A WICST study on long-term yield trends found production benefits of crop rotation in high stress years with adverse growing conditions, and a lack of acceleration in annual yield gains with GMO corn. These results were bolstered by economic analysis showing that organic- and pasture based farming systems have been the most profitable at WICST. Read More>>
The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST) was established in 1989 in response to farmers and others making a case for long-term research on low-input farming. WICST set out to investigate both the benefits and limitations of alternative agriculture through replicated research on the productivity, profitability and environmental impacts of both sustainably and conventionally managed production systems. Read More>>
