Bill Gordon’s big moment has finally arrived. Fifteen years after he became a state director in his home state of Minnesota, Nobles County farmer Bill Gordon was elevated to president of the American Soybean Association (ASA) Thursday during the organization’s December…
December 12, 2019
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced an agreement this week on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), aka NAFTA 2.0. “We are pleased to see a bipartisan agreement on USMCA, which is a vital…
December 11, 2019
This sponsored content was written by 40 Square Cooperative Solutions 40 Square Cooperative Solutions, an independent Minnesota agricultural health plan co-op providing health plans to farm families, agribusinesses, and their employees access to self-funded health insurance options, is ramping up…
December 5, 2019
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week changes to crop insurance for coarse grains in 2020. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) made changes to the policy, which take effect in 2020. The changes allow producers more flexibility to…
December 3, 2019
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced Tuesday a state-specific restriction for the use of the herbicide dicamba in Minnesota for the 2020 growing season. Dicamba used on dicamba-tolerant soybeans will have a cut-off use date of June 20, 2020.…
November 26, 2019
Gov. Tim Walz, chair of the National Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan have appointed Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) Director Bob Worth to the Governor’s Council on Biofuels. Walz recently established the Governor’s Council on Biofuels by…
November 22, 2019
Ryan Mackenthun is tired of the negativity surrounding agriculture in the media. “There’s such a misconception out there by people who aren’t in agriculture,” says Mackenthun, a Brownton farmer. “All the news stories out there, they’re all negative. People…
November 21, 2019
