In just one lifetime, world population has nearly quadrupled. All of us want to eat well. If current consumption trends continue, the world will need 50-100% more food by the time today’s children reach middle age. That will put more pressure on land and water resources.
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The Project invites Wisconsin stakeholders to come together and have a conversation about Wisconsin’s food, land, and water resources and the human demands that affect them.
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Tireless is often overused in describing advocates, but it is the best way to describe Tom Lyon. No matter what happens, no matter what setbacks occur, no matter how long we have to keep pushing to protect farmland, Tom Lyon is back at it with a smile. He not only is committed to farmland protection, […]
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JESSICA VANEGEREN | The Capital Times Farmland will be less expensive to develop and harder for farm families to permanently protect under a series of proposals in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. The governor’s plans to eliminate the farmland conversion fee and a farmland preservation program still in its infancy gut key components of the […]
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