Seeking Farmland to Rent: Wisconsin
Mark is seeking 10 acres to rent in Wisconsin. No house is needed but a barn, water and electricity would be preferable. Available 6/1/26.
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Seeking Farmland to Rent: Minnesota
Garret is seeking 80 tillable acres to rent in Minnesota. No house is necessary.
Soil Health: From ‘Light Bulb’ Moment to Daily Practice
How Todd Duncan Learned to be Comfortable with being Uncomfortable
Nearly seven years ago, northeastern Iowa farmer and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) district conversationist, Todd Duncan, along with a group of local producers, started looking for tangible solutions to the erosion problems they were seeing on their farms. These farmers had already been implementing NRCS’s best management practices when it came to conversation, but… Read More →
Channeling Water’s Power Profitably
Farmers Battle Saturated Soils with More Roots in the Ground To Tom Cotter, the various natural resources his farming operation relies on don’t operate in a vacuum. Rather, they have a relational quality — the role one resource plays in keeping his business viable depends on how it interacts with other resources. For example, rain… Read More →
Returning Home to Farm, Committed to a Conservation Tradition & Building Soil
After receiving my degree from St. Olaf College last spring, I have returned to the family farm outside Caledonia, Minn. I come home with a deeper understanding that soil rich in organic matter and biota can function more efficiently than biologically deprived soils. Having grown up on this small southeastern Minnesota beef and crop farm,… Read More →
Goals, Realities & Soil Health
It’s been said that soil without biology is just geology—an accumulation of lifeless minerals unable to spawn healthy plant growth. And as intense monocropping production practices increasingly remove more life from the ground than they return, it sends that soil closer to fossilization via what conservationist Barry Fisher calls, “the spiral of degradation”: eroded, compacted… Read More →
Feed the Plant, Starve the Soil
There are lots of reminders out there that we have a long ways to go before building soil health becomes a mainstay of our food and farming system. Some reminders are subtle, while others are about as blunt as a baseball bat to the head. A reminder of the latter variety is featured in the… Read More →
Legislative Wrap-up: Lack of Ag Bill Passage Represents Lost Opportunities
Some Gains Made for Clean Water/Soil Health & Beginning Farmers
It’s been said that politics is the art of the compromise. But during the 2026 session of the Minnesota Legislature, that approach to policymaking was undermined by disagreements about the role one particular herbicide should play in the state’s agricultural production system. As the session of the Minnesota Legislature entered its final month, it was… Read More →
Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota
Melanie is seeking one acre of tillable land in Minnesota. No house is needed but fencing is preferred. Available 6/1/26.
LSP Sets Priorities for 2019 MN Session
The Land Stewardship Project’s State Policy Steering Committee convened last week to start setting LSP’s state policy priorities for the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session, which begins Jan. 8. The committee, made up of LSP members who are farmers and leaders in their communities, directs what LSP supports and champions on the state level. Below are… Read More →