Author: Anne Nardi
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The Spring Digital Dialogue Series wraps up with four great presentations
And that is a wrap! This semester’s Digital Dialogue Series brought together over 700 participants to learn about the levers of change needed to bring about a transformational change to…
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Last Digital Dialogue of the spring coming up May 17th
Grassland 2.0 is once again hosting our monthly Digital Dialogue webinar series! In the fall of 2021 the Digital Dialogues Series focused on what makes a healthy agroecosystem. This spring,…
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New tool helps dairy farmers explore the economics of grazing dairy heifers
To graze or not to graze? The newly debuted Heifer Grazing Compass is a spreadsheet tool designed to help farmers predict and understand the cash flow and long-term financial outcomes…
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Cattle and Brookies: Making Modern Agriculture and Trout Habitat in Wisconsin
Some 10,000 years ago, glaciers from the last Ice Age were retreating from the Upper Midwest. While much of Wisconsin was scraped into the rolling landscape that is representative of…
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U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard incentivizes land use change with environmental consequences
In order to address global climate change, the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) aims to increase the use of biofuel in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to a…
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Creating a grazing movement in Sauk County
Serge Koenig has been serving Sauk County, Wisconsin as a county conservationist for the past 27 years. So, needless to say - he knows the community well. During his tenure…
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New GrassCast podcast shares cutting edge research linking animal and human health
How does the way we raise our agriculture impact our health as humans? That is the critical question surrounding Stephan van Vliet’s research. Stephan is a nutrition scientists and metabolomics…
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GrassWorks: A place where working dogs (and their humans) belong
Exactly when dogs and humans started hanging around together is a matter of debate, but it’s been a good long time. Scientists suggest that ancestral wolves were likely the first…
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Six ways to incorporate grass-fed meat and dairy this holiday season
December abounds with cultural and religious holidays. There’s Christmas and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Rohatsu, and the winter solstice, to name a few. It’s a time for family gatherings, celebrations, reflection –…
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New podcast episode features poetry discussing the changes in dairying over the last 50 years
This fall Grassland 2.0 hosted a four-part Digital Dialogue webinar series exploring the question of "What are healthy agroecosystems?". The dialogues were hour and a half long conversations with farmers,…
