On Monday, June 20, 19 FFA members visited different businesses around the area to learn about their roles in agriculture. This event is a smaller version of the Summer Ag Tour where members travel to a different state and tour companies and businesses there. This experience was
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June 10, 2016 Members of the Sleepy Eye and New Ulm Young Professionals groups partnered for a joint event, “Bites and Brews,” last Thursday evening at the August Schell Brewing Company in New Ulm. The 58 attendees, 25 of whom are members of the Sleepy Eye group,
Read more →March 19, 2016 Brown County farmers and their farm organizations donate $3,450 to New Ulm, Sleepy Eye and Springfield food shelves Friday. From left, Brown County Corn and Soybean Association grower Jim Peterson, Amber Portner of Christensen Farms & Feedlots, Inc.; New Ulm Emergency Food Shelf Director
Read more →On February 20 – 27, 2016, FFA Chapters around the country will be celebrating National FFA Week. Starting back in 1947, the National FFA Board of Directors designated the week of George Washington’s birthday as National FFA Week in recognition of his legacy as an agriculturist and
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On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Christensen Farms hosted its second annual awards banquet in New Ulm, Minnesota to recognize the 2015 Christensen Farms Organizational Award winners. A portion of this evening was spent honoring these winners by presenting the Christensen Farms Award for Excellence to 18 individuals
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Triumph Foods, a producer-owned pork processing company located in St. Joseph, Missouri, has donated more than 20,000 pounds of meat to Second Harvest Community Food Bank for distribution through its network of 100 partner agencies, just a few months after announcing a 17,000-pound bulk donation. The donation
Read more →SLEEPY EYE – A Haitian woman recently completed a year-long swine production internship program at Christensen Farms and is headed back to the tropical climate of her home country this week. While an agronomy scholarship student at EARTH University in Costa Rica, Carina Theodore applied for the
Read more →Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving Holiday! The Christensen Farms Team is committed to and takes pride in being an industry leader in responsibly producing high quality pork for the noble purpose of providing food to a growing world. Respect | Integrity | Excellence | Adaptability |
Read more →On Tuesday, September 22, Christensen Farms’ CEO, Glenn Stolt, and Vice President of Production, Jeff Rusch, presented at the Allen D. Leman Conference, an annual educational event for the global swine industry. “Evolution and Change – Preparing for Tomorrow” – the title and focus of Stolt and
Read more →Learn how to handle emergencies involving livestock truck rollovers! October 20, 2015- Marshall, MN October 21, 2015- Austin, MN Merit Center 1001 West Erie Road Registration 11:30 a.m. Training: Noon to 6:30 p.m. Mower County Fairgrounds 700 12th St. SW Registration: 8:30 a.m. Training: 9 a.m.
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