The horses are beefy, the farmers nostalgic and the legacy long. This weekend, generations of farmers will keep an old tradition alive at the 73rd annual International Plowing match, the oldest such ...

Years ago local historian Leigh Gittens chronicled the construction of all those plow furrows still seen north of the city in the undeveloped hills. It was a WPA or a CCC project that was designed to ...

Richmond, Minn. – On long summer nights, Gene Gruber makes the short walk from his home outside this central Minnesota town to the 40-acre hilltop planted in grass and oats. He studies the field, ...