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WILLMAR -- Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have announced that producers will be able to elect and begin enrolling farms into the new Average Crop Revenue Election program on April 27.
Authorized by the 2008 farm bill, the program is a new and innovative alternative to the traditional counter-cyclical payments provided under the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program. However, producers will need to carefully consider their options before deciding if this new program will provide them with better financial protection than what the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program currently affords.
With the spring planting season about to begin and because the decision to elect Average Crop Revenue is irrevocable, many producers have expressed the need for additional time to study and weigh their options. In response to those concerns, USDA recently announced that the sign-up deadline for both programs of June 1 was being extended to Aug. 14.
The decision to elect Average Crop Revenue binds the farm to the program through the remainder of the 2008 farm bill, which continues through the 2012 crop year.
By participating in Average Crop Revenue Election, producers agree to forgo counter-cyclical payments, accept a 20 percent reduction in direct payments and receive a 30 percent reduction in their commodity loan rates for all commodities produced on the farm.
Commodities eligible for payments include wheat, corn, soybeans, oats, barley, grain sorghum and a number of minor oilseed crops.
Producers may elect and enroll for the 2009 crop year, even if they've already enrolled in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program and received an advance direct payment. However, to be effective for the 2009 crop year, producers will need to elect Average Crop Revenue by this year's extended deadline of Aug. 14.
Stimulus bill provides state $7.6 millionin direct loan funds
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided USDA's Farm Service Agency with $173 million in additional funds for its Direct Operating Farm Loan Program. Minnesota received nearly $7.6 million of those dollars, which FSA has now obligated to 91 borrowers within the state.
Loan funds were used to purchase items such as farm equipment, feed, seed, fuel and other operating expenses. The maximum loan amount was $300,000.
Applications were considered on a first-come, first-served basis, with special emphasis placed on beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged applicants.
Nearly half of Minnesota's loan funds went to beginning farmers, with more than 5 percent provided to socially disadvantaged farmers.
Minnesota hog inventory down 3 percent
According to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, Minnesota hog producers had an inventory of 7.3 million hogs and pigs on March 1, down 3 percent from one year ago. That number is also down 3 percent from Dec. 1.
Breeding hogs totaled 580,000 head, down 2 percent from a year earlier. Market hogs and pigs totaled 6.72 million head, down 3 percent from one year ago.
According to USDA, hog producers in Minnesota intend to farrow 280,000 sows during the March to May and June to August quarters of 2009. This would represent a 2 percent decline from the actual number of sows farrowed during the same quarters in 2008.
The U.S. inventory of hogs and pigs totaled 65.4 million head on March 1, down 3 percent from one year ago and down two percent from Dec. 1.
March corn prices increase, soybeans decline
According to the Minnesota Agricultural Statistics Service, prices received by Minnesota corn farmers during March averaged $3.85 per bushel, an increase of $0.16 from February's average price. Meanwhile, soybean prices during March declined $0.68 to an average price of $8.65 per bushel.
Hog prices averaged $44.50 per hundredweight during March, down $0.20 from February's price.
March beef cattle prices averaged $71.20 per hundredweight, a decline of $0.30 from February.
Minnesota milk prices during March averaged $12.40 per hundredweight, up $0.30 from February's average price.
Wes Nelson is executive director of the USDA Farm Service Agency in Kandiyohi County.


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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so it was entirely apt that David Moyes put his faith in Sir Alex Ferguson's old dependables to save his job.
Faced with 90 minutes of Champions League football can could have decided Moyes' future, Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand rolled back the years while Robin van Persie struck a hat-trick that harked back to the heights of last season under Ferguson.
Olympiacos arriving buoyed by their 2-0 first leg lead, and departed on the wrong end of a 3-0 scoreline while United can look forward to a mouth-watering quarter-final.
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The stakes were high and the chips were down at Old Trafford, and grizzled old heads must have nodded approvingly when they read the team sheet.
There was 40-year-old Ryan Giggs, as grizzled as any these days, and there too was Rio Ferdinand, restored in the place of Nemanja Vidic who has become something of a liability since his agreement to join Inter Milan at the end of the season.
It may have been unintended by Moyes, but the reality was that not a single player in his starting line-up was his signing or had emerged under him at Old Trafford.
Marouane Fellaini was on the bench, as was Adnan Januzaj while Juan Mata was absent cup-tied.
