Books and Publications of InterestSARE 20/20: Celebrating Our First 20 Years, Envisioning the Next
SARE has recently releassed SARE 20/20: Celebrating Our First 20 Years, Envisioning the Next. This special 20th anniversary edition chronicles 20 years of agricultural innovation – from SARE’s beginning in 1988 to present-day stories of farmers, ranchers, researchers and educators working across America to develop and implement sustainable marketing and production practices.
SARE 20/20 highlights cream-of-the-crop projects from more than 3,700 SARE funded grants, illustrating how producers, researchers and educators are collaborating to advance sustainable innovations to the whole of American agriculture. A few examples:
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A nonprofit uses innovative marketing strategies to open new markets for more than 40 produce farmers, resulting in a tenfold increase in sales spanning six years.
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Researchers in the South develop a toolbox of low-cost strategies to detect and target parasites in goats and sheep, reducing the use of chemical dewormers.
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Minnesota researchers find success using reduced tillage and rotations to control corn rootworm.
Download SARE 20/20 for free at www.sare.org/publications/highlights.htm. To order print copies, visit www.sare.org/WebStore, call 301/374-9696 or write to Sustainable Agriculture Publications, PO Box 753, Waldorf, Md. 20604-0753. (Please specify SARE 20/20 when ordering by mail.) Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. SARE 20/20 is also available in quantity to agricultural educators for workshops, conferences, and tours at no cost.