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January 24, 2013 | Vol. 4 Issue 1 | Pierre, South Dakota

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INSIDE:Dusting off the Dust Bowl (Dakota Life)

Proving up: Marking 100 years on the land

Foreigners eye South Dakota as a dairy destination

Research into harvest fi res making headway

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Features

Dusting off the Dust Bowl (Dakota Life)................................................................4

Proving up: Marking 100 years on the land...........................................................10

Land & Livestock News

More people are eyeing South Dakota as a destination to start a dairy...................15

A ‘milk defi cit’ has the state’s dairy production up.................................................19

SDSU research continues into preventing harvest fi res..........................................20

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(Photos Provided by donald berg)Above, a person is silhouetted by a cloud of dust in South Dakota. Below, a 1934 “black blizzard” is seen, probably at Gregory. At bottom, the impact of wind erosion is seen in the Rosebud Country in 1935.


(Photos Provided by donald berg)The effects of the Northern Plains Dust Bowl are seen in Dallas, S.D., on May 13, 1936. The photos are also available through the South Dakota State Historical Society’s Archives.

In Donald Berg’s view, the recent Ken Burns documentary about the Dust Bowl, like much of what has been published on the topic since the 1970s, gets the address wrong. It locates “the” Dust Bowl of the 1930s in five states in the

southern Great Plains. The problem with that, Berg says, is that it ignores the devastation that began earlier and may have more severe on the northern Great Plains.

“The concept of the Dust Bowl being exclusive to the southern Plains is in error and need of correction,” Berg writes in a paper he is preparing for publication. “No one questions the data and its interpretation that southern Great Plains (contiguous parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado) were affect-ed severely during the decade of the 1930s … Nonethe-less, the sub-region’s role in the Dust Bowl came about primarily during the second half of the decade. In many peoples’ perspective, the last to experience the Dust Bowl were those who received the most publicity and that opinion persists down to the present.”

The initial Dust Bowl phenomenon of the 1930s hit South Dakota and parts of five adjacent states hardest, Berg contends. He suggests it might be wiser to speak of two Dust Bowls – an earlier one in the northern Great Plains, and a later one farther south.

A professor emeritus of geography at South Dakota State University, Berg has been dusting off data from the 1930s to prove his point about who experienced the Dust Bowl first and worst.

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(Photo Provided by donald berg)The impact of wind erosion is seen in the Rosebud Country in 1935.


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Use of federal relief programs. Statistics suggest that either South Dakotans were a bunch of freeloaders feeding at the federal trough or they really were suffering more than anyone else during the first half of the 1930s. The fact that North Da-kotans were next in line suggested the problem was something specific to the northern Plains. “By December 1934, SD had the unfortunate distinction of having the highest percentage of its population (39%) on relief rolls, in large part because of the severe droughts of 1933 and 1934, followed by ND and west Virginia,” Berg writes, citing a 1937 report by w.f. Kumlien.

Outmigration. The 1940 census showed that six states had lost population over the previous decade, mostly in the Great Plains – North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Vermont. Past studies have estimated that South Dakota lost between 119,000 and 190,000 people, while North Dakota’s outmigration totaled more than 121,000. “In all, SD lost a greater percentage of its population than did any other state in the nation with a reduction of 7.2 percent, followed by ND (5.7 percent), KS, and OK,” Berg notes.

In other words, conditions in the 1930s made a greater share of people leave the Dakotas than left Oklahoma or Kansas.

Drought intensity. South Dakota charted its lowest annual precipitation ever re-corded for one of the state’s weather station in 1936, when a total of 2.89 inches was recorded at ludlow. North Dakota set its lowest precipitation totals the same year. Berg writes: “Although the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) was not in use during the 1930s, the precipitation and temperature data from the decade have been inputted to the formula. A contempo-rary NOAA map shows the reconstructed drought conditions of July 1934 with virtu-ally all of the Great Plains states indicated in the severe drought category. The areas of greatest negative values, the most severe drought, were located in the northern Plains and Upper Midwest.” Perversely, the searing drought of 1936 produced extremes at either end of the temperature scale; South Dakota’s coldest and hottest temperatures were both set that year: 58 degrees below zero at McIntosh on feb. 17, and 120 degree at Gann Val-ley on July 6. North Dakota’s hottest and coldest temperatures also occurred in 1936.

Dust. In 1933 and 1934, Berg notes, more than over 90 dust

“The research ... strongly suggests that the initial dust bowl phenomenon of the 1930s actually focused more on

the northern great plains with south dakota and sections of five adjacent states being particularly devastated

by the extreme weather conditions that occurred.”

(Photo Provided by donald berg)People began moving away from the Plains for a shot at better conditons.

