In its March 30 edition, Scientific American put the issue succinctly: “You could not design a better system for guaranteeing the spread of antibiotic resistance.” The “system” the publication was… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Take the Living Green Expo Earth Day Challenge
This Earth Day (April 22), the Living Green Expo is challenging each Minnesotan to take a personal pledge to make at least one change that will positively impact the earth…. Read more »
Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt
Here’s the bad news: it turns out the USDA’s estimates that soil erosion rates are under control across the Corn Belt—something we reported in this blog last June—are probably overly… Read more »
MDA Sustainable Ag Program Under Siege (Again)
Remember the financial punch to the stomach the MDA’s Sustainable Ag Demonstration Grant Program took in 2009? Well, the Senate is attempting to finish the job with a budget proposal… Read more »
Mpls. Urban Ag Plan Needs to Deliver on Thursday
As we discussed in this blog a few months ago, the City of Minneapolis is on the verge of taking unprecedented steps to make our community friendlier to urban food… Read more »
USDA Secretary: You Can Make Conservation History
An April 1 letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack from LSP Associate Director Mark Schultz: Congress and the Obama Administration are currently evaluating measures aimed at reducing federal spending for… Read more »
Enabling a New Kind of Ag
It’s been argued that promoting a type of agriculture that is more environmentally friendly threatens the food security of poor people all over the world. But a special “right to… Read more »
Reaching Out in Hog Country
Independent hog farmers are beginning to feel like inhabitants of isolated desert islands, with oceans of corporate-controlled CAFOs (as well as corn and soybean fields) separating them from their peers…. Read more »
No-Till Farming’s Chemical Roadblock
An alarming number of stories are appearing in the farm press about how Roundup-resistant weeds are forcing conservation tillage farmers to take a serious look at plowing up their fields—in… Read more »
Ag Conservation’s Unfair Burden
At a time when the budget mantra “we must all share in the pain” is being repeated ad nauseam, it doesn’t take much searching to find some hypocritical exceptions. Take,… Read more »