Land and Livestock February 2011

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February, 2011 | Vol. 2 Issue 2 | Pierre, South Dakota

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EditorMichael Avok


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South Dakota Agriculture

L E A D I N G T H E WA Y

FACT:90% of South Dakota’s land area (43.7 million acres) is dedicated to agriculture.

Data courtesy of USDA, SDSU, SD Corn Growers Assn., Governor’s Ag Development Summit


Features

Waving the green flag: NASCAR partners with Corn Growers .......................4

Building barns: Carpentry business keeps retired farmer young ........................6

Serving South Dakota: Secretary of Ag Walt Bones looks to the future .........8

Love of hunting: South Dakota freedom hung gives back .............................10

Nature-grown: Making mob grazing a success .................................................15

Land & Livestock News

Showcasing South Dakota’s true environmentalists .......................................12

SD climatologist gives outlook for 2011 season ............................................20

Land & Livestock Classifieds


Story by Ruth Brown, Capital JournalPhotos by Associated Press

Waving the green flagNASCAR partners with Corn Growers

The National Corn Growers, of which South Da-kota is a member, has started a partnership to make some of the country’s fastest racing cars

more environmentally friendly.

The National Corn Growers Association, in partnership

with Growth Energy and NASCAR will wave a green flag

and will use of E15 ethanol in all 2011 NASCAR racing

vehicles.

This includes both the cars and trucks used in NASCAR.

The partnership has a goal of educating Americans about

the value that corn ethanol has on the economy, energy se-

curity and the environment, said Dave Fremark, president

of the South Dakota Utilization Council.

“NASCAR has agreed to use E15 in their 2011 season and

is converting all of their vehicles,” said Chris Thorne, a

spokesman for Growth Energy. “Most of the country is


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Waving the green flagNASCAR partners with Corn Growers

currently using E10, so NASCAR us-ing E15 will benefit awareness.”

Thorne said there are multiple goals for Growth Energy and its partners by implementing E15 into NASCAR rac-ing vehicles.

“One (goal) is that the marketing ap-paratus of NASCAR will reach tens of millions of people with the positive story of ethanol,” he said. “Many peo-ple in our country do not live in the Corn Belt and don’t understand the impact ethanol has on the economy… creating jobs and the fact that it cleans our air.”

The National Corn Growers Associa-tion has more than 33,000 members

and South Dakota alone has more than 2,000 members.

“This is an incredible opportunity to showcase American-made prod-ucts,” said Lisa Richardson, executive director for the South Dakota Corn Growers. “It’s American racing that’s going to use American-made fuel.” Thorne said that many people may have doubts about using E15 in their trucks and cars and whether it will ben-efit their vehicle.

“If Jimmy Johnson can burn E15 and be just fine …they can as well,” said Thorne.

The S.D. Corn Growers hope to pro-mote the American-made fuel to help

the average driver see the benefits of driving with E15.

“Unfortunately we have had a 90 per-cent mandate for petro-leum for far too long,” said Richardson.

“If people can see that the drivers use it, they will see the benefits as well.”

NASCAR drivers are seeing many benefits to using E15 in their racing vehicles.

“When we’ve been talking to the driv-

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”See ethanol • 16


Story by Lura Roti, for the Capital JournalPhotos by Jennifer Hofer

Building barnsCarpentry business keeps retired farmer young

Standing in his workshop, surrounded by wood shavings and tools, Ted Hofer, 84, intently leans over as he applies a final coat of red paint to the

toy wooden barn.

Modeled after the barn he grew up with on his family’s farm near Dolton, the pint-sized model features many details Hofer says you need to be his age to remember. Lift the barn’s hinged roof or open the two large barn doors and the barn’s interior reveals a haymow and stalls;

the barn’s lean-to door opens into an outdoor corral.

“The barn I grew up with had a big barn door that opened — like this little one,” he says, opening the small hinged door into the barn’s haymow. “We would pull loose hay up into the haymow with slings. I helped my dad pull a lot of loose hay growing up. We didn’t bale hay in those days — there were no balers — we handled everything loose with a fork. I tell people you have to be at least 70 or 80 years old to remember those days.”


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Building barnsCarpentry business keeps retired farmer young

Farming was the only career Hofer ever knew. After high school, he farmed with his dad for a short time and then began farming on his own in 1948 — about the same time he married his wife, Naomi. The couple met in church. He was 20 and she was 18 when they married.

“My ancestors and my wife’s ancestors farmed. That’s the only thing we knew to do,” he says. “I’ve always loved farming. I loved to plow the ground and smell the good soil as it’s turned over.”

