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Volume VIII, Issue 4 April 2014

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Curtis Travis used his love of cattledogs to begin a trial competition of his own on his rural Creston operation. The 2013 version of the event featured competitors from the Midwest, Canada and Tennessee. Photos submitted

Creston area cattle producer Curtis Travis finds help managing the herd in Griff, his border collie cattledog. Travis has recently incorporated a second border collie, Rex, into his operation.

Hounding the herdWestern Iowa cattle producer finds valuable tools in four legged friends

by Greg Forbes Sometimes, practicality and convenience is best ac-

complished with four legs.That’s the method Curtis Travis has adopted on his

rural Creston cattle operation. As Griff, Travis’s adult male border collie, darts around

the lots, pens and pastures, sorting calves and moving hundreds of heads of cattle, Travis remembers a time when the herding process was not as swift.

“We used to use guys to get cattle in and out of the pen, but with one dog, you can do what it’d take five or six men to do in half the time,” he commented.

Travis most frequently works Griff in his 600 head backgrounding feedlot but finds uses for his dog in al-most every aspect of the cattle operation.

“I use them for sorting, getting cattle out of pens, mov-ing from one paddock to another or help if I have any (cattle) that get out,” he said.

Travis’s venture into cattledogs began nearly six years ago after a freak accident killed a Catahoula dog he used as a helper around the operation.

Seeking a more suitable dog for his needs, Tra-vis began researching breeds and contacting breeders throughout the Midwest.

He eventually made contact with Dan Korf, a breeder near the Colorado-Nebraska border.

“He told me what I wanted to hear,” said Travis. “So I went there and bought it.”

That connection led him to Bob Johnson, a border col-lie breeder and trainer in nearby Tingley from whom Travis learned the tricks of the cattledog trade.

“I went over there and started taking lessons from him and I fell in love with it,” he said, adding that he’s refined his skills by attending cattledog trials. “That has shown me different ways of using my dog, watching other han-

dlers. The best thing is watching someone else.”As Griff grew in maturity and talent, Travis noticed a

major benefit from his four-legged field hand.“Dogs tend to put less stress on the calves,” he stated.

“They tend to move better because of that.”Travis continued that dogs also prove to be a time and

travel saver.

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DOGS, from Page 1A

“In an afternoon when you’re sorting on foot, you about walk two miles sort-ing,” he said.

“But when you’re using your dog, you can get a lot more accomplished in less time because he doesn’t mind making two or more extra trips down and back.”

Travis recently expand-ed the furry practice, ac-quiring an additional bor-der collie pup from Wayne Bamber, a handler from Alden.

Rex, the puppy, is now gradually learning the commands, movements and mentality necessary to be a herding dog. Travis said Rex will be completely trained before he is used in the operation, full-time, alongside Griff.

“You just can’t take a dog out and move cows with it,” explained Travis.

“You need a dog that doesn’t make big mis-takes. The dog has to know what it’s doing to a certain extent before you can’t start using it, and my puppy just isn’t there yet.”

Travis commented that his dogs have increased the operation’s efficiency and have not shown any drawbacks to their use so far.

If an aspect of his opera-

tion is not conducive to a dog’s abilities or the live-stock’s comfort level, he won’t force the issue.

“There are things you can’t use a dog for,” he said.

He offered one aspect where a dog absolutely cannot be used is when a cow is tending to baby calves.

“You cannot have a dog for that,” he said. “An angry old cow will kill a dog.”

Before the dogs, Travis and his family frequently used another four-legged beast commonly found on

farmsteads. “We all grew up on hors-

es. My dad, my uncle…we used to do all of our cattle work on horseback,” he said.

He continued that horses were used specifi-cally for their ability to get through thick brush and timber that couldn’t be traversed by all terrain vehicles. However, horses took a great deal of time to ready, especially when cattle would get loose at night.

But time spent mobiliz-ing horses was signifi-cantly reduced once dogs

arrived on the scene.“They (dogs) were able

to do more of the tight work and gave us more avenues,” he said. “Hors-es are still part of our op-eration and we use them for a lot of different things, but it’s quicker to let a dog out of a kennel than it is to saddle up a horse.”

Whether horses or dogs, Travis said his animals have helped him not only adapt to the rugged ter-rain and large herd size, but have also allowed his operation to thrive.

“I couldn’t survive with-out them. That’s for sure.”

Travis’s trialsWhen Curtis Travis first began using a border collie

in his cattle operation, he was advised to attend and participate in cattledog trials to get a better feel for how a dog can be used.

Inspired by his appreciation for cattledog trials and desire to spread that appreciation throughout Iowa, Tra-vis and his operation elected to host a trial of their own.

“There’s just a lack of cattledog trials in the area,” he said.

Two years ago marked the inaugural Hometown Tra-vis Crop Cattledog Trial and the attendance proved stock dog interest still existed in the area.

A second event took place the following year and at-tracted handlers from Canada, Tennessee and multiple states throughout the Midwest.

Now, Travis is readying for the 2014 version of the competition but a date had not been set as of Wednes-day, April 3.

Travis said his particular event is a field trial, which has a longer out run than the more condensed arena trial.

Staging the course is a spectacle in itself, Travis ex-plained, as 25 men on horseback ready the run and stage the cattle.

He continued that his event is also an opportunity to exhibit some of the nation’s best handlers, many of whom come from Iowa.

“That makes the dog trials around here more interest-ing,” he said.

Travis mentioned that first and foremost, the success of the event would not be possible without the help of his immediate and extended family that help organize the event as well as handler Bob Johnson, Wayne Bamber and Debbie Meier, who helps ready the cattle for the trial.

“We really couldn’t do this without them,” he said. “I also couldn’t put on this trial without the support of all my local sponsors.”

A cattledog trots along side a group of cattle on the Travis operation near Creston. Photo submitted


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The project also shows how research can be used to expand farmer options outlined in the Iowa Nutri-ent Reduction Strategy.

The project brought to-gether local landowners, officials from the City of Sioux Center, the Sioux County Soil and Water Conservation District, state and federal service provid-ers and professors from nearby Dordt College. The partnership looked at five alternative cropping sys-tems and how nitrogen moves through the soil over time. It was funded by the Leopold Center for Sus-tainable Agriculture and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ Source

Water Protection Program for Targeted Community Water Supplies. Findings were presented at a March 20 public meeting attended by more than 50 people.

At the forefront, offering land and labor, was Matt Schuiteman of AJS Farms, whose family has been farming the land used in this study for more than 30 years.

