Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on April 3, 2020
UW to host “Considerations for Landspreading Milk” webinar on Apr. 7
Some Wisconsin dairy farmers have been asked by their processors to withhold delivery of milk, resulting in the need for milk or milk/manure mixtures to […]
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Posted on March 26, 2020
Six UW–Madison postdoctoral fellowships funded by state-sponsored Dairy Innovation Hub
The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) recently awarded six, two-year postdoctoral fellowships to help increase dairy-related research capacity through the […]
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Posted on March 10, 2020
How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts
When El Nino approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern U.S. and drought in […]
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Blue Sky Science: Do trees get viruses?
Do trees get viruses? Brian Hudelson, director of the Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, answers that question in this episode of Blue Sky Science. The Blue […]
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Posted on February 25, 2020
Building birdhouses for bluebirds – Audio
Jamie Nack, Extension Senior Wildlife Outreach Specialist Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology College of Agricultural and Life Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison jlnack@wisc.edu 608-265-8264 Total […]
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Posted on February 10, 2020
The sounds of biodiversity
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. To Zuzana Burivalova, an audio recording is worth a thousand pictures. That’s the beauty of bioacoustics, […]
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Posted on January 17, 2020
A model solution: Researchers expand a powerful computer simulation tool to address nitrate contamination in Wisconsin’s groundwater
When agronomy professor Chris Kucharik and his wife, Amy, moved into a subdivision in the Town of Burke in 2006, they weren’t surprised to learn their well water […]
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Posted on December 28, 2019
More green, less greenhouse gas: Sustainable dairy project finds ways to lower emissions while increasing profits
In 2013, the $10 million Dairy Coordinated Agricultural Project, or Dairy CAP, set out to assess the greenhouse gas contributions of the dairy industry and […]
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Posted on December 9, 2019
2020 OGRAIN Organic Grain Winter Conference set for Jan. 24-25
Farmers with interest in organic row crop and small grain production should plan to attend the fifth annual OGRAIN (Organic Grain Resource and Information Network) […]
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Posted on December 3, 2019
Blue Sky Science: Is it possible to bring back extinct animals?
In this episode of Blue Sky Science, Stanley Temple, the Beers-Bascom Professor Emertius in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, answers the […]