farming

About two hours West of Rochester is a family farm settled before Minnesota was a state. On that farm is a 164-year-old hand pump that works like it is new.

MnDOT and the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office are sharing safety tips for farmers and drivers.

The fuel was valued at $5.13 per gallon.

Report says there has been very little spring planting.

Over 8 million people have watched this cow in Iowa eating Dairy Queen!

Tar spot in corn was found for the first time in Minnesota.

The National Weather Service updated their drought conditions today, and have classified some of Southeast Minnesota and Northeast Iowa as in a Moderate Drought, while much of Southeast Minnesota and Northeast Iowa is abnormally dry.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota has slightly fewer farms than a year ago but the ones that remain tend to be getting larger, following national trends.

ST. PAUL, MN — Haley Hinrichs, a 19-year-old college student from Goodhue, has been crowned the 63rd Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

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.

PIPE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin is leading the way in dairy goat farming in the U.S. and will soon be home to two of the largest goat dairies in the world.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — With Minnesota's fall harvest nearly over, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has boosted forecasts for what were already expected to be record corn and soybean crops.

Washington, DC  (Minnesota News Network) -   The US Department of Agriculture has lowered this year's estimate of the Minnesota corn harvest. But the forecast is still larger than a year ago.

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.