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A handful of Democratic State Treasurers and Auditors held a news conference Wednesday morning to share their concerns about ...

Food and self-sufficiency are inseparable. When I (Doug) lived in East Lansing, Michigan, we had an unexpected heavy, wet, 36 ...

Minnesota farmers are bracing themselves while planning for the 2025 crop year after experiencing declining net farm incomes in 2024. According to new data from the University of Minnesota and ...

Mark Anema and Kate Ritger met at a garlic harvest party, started a farm, got married and had a kid. For Anema, it meant a ...

Crop prices tend to spike when there’s a shock to the global economy. President Donald Trump’s new round of tariffs announced Wednesday will certainly act like a defibrillator across farm country, but ...

Mar. 22---- Farming is essential but it comes with plenty of its own dangers, from heavy machinery and flammable materials to other hazards that crop up on the modern farm. But when incidents do ...

In 2019, in Minnesota ... They called the project “R3”—Rural Rescue Response. “The machinery is getting larger. The bin storage, the farms are getting larger. Rescue squads, fire ...

Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, organizes and moves soybean seed around to be shipped out to farms for planting on Wednesday at his farm in Wells.

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In Minnesota, 2,137 farms collectively had 109,592 sheep and lambs in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most of those farms had fewer than 25 sheep. Mark Anema and Kate Ritger ...