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Utilization of grasses in livestock production systems in Sweden
Posted on April 12, 2018Elisabet Nadeau – 13 April 12:30p 462 Plant Sciences
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Food & the Wisconsin Idea’s 2018 series: Conservation Grazing on Public Grasslands: The Anatomy of a Public-Private Partnership
Posted on April 9, 2018Members of UW-Madison’s Agroecology Program, Wisconsin DNR, and a cattle grazier will share how they’re employing and assessing livestock grazing as a conservation tool for […]
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Breeding Crops for Improved Human Health
Posted onMark A. Brick, Professor and Department Head, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences — Colorado State University
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Breaking bonds: Isotopic fractionation of nitrogen
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High-Resolution Water Footprints of Production of the United States & Global Distribution of Major Crops from 1961 to 2014
Posted on March 1, 2018MeganKonar_Seminar
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Fire, Fuel, and Dust: Sources of Nutrients and Pollutants to Terrestrial Ecosystems
Posted onAlexandra Ponett-Gonzalez: March 2nd
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Soil Science Seminar 28 February
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Sustainable Corn CAP data made available
Posted on February 5, 2018Sustainable Corn Coordinated Agricultural Project
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Perennialization and cover cropping mitigate soil C loss from residue harvesting – Special section in JEQ
Posted on January 31, 2018Journal of Environmental Quality
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UCANR Job Announcement: Cooperative Extension Project Scientist in Brown’s Valley (SFREC)
Posted on January 23, 2018Project_Scientist_1-Page_Summary
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Carbon storage potential increases with increasing ratio of C4 to C3 grass cover and soil productivity in restored tallgrass prairies
Posted on December 11, 2017Carbon storage potential in restored tallgrass prairies
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SOIL SCI / MICROBIO 523 – Spring 2018
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Position announcement – Applied Forage Systems Specialist
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SOIL SCIENCE 728 GRADUATE SEMINAR
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Agricultural management and ownership forms in Cuba
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Agricultural land-use change across the United States – Lark seminar
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U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?
Posted on November 17, 2017Should I stay, or should I go (nod to The Clash)
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UW–Madison researchers explore the future of bioenergy crops in Wisconsin
Posted on November 16, 2017The future of bioenergy crops in Wisconsin
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The C cost of land coversion for grain ethanol
Posted on November 15, 2017Ethanol drove cropland expansion
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von Haden exit seminar – Friday Nov. 17, 2017, 1:00 pm Wisconsin Energy Institute 1115
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Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I
Posted on November 3, 2017Climate Science Special Report
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Will future crop improvement be edited for content
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Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it
Posted on October 27, 2017Perspective (Jackson et al.)
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2018 Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference
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A headline that struck me as funny (obviously out of context)
Posted onPreventing lameness in all stages of life
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Microbiome Working Group
Posted onThursday 26 October 2:00-3:00 pm Orchard View Room at the WID (room 3280) In advance of the meeting, please fill out this short survey. It […]
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Paper claiming limited effect of OM on available water. What do you think?
Posted on October 19, 2017Minasny and McBratney
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Microbiomes: People and Planet
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N addition undermines N supplied by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to native perennial grasses
Posted on October 17, 2017Jach-Smith and Jackson
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Plant community composition influences fine root production and biomass allocation in perennial bioenergy cropping systems
Posted onhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953417302283
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UW Platteville – Renewable Energy Tenure Track Position
Posted on October 10, 2017University of Wisconsin-Platteville is seeking a tenure track assistant professor in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Systems. This is an unusual and exciting faculty position in an […]
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Agronomy colloquium Wednesday, October 4
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Is Potentially Mineralizable Carbon A Useful Soil Health Measurement?
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Biomass Production a Stronger Driver of Cellulosic Ethanol Yield than Biomass Quality – Featured content on the cover of Agronomy Journal
Posted on September 12, 2017Cover Paper
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Kranz seminar – Effects of Fire on Soils: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties
Posted on9-13-17 Seminar
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BOT950: Stable Isotopes in Ecology Wed. 3 – 4.30p 158 Birge Hall
Posted on August 29, 2017Botany 950
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Microbiome Seminar Series
Posted on August 22, 2017Microbiomes: People and the Planet Tuesdays 11-12:15 Hosted by Prof Bill Hickey in Soil Science http://microbiomespeopleplanet.weebly.com/
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New manuscript submitted to JEQ special edition: Predicting Soil Organic Carbon in Agroecosystems under Climate Change
Posted on August 16, 2017Jones et al._JEQ-2017-04-0177-PSOC
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UW Agronomy and Soil Science field day
Posted on August 2, 2017AgronSoils Field day program 2017 When: 8a-3p Wednesday 30 August 2017 Where: Arlington Agricultural Research Station The theme for this year’s field day is: Cultivating […]
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A Lipid Extraction and Analysis Method for Characterizing Soil Microbes in Experiments with Many Samples
Posted on July 17, 2017Video link Manuscript link
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Smith Fellows postdoc opportunity
Posted on July 13, 2017https://conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows/apply/proposal-guidelines
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Biomass Production a Stronger Driver of Cellulosic Ethanol Yield than Biomass Quality
Posted on July 12, 2017Sanford et al.
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Perennial Map – A map-based phonebook for folks involved in perennial agriculture!
Posted onLooking for land (or tenants) to grow perennial crops?
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U.S. proposes cutting total biofuels requirements in 2018
Posted on July 6, 2017Biofuel requirements
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GLBRC Sustainability research synthesis in the journal Science!
Posted onhttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/eaal2324
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New lab publication in Biomass and Bioenergy
Posted on May 3, 2017Miesel et al_2017_Distribution of switchgrass biomass in response to N addition
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O.N. Allen Soil Microbiology Symposium
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Agriculture as a Liberal Art
Posted on April 28, 2017Please join us next Friday, May 5 at 1:15 PM in 351 Moore Hall, where Dr. Mary Saunders Bulan from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, […]
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Wisconsin Ecology Spring Symposium
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Development pitfalls of a perennial grain crop
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Casler seminar – USDFRC
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CIAS Mini-grants
Posted on March 14, 2017CIAS Mini-Grants Support Graduate Student Research in Sustainable Agriculture
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Laura Smith exit seminar
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NCR-SARE Announces 2017 Graduate Student Grant Call
Posted on February 16, 2017Proposals in Sustainable Agriculture
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Two interesting public lectures
Posted on February 15, 2017A World Without Soil Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, discusses whether we can preserve this precious resource. Thursday, February 16, at […]
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ESA 2017 Annual Meeting: Abstracts are due Thursday, February 23
Posted on February 7, 2017ESA 2017