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    June 21, 2018
    Farmers, farmworkers openly diverge on immigration crisis
    The outcry over the Trump administration's approach to illegal immigration has served to highlight the widening partisan gulf between most U.S....
    business/agricultureJune 21, 2018 - 9:55am
    June 19, 2018
    Rachel Gray's farm near Blackduck, Minn., received 5 inches of rain over the weekend. (Submitted photo)
    Some areas of western Minnesota saw up to 7 inches of rain
    BLACKDUCK, Minn.—Northwest Minnesota rancher Rachel Gray suffered through drought last summer. She promised herself then that "I'll never...
    news/weatherJune 19, 2018 - 3:56pm
    June 18, 2018
    Erin Brown / Grand Vale Creative
    Website offers crop insurance information, state-by-state totals
    Federally subsidized crop insurance is controversial. Now, with the U.S. Senate taking up the 2018 farm bill, a crop insurance trade group has...
    business/agricultureJune 18, 2018 - 7:03am
    MoDak Dairy at Goodwin, S.D., is one of many South Dakota operations opening their doors to the public for June Dairy Month. Michelle Rook / Forum News Service
    SD dairy industry continues to grow, add economic value
    GOODWIN, S.D. — South Dakota's dairy industry is growing rapidly, and the public is getting to see that for themselves during June Dairy...
    business/agricultureJune 18, 2018 - 6:44am
    June 13, 2018
    EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt shakes hands at a forum hosted by the National Sorghum Producers at a farm near Reliance in central South Dakota on Wednesday. Ellen Bardash / Forum News Service
    Two-hour, private visit by Pruitt to SD farm included roundtable event
    RELIANCE — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt visited a central South Dakota farm on Wednesday, and state farmers...
    news/government-and-politicsJune 13, 2018 - 9:25pm
    June 11, 2018
    Jenny Schlecht
    The Sorting Pen: With barn cats, as with farming, optimism is needed
    On my first visit to my then-boyfriend's farm, some of the main things I remember are cats. There were cats at the barn, and cats on the steps....
    business/agricultureJune 11, 2018 - 7:00am
    June 5, 2018
    An aerial photograph taken above Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Oct. 9, 2017 shows corn being harvested. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Trump support wavering in farm country over ethanol, trade moves
    Even as Donald Trump tweets his support for U.S. agriculture, farmer loyalty for the president looks like it's starting to waver over moves that...
    business/agricultureJune 5, 2018 - 1:33pm
    Farmer Scott Harper walks through a soybean field in Wheatfield, Ind., in July 2014. Selling more commodities like soybeans to the Chinese would make U.S. farmers happy, and reduce the trade deficit, but would not accomplish much more than that. Daniel Acker / copyright 2018 The New York Times
    China offered to buy $70 billion in US ag and energy products to ward off Trump's tariffs
    China has offered to buy close to $70 billion in U.S. agriculture and energy products in the first year of a package meant to ward off U.S. tariffs,...
    business/agricultureJune 5, 2018 - 11:30am
    An aerial photograph taken above Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Oct. 9, 2017 shows corn being harvested. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Trump support wavering in farm country over ethanol, trade moves
    Even as Donald Trump tweets his support for U.S. agriculture, farmer loyalty for the president looks like it's starting to waver over moves that...
    business/agricultureJune 5, 2018 - 7:12am
    June 1, 2018
    Younger farmers are especially vulnerable when interest rates rise because they tend to not have as much land in their own names, so they have less to offer the bank as collateral. Photo for The Washington Post by Kristina Barker
    The latest blow to struggling family farms: rising interest rates
    Shane Merrill lives in a small town in South Dakota that's 1,400 miles from Wall Street, but he watches the numbers as avidly as the traders....
    business/agricultureJune 1, 2018 - 12:36pm
    May 30, 2018
    Chuck and Deb Beldo gather quadruplet calves Wednesday, May 30, 2018, born May 25 on their farm near Sebeka, Minn. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Rare quadruplet calves born on central Minnesota farm
    SEBEKA, Minn. — A central Minnesota couple is feeling a little like new parents after a rare birth on their farm. A cow gave birth to quadruplet...
    business/agricultureMay 30, 2018 - 7:29pm
    May 26, 2018
    Alyssa Nichols looks over a sample beer at Drekker Brewing Co. in downtown Fargo. David Samson / Forum News Service
    Consumers, craft brewers behind shift that has barley growers, malters adjusting
    FARGO—Stacked pallets filled with bags of malt line the back of Drekker Brewing Co. here and a fermenting aroma vaguely reminiscent of...
    business/agricultureMay 26, 2018 - 8:13am
    May 21, 2018
    COMMENTARY: When machines, crops, prices fail you, remember you still have worth
    "You're only as good as your next story." This is one of the gems of "wisdom" I heard when I was starting out as "cub" reporter in the late 1970s. It was a cliche of the business, a statement mostly true but also with some unintended ill effects. I thought about this the other day...
    business/agricultureMay 21, 2018 - 7:57am
    May 17, 2018
    Corn is harvested in Princeton, Illinois, on Oct. 9, 2017. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Warming planet could mean bigger corn crops for US farmers
    An alarming increase in global temperatures from Earth's changing climate could bring an unexpected benefit for U.S. farmers who grow corn, the...
    business/agricultureMay 17, 2018 - 12:17pm
    May 15, 2018
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    Sugar policy revamp may be price of passing farm bill
    The U.S. House may deliver a significant victory for candy-makers this week in a decades-long quest to end sugar price supports. Representative...
    business/agricultureMay 15, 2018 - 4:14pm
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