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Golden Valley News
December 3, 2015
Beef Talk
By Kris Ringwall
Beef Specialist,
NDSU Extension
Service
4-H group assists two families
Shown in the back row are Hillrunner's 4-H Leader Robert
Sperry, and Owen Davidson, Garrett Tyler, Andrew Trask,
KayLee Obrigewitch, Olivia Trask, Catie Loftsgard, Tevin
Dietz, Golden Valley County Horse Leader Candle Loftsgard
and 4-H Leader Hope Gasho. Front row: Beach City Auditor
Kim Nunberg, and Morgan Tyler, Emery Noll, Kolby Sperry,
Logan Tyler, Sawyer Noll, Adam Trask, Jessa Wersland and
Kieffer Ernst, Not pictured: BreeAnna Wersland. For their
Community Service Project this year, and with help from Nun-
berg the Hillrunner's 4-H group gave Thanksgiving meals to
two families in Golden Valley County. (Courtesy Photo)
North Dakota's unemployment at 2 percent
BISMARCK- Job Service North ber was 4.8 percent.
Dakota reports that labor statistics Michael Ziesch, labor market In-
show North Dakota's October not formation manager said,"Tradition-
seasonally adjusted unemployment ally October has the lowest monthly
rate was 2.0 percent, unemployment rate of the season.
The rate is 0.2 percentage points This year benefited from nice
lower than tile prior month (Septem- weather during the period that al-
ber 2.2 percent), and is similar to one lowed outside projects to continue
year ago. The national ]'ate in Octo- without interruption."
Southwestern education group
among grant recipients
BISMARCK - The North Dakota
Department of Health (NDDoH)
awarded $93,832 to two schools and
three regional education associations
for new and established suicide pre-
vention programs.
Earlier this month, the Depart-
ment of Public Instruction (DPI) re-
leased results from the 20t4 Youth
Behavior Risk Survey (YRBS). The
report revealed startling rates of sui-
cidal ideation and attempts among
ND youth with 13.5 percent of high
school students indicating they had
made a plan to complete suicide
while 9.4 percent of high school stu-
dents had made an attempt within the
last year.
"The YRBS data shows that youth
in our state are straggling and the De-
partment ol' tlealth is taking action,"
said Alison Traynor, suicide preven-
tion director. "'The good news is we
are able to reinforce effective and es-
tablished programs to address suicide
prevention and provide a means for
new programs to he implemented.
Each grant supports evidence-based
pro.jects."
The NDDoH Suicide Prevention
Program awarded $12,200 to grow
Century High School and Bismarck
High School's Sources of Strength
program, a best practice progranl cre-
ated in ND which teaches students
and educators how to support those
struggling with emotional challenges
in an effort to prevent suicide. "The
impacts [of the program] on school
climate were apparent and wide-
spread," stated Jessica Bents,
Sources of Strength Peer Advisor and
trainer at Century High School. The
Turtle Mountain Outreach pro~am.
a tribal nonprofit organization serv-
ing each school within Turtle Moun-
tain reservation, was also awarded $
26,382 to continue work with their
robust Sources of Strength and gate-
keeper training programs.
The REAs (Regional Education
Associations) of Mid-Dakota Educa-
tion Cooperative, North Central Edu-
cation Cooperative, and the
Roughrider Education Services Pro-
gram was awarded $55,250 to train
master trainers and multiple school
districts in SafeTALK and Question
Persuade Refer (QPR) programs to
promote suicide prevention on a
la~e scale. SafeTALK and Question,
Persuade, Refer (QPR) are evidence-
based curriculum that teach the
warning signs and proven action
steps to take if an individual is found
to be suicidal.
Suicide impacts all ages. Warning
signs can be found at
https://www.afsp.org/preventing-sui-
cide/suicide-warning-signs.
866-483-7900 or 701-483-7900
www. stevensonfuneralbome, corn
Crop and Livestock Marketing Strategies
Producer Workshop on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Details/RSVP at farmcreditmandan.com
Farm Credit Services of Mandan
www'farmcreditmandan'c°rn
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Nontraditional beef production
methods a real opportunity
Traditional management sells
Dickinson Research Extension Cen-
ter steer calves at 609 pounds, and
nontraditional management sells the
' O"
center s lon~, yearling steers at. 1,264
pounds.
Have you ever added water to a
dried sponge and watched the sponge
expand? The cow-calf industry re-
sembles the sponge.
For decades, cow-calf producers
have used genetics, health, nutrition,
reproduction, marketing, environ-
ment and product development to
improve production. This expansion
of potential productivity is like the
sponge soaking up water.
The center's decades of experi-
ence with traditional, experimental
and just different management prac-
tices has focused on production costs
as related to improving efficiency.
The efficiency could be reproductive
or growth, cow or calf, range or feed-
lot, retained ownership or selling at
weaning or many different alterna-
tive management practices that pro-
vide options for cow-calf producers.
The results have culminated in
recommendations for cattle produc-
ers that encourage production sys-
tems that perform well and are quite
efficient. The results generally reflect
traditional cow-calf production prac-
tices, traditional being historical:
how grandma and grandpa survived,
how morn and dad survived and, ul-
timately, how the next generation
will survive. The mantra for these
strong generational ties has been "if
O" "'
it works, let s not chan=e. Hold that
thought!
Consider this question: "What
happens to the sponge when you add
water but you place the sponge back
in the original container?" The
sponge cannot expand or it can ex-
pand minimally at best.
The same is true with the cow-calf
business. What happens if the pro-
ducer never changes the original
managerial foundation of the cow-
calf operation? In other words, will
the herd be able to expand and utilize
new traditional or nontraditional
thoughts and managerial principles'?
