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Cheers for 50 years

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 ...

50 years of Farm-City Hub Club

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 ...

Lower Sioux shows off industrial hemp campus

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 Co. board OKs manure compost facility permit

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 owned by Mathiowetz Construction Co. Action came on a motion by Commissioner Tony Berg, seconded by Commissioner Brian Braun. The county board decision reverses an earlier decision by the Brown County Planning and Zoning Commission to deny the application. “I’m in agreement with the product. ...

DockDogs and hogs highlight Saturday at the Brown Co. Fair

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” ...

‘It feels like the 1980s’

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, ...