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It’s 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 28. I’m atmy computer in my home office on thenorth edge of Olivia, Minn. I’m looking outthe window. It’s SNOWING! Has myweather man gone slightly nuts? Or morelikely I need to remind myself that I livein Minnesota. Oh yes, my outdoor tempgauge reads 38 F!

Yes, weather can be freakish. The weekof April 18-23 was one of the best farmingweeks one could imagine. In this area, allsugar beets are planted and over half ofour corn crop is in the ground. And a fewof you guys even have good starts on soybeans. Tendays ago we had soil temps in the high 50s. I suspectthey’ve slid back into the mid 40s now. But praise theLord ... sunshine is on the agenda starting May 1.

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Traveling Minnesota (and occasionally northernIowa) as a staff writer for The Land gets me in touchwith an amazing variety of talented, ambitious andcommon-sense people. Sometimes you agree with mypolitical gruffness — sometimes you don’t. And thatis as it should be. If everyone agrees then I’m obvi-ously not challenging the thinking of many of you.

But there is absolutely no doubt we’re all tuned into this year’s political show. And it is indeed a dandy.To me, it’s fairly obvious that “major change” is whatmost of us are wanting — even expecting — if thatmatters anymore.

According to the April 24 airing of the TV show 60Minutes, each member of Congress (at least the new-bies) is expected to do about three hours each day offundraising telephone calls for their own purpose, orthe national office of their particular political affilia-tion. So why should they even care or have time tocare about us constituents back home? That incredi-ble reality prompts me to give serious considerationto Donald Trump. With Trump I think this daily“dialing for dollars” stuff would shut down realquick.

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On April 27, a Legume Cover Crop day was hosted

by Cottonwood County farmer PhilBatalden and his son Ryan. Yes, it wascold. Yes, it was wet. Yes it was windy. AndI, of senior vintage, thought this eventwould certainly be cancelled. (Or at leastmoved to an indoor facility with heat andlights such as the University of Min-nesota Southwest Research and OutreachCenter which is six miles away at Lam-berton.) That’s where I first stopped, butno cover crop event there. So I proceededto the Batalden farm.

Despite the cruddy weather the eventwas on. I huddled with about 18 people in a field plotviewing various mixtures of oats and vetch whichhad been seeded last fall. Doing most of the talkingwas Julie Grossman, horticulture scientist at theUniversity of Minnesota, St. Paul. She was sharingan intriguing discussion about hairy vetch as a nitro-gen enrichment crop for your soils while also func-tioning as a cover crop. I was stone dumb about thiscrop. But I’m never too old to learn.

After closely viewing different stands of vetch andshown how to collect plant mass for nitrogen produc-tion estimate, we hastily adjourned to PhilBatalden’s farm shop to warm our bodies withrefreshments (including hot coffee) and good conver-sation until 5:30 p.m.

Why vetch? Batalden responded he wanted to see ifthis might be a cheaper and better source of nitrogenfor his corn. And based on what Grossman shared, hethinks the vetch could be providing upwards ofnearly 130 pounds of N, certainly enough to takecare of his 2016 corn planting.

So my hats off to you hearty, enthusiastic, andproperly-clothed cover crop people who attended thisevent. Most in this group are already into cover cropsbut came to learn more regardless the weather. Suchis the growing curiosity about this new dynamic insoil conservation. Brian Pfarr, soil conservation tech-nician in Redwood County, indicated already about6,000 acres of cover crop in his county.

Changes in crops, politics

LAND MINDS

By Dick Hagen

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See HAGEN, pg. 3

HAGEN from pg. 2A week earlier my travels took me to the Kyle

Petersen farm in the rural Murdock area. A huge 80-foot by 140-foot farm shop was the reason. Hiswords, “There’s always something to work on in thisbusiness of farming. Keeping everything in properworking order is a year-round challenge.”

The previous week I visited the David Legvoldfarm, about three miles north of Northfield. He hasthe honor of being the first to have his farm certifiedin the new Minnesota Agricultural Water QualityCertification program. What motivated Legvold? Heshared this intriguing thought: “I started listening tomy land.”

My point in sharing items from those three weeksis simply to remind all of us that agriculture isindeed the most diversified, the most gregarious andthe most environmentally stimulating industry onplanet earth. And this year it appears to be the mostfinancially challenging also.

But might there be some money in farming in 2016after all? Too much rain in Argentina has severelycrimped anticipated production in their huge soy-bean crop. They might not even be the biggestexporter to China at this rate. So weather distur-bances in another continent apparently is rampingup soybean prices for American farmers who will sellthat much more to China. Some are already talkinga $10 crop come harvest time.

Even corn appears to have some new legs, but fore-casters seem to differ as to why. Ethanol still cap-tures about 36 percent of yearly U.S. corn production.I’m not aware of negative weather issues this springfor U.S. farmers. Yet some are already questioningtrend-line yields for the 2016 crop. And that’s gener-

ating chatter of a $4 price for U.S. corn this fall.Let’s not get too excited. It’s early, very early. We

know 10 days of sunshine squelches gloom rapidly.That’s the energy of talking with farmers. You thinkpositively despite the economic squeeze. And why

not? “The Lord giveth; the Lord taketh away,” is theBible message. So faith is a good starting pointalways.

Dick Hagen is staff writer of The Land. He may bereached at dickhagen@mvtvwireless.com. ❖

New growing season brings optimism to countryside

Landowners, counties and watershed districts arenow reviewing the preliminary map of Minnesotapublic waters requiring protective buffers. Landown-ers who have buffers identified on their property canwork with their local soil and water conservation dis-trict or drainage authority to ensure the preliminarymap is accurate.

The preliminary map created by the DNR displayspublic ditches only in counties and watershed dis-tricts that have submitted their data and had themincorporated into the map by the DNR. A status mapis also available, showing the progress of each Min-nesota county and watershed district in getting theirdata on the preliminary buffer map. Of the 95drainage authorities, 82 have submitted the requireddata.

The preliminary buffer map and status map areavailable for viewing at www.mndnr.gov/buffers.Also available at this website is a link to submit com-ments through May 31.

This article was submitted by the Minnesota Soy-bean Growers Association. ❖

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Hints of spring arrived early thisyear, but the season itself seemed to bein the slow lane. Rare was the weekwhen back-to-back sunny days warmed the tiredwinter soul.

The daffodils and jonquils did arrive in mid-Marchand then waved away for almost a month before aquick burst of late April heat convinced them to

shed their yellow coats. Some of thewaving, I reckon, might have been themtrying to stay warm on several gray, 40-

degree days and a couple of freezing nights.The tulips foolishly tried to keep up appearances

and took a peek at 2016 far too early. A frost twicenipped them as a warning. But, being the gardenshowoffs they are, up they came anyway.

Their abrupt end, however,came not by cold but by critter.Early one morning, about amonth ago, I glanced out myoffice door to see three mid-sizerabbits mowing throughwedges of tulip salad for break-fast.

Worse, 30 feet or so behindthe herd of piggish vegetari-ans, a brown gunny sack of agroundhog was attackinganother tuft of tulip greenslike a starving horse.

To the right of all these al fresco diners stood a redfox squirrel who, comically, appeared to be waitingpatiently for a tulip table to open up so it too, couldfeast on the tender shoots.

Shoots, shooting, and shots did cross my mind. Theinstant I nudged open the sliding glass door however,the brown herd fled to the nearby woods faster thana pack of racing cheetahs. Even the groundhog, arolling wave of fat atop flying feet fore and aft,moved with astonishing speed.

Robins, like the daffodils, arrived early too. And,once or twice, March sleet found them as theypatrolled the farmette’s worm-less, half-brownacreage. They are tough birds though, and mostspent the slow spring building nests on every openrafter, joist or branch they could find.

Now, with the days warmer and sunbathing wormsall about, robin life is good and most just sing their“cheer, cheer, cheer” song from dawn to dusk. There’sa lesson in that, I reckon.

The slow, cool, build-up to spring made for finegrass growing and the neighbors fired up their riding(anyone own a walk-behind anymore?) lawnmower

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GUEBERT, from pg. 4before most had put awaytheir snow shovels. Manymowed twice before the end of March — an unheardof act in these parts.

Not me. The grass in my unfertilized yard tookanother four weeks to green up. When it did, it was-n’t so much green as yellow — dandelion yellow.

Years ago, I turned yard care over to MotherNature and she happily sowed thousands of dande-lions which now spend most of spring winking at theneighbors’ less-yellow lawns.

So too, does the purple chickweed, white cloverand creeping red fescue.

When I finally did mow the yard, the old Dixontwice coughed huge clouds of black, oil-burningsmoke. Uh-oh. What’s 20 years of lawnmower life inhuman years — 40? More? Maybe the faithful three-bladed old beast, like its owner, is feeling itsadvanced years.

The farmette’s trees too, have been slow to leaf. Theapple trees went white a week ago and the redbudsfinally pulled on their red suits just a few days ago.Three front yard black walnuts however, still appearcompletely dormant. Unlike most springs, none of’em seem to be in any kind of hurry.

Well, if they’re not, I’m not. If nature wants to goslow this spring, we’ll go slow. After all, slow is begin-ning to suit my nature too.

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By DICK HAGENThe Land Staff Writer

OLIVIA, Minn. — Recently retired, MarvBoerboom may be collecting perch instead ofpatents, but for nearly four decades the sci-entist has made a sizeable contribution tothe world of agriculture. Boerboom was hon-ored this spring at the Renville County All-Ag Celebration, receiving the DistinguishedService Award by the Renville County Cornand Soybean Growers.

Boerboom logged in over 37 years with DeKalbwhich included 20 years heading up Monsanto’sCorn Research Station in Olivia, Minn. Over thecourse of that time he has developed inbreds whichhave been parents of more than 156 differenthybrids. His research generated over 62 millionunits of sales resulting in the growth of 155 millionacres of corn across the Corn Belt. Boerboom hasbeen granted 66 inbred patents with 34 patents stillpending. These numbers are unbelievable with theseed industry.

Raised on a farm near Cottonwood, Boerboom’scareer started at Ridgewater College in Willmarwhere he earned an associate science degree inagronomy. From there he obtained his bachelor’sdegree at the University of Minnesota. Both hismaster’s degree and Ph.D came from North DakotaState University-Fargo.

Early work experiences included an internshipwith Quaker Oats where he worked with variousFFA chapters. The mission was to teach oat produc-

tion strategies to coax higher yields and bet-ter quality oats. He also visited several ele-vators and farms, collecting random samplesof oats.

“Quaker Oats was trying to identify thecounties with the highest protein contentsbecause Quaker Oats was guaranteeing theprotein content of their oatmeal,” explainedBoerboom.

But his real interest in corn genetics fired up as aUniversity of Minnesota student when he worked inthe crop genetics laboratory.

At NDSU, as a graduate student, he worked in thebarley department. His first job was 1977 withPfizer Genetics (formerly Trojan Seed Company).Pfizer became DeKalb/Pfizer in 1982 and eventuallybecame part of the Monsanto Corporation seedworld. Boerboom was there through it all.Corn genetics

Even with many years on the tires and so manysuccesses in the corn genetics world, Boerboom canpoint out his most memorable accomplishment.

“I’d say it was the first million-bag hybrid, DeKalb250, which included one of my inbreds,” he recalled.“Sold only in Europe, this 85-90 day hybrid quicklycaptured the corn acreage of many European farm-ers. My first big impact on hybrids in the U.S. CornBelt were DK435 and DK547 which set the stage forthe rapid expansion of corn production in the north— especially Minnesota, North Dakota and intoCanada.”

Boerboom reflected on the fact that the U.S. cornindustry, for the past 50 years, has seen yield trendgains of about one-and-a-half bushels per acre peryear.

“I don’t see the genetic impact of this tapering off,”he said. “But some GMO events will get tweaked

more and more which will enhance yield even more.That could be traits which improve drought toler-ance; or traits that provide greater insect protection.

“But the big change has been in our breeding tech-nologies. Crossing two inbreds, then selection amongtheir segregates to develop new lines had been thestatus quo within the industry for years. But thattook generations of time and hundreds of differentinbreds. It was costly and very time consuming. Thenwe started doing genetic finger printing and model-ing to predict which of what particular breedingmaterial was going to do best. I would send in 3,000kernels of an F2 segregated population and design amodel of the traits I was looking for. We’d check chro-mosome by chromosome, dissecting to determinewhich chromosome contained the best combinationof desired traits in the model.

“For example, perhaps just a single chromosomemight increase yield by maybe two bushels. Butstalks might be worse by a half-percent at the samesite. You do this modeling, and then send the seed tothe lab where each kernel is fingerprinted. Then per-haps I would get back 250 kernels that had the samegenetic makeup which best fit my model of the 3,000kernels I had sent to the lab. This process greatlyincreased the possibilities of isolating a specificinbred for potential hybridization and in a quickertime frame as well. That is why today, hybrids tendto have a life span of fewer years vs. the eight or 10-year life span previously.”

Boerboom suggested these breeding ambitions arelikely to continue, but he noted challenges due topeople’s mindset regarding genetically modifiedorganisms.

“But I believe corn hybrids designed to producemedicine for particular human health issues mighteventually happen,” he said. “Crops developed to pro-duce insulin, for example, might lessen the costs ofthese medicines and make them more accessible topeople around the world. Maize continues to be themost amazing crop species developed by man!”

Boerboom’s legacy in the genetics field did not gounnoticed. Boerboom was recognized as a MonsantoSenior Fellow in 2002. In 2005, he received the Mon-santo Science and Technology Career award. In2008, he was honored with the Edgar M. Queenyaward which is Monsanto’s highest award for scienceand technology. And perhaps the honor which ringsthe bell for his genetic achievements was 2012 whenhe was awarded the National Association of PlantBreeders first-ever Commercial Impact Award.Retirement

Today Boerboom lives in the Alexandria areawhere fishing lakes abound and good hunting too.But he hasn’t entirely hung up his cap. He’s mentor-ing a new breeder and is considering taking on somegenetic improvement work in the Monsanto veg-etable world — tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, etc.

“I’m missing my work and great colleagues at theOlivia research center,” Boerboom said. “But I’mthoroughly enjoying my retirement too. Plus I’mdoing some volunteer work at the local food shelf.Also, I’m on the Ag Advisory Board for the newAlexandria High School. This is a great area and lifeis good." ❖

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By TIM KINGThe Land Correspondent

Long Prairie, Minn. — Two empty chairs waitin the yard for Elsie Keller. The rural Long Prairieresident enjoys planting her garden each springand keeps the chairs handy for the occasionalbreak.

Oh, by the way, Elsie Keller is 92 years old.“I have two chairs out there and I try to keep near

one of them,” she said. “It didn’t used to be thatway.”

Elsie Keller has been a longtime reader of TheLand and recently sent a heart-felt letter to themagazine. A visit with her offers a glimpse into herlife of farming with her husband Wendelin Kellerand their children Lewellyn, Timothy, Karen, Rus-sell, and Kimberly.

Elsie and Wendelin met at the Clotho dance hallin Todd County after Wendelin and a few of his fel-low GIs had liberated Europe from Nazism.

“We danced all night,” Elsie said.But Elsie’s story begins before that fateful night

on the dance floor.Elsie was a Schultz before she became a Keller.

The Schultz family, and others like them in the1920s, spoke German at home. German was Elsie’snative tongue until she went of to school No. 31 inLong Prairie township.English was the language ofthe school. There were no English as a Second Lan-guage classes. But there were caring adults.

“Minnie Mueller was a teacher and she couldspeak both languages,” Elsie said. “She helped ustranslate.”

Elsie learned English quickly and was soonenthralled by the history and geography lessons.

“I loved those classes and learning new things,”Elsie said. “I wish I could have gone to high schoolbut there was no way to get to town every day.”

Elsie didn’t go to high school to advance her knowl-edge, but she did continue learning life skills on thefarm. From her mother she learned cooking, foodpreservation, gardening and home economics. Fromher father she learned how to manage a team ofhorses, to care for dairy cows and farrowing sows,and how to do field work.Greatest generation

When Elsie and Wendelin were married on April 7,1947, Elsie was ready to stand alongside him as afull partner in a farm. But it wasn’t that easy.

“A year after we met,” Elsie said, “Wendelin gaveme a diamond. My folks were furious. We couldn’t getmarried. I was Lutheran. He was Catholic.”

Elsie returned the ring.“Two weeks later, Wendelin returned with the

ring,” she said. “He told me that he couldn’t livewithout me. He said, ‘Elsie, we can make it work.’”

Elsie’s parents disowned her when she and Wen-delin were married at the Catholic parsonage inLong Prairie. That same year they bought a 120-acrefarm.

“The farm had been foreclosed on, but we cleanedand repaired the barn and shed and made due until1958. By then we’d saved all but $2,000 for a newbarn. Wendelin always said, ‘Try not to go into debt.But if you do, only go in up to your ankles.’”

Those first 11 years of marriage were both wonder-ful and extremely challenging. Wendelin and Elsiewere blessed with three children, first Lewellyn,then Timothy, then Karen. They worked welltogether and always talked things over. They had arespectful and loving relationship and their familyand farm prospered. But there were problems.

“Wendelin was injured in the war,” Elsie explained.“He had shrapnel in his shoulder, head, and brain.His headaches were so bad he would scream and tellme that he was going crazy. I would put ice on hishead and hold him. He had 19 surgeries to removethe shrapnel. At night he would have nightmares

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Elsie Keller holds the fur coat her husband Wendelinhad made for her when she did so well on her feederpig deal. The picture on the wall behind her is the aerial photo of the Keller farm.

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KELLER, from pg. 8about what he saw in the war.”

Wendelin saw his friends shot before his eyes. Henearly froze to death with his buddies and he wasone of the first soldiers to unlock the death campdoors. Because Wendelin was often disabled by painor recovering from surgery, Elsie did much of thefarm work.

“We started working with horses,” Elsie said.“When Karen was a baby and I was nursing her Icould put her in a wooden fruit crate. I would drivethe team and pick rocks and the baby would beright there. The two boys would walk alongside.”

At first, Elsie milked their 12 Holsteins by hand.There was no electricity. She’d separate the cream,put it into a can, and then put it in well water tocool. Then she’d feed the milk to the calves andpigs. She’d make breakfast for the children andthen return to her chores.

“The VA (Veterans Affairs) would not help Wen-delin or we could have hired somebody,” Elsie said.“They said that he did not need a pension becauseon a farm you have everything that you need.”Family farm

Nevertheless, Elsie, Wendelin and the childrenpersevered. The farm prospered. A second silo, afarrowing barn and a new house were built.

“God helped us build our farm,” Elsie said.After Karen was born, Elsie had surgery and was

told she could have no more children. But whenKaren was 17, Russell was born and then Kimberly.

“We were so blessed,” Elsie said. “How we adoredthose latecomers.”

As he grew, Russell became a big help.“He would get up at 4:45 a.m. and help me with

the chores,” Elsie recalled. “He’d make sure theywere almost done before he went for the bus. Some-times he’d miss it and I’d take him to school.”

The Kellers’ most profitable enterprise was feederpigs. One time Elsie and Russell had the farrowingbarn cleaned; but they had no gestating sows to putin it.

“I saw an ad in the paper for brood sows for sale,”Elsie said. “They were two weeks from farrrowing.Russell and I drove over there and bought 10 sows.

Then we told Wendelin. Oh, he was mad! He saidwe had too much work already. But do you knowwhat? Those sows had ten babies per sow and wesold those feeders for $39 each. It was the best weever did on pigs.

“In December Wendelin said, ‘Let’s go Christmasshopping in Alexandria.’ I thought that was a goodidea because I hadn’t bought gifts for the kids. Buthe took me to a furrier where they made fur coats.He had one made for me. Oh, I loved him! He wassuch a good man.”

Not long after, tragedy struck. A few days beforehe was to start trade school for carpentry, Russellwas swimming with friends. He dove into thewater but didn’t come up. When his friends pulledhim from the water, his neck was broken and hewas paralyzed from the neck down.

“That was the worst day of our 57 years of mar-riage,” Elsie said. “We all cried and cried.”

But Russell was a Keller. With good medical carehe learned to walk again. He graduated fromNorth Dakota State University with degrees inbusiness and accounting and went on to a success-ful career in financial services.

“It’s a beautiful creation,” Elsie said. “If I coulddo it all over again I wouldn’t do anything differ-ent.” ❖

Elsie Keller drove team of horses with baby by her side

God helped us build our farm. ...It’s a beautiful creation.

— Elsie Keller

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By DICK HAGENThe Land Staff Writer

Gary Fisher, 74-year-old farmerfrom Thor, Iowa, forged a remarkablepartnership 15 years ago when MattSiefker, a 26-year old Ohio farm kid,received an e-mail inviting him for aninterview as a farm hand at theFisher farm.

