Stories indexed under: Agriculture

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• Value of modified corn is more in reducing losses than boosting yields Feb. 14, 2013 While there's no end of robust and heated conversation about genetically modified foods, there are strikingly few comprehensive studies that put a numeric value on the costs and benefits.
• Isotopic Data Show Farming Arrived in Europe with Migrants Feb. 11, 2013 For decades, archaeologists have debated how farming spread to Stone Age Europe, setting the stage for the rise of Western civilization. Now, new data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them.
• Despite drought, heat and higher costs, state farm income was second highest ever Jan. 23, 2013 Despite the challenges brought on by prolonged drought and record-breaking heat, Wisconsin farmers earned $3 billion in net farm income in 2012, the second highest amount on record.
• Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum takes place Jan. 23 Jan. 8, 2013 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 sixth annual Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum in Madison on Jan. 23.
• UW-led project will help growers and processors show sustainable production Oct. 12, 2012 UW-Madison researchers are leading a new $2.1 million, USDA-funded project designed to help vegetable producers and processors get rewarded in the marketplace for producing their products in a sustainable manner.
• 'Class-grass' concerts celebrate the culture of agriculture Oct. 8, 2012 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is cosponsoring a pair of concerts celebrating the culture of agriculture.
• Wisconsin farm income set a record last year, but high grain prices cut into dairy profits Jan. 25, 2012 Agriculture continued to be a bright spot in Wisconsin's economy in 2011.
• Researchers outline food security, climate change road map Jan. 20, 2012 While last month's meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
• Jahn to speak at White House for Morrill Act’s anniversary Jan. 9, 2012 The 150th anniversary of a law that changed the mission of the University of Wisconsin and gave rise to the Wisconsin Idea is being marked in 2012, and a UW-Madison faculty member and student will be participating in a White House event that coincides with the occasion.
• New ice cream flavor honors Taiwan-Wisconsin agricultural pact Sept. 29, 2011 The Babcock Hall Dairy, long linked to Wisconsin’s agricultural history, has created ice cream flavors to celebrate people, places and songs. This week, a new flavor takes its place alongside Berry Alvarez and Praise to Thee, Our Almond Mocha.
• Organic Field Day set Aug. 30 Aug. 22, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will host an Organic Field Day on Tuesday, August 30 from 1–3:30p.m. at the UW Arlington Agricultural Research Station.
• University spinoffs represent a new face for agricultural production May 25, 2011 Agricultural experts at University of Wisconsin-Madison have long played a key role in a state known for corn, milk and cheese.
• 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.
• Home-Field Advantage Nov. 5, 2010
• 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.
• State cranberry growers make big gains in sustainability, UW survey finds July 7, 2010 Wisconsin's cranberry growers have made significant gains in the adoption of sustainable management practices during the past two decades, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison survey indicates.
• Wisconsin’s organic farmers are largely weathering the economic storm Feb. 24, 2010 The current financial downturn hasn't spared Wisconsin's organic farmers, but in general they have been able to ride it out, says a new report about the state's organic sector.
• Diving milk prices cut state net farm income by more than half in 2009 Jan. 19, 2010 Times were hard for farmers across the country in 2009, but they were harder than average for Wisconsin farmers.
• National agribusiness news program to tape town-hall event Jan. 13, 2010 "Market to Market," the nation's longest-running agribusiness news show, will host a rural economic summit on Wednesday, Jan. 20, immediately following the Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum.
• Late blight pathogen spreads to state's potato crop Aug. 19, 2009 The plant pathogen best known for causing the Irish potato famine - Phytophthora infestans - was just discovered in two commercial potato fields in two separate Wisconsin counties. Before this, the outbreak of late blight, as the disease is known, had been confined to tomato plants.