The Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin: Findings, Recommendations, Steps to a Healthy Future

October 12, 2007

For many of us, especially for those of us who grew up in the country, land is more than real estate. It is nature’s changing seasons and cycles of life. It is a big part of our identity. For many, it is almost spiritual. But today, we are losing that land.

We cannot continue as a $51 billion-plus food and agriculture economy without a land base. Nor can we have clean lakes and trout streams if we don’t protect our green recharge areas. We will not become a leader in the new bio-economy if we keep paving over more than a township’s worth of farmland every year – farmland needed to produce biomass.

Full Report: http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/idea/fof_report.html