Finally tonight, we continue to share our favorite stories of 2007. And it's my turn today - My first choice was a story about a program that has helped many farmers in need across North Dakota, Farm Rescue. Like a symbol representing the very best that North Dakota stands for the Farm Rescue flag flies proudly atop the John Deer machinery as it weaves it's way through fields near Turtle Lake. These are the fields that Wes Weible has worked for 27 years - through good years and bad, Wes was always able to get the crop in time but last November time took a back seat. (Wes Weible, Farms Near Turtle Lake) My wife had a heart transplant in November, we were down there for three months during that. Then every month we've been going down there for checkups, the last seven out of eight weeks we've been down to Rochester for checkups. All that time Wes was by Sharon's side, back and forth to Rochester both of their lives on hold, not sure exactly how the work back home was going to get...
Tonight is our final night looking at our favorite stories of 2007. This time, photojournalist Gaylen Ness has picked out his favorites. His first choice takes us to Foxholm where he and Shaun...
Tonight is our final night looking at our favorite stories of 2007. This time, photojournalist Gaylen Ness has picked out his favorites. His first choice takes us to Foxholm where he and...
An injury or an illness can be the difference between staying on the land or having to call it quits for some family farmers. However the group, Farm Rescue, is reaching out to those in need and...
The Paddlefishing season is officially closed in North Dakota. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department closed the season early as the limit of 1,000 paddlefish were harvested. But before...
It's the wrong time for a season ending injury for a farmer. That's exactly what happened to Paul Grilley. One day before Paul was to head out into the field to start spring planting, he fell from...
It's something you have to believe in. That's the philosophy Dave Marschner lives by and farms by - south of Voltaire in North Central North Dakota. Dave is an organic farmer . Has been most of his...
If you listen closely you can almost hear the boom on the horizon from the oil industry. Oil companies are flocking to the area, hoping to claim their stake in the Bakken Formation. It's an oil...
It's a $286 Billion dollar piece of legislation that is loaded down with titles, provisions and 260 proposed amendments. The 2007 Farm Bill continues to take shape in Washington with the...
March is now just right around the corner and that means we're just weeks away until farmers head back into their fields for another planting season. Farmers are already busy doing things like...
Hundreds of farmers from across the region will take a break tomorrow from harvest preparations and head for the Research Center south of Minot for the annual Field Day. Shaun Sipma has more on the...