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It’s all inside... FIRST SECTION

First Section: Pages 1, 7

Beltrami

Kingsbury

Brookings

Douglas

Paulson discusses cover crop benets at dairy conference

Charles Mix

Pages 11, 13

Why did you host a June Dairy Month event?

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Richmond, Flodquist take part in grazing apprenticeship program

Page 8

Miner

Lake

Moody

McCook Minnehaha

Meeker

Wright Hennepin

McLeod

Renville

Carver Scott

Sibley Lyon

Redwood

Nicollet Brown

Murray

Rock

Nobles

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Chippewa

First Section: Pages 10 - 11

Hutchinson

Dakota

Rice

March mailbox prices averaged 52 cents lower

Wabasha

Jackson

Martin

Faribault

Freeborn

Mower

Lincoln Clay

Union

Lyon Sioux

Osceola Dickinson Emmet O’Brien

Clay

Palo Alto

Kossuth

Dairy Calendar

Pages 22 - 23

Some Udder Stuff

Pages 24 - 30 Classieds

Winona

Fillimore

Houston

FROM OUR SIDE OF THE FENCE: What has been your favorite vacation?

Harmony

Kids and their cows

Third Section: Pages 16 - 19

Pages 15 - 16

Plymouth

Page 15

MPP enrollment began July 1

First Section: Pages 18, 20

Goodhue

Cottonwood Watonwan Blue Earth Waseca Steele Dodge Olmsted

Turner

Bon Yankton Homme

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Page 21

Plainview

Lehnertz allows more time before rst service

Pages 6 - 7

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Esser farm marks 160th year

THIRD SECTION Pages 3 - 4

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Page 37

Kandiyohi

Yellow Medicine Lincoln

Hamlin

Deuel

Isanti

Anoka

Swift

Pipestone

Clark

Pope

Sherburne

Lac Qui Parle

Codington

Benton

Stearns

Minnesota State Holstein Show draws large crowd Pages 31 - 32 Minnesota Guernsey breeders host national convention, sale in Twin Cities Pages 34 - 35 Crop & Weather Report Drink up! Pages 38 - 39 Dairy Recipes

Stevens

Grant

Pages 28 - 29

Morrison

Douglas

Lake City

Meyer cuts electric bill in half with solar panels

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Roberts

Day

Big Sto Stone

Grant

Mille Lacs

Dairying Across America Pages 20 - 21 A day in the life of Michael Derks

Pine

Todd

Marshall

Carlton

Crow Wing

Washinton

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Second Section: Pages 23 - 24

First Section: Pages 35, 37

Aitkin

Metzger family given Good Farm Neighbor Award

Pages 14 - 15

Ottertail

Wilkin

Rock Rapids

Cass

Wadena

Becker

Clay

Sleepy Eye

Sellners to host Brown County Twilight Meeting July 15

Kanabec

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Itasca

Hubbard

Polk Norman

First Section: Page 36

St. Louis

Red Lake

First Section: Pages 23, 25

Women in Jeans: Becky Schefers

Koochiching

Pennington

Fuechtmanns honored as Century Farm

Rice

Second Section: Pages 3, 6

Lake of the Woods

Marshall

Melrose

MN Agricultural Water Quality Certication Program celebrates 100,000th acre

Second Section: Pages 4 - 5

Roseau

Ra m

Kittson

Second Section: Pages 16 - 18

Pierz

Schroeder balances managing amateur baseball team, milking cows

Perishes transition farm to son-in-law, Paulzine

SECOND SECTION

Page 8 Soil erosion in Iowa: more than $1 billion a year Pages 10 - 11 The “Mielke” Market Weekly Page 12 Dairy markets Page 13 Area hay auction results

Richmond

Browerville

Meier balances hauling milk, breeding, milking, cows

Richmond

Clearwater

Pages 1, 5 Milk prices on slow road to recovery Pages 1, 6 MN legislation provides funds for rollover prevention structures on older tractors Pages 8 - 9 Ag Insider Pages 12 - 13 Land values continue to sink with commodity prices Page 22 On the Road with Princess Kay Page 26 FSA News & Notes Page 27 Dairy in the Suburbs Page 28 An update on precision dairy farming Page 29 Demonstrating the extreme: Autotoxicity in alfalfa Page 30 Dear County Agent Guy Page 31 Becoming Farmer Silas Page 32 Making Cents of Dairy Page 33 Dairy Good Life Page 34 Veterinary Wisdom

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What has been your favorite vacation?

