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Media Center
Welcome to the SARE sustainable agriculture media center, where you can
find out about the latest publications and sustainable agriculture news,
including press releases, images and contacts.
Contact the media team with questions or to request review copies:
Dena Leibman, Communications
Specialist. (301) 504-5230
Sean McGovern,
Outreach Specialist. (614) 306-6422
Contact regional offices for information
about grant deadlines and applications.
Mission and vision
Learn more about SARE and its mission
to advance sustainable innovations to the whole of American agriculture.
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Recent Press releases
Clean Energy Farming (February 2008)
"Clean Energy Farming: Cutting Costs, Improving Efficiencies, Harnessing
Renewables" features innovative SARE-funded research and examples
of farmers who are improving energy efficiency while saving money, implementing
farming practices that both save energy and protect natural resources,
and producing and using renewable fuels.
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Roger Rainville hopes to achieve energy
independence on his farm. One of his fuel feedstocks is homegrown
canola.
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Bill DeLillo
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Pasturing cows, harvesting wind: two big
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SARE 20/20 (March 2008)
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.
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Paul Mueller, director of CEFS Farming
Systems Research Unit.
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Center for Environmental Farming Systems
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New Mexico farmer Don Bustos uses a solar
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NEW AMERICAN FARM CONFERENCE: Advancing the Frontier of Sustainable
Agriculture
Don't miss SARE's 20th Anniversary New American Farm Conference, March
25-27, 2008 at Kansas City, Missouri
Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Edition. (September 2007)
Farmers across the U.S. are using cover crops to smother weeds, deter
pests and slow erosion. They find that cover crops help them cut costs
and boost profits while improving their soil and protecting natural resources.
Revised and updated in 2007, the 3rd edition of Managing Cover Crops Profitably
includes a new chapter on brassicas and mustards, 16 farm profiles, and
a comprehensive chapter on the use of cover crops in conservation tillage
systems.
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Bryan and Donna Davis love what cover
crops have done for their corn/soybean rotation. The Grinnell, Iowa
couple relies on rye and oats to feed their soil and manage pests
on their 1,000-acre, mostly no-till farm. “We have cut our
chemical costs cut dramatically, and have reduced fertility costs
in some fields by half” says Bryan.
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* Red clover, frostseeded into winter wheat, is well established
just prior to wheat harvest. Photo by Steve Deming, MSU Kellogg
Biological Station.
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Dale Gies has reduced his use of soil
fumigants on potatoes thanks to the biocidal properties of Brassica
cover crops. Gies is most excited about results using a mixture of
white or oriental mustard and arugula, also a Brassica, to manage
nematodes and potato early dying disease on his 750-acre farm in the
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* Guihua Chen, a Univ. of MD graduate student, studies the ability
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forage radish to alleviate soil compaction. Photo by Ray Weil, Univ.
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Rangeland Management Strategies (March 2007)
Features innovative SARE-funded research on creating and sustaining a
healthy range. Throughout, researchers and ranchers share goals and successes
in winter and multi-species grazing, managing forage and other vegetation
and protecting riparian areas.
Marketing Strategies for Farmers & Ranchers. (January 2007)
Marketing Strategies features innovative SARE-funded research
in a range of marketing options. Throughout, farmers and ranchers share
how farmers markets, CSA, tourism, direct meat sales, season extension,
adding value, restaurants, media campaigns, and the Internet improved
their livelihoods as well as their outlook on life. The bulletin includes
a section on evaluation and business planning, plus a full list of in-depth
resources on alternative farm marketing options.
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Jeff and Jill Burkhart opened an on-site
creamery to showcase their Iowa dairy products, which they promote
through farm days and a new Website developed with help from SARE.
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