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Here are all of our publications, organized by topic:

Trends in WI agriculture

Heart of the Farm: Women in Agriculture.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 20, September 2003 [54 KB] Download PDF

The Roles of Women on Wisconsin Dairy Farms at the Turn of the 21st Century.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 16, November, 2001 [33 KB] Download PDF

Farming in Wisconsin at the End of the Century: Results of the 1999 Wisconsin Farm Poll.
PATS Research Summary No. 4. March, 2000. [104 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Agriculture in the 1990s: Perspectives from the 1997 Census of Agriculture.
PATS Research Report No. 5. October, 1999. [90 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Farmers' Views on the Benefits and Costs of Livestock Expansion.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 7. November, 1997. [82 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Agriculture in Historical Perspective: Economic and Social Changes, 1959-1995.
ATFFI Technical Report No. 4. June, 1996. Download PDF

Land Tenure in Wisconsin Agriculture: Still Keeping the Farm in the Family?
ATFFI Technical Report No. 3. June, 1995. Download PDF

Agricultural Change and Urban Development: The Case of Dane County
ATFFI Research Paper No. 3. June, 1994. Download PDF

Agriculture Change in Wisconsin: New Perspectives from the 1992 Census of Agriculture.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 2. April, 1994. Download PDF

Emerging Issues in Technological Change and Technology Assessment in Agriculture. ATFFI Research Paper No. 1. May, 1993. Download PDF

In Their Own Words: A Summary of the 1992-93 ATFFI Farmer Meetings.
ATFFI Bulletin 93004. July, 1993. Download PDF (preface, introduction, forward)

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Biotechnology

The Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crop Varieties in Wisconsin
PATS Research Report No. 13, April, 2005 [574 KB]

The "Gene Revolution" in Global Perspective: A Reconsideration of the Global Adoption and Diffusion of GMO Crop Varieties. 1996-2002.
PATS Staff Paper No. 9, September, 2003. [168 KB] Download PDF

Questioning "Loose Talk" about "Agricultural Biotechnology" and Rethinking the Role of Molecular Biology in Public Research.
PATS Staff Paper No. 8, August, 2003. [136 KB] Download PDF

Update on the Adoption and De-Adoption of GMO Crop Varieties in Wisconsin. Research Summary No. 6, August, 2001. [38 KB] Download PDF

Use and Implications of Bovine Somatotropin for the Wisconsin Dairy Sector in the 1990s.
PATS Research Report No. 9, June, 2001. [125 KB] Download PDF

Technology Adoption among Wisconsin's Dairy Farmers in the 1990s.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 15, June, 2001. [36 KB] Download PDF

Trends in University Ag-Biotech Patent Production.
Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut. Research Report No. 58. March, 2001. [112 KB] Download PDF

A Dynamic Count Data Analysis of University Ag-Biotech Patents.
Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut. Research Report No. 56. January, 2001. [103 KB] Download PDF

Dynamics of GMO Adoption Among Wisconsin Farmers.
Staff Paper No. 4. November, 2000. [178 KB] Download PDF

The Adoption of rBST on Wisconsin Dairy Farms.
AgBioForum, 3(2&3), 181-187. [31 KB] Download PDF | HTML [on AgBioForum]

The Adoption and De-adoption of GMO Crop Varieties in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 10. September, 2000. [28 KB] Download PDF

The Use of rBST in America's Dairyland: an Update.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 8. October, 1999.Download PDF

The Political Economy of rBST Adoption in America's Dairyland.
ATFFI Technical Report No. 2. May, 1995.Download PDF

Use of rBST in America's Dairyland.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 3. March, 1995. [57 KB] Download PDF

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Agriculture and the environment (manure management, feeding practices)

Manure Management on Wisconsin Farms
PATS Research Report No. 15. January, 2006. [504 KB] Download PDF

How Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Feed their Cows: Results of the 1999 Wisconsin Dairy Herd Feeding Study.
PATS Research Summary No. 5. July, 2000. [530 KB] Download PDF

Manure Management in Wisconsin: Results of the 1995 Wisconsin Farmer Poll.
PATS Research Report No. 1. July, 1997. [113 KB] Download PDF

Manure Management on Wisconsin Livestock Farms.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 6. July, 1997. [57 KB] Download PDF

Farmer Perspectives on Agriculture and Environment: Results from the 1994 ATFFI Dairy Farming Poll.
ATFFI Research Report No. 13. June, 1995. Download PDF

The Farmer Perspective on Sustainable Agriculture: Results from the 1994 ATFFI Dairy Farmer Poll.
ATFFI Research Report No. 9. September, 1994.Download PDF

