farmers

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has created a new Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Plan to help prevent groundwater contamination due to nitrogen fertilizer.

Stearns County officials are reminding farmers to contact the county before ditching or tiling this fall.

Despite the sudden warm weather, Minnesota farmers are still waiting for the chance to get into their fields.

Our cold weather has pushed back the spring planting season in Minnesota. University of Minnesota Extension Educator Dan Martens says farmers are about two weeks behind schedule. He says farmers like to have all of their small grains planted by now, and are usually moving on to corn planting by the last week in April.