It’s not that I sit around thinking about bees.It’s just that I interviewed someone about the epidemic of bee colony losses ...

Yes, June Dairy Month is a promotion by the U.S. dairy industry but it serves as an important reminder to consumers of the ...

The aftereffects of wind resulted in plenty of crop scouting at the Sip farm. “Our corn originally looked really beat up, but ...

For U.S. farmers and ranchers, Thursday, May 22 was right out of a Dickens novel: It was the best of days and the worst of ...

Natalie Pierson’s grandma called her a seed planter. She is also a world traveler, a visionary, an artist, an entrepreneur.

April butter and cheese inventories were below those a year ago. The latest Cold Storage report showed April 30 butter stocks ...

Besides getting your veggies installed, what should you be doing this time of year? You can start pruning back your spring flowering shrubs any time after they bloom like lilacs.

Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom (MAITC) is proud to announce Nathan Lund of Glacial Hills Elementary in Starbuck, MN as the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Teacher of the Year ...

On Feb. 21, 2018, this space outlined my assessment of Congress's meandering approach to the overdue 2018 Farm Bill.

Addison Nicolai’s fifth grade science project dovetailed with her blooming business—growing gladiolus for the Pietsch Gardens ...

Last month I wrote about immunizations. This month I will expand on the topic. There are a couple fundamental questions one needs to ask about a proposed vaccine. Is it effective? Is it safe? “Is it ...

Producers who were raising pigs in the 1980s can clearly remember the first time they encountered the “Mystery Swine Disease”, a deadly virus which affected both breeding and finishing hogs and ...