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STAFF BLOG AG RIGHT Reversal of fortune in 2012
Some people outside agriculture seem to have the idea that farmers and ranchers agree on everything. The reality is far different. Apart from basic philosophical differences among producers, weather a...
Posted on 11/23/12 at 11:13 AM
RURAL REFLECTIONS Farm Update
I like to give readers a little slice of the farm on occasion. Some people farmed much of their lives and then retired while others grew up on the farm so both groups have memories that occupy...
Posted on 9/1/12 at 7:20 AM
China buying US corn
When with talk of private Chinese buyers having secured upwards of 10 cargoes of old-crop corn recently, futures still found it difficult to hold onto higher prices.
By Sue Martin , April 16, 2012
Fit to plant
BUFFALO LAKE, Minn. — Earl Matzdorf, 69, Buffalo Lake, Minn., was working in some urea fertilizer on April 9, getting ready to start planting corn on April 10.
By Mikkel Pates , April 16, 2012
Cost of deer depredation
NORTHVILLE, S.D. — Dick and Janell Meyer, who farm in the Northville, S.D., area, want a state law that says if a wild animal — deer — is destroying their property they can shoot it. State officials say that’s impractical.
By Mikkel Pates , April 16, 2012
Planting progresses
All three wheat exchanges struggled last week but most of the issues were in the winter wheat exchanges while Minneapolis experienced modest gains.
By Ray Grabanski , April 09, 2012
East to west
Spring planting was progressing slowly in the Red River Valley and picking up speed into western North Dakota last week.
By Mikkel Pates , April 09, 2012
Keeping the farm economy strong
WASHINGTON — In December, when the first new Massey Ferguson tractor built in America in many years rolled off the AGCO assembly line in Jackson, Minn., it was a sure sign that the farm economy is helping to lead the economic recovery in Minnesota and across the country.
By Al Franken , April 09, 2012
USDA surprises market
Wheat traded lower in most of the session this week, except for March 30. Early selling was tied to improving conditions for the Southern Plains winter wheat crop and from position squaring ahead of the March 30 U.S. Department of Agriculture report while strength March 30 was because of a friendlier-than-expected acreage report from USDA.
By Ray Grabanski , April 02, 2012
Sugar beets-to-ethanol
FARGO, N.D — With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has only about 400 acres of its 12,000-acre goal, officials say.
By Mikkel Pates , April 02, 2012
'For the land and its people'
FARGO, N.D. — In the 32 years that Ken Grafton has been at North Dakota State University in Fargo, a lot of things have changed, but some things have not.
By Mikkel Pates , April 02, 2012
Shaping the future
Erik Younggren wants to play a role in shaping his future. In the process, he’ll help to shape the future of other wheat farmers, too. The Hallock, Minn., farmer is the new president of the National Association of Wheat Growers.
By Jonathan Knutson , April 02, 2012
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