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storms affected the east central area of South Dakota. writer How-ard e. Smith Jr. tells that the dust killed two children near Huron. Berg, like others who have studied the topic, cites federal research-ers francis Cronin and Howard Beers, who suggested that no other pair of states on the plains were so thoroughly ruined by the drought and dust as North Dakota and South Dakota. Across the border in Manitoba reports indicated that winds blew seed out of the ground, and the great dust storms left roads covered over with dust piles almost as big as winter snowdrifts.

Berg said the reality of the Dust Bowl shows up in South Dakota when housing contractors do work that involves cutting into homes from the 1930s or before. It’s not unusual for them to find dust that has accumulated between the exterior and interior walls.

“Dust accumulated in the attics of farm hous-es, often times inches deep, from infiltration due to the dust storms,” says Berg. “It almost goes without saying, but farmers spent a lot time and energy exca-vating partially buried buildings, cleaning out their yards, and clearing miles of ditches of the wind-blown sediments.”

Grasshoppers. In al-most biblical numbers, grasshoppers began making themselves felt as early as July 1931 in the rosebud country

of South Dakota. Three Canadian provinces and the northern Plains states all had massive programs to fight the insects. Arsenic-based

poisons were very widely distributed to farmers to fight the hopper plagues. It’s evidence of the sever-ity of the problem that

parts of the Dakotas were still dealing with groundwater contami-nation decades later in some locations from the widespread use of those poisons.

Personal income losses. Aided and abetted by factors such as drought, falling land prices, lost crops and bank failures, personal income took a major hit in the very years when the north-ern Plains were being socked by weather extremes. Berg quotes University of South Dakota economics pro-fessor emeritus ralph J. Brown: “Per capita personal income plum-meted by 58 percent in South Dakota during the Great Depression,

(Photo Provided by donald berg)A 1934 “black blizzard” is seen, probably at Gregory.


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Perfect storm. But if it’s so clear in the data, why has it been so easy for the American public to think that the Dust Bowl was a phenom-enon of the south-ern Great Plains? Berg an-swers that it was a per-fect storm of public-ity — some gifted pho-tographers, journalists and novelists descend-ing on the southern Plains just in time to document the undeni-able hardships there.

Berg notes that “the publicity and related factors attributed to the southern Great Plains became firmly fixed in the national psyche, although the human suffering and environ-mental despoliation were eclipsed in several ways in the northern area.”

for example, the nov-elist John Steinbeck wrote his great novel, “The Grapes of wrath,” about migrants leaving Oklahoma for greener pastures in California – the Okies.

But that ignores the mi-grants whom Berg sug-gests could as easily be called “the Dakies.” Berg

cites previous studies noting that between 1930 and 1945, 23 towns in South Dakota were simply abandoned; and fully 25 percent of the people who moved to

the Pacific Northwest during the parched Dust Bowl years came from the northern Great Plains.

Selective memory and the will to forget. Berg adds that there

is one other factor that makes it easy to down-play the severity of the Dust Bowl on the northern Great Plains: In conservative South Dakota, it doesn’t fit well with ideology, or what Plains residents think about themselves. Consequently, Berg writes, “the people who stayed and, now, their descendents tend to deny the role of the federal government intervention in their lives during the Ter-rible ‘30s … There even appears to be a political component in the con-temporary scene with right wing, anti-federal government views of the stayers’ philosophy contrasting with the facts of the situation.” Berg cites earlier stud-ies noting that South Dakota politicians and citizens tended to prefer

fiscal conservatism over a liberal approach to ex-pansive social services; yet the federal govern-ment spent more per capita in the Dakotas than in all but six other states, according to one study. The upshot is that South Dakotans,

despite all the benefits they reaped from the New Deal, were never comfortable with such federal policies, and even in south-central South Dakota, the epi-center of the northern Dust Bowl, community museums that Berg has

visited tend to pay little attention to the Dust Bowl years.

That kind of “selective amnesia” helps support the widespread percep-tion that the Dust Bowl happened somewhere else, Berg said, despite how the northern Great

Plains states suffered. Berg’s ongoing project is trying to help geog-raphers pin down the correct address – South Dakota and parts of the states around it – for what may have been an earlier, more severe Dust Bowl.Thoughts about

the Dust Bowl?If you’re interested in geographer Donald Berg’s study of the Dust Bowl and have additional information about the situation in South Dakota, Berg can be reached by email at [email protected], or [email protected].

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Proving upBad river valley ranch family marks 100 years of owning the land

By Lance NixonFor Land and Livestock

December 2012 marked an anniversary for the Jim Carlisle ranch of rural Fort Pierre. It was exactly 100 years ago, in December 1912, that the family proved to the satisfaction of the U.S. government that it had met the requirements of the Homestead Act.

It’s in that month, in the Land Office in Pierre, South Dakota, that Frank P. Carlisle is signing his name on official papers to show he has met the require-ments to receive title to the parcel of land where he’s been living the past five years along the Bad River. He spells out that it’s the northeast quarter of Section 18, Township 4 North, Range 31 East, B.H. Meridian, containing 160 acres.

