Seeking Farmland to Buy: Ohio
Aravindu is seeking tillable land in Ohio to buy. No housing is needed. Aravindu would be ready for land 12/31/24.
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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 →
Organic Farmland for Rent: Wisconsin
Jeremy is looking for a farmer to rent 40 organic acres (18 tillable acres, 8 forested acres and 5 pastured acres) in Clayton, WI (Polk County.) Housing is available in addition to a shed and high tunnel (white plastic). There is also well water access, mushroom compost, and lakeside access. Rent: $1600/ mo available 7/1/25.
The Crop Insurance Conundrum
More Evidence that a Safety Net has Morphed into a Web of Destruction
When one sees the word “unambiguously” used in a carefully researched academic paper, it’s time to take notice. For example, a recent Journal of Policy Modeling study reports results that are “…unambiguously suggestive of a crop insurance policy regime that is biased in the direction of increasing consolidation in crop farming….” That conclusion is based on… Read More →
Grazing as a Public Good
As a Nature Conservancy scientist based in a Midwestern state, Steve Chaplin thinks a lot about the impact agriculture has on ecological treasures such as native tallgrass prairie. “Other than plowing, grazing has probably been responsible for the degradation of more prairie than any other source,” says Chaplin, who is in the Conservancy’s Minnesota field… Read More →
Land Line: Food Systems, Funding Freeze, John Deere, Immigration, Regenerative Farm Family
March 3: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities
Surrounded by Crops in Minnesota Farm Country, but with Little to Eat (2/26/25) Star Tribune columnist Karen Tolkkinen writes about the paradox plaguing rural communities in western Minnesota: despite massive amounts of land being devoted to agricultural production, little fresh, affordable food is available for local residents. Highlights: A recent study of the food system in… 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 →
Ear to the Ground 230: Renting It Out Right
Robin Moore talks about how LSP is using soil health to forge stewardship partnerships between non-operating landowners and the farmers who rent from them.
For more resources on how to develop farmland leases that reflect your stewardship values, click here.
Spanish-Language Land Access Workshop for Beginning & Aspiring Farmers April 27 in Northfield
NORTHFIELD, Minn. —A culturally relevant “Land Access: Are You Ready?” workshop will be held for Spanish-speaking beginning and aspiring farmers Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Emmaus Baptist Church, 712 Linden St. N., in Northfield. This Land Stewardship Project (LSP) workshop is free; materials, lunch and childcare are provided. To register by April… Read More →
Land Line: Carbon Cow Stomp, CC Myths, Record Plantings, Dairy Bankruptcies, Rural COVID Cases, Dangerous Line Speeds
Feb. 21: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities A Different Kind of Land Management: Let the Cows Stomp (2/17/21) The New York Times writes about how Texas cattle producer Adam Isaacs is using regenerative grazing to reclaim worn-out, weedy pastureland on some 5,000 acres. Highlights: Regenerative grazing means closely managing where… Read More →