agriculture

Minimum-security prison in northeast Minnesota unveils new $2 million meat processing plant

Northeastern Regional Corrections Center has a new $2 million meat processing plant on site.

Residents can get certification in meat processing — a needed skill outside of prison.

Owatonna's Bushel Boy adds cucumbers to its basket of produce grown year-round

A Bushel Boy employee works the first cucumber harvest at a greenhouse in Owatonna, Minn., on Friday.

The company, known best for its tomatoes, recently harvested its first cukes.

What exactly is hemp-derived THC? And how is it different from marijuana?

A flowering hemp plant at Carpe Diem’s 80-acre farm in Elk River, Minn., ready for harvest in September.

Your guide to demystifying all things cannabis in Minnesota.

Seeds of a food revolution grow on the White Earth Indian Reservation

Robert Shimek, an extension staffer with the White Earth Tribal and Community College, toured a 1-acre field planted in the college’s backyard.

A survey of the tribal college's population revealed some of the highest rates of food insecurity among students in the nation. So the college's extension director created a farm.

How Texas ranchers, farmers cope during an exceptional drought

Producers and growers in the Lone Star State battled an exceptionally dry summer with creative approaches to protecting crops and cattle.

Grow North MN becomes Naturally Minnesota to broaden its reach as the region's food-ag booster

Naturally Minnesota will launch its new name and affiliation with the national network during Food Ag Ideas Week in the Twin Cities early next month.

Minnesota farmers, businesses relieved after rail strike averted

The state has one of the most robust freight rail systems and use in the nation, moving tons of iron ore and agricultural and food products within and across its borders.

CHS boosts member payout to $1 billion, four times higher than last year

Soaring prices on oil and ag commodities lifted the finances of the co-op and its member farmers.

Local

Police investigated after gunfire Friday outside a Richfield High School football game against Bloomington Kennedy. Two people were injured.

Online threats force Richfield district to close its secondary schools

Blaine fights back against street racing with new ordinance

For Feeding Our Future leader, an unlikely path to scandal

Departing nurses a concern for hospitals amid contract talks

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Vikings wide receiver K.J. Osborn caught the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute to play Sunday vs. the Lions.

Vikings steal a 28-24 win from the Lions with a last-minute touchdown

Souhan: Osborn delivers with game on the line and eyes on other Vikings

Undefeated Gophers move into Top 25 with help of opportunistic defense

Vikings linebacker Kendricks still has it. Was there ever any doubt?

Business

InstaTrim founders Greg and Betsy Amundson.

Minnesota small business battles alleged counterfeiters on Amazon

Minnesota techies suggest ways to get more value from your smartphone

How Kellogg's cereal spinoff heightens the competition with General Mills

Gap in 'real' pay between 'stayers' and 'switchers' grows in Minnesota

Opinion

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board worker Bruce Enstad fills a 20-gallon water bag attached to a sapling on July 28. The tree was planted in the pa

Let's keep the Twin Cities green

Commuters will gladly return to the office ... well, never

Trump's newest setbacks

Readers Write: U.S. support for Ukraine, electric vehicles, inflation

Variety

Rihanna is set to star at the Super Bowl halftime show in February 2023, the NFL announced Sunday.

Rihanna to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show

Yuen: The problem with #QuietQuitting, our latest made-up workplace trend

Review: Jason Isbell shines bright in his starry-night return to First Avenue

1970s hillside 'Hobbit House' lists for $315,000 in River Falls, Wis.

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Curt Brown

Grasshoppers swarmed in 1870s, leaving Minnesota farmers destitute

The grasshopper plague devastated the state for four years, gobbling up a half-million acres of wheat, corn, oats and barley.

Jennifer Brooks

Brooks: 4-H welcomes LGBTQ+ youth

Minnesota 4-H stands up for, and with, LGBTQ+ youth

Lee Schafer

Schafer: Back to normal means the normal challenges are back, too

The news that General Mills is cutting jobs after its stellar response to the pandemic, and the results that followed, shows that going back to where things were was never going to be easy.