agriculture

The 10th annual Best of the Best, the Rice County Agriculture Hall of Fame program, will be Wednesday morning at the Rice County Fair. A free breakfast will be served from 7:30-9AM in the beer garden, sponsored by the Rice County Farm Bureau...

Corn was doing very well breaking out after a two-day rally Monday and Tuesday. Then it all disappeared Wednesday and Thursday. The USDA Supply Demand was not really bearish but the USDA left the national average yield unchanged at 170.8 bushels an acre...

Friday afternoon I went out to the farm to check on the crops. I had not been out there since Monday afternoon. I did have a few acres of beans that drowned out after Sunday night's 5-inch rain. Fortunately most of the water receded before the beans were killed...

This picture is another example of farmers being an environmentalist. The phrase reduce, reuse and recycle comes to mind. Mike, a coworker here at the studio, saw this picture and he thought I would like to see it. He knew I was a farmer and would know what a grain bin was and what it was normally used for...

When reading the weekly weather and crop update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca it appeared it was a very good week for corn and soybean development. Temperatures were a bit warmer than normal. Temperatures averaged 74...

Severe weather moved through our listening area Sunday night July 9. Areas in Blue Earth, Nicollet and Sibley counties were hit with strong winds and hail. The University of Minnesota Extension Service and the United Farmers Co-op have scheduled a hail clinic to provide farmers with information and assist with decisions that will need to be made...

Be careful what you wish for is what I was thinking last Saturday when I was out to the farm. It had not rained for 10 days or so. The crops were not under moisture stress but with the peas flowering and corn tasselling soon I thought an inch of rain would be great...

Corn, knee high by the 4th of July. That is a phrase I heard when I was growing up. I think it goes back to my grandfather's generation. It does not apply to today, but you still hear it. With today's modern corn genetics the phrase should be shoulder or head high by the 4th of July...

The University of Minnesota Dairy Team will be sponsoring a Farmer to Farmer program on Thursday July 6, at the Mike and Donna Tellers farm, 8865 Tellers Road, Chaska, Minnesota. The program will begin at 10:45AM and wrap up at 2:30PM. The program will break for lunch and drive to the Augusta Ball Field, 5950 Hampshire Rd...

The 4th of July fireworks hit the corn market last week with corn 11-12 cents higher Friday. Corn was higher going into the stocks and acres report at 11 Friday morning. It seemed like the hot and dry forecast for this week was trumping the USDA report...