Posts Tagged: soil conservation

A Graphic View of Diversity’s Power

Posted April 29th, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a good infographic can be the equivalent of thousands of pounds of soil. That thought occurred to me recently while viewing… Read more »

Minnesota Farmers: CSP is on for 2013

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project One of the nation’s most innovative working lands farm conservation initiatives has received a financial reprieve, thanks to the continuing resolution signed by President… Read more »

Senate Farm Bill Falls Short on Conservation, Family Farm Ag

Posted April 28th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project On April 26, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill by a vote of 16 to 5. The… Read more »

Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt

Posted April 15th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

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 »

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 »