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Don Huber describes how Roundup/glyphosate alters soil biology, making crops more susceptible to disease (part 3 of 5).
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Ear to the Ground 99
Don Huber describes how Roundup/glyphosate can create virulent diseases in crop fields as well as herbicide-resistant superweeds (part 2 of 5).
Ear to the Ground 98
Don Huber describes how Roundup/glyphosate works (part 1 of 5).
Ear to the Ground 97
A young couple works to prove their small farm is a viable business.
Denying the Science, Derailing the Solutions
I talked to a Todd County farmer yesterday who uses 100 percent no-till and other conservation measures to raise his crops. Conserving soil is important to him, and so he’s quite upset at how mobile humus has been on neighboring farms this fall/early winter. “You know that little skiff of snow we got the other… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 96
Overcoming challenges to sustainable pork production.
Farm Beginnings Profile: Brad & Shelley Schrandt
Riding the Storm Out
A few years ago, Brad and Shelley Schrandt faced a dilemma: should they keep their dairy herd at around 20 cows for a few more years while working off the farm, or should they expand enough to justify quitting those town jobs? They went for the expansion in an attempt to simplify their life. Shelley,… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 95
A play about a retiring couple’s struggle with their farm’s future (part 2).
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A play about a retiring couple’s struggle with their farm’s future (part 1).
Farm Beginnings Profile: Josh & Sally Reinitz
In the Land of Green Giants
When you grow up on a farm in the shadow of the Jolly Green Giant, you can’t help but think that size matters when it comes to success in agriculture. Josh Reinitz’s family’s land sits between Minneapolis and Mankato, just a few miles from where a wooden likeness of the Green One and his apprentice… Read More →