The Stewardship Farm farming systems are just four of three dozen farm fields around the state from which ISQI has collected information about Illinois soils. Social Impact of the Farming Systems top of this page W hen the Illinois Stewardship Alliance was first proposing the idea of the Farming Systems Comparison Study, the committee overseeing the project identified community welfare as one of the dimensions that they would like to investigate. However, at the time of the C-2000 grant application no specific plans were developed to assess community impact. During a visit to the Stewardship Farm field day in 1996, Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora, director of the North Central Region for Rural Development in Ames Iowa, suggested potential methods to examine the social impacts of the farming systems . I nformation about the work being conducted on the Stewardship Farm will be made available through field days and written reports and the world wide web.
Reports are available upon request from the addresses below.