Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Eddy County Extension hosted our first Progressive Ag Safety Community Event at the 4-H Pavilion on Friday, Sept. 20 during the Steam Threshers Reunion. We had five stations where youth could learn about safety when around ATVs/UTVs, grain, lawn equipment, PTOs and farm equipment and one station where youth learned about some of the negative effects of opioid use. Safety demonstrations were provided by local volunteers and nearby Extension Agents using equipment and materials provided by the New...
Eddy County is almost six inches above average for rainfall when compared to the 30-year NOAA average for the period between April 15 and August 20. Total precipitation for the period of April 15 to August 20 for the surrounding area was 17.33 inches in New Rockford, 17.94 inches in Sheyenne, 17.17 inches eight miles north of McHenry and 16.24 inches four miles north of Carrington. After three dry weeks, total precipitation for the last week was 2.06 inches in New Rockford, 2.73 inches in Sheyen...
Eddy County continues to be almost 4 inches above average for rainfall when compared to the 30-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration average for the period between April 15 and July 14. Six days in a row with little rainfall and maximum temperatures above 80ºF allowed producers to get some haying done and gave the corn some good growing days. The low spots continue to be full of water. Total precipitation for the period of April 15 to July 16 for the surrounding area was 14.04 inc...
Due to repeated rainfall, Eddy County as well as most of the state is no longer suffering from a drought. I started reporting rainfall in Sheyenne and New Rockford as part of the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network (CoCoRahs) on April 15 (CoCoRahs.org). Total precipitation for the period of April 15 to June 11 for the surrounding area was 8.53 inches in New Rockford, 7.92 inches in Sheyenne, 7.22 inches eight miles north of McHenry, and 8.16 inches four miles north of...
Eddy County spent most of the winter at moderate drought to abnormally dry. Just when I was starting to think farmers would start field work early, it started to rain. Now only the northwestern border of Eddy County and the northeastern border of Wells County are still abnormally dry. I started taking and uploading field and pasture pictures on April 15, which is the start of the Condition Monitoring Observer Report period for the 2024 season. Feel free to send field or pasture pictures for me...
The deadline for enrolling in Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) for 2024 crops with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is coming up on March 15, 2024. Effective reference prices increased from 2023 to 2024 for corn by $0.31 to $4.01 and for soybean by $0.86 to $9.26, while the effective reference price for wheat remained the same at $5.50. NDSU has an ARC-PLC Payment Calculator available online as an Excel spreadsheet at https://www.ndsu.edu/agricultur...
It has been a while since I have updated producers on upcoming NDSU Extension events, so there are many I wanted to discuss including a Sunflower Production Meeting which I hope will encourage producers to consider sunflowers in their crop rotation in the future. "Getting it Right Crop Production Webinars" are annual conferences held between December and March featuring the latest research-based production information presented by NDSU specialists. Half of the licensed private pesticide...
by Michelle Gilley NDSU Extension – Eddy County I am Michelle Gilley, one of your local 4-H Extension Agents. National 4-H Week is October 1 to 7. To kick off the week, Eddy County 4-H held a food drive Sunday, Oct. 1 with donations going to the Hunger Free Food Pantry at First Lutheran Church in New Rockford. If your door did not get tagged, feel free to drop off canned goods, boxed foods and other non-perishable items at the NDSU Extension – Eddy County Office at 205 3rd St SE from 7:30 a.m...
I know we were all hoping for rain on Sunday, Aug. 13. I have heard reports of 0.35 inches of rain all the way up to 5.9 inches of rain. I have two drought monitoring locations where the crops are looking pretty rough, and unfortunately those fields and pastures received very little rain. North Dakota State University Extension released a new publication by Miranda Meehan, NDSU Extension livestock environmental stewardship specialist, titled "Reporting Drought Impacts in North Dakota with...
