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09/06/2008
W.F. company behind grain dryers, handling systems grows rapidly
West Fargo’s Northern Grain Equipment is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies.
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09/06/2008
Area farmers and ethanol industry officials say they remain optimistic about the fuel despite new, unprecedented opposition.
“I don’t think ethanol’s role is going to go away,” said Russ Newman, vice president of Tharaldson Ethanol, which is building a 100 million-gallon-per-year ethanol plant in Casselton, N.D.
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09/06/2008
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Cirrus Design Corp. has cut its Grand Forks work force by 10 percent, or 29 positions, as part of a companywide layoff, company president and chief operating officer Brent Wouters said.
That would leave the Duluth, Minn.-based aircraft maker with 250 workers locally.
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09/05/2008
United Way’s higher goal for campaign set at $4.7M
Sara Nistler is a spunky teenager whose contagious smile lights up her face.
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09/05/2008
The annual Big Iron farm show was created to sell agricultural equipment to area farmers.
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09/05/2008
Dejected investors sent stocks plunging Thursday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points after retailers and the government added to a mountain of bad economic news and devastated hopes for a late-year recovery.
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09/05/2008
Conventional wisdom had long held that some industries would collapse if oil topped $100 a barrel. As oil neared $150, sending costs higher for everything from jet fuel to plastic jars, the question was how many companies would succumb.
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09/05/2008
Ethanol’s wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending.
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09/05/2008
Fastenal Company says it will pay a
$10 million class-action settlement to former employees who sued the company last year for unpaid overtime wages and work-break pay.
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09/04/2008
Full exploitation of the oil-rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota will require extensive infrastructure expansion so oilmen do not idle rigs, government and industry officials say.
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09/04/2008
The Wall Street Journal’s new glossy lifestyle magazine for high-end consumers will debut with this Saturday’s newspaper as the company looks to boost advertising opportunities amid an overall decline in the industry.
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09/04/2008
Nearly every major automaker saw its U.S. sales drop in August, but many are seeing signs that the worst slump in recent history may have bottomed out.
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09/04/2008
The country is stuck in a slow-growth rut, the Federal Reserve suggested Wednesday.
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09/04/2008
The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed?
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09/04/2008
Montana has lost its federal disease-free status for brucellosis, triggering mandatory testing of cattle being shipped out of state.
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09/04/2008
The sugar beet harvest is getting under way in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota.
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09/04/2008
The harvest of most small grains in North Dakota is nearing completion.
The Agriculture Department said in its weekly crop report that the harvest of spring wheat, durum wheat, barley and oats is ahead of the average pace.
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09/03/2008
Brothers find value, and cash, in venture
People old enough to remember the Studebaker Hawk, the Ford Edsel and the Nash Rambler likely recall the Burma Shave road signs of the 1950s.
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09/03/2008
OMAHA, Neb. – A survey of business executives suggests economic activity in the Midwest and Plains is still reflecting national troubles, showing weak growth and job losses.
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09/02/2008
A new development near North Dakota State University gives the campus more of a Division I feel than the old houses that once occupied the space, owners say.
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| Raul Luna |
09/01/2008
Raul Luna grew up eating salsa in south Texas. Now the Fargo resident sells salsa made from an old family recipe. His WildMoon Enterprises, a play on his last name, carries WildMoon Salsa.
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09/01/2008
Hurricane Gustav’s threat to the Gulf Coast halted about 15 percent of U.S. refining capacity Sunday, though for now prices at the pump have not risen dramatically.
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09/01/2008
Although attention is focused on the petroleum industry as Hurricane Gustav takes aim at the Gulf Coast, billions of dollars are at stake in other economic sectors: New Orleans’ trademark tourism industry, the shipping business, sugar harvesting – and even such niche products as red-hot Tabasco sauce.
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09/01/2008
This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they’ve been in years, according to a scorecard released today by Rutgers University.
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08/30/2008
Barbara Henry has been selected to serve on the board of directors of Forum Communications Co.
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08/30/2008
Decked out in full scuba gear, Ann Woell and her daughter, Katherine Murnion, recently explored the chlorinated depths of the downtown Fargo YMCA pool.
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A top House Democrat confirmed Saturday that the government is planning to intervene to stabilize troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
