MFU In the News

Harvesting Minnesota’s Wind Twice

Read MFU’s climate and working land director, Ariel Kagan’s, recently published piece about green ammonia and cooperative ownership: https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/

Almanac: Renewable energy in Minnesota

MFU member Erik Hatlestad, CURE Energy Democracy Director, is featured in a renewable energy story that aired on Almanac. See the story here: https://www.tpt.org/almanac/video/renewable-energy-in-rural-minnesota-40769/

Farms.com: Gail Donkers on being a mom

MFU staff member Gail Donkers talks about being a mom in agriculture in this special Mother’s Day story found at https://m.farms.com/ag-industry-news/mother-s-day-q-a-with-gail-donkers-and-jamie-beyer-376.aspx

Redwood Gazette: Aspiring meatpreneurs gather

Can ambitious rural Minnesotans bring in new people to revitalize the tradition of local butcher shops and meat processing lockers in Minnesota? Judging from the experience new local meat processors…

MinnPost: Legislature weighs corporations’ role

Profiting or providing? Minnesota Legislature weighs corporations’ role in state’s economy by Peter Callaghan A recent exchange in a House committee hearing between DFL and Republican lawmakers over the role of…

RRFN: Agricult-HER: Say ‘Yes’

Agricult-HER: Say ‘Yes’

Minnesota Women’s Press: Farming Resilience

Farming Resilience  

Minnesota Reformer: Glimmers of hope in Ag Census

The Census of Agriculture was released last week, and the headlines reflected the well-known but unfortunate trends in U.S. agriculture — we continue to lose farmers and farmland, and of those remaining,…

American Ag Network: Members gather for Lobby Day

Minnesota Farmers Union Members Gather for Lobby Day  

Brownfield: Right to Repair, healthcare top MFU issues

Right to Repair and healthcare top legislative issues for Minnesota Farmers Union