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COVID-19 Food Systems Survey
Tell us your story! Take this short survey to help us understand the impact of COVID-19 on your food business.
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2021 Call for CIAS Mini-grant Proposals – due Mar. 15
The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) invites graduate student applications for our summer mini-grant program, which is made possible through a generous donation from the Single Step Foundation. These…
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UW–Madison CIAS part of new USDA-funded collaborative project to study U.S. food flows
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are participating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a cooperative agreement to better understand the…
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UW–Madison, CIAS involved in USDA project about pandemic’s impact on food systems
The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is part of a UW-Madison team awarded a USDA multi-region, multi-institution research and outreach project to assess the impact of COVID-19 on food…
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Grant supports expanding supply chains for regional grains to local cafeterias
The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) at UW-Madison was awarded a grant through the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Farmers Market Promotion Program for a project titled “Grains to Institutions:…
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Indigenous food sovereignty in Wisconsin
CIAS Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) meeting member Dan Cornelius gave a presentation on tribal food systems in Wisconsin at the group’s August 24, 2020 meeting. Dan Cornelius is a member…
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Wisconsin Cover Crops Research and Outreach Project (2017-2022)
The Wisconsin Cover Crops Research and Outreach Project (CCROP) is a collaborative effort on the efficacy of cover crops on Upper Midwest dairy, livestock, grain and vegetable farms. Our multi-institutional…
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COVID-19 Update
As part of the rapidly changing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CIAS office is closed until further notice. Staff are working remotely through until further notice. The most efficient…
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A message to our CIAS community
To our CIAS community, We, the staff at UW-Madison CIAS, are reaching out in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others. We have…
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Composting Manure and Bedding Reduces Potential Soil and Phosphorus Loss (CIAS Research Brief 102)
Their study found that composting is a viable way to reduce phosphorus runoff losses from livestock operations with bedded pack manure.
