text: Vol. 7 No. 1 www.northarvestbean.org Jan.- Feb. 2001 Tim Skjoiten Hatton, ND Groups Oppose NDSU Research Fee on New Bean Varieties Full Pipeline, Weak Exports Hinder Market Baking Beans With Martha Stewart BEAN New Crop Report DAY Jan. 25-26 Details inside OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION Board of Directors and Council Members Northarvest Bean Grower Northarvest Bean Growers Association January February 2001 Vol. 7 No. 1 President Gary Paur, Gilby, ND The Northarvest Bean Grower is published five times Mark Myrdal, Edinburg, ND 701-869-2892 a year (January, March, June, August and November) by 701-993-8243 the Northarvest Bean Growers Association, 50072 E. Gary Friskop, Wahpeton, ND Lake Seven Road, Frazee, MN 56544. Phone (218) Vice-President 701-642-2378 334-6351. Mark Streed, Milan, MN Website: www.northarvestbean.org 320-734-4706 Cecil Meyer, Raymond, MN Email: firstname.lastname@example.com 320-847-3581 Treasurer Editorial and advertising material may be sent to Randy Carow, Perham, MN Alan Juliuson, Hope, ND 6258 90th Ave. N, Glyndon, MN 56547. 218-346-5393 701-945-2672 Ph: (218) 236-8420. Fax (218)-236-1134. Marty Hettervig, Buxton, ND Kevin Anderson, 701-847-2434 E.Grand Forks, MN 218-773-8159 Contents BEAN DAY: Everything you need to know about Minnesota Dry Bean the Jan. 25-26 event at the Research and Promotion Council Fargo Holiday is here. Read Chairman Secretary about the banquet, the Dan Hughes, Danvers Cecil Meyer, Raymond agenda and more. Pages 5- 320-567-2283 320-847-3581 10. Vice Chairman George McDonald, Fisher ANNUAL REPORT: The Mark Dombeck, Perham 218-773-2192 218-346-5952 Northarvest Bean Growers Minnesota Association sums up its pro- Treasurer Commissioner motion, market develop- Mike Beelner, Park Rapids of Agriculture ment and other activities for 218-732-5792 the year. Pages 13-21. North Dakota Dry Bean Council On the cover RESEARCH FEE: The Tim Skjoiten, Hatton, Chairman John Dunnigan Mark Sletten Walhalla Northarvest Bean Growers N.D., adjusts an anhy- Association and North Dry drous ammonia applica- Hatton 701-462-3879 tor . A dry bean grower 701-543-4079 Bean Council oppose and North Dakota Dry Paul Schulz NDSU's decision to assess Bean Council member , Vice Chairman Washburn a research fee new vari- Tim has a unique view Hattie Melvin 701-462-3728 Buffalo eties, beginning with Arthur. on farming in North Pages 24 25. Dakota that was shaped 701-633-5234 by his experiences North Dakota working on oil rigs in Treasurer Commissioner SEED CAUTION: Know Yemen when the Gulf Tim Skjoiten of Agriculture where your seed comes War began. It's good to Hatton 701-543-4106 from. Page 39. be home, he says. Executive Vice-President — Tim Courneya Publication of editorial or advertising material in the 50072 E. Lake Seven Road, Frazee, MN 56544 Northarvest Bean Grower magazine does not imply Phone: 218-334-6351 Fax: 218-334-6360 endorsement by the Northarvest Bean Growers Email: email@example.com Association. Check agronomic advice with local sources and always read and follow product labels. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 3 "HOW THE AMADAS handled nightshade was hard to imagine. It didn't bust up any berries or smear any beans." -- Roger, Winbledon Grain. "IN 35+ YEARS of farming, the Amadas is without a doubt the best piece of equipment we have had on this farm." -- Rick Mutschler, Wimbledon, N.D. "WE HAVE HAD ZERO checks before in our kidneys with our Lilliston, but with the Amadas not only did we have zero checks and zero FM, we covered between 4 and 5 times the acres per hour." -- Randy Thompson, Page, N.D. WHEN A LOAD of pintos came across our scale with zero FM, we became curious what this producer was doing different. The Amadas was the differ- ence -- Farmers Finest Bean Co., Inc., East Grand Forks, Minn. AMADAS Quality and Capacity -- Nothing Compares See us at: * Bean Day -- Jan. 25-26, Holiday Inn, Fargo, ND, * International Crop Expo -- March 7-8, Alerus Center, Grand Forks, ND JAMESTOWN IMPLEMENT CO. Jct of I-94 and Highway 281 N, Jamestown, ND Tim Hoggarth/Gary Olson Office: 1-800-247-0691. Cell phone: 1-701-269-1751 26TH ANNUAL BEAN DAY JANUARY 26, 2000 FARGO HOLIDAY INN - FARGO, ND AGENDA Morning Program 11:40 - 12 p.m. Grower Survey Of Pest Problems And Varieties Master of Ceremonies Dr. Art Lamey Cecil Meyer, Raymond, MN Extension Plant Pathologist Director, Northarvest Bean Growers Association NDSU Extension Service North Dakota State University 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Registration & Coffee Fargo, ND 10:15 - 10:25 a.m. Setting The Agenda 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch Mark Myrdal, President Northarvest Bean Growers Association Afternoon Program 10:25 - 10:40 a.m. Alert Notice About Anthracnose Master of Ceremonies And A Special Report on Mark Sletten, Hatton, ND Fungicides, Tilt and Folicur Chairman, North Dakota Dry Bean Council Dr. Art Lamey, Extension Plant Pathologist 1:15 - 1:30 p.m. Association Business NDSU Extension Service District Director Elections North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. The Bean Market Usually Works in Cycles But Has This Poker Game Developed A 10:40 - 10:55 a.m. Section 18 Emergency Label New Set Of Players? - Explaining The Pesticide Paul Lambert Registration Process And What's President Next on Chemical Harmonization PL International, LLC Jim Gray Tiburon, CA Registration Specialist ND Department of Agriculture 1:50 - 2:10 p.m. Farm Policy Outlook In The 107th Bismarck, ND Congress Daryn McBeth, Associate Vice President, 10:55 - 11:10 a.m. Roundup Registration - EPA, Gordley & Associates, Washington D.C. Why This Label Is Proving So Difficult To Obtain 2:10 - 2:30 p.m. How We Are Addressing The Farm Needs Matthew Pauli, Versus Food Safety Monsanto, Agricultural Sector Tom Randgaard Market Development Director, Corporate Vegetable Production Fargo, ND Faribault Foods, Inc. Faribault, MN 11:10 - 11:25 a.m. Bean Production, Risk Management Strategies 2:30 -2:50 p.m. Selling Dry Beans In ND or MN? Know Dr. Duane Bergland Your Rights and Your Responsibilities Extension Agronomist Jon Mielke NDSU Extension Service Executive Secretary, Licensing, and Rail North Dakota State University ND Public Service Commission Fargo, ND Bismarck, ND 11:25 - 11:40 a.m . War On Weeds - The Effective Jim Gryniewski Use Of The Weapons Available In Assistant Director 2001 Ag Marketing Service Division, Dr. Richard Zollinger Ag Certification Extension Weed Specialist MN Department of Agriculture NDSU Extension Service St. Paul, MN North Dakota State University Fargo, ND Pre-Bean Day Banquet Jan. 25 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 5 LUNCH SPONSORS Agricore ASI Chippewa Valley Bean Farmers Finest Bean 6900 Wedgewood Rd P.O. Box 437 N2960 730th St. Co. Suite 130 Northwood, ND 58267 Menomonie, WI 54751 P.O. Box 374 Maple Grove, MN 55311 701-587-5900 715-664-8342 Highway 2 East 612-416-5900 Fax 701-587-5927 Fax 715-664-8344 East Grand Forks, MN Fax 612-416-5959 56721 ASI Circle C Seeds 218-773-8834 ASI P.O. Box 149, 22nd St. N. 2493 380th St. Fax 218-773-9809 P.O. Box 124, Hwy. 7 W. Olivia, MN 56277 Gary, MN 56545 Appleton, MN 56208 320-523-1637 218-356-8214 Fessenden Co-op Assn. 320-289-2430 Fax 320-523-5683 Fax 218-356-8218 P.O. Box 126, 900 Fax 320-289-2008 Railway St. ASI Colgate Commodities Fessenden, ND 58438 ASI P.O. Box 255 HC 2, Box 17 701-547-3354 P.O. Box 28 557 Industrial Drive Colgate, ND 58046 Fax701-547-3574 16455 Hwy. 13 St. Thomas, ND 58276 701-945-2580 Barney, ND 58008 701-257-6721 Fax 701-945-2634 Forest River 701-439-2266 Fax 701-257-6577 Bean Co., Inc. Fax 701-439-2723 Crookston Bean P.O. Box 68, #1 Side Alvarado Bean Co. P.O. Box 53 Road ASI P.O. Box 961, 100 Crookston, MN 56716 Forest River, ND 58233 P.O. Box 249 Main Street 218-281-2567 701-248-3261 1804 Front Street Alvarado, MN 56710 Fax 218-281-2567 Fax 701-248-3766 Casselton, ND 58012 218-965-4668 701-347-5321 Fax 218-965-4916 Dahlen Farmers Galesburg Co-op Fax 701-347-5552 Elevator & Oil Co. Elevator The Bean Mill 218 N. Main 105 Dakota Ave. W. ASI R.R. 2, Box 86E Dahlen, ND 58224 P.O. Box 115 9451 Hwy. 18 Perham, MN 56573 701-384-6144 Galesburg, ND 58035- P.O. Box 290 218-346-2151 Fax 701-384-6148 0115 Cavalier, ND 58220 Fax 218-346-2451 701-488-2216 701-265-8385 Falkirk Farmers Fax 701-488-2280 Fax 701-265-4804 Bird Island Bean Co. Elevator Co. PO Box 249 E Hwy 212 101 Main St. Grand Forks Bean Co. ASI Bird Island, MN 55310 Washburn, ND 58577 2120 N. Washington P.O. Box 98 320-365-3070 701-462-8572 Street, P.O. Box 5357 108 MN Ave. W. Fax: 320-365-3811 Fax 701-462-8574 Grand Forks, ND Galesburg, ND 58035 58206-5357 701-488-2214 Cavalier Bean Co. Farmers Elevator Co. 701-775-3984 Fax 701-488-2538 P.O. Box 297, 308 of Honeyford Fax 701-775-3985 Industrial Park 2472 30th St. NE ASI Cavalier, ND 58220 Gilby, ND 58235-9711 Green Valley Bean 77 East 3rd Street 701-265-8495 701-869-2466 RR2 Box 114 P.O. Box 25 Fax 701-265-8576 Fax 701-869-2456 Park Rapids, MN 56470 Grafton, ND 58237 218-573-3400 701-352-1030 Central Valley Bean Farmers Equity Elevator Fax 218-573-3434 Fax 701-352-3430 Cooperative RR 1, Box 2 P.O. Box 162 New Rockford, ND 58356 Haberer Foods 401 Broadway 701-947-5712 International Buxton, ND 58218 Fax 701-947-2619 RR1 Box 772 701-847-2622 Morris, MN 56267 Fax 701-847-2623 320-795-2468 Fax 320-795-2986 Page 6 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 LUNCH SPONSORS 701-945-2880 Fax: 701-945-2443 Headwaters KBC Trading Commodities, Inc. & Processing Co. MayPort Farmer's Valley Bean Assn. 37229 Red Top Road 650 2nd Street N.E. Co-op Edible Bean 301 Oak Street, P.O. Ponsford, MN 56575 Perham, MN 56573 Division Box 250 218-573-3782 218-346-2360 P.O. Box 338 Oslo, Mn 56744 Fax 218-573-2131 Fax 218-346-2369 Portland, ND 58274 218-695-2201 701-786-4062 Fax 218-695-3006 Hubbard Kinney Bean Co. Fax 701-786-4098 Prairie Bean Co. 2875 18th St. N.E. Walhalla Bean Co. Rt. 4, Box 208 Manvel, ND 58256 Northland P.O. Box 67, Park Rapids, MN 56470 701-696-2310 Marketing Inc. Hwy. 32 N. 218-732-5552 4082 22nd Ave Walhalla, ND 58282 Fax 218-732-8945 Kirkeide's Northland Larimore, ND 58251 701-549-3721 Bean & Seed Co. 701-397-5261 Fax 701-549-3725 Johnstown Bean Co. 4520 12th St. NE Fax 701-397-5783 3295 Johnstown St. Fessenden, ND 58438 Walton Bean Growers Johnstown, ND 58235 701-547-3466 Northwood Cooperative 701-869-2680 Fax 701-547-3539 Bean Co. Inc. 100 2nd Ave. Fax 701-869-2692 P.O. Box E, 301 Englevale, ND 58033 Klindworth Seed Potato Road 701-683-5246 KBC Trading & Bean Co. Northwood, ND 58267 Fax 701-683-4233 & Processing Co. 2251 Hwy. 30 701-587-5206 Hwy. 18 S. Fessenden, ND 58438- Fax 701-587-5206 Cavalier, ND 58220 9441 701-265-8328 701-547-3742 O'Brien