Sarah Lloyd farms with her husband Nels Nelson in Wisconsin Dells. They are currently in transition from a multi-family dairy farm to new agricultural enterprise and conservation pursuits on their land. She works off-farm as a Supply Chain Specialist for the UMN Forever Green Initiative and the UW-Madison Grassland 2.0 Project. She also works with the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative, a farmer-led co-op owned by the farmers and the Wisconsin Farmers Union. Sarah has a PhD in Rural Sociology from UW-Madison and a Masters in Rural Development from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Sarah is active in the Wisconsin Farmers Union, serving as President of her local county chapter. She is also the President of the Board of the Wormfarm Institute.
PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Lloyd, S. E., J. Treakle & M.K. Hendrickson. 2024. Agroecology and corporate power in the U.S. [Commentary]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 13(3): 107-111.
Keller, Julie C., Sarah E. Lloyd and Michael M. Bell. 2015. Creating and Consuming the Heartland: Symbolic Boundaries in Representations of Femininity and Rurality in U.S. Magazines. Journal of Rural Studies 42:133-143.
Harrison, Jill Lindsey, and Sarah E. Lloyd. 2013. New Jobs, New Workers, and New Inequalities: Explaining Employers’ Roles in Occupational Segregation by Nativity and Race. Social Problems 60(3):281-301.
Harrison, Jill Lindsey and Sarah E. Lloyd. 2012. Illegality at Work: Deportability and the Productive New Era of Immigration Enforcement. Antipode. 44(2):365–385.
Bell, Michael M., Sarah E. Lloyd, and Christine Vatovec. 2010. Activating the Countryside: Rural Power, the Power of the Rural and the Making of Rural Politics. Sociologia Ruralis. 50(3):205-224.
Lloyd, Sarah, Michael Bell, Tom Kreigl, and Steve Stevenson. 2007. Milking More Than Profit: Life Satisfaction on Wisconsin Dairy Farms. Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://cias.wisc.edu/livestock/milking-more-than-profit-life-satisfaction-on-wisconsin-dairy-farms/
Lloyd, Sarah. 2001. Contours of the Swedish Forest Landscape: A Case Study of Relationships between Socio-Economic and Ecological Space in Jokkmokk. Pp. 83-118 in Transforming the Local: Coping Strategies and Regional Policies, Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt and Nils Aarsaether (eds.). Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.
SELECTED RESEARCH BRIEFS and POPULAR MEDIA ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
Lloyd, Sarah, 2025. Dairy Heifer Grazing: Scaling Regenerative Dairy Systems for the Win-Win…Win. May 22, 2025 Blog post, Grassland 2.0 website
Lloyd, Sarah E., Lexi Schank, and Nicholas Jordan. 2024. Creating a win-win: Grazing heifers for economic and ecological returns in Progressive Dairy. March 26, 2024.
Lloyd, Sarah E. 2023. Dairy Together: Fighting for a System That Gives Small Farmers a Fair Shake. In Karl Weber (ed.) Food Inc. 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food. PublicAffairs.
Paine, Laura K., Randall Jackson, Zach Raff, Eric Booth, Claudio Gratton, Aislin Gibson, David LeZaks, Sarah Lloyd, Carl Wepking. 2021. Well-managed perennial pasture: Setting the gold standard for ecosystem services. Grassland 2.0. University of Wisconsin-Madison website.
Lloyd, Sarah E. 2020. Dairy Together: Building A Farmer Led Movement For Supply Management. Disparity to Parity website organized by the National Family Farm Coalition.
Lloyd, Sarah. 2020. Rebuild Farmer-Labor Solidarity. The Progressive Magazine. August 11, 2020.