From childhood chores to running the operation himself, Ron Obermoller, a District 7 representative for Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC), has deep roots in agriculture. A fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer from Nobles County, Obermoller’s agricultural interests are…
February 20, 2018
Kris Folland, an MSR&PC director from Kittson County, contacted me last growing season with a few problem weeds found in soybean fields in his native northwest Minnesota. The common trait, glyphosate (Roundup) was not controlling the problem. For each, the…
February 15, 2018
California is the nation's largest biodiesel market, consuming about a quarter of the biodiesel used in the United States. But that distinction didn't happen overnight, Tom Verry, director of outreach and development for the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), told a group…
February 8, 2018