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  • Around the County: Planning tools for 2024

    Michelle Gilley|Feb 19, 2024

    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...

  • Around the County: Sunflower election set for January 31

    Michelle Gilley, NDSU Extension|Jan 29, 2024

    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...

  • Locals celebrating National 4-H Week

    Michelle Gilley, NDSU Extension Eddy County

    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...

  • Around the county

    Michelle Gilley, NDSU Extension|Aug 21, 2023

    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...