Over the past year, food and fuel prices have risen dramatically.  The part ethanol plays in this has become as common a conversation topic as the weather, and the debate seems to be heating up as dramatically as the food prices. 
One mode of thinking is that food prices are increasing because we are using too […]

Ed Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture and former North Dakota governor, said biofuels like ethanol account for about three percent of the increase in food costs, which are up by 45 percent since mid-2007. 
The Washington Times article this information in also indicated that farm income will be about 50 percent higher this year than the average over […]

Agritourism is getting to be a big thing in North Dakota.  The North Dakota Tourism division actively promotes learning-based vacations and has had some success with that tactic.
Besides bringing extra dollars into the state, agritourism and learning-based vacations benefit traditional farmers by allowing them to make more money off their land.
Prairie Magazine recently published an […]

Chuck Suchy, a farmer and singer/songwriter from Mandan, North Dakota, spent a week with the children of Mary Stark Elementary.  A half-grant provided by the North Dakota Council on the Arts allowed him to teach the children about the art of songwriting and open them up to the possibility of writing their own songs.
The children […]

According to historian/scholar/Bismarck Tribune columnist Clay Jenkinson, the Agraria Restaurant in Washington, D.C. is something that North Dakotans can be proud of.  From the article:
My fear was that we’d wind up saying Agraria was pretty good for a North Dakota restaurant in the District of Columbia. I could not have been more wrong. Agraria is […]