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This is the first year that the Watford City High School DECA class put on such an event. The McKenzie County Library in Watford City held this event for the DECA students and the community members that attended every day. It was held when DECA replaced the former school group of FBLA. As many people are familiar with FBLA which stands for Future Business Leaders of America. DECA which may not be as familiar with, has been around for nearly 70 years and has impacted the lives of more than ten...
Cell Grazing, dormant season grazing, swath grazing, crop residue grazing and bale grazing, everything you need to know about grazing. Steve Kenyon, Green Pastures Ranching Ltd. will be in Sidney on January 17 to speak about these grazing alternatives. The workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Richland County MSU-Extension Meeting Room, 1499 N Central Ave, Sidney, MT. Cost to attend will be $20 which will include lunch. Steve Kenyon runs a custom grazing business in the Westlock, Alberta area under the name of Greener Pastures Ranching Ltd. He...
The McKenzie County Community Foundation gave out $3,800 in grants in December 2017. Recipients were: Save the Maah Daah Hey, Pioneer Museum/McKenzie County, Summit Counseling and Long X Arts Foundation. These grants were made possible with key gifts from area donors. Grant requests totaled $13,300 on $78,100 of county-wide projects. "We wish we could have done more for the many wonderful projects that were submitted," says Marcia Hellandsaas, MCCF committee chair,"but we are working to grow...
Funeral services for Laura Thiel, 54, of Sidney, MT were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, December 30 at Assembly of God Church. Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home is helping with the arrangements. Remembrances, pictures and condolences may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com. Laura died on Monday, December 25 in Billings, MT at the Riverstone Hospice Home....
Funeral services for Esther Kling, 95, of Sidney, MT are at 10 a.m., Friday, January 5 at Ebenezer Congregational Church with Pastor David Meehan officiating. Interment will follow in the Sidney Cemetery under the direction of Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home of Sidney, MT. Remembrances, pictures and condolences may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com. Esther Gertrude Kling peacefully passed away on Sunday, Christmas Eve, December 24 at Sidney Health Center Extended Care in Sidney....
Richland County Health Department’s administrator Judith LaPan recently co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, evaluating strategies for conducting impact assessments in areas affected by oil development. The study is a case-study of Richland County’s experience implementing the Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships, or MAPP, process. The MAPP process is a framework for community needs assessment and strategic planning. Richland County has implemented the framework thr...
The Christmas fundraising campaign of the Williston Salvation Army is running dangerously behind. As of Dec. 18, total donations to the Williston Salvation Army had reached only $84,500. On the same date last year, total donations were just over $116,500. “That’s a shortage of $32,000,” said Captain Cappy Moore, co-leader of the Williston Salvation Army. “Without help, we won’t reach our $183,000 Christmas fundraising goal.” If the goal isn’t met by Dec. 31, programs could suffer in 2018. Money raised during the Christmas season accounts for...
Every year for the holidays the McKenzie County Hospital staff decorates their doors for a contest. This year radiology, medical records, nurses stations, laboratory, physical therapy, as well as Cheryl and Ashley. With the possibility of this being the last year in the current location and moving to a bigger facility in the months to come, it will be exciting to see how many doors will be in next year’s contest. (Photos by Wendy Lough)...
The first Camp Christmas program was the Home School Students art program. The students referred to the program leader as Mrs. Mary. The second Camp Christmas program was held for the students who attend the McKenzie County School District. The art teacher, her daughter, Rachel and son, Joe also participated and helped their mother with the week long area program that was held through the Long X Art Foundation. The children as well as their parents, in both of the these different classes...
Hallows and Horcruxes this Holiday season, donated by Ann Johnsrud, the themed McKenzie County Library's literary tree graces visitors with a glimpse into Harry Potters world. (Photo by Maria Borkowksi)...
Gibbs Angus Ranch and Stortz Angus Ranch will be selling 120 yearling Angus bulls at Glendive Livestock Exchange in Glendive, MT on Wednesday, February 28th. For the past 14 years, the Gibbs and Stortz families have sold bulls together and both families have been involved in the cattle industry for multiple generations. The quality of their cattle is contributed to good maternal selection with an emphasis on disposition, udder quality, foot structure, and feedlot and carcass genetics. Their...
Three miles east of White Earth, ND, you can find Feiring Angus Ranch. Doug and Ceylon Feiring own Feiring Angus Ranch, along with sons, Brett and Brady, and daughter Shambre. One of their major philosophies is, "To never overstock pastures with more animals than the land can handle." Generation after generation of Feiring Angus have all received the same lecture. Feiring Angus does not use popular genetics in their breeding program, for they believe that cattle should adapt to mother nature...
In the rolling green hills of Golden Valley, ND, you can find Isaak Angus Ranch. Isaak Angus has been in the ranching and farming business for 4 generations, with Ron Isaak and his wife Jackie being the current owners and operators. Isaak's great grandfather and grandfather homesteaded on the land and even built a brick house in 1925, which is still on the ranch to this day. Isaak Angus Ranch has been raising registered Angus cattle for over 20 years, and one of their main philosophies is to...
