ALL SIZES NEW & USED www.mammothcontainers.com 402-720-9577 • Fremont $2.50/mile for each additional mile. STORAGE CONTAINERS FREE SHIPPING WITHIN 150 MILES Midwest Messenger North Edition publishes Weekly by Midwest Messenger. Subscription is $50/year. Postmaster: Send address changes to Midwest Messenger, PO Box 239, Tekamah, NE 68061. PE19510 Friday, June 12, 2020 | www.midwestmessenger.com | Vol. 51 • No. 24 See full auction schedule on Page 1B ADDRESS LABEL Looking back... Humphrey, Nebraska farmer Ben Preister (standing atop the machine) works the 1939 hay harvest with his sons Art, Alvis and Jim, using his brother Ben’s machine. Photo submitted by Ben’s son Richard Preister, Lindsay, Nebraska. See “Looking back” on Page 6. Dicamba ruling Nebraska and Kansas farmers granted reprieve on using dicamba products following registration removal by the EPA. Page 11 Auctions happening this week! FOCUS TOPIC Youth in Ag Photo courtesy NASA By Amy Hadachek Midwest Messenger Growing up on a Kansas farm, Kristine Larson Davis vividly remembers appreciating the brilliance of the starlit night sky. Now, the sky and beyond is her feld of dreams and her career. As a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Please turn to NASA on Page 3 Spacesuit engineer journeys from farm to NASA Photo courtesy the Larson family LEFT: Kristine (Larson) Davis guides a calf during her 4-H days. She grew up on the Larson family farm in Galva, Kansas and especially liked taking care of bucket calves. RIGHT: Kristine Davis, a NASA spacesuit engineer, wears a ground prototype of the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), to be worn during exploration of the moon in NASA’s Artemis program. GrainBridge provides hands-on learning for agriculture students By Jon Burleson Midwest Messenger Reporter High school students are using an innovative computer program to gain valuable insight into the business of farming and ranching. The program, GrainBridge, is provided to schools at no cost due to funding from FCSA and Frontier Farm Credit, said Sydney Please turn to YOUTH on Page 12 JUNE 12 Cement Products, Inc., All Rolling Stock & Equip., Live & Online, North Platte, Neb. (2 of 3) 13 Cement Products, Inc., Commercial Real Estate Auction, North Platte, Neb. (3 of 3) 13 Cloyd “Thayne” Emrich Estate, Large Estate Auction, Indianola, Neb. 17 BigIron Auctions/Larry & Sharon Hulse Unreserved Online Retirement Auction 18 Bernie Staib Estate, Public Auction, Madison, Neb. 18 Doug Turner & Others Online Auction, Closing Date 18 Land Marketers Realty, York Co. Land Auction, York, Neb. 20 Fred & Betty Miller, No-Reserve Collector Car & Personal Property Auction, David City, Neb. 20 Harold & Chris Isom, Public Auction, Allen, Neb. 20 Jim JR & Kerry Crilly, Public Auction, Norfolk, Neb. 20 Suhr Farms, Retirement Auction, Hooper, Neb.