The couple operated a row crop and dairy farm near Bridgewater until their sons took the operation over in 1991. Retired at 65, Hofer wasn’t ready to sit still. In his first few years of retirement he continued to help his sons on the farm in the summers. To occupy his time in the winter Hofer turned to carpentry.

“I always liked carpentry work. The first three or so years into retirement most of my projects were small – bird houses, shelves, benches — things like that,” Hofer said, picking up a new paint brush to white wash the toy barn’s interior.

“When I quit going to the farm all together, I began spending more time in my shop and the projects got bigger,” he says of the gun cabinets, end tables, display cabinets, hall trees and more than 50 other items he builds out of oak. “You can only spend so much time in your garden or maintaining your lawn. Boredom got me building more.”

What began as a hobby to keep boredom at bay, soon turned into a business when Hofer started selling his wares at craft fairs in 2000.

Craft fairs keep Hofer busy year round, but Christmas is definitely his busy season. This last Christmas he spent several weeks work-

See Barns • 17

You can only spend so much time in your garden... Boredom got me building more.

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And even our state legislature with its predominately urban members has done the right thing for and has been very supportive of agriculture when given the facts . . . so with this kind of support, it gives us a great plat-form from which we can address the challenges we have not only in our in-dustry but also our state. Why wouldn’t you want to be a part of that??

4What are you the most excited about?

I address this somewhat addressed in the previous question, but also, the opportu-nity to travel the state advocating for our very creative and innovative farmers and ranchers. I believe that government should be there to enable and empower, not hinder its citizens and their success. So, I will be looking at our Dept. of Ag and making sure that what we offer is relevant, making sure we are not burdening our producers with excessive regulations (State and Federal) but at the same time safe-guarding the states’ citizens and its natural resources.

FYI . . .There are seven different divisions with in the Department (see website: www.sdda.sd.gov), with a staff of just over 100 (seasonally can get to 140 with fire suppression and the State Fair) and has a budget of approximately $15 mil-lion which is 4/10 of one percent of the state’s 2010 budget. Agriculture generates

about 40 percent of the state’s gross state product.

5What are you the most scared about?

I don’t think that scared is the right term. . . I do have a number of concerns 1) oppressive regulations advocated and imposed by emboldened federal bureaucrats and activists 2) the changing State and National demographics (from rural to urban) which lessens ag’s voice in Pierre and Washington D.C., and puts more pressure on our prime farmland for commercial, residential, and recreational development 3) continued difficulty for beginning farmers and ranchers to get into the business with increasing land values, equipment and input costs 4) shrinking State and Agriculture Department budgets

See Secretary • 19


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Love of huntingSouth Dakota freedom hunt gives back

Seventeen years ago, a motorcycle accident left Keith Cooper without the use of his legs. An avid hunter since he was 12, the outdoorsman says he wasn’t

about to let his handicap stand in the way of the hobby

he’d come to love.

“I was in rehab when I applied for my deer license. I wasn’t

sure how I would be able to hunt, but I figured I’d better get out there and try,” said Cooper, who works in custom-er support for Larson Manufacturing in Brookings.

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One hunt where Cooper has the opportunity to traverse the field hunting for pheasants is the South Dakota Freedom Hunts. Host-ed by Tad Jacobs on his wildlife game preserve, Sioux River Wild-life, near Flandreau, the nonprofit hunt provides disabled hunters like Keith with the opportunity to hunt pheasants from the back of pickups and trailers with the aid of volunteers.

“The landscape is awesome, the hospitality is great and the camara-derie among other hunters is something I really enjoy,” Keith said.

See Hunt • 17

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Faces of South Dakota farmers who are committed to preserving land, water and air are showing

up on billboards and in advertisements as part of an environmental campaign launched by the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council (SDCUC) and South Dakota Corn Growers Associa-tion (SDCGA).

The second phase of the True Environ-mentalists campaign began this month and is designed to show the public the many ways that farmers protect and better their surroundings. Assisted by improved farming methods, scientific

advancements and new technology, to-

day’s producers are using less fertilizer,

pesticide and water.

They’re doing less tillage of land and

reducing erosion and runoff. They’re

adding greenways, putting buffer strips

around water holes, conserving grass-

land and planting trees.

“My Grandma Smith always said you

don’t plant a tree for this generation, you

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Brian Smith, a fourth-generation Mon-trose farmer.

Smith and his wife, Stephanie, are one of several farm families featured in the campaign. His great-grandfather home-steaded the farm in 1900 and lived in a granary until he built a house. Several generations of the family have planted shelterbelts on the property.

