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Bald eagle population continues to grow in Minnesota DNR Reports On June 20, 1782, the founding fathers of the United States of America selected the bald eagle as the national bird. Symbolic of the country itself, the bald eagle has since gone through some trying times. It has been poisoned, trappe... Written By: news@perhamfocus.com | × A bald eagle stands over a racoon carcass as the American icon dines on some road kill Tuesday morning east of New York Mills on U.S. Highway 10...

Farm, Garden & Outdoors calendar published April 10, 2021 Events and classes scheduled in the outdoors, gardening and farming. Submit your event at news@wctrib.com by noon on Tuesday. Written By: Donna Middleton | × Farming Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program: April 12-30 sign-up period. Applications can be started sooner and landowners are encouraged to do so. It is a voluntary state-federal program designed to improve water quality and habitat with a goal to ...

Farm, Garden & Outdoors calendar published April 3, 2021 Events and classes scheduled in the outdoors, gardening and farming. Submit your event at news@wctrib.com by noon on Tuesday. Written By: Donna Middleton | × Farming 2021 wetland restoration: The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources has announced a conservation easement sign-up period through April 7. The goal is to generate wetland credits in specific Wetland Bank Service Areas throughout the state for...

[Listen] AM Minnesota Growing Industrial Hemp In Minnesota Assistant Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture Whitney Place was my guest on todays AM Minnesota Program. It had been around a year since I last talked with Whitney about growing Industrial Hemp in Minnesota. We have seen a significant increase in acres of Industrial Hemp grown in Minnesota over the last 5 years. We have also seen the  number of processors increase in Minnesota too. That many times is the piece of the puzzle that is m...

Listen to Joe Armstrong DVM U of M Extension Cattle Production Systems discuss Beef Quality Assurance and the Minnesota Beef Producer Survey.

The annual Rice and Steele County Crops Days will NOT be virtual, but instead on three AM Minnesota Programs.

Thank you to U of M Extension Educator in Rice and Steele County Claire LaCanne for setting up todays AM Minnesota Program with Megan Roberts Farm Business Management Specialist with the U of M Extension office. The topic was signing up for the Farm Bill, should yo choose Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC?) Remember, the previous Farm Bill you made your choice and could not change it for the remainder of the 5 year Bill. Under the current Farm Bill you must signup eac...

AM Minnesota Grain Marketing Specialist Ed Usset Be sure to listen to Tuesdays AM Minnesota Program with Ed Usset who is a Grain Marketing Specialist with the University of Minnesotas Center for Farm Financial Management. We were talking about many farmers with "sellers remorse" having sold too much grain too early and missed out on much of this big rally. Ed said later on last summer he predicted that corn and beans would rally into fall. He put it in a column that were in a couple of differen...

Claire LaCanne Extension Educator in Rice and Steele County and Heidi Roop PhD the new Climatologist at the U of M were on KDHL's AM Minnesota Program Tuesday.

Listen to KDHL's special hour long AM Minnesota Program Tuesday, Jerry's Top Five AG Stories For 2020.