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Sustainability
Insights from Environmental Journalists: Climate Change, Farming, and Diverse Voices
Agriculture and environment reporters from Iowa share the challenges of covering the politically sensitive topic of climate change, and how it...
The problems of Minnesota family farms
“Income taxes are the worst,” said Michael Landuyt, who, with his father George Landuyt, runs Landuyt Land and Livestock, their family farm...
It takes an app and a family to run a farm
As we spent a couple of days in rural southern Minnesota, the scale and size of what Minnesotans call “an average family farm” surprised me: 180...
Changes in climate demand change in action
The impact of climate change cannot be ignored, despite what Trump may believe. The leaders of the United States and other powerful nations cannot absolve themselves from leading the fight against it.
Gray clouds gather over Minnesota farms
Minnesota-born John Dvorak has worked in agriculture all his life, and in the sheep industry for more than 30 years. He used to have 250 sheep of...