U Of M Earns Top Grade For Organic Agriculture
The University of Minnesota has earned a top grade for its organic agriculture programs.
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The University of Minnesota has earned a top grade for its organic agriculture programs.
The Minnesota State Fair is several months away, but it's celebrating a new attraction already.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is expected to sign an amendment that will make it easier to grow and sell fresh food in the city.
Staffers for Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be holding a series of regional meetings this week to get public input on the 2012 Farm Bill.
The University of Minnesota on Thursday awarded its annual Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture to a longtime state agriculture commissioner, an economist who works to improve agricultural productivity around the world, and a wheat farmer with a long record of community service.
As farmers across the county mark National Agriculture Day on Thursday, the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council is sharing new data on the importance of agriculture to Minnesota.
The lack of snow in the Upper Midwest is causing some concern among winter wheat farmers.
A relatively snow-free winter in the Upper Midwest has some officials worried about damage to agriculture if the dry weather persists into spring planting.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is shutting down 259 offices, labs and facilities across the country.
A Wisconsin factory worker worried about layoffs became a dairy farmer. An employee at a Minnesota nonprofit found an escape from her cubicle by buying a vegetable farm. A nuclear engineer tired of office bureaucracy decided to get into cattle ranching in Texas.
A Minnesota farmer told a Senate panel Tuesday he wants to know what became of $253,000 of his money that's gone missing in the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc.
A national leader in the organic food and farming movement will speak at the University of Minnesota about water and the challenges facing agriculture.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 11 Minnesota counties as disaster areas because of the combined impacts of excessive rain, high heat, strong winds, tornadoes and an early fall frost this year.
Wisconsin's dairy industry is continuing a modest turn-around in production, and Minnesota is inching closer to its own positive reversal.
Minnesota farmers continue to make rapid progress on harvesting, despite a brief rainfall interruption.
For the past 10 years America's military mission in Afghanistan has targeted the Taliban and terrorists. But on Friday, 22 Minnesota National Guard soldiers will begin a much different tactic. They're being sent to the dusty fields of the high Afghan desert.
Last week's storms ended Minnesota's longest stretch of dry weather this summer, and it's having an impact on Minnesota agriculture.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture reports that Minnesota exported $900 million more in agricultural products in 2010 than the year before.
Minnesota exports set a first-quarter record with $4.8 billion in goods shipped out of the state.
As university budgets take a beating across the country, agricultural schools and extension programs are feeling the impact.
The intersection of water and agriculture in the 21st century is taking center stage at the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus.
Minnesota officials advise consumers to check for health and hardiness when buying trees, shrubs and other landscaping plants.
Cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys and sheep will be visiting the heart of an urban college campus.
Cold and wet conditions from the fourth snowiest winter on record are keeping Minnesota farmers from getting going on spring planting.
