RYEGATE – A year ago, the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony in Ryegate launched a steel fabrication operation after leaders there realized they needed to do something different. Hutterites have farmed ...

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INKSTER, N.D. — On a busy October morning during the potato harvest, Solomon Maendel thanks God for the year’s bountiful crop. Throughout the day, dozens of semis will line up at the Forest River ...

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GOLDEN VALLEY COLONY — The pigs had it so easy. Swine flu? The name that slammed barbecue lids shut on baby back ribs? A turkey should be so lucky. Standing in the warmly lit poultry barn, the white ...

GRAND FORKS - A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also ...