfalfa
Quality
Tons Price
Avg.
steady in a light test.
Alfalfa
Trade very slow
Mid Square
with light to moderate
Supreme
950
125-135
129.47
demand for nonrained on
Premium/Supreme
450
110-110
110
feeder alfalfa hay.
Good Export
375
110-110
110
Rain showers across
Fair/Good
1,325
80-80
80
the trade area again
this week is hampering
movement.
All prices are dollars per ton and FOB unless othRetail/feed store/ horse hay was not tested this week. erwise stated.
Jean Schwieder
Looking south toward the Henry’s Creek Fire from our ranchhouse.
bad and we have been concerned
about fire most of the summer and
fall. Pastures looked good in the
spring but soon dried up. As fall
came and hunting season opened,
it has been a concern. We hope
this is a once-in-a-lifetime fire,
but we never know. It is interesting that fields where livestock
had grazed didn’t seem to be
burned as bad as those fields
where livestock were kept off.
A friend once told me “fire
is a good servant but a poor
master.” We saw that in this fire.
The fire at our mom’s home was
one that served a purpose, the
Henry Creek Fire caused devastation.
Cattle sale
Oct. 12
Comments: None.
Killing cows and bulls
Breaker cows $58-64
Boner cows $55-60
Cutter cows $52-58
Canner cows $45-52
Bulls $60-75
Feeders
Feeding cows $52-65
Heiferettes $70-80
Fdg & ctg bulls $68-90
Steers
950 lbs and up $92-102
800-900 lbs $100-110
700-800 lbs $100-110
600-700 lbs $103-114
500-600 lbs $108-126
400-500 lbs $120-140
300-400 lbs $130-142
Heifers
800-900 lbs $85-104
700-800 lbs $87-105
600-700 lbs $90-105
500-600 lbs $95-112
400-500 lbs $102-122
300-400 lbs $115-130
200-300 lbs N/T
Holstein steers
700-1000 lbs $68-75
300-600 lbs $70-84
Pairs $1,125
Blackfoot
Oct. 7
Comment: None.
Head Count: 710
Ut/Boner Cows $52-59
Cutters $47-55
Heiferettes N/T
Cowettes/fdrs N/T
Sl Bulls $60-74.75
Fdr Cows: None.
Steers
300-400 lbs $110-139
400-500 lbs $105-141
500-600 lbs $95-130
600-700 lbs $90-111
700-800 lbs $90-110
800-900 lbs $90-110
Heifers
300-400 lbs $110-135
400-500 lbs $100-122
500-600 lbs $90-116
600-700 lbs $90-107
700-800 lbs $90-105
800-900 lbs $90-105
Holstein Steers
400-900 lbs N/T
Burley
Oct. 6
Head count: 1,069
Bulls N/T
Cows $65-78
Heifers $106-120
Steers $81.50-146
Calvy cows N/T
Twin Falls
Sept. 24 (every other Saturday)
Hogs, Sheep, Misc.
Fat hogs $160
Fdr hogs N/T
Weaner hogs $17.50-60
Sows $120
Lambs $121-154
Horses $0.10-20
Baby Clvs $5-150
Std Clvs N/T
Mixed goats $45-230
Billy goats $175-310
Kid goats $25-40
Goat families N/T
Barbatos N/T
Bred ewe goats N/T
Goat pairs: N/T
Ewe goats $39-75
Buck goats $39-99
Weathers N/T
Buck lambs N/T
Oct. 12 (weekly)
Cattle
Head count: 1,275
Steers $95-138
Heifers $91.50-115.50
Bred cow-calf pairs $625-675
Sl & Fdr bulls $57-78
Heiferettes $70-79
Sl & fdr cows $44-68
Jean Schwieder is a writer who
has spent her life involved in eastern Idaho agriculture. Her books,
including past columns, are available
by calling 522-8098 or by email at
[email protected].
Hoot and a lot of hollers
H
oot had a way of
keepin’ the bubble
level, which ain’t
as easy as it sounds in the
cricks and hollers around
Ada.
Ol’ man Johnson was
tight with a dollar bill but
flexible when it came to
runnin’ cattle. Meanin’,
he turned ’em out on
his ranch and gathered
’em up but the numbers
didn’t always jibe. He now
owned several steers that
had evaded sale day for at
least three Octobers.
