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SARE’s newest handbook, Cover Crops: Improving Soil Health, Stewardship and Profitability on the Farm helps farmers understand how cover crops can fit into their operations: sare.org/news/new-sare-handb…
SARE’s newest bulletin, 10 Steps for Conducting Research on Your Farm or Ranch, provides a practical framework that can help producers design and carry out on-farm research projects: sare.org/news/new-sare-bulle…
2026 National Cover Crop Report Shows Continued Expansion of Cover Crop Use sare.org/news/2026-national-…
Charles Lafferty, of Skyline Pastures in Morshville, Penn., saw potential in the wooded section of his family’s 12-acre farm: sare.org/news/turning-woodlo…
SARE is Hiring a Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager: sare.org/news/sare-is-hiring…
Lisa Calvo of Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm wanted to find a better way to manage mud worms, a costly shellfish pest common to the coastal Northeast: sare.org/news/reducing-pest-…
Iowa farmer Bob Recker challenged conventional thinking by asking whether wider corn rows could allow cover crops to thrive without sacrificing farm profitability: sare.org/news/using-cover-cr…
This newly updated factsheet from SARE features sustainable methods for gastrointestinal nematode parasite control in sheep and goats. sare.org/resources/sustainab…
Texas farmer Diana Padilla secured a Producer Grant from Southern SARE to investigate whether farm-grown moringa oleifera, a rapidly growing, drought resistant tree native to India, could serve as a practical and sustainable feed substitute: sare.org/news/using-an-alter…
Zachary Withers used a Western SARE Farmer/Rancher grant to examine whether applying compost could help his soil retain more rainfall, reduce erosion and improve forage production. sare.org/news/sare-celebrate…
SARE Outreach is seeking recommendations for information products that we can develop to extend practical, research-based innovations to improve the sustainability of American agriculture. Please submit your ideas by June 15th: sare.org/news/sare-seeks-ide…
Engaging farmers as self-directed learners and co-educators can improve the effectiveness of extension trainings: sare.org/news/redefining-lea…
"The goal of this project was very simple—work with farmers to figure out nitrogen fertilizer rates for dahlia, but it turned into an amazingly complex case.” sare.org/news/promoting-soil…
SARE’s newest bulletin provides guidance on using enterprise budgets, recordkeeping systems and partial budget analysis to evaluate management decisions for diversified farm operations: sare.org/news/enterprise-bud…
Farmers across the United States are invited to share their insights on cover crops in the National Cover Crop Survey: sare.org/news/sare-ctic-2025… @ctic_tweet @Better_Seed
SARE-funded research conducted by Peixin Fan may provide insights on microbiome-guided strategies that offer beef and dairy farmers new options for improving livestock resilience and profitability: sare.org/news/improving-catt…
Tarping dramatically reduced weed cover (around 30% weed cover in tarped plots versus 90% in control plots) and doubled crop yields. sare.org/news/impacts-of-sil…
SARE has been around for nearly 40 years. The impacts that our grant and outreach programs have had on the sustainability of U.S. agriculture are because of one simple thing: Farmers and ranchers are at the center of everything we do. sare.org/news/farmers-and-ra…
