Farmer-driven innovations in agriculture that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life.

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Our Grant Programs

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We are currently holding new Call for Proposals pending notification from our funding source, USDA-NIFA. All NIFA Requests for Applications are under review. You can check back for updates or subscribe to our mailing list to be notified when our Calls are released.

Grantee Spotlight

We are excited to highlight the important outreach and educational materials produced by our grantees. Highlighted here is a Range Riding Producer Tool Kit for predator conflict reduction. Drawing from three years of shared learning with landowners, livestock producers, wildlife biologists, partner organizations, researchers, tribes, and federal and state agencies, the toolkit represents decades of knowledge and lived experience across the West. Rae Nickerson, Utah State University, grant number GW22-230.

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Funded Projects and Impacts Report

Our latest report on funded projects by state, as well as impacts from previously funded grants, is live. Want to know what got funded in your state in 2023? Want to know how our projects impacted agriculture. Take a look at this interactive infographic.

Interactive Infographic

Western Ag in Pictures

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

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Listen to Latest Episode

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

Cherries

Boosting Beneficial Insects in Oregon’s Cherry Orchards

Eighty percent of Oregon’s cherries are produced in the Mid-Columbia Basin. Typically, when new orchards are planted, farmers leave the ground under the trees bare or plant grass. Farmers also regularly apply chemicals to control insect pests such as spotted wing drosophila, thrips, and leafhoppers, among others. However, planting mixed cover crops that include flowering […]

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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