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Extension Connection January 2018 edition

Call or email the Carlton County Extension staff with any questions or need any additional information. We’re happy to help!

Troy Salzer - Extension Educator, Agriculture & Livestock, By-Products Coordinator

Marna Butler-Fasteland - 4-H Program Coordinator

Mandi Rosebrock - Office Manager

Becky Haass - Ag Support Technician

Ann Rust - Clerical Support/Volunteer & Horticulture Assistant

Jane Riehm - By-Products Clerical Assistant-

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218-384-3511

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

Www3.extension.umn.edu/county/carlton

E X T E N S I O N C O N N E C T I O N Volume 13, Issue 1

January 1, 2018

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

4-H & Youth Development

Calendar of

Upcoming Events

Ag Community 3

Home and Garden 2

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Published quarterly by the University of Minnesota Extension, Carlton County office

Jelinek Celebrates Nine Years of Service to Carlton County Extension We are very grateful for all of the contributions Carol Jelinek has made to Extension in Carlton County over the course of her three terms on our oversight committee. Carol has held many leadership roles including: committee chairperson, 4-H volunteer, sheep and goat projects, blue ribbon auction, Build the Barn project, and NE MN Forage and Grass-land Council publication editor and field day host. Thank you Carol!

University of Minnesota Extension Snap-Ed Job Opportunity in Carlton! The Extension Center for Family Development is hiring a SNAP-Ed Educator for the NE region. SNAP-Ed Educators promote and improve individual and community health by promoting healthy eating behaviors and physical activity in low-income communi-ties. This position is a full-time position and will report to the SNAP-Ed Regional Coordinator. While this position will travel frequently across Carlton County and neighboring counties, it will be based out of the Carlton County Extension Office. Application Deadline: 1/10/18; position will remain open until filled. To apply, go the U of M Employment System at: http://www.extension.umn.edu/about/employment/ Job ID # 321197

Join the Carlton County Extension Committee to Help Identify Community Needs and Support Local Extension Programming! We have an opening for a three year “at

large” term starting in 2018. The committee meets five times per year (bi-monthly February-November). If you are interested in getting involved, please call or email the Extension Office for an application and more information. Please consider becoming a County Extension Committee Member! Application dead-line is January 31, 2018.

Carlton Extension Committee Member Carol Jelinek (above center) is recognized by Exten-sion Staff at the November CEC meeting for her 9 years of ser-vice to our oversight committee.

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Extension Connection January 2018

HOM E AND G ARD EN

Exciting New Community Connect Classes Coming Up in 2018:

JANUARY 25th: The January Community Connect class will feature the topic of “Living Green”, Incorporating Waste Reduction into our Everyday Lives. Josie Flatgard, Carlton County Zoning MN Green Corps member will present the concept of zero waste. The class will also make reusable dryer sheets to take home. FEBRUARY 22nd: The Audubon Center of the North Woods will bring live owls in for the February class called “Silent Hunters.” The class will learn about unique adaptations that owls have to help them survive year round in Minnesota and how they overcome the challenges of being active at night. An inter active demonstration will also be featured. Both classes will be held at the Transp. Bldg. from 6:30 –8 pm. The cost is $5 at the door (18 and under are free). Please call the Extension Office to pre-register.

Carlton County Master Gardeners Welcome Three New Members

Our local Master Gardener group is adding three new volunteers for the 2018 season: Joan Lanoue and Ken Jorgenson both of Carlton and Judy Walker of Kettle River. Each of these Master Gardeners brings a different set of skills to the already diverse group. New members are required to log 50 volunteer hours of horticulture service to the community during their first year. Typi-cal volunteer opportunities may include plant sales, question and answer booths, garden tours, phone con-sultations, and group presentations. The group accepts new members at any time of the year. Call the Extension Office for additional information.

Pillowcase Sewing Event!

The Carlton County Study Groups will be hosting a Com-munity Service sewing project in January. The groups will be sewing pillowcases and book bags for the Carl-ton Youth Shelter.

This year students from the Barnum Bomber Club, an after school program, will also be contributing to the project. The students will be learning sewing and com-munity service skills.

Anyone else interested in participating in advance can contact our office for pillow case and book bag pat-terns that are pre-cut and ready to sew.

This event will take place on Monday, January 22nd at the Transportation Bldg. (1630 County Rd. 61) from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. There will be extra sewing ma-chines available to use.

