Bulletins
Bulletins
Based on latest research and SARE results, bulletins are excellent resources for the how-to's and success stories of innovative agricultural practices.
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A Whole-Farm Approach to Managing Pests
Type: Bulletin
This 20-page bulletin helps producers—and the educators who work with them—design farm-wide approaches to control pests.
Avicultura Rentable
Criando Aves en Pasturas
Type: Bulletin
Avicultura Rentable: Criando Aves en Pasturas es una guía que incluye experiencias de agricultores y lo último en investigación para criar pollos y pavos usando corrales, cercos portátiles y pasturas.
Clean Energy Farming
Cutting Costs, Improving Efficiencies, Harnessing Renewables
Type: Bulletin
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.
Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
Type: Bulletin
This 16-page bulletin will help you use cover crops to encourage populations of pollinators and beneficial insects on your farm while you address your other resource concerns.
Cover Crops
Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations
Type: Topic Room
Cover crops are one of the best ways to improve soil health, reduce off-farm inputs and protect natural resources. Find a wealth of educational materials developed out of decades of SARE-funded cover crop research.
Diversifying Cropping Systems
Type: Bulletin
This bulletin describes some of the many agronomic crop alternatives to use in rotations, with plentiful examples of on-farm successes.
Estrategias Economico-Ambientales en la Crianza de Cerdos
Type: Bulletin
Granjeros que quieren producir puercos con éxito en pequeña escala pueden preservar su independencia de cara a la industria de puercos en proceso de consolidación.
Farm to Table: Building Local and Regional Food Systems
Type: Topic Room
More and more, farmers, ranchers, ag professionals, community organizers and others are striving to reconfigure the nation's food system so more value stays in food-producing communities.
High Tunnels and Other Season Extension Techniques
Type: Topic Room
From low covers to high tunnels, from hoop houses to greenhouses—producers are finding ever more innovative ways to extend the growing season, and their income stream.
How to Conduct Research on Your Farm or Ranch
Type: Bulletin
This 12-page bulletin outlines how to conduct research at the farm level, offering practical tips for both crop and livestock producers, as well as a comprehensive list of more in-depth resources.
Marketing Strategies for Farmers and Ranchers
Type: Bulletin
This bulletin offers snapshots of alternatives to marketing commodities through conventional channels.
Meeting the Diverse Needs of Limited-Resource Producers
An Educator's Guide
Type: Bulletin
A 16-page bulletin intended to be a resource for agricultural educators, heads of community development and agricultural organizations, government agency staff and others who want to better connect with and improve the lives of farmers and ranchers who remain hard to reach.
Profitable Pork
Alternative Strategies for Hog Producers
Type: Bulletin
The 16-page bulletin features profiles about successful hog producers as well as the latest research on everything from greater profits to better-tasting pork raised in alternative hog systems.
Profitable Poultry
Raising Birds on Pasture
Type: Bulletin
Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture features farmer experiences plus the latest research in a guide to raising chickens and turkeys using pens, movable fencing and pastures.
Rangeland Management Strategies
Type: Bulletin
Features innovative SARE-funded research on creating and sustaining a healthy range.
Smart Water Use on Your Farm or Ranch
Type: Bulletin
As producers throughout the nation grow increasingly concerned about water scarcity, farmers, ranchers and agricultural educators are beginning to explore new, conservation-oriented approaches to water use.
Transitioning to Organic Production
Type: Bulletin
Transitioning to Organic Production lays out many promising conversion strategies, covering typical organic farming production practices, innovative marketing ideas and federal standards for certified organic crop production.
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Type: National SARE Promotional Product
This award-winning report provides a sampler of best practices in sustainable agriculture—from marketing and community vitality to cover crops and grazing—as well as eight profiles of producers, educators and researchers who have successfully implemented them.
¿Qué es la Agricultura Sustentable?
Type: National SARE Promotional Product
Este reporte ganador de un premio provee un muestrario de mejores prácticas en la agricultura sustentable – desde el mercadeo y la vitalidad de la comunidad hasta cultivos de cobertura y pastoreo – así como ocho perfiles de productores, educadores e investigadores que las han implementado con éxito.