MFU In the News
It’s no secret Minnesotans experienced a wet spring this year, and while this may have ended the state’s roughly two-year drought, it’s an added stress for farmers. From the beginning…
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Four finalists have been selected for the inaugural Minnesota Leopold Conservation Award. The award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their…
Read MFU’s climate and working land director, Ariel Kagan’s, piece about green ammonia and cooperative ownership: https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/
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/
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
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…
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…
Agricult-HER: Say ‘Yes’
Farming Resilience
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,…