Everyone is welcome to participate! Call the Extension Office for more information.

MN Master Naturalist Class

Do you enjoy learning about the natural world? If so, please con-sider becoming a Minnesota Master Naturalist volunteer! Long Lake Conservation Center in Palisade, MN is hosting a week long MN Master Naturalist Volunteer Training beginning January 22nd, 2018. Master Naturalist volunteers complete a 40-hour hands–on course with expert instructors and fellow learners—studying natural history, environmental in-terpretation, and conservation stewardship. This course will cover the natural and cultural history of the “North Woods, Great Lakes” region. For more information, call 1-800-241-4532 or email: [email protected]


AG COMMU N IT Y

2018 MFA Tour de Forage Winter Meeting

The MN Forage Association, the NE Forage and Grassland Council and Carlton County Extension will host the Tour de Forage Winter Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 1st at The Event Center, Floodwood, MN. Regis-tration will begin at 9:30 am and programming and door prizes will run until 3 pm. Everyone is welcome to participate. For an agenda and registration information visit: www.midwestforage.org

NE MN Beekeeping Symposium

Interested in learning more about beekeeping? Join the NE MN Beekeepers Association on February 17th, 2018 for their 3rd annual Beekeep-ing and More symposium. Learn about pollinators, tips for beginners, how to make your property more appealing to pollinators, threats to honeybees, mite treatments, and much more!!! This day long workshop will be held at the Fond Du Lac Tribal College from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pre-register online at: fdltccbeekeep-ing.zapevent.com.

2018 MN Beef Cow / Calf Days

Each year the U of MN Beef Team hosts Cow/Calf Days at locations throughout the state. The program provides current information on issues facing the beef industry. The local program will be held on Monday, February 5th at the Kanabec County Jail Meeting Room, 100 S. Vine Street, Mora, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cost of the program is $20, which includes dinner . Please pre-register by calling our office, 218-384-3511, by 4 p.m. Friday, January 26th.

Grazing Workshop

The 7th annual Hubbard County Grazing Workshop will be held Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at the Guthrie Community Center. Pre-register by January 26th to Hubbard SWCD at 218-732-0121.

Conservation Innovation Grant Meeting

Carlton County Extension will be holding the final meeting as we close out the CIG grant on Thursday March 1st at the Cromwell Pavilion. Justin Morris, USDA Region Soil Health Specialist, and Kent Sol-berg, SFA Livestock and Grazing Specialist, will be presenting on topics related to improving pasture, field production, soil health, and increasing organic matter. Registration begins at 9:30 with the program starting at 10. This program is co-sponsored by Carlton County Extension, USDA, NRC, SWCD and SFA.


AG COMMU N IT Y

U of M On-line Horse Certification Courses The U of M Extension Horse Team is excited to offer three six-week online certificate courses. Courses include: Growing and Feeding Horse Hay, Basic Horse Nutrition, and Horse Pasture Establishment and Management. Online Courses start the week of January 8th, 2018. The cost for each course is $75 and on-line registration ends January 7th. To earn a certificate, participants must earn at least 70% on three 10-point multiple choice quizzes and participate in three course discussions. For more information and to register visit: www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/horse

2018 MN Fruit & Vegetable Grow-ers Conference

Everyone is welcome at the 2018 Minnesota Fruit & Vegetable Growers Conference and Trade Show on January 18-19th at the St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center. New growers, experienced growers and those transi-tioning to specialty crops can learn about changes in food laws, new ideas about berry production, high tunnel production, and managing your business and community supported agriculture. There will also be interesting pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, January 13th. Information and registration is available at www.mfvga.org or a paper registration form can be obtained by calling the Extension Office.

Supporting Farmers in Stressful Times

Stress factors are on the rise for Minnesota farmers. Many face financial problems, price and marketing uncertainties, farm transfer issues, production challenges, and more. You may know farmers who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, or feelings of indecision. If you want to try to help a farmer in need or need to deliver difficult news to a farmer, please consider at-tending this free three hour workshop on March 14th

in Grand Rapids for tools on recognizing and re-sponding to farm families in need. For more information or to register visit: www.mdadownonthefarm.eventbrite.com

