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  • John Bowman poses with a group of Nepalese vegetable farmers he worked to support through a project with the United States Agency for International Development.

    Catch Up with … John Bowman MS’80 Plant Pathology

    Posted on February 25, 2020

    John Bowman came to UW–Madison for a master’s degree in Ibero-American studies, but fate expanded the scope of his academic pursuits. By chance, he ended […]

  • Rekia Salter stands, notebook in hand, in front of a row of Holstein calf hutches. Salter says her research is teaching her technical skills that will be invaluable when she goes to work as a consultant in the industry.

    Dairy Industry Support for Grad Students Pays Off

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    When it comes to generating useful ideas and solutions for the dairy industry, graduate student researchers are the unsung heroes. “Most of the research that […]

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    Final Exam Spring 2020

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    Welcome to the final exam for the spring 2020 issue of Grow magazine! If you answer all five questions correctly, you will be entered in […]

  • A women holding a plant box full of many small plants in a room lined with shelves of more small plants.

    Deep in the Weeds

    Posted on October 11, 2019

    If you were to come across a patch of thale cress poking through a crack in a parking lot, you might not think much of […]

  • Science Outreach: A Versatile Training Tool

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    Genetics professor Xuehua Zhong is a true believer in the power of outreach to instill a love of science in young people and develop mentoring […]

  • Two women crouching down to the ground on a field installing a funnel filtration system.

    A Model Solution

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    When agronomy professor Chris Kucharik and his wife, Amy, moved into a subdivision in the Town of Burke in 2006, they weren’t surprised to learn […]

  • Big Data Wranglers

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    The video clip shows some very colorful calves. It’s an overhead view of five young Holsteins, but none of them is black and white. They […]

  • A professional photo portrait of Dean Kate VandenBosch

    The Future of Dairy Relies on Research

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    Years of low milk prices, rising costs, and trade policy turmoil have taken their toll on our state’s dairy farmers and the dairy industry as […]

  • An illustration on a book with three geese on the cover. The book sits in a small pond surrounded be tall grass.

    Five things everyone should know about . . . A Sand County Almanac

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    Aldo Leopold’s book A Sand County Almanac was published 70 years ago. But its message about our relationship with nature is more important now than […]

  • Three groups of four cookies laid out on a table

    Cookies a la Chickpea

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    Delicious desserts may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of chickpeas, but a team of food science students have […]

  • A birds eye view of a dairy farm and all of the buildings on the property. Each aspect of the map is labeled.

    More Green, Less Greenhouse Gas

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    In 2013, the $10 million Dairy Coordinated Agricultural Project, or Dairy CAP, set out to assess the greenhouse gas contributions of the dairy industry and […]

  • A woman walking down the sidewalk with her dog on a leash.

    Class Act | Upbringing, Fate Lead Nontraditional Student to Genetics

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    Had it not been for her father’s truck accident, Carmen Nightfall BS’x22 might never have attended college. But the unfortunate incident sparked a positive change […]

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