Seed Co., Inc. Fax 701-265-8533 Fax 701-547-2592 P.O. Box 335 42 1st Ave. N.E. KBC Trading Larimore Mayville, ND 58257 & Processing Co. Bean Co. Inc. 701-786-9118 1328 Dakota Ave. P.O. Box 607 Fax 701-786-9119 P.O. Box 230 Larimore, ND 58251 Hatton, ND 58240 701-343-6363 St. Hilaire Seed Co. 701-543-3000 Fax 701-343-2842 P.O. Box 85, Hwy. 32 Fax 701-543-4195 S.St. Hilaire, Mn 56754 LOK Commodities 218-964-5407 KBC Trading P.O. Box 13919 Fax 218-964-5415 & Processing Co. Grand Forks, ND 58208 R.R. 2, Box 11A 701-775-3317 SRS Commodities Hwy. 18 South Fax 701-775-3289 P.O. Box 386 Mayville, ND 58257 411 2nd Avenue NE 701-786-2997 Manvel Bean Co. Mayville, ND 58257 Fax 701-786-4214 2875 18th St. NE 701-786-3402 Manvel, ND 58256 Fax 701-786-3374 KBC Trading 701-696-2271 & Processing Co. Fax 701-696-8266 Turtle River Bean Co. 524 S. 7th St. P.O. Box 55, Highway 33 Oakes, ND 58474 Maple River Bean Co. Manvel, ND 58256 701-742-3219 PO Box l76 701-696-2517 Fax 701-742-3520 Hope, ND 58046 Fax 701-696-2557 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 7 EXHIBITORS Agricore Special Crops Dow Elanco KBC Trading and Ostlund Chemical Co. Box 488 Bridget Hoffmeyer Processing PO Box 5051 Carman, Manitoba 311 1st St. SW Oakes, ND Fargo, ND 58105 R0G -0J0 Hillsboro, ND 58045 Cavalier, ND (701) 282-7300 (204)-745-6711 (701) 436-5262 Hatton, ND Perham, MN Preator Bean Co. Agassiz Seeds and Supply DuPont Mayville, ND Lynn Preator 445 7th St. SW Ruth Anderson RR2 Box 11A P. O. Box 234 West Fargo, ND 58078 1395 A-S Columbia Road Mayville, ND 58527 Burlington, WY 82411 (701) 282-8118 Grand Forks, ND 58201 (701) 786-2997 (307) 762-3310 (701) 397-5889 Alerus Financial Keho Products Ltd. Pickett Equipment Box 3146 Elmer's Manufacturing 215 Barons St. Steve Pickett Fargo, ND 58108-3146 Box 908 Nobleford, Alberta 976 E. Main (800) 279-3200 Altona, Manitoba Canada T0L 1S0 Burley, ID 83318 www.alerus financial.com Canada R0G 0B0 (403) 824-3879 (800) 678-0855 (204) 324-6263 Amadas Micro-Bio Raedel's Jamestown Implement Emery Visto's Implement 2535 Tanager Dr. NE Hard Surface Welding 519 20th St. SW 1009 7th St. S. Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402 Franklyn Raedel Jamestown, ND 58401 Oakes, ND 58474 (319) 395-7370 P.O. Box 23 (800) 247-0691 701-742-2167 Neche, ND 58265 (800) 726-0108 MN Ag Statistics Service (701) 886-7688 Art's Way PO Box 7068 Manufacturing Co. Farmers Finest Bean St. Paul, MN 55107 RanDean Bean Machine PO Box 288 Company (651) 296-2230 9751 Hwy 200 Armstrong, Iowa 50514 Highway 2 East, PO Box 374 Sutton, ND 58484 (712) 864-3131 East Grand Forks, MN 56721 Nissen Mfg Sales, Inc. Randy (701) 769-2649 (218) 773-8834 Jay Nissen Dean (701)-769-2338 ASI 3754 24th Ave. NE Appleton, MN Fugleberg Seed Larimore, ND 58251 Rapat Corporation Barney, ND and Bean Co. (701) 343-2444 Rt 2 Box 2 Industrial Park Cavalier, ND Richard Fugleberg Hawley, MN 56549 Galesburg, ND RR1 Box 49 ND Ag Statistics Service (218) 483-3344 Grafton, ND Portland, ND 58274 PO Box 3166 St. Thomas, ND (701) 786-4129 Fargo, ND 58108 Scott Moeller Co. Olivia, MN (701) 239-5306 2200 14th Ave. S Northwood, ND Green Valley Bean Moorhead, MN 56560 Casselton, ND RR2 Box 114 ND Dry Edible Seed Bean (218) 236-9336 Grafton address: Park Rapids, MN 56470 Growers Association P.O. Box 25 Front St. (218) 573-3400 PO Box 5607 S-M Enterprises, Inc. Grafton, ND 58237 University Station 2310 26th St. S. 701-352-1030 Idaho Bean Commission Loftsgard Hall Moorhead, MN 56560 PO Box 2556 NDSU (218) 236-5050 BASF Corporation Boise, ID 83701 Fargo, ND 58105 Elton Hendrickson (208) 334-3520 (701) 237-7927 Sund Manufacturing Box 166 P.O. Box 79 Thompson, ND 58278 Idaho Seed Bean Co. Northwest Chemical Newburg, ND 58762 (701) 599-2322 John and Bill Dean Box 33 (800) 334-7863 P.O. Box 1072 Emerado, ND 58228 Chippewa Valley Bean Co. Twin Falls, ID 83303 (800) 315-2469 Walton Bean Growers N2960 730th St. (208) 734-5221 Cooperative Menomonie, WI 54751 Novartis 100 2nd Ave. (715) 664-8342 PO Box 4188 Englevale, ND 58033 Boise, ID 83711 (701) 683-5246 (208) 327-9338 Page 8 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 PRE BEAN DAY BANQUET Banquet warning: Help direct research -- complete produc- The food will be great, but don't sit on tion survey at Bean Day A grower survey of production problems and practices Greg Claassen's knee! will be conducted during Bean Day. The survey used The annual pre-Bean Day banquet is set for Jan. to be mailed to a sample of dry bean growers. 25 at the Fargo, N.D., Holiday Inn. You must call The survey questions include the number of dry the Northarvest Bean Growers Association office bean acres you planted in 2000, the acres of each vari- at (218) 334- ety planted, the seed sources used, the worst pro- 6351 by Jan. 23 duction problems encountered (includes weather, to reserve ban- weeds, disease, insects, etc.) crop rotations used, quet tickets. micronutrients used, pesticides used and acres Tickets are $15 treated. per person This information helps determine the research payable at the needs of the dry bean industry, says Art Lamey, North door. Dakota State University extension plant pathologist The event who conducts the study."Your input in this survey is starts at 5 p.m. needed and will help research and extension faculty Commercial of both Minnesota and North Dakota, as well as the exhibits and a cash bar will be open. The ban- Bean Day quet follows at 7 p.m. The menu Quick Guide includes steak Greg Claassen and "friend." and walleye, Here is a quick guide to Bean Day: baked potato, green beans almondine, tossed WHEN: Jan. 26, 2001 -- 9 a.m. View com- crisp green salad and deluxe ice cream sundae. mercial exhibits, register and warm up with cof- Ventriloquist Gregg Claassen, and his "mouthy fee. alter egos" will perform following the banquet. His WHERE: All events at the Holiday Inn, Fargo, program is referred to as one of the most unique N.D., at 13th Ave. S. & I-29, across from West in the country. He has performed at Silver Dollar Acres. City in Branson, Mo., and is a featured speaker for OVERNIGHT: Lodging at Holiday Inn and the Associated Clubs, an international dinner club other nearby hotels and motels. (See list on page circuit. Greg and his "friends" can be found 10.) Northarvest district elections set for Bean Day Elections are to be held for posts on the Northarvest Bean Growers Association board for the following districts: District 2 -- Gary Paur, Gilby, N.D., is the cur- rent director. District 5 -- Gary Friskop, Wahpeton, N.D., is the current director. District 8 -- Mark Streed, Milan, Minn., is the current director. Northarvest All are eligible for re-election. Election Districts NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 9 Terry Redlin LODGING print is Bean Day door prize Bean Day Lodging Guide The following is a partial list of hotels and motels in Fargo. All addresses are Fargo. The phone number area code is 701: Be sure to register when HOLIDAY INN 1-29 & 13th Ave. S. 282-2700 you attend Bean Day. AMERICINN 1423 35th St. SW 234-9946 Regist-ration is free and ECONO LODGE 1401 35th St. SW 232-3412 it's your ticket to the grand COMFORT INN 1407 35th St. SW 280-9666 door prize to be given COMFORT INN SUITES 1415 35th St. SW 237-5911 away during the day. COUNTRY SUITES 3316 13th Ave. S. 234-0565 AgCountry Farm Credit DAYS INN 3333 13th Ave. S. 282-9100 Services (ph: 800-450- EXPRESS WAY INN 1340 21st Av. SI-94 Exit 351 (800) 437-0044 8933) and Farm Credit KELLY INN 3800 Main Ave. 282-2143 Services of Grand Forks HAMPTON INN 3431 14th Ave. S 235-5566 (ph: 800-288-3982) will be HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS 1040 40th St. S. 282-2000 giving away a Terry Redlin RADISSON 201 5th St. 232-7363 print. RAMADA PLAZA SUITES 1635 42nd St Sw 232-7000 You must be a REGAL 8 1202 S. 36th St. 232-9251 Minnesota or North SUPER 8 3518 Interstate 232-9202 Dakota dry bean grower to SELECT INN I-29 & 13th Ave. S. 282-6300 win the print. Gary W. Fuglesten, Manager PO Box 162 Buxton, ND Tel: (701) 847-2622 Fax: (701) 847-2623 Toll Free: (800) 286-2623 Good Reasons To Pinto Beans Navy Beans Work With Us: 1) Quality "Western Quality Seed Grown" Seed Pinto Bean Hatton Farmers Elevator, Hatton, ND Contact Lynn at (701) 543-3773 2) Friendly Service Receiving Stations At: Reynolds United Co-op, Reynolds, ND Harvest States, Pisek, ND 3) Competitive Prices Contact Francis at (701) 284-6012 Contact Paul at (701) 847-2261 Cando Farmers Elevator, Cando, ND 4) Dividends To All Harvest States, Kloten, ND Contact Wayne at (701) 968-4446 Producers Contact Paul at (701) 326-4334 Mid Valley Grain Co-op, Climax, MN Harvest States, Lankin, ND 5) Agronomy Service Contact Paul at (701) 593-6255 Contact Dave at (218) 857-2275 Page 10 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Making A Difference Annual Report To Producers 2001 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 13 A message from the president Dear members: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." That's a quote I particularly like. I'm not cer - tain where it comes from, but it certainly applies to our industry this year and the Northarvest Bean Growers Association. The dry bean industry is in particularly tough shape. Prices remain stubbornly low. Competition grows on all fronts. So what is your organization - the Northarvest Bean Growers Association, in conjunction with Mark Myrdal the North Dakota Dry Bean Council and the Minnesota Dry Bean Research and Promotion Council - doing about it? We are working harder and trying to work smarter. We believe we have the right approach in research, promotion, market development and communication to solve key problems. We target research to develop new varieties that will be that will be can- ners' and packagers' first choice. We invest in research that we think will raise your yields or reduce your costs. Our promotion program has been never more aggressive. By focusing our campaigns on people who lead food trends, we have never leveraged our investment more. We have a sound strategy for servicing current overseas customers and developing new export markets. We are working with others in the dry bean industry on state and national legislative issues that affect our ability to trade freely and fairly. And finally, we continue to place a priority on providing you with as much information as we can to help you make better decisions about sell- ing dry beans and buying inputs to grow them. This annual report summarizes our efforts in these and other areas dur- ing the 1999-2000 fiscal year. Times are tough, but we are tough, too. Sincerely, Mark Myrdal NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 13 2000-2001 Budget By Category BOARD AND COUNCIL MEMBERS: Research - 21.5% Northarvest Bean Growers