agriculture

Legislator tours deep winter greenhouse in rural Lake City

Jan 29, 2025
The deep winter greenhouse at Catholic Worker Farm is one of just a few around the state, but Rep. Brad Tabke, a state legislator who toured it on Jan. 17, sees the potential for hundreds or even thousands around the state. The farm had a grand opening celebration for the greenhouse in 2018. It...

Holst Family Farms wins World Forage Superbowl

Jan 15, 2025
Holst Family Farms won Grand Champion at the 2024 World Forage Superbowl with their dairy hay. Jeremy and Jessi Holst and children Adalida and Lane along with Jeremy’s mother Maren Holst farm outside of Lake City. They milk around 100 cows and raise crops for feed and market extra hay. There...

School-grown produce used by summer lunch program

Aug 28, 2024
The FFA garden beds behind the tennis courts have been hard at work this summer providing bountiful harvests for the summer lunch program at Bluff View Elementary. Free breakfast and lunch was available for children ages 18 and under. The beds have produced a combination of basil, cabbage,...

Public invited to old fashioned corn shocking

Aug 28, 2024
An old fashioned corn shocking is planned in rural Lake City, and the public is invited. Shocking is a method of drying corn that involves bundling multiple corn stalks together. Once a common sight in fields, shocks’ popularity declined as mechanical harvesting methods proliferated. Now they are...

Rep. Altendorf’s ‘Harmful Atmospheric Activity’ bill could prove burdensome to farmers, law enforcement

Jul 3, 2024
We need legislators at our Capitol who work for us, and research and understand the implications of the bills they support. Rep. Pam Altendorf has cosponsored legislation for which it appears she hasn’t done her homework. The legislation she supports could affect farming operations and places a...

Simon Brand joins Angus Association as junior member

Feb 7, 2024
Simon Brand of Lake City is a new junior member of the American Angus Association, according to a news release. Junior members of the Association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take...

Ag parade kicks off ‘I Love to Read Month’ at Bluff View Elementary School

Feb 7, 2024
“Growing Readers” is the theme for “I Love to Read Month” at Bluff View Elementary School this year, and to kick off a month of agriculture-related activities, the school hosted an agriculture parade on Friday, Feb. 2. “Jeremy Holst from Holst Dairy Farms and Mark Ryan from Ag Partners shared the...

Pasture walk lets farmers compare drought management strategies and experiences

Nov 1, 2023
The Land Stewardship Project’s (LSP) drought-oriented pasture walk in rural Lake City was timely, even if it happened to rain on the Oct. 19 event. The period from January through September was Minnesota’s 16th driest since 1895, according to the federal government’s drought tracking website...

Oat shocking planned ahead of Autumn Harvest Days

Aug 9, 2023
Oat shocking will take place Friday, Aug. 11, at 3 p.m. on the Autumn Harvest Days grounds at the Dwain and Marilyn Gerken farm. Everyone is welcome to attend—either to watch or help. Autumn Harvest Days will be held the last weekend in September at the farm. For more information, people can call...

SWCD: It’s never too late for cover crops

Oct 5, 2022
You don’t have to be an enthusiast to know that cover crops have been gaining a lot of traction in recent years, and it’s been with good reason. From their increased use on farms across the country to numerous field days promoting them, magazine and newspaper articles abound, even podcasts and...

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