Charity Lutheran Church in Bismarck serves a meal once a month to a small town in South Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation where children and families often go hungry. (Sioux City Journal)

A 15-year-old in Thompson learned to farm, in part, from a computer game (and also from his grandfather), and this summer he farmed his own 20 acres with a $4,000 youth loan from the US Department of Agriculture. (Jamestown Sun)

The Sidney, North Dakota USDA-ARS unit hosted a scientist from the Republic of Georgia to learn how to better protect growing wheat. (Williston Herald)