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(left)Waylon Van Buren, Sidney, kicks off for the Sidney white team last week in a game against Watford City....
The Junior Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Mother Cabrini #1766 St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, Sidney, visited the residents of the Crestwood Inn, Sidney, for a Halloween themed evening. The girls sang patriotic songs and played Bingo before sharing homemade pies with the Crestwood seniors....
Governor Brian Schweitzer has said that the Montana Department of Natural Resource and Conservation’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale held this week produced $7.9 million for K-12 education in Montana, the fourth-highest income from a sale since the 1970s. A total of 483 tracts of school trust land totaling 201,000 acres were leased in 20 Montana counties. Judith Basin had the largest number of tracts leased with 253, followed by Chouteau and Cascade counties with 43 tracts each. In Roosevelt County, just two tracts were leased, but for a t...
After over a week’s delay from scheduled start-up, the sugarbeet harvest got underway on Oct. 8 for Sidney, Culbertson, Savage and Fairview area growers. Those growers in the Powder River and Pleasant View areas followed suit on Oct. 9. At press time, weather has continued to cooperate and growers have had relatively smooth digging with only a few delays at individual stations due to heat. “We’re about a third done,” said Randy Jones, Sidney Sugars, on Oct. 12. “If the nice weather continues...
Every summer, Sidney Sugars crews work to repair, maintain and upgrade the six pile grounds, preparing these beet receiving stations for the upcoming beet harvest. Some years, a particular pile ground may require additional attention, and this past summer, both the Savage and the Culbertson stations had special needs that crews attended to over the summer months. Because of this extra work, Savage this year has the capability to weigh semi trucks, an improvement that brings this pile ground...
Combine a love of driving with the desire to help out neighbors, and you have Wilma Prevost, Savage, who has been driving beet truck for growers off and on for the past 40 years. She hauled her first load of beets during harvest as a senior in high school. She then drove truck off and on during the ‘60s and ‘70s, and returned to driving on an annual basis in 1999, driving for neighbors who required help at harvest. “I grew up on a farm and drove tractor as a teenager, but the first time I drove...
When sugarbeet harvest ends each fall, many of us figure that harvest has ended for another year. Not so, for those who have planted such crops as corn, sunflowers and pumpkins. These crops may still be in the field, awaiting picking or combining, as the case may be. Pumpkins have a long growing season, usually needing anywhere from 75-100 frost free days to reach maturity. Those who plant pumpkins commercially often do not start the harvest until October, depending on weather conditions, as...
Another harvest is very close to being completed and everyone is ready to celebrate. Join in our Harvest Festival Celebration this Wednesday through Saturday and salute the backbone of the MonDak region...Agriculture. We appreciate area growers, Sidney Sugars Incorporated, and anyone and everyone who has anything to do with providing the world with the basic commodity of food. The 3rd and 4th graders from all over Richland County have created masterpieces which will be displayed in stores this week. Register at participating merchants to win a...
The word ‘harvest’ brings to mind small grains, alfalfa, sugarbeets, potatoes, legumes and the bounty from the gardens and orchards. Harvest, the seasonal reaping of any natural product, also includes lesser thought about products, including the harvest of trees for wood. Crane resident, Ken Redman, harvests trees and runs the logs through his small mill, producing slabs and boards of whatever dimensions he desires. He uses his end product to build anything from cabinets and trim to corrals and...
“Pulse crops” refers to a group of more than 60 different grain legume crops grown around the world. The seeds of pulse crops are important in human nutrition. They are typically made up of 20-25% protein and 40-50% starch; they are also rich in dietary fiber and usually have only small amounts of oil. The protein of pulse seeds is high in the amino acids lysine and methionine, making pulses nutritionally complementary to cereals, which are deficient in these two essential amino acids. Pulses are the main source of protein in the diet of veg...
Gabe Gonsioroski, 4th grader at Lambert School, earned the top award in our Art Contest. Gabe will receive his artwork back, nicely framed, along with an art kit....
For the 38th straight year, Sidney Sugars Agriculturist Kerry Rasmussen has supervised beet harvest, organizing and training pile ground employees, working with growers, and doing everything possible to ensure that beet harvest runs as smoothly and trouble-free as possible for everyone. Rasmussen, who plans to retire from Sidney Sugars in the spring, expects harvest 2011 will be his last harvest as an agriculturist. “It’s been a good run,” Rasmussen remarks. “I’ve served at every pile ground in...
The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center (MCHF & WHC) is seeking nominations for the 2012 Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame induction round. In 2012, the MCHF & WHC will honor inductees who made their mark in Montana between 1880 and 1980, no matter the year of death or closure. Nominees can be men, women, ranches, stagecoach lines, animals, hotels, etc.—anyone or anything that has made an impact on Montana’s western heritage. Past inductees have included historical figures such as Sitting Bull, Evelyn Cameron, N Bar N Ranch, Cha...
