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School For Beginning Market Growers: Jan. 9-11
Posted on December 10, 2014Want to farm? The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers can help you get started.
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Sustainable Intensification in Agricultural Systems
Posted on October 24, 2014Can we sustainably intensify food production to meet the needs of a growing population with changing consumption patterns? In this lecture, author and scholar Jules […]
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Growing Farm to School Supply Chains with Local Vegetable Blends (Research Brief #96)
Posted on October 14, 2014Increasing access to fruits and vegetables in schools is one way to address nutritional and diet-related health concerns among children.
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Sustainable Agriculture, Fair Trade and Cooperatives
Posted on October 2, 2014FEATURED SPEAKER: Peter Hurst United Nations International Labor Organizer PANELISTS: Courtney Berner, Willy Street Co-op Sarah Lloyd, Wisconsin Farmers’ Union Peter Hurst and the panelists […]
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Food Summit 2014
Posted onThe Dane County Food Council and Dane County UW Extension, with the help of other community partners, will host the 2014 Food Summit on October […]
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Waseda Farms Will Match Donations to CIAS Through Dec. 7
Posted on September 23, 2014Make your gift to CIAS go twice as far! Through Dec. 7, Waseda Farms will match donations from individuals.
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Farm to School Toolkits 2.0
Posted on July 31, 2014With the 2014-15 school year right around the corner, CIAS has updated two popular farm to school resources. The Wisconsin Farm to School Toolkits for school nutrition programs and producers can help you create a successful farm to school program in your community.
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Whole-Farm Modeled Phosphorus Loss Low on Grazing Dairy Farms (Research Brief #94)
Posted on March 14, 2014Because agriculture is a major nonpoint phosphorus pollution source, there is strong interest in identifying and managing farm sources of phosphorus runoff. On dairy farms, possible sources of this runoff include cropland, grazed pastures, and outside cattle holding areas such as barnyards and overwintering lots. A new study based on modeled data for four dairy farms that use managed grazing found that these farms have very low phosphorus losses on a whole farm basis.
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Productivity and Nitrogen Retention Tradeoffs in Bioenergy Grasslands (Research Brief #93)
Posted onPerennial grassland cropping systems may someday be managed as an alternative source of biofuel that requires fewer fertilizer inputs. This alternative biofuel can also reduce competition with food crops because land that is unsuitable for row crops may be used for perennial grasslands.
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Organic Agriculture in Wisconsin: 2014 UW-Madison Research Report
Posted on February 26, 2014This report summarizes 23 studies conducted by researchers in the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) in partnership with farmers across the state. Those studies look at production practices for the state’s main agricultural products as well as farm management and marketing.