During a two-week period from June 30 to July 10, USDA released a series of reports that will likely impact corn and soybean ...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture again raised its 2026 and 2027 milk production estimates in Friday’s World Agricultural ...

Prior to becoming a biweekly publication, The Land had appeared twice per year in The Free Press, as well as the Owatonna ...

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Every now and then, my husband will come into the house, peer into my office from a distance — where I’m either working on ...