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FARGO, N.D. -- Gerald "Jerry" Stokka is a new kind of livestock specialist at North Dakota State University -- sort of a people's philosopher for the industry. His specialty? Livestock stewardship. Stokka says his entire career has prepared him for...

BROOKINGS - Dr. Joe Cassady has been selected as the new Animal Science Department Head at South Dakota State University, pending the approval of the South Dakota Board of Regents. His appointment is effective June 22. Dr. Cassady previously served as...

WASHINGTON -- Symbolic of the debate we're not having about government's size and role -- the essence of the deficit problem -- is the future of farm subsidies. Running $10 billion to $15 billion annually, they don't do much good. For starters, they...

If the ideals of the Olympics as expressed in its charter still ring true in any way, the most resonant moment of the last Summer Games was the sight of Lopez Lomong, a refugee from civil war in the Sudan, carrying the U.S. flag into the opening...

— Take a walk around Lathrop Hall at the University of Missouri, and it won't take long before you meet someone from the Chicago area. There are the roommates from Barrington and Cary, and, two doors down, freshmen from Lemont and Mount Prospect....

Email Pilar: Pilar Pedraza Like Pilar on Facebook:  Pilar Pedraza Follow Pilar on Twitter: @PilarKWCH I literally grew up in a newsroom. Off and on throughout my childhood, my mother was a newspaper reporter, columnist and editor.  I can remember...

Brookings - Fruit and vegetable growers are invited to the Tri-State Fruit and Vegetable Growers Symposium Friday, Dec. 7, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Bev's at the River Conference Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The 2012 drought covered a large band of the...

Life seems to bounce from one hard lesson to the next. For example, no sooner than someone tells you “It's not about the money,” you learn that, yes, it's always about the money. Then, after years of working hard to acquire that money, you discover...

BROOKINGS - Fruit and vegetable growers are invited to the Tri-State Fruit and Vegetable Growers Symposium Friday, Dec. 7, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Bev's on the River Conference Center in Sioux City, Iowa. The 2012 drought covered a large band of the...

Ames, Iowa - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), a nonprofit organization that specializes in assembling and communicating science-based agricultural information announces its planned management succession. Dr. John Bonner, current...

Marissa Landrigan, essayist, creative nonfiction writer, and assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, will hold a reading at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15 in room 131 Blackington Hall on the Pitt-Johnstown campus....

Gabriella Mammolenti is cool as a cucumber, poised and ready for a shot at the title. She is 6 years old and is a first-grader at Elm Road School in Mishawaka. In June she was crowned National American Miss Indiana (in the 4-6 age group). She will be...