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Farm Aid is Offering to Photograph Minnesota Farms That Will be Featured at the Sept. 20 Concert
We wanted to make you aware of an opportunity Farm Aid is offering Minnesota farmers as the Land Stewardship Project and our allies prepare to welcome the group’s 40th Anniversary concert to Minneapolis on Saturday, Sept. 20. Farm Aid is seeking farmers who would like to have their operations photographed in early August. These photos… Read More →
MDA Announces 2025 Recipients of the AGRI Farm to School & Early Care Programs
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The Land Stewardship Project congratulates the 2025 recipients of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s AGRI Farm to School and Early Care Programs. This includes K-12 school districts and early care centers that received reimbursement grants, as well as family daycare providers participating in the MDA’s first-ever Local Tots Cost-Share Program. Grantees span the… Read More →
Bernhardt: ‘I hope the federal government will honor their commitments to farmers.’
MN Senate Hearing Highlights How Government Programs Benefit Individual Farmers & Communities
“I know it’s really valuable to know what I can count on. When I signed a contract with the government, I should be able to plan ahead for my season and count on that.” — LSP Program Committee chair & farmer, Hannah Bernhardt ♦ ♦ ♦ On Feb. 17, the Minnesota Senate Agriculture Committee heard from farmers… Read More →
Land Line: Bird Flu, Egg Prices, Immigration, Funding Freeze, Conservation $$
Feb. 17: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
The Unnatural History of Bird Flu (2/12/25) Science journalist Brandon Keim, writing in Nautilus, provides an in-depth overview of the causes of the current H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, which has resulted in the death of 150 million chickens and turkeys, either by the virus itself or due to euthanasia as officials attempt to curb its spread.… Read More →
Breaking the Meat Processing Bottleneck
Endowed Chair Puts the Right People in the Right Place to Address a Critical Problem
A cornerstone of creating a regenerative agricultural system in the Upper Midwest is reintegrating livestock onto the land in a way that farmers can add value to forages and grains while cycling nutrients in a manner that manure becomes a way to build soil biology, rather than a waste product to be disposed of. Over… Read More →
Senate Ag Committee Releases Farm Bill Draft
How LSP’s Top Priorities Fare in the Proposed Legislation
For decades, Land Stewardship Project members have been organizing to ensure that our federal farm policy serves people and the land, not corporate interests. This latest Farm Bill cycle has been no different. With approximately $1.5 trillion on the table, it’s important that LSP members are engaged in the process of drafting and passing a… Read More →
Tell Your MN House Member Today to Lower Prescription Drug Costs & Reject Poison Pill Amendments
MN Legislature is Considering the PDAF Proposal THIS WEEK
During this legislative session, Minnesota lawmakers are considering the passage of a bill to create a PRESCRIPTION DRUG AFFORDABILITY BOARD (PDAB) and pharmaceutical corporations are doing everything they can to stop it. On Friday, April 14, an amendment was passed on the Senate Floor that would exclude rare disease drugs, as well as any drug that has been… Read More →
LSP Supports Return of State Park to Upper Sioux Community
This Land Rightfully Belongs to the Upper Sioux Community
Note: The Upper Sioux Agency State Park is located in western Minnesota’s Yellow Medicine County. For years, leaders of the Upper Sioux Community have asked to have the park land, which is sacred to them, returned to the community. The park is adjacent to the Upper Sioux Community and holds several burial sites and other… Read More →
Legislation to Reinstate MPCA Community Board gets 1st Hearing in MN Senate March 9
Citizens’ Board Was Eliminated after Ordering an EIS on a Factory Farm
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — A bill to reinstate a key body for allowing Minnesota residents to have a say in the future of their communities’ environmental health will be considered during a legislative hearing on Thursday, March 9. The Senate State and Local Government and Elections Committee will consider the reinstatement of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s… Read More →