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Section B: Real People, Real Farms: Case studies
of animal agriculture
Projected
Outcomes
- Students will learn about examples of sustainable
animal production both in-state and around the
country and the world.
- Students will be able to apply the concepts
taught in the module to real situations.
Tom Frantzen’s system for producing pigs
on pasture and in hoophouses is profiled in Hogs
Your Way . A range of other pork production
systems are described in the same publication.
Rick Adamski
and Valerie Dantoin’s
pasture-based dairy farm has been written up
several times over
the years. In 2005 these Wisconsin farmers received
an Honorary Recognition award from the UW-Madison
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for
their leadership in Wisconsin agriculture. Read
how their operation has evolved over time.
1995 Case
study
2002 Grant
write-up
2004 Article
Don Adams and Nan Bonfils worked with a consultant
to create marketing materials for their natural
beef. Marketing
case study.
Poultry
Your Way contains a number of case studies
of poultry production in the upper Midwest. See
“Ducks That Don’t Quack” for an example of a sizable alternative
enterprise started by two Minnesota high school
students. “Returning Chickens to the Range”
profiles the Milladore, Wisconsin
farm of Mike and Debra Hansen.
Dairy Your Way contains descriptions and case studies of different dairy production systems in the upper Midwest. “Seasonal Calving” describes how Dan and Ruth Vosberg have combined grazing and more conventional practices to make their dairy farm work for them.
Other livestock production profiles can be found
in the SARE book The
New American Farmer and includes Greg and
Lei Gunthorp in Indiana, Tom Larson in Nebraska,
and Bob Wackernagel in Michigan. For national
examples, see David and Cynthia Major,
Vermont (sheep dairy), Tom Trantham, South Carolina
(dairy grazing of standing crops), Rosa Shareef,
Mississippi (pastured poultry, goats, and sheep);
Frank Bohman, Utah (rangeland restoration), and
Mark Frasier, Colorado (range management).
Other profiles can be found at The
New Farm. About half of the profiles feature
livestock operations, including organic
egg production at New Century Farm in Wisconsin and meat
goat production in Iowa.
Activity
1 Evaluating sustainability
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