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  • 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 […]

  • Posted on January 17, 2018
    Radar adds technological twist to age-old cranberry counting process

    It’s a quintessential cranberry scene: Thigh-deep in a flooded bog full of millions of floating berries, two farmers extol the merits of products made from […]

  • Posted on January 10, 2018
    School for Beginning Apple Growers offered in March

    The Midwest School for Beginning Apple Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start an orchard business, will be offered March 16-18 on the […]

  • Posted on January 5, 2018
    2017 dairy year in review – Audio
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    Mark Stephenson, Extension Dairy Policy Analyst Center for Dairy Profitability Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mwstephenson@wisc.edu (608) […]

  • Posted on December 8, 2017
    The “Icing” on the DNA: Xuehua Zhong uses plants to study epigenetics

    Xuehua Zhong, an assistant professor of genetics, studies epigenetics, a growing area of research focused on how chemical tags on DNA can change the expression […]