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Kendra Kimbirauskas
Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Rd. Suite 280
Des Moines, Iowa 50310

Tel:  (515) 251-3995
Cell: (612) 702-7298

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>June 3, 2003
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>Beef cattle tour at Canby will be July 15
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>       A tour of some of Minnesota's most progressive cattle
>feeding and cow-calf operations is set for July 15, according
>to Philip Berg, regional educator with the University of
>Minnesota Extension Service.
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>       Registration and a trade show will be at Minnesota West
>Community and Technical College, Canby. The tour is hosted
>by the Midwest Cattlemen's Association and will include a
>variety of stops, Berg says.
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>       The south tour will travel to Wollum Feedlots, Stienessen
>Farms, Pesek Farms, Del Clark Lake, Rural Water Plant and
>Joe Mamer's. Wollum Feedlots is a century farm, 990-head
>feedlot operated by the fourth generation of Wollum's.
>Stienessen Farms is a 500-head natural fed finishing lot
>owned and operated by Gary and Sue Stienessen.
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>        Richard and Judy Pesek have a cow-calf operation and
>also finish their calves, along with some additional purchased
>calves.  The tour will visit the Del Clark Lake, which is the
>largest man- made lake in Minnesota. There will be a stop at
>the Rural Water Plant, a well system and pumping operation
>for much of West Central Minnesota and Eastern South
>Dakota.  Joe Mamer has a pasture trial with one section
>sprayed with Graze-On, next to another section with no weed
>control.
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>         The north tour will feature Bryan Kallhoff, Jerome
>Kallhoff, Strei Feedlot, Mark Boraas, a drive along Lac Qui
>Parle Lake to Montevideo, and Sonstegard Cattle Co., L.L.C.
>Bryan Kallhoff has an irrigated intensive grazed pasture
>system used to pasture replacement heifers.
>Jerome Kallhoff is working with the Lac Qui Parle Soil and
>Water office to demonstrate the EQIP program to help bring
>some feeding facilities into compliance with new MPCA
>rules.
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>       Strei Feedlot is a finishing facility owned and operated by
>Chad Strei and his family.  Chad is the second generation to
>operate the facility.  The tour will drive by the pasture system
>used by Mark Boraas for his 400-head Black Angus stock cow
>herd.  Sonstegard Cattle Co. L.L.C. is a Red Angus seed stock
>operation owned and managed by the Gary and Elaine
>Sonstegard family.
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>         Continental breakfast and registration will run from 6
>a.m. to 8 a.m. with the first morning bus leaving at 6:45 a.m.
>Buses will leave every 20 minutes, returning for lunch and
>dinner.  The cost for the day will be $20 per person if pre-
>registered, which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. The
>cost will be $25 per person on July 15.
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>         For further information on the tour, call Joe or Brenda
>Mamer at (507) 224-2165.
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>Web, V2MN,V4MN,V5MN,A2MN,B1     berg530
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>Source: Philip Berg (507) 825-6715 or (800) 967-2705,
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>Editor:    Jack Sperbeck (612) 625-1794, [log in to unmask]

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