One of the most under-reported stories of 2025 – the departure of more than 20,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees – ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

To till or not to till? Some might say running the tiller in the garden is the best part of it all. Other gardens never see a motorized tiller. Both systems have their positives and negatives.

On your first day of life, you had an audience as you screwed up your face, took a deep breath … and yowled. Everyone there was happy that you breathed your first; you were, too, and since then, ...