Tessa Parks

Rice County Farmers Union is hosting its Winter Get Off The Farm social from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at Imminent Brewing, 519 Division St Unit 2, Northfield. Join your fellow farmers and raise a glass to Steven Read as he steps down from being the chapter's president and share your ideas for more…

Cannon Valley Summer Get-Together When: July 21, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.  Where: Burning Daylight Draft Farm, 37272 20th Ave., Dennison More information: Join the Rice and Dakota County Farmers Union for a casual summer get-together to catch up and complain with other farmers! Why complain? This is how policy resolutions are born! For those new to…

What: Pooper Scooper 101 When: July 27, 10 a.m. - noon Where: Burning Daylight Draft Farm, 37272 20th Ave., Dennison, MN 55018 Speakers: Kari Ripley-Boysen, Unruly Earth Farm, Webster. Kari attended Argosy University for an Associates in Veterinary Technology, has experience working in a veterinary clinic as a vet tech, and hands on with her…

The county convention for Rice and Scott County Farmers Unions is 6 p.m. Sept. 13 at Fireside Orchard, 2225 Lonsdale Blvd E, Northfield. As a grassroots policy organization, annual county conventions (aka annual business meetings) are the building blocks of MFU policy. It is the participation of members, through attending and bringing forth resolutions, that…