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  • Organic Farming Conference will return to La Crosse

    SPRING VALLEY, Wis. -- The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service will host its 23rd annual Organic Farming Conference from Feb. 23-25 at the La Crosse Center in La Crosse.

  • Farmers, industry folks gather to talk conservation tillage

    Dave Huper of Alden, Minn., on right, visits with Mark Licht from Brokaw Supply of Ft. Dodge, Iowa, during the Conservation Tillage Conference in Rochester, Minn. They are discussing a high-speed fertilizer injector for use in conservation and conventional tillage systems.

    ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Farmers, researchers and industry professionals came together last week at the Conservation Tillage Conference to share ideas and network.

  • Does strip intercropping have a place?

    Bob Recker of Waterloo, Iowa, visits with Tim Stensland, left, and Mark Thompson, both of Badger, Iowa, following his keynote speech at the Conservation Tillage Conference in Rochester.

    ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A retired John Deere engineer shared his ideas for shaking up the traditional row crop system during the keynote address at the Conservation Tillage Conference.

  • Elk industry brimming with optimism

    Brian Wagner raises up to 140 elk at his Black Velvet Elk Ranch in Howard Lake, Minn. Here he is with a few of his cows. Low supplies of elk products are expected to keep prices high this year.

    HOWARD LAKE, Minn. -- A past president of the North American Elk Breeders Association says now is a great time to get into the elk business.

  • Mitchell County declines appeal to Supreme Court

    OSAGE, Iowa -- The Mitchell County Supervisors voted unanimously last week not to appeal an Iowa Supreme Court decision that their road protection ordinance is unconstitutional to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Feb. 3, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the ordinance which bans steel wheel tractors on hard surface roads violated Matthew Zimmerman's constitutional right to freely exercise his religion. Zimmerman and his family are Old Order Groffdale Conference Mennonites, and their tractors must be equipped with steel wheels. The supervisors passed the 2009 ordinance because they said steel wheels were damaging their new roads.