Animal ag's stake
MEDINA, N.D. — Jason Schmidt doesn’t want the Humane Society of the United States to have any influence on animal laws in the state of North Dakota....
Corn is king this spring
Robert Stover has been raising corn all his life in eastern North Dakota. His grandfather, Frank Stover, brought ears of corn with him from Indiana w...
Prepay perils
FARGO, N.D. — Should farmers be protected when prepaid inputs are sucked up in the turmoil of an elevator or provider’s financial mess? ...
Legal wrangling continues
FARGO, N.D. — The far-flung case of Grafton, N.D., farmer Tom Grabanski rolls on — his many enterprises and legal challenges from North Dakota to Colo...
All in a (long) day's work
REYNOLDS, N.D. — It’s 11 a.m. on a sunny mid-April morning, and Gregg Johnson already has put in an eight-hour day. Roughly eight more hours of work a...
Trading hours compromise
A lot of people who buy and sell grain worried that this would be a long, complicated summer. Some, though not all, of their concerns were eased today.
Survey: farming helps economy grow in rural states
OMAHA, Neb. — The economy remains strong in rural areas of 10 Midwest and Plains states because of the health of agricultural businesses there.
Collin Peterson wants farm bill input
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Congress may be reaching the final stage of work on the 2012 farm bill, and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., wants input from his constituents.
RELATED CONTENTWest River livestock inspections could cost more under latest plan
PIERRE — The state Brand Board shifted its plans Tuesday and proposed raising the livestock ownership inspection fee by only a dime to 90 cents per head. A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. June 27 in Pierre.
RELATED CONTENTDeere fiscal 2Q profit rises, beats expectations
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) -- Deere is posting a 17 percent spike in profits for the second quarter is raising its outlook for the year, with farm receipts expected to hit historic heights.
U research guides growers on cover crop selection, planting date
The difficult growing conditions of 2011 provided a unique circumstance for collecting cover crop data.
RELATED CONTENTSugar beet co-op in Renville, Minn., talks of progress with water standards
OLIVIA — Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative completed its 2011 season without any surface water discharge violations, while showing continued improvements in the quality of its treated water discharges into Sacred Heart Creek.
RELATED CONTENTRaw milk supporters rally outside Minnesota courthouse
Dozens of advocates of raw milk rallied outside the Hennepin County courthouse Monday to support a farmer charged with food code violations for distributing unpasteurized milk.
RELATED CONTENTNDSU offers ways to control parasites in sheep
FARGO - Parasitism is one of the most damaging diseases in sheep.
Beef Talk: Don't take bull fertility for granted
Late May and early June are prime bull turnout times in the beef business, so the final check needs to be done now to make sure every bull is ready to go.
Featured Staff Blogs
AG RIGHTAlways learning about canola
Twenty-three years ago, my family grew canola for the first time on our farm in central North Dakota. On a drizzly late-summer morning, my father got on the swather to cut canola. I was skeptical: swa...
5/18/12 at 9:13 AM
PRAIRIE BUSINESSMedcenter One Home Care featured in national magazine for innovative technology
Medcenter One Home Care, in Bismarck, N.D., was recently featured in Healthcare Technology Online magazine, a premier national resource for health-related news, trends and best practices. For more vi...
5/17/12 at 4:36 PM
STORM TRACKERET Measurements
Evaporation is simply the process of liquid water being converted to water vapor. If this process involves plants, then it is referred to as transpiration. The amount of water evaporated into the atmo...
5/16/12 at 11:28 AM
MIKKEL PATES' AG AT LARGEApril 4-planted corn in central Red River Valley emerges a month later, with lilacs
For those of you whocommented on myAgweek Crop Stop feature about the Moorhead, Minn., area farmer who had planted corn on April 4, here is an update. "That's just asking for trouble," said one fa...
5/4/12 at 2:45 PM
PLAIN COUNTRYMarilyn mania
If I'm not out reporting on a story, I sit and do my work and don't have much contact with the outside world except throughour wire services and theInternet.Save for an occasional visitor, I don't see...
4/24/12 at 7:21 PM
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RURAL REFLECTIONSRural Reflections Radio
Here is this week's Rural Reflections Radio program, royal redemption...
5/17/12 at 11:27 AM
AMY'S RANCH SLANTSBirde Lover
When I saw a bumper sticker that said, Have you hugged your kid today? I couldnt help but think thats a no-brainer but did consider whom I havent hugged lately. After contemplating those Ive negl...
4/9/12 at 8:00 PM
NDSU EXTENSION SERVICEBecome Part of N.D’s Climatological History
Its fun, easy and only takes five minutes a day. North Dakotans can become part of the states climatological history by becoming volunteers for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoR...
3/7/12 at 1:23 PM
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