Monthly Archives: January 2012

Doug Goehring, North Dakota’s agriculture commissioner, has been especially active in helping farmers cope with new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, and in helping to make those regulations acceptible to farmers. It appears he’s gotten some good news about … Continue reading →

Billing a conference as “exclusive, highly competitive” for FFA collegiate members is sure to bring out competitors for something new called a “New Century Farm Conference,” July 8-14 in Johnstown, Iowa, headquarters of Pioneer Hi-Bred (DuPont). This one is for … Continue reading →

Conrad Working Group Focuses on Potential Changes to National Ag Policy Senator Unveils Proposal to Provide a New Form of Revenue Assistance to Farmers   Bismarck – Senator Kent Conrad today convened members of his North Dakota Agriculture Advisory Committee … Continue reading →

The Associated Press in St. Paul, Minn., quotes the Minneapolis Star Tribune in saying the state will “take the lead” in testing a federal program that encourages farmers to reduce agricultural pollution. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Environmental Protection Agency … Continue reading →

Eric J. Conn, a Washington, D.C., lawyer with the Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., firm, issurrounded by directors of the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association at the group’s 100th anniversary annual meeting in Fargo, after speaking there about stepped-up Occupational … Continue reading →

Sreekala Bajwa, who last November was named to chair North Dakota State University’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, got a little northern exposure on Jan. 16 at the first day of the Precision Agriculture conference in Jamestown, N.D., at … Continue reading →

It’s good to see AGVISE expanding in Northwood, N.D., and at Benson, Minn. I was happy to see the company’s commitment to its community after the big tornado a few years ago, and have been watching the company since the … Continue reading →

At a time when farm groups are often complaining about the Environmental Protection Agency and its impact and costs on their farm operations, here is a hint about some kind of significant announcement. I’m not sure what it is.   … Continue reading →

With farm land values at record highs, farmers have been going to extraordinary lengths to press more land into production. Here is a pile boulders removed from a 40-acre field near Streeter, N.D., this summer, and hauled a mile to … Continue reading →

  Weed issues are becoming a bigger concern, with a difficult spring control season, with flood seed movement and with the influx of oil patch equipment in western North Dakota. Weed control officers are meeting in Mandan, and one of … Continue reading →