Crop Expert Says Lack of Rain, Not Heat is the Real Crops Threat
Nathan Drewitz says the biggest problem is the lack of rain over the past 10 days.
The bigger concern right now is how dry it s been. We haven t had rain here, in you know, in a week-and-a-half or so now. We really need some rainfall and that s what we re waiting on.
Drewitz says it s a mixed bag for farmers right now. Some areas of eastern Benton County have had rain more recently, but if you go further west, it s been dry.
Irrigation can only do so much through an extended dry spell according to Drewitz and some corn may start pineappleing . He says that s where the leaves curl up into themselves making it look like tiny pineapples.
Soup kitchen fridge, freezer addition to serve county food needs
The new addition at Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen in Brainerd will serve as a hub for various food shelves in Crow Wing County. 4:00 am, May 16, 2021 ×
Shannon Mills (left), executive director of Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen, sorts through food with with Doris Mezzenga, Crosslake Food Shelf; Carolyn McQueen, University of Minnesota Extension; and Kalsey Stults, Crow Wing Energized, Monday, May 10, 2021. The crew works in the soup kitchen s new refrigerator extension, which will serve various food shelves throughout the county. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
A new walk-in refrigerator and freezer addition at Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen in Brainerd will serve as a storage hub for food shelves throughout Crow Wing County.
Local chambers are asking the Minnesota legislature to make changes to Minnesota s tax code so it conforms to the federal law, in order to save small Minnesota businesses money in taxes. Minnesota s legislature, if it does nothing, will end up leaving Minnesota businesses on the hook for the taxes on the PPP forgivable loans they received earlier in the year.
The University of Minnesota Extension Office wrote about this issue back in December, I ve included a portion of that article written by Rob Holcomb and Megan Roberts, as to how we got into the position of PPP being taxable in Minnesota and not federally.
The Hubbard County Board set the final levy at $15,450,00, the same as last year. 10:10 am, Dec. 19, 2020
At Tuesday’s meeting, Hubbard County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Rave recommended a zero percent increase in the payable 2021 levy.
The Hubbard County Board set the final levy at $15,450,00, the same as last year. The motion passed unanimously.
The levy breaks down as follows: The general fund levy is $8,880,759. The road and bridge levy, at $3,100,000, and the social services levy, at $2,350,000, are both unchanged from last year. Debt levies include $632,835 for the county correctional facility bond and another $273,801 in general obligation bonds. The regional library levy is set at $212,605.
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