Beginning with the Leopold Center research grant in 2009, Schuiteman worked with Dordt College environmental studies pro-fessor Robb De Haan. They designed and implemented five experimental crop-ping systems on roughly 40 acres of land adjacent to and above a bank of shallow wells that pro-vide more than 50 percent of the drinking water for Sioux Center.

“The idea was to use perennial crops and cover crops to keep the nitrogen in the upper layers of the soil and available for the

next season, and apply just what the crops need when they need it,” De Haan said.

The systems were de-signed for standard farm equipment ranged from continuous corn with a winter rye cover crop to perennial grass for hay (common for wellheads but generally a low-income choice for the landowner). Three other systems used rotations of oat-alfalfa-corn; oat/red clover-corn; and soybean-winter wheat-corn. The perennial grass and alfalfa systems receive no commercial ni-trogen applications; other systems received nitrogen fertilizer as needed.

Researchers collected six-foot-deep soil samples from each plot every fall, and divided these into one-foot segments for analysis of nitrate N concentra-tion. The information was used to construct nitrate N profiles for each plot, and to track nitrate N move-

ment over time. Results illustrate opportunities for farming the land as well as managing water quality.

As expected, the contin-uous corn with rye left high levels of residual nitrate N in the top two feet of soil. The grass hay averaged five-fold fewer residuals for every year and at every depth, proving to be the most effective system for reducing nitrate N escape into local drinking water. However, wheat with soy-bean and corn performed better than continuous corn with rye. Adding a tap-rooted legume, such as red clover or alfalfa, to corn dramatically dropped residual nitrate N levels throughout the profile.

Schuiteman said he was surprised at the effective-ness of alfalfa in managing both the amount and dis-tribution of nitrates in the soil profile. But he was dis-appointed that wheat and oats were less effective in cleaning up nitrate at the

lowest depth. Based on the findings,

he is planning to imple-ment a four-year rotation of two years of alfalfa fol-lowed by two years of corn. Oats may be included for weed and erosion manage-ment during alfalfa estab-lishment.

Dordt College agriculture professor Ron Vos will analyze profitability of the systems using ISU annual custom rates and prices. Preliminary analysis com-paring two of the systems, oat-alfalfa-corn and con-tinuous corn with a winter rye cover crop, showed the continuous corn-rye with the highest average profit per acre but also the most variable for 2009 through 2012. Full results from the project are expected later this year.

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Advice on corn depth, NH3 applicationsIn a survey issued to field agronomists with Iowa

State University Extension, Clarke McGrath, who serves west central Iowa, submitted his thoughts on two additional questions he has been frequently asked. Following are his explanations:

Corn planting depthBelieve it or not, I have had some calls on this al-

ready. Guys have spring fever and are working on planters and thinking ahead about planting strategies and potentially cold soil. I have had a few asking about “can we plant a little closer to 1.5 inches or less to get this corn out of the ground faster since it may be cold?” In my very humble opinion, but based on years of dig-ging up corn planted from 1 to 5 inches deep, targeting 1.5 inches is not my preference.

So how deep to plant? Some agronomists say “2 to 3 inches”, and some say “1.5 to 2 inches”. Me, I say target 2 inches. So, as you get off the planter to check seed spacing and depth, take a good read on where it is at and make sure it is at least 1.75”, and remember that rain may (probably will) settle the soil around the seed zone and shallow up the planting a little - so plan your depth accordingly. This is especially relevant if you happen to run your trash whippers more aggres-sively. Disc openers tend to work better around the 2 inches target in my experience, too.

Target 2.5 if the soils get dry. Planting “too deep” (2.5-3 inches) isn’t typically nearly as problematic as too shallow, but I have seen some loss of stand, vigor and uneven emergence from 3 inches planted corn in

cool, wet soils - occasionally. I see many more sea-son long issues with shallow planted corn than deep planted corn, though.

Planting too shallow? Yeah, big problems, such as rootless corn, sidewall compaction, poor root develop-ment, increased seed/root system mass in the herbicide zone, poor seed zone closing, the shallow seed zone can dry out, and no doubt I am forgetting some other maladies, but you see where I am going with this.

Err on the side of “too deep” rather than too shallow.

NH3 applications versus planting corn

We have more nitrogen (N) to apply this spring than we have faced in probably a decade. While some areas got a lot of work done after harvest, for the majority of us fall NH3 applications were way down across much of our area.

This means that unless the weather is more coopera-tive than usual, we’ll be wrapping up NH3 applications this spring and then guys will be chomping at the bit to start planting corn. A very common question is “how long do we need to wait between NH3 application and corn planting?”

There isn’t a set number of days or a firm answer to this. I’ll paraphrase what our own Dr. John Sawyer says and mix in a few additional thoughts.

The key is having a soil separation between the am-monia zone and the seed. Depth of injection is extremely

important. Ammonia usually diffuses 2 1/2 to 3 inches from the point of injection. But, if wet soil causes the injection knife to seal the sides of the injection slot and limits diffusion of ammonia, ammonia may concentrate below the soil covering or seal. If this happens, and you place seed in the ammonia zone, the longer you wait between applying ammonia and planting corn, the less corn roots will be affected. No magic number of days of waiting will eliminate potential problems if seed is placed in the ammonia zone.

Ammonia injury is detected more frequently in dry weather, because roots are slow to develop and a por-tion of the root system is injured. You will first notice uneven emergence, slow growth of injured plants, and in dry soil, wilting plants. Browning of roots indicates root injury. In severe cases, dead roots will turn black, even back to the seed.

If you apply ammonia at the proper depth and achieve soil separation between the ammonia zone and seed, you can plant corn immediately after you apply am-monia.

A few things can reduce the risk of ammonia damage: wait and apply when soil conditions are good (easier said than done, I know); have a good injection depth (7”+); wait several days until planting; if the injection placement relative to future corn rows can’t be con-trolled, apply at an angle; if the injection placement can be controlled with GPS guidance, split future corn rows – no waiting period is needed.

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End of the thawPlanting season approaches as weather improves

by Greg ForbesAfter wintry conditions hit a portion of

western Iowa earlier this month, temper-atures have improved enough to indicate spring has finally arrived in the state.

Forecasts show warm temperatures with chances of rain, meaning planting time may be just around the corner.

In preparation of the new crop sea-son, field agronomists with Iowa State University (ISU) Extension have offered their tips and insights to producers in their service areas.

Questions asked by the Iowa Farm and Ranch and the agronomists’ answers are as follows:

Q: When you expect planting to start in your area?

Paul Kassel, ISU Extension field agron-omist stationed in northern Iowa

Kassel said, assuming forecasts of fa-vorable weather remain true, planting could begin in his service area near the

end of April.“But things can change very quickly.”

