Category: Food Systems
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Posted on May 5, 2017
Kernza: A crop with many uses – Audio
/RSS FeedValentin Picasso Risso, Assistant Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (608) 890-3858 picassorisso@wisc.edu 3:09 – Total Time 0:16 – What […]
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Posted on May 4, 2017
From test tube to plate, UW–Madison program keeps potatoes clean
Years before that french fry landed on your plate, the plant that would eventually give rise to the spud your fry was cut from was […]
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Posted on April 27, 2017
Fermenting a winner: Class brews up “Red Arrow American Pale Ale”
A spooky silence pervaded a classroom at Babcock Hall on the UW–Madison campus Feb. 8 as a couple dozen students focused with laser-like intensity on […]
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Posted on April 26, 2017
For some plants, winter carries the keys to spring flowering
It’s springtime in Wisconsin again. Home gardeners and farmers are busy tending to their beds and fields, relishing the fresh, green sprouts of flowers, vegetables and […]
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Posted on April 14, 2017
5 things to know about the future of ag – Audio
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Mimi Broeski Deana Knuteson, researchers Nutrient and Pest Management Program (NPM) Department of Horticulture UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 3:03 – Total Time […]
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Posted on April 13, 2017
Antibiotic alternatives, delivered by friendly microbes
Microbiologist Jan Peter van Pijkeren looks at probiotics — those microbes thought to provide health benefits in our bodies — as more than just friendly […]
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Posted on April 11, 2017
The science farm: A decades-long project offers insights into agriculture
On a still and warm summer morning, as scientists drive along the dirt roads that crisscross the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, the fields sweep in […]
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Posted on March 31, 2017
Simpler detection for ketosis helps support state dairies
Mitch Breunig has been around dairy cows long enough — all his life, to be exact – to suspect something was amiss with two of […]
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Posted on March 21, 2017
Why we need cows – Audio
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Why do we need cows? Michel Wattiaux, Professor Department of Dairy Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences wattiaux@wisc.edu (608) 263-3493 3:03 – Total […]
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Posted on March 14, 2017
Study quantifies role of ‘legacy phosphorus’ in reduced water quality
For decades, phosphorous has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and running […]
