Category: News
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Posted on February 17, 2004
Madison Schools Celebrate Healthy, Homegrown Food with Winter Harvest Meals
The bounty of our spring and summer gardens is still a few months away, yet hundreds of Madison school children and their families will enjoy […]
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Posted on February 1, 2004
A Matter of Scale: Small Farms in the North Central Region
The size of the average farm in the Midwest grew steadily in the second half of the 20th century. As farm size has gone up, the number of farms has gone down. The shrinking number of farms in America no longer represents people liberated from the drudgery of agricultural toil. Instead it brings to mind families forced to leave the land and work they love by falling agricultural prices and rising costs of production.
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Posted on October 1, 2003
Harvest Festivals Reveal the Benefits and Challenges of Serving Local Produce in Schools
What do students at Shorewood Hills, Lincoln, and Chavez Elementary Schools have in common? All 1,400 of them, along with school staff and parents, will […]
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Posted on March 1, 2003
Poultry Enterprise Budget Makes Management Decisions Easier
Low commodity prices have inspired many farmers to look at alternative enterprises, like poultry production, to increase their farm income. With careful financial planning and […]
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Posted on February 1, 2003
Poultry Enterprise Budget
Enterprises like pastured poultry can add to farm income with careful financial planning. CIAS has developed a spreadsheet to help farmers make financial and management […]
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Posted on November 7, 2002
Resource CD Provides Facts and Tools for Fresh Market Vegetable Growers
A new resource CD from the University of Wisconsin provides a wealth of production and marketing information for fresh market vegetable growers. The “Fresh Market […]
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Posted on April 1, 2002
Maxwell is interim head of Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Doug Maxwell, professor emeritus of plant pathology, will serve as interim director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maxwell […]
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Posted on February 1, 2002
Contest Spreads the Word about IPM
Write a clever IPM ditty today. You may win fame On Wisconsin Highways! Do your friends and family applaud your priceless sense of humor? Or […]
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Apple disease control alternatives (Research Brief #60)
Sooty blotch and flyspeck are fungal diseases that can reduce the economic value of fresh market apples. While these diseases don’t affect yield or quality below the surface, they can badly discolor apple skin. These diseases are especially serious for growers using integrated pest management (IPM) and organic practices.
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Posted on January 1, 2002
New Zealand internships provide eye-opening experience
“I must say it was the hardest I’ve ever worked for free, but somehow I really didn’t mind. I knew that the knowledge I gained […]