Agriculture

Projects

• 'App'riculture: Disease Forecasting Systems for the 21st Century

  UW–Madison developed tools based on innovations in plant disease forecasting now bring the environmental component of the plant disease triangle (path...

• Acquiring and synthesizing foundational knowledge for hemp-derived products

  Product teams representing academia, industry, and farmers were developed in three areas: hemp for paper production, hemp for building materials, and...

• Addressing the Emerald Ash Borer

  The emerald ash borer has caused 37 Wisconsin counties to be restricted from exporting any hardwood firewood to unaffected counties, however CALS rese...

• AgrAbility

  Since 1991, AgrAbility of Wisconsin has been promoting success in agriculture for farmers with disabilities and their families. Services are available...

• Agriculture Accounting and Information System (AAIMS)

  AAIMS is a stand-alone transparent double entry accounting program developed at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability that allows for the conc...

• Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA)

  Agriculture Financial Advisor (AgFA) is computerized financial management system developed at the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability that serve...

• Audiology Takes on Rural Noise at the Tomah Tractor Pull (and Beyond)

  UWSHC audiologists and Au.D. students travel to rural Wisconsin each summer for a unique goal: to prevent hearing loss at the Tomah Truck and Tractor...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

  This program is a field course in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health (UCGH). It connects UW-Madison with people in programs on the Bad Riv...

• Briggs & Stratton Corporation

  Briggs and Stratton Corporation is the world’s largest producer of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. A key organizational goal is to be an...

• Building a comprehensive network of fruit growers to improve sustainable production of fruit crops in Wisconsin

  Fruit production in Wisconsin contributes over $400 million to the state economy. Underserved communities, such as Hmong, Amish and Latino, are import...

• Building Capacity of Wisconsin Producers to Access Wholesale Markets

  I am providing technical assistance support to current producer members of the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative (WFHC), particularly in the areas of pos...

• Building the Case for FRESH Food in Southern Wisconsin

  Farmers Raising Ecologically Sustainable, Healthy Food, or FRESH Food Connection, is a newly formed cooperative of community supported agriculture far...

• Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a participatory action research center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's College of Ag...

• Central Sands Water Initiative

  Numerous lakes and streams are drying up in the farm-rich Central Sands region of Wisconsin, but there’s little agreement on what’s causing it. Expert...

• Central Wisconsin Potato Field Day

  This event brings students, researchers, farmers, agribusiness leaders and state representatives together to learn about the valuable work taking plac...

• Centralized Greenhouse System

  The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences operates several research and instructional greenhouses under a centralized management system, administe...

• Citizen Science

  Citizen Science is an online flash-based computer adventure game in which the player is a young adult who becomes concerned about the health of a loca...

• Community Food Systems program

  Business ownership serves as an important vehicle for wealth creation, especially for members of economically disadvantaged communities. Research show...

• Compass Tools: pointing the way to profitability for diversified farms

  Compass Tools are a suite of free, downloadable spreadsheets designed to help diversified farmers understand their cost of production and profitabilit...

• Cranberry Outreach

  Keeping a tight feedback loop between Wisconsin's cranberry growers and agronomic research developed at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Crops program

  In Wisconsin, 7 million acres of field crops, hay and haylage are harvested, at a value of $3.6 billion. Those farm operations are the foundation of W...

• Cultivating more than good food? Employees' social and economic outcomes on certified organic vegetable farms

  Hired labor plays an increasingly crucial role on certified organic vegetable farms, yet farm employees often experience low wages and lack access to...

• Custom Applicator Program (CAP)

  Representatives of UW-Madison's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, Wisconsin Crop Production Association (WCPA), and Fox Valley Technical Colle...

• Dairy Cattle Nutrition & Forage Utilization

  Dairy Cattle Nutrition & Forage Utilization provides research and outreach programs on applied dairy cattle nutrition, with emphasis on forage utiliza...

• Dairy Innovation Hub

  The Dairy Innovation Hub represents a $7.8 million per year investment by the State of Wisconsin that harnesses research and development at UW–Madison...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Improved Ventilation of Calf Barns

  Dr. Ken Nordlund will present on the deficits of common ventilation systems in calf barns, management of air quality and cold stress to minimize respi...

