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WICST Funding HistoryEarly funding was obtained from the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), Pioneer International Hi-Bred Seed Company, and in-kind donations of labor and supplies from team personnel, the Walworth County Farm Committee, and the UW College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). In addition, a North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant from 1990-1993 permitted on-farm work with rotational grazing to begin. In 1991 the project received a substantial ($800,000) five-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Integrated Food and Farming Systems program. In 1996 the WICST Project began collaborating with the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center (DFRC), and from 1997-2002 the project received a federal appropriation from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Integrated Farming Systems program ($810,000). In June 2002 a new five-year phase of the collaboration with the DFRC was initiated. A National Research Initiative grant was received to study the impact of atlernative cropping systems on soil biodiversity (1994-1997). A second NRI grant was used to study the impact of alternative cropping systems on corn root health (1999-2002). Funding for on-farm and on-station research promoting the use of cover crops and small grains in corn-soybean rotations was received from the SARE program (1997-1999) and the USDA Fund for Rural America (1997-2000). Smaller grants have been received from the Wisconsin Fertilizer Research Council, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources—Water Quality Initiative, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, and University of Wisconsin Hatch funds. |
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