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Soil Builder Videos

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The Land Stewardship Project’s Soil Builders’ Network is developing a series of short videos highlighting how farmers are utilizing cover crops, rotational grazing, diverse crop rotations, and no-till to build soil health in economically viable ways. We will be adding videos to this page as they are produced. Here’s what we have so far:

• Composting with Johnson-Su Bioreactors with Doug Nopar

• What does Healthy Soil Look Like? Water Infiltration Test & Comparison

• Direct Marketing: How to Market to Your Ideal Customer & Manage Your Limited Time

• Grass Based Meat Marketing: Fostering Connection in a Digital World, with Leslie Svacina of Cylon Rolling Acres

• Grass Based Meat Marketing: Building Relationships and Running a Business, with Rachelle Meyer of Wholesome Family Farms

• Grass Based Meat Marketing: Raising and Selling an Exceptionally Good Product, with Mike Rupprecht of Earth-Be-Glad Farm

• Benefits of Soil Health with Farmer Rory Beyer

• Grazing & Soil Structure: The Connection Between Cattle & Water Infiltration, with Mark Erickson

• Climate Change Solutions Start with Farmers, with Rory Beyer

• Music Videos: In 2020, LSP commissioned Minnesota musician Bret Hesla to write and perform a couple of music videos that sing the praises of building soil health. Check out “Got Cover Crops” and “Back to Soil.” Listen to “Got Cover Crops” here, and “Back to Soil” here.

• Next Generation Farmer: Moving Cattle, Making Fence, Building Soil, with Abby Steinfeldt

• No-Till & Cover Crops with Farmer Rod Nelson

• Soil Health & the Next Generation, with John Snyder

• Planning for the Future, with Mike Krause

• Your Biggest Asset is Your Soil, with Dan Miller

• The Slake Test Doesn’t Lie: Farming, Flexibility & Soil Health, with Adam and Amanda Bedtke

• How Composting Builds Soil Health on One Minnesota Crop Farm, with Olaf Johnson

• Slake Test Shows the Power of Soil Health on the Rupprecht Farm

• How Robb Miller Uses Triticale as Soil Armor & Cattle Feed

• Planting Green with Farmer Curt Tvedt

• Soil Health Practices for a Changing Climate, with Martin Larsen

• Farmers Talk About Climate Change

• How Do We Stop Erosion? with TJ Kartes

• Cover Crops & Tile Lines, with TJ Kartes

• Seeding Cover Crops, with Tom Pyfferoen

• Multi-Species Cover Crop Mixes, with TJ Kartes

• Grazing Cover Crops, with Kaleb Anderson

• Conservation on a Dime, with Ed McNamara

• Cover Crops and Tile Lines, with TJ Kartes

• Putting on LSP Soil Health Workshops

No-till Videos

• Myron Sylling discusses lessons learned while planting green into cover crops.

• Myron Sylling discusses the benefits of planting green into cover crops.

• Myron Sylling discusses how-to plant into standing rye.

• Myron Sylling describes his no-till planter set-up.

 

 

Contact LSP’s
Soil Health Team

• Alex Romano, grazing,
612-767-9880, e-mail

• Robin Moore, non-operating landowners,
612-767-9480, e-mail

• Maura Curry, field crops,
612-767-9882, e-mail

• Caleb Langworthy, grazing,
612-767-0485, e-mail

 

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June 2023

Wednesday June 7

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Winter Camelina
Wednesday June 7
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Winter Camelina

The Environmental & Economic Clusters of Opportunity (EECO) grant provides an ecosystem services payment as well as risk management payments to growers enrolled in the program for winter barley, hybrid winter rye, winter camelina, and Kernza. Join us for an introductory webinar series on these four crops where we pair University researchers and Extension professionals with farmers who have trialed these crops on-farm. On June 7, there will be a webinar on winter camelina. Presenters include Matthew Ott (UMN post doc researcher, camelina genetics) and Anne Schwagerl (farmer, Browns Valley, Minn.).

