Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval

On an ordinary summer afternoon, one could expect to see a line of cars form at the entrance of the Sky-Vu Drive-In theater and spill out onto the state road just beside it. As people in each vehicle drove by the marquee to pay admission, they’d park in front of the screen as the sun set and the film began.

On a recent hot summer day, Paul Maier, a soon-to-be 9-year-old from Barnesville, confidently strode up to the center of a big stage at the Clay County Fair in northwest Minnesota.

Farming is one of the industries with the highest risk for suicide. Mental health experts say financial pressures are a common reason why.

The bottleneck of boats in the Straits of Hormuz is hitting area farmers hard with rising costs and limited supply of things like diesel fuel and nitrogen fertilizer.