Newsletters

As well as Feature Articles, Organic Gardening Columns, and selected Poetry.

Each bimonthly issue of the NSAS Newsletter brings you thought-provoking, timely information about sustainable food and farming systems. Many years of previous articles are below...a wealth of information. 

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• May 2008
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• November 2007

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In the News

NSAS Member Kevin Fulton of Litchfield, Nebr. delivered a Keynote Presentation at the 2008 Grasstravaganza Conference in New York. Read about it here.

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Feature Articles

From past newsletters (prior to March 2005) includes Dennis Demmel's 2004 poultry report

Sustainable Food and Farming Systems

• Creating Sustainable Farming Systems (Winter 1996)
• Capturing the Most Basic Nutrient: Sunlight (Summer 1996)
• Kirschenmann Explores Farm Size and Sustainability (Spring 1997)
• Imagining a Better Food System (Summer 1997)
• Agriculture's Future is in Good Hands (Summer 1998)
• Think Outside the Box (Winter 1999)
• Herbs Can Yield Profits (Spring 1999)
• Eat Your Cornflakes, People are Starving in ?? (Fall 1999)
• Feed the World? Feed the Village First (Fall 1999)
• Will Research Benefit Family Farms? (May 2002)
• Visualize a Vineyard (November 2003)
• Behavior & Performance Improve When School Serves Good Food (March 2004)

Crop Production and Soils

• The Rotation Effect: It's For Real (Winter 1996 )
• Getting to Know Your Soil (Spring 1997)
• Eyeball to Eyeball With Precision Farming (Spring 1998)
• What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? (Summer 1998)
• Weeds...Under-appreciated Friends (Sep 2001)

Livestock and Grazing Systems

• It's Not Just for Combining Any More (Fall 1995 )
• Successful Grazing Systems Start With Solid Goals (Fall 1995 )
• Balancing Animal Rations for Nutrient Management (Summer 1996)
• Rushville Rancher Profits from Buffalo (Summer 1997)
• Let the Animals Do the Harvesting (Fall 1997)
• Hogs Thrive in Alternative Production System (Fall 1997)
• Beekeeping Benefits Include Pleasure, Profit (Winter 1998)
• Dixon County Family Reaps the Benefits of Buffalo (Winter 1998)
• Working With Nature (Fall 1998)
• Give Your Combine a Break: Graze Your Crops (Fall 1998)
• Raising and Marketing Pastured Turkeys (Winter 2000)
• Pastured Poultry: Big Benefits for Small Farms (Winter 2000)
• An Alternative to Portable Pens for Pastured Poultry Production (Winter 2000)
• NEW! Dennis Demmel's 2004 Poultry Report (April 2005 - web only newsletter supplement) 

Wildlife

• Wildlife and Farmers Can Exist Together (Fall 1996)
• Swinging the Balance of Nature in My Direction (Fall 1996)
• Good Land Management is Good Wildlife Management (Fall 1996)
• Agriculture Contributes to Wild Pollinator Decline (Fall 1996)

Marketing

• Pocket Your Profits With Creative Marketing (Spring 1996)
• Cooperation Makes for a Fun, Successful Market, part I (Spring 1996)
• Cooperation Makes for a Fun, Successful Market, part II (Summer 1996)
• Helpful Hints for Successful Farmers' Market Vendors (Summer 1997)
• Build a Business on Your Farm (Winter 1998)
• Build a Business in Your Backyard (Winter 1999)
• Nebraska Wine: A Growing Market (Spring 1999)
• Profile of a Kansas Beef Cooperative (Summer 1999)
• Let's Not Give Away the Farm (July 2001)
• Buying Local Produce Can Boost Profits for Chefs and Growers, NU Survey Shows (November 2003)

Biotechnology and Seed Industry Consolidation

• Designing the Perfect Consumer (Winter 1997)
• Benbrook Speaks on Biotechnology (Spring 1998)
• Seeds Shape Our Future (Summer 1999)
• Should I Produce My Own Seed? (Summer 1999)
• Who Benefits from Biotechnology? (Fall 1999)

Agriculture and Health

• Short-Term Effects of Pesticides Explained (Winter 1997)
• Milk Quality is Not What it Used to Be (Summer 1998)

Organic Gardening Columns

• Putting the Garden to Bed (Fall 1995)
• Rotations in Vegetable Production (Winter 1996)
• Planting and Growing Onions (Spring 1996)
• Mulch Keeps Life Simple (Summer 1996)
• The Snake in the Garden (Fall 1996)
• Saving Seeds Shapes the Future (Winter 1997)
• Change the Way You Think (Spring 1997)
• Eat Locally  - Grow a Garden (Summer 1997)
• Invite Some Chickens to Your Garden (Fall 1997)
• Grow a Business in Your Garden (Winter 1998)
• Are Garden Gadgets Really Necessary (Spring 1998)
• Control Potato Bugs Naturally (Summer 1998)
• Growing Food in the City (Fall 1998)
• Gifts from the Garden (Winter 1999)
• Herbs in Your Garden (Spring 1999)
• No-work Gardening (Fall 1999)
• Saving Seed (July 2001)
• Nettles (July 2003)

Poetry

• A Place to Grow (Fall 1995)
• Leap-day Sunrise (Spring 1996)
• Love Affair With the Platte (Summer 1996)
• Ketchikan Graveyard - 1969 (Fall 1997)
• Knitting (Winter 1998)
• Sustaining People Through Agriculture (Spring 1998)
• Irradiation (Winter 1999)
• This Climactic Time (Spring 1999)
• Flood (Fall 1999)
• Blowout (Fall 1999)