SEBEKA, Minn. -Mel and Merf Aho and their 16 siblings were no strangers to rock picking on their Sebeka farm. Sebeka farmer Mel Aho, with his friend, Perry Gilmour, has designed and built the RP1000 ...

ANOKA, Minn. — Kent Roessler, who farms north of Anoka, says picking rocks is fun with his invention. Based on an idea by his then-four-year-old son, Roessler has created the ROBO Rock Picker. It's a ...

SEBEKA, Minn. -- On a field in northeast Otter Tail County, Minn., littered with field stones ranging from pebbles to volleyballs, the RP 1000 moves onward and then upward. A curious, self-propelled ...

Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm/ranch life easier, but says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market.

SEBEKA -- On a field in northeast Otter Tail County, littered with field stones ranging from pebbles to volleyballs, the RP 1000 moves onward and then upward. Mel Aho, a native of Sebeka area, who ...