Posts Tagged: LSP

As Senate Farm Bill Heads to Vote Next Week, Now’s the Time to Reform Crop Insurance

Posted June 1st, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project— Well, this is it. The Senate Ag Committee’s version of the 2012 Farm Bill is up for a floor vote the week of June… Read more »

Crop Insurance: A Safety Net Becomes a Threat

Posted April 12th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

When it comes to the crop insurance sweepstakes, southwest Minnesota farmer Darwyn Bach is a winner. But he concedes that his good fortune presents a quandary, since the way the… Read more »

A Chance to Advance Urban Ag in Mpls. on Jan. 23

Posted January 20th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

By Anna Cioffi, Land Stewardship Project On Monday, Jan. 23, there will be a public hearing of the Minneapolis Planning Commission to discuss proposed draft changes to the zoning code… Read more »

CSA Farmers: Deadline for 2012 Directory Listing is Jan. 17

Posted December 20th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

If you are a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer who delivers to the Twin Cities, outstate Minnesota or western Wisconsin, you have until Tuesday, Jan. 17, to get listed in… Read more »

6,000 Questions About Atrazine

Posted July 23rd, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

When defending the safety of one of the most widely used weed killers in North America, Syngenta often cites the fact that some 6,000 studies provide “overwhelming” evidence that atrazine… Read more »

Pro-Factory Farm Bills Killed

Posted May 21st, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

By the time the 2010 session of the Minnesota Legislature convened Monday, proposals that would have weakened environmental standards for factory farms and undermined environmental review on the local level… Read more »

CSP: Working out the Warts

Posted May 14th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

The USDA announced this week that farmers have until June 11 to fill out an application for the latest round of Conservation Stewardship Program contracts. That’s a narrow window of… Read more »

New CSA Drop Site Web Map

Posted April 23rd, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

Just in time for the Seward Co-op CSA Fair this weekend, LSP has revamped its interactive map of drop sites for CSA farms that deliver to the Twin Cities. Click… Read more »

Ringing up a Healthier Food System

Posted April 9th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

As we’ve said in this blog before, a conversation with Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center is always an enlightening experience. His economic analyses of food and farming systems… Read more »