Discovery Farms’ research results have been used by farmers and crop consultants on their farms, extension personnel and others in educational events, and policymakers and agency personnel in tailoring agricultural policies to reflect the nuances of landscapes and farming systems.
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Finding new weapons, including biocontrols, against new invaders is stock-in-trade at the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Division of Extension, Christelle Guédot says. “Sometimes, growers who confront a new insect or parasite might feel like they’re flying in the dark, but there are usually smart, effective ways to cope — but it might take some time to find them.”
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Extension educators share how Extension brings strength to their communities.
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UW–Madison agricultural experts in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Division of Extension will explore best practices for production and harvest, in organic and conventional systems, across a range of industrial hemp varieties.
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Amaya Atucha’s grape project is one of several at UW–Madison’s Division of Extension that focuses on small, new or reintroduced crops that could support the bottom line in a state battered by low prices for corn, soybean and milk.
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Matt Ruark talks about the importance of cover crops and opportunities to get more cover crops into rotations.
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Four individuals and two citizen monitoring groups from across the state were recognized last week for their contributions to volunteer stream monitoring and sharing their knowledge about the health of Wisconsin’s streams.
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Called El Compañero in its Spanish edition, this bilingual, bimonthly publication covers basic topics in dairy and farm management, safety and animal handling.
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Researchers at the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Division of Extension develop apps that record and process data in the barn or on the tractor. The apps streamline the acquisition and processing of data, and even help make diagnoses and decisions on the fly.
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PJ Liesch talks about the bumper crop of monarchs in 2018 and what that might mean for 2019.
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