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Shown are coach Campbell, Josiah Orluck, Abby Wilhelmi, coach Zier and coach Zachmann at
the State Track & Field Meet. (Photo by Renee Orluck)
Track athletes battle heat, earn spots on podium
By Renee Oduck girls and boys 4-by-800 relay teams cause of the extreme temperatures
Correspondent ran on Friday. The girls team consist- measures were taken with the runners
BISMARCK - Buccaneer track ing of Abby and Madi Wilhelmi, getting sprayed with a garden hose at
coaches were proud of their runners' Megan Rising and Tyra Feldmann one end of the track and offered a cup
great effort and accomplishments at a came in 10th with a time of 10:32.64. of water to grab on the run at the other
very hot state track meet last weekend. The boys team was hoping on making end. Oduck ran first getting his per-
With temperatures pushing 90 on three years in a row on the podium, but sonal best time, 10.27.16, which
Friday, both seniors earned a point it didn't work out that way. The 4-by- earned him ninth place. Abby Wil-
each for their teams. Abby Wilhelmi 800 team of Jared Wojahn, Chance helmi ran her race in 12:36.29 earning
earned eighth place in the 1,600 Manhart, Samuel Clarke and Josiah .!2th place.
meter run with a time of 5:30.14. Orluck ended up in 14th place with a The last event ran by a Bucca-
Josiah Orluck earned eighth place in time of 8:50.66. neer was the 800 meter in which Or-
the 1,600 meter run with a time of Saturday was even warmer with luck earned 10th place with a time of
4:48.10. very little breeze. At noon Orluck and 2:03.70. Abby Wilhelmi and Orluck
Running in the 400-meter dash was Abby Wilhelmi headed down with 47 werealso honored at the Beach School
junior Jared Wojahn who ran it in other Division B girls and boys to District awards night earlier as female
53.71, placing him 15th in state. Both compete in the 3,200-meter run. Be- and male athletes of the year.
Barbara Nagle is shown with one of her paintings (Courtesy Photo)
Foundation to host first
rtist in residence
MEDORA - The Theodore Rod- works as a professional artist and Among the new featured new paint-
sevelt Medora Foundation will host workshop instructor. Her residency in ings are the luminous "Shine" and
Barbara Benda Nagle as the season's Medora will include a four -day "Smokey Joe" bison paintings, and
first artist in residence from June 4-14 drawing and painting workshop, a "Bully Pulpit View, " named after
gallery exhibit, watercolor demon- Medora's golf course.
Barbara is a native of Wahpeton strations, children's drawing activi- "I believe art is a teachable skill,
and now lives in Moorhead, Minn. ties, and plein air painting in the not a naturaltalent as many people be-
She is a graduate from Moorhead Badlands. lieve," said Nagle. "When I hearpeo-
State University with degrees in art She will be premiering new Bad- pie say they aren't artistic, I hope they
education and elementary education, lands-themed paintings at the new
After teaching for over 30 years in Sheila Shafer Gallery in the Harold Artist
BIA and public schools, she now Shafer Center starting June 4. (Continued on Page 8)
Top Hand, a gray Simmental Charolais bull that was purchased PRCA champion and stock con-
tractor Bob "Aber" Abernethy of Beach in 1973 is to be inducted into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall
of Fame. (Courtesy File Photo)
In a career spanning over 20 years director of the North Dakota Cow- Rodeo
in professional rodeo, 2008 World boy Hall of Fame. "Stran is a shin- Chad Berger, Rodeo Arena
Champion tie-down roper, Stran ingexampleofafealluowboy, having Steve Weekes, Pre-1940 Ranch-
Smith has known his share of hard- all the heart and soul it takes to en- ing
ships, dure in rodeo and in life, through Ralph Murray, Modern-era
Losing a best friend and his fa- good times and bad. It's truly an Ranching
vorite horse in separate traffic acci- honor to have him join us in cele- .Top Hand, Rodeo Livestock
dents, he also suffered a debilitating brating this year's honorees." Olson Ranch, Ranches
stroke and endured career threaten- In its 24th year honoring individ- Formal recognition for this year's
ing injuries to both his knee and uals, ranches and organizations that inductees will commence at 6 p.m.
