EMMONS COUNTY - Leonard Vetter lives in a shady oasis, under a grove of cottonwoods, amid chokecherry trees just ripe with fruit. Grasshoppers jump in the ditch along the gravel road in front of his ...

I'd like to pass along this information from Bruce Anderson, UNL Extension forage specialist. Oats for extra pasture, hay and silage Pasture and hay could be sparse again this spring unless we receive ...

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in ...

Martin Larsen (left) and Jess Offord (right) stand in the oat field and discuss the harvest on Aug. 3 in Byron, Minn. (Steven Garcia/Investigate Midwest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...