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Speakers and attendees discussed during the event included cutting greenhouse gases in the dairy industry, stewarding land and water resources, and local policy changes impacting water quality, among other projects.
May 23, 2021 | Continuing with our celebration of this year’s CALS Award recipients, we are sharing information about the winners of the University Staff Awards this week. Jason Ball Jason Ball is the facilities manager for the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (WCIC). The WCIC is a large 100,000 sq. ft. complex that includes labs, greenhouses, growth rooms, culture chambers and cold storage rooms which all need constant monitoring. Since his start at the WCIC five years ago, Ball has ensured that the building and equipment are always operational for the essential research that takes place ...
Springfield Creamery just celebrated 60 years in business. The maker of Nancy’s Probiotic Foods was founded by Sue and Chuck Kesey in 1960. Sue, now the company’s CEO, says her husband came by dairy honestly: Chuck and his brother Ken (yes, that Ken!) grew up in creameries, mostly in Colorado. When it was time for college, Chuck enrolled in the Dairy Sciences program at Oregon State University. It was there that he learned about an obscure ingredient that’s just now having its moment: Listen
Dairy Innovation Hub January 28, 2021 January 28, 2021 | In 2020, The Dairy Innovation Hub committed nearly $1 million for equipment to build research capacity at the three participating campuses. Cutting-edge research requires big ideas from the best and brightest minds, but those difference-making research questions can’t come to fruition without equipment and data collection tools to increase research capacity. The Dairy Innovation Hub, which launched in 2019, harnesses research and development at UW–Madison, UW–Platteville and UW–River Falls campuses to keep Wisconsin’s da...
January 14, 2021 | By Demeter service organization Demeter is a service organization established in 1917 and named for the Greek goddess Demeter – the goddess of agriculture and the harvest. It serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison, primarily the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), and the Madison area community. The original organization was called the Daughters of Demeter, and membership was comprised of wives of faculty members in the then-named University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. Today, while this group is still prominent in the organization, membership ...