Category: Featured Articles
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Posted on January 23, 2013
Despite drought, heat and higher costs, state farm income was second highest ever
Despite the challenges brought on by prolonged drought and record-breaking heat, Wisconsin farmers earned $3 billion in net farm income in 2012, the second highest […]
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Posted on January 1, 2013
A warmer world favors bark beetles over trees
Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals. […]
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Posted on December 10, 2012
What have we learned about the true benefits of vitamin D and its promise?
Twenty-five thousand years, our Paleolithic ancestors got plenty of sun. Scantily draped in animal hides, they spent their days roaming outdoors, hunting and gathering food. […]
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Posted on November 15, 2012
Deer, wolf and hunting: Professor shines spotlight of data on a durable debate
When the Wisconsin gun deer season starts Saturday, Nov. 17, some hunters will be wondering about the impacts of the growing wolf population, and the […]
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Posted on November 5, 2012
Hunting for beginners: Program aims to stem an alarming drop in hunters
Last fall I spent an afternoon near Baraboo sitting in a tree stand across from a woman with a rifle. Perched in another crook was […]
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Posted on October 29, 2012
Beyond the chainsaw: A new look at Wisconsin’s loggers
Wisconsin logging firms are following the same trend as many other industries: Fewer, larger, and more mechanized. That’s according to a survey of owners of […]
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Posted on October 18, 2012
New farm-to-school project aims to make it easier for public schools to serve WI vegetables
A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s […]
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Posted on October 11, 2012
Unusual genetic structure confers major disease resistance trait in soybean
Scientists have identified three neighboring genes that make soybeans resistant to the most damaging disease of soybean. The genes exist side-by-side on a stretch of […]
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Posted on October 1, 2012
Studies point to rising role for women scientists at UW-Madison
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison competes with the world’s top universities for talent and expertise, it is getting more help from women, who in 2011 […]
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Posted on September 24, 2012
“Citizen scientists” are tracking wolves, monitoring streams, banding birds and more
At dusk Dave Wiltrout steps out of his house and climbs into a Ford F150 to follow the lonely roads of the Chequamegon National Forest […]