National Hard Spring Wheat Show

The 28th annual Bread Fair will take place in Williston on Monday February 1st, followed by the 57th annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show on February 2nd and 3rd.

The featured speaker for this year's event is Ron Hanson, Distinguished Professor of Agribusiness at the University of Nebraska. Professor Hanson will give a lecture discussing the issues associated with transitioning the family farm from one generation to the next.

In addition to the presentation mentioned above, there will be a variety of other workshops and presentations on a variety of wheat and agricultural-related topics and a trade show on the 2nd and 3rd. For a complete list of presentations, times, and locations, click here.

Winter Storm

Blowing snow has closed roads and caused power outages across Sheridan County. Many homes in the country are without power as well as Antelope, Reserve and Medicine Lake. Crews are busy trying to repair the outages and are making good progress. The City of Plentywood had their main well down for over 24 hours, and water reserves were running low (this includes fire protection). It was finally repaired and brought back on line late this afternoon. Crews are to be commended.

Cattle are out of water with frozen lines and waterers. After a little research, I was able to find out that cattle do just fine eating snow. There is little or no performance drop from eating snow as a water source. The only thing I could find that might be a problem was a 2-3 day delay until they discover that they can actually eat snow!!

2009 Agricultural Reserach Updates Now Available

The NDSU Research Extension Center in Williston and the MSU Eastern Agricultural Research Center in Sidney have compiled their research findings and the report is now available to you. Yield and variety trials on a wide array of crops can be found in this publication and it is available for free at your local Extension Office, some grain elevators, and some ag-product dealers throughout Northeastern Montana.