If Moyes was looking for a statement from those he did select, he could not have been happier with the response.
Giggs was simply sensational in central midfield, with two quite sumptuous long-range passes that created United's first two goals that levelled the scores on aggregate.
Wayne Rooney was hugely influential: he may have moaned at Ferguson's insistence on playing him in a deeper role, but he did so against the Greek champions and produced his most telling performance of the season.
Rooney, picking up one of those Giggs' long-rangers, even managed to pass to van Persie, creating a chance for the Dutchman to fire home in trademark fashion.
David de Gea played a massive part too, in particular a spectacular double save to deny David Fuster and Alejandro Dominguez, who was Olympiacos' one outstanding player.
All over the field there were familiar United performances: Antonio Valencia, making light of a painful-looking shiner; Danny Welbeck, full of incisive running; Michael Carrick, doing those simple things so well.
It was also perhaps indicative that when Moyes did make changes, he still chose those who had made their mark under Ferguson: Ashley Young and Darren Fletcher were sent on to steady the troops, while Fellaini only came on near the end.
The final whistle brought the rare sight, this season at least, of United players smiling: not since exactly 30 years ago against Barcelona had the team overcome a two-goal first leg deficit in Europe.
Turning points in football do not become obvious until months or even years afterwards, so it is much too soon to predict whether this is the moment for Moyes.
The positive note for United fans is that their manager picked the right team for the occasion.
The worry remains though that this was Ferguson's team, and that Moyes still has to make his own mark.

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The Early Christian Centre archaeological park is situated on Erjavčeva cesta, right opposite the Cankarjev dom cultural centre. The archaeological excavations conducted here unearthed a Roman residential building. Like with the majority of Emonan houses, it was built at the beginning of the 1st century A.D. During the nearly 500 years of its existence it was rebuilt several times. The first major rebuilding was undertaken in the early 4th century. On that occasion, the floors were renovated, the hypocaust heating was arranged and three small pools were added, suggesting that the building might have been turned into private baths.
In the second half of the 4th century, one section of the house was rebuilt as an early Christian chapel. However, a major alteration occurred at the beginning of the 5th century when a rectangular baptistery with a small pool in the centre intended for baptising was built alongside the central courtyard. The baptistery floor is covered in a multi-coloured mosaic with inbuilt inscriptions bearing the names of the Emonans who had donated the funds for its assembly. There was a covered portico featuring a coloured mosaic leading to the baptistery. The mosaic had an inbuilt inscription with the name of the builder, Archdeacon Antioha. This shows there was a strong community of early Christians in Emona at that time. Its existence is also confirmed by written records which refer to Emonan bishops.Location and opening times
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
andrew's gratitude list for today
We have implemented a few new things around here involving chores and charts and stickers and the dollar store. One other thing we have added to the rotation is that I have the kids tell me a few things that happened that day for which they are grateful. I started doing this after I listened to a podcast that basically said that happiness in life comes down to just being grateful, and how important it is to cultivate a sense of gratitude in our personalities, and that we can do this by simply making a short gratitude list each day. But it has the added benefit of being a good way to get little boys to spill their guts about a day that I might not otherwise know much about (in Andrew's case, that is, since I know everything that happens to Will).
So here is Andrew's Thankfulness List for Today:
1) That Papa came over with his night vision goggles.
2) That we went to the park after dinner and stayed until it was dark.
3) That I got ice cream after school with Aunt Katie.
4) That Kenny said he was my friend again. (Kenny and Mihir, Andrew's two best friends at school, felt that the nonsensical noises Andrew insisted on making were "so annoying" that they told him they were not his friends anymore. At that point Andrew just stood there, watching them play and feeling sad. About 2 min later, Kenny told him he was just kidding and that they were still friends. Then I got to learn all about how they are now playing soccer at recess, practicing for a match-up with the girls and some other details of Andrew' social life at school. It was really cute.)
His gratitude list made me realize how lucky we are that we live so close to my parents, that my parents love the kids so much and look for experiences to share with them, that we have a park in our neighborhood and that my sister is in town and has been so helpful and loving to the kids. I have a tendency to focus on the negative sometimes, and let the fact that my son won't eat a single bite of food (we have experiences a regression from my previous post) to cloud out so many other positive things in our lives.)
2 comments:
- Ashley said...
Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that Will's not eating again! That is so sad.
