Each year Minnesota’s American Legion posts and auxiliaries choose one male and one female to participate in the Legion-sponsored Boys and Girls State.
Open to high school juniors, the programs’ primary purpose is to teach how government works, according to the organization’s website. Participants...
Last week Minnesota farmers tied a 30-year record for the most soybean acres planted in a single week.
That follows the pace set by corn planting the previous week when corn producers had the second-highest acres planted in 30 years, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service...