Category: 2 – Departments-Sections
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Posted on March 23, 2010
Fixing Our Food: Preserve Our Farmland
442 million acres of American soil grew crops in 2002, the lowest amount of land in farming since World War II.
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Fixing Our Food: Diversify Crops Regionally
Concentrating agricultural production is becoming expensive and risky. We need a broader array of foods grown closer to home.
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Fixing Our Food: Reform Crop Subsidies
Federal agricultural programs are beginning to reward farmers for more than just yield, but there’s still more room to incentivize best practices.
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Fixing Our Food: Start a New Green Revolution
We don’t just need to grow more food. We need to grow it better.
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Fixing Our Food
Safe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.
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Posted on November 4, 2009
Root Lessons
In the classroom, Bruce Allison delivers the tools of the trade—and a message about our connection with trees.
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A Chance Worth Taking
Dean speaks on personal opportunities, next step
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The Evolution is On
A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.
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Posted on October 23, 2009
Vintage Wisconsin
Wine is booming in the land of beer and cheese. Growers are hoping that CALS research on Wisconsin-friendly grapes can help uncork the industry’s potential.
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Posted on October 21, 2009
No Leaf Unturned
They are farmers, doctors and amazingly adept traffic engineers. The tropical ants that Cameron Currie studies have been practicing the good life for millions of years. What do they know that we don’t?
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Posted on October 7, 2009
Final Exam – Fall 2009
Do you know what foodborne pathogen(s) is/are estimated to be responsible for the highest percentage of foodborne illnesses in the United States, according to the […]
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Posted on July 14, 2009
Final Exam – Summer 2009
The largest concentration of farming-dependent counties is in which region of the United States?