Category: Featured Articles
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Posted on September 21, 2012
Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison wins federal innovation grant
The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research (CDR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded one of seven $1 million i6 Challenge grants from the […]
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Posted on September 4, 2012
Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease
If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison’s Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up. There’s a good chance it […]
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Posted on September 3, 2012
UW scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes
As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish […]
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Posted on August 22, 2012
Retired farm vet has plenty of experience to share with his Short Course students
For nearly four decades, Dave Rhoda was a highly sought-after and award-winning farm veterinarian. Now that he’s retired, he’s a highly sought-after and award-winning instructor […]
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Posted on August 20, 2012
The culture of ag: CALS’ unique legacy of celebrating the arts and humanities in agriculture
The last thing you’d expect to see inside a university’s newly renovated, state-of-the-art biochemistry center is a 1940s Regionalist masterpiece celebrating rural life. Ditto for […]
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Posted on August 14, 2012
Sowing the seeds for a new generation of organic plant breeders
Plant breeders who develop new vegetable varieties for organic farming systems are far and few between. The same goes for graduate students who want to […]
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Posted on July 26, 2012
Growing a green lawn means finding grasses that need less water, says UW turf specialist
You have to give Doug Soldat credit. He picked the right year to begin a study on the drought tolerance of Wisconsin turfgrasses. It’s not […]
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Posted on July 9, 2012
Mission: Delicious — What makes Babcock ice cream so good to eat
The Babcock Hall Dairy Store on Linden Drive is packed at noon with campus regulars and visitors alike. While offerings include tasty sandwiches and celebrated […]
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Posted on June 29, 2012
Food science teams find winning recipe for national food competitions
The UW-Madison food science club has three new awards to add to its trophy case after spending this past week at the Institute for Food […]
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Posted on May 29, 2012
Tech Transfer Showcase: Some CALS-based businesses you should know about
When CALS biochemistry professor Harry Steenbock experimented with vitamin D in the early 1920s, his work proved groundbreaking in more ways than one. Steenbock’s discovery […]