Clarke McGrath, ISU Extension field agronomist in west central Iowa

On April 2, McGrath commented that corn planting could begin around the second or third week of April, assuming field conditions were favorable. Howev-er, cold temperatures and snow after he submitted his answers may have ham-pered the progress.

Joel DeJong, ISU Extension field agron-omist in northwest Iowa

DeJong said, depending on the weath-er, planting could begin in the area of April 20.

Q: Do you expect less corn and more soybeans to be planted in your area?

Kassel:Kassel said he expects corn and soy-

bean acres in his area to stay the same. “The farmers have the equipment to

plant, harvest and store lots of corn, so I don’t see it changing much.”

Johnson:Johnson said he was unaware of per-

centages but expected acres to remain similar to where they have been.

McGrath:McGrath said he expects more beans

in his area mostly because corn on corn planting may be riskier as corn dropped to a $5 level.

“So now that corn and bean margins are a little more closely aligned, we’ll see more soybean acres planted into corn stalks rather than corn on corn.”

DeJong:“It looks like we will see a bit smaller

acreage of corn planted and more soy-beans in 2014,” he said.

He said the decrease in corn in favor of more soybeans reflects the narrowing difference between corn and soybean prices and profitability margins.

He added that a rotation also offers other management benefits.

Q: What do the price of inputs look like?

Kassel:Kassel explained that fertilizer costs

have declined and crop protection costs have held steady. However, seed, espe-cially corn, is still fairly expensive.

Johnson:He said nitrogen, phosphorus and po-

tassium are all lower in price now than in recent years due to an abundant sup-ply. Other intakes, he added, are either steady or slightly higher than normal.

McGrath:

McGrath said seeds and chemicals are up, as is usual for yearly inflation in-creases. However, the decrease in costs of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium have all been received well by American farmers.

Q: What should producers in your area be doing to prepare for the plant-ing season?

Kassel:He commented that farmers should be

preparing their planters and other equip-ment.

Mark Johnson, ISU Extension field agronomist in central/west central Iowa:

Johnson stated that farmers should consider ways to minimize tillage in the spring.

McGrath:“Guys are putting finishing touches on

planter tune-ups and getting their spray-ers ready to go,” McGrath said. “It was a long, ugly winter, so the last month or so when there was a hint of warmth, I saw guys out working on planters and spray-ers outside…trying to enjoy a break from the winter.”

DeJong:“Be certain all equipment is in shape,”

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Q: have you seen any field work in your area?

Kassel and Johnson both commented they had not seen any field work.

McGrath and DeJong stated they had seen manure hauling and fertilizer work in their areas. McGrath added that he has seen seedlings started in waterways, ter-races, new pastures and hayfields, light tillage and cleaning up ditches.

Q: how much, if any, of the ground in your area is still frozen?

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Johnson also stated that the dry con-ditions were amplified by the persistent freeze.

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On March 11, the State Capitol played host to the 2014 Gift to Iowa’s Future Day event, which honored 25 landowners that donated more than 2,800 acres of land totaling more than $6 million for the purpose of conserva-tion.

The event, in conjunction with the Gift to Iowa’s Future Day, was established in 2008 and is hosted by the State of Iowa with help from the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (INHF), the Iowa Department of Natural Re-sources (DNR) and other conservation enti-ties.

Those 15 donors who gave their land through projects with the Iowa Natural Her-itage Foundation and were honored at the 2014 ceremony are as follows:

David and Rosann Buchheit, Dubuque County; Dean and Donna Cotten, Dallas County; Daniel and Angela DeCook, Lucas County; Hunt Family, LC, Dickinson County; Iowa River Railroad, Hardin and Marshall counties; Michael and Linda Knudtson, Dickinson County; Matt and Beth McQuil-

len, Jones County; Rahn and Dorian Sav-age, Mahaska County; Leo Schlunz, Lucas County; Union Pacific Railroad, Polk County; Jim and Donna Weigle, Winneshiek County; Norman and Susan West, Buchanan Coun-ty; Winnebago Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Floyd County; Dennis Wynn and Debra Dykstra, Plymouth County; Rich Zeis, Benton County.

Additional properties honored were do-nated through other entities.

“I’m always touched to see how much this action and recognition means to land-owners,” said Anita O’Gara, vice president, development of communications with INHF. “You have everything from people who bought land recently to those who are in their second or third connection to the land. To see the permanent protection of the land means the world to them.”

O’Gara continued that the donations not only carry a large monetary value, but are also a valuable asset to the continued enjoy-ment of Iowa’s nature.

“The value of the land is one thing, and it is millions of dollars of property that has been forgone to create permanent protec-tion,” she stated, “but the bigger thing is that this is a resource that has been protect-

ed for Iowans in the future.”This year’s donations included wood-

lands, prairies, nature preserves and habi-tats. Land donated to the INHF will continue to be protected, in its natural state, forever.

O’Gara encouraged any landowner with a special connection to a particular portion of their property to contact INHF for conserva-tion options.

Those interested can find “Landowner’s Options” materials and consultant services offered to landowners at www.inhf.org, or a free booklet can be requested by contact-ing the INHF at 800-475-1846 or at [email protected]. The contact information can also be used to get in touch in with an INHF staff member.

This year, Branstad honored four plots from western Iowa.

Dean and Donna CottenDean and Donna Cotten gifted a 12-acre

portion of land on their Dallas County plot to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation through a bargain sale. The plot will be added to expand the Kuehn Conservation Area.

Donna said the decision to sell the land was a difficult decision because of their fam-ilies’ connection to the land.

“It was a wonderful place to raise our children,” she said. “It gave them a sense of responsibility and taught them respect for nature.”

She added that Dean’s family initially owned what is now the Kuehn Conservation Area and spent their time together exploring its natural wonders.

“When his family owned that land, we used to timber tramp, hunt mushrooms, watch the deer come up and eat our flow-ers,” she said.

Dean and Donna purchased the land, where they raised their children, and to-gether made memories of their own.

“Our children were young when we bought this and our youngest daughter, this is the only home she’s known,” she said. “So it’s kind of pulling at her heart.”

But they knew that giving the land to the INHF and help expand the popular Kuehn Conservation Area was the best way to pre-serve the memories spent on that section of property.

“It’s our family stomping ground,” Donna said. “We’d like to keep it the way it is so it can be enjoyed for people to come out and utilize it and appreciate the nature just like the way we have for 50-plus years.”

The hunt FamilyMembers of the Hunt family turned the

care of a 74-acre virgin prairie plot, just part of a unique family farmstead in northern Dickinson County, to the Iowa Natural Heri-tage Foundation.

Mike Hunt, along with brother Carl Hunt and sister Harriet Fliss, elected to give the prairie to the INHF through a permanent conservation easement, which means that the Hunt Family retains the title to the prop-erty.

