Flooding near Oslo, Minnesota, has destroyed agricultural land, washed out their township roads and caused thousands of dollars of damage to a railroad line that carries cars filled with wheat to the West Coast and southern United States.
Reporter Mikkel Pates describes how the May 12, 2022, derecho wind storm hit close to home. He helped his brother, who farms near Volga, South Dakota, clean up building damage.
The North Dakota Soybean Processors plant at Casselton and the Green Bison plant at Spiritwood are signs of the growing demand for renewable fuel as well as feed for the livestock industry.
Anne Waltner, Parker, South Dakota, left a full-time career as a concert pianist and educator to join her parents鈥� farming operation. Along the way she married, had triplet daughters and survived cancer. Of her journey and life, she says: 鈥淐an you think of anybody luckier than me?鈥�
Food prices have been rising through 2021 and the Consumer Price Index for food released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service on Oct. 25, 2021, shows a year over year increase of 4.6%. The biggest rise is coming from the meat, poultry and fish category which was up 10.4%.
After many years of behind-the-scenes work in the district and community, Hope-Page started a new agriculture program and new FFA chapter during the 2020-21 school year. Now in its second year, it鈥檚 something for which the community and students can be thankful.
The Honeyford grain elevator, North Dakota's oldest cooperative elevator, is the first south of the U.S.-Canadian border to load an 8,500-foot 鈥� 1.6 miles-long 鈥� unit train. The train full of corn was bound for Canada.
Both Chuck Bremer, owner of Bridal Rock Orchard near Lake City, and Jay Clark, who runs Apples R Us with his wife, Tammy Soma Clark, said this year's been disappointing and hectic for area apple growers.
Sugarbeet harvest plays a large role in the Red River Valley's agriculture industry. Due to the harvest being non-stop once the campaign begins, many local businesses extend their hours in an effort to rally behind sugarbeet producers.
North Dakota officials have told CHS Sunflower at Grandin, North Dakota, to stop shipping sunflower screenings for livestock producers in North Dakota after a Grant County rancher found his feed product had contaminated hundreds of acres with the hard-to-control Palmer amaranth weed seeds.
According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, China missed the $36.5 billion goal for 2020 set in the phase one deal, coming in at $28.75 billion worth of purchases. China is also on pace to be short of its 2021 goal of $43.5 billion. U.S. Census figures through August 2021 put China鈥檚 agricultural and related purchases at $19.28 billion.
Hundreds of students who enrolled in agriculture programs of two-year technical colleges across North Dakota and South Dakota have landed jobs in the agricultural industry after, and in some cases, before, they graduated.