• Design of Positive Pressure Tube Systems for Milking Center Holding Area Heat Abatemen

  Drs. Ken Nordlund and Nigel Cook will present problems in holding area cooling and how positive pressure tube systems provide a lower energy effective...

• Development of a Cost-Effective Control Program for Johne's Disease

  UW-Madison Professor Michael Collins has invented a more accurate blood test for Johne's disease. Johne's disease is a costly and incurable bacterial...

• Digital soil mapping in Wisconsin to enhance the knowledge base for sustainable agriculture

  Professor Alfred Hartemink's project focuses on digital soil mapping in Verona and Bellbrook (Dane county) and the Central Sand plains (Adams county)....

• East Asia Now

  From security to trade to popular culture, contemporary events in East Asia create ripples felt around the world, including Wisconsin. East Asia Now i...

• Eco-Fruit Program

  The Eco-Fruit Program, a collaboration between the UW–Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and fruit growers around Wisconsin, worked to...

• Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators

  This project develops a mobile-enabled application that allows users to easily collect information, in a standardized and rigorous way, on the abundan...

• Ethiopia Global Health Twinning Partnerships

  Since 2007, the UW has partnered with Addis Ababa University for the shared purpose of improving health systems, medical education, and community heal...

• Family Horticulture Day at West Madison Agriculture Research Station

  UW-Madison's Annual Family Horticulture Day welcomes gardeners of all ages to the UW West Madison Agriculture Research Station to hone their horticult...

• Farm Management program

  Agriculture is central to a prosperous Wisconsin, contributing more than $100 billion annually to our state’s economy and nearly 12% of our state’s em...

• First Enologist at UW-Madison

  There are currently 110 wineries and commercial cider makers in Wisconsin, and that number will only continue to grow. This is why Nick Smith was hire...

• Flambeau River Community Growing Center

  The Flambeau River Community Growing Center is located in the Northern Wisconsin city of Park Falls. It is a collaborative community project headed by...

• Future Roots Crop Production Plan

  Future Roots Farm, a new agriculture startup, is in the process of expanding production space and volume to bring high quality, local food to the mark...

• Future Roots: Business Plan Development

  Future Roots is a brand new agriculture startup located in New Berlin, with a focus on aquaponics farming. The team investigated ways for the new star...

• Gold-standard experiments on non-lethal methods to protect property from large carnivores

  The Carnivore Coexistence Lab core team works on four major challenges to peaceful coexistence between people and large carnivores around the world. T...

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is a cross-disciplinary research center led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and headquartered...

• Hancock Agricultural Research Station

  The Hancock Agricultural Research Station is located in Waushara County in the part of Wisconsin known as the "Golden Sands." The station's sandy soi...

• Hard Cider in Wisconsin

  Hard cider is a value-added product from a crop grown in the state—a crop poised to further increase perennial acreage as a strategy to protect soils...

• Healthcare garden design

  Lily Mank, a UW grad and current post bachelors research intern with the Environmental Design Lab, has a degree in landscape architecture from the UW...

• Healthy farm-to-school meals: Empowering lunch ladies as change-agents

  The primary goal of this project is to cultivate lunch ladies as community-based leaders who are inspired and committed to making healthy, farm-to-sch...

• Helping Farmers Cope with Changing Climate

  Drought, flooding, new pests brought on by temporal changes in the onset and duration of the growing season—these are only a few climate related chall...

• History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life

  The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Ag...

• Horticulture program

  Vegetable gardening is important to many Wisconsin households with more than 440,000 households (19%) purchasing vegetable plants over a one-year peri...

• How to Reduce Workplace Stress Though Communication & Leadership Skills

  Combining communication tools with self-management and self-awareness skills builds a stronger platform to lead and support empathetic interactions wi...

• Improving sustainability of vegetable cropping systems in Wisconsin

  The goal of this research and extension project is to conduct science-based applied research and collaborate with Wisconsin vegetable growers and proc...

• Improving the Microbiological Safety of Foods

  The primary objective of the Food Research Institute's (FRI) laboratory is to identify factors to control disease-causing bacteria in foods and to ser...

• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Wisconsin WIC Program

  This field course introduces UW-Madison students to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a program that h...

• Investigating farm-level factors and life history events that affect carcass quality of dairy cows

  Despite being the second largest milk producer in the U.S. and that dairy steers and cull dairy cows represent 80% of its beef supply, Wisconsin does...

• Lady Pietro Lavender Farm: Wholesale and Commercial Market Analysis

  A lavender farm is under development near Baraboo. The team provided background research and recommendations on how and where do local/regional herbal...

• Lancaster Agricultural Research Station

  The Lancaster Agricultural Research Station is located in Grant County on hills and valleys that are typical of southwest Wisconsin, an area of the st...

• Learning to Make Running Water Walk

  The Learning to Make Running Water Walk Oral Narrative Project is a partnership between the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc. (CCCWC), UW-M...

• Lessons from COVID19 – Positioning Regional Food Supply Chains

  UW-CIAS is partnering with researchers at University of Minnesota, University of Florida, UC-Irvine and Kansas State to document lessons from COVID-19...

• Little Aldos

  Sarah Krier, an undergrad, received an award from the Wisconsin Open Education Community Fellowship offered by the Division of Continuing Studies and...

• Livestock program

  Through Extension's Livestock program, beef producers better understand issues related to market strategies and maintaining building structures, allow...

• Local and Regional Food Distribution Project

  The Local and Regional Food Distribution project was developed in response to a rise in inquiries from Wisconsin farmers looking for high-volume loca...

• Long collaboration with sewer district helps city, university

  UW researchers and experts have assisted the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in improving and perfecting wastewater treatment. Researchers have...

• Management Assessment Center

  The Wisconsin Assessment Center for Dairy Farm Owners/Managers was developed in 2003-2004 through a USDA grant which was part of the University of Wis...

• Measuring the Impact of Farmers Markets

  In order to improve farmers markets not only in Wisconsin but throughout the U.S., Alfonso Morales, associate professor in urban and regional planning...

• MEDiC Preventative Medicine Initiative

  MEDiC Free Clinics delivers a monthly educational, preventative medicine sessions at Porchlight's Brooks Street SRO Program housing facility. Each mo...

• Microfinance Program Development for SWCAP

  The Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP) is a local, nongovernmental, nonprofit (501(c)(3)), antipoverty organization serving five...

• Midwest Rural Energy Council (MREC)

  The Midwest Rural Energy Council (MREC) is a 50+ year cooperative educational effort between electric utilities and land grant universities in the upp...

• Milking Research and Instruction Lab

  The UW Milking lab has been in operation since 1990. The lab has been engaged in a number of technical issues related to milking machines, including r...

• New Madison Brewpub Sustainability Program

  Brewing requires a lot of water, for the product itself, for cleaning, and for sanitation. The brewing process also requires high energy use, includin...

• Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia

  The Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia program is a capacity-building program that aims to nurture sustainable...

• Paper on the Law of Intellectual Property Exhaustion

  Extending the Wisconsin idea of engaged scholarship globally, this project entailed preparing a comprehensive study of the rights to resell and reuse...

• Pasture Partnership With Organic Valley

  A partnership between Organic Valley Farms, located in La Farge, Wisconsin, and UW-Madison researchers is working to help organic farmers meet the new...

• Peninsular Research Station

  Located on the Door County Peninsula just north of Sturgeon Bay, the Peninsular Research Station offers a unique set of growing conditions for a wide...

• Phosphorus and water quality of the Yahara Lakes

  Phosphorus runoff causes algae blooms and other harmful changes in the Yahara lakes (Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, Kegonsa and Wingra near Madison, Wiscon...

• Planning Dairy Farms in Transition

  Dairy farms in Wisconsin are transitioning from labor intensive stall/stanchion style dairy systems to more modern milking systems and freestall cow h...

• Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic (PDDC) provides assistance in identifying plant diseases and provides e...

• Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS)

  The Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS) is an applied research and extension unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The program pr...

• Project HealthDesign

  Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that's housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School...

• Protecting Our Pollinators

  More than two-thirds of the world’s crop plants—including many nuts, fruits and vegetables—depend on animal pollination, most of it provided by bees....