Barry Anderson Cullbarr Farms Lowry, Minn. Pope County 80 cows How often do you get away from the farm each year? I can only get away once a year. I have been going to Montana to snowmobile since 2007. Tim and Roberta Gadient pictured with daughter, Olivia, and granddaughter Jaelyn Evjen, 3 months Zumbrota, Minn. Goodhue County 100 cows How often do you get away from the farm each year? We get away at least once each year and an additional two times if it works out. Our annual getaway is a group of family and friends who go up North to go snowmobiling for a weekend in the winter. What kind of preparations do you do before you leave? We make sure all the animals are bedded well and we mix extra batches of feed. We also make sure the manure pits are somewhat empty and we sell any problem cows. We double check to make sure any treated or special needs cows are marked. We usually leave a list to make sure all the chores get done. Who lls in on the farm while you’re gone? How do you nd the labor? Depending on who is around or has time, our four daughters will help with chores, especially milking. One of our friends comes to do the skidloader work and feeding. What has been your favorite trip? In February 2014, we had a terrible snowstorm hit the night before we were going on an overnight snowmobiling trip. We were pushing snow all morning, and the pole shed where we keep our dry cows lled up with snow. Of course, we had a cow calve in the pole shed so I had to get the newborn calf out of the snow. I (Tim) put the calf in the bucket of the skidloader, but got stuck on my way out. We nally got all the chores done and snow cleared so we were able to leave. We rode our sleds over to where we were staying in Waumandee, Wis. On our way we kept getting stuck. We also saw a milk truck stuck that was being dug out by a skidloader and several cars in the ditch. We’ve never been so glad not to be at home. Even though the weather made things more of a hassle it was a fun trip and fun to be away from the farm. When you’re not working in the snow, it’s so fun. If you could go anywhere, where would you go and why? Tim: I would go to Colorado or Wyoming to go snowmobiling in the mountains. I think that would be a lot of fun. Roberta: I don’t go on planes, so I would have to go somewhere close. I think it would be fun just to go up North and relax. What is the rst thing you do outside when you return to the farm? We usually get back right before chores, so we drop off our luggage in the house and go outside to start chores. What is the most relaxing job on the farm for you? Tim: Baling dry hay when you have three days in front of you so you don’t have to hurry. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does it’s so nice. Roberta: I like mowing the lawn or milking cows. Tell us about your farm. Tim’s home farm is about ve miles away. When we were getting married, Tim’s dad found this farm. Even though it needed a lot of work, it was a farmsite with 120 acres, so we bought it. That was in 1986. We started with 32 cows and worked together with Tim’s dad for a year or two. We then bought another 126 acres. We grow alfalfa and corn. We have four daughters, Molly, Amy, Gena and Olivia. Amy and her husband, Mark, have a daughter who is our rst grandchild, Jaelyn, 3 months.

Marv Byer, pictured with his son, Landon Frazee, Minn. Becker County 55 cows How often do you get away from the farm each year? We usually get away once a year for two to three days. We like to go to the state wrestling tournament. What kind of preparations do you do before you leave? We try to get a couple things ready. We have the ration written out and ll the mixer full so they only have to mix once in two days. We also mark all the cows. Who lls in on the farm while you’re gone? How do you nd the labor? My sister and brother-in-law. She lives down the road from us. They raise beef cattle. We help them and they help us. What has been your favorite trip? We went to Disneyland in 2006. We had never been on an airplane or that far away from home. We went to Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, MGM, Sea World and CoCo Beach. The kids were little yet and we stayed for four days. If you could go anywhere, where would you go and why? We think Australia and Hawaii are beautiful places we would like to see. What is the rst thing you do outside when you return to the farm? I like to check the cows and the milkhouse. That’s what I do every time. What is the most relaxing job on the farm for you? I like doing anything in a tractor that has air conditioning when it’s really hot outside. Planting is probably my favorite. Tell us about your farm. I was farming with my brother for 15 years. For the last 1.5 years I’ve been farming on my own. I grew up here. We have four children, Stephanie, Byron, Ethan and Landon. Landon is going into 11th grade; the other three have graduated from high school. We have 373 acres, and we plant corn and hay.

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What kind of preparations do you do before you leave? When I am getting ready to leave, I have all the calf feed ground and ll the steer stuffer. I do some herd health and look over my records to see what cows might be calving or are ready to be dried off. Who lls in on the farm while you’re gone? How do you nd the labor? My buddy, Mike, milks for me in the mornings, and Jim, our neighbor, helps milk at night with Cullen. Otherwise, we really don’t need to nd help. What has been your favorite trip? In 2008, my friends and I went to West Yellowstone to snowmobile. It snowed the whole week we were there. Every day we went out riding, we were riding in fresh snow. It was awesome. If you could go anywhere, where would you go? If I could go anywhere, I would like to get in a motorhome and travel the United States just to sitesee. What is the rst thing you do outside when you return to the farm? The rst thing I do when I get home is talk with my brother about how things went. Then, I walk around the farm to look things over. What is the most relaxing job on the farm for you? The most relaxing job I like to do is cut hay. I like to see a nice hay eld being cut. Tell us about your farm. I farm in a partnership with my brother, Cullen, and his wife, Angie, and their two boys, Tate, 8, and Tavin, 3. We milk 80 cows twice a day in a double-4 step-up, walk-through parlor. Our cows are housed in a coverall hoop building and bedded with sand. We grow 800 acres of corn, 760 acres of soybeans, 40 acres of oats and 200 acres of alfalfa. We also calve 170 beef cows in the spring, and usually sell the calves in January. We are slowly buying bull calves from other dairy farmers to raise as steers. Turn to OUR SIDE | Page 16

