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Food and Fuel Resource Center

• Click here for presentations and resources on the causes of rising commodity prices

Recent PATS Publications:

• Dairy Structural Change: 1987 - 2007. October, 2007 (#25)
• Immigrant Labor on Dairy Farms. October, 2007 (#24)
• The Status of Working Lands in Wisconsin: Current Trends and Future Policies. October, 2006 (Research Report #18)
• Amish Dairy Farms in Southwestern Wisconsin. October, 2006 (Research Report #17)
• Agritourism in Wisconsin. October, 2006 (Research Summary #8)
• Organic Dairy Farms in Wisconsin: Prosperous, Modern, and Expansive. June, 2006 (Research Report #16)

Previous updates:

• Summary Report: Modern Agricultural Science in Transition: A Survey of Land-Grant Agricultural and Life Scientists.
  PATS Research Report #14, October 2005
• Data and factsheets from the 2002 Land Use CD are now online, under Town Land Use Data.
• The Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crop Varieties in Wisconsin
  PATS Research Report No. 13, April, 2005
• Expansion, Modernization, and Specialization in the Wisconsin Dairy Industry
  -Research Summary, No. 7, March 2005
• Manure Management on Wisconsin Dairy Farms
  -Fact Sheet No. 23, February, 2005
• How Important is Value-Added Agriculture in Wisconsin?
  -Fact Sheet No. 22, January, 2005
• 2002 Land Use Maps are now posted.
  -Browse state- and district-wide maps of Wisconsin land use.
• Highlights from the 2003 Wisconsin Dairy Farm Poll
  -PATS summary sheet, November 2004

Organic and rBST milk in the marketplace - August '03

• Market Structure and Consumer Valuation in the rBST-free and Organic Milk Markets
  -by Tirtha Dhar and Jeremy Foltz, presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003
• How Consumers Value rBST-free and Organic Milk in the Marketplace
  -Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 19, July, 2003
• The Market for rBST-free and Organic Milk
  -Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 18, July, 2003