He signs his name with the elegant handwriting he learned in a country school in Lancaster, Ohio, before he moved to Mondamin, Iowa, and then on to South Dakota; and then a

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“They had to have a pretty strong will to stay in this country and endure

what they had to endure.”

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staffer in the Land Office goes on to record on one of those indispensable office machines, the type-writer, what else Frank Carlisle has to tell about his land.

The typist also records a witness— Henry Kl-emann, 52, of Fort Pierre. A questionnaire asks what years the claimant, Frank Carlisle, settled upon the homestead and made actual residence thereon, and Klemann answers to both questions: “In the fall of 1907.”

Now it’s five years on; and Frank Carlisle has

to account for the ways he’s been turning a piece of Stanley County into a place called home.

Natural increaseThe typist records, “The claimant herein has used this land principally for grazing purposes each year; he has 40 head of cattle and 16 horses and hogs and chickens which he keeps on the land this year; this 40 head is the natural increase from the original herd of cattle that claimant brought to the land when he began living there; he has kept

horses every year, too. He has about 12 acres under cultivation in 1912, same was cropped mostly to potatoes; harvested the crop; the years before 1912 he had about 2 acres cultivated to garden truck and potatoes each year.”

The documents record that Frank Carlisle has a house that consists of a 16X32 structure of logs with two frame addi-tions, one 10X12, another 14X20.

One hundred years later, Frank Carlisle’s grandson, Jim Carlisle — still on that same land, plus a lot more, and still using it principally for grazing — notes that those two ad-ditions to Frank Carlisle’s house were abandoned homestead shacks from others who weren’t find-ing the Bad River valley as hospitable.

“They had to have a pretty strong will to stay in this country and endure what they had to endure,” he said. “Of course a lot of them didn’t. 1911 was an awfully dry year so a lot of them left. There were a lot of vacant shacks.”

the neighborsWhat the papers from the Land Office don’t tell about is the neighbors — Paul Prairie Chicken and his wife, Alice.

“His name was First Hawk,” Jim Carlisle says. “Prairie Chicken was their everyday name.”

Paul Prairie Chicken, a

butcher by trade, had learned English at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. He also kept a few livestock and carved pipes, traveling to Pipestone, Minn., to get the stone, Catlinite, for working and making the pipes at his house near the Bad River. He would do odd jobs; so Frank Carlisle hired him to cut cottonwood logs to build a house when he first filed on the land in 1907. The stories passed down in the family say that Paul Prai-rie Chicken cut the logs and Frank Carlisle used them to build his first house. That’s the 16X32 structure that’s mentioned in the record.

“They were good neigh-bors. They talked to each other. On a calm day they could just holler back and forth,” Jim Carlisle said.

Paul Prairie Chicken was larger than life, and not merely because he weighed nearly 400 pounds when he grew old. He was a dancer, a talker, a lover of ice cream, and he chose to stay in his home along the Bad River rather than move when the size of the reservation was pared down and other Sioux people began mov-ing to the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, north of the Cheyenne River.

Though it’s nowhere in the record, Jim Carlisle suspects it’s because Paul Prairie Chicken was already living on the adjacent parcel in the Bad River bottom that Frank Carlisle was able to get

the land that he settled on. Frank Carlisle wasn’t among the first to settle by the Bad River, and the ranch is only a few miles out from Fort Pierre, so logically it should have already been claimed by 1907. Jim Carlisle thinks the reason the land was still available might be that the prospect of settling by a large and powerful Sioux man was intimidating to some whites.

CommunityPaul Prairie Chicken turned out to be the best of neighbors when Frank Carlisle settled on the land. White homesteaders and a handful of Sioux and the merchants in the nearby town of Fort Pierre were building up a community.

There’s a story in Jim Carlisle’s family about the time Jim’s father, Charles, asked Paul Prairie Chick-en to buy something for him when Paul was head-ing in to town, then asked him later for the change. Paul said, “Two times ice cream. No change.”

And there’s another story area businessman Karl Fischer tells about Paul Prairie Chicken, who was suspected by homestead-ers and townspeople of having rare native wisdom.

“My dad was talking to him one time and he said, ‘Paul, what kind of winter are we going to have?’ He said, ‘Well, it’s going to be cold and it’s going to

be hard.’ He said, ‘Paul, how do you know that?’ He said, ‘White man put storm windows on house.’”

a pretty good place to live when it rainsPaul Prairie Chicken’s old frame house, never painted, is still standing in its original location near the river. But the Carlisle ranch has long since moved to higher ground.

The Bad River saw a terrible flood in 1927 that had prompted Frank Carlisle to relocate up away from the Bad River, close to the bluffs that give some shelter from the winter wind.

The place lost most everything in the 1927 flood except the house. The floodwaters bullied and badgered it across the floodplain but it landed on a high spot. It never did get into the main channel of the Bad River. Later Frank Carlisle moved it back up above the high water line.

