Category: Food Systems
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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.
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Registration open for UW’s 2012 Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum
Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum. The event will be held on the UW-Madison campus on January 25, 2012. Speakers […]
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Posted on November 16, 2011
Global commission delivers food security policy recommendations
A new report published by an independent global commission of eminent scientists states that the world’s food system needs an immediate transformation to meet current […]
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Posted on November 14, 2011
Michael Bell named director of UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Environmental sociologist Michael Bell has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), a multi-disciplinary research and outreach program that focuses on […]