Land Stewardship Letter

Agriculture: How Not to Be Tools of Our Tools

October 11, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
Allan Savory, Burleigh County Soil Health Team, cover crops, erosion, Holistic Management, Joshua Dukart, Land Stewardship Letter, Land Stewardship Project, no-till, NRCS, pastures, rangeland, rotational grazing, SARE, soil health, sustainable farming

One recent August day, I stood in a field in North Dakota watching soil being spaded up and listening to farmers talk about the optimal cover crop seeding mixes, how long to…
Denying the Science, Derailing the Solutions

December 23, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
commodity groups, crop rotations, cross-compliance, Lake Pepin, Land Stewardship Letter, Land Stewardship Project, Minnesota River, Mississippi River, MPCA, no-till farming, Norm Senjem, row crops, sedimentation, snirt, soil erosion, tile drainage, water quality

I talked to a Todd County farmer yesterday who uses 100 percent no-till and other conservation measures to raise his crops. Conserving soil is important to him, and so he’s quite upset…
Conversations with the Land

December 12, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Conversations with the Land, diverse agriculture, Graze magazine, Jim Van Der Pol, Land Stewardship Letter, Land Stewardship Project, No Bull Press, Pastures A Plenty farm, sustainable agriculture

Many good arguments can be made for supporting a type of agriculture less reliant on energy, technology and Wall Street, and more on soil, communities and people: it’s better for the environment,…