Wisconsin's Meat-Processing Deserts: Where the Path from Pasture to Plate Breaks Down
A new study Michael Fields Agricultural Institute maps every licensed meat establishment in Wisconsin against the state's pasture landscape. A striking mismatch between where the grass is and where the processors are was found. Ask a Wisconsin livestock farmer what stands between their pasture and a customer's plate, and you might expect to hear about weather, feed costs, or markets. But for farmers in more than a third of the state's counties, the answer is simpler and more stubborn: there...
