A broad-based coalition of respected Minnesota farmer organizations, including the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA), filed a request in April 2025 to intervene in Ramsey County District Court litigation filed in late January by the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy,…
April 16, 2025
During the 2024 legislative session, Minnesota lawmakers passed a supplemental bill in the second year of the biennium that will modify the definition of the state’s public waters. The bill also appropriated $8 million to the Department of Natural Resources…
October 16, 2024
What’s old is new again at the Port of Duluth. “You don’t see elevators like this anymore,” Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA), said during a look inside the port’s Hansen-Mueller Terminal A. “This facility is…
August 15, 2024
Numbers don’t lie. They also tell a story. Farmers enrolled in the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP) have higher profits than non-certified farms, according to five years of data from the Minnesota State Agricultural Centers of Excellence. The…
May 29, 2024
Although he’d already adopted best management practices on his Lake Benton family farm, Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) President Bob Worth hadn’t seriously considered joining the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP) since it launched in 2016. “I had…
August 24, 2023
Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) President Bob Worth is the latest farmer to enroll in the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP). On Aug. 22 at his family farm in Lake Benton, Worth will welcome Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen,…
August 15, 2023
In late December 2022, The Waterborne Commerce Statistic Center approved the Northern Gran Belt Ports (NGBP) (Wisconsin and Minnesota) application to be federally recognized as a Port Statistical Area. The NGBP approval to be listed as a U.S. Principal Port…
January 5, 2023
The Great Lakes Seaway Partnership announced the tonnage report for traffic through the St. Lawrence System through September 2022. The numbers show that the Seaway System continues to provide a reliable globalshipping route for agricultural products. “September’s tonnage report re-affirms…
October 20, 2022