Ear to the Ground 406: Pasture Peers
“How do I make this pasture pay?” beginning farmer Heidi Eger asked a group of fellow graziers during an LSP Soil Health Hub gat...
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Ear to the Ground 405: High Voltage
Chad and Melissa Crowley are using managed rotational grazing, soil health, and solar arrays to create a good energy flow on the dairy farm...
Ear to the Ground 404: Closing the Loop
Paul and Delores Moechnig are working to prove to the next generation that the road to farming’s future doesn’t have to pass thr...
Ear to the Ground 403: Values on the Table
Emily and Ryan Kjesbo-Johnson vowed their lifelong commitment to community would not stop when they moved out of their urban neighborhood an...
Ear to the Ground 402: Enemy of Good
Jane Marynik’s pursuit of perfection ran into a brick wall called vegetable farming. LSP’s Farm Beginnings has helped her strike...
Ear to the Ground 401: The Belly of Belief
Livestock producer Frances Kelliher admits to being a bit cynical and burnt-out on her first day in LSP’s Farm Beginnings course. But...
Ear to the Ground 400: Small Farms, Big Markets
Josh Bryceson sees The Good Acre food hub as a way to not only build markets for local vegetable producers, but to germinate the next genera...
Ear to the Ground 399: Asking Why
A decade ago, veggie and livestock farmers Josh Bryceson and Rama Hoffpauir realized sweat equity would only take them so far in their ag jo...
Ear to the Ground 398: Land Grant Guarantee
Over the past three decades, the rotating Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems has provided farmers and others a chance to build a more sus...
Ear to the Ground 397: Black Energy
In 1986, Joe Paddock co-authored a book called Soil and Survival. Its message: the relationship between farming and the land is in serious n...
Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag
These three crop producers see no reason why productive farming and clean water can’t co-exist. But first, we need to stop the greenwa...
Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers
In the Corn Belt, water quality is not improving at a rate that is leading to meaningful landscape level change, and these poster boys for c...
Ear to the Ground 394: Canceling Commodities
As a farmer and entrepreneur, John Strohfus sees the production of food-grade crops as a key opportunity for regenerative farmers to forge l...
Ear to the Ground 393: Risk Reducers
Alan Jostock uses the kind of diversity that builds soil health as a kind of insurance policy for his farm. That means meshing his crop and...
Ear to the Ground 392: Diversity’s Diet
Farmer and small grains marketer Matt Kruger sees a rotation based on raising food grade crops as a way for farmers to get rewarded for buil...
Ear to the Ground 391: Grounded in Grazing
Ashly Steinke remembers well the first time he saw a bobolink on pastured land that formerly grew corn and soybeans — it was a sign that he...
Ear to the Ground 390: Sounds of Success
Bovines, bugs, and birds are all making noise in Kevin Mahalko’s dairy grazing paddocks, and that’s music to his ears. More Info...
Ear to the Ground 389: See Something, Say Something
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Odette says in the battle to make sure Big Ag plays by the rules, knowledge is power. That...
Ear to the Ground 388: On-time Delivery
Scientist Kris Nichols finds the disconnect between food production and soil health “terrifying” and says the stakes are too hig...
Ear to the Ground 387: Dumping the Dirt Dogma
When farmers challenged what Kris Nichols had learned from her college textbooks, the soil microbiologist didn’t dismiss them — instea...