
Midwest Growers View Conservation as Central to Farming, Survey Shows
Farmers in the Midwest are likely to react positively to policies that advance conservation goals — as long as those policies also take farm profitability seriously.
Farmers in the Midwest are likely to react positively to policies that advance conservation goals — as long as those policies also take farm profitability seriously.
Available data suggest that, even if all farms comply with existing standards, nutrient levels in lakes and streams would likely not meet targets for safe fishing and swimming.
Researchers from the FEWscapes project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently published two research briefs highlighting Midwest farmers’ views on farm […]
An overview of the data we will be using as model inputs to simulate the project’s scenarios for food, energy, water, and ecosystem security in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to the year 2050.
How policies could be developed differently to reduce the risk of negative unintended consequences and increase FEW resilience.
A new paper by the FEWscapes team outlines how siloed decision-making leads to unintended consequences for FEW systems.
Peek under the hood of AgroIBIS, the principal model we’re using in FEWscapes, and get a glimpse of just how it reads agricultural landscapes.
Backcasting is the approach FEWscapes has taken to engage our community partners in developing scenarios.
A recent study showed that the Renewable Fuel Standard has not delivered on its greenhouse gas-reduction promises, and it might be time to do things differently to achieve common goals.