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Current Edition Stories

Cover story: Voracious electrical appetite catching up to Minnesotans

Biomass replacing natural gas at Benson ethanol plant

Ashby opens new USDA inspected poultry processing plant

Calendar of Events

Straddle duals make a tough job manageable

The Land Funpage: June 26/July 3, 2009

Back Roads: Melting pot

From the Fields: Recent rains add to spring woes

From the Fields: Beets ahead, beans behind schedule

Land Minds: Read my lips — Spend less

You want funny? No laughing matter this early in summer

Farm and Food File: All Star season stirs boyhood baseball memories

Grain Outlook: Downward spike eerily familiar

Grain Outlook: Corn breaks hard to downside

Livestock Angles: June unkind to livestock prices

Grain Angles: Keep a wider view on markets

Cookbook Corner: Simple summer meals that will tempt the taste buds

The Back Porch: Grace helps when living with loved one’s differences

Ace of Spades: Choose varieties for floral colors all summer long

Minnesota Festivals '09

Cover story: "Starting over at 60 isn't for sissies"

Wykoff food co-op fills the town grocery void

Aerial applicators now hitting the ‘bull’s eye’

From the Fields: Change on the farm; welcomed rain

Features

Back Roads | Crossword

Cover story: Voracious electrical appetite catching up to Minnesotans
Anyone who flips a light switch to start their day should be concerned. “We’re running out of juice," said Mark Glaess, general manager of the Minnesota Rural Electric Association....more>>

• Biomass replacing natural gas at Benson ethanol plant
• Ashby opens new USDA inspected poultry processing plant

Opinion

Land Minds | Letters to the Editor | Commentary | Farm & Food File

Land Minds: Read my lips — Spend less
Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Kelliher invited Minnesotans to share ideas on the $4.8 billion budget deficit the Legislature was facing. My message to her had just three suggestions: Spend less, spend less, spend less....more>>

• You want funny? No laughing matter this early in summer
• Farm and Food File: All Star season stirs boyhood baseball memories

Home & Afield

Cookbook Corner: Simple summer meals that will tempt the taste buds
This book is a quality gem, full of everything good, and maybe the only cookbook some people will ever need....more>>

• The Back Porch: Grace helps when living with loved one’s differences
• Ace of Spades: Choose varieties for floral colors all summer long

Money/Markets

Grain Outlook: Downward spike eerily familiar
Corn began the week with a sharp downward spike that was eerily similar to the previous week....more>>

• Grain Outlook: Corn breaks hard to downside
• Livestock Angles: June unkind to livestock prices

The Land Blog

Blog: Did you enjoy summer?
Temperatures averaged 54.8 degrees, which is a whopping 11 degrees below normal. We set records three days in a row for lowest maximum air temperatures beginning with a 50 degree high on the June 7 and continuing through June 9 with a 56 degree high. Growing degree units totaled only 45.5 which is less than half of what we should expect this week.
...more>>

• Blog: Isn't it a tad early for annointment?
• Blog: Some corn poking through, some not

Nuts & Bolts

Water Is Us | H1N1 Influenza

Company recalls various products due to potential salmonella contamination
Plainview Milk Products Cooperative of Plainview is voluntarily recalling instant nonfat dried milk, whey protein, fruit stabilizers and gums (thickening agents) that it has manufactured over the past two years, because they might be contaminated with salmonella. ...more>>

• Water Is Us: June 24, 2009
• Hugoson, Northey call on USDA secretary to help struggling pork producers

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