News from The Institute

In Wisconsin and Illinois, where most Michael Fields Agricultural Institute staff live, it's been a GORGEOUS Earth Day - sunny, in the high 70s, and alive with the sounds of migrating birds. Of course, our Wisco staff are very proud that Earth Day in fact originated in the state. In 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson mobilized 20 million people in a bi-partisan environmental protest. His original intention was to have a "National Teach-In On the Crisis of the Environmental" to con

First Look at the Farm Bill Draft: What's in it for Regenerative Ag?

Here at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, we celebrate soil lovers of all kinds every day! Today we're encouraging you to celebrate yourself by buying some soil-building Fields Best Small Batch Grains products - either on-line, at the Oak Creek Winter Farmers Market, or at our upcoming 9th Annual Seed Swap Social. When you purchase Fields Best products, you support our MFAI research trials and other local farmers who are helping us test and develop regenerative grains

MFAI Policy Analysis of the Ag Leaders Crisis Letter