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Minnesota regional news and notes Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Feedlot owners must update their information
ST. PAUL -- Many of the estimated 25,000 livestock feedlots registered in Minnesota must update their registration information with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency by Jan. 1. The information includes location, type of operation and number of livestock.
"Feedlot registration helps the state protect the environment by targeting resources for improvements where they are most needed,'' said Randall Hukriede, an MPCA feedlot program manager. "Registration also helps us communicate with livestock producers about regulatory and educational information.''
The feedlot rule requires all feedlot registrations to be updated at least once in a four-year cycle. About 14,000 owners have already re-registered their feedlots. County and state feedlot program staff will be busy in coming months mailing a two-page registration update form to owners who have not updated their registration.
Corn Silage Plot Tour set Aug. 28 in Ottertail City
OTTERTAIL CITY, Minn. -- The Extension Irrigated Corn Silage Plot Tour will be held Aug. 28 at 10:30 a.m. on the Dan Dreyer farm northeast of Ottertail City.
The program will include Paul Peterson, Phil Glogoza and Doug Holen. They will discuss forage production and management, forage insects, and alfalfa/grass stand management.
District sales managers will also discuss hybrid evaluations and provide an industry update.
A noon meal and refreshments will be served.
For more information, call Holen at (218) 998-5787.
Carcass Merit Program set at two locations
ROSEMOUNT, Minn. -- The 2009-2010 Carcass Merit Program will be held at UMore Park in Rosemount and at the Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston.
The program in Cookston will only accept steers this year while Rosemount will accept both steers and heifers. Registration is $30 per head and the entry deadline is Sept. 28.
Open houses will be held in Crookston Sept. 17 and in Rosemount Sept. 21 for producers interested in taking part in the program. Cattle will arrive in Crookston on Nov. 3 and in Rosemount on Nov. 5.
For more information, call (218) 327-4490.
MDA is hosting trade mission to China
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is hosting an 11-member trade mission to China from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8.
The group will attend the China International Meat Industry Exhibition. The delegation will also attend the World Pork Congress and tour some of China's leading meat processing plants.
"Minnesota's agricultural exports to China were estimated at $795 million last year,'' said Kurt Markham, director of MDA's Ag Marketing Services. "That's an increase of 96 percent over the previous year, which underscores the importance of this market and the export opportunities for our farmers and ag businesses.''
Trade mission participants include state agricultural officials, pork and turkey producers, and corn and soybean growers.
MDA gets federal grant for barley effort
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has received federal grant funding to improve the export marketability of malting barley.
MDA received $158,000 in grants to conduct malting barley fermentation trials and training in China. The project's purpose is to evaluate the quality, brewing techniques, the price and flavor of the finished product with the Chinese with hopes of exporting six-row barley to that country.
The United States supplied malting barley to the Chinese in the 1990s until the spread of crop diseases adversely impacted the export market.
Plot tour planned in Dexter on Sept. 10
DEXTER, Minn. -- The annual Mower County Corn and Soybean Growers Association Plot Tour is planned Sept. 10.
The event will start at 11 a.m. in the Dexter Park. A meal will be served at noon.
DNR accepting tree seedlings orders now
ST. PAUL -- The Department of Natural Resources is processing orders for tree seedlings from their Nursery Program for the 2010 planting season. Orders will be accepted through early spring 2010.
The DNR says it is important to order early to receive the varieties that you want.
The trees offered are 4 inch to 24 inch seedlings or transplants. Species include pines, spruces, cedars, fir, tamarack, oak, walnut, cherry, hickory, ash, maple, birch, poplar, cottonwood, nineberry, nannyberry, crabapple, dogwood, chokecherry, wild plum and a mixed hardwood packet.
For more information, call (218) 372-3183.
Entries sought for Beef Backer Award competition
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota's beef producers are now accepting entries for the 2010 Minnesota Beef Backer Award. The award program honors independent and chair restaurants for leadership in menuing and marketing beef sets them apart from their peers.
Competitors are encouraged to showcase their excellence in creativity, cuts, quality, quantity, communications, coaching and cooperation.
Winners will receive a plaque, publicity and industry recognition.
For more information or to register, call the Minnesota Beef Council at (952) 854-6980.
Horse owners face Sept. 1 deadline for appeals
ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Department of Revenue is reminding horse breeding or boarding operators that they have until Sept. 1 to appeal their 2009 property tax classifications for taxes payable in 2010.
Some horse breeding and boarding operations that were previously classified as agricultural for property tax purposes were reclassified from 2008 to 2009 after periodic assessment reviews. In some cases, these properties were changed to a commercial classification to align tax treatment of them with similar properties statewide.
For more information, call the Department of Revenue at (651) 296-3781.
Panel releases steps to keep moose in state
MINNEAPOLIS -- A panel of experts is recommending steps to ensure that Minnesota continues to have a moose population.
An advisory committee presented a report to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week that says climate change is a potentially serious threat to the state's moose herd. But it says moose are likely to persist in Minnesota for the foreseeable future, at least in the northeast.
The panel recommends using hunting to keep deer populations low in the northeast to reduce the spread of parasites from deer to moose, as well as banning the recreational feeding of deer in the moose range.
It also says moose hunting can continue in northeastern Minnesota, but requires close monitoring. |
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