agriculture

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...

The weather forecast for Farmfest looks very nice, with temperatures in the high 70s to low 80s. I remember years with the heat index of around 100 degrees so this will be great! However, I have a feeling it might get a little warmer in the Wick Building Farmfest Center where the forums are held...

I took these pictures this afternoon out at the farm. In the corn picture notice that the silks coming out of the developing ear are mostly dark brown. When the corn is pollinating the silks are a light green. When the future kernel of corn is fertilized the silk attached to that kernel in the ear turns brown...

On Saturday, August 5, Farmamerica will host the seventh annual Classic Tractor Ride. The ride will be staged at Farmamerica and will leave at 8:30AM Saturday. The Tractor Ride will be 54 miles long through Northeastern Waseca County on rural paved roads...

Hi-Way 30 Hogs, located 4 miles west of New Richland, has proposed to double its hog production from 2,400 to 4,800 animals. An environmental review is underway.

It was a very good week of weather for corn and soybean development, according to the weekly weather and crop update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca. Warm and wet describes this last weeks weather. There were three rain events that totaled 3...