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Railroads are charging more to ship grain. U.S. farmers may have to pick up the tab (opens the original)
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Want more news about agriculture? Sign up for the Harvest newsletter for our latest reporting, plus behind-the-scenes exclusives. Growing diesel costs have been a pain for farmers who need the fuel to run equipment in their fields. Now, as harvest approaches, farmers face yet another obstacle as railroads have raised their shipping costs. Railroad fuel surcharges have more than doubled in the past year as diesel prices have reached over $6 a gallon. Railroads carry about 1.6 million carloads of
An early surge confirms bird flu is back in Minnesota (opens the original)
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Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Minnesota farmers have been fending off highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) every year since the USDA detected the ongoing outbreak in 2022. The disease came to Minnesota earlier this spring and was later eliminated for about a month and a half, according to Minnesota Board of Animal Health Assistant Director Shauna Voss. That period of time was a breath of fresh a
Minnesota farmers ride crop price highs. Could lofty diesel costs hurt profits? (opens the original)
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Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Farmers are surfing the highs of a corn and soybean price rally last week that boosted crop values to some of the best prices they’ve been at in the last three years. “It was nice to see a little bump in the markets,” said Jordan Goblish, who farms in the city of Vesta in southwest Minnesota. But he said his local prices haven’t increased much. “Unfortunately, in our ar
As the next generation takes over the family farm, a tough economy brings new challenges (opens the original)
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This story is part of "Tough Times," a Harvest Public Media series looking at the economic stress that many American farmers are facing in 2026. Mike Langseth’s family home has stood for more than a hundred years in rural Barney, North Dakota. It was built by his great-great-grandfather and has been passed down through the family ever since. “Every generation has just sort of been like, ‘Well, here you go, you fix it now,’” Langseth said. “Every generation has had to do some sort of a fairly ser
Efforts to get year-round E15 sales could hurt soybean farmers (opens the original)
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Farmer Mark Recker, who grows corn and soybeans in northeast Iowa, has long advocated for year-round sales of E15 gasoline. The fuel, which is blended with up to 15 percent corn-based ethanol, currently cannot be sold during the summer in most states without a waiver from the federal government due to emission concerns. But legislation making its way through Congress could soon remove those restrictions. “This looks like something that could really happen,” said Recker, who has supported E15 for
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