Who ever thought of the mechanics behind moving a 40-ton, 20,000-bushel capacity elevator along country roads, and across a narrow bridge over a dam? That’s what happened in 1949 when a grain elevator ...

Ardent Mills will soon shut down a facility in Mankato that employs 44 people. Operations will wind down over the next eight weeks and end in mid-January, said Kelley Kaiser, a spokeswoman for the ...

Good Thunder’s plan to use a grain storage facility as a beacon to draw art lovers to town was decades ahead of the recent idea for Blue Earth County’s largest community. A large mural looms above the ...

RAPIDAN, MINN. – Imagine a six-story building, perched precariously, inching its way across a narrow bridge, a churning river below. In 1949, that’s exactly what happened at the Rapidan Dam near ...

MANKATO, Minn. — There is an artistic side to farming in Minnesota, at least when it comes to a collection of grain silos sitting just outside Mankato. Australian artist Guido van Helten has painted ...

For the fifth year, Agweek reporter Mikkel Pates reprises his Flags On Farms feature for Independence Day, featuring flags of the United States on farms and agribusinesses in the region. This year, ...