Central Minnesota Political

This was published in The Land this week. -- Tim By Tim King Garvin, MN The Land correspondent Pastured chickens and turkeys are part of the big regenerative picture at Heartland Heritage Farms, a multi-generation crop and livestock farm near this southwestern Minnesota town. “We’ve taken all tillage out of our practices,” Chris Schmidt, who farms with his son and his father Dale, said. “We stopped doing tillage in 2012 and are doing no-till and incorporating cover crops at that time.” Chris says that his father, who had always farmed with conventional tillage practices, was open to change but when he saw the initial results of those early no-till experiments he was doubtful. “We twisted his arm a little bit and he finally said you guys can take that ten acres and see how it turns out,” Chris, who had no land at the time, said. “We took the tillage out of the equation and added cover crops immediately. That first year we did some cereal rye - maybe some radishes and turnips. Pa...

Last week I sent out a query to MN350 members eating and cooking Impossible Meat products. I got a wide range of responses from about a dozen people. Some people talked about Beyond Meat products which are Impossible’s competitor. The responses are below. I’ve edited some for brevity and kept out peoples names because I didn’t have permission to publish them. They are sort of in the order I received them. “I personally would not recommend eating or selling such as GMOs are not food but amalgamated mutant crops that defile the land and harm the environment not improve it.” ———— “I LOVE the taste and texture of Impossible ground beef, which I've been using at home and impossible sausage which I ate at the Duluth Grill.” (This person later realized the product in her home freezer was Beyond Meat.) ——————- “Glad to offer my 2c on this subject, as we are frequent and happy consumers of meat alternatives, especially Beyond Meats products.  They are made from pea protein material; a...