“This way, one, two or three generations down the road, nobody can make a decision to plow it up,” Mike said.

Virgin prairie, Mike explained, is natu-ral prairie that has never been plowed into farmland. The plot contains rare plant spe-cies, such as the western prairie fringed orchid and the small fringed genitian. Two endangered butterfly species also call the prairie home.

Mike said that with virgin prairie all but a thing of the past, the decision to donate the land to INHF was relatively easy as the property was originally homesteaded by his great great grandparents in the 1860s. His family continued to keep the prairie in its natural state despite the growing agriculture industry.

“It’s a strong feeling by myself and my siblings that my parents, my grandparents and my great-grandparents would want to keep this piece of ground the way it is, and this helps ensure that happens,” he said.

He continued that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has also been instrumen-tal in preserving and maintaining the prairie with controlled burns and other conserva-tion efforts. The DNR has also harvested seed, which has been used to seed public properties across the state.

The prairie is just one of many unique fea-tures of the Hunt farmstead. Mike said two wetland ecosystems on the property’s bor-ders provide valuable duck production. To the north is Madison Station, a post survey-ors used when determining the Minnesota-Iowa border.

Mike said because of INHF’s efforts, the Hunt property will continue to keep its uniqueness, and he encouraged any-one interested in preserving land to contact the INHF.

Knudtson GiftAccording to the Iowa Natural Heritage

Foundation website, Michael and Linda

Iowa DNR Director Chuck Gipp, Governor Terry Branstad, and Lt. Governor Kim Reyn-olds (right), present Dennis Wynn and Deb Dykstra with the Gift to Iowa’s Future Day award for their donation of land to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. Photo submitted


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The land serves as a setting to Mill Creek, which flows into the Little Sioux River. The Dickinson County Conservation Board has future ambitions to develop a water trail along the creek. The Dickinson County Pheasants Forever Chap-ter worked with the Knudtsons to provide plant shrubs and improve pheasant habitat.

“It’s just a nice little area,” Michael said. He continued that the land will likely not be excessively

developed and kept mainly in its natural state. With a natural area now open to public use, Michael said

he is happy the Milford community now has a place to ex-plore and enjoy nature.

“This is a place the kids in the Milford area can go on their bikes and play in the creek and enjoy the outdoors,” he said, adding that the area will also serve as a location for easy field trips.

Dickinson County Conservation will eventually assume ownership of the plot.

Wynn-Dykstra GiftInformation at the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation web-

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Barry Kusel, whose farm is located in Carroll County, plants cereal rye and says it withstands the winter well. Pictured above, the rye cover crop in a field elsewhere in western Iowa shows a lush green color after just a few days of warm weather. Compare the field with the cover crop to the brown field to the left. Photo by Gordon Wolf

Putting a roof on your soilNo-till and cover crops make a difference on western Iowa farm

by Gordon WolfBarry Kusel appropriately takes a business approach

when discussing his most important resource – the soil on his farm north of Manning in Carroll County

He even uses a business analogy to explain why he pro-tects that precious resource by employing no-till and cover crops in his operation.

“We know our soils are out there in the elements. The soils are our factory,” Kusel said. “They’re unprotected and you can’t put a roof over it.

“On our farm, we’ve found we can take the crops that we grow – the cover crops – and the old residue and keep it all in place on the surface, and that puts a pretty good roof on our soils and protects them,” he stated.

Kusel’s comments were made at an Iowa Learning Farms cover crop workshop on the Neil Vonnahme farm south of Arcadia on April 8. The NRCS and the Carroll County Soil and Water Conservation District partnered in the work-shop, which focused on cover crop management for erosion control and soil health.

Stefan Gailans with Practical Farmers of Iowa presented

results of some cover-crop tests. Dr. Matt Helmers, Iowa State University (ISU) Extension water quality engineer, provided reasons why cover crops keep water, soil and nutrients in place on a farm and can help work toward the goals of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy. Dr. Bob Hartzler, ISU Extension weed specialist, explained how the physical barriers created by cover crops can help suppress weeds, especially early germinating weeds.

It was Kusel who offered a farmer’s experience with no-till and cover crops, specifically cereal rye.

Kusel has lived on the farm for 68 years. One of his first recollections of soil erosion, especially concerning a specific hill with a C (5-9 percent) and D (9-14 percent) slope, was in the 1950s. A bad wind storm was blowing away topsoil.

“I can remember dad hooking up to the harrow. He went out to the field, trying to bring a little moisture to the top to somewhat stop the wind erosion. As I remember, it wasn’t a very effective way to stop wind erosion,” Kusel said.

A second recollection, and the one which Kusel said pro-vided him with an “aha” moment, occurred in the 1960s. The field had been disked, ready for corn to be planted. That night two to three inches of rain fell.

“We went out there the next day, and in a lot of spots the soil had eroded just as deep as we had disked it,” Kusel recalled. “I said we have to do something. We can’t keep doing this. We won’t be farming this field much longer if we keep doing that to it.”

Measures to prevent soil erosion followed. In the 1970s terraces were constructed on the hill.

In 1982 Kusel started using no-till.“That was a real learning experience,” said Kusel, “but

we got going on it and had a lot of success. No-till gave us immediate results in soil savings.”

In 1989 Kusel put in a filter strip between a field and the Nishnabotna River, which flows past his farm.

In 2001 Kusel planted his first cover crop of winter rye. Today, cereal rye is planted as a cover crop on about half his crop acres. Kusel said he wants to plant a cover crop on all his acres but is going slow and learning as he goes.

Kusel pointed out that filter strips provide living roots year round, and no-till keeps the soil covered year round, but no-till by itself won’t protect the soil with living roots in the fall and winter.

“And that kind of becomes a big deal,” he said.After the filter strip had been in place for nine years,

Kusel took some soil samples and found that the organic matter had increased from four percent to five percent. Phosphorus and potassium levels increased substantially and the soil’s pH remained about the same. He said that’s without any fertilizer application, but granted, no crop is being harvested.

“The big thing we’re finding is in the soil biology,” said Kusel. “That’s hard to measure, but we do know if we get a big rain on this filter strip, it doesn’t pond. The water goes right into the soil and it doesn’t move off our farm. And the soil stays there.”

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The 11:30 a.m. webinar is part of a free series host-ed by ILF through Adobe Connect. The series is on the third Wednesday of each month.

