COURTLAND — Brazilians? In Courtland? Yes, 41 of them, in fact. They toured the Supersweet research farm Friday. “We have come to learn about our job. We are farmers,” said one man in the group. Ed Drill, farm manager in Courtland, gave them a tour of the livestock and poultry ...

THOSE SILENT gray box-like structures below German Street at First S. are pilings for the new post office. Ground at the site is very soft and workmen ad to go quite a ways to get on solid footing. Now the Postal Service is ready for the next step, letting the bid for construction of the ...

SLEEPY EYE — The parkland sways gently at first, around the children’s playsets. But cresting as it nears the park shelter, the land drops sharply toward Sleepy Eye Lake. The park is calmer now. The chill of autumn cooling summer activity. Occasionally, someone walks through with a ...

Twenty-one boars sold for an average price of $465 and 27 gilts for an average $301 at the fall sale of the Duroc Breeders Association at the Brown County Fairgrounds Wednesday. Average prices were markedly ahead of the fall sale last year, although the increase is not in the same proportion ...

Christian Rohr says Germans are a lot better at crop farming than Americans. But Americans know a lot more about dairy farming, he adds. Rohr, 22, who lives near Hamburg,Germany, has spent the past two weeks on the Walter Gieseke farm nine and a half miles northeast of New Ulm,“Learning ...

Annual Homecoming festivities at Cathedral High School in New Ulm will be Thursday and Friday. Activities begin Thursday with the Homecoming pepfest in the Cathedral High School gymnasium at 7:30 p.m. Coronation of the 1975 Homecoming queen will be there,with crowning done by the 1974 ...