“We were truly blessed to have runinto Matt and have things work outthe way they have. I had seen his adin a couple of farm papers. Yet untilwe met I had no idea the two peoplewere the same. Yes, a perfect exampleof the Lord dealing in mysteriousways with his people,” said Fisher.

Siefker grew up on a northwestOhio crop and dairy farm. Hereturned to the farm after earning atwo-year degree from Ohio State Uni-versity. But he could see the long-term prospects weren’t bright for the70-cow dairy operating on mostlyrented acres in a heavily industrial-

ized area.So Siefker expanded his horizons. He

was aware of programs in Iowa,Nebraska and Minnesota that linkretiring and beginning farmers. Heeven put ads in Farm Journal, Success-ful Farming, Wallaces Farmer andother farm magazines. But with noresponses he had decided to help hisdad plant the 2001 spring crop, than goback to college to get a business degree.

Then everything changed with thate-mail from Fisher. Fisher’s son, whohad farmed with his dad for five years,decided to expand his welding skills byopening a full-time welding shop. SoFisher was looking for help on thefarm and decided to try Iowa StateUniversity’s Farm On program.According to David Baker, farm transi-tion specialist at ISU’s BeginningFarmer Center, the Farm On programhas matched more than 80 beginningfarmers with retirees since 1994.

Fisher’s interview with Siefker went

well, but it almost never happened.“I took a quick look at the info Matt

had sent me and then threw it into awaste basket,” said Fisher. “An Ohiofarm kid would never pull up stakesand move to Iowa I thought.”

But Fisher’s son in-law picked it outof the waste basket and said, “What’swrong with this one?”

Fisher didn’t know Siefker’s mind-set or his work ethic. He couldn’t imag-ine this young man driving 600 miles

to the Fisher farm, do the interview,than drive the 600 miles back to hisOhio farm.

Fisher had narrowed the field toabout 13 candidates and selected fivefor interviews.

“We called each with the same ques-tion: ‘Why do you want to farm?’,” saidFisher. “When we called Matt in Ohiohe said he was willing to drive allnight to be at our farm tomorrowmorning for our interview. So it wasobvious this young man wanted tofarm. He did that overnight drive. Thatmorning we sat at the table acrossfrom one another. I told Matt that Idon’t know if this will work but if youare willing to do a 90-day trial we’ll seehow it works out.”Field test

A month later Siefker was in Iowahelping Fisher plant his 2001 crop,working on a salaried basis for threemonths to see “if their personalitiesclicked”.

“Those three months went good,”said Fisher. “I asked Matt what hethought. He said ‘I like it too’.”

“We were seeing that we could worktogether as a team. We communicatedwell with each other. We could relate tothe same goals. Things just seemed tomesh between the two of us. Sharonand I could sense that Matt was a veryreligious person also and that wasimportant,” said Fisher.

“I could sense quickly that Matt wasvery sincere,” added Sharon. “He was a26-year old young man but I could see

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FISHER, from pg. 10real devotion and dedication. He would be a goodasset not only to Gary and me but to our entire com-munity. And that too means so much in our lives.”

Over the next few months if Siefker was accompa-nying Fisher into town, Fisher would introduceSiefker as his new farming partner who eventuallywould be taking over the operation.

“I think that ‘farming partner’ label was good,” saidthe Fishers. “It gave Matt an immediate feeling thathe wasn’t just a hired man in our operation.”

The next year Fisher rented out the 400 acres hisson had been farming to Siefker. Over the years,Siefker began renting more of the land and buyingsome of Fisher’s equipment. Today Siefker is theoperations manager for the entire 3,000-plus acres ofthe Fisher Farms business.

In a remarkable testimony of the faith each has inthe other, Fisher chuckled.

“In a sense, I’m now working for Matt.” Fisher said.“He sort of directs where I can help with the plantingand harvesting. He has become a good young farmer.I have complete trust and confidence in Matt’s judg-ment.”Partners

Fisher is a good sized man standing just over 6 footand Siefker about matches up with Gary’s height. Asthe name suggests, Siefker has a German heritage,the same as Fisher. The two found an explicit under-standing of each other.

Relating to Siefker’s first work on the Fisher farm,Gary recalls he was applying chemicals with a fieldcultivator but didn’t want Siefker to be exposed tochemicals his first day on the job.

“So I pointed to our 16-row corn planter and said ‘Yougo over and run that’. He looked at me, he looked at thatplanter, he went over and got into the tractor hooked upto the planter and away he went,” Fisher said.

“I noticed he stopped quite often to check the popu-lation, check the depth of seed placement. I came tothe conclusion that he was a natural born farmer.Seems all that he can think about day and night isfarming. He’s just a natural so I am indeed blessed,”said Fisher. “We complement one another. What Idon’t know what to do, he does, and vice versa.

For example, Fisher’s lifetime of farming has givenhim the ability to visualize down the road furtherthan his young partner.

“So if he was missing something in those first cou-ple of years I could come back and fill in the misses,”Fisher said.

When you are a crop farmer you have a few monthsof slack time each winter season. Fisher filled thattime hauling seed beans from a Pioneer Seed plantat Renwick, Iowa. And to further supplement hisfarming income, he used his three trucks for com-mercial hauling which soon became Siefker’s winteroccupation too.

But Siefker also decided he’d like to rent morecropland and thus started buying Fisher’s farmequipment also.

“The first of this year Matt made his final payment

on machinery purchased from me. I still have somemachinery that Matt doesn’t need on a daily basis.But the irony of this situation is that I now hireMatt, now age 40, to custom farm my acres while healso farms all the rented ground,” said Fisher.

He admits they can still have their differences ofopinion but with Siefker being an easygoing guythings continue to work well. And they are both verycontent staying out of the livestock business.

“As long as I feel good I will continue to be anactive farmer,” he said.Transition

These days, the Fishers are snowbirds that head toArizona every winter. Fisher quit trucking when hereached 65.

“Matt was looking for a lady who didn’t smoke, did-n’t drink, didn’t cuss and was very religious. Hecouldn’t find an Iowa girl that measured up so heended up marrying a lady from the Ukraine,” saidFisher.

That came about through the ministry of hischurch which was doing mission work there. Siefkermade several trips to the Ukraine, actually exploringfarming in that country. In the process he metOksana and they married.

“We have been truly blessed. Matt is a great gen-tleman, a strong Christian, and I think a super goodfarmer too,” said Fisher.

The Fishers were interviewed Feb. 1 at their winterhome in Mesa, Ariz. ❖

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John Nielsen was a self-proclaimed “town kid.”Growing up in Albert Lea, it was his grandfatherand his pigs that piqued Nielsen’s interest in agri-culture. While it was only three miles from town, itoffered Nielsen a whole new world of opportunity togrow his interest in raising pigs.

Nielsen started raising pigs with grandfatherwhen he was 8 years old. This love of raising pigsgrew and grew. It grew into cold hard cash thatresulted in having “nice cars because I sold feederpigs” while in high school. As for crop production,Nielsen “learned that from neighbors.”

After high school he attended junior college in

Austin, then got a job at Wilson meatpacking inAlbert Lea. Wanting to try something different,Nielsen went back to vocational school for trafficmanagement. He then did an internship at Cargill inWayzata. That led to a job offer from Cargill for aposition in Kansas, Nielsen “got cold feet” on the ideaof moving there. Soon he was back at Wilson’s, but hethen made the decision to start farming. He startedout with 80 acres.

In 1986 Nielsen bought his wife’s parents’ farmwhich added to his acres but obtaining additionalacres proved challenging.

“It was hard to rent land as I didn’t come from an

established farm,” Nielsen said.Little by little, Nielsen gained more acres. He also

was building a large hog operation. In 1996-97 hebuilt a 4,000 finisher site. From 1976 until the mid-1990s, Nielsen also had 400 to 500 sows at his homefarm. Pigs were profitable for Nielsen.

“I made more money on the pigs than the land thefirst 10 years,” he said.

As Nielsen’s farming operation grew, so did hisfamily; he and his wife Sue have three children,Luke, Matthew and Tosha. Farming must’ve worn off

John Nielsen, Albert Lea, Minn.

“I was one of those that was never going to marrya farmer.” Joan Lee learned quickly to never saynever.

Lee grew up on a dairy farm near Princeton, andwanted to see what life had in store for her outsidea dairy barn. She went to the St. Cloud BusinessCollege and after graduation worked in the legalfield and later for Nash Finch. During this time shewas traveling back home to Princeton to help herparents on the dairy farm. In 1983 Lee was involvedin a serious car accident and was unable to work.She moved back home to Princeton to recuperate

and began working part time for a law office in town.It was during this time an agricultural publication

was hearing from some single farmers who wereinterested in meeting others that enjoyed the farm-ing lifestyle. This publication decided to put a datingbook together and Lee’s coworker told her “You got todo this.” Lee sent in her information and a packagewas sent back to her full of eligible farmer bachelors.One farmer stood out — Mark Lee, a dairy farmerfrom McIntosh.

Quickly things got serious and love was definitelyin the air as Lee and Mark married in October 1986.

Once married, Lee joined her husband in McIntoshand soon learned that no two dairy farms are thesame. Lee was used to a tie-stall barn growing upand now had to adjust to a stanchion barn. Lee saidshe “helped with calves, top dressing of cattle and itjust evolved more to helping with the milking.”

Lee wasn’t only busy with the dairy but in raisingchildren too, daughter Rebecca was born in 1989, sonJoseph in 1990 and daughter Samantha joined thefamily in 1994.

Joan Lee, McIntosh, Minn.

How did a southern Minnesota guy end up farm-ing in northern Minnesota? One word: opportunity.The path from southern Minnesota to Roseaustarted near New Prague where Andy Pulk grewup. Pulk was raised on a small hobby farm sur-rounded by “lots of dairy farms.”

Pulk vividly remembers the early 1990s as thetime that “almost demolished the dairy industry inthat area.” Low milk prices caused many dairies tocollapse. Growing up, Pulk recalls being told byquite a few people: “Don’t be a farmer.” The farm cri-

sis in the 1980s was still fresh in many peoples’minds and being a farmer was viewed by some asbeing too risky a profession.

Pulk decided to put agriculture out of his mind andreceived a degree in natural resources technologyfrom Vermillion Community College in Ely. After col-lege he went to work doing prairie restoration proj-ects for various companies. In 2002, Pulk decided tostart his own prairie restoration business that soonled to farming a little on the side. He also had agrass-fed cow/calf business.

In 2007, Pulk said he “saw the writing on the wallwith the prairie business.” With the economy tank-ing, Pulk decided it was time to devote his timeentirely to his dream of becoming a full-time farmer.An opportunity came for Pulk to head to Roseau todo some custom farm work. He sold his calves andcows and headed north.

While he initially came to Roseau to do customwork, he actually ended up doing very little of that.

Andy Pulk, Roseau, Minn.

“It’s always been where my passion is.” Thatsums up Kent Moser’s fervidness for agriculture.Moser grew up on a small family farm near Lester,where his family raised corn, soybeans and hogs.The strong interest in agriculture led Moser tograduate with an ag business degree in 2005 fromIowa Lakes Community College in Estherville.

After graduation, Moser worked for both smalland large producers, a co-op and finally started hisown business.

“A lot of my experience is on-the-job,” Moser said.He owns Moser Seed and Ag in Rock Rapids, Iowa,

where his main focus is Syngenta seed sales. Healso does crop scouting and consulting. In addition,Moser started a custom spray operation with hisbrother-in-law.

He also helps with his father’s farming operationalong with assisting his father-in-law in his crop pro-duction. Whether he is helping other farmers withagronomy services or getting in the tractor and help-ing with his family’s operation, Moser finds happi-ness out in the field.

Some producers are feeling optimism in theupswing in soybean prices; Moser said, “This run-upon soybeans is overdone.” Moser remains “cautiouslyoptimistic.”

“It’s going to be one of those years that you have towatch everything and be very efficient,” Moser said.

With efficiency in mind, Moser made a change tonitrogen applications. “We are going to split up ournitrogen applications and plan on side dressing lateron,” he said.

This year, doing all that you can to ensure strongyields while keeping operating expenses down willbe vital. Even with lower commodity prices, Moser isoptimistic that a well-organized crop plan shouldyield a profitable return as long as Mother Natureplays along nicely between now and harvest time.

Happiness, for Moser is also found in his family.Moser and his wife Elyse are parents to three busyand delightful daughters, Evie 4; Meredith, 3; andMadelyn 6 months. They are enjoying life in an olderfarm house that they made their own and are “gladto have a place in the country.”

From growing up on the farm and continuing toassist his father in farming, to running his own agbusiness, Moser wears many hats. But at the end ofthe long days, as long as he’s getting out in the field,life is as it should be for Kent Moser. ❖

Kent Moser, Rock Rapids, Iowa

Introducing our From The Fields reporters

See PULK, pg. 14

See LEE, pg. 14

See NIELSEN, pg. 14

By KRISTIN KVENO The Land Correspondent

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FOLLOWING THE2016 GROWING SEASON

By KRISTIN KVENO The Land Correspondent

Andy Pulk, Roseau, Minn.April 27It has been a wet spring so far in theRoseau area. “We can’t hardly drive a four-wheeler through stuff,” he said. It’s been rainy for the last two weeks.The average start date for planting on the

Pulk farm is April 25. This year, Pulk is optimistic he canbe in the field on May 5. While rain isn’t in the forecast,unfortunately neither is warmer temperatures. Pulk already planted 1,000 acres of rye grass last year andso far it “looks beautiful.” In addition to rye grass, Pulk willbe planting corn, soybeans and wheat. “The wheat will beunder-seeded to rye grass,” he explained. Warmer, drier weather and some days in the tractor wouldbe the ideal way to kick off this growing season.

John Nielsen, Albert Lea, Minn. April 29Nielsen can officially cross planting cornoff his spring to-do list. “We got done withcorn a week ago today,” he reported.Nielsen began planting on April 13-14.On April 26 Nielsen was able to plant 200acres of soybeans, then the rain came.

Nielsen estimated that he had “probably three or fourcustomers that have half to one-third of their beans in.” The planting conditions in the Albert Lea area have beenpretty ideal so far this spring. With the rain that fell onApril 27, Nielsen said he feels that “We’re sitting in greatshape.”

Joan Lee, McIntosh, Minn. April 27Planting has started on Markand Joan Lee’s farm. Plantinghas also stopped on the Leefarm. Joan said her husband

“Mark has gotten all the oats in so far.” Thatis 70 acres of crops in the ground. Sheadded he “got the field ready for wheat.” Then the rains came – 2 inches of rain to beexact. As for the temperature, “It’s cooler,not optimum seeding and growing weather,”she said. Lee is planting about 40 acres each of wheat and soybeans. Most of the organic corn, oats and hay are feed to an organic dairy herd. Lee feels hopeful that planting can begin in a few days which would be Lee’s average planting date. For Lee a little sunshine and warmer temperatures are needed to get the growing season off on the right foot.

Kent Moser, Rock Rapids, Iowa April 27Some area farmers have begun planting.Kent Moser isn’t one of them. “Not muchcorn is in the ground,” he said. Moser estimates that 8 to 10 percent hasbeen planted. Soil conditions are just too

cold and wet currently to start planting.“It’s going to be late Monday or Tuesday before we areable to work some ground,” Moser reported. Moser said he feels the optimum planting start date in hisarea is between April 22 and 26. Once conditions areright, Moser will help his dad plant two-thirds of his acreswith corn and one-third soybeans on the farm near Lester.He also assists his father-in-law who will be planting “allcorn-on-corn.”

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NIELSEN, from pg. 12a little on Nielsen’s children. “Both myboys are farming with me,” he said.

Nielsen’s sons raise 10,000-plus pigswhile Nielsen raises his own 10,000-plus pigs. He has always “just likedlivestock.”

It was crop production which didn’tcome as easily for Nielsen. There weresome bumps along the way. “I’ve cut offmost of my fingers in a combining acci-dent,” Nielsen said.

That happened in 1991 and fortu-nately, doctors were able to patchNielsen up.

Nielsen currently grows corn andsoybeans along with doing 600 acres ofcustom farm work.

He feels the biggest challenge hefaces in farming is marketing. Whilemarketing has always been vital,Nielsen is “dealing with more dollarsnow.” That is true whether it’s the hogsor crops. ❖

Both Nielsen sons farming

LEE, from pg. 12The farm made a major transition

in 2006 when the dairy went organicas did part of the crop production.Currently Lee grows organic oats,corn and hay along with conventionalwheat and soybeans. The Lee farm islooking ahead at marketing the crops.

“Mark has done some forward con-tracting on soybeans,” she said.

Lee is hopeful for the soybean cropas it “seems like the soybean marketis rebounding some.” The “wheat isstill low (prices),” she added.

In addition to farming, Lee alsoserves as a Polk County Commis-sioner.

Dairy life was fulfilling for Lee, butit was also extremely busy with littleor no time to travel, visit family or to

sleep in — ever.Lee and Mark decided to make a

lifestyle change and in September2014 they sold their dairy herd. With adairy barn still on their property, theywanted to help beginning dairy farm-ers by giving them the opportunity touse their barn. A young couple startedmilking their own dairy herd in Lee’sfacility.

“They bought the bred heifers thatwe had left at that time,” she said.

This lifestyle change has alsoallowed Lee to make trips to Princetonto tend to her mother while she’s beendealing with health issues. Lee hasalso had the opportunity to travel.

Farming continues to evolve and forLee, the farming lifestyle still bringsher joy outside the farm. ❖

Dairy cows sold in 2014PULK, from pg. 12

In 2009, he started farming inRoseau on his own. His first year, Pulkstarted with 750 acres of wheat andsoybeans. Planting was challengingthat year due to a “terrible spring.”

It hasn’t been all smooth sailing forPulk on the farm; it was a steep learn-ing curve understanding the differ-ences between farming in southernMinnesota and farming up north. Pulkfound one challenge was “definitely thedifferent crop rotations,” as well as the“logistics of trying to balance seedingseason with harvest.”

Northern Minnesota climate can beharsh.

“The weather is definitely extreme

up here,” Pulk said. “We don’t have theluxury of extending out crop plantinguntil June.”

Even with all the challenges, Pulkenjoys the farming way of life in north-ern Minnesota. It has translated intomore family time, something that isvitally important to Pulk.

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Cash Grain Markets

DoverEdgertonJacksonJanesvilleCannon FallsSleepy Eye

Average:

Year AgoAverage:

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$3.39

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$9.54

Local Corn and Soybean Price Index

Grain prices are effective cash close on May 3. The price index chart compares an average of most recently reported local cash prices with the same average for a year ago.*Cash grain price change represents a two-week period.

Grain AnglesGlobal forces; local markets

After months of low volatility and relatively lowprices, the commodity markets in the United Statesare finally starting to come to life. Agricultural com-modities tracked in the Bloomberg sub index havehad their strongest April rally in 20 years. The rallyhas surprised most experts since the United Statesand world supply and demandpicture show little worry ofexhausting our carryover of mostcommodities.

So what conditions havechanged in the last severalmonths to inspire the recentvolatility in corn and soybeanprices? In my opinion, you justneed to look at the soybean mar-ket, one of the strongest perform-ers of any commodity this year, tohelp explain the recent move-ment. July 2016 Chicago Board ofTrade soybean futures ralliedover $1.00 per bushel in April alone. South Americaand the United States are the world leaders in soy-bean production and Asia is the primary destinationfor most of the exports. More than 40 percent of theU.S. 2016 supply of soybeans will be exported. Inshort, soybeans are influenced much more by globalfactors than other commodities which are primarilyaffected by regional supply and demand conditions.Soybean price fluctuations may help us understandwhy many commodities are showing recent volatil-ity. Let’s look at what is going on in the world thatcould be influencing the prices.

U.S. dollar: Since December of 2016, the dollarhas significantly weakened against other curren-cies. Most commodity contracts are priced in U.S.

Grain OutlookIs $4 corn inreach again?

The following marketing analysis is for the weekending April 29.

CORN — Demand for U.S. corn, South Americanweather concerns, and heavy fund buying have beenimportant factors in the corn rally which ran fromApril 1 to April 21 before beinginterrupted. A three-day setbackof 8.6 percent was seen beforethe buyers returned in force. Inthe 21 trading days of April, Julycorn closed higher 15 times. TheJuly corn move from a low onApril 1 at $3.51.25 to the spikehigher last week to $4.07.25 perbushel has been impressive. Forthe week, July corn jumped 16.25cents higher to close at $3.91.75per bushel with the Decembercorn not far behind with a 14.25cent gain to close at $3.95.25 perbushel. For the month, July cornrose an impressive 36 cents.

Can we revisit the $4.00 plus level? Never saynever, but it may be a challenge. The direction of theU.S. dollar and Brazilian weather will be instrumen-tal in where we go from here in light of rapid U.S.corn planting. The Commitment of Traders reportreleased April 29 showed funds were net buyers incorn of 112,00 contracts to take them from net shortto net long 64,000 contracts as of April 26.