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Agriculture and community development

National Dairy Community Study. Wisconsin Update Report.
May, 1999. [71 KB] Download PDF

National Dairy Community Study. Report to Respondents.
Dec. 1997. [105 KB] Download PDF

Multifunctionality: The European Perspective and What It Could Mean for American Agriculture
by Frederick H. Buttel and Lydia Zepeda

PATS Staff Paper No. 5, January 2002. [26 KB] Download PDF

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Trends in the dairy industry

Organic Dairy Farms in Wisconsin: Prosperous, Modern, and Expansive
by Bradford L. Barham, Caroline Brock, Jeremy Foltz

PATS Research Report No. 16. June, 2006. [618 KB] Download PDF

Market Structure and Consumer Valuation in the rBST-free and Organic Milk Markets
by Tirtha Dhar and Jeremy Foltz, presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003 [273 KB] Download PDF

How Consumers Value rBST-free and Organic Milk in the Marketplace
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 19, July, 2003 [49 KB] Download PDF

The Market for rBST-free and Organic Milk
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 18, July, 2003 [40 KB] Download PDF

The Roles of Women on Wisconsin Dairy Farms at the Turn of the 21st Century.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 16, November, 2001 [33 KB] Download PDF

The Aggregate Performance of the U.S. and Wisconsin Dairy Sectors.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 12, June, 2001. [42 KB] Download PDF

Historic and Regional Trends in the U.S. and Wisconsin Dairy Sectors.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 11. June, 2001. [32 KB] Download PDF

The Changing Face of Wisconsin Dairy Farms: A Summary of PATS' Research on Structural Change in the 1990s.
PATS Research Report No. 7. August, 2000. [331 KB] Download PDF

A Profile of Wisconsin's Dairy Industry, 1999.
PATS Research Summary No. 3. March, 2000. [515 KB] Download PDF

What is the Future of Wisconsin's Moderate-Scale Dairy Farm?
PATS Staff Paper No. 1. June, 1998. [110 KB] Download PDF

Explaining the Uneven Penetration of Industrialization in the U.S. Dairy Sector.
PATS Staff Paper No. 2. June, 1998. [128 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Farmers' Views on the Benefits and Costs of Livestock Expansion.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 7. November, 1997. [82 KB] Download PDF

Getting Bigger? Wisconsin Farmers' Views on Livestock Expansion.
PATS Research Report No. 2. October, 1997. [62 KB] Download PDF

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Dairy entry/exit trends

Nurturing the Next Generation of Wisconsin's Dairy Farms.
PATS Special Report, October 2001. [480 KB] Download PDF

Dynamics of Entry and Exit on Wisconsin Dairy Farms in the 1990s.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 14, June, 2001. [31 KB] Download PDF

Entry Into Wisconsin Dairying: Patterns, Processes, and Policy Implications.
PATS Research Report No. 4. May, 1999.[156 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin's Need for a Comprehensive Farm Entry-Exit Service.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 4. March, 1995. [73 KB] Download PDF

Farm Numbers in Wisconsin: Entry, Exit, and Impacts.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 1. November, 1994. [75 KB] Download PDF

Getting in While the Going's Tough: Entry into Wisconsin Agriculture.
ATFFI Technical Report No. 1. October 1994. Download PDF

Summary of the ATFFI Entry-Exit Focus Group Meetings: Strategies for Beginning and Retiring Farmers.
ATTFI Research Paper No. 8. September, 1994.Download PDF

Wisconsin Dairy Farmers' Evaluation of Current Stresses: Implications for Entry and Exit Behavior.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 7. August, 1994. Download PDF

Entry-Exit Behavior of Wisconsin Dairy Farmers.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 6. August, 1994. Download PDF

Summary of the ATFFI Entry-Exit Focus Group Meetings: A Report to the Entry-Exit Coalition.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 5. July, 1994. Download PDF

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Dairy expansion

Dynamics of Expansion on Wisconsin Dairy Farms in the 1990s.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 13, June, 2001. [33 KB] Download PDF

What is the Future of Wisconsin's Moderate-Scale Dairy Farm?
PATS Staff Paper No. 1. June, 1998. [110 KB] Download PDF

Explaining the Uneven Penetration of Industrialization in the U.S. Dairy Sector.
PATS Staff Paper No. 2. June, 1998. [128 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Farmers' Views on the Benefits and Costs of Livestock Expansion.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 7. November, 1997. [82 KB] Download PDF

