Oct. 23: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
Connecting Farmers Through Music, Land Stewardship Project Commissions Conservation Songs
(10/18/20) Kaitlyn Riley at WIZM Radio describes how LSP...
Page 1 of 15
-
LSP Land Line: Singing Soil Health's Praises, Hunger & Children, COVID Relief, Farm Stress
-
LSP Land Line: Re-Carbonizing Soil, Hot September, Ag Payments, School Meals, Price Fixing
Oct. 15: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
World Food Prize Laureate Advocates for Re-Carbonizing Soil to Protect Food Production
(10/13/20) Soil scientist Rattan Lal, the 2020 Word Food Prize laureate, makes the case that...
-
LSP Land Line: MnDOT & Spraying, Frac Sand, Rural COVID-19, Climate-Smart Ag
Oct. 9: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
Minnesota Department of Transportation rethinks no-spray ditch program after yanking signs
(10/9/20)...
-
LSP Land Line: Ag & Climate Change, Cover Crops, Farmland Prices, Local Food Up North
Oct. 5: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by changing climate – research
(10/5/20) Climate change could render swathes of agricultural land largely useless for farming in...
-
Farm Transitions: A Transition Power Team
A Farm Transfers Ownership & a Farmer Transfers into a New Role
What’s that stuff in soil that’s supposed to provide humans a sense of wellbeing? You know, like a protozoa-based version of Prozac? Emmalyn Kayser is trying to come up with the name on a recent March afternoon as she and Chris Burkhouse squat in a high tunnel and busily weeded spinach seeded the...
-
LSP Land Line: Organic Acreage Up, Local Meat Production, Price Fixing
Sept. 30: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
Mercaris: Organic Production Continues to Grow
(9/28/20) The U.S. harvested organic field crop area will exceed 3.4 million acres over the 2020-2021 marketing year, which is an increase of 4% over the...
-
LSP Land Line: MnDOT & Spraying, Massive Meat Exports, Farm Income, COVID & Farm Workers
Sept. 28: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
MNDOT abruptly ends 25-year program with organic farmers
(9/25/20) Noah Fish reports in the Grand Forks Herald on how organic farmers and the Land...
-
LSP Land Line: Big Ag Gravy Train, Habitat Loss, Soil Health, Dairy Crisis, Nitrogen, Kernza
Sept. 25: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
Very large farms collect one-fifth of USDA’s coronavirus payments
(9/23/20) Chuck Abbott reports on Agriculture.com that the government's COVID-19 payments to...
-
Big Meat's Big Lie
On April 27, meat giant Tyson Foods took out a full-page advertisement in major newspapers that carried an alarming message. “The food supply is breaking,” it said. The ad went on: “We have a responsibility to feed our...
-
LSP's Farm Beginnings Deadline is Sept. 15
The deadline to apply for the Land Stewardship Project's 2020-2021 Farm Beginnings class is Tuesday, Sept. 15! This year-long training program focuses on the goal setting, marketing, and financial skills needed to establish a successful farm business. Classes will take place...
-
Agriculture, Insects, Ecology & Economics
An Entomologist Sees Farms as Part of the Solution to Biodiversity Loss
It’s called the “windshield effect” — a harsh but effective way to gauge insect populations. The more dead bugs smashed on the front end of your F-150, the more live ones buzzing around in surrounding fields. Scientists, and anyone who drives for that matter, are noticing...
-
Farm Transitions: That Farm on Highway 40
A Pioneering Organic Operation, a Trial Run, & the Next Generation
Black, ominous clouds were approaching fast, and Luke Peterson was in a bit of a panic as he stood next to his tractor parked in an 80-acre soybean field, scanning the sky. Hooked up to that tractor was a rotary hoe, and before this particular day in early summer, the young western Minnesota farmer had...