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JD 893, 1996, #126995 ...........................$21,500 JD 893, 2001, #127232 ...........................$19,500 JD 893, 2001, #131005 ...........................$18,900 Case IH, 1083 hrs., #129345 ...................$14,000 JD 1293, 2004, #127779 .........................$21,500 Harvestec 4112C, 2009, #127253 ...........$35,000 JD 606C, 2013, #115136 .........................$61,500 JD 606C, 2013, #116470 .........................$63,500 JD 606C, 2014, #125557 .........................$64,900 JD 606C, 2011, #127224 .........................$46,900 JD 608C, 2013, #104504 .........................$55,000 JD 608C, 2009, #115865 .........................$55,000 JD 608C, 2009, #117225 .........................$52,000 JD 608C, 2012, #118668 .........................$71,000 JD 608C, 2014, #118946 .........................$76,000 JD 608C, 2014, #125126 .........................$55,000 JD 608C, 2012, #125833 .........................$68,000 JD 608C, 2013, #126457 .........................$68,000 JD 612C, 2009, #103694 .........................$69,500 JD 612C, 2013, #103714 .........................$92,000 JD 612C, 2010, #106243 .........................$75,000 JD 612C, 2014, #116928 .......................$109,900 JD 612C, 2013, #122102 .........................$80,000 JD 612C, 2008, #125146 .........................$57,500 JD 612C, 2013, #125221 .........................$95,000 JD 612C, 2013, #113792 .........................$97,000 JD 612C, 2014, #125927 .........................$98,500 JD 612C, 2015, #126164 .......................$116,500 JD 612C, 2014, #126845 .......................$102,000 JD 612C, 2008, #127007 .........................$64,500 JD 612C, 2009, #128688 .........................$59,000 JD 618C, 2013, #107764 .......................$139,000 NH 996 N6, 1998, #122331 .....................$14,800 Geringhoff Rota-Disc 1200B, #127038 ...................................................$24,500 GeringhoffRota-Disc 1222, 2007, #118082 .........................................$48,900 Geringhoff Rota-Disc 830B, 2006, #107701 .........................................$37,000 Geringhoff Rota-Disc 830B, 2009, #108516 .........................................$34,000

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JD 635, 2008, #126498 ...........................$18,750 JD 835, 2012, #130580 ...........................$24,000 JD 925, 1998, #118474 ...........................$12,500 JD 936, 2004, #130746 ...........................$12,500 JD 946, 2012, #126583 ...........................$26,900 JD 946, 2014, #126629 ...........................$30,900 JD 946, 2014, #126997 ...........................$32,000 JD 946, 2005, #130363 ...........................$21,500 JD 946, 2011, #126500 ...........................$25,500 JD 946, 2012, #131028 ...........................$28,900 JD 956, 2009, #117898 ...........................$28,000 JD 956, 2013, #121134 ...........................$28,900 JD 956, 2014, #123597 ...........................$35,500 JD 956, 2011, #126054 ...........................$30,500 NH 1475, 2008, #120162 .........................$15,500 NH H7150, 2011, #122976 ......................$19,900 NH H7150, 2012, #126620 ......................$24,500

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JD 458, 2007, #127678 ...........................$14,500 JD 466, 1998, #126486 ...........................$14,500 JD 466, 1998, #130974 ...........................$15,900 JD 468, 2011, #126398 ...........................$32,650 JD 468, 2011, #129122 ...........................$36,500 JD 469, 2013, #118387 ...........................$36,500 JD 469, 2014, #121911 ...........................$35,900

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36,500

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JD 469, 2014, #126188 ...........................$33,900 JD 557, 2002, #125266 ...........................$15,900 JD 566, 1999, #119723 ...........................$14,000 JD 568, 2012, #116478 ...........................$34,900 JD 568, 2012, #121286 ...........................$31,000 JD 568, 2008, #119918 ...........................$30,000 JD 568, 2007, #122377 ...........................$31,900 JD 568, 2006, #122687 ...........................$29,900 JD 568, 2012, #123505 ...........................$34,900 JD 568, 2009, #125546 ...........................$22,500 JD 568, 2011, #126221 ...........................$34,900 JD 568, 2009, #126994 ...........................$27,900 JD 568, 2007, #131030 ...........................$17,500 JD 569, 2013, #116188 ...........................$39,900 JD 569, 2014, #118014 ...........................$44,900 JD 569, 2014, #121188 ...........................$38,500 JD 569, 2014, #123810 ...........................$42,900 JD 569, 2014, #123811 ...........................$42,900 JD 569, 2014, #124210 ...........................$40,000 JD 569, 2013, #126055 ...........................$39,500 JD 569, 2013, #129929 ...........................$41,799 NH BR7080, 2012, #123818 ....................$19,900 NH BR7090, 2008, #123046 ....................$24,900 NH BR740A, 2006, #131072 ....................$12,500 NH BR750, 2003, #122883 ......................$12,900 Case IH RB564, 2008, #129522 ..............$23,000 NH Roll-Belt 450, 2015, #129121 ...........$22,500

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JD 4720, 2006, 1650 hrs., #130054 ......$139,000 JD 4730, 2008, 1053 hrs., #128705 ......$185,000 JD 4830, 2013, 497 hrs., #123036 ........$237,500 132’ Aluminum Boom, 2013, 299 hrs. ...$69,000 Case SPX4260, 2001, 5866 hrs., #122979 ..................................$55,000

