Seeking Farmland to Buy or Rent: Wisconsin
Holly is seeking to rent or buy tillable, pasture and forested acres in Wisconsin. A house is needed. A pole building for storage, water and fencing would all be pluses. Available 9/1/26
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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 →
Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota
Amber is seeking to rent or buy 40 acres of pasture with 5 tillable in Minnesota. Amber is interest in a house and is available 6/1/26.
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 →
Land Line: Meat Giant, Farmland Access, Food Banks, Greenhouse Gases, Immigrants & the Economy, Swampbuster, King Oak
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 →
The Wonder of Farming with Nature
John Snyder’s Soil Health Journey Started with a Question: Where are the Worms?
Some five decades ago, a young aspiring farmer named John Snyder brought his bride Bernadette back to Minnesota from Tennessee to begin their farm and family dream together. The newlyweds settled in on a piece of rolling farmland near Preston in southeastern Minnesota where oak savanna forests, limestone ridges, and prairie meet. That first farmhouse… Read More →
Is That a Trophy Hunter Knockin’ on the Door?
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 →
‘Caring for the Land’ with Cover Crops, the Roller-Crimper & Spring CC Seeding
I “care for” 50 acres of certified organic cropland east of Caledonia in southeastern Minnesota. Although small in acreage, I am intent upon building back my soil using alternative farming practices like roller-crimping winter rye and spring-seeding rye before soybeans. I’d like to share some insights I’ve gathered while figuring out how to implement these… Read More →
Cashing in on Soil Quality
Talk of how agriculture can improve soil quality seems to be popping up more frequently these days. Perhaps the most exciting recent mention was in an issue of Successful Farming magazine, which has produced an impressive package of stories called The Good Earth. Most of what’s in this package won’t be news to anyone who’s… Read More →
Farm Beginnings Profile: Anna Racer & Peter Skold
Answering Community's Call
If you are the sort who likes to be outdoors, self-reliant and working close to the land, what Anna Racer and Peter Skold did for five summers might sound ideal. They worked at a camp in northern Minnesota where they took teenagers into the wilderness for six weeks at a time. But there comes a… Read More →