Monthly Archives: September 2011

Has NDSU’s Thompson come up with big process potato variety?

Dr. Asunta “Susie” Thompson, in a file picture from a new greenhouse in August 2010.   Has the North Dakota State University potato breeding program produced a game-changing  winner? Carl Hoverson thinks so. He’s the Larimore, N.D., farmer who grows … Continue reading

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Agweek’s image of Offutt in the Rough Rider Award portrait

Congratulations — of course – to Ronald D. Offutt, named with the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award from North Dakota. Offutt received the award on Thursday, Sept. 15, in Fargo, at a Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce meeting. Offutt is … Continue reading

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Prinsco to open field tile drainage making plant in Fargo-Moorhead by Jan. 2012

I was talking to Kent Rodelius, ag saqles manager for Prinsco, a manufacturer of field tile drainage pipe, at the Big Iron show on Tuesday, Sept. 13. I asked if his company had any plans to open a manufacturing plant … Continue reading

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NDSU’s flax promoter — Dr. Jack Carter dies, Sept. 11

Dr. Jack Carter, the long-time promoter/pioneer of new, healthful uses for flax, and long-time administrator in the North Dakota State University plant sciences departments, died on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, NDSU says. Carter was an energetic mind and was a thoughtful … Continue reading

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Small corn ears, soybeans on the edge in SW Minnesota

Paul Lund, Cottonwood, Minn., farmer. Corn on the Paul Lund farm will probably run 150 bushels an acre, instead of the 200 he usually gets. Small ears, he says. Paul Lundraises corn and soybeans, and some alfalfa on 800 acres … Continue reading

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