Category: Economic and Community Development
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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
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Paul 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 […]
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Posted on January 5, 2018
2017 dairy year in review – Audio
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Mark Stephenson, Extension Dairy Policy Analyst Center for Dairy Profitability Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mwstephenson@wisc.edu (608) […]