Maybe those are the questions for the
day.
Today, the ever-increasing pres-
sure of costs points to the need to
limit costs and bring more cash back
to the cow-calf operation. There is
also continued pressure from con-
sumers to justify all products derived
from many aspects of agriculture, in-
cluding meat.
The opportunity to present non-
traditional ideas of production is very
real. Pictures are nice. However, cat-
tle producers riding off into the sun-
set, shaking the dust off a line of
designer clothes after a beautiful day
of working cattle are not an assur-
ance that the operation is going to
stay in business.
Cattle circles - should I say "the
discussion blogs" - actively search
for nontraditional solutions to current
challenges. And so, the center is chal-
lenged to look at nontraditional cow-
calf production.
The struggle is the challenge to
actually study the difference between
the traditional and nontraditional cat-
tle systems. Such studies seldom are
done because time, space and cattle
required to conduct such trials are
prohibitive. There are some very
well-done large cattle studies, but po-
sitioning the data back to the local
• cow-calf production unit is difficult,
and if the unit is nontraditional in its
approach to cattle production, more
unknowns than knowns soon are
identified.
But that does not mean the center
does not try. Back to the expanding.
Why not keep watering the sponge to
see how far the sponge will grow? In
traditional center cattle management,
bulls are turned out June 1, calves are
due March 12, weaning will be in
early to mid-November, and cows
start their last trimester of pregnancy
Dec. 12. Nontraditional center man-
agement has a later calving system in
which bulls are turned out Aug. 1,
calves are due May 12, weaning is in
early to mid-January, and cows start
the last trimester of pregnancy Feb.
12.
Traditional management sells cen-
ter steer calves at 609 pounds in No-
vember. Nontraditional management
sells calves as yearlings at 1,264
potmds by mid-August, according to
Doug Landblom, DREC animal sci-
entist. Granted, costs and markets
significantly impact producer deci-
sions, but costs can be managed and
markets can be predicted.
In the end, a producer struggles
with a sluggish production response
to rapid changes in costs and mar-
kets. But remaining traditional caps
expansion of the operation. Further-
more, all those production practices
that have been shown to improve
producer opportunity to enhance
cow-calf production are held back.
Traditional management sells center
steer calves at 609 pounds; nontradi-
tional management sells center long
yearling steers at 1,264 pounds.
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THANK YOU- EVERYONE/
Thank you so very much to all of my dear family, friends and co-workers for all of the out-
pouring of love and support over the last couple of months.
Thanks to everyone for the many beautiful flowers while I was in the hospital, for all of the
visits, hugs and prayers.
Thanks to everyone for the meals that were brought to the house, and also to everyone
who helped get me to my appointments.
To all of our co-workers at the Billings County schools - thank you - we seriously could
not work for anyone that would take better care of us than you. -
Then there is the benefit, WOW, a huge thank you to each and every one of you who
helped plan this event, it was so well organized, to the many people that worked at it, donated
such wonderful items, and to the tons of generous people who attended. We were totally
overwhelmed by the number of people. We never realized just how big our circle of family and
friends are. I was so impressed with how many of my hometown Bowman friends who at-
tended; thank you so much.
We hope that all of you know how much we appreciate absolutely everything that every-
one has done for us.
I know that if the Good Lord hears all of your prayers and see's all of you wonderful peo-
ple cheering me on, that it's going to be 0K!
Southwestern North Dakota definitely has the most kind, thoughtful, generous people in
the world!
Thanks again to each and every one oi you. Your kindness will never be forgotten.
God Bless You,
Maria, Tom, Ericka & Kaycee Hutzenbiler
Lee G. Hanson
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lee G. Coral, Fla.: Jacey Hanson of
Hanson, 77, formerly of Belfield, Belfield: Lisa Stalcup of Overland
passed away on Nov. 22, 2015, at Park. Kan., his son Guy Hanson of
Mercy General Hospital in Sacra- San Antonio, Texas: and his sister
mento, Calif. Loretta Hegstad of Mandan. He had
Lee is survived by his three nine grandchildren and two great-
daughters: LeAnn Hedge of Capegrandchildren.
altwater release reported
in southwest of Watford City
The North Dakota Oil and Gas Di- that 420 barrels of saltwater were re-
vision has been notified of a contained leased, contained and recovered at the
release at a saltwater disposal well Evanson 21-24 saltwater disposal
about 15 miles southwest of Wafford well.
City. The cause is listed as a pump leak. A
True Oil L.L.C. reported Monday state inspector has been to the location.
Driver in fatal crash identified
By News/Pioneer Staff
The N.D. Highway Patrol has
identified the deceased individual in-
volved in a Sunday, Nov. 22, crash
about three miles west of the Four
Bears bridge.
Jeremy Oberry, 26, of New Town,
died at the scene. At about 9:38 p.m.,
he was driving a 2013 Toyota Tun-
dra, traveling west on Highway 23.
A 2016 Freightliner and trailer,
driven by Charles Haas of Killaly.
Sask., Canada, and his passenger,
Cory Haas also of Killaly, also trav-
eling west, had slowed to make a left
turn onto 95th Ave. N.W. Oberry
failed to yield to the slowing semi
and began to pass the truck in the
eastbound lane. The Toyota struck
the side of the-trailer and the drive
axles of the Freightliner.
The Freightliner came to rest in
the intersection of Highway 23 and
95th Ave. N.W. with the trailer ex-
tended into the eastbound lane. and
the Toyota came to rest in the ditch.
Oberry was ejected from the vehicle,
according to a Highway Patrol re-
port.
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