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Rochester, Minnesota · RochesterFARGO — It looks like a record year is in the works for northern Plains wheat growers as a wheat quality tour wrapped up this week with impressive yield estimates. The Wheat Quality Council’s 2024 Hard Spring Wheat and Durum Tour concluded Thursday, July 25, after three days of surveying a variety of cereal crops across North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Minnesota. Over the three-day tour, a total of 257 fields were visited by att…See the Story
Wheat Quality Council tour shows potential for record wheat yields across upper Midwest
Rochester, Minnesota · RochesterThe Agricultural Policy and Trade Research Institute will give Midwest farmers, including dry bean growers, a unified voice to craft policy that affects their commodities, said Collin Peterson, founder of the Midwest Council on Agriculture. The Midwest Council on Agriculture announced in the spring of 2024 that the Agriculture Appropriations bill directed $2 million to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish the Agricultural Policy and…See the Story
Agricultural Policy and Trade Research Institute will give Midwest ag a bigger voice on policy
Rochester, Minnesota · RochesterFARNBOROUGH, England, July 24 (Reuters) - A UK initiative to promote green jet fuel will need to be taken up around the world - and built on - if the technology is to have any chance of delivering its promise of radically cleaner flying, airline executives warned at the Farnborough Airshow. Last week, Britain's new Labour government announced plans to introduce a price guarantee for sustainable aviation fuel to incentivize producers to open mo…See the Story
Airlines urge governments to save floundering green jet fuel industry
South Dakota · South DakotaHURON, S.D. — For Austin Ripp, a long-time open class dairy exhibitor at the South Dakota State Fair, the decision for the fair to require testing on all lactating (currently producing milk) cows for the H5N1 avian influenza within seven days before they're brought onto the fairgrounds in Huron comes as no surprise. “To cross state lines to any show or just in general, you have to get tested. So, it’s nothing new,” said Ripp, who exhibits dair…See the Story
South Dakota State Fair will require dairy cows to be tested for H5N1 ahead of show
Pine Island · Pine IslandPINE ISLAND, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has announced details for the next round of funding for its popular Down Payment Assistance Grant program. The down payment assistance program, which began in 2023, provides a $15,000 grant for first-time farm buyers in Minnesota who earn less than $250,000 in farm sales. The Minnesota Legislature funded $2.5 million for the program to be distributed over three years. According to…See the Story
Applications for third round of Minnesota's Down Payment Assistance Grant opens Aug. 1
Rochester, Minnesota · RochesterWith the new extrusion plant, AGT Foods now has about $100 million invested in North Dakota. The plant will produce a variety of products, including yellow-pea based Veggipasta in several shapes.See the Story
AGT Foods opens multi-million dollar extrusion plant for pulse products
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Rochester, Minnesota · RochesterMark Dombeck has been raising kidney beans at his Perham, Minnesota, farm for as long as they have been a crop in his county, and for nearly as long, he has served on the Minnesota Dry Bean Research and Promotion Council. Dombeck, a crops and dairy farmer, led the council for 30 years, serving as chair for many of them. He stepped down as chair and ended his membership on the board in spring 2024. He began raising dark red and light red kidn…See the Story