Women in Ag Net-work’s Conference

The University of Minnesota Extension is proud to host, in

partnership with USDA Farm Service Agency in Min-nesota, the 3rd annual Women in Ag Network (WAGN) Conference on February 15th, 2018 in St. Cloud at the Holiday Inn. This years theme is: “Overcoming Adversity.” Through the annual conference and quarterly events, the WAGN provides educational programming for women involved in agriculture, to enhance their lead-ership, management, and production abilities. The keynote speaker will be Katie Pinke, publisher of AgWeek and blogger of The Pinke Post. For more information contact Megan Roberts at [email protected]


AG COMMU N IT Y

Selling or Renting to a Beginning Farmer? New Tax Credits for 2018 An exciting new Minnesota law may help move land to the next generation of farmers. The Min-

nesota Beginning Farmer Tax Credit—available for the first time in 2018—will provide state income tax credits to encourage the sale and rental of agricultural assets to beginning farmers. The credits are: ♦ Five percent of the sale price value, capped at $32,000; ♦ 10 percent of the rental agreement value, up to $7,000 per year; ♦ 15 percent of the share rent agreement value, up to $10,000 per year, taken off of your Minnesota in come tax. For more information contact your accountant or mda.state.mn.us/agfinance

MN State SFA Annual Conference

The Minnesota Sustainable Farming As-sociation annual conference will be held Saturday, February 10th at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN. For a complete list of topics or to regis-ter visit: www.sfa-mn.org/conference.

Beginning Farmer & Rancher Program The BFRDP program is offering educa-tion and mentoring programs to the next generation of farmers. Visit: https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/beginning-farmer-rancher-development-program-bfrdp

Hay storage losses can be a major economic impact in any livestock operation. This is especially true for a high precipitation region such as NE MN. In the December 1st, 2017 Progressive Forage magazine, William Edwards wrote a wonder-ful review article summarizing thir-teen research papers which sug-gested an average loss with no storage treatment to be roughly 27%. What that means is on average more than 25% of each bale gets wasted, or another way to consider this is just think about hauling ¼ of new bales into the woods in-stead of bringing them to your livestock! Now you would never consider doing that, but the point is let’s think about and try and pre-serve the investment you have made in getting that forage into a bale. Within these research projects sev-en different treatments were con-sidered ranging from on the ground without cover to inside of a building. The hay losses on aver-age ranged from 5 –27% loss. It is important to think about bale

handling. For example, place bales on a ridge with good drainage or on well drained soils instead of next to the cow yard. Also consid-er putting down a well-drained base so water drains away. This question has been previously attempted but until using the “Iowa State Extension Decision Maker Spreadsheet” comparisons were difficult. This spreadsheet allows you to plug in data based on your bale size, bale number, hay value, cost/hr., interest rate, etc. Which then are compared in up to eight stor-age options at one time. In one example given by Progressive Forage author William Edwards, the spreadsheet for the sample opera-tion suggested a total cost for for-age supply ranging from $93,493/year to the lowest at $77,098/year. This is a cost savings of over 21% per year! Visit www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/decisionaidscd.html to download this spreadsheet and run your own comparisons. Contact me for assistance.

Does it Pay to Invest in Bale Storage? by Troy Salzer

SFA Soil Health Summit February 14-15 Registration is now open for the 2018 SFA Midwest Soil Health Summit at Big-wood Event Center in Fergus Falls. This year’s theme is “The Stories & Science of Soil Health.” For a complete list of speakers and to register visit: www.sfa-mn.org/midwest-soil-health-summit


YOU TH DEV E L OPM ENT Interested in Joining 4-H?

There are currently seven 4-H clubs in Carlton County. All youth in grades K through one year past high school are invit-ed to join!

Clubs meet at least six times a year (up to ten times a year) either in community centers, schools, churches or homes. Club meetings typically last 1-1.5 hours. There are generally three parts to a 4-H club meeting: business, recreation and program or activity. Healthy snacks are a favorite part of the gathering! Call the Extension Office for club contact information.

Opportunities to Explore Leadership

All youth in grade seven and above are invited to attend the Carlton County 4-H Federation and Ambassadors (pictured at right). Meetings are held on the second Monday evening of each month. The purpose of the Federation/Ambassador program is to create opportunities for teen 4-H members to develop leader-ship skills. Participating youth learn decision making skills while planning, implementing, and evaluating 4-H events.

