Beyond Convention On Land Conservation

Both Michigan gubernatorial candidates support adding value to farmproducts to support the farm economy and curtail the loss of farmland.Both could expand on the idea by better understanding the role thateconomic development agencies and entrepreneurial farmers are startingtoplay to expand regional farm economies. The Institute just posted anarticle by Patty Cantrell and Keith Schneider about promising new homegrown and government-encouraged initiatives that could go a long way tohelp farm families, stem the loss of farmland, and protect theenvironment.