HAZELTON, N.D. – Jesse Kalberer has been busy in March completing paperwork for the family’s upcoming registered Red Angus bull sale on DVAuction. He has also been preparing to seed diverse cover crop mixes and native prairie grasses for grazing/haying, as well as working cattle.
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BERTHOLD, N.D. – Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager and their three kids, Axel, Ivy, and Daisy, are working on their dream of their own farmstead at Arrow L Ranch. They are planning to build their own home, shop, and cattle facilities with beautiful rows of trees planted in shelterbelts surroun…
FARGO, N.D. – Spring is nearly here, and garden and yard enthusiasts across the region are breaking out supplies and tools to get their gardens started.
In the northern Red River Valley, near Cummings, N.D., Wayne and Becca Baumbach and their two young daughters have been restoring old crop fields back to native grass pastures for their livestock, as well as planting a wealth of trees and plant species to support diversity and their 24 bee c…
Ever feel like you’re a pawn when trying to decrypt all the different agricultural programs and incentives? Sometimes it seems like just when you're about to make a move, the rules of the game change. Instead of landing on “payday,” you’re sent back to square one.
HAZELTON, N.D. – With Kalberer Ranch’s online Red Angus bull sale a short month away, Jesse Kalberer and his wife, Susan, are inviting those who are interested in moderate-framed coming 2-year-old bulls that have excellent mothering traits to come out to the ranch and “take a look.”
BERTHOLD, N.D. – Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager, who own and operate Arrow L Ranch with their three kids on the edge of the northwestern region of the state, have stayed busy throughout the end of February/beginning of March with delivering bulls, taking forage clippings of their stockpiled…
The EPA recently re-approved dicamba for over-the-top herbicide use after planting dicamba-tolerant soybeans. The new label will be a test for two growing seasons, 2026-27, according to Madeleine Smith, NDSU Extension pesticide specialist.
U.S. agriculture is facing an “expense problem,” where production expenses relative to farm incomes are growing too fast and are likely unsustainable, according to Bryon Parman, NDSU ag finance specialist.
One young Minnesota dairyman is turning his passion for farming and community into a business that both honors the past and provides a future for his family farm at a time when small dairies are disappearing.
“It would be very challenging if this were year one.”
Commodity Classic’s general session drew record attendance Feb. 26 in San Antonio, Texas, as agricultural leaders gathered to discuss policy priorities, technology and market opportunities.
MENOKEN, N.D. – Sheep and cattle grazing together on Menoken Farm perennials are in the sixth year of the perennial and annual crop rotations at the demonstration soil health farm.
As calving season progresses across the region, now is a good time to start thinking ahead to breeding season preparations. Arguably one of the most important preparations a producer can invest in is a breeding soundness exam (BSE) on all bulls intended to be turned out for breeding.
LEROY, N.D. – Ted Eagan was a self-made, successful farmer in Pembina County in 1982 when a farm accident, where he slipped on the rung of a ladder and was spun around in an unguarded power takeoff (PTO) shaft, permanently altered his life and the lives of his family.
Technology in the meat processing industry has been limited, but a team of visionaries is combining robotic automation and AI in a way that could change the food supply chain.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – It was 95 degrees outside Feb. 25 in the River Walk area of San Antonio. It was almost as hot with information overload inside the Henry B. González Convention Center where the 30th-annual Commodity Classic was being held. According to the organizers, it was record atten…
HAZELTON, N.D. – It has been an extra busy couple of weeks at Kalberer Farms for Jesse Kalberer, who farms and raises seedstock Red Angus with his wife, Susan. Besides dealing with weather challenges, he has been readying the farm for spring and summer planting, as well as grazing and haying.
BERTHOLD, N.D. – While Mason Lautenschlager took two bulls that were sold in Arrow L Ranch’s recent bull sale to the veterinarian in Minot, N.D., to sign off on health paperwork, he gave his report during the drive.
One company is eliminating guesswork around fungicide application through its biosensing capability that is rooted in the plant’s physiology.
Sophia Voigt, New Salem FFA chapter member, 4-H member, and a freshman at New Salem-Almont High School, was the second high individual in Milk Quality and Products CDE (career development event) in the nation last fall. The team won national silver.
"It is well worth your time to get BQA certified if you interact with cattle at all in your day-to-day life."
The new Tallgrass Trailblazer carbon pipeline in Nebraska will be able to capture tax credits from the 45Z program, which could provide as much as 65 cents per gallon of additional revenue to ethanol plants, according to Dave Ripplinger, NDSU Extension bioproducts/bioenergy economist.
A wet year in 2025 led to increased white mold pressure in crops throughout the region, especially in soybeans and dry beans, and BASF is launching Zorina fungicide as a protective fungicide to control white mold.
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