Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems

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⇒	WISCONSIN
	⇒	Association of Equipment Manufacturers
	⇒	Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
	⇒	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
	⇒	Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection
	⇒	University of Wisconsin
	⇒	Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
	⇒	Program on Agricultural Technology Studies

Program Description
CIAS is a small sustainable agriculture research center at the University of Wisconsin's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Since 1989, CIAS has worked to bring together university faculty, farmers, policy makers and others to study the relationships between farming practices, farm profitability, the environment and the rural economy. We build meaningful farmer and citizen involvement in University of Wisconsin research at program and research levels. We foster and coordinate a flexible, responsive program of research in emerging areas, including grazing-based dairy systems, alternative food systems, support for beginning and retiring farmers, alternative manure and weed management, economics of sustainable agriculture.

Through case studies we describe successful, locally-oriented food enterprises including: Community Supported Agriculture, marketing cooperatives, and small-scale food processing.

Contact
Center for integrated agricultural systems,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences,
1535 Observatory Drive,
Madison, WI 53706.
Phone:(608) 262-5200
Fax:(608) 265-3020
Web: http://www.cias.wisc.edu/

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