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Agribusiness

Sleepy Eye FFA members attend Timberland Leadership Camp

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 ...

Incredible shrinking lakes

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 ...

Saving the farm

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 ...

Biden plan to sell land leases for conservation gets pushback

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 ...

Sleepy Eye FFA excels at State FFA Convention

Seventy-one Sleepy Eye FFA Members traveled to the University of Minnesota Campuses and State Fairgrounds, where they participated in the Annual Minnesota FFA State Convention. More than 5,000 FFA members, advisors and guests from throughout the state gathered for the convention from Sunday, ...