But for the most part, the problem was dry weather, not flooding. The terrible years of the 1930s drove many people off the land. But not everyone.

“My dad and uncle did have the foresight in the ‘30s to buy land when it was $1 an acre. Really some of it was less than that,” Jim Carlisle recalls.

There was also, in Frank


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Carlisle’s first years on the land, a plan to try to outwit the dry climate.

“He experimented with irrigation. That’s kind of innovative at the time,” Jim Carlisle said. “But his irrigation project wasn’t viable. Bad River quit running when he needed it. They tried to raise po-tatoes and irrigate them.”

Still, a hundred years later to the month from the time when Frank Carlisle proved up, Jim Carlisle agrees with his father and his grandfather before him: The Bad River coun-try’s a pretty good place to live when it rains.

As you can already guess from reading the type-script from December 1912 from the Land

Office in Pierre, where the typist records Frank Carlisle as saying: “In 1908, I broke 3 or 4 acres and planted part of it to corn and garden; in 1909, I cropped 5 or 6 acres to garden truck and sweet corn; this same amount has been cropped to potatoes, and garden each year since to the present; I broke up about 6 acres in 1912 and planted same to sod corn; I harvested the crops each year. 10 to 12 acres broke up on S1/2.

“In 1908 I kept 10 head of cattle on said land; in 1909, kept 15 head of cattle; in 1910, about 22 head of cattle; in 1911, about 32 head of cattle; had 45 head of cattle most of the year of 1912, but sold 5 head and have 40 head now; Such stock

belonged to me each year and were grazed on this land each year just as long

as the feed lasted.”

And it’s just the same

now, a hundred years on, in this annual business of proving up. It’s a good

country when it rains, principally for grazing, as long as the feed holds out.

(lance nixon/land and livestock)The home of Paul Prairie Chicken still stands today near the Bad River.


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In the mid-1990s Wim and Nicolien Hammink decided to move their dairy operation –not across the road, but across the Atlantic.

They were running out of room in the Netherlands.

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(Photo courtesy of south dakota dePartment of agriculture)Milk cows are seen at Hammink Dairy in Bruce.

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One of their three sons wished to join the busi-ness, but expansion was impossible with high land prices, crowding from larger farms nearby and a government-imposed quota system that meant steep fees if they produced too much milk.

They originally planned to move to Wisconsin, where Wim had interned years before, but they found it too crowded. On the East and West Coasts it was the same story. Farther south was too warm for the cows.

But just to the west Ham-mink said they found a place with land at the right price, a good milk market, decent feed prices and friendly people – South Dakota.

Today the couple runs a 2,400-cow dairy in Bruce, along with a side business of promoting the state and building the infrastructure for other dairies making the same move they did.

The Hamminks’ experi-ence is not unique. They are just one example of foreign dairies opting to immigrate to South Dakota, mostly along the Interstate 29 corridor, because of near-perfect dairying conditions in the state and lack of land or government quotas back home.

David Skaggs, a dairy de-velopment specialist with the department, said there are currently 23 herds, or 20,350 cows, in the state belonging to transplanted foreign farms. In the past

ten years about 35 dairies relocated to South Dakota from other parts of the country, Canada and Europe, he said.

The simplest reason South Dakota looks appealing to these farms is because there is so much available land, especially compared to Europe, Skaggs said.

“They sell their land by the square foot when you can come out here and buy 160 acres,” he said.

Also, a foreign dairy look-ing to expand not only comes up against land restrictions, but often quota restrictions where any milk produced above a pre-determined amount for the dairy is subject to levies.

If the owner of a 120-cow dairy operation has a brother who wants to join the business, that owner could pay thousands of dollars per cow just to raise his production quota. It’s often cheaper to move here, where that brother could wind up milking 1,000 cows, Skaggs said.

Hammink, who saw the system in the Nether-lands and other parts of Europe, doesn’t remember it fondly.

“I hope it never comes here,” she said.

Professor Alvaro Gar-cia, an extension dairy specialist at South Dakota State University, said the state also attracts dairies because it can support a large cow population. Abundant grains, corn,

alfalfa hay and soybeans, thanks to a processing plant in Volga, means the area can easily produce

enough feed for the dair-ies’ cows.

South Dakota is also good because of the weather,

which is similar to north-ern Europe. Cows prefer a colder environment and produce well during

the winter months here, Garcia said.

But the concentration in the eastern part of the

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state is about more than climate and corn – quality of life is of major concern to immigrating farmers, he said.

While all dairies have investors and employees, Garcia said he can only think of one that isn’t a traditional family-run business. Many are young families and want to be near larger population centers for good educa-tion and colleges. That historically has led those families to choose the I-29 corridor, he said.

“If it’s just a corporation they can set up where they want,” Garcia said.

