Ear to the Ground 167: Small Goals, Big Plans
Farm Beginnings grads achieve a series of “micro-goals” in service of the bigger picture: a successful livestock enterprise.
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Ear to the Ground 166: From the Lab to the Land
A farmer works with a professor and her students at a local college to study the impacts of cropping on soil health.
Avian Flu & the Farmer: On Pinfeathers & Needles
I’ve been watching with great concern the outbreak of H5N2 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Minnesota turkey confinements. As of today, nine facilities in the state have been affected, including in Lac Qui Parle County, which borders Big Stone, where we live. I raise what the Minnesota Department of Agriculture refers to as a “backyard… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 165: A Night of Wendell Berry
LSP farmer-members honor Wendell Berry with an evening of readings.
Ear to the Ground 164: No GMO
Farmers, seed dealers and meat firms come together at an LSP meeting to talk about the non-GMO crop market.
Forever Green’s New Crop of Researchers
During a recent Land Stewardship Letter roundtable discussion about Forever Green (see “Forever Green: Relaying Resiliency” blog), eight University of Minnesota graduate students working on the initiative responded to the question, “What excites you most about this research?” New Tools Have Compressed Time • Kevin Dorn has been mapping the genome for pennycress, which holds… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 163: Trial by Fire
Rising from the ashes: Farm Beginnings grads recover from a disaster and launch a dairy farm.
Conservation Stewardship Program Deadline Extended to March 13
The deadline for farmers to enroll in the 2015 Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) has been extended to March 13. Farmers now have an additional two weeks to submit applications for new contracts. The deadline for farmers to renew existing contracts is still March 31. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has also released full information… Read More →
A Dairy Farm Rises From the Ashes
Not long ago, Rich and Carol Radtke were on a bit of a roll. They had graduated from the Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Beginnings course and felt the program had provided them a solid basis for developing a profitable farming operation on land they and their three children moved to in 2008. Before taking the… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 162: Ensuring an Insurance Disaster
How federal crop insurance is harming family farmers, the land and our communities—and why we all have a stake in reforming it.