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The price of farmland in Minnesota is rising and the number of landowners is falling, adding barriers to entry for new and emerging farmers.

Rochester welcomed FEAST! Local Foods Marketplace back for the annual festival aimed to introduce the community to local makers and growers.

Migrant farmworkers and small family farmers in North Carolina got together to form an alliance to advocate for sustainable agricultural supply chains, expand and maintain union farmworker jobs and enact more protections to combat exploitative practices. Santiago Ramirez Martinez, an H-2A temporary agricultural worker in North Carolina, said foreign nationals like him come to the U.S. to fill essential, seasonal ag jobs which in his words "produce a lot of what is brought to the table for American consumers." He, like others, is calling for stakeholders to adopt better prac...

Family-farm advocates in rural Wisconsin are pushing back on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, as the livestock industry becomes more concentrated. They have met with resistance from local officials. Hundreds of residents of Pierce County, nestled along the Wisconsin - Minnesota border, are concerned about a proposed expansion of CAFOs in the county. ...

Emerging farmers in search of land across Minnesota will be able to foster relationships with landowners at a free event in Scandia this coming Sunday. Robin Moore, land access and legacy manager with the Land Stewardship Project, said across the state, many people in the Eastern African community are in search of land they can use to farm. While purchasing land is one way to ensure access, another is to cultivate relationships between farmers and retiring landowners who want to see their land continue to be used for farming. ...