SARE Graduate Student Grants Awarded to UW Students

Two graduate students in the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have been awarded SARE grants for sustainable agriculture projects.  Abigail Augarten along with Dr. Matthew Ruark was awarded $14,905 for the project, “Evaluating the Relationships Between Pasture Management, Soil Health and Ecosystem Services Through On-farm Monitoring.”  Mitchell Lannan along with Dr. Christelle Guédot was awarded $12,080 for the project, “Assessing Attract-and-kill […]

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Silvopasture walk

The Lancaster Agricultural Research Station will host a pasture walk of its newly established silvopasture trial on Thursday, September 29th, from 10:00am to noon. Silvopasture is the intentional, intensively managed integration of grazing with trees.  Summer 2016 was the pilot season for a multi-year trial of silvopasture created by thinning an existing woodlot on the research […]

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