Jenny Schlecht

Content Director at Agweek

Director of ag content for @agweekmagazine. Writing ag news and raising farm kids on a North Dakota farm and feedlot. https://t.co/tsAHR1lomG.

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Articles

Farmers in the region see a dry start to growing season as planting ramps up

1 week ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Ariana Schumacher |Jenny Schlecht |Michael Johnson

The last big drought at Jorgensen Land and Cattle in Ideal, South Dakota, was in 2012. That spring was fairly normal. This spring is drier than at the same time that year. But Bryan Jorgensen, chief agronomy operations officer, knows that can change quickly in the spring. "This is normally when we get most of our moisture,” he said.
Farmers in the region see a dry start to growing season as planting ramps up

1 week ago | agweek.com | Ariana Schumacher |Jenny Schlecht |Michael Johnson

The last big drought at Jorgensen Land and Cattle in Ideal, South Dakota, was in 2012. That spring was fairly normal. This spring is drier than at the same time that year. But Bryan Jorgensen, chief agronomy operations officer, knows that can change quickly in the spring. "This is normally when we get most of our moisture,” he said. South Dakota State Climatologist Laura Edwards said April is the tipping point to see if conditions will get worse, get better or hold steady in the drought conditions.
Grain markets focusing less on tariffs, more on fundamentals, while cattle markets move with stock markets

1 week ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

With grain markets finishing the week in pretty good shape despite continued uncertainty and news about tariffs and trade relations, Randy Koenen of the Red River Network speculated on the Agweek Market Wrap that maybe the market is becoming "I don't want to say immune to it, but it just seems like they become numb, maybe, to some of that news."Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management said that thought does seem to have some validity.
Preliminary Life Cycle Assessment data look positive for Northarvest region beans

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

FARGO, N.D. — David Ripplinger, bioenergy and bioproduct economics specialist for North Dakota State University Extension, has completed his preliminary analysis on a Life Cycle Assessment of dry beans grown in North Dakota and Minnesota, and so far, it looks like the region's beans may have a marketable carbon intensity compared to national averages. Life Cycle Assessments involve determining the greenhouse gas emissions involved in producing a given unit of a product.
Research looks at management of rust, soybean cyst nematodes and common bacterial blight in dry beans

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

Support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants has allowed researchers at North Dakota State University to look at ways to manage three common diseases in dry edible beans: rust, soybean cyst nematodes and common bacterial blight. Northarvest has supported an ongoing project dealing with the three diseases with a $131,292.60 grant.
North Dakota farmer sues over alleged changes to terms of 1963 wetlands easement

2 weeks ago | inforum.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

A North Dakota farmer has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior to stop FWS from reinterpreting the terms of a more than 60-year-old wetlands easement on land he owns and rents in LaMoure County.
NDSU's dry edible bean development matches state's top performance

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Noah Fish |Jenny Schlecht

North Dakota State University's dry edible bean variety development has kept pace with the state's top performance, and support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and a specialty crop grant for $67,067 has gone towards the ongoing variety development. A recent webinar in the Getting it Right Dry Bean Production Series recapping NDSU's dry edible bean variety trials and how to use them was led by Ana Carcedo, NDSU Extension agronomist.
North Dakota farmer sues over alleged changes to terms of 1963 wetlands easement

2 weeks ago | winchesteragservice.com | Jenny Schlecht

A North Dakota farmer has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior to stop FWS from reinterpreting the terms of a more than 60-year-old wetlands easement on land he owns and rents in LaMoure County.
Spring storms bring calves, whether you want them to or not

2 weeks ago | echopress.com | Jenny Schlecht

The phone rang at 3:49 a.m. I didn't answer. The voicemail left a couple minutes later was about a winter storm warning โ a notice I didn't need. When you have cattle , you tend to be ahead of the warnings. I rolled over to see that my husband was missing, not surprising this time of year. I found him in his recliner in the living room.
Spring storms bring calves, whether you want them to or not

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht

The phone rang at 3:49 a.m. I didn't answer. The voicemail left a couple minutes later was about a winter storm warning — a notice I didn't need. When you have cattle , you tend to be ahead of the warnings. I rolled over to see that my husband was missing, not surprising this time of year. I found him in his recliner in the living room.