It’s interesting how a weaker dollar and a lack ofrain in Brazil can bring money into the market toturn prices higher. The demand for corn as shown inweekly exports continues to narrow the gap from lastyear’s levels. This week’s old crop sales of 85.1 millionbushels were the largest of the marketing year. This

Livestock AnglesPork goes up, cattle down

The past several weeks have turned into a study ofcontrast in the cattle and hog markets. Cattle havedropped in price in both cash and futures, while thehogs have done just the opposite and rallied in bothcash and futures. Demand appears to be one of themain factors in the result of this type of activity dur-ing this period.

The cattle market has seen anincrease in volatility during thepast few weeks as the market hasmade a rather large drop in pricein both cash and futures. The beefcutout has also been under a lotof pressure which has influencedthe packers into being more cau-tious in the aggressiveness in bid-ding for live inventory. The factthat the futures market closed atthe lowest level of the year indi-cates that many traders feel thatthe supply/demand situation hasdefinitely turned to the demand side which has beenweak for some time.

The cattle herd is expanding, according to the U.S.Department of Agriculture recent reports. Thisincrease will likely provide enough beef to meet thecurrent demand which continues to contract.Another factor has been the weights of cattle whichhas produced more tonnage than last year. This alsohelped to offset the lack of numbers.

With competitive meats still at a disparity to beef,it would seem any major rallies at this time are notvery likely. However the market will tend to get over-sold from time to time which should produce ralliesto relieve the pressure on prices. Unless demandpicks up in the weeks ahead, the trend will most

JOE TEALEBroker

Great Plains CommodityAfton, Minn.

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

PHYLLIS NYSTROMCHS Hedging Inc.

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See NYSTROM, pg. 16 See TEALE, pg. 16 See WACHTLER, pg. 17

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NYSTROM, from pg. 15brings total export com-mitments to just 8 percentbehind last year. The USDA’s exportforecast of 1.65 billion bushels is adecline of 11.5 percent year-on-year.This prompts chatter that the exportcategory on the May 10 crop reportcould be raised.

It was not long ago many were sur-mising we would see a cut in theexport forecast for this year. As for2016-17 export commitments, withthis week’s 17.3 million bushels ofsales, we have surpassed where wewere last year at this time. Total2016-17 commitments are 99.6 mil-lion bushels compared to 84.2 millionbushels on the books last year at thistime. Brazil has received needed rain,but not enough to take away all theanxiety. Some private estimates pre-dict Brazilian corn losses of 5 millionmetric tons or more. The Buenos AiresGrain Exchange left Argentina’s cornproduction outlook at 25 mmt with 24percent of the harvest complete. TheU.S. Department of Agriculture hasArgentina’s corn crop at 28 mmt andBrazil’s at 84 mmt.

The Federal Reserve did notannounce any changes to interestrates at its meeting this week, whichwas as expected. However, Japandecided not to add any more stimulusinto their market this week, whichsent the yen higher. A higher yenmakes Japanese exports less competi-tive and stifles industrial production.

The Argentine gov-ernment left its corncrop estimate

unchanged this week at 25 mmt. Theharvest was estimated at 24 percentcomplete vs. 37 percent complete onaverage. The effect of dry weather onBrazil’s safrinha or second corn crop isundetermined, but most believebushels have been lost. U.S. weatherlooks conducive to planting and cropdevelopment in the next six to 10 dayswith warmth coming into the CornBelt and less rain. As of May 1, U.S.corn planting is projected to be 45 per-cent to 50 percent complete vs. 30 per-cent complete on average and lastweek’s 30 percent complete. If the cropgets in early, it could counter thethreat from the transition from ElNiño to La Niña and worries over hot,dry conditions affecting pollination.

Weekly ethanol production waslower again this week, down 12,000barrels per day at 927 bpd. Productionhas fallen in seven of the last nineweeks. Ethanol stocks fell 400,000 bar-rels to 21.6 million barrels.

OUTLOOK: Grower sales of bothold crop and new crop slowed thisweek compared to last week, butbushels are still getting priced. Growernew crop sales are still believed to befairly small. At these levels, it may beprudent to seek ways to guard againsta setback. In the July contract, firstpsychological resistance is $4.00, thenthe April high at $4.07.25 per bushel.Support is likely closer to the $3.70 to$3.75 per bushel area.

The new daily trading limits thatwill go into effect May 2 are as follows:corn unchanged at 25 cents per bushel;soybeans 65 cents, up a nickel; Chicagoand Kansas City wheat unchanged at35 cents; soybean meal unchanged at$20 per ton; soybean oil up one-halfcent to $0.025.

SOYBEANS — July soybeans haveclosed higher in eight out of the lastnine weeks, just amazing. They havesettled higher in 13 out of the last 17trading sessions. Money continues toflow into the market amid a decliningU.S. dollar and the rising concern overweather effects on the crop inArgentina have been instrumental inthe significant rally which beganMarch 2. The July contract has ralliedfrom the low on March 2 at $8.62 tothis week’s high at $10.46.25 perbushel. During that same time frame,high on March 2 to April 29 low, theU.S. dollar index has fallen 5.575points! For the week, July soybeanssurged 33.5 cents higher to close at$10.29.75 per bushel. The Novemberbean contract pushed 24.75 centshigher to settle at $10.07.75 perbushel. For the month of April, Julysoybeans soared $1.12 per bushel!

Argentina’s weather is looking betterwith a drier forecast, but the questionremains of how much of the crop waslost to flooding and excessive wet con-ditions. It will likely be another fewweeks before we’ll know, but in themeantime production outlooks arebeing lowered. Michael Cordonnier cuthis Argentine soybean production fore-cast by 2 mmt to 57 mmt and cut hisBrazilian projection by 0.5 mmt to 98mmt. The BAGE fresh Argentina soy-bean crop outlook announced thisweek was unchanged from their previ-ous estimate at 56 mmt, but indicatedit could be lowered on future esti-mates. They said flooding was limitedto specific areas. The USDA’s AprilArgentine projection was 59 mmt andBrazil’s at 100 mmt. The Exchangepegged Argentina’s harvest at 24 per-cent complete vs. 63 percent completeon average.

Weekly soybean export sales were onthe low end of estimates and the low-est in four weeks at 8.3 millionbushels. We remain 7 percent behindlast year’s pace, which is right in linewith the USDA’s forecast for a 7.5 per-cent decline in exports year-on-year. Asale of 350,000 metric tons of old cropand 43,000 metric tons of new cropsoybeans to unknown was announcedin the UDSA’s daily reporting systemthis week. U.S. soybean planting as ofApril 24 was 3 percent complete vs. thefive-year average of 2 percent com-plete. As of May 1, progress is expectedto jump to 10 percent to 15 percentcomplete.

Amid wild markets in China, regula-tors moved to stem the volatility byraising margin requirements andtransaction fees and a cut in nighttrading hours. They want to avoid acrash similar to what their stock mar-kets have seen in the past. In theUnited States, the weekly COT reportsaw funds adding 27,000 contracts totheir net position, bringing them to146,000 net long as of April 26.

OUTLOOK: We’ve been pricing inSouth American weather for a fewweeks now and the dollar is nearinglows not seen since August. Can fundscontinue to buy this market? Possibly,but with open weather next week inArgentina and the United States, thatarea of concern may already be pricedin the market. First support in theJuly contract is the 10-day movingaverage at $10.13.5 per bushel withresistance at the April high of$10.46.25 per bushel.

Nystrom’s notes: Contract changes forthe week ending April 29: July Chicagowheat led the way higher in the wheatmarkets gaining 14.5 cents, Minneapo-lis up 13.75 cents and Kansas City upjust a nickel. June crude oil rallied$2.19 to $45.92, ULSD up nearly 7cents, RBOB up 5.5 cents and naturalgas down 9 cents. The U.S. dollar indexdropped 2.053 points for the week,trading to its lowest level since lastAugust. ❖

Grower sales of old, new corn crop slows over week

TEALE, from pg. 15likely remain the same into the sum-mer months. Producers shouldremain cognizant of market condi-tions and protect inventories whenwarranted.

The hog market has been rallyinginto the last weeks of April with cashprices now exceeding $70 lean levelsnot seen for months. Hogs representthe demand side of the supply/demand issue in comparison to thecattle, where the demand for pork hasbeen very good. This despite the factthe export market has slowed due tothe strong U.S. dollar vs. other foreigncurrencies.

Hog numbers have not been burden-some. However, the supply of pork in

cold storage could become a factor inthe weeks ahead. If these cold storagenumbers continue to increase, thiscould slow the advance of hog prices oreven end the current uptrend in theprice of hogs.

Seasonally, a spring rally is a normaloccurrence and this current rally noexception. The normal extent of theseseasonal rallies usually lasts into thelate spring to early summermonths. The only caveat to this sce-nario would be a change in the currentdemand for pork or an increase in thesupply of hogs which cause and end tothe current upswing in prices.

Therefore, producers should keeptrack of market conditions and protectinventories as needed. ❖

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July soybeans have closed higher in eight out of thelast nine weeks, just amazing. ... Money continues toflow into the market amid a declining U.S. dollar andthe rising concern over weather effects on the crop inArgentina have been instrumental in the significantrally which began March 2.

WACHTLER, from pg. 15dollars and the weakening of the dol-lar makes commodities cheaper forimporters. The Federal Reserve hastaken a softer stance on interest rateincreases and the market has viewedthis as bearish for the U.S. dollar. Com-modities and the U.S. dollar have tra-ditionally shown a very strong inversecorrelation. The year-to-date dollarindex compared to the CommodityResearch Bureau index shows thesame tendency.

Foreign MonetaryStimulus: The world’ssecond largest economy,China, is expanding credit throughtheir banking system at unprece-dented rates. At different times inChina, the expansion of credit has ledto speculation in their housing marketand stock markets. The latest benefici-ary for the stimulus has been com-modities and soybeans are a very pop-ular commodity to trade in China.

Japan is the world’s third largesteconomy. Bank of Japan has been buy-ing equities and bonds directly in themarket while holding their interestrates in negative territory. Investorsare nervously watching Japan’s effortsand starting to exit their commodityshort positions because of theirextreme measures to help spark infla-tion. Soybeans, oil, and metals that aretraded freely around the world havebenefited the most from the monetaryefforts of Central Bankers.

Weather: El Niño hasled to good growing con-ditions for the United

States, but has adversely affectedweather in parts of India and Oceania.Forecasts now call for the oscillation toa La Niña event where the ocean tem-peratures cool. This often leads toevents such as the current drynessBrazil is experiencing. The La Niñahas the potential to affect the U.S.growing season as well. The weatherforecast means a less bearish view ongrains than the traders had just a fewshort months ago.

Closer to Home: The unexpectedrally in grain pricing demonstrateshow hard it is to predict where themarkets are going. It will be eventougher to predict how the global influ-ences such as weather and policies endup affecting the markets in the future.There is an old saying used by graintraders, “only trust a rally that is ledby demand,” which might be sage

advice for the current market.The unexpected rally may not lead

to large profits for farmers, but doespresent a very good opportunity totake some risk off the table. For mostof the producers I work with, takingrisk off the table right now is moreimportant than trying to get the lastfew dollars of profit from the markets.If you believe this rally might last,options can help reduce some pricerisk while leaving your upside open. Afutures hedge or hedge to arrive con-tract can leave your basis open andcapture some of the upside in astronger basis, if the supply starts totighten due to weather.

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Minnesota Rain showers combined with below

average temperatures slowed field-work during the week ending May 1,according to USDA’s National Agricul-tural Statistics Service. There wereonly two days suitable for fieldwork,though conditions in the northern andsoutheastern parts of the state allowedmore opportunity for planting. Produc-ers in a few areas were concernedabout the effects of the cool and wetconditions on crop germination andemergence, though many others notedthat the moisture received during theweek was beneficial.

Minnesota’s corn planting increasedto 59 percent complete, 13 days aheadof the five-year average, but two daysbehind last year. Five percent of thecorn crop has emerged, four days aheadof average. Six percent of the soybeancrop has been planted, which is equalto the average, but four days behindlast year.

Small grain seeding continues to bewell ahead of average, nearing comple-tion in the west central and southwest-ern parts of the state. Spring wheatplanting was 63 percent complete, 16days ahead of average, but 13 daysbehind last year. Of the spring wheatcrop, 27 percent had emerged, six daysahead of average, but four days behindlast year. As for oat acreage, 82 percenthad been planted, with 53 percentemerged, over two weeks ahead of theaverage. The barley crop was 46 per-

cent planted and 18 percent emerged.Potatoes reached 48 percent planted,10 days ahead of average, but four daysbehind last year. Sugarbeet plantingwas 88 percent complete, more thanthree weeks ahead of average.Iowa

Although some fieldwork was doneearly in the week, as the week pro-gressed rains halted planting acrossmuch of Iowa for the week ending May1, according to NASS. Statewide therewere only two days suitable for field-work. Cool and wet weather slowedcrop emergence, and many reportsindicate tile lines have been runningsteady.

Statewide, 17 percent of the corn cropwas planted during the past week. Butwith 57 percent of the crop planted,progress remained one day ahead oflast year and eight days ahead of thefive-year average. Farmers in northcentral and central Iowa have alreadyplanted over three-quarters of theircorn crop. Seven percent of the soybeanacreage has been planted, five daysahead of the five-year average.

Regarding the oat crop, 96 percenthas been planted, two days ahead oflast year and two weeks ahead of nor-mal. Oats emerged reached 68 percent,four days ahead of the previous yearand eight days ahead of the average.

The crop report was submitted by theUSDA, National Agricultural StatisticsService. ❖

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WILLMAR, Minn. — A huge 24-row, three-pointmounted machine with 24 rolling wheels called aCulti-Roller attracted attention at 2016 farmshows. The Culti-Roller compacts soils between therows rather than the entire soil surface by more tra-ditional land rollers.

The Culti-Roller was designed by farmer MiltWubben of Clara City. Wubben is a veteran row cropfarmer with 33 years experience.

“I’ve never been a fan of land rollers because ofthe erosion problems they tend to stimulate. Theidea came to me when planting soybeans in cornstubble,” Wubben said. “My trash wipers werewindrowing the corn root balls and I was wonderingwhat I could do to knock them down. I thought if Icould replace the shanks on a regular cultivator,which I was no longer using, with a rolling drumdevice running between the rows, that might elimi-nate problems with root balls, even rocks andstalks.”

Wubben had a machine shop friend make a proto-type, just a one-row unit to try out on an older culti-vator bar.

“I made a round in my field,” Wubben recalled. “Iliked what I saw. It was a 22-inch wide roller. It wasdoing everything that a full-width land roller does.

So we made 18 rollers to fit my cultivator. We werevery happy with the job it did and decided to crankout a few more units for other farmers to try.”

Tebben Enterprises, a long-time farm equipmentmanufacturing firm in Clara City, became thebuilder for Culti-Roller units. Wubben is making afew minor changes for units being manufactured forthe new season. He’s adding more down pressure tomake the units function even better.

“I think it’s everyone’s goal to use conservation,”Wubben said. “Nobody likes to see dirt blowingwhether its mid-winter when fields are clean andwind is howling or especially after planting and awind storm starts creating dust storm.

“The problem with the land roller for guys who runtheir fields right after planting is what happens if itrains before you roll your fields? When you get backon that field a few days later, you wonder about dam-age to that newly-sprouted cotyledon of those youngsoybean plants.”

With the Culti-Roller, you wait until the beans aresprouted, explained Wubben.

“This later rolling eliminates an erosion problemfrom high winds and heavy rains. Plus you’ve hadmore time to pick rocks,” he said. “And, this laterrolling helps seal in moisture in the dryness of sum-mer. Yet you are keeping your soils open longer toabsorb spring rains.”

Wubben intends to provide the Culti-Roller in 10-inch widths for end rows, 14-inch for 22-inch widerows and 22-inch units for 30-inch rows. At thisstage, he estimates roughly about $1,000 per row forthe units and the added cost of the mounting bar.

“For a 24-row unit we’d be in the neighborhood of$22,000 to $25,000,” said Wubben.

Milt Wubben was interviewed at the Willmar AgShow. To learn more about the Culti-Roller, e-mailmdwubben@hcinet.net or call (320) 220-0498. ❖

Culti-Roller aims to stop corn root ball build-up

Dick Hagen

Above: The Culti-Roller compacts soil between rowsinstead of the entire surface area. Left: Farmer-inventor Milt Wubben with wife Deb

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By DICK HAGENThe Land Staff Writer

“There’s real good value in goodland. And here’s why: Not every-body trusts the stock market. Inter-est rates are still extremely low.And there are still quite a few peo-ple out there with equity who likeinvesting in farm land.”

That statement came from LaDonHenslin, veteran auctioneer at Bird Island, Minn.With his son Allen and staff, the auction businessremains strong.

Q: So who’s buying these days?Henslin: Land prices have dipped somewhat, but

still quite a few people showing up bidding and buy-ing on land. Most buyers are farmers, but there aresome investors out there who look at land as a goodopportunity. Land seems especially attractive to farm-ers who can’t find more land to rent, but they find apiece of ground that’s close to where they now operate.The majority of the crowd at our auctions are farmers.

Q: Is on-line buying still a growing businesswith you?

Henslin: We don’t do ‘only on-line’ auctions ofland, but we do a lot of on-line selling of equipment.With land, potential buyers want to see the property,check the drainage, see if there are any problemspots. But I’ve had a few clients who have boughtfrom us without setting their foot on the property.

Q: What’s your take on the cost of money?Henslin: We think interest rates will stay low. But

now we’re hearing talk that you may have to paymoney to keep your money in the bank. Then landmay take on greater value. I doubt that will happen,but I do believe low interest rates will stick aroundfor some time.

Q: Do you see any forced selling becausebanks aren’t willing to make loans?

Henslin: No, we see very little of that action. Obvi-ously there is always something going on, like maybea divorce or some other family disturbance. We do alot of appraisal work. Mostly what we see right noware farmers hunkering down. But we don’t see anypanic out there.

Q: Most farmers built significant equity untilcommodities crashed, did they not?

Henslin: Indeed. Most of those guys have beenfarming several years. They knew commodity priceswouldn’t stay high. Many were ready for this situa-tion. But the question continues: How long will itlast? There is more caution out there for certainthese days.

Q: Would you advise farmers to start buyingstocks rather than land?

Henslin: I’ve always been a land guy. Over theyears, land has been a good long-haul investment. Idon’t see that changing. Agriculture is global. Worldpopulation keeps increasing. Agriculture really con-trols the destiny of this planet.

Q: What’s the cost of selling these days?Henslin: We use the buyer’s premium so sellers

don’t have to pay anything. We cover a big areathese days. Farmers are very willing to travel moreto inspect land options. And, of course, the internethas impacted the entire industry. Investors arealways looking. We’ve sold land as far away asWahalla, North Dakota; South Dakota and Iowa;but most within a 200-mile radius of Bird Island.

Q: Is clear title an issue especially on inter-net sales?

Henslin: We guarantee buyers a clear title. Weput informational pieces together so they knowabout drainage, taxes, soils, easement info, etc. Wegive all the logical and important information thata potential buyer needs. We guarantee that theproperty we are auctioning has a marketable title.

Q: Do you get quizzed about buffer striprequirements from potential buyers?

Henslin: That has become the million dollar ques-tion. And it’s particularly difficult because we don’tyet know the final rules. We always survey before theauction to avoid any disputes on exact boundaries.We hire a certified surveyor to do that work.

Q: Can drones be part of that survey work?Henslin: A good question. My son Allen now uses

a drone to shoot just about every farm before we dothe listing. That’s part of our website listing. Some-one doesn’t need to come to Minnesota to view the layof the land. He can look at the images on the website.

Visit Henslin Auctions at www.henslinauction.comor contact (320) 365-4120. ❖

Auctioneer still sees buyers for good quality land

ST. PAUL — With spring planting underway,farmers statewide have the opportunity to play apart in creating safer road conditions next winter byparticipating in the Minnesota Department ofTransportation’s Living Snow Fence program.

Under the program, MnDOT pays farm operatorsto leave standing corn rows, hay bales or silage bagsto effectively reduce snow from blowing onto selectedstate highways. The program agreement typicallyrequires farmers to leave six rows of corn stalksstanding approximately 200 feet from the highwaycenterline.

Recent research by MnDOT, the University of Min-nesota Extension and the University of MinnesotaCenter for Transportation studies shows standingcorn rows reduced the severity of injuries on curves

by 40 percent.Working in partnership with MnDOT and the Uni-

versity of Minnesota Extension, farmers are compen-sated on a per-acre basis.

Farmers or landowners who want more informa-tion about the standing corn row program can visitwww.mndot.gov/environment/livingsnowfence/.

