BEACH, N.D. – The Golden Valley County FFA chapter was the only FFA chapter in North Dakota invited to take part in the inaugural National FFA Catalyst Conference in mid-June in Indianapolis. North Dakota and 23 other states were represented at the conference, and each chapter was asked to s…
With North Dakota experiencing high heat throughout July, including stretches of days in the triple-digits, some are asking whether there’s a super El Niño on the way.
Brooke Rollins made her first trip to Minnesota as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture when she spoke at Farmfest Tuesday morning, Aug. 4, but she’s no stranger to Minnesota farm country.
Farmfest returns to Gilfillan Estate near Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Aug. 4-6 with new educational programming, expanded family activities and opportunities for producers to learn about emerging technologies while connecting with exhibitors from across the agriculture industry.
For farm families, finding healthcare coverage is an important but challenging task.
During the first half of July, several momentous events in the southwestern region of North Dakota impacted agriculture.
Agricultural economist David Widmar opened his presentation at the South Dakota Governor's Ag Summit with a story that had little to do with commodity markets.
ARGUSVILLE, N.D. – When Lindsay and Carl Olson, owners and operators of Olson Hereford Ranch with Carl’s parents, received an APUC grant to help construct a building on their farm/ranch, it wasn’t for more farm storage or for their seedstock cattle.
Grey Zabel didn't come to the Governor's Ag Summit with a PowerPoint. He came with a $100 bill from American Bank and Trust, a challenge for the crowd, and story after story tying a field outside Selby, South Dakota, to a football field in Seattle.
A North Dakotan farmer had a seat at the table when U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew N. Ferguson announced the investigation of fertilizer price hikes at a McKinney, Texas, farm shop after hearing farmers complain about high fertilizer costs that have risen sharply since 2020.
Energy prices are continuing to drive inflation up – 4.2 percent – the highest rate since 2023, according to Bryon Parman, NDSU Extension agricultural finance specialist.
The decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup.
“A lot of people will say they are born broke. That isn’t quite the case, but they’re much calmer than other breeds.”
An ag roundtable organized by U.S. Sen. John Hoeven addressed current North Dakota farmer/rancher concerns with Farm Service Agency Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce at NDSU’s Barry Hall in Fargo on May 26.
It was a good week for North Dakota corn growers, as on May 13, the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 (H.R. 1346) – better known as year-round E15 sales – passed in the U.S. Congress on a vote of 218-203. It is now in the U.S. Senate.
On the Mockler family farm near Centerville, spring planting is a full-family effort.
As planting season rolls on across the region, farmers have been taking advantage of warmer days and workable fields to get the crop in and tackle early weeds.
Author Mark Twain, a proud son of Missouri, once reportedly mused that “whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
Urea prices, along with other nitrogen fertilizers, will squeeze farmers’ pockets this planting season, unless producers have already locked in prices for the year and can count on their co-op having the supply needed.
Gene-edited crops reach farmers’ fields faster than regulators around the world can agree on how to oversee them, and the resulting divide is shaping where agricultural innovation takes place.
The markets are eyeing the forecast to see whether planting progress will push forward or not.
FARGO, N.D. – North Dakota soybean groups have been scouring the globe searching for new markets for beans or existing markets that could be expanded. With China purchasing only about half of the U.S. soybeans it normally buys, the North Dakota Soybean Council (NDSC) and the North Dakota Soy…
Northwestern farmer chosen as last year's parade grand marshal
North Dakota corn growers are tired of waiting on an E15 year-round blend approval from Congress, according to Carson Klosterman, chair of the North Dakota Corn Utilization Council (NDCUC) and a corn grower near Wyndmere.
More North Dakota farmers/ranchers applied for farm loans through the Bank of North Dakota’s 2026 Farm Financial Stability Loan Program and the accompanying grain inventory program than could be helped by the bank. Because of that, the program application had to be cut off three months early.
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