Technical Abstract: The Integrated Agricultural Systems Workgroup is conducting research to developing principles of sustainable integrated agricultural systems. The Integrated Agriculture Systems (IAS) workgroup hosts producer focused workshops to examine crop and animal production practices. At each workshop, several focus groups comprised of producers with different production enterprises are held to facilitate discussion between scientists and producers. The scientists interview agricultural producers to examine their production systems in detail and explore production practices, farm enterprises, and the management decision-making process. The focus groups move past the simple identification of production practices to understand the underlying rationale for producers’ decisions, discerning the primary influences that lead to implementation of particular production practices. The goals are to discover and organize principles, criteria, and indicators that exist universally across physiographic regions and provide insight into how and why agricultural systems develop as they do. The outcome of this work will be a regionally neutral set of common management principles for producers that reduce the risk associated with decision making and increase the sustainability of their production systems. We will use the work in a series of publications that provide a hierarchical treatment of the principles, criteria, and indicators of sustainable agricultural systems. This information will be useful in decision support tools for producers and agricultural resource managers.