Reports
Researching & documenting solutions to advance
Michigan agriculture
Food-grade grains training needs for Midwestern farmer advisors
Farmer advisors across the Midwest shared the gaps in materials and trainings needed to help advise producers on all aspects of growing food-grade grains. This report summarizes the focus groups we held in 2025 with farmer advisors from the Great Lakes region.
Soil health in Michigan
Michigan farmers shared candid insights on soil health, markets, and what it really takes to adopt conservation practices. This NWF report distills those dialogues into clear strategies for strengthening local support and advancing resilient agricultural systems statewide.
Regenerative agriculture
We summarized insights from agricultural stakeholders across Michigan as they discussed what is needed to move regenerative agriculture forward in the state.
Scaling up conservation agriculture
Phase 2 findings were published in the Journal of Environmental Quality in a 2022 special section on the soil health – watershed nexus.
Barriers & opportunities
In phase 2 (2019-2021) we deeply explored:
