BYRON — It took Martin Larsen a minute to count up the inches of rain his farm had gotten in the week leading up to the Fourth of July. “About 8 and 1/4 to 8 and 1/2 inches,” said Larsen, who farms corn, soybeans and some hay in Byron. His crops can’t stand to take another rainfall ...
ST. PAUL – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadline to file crop acreage reports for agricultural producers in Minnesota impacted by flooding and heavy moisture. The new July 22 deadline applies to reporting spring-seeded crops to USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration's Market Facilitation Program is meant to compensate farmers for income they've lost due to the U.S. trade war with China. Data provided to The Associated Press from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Freedom of Information Act gives some ...
Excessive precipitation and persistently wet conditions have prevented the planting of corn and soybean in some fields and led to ponding and drown-out areas in others. On acres where “prevent plant” is claimed for insurance, the USDA-Risk Management Agency (RMA) requires protection from ...
ST. CLOUD — “Dairy Risk Management Strategies” a short workshop teamed up with Farm Service Agency and University of Minnesota Extension comparing the new Farm Bill’s Dairy Margin Coverage and other risk management strategies of Risk Management Agency’s Dairy Revenue Protection and ...
Dan Gunderson MPR News MOORHEAD, Minn. — Corn and soybean prices are rising as a result of wet conditions that delayed spring planting in much of the Midwest, creating uncertainty about this year's harvest. The situation may be propitious for Minnesota crop farmers because they've been ...
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press PERRYSBURG, Ohio (AP) — Farmers who have been unable to plant their soybeans and corn because of this spring's never-ending rains told Ohio's governor on Wednesday that it will take years to recover their losses. They also said the impact will be felt ...
By DAN GREENWOOD Mankato Free Press KASOTA, Minn. (AP) — As another round of snow fell on south-central Minnesota, blanketing the landscape in early April, bright green leaves of lettuce already were popping up, shielded by a tunnel-shaped frame covered in clear tarp. While freezing ...
By PAUL WISEMAN and JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten billion here, ten billion there: President Donald Trump's escalating tariffs on imports to the United States have begun to amount to serious money — and potentially to imperil one of the most resilient ...
By MATT OLBERDING Lincoln Journal Star LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — If you had driven past Shane Bristol's farm south of York last month, you might have seen a construction yellow-colored tractor with a planter attached tooling around his soybean field. The tractor looked like any other tractor ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top trade official insists that the agricultural sector cannot be included in negotiations on a new trade agreement with the United States, as the U.S. has demanded. After receiving the backing of EU ministers in Brussels Monday, Trade Commissioner ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled out another $16 billion in aid for farmers hurt by his trade policies, and financial markets shook Thursday on the growing realization that the U.S. and China are far from settling a bitter, year-long trade dispute. U.S. Agriculture Secretary ...
SLEEPY EYE — Fifty-seven Sleepy Eye FFA Members traveled to the University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus, where they participated in the 90th Annual Minnesota FFA State Convention. More than 3,700 FFA members, advisors and guests from throughout the state gathered for the convention from ...
Members of the 4-H Golden Rose Riders Club receive a check from Steve Lax, Central Region Cooperative Board of Directors member. Brown County 4-H Federation recently received a grant of $2,500 from CHS, Inc. with a match from Central Region Cooperative to make improvements to exhibit areas on ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers are intervening in a long-running legal dispute over unlicensed medical marijuana shops, pushing to enact a firm deadline by which the businesses must close or risk their ability to get a license. The House voted ...
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An insurance program to help hard-pressed dairy farmers is expected to be ready for enrollment in June, the U.S. Farm Service Agency says, but farmers say it won't tackle the underlying challenges they face. Dairy farmers are in ...
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota farmers and rural residents in the Red River Valley are preparing for floodwaters that could cover roads and leave them isolated for days. Noreen Thomas is constantly monitoring the Buffalo River's flow from her farm near Moorhead. Thomas told Minnesota ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The latest Census of Agriculture shows the number of farms and ranches in the U.S. has fallen but the remaining operations are larger and are responsible for a higher percentage of agricultural sales. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the 2017 Census of ...
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Memoirist no more? It's hard to believe, but "Save Me the Plums" just might be the last such narrative for Ruth Reichl. Her latest, after "Tender at the Bone," ''Comfort Me with Apples" and a lifetime's worth of others, has Reichl taking ...
LAKE CRYSTAL — Floods in the Missouri River Valley are reducing rail service to much of south central Minnesota. Jeff Spence, vice president of grain operations at Crystal Valley Co-op, said they haven't been able to get Union Pacific cars to many of their locations. "The UP has been ...