This article was submitted by the MinnesotaDepartment of Transportation. ❖

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CIH 620 Steiger, '14, 970 hrs ................................................... $285,000 CIH 620 Steiger, '13, 190 hrs ................................................... $325,000 CIH 600 Steiger, '13, 25 hrs ..................................................... $275,000 CIH 600 Quad, '13, 1100 hrs .................................................... $335,000 CIH 600 Steiger, '12, 1005 hrs ................................................. $275,000 CIH 600 Quad, '12, 1720 hrs .................................................... $287,900 CIH 600 Quad, '12, 1795 hrs .................................................... $287,900 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 1550 hrs .................................................... $295,900 CIH 600 Quad, '11, 3100 hrs .................................................... $241,900 CIH 550 Quad, '12, 910 hrs ...................................................... $296,900 CIH 550 Quad, '11, 1210 hrs .................................................... $283,900 CIH 550 Quad, '11, 1260 hrs .................................................... $282,000 CIH 550 Quad, '11, 1785 hrs .................................................... $268,900

CIH 550 Quad, '11, 2380 hrs .................................................... $270,900 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 1500 hrs .................................................... $267,900 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 2240 hrs .................................................... $234,900 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 2850 hrs .................................................... $235,000 CIH 535 Quad, '10, 3720 hrs .................................................... $189,000 CIH 535 Quad, '09, 3075 hrs .................................................... $235,000 CIH 535 Quad, '08, 1945 hrs .................................................... $245,900 CIH 535 Quad, '08, 1955 hrs .................................................... $225,900 CIH 530 Steiger, '07, 2425 hrs ................................................. $179,900 CIH 500 RowTrac, '14, 505 hrs ................................................ $324,900 CIH 500 Quad, '11, 1430 hrs .................................................... $269,900 CIH 500 Quad, '11, 1580 hrs .................................................... $272,900

CIH 485 Quad, '09, 1950 hrs .................................................... $246,500 CIH 485HD Steiger, '10, 1065 hrs ............................................ $219,900 CIH 485 Quad, '08, 1595 hrs .................................................... $231,900 CIH 485 Quad, '08, 2160 hrs .................................................... $225,900 CIH 485 Quad, '08, 2905 hrs .................................................... $209,500 CIH 480 RowTrac, '14, 640 hrs ................................................ $309,900 CIH 450 RowTrac, '13, 555 hrs ................................................ $299,900 CIH 450 Quad, '11, 1555 hrs .................................................... $275,000 CIH 435 Steiger, '10, 1795 hrs ................................................. $179,900 CIH 435 Steiger, '09, 1850 hrs ................................................. $174,900 CIH 420 RowTrac, '14, 1075 hrs .............................................. $289,900 CIH 400 RowTrac, '13, 715 hrs ................................................ $293,900 CIH 385 Steiger, '10, 2550 hrs ................................................. $170,000 CIH 350 Steiger, '12, 1115 hrs ................................................. $195,900 CIH 350 Steiger, '12, 1300 hrs ................................................. $191,900 CIH 350 Steiger, '12, 1400 hrs ................................................. $195,900 CIH 350HD Steiger, '11, 795 hrs .............................................. $186,500 CIH 350HD Steiger, '11, 1055 hrs ............................................ $182,900 CIH 335 Steiger, '09, 3420 hrs ................................................. $139,000 CIH 335 Steiger, '08, 1910 hrs ................................................. $149,500 CIH STX53Q, '06, 3500 hrs ...................................................... $183,500 CIH STX500Q, '05, 3990 hrs .................................................... $198,000 CIH STX450Q, '03, 4670 hrs .................................................... $137,500 CIH STX450Q, '02, 4980 hrs .................................................... $142,900 CIH STX430, '07, 4550 hrs ....................................................... $125,000 CIH STX325, '03, 2100 hrs ....................................................... $109,000 CIH 9380, '98, 6330 hrs ............................................................. $64,900 CIH 9370, '98, 4415 hrs ............................................................. $69,900 CIH 9370, '96, 6775 hrs ............................................................. $64,500

CIH 9330, '96, 6925 hrs ............................................................. $57,900 CIH 9270, '94, 6095 hrs ............................................................. $65,000 JD 9630T, '10, 2770 hrs ........................................................... $204,900 JD 9630T, '09, 2005 hrs ........................................................... $207,000 JD 9630T, '09, 2415 hrs ........................................................... $204,900 JD 9560RT,'14, 595 hrs ............................................................ $312,900 JD 9560RT, '14, 610 hrs ........................................................... $312,900 JD 9560RT, '14, 670 hrs ........................................................... $312,900 JD 9560RT, '12, 1040 hrs ......................................................... $269,900 JD 9430, '08, 3275 hrs ............................................................. $169,500 JD 9430, '07, 3180 hrs ............................................................. $163,500 JD 9400, '00, 4185 hrs ............................................................... $79,500 JD 9400T, '00, 4235 hrs ............................................................. $70,000 NH T9.560, '11, 1100 hrs ......................................................... $215,000 NH TJ325, '05, 10,125 hrs ......................................................... $59,500 NH 9882, '98, 5000 hrs .............................................................. $59,900 Steiger PT225, '82, 7345 hrs ...................................................... $17,500

CIH 380 Mag, '15, 280 hrs ....................................................... $269,900 CIH 340 Mag RowTrac, '14, 345 hrs ........................................ $265,000 CIH 340 Mag, '14, 345 hrs ....................................................... $207,500 CIH 340 Mag, '14, 665 hrs ....................................................... $245,000 CIH 340 Mag, '13, 1600 hrs ..................................................... $183,900 CIH 340 Mag, '13, 1125 hrs ..................................................... $219,900 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 2105 hrs ..................................................... $169,900 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 1965 hrs ..................................................... $173,900 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 2325 hrs ..................................................... $167,900 CIH 340 Mag, '11, 2760 hrs ..................................................... $159,900 CIH 335 Mag, '11, 1060 hrs ..................................................... $179,900 CIH 335 Mag, '08, 990 hrs ....................................................... $129,900 CIH 335 Mag, '14, 415 hrs ....................................................... $198,500 CIH 315 Mag, '14, 2680 hrs ..................................................... $158,000 CIH 315 Mag, '14, 2700 hrs ..................................................... $137,500

CIH 315 Mag, '13, 480 hrs ....................................................... $219,900 CIH 315 Mag, '13, 545 hrs ....................................................... $224,900 CIH 315 Mag, '13, 945 hrs ....................................................... $211,900 CIH 315 Mag, '12, 2175 hrs ..................................................... $195,900 CIH 310 Mag, '14, 415 hrs ....................................................... $207,500 CIH 310 Mag, '14, 670 hrs ....................................................... $239,500 CIH 305 Mag, '10, 1825 hrs ..................................................... $149,900 CIH 305 Mag, '10, 2180 hrs ..................................................... $139,900 CIH 305 Mag, '09, 2015 hrs ..................................................... $139,900 CIH 290 Mag, '14, 405 hrs ....................................................... $189,900 CIH 290 Mag, '14, 790 hrs ....................................................... $194,500 CIH 290 Mag, '14, 815 hrs ....................................................... $195,900

CIH 290 Mag, '14, 180 hrs ....................................................... $204,900 CIH 290 Mag, '13, 445 hrs ....................................................... $185,900 CIH 290 Mag, '11, 1780 hrs ..................................................... $141,900 CIH 280 Mag, '15, 750 hrs ....................................................... $199,500 CIH 280 Mag, '15, 525 hrs ....................................................... $199,500 CIH 275 Mag, '10, 2585 hrs ..................................................... $133,900 CIH 275 Mag, '09, 3565 hrs ..................................................... $112,000 CIH 260 Mag, '14, 595 hrs ....................................................... $157,500 CIH 260 Mag, '14, 665 hrs ....................................................... $167,500 CIH 260 Mag, '13, 960 hrs ....................................................... $146,500 CIH 260 Mag, '12, 490 hrs ....................................................... $165,000 CIH 250 Mag, '14, 250 hrs ....................................................... $199,000 CIH 245 Mag, '10, 2145 hrs ..................................................... $135,900 CIH 240 Mag, '14, 405 hrs ....................................................... $157,500 CIH 240 Mag, '14, 225 hrs ....................................................... $190,750 CIH 235 Mag, '13, 235 hrs ....................................................... $169,900 CIH 235 Mag, '13, 360 hrs ....................................................... $179,900 CIH 235 Mag, '13, 595 hrs ....................................................... $149,500 CIH 225 Mag, '14, 130 hrs ....................................................... $169,000 CIH 220 Mag, '14, 225 hrs ....................................................... $155,900 CIH 200 Mag, '14, 305 hrs ....................................................... $148,250 CIH 190 Mag, '11, 2005 hrs ..................................................... $111,900 CIH 190 Mag, '09, 3840 hrs ....................................................... $99,900 CIH 180 Mag, '15, 255 hrs ....................................................... $153,500 CIH 180 Mag, '13, 1415 hrs ..................................................... $118,900 CIH 180 Mag, '13, 2140 hrs ..................................................... $109,500 CIH 180 Mag, '11, 670 hrs ....................................................... $126,900 CIH MX305, '06, 2800 hrs ........................................................ $137,900 CIH MX285, '04, 5175 hrs .......................................................... $97,500 CIH MX270, '99, 6950 hrs .......................................................... $66,900 CIH MX255, '04, 6705 hrs .......................................................... $79,000 CIH MX220, '01, 6640 hrs .......................................................... $67,500 CIH MX210, '05, 4390 hrs .......................................................... $84,500 CIH 170 Puma, '12, 3385 hrs ................................................... $112,000 CIH 165 Puma, '09, 3945 hrs ..................................................... $82,000 CIH 140 Maxxum, '14, 320 hrs ................................................... $85,000 CIH 140 Maxxum, '13, 1680 hrs ................................................. $80,000 CIH 140 Maxxum, '09, 2150 hrs ................................................. $69,500 CIH 140 Pro, 2265 hrs ................................................................ $78,500 CIH 125 Maxxum, '11, 1400 hrs ................................................. $79,900 CIH 105C Farmall, '14, 500 hrs .................................................. $49,900 CIH 105C Farmall, '13, 450 hrs .................................................. $48,500 CIH 95 Farmall, '10, 1440 hrs ..................................................... $33,900 CIH 8940, '98, 7055 hrs ............................................................. $62,000 CIH 8930, '97, 4300 hrs ............................................................. $73,900 CIH 7220, '94, 10,720 hrs .......................................................... $59,500 CIH 7210, 6570 hrs .................................................................... $54,500 CIH 7110, '89, 4560 hrs ............................................................. $49,500 CIH 7140, '89, 6800 hrs ............................................................. $49,500 CIH 7140, '87, 7430 hrs ............................................................. $45,500 JD 8345RT, '10, 1485 hrs ......................................................... $209,500 JD 8320RT, '10, 1600 hrs ......................................................... $199,900 Kubota M9660, '13, 400 hrs ....................................................... $41,750 Kubota M100GXDTC, '12, 650 hrs.............................................. $50,000 McCormick MC130, 1740 hrs ..................................................... $55,000 NH T8040, '10, 1145 hrs .......................................................... $139,900 NH T8010, '08, 2195 hrs ............................................................ $99,900 NH T8.330, '11, 1045 hrs ......................................................... $145,000 NH T7.210, '11, 740 hrs ........................................................... $117,500 White 6-145, 7345 hrs ................................................................ $32,000

CIH MX180, '00, 2885 hrs .......................................................... $64,500 CIH JX70, '07, 1980 hrs ............................................................. $22,900 Case 2290, '80, 6455 hrs............................................................ $11,900 IH Hydro 84, 4990 hrs ................................................................ $14,000 Ford 3930, '90, 2415 hrs .............................................................. $8,900 JD 3020, '64, 3145 hrs ............................................................... $10,900 NH T5070, '08, 1100 hrs ............................................................ $35,500

Case 411B, 620 hrs ...................................................................... $4,800 JD 4720, '05, 1300 hrs ............................................................... $32,750 JD 2210, 295 hrs ........................................................................ $11,900 Kubota B2320HSD, '11, 125 hrs ................................................. $18,500 Kubota BX2230, '05, 765 hrs........................................................ $8,500 Kubota BX2230D, '05, 1050 hrs ................................................... $9,599 Kubota L4400HST, '08, 145 hrs .................................................. $22,500 Kubota L3830HST, '05, 515 hrs .................................................. $22,750 Coleman HS500, '13, 85 hrs ......................................................... $7,900 JD 620I, '08, 995 hrs .................................................................... $6,400 Kubota RTV900, '05, 1455 hrs ..................................................... $7,499 Polaris Ranger 570 EFI, '15, 10 hrs ............................................ $11,500 Yamaha G22A, '05 ........................................................................ $2,995

CIH 1265, 36R22 ...................................................................... $215,900 (3) CIH 1260, 36R22 ...............................................starting at $177,500 CIH 1260, 36R20 ...................................................................... $159,900 CIH 1255, 16R30 ...................................................................... $110,000 (6) CIH 1250, 24R30 .................................................starting at $58,000

(7) CIH 1250, 16R30 .................................................starting at $69,900 CIH 1250, 12R30 ........................................................................ $69,500(3) CIH 1240, 24R22 ...............................................starting at $110,000 CIH 1240, 24R20 ...................................................................... $125,900 (3) CIH 1240, 16R30 .................................................starting at $49,900 CIH 1230, 16R22 ........................................................................ $59,900 CIH 1220, 8R30 .......................................................................... $39,500 CIH 1220, 6R30 .......................................................................... $37,500 CIH 1200, 16R30 ........................................................................ $49,750 CIH 1200, 16R22 ........................................................................ $33,000 (2) CIH 1200, 12R30 .................................................starting at $19,900 CIH 1200, 6R30 .......................................................................... $26,900 CIH 900, 8R30 .............................................................................. $5,950 CIH 800, 8R30 .............................................................................. $9,900 (2) JD DB44, 24R22 ................................................starting at $119,500 JD 1780, 24R22 .......................................................................... $39,900 (3) JD 1770NT, 16R30 ...............................................starting at $50,000 JD 1700, 8R30 ............................................................................ $15,000 (2) Kinze 4900, 16R30 .............................................starting at $112,000 Kinze 3600, 16R30 ..................................................................... $45,950 NH SP480, 8R30 ......................................................................... $27,900 White 8816, 16R30 ..................................................................... $79,900 White 8722, 12R30 ..................................................................... $39,900 White 8200, 12R30 ..................................................................... $45,500 White 8180, 16R30 ..................................................................... $56,900 White 6700, 16R22 ..................................................................... $16,000

CIH 4420, '08, 2075 hrs ........................................................... $165,000 CIH 4420, '08, 3060 hrs ........................................................... $139,900 CIH 3330, '14, 565 hrs ............................................................. $226,500 CIH 3330, '14, 715 hrs ............................................................. $225,000 CIH 3240, '14, 400 hrs ............................................................. $197,500 CIH 3230, '14, 340 hrs ............................................................. $167,500 CIH SPX4410, '06, 2925 hrs ..................................................... $115,000 Ag Chem Rogator 854 ................................................................ $39,500 Ag Chem 1074SS, '07, 2025 hrs .............................................. $136,000 JD 4830, '09, 525 hrs ............................................................... $219,900 JD 4730, '08, 2520 hrs ............................................................. $125,000 JD 4710, '04, 1890 hrs ............................................................... $93,500 JD 4038, '15, 830 hrs ............................................................... $299,000 JD 4030, '15, 265 hrs ............................................................... $259,900 Miller 4365, '10, 825 hrs .......................................................... $245,000 Miller 4365, '09, 2060 hrs ........................................................ $179,900 Miller 4275, '08, 1240 hrs ........................................................ $149,900 Miller 4275, '08, 2110 hrs ........................................................ $159,500 Millerpro 2200HT, '05, 1675 hrs ............................................... $109,000 Millerpro 2200TSS, '05, 1820 hrs .............................................. $95,900 Miller Condor A75, '08, 1740 hrs ............................................. $149,000 Rogator 1084SS, '09, 2650 hrs ................................................ $149,500 Rogator 1074, '06, 3700 hrs ...................................................... $82,000 Rogator 854, '98, 3490 hrs ........................................................ $46,000 SpraCoupe 220, '85, 1700 hrs ...................................................... $6,300 Tyler 150, '98, 3900 hrs.............................................................. $27,500

Demco 1200 Nav ........................................................................ $14,900 Fast 9500, 1850 Gal .................................................................... $34,900 (3) Hardi Commander, 1200 Gal ................................starting at $19,900 Hardi NP1100, 90' ...................................................................... $23,500 Redball 680, 1350 Gal ................................................................ $16,500 Spray Air 3600, 120' ................................................................... $29,700 Top Air 1600, 120' ...................................................................... $32,500 Top Air 1200, 90' ....................................................................... $27,500 Top Air 1200, 88' ........................................................................ $17,900 Top Air TA1100, 60' .................................................................... $10,500

(4) CIH TM 200, 60.5' Fld Cult...................................starCIH TM 200, 50.5' Fld Cult ..............................................(6) CIH TMII, 60.5' Fld Cult .......................................star(4) CIH TMII, 54.5' Fld Cult .......................................starCIH TMII, 52.5' Fld Cult ...................................................(4) CIH TMII, 50.5' Fld Cult .......................................star(2) CIH TMII, 48.5' Fld Cult .......................................starCIH TMII, 46.5' Fld Cult ...................................................(3) CIH TMII, 44.5' Fld Cult .......................................starCIH TMII, 40.5' Fld Cult ...................................................CIH TMII, 34.5' Fld Cult ...................................................CIH TMII, 30.5' Fld Cult ...................................................CIH TMII, 22.5' Fld Cult ...................................................CIH 4900, 52' Fld Cult......................................................CIH 4900, 44' Fld Cult......................................................CIH 4800, 30.5' Fld Cult...................................................CIH 4800, 28' Fld Cult......................................................CIH 4300, 38.5' Fld Cult...................................................CIH 4300, 32' Fld Cult......................................................DM TMII, 60.5' Fld Cult ...................................................DMI TMII, 54.5' Fld Cult ..................................................DMI TMII, 44.5' Fld Cult ..................................................DMI TMII, 35.5' Fld Cult ..................................................JD 2210, 65' Fld Cult .......................................................JD 2210, 64.5' Fld Cult ....................................................

JD 2210, 55.5' Fld Cult ....................................................(2) JD 2210, 54.5' Fld Cult ........................................star

(6) JD 2210, 50.5' Fld Cult ........................................starJD 2210, 45.5' Fld Cult ....................................................(4) JD 2210, 44.5' Fld Cult ........................................starJD 2210, 38.5' Fld Cult ....................................................JD 2210, 34.5' Fld Cult ....................................................JD 2200, 37.5' Fld Cult ....................................................JD 1000, 33' Fld Cult .......................................................JD 985, 54.5' Fld Cult ......................................................JD 985, 49.5' Fld Cult ......................................................JD 985, 48' Fld Cult .........................................................(2) JD 980, 44.5' Fld Cult ..........................................starJD 980, 41.25' Fld Cult ....................................................JD 980, 36.5' Fld Cult ......................................................JD 960, 24.5' Fld Cult ......................................................Krause 5635-50 Fld Cult ..................................................Wilrich Excel, 27.5' Fld Cult .............................................Wilrich Quad 50.5' Fld Cult ..............................................Wilrich QuadX, 42' Fld Cult ..............................................Wilrich QuadX2 Fld Cult ...................................................Wilrich Quad5, 38' Fld Cult ..............................................

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CIH 485HD Steiger, ‘10, 1065 hrs. $219,900

CIH 350HD Steiger, ‘11, 795 hrs. . $186,500

CIH 340 Mag., ‘13, 1600 hrs. ...... $183,900

CIH 280 Mag., ‘15, 750 hrs. ........ $199,500

CIH 3230, ‘14, 340 hrs. ............... $167,500

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CIH 315 Mag., ‘13, 480 hrs. ........ $219,900

CIH TMII 52.5’ Field Cult. ..............

