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October 26, 2020
The first measurable snow of the season graces colorful leaves on a tree at peak color, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Some snow is no big deal because Minnesota farmers were far ahead on this year's harvest

Soybeans are mostly in, and corn is way ahead of schedule despite the early cold.
Agriculture
October 24, 2020
According to 2019 data, lettuce heads doing slightly better against lettuce leaves than in 2017 and 2018. (Marie Elena Sager/Dreamstime/TNS)

Americans turn over a new leaf, in the produce aisle

Yes, this could be the year consumption of romaine and other leaf lettuce finally surpasses that of head lettuce.
Agriculture
October 12, 2020
A laborer carries a sack of wheat in a state food corporation warehouse, in Jammu, India in 2011.

World Food Day aims to intensify the battle against hunger

Global Minnesota will host a virtual World Food Day conference, one of several across the globe.
Agriculture
October 9, 2020
FILE -- The Kwai Tsing container terminal in Hong Kong, April 7, 2020. A World Trade Organization panel said Tuesday, Sept. 15, that the United States

Tariffs create mixed bag for U.S. farmers, builders

Some benefit, but others with no apparent ties are feeling the crunch.
Agriculture
October 6, 2020
Dairy cows wait outside of the milking parlor at Daley Farms in Lewiston. (ANDY KOSIER/Star Tribune)

Battle over southeast Minnesota dairy expansion drags on

The Land Stewardship Project was ordered to produce internal documents by Tuesday.
Agriculture
October 3, 2020
In this May 8, 2019, photo, farmer Yang Wenguo reaches out to one of the few dozen remaining pigs from his original herd of 800 in a barn at his pig f

China's pork industry begins recovery after disease outbreak

Pork output will take much longer to restore given the herd's low quality, experts and analysts said.
West Metro
October 1, 2020
The Minnesota Arboretum has been holding an academic farming class for people who want to go into farming. Students are a diverse group in terms of ag

Beginners learn to be farmers at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

In its first year, the Sustainable Horticulture Training Program has offered hands-on education to students with a variety of goals.
Agriculture
September 30, 2020
Despite production pressures and the coronavirus downturn, land values are holding steady in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. That's key to farmers' a

Farmland prices holding steady, maybe even ticking upward in Minnesota

The good soil is still selling for about $8,000 an acre in Upper Midwest.
Agriculture
September 29, 2020
The JBS Worthington Pork Plant, where 19 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed. ] aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com For weeks, Al Oberloh and others living in

Majority of workers' compensation claims of meatpacking workers with COVID-19 denied, including in Minnesota

Refusals by meatpacking firms cite the possibility employees became sick outside plants.
Agriculture
September 26, 2020
Revol Greens is a new competitor to the California greens market and is growing five varieties of lettuce in greenhouses only an hour's drive south of

With $68 million in funds, Minnesota's Revol Greens to expand in Texas

The Owatonna-based lettuce company is bringing its indoor greenhouse model to the Lone Star State and California.
Agriculture
September 25, 2020
FILE - In this July 20, 2013, file photo, an ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. Some farm groups and farm-state lawmakers are

Trump, eyeing farm votes, starts working on ethanol industry's year-old wish list

It's a blueprint to court farmers in Minnesota and other parts of the Midwest.
Agriculture
September 25, 2020
Workers unload pig carcasses at a warehouse that is part of China's national pork reserve, in Beijing, Sept. 27, 2019. The tariff fight has added to C

Surge in U.S. pork exports to China led by Brazil's JBS, China's WH Group

Pork is key for China to hit targets for purchases of U.S. farm-good products.
Agriculture
September 23, 2020
A U of M review found that some gene-editing research done by Calyxt founder Dan Voytas wasn't reviewed by a required committee at the university. Fil

Gene-editing research by Calyxt exec at U of M for a time lacked proper oversight

University officials caught and fixed an oversight involving a campus committee on biosafety.
Agriculture
September 22, 2020
Soybeans and corn are edging closed to harvest, as green turns to gold. These fields are near the city of Lafayette in Nicollet County, Minn. ] GLEN S

Corn, soybean prices rally on Chinese demand, disaster in Iowa

As harvest begins, farmers are seeing some of the best commodity prices of the year.
Agriculture
September 19, 2020
Rain droplets line a railing along the waterfront of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Typhoon Higos weakened to a strong topica

China's corn crop hurt by storms, may raise U.S. import purchases

Expected production losses have pushed Chinese corn futures to a record high and stoked worries over supply shortages.
Local
September 18, 2020
U of M Research professor Jacob Jungers (CQ) checks the growth of Kernza grass at a field at the U's St. Paul campus. ) As nitrates from intensive row

University of Minnesota leads project to boost yield, uses of crop that could cut water pollution

The U is leading research effort into boosting production of Kernza, a new strain of wheatgrass.
Agriculture
September 18, 2020
Al-Corn Clean Fuel ethanol plant in Claremont, Minn. (GLEN STUBBE/Star Tribune)

Ethanol waivers become central issue in presidential battle for Minnesota farm votes

The issues heated up this week with three days of President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Agriculture
September 16, 2020
Dairy cows wait outside of the milking parlor at Daley Farms of Lewiston, Minn.

Why fewer Minnesota dairy farmers are going out of business

New insurance programs and virus aid are helping improve "safety net" for Minnesota dairy farmers.
Agriculture
September 16, 2020
Anne and Al Klein, who farm using regenerative practices, near Freeburg, Ill.

Cargill joins regenerative agriculture movement, sets goal for 10 million acres

Cargill says it can help farmers reduce risk in crucial early stages of regenerative farming practices.
Agriculture
September 12, 2020
Farmer Shawn Baker discs over a corn field on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 at a farm north of Woodward, Iowa. The corn was damaged beyond salvage by the r

Drought adds to agriculture problems in Iowa

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