There are rarely traffic jams in the small Adams County farming town of Ritzville, but there was one last week as people turned out in droves for 20 tons of free potatoes. At times, the line of cars ...

Unlike the Amish, the Hutterites have embraced much of modern technology. Agricultural technology, such as irrigation systems, has been a boon to the colony, which has grown from cultivating 3,000 ...

HAWLEY, Minn. - The fourth annual "Breakfast on the Farm" will be held from 7 to 11 a.m., Saturday at the Spring Prairie Hutterite Colony near here. The colony is about 10 miles northwest of Hawley on ...

CONRAD, Mont. -- If it wasn't for the Hutterites, the Big Sky State would be home to only a small number of hogs. Forty colonies account for a whopping 95 percent of Montana's hog production. Midway ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Last spring, members of the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony plowed under their lentil field and on the land began construction of a manufacturing plant. The structure, now nearly ...

A Hutterite colony east of Winnipeg has been cleaning up after neighbours raised a stink over a large pile of chicken manure that had been dumped close to a creek. A CBC-TV crewsent toget pictures ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

Hutterite colonies, known for running progressive, diversified farms, could become drivers for rural economic development and value-added processing, Kevin Hursh writes.