...extension's smaller role has upset some farmers along the way. "We really got gypped when the change came about," said Roger Dale, a corn and soybean farmer in Hanley Falls. Prior to the shakeup, Dale's county, Yellow Medicine, had its own...

...than in recent years. But as is always the case, Stinson added, it's not the same for all farmers and communities. Roger Dale of Hanley Falls, in west-central Minnesota, said his area and parts of the far southwestern corner of Minnesota have...