To sign-up for the June 7 webinar on winter camelina, click here. These presentations will be recorded for future viewing if you’re not able to make it.

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Local Foods Planning Session June 7 in Madison
Wednesday June 7
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Local Foods Planning Session June 7 in Madison

The Madison Mercantile Local Food Planning Group will be meetingWednesday, June 7, from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.,at the Madison Mercantile. We will be brainstorming plans for creating a local food infrastructure at the Mercantile, as well as sharing local food opportunities through theReal Food Hub in WillmarandBecker Market.

Madison Mercantile Local Food Planning Group

Wednesday, June 7th @ 6 PM

Madison Mercantile

601 1st St., Madison, MN

Tuesday June 13

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Kernza
Tuesday June 13
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Kernza

The Environmental & Economic Clusters of Opportunity (EECO) grant provides an ecosystem services payment as well as risk management payments to growers enrolled in the program for winter barley, hybrid winter rye, winter camelina, and Kernza. Join us for an introductory webinar series on these four crops where we pair University researchers and Extension professionals with farmers who have trialed these crops on-farm. The June 13 webinar on Kernza features Jake Jungers (UMN assistant professor), Prabin Bajgain (UMN assistant professor) and Jay Peterson (farmer, Blooming Prairie, Minn.)

To sign up for the June 13 webinar on Kernza, click here. These presentations will be recorded for future viewing if you’re not able to make it.

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Upper Sioux State Park Land Return Listening Sessions & Planning Forward
Tuesday June 13
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Upper Sioux State Park Land Return Listening Sessions & Planning Forward

On April 5,there was a historic town hall meeting in Granite Falls where regional residents and Upper Sioux Community members came together to learn about the Upper Sioux Community’s history, relationship, and desires for the return of the Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the Upper Sioux Community. We also were able to ask questions of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources representatives and local elected officials, as well other community members. A proposal to return the state park land to the Upper Sioux Community was officially passed by the Minnesota Legislature during its recently concluded session.

We were encouraged by how we saw our neighbors respond to this proposal, being for the most part supportive of the return.We also heard how important and precious access to green spaces is to all of us who live here, and that many of us have deep connections and relationships with that park.

Please come and share your stories of connection and relationship to the Upper Sioux Agency State Park; we want to understand and honor our connection to this place and channelour passion for the area. We want to think as a community where we might be able to create new public access acres in the river valley with the funds allocated for replacement.Let’s beready and united to advocate locally for these green acres!

Join us on Tuesday, June 13, and/or Wednesday, June 28, at the Granite Falls Kilowatt Community Center (600 Kilowatt Drive, Granite Falls, MN 5624), from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for a light meal, and to share our stories and link arms to create new parkland in western Minnesota.

This event is free and open to the public, but food can only be guaranteed for those who register in advance. Please clickhere to register for June 13and/orhere to register for June 28.

Please contact Robin Moore atrmoore@landstewardshipproject.orgor 320-321-5244 if you have any questions.

This event is organized and hosted in partnership with The YES! House with Department of Public Transformation.

Wednesday June 14

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Hybrid Winter Rye
Wednesday June 14
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forever Green Webinar on Hybrid Winter Rye

The Environmental & Economic Clusters of Opportunity (EECO) grant provides an ecosystem services payment as well as risk management payments to growers enrolled in the program for winter barley, hybrid winter rye, winter camelina, and Kernza. Join us for an introductory webinar series on these four crops where we pair University researchers and Extension professionals with farmers who have trialed these crops on-farm. On June 14, there will be a webinar on hybrid winter rye. Presenters include Jochum Wiersma (UMN Extension small grains agronomist) and Richard Magnusson (farmer, Roseau, Minn.)

To sign-up for the June 14 webinar on hybrid winter rye, click here. These presentations will be recorded for future viewing if you’re not able to make it.

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