Stories indexed under: Agricultural economics
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- UW will present 2011 Wisconsin Ag Outlook Forum Jan. 19 Jan. 7, 2011 Agricultural economists and commodity specialists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension will talk about the financial health of Wisconsin agriculture and the outlook for the year to come at the fourth-annual Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook forum in Madison on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
- In Wisconsin, 75 percent of economic benefit of Bt corn goes to farmers who don’t plant it Oct. 7, 2010 Widespread planting of genetically modified Bt corn throughout the Upper Midwest has suppressed populations of the European corn borer, a major insect pest of corn, with the majority of the economic benefits going to growers who do not plant Bt corn, reports a multistate team of scientists in the Oct. 8 edition of the journal Science.