The 21st annual Minnesota Organic Conference offered a legislative listening session this year that allowed producers a chance to speak about what’s on their minds.
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Minnesota lost 58 dairy farm permits in November, a devastating blow to a farm sector already drained by contraction. "We have some seasonality to this. In October, November and December, you'll always see some herds go," Lucas Sjostrom, executive director of the Minnesota Milk Producers Association, said. "But I have not seen [a monthly declines in permits] over 50 for a long time." The end .