Category: Food Systems
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Posted on July 27, 2017
UW field day, tasting dinner feature organic vegetables
Vegetable farmers and interested home gardeners are invited to attend the UW Organic Vegetable Variety Trials Field Day, set for Thursday Aug. 24 at the […]
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Posted on July 26, 2017
UW–Madison’s Lancaster ag station celebrates half-century study of crop rotation
Shortly after it was established in 1963, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station embarked on a study of crop rotation, to serve the […]
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Posted on July 25, 2017
Summit findings showcase best practices for sustaining public plant breeding
How can public plant breeding programs reap royalties and research investments while keeping their cultivars in the public domain? This is one of the challenges […]
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Taking the genomic revolution to corn fields to improve crops
“Having the sequence of a genome is like having the blueprint of a house,” says Natalia de Leon, a professor of agronomy at the University of […]
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Posted on July 18, 2017
Training series to help farmers sell local food to Wisconsin schools
Farmers interested in selling their products to K-12 schools and early care sites are encouraged to attend “Know Your Buyer, Know Your Supplier” trainings across […]
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A big-city ag high school blossoms: CALS helps leads a rebirth of Vincent Agricultural High School
It’s just after lunch at Milwaukee Vincent, and students are settling into their two-hour Advanced Animal Science class. Using their fingers to write on an […]
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Public invited to horticulture field day at UW’s West Madison Ag Research Station
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station (ARS) will be hosting a field day for the general public on Saturday, Aug. 12. The […]
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Posted on July 14, 2017
Late blight in potatoes and tomatoes – Audio
/RSS FeedAmanda Gevens, UW-Extension plant pathologist Department of Plant Pathology UW-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences gevens@wisc.edu http://vegetables.wisc.edu/ 608-890-3072 Total Time – 3:01 0:16 – […]
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Posted on July 11, 2017
Field day will address diversified organic grain rotations – July 21
There is a growing demand for organic grains, but there’s also a learning curve that farmers have to navigate before accessing the market. Organic and […]
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Posted on June 30, 2017
The 2017 soybean growing season – Audio
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Shawn Conley, Extension soybean and small grains specialist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 608-262-7975 spconley@wisc.edu 3:03 – Total time 0:16 – […]
