agriculture

The Dakota Rice Corn and Soybean growers a couple of years ago teamed up with Agriculture Future of America to sponsor two scholarships for high school seniors in Dakota and Rice County that plan on going to college majoring in any field of agriculture...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the Agricultural Growth, Research and Innovation Food Hub Grant Program. The intent of the program is to increase purchases of locally grown and produced food by developing and expanding food hubs and other community-based food distribution systems...

The University of Minnesota Extension Service will be putting on a cover crops meeting this afternoon in Owatonna. The program starts at 1PM and wraps up at 4PM in the Steele County Community Center on the Steele County Fairgrounds in Owatonna...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing President Barack Obama's executive order on Waters of the United States, or WOTUS. This controversy dates back to the Clean Water Act passed by Congress and signed by the president in the 1970s...

There were a lot of farmers at the annual Rice and Steele County Crops Day in Owatonna on Tuesday. Lisa Behnken and Ryan Miller gave a very interesting presentation on weed resistance and developing a management plan. Lisa and Ryan had developed a flow chart with different classes of herbicides...

The date for the annual Rice and Steele County Crops Day has been set. It'll be Tuesday, February 21, at the Steele County Community Center in Owatonna. The day will begin with registration at 8:30AM along with coffee and rolls. Topics to be covered at this year's event will include Emerging Challenges for Insect Pest Management in Soybeans...

The first of the fourth annual Winter Dairy Series meetings will be next week Monday, February 6, at the State Bank of New Prague, 1101 First St. S.E., New Prague. The program will run from noon until 2:30PM. The annual Winter Dairy Series is presented by the Minnesota Dairy Initiative and the University of Minnesota Extension Service...

People of Zumbrota, residents and farmers alike, protested at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency headquarters in St. Paul. They claim the agency released inaccurate reviews of the possible environmental impacts of what they call a factory hog farm in the area...

Recently I received a list of Immutable Laws from an unknown source. As I read them, they made me think of similar situations I have been in out at the farm. So, I renamed them Immutable Laws of Farming.

The Minnesota Ag Expo will be Wednesday and Thursday at the Verizon Wireless Center in Mankato. This year there will be more exhibitors than past years because the Verizon Wireless Center has been expanded. In addition to the trade show, the Minnesota Corn Growers and Minnesota Soybean Growers will be holding their annual meetings along with their research and promotion councils...