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JD 250, 2000, 5122 hrs., #30518 ............$11,900 JD 250, 1999, 725 hrs., #129148 ............$18,500 JD 250, 2002, 2574 hrs., #130667 ..........$13,000 JD 315, 2014, 27 hrs., #113452 ..............$28,900 JD 315, 2014, 42 hrs., #113451 ..............$28,900 JD 320, 2007, 580 hrs., #126492 ............$24,900 JD 320, 2005, 2931 hrs., #126912 ..........$18,900 JD 325, 2008, 3338 hrs., #126849 ..........$21,500 JD 325, 2008, 1185 hrs., #127640 ..........$22,900 Mustang 2042, 1999, 2568 hrs., #129117 ...................................................$12,900 JD 260-II, 2002, 1134 hrs., #127036 .......$18,900 JD 260-II, 2003, 2856 hrs., #129106 .......$18,900 JD 318D, 2010, 985 hrs., #122690 ..........$29,500 JD 318D, 2010, 285 hrs., #126439 ..........$32,900 JD 318E, 2014, 523 hrs., #125356 ..........$36,900 JD 318E, 2015, 45 hrs., #118133 ............$41,500 JD 320D, 2012, 2150 hrs., #123100 ........$28,750 JD 320D, 2013, 630 hrs., #123473 ..........$33,900 JD 320D, 2012, 1566 hrs., #124756 ........$27,000 JD 320D, 2013, 210 hrs., #126841 ..........$37,000 JD 320D, 2012, 5072 hrs., #126926 ........$18,900 JD 320D, 2012, 2260 hrs., #130315 ........$22,900 JD 320E, 2014, 147 hrs., #118329 ..........$38,500 JD 320E, 2014, 115 hrs., #121065 ..........$40,900 JD 320E, 2014, 2264 hrs., #124162 ........$29,700 JD 320E, 2014, 429 hrs., #125588 ..........$41,900 JD 320E, 2014, 1748 hrs., #125994 ........$32,000 JD 320E, 2015, 30 hrs., #126180 ............$41,900 JD 320E, 2015, 40 hrs., #121127 ............$43,900 JD 320E, 2015, 142 hrs., #127651 ..........$33,900 JD 320E, 2015, 29 hrs., #116484 ............$39,900 JD 320E, 2015, 115 hrs., #130568 ..........$43,900 JD 326D, 2012, 6236 hrs., #128882 ........$19,900 JD 326E, 2014, 94 hrs., #120126 ............$41,900 JD 326E, 2014, 55 hrs., #122026 ............$44,900 JD 326E, 2014, 430 hrs., #125552 ..........$41,500 JD 326E, 2014, 1876 hrs., #126744 ........$33,500

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JD 326E, 2015, 200 hrs., #127008 ..........$46,000 JD 326E, 2014, 860 hrs., #127652 ..........$37,500 JD 326E, 2015, 141 hrs., #118077 ..........$42,900 JD 326E, 2013, 177 hrs., #104177 ..........$43,900 JD 326E, 2015, 150 hrs., #128590 ..........$44,000 JD 326E, 2014, 490 hrs., #128883 ..........$43,500 JD 326E, 2015, 150 hrs., #130571 ..........$46,000 JD 328E, 2013, 155 hrs., #104185 ..........$45,900 JD 328E, 2014, 561 hrs., #123437 ..........$45,900 JD 328E, 2014, 546 hrs., #124407 ..........$49,500 JD 328E, 2014, 830 hrs., #125591 ..........$43,900 JD 328E, 2014, 500 hrs., #127230 ..........$49,500 JD 332D, 2011, 2749 hrs., #117927 ........$30,900 JD 332D, 2012, 612 hrs., #127231 ..........$46,000 JD 332E, 2014, 495 hrs., #116321 ..........$49,900 JD 332E, 2014, 352 hrs., #115525 ..........$42,900 NH L190, 2010, 1506 hrs., #128537 ........$25,900 NH LS185B, 2005, 2425 hrs., #126189 ...$21,900 Case SR200, 2013, 725 hrs., #122870 .. $29,900 Bobcat T870, 2013, 1705 hrs., #127860 .$51,900

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JD 100, 2000, #130270 ...........................$23,500 Krone BP890XC, 2011, #116014 .............$96,500 JD L330, 2015, #119685 .......................$119,900

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JD 2030, 1975, 2307 hrs., #29931 ..........$17,900 JD 2950, 1986, 8538 hrs., #128132 ........$22,900 JD 3155, 1988, 18300 hrs., #126385 ......$24,500 Case 5220, 1992, 10067 hrs., #125640 . $21,900 Case 5230, 5872 hrs., #129119...............$27,500 JD 6400, 1994, 7825 hrs., #129836 ........$34,900 JD 6400, 1997, 6285 hrs., #130780 ........$39,500 JD 6420, 2003, 5710 hrs., #130978 ........$54,900 MF 6616, 2014, 898 hrs., #127776 .........$99,500 JD 5075M, 2013, 100 hrs., #125138 .......$38,000 JD 5075M, 2015, 149 hrs., #117914 .......$64,500 JD 5085E, 2014, 75 hrs., #129930 ..........$49,900 JD 5085M, 2012, 1610 hrs., #125293 .....$47,995 JD 5085M, 2015, 100 hrs., #117911 .......$67,500 JD 5100E, 2015, 44 hrs., #128660 ..........$44,900 JD 5100M, 2013, 547 hrs., #101961 .......$54,900 JD 5100M, 2015, 210 hrs., #118463 .......$62,900 JD 5100M, 2012, 2096 hrs., #105880 .....$55,000 JD 5115M, 2012, 611 hrs., #129621 .......$61,399 JD 6105M, 2014, 198 hrs., #108441 .......$88,000 JD 6105R, 2013, 191 hrs., #103066 ........$89,000 JD 6105R, 2013, 241 hrs., #103291 ........$94,000 JD 6105R, 2014, 106 hrs., #127952 ........$99,000 JD 6115M, 2015, 311 hrs., #115573 .......$89,000 JD 6125M, 2013, 425 hrs., #120889 .......$87,500 JD 6125M, 2014, 138 hrs., #107430 .......$95,000 JD 6125M, 2014, 152 hrs., #107431 .......$95,000 JD 6125M, 2014, 195 hrs., #107433 .......$95,000 JD 6125M, 2014, 275 hrs., #107434 .......$95,000 JD 6125M, 2014, 269 hrs., #107428 .......$95,000 JD 6125M, 2013, 243 hrs., #123591 .......$92,500 JD 6125M, 2013, 631 hrs., #126547 .......$91,000 JD 6125M, 2013, 718 hrs., #128282 .......$75,000 JD 6125R, 2013, 256 hrs., #110407 ......$113,000 JD 6125R, 2014, 225 hrs., #127948 ......$106,000 JD 6125R, 2015, 131 hrs., #117886 ......$102,500 JD 6125R, 2014, 300 hrs., #128687 ........$99,000 JD 6130D, 2014, 84 hrs., #111013 ..........$72,000 JD 6130R, 2015, 58 hrs., #119863 ........$126,000 JD 6140D, 2015, 6 hrs., #118599 ............$80,500 NH T6050 PLUS, 2012, 1500 hrs., #123598 ...................................................$79,000 NH TN75SA, 2009, 2220 hrs., #126686 ...$26,000 NH TV6070, 2009, 5546 hrs., #129363 ...$65,000

