Category: Food Systems
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Posted on July 2, 2013
UW’s Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research educates Whole Foods cheesemongers
Three-dozen cheesemongers from Whole Foods Markets came to Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 25–28 for a four-day, hands-on introduction to the art and […]
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Posted on July 1, 2013
Amy Stanton
Amy Stanton joined CALS and UW-Extension in 2012 as a dairy science professor with particular expertise in animal well-being. Prior to joining CALS she was […]
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Protecting our pollinators: CALS researchers seek answers, solutions to bee die-off
People and bees have a long shared history. Honeybees, natives of Europe, were carried to the United States by early settlers to provide honey and […]
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Posted on June 27, 2013
U.S. dairy farms are converging into “cow islands”
The nation’s dairy cows are moving closer together. Cows and milk production have shifted north and west, farther from cities, to converge in what economist […]
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Posted on June 18, 2013
Researchers look to natural sources for organic meat preservatives
When Jeff Sindelar talks about the ingredients he’s working with, you’d think he was making juice. Not quite. He’s adding things like cranberry concentrate, cherry […]
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Posted on June 14, 2013
Potato industry helps create new professorship to lead UW’s potato breeding program
Advances in biotechnology such as DNA sequencing have helped speed the pace of plant breeding in many food crops, but applying these tools to the […]
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Posted on June 10, 2013
Rhona S. Applebaum
Rhona Applebaum is vice president and chief scientific and regulatory officer at The Coca-Cola Company, where she leads global scientific and regulatory affairs. “We’re responsible […]
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Field to Food Bank program
This video, which played on the Big Ten Network in early June, describes an innovative program to move surplus vegetables that were being left to […]
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UW-Extension announces launch of educational video channel
University of Wisconsin-Extension announced the launch of a new online educational video channel (http://uwexvideochannel.org) to extend its mission of providing access to university resources and […]
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Posted on May 23, 2013
Gluten-free waffle sends UW food team to the finals
When you hear “gluten-free,” great flavor and texture may not be the first things that come to mind. But a new gluten-free raspberry-filled chocolate waffle […]