June 1, 2022

Biden to meet with baby formula makers on easing shortage

President Joe Biden is set to meet with infant formula manufacturers as his administration works to ease nationwide shortages by importing foreign supplies and using the Defense Production Act to speed […]
June 1, 2022

Hydroponics: The latest fad or the future?

What if you could grow all of the produce you needed in your own home year-round? That's the future hydroponics advocates are hoping to make […]
June 1, 2022

How Minnesota’s farmers handle extreme weather, inflation and supply chain woes

Heavy rain and high winds have caused trouble for many Minnesota farmers this spring. And that’s just the latest challenge. Following last year’s historic drought, […]
May 30, 2022

Des Moines tries cooperation to reduce farm runoff

A Des Moines utility has for years engaged in a bitter struggle to clean up drinking water that comes from rivers teeming with agricultural pollutants, filing lawsuits, […]
May 30, 2022

Farm vehicles now weigh almost as much as heaviest dinosaurs – here’s why that’s a problem

By Jess Davies and John Quinton via the Conversation What does a modern combine harvester and a Diplodocus have in common? One answer, it seems, may be […]
May 28, 2022

The astronomical price of diesel is making everything more expensive

Heavy haul trucker Eric Jammer stands in front of his truck. Samantha Kraulik/Anderson Trucking Service You know the commercial that says America runs on a […]
May 26, 2022

15 Essential Restaurants in Northeast Minneapolis

Centro in Northeast. | Kevin Kramer / Eater Twin Cities Savory pork laab, fish and chips, and orange blossom custard in the arts-industrial neighborhood A […]
May 26, 2022

Women who are denied abortions risk falling deeper into poverty. So do their kids

Abortion-rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court last December as it heard a case that could strike down the constitutional right to abortion. […]
May 26, 2022

Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data

Federal regulators on Wednesday announced a settlement with Twitter over the use of user privacy. Matt Rourke/AP Updated May 25, 2022 at 9:30 PM ET […]
May 26, 2022

Publisher plans to give his small town paper free to the right successor

Lee Zion wants to join the more than 7,000 other Americans to help the Ukrainian people overseas. He is willing to dig trenches, teach school […]