Farm Policy: Resource Links

The Changing Face of the UMR Basin, Agriculture: Selected Profiles of Farming and Farm Practices, National Audubon Society. (PDF reader required; large file, 10.4 MB)

Farm program is sown, but will it survive, Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2004 (news articles and updates section of The Minnesota Project).

How to Make it Work: Required Policy Transformations for Agroecosystem Restoration, Dennis Keeney and Loni Kemp, presented at the Ecological Society of America, 2004. (PDF reader required, 88 KB)

Intensive Corn-soybean Agriculture Not Sustainable, Gyles Randall, 2001.

New Agriculture Policy for the U.S, Dennis Keeney and Loni Kemp, a chapter in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization series book, The Role of Biodiversity Conservation in the Transition to Rural Sustainability (edited by Steve Light, Rafal Serafin, and Zbigniew Bochniarz), 2003. (PDF reader required, 111 KB)

Sustainable Farming Systems: Demonstrating Environmental and Economic Performance, a joint project of the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, The Minnesota Project, the Land Stewardship Project, and the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota, 2002. (PDF reader required; large file, 677 KB)

General links

Conservation Security Program website, maintained by the Minnesota Project.

Final Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture

U.S. Department of Agriculture website on conservation programs in 2002 farm bill.