Project Type: Research and Education
Funds awarded in 2021: $247,740.00
Projected End Date: 01/31/2025
Grant Recipient:
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
Region: North Central
State: Minnesota
Project Coordinator:
Erin Meier
Green Lands Blue Waters/MISA/UM
Description:
In 2023 through April of 2024, the Match Made in Heaven project (MMIH) surveyed 553 farmers primarily in the 6 Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The MMIH project that seeks to foster re-integration of livestock and grain production systems in the North Central Region by generating information on producer practices, attitudes, and goals. One aspect of the project was as producer survey to identify the concerns of row crop farmers wary of adding livestock to their enterprise and to help identify ways to overcome systemic challenges to livestock integration in today’s agriculture. This knowledge will help guide development of educational programming and other activities aimed at promoting environmental, economic, and social benefits of integrated livestock and crop systems in the North Central Region.
Type:
Article/Newsletter/Blog
File:
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Target audiences:
Farmers/Ranchers; Educators
This product is associated with the project "Match made in heaven: livestock + crops"
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