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Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers
Episode 395
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 conservati…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 394: Canceling Commodities
Episode 394
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…
7 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 393: Risk Reducers
Episode 393
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…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 392: Diversity’s Diet
Episode 392
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…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 391: Grounded in Grazing
Episode 391
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 was succe…
8 months ago
Ear to the Ground 390: Sounds of Success
Episode 390
More Information:
• LSP’s Grazing & Soil Health Web Page
• NODPA Article on Kevin Mahalko
• Ear to the Ground 371: Avian Award
• Ear to the Ground 370…
8 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 389: See Something, Say Something
Episode 389
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Odette says in the battle to make sure Big Ag plays by the rules, knowledge is power. That’s why, if w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 388: On-time Delivery
Episode 388
Scientist Kris Nichols finds the disconnect between food production and soil health “terrifying” and says the stakes are too high not to mend that br…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 387: Dumping the Dirt Dogma
Episode 387
When farmers challenged what Kris Nichols had learned from her college textbooks, the soil microbiologist didn’t dismiss them — instead, she dug deep…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 386: A Farm to School Taste Test
Episode 386
How a small, rural school district is taking a trial run at sourcing food from local farmers.
More Information:
• MDA Farm to School & Early Care Progr…
10 months, 3 weeks ago