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Sugar beets could be next big biofuel

farm / agriculture Tue, Dec 14, 2010 - 7:03am

USDA Introduces an Online Tool to Assist Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the Department has established an online tool that can link retiring farmers who have expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts with beginning farmers or...

farm / USDA / agriculture Mon, Dec 13, 2010 - 11:23am

Beet sugar cooperative reorganizes

farm / agriculture Sun, Dec 12, 2010 - 7:51am

No corn cob harvest is lesson in biomass economics

BENSON -- Chippewa Valley Ethanol is leading the way in proving the technology and economics of biomass energy. This year's lesson was all economics. The company did not harvest corn...

farm / agriculture Sat, Dec 11, 2010 - 7:49am

State concludes review of herbicide atrazine

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has completed its special registration review process for the herbicide atrazine. After reviewing research summaries provided by scientists at MDA, the Minnesota Department of...

farm / agriculture Mon, Nov 29, 2010 - 12:22am

Still a bargain: Cost of turkey dinner up slightly from '09

farm / agriculture Fri, Nov 26, 2010 - 6:36am

Timing of farm bill may change

news / government / agriculture Fri, Nov 05, 2010 - 6:46am

Newest Chippewa River project aims to make cleanup a profitable measure

farm / agriculture Tue, Oct 05, 2010 - 6:51am

Scott Steffes auctions off the Alchem ethanol plant on Wednesday morning in Grafton, N.D. The plant sold for $525,000. Herald photo by Sarah Kolberg.

Former Grafton, N,D. ethanol plant sells for $525,000

GRAFTON, N.D. -- The former Alchem Ltd. Ethanol plant was sold at auction Wednesday for $525,000, just a fraction of the millions of dollars invested in the operation since it...

farm / agriculture Thu, Sep 30, 2010 - 6:02am

Firm invests in Hallock canola plant

FARGO -- The goal of building the $168 million North Star Agri Industries canola oil processing plant and refinery in Hallock, Minn., took a big step closer to reality Wednesday...

farm / agriculture Thu, Sep 23, 2010 - 7:09am

Minnesota River board supports market incentives for conservation

MONTEVIDEO -- Minnesota is looking at giving market-based economics a role in cleaning up the state's waters. The Minnesota River Board hopes to help shape the rules for it. Members...

farm / agriculture Tue, Sep 21, 2010 - 7:48am

A Worker at the Callaway Elevator attempts to signal the crane operator after he and another man cut a hole in the side of a grain storage bin to drain the wheat inside Thursday afternoon. The storage bin had buckled and was leaning to the north. (Brian Basham/Record)

Grain showers in Callaway

A large grain storage bin at the Callaway Elevator started buckling Wednesday, causing an emergency response from CHS, the company that operates the elevator. Christine Thompson, spokeswoman for CHS, said...

news / farm / agriculture Mon, Sep 13, 2010 - 6:55am

Workmen use a tall lift as they put insulation around pipes at the Otter Tail Ag Enterprises ethanol plant under construction in 2008 in Fergus Falls. Forum file photo

Fergus Falls ethanol operator receives extension

Otter Tail Ag Enterprises, which operates the Fergus Falls, Minn., ethanol plant, has six more weeks to come up with $12 million worth of capital, or face possible liquidation to...

farm / agriculture Tue, Aug 31, 2010 - 2:07am

Klobuchar staff in Morris today for farm bill discussion

Staff members from the office of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., will be in Morris at 3 p.m. today at the AgCountry Auditorium at the West Central Research and Outreach...

farm / news / government / agriculture Mon, Aug 16, 2010 - 9:29am

Farmers work to bridge city-rural gap

RIVER FALLS, Wis. -- Many Americans have drifted away from the farm for years, creating a division between city and farm cousins. For those in the city, their idea of...

farm / agriculture Mon, Jul 26, 2010 - 3:31am

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