agriculture

Weather conditions in Minnesota are leading to a slower start for the 2011 corn planting season. Last year, 13 percent of the corn in Minnesota was planted by April 18...

WASHINGTON, DC - USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Jonathan Coppess has issued a reminder to livestock producers throughout the Plains states and the Midwest that FSA programs may be...

WILLMAR -- Farmland values in west central Minnesota are continuing to climb to new, historic highs, assessors in the seven-county area around Willmar report. The rising values come despite some...

The long saga of Excel Dairy is over. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Citizens Advisory Board has unanimously denied an appeal of its earlier decision not to reissue a permit...

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...

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...

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...