Category: Food Systems
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Posted on July 19, 2011
Five things everyone should know about acai berries
1. They cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound. Nor will they flatten your tummy, cleanse your colon, boost your immune system or increase […]
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Posted on July 11, 2011
UW-Madison scientists played role in potato genome project
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are part of an international consortium that has successfully sequenced and analyzed the potato genome. The consortium’s work, which is described […]
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Posted on July 6, 2011
Tour schedule available for Agronomy/Soils Field Day on Aug. 31
The annual UW Agronomy/Soils Field Day will take place on August 31 at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station. While a full news release about the field […]
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Posted on June 20, 2011
New website helps farmers pick safe times to spread manure
CALS staffers in two departments helped create a new web-based tool that helps farmers decide when conditions are right to spread manure on their land, […]
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Posted on June 14, 2011
CALS students work magic at national food competition
Pixie Dust was magic for a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science graduate students in New Orleans last weekend. That’s the name of the […]
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Posted on June 9, 2011
UW scientists create low-acrylamide potato lines
What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories […]
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Posted on June 8, 2011
Three UW teams to compete in national food contest finals
They spent most of the past year inventing a shelf-stable yogurt truffle, a beverage mix made with real fruit and a tangerine-flavored carbonated dairy beverage […]
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Posted on May 23, 2011
Potatoes vs. Late Blight
This NSF-produced video features the work of CALS plant geneticist Jiming Jiang and plant pathologist John Helgeson. They discovered a late blight-resistance gene in a […]
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Posted on May 13, 2011
Clueless in the pasture? New research points to learning curve
You can lead a cow out of the barn, but you can’t make her eat grass. If she’s never been on pasture, it may take […]