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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 →

Farm Transitions: That Farm on Highway 40

By Brian DeVore
July 16, 2020

A Pioneering Organic Operation, a Trial Run, & the Next Generation Black, ominous clouds were approaching fast, and Luke Peterson was in a bit of a panic as he stood next to his tractor parked in an 80-acre soybean field, scanning the sky. Hooked up to that tractor was a rotary hoe, and before this…  Read More →

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota

Gabrielle is seeking to buy or rent 3 pasture acres in MN.  Water access is required. Ideally there is some fencing, but not required. Gabrielle is looking to move a herd of goats to a better site, and a flock of sheep in the future, raising for meat, milk and fiber.  No house needed.  Gabrielle…  Read More →

Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota

Lawrence is seeking 3 tillable acres in Minnesota to rent or buy.  No housing is necessary but a structure for drying cannabis flowers, water, electricity, and fencing would be helpful.

Farm Beginnings Profile: The Incubator Acre

A to Z's Mini-Plot is a Vital Link in the Beginning Farmer Chain

By Brian DeVore
February 15, 2014

When Lauren Barry pulls a weed or harvests a tomato this summer, she’s doing so on a one-acre plot of land steeped in history. Not the ancient, dusty kind that may or may not have relevance to the current situation, but history rooted in recent growing seasons, when other beginning farmers faced the same meteorological,…  Read More →

Land Line: Meat Giant, Farmland Access, Food Banks, Greenhouse Gases, Immigrants & the Economy, Swampbuster, King Oak

By Brian DeVore (editor)
April 29, 2025

The World’s Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange (4/25/25) Despite a long history of corruption and connections to illegal deforestation, the largest meatpacker in the world has been granted a listing on the New York Stock Exchange by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reports…  Read More →

Staring Down Doubts

How Valerie Hsu Saw Livestock as Part of Her Farm Dream

By Brian DeVore
June 30, 2025

2025-2026 Farm Beginnings Class LSP is now accepting applications for its 2025-2026 Farm Beginnings class session. For details, click here. ♦ ♦ ♦ This is a story about how traffic jams aren’t all bad, the powerful draw of regenerative agriculture, an MBA project, and how one woman living in the suburbs got over imposter’s syndrome,…  Read More →

Is That a Trophy Hunter Knockin’ on the Door?

By Brian DeVore
March 1, 2013

What with farmland changing hands at price levels that would make a Beverly Hills realtor blanch, one could be forgiven for jumping to an obvious conclusion: Farm Country is flush with cash these days. Indeed, based on pure numbers, the statistics are impressive. Midwestern farmland values increased 16 percent in 2012, the third largest gain…  Read More →