| Sustainable agriculture is a dynamic field with tremendous amounts of information and opinion being generated every day. Here we have compiled the MISA staff’s choices of a few of the most interesting, relevant, far-reaching documents that we have found over the past several years. Some were written by our partners or others in Minnesota. Some are national in scope. Consider this collection as a Minnesota snapshot of the world of sustainable agriculture: issues, policies, triumphs, and challenges.
Community-Based Food Systems May 2007 (PDF, 3 Mb)
Home Grown Economy Conference Proceedings April 2007
Making the Farm--School Connection January 2006 (PDF, 148 kb)
From Barn to Banquet October 2005 (PDF, 224 kb)
Citizen Task Force Report on Minnesota Livestock September, 2004 (PDF, 173 kb)
Governor Pawlenty's Livestock Advisory Task Force Report June 2004 (PDF, 2.27 Mb)
Agriculture of the Middle, January 2004 (PDF, 200 kb)
Organic Agriculture Symposium, October 2003
Consumers and Farmers Survey, April 2003
What Will It Take to Change the American Food System? April 2003 (PDF, 111 kb)
Pasture-Raised Products -- Consumer Focus Group Study, November 2002 (PDF, 79 kb)
Appendix to the Consumer Focus Group Study, November 2002 (PDF, 245 kb)
For Love of the Land; May/June 2002
Comparison of Organic and Conventional Foods, 2002. (PDF, 1.2 Mb),
Power Steer, March 2002
Real Costs of Globalization, February 2002
The State We're In, December 2001
Multiple Benefits of Agriculture, November 2001
Conservation Security Act and Global Organic Markets, November 2001 (PDF)
Food, Fuel and Freeways, June 2001 (PDF, 248 kb)
Finding Food in Farm Country, 2001 (PDF, 321 kb)
Sustaining Green Space in the Rural-Urban Fringe, May 2001
An Essay on Farm Income, April 2001 (PDF)
PastureLand Dairy Products Report, March 2001
Safety First: Governance of Genetic Engineering, March 2001 (PDF, 151 kb)
The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs, July 2000
Farmers Summit Position Paper, 2000 | 