To promote these advan-tages, Skaggs and oth-ers from the agriculture department travel to trade shows and events such as the World Dairy Expo, held annually in Madison, Wis., to speak with at-tending dairies.

Hammink and her husband have also joined the push. They have gone to immigration shows in Europe, conducted tours of their dairy and helped others considering the move with permit and im-migration requirements, she said.

However, immigration has slowed down in the last several years. Garcia said

one reason is an increase in the cost of feed as the price of corn and soybeans has gone up.

Skaggs said a combination of unrest and unstable markets in Europe and the fear of the fiscal cliff and the expiration of the 2008 Farm Bill domesti-cally may have warded off interest.

But it isn’t a permanent setback. There are already dairies from the Nether-lands and Quebec lined up to look at land next year, he said.

“I see next spring folks from Europe looking to come over,” Skaggs said.

(Photo courtesy of south dakota dePartment of agriculture)Milk cows are seen at Hammink Dairy in Bruce. Hammink’s 2,400-cow operation is one of 23 foreign dairies that have immigrated to South Dakota.


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The dairy industry is big business in South Dakota and it’s becoming more compact and efficient.

According to the state De-partment of Agriculture’s Annual Dairy Report for fiscal 2011, the state’s 332 farms produced more than 5 million pounds of milk daily. One of South Dako-ta’s 92,000 dairy cows will generate $13,594 worth of milk products per year.

That’s a big change from a few decades ago. In 1981, there were 4,650 dairies running 159,000 cows and producing 1.69 bil-lion pounds of milk.

In 2011, 332 dairies total-ing 89,000 cows produced 1.8 billion bounds. That’s a 42 percent reduction in herd size, but an 11 per-cent increase in produc-tion.

David Skaggs, a dairy de-velopment specialist with the department of agricul-ture, said the high number of dairies 30 years ago can be partially attributed to counting farms that had one or two dairy cows for personal use as a dairy.

The fewer dairies re-maining have also been accumulating more cows. In 1995 there were four herds above 500 cows in the state; today there are 42, Skaggs said.

The increase in production with fewer cows is because of more efficient feeding

and rationing, better nu-trition and genetics today, he said.

Marv Post, the president of the South Dakota Dairy Producers and dairy owner in Volga, said the state of-fers “aggressive milk buy-ers” and a “milk deficit” that dairies can capitalize on, mostly found along the Interstate 29 corridor.

Post pointed to several high-profile milk needs in that area, including the Lake Norden Cheese Company, Valley Queen Cheese Factory Inc. in Milbank, and the an-nounced Bel Brands USA plant going into Brook-ings.

Skaggs said there are also ideal places for dairies further west. Areas such as Pollock or Hoven have plenty of water, land and crop owners who under-stand the value of cows, he said.

However, others remain skeptical about such expansion. Post said any place the industry could move has to have the same corn production for feed as the I-29 corridor. Also, with the closing of a processing plant in Rapid City in 2007, milk would have to be trucked eastward anyway.

“I just see it as hard to expand to the west,” he said.

Professor Alvaro Gar-cia, an extension dairy specialist at South Dakota State University, said he

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Combine fire research progressesBy Sonia Mullally

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One day last fall, while ag engineer Dan Hum-burg was perched atop a combine during sun-flower harvest in central South Dakota, the grower

operating the machine stopped at the end of the field and asked, “Do you smell that?”

The South Dakota State University researcher could detect a burnt resi-due smell in the air that the grower had indicated.

“He told me that’s the smell he gets just before he detects a fire someplace. He had just pushed the combine near capacity to generate higher tempera-ture readings for our mon-itors. He’s so sensitive to it and knows exactly what to smell for to be on guard,”

Humburg explains.

Humburg realized that farmers have to rely on intuition and a keen sense of smell to avoid combine fires. He hopes the work he and his fellow research-ers at South Dakota State University have been

conducting can provide farmers solid solutions to avoid the dangers and property loss due to har-vest fires. He’s also hoping to fix the problem at the source before the farmer

has to count on his nose to detect a problem.

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backed by funding from the South Dakota Oilseed Council, began their work in July of 2011. They set out to first investigate the primary question: Is it the sunflower dust, or is it the machinery?

The study’s three-part objective is to (1) under-stand the basic character-istics of sunflower dust in the lab, (2) see it in action in the field and how it interacts with different areas of the combine, and (3) bring the data to-gether to suggest potential engineering solutions that could serve to change or interrupt one or more of the factors present when a harvest fire starts.

The National Sunflower Association first in-troduced this research project in the August/Sep-tember 2011 issue (go to article) of The Sunflower. At that time, SDSU biosystems engineer Zhen Grong Gu and grad stu-dent Joe Polin were busy in the lab conducting tests to characterize the physi-cal and chemical proper-ties of sunflower dust that contribute to combine fires. Dust used for lab testing initially was gener-ated from stalks gathered from an unharvested field planted in 2010.

