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SAT., SEP 6 -- 9:00 AM Construction and Real Estate Auction, Walhalla, ND. George Kallis, owner. Curt D Johnson Auction Company
SAT., SEP 6 -- 10:00 AM Antique & Farmstead Moving/Retirement Auction, Adams, ND. Ron & Harriet Samuelson, owners. Dakota Auctioneers, Larry Swenson & Associates
SAT., SEP 6 -- 10:00 AM Shop Equipment, Vehicle, Tractors, Collectibles, Miscellaneous Auction, Raymond, MN. Larry & Norma Blom, owners. Zielsdorf Auction & Real Estate Service
SUN., SEP 7 -- Antique and Household Auction, Mahnomen, MN. Gladys Tilleraas, owner. Berg Auction Service
MON., SEP 8 -- 9:30 AM Potato Warehouse, Bobcat, Truck, Miscellaneous Auction, East Grand Forks, MN. Jack Hangsleben Estate, owner. Harley J Camperud Auctioneer
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Chris Bair, territory manager for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers works as a bid catcher at the farm equipment auction on July 18 in Buxton, N.D. Agweek photo by Matt Bewley.

SOLD: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers put Buxton, N.D., facility on the world stage

BUXTON, N.D. -- It takes a little getting used to, thinking about your old John Deere 9400 tilling up soil somewhere in Egypt. But this is the time of the global marketplace, and when you sell your used equipment with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers at its Buxton, N.D., facility, that's exactly what you get: A global marketplace.

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North Dakota's Richland County gets its fill of knowledge from Kids Get the Skinny on Whole Grains. Programs include Bread in a Bag, Pretzel in a Bag and Your Body Kneads Whole Grains, a community outreach program, along with lessons on whole grains. The programs promote white spring wheat products.

The Bison rotor may be the most important combining advance since auto-steer

GRAFTON, N.D. -- It seems almost too good to be true: A combine rotor that allows running at up to twice the usual speed through a crop, won't plug up, gives cleaner grain samples, handles all crops without being changed out and does all of this with less stress on the belts, pumps and the engine and on 25 percent less fuel.
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Horticulture growers' new leader emerges

CHURCHS FERRY, N.D. -- Holly Rose Mawby grows herbs, yes, but her bigger job is growing a community of vegetable and produce growers. In January, Mawby was named director for the Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture at Minot State University in Bottineau.

Democrats: Obama needs rural votes

DENVER -- Barack Obama's presidential campaign is mounting the most aggressive effort to win rural votes since Bill Clinton's campaigns in 1992 and 1996, but rural Democratic politicians and activists at the Democratic national convention in Denver told Obama's staff that they must intensify their efforts if Obama is going to win the rural votes he needs to be elected.