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1989: Ptditzer Prize-winning
author Robert Penn Warren. the first
poet laureate of the United States,
died.
2004: The National Hockey
League lockout began. The 200-1-
2005 season would ultimately be can-
celed.
WRAIN"$ I
• Energy Impact Symposium,
Growing with Energy:
Environmental and Workforce
Impacts, Sept. 18-20, Dickinson
State University
• American Legion Auxiliary
Belfield Post No. 144 meeting,
Sept. 20, 4 p.m., at the Memorial
Hall downstairs; after the meeting
a potluck supper will follow a
flag retirement ceremony at 6:30
p.m.
• Billings County Historical
Society meeting, Wednesday,
Sep. 21,5:30 p.m.. in Medora at
the courthouse, first floor
Commissioners" Room; everyone
welcome.
• National• Back to Church
Sunday at Beach Evangelical
Church, Sept. 18; 9:30 a.m..
Sunday School classes: 10:45
a.m., worship service; potluck
picnic and ice cream social at
Beach Swimming Pool Park fol-
lowing the service.
Varsity Volleyball
Beach vs. Dickinson Trinity,
Sept. 6
Beach: 20, 23, 25, 25.15
Dickinson: 25, 25, 21,21, 12
Beach kills: Kelcee Dykins, 8:
Hailee Farstveet, 7; Alyssa Zook. 4:
Cyndi Stedman, 4; Sarah Grant, 3
Digs: Destiny Portanova. 11;
Kelcee Dykins, 9: Sarah Grant, 6;
' Alyssa Zook, 5
Assists: Sarah Grant, 18; Alyssa
Zook, 2
Blocks: Cyndi Stedman, 10;
Hailee Farstveet, 8: Kaylene
• Kreitinger, 7; Alyssa Zook, 6
Service Aces: Kelcee Dykins, 3;
Destiny Portanova. 3; Alyssa Zook,
1: Sarah Brant, 1
Varsity Football
Beach vs. Mott-Regent, Sept. 9
Beach scoring per quarter: 14,
14, 8, 0; final: 36
Mott/Regent scores: 8, t6,0, 0:
final: 24
1st quarter: J. Hardy, 12 yd: J.
Hardy to B: Skoglund, P.A.T.
2nd quarter: J. Hardy, 1 yd J.
Hardy to B. Skoglund, P.A.T
3rd quarter: J. Hardy, 33 yds. J.
Hardy to B. Skoglund P.A.T.
Individual statistics:
Passing: J. Hardy, 3 of 7, 33
yds.; J. Kary, 1 of 3, 18 yds.
Rushing: J. Hardy. 36 carries,
255 yds., 3 TBs; Strobbe, 6 carries,
35 yds.
Receiving: L. Weinreis, 3 for 33
yds.; A. Weinreis. 1 for 18 yds.
Badlands ballooning
A hot air balloon floats near Medora on Sunday, Sept. 11, as part of the Badlands
Appreciation Weekend Hot Air Balloon Rally that involved several balloons. (Photo by Jane
M. Cook)
C:rop good; acreage down dramatically
Editor/Reporter
The harvest of small grain crops
in the region - in terms of quality -
has had good results, area elevator
managers say.
A major difference this year is
that less land was planted. Also, for
the Bowman County area. a lot of
what was seeded was later clobbered
by hail.
Gary Howard, manager of the
Golva Co-op Elevator, said produc-
ers in his area have reported winter
wheat in the 40 to 45 bushels per
acre range. Protein content has
ranged from t2.5 to 13 percent. For
spring wheat, protein content has
been at 15 to 16 percent.
"It's way better than I thought it
would be," said Howard.
Mark Baar, manager . of
Southwest Grain in Belfield, said
crop quality and test weights have
been good, although he said yields
have not. Winter wheat yields have A part of a sunflower field east of Beach that was productive
in 2010 remains unused this year. (File Photo by Richard
ranged from 40 to 60 bushels per
acre. and protein around 12 to 13 Volesky)
percent. FSA-administered farm program, ing season and to the persistence of
Mike Wedwick, manager of the farm program payments aren't farmers across the state. "Our coun-
Scranton Equity Exchange, said going to be affected because the pay- ty emeency boards did a great job
much of what farmers were able to ments are paid on previously estab- coming up with the initial estimates
get planted this season was damaged lished base acres, said Pete early in the year. Some areas got
in hailstorms that his area. Solemsaas, director of the Stark- lucky and dried out enough to get a
Farmers are now looking toward Billings FSA. crop in, and the lower number really
other crops, such as corn and sun- Producers who had insurance in shows how hard producers worked
flowers, which are continuing to place to deal with prevented planting to get a crop into the field this year,
mature. Light frost was being pre- will certainly end up with a better even if it meant getting planted later
dicted for this week. but wasn't bottom line. However, no crops than they had hoped."
expected to have a major effect. A doesn't mean no input costs. The prevented planting numbers
harder frost, with temperatures inthe Farmers instead have the cost of will be evaluated along with other
20s, would end the season for corn weed control on their unplanted crop yield infornmtion to complete a
and sunflowers, acres, damage assessment report. The
"'We need all the cooperation Statewide, crop acreage reporting report, requested by Gov. Jack
from Mother Nature that we can data from the Farm Service Agency Dalrymple, will be used by U.S.
