Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on November 20, 2013
UW School for Beginning Market Growers offered in January
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for anyone wanting to start a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 10–12 […]
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Posted on November 11, 2013
Dan Veroff
Dan Veroff, director of the UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory (APL), was part of a multi-state team that developed new estimates of net migration — the […]
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Posted on October 24, 2013
Moving in or moving out? A 60-year, county-by-county look at net migration
You can tell a lot about what a community has to offer by the types of people that are moving in and the types that […]
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Posted on October 21, 2013
Julie Dawson
Julie Dawson is the UW-Madison’s new urban and regional food systems specialist. She joined the university as an assistant professor and extension specialist in the […]
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Posted on October 15, 2013
Growth industry: New faculty member supports local produce
When Julie Dawson starts making farm visits, she may face a problem many of her fellow UW-Madison agricultural extension specialists don’t: battling city traffic and […]
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Better barns for Moldovan dairy farms
Gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 left the tiny nation of Moldova with plenty of barns and other structures from former collective farms—but […]
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Posted on October 11, 2013
Researchers explore farmer willingness to grow bioenergy crops on marginal lands
In their quest to make cellulosic biofuel a viable energy option, many researchers are looking to marginal lands — those unsuitable for growing food — […]
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Posted on October 10, 2013
Looking before you leap, failing fast, and the path to commercialization of technology
The QuickChip sounded like a killer idea: a gadget about one inch square that could, in just 15 minutes, identify bacteria, fungi, and viruses at […]