PINE ISLAND — A farm-raised elk from a herd in Olmsted County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. The brain stem and lymph nodes from a ...

WELCH, Minn. — A bull elk sat in the grass June 10 at Fredrickson Elk Farm in Welch. Antlers on the large beast rose high above his head. "That’s nothing," said Shirley Fredrickson, who operates the ...

Elk ate an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 pounds of blueberries this season at a large farm in northwest Washington, according to farm managers. The elk damaged about 40 acres of the 650-acre Golden ...

Motorists who drive along Lakeview Road near American Falls might take notice of the neighbors: residents of the antlered type. Elk Hollow Ranch, owned by Todd and Deborah Rowbury, is an elk farm ...

ST. PAUL-Minnesota livestock regulators are not doing all they could to protect deer and elk from disease, a state audit shows. "We found that the Board of Animal Health has failed to enforce some ...

PARK RIVER, N.D. - Wayne Laaveg lives in the house his grandparents built in 1926. The sturdy, white, two-story farmhouse is nestled snugly under sheltering trees in the middle of Walsh County, ...

When state agriculture officials announced last week that chronic wasting disease had been detected in an elk on a Burnett County breeding farm, they also said the facility - Smoking Gun Elk - was ...

An elk on a farm north of Rochester -- the largest elk farm in the state with about 1,000 head -- has been found to have chronic wasting disease. It's the first time the fatal brain disease -- known ...

WEST BURLINGTON — A group of about half-a-dozen elk bulls approached the cab of the utility vehicle and seated trailer as it entered their pasture alongside U.S. 34 just outside of West Burlington. As ...

As chronic wasting disease cases mounted in its captive herd, a Washington County deer and elk farm was depopulated last month by state and federal agents. Forty-four white-tailed deer and 16 elk were ...