get," said Wedwick. in Fargo shows about 23 percent of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
Paul Lautenschlager, Beach Co- the state's available cropland went to designate counties with qualifying
op Gra.in manager, said spring wheat unplanted in 2011 because of wet losses as disasters, according to the
quality at his elevator has been good, field conditions. Fargo FSA office. The disaster desig-
with protein ranging from 14 to 15 Producers reported just over 18.9 nation makes additional farm pro-
percent. Protein for winter wheat has million acres of land was planted to grams and emergency loans avail-
been above average, he said, but an annual crop in 2011 while a able toaffectedproducers.
winter wheat yields have been disap- record 5.6 million acres of crops Unplanted wheat acrounted for
pointing, were prevented from being planted more than 2.9 million acres of the
Usually in a year with more mois- this year. The record number of pre- reported prevented planting acreage,
ture, the yields are higher but the vented planting acres eclipses the with the majority concentrated in the
protein content for winter wheat and previous high of 3.9 million acres set northwest corner of the state.
spring wheat is lower. But in 1999. "Durum wheat really took a hit this
Lautenschtager said that it was drier "The number of prevented plant- year," Krauter said. "'There were
in the past 30 days, which stressed ing acres came in slightly less than only 7t8,000 acres of durum planted
the crops, and that helped improve we were initially expecting, '" Aaron in the state. That's about a third of
the protein results. Krauter, state executive director for what we would normally see."
In area counties, the official Fartn FSA, said in a prepared statement. Statewide, other major crops con-
Service Agency figures for prevent- ' "We're glad to see more acres get tributing to the record number of
ed planted acres - the tillable land planted, but it is still an almost unbe- prevented planting acres include
that never was planted this year due lievable number of acres and we 807,000 acres of corn.478.000 acres
to excess moisture- included 21 per- hope to never see this kind of disas- of soybeans, 463,000 acres of
cent for Stark County, 33 percent for ter again." canola. 457.000 acres of sunflowers
Billings, and 56 percent for Golden Krauter attributes the lower hum- and 211,000 acres of barley.
Valley. ber of prevented planted acres to Harvest
For producers enrolled in the improved weather late in the plant- (Continued on Pa9 e 10)
Speakers named
for Dickinson
Energy Summit
Sen. Kent Conrad has
announced the lineup of featured
speakers highlighting the
Dickinson State University
Energy Impact Symposium of
Sept 18-20, including keynote
addresses from Montana Gov.
Brian Schweitzer and former
Osage• Nation Principal Chief
James R. Gray.
"The oil find in western North
Dakota - including the Bakken
and Three Forks formations -
have transformed our state,"
Conrad said in prepared state-
ment. "Our unemployment rate is
at historic lows and our state is
running a billion dollar surplus.
Biat accompanying these enor-
mous benefits are some real infra-
structure and environmental chal-
lenges to the quality of life we've
always enjoyed in North Dakota.
These challenges demand timely
and creative solutions that will
allow us to balance the benefits of
our oil interests without compro-
mising all that has made our state
so special. I look forward to hear-
ing the unique insights from Gov.
Schweitzer and Mr. Gray, both of
whom have demonstrated capable
leadership in circumstances simi-
lar to the realities facing North
Dakotans:'
Conrad and officials from
Dickinson State University are the
event's co-sponsors.
The current CEO of the North
American ---ontractors
Association, James Gray, will
kick-off the event Sunday night
with an address focusing on the
challenges that confronted the
Osage Nation when a similar oil
find was discovered in Oklahoma.
Monday's panels will examine
"The oil find in
western North
Dakota- including
the Bakken and
Three Forks forma-
tions - have trans-
formed our state."
Sen. Kent Conrad
oil's impact on the changing/and-
scape of North Dakota's culture
and heritage, as well as its impact
on the state's agriculture interests,
environment, and wildlife. That
night, Schweitzer will deliver the
event's keynote address focusing
on the similar challenges he's con-
fronted in Montana.
Tuesday will feature panels
considering the impact of employ-
ment challenges as well as after-
noon sessions that deal with the
necessity of improving the
region's emergency response
capabilities.
Conrad said he was particularly
interested in the Emergency
Preparedness and Response panel,
which features Ward Brewer, the
CEO of the Emergency Response
and Preparedness Corporation;
Peter Marghella of Disaster
Preparedness Resources lnc: and
Cham Dallas and Ted Cowan,
experts i n preparedness and
response management.
The Energy Impact Symposium
is made possible through a U.S.
Department of Energy grant
secured by Minor State University
and Dickinson State University
and held in cooperation with the
Great Plains Energy Corridor.
1-800-521-0287
Those who assisted with packing donated items for ship-
ping to Minot include, from left, Rick Bostyan, James Kremers,
Charley Carlson, Mary Ann Schillo, Judy Clouse, Jan Kuchera,
Ray Clouse, and the truck driver from CrossCountry Courier.
(Courtesy Photo)
Church group makes
donation to Minot
GOLVA - Boxes of items that
filled about half of a 20-foot long
vail were recently donated to help
with the flood relief effort in, Minot.
The items included clothing and
household goods, said Judy Clouse,
chairperson of the rummag6 sale
committee at St. Mary's Church in
Golva. The parish has a rummage
sale twice a year. The gently used
• items that weren't sold at the recent
sale were donated to Minot.
Clouse said Deacon Lynn
Clancey of the Diocese of
Bismarck's office was contacted
abotlt a possible donation, and
Clancey arranged for the items to
be shipped. Crosscountry Courier
donated the shipping.
"We are ever so happy to be able
to help the dear people of Minot,"
said Clouse. "They are suffering so.
We are ever so grateful to
Crosscountry Courier. They have
made all of this possible for us to
do.'"
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