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The problems of Minnesota family farms

The problems of Minnesota family farms

by Petya Mihova | Apr 14, 2022 | Agriculture, Agriculture and Rural Issues

“Income taxes are the worst,” said Michael Landuyt, who, with his father George Landuyt, runs Landuyt Land and Livestock, their family farm operation in Walnut Grove, Minn., started in 1928. Currently, they produce corn, soybeans and hay, and have a cattle feedlot....
Minnesota farmers had a good year. Will it last?

Minnesota farmers had a good year. Will it last?

by Grace Tsoi | Apr 12, 2022 | Agriculture and Rural Issues, Policy, Politics

The year 2022 looks set to be another bumper year for Minnesota farmers, but the Ukraine crisis and Avian flu could spell trouble down the line. “I am feeling good about the 2022 crop year,” said Michael Landuyt, the fourth-generation owner of Landuyt Land and...

How Local Breweries connect our communities and tell our stories

by Nelly Kalu | Apr 10, 2022 | Agriculture and Rural Issues, WPI Activities

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, my parents played a popular song by South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Umqombothi to celebrate a special occasion or just another Saturday evening entertaining friends with palm wine and bush meat. Umqombothi is a locally brewed...
It takes an app and a family to run a farm

It takes an app and a family to run a farm

by Sorana Stanescu | Sep 9, 2019 | Agriculture, Agriculture and Rural Issues, Global Business, Sustainability

As we spent a couple of days in rural southern Minnesota, the scale and size of what Minnesotans call “an average family farm” surprised me: 180 dairy cattle or 500-acres. In my home country Romania, that is officially considered a large farm. That is a large farm...
Minnesota farms battle with record-low profitability

Minnesota farms battle with record-low profitability

by Saara Koho | Sep 8, 2019 | Agriculture and Rural Issues, Global Business

It’s a tough time to be a farmer. Last year Minnesota farms earned a median net income of $26,055, down 8%  from the previous year. It was the lowest median farm income in the past 23 years of data tracked by the University of Minnesota. “Agriculture is a very...
Princess Kay and the Butter Queens

Princess Kay and the Butter Queens

by Kate Bartlett | Sep 6, 2019 | Agriculture and Rural Issues

“I’ve always loved princesses,” says Amy Kyllo, a blonde teenager from Minnesota who has just won a beauty pageant – with a difference. Kyllo was named 2019’s “Princess Kay of the Milky Way” at the Minnesota State Fair, a title given every year to a dairy...

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