How a visiting student's critique set a farm on a path toward profitably integrating crops, pasture and livestock.

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A southeastern Minnesota farmer's drive to plant cover crops takes him out onto the snow and into new soil health territory.

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Iowa farmer Loran Steinlage describes the benefits of converting a monocropped desert to a "jungle mix" of continuous living cover.

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Mark Schultz talks about how LSP's members hatched one of the most innovative farm conservation programs around...and why we need to fight for it.

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How the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship is serving as a natural next step into farming for one Farm Beginnings graduate.

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How landlords and farmers can work together to build and support long-term stewardship.

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A young farmer's evolving view of livestock allows him to make a direct connection between profitability and soil health.

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Birds and other biological indicators provide evidence that an Iowa farm is a "working ecosystem."

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Farm Beginnings helps the Schwagerls do the kind of enterprise analysis needed to transfer their passions into profits.

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For one beginning organic dairy farmer, the path to affordable land leads through some trees, up a few hills, and over a brook.

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