Cruse is part of research efforts more clearly iden-tifying soil erosion that occurs in ephemeral gullies – the small gullies formed by water runoff typically tilled shut by farm operations. Many fields are scarred by

gullies that channel soil and chemicals into streams, which are not accounted for in Iowa State’s erosion estimates or those typical of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Rick Cruse is a professor of agronomy at Iowa State and director of the Iowa Water Center. His research focus is on soil management and soil erosion process-es. He is co-leading the expansion of the Iowa Daily Erosion Project to states adjoining Iowa and has been actively involved with multiple soil erosion studies in China. Cruse also teaches a graduate level soil man-agement class at Iowa State.

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Kusel said in his fields with cover crops, he’s seeing some improvement in the amount of organic matter, but it’s a slow increase.

“Again, we come back to this soil biology, and we think we’re really getting some improvement in our soils,” he said.

To emphasize the importance of using a cover crop, Kusel showed slides of a no-till field without a cover crop that received 4.5 inches of rain in three days - 3.7 inches in the last day of the storm. He said the no-till did a good job. No soil or residue washed down the hill to a waterway.

But where the water started to run, residue floated off to the side and made little levies.

“I’m still not satisfied with this,” Kusel told those at the workshop. “I feel there is the potential for rills to form if we keep doing this over time. So that’s why we have our cover crops coming in.”

Kusel plants about a bushel of rye (around 56 pounds) per acre. He added if a farmer is going to use the cereal rye for grazing or additional feed, he would probably plant about 75 pounds per acre.

Kusel uses a no-till driller to plant the cereal rye and explained that drilling almost guarantees a way of getting a cover crop.

Kusel kills the cereal rye cover crop about 10 to 14 days in advance of planting corn.

“What I find is the cover residue disappears pretty fast. From this point on, the earth worms are going to con-sume it, and it’s going to be gone.”

He’s believes corn is not negatively impacted by plant-ing it following a cereal rye cover crop.

When planting soybeans, Kusel sprays the cover crop a couple days before drilling beans. He said soybeans are not impacted at all by the residue.

Kusel raises his own cereal rye for seed. The seed harvested from the 25 acres planted in cereal rye pro-vides enough for the acres he plants in a cover crop plus enough for some neighbors to use the seed.

He plants his own cereal rye for seed to make sure the seed is available when he needs it.

“In the past, it’s been difficult to secure some rye seed,” Kusel said. “That’s the main reason.”

He harvests the cereal rye seed in July and has his own cleaning system.

“You need to have the seed cleaned and ready to go when it’s time to put it on,” he explained.

Kusel uses cereal rye as a cover crop as it can be planted fairly late and has great over-wintering characteristics.

He said the cereal rye withstood the extreme cold this past winter and now is greening up well this spring. The roots have been growing all winter, and it doesn’t take long in the spring before the cereal rye produces some biomass.

Kusel experiments with other cover crops. He planted red clover last year. It struggled against the dry condi-tions and was eaten by the grasshoppers but started growing back in August.

The red clover didn’t produce a lot of top growth but had some beautiful tap roots and a lot of nodulation, Kusal said.

“I’m hoping to get some nitrogen off that,” he added.Kusel planted tillage radishes for the first time last

year. He wanted to plant them in August, but dry con-ditions convinced him to keep the seeds in the bag. He finally seeded the radishes on September 26.

He said the radishes, which died about the middle of November, made a nice root but not a big tuber like those shown at other cover crop workshops.

But the clover and radishes, in combination with the cereal rye, did what it was supposed to.

“We’ve got cover crop, green stuff growing and the old residue. And where’s the soil?” asked Kusel. “It’s pro-tected.”

Soil pits are among the management tools Kusel uses to measure the success of his no-till and cover crop system.

“We’ve been doing a lot more looking underground. We think that’s really important,” he said. “We’re trying to analyze conditions above ground, but are we doing anything good below ground? So we’re digging a lot more soil pits looking at our soil profiles and just trying to learn what’s going on.”

Kusel hopes that the use of no-till and cover crops on his farm will serve as an example to neighbors and others

how these systems reduce erosion.“It was a really wet spring in our area in 2013, and we

saw a tremendous amount of erosion on farms around our area,” he said. “We did have neighbors come and comment that our cover crops did a good job and that they should do something different.”

He added, though, those comments were made right at the moment of a wet spring. Then the weather changed and the comments were forgotten, a case of out of sight, out of mind.

“We hope people will carry through on some of this after they’ve seen cover crops reduce erosion on our farm,” Kusel said.

Kusel compared the past practices on his farm to those used today.

“We used to think that tillage would help water in-filtrate. But we now know that tillage destroys the soil pores and soil structure,” Kusel said. “With no protection on that soil, we’re going to have surface sealing, and the water is going to run off, and quite often it’s going to carry off our soils.”

He said by using cover crops and no-till, the soil pores and the soil structure are restored.

“The water soaks in, we keep our soil where we want it - on our farm - and the nutrients stay on our farm,” he added.

Kusel said he’s heard comments at some farm meetings that cover crops cost too much or use too much water.

“I debate that,” he said. “I don’t know what topsoil costs, but it’s probably worth something, and the water that is running off the farm is not doing the crop any good, either. It just depends on which way you want to look at that. I think cover crops are well worth it.”

Kusel said using no-till and cover crops puts a good roof on his land and helps keep the water, soil and nu-trients on his farm.

The farming methods that were used on his farm in the 1950s and 1960s, when erosion occurred, were not sustainable, he commented.

“Give it a couple hundred years and we might not have any production on this farm,” Kusel said. “We feel that using these systems (no-till and cover crops) in combina-tion is really helping.”


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Four 4-H members have been selected to represent Iowa at the National 4-H Conference April 5 through 10 in Washington, D.C.

Raeann Hanlon, Calhoun County; Paul Elliott, Linn County; and Renae Drey and Tyler Pickhinke, Sac Coun-ty, will represent Iowa’s interests in the national 4-H program, said Cayla Taylor, Iowa State University Ex-tension and Outreach 4-H youth program coordinator.

Sponsoring the 4-H’ers’ trip to the nation’s capital are the Des Moines Register; David and Valerie Pace, Ros-eville, Minnesota; Harry and Phyllis Davis, Williamsport, Maryland, and donors to the Chuck Morris Retirement Honorarium.

Jane Hayes-Johnk, an ISU Extension and Outreach re-gional 4-H youth program specialist, will serve as the youths’ chaperone.

ISU Extension and Outreach sends four delegates per year, and the candidates are eligible to attend National 4-H Conference once. Delegates must submit an applica-tion and interview for the opportunity to attend National 4-H Conference.

“It is an honor to be selected to attend National 4-H Conference,” said Taylor. “Delegates are selected based on their involvement in 4-H, as well as their leader-ship and communication skills. The conference brings top 4-H’ers from across the country to share ideas to strengthen the 4-H program nationally and at the state level.”

