WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A big change is coming to the next Big Iron show in West Fargo. It is expanding to include construction and that means it’s time for a new name. Big Iron Farm and Construction Show is planned for September 10-12 at Red River Valley Fairgrounds. Emily Grunewald, Chief Agricultural Officer of the Red River Valley…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Contract negotiations are described by a union leader as “intense” as the union representing production workers at the CNH Manufacturing Plant in Fargo continue. The contract, covering about 800 hourly employees, expires on Sunday. A union representative says Local 2525 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is seeking higher pay, and health care…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A new NDSU agricultural research lab is in the process of being constructed to bolster the efforts in the field for students. It will be called Bolley Agricultural Laboratory after Henry Bolley, the state seed commissioner from 1909 to 1929 and a pioneering plant pathologist. This lab will house numerous research programs that include plant breeding,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Red Lake Nation’s Red Lake, Inc. will be participating in a trade mission to New Delhi, India at the end of the month. Red Lake is one of nearly four dozen businesses and organizations that will join USDA Under Secretary Alexis Taylor on the mission. They will be the only representative from a Native or Tribal…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A crop insurance fraud case comes to an end with the sentence of a potato farmer in U.S. District Court in Fargo. 59-year-old Darren Tronson of Buxton, North Dakota was sentenced to one year of probation for concealing a material fact in a government case. It was the final pending case against Tronson and his potato…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota State University is getting a new agriculture policy research center. Two million dollars for the center was included in the 2024 Agriculture Appropriations Bill which passed the Senate on Friday by a vote of 72 to 22. It previously passed in the House. It will help address farm and agribusiness challenges through in-depth policy…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota has won up to $160 million in federal funding to support innovation, jobs and economic growth in Ag-Tech. The winning team was led by NDSU and four other partners of the FARMS Engine Coalition. The grant starts as a two-year award of 15-million dollars from the U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines Program….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO/AP) — Bird flu is back at turkey farms in Minnesota, South Dakota and Utah. That is raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow. The outbreak in Minnesota is at a commercial turkey flock of 140,000 birds in Meeker County. The outbreak in South Dakota was confirmed in a south-central county in a flock of around 47,000 turkeys….
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The Farm in the Dell has been around since 2012 in Moorhead, giving those with disabilities an opportunity to learn and grow in a farming environment. “We teach them how to use tools and how to grow produce,” said Anna Sather, the executive director of the farm. “They can learn those skills if they want a…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — It’s an upper Midwest tradition: thousands of farmers and ranchers gather for the 43rd annual Big Iron Farm Show in West Fargo. “Well, you can get a lot of deals on things. There’s a lot of new things to look at. We found a lot of new things we never knew that were here…
