Lake Mendota in Madison has frozen, thawed and frozen over again this winter, and a new study – with help from a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist – shows the consequences of less lake ice are much bigger than fewer games of pick-up hockey or a shorter ice-fishing season.
Google isn’t the only tech company based outside of Wisconsin that has been drawn to Madison by its lower costs, hard-working culture, and relatively strong talent pool, driven in part by a respected computer science program at UW-Madison. Other tech firms with Madison offices include San Francisco-based software company Zendesk, which in October opened new local digs with room for more than 400 employees.
George Koepp, the agriculture agent for Columbia County’s UW-Extension, said having federal farming agencies on furlough put farmers in a tough position to sign up for crop loans or tariff refunds.
Customers at the Rhinelander Area Food Pantry are seeing healthier food options on the pantry’s shelves. Together with the UW-Extension-Oneida County office, the RAFP is promoting a healthier diet and improved nutrition with the “Food Drive 5” program which encourages choosing food that is higher in protein, fruit, colorful vegetables, soups and whole grains.
As many farmers struggle to make ends meet, a workshop series from Trempealeau County’s UW-Extension is aimed at helping both longtime and new farmers find ways to make their farm as profitable as possible.
One of the resources out there for farms is AgrAbility. AgrAbility is a partnership between UW-Extension and Easter Seals of Wisconsin. This partnership helps farm families that are dealing with a farm injury, disability, or other limitation.
“When we get drastically below zero like this, it’s really hard. So for any of those animals that have been out-wintered, most of the farmers have either brought them in or tried to find them some sort of shelter to keep them warm and protected from the windbreaks,” said Heather Schlesser, an Ag Educator in Marathon County with the UW-Madison Division of Extension.
The Pentagon-based job, sometimes referred to as director of J3, includes keeping tabs on all U.S. combat operations, said John Hall, a UW-Madison professor who is writing historical studies for the Joint Chiefs.
As Wisconsin temperatures dive to lows we haven’t seen in more than two decades, we remember a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who kept us warm, even in the harshest winter weather.
Oversupply of milk and persistently low commodity prices have hurt farmers, said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison. He said tariffs are a factor in the slow markets, but not the whole story.
Hoff is helping to give more people a glimpse into the farming experience with “The Lands We Share,” a collaboration of faculty and students at four UW campuses — Whitewater, Oshkosh, Milwaukee and Madison.
Polluted well water has been an issue in Wisconsin for decades, according to Kevin Masarik, a groundwater specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and UW-Extension.
Evers also discussed the high incarceration rates for African Americans across Wisconsin. A recent study from Pamela Oliver of UW-Madison on prison admission rates in Wisconsin showed that in 2014, black people were 11 times more likely to be incarcerated in than white people.
Location also matters when it comes to Evers’ view of family-supporting jobs and people in poverty. A report in June 2018 by the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty showed the overall state poverty rate climbed to 10.8 percent in 2016, with some wide geographic fluctuations.
Speaking earlier this month at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 100th annual convention in New Orleans, John Shutske, UW-Madison professor and Extension agricultural safety and health specialist, outlined the causes of stress and the best practices for coping with a lot of it.
This was the second time the German Butchers’ Association, American Association of Meat Processors and UW-Madison’s Extension meat science program have worked together to hold this off-site competition in conjunction with the main competition in Frankfurt.
Last summer, UW Cooperative Extension moved into the UW-Madison as part of the UW System reorganization. This move creates new opportunities for each organization to be a better resource for the state and its communities.
The University of Wisconsin System says it will use federal dollars to pay off bank loans first taken out by UW-Oshkosh’s private foundation. Meanwhile, an outspoken critic of the UW System’s handling of the situation says the deal still leaves taxpayers footing the bill.
Ingham was a faculty member in the UW-Madison-Department of Food Science and a food-safety specialist for UW-Extension.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has developed a series of online tours featuring many of the college’s research contributions to the agricultural and life-sciences industries in Wisconsin and beyond.
Keevil launched Madison, WI-based HealthDecision in 2004 while he was a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, aka UW Health.
“Captain Troy” was a walk-on on the football team at UW-Madison and eventually earned a full scholarship and was a member of the 1995 winning Rose Bowl team.
From my reading, Professor Mayer gave a concise snapshot of the Trump presidency from competing views and then a brief history to help explain why some have been critical of the president.
There’s dueling viewpoints from the Assembly over a UW-Madison professor’s modern politics course.
Diversity simply means “a range of different things.” It was not long ago when our Wisconsin farms, while largely centered on dairy production, were typically also home to chickens, hogs, and sheep. These other enterprises may have been minor, but they provided a level of insurance when dairy proved less than profitable.
Quoted: “Exports as a percentage of U.S. milk production have been climbing,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Every major downturn in the U.S. all milk price corresponds to times when export growth has been off trend or down.”
The annual report by the National Science Foundation on research and development spending by U.S. colleges and universities confirmed what many people already know: The UW-Madison is a powerhouse when it comes to attracting R&D dollars.
Agricultural economists and commodity specialists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension will talk about the financial health of Wisconsin agriculture and the outlook for the year to come at the 12th annual Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook forum in Madison next week.
Dave Daniels began farming in 1977 after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in dairy science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
…he wanted to serve on Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0. He serves as chairman of the generational succession/transition subcommittee.
But it would not protect people on private self-insured health plans, which a UW-Madison expert estimates is about 1.5 million Wisconsinites. That’s because such plans cannot be regulated under state law.
For almost ten years, Jonathan Pauli and M. Zachariah Peery, professors at the University of Wisconsin, and their colleagues have been tracking a group of sloths in Costa Rica. The animals are equipped with radio collars that transmit their location five or six times a month, so the team knows where each sloth’s usual territory is. The team has also taken DNA samples and figured out the sloths’ family tree, so they can tell which individuals are having the most babies.
