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A Different Beet
Posted on February 25, 2019Last fall, when the “Gastropod” podcast came to UW–Madison to participate in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley asked Irwin […]
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Plant Breeding: ‘The Slowest of the Performing Arts’
Posted onThe table beet is a biennial plant. That means, left to its own devices, a beet plant takes a full two growing seasons to complete […]
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To Live and Learn Together
Posted onThe summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community […]
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Knowledge Applied
Posted onShould a school district close an elementary school with shrinking enrollment, or will student numbers rebound in the coming years? What’s the outlook for a […]
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Cooperative Extension Comes Home
Posted onBy now the news has probably reached you that Cooperative Extension has returned to UW–Madison, and I would like to discuss why this is a […]
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Five Things Everyone Should Know about … Mycotoxins
Posted onMycotoxins are small, poisonous molecules, produced by certain species of molds, that can cause disease or death in animals and humans. Mycotoxin-producing fungi can invade […]
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Hold the Fertilizer
Posted onThe term is “nitrogen fixation.” No, it doesn’t refer to an unhealthy obsession with one of the most common chemical elements on Earth. Rather, it’s […]
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Engineers of Ingenuities
Posted onA bioreactor that removes phosphorus from lakes, an easy-to-use harness system designed to prevent falls from dangerous heights, and an early detection sensor for toxic […]
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Controversy to Consensus to Civility
Posted onSomewhere in the discouraging maze of fake news and widespread disinformation campaigns aimed at confusing and polarizing public discourse, there lies a road map for […]
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Minty Fresh
Posted onAs you approach a basic steel structure at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station, your nose informs you before your eyes do that you’ve found […]
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Class Act | Chloe Green
Posted onChloe Green BSx’19 came to UW–Madison from Culver City, California, with a desire to study sports nutrition. She was motivated by her high school involvement […]
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What Would a Cow Prefer?
Posted onAs a psychology student at Harvard University, Jennifer Van Os studied people with Alzheimer’s disease. Animals and agriculture were far from her mind. But she […]