Author: caschneider3
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Posted on October 2, 2018
Set in amber, fossil ants help reconstruct evolution of fungus farming
Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in a seemingly unlikely place: an ant hill. Eschewing wheat or […]
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Posted on September 28, 2018
Researchers find value in unusual type of plant material
An ideal biorefinery would turn renewable crops into a variety of fuels and products with little waste. A significant challenge in realizing this vision is […]
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In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted […]
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The end of mosquito season? – Audio
/RSS FeedPJ Liesch, UW-Extension entomologist Department of Entomology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Science pliesch@wisc.edu Twitter: @WIBugGuy Total time – 3:03 0:14 – End of […]
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Posted on September 21, 2018
UW helps communities create cleaner, greener wastewater
A process invented at UW–Madison is now removing phosphorus at Madison’s regional sewage treatment plant. Like many other advances from the colleges of agriculture and […]
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Wisconsin’s 2018 corn crop season – Audio
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Damon Smith, Extension Plant Pathologist Department of Plant Pathology University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (608) 286-9706 damon.smith@wisc.edu Here is a schedule for […]
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Posted on September 19, 2018
UW–Madison dairy science department to hold visit day Oct. 16
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Dairy Science invites prospective students and their parents to visit campus on Tuesday, October 16, 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 […]
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UW–Madison, apple growers bring data to the orchard
The robot weather station stands sentinel above the deer fence of an apple orchard in the hills near Hell Hollow Road in Richland County. The […]
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Vaccine opt-outs dropped — barely — when California added more hurdles
In response to spiking rates of parents opting their children out of vaccinations that are required to enroll in school — and just before a […]
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Posted on September 18, 2018
Ancient method helps feed present-day communities
In remote villages and rural towns from Guatemala to Costa Rica, horticulture professor James Nienhuis and his former grad student Erick Gutiérrez MS’17 are improving countless lives, one tomato […]
