Declining farm numbers among worries raised during Willmar ag conference

Declining farm numbers among worries raised during Willmar ag conference

WILLMAR — Minnesota saw the number of its farms decline over the past two years, Minnesota Department of Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen told attendees at the Partners in Ag Innovation Conference at the MinnWest Technology Campus in Willmar on Feb. 26. Numbers released just one week earlier by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the number of Minnesota farms declined from 65,300 to 64,000, according to the commissioner. The losses a…