Association Mark Myrdal, Edinburg, N.D. Program management - 701-993-8243 12.5% Mark Streed, Milan, Minn. 320-734-4706 Randy Carow, Perham, Minn. 218-346-5393 Market Development - 4.5% Marty Hettervig, Buxton, N.D. National 701-847-2434 & regional Gary Paur, Gilby, N.D. promotion 701-869-2892 Gary Friskop, Wahpeton, N.D. 54.5% Communication - 7% 701-642-2378 Kevin Anderson, East Grand Forks, Minn. How Your Bean Groups Work Together 218-773-8159 Alan Juliuson, Hope, N.D. MN Dry Bean Research and North Dakota 701-945-2672 Promotion Council Dry Bean Council Cecil Meyer, Raymond, Minn. Administers the MN Administers the Dry Bean 320-847-3581 Dry Bean Promotion Act. Industry Promotion Act of North Dakota. Minnesota Dry Bean Research and Northarvest Bean Growers Association Promotion Council Coordinates Mn and North Dakota Dan Hughes, Danvers Bean Council promotion, market develop- 320-567-2283 ment and research programs. Cecil Meyer, Raymond 320-847-3581 Mike Beelner, Park Rapids 218-732-5792 National Dry Bean Northern American George McDonald, Fisher Council Crops Institute Dry Bean Board 218-773-2192 Carries out foreign Promotes use Coordinates domestic Mark Dombeck, Perham market development of northern- promotion programs, 218-346-5952 and promotion, and grown crops. and market and nutri- serves as government tion research. North Dakota Dry Bean Council Mark Sletten, Hatton 701-543-4079 Hattie Melvin, Buffalo 701-663-5234 Annual Budget Appropriation by Category Tim Skjoiten, Hatton 701-543-4106 Expense 1999-2000 2000-2001 John Dunnigan, Walhalla Program Management $121,086 $124,426 701-462-3879 Paul Schulz, Washburn National and Regional Promotion $651,250 $540,766 701-462-3728 Research $240,811 $212,665 Market Development $44,000 $44,000 Office: Communication $44,700 $70,300 Tim Courneya, executive director Total $1,101,847 $992,157 50072 E. Lake 7 Rd. Income Frazee, MN 56544 North Dakota Dry Bean Council $881,500 $726,000 Ph: 218-334-6351 Fax: 218-334-6360 MN Dry Bean Research and Promotion Council $220,347 $200,000 Total $1,101,847 $926,000 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 15 Export market development The National Dry Bean Council's (NDBC) export strat- egy took on a new look in 1999- 2000. For the first first time, NDBC promoted U.S. dry beans to the food service industry and consumers in sev- eral European markets where importers and the trade are familiar with U.S. dry beans, but where is weaking. "We have to address weakening consumer demand because importers will only buy beans if someone at the end user level is buying beans," says Amy Philpott, NDBC intnernational marketing direc- tor. The NDBC spent a great deal of its time on Mexico. The organization lobbied U.S. trade representatives to make Mexico to live up to its end of the North American Free Trade Agreement and hold timely import permit auctions. In addition, the NDBC conducted trade missions to several other countries, including Spain, Japan and France. Other work The NDBC was busy on several other fronts. Two committees began investigating mislabeling of imported dry bean products and prospects for trading dry beans on the Chicago Board of Trade NDBC staff developed and distributed a monthly dry bean supply report to 25 food aid organization that buy food under the PL480 program. The report included average prices and availability ranking for 13 U.S. dry bean vareities. Food aid organization used this information when deciding which product to order for emer- gency relief and development programs. The NDBC was active on Capitol Hill, too. Members lobbied legislators to: * Provide $3.1 million for dry bean research * Increase the Market Access Program budget from $90 to $200 million * Fund the Foreign Market Develop program at no less than $35 million * Oppose legislative, administrative change or any other action that would allow farmers who grow program crops on contract acres from receiving a subsidy when they also receive income from the sale of non-program crops, such as dry beans, on the open market. * Allow food and huminatarian aid trade to Cuba through private non-govern- Page 16 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Green -- France, Mexico, Middle East, Algeria, Moroccoa, Egypt, Tunisia, Brazil Red -- Germany, Netherlands, Begium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy Japan, Spain, United Kindgdom, Turkey, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba The Northarvest Market consultants Bean Growers NDBC's representatives overseas include: Association's dege- lates to the National * David McLellan, Barcelona, Spain. Dry Bean Council * Raul Cabellero, Sta Monica, Mexcio are: * Jeff McNeill, Toyko, Japan. Mark Sletten * Johanna Stobvbs, Paris, France. Hatton, N.D. * Neil Gordon, Pinner, England. (701) 543-4079 Phil Longtin * Jois Alaby, Atibala, Brazil. Walhalla, N.D. * Peggy Sheehan, Food Aid Representative, (701) 549-2356 National Dry Bean Council Members California Dry Bean Advisory Board California Bean Shippers Association Colorado Dry Bean Administrative Committee Idaho Bean Commission Michigan Bean Commission Michigan Bean NDBC's market development strategy Shippers Association How do NDBC members decide which Declining markets -- Sales volumes Nebraska Dry Bean countries to target? They categorize in mature markets are projected to Commission them according to dry bean sale trends. decline despite promotion efforts. NDBC New York State The following are descriptions of the does not conduct any promotion activi- Bean Shippers categories and NDBC promotion activi- ties in these markets until conditions Association ties for each: change and the market reaches another North Central Bean Growth markets -- Sales volumes category. Dealers are projected to increase over the next Prospective markets -- Have growth Association 3-5 years. The NDBC attempts to famil- potential, but is not yet importing volume Northarvest Bean Growers iarize the trade and consumers with levels that warrant a full promotion pro- Association U.S. dry beans. If U.S. dry bean prod- gram. NDBC Activities include introduc- Rocky Mountain ucts are already common , they attempt tory informational campaigns, trade Bean Dealers to increase sales through food, recipe msisions and reverse trade missions. Association and health promotions. Opportuntistic markets -- Does not Washington Bean Dealers Maintenance markets -- Sales vol- consistently purchase U.S. dry beans, Association umes are strong, but projected to be but in years of short local supply or Western Bean static. NDBC aims activities at prevent- shortages from other countries they buy Dealers ing declines in current sales volumes large volumes of U.S. beans. NDBC Association NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 17 Domestic Promotion Hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and dozen of broadcasts on radio and television... Chefs praising beans... Recipe contests for kids, school food service professionals... One-on-one meetings with food industry magazine editors... A parntership with Westin hotels... Publishing of calendars, recipes, brochures... Conducting research surveys... What's do these and dozens of other promotion activities in 1999-2000 add up to? More people eating beans, we hope! At least no one can resaonably argue that folks don't know beans about beans. All these activities and dozens of others were part of the Northarvest Bean Growers Association's 1999- 2000 domestic promotion campaign. Running through every activity -- from exhibiting at the North Dakota School Foood Service Association to having Willard Scott of the Today Show kick off Baked Bean month -- is a theme that beans are good tasting, healthy food that is versatile, easy to prepare and a perfect fit for today's busy lifestyle. What's Bean Happening! Beans on campus Local promotions Recipe cards developed and Kids recipe contest. Winner mailed to 800 college food ser- announcement sent to food services vice directors. and 450 newspapers in MN & Starwood Media Bean Celebrity chef bean relations of the month recipes featured for Generated featured Recipe contest for two months at 70 stories about bean school foodservice pro - Westin Hotels. cookery and recipes in fessionals conducted. Northarvest logo on trade and consumer Winners featured in menu and signage. magazines, and built special calendar dis- relationships tributed at Page 18 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 The Northarvest Bean Growers Association's. Promotion Committee creates and directs promotion activities. Members are: Tim Skjoiten Hatton, N.D. (701) 543-4106 Hattie Melvin Buffalo, N.D. (701) 663-5234 Dan Hughes Danvers, Minn. (320) 567-2283 Mark Dombeck Perham, Minn. (218) 346-5952 Alan Juliuson Hope, N.D. (701) 945-2672 Gary Friskop Wahpeton, N.D. (701) 869-2378 Randy Carow Perham, Minn. (218) 346-5393 Mark Streed Milan, Minn. (320) 734-4706 Cecil Meyer Raymond, MN (320) 847-3581 The Northarvest Bean Growers Association's repre- sentatives to the American Dry Bean Board are: Dan Hughes Danvers, Minn. (320) 567-2283 Alan Juliuson Hope, N.D. (701) 945-2672 Marty Hettervig Buxton, N.D. (701) 847-2434 Mark Streed Milan, Minn. (320) 734-4706 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 19 The Northarvest Bean Grower Association funded 11 research projects at North Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota. in 2000. They included 1) Dry Bean Improvement for the Northern Plains 2) Breeding for Multiple Disease Resistance With Special Emphais on White Mold 3) Evaluation of North Dakota State University Breeding Material for Reaction to Anthracnose 4) Potential Sources of Resistance To White Mold -- Jack Rassmussen, NDSU. 5) Integrated Bean Root Rot Management 6) Zinc Deficiency and Bean Production in the Red River Valley 7) Reflex and Spartan Use in Dry Bean 8) Maintaining Dry Edible Bean Quality 9) Resistance to Airflow Through Dry Edible Beans and Natural Air Dryng. 10) Identification of Races of Pseudomonas syringae pv. haseolicia (rust). 