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Meadowbrook Farm, near Sartell, Minnesota, includes an 80-head dairy, 300 feeder steers, 1,000 acres of row crops and a finalist for Farm Woman of the Year.
The annual event has been a major ag gathering since 1972 and brings out an estimated 30,000 people over three days
Alma Kubat, Owatonna, Minnesota, has lived and breathed farming all of her 83 years.

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Land use for green energy such as solar and wind farms is an area where there is a lot of room for discussion, agreed members of a Minnesota rural issues panel at Minnesota Farmfest.
A panel at Farmfest discussed negotiations on the federal farm bill that is set to expire in September and other policy issues
During the hour-and-a-half long debate, Republican candidate Scott Jensen frequently veered from agriculture questions to talk about the state's response to the pandemic.
The conversation about agriculture and rural issues came a week before the special election in southern Minnesota as well as the primary to determine who will be up for the next full term.
Farmfest 2022 will run from Aug. 2-4 on the site just outside of Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha and State Sen. Melisa Franzen suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a car crash leaving the Farmfest expo on Wed. Aug. 4.

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Farm shows are expensive, time-consuming, taking both people power and the expense of travel and moving in equipment, setting up tents, and more. But as American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a panel I attended, there’s a “threat to the way we do business” through policy right now. Farmers, agriculture stakeholders and anyone willing to support agriculture need to show up to connect in-person and build connection around causes threatening the livelihoods of agriculture.
Agriculture industry leaders emphasized that lawmakers and private companies need to help farmers bear the expense of the new sustainability programs.
Candidates in districts that already have races set for November clashed over COVID response, refinery waivers.

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