This report compiles lessons learned from a farmer-focused program designed to concentrate financial resources, technical assistance, water quality monitoring, and decision support tools in a specific watershed to improve water quality.
Click Here to Read "Scaling Up Farmer-Driven Water Quality"Welcome to a new podcast – Beyond the Pasture – created by the team at the Wallace Center! In the first season of Beyond the Pasture, we spoke with an amazing group of regenerative grazing practitioners and advocates about how they’re utilizing regenerative grazing to build culturally relevant food value chains, improve environmental outcomes of […]
Click Here to Read "Beyond The Pasture"This action-oriented roadmap captures a shared vision and strategy for how to increase and sustain more grass and forage-based agriculture through regenerative livestock grazing in Indiana.
Click Here to Read "Roadmap for Expanding Regenerative Grazing in Indiana"This toolkit, rich in resources on conservation grazing practices for public lands, serves as an
essential advocate’s guide across the Upper Midwest.
This graphic illustrates a shared vision for greater connectivity across and impact in value chain coordination work across the upper Midwest.
Click Here to Read "Midwest Value Chain Coordination: Strengthening Food Systems Through Shared Values"In mid-2020, the Wallace Center – through its Pasture Project initiative – began a conversation with farmers, agriculture educators, technical service providers, and business owners in the Blue River watershed of southern Indiana.
Click Here to Read "More Profitable Pastures through Stronger Beef Value Chains: Value Chain Assessment of Indiana’s Blue River Watershed Region"This resource guide contains resources that are organized to help a farmer determine how direct marketing meat can work for their farming enterprise.
Click Here to Read "Beginner’s Resource Guide to Direct Marketing Meat"This report seeks to understand the current landscape of public land grazing activities in a six-state region in the Midwest and assessed the challenges and opportunities to advancing conservation grazing on public land.
Click Here to Read "Conservation Grazing on Public Land in the Upper Midwest"The following reports represent the second phase of a project led by Pasture Project and Delta Institute, titled “Accelerating Regenerative Livestock Production and Value-Chains in Illinois.” The goal of the project was to establish the foundation upon which project partners can develop interventions for producers and buyers engaged in livestock production and the associated value-chain.
Click Here to Read "Accelerating Regenerative Beef Value-Chains in Key Chicago Area Watersheds"Drs. Jasmine Dillon and Megan Machmuller provide an overview of carbon cycling, climate change, and the potential for regenerative agriculture to contribute to climate mitigation efforts.
Click Here to Read "Regenerative Grazing, Carbon, and Climate"
