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New markets for producers: selling to retail stores (Research Brief #38)
Posted on February 1, 1999You can find shelves filled with organic produce at natural foods stores and increasingly at supermarkets as well. Who supplies this organic produce? Does it […]
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Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers (Research Brief #37)
Posted on January 4, 1999Wisconsin has suffered dramatic losses in numbers of dairy farms. While the decrease in part includes large numbers of retiring dairy farmers, the lack of […]
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Stocker cattle convert pasture to profits (Research Brief #36)
Posted on January 3, 1999Purchasing calves (stockers) in spring and selling them in the fall as feeder cattle may be a way to convert pasture to profit for those […]
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Outwintering dairy cattle: the fate of manure components (Research Brief #35)
Posted on January 2, 1999Farmers who wish to outwinter their cattle to decrease facility and labor costs can do so in environmentally sound ways. In a study conducted during […]
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Sharemilking in Wisconsin: evaluating a farm entry/exit strategy (Research Brief #34)
Posted on January 1, 1999In a sharemilking agreement, a young farmer operates a farm on behalf of the farm owner for an agreed share of farm income and expenses. […]
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New Zealand’s dairy career path: could it work in Wisconsin? (Research Brief #33)
Posted on September 4, 1998Dairy farming is a solid career choice, offering good status and pay, a high quality of life, and well-defined training and career paths. That’s the […]
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Farm networks work: a CSA success story (Research Brief #32)
Posted on September 3, 1998What makes a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm successful? Good management and know-how and networking and outreach. Formal research and support for CSA have not […]
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Grazing’s potential: expansion’s effects on cash flow (Research Brief #31)
Posted on September 2, 1998All farm types examined here, particularly the low and medium investment farms with high levels of debt, may find an expansion involving sweat equity to […]
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Grazing’s potential: predicting expansion’s cost, profit (Research Brief #30)
Posted on September 1, 1998Many successful graziers, confident in their grazing and management skills, are now asking: Will an expansion pay for a labor-saving parlor within a modified seasonal […]
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Women on dairy farms: juggling roles and responsibilities (Research Brief #29)
Posted on February 4, 1998If you want to know how important women are to running a dairy farm in Wisconsin, just ask farm couples. Six hundred farm couples were […]