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JD R450, 2011, 1520 hrs., #130392 ......$116,000 JD R450, 2013, #130827 .......................$125,000

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Wow, what a great June. I am thankful for a month lled with activities to celebrate dairy farmers and allow me to actively advocate for the dairy community. Whether it was breakfasts on the farm or talking to consumers at a On the Road with grocery store, I thoroughPrincess Kay ly enjoyed each and every event I had the opportunity to be a part of. Here is a brief recap of some of the events from June Dairy Month. To start June, I had the honor of attending a playground build at an elementary school in the Twin Cities. At this event, hundreds of volunteers worked tirelessly to comBy Kyla Mauk pletely build a playground 62nd Princess Kay of the from the ground up, in just Milky Way one day. I was able to talk with students about the importance of getting 60 minutes of exercise every day and refueling with nutritious foods such as milk, cheese and yogurt. The entire Vikings team also came to help build the playground and meet the students and help me promote Fuel Up to Play 60. A very popular event for counties to participate in during June Dairy Month are breakfasts and dinners on the farm. I had the privilege to attend six of these. Each event allowed the public to tour the host farm to experience a working dairy, enjoy a delicious meal, and participate in fun-lled activities. These are such an impactful way for us to advocate for the dairy community. When else can people who are not involved in agriculture experience life on the farm? I sincerely thank everyone who had a hand in making these days so successful. You have truly made a difference in the lives of many people because you shared your story.

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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ryan Brunn and I am the new County Executive Director (CED) for the Stearns County Farm Service Agency (FSA). I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to work with the great staff in Stearns, the numerous partners in the Ag Community and, most importantly, I look forward to serving the farmers with all the opportunities our agency provides. I have worked for FSA FSA News & Notes for 15 years and was most recently the CED in Kanabec/Pine/Carlton/St. Louis/Lake/Cook Counties. With about a week left of certication, I am sure I will be meeting some of you in the near future.

Reporting acres timely If you have not yet reported your 2016 crop acres, the deadline is approaching fast. Friday, July 15 is the deadline so please call your local ofce and set up an appointment. If you fail to report your acres or be put on a register by the FSA ofce by close of business July By Ryan Brunn 15, you will be assessed a late-led reporting fee of $46 Stearns Co. Exec. Dir. per farm. This could be costly, so do not delay. 2017 MPP-Dairy registration underway Dairy farms participating in the Margin Protection Program (MPP) can now make their 2017 election. The registration period is from July 1 to Sept. 30, 2016. More information to come.

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The wheels are able to drop down, giving the vehicle roughly 5 feet of ground clearance. The unit then drives itself into a lagoon, where it turns into an agitation boat. When in the lagoon, the Lagoon Crawler is powered by a quad port, Nuhn Header Series manure pump. 10000+GPM volumes are used to maneuver the pontoon through the lagoon and agitate the solids from the bottom. The Nuhn Lagoon Crawler does not need a priming system. Once the lagoon is emptied, the four wheels are lowered and the machine is able to drive itself out of the lagoon.

Stearns FSA county committee nomination period now open The nomination period for the Stearns FSA County Committee began on June 15. Nomination forms must be postmarked or received in the Stearns County FSA Ofce by close of business on Aug. 1. County committees are unique to FSA and allow producers to have a voice on federal farm program implementation at the local level. To be eligible to serve on the FSA county committee, a person must participate or cooperate in an agency administered program, be eligible to vote in a county committee election and reside in the Local Administrative Area (LAA) where they are nominated. All producers, including women, minority, and beginning farmers and ranchers are encouraged to participate in the nomination and election process. This year, nominations and elections will be held in LAA 1, which includes: Brockway (W), Brockway (E), St. Wendel, LeSauk, Collegeville, St. Joseph, St. Cloud and Waite Park, Wakeeld, Rockville and Maine Prairie (N), St. Cloud and St. Augusta (W), St. Cloud and St. Augusta (E), Lynden (N), Luxemburg, Maine Prairie (C), Maine Prairie (E), Fair Haven, Lynden (S) and Maine Prairie (S). Producers may nominate themselves or others as candidates. Organizations representing minority and women farmers and ranchers may also nominate candidates. To become a nominee, eligible individuals must sign form FSA-669A. The form and more information about county committee elections is available online at: www.fsa.usda.gov/elections. Elected county committee members serve a three-year term and are responsible for making decisions on FSA disaster, conservation, commodity and price support programs, as well as other important federal farm program issues. County committees consist of three to 11 members. FSA will mail election ballots to eligible voters beginning Nov. 7. Ballots are due back in the Stearns County Ofce by mail or in person no later than Dec. 5. All newly elected county committee members and alternates will take ofce Jan. 1, 2017. For more information about county committees, please contact the Stearns County FSA ofce at 320-251-7800 or visit www.fsa.usda.gov/elections.

