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  • Posted on March 12, 2018
    Quite a mouthful: Mexican graduate student joins UW-Madison cheese judges at world championships

    Judging the world’s best cheeses is essentially a search for defects, says Luis Alejandro Jiménez-Maroto, after a day of judging burrata, flavored pasteurized process cheese […]

  • Posted on March 9, 2018
    Weather station network aids with 2018 growing season – Audio
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    Amaya Atucha, Extension Fruit Crop Specialist Department of Horticulture UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences atucha@wisc.edu 608-262-6452 3:09 – Total time 0:11 – How to prepare […]

  • Posted on February 28, 2018
  • Posted on February 23, 2018
    Supporting local farmers market is all about sharing

    While farmers markets are popular in Wisconsin, some markets struggle with profitability or the ability to grow and support more local farmers. New research from […]

  • Posted on February 22, 2018
    GreenHouse program coordinator blends sustainability, student life

    Teaching about agriculture and sustainability during semesters filled with classes and tests is hard enough. It’s even harder when most students are gone for the […]

  • Posted on February 13, 2018
    Catching a ‘silent’ cow killer: A simpler detection system to help dairy farmers stay ahead of a costly disease

    Mitch Breunig BS’92 has been around dairy cows long enough — all his life, to be exact — to suspect something was amiss with two […]

  • Posted on February 12, 2018
    Hands on with food and farming: How UW’s PEOPLE program is planting the seeds of careers in agricultural science

    It’s a bright summer afternoon in 2016, and UW–Madison undergraduate Donale Richards accompanies a small group of high schoolers on a visit to the UW Dairy Cattle […]

  • Posted on January 31, 2018
    Colorado potato beetle genome gives insight into major agricultural pest

    The Colorado potato beetle is notorious for its role in starting the pesticide industry — and for its ability to resist the insecticides developed to […]

  • Posted on January 30, 2018
    Back to farming basics in Guatemala

    When Claudia Calderón touched down in the fertile highlands of western Guatemala, she was stepping into a sociological experiment already afoot. What brought her to the verdant […]

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    Fantastic frozen fascination: UW-Madison stages one-of-a-kind ice cream workshop

    As a dozen “students” of all ages buzz around a pilot plant at Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, drips of vanilla or […]