Harvest

WORTHINGTON — As snowflakes floated to the ground Wednesday morning, area farmers used the forced weather break to work on equipment, waiting for Mother Nature to ease up and allow them back into the fields. Near Edgerton, Cal Spronk of Spronk Seed Farm said he was working to...

Tim Hansberger shows an inside look at the harvest in this video, sponsored by Nobles County Farm Bureau.

RUSHMORE -- Clad in faded green suspenders and a new Oliver cap, Harlan Groenewold gets a twinkle in his eye when he thinks about fall harvest this year.

Local farmer Adam Blume talks about the harvest as it begins in southwest Minnesota.

WORTHINGTON -- Several loads of new crop corn were delivered to New Vision Cooperative elevators in southwest Minnesota Thursday, but yield reports...

WORTHINGTON -- This year's Corn off the Cob variety show will feature a big sound and a fair share of familiar faces. Corn Off the Cob 18, themed...

WORTHINGTON -- What goes around, comes around, and when farmer Richard Rutgers needed back surgery for a pinched nerve, his neighbors, friends...

ROUND LAKE -- Dennis Duitsman pumped his fist in appreciation as a neighboring farmer drove passed with a couple wagon loads of grain Wednesday...

WORTHINGTON -- Greg Ponto of rural Reading is feeling really good about this year's harvest, but it pains him in a way. Other farmers in southwest...

WORTHINGTON -- Sunshine and wind should prove to be a perfect combination today for farmers hoping to get back into the field to harvest soybeans...

WORTHINGTON -- Minnesota West Community and Technical College agriculture instructors Jeff Rogers and Rolf Mahlberg are gearing up for a new...

WORTHINGTON -- Farmers who have been out in recent days getting the rest of last year's corn crop harvested are finding it over-wintered rather well, considering snow depths that, in some places, buried the entire corn stalk. New Vision Cooperative's grain division manager Dan Uttech...

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WORTHINGTON -- Two words can pretty much sum up the 2009 crop year in southwest Minnesota -- weather delays. By the last week in April, 40 percent of the state's corn crop had been planted, along with 2 percent of the state's soybean acres. Then came the rains. Storms in early May...