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    July 2, 2017
    Katie Brenny, Mazeppa, Minn. (Submitted photo)
    5 questions with Katie Brenny, farmer with an off-farm career, Mazeppa, Minn.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today? I wear many hats in agriculture — from a farmer, to a farmer's wife, to an advocate, to an agriculture...
    newsJuly 2, 2017 - 12:12pm
    June 27, 2017
    Farm groups applaud withdrawal of WOTUS rule
    GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Farm group leaders were predictably pleased Tuesday, June 27, with the announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection...
    newsJune 27, 2017 - 4:13pm
    June 26, 2017
    Wheat stalks stand at a farm near Drysdale, Australia. Bloomberg photo by Carla Gottgens.
    Dusty wheat fields signal peak for glut
    It's finally starting to look like the world wheat glut has peaked. Dry, hot weather from the U.S. to Europe is taking its toll on crops, and...
    newsJune 26, 2017 - 2:59pm
    Field peas had three or four pods and peas in them in mid-June. Farmer Pete Severson of Onida, S.D., wondered if rains would produce more blossoms on for better production. Photo taken June 13, 2017, near Onida, S.D. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
    Central SD farmer sees 4-year drought 'rotation'
    FT. PIERRE, S.D. — Central South Dakota has had a bit of a rain revival, but many areas have back-slid into drought. Brothers Pete and...
    newsJune 26, 2017 - 6:54am
    June 24, 2017
    Tom DePuydt, Farmer/Rancher from Saco, Mont. (Submitted photo)
    5 questions with ... Tom DePuydt, farmer/rancher, Saco, Mont.
    Q: How has agriculture shaped your life?
    newsJune 24, 2017 - 11:51am
    June 22, 2017
    Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith speaks during an interview at a Havana, Cuba, hotel, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters
    Minnesotans in Cuba: Obstacles preventing trade
    ST. PAUL — A Minnesota trade delegation in Cuba says the country is hungry for American farm products, but obstacles must be overcome first....
    newsJune 22, 2017 - 5:11pm
    Dan Persons, a sheep farmer in rural Kensington, trims the nails off one of his sheep as his wife, Kay, looks on. Celeste Edenloff | Forum News Service
    Minnesota farm couple raising sheep to help in treating human disease
    KENSINGTON, Minn.—Dan and Kay Persons, sheep producers in rural Kensington in western Minnesota, are hoping to play a role in the fight...
    newsJune 22, 2017 - 4:35pm
    Cattle graze in Morton County, N.D., on June 20, 2017. Pastures in western North Dakota are showing the effects of a spreading and worsening drought. Jenny Schlecht / Forum News Service
    Parts of the Dakotas and Montana are now in extreme drought, the only such spots in the US
    BISMARCK, N.D. — Parts of North Dakota, Montana and South Dakota now are considered in extreme drought. Extreme drought is the second-worst...
    newsJune 22, 2017 - 1:26pm
    June 15, 2017
    Central Minnesota Young Farmers Coalition members Andrew Barsness (center) and Matthew Fitzgerald (right) testified before the Minnesota House Agriculture Policy Committee in support of the beginning farmer tax credit bill alongside Rep. Nels Pierson (R-Rochester). (Contributed)
    Young farmers score victory at Legislature
    HOFFMAN, Minn. — A first-of-its-kind newly signed budget bill is a win-win for the future of farming in Minnesota. And it's thanks in part...
    newsJune 15, 2017 - 8:51pm
    Andrew Barsness started farming in 2011 after his grandparents passed away. He now lives on their farm north of Hoffman and rents 160 acres of the family's 270 acres. He is in his second year of transitioning to farming organic wheat and soybeans. (Celeste Edenloff / Forum News Service)
    The accidental farmer: Minnesota man embraces ‘idyllic lifestyle’
    HOFFMAN, Minn. — After Andrew Barsness graduated from high school in 2009, he wasn't sure where his life was going. "I was going to college...
    newsJune 15, 2017 - 8:50pm
    June 12, 2017
    Art Wosick, a farmer in Pembina County, N.D., poses for a portrait on one of his fields where he planted beans but they were destroyed by heavy wind and hail. He is going to wait for the rain on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, to decide to replant or not. Joshua Komer / Forum News Service
    Strong start to growing season tempered by weekend storms, cloudy forecasts
    CRYSTAL, N.D. — The potato crop at Lyle Shephard's farm near Crystal was looking good. So good, in fact, that he took a picture of the...
    newsJune 12, 2017 - 8:06pm
    A view shows Main Street in Elk Point, South Dakota on June 3, 2017. REUTERS/Ryan Henriksen/File Photo
    'Trial of a lifetime' plays out in tiny South Dakota town
    ELK POINT, S.D. - In this rural outpost of just over 1,900 residents, a local college student has become a courtroom sketch artist, trailers...
    newsJune 12, 2017 - 9:33am
    June 9, 2017
    A male sage grouse gets its first look at its new home after being trapped in Wyoming, flown to North Dakota and released in a State Game and Fish Department project to try to save the bird from completely disappearing from some of its native ground. Lauren Donovan / Bismarck Tribune file photo
    Ag groups weigh review of sage grouse plan
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on June 7 said his agency will review and possibly modify its plans for protecting the...
    newsJune 9, 2017 - 5:59pm
    June 7, 2017
    Manvel, N.D., farmer Scott Johnson scouts a field of sugar beets, planted with wheat to protect the young plants from wind, west of Manvel Wednesday, June 7. Johnson is cautiously optimistic regarding the recent news about Mexican exports of sugar to the U.S. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
    Producers 'cautiously optimistic' about sugar deal with Mexico
    MANVEL, N.D.—Ag producers in the Red River Valley are "cautiously optimistic" about an agreement limiting U.S. imports of Mexican sugar,...
    newsJune 7, 2017 - 8:08pm
    June 3, 2017
    Kevin Paap
    5 questions with ... Kevin Paap, farmer and Minnesota Farm Bureau President, Blue Earth County, Minn.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today?
    newsJune 3, 2017 - 4:20pm
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