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ADM volunteers supporting Farmers Market

MARSHALL — Jesse Ray Adams believes in giving back to his community. Tara Johnson use to volunteer at Esther’s Kitchen in Marshall providing free meals. Both are employees at Archer Daniels Midland Company in Marshall but were volunteering at the Farmers Market next to the Marshall ...

Farmers applaud right to repair settlement

NEW ULM — Southern Minnesota farmers say the right to repair lawsuit settlement reached earlier this month between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and attorneys general in five states including Minnesota is step in the right direction The lawsuit filed by Minnesota, Illinois, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin alleged that John Deere & Company’s policy of withholding diagnostic equipment and other necessary information from John Deere equipment owners prohibited them from making their own equipment repairs, was a violation of the Sherman Act (that outlaws monopolies and ...

Marshall ADM plant fined for permit violation

MARSHALL — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has fined the Archer Daniels Midland Company for air permit violations at its facility in Marshall. The MPCA announced this week that ADM paid a $25,000 fine, for operating a gas flare more than its permit allowed. In addition to paying ...

4-H jokes and stitches entertain Yellow Medicine County Fair

CANBY — Fourth grader Lydia Webb had a few jokes to tell during the Yellow Medicine County Fair on Saturday. She walked onto the stage and grabbed the mic and proceeded to entertain the audience of fellow 4-H'ers and parents inside the fair pavilion “A rooster is standing on top of a ...

Riding for ‘a good cause’

AMIRET — Curt Mercie has his crew with him every year on the Toys for Tots Motorcycle run that starts in Amiret. “We’ve been doing this run for how many years? Twenty? We’ve been doing for pretty much forever,” he said while waiting Saturday morning for more motorcyclists to ...

Farmers dealing with ‘tight margins’

MARSHALL — What is the state of agriculture in southwest Minnesota? It depends, speakers at an event in Marshall said Tuesday. “I think it’s a mixed bag out there. But overall it’s very tight margins in corn and soybeans,” said farm management analyst Kent Thiesse. Farmers raising ...