I suspect if farming was still done mainly with horses, and cows milked by hand, and our homes without central heat, nor ...

Growing up on a farm in Sauk Centre, Minn., Gerry Kulzer couldn’t envision a future where he’d become the state’s pre-eminent ...

With record beef markets, more cattle producers are assessing ways to capitalize on these opportunities. High-tech, precision ...

The population of Hatfield, Minn., located in Pipestone County, has seldom hit 100, except on Saturday nights in the 1960s ...

Milk production is abundant on U.S. farms and evidenced in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest data. November output ...

Mark Brakke is a retired family practice physician. He cared for patients in Coon Rapids, Minn. for 41 years during which ...

Mark Twain would have loved this.The story goes that Twain, arguably America's greatest writer and humorist, was the ...

There is little comparison to the evolution of Christmas and all its wonder. Growing up, how fun it was to drive to Sioux ...

Recently, USDA announced that $12 billion will be made available for the “Farmer Bridge Assistance” (FBA) program, which will ...

Most Midwest farm operators finalize their farm cash flow plans for the upcoming year during the months of January and February, sometimes with the assistance of an ag lender or farm business ...

My relationship to money is hard to explain. I sheared sheep for one whole year to pay for the Alaskan Cruise my wife and I went on. I can report the expenses of that trip in dollars or hours or the ...

Without healthy soil, a farmer has nothing — just dirt. This mindset motivates James Hepp, a first-generation farmer from Rockwell City, Iowa, to make conservation pay on his acres. “My conservation ...