Corn prices: Don’t call it comeback For the second week in a row corn prices were positive on the week, leading some to speculate that the lows may be in. On Aug. 26, September corn futures hit a low of $3.605/bu. The high for the September contract this past week was $3.9125/bu. In that ...

If your driveway is looking a little worn, beware of the asphalt contractor scam, according to the North Dakota Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division. Victims may not just be out thousands of dollars on the scammers’ inferior work but could face additional costly problems. One ...

Chasing record yields The Pro Farmer Tour commenced this past week. It’s a tour where the participants travel on routes spanning from Ohio to Nebraska, making stops along the way doing field checks of corn and soybeans. The spot yield checks weren’t all home runs but there were enough to ...

Grain prices slide lower The August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate was released on Monday, Aug. 12. It was a neutral to slightly bullish report for corn and wheat but quite bearish for soybean prices. Yield projections were increased for both corn and soybeans as the growing ...

World stock, drop, roll When two weeks ago the stock markets had taken a tumble to close the week out on a weak July jobs report and several other excuses depending on how aggressively, you wanted to frame the pitch of a potential recession. This past week continued the tumble with stocks ...

City of Minot August building permits – Kyle and Tiffany Yetter, 1112 23rd St. NW, shed, $10,000. – Ricky Hulm, 820 3rd St. SW, storage building, $20,000. – David and Susan Zietlow, Home Vision Construction, 5100 46th St. SW, house addition, $50,000. – Sara Frantsvog, Future ...