11) Dry Gean Grower Survey of Pest Problems and Varieties.. Oil tax refund funds extra research The Northarvest Bean Growers Association and the North Dakota State Board of Agriculture Research and Education (SBARE) teamed up to fund seven research projects in 2000. SBARE is a state board that the North Dakota legislature created in 1997 to administer oil tax refund checkoff money. This year, the money available for grants totalled approximately $680,000, with $32,320.50 allocated for dry bean research. SBARE solicits research proposals and appoints commit- tees to review proposals and award grants. This year, The Northarvest Northarvest members from North Dakota on the SBARE dry Research Committee bean committee included Gary Friskhop, Wahpeton; Jerome screens research Hagemeister, Fessenden; Mark Myrdal, Edinburg, Gary proposals and makes Paur, Gilby; and Mark Sletten, Hatton. Other committee funding recommends members were Ken Grafton, North Dakota State University to the full board. Committee members dry bean breeder; and Cole Gustafson, director of the North are: Dakota Ag Experiment Station. Mark Sletten SBARE and the Northarvest Bean Growers Association Hatton, N.D. funded the following projects: (701) 543-4079 * Control of Biennial Wormwood in Soybean and Dry Bean Jerome Hagemeister Fessenden, N.D. -- SBARE grant amount, $4,550; Northarvest match, $1,516. (701) 547-3275 * Elimination of Marsh Spot in Cranberry Bean --SBARE Mike Beelner grant amount, $4,500; Northarvest match, $1,500. Park Rapids, Minn. * Developing Multiple Disease Resistant Dry Edible Beans (218) 732-5792 -- SBARE grant amount, $7,200; Northarvest match, $2,400. Mark Dombeck Perham, Minn. * Resistance of Dry Bean to White Mold -- SBARE grant (218) 346-5952 amount, $3,750; Nortrharvest match, $1,250. Mark Myrdal * Sclerotinia Infection & Inoculum Production as Influenced Edinburg, N.D. by Crops Species and Management Techniques --SBARE (701) 993-8243 Gary Paur grant amount, $3,285; Northarvest match $1,096. Gilby, N.D. * Breeding for Root Rot Resistance in Common Bean -- (701) 869-2892 SBARE grant amount, $4,500; Northarvest match, $1,500. Kevin Anderson * Calcium Compounds Alone and in Combination With East Grand Forks, MN Topsin M To Reduce White Mold Disease and Increase Yield (218) 773-8159 in Dry Bean Economically. SBARE grant amount, $3,535; Gary Friskop Wahpeton, N.D. Northarvest match, $9,143. (701) 642-2378 Randy Carow Perham, Minn. (218) 346-5393 Page 20 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Keeping members on top of market developments, assocation activities and industry news is the goal of the Northarvest Bean Growers Association's communications program. In an effort to meet those goals in 2000, the Association published five issues of the Northarvest Bean Grower; distributed Talking Beans, a market newsletter, at key intervals; compiled reports from scientists who are conducting dry bean research funded by the association in a publication called Research Report 2000, and maintained a Web site at www.northarvestbean. org The Northarvest Communication Committee directs the communications program. Members are: Phil Longtin Walhalla, N.D. (701) 549-2356 Jerome Hagemeister Fessenden, N.D. (701) 547-3275 Tim Skjoiten Hatton, N.D. (701) 543-4106 Hattie Melvin Buffalo, N.D. (701) 663-5234 Mark Dombeck Perham, Minn. (218) 346-5952 Mark Myrdal Endinburg, N.D. (701) 993-8243 Marty Hettervig Buxton, N.D. (701) 847-2434 Mark Streed Milan, MN (320) 734-4706 Cecil Meyer Raymond, MN (320) 847-3581 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 21 Commodities, business. Talkin' Johnstown, N.D. Thoreson has Vculek is a fourth generaton farmer in the Crete-Oakes, N.D., Beans been a sale rep- resentative with the American area, producing wheat, corn, edible beans and potatoes. He and his wife, Robin, have two children. He News Cyanamid holds a bachelors degree in agri- From Around Corporation. He cultural economics from North The Industry also has prior Dakota State Univeristy and has commodity trad- been farming since 1984. ing and market Vculek serves on the board of promotion expe- directors for Crete Grain and was THORESON JOINS NORTH rience. active on the steering committee to CENTRAL COMMODITIES North Central Commodities mar- form Walton Bean as a cooperative. Bill Thoreson East Grand Forks, kets pinto and black beans for He also has served on the promo- Minn., is the Johnstown Bean Company and tion board for the Red River Valley new market- Cavalier Bean Company in domes- Potato Growers Association. -- ing manager tic and international markets. Source: AgWeek, Dec. 18. at North -- Source: Johnstown Bean Co. Central PARKER NAMED WALTON'S BARRY VCULEK HEADS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER WALTON BEAN COOPERATIVE Mitch Parker is the new chief finan- Barry Vculek, Oakes, N.D., is the cial officer for Walton Bean Growers new president of Walton Bean Cooperative. Parker worked for Growers Cooperative. He replaces Cargill for 11 years in West Fargo, Gerald Melvin, Buffalo, N.D., who N.D.; Des Moines, Iowa; and stepped down to spend more time Melboure, Austraila. He was with his farm and another family recently an asset manager for Bill Thoreson SRS Commodities Buyers and Processors of Pinto, Navy and Black Beans Certified seed New crop contracts Receiving Stations: Mike Hallingstad, Manager Hope Farmers Elevator -- Dale Enerf P.O. Box 386, 411 2nd Avenue NE Sharon Farmers Elevator - Tom Amundson Mayville, ND 58257 Northwood Equity Elevator -- Scott Ostlie Luverne Farmers Co-op -- Alan Leadbetter email:firstname.lastname@example.com (701) 786-3402 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 23 N.D. Council, Northarvest oppose NDSU's move to charge research fee Northarvest Bean Growers Association and North Dakota Dry Bean Council directors are "deeply disap- pointed" in North Dakota State University's recent deci- sion to establish a $3 per cwt. research fee on new dry bean varieties. "NDSU implemented the research fee over our objec- tions, even though the officials promised us they would not go ahead with the fee unless we agreed," says Mark Myrdal, Northarvest Bean Growers Association president The Northarvest Bean Growers Associoation, the North Dakota Dry Bean Council and the Minnesota Dry Bean Research Council have invested $150,000-$190,000 per year since 1988 in the breeding program. "Prior to 1988 our commercial dry bean growers literally built the program with their dollars from scratch," Myrdal says. NDSU announced in December that it will begin charging a research fee of $3 per cwt on the sale of registered and certified seed of the new variety Arthur. Older North Dakota Agriculture Experiment Station (NDAES) dry bean varieties are not assessed. Letters from the ND Dry Bean Concil Strong objections (top) and the In meetings that took place over several Northarvest Bean Growers Association months, Northarvest and the North Dakota Dry dated Dec. 1999 state the Bean Council made their opposition to the research fee groups' opposition to the clear, Myrdal says. NDSU's variety research Northarvest and the Council opposed the research fee for sev- fee proposal. eral reasons, including: Page 24 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 1) Current funding is adequate ers have a bean variety with better Insult to injury and is providing new varieties. canning and packaging character- NDSU officials added insult to 2) The fee will directly increase istics than another region, their injury in making it appear that they production money was wisely had implemented the research fee costs, mainly The dry bean seed industry in invested and is self- with the approval of the Northarvest for commer- Northarvest sells mainly to serving. Bean Growers Association and the cial growers Northarvest growers who have Northarvest's intent North Dakota Dry Bean Council, in North already paid to develop the in funding the breed- Myrdal says. Dakota and new varieties. ing program over the NDSU's press release stated: Minnesota. past 20 years was to "This decision was made after 3) The develop varieties extensive discussions with the fact that NDSU charges a research suited for North Dakota and Research Foundation, ND fee on potatoes and soybean vari- Minnesota that gave its members Agricultural Experiment Station eties does not justify a resarch fee an edge in the market. (NDAES), College of Agriculture, in dry beans. The dry bean seed * Taxing 100% of our farmers Plant Science Department, and industry in Northarvest sells mainly who grow commercial dry beans in Plant Pathology Department. to Northarvest growers who have North Dakota and Additional input already paid to develop the new Minnesota to get at was solicited from varieties. The North Dakota potato the small volume of "NDSU's action may the ND Dry Edible seed industry sells varieties nation- non-Northarvest, severely affect our support Bean Seed ally. Collecting fees on potato vari- Canadian, Mexican of the dry bean breeding Growers eties from out-of-state growers and other foreign program." Association, helps the North Dakota potato seed seed sales is ludi- -- Mark Myrdal, Northarvest Bean industry develop more varieties that crous. Northarvest Northarvest president. Growers their out-of-state customers can didn't set out to Association and use. However, dry bean production develop commer- ND State Seed regions compete intensely for cial end-user competition when it Department." human consumption markets. If started the breeding program Mydral says that farmers need to North Dakota and Minnesota grow- understand that the Northarvest For All Your Edible Bean Needs Look to the Leader! * Full time, professional agronomic staff * Industry leading, top quality seed * Dedicated, on-going dry bean research * Total commitment to the Northarvest area Agri Sales, Inc. "the bean people" 701-347-5321 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 25 Martha Stewart Living features dry beans Dry beans are running with fast company these days -- pumpkin chandeliers, two-soup parties and moss fringe, no less. At least that's what also appeared in today's gauge of good taste -- Martha Stewart Living mag- azine. Dry beans -- specifically The bible of modern good taste, Martha Stewart Living featured beans not once but twice in the October issue. 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The magazine editor called Boston article covered the hisotry of the Beantown dish ("Native Americans Parent Seed Baked Beans symbolic of "Yankee spirit that notoriously demands not stone boiled beans in a vessels of bark, hide or in some cases stom- Farms Ltd. achs or hollowed out animal car- Celebrating 33 years of casses filled with meat, vegetables commitment to the Ag Industry and water.") It revealed the secret of pit cooking beans ("slow cook- Our team can help you con- ing at low heat radically reforms tract, process and marketyour the chemistry of the beans, soft- production. ening them, breaking down their starches and caramelizing their Now purchasing new cropedi- component sugars. As the flavors ble beans -- all types. meld, the beans turn dark and sweet, the metling salt pork bring Send samples to a velevet richness"); and offered a recipe that included two pounds of PO Box 49, dried pinto or navy beans. Neche, ND 58265 In the same issue, the maga- zine featured a craft project using Ask for Dennis: dry beans. Martha Stewart Living editors advocated gluing dry Tel: (204) 737-2625 Beans are more than tasty. According to beans to picture frames. "Besides Martha Stewart Living magazine, they are beging tasty in a salad, beans can just the thing to glue on picture frames. be unexpectly stylish when they trim wooden frames," they wrote. Iron Raedel's Hardsurface Welding Concepts Hardsurface pinto bean knives -- Heath, Speedy and Orthman knives Hardsurface advantages: 1) Do not need a rod weeder. 