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LSP’s 21st Family Farm Breakfast at the Capitol Highlights the Importance of Fighting for Choices

Farmers & Others Lobbied Lawmakers on Healthy Soil, Clean Water, Sustainable Animal Ag, Farm to Kids, Land Access & Fair Markets 

March 16, 2026

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Guaranteeing a brighter future for rural Minnesota is about creating the opportunity for farmers and nonfarmers to make choices, Pine County livestock producer Hannah Bernhardt told over 150 Land Stewardship Project (LSP) members and allies gathered at Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill in Saint Paul on March 11. The event…  Read More →

MN Ag Bill Supports Market Access, Land Access & Soil Health 

LSP Members & Allies Make Their Voices Heard at the Capitol 

May 21, 2025

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Although the Minnesota Legislature wrapped up its 2025 session on May 19 with some unfinished business, the Agriculture Bill passed before adjournment, which means Land Stewardship Project (LSP) priorities related to market access, land access and soil health will make it to Gov. Tim Walz’s desk. “While this was a difficult…  Read More →

LSP Land Line: Big Ag Gravy Train, Habitat Loss, Soil Health, Dairy Crisis, Nitrogen, Kernza

By Brian DeVore
September 25, 2020

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 agriculture have been a gravy train for mega-operations. According to an analysis done by the Environmental Working Group, the largest 1% of…  Read More →

Time for Action on Nitrate Pollution in our Groundwater

By Bobby King
March 18, 2019

The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) is holding a public meeting in Red Wing at the St. James Hotel on Monday, March 25, at 5 p.m., to discuss the value of a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) on nitrate pollution in the karst area of southeastern Minnesota. (RSVP here.) Two million dollars is proposed in…  Read More →

Farmland for Rent: Minnesota (Southeast)

Jake is seeking 10-20 acres of land (at least half tillable and the remaining land a combination of pasture and forested) within 30 minutes of Northfield, MN. Jake is a beginning farmer who intends to develop a diversified operation centered on regenerative poultry production. Ideally, the land is currently owned and farmed by farmers who…  Read More →

Farming & Our Community: Why Should I Care? A Banker’s Perspective

By Karen Stettler
January 3, 2014

As part of our work to help beginning farmers gain access to farmland, the Land Stewardship Project has been working with the Plainview Land Access Organizing Committee in southeast Minnesota. For the past two years, farmers, business owners and others in the agricultural community of Plainview have been meeting to raise awareness of issues beginning…  Read More →

LSP: Listening to Our Members, Planning for the Future

By Rebecca Terk-White & George Boody
December 20, 2013

The Land Stewardship Project has been spending part of this fall gathering input from members and staff on how we should proceed with our work during the next five years. This development of what we call our “long range plan” has taken the form of member-leader input sessions, staff meetings and a survey sent out…  Read More →

‘Exploring Conservation on Rented Farmland’ Online Workshop Jan. 24

January 3, 2023

MADISON, Minn. — Are you a farmland owner who values good stewardship practices or a farmer looking to invest in soil building on rented land? The Land Stewardship Project (LSP), in partnership with the Lac Qui Parle Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), is offering an online workshop on Tuesday, Jan. 24, to help you…  Read More →

A Hub of Soil Health Activity

By Brian DeVore
May 3, 2016

How Indiana is using cover cropping and early adopters as ‘gateways’ into a deeper understanding of sustainable soil management. It’s an overcast August morning in northeastern Indiana, and in a massive machine shed well stocked with the tools of a modern row crop operation, some 60 farmers are being reminded that growing corn and soybeans…  Read More →