-
Time to Level the Farming Playing Fields for BIPOC
Systemic racism is ingrained in all of our institutions, including our farm and food system. Achieving structural change and justice begins with standing together, walking alongside each other, and lifting up voices that need to be heard to express outrage and to demand a new status quo.
In honor of "Juneteenth," the...
-
Channeling Water's Power Profitably
Farmers Battle Saturated Soils with More Roots in the Ground
To Tom Cotter, the various natural resources his farming operation relies on don’t operate in a vacuum. Rather, they have a relational quality — the role one resource plays in keeping his business viable depends on how it interacts with other resources. For example, rain falling out of the sky is, in...
-
LSP Statement on the Police Killing of George Floyd
We at the Land Stewardship Project are shocked, saddened, and outraged at the news that a black man died while in police custody Monday night, less than three blocks from the Minneapolis office of the Land Stewardship Project. Video...
-
2020 Legislative Session: What Happened & What’s Next
The past few months have been harder than ever for thousands of Minnesotans. Our communities were already facing a serious farm crisis, inaccessible and unaffordable healthcare, increasing impacts of climate change, corporate consolidation across our economy, and more. On top of that, a pandemic has wreaked havoc on our healthcare system, farm and food...
-
Community-Based Meat Processing as a Public Good
Many small and medium-size farms are trying to survive by selling meats directly to retail customers and restaurants. The idea shows promise as a way to revitalize an economy otherwise in the shadow of huge farming enterprises. We need slaughterhouses; several good, new up-to-date buildings should be placed...
-
Fulfilling a Social Contract
A Viral Carrot Sale During a Pandemic Reveals Local Food’s Potential…& Limits
In mid-March, when it was becoming clear the COVID-19 pandemic was going to change the way food is procured in the U.S. and beyond, the owners of Open Hands Farm placed five bags of carrots and a money box in their driveway....
-
Now is the Time to Create a More Humane Healthcare System
As of today— April 10 — due to the outbreak of COVID-19, nearly 350,000 Minnesotans have applied for unemployment benefits. That is already more than the total number of applicants in all...
-
The 'Big Reveal'
The Coronavirus Pandemic Unmasks a Brutal, Multinational Food & Farming System that's as Unsustainable as the Economic Model that Created it
As the coronavirus disrupts “normal” life in America and worldwide—and we ride the rapids of shifting strategy and messaging from the White House, its cabinet, and Congressional leaders — the pandemic also...
-
One Disruption Away
I got a call from a colleague this morning asking how I was dealing with the corona virus pandemic and I said I was feeling grateful. Grateful to live in a rural area where my primary activity outside of working for the Land Stewardship Project is goofing around outside collecting firewood and going for long walks,...
-
A Message from LSP on the COVID-19 Virus
We are writing with an important update on how the Land Stewardship Project is responding as COVID-19 spreads throughout our communities and our world.
In the best interests of the health and well-being of our staff, members, and communities, we have decided to take some important actions. Our work can and must move forward. While we are finding new ways to adapt to this changing...
-
Midwestern Farms Can Counter Climate Change
One of the best approaches for combating climate change lies beneath every Midwestern farm: the soil. By increasing soil organic carbon, farmers can help the climate, their bottom lines, and their farms and communities better adapt to the impacts of extreme weather. The Land Stewardship Project is part of the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (MSAWG), a growing, informal network of...
-
State Policy Update: Time for Legislative Action on the Farm Crisis is Now
At the Land Stewardship Project, we know that we depend on each other to thrive and that our government, public institutions, and economy exist to serve each and every person, as well as our land, water. and air — no exceptions.
... -
Farmers, Landowners: Why You Do Not Want to Miss Jonathan Lundgren
In my experience, few learning experiences are more motivating to me than the ones that help us see the connections around us, empowering us to make more of a difference than we thought possible.
I see this a lot in my work with non-operating farmland owners via their enthusiasm to learn about soil health, farming practices that build soil, and ways to support their renting farmers in...
<< Previous Next >>