Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on May 10, 2017
Support beginning farmers at Ride to Farm bike ride on June 3
Cyclists will ride through the rolling hills of Green County on Saturday, June 3 to support the next generation of dairy and livestock farmers. UW-Madison’s Wisconsin School […]
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Posted on May 9, 2017
UniverCity Year celebrates yearlong partnership with Monona
It’s called the UniverCity Year program, but it’s really an extension of the Wisconsin Idea. On May 3, students, faculty and community members gathered at […]
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Posted on May 5, 2017
Kernza: A crop with many uses – Audio
/RSS FeedValentin Picasso Risso, Assistant Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (608) 890-3858 picassorisso@wisc.edu 3:09 – Total Time 0:16 – What […]
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Posted on April 27, 2017
Fermenting a winner: Class brews up “Red Arrow American Pale Ale”
A spooky silence pervaded a classroom at Babcock Hall on the UW–Madison campus Feb. 8 as a couple dozen students focused with laser-like intensity on […]
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Posted on April 17, 2017
Study finds amoeba “grazing,” killing bacteria usually protected by film
Bacteria have developed an uncountable number of chemistries, lifestyles, attacks and defenses through 2.5 billion years of evolution. One of the most impressive defenses is […]
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Posted on April 14, 2017
5 things to know about the future of ag – Audio
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Mimi Broeski Deana Knuteson, researchers Nutrient and Pest Management Program (NPM) Department of Horticulture UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 3:03 – Total Time […]
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Posted on April 11, 2017
Spinoff that puts phosphorus in its place signs key contract
In a bit of high-tech judo, a UW–Madison spinoff has started selling a technology to transform phosphorus at wastewater treatment plants from a major headache […]
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The science farm: A decades-long project offers insights into agriculture
On a still and warm summer morning, as scientists drive along the dirt roads that crisscross the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, the fields sweep in […]
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Posted on March 31, 2017
Simpler detection for ketosis helps support state dairies
Mitch Breunig has been around dairy cows long enough — all his life, to be exact – to suspect something was amiss with two of […]
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Posted on March 21, 2017
Why we need cows – Audio
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Why do we need cows? Michel Wattiaux, Professor Department of Dairy Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences wattiaux@wisc.edu (608) 263-3493 3:03 – Total […]
