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Local farmer helps promote Minnesota agriculture
Website gives consumers chance to win a year of free groceries
WORTHINGTON — Matt Widboom is one of nine farmers to be featured on a new website designed to educate Minnesota’s consumers about the crops and livestock grown on farms across the state.
By Julie Buntjer , August 09, 2010
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Breakfast on the Farm is Saturday
Tim (left) and Adam Blume stand inside the hoop structure that houses more than 650 head of cattle on their rural Worthington farm. The Blumes will host the fourth annual Nobles County Breakfast on the Farm event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. For more details about the event, see the Today’s Farm special section included with today’s Daily Globe.
June 22, 2010
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Regional farmers on a roll
Rollers gain interest among area farmersWORTHINGTON — More and more farmers throughout the area are pulling an odd form of farm implement behind their tractors these days — rollers.
By Julie Buntjer , May 21, 2010
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Minnesota West Ag program to go online during fall harvest
WORTHINGTON — Minnesota West Community and Technical College agriculture instructors Jeff Rogers and Rolf Mahlberg are gearing up for a new fall schedule for students — to continue their education online during the busy harvest season.
By Julie Buntjer , May 10, 2010
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Area teens elected state FFA officers
WORTHINGTON — The Region VI FFA chapters and its members excelled at the Minnesota FFA Convention earlier this week in the Twin Cities, with a first place FFA Creed speaker, four first place judging teams and two former chapter presidents elected to state FFA offices.
By Julie Buntjer , April 28, 2010
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Farming on a small scale
Worthington man’s basement filled with implements and animalsWORTHINGTON — Gayden “Gator” Wohlman figures he owns more than 500 tractors and hundreds of other pieces of implements, from drags and disks to manure spreaders, combines, augers and wagons.
By Julie Buntjer , April 09, 2010
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Spring-harvested corn in good condition
WORTHINGTON — Farmers who have been out in recent days getting the rest of last year’s corn crop harvested are finding it over-wintered rather well, considering snow depths that, in some places, buried the entire corn stalk.
By Julie Buntjer , April 03, 2010
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Awards presented at Worthington FFA Banquet
WORTHINGTON — Plaques, certificates, pins and scholarships were handed out Monday night at the annual Worthington FFA Banquet in the high school cafeteria.
By Julie Buntjer , March 09, 2010
WHS ag department receives AgStar grant
Worthington High School agriculture instructor Deb Martin (left) accepts a check for $2,000 Tuesday afternoon from AgStar Senior Financial Services Executive Marilyn Anderson for the purchase of a cooler for the ag department’s greenhouse. The grant was offered through AgStar’s Agriculture Classroom Equipment grant program.
January 20, 2010
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Year in review: Spring, fall rain delays, cool summer make for challenging crop year
WORTHINGTON — Two words can pretty much sum up the 2009 crop year in southwest Minnesota — weather delays.
By the last week in April, 40 percent of the state’s corn crop had been planted, along with 2 percent of the state’s soybean acres. Then came the rains.
By Julie Buntjer , December 30, 2009
Mild weather caters to farmers’ needs
Eldon Bents unloads a hopper full of corn into the wagon Tuesday afternoon in Ransom Township, along Nobles County 6. “It backs up as the dryers aren’t fast enough” said Bents as he works at finishing his last 35 acres.
December 02, 2009
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