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- Yesterday26 min
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 journey, so they looked up from the grindstone long enough to take in the big picture (1 of 2 parts).More Information:• Turnip Rock Farm & Cosmic Wheel Creamery• LSP’s Farm Beginnings Course• Farmland Access Holistic Financial Decision-Making Tool
- 4 weeks ago47 min
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 sustainable farm and food system in Minnesota. Farmer and community leader Marvin Johnson says now is not the time to close that public door into the University.More Information:• Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture • Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems • Opinion: Funding Cuts Hit Sustainable Agriculture Partnership with U of M • Blog: Don Wyse’s Land Grant Legacy • Blog: Endowed Chair Puts the Right People in the Right Place to Address a Critical Problem
- Mar 19, 202641 min
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 need of repair. Four decades later, that message is more relevant than ever.More Information:• Soil and Survival • Planting in the Dust Script • Joe Paddock • Joe Paddock’s Books • Nancy Paddock • Carol Bly • Making Change from the Ground Up: 40 Stories for 40 Years of Land Stewardship Project
- Feb 9, 202654 min
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 greenwashing and get our hands dirty. (2 of 2 parts; part 1 is here)More Information:• Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers • LSP Soil Health Web Page • LSP Myth Buster No. 68: “When Nitrogen is Gone, it Can be Forgotten” • SARE Fact Sheet: “Cover Crops at Work: Keeping Nutrients Out of Waterways” • Article: “A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared” • Researcher’s Analysis of Nov. 2025 Iowa Farm Bureau Statement on Water Quality • LSP Blog: The Crop Insurance Conundrum • PNAS Paper: “The Extent of Soil Loss Across the US Corn Belt” • ISU CARD Analysis: “Cover Crop Adoption Decelerates and No-till Area Stagnates in the I-States”
- Feb 7, 202642 min
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 conservation farming say it’s time for the ag industry, commodity groups, and government to step up and take responsibility. (1 of 2 parts; part 2 here)More Information:• Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag• LSP Soil Health Web Page• LSP Myth Buster No. 68: “When Nitrogen is Gone, it Can be Forgotten”• SARE Fact Sheet: “Cover Crops at Work: Keeping Nutrients Out of Waterways”• LSP Blog: The Crop Insurance Conundrum• Researcher’s Analysis of Nov. 2025 Iowa Farm Bureau Statement on Water Quality• PNAS Paper: “The Extent of Soil Loss Across the US Corn Belt”• ISU CARD Analysis: “Cover Crop Adoption Decelerates and No-till Area Stagnates in the I-States”
- Jan 21, 202639 min
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 links in a value chain based on building healthy soil.More Information:• Jan. 27, 2026, LSP Workshop — “Beyond Exports: Rebuilding Local Markets”• Field Theory Foods• LSP Small Grains Web Page• Ear to the Ground podcast 393: Risk Reducers• Ear to the Ground podcast 392: Diversity’s Diet
- Jan 19, 202639 min
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 livestock enterprises in a way that they prop each other up through thick and thin. More Information:• Jan. 27, 2026, LSP Workshop — “Beyond Exports: Rebuilding Local Markets” • LSP Small Grains Web Page • Ear to the Ground podcast 392: Diversity’s Diet • Rolling J Farm’s Facebook Page • Minnesota Farm Business Management Programs
- Jan 17, 202643 min
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 building soil health. It’s also a way to fight the only thing he truly hates.More Information:• Jan. 27, 2026, LSP Workshop — “Beyond Exports: Rebuilding Local Markets” • LSP Small Grains Web Page • Green Acres Milling • Ear to the Ground podcast 363: Small Grain-Big Opportunity
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