Flour mills made Minneapolis the country's largest producer of flour from the 1880s to the 1920s. The soil gave out and wheat farmers had to diversify. Today, crops include sugar beets, potatoes, corn, soy beans, and vegetables, along with livestock.
Food processing includes meat packing, cheese making, brewing, and canning.
Explore details on Crop Systems that were prepared by the Minnesota Extension Service . Find out where you can purchase Minnesota Grown Fresh Produce and More . Logging began in the St. Croix Valley in the 1830s. Lumberjacks had to haul the logs on horse-drawn sleds. By about 1920, most of the pine timber was gone.