FARM
Farming, pheasants and working together
If you hunt pheasants, Hettinger County (N.D.) is a cross between Nirvana and Valhalla. "Hettinger County has long been recognized for its excellent hunting. We live in the center of what is arguably...
Posted on 5/8/13 at 10:29 AM
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
South Dakota Farm Girls Show Viewers "The Good Life"
What I love about South Dakota women is that theyre not afraid to show people what theyre made of. True South Dakotans, farm girls, and friends, Laura Nielson and Ange Kapperman have been creating a b...
Posted on 9/27/11 at 8:00 PM
Energy beet project moves forward
FARGO, N.D. — An energy beet project is going toward planned commercialization in 2014 in North Dakota, despite the loss of a key leader.By Mikkel Pates , June 25, 2012
Grain buyers, warehouses and insolvency
By Derrick Braaten , June 25, 2012
BSE safeguards working
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — What a difference 8½ years makes. When the first bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-infected cow was found in Mabton, Wash., in December 2003, U.S. beef exports had been steadily increasing, with 1.1 million tons carcass weight equivalent (CWE) exported in 2003. By the end of 2004, U.S. beef exports had fallen 82 percent to 200,000 tons CWE as major importers cut off the purchase of U.S. beef. It was not until 2011 that beef exports regained their previous level.By Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer , June 25, 2012
Regulating farms out of business
The Obama administration is no friend of farmers, and the recent stunt involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sending spy planes over Nebraska to keep an eye on where cows drop their patties is the latest example of overreach by an administration that is bent on controlling every aspect of our lives, but farming in particular.By Susan Stamper Brown , June 25, 2012
‘Good fit’ for ND farmer
KULM, N.D. – For Bart Schott, the seal of approval came in the form of a friendly jab from longtime Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley. Grassley asked Schott – in more colorful terms – how the heck a North Dakotan got to be the head of the National Corn Growers Association.
June 22, 2012
Sunflowers spring up in Belfield
By Betsy Simon , June 22, 2012
Senate passes farm bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a new farm bill on June 21, putting pressure on the House to pass a bill before the 2008 farm bill expires on Sept. 30.By Jerry Hagstrom , June 21, 2012
Senate weighs farm bill overhauling ag programs
WASHINGTON - The farm bill under debate in the Senate would be the nation’s first major overhaul of federal agriculture programs in decades, including an end to the policy of paying farmers whether they grow crops or not.By Ron Nixon , June 21, 2012
Central Valley makes offer on Falkirk elevator
FARGO, N.D. — A Red River Valley elevator has made an offer on a financially troubled grain and dry edible bean elevator in McLean County, N.D.By Mikkel Pates , June 18, 2012
Going up
HEBRON, N.D. — Inch by inch, Archer Daniel Midland Co.’s newest grain elevator is towering above Hebron, N.D.By Betsy Simon , June 18, 2012
USDA report pressures grains
By Ray Grabanski , June 18, 2012
150th anniversary of the Morrill Act
By Mikkel Pates , June 18, 2012
Coming back to spuds
By Jonathan Knutson , June 18, 2012
Chilly day, good-looking crops
By Jonathan Knutson , June 18, 2012
Session makes strides for agriculture
By Dave Frederickson , June 18, 2012
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