On Feb. 13, I was invited by the Minnesota Farmers Union to testify to the Minnesota State House of Representatives Agriculture Committee regarding the Ag Department’s recently released “Emerging Farmer Report.”

Here is my testimony:

Thank you Chair Poppe and members of the committee.

For the record, my name is Hannah Bernhardt, and I am the owner and principal operator of Medicine Creek Farm in Finlayson, MN. Since 2016 I have been raising grass fed beef and lamb and pastured pork…