Brothers James and Robert Baerwolf are both UW-Madison Ag School graduates and are rather quiet individuals, not the bombastic, outgoing extroverts one often sees entrepreneurs portrayed as and they do things right on the farm and at the creamery.
Harsdorf will be joined by Dr. John Lucey, a food scientist at the UW-Madison who is director of the Center for Dairy Research on the Madison campus. He explained that they want to talk to the Food and Drug Administration about micro-filtration of milk, a process that is widely used in European dairy plants but can’t be used here because of regulations, putting our cheese makers and dairy processors at a distinct disadvantage.
Noted: The second-annual event is organized by the UW-Madison Department of Food Science. Enologist and outreach specialist Nick Smith is running the show with help from the Wisconsin Vintners Association, a Milwaukee-based organization for winemakers and enthusiasts that provided volunteers to serve as wine stewards for the competition. They’re busy backstage opening bottles, pouring flights and making sure that the nearly 500 glasses of wine are properly labeled before they’re delivered to the judges.
Bryan Jensen, Integrated Pest Management specialist for Cooperative Extension and UW Horticulture professor says he’s been getting plenty of emails and phone calls from farmers who describe damage ranging from moderate damage of leaf tissue to extreme defoliation in corn plants.
If you see Japanese beetles in your corn fields it could mean poor pollination is imminent. The pest loves to snack on corn’s delicate silks—and if they clip them to ½” or less the crop might not pollinate.
Consider a foliar insecticide treatment during tasseling and silking if there are three or more beetles per ear, silks are clipped to ½” and pollination is less than 50% complete, according to Eileen Cullen, University of Wisconsin Extension entomologist.
“[If applying an insecticide] beetles must be on the outside of the ear, which is normally the case,” Cullen says “The main concern with Japanese beetle feeding is to protect silks for pollination.”
Dr. Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at UW-Madison, will chair the Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0. The Task Force is working to schedule their first meeting in August.
Farm tours of the Sternweis’ dairy operation will also be held throughout the day, along with Virtual Tours of Weber’s Farm Store, Heiman Holsteins and Nasonville Dairy at the University of Wisconsin-Extension Tent.
Bob Cropp, dairy professor emeritus at UW-Madison, said in his June “Dairy Situation and Outlook” that the market has taken a hit lately from the retaliatory effects of the U.S. decision to place tariffs on Mexico steel and aluminum and on a number of Chinese goods and products.
Quoted: “We’re going to meet a certain amount of corn acres in terms of corn silage for our dairy industry. So, those are pretty firm and they don’t move a lot in Wisconsin,” said Shawn Conley, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But we’re pulling acres from our small grains, and that could be either winter wheat or oats.”
Three UW-Madison/UW-Extension state specialists will be on hand to share the latest in research that will help ensure the decisions you make help reap a profitable harvest.
Innovative technologies that support Wisconsin’s agriculture will be on display throughout the University of Wisconsin – Extension’s Education Station.
We have observed a little Septoria leaf blotch in some fields in the lower canopy. However, this pathogen will not limit yield this season, as it has not reached the flag leaf yet.
Scott Walker spoke to media after he announced $700,000 in dairy industry development grants at the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research (photo caption)
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank discussed the importance of the CDR in collaborative research and how the grant will help with the CDR’s facility upgrade. And, CDR Director, John Lucey, highlighted the impact of the CDR’s TURBO program and the WEDC’s grant.
Governor Scott Walker today visited the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Great Lake Cheese to award $700,000 state grants to support and promote entrepreneurship within the state’s $43 billion dairy industry.
UW-Extension will feature several interactive displays, such as safe transportation of livestock, and a UW research project designed to help dairy farmers improve management decisions.
“It is an insurance-type product,” said Mark Stephenson, an agricultural economist and director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a June 8, 2018 interview on Wisconsin Public Television’s Here & Now.
As they prepared for the contest, the teammates were also practicing skills they’d soon be using on a professional basis. All four graduated in May and now have jobs that involve troubleshooting dairy operations.
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, professor of agricultural and applied economics, extension state specialist and director of the Renk AgriBusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed. This research “doesn’t talk about the social adjustments at all. Farmers don’t care about variability of yields, they care about the variability of income. Crop insurance is already heavily subsidized, and there are mechanisms in place to mitigate the financial impacts. If yields go down, fine, we’ll plant more corn.”
“A lot of times when you hear that term task force, it’s really, it’s a group coming together identifying those problems and developing solutions,” Kaitlyn Lance, Agriculture Educator at UW-Extension La Crosse County, explains.
Walker has appointed UW-Madison Director of Dairy Policy Analysis Mark Stephenson to chair the committee. His first task will be to assemble the rest of the team. Walker says that will include stakeholders in the dairy industry from across the state.
Walker, a Republican who faces re-election in November, said the state agriculture department will join forces with the University of Wisconsin System to create the dairy industry task force. It is designed to bring industry experts together to create solutions to help farmers, processors and related industries.
“I think we’re in a good situation today because of what was done (by the first task force) back then. I sort of hope we can be half that good,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, who will lead the new group of experts dubbed by Gov. Scott Walker as Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0.
“I think we’re in a good situation today because of what was done (by the first task force) back then. I sort of hope we can be half that good,” said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison, who will lead the new group of experts dubbed by Gov. Scott Walker as Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0.
The task force will be chaired by Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said he wants to listen to those in the dairy industry to better understand and prioritize the biggest concerns.
The Task Force will be chaired by Mark Stephenson, who is the director of dairy policy analysis at UW-Madison. It will seek to gain consensus on issues facing the dairy industry and release recommendations for the industry going forward.