Calhoun County 4-H’er Raeann Hanlon, 17, is the daughter of Eugenia Hamilton. A nine-year 4-H mem-

ber, she has participated in child development, com-munication, leadership, sewing and sheep projects. She has participated in her county 4-H council and National 4-H Congress. She is a senior at Prairie Valley High School.

Linn County 4-H’er Paul Elliott, 18, is the son of Jill Elliott. A nine-year 4-H member, he has participated in child development, citizenship, communication, home improvement, and music projects. He has participated in state, area and county 4-H councils, his county youth committee, National 4-H Congress and 4-H Technology teams. He is a senior through the Marion Home School Assistance Program.

Sac County 4-H’er Renae Drey, 18, is the daughter of

Dean and Deb Drey. A nine-year 4-H member, she has participated in citizenship, communication, consumer management, food and nutrition, and leadership proj-ects. She has participated in state and county 4-H coun-cils, her county 4-H committee, National 4-H Congress, and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference. She is a senior at St. Mary’s in Storm Lake.

Sac County 4-H’er Tyler Pickhinke, 18, is the son of Steve and Tracy Pickhinke. An eight-year 4-H member, he has participated in beef, citizenship, communication, leadership and visual arts projects. He has participated in state and county 4-H councils, National 4-H Congress, Iowa 4-H Technology Team and Iowa 4-H Youth Confer-ence. He is a senior at Ridgeview High School.

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My goodness we’ve had a busy few weeks, and it’s just going to get busier!

Both of my sons showed calves in the new Hansen Agriculture Learning Cen-ter in Ames during the last part of March. What a fantastic facility Iowa State University now has to host an event such as this. And, I’m not just saying that be-cause I was born in Ames, and went to Iowa State.

The building doesn’t have any of the bells and whistles that weren’t need-ed, and everything that is needed. The seats are comfortable and the kids appeared to not have any problems showing in the arena. Under the seating area is a concession stand with an area to have a snack or a meal.

I can definitely see some of our ag students wanting to rent the area out for a wedding in the future.

The boys showed in the

20th Annual Block & Bri-dle Cyclone Classic on Sat-urday, March 22, and the AGR (Alpha Gamma Rho) Spring Showdown on Sun-day, March 23.

On Saturday, the little kid had decided that he needed a new rope halter for his steer, Nacho, and purchased a crimson and gold one at the show.

Yes, my youngest son was in the show ring as Iowa State was battling the North Carolina Tar Heels to earn a spot in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

While I was waiting for him to show, my sister was texting me a running com-mentary on the score, min-ute by minute.

Usually, I’m not a fan of basketball (I’m a football girl), but as a lifelong Cy-clone this was exciting!

Unfortunately, neither boy was in the top couple in their classes, but they

had a great experience and hopefully learned a little bit.

After the little kid was done showing on Sunday, I made my way to the car so I could finish listening to the game on the radio.

The boys and my hus-band washed the calf be-fore returning to the tack area to hear my screaming with the fans on the radio for our beloved Cyclones. That ending was a nail biter, as were a lot of the games this season.

The big kid arrived at the car first, and started yelling right with me. My husband and the little kid were a little ways behind them.

There’s nothing like cheering your college’s team on while watching your son lead his steer with a crimson and gold halter!

We are a family with di-verse activities.

This weekend, the big kid will be in a play at the

Donna Reed Theatre. He has a small part, but I think he’s enjoyed it.

I think I’ll enjoy hav-ing him home after a few months of him having practices almost every night until 9 or 10 p.m.

After that, the little kid is in a musical next Tuesday. The fifth grade Musical Monarchs are putting on a show based on Alice in Wonderland.

A couple weeks after that, I ship off both boys to spring camp for Boy Scouts. Since my husband drives the bus, this will be the first time that all three of my guys will be at a camp together as Boy Scouts.

But first, my oldest son has to play his trumpet at our annual Jazz concert.

And right after spring camp, the big kid and I head off to the State FFA conference, he as a state FFA choir member and me as a judge. They get back from camp in the morning, and we leave in the after-noon.

We may not win a lot, but we do go a lot of places and put on a lot of shows! And boy do we have fun!

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Combine and grain cart axle loads are some of the heaviest on row crop land, with axle loads for larger grain carts eas-ily exceeding 75,000 pounds, said Mark Hanna, an extension agricultural engi-neer with Iowa State University.

“The 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll results show that many farmers are concerned about soil compaction impacts of heavy equipment traffic. As farmers start to plan fieldwork, they should con-sider strategies such as controlled traffic lanes to mitigate potential compaction,” Hanna said.

ISU Extension and Outreach sociolo-gists J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr. and Paul Lasley co-direct the annual poll. The 2013 poll included a series of questions examining farmers’ experience with soil compaction, their concerns about the issue and their perspectives on common compaction management techniques. The questions were developed in partnership

with the ISU Department of Agricultur-al and Biosystems Engineering. These questions were asked only of farmers who had planted corn, soybeans or other row crops in 2012, Arbuckle said.

“About 71 percent of farmers indi-cated they were concerned about soil compaction on the land that they farm,” Arbuckle said. “About 75 percent agreed that they were concerned about the im-pact of heavy machinery on soil health. Half of the farmers agreed or strongly agreed that they consider the weight of equipment when making purchasing de-cisions.”

“Compaction is variable depending on soil conditions and wheel loads,” said Hanna. “Some research suggests that yields may be depressed two to five bushels per acre or more in seasons with wetter soil, and we wanted to know if farmers are noticing yield losses.”

Respondents were asked to consider all of the land that they farm and estimate the average annual impact of soil com-paction on corn yield over the past five years, Arbuckle said. Sixteen percent re-ported that they do not have soil compac-tion, while another 33 percent indicated that they have soil compaction issues,

but with negligible effect on yields. However, more than half of farmers

estimated that soil compaction has had an impact on yields: 25 percent estimated that those losses were two bushels or less per year; 20 percent reported yield losses of between two and five bushels an acre; six percent estimated loss of five to 10 bushels; and, two percent reported an-nual losses greater than 10 bushels per acre.

Arbuckle said 91 percent of farmers in-dicated that they attempt to avoid com-paction by taking soil moisture content, a major mediating factor, into account as they plan fieldwork. Sixty-five percent agreed that wheel traffic pattern control, a best management practice, is an effec-tive means of reducing soil compaction.

“Compaction can be significantly re-duced by aligning combine, grain cart, tractor and other wheel tracks into a controlled traffic pattern,” said Hanna. “Using the same wheel tracks helps mini-mize the amount of land damaged. Farm-ers also should carefully evaluate wheel tread patterns when acquiring machin-ery.”

