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Autumn 2007 Land Stewardship Letter

The Next 25 Years ♦ LSP’s New Logo Controversy ♦ Myth Buster: GMOs & Pesticides ♦ Whistleblower Testimony ♦ Next Generation Workshop ♦ Winona Harvest Fest ♦ Walk for Justice ♦ LSP in D.C. ♦ A Barn-raising Celebrates LSP’s 25th Anniversary ♦ Atrazine’s Big Day ♦ 2007 Farm Bill Report Card ♦ Rewarding Performance-based Conservation ♦ Factory Farm Paper Chase ♦ Minnesota Cooks 2007 ♦ Grass-fed Label ♦ Rapid Market Assessment ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Joe & Michelle Gransee-Bowman ♦ Reviews: The Haymakers; Farm Aid: A Song for America ♦ Stewardship Calendar

Summer 2007 Land Stewardship Letter

Gordon King’s Memos of Understanding ♦ Bird Habitat on the Menu ♦ Myth Buster: Farm-to-School & the Law ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Walk for Justice ♦ Perennial Plants & the Bioeconomy ♦ 25th Anniversary Celebrations ♦ 2007 Farm Bill ♦ Supporting Organic Research ♦ Local Fair Trade Label ♦ Minnesota Grown ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Farm Beginnings: 10 Years After Graduation ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Carol Ford & Chuck Waibel ♦ Reviews: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle ♦ Poetry by Wendell Berry, Joe Paddock & Mary Rose O’Reilley ♦ A Government Whistleblower, Pesticide Research & Public Policy

Spring 2007 Land Stewardship Letter

LSP’s New Logo ♦ Land Ethics in Action ♦ Grain Subsidies & Livestock ♦ Myth Buster: Conservation Tillage & Climate Change ♦ LSP Turns 25 ♦ Walk for Justice ♦ Planting in the Dust ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Serfling Scholarship ♦ Beginning Farmer Bill Introduced ♦ LSPers in the Nation’s Capitol ♦ Family Farm Breakfast at the Capitol ♦ Homegrown Economy Conference ♦ Centro Campesino’s Stand for Justice ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Healthy Food & Healthcare ♦ Buy Fresh Buy Local ♦ Reviews: Food Fight; Dirt; From the Farm to the Table

Winter 2007 Land Stewardship Letter

The World’s Biggest Farm Beat ♦ Myth Buster: Factory Farms & Their Secret Subsidy ♦ Smart Gambling & Organics ♦ Damming Water Quality Problems ♦ Family Farm Breakfast at the Capitol ♦ Homegrown Economy Conference ♦ Keeping the Wealth Home ♦ LSP Members go to D.C. ♦ Checkoff Money & Factory Farms ♦ Race Equity Card ♦ Preview of the MN Legislature ♦ Mega-dairy Stymied ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Dave & Erin Varney ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ 2007 CSA Farm Directory ♦ Multiple Benefits of Ag: The Monitoring Team’s Legacy ♦ Reviews: Farming & the Fate of Wild Nature; The Worst Hard Time ♦ Nancy Paddock Poetry

Autumn 2006 Land Stewardship Letter

A Winning Strategy for Sustainable Ag Policy ♦ A New Farm Bill ♦ Myth Buster: Organic Veggies & E. coli ♦ Profitable Prairie Grasses ♦ Ethanol & Local Economies ♦ Sustainable Ag Gets the Green Light ♦ Serfling Scholarship ♦ Bringing Congress to the Farm ♦ Farm Bill Petition ♦ Township Manual ♦Ripley Township in Court ♦ Is MDA Abandoning Sustainable Ag? ♦ The New Farm Initiative ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Peter & Katy Hemberger ♦ Pride of the Prairie ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Multiple Benefits of Ag: 3 Farms Without Boundaries ♦ Reviews: Chew On This; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; A Prayer for the Prairie

