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Read about how a seed crop producer is helping determine the future of cellulosic-based biofuels, and more.

Read about a project examining cover crop water usage, soil management in blueberry production, and more!

In this issue of Field Notes, read about how a NCR-SARE sponsored outreach project is using a farmer field school approach to increase cover crop adoption in IA and MN, and more...

Summer/Fall 2009, Read about a unique farmer training program in Kansas, and more...

Winter/Spring 2009, Read about Dan Kuebler's solar irrigation system, and more...

Delayed gratification--from proposals to final products, and new regional and national books, bulletins, and videos.

State programs explore new ideas and new alliances; summaries of the 2011 Graduate Student awards

Making mountains out of molehills--the efficiency of the SARE model; summaries of the 2011 Professional Development, Research and Education, Farmer, Partnership, and Sustainable Community grants.

For good measure: How to verify project results, with three sample projects.

Many little hammers--how small grants trigger change, 2010 Graduate Student awards.

Summaries of the 2010 grant awards, electronic submissions.

• Get the Buzz on Pollinator Conservation
• Breaking into Organic Hops Production
• Food Hubs: The Next Evolution in Local Markets?
• Systems Research Video Tutorials
• Large Systems Research Grants Awarded

• Leave It Better Than You Found It
• New Southern SARE Website
• Intercropping for Best Squash Yields
• SE Organic Peanut Industry

• New lessons from and old farm
• Connecting the dots to local food
• Grazing Jersey beef
• Land and Power book

Perspectives on Systems Research--Seven noted systems researchers discuss all aspects of research design including team building, size, time commitment and more. 

• Katrina survivor helps inner city students with growing skills for the future
• Learning to dream and grow in South Texas
• Upscale Coffee in Puerto Rico
• Guest grazers in Kentucky
• A Gathering of Entrepreneurs in Tennessee

• Bats in the corn field
• Where the rubber meets the rows
• Catering to stink bugs
• Breaking new ground for organic orchards
• Marine shrimp go inland

• Terry and LaRhea Pepper named 2008 Madden Award winners
• Harvest with a Heart
• Feedback on Local Food
• Grafting heirloom tomatoes
• Tossing salad for parasites
• Historic peanut crop goes to market

• Designing a greener greenhouse
• Farmers as entrepreneurs
• Forage with an attitude
• Reflections on mulch research
• Studying farmer motivation

• What do rural communities want?
• Tourism and agriculture in USVI
• Farming and conservation easements
• Planning for future generations with agritourism
• Producer researches tastiest edamame

• Alex and Betsy Hitt named 2006 Madden Award winners
• From tobacco to organic produce
• Helping farmers transition
• Researchers also transition
• Baiting the trap for small hive beetles

• Researching to reduce risks
• Ozark pastured beef
• What quail want
• Easing up on weeds
• Growing a movement
• Easing the bumps on the road to organic

• Farmer mentors: spreading the grow how
• Between hard times and home
• Connecting small farmers in Louisiana
• Immigrants growing comfort and community
• But is it working?. . . an evaluation enigma

• Cracking health codes
• Chefs and farmers: a natural relationship
• Closing the information gap on parasite control
• Fire ants: beyond crisis mode
• Plucky persuasion
• Bats and wasps and fungus, oh my!

• Making a bigger pie
• Adding more than the numbers
• Growing goodwill on Alabama's Gulf Coast
• Rio Grande inspires big vision
• Life lessons on the hoof
• And sometimes the answer is "No"
• Southern SARE debuts electronic CFP

• Preserving farmland
• Kerr Center to manage PDP
• No whine in this vineyard
• 200-year-old recipe rescues dairy
• Lessons learned from a teaching experiment
• Matchmaking for manure nutrients
• Velvet beans--a new look at an old crop

In this issue:

• Opportunities in Agritourism
• Reservation Farmers Market
• News from Administrative Council Meeting
• Update on Agriculture Infrastructure Conference

• Successful Farmstay Website
• Camelina's Potential in the High Plains
• Upcoming Western SARE Conferences

• Teaching Cattle to Eat Sagebrush
• Funded Graduate Student Projects
• Sustainable Ag Activities in Hawaii

• Pollinator Conservation
• Livestock Research
• Projects Funded

• Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture
• Growing Year-Round in New Mexico
• Food Systems Conference

• Connecting Youth with Sustainable Agriculture
• Predicting Straw Yield on the Go
• Effective Systems Research

• PDP Coordinators Visit Logan Utah Projects
• AC Members and Staff Learn from California Producers
• Recommendations from Subregional Conferences Discussed at AC Meeting

• SARE Fellows Learn from Producers
• Alaska Project Profile
• Low-till Forage Production Profile

• Final Subregional Conference Held in Alaska
• California Subregional Projects Funded
• 2010 Funded Grants Announced 

• California Subregional Conference
• Listing of California Priorities
• Project Profile: 4-H

• Key Issues Face Western SARE
• Organic Potato Production
• Positive Impacts from PDP Grants

• Grants Target Local Priorities
• R&E Survey Results
• Project Profile: BEHAVE

• Funded Grants
• Mountain/High Plains Subregional Conference
• Pacific Northwest Subregional Conference

• Hawaii Subregional Conference
• Southwest Subregional Conference
• Ag Standards Committee

Participants in subregional conferences ponder "six burning questions"

AC approves $2.48 million in grants

First subregional conference held in Guam

AC doubles amount for producer grants and professional + producer grants

News on funded grants

SARE to fund subregional conferences

First issue of Western SARE's newsletter