September 17, 2002
City mouse, country mouse, no matter. City dwellers and field tenders alike suffer from the free-for-all building spree that swallows 1.2 million acres of farm
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September 6, 2002
Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who was raised on a farm in West Michigan, says the prescription for encouraging
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July 15, 2002
Just as consumer demand is pulling farmers into new food markets, citizen demand can pull farming back onto local and state government’s economic
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June 4, 2002
Guided by the invisible and powerful hand of the free market, a new crop of entrepreneurial farmers in Michigan and other states is tailoring production to
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April 9, 2002
Forget red-breasted robins chasing worms and daffodils popping out of the ground. These days one of the sure signs of spring is a construction crew out on a
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April 1, 2002
Farmland in Michigan iscurrently more valuable forbuilding superstores andsubdivisions than growing cornor strawberries because globalmarkets pay little for
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February 14, 2002
After dozens of catastrophic and chronic manure spills into Michigan waterways in recent years, the state Department of Environmental Quality has decided it no
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August 7, 2001
Farmers living on the edge of suburbia know they have a big payday coming as soon as the growing real estate market makes it out to their picturesque fields.
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March 1, 2001
If you put Dave Maturen and Rob Richardson in a room together, you would get a good snapshot of how thousands of neighbors in rural Michigan are becoming
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August 12, 2000
When it comes to grassroots organizing, few triumphs are as electrifying as the one last February in Milan Township. By a margin of 403-350, residents of this
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