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Zumbrota Township Residents Tell Insurance VP Kohlnhofer: ‘Protect what is valuable: No more factory farms’

December 5, 2017

Giant Bull Statue Accompanies Citizens to Lakeville LAKEVILLE, Minn. — Rural neighbors to a proposed factory hog farm in Goodhue County’s Zumbrota Township travelled to Lakeville today to confront Jeff Kohlnhofer, one of the factory farm’s proposers. Kohlnhofer, the vice-president of Kohlnhofer Insurance Agency in Lakeville, also co-owns Circle K Family Farms with his brothers.… Read More →

Ear to the Ground 201: Regenerating vs. Sustaining

A young farmer’s evolving view of livestock allows him to make a direct connection between profitability and soil health.

Ear to the Ground 198: Odd Acres of Opportunity

For one beginning organic dairy farmer, the path to affordable land leads through some trees, up a few hills, and over a brook.

Ear to the Ground 196: Turning Back the Clock

A farmer and a soil health expert talk about how livestock, cover crops and pastures are the “rock stars” of building soil health.

Kohlnhofers: Withdraw Your Factory Farm Proposal; Our Community’s Health is at Risk

By Dale Post

September 19, 2017

NOTE: On Thursday, Sept. 14, Land Stewardship Project members from Goodhue County’s Zumbrota Township in southeastern Minnesota released a report entitled, “A Community at Risk: A Report on Citizens’ Hydrogen Sulfide Monitoring at Kohlnhofer Factory Hog Farms in Goodhue County, Minn.” The report documented the results of hydrogen sulfide emissions monitoring at six hog facilities… Read More →

Farmfest Forum Sheds Light on Positive Role Government Can Play in Healthcare

By Paul Sobocinski, Aleta Borrud, Leslea Hodgson & Al Kruse

August 8, 2017

When we talk to our friends and neighbors who are on Medicare, they are happy with it and sure don’t want to give it up. The same is said by veterans who use Veteran’s Administration healthcare. Social Security is another popular government run program. We need to build on this success. During an “Addressing the… Read More →

Ear to the Ground 195: Grappling with a Monster

Farmer Tom Frantzen describes how he is using diversity to make his farm more resilient in the face of extreme weather.

Ear to the Ground 193: 50 Acres of Opportunity

A farmer’s wish to not have his land become just one more cornfield provides an opportunity for beginning farmers.

Ear to the Ground 192: Healthy Soil, Healthy Profits

A dairy farmer finds more microbes in the soil means more money in the bank.

LSP Launches ‘Keep Rural Minnesota Strong’ Media Campaign

April 10, 2017

Campaign Features Rural Opposition to State Legislation that Would Pave the Way for More & Larger Factory Farms in Minnesota The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) today launched a media campaign focused on rural opposition to proposed state legislation that would dramatically weaken environmental review of Minnesota’s largest proposed factory farms. The campaign features an advertisement… Read More →