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Minnesota Now with Nina Moini
Cathy Wurzer

Minnesota's newest agricultural specialty: Crickets?

a close up photo of many crickets on an egg carton
Pat and Madeline Revier have more than 1 million crickets on their "farm" in Moorhead, Minn. They farm in an industrial space, raising crickets for human and animal consumption.
Courtesy of Pat and Madeline Revier

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Minnesota is an agricultural powerhouse. We produce corn, soybeans, hogs, turkeys and … crickets?

Pat and Madeline Revier run Revier Family Farms, a cricket farm in Moorhead, Minn. There, they raise over a million crickets for human and animal consumption.

How’d the Reviers get into cricket farming? Pat told host Cathy Wurzer that he grew up on a dairy farm, and he recently he got the itch to return to the farming lifestyle. He stumbled upon crickets as a space-efficient agricultural option.

Minnesota Now is revisiting this interview, which first aired in December.

Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

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