MPR's Ambar Espinoza reports on New Immigrant Agriculture Project, a specialized project that helps immigrant farmers continue their agrarian lifestyle in this country. Almost 80 farmers (mostly Hmong, Latino and Somali) pay subsidized lease rates to rent crop land. The program leases acreage to farmers for three years, until they're eligible for loans to buy land.
As part of report, Espinoza profiles two Mexican immigrant farmers starting organic farming. The Latino farming population in Minnesota almost doubled since 1997 to 2002.