May 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
DES MOINES, Iowa The wet start to the corn planting season is expected to reduce the amount each acre produces this year, but farmers are planting so much of the crop that they’re still likely to bring in a record amount. Continue Reading
February 14, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Corn may have North Dakota producers seeing green this spring, as a shortfall in acres nationally last year could entice farmers to boost their planting of it this year, many ag experts predict. Continue Reading
September 20, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
BRANDON, S.D. With both hands holding it open, Fadjar Setiawan plunged a small, clear plastic bag into the cascade of soybeans flowing from a truck unloading at the Eastern Farmers Cooperative in Brandon. Continue Reading
September 7, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK Keith Deutsch and Chad Blindauer both work the land in the Dakotas, one in the north and one in the south, producing crops that help feed a hungry nation. Most years they deal with comparable weather and similar production problems, but this year is shaping up to be unlike most others. Continue Reading
August 23, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
These sunflowers growing in a field 15 miles south of Hebron ripen in the sun Wednesday afternoon. Continue Reading
August 14, 2012 in West Central Tribune
GRANITE FALLS – A pilot walked away after his crop dusting plane struck a guy wire to a high-voltage line and crashed west of Hanley Falls in Yellow Medicine County on Tuesday afternoon. Continue Reading
August 10, 2012 in The Daily Republic
ST. LOUIS (AP) A deepening drought in the nation’s farm states has cut further into this fall’s harvest, with farmers now expected to pull from their fields the lowest corn yield in more than a decade.
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July 5, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
This year’s corn crop has lived up to the old adage, “Knee-high by the Fourth of July,” Mott farmer Darwyn Mayer said. Continue Reading
July 5, 2012 in The Daily Republic
The wet spring of 2011 produced a big hay crop, with much drier conditions this spring leading to a smaller crop.
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June 29, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
GRAND FORKS Rallying farm commodity marketing prices driven by expectations of a poor harvest in the hot, dry central Corn Belt are causing a stir in the Northern Plains’ expanding corn planting areas where crops still look promising. Continue Reading
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