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Nitrogen Pollution’s Farm Policy Roots

June 28, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Groundwater management, Loon Commons blog, Water
corn, crop insurance, dead zone, diverse agriculture, Farm Bill, federal farm policy, Land Stewardship Project, monocrops, MPCA, nitrates, nitrogen fertilizer, perennials, row crops, tile drainage, water pollution, watersheds

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, they were…
Rolling Our Land To Death

June 8, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
conservation, corn, crop insurance, Farm Bill, land rollers, Land Stewardship Project, row crops, Senate Farm Bill, soil erosion, soybeans, stewardship, tillage

I sat in a farmhouse one afternoon last month as a hot wind lifted rich topsoil from surrounding fields. On the drive in, I’d noticed a surprising amount of rill erosion on…
Agronomic Arrogance

October 8, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
corn, dead zone, grazing, nitrogen, sustainable agriculture, Troubled Waters, University of Minnesota

When a U professor took the microphone after last Sunday’s screening of Troubled Waters to accuse two southeast Minnesota dairy farmers of basically poisoning their own well, it was a rude reminder…