Tag: Agronomy
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Posted on August 3, 2017
UW Agronomy/Soils Field Day scheduled for Aug. 30
The 2017 UW Agronomy/Soils Field Day will highlight University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension research to help understand and cultivate resilient agricultural systems – systems that recover or […]
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Posted on July 26, 2017
UW–Madison’s Lancaster ag station celebrates half-century study of crop rotation
Shortly after it was established in 1963, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station embarked on a study of crop rotation, to serve the […]
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Posted on July 25, 2017
Summit findings showcase best practices for sustaining public plant breeding
How can public plant breeding programs reap royalties and research investments while keeping their cultivars in the public domain? This is one of the challenges […]
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Taking the genomic revolution to corn fields to improve crops
“Having the sequence of a genome is like having the blueprint of a house,” says Natalia de Leon, a professor of agronomy at the University of […]
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Posted on July 18, 2017
A big-city ag high school blossoms: CALS helps leads a rebirth of Vincent Agricultural High School
It’s just after lunch at Milwaukee Vincent, and students are settling into their two-hour Advanced Animal Science class. Using their fingers to write on an […]
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Posted on July 13, 2017
Lakeshore research learns how to fight weeds, by studying them
On a humid late-June morning, University of Wisconsin–Madison junior Mel Jemiola reaches her clippers into the marsh and snips off the top of a Canada […]
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Posted on June 30, 2017
The 2017 soybean growing season – Audio
/RSS FeedShawn Conley, Extension soybean and small grains specialist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 608-262-7975 spconley@wisc.edu 3:03 – Total time 0:16 – […]
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Posted on June 9, 2017
New guide to toxic plants – Audio
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Mark Renz, UW-Extension Weed Scientist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mrenz@wisc.edu 608-263-7437 3:05 – Total Time 0:14 – The Guide […]
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Posted on June 2, 2017
Vincent High School of Agricultural Sciences shows off at special events
Pigs, plants and ponies were only some of the things students showed off at Vincent High School’s Agricultural Showcase in Milwaukee in late May. The […]
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Posted on May 5, 2017
New center brings together biologists, engineers to improve crops
Right now, the room holds little more than a photo studio. For carrots. But if Edgar Spalding has his way, this room by the loading […]