Other practices were also seen as ef-fective. Sixty percent of farmers agreed

that removing crop residue can lead to in-creased soil compaction, and 57 percent agreed that no-till is an effective way to reduce compaction. Fifty-five percent indicated that fall tillage is an important compaction management strategy for their operation. Forty-seven percent in-dicated that winter freeze and thaw and summer shrink and swell are sufficient to address soil compaction on the land they farm.

Seventy-five percent of farmers re-ported they use “simple observation” to determine whether soil compaction is an issue. Fifty-nine percent use evaluation of plant growth, 24 percent dig the root system, and 21 percent use a penetrom-eter or other metal rod to measure soil resistance, Arbuckle said.

“Digging and inspecting old root masses to look for compaction is a good practice before investing in deep tillage operations,” added Hanna. “Excessive tillage can destroy natural soil structure that helps prevent compaction.”

More information about soil compac-tion can be found in the publication “Un-derstanding and Managing Soil Compac-tion” (PM 1901B), available from the ISU Extension and Outreach Online Store.

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April Fools quilt blocks: take your pickQuilters can make a mystery quilt this year. Each month, readers will find direc-

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April Fools! This month has instructions for two blocks, so in the end you will have extra blocks to pick from when putting the blocks together.

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2. Using the medium and dark 5” squares, make four half square triangles as directed in the February pattern.

3. Lay the squares according to the pattern to the right and sew them together to make the final block, which should measure 12½” un-finished. Note: These are just suggestions as to where to put the colors. You may want to move them around any way you wish (to be contrary).

4. Now, store this block (and fabric) until the May Iowa Farm and Ranch arrives with the next one!

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3. Draw a diagonal line on the back of the light colored squares.

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5. Press toward the point and trim off the bottom two fabrics, then repeat on the other side. Your fin-ished block should look like the one to the right.

6. Lay the squares according to the pattern to the right and sew them together to make the final block, which should measure 12½” un-finished.

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Ia:JD MI (tractor) wide front starts and runs good. 300 IH (tractor) nice tractor good starter and runner 641-425-6139

Tilliage Equipment for Sale

a: C-IH 12R36”Vertical Fold 3 pt, always shedded 308-995-5515

Ia:Kewanee 1020 disk, 21’ fold, stored 712-251-5493.

IIa: JD 960 Field Cultivator, 27ft, 3 Bar Harrow, walking Beam axles, $4200. 515-402-1219.

Ia: 1995 agco Hugger 636 C. H. went to 30 in rows $3800 used on R62. 712-837-4468

Grain Harvest & Han-dling Equipment For Sale

Ia:I1997 Case-IH 2188 with 30 ft JD bean head specialty rotor machine in great shape 712-880-0484 for details.

Ia:Demco 550 or 650 gravity wagons. Call 712-210-6587

Ia: Combine head movers from 25’ to 40’ wide please call 712-210-6587

Ia: New Orthman dry bean cut-ters 308-995-5515

Ia: 12 x 72 PeCK auger. Flight-ing is excellent. 2 years old. 712-270-0735

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Ia: new idea 2 row mounted corn picker. Good shape, $500. 712-246-1847

Building Materials For Sale

Ia: Wooden poles 30 - 35’ long for sale. 712-210-7680 Lake City, Ia

Irrigation Equipment For Sale

Ia: WINCO GeNeRaTORS, NeW & USeD, 1PH 50KW $4,170. KaTO LIGHT NeW 1PH aND 3PH WINPOWeR USeD 1PH $1,000. CaLL WeS SeBeTKa aT, (641) 990-1094

Livestock Equipment For Sale

Ia: Livestock equipment for sale. 26 4’ x 12’ precast concrete hog slats. 515-230-4733 or 515-230-1485

Ia: 24’ Hay feeders meals on wheels, Saves hay , saves time and saves money. Call 712-210-6587

Ia: 2 Smidley feeders, 10 hole with lids, new, $900 each. 641-590-2815.

Ia: IH 560 gas Fendens fast hitch. NF good rubber West-endorf W130 losfrt zz45,000 515-368-1358

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Ia: For Sale: 55 gallon drums. Only $5 each! Smitty Bee Hon-ey, Defiance, Ia 712-748-4292

Ia:12 3 bushel boxes from JD 1760 planter, used one year. Looks like new. $425 each 712-348-1128

Ia: Bush hog 3 point 8’ width stored, 712-251-5493

Ia Orthman MP3 Tracker guid-ance system, 2 blades, always shedded, $4,600 641-590-2815.

Ia: Westendorf loader mounts for Ta series loader on 1655 Oliver or similar tractors $450. 712-375-5077

Ia: 18-438 Duals also 9 hole hubs. 712-732-4698.

Ia: 1995 international, 4000 series, 6 cyl. ,13 ton., 7x12 flatbed. ,13,000 miles. ,duals wheels., mallard 712-857-3432

Ia: Hog oiler round $350, JD 2-row cultivate fits only 50 520 $350 conectible, 14-14-21/4” solid JD tool bar 3 point 712-420--3030

Ia:Used Ringsted welding stalk smasher, large unit covers 800-38 duals, 1 1/2 years old, like new 641-590-1820

Ia:Orthman MP3 Tracker Guid-ance system, 2 blades, always shedded, $4,700. 641-590-2815

Ia: Hawkins Fertilizer Units, 16 units and parts, $125 per unit. 641-590-2815

Ia: JD Fert. Openers, single disk, frame mounted, 16 units, excellent $570 each unite. 641-590-2815

Ia: Watermelon style hog oiler $350, six section John Deere harrow wooden eveners $700 Parker 200 bushel wagon Westendorf gear $2,400. 712-420-3030

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Livestock For Sale

Ia: Dorset Rams fall and Jan born Dorset ewes and Few southdown ewe lambs 641-449-3226

Ia: Minature donkeys any sex any age [email protected] or call 712-353-6730

Livestock For Sale, continued

Ia: Leonard Limousin & angus Bulls for Sale Private Treaty. 70 red, black, polled Limousin and angus bulls, Holstein, Iowa. 712-368-2611. [email protected]

Ia: Registered Gelbvieh Bulls, quality black gentle polled yearning bulls. Hobbs Gelbvieh 641-766-6779 or 641-203-0863

Ia: aKa australian cattle dog pupplies (aKa Blue Heelers) Farm family raised. Had shots and de-wormed 712-883-2249

Ia: Steer and heifer show pros-pects. For more information and photos, visit our website at www.mikemillerclubcalves.com or call 515-370-0695. Dana