• Public Relations for Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens

  Students enrolled in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Public Relations Strategies course partnered with the Madison Area Food Pantry...

• Research on AIS knowledge in Midwest lakes

  The Department of Natural Resources has been aided by Bret Shaw, an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication. Shaw and res...

• Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

  Latina/o/xs have a long-rooted presence in Wisconsin but their histories are largely absent in institutional archives. To provide more visibility to L...

• Risk Communication in action

  Current research includes ongoing surveys about public attitudes toward gene editing, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, synthetic biology, and other eme...

• Role of Natural Habitats in Agroecosystems

  UW-Madison personnel and community and government organizations are helping farmers in Arena, Plover, Stevens Point, Coloma, Friesland, Scandinavia, R...

• Rural Cooperative Development Project

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) and its grant partner Cooperative Network provide technical assistance to rural cooperative...

• Sharing Science with Wisconsin

  There are a myriad of science outreach activities and events occurring year-round, every day at UW-Madison, which are free and open to the public. The...

• Show me the bees! Engaging growers with citizen science to improve management of crop pollinators through WiBee: the Wisconsin Wild Bee App

  Many Wisconsin fruit and vegetable crops are dependent on bee pollination to achieve marketable yields. Over the last 15 years, however, honey bees, t...

• Slow Food UW Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative

  The purpose of the Slow Food Educational Outreach and Social Justice Initiative is to create a lasting connection between UW students, the South Madis...

• SnapPlus Crop Nutrient Management Planning Software

  SnapPlus is a software package allowing agronomists and farmers anywhere in the state to prepare a multi-year, field-by-field plan for applying fertil...

• Spooner Agricultural Research Station

  As the UW-Madison's first permanent outlying research station, the Spooner Agricultural Research Station gave university scientists a place to work ou...

• Student Hometown Projects - Cross Plains

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Study: transportation issues affecting fresh food distribution in rural Wisconsin

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sci...

• Survey of rural Wisconsinites' knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of water resources

  We have developed a survey, working with the UW-Survey Center, which directly reaches out to rural stakeholders to collect information about their per...

• The Center for Dairy Research

  The Center for Dairy Research (CDR) is a leader in innovative dairy research, processing, education and product development and application that focus...

• The Dairyland Initiative

  The main aim of the ‘Dairyland Initiative’ is to create a structured iterative process that brings dairy producers, their advisors, agricultural build...

• The Observatory

  The Observatory is a fact-checking news site operated out of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It fact-checks Wisconsin publ...

• Towards a Sustainable Agriculture - A Curriculum for High School Classes

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems has developed a curriculum on sustainable agriculture for use in high school classes. The curriculum f...

• Trails Forward

  The Games Learning Center is currently developing a game titled "Trails Forward" which is an ecological, multiplayer strategy game currently in develo...

• Transition Cow Facility Design

  This workshop will help you learn how to ask your lender for money to build a barn and not add any additional milking cows. Using the Dairyland Initia...

• Transportation Innovations in Local and Regional Food Systems

  The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) applies transdisciplinary, participatory, systems-oriented approaches to address emerging challe...

• Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab

  The Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab provides assistance to professional and non-professional (i.e. homeowner) turfgrass managers to produce high-quality turf...

• Understanding Dairy Markets

  The "Understanding Dairy Markets" Web site was developed by the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Eco...

• Understanding Domestic Fair Trade for Agriculture of the Middle

  This participatory research project explores fair trade strategies through a comparative analysis of global and domestic fair trade in different polic...

• UniverCity Year

  UniverCity Year is a three-year partnership between UW–Madison and Wisconsin communities. In year one, the community partner identifies projects that...

• Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative

  The Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative (UMHDI) partnership launched in 2007 to support the growth and commercialization of the hazelnut ind...

• UW Press

  The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. Visit https://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html for a small sampling...

• UW-Madison Biotechnology Center (UWBC)

  The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is Wisconsin's catalyst to advance biotechnology research, education and industry for the bene...

• UW-Madison Science Alliance, a community of practice of science outreachers

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Alliance organizes public science outreach events and programs through collaborations with Wisconsin scien...

