Former ag reporter encountering farm art in a museum in Montreal today.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune

A dispatch on the manhunt for the assassin that ended tonight in a farm field in southern Minnesota, rural Sibley County www.startribune.com/on-second-da...

My dispatch from today’s anguish back home in Minnesota www.startribune.com/melissa-hort...

We couldn’t fit details about a 2-pound Duke burger from Eagle Lake into the story on tax exemption for tips, but happy with this collab nevertheless www.startribune.com/tips-tax-exe...

Morning walking commute here in DC: spotted a video billboard critiquing Interior Sec Doug Burgum, a tiff between staffers at coffee shop over “a colon or em dash” in budget bill, and animal control on hunt for raccoon loose at car mechanic.

Dispatch from DC: www.startribune.com/trump-tariff...

A Midwest trifecta here in DC today as farmers from South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa lead presser of those barnstorming to DC calling for passage of farm bill.

Minnesota's only salt lake attracts more than 150 species of birds and guess what? If you don't have time to make it this spring, you can go again in the fall when they're making their way down south. Photos by the @startribune.com's intrepid Anthony Souffle www.startribune.com/where-to-fin...

Either the Red River Valley or France here with farm art in Nashville.

My dispatch yesterday from the big Cathedral on a hill in Saint Paul. www.startribune.com/pope-francis...

Wisconsin cattle man says Pequot Lakes feedlot operator essentially ‘rustled’ hundreds of his cattle when he claimed they died at his facility — latest from me www.startribune.com/cattle-rustl...

Over winter I ventured to a Baldwin piano in a south Minneapolis home to record my new album, “Packinghouse,” tales of the roads of southern Minnesota. Give a listen on this Record Store Day! Come see me play April 21 at White Squirrel in StP. open.spotify.com/album/3IlTUS...

The blurred space between my new DC-MN biz beat and old ag reporter beat continues in latest dispatch (from my hometown of Wells, with Jp Lawrence. www.startribune.com/minnesota-so...

Helped on this dispatch from Duluth with @janahollingsworth.bsky.social www.startribune.com/klobuchar-sm...

Needed to talk to soybean farmers, so I drove home to Wells, MN — pivoting between my former ag beat and the new Washington biz correspondent beat for @startribune.com.

Feels fittingly absurd that on eve of my last day on the Minnesota agriculture beat I am stuck in traffic on the Minneapolis/Edina border thanks to some jaywalking turkeys.

In rural Minnesota, advocates and legal clinics are preparing immigrants for family separation amid the Trump administration’s immigrant crackdown.

Spent last week in DC, preparing to move (spiritually, literally) my beat to our growing DC bureau at @startribune.com, and I encountered (as I so often have on Ag beat) farmland paintings: grain elevator and wheat in Smithsonian, soybeans and farmhouse in Sen. Smith’s office.

Passenger seat-on the roving MN ag beat today—in town of my birth, Albert Lea. We bought some local locker beef sticks. Happy Valentine’s.

Is it just me or are skate paths having a moment? The one in Warroad looks so freaking cool. You don't have to go all the way up there to find a skate path though -- read to the bottom for more options (probably pending snow!) via @walkerorenstein.bsky.social

News today from me on how USAID dismantling also impacts Minnesota farmers and agribusiness www.startribune.com/usaid-shutte...

Minnesota hat trick tonight at the bar: Vikings on TVs, bingo in lounge, someone jumping a stranger’s stalled car out front.

See if 2024 was anything like what you remember from growing up.

Saw a man negotiating his snowboard into an Uber today in snow-encased Minneapolis and then reminded the driver for the “airport” — felt very much the first leg of a long journey to some mountaintop west of here.

Day later, we’ve got ANOTHER Minnesotan matriculating to ranking-member status on a congressional ag committee, as Sen. Klobuchar will hold that spot in the Senate.

We’ve got some breaking MN ag news today, Rep. Angie Craig — from suburbs and cornfields south of Cities — has just been named top Democrat on House Agriculture committee.

Folks ice-skating the lakes in Minneapolis.

Minnesota regulators Thursday unanimously approved what would be the state's first carbon dioxide pipeline. The Summit project still hinges on the Dakotas but has sparked debate over ethanol, climate & rupture risks. “It’s a new concept, we get that." www.startribune.com/commission-a...

Santa at a St. Paul dive bar tonight. FYI.

Here’s a snapshot from my coffee with Sonja Trom Eayrs, attorney, author, and southern Minnesota farmer to talk about her book, ‘Dodge County, Incorporated.’ www.startribune.com/a-divisive-f...

From my colleague, Brooks Johnson: www.startribune.com/cargill-layo...

I’ve been off for a couple days, but there’s some MN Ag news coming in: farmers are looking to disband the Barley council. Stay tuned.

No #MnAgNews today as far as I see, but related: I’ve been tapped to play piano in a 90s era country band at Turf Club tonight. See you there! #Twangsgiving2

Minnesota’s large companies and their emissaries are getting chattier about tariffs.

In Minnesota we recognize, but don't pardon, turkeys.

We’ve got some more Mn Ag news coming to you today from the Capitol, where a 40-pound Tom Turkey bruiser has taken over a table in the decorative room at Gov. Walz’s reception (not a pardoning) ahead of Thanksgiving.

Other MN farm news: Rep. Angie Craig (suburbs and southern corn fields) has put hat in ring to be top Democrat on House Agriculture.

Minnesota agricultural products getting unloaded this morning in Linden Hills. Later, we pick up the Lake Mille Lacs-area turkey in hardware store parking lot. Good month for #MNFarmReporter.