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Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers: Wisconsin Grower Intensive
Posted on July 15, 2015This event offers opportunities to network with other growers, learn about plant diseases and insect diagnoses, and obtain information from experts on a wide range […]
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Advancing Farm to School: Lessons from the Field
Posted on July 14, 2015This report, published by the Wisconsin Clearinghouse, captures and communicates many of the valuable lessons learned throughout a project that increased access to healthy food in fourteen communities across Wisconsin.
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Invigorating Sustainable Farms and Food: CIAS 2014 Annual Report
Posted on2014 was an exciting and special year for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), as we marked 25 years of bringing people together to create more sustainable food systems. This annual report summarizes our many 2014 accomplishments and recognizes the supporters who help make our work possible.
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Wisconsin Farm to School Success Story: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Garden (Wausau)
Posted on July 7, 2015In the fall of 2013, Wausau crossing guards went home with fresh-made pickles, and local residents opened their doors to bags full of vegetables following […]
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The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial: Long-Term Research for Resilient Agriculture
Posted on May 19, 2015The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST) was established in 1989 in response to farmers and others making a case for long-term research on low-input farming. WICST set out to investigate both the benefits and limitations of alternative agriculture through replicated research on the productivity, profitability and environmental impacts of both sustainably and conventionally managed production systems.
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Reducing Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
Posted on May 14, 2015Despite more than 40 years of largely voluntary efforts by federal, state, and local government, and tens of billions of US dollars of investment in conservation, nationwide progress on nutrient control has not yet been achieved.
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Food Systems Policy Analysis: Milwaukee
Posted on April 30, 2015This is the final presentation of a graduate seminar led by Marcia Caton Campbell and Steve Ventura. The students will share the results of a […]
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Marketing Healthy Food in Wisconsin Schools
Posted on April 28, 2015Marketing Healthy Foods in Wisconsin K-12 Schools is a comprehensive resource on conventional and innovative marketing practices to support the consumption of healthy foods and farm to school programs.
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Grape Growers School: March 29-31
Posted on March 10, 2015Registration is still open for the Midwest School for Beginning Grape Growers. Don’t wait—register now!
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Midwest School for Beginning Grape Growers
Posted on March 3, 2015The Midwest School for Beginning Grape Growers, a three-day workshop for anyone planning to start a vineyard business, will be offered March 29-31, 2015 on […]