agriculture

This is a picture of a weed called Palmer Amaranth.

The Rice County Soil and Water Conservation District will be hosting a tour Thursday, August 25.

Recently a group of agribusiness private sector representatives from the Asian nation Kazakhstan visited the United States with stops in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has released a draft of the proposed Nitrogen Fertilizer Rule.

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...