Minnesota farmers had a good year. Will it last?
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
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
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
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
“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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