GILFILLAN ESTATES — Seven U.S. Senate candidates discussed a variety of farm issues and how they would solve them at a Farmfest forum Wednesday. The farm bill, a multiyear law that governs many agricultural and food programs and allows policymakers to address ag and food issues, is typically ...

HANSKA — Nick Stadick played polka music as busloads of people attended walked onto Tauer Dairy at Family Night on the Dairy Farm Friday. The third-generation family farm operated by David and Angie Tauer milks 250 purebred Holsteins twice a day in a double 6 parlor. The Tauers were named ...

SLEEPY EYE — Becoming so emotional, he had to pause when he mentioned child suicide due to cyber (online) bullying, Brown County Attorney Chuck Hanson had an urgent message for parents Wednesday. “Talk to your kids. Monitor their cell phone use, get their passwords, for your and their ...

SLEEPY EYE — The Sleepy Eye FFA Chapter and its many members have won many awards through the years, at regional, state and national levels. This year, it reached the pinnacle of state FFA chapter awards, finishing first in the Minnesota Premier FFA Chapter contest at the 95th Minnesota FFA ...

BROWN COUNTY — Comfrey trapper Matt Bowman said he likes trapping beaver, but a beaver may have escaped Bowman’s efforts in Mulligan Township by taking his trap earlier this month. “It’s a challenge. I enjoy it. I grew up around it. It gets me outside with Mother Nature. I’ve trapped ...

NEW ULM — Brown County Corn and Soybean Board member and seed dealer Justin Remus of rural New Ulm was busy with other board members in his shop Wednesday, sorting seed corn for county corn test plots. A couple inches of rain that recently fell in the area makes him hopeful about spring ...