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Spreading the word: ag professionals and MIRG (Research Brief #25)
Posted on January 1, 1998What predicts ag professionals’ knowledge of and willingness to make recommendations on management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG)? A UW-Madison survey of agricultural professionals throughout Wisconsin […]
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Something to Cheer About
Posted onAnecdotal reports from producers, processors and marketers of sustainable agriculture products suggest that trade opportunities with college and university food services are difficult to establish […]
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Impacts of Management Intensive Rotational Grazing on stream ecology and water quality
Posted on December 15, 1996News from the Grazing Dairy Systems Network December 15, 1996 Contributed by Laura Paine University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agronomy One important way to control […]
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Manure management research from an integrated perspective (Research Brief #24)
Posted on October 4, 1996Solving complex agricultural problems like how to improve manure management systems requires strong disciplinary research combined with farmers and scientists coming together to apply adaptive, […]
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Farmer-to-farmer networks: effective grass-roots sharing (Research Brief #23)
Posted on October 3, 1996Successful farmer-to-farmer networks assume that each person has valuable knowledge and experience to contribute. — Stephanie Rittmann Farmer-to-farmer networks are thriving in Wisconsin as a […]
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Windbreaks: trees as technology for protecting Wisconsin’s topsoil (Research Brief #22)
Posted on October 2, 1996We need a lot more protection of erosion-prone land than we have. Windbreaks are an important component of this effort to control wind erosion. — […]
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Community supported agriculture: growing food…and community (Research Brief #21)
Posted on October 1, 1996Unlike conventional agriculture, in which farmers bear the risks of weather, pests, and the marketplace alone, in community supported agriculture the entire community shares both […]
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Windrow composting systems can be feasable, cost effective (Research Brief #20)
Posted on June 1, 1996One of the things we were interested in was how to implement a composting system without changing a farmer’s existing setup. — Bill Connolly, UW-River […]
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Coming into the Foodshed
Posted onBioregionalists have championed the utility of the concept of the watershed as an organizing framework for thought and action directed to understanding and implementing appropriate […]
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Dairy farmer career paths
Posted on May 1, 1996This report is based on observations of dairy farmer career structures in New Zealand gathered during a field trip to that country in the spring […]