http://www.thelandonline.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:31:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214153022.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214153022.html When you’re cranking through a few hundred acres of crops each spring, being able to plant one of those crops ahead of corn and soybeans stretches out the efficiency of both your machinery and your time. For Mike Macik of Hector, vegetable crops have been part of his annual crop plan every year since he started farming in 1979. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214152632.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214152632.html “We’re sitting in what I would almost call the garden zone of the Midwest right now,” said Birds Eye Food's Aaron Skogen, referring to the mostly good to excellent condition of Minnesota’s pea and sweet corn crops in early July. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:22:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214152341.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214152341.html It’s a few miles down the road, but eventually Minnesota wind turbines could also be producing hydrogen fuel to power your automobile. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_004120409.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_004120409.html A Week of Fun at FarmamericaThrough Aug. 10Farmamerica, WasecaInfo: Enjoy something fun to see and do all week at Farmamerica; for a complete list of events call (507) 835-2052 or log on to www.farmamerica.org Crop Walk and Talks: Small Fruits, Nuts and Wetland RestorationAug. 9, 1-4 p.m.Belle PlaineInfo: Learn pruning, propagation and coppicing of woody perennials; call Rural Advantage, (507) 238-5449 Farmamerica Open HouseAug. 10, Noon-4 p.m.Farmamerica, WasecaInfo: Visit Farmamerica for free during its open house; check out the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Exhibit; call (507) 835-2052 or log on to www.farmamerica.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214150652.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214150652.html The Land crossword: July 25-Aug. 1, 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214150140.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214150140.html Kids' Corner: July 25-Aug. 1, 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214145752.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214145752.html It’s time Minnesotans did something about their legislature; the 1902 legislature. That year our representatives in St. Paul made the showy pink and white lady slipper our state flower. The north country’s largest orchid may not have been the wisest choice. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214144138.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214144138.html For more than a decade, farmers’ experience with Roundup Ready soybeans has been extremely positive, including excellent weed control and increased profits. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:27:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214142717.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214142717.html The American economy is downright Dickensian. If you’re in investment banking, airlines, real estate or automobile anything, it’s the worst of times. If you’re in commodities — oil, copper, potash, gold, corn, soybeans — it’s the best of times. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:32:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214140929.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214140929.html “CRP isn’t complicated, if you remember the ‘Four Ws’: West, Wheat, Wet and Windy.” Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:24:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122550.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122550.html Most Americans value “pristine wilderness” and the creatures who live there. Most, both Republicans and Democrats, do not want the entire world paved over and trashed for more money in their pockets or more things to buy. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:21:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122308.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122308.html America desperately needs to find ways to move beyond its addiction to fossil fuels. So it puzzles me at a time of record oil prices to hear renewable fuels opponents so casually writing off America’s first steps toward alternative fuels. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122009.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214122009.html Due largely to opposition from environmental activists, no biotech wheats are currently being grown in the world. Monsanto shelved its herbicide-tolerant wheat, which could have allowed higher yields due to better weed control. Syngenta has slowed its work on disease-resistant biotech wheat. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:13:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214121522.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214121522.html Two weeks before the wedding of our oldest daughter Elizabeth and her fiancé, Mark, and our family is doing swell. Just swell. Or should I say just swollen? Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:59:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214121102.html http://www.thelandonline.com/currentedition/local_story_214121102.html Minnesotans are blessed with churches, scattered across our fair state, that celebrate their Norwegian roots at scrumptious, seasonal Norwegian buffet dinners.