2) No plant pull. 3) Self sharpening. 4) Slick cut of bean plant and all weeds. 5) Cut plant minimum depth of ground -- less dirt in beans. 6) If off rows, plant is cut as long as plant contacts the end of knife. Have knives on hand. Appreciate orders as early as possible. Also hardsurface: Plow lays (all makes of plow); cultivator shovels; chisel plow points; NH-3 fertilizer knives; and spikes for cultivators, chisel plows and regular applicators FRANKYN D. RAEDEL PO BOX 23 NECHE, ND 58265 BUS: (701) 886-7688 RES: (701) 265-8776 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 27 Tim Skjoiten enjoys the doing fieldwork on his farm. Happy To Be Home The bean business is hard, but at least the farm is not in Yemen... Have tough economic times in the bean business got you down? Wondering if your decision to farm was the right thingto do with your life? If you feel this way, you should meet Tim Skjoiten, a North Dakota Dry Bean Council member and ,a dry bean grower from Hatton, ND. He might change your mind. Tim isn't an eternal optimist who wears rose-colored glasses. He doesn't have any secrets to immediate success in the dry bean busi- ness. Poor weather, low prices and rising costs hamper his farming Page 28 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Learning by serving Serving on the North Dakota Dry Bean Council is a great learn- ing experience, says Tim Skjoiten, Hatton, N.D. One of the things that Skjoiten says surprised him the most was the complexity of the Mexican trade issues. "All the pieces of the trade package in place. We just have to get them to live up to the agreement," he says. Consider serving on the Council or the Northarvest Bean Growers Association board, Skjoiten urges. "You won't regret it." operation, too. In fact, he says that the roadside." Tim recalls. "I was sent home for safety reasons. since he started farming in 1991 he lucky. It never happened to me." Cindy set up housekeeping back in hasn't had a really good year, price Americans working for oil com- Hatton. or production-wise, "not a single panies in Yemen had to stay in their "I had always thought I'd eventu- one" neighborhoods. When they ven- ally farm and with the kids reaching "I'm still learningto farm in all this tured outside their homes, they school age, Dad starting to think rain." traveled in groups. about retirement, and a residence But Tim has a unique perspective "It was like the Wild West" Tim established, it seemed like the obvi- on farming. The 43-year-old man says "You had to watch your own ous time to take the plunge, so I with big hands and broad shoulders backside you could say" did." worked in the oil fields of North When the Gulf War started, Tim returned to Hatton the fol- Dakota, Wyoming and the Middle American oil worker's families were lowing spring and began working East for 10 years with his father, Glenn — before returning to the who also served on the family farm in 1991. Northarvest Bean He was a pPetroleum Growers Association engineer for board of directors — on Halliburton Co. which the family farm. performs various ser- "It's been challenging vices on oil wells and financially," Tim says "But drilling rigs. Tim and if it wasn't, everybody his wife, Cindy; and would do it." their three children— He has been working to Maren, Andrea and increase his equity in the Pete — were living in farm, buying land and Yemen when the Gulf equipment. At the same War broke out. time, wet weather has "It was a scary time" taken its toll on Tim's flat Tim says. Red River Valley fields. Yemen was one of Though he has maintained Iraq's allies. The the drainage system well, country didn't enter excessive rains have over- the Gulf War, but whelmed it. Saudi Arabia — a U.S. Drown-out losses have ally — deported two been high. The rain has million Yemeni at the had the most impact on start of the war. the dry bean crop. There was little "We used to plant work for the refugees beans on lower ground in Yemen, a country of that held the moisture," he only 10 million. Crime notes. "Now, we have to was high. Hijacking Tim and Cindy Skjoiten find life on the plant them on the lighter, vehicles was com- Hatton, N.D., farm where they grow dry better drained soil." mon. beans a lot more peaceful than the oil Cindy works as the "They would stop fields of Yemen at the start of the Gulf executive director for the you at gun point and War. Hatton Economic leave you standing by Development Corporation. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 29 StarLink lessons for Minnesota agriculture By Gene Hugoson lic's confidence in our food regulatory system is deeply Minnesota Commissioner bruised. Aventis has also asked the EPA to approve of Agriculture the corn for human consumption. While that may solve some of the immediate problems for Aventis and our The fall of 2000 has brought major headaches for grain dealers, I doubt it will do much to help farmers America's corn growers and the grain handling system. who've already lost money. It certainly will not allevi- The recent StarLink corn fiasco sent tremors through- ate the public's concern. out our food handling system and with Minnesota corn This story is still unfolding, and it's anyone's guess growers planting nearly 35,000 acres of StarLink corn how things will shake out. What can Minnesota farm- this past year, our state is feeling the aftershocks. ers do in the meantine to help themselves? The short- There is already a lot of skepticism around the world term answer is that we need to produce what our about genetically modified crops. This StarLink episode customers want. For years I have argued that it is a could increase that skepticism and hurt our ability to mistake to think those of us who farm are in the busi- market our crops internationally. We export about a hird ness of growing commodities. Rather, we are in the of our corn crop each year, so anything that makes it business of supply agricultural products to end users. more difficult to attract foreign buyers is very bad news We need to consider customers preferences when we for Minnesota farmers. make decisions about what crops to plant. If you are At the end of October, I called upon Aventis to take going to deliver grain to an elevator, this means plant- all measures necessary to compensate losses farm- ing corn Europe and Japan will accept. ers might suffer from the corn. Aventis has agreed ot With that in mind, I have encouraged Minnesota pay 25 cents per bushel to farmers who grew StarLink, corn growers to plant only export-approved seed vari- but it's unclear whether those who have comingled eties for the 2001 growing season unless they plan to other corn with StarLink or who grew corn pollinated use their grain to feed livestock. We need to reassure by StarLink will be eligible for payment. our buyers -- especially our foreign buyers -- that the Aventis claims that most of the StarLink corn has products they receive from Minnesota meet their been tracked down and recovered, but I fear the pub- requirements. This would be to our advantage because Top quality miconutrients for dry beans, soybeans, corn, sunflow- ers, wheat, potatoes, sugarbeets and vegetable crops. 10% Zinc 5% Sulfur 16-8-2 Micronutrient 10% EDTA Zinc DTPA Iron 6% EDTA Copper 29.2% Calcium Sulfate 4.5% EDTA Iron 12 % Calcium, 4% N 10% Boron Flowable Completely water soluble. 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To help get this started, I've set up a grain-industry working group made up of producers, retailers and other industry representatives. This working group will be asked to formulate a plan tot implement an identity- preserved system in Minnesota. This system will require buffer zones, extensive cleaning procedures and separate storage and handling. It will take time, but it will more than pay for itself in the long run. Some people have tried to portray the StarLink episode as a black eye for biotechnology. I don't agree. After all, when an airplane crashes, we don't call into question the whole practice of travel. Rather, we learn from mistakes and fix the problems. That's the way I believe we should deal with the StarLink situation. Biotechnology shows far too much promise to be writ- ten off at this point. Instead, we need to take a closer look at what sort of biotech crops we grow and how we bring them to market. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 31 Invention packs rows prior to planting Loren Halverson, Galesburg, N.D., contin- ues to invent bean equip- ment. His latest: A device that packs the soil over the Bollingberg Seeds Wheat Barley Peas NAVY PINTO Cert. Russ Cert. Robust Cert. Majoret BEANS BEANS Reg. Russ Cert. Gunner Oats Pinto Beans Certified Seed of Most Classes Cert. Parshall Youngs Cert. Marverick Receiving stations: Reg. Reeder Reg. Maverick Jensen Seed Company Farmers Elevator of Flax Cert. Frontier Stephen, MN (218) 478-3397 Honeyford Honeyford, ND, McCanna, ND Durum Cert. Cathay Reg. Frontier Central Valley Bean (701) 869-2456 Reg. Mountrail Cooperative Buxton, ND (701) 847-2622 Hagert Seed (Navy beans only) Emerado, ND (701) 594-6474 Call for more information or check out our website: www.bollingbergseeds.com . Farmers Finest Kurt Bollingberg Bean Company, Inc. 5353 Highway 15 Cathay, ND 58422 PO Box 374, Hwy 2 East East Grand Forks, MN 56721 Ph: 701-984-2486 (218) 773-8834 or (800) 773-8834 Fax 701-984-2485 Fax: (218) 773-9809 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Page 32 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 row before planting. He made a front-mounted Richardton toolbar from a lifting rake. Halverson filled the toolbar with sand to add weight and Pick up ad from mounted six tires on the tool- bar, positioning them so that they would pack the soil over June-July 2000, the row. "We used it on all crops last year," he says. "The wheels page 23 crush the lumps and move dry dirt outof the way. We feel we got 100-200 more pounds of "Imagine the possi- Watch for bilities" bacterial brown spot this spring Be on the lookout for bacterial brown spot this spring., advises Art Lamey, North Dakota State University exten- sion plant pathologist. Brown spot has been increasing in the region. The bacteria survive and multiply on symptomless bean leaves and on weeds until popula- tions are high and then the attack dry bean plants. Rainy weather with temperatures in the 80s favors development of bacterial brown spot. The brown spot bacteria are splash-dispersed in the field. Typical leaf symptoms are small brown spots with a yellow border. When disease is severe, the spots coalesce and destroylarge portions of the leaf. Stem lesions occasionally develop. Very few dry bean varieties have resistance, Lamey says. Copper fungicide will suppress the disease if applied early, but often by the time we recognize a problem, it is too late to get a return. Since bacterial brown spot is spread in water, equipment should not be operated in the field when the foliage is wet, Lamey says. