Posts Categorized: Groundwater management

Why an EIS for Riverview Baker Dairy? Too Little Water, Too Much Manure

Posted February 17th, 2015 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Clean Water, Environmental Review - Defense, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Loon Commons blog, Water.

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 »

Gov. Dayton: This is Farmland, Not Fracland

Posted December 9th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Clean Energy, Energy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

By Bob Christie NOTE: Land Stewardship Project members and staff met with Governor Mark Dayton about frac sand mining issues on Dec. 4 in Winona, Minn. The meeting began with… Read more »

Our Nitrogen Pollution Solution? Livestock, Land & People

Posted November 13th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Loon Commons blog, Water fees.

By Jim VanDerPol In October, I told the Minnesota House Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance Committee that we had begun to listen to our farm, an assertion lawmakers heard… Read more »

Nitrogen Pollution’s Farm Policy Roots

Posted June 28th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Loon Commons blog, Water.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project Talk about ignoring the elephant in the room. When Minnesota environmental officials announced the results of a new major nitrogen pollution study on Thursday,… Read more »