2026 OGRAIN Winter Conference is Here!
This Quarter’s Featured Faculty, Students & Staff is
Ben Brockmueller
PROCEEDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS from the 2025 Harvest of Ideas Conference
UW ORGANIC COLLABORATIVE
Formed in 2019, the UW Organic Collaborative is a group of faculty, staff, students, and partners who are committed to growing the reach and impact of organic agriculture using world-class research, skillful instruction, and effective outreach.
Research
World-class research answering pressing questions.
Academics
Organic courses, certificates, and graduate programs.
Outreach
Innovative organic outreach and extension.
UW Knows Organic
Check out a new promotional video called UW Knows Organic from the UW Organic Collaborative. Filmed over three seasons and featuring more than 30 faculty, staff and students, the video shares the UW organic story and highlights the vast number of people and programs that intersect with organic agriculture at UW–Madison.
Resource Database
Here’s where you’ll find every helpful resource that has ever come out of UW. Videos, publications, budgeting tools, webinars, fact sheets and more…
Partner with us!
Grow with us!
Work with us!
We believe that healthy systems depend on diversity and inclusion—we depend on a deep network of partners to collectively grow organics.
We can’t do what we do without partnership and support. Read on to learn more about what partnership might look like for you, your organization, or your company.
Some Quick Facts
42
Faculty and staff working in organic agriculture.
145
Certified organic acres at UW research stations.
53
Outside partners working with us on projects related to organic.
29
Years of organic programming.
We’re grateful to work with so many partners who support organics at UW. Thank you.
- A.P. Whaley Seed Company
- Adaptive Seeds
- AgriSecure
- Albert Lea Seed
- Bejo
- Camp Trippalindee
- Clif Bar & Company
- Common Wealth Seed Growers
- Compeer Financial
- Cornell University
- Dawn Engineering
- Deja Food Restaurant Group
- Delafield Hotel
- Fairshare CSA Coalition
- FedCo Seeds
- Fruition Seeds
- Grain Millers
- High Mowing Organic Seeds
- Intertribal Agriculture Council
- Iowa State University
- Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- Madison Area Technical College
- Madison Sourdough Co.
- Mcfarlane Manufacturing Co.
- Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
- Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service
- Midwestern Bio Ag
- Morris Ramen
- MOSA
- Oregon State University
- Organic Seed Alliance
- Organic Trade Association
- Organic Valley
- Origin Breads
- Pig in a fur coat
- Pipeline Foods
- Prairie Road Organic Seed
- Purple Cow Organics
- Savanna Institute
- Seed Savers Exchange
- SeedLinked
- Siskiyou Seeds
- Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
- Steenbocks on Orchard
- Sustainable Food Lab
- The Land Connection
- The Old Fashioned
- Trade Roots
- Underground Food Collective
- University of Florida
- USDA Agricultural Research Service
- USDA Farm Service Agency
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Vitalis Organic Seeds
- Western Illinois University
- Wild Bearies
- Wisconsin Department of Trade & Consumer Protection
- Working Draft Beer Company