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  • Posted on December 18, 2015
    Workshop to explore transportation innovations for regional food systems

    Moving food from rural areas to large metropolitan regions is an expensive proposition. People across the supply chain, from regional shippers and distributors to planners […]

  • Posted on December 10, 2015
    Five things everyone should know about…nutmeg

    1. It’s not a nut. Nutmeg is the seed kernel inside a yellow fruit of the nutmeg tree, an evergreen native to the Molucca Islands […]

  • Posted on December 9, 2015
    School for Beginning Market Growers offered in January

    The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for anyone planning to start a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered Jan. 8-10, […]

  • Posted on December 8, 2015
    New way to make yeast hybrids may inspire new brews, biofuels

    About 500 years ago, the accidental natural hybridization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast responsible for things like ale, wine and bread, and a distant yeast cousin […]

  • Posted on December 4, 2015
    Organic grain production and marketing course offered in January

    With organic grain prices as much as three times higher than conventional prices and demand for organic grain far outstripping supply, opportunities abound in this […]

  • Posted on November 24, 2015
    No axes to grind as U of M and UW students solve dairy management issues together

    Students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Minnesota replaced their rivalry with camaraderie during the 2015 Badger Dairy Challenge on Oct. 23-24. […]

  • Posted on November 18, 2015
    Farmers across the Midwest benefit from UW – Vita Plus connections

    It’s a crisp fall day as Augusta Hagen drives south of Monroe, Wisconsin into Illinois. Mahon Farms Dairy is just across the state line in […]

  • Posted on November 11, 2015
    Art for fruit’s sake

    Look closely at the watermelon in this painting by seventeenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi. Yes, that watermelon, in the lower right corner: with its light […]

  • Posted on November 9, 2015
    Wisconsin: No.1 cranberry producer in the world

    October was harvesting time for cranberry farmers in Wisconsin. Aided by UW-Madison research, cranberry bushes are producing higher yields with heartier and sweeter berries, with a shorter time […]

  • Posted on November 6, 2015
    Food safety for the holidays – Audio
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    Food safety tips for the holiday Kathy Glass, Distinguished Scientist Food Research Institute UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences kglass@wisc.edu Phone (608) 263-6935, (608) […]