GILFILLAN ESTATE — Farmfest 2023 began at Gilfillan Estate Tuesday with forums on U.S. ag exports, trade policy and the new Farm Bill. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar told a Farmfest Forum crowd she believes legislation supporting the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act has enough support to ...

NEW ULM — The Brown County Fairgrounds hosts the Southern Minnesota Youth Dairy Show June 23-24. Stalling begins at 1p.m., Friday, June 24. Late entries are accepted until 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The show starts at 9 a.m. A pizza party for all exhibitors and families courtesy of Fritsche ...

Thirty-two Sleepy Eye FFA members traveled to Sibley State Park, near New London, from June 5th-8th, 2023. Sleepy Eye FFA Advisors, Mary Hoffmann, Katie Emmett, and Paul Hendricks; Camp Assistants, Morgan Hoffmann, Alex Dominguez, and Grecia Navarro; along with several members from the Tracy ...

WASHINGTON — Climate change ‘s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds. A close examination of nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes found they are ...

LAKE BENTON — With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations. The threat of losing beloved family farms is a growing worry, affecting ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Biden administration officials on Monday sought to dispel worries they want to exclude oil drilling, livestock grazing and other activities from vast government-owned lands, as they faced pushback from Republicans and ranchers and over a contentious proposal to put ...