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Jeff Beach

Reporter

Reach Jeff Beach at jbeach@agweek.com or call 701-451-5651 (work) or 859-420-1177.
Jeff Beach primarily covers Minnesota and Iowa and works primarily from his home in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Carbon capture pipeline projects is one of his focus areas.

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Policy
Minnesota Legislature finally passes drought relief, other ag spending
The 2021 drought was most intense in northern Minnesota but producers in all but four Minnesota counties will be eligible for state aid.
May 24, 2022 04:57 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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News
Planting begins but waiting isn't over yet for Red River Valley farmer
Vance Johnson of Breckenridge, Minnesota, has offered up a 60-acre field for five years of study on soil health and conservation practices.
May 23, 2022 05:30 AM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Business
Crushing it: North Dakota ready to ride wave of demand for soybean oil and meal
The North Dakota Soybean Processors plant at Casselton and the Green Bison plant at Spiritwood are signs of the growing demand for renewable fuel as well as feed for the livestock industry.
May 23, 2022 05:30 AM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Policy
Minnesota agency asserts authority over carbon capture pipelines
The decision means carbon pipeline companies must file for a siting permit with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. Without statewide authority, permitting would have been left up to individual counties along the pipeline route.
May 20, 2022 12:25 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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News
Bin cleanup on Minnesota farm hit by derecho may wait until after planting ... if planting ever happens
Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux and other officials visited Minnesota farms on May 19 to take a look at the damage from the storm that blew through a week before. High winds ripped apart grain bins and mangled irrigation and other equipment as well as damaging houses and other buildings.
May 19, 2022 04:04 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Policy
Minnesota Legislature up against deadline for ag spending bills
Monday, May 23, deadline looms for drought relief, supplemental agriculture budget.
May 19, 2022 09:56 AM
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By  Jeff Beach
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News
Landowner attorney tells South Dakota that Summit's pipeline application should be thrown out
Summit Carbon Solution's $4.5 billion plan is to connect to 32 ethanol plants in five states: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, sending liquid carbon dioxide from the plants to be stored underground in North Dakota. Summit says the pipeline project will help ethanol plants lower their carbon score by capturing greenhouse gas emissions and piping the CO2 to western North Dakota for underground storage.
May 18, 2022 04:24 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Business
Drought forces dairy into difficult selloff decision, but farmer hopes to rebuild
Quaal Dairy in Otter Tail County sold off most of its herd in April. Vernon Quaal says the 2021 drought drastically cut into its feed supply and the rising prices for feed made maintaining the 300 cow herd unstainable. Quaal says many dairies are suffering. But he is determined to build back up, with a crop of bred heifers ready to calve in September.
May 16, 2022 05:30 AM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Markets
30% of Ukraine farmland impacted by war; USDA says corn crop to be cut by more than half
For Ukraine's three main export crops, sunflower production is forecast to be off by 37%, wheat production down by more than 35% and corn production off by 54%, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday, May 12, 2022 in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
May 12, 2022 04:42 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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Markets
May WASDE sees U.S. corn crop down by 4.3%
The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates are the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first projections for the 2022-23 crop year.
May 12, 2022 03:43 PM
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By  Jeff Beach
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