Donate Children’s Books to 4-H!! The Carlton County 4-H Federation/Ambassador group is collecting children's books. We are working with the United Way to provide books to two Little Blue Book Shelves in Clo-quet. Books should be in fairly good condition and be geared to pre-school and elementary age youth. Books can be dropped off at the Exten-sion Office in Carlton. Children that visit the Little Blue Book Shelves are encour-aged to take books home to promote reading.

Esko Cloverleafs Light Up Cloverville At their November meeting, the Esko Cloverleafs partici-pated in an activity where the 4-H youth were electrical

contractors hired to put in some light switches at Hand-some Headley Hart’s Health Club in Cloverville. They had to design and build three different lighting circuits us-ing a variety of electrical components. Here are some members of the Esko Club demonstrating their success!

Name of Club Meeting Location Club Interests

Esko Cloverleafs Thomson Township Hall, Esko General projects, science

Family Pride Pavilion, Cromwell Livestock, general projects

Happy Hour Salem Mahtowa Hall General projects, some livestock

Nemadji Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Barnum General projects, some livestock

Rowdy Wranglers Carlton County Transportation Building, Carlton Horse, some general projects

Sunshine Acres Sawyer General projects, some livestock

Wild Dabblers Carlton General projects


Youth Development

Countywide Cloverbud Meetings Resume in February

The new Countywide Cloverbuds group met in October and November. The topic of our No-vember session was ”Cloverbuds Talk Turkey” where we learned some turkey trivia and made pine cone turkeys (demonstrated by Liam to the right). We will be taking December and January off and

will meet again on Monday, February 26th at 5 p.m. at the Carlton County Extension Office. All youth that are Cloverbud age (grades K-2) are invited to attend 4-H Countywide Cloverbuds. Activities are developmentally appropriate, non-competitive, and activity based. Many of the things we make in “Countywide Cloverbuds” will be items youth can bring to county fair next summer.

New 4-H Electronics Project to start in February

Are you interested in circuits, capacitors, transistors and resistors? If yes, consider join-ing the new Carlton County 4-H Electronics Project Group! Just look around and you will see that electronics are everywhere, so learning how they work lets you be a creator not just a user. Learning about electronics also sharpens your problem solving skills, provides a foundation for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields and is great hands-on fun! Carlton County 4-H members in grades 5 and above will learn basic component level electronics including resis-tors, capacitors, transistors and integrated circuits. Youth will be building, testing and troubleshooting their very own electronic circuits through the practical application of physics and mathematics. Meetings start Tuesday, February 6th (1 evening a month from 6:30-8 p.m. for 6 months. Kits cost $25. Please contact the Extension Office (218) 384-3511 by Friday, January 5th, 2018 to sign up!

Rowdy Wranglers 4-H Club Shops for Presents

The Rowdy Wranglers 4-H Horse Club met on Sunday, December 3rd for a holi-day celebration of pizza and games fol-lowed up by a group shopping spree. They are pictured here with two carts of presents that they purchased for their adopt-a-family.

The 4-H Pledge (MN Style)

I pledge my head to

clearer thinking, my heart to

greater loyalty, my hands to

larger service, my health to better living,

for my family, my club,

my community, my country

and my world.


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January 2018 18-19 Fruit & Veg. Growers Conf.,St. Cloud 22 Study Groups Sewing Project, 8:30-1:30, Carlton County Transportation Bldg. 25 Community Connect Class, 6:30 pm, Carlton County Transportation Building 31 Grazing Workshop, Guthrie Community Center, Hubbard County February 2018 1 Tour de Forage Winter Mtg., 9:30 am, The Event Ctr.,

Floodwood 5 Beef Cow/Calf Day, 5:00 pm, Kanabec Co. Jail Meet-

ing Room, Mora 10 MN SFA Annual Conf., College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph 13 Extension Committee Mtg., Carlton Ext. Office, 5 pm 14-15 SFA Soil Health Summit, Fergus Falls 15 Women in Ag Conf., St. Cloud 17 NE MN Beekeeping Symposium, 9am-3pm, Fond du Lac College, Cloquet 22 Community Connect Class, 6:30 pm, Carlton County

Transportation Building 27 Private Pesticide Applicator Certification, 12:30- 4:00, Foley March 2018 1 CIG Grant Mtg., Cromwell Pavilion. Registration be-

gins at 9:30 a.m.

CARLTON COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

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Michelle Michaelson, District 3; Roger Arney, District 4;

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