Farm Service Agency is an Equal Opportunity Lender. Complaints about discrimination should be sent to: Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. Visit the Farm Service Agency Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov/ for necessary application forms and updates on USDA programs.

Demco Conquest, 1100 gal., 60’, hyd. pump, T-jet 844 ctrller, adj. axle, rinse tank, 2” quick fill, 20” spacing ..........................$16,500 Nuhn 7200 gal Slurry Quad Train, Brakes, Titan Tires, Self-Load, Hydraulic Drive ....................................$51,500 NUHN 6750, Alliance tires, self load, hyd. direct drive, anti-foam funnel w/7 disc inj ...........................................$54,000 NUHN 6750, PTO, 30.5x32 Titan tires w/5 disc injector ...................................$50,000 Nuhn 7 Row Folding Tapered Disc Injector, complete ............................................... $7,500 NEW Nuhn Fill Pipe on Wheels 8”-10”, 35’ (Load Stand) ....................................$3,500 MILLER PRO 500 gal., 45’ boom, tandem axle ......................................... $4,500 Nuhn 9 Row Folding Tapered Disc Injector, complete..............................................$10,750 Top Air 3pt. hyd X-fold 80’ boom, no controls.............................................$4,750 Balzer 6350 Slurry Lo-Pro, Hyd. Drive, 5 unit disc injector ................................$32,000 Redball 565 1000 gal. 60’ hyd. Front Folding Boom, Single Nozzle Bodies, Raven 450 Ctrls, Hyd. Ace Pump, 320 Tires ...........$15,500

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visiting from Colorado for the week, we scrounged up a hammer, nails, saw and some scrap lumber. With a little muscle powering and some hammering, it didn’t take long to bring the hay racks back into working order. The day was beautiful, and no one there minded the work. It felt so great to lend a hand to this wonderful family, to give them a head-start on a summer of farm work. And to see so many people generously doing the same. Out of great loss came a beautiful example of helping each other. What better way to show that someone is loved, respected and appreciated than to take care of his loved ones when he can no longer do it himself. Susan and her husband, Kurt, milk 40 cows in Greeneld, Minn. They have three little farmhands: Lily, 8, Tate, 4, and Gemma, 2. Just two miles east of their farm, on a clear day you can see the Minneapolis skyline. Susan can be reached at kurt.susan@ hotmail.com.

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Autotoxicity is the chemical inhibition by a plant on the germination or growth of a plant of the same species, and has been suggested as one of the mechanisms for poor alfalfa emergence and growth. Although several factors inuence autotoxicity, such as soil texture, rainfall and termination timing, research indicates a break in the production and/or crop rotation is needed to avoid potential stand establishment problems. Typically, autotoxicity in alfalfa is not an issue, given the rotational schemes (e.g. corn following alfalfa). However, there are growers that wish to renovate their current alfalfa elds and commonly ask what would be the impacts of that approach. Before we present the University of Minnesota (UMN) Forage Team’s recommendations concerning alfalfa autotoxicity, let’s take this opportunity to show what happens in the most extreme settings. The images below are from the Institute for Agricultural Professional Field School plots located on the St. Paul campus. To demonstrate the extremes (i.e. no planting delay), 2-year old alfalfa was ail mowed and the residue incorporated. After incorporation, alfalfa was Brillion-seeded into a well prepared seedbed at 12 pounds per acre (Figure 1). Since the chemicals associated with autotoxicity are thought to be concentrated in the leaf material, a second treatment assesses the impact of roots only on alfalfa autotoxicity (Figure 2). Finally, alfalfa was seeded where there was no previous alfalfa crop, the no-alfalfa check treatment, to compare to the potential for alfalfa autotoxicity from incorporation of full plant (i.e. roots and shoots) or roots only on establishment of alfalfa seedlings (Figure 3). The most striking difference was between the autotoxicity treatments (full plant and roots only) and the nonautotoxicity alfalfa check plot. Since all treatments were direct seeded (i.e. Brillion) into well-prepared soil at 12 pounds per acre, we would expect stands greater than 25 plants per square feet. In the check plots, stands were greater than 35 plants per square foot (Figure 3). Alfalfa populations where drastically reduced by autotoxicity

Figure 1. Full plant incorporation of alfalfa (i.e. roots plus shoots) and subsequent impacts on re-seeded alfalfa establishment.

Figure 2. Incorporated alfalfa roots and subsequent alfalfa autotoxicity on re-seeded alfalfa establishment.

