Friday, November 20, 2009

Letter: Agriculture still a dominant Minnesota industry

Anyone who lives in rural Minnesota knows that agriculture is central to our way of life.
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2050: What’s in store?

OSLO, Norway — Many of the nations that hope to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have set their sights on the nice, round number 2050, a year just far enough in the future to seem distant. What will the world look like then?
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Ethanol would never last

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The ethanol industry is in trouble because its lofty promises are not realistic. The drawbacks of ethanol are at war with its avowed goals. Government support programs have become a trap.
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Saving the world with soybeans

FARGO, N.D. — A new world record was set this year. It’s a milestone that no one wanted to achieve — a historic one in six people in the world is malnourished. Oct. 16 was World Food Day — a reminder that answers and action are needed against global hunger. It also can be a reminder of the importance of North Dakota soybeans as part of the solution.
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Something needs to change with workplace insurance

WEST FARGO, N.D. — Despite passage of North Dakota’s Measure 4 by a two-thirds majority in 2008, workers still can get injured on the job and be told their injuries are not covered by Workforce Safety and Insurance because of pre-existing conditions or degeneration, even if the condition or degeneration was caused by their job.
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Just settle down — and don’t give up eating bacon

DICKINSON, N.D. — It’s not a good time to party, but it’s also not a good time to hide.
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Sit down and eat together

TOPEKA, Kan. — Hectic schedules for families seem to get even busier in the fall with school back in session. With everyone on the run, the Kansas Beef Council is encouraging families to make time to eat together as a family.
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Letter: Agriculture still a dominant Minnesota industry

Anyone who lives in rural Minnesota knows that agriculture is central to our way of life.
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Harvest Challenge

Fall harvest reveals and extra large vegetable.
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American farmers: Don’t cap our future

American Farm Bureau Federation recently kicked off a climate change grass-roots campaign appropriately titled “Don’t Cap Our Future.”
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COWBOY LOGIC: Generation motivation

TOWNER, N.D. — I remember an old rancher friend of my father’s who had the keenest interest in when people were born. “When were you born, sonny?” he’d ask, and I’d tell him I was born in ’70. “Yes, nineteen a hundred and a seventy. Your dad, you know, was born in nineteen a hundred and twenty-one,” he’d say with a deliberate cadence and a voice I still can remember.
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