agriculture

The Dakota Rice Corn and Soybean Growers will be holding their annual plot tour this evening starting at 5:30 pm.

Corn was doing quite well last week until the August USDA Supply Demand Report. The USDA surprised traders with a yield estimate for this years corn crop of 169.5 bushels an acre. The average trade guess was around 166, with many estimates around 160 bushels an acre...

On Friday, August 11, the Minnesota Farmers Union will be sponsoring a Water Quality and Healthy Soils Field Day in Oronoco. The program will begin at People's Energy Cooperative at 9AM. There will be speakers in the morning including Rod Sommerfield, a farmer; President of the Minnesota Farmers Union Gary Wertish; Matt Wohlman, Deputy Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture; and A

I had a good idea what the weekly weather and crop update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca would show even before I read it. It was a cooler than normal week, in fact it was the coolest weather we have seen since late June...

Even at this late stage in life (everyone at KDHL calls me old) I had a couple of new experiences Tuesday when I was out to the farm. It was the first time I was planting a cover crop. My peas were harvested too late to even consider beans so I planted certified oat seed for a cover crop...

David Greibrok was stuck in a corn bin in eastern Freeborn County until rescuers freed him and he walked away. He had gone into the bin to break up rotten corn. His brother Allan said that at one point the corn was near the top of his brother's head...

Wednesday morning the Riverland Community College Farm Business Management will be hosting a Marketing Meeting at the Goodhue County Fair. The program will begin at 8AM and wrap up at 10AM in the 4-H tent. I suspect that the "informal" discussion will continue well after 10...

Friday afternoon the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was at Minnesota Farm Bureau's President Kevin Paap's farm by Garden City. Perdue stopped in Minnesota as part of a five-state RV tour, called "Back to Our Roots Tour...

I first saw this big piece of equipment at the North American Farm and Power Show in Owatonna. I was not sure what it was for. That one did not have the black extensions on top. I thought it might have been a manure spreader, then I saw a small door for unloading grain in the back...

The Wick Forum Building at Farmfest was filled to capacity Thursday morning for the Farm Bill Field Hearing. There will be only six Farm Bill Field Hearings in the United States and it was nice to see such at big crowd at the one in Minnesota...