Category: Food Systems
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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 […]
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Posted on May 20, 2013
CALS experts offer help to former prison farm that feeds the needy
Wisconsin has hundreds of diversified, fresh market vegetable operations, but there’s one on the outskirts of Franklin that’s in a class by itself. Most of the state’s […]
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Posted on May 7, 2013
CALS leads new project to help dairy farms be greener and more resilient
Agricultural scientists from across the nation are embarking on a new five-year, $10 million, USDA-funded effort to identify dairy production practices that minimize the emission […]
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Posted on May 1, 2013
Ride to Farm on June 1: Ride or pledge to help CALS coach beginning farmers
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers is recruiting cyclists and pledges for its 10th annual Ride to Farm fundraiser on Saturday, June […]