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Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour Near Rochester
Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour Near Rochester
Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour Near Rochester
The University of Minnesota Extension, Rochester will be sponsoring the 2017 Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour on Thursday, July 6, from 9AM to 12:30PM. The field trial location is at the intersection of Highway 14 and County 22. This is just east of the Heintz Center and the College Campus in Rochester...
A Look Back: Walking Plows
A Look Back: Walking Plows
A Look Back: Walking Plows
Loren Dahle of Morristown explains the different uses and unique features of the walking plows in the Rice County Historical Society’s collection. Some are breaking plows, used for breaking up the sod and others are more general purpose. They all would have been pulled by oxen or horses...
Do Your Woods Have Buckthorn?
Do Your Woods Have Buckthorn?
Do Your Woods Have Buckthorn?
The Minnesota Soybean and Research Council has funded a study at the University of Minnesota to look at the relationship between buckthorn density and soybean aphid populations. The long-term goal is to look at treatment and control of buckthorn to see if that will reduce soybean aphid populations...
Spring is Farmers' Busy Season
Spring is Farmers' Busy Season
Spring is Farmers' Busy Season
How do you get everything done in a short amount of time? That is what farmers face in a spring like this. There were many days when we should have been in the field but the weather did not cooperate. Many farmers really got going planting corn last weekend and this week...
Jerry Knows Dandelions
Jerry Knows Dandelions
Jerry Knows Dandelions
Dandelions are an amazing flower, plant, weed, or whatever you want to call it. They produce a lot of seed that can be spread by the wind, grow year after year and produce so much seed that they can take over a lawn or an alfalfa field. One sign of an alfalfa field that is marginal because of age or winter kill is a lot of dandelions in it...
Ag Nuisance Bill Dead
Ag Nuisance Bill Dead
Ag Nuisance Bill Dead
The Minnesota Pork Producers Association has been supporting the Ag Nuisance Lawsuit provision in the omnibus Ag Policy bill at the Minnesota Legislature. In a nutshell, the Ag Nuisance provision would protect a pork producer from lawsuits if it had been in operation for two years and was in compliance with all its permits...
Triton Teen Earns Top FFA Award
Triton Teen Earns Top FFA Award
Triton Teen Earns Top FFA Award
Triton FFA member Sam Moening received one of the Minnesota FFA Association's highest awards, the 2017 Minnesota FFA Star in Production Placement. The awards ceremony was held Monday evening at the 88th annual Minnesota State FFA Convention...
Work Together for Bees
Work Together for Bees
Work Together for Bees
With the decline in bee populations there is a lot of attention on the importance of bees pollinating a lot of fruit and vegetable crops. Many farmers are planting pollinator seed in some of their CRP acres to try and provide more habitat for the bees...

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