Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on June 12, 2019
UW deans’ statement about inclusion of the Dairy Innovation Hub proposal in the state budget by the Joint Finance Committee
As leaders of UW System agricultural programs, we would like to thank members of the Joint Finance Committee for including funding for the Dairy Innovation […]
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Posted on June 11, 2019
Canada firm expands in Wisconsin to hire more farm-raised engineers
MacDon Enterprises, Inc., a Canadian maker of harvesting equipment, broke ground on a research and development facility in Sun Prairie this spring. The building will […]
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Posted on June 6, 2019
UW–Madison students gain wildlife ecology experience during summer field course in Northwoods
Additional photographs available at CALS Flickr For two weeks in late May, Kemp Natural Resources Station was home and headquarters to 24 UW–Madison students gaining […]
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Posted on June 4, 2019
Knowledge applied: The team at the Applied Population Laboratory helps decision-makers understand complex social trends and plan for the future
Should a school district close an elementary school with shrinking enrollment, or will student numbers rebound in the coming years? What’s the outlook for a […]
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Posted on May 28, 2019
UW Changes Lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy
What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer […]
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Posted on May 22, 2019
Opportunities and strategies for organic transition to be highlighted at June 12 field day
With seemingly unending low grain prices and increasing uncertainty concerning international trade, farmers are seeking alternative crops and production strategies that allow for higher margins […]
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Posted on May 8, 2019
Joao Dorea joins UW–Madison dairy science department as precision agriculture expert
The same technology that alerts a self-driving car that there’s a pedestrian in the crosswalk could also warn a dairy farmer that a calf is […]
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Controversy to consensus to civility: Reports show potential for informing and shifting tone of public discourse on science topics
Somewhere in the discouraging maze of fake news and widespread disinformation campaigns aimed at confusing and polarizing public discourse, there lies a road map for […]
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To live and learn together: Residential learning communities immerse CALS students in unique, focused academic experience
The summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community Garden as Devon […]
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Posted on May 1, 2019
Statement by CALS Dean Kate VandenBosch in support of Dairy Innovation Hub legislation
In the 1800s, Wisconsin became America’s Dairyland because of a partnership between the state, led by then-Governor W.D. Hoard, Wisconsin’s early farmers and the scientists […]