Corn Harvest: A farmer harvests corn near Mapleton, ND at the end of the 2024 growing season. Photo Sabrina Halvorson.BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota News Cooperative) — For farmers across North Dakota, alarm bells are ringing and could get louder following tariffs imposed on Canada and the potential for increased tariffs on China in the coming weeks. On July 31, the…
A drone flies over a farm field as part of a Grand Farm project to use drones to scout for weeds. A North Dakota Department of Agriculture grant will help continue the work. (Courtesy of Grand Farm)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A state-funded program will use drones and artificial intelligence to scout for noxious weeds in five North Dakota…
FARGO — We just wrapped up National Moth Week, and if you haven’t gotten involved by now in a program that could improve the fate of these poorly understood little pollinators, there’s still a chance to help. Entomologists say their new scientific findings indicate moths are doing a lot of the heavy lifting in pollination the way butterflies and bees…
WILKIN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a man trapped in a grain bin near Campbell, Minnesota on Monday. They received a 911 call around 12:15 p.m. that the man had been stuck for about 30 minutes before calling for help. They arrived to find the man submerged in corn up to his…
MINNEAPOLIS – Country star Kenny Chesney has been added to the lineup at the 40th Farm Aid concert at the University of Minnesota. Organizers say Chesney, Wynonna Judd, and Steve Earle are joining the performers on September 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium. The lineup also features Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Billy Strings, Margo Price, Duluth’s Trampled…
A drone flies over a farm field as part of a Grand Farm project to use drones to scout for weeds. A North Dakota Department of Agriculture grant will help continue the work. (Courtesy of Grand Farm)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A state-funded program will use drones and artificial intelligence to scout for noxious weeds in five North Dakota…
Wheat stands in a field in Richland County, North Dakota, on July 10, 2025. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)FARGO (North Dakota Monitor) — An annual industry tour of the wheat crop in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota projects lower yields than a year ago but an overall good quality crop. The Wheat Quality Council tour projects an average yield of 49…
Chad Wendel uses bags to store corn after it has been dried in his grain-handling facility that stands in the background. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)NORTH DAKOTA (North Dakota Monitor) — When June storms demolished three grain bins that Dean Bjornson had planned to use to store much of this year’s crop, his reaction was to bag it instead He ordered…
WHEATLAND, N.D. (KVRR) – It was a field day – literally – at Grand Farms Innovation Campus in Wheatland on July 16. The agriculture company Pivot Bio unveiled Proven G3, which are gene-edited-nitrogen-fixing microbes. That may sound complicated – and it is – but the way it is beneficial to crops is relatively simple. Naturally occurring microbes in the soil…
FARGO — Bankers who work in agricultural finance say President Trump’s tariffs are costing him major support among farmers in what used to be solidly Trump country. That’s the word ahead of the annual AgViews Live seminar by Bell Bank. Uncertainty over the future of federal farm programs and tariffs on some trade items, as well as whether tariff trouble…
