A barn fire in rural Minnesota resulted in the deaths of 4,000 pigs last week, officials say. The Brownsdale Volunteer Fire Department says the fire happened just before midnight on Feb. 5 on the ...

Alise is a St. Cloud native and Tech High School graduate. The now 33-year old earned a silver medal at the Women's BMX bike racing event at the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Brazil. She is nicknamed ...

Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America" has been named a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. Sonja Eayrs talks with a ...

Leaders of four state agencies on Friday launched a major five-year plan to work together with partners in public health, health care, agribusiness, environmental protection and other fields to ...

For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went ...

Central Minnesota is filled with farms, and many have stories to tell that in some cases go back 100 years or more. But about 6 miles north of Hutchinson, a couple of farmers hope to write a new ...

Minnesota’s gray wolves will be removed from the federal government’s threatened species list and returned to state management in January. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will ...

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

Among several more outbreaks on commercial farms, one was at a layer facility in Pennsylvania that has nearly 2 million birds ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed H5N1 avian flu ...