He made several
attempts to bring ’em in
himself. Goin’ so far as to
enlist the aid of a cowboy
or two, five Boy Scouts on
three-wheelers, a company
of coon hunters, six archeologists from the University of Tulsa looking for
the Oregon Trail and a
water witcher from Fittstown. But, alas, the wild
cattle still remained free.
As a last resort he
asked Hoot what he’d
charge to gather the critters. “Ten bucks,” said
Hoot.
Hoot showed up with
two horses and a truckload of Catahoula Leopard
BAXTER BLACK
on the
edge of
common
sense
dogs. Best cowdogs in the
country, accordin’ to Hoot.
Hoot and Bill saddled
up, loosed the dogs and lit
out from the corral. Ol’ Mr.
Johnson saw ’em off then
went back to the house.
It took the dogs less
than 10 minutes to find the
strays. The riders could
hear the dogs bayin’ and
cryin’ just past the first
holler. Hoot and Bill rode
up on the noise. Eight
head of 3-year-old steers
were bunched up together
like baby elephants square
dancin’. The dogs were
runnin’ circles around the
frightened beasts.
Hoot called off the dogs
and he and Billy started
the herd down the fence
line. They drove ’em
straight to the corral. They
marched through the gate
like teenagers in line at a
AUCTION TABLE
Idaho Falls
At this writing, it hadn’t been
determined for sure how the fire
at Henry Creek started, or more
importantly, why it wasn’t controlled sooner. We do know from
people who were there helping
with the fire, that there are still
a lot of questions needed to be
answered.
My biggest desire is that some
lessons were learned and possibly some changes made in land
management.
Garth Brooks concert.
Ol’ man Johnson ran
out of the house lookin’ at
his watch.
“I need to git some dogs
like that,” he muttered.
Hoot rode up and dismounted.
“Eight head,” he said.
“How much will that
be,” asked Mr. Johnson
sliding his billfold out of
his overall bib and slipping
off the rubber band.
“Eight head,” said Hoot,
“That’ll be 80 dollars.”
“Oh,” said Mr. Johnson,
“I can’t pay that much. It
only took you 15 minutes.”
He looked over his glasses
at Hoot.
Hoot studied him a
second, spun on his heels
and stepped to the corral
gate. He swung it open
and with a wave of his
hand shooshed the steers
outside.
It took 10 days for Ol’
man Johnson to call Hoot
again.
“Glad to,” said Hoot,
“‘Course, the price has
gone up!”
Baxter Black is a cowboy, veterinarian, poet and
humorist. His website is www
.baxterblack.com.
Lansing Trade Group Offers:
Young fdg cows N/T
Jerome
Cattle Sale Oct. 11
Hol Bull Cfs $15-25HD
Hol Hfr Cfs N/T
Std Bull & Str Cfs $100-270HD
Std Hfr Cfs $110-300HD
Brk/Ut/Com Cows $54-60.50
Cut/Bon Cows $47-55
Shelly/Lite Cows $35-45
Slaughter Bulls $57-71.75
Feeder Cows N/T
Holstein Steers
275-400 lbs N/T
400-500 lbs $72-85
500-600 lbs $72-85
600-700 lbs $61-80
700-800 lbs $75-78.75
800-1,000 lbs $75-78.75
Over 1,000 lbs N/T
Hol Hfrs 275-999 lbs $65-75
Hol Hfrs 1,000 lbs $65-75
Choice Steers
300-400 lbs N/T
400-500 lbs $114-119
500-600 lbs $114-119
600-700 lbs N/T
700-800 lbs N/T
800-1,000 lbs N/T
Choice Heifers
300-400 lbs N/T
400-500 lbs N/T
500-600 lbs N/T
600-700 lbs $90-101
700-800 lbs N/T
800-1,000 lbs $86-90.25
Dairy Sale Oct. 5
(Held every other week)
Top Spr $1800 HD
Top 10 Sprs Avg $1,700HD
Top 50 Sprs Avg $1,600 HD
Top 100 Sprs Avg $1,475 HD
Short Bred 2-4 $1,000-1350
Good quality open hfrs
300-400 lbs N/T
400-500 lbs $127-132.50
500-600 lbs $115-122.50
600-700 lbs $115-122.50
Breeding Bulls N/T
Fresh Heifers N/T
Milking Cows N/T
20% OFF
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Egg Layer $13.50 50#
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