Benton County: Hops Capital of Minnesota

In this week’s Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen takes us to Foley where a college project has led to one of the largest hops-growing farms in the Midwest. The Land of 10,000 Lakes is also known for its farmland. Corn and soybean fields are everywhere. But on a piece...Continue Reading

Some low-income and ripe-for-redevelopment areas in St. Cloud could soon be injected with thousands — even millions — of dollars in private investments.  Some of the city's poorest census tracts — spanning Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties — were nominated last month by Gov. Mark Dayton as federal "opportunity zones,"...Continue Reading

Never before in the last three decades has the United States been presented with a more significant piece of tax reform legislation promising to improve the business environment for manufacturing companies. After all the speculation of how this will affect the industry, the bottom line is that the new tax...Continue Reading