HAZELTON, N.D. – It has been an extra busy couple of weeks at Kalberer Farms for Jesse Kalberer, who farms and raises seedstock Red Angus with his wife, Susan. Besides dealing with weather challenges, he has been readying the farm for spring and summer planting, as well as grazing and haying.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – While Mason Lautenschlager took two bulls that were sold in Arrow L Ranch’s recent bull sale to the veterinarian in Minot, N.D., to sign off on health paperwork, he gave his report during the drive.
HAZELTON, N.D. – A break in the bitter cold and below zero temperatures at the end of January/first week in February was a boon to the cows as Jesse Kalberer trailed them into an ungrazed corn stalk field so they could return to grazing.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – With spring-like weather settling into farms and ranches in the northwestern to north central regions of the state, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager are planning to move their cowherd to stockpile grazing at Arrow L Ranch.
HAZELTON, N.D. – At Kalberer Farms, Jesse Kalberer, who operates a seedstock and commercial Red Angus business with his wife, Susan, is already making breeding and grazing plans for the following year while buttoning up decisions for the upcoming season and making plans for his April bull sa…
BERTHOLD, N.D. – With temperatures plunging well below zero, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager at Arrow L Ranch are ensuring everyone stays warm and cozy at the ranch. After a few days of mild weather in mid-January, the weather turned bitter cold with some extreme wind chills across the state.
HAZELTON, N.D. – Effective winter grazing management at Kalberer Farms has kept Jesse Kalberer, who raises Red Angus seedstock with his wife, Susan, busy as “up and down” temperatures continue to dominate the weather pattern in January.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – At Arrow L Ranch, Mason Lautenschlager, who farms and ranches with his wife, Hannah, and three kids, has taken videos and photos of the 2-year-old composite bulls in the Feb. 6-8 online auction on DVAuction.
HAZELTON, N.D. – Erratic temperatures – warm days in the 30s and 40s followed by frigid days on repeat – dominated the weather over the past couple of weeks ahead of New Year’s Day. It has made moving cattle closer to home for the winter a slow process at Kalberer Farms.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – With temperatures moderating to 30-40 degrees on Saturday, Dec. 27, and staying atypically mild for the beginning days of winter, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager and their three young children, Axel, Ivy and Daisy, were enjoying the few days ahead of the new year.
HAZELTON, N.D. – To prepare for possible below zero wind chills in December, Jesse Kalberer, who runs a seedstock Red Angus operation with his wife, Susan, and three kids, spent time at the ranch moving some of his cattle to different areas that would better fit their shelter and water needs.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – At Arrow L Ranch, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager’s cow herd transitioned from grazing corn stalks to grazing bales of hay as freezing rain fell during the second week in December.
HAZELTON, N.D. – At Kalberer Farms in Emmons County, Jesse Kalberer, who farms/ranches with his wife, Susan, and three kids, is taking the snowy late fall weather in stride, as each fall and winter brings different challenges.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – After a stretch of warm fall weather, a surprising arctic blast three days before Thanksgiving brought in an early winter cold snap to the state, plunging temperatures into the 20s, with snow pelting the ground along the northern regions where the Lautenschlagers ranch.
HAZELTON, N.D. – Fifth-generation ranchers Jesse and Susan Kalberer farm and ranch the same land in south-central North Dakota where generations of Kalberers before them grazed cattle and grew crops for more than a century.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – Young progressive fifth-generation producers Mason, 34, and Hannah Lautenschlager, 32, are growing their operation on Arrow L Ranch, where wind-swept native prairie lands and smaller rolling hills mark the landscape on the eastern edge of northwestern North Dakota in Ward County.
WYNDMERE, N.D. – At the Klosterman farm, Carson Klosterman was winding through his sugarbeet fields as he lifted sugarbeets out of the soil on Saturday, Oct. 18.
UPHAM, N.D. – With more fields of corn turning golden and leaves falling off trees, Chance Kitzman and his dad, Shawn, are closing in on the end of fall harvest 2025. They finished combining all their soybeans on Wednesday, Oct. 15.
WYNDMERE, N.D. – As the calendar turned to October, Carson Klosterman was smack dab in the middle of the busiest season on the farm – harvest. While they harvest soybeans, finish sunflowers, and haul in a third pre-pile of sugarbeets, the corn and the later-maturing soybeans are still pullin…
UPHAM, N.D. – Soybeans are being harvested all across the north-central North Dakota, and it is no different at the Kitzman farm, where Chance Kitzman, his dad, Shawn, and brother, Wyatt, have been busy cutting beans with their header that can cut lower to the ground.
WYNDMERE, N.D. – During the Big Iron Farm and Construction Show in West Fargo, Carson Klosterman fielded questions from potential customers/strip-till farmers about farm equipment needs for strip-tilling cornfields in his Striptill For You booth. The guys in the shop back at the farm had ass…
UPHAM, N.D. – Out in their canola fields, Chance Kitzman and his dad, Shawn, began harvesting their crop on Monday, Sept. 8, with the crop at the right moisture level for cutting. Shawn operated his Deere combine while Chance’s brother operated the second Deere combine and Chance drove the g…
WYNDMERE, N.D. –With a break between the first round of sugarbeet pre-pile harvest and an upcoming second round, Carson Kosterman and employees were busy in the shop over the past couple of weeks building strip-till machines, fresheners, a fertilizer cart and an interseeder for Carson’s “Str…
UPHAM, N.D. – Thanks to a stretch of 80-degree weather without the dew that has affected moisture in the mornings nearly all summer, Chance Kitzman and his dad, Shawn, were able to finish cutting their oat crop on Aug. 28.
WYNDMERE, N.D. – Carson Klosterman, his dad, Tom, and employees were out in the sugarbeet fields on Friday, Aug. 22, digging up beets and hauling them to the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative factory for the annual pre-harvest.
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