The Babcock Institute closed as of Dec. 31, 2014, because federal funding is no longer available.The institute was a joint program of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension Division. After the 2010 presidential election, Congress cut special grants out of Washington’s budget, which was where funding for the program had come from for the past 24 years.
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