WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Sen. John Hoeven is asking the Ag Secretary to prioritize fully staffing Farm Service Agency field offices. He is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee. Hoeven says it’s important to have staff in place as the USDA application process for weather-based disaster aid will begin in the coming weeks. He thanked Secretary Brooke Rollins for…
WEST FARGO — A new collaboration between NDSU and Bonanzaville is opening up this weekend with three new permanent exhibits, and its creators want to hear from you. NDSU’s Museum Studies students created two of them from artifacts they found within Bonanzaville’s archival collection. They cover Fargo’s frontier origins and the history of Bonanza farms in the region. It’s been…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The Bobcat plant in Gwinner, North Dakota will shut down production for a week over the Memorial Day holiday. The company says the scheduled downtime at certain North American factories is designed to align production with anticipated market projections. Doosan Bobcat has its North American headquarters in West Fargo. In November of 2023, Bobcat confirmed…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — In her first two and a half months since being in office, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins took part in an Agriculture tour. Her first stop took place in the heart of the Red River Valley at NDSU for a roundtable with AG producers and farmers. “We’re talking almost daily about all of this, so you…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is coming to North Dakota to hear directly from producers. Rollins will participate in a roundtable discussion at NDSU on Tuesday morning. She was invited by Sen. John Hoeven who serves as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee. Hoeven says they will talk with local agriculture producers, commodity groups, ag researchers…
Neal Pulskamp, right, and Cindy Pulkskamp, listen to a presentation on Riverview Dairy in Hillsboro, N.D., on April 3, 2025. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)HERBERG, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor)— Anyone with concerns about handling the manure from 25,000 cows or other issues associated with what could become North Dakota’s largest dairy are now able to submit comments to the state. The…
MOORHEAD — CSA season is here, and Farm in the Dell wants you to get in on the action. The Farm’s been expanding its offerings ever since it opened in 2014, and it’s accepting subscriptions for the 2025 growing season now. When you buy a share in advance, they’ll send you a curated box of their freshly harvested produce each…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Minnesota’s DFL lawmakers are out on a tour of Greater Minnesota’s cities and they’re hearing a lot of feedback from constituents about the recent Trump administration actions and their worries about their effects on the future of the region. DFL Senate leader Erin Murphy is on that tour, and she joined the Morning Show to talk…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Roundup, a widely used herbicide popular with farmers who plant corn, soybeans, and sugar beets may soon be disappearing from shelves. As the company, Bayer, says they may no longer be making the product in the coming months. “The company continues to get taken to court over frivolous lawsuits. They have to continue to pay and…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota legislators have been wrestling with a pesticide bill backed by agricultural groups that would make it harder for people to win cancer liability lawsuits against the farm chemical industry. House Bill 1318 would shield the maker of Roundup and other farm chemical manufacturers from lawsuits from people who say they were not adequately…
