Ag Partners

Holst Family Farms wins World Forage Superbowl

Jan 15, 2025

Holst Family Farms won Grand Champion at the 2024 World Forage Superbowl with their dairy hay. Jeremy and Jessi Holst and children Adalida and Lane along with Jeremy’s mother Maren Holst farm outside of Lake City. They milk around 100 cows and raise crops for feed and market extra hay. There...

Firefighters train with grain rescue equipment

Sep 19, 2018

Lake City firefighters trained Sept. 11 with equipment designed to help rescue people stuck in grain or a similar material like sand. Firefighters assemble shields around the victim to form a tube. Whatever the person is trapped in can then be removed from around the person until they are freed. Ag...

New co-op offers health plans for farmers

Nov 16, 2017

Ag Partners will host an informational event where farmers can learn about the health plans available from a newly established health care cooperative. 40 Square Cooperative Solutions is a healthcare cooperative enabled by legislation passed last year, according to the Minnesota Farmers Union,...

Friday ice cream events celebrate dairy farmers

Jun 22, 2017

June is Dairy Month, and two Lake Ciy businesses are celebrating dairy farmers with ice cream giveaways on Friday, June 23. Ag Partners is hosting an ice cream social Friday, June 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at its Lake City location, 512 S. 8th St. Alliance Bank, 105 E. Lyon Ave., will be giving...

County rancor moves upriver in 2015

Jan 6, 2016

Donald Springer ended the last Wabasha County Board meeting of 2015 by thanking his fellow commissioners for a peaceful and productive year. 2015 followed several years of rancor and discord on the board. But two new commissioners, Cheryl Key and Brian Goihl, took office at the beginning of the...

For farmers in 2015: Lots of crops, not much profit

Dec 30, 2015

Ag Partners completed construction on a 615,000 bushel, 90-foot diameter grain bin this summer, just in time. The bin, along with a half-million bushel bin built two years ago, are full thanks to a bumper crop raised by farmers in 2015. Mark Ryan of Ag Partners said farmers throughout Wabasha...