Category: Food Systems
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Posted on June 16, 2003
June Is Dairy Month at UW-Madison With Badger Dairy Camp
More than 115 youth from three states attended the fifth annual Badger Dairy Camp held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 12-14. At Dairy Camp, young people between 12 and 18 received a jump-start on their summer dairy project activities, learning about dairy fitting, showmanship, and judging while developing life skills in self-confidence, teamwork and sportsmanship.
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Posted on June 13, 2003
USDA Honors Successful Eco-Potato Partnership
Washington, DC – A unique partnership between World Wildlife Fund, Wisconsin potato growers, and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers is being recognized today as a recipient of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prestigious
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Posted on June 9, 2003
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Posted on June 2, 2003
Ones Appointed Director Of UW Center For Dairy Profitability
Bruce Jones, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension has been appointed director of the UW Center for Dairy Profitability. Jones served as director of the Center previously, from 1995 through 2000.
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Jones Appointed Director of Center for Dairy Profitability
Bruce Jones, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension has been appointed director of the UW Center for Dairy Profitability.
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Posted on May 30, 2003
Comprehensive Soybean Aphid Initiative Planned For This Summer
The first soybean aphids, probably descendents of a stowaway from China, were discovered in Wisconsin in 2000. Since then, the pests have spread across the region, growing at rates one scientist calls
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Posted on May 27, 2003
Marshfield Summer Field Day June 24
Visitors to the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station’s June 24 field day will open the day with an update on the station’s building project.
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UW-Madison Dairy Herd to Add Holstein-Jersey Crosses
The most profitable dairy cow in a herd isn’t always the highest producing cow — health and longevity, fertility and calving ease, milk composition and other factors all influence a cow’s profitability. New tools of molecular genetics allow researchers to pinpoint the genes that influence these traits, and use them in selective breeding programs. The University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy herd, where dairy geneticists are developing a line of Holstein X Jersey crosses, will be the focus of one such program.
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Posted on May 23, 2003
Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Brings Locally Grown Produce To Madison Schools
With childhood obesity on the rise, parents are paying more attention to what their children eat at school.
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A Career On The Frontier
As a freshman at Madison East High School, Lynette Brennan Childs knew that genetics was for her. Today, Childs is a research associate for Infigen, Inc. in DeForest. Formed in 1997, Infigen is a biotechnology company commercializing cloning services in the fields of human health and animal agriculture.