JB Angus will be at the Stockmen's Livestock sale in Dickinson, ND at 1:00pm mountain time Wednesday, January 31st. Owners Jonathan Ficek and Bobby Kubas will be selling 30 select yearlings and two year old bulls with about 60 replacement heifers for sale through private treaty. Sires represented at the sale will be RB Tour of Duty 177, Basin Advance 3134, Connealy Thunder 587, and JBA Infusion 419. Both Ficek's and Kubas' families have been ranching in the area for generations, and each of...
Leland Red Angus will be hosting their 35th annual production sale on March 9th at the ranch located in SW McKenzie County, 35 miles SE of Sidney in the Squaw Gap Community. The ranch, which has raised registered Red Angus for 50 years, is operated by Melvin and Luella Leland and their son and daughter-in-law Todd and Carla Leland. Homesteaded in 1911 by Melvin Leland's father, Leland Red Angus breeds over 500 registered Red Angus females per year and will market 180 bulls and 65 yearling heifer...
Cell Grazing, dormant season grazing, swath grazing, crop residue grazing and bale grazing, everything you need to know about grazing. Steve Kenyon, Green Pastures Ranching Ltd. will be in Sidney on January 17 to speak about these grazing alternatives. The workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Richland County MSU-Extension Meeting Room, 1499 N Central Ave, Sidney, MT. Cost to attend will be $20 which will include lunch. Steve Kenyon runs a custom grazing business in the Westlock, Alberta area...
On a ranch tucked in the rolling hills of Eastern Montana south of the small town of Wibaux, MT, sits a seed stock ranch that produces cattle that are designed to work for every segment of the industry. Begger's Diamond V Ranch began raising seed stock black Simmental, Angus, and Sim-Angus cattle in 1974, with over 43 annual bull sales, and over 4 decades of selection criteria that has always been focused on the success of the commercial cattle industry. You can be assured that the breeding...
Rambur Charolais is located just south of Sidney, MT and was founded more than 30 years ago by Howard Rambur. When he started in the ranching industry, Howard wanted to work with a breed of cattle distinctly different from any other breeds in eastern Montana, so he chose the Charolais. The Charolais, at the time, was a relatively new breed to the area and was still able to retain its full French heritage. Even though the breed grew quite large as adults, Howard had a goal to modify the Charolais...
Best Angus & Quarter Horses started as a 4-H and FFA project in 1987 with the purchase of a heifer from the placement pen at McCumber Angus Ranch. Many of the cows in the herd are descendants of the original heifer, Rosetta 622 of McCumber. Best Angus grew slowly focusing on quality. Pete and Vawnita Best worked together in building their business; Vawnita worked as a meat inspector and Pete worked as an Agricultural Lender. The Best's continued to keep top heifers as replacements and invested...
The Early Morning Red Angus Ranch, located twelve miles south of Tioga, ND, will be marketing 32 yearling Red Angus bulls, eight two-year old bulls, and yearling Red Angus heifers at Sitting Bull in Williston, ND Friday, April 27th at 1:00 pm central time. Owner and operator Carl Frisinger bought the ranch in 1965; having grown up in a ranching family, Frisinger grew up raising Herefords. However, when they became hard to sell, he bought six Red Angus Cows from the Leland Drought Reduction Sale...
What once started as a way to make a living turned into a family run ranch consisting of 60 registered purebred red Angus cows, 100 head of commercial red Angus cattle, 25 Charolais cattle, and a cross of Charolais and red Angus feeder calves. "We crossbreed our Charolais and Red Angus cattle to produce our feeder calves. Our Charolais bulls we just use mainly for ourselves, but we sell our yearling red Angus bulls private treaty," said John Franz. The Franz Ranch sits just 20 miles North West...
Bar JV Angus Ranch is a proud part of the argiculture community in the Mon-Dak area, and is located in the Sioux Pass Community halfway between Sidney and Culbertson, MT on highway 16. Many great people are involved in raising livestock in the area, and they feel it is a great responsibility to provide clients with genetics that will continue to improve their cowherd along with Bar JV's own. Bar JV is a family run operation, operated by Jim and Loretta Vitt along with their son Dale Vitt and his...
Stroh Hereford Ranch will be holding their 28th annual production sale on Thursday, February 1st, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. mountain time at the ranch, located 1.5 miles east of the Killdeer roundabout on Highway 200 or 5 miles west of Dunn Center, ND. Tony Stroh established Stroh Herefords in 1950 and along with his wife, Leona, they have been in the Hereford Industry for 65 years. The Stroh Hereford Ranch is currently owned by Tony and Leona's youngest son, Mike and his wife, Dawn along with their...
Regency Acres will be marketing approximately 100 bulls and 30 heifers at the Sidney Livestock Sale Friday, April 13th beginning at 1:00pm. Regency Acres, located eight miles Southeast of Lambert, MT, is owned and operated by Russ and Jill Thiessen along with their daughter Téa and son Tyler. The Thiessen family has been in the cattle business since moving to the area in the 1890s; Russ Thiessen's grandfather established the registered herd in 1957. Formerly the Thiessen Angus Ranch, it was...
As the year ends, reflecting on the past year is good. The obvious point this year is the lack of forage and how, as producers, one responded to the challenge. The Dickinson Research Extension Center needs more than 1,000 1,300-pound bales to make the stretch to spring grass. That number is buffered a bit because the calves are receiving 3 pounds of commercial supplement daily and the cows 4 pounds of commercial supplement every other day. But forage is the essence of a cattle operation, and keeping costs low is critical. Fortunately, the...
