Category: Economic and Community Development
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Posted on July 26, 2023
UW–Madison Hemp Research Field Day set for Aug. 17
Farmers growing industrial hemp – and those interested in doing so – are invited to attend the upcoming University of Wisconsin–Madison Hemp Research Field Day […]
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Posted on July 20, 2023
CDR offers cheese making course for Spanish-speakers
The Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosts a lot of cheese making short courses — almost twenty per year. But most […]
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Posted on July 19, 2023
Picturing the places wildlands and people meet at a global scale
Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and […]
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Posted on July 7, 2023
Art that integrates data visualizations can help bridge the US political divide over climate change
Communicating science to a general audience can be challenging. Successfully conveying research on polarizing topics such as climate change can be even more difficult. But […]
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Posted on June 30, 2023
From hardship to hope: Team from CALS and Extension cultivates communities that can contend with farm stress together
Leon Statz used to get stressed about almost everything on his Sauk County farm. He worried about the weather, the bills, the crops. And when […]
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Posted on June 29, 2023
Make great memories at Kemp Natural Resources Station summer events
Those in search of summer fun are encouraged to attend one of the upcoming events at Kemp Natural Resources Station, located on picturesque Tomahawk Lake […]
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Posted on June 21, 2023
UW–Madison Agricultural Research Station field days for 2023 season
Summer is field day season at the UW–Madison CALS Agricultural Research Stations. Over the course of the growing season, the stations will host more than […]
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Posted on June 15, 2023
OGRAIN field days to showcase innovations in organic grain and forage production
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Organic Grain Resource and Information Network (OGRAIN) will host a series of four field days this summer highlighting innovations in the […]
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Posted on June 9, 2023
Kikkoman Foods, Inc. marks 50th anniversary of brewing soy sauce in the U.S. with $3M gift to CALS
On Friday, June 9, Kikkoman Foods, Inc. held a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of its soy sauce production facility in […]
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Posted on June 8, 2023
Clearer picture of watershed quality helps people put dollar values on improvements
It may be easy to argue that cleaning up a river is inherently good, but it’s far harder to put a monetary value on the […]