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Monte Benz is from Steele, N.D., but picked up his vacuum-packed vegetable meal package business and moved it to Long Prairie, Minn., a few years ago after running into labor problems. Today, the revived business has expanded greatly and still gets onions from Steele, where he’s put up a new storage building. It still gets potatoes from the northern Red River Valley. It has expanded in part due to food consumption patterns during COVID-19.

Veteran agriculturalists probably remember former ag secretaries Mike Espy, Dan Glickman and Ann Veneman, as well as former chief ag negotiator Darci Vetter. During a recent webinar, the four shared their thoughts on President-elect Joe Biden's future agricultural policies.

Mike Suess operated Suess Auction and Implement for 36 years with his wife of 50 years.

A Seattle, Wash., employee of a South Dakota custom combining company pleads guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol in a rare combine crash, and pays a $750 fine, after flipping a combine into a ditch on Aug. 31, 2020, near Berthold, N.D., in Ward County.

In November 2018, on the same day the North Dakota Public Service Commission was issuing a cease and desist order for roving grain trader Hunter Hanson and his companies, Mikkel Pates interviewed Hanson for about half an hour at the Forum buildin...

The Northern Ag Expo, a trade show and educational event, comes to the Fargodome on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, after being cancelled due to COVID-19 a year ago. Gary Knutson, 78, executive director of the North Dakota Agricultural Association, which organizes the event, is retiring after holding that post since 1991. Association will shift to Stu Letcher, 54, who also is executive vice president of the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association.

Authorities working on 'Irish Traveller' construction scams. Man urges getting bids in writing, not accepting same-day deals.

The director of the Grand Farm research and ag innovation project in the Fargo, N.D., and Minnesota area testifies about potential federal partnerships in an April 29, 2021, U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C. Among other things, the organization is working on meeting labor shortages in the sugarbeet industry by researching autonomous truck concepts.

Farmer Paul R. Anderson of Coleharbor, North Dakota, is jumping back into his “.007 Project,” — irrigating from the Garrison Diversion Project’s McClusky Canal. Anderson is convinced that an investment into a variable-rate system is wise considering a multi-year drought trend and will help his family in future generations.

Exhibitors at the annual show will be spaced out more, and attendees are asked to stay home if they aren't feeling well.