Ear to the Ground 182: Cover, Cattle, Clean Water
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How rotational grazing on one farm is improving profits, wildlife habitat and community relations.
Ear to the Ground Podcast
Here you will find LSP’s 20-year collection of podcasts featuring farmers, scientists, and others telling stories from the land. You can find LSP Ear to the Ground podcast episodes on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, and other podcast platforms.
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Ear to the Ground 181: Diverse Land, Drunk Grasshoppers
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How birds, biology and food production blend on one Minnesota dairy farm.
Ear to the Ground 180: Forging Strong Ties from Weak Links
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Using Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson training to make holistic decisions on a community farm.
Ear to the Ground 179: Risky Business
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LSP investigates how innovative farmers manage economic and agronomic risk.
Ear to the Ground 178: A Sick Healthcare System
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The MN Nurses Association’s Rose Roach talks about working with LSP to transform healthcare from a commodity to a human right.
Ear to the Ground 177: Covering the Bottom Line
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A farmer and a researcher talk about making cover crops pay.
Ear to the Ground 176: Testing Total Terra
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LSP experiments with a new test that provides deeper insights into soil’s productive potential.
Ear to the Ground 175: Spades, Worms & Fungi
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An Indiana farmer describes his experience with cover cropping and how it fits into a bigger goal of improving his land’s soil health (part 3 of 3).
Ear to the Ground 174: From the Roots Up
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A soil scientist compares Indiana’s ‘bottom up’ approach to advancing soil health to Maryland’s ‘top down’ system (part 2 of 3).
Ear to the Ground 173: A Million Acres of Cover Crops
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How Indiana became the king of cover cropping (part 1 of 3).