Stories indexed under: Agriculture

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• 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.
• School for beginning market vegetable growers set for January Oct. 29, 2008 Aspiring fresh market vegetable growers can learn the fundamentals of the business from veteran growers and other experts at the 2009 Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, Jan. 16-18, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
• University encouraged to 'eat local' Sept. 5, 2008 Members of the university community are being encouraged to participate in the Wisconsin Eat Local Challenge today (Sept. 5) through Sunday, Sept. 14, by spending at least 10 percent of their food budgets on locally grown and raised Wisconsin food during that 10-day period.
• Students launch community-supported agriculture farm on campus June 17, 2008 Members of UW-Madison's F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture have started the university's first community-supported agriculture farm.
• Savor the flavor of local food with 2008 Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas April 14, 2008 The seventh edition of the Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas will be available starting Saturday, April 19.
• Watching the birds: Agri-tourism could help save colorful prairie chicken April 7, 2008 In terms of entertaining courtship rituals, few animals can hold a candle to Tympanuchus cupido -- the drummer of love, commonly known as the greater prairie chicken.
• Earlier plantings underlie yield gains in northern corn belt Feb. 27, 2008 U.S. farmers plant corn much earlier today than ever before and it seems to be paying off, at least in the north. Earlier plantings could account for up to half of the yield gains seen in some parts of the northern Corn Belt since the late 1970s, a new study has found.