Christopher Vondracek

Hiring managers in key Minnesota job sectors say the state’s already tight labor pool could be further constrained by the new $100,000 fee on new visa applications for highly skilled...

For the first time in a decade, the ranchers raising the livestock that get turned into hamburgers and steaks like their profit margins.

Minnesota was once a golden land of oat farmers. Rotated with corn and soybean on small diversified farms stretching from Wisconsin to the Dakotas, oats were traded as early as...

The potential miracle crop might power tomorrow's jet engines and clean up waterways in the karst-rich hill country of the Upper Midwest. But before the sustainable possibilities can flourish, farmers...

U.S. agriculture policy historically hasn't protected produce farmers the same as row-crop farmers who feed animals and power biofuels.