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Montana plants less wheat BILLINGS, Mont. _ Montana farmers appear to be planting less wheat this year, partly because they need to recharge the soil after planting back-to-back wheat crops to take advantage of high commodity prices. Interest is increasing in pulse crops that don’t need fertilizer and naturally put nitrogen back into the soil. [...]
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MDU makes top list North Dakota-based MDU Resources Group, Inc. jumped on to the Fortune 500 list for the first time this year. The list ranks companies by their revenue; MDU Resources Group, Inc. was #473, increasing revenues 18 percent to $5 billion from $4.25 billion. MDU has operations in 44 states and Brazil, and [...]
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Value of 2008 crop production The total value of 2008 crop production in the state was estimated at $6.59 billion, which was down 1 percent from the 2007 total of $6.65 billion, according to the North Dakota field office of the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The largest valued commodity was spring wheat, totaling $1.72 [...]
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Real estate prices stable Home prices may have dropped over the past year across the nation, but not in the Dakotas. The states with the largest price jumps between the third quarters of 2007 and 2008 were North Dakota, at 4 percent; South Dakota, at 3.9 percent; and Texas, at 3.2 percent. Federal data show [...]
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Some corn still in the ground About 10 percent of North Dakota’s corn crop was still in the field by the end of 2008 because of snow, corn growers say. Tom Lilja, the executive director of the North Dakota Corn Growers Association, said most of the unharvested corn is north of a line between Jamestown [...]
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