Entries by Tracy Mumma

Bilingual Toolkit Aids with Field Day Success

Organic Farming Research Foundation has introduced a comprehensive Field Day Toolkit available in both English and Spanish. The downloadable resource provides a step-by-step roadmap and customizable materials to plan, host, […]

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 […]