Ramsey County

November 27, 2006

Howdy!!!!
Well, I made it through the weekend.  My feet are very sore and my pocketbook very empty.  Al will be a great addition to our family and his friends from England, South Africa and Australia made for a very interesting 5 days.  I am very glad they are leaving as I am running out of energy and they aren’t.  It was also very fun to meet Al’s sister.  She is a very fun person with a pile of energy and can really book when it comes to talking.  Many times I had to tell her to slow down.  Weddings, as usual, make for a great time to visit with old and new friends.  I cherish them all and look forward to getting together again sometime down the road.  I even made it through the wedding with out too many tears.  I am a very tear full person and when my daughter-in-law (Stephanie) and Deb’s cousin (Wayne) sang the “Prayer”, I sobbed through the whole thing, even Father was touched by the wonderful job they did.  I did want to clap for them but did not think that might be appropriate at the wedding.  I had better get on to my topics for today but wanted to mention this weekend as even though many good laughs were had, I still had conversations that talked about he Ag. sector.  We never have a location or time where we can’t learn something from someone.  The Englander farms and talked about his organic farm.  His farm size is 320 acres, milks 40 plus cows and also has a few sheep.  They grow the same kinds of crops that we do with the exception there soil is a little different, being able to grow wheat in the 120-135 bushel area.  Pete farms the family farm with his father, brother and himself.  He said farming has been very profitable for the three of them but with the added input costs an additional 150 acres are needed to keep the farm healthy for all three families.  He also mentioned that gas prices are in the neighborhood of $9.00 per gallon.  They use metric in England so the conversion to American works out to the $9.

“Ranchers Night Out” 
“Come one, Come all Ranchers” to the Ranchers Night Out planned for this Thursday, November 30^th.  The night will start at 6 pm with supper followed by the program at 7 pm.  Supper will consist of Rocky mountain oysters and Chili for those that don’t like to gamble.  The program will be Cow Nutrition and Swath Grazing.  We will also have 112 head of calves on display that are enrolled in the Feed Out being held at the Carrington Research Center.  These calves come from producers around the state and are entered in 6 head lots.  These calves will be on display from about 2 PM until the program starts at which time they will be shipped to Carrington to join another 100 head of calves.

Calendar!!
             November 30                           Rancher’s night out, Lake Region Livestock
            November 30                           Cattle feed out entries delivered to L.R. Livestock
           January 3 & 4                           Lake Region Roundup

524 4th Ave NE #5, 2nd Floor Ramsey County Courthouse
Devils Lake  ND  58301
701-662-7027
email - ramsey@ndsuext.nodak.edu

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