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  • Posted on April 22, 2019
    UW Changes Lives: Experts advance new crops for long-term profitability

    On a field in western Madison, where cornfields sprout houses, Amaya Atucha and three graduate students are giving a buzzcut to some experimental grape vines. […]

  • Posted on April 19, 2019
    The benefits and challenges of cover crops – Audio
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    Matt Ruark, Extension soil scientist Department of Soil Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mdruark@wisc.edu 608-263-2889 3:12 – Total time 0:11 – What […]

  • Posted on April 17, 2019
    Resistance is not futile: Plant pathologists develop a soybean plant that staves off stem rot and defies drought

    If there’s anything that could be called the archenemy of Midwestern soybean producers, it just might be Sclerotinia stem rot. Once thought of as only […]

  • Posted on April 12, 2019
    UW Changes Lives: “Dairy Partner” brings news to Wisconsin dairy workers – in English or Spanish

    Despite the ongoing consolidation of Wisconsin’s dairy economy, entry-level workers remain in demand. Yet many incoming workers know little or nothing about dairying, and for […]

  • Posted on April 4, 2019
    UW Changes Lives: Let your phone do the farming

    From February through June, we will be highlighting the ways that UW–Madison changes lives for the better throughout the state of Wisconsin. March’s theme is […]

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    UW and dairy leaders op-ed: Now is the time to invest in research for our dairy future

    Last year, Wisconsin lost 691 dairy farms, the most since 2011. Wisconsin also leads neighboring states in farm bankruptcies. Consecutive years of low milk prices, […]

  • Posted on April 3, 2019
    CALS offers summer classes about food, ag and science for all interested learners

    Summer Term isn’t just for UW–Madison students. While taking summer classes is a great way for current UW students to get ahead in their studies, […]

  • Posted on April 2, 2019
    A different beet: CALS’ Irwin Goldman is pushing this loved and loathed vegetable in new directions

    Last fall, when the “Gastropod” podcast came to UW–Madison to partici­pate in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley asked Irwin Goldman PhD’91 to be a guest […]

  • Posted on April 1, 2019
    UW–Madison CALS featured in new report identifying how to supercharge ag science in the U.S.

    A new report shows how U.S. farmers—facing a surge of weather events and disease outbreaks—can increase production and revenues with innovations produced by federally funded […]

  • Posted on March 20, 2019
    Dairy industry support for graduate students pays off

    When it comes to generating useful ideas and solutions for the dairy industry, graduate student researchers are the unsung heroes. “Most of the research that […]