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LSP Winter Farm Transition Planning Course Launches Jan. 27 Online  

Sessions to be Led by Farmers as well as Legal & Financial Professionals

LEWISTON, Minn. — Are you a farmer or landowner thinking about the next steps for your farm and land? Or do you know someone who is? The Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Transition Planning Course provides a holistic opportunity to dig into important topics and learn from experienced farmers and professionals. The online course will be…  Read More

How are Tariffs & Trade Impacting Your Farm?

LSP is Looking for Your Feedback on Tariffs & Trade

Recently, staff at the Land Stewardship Project helped plan a webinar given by our partners at the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment (CFFE) which updated us on tariffs and what they mean for food and farm policy and the factory farm system. The webinar covered the basics of how trade policy impacts agriculture,…  Read More

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Iowa

Skylar is seeking to rent 40+ acres in Webster, Calhoun & parts of Greene & Pocahontas counties.  Skylar is interested in buying 40 acres in Webster or Calhoun.  Skylar has been farming for 10 years in Webster & Calhoun county. In the last 5+ years he has been integrating more cover crops and no till…  Read More

Farmland for Rent: Michigan (Southwest)

Emily is seeking a farmer to rent 80 acres (25 tillable, 15 pasture, 20 forested, and 20 other) in Southwest Michigan in Berrien County.  There is a barn, field shelters, and a licensed meat freezer storage/farm store.  Also there is fencing, animal travel lanes, animal watering pipeline, 2 wells, internet, sheep equipment,  and stock trailer. …  Read More

Protect Local Control & Include Farmer Voices for Conservation

Let NRCS Leadership Know Local Farmers' Voices Matter

Local control provides local governments the ability to make decisions that benefit their communities. It can happen at the township, county, city, or regional level. The decisions that are made can impact everything from local policy to how public funds are spent. Right now, the federal government is considering changing the rules for local decision-making…  Read More

Environmental Sustainability: Birds, Biology & Balance

4th in a Series on LSP's Soil Health Hubs

Some sins against the land can be masked over with deep tillage, chemical inputs, and, when all else fails, moving dirt around with heavy equipment. But you can’t fool a good soil probe. For Mike and Jennifer Rupprecht, that revelation came when a retired soil scientist sunk his equipment deep into a couple spots on…  Read More

Economic Sustainability: Financial Field-Talk

3rd in a Series on LSP's Soil Health Hubs

On a misty June morning in northeastern Iowa, Nikki Meyer led half-a-dozen farmers down a field road through a thick stand of oaks and other hardwoods. The going was tough — the road dropped 400 vertical feet in less than half-a-mile, and a half-inch rain earlier had made the footing greasy with mud. Sensing that…  Read More

Ear to the Ground 386: A Farm to School Taste Test

How a small, rural school district is taking a trial run at sourcing food from local farmers. More Information • MDA Farm to School & Early Care Programs & Grants • Report: Building the Farm to School Network in West Central Minnesota • LSP’s Community-Based Food Systems Web Page • Ear to the Ground 385:…  Read More