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  • Ag-only wetland mitigation bank ready to enroll credits

    Les Lemm

    MANKATO, Minn. -- Minnesota's fledging ag wetland mitigation bank is operational and waiting for farmers to begin depositing and buying wetland credits.

  • Land market is volatile

    Farryl Kluis and Leon Carlson surveyed members of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers to gather their opinions on land values and rental rates and where they're headed. They discussed their results at last week's 83rd annual meeting in Mankato.

    MANKATO, Minn. -- Rules of thumb don't seem to apply to today's land market.

  • Land values, rental rates rising across state

    MANKATO, Minn. -- Land value and rental rate survey results released last week by the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers show rising rental and land value rates in Minnesota.

  • Carlson tells farmers to stay abreast of water quality issues

    Dale Heintz presented the Southeast MN Ag Alliance Ag Advocate of the Year Award to Neil Broadwater at the organization’s Jan. 18 annual meeting. Broadwater retired in December after a 36-year career with University of Minnesota Extension. He and his wife, Joan, reside in Winona, Minn.

    ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Brad Carlson has been on the speaking circuit this winter, talking water quality at agricultural meetings throughout the state.

  • Ottertail man wins auctioneer championship

    Austin Bachmann of Ottertail won the Minnesota State Auctioneer Championship.

    MINNETONKA, Minn. -- Minnesota has a new auctioneer champion. Austin Bachmann of Ottertail won the honor last week at the Minnesota State Auctioneer Championship in Minnetonka.

  • Direct marketers discuss what makes their approach work

    Johnice Cross, left, manager of GROWN Locally Co-op in Decorah, Iowa and Dakota Rural Action's Holly Tilton-Byrne, representing the SD Local Food Co-op, were among four panelists at a profitable marketing conference in Milan. They were joined by Connie Karstens of The Lamb Shoppe near Hutchinson and Angela Jackson of The Upper Missouri Valley Local Foods in Vermillion, S.D. They discussed the food distribution systems of their locally grown foods organizations.

    MILAN, Minn. -- Chuck Weibel and his wife, Carol Ford, are well known for the winter CSA. In their Milan greenhouse, designed by Weibel, Ford heads the production of salad greens and vegetables. Customers love the freshly grown greens and produce in winter. Like other direct marketing producers, the couple wants to distribute products more efficiently and economically to customers in the Twin Cities, eastern South Dakota and southwest Minnesota. A workshop in Milan last week was the first step to attain the goal.