When Every Day is Mother’s Day
Posted May 10, 2012 at 4:20 pm
By Ryan C. Christiansen
When Jane Mattheis talks about her work, you’d think she’d died and gone to heaven. “It’s therapeutic,” she says while she
Locked Out
Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:44 pm
By Ryan C. Christiansen
Harv Hegvick never expected it to end this way. After 13,088 days as an employee for American Crystal Sugar Company, Hegvick stood by on Aug. 1, 2011, as replacement workers walked into the plant in Moorhead, Minn., to do the work that he and others had been doing day in and day out for decades. On that day, approximately 1,300 union workers, members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, were locked out of American Crystal Sugar facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa. The workers’ contract had expired after they overwhelmingly rejected what became Crystal Sugar’s final offer during labor negotiations.
That Crystal Sugar would completely sever
The Tractor Lady
Posted May 3, 2012 at 2:54 pm
By Ryan C. Christiansen
At the farm sale, you try not to look too interested, but you dream about what it would be like to have that old Allis Chalmers, John Deere, or Caterpillar tractor in your possession. Perhaps
U of M Extension examines production costs, profitability connection
Posted May 9, 2012 at 6:40 pm
By David Bau, University of Minnesota Extension
University of Minnesota Extension economists and educators have been researching the question of which costs have the largest impact on farm profits. A significant difference
ROAD Rubbish Rundown
Posted April 25, 2012 at 5:24 pm
By Ryan C. Christiansen
You know the guy, the one who stacks all of his belongings into the open box of his pickup truck and then drives 80 miles per hour down the interstate. No, he doesn’t have tools
The Shrine Cirucs in History
Posted April 18, 2012 at 5:06 pm
The circus is coming, the circus is coming! These are words we have heard in America since 1906 when the first Shrine Circus began holding its annual event. The circus is held in
A Coaches Coach…Gene Roebuck
Posted April 11, 2012 at 5:11 pm
fter 25 years our beloved University of North Dakota Women’s Basketball Head Coach Gene Roebuck is retiring. Gene Roebuck announced his retirement on January 20th and will be missed by players and fans alike.