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Wilrich 3400, 36' Fld Cult ............................................................. $8,500 CIH 183, 12x30 Row Crop Cult ..................................................... $2,900 CIH 3950, 33' Disk ...................................................................... $21,900 CIH 3900, 21' Disk ...................................................................... $11,500 CIH 496, 32' Disk ........................................................................ $10,500 CIH 496, 30' Disk ........................................................................ $13,500 CIH RMX340, 34' Disk ................................................................ $37,700 CIH RMX340, 31' Disk ................................................................ $37,500 CIH 330, 42' Disk ........................................................................ $59,995 (4) CIH 330, 34' Disk .................................................starting at $39,900 CIH 330, 25' Disk ........................................................................ $35,900 IH 4500, 24' Disk .......................................................................... $2,500 IH 496, 25' Disk ............................................................................ $6,900 JD 635, 16' Disk ........................................................................... $8,900 Summers 40' Disk ...................................................................... $49,900 (2) Wishek 862NT, 26' Disk .......................................starting at $54,900 CIH 4200, 12.5' Combo Mulch ..................................................... $5,950 JD 2310, 45' Combo Mulch ........................................................ $54,950 (3) CIH 110, 50' Crumbler .........................................starting at $10,900 Unverferth 1225, 57' Crumbler ................................................... $34,900 Yetter 3530, 30' Rotary Hoe ......................................................... $4,900

Claas 980, '14, 575 hrs ............................................................. $362,000 Claas 980, '1 Claas 980, '13, 960 hrs ....................................... $349,000 Claas 980, '13, 1270 hrs ........................................................... $325,000 Claas 980, '13, 1435 hrs ........................................................... $316,000 Claas 980, '13, 1780 hrs ........................................................... $275,000 Claas 980, '09, 2055 hrs ........................................................... $239,000 Claas 980, '09, 2575 hrs ........................................................... $222,000 Claas 980, '08, 1730 hrs ........................................................... $249,500 Claas 980, '08, 2945 hrs ........................................................... $195,000 Claas 980, '08, 3000 hrs ........................................................... $185,000 Claas 980, '07, 3030 hrs ........................................................... $175,000 Claas 970, '14, 870 hrs ............................................................. $275,000 Claas 970, '08, 1450 hrs ........................................................... $275,000 Claas 960, '13, 1190 hrs ........................................................... $310,000 Claas 960, '13, 1470 hrs ........................................................... $278,500 Claas 960, '13, 1490 hrs ........................................................... $277,500 Claas 960, '12, 1250 hrs ........................................................... $269,500 Claas 960, '12, 1945 hrs ........................................................... $245,500 Claas 960, '10, 1440 hrs ........................................................... $269,500 Claas 960, '10, 2295 hrs ........................................................... $221,000 Claas 960, '09, 1870 hrs ........................................................... $245,000 Claas 960, '08, 3765 hrs ........................................................... $169,000 Claas 940, '15, 695 hrs ............................................................. $285,000 Claas 940, '10, 750 hrs ............................................................. $259,000 Claas 900 GE, '08, 3815 hrs ..................................................... $136,500 Claas 900, '08, 4220 hrs ........................................................... $126,500 Claas 900 GE, '07, 3135 hrs ..................................................... $135,500 Claas 900, '07, 3980 hrs ........................................................... $148,500 Claas 900, '05, 3450 hrs ........................................................... $139,900 Claas 900, '03, 2280 hrs ........................................................... $125,000 Claas 900, '03, 3300 hrs ........................................................... $120,000 Claas 900, '02, 1800 hrs ........................................................... $146,500

Claas 900, '02, 3955 hrs ........................................................... $118,000 Claas 900, '01, 4210 hrs ........................................................... $112,000 Claas 870, '04, 3035 hrs ........................................................... $156,000 Claas 870, '03, 2895 hrs ........................................................... $149,500 Claas 850, '05, 3455 hrs ........................................................... $148,500 Claas 830, '11, 1400 hrs ........................................................... $195,000

Claas 830, '06, 4075 hrs ........................................................... $125,000 JD 7980, '13, 1375 hrs ............................................................. $259,000 JD 7780, '14, 350 hrs ............................................................... $299,000 JD 7780, '13, 365 hrs ............................................................... $299,000 JD 7400, '05, 3860 hrs ............................................................. $112,000 JD 7500, '04, 2840 hrs ............................................................. $129,500 (7) Claas PU380HD Hayhead .....................................starting at $12,500 (7) Claas PU380 Hayhead ..........................................starting at $12,000 Claas PU300 Hayhead ................................................................. $13,000 JD 645A Hayhead ....................................................................... $10,900 JD 645C Hayhead ....................................................................... $24,500 JD 640B Hayhead ....................................................................... $13,500 (10) Claas Orbis 900 Cornhead..................................starting at $98,500 (9) Claas Orbis 750 Cornhead....................................starting at $65,000 (5) Claas Orbis 600 Cornhead....................................starting at $59,000 (13) Claas RU600, 8R30 Cornhead ............................starting at $15,500 (5) Claas RU450 Cornhead ........................................starting at $22,500 JD 692 Cornhead ........................................................................ $82,000 (2) JD 690 Cornhead .................................................starting at $92,000 Kemper 6008 Cornhead .............................................................. $51,500 (3) Kemper 4500 Cornhead .......................................starting at $15,000 Kemper 360, 8R30 Cornhead...................................................... $15,000 NH 3PN Cornhead ......................................................................... $8,500

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The following marketinganalysis is for the weekending April 29.

March butter stocks hit243.6 million poundsaccording to U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture’s latestCold Storage report. This isup 8.1 million pounds or 3percent from February anda whopping 59.2 million or32 percent more thanMarch 2015.

American cheese, at 725.7million pounds, was up 9.4million pounds or 1 percentfrom February and 91.5 mil-lion or 14 percent above ayear ago. The total cheeseinventory stood at a record1.19 billion pounds, up 8.4million pounds or 1 percentfrom February and 122.1million or 11 percent abovea year ago.

FC Stone’s Dave Kurza-

wski called the report bullish for butterand neutral on cheese. HighGroundDairy’s Eric Meyer called it neutral onboth.

HighGround says “Cheese and butterinventories continue to build at normallevels on a seasonal basis” and therewere “no material surprises to changethe tone of either market,” but warnedthat “heavy cheese and butter invento-ries are signaling steady to lowerprices in the near term.”

The analysis also pointed out thatthe 1.8 percent year-over-year Marchmilk production growth was a “bearishsurprise” to the markets. “The increasein the milking herd, upward Februaryrevisions along with a strong milk-per-cow performance, set the tone for apotentially bearish stocks report. How-ever, the numbers reported above werein line with historical norms.”

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MIELKE, from pg. 22the 2013-14 average, according to HighGround.“That said, the previous 10-year average was 9.5 mil-lion and therefore, HighGround sees little to readinto, given how heavy stocks remain. Easter cameearly this year which may have pushed butter awayfrom the warehouses and on to store shelves for theholiday. The next two months will be critical in deter-mining how much butter will be available for uselater in the year.”

HighGround says “Cheese stocks remain wellahead of last year’s levels and while the monthlybuild from February was slightly behind historicalaverages (partially due to Easter holiday), invento-ries remain burdensome. If it were not for veryrobust domestic demand, it is quite possible CME(Chicago Mercantile Exchange) spot cheese priceswould be much lower than its current levels.”

Butter buyers are keeping the market “propped upand have remained busy acquiring physical in orderto prevent another $3.00 summer,” HighGroundwarns, “but the data suggests the likelihood ofanother record price has been diminished.”

“As for cheese, the CME spot market is eitherpoised to set new annual lows over the coming 30-60days, or prices have already found a level that keepsbuyers and their consumers happy. But if less milk isneeded to correct the supply/demand imbalance,lower commodity prices are warranted.”

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Cash prices weakened more in the last week ofApril, with CME block cheddar falling April 27 to thelowest level since January 2011. The price theninched up a half-cent April 28, but closed the weekand the month at $1.37 per pound. This is down 5.25cents on the week, down a dime on the month, and24 cents below a year ago. The barrels finished at$1.4125, down 1.25 cents on the week, 20.5 centsbelow a year ago, and an atypical 4.25 cents abovethe blocks. On the week, 39 cars of block tradedhands (21 on Wednesday alone) and 13 of barrel.

Midwest cheese vats remain full as manufacturerswork hard to manage high fluid milk intakes, accord-ing to Dairy Market News. “Storage facilities con-tinue to fill and inventories are long. Central produc-ers report steady to moderate increases in orders.However, some feel that prices are beginning toreflect the large supply of cheese available. Asgrilling season takes off, demand for American andcheddar varieties is increasing, while pizza varietiesmay start to experience some decrease in demand.”

Western cheese vats also remain full and a steadysupply of milk is available. Demand, especially fornatural cheese varieties destined for retail and foodservice, is good and is helping reduce some of theinventory pressures. The question is, will it beenough?”

Cash butter ended April 29 at $2.12 per pound, up 9cents on the week, up 16.5 cents on the month, and 27cents above a year ago, with five cars sold this week.

Cheese may hitnew annual low

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Cream is available from sourceswithin the Central region as well asfrom western and eastern sellers,according to Dairy Market News.“Inventories are steady to building.Some manufacturers indicate theyare purposely growing stocks to helpcover late summer/early fall demand.Although current cream availability is

ample, producers expect upcomingwarmer weather will diminish butter-fat solids in milk intakes in the nearfuture.”

Western butter makers also reportcream is readily available and invento-ries continue to be “steady to building.”

Spot Grade A nonfat dry milk climbedto 77.5 cents per pound April 26, thehighest level since March 3. But it lost2 cents April 29 and closed at 75.5

cents per pound, up a half-cent on theweek but 17.75 cents below a year ago.This week, 11 carloads were sold at theCME.

Dairy Market News says the powdermarket undertone is “unsettled” andthat “some buyers/end users are takinga wait-and-see attitude anticipatinglower prices in the near future.Low/medium heat demand for cheesefortification is active. However, interestfrom the bakery sector is sluggish.”

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The markets keep looking fordemand indicators. The Daily DairyReport’s Sarina Sharp wrote in theApril 22 Milk Producers Councilnewsletter “China imported 103.8 mil-

lion pounds of whole milk powder inMarch. Most of it came from NewZealand. China’s combined imports ofWMP and skim milk powder totaled151 million pounds which is well belowthe volumes of March 2013; but 21 per-cent greater than the prior year and 32percent more than February on a dailyaverage basis. China also continued tostep up its imports of cheese, whey, andultra-high temperature fluid milk.”

But the Daily Dairy Report warned“It will take more than a modest uptickin China’s appetite to shake the dairymarket from its doldrums. Global milkproduction will have to fall short ofdemand for long enough to allow dairy

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MIELKE, from pg. 24product inventories to return to lessburdensome levels. But milk outputcontinues apace. Assuming steady pro-duction in Spain and Cyprus andadjusting for Leap Year, milk collec-tions in the 28 nations of the Eurozonewere 5.5 percent greater in Februarythan they were a year ago. Output wasup 32.3 percent year-over-year in Ire-land, 20 percent in Belgium, and 17.5percent in the Netherlands. In the firsttwo months of the year (excluding LeapDay), Europe has increased milk pro-duction by 3.4 billion pounds from2015.”

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HighGround Dairy says “There is aclear shift in China’s demand for dairyproducts that continues to take place,most notably a new normal require-ment level for milk powders. Wholemilk powder volumes into China haveimproved over the prior year but con-tinue to be unrivaled to 2014 volumesand flat compared to 2011-2012. Whileskim milk powder imports are alsolower vs. two years ago, China has seena rise in demand for SMP-based prod-ucts such as yoghurt. New Zealand hasmaintained its dominant market shareof WMP and SMP volumes into China,but Australia shipped the largestamount of SMP during March sinceJuly 2015.

“Infant formula imports maintainedstrength over the prior year for 13 con-secutive months as China’s list ofdomestic manufacturers that have vio-lated food safety standards keeps grow-ing.”

HighGround adds “China’s movetowards Western diet trends continuesto result in the growth of cheeseimports due to the expansion of PizzaHut and McDonald’s restaurants. Yum!brand’s first quarter 2016 sales werereportedly better-than-expected astheir core operating profit saw 21 per-cent growth, driven by a 42 percentjump in the chain's China business.McDonald’s is adding 1,000 restau-rants on a wager that any downfall inthe economy will translate intoincreased fast-food sales.”

However, HighGround warns “Chinacontinues to hold onto record debt ($25trillion) as of March 2016 with analystswarning of a financial crisis. Since thecountry is currently relying on volatileshort-term funding through sales ofhigh-yielding wealth managementproducts, some fear they will experi-ence “a Lehman moment reminiscentof the U.S. in 2008.”

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Cooperatives Working Togetheraccepted 12 member requests forexport assistance this week to sell 2.47million pounds of cheese and 5.3 mil-lion pounds of WMP to customers inAsia, the Middle East, North Africaand South America.

The product has been contracted fordelivery through October and raisedCWT’s 2016 exports to 17.1 millionpounds of American-type cheeses, 7.72million pounds of butter (82 percentmilkfat) and 20.2 million pounds ofwhole milk powder to 15 countries onfive continents.

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USDA’s latest Crop Progress reportshows 30 percent of the corn crop hasbeen planted as of April 24. This is upfrom 13 percent the week before, 16percent that same week a year ago and16 percent for the five- year average.

Checking the rearview mirrors,USDA’s 2015 “Milk Production, Dispo-sition, and Income Summary” reportsthat U.S. milk production increased 1.3percent in 2015 to 209 billion pounds.The rate per cow, at 22,393 pounds, wasup 134 pounds from 2014. The annualaverage number of milk cows on farmshit 9.32 million head, up 60,000 from2014. Cash receipts from milk market-ings totaled $35.7 billion, down 27.6percent from the record high 2014. Pro-ducer returns averaged $17.21 perhundredweight, down 28.5 percentfrom 2014.

The 2015 “Dairy Products” summaryshows total cheese output at 11.8 bil-lion pounds, up 2.8 percent from 2014,with Wisconsin in the lead at 25.9 per-cent of that total. Butter output totaled1.86 billion pounds, up just 0.1 percent,with California accounting for 31.2 per-cent. Nonfat dry milk, at 1.82 billionpounds, was up 3.3 percent, while SMP,at 446 million pounds, was down 17.9percent.

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In politics: a joint press release fromNational Milk and the U.S. DairyExport Council reports “the dairyindustry welcomed an assessment this

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See MIELKE, pg. 26China’s move towardsWestern diet trendscontinues to result inthe growth of cheeseimports due to theexpansion of Pizza Hutand McDonald’srestaurants.

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MIELKE, from pg. 25other countries and regions do notundercut U.S. industries’ marketaccess opportunities.”

The report is prepared annually bythe U.S. Trade Representative and“identifies trade barriers to U.S. com-panies and products due to the intel-lectual property policies, suchas copyright, patents, trademarksand geographical indications in othercountries.”

The release says those barriers areincreasingly “taking the form of GIrestrictions that risk preventing foodcompanies in many countries fromusing generic names that have beenin commerce for generations.”

“Decades after parmesan, feta andasiago became household favorites inthe U.S., Europe now argues that

these names, and others, can onlyappear on cheeses produced in Italyand Greece, thus blocking U.S. sales ofthe products to the European Unionand increasingly affecting sales to var-ious foreign markets. The U.S. govern-ment has been using a variety of toolsto combat these types of barriers toU.S. exports, as well as to promote theimportance of balanced and thoroughdue process procedures for the consid-eration of GIs.”

NMPF president and CEO Jim Mul-hern says “Our dairy industry hasbeen gearing up to compete globallyand open markets to our products. It’svitally important that U.S. trade pol-icy reject the EU’s attempts to slamdoors shut in areas in which we areincreasingly competing head to headagainst their producers. The barriersto our products are the result of

deeply problematic EU GI policiesthat give short shrift to the rights ofcommon name users. These deficien-cies must be addressed as U.S. workon this important issue continues.”

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Last of all, I have reported on recentattacks on dairy farming in Washing-ton state and how activists have evenused tax-payer funding for their falseattacks. That is not to say that theconcerns by such activists are totallywithout merit. Manure disposal is achallenge to today’s larger dairy oper-ations and the farmers who run themhave a responsibility to themselvesand to their neighbor’s welfare.

Michigan’s WZZM reports how dairymanure has affected a portion of itsstate. A posting on its website states:“On an August weekend in 2009,campers in the Port Huron StateGame Area began to realize there wassomething terribly wrong with theBlack River. They were finding dead

fish floating on the river’s surface.Eventually, the cause of the fish killwas traced to an excessive applicationof liquid cow manure at Noll DairyFarm in Croswell. State officials saidthe discharge affected more than 20miles of the river and killed about218,000 fish.”

“Seven years later, the fish are backin the river. But dairy cows still defe-cate, more than 80 pounds per day,according to information from theNatural Resources Conservation Ser-vice.”

The dairy industry can ill afford thiskind of irresponsibility and yet main-tain a positive image in consumerminds. A word to the wise is sufficient,as they say. Please read more athttp://goo.gl/q4LNvp.

Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnistwho resides in Everson, Wash. Hisweekly column is featured in newspa-pers across the country and he may bereached at lkmielke@juno.com. ❖

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And, of course, this tale is a charmer because of the

chickens.So who should read this

book? Well, anyone who eats,first of all, and anybody who’sever loved a feathered friend.Farmers, foodies and fans of agood story will also want tobring “Locally Laid” home toroost.

Look for the reviewed book ata bookstore or a library near you. You may also findthe book at online book retailers. The Bookworm isTerri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading sinceshe was 3 years old and never goes anywhere with-out a book. She lives in Wisconsin with three dogsand 10,000 books. ❖

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As a farm wife, when Ioverhear two guys talking,it’s the usual fare of topicsthat should interest memore than they do, butmostly tend to get me onestep closer to being legallypronounced an inanimateobject.

I often hear my guys talk-ing about a broad range ofissues relating to corn, soy-beans, sheep, cows, farmanimal poop and issueswith the spreader; tractors, combines,planters, field maps, county roads, soilhealth, technology, taxes, bank loansand what’s for supper on Sunday. (Myfamily might be glad that “Grandpa”on “Hee-Haw” never answered theirquestion about what’s for supper —though once a year there is a jar ofpickled herring on our table. Luckily— although the children have neverpartaken in such a stinky delicacy,they also have not defected from thetable, the celebration or the familybecause of it.)

I once knew a lady who was so boredwith the conversation taking placebetween her husband and anotherfarmer that she picked up the nearestand only reading material there — acalf scour medicine box — and beganreading it. She said it was a pivotal

day in that she finallynailed the recurring issue ofhow to spell “diarrhea.”

Not so long ago on a stopat a local farm supply store,I overheard two guys talk-ing. Their brief conversationstarted out typically, but gotme thinking.

One guy said in passing,“How’s it going?”

The other one replied, “Oh,just living the dream.”

Of course it was said tongue-in-cheek, and also because there isabsolutely no new conversation to behad about the weather after all theseyears, even as hard as farmers, WillardScott and the Chicago Board of Tradehave tried. For some reason, the secondguy’s comment seemed very profound.

Living the dream means so many dif-ferent things to so many different peo-ple. Our dreams change from the timewe’re children until the time we realizewe can’t do all those big things in onelifetime. They even change long afterwe’ve been grown up. When you’reyoung, all you have is your dreams —and they’re all ahead of you, ripeningand just waiting to be picked. It’s hardto choose one dream at a time.

Sooner or later, life happens. Theyears go by and sometimes we have fol-

lowed the path of our original dreams,and sometimes that path has taken adifferent course. We may not actuallybe living the dream we thought as chil-dren that we’d be living, but the differ-ence lies not in what we are doing, butin the value we give to what we aredoing.

If we take any degree of pride in ourwork, we bring value to it. And becauseof that it brings value to our lives andthe lives of others who are eitherreceiving the fruits of our labors, or inits simplest form, to those who arewatching us, and dreaming of theirown someday.

Farm kids who grow up wanting tofarm and then get to do that for a liv-ing truly are living a wildly riskydream. They are the lucky ones. Even

when all the usual problems comealong — uncontrollable weather,volatile markets, costly machineryrepairs and purchases, tight profitmargins and more, they are still luckyenough to say they are living their oneand only dream.

Few people get to say that and haveit be true for an entire lifetime. Itwomps when someone can make thathappen even though those ensuingfarm-related conversations can make afarmer’s wife or mother glaze over likea convenience store donut.

At least that kind of glaze doesn’thave any calories. And that womps, too.

Karen Schwaller brings “Table Talk”to The Land from her home near Mil-ford, Iowa. She can be reached atkschwaller@evertek.net. ❖

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DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary ofAgriculture Bill Northey reminds eligi-ble farm owners that the deadline toapply for the 2016 Century and Her-itage Farm Program is June 1. Theprogram recognizes families that haveowned their farm for 100 years in thecase of century farms and 150 years forheritage farms.

The program is sponsored by theIowa Department of Agriculture andLand Stewardship and the Iowa FarmBureau Federation. The ceremony torecognize the 2016 Century and Her-itage Farms is scheduled to be held atthe Iowa State Fair on August 18.

Applications are available on the

Department’s website at www.IowaA-griculture.gov by clicking on the Cen-tury Farm or Heritage Farm link under“Hot Topics.”

Applications may also be requestedfrom Becky Lorenz, Coordinator of theCentury and Heritage Farm Programvia phone at (515) 281-3645; via emailat Becky.Lorenz@IowaAgriculture.gov;or by writing to Century or HeritageFarms Program, Iowa Department ofAgriculture and Land Stewardship,Henry A. Wallace Building, 502 E.9th St., Des Moines, IA 50319.

