Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on July 27, 2017
UW field day, tasting dinner feature organic vegetables
Vegetable farmers and interested home gardeners are invited to attend the UW Organic Vegetable Variety Trials Field Day, set for Thursday Aug. 24 at the […]
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Posted on July 26, 2017
UW–Madison’s Lancaster ag station celebrates half-century study of crop rotation
Shortly after it was established in 1963, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station embarked on a study of crop rotation, to serve the […]
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Posted on July 25, 2017
Summit findings showcase best practices for sustaining public plant breeding
How can public plant breeding programs reap royalties and research investments while keeping their cultivars in the public domain? This is one of the challenges […]
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Posted on July 18, 2017
A big-city ag high school blossoms: CALS helps leads a rebirth of Vincent Agricultural High School
It’s just after lunch at Milwaukee Vincent, and students are settling into their two-hour Advanced Animal Science class. Using their fingers to write on an […]
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Posted on June 30, 2017
The 2017 soybean growing season – Audio
/RSS FeedShawn Conley, Extension soybean and small grains specialist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 608-262-7975 spconley@wisc.edu 3:03 – Total time 0:16 – […]
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Posted on June 29, 2017
UW’s new dairy youth specialist aims to serve kids from both farm and nonfarm backgrounds
When Kalyanna Williams says that there are opportunities for non-farm youth in the dairy industry, she speaks from experience. Williams, who recently took the job […]
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Posted on June 26, 2017
Frozen Dessert Center Conference set for Oct. 23
The Frozen Dessert Center, housed within the UW-Madison Department of Food Science, is pleased to announce its first annual Frozen Dessert Center Conference. The conference, […]
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Posted on June 22, 2017
Feucht inducted in Wisconsin Army National Guard Hall of Honor for agricultural work in Afghanistan
During a three-decade career in the United States military, Colonel Darrel D. “AJ” Feucht has led missions in far-flung places like Nicaragua, Japan and Afghanistan. […]
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Posted on June 20, 2017
Mike Peters named director of UW-Madison Ag Research Station network
Mike Peters has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Agricultural Research Station (ARS) network, the university’s system of 11 research stations located throughout […]
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Posted on June 16, 2017
Into the wild: Exploring yeast biodiversity for better biofuel
In the world of biofuels research, the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae gets a lot of love, with scientists commonly tweaking the yeast’s fermentative qualities to […]