April/May/June 2006 Land Stewardship Letter

One County’s Experiment with Local Food as Rural Economic Development ♦ Ethanol & Rural Development ♦ Art Hawkins Remembered ♦ Myth Buster: The “All Natural” Lie About Factory Chicken ♦ Diverse Damage Control ♦ People-powered Democracy ♦ Proposed Grass-fed Label Released ♦ Keeping Wealth at Home ♦ When Subsidies Spin Out of Control ♦ Piping in Problems ♦ Health Benefits of Grass ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Aimee Finley ♦ Ear to the Ground Podcast Online ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Review: Chicken

January/February/March 2006 Land Stewardship Letter

Economic Development: Putting Farming Back in the Driver’s Seat ♦ Act Big or Get Out ♦ Dave Serfling Remembered ♦ Myth Buster: Erosion & Artificial Fertility ♦ A Migrant Labor Quiz ♦ Sunny-side Up at the Capitol ♦ Is USDA Full of Gas or Grass? ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Lyle Kruse ♦ Legislative Update ♦ LSP Members in D.C. ♦ Food Alliance “Keepers” ♦ Review: Simply in Season

October/November/December 2005 Land Stewardship Letter

A Food Monolith Gets a Facelift ♦ Myth Buster: Industrial Ag & Efficiency ♦ Real Dirt Film ♦ Voices of Minnesota Farm Women Documentary ♦ Farm Beginnings Expanding to Neighboring States ♦ An Organic Conference Blossoms ♦ A Township Defines its Future ♦ New Attacks on Local Control ♦ Legislative Preview ♦ Policy as if Food Mattered ♦ Water, a Soft Drink King & Social Justice ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Brad & Leslea Hodgson ♦ Fresh Start on an Old Farm ♦ Review: The Long Emergency

July/August/September 2005 Land Stewardship Letter

When Ag Policy Goes Good: A Series of CSP Profiles ♦ From Dust to Voices ♦ What do Farmland Travelers Really See? ♦ Don’t Tame Wild Rice ♦ Blue Plate Special: A Greener Landscape ♦ Myth Buster: Climate Change & the Supposed Ag “Boost” ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Reagan & Kevin Hulbert ♦ Contacting Congress About CSP ♦ Minnesota Cooks at the State Fair ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local ♦ Main Street’s Local Food Lion ♦ USDA Grass-fed Label Being Developed ♦ Soil Erosion up 95%?

April/May/June 2005 Land Stewardship Letter

When Farmers Go From Price Takers to Price Makers ♦ Organic Certification & the USDA ♦ Slash & Burn Policy Making ♦ MN Legislature, Family Farming & Local Control ♦ The View of Subsidies from an African Farm ♦ Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling on Checkoff ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Robin Moore ♦ Contacting Congress About CSP ♦ Minnesota Cooks at the State Fair ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local ♦ Slow Food on a Slim Budget ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Reviews: Hope’s Edge; Triumph of Technique ♦ Myth Buster: “Right to Farm” & Land Use Conflicts

January/February/March 2005 Land Stewardship Letter

From the Land to the Lunchroom ♦ Slow Food’s Fast Company ♦ Myth Buster: Organic Milk’s CAFO Cheaters ♦ BioScience Paper: Diverse Ag’s Climate Role ♦ Voices of Minnesota Farm Women has TV Debut ♦ LSP Farmers Take Message to D.C. ♦ Bill Would Weaken Local Control ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ LSP Calls on Legislature to Meet “96% Test” ♦ Checkoffs & CAFO Funding ♦ Frances Moore Lappé, Democracy & Food ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Eric & Lisa Klein ♦ Farm Beginnings Approaches the Decade Mark

