Jenny Schlecht

For critics of the attention paid to small town sports teams, Jenny Schlecht offers an example of the ways sports can offer lifelong lessons in resilience to rural youth and their fans.

Animal agriculture seems likely to be on the minds of the 2025 North Dakota Legislature, as it was in 2023. Jenny Schlecht wonders if there is genuine interest in raising livestock in the state.

Dr. Christina Burgard and her husband, Jarrid Arndt, planned Heart of Dakota Vet Clinic to provide a safe place for livestock, pets and humans and to help build up the future of the vet industry.

Two days after Arthur Companies approached patrons of West Central Ag Services about buying the cooperative for $250 million, the co-op has delayed a vote on merging with CHS in a $200 million deal.

Jenny Schlecht let her daughter stay home from school one morning, where the 12-year-old got hands-on learning experiences that wouldn't be possible in a classroom.

As the age of farmers nationwide continues to rise, farm safety educators are stressing the importance of looking at ways to make farms and farm tasks safer so farmers can stay home as they age.

Chopping corn and packing silage involve larger, more efficient machines than it once did. But Jenny Schlecht found an old innovation worked best in handling meals for the silage packing crew.

Randy Koenen of Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss grain exports, soft markets, rain in the forecast and more on the Agweek Market Wrap.

Citing reports from NDSU and the World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services, speakers said tariffs would be devastating to an ag industry still recovering from a Trump-backed trade war in 2018.

Agriculture-related damage from western North Dakota fires include burnt cropland, along with killed or injured livestock and destroyed pastures, stored feedstuffs, farmsteads, and fencing.