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Burke County
Soil Conservation District
PO Box 336 Bowbells ND 58721
Supervisor’s Meeting Minutes
March 6, 2008
Present: Dale Tinjum, Raymond Atwood, Jim Cart, Greg
Busch, Tom Burau, Kenny MacDonald, Tom Hanson, Mark Crosby and Connie Howell
Absent: Dan Folske
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Dale Tinjum.
Motion was made by Jim, second by Greg, to approve the minutes of the previous
meeting as printed. Motion carried.
Motion was made by Greg, second by Tom, to approve the bills as presented.
Motion carried.
Correspondence was presented to the board for discussion.
District Technician report: Connie reports she will be attending the tree
workshop in Bismarck on March 19 and 20.
Connie had the pickup to Prairie Ford in Stanley and they found nothing wrong.
Connie reports the fabric has been delivered and is paid in full.
Motion was by Tom, second by Raymond, for Connie to attend the QuickBooks
training on April 8, motion carried.
Soil Stewardship materials have been ordered.
Connie had the audit ready for Dale to sign.
Connie added the pipeline plow to the insurance.
Connie received sticky note pads from NCC for the Area III meeting.
Connie reports tree footage is nearing 100,000 feet for spring planting.
Connie reports she has been going through old files and cleaning them out.
District Conservationist report: Mark reports there is more money available
state wide for EQIP. Burke County will have funding for one more producer. The
contract is solely a saline grass planting.
Mark reports FSA will be taking CCRP applications until March 15, 2008. CCRP
may change slightly with the new farm bill. Crop history will change from
2002-2007.
WHIP has no new contracts to be funded in 2008.
Mark discussed cover crops, possibly having the District set up an agreement
with producers to purchase their cover crop seed. Mark will put an article on
this in the next Newsletter.
Mark provided the board with a list of planned practices for 2008 and discussed
this year’s workload. Also discussed the importance of implementing practices
as scheduled and the late rate report, and the offices strategy to implement the
practices.
Mark provided a handout on CP38-SAFE continuous CRP practices and discussed the
Coteau-Drift Priority Area in Burke County. CP38 will be in affect when the
Farm Bill is passed.
Mark provided the board with a handout on the 2007 RC&D accomplishments, noted
photos from the Range Tour at Raymond Atwood’s Ranch.
Mark discussed the office’s activities of range inventory compilation and
grazing plan development.
Watershed Coordinators report: Kenny discussed the information on the Area III
meeting.
Kenny reports that Houston Engineering has been hired to handle the lake
testing.
Kenny is trying to get kids involved with the lake project again. On June 30
there will be a meeting concerning the lake.
County Agent Report: None
Tom Hanson was present to discuss the upcoming Area III meeting in June. Connie
will send tour information to Tom. Registration at 9:00 a.m. Load the bus at
9:25 a.m. Leave at 9:30 sharp. Kathy will send out the invitations and other
information to the district. Connie will mail this out to each district office
about 6 weeks prior to June 19, about May 1st. Pat has birding
festival info to include in this packet.
Old Business: It was suggested that we include the legal description on the
one-pass data sheets. Also number the sheets put in the mailbox. Mark will
send out a survey to the people who attended the one-pass meeting. We will hold
the meeting with Divide County again next year. We should also include weed
species into the one-pass meeting. A possible speaker would be Brian Jenks.
Discussion was held on the purchase of a 3 point tiller. Greg checked at Tool
Crib on a Woods. Tom had an ad from Canada on a Tram. Raymond checked with SCR,
a dealer in Minot. Dale checked on Farm King. Greg will get information and
compare Woods, Kuhn and Tram.
New Business: Jim handed out the employee performance evaluation to the
supervisors and Mark to fill out and mail to Dale. Dale will tally the results
before the next meeting.
Chairman Dale adjourned the meeting.