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While demand is still strong for the highest-quality farmland, prices appear to have plateaued for lesser-quality land.
There was plenty to deter early settlers along the Minnesota River valley in Nicolette County – from crop losses and scarlet fever to tensions with Native American neighbors. But members of Immanuel Lutheran made the church and Christian education a priority.
For the first time this month, the milk plant in Sioux Falls will be churning out a lactose free product.
Farming is not a game. Yet it was a game that saved the farm of George and Ann Rohrbacher. The Farming Game has sold more than 1 million copies since its debut the weekend before Thanksgiving 1979.
Warm spring weather has brought out the hunger in a tiny alfalfa pest.
Warm spring weather has brought out the hunger in a tiny alfalfa pest.
Researchers are digging into the nutritional value of some lesser-known rangeland plants.
Environmental groups recently asked the federal government to intervene in northeast Iowa, where ag pollution is believed to have contaminated scads of private wells with unhealthy concentrations of nitrate.
"Speaking of yearling bulls, I am very, very pleased with them this year. This is by far the most uniform set that we’ve raised."
In the days when I ran high-school track, a news story about another runner inspired me to try training on the farm in summer after the workday ended.
Later planting dates may be one way soybean growers can thwart the yield-robbing pest known as the soybean gall midge.
May is Beef Month across the nation, and both South Dakota Beef Industry Council and Minnesota Beef Council are taking part by highlighting delicious, juicy burgers.
The 40th annual Rangeland and 19th annual Soils Days for youth is set for June 12-13 in Watertown, South Dakota.
HOMINY, Oklahoma – Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook an almost-700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly lowered its horned head into the fence, resisting McKinney’s order to face the other way.
Corn exports remain seasonally strong, having averaged 58 million bushels per week over the last four weeks.
“We are alive, strong and growing faster than we can handle.”
Farmers of old wore the signature straw hats and bib overalls. If the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) completes its mission to grow plants in space, future agriculturalists may be sporting space suits and moon boots.
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