Mini-grants for professional development in sustainable agriculture

Do you have a sustainable agriculture project in mind that just needs a little funding to get off the ground?  The Wisconsin SARE Program mini-grant program may be your answer. The deadline to apply for this cycle of mini-grants is February 16th, 2018.  You can find the application form and information about the mini-grants at  […]

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UW Extension educators receive two SARE Partnership grants

For the 2016 Partnership Grant Program, SARE awarded almost $300,000 to 10 projects in the 12-state North Central Region. NCR-SARE’s Partnership Grant Program is intended to foster cooperation between agriculture professionals and small groups of farmers and ranchers to catalyze on-farm research, demonstration, and education activities related to sustainable agriculture. Two proposals from UW Extension educators […]

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University of Wisconsin Extension Receives Grant to Help Hazelnut Growers

Jason Fischbach at the University of Wisconsin Extension was  selected to receive a $198,569 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) for the project, “Commercialization of Hazelnuts for Growers in the Upper Midwest.” “Previous SARE funding established replicated performance trials of superior hazelnut germplasm identified on grower farms. This […]

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