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National group releases cover crop tool modeled after Iowa ‘batch and build’ program

  • Cami Koons

An Iowa program that deploys conservation practices across an area, rather than one at a time, served as a model for a cover crop adoption program launched by American Farmland Trust.  The conservation agriculture group released a guide to help producers follow the “batch and grow” cover crop program, which it said removes barriers, lowers […]

Commentary

Minnesota’s most aggressive drug prosecutor keeps getting overruled. He’s running unopposed (again).

  • Christopher Ingraham

An alleged fentanyl dealer in East Grand Forks is getting a new trial after prosecutors botched their instructions to the jury that convicted him. Polk County Attorney Greg Widseth “plainly erred by misstating the law” governing drug conspiracies, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled last month. To obtain the first-degree conspiracy conviction he sought, he needed […]