First, the dust was me-chanically separated into different fractions using a stack of sieves and a sieve shaker. This was done to isolate the finer dust particles that are most easily suspended in air. The sunflower plant parts (head, stalk pith and

stalk outer layer) were also segregated, milled and analyzed to better understand the origin of the dust that settles on combines during harvest. All samples had the same moisture content and bulk temperature prior to testing.

Another lab test entailed using a hot plate to deter-mine ignition points of the various dust particles. A thermocouple was cen-trally located in the dust sample layer and recorded temperature changing profile during continuous heating.

The finest dust collected was from the head of the sunflower plant. This dust was placed on a hot plate at temperatures of 260° C and 250° C (i.e., about 500 and 482° F). The test at 260° showed a peak, which indicates combus-tion, compared to the 250° test, which did not show a significant peak or combustion. Essentially, this difference is used to estimate the ignition point.

Temperature spikes and ignition points were also tested on sunflower versus corn dust. According to the hot plate tests, the sunflower head dust has a lower minimum igni-tion temperature than corn dust at every similar particle size. The lower ignition point indicates that sunflower head dust is more easily ignited than corn stover and can also be ignited at temperatures when corn stover won’t ignite.

Additional lab testing was conducted to evaluate and compare the ignition byprod¬ucts of field dust with samples gathered

dur¬ing the 2011 harvest. It was concluded that the inner stalk (pith) is the main source of dust found on a combine. In

addition to the hot plate test, a variety of other characterizing tests were conducted. For example, the researchers learned

that sunflower dust begins to volatize at 428° F. The team thinks that leads to the pre-ignition smell that many farmers notice just

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before fires or smoldering problems begin.

In addition to the lab tests on sunflower dust, Humburg and his col-leagues spent time taking measurements on produc-ers’ combines during the sunflower harvest in cen-tral South Dakota. Kevin Dalsted, an SDSU ag engineering professor who specializes in machine systems, is a collaborator on the project and joined Humburg in the fields last fall. The pair observed the

machinery, took tempera-ture measurements and recorded weather statis-tics.

“For me, the most inter-esting part was informa-tion gathered atop the en-gine compartment, taking temperatures with a hand-held infrared measuring device near the machine’s exhaust manifold area,” Humburg notes. “That particular producer was using some modifications with ceramic heat tape wrapped around the ex-

haust manifold to reduce the amount of heat radiat-ing from the manifold and pass the heat down to the muffler. So it wasn’t a typical situation, perhaps. But we learned that area reached a temperature of 600° F after a short run without reaching maxi-mum engine capacity.”

While the team strongly suspects the focal point should be on the ex-haust manifold, they are exploring different areas to not overlook potential

problems throughout the machine. For instance, during this year’s harvest they look to return to the field to repeat some tests to solve certain problems they had gathering data last year, as well as include new areas of interest.

“We were able to learn some from the soybean issues as well last year in this region of the coun-try,” Humburg adds. “Extraordinary occurrence of fires during both sun-flower and soybean har-vest last year occurred in areas of southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota and northeast Nebraska. There are commonalities among

the situations. What we see happening more frequently in sunflower was also happening in the soybean fields on specific days.”

Anyone who has par-ticipated in harvest of any crop knows that the environment can be very chaotic when it comes to the air flow around the machine. Wind speed and direction can make a dif-ference, which often varies greatly. Air blast from the radiator fan is interacting with the wind, blowing dust and debris to all areas of the machine, so it’s very difficult to control the dis-tribution of the chaff.

To try and get a handle on this, additional testing will be done in the lab to simulate the environment right around the exhaust environment to quantify exactly what temperature it takes to possibly ignite dust flying adjacent to a hot surface. “Currently, we are in the process of building a device to generate a continuously suspended dust particle cloud through a tube fur-nace,” Dalsted explains. “The process will simulate the exposure of airborne dust to very hot surfaces and will document the temperatures needed to ignite the dust in the air stream. We may also be able to extend this test to observe the behavior of ignited embers landing on dusty surfaces.”

In addition, unanswered questions remain sur-rounding the static electricity on combines and what role that plays. “We have a lot of produc-ers who say they think this might be a source or a contributing factor to the fires occurring,” adds Humburg. “I’ve had some industry people say they cannot make it happen in their testing. If we can’t get it to happen in the lab, it would indicate that

“extraordinary occurrence of fires during both sunflower and soybean harvest last year occurred in areas of southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota and northeast Nebraska. there are commonalities among the situations. What we see happening more frequently in sunflower was also happening in the soybean fields on specific days.”

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while it might happen in the field, it’s very rare. If we can make it hap-pen in the lab, then we may have another issue to address.”

