agriculture

On Tuesday, September 13, the Waseca County Farm Bureau will be hosting the 19th annual Farm and Home Safety Day. More that 280 fifth-graders will be at Farmamerica, just west of Waseca. Debbie Roemhildt is the coordinator for the safety day as she has done for many years...

Farmamerica just outside Waseca will be putting on their Harvest Festival on Saturday, September 10, from 10AM to 4PM. There will be free admission. Farm equipment from three eras will be demonstrated that day. They'll start with the hand- and horse-powered equipment from the 1800s, then proceed to the tractors and motorized machinery and wrap up with precision and GPS to lay down straight rows an

Saturday evening just before the Minnesota State Holstein Show, the three finalists for the  Steele County Free Fair and KDHL Southern Minnesota Ag Ambassador of the Year were recognized. They were Matt Braun from Dennison, Randy and Kathy Bauer from Faribault and Steve Olson from Buffalo...

Driving over to Farmfest by Red Wood Falls I saw this cornfield. There was a hail storm that hit the Farmfest area in June. This field is just west of Morgan. I have never seen a cornfield that was so devastated by hail. Many of the bean fields had been replanted and many of the cornfields had been worked over and planted to a cover crop...

The Southern Minnesota Land Use Expo is a nonprofit organization. The second Land Use Expo is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, August 9 and 10. This year's event will be one mile east of Blooming Prairie on Highway 30. Parking and admission will be free both days...

The America's Farmers' website has honored Owatonna's Karen Kasper as Midwest Farm Mom of the Year. She will host a celebration event on the farm August 3.

George Rhem, the Discover Farms coordinator for the Minnesota Agriculture Water Resources Center, called me the other day and asked me to help get the word out to farmers about free water testing at Farmfest in Redwood Falls. Last year the Minnesota Agriculture Water Resources Center tested well and tile line water for nitrates...

Here are another 10 reasons you know you are a farmer if they happen to you! 1. Sunday morning you got into to the house just in time to shower and get ready for church. As you are getting dressed your wife notices you still have grease and dirt under your fingernails...

Friday morning I drove over to Claremont to host KDHL's AM Minnesota program. Al-Corn Clean Fuels is celebrating their 20th anniversary. I remember well when Al-Corn was coming on line because I had just started working at KDHL. Corn prices had been low for quite a while and farmers were going together building ethanol plants as a way to add value to their corn...

KDHL Farm Director Jerry Groskreutz hosts AM Minnesota today from the Al-Corn Clean Fuel Ethanol Plant in Claremont. Al-Corn is a farmer-owned ethanol production cooperative and has 500 member investors in the company. According to Al-Corn's website, these members invest in the company financially and agree to deliver a quantity of corn to the plant determined by their investment...