Jenny Schlecht

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.

Growing black beans in her garden was an interesting experiment for Jenny Schlecht this year. She gained a tiny bit of produce and even more appreciation for the farmers who grow most of her food.

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.

Sugarbeet harvest — no matter how much you look forward to it — can be an especially hectic time, with equipment going this way and that, trucks zooming to unload, long days and nights of work, and bigger crews than typically are on farms.

Greg "Machinery Pete" Peterson said auction sales of late model used large farm equipment have soared while prices have plummeted. He talked about the state of the industry at the Big Iron Farm Show.

NDSU Extension Farm and Ranch Stress Program was showing ways for farmers and ranchers to deal with the inherent stresses of farm and ranch life at the Big Iron Farm Show.