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North Fork Zumbro River in Mazeppa, Minn. (Noah Fish / Agweek)
Agriculture

Walz sets 1 million acre goal for water quality program

Monte Benz, 66, of Steele, N.D., and 50 employees of Minnesota Fresh in Long Prairie, Minn., are producing 6.5 million “fresh, never frozen” veggie kits a year, in a market where more Americans are getting their nutrition at home. Photo taken Oct. 19, 2020, at Long Prairie, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

Home cooking trend makes vegetable kits from Minnesota and North Dakota take off

Family farms overall accounted for 98% of farms and 86% of production in 2019 according to "America's Diverse Family Farms- 2020 Edition" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Reserve Service, or ERS. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC)
Agriculture

Family farms still dominate US ag, report says

Lacey Block, Havana, N.D., on April 30, is assisted by her father, Todd Block, Sisseton, S.D., in a pop-up style beef distribution point in Fargo, N.D. She is in a new Rancher's Rebellion LLC direct-marketing business. (Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service)
Coronavirus

COVID-19 pandemic revealed problems and pushed lasting changes in the food chain

2020 wasn't necessarily a bad year for beer consumption, but there were a lot of changes about where people drank beer and who drank it. (Pixabay photo)
Agriculture

2020 a strange year for beer

Agriculture

The Agweek holiday show year in review

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A waterhemp seed head. (NDSU Extension)
Agriculture

Fighting waterhemp, a weed 'born for the 21st century'

Marvin Baker has accumulated about 4 pounds of cotton boll fiber from production at his organic garden at Carpio, N.D. Photo taken Oct. 11, 2020, at Carpio, N.D. North Star Farms / Agweek
Agriculture

Growing cotton and peanuts in northern North Dakota

The Larry and Jackie Anhalt acreage home, viewed from the westbound lane of Interstate Highway 94 near Clearwater, Minn., shows a 12-foot Christmas tree, framed in a cross-shaped window pattern. Photo taken Dec. 9, 2020, at Clearwater, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

A Christmas barn appears along Interstate 94

Jason Frerich, 36, of Wilmot, S.D., is in farming enterprises with brothers Aaron and Ryan. The cropping business share-rents land from his father, Kent (left), and other landowners. Photo taken Nov. 14, 2020, near Wilmot, S.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

South Dakota farmer eyes new era under Biden

Holmes United Methodist Church of rural Reynold, N.D., will host a modified version of their live nativity reenactment on Dec. 20, 2020, with a drive-up, stay in your car style, carrying on a tradition the church has hosted and produced since 1988. Photo is from the 2019 live nativity. (Submitted photo)
Agriculture

Embracing the light and hope of Christmas in new ways

Frerichs Farms was in the last stages of fall fieldwork, just east of the ridge along Interstate Highway 29, near Wilmot, S.D., on Nov. 14, 2020. Jason Frerichs said farmers are hoping the upcoming 2021 crop offers some marketing profit, rather than depending on ad hoc government payments. Mikkel Pates / Agweek
Agriculture

Federal money provided a lifeline for farmers facing 'a trifecta of challenges,' but what does the future hold?

Agriculture

What's the future of federal money in ag?

Gabe Erding, a part-time stocker at Sunshine Foods in Chatfield, Minn., puts items on the shelf on Dec. 15. (Noah Fish / Agweek)
Agriculture

The importance of shopping locally this holiday season

Contributed by the University of Minnesota's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences’
Agriculture

Minnesota celebrates the 50th anniversary of Norman Borlaug winning the Nobel Peace Prize

Trade with China has been a bright spot in 2020, reported John Newton, chief economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, during a session of Prairie Grains on Dec. 10, 2020. (AFBF graphic)
Agriculture

2020 a strange year for ag, Farm Bureau economist says

Annie Gorder, Grace Lunski and Mollie Ficocello created Three Farm Daughters, a food company that uses ingredients from their family farm in Grand Forks, N.D. (Trevor Peterson / Agweek)
Agriculture

Three Farm Daughters takes North Dakota farm products from field to pantry

Two production ranchers evaluate bulls separated in different pens at Richard Angus Ranch before the auction began for the 7th Annual Production Sale just outside of Belfield Friday afternoon. (Jackie Jahfetson/The Dickinson Press)
Agriculture

Looking for the best bull, 300 ranchers descend on Belfield, ND, cattle sale

Getting calves to their weaning date is important to an operation's economic standing. (Erin Ehnle Brown / Grand Vale Creative LLC)
Agriculture

Getting calves to their weaning date: An important economic factor

Despite a disrupted food distribution cycle during COVID-19 shutdowns, America continues to have ample food choices to deliver and purchase which is a positive of 2020, says Katie Pinke. (CommonGround North Dakota photo, used with permission)
Agriculture

2020 worst year ever? Nope, for several reasons

CannonBelles Cheese, owned by Deeann Lufkin, Jackie Ohmann and Kathy Hupf, recently broke ground on its own cheese plant in Cannon Falls, expected to be open by summer. (Noah Fish / Agweek)
Agriculture

CannonBelles just months away from having own home for cheesemaking