Category: Food Systems
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Posted on November 12, 2019
Dairy Innovation Hub launches, convenes advisory council to guide efforts
On Thursday, November 7, the deans of the colleges of agriculture at UW–Madison, UW–Platteville and UW–River Falls formally launched the newly funded Dairy Innovation Hub […]
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Posted on November 11, 2019
CALS fields WARF Innovation Award winner and finalist groups
MADISON, Wis. – Two technical breakthroughs, from the realms of experimental physics and microscopic communities, have claimed top honors from WARF this year. Mark […]
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Posted on October 31, 2019
Wisconsin high schoolers have ‘incredible experience’ at Global Youth Institute
Five high school students from Wisconsin recently returned from the Global Youth Institute (GYI) in Des Moines, Iowa, where they participated as the state’s youth […]
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Posted on October 29, 2019
Big data wranglers: CALS scientists find ways to gather and analyze massive amounts of information for better farm management
The video clip shows some very colorful calves. It’s an overhead view of five young Holsteins, but none of them is black and white. They […]
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Posted on October 22, 2019
Deepest look yet at brewer’s yeasts reveals the diversity harnessed by humans
Thousands of years ago, as humans tamed wild animals and plants into livestock and crops, their penchant for intoxication also led them to unwittingly domesticate […]
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A look at UW–Madison’s Spooner Agricultural Research Station
Established in 1909, Spooner Agricultural Research Station, located just 70 miles south of Superior, Wisconsin, was UW–Madison’s first agricultural research station. The College of Agricultural and […]
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Posted on October 16, 2019
Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame seeks nominations
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Animal Sciences is seeking nominations for the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame’s 2020 class of inductees. Nominations for […]
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Posted on October 11, 2019
New potato helps farmers weather the frost in Peru
In a country with more than 5,000 potato varieties, you might not expect the arrival of another one to be a big deal. But this […]
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Posted on October 9, 2019
New report on Wisconsin’s aquaculture industry
A new report about the state of aquaculture in Wisconsin, featuring results from a statewide survey of fish farmers, is now available. The survey was […]
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Posted on September 26, 2019
Randy Shaver helped farmers learn to make more milk per acre
If you want to see what Randy Shaver has been up to over the past 30 years, take a drive through Wisconsin dairy country and […]