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How Minnesota farmers are getting paid to fight climate change


It's Turkey Fest time at Ferndale Market - Mitchell Republic

AgweekTV: MN Farm Bureau and MN Farmers Union Conventions ... As an ag reporter, my coverage has included the opioid crisis, climate change ...

Proposal would tax Minnesota farmers to help pay for cleanup of ...

A proposal to tax the fertilizer that Minnesota farmers use to boost crop yields — in the hopes of treating nitrate pollution of water in ...

Historic Context Study of Minnesota Farms, 1820-1960: Vol 1

SCS worked with the CCC to build farm erosion control systems in Minnesota, especially in the ... changed the face of southern Minnesota agriculture,” says Tweton ...

EPA Announces Nearly $200 Million to Minnesota for Community ...

Minnesota will use its Climate Pollution Reduction Grant to support the Minnesota Climate-Smart Food Systems project, led by Minnesota Pollution ...

Minnesota's Climate Action Framework: what you need to know

The Climate Action Framework, released by Governor Tim Walz in September, is an important foundation for Minnesota to meaningfully tackle climate change.

A Letter to All of Our Elected Officials - Minnesota Farm Living

Is there room for improvement? Yes, there always is but be assured we are making changes for a better future just as we always have. One such ...

Profile 70: Minnesota Farmers Union

Founded in 1902 by ten family farmers in Texas, the Farmers Educational Cooperative Union was organized to address fair market access for farmers.

Could Minnesota farmers and growers be the heroes of our climate ...

In 2016, agriculture was responsible for nearly 15% of Minnesota's carbon emissions. In the not-so-distant future, however, agriculture could not only go carbon ...

Minnesota Farmers Weigh Harris and Trump on Ag Policy | TCB

“My farmers know climate change is real,” Walz said. “They've seen ... farmers and ranchers tackle the climate crisis. The bill rewards ...

Report: Crop Insurance Premiums Could Skyrocket as Climate ...

In the 20-year period analyzed by the Environmental Working Group, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota received the most money in ...

MI and OH: Different strategies to reduce Lake Erie nutrient pollution

Michigan also offers incentives to farmers at those choke points to encourage grass buffer zones, small constructed wetlands, and other ...

How climate change is costing Minnesotans lots of money (part 2)

Analysts say Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the devastation in the southeast should serve as reminders for Minnesotans: weather patterns ...

Minnesota's new climate plan asks farmers to change how they farm

FERN's Ag Insider gives you the reporting you need every day to navigate the difficult terrain of food and agriculture policy. Editor Chuck ...

Biden-Harris climate law set off a green bonanza in Walz's Minnesota

Minnesota's largest utility, Xcel Energy, is poised to leverage about $315 million in benefits from the IRA to build the Sherco solar farm — 710 ...

Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship ...

... climate change hammers communities. It pays for direct contributions of food and also funds programs that help farmers adapt to climate change ...

Climate Smart Agriculture in Minnesota: From Cover Crops to Carbon

Comments9 · Strip-till Farming with Rotational Grazing, Poultry, and Stacking Slab in Minnesota · Interseeding 60-Inch Corn for Improved ROI - ...

Fighting the Corporate CAFO 'Takeover' of Rural America | Civil Eats

In a new book, Sonja Trom Eayrs chronicles her family's battle against factory hog farms in Minnesota.

Minnesota farmers weigh ag policy from Trump, Harris camps

“My farmers know climate change is real,” Walz said. “They've seen ... farmers and ranchers tackle the climate crisis. The bill rewards ...

One Farmer Set Off a Solar Energy Boom in Rural Minnesota

CENTER CITY, Minnesota—It sounded absurd, the idea of spending a large sum of money to install solar panels in a Minnesota farm field that is ...