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The perception of winter and the preparations for it have changed over time, Mychal Wilmes explains. (Pixabay photo)
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The changing perception of cold throughout life

Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC
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Who is to blame when farm planning doesn't work out?

Inside climate-controlled barns, piglets can thrive without sacrificing their body condition to stay warm. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC)
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When the cold moves in, complaints about animal welfare move out

Terry Wanzek is a central North Dakota farmer and a state senator who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
Opinion

Ag, infrastructure bills move forward in North Dakota Legislature

Mychal Wilmes' brother put a pitchfork tine through his foot, one of many farm accidents that Mychal sought to avoid. (Pixabay photo)
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Growing older meant surviving farm accidents, diseases

Join NDSU Ext. Soil Health Specialist Abbey Wick as she talks with NDSU Forage & Biomass Professor/Researcher Marisol Berti about cover crops.
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The next step for cover crops

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The community of Tuttle, N.D., population 58, serves as one example of rural ingenuity in how they’ve worked to transform the school that closed in 2007 into a rural innovation center for entrepreneurship, the arts and local foods. A group held a community room dedication event there on Jan. 30, 2021. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
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It's time for rural America to envision and act

Liz Harder / Harder Stock
Opinion

A group of farmers have things they want President Biden to know

Thank-you cards to the Busy Butterflies/Country Critters 4-H Club are a day-brightener. (Jenny Schlecht / Agweek)
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Clear the drear by looking to what you can do for others

Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC
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Farm policy has changed, as has grain storage

Water flows out of the drain tile in a rural Grand Forks County, N.D., field on July 6, 2020. The area was hit with 3 to 10 inches of rain in the week prior. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
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Controversial, yes, but take climate change seriously

Liz Harder / Harder Stock
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Moms who can't say no

Agweek's Michelle Rook, Jenny Schlecht and Emily Beal hang out at the Agweek booth during Big Iron in September 2020. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
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Pandemic reaffirms value of ag organizations

Subsurface field drainage systems require planning and engineering that has improved with technology. Photo taken Dec. 4, 2020, near Wahpeton, N.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
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As technology changes, rural heritage still binds us

Michael Regan is President-elect Joe Biden's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. (North Carolina Environmental Quality photo)
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5 questions for Michael Regan, President Biden’s nominee to lead EPA

Anika Pinke, 11, loves animals, including her new Hereford calf, Piper, and an Ohio State study suggests that might boost her immune system. Photo taken Jan. 24, 2021. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
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Farm animals provide a boost to morale and immune system

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Remember a special couple, through tough times and rabbits

Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC
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Hurry up and wait for answers on policies that could impact farm estate plans

Iris Westman, left, at nearly 114 years old, shared about her education with her great-great-grand niece, Elizabeth Pinke. Westman's father drove she and her brothers to public school by horse and wagon daily. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
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How to honor the legacy of a 115-year-old? Just show up

Participating in government is easier than ever, thanks to technological advancements spurred by COVID-19. Jenny Schlecht covered this North Dakota Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting from her home office. (Screenshot)
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Getting involved in state-level policy is easier than ever before

Tractorcades sponsored by the American Agriculture Movement came to Washington, D.C., in 1978 and 1979 sought a moratorium on farm loan foreclosures. North Dakota lawyer Sarah Vogel achieved that in 1984 in a national class action lawsuit against the federal Farmers Home Administration. Photo taken February 1979. Southwest Collection Archive. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Southwest Collection Archive)
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Farmers protest, too, from Shays' Rebellion to the 1980s farm crisis