MOORETON, N.D. -- In 1915, Bagg Bonanza Farm took off its first crop. One hundred years later, the farmstead stands as one of the most intact monuments to a corporate farming style that defined ...

Among those farthest west may be mentioned one at the eighth siding, eighty - three miles from Fargo, the farm of Adams and Russell, with 700 acres in grain; at the thirteenth siding, 143 miles ...

InForum history columnist Curt Eriksmoen shares the story of Oliver Dalrymple, a man who became known as the "Minnesota Wheat King" and managed the world's first bonanza farm.

MOORETON, N.D. -- F.A. Bagg's Bonanza Farm, with 21 buildings and 100 men to work the fields, was larger than most nearby towns in the 1900s. The National Park Service plans a study to evaluate ...

History columnist Curt Eriksmoen writes about Eben Chaffee, a former seminary student from Amenia, New York, who established a bonanza farm in North Dakota in the late 1870s.

And the Bonanza farms contributed jobs for homesteaders, just as the Bakken boom has provided employment for North Dakotans who had been short of opportunities. The Bonanza Era lasted about 20 years.

FARGO -- A Soil Health Field Day will be held Aug. 21 at the historic Bagg Bonanza farm near Mooreton, N.D. Some of the events will be at a nearby North Dakota State University research and ...

Chaffee, a successful bonanza farmer and financial wizard, was just 47 at the time of his death. He left behind a devastated widow, five children and a business worth millions.

S keptics shrugged when Director E. S. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farm ebullated at Montreal: “I can say without any hesitation, that Canada is now the best country for farming in ...

Some farms opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, but the real Christmas tree-buying season still begins on Black Friday, said local farm owners. "Last year we had a bonanza," said Jerry Reid ...