http://www.thelandonline.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193130429.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193130429.html The Minnesota Farm Service Agency announced that FSA has suspended processing applications on Conservation Reserve Program acreage for critical feed use. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:53:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193125959.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193125959.html The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency feedlot program has scheduled a series of meetings to receive input from livestock producers about proposed changes in the next five-year (2011-2016) general operating permit for CAFOs. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193125132.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193125132.html Wheat growers looking for ways to reduce the impact of wheat diseases may decide to call on "Tom," a new variety of hard red spring wheat being released by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:11:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193121403.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193121403.html Over 100 agricultural businesses, commodity organizations, cooperatives, educational groups and individuals financially donated to Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation in its 22nd year. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193120747.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193120747.html America's farmers will receive up to $1.15billion in 2008 advance direct payments beginning today. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:50:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193115611.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193115611.html USDA's Farm Service Agency will allow producers who would otherwise be ineligible for the new disaster assistance programs to become eligible by paying a fee as required by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:49:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193114833.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_193114833.html In response to a tightening domestic refined sugar market, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today increased the 2007 crop year sugar Overall Allotment Quantity by 500,000 short tons, raw value. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_177160258.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_177160258.html Sign-up in the 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program helps deliver certainty for the crop year and the option of a timely advance payment. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:26:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_168133854.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_168133854.html Funding is available to individuals and organizations recently hit by natural disasters in several states in the Midwest, including areas of southeastern Minnesota impacted by recent flooding. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_168095744.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_168095744.html While not all plantings of these hybrids have exhibited symptoms, some have shown stress following glyphosate treatment. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_164142842.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_164142842.html U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture has delivered its first actions implementing the new farm bill. Thu, 29 May 2008 11:14:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_150113210.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_150113210.html The fishing season is upon us and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Department of Natural Resources are once again partnering with retailers and others to offer 20 lead tackle exchanges across the state this summer. The annual exchange events offer anglers a chance to try the growing variety of lead-free fishing tackle. Wed, 28 May 2008 17:41:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_149173803.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_149173803.html "CRP participants will need to request a modification to their CRP conservation plan," said Minnesota Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Perry Aasness. "All haying or grazing must be completed no later than Nov. 10, 2008." Wed, 21 May 2008 14:17:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_142141654.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_142141654.html The Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation recently conducted an informal survey of the prices of basic items found in a summer picnic basket. The average cost of a picnic for 10 this summer is $35.42, up $5.04 from 2007. Mon, 19 May 2008 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_140110431.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_special_events/local_story_140110431.html Some southern winter wheat and barley crops were already reaching a critical growing period in terms of possible infection by fusarium graminearum, the fungus that causes fusarium head blight (or head scab).