Events
Midwest Value Added Conference and Wisconsin Food Summit
| January 20, 2010 | to | January 22, 2010 |
January 20-22, 2010, in Eau Claire, WI. For more information, visit the website at www.rivercountryrcd.org/valad.html
Organic Farming Conference
| February 25, 2010 | to | February 27, 2010 |
February 25-27, 2010 in LaCrosse. Visit the conference web site or contact the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) for more information.
Vegetable Storage Crops Workshop: Hudson
| December 4, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Location: Phipps Center for the Arts, 109 Locust St., Hudson, Wisconsin
Join us for this timely workshop on how to take advantage of storage crops to improve your farm’s bottom line. Topics will include best varieties, storage conditions and structures, and the labor demands and economics of winter sales. Speakers will include experienced growers and University faculty and staff. Cost: $35.
For more information and a registration form, see the workshop flyer.
Vegetable Storage Crops Workshop: Madison
| December 11, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Location: West Madison Ag Research Station, 8502 Mineral Point Rd., Verona, Wisconsin
Join us for this timely workshop on how to take advantage of storage crops to improve your farm’s bottom line. Topics will include best varieties, storage conditions and structures, and the labor demands and economics of winter sales. Speakers will include experienced growers and University faculty and staff. Cost: $35.
For more information and a registration form, see the workshop flyer.
Learn how to extend your marketing season by growing and selling winter storage crops like carrots, beets, winter squash, cabbage, potatoes, onions, garlic and more. This workshop will be held on December 4 in Hudson and December 11 in Madison. For details, see the workshop flyer. Hope to see you there!
- Grass Clippings: February 2009
- Custom Raising Dairy Heifers: Expectations and Perspectives of Wisconsin Dairy Producers
- Distribution Models for Local Food
- Tall fescue and Kura clover for dairy and beef stockers (Research Brief #76)
- Managed Grazing Education and Research in Wisconsin
- CIAS Hosts Annual Meeting of Eco-Apple Growers
- Mid-scale food value chains case study: Organic Valley (Research Brief #80)
- Mid-scale food value chains case study: Country Natural Beef (Research Brief #79)
- Grass-Based Dairy Products: Challenges and Opportunities
- CIAS Turns 20!
- Organic Field Day at Arlington
- Case Studies Profile Mid-Scale Food Enterprises
- Ride to Farm
- Cover Crops on the Intensive Market Farm
- CIAS: a catalyst for sustainable agriculture and food ideas in Wisconsin
- College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison
- Grazing Resources for Wisconsin
- Organic Farming Resources for Wisconsin
- thinkipm.org
- Toward a Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum
- UW-Extension Grazing Resources and Research
- Wisconsin Eat Local Challenge
- Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial Project
- Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers
- Wisconsin’s Farm Fresh Atlases
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CIAS in the community
CIAS Hosts Annual Meeting of Eco-Apple Growers
On Thursday, November 12, CIAS hosted its annual meeting of apple growers engaged in its Eco-Apple pesticide reduction program. Notably, the group of 48 growers celebrated the successful completion of a six-year effort designed to reduce the use of pesticides on orchards throughout Wisconsin. During the course of the program, all reporting orchards demonstrated a reduced reliance on pesticides in favor of a diversity of IPM strategies, and some realized a near-total elimination of organophosphate applications. CIAS thanks its team of growers for their enthusiastic and committed participation. In particular, CIAS wishes to thank Dave Flannery, Wendy Schafer, Bill Stone and Anna Maenner for their fortitude in seeing this phase of the project through to a successful conclusion. UW rsearchers Dan Mahr, Patty McManus, Matt Stasiak and Teryl Roper have been critical to the project’s success. Thanks also to EPA-V and the USDA for their support and encouragement.
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