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Land Line: Senate Budget Bill, Who Owns Land?, Nitrates, Conservation Cuts, Immigration, Drought When Wet, Judging Soil, Sea of Grass

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Clears Senate, Sending it Back to House (7/1/25) Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 tie in the U.S. Senate today to pass President Donald Trump’s centerpiece legislation on tax cuts and spending, the 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill,” reports Oklahoma Farm Report. In order to pay for spending on…  Read More →

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Wisconsin

Steve Loucks is seeking farmland in the Wisconsin Driftless area.  Steve is an organic farmer looking to rent small/medium acreage in the Driftless for produce and perennials like strawberries and herbs… Does not have to be certifiable. Some pasture to run chicken tractors and/or sheep would be nice. Some sort of small off-grid dwelling would…  Read More →

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota

Sara is seeking to rent or buy up to 2 acres in Minnesota.  Sara would like to house her small backyard hen flock and, if conditions are right, expand.  Sara would provide all necessary equipment including hen house, run, and other fencing as needed. She is moving to Delano (more restrictive) from Watertown and does…  Read More →

Land Line: Trillion $ Landlord, Ag’s Next Generation, Fertilizer Prices, Oats, Farm Finance Grumbles, CAFO Permits, Big Meat

The $1.7 Trillion Landlord: New USDA Data Reveals the Shifting Face of Ownership (3/12/26) Farm Journal reports on new USDA showing a 47% surge in rented farmland value over the past decade, even as the footprint of available acreage shrinks. With $1.7 trillion in assets now held by a shifting demographic of landlords, the landscape…  Read More →

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota

Maya is seeking a small plot of land (as small as 1/4 acre) to rent or buy within a 60 minute drive from Minneapolis. Maya is a beginning farmer who hopes to grow vegetables for a small CSA and for free food distribution efforts. Maya is open to creative land access arrangements, including renting land…  Read More →

A Water Summit Systemic Solution: Continuously Clean Water Needs Continuous Living Cover

Water, as Land Stewardship Project board member Vince Ready says, is vital for life. When Governor Mark Dayton’s Water Summit takes place on Feb. 27, it’s likely a lot of innovative proposals for solving Minnesota’s water quality crisis will be discussed. That’s good, because this Summit is centered around one of the most basic questions…  Read More →

Who Benefits When Emerging Farmers Can’t Succeed?

Emerging Farmers: What Do You Think of This Proposed Legislation?

Last year, the Land Stewardship Project celebrated the historic investments in emerging farmers that we won at the Minnesota Capitol. One of these wins included doubling the funding for and prioritizing emerging farmer applicants within the Minnesota Farmland Down Payment Assistance Program, which the Land Stewardship Project worked on with the Midwest Farmers of Color…  Read More →

Seeking to Rent or Buy Farmland: Wisconsin

Luis is seeking land to buy or rent in Wisconsin.  Luis would provide specially Quackgrass/ Couchgrass and other invasive weed non-chemical low impact removal and controlling services in exchange for renting and working part of the land organically or improve into transit to be organically certified. Available immediately.  Read More →