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The Tharaldson Ethanol plant at Casselton, N.D., was built in 2008 for about $280 million, and employs 57 people. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
Agriculture

Agribusiness announces $2 billion project to store captured carbon from ethanol in North Dakota

Former Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., has donated his old office desk from 30 years in Congress to the Becker County Museum in his home town of Detroit Lakes, Minn. The longtime House Agriculture Committee chairman said he still wants to be useful for agriculture. Photo taken Feb. 5, 2021, in Detroit Lakes, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

Former US Rep. Collin Peterson still wants to help agriculture

The Tuttle Rural Innovation Center opened in 2018 in the former Tuttle School. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
Agriculture

Central North Dakota town transforms school building into Tuttle Rural Innovation Center

Monica Brossard and her younger sister, Carmen, work at the Monica's Lefse & Preserves stand during the Feb. 6 Rochester Farmers Market. (Noah Fish / Agweek)
Agriculture

Subzero temps don't stop vendors, shoppers and music at Rochester Farmers Market

The community of Tuttle, N.D., population 58, serves as one example of rural ingenuity in how they’ve worked to transform the school that closed in 2007 into a rural innovation center for entrepreneurship, the arts and local foods. A group held a community room dedication event there on Jan. 30, 2021. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
Agriculture

It's time for rural America to envision and act

Mallina Xiong tends to plants in July 2020 on her parcel of land part of the 155-acre HAFA farm. (Noah Fish / Agweek)
Agriculture

Hurdles for beginning farmers don't end with access to land

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Urban agriculture is one of Seeds Feeds' main focus areas. (Contributed photo)
Agriculture

Minnesota's Seeds Feeds persists in the fight against food insecurity

Thank-you cards to the Busy Butterflies/Country Critters 4-H Club are a day-brightener. (Jenny Schlecht / Agweek)
Agriculture

Clear the drear by looking to what you can do for others

Luis Miguel Hummel walks out of Fillmore County District Court in Preston with St. Paul defense attorney Susan Johnson. Noah Fish / Agweek
Agriculture

Criminal case against hemp farmer is dismissed

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Agriculture

Minnesota's Blue Water Farms wants to move walleye production indoors

Chad Olsen, owner of Olsen Custom Farms, based in Hendricks, Minn., typically hires 65 South Africans through the H-2A program. COVID-19 delayed many of his workers from arriving in 2020, and he worries about potential delays again in 2021. (Mikkel Pates / Agweek)
Agriculture

Farmers worry about H-2A delays because of South African travel ban

Water flows out of the drain tile in a rural Grand Forks County, N.D., field on July 6, 2020. The area was hit with 3 to 10 inches of rain in the week prior. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
Agriculture

Controversial, yes, but take climate change seriously

Winter wheat is planted and sprouts in the fall, then comes up and grows in the spring. Too little snow cover combined with cold weather can kill winter wheat. (Pixabay photo)
Agriculture

A midwinter look at Midwest weather

Agweek's Michelle Rook, Jenny Schlecht and Emily Beal hang out at the Agweek booth during Big Iron in September 2020. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
Agriculture

Pandemic reaffirms value of ag organizations

Jonathan Lundgren, director and CEO of Blue Dasher Farm, an Estelline, S.D., research and demonstration farm for regenerative agriculture, holds a sample of soil to show the positive effects of regenerative agriculture. (Dan Koeck for MPR News 2018)
Agriculture

Minnesota corporations nudge farmers to help the environment

Kelly Erickson, 63, of Hallock, Minn., farms with his family near Kennedy, Minn., and is vice chairman of American Crystal Sugar Co. He nearly died from COVID-19 in December 2020, and his father died from it. “Get the shot,” he urges others. Photo taken Jan. 25, 2021, at Kennedy, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

Sugarbeet leader who had COVID-19 and lost his father to it urges, ‘Take the shot’

Ben Bisbach of Ben's Beans (Photo contributed by Featherstone Farm)
Agriculture

Organic industry, from big to small, sees boom in sales during pandemic

Crates filled with half-gallon bottles of milk are stocked up ready for handing out during the Farmer to Families Food Box Program distribution event on Wednesday in the former Slumberland parking lot. (Matt Gade / Republic)
Agriculture

Plant-based beverages hurts sales of cow's milk, report finds

A security fence is in place around the Minnesota State Capitol building. Photographed on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. The fence was installed during the civil unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd. (John Autey / St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Agriculture

Minnesota budget proposals include several ag-specific issues

New Dietary Guidelines discuss nutrition needs and recommendations throughout a person's lifespan and focus on the importance of eating diverse foods. (MyPlate photo)
Agriculture

USDA's new, best advice on healthy eating

A blog post from scientists and agronomists expresses concern for the limited amount of money being put into publicly funded plant breeding research. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC)
Agriculture

Scientists worry about reduced funding for plant breeding