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A harvest to remember
Early, orderly harvest features better-than-expected yields, strong prices
Monday, October, 01, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Early, orderly harvest features better-than-expected yields, strong prices
Monday, October, 01, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Ground beef recall, fatal algae in South Dakota, and Manitoba pork producers ask for federal funds.
Monday, September, 24, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Ground beef recall, fatal algae in South Dakota, and Manitoba pork producers ask for federal funds.
Monday, September, 24, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Canola threatens the seed purity of brassica
Brassicas don’t win a lot of popularity contests. Particularly, broccoli gets regular ribbing as a child-unfriendly vegetable
Monday, September, 17, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Brassicas don’t win a lot of popularity contests. Particularly, broccoli gets regular ribbing as a child-unfriendly vegetable
Monday, September, 17, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Dry times
Chad Groos, 41, farms two miles north of Coleman, S.D., with his father, Andy, and brothers Eric and Grant. Groos says his family is fortunate this year, compared with those farther south plagued by severe drought.
Monday, September, 10, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Chad Groos, 41, farms two miles north of Coleman, S.D., with his father, Andy, and brothers Eric and Grant. Groos says his family is fortunate this year, compared with those farther south plagued by severe drought.
Monday, September, 10, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op will expand
The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.
Tuesday, September, 04, 2012 - Agweek - News
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The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.
Tuesday, September, 04, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Irrigation: Back on tap?
Robert Vivatson smiles at the memory of his initial foray into irrigation in the mid 1990s.
Tuesday, September, 04, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Robert Vivatson smiles at the memory of his initial foray into irrigation in the mid 1990s.
Tuesday, September, 04, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op Board approves $70 million expansion
The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.
Wednesday, August, 29, 2012 - Agweek - News
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The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.
Wednesday, August, 29, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Halfway through harvest
Earlier-than-usual planting this spring and the hot, dry summer have accelerated normal crop maturity and harvest. The region's small grains harvest is wrapped up already, two weeks ahead of schedule. Many other crops across the Upper Midwest also could be harvested as much as two weeks early.
Monday, August, 20, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Earlier-than-usual planting this spring and the hot, dry summer have accelerated normal crop maturity and harvest. The region's small grains harvest is wrapped up already, two weeks ahead of schedule. Many other crops across the Upper Midwest also could be harvested as much as two weeks early.
Monday, August, 20, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Full bore on wheat
On a recent hot, dry August morning, farmers in northeast North Dakota were in full harvest mode. Combines rumbled through amber fields of wheat.
Monday, August, 13, 2012 - Agweek - News
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On a recent hot, dry August morning, farmers in northeast North Dakota were in full harvest mode. Combines rumbled through amber fields of wheat.
Monday, August, 13, 2012 - Agweek - News
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One year later, no one wins
After a year, there has been no significant progress in ending the lockout of union employees at American Crystal Sugar Co.
Monday, August, 13, 2012 - Agweek - News
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After a year, there has been no significant progress in ending the lockout of union employees at American Crystal Sugar Co.
Monday, August, 13, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Al Bloomquist dies at 91
Aldrich “Al” Bloomquist, a key player in turning American Crystal Sugar into a grower-owned cooperative — and sugar beets into a nearly $5 billion industry for North Dakota and Minnesota — died Aug. 6 at age 91 in Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead, Minn.
Thursday, August, 09, 2012 - Forum Communications - News
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Aldrich “Al” Bloomquist, a key player in turning American Crystal Sugar into a grower-owned cooperative — and sugar beets into a nearly $5 billion industry for North Dakota and Minnesota — died Aug. 6 at age 91 in Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead, Minn.
Thursday, August, 09, 2012 - Forum Communications - News
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Drought stress: not a bad energy beet test
For most commercially grown crops, droughty conditions aren’t welcome. But to a scientist studying the feasibility of a new crop — energy beets, for example — a year of drought is an opportunity.
Monday, August, 06, 2012 - Agweek - News
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For most commercially grown crops, droughty conditions aren’t welcome. But to a scientist studying the feasibility of a new crop — energy beets, for example — a year of drought is an opportunity.
Monday, August, 06, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Dry, dry, dry
A swing through northeast North Dakota in late July shows a crop that is hanging in there with great potential, but only if it rains. Farmers Agweek talked with are grateful their crops aren’t firing like they are in the Corn Belt.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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A swing through northeast North Dakota in late July shows a crop that is hanging in there with great potential, but only if it rains. Farmers Agweek talked with are grateful their crops aren’t firing like they are in the Corn Belt.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Rain helpful but spotty
The National Agricultural Statistics Service on July 22 confirmed what most farmers in the region can see up-close — it’s dry. Crop conditions in the last official report didn’t include rains that came to some of the region on July 25.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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The National Agricultural Statistics Service on July 22 confirmed what most farmers in the region can see up-close — it’s dry. Crop conditions in the last official report didn’t include rains that came to some of the region on July 25.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Sugar beets need rain
Sugar beets in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota have held up relatively well this hot, dry summer, but many fields are short of moisture even after recent rainfall, officials say.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Sugar beets in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota have held up relatively well this hot, dry summer, but many fields are short of moisture even after recent rainfall, officials say.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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APHIS decision
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service on July 19 announced it determined that Roundup Ready sugar beets would no longer be a regulated article under genetically-engineered organism laws.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service on July 19 announced it determined that Roundup Ready sugar beets would no longer be a regulated article under genetically-engineered organism laws.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Drought, heat creep into Northern Plains
With a run of temperatures in the 90s and 100s for the week ending July 8, crop conditions are generally ahead of five-year averages in the region. Some farmers are in better shape than others, but most areas want some rain.
Monday, July, 16, 2012 - Agweek - News
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With a run of temperatures in the 90s and 100s for the week ending July 8, crop conditions are generally ahead of five-year averages in the region. Some farmers are in better shape than others, but most areas want some rain.
Monday, July, 16, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Weed specialist sees jump in weed resistance
Jeff Stachler, North Dakota State University/University of Minnesota sugar beet weed specialist, based in Fargo, N.D., says he is seeing an alarming increase in incidence and frequency of herbicide-resistant weeds in the region this year.
Thursday, July, 12, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Jeff Stachler, North Dakota State University/University of Minnesota sugar beet weed specialist, based in Fargo, N.D., says he is seeing an alarming increase in incidence and frequency of herbicide-resistant weeds in the region this year.
Thursday, July, 12, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Corn expansion
Corn has become the bread and butter profit center for many farmers in West Central Ag’s coverage area, along with sugar beets. Other crops are lower-profit, but needed for rotation.
Monday, July, 02, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Corn has become the bread and butter profit center for many farmers in West Central Ag’s coverage area, along with sugar beets. Other crops are lower-profit, but needed for rotation.
Monday, July, 02, 2012 - Agweek - News
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Seed spud crop gets good start
SABIN, Minn. — They’re up. Seed potatoes at the R. Schmidt Potato Co., at Sabin, Minn., are just emerging to 8 inches tall, thanks to a favorable planting season. Randy Schmidt says that despite a hard, fast 2-inch rain on Memorial Day weekend, things are looking good — so far.
Monday, June, 11, 2012 - Agweek - News
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SABIN, Minn. — They’re up. Seed potatoes at the R. Schmidt Potato Co., at Sabin, Minn., are just emerging to 8 inches tall, thanks to a favorable planting season. Randy Schmidt says that despite a hard, fast 2-inch rain on Memorial Day weekend, things are looking good — so far.
Monday, June, 11, 2012 - Agweek - News
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