shoulder. Through the tough times, that have made significant contribu- on Friday, June 15, with a dinner to
Smith qualified for the Wrangler Na- tions to the development and promo- be held at the North Dakota Cowboy
tional Finals Rodeo 11 times,became tion of North Dakota's livestock Hall of Fame in Medora. The dinner
a national pitchman for Wrangler industry, ranching, or western welcomes inductees, their family and
jeans and shirts and Ariat boots and lifestyle,the NDCHF announces the friends, and is open to the public.
was twice voted Coors Fans' Fa- 2018 Class of Inductees: The induction ceremony follows at 1
vorite at the WNFR. Jack Reich, Leader in Ranching & p.m. on Saturday, June 16, at Tjaden
"We are thrilled to welcome Stran Rodeo Terrace - also in Medora and open to
Smith as our special guest speaker at Dave Dahl, Pre- 1970 Rodeo the public.
this year's Hall of Honorees Induc- Nevada Jorgenson, Modern-eraMore details about the inductees
tion," Rodeo will be published in a future edition
said Rick Thompson, executiveLarry Sandvick, Modern-era as time and space allows.
North Dakota net farm income drops 30 percent
The average net income of farms in beans, $6.46 to $3.28 for corn and medium being $500,000 to $1 million
the North Dakota Farm Business $8.19 to $4.59 for spring wheat, and large being greater than $1 mil-
Management Program dropped 30In 2017, gross cash revenue was lion. Forty-five percent of farms were
percent to $88,026 in 2017, compared $737,370 per farm, of which 75.4 per- in the small category, one-third were
with $126,752 in 2016, according to cent were from crop sales, 10.2 per- medium-size and 22 percent were in
Andrew Swenson,North Dakota State cent from livestock sales, about 5 the large farm category.
University Extension farm and family percent each from government pay- The small farms had average net
resource management specialist, ments and insurance indemnities, and farm income of $28,760 on 744 crop
In 2017, one-half of the farms had 4.3 percent from other sources such as acres and 601 pasture acres. Medium-
net farm income less than $50,996, custom work performed and patron- size farms averaged $80,428 net farm
compared with a median net farm in- age dividends, income, with 1,939 crop acres and 403
come of $83,683 in 2016. More than 20 crops were grown, pasture acres. Large farms averaged
In 2017, the average farm size was but 75 percent of crop revenues came $220,077 net farm income and had
1,937 crop acres and 490 pasture from three crops: soybeans, corn and more than 5,100 total acres, of which
acres, the age of the operator was 45.8 spring wheat. Soybeans accounted for 4,370 were cropped.
years and the number of years farming one-third of all crop sales. Because of differences in relative
was 21.5 years. Crop farms had higher Capital purchases of farm machin- debt levels and/or interest rates, small
crop acres, 2,321, and beef farms ery, equipment and trucks collapsed farms used 5.8 percent of gross rev-
tended to be smaller averaging 362 from $158,990 per farm in 2013 to enue to cover interest expense, com-
crop acres and 1,245 pasture acres. $53,146 in 2016. They rebounded in pared with 4.9 percent for
The decline in 2017 net farm in- 2017 to $78,389, probably because of medium-size farms and 4.2 percent for
come was expected because the higher some pent-up demand and the finan- large farms.
2016 income was due to extremely cial wherewithal following the 2016 The smaller farms were less effi-
high record yields of corn and soy- uptick in net farm income, cient in employing their assets to gen-
beans and also strong government Farms continue to add debt to their erate gross revenue. The average asset
payments received, which were based balance sheets every year. In 2017, the turnover rate was 29 percent for small
on the 2015 crop. average farm borrowed $546,907 and farms, 31 percent for medium farms
Previously, average net farm in- made principal payments of $513,173 and 36 percent for large farms. This
come dropped to $133,466 in 2013, during the year. could be due to small farms being
$76,404 in 2014 and $28,600 in 2015 Difference in farm size and income more likely to be beef cow-calf oper-
as North Dakota marketing year aver- was noteable. Swenson categorized ations, which typically have a lower
age cash prices from 2012 to 2015 the farms by level of gross cash in- Income
plummeted from $14 to $8.49 for soy- come: small being less than $500,000,
(Continued on Page 8)
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