agriculture

With the approval from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture, Hemp farming in the State is expanding.

One area you shouldn't overlook at the Steele County Free Fair is the Organic Crop section.

David Greibrok was stuck in a corn bin in eastern Freeborn County until rescuers freed him and he walked away. He had gone into the bin to break up rotten corn. His brother Allan said that at one point the corn was near the top of his brother's head...

On Saturday, August 5, Farmamerica will host the seventh annual Classic Tractor Ride. The ride will be staged at Farmamerica and will leave at 8:30AM Saturday. The Tractor Ride will be 54 miles long through Northeastern Waseca County on rural paved roads...

Hi-Way 30 Hogs, located 4 miles west of New Richland, has proposed to double its hog production from 2,400 to 4,800 animals. An environmental review is underway.

The current Farm Bill ends in 2018. That means Congress is already in the process of writing the next Farm Bill. One of the forums at Farmfest next week will be a hearing on what should be in the next Farm Bill. The forum is called "The Next Farm Bill Conversations In the Field...

For quite some time the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has been developing rules for nitrogen management. Representatives of farm and environmental groups, researchers and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture worked together to develop these rules...

I sprayed some of my beans Saturday and then finished Monday afternoon. It would have been nice to get them all done Saturday so I did not have to go back Monday and look at them! The herbicides we need to control tough weeds like waterhemp and giant ragweed will turn some of the bean leaves brown...

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...

Earlier this week the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it was removing 640 stream miles from the public waters inventory. Actually, that was done about three months ago, but it became news this week when some environmental groups filed an appeal with the DNR...