Category: Food Systems
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Posted on August 30, 2011
New iPhone apps help growers make fertilizer decisions
Have you ever needed to know the N fertilizer rate for corn that will maximize return on investment but didn’t have access to A2809 “Nutrient […]
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Posted on August 26, 2011
Summer weather smiles on western milk producers, frowns on ours
If you’re keeping score in milk production: Western dairy producers improved field position vis a vis Wisconsin and others in the Upper Midwest and Northeast […]
- Posted on August 22, 2011
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500 years ago, yeast’s epic journey gave rise to lager beer
In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves […]
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Campus vegetable garden beckons passing snackers
By now, you may have noticed the lush vegetable garden beds outside the wrought iron fence surrounding Allen Centennial Gardens at Observatory and Babcock drives. […]
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Posted on August 19, 2011
Organic field day on Aug. 30: Using a “killed mulch” to manage weeds in corn
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will host an Organic Field Day on Tuesday, August 30 from 1–3:30p.m. at the UW Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The program […]
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Agronomy and soils field day set for Aug. 31 at Arlington
Is growing switchgrass for biofuel going to become part of your farm operation? After more than three years of working on the biofuels challenge, researchers […]
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Erin Silva: science of organic field crop production
/RSS Feed[audio:https://news.cals.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/erin_silva_organic_crop_practices.mp3|titles=Erin Silva: Science of organic field crop production] Erin Silva, Associate Scientist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences emsilva@wisc.edu (608) 890-1503, […]
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Posted on August 12, 2011
DATCP’s Agriculture Enterprise Area Forum to feature CALS keynote speakers
Steven Deller and Bruce Jones, both professors of agricultural and applied economics, will give the keynote presentations at the first Agricultural Enterprise Area Forum, hosted […]
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Posted on July 29, 2011
UW study finds larger dairy farms tend to have better milk quality
Wisconsin’s larger dairy operations tended to fare better than the state’s small farms in a UW-Madison study of milk quality, although all of the state’s […]