October/November/December 2004 Land Stewardship Letter

Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: 9 Profiles of Beginning Farmers ♦ Myth Buster: Family Farms & Exclusive Livestock Contracts ♦ In Memory of Paul Homme ♦ Farm Beginnings in 3 New States ♦ Task Force Calls for Policies That Support Livestock on Family Farms ♦ Checkoff Goes to Supreme Court ♦ Dodge County Factory Farm Fight ♦ Local Control Petition ♦ Food Alliance Scholarships ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local ♦ Time, Soil, and Children: Conversations with the Second Generation of Sustainable Farm Families in Minnesota

July/August/September 2004 Land Stewardship Letter

Eyes on the Perennial Prize ♦ Myth Buster: Family Farms & Exclusive Livestock Contracts ♦ In Memory of Paul Homme ♦ Farm Beginnings in 3 New States ♦ Task Force Calls for Policies That Support Livestock on Family Farms ♦ Checkoff Goes to Supreme Court ♦ Dodge County Factory Farm Fight ♦ Local Control Petition ♦ Food Alliance Scholarships ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local ♦ Time, Soil, and Children: Conversations with the Second Generation of Sustainable Farm Families in Minnesota

April/May/June 2004 Land Stewardship Letter

Dream of Wild Health: The Secret Lives of Seeds ♦ Real Farmers Aren’t Afraid of Local Democracy ♦ Manure: Not All Dead Zones are in the Gulf ♦ Supreme Court to Rule on Checkoff ♦ A Pork Checkoff Timeline ♦ CSP Sign-up ♦ 2004 Legislature a Mixed Bag, but Local Control Saved ♦ Citizen Livestock Task Force Formed ♦ Better Business Planning for Better Farming ♦ Hunger is Closer than You Think ♦ Beginning Farmer & Rancher Conference ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Review: Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism

January/February/March 2004 Land Stewardship Letter

Community Supported Stewardship ♦ CSA Roundtable ♦ A CSP That Serves Farmers & the Land ♦ MN Lawmakers Attempt to Gut Local Control ♦ Ag Consolidation Hurts Local Democracy ♦ Field Day Season is Here ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Reviews: Local Flavors; Recipes from America’s Small Farms

December 2003 Land Stewardship Letter

Building Crop Resilience Through Farmer-Scientist Partnerships ♦ Science for the Citizens ♦ Farming’s Productivity Curse ♦ Industrial Ag’s War Terminology ♦ Keeping the Land & Cows Together ♦ Myth Buster: High Debt Dairying ♦ Beginning Farmer & Rancher Conference ♦ The Farm Beginnings Express ♦ Looking for CSA Farmers ♦ LSP’s Energy Policy Statement ♦ The Walmart Effect & Hog Farming ♦ Congress Funds CSP ♦ How to be Heard at the Legislature ♦ Food & Farm Connection ♦ Multiple Benefits of Ag: Reducing Erosion Through Diverse Ag ♦ Navigating the GEIS: Manure & Soil ♦ Review: Food Politics

October/November 2003 Land Stewardship Letter

A Public-Public Partnership: It Takes a Village to Raise an Enlightened Experiment Station ♦ Science for the Citizens ♦ Amber Waves Blows an Ill Wind ♦ Myth Buster: Country of Original Labeling ♦ Hog Farming’s Word Salad ♦ Townships & the Roots of Democracy ♦ Checkoff Ruled Unconstitutional ♦ Survey: Sustainable Ag Being Stymied ♦ Farming With the Wild ♦ Farm Beginnings: Livestock Loans Passed On ♦ Getting Behind CSP & Pushing ♦ Factory Farming’s Misinformation Master ♦ Food & Farm Connection: One Cafe’s Food Justice Mission ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Navigating the GEIS: Farm Animal Welfare ♦ Review: Fateful Harvest

