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Take a look inside one of Minnesota’s largest legal marijuana harvests to date
It’s “all hands on deck” for Prairie Island Indian Community’s fall cannabis harvest.
November 21, 2025
‘Not going to get any better’: Small-town Minnesota market closes as meat prices rise
Thinning cattle herds and higher processing costs are a couple of factors making it tough on meat locker businesses.
November 21, 2025
DOJ investigates Cargill, top meatpackers for alleged beef price-fixing
President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post prompted the investigation, as the price of beef has risen faster than inflation in recent years.
November 11, 2025
The last bite: Minnesota energy drink Huxley debuts new cans
Also, a call for the protein craze to die out, cooperatives step up for food aid, and the alcohol industry seeks a government “condom” to counter the rise of THC.
November 7, 2025
CHS profits drop off as cooperative braces for another down year for agriculture
The Minnesota-based co-op does not expect commodity prices to pick up meaningfully next year.
November 5, 2025
The last bite: Hormel’s tough run of bird flu, fire, a recall and earnings miss
Also in this week’s food and ag roundup, food volumes fall, more on Minnesota’s soybean situation and why Halloween spending is on the rise.
October 31, 2025
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Cargill laying off 80 more employees at Minnesota headquarters
The cuts are in addition to 475 local jobs the agriculture giant eliminated earlier this year.
October 29, 2025
Minnesota soybean farmers fear lasting scars from Trump’s trade war with China
Farmers are already feeling financial stress, but they hope a deal might alter what they fear is a shift that will result in permanent lower demand for U.S. soybeans.
October 29, 2025
The last bite: Cargill profits up again with help from Trump’s tax bill
Also, abandoned farmland fights climate change and the food industry births a MAHA-countering advocacy group with a grassroots-sounding name.
October 24, 2025
Bipartisan backlash, led by Midwest politicians, rises against Trump’s comments on beef industry
Some Minnesota ranchers, though, are supportive of the president’s economic policy.
October 23, 2025
MAHA is complicated for sugar beet country as its ideals collide with livelihoods
Demand for sugar, a $3.1 billion industry for Minnesota, is down, and farmers see a direct connection with the MAHA movement.
October 22, 2025
Has the country’s greatest giant-pumpkin grower reached the end of his vine?
Tragedy planted the seed for Anoka’s world-record setter. But after a season full of surprises, retirement might be on Travis Gienger’s mind.
October 20, 2025
