Category: Food Systems
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Posted on April 21, 2021
Center for Dairy Research partners with entrepreneur on innovative, milk permeate-based sports drink
GoodSport, a new sports drink developed in part at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, has the potential to turn the sports hydration […]
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Posted on April 20, 2021
UW students team up to develop innovative solutions to dairy industry challenges
Cold milk has long been offered alongside a lunch or snack in elementary schools. Over the years, the vessel for that milk has remained the […]
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Posted on April 14, 2021
Media advisory: New report on farmer attitudes toward nitrate contamination of ground water
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently produced a report about farmers’ attitudes toward nitrate contamination of ground water and the agricultural practices required to […]
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Posted on April 7, 2021
UW–Madison course offers a taste of many cultures
How does the American ideal of healthy eating exclude other cultures? That was the question posed to students by University of Wisconsin–Madison instructor Erika Anna […]
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Posted on March 23, 2021
Farm and Industry Short Course de UW-Madison anuncia una garantía de matrícula para estudiantes con ingresos familiares por debajo de $60,000
La capacitación de los granjeros del futuro en las técnicas más recientes del manejo y producción basadas en la ciencia es el fundamento de la […]
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Posted on March 16, 2021
Wild potatoes tapped for late blight guard duty
Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop’s most devastating disease, late blight. That’s […]
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Posted on January 13, 2021
Research projects advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin
Three UW–Madison graduate students are getting a unique opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary, hands-on research that will advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin and […]
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Posted on January 11, 2021
Former CALS dean Neal Jorgensen, professor emeritus of dairy science, dies at 85
Neal Jorgensen, an emeritus professor of dairy science who served the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in numerous leadership positions including […]
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Posted on January 5, 2021
Registration open for virtual 2021 Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum
The impact of COVID-19 and opportunities for Wisconsin agribusinesses are topics for the upcoming Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum, which will be held virtually on Tuesday, […]
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Posted on December 16, 2020
Of mutant wranglers and slime whisperers: the quest to understand how certain plants form a fertilization partnership with bacteria
In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform nitrogen, so abundant in […]