This article was submitted by theIowa Department of Agriculture. ❖

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LARGE FARM ESTATE AUCTIONFRIDAY, MAY 20TH, 2016, 11:00 AM

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‘14 S-590, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 1875 hrs. ...................................$32,500‘13 S-550, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 2700 hrs. ...................................$27,500‘12 S-175, glass cab & heater, 2-spd., 280 hrs. .....................................$24,500‘08 S-160, glass cab & heater, 2-spd., 4500 hrs. ...................................$15,750‘98 751, 2875 hrs. .........................$9,950‘77 632 ..........................................$6,950‘14 NH L-225, glass cab w/AC, 890 hrs. .................................................$31,900‘12 NH L-220, glass cab w/AC .....$21,500‘06 JD 325, glass cab w/AC, 2-spd., 3200 hrs. ...................................$17,800‘07 JD 320, glass cab & heater, 2800 hrs. .................................................$17,500(3) Warrior Wood Splitters ................................ Starting at $1,750

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‘16 CIH Magnum 340 Track, powershift, Lux. cab, susp. front axle, 120” spacing, 6 remotes, hi-flo hyd. ..................................................................................................................................COMING IN‘13 CIH Magnum 315, 640 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, high cap. hyd. pump, front & rear duals ..... $155,000‘13 CIH Magnum 315, 1298 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, high cap. hyd. pump, front & rear duals ... $150,000‘13 CIH Magnum 315, 983 hrs., Lux. susp. cab, high cap. hyd. pump, front & rear duals ..... $155,000‘13 CIH Magnum 290, 1697 hrs., Lux. cab, susp. front axle, 50KPH trans., high cap. hyd. pump, HID lites ........................................................................................................................................ $139,900‘13 CIH Magnum 290, 960 hrs., Lux. cab .................................................................................. $138,000‘14 CIH Puma 145, MFD, 919 hrs., powershift, cab, C-IH 765 loader .........................................$85,500‘14 CIH Maxxum 125, MFD, 291 hrs., cab ....................................................................................$59,900‘15 CIH Farmall 105C, 29 hrs., Dlx. cab w/hi-vis panel, dual PTO, 12x12 power shuttle ..........$47,900‘14 Case 580SN, Extend-A-Hoe Backhoe, 272 hrs., pilot controls, cab, A/C, loader ................$78,500

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‘08 CIH Steiger 435, 2674 hrs., Lux. cab, 800x38 duals, full Pro 600 auto steer ............................CALL‘96 CIH 9370, 6327 hrs., powershift, triples ..................................................................................$79,000Steiger Tiger, 525 hp. Cummins eng., Allison auto. trans., Like New 520/85R42 Triples ...........$59,900

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COMBINE PLATFORMS & HEADS‘15 CIH 4408, 8R30” chopping cornhead ......................................................................................$69,900‘14 CIH 4408, 8R30” chopping cornhead ......................................................................................$64,500‘09 CIH 2608, 8R30” chopping cornhead ......................................................................................$29,900‘11 Geringhoff, 8R chopping cornhead .........................................................................................$49,900‘12 CIH 3408, 8R30” cornhead .......................................................................................................$39,900‘10 CIH 3408, 8R30” cornhead .......................................................................................................$29,900‘08 CIH 2208, 8R30” .......................................................................................................................$28,500‘04 CIH 2208, 8R30” .......................................................................................................................$24,500‘10 CIH 2020, 35’ platform ..............................................................................................................$18,000‘09 CIH 2020, 35’ platform w/Crary air reel ...................................................................................$23,900‘13 CIH 3020, 35’ flex platform .......................................................................................................$24,900‘14 CIH 3162, 40’ flex draper platform...........................................................................................$59,900‘14 CIH 3162, 35’ flex draper platform...........................................................................................$54,900‘15 CIH 3162, 35’ flex draper platform...........................................................................................$59,900‘15 CIH 3162, 35’ flex draper platform...........................................................................................$59,900‘15 CIH 3162, 35’ flex draper platform...........................................................................................$59,900

‘14 CIH Maxxum 125, 291 hrs.............................................$59,900

‘14 Puma 145, w/loader, PS, 919 hrs. ............................$85,500

‘96 CIH Steiger 9370, 6357 hrs., PS, triples ........................$69,000

‘08 CIH Steiger 435, 2674 hrs., 800R38 tires, Full Auto Guide .. CALL

‘13 CIH Magnum 290, 1698 hrs., Lux. cab, susp. frt. axle, 50KPH, full auto steer. $139,900

‘15 CIH Farmall 105C, power shuttle, 90 PTO hp. .........$47,900

Steiger Tiger, “Rebuilt”MUST SEE! - New Tires ....$59,900

CIH 5400 Min Til drill, 20’..............................................$7,900

‘14 Case 580SN Extend-A-Hoe, 4WD, pilot controls .........$78,500

‘14 CIH 3162, 40’ Flex Draper............................................$59,900

‘12 CIH Tigermate 200, 46’, 4 bar harrow ....................$45,900

‘14 CIH 7230, 530 eng./410 sep. hrs., HID lites, Loaded! ................$229,900

Leon M1000 Scraper, 10-yard............................................$22,500

‘13 Bobcat T870, 738 hrs.............................................$54,900

‘15 Bobcat S650, 307 hrs., hi flo hyd., 2-spd., cab w/AC .....$39,900

‘15 CIH 8240, Lux. cab, auto guide, HID lites ............. $285,000

‘15 CIH 3162, 35’ Flex Draper............................................$59,900

‘11 CIH Tigermate 200, 50’,w/rolling baskets ...............$49,900

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PRE-OWNED EQUIPMENT‘14 JD 3039R, MFWD, w/JD 165loader & 72” mower deck, hydro,ROPS, 102 hrs. .......................$29,500‘13 CIH Steiger 550 QuadTrac,Luxury cab, 30” belts, high cap. pump w/6-remotes, 1610 hrs. .......$199,500‘05 JD 9620T, 36” belts (80%+), wide swing drawbar, 4 remotes, 26 front wgts., 4695 hrs. ......................$99,500‘09 JD 612C Non-Chopping Corn Head, knife rolls, CM, Low Acres!.................................................$29,500(8) - New Goodyear DT824 710/70R42s, Never Mounted.................................................$22,500

United Farmers Cooperativewww.ufcmn.com

(L) Lafayette 507-228-8224 or 800-642-4104(G) Gaylord 507-237-4203 • (W) Waconia 952-442-7326

Main Office: Ag Service Center, 840 Pioneer Avenue • PO Box 4 • Lafayette, MN 56054-0004

USED DRYERS & AUGERS ..........Good Selection of Used Dryers-CALL!

(L) Feterl 12”x72’ swing hopper .........$8,995(L) Feterl 10”x60’, PTO .......................$3,150(L) Feterl 10”x34’, electric ..................$2,400(L) Feterl 8”x34’, electric ....................$2,100(L) Westfield WR, 100”-51’, PTO ...........CALL(L) Westfield 10”x71’, swing drive ......$7,400(L) Hutch 10”x72’, swing hopper ........$5,900(L) Sheyenne 13”x70’, swing drive, w/hanger bearing ........................$13,900(L) Sudenga 10”x31’, electric .............$3,495(L) Sudenga 10”x41’, PTO ..................$4,600(L) Sudenga 10”x56’, electric .............$4,995SKID LOADERS .......................(L) Bobcat S850, heat, A/C ...............$46,500(L) Bobcat S650, heat, 2-spd. ...........$39,800(L) Bobcat S630, heat, 2 spd., 400 hrs. ....................................................$34,900(L) ‘13 Bobcat S590, heat, 2-spd. .....$31,600(L) ‘14 Bobcat S550, heat, 2-spd. .....$29,900(L) Bobcat S160, heat, 2-spd. ...........$21,900 (2) Bobcat T190, heat Starting at $22,900(L) ‘13 Gehl R220, heat, 2-spd. ........$34,800(L) ‘12 Gehl V330, heat, AC, 2400 hrs. ....................................................$34,600(L) Gehl V330, heat, 2-spd. ..............$38,900(L) Gehl 3310, bucket/pallet fork ........$5,750(L) ‘14 Gehl 4240E, heat, new rubber ....................................................$22,900(L) (2) Gehl 4240E, heat ......... From $18,900(L) ‘12 Gehl 5640E, heat/AC, 2-spd. .$28,800(W) ‘05 Gehl 5640 ..............................$18,100(L) Gehl 5240E, heat, 2-spd. .............$24,900(W) ‘96 Hydra-Mac ...............................$5,500(L) ‘14 Mustang RT175, 500 hrs. .....$37,900 Mustang 940E, 800 hrs. ................$9,900(L) Case 430, 2-spd. .........................$24,900(W) Cat 226 ........................................$17,000(L) OMC 320, w/bucket .......................$4,375SPREADERS ..........................(W) Knight 8132 .................................$17,500(W) ‘08 Kuhn Knight 8118 .................$13,500(W) ‘08 Kuhn Knight 8114 .................$10,500(L) JD 370 ...........................................$4,950(L) Meyer 3245, V-Max .....................$12,900TILLAGE ............................... (2) Wilrich QX2, 60’, w/bskt. ..................................Starting at $52,900(G) Wilrich 957, 9-shank ...................$33,900(L) Wilrich 957, 5-shank ...................$16,500(L/G) (3) Wilrich 957, 7-shank From $20,600(L) Wilrich 513, Soil Pro, 9-24 .........$39,600(W) Great Plains Turbo Chisel, 7- & 11-shank .........................................................CALL(W) Great Plains 24’ Turbomax ...............CALL(L) Great Plains Turbo Chisel, 11-shank ....................................................$22,800(L) Glencoe DR 8699, 7-shank ...........$8,500(L) Krause Dominator, 18’.................$34,900(L/G) (2) Krause 18’ Rippers .............$39,500(L) Krause Dominator, 18’.................$33,900(L) ‘11 Krause Dominator, 12’ ...........$29,900 DMI Tigermate II, 36.5’ w/bskt. ...$32,600(L) (2) DMI Tigermate II, 38.5’, 4-bar ....................................................$29,900

(L) DMI Tigermate II, 42.5’, 3-bar .....$20,600(G) (2) DMI 730 Rippers ...................$10,900(L) (2) DMI 527 ................Starting At $9,300(L) Wishek 16’ Disc w/harrow ..........$24,800(L) JD 2700, 9-24 Ripper ..................$23,900(G) JD 2700, 7-shank ........................$23,900(L) JD 2400 Chisel Plow, 33-shank ..$29,950 JD 2210, 45.5’, 4-bar ..................$42,900(L) JD 985, 49.5’, 4-bar ....................$21,600(L) JD 985, 49.5’, 3-bar ....................$20,700(L) JD 980, 38.5’, 3-bar ....................$23,800(L) JD 980, 44.5’, 3-bar ....................$17,500(L) JD 960, 36.5’, 3-bar ......................$5,600(L) JD Model 230 Disk, 26’ .................$4,750(L) Sunflower 1435-36 disk ..............$28,900(L) CIH 600 PTX Chisel Plow, 38’ .....$29,800(L) CIH 370 Disc, 28’ ........................$34,500(L) CIH 730B .....................................$17,900(L) CIH Tigermate II, 45.5’, w/bskt. ..$40,900(L) CIH Tigermate II, 54.5’, 8-bar .....$29,900TMR’S .................................(W) Knight 5073, tow .........................$17,199(W) Kuhn Knight 5135 .......................$16,250(W) Kuhn Knight VT156 .....................$32,500(W) ‘14 Kuhn Knight RA142 ....................CALLSPRAYERS ............................(L) Hardi 1000 gal., 60’ boom ..........$14,400(G) Century 750 gal., 60’ boom...........$6,500(L) Century 750 gal., 60’ boom...........$6,900(L) Demco 700 gal., 66’ boom, ff .....$14,900(L) (2) Redball 1200 gal., 90’ boom .$19,900(L) Redball 670, 1200 gal., 66’ boom ....................................................$13,800(L) Top Air 800 gal., 60’ boom ............$9,350MISCELLANEOUS ....................(L) Vicon 1240 Rake, 10-wheel ..........$4,150(L) JD 327 Small Square Baler ...........$3,799(L) Bobcat 3400 UTV, gas ...................$8,450(L) Frontier 750 Grain Cart ...............$19,900(L) Loftness 20’ Chopper ....................$9,600(G) Minnesota 250, 10-ton gear ..........$1,900(G) Used Grain Legs ...............................CALL(L) Woods 20’ Chopper, 3-pt. .............$5,950(L) EZ-Flow 300 bu. Box .....................$1,950(L) Unverferth 400 bu. Cart ................$7,950(L) Used Snowblowers ..........................CALL(L) Tonutti 5’ Disc Mower ...................$4,500(W) (4) Meyers 4618 Forage Box’s Ea. $8,950(L) J&M 1151, scale/tarp ..................$48,900(W) J&M 875 Grain Cart .........................CALL(W) 72” Box Blade, skid steer, universal attachment ....................................$2,899(W) 72” Dump Bucket, skid steer, universal attachment ....................................$3,299(W) Westin 84” Snow Bucket, skid steer, universal attachment ........................ $975(W) ‘80 Allied 8’ 3-pt. Single Auger

Snowblower, w/hyd. chute ............$1,999

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FOR SALE: Right Way 250rock picker, excellent con-dition. (507)318-9168

JD 3020, nice; JD 110 disk;Ford's 2000, 8N loader;Bobcat 642 skid; 3pt 60 galsprayer; Seed auger forgravity wagon. Category IIhitch. Plus more!

Peterson Equipment 507-276-6958 or 6957

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Parts Available Hammell Equip., Inc.

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Case IH 8910, MFD, $38,000;Case IH 7250, MFD,$37,500; (2) Case IH 7120,MFD, starting at $24,000;Case IH 7110, 2WD, $25,000;Case IH 7130, 2WD, $22,500;Case IH 7140, 2WD, $26,000;JD 8400, MFD, $34,500; JD8110, MFD, $47,500. Call608-574-7619

FOR SALE: '55 IH Cub LoBoy, new clutch, brakes,carb kit, wheel weights, 1ptplow, 42” Woods belly mow-er, front mount blade. Callevenings 218-371-8784

FOR SALE: JD 4450,MFWD, 15spd power shift,20.8-38 rubber w/duals. 715-684-9231

FOR SALE: JD 4850 MFWD,20.8x38 tires, 60%, PS, 8500hrs, recently checked byJD shop, service fieldready, very good condition,$31,900; Cat ChallengerCH45 6200 hrs, PS, 16”tracks, 22” row spacing,exc cond, 3-pt PTO, $34,500,both are exc grain carttractors. (701)-640-4697

FOR SALE: JD 730 dsl, elec-tric start, good tin & tires,starts & runs exc, SchwartzWF, uses no oil, no fendersor 3pt, all gauges & lightswork, $6,500/OBO; JD 3, 4,& 5 bottom hyd plows. (507)428-3572

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FOR SALE: Case IH 8300 12'grain drill w/ grass, $9,500;Case IH 8530 small squarebaler, nice, $9,000. 320-352-3878

FOR SALE: JD 7100 8-30planter; CIH 183 8-30 cult;AgChem 3pt, 250 galsprayer w/ 40' x-fold boom,exc cond. 507-478-4221

FOR SALE: JD 740 self lev-eling loader off 7410 trac-tor, will fit 7000, 7010, 7020,7030 series tractors, 8'quick attach bucket, bolt oncutting edge. 507-220-0999

FOR SALE: JD 785 spread-er, 1000 PTO, $6,500. 507-317-3396

FOR SALE: NH 1465 9' hay-bine, $10,000. 320-249-8556

FOR SALE: NH 316 kickerbaler & rack; 256 NH siderake, field ready; Ford 501,7' sickle mower. (763)-878-1580

FOR SALE:Woods Brush-bull, 7' rotary mower, 540shaft, new cost at $7,400priced at $3,000. 507-370-2149

Hardi Navigator 1100sprayer, 60 booms, rinsetank, Hardi controller, PTOpump, $7,900; CIH 1100 9'mower, exc cond, $2,500;JD 670 5 bar rake w/ dollywheel, $1,250; JD 1065Arunning gear, $850;Schwartz hyd bucket ldr, 7'bucket, $650. 320-769-2756

Hydrostatic & Hydraulic Re-pair Repair-Troubleshoot-ing Sales-Design Customhydraulic hose-making upto 2” Service calls made.STOEN'S Hydrostatic Ser-vice 16084 State Hwy 29 NGlenwood, MN 56334 320-634-4360

Int'l 800 corn planter, 8R20"rows, also JD front mountcultivator, 8R20" w/ flowshields, $5,500 for both. 715-410-1060

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FLATBEDS‘00 Great Dane, 53/102 Alum. Combo,

AR, Alum Wheels, SX ................$9,250‘02 Great Dane, 48/102, AR, Closed

Tandem Slider ..........................$8,250‘97-‘92 Wilson, 48/96, SX/AR, Alum.

Floor, Alum. Crossmembers, 80% T&B, Sandblasted, Painted . $7,250-$7,750

‘95 Utility, 48/96, SX, AR ...........$4,500Transcraft, 45/96, AR, Spread Axle, AR, ‘06 Lift Axle, Sandblasted, New

Paint .........................................$7,500Hay Sides with any Flat or

Drop Deck sales – $1,00000

HOPPERS(2) ‘94 Wilson, 42/66, 11/24.5, 80% T&B, Good Tarps, SR, New 5th

Whl. Plate, Clean ............1 @ $14,500 .......................................1 @ $12,750‘11 Maurer, 42/66, Alum. Ag Hopper, AR, 11/24.5 Alum. Whls., New T&B ...............................................$23,500‘06 Merrit, 42/66, Ag Hopper, New

22.5, AR, Clean Nebraska Trailer ...............................................$21,500‘98 Wilson, 43/66, SR, 80% T&B ...............................................$15,500‘01 Wilson, 41/66, Ag Hopper, AR, 80% T&B ................................$18,500‘92 Timpte, 42/66, AR, 80% T&B ...............................................$10,000‘88 Wilson, 42/66, SR, 75% T&B ...............................................$10,000

DROP DECKS‘07 Fontaine Drop Deck, 48/102, Steel, SX, AR, Wood Floor .......$19,000‘07 Fontaine Drop Deck, 53/102, Steel, AR, Spread Axle, Wood Floor,

Sandblasted & Painted, Beavertail ...............................................$22,500‘05 Transcraft Drop Deck, 48/102, Steel, AR, Like New, SX, 255/22.5,

Super Clean............................$18,500

‘96 Featherlite Alum. Combo, 48/102, Alum. Floor, Alum. Crossmembers,

AR, SX, 255/22.5 ....................$15,000Engineered 5’ Beavertail Kit: Includes: Paint, LED Lights & All Electrical ....................$3,250 Kit .................................$5,000 Installed

DOUBLE DROPS‘99 XL Specialized Double Drop,

48/102, 29’6” Well, New 255/22.5, RGN, Mechanical Detach RGN $17,500(30) Van & Reefer Trailers - On Hand,

48/102 - 53/102, Water, Storage, or Over The Road - Your Pick - .$4,000

Cattle Pots .................................... CALL‘88 Merritt, 46’, 2-Axle SR, 40% Floor .................................................$3,500

END DUMP‘97 Raven, 36’ Alum., AR, New Liner,

90% T&B ................................$22,500

MISCELLANEOUSCustom Haysides: Stationary .................................$1,000 Tip In-Tip Out ...........................$1,500AR or SR Suspensions: 96” & 102” Axles ......................... $500 to $1,000Vans, On Ground - For Storage ..$2,000Alum. Wheels: 24.5/22.5 ........Ea. $125(30) Vans, 53/48 - For Water Trailers,

Storage, AR, SR, ‘05 to ‘90's, Road Ready ................ $3,000-$4,000‘05 Wabash 45' Rollup Door –‘93 Dorsey 36' Side Door Rollup Door,

For Water Trailers ...............Ea. $4,500

TRUCKS‘97 Peterbilt 379 Conventional, N-14 435 hp. Cummins, Cruise, Jake,

13-Spd., AR, 48” High-Rise Sleeper, New 11R22.5 Alum. Whls., 3.70 Ratio, New Brakes, 234” WB, Clean Hard To Find Truck, New Rods & Mains, New Tires, Clean ............................$22,000

