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Researchers look to natural sources for organic meat preservatives

Jeff Sindelar
When Jeff Sindelar talks about the ingredients he's working with, you'd think he was making juice. Not quite. He's adding things like cranberry concentrate, cherry powder, lemon extract and celery powder to meat.

Potato industry helps create new professorship to lead UW's potato breeding program

Advances in biotechnology such as DNA sequencing have helped speed the pace of plant breeding in many food crops, but applying these tools to the potato, which has an extra set of chromosomes, has been a bit more difficult.
“Molecular markers haven’t had much impact on potato breeding thus far, but I think that’s going to change soon thanks to a new technology called genomic selection,” says Jeff Endelman, who joins the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s horticulture department on July 1 to head the potato breeding program.

Robots find a home on Wisconsin dairy farms - Audio

Brian Holmes, Extension Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
bjholmes@wisc.edu
Phone (608) 262-0096
3:06 - Total Time
0:19 - Robots milking Wisconsin cows
0:57 - Information is management
1:31 - What to consider if you use robots
2:00 - Robots save labor
2:26 - Monitor cow cud chewing
2:54 - Lead out
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Researchers unearth bioenergy potential in leaf-cutter ant communities

As spring warms up Wisconsin, humans aren't the only ones tending their gardens.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology, colonies of leaf-cutter ants cultivate thriving communities of fungi and bacteria using freshly cut plant material.
While these fungus gardens are a source of food and shelter for the ants, for researchers, they are potential models for better biofuel production.

Rhona S. Applebaum

Rhona Applebaum is vice president and chief scientific and regulatory officer at The Coca-Cola Company, where she leads global scientific and regulatory affairs. “We’re responsible for driving evidence-based research and education programs and advancing regulatory science strategies to fuel innovation and marketing of our products,” she says. Her group’s other responsibilities include helping communicate the company’s positions on scientific and regulatory matters and promoting dialogue and understanding of Coca-Cola’s products and ingredients.

Field to Food Bank program

This video, which played on the Big Ten Network in early June, describes an innovative program to move surplus vegetables that were being left to rot in Wisconsin's farm fields into area food pantries through a coordinated effort between farmers, a canning company and UW-Madison.

UW-Chinese collaboration seeks to preserve biodiversity in China's Yunnan province

Not long ago, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions on earth—Yunnan Province on China’s southwestern border, with its great river gorges, sweeping grasslands and majestic Himalayan mountains—was virtually inaccessible to outsiders.
Golden snub-nosed monkeys, black-necked cranes, snow leopards, Tibetan bears and an astounding number of other animals and plants thrive in its temperate forests and alpine meadows. And five million people from 26 of China’s 55 ethnic minorities live in the province’s remote high-altitude forests and valleys.

UW-Extension announces launch of educational video channel

University of Wisconsin-Extension announced the launch of a new online educational video channel (http://uwexvideochannel.org) to extend its mission of providing access to university resources and allow Wisconsin’s citizens to engage in lifelong learning. The site provides more than 70 videos produced by trusted educators on topics such as community and economic development, agriculture, conservation, gardening, and health.

Biochemical Sciences Complex to be named after Hector F. DeLuca

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted Friday afternoon in favor of naming three UW-Madison buildings and a campus complex after renowned biochemist Hector F. DeLuca.

Phil Harris: Good fences still mean good neighbors - Audio

Good fences still make for good neighbors
Phil Harris, Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
peharris@wisc.edu
Phone (608) 262-9490
3:06 - Total Time
0:18 - Livestock and fence responsibility
0:41 - What a legal fence is
1:03 - Fences and neighbors
1:29 - Who inspects fences
1:48 - When electric fences are legal fences
2:15 - Non livestock owners and fences
2:37 - If the cows get out

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