Figure 3. Non-autotoxicity alfalfa check plots. Alfalfa seeded following fall fallow.

with 0.3 plants per square foot for the full-plant treatment, and 1.7 plants per square foot for the roots only treatments (Figure 1 and 2). For both the autotoxicity treatments, the entire plot (200 square feet) was counted. In order to maximize yields, growers need at least 25 plants per square foot at the onset of the rst production year. It is doubtful in most years that alfalfa growers will be faced with such extreme scenarios. There may be confounding factors such as the difculty of preparing a rm seedbed when incorporating as much crop residue as we did in this demonstration, which may have also contributed to poor alfalfa stands. We created an extreme example to force the issue to demonstrate the potential risks. The severity of stand loss, and probability of encountering autotoxicity when seeding into existing alfalfa likely would be less than shown here, but the potential for problems is real with signicant risk of stand loss and incurred costs. Therefore, in years with signicant winterkill, alfalfa growers should give consideration to autotoxicity in alfalfa and be ready to rotate to a non-alfalfa crop. Visit http://z.umn. edu/forageoptions for information on emergency crops following alfalfa winterkill. In summary, the UMN Forage Team recommends the following man-

agement guidelines for reducing alfalfa autotoxicity: When possible, allow at least one year between terminating an old alfalfa stand and re-seeding alfalfa. Although we were able to establish alfalfa effectively within a shorter window, evidence of autoconditioning suggests that a longer rotation interval may be better. Thus, fall-, winter-, or springkilled alfalfa stands should be seeded to something else in spring and safely reseeded to alfalfa possibly late summer, but preferably the following spring. Delaying spring re-seeding two to four weeks after tillage of a killed stand is not an effective strategy to alleviate autotoxicity because delayed seeding can still result in sig-

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As I watch my children grow, I can’t help but try to predict what kind of people they will be when they are adults. It seems as though their little bodies stretch and ll out right before my eyes, and so do their personalities. My big boy Silas is 7 years old. He is becoming tall and lean, and when I hug him, his arms wrap perfectly around the middle of my back. Crazy. I wish I could stop time and enjoy those moments forever. Silas has gone from being an uncertain and timid little boy to an adventurous, fun-loving kid. Since the beginning of summer, he has also become Farmer Silas. At rst, I didn’t know what was happening, but I look back now and I know exactly when and why he has chosen, in his own words, to be a hard-working farmer. For the past two years, I’ve been discussing my dream to run a farm again. Our kids know that before they came around, Daddy and I used to milk cows. So, we often talk about those days with them and I mention that I would love to start a goat farm someday. Silas is always chiming in how he is going to help me milk goats. I laugh to myself because it sounds good and fun By Andrea Borgerding until they actually have to do the work. But, Silas took Assistant Editor it to heart. As soon as summer vacation started, Silas started putting on blue jeans everyday. He wouldn’t be a farmer without a baseball cap and a dark blue or gray t-shirt to go with his jeans. Now, I have a farmer in my midst. We currently have no animals – aside from our aging Rottweiler – but a lot of open land just waiting to get fenced in for livestock. Our 10-acre plot of heaven on earth is just waiting for our little hobby farm to come alive – and I think Silas can see it, too. Last Saturday morning, things seemed to work out perfect in that an opportunity came up for Silas to accompany Joe on a farm visit for a service call. Zander was sleeping in and Maren and I were deep in a game of Matchbox cars. Silas was Ik know iit won’t ’ llast fforever, to play outside, so I so I’m enjoying his obsession itching asked Joe to take him with to the nearby dairy farm. with farming. Silas was so excited. He went ying out the door so fast that I had to shout at him to wear his mud boots. They were gone for about 1.5 hours. From what Joe told me, Silas had a blast. He got right up to the cows to check them out. He walked around the barn alongside Joe without any hesitation. When Silas came home he came walking in the house. He instantly started apologizing. “Sorry, Mommy! I shouldn’t wear my boots in the house!” He diligently went back out in the garage and took off his mud boots – which became barn boots that day. I gave him a hug – and like I always do – I buried my face into the top of his head and kissed his blond hair. “Wow, Silas you smell great! Just like you’ve been in a barn!” “I know, right?!” he said with excitement. I asked him if he had fun and, of course, he said yes. And so, my summer continues with Farmer Silas. I know it won’t last forever, so I’m enjoying his obsession with farming. It’s a good, honest profession and one where there is a lot of personal growth and satisfaction in a job well done. I know Silas will be waiting for the next opportunity to take a visit to a dairy farm. But this time he better remember to wear his everyday farm wardrobe – when he dashed out the door on Saturday, he didn’t even realize he was wearing shorts and a muscle shirt. He even forgot his baseball cap. What kind of farmer does he think he is?

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I am characteristically a glass-overowing optimist, but right now it’s hard to be optimistic about the health insurance options that will be available when open enrollment begins in November. Here’s why: Blue Cross’s exit from the individual plan market leaves 103,000 Minnesotans without health insurance. That’s a big increase in demand that has to be met by the other health insurance companies in Minnesota. When demand goes up, prices increase. In free market economics, demand and supply would balance themselves out and prices would stabilize. In the face of high prices, some customers would choose to go without health insurance, bringing demand back down to meet supply. But health insurance is no longer a free market. Because of current federal health care law, individuals must purchase health insurance or face penalties. Under that same law, health insurance companies cannot deny coverage to applicants. But health insurance companies can raise their rates. Or they can exit the market the same way Blue Cross did. Some health insurance market analysts point to Blue Cross’s exit as the next domino to fall after Preferred One left the individual health plan market in 2014 due to signicant nancial losses. Those losses on individual health plans are the result of a basic imbalance: too many expenses, too little income. On the surface this looks like a bad business situation, but it’s really a consequence of a broken system: As a society, we aren’t taking responsibility for our health. Instead, we’re relying on medical care and prescription drugs to keep us functioning. Furthermore, hospitals, clinics and pharmaceutical companies practice indiscriminate and unethical pricing for medical care. As a result, our nation’s health care bill is excessively high. Insurance works because of the law of large numbers. A large group of healthy people pays premiums, which pay for the claims of a small group. But in the individual health insurance market, the large group’s premiums no longer generate enough funds to cover the small group’s claims, so the result is nancial losses. As a business owner, I fully understand that business cannot continue with year-after-year losses. Something has to change. Either you reduce expenses, increase income, or exit the business. Given the complications of the individual health insurance market right now, I can see how exiting the business is the easiest option. In a Pioneer Press story about Blue Cross exiting the market, a representative from another health insurance company summed up the uncertainties the industry is sorting through: “We don’t know what the path forward looks like yet,” said Larry Bussey, director of communications for Medica. I’m guessing their headaches are even bigger than mine. Health insurance companies have until Aug. 1 to submit proposals for 2017 individual health plan rates to the state department of commerce. I think it’s safe to say that health insurance companies will ask for higher rates again this year. Last year the commerce department approved rate increases as high as 50 percent because health insurance companies were experiencing signicant nancial losses. But if those rate increases still don’t balance the budget, health insurance companies could still exit the market before open enrollment begins on Nov. 1. Another domino down would create even more uncertainty in the market. For those of us who rely on individual health plans to insure our families, the path forward looks pretty certain: fewer companies to choose from and higher premiums. References available upon request. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 75 cows near Melrose, Minn. They have three children – Dan, 9, Monika, 6, and Daphne, 3. Sadie also writes a blog at www.dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at gsfrericks@meltel.net.

