Category: Economic and Community Development
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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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Posted on February 16, 2018
Wisconsin’s rural urban divide and its impact on the economy – Audio
/RSS FeedTessa 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 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 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 […]
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Fantastic frozen fascination: UW-Madison stages one-of-a-kind ice cream workshop
As a dozen “students” of all ages buzz around a pilot plant at Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, drips of vanilla or […]
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Posted on January 29, 2018
Alumnus shares Wisconsin ag expertise with Japanese dairy farms
Wisconsin’s reputation as a leading producer and innovator in the dairy industry does not stop at the borders of the state. Even beyond international boundaries, […]
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Posted on January 22, 2018
As Wisconsin tries to lure young adults, how do certain communities succeed?
As a new ad campaign from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation tries to attract young adults to Wisconsin, a study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers […]
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Posted on January 17, 2018
Radar adds technological twist to age-old cranberry counting process
It’s a quintessential cranberry scene: Thigh-deep in a flooded bog full of millions of floating berries, two farmers extol the merits of products made from […]
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Posted on January 12, 2018
Navigating the rural-urban divide – Audio
/RSS FeedPaul Mitchell, Extension Agricultural Economist Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences pdmitchell@wisc.edu (608) 265-6514, (608) 263-3964 Second in […]
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Posted on January 10, 2018
School for Beginning Apple Growers offered in March
The Midwest School for Beginning Apple Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start an orchard business, will be offered March 16-18 on the […]