Through workshops, participants will learn how to analyze what they need and want from health-care providers, compare plans, calculate how health insurance will affect their financial budgets, and apply the information and knowledge gained to make a smart health insurance choice.

Farm gross cash revenue has more than doubled during the past 10 years.

The podcasts feature agricultural topics ranging from rangeland management to crop prices.

The direct financial impact to North Dakota’s farmers of prevented-planted acres in 2013 is estimated at $626.9 million.

The survey summarizes approximately 2,700 reports from aerial operators, farmers, ranchers and other custom operators.

What farmers and ranchers want to be careful about is letting their personal stresses pile up so that their management practices and decision-making become negatively affected.

The emotional and physical needs of those who are undergoing stress from weather conditions are sometimes forgotten during a crisis.

The program compares prevented-planting with growing either the same crop for which a prevented-planting payment could be received or some other crop.

Nearly 161,000 acres of cropland will be lost to the lake in 2013.

The question is whether this huge increase has capped a 10-year rise in land values, which has been the largest in the past 100 years.

Some U.S. seedsmen and others have been approached by farmers or entities in Canada in an effort to buy Faller hard red spring wheat seed to plant in Canada.

At first glance, the projected prices per bushel look good at $5.65 for corn, $12.87 for soybeans and $8.44 for spring wheat.

Venkataramana Chapara joins the North Central Research Extension Center near Minot.

Because of the recent enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, the IRS has to have time to test their software and design forms, so they have given producers more time to file.

The program provides a tool for producers to check the changing scenarios until final planting decisions are made this spring.

However, producers are worried about whether average yields in 2013 will materialize. Unlike last spring, soil moisture is depleted.

North Dakota farm family living expenditures increased by an average of 6.8 percent from 2004 to 2011.

Farm gross cash revenue has increased by more than 150 percent in the past decade.

The NDSU SURE program calculator is applicable to nearly all farm situations.

NDSU Extension economist has some tax tips for producers.

The featured speaker is Jolene Brown who is a farmer, author and award-winning communicator.

The program provides a tool for producers to check the changing scenarios until final planting decisions are made this spring.

After adjusting for inflation, North Dakota’s real-dollar GDP grew 7 percent from 2009 to 2010.

The median value of owner-occupied housing with a mortgage in North Dakota was $134,700 in 2009.