‘05 GMC Quad Cab, Well Maintained, 90% T&B, 195K Miles ...............$8,250

HANCOCK, MNwww.DuncanTrailersInc.comCall: 320-212-5220 or 320-392-5361

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USED TRACTORSNEW NH Boomer 37, w/loader ....................CALLNEW NH T9.645, w/Smart Trac ....................CALLNEW NH T8.320, FWA ..................................CALLNEW Massey 1726, w/loader .......................CALLNEW Versatile 450, 4WD ..............................CALLNEW Versatile 310, FWA ..............................CALLNEW Versatile 260, FWA ..............................CALL‘12 NH T9.560, 4WD ............................. $210,000‘12 NH T9.390, approx. 650 hrs. .......... $189,000NH TD5050 w/loader, Like New ............. $45,500NH TV6070 bi-directional ....................... $84,000‘12 Versatile 280 w/F&R duals, 825 hrs. ........................................................... $125,000Allis 180 D ..................................................$7,900

TILLAGE‘14 Sunflower 5035, 34’ w/bskt., Like New .CALLSunflower 4630, 11-shank, Demo ...............CALLSunflower 4233-19 w/3-bar harrow .............CALL(3) DMI 530B’s ..............................................CALLDMI/NH 775, 7-shank ...................................CALL‘12 JD 3710, 10 bottom .......................... $41,000‘08 JD 3710, 10 bottom .......................... $23,000‘08 JD 2210, 44.5’ w/3-bar ..................... $35,500

SKIDSTEERSBobcat S650 w/575 hrs. ......................... $35,900NEW NH Skidsteers – On Hand ...................CALL‘11 NH L230, Loaded ...................................CALL

PLANTERSNEW White Planters .....................................CALL‘11 White 8516 CFS, Loaded ................. $92,000White 6122, 12-30 .................................. $14,900‘06 White 8222 w/3 bus., res. mgr. ........ $38,500

COMBINESNEW Fantini Chopping CH ..........................CALLFantini Pre-Owned 8-30 Chopping CH .......CALL‘13 Gleaner S77 ........................... JUST TRADED‘10 Gleaner R76, Loaded ..................... $210,000‘01 Gleaner R72, Just Thru Shop .......... $95,000‘03 Gleaner R65 .................................... $115,000‘02 Gleaner R62 ......................................COMING

HAY TOOLSNew Hesston & NH Hay Tools On Hand

MISCELLANEOUSNEW Salford RTS Units ................................CALLNEW Salford Plows ......................................CALLNEW Unverferth Seed Tenders ....................CALLNEW Westfield Augers .................................CALLNEW Rem 2700 Vac .....................................CALLNEW Hardi Sprayers ....................................CALLNEW Riteway Rollers ...................................CALLNEW Lorenz Snowblowers ..........................CALLNEW Batco Conveyors ................................CALLNEW Brent Wagons & Grain Carts ..............CALLNEW E-Z Trail Seed Wagons .......................CALLNEW Rock Buckets & Pallet Forks ..............CALLREM 2700, Rental .........................................CALLUnverferth 8000 Grain Cart ..........................CALLPre-owned Snowblowers, 7’-9’ ...................CALLPre-owned Sprayers ....................................CALL

SMITHS MILL IMPLEMENTHwy. 14, 3 miles West of Janesville, MN

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

www.smithsmillimp.com

and “Low Rate Financing Available”

SPECIALS– On All Equipment –

Machinery Wanted 040

WANTED: Two 14' chopperboxes; New Idea 5209 dis-cbine. 608-727-2990

Spraying Equip 041

FOR SALE: '03 JD4710 S-section shut off, 3 way noz-zle body, 800 gal tank, hydtread adjust, fenders underframe shields, fence rownozzle RH 2025 hrs, $82,000.(507) 380-6796

FOR SALE: 60' Top Airsprayer boom, very goodcondition. (507)-318-9168

Wanted 042

WANTED: IH 4000, 12'swather. 320-352-3878

Feed Seed Hay 050

Alfalfa square baleage indi-vidually wrapped 160 to 190RFV delivered by truckload; clean 3x4 straw balesalso available. 866-575-7562

Alfalfa, mixed hay, grasshay and straw, mediumsquares or round bales, de-livered. LeRoy Ose, call ortext 218-689-6675

Buyers & Sellers of hay,straw, corn, wheat, oats &other grains. Western Hayavailable. Fox Valley Alfal-fa Mill. 920-853-3554

FOR SALE: Black & BWFpolled purebred simmentalbulls, John Volz, Elmore,MN. 507-520-4381

Tillage Equip 039

FOR SALE: JD 960 digger,30', new drag 2 yrs ago, al-ways shedded, $5,000. 507-766-0719

SUNFLOWER 28' field culti-vator; walking tandems onbase & wings, $2,500. (715)878-9858

Used parts for IH 720plows, toggle/auto reset. ½ price of new or less.

We ship anywhere.Call Maple Valley Farms

Randy Krueger(715)250-1617

Machinery Wanted 040

All kinds of New & Usedfarm equipment – disc chis-els, field cults, planters,soil finishers, cornheads,feed mills, discs, balers,haybines, etc. 507-438-9782

Disc chisels: JD 714 & 712,Glencoe 7400; Field Cultsunder 30': JD 980, smallgrain carts & gravity boxes300-400 bu. Finishers under20', clean 4 & 6R stalk chop-pers; Nice JD 215 & 216flex heads; JD 643 corn-heads Must be clean; JDcorn planters, 4-6-8 row.715-299-4338

WANTED TO BUY: IH 4000swather, 12'. 320-352-3878

WANTED: New Idea, 803Cor 802 Uni or JD 66 blower.715-673-4970

Planting Equip 038

FOR SALE: JD 7100 planter12 row 30 inch, semi mount-ed lift a 5th wheels, cornmeters & soybean cups, JDmonitor, $4,200. Call 320-220-3114

Tillage Equip 039

20 Ft Mandako Pull TypeLand Roller (HydraulicTurns To Go Down Road).RHINO PT405H 4 Bat HayTedder (Hyd Fold). 319-347-6138 Can Deliver

FOR SALE: JD 630 15' cone-type blade disc, w/harrow.715-964-1122

FOR SALE: JD 980, 22' fieldcultivator w/ 3 bar coil har-row, $12,750; Case IH 430024' field cultivator w/ 3 barcoil harrow, $12,750; JD7100 12-30” planter, $4,900.(507)-380-7863

MANDAKOLand Rollers On Hand

20-34-40-42-46 Ft. Heaviest Built

3” SHAFTS (Not 2 7/16”).Dealer 319-347-6282

Can Deliver

Tractors 036

FOR SALE: White model 2-70 dsl, WF, open station,1190 original one ownerhours, $12,500. 515-320-2013

Planting Equip 038

FOR SALE: IH 800 cycleair bean planter, verticalfold, 15 row 30' wide, rowcleaners, monitor, spe-cial markers, field ready,stored inside; matchingIH 183 Vibrashank, 15row 30' wide row cultiva-tor for above planter,field ready, stored inside,planter & cultivator,$3,750. 507-227-9708

FOR SALE: IH 800 cycleair planter, horizontalfold, 10 row 36” spacing30' wide, row cleaners,monitor, smart boxes,field ready, storedinside; matching IH 153Vibershank, 10 row 36”spacing, row cultivatorfor above planter, fieldready, stored inside,planter & cultivator,$3,750. 507-227-9708

Tractors 036

FOR SALE: JD 4430, powershift, 3 hydraulics, 540-1000PTO, $9,800. 715-684-9231

FOR SALE: JD 8400 tractor,MFD, 5725 hrs, 3 hyds, 480-80R46 tires, excellent condi-tion, $75,000. 507-766-0719

FOR SALE: JD 8520, duals,weights, always shedded,low hours, (419)-654-3228

FOR SALE: NH Versatile9682 w/ 5700 hrs, had a com-plete OH at 4000 hrs, has700/65-38 tires, fully ser-viced, field ready. 320-304-4010

JD 70 dsl tractor, used lessthan 100 hrs on completeOH, used only for plow day,3 btm JD 55ABH plow,beautifully restored byowner, $7,500. 320-522-0493

NEW AND USED TRACTORPARTS JD 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,55, 50 Series & newer trac-tors, AC-all models, LargeInventory, We ship! MarkHeitman Tractor Salvage715-673-4829

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(B) Belle Plaine, MN

(952) 873-2224

(N) Northwood, IA

(641) 324-1154(OS) Osage, IA

(641) 732-3719(H) Holland, MN

(507) 889-4221(OW) Owatonna, MN

(507) 451-4054

TRACTORS• RENTAL RETURN TRACTORS •

(OW) ‘15 JD ‘8370R, 466 hrs., IVT, ILS ....................$289,900(N) ‘15 JD 8370R, 486 hrs., IVT, ILS .........................$289,900(OW) ‘15 JD 8370R, 512 hrs., IVT, ILS .....................$289,900(B) ‘15 JD 8370R, 516 hrs., IVT, ILS .........................$284,900(N) ‘14 JD 9510R, 629 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$279,900(OW) ‘15 JD 8345R, 491 hrs., IVT, ILS .....................$274,900(OW) ‘15 JD 8345R, 778 hrs., IVT, ILS .....................$267,500(OW) ‘15 JD 8295R, 737 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warr. ...........$229,900(B) ‘15 JD 6150R, 342 hrs., AQ Plus, Ext. Warr. ......$124,900(B) ‘15 JD 6150R, 379 hrs., AQ Plus, Ext. Warr. ......$124,900(B) ‘15 JD 6150R, 394 hrs., AQ Plus, Ext. Warr. ......$124,900(OW) ‘15 JD 6150R, 498 hrs., AQ Plus, Ext. Warr. ..$122,900(B) ‘15 JD 6125R, 233 hrs., MFWD ..........................$112,900

4WD TRACTORS(H) ‘15 JD 9620R, 276 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$382,000(OW) ‘11 JD 9560R, 443 hrs. ....................................$319,900(N) ‘15 JD 9520R, 353 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$319,900(N) ‘15 JD 9470R, 172 hrs., 800/38’s .......................$295,000(OW) ‘14 JD 9460R, 595 hrs., PTO, Ext. Warr. ........$289,900(B) ‘14 JD 9460R, 376 hrs., PTO ..............................$279,900(OW) ‘13 JD 9510R, 636 hrs. ....................................$274,900(B) ‘13 JD 9510R, 741 hrs. .......................................$274,900(N) ‘15 JD 9420R, 376 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$274,000(OW) ‘13 JD 9560R, 1135 hrs. ..................................$259,900(N) ‘13 JD 9460R, 374 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$259,900(OW) ‘12 JD 9560R, 1045 hrs. ..................................$249,900(OW) ‘12 JD 9560R, 1149 hrs. ..................................$249,900(OS) ‘12 JD 9510R, 1079 hrs., 800/70R38’s ............$249,900(OW) ‘12 JD 9410R, 1073 hrs., hi-flo hyds. .............$239,900(B) ‘11 JD 9330, 617 hrs., 620/70T42’s ....................$194,900(H) ‘09 JD 9330, 1890 hrs., 3 pt. ..............................$176,500(OS) ‘09 JD 9330, 2203 hrs., PTO ............................$174,900(OS) ‘05 JD 9620, 2119 hrs., 800/70R38’s, duals ....$164,900(H) ‘05 JD 9520, 3590 hrs., 710/42’s ........................$138,500(N) ‘97 CIH 9350, 3365 hrs. ........................................ $58,500

TRACK TRACTORS(N) ‘15 JD 9570RT, 259 hrs., Ext. Warr. ...................$364,900(OW) ’15 JD 9470RT, 210 hrs., Ext. Warr. ................$344,900(OW) ‘14 JD 9560RT, 473 hrs. ..................................$339,900(OW) ‘14 JD 9560RT, 618 hrs. ..................................$329,900(OW) ‘14 JD 9560RT, 628 hrs. ..................................$329,900(N) ‘13 JD 9460RT, 537 hrs., 1000 PTO ...................$297,500(OW) ‘11 CIH 550 Quad, 2249 hrs., PTO .................$269,900(H) ‘12 JD 8335RT, 1695 hrs., IVT, 25” tracks .........$219,900(OW) ‘10 JD 9630T, 1965 hrs., AT Ready ................$209,900(B) ‘11 JD 8310RT, 1928 hrs., PS, 25” tracks ..........$179,900(H) ‘05 JD 9620T, 4058 hrs., Very Nice ....................$132,500(H) ‘06 JD 9520T, 3161 hrs., AT Ready ....................$129,900(OW) ‘05 JD 8520T,4661 hrs., 18” tracks .................. $89,900(OS) ‘00 JD 8410T, 5755 hrs., 24" tracks .................. $74,900

ROW CROP TRACTORS(OS) ‘15 JD 8370R, 264 hrs., IVT, ILS ......................$304,000(N) ‘15 JD 8320R, 321 hrs., IVT, ILS .........................$277,000(OW) ‘14 JD 8345R, 524 hrs., IVT, ILS .....................$264,900(N) ‘15 JD 8270R, 157 hrs., PS, Ext. Warr. ..............$249,900(OW) ‘13 JD 8310R, 735 hrs., PS, 480/50’ ...............$219,900(N) ‘15 JD 8270R, 250 hrs., PS, Ext. Warr. ..............$218,000(N) ‘15 JD 8245R, 192 hrs., PS, Ext. Warr. ..............$215,000(N) ‘15 JD 7270R, 250 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warr. ..............$209,500(OW) ‘14 JD 8270R, 251 hrs., PS, Ext. Warr. ...........$208,900

(N) ‘15 JD 8245R, 81 hrs., PS, Ext. Warr. ................$202,000(B) ‘14 NH T8.360, 128 hrs. ......................................$199,950(OS) ‘14 JD 7270R, 444 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warr. ............$199,900(OW) ‘11 JD 8360R,2340 hrs., IVT, ILS ....................$199,900(OW) ‘10 JD 8345R, 1813 hrs., IVT, ILS ...................$194,900(B) ‘13 JD 8260R, 400 hrs., PS, 480/80R46’s ..........$189,900(OS) ‘14 JD 7210R, 314 hrs., IVT, Ext. Warr. ............$179,900(OS) ‘10 JD 8295R, 1455 hrs., IVT, ILS, leather .......$179,000(OS) ‘10 JD 8245R, 1786 hrs., IVT, ILS ....................$164,900(OS) ‘13 JD 7215R, 474 hrs., IVT .............................$164,900(OS) ‘14 CIH Magnum 260, 1163 hrs. .....................$159,900(OS) ‘14 CIH Magnum 235, 214 hrs. .......................$159,900(B) ‘15 JD 6150R, 150 hrs., Auto Quad, loader .......$155,000(OS) ‘08 JD 8430, 3100 hrs., PS, ILS .......................$144,900(H) ‘08 JD 8430, 4000 hrs., IVT, ILS .........................$144,900(OW) ‘08 JD 8130, 2219 hrs., IVT, 480/80R50’s .......$138,900(B) ‘14 NH T7.230, 344 hrs., PS ...............................$129,900(OS) ‘09 JD 7930, 2358 hrs., Auto Quad .................$124,900(H) ‘06 JD 8130, 4742 hrs., 540/1000 PTO ..............$112,500(OS) ‘05 JD 8120, 2735 hrs., 540/1000 PTO ............$109,000(H) ‘03 JD 8220, 3855 hrs., PS, 480/80R46’s ...........$107,900(H) ‘04 JD 8520, 6615 hrs., ILS, 710/38’s ................$107,500(H) ‘03 JD 8320, 3847 hrs, PS, AT Ready ................$105,500(OW) ‘00 JD 8310, 6141 hrs., MFWD, PS .................. $83,500(N) ‘01 JD 8310, 7314 hrs. .......................................... $79,900(H) ‘98 JD 7810, 3602 hrs., MFWD............................. $74,900(OW) ‘95 JD 8300, 6093 hrs., MFWD ......................... $55,900(OS) ‘98 JD 7810, 7260 hrs., 2WD ............................. $45,900(B) ‘90 JD 4755, 6889 hrs., 2WD ................................ $44,900(H) ‘79 JD 4440, 7200 hrs., Quad ............................... $23,900

UTILITY TRACTORS(B) ‘13 JD 6125R, 111 hrs, MFWD ...........................$108,900(N) ‘15 JD 6125R, 270 hrs.., MFWD .........................$104,000(N) ‘15 JD 6130D, 343 hrs., MFWD ............................ $64,000(OS) JD 5100M, 900 hrs., MFWD, cab ....................... $52,500(OW) ‘12 JD 5100M, 200 hrs., MFWD, cab ............... $51,900(N) ‘14 JD 5075E, 83 hrs., MFWD, cab ...................... $42,500(N) ‘15 JD 5075E, 185 hrs., MFWD, open station ..... $28,900

SPRAYERS– More Sprayers Listed On Our Website –

• DRY BOX •(N) ‘15 JD R4045, 486 hrs., Ext. Warr. .....................$325,000(OW) ‘06 JD 4920, 6500 hrs., AT ready ...................... $65,000

• 120’ BOOM •(OW) ‘14 JD 4940, 380 hrs., High Flow ....................$254,900(OW) ‘11 JD 4830, 1135 hrs., section control .........$218,900(OW) ‘08 CIH Patriot 4420, 3600 hrs. .....................$125,900

• 100’ BOOM •(H) ‘12 JD 4730, 1330 hrs., boom trac, SS tank ......$179,900(OW) ‘12 JD 4730, 676 hrs., One-Owner .................$166,900(OW) ‘10 JD 4830, 2050 hrs., 15” spacing, HTA......$159,900(OW) ‘11 Ag-Chem 994 Rogator, 1768 hrs. ............$137,900

• 90’ BOOM •(N) ‘15 JD R4030, 154 hrs., section control ............$265,900(N) ‘13 JD 4830, 384 hrs., AT activation ..................$234,900(OW) ‘13 JD 4830, 552 hrs., SS tank, 20” spacing .$229,900(OW) ‘13 JD 4730, 923 hrs., Ext. Warr. ....................$189,900(OW) ‘15 JD 4630, 268 hrs., Ext. Warr. ....................$187,900(OW) ‘11 JD 4830, 1020 hrs. ....................................$179,900(OW) ‘11 JD 4830, 1815 hrs., SS tank, 20” spacing $169,900

(OW) ‘11 JD 4730, 2532 hrs. ....................................$154,500(OW) ‘13 JD 4630, 1080 hrs., HTA, traction control $142,900(OW) ‘12 Miller N2XP, 1700 hrs., SS tank................$135,000(OW) ‘08 JD 4730, 3500 hrs. ....................................$112,900(OW) ‘06 JD 4720, 4100 hrs., 20” spacing ................ $84,900(OW) ‘06 Ag-Chem 874, 4400 hrs., SS tank, HTA ..... $69,900(OW) ‘06 Ag Chem 1074 Rogator, 4600 hrs. ............ $59,900

• 80’ BOOM •(OW) ‘13 JD 4630, 734 hrs., Ext. Warr. ....................$146,900

HAY EQUIPMENT(OW) ‘13 JD 569 round baler ...................................... $38,900(B) ‘11 JD 568 round baler .......................................... $36,500(B) ‘13 JD 569 round baler .......................................... $35,900(H) ‘14 JD 569 round baler .......................................... $34,900(OW) ‘11 NH BR7090 round baler .............................. $30,900(OW) ‘12 CIH DC132, 13’ MoCo ................................. $27,500(OW) ‘10 JD 568 round baler ...................................... $26,900(B) ‘13 JD 459 round baler .......................................... $24,900(OS) ‘08 JD 568 round baler ....................................... $22,500(H) ‘09 NH BR7090 round baler .................................. $21,500(B) ‘11 NH BR7060 round baler .................................. $19,900(OW) ‘08 JD 946, center pivot MoCo ......................... $17,900(B) ‘05 JD 467 round baler .......................................... $16,500(B) ‘09 Hesston 3312, center pivot MoCo ................ $14,900(B) ‘11 NH Roll-Belt 450 round baler ........................ $14,900(H) ‘01 JD 567 round baler .......................................... $13,900(B) ‘97 JD 820, 9’ MoCo ............................................... $9,900(OW) ‘90 CIH 8530 square baler .................................. $9,000(B) ‘99 NH 499, center pivot MoCo .............................. $7,500(B) ‘90 JD 1360, 9’ MoCo ............................................. $6,900

PLANTERS/SEEDERS– More Can Be Found On Our Website –

(OS) ‘13 JD DB60, 24R30”, liq. fert. .........................$195,000(N) ‘15 JD DB60, 24R30” ..........................................$195,000(OS) ‘14 CIH 1255 CCS, 24R30” ..............................$159,900(N) ‘12 JD 1770NT, 24R30”, liq. fert. ........................$129,900(B) ‘15 JD 1770NT CCS, 16R30” .............................$114,900(B) ‘07 JD DB40, 24R20”, tracks ................................ $99,900(B) ‘13 JD 1770NT, 16R30”, liq. fert. .......................... $99,900(N) ‘15 JD 1990 CCS, 40’, 15” spacing ..................... $99,900(B) ‘12 JD 1770 CCS, 16R30” .................................... $94,900(N) ‘08 CIH 1250 CCS, 24R30” .................................. $84,900(H) ‘14 JD 1770NT, 12R30”, liq. fert. .......................... $84,500(OW) ‘11 JD 1770NT CCS, 16R30” ........................... $79,900(OS) ‘09 JD 1770 CCS, 16R30” ................................. $69,900(OS) ‘08 JD 1790 CCS, 23 split row .......................... $69,900(OS) ‘07 JD 1770 CCS, 24R30” ................................. $59,900(B) ‘05 JD 1770, 12R30”, liq. fert. .............................. $39,900(B) ‘05 CIH 1200, 31R15”............................................ $34,500(OW) ‘98 JD 1770, 16R30” liq. fert. ............................ $29,500(OS) ‘97 JD 1760, 12R30”, wing fold ......................... $28,500(H) ‘01 JD 1560, 20’, 10” spacing, no till ................... $26,500(OW) ‘01 JD 1770, 16R30”, dry fert. .......................... $24,900(OW) ‘98 JD 1750, 8R30”, dry fert. ............................ $24,900(B) ‘03 JD 1750, 6R30”, liq. fert. ................................ $21,900(OS) JD 7200, 12R30”, front fold ................................ $19,900(OS) JD 7200, 12R30”, liq. fert. ................................... $17,500(H) ‘98 JD 1530, 15’, 15” spacing, cart ...................... $17,500(OW) JD 7200, 8R30”, 20/20 Precision....................... $16,900(OW) JD 7200, 8R30”, liq. fert. .................................... $12,900(B) ‘00 White 6106, 6R30”, liq. fert. ........................... $11,900(B) JD 7300, 12R30”, mounted ................................... $10,900

‘10 JD 1770NT CCS, 16R30”,Promax 40 Disks ...............$74,900

‘10 JD 4830, 2050 Hrs., 100’ Boom, 15” Spacing ....................... $159,900

‘13 JD 4730, 1501 Hrs., 90’ Boom..........................................$189,900

‘09 JD 9330, 2203 Hrs., PTO,6 SCV’s .............................$174,900

‘06 JD 8130, 4770 Hrs., PS,Auto Track Ready ............$112,500

‘11 JD 8310RT, 1929 Hrs.,30” Tracks, 5 SCV’s .........$179,900

‘15 JD 6125R, 240 Hrs., IVT,Loader Ready ..................$112,900

‘12 JD 4730, 1330 Hrs.,100’ Boom........................$179,900

‘12 Miller N2XP, 1599 Hrs.,90’ Boom..........................$135,000

‘13 JD 4630, 736 Hrs., 80’ Boom..........................................$146,900

‘12 CIH DC132, 13’ Disc Mower,Low Acres ........................... $27,500

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‘12 Magnum 340, Luxury cab, cab suspension, suspended front axle, 540/1000 PTO, 480/80R50 duals, 1860 hrs. ............................ $125,000

‘10 NH T8010, super steer, 480/80R46 duals, 380/85R34 single fronts, 540/1000 PTO, 1200 hrs.