Pulse crops can be swathed and threshed or straight combined. However, the choice depends on machinery availability, the crop type, shattering resistance, stage of maturity and uniformity of maturity. Below are guidelines for the different types of pulse crops: Chickpeas: Chickpeas do not cure well in the swath, resulting in high green seed if swathed or desiccated too early. Best yields are obtained when crop is left standing and then straight combined. Swathing may result in lower yield, higher green seed and seed infection from both fungal...
Land usage changes through the years. The small patch of ground located along the highway south of the Dore elevator served as a sugarbeet pile grounds for many years until sugar factory officials closed it in 1996. During that time, residents saw a lot of heavy truck traffic in and out of the pile grounds during harvest. Today, that same piece of ground now stores tanker rail cars for the movement of crude oil and residents see a tremendous amount of truck traffic all year long, not just during...
Extreme times call for extreme measures, and sometimes these extraordinary efforts lead to innovation and invention. Growers today may complain about the difficulty of finding harvest help, but today’s situation doesn’t compare with the acute labor shortages growers faced during World War II, particularly during the 1942 harvest year. With all able bodied men off to war, growers worked with communities and state agencies to find solutions to labor problems. They also turned their creativity into...
Montana State University students traveled thousands of miles, dug hundreds of holes and sorted through truckloads of dirt to trap worms this summer. The messy life and long hours of a worm wrangler help pay their way through college, but they also benefit an MSU graduate student who is conducting several studies involving a growing enemy of Montana’s grain, said undergraduates Branden Brelsford, Bozeman, and Emily Rohwer, Forest Grove, OR. Wireworms, the tiny white larvae that turn into c...
A Montana State University researcher who analyzed 100 years of data has found a significant link between extreme Montana weather and the ocean temperatures near Peru. Montanans who want to know what to expect from the weather should look to the Pacific Ocean in the fall or maybe find a way to chat with some Peruvian fishermen, according to Joseph Caprio, MSU’s Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences professor emeritus and former Montana State climatologist. If the average s...
While rushing around town the other day, hurrying so I could get out of the crowded mess and disarray of what used to be a peaceful little burg, I bumped into an acquaintance I haven’t seen for several years. When she said ‘hello’ to me, I looked at her, realized in short order who she was, and the first thought that entered my head was ‘my goodness, has she ever aged’. My next thought, following a nanosecond after my initial shocked disbelief at seeing the gray hair and other signs of age in...
The calling of cranes and the honking of geese high overhead reminds us in no uncertain terms that summer has fled, fall has arrived, and the birds have packed their bags and started their annual migrations south to warmer climates. The cawing of blackbirds as they flock up by the hundreds preparing to take flight out of this region reinforces the truth that winter will arrive sooner than we care to admit. Many bird populations travel long distances twice a year along flyways that generally...
October is National Apple Month and even though Montana is not an apple producing state I know I am enjoying the apples off of my backyard tree and the new apple crop in the grocery stores. About 2,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the United States. The top 10 apple varieties are: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Fuji, Granny Smith, Rome, McIntosh, York, Idared and Jonathan. In 2008, the average U.S. consumer ate an estimated 49.8 pounds of fresh and processed apples. The old...
Change happens all the time; nothing lasts forever or remains static for very long. Some change we regard as good and embrace with open arms, while we dread and anticipate the worst case scenario when other events cause change to occur in our lives. Our outlook depends on circumstances and experience. Supposedly older people have more problems adapting to change, but I don’t believe that. Regardless of how old we are, circumstances can bring much wanted and appreciated changes which we d...
I just completed the book The Language of Flowers written by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, and I thoroughly enjoyed this read. The story kept me engrossed throughout the entire book, not only because of the great prose and the plot, but also because of the different world it opened for me. The story revolves around a lonely young woman who has encased her heart in cast iron because of her life experiences. Abandoned as an infant and growing up in foster homes and group homes, her childhood experiences...
1st Bank, Sidney, hosted a luncheon for community and business leaders on Oct. 13 at the Richland County Fair Events Center. The luncheon was held to expose a segment of the community to the Federal Reserve System and provide local feedback. The luncheon is hosted in the home town of one Federal Reserve Branch of Helena board member each year. Speakers included Vice President and Helena Branch Manager Paul Drake, Helena Branch Board Member John Franklin, 1st Bank and Narayana Kocherlakota,...
Harvest is here again and the Richland County Emergency Medical Services Board would like to remind all drivers to drive safely especially during this time. Here are a few facts and safety tips to keep you and your family safe. In the United States more than 70% of all fatal collisions involve automobiles and large trucks. In these crashes the operator of the automobile, rather than the truck driver, contributed to the cause of the collision. Most collisions involving cars and trucks occur in daylight, on straight and dry pavement, and under...
