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    Minnesota cattle industry, a $2 billion business, often overlooked
    ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Minnesota often is associated with lakes, trees, corn and soybeans. But cattle are important to the state, too, Minnesota cattle industry officials say.
    business/agricultureDecember 20, 2018 - 6:00am
    November 26, 2018
    Auto body specialist Justin Weatherford grew up in the rural town of Woonsocket, S.D., but is with his wife, Jill’s family, in side enterprise that is fast becoming a sizeable lamb operation near Florence, S.D. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates)
    Shepherds again: Families mix lamb and off-farm goals
    FLORENCE, S.D. -- Larry Halse grows corn, soybeans and runs a beef cow-calf operation, and, for the past several years, is back into sheep. His...
    business/agricultureNovember 26, 2018 - 7:13am
    November 10, 2018
    Hundreds of red angus cows follow Mark Nelson and his grandson, Cody Nelson, in a John Deere Gator UTV on a township road in Steele County from a pasture near Sharon, N.D., to Keith Johnson's farm near Hatton on an annual cattle drive Saturday. Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
    'Til the cows come home: People travel hundreds of miles for cattle drive near Sharon, ND
    Phil Brown bundled up and then saddled up early Saturday morning, just like a real cowboy. He arrived at the pasture in a 2006 Buick, a piece...
    business/agricultureNovember 10, 2018 - 3:47pm
    November 3, 2018
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    AgweekTV: Fargo contractor converting abandoned grain elevator to home
    A Fargo architect and contractor has turned an abandoned grain elevator into a home. Watch the full episode of AgweekTV on Agweek.com Get the...
    newsNovember 3, 2018 - 8:30am
    October 6, 2018
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    AgweekTV: Rosies Workwear designed for safety, style and women
    Company makes work clothes designed to fit women. Watch the full episode of AgweekTV on Agweek.com Get the latest agri-weather outlook with WDAY's...
    newsOctober 6, 2018 - 8:30am
    September 29, 2018
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    AgweekTV: Ag Youth Infusion
    A rural North Dakota town is seeing an infusion of young farm families. Watch the full episode of AgweekTV on Agweek.com Get the latest agri-weather...
    business/agricultureSeptember 29, 2018 - 8:30am
    September 24, 2018
    Balancing the variables of farming and ranching
    After several late night sessions of helping my husband plan for the next year on the farm, I'm reminded why I chose to make my living with words...
    business/agricultureSeptember 24, 2018 - 7:08am
    September 18, 2018
    North Dakota stockmen take stand on 'lab-grown' meat labeling
    BISMARCK — Within the next year, "cultured" meat — made from animal muscle and fat cells in a lab rather than coming from slaughtered livestock — could hit the market and the beef industry is expressing concern over how that product is marketed to consumers. At its...
    business/agricultureSeptember 18, 2018 - 4:08pm
    September 3, 2018
    Jenny Schlecht's daughter Kennedy feeds bottle calf Barbara Ann. Jenny Schlecht / Agweek
    How many cows can you feed in half an hour?
    I made an observation the other morning: It takes me and my daughters as long to feed three calves as it takes my husband and father-in-law to...
    business/agricultureSeptember 3, 2018 - 6:02am
    August 27, 2018
    Taylor Grussing, a cow-calf field specialist with South Dakota State University Extension in Mitchell, S.D., at a display at Dakotafest 2018, stands next to an actual “preserved rumen” to be used to teach producers and others about the workings of the ruminant stomach system. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
    Dakotafest goers learn how 'bale wrap' can harm cattle
    MITCHELL, S.D. — The technology of using "bale wrap" for storing large round bales has become more popular, but it's created some health...
    business/agricultureAugust 27, 2018 - 7:15am
    August 19, 2018
    Darrin Wixo and Sheila Sutton Wixo ride behind their trained Highland cattle Gravy, left, and Biscuit. The two oxen are about half their full-grown weight. Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service
    Step by step, couple learns to train, care for oxen team
    DULUTH — The Wixos had a log problem. After two major storms, more than 350 trees had fallen on their 16 acres outside Duluth. That's when...
    lifestyle/petsAugust 19, 2018 - 6:00am
    July 20, 2018
    Orlo and Helen Almlie, of rural Lake Lillian, are transitioning ownership of their 100-head of stock cows and calves to Cullen Fischer, a 31-year-old man they met just a couple years ago. Carolyn Lange / Forum News Service
    Cattlemen at heart:Creativity gives next generation of farmers a boost
    WILLMAR, Minn. — When he looks at the herd of 100 Angus cows and their frisky spring calves grazing in a pasture of belly-high grass, Cullen...
    business/agricultureJuly 20, 2018 - 10:00pm
    July 2, 2018
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    Bovine breakout: Cattle rounded up after running loose in Fosston
    FOSSTON, Minn.—A Polk County deputy located a "small herd" of 10 to 14 cows running down U.S. Highway 2 east of Fosston Monday. Local law...
    news/accidentsJuly 2, 2018 - 6:00pm
    Parker Strand, 11, of Portland, N.D., borrowed $5,000 under a Farm Service Agency youth loan program to buy five cows. Three have had calves so far and she hopes to pay off the loan with profit over its seven-year period. She’ll be 18. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
    FSA ag loans not just for big people: Federal 'youth loans' geared to 10-20 year-olds
    PORTLAND, N.D. — Meet Parker Strand — cattle woman. At age 11, young Strand borrowed the maximum of $5,000 last December in a Farm...
    business/agricultureJuly 2, 2018 - 7:18am
    June 23, 2018
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    AgweekTV: Trade War Escalates
    Tit for Tat Tariffs Between U.S. and China Watch the full episode of AgweekTV on Agweek.com Get the latest agri-weather outlook with WDAY's John...
    newsJune 23, 2018 - 8:30am
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