Category: Beginning Farmers
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Posted on February 1, 2001
Starting—and succeeding—as a Wisconsin dairy farmer (Research Brief #56)
You don’t need to take over a family farm, or even grow up on a farm, to be a successful dairy farmer in Wisconsin. You […]
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Posted on January 4, 1999
Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers (Research Brief #37)
Wisconsin has suffered dramatic losses in numbers of dairy farms. While the decrease in part includes large numbers of retiring dairy farmers, the lack of […]
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Posted on January 1, 1999
Sharemilking in Wisconsin: evaluating a farm entry/exit strategy (Research Brief #34)
In a sharemilking agreement, a young farmer operates a farm on behalf of the farm owner for an agreed share of farm income and expenses. […]
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Posted on September 4, 1998
New Zealand’s dairy career path: could it work in Wisconsin? (Research Brief #33)
Dairy farming is a solid career choice, offering good status and pay, a high quality of life, and well-defined training and career paths. That’s the […]
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Posted on February 1, 1998
Dairy farmer career paths: getting in, out, and by (Research Brief #26)
The experiences of New Zealand’s dairy farmers may help their colleagues in Wisconsin boost the state’s dairy industry. That’s the conclusion of a study on […]
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Posted on October 3, 1996
Farmer-to-farmer networks: effective grass-roots sharing (Research Brief #23)
Successful farmer-to-farmer networks assume that each person has valuable knowledge and experience to contribute. — Stephanie Rittmann Farmer-to-farmer networks are thriving in Wisconsin as a […]
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Posted on May 1, 1996
Dairy farmer career paths
This report is based on observations of dairy farmer career structures in New Zealand gathered during a field trip to that country in the spring […]
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Posted on March 1, 1992
Sustainable agriculture curriculum materials
As one of its first projects, in 1989 and 1990, CIAS collaborated with the Wisconsin Rural Development Center and the Department of Public Instruction to […]