North of Pierre, South Dakota, you will find Plainview school, a rustic one-room school house that brought accessible education to the Peoria township. Such schoolhouses helped shape rural students.| Agweek
Lower income and increased loan activity indicate farmers have eaten away at the cushion they have built up from prior profitable years.| Agweek
NDSU Extension agricultural finance specialist Bryon Parman says farmers are still the ones buying most farmland. But Lindsey Brown of Peoples Company said farmland also is a popular investment.| Agweek
Mark Watne won't run for reelection as president of NDFU, the state's largest farm group. Shelly Ziesch, an NDFU director, is running, and others are rumored to be considering it.| Agweek