The 2017 Minnesota Grown Directory contains more than 1,000 listings, making it the largest directory ever. Issued by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the directory lists local growers and farmers markets. Minnesota products include fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry, wines, nurseries, decor, Christmas trees, berries and more...
St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - Governor Mark Dayton has issued an executive order that requires the state to take specific actions to reverse the decline of bees and other pollinator populations.
CLARION, Iowa (AP) — Wright County supervisors have approved a development agreement with a North Carolina-based company that plans to build a $240 million pork processing plant in northern Iowa.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general says the Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline.
EDGERTON, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton and key cabinet members visit Edgerton on Wednesday to discuss water quality challenges facing southwestern Minnesota.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A University of Minnesota study says farmers who actively tilled fields near turkey barns in the early days of last year's bird flu outbreak may have unwittingly helped spread the virus.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Final tallies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirm that Minnesota farmers harvested record corn and soybean crops in 2015.
Winona County, MN (Learfield Wire Services) -- Winona County landowners could be part of a new proposal by Minnesota's governor to enroll up to 100,000 acres across 54 counties in southern and western Minnesota in water quality and wildlife habitat conservation efforts.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Scientists have developed a vaccine strain that is 100 percent effective in protecting chickens from bird flu and testing is underway to see if it protects turkeys.