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LSP Legislative Update: Proposals Related to Local Food, Land Access & Soil Health Moving Forward

Budget Issues Loom Large as Regular Session Heads into Final Weeks

By Laura Schreiber 
April 8, 2025

As we pass a key date in the 2025 Minnesota legislative calendar, several initiatives supported by the Land Stewardship Project remain alive and are moving through the committee process. In order to be considered as part of an omnibus bill, the majority of proposed legislation had to be heard in both the House and Senate…  Read More →

Farmland for Rent: Minnesota (Southeast)

Dayna is seeking a farmer to rent 70 acres (pasture, tillable and forest) in Spring Grove, MN, Houston County.  Pasture and silvopasture available for sheep, poultry and/or cattle plus some tillable land depending on interest in small scale annuals. Dayna’s current focus is on small scale seed production plus brush management goats, which means there…  Read More →

Farmland for Rent: Minnesota

Patty is seeking a farmer to rent 30 tillable acres in Maple Lake, MN Wright County.  No house or buildings.  This opportunity is available 1/1/26.

Land Line: Erosion Wake-up, Agrivoltaics, Farm to School, Deep USDA Cuts, Factory Dairy Fight, Farm Aid, New Meat Plant

By Brian DeVore (editor)
June 9, 2025

Soil Health Specialists Sound the Alarm on Continuing Soil Erosion (5/9/25) Despite a “Wake-up Call” warning issued a decade ago, wind erosion has continued to significantly damage soil health in North Dakota, according to Agweek. Highlights: Ten years after NDSU soil health expert Dave Franzen issued a report called “Wake-up Call” that highlighted high levels…  Read More →

Land Line: CAFO Control, Cancer in Farm Country, Nitrates, Soil Health, Farm to School

March 19: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities

By Brian DeVore
March 19, 2025

Something Smells With the Feedlot Trend, and it’s More Than Just the Manure 3/16/25 Ron Way, former assistant director of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, writes in the Star Tribune about how factory farms have transformed the landscape in southern and central Minnesota. Highlights: Since the 1970s, backers of large-scale, industrialized livestock production have successfully…  Read More →

Seeking Organic Farmland to Rent

Angela is seeking one acre of tillable, certified organic farmland with housing.  Angela is also interested in considering an internship.

Legislative Wrap-Up: A Chaotic Session  Produces Concrete Results

Market Access, Land Access & Soil Health Support Passes 

By Laura Schreiber
May 20, 2025

Give it a Listen Episode 374 of LSP’s Ear to the Ground podcast features a discussion with government relations director Laura Schreiber about how the organization’s priorities fared during the legislative session. ♦ ♦ ♦ As I write this, the regular session of the 2025 Minnesota Legislature wrapped up with some unfinished business, which means…  Read More →

Solar Powered Land Access

Proving Energy & Food Production Can Co-Exist — 1 Megawatt at a Time

By Brian DeVore
November 17, 2022

On an overcast day in late June, Arlo Hark drives a semi into a gravel parking lot near the southeastern Minnesota community of Rushford pulling a trailer adorned with an “Eat Lamb: 10,000 Coyotes Can’t be Wrong” bumper sticker. He opens two doors on the side of the trailer and 120 lambs and ewes explode…  Read More →

Farmland for Rent: Wisconsin

Stefan is seeking a farmer to rent 20 tillable acres in White Lake, WI (Eastern Langlade County.)  There is an alfalfa field that was seeded several years ago and still has a good stand. Looking for a farmer to maintain, mow, and keep the hay. Open to other uses as well.  No house available.  Willing…  Read More →

Environmental Review & ‘Real Ag’

By Brian DeVore
February 13, 2015

When Renville County dairy farmer James Kanne addressed a Minnesota Senate hearing on environmental review Jan. 29, he made it clear that size does matter when it comes to assessing the impact of an agricultural operation on the land and community. “If you have 50 cows in one spot, they have a small impact,” Kanne…  Read More →