David Fremark, SDCUC’s president, said the campaign is intended to provide information about environmental steps farmers take in hopes that people will think about it.

“I think this whole idea sprung from the fact that a lot of people think being an environmentalist is something you do on Arbor Day. You plant a tree or maybe use less fossil fuel,” Fremark said. “Farm-ers have to be environmentalists or we don’t last. Farmers live it, breathe it, do it every day.

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Smith said farmers’ practices make sense, both economi-cally and environmentally. One of the biggest environ-mentally friendly steps he’s taken is the use of precision farming through GPS tech-nology. He can conduct soil testing in zones of his fields and apply varying rates of fertilizer.

The technology helps limit the use of seed, fertilizer and pesticides to amounts that are actually needed by shut-ting off planter rows or spray-er booms in areas where they aren’t needed. That makes it a good economical and environmental decision, he said. Also, technology traits built into seed greatly reduce chemical use.

“It’s in our best interest to keep land in good shape. If it’s in good shape, it will treat you right,” Smith said. “There’s no sense abusing it or you’ll pay for it down the line.”


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The Smiths, who are expecting their first child in April, are confident their farming practices will preserve the land so it’s in prime condition for future generations.

“I won’t force a son or daughter to farm, but I will make sure the land is available and in good shape,” he said.

Environmental farm facts:

• Less pesticide and fuel are being used. Ad-vances in biotechnology give seed the ability to protect itself from insects, reducing the need for pesticides. That also cuts down the number of passes across a field, reducing fuel use and emis-sions.

• The energy that’s used to grow a bushel of corn has dropped 37 percent through conservation practices such as no-till farming and GPS equip-ment. The farming practices also reduce erosion and runoff.

• Farmers are conserving more water. 87 percent of the nation’s corn crop is watered only by rain. On fields that are irrigated, drought-tolerant hy-brids reduce the amount of water needed.

• Air quality is being protected. One acre of corn removes eight tons of harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. And reduced field work limits emissions into the air.

• The amount of land needed to produce one bushel of corn dropped 37 percent from 1987 to 2007.

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L E A D I N G T H E WA YData courtesy of USDA, SDSU, SD Corn Growers Assn., Governor’s Ag Development Summit

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


Story by Lura RotiPhoto courtesy

Nature-grownMaking mob grazing a success

Pick up any livestock publication today and you’re sure to read about intensive grazing systems, otherwise referred to as mob grazing,

says Justin Fruechte, forage specialist for Millborn

Seeds in Brookings.

“Mob grazing is a very effective tool for many pro-

ducers, and when done correctly, can show amazing

results,” Fruechte said.

Fruechte said the debate of whether this is a sound practice focuses on a few key points. The major point which deserves some attention is the timing of each forage which is being mob grazed.

“This can differ from native grass, annual grasses, bras-

See Grazing • 18


ers, they’ve been very excited about it and they’ve seen

an increase in horsepower in their vehicles,” Thorne said.

“There is excitement about using American fuel and

benefiting people from the heartland and creating jobs.”

Other benefits to using American fuel are that the Unit-

ed States is supporting the country and not supporting

leaders like Hugo Chávez, Thorne said.

“If we, as a nation, go to E15, we will eliminate the

equivalent of Hugo Chávez. He was a dictator and an oppressor and we are keeping him in power through our petro-dollars,” Thorne said.

“If we go to E15 it will create at least 136,000 new jobs in our country.”

With new ethanol plants, jobs like marketing, chemical engineers, agricultural engineers and many others will open up. It will build economic growth, Thorne said.

One problem with small towns in the U.S. is that adult children are leaving their towns and states to find em-ployment and the switch to E15 could put a stop to

that, he said.

Other benefits to using more E15 ethanol gas is the ben-

efits it has on the environment.

“It will cause a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions,

which is one of the reasons NASCAR wanted to switch

to E15,” Thorne said.

“They’re becoming a more green sport.

“If we can move everyone to E15 we could eliminate

carbon emissions, essentially tailpipe emissions, and get

about 10.5 million cars off the road.”

EthanolFrom Page 5


ing 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. to fill orders. Now that the holiday is over, he’s back to a more relaxed schedule building up his inventory of items be-fore the summer craft fair season begins.

“People ask me when I’m going to retire. I don’t plan to any time soon,” Hofer said, stepping into his workshop, located only a few steps from his kitchen table.

He recounts a story a customer shared with him a few years ago to emphasize his point.