According to Dalsted, the team has also designed and ordered a machine to generate energy through static sparks. “We will apply this to both dust layers and suspended dust clouds in open systems — not confined space — to examine the energy needed to ignite dust particles or dust layers. These tests could help to determine if it is possible to ignite dust particles or dust layers with static discharges, and, if so, un-der what conditions this might occur.”

Despite multiple areas of concern when it comes to

(courtesy Photo)A combine makes a run through a field. Research at South Dakota State University if working to help pro-tect farm-ers from the dan-gers and property loss due to harvest fires.

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“hot spots” on a com-bine, the pair continues to focus on the exhaust manifold in the lab as well. “With the change over to the newer models of combines, we went from a naturally aspirated engine to a turbo-charged system to keep up with the demand from the producer for more power from the engine. That bumps up the tempera-ture in the area of the exhaust between the turbo charger and the engine,” Humburg explains.

Sunflower growers know to back off slightly and not to push the machine to capacity because of the propensity for fires. Many also have made modifica-tions to their machines to help alleviate certain issues that lead to fire

breakouts. The SDSU research team is also test-ing possible alterations or additions to equipment in the field that would be aiming to change the behavior of the ignition sources. Humburg refers to the combine chimney designed by the North Dakota farmer featured in last year’s August/Sept. 2011 issue of The Sunflower. The chimney apparatus, attached to the air intake system, extends up to draw clean air into the radiator and keep the engine clean.

“We are looking at how we can preclude fires in that area of the exhaust manifold in varied cir-cumstances. The chimney, for example, under good, common circumstances, is a modification that can go

a long way in preventing fires,” Humburg observes. “It’s not an absolute solution because in some circumstances it could get overwhelmed — and that’s some of what we saw in this area last year. These farmers weren’t us-ing chimneys per se; but their machines that ordi-narily don’t catch fire, did have excessive occurrences last year.”

“We have set up a salvaged engine exhaust manifold turbo system in our shop and will use a propane-fired set-up to achieve nominal operating temperatures”, Dalsted explains. “We should be able to evaluate and model the heat transfer around this hot surface. This should help us to better understand the

potential dust ignition in the combine engine com-partment area. We will also consider potential en-gineering solutions to hot surface-induced problems experienced during the sunflower harvest.”

Another area of focus for the research team, when they return to the field this fall, will be the air flow around the combine. Air cleaners on the ma-chines have a pre-cleaner section that screens out the coarser dust and separates it before it goes in to the fine paper filter that filters the finer dust before it reaches the air cleaner. As it builds up, it gets sucked out of the pre-cleaner and discharged or blown out at the latter part of the muffler. Ideal-ly, that exhaust has cooled

to a point where it’s no longer a source for igni-tion; but if the machine is running hot, it might be a problem area.

The SDSU researchers question whether there’s a chance that some of those coarser particles of sunflower dust are being ignited and blown upward through the muf-fler and over the top of the machine. Ordinarily, that dust is carried off by wind or extinguishes itself before it lands anywhere that matters. But if wind conditions are adverse and it lands back on the machine, could it be a problem? It may be there is no way for that dust to be hot enough, but it should be ruled out as a source for fires.

“This year, we plan to capture some of that dust that’s going past the pre-cleaner and coming out the muffler and see if it’s

hot enough to be a prob-lem. This is just a theory, but we’d like to take a closer look at it,” Hum-burg notes. It’s another speculation that the re-searchers hope to iron out in the field tests this year.

The numerous unan-swered questions illustrat-ed here serve to shed light onto just how compli-cated the issue of combine fires really can be — not only for producers, but for researchers attempting to understand it and offer solutions.

Ongoing research seeks the answers.


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FULL TIME positionon an Irrigated grainfarm in Central SD.Prefer experience

with newer JDEquipment and cen-ter pivot mainte-nance. Must haveCDL and be self mo-tivated. Good pay,pickup furnished and

possibly housing.Send letter of inquiryor resume to

F.H.W.

1516 E. Sioux Av.

PO Box 176

Pierre SD 57501

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GRAIN FARM HELP,Onida, SD. Full-time.Operating large farmequipment, trucks,tractors, sprayers &planting equipment.Good driving record.General maintenance.Salary/hourly DOE.605-280-7038.

COOKS2 positions open: *PrepCook, preparing soups& banquets. *Linecook.Apply in person Only.No phone calls. WagesDOE & Benefits.Best Western Ramkota,920 W. Sioux, Pierre.

KARLS TVis Now Hiring a

Full-time.Delivery/WareHouse

person.Apply in person at:

400 W. Sioux Ave. Pierre, SD.

PART-TIME

BOOKKEEPER/

OFFICE Assistant

Small office setting,Must be proficient inQuick Books and havethe ability to work withpeople. $10-$12 DOE.Please submit letter ofapplication and resumeto

Pierre Area

Referral Service

Attn: Laura White

2520 E Franklin

Pierre SD 57501

GRAIN FARM HELP,Onida, SD. Full-time.Operating large farmequipment, trucks,tractors, sprayers &planting equipment.Good driving record.General maintenance.Salary/hourly DOE.605-280-7038.

