In Midwest, a harvest that may be a little too sweet
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With record yields forecast, sugar beet growers may have to limit what they harvest.
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By Anonymous  Farmers could be seen Thursday out in fields, preparing them for crop seeding, in a few spots in the Red River Valley in what is turning into a late spring, crop-wise. But most fields in the region remain too cool for fieldwork, with frost still in much of the soil.
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LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - When people look at a mound of snow, they don't often think of vegetables. Then again, they're not brothers David and Chris Andrews, or Scott Pauli, their cousin.
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By DAVE CARPENTER    NORTHFIELD, Ill.  -- These are the times that try cookie makers' sales...
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America&#039;s appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can&#039;t keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation&#039;s food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two men hauling more than 40,000 pounds of Jawbreaker candies also had some not-so-sweet freight, the Minnesota State Patrol said: nearly 1 1/2 tons of marijuana.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun.
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Â· Farmers say soft fruit may be left unharvestedÂ· Fewer EU migrants seeking farm jobs
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec.
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NEW YORK -- America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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By Geri Parlin, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--Food for the table, good nutrition, a sense of neighborhood and a lesson in community spirit.   That's a lot to ask of a carrot.
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With mild weather and a bountiful fall, there's just one problem: Where can they store so much grain?
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The dough might be starting to rise again.
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It's June, but I'm thinking of fall. And with good reason.  Last year's pheasant harvest was likely higher than in any year since the mid-1940s. The past winter was relatively mild, which should have meant fairly good carryover of birds.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 22--Fans of the great outdoors appear to really enjoy themselves in Dakota County. If only they'd swing by a little more often.