ranch near Medina

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

With grain markets finishing the week in pretty good shape despite continued uncertainty and news about tariffs and trade relations, Randy Koenen of the Red River Network speculated on the Agweek Market Wrap that maybe the market is becoming "I don't want to say immune to it, but it just seems like they become numb, maybe, to some of that news."Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management said that thought does seem to have some validity.

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

FARGO, N.D. — David Ripplinger, bioenergy and bioproduct economics specialist for North Dakota State University Extension, has completed his preliminary analysis on a Life Cycle Assessment of dry beans grown in North Dakota and Minnesota, and so far, it looks like the region's beans may have a marketable carbon intensity compared to national averages. Life Cycle Assessments involve determining the greenhouse gas emissions involved in producing a given unit of a product.

2 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

Support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants has allowed researchers at North Dakota State University to look at ways to manage three common diseases in dry edible beans: rust, soybean cyst nematodes and common bacterial blight. Northarvest has supported an ongoing project dealing with the three diseases with a $131,292.60 grant.

2 weeks ago | inforum.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

A North Dakota farmer has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior to stop FWS from reinterpreting the terms of a more than 60-year-old wetlands easement on land he owns and rents in LaMoure County.

3 weeks ago | agweek.com | Jenny Schlecht |ranch near Medina

The majority of dry edible bean acres get rolled in the Northarvest Bean Growers Association region, according to a survey. About 51% get rolled preemergence. Another 8.6% get rolled before planting and 4.6% get rolled postemergence. About 36.3% of acres don’t get rolled at all. Joe Ikley, North Dakota State University Extension weed specialist, there were questions about how the compaction from rolling impacted weed pressure.