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Podcasts

Farm Beginnings is featured in several releases of Ear to the Ground, the Land Stewardship Project’s podcast. A podcast is an audio magazine you can download and listen to on your computer or portable music player. Using free software, you can automatically download audio files and import them into many audio players, including iTunes and Windows Media Player. You can even use programs like iTunes to record Ear to the Ground to a CD.

Listen to podcasts that include several Farm Beginnings sessions.

LSP Press Releases/Articles

Press Releases

Check our Newsroom for recent press releases about Farm Beginnings.

Articles

Updates on the Farm Beginnings program can be found in the Land Stewardship Letter. See the following issues:

• April/May/June 2004 - Beginning Farmer & Rancher Conference highlights communication on/off the land (pdf)

• April/May/June 2003 - Farm Beginnings™ - Innovative program begins 7th year (pdf) and Giving credit where credit is due; Getting to know you: Farmers, lenders & educators start talking sustainable credit (pdf)

• July/Aug/Sept. 2002 - Rotating in a New Generation (Cover Story) (pdf)

• May/June 2002 - FB to start new classes

• Jan/Feb 2002 - Encouraging Stewardship - Farm Beginnings and Eroding farmer-lender barriers

• Sept/Oct 2001 - Farm Beginnings™ opens doors and Giving good farmers some credit

• Sept/Oct 2000 - Farm Beginnings™ goes west

• Jan/Feb/Mar 2000 - Putting our lands in more hands

• Jan/Feb/Mar 2000 - Livestock Loan Committee works the nitty-gritty

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Radio Broadcasts

• "Program helps beginning farmers get started" was broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio June 14, 2010. It features LSP's Farm Beginnings program.

• On March 27, 2008, Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program featured
  Farm Beginnings in a segment called "From field to table."
  

Articles in Other Publications

Farm Beginnings is regularly featured in the news. Here are links to some recent news stories.

• "Next generation going back to the land" is an article that appeared
  in the July 3, 2010, edition of the Winona Daily News. It describes how
  LSP's Farm Beginnings program is helping people in southeast Minnesota
  and western Wisconsin get started in farming.

On Nov. 3, 2009, the Land Stewardship Project hosted Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan on the farm of Eric and Lisa Klein in Elgin, Minn. After touring the farm, Merrigan announced the first Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) grants. LSP spearheaded development of BFRDP, which is a national USDA program that was inspired by, among things, LSP's Farm Beginnings program. Merrigan's visit and grants announcement received extensive media coverage:

• "Minnesota farmers host USDA Beginning Farmer grant announcement" appeared on Agriculture Online, Successful Farming's website, on Nov. 5, 2009.
• "USDA Dep. Secretary Honors MN Farmers, Hands out Future Farmer Grants" was broadcast by Public News Service on Nov. 4, 2009.
• "USDA grants focus on beginning farmers" appeared in the Nov. 11, 2009, edition of The Country Today.
• "Organizations receive federal aid to help first-time farmers" was broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio on Nov. 3, 2009.
• "Beginning farmers to get help from USDA" appeared in the Nov. 5, 2009, edition of the Winona Daily News.
  

• "FARMING 101" is an article that appeared in the Dec. 22, 2008, edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

• "A Jump Start For Young Farmers" is an article that appeared in the October 2001 issue of New Holland News Online.

• "Mentoring requires patience and a collaborative approach" is an article written by Successful Farming Business Editor Dan Looker about Eric and Lisa Klein, who raise livestock in southeast Minnesota. The Kleins are Farm Beginnings graduates and are now serving as mentors to other beginning farmers.

• "Planning, preparation lead to success for beginning farmers" is an article that appeared on the @griculture Online "Farmers for the Future" Web site. It describes how Mark and Wendy Lange got started in farming after participating in Farm Beginnings.

• "Farm management instructor tells would-be farmers they can succeed" is an article written by Dan Looker, Farm Business Editor for Successful Farming magazine. The article outlines the comments of Dan Miller, an LSP member who recently spoke at a Farm Beginnings class.

• "Helping Hands" is an article that appeared in the March 2003 issue of Independent Banker magazine.

• "Farm Beginnings™ turns dream into reality" is an article that appeared in the April 17, 2003 edition of Agri News. It describes the experiences of a participant in Farm Beginnings.

• "Making her dream come true" is an article that ran in the April 24, 2003 edition of Agri News. It features Aimee Finley, a Farm Beginnings participant from southeast Minnesota.

• "Just Starting Out" ran in the Sept. 26, 2002 edition of Agri News. It is a package of stories on Farm Beginnings.

• Minnesota Public Radio broadcast this story on October 9, 2000 about Farm Beginnings: The Next Wave of Farmers, by Art Hughes
  

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