June 3, 2022

‘It’s pretty devastating’: Turkey farmer hopes worst is over after avian flu loss

During the last avian flu outbreak seven years ago, the turkey farms Matt Herdering's family owns managed to escape unscathed. This time around, they weren't […]
June 3, 2022

Canceled flights, lighter schedules caused by takeoff in demand to travel

If you decided to fly someplace for the Memorial Day holiday, it probably was not fun. Six-thousand global flights were canceled starting Friday with hundreds […]
June 2, 2022

Food Network Star Molly Yeh’s New Restaurant Is Coming to East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Molly Yeh in her Grand Forks kitchen. | Food Network/Girl Meets Farm Bernie’s will highlight Scandinavian cuisine, Midwest traditions, and local ingredients inside an old […]
June 2, 2022

Demand at food banks is way up again. But inflation makes it harder to meet the need

A woman loads her car at a food pantry in Norfolk, Virginia. Inflation sent food prices soaring just as emergency pandemic support for many people […]
June 1, 2022

Twin Cities LGBTQ-Owned Restaurants To Try This Pride Month and All Year

Lunch at Wise Acre Eatery. | Wise Acre Eatery Classic diner fare, refined tasting menus, and farm-to-table dining June 1 marks the beginning of Pride […]
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 […]