NEW ULM — Farm-City Hub Club members including founding members, celebrated the 50th anniversary of the organization that promotes agriculture and agri-business at the Royal Oak Event Center Friday. Co-founder John Campe of Rushford, who owned Klossner State Bank for many years, talked about ...

For 50 years, the Farm-City Hub Club has served as a one-of-a kind organization that works to bring rural and city needs together. “The name tells the whole story,” said Farm-City Hub Club member Brian Fischer said. “The idea was to unify the farmers and businesses.” After five ...

REDWOOD COUNTY — Joey Goodthunder had a wide smile on his face before he climbed into a tractor and began cutting industrial hemp just west of Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel Thursday. “Now, I’m going to do what I really love to do,” he said at the Lower Sioux Industrial Hemp Campus ...

BROWN COUNTY — By a 4-1 vote Tuesday, Brown County Commissioners approved a conditional use permit for a manure composting facility in Prairieville Township. Commissioner Dave Borchert cast a dissenting vote on the application filed by James Heins of Ag Solutions, LLC of Mapleton on property ...

NEW ULM — In the cool of the morning Saturday, Brown County Fair attendees watched DockDogs at the south end of the midway and indoor 4-H and FFA swine competition. Molly Scheid of New Ulm said she and her four-year-old, female Yellow Labrador “Zoey” tried the “Let’s Try Dockdogs” ...

GILFILLAN ESTATES — A Westbrook farmer known for recruiting many soybean farmers to the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association a few years ago, compared farming these days to what it was like in the 1980s. Sitting in the Minnesota Corn Growers Association (MCGA) tent at Farmfest Tuesday, ...