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• Wet weather slows soybean harvest
  Wet weather conditions are making it hard for Minnesota farmers to have a good harvest this year.November 4, 2009
• Chinese officials to visit Minnesota to observe food safety efforts
  A group of government, industry and academic leaders from China will visit Minnesota this week as part of a trip designed to help them examine food safety efforts.November 4, 2009
• Organizations receive federal aid to help first-time farmers
  Two Minnesota-based organizations have received federal grants to help beginning farmers and ranchers.November 3, 2009
• Agri-Growth Council to discuss sustainability
  Leaders in Minnesota agriculture and agribusiness will make sustainability the focus of an annual meeting on Tuesday in Minneapolis.November 3, 2009
• China lifts ban on U.S. pork imports
  China has agreed to lift its ban on pork imports from the United States, according to a statement released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.October 29, 2009
• Livestock farmers have last chance to get waivers
  A voluntary program to help livestock farmers comply with environmental regulations ends next year and those who haven't made the changes yet have until the end of the week to apply for a waiver. Otherwise, the agreement commits farmers to make improvements by the end of next year.October 29, 2009
• Authorities seize cows from Stearns County farm
  Authorities in central Minnesota have seized 47 cows from a dairy farm after they found the animals were living in poor conditions.October 28, 2009
• Low milk prices have dairy farmers killing cows
  A milk glut has dairy farmers across the U.S. killing hundreds of thousands of cows to try to reduce the milk supply and boost prices.October 27, 2009
• Wet fall could slow good harvest in central Minn.
  If they can just get into the fields, central Minnesota farmers still anticipate strong corn and soybean yields for the year.October 24, 2009
• SBA disaster loans available in Minnesota
  The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available in some eastern Minnesota counties because of the drought that began earlier this year.October 22, 2009
• Minnesota couple nurtures endangered farm animals
  Our quest to protect endangered animals can take us to some very wild places. In this case it leads to a place very tame: A small farm in Lac qui Parle County.October 10, 2009
• Corn crop harvest increased by warm weather
  Warm September weather helped increase the size of the Minnesota corn crop and the U.S. Agriculture Department says state farmers should harvest more than 1.2 billion bushels.October 9, 2009
• USDA predicts record corn, soybean harvest
  A record corn and soybean harvest will do little to help farmers already struggling with low prices and high production costs, a farm economist said Friday after the latest crop projections were released.October 9, 2009
• Obama to sign bill to help U.S. dairy farmers
  President Obama is expected to sign an agriculture appropriations bill which includes help for hard pressed dairy farmers.October 8, 2009
• USDA designates 12 counties as disaster areas
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 12 counties in northern and northwestern Minnesota as agricultural disaster areas.October 8, 2009

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