Jonathon Mosley is a Director of the Animal Sciences Farms and Research Center at the University of Illinois, where he was also a student. After graduating with his Bachelor of Science degree at the Urbana-Campaign campus, he began working on one of the swine units while earning his master’s degree in animal sciences. Mosley became…
Read More “University’s swine unit helps save people’s lives | Livestock” »
Alisyn Amant University of Wisconsin Annie Pankowski, a student at the University of Wisconsin-School of Veterinary Medicine, never expected to add a co-founder of a tech startup to her list of accomplishments. However, during the pandemic, veterinarians noticed a sharp increase in demand for care services and strained to find ways to maximize the efficiency…
Merrill Meadow For MIT Whitehead Institute The impact of climate change on agriculture and food security and how agriculture contributes to climate change is at the forefront of a multidisciplinary project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The “Revolutionary Agriculture with Low-Emissions, Resilient Crops” project is one of five flagship winners in MIT’s Climate Grand…
Salk Institute In 1905 a 20-year-old German botany student named Friedrich Laibach picked up a small, flowing weed from the bank of the Lahn River near his hometown of Limburg. Since that time the weed – Arabidopsis thaliana – Has become a mainstay of plant biology and genetics research. At a laboratory at the University…
Read More “‘Model’ plant, a breeder’s treasure found | Crops” »
GYPSUM, Colo. (AP) – It’s incongruous to attach a gleaming wing of the futuristic, $ 2 million Cirrus Vision Jet to another gorgeous high-plateau skiing at Eagle County Regional Airport, and then stuff the plane with it. liquid byproducts of McRibs and flank steak. But the modern era sometimes arrives to the sound of strange…
Read More “Beef fat converted to aviation fuel | Livestock” »
University of Wisconsin-Dairy Innovation Hub The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences recently awarded five two-year graduate-student assistantships to help increase dairy-related research capacity through the UW-Dairy Innovation Hub. A graduate-student assistantship is a salaried employment opportunity for students working toward an advanced degree beyond their bachelor’s degree. Students work alongside a…
University Extension programs are rooted in the past, adjusting to the pandemic’s punch and evolving with societal needs. The Extension of Extension Today is based on the land-granting college’s tradition of getting research into people – whether it’s about farming, horticulture or nutrition, said Marshall Stewart, vice chancellor of Extension and engagement at the University…
Read More “As Extension service changes, educators strive to serve all | State & Regional” »
The farming of the story is the advancement of the story, constantly striking for better yields, better genetics, better soil. In the span of some farmers’ lifetimes, agriculture has gone from horses still doing large amounts of work to towering combines collecting sophisticated data as they harvest fields. People in agriculture expect those advancements to…
Read More “Updates for crops and machinery focus on extremes and automation | Business” »