“A lady came to my booth, and she told me she was glad I had something to do because her husband retired only the year before. She said he didn’t have a hobby and she buried him within six months,” Hofer said. “I like to keep my mind occupied and sharp. That’s what I try to do.”

Hofer not only builds items to supplement the couple’s retirement fund, he also donates several items each year to Christian schools to sell in their fundraiser auctions.

“We are Christian people and support Christian schools,” Hofer said. “My daughter teaches at a Christian school in North Dakota, so I under-stand what a struggle it is to keep the schools going financially. That’s where auctions come in.”

As he applies the final coat of paint to the barn’s roof, Hofer says he enjoys seeing the reaction from children and their parents when they see the barn at craft fairs.

“Sometimes the children don’t know what a barn is. I hear their parents or grandparents ex-plaining to them what a barn is and what the functions of a barn are,” he said.

“I enjoy telling people that I grew up with a barn just like this one.”

BarnsFrom Page 7

“It’s great because we don’t always have someone to drive birds to us. Tad’s got lots of birds and amazing habitat, so it’s a real privilege to be able to hunt his land.”

Jacobs partners with the Paralyzed Vet-erans of America to share his land with disabled individuals and veterans each year. The longtime conservationist and hunter, says it’s a way to share his love for hunting and the outdoors.

“Hunting has been a family tradition

since I was a child,” said Jacobs, who has made his career in the medical field. “It’s a humbling experience and really makes you appreciate what folks with disabilities go through on a daily basis.”

To learn more about South Da-kota Freedom Hunts visit www.sd freedomhunts.org.

HuntFrom Page 10

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sicas, or a tame grass pasture. Timing the move-ment of livestock to the next paddock can differ within each of these forages. That timing will be dependent of rest period of the paddock, rate of re-growth, and the time of year producers graze and expect it to re-grow,” he said.

He shares an example: If a cattle producer has fenced off a native pasture which consists of warm and cool season grasses, and they expect to graze every paddock twice in the year; by grazing cool season grasses early in the year, letting them rest for about 50 days and then grazing their warm season grasses, this system will work fine.

However, without the warm season grass compo-

nent, producers wouldn’t be able to expect re-growth in mid-summer.

In contrast, if producers had a field planted to an annual forage like sorghum sudan grass, the rate of re-growth is extremely dependent on the time of the year. Expecting re-growth from the last pad-dock they grazed in September would be foolish, but getting re-growth from the first paddock they grazed in July would definitely be expected.

Know your forage system

Fruechte says that when developing a rotation that works best for a producer’s grazing program and land, they need to remember the keys to successful mob grazing are knowing your forage system and its agronomic characteristics.

“As a forage specialist, I get the opportunity to talk

to quite a few producers that are practicing differ-

ent intensive rotational grazing system practices.

Each producer I talk with does it just a bit differ-

ent, but they all have seen a value in the practice,”

Fruechte said. “There isn’t a one size fits all set of

guidelines that will fit every ranch.

“Using the principles of the practice, and tweaking

them to fit your operation will be the key to mak-

ing a mob grazing system work for you.”

If you have any questions on how to make mob

grazing work on your operation, contact Justin

Fruechte at [email protected] or 888-

498-7333.

PHOTO | Forage specialist, Justin Fruechte says live-stock producers can make mob grazing if they under-stand their forage system.

GrazingFrom Page 15


6Why do you think you are the right person for this job?

I’m guessing that my name was put into consideration because of 1) my willingness to serve, 2) my active day-to-day experience on our farm (the Gov elect wanted his Secretary of Ag to be an active farmer or rancher) 3) my diverse background growing live-stock and crops, 4) my commitment to economic development through value-added opportunities and 5) my involvement in a wide variety of in-dustry groups not only here in South Dakota but also on a National level.

7 How long of a term is it? Four years?

There is no “term”... I serve at the plea-sure of the governor and have commit-ted for a minimum of two years and we’ll see where we are at that time.

8What is going to be your first priority at Secretary of Agri-culture?

I will be heading to Pierre to start meet-ing with the staff (many of whom I have worked with in the past) and start

to get my “arms around” the depart-ment, what it does, how it does it and what do we have to do to make sure it is responsive to the Governor, produc-ers, the Legislature and the citizens of South Dakota.

It will be a busy time with the session starting on Jan. 10.

9What is the top three things you would like to see improved that you

want to change as South Dakota Sec-retary of Agriculture?

I have the luxury of following in the footsteps of previous secretaries that left the Department of Ag in great shape with great dedicated public ser-vants, so it is not broken. I don’t come in with an ax to grind and immediately start “taking the wheels off the bus”.

