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    August 12, 2017
    Leah Johnson, millennial farmer and seed salesperson, Elbow Lake, Minn. Submitted photo.
    5 questions with ... Leah Johnson, farmer and seed salesperson, Elbow Lake, Minn.
    Q: How has agriculture shaped your life into the role you work in today? Being the youngest by a decade in my family, my parents brought me everywhere...
    August 12, 2017 - 7:11am
    August 8, 2017
    Wrapping hay and silage in plastic is generating millions of pounds of waste per year. (Dreamstime)
    Farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin are now recycling millions of pounds of plastic
    MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota and Wisconsin farms generate 60 million to 80 million pounds of plastic each year but until now had no real options to...
    NewsAugust 8, 2017 - 3:12pm
    August 2, 2017
    Chikao Umezawa, head of JA Kisarazu-shi, shows Super Monster Wolf in Kisarazu, Japan. Japan News photo
    Robot wolf helps scare wildlife away from farmers' crops
    KISARAZU, Japan - A wolf-like robot to drive away wild animals that cause damage to agriculture has been introduced on a trial basis in Kisarazu...
    NewsAugust 2, 2017 - 1:26pm
    July 31, 2017
    Erica Sawatzke's great grandmother, is shown with turkeys in about 1940. Photo courtesy Oakdale Farms, Inc., Kensington, Minn.
    Returning home, a Minnesota farmer becomes a 6th generation for the birds
    KENSINGTON, Minn. — Erica Sawatzke is joining a tradition of turkey production that dates back to the Civil War, with lots of female and...
    NewsJuly 31, 2017 - 8:30am
    July 29, 2017
    Stacy Hadrick, agriculture advocate and rancher, Faulkton, S.D. (Submitted photo)
    5 questions with ... Stacy Hadrick, agriculture advocate and rancher, Faulkton, S.D.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today? My passion is helping people in agriculture build their businesses and develop personally. Currently...
    July 29, 2017 - 5:59am
    July 24, 2017
    Andrew Barsness speaks with Agweek reporter Jonathan Knutson on his Hoffman, Minn. farm on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Nick Nelson/Agweek
    The happenstance farmer: Young Minnesota producer in unexpected career
    HOFFMAN, Minn. — Many farmers say their career is what they always wanted, what they always planned on. Not Andrew Barsness. But the happenstance...
    NewsJuly 24, 2017 - 11:42am
    July 13, 2017
    A truck is loaded with corn next to a pile of soybeans at Matawan Grain & Feed elevator near New Richland, Minnesota, U.S. on October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Karl Plume/File Photo
    China signs second-largest deal for U.S. soybeans
    A delegation of commodity importers from China, the world's top soybean buyer, signed agreements on Thursday to buy 12.53 million tonnes of the...
    NewsJuly 13, 2017 - 2:54pm
    July 10, 2017
    99 year-old farmer Earl Mallinger inspects rows of wheat on one of his plots near Oslo, Minn. on Saturday, June 24, 2017. (Nick Nelson/Agweek)
    The centenarian farmer: MN ag producer still going strong
    OSLO, Minn. — Earl Mallinger's 2017 harvest will begin later this summer — the 96th or 97th in which he's been involved in some...
    NewsJuly 10, 2017 - 11:13am
    July 2, 2017
    Katie Brenny, Mazeppa, Minn. (Submitted photo)
    5 questions with Katie Brenny, farmer with an off-farm career, Mazeppa, Minn.
    Q: What is your role in agriculture today? I wear many hats in agriculture — from a farmer, to a farmer's wife, to an advocate, to an agriculture...
    NewsJuly 2, 2017 - 12:12pm
    June 26, 2017
    Wheat stalks stand at a farm near Drysdale, Australia. Bloomberg photo by Carla Gottgens.
    Dusty wheat fields signal peak for glut
    It's finally starting to look like the world wheat glut has peaked. Dry, hot weather from the U.S. to Europe is taking its toll on crops, and...
    NewsJune 26, 2017 - 2:59pm
    June 24, 2017
    Tom DePuydt, Farmer/Rancher from Saco, Mont. (Submitted photo)
    5 questions with ... Tom DePuydt, farmer/rancher, Saco, Mont.
    Q: How has agriculture shaped your life?
    NewsJune 24, 2017 - 11:51am
    June 22, 2017
    Dan Persons, a sheep farmer in rural Kensington, trims the nails off one of his sheep as his wife, Kay, looks on. Celeste Edenloff | Forum News Service
    Minnesota farm couple raising sheep to help in treating human disease
    KENSINGTON, Minn.—Dan and Kay Persons, sheep producers in rural Kensington in western Minnesota, are hoping to play a role in the fight...
    NewsJune 22, 2017 - 4:35pm
    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
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