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Agribusiness

‘Really cute’

NEW ULM — Dozens of company booths and displays drew a good-sized crowd to the 42nd Annual Farm-City Hub Club Farm Show at the New Ulm Civic Center Friday. Bleats from new-born meat goats could be heard above conservation at the event that continues Saturday. New Ulm FFA members Rachel ...

Farmland prices continue to climb in SW, SC Minn.

NEW ULM — South Central and Southwest Minnesota farm land prices continued to rise in 2023, according to a University of Minnesota Extension survey of farmland sales. The 2022 Brown County average farmland sale price was $8,259 per acre, according to Minnesota Department of Revenue ...

Warm weather no early spring guarantee

NEW ULM — Courtland Township farmer Tim Waibel liked the Wednesday afternoon sunshine that drove the temperature past 50 degrees so much, he jumped into his all-terrain vehicle and drove from his shop to nearby Kuester’s pond. The pond was still covered with ice. Waibel said it can be ...

Farmers find silver lining in fall weather

NEW ULM — Area farmers said recharge rainfall last September and October helped them deal with one of the driest Novembers on record. “We had incredible weather to do catch-up work. We were able to do more tillage. Guys that strip till could keep going longer into the fall. We were able to ...

Zempels named 2023 Outstanding Conservationists

Living a few miles northeast of Morgan in what they call the “Garden of Eden,” the Zempel family has been involved in conservation and agriculture since Brown County began a century and a half ago. The Brown Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) recently recognized Gene and Lori ...