http://www.thelandonline.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_312101921.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_312101921.html Every once in a great while even the hardiest of farmers must stop their work in the field and just watch in awe as some wacky Minnesota weather hits. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:20:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_297172117.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_297172117.html The 2008 State Fair experience gave Katie Larson a taste of FFA showmanship and she is definitely ready to come back again next year. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281170124.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281170124.html What country of origin labeling will mean for Minnesota producers, and how it will affect the retail sales of those commodities, is yet to be seen. What is certain, however, is the widespread doubt about whether COOL is actually good for U.S. producers. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281161954.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281161954.html Chopping and bagging is the name of the game for Dale Mischke. For the past three weeks that is pretty much all he has done. Not that he’s complaining. This is the way he likes it — busy. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:13:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281160722.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_281160722.html The wedding season for the Kveno family has officially concluded. No more tulle, updos, tuxedo rentals and gift registries — we are done! What an amazing season it has been though. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_254121020.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_254121020.html This year there was a new category added to the Minnesota 4-H competition. This category featured animals that are furry, distinctive looking and like to occasionally spit. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_253173745.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_253173745.html We’re still weeks away from autumn’s official Sept. 22 start, but for Dale Mischke fall already arrived last week. That is when he began getting calls from farmers needing their silage bagged. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:18:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_240105114.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_240105114.html Pumping manure. This very task can be fatal to pigs and humans alike if not done properly. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_227100854.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_227100854.html Whether it is the tradition of eating a footlong hotdog as soon as you pass through the gates, riding the Midway rides until you are sick, or cuddling up in the Ye Olde Mill ride with your sweetie, fond memories of the Minnesota State Fair fill the hearts of people from across the state. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_226173824.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_226173824.html The battle with aphids is on at the Mischke farm and so far the good guys, not the bugs, are winning. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:12:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_226171952.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_226171952.html I have witnessed enough races to know that you’d better have a stopwatch on and be ready to hit the start button the moment that gun goes off, if for no other reason than to give those around you the impression that you know what the heck you’re doing. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_206114357.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_206114357.html While most people were enjoying the parades, picnics and fireworks that are the 4th of July, Dale Mischke was baling hay. Actually, he had been “baling for five days straight,” Mischke said, when The Land talked to him on July 6. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_206102120.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_206102120.html With 62 inventors and 67 inventions at this year’s Minnesota Inventors Congress, the inventions included a wide range of ideas — some simple, some unusual and some of the “why didn’t I think of that?” persuasion. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_184113410.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_184113410.html My mother fondly remembers the smell of burning leaves on the streets of her Chicago neighborhood growing up. There was something so American at the time about being able to burn your waste and not have to worry about the pollutants and other hazards that now concern us. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:18:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_171122013.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_mindsKK/local_story_171122013.html Ron Friesen pointed out the irony of falling pork prices in the midst of food prices going up: “We are talking about euthanizing pigs; we are an industry in crisis.”