PINE ISLAND — A farm-raised elk from a herd in Olmsted County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. The brain stem and lymph nodes from a ...

WELCH, Minn. — A bull elk sat in the grass June 10 at Fredrickson Elk Farm in Welch. Antlers on the large beast rose high above his head. "That’s nothing," said Shirley Fredrickson, who operates the ...

DARBY (AP) — The owner of an elk farm near here says he may fight a court ruling preventing him from donating more elk to the Crow Indian Reservation. Len Wallace shipped 68 elk from his Big Velvet ...

“Farming is a tough business, and you’re always at the mercy of the weather.” That was true the morning of June 28 when rushing waters from the Otsquago Creek that usually ripples calmly through the ...

HELENA — A judge refused Thursday to lift a court order preventing the transfer of hundreds of elk from a Darby game farm to the Crow Indian Reservation, a move being challenged by the state as a ...

PARK RIVER, N.D. - Wayne Laaveg lives in the house his grandparents built in 1926. The sturdy, white, two-story farmhouse is nestled snugly under sheltering trees in the middle of Walsh County, ...

ST. PAUL-Minnesota livestock regulators are not doing all they could to protect deer and elk from disease, a state audit shows. "We found that the Board of Animal Health has failed to enforce some ...

As chronic wasting disease cases mounted in its captive herd, a Washington County deer and elk farm was depopulated last month by state and federal agents. Forty-four white-tailed deer and 16 elk were ...

Elk ate an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 pounds of blueberries this season at a large farm in northwest Washington, according to farm managers. The elk damaged about 40 acres of the 650-acre Golden ...

When state agriculture officials announced last week that chronic wasting disease had been detected in an elk on a Burnett County breeding farm, they also said the facility - Smoking Gun Elk - was ...

On land once envisioned for the gridiron of the Chicago Bears, likenesses of elk roam today instead. Those 29 bronze figures represent the massive $1 billion Elk Grove Technology Park under ...