Partners
We are a collaborative effort focused on soil health research and outreach. Our goal is to investigate and promote profitable, community-supporting, and practical strategies to building agricultural soil health in Wisconsin and beyond.
We believe that through inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, and farmer-engaged research and outreach, landscape transformation is possible.
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Explore our partners below.
The U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center is one of about 90 locations in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its strength lies in a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to research that includes soil, forage crops, forage management, ruminant nutrition, manure management, and environmental sustainability.
The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a sustainable agriculture and food systems research center in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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CIAS fosters transdisciplinary inquiry and supports a range of research, outreach and professional development opportunities. It brings together university faculty, students, staff, farmers, policy makers and other practitioners to study relationships between farming practices and profitability, the structure of the food system, the environment, and rural vitality.
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CIAS was created to build sustainable agriculture and food systems research programs that respond to farmer and citizen needs.
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization addressing the challenges of soil fertility, water quality, climate resilience, racial equity, food security, and farm success through research, policy, and education. MFAI is based in East Troy, WI, and serves diverse farmers and communities in the Upper Midwest and beyond.
