A Farm Region Moving North and East The classic Corn Belt used to be easy to picture: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of ...

Across Olmsted County and beyond, more farmers are planting cover crops and experimenting with systems designed to keep ...

The dust cloud billows up behind your bumper whether you’re headed toward Katie Elvehjem’s farm or away from it. And on a Friday evening in spring 2024, Elvehjem was dreaming about leaving. “I felt ...

In Southern Minnesota farmers are done with the soybean harvest and are quickly moving through corn with the help of Mother Nature. While the corn crop in other areas of the Corn Belt has fallen short ...

The corn succumbing to the forks of Brandon Fast’s combine this autumn morning is green. It shouldn’t be. But the floods of June are finally being felt. “Two years ago, this was 270 bushel an acre,” ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Farmers may be preparing to operate on a net loss in 2025 with major commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat expected to sell for less than the inputs it takes to grow them. For ...

Timely rains and great conditions have farmers racing to put seeds in the ground. USDA’s latest crop progress report shows 24% of the corn crop is now planted. That’s 2% ahead of the five-year average ...

HAWLEY, Minn. — Dan Grefsrud admits that when he was growing up, he wanted to get away from the family farm. So naturally, his parents were surprised when he asked if he could come back and live on ...

I am disappointed that the Star Tribune continues to give its columnist covering greater Minnesota, Karen Tolkkinen, significant space to disparage corn production in our state. Her Sept. 14 column ...

On questions of whether farm program payments like the Farm Bridge Assistance that is forthcoming are necessary, Kent Thiesse ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — American farmers are hoping that aid to agriculture will be revived as Congress struggles to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the federal government funded and avert ...

MOUNTAIN LAKE, MINN. – The corn succumbing to the forks of Brandon Fast’s combine this autumn morning is green. It shouldn’t be. But the floods of June are finally being felt. “Two years ago, this was ...