Livestock Wanted

Ia: Farrowing unit 1,500 to 2,000 sows, can switch to nurs-ery or finishing. In compliance, Ia NC Iowa. Call 641-590-2815

Hay, Grain & Forage For Sale

Ia: Sioux Big Round Bull hay feeder 712-210-2611

Ia: Custom hay hauling; big rounds, big square etx can haul troughout midwest. For Sale Round Big Squares of alfalfa/Grass & straight alfalfa 641-640-0492

Hay, Grain & Forage Wanted

Ia: “Wanted: alfalfa, round and square bales, picked up or deliver, call Roy at Pleasant acres. 620-804-1506

Ia: Quality small or lg sq alfalfa or misxed in semi loads 641-658-2738

Campers/RV’s For Sale

Ia:8 ft Shadow Cruiser pickup camper 3 way refrig, toilet, furnace. $1,000 obo. 515-971-5487

2000, 31 ft Fleetwood bunk bed camper, slide out, sleeps 6, hear and air, good condition. $7,800. 712-263-6591 (228-318)

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Ia: 1996 allegro bus 87,000 miles diesel 8.3 Cummings, many extras $36,000 obo 319-269-6431 Jack @ Dike Iowa

Vehicle Parts/Service

Ia: 2 11.2 x 24 like new tires on 8 bolt rims $350. 319-981-1438

VEHICLES

Cars/SUV’s For Sale

Ia: 1986 Iroc Camero. Chrome wheels, new tires, black leather interior, bucket seats, 305 with racing cam. Candy apple Red. 712-792-5326

Ia: 1986 Monte Carlo LS fixed up $6,000. 1961 Chevy pickup original 3/4 ton $6,000. 712-253-1261

Cars/SUV’s Wanted

Ia:1950 Ford Crestliner & 1951 Victoria Call 308-876-2515

Ia: 1928 Dodge Bros 4 dr sedan good solid stored in barn, very little rust, tacky org int. $4,000 712-229-1735

For sale by owner. 2001 Chevrolet 2500 HD 3/4 ton extended cab 4 door, 4 x 2 6.0 liter V-8, alison trans, 106,000 miles. $6,750 firm. Call 712-269-2190 (304-tfn)

Trucks/Trailers For Sale

Ia: l1979 Chevy C60 truck 16ft Scott box and hoist good truck good runner roll tarp. 641-425-6139

Ia: 1995 International 4000 series, 6 cyl,. 13 ton, flat bed, 13,000 miles, dual wheels, Mal-lard, Iowa 712-857-3432.

OTHER

Other For Sale

Ia: Steel post. Dennis Becker Bancroft, Ia 515-538-1547

Ia: 76’ x 112’ 8512 square foot insulated building that will be available Jan 1, 2014. We would be happy to dicuss your needs. adams Turkey Farms, Kirkman, Ia 712-766-3318 or 712-579-1355.

Other Wanted

Ia: Wanted to buy old farm tools, hand woodworking tools, old seed corn items, boxed corn-sheller, ususual hammers. . Call 515-890-0262

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Ia:Wanted: Person to custom farrow bred sows and gilts. Including facility and care. Nov 2014 - March 2015 or possibly year around. Will bring them bred and ready to farrow. Bruce Lorch 712-260-4555 or 712-735-4555.

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The first case of chronic wasting dis-ease (CWD) in a wild Iowa deer has been confirmed.

The deer was reported as harvested in Allamakee County during the first shot-gun season in early December. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is cur-rently working to obtain as much infor-mation as possible about the infected deer to implement its CWD response plan.

“We have been testing for CWD in Io-wa’s deer herd for more than a decade and are optimistic, given the extensive data we have collected, that we have caught this early,” said Chuck Gipp, DNR director.

“The next step will be to focus our mon-itoring efforts in the area where the ani-mal was harvested and work closely with local landowners and hunters to gather more information.” said Gipp.

CWD is a neurological disease affecting primarily deer and elk. It is caused by an abnormal protein, called a prion, that at-tacks the brains of infected animals, caus-ing them to lose weight, display abnormal behavior and lose bodily functions. Signs

include excessive salivation, thirst and urination, loss of appetite, progressive weight loss, listlessness and drooping ears and head. The only reliable test for CWD requires testing of lymph nodes or brain material.

There is currently no evidence that hu-mans can contract CWD by eating veni-son.

However, the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that hunters do not eat the brain, eyeballs or spinal cord of deer and that hunters wear protec-tive gloves while field dressing game and boning out meat for consumption.

Prior to the positive detection in Iowa, CWD had been detected in every border-ing state.

“With CWD in all the states around us, we have understood the possibility of a positive detection in the wild deer herd for some time” said Gipp.

Since 2002, the DNR has collected more than 650 samples of deer from within a five-mile radius of where the deer is be-lieved to have been harvested.

Corn stover, used for decades as silage and bedding, is now being harvested for industrial use. Currently in Iowa, two cel-lulosic ethanol plants have biomass needs for corn stover.

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The Iowa Corn Promo-tion Board is the recipient of a newly issued patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

It is the first U.S. patent that the Iowa Corn Promo-tion Board has received for its work in nitrogen use efficiency in corn and related to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, and/or increased yield using a patented gene.

Specifically, patent 8,692,070, Plants with Improved Nitrogen Utili-zation and Stress Toler-ance demonstrates Iowa Corn’s commitment to im-

proving farmer productiv-ity even to the gene level.

“The Iowa Corn Promo-tion Board collaborated with Strathkirn Inc. and Athenix Corp. to develop improved corn plants that are more efficient in using nitrogen fertilizer,” said Larry Klever, a farmer from Audubon and chair of the Iowa Corn Research and Business Develop-ment Committee.

“This new trait could re-sult in improved econom-ics on the farm, reduced impact on the environ-ment and reduced energy requirements to grow a corn crop.”

The objectives of the research are either to in-crease yield without in-creasing the amount of nitrogen fertilizer or ob-tain the same yield with less fertilizer.

Data indicates this pat-ented gene assimilates more nitrogen and in-creases kernel number, which could translate to greater yields for Iowa farmers.

By patenting this tech-nology, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board is able to provide protection for partners who would like to license this technology.

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trait licensed and com-mercialized by seed com-panies for commercializa-tion so that farmers, like me, can benefit,” said Klever.

The Plants with Im-proved Nitrogen Utiliza-tion and Stress Toler-ance patent number is 8,692,070 and was issued on April 8.

A patent for this tech-nology has also been awarded to the Iowa Corn Promotion Board by South Africa. Patents for this gene in other countries are still pending approval of the respective patent offices.

Iowa Corn Promotion Board receives U.S. patent for nitrogen gene

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