Medical students and local emergency responders are teaming up to prepare for accidents on the farm.
UW-Madison research reveals how optimum plant populations for corn silage differ from those of corn grown for grain. In recent years farmers have increased corn-plant populations at the rate of 250 to 300 plants per acre per year, Lauer said.
Quoted: The USDA only just announced how they would require manufacturers to disclose GM ingredients, though the law was enacting back in 2016, and the new rules don’t use the term “GMO” or even “GM.” Instead, they opt for “BE” or “bioengineered,” perhaps to avoid using loaded terminology. “I’m not sure how much people will know that term,” says Dominique Brossard, a communications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in life science issues like GMOs. “I don’t think it’s going to be very easy for people to find out [which foods are genetically modified].”
At UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS), the department as a whole has seen an increase in enrolled female students, from 57.2 percent in 2008 to 61.6 percent in 2017.
Keynote speaker at this year’s Twilight meeting is Dr. Jennifer Van Os, UW-Madison Extension specialist on animal welfare, who will talk about “Why millennials care about animal production practices and what it means to you.”
Quoted: Bob Cropp, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the slowdown in milk production is good for milk prices, which have remained at low levels for the last three years thanks to an abundance of milk on the market.
Quoted: “That surprised me,” said Arlin Brannstrom, associate professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I thought there would be some dampening in that enthusiasm for land ownership given the weak prices we’ve seen for agricultural commodities, in particular milk. But I think there’s still a lot of demand.”
Just in time for summer, dairy producers are slowly starting to reap the benefits of good domestic sales and stronger exports. That’s the assessment of Dr. Bob Cropp with the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
This collaborative effort includes researchers here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Researchers at Iowa State University, including Dr. Daren Mueller.
Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Karen Wassarman, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Wisconsin farmers still have time to see a decent start to the growing season, said Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Sheboygan County.
There’s still time to have a decent start to the growing season, said Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Sheboygan County. “But if it’s too wet, too muddy, there’s nothing you can do but wait,” he said.
The award, which is to be presented annually to a faculty or staff member, acknowledges CALS graduate Hemstead’s pioneering work in dairy science and dairy business, according to a joint statement.
John Klatt, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for UW-Madison, says most students in the Dairy Science program have an accepted job offer before graduation, or shortly thereafter.
Determining when to cut first-crop alfalfa is often difficult because alfalfa quality, relative to flowering stage, varies greatly. To help with this dilemma, agronomists at the University of Wisconsin – Madison developed the Predictive Equations for Alfalfa Quality (PEAQ) method which predicts alfalfa’s Relative Feed Value (RFV) at the time of cutting.
CALS has embarked on an organizational redesign effort to optimize the structures of the college to ensure a bright future for our college, the students we teach and the people we serve through our research and outreach.
Sometimes dairy scientist Michel Wattiaux approaches his research like a cop at a traffic stop. He uses a breath analyzer to check for problematic products of fermentation.Last spring, the UW-Madison researcher began using a specialized device to measure the methane being exhaled or belched by a group of Holsteins and Jerseys.
Republic Rep. Todd Novak, of Dodgeville, says Grant, Green and Lafayette counties don’t have a full-time agent despite paying the required fees for them. He says officials are in the process of hiring an agent for Grant and five other counties.
Agents give advice, troubleshoot problems, educate through workshops and connect farmers to research at the university.
One of Wisconsin’s top experts in dairy market pricing says butter, cheese, dry whey and nonfat dry milk prices continue to average higher this spring.
Students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science took first place at the National Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, held April 12-14 in Visalia, Calif.
CALS has embarked on an Organizational Redesign effort to optimize the structures of the college to ensure a bright future for our college, the students we teach and the people we serve through our research and outreach.
For the second time in four years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student chapter of the National Agri?Marketing Association (Wisconsin NAMA) took home first place honors at the NAMA Student Marketing Competition April 10-13 in Kansas City, MO, defeating 29 other teams from across the U.S. and Canada in three rounds of competition.
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison brought home the top prize from the National Agri-Marketing Association’s annual marketing competition last week. The contest, hosted by NAMA as part of its national conference in Kansas City, featured more than 400 students from 30 schools across North America.
If you think UW-Madison’s athletics are the only teams winning championships, you’re wrong.
Center Director John Lucey says the upgrades will help the facility reach its full potential, while giving students an opportunity to advance their skills in cheesemaking.
The State Building Commission signed off on plans to overhaul the Center for Dairy Research and the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant at UW-Madison.
Despite outdated equipment and facilities that have plagued it for years, UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is where most of the state’s master cheesemakers have learned how to craft those mouth-watering, award-winning specialty cheeses that have been credited for reinventing Wisconsin’s formidable cheese industry.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday approved $29.3 million in additional spending for renovation and expansion of the chemistry complex on the UW-Madison campus, bringing the cost to $123 million.
It’s a matter of weeks before soybeans are planted in some parts of the state. For farmers who have cover crops established, cover crops need to be terminated two weeks before planting, said Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin-Madison soybean specialist.
Noted: Kubicek has a master’s degree in atmospheric science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Hall of Fame program, which was created in 1993, is coordinated by and housed in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory.
What do these three ladies have in common, aside from their love of horses? They are all animal science majors at UW-Madison and active members of the campus’s Saddle and Sirloin organization. They have also been busy planning the 99th annual Little International Horse Show set for Saturday, April 28, at the Alliant Energy Center’s New Holland Pavilion.