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 33 ers, entrees, soups, salads or Northarvest desserts. Recipes will be judged on taste, creativity, use launches chef of contemporary fla- vors/ingredients recipe and presenta- tion. contest One grand prize winner will receive $2,000. Northarvest The launchedAssociation Growers recently Bean the "Chefs One first-place winner will receive Say Bean Appetit!" recipe con- $1,500 and one second test."Beans are one of the most place winner will receive versatile ingredients that a chef can $500. add to a menu," says Susan Gross, co-owner and executive chef of the Zinfadel restaurant in Entry rules Chicago. "This contest is a great way for chefs to Entries may be writ- showcase the many possibilities beans can bring to a ten or typed on 8 1/2 x variety of dishes. 11 inch sheets of paper. Entrant's name How to use your bean and signature, home Professional chefs (commercial and non-commer- address, home phone cial) are invited submit an orginial bean recipe. Entries number (optional), name must serve 24 and feature as a key ingredient one or of employer and more of the following bean varieties: Pinto, navy, kid- employer's address and ney (dark or light red) or black beans. Dry-packaged phone number should be and/or canned beans may be used to create appetiz- typed or printed on the each Congratulations to our 2000 "Top Gun" Winners! Jon McMahon Kent Schluchter Inkster, ND Cavalier, ND Winner at Johntown Winner at Cavalier We have good availability of high quality certified seed to fit your farming operation and maximize your profit for this year's bean crop. Order your seed early to lock in the quantity and variety of your choice. Stop in or call today. Receiving Station: Edinberg Farmers Elevator 701-993-8421 Fordville Coop Elevator Johnstown, ND 701-869-2680 Locally owned, independent deal- Cavalier, ND 701-265-8495 Page 34 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 page of the entry. Entrants must list www.northarvestbean.org. the following information: recipe Enter as often as you wish, but name; all ingredients in exact U.S. each entry must be a different measurements; complete instruc- recipe. Each entry must be created tions, including time, temperature by only one individual. The deadline and all other relevant information. for entries is March 31. Winners will Recipes also many be submitted be announced in May. on the official entry form, which can Entries should be mailed to be found on the Northarvest Bean "Chefs Say Bean Appetit!" Recipe Grower Association Web site at Contest, c/o MS&L, 303 East Planter-Applied Fertilizer? What's New In Fertilizer Technology Is Old Hat For Us! For over 50 years NA-CHURS Liquid Fertilizer has made a difference at planting time...A differ- ence you can see ...Better yields...Outstanding Crops ...Increased Maturity! NA-CHURS Liquid Fertilizer is an N-P-K true solution. Low salt index. Near neutral pH. This allows placement close to the seed for an outstanding planter-applied program. From start to finish, NA-CHURS Distributors are there for you. Soil and tissue testing, agronomic recommendations, and the assurance that you're dealing with the liquid fertilizer leader. Call your distributor today and find out what we've known for years. Northern Valley Fertilizer, Inc. (701) 699-5351 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 35 pureed pinto beans instead of the pumpkin. The bean cake is very similar to the original Bean Pampered Chef pumpkin cake. Recipes Fresh pears do need to be ripe; bartletts turn from green and hard to yellow and soft when they are ripe. From Baking unripe pears doesn't tenderize them; they are still hard when the cake is done. Use a vegetable Lynne peeler to peel fresh a pear, cut it in half and use the small end of a melon baller to remove the stem and seeds. The original Fanny Farmer recipe used 1/4 cup of melted butter and 1/3 cup of brown sugar stirred together and spread in the bottom of an 8 x 8 pan, a pear layer over that and scratch gingerbread batter on top. It makes a rich topping baked with the fruit and Spice up new year with spicy gingerbread. (Actually, a variation of the tradi- tional pineapple upside-down cake.) I cook by the car- Spicy Pear Upside- diac-diet rules, so I just use brown sugar in the bottom and leave out the butter. It works well. Down Cake Vanilla ice cream or whipped topping is a popular finishing touch. A Better Homes and Gardens recipe suggests topping their Ginger-Pear Cake with one 8- By Lynne Bigwood ounce carton of low-fat vanilla yogurt combined with 1 Northarvest Home Economist teaspoon of finely chopped crystallized ginger. A dec- orating tube filled with topping will make the This recipe is based on a Gingerbread Cake recipe garnish/topping look fancier than just a dollop. from Pampered Chef. That recipe uses a 15-ounce (Crystallized ginger is available in the spice section of can of pumpkin, 1/3 cup molasses, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons Spicy Pear Upside-Down Cake of their cinnamon spice blend and 12 - 15 servings a german chocolate cake mix. The baking instructions use their Ingredients stoneware pans, bundt or 9 x 13 4 tablespoons brown sugar rectangular baker, in the 6 ripe pears peeled and cored microwave or conventional oven. or canned, drained pears I added the pears on the bot- 1 15.5-ounce can pinto beans tom. I found a recipe for 1/3 cup molasses Gingerbread Upside Down Cake 3 eggs (or 3/4 cup egg substitute) Lynne Bigwood, many years ago in the Fannie 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Farmer cookbook. I make that cake in the fall when 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 package (18.25-ounce) spice cake mix pears are in season, plentiful and cheap. This recipe Vanilla ice cream or whipped topping or vanilla yogurt looked like it would work with that concept. I didn't like with 1 teaspoon finely chopped crystallized ginger the chocolate flavor with the added spice, but my guests thought the cake was good. I prefer spice cake Method: for the base. I did try a gingerbread mix , also. The Brush large 9 x 13 inch pan with vegetable oil (or gingerbread mix doesn't require eggs and didn't work large bundt pan—use only 3 pears). as well as the standard cake mix. Sprinkle brown sugar in bottom of baking pan. Slice Quite a few bean growers have cookie and dessert each pear into 8 pieces and place in pan. recipes that use pureed beans. Kaylin Cherry at Drain pinto beans, reserving liquid. Puree beans in www.realfood4realpeople.com gives instructions for processor, blender or mash with enough bean liquid to using pureed beans as a fat substitute in baked prod- make a smooth, thick mixture. In a large mixing bowl, combine pureed beans, molasses and eggs. Add cin- ucts in place of applesauce or other fruit replacement/ namon, ginger and cake mix. Mix thoroughly. fat substitutes. She recommends using a 1 to 1 ratio: Pour cake batter over pears, smooth top to cover substitute exactly the same amount of bean puree for pears evenly. Bake 30 - 45 minutes at 350 degrees F., the solid fat the recipe requests. Kaylin suggests over- until a toothpick inserted down to the pears comes out cooking a pound of beans with a minimum of added clean, top of cake will be slightly moist. Let stand 10 min- water and no oil or salt, then freezing 1/2 cup portions utes. Loosen edges and invert on a serving platter. of bean puree to use later. I substituted a can of Serve with topping, if desired. Refrigerate leftovers. Page 36 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Busy season for bean promotion The Northarvest Bean Growers Association promoted beans at several food service and culinary shows this fall. They included the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences conference, the North Dakota and Minnesota Food Service Association conferences,and the American Culinary Lynne Bigwood, Northarvest Home Economist, works the Northarvest exhibit at the North Dakota Food Service Association conference. in Bismarck, N.D. Jen Neiman, of Manning Selevage and Lee (Northarvest's public relation's firm), works the exhibit booth at the American Culinary Lynne Bigwood, Northarvest Home Economist, offers beans Federation Show held in Nashville, Tenn. samples at the Minnesota School Food Service Association con- ference in St. Cloud, Minn. Thank you Just a quick note to thank you for the opportunity to attend the conference in Baltimore with Lynne Bigwood. I "push beans" almost every day that I am in my office, but seldom with the overwhelming pos- itive response that we received by the extension people from all over the country who came to the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences conference. It was rewarding to visit with professional who were so enthusiastic about BEANS! Your lesson plans appear to be very complete and user friendly. As was deomonstrated by the number of people who received one last year and came back to tell us how they used it, the lesson plans apparently can be applied to many educa- tional settings. Keep up the good work! If you need a partner Three Opryland Hotel School students created the Northarvest again, keep me in mind. dishes exhibited and sampled at the American Culinary Margi Janke, L.R.D. Federation Show in Nashville, Tenn. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 37 and handle beans at at 80 degrees F. There was little A word to the moisture contents above color difference between beans at 14% if possible. Also, 18% and 14% moisture stored at 40 wise about stor- beans at very cold tem- degrees F, but at 80 degrees F the peratures are more sus- beans stored at 18% moisture were ceptible to handling darker than those at 14%. ing beans damage. Bean color and storage temper- Pinto beans exposed ature also appears to be related to By Kenneth Hellevang to light will darken dramatically cooking time. After four months of NDSU extension engineer within weeks. Therefore, limit expo- storage, beans that were stored at sure to light in storage. 