When R.D. Offutt Wadena Farm team member Jonathan Robbins heard the Bertha-Hewitt high school welding class needed scrap metal, he invited teacher Brittani Oyster to visit the farm to pick up materials. What he didn’t know was that visit would lead him and fellow team members Charlie, Kyle and Diane into Oyster’s class on April…
For the fifth straight year, R.D. Offutt (RDO) Farms has earned high marks implementing sustainable, agricultural best management practices, as measured in an annual industry survey. The survey, facilitated by the Potato Sustainability Alliance, measures a variety of operational factors, including nutrient use and irrigation efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, pesticide risk, worker safety, waste and recycling…
With this year’s potato harvest wrapped up, the R.D. Offutt (RDO) Farm team closed out the 2021 growing season by planting more than 14,000 acres of cover crops and 200 acres of pollinator habitat. Warren Warmbold, RDO Farms Midwest Operations Manager, said each farm has a goal to plant as many cover crops as possible,…
Dr. Julie Pasche remembers when she started working at NDSU in 1995, and even where her first field assignments occurred. She was working with Dr. Neil Gudmestad at an R.D. Offutt Farms (RDO) partner farm in Browerville, Minn., tackling soil-borne potato diseases like pink rot and black dot through in-field research trials. Gudmestad, namesake of…
Brooten, Minn. – Just in time for harvest to wrap up this fall, the R.D. Offutt (RDO) Brooten Farm has a new facility to store potatoes. Chris Strom, RDO Farm Manager, said the farm undertook a capital improvement project over the summer to upgrade a storage facility with a new roof, insulation, doors, fans, coolers…
