The annual Iowa Farm Bureau young farmer summer trip shifted gears this year, heading north to Minneapolis instead of east to Chicago to learn more about agriculture industries and network with other beginning farmers.

A visit to the Chicago Board of Trade typically highlighted the trip to the Windy City, but the transition from open-pit trading to an electronic platform removed that attraction. Instead, about two dozen Farm Bureau members from across Iowa headed to Minneapolis last week for tours of a CHS barge terminal on the Minnesota River, Bayer’s seed treatment...