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Monthly Archives: August 2011
NDSU, Ellingson will tile Big Iron’s field demo before our eyes
Will YOU be among the Big Iron will have aan estimated 80,000 show-goers this year? (I think I remember there are only 35,000 or so commercial farmers in North Dakota.) The event will run Sept. 13-15 at the Red River … Continue reading
N.D. Department of Agriculture starts harvest hotline
North Dakota Department of Agriculture has opened its free harvest hotline: 701-328-4997, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. Call if you need combining or are an independent combiner looking for work.
Crystal/union talks move into mid-afternoon in Fargo.
Negotiators were keeping mum about the results of their first day of negotiations at the Best Western Doublewood Inn in Fargo on Thursday, Aug. 25. Here, union negotiation team members take a smoke break mid-afternoon, before re-entering a conference room … Continue reading
Talks have resumed between Crystal, union at Fargo Doublewood, Agweek learns
Talks between federal mediators and American Crystal Sugar Co. and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union are occurring at the Best Western Doublewood Inn in Fargo, Agweek has learned. John Riskey, president of a local of the … Continue reading
Details about prevent-plant in North Dakota — are late-planters happy?
Statwide prevent-plant it’s 5.6 million acres as of Aug. 20, down from nearly 6.3 million announced in mid-June. Details out in September. Durum – 785,000 planted , 1.1 million PP Hard red spring wheat — 5.5 million, 1.8 million PP Corn — 2 million … Continue reading
Peterson says Crystal talks good news, union may be adjusting language
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., a champion of the sugar industry as ranking member on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, said it is good news that the two sides are planning to meet. He had not contacted the Federal Mediation … Continue reading
Crystal’s board meeting moved to Moorhead, not clear what motivated talks
Sources say that while picketers marched outside of the Alerus Center in Grand Forks on Wednesday, for what they expected was a Crystal board meeting, the meeting had been moved to Moorhead, Minn. Officials of the company weren’t immediately available … Continue reading
Crystal, union to talk on Thursday
Glenn Tarkowski, director of mediation services for the Upper Midwest Region, says a meeting has been scheduled for Thursday between American Crystal Sugar Co. and the union that represents some 1,300 workers. Jeanne Frank of Minneapolis is the mediator who will … Continue reading
RRV coops set prepile
American Crystal Sugar to start prepile harvest Sept. 6, factories Sept. 8. Minn-Dak Farmers on Sept. 23, lifting Sept. 21-22.
