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    June 15, 2017
    Central Minnesota Young Farmers Coalition members Andrew Barsness (center) and Matthew Fitzgerald (right) testified before the Minnesota House Agriculture Policy Committee in support of the beginning farmer tax credit bill alongside Rep. Nels Pierson (R-Rochester). (Contributed)
    Young farmers score victory at Legislature
    HOFFMAN, Minn. — A first-of-its-kind newly signed budget bill is a win-win for the future of farming in Minnesota. And it's thanks in part...
    NewsJune 15, 2017 - 8:51pm
    Andrew Barsness started farming in 2011 after his grandparents passed away. He now lives on their farm north of Hoffman and rents 160 acres of the family's 270 acres. He is in his second year of transitioning to farming organic wheat and soybeans. (Celeste Edenloff / Forum News Service)
    The accidental farmer: Minnesota man embraces ‘idyllic lifestyle’
    HOFFMAN, Minn. — After Andrew Barsness graduated from high school in 2009, he wasn't sure where his life was going. "I was going to college...
    NewsJune 15, 2017 - 8:50pm
    June 3, 2017
    Kevin Paap
    5 questions with ... Kevin Paap, farmer and Minnesota Farm Bureau President, Blue Earth County, Minn.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today?
    NewsJune 3, 2017 - 4:20pm
    May 22, 2017
    Terry Wanzek enjoys spending time behind the wheel of a tractor. Though he plans to retire from farming in about five years, he'll still help the next generation in the field. Trevor Peterson / Forum News Service
    Jamestown's Terry Wanzek balances farming with a side of politics
    JAMESTOWN, N.D. — As a high school senior, Terry Wanzek was North Dakota FFA's Star Farmer. The designation meant a trip to the National...
    NewsMay 22, 2017 - 6:43am
    April 14, 2017
    Hack the harvest: As machinery becomes smarter, farmers and lawmakers contend with rules preventing maintenance
    Crops aren't the only thing farmers are harvesting these days. Some of them are digging up software code. Producers in particularly remote areas...
    NewsApril 14, 2017 - 3:38pm
    April 6, 2017
    Minnesota finds source of invasive weed on conservation land
    CHICAGO - Minnesota's agriculture department said on Thursday that one company, Green Valley Seed, sold the seed planted on all the land in a...
    NewsApril 6, 2017 - 3:25pm
    April 3, 2017
    Pinke Post: Country kids sleepover versus city kids sleepover
    "I milked a cow who just had a calf and the calf wouldn't suck," said Anika on a Sunday morning when she returned from a sleepover at a friend's...
    opinionApril 3, 2017 - 5:30pm
    March 27, 2017
    Val and Mark Wagner live on their Monango, N.D. farm, where they grow crops and raise beef cattle. Nick Nelson / Forum News Service
    Farmers' new No. 1 worry
    MONANGO, N.D. — Val Wagner sits at her kitchen table. A space heater hums gently. A wall clock announces the new hour with a tractor engine's...
    NewsMarch 27, 2017 - 10:00am
    Chris Koch, an Alberta, Canada farmer, presents a motivational speech titled 'If I Can...' to attendees of the 2017 International Crop Expo (ICE) Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, N.D. (Nick Nelson/Agweek)
    'Something great in every day'
    GRAND FORKS — Chris Koch said, with a perfectly straight face, that he has a "disarming personality." Then he broke into a broad grin and...
    NewsFebruary 27, 2017 - 10:00am
    February 20, 2017
    Rachel Gray. Submitted photo.
    5 questions for ... Rachel Gray, 4th generation family farmer and rancher, Blackduck, Minn.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today? A: My husband, parents and I own and operate a cow-calf operation in Blackduck, Minn. My family has...
    NewsFebruary 20, 2017 - 1:00pm
    Cristen Clark calls this the “$3,000 Pie” because it was the centerpiece of a bidding war at the Iowa State Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation’s “Corndog Kickoff” charity fundraiser a couple of years ago. Cristen Clark photo.
    The $3,000 Pie
    In the buffet of misinformation that graces social media about food and farming, farmers and their real life accounts are the most valuable...
    February 20, 2017 - 10:30am
    Wheat in a field ready for harvest
    Balancing risk versus reward, farmers weigh planting durum
    PLAZA, N.D. — Durum always has been a big part of Keith Deutsch's life. Besides raising the crop, the 60-year-old Plaza, farmer promoted...
    NewsFebruary 20, 2017 - 10:00am
    Farm bill process starts again: What could go wrong?
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Journalists like me haven't had much time to "recover" from the "ups and downs" of what finally became the 2014 farm...
    NewsFebruary 20, 2017 - 9:30am
    February 7, 2017
    A field of wheat east of Emerado, N.D., is contrasted by a cerulean sky on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Wheat revenue is forecasted to be down in 2017 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nick Nelson/Forum News Service
    2017 farm profitability projections mixed
    WASHINGTON — Depending on how you cut the numbers, the U.S. farm economy could get a little weaker — or a little stronger —...
    NewsFebruary 7, 2017 - 4:34pm
    January 17, 2017
    Doug Peterson, right, the longtime retiring president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, visits with Steven Read at his Shepherd's Way Farms, where Read and his wife Jodi Ohlsen Read produce artisan sheep milk cheese in Nerstrand, Minn. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
    Retired longtime Farmers Union president talks about rural, farming life
    MAPLEWOOD, Minn.—Doug Peterson, the recently retired president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, is one of the last of his kind: a prairie...
    News/stateJanuary 17, 2017 - 7:53am
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