I love that you do this with your kids and I want to copy it. It is so sweet and funny to hear what is going in inside their little heads. Mostly I am just impressed that you had the strength of spirit to go to a park after dinner. You are a good person.
- our corner around the globe said...
Alexandra, I'm having so much fun with your sister. I love her! She's so nice and kind. Your kids are so big. Can you believe I have 3 too?
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Location: Salisbury Theatre, Fine Arts Compex, Fairbanks campus
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Theatre and Film will present "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress," a play by Alan Ball, in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre from March 24-April 2.
The comedic play portrays five bridesmaids as they together avoid an extravagant wedding reception in Tennessee. Actors use profanity — if were a film, the play would be rated R.
UAF Associate Professor Carrie Baker will direct the play, her seventh since joining the UAF faculty in 2005. Baker also has directed for community theater groups in Fairbanks and acted in plays and movies.
The cast includes Natilly Hovda as Frances, Brandi Larson as Mindy, Jill Shipman as Georgeanne, Sarah Williams as Meredith, Meghan Fowler as Trisha and Jared Olin as Tripp.
UAF Professor Kade Mendelowitz designed the set. Adam Gillette is technical director. Colby Freel designed the lighting and Andrew Cassel the sound. Amanda Casterline designed the costumes and Jerene Mosier, costume shop manager, supervised their construction with help from Frederica Matumeak and Lara Lotze.
Ball, the playwright, wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the film "American Beauty." He created the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning "Six Feet Under," which ran for five hit seasons on HBO, and "True Blood," which HBO carried for seven seasons. He is adapting the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" for Harpo Films.
Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets purchased in advance are $10 for students; $15 for seniors, military and other UAF affiliates; and $20 for adults. Prices for Sunday matinees are $2 less. Tickets at the door are $2 higher. The Salisbury Theater is in the Fine Arts Complex, off the Regents' Great Hall, on the Fairbanks campus.
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The First Gentleman of New Country talks about being on the road, his North Carolina roots, the New Country boom, his youthful indiscretions, and the nature of country music.
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'It's harder than it looks': Armstrong and Osman swap Pointless roles
Richard Osman said his Pointless co-host Alexander Armstrong's role was "harder than it looks" as the pair swapped places to mark the 1,000th episode of the quiz show.
Armstrong was sat in Osman's seat behind the desk and Osman was stood at the podium as the landmark episode opened on BBC1.
The pair did not directly refer to their switch, but Osman teasingly said: "I think we should have done something different for it, do you not... Shake it up a bit or something?"
The presenters both appeared to be comfortable with their different roles, although at one point Osman noted: "I think we are both appreciating that the other person's job is harder than it looks!"
On social media, viewers were divided about the swap, with some finding it entertaining but others insisting Osman and Armstrong worked better in their usual positions.
One fan posted a message on Twitter saying that the move was "sheer brilliance".
But another tweeted: "#Pointless is messing with my head today.
"Love the effort from the boys but let that be a lesson to us - stick to what you do brilliantly."
The episode saw the return of previous contestants, including the winners of the first ever Pointless jackpot in 2009.
Osman said at the end: "Thank you so much for joining us on our 1,000th show... We love making the show, we love that you watch it."
He also thanked Armstrong for the last 999 shows, and "less so" the 1,000th, and said it had been "nothing but a pleasure".
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Not only does the F-22 fighter jet evade radar, but it avoids federal budget cutters, too.
As we noted in an editorial in April, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Obama want to cut Lockheed Martin's weapons system, which was built for the Cold War and costs up to $191 million per plane. Phasing out the fighter production is part of Gates' plan to overhaul Pentagon programs. Obama has even threatened to veto a defense bill if it includes the F-22 spending.
But lawmakers have a way of preserving defense contracts in their own backyards, whether or not it's the best use of tax dollars. That's what is happening with the F-22. The jet program employs 95,000 people in 44 states, including at software maker Teletronics Technology Corp. in Newtown, Bucks County.
The House, led by a Democrat whose district involves manufacturing the jet engines, blocked any attempt by lawmakers to cut F-22 funding from a $680 billion defense authorization bill. Twenty-seven Democrats voted against the maneuver, but none were from the Philadelphia region. Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), a retired admiral who had spoken out in favor of Gates' efforts to overhaul weapons systems, nevertheless voted for the rule that preserved F-22 funding.
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