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Project Safe Send: 20 years of convenient and free contaminant disposal
By DEBORA DRAGSETH For the Tribune Take a look under your sink, storage shed or in the back corner of your garage. Any old rat poison or a rusty can of roach spray? A weed killer you vaguely remember buying sometime in the 1980s? Instead of wreaking havoc on the environment by pouring a dangerous [...]
Kenmare’s Future Looks Bright
By Tina Ding A ribbon of highway winds and stretches through rolling hills, carrying drivers northwest from Minot to a community rich with agricultural heritage. Family farms dot the countryside, nestled between crops of durum, wheat, canola and flax. And though many folks near Kenmare work the soil to reap the harvest each autumn, others [...]
November Farm Briefs
N.D. farmers produce huge wheat crop North Dakota farmers have produced their biggest overall wheat crop in 13 years, thanks to ideal growing season weather that led to record yields for both spring wheat and durum and the largest winter wheat crop in state history. The huge crop is tempered a bit by quality problems, [...]
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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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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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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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