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    March 7, 2017
    Workers sit next to bags containing sugar at the San Francisco Ameca sugar factory in the town of Ameca, Jalisco, February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Alejandro Acosta/Files
    Mexico cancels sugar export permits to U.S. in trade dispute
    MEXICO CITY -- Mexico has canceled existing sugar export permits to the United States in a dispute over the pace of shipments, according to a...
    NewsMarch 7, 2017 - 2:16pm
    A Centers for Disease Control scientist measures the amount of H7N9 avian flu virus which was grown and harvested in an unnamed CDC laboratory in 2013. James Gathany/CDC/Handout via REUTERS
    U.S. reports low pathogenic bird flu outbreak in Wisconsin
    PARIS - - The United States reported an outbreak of avian flu on a farm in Wisconsin, the second in the country in less than a week although...
    NewsMarch 7, 2017 - 1:31pm
    March 6, 2017
    A herd of bison graze in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S. on June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo
    Montana activists ramp up campaign against culling Yellowstone bison
    SALMON, Idaho -- Wildlife advocates are ramping up their campaign against the annual culling of bison that roam onto state lands in Montana each...
    NewsMarch 6, 2017 - 9:14am
    February 28, 2017
    Truck driver Randy Walker fills his rig's tanks with biodiesel fuel at a gas station in the town of Nevada, Iowa, December 6, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed
    White House denies Trump order on biofuels program, sows market confusion
    The White House on Tuesday, Feb. 28, denied that President Donald Trump planned to issue an executive order to change the national biofuels program,...
    NewsFebruary 28, 2017 - 3:24pm
    February 13, 2017
    William W. "Bill" Wilson, a North Dakota State University agricultural economist, and adviser to agribusiness firms and a board member for NCH Capital, told CornVention 2017 goers in Fargo that they have much to lose from trade disruptions driven by politics. Photo taken Feb. 8, 2017, in Fargo. Mikkel Pates/ Forum News Service
    Unsettling China, Mexico trade ideas
    FARGO, N.D. — Corn, soybean and wheat exporters in the region can strap in for a bumpy ride if existing multi-country trade deals are scrapped...
    NewsFebruary 13, 2017 - 4:00am
    February 6, 2017
    Wild bison destined for Banff National Park are prepared for loading and travel at Elk Island National Park’s bison handling facility in Alberta, Canada in this January 31 handout photo. Johane Janelle/Parks Canada/Handout via REUTERS
    Canada reintroduces bison to its oldest national park
    CALGARY, Alberta—Rangers have successfully reintroduced a herd of plains bison to Canada's oldest national park, officials said on Monday,...
    NewsFebruary 6, 2017 - 4:09pm
    February 2, 2017
    An exhibit demonstrating the physical properties of durum plants afflicted with fusarium (right) as well as unaffected durum is on display at the 2017 Best of the Best of Wheat and Soybean Research event on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. Nick Nelson/Forum News Service
    Progress, but no victory against Fusarium blight
    GRAND FORKS — Jochum Wiersma says that "20 years in the trenches" fighting Fusarium head blight qualifies him to offer a historical perspective...
    NewsFebruary 2, 2017 - 8:39pm
    February 1, 2017
    Gov. Mark Dayton gets plenty of publicity every year when he shows off a Minnesota-gown turkey to the media, but farmes say they want more than a photo op from the state. (Forum News Service photo by Don Davis)
    MN farmers want state aid, more in policy than money
    ST. PAUL—Minnesota farmers and agriculture-related groups ask for very little money from the state. Gov. Mark Dayton's $46 billion two-year...
    NewsFebruary 1, 2017 - 5:10pm
    January 29, 2017
    Struggling U.S. farm sector faces new threat as TPP dies
    CHICAGO—U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to back out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, a $62 billion market for U.S. farmers, provides a fresh threat to a slumping agricultural economy that has grown increasingly dependent on exports. Agricultural groups expressed...
    NewsJanuary 29, 2017 - 9:00am
    January 18, 2017
    Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue speaks to the media. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
    Trump to name ex-Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as ag secretary
    WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as his nominee for secretary of agriculture on...
    News/regionJanuary 18, 2017 - 9:05pm
    January 17, 2017
    Doug Peterson, right, the longtime retiring president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, visits with Steven Read at his Shepherd's Way Farms, where Read and his wife Jodi Ohlsen Read produce artisan sheep milk cheese in Nerstrand, Minn. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
    Retired longtime Farmers Union president talks about rural, farming life
    MAPLEWOOD, Minn. -- Doug Peterson, the recently retired president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, is one of the last of his kind: a prairie populist...
    News/regionJanuary 17, 2017 - 3:29pm
    October 28, 2016
    Prototype Deep Winter Greenhouse designed by researcher Daniel Handeen of the University of Minnesota College of Design Center for Sustainable Building Research.
    Crops in the cold: Bemidji Community Food Shelf partnering with U of M on winter greenhouse
    BEMIDJI -- The University of Minnesota Extension Service and the Bemidji Community Food Shelf are working to bridge the gap between growing seasons....
    News/localOctober 28, 2016 - 4:58pm
    October 20, 2016
    Boy, 16, dies after sustaining injuries in SD farm accident
    WINNER, S.D. — A Winner High School student injured in a farming accident died Wednesday night, Oct. 20, a day after getting stuck in a grain bin. Taylor Watzel, 16, of Winner, died at about 7 p.m., according to Winner Superintendent Bruce Carrier. Students gathered in the school’s...
    News/regionOctober 20, 2016 - 10:57am
    August 31, 2016
    Does Dayton talk to farmers enough?
    FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- First it was an effort to keep agriculture runoff out of the state's waters by the use of plant buffers, then last week it was a restriction on the use of some pesticides. Many of Minnesota's farmers and farm organizations are not happy with Gov. Mark Dayton,...
    News/regionAugust 31, 2016 - 3:00am
    August 30, 2016
    A Prince seed art entry by Suzanne Mears at the seed art exhibit at the Agricultural Building at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Friday, August 26, 2016.(Pioneer Press: John Autey)
    In State Fair crop art, none top Prince
    ST. PAUL -- When it comes to crop art at the Minnesota State Fair, the race wasn’t between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It was between...
    News/regionAugust 30, 2016 - 2:00am
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