80 degrees F had cooking times Beans should be cleaned prior to Beans stored at warmer temper- that were about double that of storage to prevent dirt from discol- atures will dramatically darken in beans stored at 40 degrees F. oring the beans during handling. storage. Based on one year's Longer cooking times are a nega- Also, there may be pockets of mate- research, beans stored at 80 tive bean characteristic. The beans rial in the bin that are wet or restrict degrees F were much darker than that had the longer cooking times airflow if the beans are not cleaned beans stored were the darker col- prior to being put into storage. at 40 degrees ored beans. Beans should be handled gently. F. Beans at Beans should be This usually means using belts for 18% moisture Cool beans cooled in storage to conveying and bean ladders to limit stored at 40 in storage to 40 40 degrees F or damage as the beans go into the degrees F degrees F or less to cooler to maintain storage. Augers may be acceptable were lighter, quality. Operate aera- if they are operated at slow speed had better maintain color and tion fans long enough and the auger tube is kept full. color quality, cooking to cool all the beans in Beans at drier moisture contents than the 14% quality. storage. Since, beans are much more susceptible to han- moisture are more susceptible dling damage. Therefore, harvest beans stored to handling damage at Red River Valley Pinto Yield Trials Pick up table, chart and logo from March April 2000, page 29 Idaho Seed Bean Ad. Enlarge the chart, and table Pinata - A high yield, early maturity vine pinto Pinto Pink Upright Navys, Small Red, Light Red Kidney, Dark Red Kidney, Cranberry, Black Idaho Seed Bean Co. John and Bill Dean P.O. Box 1072 Twin Falls, ID 83303-1072 Ph: (208) 734-5221 Fax: (208) 733-1984 Page 38 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 avoiding seed pro- Genetically resistant varieties Anthracnose duced in infested and tested "pathogen free" seed are areas, Lamey says. primary controls in areas where the raises concerns Bean growers disease is established. should determine In the field, the most character- where the seed istic symptoms of anthracnose about seed they purchase was appear on the undersides of leaves, grown and not pur- where small, angular brick red to Presence of a potentially devastat- chase seed grown in an infected purple-brown lesions develop. ing disease in southern Manitoba state or province, including Older lesions become darker, means North Dakota dry bean Manitoba, Michigan and Ontario. extend to the upper leaf surface and growers need to be on the watch for Seed developed in an infected state proceed along veins. Pod lesions it next summer and be cautious or province is acceptable if it was are sunken, circular, chocolate about where the seed they pur- grown under furrow irrigation in a brown to black colored with a raised chase was produced, according to western state such as Idaho, dark margin surrounded by a thin a North Dakota State University, Wyoming, eastern Washington or zone of reddish tissue. On the Fargo, plant pathologist. eastern lesion surface, tan Anthracnose is not established Oregon, he spores dry into in North Dakota or Minnesota, but it says. Anthracnose dark granular is present in southern Manitoba can be blown from field masses. near the international border, says to field in crop refuse and Anthracnose Art Lamey, NDSU Extension can be blown from Service plant pathologist. spreads within the field in field to field in crop splashing rain showers, refuse and spreads Seed from infected areas as well as being carried within the field in The most important disease on seed. splashing rain management procedure is to keep showers, as well the anthracnose pathogen out by as being carried on Convey-All tenders are available with hydraulic or gas engine drives. Belt-tube unloading makes Convey-all tenders ideal for delicate edible bean seed. Call us for all your edible bean handling and harvesting needs. Order 1-800-454-3875 Early! Convey-All belt conveyors are available with PTO, electric, aux - (701) 454-3875 / 3456 Fax iliary gas engine or hydraulic drive options. Electric shown above. NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 39 Market analysis fall, which the two largest classes. However, Full pipeline, slow exports should help improve the lack of movement in these two large classes masked much affect prices despite sup- market tone by reducing stronger volumes for most other bean classes. ply cut inventories built by last Exports increased from the low levels of a year ago for black, Great season's Northern, baby lima, small red, By Gary Lucer strong yields, ample world supplies, blackeye, and pink beans. U.S. USDA agricultural economist and the sluggish export market this exports (commercial and food aid) season. increased to Mexico, Japan, U.S. dry edible bean production is Despite extremely low prices, Angola, and Haiti but declined to estimated to be down signficiantly dry bean export volume was 14% the United Kingdom, Canada, from a year ago. below a year ago through the first 8 Honduras, and Nicaragua. Although beginning to show months of 2000. some strength, aggregate dry bean Adequate world sup- prices remain low ($15.30 per cwt plies and the strong Domestic dry bean in October, down 11% from a year U.S. dollar have offset ago) because of fully stocked mar- the advantage of low consumption is forecast ket pipelines and slow exports for a market prices, keeping few key bean classes. export volume down to reach a record 2.2 bil- USDA announced several size- for navy beans (down lion pounds in 2000 - up able purchase intentions for domes- 56%) and pinto beans tic canned and dry pack beans this (down 29%) beans— 2% from 1999. New and Used Bean Equipment 2 Pickett 8/30" IH810 15' w/14' Sund 1 Speedy cutter 6/30" 4,6 & 8 row Morris rodweeder 1 Heath cutter 8/30" Bean heads 1 TFI cutter 8/30" Sund pickups 1 TFI One Pass 8/30" Slow down kit for JD 7700-20 Page 40 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Market analysis Reduced volume to Central export demand. down 18% from a year earlier. American nations such as Calendar year 2000 domestic Reduced movement to Mexico Honduras was a reflection of the use is likely to be around 975 mil- (down 24%), the Dominican recovery from Hurricane damage lion pounds and exports will use an Republic, Haiti, and a few sales to two years ago, bringing lower food estimated 150 million pounds. Nicaragua outweighed increased aid needs. Grower prices (MN/ND) began movement to Angola (up 99%) and Because of the strong U.S. dol- the marketing year in September at Russia. lar, competition from Canada, and $11.50 per cwt and had moved to Exports are excpected to reduced navy bean import demand, $12.00 by mid-November. Although account for about 9% of supplies, export sales to the United Kingdom moving higher, these were the low- down from 10% in 1999 and 12% were down by two-thirds to just 35 est monthly averages since 1991. during the 1990s. The recent low million pounds.With average Pinto bean exports have been was in 1992 when just 7% percent grower prices for dry beans very weak this year, with volume during of supplies were exported. -- low for most of the past marketing the first nine months of the year Source: November 2000 USDA year, retail prices for dry bagged beans also fell, declining 2% from a year earlier during the first 9 months of 2000. However, the U.S. dry bean grower-retail price margin ND State Seed declined during the year, with the grower price averaging just 23% of retail value during the first three quarters — down from 26% in 1999. ad However, an expected gain in grower prices during the fourth quarter with expectations for further modest increases in the year ahead should help growers regain some of pickup from this lost share of retail value. Domestic dry bean consumption is forecast to reach a record 2.2 bil- lion pounds in 2000 — up about 2% from 1999. Forecasts for 2001 sug- Jan. 2000, page 42 gest domestic use may decline as supply is cut back and prices begin to move higher. On a per-person basis, dry bean use jumped about 8% in 1999 to 7.9 pounds due to strong supplies and very low prices. In 2000, most dry bean prices remained low and relatively stable, which encouraged the domestic 4/color market to absorb more dry beans and allowed per capita use to rise to 8.0 pounds. Pinto Production Down; Price Improving Slightly Pinto bean production in 2000 is down slightly for the second con- secutive year following 1998's near- record high and should be a better match for the existing domestic and NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 41 choice. have had very little testing. If you Pick the winners However, if its perfor- can't verify the relative perfor- mance of a variety with multiple Two tips can help you identify the mance is locations and years worth of data, poor at making a major change to a new best new varieties for your farm other loca- variety is a gamble. tions it is Pest resistance, marketing Interested in growing a new variety? How do you know likely a poor choice. Variety trials summarized over 2 factors, yield and other agro- nomic characteristics should not which variety will likely yield multiple locations and years pro- be dealt with in the same manner. more? Michael Peel, North vide the most reliable way to dif- Pest resistance does not vary Dakota State University exten- ferentiate among varieties. The across environments, however the sion agronomist, offers these top performing variety from this level of a pest will vary with loca- tips: type of summary is the best tion. adapted. On average it has per- When a particular pest is a 1Look at multiple sites and multipe years. Moisture, tem- perature, solar radiation, pest formed better under a range of environmental conditions. Single problem in your area you should give it due consideration, using year single location data provides the variety description tables to pressure and soil conditions, to the least reliable comparisons differentiate for resistance name a few, are never the same among varieties. between varieties. from year to year, even at the When looking at data from any You will note in North Dakota same location. A variety that per- source, only numbers within the variety description tables that sev- forms very well at a single location same year should be compared. eral newer varieties are not rated in one year may look appealing. In 1999 and 2000, there were for some disease. Too little infor- Before choosing such a variety many new varieties of all types of mation is currently available to look at its performance at other crops released that look very rate them. This lack of information locations. If it performs well at promising. It also the case that should be viewed as a precaution- other locations it is likely a good many of the varieties released ary statement. Translation Error. Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:BeanGrower Ads:Green Valley Bean ad.eps Page 42 NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 USDA Crop Report NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 43 Ontario navy grow- ers face USDA Crop Report poor market Onatrio white bean growers are Dry edible beans: Production by Class facing a bleak market and low Class Production prices for their crops after a 1998 1999 2000 bumper year in 1999. Navy 3,887 7,294 4,771 "That was a perfect year. Great Northern 2,173 2,469 2,448 Farming went gangbusters," says Pinto 14,511 10,839 10,646 Tino Breuer, general manager of Light red kidney 1,134 1,375 1,324 the Ontario White Bean Producers Dark red kidney 842 1,040 1,002 Marketing Board. Pink 919 815 321 Production in North America's Cranberry 382 577 450 prime white bean growing areas of Black 3,564 3,371 1,341 Michigan, Minnesota dn North Dakota in the United States and Ontario and Manitoba in Canada 7 million bags annually for several farmer John Poel says he is scaling hit nearly 10.2 million bags in 1999. decades, that left more than 3 mil- back to the extreme. Poel says he That was almost double the num- lion bags to carry over this year and doesn't plan to grow dry beans in ber of 45-kilogram (100 pounds) in 2001. Barring a weather disaster 2001. He says unless he gets the bags harvested the year before for some of the bean producing chance to double crop, it will be the and more than 25% greater than in regions, the only answer is to slash first time the 33-year-old can 2000. production, Breur says. remember there not being a white With worldwide demand flat at St. Mary, Ontario-area cash crop bean crop on the family farm in his For complete dealers list, contact Idaho Bean Commission: PO Box 2556, Boise, Idaho, 83701 Ph: 208-334-3520. Website: www.state.id.us/bean NORTHARVEST BEAN GROWER January-February 2001 Page 45 Pickett Equipment proudly introduces a new line of dry bean machinery PICKETT/MIAC COMBINE This combine has demonstrated its ability to work in the toughest conditions. Built with quality in mind, this combine will yield the results you've been looking for. SEE US AT: Fargodome Show -- Jan. 16-18, Fargo. Bean Day -- Jan. 25-26, Fargo. International Crop Expo -- March 7-8, Grand Forks. Central Flow threshing cylinders handle any variety of edible bean efficiently and gently with no smearing and with less dirt. Call Toll Free 800-473-3559 See these Pickett dealers: AMUNDSON EQUIPMENT Elbow Lake, MN EMERY VISTO'S IMPLEMENT Oakes, ND GREEN VALLEY EQUIPMENT Morden, Altona, MB LELM EQUIPMENT Fessenden, Harvey, ND MONDOVI IMPLEMENT CO. Mondovi, WI PRO-AG EQUIPMENT Grand Forks, Grafton, ND RDO EQUIPMENT, INC. Casselton, Washburn, Lisbon, ND TWETE INC. McVille, Jamestown, Devils Lake, ND An adjustable vacuum system will remove and separate any UGLEM-NESS CO. Northwood, ND foreign material and fines from beans. The bucket elevator will safely deliver the product into an 8,800 lb. capacity dump bin. WEARDA IMPLEMENT Clara City, MN Non-profit organization US Postage Paid Fargo, ND 58102 Permit 1570 Northarvest Bean Growers Association 50072 E. Lake Seven Road Frazee, MN 56544


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And last but not least, an image comparison of Unigine Heaven with the older revision of the engine against this latest build that supports the indirect occlusion (SSDO) to simulate real-time global illumination.
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Paul Winter Sextet Releases CD COUNT ME IN; Plays WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION, Now thru 12/15
Paul Winter's "Count Me In", a two-disc anthology of recordings by Winter's first band, The Paul Winter Sextet, has just been released. The album is available just prior to the upcoming 50th anniversary of the group's Nov. 19, 1962 concert at the White House.
The Sextet was conceived as a kind of little 'big band,' and with its instrumentation of three horns and rhythm, it has quite a different sound from that of the Paul Winter Consort, which people have known Winter for during the last several decades. But on a primary level, it's all the same lineage: a spirit of celebration, in the democracy of ensemble, aspiring toward a balance between the improvised and the composed.
The album includes 14 previously unreleased tracks, including the White House concert, among many tracks from the Sextet's five Columbia albums.
To purchase the CD, click HERE. For the MP3, follow this LINK. And for a first listen, go to paulwinter.com/music/count-me-in.
Coming up is the WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION from tonight, December 13 to the 15th. More details about this year's show will become available in the coming weeks. But as it relates to Count Me In, one of this year's special guests will be the reunited Paul Winter Sextet. Other performers are, along with the Paul Winter Consort, vocalist Theresa Thomason, African griot singer Abdoulaye Diabate, and the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre.
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The scale of child poverty across Britain revealed
A detailed map reveals how every pocket of Britain is faring, ward by ward, almost street by street.
A detailed map reveals how every pocket of Britain is faring, ward by ward, almost street by street.
A million children are going hungry in Britain, a leading children's charity has found.
An increase in the minimum wage is required to protect low-income workers from benefit cuts and a lack of jobs, a charity has said.
Child poverty in the UK has fallen to 27 per cent, its lowest rate for almost 25 years, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found.
The report says that since the early 1990s, the total number of people in poverty has barely changed.
However, the mix of pensioners, working-age adults and children living bellow the poverty line has changed dramatically.
While pensioner poverty is now at one third of its level in the late 1980s, the number of working-age adults without dependent children living in poverty is now 20 per cent.
This is the highest in at least 30 years.
A research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that five million workers are paid below the living wage. There are now more working families living in poverty than non-working ones, the research has found.
"While the labour market has shown signs of revival in the last year, the number of people in low-paid jobs has risen and average incomes have fallen," the report said.
The report also says job insecurity is increasingly common in the UK. It says one in six members of the workforce has claimed Jobseekers' Allowance at some point in the last two years.
There are more working families living in poverty in the UK than non-working ones, new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed.
It is the first time such a balance has been recorded.
Some 6.7 million working families live below the poverty line, an increase of 500,000 on last year, compared with a combined 6.3 million of retired families and the out-of-work, the charity said.
People living in the north of England have a greater risk of dying early than those in the south, according to a national league table of premature death rates published.
For the first time, where you live and how long you will live, have been mapped across England.
The league table uses colour codes - red for where you are more likely to have a shorter life and green where people live longer.
The north of England is doing significantly worse than elsewhere, with Manchester and Blackpool recording the worst results for premature deaths.
Rupert Evelyn reports from the Lancashire resort on how it is trying to turn that around.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told ITV Daybreak that local authorities can learn lessons in the north-south divide.
People living in the north of England have a greater risk of dying early than those in the south, according to a table released by the government today.
The Health Secretary said: "All these areas have different programmes happening on the ground. We want them to learn from each other".
A Daybreak One Poll has revealed that one-third of the population have lost faith in the NHS (35.8%).
The poll comes on the day that the government revealed the "shocking" death divide between north and south.
In the same poll 54.9% of Brits think the NHS has suffered under the coalition government.
20.2% did not think the NHS had suffered under the coalition government and 24.9% did not know.
Read more: New mortality rates shows north-south divide
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has described the mortality rate between north and south as a "shocking variation".
The Longer Lives website from Public Health England found that people living in the north of England have a greater risk of dying early than those in the south.
The Health Secretary said: "This shocking variation in early and unnecessary deaths means people's lives are needlessly cut short and that cannot continue unchecked.
"I want areas to use the data released today to identify local public health challenges like smoking, drinking and obesity and to take action to help achieve our ambition for saving 30,000 lives a year by 2020."
People living in the north of England have a greater risk of dying early than those in the south, according to new research.
The national league table of premature death rates published today ranks local authorities using a traffic light system, ranging from red for the worst areas to green for the best.
There is a clear north/south divide in the statistics, which show the number of people under the age of 75 who died over a two-year period.
Manchester and Blackpool are the two local authorities that recorded the worst results for specific causes of death highlighted by Public Health England.
Manchester also has the worst overall level of early death.
One in five children in the UK live below the poverty line, according to research published today. The End Child Poverty campaign published figures showing that 20.2% of children live in poverty, before housing costs.
In 8 areas of large cities, more than four out of every 10 children lived in poverty in 2012, the research showed.
Read: Poverty 'affecting 20% of children across Britain'
In central Manchester almost half of children live below the breadline, whilst in West Belfast and Glasgow the figure is 43%. Campaigners say the research reveals "gross levels of inequality".
ITV News' Scotland correspondent Debi Edwards reports.
In-depth: The scale of child poverty across Britain revealed.