Getting Bigger? Wisconsin Farmers' Views on Livestock Expansion.
PATS Research Report No. 2. October, 1997. [62 KB] Download PDF

Expansion Trends in Wisconsin Dairying: Evidence from the 1994 ATFFI Dairy Farm Poll.
ATFFI Research Report No. 12. May, 1995.Download PDF

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Management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG)

Grazing in the Dairy State: Pasture use in the Wisconsin dairy industry, 1993-2003
-special report with CIAS; January, 2006
[1.8 MB] Download PDF

The Use and Performance of Management Intensive Rotational Grazing Among Wisconsin Dairy Farms in the 1990s.
PATS Research Report No. 8. August, 2000. [337 KB] Download PDF

Management Intensive Rotational Grazing on Wisconsin Dairy Farms: the 1990s.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 9. February, 2000. [98 KB] Download PDF

Grazing in Dairyland: The Use and Performance of Management Intensive Rotational Grazing Among Wisconsin Dairy Farms.
ATFFI Technical Report No. 5. November, 1996. [277 KB] Download PDF

Management Intensive Rotational Grazing Among Wisconsin Dairy Farms: A Brief Summary of Recent ATFFI Research Results.
ATFFI Research Summary No. 1. November, 1996. [78 KB] Download PDF

Management Intensive Rotational Grazing in Wisconsin: Who's doing it?
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 5. February, 1996. [65 KB] Download PDF

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Land use

The Status of Working Lands in Wisconsin: Current Trends and Future Policies
PATS Research Report No. 18 . October, 2006. Download PDF
Black & White [632 KB] | Color [646 KB]

Land Use Data
Various Wisconsin land-use maps, reports, and presentations produced by PATS.

Local Government & Animal Feeding Operations: A Program for Local Government Officials.
UWEX Land Use and Agriculture Team Report. 2/3/2001.

Limitations of Agricultural Land Use Planning Tools in Rural Wisconsin.
PATS Staff Paper No. 3. July, 2000. [129 KB] Download PDF

Strategies for Managing Conflict Over Agricultural Land Use.
Proceedings from the 2000 CALS Issues Forum.PATS Special Report No. 1. July, 2000.Download PDF

Paying for Local Services: The Cost of Community Services for Nine Wisconsin Municipalities.
Wisconsin Land Use Research Program (WLURP) Research Report No. 2. May 2000.

Community Guide to Development Impact Analysis.
Wisconsin Land Use Research Program (WLURP). March, 2000. [653 KB] Download PDF | WLURP's HTML

The Cost of Community Services for Three Dane County Towns: Dunn, Perry, and Westport.
Wisconsin Land Use Research Program (WLURP) Research Report No. 1. August, 1999.

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Farmers' views on university research and extension

Farmer Recommendations for Improving University of Wisconsin Dairy Extension: Results of 1999 Focus Groups.
PATS Research Report No. 6. March, 2000. [91 KB] Download PDF

Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Views on University Research and Extension Programs.
PATS Research Summary No. 2. January, 2000. [46 KB] Download PDF

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Farmers' views on the dairy industry

In Their Own Words: Wisconsin Farmers Talk about Dairying in the 1990s.
PATS Research Report No. 3. January, 1999. [475 KB] Download PDF

1994 Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Poll: Summary Report.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 4. July, 1994.Download PDF

In Their Own Words: A Summary of the 1992-93 ATFFI Farmer Meetings.
ATFFI Bulletin 93004. July, 1993. Download PDF(preface, introduction, foreward)

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Farmers' views on agricultural policy

Manure Management in Wisconsin: Results of the 1995 Wisconsin Farmer Poll.
PATS Research Report No. 1. July, 1997. [113 KB] Download PDF

Dairy Policy in the 1995 Farm Bill: Proceedings from Two Public Forums Sponsored by the Agricultural Technology and Family Farm Institute (ATFFI).
ATFFI Special Report No. 1. June, 1995. Download PDF

Wisconsin Farmers' Preferences for Federal Dairy Policy: Results from the Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Poll.
ATFFI Research Report No. 11. March, 1995.Download PDF

Property Tax Reform and the Wisconsin Farm Sector.
Wisconsin Family Farm Facts No. 2. February, 1995. [54 KB] Download PDF

Property Taxes and Wisconsin Farmers in an Era of Tax Reform.
ATFFI Research Paper No. 10. February, 1995. Download PDF

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Land Grant System

Summary Report: Modern Agricultural Science in Transition: A Survey of Land-Grant Agricultural and Life Scientists.
PATS Research Report. October, 2005 (#14) [1.19 MB]

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