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  • Posted on March 14, 2017
    Study quantifies role of ‘legacy phosphorus’ in reduced water quality

    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 […]

  • Posted on March 10, 2017
    Cheese, cows and manure: Systems approach makes tough decisions easier to digest

    Wisconsin is known as America’s Dairyland. More than one-third of all the cows in United States live on more than 3,000 farms in Wisconsin. Those […]

  • Posted on March 2, 2017
    Fast-track master’s preps graduates for jobs in energy analysis

    For decades, American energy companies have tried to persuade customers to use less energy. Using giveaways and various other financial incentives, utilities have promoted new […]

  • Posted on February 7, 2017
    Forest ‘islands’ offer refuge to wintering birds

    The polar vortex of 2013 and 2014 brought the coldest winter many parts of the Midwest had experienced in decades. In Dane County, Wisconsin, it […]

  • Posted on February 6, 2017
    Beyond eating: Indirectly, deer change the landscape

    It is widely known that the white-tailed deer is a nonstop eater. Unless it is sleeping or fleeing from a predator, the keystone North American […]

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    Monsanto donates Middleton plant research facility to UW-Madison

    A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton, Wisconsin, first opened in 1982 with the help of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, will soon become […]

  • Posted on January 27, 2017
    Cover crops in Wisconsin – Audio
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    Matt Ruark, Assistant Professor Department of Soil Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mdruark@wisc.edu (608) 263-2889 FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://waterwaynetwork.org/ 3:01 – Total […]

  • Posted on January 24, 2017
    Potato industry commits $5M to support UW-Madison potato and vegetable research program

    Wisconsin’s potato industry has had a strong, decades-long partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s potato researchers, one that has helped place Wisconsin among the top […]

  • Posted on November 7, 2016
    Variable tree growth after fire protects forests from future bark beetle outbreaks

    Do severe wildfires make forests in the western United States more susceptible to future bark beetle outbreaks? The answer, in a study published Nov. 7 […]

  • Posted on October 18, 2016
    Buckthorn Baggie kills invasive trees without chemicals

    Every startup should have an origin story. Apple and its essential garage. The Wright brothers: two bicycle mechanics who invented one incredible flying machine. The […]