Author: caschneider3
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Posted on February 23, 2018
Supporting local farmers market is all about sharing
While farmers markets are popular in Wisconsin, some markets struggle with profitability or the ability to grow and support more local farmers. New research from […]
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Plants in the winter – Audio
/RSS FeedBrian Hudelson, UW-Extension Plant Disease Specialist Director of the Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic Department of Plant Pathology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 608-262-2863 […]
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Posted on February 22, 2018
GreenHouse program coordinator blends sustainability, student life
Teaching about agriculture and sustainability during semesters filled with classes and tests is hard enough. It’s even harder when most students are gone for the […]
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Posted on February 20, 2018
The new bioenergy research center: Building on ten years of success
Building on the success of 10 years of investigation into the production of renewable fuels from plants, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), led […]
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Posted on February 16, 2018
Wisconsin’s rural urban divide and its impact on the economy – Audio
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Tessa Conroy, UW-Extension economic development specialist Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences tessa.conroy@ces.uwex.edu 608-265-4327 3:12 – Total time […]
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Posted on February 15, 2018
Can perennial bioenergy crops help sequester carbon?
In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the potential climate benefit […]
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Posted on February 13, 2018
Catching a ‘silent’ cow killer: A simpler detection system to help dairy farmers stay ahead of a costly disease
Mitch Breunig BS’92 has been around dairy cows long enough — all his life, to be exact — to suspect something was amiss with two […]
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Posted on February 12, 2018
Hands on with food and farming: How UW’s PEOPLE program is planting the seeds of careers in agricultural science
It’s a bright summer afternoon in 2016, and UW–Madison undergraduate Donale Richards accompanies a small group of high schoolers on a visit to the UW Dairy Cattle […]
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Posted on February 5, 2018
An Achilles heel discovered in viruses could fuel new antiviral approaches
Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have discovered a promising new target to fight a class of viruses responsible for health threats such as […]
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Posted on January 30, 2018
Back to farming basics in Guatemala
When Claudia Calderón touched down in the fertile highlands of western Guatemala, she was stepping into a sociological experiment already afoot. What brought her to the verdant […]