GROUNDSTECHNICIAN

FT Grounds Technicianneeded for local Pierreapartment complexes.

Top candidates willpossess excellent

communication skills,positive work ethics,

and have a clear credit,criminal record and

drug screen.Competitive benefitspackage. Interestedindividuals should

contact Jody Wilsonat jwilson@costel-

loco.com or call605-336-9131, ext 123.

Position openuntil filled.

FRIMAN OIL& GAS INC.

Full-timePropane & Fuel

Delivery DriverMust have cleandriving record andCDL with hazmator be able to ob-

tain. Self starterpreferred andgood with people.

Will be on callevery 3rd week-end. Wage DOE,benefit package.

Pick up applica-tion at:Friman Oil & Gas

Inc,603 W Sioux,

Pierre

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Selling 140 Registered Yearlings bulls, 40 Registered Two Year Old Bulls & 10 Registered Fall Bulls

Koupals B & B Identity –Reg# 16710463EPD’s BW +.8; WW +69; YW +123; MILK +33

Koupal Juneau 797 – Reg #15804077EPD’s BW +2.5; WW +71; YW +135; Milk +25

Koupal’s B & B Extra 0011 – Reg#16710494EPD’s BW +2.3; WW +71; YW +124; Milk +23

Koupal’s B & B Identity 2019 Reg#17319513EPD’s BW +2.8; WW +56; YW +100; Milk +29BW 80 ratio 100 • 205 adj 748 ratio 104Sire: Identity • Dam: 004 MGS: Right Time

Koupal’s B & B Identity 2063Reg#17319532 EPD’s BW +1.3; WW +61; YW +107; Milk +30BW 79 ratio 99 • 205 ADJ 751 ratio 105Sire: Identity • Dam: Balancer MGS: Olympian

Koupal’s B & B Windy 206Reg#17322737EPD’s BW +2.7; WW +57; YW +98; Milk +23BW 80 ratio 100 • 205 ADJ 815 ratio 114Sire: Windy • Dam: Grid Maker MGS: Traveler

Koupal Regis 251Reg#17316940 • CED 7 0.2 49 91 28EPD’s BW +.1; WW+51; YW +91; Milk +30 BW 81 ratio 98 • 205 ADJ 717 ratio 106Sire: Coleman Regis 904 • Dam: Koupal SH Zara 671 • MGS: OCC Juneau 807J

Koupal Juneau 797 28Reg#17314326 • CED +12 -1.1 63 117 27EPD’s BW +1.0; WW +65; YW +119; Milk +27Sire: Koupal Juneau 797 • Dam: Kopal Ebonette 734 • MGS: SAV Initiative 4406

Koupal Edition 220Reg#17314292 • CED 8 0.5 52 87 20EPD’s BW +.7; WW +52; YW +89; Milk +18BW 75 ratio 91 • 205 ADJ 708 ratio 105Sire: Duff 412P Edition 917 • Dam: Koupal Queenie 8166 MGS: OCC Juneau 807J

Koupal Unmistakeabull 22Reg#17314291 • CED 14 -3.2 48 83 20EPD’s BW -2.8; WW +48; YW +81; Milk +20BW 60 ratio 84 • 205 Adj 702 ratio 103Sire: OCC Unmistakeable 896U • Dam: Koupal Elba 0187 • MGS: OCC Juneau 807J

Koupal’s B & B Chisum 2077Reg#17322785EPD’s BW +3.9; WW +69; YW +121; Milk +35BW 78 ratio 107 • 205 ADJ 818 ratio 112Sire: Chisum • Dam: Pioneer • MGS: Bando

Herd Sires: Koupal’s B & B Diplomat 9046; Duff Amigo; OCC Unmistakeabull; Duff Palarmo; Koupal’s B & B Colossal 9052;Duff Special Edition; Occ Patriot; Koupal Brulee 698; Bradley B3R Natural W100

AI Sires: Coleman Regis; Woodhill Admiral; HARB – Windy 702; WK Contender; Spickler Chisum

Koupal Angus Koupal’s B & B AngusLaVern & Alice Koupal Bud & Bernie Koupal familyDante, SD 57329 Dante, SD 57329Phone: (605) 384-5315 Phone/Fax: (605) 384-3481Cell: (605) 491-1768 Cell (605) 491-2102Derek’s Cell: (605) 491-0244 [email protected]@cme.coop

EPD as of 12/31/12CALL OR EMAIL TO JOIN OUR MAILING LIST

21 sons sell!

Herd Sire

12 sons sell!

9 sons sell!

Herd Sire

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FACT:98.1 percent of farms in South Dakota are family owned and operated.

Data courtesy of USDA, SDSU,SD Corn Growers Assn.,

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