We will make sure the (limited) taxpay-er’s dollars are being used in the best way possible so I will be challenging the status quo.

So to answer your question: 1) engage the Governor in more agricultural is-sues 2) I want to make sure that the story of the good things happening in agriculture are communicated to the public 3) Agriculture is so dynamic and I want to make sure that the De-partment of Ag stays responsive to the producers and citizens of the State.

10What do you think you can bring to this position that no one else can?

I know of many farmers and ranch-ers that are just as qualified as I am and would have done a great job as Secretary of Agriculture. . . .but their personal situation would not allow them to leave their farm, ranch or job at this time. This is a full time position.

If I wouldn’t have had the blessings of my wife and my family farming part-ners: my two brothers (Jim and Steve), brother in law (Lyle Van Hove) and their three sons (Matt Bones, Dan Bones

and Mike Van Hove), along with Mon-te Plucker (employed with us 20-plus years), there would have been no way that this would have worked for me. I am excited about the opportuni-ties here in S.D. and in agriculture. Challenges (budgets, weather, prices, etc.) bring out the best in those of us involved in production agriculture. SDDA is also charged by statutes with a number of oversight, regulatory, and inspection duties.

I will make sure that the department continues to fulfill these obligations that insure the safety of our citizens and the preservation of our natural resources.

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Dennis Todey is South Dakota’s state climatologist. Passionate about climate’s impact on ag-

riculture and how its variability impacts changes in agriculture, Todey has spent his career analyzing climate and climate trends and their impact on the growing season.

He also works as an as-sociate professor in the department of Agricul-tural & Biosystems En-gineering at South Da-kota State University, and has a Ph.D. in ag-ricultural meteorology.

Q: When making predictions about the 2011 growing season what do you reference?

A: First, if we are in an El Nino or La Nina year, we can make predictions with more skill than years when we are not. This year we are in a La Nina year. We also look at recent weather trends and soil moisture for agricultural outlooks.

Q: What determines a La Nina?

A: Whether we are in an El Nino or a La Nina weather pattern is based on sea sur-face temps in Central Pacific. The colder than average water in the Central Pa-

cific this year means we are n a La Nina weather pattern.

Q: Because we are in a La Nina weather pattern, what could this say about weather during the 2011 growing season?

A: The La Nina weather conditions peak in the winter. Specific winter impacts include; colder than average temps and precipitation which tends to be near to below average — and becomes increas-ingly less as spring approaches.

I anticipate a cool and dry planting sea-son based on previous La Ninas.

Q: What about all the precipitation we received so far?

A: All of South Dakota has received well above average precipitation since the be-ginning of December. This is partially caused by fairly low averages during De-cember. But we have also received much more precipitation than I would have expected based on the La Nina pattern.

Looking ahead for the rest of the winter, I would expect temperatures to stay on the colder than average side, based on La Nina and the snow cover. La Nina av-erages would still say likely drier in the

SD climatologist gives outlook for 2011 season

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eastern part of the state while western parts of the state may stay wetter later into the winter.

Q: What should we expect after planting season?

A: What has people, at least the markets are most aware of right now is the possibility of La Nina hang-ing around into summer. This would mean a higher likelihood of warmer and drier weather conditions than normal across most of the Corn Belt.

For my Ph.D. work, I looked at El Nino and La Nina patterns. What I found was if you have a consistent La Nina pattern throughout the summer, generally the growing season won’t be as good.

The markets are at least aware of the potential impact this could have on corn supplies. Supplies are very tight right now, and any kind of yield pressure is go-ing to put more pressure on prices.

Q: Do you think La Nina will stick around through the summer?

A: Looking at all the weather models, half say it will hold on through summer and half say it won’t. La Nina pattern is peaking right now. We need to watch this closely. I will say this, there is enough concern that people are hedging bets and watching closely for where it goes from here.

Q: So other than La Nina, what do the other two pieces — recent trends and soil moisture tell us about the 2011 growing season?

A: The wet trend we are in right now is something we take into consideration. I think the trend will con-tinue until we have a big change, and I don’t think we’ve had it yet. Factoring in the weather trend with La Nina, it looks like we might dry out some, but not as bad in other La Nina years. From a soil moisture

standpoint — due to moisture we received in Septem-

ber, in many areas of the northeast soils are moist, but

not too bad, as long as in the spring it’s not excessively

wet, I think planting season should go well. There

are a few pockets in the south central to southwest

where a lack of fall precipitation left soils somewhat

dry. These would mainly be from around Mission to

Academy.

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