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Sustainable
Agriculture... Continuing to Grow Table of Contents Message from
the Western Coordinating Committee on Sustainable Agriculture THE SUSTAINABLE FARMProfile of Larry Thompson, Thompson Farms, and Regional Chair of Western SARE’s Administrative Council
Profile of Ed Sills Carolee Bull Garry Stephenson
Gary Peterson SOIL
DISEASE, PESTS AND WEEDS
THE SUSTAINABLE RANCH
MARKETING IN A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE
The work to create this publication was sponsored by the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (Western SARE) program. Western SARE is an effort of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since 1988 through federal fiscal 2000, the U.S. Congress has allocated more than $114.6 million to the federal SARE effort; Western SARE has received $26 million. The Western region includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and the Island Protectorates of American Samoa, Guam, Micronesia and the Northern Mariana Islands. |