- Empower farmers to continuously improve
- Set high expectations and persistently pursue them
- Look to science and technology for guidance
- Support each other, our neighbors and the greater community
- Collaborate with solution-oriented stakeholders
- Cultivate an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect
To aid in it’s efforts of enhanced stewardship of natural resources LASA will utilize university research and scientist to set set benchmarks in conservation practices and measure the progress of their efforts. The organization will also participate in outreach actives such as field days and on-farm demonstrations to educate farmers and the public.
LASA has been in the making for a year. The organizers took time to learned from other successful farmer-led watershed groups and began to recruited members. Today membership includes sixteen farmers, representing 23,000 animals and 56,000 acres of farmland. The members include crop farmers, beef farmers, and one pig farmer. The farms are of all sizes and types, including an organic dairy.