............................................. $94,500‘13 MF WR9740 Self-Propelled Windrower, 9126 16’ head, double knife drive, steel roll conditioner,

550 hrs. ................................ $55,000‘07 JD 8230, IVT transmission, 480/80R50 duals, 380/80R38 single fronts, 1300 front axle, 4 remotes, 540/1000 PTO, 4460 hrs., Just Through Service Program .. $89,500

‘14 Case 580SN Tractor/Loader/Backhoe, Extendahoe, 4WD, air, ride control, 2-stick controls, 196 hrs.

............................................. $68,000‘11 NH T8.390, susp. front axle, high flow hyd. system, 6 remotes, 540/1000 PTO, HID lights, 380/90R54 duals, 380/80R38 front duals, 2060 hrs. ................. $119,500

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

Keith BodeFairfax, MN 55332

507-381-1291

– AgDirect Financing Available –

LARSON IMPLEMENTS5 miles east of Cambridge, MN on Hwy. 95

763-689-1179Look at our Web site for pictures & more listings - www.larsonimplements.com

TRACK TRACTORS‘04 Cat. 765, 4602 hrs., 18” tracks, 120”

spacing, 3 pt., PTO, front wgts., Very Clean! ........................................................ $79,000‘02 Challenger 765, 3650 hrs., 18” tracks,

1000 PTO, front wgts., 4 hyd. valves, Very Nice! ........................................ $78,000‘10 Challenger 765C, 2866 hrs., 3 pt., PTO, 6 hyd., 18” tracks ................. $120,000‘12 JD 9560RT, 1250 hrs., 30” tracks, 4 hyd. front wgts. .......................... $199,000‘14 JD 8360RT, 865 hrs., IVT, 85cc pump,

1000 PTO, 25” tracks .................... $205,000

4WD TRACTORS‘12 JD 9560R, 921 hrs., HID lights, 4 hyd.,

Michelin 800x38” tires & duals ..... $220,000‘13 JD 9460R, 1377 hrs., 1000 PTO, 3 pt.

hitch, 5 hyd. valves, Hi-Flow, 620x42” tires ............................................... $220,000‘13 JD 9460R, 336 hrs., 24-spd. trans., 1000 PTO, 5 hyd. valves, stand & pump,

710x42” tires & duals ................... $185,000‘13 JD 9410R, 640 hrs., 1000 PTO, 5 hyd., big pump, 480x50” tires & duals .. $209,000‘12 JD 9410R, 675 hrs., 3 pt. hitch, 1000

PTO, 5 hyd., big pump, 480x50” tires & duals .............................................. $219,000

‘12 JD 9410R, 1259 hrs., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., HID lights, 520x46” tires & duals .. $179,000

‘08 JD 9630, 2754 hrs., powershift, 800x38” duals .............................................. $129,000

‘12 CIH 400HD, 366 hrs., 1000 PTO, 6 hyd., big pump, 480x50” tires & duals .. $190,000

‘12 CIH 400HD, 320 hrs., 4 hyd., big pump, 520x46” tires & duals ................... $185,000

‘02 CIH 425, 3465 hrs., 12-spd. manual, 4 hyd., 710x38” tires & duals ......... $95,000

ROW CROP TRACTORS‘06 JD 8330, MFWD, 5325 hrs., ILS, PS, big pump, 4 valves, 1000 PTO, 380x54” rear tires & duals, front duals ......... $92,000‘04 JD 8220, MFWD, 5083 hrs., PS, 3 pt.,

1000 PTO, 520x42” tires & duals, 12 front wgts................................................. $75,000

‘13 JD 6170R, cab, IVT trans., 540/1000 PTO, 480x46” tires & duals, has JD H380

ldr. w/joystick, Warranty until 3/16 or 2000 hrs. ....................................... $125,000‘13 JD 6190R, 665 hrs., IVT trans., 3 pt.,

540/1000 PTO, 3 hyd., 18.4x46” tires & duals, Warranty ............................. $115,000‘10 JD 8270R, 3888 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 3 hyd., 18.4x46” tires & duals ...... $105,000‘12 CIH 315, 481 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, 480x50” duals .. $145,000‘12 CIH 290, 434 hrs., PT, 3 pt., 540/1000

PTO, 5 hyd., big pump, front duals, 480x50” rear duals ...................................... $145,000

‘12 CIH 260, 1784 hrs., Deluxe cab, 19-spd. PS, susp. front axle, 3 pt., 4 hyd., Hi-flow, 1000 PTO, 480x50” duals ............. $110,000

‘13 CIH 260, 577 hrs., PS, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd., big pump, 420x46” tires & duals .............................................. $122,000‘06 CIH 245, 5245 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 149x46” duals ........................ $69,000‘05 CIH MX255, 4282 hrs., 3 pt., 540/1000

PTO, 480x46” duals, front duals ..... $69,000‘03 CIH MX210, 5550 hrs., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd., 380x46” tires & duals ......... $63,000‘11 NH T8.300, 1644 hrs., Lux. cab, HID, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 4 hyd. valves, Auto Steer

Complete, 520x46” duals ................ $94,000‘12 Kubota M110, MFWD, 240 hrs., 3 pt.,

PTO, ldr. w/8’ bucket ....................... $55,000

PLANTERS‘10 CIH 1250, 12R30” w/central fill,

pneumatic down pressure, dawn trash whippers, monitor screen, Planted 2320 Acres ............................................... $49,500

COMBINES‘09 JD 9670, 1842 eng./1181 sep. hrs., CM, chopper, extended wear ......... $110,000‘10 JD 9870, 1500 eng./1220 sep. hrs.,

5-spd. feederhouse, Pro-drive, chopper, 1250x32” single tires .................... $125,000

‘00 JD 9650TS, 3611 eng./2645 sep. hrs., chopper, 20.8x38” duals.................. $57,000

‘98 JD 9510, 4819 eng./3359 sep. hrs., Dial-a-matic, chopper, Maurer bin ext.,

30.5x32” duals, high-houred combine - Shedded & Well Maintained ............ $37,000

‘13 JD S660, 527 eng./308 sep. hrs., CM, chopper, 480x42” tires & duals ..... $193,000‘12 JD S670, Hilko Sidehill, 630 eng./361 sep. hrs., chopper, HID lights, power cast

tailboard, 520x42” tires & duals .... $199,000‘12 CIH 7230, 605 eng./434 sep. hrs., Lux.

cab, rock trap, chopper, 520x42” duals ...................................................... $185,000‘14 CIH 7130, 511 eng./399 sep. hrs., lateral

tilt feeder, rock trap, chopper, power bin ext., 800x32” tires ................................. $159,000

‘12 CIH 8230, 4WD, 969 eng./777 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, power topper .. $195,000

‘11 CIH 7120, 871 eng./732 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, 520x42” duals $160,000‘09 CIH 7088, 1193 eng./895 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, 30.5x32” singles ...................................................... $125,000‘13 Challenger 560C, 489 eng./278 sep. hrs.,

(Has ATI Track System), 36” belts, 4WD, chopper, lateral tilt, HID lights ....... $179,000

‘09 NH CR9060, 2400 eng./1800 sep. hrs., tracker, chopper, 520x42” duals ..... $79,000

‘08 NH 9060, 4x4, 1786 eng./1332 sep. hrs., rock trap, chopper, 620x42” duals .. $95,000

‘04 NH CR970, 3138 eng./2186 sep. hrs., tracker, chopper, chaff spreader, air compressor, 520x42” tires & duals . $59,000

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Limousin & Red AngusBulls. Delivery avail. Ham-mond, WI. 715-821-3516

Reg. Black Angus bull, 2years old. 715-755-3233

Registered Texas Longhornbreeding stock, cows,heifers or roping stock, topblood lines. 507-235-3467

WANT TO BUY: Butchercows, bulls, fats & walkablecripples; also horses,sheep & goats. 320-235-2664

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FOR SALE: 500 ewe lambsfrom OPP tested negativeflock. 605-997-2060 or 605-864-8811

FOR SALE: Border ColliePuppies 10 Weeks old. Allhave received their firstshots. Come from work-ing parents. Questions,call evenings. $300 (320)986-2336

FOR SALE: Retiring, entireflock of 20 Hamp Suffolkewes plus ram, excellentquality. 320-239-2757

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FOR SALE: 25 Limousin se-men tested bulls, red orblack, low birth weight, su-per growth. John Goelz,Franklin, MN. 507-557-8394Larry 507-820-2571

FOR SALE: Performancetested Charolais & RedAngus bulls, completeperf. info, scan data, fer-tility tested & guaran-teed, delivery avail,backed by 54 yrs of seed-stock production. Wake-field Farms, New Rich-land, MN, call Kyle 507-402-4640

FOR SALE: Polled Herefordbulls, big growthy year-lings, most 205 day weaningweight, 700lb+, semen test-ed, Jones Farms, Le Sueur,MN (507)-317-5996

FOR SALE: Reg. Black An-gus yearling bulls, agesJanuary - April 2016. Sementested, very docile. Willhold until June 1st. 608-709-6195 or 608-655-3370

FOR SALE: Registered An-gus yearling bulls, bred forwell balanced EPDs, endgrowth, fertility tested.Miller Angus, Kasson MN507-634-4535

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FOR SALE: 1000 gallonMueller bulk tank, w/4hpcompressor & tank washer,serial #28056, $2,200/OBO,good shape. (507)523-3305 or(507)450-6115

WANTED TO BUY: Dairyheifers and cows. 320-235-2664

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Calving ease purebred BlackAngus bulls, late Marchweights up to 1200 lbs. (715)483-3866

FOR RENT: Full BloodBlack Angus Bull, excellenttemperament. 715-964-1122

FOR SALE OR LEASEREGISTERED BLACKANGUS Bulls, 2 year old &yearlings; bred heifers,calving ease, club calves &balance performance. Alsired. In herd improvementprogram. J.W. RiverviewAngus Farm Glencoe, MN55336 Conklin Dealer 320-864-4625

FOR SALE: Bulls, 8 BlackSimmentals, polled, excel-lent quality, service sires,Upgrade & Dream On, 45yrs of Simmental breeding,$2,200 for choice, RiversideSimmentials, GeraldPolzin, Cokato, (320)-286-5805

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FOR SALE: First crop or-chard, Timothy-grass hay,4x5.5 800# rd bales, no rain,will load, for young stock &beef, $15/bale. Bob's Quali-ty Hay, 320-387-2876

FOR SALE: Open pollinatedseed corn, out produces hy-brid for silage, $67 a bushelplus shipping (217)-857-3377

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FOR SALE: Black Angusbulls also Hamp, York, &Hamp/Duroc boars & gilts.320-598-3790

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FOR SALE: OH 1500 galMueller bulk tank, w/siteglass, 1 3hp compressor &tank washer, serial #62291,good condition, $8,500/OBO.(507)523-3305 or (507)450-6115

Holstein, Jersey & Jerseycross cows For Sale: Allmilked at our free stall &tie stall facility. All stagesof lactation available. Yourpick from our herd, satis-faction guaranteed, 20 yrsin the dairy replacementbusiness. Call or text

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507-354-3612

~ SPRING SPECIALS ~NEW EQUIPMENT

Goodyear 2-Star Radials, 20.8x38, on Ford rims ........$2,000Artsway Truck Auger, 10”x34’, 540 RPM PTO .............$3,800Land Pride 2584 Backhoe, 3-pt., 9’ depth, 18” bucket ....................................................................................$8,000RamRod Stand-on Skidloader, gas, 31” bucket, 500 lb. capacity ....................................................... $12,500Paquea Spreader, 80 bu., poly floor, HD Apron ............$3,400Land Pride PT25 Post Hole Digger, 3-pt. mtd., 12” bit ....................................................................................$1,433Land Pride RB2584 Blade, 84”, 3-pt. mtd. .................$1,050Land Pride SF2566 Scarifier, 66”, 3-pt. mtd., 6-shank .$975Land Pride QH15-Cat 1 Quick Hitch, 3-pt. ....................$330Land Pride RCR1860 Rotary Cutter, 5’, 3-pt. .............$2,079Land Pride RCR1872 Rotary Cutter, 6’, 3-pt. .............$2,751Land Pride RTR1558 Reverse Rotation Tiller, 58”, 3-pt. ............................................................................$3,403Land Pride RTR1566 Reverse Rotation Tiller, 66”, 3-pt. ............................................................................$3,269Land Pride RTR1574 Reverse Rotation Tiller, 74”, 3-pt. ............................................................................$3,382Kubota L4760, 4WD, 47 hp. dsl., cab, hydro, Ag Tires, QT loader ................................................................. $39,900

USED EQUIPMENT1987 Ford F600, gas, 10’ flatbed, good rubber ...........$6,5001998 JD 4200 Compact dsl., 4WD, hydro, cab, snowblower ................................................................................. $10,800Ford 960, gas, 5-spd., live-power, power steering, loader ....................................................................................$3,875Ford 8N w/dual 100 loader ...........................................$2,575NI #402 Hay Rake, belt drive .......................................$1,400Kubota RTV1100, 4WD, dsl., cab, A/C ....................... $16,975Kubota F2560 Front Deck Mower, 25 hp. dsl. ...........$8,000Matador Windrow Inverter, hyd. lift, hyd. roll drive....$4,250

Ag Power Enterprises Inc. ........37

Ag Systems ..................................17

Albert Lea Seed House ..............14

Arnolds ..................................20, 21

Big Gain ........................................6

Boss Supply Inc. ..........................11

Broskoff Structures ....................26

C & C Roofing ............................19

Cannon Falls Beacon............29, 31

Courtland Waste Handling ........24

Curt’s Truck & Diesel Service ....4

Dahl Farm Supply ........................5

Diers Ag & Trailer Sales, Inc.....19

Distel Grain Systems Inc. ............8

Doda USA ....................................18

Double B Manufacturing ............6

Duncan Trailers ..........................36

Ediger Auction Service ..............31

Exmark Manufacturing ..............7

Farmers National Company ......30

Freudenthal Dairy & MFG, Co.22

GEHL Company ........................23

Henslin Auctions ........................30

Joy’s Estate Sales ........................23

K & S Millwrights Inc. ........10, 28

Keith Bode ..................................38

Lano Equipment-Norwood ........32

Larson Brothers ....................30, 38

Letcher Farm Supply ................27

Mages Auction Service ..............30

Massop Electric ..........................35

Matejcek Implement ..................33

Mayo Clinic Health Systems........9

Mid-American Auction, Co........29

Mike’s Collision ............................5

MS Diversified ............................35

Mustang MFG, Co. ....................24

New Ulm Tractor & Equipment39

Northland Buildings Inc.............11

Nuss Truck & Equipment ..........10

Property Brokers ........................30

Pruess Elevator Inc.....................35

Rush River Trim & Steel............18

Schweiss Inc.................................38

SI Feeder/Schoessow Inc. ..........25

Smiths Mill Implement Inc. ......36

Southwest MN K-Fence................8

Steffes Group ..............................29

Suess Auction Service ................31

Syngenta ........................................3

Triad Construction ....................28

United Farmer’s Coop..........14, 35

Wahl Spray Foam ......................26

Walker Custom Siding ..............19

Wingert Realty & Land Service29

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For your irrigation needs 888-830-7757 or 507-766-9590

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FOR SALE: '97 Timptegrain trailer, 42', newer rolltarp, new dolly, goodbrakes, current D.O.T.Spring ride, $10,500/OBO.507-456-5144

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Jim’s Apple Farm, also known as Minnesota’sLargest Candy Store, is a popular stop forsoda pop junkies and candy lovers of all ages.

The big yellow barn on Highway 169 is in Jordan,Minn. Walk into the store and your eyes are over-whelmed by candy of all colors, puzzles of all sizesand the “World’s Largest Selection” of soda pop inglass bottles.

Robert Wagner manages the shop. His dad is JimWagner, the patriarch and baker of Jim’s AppleFarm. Jim is known for his pies.

“He’s here every day — 70 hours a week,” saidRobert, but rest assured he has lots of help.

The big yellow barn started as a small roadsidestand and celebrates its 38th season this year.Candy was added about 10 years ago. Robert saidthere were very bad storms that year. His daughterstarted selling candy.

“We realized we needed to diversify,” said Robert.Polka music plays while customers browse the

store. Many grandparents take their grandchildrenand get excited about the old-fashioned candy theyremember as kids. Saltwater taffy and licoricecomes in all flavors. All kinds of lollipops and choco-lates too. The grandchildren are often attracted tothe latest novelties.

“Pop is big. Over 1,000 different sodas,” saidRobert. “Whatever you want to get, 10 cases or onebottle.”

Many come for the unusual root beers.One customer recommended the butter-scotch flavors. He and his wife even havetried bacon and sweet corn flavored popon their stops.

Visitors also find lots of made in Min-nesota products such as soup mixes,sauces and honey. Fudgecomes from right up theroad and fruit cake fromBelle Plaine.

Jim’s Apple Farm still hasfour small orchards andsells apples. They growpumpkins, squash andgourds too. Come harvest,bins in the parking lot arefilled with their pumpkinsand squash.

Robert is known to manycustomers for his red sus-penders and he has beenimmortalized in a muralthat his wife painted on theoutside of the store. Whilehe couldn’t choose afavorite candy, he expresseda weakness for chocolate.

As to the popularity of thebig yellow barn, “I’m flab-bergasted,” Robert said.

Jim’s Apple Farm, AKA Min-nesota’s Largest Candy Store,opens May 26. Hours are 9 a.m.to 7 p.m. every day, even holidays.The store will remain openthrough Thanksgiving weekend.Like them on Facebook at Min-nesota’s Largest Candy Store.There is a detour on Highway169 between Mankato and St.Peter through October if you aretraveling to Jim’s Apple Farmfrom the south. ❖

This week’s Back Roads is the work of The Land Associate Editor Marie Wood

The big yellow barn

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

Jim’s Apple Farm, Jordan, Minn.

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