Critics have said the acquisition would give Cargill too much power in the market. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin reports. Agriculture experts from around the world gathered in St. Paul this week to talk about the future of farming. The University of Minnesota conference comes at a time when farmers are facing unprecedented pressures resulting from plunging prices, rapidly changing technologies, and increasingly stiff competition in world grain markets. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.
Residents say that a tornado ripped through the southeastern Minnesota town of Lewiston last night.
No one was seriously injured, but the twister terrorized residents as it smashed more than two dozen homes and other downtown buildings. It also churned up cars, trees and power lines in its path. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports. Veloso was jailed and then exiled from his homeland in the 1960s. He's a founding member of the Tropicalia movement that infused non-Brazilian musical styles into traditional song forms.