Stories indexed under: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

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• Summer gas prices: UW experts weigh in June 4, 2013 $3.93 per gallon. 16-gallon tank. $62.88 to fill up. This is all-too-familiar math for drivers who are grudgingly footing their gas bills. Many will direct their frustration at station owners, oil companies or the government. But what factors cause these summer price spikes?
• UW food science students to serve up gluten-free chocolate waffle May 29, 2013 When you hear "gluten-free," great flavor and texture may not be the first things that come to mind. But a new gluten-free raspberry-filled chocolate waffle developed by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students could change that.
• Ride to Farm to support beginning dairy and livestock farmers May 8, 2013 The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers is recruiting cyclists and pledges for its 10th annual Ride to Farm fundraiser on Saturday, June 1 to support the next generation of Wisconsin farmers.
• New project will adapt dairying to climate change May 7, 2013 Agricultural scientists from across the nation are embarking on a new five-year, $10 million, USDA-funded effort to identify dairy production practices that minimize the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) and will be more resilient to the effects of a changing climate.
• UW–Madison will dedicate refurbished Dairy Cattle Center March 9 Feb. 22, 2013 The public is invited to help welcome the cows back to campus as the University of Wisconsin-Madison dedicates its refurbished Dairy Cattle Center on Saturday, March 9.
• Students seek opportunity, employers looking to hire Jan. 29, 2013 UW-Madison Career Services units will host the Spring Career and Internship Fair on Monday Feb. 4, which will bring more than 180 organizations to campus.
• As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests Dec. 31, 2012 Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals.
• Key lesson from the first hunt: Harvesting wolves may be easier than anticipated Nov. 30, 2012 One of the early lessons from Wisconsin’s first wolf hunt in decades is that shooting or trapping wolves is easier than wildlife management experts had expected, says Tim Van Deelen, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of forest and wildlife ecology.
• Talk examines American Indian agriculture and food systems Nov. 20, 2012 American Indian tribes have plenty of challenges when it comes to food and food systems, says Dan Cornelius, ranging from environmental threats to traditional crops to the difficulties of getting fresh food to remote tribal communities.
• UW student awarded one of nation's first organic plant breeding fellowships Nov. 7, 2012 The story of how Tessa Peters ended up snagging one of the nation's first graduate fellowships in organic plant breeding begins in an unlikely place: the middle of the ocean.
• New farm-to-school project aims to make it easier for public schools to serve Wisconsin vegetables Oct. 18, 2012 A lot of parents want their kids' schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that's no simple task.
• Energy from Wisconsin cow manure could replace a coal plant Oct. 9, 2012 According to a recent Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) study, Wisconsin can be a national leader in bioenergy production using waste from the state's prosperous agriculture and food processing sectors.
• USDA honors project led by UW–Madison professor Sept. 12, 2012 An initiative with Wisconsin roots is being honored today by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease Sept. 4, 2012 If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison's Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up.
• UW plans new research and teaching facilities to support dairy, meat and poultry processors Aug. 27, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving ahead with a $75-million initiative to upgrade research and teaching facilities to support the industries that make some of the state's most iconic agricultural products.
• Million-dollar Keck Foundation grant funds UW-Madison genome research Aug. 8, 2012 An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries."
• Dairy herd performance tools available online Aug. 2, 2012 Dairy farmers have the opportunity to compare the health and production performance of their herd with other herds around the country as the result of a recent research project from the UW Dairy Science Department.
• Growing a green lawn means finding grasses that need less water July 27, 2012 You have to give Doug Soldat credit. He picked the right year to begin a study on the drought tolerance of Wisconsin turfgrasses.
• Corporate open house: For industry, UW-Madison is 'one-stop shopping' July 19, 2012 On July 12, representatives from more than 40 companies in industries ranging from manufacturing and biotech to construction and food production attended the first-annual UW-Madison corporate open house.
• Student teams find winning recipe in national food competitions June 29, 2012 The UW-Madison food science club has three new awards to add to its trophy case after spending this past week at the Institute for Food Technologists annual meeting in Las Vegas. The club fielded two teams in a Disney-sponsored collegiate food product development competition, and won first and second place for their innovative, healthy, kid-friendly products.