Food and Sustainable Agriculture
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The ‘Give A Damns’
When Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan announced the awarding of the first round of Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grants on Tuesday, it was no accident she chose the home…
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Local Food: In for the Long Haul
When the Star Tribune‘s “Dollars & Sense” columnist is writing about how to buy locally-produced meat, you know that the local food movement is more than a passing yuppie trend. As another…
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A Forgotten Legislator and a Big Constitutional Amendment
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Fall Version The third installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John traces the…
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A Freeze on Factory Farm Bullets
The USDA received a bit of a surprise this week when a letter with over 25,000 signatures was delivered to Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack. The letter calls for a suspension of…
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A Farmer’s Fight
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The second installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John writes of…
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Local Food and the Minnesota State Constitution
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The first installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. “In California, in British Columbia,…
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The 3 Ps of Farmland Conservation
While leading a group of natural resource professionals through one of his dairy pastures last Tuesday, Martin Jaus made it crystal clear he farms the land for more than a milk check.…
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A Committed Relationship
It became a little clearer earlier this week why the Minnesota Department of Agriculture will tolerate no criticism of the corn herbicide atrazine. On Monday, atrazine’s prime manufacturer, Syngenta, opened a new…
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CSP Deadline Sept. 30
Are you a farmer who’s utilizing conservation practices, or are seriously thinking of adopting such practices? Time’s-a-wasting. Farmers across the nation have until Sept. 30 to participate in the first nationwide sign-up…
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Eat Fresh & Local in St. Croix Today, Friday
On a recent afternoon, Jeff Klemetsrud walked out of the kitchen at Savories Bistro in Stillwater holding one of the reasons why he and his wife/business partner Kristin buy as much of…