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THE NEW FORTY The Year of the Farmer...
I don't know exactly when the interest in the Super Bowl advertisements eclipsed the actual football game, but for a good decade or so Super Bowl ads have become a much fiercer competition than the bi...
Posted on 2/4/13 at 9:40 PM
FATHER KNOWS LAST North Dakota Wheat Harvest
Fall is always a time of excitement when you live on a farm. Each year becomes a race against time to get the crop harvested before winter arrives. There is also a sense of urgency involved, as the ...
Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:29 AM
RURAL REFLECTIONS Going back to Gully
My daytrips usually involve exotic locales such as Carrington, North Dakota to visit my brother or even so far-flung a location as Austin, Minnesota to pick-up something I purchased on eBay. This week...
Posted on 5/27/11 at 2:45 PM
THE FLENSBURGER FILES Bergen, Minnesota
After a brief hiatus due to non-column related commitments, we are now back on track to start you on the tour of the German-named villages in Minnesota. We'll start off with the first town on the li...
Posted on 1/23/11 at 5:26 AM
THE NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOORS AND BEYOND it's busy in the field..& not just hunting
North Dakotahunters are reminded to be cautious of farmers and ranchers who are currently busy with fall farm duties, including harvesting crops, moving cattle and hauling bales. Jeb Williams, wildli...
Posted on 10/14/10 at 5:39 PM
Cold, wet weather bogs down Minnesota field work 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crops and weather report for Minnesota that standing water and muddy fields hampered the remaining planting work last week, though crops planted earlier are emerging in better-drained fields.
By Associated Press , June 03, 2013
MARILYN HAGERTY: A long way from the beet field
Grandchildren of former migrants never learned to hoe sugar beets
By Marilyn Hagerty , June 02, 2013
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Family spreads word about West Nile virus
Since West Nile virus claimed the life of farmer-rancher Kim Rath in February, his family has been spreading the word about the deadly mosquito-borne disease, which sickened 89 North Dakotans in 2012 alone.
By Kari Lucin , May 30, 2013
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Less corn, more canola likely in drenched northeast North Dakota
The wet, late spring has wiped out any chance of Cavalier County shattering its corn acreage this year.
By Kevin Bonham , May 30, 2013
Army worms hit Southwest North Dakota
North Dakota State University has released its first Crop & Pest report of the season. Army worms and alfalfa weevils are
By Mikkel Pates , May 14, 2013
Drache’s book about Offut might be his most important
“R.D. Offutt: Success & Significance,” may not be the only book that is ever to be written about Ronald D. Offutt Jr., but it is likely to be the most significant. Offutt is the most far-flung farmer and entrepreneur and philanthropist the Red River Valley is likely to ever produce.
By Mikkel Pates , May 14, 2013
Crop sprayers tested in Park Rapids
As farmers prepare to plant crops, pilots from across Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin gathered in Park Rapids on Wednesday for annual testing of their crop sprayers before the growing season begins.
By Anna Erickson , May 10, 2013
ND winter wheat to be down 56 percent from 2012
North Dakota's winter wheat crop, a minor crop in the state, is forecast at 17.7 million bushels, down 56 percent from last year's record crop. The Agriculture Department says both acres for harvest and yields are expected to be down this year.
By Associated Press , May 10, 2013
Late spring means race is on for area farmers
This is one of the latest springs Joel Ross can remember. The air temperature didn’t get above 50 degrees until April 26, the latest on record at the Grand Forks office of the National Weather Service, and snow remained on fields until last week.
By Stephen J. Lee , May 08, 2013
Wet spring brings troubling start to corn planting
A troubling scenario is playing out across America's breadbasket, where the U.S. Department of Agriculture says just 12 percent of the nation's cornfields have been planted. That's about a quarter of what would was planted by this date over the previous five years, and it marks the slowest start in decades in some states.
By Jim Suhr , May 07, 2013
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Warmer weather helps farmers in ND start fieldwork
Warmer, drier weather conditions have helped farmers in North Dakota start fieldwork. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that producers were able to start preparing fields by the middle of last week.
By Associated Press , May 06, 2013
Marie Pozarnsky, Carrington, N.D., letter: In praise of shelter-belts, N.D.’s ‘prairie legacy
I look with nostalgia at the old farmsteads and shelter-belts disappearing from the landscape on the prairie.
By Marie Pozarnsky , April 30, 2013
Devils Lake Basin to lose cropland again
An estimated 161,000 acres of cropland will be lost to Devils Lake this year, according to North Dakota State University Extension Service on Tuesday.
By Herald Staff Report , April 30, 2013
Conservation Reserve Program faces challenges in Midwest
The longstanding Conservation Reserve Program is one of America's most important farm programs. But CRP - in which areas farmers soon will have another chance to enroll - is losing acres in the Upper Midwest because of attractive crop prices. Federal budget problems also cloud the program's future.
By Jonathan Knutson , April 30, 2013
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Iowa beet ethanol promoter must ‘cease and desist’
An Iowa man who a year ago spoke to Red River Valley farmers about supplying sugar beets to make ethanol in a mothballed Alchem Ltd. corn ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has had his Iowa insurance license suspended and Iowa officials have accused him of improper handling of securities sales.
By Mikkel Pates , April 23, 2013
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