Small farmers served by a university center that “keeps its feet in the dirt” worry that the resource is becoming endangered.
“We felt the center had great value the way it was,” says Dale Secher, who runs Carandale Farm near Oregon, of the UW-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. “It was doing work in an area typically not worked on, and especially when you talk about the future of sustainability, this is very, very important. The center needs to survive in some place and some fashion.”