Category: Rural Headlines

EXCERPT: “New Ulm—By now, most affected people know ISD 88 is not serving free lunch for kids this summer. Details as to why, however, may still be foggy for most…. “‘We are not area-eligible anymore,” Director of Dining Services Teri Jespersen said during the District 88 May study session. “We kind of really never have ...

EXCERPT: “Landowners have new state funding and a website to help them comply with a 2015 law requiring vegetative buffer strips to protect Minnesota’s waters. The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources recently approved a cost-sharing program that will cover up to 75 percent of landowners’ expenses to install perennial buffer strips along public waters ...

EXCERPT: “A U.S. House Agriculture Committee “Listening Session” on the next Farm Bill will highlight the feature Forums at FARMFEST this year. The Farm Bill “Listening Session” will be held on Thursday, August 3, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon, and is titled: “The Next Farm Bill …… Conversations in the Field”. The event will ...

EXCERPT: “Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says as lawmakers craft the new farm bill the funding priorities should be crop insurance number one followed by snap and the third being conservation. Minnesota Land Stewardship Project’s Policy Program Organizer Ben Anderson says conservation should be the top priority and crop insurance needs refining” INTERVIEW: http://bit.ly/2tyia0i ...

EXCERPT: “President Donald Trump has promised to expand broadband service to rural areas as part of his $1 trillion nationwide infrastructure plan. That may be easier said than done. It would take an estimated $80 billion to extend broadband to all U.S. areas that lack it, but the White House has initially proposed spending just $25 billion over ...

EXCERPT: “Entrepreneurs, like most business owners, are always on the lookout for ways to improve what they do and how they do it. Continuous improvement is certainly a goal for young dairy farmers like Karl Donner and Marissa McWilliam-Donner. The two recently hosted a visit by a team from the Minnesota Dairy Initiative’s Dairy Development & ...

EXCERPT: “The global population is skyrocketing, the climate is changing, and diets are shifting. So how do you tackle the problem of feeding 9 billion people by 2050? Assemble an elite team of scientists for a year-long brainstorming session. The first meeting of “Science Breakthroughs 2030” just convened to discuss the key advances essential for revolutionizing food and agriculture in ...

EXCERPT: “A Minnesota trade delegation in Cuba says the country is hungry for American farm products, but obstacles must be overcome first. ‘Some things need to happen,’ Jim Zenk of the Minnesota Dry Bean Research and Promotional Council said from a sunny and humid Havana during a Thursday, June 22, conference call with reporters. President Harold ...

EXCERPT: “The sunset over downtown Minneapolis is gorgeous. Teddy Bekele’s stepped outside on his balcony for a moment. It’s already been a full day and it’s not over yet. Inside his home, old family photos and mementos are scattered across the living room table. Many show memories from his early childhood growing up on a farm ...