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Earlier Land Stewardship Letters

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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

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July 2025

Friday July 11

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Big Community Carne Asada Cookout
Friday July 11
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Big Community Carne Asada Cookout
Todd Park, 2411 11th St NE, (Site #1), Austin MN 55912

You’re invited to our Big Community Carne Asada Cookout! Join COPAL and the Land Stewardship Project for an afternoon of delicious grilled food, music, and great company. Let’s come together to share stories, build stronger connections, and keep growing a united and supportive community. 👉 Limited spots available — register at the link!

 

🔥 ¡Está invitado a nuestra Gran Carne Asada Comunitaria! Acompáñe a COPAL y a Land Stewardship Project para disfrutar de una tarde con comida deliciosa a la parrilla, música y buena compañía. Unámonos para compartir historias, fortalecer lazos y seguir construyendo una comunidad unida y solidaria. 👉 Cupo limitado, regístrese en el enlace.

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⏰ 5PM

📍Todd Park, 2411 11th St NE, (Site #1), Austin MN 55912

🔗 Register / Regístrese: https://loom.ly/hZ0bS1U

Saturday July 12

10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Fishing, Farming & Food: Rush Creek's Fish Kill Anniversary & Why it Matters
Saturday July 12
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Fishing, Farming & Food: Rush Creek's Fish Kill Anniversary & Why it Matters
Farmers Community Park, 23274 Arches Road Lewiston, MN 55952

During the Fishing, Farming & Food: Rush Creek’s Fish Kill Anniversary & Why it Matters event, the Land Stewardship Project will mark the three-year anniversary of a major fish kill in southeastern Minnesota that spawned citizen action and led to new public policy around how such events are reported. Join Land Stewardship Project and our partners at Farmers Park, Saturday July 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Lewiston, Minnesota. Register here.

What to expect?

  • Fly fishing demonstration led by Minnesota Trout Unlimted and LSP member, Lee Stoe. Please bring your own fishing gear.

  • Minnesota Trout Unlimited & Izaak Walton League staff and members will be leading macroinvertebrate sampling of Garvin Brook and discussing what they tell us about the health of the stream.

  • Discussion on how regenerative farming systems can support healthy soil and clean water.

  • Opportunity to take action! Help prevent future fish kills by sharing how you think the Minnesot Feedlot Rule, which is open for comment through July 22, should be stronger. Postcards will be available to fill out and send with your comments.

  • Farmers Park is a great spot for birding. Please bring your binoculars!

  • You are welcome to bring your own snacks or picnic lunch; food will not be provided at this event.

LSP is partnering with several community groups for this event, including:

Minnesota Trout Unlimited, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Izaak Walton League, Food & Water Watch, and Savanna Institute

Register HERE. For more information, contact LSP’s Kate Rowe at krowe@landstewardshipproject.org.

Tuesday July 15

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Organic Fruit & Vegetable Field Day
Tuesday July 15
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Organic Fruit & Vegetable Field Day
1805 Dudley Ave, Falcon Heights, MN 55113, USA

Join U of M researchers and Extension for updates on organic fruit and vegetable research and tour the Student Organic Farm and the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in Saint Paul. Topics include: organic insect management, integrating livestock into vegetable farms, new crops for Minnesota, irrigation strategies, and more. Free to the public.
 
For details and to register, click here.

Wednesday July 16

9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Russell Hedrick Soil Health Event: Cottonwood County
Wednesday July 16
9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Russell Hedrick Soil Health Event: Cottonwood County
27092 Co Rd 8, Comfrey, MN 56019, USA

Details here.

Thursday July 17

9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Russell Hedrick Soil Health Event: Pipestone County
Thursday July 17
9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Russell Hedrick Soil Health Event: Pipestone County
518 30th Ave, Jasper, MN 56182

Details are here.

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  • Tell Your Representatives: We Want a Farm Bill for All, Not a Tax Break for the Wealthiest July 2, 2025
  • U.S. Supreme Court’s Decline of Iowa Case Bolsters Local Control July 2, 2025

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