The financial health of Wisconsin’s farms and agricultural businesses, with a special focus on consolidation in the state’s dairy industry, are topics for the upcoming Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum, which will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 29 on the UW–Madison campus.
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Associated Press reporter Marilynn Marchione about the Chinese government’s investigation into He Jiankui, who claims he created the world’s first gene-edited babies. Mentions Marchione’s conversation with UW–Madison’s Alta Charo.
A study published Wednesday in Science Advances by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers has found that a compound derived from these bacteria is three times more potent than DEET in repelling mosquitoes. More research must be done to demonstrate its safety, but this bacterial chemical could play an important role in the fight against mosquito-borne illness.
Molecules made by bacteria keep mosquitoes at bay, researchers report January 16 in Science Advances. Tests suggest the compounds also deter two other mosquito species: Anopheles gambiae, a major malaria carrier, and Culex pipiens, which can carry the West Nile virus.Though DEET is considered safe for human use and effective against mosquitoes, it doesn’t hurt to have more lines of defense against the disease-transmitting insects, says coauthor Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Although “it’s not a fun time to be in the dairy industry, I’m excited about where it could be in 3 months, 3 years, 5 years,” John Goeser told the attendees. A western Sheboygan County dairy farm native, Goeser is the director of nutritional research and innovation for Rock River Labs in Watertown and an adjunct professor of dairy science at UW–Madison.
Forty people, including students from Fox Valley Technical College and New London High School, heard Dr. Laura Hernandez from the Dairy Science Department at UW-Madison about her research on the mammary system of dairy cows.
After graduating high school, Stanford Taylor started college at a nearby Mississippi school. But her brother, a student at UW-Madison, convinced her to come to Wisconsin. Stanford Taylor received her bachelor’s and master’s from UW-Madison. She was a teacher and principal in the Madison school district before joining the staff at DPI in 2001.
“In plant pathology, we talk about the disease triangle,” said Damon Smith, an associate professor of plant pathology at UW-Madison, who led development of apps and models focused on diseases of turf, soybean and corn.
Chi-Chi and Dr. Leckrone were the keynote speakers of the evening, but the stage was shared with many prominent local sports personalities including coaches from the Wisconsin Herd, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Green Bay Gamblers, UW-Madison Basketball team, including Alondo Tucker, and UW-Green Bay.
UW-Extension and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are co-hosting a series of concentrated animal feeding operation update meetings throughout the state in early February.
To keep farmers and industry professionals abreast of the latest technologies and techniques in animal waste management, University of Wisconsin-Extension is hosting the 2019 Midwest Manure Summit, February 27, 2019, Lambeau Field Atrium, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
That could exempt about 1.5 million Wisconsinites from the protection, according to Donna Friedsam, a researcher and health care policy expert at UW-Madison.
Mike Leckrone is in the area to be recognized with the 2019 Red Smith Award, given each year to a person whose made a significant contribution to sports in the state.
Evers called out research and development, especially in the UW System, as a priority tied to the state’s entrepreneurial economy.
In Wisconsin, the program is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who aid UW-Extension educators by helping people in the community better understand horticulture and their environment.
Some scientists can ride out any funding delays. But for those working on projects that are time sensitive, the halt in funding approvals threatens to throw off an entire year of work. Physiologist Hannah Carey is still waiting for this year’s money to come in for her research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on ground squirrel hibernation.
Above-average temperature and late-season precipitation were two major players in the outcome of the 2018 growing season, according to UW-Madison Corn Agronomist Joe Lauer. Lauer presented his highlights and summaries of last year’s growing season at eight agronomy update meetings held across the state last week.
The bad news is that they still “won’t be great,” Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability, told agricultural bankers attending the 36th annual Western Wisconsin Ag Lenders Conference Jan. 10 in Menomonie.
Junjie Guo and Noah Williams of the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy released their 2019 economic forecast Tuesday. They are predicting Wisconsin’s GDP will grow 2.4 percent but the unemployment rate will rise to 4.2 percent and the labor force will decline by 1 percent.
As for the search for life in the clouds of Venus, a paper published this autumn in the journal Astrobiology by a team led by Sanjay Limaye at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents an argument for how and why it ought to be pursued further — now more than ever. And it hinges on data we’ve been able to uncover here on Earth. (Story also includes link to limnology site.)
Anti-trust laws have been on the books for decades in the United States, but their enforcement has been lax, said Peter Carstensen, law professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School.
An unusually long economic down cycle in the dairy industry is taking its financial toll on area farmers and businesses.
This one-half day meeting is designed to help agribusiness professionals and agency staff feel more comfortable and confident working with families in distress, and to connect with others to provide support for the farming community.
The coming year will bring some exciting change to UW-Extension as we become the Division of Extension within UW-Madison. We are excited about this return to our historic home at UW-Madison and the potential it brings to tighten connections with the University’s award winning researchers and academic staff.
“In plant pathology, we talk about the disease triangle,” says Damon Smith, an associate professor of plant pathology at UW-Madison, who led development of apps and models focused on diseases of turf, soybean and corn.
“It’s just crazy. I don’t think anyone was expecting it to be that much,” David Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said of the $120 million figure. “That is a lot of money.”
The goal is to study the Wisconsin dairy industry and make recommendations on actions needed to maintain its viability and profitability. The task force is chaired by Dr. Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison.
Edna Chiang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program at UW-Madison and is the next speaker in the on-going series “Science On Tap” in Minocqua.
A UW-Madison scientist whose studies of Wisconsin’s freshwater lakes are known around the world has been awarded a prestigious prize recognizing his lifetime of research.
