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Agriculturalists rally behind their team as Montana State University and North Dakota State University go head-to-head in Frisco, Texas.

Lynne Reeck, owner and operator of Singing Hills Dairy, has been looking to transition off her farmland since 2018. Now thanks to a partnership between Renewing the Countryside and American Farmland Trust, a successful transition could be in the near future.

Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at 2022 national American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Atlanta and said that USDA is on the cusp of providing significant help to farmers who want to access to markets wanting climate-smart ag practices.

AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management talk about the big moves for the soybean market, a positive week for corn, a not-so-positive week for wheat, and struggles for livestock.

"We were instructed to keep her clean and dry and calm, all states of being that Cocoa doesn't usually enjoy."

The Hall family partnership of Hoople, North Dakota, on Oct. 25, 2021, put in place a multi-million-dollar optical grading system plant that uses cameras to evaluate potatoes individually and sort them into lanes. The Halls’ Spectrim can sort up to 1,700 potatoes a minute or around 120,000 per hour.

Bayer, Bushel and Amazon Web Services have unveiled their collaboration, Project Carbonview.

Lake Region Livestock of Devils Lake, North Dakota, has been sold to employee, Chris Plummer, of Langdon, North Dakota. The previous owners, Jim and Mary Ziegler, had owned the barn for 33 years, and will help with the transition.

The Friday sessions, which will be presented by Peter Gag, North Dakota Forest Service health manager, and Liz Smith, NDFS stewardship manager, will be 15 minutes long, and there will be 15 minutes of time available afterward for questions and/or a discussion.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers point to worries about their funding source if they can’t control income from royalties, if the federal government gets too aggressive in disrupting research deals and drug pricing.