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Can Less Fertilizer Create Higher Sugar Yields? Testing a Win-Win Hypothesis

For a sugarbeet grower, when someone tells you that you can reduce your nitrogen fertilizer inputs and costs by 20 percent and increase your crop quality and sugar yield, there’s only one logical response. Prove it. That’s just what the Western Sugar Cooperative set out to do with a Western SARE Professional + Producer grant […]

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2026 Large Grant Question and Answer Sessions

Nearly seven million dollars in funding is now available for sustainable agriculture projects taking place in the Northeast beginning in 2026. Four Northeast SARE programs have released calls for proposals for projects beginning in 2026. The Farming Community, Professional Development, Research & Education, and Research for Novel Approaches Calls for Proposals have been updated for […]

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Developing an Affordable Soil Health Test

A recent Northeast SARE Research and Education project explored how small-scale farmers can better work with their soil. In LNE21-420, "Developing an Affordable Soil Health Test for the Appalachian Region to Incentivize Sustainable Agricultural Production", researchers from West Virginia University and University of Kentucky led by Dr. Eugenia Pena-Yewtukhiw from WVU worked with more than […]