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Minnesota Farmers Union plans modified convention because of COVID-19

Lieutenant Gov. Peggy Flanagan takes part in an Emerging Farmers Listening Session hosted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, at 125 Live in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / Post Bulletin)
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Ag Commissioner, Lt. Governor embolden Minn. Emerging Farmers' Working Group during its first meeting

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Farm finances stabilized by government relief and good production

Mike Tuinstra (third from left) talks to other area farmers about the progress being made on his roughly 200 acres of corn. Michael Johnson/Pioneer Journal
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Wadena area farmers gather to harvest after the unexpected death of a local ag advocate

Steve Flies pulls out a tractor to show on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at his home in Plainview. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
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Sale ends an era for Plainview, Minn., tractor collector

CRISPR, also called the "genetic scissors," holds great potential to improve agriculture and the world. Its developers recently won the Nobel Prize for their work. Pixabay photo
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'Genetic scissors' of CRISPR in the spotlight

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Steve Flies pulls out a tractor to show on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at his home in Plainview. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
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Sale ends an era for Minnesota tractor collector

Snow across the region slowed a 2020 harvest that had been moving at record pace. Michelle Rook / Forum News Service
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Early snow slows fast-moving 2020 harvest in the region

Farmer Karen Larson fills soil bins with worms at Brut Worm Farms in Brooten. Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune
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Brooten worm farmer raises herds of soil-builders

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Covid crisis

Gray wolves have been protected under the Endangered Species Act for over four decades. Minnesota DNR photo
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Ranchers hail removal of gray wolf from Endangered Species list

Corn harvest is underway in Minnesota. Carolyn Lange / West Central Tribune
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Minnesota ag industry could feel hit with loss of Peterson in Congress

Republican Michelle Fischbach, candidate for the Minnesota U.S. House of Representatives 7th Congressional District, left, walks into the election night party with Senator Andrew Lang at the 7th Congressional District Republican Party’s Election Night event Tuesday evening held at the Little Crow Golf Resort in Spicer.    Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune
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Fischbach thumps Peterson in heavy ag counties

With the newly registered Dicamba products, we take a look at the rise in complaints about off-target drift in the region.
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Amid dicamba uncertainty, Enlist soybeans may be a popular option

Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin, 40mg pills, made by Purdue Pharma L.D. sit on a shelf at a local pharmacy, in Provo, Utah, U.S., April 25, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
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Drug overdose deaths increase during pandemic, hit rural areas

John Wicks II of Osakis, Minn., checks a 27-acre cornfield he has entered in the National Corn Growing Contest. At 81, he’s hopeful, but not overconfident in the yield results, but said a contest helps him improve. Photo taken Oct. 20, 2020, near Osakis, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
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At 81, Wicht still revved for farming race

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Entrepreneur turns farmer

More farmers are using financial tools to market their crops, especially corn and soybeans. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC)
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Farmers make more use of financial tools, USDA says

Dave Forsman, of Murdock, unloads a hopper full of corn into a semi Thursday afternoon in Swift County. Carolyn Lange / West Central Tribune
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Back in the fields for fall harvest following early snowfall

Argentina is the first country in the world to approve GMO wheat, and recently approved a drought-resistant variety called HB4. (Agweek / Mikkel Pates)
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Argentina becomes first country to approve GMO wheat

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz talks with Chris Hanson, general manager of the POET Biorefining plant in Preston, Minn. on Oct. 24. Walz stopped at the site on a tour of southern Minnesota in support of Joe Biden. Noah Fish / Forum News Service
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Walz touts ethanol production as he stumps for Biden