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Oral calcium products, including boluses, gels, and that such use made economic sense, particularly uct without going through the ANADA process, and capsules and liquids have been around for many years. when used in better than average second lactation cows then can market their product without demonstrating Their use was not widely accepted in the dairy veteri- and high risk cows. Oetzel’s research was published in safety and efcacy. They also do not need to prove that nary community, until the introduction of a gel tube a peer-reviewed journal, and was later updated with fur- the product is exactly the same as the original product. called “Balance” quite a few years ago. Veterinary Wisdom ther renements. That ground-breaking re- So when a company claims that their product is the Prior to Balance, few products had any search has since been cited by many other same or similar or produces the same results, there is reputable research behind them that demresearchers studying calcium homeostasis absolutely no FDA requirement that this be proven. onstrated any kind of efcacy in treatment around calving, and it was the basis for If a company wants to prove that their product proof clinical or subclinical milk fever. This many dairy veterinarians’ recommenda- duces similar results, then they need to do similar rechanged when Balance was introduced tions for use to dairy producers. This research. However, research suitable for publication in a with research showing that it could elevate sulted in signicant sales of BoviKalc to peer-reviewed journal can be very expensive, so compablood calcium levels in otherwise hypocaldairy producers around the country. nies often choose to do small, clinical trials that might cemic cows. Over time, many other prodUnlike antibiotics and other drugs, not be rigorous enough to be accepted for publication. ucts were released; some were gels, some products like BoviKalc do not necessar- There is absolutely nothing improper or illegal about were liquids, and some were capsules. ily need to go through FDA’s new animal this. The bottom line for you, the end user of the prodDairy veterinarians learned that not all drug approval process, and thus do not re- uct, though, is buyer beware. Just because a product can calcium products were equal, since there ceive a FDA New Animal Drug Approval be legally marketed and sold to you does not mean that By Jim Bennett are many different forms of calcium which (NADA) number. This is both good and it is effective or safe. However, this also does not mean are absorbed differently by cows and there bad; good because it is much easier and that it is not effective or safe. Columnist were different carrier ingredients that may cheaper for companies to bring potentially There are at least three or four new products that also affect absorption by the cow. useful products to market, but bad because are very similar to BoviKalc. All claim similar results, Somewhere along this timeline, BoviKalc was in- there is little oversight by any regulatory agency to en- but none have peer-reviewed supporting research. This troduced by Fort Dodge Animal Health. However, be- sure that the product is effective and safe. In contrast, is why scientic-minded persons, like veterinarians, cause it was not heavily marketed, and also because drugs with NADA numbers are required to go through may be reluctant to recommend them, even though they of the rather imposing size of the bolus, it never really new animal drug approval processes, which requires the may be less expensive, and sure look to be very similar caught on. Sometime after Fort Dodge was purchased sponsoring company to prove safety and efcacy. To the products. Over time, clinical observations following use by Boehringer Ingelheim, Dr. Garret Oetzel, of the Uni- FDA, “safety” means safe to the animal, safe to humans may be made, and farmers and veterinarians may decide versity of Wisconsin, published some excellent research when the animal or its prodthat those products perform showing that BoviKalc could be used successfully to uct is consumed for food, in a similar manner. That can maintain normal blood calcium levels around calving, safe to the environment, and O be an acceptable method of Over time, i clinical li i l observations b i safe to the person adminisevaluating a product, but it tering the drug. “Effective” following use may be made, takes time, and sometimes it simply means that the drug and farmers and veterinarians can be very difcult to make does what it is supposed to appropriate conclusions do. If a different company may decide that those products based on observations alone. makes a generic version of a p Thus when evaluating comperform in a similar manner. drug with a NADA, it must peting products, remember to go through FDA’s “Abbrevibe skeptical, and to ask your ated New Animal Drug Approval Process” (ANADA) veterinarian for advice. to prove that the product has the same active ingredient, Jim Bennett is a dairy veterinarian at Northern Valthe same strength of active ingredient, the same dosage ley Dairy Production Medicine Center in Plainview, form, and the same dosage route of administration. Minn. He and his wife, Pam, have four children. Jim can Because BoviKalc does not need to have an NADA be reached at bennettnvac@gmail.com with comments number, any other company can market a similar prod- or questions.

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