Category: Experts Guide

Farmers need to get around $5 a bushel for their corn to meet rent payments at 2014 prices, said Bruce Jones, a UW-Madison agriculture economics professor.

UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he expects Burke will need strong national union support in order to defeat Walker, who has already appealed to voters and donors by saying that ?big union bosses? are backing Burke.

Noted: “The research shows that just a hint of something better out there makes us devalue what we already have,” said Amber Epp, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin.

Steve Carpenter, director of UW-Madison?s renowned Center for Limnology, took his first water sample from Lake Mendota in 1974.

Quoted: Their views on education reveal deeper philosophical divides about the role of government, said Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies educational policies.

Quoted: ?They don?t want to become the Oldsmobile of motorcycles,? said Tom O?Guinn, a consultant and marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: “There?s a little glimmer of hope that adult obesity rates may be starting to level off,” said Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health and professor of population health sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Medicine and Public Health.

Quoted: One difference between the dairy program and home or auto insurance is that most people don?t know when they will have a car accident or home fire, but dairy farmers often have some warning of a milk glut or spike in feed prices, said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: ?He?s popular among Democrats, wildly so, and so he can really be useful for generating excitement there, but he?s also disliked strongly among Republicans,? says Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dave McDonald, a professor of Russian history at the UW-Madison, said he?s not sure that American military equipment will help the Ukrainian fighters all that much.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin Business Professor Barry Gerhart says there?s an easy explanation why: ?If you put the money into salary, it?s there forever. If you give out money in terms of a bonus, people get it that year and have to re-earn it the following year,? he says.

Quoted: “It?s a very sad anniversary,” noted Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He realizes that his observation is a massive understatement. As a sought-after, anniversary-year voice for a species that no longer has a voice, Temple has read the historic accounts of flocks of a billion birds or more by first-hand reporters ranging from average hunters to some of the most famous naturalists ever to roam the continent.

?Most economists who study this believe the subsidies have a very limited role? in economic development, said Stephen Malpezzi, a UW-Madison business professor, adding that factors like ?infrastructure and workforce, proximity to clients and regulatory atmosphere … matter much more.?

Quoted: “In general, there is going to be a plethora of factors involved in any credit rating,” said Economics Prof. Steven N. Durlauf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “As an example, there is a positive correlation between going to a hospital and dying, but that may not tell you much.”

Quoted: They respond to chemicals, with lock-and-key mechanisms that resemble how animals smell. Plants have specific photoreceptors, which are proteins that respond to different wavelengths of light. They “know” when they?re being touched, Simon Gilroy, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science.

Quoted: “The interesting thing is that [executive orders] do have a legal status that is all other things equal is equal to a statute, permitting and prohibiting certain sorts of things, but the consequences for violating them are unclear,” Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told Ars.

Quoted: A male candidate wouldn?t receive that kind of support, which could be critical in helping Burke counter the “very deep set of pockets” available to Walker, said Richard Matland, a political scientist and visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker has raised $18.7 million since his recall election victory in July 2012; Burke has raised $6 million since announcing her candidacy in October.

UW’s Cramer, Burden, Canon and Wagner quoted.

People are responsible for the pollutants, but how much gets in and how much trouble they cause are ?largely driven by weather,? explained Trina McMahon, a UW-Madison civil engineering professor who studies the lakes, for a story in the Murky Waters series.

While algal blooms are common in Madison lakes, UW-Madison?s Center for Limnology director Steve Carpenter said in a question-and-answer interview it is ?exceedingly unlikely? the blooms would lead to contaminated tap water around Madison.

Kyle Stiegert, an agricultural economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the law, which allowed small farmers to collude to combat large agricultural businesses in the early 1900s, was ?a good law at a good time period.?

?Education isn?t doing it,? said Timothy Smeeding, an economist at the University of Wisconsin.

Jake Vander Zanden knows how tricky it can be to discover a new invasive species ? not just in the Great Lakes but in relatively tiny inland lakes as well. The professor at the University of Wisconsin’s renowned Center for Limnology has an office on the shore of Lake Mendota. Limnology is the study of inland lakes, and that makes Mendota one of the most exhaustively studied water bodies on the globe.

Anna Pidgeon, a UW-Madison ecologist, said turkeys are feeding generalists, and will eat anything from small snakes to seeds, apples and acorns. Older areas of the city like mine also have plenty of mature trees.

Quoted: Combining the two would also eliminate a major buyer of sports programming, which may raise concerns at the U.S. Justice Department when it reviews a deal, said Peter Carstensen, who teaches antitrust at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

When soybeans enter the reproductive growth phase and are beginning to flower at R1, they become more vulnerable to wheel track damage, according to UW-Madison soybean specialist Shawn Conley.

UW experts Coan, Schweber comment.

Quoted: ?Spiritual oneness also predicted donating to a pro-environment group,? reports a research team led by University of Wisconsin psychologist Andrew Garfield.

The spectacular view was a matter of the sun setting at just the right time, said Jordan Gerth, post-doctoral research associate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.

A concise Wall Street Journal overview of Jordan Ellenberg’s book “How Not to Be Wrong”: “Mr. Ellenberg’s key point: Mathematics is not some strange language used by a few single-minded experts. Rather, it is a powerful extension of our common sense, one that anyone can employ to tackle real-life problems.”

Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Quoted: ?There is a relationship between rainfall and mosquito activity,? said Patrick Liesch, assistant researcher for the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. ?Mosquitoes are associated with water, so whenever we get more rainfall, that?s an opportunity for mosquitoes to lay eggs.?

Quoted: Don Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who focuses largely on constitutional law, said the change in policy mirrors a change in public opinion, both statewide and nationwide. Gallup polls taken annually show support for same-sex marriage has more than doubled since 1996, and a Marquette University poll taken in May shows 59% of Wisconsin residents polled think the state?s same-sex marriage ban should be repealed.

Quoted: Marianne Smukowski, the dairy safety and quality coordinator with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, said she hopes the FDA works with scientists and the industry to get the issue sorted out.

But is it possible to present a realistic view of ordinary experiences if a photographer is staging and enhancing each shot? Catalina Toma, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose research includes examining emotional well-being and social media, says people tend to construct very flattering images of themselves online.

While riding to the Capitol on his inauguration day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked President Eisenhower why the Normandy invasion had been so successful. Eisenhower answered, ?Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans.? Quoted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professrs of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Quoted: PJ Liesch, who studies insects at UW-Madison, was in northern Wisconsin over Memorial Day weekend. That Friday and Saturday were pleasantly mosquito-free, but hordes of the blood-sucking pests appeared as if out of nowhere that Sunday, he said.

Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a smoking cessation expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved with the study, said a growing number of high-tech solutions to tobacco addiction ? such as the online resources at the government-run Smokefree.gov – are putting solutions at smokers? fingertips.