Managing our gardens is very important in order to keep diseases under control as well as insects. This summer, while many of us did quite well with our vegetable gardens and our perennial gardens, we did see a higher than usual number of certain insects in our gardens. As we all become more ...

Lyon County was declared a primary disaster due to drought and heat using the streamlined Secretarial Disaster Declaration process. Under this designation, if you have operations in any primary or contiguous county, you are eligible to apply for low interest emergency loans. The streamlined ...

University of Minnesota Extension will host a summer field day at Golden Sunrise Dairy, 31328 290 St SW, McIntosh on Sept. 22. Golden Sunrise Dairy is owned and managed by Tim Rolf and his son, Derek. In 2020, they moved into a new high technology, automated cross ventilated barn featuring ...

Gardening, particularly vegetable gardening certainly can be challenging. A good example of this is set around the experimentation of a new variety of green bean. I don’t like them. It could be the heat and the dry weather (even though I did water continuously) but the green beans came out ...

The goodness of our vegetable gardens is coming in quickly now. If you are into canning and preserving, there is a lot to do in the garden. There are even some flowers, depending on if you are in an area that has had rain, that are still coming on strong. The rains are a hit and miss even in ...

The drought continues to roll on in our area. It is becoming the haves versus the have-nots. Meaning, some places get the rain while others have seen little to no rain. The conversation around whether or not someone was able to see some rain from the latest go around has now started with being ...