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SARE Project Impacts

In 2023, SARE contracted with Insight for Action to conduct a post-project evaluation of four of SARE's regional grant programs. The purpose of the evaluation was to characterize key impacts made by SARE’s grantmaking from 2016 through 2023. The evaluation employed the Success Case Method to identify program impacts grounded in a theor and practice-informed impact model.

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Western Ag in Pictures

Western SARE creates photo essays on Montana, Washington, Pacific Island agriculture and more.

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Fresh Growth: Approaches to a More Sustainable Future from Western Ag Practitioners introduces you to farmers and ranchers from around the western United States who are finding innovative sustainable practices that enrich the natural resources we all care about. These successful multi-generational operations experiment with new ideas and are making it pay. Listen in as they tell their story and provide advice for young or beginning farmers.

SARE Outreach Featured Resources

SARE Outreach regularly releases new printed and multi-media educational resources, such as controlling weeds without herbicides; managing soil life; effective marketing; tackling crucial social issues; and more. Bookmark and visit their resources page often.

Stories from the West

Potatoes

Idaho Student Researchers Work to Eradicate Pale Cyst Nematode

When the pale cyst nematode, Globodera pallida, was discovered in southeastern Idaho in 2006, potato exports in Idaho and the United States were severely impacted. The nematode, which can devastate a potato crop, is a quarantine pest regulated by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The Idaho infestation is found within […]

About Western SARE

Western SARE provides competitive grants and educational opportunities in Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Federated States of Micronesia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Marianas Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Farmers are very interested now, and the ag professionals who have gone through the training are educating farmers in the practice.

Dr. Gadi V.P. Reddy, Montana
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