July/August/September 2003 Land Stewardship Letter

Science for the Citizens: When Scientists & Farmers Team Up ♦ Anatomy of an Interdisciplinary Study ♦ The Real Dirt on LSP ♦ Myth Buster: We Still Have a Soil Erosion Problem ♦ Soil to Table ♦ Endowed Chair Filled by LSPers ♦ Multi-state Beginning Farmer Gathering ♦ Policy: CSP, EQIP, COOL on Tap ♦ Factory Farm Nuisance Lawsuit Advances ♦ Dodge County Residents Fight Factory Farm Proposal ♦ When a Factory Farm Comes to Town ♦ Food & Farm Connection: Midwest Food Alliance ♦ Buy Fresh Buy Local: Upper Minnesota River Valley ♦ Navigating the GEIS: The Critical Role of EAWs ♦ Review: Farming with the Wild

April/May/June 2003 Land Stewardship Letter

The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems ♦ A New Approach to Farm Credit ♦ LSP’s Ag Credit Survey ♦ Ag Policy: A Tale of Two Farms ♦ The False Premise of “Livestock Friendly” ♦ MN Legislature: Environmental Review Gutted, Foreign Investment Stymied ♦ Analysis: Citizen Review of Feedlots Not Abused ♦ Pork Checkoff Reviewed in Courts ♦ Chewing the Fat Over Farmer-Chef Relations ♦ Food & Farm Connection ♦ Breaking Down Barriers with Pride of the Prairie ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Grazing & Profits ♦ Navigating the GEIS: Manure Spills vs. Manure Application ♦ Farm Beginnings Begins 7th Year

January/February/March 2003 Land Stewardship Letter

The People’s GEIS: A Groundbreaking Study of Animal Ag ♦ Honey Bees: The Sting of Pesticide Misuse ♦ Myth Buster: Are Small & Medium-sized Farms Worth Saving? ♦ Mathematics of Factory Farm Welfare ♦ Water, Grass & Livestock ♦ Meetings Tuck into Local Food Issues ♦ Farm as Natural Habitat Praised ♦ Checkoff Case Goes to Appeal ♦ Conservation & D.C. — It’s Not All Bad News  ♦ ValAdCo Settles with the State ♦ Packer Ban Introduced in Senate ♦ New Federal CAFO Rules ♦ Poetry by Larry Olson ♦ How “Livestock Friendly” Threatens Local Control ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Review: Fatal Harvest; Coming Home to Eat

October/November/December 2002 Land Stewardship Letter

20 Years of Telling the Land’s Story ♦ A 20-Year LSP Timeline ♦ Eyewitnesses to History: LSP Members Tell Their Stories ♦ The Next 20 Years ♦ Remembering Paul Wellstone: Organizing’s Ally ♦ Pork Checkoff Ruled Unconstitutional ♦ Who are LSP’s Members? ♦ LSP’s Activist Board of Directors

July/August/September 2002 Land Stewardship Letter

Rotating in a New Generation of Farmers ♦ The Future of Farm Beginnings ♦ An Argument for Regional Economics ♦ Local Food Guide for Upper Minnesota River Valley ♦ Corporate Vampires ♦ Public Research-Public Goods ♦ Farm Beginnings: The Next Step ♦ LSP Celebrates 20 Years of Keeping the Land & People Together ♦ Farm & Food Connection: Great Foods-Great Stewardship ♦ Midwest Food Alliance Retailers ♦ The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems Published

May/June 2002 Land Stewardship Letter

Daring to Drop Drugs in Animal Ag ♦ Antibiotics, Agriculture & Resistance ♦ A Modest Proposal: Flies with that Fecal Burger? ♦ Farm Beginnings Takes to the Field ♦ Hog Farmers Hail Beef Checkoff Ruling ♦ LSP Members Expose Failure of Environmental Review Agency ♦ Tapping the Wisdom of 5 Generations ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Beat the Farm Bill Devil ♦ Myth Buster: Insecticides & Superbugs ♦ Holistic Management & Multiple Benefits ♦ Biodiversity, Agriculture & Holistic Management ♦ Review: The Next Green Revolution ♦ The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems Published

March/April 2002 Land Stewardship Letter

Antibiotics, Agriculture & Resistance ♦ Bacterial Backwaters ♦ LSP Makes a Difference on the National Level ♦ The Threat of Globalization ♦ Anti-corporate Farm Laws & Rural Economic Development ♦ “Protect Our Water” Gets Mixed Response from Legislature ♦ LSPers Fight Factory Farms Across Minnesota ♦ Alternative Livestock Production ♦ Farm & Food Connection ♦ A Productive LSP Internship ♦ Reviews: The Antibiotic Paradox; Life on the Farm ♦ The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems is Published ♦ LSP Celebrates 20 Years

January/February 2002 Land Stewardship Letter

Keeping the Land & People Together for 20 Years: A Special Report on LSP’s Work & Results of its Programs ♦ LSP Gets Results ♦ Encouraging Stewardship Through Research & Education ♦ Creating a Regional, Sustainable Food System ♦ Creating a New Vision for Agriculture ♦ Making LSP Stronger

NOV/DEC 2001 Land Stewardship Letter

Factory Farm Spuds ♦ LSP Pushes Farm Bill Reform ♦ Livestock GEIS Falls Short ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Western Minnesota Food Survey ♦ Midwest Food Alliance: Faces Behind the Food ♦ Review: The Botany of Desire

SEPT/OCT 2001 Land Stewardship Letter

Agriculture’s Untapped Potential ♦ Soil Scientist: Corn-Soybean System is Unsustainable ♦ Conservation Stewardship Act Advances ♦ Who’s Afraid of Competition? ♦ Farm Aid Benefit Concert ♦ Local Foods Banquet ♦ Waseca Residents to Appeal Factory Farm Decision ♦ Farm Beginnings Opens Doors ♦ Credit for Innovative Farmers ♦ Meet Some Who Dish it Out ♦ Review: Keeper of the Wild

JULY/AUGUST 2001 Land Stewardship Letter

Peeling Back the Prairie Pelt ♦ Mushroom Checkoff Ruling ♦ Pride of the Prairie Launched ♦ USDA Nomination Bad News ♦ Local Food, Local People ♦ MN Sustainable Ag Funding Restored ♦ Food & Farm Connection ♦ Is Conservation Tillage Possible Without Chemicals? ♦ Review: This Organic Life

APRIL-MAY-JUNE 2001 Land Stewardship Letter

Farm Policy Pitfalls ♦ Remembering Donella (Dana) Meadows ♦ Farmers Sue USDA Over Checkoff ♦ Global Warming & Farmers ♦ Citizens Protest MPCA on Factory Farm Failures ♦ Grazing School & Entrepreneurial Workshops ♦ Minnesota Legislative News ♦ Review: Trust Us, We’re Experts ♦ Have Your Donations Matched

JAN/FEB/MARCH 2001 Land Stewardship Letter

Pork Checkoff Voted Down by Farmers ♦ Life After the Checkoff ♦ GMOs & the Land Grant Mission ♦ Glickman, GMOs & Morality ♦ Court Orders Dairy EIS ♦ Waseca Mega-Dairy Put On Hold ♦ MN Sustainable Ag Programs in Jeopardy ♦ Food-Farm Festival ♦ Stewardship Food Network ♦ Midwest Food Alliance ♦ The Monitoring Project’s Sequel ♦ Book Review: Fast Food Nation

DECEMBER 2000 Land Stewardship Letter

GMOs in Ag: Germinating a Closed Science ♦ Holding GMO Companies Accountable ♦ Myth Buster: GMOs & Farm Economics ♦ Women in Agriculture ♦ The U of M Research Agenda ♦ Sustainable Ag & Wildlife ♦ LSP Joins CAFO Dairy Fight in Waseca ♦ Monitoring Sustainable Ag with Conventional Financial Data ♦ Midwest Food Alliance ♦ Main Street Stewardship ♦ LSP Members Take Concerns to AG ♦ Stewardship Food Network  ♦ Book Review: Ripples from the Zambezi