Category: Food Systems
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Posted on December 1, 2011
Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers offered in January
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for anyone interested in starting a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 13-15 […]
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UW workshop to focus on growing cut flowers for market
Want to grow your passion for growing flowers into a small business. The Wisconsin Cut Flower Growers School is a two-day workshop designed to help […]
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Posted on November 30, 2011
November Market Bulletin: seasonal corn prices may average $6.20-$7.20 bu.
“The strength of demand and potential for record setting production will be critical components in determining (corn) prices for the coming year,” reports David Moll, […]
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Complete 2011 UW crop evaluations now online: corn, soybeans, forages, oats, barley, winter wheat
Each season, crop growers and business professionals look for the latest results from the University of Wisconsin Crop Variety and Hybrid Trails. Seeds from each […]
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The science of pizza cheese
Pizza cheese is not all the same! Take a fun look at how UW-Madison food scientists and students evaluate this tasty part of one of […]
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Posted on November 22, 2011
UW corn hybrid evaluations now available
A seemingly simple decision such as which corn variety a grower chooses can have big economic implications. “A one bushel (per acre) increase (in yield) […]
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Drought-driven rise in hay prices eats into dairy margins, especially out west
It’s not enough that the prices for fuel and fertilizer keep going up but everything dairy producers use to feed cows also is on the […]
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Posted on November 21, 2011
The importance of beets
Learn about beets–including the vegetable’s role in social justice–from Irwin Goldman, a CALS horticulture professor and the nation’s only publicly supported beet breeder.