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ST. PAUL -- Minnesota lawmakers ended their work for the year Monday. Some bills were signed into law, others await action by Gov. Tim Pawlenty and those that did not...

The potential sale of the Ainsworth Lumber Co. plant in Bemidji was announced Monday by Sen. Mary Olson, DFL-Bemidji. Negotiations have been ongoing with a Vancouver, British Columbia, broker to...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota should protect jobs in the wood-products industry by preserving closed plants, a senator said. Sen. Mary Olson, DFL-Bemidji, proposes that a wood-product company that permanently closes...

ST. PAUL -- A balance between development and preserving farmland is due for a decision. Full House and Senate votes may come as early as Monday on a "Green Acres"...

A budget letter approved Thursday by the U.S. House Agriculture Committee asks Congress not to reopen the 2008 Farm Bill. President Barack Obama's fiscal 2010 budget blueprint would increase food...

Beltrami County lost 10 percent of its farms from 2002 to 2007, according to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, released last month. The Census of Agriculture, taken every five years,...

Former Iowa Gov. Thomas Vilsack was named Wednesday as President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of agriculture. As head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Vilsack is expected to carry Obama's campaign...

A bill suspending for the 2008 crop year a farm bill provision that requires producers to have a minimum of 10 base acres to receive program benefits was sent to...

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn.

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. -- Despite newly enacted federal farm policy that is supposed to last for five years, more agriculture-related work remains to be done in Washington. Most important is...

WASHINGTON - Congressional agriculture leaders moved from crafting a farm bill to skeptically watching Bush administration officials put it into action. Congress used two veto overrides to make the sweeping...

Minnesota lawmakers tackled northwest Minnesota's bovine tuberculosis problem in what was agriculture's top issue this past session. "We got a lot accomplished this year," Chris Radatz, Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation...