Entries by Tracy Mumma

Minnesota Food-Supply-Chain Projects Receive Funding

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service partnered with Minnesota to award $9.5 million in Infrastructure Grants to 11 projects, through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). This program aims to build […]

Minnesota Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Tax credits are funded in a first-come, first-served manner. The Minnesota Beginning Farmer Tax Credit provides state tax credits to landlords and sellers (asset owners) who rent or sell farmland, […]

How Human and Ecosystem Health Intertwine

By NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nina Prater Sometimes cause and effect are easy to understand. Habitat destruction, for example, obviously leads to a decline for those creatures that depend on […]

Agrivoltaics Help Keep the ‘Farm’ in ‘Solar Farm’

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reported on research in Iowa that’s exploring how to preserve agriculturally valuable land and produce energy at the same time through agrivoltaic development. Researchers from […]