RED WING, Minn. -- A Goodhue County jury recently awarded $2 million to Lexvold Dairy Partners in the case of a defective silo unloader. The award -- one of the largest ever in a Goodhue County civil ...

In the early morning hours of Sept. 30, a farm owner noticed the smell of smoke coming from a 70-foot stave silo in the town of Byron, in rural Fond du Lac County, and called the fire department.

A maker of silo loaders/ unloaders wound up in court when its promotional materials misled customers, causing them to suffer huge business losses. One judgment went well into seven figures, and many ...