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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...