By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership – @mattjdoll After a multiyear process and input from Minnesotans from around the state, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has approved and is beginning implementation… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
University of MN, MEP, and others share story of crops that help keep water clean
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Over 40 people from around the country went on a field tour of the University of Minnesota’s innovative cover and perennial crops as part… Read more »
Dayton’s Veto Was Right Decision for Rural Minnesota
By Loretta Jaus Last Thursday I traveled from my dairy farm in Sibley County to the Governor’s Mansion in Saint Paul. I wanted to be with other Minnesotans who were… Read more »
Buffer Initiative: It Will Help Protect Water & is Flexible Enough to Meet Farmer Needs
By George Boody Governor Mark Dayton announced in January his proposal to require an additional 125,000 acres of perennial vegetation along lakes, rivers and streams. There is a long history… Read more »
Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees
By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a… Read more »
Forever Green: Relaying Resiliency
To Matthew Ott, three words could make all the difference as to whether farming systems that protect the soil year-round in Minnesota become a consistent agricultural presence in the state…. Read more »
Why an EIS for Riverview Baker Dairy? Too Little Water, Too Much Manure
When Renville County dairy farmer James Kanne addressed a Minnesota Senate hearing on environmental review Jan. 29, he made it clear that size does matter when it comes to assessing… Read more »
Crop Insurance: Let the New Generation of Farmers In
By Jim VanDerPol The Land Stewardship Project recently published a three-part expose of the federal crop insurance program. The white papers are titled: “Crop Insurance-the Corporate Connection,” “Crop Insurance Ensures… Read more »
A Little Dirty History
The United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. That’s fitting, given how reliant the entire world is on keeping our soil in place, as… Read more »
Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag
From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn…. Read more »