• UW-Madison scientists played role in potato genome project

  Twenty UW-Madison researchers, including plant geneticist Jiming Jiang, collaborated with an international consortium to successfully sequence and ana...

• Variety Test Results: Corn, Soybeans, Alfalfa, Small Grains

  The mission of this project is to develop relevant corn management programs that address needs expressed by Wisconsin farmers. Although farmers are t...

• Vegetable Research Analyzes Best Growing Practices

  The Hancock Agricultural Research Station has allowed UW-Madison researchers to explore the vegetable industry in order to sustainably increase produc...

• Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules

  Virtual Museum of Minerals & Molecules v. 3 is an online "virtual museum" of minerals and molecules in the environment brought together by UW-Madison....

• Water Sustainability and Climate Project

  The Water Sustainability and Climate project is examining how changes in climate, land use, and human demand could impact water quality, food producti...

• Wednesday Nite @ The Lab on the Air

  Wednesday Nite @ The Lab is a public science series offered every Wednesday night, 50 times a year. WN@TL invites Wisconsinites to experience science...

• West Madison Agricultural Research Station

  The West Madison Agricultural Research Station is located on the western edge of the city of Madison, approximately eight miles from the UW-Madison Ca...

• Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER)

  The Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is a website that enables anyone with an Internet connection to report sightings of sick or dead wildlife. I...

• Wisconsin Energy Institute

  At the Wisconsin Energy Institute, we envision a world powered by sustainable and reliable energy that is affordable and accessible to everyone. As a...

• Wisconsin Energy Institute/Bioenergy Research Centers host Science Café briefing before the House Senate and National Labs Caucus

  On July 22nd, 2013, more than 80 congressional staff members gathered in Washington, DC for a Q&A-style briefing intended to update the House Science...

• Wisconsin Healthy Grown Project

  The Wisconsin “Healthy Grown” program works to advance growers’ use of biointensive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems, efficiently manage input...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

  From Feburary 3, 2012 to February 15, 2013, a group of 31 community leaders from all over the state convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an...

• Wisconsin Idea Science Constellation

  The Wisconsin Idea Science Constellation is designed to be a way of mapping and connecting UW-Madison's science facilities. While the University hous...

• Wisconsin Infant Study ("WISC")

  There is evidence that children who grow up on dairy farms are healthier and have fewer allergies and respiratory illnesses. The hypothesis for the WI...

• Wisconsin Land Use Codes

  This project compares Wisconsin land use codes between jurisdictions. That is, regional planning commissions and counties each develop their own land...

• Wisconsin Manure Management Advisory System

  This website is an interagency partnership that houses the Runoff Risk Advisory (RRA) Forecast as well as spreading restriction maps for the state. Th...

• Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker Program

  The Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker® Program was established as an advanced education program for experienced cheesemakers through joint sponsorship with...

• Wisconsin Pesticide Applicator Training Program (PAT)

  Wisconsin's Pesticide Applicator Training Program (PAT) provides leadership in coordinating the state's educational effort dealing with pesticides, an...

• Wisconsin Phosphorus Index

  The Wisconsin Phosphorus (P) Index (WPI) is a planning tool for managing cropland and pastureland. It uses information that is readily available to fa...

• Wisconsin Pollinator Plan

  Without pollinators, we would no longer be able to take a sip of coffee or ask for guacamole on our burritos. Flower-loving bats, birds and bees are n...

• Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers (WSBDF)

  The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy & Livestock Farmers (WSBDF) provides classroom and field experience, mentoring and farm internships to young...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

  The weeklong Wisconsin Science Festival features events throughout Wisconsin for people of all ages. Activities include hands-on science experiments,...

• Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Avian Flu Testing

  In the spring and summer of 2015, there was an outbreak of H5N2, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, in several counties in Wisconsin. This...

• Wisconsin’s “Brown Gold” Rush: Transforming Manure to Energy in America’s Dairyland

  The Accelerated Renewable Energy (ARE) project involves a partnership among UW-Madison researchers and several state companies that is being funded by...

• Wolf preservation in Wisconsin and beyond

  Professor Adrian Treves conducts research, teaching, and outreach about the conservation and preservation of wolves in Wisconsin and other regions of...