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Farmer-driven innovations in agriculture that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life.

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Please note that awards provided under these Calls are contingent upon USDA-NIFA authorizing the funding to our Host Institution, Montana State University.

Stories from the West

Sugarbeets

Can Less Fertilizer Create Higher Sugar Yields? Testing a Win-Win Hypothesis

For a sugarbeet grower, when someone tells you that you can reduce your nitrogen fertilizer inputs and costs by 20 percent and increase your crop quality and sugar yield, there’s only one logical response. Prove it. That’s just what the Western Sugar Cooperative set out to do with a Western SARE Professional + Producer grant […]

Agritourism

Farmstay Website Helps Producers Profit

Goats

Reducing Predation in Multi-Species Grazing

Livestock

Range Riders

Our Impact

$115
million

in funding since 1988^*

1,851 projects

funded since 1988^*

* These totals reflect available data; complete information may not be available for all grant programs prior to 2016.

About Western SARE

Western SARE provides competitive grants and educational opportunities in Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Federated States of Micronesia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Marianas Islands, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

We’ve had twice the crop production on the same footprint, which is huge for both profit and land-use efficiency.

Learn about Western SARE

Farmer-driven innovations in agriculture that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life.

Our Grant Programs

Navigating Drought

Graduate Student Projects

Recent Publications