Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on November 20, 2017
Wading through Mendota’s mysteries: Trina McMahon and her team explore the lake’s microbial dark matter
It was a silly question, so Trina McMahon laughed. What’s more important: a lab coat or a Twitter handle? “Twitter handle, for sure. We don’t do anything […]
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Posted on November 15, 2017
Catching the bug: Protecting Wisconsin’s 700 million ash trees
Learn how professor Chris Williamson and the UW-Madison Department of Entomology are fighting to protect Wisconsin’s 700 million ash trees from a deadly beetle, the […]
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Posted on November 10, 2017
Catching the bug: Protecting Wisconsin’s 700 million ash trees
Learn ways professor Chris Williamson and the UW-Madison Department of Entomology are fighting to protect Wisconsin’s 700 million ash trees from a deadly beetle, the […]
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Posted on October 31, 2017
Green Lands Blue Waters conference will focus on ecological farming with livestock
“Continuous living cover: Bridging the gaps with livestock” is the theme of the 2017 Green Lands Blue Waters conference, which will be held in Wisconsin […]
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Posted on October 30, 2017
All hands on deck to understand, predict, prevent abrupt ecological change
In 2011, Lake Erie turned into a toxic pea soup. One-sixth of the lake harbored a thick and deadly algal bloom that killed fish, closed […]
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Posted on October 16, 2017
Study quantifies need to reduce phosphorus in soils—for the health of lakes and rivers
For decades, phosphorous has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and running […]
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Posted on October 13, 2017
Conservation, collaboration, creativity: Grant County farmer charts own path, with a little help from scientist colleagues
You never know where a conversation with Gerry Weiss will drive you. Today, it’s swerved toward fence-line weaning. Whatever that may be. Once explained, however, […]
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Posted on October 10, 2017
Farmers using UW-built software statewide to cut pollution, plan soil fertility
A software program intended to cut water pollution and soil erosion has matured into an essential production tool for farmers, says Fond du Lac County […]
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Posted on October 6, 2017
The 2017 field and forage crop season – Audio
/RSS FeedDamon Smith, UW-Extension Field Crops Plant Pathologist Department of Plant Pathology University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences damon.smith@wisc.edu 608-286-9706 Total Time: 2:53 […]
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Posted on October 3, 2017
UW wins $7 million grant to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study […]
